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And if fee stood id be nominated on a t. trer i -at form w-.jfi a gold basts, what mV « mease amount of crow he will h.-i< 10 *mallow. Xo matter bow tt Is r»* J nr row :hreat* ns to be a fash- j wiabie «h*n in roit country in Novem ber neat <'row* are usually in ver> j good condition during That month. anil 1 when properly cooked they are not ! such infernal uad eating Peoria <HL> 1 Journal. TrlaaiplM fur K< l utilimu I olicr. The great anu constant gains in the * - of American manufactured goods :n the re*t of the world is a magnificent . ibtile ie the foresight and courage of R* put-:> an parry. By its judicious unt poll*'.• the Uepub.icau party saved - ~arg*- part of the American market to 1 e An r: !* an prudu<-er. and this course au* d a Lome t an petition which en ourggod the invention which has de w U abor-»aving appliances, while it t-a* at the same time advanced the pay ~n<! shortened the working hours of the • arc- - giving ’h^m loth the time r:d the s’lnoiltis to the mental im provement whi* 1- has made the Anieri • an work*r more intelligent than any other tc the world. Here are the sernets in the increase a lb- sa>* of American manufactures a t.uro|ie and Asia. Americans have r mat h:n* ry and inure skillful la j >r than are found in other countries. England, in *.«ekinR a superior grade ' * .ili'i the work er.- who an j,<rt them up in the quick est and the »*est fashion, comes to the 1 i. red Slate* for taeji. France. Rus sia and other European countries buy ns'*wt of their new locomotives of the 1 eher g-adc* In the Fnited States. Tt is th:* country is growing, in a *tr nualiy increasing degree, to t»e a w rkahop for the wo-ld. As a con -**quen<-e. the number of idle workers •b the 1 State* at th* present time is sma’ler than it ever was before. The '-ouctry has attained a higher degree *f p- *-r;*e than ever was known in the ;a-' Her* are triumphs for Re ; • an po’i ? which will gam hun lr* « f tt usand* of vote* for the party in fha - • tins of 11*00 — Erie Dis patch. KtMIfal Imirril. * H ** »”♦«•»; was the most eventful in *• *»f laleur for a.must a dec ade** mvs a dispatch of Jar*vary » What made it so eventful *j the fart that during th** preceding **-» * x ‘ "**» men. of whore on* -half are *nai ■ **d in and aroun i Pittsburgh. * -.* •* . if w are* r it < 1. or* received no* • of an turrcas* :n the near future. ■ * • *' **i . Steel Company. Jones & L* ■:*. a. the I’nited Slate-* Glass ( *c:;.any the National Glass Com and the American Steel & Wire ( cipany tr* large employers of labor rh-* ann - t. *• vug** in* reuse* ranging from S to 2# per cent.. to take effect Jar;* ary 1 \ 11 the pod d'em employed a Is i ntro ed l»r th* Amalg:*tn.it Ah* :* n of Iron Ste*- and Tin Wi'i*r* ar* l.gurlng on an increase " f olt over 2tt jmt cent and the * >n - _eje*aters have b**-u assured an advance m May 1. The tin plate v users ar*- a*mi figuring on another imrrs—B These are eventful times for Ameri can labor They began to b*» eventful »ariy m N-ivemt^r. 1 when the e. -efion of Wiloani McKinley was trade known and they have iieen * and ci> r< eventful ever at nee. fl it* t*t«*ri»>ution «*f Benefit*. >rd *vni» from St Paul that the .tr. *er *t of dealers* in That city is the g'--v*eat that has ever t»een in the * i’fi hisTory. This means not only jirusperm for the lumbermen, but also for the 'vrpe-e'ert-*. the stone masons, end ai! who ar* employed :u tiie build ing trade#, who will be called upon to work up th»# lumber into stores and i -uses it means more demands for employe- on the part of the new busi ner* fro* which will occupy tbe new store* it no-ane also increased com f rt for Am -n* an workingmen. many of whom will uit upy the new and bet ter trise* which will be bunt with a part of rhe lumber, they having been fiiab *-d to improve their conditions of living bv reason of the increased work and th* higher wages wh.ch have come to them as a result «#f the giving back of th* American market to the Ameri can producer. a ere e-t range A *h«r manufacturer in Brockton. V _> - f it*-d one da> this week: "To morrow I -hall open in London, on a J»r -. opal *treer, one of the la-gest tores in that rreat city fo- men's r,Loe- Otar Am-rican manufacturers *!e is ale to compel* w.th the best ; ro.: -t» of the boot and shoe indus try :n France and <»ermany.~ It is .*-» r.i'iii«e how .11 <’i< h things a« ta.« « .me only in Republican times, slid yet th* besuMtatl say that Repub li< ai: tn La nothing *o do with it.