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PICTOBAl CONTE AST*. DlFFBRENTCOKDiTlCHS UKOER TWO AOMIKI&TRETION6. *• e! I'«t*rt> tb< St*ff >•; *»*•• n»«"« Is i.raut-1*( Itfprsfsia «*■» »f Ur ftpIrsttM frwiRri; % mm • t#rt M»*«i This Wdi‘i Aiiierkan Eennotabit ; presents twe illustrations which I r**< t a wttiofi und tell a story o! peculiar inter.-*t and r.giiiftennre. Inc first *«*ne of actual cm rrm«c, bring* into T'r* a otKiditioa wfc.efc . *:*ted tn Jaa wnry ItM i*.-* than a year after the inawgwrattos of Ow« Ciei eland as J president of the I'aitsf State*. The ad* n.it»i*TT*lof President Cleveland • * diatimflf rOMMaftMMf to the policy -of free trade and from the moment thr re*uit of the presidential elet-uor of S ctc-ts •- r IKK m#«- known the country begat to f s-l the sire** and stringency at th* hanged industrial and MotHitum outlook. A year and a c. -arter later, toe" period at which the e-car y»irtmyed i» the first p.rture Otrurr* i, the » age earners of the t ttti ed jit at - * were brought face to face with the cianwtrmt* < on sequen ce* in- i wnifed n th* tr*an>ph of free trade. Oat at work oat of money, their wire* and child** suffering tor lack of food and clothing eagerly thronged the place* or here relief v. it dispensed One among tl—* n .mrrou. places was the Xew York Herald build.ag orner of Broadway .ad Ann street, where free clothing was handed oat to the needy, j It was s hjtr.tr w : ch h *nored the gee .-*■»"m* j * opr ,i"e*<ir of the il» raid and «t.-.k weal far toward mitigating the • .ffer: g* of the poor in that never laehe-forfdttew free trade witter of I*»$- •%*. Th» fcwrity was the wor tMer on «ort of the Herald, be caasr uf the rknCM of re paration en tering into it. m*- non tt# tb* oed jm lurt, wfc'ifti tppan in the New York H« ald of I*e . 5, 1«P*. Three rears and a month have eiapaed since tbe rer dtct of tb* propis at the presidential eiartten of No^rt let, Ph, was made kmt .t f»v .* of a protective tariff. I attend of the dismal scene* of poverty seeking in* dt»*e of free suup and free * krthing we hare a picture of t'ncle hi* fiatam expressing supreme crtiifl landing by the side of a it atney .t whose drowe m-** of escap sg smoke are seen the outlines of the word "PMiretm* ’ While a huge placard an warn »m the fact that H«ns( IS* fm»i SM4 Ikr m »£*• ot ns. too is lau Mm. !*>•< 'll *<,:d Vr* IMI*r| hat* haw attaarrl la per lest. The N- a V rk Herald was lor many pears a strenuous advocate of free trade for th* i'r.:red Elates. It is not so sin■swi now. Otherwise it would hardly have furnished the second pic ture uf a pair ah- b tell so vividly and mo cowrit* ngiy the story of contrast ing run * ion* und*-r two admin-stra tiuna. h* lane 1 Inserts*. Ee; rosmtatise Payne of New York. ct» rt.aa of the bona* committee on Ways *nd means .* certain that the pr* »ent ruagin* i.ii do no tariff tin kering "The Fifiy-siat.il onrreas has important work on it* Lands.** said be it a recent .nts-rview. There will U ns tariff >gislat:on during the present aensMie. 'The condition of the eonwtry ti today thoroughly prosperous and will asmtinae an unless ill-advised and radical logisiaiiow affecting the busi ***** a: * fnan a. .n’.-r->* of the na tion «a»> ted during tne next few years "The country demands and should Late a ntttiewf .and assured poll<-y in re ap* * to thaae qearonf. *1 be Dingier la* as a revenue producer has more than «i 11sped those responsible for its •martmewl and has penned gratifying to the peofu*- of the country gener ally. "It ’.a,:- ranis bed ample revenue to carr* on the government from the mo ment tic -nd wool arneduie* be gaa to operate 1 am convinced that the happy' rwwnJtn it has produced will be pi i mawwi ** Kepre* ntsi.ee Payne is right. The I» ttgie> is a La* proved *o satisfactory an l tn all ways bewrikdhl to the conn try n*t tbe pe-jpie have no desire to lgtems.pt .ws wpaewttows for. suae time to cass*. Md lb* «.<di l>wn» The trwfcwief itikfiiot lor October 1* >fc< * - that i.b* f«>4 reserve tn the tr» u«*y stands at S&.7 74«.Mrii. The Js» t^raTK < bain seems !*-»#-d-t to drj« lb* said out of lb* ir*--- •*■ ti-iriES m Rej* ;b.wnt» sdffliu is: ra r %*krti **• b:d fr*« trod*. 01 tar.! • " rm tb* l>*morrane adminis tfatr •*. --’d over S2€2.«aMit in tmer #*■» ' * r.s bonds to «. uiatn sold aritb ofcfta • maintain the c<Od reserve and to pL; rr*.»t of the roverr wumt. Thera has keen an drain on the S* d is • • trriserr s:s'e the Repub FREE TRADE MEANT TREE Ci-OTHING. ii*> • re New York Herald's Teaching—The Distribution of Free Cloth :ig in the H raid's Ann Street Building, January 19, 1894. U ans mere placed In charge of It, be . 1 • the people have full confidence •ie financial abilit; <■ Republic a:, par If the Democratic party was p.a- ed m power tomorrow our un : ar.iil* . i prosperity would vanish, our nold re.