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^-1 fiATF TOTHF ( VJ1 %. M. JU4 X 1 m?4 -v |p Wonderful Growth of tl Skaguay is a modern wonder. Not [ di many weeks ago the place practically tL did not exist. To-day, with its care-1 fully laid out streets and its scores of i ai well stocked and cosy private dwell- ' fr ings, it presents all the appearance of j tl a thriving Northwestern town. Houses . tv Are being rushed up with astonishing tb rapidity, while merchants are so ai numerous and enterprising that com- o] petition has already reduced their W wares to almost bottom prices. The o< starting up of a steam laundry has di caused the "biled shirt" to be accepted _ as good form in this out of the way settlement, while the establishment of thirteen saloons plainly indicates the prevalence of a generous atmosphere of conviviality. The New York Herald's special cor i? 1_ respondent, in an entertaining arncie published herewith, gives a graphic description of Skaguay as he found it entering the fourth week of its municipal existence. He says: Nothing in the history of Western J boom towns will compare with the mushroom growth of Skaguay. Ben 3 Moore, the man who located the town j eite, left for the Sound on August 10, at wnich date there was his own log cabin, the store and the bunkhouse of ^ the Alaska and Northwest Trading f Company and a number of tents. When he returned there were whole | streets of wooden dwellings, which the owners had themselves located and _ had paid a registry fee to United I States Commissioner Smith of five 11 dollars. Not only were these new' oomers permitted to locate on Captain Moore's land on payment of the fee, f" but it is said that Mr. Smith accepted j the fee and gave a registration receipt . to half a dozen different people for the J? aame plot of land. The newly ap- ?* pointed Land Commissioner and Kegister, Mr. Dndley, will therefore have some difficulty in unravelling the *r' conflicting real estate ownership on the town site. ru Skaguay is on a tide flat, with a tide UI Tunning over twenty feet, and therelore has a stretch of half a mile below tidewater mark. All the passengers ~ by big steamers are taken off in row boats, with a pall of from one to two miles, according to the state of the tide, when they are carried on the baoks of the boatmen to comparatively r1 dry land. It is amusing to hear the shrieks of the women when on the ^ back of the boatmen splashing through ^ the water. Only a month ago, when the Willamette landed her couple of thousands ra of gold seekers, all the freight and y.e passengers' luggage were landed in "taese small boats, or small scows, and m dumped on the shore pell mell, hig- 011 j gledy-piggledy.from which each owner w< .' liad to hurry to secure his particular P1 goods before the rapidly incoming e L tide ruined thehi or swept them away. nc M Immense scows are now in use, big B* enough to take the whole of a ship's W cargo. These, when loaded, float to u* shore on a high tide, and each owner ?r gets out his own goods as soon as he ^ - th ui SKAQUAY BAY. *u th can, and woe to him whose belongings th chance to be near the bottom of the wi huge pile. th I watched the steamer Queen unload w] in this way. There was a good deal lei -t T li: .:i_ 1 i T i ,t vi tiusuuug, necessarily, uut J. neurit ue no complaint of any goods being stolen tei or lost?except temporarily. Iu fact, pr the whole community seems wonder- th fully honest considering that the black th sheep of the continent are herding in dr this direction. th Merchants in tents leave their goods hanging outside all right; pilgrims th leave their camps on the trail, with all bi] their belongings scattered about; yet ar< but few cases of pilfering have been lit heard of, and only one theft of money, tic /Tnt ii. . # i xuis was in me case 01 a man namea i rr< W. H. Davison, of Seattle, who for i cl< twelve days had $1400 in his kit under i th ! ^ ' ^ TTTI: BECrIN^-^ a pile of feed in his tent. He left his st( tent often in perfect confidence, but mi /IAW Ilia V\aliMirr!nnro lt.irl nr VIAU UOJ UO *v?uu uuu V|j .oeen disturbed and that the money was gone. w< Another Seattle man at once gave cb v liim $100 with which to take oat his j w] A feed, for he had already gotten his ; se m goods some distance along the trail. j to Wf Bat this was only the beginning of a ] Davison's bad lack. He was one of the in firsli on the trail, and worked beyond wi his strength. Just past the summit ni h#? had an attack of pneumonia, and, be getting worse instead of better, had to i Sc give np. He is now here waiting for i th the next steamer, having left his out- w] fit with his partner, who hopes to sell ; ar it to some one who will pay for the i mi \ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? if iOLD FIELDS. 1 ie Town^of Skaguay.