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As one walks in Yokohama and Tokio
through a multitude of narrow
streets lined with tiny buildings,
writes a correspondent of the San
Francisco Chronicle, the foreign and
characteristic air lent to the scenes I
presented comes from the fact that in j
eacn separate nine opeu suui> sumc
single workman, like a bee in his cell,
in a way so different from our Western
method, is busily plying his trade.
When I had dissembled my wonder
at seeing the dressmaker holding one
end of his seam with his toes; had returned
the polite bow of a young
cooper who was skillfully utilizing the
same members in his binding of tubs
with vegetable withes instead of
metallic hoops, and had watched with
admiration the wondrous way in which
a basket-maker was helped out by his
ingenious combination of ambi and
pedal dexterity, I suddenly felt a new
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wisn. jl Tvameu to see iiieac 4uici
and clever working people at home in
their houses as they actually live.
Then it was explained that all the
little shells of open shops lining the
narrow streets and roadways were
likewise the veritable habitations of
the humanity about me. I soon saw
that this was true, and was ever
thereafter fascinated by the endless
glimpses of interiors and studies of the
home life of the common people.
There may be one room or two in
the small domicile; commonly a second
room exists behind the first. A very
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BLLlUli SCpal UlC iXitUAiCiA aiaj v*.
not be a part of the establishment.
The culinary operations are so simple
in character and the utensils so
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limited that but few feet of space at
best are needed to contain them.
/ The partitions being in the form of
/ sliding panels, all may be thrown into
$ the shop during the day or otherwise,
1 as elected. So in this country the
worker is sun at nome to a great extent
while he plies his trade, and
factory, stock of goods and shop, as
wftll as dwelling place, are all under
one roof and appertain to one man.
Down at the hatoba, or dock, in Yokohama
gangs of Japanese coolies load
and unload the steamers in a leisurely,
semi-desultory, casual and happy manner
all their own. Not a bag or bale
could they lift without their accompanying
song of:
Yoi-toe cor-ah sal-ya,
Yoi-toe cor-ah sai-ya.
For just when the heavy emphasis
comes two men sling the weight on to
the shoulders of a third, who trots oft'
with it, aud the next two wait for the
chorus to come around again to the
right syllable before they proceed as
before. It is jolly, musical and quaint
in the extreme." If the back of the
overseer is turned for a moment all the
industrious laborers will sink on their
heels and light their pipes, which look
like a penholder with an infinitesimal
thimble bowl at the end.
At the other side of town are the
great tea-firing go-downs, redolent,
blocks away, of the subtile herb. Inside,
in rows, are the big firing cauldrons,
with charcoal fires beneath, and
filling the place all up and down are j
the lines of women with towels wrapped |
about their heads, swaying, bending, I
sometimes rhythmically, sometimes [
spasmodically, stirring vigorously with :
hands and arms among the hot tea j
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KICE SHELLING.
leaves. Scattered here and there among |
them is a mau or boy. Presently a
song starts up, and litfully pulsating I
throughout the great building it echoes
in a sort of primitive or elemental wild
harmony from all the jerking figures, j
lightening and facilitating labor.
All workers, at whatever trade, are
given in the middle of forenoon, and
afternoon,as at noon, an interval for !
resting and eating, and many babies i
on the backs of .small brothers and sis- i
ters wait about the tea-firing places |
that at the regular hour, they, too. may
i partake of refreshment.
/ This iutenal of rest is so elastic in
its application that there seems hardly :
an hour of the day when one group or
another of 'ricksha men by the road- j
si le, of boatiueu in the canal,of coolies |
in the go-down compounds or of crafts- j
men in the shops may not be seen 1
gathered, seated 011 their lieel^- about I
the little charcoal fireboxes, ^s.g i
ing People's ft
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their chopsticks in small lacquered
bowls and square wooden boxes of
cooked rice,and drinking tea from cups
like good-sized thimbles. Besides the
dressmaker and tailor, the cooper and
the basket-maker are other artisans
pursuing their avocations in quite as
queer ways. The carpenter hacks at
his boards with a sort of rough adze or
stands on them and saws them with
what looks like a notched butcher's
knife set in a long handle, or planes
them carefully toward him. The man
in the rice mill ignores belts and
wheels and machinery generally, and
jumps all day on the end of
a plank, a cog or weight in the other
end of which pounds away at the
grains. The lantern-maker and the
umbrella-maker sit patiently tying and
pasting their frail wares, the stock in
trade slowly piling up, day by day, behind
them. Lonely men, each in his
little booth, make the thick straw mats
or sections of flooring for the native
houses. Boys work deftly, tossing
shuttles back and forth that weave or
tie the bamboo window blinds.
I watched an actual boy with warts
on his hands, at work alone in an
open doorway, on a great square of
pale blue silk on which he was embroidering
without model or copy the
most exquisitely shaded pink roses.
