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DR. CH-!APMAN'S SERMON A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR.EVANCELUST. Subject: A Discouraged Man-Most People Dissatisfied Because They Lead Too Artificial a Life-No Room in the King dom of God For Pessimism. lThe Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D., is now the most distinguished and best l known evangelist in the country. He was second only to Dr. Talmage, but since the death of that famous preacher Dr. Chap man has the undisputed possession of the Pulpit as the preacher to influence the - plain people. his services as an evangel ist are in constant demand. His sermons have stirred the hearts of men'and women 1 to a degrce unapproached by any latter da'v divine. J. Wilbur Chapman was born in Richmond, Ind., June 17, 1859. His mother d~ed when he was but twelve years of age, and his father died seven a years aftcrward. Consequently he was not only deprived of a mother's care at the forma Ave age of boyhood, but he was thrown upon his own resources before he had reached early manhood. He was edu cated at Oberlin College and Lake Forest University and graduated for the ministry from the Lane Theological Seminary, Cm cinnati, Ohio in 1882. While there he manifestec. the character and the spirit which have followed him as an evangelist all over the country. They have made his ministry a continual success as pastor and as a revivalist. His sermons are simple and direct, so that their influence is %ot so much due to exciting the emotions as to winning the hearts and convincing the minds of those who hear him. Dr. Chap man is now in charge of the Fourth Pres byterian Church, New York City.] NEW YORX CITY.-The Rev. Dr. J. Wil bur Chapman, America's most famous pas tor-evangelist, who took charge of a niori bund church in this city several years ao, and is now preaching to an overflowiig congregation, has furnished the followig eloquent sermon to the press. It was preached from the text: 1 Kings, 19: 4, -'But he himself went a day's journey into the wiiderness, and came and sat uown under a juniper tree. and he requested for himself that he mi ht die." . h. The history of Elijah begis with the seventeenth chapter of I Kings and star s with the word "an,d." The preceding chapter tells us of the idolatry of the peo .ple of the reign of lawlessness and- the apparent triumph of iniquity. It seemed as if the end of all things had come, and I suppose everybody living in that time thought so, but if this was the impression, the fatal mistake had been made because God is left out of all consideration. It is well for us to remember that He is never at a loss. The land may be overrun with iniquity, His witnesses may. be silenced, but all the time He is preparing a man in some quiet village as He prepared Elijah, and at the right time He will send him forth with no uncertain testimony! There is really no place for pessimism in the kingdom of God. He has never made a failure in the past, He never will in the future. "If God be for us, who can be against us." It is literally true that when the enemy comes in like a flood this spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. The story of Elijah is most interesting, and we trace him Irom his sudden appear ance here flashing like a meteor upon the scene of action, down to Cherith, where he is fed by the ravens, over to Zarephath. where he relieves the distress of the wom an who meets him, but the most remark able scene in his life is on Mt. Carmel, where, facing the prophets of Baal, after their inability to call down fire from heav en he produces the fire from the very honr1 nf LIondl which consumed the sacri fice, licks up' the jvater in the trenches and gives him victory of a most remarka ble kind. The prophets'of Baal are dis tressed, and the news concerning their de feat is carried to Jezebel. She is intensely angry, and declares that Elijah shall be as her prophets are at a certain hour of the day. Instead of looking up to God and triumphing over this wicked woman .Eli jah does quite the opposite, and thus it is that the text is written to describe his sad fall. How are the mighty fallen? It would be diffcult to imagine a man in whose life there was more of real contrast; now he 6 master in prayer and the pendulum which swings one way toward glory swings in his lhfe in the other direction toward de spair,. and the prayer for vic.tory becoifies a wail of distress; now he is locking up the heavens and holding the key and ap - parently at his own will the rain tarries or falls, and now utterly dismayed he is rush ing to the wilderness and wishing that he nught die but Elijah is not alone in this desire. Tbe most of men have at one time or another wished that they might end all. Moses did, "And if Thou deal thus with mc, kill me, I pray Thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in Thy sight, and let me naot see my wretchedness.' Numbers 11: 15. So also did Jonah, "Therefore now, 0 Lord, take,. I beseech Thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to jive." Jonah 4: 3. And even >$he great Apostle Paul said, "I am in a strait be