^ ^ ^ fficult journey they made with it up ie pass. There does not appear to have been ly pilferiug of goods left on the bcach om the steamers. In a short time tere will be no chance for this. The io long piers are hotly competing for te honor of being first completed id early next month both will be in aeratiou. That of the Skaguay rharf Company is already piled to its jean end, a length of over fifteen hunred feet, in a curving line from the BROADWAY * >rthern to the southern side of the ly, thus blocking off all further comitition in this line. This will be lown commonly as the Juneau Pier, 3 promoters being J. P. Jorgenstn, irdware merchant; E. Valentine, weller, and E. D. Sylvester, editor the Searchlight, all of Juneau. The her pier will be known as the Seattle ock, as it is largely backed by capital om that Sound city. This Starts orn the street south of Broadway and ,ns straight to the completed dock ider the cliff. Both will have warerases, to ..hich goods will be taken rect from the ship, and there await e proper claimants. These two great piers are impressive the incoming stranger, who knows at the town is only a month old, but to the rest he cau see but little from e steamer's decks. Tents dot the ore the whole of its width, with here id there a small wooden building, le latter are rapidly taking the place the canvas homes and stores, for e reason that cold weather and heavy ins have set in, and more especially ry high winds. Captain McKinney, e Chairman of the Vigilance Comittee, estimates that there are now le hundred and fifty buildings of jod, and that there would have been any more but for the scarcity of lumir. There is a sawmill hard at work >w, lumber is coming in by every earner, and nearly every one having e purpose to winter here is putting > a habitation of wood. Many are ecting larger and more substantial lildings than their needs require, as speculation, hoping to sell at a large ofit when the rush is renewed next iring and when they once more pack ) for the Klondike. Probably as many as fifty of such bstantial dwellings are going up. A curious phase of the situation aong those who have decided to winr here is that nearly every one of em believes that he has just the natal gifts necessary to make asuccess1 merchant. They are all putting alv nrvoof afolroo infn nrnnrla oil > " ey liope to turn into money again, th a large profit, by the spring, and en sell out an established business len the weather permits them to we for the gold fields. Thus is the iw city building up. There are thiren saloons, a majority of their proietors having plans for getting to e Klondike as soon as possible, and ere are between three and four huned merchants of whom the same ing may be said. Not only on Broadway, but along e intersecting streets and among the g timbers on each side of the trail, e these merchants' tents and stores, tie and big, and all sorts and condi>ns of men are interested in them, ?m the spectacled, muscleless store ?rk. clumsily handling the saw and e axe on liis new building, to the j WTi fKf \ ^nS. ~"-^^ \ ^ F THE TRAIL. olid backwoodsman, to whom the alfincr nf rOinnrrA is ft difficult mental leratioD. One would think that the town juld be overdone with so many merants, and perhaps it will be soon, iien the steamers are fewer and pasngers on them not numerous enough be worth mentioning. But there is population of over five hundred still tents, and it is believed that there .11 be continual coining and going itil the beginning of December, to I i then renewed the month following. ? many merchants, however, has had e effect of bringing down prices, lich, considering the freight charges, e now rapidly getting to the bottom, aking it nearly as cheap to winter i liere as at Juneau or any other north- [ ern point. But the visitor must not expect luxui ries. He must be content with a bunk and provide his own bedding. The bunk will, cost him from seventy-five cents a night up. Meals at cheap restaurants are fifty cents eaoh. He will, however, in all probability, hire a tiny shack and learn to cook for himself if he is to be a gold hunter. Then, as before stated, he will find the price of i.i.^ i ilia uuie ucuconuLioa ui mc uu ui^uci in proportion than Seattle. Flour is SI.50 per sack, potatoes 81.25, bacon twelve Jto fifteen cents per pound. The infant city is well laid out, and not only on Broadway but on most of the side streets on either side up to where the trail turns off to the left into the timber there are new stores and residences. Among the timber also there are many merchants, in tents or rough shacks. In the early history of the city?that is, three weeks ago? boiled shirts were publicly derided, as rraf SKAGUAY^^^^" were also shaven chins. Now there are four barber shops and two or three signs reading "Troy Laundry." There is also a bath house in course of construction, and this is a luxury that tired men coming off the trail will appreciate. Lumber is still scarce, rough lumber at nine dollars per thousand feet at Seattle selling for about twentyfive dollars here. There is little doubt that a hundred or more buildings will be erected during the next thirty days. Now, what are the prospects of Skaguay's permanency? The men who are building the wharves and the threestory hotel and other buildings evidently believe in its future growth and prosperity. Yet there is nothing to give it the slightest hope of permanency except as an entrance to the gold regions. That they do not at the present time possess any such entrance that is at all what a highway for the expected crowds in the spring should be is conceded. But the intention now is to build a wagon road along the Skaguay River to the foot of the mountain. This will cost a great deal of money, but it will in