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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
at CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS
CSMBSBMata Bad Criticiaaaa Baaea Upon
tfca Hansataiaga ot taa I-Mi-
Kawa Note,
There ! room for the suspicion that
France baa become a scandal immune.
The Spanish war has given Uncle
Sam the "biggest butcher's bill be has
bad to pay since "t5.
China may be a thousand years be
hind the times, but she can put up a
line example of the advanced woman.
While fame ha been very busy writ
ing down the names of heroes lately it
has also had to End time to write lou of
history.
After his Alaskan experiences Ilam
llu Garland probably 'will be contented
to stick to "Main Traveled Kouds" lu
the future.
The Japanese stied m'lway have just
placed an order for Z0 curs wilu Amer
ican firms. They know where the real
article Is to be had.
Spain now promises to establish a na
tional lottery. What's the use? She
couldn't draw anything la a national
lottery except a blank.
Mis Grace Perkins, of Bridgeport,
Conn., was much humiliated over the
notoriety given her in that murder tus ,
but she was not cut up as badly as re
ported. The Flowery Kingdom ui.iy establish
a postal system, but that's about the
tnly way, us at present constituted, it
can make Chinese letters mote easy
of acquirement.
A Nashville man has obtained an in
junction to prevent an obnoxious suit
or from calling on his daughter. We
Strongly suspect that in that deal the
old man has something to boot.
The soldier's life is beset by constant
danger. He escapes the enemies' bul
lets and the diseases of the camps, only
to come home and lie offered pie at the
bands of inconsiderate lady friends.
There is a new religions sr-ct In Okla
homa which holds that hell is a place
of perpetual ice. If this theory Is true,
It's pretty certain that in the next
world Weyler will have a chance to cut
lee.
la trying to embalm in verse the
death of that Matanzas mule a con
temporary says that " 'Kansas' is-the
only wort. which rhymes with 'Matan
aas.' ".Nonsense! What's the mailer
witbArkaasass" 1
tx is said that "in Antwerp the borso-
carriage is known as the b'nelpaar-
-'dfJwo-S?oiidcrsjKyrweKlietrooiri J t uig."
Americans who contemplate visiting
Antwerp next season will do well to
order their carriages now.
' It !s said that the sales of looking
-gl:ises in the United States amount to
: about ?$.e-'io.Mio a year, and that the
Industry sires employment to more
than 2O0 persons, n-.t Including, of
xmr-'e, those who use the mirrors.
: The "no-ntreating" movement U
gaining strength throughout the coun
try. The disciples of this Innovation
evidently hold with K'la Wheeler Wil
cox that "l.sui-h and the world laughs
with you, but smile, if you must,
alow."
A young woman committed suicide
in New Verb the other day "because
slip had formed, an Ideal of what a hus
band should be ntd was unable to find
th right man to (ill the r-jnireuicirt.:."
if siie couldn't find au Ideal bus!;; ,.'
vwhy didn't ; irv a r-.'si one?
''A contemporary says of the victim
of an accident that "ss he lay groaning
in his unconsciousness the rats crept
out of their holes, and, cpiliobleti'-d by
his alienee, came closer until otie dared
to bite his hand." We infer from this
that groaning in silence is not a good
way to frighten rats.
Tlus deplorable condition of the sol
dier at the end of the war suggests
one of two tilings. Either this peace-l-'iug
and inventive nation has let
,ji.Itary science lag behind military
ience, or else those charged with the
Welfare of the soldiers have been less
?. alous and efUcieut in pi rformlng their
duties than the soldiers were lu theirs.
Porto Rico has been quite thickly
' populated and by a large population of
t!i lahorina- classes. Men from the
'Matea will have to compete with them.
already established and acclimated to
the tropical climate. It is a competi
. - tion that they cannot compete with and
.people of HHiall means, at least, should
lanke baate very slowly in embarking
lor Pterto Bico.
Xltt aevret of the French army's hold
-'- tba government must be sought In
'f t knowledge tbat It is us unprepared
ii aa corrupt in the management of
1 ftainU aa onder the second
l W7t Tbe republic muat
l rjttm aa tbe empire eTer was,
t tbr waya, or Its ministers
! Ct fear t be true to the ptincl-
r m tutmmwt they profess to
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in taioa, as described
Cm a wUtot; ia ap
1Cn! oM of tbe
, . 3, tU, t .
porary on this side of the sea. Hap
pily for us. the army ration question
may now be discussed at leisure, and
not under tire.