— lies Jlotne* tla.j A late Register. «ani* Telia. Cain-ui Warner, at Leipzig, tiermany. .report* to tl»* i>*ate department that a s .a t-T of Kaiony textile manufactur r - d**- la re that they cannot sell their g.»oti- in this oountr- with the present n. petition here unless they remove th- ' plants to Uncle Sam'* domain. Sr e a! a ays tells where there is fire. —8* lands I>r> goodsman HE LAO AMO THL HATCHET. PAPER, PULP AND TARIFF. iMuMfnl RipHienry of Rrunvat All ProtfrUif Hull**. In moviug for the removal of all tarifT duties from paper and paper puip imported into the I'nited States, as a means of destroying the so-called mo nopoly in the domestic production of paper, certain claims are advanced by the publishers which, if based on a cor rect knowledge of all the facts and conditions, would seem to be unan swerable arguments in favor of the proposed change of tariff schedules. But it does not appear on careful ex amination that th“se claims are sup ported by the facts and the conditions, it does not. for exampl?. appear that the placing of paper a ml pulp on the Jree list would have the desired effect, that of cheapening the price of the product, for th“ very obvious reason that the price of newspaper is now cheaper in the I'nited States than in any other country. In fact, the ad vance has been greater in paper prices in Europe than in this country. The paper on which newspapers are j priatr-u is dutiable in the Diugley tariff at three-tenths of a cent per pound, or about la per cent of the present price of paper. This is a much lower rate of duty than that which is imposed on almost all other lines of manufactures. On wood pulp the current rate of duty amounts to about 17 per cent of tht normal value of the pulp. Not an ex orbitan: rate on either paper or pulp, it must be conceded. The tariff on news paper is now practically the 6ame as ft has been for the past twenty or twen ty-Sve years. It is practically the same as it was under the Wilson law of 1894. In view of all these facts and condi tions, it is not easy to see just how the manufacturers of paper are unreason ably protected under the Diugley law, j uor is it any easier to see the wisdom of depriving of the advantages of pro tection a giant industry which has grown up as the result of protection, and which has demonstrated in a nota ble degree the advantage of the protec tive policy in constantly lowering the cost of the product to the consumer. Such, as a matter of indisputable fact, is the history of paper making in the i'nited States as regards the steady cheapening of prices. What It Means. A mast impressive illustration of the true character of the prosperity of this country is furnished in the annual statement ot one of the leading life in.urance companies. In the report of this company, which makes a specialty of ■'industrial” insurance—that is, the nsurance of workingmen and their wives and families on the plan of small monthly payments—it appears that during 1899 the company wrote a to tal of about $222,700,000 of new busi ness. which was by many millions of dollars the largest increase in its his tory. aud was a larger increase than 1 hat shown by any other life insurance company in the world. Consider for a moment the signifi cance of this showing. The increase ia n~w insurance of close upon $223,000 <•00 ia 1899 came almost entirely from wage earners. It means that during 1899 moooy was more plentiful than it had been for many years among those who work for wages; that 1899 will long be remembered as a year of suc cess and prosperity, after conditions causing for a time great uncertainty in the financial world; that during this banner year of Dingley tariff and Mc Kinley prosperity factories and mills opene ! their doors to give employment to millions of idle hands, and gladness found its way into the hearts ana money into the pockets of the people. That is what it means. Wh<i P»y«* The Mediapolis News thinks the question of a tariff or free trade be tween the Vnited States and Porto Rico “will probably give some of the friends of high protection an oppor tunity to learn whether or not the manufacturer or consumer pays the tariff.” It will shed very little light on the subject because conditions vary. Sometimes the consumer pays the tax. or part of it. and sometimes he does not. Much depends upon the article and upon the amount of the tax. and the demand and supply. There is no fast bound rule to govern the judg ment. As a principle, a protective tariff (not "high protection,” as the Nems calls It) fosters home competi tion. and it has happened that the home product, as in the case of thread and other goods, could be bought for a less sum than the tariff tax. thus ef fectually disposing of the assumption of Mr. Cleveland that “the tariff tax is ulways added to the price.”—Bur lington Hawk Eye. A Itwieflt to the Human Rare. The effect of protection is merely to limit the area of competition to a peo ple subject to the same laws and gov erned by the same aspirations. But. as the creation of the greatest steel and iron industry- in the world and the tre mendous success of other manufac i tures witness, the imposition of heavy protective duties has not worked to stifie competition in this country. On the contrary, it has enormously stim ulated it. and while primarily benefit ing Americans the protective tariff has incidentally conferred a benefit upon the entire human race, or at least that part of it which is influenced by the i decreased prices due to improved proc i esses of manufacture and the conse quent expansion of production.