Little girls sitting on the floor hemstitched
silk handkerchiefs and made
the fragilely beautiful drawn and embroidered
grass-linen work. A couple
of blue men, with hawk noses and
severe countenances, like American
red men orone a wroncr color, bobbins
about among their indigo vats, will be
the -whole visible works of a big dyeing
e fcablishment. In front of six
shops, young men with simple appliances,
working in the dust of the
roadway, jostled by 'ricksha men and
ball-throwing youngsters, reel off silk
into skeins or quickly twist it, in a
sort of wayside ropewalk, into variegated
silken cords.
Perhaps the most interesting of all
are the women in small, open rooms
who sit all day at primitive frames
throwing by hand the shuttles in aud
out mat weave me wen 01 sijk or coitou.
It is a pretty and poetical way
of achieving the fabric we are to wear.
I can but contrast the lives of these
quiet workers in their open doorways,
under the blue of heaven, their eyes
sometimes wandering away with pleasure
to the shifting street panorama
before them, with those of the thrice
wretched seamstresses, factory hands
and sweat-shop women in our own
cities. It is small misfortune to be
bare-limbed, perchance; to wear cheap
rnttnn to enl nnlv rice, in a land
wliere the fashion for all, even the
well-to-do, is not widely different. I
have seen the weary and old countenances
of little children and the hard
ones of young girls, thronging out of
our mills and manufactories, but these
better faces of the Japanese women at
their hand looms are less hopeless.
And I would that this callous, hurried
scrambling world had time to weave
its textiles all in the old way of those
early ages when so much sorrow was
not.
There seems nothing grim, oversevere
or crushing about Japanese;
labor. It is essentially sociable and
cheerful. Every third shop is a place
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i?i caiuuic?, ?ucic nut cci uuiutuc?*,
rice coated with delicate seaweed, hot
fish or shrimp fritters dipped in soy, ,
rolls of fish wrapped around bean and i
sugar paste, buckwheat macaroni with |
soy, tasty morsels broiled on skewers,
sugared beans and roasted nuts,
parched or popped rice kernels, rice
wafers and cakes browned over the
fire (and if still pale, painted to the
right tinge with brown tlyes), rice
paste or jelly, sweet millet paste candy,
popped rice candy, cups of shaved ice
and numerous other dainties and
sweetmeats, are ever at hand for the
delectation of the workers. But this
is not enough, and men with vans and
boxes of cooked food perambulate the
streets still more conveniently to refresh
the toiling masses. The meager
coppers so scantily earned jingle all
day right merrily into the pockets or
pouches of the caterers.
Babies are everywhere swarming
about, afoot and aback, with their
share of the good things going. Nobody
seems ever t?> startle and depress
them with "You mustn't do that,"
"Yon can't have this," "You mayn't
go there." Among the common people,
at least, there is no sequestering
of women: they, too, are everywhere,
cheek by jowl, helping and doing, apparently.
as freely as the men. If it
is only a wooden tub which they have
to scrub out, ^irls with bare feet and
arms, elaborately dressed hair and
oinl ii'lutn bin*.
Uim [t? Cli%> ?uuo <?tm n uuv nun
onus, are apt to bring it out on the
sidewalk ami scrub away gregariously
for the next half hour or more.
Unloading great stones from the
sampans in the canals, women work as
cheerfully, lustily and effectively as
the men. They share, seemingly on
equal terms, in the small shop keeping,
and help in all the labors of the
various avocations. I don't see ho1
one of these men can have any secrel
from his wife or escape her society o
the plea that business will detain hii
at the store. If business did, he woul
jyrohably find her there before him, t
much at home as in the kitchen c
I nnrsArv. which anartmeuts. in trail
seem to be pretty well done away witl
BKOOM PEDDLER.
and if she wasn't there in person, t
least all the other women on the bloc
would be in the near vicinity, able t
supervise his movements.
Living is reduced almost to its sin
plest elements here, where a singl
garment will do for a covering, an
that, if necessary, for years; where
few cents' worth of rice, pickled veg<
tables and dried fish make an appeti:
ing and satisfying meal, and where
single bare room for dining, for guesl
and for sleeping is practically all the
is required by even ambitious hous<
holders.
In Japan the poorest people are nc
without their comforts and conven
ences. Cooked foods, so cheaply pr<
pared in public kitchens, hate bee
I Tm 11.? *v\ *\* ? nr?/l av r?in
IllCLILIUIICU. liliiiiuicu uuu vsu.uc>x |?uj
vejors are in almost every block, wit
their goods in smallest packages if d<
sired, for the fractional copper cui
rency. The housekeeping is th
easiest, and at the same time the daii
tiest, in all the world. No dust an
dirt ever are brought in to tarnish th
fair white floors. The low-ceilinget
empty rooms and narrow verandas ar
readily brushed and washed each da^
The mats on which the poor man sleep
are as soft as those of the rich.