all probability be carried out, for every one who has made an investment here understands the situation. It is estimated, that from 100,000 to 150,000 gold seekers will flock to Alaska next spring, and that they will begin to come in in February. Skaguay must be able to announce long before then a better trail than the present one or the trade will pass her by and the toyn boom will be "hushed." She will also have others besides the Dyea trail to compete 'with, and, in short, her future depends entirely upon her making the best inland route to the Yukon territory that can be made. Her citizens are remarkably publio spirited and liberal. A town meeting two nights ago subscribed $1500 for fire protection in a few moments. A surveyor is now mapping out a route for a wagon road along the river. M6ney will have to be raised to meet the cost of this road and work on it be started immediately to insure the permanency of Skaguay as a port and as a town of even its present proportions. Locomotive Built In Ten Honrs. A locomotive was recently built in ten hours at the Stratford works of the Great Eastern railway. It was a main line goods engine with a tender. Before the actual construction commenced the various component parts were placed close at haud, ready for fitting together. The workmen began early in the morning, and continued briskly till the breakfast bell sounded. After half an hour's rest the workmen returned to their task, and labored steadily until the dinner hour, and thus the work proceeded until the engine was at last completed, with the exception of a coat of paint. This was quickly laid on with a spraying machine, and in less than half an hour ivna rlpv TIia InnnmntivA was then sent on a trial journey a few miles on the line, and all proved satisfactory, so it was sent with a luggage train to Peterborough. It has been in active service ever since, and is proudly displayed as a marvel of engineering quickness. Hard on Pat. Gentleman (to an Irishman)?""Well, Pat, I see you have a small garden." Pat?"Yes, sir." ' "What are you going to set in it for next season?" "Nothing, sir. I set it with potatoes last year and not one of them came up." "That's strange; how do you explain it?" "Well, sir, the man next door to me set hia garden full of onions." "Well, had that anything to do with your potatoes not growing?" "Yes, sir. Bedad, them onions was that strong that my potatoes couldn't see to g'ow for their eyes watering." ?Answers. American Woutan Honored. Mrs. May French Sherman, the j African explorer, recently elected a member of the English Royal Geographical Society, is the only woman ever thus honored. She is an Ameri can by birth. Equipped For War. It has always been Lord Wolseley's boast that when starting upon a campaign his equipage is of the lightest, consisting of little more than a toothbrush and a clean shirt. Numerous Big Cities, There are known to be 209 cities in the world with populations of over one hundred thousand persons each. WILL USE NO LANCUACE. How Cominjr Generations Will Look and Act, According to a Sclentlfit. This is the way Dr. R. M. Burke, President of the psychology section of the British Medical Association, says HEAD OF THE MAN OF THE FUTURE. the head of the man of the future will look. The new race, he says, will use no language because it will need none. The interchange of thought between kfl/ifliiofl if will Kfl aimnW ft lUUlTlUUtyO uouauoo X V 1TM? W M mental effort on the part of each unaccompanied by any physical manifestation whatever, As one person evolves his idea the other will instantly grasp it by means of a subtle telepathy, which even now is the gift in a more or less modified form of many people who are only vaguely conscious of their strange power, and, in many instances, too timid and fearful of ridicule to publicly confess it or attempt to develop it. With future generations this gift will become more and more frequent in individuals and of greater and greater power, until this silent interchange of thought is at last as common as is now speech and writing. Nor ' will his powers stop even there. He not only will be able to exchange thoughts with people thousands of leagues away, but will be able to see them as distinctly as though they were physically present and even see if he chooses what is passing anywnere in the world. There will be an end of eyes and ears, the gross physical channels through sensations now must pass to the mind. They will all go, for they will all be useless?as useless as the mechanism of the voice, by which sensations and ideas are now conveyed from the mind outward. There may be some scar or meaningless excresence where these organs once were, jusjt as now there are physiological suggestions of man's ape origin?humiliating reminders of the brute ancestry from which the godlike being was evolved. But that will be all,and even that will melt away and disappear at last. Somali's Hairy Sheep. In an interesting communication to the State Department W. W. Masterson, United States Consul at Aden, Arabia, describes the Somali or blackhead sheep. This animal is seen little outside of its natural habitat, although it is hardy and would undoubtedly thrive in almost any country. A few voora anrn ft nnmlifir nf fcliA qlipprt wata ,v"'" "O" X placed in