Lord Dufferin evidently understands
what he is talking about when be says
concerning an Anglo-American al
liance: If we considered the instability
of huiuau affairs and the complex
forces which coexisted within the bor
ders, of multitudinous democracy, I do
not say that these sinister prognostica
tions might not prove correct, but, on
the whole, believe tbe probabilities to
be the other way." And we are glad
that he d'x-s understand what he is
talking about; otherwise no one would
know.
Having failed to meet a popular re
sHinse in its agitation for annexation
to the Fuifi d Stubs, Jam iica hat
turned its attention to Canada and asks
to be taken in with d -minion cold
Canad.'sp however, is Inclined to think
that she has already race problems
enough on baud without still furthei
complicating matters by tbe addition
of West Indian ditfhTikies. As Mr.
Johnson, the Canadian statistician. ha
pointed out. however, there are certain
advantages to be derived from the p.o
poscd union, aside from the fact that
it would be gratifying to the people of
the dominion to lutve a West Indian
possession attached to It with an area
of lS.lo'i' square miles, a population of
1,413. 7H.I souls, and aggregate exports
and Imports of nearly $ ,0,i m, tn yi ar
Iy. Canada's trade with the British
West Indies is at present small, aggre
gating last yi ar fl.-y5.WJ. However.'
as Mr. Johnson points out, there is a
market in lirt.sh North America for;
:;ihj,OW,(;oo pounds of sugar annually,
of which only !i,5OO,0iMJ pounds come
from Jamaica, in the matter o'f trop-
leal fruits, uI-.o, the dominion could '
furnish a valuable market and in add!-
tion to sugar and fruits, two of the
principal exports of the Island, there
are possibilities in the wav of cocoa.
molasses, coffee, arrowroot, spices, etc. j
Canada is prepared to give Jamaica a
market for its products were it not for ihe,inlV, ii,,,; -what 'shall 1 do? What
considerations of trade with the other nul i Kitinj. 1() ,.? W1,t waN j rn:lde
islands of the West Indies, particularly ' Iory a ; , H..iisihie and rigliteous ipiej,
Culia and Porto Iiico. Last year her j tion, and the youth ought to keep asking
exports to the Spanish West Indies it until it is so fully answered that the
were fl.t;70.412, or f J25.000 more than'yoiuig man or young woinnu can say itn
n tho Itriiish vuit tnitia a rur!mi. . as much truth as i's ant hor, thoinch on u
nation In favor of Jamaica suflicieut
to secure to the latter the buik of its
trade would probably result in shut
ting Canada out of the Cuban and Por
to KIcan markets under the new tariff
ache me of the United States, It will
require a careful balancing of pros and
cons before a decision can be reached
as to the value of the proposed annex
ation. If it is true that a practical process
for photographing colors with aa ordi-j
nary t-jimera has been perfected in
Chicago it will not revolutionize an art '
that has made marvelous progress In !
two decades, but will confer lasting i
distinction upon its discoverer. From i
the time the collodion process of pho-!
tography came into use In 18.") color
photography has been the dream of!
those who have peered Into the mys-:
terious alchemy of the dark room.
While the art of fixing linages upon
sensitized surfaces through the action
of the sun's rays has made great ad
vances since Dnguerre and Nicpt-e. no
one had up to this time got any nearer i
to color photogtHphy than the expert-
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tury
It is not an uncommon tiling.,
however, for some one to announce
through the scientific jonrnals that tbe
problc;i of color photography has been
solved. In every Instance, however.
the allegt.il discoveries have failed to
stand tin? prac.Ical tests and have re
sulted in nothing of value to the art.
