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'W THE COLUMBUS STATUE. ' The Gift of Italy Arrives at the Port of New York. Unloading the Monument and Pre" paring- for the Dedication. GAETAVO RUS30, THE SC0LPT(1R. The statue of Christopher Columbus, pre* seated to America by the people of Italyi arrived at the Port of New York, a few days ago, on the war ship Garigliano. The Garigliano was boarded by a parky of [talians from a tug, who returned to town about 7 o'clock. Then the Garigliano came up to the foot of Fulton street. North River, accompanied by a tug, but there were no formal ceremonies of welcome. Immediately the work of unloading the statue from the hold of the Italian naval transport was begun and as the first stone slowly ascended in the powerful grasp of the big derrick Chapman a cheer arose lroui the throng of patriotic Italians who had gath isred upon the wharf at Fulton street, to witness the discharge of the previous cargo. The reception of the statue was in the hands of Secretary J. N. Malferrari and Captain J. Mardini, of the Executive Cominitt?o of the Italo-Americano Society. The sections were placed on trucks and taken to the site to ba occupied by the work of art at Fifty-ninth street and Eighth avenue. This will be made the occasion of a demonstration. a procession with numerous floats being a feature. A large force of workmen .will he set to work in order to have the gtatue completed and ready for dedication by October 13. 1 THE STATUE. Tie statue is in the form of a cylinirical shaft, measuring seventy-six feet^from base to the apex of the heroic figure of Columbus at the top. Four steps form the base, with, a pedestal of ornamental design in half relief sustaining figures of the ganius of dis covery. Ihe figure ot the discoverer at the 1 top of the column represents him in reflective mood, attired in tin garb of a mariner. The statue is ia parts and packed in 105 separate cases, and forms the entire cargo of the little trausport. Some of the sections ?re very small, while otiers are quite ponderous, the largest weighing about twantyflvetons. It will take about one week to discharge the entire cargo from the hold of (ha vessel. The statue was entered free of duty at the Custom House under the law providing for the free admission of works of art, and permission to unload awaited the arrival of the G-argiliano at her dock. The transport is commanded by Chevalier C-. J. Rugs:ero, and among the officers of the ~1 florlKolm U*\Ac 4-U ~ vxxssoi u uaw^niui, ??uw uuivu buu office of Commander of Marines. It was intended that demonstrations in bonor of the descendant of the Italian hero should be made, but the voung man modestly declined the honor* offered, his modesty and notions of rank forbidding him. That be will be banqueted and lionized informally, however, is evident from the number of visitors who pressed forward to shake the young officer by the hand and afterward followed him up to Broadway when he left the vessel for a tour on shore. After her cargo has been unloaded the Italian transport will droD down to an anchorage below Liberty Island, where it is expected that she will remain until after the celebration on October 12. T A OT XIAWnV TJAWTTG X AO ? xi aii v x nan ixu( She Trots a Mile on the Regulation Track in 2:07. Nancy Hanks broke the world's trotting record for the regulation track by goin? a mile in 2:07 at the State Fair grounds, St. Paul, Minn. Budd Doble drove the mare, and when she passed under the wire the judges waved their hats, and proclaimed that the pretty mare haid covered the mile in 2:07 flat. The scene that followed was indescribable. Turfmen who recognized the full significance of the performance simply went daft for the time being, VtAir* fliffnitr tKraur Via f a art/4 nan/v< 1VJ1KUI l-c.? - -ft- J. - Vdu^ in the air and otherwise gave expressions to their joy. It was a wonderful and a very unexpected performance. Previous to the trot bets were freely made that Nancy could not do better than 12:10. It was a regulation track like that on which she trotted at Chicago. IT'S A EUROPEAN PEST. The Texas Fly, Imported in 1886, is Now Troubling Conuecticut CattJe. Professor B. P. Koons, of the Storrs School, says that the Texas fly, which is now troubling cattle in the vicinity or Uartrora, Conn., does not eat into tha horns of the animal?, as has just been reported, but that it lays its eggs around them. The fly is a blood sucker, and worries the animals so that they cinuot feed. The insect comes from Europe. It first made its appearance in this country near Philadelphia in 18S7, and is believed to have been imported with the large shiDm9nts of European cattle in 1886. From Philadelphia it spread in all directions. Pbovidinc* is to have a permanent exhibition of Rhode Island industries, and, in connection, a fohool of technology. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Twenty-one ballot "3tuffers," the last of the sixty-three election officers of Hu Ison County who had been tried and convicted for or had pleaded guilty to fraud iu connection with the election of 1899. were sentenced in the County Court, in Jersey City, N. J., to terms of from six to fifteen months in State Prison or tbe Penitentiary. Officers of the Order of Solon, a benefit association, are said to be $14,000 short iD their accounts; legal proceedings were begun against them in Pittsburg, Penu. Train 13, of the West Shore Road, near Cranston's Station, N. Y.. ran off the track into the river. "Pod" Eisenburz. the en gineer, and Van Slyke, the fireman, were drowned, and four passen^era injured. Alexander Brrkman, the assailant of H. <Frick, was indicted by a Grand Jury at Pittsburg, Penn. The statue of Christopher Columbus, presented to America by the D3ople of Italy, arrived at tne Port of New York on the war sbiD Garigliano. Labor dat-was observe! throughout the Eastern and Middle States. The day was celebrated by the united wortin^men of New York and its vicinity with the finest parade seen in years. Daniel Dougherty, the "silver tongued orator'' and brilliant lawyer, died at his home in Philadelphia, Penn., of softening of the brain, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. The State election in Vermont resulted in the election of Fuller, Republican candidate for Governor. Ex-Skcrrtary Blaise has written a lorrar .T R M?h1b7. of AllZllSta. Me.. reviewing; the issues in the present political campaign. He declares his inability to go on the stump. The Hod. John B. Smith, of Hillsborough, was nominated by acclamation