the Zoological Gardens at Frankfort, Germany, and some of them are there yet and healthy. The pecul- 1 iarity of this sheep is that it has no wool, bnt fine hair, like a dog or cat. On its head and part of its neck this hair is jet black, while on the rest of the body it is pure white. In Somali land the earth is exceedingly barren, and as the sheep move about in flocks they sometimes enter a barren waste with virtually no vegetation, that it takes several days to cross. So nature has equipped the black-head sheep much as the camel is equipped for enduring a long time without food or drink. At the root of the tail of the black-head sheep there is a lump of solid fat weighing four or five pounds. When the sheep has no food it derives nourishment fropa this lump, as a camel from its hump. The black-head Sheep are used as beasts of burden by the natives, and in photographs sent by Consul Masterson they are heavily laden for a journey. Their skins possess considerable value and are exported mostly to New York. Last year the value of skins exported amounted to $653,481.14. The wealth of the natives of Somali land is estimated by the number of sheep they own.?New York Commercial Advertiser. Killing Kabbita For Tlielr Fur. Out on the plains they are killing jack rabbits by the hundreds for the fur hat. t.rarlfl Thft rahhitfl arA so en ormous on the Western Kansas plains that they can be scared up by the score simply by dragging over the sod a long wire that will brush the grasses. Behind this, as horses haul it forward, come the hunters, and they shoot the hares without mercy, filling the wagons by the end of the day. The skins are quoted as follows: Good skins, 3 cents each; damaged, half price; culls and pieces, 5 cents a pound; cottontail rabbits, 3 cents a pound. The Kansas farmers are putting in their time in this.way and are making money. Thousands of Miles Arrow-Pierced. Some years ago H. N. Clement, an Indiana farmer, shot at a flock of wild geese in the Kan Ka Mee marsh and bagged several of them. One of them wore as a breastpin an arrow nine inches long. The arrow was so unique FLYING FROM THE YUKON PIERCED BY AN ARROW. in formation tliat it could be ascribed to no tribe of Indians in the United States or in any other country. Finally Professor 0. T. Mason, of the National Museum, said the bird and arrow could have come from no other place of the globe than the Yukon Valley. Thousands of miles the goose had flown with an arrow in its breast before turning up its legs at the shot of a Hoosier farmer - - % GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Undue Tlioughtfulness?A Social homily ? The Ministry of Life?Affliction of Divine Ordinance ? The Iteafton for Living?Keeping Quiet Over Troubles. So the o'er-wearied pilgrim, as he fares Along life's summer waste, at times is fanned, Even at noontide, by the cool, sweet airs Of a serener and a holier land, Fresh as the morn, and as the dewfall bland. Breath of the blessed heaven for which we pray, Blow from the eternal hills ! make glad our earthly way! ?Whittler. Undue Thoughtfulness. It seems ungracious to write it but we are persuaded that many women err in the direction of being too thoughtful for husband and children ; or perhaps it would be better to say, in suffering their thoughtfulness to manifest itself in a series of petty cares and anxieties that have no reai relations to the well-being of the recipients, atd, indeed, tend to become burdensome to those they love. Have you never paid a visit where your host was so fussily anxious to have your wants anticipated that you were glad to catch at any decent excuse for shortening the visit? lou would much rather have been left to yourself. There were things that you would rather do for yourself than have aDy one else do for you.' Very fow men really enjoy having the details of their daily life immeshed in a multitude of Attentions,and as forchildren.it iS easily possible to give them so much anxiety and care that they grow up to regard the attentions of a fond mother as their right, and to lack selfreliance and generous attention to the comfort of others. You can find plenty of children who by receiving the constant devotion and self-sacrifice of their mothers have themselves become incapable of consideration for others. Undue thoughtfulness for others, without a sense of proportion, may easily make an otherwise admirable woman a fussy wife, who spoils her children. Lord have mercy when we pray oiruuKiu to SOOK. ti uevver way When our wakening thoughts begin First to loathe their cherished sin : When our weary spirits fail,And our aching brows are pale : When our tears bedew Thy word, mhen, 0 then, have mercy. Lord. . ?Dean Mliman. A Social Homily. In almost every family or company you will And one or two persons who manage to get about what they want by making themselves generally disagreeable pntil they get it. Bather than have a "scene" or a controversy, the rest give in to them. Like highwaymen they levy upon the good nature or politeness of others as the price of peace. Their friends and associates owe a duty to these people which they should not neglect to perform. It is to resist their demands, and cause them to learn that the rights, comforts and conveniences of others are quite as important *as their