twdit two. having a desire to depart and to be with Christ,' but the trouble with the most of us is we want to die our own way. Elijah was not willing to die at the hand of ,Jezebel, but he was quite ready to sleep himself away into insensibility under the juniper tree in the desert. Elijah made a great mistake in running away. if he had stood his ground he might have saved his country, prevented the captivity of the .people, for I doubt not the '7000 that had - not bowed the knee to Baal would have come forth, and they would have rushed forward conquering and to conquer, but Elijah'is a picture of ourselves, and we all like him'have been times without number under the juniper tree. The object of this sermon is to ask the question. "Why we are thus discouraged," and then to deter mine if possible what the dif3eulty was with Elijah. Why are we? There are thousands of people to-day who ase utterly dissatisfied with life because they are living too artifi cial an experience. We have very many thing that our ancestors did not possess. The possession of these things ought to Lring to us great blessings in every way, but as a matter of fact ~it is true that neither happiness, nor brotherly love, nor powver nior good have been increased in the least. Ne have indeed gone in the op posite direction, and many of us are of ali men most miserable.' We are discon tented because we are trying to be some thing that we irc niot The business man th nks he must keep rae awith his compet itor whatever the Cost tO himself. and in a little time he finds himself out of his lati tude. ]n society t.housands of people arc aping the customs~ and manners of those -who are in an enitirely different set from themselves, by w~hose side they can never stand, and if they did they, would be only the more unhappy, and there are thousands of homes whereinstead of living asimple life the members of the household are liv inng at a pace that is terrific, and all this is killing the business mlan, the society woman, the parents and the children. and -instead of possessing joy and peace wve are under the juniper tree. The thirst for pleasure in these days is so great that we have become absolutely unscrupulous in our~ attempts to gain the objects of o'ur de sires. We ought to be satisfied with just what we are and in the most natural way. We have come into the world with differ ent gifts. some one with gold. others with silver, still ethers with marble andl many with only clay, and our task is to fashion these things into the strongest manhood and the truest womanhood. ar.d to do it ier. We are too selfish in our living,. we ong to satisfy our appetites, our passions nd our de=ires. This longing has become ippermost in our living. and the man who nakes it so makes his appetite stronger han himself. and his need is dreadfu', for ie who lives simply to eat, to drink, to leep and to dress, whether he oe pauper r prince, is on the downward grade to de pair. Contentment is one of the greatest lessings in the world. It is not a question f the possession of either poverty or iches. He who knows how to be content ossessea the secret, not because he is ither poor or rich, but simply because he :nows how to be content. The mere :act hat we are Christians does not amount o much in many cases; if our religion in reases our confidence, our hope,' our love, t is good, but if it gives us the spirit that ve are better than other people, if we seek o control il. i,tere:ts of other people, nake them iashion their lives according o our own plan, if we are good simply hat we may escape punishment, such a rofession of religion is almost worthless. he difficulty is not in our surroundings,but n ourselves. "Joy is not in things, it is n us." I met a young woman this winter in the ;outh who told me that she was the pos essor of a $10,000 violin. and with a shin ng face she said, "You should hear the nusic of that instrument," and yet in the iands of very many people it would have een just a producer of unharmonious ounds, while in the hands of this gifted oung woman it was truly marvelous. and 11 because the music was in her. and the -iolin was the best movement of the ex )ression of that music. When Ole Bull, the great violinist. played n Princeton, one of the professors asked iim if the secret of his success was in the -iolin or in the boxv or in himself, and he aid. "The violin and the bow amount t( )ut littie. I never play until I feel that .here is music in me that must be ex. 1ressed, and then any instrument I touch >ecomes remarkable." Many of us are un itted for life because we have become toc rtificial, have had wrong ideals and have ried to be what we never can be. A friend recently sent me that wonder ul litte book, "The Simple Life," b Tharles Wagner, which every one wouk lo well to read. To the author of thi >ook I am indebted for some of the ex )ressions used above, but in one of the y:hpters he tells us in speaking of th+ iome life, "In the time of the Second Em >ire. in one of our p'easantest sub-prefec ures of the provinces. a little way froi ;.