—San i Francisco Chronic!*. Reaping Their Reward. New mills are still going up as fast as labor can erect them and capital equip them. The Republic Iron and Steel company is building mother new steel mill at Youngstown. Ohio, and is pushing the work on it as rapidly as possible. It is hoped to have it in op eration at a time not later than April 1- When the Wilson law was before congress, the iron and steel workers of Youngstown sent a delegation of their fellows to Washington to protest against the passage of any free-trade law. They failed then. But in 1896. as loyal supporters of McKinley and protection, they saw failure changed to victory. Now they are reaping their reward. May all success and good for tune attend them. Faithful work with tenacity of pur pose. which is but another name for good luck,will insure you better things. TALMAUES SERMON. SPEAKS ENCOURAGING WORDS TO WOMEN. _ Text, Ecrlnlkitm tv, 1, “Behold the Tears of Such as Were Oppressed, and They Had no Comforter"—Faith and Trust lu Ood. (Copyrighted, 1909. by Eouis Klopsch.) Very long ago liie needle was busy. It was considered honorable for women to toil in olden times. Alex ander the Great stood in his place showing garments made by his own mother. The finest tapestries at Bay eux were made by the queen of Wil liam the Conqueror. Augustus the emperor would not wear any garment except those that were fashioned by some member of his royal family. So let the toiler everywhere be respected! The needle has slain more than the sword. When the sewing machine was invented, some thought that in vention would alleviate woman's toil and put an end to the despotism of the needle. But no; while the sewing machine has been a great blessing to well to do families in many cases, it has added to the stab of the needle the crush of the wheel, and multitudes of women, notwithstanding the re-eu forcement of the sewing machine, can only make, worn hard as they will, be tween $2 and $3 a week. The greatest blessing that could have happened to our first parents was being turned out of Eden after they had done wrong. Adam and Eve in their perfect state might have got along without work or only such slight employment as a perfect garden with no weeds in it demanded, but as soon as they had sinned the best thing for them was to be turned out where they would have to work. We know what a withering thing it is for a man to have nothing to do. Of the 1.000 pros perous and honorable men that you know 999 had to work vigorously at the beginning. But 1 am now to tell you that industry is just as important for a woman's safety and happiness. The most unhappy women in our com munities today are those who have no engagements to call them up in the morning, who once have risen and breakfasted lounge through the dull forenoon in slippers down at the heel and with disheveled hair, reading the last novel, and who, having dragged a wretched forenoon and taken their afternoon sleep and having passed au hour and a half at their toilet, pick up their cardcase and go out to make calls, and who pass their evenings waiting for somebody to come in %nd break up the monotony. Arabella Stuart never was imprisoned in so dark a dungeon as that. No HappiueM in ldlrnrai. There is no happiness in an idle woman. It may be with hand, it may bt with brain, it may be with foot, but work she must or be wretched forever. The little girls ol' our families must be started with that idea. The curse of American society is that our young women are taught that the first, sec ond. third, fourth, fifth, sixth, sevehth, tenth, fifteenth, thousandth thing in their life is to get somebody to take care of them. Instead of that the first lesson should be how under God they may take care of themselves. The simpic fact is that a majority o; them do have to take care of themselves and that. too. alter having through the false notions of their parents wasted the years in which they ought to have learned how successfully to maintain themselves. Wc new and here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage of that father and mother who pass their daughters into womanhood hav ing given them no facility for earning their livelihood. Mme. de Stael said, “It is not these writings that 1 am proud of, but the fact that I have facility ;n ten occupa tions in any one of which 1 could make a livelihood.” You say you have a fortune to leave them. O man and woman! Have you not learned that, like vultures, like hawks, like