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^RcLESAJrS TARGET! gBVRIw METHODS OF TEACHINC SO J DIERS TO SHOOT ACCURATELY. Xs?rj{etR Aw Built According to ? Sensilj Idea?Soldier* Will Be TuiikM to li an Enemy?Diagram* and Ucsrriptio of the New Ol>jocti? For Marksme When companies C and D, of tl Nineteenth Infantry, begin their ran{ practice at Mt. Clemens one day th week, says a recent issue of the D troit Free L'ress. they will fire at ne targets called for by the revised r gulations for small arms just issued 1 the War Department. The keyno of this new dispensation is to train tl United States soldier to fire at tl head and heart, of his enemy. Targ practice under the new regulatioi has for its objective point represent tions of human figures in the varioi positions in which the soldier wou encounter his enemy in action, glance at the accompanying illustr tions will convey, better than it is po sible for words to do, the full meanir of this fact. The targets range in their distant from the soldier from 200 to 10( yards. Careful calculation has show that it is within these points of di tance that the soldier must do his e fective firing. It would be nonsem to talk of firing with accuracy with Government small arm at a greati distance than 3020 feet, ^"hen tl conflict becomes very much closer th? 600 feet the only things for the soldii (to remember are to keep cool and shoi at the head and the heart. The first of these targets is called short range. Sometimes it is used f< a hundred yards practice; that is, at distance of 100 yards from the mark men. More often it is used at 2( yards, and occasionally at 300 yard On this target, in silhouette, is tl figure of a soldier lying down, as 1 drifts in Ration sometimes. In such case as this, the soldier is seen direc ly in his face, his head being elevate from the ground as he leans on one e bow while taking aim. In other word it is the exact position of the ski t misher, and the skirmisher is the mt at whom the soldier must ordinary first fire, as every advance of an aru is led by a skirmish liue. The centre of the target is rectang ?that is, a space of any desired siz the four sides of which are right angle The rectangle may be in a form of square, oblong, or diamond shape* This centre, as it is called, is twent; two inches high, just the height of soldier who is lying down, and foi feet wide, this latter being the widt of the target. This centre is one < three divisions into which the target platted. The next division is know as the inner, and the third or outsit division is known as the outer. Tl score a soldier makes is made up i high or low degree by the portion < the target which his bullets strike. These three divisions are subdivide in two sections each, these two po: tions being known as the right and le centers, The same rule applies to tl: inner and outer. To thoroughly ui derstand just what is meant, picture 1 .yourself something like this: Take target six feet high and four feet widi divide it into three sections after tl -t i.\ +V, J 13M1IU11 UL IUC 1IICUMU ClliCUU ?1 > CU, IL sections running from right to lef ? Then draw a line directly through tL center of this target from top to bo torn. First you have the centn twenty-two inches high and four fe< wide. Then comes the inner which & rectangle also. This inner runs i depth from a point forty-two inch* above the bottom of the target to tl lower line of the centre. The entii target forms a rectangle six feet hig and four feet wide. I 7^ H * s / % ? 9 / / I LW M 500 AND 600 YARDS TARGET, SHOWI ||| FANTRY ||? There is no bull's eye?Creedmo* fashion?shooting in this sort of targ practice. The soldier is taught to ai ?F? at the head and heart of the figur The nearer he comes to these mark nfl the hight r is his score. A little car g|l ful study of the facts given in the for I going paragraph will show what a tr mendous weapon this concentrated o curacy will be in the hands of Unit* States soldiers. It has long been recognized fart that the great troub in throwing masses of men into a co flict with one another was that tl fighting was not conducted intelliger ly by the private soldier; that he fir< recklessly with the apparent idea th it did not make much difference what direction the bullet went so loi as the cartridge left his gun. Xc when the United States soldier go ?to battle there will be just two poin Bhis enemy that he will have in rain Hd those will be his head and heai The other targets used in praeti Will be the raidrange target intendi for practice at from four to six hu dred yards; the eight hundred yan fr?r nf frnni*SAv? I hundred yards; the eight hundr< yards target, for distances of fro seven hundred to eight hundred yard Jhe thousand yards target for the rani ^ ] the name would indicate. The same * | principle described in the short range ] target governs all others, but, of L- ' course, there is ft difference m the