Bathhouses in the neighborhood
too, are frequent, where the tire
mother and all her fretful progenj
wearied by the heat and the hours c
work, at the close of the day enjo
their regular evening hot and col
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! WULCI ?J1ULL?C UUU 3|nuou,
The improvidence of these peopl
probably is in no danger of being es
aggerated in the telling. It is doubl
less quite true that the impoverishe
'ricksha puller or factory operate
pawns his bed daily to buy his breat
fast, and after earning enough to re
deem the futons before night,reckless
ly expends in riotous living in the ten
I sen eating houses the whole balanc
of his capital. He looks as if lie doe
all that he is accused of in the way c
ever patching his blue kimono instea
of buying a new one, in living in one
yen-a-month houses, and of handin
down to his descendants only the sam
pota and kettles, without a single ad
dition thereto, which he in his day in
herited from his parents. But that h
is to any extent unhappy, miserabl
and wretched over it I verv muc
doubt. I have watched him singiu
(and lingering) at his work, and goini
home at night in droves, still cheei
fully sociable, solaced with his tin
pipe aud fairly hilarious over th
least morsel and drop of rice. an<
cheap saki. I have gone with hir
to his matsuri, or festivals, and
know how often they recur an
how light-hearted they find him
I have stood with him to laug
at the fun-makers and dancers at th
frequent street celebrations and loca
fetes,and I don't believe there is muc!
rancor and bitterness to his poverty
Besides, his wages are going up
Guilds he has had always, and he i
learning about strikes. Dock laborer
get eighty cents a day now, when
formerly they received nearer to eighl
Considering their labor capacity am
the cheapness of their living,the forme
is not a bad wage. 'Ricksha charges
those for laundry work, and of vari
ous craftsmen (as all the dyers ii
Osaka, who have just procured them
selves a twenty-five-per-cent. raise)
the wages of house servants and th
salaries of policemen and other officials
PRINCESS HELENE OF ITALY, MO
V
When tlie Crown Princess Helen
I Jubilee festivities at London she was
of all the handsome women of the 1>1
I'is the daughter of the Prince of Mon
I in mint unions nrinninalitv. to which
regal cariage. Her husband, the Cri
personal appearance, being weak, sir
it that only her father's poverty led li
of Italy. Her out-of-door life has gii
and white Nature's own sweet and cu
combined with her very shy, modes
brought before the people, have mad<
tv all are slowly and steadily increasing,
;s and the explanation is that the wants
n of life are on the increase, meat is be11
ginning to be eaten, wool is coming to
d be liked for clothing, some simple luxis
uries are now understood and desired,
>r and so the time is to come when the
1, workingman of .Japan is to have rather
1: more of the conveniences and neoes
- sariesoflife to buy, and considerably
more money with which to purchase
them. At least that is considered the
trend of affairs at present.
German Carp is Unpopular.
If n fish dealer depended upon the
sale of German carp for a livelihood he
would starve in double-quick time.
That particular member of the fish
family is several hundred thousands of
miles away from the pinnacle of popularity,
and there is nothing these days
; to indicate that it is going to decrease
the distance. German carp are quoted,
wholesale price, ut a penny a pound.
"How in the world do you manage
to make anything out of them?" asked
the inquisitive buyer of the South
? Water street fish dealer the other day;
it "I don't see where it pays to handle
k them."
o "It really doesn't pay to handle
them, nor does the fisherman who
i- catches them make a fortune out of
e his business," said the fish dealer,
d "Just imagine what the fisherman
a makes when we are supposed to sell at
a profit at a penny a pound. He
5- wouldn't do right well even if he had
a a good business. German carp are far
;s from being entitled to recognition as
it fine fish. They are coarse in flesh,
)- and it is an impossible matter to refine
them. I handle them because there
>t are some people who buy them from
i- me. It is not that I sell them for a
reasonable profit, but merely as an acn
commodation."?Chicago Record,
r
h Detecting a Thief by Smell.
5- Abyssinia, the oldest monarchy in
- the world, had much the same governe
mcnt, lows and customs three thoui
sand years ago that it has now. One
d of the most curious of these i9 that of
e "thief-smelling."
1, When a robbery has been committed
e and is reported to the Leba3hi, who
answers to the Chief of Detectives in
?s New York, he compels one of his subordinates
to drink a decoction made
1, from a plant which throws him into a
d state of something like that produced
r, by hashish or opium-sinoking before
>f the stupor. While thus intoxicated
y the detective is supposed to have a
d supernatural power of smelling
thieves. The method of utilizing this
e power, described by the Abyssinian
> traveler, Dr. Krapp, consists of tying
t- a stout rope around the detective'3
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e ABYSSINIAN* THIEF-CATCHER AT WORK.
waist and allowing liim to crawl up
? i and down the village street, the free
^ end of the rope being held in the hand
y of the Lebasbi.
g Whenever the thief-smeller enters a
j house its master is at once convicted
n of the theft without further evidence,
j The person who has been robbed is
^ sent for and made to swear to the
1 value of the stolen property, and this
^ value must be paid at once by the
e owner of the house to which the scent
has led the able detective.
li
Hundred Dollars Apiece For Wnlnat Treel
James A. Anderson made the largest
s purchase of walnut timber last Wednesg
day ever made in this section of the
e State. He bought of J. C. Hamilton,
on Flat Creek, 100 choice trees out of
i about 175 trees on his farm for SHOO.
r This timber will be exported to E l
i rope.?uwingsviue jjemuwui.
i.
i "Do you think you can accustom
i- yourself to Klondike cooking?"