eagles, riches have wings and fly away? Though you should be success IU1 in leauug u competency behind you, the trickery of executors may swamp it in a night, or some officials in our churches may get up a mining company and induce your orphans to put their money into a hole in Colo rado and if by the most skillful ma chinery the sunken money can be brought up again prove to them that it was eternally decreed that that was the way they were to lose it and that it went in the most orthodox and heavenly style. Oh. the damnable schemes that professed Christians will engage in until God puts his fingers into the collar of the hypocrite’s robe and strips it clear down to the bottom* You have no right because you are well off to conclude that your children are going to oe -well off. a man died leaving a large fortune. His son fell dead in a Philadelphia grogshop. His old comrades came in and said as they bent over his corpse, "What is the matter with you, Boggsey?” The sur geon standing over him said: "Hush, ye! He is dead!” "Oh. he is dead!" they said. ‘ Come, boys. Jet us go and take a drink in memory of poor Bog^ sey!” Have you nothing better than money to leave your children? If you have not. but send your daughters into th« world with empty brain and un skilled band, you are guilty of assas sination. homicide, infanticide. , There are women toiling in our cities for $2 or 53 a week who were the daughters of merchant princes. These suffering ones would now be glad to have the crumbs that once fell from their father’s table. That worn out, broken shoe that she wears is the lineal descendant of the 512 gaiter in which her mother walked, and that torn and faded calico had ancestry of magnificent brocade that swept Penn sylvania avenue and Broadway clean without any expense to the street com missioners. No Dlftcroeo to Work. Though you live in an elegant resi dence and fare sumptuously every day, let your daughters feel that it is a disgrace for them not to know how to work. I denounce the idea prevalent in society that, though our young women may embroider slippers and crochet and make mats for lamps to stand on without disgrace, the idea of dcing anything for a livelihood is dis honorable. It is a shame for a daugn ter to be idle while her mother tojls ai the washtub. It is as honorable to sweep house, make beds or trim hats as it is to twist a watch chain. 0 So far as I can understand, the line of respectability lies between tnat which is useful and that which is use less. If women do that which is of no value, their work is honorable. If they do practical work, it is dishonorable. That our young women may escape the censure of doing dishonorable work, I shall particuiarize. You may knit a tidy for the back of an arm chair, but by no means make the money wherewith to buy the chair. You may with a delicate brush beauti fy a mantel ornament, but die rather than earn enough to buy a marble mantel. You may learn artistic music until you can squall Italian, but never sing "Ortonville” or "Old Hundredth.” Do nothing practical if you would, in the eyes of refined society, preserve your respectability. I scout these finical notions. 1 tell you a woman, no more than a man, has a right to occupy a place in this world unless she pays a rent for it. la the course of a lifetime you con sume whole harvests and droves of cattle and every day you live and breathe forty hogsheads of good, pure air. You must by some kind of use fulness pay for all this. Our race was the last thing created—the birds and fishes on the fourth day, the cattle and lizards on the fifth day anj man on the sixth day. If geologists are right, the earth was 1.000,000 of years In the posesssion of the insects, beasts nut birds before our race came upon it. In one sense we were invaders. The | cattle, the lizards and the hawks had pre-emption right. The question is not what we are to do with the lizards and summer insects, but what the lizards and summer insects are to do with us. If we want a place in this world, we must earn it. The partridge makes its own nest before it occupies it. The lark by its morning song ! earns its breakfast before it eats it. and the Bible gives an intimation that the first duty cf an idler is to starve when it says, “If he will not work, neither shall he eat.” Idleness ruins I the health, and very soon nature says: , "This man has refused to pay his rent. ' Out with him!” Society is to be re constructed on the subject of woman’s toil. A vast majority of those who would have woman industrious shut her up to a few kinds of work. My judgment in this matter is that a woman has a right to do anything that she can do well. There should be no department of merchandise, mechan ism. art or science barred against her. If Miss Hosmer has genius for stulp ture, give her a chisel. If Rosa Bon heur has a fondness for delineating