for Governor by the New Hampshire Republican State Convention at Concord. The People's Party of New Hampshire met in Stats Convention at Manchester and aominated William 0. Noch for Governor. South and West. South Dakota Democrats in their State Convention at Chamberlain refused to in aorse tne reopies rarcy sectors am ouaua ticket. A full State ticket was Dlacad iu nomination, beaded by Peter Couchtnan for for Governor. Concully, the county seat of Okanagon bounty, Washington, has baan burned to :he ground. Nothin? remains of the town proper save a schoolhouse, the courthouse and a drus store. The total loss will reach $100,001 ~ Mayor Sanderson*, Health Officer fveeny and a number of physicians made an inspection of the sanitary condition of Chinatown, San Francisco, CaL, and Dr. Keeny in his report to the Board of Haaltti recommended that the entire Chinese quarters be condemned, and removed from its present location. Talto.v Hall, a noted desperado who had killed many meu, was hanged at Wise Court House, Va. It was the first legal hanging in the county. Thk Nebraska State Bank of Crete has closed its doors. The bank's capital is |5D, 000 and it was recently reorganized. A rack war In Bunkie, La., resulted in the killing of one white man by s&ooting and the hanging of two colored men who imumttuu tui eaw a^aiusu uuo nutvM, The general State election was hall in Arkansas under the new Election law, and has resulted in a clean sweep for Democracy. The ticket was elected by majorities ranging from 15,003 to 20,003. The drought, which has lasted in Southwestern Texas for four years, has at last been broken. Good rains are reported from every portion of the State. The North Dakota Democratic State Convention, in session at Fargo, arranged a fusion with the People's Party. ?. M. Rrs, one of the best known fine stock breeders in Nebraska, was torn to pieces by a bull on his farm near Omaha. The body was literally cut to piecas and could be identified only by the fragments of clothing scattered around the sceue of the struggle. James M. Brows, a noted turfman, fatally shot two policemen during a raid on Garfield Park, Chicago, III., and was killed mmseu. "Washington. President Harrison left Washington for Loon Lake, N. Y.. to visit Mrs. Harrison. He was accompanied by his Private Secretary, Mr. Haiford, ani went through to Loon Lake without making any stops. The Treasury Department monthly circulation statement shows a net decrease In the circulation during August amounting to $2,692,741. Information received at the State Department, from the Uuited States Minuter of forflnnu m t.ha condition of affairs in Venezuela, has led the President to direct the Kearsarge to go there with the Concord to protect American interests. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has opened and awarded bids under the advertisement of the department, dated May 25, 1592, issued in pursuance of the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1891, entitled an act to provide for oceau mail servica between the United States and foreign ports and to promote commerce. The Postal asterGeneral was gratified with the bids received. * ?i IT was aiuiuuuuju nuui ?? asuiu^twu luau precautionary measures to prevent the introduction of cholera nave been taken on the Atlantic and Facitic coast lines and the Canadian border, and the National authorities feel satisfied of being able to kejp out the scourge. Foreign. The Moorish rebels have submitted to the Sultan's authority. The Australian steamer from Dutiritari, Gilbert Islands, brings naws of tae seizure of the islands in J une by Great Britain. A large building which was beine erected in Constantinople, Turkey, and which was nearing completion, collapsed, burying many of the workmen. A rascuiug party was immediately organized, and succeeded in removing twenty men who had been injured and in recovering the bodies of tift9en who had been killed. At Northwick, England, striking salt workers attacked a trainioad of non-union men, who had to be sent back to Liverpool; the military were called on to suppress the disorder. The total number of death3 from the cholera plagu9 in Russia is estimated to be 150,000. At Hamburg, Germany, new cholera case; amount to five hundred daily aud the num ber of deaths to over two hundred. Eightyeight new case3 of cholera were reported in Berlin. The steamers Elbe and Clement, from Hamburg, arrived rasDectivelv in the True and in the Mersey, Enslau'J, with cholera cases aboard. They were both quarantined. A heavy thunderstorm passad over * portion of Galicta, Austria. During; the storm a farmhouse at Moszszinica was struck by lightning and sat on fire. A nnmber of soldiers were bileted at the farmhouse. Eizht ol them were killed and their bodies cremated. The express train between Stuttgart and Esslingen, Germany, sjven miles from Stuttgart, collided with a freight train from i Ulm and six passengers were killed. M. Grenier, a clerk in the French Navy Department, was sentenced at Paris trt twenty years' penal servitude and twenty y?ars' banishment for furnishing official documents tr> Captain Borup ol the United States Navy. Flro from Ice. A candle may bo lighted with a piece of ice. A small piece of metallic potassium is laid 011 the wick arid touched with the ice. when the water immediately produces a tlame. This Is due to the property of this metal to oxidize with exceeding rapidity on ; contact with water. This curious experiment i/j be made with gr^at caution, as, if too much of the potassium is used, an explosion will taku ' olace. ? REV. DR. TALMGE. .THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'3 SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Celestial Sympathizers." Text: "I have fought with beasts at Ephesus."