, "Why not? My wife took the first
e prize at Vassar for her paper-weight
i, biscuits."?Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN OF EUROPE.
iiir
! )?R
ie visited the English court during the
i accorded the palm as the peerless beauty
ood royal present at the functions. She
tenegro, and was reared in her father's
she owes her exquisite complexion and
)\vn Prince of Italy, is her opposite in
lall and bilious-looking, and rumor has
ier to accept the hand of the future ruler
ren her a "beauty truly blent whape risd
nr>mn> 1^nn/1 lnt/1 ATI " on/1 fKoaa Wiormfl
11U11U laivi Wll, vuuiiu.;,
t and even diffident ways wheij elie is
3 lier vastly copular in ItaLz*.
V
' GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN
I PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM TH
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS.
; To ISonr Tlioe Kvcr in Itn Sight.? Cnmino
| HIcksIiij;* Are Great Iteminilera See
for tin- Itijjlit Thing*-- I'raycr for Sti
bility Worlil an Inn-Full of I.lfe.
H nv every tempting form of fcin.
Shamed in thy presence, disappears
And all the glowiug, rujjtnr?*?l soul
The likeness it contentplates wears!
0, ever conscious to my heart,
Witness to its supreme desire,
Behold, it presseth on to thee,
For it hath caught the heavenly fire!
This one petition would it urgeTo
bear thee ever-in its sight;
In life, in death, in worlds unknown,
Its only portion and delight!
?Doddridge.
Common flipping** Keuilnd U* of Goil.
Wo need to keep an opener eye and earto
earnestly set ourselves to do so?to vatc
the lights of higher meaning and hear th
tones of finer and diviner harmonies in lif
and feature. It is not hard to do. It dot
not mean any straining of the mind, thoug
it does mean earnest, quiet thought. Lif
is so full of things in which the tend*
mercifulness of God comes near us: i
which our little stroke of effort bring
blessing out of all proportion, telling of
larger Will than ours at work in thing:
What is your part in this wonderful, sleep
Have you caused this to be V What hav
you done towards this daily bread?thes
commonest mercies of our household life
The most that you have done has bee
some final touch to gracious secret fores
that have been working with a scope whici
when you think of it. seems inili ite. Thi
eye with all the wonderful machinery c
sight; this ear. with its marvelous sus
ceptibility to sound ; this mind and life t
which eye and ear are but avenues of tlif
thought which is the crowning mystery c
all; will you use these from clay to day witl
out any tender, grateful thought of tlir
deep, gracious life and meaning in th
world which causes them to be V Our wis
dom is to try that more and more of life
common uicssiugs may mus loucn us as r?
mindings of God. A thankful heart, whic
once begins to think this way, will feel thr
Divine mercifulness touching life with il
subtle visitations a score of times a day.Brooke
Herford, D. D., in "Sermons c
Courage and Cheer."
Seek for the Bright Things.
If wo would learn the lesson of joy w
must train ourselves to look more at th
blessings of life and less at its trials. Man
persons make a gloomy world of their ow
and stay in it. They build the walls of the:
soul houso out of the black stones of thei
troubles and sorrows. They put dar
colored panes in the windows, shutting ot
the light. They have no cheerful fire o
[ the hearth and no bright lamps shining i
the apartments. The only pictures ou thei
walls aro the pictures of their lost joy:
They never forgot their troubles, and ca
givi you long lists of their losses ami trial;
but they keep no record of their blessing
nor do they remember God's benefits. The
live in gloom in their dark house, simply b<
cause they will not let in God's gloriov
sunshine. They forget that their Fathe
ever made a flower, a star, a sunbeam, or
child's sweet face, or even did a kindly c
I cent lit thim? fnr them. Much uprsons DBVf
enn be rejoicing Christians until they re
verse this habit, learning to forget the ut
pleasant things, as the waters forget th
keel's rude cleaving when it is past, or ?
the fields in summer for?et the frosts (
winter when the flowers have come agait
There is enough of divine goodness in ih
darkest hours of the Christian life, if we bi
have eyes to see't, to keep our heart eve
i full of joy. The secret lies in training oui
selves to find th,: bright things, and to gt
from them the joy they are meant to give.J.
K. Miller, D. D.
A Prayer for Stability.
We n.re wayward and changeful, 0 Chris
out: feelings ebb nnd flow like the tid<
Sometimes we think we could die with the*
thin we are on the point of denying. Hel
us to dwell apart from the life of mei
emotion. Enable us to live in our wil
inspired and energized by thy spirit workin
in us to will and do of" thy good pleasuri
Take us as we present ourselves to th<i
soiled and dusty with the sin of the da;
Cleanse us from all unrighteousnesi
Let thy grace pervade our heart
as the scent of Mary's ointmei
lllleil the chamber. Calm our feverish hastf
hush our complaining murmurs. Smoot
out the lines which have gathered on ou
Mrmmpn fnp.es Wine mvav the traces c
our tears. Bend over us as mothers do ovc
children that are fretful because they ar
tired. Go over the day's work. Make* pei
feet :.ts imperfection. Undo its mistakes.ui
twin>; its tangles. Strike the true chord o
its broken notes. Make up to us what w
need, but fail to ask, since we plead for th
name's sake. Amen.