The process which was developed by
tbe late James W. McDunougb, of Chi
cago, however, differs from nearly all
(her attempts that have been made In ;
ids direction -in tnat It is purely me- pl.atie, or nervous, eitner are you re
hanical instead of chemical. .Mr. Mc- aponsiide for the place of jour nativity,
rwiuxh ti.il the ordinary camera and - whether among tn granite mils i .e
. i...a i .e,.i,.t..sl tits netiv.! Kngiaiiil, or the cott-.n piantntiona of
by the ordinary process. His assiimp-1
Hon was that the sun would reproduce ,
nature as she was if the recciv'r.g pi ite. :
were of the proper kind. He soon !-
veloped the fact by e r.inen; liiat
the principle of color photograph Is a
mixture of colored lights on the retina.
To photograph colors McDonough
therefore placed a transparent medium
ruled In fine red, blue and green lines
the fundamentals of the spectrum
in Immediate contact with the sensitive
surface of the dry plate and exis)
the same as in ordinary photography.
From these experiments he finally
evolved tbe plate which It is now claim
ed will recei ve and preserve all the gor
geous hues of nature. The value of
such a discovery to art and industry la
beyond human calculation. It will open
the world of color to all mankind, l
bringing to palace and hovel the ncn
est and most delicate buea of flower
and sky and landscape.
A Duel of It a nk eta,
A returned missionary from sotitb
esstorn Alaska tell' In the Midland
Christian Adrecaie of a strange custom
among the Indians of that region:
Wh-n a difference arisca between two some whim or taiicy. inside for thent
r H,..i on.l a frieodlr settlement , selves, without any imploration of divine
seenis impossible, one of thorn threat
en the oilier whJi dishonor. He exe
cutes bis threat by tearing up a oertain
number of his own blankets. Tbe only
way his antagonist can get wren with
him Is by tearing up a greater number
of hia own.
If the conteat la prolonged, It rasuka
In tbe destruction of all the blankets
they have, each India destroying bit
own. Tba one who destroys tat great
er nanlxr ks regarded aa baring van
tb(&. v
rl rzi C cf? b H
J .SiXt 11 YV
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TO ail those tti
especial missi,
sermon of !r.
1 those who feci they have no
n in tile world this
Tannage will coloe
a a cheering revelation; text, John xviii.,
St. "To this end was I born."
After Pilate had suicided, tradition ays
that his body was thrown into the Tiber,
ami such storms ensued on smi about that
river that his boily was taken out and
thrown i ii t r the Khone n'nd similar dis
turbances swept that river aud its banks.
Then the lly was taken out find moved
to I.aiiKaniie, aisd p'lt in deeer pool,
which iinuicdi.t'ely U-came tbe center ot
similar atmospheric and aqueous disturb
ances. Though these are fanciful and
false traditions, they show the execration
with which the world looked upon l'iiale.
It was beiore this m.ui. when lie was in
full life arid poner. that Christ w;.s ar
raigned as in a court of oyer and terminer.
(Pilate said to his prisoner, "Alt thuii
j kilns, then':"' and Jesus answered, "To this
end was 1 born." Sore enough, aitiiough
ail earth and bell ar .-e to keep him down.
he is to-day
TllpKlnc
d, enthroned and
coronet ed king or earth and king of hear
.fn. That is what he came for and that is
j'fi't be accomplished,
Ify the tini a .-hild reaches 1ft years of
age the parents hrsttn If discover that
child's destiny, but by the time he or she
less expansive k ale, "To this end was 1
born."
The Divine Purpose.
There is too much divine skill shown In
the physical, mental and uiorai constitu
tion of the ordinary human being to sup
pose tbat he was constructed without an
divine purpose. If you take me out on
some vast plain and show me a piilarei!
temple surmounted by a dome like 1st.
Peter's and baring a floor of precious
stones and arches that must have taxe!
t,he brain of the greatest draftsman to le
tign, nnd wails scrolled and niched anil
paneled, find wainscoted and painted, am:
I dioi!;d afa you what litis building wa
nut m for and you answered, ror tiont-
in- t a Is." how could I brii.-vc you.?