?I Corinthians it., 32. Crossing the Alps bv the Mount Ceni? pass or through ^the Mount Cenis tunnel, fuui?ie iu a. icvr uuurs stji> uuwn Kb V eronia, talv, and in a few minutes begin examin. ing one of the grandest ruins of the world? the amphitheatre. The whole building sweeps around you in a circle. You stand in the arena where the combat was once fought or the race run, and on all sides the seats rise, tier above tier, until you count forty elevations or galleries, as I shall see fit to call them, in which sat the senator?, the kings and the twenty-five thousand excited spectators. At the sides of the arena and under the galleries are the cages in which the lions ana tigers are kept without rood until, frenzied: with hunger and thirst they are let out upon some victim who, with his sword and alone, is condemned to meet them. I think that Paul himself once stood in such a Elace, and that it was not only figuratively ut literally that he had "fought with beasts at Ephesus." The gala day has come. From all the world the people are pouring into Verona. Men, women and children, orators and senators, great men and small, thousands upon thousands, come, until the first gallery i3 ( nil nn/1 f Urt pannn^ f kft fkiKrl f j uiif auu IUO ocwu'j, tuo luua, tua xuui tu, the fifth?all the way up to the twentieth, all the way up to the thirtieth, all the way up to the fortieth. Every place is flllecL Immensity of audience sweeping the great circle. Silence! The time for tha contest has come. A Roman official leads forth the victim into the arena. Let him get his sword with firm grip into his right hand. The twenty-five thousand sit breathlessly watching. I hear the door at the side of the arena creak open. Out plunges the half starved lioB. his tongue athlrst for blood, and with a roar that brings all the galleries to their feet he rushes against the sword of the combatant. Do you know how strong a stroke a man will scrike when his life depends unon the first thrust of his blade? The wild beast, lame and bleeding, slinks back toward the side of the arena; theD, rallying his wasted strength, he comes up with fiercer eye and more terrible roar than ever, only to be driven back with a fatal wound, while the combatant comes in with stroke after stroke, until the monster is dead at his feet, and the twenty-five thousand people clap their hands and utter a shout thac makes the city tremble. Sometimes the audience came to see a race; sometimes to see gladiators fight each other, until the people, compassionate for the fallen, turned their thumbs down as an appeal that the vanquished be spared, and sometimes the combat was with wild beasts. To one of the Roman amphitheatrical audiences of one hundred thousand people Paul refers when he sayE: "We are compassed about with so great a crowd of witnesses." The direct reference in the last passage is made to a race, but elsewhere having discussed that, I take now Paul's favorite idea of the Christian life as a com UAU The fact is that every Chriatain man has a lion to light. Yours is a bad temper. The gates of the arena bare been opened, ani this tiger has come out to destroy your 30ul. It has lacerated you with many a wound. You have been thrown by it time and again, but in the strength of God you have arisen to drive it back. I verily believe you will conquer. I think that the temptation is getting weaker and weaker. You have given it so many wounds that the prospect is that it will die anl you shall be victor, u <~>i?i tarougu OLU ion vuuia^r, Ui uuudx i i/v/uvv let the sands of the arena drink the blood of your soul! Your lion is the passion for strong drink. You may have contended against it' twenty years, but it is strong of boay and thirsty of tongue. You have tried to fight it back with broken bottle or empty wine flask. Nay! that is not the weapon. With one horrible roar be will seize tnee by the throat and rend thee limb from limb. Take this weapon, sharp and keen?reach up and get it from God's armory?th9 sword of the Spirit. With that thou may est; drive him back and conquer! But why specify, when every man and woman has a lion to fight. If there be one here who has no besetting sin, let him speak out; for him have 1 offended. If you have not fought the lion, it is because you have let the lion eat you up. This very moment the contest gpes ou. The Trojan celebration, where ten thousand gladiators fought and eleven thousand wildbsasts were slain, was not so terrific a struggle as that which at this moment goes on in manya soul. The combat was for the life of the body; this is for the life of the soul. That was with wild beasts from the jungle; this is with the roaring lion of hell. Men think when they contend against an evil habit that they have to flght it all alone. No! They stand in the centre of an immense circle of sympathy I Paul had been reciting the names of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jossph, Gideon and Barak, and then says; "Being compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." Before I get through I will show you that you fight in an arena around which circle, in galleries above each other, all the kin? dling eyes and all the sympathetic hearts of the ages; and at every victory gained there comes down the thundering applause of a great multitude that no man can number. Being compassed about with so great a cioua or wnnessss." Though the arana be crowded with temptations wa snail, with the angelic help, strike them down in the name of our God and Jeap on their fallen carcasses! O bending throng of bright angelic faces and swift wings ana lightning foot! I hail you to-day from the dust and struggle of the arena! I look again and see the gallery of the prophets and apostles. Who are those mignty ones up yonder? Hosea and Jeremiah and Daniel and Isaiah and Paul and Pet?r and John and James. There sits Noah, waiting for all the world to come into the ark; and Moses, waiting till the last Red Sea shall divide; and Jeremiah, waiting for the Jews to return, and John, of the Apocalypse, waiting for the swearing of tha angel that Time shall be no longar. Glorious oniMi'fcl Va ntai?a hnvlorl of* Va urora ohnnaH* ye were spit upon! They nave been in this fight themselves, and they are all with us. Daniel knows all about lions. Paul fought with beasts at Eohesus. in the ancient amphitheatre the people got so excited that they would shout from the galleries to the men in the arena: "At it azain!" "Forward!" '"One more stroke!" "Look out!" "Fall back!" Huzza! Huzza?' So in that gallery, prophetic and apostolic, they cannot keep their paac?. Daniel cries out, "Thy Go 1 will deliver thee from th? mouth of the lions!" Davii excaims, "He. will not suffer thy foot to be moved!'1 Isaiah calls out, "Fear not! I am with thae! Be not dismayed!" Paul exclaims, "Victory through our Lori Jesus Christ!" That throng of prophets and apostles cannot keap still. They make the welkin ring with Costing and halleluiahs. I look again an i I see the gallery of the martyr?. Who is that? Hujh Latimer, sure enough! He would not apolog.ze for the truth preached, and so he died the night before swinging from the bedpsat in perfect glee at the tnoujht of emancipation. Who I HIT- Hiniuanrt aii hundred and sixty-3ix? They are the Theoan legion who died for the faith. Hero is a larger host in magnificent array?eight nundrei an i eighty-four thousand?who perished lot Christ in the persecutions of Diocletian. Yonder is a family grou?