-ne baths frequented by the Emperor here was a mayor, a very worthy man tnd intelligent, too, whose head was :ud lenly turned by.the thought that his sov !reign might one day descend unon- hi, iome. Up to this time he had lived ir :he house of his fathers, a respectfu >f the slightest family traions. Bui ;hen once the all-absorbing i ea of receiv ng the Emperor had taken possession of 1is brain he became another man. In thi< 1ew light what had before seemed suffi :ient for his needs, even enjoyable, all thi: ;implicity that his ancestors had loved. ap >eared poor; ugly, ridiculous. Out of the luestion to ask an Emperor to climb th.s wooden staircase, sit in these old arm yhairs, walk over such suneranuated car ,ets. So the mayor called architect an( masons. pickaxes attacked walls and de nolished partitions, and a drawing-roon was made out of all proportion tc ,he rest of the house in size and splen or. He and his family retired into clos< iuarters, where people and furniture in !ommoded each other generally. Then iaving emptied his purse and upset hi. iousehold by this stroke of genius, h, iwaited the - royal guest. Alas, he somt -aw the end of the empire arrive. but th< Emperor never. The folly of 'this pooi man is not so rare. As sottish as he ar ill those who sacrifice their. home life ti :he demands of the world." - II. What was the difficulty with Elijah First his physic-tl strength~had been over baed. He 'had been laboring under th< ighest tension, his nerves were unstrung md he was just in the position wher< atan could tempt him the worst. Ther< tre many like him to-day. They are ii lespair, and they need not so much a spir tual physician as the presence of a docto> who Man tell them that their bodies inns have rest, their nerves must be built up md they themselves must remember tha their bodies are the temples of the Hol: Thost, and that they may sin against Got just as truly when they break command touching th~e body as when they commi ins touching the soul. Elijah needed rest and instead of taking it he prayed that h< diight die. Second, he looked away from God to hij ircumstances. U p to that time he en dured as seeing Him who was invisible then like Peter when he saw the wind tha was boisterous he began to sink. I do no think that any minister could preach to day if he realized the iniquity that sur rounded him, the hypocrisy in man: hearts, the awful sins in many lives; hi would grow faint and sick at heart, an< il because he looked down, while it i possible, on the other hand, for anybod: to preach in the midst of a.1l this desola tion if he keeps his eyes turned up, an< the difficulty with you is not that you: power is dead, but that your eyes are fast ened upon the ground instead of turne< unward to heaven, and the cause of you: distress is not that your mother has gon< mway from your home, but that you are standing like Mary looking in at the tomb when you cught to be standing with up .rned~face looking by faith into the ver midst of the angel company in heaven What if the difficulties are great, let u: look to God in it all. The other day in my mail came a littL piece of poetry from a friend in England which has been singing its way like a bir< of paradise through my soul all the week. 'When the way seems dark and dreary, Think of Him. Lest thy hteart grow faint and weary, T'hink of Him. For He knoweth all the way,. a And His strength will be thy stay; He can cheer the darkest day, Think of Him. "When some sorrow sorely presses. SThink ci Him. For through trials oft He blesses, Think of Him. He alone can understand. Leavc it all in His dear hand; In His love for thee He planned, Think of Him. 'When some anxious care perplexes) Think of Him. Lest thy inmost soul it vexes, Think of Him. Ering thy care and thou shalt see, He will bear it all for thee; He would have thee peaceful be, Think of Him." III. But there was still another difficult: with Elijah. First, he was alone. Il verse 3 we read that he left his servan at Beersheba, and he himself went int the wilderness. It is a great mistake t be alone when trouble comes. "Bear y one another's burdens, and so fulfill th law of God," gives us a picture of humai fellowship, while the verse. "Take m: yoke upon you and learn of Me." gives ui an idea of that fellowship which we ma; have with Him. John McNeill, the great Scotch preacher has a fine illustration of this point in hi sermon based upon I Samuel. the 27t! hapter and the first verse, "And Davi< said in his heart, I shall now perish on, day by the hand of Saul; there is nothin; better for me than that I should speedil: escape into the land of the Philistines and Saul shall despair of me, to seek m any more in any coast of Israel; so shall esape om: of his h'and." "David said il his heart," and John McNeil says it would have been well if instead of saying it in his heart he would have said it out loud. It is the thing we say in our heart that grows to s ich great proportion and leads us to believe that we are on the verge of despair. Without nuestion the pa-;,age is true, and Mr. McNcill suggests three cures. First-Why didn't David say it aloud 1 io his servant and let his servant argue t him out of his position, for there are many t things