It is imj msitile tor me to believe mat aii;
ordinary human being who has in' his
muscular, nervous and cerebral organiza
tion more wonders than Christopher vV'reu
lifted in !s;. Paul's, or Phidias ever chisel
ed on the Acropolis, and built iu such a
way that it shad last long lifter ft. I'uui's
cithedn.l is as much ruin as the Pnrtae
non that such a being was constructed
for no purpose, and to execute no mission,
and without any divine intention toward
some end. The i.bjiit of this sermon is to
beip you to find out w hat you are maoe
f,,r al"1 ''"'i' J'"u f""1 f"x,T spheie and a-
aist ion into that condition wher
y..-,i cau j
.f , i'",,.; ,,,k -r'tl.;' . ...i..
I born." i only one cupai-ity, I wotild sty not mui-n
First. I disi barge you from all responsi-1 is eijwcted of you. Hat stand up, oh,
bility for most of your eiiviruum ids. i u.i ' man, and let u.e imik you s'piurcly in tin
are t:et resisinwble for your parentage or face. Ky-s ca;.a! ie n seeing everything,
grandpareiitagt-. Vou are not re.nsib!e I ICsrs cstiabie of hearing everything,
for any f the crunks that may baie lived ! If amis capable of grusping everything,
lu jour iui--esti:ii line and wtio a huudc.-I i Mind w ith more wheeln than any factory
years before you were liurn may have j ever turned, inure power tinin any Corliss
lived a style of life tbat more or less af-j engine ever move.). A soul tbat will nut
fects you to-(!;.y. You are not resH!isihle i live all the universe except heaven, and
for the fact that vottr teuiierauierit is sun-1 would outlive ad heaven if the life of the
gnn(.t r meli neUoUe, or bilious, or lym-!
Louisiana, or on tbe banks of the Clyde.
,;- mn xm r..'iUa
.i th. Slt:r..... r. l...
lau3.!lt iu 0W father's house,
of irri.jiKi,(1J, ii(, ut bother yourself
ti,ont what you cannot help or about cir-
cuaistaner-s that you did not decree.
Take things us they are and decide the ;
question mt that you shall be aide safely tory running at au tspense of f.VKMSXJ a
to say, "To ti.is ee l was I born." How j yeir.sud turning out grills worth 7t cent
will you decide it? By direct application i a year would not !m;ucu on incongruity
to the only Hcing in the universe who In; us you, if num. with such semi-infinite
competent tot. il yo i the Ixird Almighty, i equipment doing notliing, or next to noth
Do von know the reasou w hy he is the '. lug. in the way of usefulness. "What
only one who can tell? liecau be
(See everything between your cradle J ml
your grave, though the grave be eighty
! years off. And besides that be is tbe only
' l'eing who can see wiiat lias l-cn luippeu
ng in the last 5l ycirs in your ancestral j
line, and for tnousauus ot years clear nin ii
to Adam, and there u not one person in
all that ancestral line of fi.iss) years but
. .m,.how affo ted your character, aim
even old Adam himself will sometimes
turn up in your deposition. The only
lieinit who can take nil things tbat pertain
to you into consideration is God, and he Is
the one yon can k. Life is so short we
have no time to cxiwriment with occupa
tions and professions. The reason we
have so many dead failures is that par
ents decide for children what they shall
do or children themselves, wrought on hj
guidance. Ho we hate now in pulpits niea
Snaking sermons who ought to be in black
smith shops miking plowshares, and we
have in the law those who instead of ruin
ing the cases of their clients ought to be
pounding sliiw lasts, and doctors who are
the worst hindrances to their patients'
convalescence, and artists trying to paint
landscape who ought to be whitewashing
board fences, while there are others mail
ing bricks who ought to lie remodeling
constitutions or shoving phot- who ought
to be transforming literatures. Ask God
abont what worldly business you shall un
dertake until yon are so positive you caa
H) earaestnma smite your band on your
plow kindle or yonr carpenter's beach, or
ysar BlackstatMr's "Comatcntartes," ot
CetMsaury, ar yaw. Dr.
a.
Pink's "Iidetic Theology," saying 'Tor
this end was I born." There ire children
who early develop natural aUiuities for
certain styles of work. When the father
of the I'ftronoiiier Forbes was going to
Loudon, be asked his children what pres
ent be slionhl hring each one of them.
The boy who was to be an astronomer
cried out, "Hring me a telescope.'"
Hn of the Future.