>, Felieitas. of Rome, and her children. Wnili they wera dying for the t'aith she stood encouraging them. One son was whippal to death by thorns, another wa3 flunj froai a rock, au< other was beheaded. At last tha mother became a martyr. There they are to|eth3r ?a family group in heaveu. Yonder_is John Bradford, who said in the tire, "vva shall have a merry supper with the Lord to-night r Yonder is Henry Voe?, who exclaimed as he died, "If I had ten heads they 1 should all fall off for Christ!" The great throng of the martyrs! They had hot lead poured down their throats; horses were fastened to their hands, and other horses to their feet, and thus they were pulled apart; they had their tongues pulled out by* red hot piucars; they wjre si wed up in the skin3 of animals and then thrown to the dog3; thsf were daubei with combustibles and then set on fire! If all the martyrs' stakes that hard been kindled could be set at proper distances they would make the midnight all th<j world over as bright as noonday. And now they sit yonler in ths martyr's 1 gallery. Portaem tha fire* of psrsacution have gone out. The swords are sheathed and the mob husheJ. Now they watch us with an all observing sympathy. They know all the paio, all Cae hardships, all the anguish, all the injustic?, all tli9 privation, i They cannot keep still. Taay cry: "Courage! The fire will not consume. The Add-Is cannot drown. Tha lions cannot devour! Courage 1 down th:ra in tie arena." What, are they all looking? This night we answer back the salutation thay give, and cry, "Hail! sons and daughtara of tha Are!" I look again and see another gallery, that of eminent Christians. What strides me strangely is the mixing in companionship of those who on earth could not agree. There is Albart Barnes, and around him the pres* J 1 VlofofArlftTD t uyiery wuu uiou mui w . Yonder is Lyman Baecher and the church, court that denounce! him! Stranger than all, thera is Johu (Jalvin aai Ja njs Arminius! Who would hav? t'aousht thit thar I would sit so lovinjly togither? Tnere is George Whit?fi?ld an! ttte ministers who would not let hio; come into their pulpit3 because they thought him a fanatic. Thwe are the sweat sinzers Toolady, Montgomery, Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts and Mrs. Sigourney. If heaven hid had no music before they went up, they woaid have started the singing. And there the band of missionaries?David Abeel, talking of China redeemed; and John Scudder, of India saved; and David I Brainard,* of the aborigines evangelized, and Mrs. Adouiram Judson. whosa prayers for Burmah took heaven by violence! All these Christians are looking into the arena. Our struggle is nothing to theirs# Do we, in Christ's cause, suffer from the cold? They walked Greenland's icy mountains. Dowa 'suffer from the heat? They sweltered in the tropics. Do we get fatigued? They fainted, with n one to care for them but cannibals. Are we persecuted? They were anathematized. And as they look from their gallery and see us falter in the presence of the lions, I seem to hear Isaac Watts addressin (X via in Vita nlrl hrmn rtnlv n lif.f.la r*h a n crar\ Most voa be carried to the akles On flowery beds of ease, While others fo tight to win the nrlzs Or lailed through bloody seas? Toplady shouts in his old hymn: Yoar harps, ye trembling saints, Down from the willows take; Load to the praise of love divine, Bid every string awake. While Charles Wesley, the Methodist, breaks forth in his favorite words, a littla aried: A charge to keep yon hare, XI UWU IU ^luiu r . A never dying; toal to save, And fit It for the sky! -1 look again and I see the gallery of our departed. Many of those in the other galleries we have beard of; bat these we knew. Oh, how familiar their faces! They sat at our tables, and we walked to the house of God in company. Have they forgotten us? Those fathers and mothers started us on the road of life. Are they careless as to what becomes of us? And those children?do they look on with stolid indifference as to whether we win or lose this battle for eternity? Nay; I see that child running its hand over your brow and saying, "Father, do not fret." "Mother, do not worry." ThftV rnm*mh?r t.hn riAvt.hav laffc rtc Thnv remember the agony of the last farewell. Though years in heaven they know our faces. Tney remember our sorrows. They speak our names. They watch this fight for heaven. Nay, I Me them rise up and lean over and wave before up^heir recognition and encouragement. liSre gallery is not full. They are keeping places for us. Aft*r we have slain the lion they exDect the King to call us, saying: "Come up higher!" Between the hot struggles in the arena I wipe the sweat from my brow and stand on tiptoe, reaohing up my right hand' to clasp theirs in rapturous handshaking, while their voices come ringing down from the gallery, crying: "Be thou faithful unto death, and you shall have a crown!" But here I p ause, overwhelmed with the majesty and joy of the scene! Gallery of the King! Gallery of angels! Gallery of prophets and aposties! Gallery of martyrs! Gallery of saints ! Gallery of friends and I nV* ma ^imlaa ' nf Ho-ht. nnr1 ftiUUiuu i vu, j-uajcotio vl u^uvuuu love! Thrones I Throngs! Throngs! How shall we stand the gaza of the universe! Myriads of eyes beaming on tu! Myriads of hearts beating in sympathy for us I How shall we ever dare to sin again! How shall we ever become discourage l again 1 How shall we ever feel lonely azain! With God for as, and angels for us, and prophots and apostles for us, and the great sou's of the ages for us, and our glorified kindred for us?shall we give up the fight and die? No! Soc of God, who didst die to save us-. No! ye angel?, whose wings are spread forth to shelter us. No! ye prophets and apostles, whose warnings startle us. No! ye loved ones, whose arms are outstretched to receive us. No! we will never surrender! T .? IF t ?nnlri rolrrn a urn l uiunh ugjuv * nv? Be faithful to my Lord ; Anil bear the Cross, endure the pain, Supported by Tby Word. Thy aalnts in all this glorloas war Shall conquer, thou?h they die; They sei the trluulph from ?far Anl seize it with their eye. When that illustrious day shall riie, And all Thine armies shine In roies of victory through the skies, The glory shall bo Thine. My hearer, shall we die in the arena or rise to join our friends in the gallery? Through Christ' we may come off more than conquerors.