we think we would never dare to .sa to our dearest friends. Seeond-\W-hv didn't David may it. He w a master in prayer. and if he had but fallen on his knees and said it to God. at 'est have tried to say it, he would have found that his very tongue would have cleaved to the roof of his mouth, for there are things iwe think that we would blush if we dared to say them to God. Third-Why didn't he sing it. He was much of a s;nger, was David, and if he had hut put it in a song his face -would have grown hot, and he would have ended with stammering and stumbling, and then said t Mr. MeNeill. "Why may we not follow 1 this rule, and when we have a difficulty. imaginary or real, let us say it, or pray it. t or sing it. and if we cannot say it. and it won't pray. and will not sing there is nothing in it. It is but the devil's delu sion to nlunee us into despair. Fourth-He sat down. That was a great mistake. He never should have given up. i Tf he had only kept going he would have 4 found victorv. There are so many people t in the church to-day who have done just exactly what Elijah did. They have sat down. The man who once taught a Sun day-school class is now doing nothing and fast slipning away from Christ. The mem her of the church who used to be faithful t at the praver meeting is now absent and sitting down in his home lie is of all men 1 mo.t miserable. That man who was once in te church and loved the church has sit down in the world. and ie questions if lie ever knew Christ. so let us keep xoinr. it is when a man is idle that Satan trirs him up. Fifth-He wanted to dictate to God when he said to ITiin "T.et me die." It is 4 a cood thing that God did not take him at his wvord. for he would have died under a t cloud. and would have been buried in the .ecrt. What a mercy it is that God does not cie us all we ask for. And my own exnerire I doubt not is yours. th- things that God has refused to me have been my -reate t . ssings. Then let us remember ihat "no" is just as much of an answer as "ves." and your experience in your homne hac neen that no for your children usually is the hetter answer. But how gracious Gad is in Ilis dealings with those who are .,'t of the war.. He callc Adam in tender ness when He says. "Where art thou?" He woos David back again to virtue in the story of the ewe lamb, and gives a picture of Himself in the seeking lo of the father of the prodical for his boy, lets us understa d something of His forgive ness when He sends in th" nerson of His Son to write upon the cand His disposition to remember no more the sin r a guilty woman. and then whispered to Elijah as he is under the juniper vree in a still small voice. and continues to whisper in til at last Flijah is on his feet and fleeng for his life hack again into the light. Oh. let us come out from under the juniner tree. Tt is a sad place to find a Christian and a good place to keep away from. Spear Points. The light from heaven can never lead astray. The world must read the Gospel in liv ing epistles. Resignation is putting God between one's self and one's grief. The most momentous truth of religion is that Christ is in the Christian. The time to show your Christian man hood is when it is put to the.sore test. You cannot dream yourself ir.to a char acter; you must .hammer and forge your self into one.' . The light of the Christian shines bright est for Christ. when he is least conscious that it is shining. Not all God's messengers are angels. Any hand that knocks at the door may bring a call from the King. It is better to build a life than to make a fortune. Character is a greater accom plishment than riches. He who manifests humility, love and gratitude when told of his faults has made largc attainments in the Christian U lfe. Spiritual sustenance cannot be effective in an abstract form, as pure Truth; it must come to us through the energy of a spiritual life. We need a faith that will "grasp Christ with the heart" in order to "en dure to the end." Heart communion alone will give us this grasp.-Ram's Horn. T1idags That the World Needs. There are many things that the world needs, and there is much work to be done in many directions but most of all does the world need dod, most of all does it need righteousness, faith, hope and love! The world needs better con ditions for its poor and wretched, better tenements in which to house them; but it needs also better lives for the tene ments when built. It needs better oppor Itunities for its teeming multitudes; but it needs also clearer vision to see the op portunities and stronger wills to grasp them. The world needs scientific knowl ede, hut it needs religious emotion as wel. It needs its thunderous industries, but it needs the sense of kinship to God. It needs its practical ideals; but it needs supremely the vision of the Highest. "As the heart panteth after the water brooks so panteth my soul after Thee. 0 God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the Livng IGod!" From Him we came, and we are disquieted until we rest in His bosom until we feel the ocean of His love flowing about our imperfections swallowed up in His perfetion, and our restlessness melt ing into His everlasting pc::cc.