-, ve would melt away like r. >w m August, and before six months had t -• the “endless chain" would *•»- loins business at the old stand. v ■ ild be sold to pay expenses at: maintain the sold reserve, busi n .!«' be paralyzed and before a year had par sed the country would be rwep: i>- a panic, and labor would be r - -*r it of employment.—Ikrntun till.) Republican. FREE TRADE BOSK Ttie AtMitioa Th»t FrMlil*ut aiclilu In I.«-.ki* Timird CobUrcbin. The New York Times seem4* to be \g it> resources to save the I)emo r , party. It sees that Mr. Bryan j- a.l mat he stands for on silver, imm- and expansion can only make ■-a* party i»-s popular with the people. It hat finally hit upon a scheme by *lmb b- party can be reinstated and • i‘ ntry saved from untold disaster, namely, by abandoning its position on '.iver trusts and the Philippines, and t:anting for the simple issue of tariff iettru ion. Let the party declare for putting ail trust products on the free • !'" and make “a determined assault ujkjh the 52 per cent Dingley tariff" tnJ its popularity with the people is a -ui*d It take* the recent remarks v President McKinley and Postmas ter-Cren*-raj Charles Emery Smith. fa\oring foreign commerce, as certain evidence that th* administration is rap.u > g tt:ng in line for free trade, and warn- the Democratic party that if if due*, nor hurry up and get upon this anmtarilt platform the Republicans wii? be ahead of it. and then its • :.a.nre* of success will be gone for ai. >:her generation. Mr. Bryan may ia k |< tual msight in adhering to • ' - lk-to-J preposition, but in his wild est moments he has never exhibited > ; h mental chaos as is revealed in m* nut; ;n that President McKinley ;n , iimuster-general have turned t. .• .r tu its on protection, and that fr-* trade would be a popular Issue ' r i* ». Such a notion can only be • • • ri' 3 on the assumption that the \r. .in nation is composed of sev « :.'v-tive millions of people “mostly la Besides this deliverance Mr. Bryan's talk really sounds like statee man.-hsp -Gunton> Magazine, Deccm her. It>9 Aunthrr Orphan Child. Another trust has just made its ap j»-aninre in free trade Great Britain, i ue Lorn on Economist of November 11 announces the formation of 'he ' nn* i Indigo and Chemical com im ted. this being an amalgama tion of e:abt firms which comprise the leading indigo manufacturers of the Failed Kingdom It does not appear t: «tt the Dinglev law is responsible for •: :» British trust, or that the absence »r a protective tariff constitutes any r: .> bar to the fc rmation of trusts. At Both t ml*. Th« American Farmer appears to be catching prosperity at both ends of the trap th's year. The war in the Philip ;*:n k. by cutting off the supply of hemp, has greatly enhanced the value of flat. It is estimated that North Da farmers alone will get more than f'c •O.MMI for their flax crop, which w. ! enable them to hold their wheat crop for better prices.—Seattle (Wash.) I*ost-lnte!ligencer. COOD NEWS. DURING ThL FiST^l *£E* WAGES OF 56700 OPERATIVES !»»F/klLRlVER,LOW£tL hhd New Bedford have seek ADVANCED ^ 10 PER CENT. —New Vork Herald. Dec. 5, 1S99. BARGAIN COUNTER THEORY. Out rrodurta Not bold Abroad for Lesa Than at Borne. One of the arguments most generally urged against the protective tariff sys tem by its opponents is that American products are frequently sold to foreign consumers for less than they are sold at home. The same objection might be urged against the bargain counter sales of the American merchant. He has a surplus and cannot afford to hold it over until the next season, to be put up in competition with new and fresh goods, even of the same manufacture. The bargain day sales of the mer chant do not affect the salaries of his employes, they are of some benefit to : those who buy, and although they may not add to the profit side of the mer chant's account, they at least save him from loss. The manufacturer cannot exactly es timate the quantity of goods he can sell during the season, but he knows be must have enough, and he further more feels that he is in duty bound to furnish his employes full employment, and therefore lets his mills go full time. If he has a surplus and can dis pose of it at cost in a foreign country it saves him from loss, helps the pur | chaser to the extent of reduction in price, and above all, enables him to give his labor full employment. Is there anything wrong in the transaction? The thinking man will say no. The fact of the matter is, however, that American products are never sold in foreign markets for less than they are at home. That they are sold, however, at less price than the foreign manufacturer can produce them for, is an acknowl edged fact. This is the misfortune of the foreigner. The superiority of our skilled labor and improved labor saving machinery enables us to do this, and we do it. Can any one find fault with us for doing so?