- A soldier dying in the Hospital rose up in Dea xne last mamnuu ?uu cried, "Here! Here!" His attendants put him back on his pillow and asked him why he shouted "Here" "Oh, I heard the roll call ot nearen and 1 was only answering to my name." I wonder whet tier, after this battle of life is over, our name will be called in the muster role of the pardoaed and glorified, and with the joy of heaven breaking upon our souls, we cry, "Herel HereP' Stars and Stripes "Farthest North.* Lieutenant D. L. Biainerd, who accompanied the Greely expedition to the Arctic regions, has an article in Scribnef on "The Attainment of the Highest North," from which we make this extract: But finally and exhausted we reached the cape at 11:115 a. m., May 13. Our provisions were nearly exhausted, and we knew that our feet pressed a more northerly land than had ever before been touched by the foot of man; indeed, more northern land than was even supposed to exist. Realizing that this was indeed the "Farthest North," we unfurled the flag of our country, the glorious Stars and Stripes, with a feeling of pride and exultation imnossible t3 describe. Lieu . ?0? r? t t f. benzine and mixing it with benzine gas. The air thus treated is passed through powdered magnesium and ignited by a small flame. tenaut Lockwood and I seiztd each others hands again and again for very joy, and hugged the Eskimo Thorlip, who, gaping at u?. wondered what it all meant. T.ie physical hardship from many days' travel through heavy gales and blinding snow, over jagged rubble ice and across dangerous tracks, was all behind us, and the meatal strain which marked our grouping journey along an unknown rugged coast, showing itself to us oniy in momentary glimpses, uuu msu passed. Cou4d it be wondered that our spirits rose to a point beyond the power of word9? Again and again we looked about us, so as to fully realize that the coveted honor had bcon won by our little party. Was it possible that we had indeed surpassed all their efforts, the efforts of all our English brothers who for three hundred years, by c/int of energy, courage nud perseverance, had held the supremacy of the "Farthest North?" Professor Schevin, of Berlin, has invented a flash light having a brilliancj rivalling that of the electric arc, and greater penetrating power in thick weather. It is produced by forcing aii rhrmirrh numice stone impregnated with RELIGIOUS READING. THE SIN OF OMISSION. It i9n't the thing you do, dear, It's the thing yon leave undone Which gives you a bit of heartache At the setting of the sun ; The tender word lorgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, dear, Are your haunting ghosts tonight. The stone you might have lifted Out of the brother's way; The bit of beart8tone counsel You were hurried too much to say; The loving touch of the hand, dear, The gentle and winsome tone That you had 110 time or thought for With troubles enough of your own. These little acts of kindness So easily out of miiid. These chances to be angels Which even mortals find? Thev corae in night and silence, Each child reproachful wraith, When hope is faint and flagging, And a blight has dropped oil faith. For life is all too Bhort, dear. And sorrow is all too great, To sutler our slow compassion That tarries until too late; And it's not the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone, Which gives you the bitter heartache At the settii g of the sun. ? [Margaret E. Sangster. WHAT IS TRUTH? When I see young men carry the Christian name and really illustrate so many of the features of Christian life, and yet make a positive denial of essential truth, or, by their indifference to it, sacrifice the dearest interest of Christian truth, I am disheartened. I am not contending here for a sectirian theology. I am preaching to you on the broad lines of catholic Christianity, and urn trying to present to you the essence of Christian faith. I only wish that you should realize that Christianity, if it is anything, if it deserves any enduring place, if it has any exceptional claims, if it brings any word of ) comfort, if it has any voice of authority, rests upon the "doctrine that Jesus Christ wn9 delivered of our offences, and raised again for our justification. It is not true that Christianity is n life and not a doctrine. It is a life because it is a doctrioe. A religion that sees only the human side of Christ always call* him Jesus; the religion that looks only upon ethical states and prencbes only tlie moralises of life, a religion that holds that love is the greatest thing in the world, and is satisfied with the sweetness and tenderness of Christian feeling, is a relizion of which the best that you can say is, that it is trying to keep, the fruits of Christianity living, while it lays the axe to the root of the tree which bears them. Now I say, I dare to say?would to God that men wou:d heed me?that if I must choose between life and dogma, I will say that Christianity is not a life, but a dogma. You cannot live* the Christian life without Holding tue cr.risuan uogma; ioe one euiuuate9 solely froui tbe other. This dogma's great opposition is, that man is a sinner, and that without the shedding of the blood there is no remission of s n. Its great fact is that Jesus whs the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world. It comes to us spying in a thousand ways that we cannot be justified by the law, but that being justified by faith we have peace with God. Its one shining and conspicuous miracle is the resurrect on of Christ. Its doctrine of the incarna tion separates it from all the religious in the world. If you are in earnest, my friend, and you want to know what you shall do to keep your Christian laith on rational grounds, I will tell you how to get at the heart of the question without delay. You believe in God. Add to your theism (he incarnate Christ, and you have found the truth. The pitched battle of unbelief is here. It is history versus philosophy. Settle with yourself whether you will let your rationalistic philosophy settle your history, or whether you will make history qualify your philosophy. Will you permit theory to make fact or "fact to make theory? This is the crucial question of theolocical debate, not the inspiration of the .Scripture nor the authorship of the Pen- [ tateuch. Young men of the senior class, you lately won a battle in athletic games; then remember that ordinary events fn life are often parables to us. There are battles we have to fight and victories we hope to win through life. You know how you