-Rev. Mfr. SShutter.____________ A Child Messenger of Godl. The still form of a little boy lay in a coffin surrounded by mourning friends. A mason came into t'he room and asked to look at the lovely iace. "You wonder that I care so miucha," he said, as the tears rolled down his cheeks, "but your boy was a messenger of God to me. One time I was coniin g down by a long ladder from a very high roof and found your little boy close behind me when I reached the ground. He looked up into my face with a childish wonder and asked frankly, "Weren't you afraid of fall ing when you were up' so high?" and, before I had time to answer, he said: 'Ah! I know why you were not afraid o had said your prayers this morningi before you went to wsork.' I had not prayed, but I never forgot to pray from that day to this, and by God's blessing I never will." The Reward of Prayer. True prayer never fails to bring its reward. Prayer consists of supplication1 and thanksgiving. Petition is but an in ident of prayer, and it may well be doubted whether that which consists of, pition alone is true prayer. Prayer is ommunion with God. Spending a large portion of time in company with God. w.e become more and more like God. Inti mate relations are established between, oureHeavenly Father and the man of Three Gifts to Man. God has given three gifts to man, faith ope, love. Without faith there could be no trust in anyone; without hone, life would be darkness, and without love it would be a living death.'- The three am in daily exercise toward men.T highest exercise is godward. Suicide Caused by Meat Trust. New York City.-Louis 'lecek. a utcher. committed suicide ly sangin imself because the high price of men: orced him out of business. Holece': ad a butcher's shop in Avenue A unti our weeks ago, when he was iorce<l o give it up, the business beina rn inger profitable. He had a lar-e rde, but the increasing price of meat ook awr.y the profit. SENATOR M:NEY IN A FICHT. [e Stabs a Trolley rondactor During a Dispute Over Car k'are. Washington. D. C.-Senator Her lando de Soto Money, of Mississippi, ras the central figure in a street en ounter, when he and Conductor O. H. ;haner, of the Capitol Traction Rail oad, ezme to blows as' the result of he Senator's refusal to pay his car are to the Baltimore & Ohio depot, vhere Mr. Money desired to catch a rain for Baltimore. During the scuffle Conductor Shaner vas cut in the palm of his right hand vith a knife held by the Senator. The atter claimed that the injury was niicted accidentally, while the con luctor claims the cutting was an In entional act upon the part of the Sen ttor. Later In the day Senator Money alled at the offices df the District ttorney and swore out warrants for bhe arrest of Shaner, the conductor, tnd James E. Hooper, a District fire nan. who is said to have aided Shaner 2 ejecting Mr. Money from the car. Senator Money was arraigned in the olice court on a charge of assault pre 'erred by Conductor Shaner, and leaded not guilty. Conductor Shaner nd Fireman Hooper were arraigned n charges of assault preferred by Sen tor Money, and alsoepleaded not guil v. They demanded jury trials. Sena or Money said he preferred to be tried )y the Judge. 'ORTUGAL SENDS A NEW MINISTER 'isconde De Alte Suececds the Ilifated Santo-Thyrso. Washington, D. C.-Viscopde De Ute, the newly-appointed Portuguese inister, who replaces Senor Santo Lhyrso, has arrived here. It was always an official mystery is to why Santo-Thyrso left Washing :on so suddenly. The Minister was told it the White House when President 1cKinley was nearing his end, that s death had actually occurred. The %finister hastened to inform his Gov !rnment by cable. Mr. McKinley did not die until a lay or two later, and the Portuguese inister of Foreign Affairs had mean while unwittingly circulated a pre . ature report, for which Santo-Thyrso mad the penalty by losing his posi Lion. INVITED BY KiNG EDWARC. A Coronation Compliment to the Niece of resident Buchanan. Washington, D. C.-King Edward as conferred a delicate compliment n Mrs. Harriet Lane Jehnson, the iece of President Buchanan, who was the mistress of the White House when lig Edward, as the Prince of Wales, wa entertained there, by inviting her -yaZ-to-be present at his corona fioL Mrs. JTohnson, accompanied by her lece, Miss May Kennedy, has sailed or Europe. )ATH WIPES OUT TWO FAMILIES. Nwenty-two Seluns and McClosky's Car ried Off in Twonty-two Months. Flora, Ind.