animals, let her make “The Horse Fair.” If Miss Mitchell will study as tronomy, let her mount the starry lad der. If Lydia will be a merchant, let her sell purple. If Lucretia Mott will preach the gospel, let her thrill with her womanly eloquence the Quaker meeting housp. The Right* of Woman. It is said if woman is gi\en such ' opportunities she will occupy places that might be taken by men. I say if she have more skill and adaptness for any position than a man has. let her have it! She has as much right to her bread, to her apparel and to her home as men have. But it is said that her nature is so delicate that she is un 1 fitted for exhausting toil. I ask in the name of all past history what toil on earth is more severe, exhausting and tremendous than that toil of the nee dle to which for ages she ha . been subjected? The battering ram, the sword, the carbine, the battleax. have made no such havoc as the needle. I would that these living sepulchres in which women have for ages been bur ied might be opened and that some resurrection trumpet might bring up these living corpses to the fresh air and sunlight. Go witn me ana 1 win snow you a | woman who by hardest toil supports j her children, her drunken husband, her old father and mother, pays her house rent, always has wholesome j food on her table, and when she can get some neighbor on the Sabbath to come in and take care of her family appears in church with hat and cloak that are far from indicating the toil to which she is subjected. Such a woman as that has body and soul enough to fit her for any position. She could stand beside the majority of our salesmen and dispose of more goods. She could go into your wheel : wright shops and beat one-half of your j workmen at making carriages. We taia about women as though we had resigned to her all the light work and ourselves had shouldered the heavier. But the day of judgment, which will reveal the sufferings of the stake and inquisition, will marshal before the throne of God and the hierarchs of heaven the martyrs of washtub and needle. Now, I say, if there be any preference in occupation, let woman have it. God knows her trials are the severest. By her acuter sensitiveness to misfortune, by her hour of anguish. I demand that no one hedge up her pathway to a livelihood. Oh. the meanness, the despicability of men who begrudge a woman the right to work anywhere in any honrabie call ing! • • * The Scarce of Strength. Poets are fond of talking about man as an oak and woman the vine that climbs it. but I have seen many a tree fail that not only went down itself, but took all the vines with it. 1 can tell you of something stronger than an oak for an ivy to climb on, and that is the throne of the great Jehovah. Single or affianced, that woman is strong who leans on Gcd and does her best Many of you will go single handed through life, and you will have to choose be tween two characters. Young woman, I am sure you will turn your back upon the useless, giggling, irresponsi ble nonentity which society ignomii*- | iously acknowledges to be a woman J and ask God to make you a humble, active, earnest Christian. What will become of that womanly disciple of th«? world? She is more thoughtful of the attitude she strikes upon the car pet than how she will look in the 1 judgment; more worried about her , freckles than her sins; mere interested ! in her apparel than in her redemption. * 1 The dyirig actress whose life had been j vicious said: "The scene closes. Draw the curtain.” Generally the tragedy > comes first and the farce afterward, I but in her life it was first the farce of a useless life, and then the tragedy of a wretched eternity. Compare the life and death of such I a one with that of some Christian aunt that was once a blessing to your household. I do not know that she was ever asked to give her hand in marriage. She lived single, that, un trammeled. she might be everybody’s blessing. Whenever the sick were to be visited or the poor to be provided with bread she went with a blessing. She could pray or sing "Rock of Ages” ! for any sick pauper who asked her. j As she got older there were days when she was a little sharp, but for the most part auntie was a sunbeam, just the j one for Christmas eve. She knew better than any one else how to fix things. Her every prayer, as God heard it. was full of everybody who had trouble. The brightest things in all the house dropped from her fingers. j She had peculiar notions, hut the grandest notion she ever had was to make you happy. She dressed well— auntie always dressed well—but her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight of God, is of great price. When she died, you all gathered lovingly about her, and as you carried her out to rest the Sunday school class almost covered her coffin with japonicas, and the poor people stood at the end of the alley, with