And there are children whom yon find
nil by themselves drawing on their slates
or on paper ships or huiises or birds, and
;u know- tin y are to be draftsmen or ar
chitects of some kind. And sou find oth
ers ciphering out diliii'llit problems Willi
I rare intetest and success, ami you know
; they are to bp uiatl.ermiliciaiis. And otti
' i -rs making wheels and strange cont.-iv-
lU'.-'-ci, ::iid yon l.now they are gting to Pe
a. hinist. And others are found er.jK-ri-
i lueiiting k it'i hoe an I plow and sickle, ate!
jy el know they w iil Is- farmers. Ami ot li
ters are always swapping jaekktiives or
bal's or bats and tusking something by
the bargain, and ihey are going to be mer
chants. When Abbe de Kanee had so ad
vanced in studying Greek tbat he could
translate Anacreon at 12 years of age,
there was no doubt left that he was in
tended for n scholar. Hut in almost every
linl there comes a time when he does not
know what he was made for, and his par
ents do not know, and it is a crisis that
God only can decide. Then there arc
those born for some especial work nud
their fiiness doe not develop until quite
late. When Philip Doddridge, whose ser
mons and books have harvested uncounted
souls for glory, began to study for the
ministry. Dr. Calaiuy. one of tiie wisest
and best men, advised liiru to turn lus
thoughts to some other work. Isaac Har
row, ttmeiiiiucut clergyman nn-1 Chrislian
scientist ly book standard now, though
he has been dead over years was the
disheirtemiient of his father, who used to
s. y that if it pleased God lo take any of
his children away he hoped it might be
b'.s son Isaac, So some of those who have
been c-bsracterizcd for their Mnpidity in
boyh'tod or girlhood, hava tinned out the
mightiest In ie-fiit tors or bene? ictresscs of
the leu Kin no e. These tbim-s being so.
am 1 ti"t rigid in saying that in many
cases God only knows what is the most
appropriate tiling for you to do, and lie is
the one to ask? And let all parents and
nil schools and nil universities ami all col
li ges recognize this and a larg iibmber of
titos., u l.o sc.. ot their tiest li m'tt in Hflim.
wing aifom iiaong iiiimiiicm hihi occupr.
lions, now trying tids and now trying that
and failing in nil, would be al le to go
niiciid with a definite, decided and tremen
dous purpose, saying. "To this cud was I
Isjrn."
What Kholl I Ho?
Hut my sulject now niounts into the
fiioim ntons. I-t me say that you are
made for usefulness and heaven, I judge
this from the nay jou are built. You go
i ito a shop where tiiere is only one wheel
turning and tent by u nurkinait's foot on
tr--ai!le. and you say to yourself. 'H
Aii-tils ...4ncii,ii.K go.,d being done, yet on
ail siT.li-." but if you go into a factory
cucing tna'jy ui-res and you iin 1 thou
sand of band piil.'ing oil thousjiids of
!: els and sii fttes liyitig and the whole
secif liewildering with activities, driven
by water or sicaiu or electric power, you
i ..a hide that the factory was put up to do
great work and on n vast s -ale. Now. 1
look al yon, and if I should find that
you had only one f lenity of U.dy, only one
muscle, only one nerve, if you could see
but riot bear, or could bear ami not see. ir
you bad the use of only otic foot or one
hand, and, auto our higher nature, if you
bud only one nieiitiil f n ully and you had
-iti 'it t,-.',i .....i" .!.
other immortals w ere a moment short of
the eternal. .Now, uiiat lots ft:" world a
right to cpe t of yon? What lu (iod a
right to demand of ;.u? God is the great
est of economists ia tlie universe, 'and be
makes nothing uselessly, and for what
purpose did.Jie build your body, mind and
! sou! as they are bruit .' I here are only
i two beings in the universe who can an
swer that, ipiestion. The angels do not
'know. Th" schools do nut know-. out
kindred rutiiit i-ertniuiy "know. God
knows, and you ought to know. A far.
shall I do?" you 8k. My bri-tbreu, my
sisters, do not ask inc. Ask God. There's
some path of Christ bin usefulness open,
it may be a rough path or it may be a
smooth path, a lotg pi'h or a short path
It may be on a mount of conspicuity or in
s valley iinoiiserveu, nut h is a patu on
which yon can start with such faith and
such saitisfai tion and such certainty that
you can cry out in the face of enrth and
hell and heaven. "To this end was I
born."