figure and n corresponding change in the size of the target. For instance, the le midrauge target in a square, six feet [it j on a side, which is still rectangular. IIS | The figure on this is the silhouette of u. I a soldier in kneeling position. The eight hundred yards target as it le k /, IS 2' 7"- *- / 'J"-* * e- I I Z* . jMB ie ' * ?h?? 13 VO H ^ BlH J? ONE THOUSANI gn is called, that being the limit of dis^ tance from the marksmen at which the 3g | target can be placed, is six feet high 3ft I and twelve feet wide. On this target ar Us the silhouette of a soldier standing, j On the target with the thousand yard ! range is the figure of a mounted soldier, er ' but the legs of the horse are cut off at ^ [ a height of two feet from the ground, j .Tust why tliis# has been done no one | seems to really know, and it is consid)r | ered that here, if any, is the only inconsistent point in the whole scheme g ! There is still another target which jq I is'known as target A; that is th*short s range target. There is this difference, | 8 M I s? I ,i r. jtj bbBB ^ ?S?b? ?lra& a nu n TARGET "A"?SHORT RANGE. Df that the figure thereon is that of a d soldier in the position of firing while r- standing. A horizontal line is drawn ft across the target at the middle point ie of the figure. Every time a soldier's i-1 bullet hits directly above this line? :o I that is, the line across the middle? a ! or if his bullet strikes some point of j the target at an angle and is deflected ie ' so that it strikes the target above the ie j line, he scores 5. All bullets that hit t. | the figure below the line entitle the ie marksman to the score of 4. If the t- 8 v.iuer nits tue target anove tne line a, b it not the figure, the score is three; it if below the line. 2. is Heretofore it has been the custom in in many cases to allow the soldier to js use in target practice various aids, te | such as shades for the sight, spirit *e levels to enable an accurate aim, and ;h ! all that sort of thing. Under the new j regulations the men who wear the army RIKHH2QH / > i NG EFFECT OF 180 SHOTS FIRED BY INAT 500 YAItDS. sr | blue will have no aids beyond those et which nature has given them, except m that they may be allowed to blacken e. the sight of the gun, which always s, j happens in battle, anyway, because of e-1 the powder smoke. There will be no e-1 firing from sheds or shelters of any e- I kiud. Everything must be done in ,c-1 the open. From this it may be seen 2d that the new regulations, if they are a lived up to in the spirit as well as the ile letter, will accustom the men to accur11-! ate marksmanship under all conditie ! tions and without artificial aid. it- j It is more than doubtful if fifty per ?d I cent, of the crack marksmen of the at j United States army to-day could go in ] into action and fire with half the skill lg i or accuracy they can at a target which >w they have been accustomed to pepper es under he old conditions. Under this ts new method, however, with their sole d, thought being to strike the head or t. the heart of the humanity at which ce they fire, they will not be locking for ad a black ringed bull's-eye, but will aim n-1 at exactly what men who seek to ac il . i _ . i.i_ ai. _ us compusii me ueaxu vi lueir euemie? m should have as their target, ed Another good feature of the new dem parture is that the troops in every is; branch of the service will use in ge small arm practice?that is, practice A . I with anything less than artillery?the weapon with which they are armed, instead of selecting the very best weapon that can be found for the teams picked out for practice. Officers and enlisted men of the staff corps will use the rifle as will infantry men and artillerymen. Cavalrymen will practice with the carbine. During the target season, the regular practice will be held until the prescribed course is '* *- /'J -* 2'7-- + H U ? aJUBk JHHA ) YARDS RANGE. completed, at least three times a week by each troop, battery and company, and at least once a week by each regimental non-commissioned staff and members of regimental bands. Hereafter there will be no picked teams of men who have shown special ability as marksmen selected from the ranks to demonstrate what they can accomplish, but every enlisted man who wears the uniform of Uncle Sam will have to learn to shoot and shoot well. Each will be taught that the head and heart of the enemy are the vulnerable points. They will shoot to kill and not to maim. Harder Than a Diamond. The new substance, harder than the diamond, invented by the French savant, Moissan, is said to be a compound j of carbon with the metal titanium. It is inougnt mai 11 may oe usea in cutting diamonds, and may revolutionize many industries where abrasives are employed. The inventor hopes to obtain the prize of 810,000 offered by the French Academy for a substance to take the place of diamonds in drills. These diamonds have been of the