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TA IMAGES SEttMOX. TALK ABOUT WOBANTS USE FULNESS. t»»P» Tfcwt I irr Hr Atuiilrj —‘ «*• **uel| Ik * -!«-.< w — tru 11 tL God. »!< <i.n mare no mistake. Aad# awe ana u mat. for * e.j«h iiu work and u* j». \t in particular rp^crta— man to la- regnant ia las tea.a. wotnkS to i* dt minatu in Lera Tt- hu.-Mb'.-f ..:.* .-• ' w •* ita>y and Bwitaertand. Between England auc (* trt.kad i* not more thorough.y C... • ked than this diatimmun between is empir* mmm-muae and the empire in« S»j entirely do*:miucr are the »♦-mi* to which God railed 'them that you ran do more compare them than you *an oxygen and hydrogen, water ana gras*., tree* and stars. Ai* tti~ talk aU ;t th* superiority of one •** to the 'Other is an everlasting »a*t. of xk and Spaeth. A jeweler tna> Lat* a *n« *~i delicate that he can weigh the dwst of dtaai mds; But *1 '« net' th* scales so delicate that jou rat «» gh in them affection -gains*, affectum seat .melt against wwuasett, tBwglit sgaiost thought, soci ag. n»t soul a man’s world again*' a tunac » world* You com* out with your stereotyped remark that a mar it superior to w m:.n in intel !• t. and then 1 open on my desk tbe swarthy. ir n'ype-d th nder-holted writing* of Harriet Martin-a a and K .i.t th Hr wsicg and George EiioL A j; • v : ... rped re mit'll. »t« ! a t&.as's superiority to cat in * L* iirsi cf affection. hut 1 ask ' ■ wt.*r* tti* *> more ,.jc .ty te th-in in J a the disciple—and Matthew F mp>tm th* bishop and Hen ry Marten the mi* *; unary? 1 he heart of thus** m«n wa* so large that uft*-r you had rolled it tain tw<. hemispheres, there wa* ruuen *i:T left to marshal th*' hosts A bravest, and set up tne throne of *h« eternal Jehovah. 1 deny u» man the throne intellectual. I deny to woman • • throne aff- tu nai. -No human phraseology wVJ ever decline the sphere* whi.e there 1* an miui t: c by * L h we know when a man i* in hi* realm and when a woman is -n i.*-r res m and when either of them if out of it. Xo bungling legts ut*-!c .gf.t *o attempt to make a defi t.v t ct tr say "This is the line and that m the line * Mt theory is. that if a v r. ~x mat-* b r >;e the ought to sot* and that if a man wants to em hrt'ider and keep home. he ought to be a .c»* d to «m r. .J< r ahd keep U.-K There are mwallM women and the;** are efi mtnate men My theory :» that you hare nc right to in terle:* with any cn* s doing anything that u t.; uem Albany and Wash ington might as well decree by legis lation huw a brown-thresher should fif ar t jw deep z trout should plunge, as t- try to seek cut the height and depth of woman's duty. The question of caprielty will settle finally the whole question, tar who:* suiject. When a woman i* prepared to preach, she will pr** a an. a* ither cutif* re nee nor presbytery ran bmedr her. W hen a wi-man ;* prepared to move In high ^*t nmmttiai sphere*, she wtii have germt input not un ex* Lange, and no t»-a <i* t:. i * an L.L4« r her. i Want • ■ man to understand that heart and hraia can owe rgy any harrier that po.itician* may s* t up. and that noth ing an keep her tai a or keep her down but the question of incapacity. My *:L.*f anxiety i*. not that woman L»»r other tight* accorded her; hut that the by the grate of God. t <*e up to tar applet iMtum o! tbe glorious r gtt* she a.ready j* ssesaes First, she ha.- the right to make home happy That realm tso on* has ever disputed w.th her. M*l may come home at noon or at night, and then tarry a com paratively little wfane; hut she all day long § terns It. bt-autifte* it. aanett t*t in It is wit bin her power to make i* ‘ - • oi. ei. "i u I* is the on.y ea.tr. harbor in the w *rid You know as well as 1 do. that this ciuts.de world and the business world arc a long seme of Jostle and content, m. TL» man who has a dollar •truckles to keep it; the man who has it cot s’ntggtes to get it. Fries* up. f*ri e» lown L* tm* Gains. Misrepre sents* i me I ndensellmg- Buyers de j r»- :,j»' n<: sa esmen exaggerating. Ysnauts **-ei .ng leas rent; landlords c»-t: a:, j.ag more. St niggle* about of f «e Men who are in trying to keep sa; m £ « trv5Cg to g«t m. sups *'-r :>;*■» Defalcation* Panic*. (Ja tastropb* a. Oh wonun' thank God jt % feife ■ bcdpe and that you may be i, •»; in ir li#-1s* lie there than wear a \ . ;un» a coronet. lb-tier he there v, ...t «err> tlu- purse of a prtacema. V abode may be humble, but you <i.t j "ur faith :n God, and your t: •erfu *•*■** of d» mean or. gild It with *1-.*: i'*r* such a> an ufihoKtitri * : Th* re ar* a: .c everr city—humble, two •turte* four pia:.n. wnpapered room*; tu.j> urstiic lit igbborbood; and vet there h * man who would die on the threshold rather than surrender. Wh> * It home Whenever be minks * * ’ he tee* angels cf God hovering it. it* leaders of heaven are lei *n to that house. Over the ch:ia * rough crib there are the chant ing* < f -ng* 1. that broke over B**:b letorm It i* home. These children may ru* up after awhile, and they may w.n high pewit «n. and they may Lave an slBumt residence; but they w. not i.ot tfc*ir dv;j;p day forget that humble rce.f caow which their father retted and their mother sang, and their fitters played. Ob. if you would gs?h«-r up all tender memories a *t». r‘ ti and shades of the heart ail banquet net and reunions all filial, fraternal patens*! and conjugal a flee t n» and \-m had unit Just four