The World an Inn.
In the anecdote books of our boyhood use
to be told the story of an Indian fakir, wb
entered an Eastern palace and spread hi
bed in one of its antechambers, pretendin
he had mistuken the building for a caravar
sary or inn. I he prince, amused by tb
oddity of the circumstance ordered, so ra
the tale, the man to be brought before bin
and asked how he came to make sue
a mistake. "What is an inn?" th
fakir asked. "A place where travelei
rest n little before proceeding on tiiei
journey." was tlio .reply. "Who dwel
here before you?" a^aln asked the fakii
"My father." was the reply of the p rinc<
"And did he remain here?" "No, he die
and went away." "And who dwelt here bt
fore him V" "His ancestors." "And di
they remain hore then?" "No, they als
<1 i<iH nrwi mint nurav " "Thou " re'oinfii
the fakir, "I have made no mistake, fo
your palace is but au inn, after all." Th
fakir was right. Our homes are but inn;
and the whole world a <aravausary.
Nature Full of Life'.
The woods at first convey the impressio
of profound repose, and yet. if you wate
their ways with open ear. you find the lif
which is in them is restle.-s and nervous a
that of a woman, the little twin's are cross
in}; and twining and separating like slemln
lingers that cannot be still: the stray lev
is to be flattened into its place like a truai:
curl; the limbs sway ami twist, imj atiei
of their constrained attitude: and th
rounded ma ses of foliage swell upwar
and outside from time to time with loni
soft sighs, and. it may be, the failing of
few rain-drops which liad lain lumie
among the deeper shadows.?0. W. Holme:
The Self Satisfied Without Zest.
Life has no zest when it has no realizatio
of the unattained. The man who knows al
who has all, and who is entirely self-suffl
cient. has never had the satisfaction of com
in? into ideal possession of the splendor o
the Infinite : he has never reached out am
taken hold of the beyond. Let us prait
God for the unmeasured and unattained
In thin is our stimulus to activity, ou
promise of growth and oursuflkient reaso:
for living.?Churchman.
I do believe the common man's work i
the hardest. The hero has the hero's as pi
ration that lifts him to his labor. All ijrea
duties are easier than the tittle ones, thougl
they cost .f ir more blood ami ag< ny.ritiliips
Brooks.
When God and the soul meet there wil
fol'ow eoiitentmeut.
Sale of an K(liii:atcil Horse.
Jim Key, a marvelously well edueatoi
horse, owned by Dr. William Key, a hlghl
respected colored man of Shelby ville, Teun.
and which is on exhibition at the Centen
nial Exposition for two months, has beoi
sold to L'. a^Pulllold. of New York, fo
$10,000 iflMkil to that city. Dr. Ke;
devotedto touching and train
tho
The I^^^^Hltailway
cxperlm^^^^^^^Htricity as a
power, on
the subut^^^^^^^^wieago.
that both^^^^^^^^Bud overhead trol
leysysten^^^^^^^^Bjphaustively bofor
a dccislod^^^^^^^^nuipmont,
i. THE SABBATH SCHOOL, ,
E INTERNATIONAL LESSON. COMMENTS .
FOR SEPTEMBER 5.
n Lesson Text: "Gentile* GlvJitp For JewI
i?1i ClirlHtIa.il*." II Cor. li.. I -11 _ 1
, Golden Text: II Cor. viii., 0?Commentary
by the Kev. 1). M. Stearns*
1. "For as touching the ministering to
the saints, it is superfluous for me to write
to you." The great privilege of minister- i i
ing to others, whether in things temporal
orspiritual, is a very Godlike one, for "The :
Son of man came not to be ministered un- J
to, but to minister, and to give His life a j
ransom for many (Math, xx., 28). He is ,
our great and only example in all things if i
we have first of all truly received Him and J
thus been saved by His blood (Eph. i., 6, 7).
Until we are saved by Him we cannot serve
Him, but when once we have become chil- |
dron of God by faith in Him then our |
great work is to serve the living and true j
God.'
2. "Your zeal hath provoked very many." I
As we consider Him of whom it is written,
"The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up"
(Ps. lxix., 9; John li., 17), and who, though
h He was rich, yet for oursakes became poor,
e that we through His poverty might be rich
e (II Cor. viii., 9), we will be increasingly
is nlled with His spirit and manifest His zeal
h (II Cor. iii., 18). Then as others seeHim
e in us they will admire Him and want to be
>r like Him. When oncowe are saved by Him,
n He asks us to hand over to Him our bodies
;s that He may dwell in us and walk in us to
a the glory of God the Father (Rom. xii., 1,2;
s. II Cor. vi., 10; viii., o).