Art Ht One.
Do aot wait for extraordinary (jualifica
tions. Philip, the conipieror, gained bis
greatest victories Beatcd on a mule, and If
you wait for some caparisoned Ituceph
elus to ride Into, the conflict yon will
never get iuto the worldwide fight It all.
Hanisou slew the Lord's enemies with the
jawbone of the stupidest beast created.
Hhaiiigar slew ('SMI of the Lord's enemies
w nil an ox goau, uimcr uoo spune cured
tbe blind man's eyes in the New Testa
ment story. Take all the faculty you have
and say: "O Ixurd, here Is what I have!
Hhow me the field and back me up by om
nipotent power. Anywhere, inyhow, any
time for God." What opportunities you
have had in the psst! What opportunities
yon have now! What opportunities yon,
will bsve In the days to come I Put on
your hst, O woman, this sfternooo and go
and comfort mat young motner wno lost
her bsbe last summer. Put on your bat,
O man, and go over and see that merchant
who was compelled yesterday to make an
taiga unt and tell Mm of tba everlast
ing riches remaining for nil those who
trrvt the Lord. Can yon stag? On and
atac for tbat ann wk ssuhmC mt wntt,
and you will help him into heaven. Let U
be your brain, your tougue, your eyea,
yonr ears, your heart your lungs, yonr
hand, your feet, your body, your mind,
your soul, your life, your time, your eter
nity for God, feeling in your soul, "To this
eud w as I bom."
Do Dot shoot at random. Take aim and
fire. Concentrate. Napoleon's success In
battle came from bis theory of breaking
through the enemy's ranks at one isint,
not trying to meet the whole line of the
enemy's fon-e by a similar force. On
reason why he lost Waterloo wis because
be did not work bis usual theory and
spread his force out over a wide range. O
Christian man, O Christian woman, break
through somewhere! Not a general en
gagement for God, but s particular en
gagement, and made in answer to prayer,
if there are sixteen hundred million peuple
in the world, then there are sixteen hun
dred million different missions to fullill,
difiereut silcs of Wfirk to do. different or
bits iu which to revolve, and if yu do not
get tbe d'.Cnie direction there are at least
fiftei n hundred and ninety-nine million
I o-sihibtii-s tl at you will make a mistake.
(Ml your ktres l.efore Cod git the matter
se:ti, d so Cat y ii can firmly say, "To this
end was I born."
Life Ia Pricf.
IHikiug at the life of tbe youngest per
son in this assembly and supposing that
be will live to be a nonagenarian, how
short the time and soon gone, while bank
ed up in front of us is an eternity so vast
that arithmetic has not figures enough to
express its length or breadth, or depth,
or height. For s happy eternity y.m were
liorn. unlcs yon run yourself against the
divine intentions. If standing in yonr
presence my eye should fail upon the fc-I.I.-kI
soul here as that soul will appear
when the world lets it up and heaven en
trances it. I suppose I would be so over
powered that 1 should drop dow n as one
dead.
There is your resurrected body, so bril
liant that the noonday sun is a patch ot
midnight compared with it. There is your
soul, so pure that all the forces of (liiibiil
ism could not spot it with an imperfection.
There is your being, so mighty and so
svtift that '-tligbt from heaven to Mercury
or Mirs or Jupiter and back again to
heaven would not weary you. and a world
on eii'-h shoulder would ird crush you.
An ijp that shall never shed n tear. An
clergy that shall never feel B fatigue. A
brow 'thill shall never throb wither-In.
You are young again, though you died of
decrepitude. You are w-cll hg.iiu. tiumg'i
you coughed or shivered yourself into the
tomb. Your everyday associates are the
apostles nud prophets and martyrs and
most exalted souls, masculine snd femi
nine, of all the centuries. The archangel
to you no eiuharrassmciit. God biniscif
your present and everlasting joy. Tint is
all iiistniitiini-ius picture of w hut you may
be and what I am sure some of you will
be.
tVlml n islriinirii lliinc it must Is to feel
oneself horn to an earthly crow n, but you
have been lrn for a throne on wim ii you
mav reis;ii after the list monarch of all
the earth shall have one to dust. 1 in
vite you to start now for yonr ow n corona
tion, to fume in and take the title deeds
i,. e,.i,f ftferl.-isllnir i n her i ! 11 lice. TliroUL-ll
an ini asslom d prayer take beav. n and all
of its raptures.