black and brown variety, not gems, and have been known as "bort." The largest piece every discovered was found in Brazil two years ago and weighed 3073 carats. The lump was worth $120,000. About 50,000 carats have been exported from Bahia each year. It una uccn uacu aiuuuu tuc ui iuo large circular saws for cutting huge slabs of stone. The new compound will be cheap, and, as it is harder than the diamond, can do better work. . . It may be employed as a substitute for jewels in watches and for glass cutting. In its physical properties titanium is like iron, though it is only about half as heavy. Chemically, it resembles tin. Eutile is an oxide of titanium and is used to color artificial teeth. The metal has no other use. It is found in Pennsylvania and is worth $4 per pound. There is no titanium on the market in a metallic state. It is a common impurity in iron ores and renders them refractory. Millions of tons in New York and Virginia are made worthless by the presence of five nr ?iv nor ti+nninm Afr Moissan manufactured small diamonds in the same furnace in which he first produced carbide of titanium. Jupnnese Shipping. Japan does not seem to profit by shipping bounties. The law for the encouragement of navigation, was to have revolutionized the commerce of the world, anil to have made Japanese ships supreme in the Eastern, as well as in the Western seas. The Nippon i Yusen Kaisha, which now possesses sixty-five steamers of 135,600 tons, and has twelve new vessels under construction, is said to have lost 100,000 yen, on every voyage hitherto made to Europe and America, and is said further to have decided to stop running to these countries unless it receives a special grant of 3,390,000 yen to enable it to kill opposition. The Value of Electrical Plants. Few persons realize the enormoiK amount of money which is invested in electrical plants of various sorts. Over 100,000,000 of dollars are invested in electrical machinery used in mining. Electric elevators employ about fifteen millions more. Electric railways represent about one billion dollars. This does not include the money now being used in the manufacture of electrical machinery. r'hinknn IViffi Vaiip To era The first prize for a freak in fowl flesh for the season of 1897 belongs to Daniel Lemmon, of Columbus, Ohio. For the past two months he has been carefully raising a chicken which is a curiosity, to say the least. It has four regularly formed and perfectly developed legs. One pair of legs is in the proper place?that is, where all chickens with perfect anatomies have them. The other two legs are just back of these. For about a month after it was hatched Mr. Lemmon's queer fowl had complete control of all four of its legs and moved about like a quadruped. Uradually, nowever, tne two hind legs began to stop growing and for some time have not grown at all. They now hang useless from the body. This freak is also the possessor of a double backbone and two craws or crops. The chicken stands FOCR-LEGOED CHICKEN. four inches high and measures five inches from beak to tail. It does not appear to suffer any inconvenience on account of its marvelous formation, / I BICYCLIST WITHOUT LEGS. i lie Leglea* lion 01 a ?vansa? minigitir ( Hides a Wheel. r Bicyclists -witli but one leg are be* 60i coming quite common, but a no-legged , bicyclist is indeed a novelty. Such a one is James Jump, the son of the jgfr Rev. Albert Jump, of Independence, " Kan. Twelve years ago the boy lost both of his legs in a railway accident. ?n< One of his legs was cut off close to the thigh and the other only a little lower "y clown. On the stump of the latter he c?'. was able to fasten an artificial leg. Re- 8"1 jently Mr. Jump became seized with a [lesire to ride a bicycle. He had wit- ma aessed venturesome feats of one-legged Wc syclists, but he was in doubt about the bri ibility of a boy with no legs at all to iui 3peak of to sit half astride a wheel and lea make it go. He bought a wheel, how- j aver, and set about learning to ride, in Leading his rubber-tired steed to the sis jurbstone, he balanced himself on hia crutches and, with a side motion made ne; olc bCl ftU th; IL*RIDES -WITHOUT LEGS. ' t?0 yei >asy by the absence of his leg, slipped J?*3 into the saddle. Fastening hio crutch j ?