—St. Louis Star. Hlatoric I’lirasea A la Atkinaon. From the Mobile Register: If the fashion prevails of bewailing our na tion's effort to maintain the dignity of its flag in the face of the enemy, we will have to revise the saying of those who once were national heroes and ask our children to study them in the fol lowing shape: Give up the ship.—Law rence. Be sure you are right, then apologize for it.—Davy Crockett. We have met the enemy, and ours are theirs.—Oliver Hazard Perry. Wait un til you see the whites of their eyes, boys; then run.—Andrew Jackson. Don't hold the fort: Pm running.—W. T. Sherman. Damn the torpedoes; take a sneak.—David Glasgow Farra gut. I propose to get out of this line if it takes all summer.—U. S. Grant. There stands Jackson like a stone wall, but he is a fool to do it.—Gen. Lee. When you are ready, Gridley, you may skedaddle.—Dewey. Everywhere Recognized. A San Francisco merchant who has just returned from a business tour of Eastern manufacturing centers reports that manufacturers are so overcrowded that they have been forced to stop tak ing orders. Their works are running to their full capacity, wages of em ployes are being advanced and there are no unemployed spinners and weav ers to be had at any price. This era of prosperity is recognized everywhere as the direct result of the domestic and foreign policy of the McKinley ad ministration.—San Francisco Chron icle. Doing Very Well. The offer of the treasury department to redeem $25,000,000 worth of govern ment bonds is an unmistakable indi cation of the flourishing condition of our national finances. The lack of readiness shown by the holders of bonds to take advantage of the offer of the secretary of the treasury is an equally reliable indication of the very satisfactory condition of commercial affairs throughout the country. The Dingley law seems to be doing pretty well, both by the government and by the people generally. Much More Favorable. No other word than triumph does justice to the results of the Dingley law. No matter where the test is ap plied its workings are far more favor able than any tariff ever devised by a Democratic congress.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. No Longer Idle. The iron mills In the vicinity of Cleveland have enough orders on hand now to keep them busy all of next year. Before McKinley was elected many of them were lying idle or work ing only half time.—Cleveland Leader. Be Would Like a Change. The times are unusually prosperous. "Let's vote for a change,” says Mr. Bryan.—Burlington Hawkeye. TALM AGE'S SERMON. THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL AND ITS HEAVENLY LIGHT. The Text Chosen Beiitj: 4'.%eeerdinji to the Glorious Gospel of the Most messed God Which Was Committed to My Trust"—Tim. 1:11. The greatest novelty of our time is the gospel. It is so old that it is new. j As potters and artists are now attempt ing to fashion pitchers and cups and curious ware like those of 1.900 years *go receutly brought up from buried Pompeii, and such cups and pitchers and curious ware are universally ad mired, so any one who can unshovel the real gospel from the mountains of stuff under which it has been buried, will be able to present something that will attract the gaze and admiration and adoption of all the people. It is amazing what substitutes have been presented for what my text calls “The Glorious Gospel." There has been a hemispheric apostasy. There are many people in this and all other large as semblages who have no more idea of what the gospel really is than they have of what is contained in the four teenth chapter of Zend-Avesta, the bi ble of the Hindoo, the first copy of which I ever saw I purchased in Cal cutta. India, last September. The old gospel is fifty feet under and the work has been done by the shovels of those who have been trying to contrive the philosophy of religion. There is no philosophy about it. It is a plain mat ter of bible statement and of child-like faith. Some of the theological semi naries have been hotbeds of infidelity, because they have tried to teach the “philosophy of religion.” By the time that many a theological student gets half through his preparatory course he is so filled with doubts about plen ary inspiration and the divinity of Christ and the questions of eternal destiny that he is more fit for the low est branch in the infant class of a Sun day school than to become a teach er and leader of the people. The ablest theological professor is a Christian mother, who. out of her own experience, can tell the 4-year old how beautiful Christ was on earth and how