letters With which to spell out that height, and deptn. and length, and breoutb. and magnitude, and eternity of mean •u* you would, with streaming eyes, aatd trembling voice, and agitated hand vrsie it out in thoae four living captuus. H-O-M-K When you want to get your grandest Idea of a queen you do not think vf Catherine of Russia, or of Anne Of England or of Marie Theresa of Ger man* but w ten you want to get your grandest Ides of a queen, you think of the plain woman wrh© sat opposite your father m« the table or walked with him arm-inarm down life's pa; A way; • MBSUmi to the thanksgiving ban quet. sometimes to tlie grave, but al w ay* together—soothing vour petty ! griefs, correcting your childish way i w :r.in*'ss. joining in your infantile spirts, list* ring to your evening prayers, toiling for you with needle or at th« spinning wheel, and on cold i .ghta wrapping you up snug and warm. And then at last on that day when she lay in the back room dying, ai 'l you saw her take those thin hands v ith which she had toiled for you so ■ ng and put them together in a dy ing prayer that commended you to the God wham she Lad taught you to trust | —Oh. she v.as the queen! The chariots * God came down to fetch her; and as she went up all heaven rose up. You cannot think of her now without a rush of tenderness that stirs the deep * uti iations cf your soul, and you feel as math a child again as when you tried on her lap; and if you could • mg her back again to speak just on <• niort voui name, as tenderly as : to sp* ak it. you would be will ing to ihr >w yourself on the ground and kiss the sod that covers her. cry ing: Mother! mother!” Ah. she was the she was the queen! Now. can you tell me how many thousand rules a woman like that would have to travel down before she got to the bal lot box? Compared with this work of traurns kings ar.d queens for God and r:*rnuy. how insignificant seems all this work of voting for alderman and « >nimon councilmen. and sheriffs, and i -■!.stables, and mayors, and presi dent*! To make one such grand wom ..n as 1 have described, how many thousands would you want of those pc »ple who go in the round of fashion at 1 dissipation. going as far toward Giogi eful apparel as they dare go, so as not to be arrested by the police— tto-sr behavior a sorrow to the good an 1 a carrkature to the vicious, and an insult to that God who made them v n en and not gorgens, and tramping < r. Gown through a frivolous and dis sipate-; life, to temporal and eternal damnation. Oil, woman, with the lightn’ag of your f ul. strike dead at your feet all t ijes* allurements to dissipation and to fa Lion. Your immortal soul can- ; n >t :*» fed on such garbage. God calls you up to empire and dominion. Will ; you have it’ Oh. give God your heart, give to God all your best energies; g.’ e i** uon all your culture; gi>e to o< i all your re'inement; give your- j self to him for this world and the n»xt Soon all these bright eyes will be quenched, and these voices will be hushed. For the last time you will look upon this fair earth. Father's !.-;c : tn *'.« r's hand, sister's hand will no longer be in yours. It will be night, and there will come up a cold J wind from the Jordan, and you will | start Will it oe a lone woman on a trackless moor? Ah. no! Jesus will j c n c up in that hour and offer his I hand, and he will say: ‘ You stood by ; me when you were well; now I will ! not der-ert you when you are sick.” One , wave of his hand, and the storm will ;r : ; an i another wave of his hand : n. (night will break into midaoon; .. . ar.other ware of hi^ hand and the (han.! rlains of God will come down from the* treasure-hcuses of heaven, w.th ro‘*»s lustrous, blood-wasbed and heaven-glinted, in which you will array 3 ”.rself for the marriage supper of the Lamb. And then with Mariam, wbi struck th«» timbrel of the Red sea; and with Deborah, who led the Lord's host into the fight: and with Hannah, w ho g?ve ner Samuel to the Lord; and r ith Mary who rocked Jesus to sleep w hile there were angels singing in the fir; and with the sisters of charity, who bound up the battle-wounds of tie Cr.mea you will, from the challice ' f God. drink to the soul s eternal res cue. Y ur dominion is home, O woman! What a brave fight for home the v >mcn o! Ohio made some ten or fif • in years ago. when they banded to pe* her and in many of the towns and c ues of that state marched in proces sion. and by prayer and Christian songs shut up more places of dissi- ( pation than were ever counted. Were i they opened again? Oh, yes. But is , it not a good thing to shut up the gates of hell for two or three months? It seemed that men engaged in the * : ^mess of destroying others did not kc w cow to cope with this kind of w : -fare. They knew how to fight the Maine liquor law. and they knew how to fight the National Temperance so <p tv. ai 1 they knew how to fight the S< : .