* in a spring catch on the side where his ; Y egs ought to be and putting his arti- ^ * Eicial foot on the pedal, he was off. j He soon mastered the art of balancing J ind can now ride al; almost any com- A*"5 non speed he desires and can ascend 0I^ tnd descend any orclinary-sized hill. i Vi< l Spi SMALLEST HUMAN ATOM. a fl cer tVeiglied But Twenty Ounces and "Wag fcbe Only a Foot High. Qk The smallest human being that ever J axisted is believed to have been a lit- of j tie girl named Catherine Elliott. The anc Coroner of Liverpool, England, was At! called upon to hold an inquest on her thr .iiminutive body. This human atom son was born in Glasgow, Scotland, about the three weeks ago. Her parents were cen poor, and were easily induced by man- chil ?? I S" ^ l-L _ / 'ix'pzy / 2$' SMALLEST BABY IN THE WORLD. jma sen agers to place their daughter on exhi- che bition as a freak. She was being ex- us. hibited in Liverpool, the parents re- ma! ceiving ?3 10*. for showing and at- tor; tending her. The child weighed only awi twenty ounces at the time of her death 1 po\ and was just a foot high. The palm of doe her hand was not as large as a silver | bui twenty-five-cent piece. Her feet were mo no larger than an ordinary man's eve thumb. The parents disclaimed any j dec desire to limit t;he growth of the mid- i ent get. The little one had been guarded [ wai from cold, was well-nurtured and had j I never had a day's illness until the day the it died. The jury returned a verdict trai that the child died from natural causes, sufl ing Strange Sit for a Temple. his One of the most strangely situated 0? ^ buildings in the world is a Hindoo pos temple. It is built upon a huge rock jjec ? < <ra ides and rivf ? . mol gra wA can teel JpS\ Cy> >. revi [ 'f'' ^ 1 '** aD^ mi *^ **?'ma 111' (i. /*#> ^'iiiMii.'-M'M' ig> can Mtl'i 2in( THE TEMP1/E ON THE BOCK. Cam Ice ta Unlnr*/! ftil tTAVff ninnlyr 11 nnn o fl.T*T*P tun Li 10 v ci j uuoij u^/uu u ?- - seemingly insecure base. The great mechanical difficulty of getting the diat building materials to the top of this Tea rock must have been vastly increased jn.ri by the peril of overbalancing the huge thei mass and bringing it crashing down the upon the plain like an avalancbe. for There is another temple in Burmah juic similarly situated. liqu lem A Wonderful Work. The new railroad bridge over the ^ Danube River, which has just been s0^e completed, is the largest in the world, to * and one of the most important, and en^ the Roumanian Government is enjoying its possession wi;h a well earned erft* sentiment of complacent pride. The c^ie new bridge is 13,325 feet long without P^u approaches, which would make some *en hundreds of feet additional. The ^01 largest vessels that siail the Danube |3 \ can pass under it at the highest tide, m.* as the lower rafters of the superstructure are 105 feet atove high water mark. Some idea of the length of this bridge may be gained by comparison with the other great bridges evei of the world. The Tay Bridge, Scot- soil. land, is 10,725 feet; the Mississippi con: Bridge at Memphis, J.0,600 feet; the ? w Forth Bridge, Scotland, 7800 feet; the in t! Morody Bridge in Galacia, 4800 feet, well and the bridge over the Volga near lias Sysran, 4700 feet. Tho Danube Bridge but has one span of 620 i'eet and four of 3ta< 455 feet ea& i f?d? CURIOUS FACTS. r Chicago has a bullet-proof dog. me nrsi .tngusn steei pens were ( (1 at thirty shillings each. Sena King, of Fairland, Mich,kicked i hog and missed it and broke his , against a post. V naval battle between the Romans 1 Carthagenians off the coast of ain in the first Punic War was lost the latter because the galley slaves ? lid not keep their seats when the \ ps rolled. t iao-Ke Alfred Sze, a young China- ? n, has just been graduated from the j t ishington High School. He is a t ght student and expects to take a 1 collegiate course at one of the ding colleges. i man on the Umatilla reservation, Oregon, searching for hogs, found human skulls and the rotten reins of a wagon with three-inch tires b ir Deadman Hill, not far from the ^ I immigrant road. It was at a point f, tween two canons. t A.n orchard of seventy-five treeB (j ich have been bearing for more than a ty years, on the farm of Henry i .vidson, near "Whitesville, Ind. has f the last five years yielded a better y ality of fruit and more of it than it [ I a score of years ago. it the annual meeting of the Har- ; d Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa I jiety, Colonel William Lamb, of 2 rginia, restored to the chapter its ,! ginal charter, which was lost in a ro, and had since been missing. my prominent men were present af f7' 5 meeting. p 3-eorge B. Oswald ha3 been clerk of n i Circuit Court for Washington ? unty, Maryland, for twenty-four a irs, and has never been absent from * i ofiice except en duty, and never ^ # longer than a day until recently, j en he was in Baltimore for four a ps as a witness in the Federal art. ; [t is commonly believed that the P it factory for making friction matches* * a large scale was established at snna in 1833, but, according to the r ringfield Republican, there was such 1 ictory at least as early as that in the * itre of the Connecticut Valley, in tl historic community known as ? icopee Street. ~ Lt the fiftieth wedding anniversary is Molcmn fttrnrrrrorf pinrVifrv vpnra nlrl 3 k' v.?