own. We owe them this service not simply for the sake of protecting our own rights, but for the sake of their moral training. . It is a bad thing for them to get in the hftbit of compelling the acquiescence of others in their whims as a price or ineir gooa naiure. >ve nave noright to contribute to the strenghttning o! such a disagreeable and unjust temper. It is a good thing for a child, and, for tbe matter of that, for grown up people, to learn thoroughly that they cannot enforce concessions by being disagreeable. The temporary discomfort tbat it may occasion to teach them effectively this lesson will be more than made up by the advantages to themselves and others of having them learn U thoroughly. Come apart and rest awhile;Tbere are many coming, going, VThi.se dry lips forget to smile, Who forget to reap, for sowing: From the bot street s surging tide Rest is but one step aside. ?Arthur Willis Col ton In Ladles' Home Journal. 1 The Ministry of Life. God permits us to dig in the fields, to work in factories, to write In offices; not because in this way we ars to earn our living, but that, like children playing with blocks, we must iearn the lesson upon which the game is founded. The loaf upon out table is no less a miracle than the manna that fell In the desert; but God allows us to handle and carry the loaf, that we may be taught thu rtcftnRr truth hidden within. How to meet adversity, how to withstand prosperity, how to overcome difficulty, how to be patient in tribulation, how to value and exercise faith, loyalty to trust, devotion to duty, faithfulness under the strongest temptation, courage and self-reliance?all these are developed under the teachings of God's providence, and life in its every part is a divine school having lessons of the aivinesf character. Affliction a Divine Ordinance. You will live to recognize the wisdom of God's choice for you. You will one day see that the thing you wanted was only second best. You will be surprised to remember fhat vaii nnf>? npnrlv firnlrn vnnr hnart and split the wine of your life for what would never have satisfied you. Yo'u will meet again your love. You become possessed of a depth of character.a breadth of sympathy, a fund of patience, an ability to understand and help others, which, as you lay them at Christ's feet for Him to use, will make you glad that you were afflicted.? F. B. Meyer. The Reason for Living. Life has no zest when it has no realization of the' unattained. The man who knows all, who has all and who is entirely self-sufficient has never had the satisfaction of coming into ideal possession of,the splendor of the Infinite ; he has never reached out and taken hold of the beyond. Let us praise God for the unmeasured and unattained. In this is our stimulus to activity, our promise of growth and our sufficient reason for living.?Churchman. Keeping Quiet Over Troubles. "Nothing ever suits her. She ain't bad no more troubles to bear than the rest of us, but you never see her that she didn't have a r?hRiit?r tr> lav befota ve. I've erot's much feelin' as the next one; but, when folk;? drives in their spiggitsnnd wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day, right straight 'long, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low."?Sarah Orne Jewett, None of us ever desired anything more ardently than God desires to bring men to the knowledge of Himself. God is ever ready, but we are very unready ; God is nigh to us, but we are far from Him ; God is within, but we are without; God is at home, but we ?re stranttcrs. God helps us all to follow Him that be may bring us unto Himself.?John Tauler. To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God, to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier, more blessed, less accursed,?it is a work Tor a god.?Carlyle. If thou canst not continually recollect thyself, yet do it sometimes, at least once a day?namely, In the morning or at night.? Thomas a Kempis. As the fading coals are rekindled by a breath, so prayer refresheth the hopes of the heart. The World'8 Telegraph System. The total length of the world's telegraph jvstem has now reached 4,908,921 miles, exslusive of 180,440 miles of submarine cables. Of this Europe has 1,764.790 miles; Asia, 310,685 miles; Africa. 99,419 miles; Australia, 217,479 miles, and America, 2,516,548 - IT.II.J (loFmoln nrhn miles. uuiieu aiaics uuuui unwuiu, jends these figures to the State Department from Zurioh, says they show that notwithBtanding the steady increase In the building of telegraph lines all over Europe, America leads the world and has almost double the European mileage. Killed by a Bean. A little girl at Wilmington, Del., pushed ' a bean up her nose, and died from ensuing blood solfloalnjz. TEE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 7. Lesson Text: "Paul In Slellta and Rome," Acts xxvlli., 1-16?Golden Text: Romans Till., 28? Commentary on the Lesson by the Rev. 1>. M. Stearns. 1. 