- of Temperance and Good Samari tans, but when Deborah appeared upon the scene. Sisera took to his feet and got to the moun- j tains. It seems that they did r. .t know how to contend against ! "Coronation." and “Old Hundred," and “Brattle Street." and “Bethany.” they wen so very intangible. These men found they could not accomplish much against that kind of warfare, and in oc<- of the cities a regiment was 1 -ought out all armed to disperse the women. They came down in battle \ array; but oh. what poor success! for that regiment was made up of gentle pen. and gentlemen do not like to t women with hymn books in their j ands. Oh, they found that gunning f r female prayer-meetings was a very I - r business! No real damage was done, although there was threat of violence 2fter threat of violence all j c\* r the land. I really think if the women of the east had as much faith I in God as their sisters of the west had. and the same recklessness of human cntpism I really believe that in one month three-fourtns of the grog-shops of our cities would be closed, and there ! mould be running through the gutters ; of t fie streets Burgundy, and Cognac, and Heidsiec k. and old Port, and Schie t-~m Schnapps, and lager beer, and you mould save your fathers, and your hus •ands. and your sons, first, from a drunkard's grave, and second, from a drunkard s hell! To this battle for ( home let all women rouse themselves. Thank God for our early home. Thank God for our present home. Thank God for the coming home in heaven. One twilight, after I had been play ing with the children for some time. I lay down on the lounge to rest The i ' hiidren said, play more. Children al ways want to play more. And, half aaieep and half atvake, I seemed to dream this dream: It Beemed to me that I was in a far-distant land—not In Perafa. although more than oriental luxuriance crowned the cities; nor the tropica—although more than trop ical fruitfulness filled the gardens; nor in Italy—although more than Italian softness filled the air. And I wandered around, loobing for thorns and nettles, but I found none of them grew there. And I walked forth, and I saw the sun rise, and I said: “When will it set again?’’ and the sun sank not. And I saw the people in holiday apparel, and I said: “When do they put on workingman's garb again, and delve 1 in the mine, and swelter at the forge?” but neither the garments nor the robes did they put off. And I wandered in the suburbs, and I said: “Where do they bury the dead of this great city?” : and I looked along by the hills where it would be most beautiful for the dead to sleep, and I saw castles and towns and battlements; but not a mausoleum nor monument nor white slab could I sec. And I went into the great i chapel of the town and I said: “Where do the poor worship? where are the benches on which they sit?” and a voice answered: “We have no poor in this great city.” And I wandered out. seeking to find the place where were the hovels of the destitute; and I found mansions of amber and ivory and gold, but no tear did 1 see or sigh hear. I was bewildered, and I sat under the shadow of a great tree, and I said: "What am I. and whence comes all this?” And at that moment there came from among the leaves, skipping up the flowery paths and across the sparkling waters, a very bright and sparkling group; and when I saw their step I knew it. and when I heard their voices I thought I knew them; but their apparel was so dif ferent from anything I had ever seen, I bowed a stranger to strangers. But after awhile, when they had clapped their hands and shouted: “Welcome! welcome!” the mystery was solved, and I saw that time had passed and eternity had come, and that God had gathered us up into a higher home; and 1 said: “Are we all here?” and the voices of innumerable generations answ-ered: “All here;’’ and while tears of glad ness were raining down our cheeks, and the branches of Lebanon cedars were clapping their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome, we began to laugh, and sing, and leap, and shout: “Home! home! home!” And then I felt a child’s hand on my face, and it woke me up. Tfie children wanted more play. Children always want to play more. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. As Related by a Drummer «Iust Re turned From Michigan. “Speaking about a man having plenty of nerve in time of danger.” said the commercial traveler, tilting his chair at a more acute angle against the wall, "reminds me of a terrible ex perience I had last week. I was doing a few of the little towns in Michigan, and got caught on the road in a driv ing rainstorm one night. It was a lonely place, without a house in sight. I went on until the horse gave out. and then made for a building that seemingly rose by magic from the ground. It was n weird, rickety place, but the old man who offered me a night's lodging looked harmless enough, so 1 went to bed and made the best of a bad bargain. The first part of the night was all right. No sound except the dismal beat of the rain against the window and the scurry of rats up and down the wall. I slept fitfully, fearing. I knew not what, and with my revolver under my pillow. Suddenly I was awakened by a terrible noise, unearthly and awful. It was a deep, reverberating sound, but I found it impossible to locate the direction from which it came. The cold, gray light of dawn lay on the scene. The air was tense with expectancy, and with a bound I sprang from bed and rushed wildly to the window. The noise certainly had come from with out, and I flung open the sash with trembling hands, and discovered the truth.” “Well?” asked several as he paused and flicked the ash from his cigar tip meditatively. “What then?” “Nothing. No one was hurt. It was only the day breaking,” he said gently, and he turned to ring for ice water, as they all fainted. STRANGE