-A startling death record s made by the families of Homer Seinn ar.d John McCloskey. In the nat twenty-two months twenty-two feaths have occurred in thes~e fam The Selnns and McCloskeys are losely related, and the diseases which Trred them off were smallpox, ty phoid fevser and heart failure. The iast to succumb was Homer Seinn, ged fifty, who has just died. Cooprville, Uint., Destroyed by Fire. The village of Cooperville, Ont, wa' wiped out by fire. The village coi ilsted of John Cooper's Immense say nis, houses for employes, and a stora Par.ers in the vicinity are taking cart f the homeless. The loss will aggre ;ate over $300,000. Ceneral Weather Conditlons Favorable. During the previous week the general vether conditions, although not con ~ucive to rapid advance of vegetation, rere very favorable for farming oper itions In nearly all parts of the coun Steamer Lost With Seven Men. Off the Tyne, England, a new steam r, the Dilkera, of Adelaide, South tustrala, was on her speed trip when she ran down the Norwegian ore iteamer Hekla, which immediately ak, seven of her crew being rowned. Ten men were rescued by :he Dilkera. To Stop the Boer Cattle Eushes. The British War Office shipped 100 iles of iron fence material for South Africa. It Is to be used to reinforce :he blockhouse barbed-wire fences in rder to stop the Boer cattle rushes. To Settle By Arbitration. Augusta, Ga., Special-It is be oved that the strike of cotton mill peratves, which was inaugurated o weeks ago, will be settled in a lay or two. A conference between a ~ommittee of the King Mill strikers d the manufacturers has been ar anged. An arbitration board will be ppointed and its decision will be ,inding on both sides. As soon as the lifferences of the King Mill are ar -anged the lock-out in the other millr 'ill be declared off. A Berlin editor expresses In his lewspaper the hope that nothing in .resting or important may happen in the United States in the next five ears, so that the newspapers of Ger any shall have an opportunity to get back the money they have paid In cablegrams to tell about Prince Elenry's arrival and reception in merica. Aguinaldo---A By General Frederick Fu STATE a fact wher - ' as a leader, but is is kept a prisoner, and lives quietly dignified man, with spoken to, and is seems to absorb e tion. When he was c few minutes after His face was haggard and he was wringi "Is this a Yankee joke?" he exclaime< Uieve that he had been captured. After 11 Some people here compare him with cer. Why, De Wet is worth more than t ties. The two men cannot be compared. The conditions now in the Philippine while we cannot thrust civil government we have lots to hope for. For myself I would not trust a Filipi: When President McKinley was assas and for a long tim' there was much ap what alertness and dignity the reins of up again they were appalled. The bette but the mass did not seem to realize the As might be supposed Americans are of Yankees are ther-e, to be sure, but the charged soldiers. All the soldiers have a for, and while they are not all angels, thi posts are very good. All these reports about the soldiers do The story that General Chaffee had J in the Philippines not to exchange the sl is an old one. The two murders mentio has just reached the public through Wa. for the Amer:can soldiers often exchans with a Filipino it is out of the question. am' Greatest N By Professor Harry Thurso-n BSOLUTE health is man-health of bra! brain and body m: ment. I link the tx cal powers-for I q prayer for "a soui \" - then, with this as a I shall go even who have been great despite their phy: greater had their bodies been equal to the the historian, became too ill to write with who used her pen so constantly and unrer vere attacks of scribbler's cramp, and p; were perfectly undecipherable. Green u paper and say: "Whenever. I feel that pages and think what I might do if I on a man who was possessed of unusual knew how his brain needed the strong b accomplishment of the work designed. Take the case of Stevenson. There i son's later work would have been far g was his in his younger days. Health, then, is the fundamental. working order-you are equipped for an; you to use any special gift that God wheel that sets the rest of the machine made possible all the achievements of possibility of all things to come. It is ti Matching Engi By Ulysses D). Eddy. HE most dramatic ii - - the Diamond Match .spent years perfectir chinery known, whit -formerly very unheal the wvorking people. * market, and built a that the girls presen s., In the most dreadf and altogether utterly different from t] factories. The first thing done was to If found defective they were filled by t Its attack through the teeth. Suitable by the works. A lunch was prepared to at midday. In fact, everything to 1i thereby Improve the working efficiency, tion of the methods followed In the UJni the transformation in the condition of They did their work in bright, clean q phosphoric vapors, and they produced mi competitors, who had clung to antiqua defective factories and an utter lack o: employes. As a result of the American compe obliged to succumb, and have been takei At the stockholders' meeting where I Match Company told the stockholders that about every piece of machinery int would be thrown in the scrap heap, and The stockholders, with true Englisl from the shoulder, gladly gave their rot competence. ~ Decadence of t - By Douglas Vol EN agree that th foundation of ho. memories and ass joys and griefs h these. The home chinery, and the ' sleeping and eatii I.....tinct, and young i the machine entei sical exercise Is prevented by 'labor while in others the time saved by the a to get more. Sincerity and Individuality In adoi home by cheap machine made Imitati< priate. A Parthenon frieze is stamped< once adorned the robe