? 3. "Yet have I sent the brethren lest our
e boasting of you should be in vain in this
>0 behalf; that, as I said, ye may be
V ready." There is often a seeming readin
ness that does not always result in a per'8
formance, either through lack of sincerity
i, or some temptation of the adversary,
s Hence Paul sent Titus and a brother whose
>f praise was in all the churches (II Cor. i
viii Inc* thprn hnfh na "thA
o messengers of the churches, the glory of
it Christ." To these brethren, and through
>f' them, the believers at Corinth were to
i- show the' proof of their love.
it 4. "Lest haply if they of Macedonia I
e come with me and And you unprepared, I
j- we should be ashamed in this same confi- 1
s dent boasting." If wo trust in people and '
3- in their promises, we shall be very apt to I
h be ashamed, for the best intentions of peo- I
it pie may come to naught. John, by the |
t9 Spirit, exhorts us so to abide in Christ i
- that we shall not be ashamed before Him
>f at His coming (I John il., 28). If God is
working in us, His thoughts and works are J
sure to be fulfilled (Isa. xiv., 24; Jer. li.,
29). But ff we are, apart from Him, seeking
to accomplish somewhat, it will be
'0 very apt to fall through.
10 5. "Therefore I thought It necessary to
y exhort the brethren, that they would go beQ
fore unto you and make up beforehand
fr your bounty." There seems to me to be a I
if little more of looking to men than to God I
k in all this exhortation and tearfulness on 1
it . the part of Paul. It seems a good deal like
n } the way things are done to-day, rather than I
a i when, in the days of Moses, the people gave (
" | so wiuiugiy uuu tujunuanuy cuai iney nau I
' I to be restrained from bringing (Ex., xxxyL,
n ! 6, 7).
j 6. "But this Isfty, Ho which sowethspar3?
j ingly shall reap also sparingly, and he
y ! which soweth bountifully shall reap also
j bountifully." Or, as it is written in Prov.
19 ; xi., 24, "There is that scattereth and yet
ir j lncreaseth, and there is that withholdeth
a ! more than is meet, but it tendeth to pov>r
j erty." And again in Prov. xiil., 7, "There
!r | Is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothin'g;
there is that maketh himself poor yet
i- j hath great riches." No farmer expects a
0 | great harvest from a small sowing; how can
19 a Christian think otherwise?
7. "Every man according as he purposeth
' in his heart, so let him give; not grudg0
ingly or of necessity, for God loveth a
cheerful giver." All service to be acceptr
able must ba heart service unto God, in the
'* name of the Lord Jesus and in the power of
>t the Spirit. Those who worship God must
worship Him in spirit and hi truth. No
more outward form counts for anything.
God so loved that He gave. The Son of
! God loved me and gave Himself for me,
t. and unless we cheerfully give we have not
s' His spirit. The Greek word hilaros, here
3* translated cheerful, is not found elsewhere,
p You can easily see in it our word hilarity,
e suggesting God's pleasure in one who gives
1 with laughter because ho is so glad of the
opportunity. ? J
f 8. "And God is able to make all grace j
fg abound toward you; that ye always, hav- j
, i incr all sufficiency in all things may abound
in~every good work." However close one
tg may be naturally, and not inclined to give, j
^ the exceeding, abundant grace of God is j
able to transform even such a one into a
h hilarious giver, and such a miracle of grace j
ir brings great glory to God. So in every other ,
, phase of the Christian life God is able to
,r make manifest in the most unlikely person j
e the very spirit of Christ. "Not that we are (
r. sufficient of ourselves to think anything as
.. of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God"
f (II Cor. iii., 5). A very little Christian liv0
ing and Christian work seem to satisfy
v many who bear his beautiful names?pennies
for God, but dollars many for a bicycle,
or a spring suit, or cigars, or a ball
dress; a few moments for him, but many j
hours a day for recreation which must be
d ; bad.
o 9,10. This parenthesis is a quotation
la from a psalm (exit.), which speaks of the
g blessedness of the upright man who lives
i- in the fear of the Lord; to such God will 1
e I give the power of doing good beyond their 1
D ' utmost thought. He will not only provide
that which we are to scatter, but Ho will 1
h bless it ns we scatter it and cause it to in- '
e crease and multiply like the Ave loaves of | 1
g the lad which fed the suuu. ine seeuto oe i 1
r sowu is His, whether it be seed in the form i
t of His word or money or good deeds, j 1
r. "The seed is the word of God." "The sil3.
ver is mine and the gold is mine, saith the | 1
d Lord of Hosts." "Good works are also pre- t
h pared for us to walk in" (Luke viii., 11; I
d Hag. ii.. 8; Eph. ii., 10). when God sees I \
o any one who is willing faithfully to scatter | s
j seed. He will abundantly supply both the ' :
,r seed and His blessing, without which there '
e | can be no increase (I Cor. Hi., 7).