-v J , I his wife, sixty-six years old, at [J lena, Oregon, there were present a ee married daughters, five married tl 9, and a dozen grandchildren. At end of the reunion all went to the [J letery, where four of the old couple's i? Idren are buried. B n Russia a necessary formality for Jj' happiness of a newly married t< pie is that their parents should be B ; from head to foot. In summer y are ducked in the nearest river or a id, and .in winter they are usually si ed in the snow. At the village of T lertsky in Upha recently, the wedg guests being drunk, as is custom- w , poured buckets of water over the w le's father with the thermometer at ^ degrees below Zero, whereof he i? J. 3( (> The Power of Imagination. 31 inagination is nearly always spoken j* by the unthinking a3 a misty and 3( mportant something, or is regarded l reprehensible. "Don't let your igination run away with you" is a " tence which has chilled, if not q eked, the enthusiasm of most of But imagination is really the 3ter-builder of one's most satisfac- jjj y life-structure; and when it "runs i( ly with" one, becomes the most v verful dynamic in the world. What w !S imagination mean? Imaging; ^ Iding a thought-pattern, a mental tl del, an ideal.. "Nothing great was bi r achieved without enthusiasm," H lares Emerson. Imagination is m husiasm's vital principle, its in- tl :d life, its kindling lire. magination "ran away with" Peter a] Hermit, and across a continent Ui mped, with great loss and terrible L fering, thousands of people follow?? ?11 < ^trt or?/1 A nnlrnarrn I au AiuboiaDo auu uiuuo^ w a who had magnetized himself and m followers by the thought-pattern m ;he Christ tomb free from Moslem *' session. Carthage fell and Borne b< ame supreme because imagination ui ,n away with" Cato in picturing the truction of the African metr<jpolis, V( 1 kept his zeal at white heat till the x\ il of the Eternal City was delished. We have the electric teleph and the submarine cable be- t'b s > imagination took the bits in her To th and gave Samuel Morse and w "U3 Field no rest till the world- q olutionizing messages were clicked c< l flashed out in intelligible language, tli ride, and light our homes, and uf k our food by electricity because cf gination got on so unstoppable a fo ter-with Edison.?Demorest's Maga- fb 3. ~ Uf '* V( th Causes of Indigestion. Qj ndigestion is superinduced quite 01 n by the very bad habit Aineri- 3,! 9 have of drinking as they eat. ^ drinks, so common in summer, ai ,?st digestion till the liquid becomes in ted to the proper temperature, and ^ ,urb the flow of the gastric juices, [j and coffee, thought to be so inous to a weak digestion, lose half ir torors when they are taken after D meal is over. The natural liquid the dissolving of food is the gastric e, but it is given no chance when th ids liko iced tea, hot coffee or p( onade are swallowed by the quart. f ? A Sanitary Mausoleum. jF' ew York is to have a sanitary mau- be urn with a capacity for from 10,000 at 2,000 bodies. It is proposed to ^ I- a - i i l ve jiuo iue ueiiu 111 ueiuciit rcuc^iiiuica. ^ s bodies are to be exposed for sevmonths to a current of air made mically dry by passing it over sulric acid, the air to be purified af- th vard by fire. When the body is T1 roughly desiccated the receptacle lai o be made airtight and deposited pn lie mausoleum, the interior of which dl; resemble a great library. inj tw ini Mexicans Must Serve In War. co [exico has adopted the theory that :y citizen is bound to defend the , the interests and the honor of his ( ntry as a soldier. Thus in future 62 salthy Mexican will have to serve tl0 be army, at least in case of war, as [ as a poor one. The Constitution du to be amended for this purpose, pri there is little doubt that all the at ;es of the great Central American ^ jra^Qn will give their consent. thj i M??? [HE SABBATH SCHOOL NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 8. wesson Text: "Working and Waiting for ChriBt," I Thess. Iv., 9-18; v., 1-3? i?oiuen rext: tionn xlv., 3 ? Commentary by Kev. Dr. D. M. Stearns. 9. "But as touching brotherly lovo, ye leed not that I write unto you, for ye yourelves are taught of God to love one another." ?he epistle is addressed to the church of he Thessalonians in God the Father and he Lord Jesus Christ, those who, having ieard the gospel, received the word and urned from their idols unto God, to servo he living and tme God and to wait for His Son from heaven, even Jesus who delivered hem from the wrath to come (chapter i., 1, >, 6, 9, 10). Ho exhorts them to walk vorthy of God, who has called them to His cingdom and glory, and to seek in all hings to please God and not man (chapter i., 5; iv., 1). 10. "And indeed ye do it toward all the irethen which are in all Macedonia.. But re beseech you, brethren, that ye increase aore and more." There is always room or increase in love and in all the fruit of he Spirit, for we can never manifest the ruit as fully as Christ did, and yet He is ur only example. He is ever seeking much lore fruit, for no branch is bearing all that t might. 