did it. You know the patience, you know the training and the faith that entered into it. Self-confidence is the beginning of great acts. You contested that you might win an earthly crown; but do not forget, my frieuds. that there is a' crown of righteousness that fadeth not away. Go forth today in the strength of Christian character, stand like true soldiers on the battle-field, and tight your hardest.? [Eaccalpi rente Sermon, Princeton University, in ... Treasury. begin* the pay with god. One hour of the morning is commonly worth two hours of the evening. A man of average duration of life sees abou t ten thoijoond mnmlni'9 in the course of his existence. He begins ten thousand days; and as the after-conduct of tbe day depends upon a right start, it is vitally important to begiu cach day with God. Morning piety hns much to do with the whole current of one's every-day religion. The eyes that open after a night's slumber should turn heavenward. "In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." exclaimed the devout Psalmist. He begins the day unwisely who leaves his chamber without a secret conference with Christ, on whom he ia to desend for strength. The true Christian goes into his closet for his armor; he knows not what sudden assaults of temptation maybe before him, so he puts on his panoply. He needs his spiritual "rations" also for the day's march. As the Oriental traveller sets out for his sultry journey over the sands by loading up his camel , with food under the palm tree, and by filling his water jars from the cool fountain at its roots, so doth tbe Christian wayfarer draw bis early supplies from the unexhausted spring. 3Iortiing is the ?~ilovntinn The mind is 1IUU1 1U? MVIW..*... fre9h. ^The mercies of the night provokes to gratitude. A buoyant heart that is in love with God mukta its earliest flight, like the lark, towards the gates of heaven. Thankfulness, dependence, faith ami humility all prompt to early and tender interviews with him who waits'on his throne for our morning orisons. We all recall Bunyan's beautiful description of his pilgr in. who ''awoke and sang" in that "Chamber of peace"' which looked towards the sun-rirng. If the Kgyptian Menmon maile music when the first rays of light kindled 011 his flinty brow, a living Christian heait should not be mule when God causes the outgoing of his mornings to rejoice. No pressure of household duties or of L * 1?..'-4 Ant nruvor 4 n omi. DUSiiU'sa auiiu <i u.mv, v,uv nent Christian merchant told me that it was bis rnle to get a <:ood quiet half-hour in his chamber on his knees anil over his Bible before he met his family: anil then he went into his business?as Moses came down from the Mount?with his fare shining. Dr. Arnold; of lliigby had a favorite morning hymn which opens with these stirring lines: ' Come, mv soul, thou must be waking; Now is breaking OVr the earth another day. Come to biin who made this splendor; Seetbou render All tby feeble powers can pay." ?ri>r. Cuyler. a three-wheeled phaeton from Los Anpeles will be among the California exhibits at the World'9 Fair. An interesting corupauiuu cxuiuiii iur this vehicle would be that threelegged horse down in Tennessee that travels a mile in six minutes. VVnY Is a young man courting a gin like a suicide? Because he's her fellow, d'er see? The point of this Joke has been brought a long distance, and is tired. __ ...... v ;rvSABBATH SCHOOL, j /< INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR 8EPIEA1BEU 25. Lesson Text: "The'lord's Snpper Profaned." I. Cor. xl., 20-34 ^uoi icrij iviuperaiice uessoii; I ?GoldenText:! Cor. xi., 28?Co mmentary, 20. "When ye come together, therefore, into one place, thin is not to eat the Lord's Supper." The R.V. says: "It is not possible to eat the Lorj's Supper." The diversions of this epistle are easily recognized by the words, "Now concerning or as touching" ^chapters vii., 1; viii., 1; xii., 1; xvi., 1). If the section in wnich our lesson is found be carefully read, the prominent topic will be found to be that of glorifying God in eating and drinking (x., 31.) and when people come together to enjoy themselves in eating and drinking, they cannot truly eat the Lord's C..~ ?~ -?? -? ' - fcjuyptu, iur ib [wiuw lu me ueata ol sen, not the life of self. 21. "For in eatinr, every one taketh before other his own Kipper; and one is hungry and another is crunken." Imagine people coming together for a good time, as they say, and after enjoying themselves to the full, proceed to commemorate the Lord's death. These did worse than that, for they actually made the Lord's Supper a drunken feast. 22. "What? have ye not houses to eat and drink in, or despise ye the church of God?" The snDplying of our bolilr needs is one thinsr, but the worship of God is an entirely different matter. One of the most prominent characteristics of Christ was that He never lived for Himself, but always as a sacrifice for others (Rom. xv., 3; John viM 38, 51).. H we have not His spirit we are none of His (Rom. viil., 9). If we abide in Him we win waiK as ne waiKea u jonn 11., o>. 23. "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread." Hated by the world, betrayed by a professed friend and delivered to be crucified; this was the treatment Christ received, and He teaches us not to expect anything different or better (John IV., 18-20; xvi., 83). 24. "And when He had given thanks, He brake it and said, Take, eat; tbis js My body which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of Me." He did not say, tbis is My body which is pampered or indulged in for you, but given or broken for you. If we are saved by His blood, tben the great question with us is no longer one of food or raiment, but one of righteousness and glorifying Ood (Horn. xiv., 17; 25. "This cup is the new testament of My blood; this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in rememorance 01 bub." xc was alter tne earing of the passover on that last night before He was crucified that He instituted tbis sup per (Luke zzii,, 14-20) and save to His disciples these emblems of His body and blood, to be used by them in coming days as memories of His death He would have them not only filled with gratitude because of His sacrifice on their behalf, but also ready to lay down their lives for Him, or pour tbetn out in loving service on behalf of others (1 John iii., 16; John xv., 13). 