PROPHECIES. Molay, tiit> Grand Matter of the Tem plar*, Predicted Truly. Clement V. and Philip IV. procured the condemnation of Molay, the grand master of the templars, to the stake, says Chamber’s Journal. As he was led to execution Molay cited his perse cutors to appear before God’s throne, the king within forty weeks and the pope within forty days. Within these respective times both died. Rienzi, the last of the tribunes, condemned to death Fra Moriale. When he pro nounced the sentence the culprit sum moned the judge to meet death him- ; self within the month, and within the month Rienzi was assassinated. In 1575 Nanning Koppezoon. a Roman catholic, tortured to death during the religious strife in the Netherlands, re canted his extorted confession when j on the way to the scaffold. A clergy- j man. Jurian Epeszoon, tried to drown j his voice by clamorous prayer. The victim summoned him to meet him within three days at the bar of God, ! and Epeszoon went home and died 1 within that time. While at the stake I Wishart openly denounced Cardinal Beaton: “He shall be brought low, even to the ground, before the trees which have supplied these fagots have shed their leaves.” The trees were but in the bravery of their May foliage when the bleeding body of the cardi nal was hung by his murderers over the battlements of St. Andrew’s. Good Fortune. The following story is classed under “True Animal Stories,” but is really j a fish story: Not long ago a hawk caught a fish in Long Island Sound, but while flying with it to the woods to devour it at leisure, the fish floun dered from the hawk’s hold and dropped into a farmer's yard, where a big mastiff was sitting. The dog caught the fish as it came down, and the hawk swooped after it, but the dog turned and ran into the house, placing his trophy, yet alive, at the feet of his mistress. It proved to be a large bluefish, and it was served up that night to an appreciative family. The dog ever since has been seen to sit in the same place at the same time, evidently impressed with the belief that his good fortune may be repeated. WORTHY OF HIS HIKE. PROSPERITY BRINGS A BIG BOON TO LABOR. 1 i Om< Hundred -and Fifty Thousand Oper ative* Receive increase of Wage* in the Textile Factories oi Nfu Rngland and the South. — The wage-earner's share in the gen eral prosperity is coming to him in liberal allotments. On top of the vast increase in wages paid, as shown by the recent industrial census of the American Protective Tariff league, cov ering conditions as they existed in March, 1899, have come additional in creases since that time which affect millions of men who work for wages and other millions dependent upon them. Last week some 60,000 opera tives in the great cotton manufacturing centers of New England were granted a liueral advance in wages. Next come the 26.000 workers in the mills con ] trolled by the American Woolen com pany. who have just secured an in crease of 10 per cent. Last, and most significant of all, since it shows how irresistibly con tagious is the epidemic of higher wages in prosperous times, and be cause it brings the wage rate of that section more nearly to a parity with the wage rate of competing localities in the north, comes the announcement from Augusta, Ga.. that the cotton manufacturers of that city are to raise the wages of their 8.000 employes on Jan. 1. This is regarded as an indica tion that other mill men of the south will also take action on the question. Manufacturers in the north, with very few excepions, now have granted an advance, and the step has been taken in spite of the knowledge that if wages in the south remained unchanged. New England manufactur ers would be placed at a decided dis advantage. The news from Georgia, therefore, is welcome intelligence to northern manufacturers. It is estimated that by Jan. 1 from a hundred and forty to a hundred and fifty thousand cotton mill operatives in the north will be working under an advance of wages, and that the ad S'ance in the south will bring the total in the United States to above a hun dred and sixty thousand. All this is in perfect accord with the claim that protection tends to increase wages by increasing the sum total of employment. The cotton and woolen manufacturers of the United States have a stronger grip than ever before upon the great home market, with its 75.000.000 of liberal buyers. Hence the rise in wages. The connec tion is obvious and indisputable. Not Corn, but “Money to Burn.’* The free traders think that they are kicking the high beam of humor when they say that protectionists take to themselves and to the policy which they support the credit for the blessing of abundant crops. By their so-called “joking” along this line they hope to distract attention from the very plain and important fact that, although the protective tariff does no take the place cf Providence and cause abundant crops to grow, it does make the gifts of Providence of some value by fur nishing a market and a fair price for the farmers' crops, however abundant. In free trade days many western farm ers. for lack of an opjortunity to sell their corn at even a decent price, were forced to burn it as firewood in order to get any benefit from it. They had corn to burn. Today, as always in protective times, they sell their prod ucts at a fair price, and have "money to burn.” Good crops and no market for them