11. "And that ye study to be quiet, and o do your own business, and to work with our own hands as we commanded you." n a later epistle he said that if any would ot work neither should they eat (II Thess. ii., 10). The word here translated "study" philotimeomai) is used only three times, 'he other two places are Rom. xv., 20; II lor. v., 9. The late Dr. A. J. Gordon loved 0 call attention to the truth that the word ignifles "to be ambitious," or to us one's tmost endeavor to accomplish a thing,and hat in these three passages we have a law-' jl threefold ambition for every believer? lz., to mind- one's own business, be well leasing to God, and preach the gospel rhere Christ has not vet been named. 12. "That ye may walk honestly torard them that are without, and that ye lay have lack of nothing." We are to proide things honest in the sight of all men Rom. xil., 17), but we should take special ains to be in every sense upright before nbelievers. They will not read the Bible, ut they will and do read people, and they ught to be able to read something of the iible in the life of every Christian. One as said that a Christian ougljt to be a large rint, clear type Bible that any one can ead easily. Such upright people cannot ick any good (Ps. lxxxiv., 11). 18. "But I would not have youtobeignoant, brethren, concerning them which are sleep, .that ye sorrow not even as othersrhlch have no hope." While teaching them ow to live on the earth as Christians tie fact was ever before them that some rere passing away. Death was doing his ruel work. And what about those who ie in the Lord? While Rev. xiv., 13, has pecial reference to those who In the days f the manifestation of satan's greatest ower will rather die than deny Christ, yet : is always true, "Blessed are the dead who le in the Lord." There is the gain, and lie very far better (Phil, i., 21, 23). 14. "For if we believe that Jesus died and ose again, even so them also which sleep 1 Jesus will God bring with Him." Toilie i gain, and to be with Christ is far better. ;ut that is not the whole of it, for after the ssurrection of the righteous all the saints re coming back with Him when he comes 3 Judge the Nations,save Israel and begin [is reign on earth. 15. "For this we say unto you by the 'ord of the Lord that wo which are alive nd remain unto the coming of the Lord hall not prevent them which are asleep." he R. V. says in the last clause of this erse, "Shall in nowise precede them that re fallen asleep." Rotherham says that e shall "in nowise get before" them hich are fallen asleep. It would seem that le Christians thought that their friends ho had died had lost somewhat by not beig allowed to remain until the Lord should jme, but the assertion here is very emhatic that those who are alive on the irth when Christ shall come shall have d advantage over those who have died in hrist, and who have been some time abmt from the body and present with the ord. 16. "For the Lord Himself shall descend om heaven with a shout, with the voice t the archangel and with the trump of nd and the dead in Christ shall rise first." s at tlie flrst coming of Christ, in humlliaon, to suffer and die and rise from the aad, there were many events covering any years, at least thirty-three, so at His icond coming to reign there will be many rents covering many years. The coming ith Him of verse i4 and chapter iii., 13, id Rev. xix., 11-16, Is the last stage of His icond coming and must be preceded by le events of verses 16, 17. He cannot ring us with Him until He gets us all with im. 17. "Then we which are alive and re,ain shall be caught up together with lem in the clouds to meet the Lord in tbe Ir, and so shall we ever be with the Lord." like to fancy this as actually occurring, id often say to my congregations, "Let } now imagine it taking place." The ord Hifiiself, not an angel, nor the Holy pirlt, but this same Jesus (Acts 1., 11), iall leave the right hand of the Father id descend to the air. Like a mighty agnet He will attract to Himself all the embers of His body. The dead in Christ mil rise. They who have been with Him jsent from the body shall reinhabit their idies risen from the grave and made like ato His glorious body. 18. "Wherefore comfort one another with >ao.? mwla " T fhinlr f-h*>rA ia nr* rtfhnr ?rse just like this in the Bible. In Isa. 1, 2, the prophet is told to comfort jrusnlem and Israel, and it is in connecon with the coming of the Lord. II Cor. , 3, 4, the God of all comfort comforts us lat we may cogijort gthqrs with our comrt, whatever it is. Bui here are the very ords with which we are to comfort those ho are bereaved. We are not to say, like avid, I shall go to them, but they cannot >me to me. On the contrary, we are to link of the possibility of their bein with i in their resurrection bodies any moent, and we instantly changed and lught away with them to meet and be rever with the Lord (v., 1, 2). "But of te times and the seasons, brethren, ye ive no need that I write unto you, for >urselvos know perfectly that the day of te Lord so cometh as a thief in the I ght." He now passes to another topic, rather another phase of our Lord's cond coming. We do not know of any rent that must necessarily intervene bereen the present moment and the taking vay of the church. But before the comg of Christ with His saints there must set fxlltr fliu o nnjHat' anH I U1 um Ili.l, anifested the man of sin referred to in Thess. 