What a poor farthing ts nil that this
-...-!. t euti fi(r ritti comiiHred with telnlon
here Btiri life immortal beyond the stars,
nnless tins side ot itiein mere oe a place
large enough and Isantife! enough and
grand enough fos nil the ransomed. Wher
ever it he. in filial world, wneiiier near
by or far awiy, in this or some other con
stellation, hsil, borne of light and love
and blessedness! Through the atoning
mercy cf Christ, may wi; all get there!
: right, lit.
SHORT SCRMONS.
The Nobb-st Title. "Onv is your mas
ter, even Ciirist." -Of all the titles
Which mi u have sought or assumed,
and w itli which mortals have len n hon
ored by their fellows, there Is not a
nobler one than master. Itev. Dr. I'.ris
tol, Methodist, Washington, D. C.
Message Needed. What message do
men ue.-d? If I had a voice that would
reach tb'-tti all I would proclaim the
farmer proph'-t's message, "Prepare to
meet thy God." Get ready to die; and
then you will be ready to live, to suffer
snd u liejir. -K-v. Mr. Fisher, Metho
ds;, Sail I'.eriiard'.tio, Cal.
The Great Triumph. If it were some
thing great and glorious, for the Gospel
to triumph over tbe darkness of the
understanding and the errors of the
judgment, how much more to triumph
over the passions of the heart and tbe
corruptions of the life. Iter. Geo. J.
Mlngins, Methi (list, As'mry Park. N. .1.
Neglect of teal's Day. Hlcycles on
Sunday have diverted dreadfully the
hearts of the pisipie of God. No people
on' earth can neglect the observance of
God's holy day. I-et us endeavor, as
far as Is n li-s. to keep holy the sanc
tuary of ciod and preserve his worsh'p.
Dr. S. M. Ilaskina, Episcopalian,
Brooklyn. N. Y.
Tendency of Men. Scripture Is a vol
uminous illustration of tbe tendency of
men to go, not from bad to good, but
from good to ld and bad to worse.
And this Is no truer to facta of ancient
Hebrew life than It Is to what goes on
among nations and Individual people.
now. Wherever you put a man, no
twitter how high, he will le likely to
work down Into a condition tlutt Is low
er; whatever character you give Mm,
no matter how pure ami sinless, It will
not be long in all likelihood before he
will betray symptoms of depreciation.
U'T. Dr.. Parkhtirst, Presbyterian.
New York City.
Our Outcome of the War. The pulpit
baa always been Instrumental lu shap
ing the course of public affair, and "
when men of clubs, politics and busi
ness are uttering their sentiments In re
gard to war, the pulpit should give Us
words of direction and strength. We
shall all have to bear our part In the
burdens of this war. Our recompense
wlll be th knowledge that we have
been right We look for the advance
ment of tba kingdom of God and the
progress of peace and righteousness
never before known In tba history of
this world.-Iter. Wm. IL AUbrlgbt,
OontMgnilnnallat, Dorchester, Mnntv
ill
A new Industry In this country la to
be established near Norfolk, Va. It Is
an Institution for extracting tbe oil
from peanuts.
The New Albany (Ind.) Hosiery Com
pany has secured government contracts
which will keep their plant In operation
several mouths.
Cuba and Porto Rico will be overrun
with networks of electrical wires as
soon as the electrical companies can
get to work on the Islands.
From rittsburg conies the news that
for the first time in the history of that
city the iron mills bave been lu full
blast night and day during all the su tu
rner months.
In the cotton seed Industry last year
not less than 4,fMA0O0 tons of cotton
seed were consumed, the total value of
the resultant products aggregating
f 120,000,000.
By a new process It Is said 00,000 feet
of gas can be produced from a ton of
low-trade coal. The process couslsta
of forcing air In tbe coal, followed by a
blast of steam.