means tantalizing diasppoint ment. That is what free trade brings to the farmer. Good crops with a good market, a ready sale and fair prices mean prosperity. That is what pro tection gives the farmer. He may choose between the two. The choice ought to be an easy one, and there is little chance that the western farmers will have any hesitation in making their decision. They have given con siderable evidence that they think that McKinleyism is good enough for them. Small Cause for Comfort. It is said that Mr. Bryan is over joyed at the election figures in Ne braska. We don't begrudge whatever comfort he is able to get out of the re sult. If the number of votes cast in the state election for the fusion ticket seems to suggest a compliment to Bryan, the prosperity of the state un der the McKinley policy of protection, as compared with the depression and j misery which existed there under the Bryan policy of free trade, certainly re flects the utmost discredit on Mr. Bryan’s pet policy. And it is not like ly that the people of Nebraska will for get from whence their prosperity came when they come to vote on a national policy in a national election. A state can afford to compliment a popular son at a state election. But Nebraska may sing a different song in 1900. Whether she does or not. though, will make little difference. The rest of the country will put a quietus on Mr. Bryan and on the policy of free trade, in which he believes. President McKinley can take plenty of comfort from the returns from the rest of the country, and the business men of the country can settle back in the assur ance of continued prosperity and the surety that the country as a whole will not contemplate the possibility of another free trade experience. They Tell a Cheering Story. A recent issue of the South Bend Tribune, a newspaper which is thor oughly representative of Republican sentiment in that garden spot region of prosperity and enlightenment, north ern Indiana, contains an interesting budget of expressions by local business men concerning the remarkable de gree of business health which prevails in that thriving city. The Tribune says: “Besides business houses which have come here many people have been drawn in the general need of more workmen of a goo<l class in some of the factories. This has swelled the population, which is variously es timated at from 33.000 to nearly 40. 000. ft is stated that the new city di rectory presents enough names to maRe the estimate of population over 39.000. Few people are out of work if they wally desire to labor. Some factories are running overtime with the largest forces in their history, which, coupled with the splendid state of commercial interest, speaks volumes for South Bend as an active, growing and pro gressive business center.” Uniform testimony to improved con ditions and an increased volume of business are given in these interviews with the wholesale and retail mer chants of South Bend. They all tell a cheering story of the changes wrought by ■'McKinley prosperity.” THREE DEMOCRATS • —————— Thoroughly Dtaj;u»ted with llryafilsm and Tammany tain. Living in the same block in New York city are three men who voted for Bryan in 1896, but who now unite in declaring that they have had their fill of Brvanism and Tammanyism. and will no longer train with a crowd that seeks to belittle the country's grand record of expansion, progress and pros perity. These converts to Republican ism write to the New York Sun as fol lows: "To the Editor of the Sun.—Sir: We, the undersigned, take great pleasure in reading the brief but brave statement of J. Maginnis in the Sun of Nov. *3 regarding the level head of our pres ident. William McKinley, through all the country's troubles since the begin ning of the war with Spain and up to the present time. "We are three Democrats, living in the one block, and we all voted for Bryan in 1896. But listening to the Tammany snarling at our system of government, at our progression, at our successes during our late two years' wars and at our expansion, so nobly acquired, and the doctrine of these same Tammany masqueraders, dis guised in the robes of independen :e, liberty and freedom, are in our estima tion not safe for the country at large to follow. "This country is now iij the highest condition of prosperity ever known, and why not let it continue on that same road and keep the same good en gineer at the throttle? "But the cry is. the workingman * doesn't prosper. We are workingmen, and we say they do. in spite of all the great hordes of Italians and other cheap imported labor. We will vote for Mac next fall, and let well enough alone. H. Nolan, •*M. Hart. *‘S. Cassidy. "New York. Nov. 30.” The signers of this declaration rep- j resent a type of the average shrewd j level-headed American citizen, who can be fooled sometimes, as he was in 1892, ! but not all the time, and who finally sets his thinking apparatus to work and figures things out for himself. It j was inevitable that as a result of this mental activity a change of political j predilection should occur. Such a change has taken place, and is still go ing on all over the country. The year 1899 has been a wonderful eye-opener. There are many thousands of men whc in 1900 will follow the program out lined by Messrs. Nolan. Hart and Cas sidy: “Vote for Mac next year and let well enough alone.” Golden Days iu the