11., 1-4.? Lesson Heln?r. HEMATITE ORE IN ALABAMA. lacovery of ? Vein 100 Miles Long and Inexhaustible. There has been discovered on lands of o Sloss Iron and Steel company near ;eds, Ala., twenty miles from Birmingim, a solid vein of brown hematite pre, rty feet deep and ten to twelve feet thick, le vein has been tapped in various places r a distance of twenty miles, and found to regular and free from impurities. Its lalysis has in some instances shown sixtyre percent, of Iron. Exports believe the in to be a hundred miles long and inoxtustible in quantity. rne presence 01 ore w?? nuutvu ucwio, it heretofore it was thought to bo only In lall and unprofitable pockets. The only ofltable brown ore mines were held to be ose near Russellville, Franklin County. 1 e newly discovered deposit runs into the ads of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Comny. A. conservative authority holds that its jcoverv will cheapen the cost of iron mak5 in tho Birmingham district by at least enty-flve cents a ton, tho brown ore be; much more cheaply worked than the rnrnoQ Alabama red ores high in silicon. VvUiUlt nt Pftrlfl. Congress has made an appropriation of 5,000 for an exhibit at the Paris Internamal Exposition in 1900. The bill provides ran appointment of a Commissioner-Genii to the Paris Exposition, whose present ties shall be to prepare a plan for the aper representation, of the Government the exposition. The Governors of the rlous States and Territories ore requested invite their people to assist In making s.e^iyt. : v?3g -4 ? i a IN 7JJE QUIET HOURS. TRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THfi WORLD'S CREATEST AUTHORS, l^ease Complaining?No Journey Withouj Obstacles ? Prayer for Im-reHse of FaitE ? Live More Simply?Joy Tempered bj Jeaun' Spirit-God SpeakH Geutly. Mortal, cease thy sad complaining, That the years of life are waning, Few and fewer still remaining, Whether losing wealth or gaining, 'Mid the flowing of life's river, Thank the great and glorious Giver, That one blessing leaves us never? Love is ours, and ours forever! Though the tenderest ties be broken, Though the last farewell be spoken, Still we Know by many a token, ' igSfl When our hearts are worn and weary, And the world looks dark and dreary, There's a being grander, clearer, Thflr*?'o n frion/luKIn cnroofor Haorni* Each swift moment brings them nearer. ?Charles E. Lindsley, D. D., in N. Y. Observer. No Journey Without Obstacles. Thereto not a single person who reads these lines who has not had some bitter cups pressed to their lips. No journey to the heavenly Canaan Is trodden without some Maraha on the road. The power and the glory of Christ's grace is in sweetening the draught. I have often sat down beside a child of God who had in her hand a bitter cup of trial, but the sweet breath of Jesua ha3 turned the bitterness into such a blessing that she tastes the love of Jesus in every drop. Grand old Richard Baxter, after a life of constant suffering, exclaimed, "0 my God. I thank Thee for a bodily discipline of eight and fifty years!" That noble and consecrated layman. Harlan Page of New York, during his last illness uttered these triumphant words: "A bed of pain is a precious place when we have the presence of Christ. God does not send one unnecessary affliction. Lord, I thank Thee for suffering. I deserve it; let me not complain or dictate. I commit myself to Thee, u otiviour, una to xny innaiie love: i stop my mouth and lie lowbeside Thee." So did victorious grace build up that blood-redeemed soul faster than disease was pulling down the frail tenement in which it dwelt. And through the rents which coming death was making, heaven's glory shone in with a rapturous radiance. These were splendid testimonies. I earnestly hope that In many chambers of sickness or houses of sorrow, they may be like the bough from that tree which Moses plucked and cast into Marah, making the waters of bitterness sweet to thirsty drinkers. God knows best.?Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. Prayer for increase of Faith, Lord, increase our faith and make ii the supreme fact in our life; raise us above all doubt and fear and cause us so to trust in thee through him who is the Living One and the Giver of Life as to be independent of all that is without. Root us and ground us in thy love; may thy word dwell in us richly, an answer to every temptation, a solace to every sorrow, an inspiration to every good deed .and work, we live by sight too much; we" are victims of our own senses, and we are led away by our own foolish sagacity. 