11. "Being enriched in everything to
all bountifulness, which causeth through
us thanksgiving to God." As we pass on (
the good things of God people are blessed ! t
and God is glorified, and the unspeakable j *
ii gift, our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, is ; t
h magnified. In everything we are enriched j \
e by Him in all utterance and knowledge ^
,9 (I Cor. i., 5) and blessed with all spiritual , '
; blessings and everything pertaining to life !
it and godliness (Eph. i., 3; II Pet. i., 3)*that !
if we may be channels through which He can j
it pass oil, or make these things known to E
it others. "I will bless thee, and thou shalt r
I be a blessincr." "Freely ye have received, j f
d freely give" (Gen. 2; Math, j., 8). ! j
-Lesson Help<"* fl
a f
a NATION'S POPULATION 77,000,068. i
'< I , a
; Official Estimate is Made by tlio Actuary j.
of the Treasury. r
n The latest official estimates of tho popu- li
I latlon of the United States is 77,000,068. I
This is made by the Actuary of the y
| Treasury, an officer whoso duty it is, at \
If I fixed intervals, to report on tho per capita
j circulation of money in tho United States.
e ! He estimates that tho present holdings of I
I, money aro $22.53 for every man, woman )
r | and child in the United States.
u His estimate of tho population is made j
i by the use of the census reports for tho j
I preceding decade. Certain fixed rules of
3 I increase by birth and immigration and s
j provision for deaths and other losses aro |
t j made, ana tno resultant estimato is ao- ,
I, . copted as official. | ti
Knitted Strpnsrth of tho Army. | "
According to offici'rs of tho War Do- | t
J j partment, tho present onlisted strength of j
tho army is now nearly up to the full num- ! c
ber allowed by law and can bo easily jt
! maintained without any unusual activity I
il j ou the part of tho recruiting officers. Tho (
y ; material now secured is of a higher stand- ] n
t ' ard than th* army has ever had, and owing g
. | to the regulations designed for tho com- j
a j fort and happiness of enlisted men, tho u
r | Department predicts that this year will ,
y show fewer desertions than for so:ae ti:no
| V 1- s;
Sale or :in l-.dncated Horse. i
I ,7im Key, a marvelously well educated ,
j .lorse, ownod by Dr. William Key, a highly
n respected colored manofShelbyville. Teun." a!
e ind which is ou exhibition at the Centen- 1,1
. " . ?H
11 11(11 ??X]>U?IIIUU iur l?U lUUlltun, nun w?;r?u
ij jold to U. G. Duffleid, of Now York, for
; j S 10,000 and shipped to thn,t city. Dr. Key J<
e ioroted seven years to teaching and train- tl
I lag the horse, w
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
?
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
? H
Inventory of a Drunkard?Hospital Ke?J
ords In New York City Show That Iht
People Are Learning the Folly and
Danger of Using Alcoholic Beverage!.
jrmm
A hut of logs without a door,
Minus ft roof and ditto floor,
A. clapboard cupboard without crocks,
Nine children without shoes or frocks,
A wife that has not any bonnet
With ribbon bows and strings upon it,
Scolding and wishing to be dead,
Because she has not any bread.
I
A teakettle without a spout,
A. meat cask with the bottom out,
A. "comfort" with the cotton gone
And not a bed to put it on;
A. handle without an axe,
A hackle without wool or flax, .
A. pot lid and a wagon hub,
A nrl ttrn onra nf a ronahino? fnlv
rhree broken plates of different kinds,
Some mackerel talis and bacoil rinds;
A. table without leaves or legs.
One chair, and half a dozen pegs.
One oaken keg with hoops of brass,
One tumbler made of dark green glass,
A. fiddle without any strings,
k gunstock, and two turkey wings.
0 readers of this inventory,
rake warning by Its graphic story;
For little any man expects, I
Who wears good shirts with buttons on 'em
Ever to put on cotton or checks,
\.nd only have brass pins to pin 'em.
Tis, remember, little stitches
Keep the rent from growing great;
When you can't tell beds from ditches,
Warning words will be too late.
?Alice Carey.
Alcohol In Hat Weather.
During the recent hot spell In New York 1
Dity it was observed at the hospitals that
;ho number of cases of persons suffering! :"f
with sunstroke or heat prostration wa$
rery much less than the records of the .
Hospitals ten years ago and earlier showed
;o .have been the case during similar^
periods of great heat, says a writer lal
Leslie's Weekly. j $8
Tne hospital authorities regarded that as
ibundant indication that people who llvdj
n great cities have learned that it is folly! >s
ind a temptation to serious illness or death]
;o drink alcoholic or malt liquors when the!
mn is raging in the heavens. In the earlier.
lays, when the heat was great the tempta-i
;ion was to Indulge In beverages whioh1
sontalned alcohol, often ingeniously and f <
seductively concealed, and it was notioecl
lhat in a majority of cases brought to th* |g
Hospitals during heated spells the patient
liad been using liquor frequently to exceafc VI
It is the testimony, too, of those whosa ' is
auslness it Is to sell intoxicants that tha >. ,v,|
iemand for these beverages in hot weathea
Is much less than used to be the case. Even
jonflrmed topers now qualify thbir bever} ' ' v?5
iges in the hot weather, and It is only those
(vho by some slip have forgotton the counsels
of physicians and have taken a "bracer"
>r a "cooler" in the morning who are found,
later In the day to be under the influence
5f liquor. So great has been the change
ihflf. ft" woe AhaoTOfl/1 nnnn ? *
?? ?? .? wu I WU Upwu vug igv/OUH A' VUiktf * . >-i
}f July?a festive day in the earlier time,1 *
nrhen many persons jielded to temptation,
ind when the newspaper reports of the Jol,owing
morning made long records of dis- * ,
ister due to drink?that in New York City ' >"
the police made fewer arrests for drunken*
less than are usually recorded on any given
lay, and the newspapers contained not a!
single account of disturbance or accident
due to liquor. A visitor at one of the subJ
urban resorts, where many thousands o| -.'j
the poorer citizens of New York are accua-. '
tomed to go for a day's outing, reported
that he saw but two persons under the inV
3uence of liquor.