West. The recent new discoveries of zinc and lead in southern Missouri, which have given a spur to industry all ovei the state, is only one of the factors which are giving an impetus to the business and social development of this section. The gold discoveries of Colo rado. Montana and other mining states, which are frequently chronicled, do not attract much attention, but they are contributing to the immense in crease in the production of that*metal j in the United States which is taking place every year, and which is likely to score a bigger gain this year than in any previous time since the Cali fornia and Pike's Peak gold fields were first opened. These are particularly halcyon days for the western states. The great grain crops are contributing their quota to the sum of the factors which are mak ing 1S99 the most prosperous year which the west has ever known. The gains of this region are reflected in the j table of bank clearances published every week, the returns of the earn ings of the railroads centering in this section, which are given to the public occasionally, and the total of the trans actions of the postoffices, which are given out by the government every month or two. The figures from the postoffices, which have just been fur nished from Washington, show a gain in every western city, the increase In some cases being almost without ex ample in its extent.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Jlifffrenre Betwfen flood and Rad. Out of these evidences of prosperity can be drawn added reasons why in telligent business and working men ol the country should give their support ! to the party of sound money and pro tection in every contest which arises, whether in city, or state, or nation. The difference between good and bad legislation can be estimated by the difference between the good years we are now enjoying and the bad years of the Democratic regime.—San Francisco Call. Making Paper R<>ses. Procure some cheap tissue paper ol the right pink shade. Fold each sheet 1 across in half, and then the half into three. With some sharp scissors cut out one edge of several folds togethei into scallops about one and one-half inches in length. Cut the other edge subsequently apart with scissors or knife. Divide the strips into two or three thicknesses, then with the scis sors blade cut each scallop so that it turns over like the petals of a cab bage rose. For the center take the same width of strips, but half the length, and form the edge into scal lops only half an inch across, pleat ! these scallops with the fingers as mi nutely as you can. Lengths of wire are needed, a little longer than you care to have the stalks. Thrust the point through one end of the strip of paper with the small pleated scallops, and, having inserted it, turn down the end. thereby holding the paper firm. Roll the rest of the strip around the wire, tying It with cotton, and do the same with the longer strip with the large scallops, tie these around firmly, and you will see what a pretty, well shaped rose you have, which the wire stem enables you to fasten whers and when you lfke. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON 111, JANUARY 21: LUKE 3: 1-17. The Preaching of St. Johu the Baptist —"Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord"—Lake 3: 4—A Temperance Lecture. 1. "In the fifteenth year of the reign." lhe Greek for ‘ reign "is a vague term applicable to the rule of emperor, king ar procurator” (governor) (Int. Crit. Ccm.), and hence would apply to the two years of the "reign of T.berius Caesar ' as co-regent, equally as well as to his sole reign. "Pontius Pilate being govern or Judea.” his first year. "And Herod.” Antipas. son of Herod the Great, who slew the children of Bethlehem "Being tetrarch." "Originally, as the name itself indicates, a governor of a fourth part of what had been a king dom; now it designated a petty monarch of a small country dependent on the gen eral dominion of Rome."—Geo. R. Bliss. D. D. 2. “Annas.” deposed by the Romans, but regarded by the Jews as the lawful high priest. ”and Caiaphas." his son-in law, the high priest appointed by the Ro mans, and acting in that capacity. "The word of God came.” "The usual formula for the divine commission of the proph ets” (Jer. 2; 1; Ezek. 6: 1). "In the wil derness” of Judea (Matt. 3:1). The bar ren. wild, thinly populated regions west of the Dead Sea and the lower Jordan. 3. "The country about Jordan.” Note that the population went out to John, not he to their cities and synagogues. There are two methods of e%angelization. both of which are good. One is to go out to men; the other is to attract men to you. "Preaching.” Proclaiming, herald ing. He was the herald of the Messiah and of the new kingdom. "The baptism of repentance.” Repentance openly con fessed and pledged by baptism. 4. "Book ... of Esaias.” (Isa. 40: 3-5.) "The Voice.” John is called "a ^ice" because: (1) He was the utterer of God's thought. “Of one crying.” Herald ing. proclaiming. "In the wilderness.” The world, was. indeed, a moral wilderness when the time drew near for the coming of its king. "Prepare ye the way of the Lord.” "In the mountain regions, the washing of the hillsides by the heavy winter rains destroys, each year, a large portion of the best laid roads. 