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t. trer i -at form w-.jfi a gold basts, what
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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.