beautiful he is in heaven and how dearly he loves lit tle folks, and then she kneels down and puts one arm around the boy. and with her somewhat faded cheek against the roseate cheek of the little one. con secrates him for time and eternity to Him who said. “Suffer them to come unto me.” What an awful work Paul made with the D. D.'s and the LL. D.'s and the F. R. S.’s when he cleared the decks of the old gospel ship by saying: “Not many wise men. not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty.” there sits the dear old theologian with his table piled up with all the great books on inspiration and exegesis and apologetics for the Almighty and writing out his own elaborate work on the philosophy of religion, and his lit tle grandchild, coming up to him for a good-night kiss, he accidentally knocks off the biggest book from the table and it falls on the head of the child, of whom Christ himself said: “Out of the mouths of babes and suck lings thou hast perfected praise.” Ah! my friends, the bible wants no apolo getics. The throne of the last judg ment wants no apologetics. Eternity wants no apologttics. Scientists may tell us that the natural light is the “propagation of undulation? in an elastic medium, and thus set in vibra tory motion by the action of luminous bodies”; but no one knows what gos pel light is until his own blind eyes, by the touch of the Divine Spirit, have opened to see the noonday of pardon and peace. Scientists may tell us that natural sound is “the effect of an im pression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse of the air, caused by a collision of bodies or by sbrne other means”; but those only know what the gospel sound is who have heard the voice of Christ directly saying: “Thy sins are forgiven thee; go in peace.” The theological dude unrolls upon the plush of an exquisitely carved pulpit a learned discourse showing that the garden of Eden was an allegory, and Solomon’s song rather an indeli cate love ditty, and the book of Job a drama in which Satan was the star actor, and that Renan was three-quar ters right about the miracles of Jesus, and that the bible was gradually evo luted and the best thought of the dif ferent ages, Moses and David and Paul doing the best they could under the circumstances, and therefore to be en couraged. Lord of heaven and earth, get us out of the London fog of higher criticism! The night is dark and the way is rough, and we have a lantern which God has put in our hands; but instead of employing the lantern to show our selves and others the right way we are discussing lanterns, their shape, their size, their material and which is the better light—kerosene, lamp oil or candle; and while we discuss it, we stand all around the lantern so that j we shut out the light from the multi | tudes who are stumbling on in the dark mountains of sin and death. Twelve hundred dead birds were found one morning around Bartholdi's statue ! in New York harbor. They had dashed I their life out against the lighthouse the night before. Poor things! And the great lighthouse of the gospel— how many high-soaring thinkers have beaten all their religious life out against it. while it was intended for only one thing, and that to show all nations the way into the harbor of God’s mercy, and to the crystalline wharves of the heavenly city, where the immortals are waiting for new ar rivals. Dead skylarks, when they might have been flying seraphs. Fere also come, covering up the old gospel, some who think they can by law and exposure of crime save the world, and from Portland. Maine, across to San Francisco and back again ; to New Orleans and Savannah, many j of the ministers have gone into the de- j tective business. Worldly reform by j all means; but unless it be also gos- i pel reform, it will be dead failure. In j New York its chief work has been to j give us a change of bosses. The glorious gospel of the blessed \ God as spoken of in my text will have more drawing power, and when that gospel gets full swing it will have a momentum and power mightier than Chat of the Atlantic ocean when, under force of the September equinox, It ctrikes the highlands of the Xaresink. The meaning of the word “gospel" is “good news,” and my text says it is glorious news, and we must tell it in our churches and over our dry goods counters and in our factories and over our threshing machines and behind our plows and on our ships’ decks and in our parlors, our nurseries and kitchens, as though it were glorious good news, and not with a dismal drawl in our voice and a dismal look in our faces, as though religion were a rheumatic twinge or a dyspeptic pang or a ma larial chill or an attack of nervous prostration. With nine “blesseds” or “happys,” Christ began his sermon on j the mount: Blessed are the poor, blessed the mourner, blessed the meek, blessed the hungry, blessed the merci ful, blessed the pure, blessed the peace makers, blessed the persecuted, blessed the reviled, blessed, blessed, blessed: happy, happy, happy. Glorious good news for the young, as through Christ they may have their coming years en nobled. and for a life time all the an gels of God their coadjutors and all the armies of heaven their allies. Glori ous good news for the middle aged, as through Christ they may have their perplexities disentangled and their cour age rallied, and their victory over all obstacles and hindrances made forever sure. Glorious good news for the aged, as they may have the sympathy of him of whom St. John wrote: “His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow.” and the defense of the everlasting arms. Glorious good news for the dying, as they may have minis tering spirits to escort them and open ing gates to receive them and a sweep of eternal glories to encircle them and the welcome of a loving God to em bosom them. Oh. my text is right when It speaks of the glorious gospel. It is an invi tation from the most radient being that ever trod the earth or ascended the heavens, to you and to me. to come and be made happy, and then take after that a royal castle for ever lasting residence, the angels of God our cupbearers. The price paid for all of this on the cliff of limestone about as high as this house, about seven min utes’ walk from the wall of Jerusalem, where with an agony that with one hand tore down the rocks and with the other drew down a midnight blackness over the heavens, our Lord set us for ever free. Making no apology for any one of the million sins of our life, but confessing all of them, we can point to that cliff of limestone and say. “There was paid our indebtedness and God never collects a bill twice. Glad am I that all the Christian poets have exerted their pen in extolling the matchless one of this gospel. Isaac Watts, how do you feel concerning him? And he writes. “I am not ashamed to own my Lord.” Newton, what do you think of this gospel? And he writes. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound.” Cowper. what do you think of him? And the answer comes, “There is a fountain filled with blood.” Charles Wesley, what do you think of him? And he answers, “Jesus, lover o? my soul.” Horatius Bonar. what do you think of him? And he re sponds. “I lay my sins on Jesus.” Ray Palmer, what do you think of him? And he writes. "My faith looks up to thee.” Fannie Crosby, what do you think of him? And she writes. “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.” But I take higher testimony: Solomon, what do you think of him? And the answer is. | -Lily of the valley.” Ezekiel, what do you think of him? And the answer is, “Plant of renown." David, what do you think of him? And the answer is, j “My shepherd.” St. John, what do you think of him? And the answer is, ! “Bright and morning star.” St. Paul, what do you think of him? And the answer comes, “Christ is all in all.” Do you think as well of him. 0 man. 0 woman, of the blood-bought immor tal spirit? Yes. Paul was right when he styled it “The Glorious Gospel.” And then as a druggist, while you are waiting for him to make up the doc tor’s prescription, puts into a bottle so many grains of this and so many grains of that, and so many drops of j this and so many drops of that, and the intermixture taken, though sour and bitter, restores the health, so Christ, the Divine Physician, prepares , this trouble of our life time and that disappointment and this persecution, and that hardship and that tear, and we must take the intermixture, yet though it be a bitter draught, under tne divine prescription it administers to our restoration and spiritual health, “all things working together for good.” Glorious gospel! And then the royal castle into which we step out of this life without so much as soiling our foot with the up turned earth of the grave. "They shall reign forever and ever.” Does not that mean that you are, if saved, to be kings and queens, and do not kings and queens have castles? But the one that you are offered was for thirty-three years an abandoned cas tle. though uow gloriously inhabited. There is an abandoned royal castle at Amber. India. One hundred and sev enty years ago a king moved out of it never to return. But the castle still stands in indescribable grandeur, and you go through brazen doorway after brazen doorway, and carved room after carved room, and under embellished ceiling after embellished ceiling, and through precious-stoned into wider halls precious-stoned, and on that hill are pavilions deeply dyed and tasseled and arched, the fire of colored gardens cooled by the snow of white architec ture; birds