5. "Every valley.” Ravines. "Moun tain and hill.” All obstacles that made the road difficult or dangerous. Compare the way the road bed of a modern rail way is prepared. "Crooked ... be made straight.” New and shorter roads shall be built. "Rough ways . . . smooth." By repairing the old roads. 6. “And all flesh.” All persons. Thf work is for the whole race. *. “To the multitude that came forth.” This multitude included all classes—the people oi an grades, the unbelieving »aa ducees, the formal Pharisees, the disrep utable publicans. and even soldiers, whether Jewish or Roman we know not. "To be baptized of him.” Some of them apparently as a substitute for repentance. “O generation.” offspring, brood, "of vipers.” Their actions sprang from the viper nature of sin in their hearts. "Who hath warned you to flee.” They had come to be baptized, not to repent, to go through a form, not to change their na tures. "From the wrath to come." The punishment that must come upon the guilty nation. 8. "Bring forth therefore.” Prove by your lives that your repentance is sincere and true. "Begin not to say within your selves,” as your secret hope and confi dence. "We have Abraham to (as) our father.” We must be saved because we belong to the race of Abraham and the kingdom he founded, and are inheritors of the promise to him and his children, even if we do not repent, and whatever our character. "God is able of these stones.” 9. "the ax is laid (is lying) unto (at) the root of the trees.” all ready to cut them down when the time came. Yet there was a brief respite, with the possi bility of such a change into fruit bearing that the ax need not be used. “Bringetb not forth good fruit is hewn down." Be cause it takes the place of something bet ter. 10. "What shall we do then?" To show that they truly repented. What good fruit should they bear, so that they would not be hewn down and cast into the tire? 11. "He . . . saith unto them.” To the multitudes in general as distinct from the particular classes mentioned in the next verses. “He that hath two coats ” Tunics; “the under and less necessary garment, distinguished from the upper and almost indispensable 'cloak of Luke 6: 29.”—Int. Grit. Com. 12. "Came also publicans." Tax gath erers. collectors of the revenue. “Each of them was required to pay a certain sum to his superior, with the privilege of raising as much more as he pleased for his own profit.” Thus there was abun dant opportunity for extortion and op pression. See on publicans in Lesson 11. 13. "Exact (extort) no more than that which is appointed you." Do not give up your business, but do it in the right and Just way. no matter what others do, or what losses come from your honesty. 14. "And the soldiers ” Omit the. Prob ably not Roman soldiers, but "armed men acting as police in Judea.”—a perfectly legitimate business. “Demanded.” Too strong a word; rather "asked.” Do vio lence to no man." They had large oppor tunity for robbery, violence, harassing, and blackmail. "Neither accuse any falsely”; i. e., in order to extort from him his property.—Bliss. "And l»e content with your wages.” So as not to be tempted to make gain in unjust way?. 15. "Were in expectation.” On the qui vive, all excitement and Interest. "Mused.” Reasoned, questioned, argued. "Whether he were the Christ.” The Mes siah. John was such a great prophet, the greatest of all prophets, with such noble and kingly qualities, that they ques tioned whether he were not actually the expected Messiah. IT. "Whcee fan is in his hand.” The fan is not a fan in our sense; it is a broad, light, wooden shovel, with which the grain is thrown up to the breeze, so that the wind may carry off the lighter chaff while the heavier grain sinks down clean. "And he will thoroughly purge.” Cleanse, separate the good from the bad. “His floor.” Threshing-floor, which is usually a circular area of beaten earth, surrounded by a low bank. "The wheat." The good, the true members of his king dom. “Into his garner.” Granary: the right place for the wheat: the kingdom of heaven. SHORT SERMONS. Religion is built on the lines that regulate our lives.—Rev. Father York. Suffering is one of the prices of life. It is the device of uod to test human kind.—Rev. Ira Billman. God has a plan in every life. God works by long lines. He inhabits eternity.—Rev. John R. Shannon. Some men have religion scientifically reduced to the God of Things as they are. Others ignore the matter of re ligion altogether.—Rev. Morgan Millar. We are the resultant of all that we have said, thought, desired and done. If we have the temper of heaven in our hearts we will see God.—Rev. E. H. Ward. The commandments, graven on stone with the finger of God, must be incar nate in life by a willing heart. We | must struggle and ascend.—Rev. W. D. Williams. The world is not to be saved by sac rifice but self-sacrifice. Sacrifice was the passing symbol; self-sacrifice is the eternal reality and power.—Rev. Frank Crane. | SUN WORSHIP AND SACRIFICE. The First Thlnc Ku<iUha Wag ^ Forbid the Latter. ! *hink" said Haja Sivarrasad in jthe Nineteenth Century, -that sun worsmp was the original worship of both the Persians and the Hindus I I h,ave €Ven ^imals a, the sun rists sane cn it with awe. which is per haps the firs: beginning of this feeling ' ThlTrrCP f°r the sour« of light j B r> e a'. ult' ful1 of sun worship. But the priests cf the Hindus gar, u„ the simple, direct worship of the 1 f“d br°iugh,t ^ by way of sun offei I *ngo animal sacrifices consumed by ne .or they looked upon fir? as part I the sim- In course of time people began to think and to question with regaid to this sacrificial worship Then came Buddha, and Buddha, being a gt ci and great man, when he saw the ammais' throats cut. thought: ‘How can good possibly come of 1 oing e\ • ■>• And the first thirg he did was t0 ;J;'_ bid sacrifice and say: ‘Net hurt any ; creature is the best virtue.