3. Having all got safely to land, some bv swimmln* and some bv the heln of boards and broken pieces of the ship, they found themselves on the Island of Mellta, I or Malta, and received much kindness from the people, who kindled a Are and welcomed them and did what they could to deliver them from the rain and the cold which prevailed. It must have been such a cause of gratitude to find themselves safe on land that they would not think so muoh of the rain and cold, and yet the kindness of tho natives was very refreshing. How much joy might be brought into many a life if we all lived to show kindness to those in need! As we experience In our own hearts the loving kindness of Ood, which is better than life (Ps. Ixlil., 3), we should surely show the kindness of God to others (II. Sam. lx., 3), but these people probably knew nothing of the love of Ood. How often the conduct of one who knows not God puts to shame those who are Hist 3-6. Paul was not above gathering sticks with the rest to help make the fire burn. It is Christlike to be ready to every good work, however humble. The meek and lowly scorn not any service they can render to another. Paul was an earthen vessel for God's glory (Gal. 1., 24), and God was glorified in him in the storm before all the people on the ship. He now allows a viper to fasten on Paul's hand that before the natives the power of God may be seen in His shaking off the viper and experiencing no harm. This was according to our Lord's words in Luke x., 19, "Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy,,and rirvfKlnrm oKall K?? ? '' aivwuiu^ ouan ujr aujr rnoauo uuib JUU. 7, 8. "Paul entered in and prayed and laid bis hands on him and healed him." This was the father of Publius, the chief man of the island, who wa9 sick of a fever, but the Lord, through Paul, Instantly healed him. At one time God wrought special miracieB by the hands of Paul, so that by handkerchiefs or aprons which had touohed his body the sick were healed (Acts xix., 11,12). At another time Paul had to le&ve Trophimus at Miletum siok. We cannot always tell whether health or siokness or life or death shall glorify God the most, so we should say as Paul said, "Christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death" (Phil, i., 20). 9. "So when this was done others also which had diseases in th? island came and were healed." Thus the power of Christ was made widely known, and we cannot think of Paul obeying part of our Lord's command without obeying the other. If he healed the sick in the name of Christ, he would certainly preaoh the gospel of God concerning HJs Son Jesus Christ, our Lord, to whioh he had been especially called and separated (Bom. 1., 1, 8). Thus not only were bodies healed, but many souls must have been saved also. 10. "Who also honored us with many honors, and when we departed they laded us with such things as were necessary." When people are really blessed, it is not necessary to ask them to give. Gratitude will show itself In some at least. The missionary money which comes to me from year to year in gratitude for the blessing received at the Bible classes convinces me of this more and more, and the abundance for current expenses In my own congregation from the grateful hearts who enjoy frhft nf fho wnrH cn fhat T tiavai* need to ask any one for a cent, bat merely state the need when there Is one and look to the Lord alone to supply it through His willing people, makes me wish that all preachers and teachers would so feed their people that the gratitude would be mori manifest to the glory of God. 11. "And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria." Paul had learned to wait, and whether it was two or thre? weeks in a storm at sea, or three month! on shore at Malta, or two years a prlsonei at Caesarea, he knew what it was to "rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him* (Ps. xxxvil., 7). Our Lord waited thirty years at Nazareth, and has waited over 1800 years at God's right hand to have His body gathered out of the nations of toe earth. We have great need to consider Him, lest we be wearied and faint in oar minds (Heb. xii., 3). 12-14. Three days at Syracuse, a call at fthegium, seven days at Puteoli, then on toward Rome. And every day, whether on land or sea, journeying or waiting, just living to glorify God. Conscious of His loving kindness in storm and sunshine, not because we feel it, but because we know it In Christ; oonscious of His constant care of and interest In us; rejoicing that God is for us, Christ is for us, tne Spirit is for us, and the angels minister to us (Rom. viil., 81, 34, 36; Heb. 1., 14). Sure that all our works are prepared for us beforehand, and we have only to walk in them, doing as ocsasion serve us, for God is with us (Eph. li., 10; I. 8am. x., 7). Done with all fretling and murmuring and complaining, all of which is sinful; careful for nothing, prayful for everything, thankful for anything and rejoicing in the Lord always. 15. Brethren from Borne came to meet Paul and his companions as far as Appll forum and the three taverns, causing gratitude and inspiring courage. It is heavenly to meet on earth those who are our true blood relations. I do not mean so much our kindred as those who are one with us by the blood of Christ. These are olten nearer to us than brother or sister. The bond is wonderful. Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love! Paul may have met some of these brethren in other parts of the world or not. We are not told. But thev were one in Christ and llylng for His glory and ready to die for Him. 16. They came to Borne, and Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier who kept him. He was now where God said he would be, and as to bearing witness he had only to watch his opportunity aud be ready to use it, or rather let God use him in it. He was in a measure free, even as he was In Cfflsarea, and he was in the Lord's hand, who could easily make him more free if it was best. We must have the Spirit of Him who said, "I delight to do Thy will, 0 My God." His servants for His pleasure, not seeing people1 or circumstances, but only and always God, all and in all. Oh, All me with Thy fullness, Lord, Until my very heart o'erflow In kindling thought and glowing word, Thy love to tell, Thy praise to show! Oh, use me, Lord, use even me, Just as Thou wilt, and when and where, Until Thy blessed face I see, Thy rest, Thy joy, Thy glory share! ?T,?a?nn Htflnfl* GROWTH OF OUR SHIPPING. Total Tonnage the Largest For the Last Twenty-One Years. The annual report of Sir. Chamberlain, Commissioner .of Navigation, shows that the total documented tonnage of the United States on June 30,1897, 4,769,020 tons, Is the largest for twenty-one years, except in 1899, when it was 2,825,071 tons. Our largest documented tonnage was 5,539,813 ton3, on June 30,1861. Considering the speed and number of trips of steam vessels compared with sailing vessels our merchant fleet has never before been so efficient as this year. The steam tonnage amounts to 2,258,553 tons, aad the sail tonnage, including barges and canal boats to 2,410,402 tons. Construction' thus far indicates that at the end of the flanoi vaar f-hfl steam tonnage for the first time In our history,will exceed the combined tonnage of documented sailing vessels, barges and canal boats. The total construction for the year, 801 vessels of 232,233 gross tons is the largest annual output since 1891. Our increase in tonnage for the last deoade has been almost wholly attributable to growth on the great lakes. Of a total tonnage of 4,271,226 gross tons in 1877, 3,181,804 were salt water tonnage, documented on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf ooasts, and 1,069,434 fresh water documented on the great lakes, Mississippi and 4.ik?(?.iaa nf iv total of 4.769.020 tons in j li 1 UU luuuu. ? - ? 1897, 8,086,308 tons were documented on the seaboard and 1,634,212 on fresh water, the tonnage of the great lakes increasing from 748,000 tons in 1887 to 1,410,106 in 1897. During the decade steam tonnage has Inoresead 816,000 tons of which increase 590,000 tons belong to the great lakes system. Gold In Maryland. Port Deposit, Md., is aroused over discoveries of gold in the vicinity. ; V- " '* A TEMPERANCE COLUMN^ | THE DRINK EVIL MWE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. Don't Aak the Boy to Drink ? Liquor Drinking and the Bicycle?Two Be* dons Why the wneei 1* tne enemy ?i the Liquor Habit?Hard to Relist. Nay, do not ask tlie boy to drink, That glass maybel?ls flr9t; That glass may start him forward On the path of the accurst. Weigh well the misery of sin. The bitterness of tears, That single act of yours may cause Through all his future years. Then do not ask the boy to drink, . His way is hard at best, By ills beaet; then do not add Another to the rest. The consequences of our acts Are greater than we think, So pause before you tempt a boy By asking h3m to drink. ?Saored Heart Review Liquor Drinking and the Bicycle. * At the olose of the League noting of American Wheelmen in Philadelphia .the Times of that city had an article from ...' which we clip the following: "It may be only colnoldenoe tha t duilng the year in which the use of th bicycle : ; gfl Increased almost in geometrical 1 rogres slon the consumption of liquor In this country decreased to a wonderful ektent; but It looks very muoh as If theie were . some relation between the two facts. That this liquor habit is growing weaker among the American people Is shown by the recent statement of the Commissioner of Internal Revenup that during the past year there has been a decrease of nearly 6,000,000 gallons in the consumption of whisky and other spirits, and of 1,403,001 barrels ? in the consumption of beer. "The bicycle is the enemy of the liquor habit for two reasons: It appropriates both . for its purchase und for its use the spare money of the young man that formerly went largely to the saloon-keeper, and It makes impossible overindulgence In Intoxicating drinks, because it can be operated only to advantage by a strong-limbed and clear-headAd rider. The men who .,3# own bicycles to-day are not the millionaires, but the wage earners of the counter, and their machines were bought from the money that they were enabled to sate by ' '.