their aprons to their eyes, sob bing bitterly, and the man of the world said, with Solomon, "Her price was above rubies.” and Jesus, as unto the maiden in Judea, commanded, "I say unto thee, arise!” PRINCESS AND SMUGGLER. “Whisker BIH's** Life Brightened by llie Gentle Princess of WhIm. “Whisker Bill” is dead. He was the last notorious smuggler of the Isle of Wight, and for many years earned ** living by fishing when contraband running had ceased. Yet, in the days of decadence he became the recipient of alms wnile lying by the wayside at Alum Bay. Says Pearson s Weekly :u telling the story: When in the prime of life there was no finer or more fear less man around our coasts than stal wart smuggler Bill, but the hands which in his escapades once grasped the oar with a grip of iron became palsied and the erect figure as bent as a bow. Times were rough indeed with Whisker Bill, as the old desperado was familiarly called at Freshwater, until, on that occasion of a royal visit, the Princess of Wales, learning of the former smuggler’s career, addressed him with many words of kindly cheer and, graciously taking the poor old man’s hand, did not release it until she had dropped a sovereign into the with ered paim. So delighted was the vet eran that, finding new life to his limbs, he hobbled away to the village painter, and, with a part of the money given him by the Princess, paid for the in cident to be recorded on a board for future exhibition. Nor were his hopes in vain, for visitors who read of so gracious an example and interest in the aged suppliant also gave a little of their store. Want was never agaio known by Whisker Bill after the fair Princess, daughter of the sea kings, had so graciously recognized the de crepit old fellow, who. upon the waters, had so oft evaded the Queen’s revenue, thus proving that royal sympathy counts not the frailties of those who have fallen in life's battle. To the day of his death the once notorious smug gler declared that the dark hours of his life had been brightened by “the gentie Princess of Wales.” The Gondola Is Boomed. Who ever thought of Venice without thinking of gondolas? Probably eight out of ten people could tell you noth ing more of the picturesque city in Italy than that its inhabitants ride in gondolas rather than in cable cars. Nevertheless, like many other institu tions beautiful to the eye and dear tc sentiment, gondolas are disappearing, j The substitute for these beautiful, swan-like boats is almost too shocking to appear in print. A "Steam Trans portation company” has been organ ! ized. and is scattering the seeds of nervous prostrations among t.^e Vene tians by establishing a system of shrieking, puffing, noisily obtrusive little steamboats to run even on the smallest canals. Of course, there have been for many years boats running on the grand canal. Now the service is to Ik* so extended as to embrace the en tire city. "For the love of tradition.” protest the Venetians, “for the love of beauty, for the love of quiet, leave us our gondolas and spare us this smok ing, shrieking horror.” Cerani'n Rig Eartliquka, The earthquake which has occurred on the island of Ceram must, if tho accounts of it be correct, have been ons of the most terrible of which we have any record, since no fewer than 4.000 people are said to have been destroyed. Ceram lies a little to the northeast of Java, and is. therefore, presumably wel! within the sphere of that volcanic activity which showed itself in the amazing eruption of Krakotoa—the greatest known in history—in 18S3. It is to be hoped that the earthquake which has desolated the island is not the precursor of a new outbreak on the part of that tremendous volcano. It will be remembered that the great eruption -was preceded by just such a shock—Tit-Bits. Wall Paper. Wall paper does not hang, and yet the person whose business it is to piste it on is called a paper-hanger. The reason is simple. Long before the introduction of wall paper Arras, a town in France, was famous for its tapestries called “arras.” These were used as wall coverings, arc! the men who were employed *o put them up were called “hangers.” When paper succeeded tapestry as a mural decora tion the name “hangers” stuck to the men, though instead of being tapestry hangers. they were now papor hang ers.—Boston Traveler. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON XII. MARCH 25 REVIEW of the Quarter. Golden Text The Not to 15e Ministered | Dto bm u MinUter The Lif* „f tt.,, >f Mankind. One of the roost important thing' m our study fur this year i* KiUn .. ,,w tin« t am! vivid idea of ih*> lift* of < hrist :ts a vvhol. and to keep it ever tn mind while we are engi.md upon the details as furnished vritl h lessor Matthew Arnold, in Id. .