* Baddl i °Ulfr0m his metfi j tated. Then he came bai k to Bnares | and at Sarnatfi argued with the Brab ! “ans‘ who justified their sacrifio - on the authority of the Veda: Bo- B d dha said: What are the Ven:, bufthe work o. munis and rishis? There is nothing supernatural about them ’ And so the great schism arose. Bud dha against the Brahmans and the Brahmans against him. Many of tfio rajas and maharajas cam: anrl h<L; J him and were converted, -i’l a* Buddhi.-m was in the ascendant, fer w > i kave in India a saying. ‘As is the king ; so are the people/ Then came King \ ikramaditya. in whose honor a new i era was founded, reckoning 1- wh - h I v’e are now [this was in isvj in the 1 year 1949. King Vikramaditya was a S Kshatriya. and believed in Brahman I ism, and with his reign Brahma ism : and Vedic religion began to revive. I Afier many centuries appeared Futrka | racharya, a Brahman, who under too', ; to persecute and drive out the Buu dhists. He said: ‘Thee people do not believe in a Creator. How » a thej possibly be tolerated?' And i drove them out, and re-established t Vedic teligicn. By this time the bis prevail of animal sacrifice had becom firm!} rooted. And as sacrifices were mjointj in the Vedas. Sankaracharya ; ot over the difficulty by saying that it was only in the golden age. when the ani mals slaughtered could be res ored to life, that sacrifices were required; there was no need to sacrif, e now. To this day animal sacrifice is dis pensed with among ehe majority cf the Hindus, although not so am: ng the Kshatriyas and among many of the Sudras.” LIFE IN EAST LONDON. Not a Chrerf nl Place. According to Walter Besant. The dominant note of Ea>t London is that it is a hive of working bees, says Walter Besant in the Century. There are. it is true, a few drones in it. They are not the fat and luxurious drones of the other London, those who live in luxury without labor, and are downladen with the curse of idleness. Our drones, the East London drones, are the residuum, the bees of human ity. who cannot and will not work; they are miserable, half-starved.skulk ing drones. They beg. they thieve, they do. anything with a willing mind so lcng as it is not work. They dwell in the slums: they are. in the language of the day. the "submerged,” but all the king's horses and all the king s men cannot drag them out of the slough, nor can any river—not Abana or phar par. or even the Jordan itself—cleanse the Augean stable of their mind. The helping hand grows tired of pulling f nd tugging at them; they will not come; they sink back into their Male bolge; the black mud closes over thtir heads. Let them be. It is a city of working bees. As we linger and loiter among the streets multitudinous, we hear, as from a hive, the low. content ed murmur of continuous and patient work. There are 2,000.000 of working people in this city. The children work at school; the girls and boys, the men ind women work in factory, in shop and at home; in dock and in wharf and in warehouse, all day long and all the year round, these millions work. They are clerks, accountants, manag ers. foremen, engineers, stokers, por ters, stevedores, dockers, smiths, craftsmen of all kinds. They are girls who make things, girls who sewr things, girls who sell things. There are among them many poor, driven, sweated creatures, and the sweaters themselves are poor, driven, sweated creatures; for sweating, once begun, is handed on from one to the other as carefully and as religiously as any holy lamp of learning. They work from cjcirly morning till welcome e\en ing. Two Answer'* Not long ago a Boston clergyman re ceived an evening call from an elderly gentleman and woman who expressed a wish to be joined in the bonds of mat rimony then and there. "Have you ever been married before? asked the clergyman of the man. an honest-eyed, weather-beaten person of sea-faring aspect. "Never, and never wanted to be before,” was the prompt reply. “And have you ever been married before? the question came to the woman. "No, sir,” she replied with equal prompt ness; and with a touch of humor that appealed to the clergyman at once, she added. "I never had a chance!” The marriage ceremony was speedily per formed. and the clergyman refused to take any fee. telling the bride with a twinkle in his eye that it had been a privilege to officiate, which he would have been sorry to miss. An Extinguisher. Thump, thump! Rattle, rattle crasht Young Percy Stonebroke rolled down the steps of the palatial residence oi Mr. Gold bonds. Mr. Gold bonds re turned to the house, rolling down his 3leeves. "Papa. O. papa, what have you been doing?” This question came in anguished tones from the ruby lips of Arabella Goldbonds. "Putting out the light of your life,’’ answered papa, who had done a little eavesdropping in the hall the night before. The coward capitulates by changing front before the enemy. Cider is said to be fatal to Ute ty phoid fever bacillus.