28. "For as often as ye eat tbis bread, and drink thiacup, ye do shew the Lord's death till He come." Redeemed by His great sacrifice, we are expected to deny self, reckon our old man as crucified arid constantly present our bodies a living sacrifice, sustained and cheered by the glory which will be ours In tbe resurrection body at His com _?t ftj n ?i u. 1 idz (Jauii. xvi.; &*\ tuwi, vi.t u; * !., a, *-y vili^ 18; 1 Thess. i., 10). The two greatest ot all events in the history of the world are the death of Jesus on Calvary and His return to reign and subdue the earth. 27. "Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood ot the Lord." The unworthy refers not to the persons partaking, for all are unworthy in themselves, but to the spirit in which it is partaken. If one should take the bread and wine at such a time for mere ' carnal gratification, be would be guilty of J anH motrinflf Jii-breauuK tuc rau muo vi vui ?uw* tMu?iug light of His death for iu. 28. "But Jet a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup." We must consider well if we have really seen ourselves to be guilty Iniha sight of God, sinners .justly deserving His wrath, and have truly received Jesus Christ as our own personal Saviour, believing that He loved me and gave Himself for me. If this be so, then with humble and grateful -?- - i?J A hearts we wiu partaKe 01 ine ui t?u suu wine as emblems of His body and blood. 29. "For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." To die to self is the daily business of every believer, in order that the life of Christ may be manifest in us (2 Cor. iv., 11). One who lives to gratify self and yet partakes of the Lord's Supper, the emblems of which speak of death, and life through death, of necessity condemns himself. 30. "For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." Physical health was promised on condition of obedience and disease was threatened if they disobeyed (Ex. xv., 26; Lev. xxvi., 15. 16). At Corinth, because of disobedience, many were sick and some had died. We are not tauzht that all sicknesj is because of dis obedience (John ixy 3; xi.. 4), but tnat it is sometimes the case that sickness and death follow the disobedience of believers, r. 31. "For if we would judge ourselves. should not be judged." If we would walk humbly with God and live uprightly, no good tuing would He withhold trorn us, ana we would escape much chastening. If we would test every thing by the judgment seat of Christ, and do only what H" approves, we would thus walk in the light with Him and enjoy constant fellowshio. 32. "But when we are judged, we are chastened of tne Lord, that we snould not be nntiHomnoH wifh th? world." Whom the Lord loveth He chastened fHeb. xii., 6). Th? same word translated chasten, chastening or chastisement, in fleb. xii., 5-8, and in this verse of our lesson, is in Eph. vi? 4, nurture; in 2 Tiro, ii., 25, instruct, and in Titus ii., 12, teach, so that by chastening us when we do wrong; our Heavenly Father instructs us to do better, and nourishes us by His love. 83. "Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another." Jesus taught His disciples to be humble and delight in serving rather than in being served. To be first and uppermost is not His tipirit, but rather to esteem others better than ourselves (Matt, xx., 26-28, Phil. ii.. 3). 3*. ''And if any man hunger let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation, and the rest will I set in order when I come." The worship of God, ttto service of Christ, and tae showing forth of His death till He come, leaver no room whatever for the display of self or for selfgratification in any way. If in Christ there is do condemnation (Rom. viii., 1); and as to the daily life, "Happy is he that coademeth not himself in that thing which he alloweth" (Rom. xiv.. 22). As temperance in Scripture signifies seli-control, and.includes ths subduing of all that pertains to self, we have in this study a good temperance lesson. ?Lesson Helper. Mat He Didn't Squeal. A friend took Senator Wolcott to drive some time ago in the suburbs of Leadville, Col., and the Senator expressed a little fear of the frisky horses. His friend at once beptan to banter Wolcott, who endured it patiently until they came to a very steep, precipitous incline. Wolcott then asked his friend to allow him to drive a little, and, on his agreement, took the reins. He then turned and said: "You have been shaming me for my timidity. My turn has come now. "We'll see who squeals first!" With that ho flung tho reins out over the horses' backs and began plying the whip furiously. The frightened horses dashed down tho hill, swinging the buggy around curves and against oouiders in such wise as to threaten its demolition. Wolcott continued to ply the whip and shout at the maddened brutes. His friend clung, white and trembling, to his seat. It is a marvel that, both were not kille 1. Finally the buggy was overturned, the horses broke away, and Wolcott and his friend were left in a confused heap, with a broken arm, a sprained anljle and a dozen bo iy cuts and bruises between 'em. "Well, how do you like it?" asked Wolcott, gathering himself together and emerging nimbly from the debris. The other answered feebly, but proudly: "I hain't squealed yet!"_ . 1 ! TEMPERANCE. I IX THE HOSPITAL. * . In a clean, cool ward, though the day wat! hot, A crippled child lay in his cot; , The fever raged in his shrunken hands, And his temples throbbed 'neath the liaea' bands. The white-capped Aurse was standing by, When the kind-faced doctor witu a sigh Said, "Tiro, my hero, how do you do*' Said Tim, "I'm weak, sir, how are you?" "A glass of wine," was the answer low; "His end is near, it is better so." Poor Tim called out, through the shadows dim, " "No wine I please sing me my temperance hymn." . The hymn was sung, a prayer was said. And the little hero, so brave, was dead; But not before, while his eyes waxed bright, He had said, "Good-bye, poor Tim's ail' right." ?Mrs. M. A. Kidder,in Temperance BannarJ ? ?* ALCOHOL AND APOPLEXY. ! Dr. Andrew Wilson, in a recent paper, as* / , serte tbat apoplexy "is an ailment liable Mn0i?i?11ir tr\ n H nml-orHa fnw in fkAm> the blood vessels are weakened by alcohol, I and rendered more liable to rapture." 