$3 economizing in some other direction. "And ' what is more reasonable than that this economy should be first put In practice by ' $1 cutting off the luxury of drinking? i "But the other reason why the bloyele is ' cuting down the consumption of liquor?be/>BH OA 4 f 4a ?Af V* A fr^nn/1 A# woolr an/1 OA^/^Ofl iT?i WdUJO lllio UVV tUQ U1VUU VI TO WUA WWUUVM men?is more potent and will be more last- 3j2J ing. The athlete In all branohes of sports . \ -y nowadays Is eschewing the use of intoxicating drinks, and the wheelmen, forming ^ the largest bands of athletes in this country, must be given the oredlt for the great- &s est decrease In the consumption of Manor.) There are some riders who at first think they can drink deeply and ride strongly ati ' -'If the same time; but they are soon undeceived, and quiokly join the great major- . ' lty of abstainers or light drinkers. . The . , ?3 bicycle has- been condemned for lntecfering with the sacredness of the Sabbath '-.?j and for introducing a laxity In the morals y.k; of the young, but it should be given full ' ^ credit for its assaults upon the excessive v3?S use of liquor." A School of Drunkenness. Drunkards are made In various ways. ' <5* Here Is one. "Now, just watoh those chll- : ."'13 dren. They'll drink half that beer before .v;.V they get home, and their mother will scold; ' me for not giving a good pint, and I've given nearly a quart," said a bartender of ' . "?'~, a downtown saloon the other day. to a .representative of the New York Herald, referring to two little girls of six and eight, V'ioS thinly clad, who came for a pint of beer. ' They had soarcely got outside the saloon. door when the one that carried the tin pall lifted it to her lips and took a draught.! ? Then her companion^enjoyed a few swallows. A little farther on they entered a ' tenement-house hallway, and botfl" again V1 tookaslp. f "I have lots of such customers," said the1 , '(ti bartender. "Girls and boys and women . form half' our trade. We call it family trade. It pays oar expenses. But I tell yot what?half the children who come hero drink. That's how drunkards are made. . Their parents send them for beer. They . see the old folks tipple, and begin to taste the beer themselves. Few of the children < who come in here for beer or ale carry a full pint home. Sometimes two or three oome in together, and if you'll watch thein ^ you'll hear them begging the one who carrles the pail for a drink. We must sell It, however, when their parents send for it. We are bound to do so. Business is bust- . uess. We do not keep a temperance shop." Two of Bam. ' Late one autumn a whaler on her return ' voyage brought up in front of a populous village on an island in the northern part of - i *4 the Behring Sea. A lively trade ensued . ' with the natives, who were anxious to make their bargains quickly and go In pursuit of the walrus which are now passing, and which every year provided the winter's food . . 4 supply. But in addition to the legitimate JiSt articles of trade, a couple of kegs of strong rum were put ashore, and the schooner. sailed away-fer San Francisco with all the wealth of the village. By the time the natives had finished the rum, and got over Its effects, the walrua , .'..J? had passed, there was no supply of food put up for the winter, and Ice was beginning to drift in the sea. The result waft inevitable. The next whaler that called at the island was able to take home an interesting collection of bones and skulls of the Eskimo type to an ethnological institution, j uuttnere was no man, wuiuau, ui cuuu alive to tell the story of starvation and death.?From Through the Subarctio Forest, by Washburton Pike. ' Connecticut W. C. T. U. The annual convention of the Connecticut Woman's Christian Temperance Union was held recently in New London. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Cornelia B. Forbes, Hartford; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Mary M. Andrews, Stamford; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Susan K. Luce, Niantic; Treasurer, Mrs. Anna M. Hurr, Norwich; Honorary Secretaries, Mrs. Caroline B. Buell, East Hampton, and Mrs. Hannah C. Partridge, Jewett City. A Little Girl'.* Composition. This is a composition on temperance, written by a little Georgia girl: "Temperance is more better than whisky. Whisky is ten cents a drink, and lots of it. My pa drinks whisky. He has been full 113 times. One night he came home late, and my ma went out and cut some hickories and walloped him good. Then she ducked his head In a tub of soapsuds and locked bim up In the barn. And the next morning my pa aid he reckon he'd swear off." Hard to Resist. The celebrated temperance lecturer, Francis Murphy, said not long ago that after twenty-two years of sobriety It required the constant exercise of his will power, close communion with God and en- ^ vironments of temperance associations to enable him to refrain from liquor; that during a recent railway journey he had taken up a glass at the water tank in the sleeper for a drink of water that had been used just previously to hold whisky, and ' on bringing it to his lips the odor of the liquor at once aroused such a desire for liquor that it was necessary for him to exercise great control at the time to resist the waving for a drink of liquor. Temperance Mews and Notei. Drink is danger to body and soul. Avoid the danger. The moderate drinker could abstain, but he won't, the drunkard can't. How many boys have you to keep the liquor "industry" in working order? Many people suffer from water on the brain. A still greater number, however, are,tr jubled with whisky on the brain. The young man feels very big when he begins to "treat" liis companions to ardent spirits. He feels very small later on in life when he ilnds himself bound by a chaia of his own forging; for the drink habit is a chain that shackles a man's tnind and de? strovs his will. ? 1 J A * . r?