in arabesque so natural to life that while you cannot hear their voices you imagine you see the flutter of their wings while you are passing; walls pictured with triumphal pro cession; rooms that were called “Al cove of Light” and “Hall of Victory”; marble, white and black, like a mix ture of morn and night; alabaster and mother-of-pearl and lacquer work. Standing before it, the eye climbs from step to latticed balcony, and from lat ticed balcony to oriel, and from oriel to arch, and from arch to roof, and then descends on ladder of all colors and by stairs of perfect lines to tropical gardens of pomegranite and pineapple. Seven stories of resplendent architec ture! But the royal castle provided for you, if you will only take it on the prescribed terms, is grander than all that, and though an abandoned cas tle while Christ was here achieving your redemption, is again occupied by the “Chief among ten thousand,” and some of your own kindred who have .gone up and, waiting for you, are lean ing from the balcony. The windows of that castle look off on the king's gardens, where immortals walk, linked in eternal friendship; and the banquet hall of that castle has princes and princesses at the table; and the wine is the “new wine of the kingdom.” and the supper is the marriage supper of the lamb; and there are fountains into which no tear ever fell, and there is music that trembles with nc grief, and the light that falls upon the scene is never beclouded, and there is the kiss of those united after long separation. More nerve we will have there than now, or we would swoon away under the raptures. Stronger vision will we have there than now, or our eyesight would be blinded by the brilliance. Stronger ear will we have there than now, or under the roll of that min strelsy and the clapping of that accla mation and the boom of that halle lujah we would be deafened. Glorious gospel! You thought religion w^s a straight-jacket, and it put you on the limits, and thereafter you must go cowed down. No. no, no. It is to be castellated. 3y the cleansing power of the shed blood of Golgotha, set your faces toward the shining pinna cles. Oh, it does not matter much what becomes of us here—for at the longest our stay is short—if we can only land there. You see there are so many I want to meet there. Joshua, my favorite prophet; and John among the evangelists; and Paul among the apostles, and Wycliffe among the mar tyrs. and Bourdaloue among the preachers, and Dante among the poets, and Havelock among the heroes, and our loved ones whom we have so much missed since they left us, so many darlings of the heart, their absence sometimes almost unbearable; and, mentioned in this sentence last of all because I want the thought climacteric, our blessed Lord, without whom we could never reach the old castle at all. He took our place. He purchased our ransom. He wept our woes. He suf feied our stripes. He died our death. He assured our resurrection. Blessed be his glorious name forever! Surging to his ear be all the anthems! Fac ing him be all the thrones! And then from that vastest audience ever established in all the universe there will go up the shout. "Crown him! Crown him! Crown him!” and the Father, who long ago promised his only begotten See, ”1 will give thee the heathen for thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession,” shall set the crown upon the forehead yet scarred with crucifixion bramble, and the hosts of heaven, down on the levels and up in the galleries, will drop on their knees crying. "Hail, king of earth! King of heaven! King of saints! King of seraphs! Thy kingdom is an everlast ing kingdom, and to thy dominions there shall be no end! Amen and Amen! Amen and Amen!” Should Coal Give Oat. What then? Are we utterly depend ent upon coal, so that the wheels of in dustry will stop and the forests be consumed for fuel when coal gives out? Of course not. It is an idle fear. Already we have the beginning of a new method of utilizing natural ener gy which will prove enormously more effective than coal has ever been, and will be practically inexhaustible, to whatever extent industry may expand, says Gunton's Magazine. Electrical energy, developed by water power, will run the world’s industries, furnish its light and heat, and be the universal substitute for all forms of combustion methods. Water power is practically unlimited, and it will be utilized more and more in proportion as the need for it arises and as its use becomes, at dif ferent places and at different periods, cheaper than coal. The substitution will proceed gradually, until, when the coal supply finally is exhausted, no body will have anything more than a curious or academic interest in the matter, and probably not a ripple will be produced in the