1 "See that no stimulants are given to tha patient," continues the doctor. "Ibis is! very important. If you give brandy or whisky to an apoplectic man, you may kUll him. The heart has to be kept quiet. Yon don't want an increased supply of blood to1 - yM go to the brain, and you will send it additionally fast if you give stimulant*." ? _ THE MA LION LIQUOR INTLtTXrfCt. ] The St. Louis Evangelist, in a very sag- , .y ceativa article uoon the liauor interest, save: 'There is not another power In existence1 ? which exerts so malign An influence on the human race as the liquor interest. Not a '< ; day passes but that its hands are red with: ! blood. Every day brings wife murders by . ;' drunken husbands; shooting affravs caused by alcohol, madmen and a reign of anarchy /;< and blood due to liquor. In 1891, according to a high license journal, there were 1130 CJ?; murders in this country caused by liquor. "Two hundred ?nd forty thousand saloon* keepers virtually rule the land. The cities are controlled by them; they dictate the election of mayors and council men; the police are their obedient servants; the legislatures are careful not to offend them. The nartiM thn nnlitioAl nxnirant* and th? off! ciaJs are all afraid of the 240,000 freebooters who prey upon the country. They dare not raise their little finger to forbid their plunder of the people." vm DBUlTKE.f WOMZK I.f EtTGLAJTD. There is a marked increase in drunkenness amongwomen in England. Dr. Norman Kerr, President of the Society for the Study* of Inebriety, declares that never within hip [r recollection had he seen so many drunken women about the streets of London as during the W hitsuntide holidays. He had frequently seen groups of four or Are, some quite young, all in a more or less intoxicated condition. One of the coroners of London asserts that he has held of late an increasingly large number of Inquests upon woman, many comparatively young, whose deaths were clearly due to alcboiic excess. A mod- . iniMmmlttMunow aittinff in London to devise more effectual means of dealing with 'mm drunkards than treating them as criminals. Sending them repeatedly to prison has no reformatory effect. A case ir cited of a wo- . ' rj man who recently died in Man "one workhouse, at the age of forty-eight, who M been convicted of drunkeaness 200 time*. mi It is proposed to put chronic cases under , ' c\ compulsory detention, and to treat drunk- . enntss as a disease rather than a vice. Spec- J ial provision will be made for those who are not able to pay for treatment and maintenance.?Picayune. THE ALCOHOLIC DAJTQIR. ! Alcohol is, in an emergency, a conspicuous factor of danger to the individual and to tho community. A recent significant recognition of this fact occurred at Homestead, Penn., at thecritical juncture of the contest between tbe fioicerton mea ana tne sailers. The local officials were confeesedly powerless to control, and for the time Mug tbe affairs of Homestead were under the airection of the leaders of the great strike* Thousands of workmen were unemployed and under great excitement Deadly shots were fired by the contestants on both aides. Daring this great emergency, we are told, tbe saloons were x>rderea closed. When the military assumed command, and the immediate clanger of conflict was lessened, the saloon surveillance was relaxed and the usual drinking of intoxicants began again! The experience of our own and other countries in cholera visitations of former years, has demonstrated conclusively that those who use intoxicating beverages are much more predispose! than abstainers to cholera Infection, and that it is mach more likely to prove fatal in such cases. It is true that we are separated from tbe present cholera-stricken districts by thousands of V.m f V\nf mnnn fKa Uilica Ul naicij uuv ucmwu vuw - ' T.* ports aad our own there are continuous ferries, and they compass the distance, interchanging passengers and their effects, in a single wnek; As "la grippe" developed in all countries, so also may the cholera. The prudent thing to do is to avoid the conditions whica invite it. One of these conditions is alcoholic poisoning. It ought not to be necessary to suggest to thoughtful, intelligent people at least; that any tiling which, in a great emergency, as at Homestead, must be prohibited as a matter of public safety, or specially avoided, from prudential considerations, as in the cholera epidemic, ought not to be used at all for beverage purposes. Neither ought the State to legalize and protect the making and vending, tor beverage use at any time, of aooh a commodity.?National Temperance Advocate TZMPEBANCB 5SWS AND KOTOS. The Brewers' Journal gives the total amount of British investments in American breweries as 191,803,830. New York Citv, for the year ending May 1, 1892, sold 4.495,519 barrels of beer, an increase over 1891 of 57,203 barrels. The Free Church of Scotland has 632 ministers, all of whom are abetainera, and a total membership of 64,000 teetotallers. Four reasons for being a total abstainer. The bead is clearer, the health is better, the heart is lighter and the purse is heaver. In an attempt to defend the moderate use of alcoholic stimulants a prominent English physician readily indicia it, for he says: "Mix all liquors with food which shields the tissuee from its contact and aids its safe dispersion through tha circulation." Neil Dow, of Maine, now eighty-eight yeari of age. has watched the operation of theMaine law for forty years, and he testi fles that three-fourths of the territory or the State is free from the taint of liquor, and that the people of Maine save yearly mora than twenty-four millions of dollars which would otherwise hare been expended in drink. Since early spring the hospitals of the west ide, Chicago, have been visited weekly by Mrs. Wilson, Superintendent of Flower Missions for the West Side Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and her committee. Thousands of bouquets have beea received from friends in th* country and have been distributed among the sick. Fruits and jellies have also been very freely contributed. The Woman's Christian Tempera nca Union of the South is building a temple at Wayoesville, a favorite summer resort in the grand mountain rezion of North Carolina. Land valued at &000 has baen donated and the building will cost about #10,000. There will ba t ourteen rooms in the temple, whicti will serve as homes for the workers, and a large auditorium. The whole will be surmounted by hign towers that will be observatories for wider views in more ways than one. The granite foundation of the building is already laid He Had to Exp!aiii. "Madam," said a dude, as ho bobbled up to the kitchen door of a farmhouse. "your butter's awful strong." "What do you mean, sir?" shrieked tho farmer's wife, as she flourished the churn-dasher. "Oh. excuse mo! I meant to say that your goat hit me a thunderiug bump just as I attempted to pump a drink of water. No offense intended, madam, 'pon honak"?Areola Record.