of a Greek maide There can be no beauty that does not po uineness, order and variety-and the mo less beauty we shaill have. The olden h cause the human individual expressed hi treasure them because of their beauty. Contrast the work done by the Navy their own sheep and- spun and dyed the their descendants are doing since trade garish yarns and demand up-to-date di absent, as beauty decreases in proportio ness becomes Inevitable the moment thu chief motive. I do not enter Into the question of foolish and Idle. But I wish to consider cles that are the product of machinery .i wearisome In their want of variety, In i the human qu, ihty grows more beautij ugly as Snnn an It eanses to be new. Fallen Idol. Aston. I say Aguinaldo has lost his prestige still the falfen idol of the people. He dlthotigh not treated as one, at Manila, 6vith his family. He Is a courteous* little to say. He rarely speaks unless in adept in the art of listening. H crything, and hides all traces of emo* aptured he broke down completely. s his capture I met him face to face. ag his hands. I time after time, hardly. daring to be was all o.er he broke down and wept.. General De Wet, that brave Boer offi !n acres of Aguinaldos in military;tac s are growing better every day, and, down a nation's throat at one lurch. io out of my sight. sinated the people there were exclted, prehension, but when they saw with the American Government were taken' r class seemed to sympathize with.. awful tragedy. not flocking to the Philippines. :AIlot majority of them are composed of die ccomplished what they went out there moral conditions in Manila and othe moralizing the country are untrue. ssued an order to the soldiers fighting 14 ightest confidence with their prisonezs' ned happened long ago, and the order hington. The order is a splendid one, e confidences with the prisoners, and They are not to be trusted. atural Gift ? Peck, of Columbia College. the greatest natural gift possessed by n and health of body. With a healthy tn is capable of the greatest -achleve 7o together-the mental and the physi-i believe thoroughly in the old roma*., id mind in a sound body." Startimg4 fundamental, all things are possible. i point further and claim that the inetn' ical Infirmities would have been (event ir brains. When John Richard G4een,J. his own hand he dictated to his wifet" ittingly in his service that she h se ;ge after page fell from her table that sed to look at these pages of scrawled,, s [ cannot go on I look at one of those1 .y had the physical power." Here was. tetivity before h.lost his health. . Het >dy to co-operate with it in the perfectj s no question in my mind that Steven reater had he enjoyed the health that! Given health and your machine is.ina r task. This is the power that enable? - may give you., Health is the driving ry in motion. It is the force that the past, and that will determine the e gift of gifts. ish Matches. tason of England has been that of Company. This American trusL: has' g the most remarkable automatic ma h made the manufacture, which, was thy and dangerous, absoliutely safe for They determined to enter the Englfsir factory near LiverpooL. They found ting themselves for employment were al condition physically-half starve& ie working women In their Americad examine the teeth of every applicant. he factory dentist, for necrosis makes. working apparel was furnished thens be served in a light and pleasant room~ aprove the healthy cheerfulness, and - f these girls was done in exact Imita d States. Within two or three months the working women was marvelous.' sarters, entirely free from bad air or tches at prices far below their English :ed methods, old-fashioned machinery, care for the health and condition of titon the English works were finally. iover by the American factory. his was done the head of the Diamond a great many truths, Informing then? heir works when they were taken over that the business was badly managed. liking for a man who talks straight as to put the industry in the control of he Home. Idea, of permanence is at the very ne. It must have an atmosphere of aciatons. It must be a place in whfeEr ave been lived. The fiat has none of feeling has been killed by modern ma word to-day means only a place fol ig. Healthy home occupations are er eople know how to do nothing, becaus4 - Into everything. Even healthy phy. aving appliances' in many instances, pplances is used up In a mad struggle nment have been banished from the ns of things that never were appro m a cooking stove, and the design that a is applied to the border of a dustpan. ssess the four elements-intention, gen re we depend on mechanical means the andicrafts possessed those qualities be mself in them, and to-day our museums does fifty years ago, when they raised wool with vegetables dyes, with what rs began to supply them with hideous, signs. The charm of the old work is: a a mechanical means are used. Ugli .t the commercial begins to rank as the Lhoishing- machinery. That would be its relation to the beauty of life' Arti re smooth, regular and cold. TIfey are heir endless repetition. Work that has u1 a It mmors old. Machine work IS