steady onward flow of the world's industry. As the use of water power to develop electrical en ergy increases to the point of formida ble competition with coal, electrical students and inventors will doubtless bring out Improvements making it pos sible to store the power or conduct it long distances at small cost, until our factories, railroads and ships can be operated by it. our houses lighted and warmed and food prepared all at even i less expense than is possible today with coal. A British School at Rome. A movement, supported by a strong general committee, for the establish ment at Rome of a British school sim ilar to that which has existed for thir teen years at Athens. Germany .France, Austria, and the United States already possess institutions of the kind in Rome, but Great Britain, almost alone among European nations, is unrepre sented. The need is recognized in that city of a British denter of study and research, offering to British students the advantages enjoyed by members of otter nationalities. The formation of such a center would be welcomed by the eonmitee of the Athens school, as a means of enabling students to com plete in Rome the training they have received in Athens, though the work done in both cities would be of a sim ilar character. The school in Rome, like that in Athens, would be a train ing ground for students fresh from the universities or other institutions, as well as a place where more mature students could gather, to the stimula tion of intercourse and sympathy and the achievement of more concerted and continuous work.—London Echo. A Fiw-leeifd rrc-, A five-legged frog has come all the way from Connecticut and taken up his abode in the New York aquarium. He did not hop here—even a frog with five legs could not do that—but traveled in a box with some wet moss to keep him cool. When he was transferred to a tank he uttered a graceful chirrup and blinked his golden-rimmed eyes. At first glance this newcomer seems to carry his extra leg so gracefullly that the beholder is tempted to think that all frogs ought to have three front legs. -Closer examination, however, shows that the middle leg is really an excres cence from one of the others, and is not of much service to its proprietor. He does not use it in swimming r hopping, but it imparts a certain dig nity to his aspect.—New York World. Cheerfulness was never yet pro- \ duced by effort, which is iu itself p&lnfm. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON 11. JANUARY 14: LUKE 2: 41-52. Jesus Visits Jerusalem—“And Jc«Us J,». creased In Wisdom and Stalure. and in Favor with tiod «nti Man — Lake 2: 52. 41‘ ' His Parents w,nt to Jerusalem ry. ! ery year.” This sbt ws n * A Wi> u.at h:» parents j ^r‘-' devout- Hod-fearing people They ! were very strict in performing their re ' and lls!rip ,hpir religious privileges In, feast of the pass-over ” | J,h;; ™os* lmPonam Of the relgious festi i ,\f v Jews- ,h*' commemoration of 1 1 T r *J,rt.h us.a natkn 12, 13), which a!, male Israelites were commanded to at, , tend each year (Ex. 23: 14-17; Deut. it* 4“„ •'n,i " Ia n he was twelve years i t* A Child of 12 was at that time in I he *-■« as; wp;l developed physically and intellectually as a child of 13 in our West ern modern world.” This was the age ! a kllld tlf turning point from : childhood, a Jewish boy became a "son | of the law the age of responsibility, when he was bound to keep tnc law, and to go up to the festivals with his father, "after the custom of t..e feast,’1 as it wasi the custom to go. or in the customary manner of traveling. 43. “And when they had fulfilled tho days. The seven days of the Passover lEx. 13.15; Deut. It,; 2) "or the custom ary two days, for many pilgrims left after the sacrifices were over.’1—Plumptre. The ^ child Jesus. The word means • boy." I'p to this point a diminutive term has been used.—Professor Kid.lb. "Tarried behind in Jerusalem." "The Greek for tarried' contains an idea of persistence and perseverance. The attrat tion of divine things held him fast in j sPitc of the departure of his parents."— j int. Grit. Com. It is not at all probable that he remained behind on purpose, hut he was so intensely interested In tho j teaching of the nbbis that he did not | know when the caravan started on Us j homeward journey. "And Joseph and ins j mother knew not of it." This shows wnat I perfect confidence they had in the boy. j 1 hey willingly left him with the other ! boys of his age during the day. and took 1 it for granted that he had joined the caravan with the rest. "The incident constantly occurs to this day in the an nual expedition of the pilgrims ' > bathe in the fords of the Jordan.”—Far r. 44. "But they, supposing him -o have been in the company.” "The comi ny that shared the journey.”