In Great Britain a movement is on
foot which has for Its object the amal
gamation of tbe General Hallway
Workers' I'nion and tbe Amalgamated
Society of Bailway Servants.
The T'nlted States lias exported VA
locomotives duil.tg (he las- yeir, vohp'd
at nearly J.ooo.eoo. Nearly 2 .5 OO-iO
worth of sewing machines were also
sold, and Jl.5oo.0o0 worth of typewrit
ers. Practically one-half of the coffee
grown In the world now comes to the
United Plates. The latest estimates
put the coffee production of the world
at l.GOfl.OOn.ooo pounds per antitim,
while the inisrts into the United
States last year were more than huif
that amount
Liilxir day's parade In Chicago w't-nessc-d
!lie spectacle of twenty non
union bunds, seven non-union life and
drum corps and) only six union bands
In the greatest labor parade ever held
In the Western metropolis. The union
musk-Inns bad but 1.7 of its 1.4 o mem
bers working that day.
Tbe Label C;;imittce of the joint
clgnrmakers' unions of Chicago has
started a crusade against cheap tene
ment bonse cigar shops, the competi
tion of women ami children in their In
dustry, and immense shipment of ci
gars from the Fast, all of which are
made without regard to health or prks
lo tbe workers.
The depression In tbe cycle trade in
England deepens with the advance of
the year. In Birmingham tiiere are be
tween 2.fKXi and a.'ssj tnen out of em
ployment snd the society oi'icials re
port great want of employ merit at Cov
entry, Liverpool, Limerick. Cork, Not
tingham, Heddltch and Wolverhamp
ton. The cause of the depression is
given as overproduction aud German
competition.
DEWEY USED TO LICK HIM
A Chicago Man's Kemintsccnce of ths
l e.ir Adiuiriil.
"Bear Admiral Dewey used to lick
me," said Walter A. Phillips, a Chics g
man, whose oilice I boo Hooitery Build
ing. ".So, of course, it Is was no sur
prise to me when 1 learti-d that b
had shown his fighting .ibliity by whi;
(ilng the Kpaniards. 1 knew him to b
thnt kind of a man."
Mr. Phillli is a raJlroad Inspector.
He was talking In a group of men whs
chanced to meet In a downtown uewi
agency.
"My father's house and Dr. Devvey'i
houKe were on tbe same street In Mont
puller, Yt" he continued. In cxpiat a
tion of the thrashing he received frota
the boy who was destined to gro
Into a great navitl hero, "These houses
were opposite the whoolhonse, tbe on
In which Dewey was born being s
frame atory-and a-balf collage, whlli
ours was of brick, built In the old colo
nial style. As boys we went to school
together In the little red brick school
bouse, which stood about 800 feel
away, In front of and a little to tb
east of Dewey's home. In ihose days,
If I rememlKT rightly, be licked m
more than once, and be was aided and
abetted lu showing his prowess In tlx
nse of his lists by Charley Reed, an
other playmate, who grew up Into S
successful bunker.
"In 18M be went lo Norwich, Vt.. and
a little later to Annapolis, since whl k
I bave had tbe pleitsure of seeing Li in
aeveral times and renewing old ac
quaintance, lie Is a clean, fine man."
Unique Ilonse In Yellowstone Park.
W. P. Howe, of Upper Geyser Basin,
Yellowstone Park, has a hothouse, 20
by 50 feet, built of rough slabs over a
natural hot spring Ave Inches In diam
eter, with a temperature of 120 degrees.
Cucumbers of six weeks' growth
showed Tinea ten feet long, bearing
fruit six inches In length. A smaller,
experimental - hothouse, abandoned
from December until June, disclosed
uninterrupted growth and maturity of
vegetation, and a luxuriant new crop
of lettuce, wltb leave ten Inchest long.
The at' am bad supplied all necessary
moisture. Chicago Tlmea-Uaraid.
Cloth i pom Woo l.
Cloth la now being successfully midi
from wood. B tripe of finegrained wood
an boiled and crushed between rollers,
nnd the fllamenta, baring bean carded
Into parallel line, art spun InM
threads, from which cloth can bn wt
ran In tba usual way.
afn born liars. wMkotWa
patte m aaquirn Um an.
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