This change is due in part, of course, tq
the present happy disposition of every ona
to makp excursions into the country an en^
joyment made possible by the trifling fareq
r>Vl Q VflPoH Kr f ho ffftllov Unaa DmI- if In ?!?/ *.
VUUt^VU nuv HWHVJ nuao. JJUl IV 1*? (UOV
In part due to the better understanding of
the people of the laws whloh are necessary
to follow if they Would preserve health^ ,
Men in crowded cities now clearly under*
3tand that the use of intoxicants in very
tiot weather is not only a discomfort, great? ly
adding to the suffering which heat
eauses, but is also a positive invitation ta
the elements to prostrate the body. Oat-J
meal water, temperance drinks, such ad
mineral waters, or milk, carbonized ol
peptonized, enables the system to resist
teat and to throw off by means of perspire
ntion the waste which great heat causesy
Intoxicants tend to check perspiration, and
therebyincrease the danger of sunstroka
dt heat prostration. And as it Is in thq
c;reat cities, so it is said everywhere to b?
better and better understood that he whd
would preserve health and maintain some
degree of comfort in very hot weathef
must bo prudent in eating, obtain sufficient
sleep, wear light clothing and keep the
system absolutely free from alcohol or malt
leverages.
Liquor Retards Digestion.
Many physicians agree that heavy
lrinkers eat but little. In those accus^
:omed to the use of fermented drinks dli
;estion is slower. If wo habitually drintt
vater we are always hungry in three or foui
lours after eating. Some reason from thia
;hat alcoholic drinks are nourishing, whila
vater is not. The truth seems to be thft^
:he system impregnated with alcohol is in
i morbid condition. Obesity, gravelJ
heumatism and other ailments often rej
iult. Messrs. Cbittendon and Mendel, ol
L'ale University, have demonstrated-' by
est tube experiments that fermentecl
lrinks retard the ohemical processes of digestion.
Experiments have also conclu*
lively proved that in twenty days the aame
lumber of men can do much more worlj
vhen drinking water than when they drinl^
vine, beer and brandy. For the first si*
lays they accomplish more with the strong
iquors, showing its stimulating first efi
ects, but it has been conclusively proved
hat in the longer time the man fed with
vater gives out more energy. Water is tha
mtural drink, while wines, under the adi
rice of a competent physjcian, are very
'aluable additions to the pharmacopeia.-'
yhicaaro Inter-Ocean.
No Tippling in the Pension Bureau.
Hon. H. Clay Evans, United Stated Com- '
nissioner of Patents, has issued "an order
equiring employes of the Pension Bureau
o abstain from the use of intoxicating '
iquors, not only during office hours, but at
.11 other times, under penalty of dismissal
rom the service. Commissioner Evanfl '
tolds that the man who takes intoxicants
,t night is not in a fit condition to do any?
hing requiring intelligent brain work tha
text day. This example may be followed
>y other departments and governments.
t would injure no one but the saloonkeeper,
?ho thrives on the patronage of civil serice
employes.
Temperance News and Notes.
Wh/in <rlno Jj in TIM* la Anf
Pots of beor cost many a tear.
The more you think the less you'll drink.
Cultivate your roses, but not your noses.
Thoae who are often drunk and seldom
ober fall like leaves in October.
Alcoholic drinks have no power to preent
any disease, but thoy have the power
0 cause many.
"Through drink," said Father Mathew,
1 have seen the stars of heaven fall and
lie cedars of Lebanon brought low."
During Queen Victoria's reign war has
ost 3990.465,323. In one year drink and
;s products cost almost double this sum.
It isn't the drop in the wages that hurts a
inu so much as the drop lie takes after
a. A. i Tl.mt . .~l.
I'lllU!^ Ill* >YUgl79. Itiai 3 \> Kill II1*;|'3U1UI.
Malt liquors render the blood sizy and
iilit for circulation, lu*uee proceed obructions
ami inflammations of tbe lungs.
Men who habitually use intoxicating
irits are more difficult to .Mire, if bitten by
mad dog, than temperate men.?Tho lata
i. Pasteur.
You pay big money to insure your house
?ainst the lire llend. Why not put a littlo
iouey in a euu-?eto insure yourson against
le drink llend?
-What's whisky bringing?" inquired a
>aler in the vile stuff. "Bringing men toj
io RHllowa nun women ana cuuaren t<Jt
ant," was the truthlul reply, '