—M. R. .'incent. “And they sought him.” ”It w s prob ably when the caravan halted for tho night that he was first missed. At tho present day the women commonly start j first, and the men follow, the 11: tie chil | dren being with their mothers, and tho older with either. If this was the case, then Mary might fancy that he was with Joseph, and Joseph that he was with Mary (Tristram. Eastern Customs in Bi ble Lands, p. 56).”—Int. Crit. Coin. 45. “They turned back again.” A sin gle act. "Seeking him." A continued act lasting all the way to the city. 46. "After three days they found him.” ■ Reckoned from the departure of the cara van from Jerusalem: one for the journey out. one for the return, and one for the search in the city. "They found him iu the temple.” Not in the temple proper, | but in one of the porches or chambers of | the temple area, and belonging to the ! temple. "Sitting in the midst of the doc j tors,” or teachers, as Paul sat at the feet j of Gamaliel. "Both hearing them.” Nolo that hearing is placed first. He came as a learner. "And asking them questions," in his desife to learn more. All this was done naturally and modestly. 47. "Were astonished at his understand ing.” His knowledge of the Scriptures, his insight into their true meaning, his penetration into the very spirit of tho truth. His "answers" to their questions displayed these same qualities. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou liast perfected wisdom. 4S. 4 They were amazed.4’ They had net dreamed of such honor to be. given to their boy, or of such wisdom, such thoughts in the active, obedient, modest, perhaps reticent boy in their household. It is often very difficult for older persons to realize the development of those grow ing up in their homes, till some stranger reveals the fact to them. "And his moth er said unto him." "Privately; she could not rebuke after such a scene.”—Vail Doren. "Thy father and I.** This form of speech was required by usage. It may. however, imply that Mary had never told her Son of the remarkable circumstances of his birth.—Revision Com. 49. ‘ How is it that ye sought me?" You would naturally lino me in my father s house. Why did you not come directly here? Or you might be sure that I was doing my duty. Why did you not trust I me? "Wist.” Knew. ,4I must be about my Father’s business.” or as R. V.. "in my father’s house.” The noun for "house” or "business" is not given in the Greek. "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's . . . ?” 50. “And they understood net.” Did not fully comprehend. There was a depth of meaning they could not fathom. The realization of what he was came grad ually to them. 51. "Came to Na-ureth,” where he re mained for eighteen years, "hidden years" of growth and pre Miration, till the time tame, at 3o years of age. to enter upon his great mission. "And was subject un to them.” The participle and finite verf denote habitual, continuous subjection.n M. R. Vincent. "His mother kept these sayings in her heart. It was doubU less from the treasures of her memory that Duke obtained his knowledge of what he has written of Jesus’ childhood. "Kept.” "Only here and Acts 15: 29 Thu preposition through indicates close, faith, ful. persistent keeping, through all thi* circumstances which might have weak ened the impression of the events. Com pare Gen. 3<:11. —M. R. ^ intent. 52 "Increased.” Rather, adianceil. The word is derived from pioneers cut ting down trees in the path of an ad vancing army. "In wisdom and stature. He grew* like any other child. In favor with God and man." He grew in favor as he grew older. He was such a young man as God had meant all men to be. The word favor here is the same as in translated grace in John 1: 14. fvU of grace and truth.” Jesus possessed "the beauty of holiness.” He had not only goodness, but goodness in attractive, gra cious. lovely forms. Heavenly goodness is attractive to all except bad men, whom it reproves, and whose life it interferes with. MAN AND LIFE. If we love only the lovable, we shall I love very few. We would rather say what we think ! than do what we say. Responsibility subdues weakness* and confirms strength. Habits are the only chains which, in being worn, never wear ouL With most men the correction of a i fault means replacing it with another. Nothing uses up strength physical and moral like never using them at all. There are words that stop at the i ears, there are silences that go to th« | heart. To do one's best, one must expect to excel everybody else; vanity spurs action. As one grows old it is easier to sur round onesself with old books thau new friends. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our owm procuring. Many men are interested in believ ing that to excel in notning argues aptitude for everything.