0 that we might live henceforth in Christ only, abiding in him as the branches in the vino?then should we bring forth much fruit and our father would be glorifled.Give us such views of life as Jesua takes from his cross and from his throne; ..a ?11 ~ 1 I ? ~~ t ottvo us iiuui an iuo lauaujr ui appcaiauuc^ and deliver us from the deceit of our own senses. Take down the veil which separates our soul from the inmost and essentia) beauty, and may we see things as they are, and rest patiently in the Lord. Our prayer Is in the name of him who is himself the pledge that all good things shall be freely given unto us. Amen. Live More Simply. , "A simpler mode of life is the crying need of the preseht day. Men and women are wearing themselves out with elaborate and unnecessary formalities and are the slaves of foolish customs from which they get no real enjoyment." We hear talk like this on all sides, but of what use is the talk . 1 : unless it is followed by action? We are all agreed that we ought to live more simply, but we are all afraid to make any change ourselves. We do this and have that, not because we wish but because other people expect it of us, until it seems as though we were ordering our households wholly in accordance with the views of others, and very likely of those who really care noth- >.j. ing for us. Why not have the courage of our convictions and live in the way which will yield the best results? Is it simply because we are afraid of being thought peculiar, or do we, after all, really love the cords that bind us? It is always difficult to know how far we may break away from . , . escaonsnea customs wuuoue injuring our Influence, but, until we are ready to make some change, it is hardly worth while to talk. . Joy Tempered by Jesus' Spirit. Sunshine has its uses in making our re? ligion what it should be?a thing of brightness. There is danger of making ft too cold and gloomy. God did not intend it to be thus. It is a difficult matter, at any rate, to iuduce men to accept religion; and if they are left under their impression that, when they unite with the church, they are going into the sunless and gloomy region ol' an arctic land, it will make it all the mote difficult to induce them to choose the better part. Let joy, brightness, geniality, tempered by the spirit of Jesus, characterize our religion; and these persons will lay hold of it with earnestness. Let us make use of sunshine everywhere. Do carea come, let us go at them with sunshiny hearts; they will soon melt away under its power. If afflictions come, nothing will so brighten the sick-bed as sunshine. Is the home darkened by the shadow of death, sunshine will lighten it, And show us the golden stairway up which our departed have gone. Sunshine, sunshine everywhere?in the world, in the home, In the church. There is joy and brightness in heaven; why should it be wanting here"/? Christian Register. God Speaks Gently. We are always inspired but we incessantlj stifle the inspiration. God does not cease to speak, but the noise of the creature? without and of our passions within confuses us and prevents our hearing. We must silence every creature, including self, that in the deep stillness of the soul we may perceive the ineffable voice of the Bridegroom. We must lend an attentive ear, foi His voice is soft and still and is only heard of those who hear nothing else. Ah! how rare it is to And a soul still enough to hear God speak!?Feneion. Nature's Perfect Harmony. We see God in nature, and our heart drinks peace from sky and land. An ineffable beauty seems spread over the scene; and we wist not what to say for language cannot utter it. There are days which are like a concert ar oratorio, when earth, air, trees, sunshine, blue sky, grass, are all in the same happy mood, all iu tune together, no discord to jar the full harmony.? James Freeman Clarke. As thou hast made thy world without, Make thou more fair my world within; Shine through its lingering clouds of doubt, Rebuke its haunting shapes of sin; Fill, brief or long, my granted span Of lif<- with love to thee and man; Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest; But let my last days be my best! ?J. G. Whittier. _ An Historic Spot. Frenchmen in Mexico have started a movement to raise funds for the erection of a handsome monument to mark the spot where Emperor Maximilian was shot. The execution took place on a hill overlooking Queretaro, and the spot is now marked only by a pile of rough stones. British South African Preparations. The British Military Commission has purchased fourteen hundred horses in Argentina for the use of the British troops in Cape Town, South Africa. Height limit of Buildings. The height limit for Boston buildings If 125 feet?cornloe projection. Uiiqq feeL. ?