-piit.gue tl( lo sing's laurixm, writ*-. •‘But ah! then comes h.. sore*t spell < )i toil he must lift * movement t< 11 * The thr. ad which bind.. it ui] 0l(f. And not its separate parts alone "The movement he m ... tell r.f hfe Its pain and pleasure r*.> and «trifi Mis eye must travel down id full The long, unpausing siaetar.lt For this purpose w. should study the two charts of the Ilf. of rhrist. and loam by heart the main ..hs or divisions of his life, and the relation < t each part tt those which follow and to thr wholt To make this as easy and sim> I. as |K>rst ble. the accompanying mia. is present ed : Ancestry—On on. side God himself. nn the oilier every phase of tharaetei, every human tendency tt pci .Mitt d m tus genealogy. PREPARATIONS Ft‘If lily ,< M»NG 1. 1'iilver'al peace. 2. One empire. 3. One language genera.il> known 4. The Jews with the S« ri| lures in all lantls. 3. A general awakening and unrest. CHILDHOOD AND iul’TH. 1. Home training 2. Bible study. 3. Schooling. 4. Different language* 5. Travel to Jerusalem. ti. Great religious m« etiag* 7. Village life. K. AYork at a trade. !*. Knowledge of his country’s history and hottes. lit. A perfect am! beautiful character PREPARATIONS Foil IDs' MINISTHY 1. John the Baptist. 2. Baptism. •7. The Holy Spirit 4. The voice front God. a. Temptation. John's ministry t.f preparat. began six months before Jesu- b.gan to preach fotemied through the first - »ar and three month* into the second year FIRST YEAR. 1. First disciples. 2. First miracle. 3. First reform. 4. Flr*t discourse. 3. First tour. '*. First Santarito ■ uis< tpi. 7. First work of Galilean lii.umv. sivnv! vi- f The year in which Jesus laid down and worked out ir.anv of th< fit-(lamentai I principles and truths of his kingdom 1. The water of life. 2. Organisation. I'huredng ..| sties. Sermon on the Mu cm t- -Miracles proving his authority : .id illustrating hi- work Forgiveness <»: -i:i fi. Seeking the lost. 7. Rife front the dead. S. The light of thf world Warnings and invitations. Jo. Parables. 11. Training of the twelve 12. Tile bread of life. (Early in the next year.) A. Imprisonment of John the baptist, March. THIRD TEAR. 1. Rejection at Naz.tch. 2. The twelve sent forth Training. 3. Feeding of tin fiv* thousand !. Discourses. 5. Miracles. •1. The transfiguration. 7. The children. II. The death of John th* baptist in March. Opposition began early in the first year and increased gradually till the encitix ion. It Is always helpful to travel with Jesus over Palestine by means of a map, large or small. Follow his movements from the beginning Stop at each place and recall the events arid the tea* kings connected with it. A Twice Fallen Idol. There are to be seen in Munich and Vienna, and probably in many other J places, fragments of a meteorite that ; has had a rather curious history dur ing its comparatively brief residence on this planet. It fell in 1853, at Du ruma. in East Africa. The natives re garded it as a message from heaven and hastened to pay it appropriate honors. With great solemnity it was anointed with oil. wrapped in costly fabrics, adorned with pearls and in^ stalled in a temple which had been specially constructed for it. Thence forth it was looked upon as the palla dium of fhe tril»e. lent to it by heaven, according to the priests. In vain did j European missionaries ofl*r tempting I sums for the stone. It was not to h« j had at any price. But three years lat ' er the tribe was attacked, and almost j wiped out. by the warlike Manual. ! Thereupon the eyes of the survivors were opened to the impotence of their idol, they lost faith in its divinity and soon parted with it for cash. Its fate was identical with that of a many gods ami idols which have be*ii promptly deserted by their worshipers as soon as theis uselessness was proved. Ne« Ska tine Jump K»<ior<i Frank McDaniels, holder of the ' world’s championship for the running ' broad jump on skates. 21 feet 7 inches, established a record for a standing jump at luring park, in Minneapolis, | the other day. making 6 feet 4 inches. ! says Kansas City Times. McDaniels ! jump was measured from toe to heel of the skates.which were seventeen inebe* long. _ PARADOXES. To keep up with the push one must be ahead of it. To be ahead of the fashion is to be the head of the fashion. It is the people who need aione> like bread that spend it like water. The cynic scorns the sentimentalist, the sentimentalist shudders at the cynic; but they are only looking at the two sides of one medal. It isn't necessary to have the root of all evil. No plant is easier to take slips from.—Judge. RAMS HORNS. The Volunteers of America are in touch with tO.aOO men in prisons. The tianslation of the New Testa ment into the Corean language has been completed. Of the 34.000,000 people in South America, it is estimated that 30.000, 000 have never seen a Bible. The Congregational churches of South Carolina composed of colored people have formed a state associa tion.