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r? f|| the realm | The advantage of a waist that can be fnade either high or low is obvious, bays May Man ton. The design shown In. the illustration becomes suited to ? ep^V fcADEBS' WAIST WITH ADJUSTABLE YOKE. day or evening wear, as the yoke and aleeyes are added or omitted. The | lining is tighf-fltting, having the usual [ number of pieces and seams, and closes ' f at the centre-front. When it is to be ' poade low it is cut at the line of perforations, when high the back portion ^ of the-yoke is faoed onto the lining, ^teut the front portion is cut separate, seamed at the right shoulder and jflnished at the edge and left shouldev where it oloses invisibly. The full " -- -i .1 portion ot toe rronts is suapeu uutu the lining, the right side lapping over ' land closing invisibly at the left. Underarm gores separate them from the back , whioh has the material applied at the fillip A STYLISH \VI 1 line of perforations, and tne fulness drawn down to the belt at the waist line. The sleeves are snug-fitting but lightly mousquetaire above the elbows and tenxfinating in small puffs at the shoulders. As shown the material is pearl-gray cashmere with yoke of passementerie edged with velvet ribbon and frillB of Boft, gray silk muslin. Both neck and waistband are of gray velvet ribbon and at both throat and wrists are frills of the muslin. When worn low the yoke and sleeves are omitted. The neck is finished, as preferred, and frills only are worn at the shoulders. To make this waist for a lady in the medium size will require two yards of forty-four-inch material. Styliah Winter Bloafe. The stylish blouse Bhown in the large illustration is designed for street wear and is equally appropriate for heary cloth and suiting material. Ab shoTyn, it is made of rough-surface bloaking, in a warm shade of tan cloth, the refers faced with the same material in brown, and trimmed with brown braid and olives. The fitting is effected by shoulder and under-arm seams, the blouse proper being seamed to the alashed basque portion at the waist line. The sleeves are two-seamed, finished with deep cuffs and small in proportion to those worn in the gowns of the season. At the neck is a high flaring collar, and at the waist is worn h belt of dark brown leather. The closing is effected invisibly at the centre-front by means of hooks and eyes, and the garment is lined throughout with plaid taffeta silk. To make this blouse for a woman of medium size will require two and a half yards of forty-four-inch material. Stylish Jackcts. The jackets of the year have very high collars. There is no exception to in almost all the new styles. The smartest and trimmest tight-fitting coats are moulded to the figure like a habit, and are covered entirely with appliqued or braided designs. Buttons to match the trimming are often used, and when this is the case the buttons are small. On the other hand, large buttons are utilized quite considerably for decorative purposes, some of them being very handsome indeed, but the distinctive feature about these indispensable articles this year is that medium-sized ones are out of THiaw winof. flifhnr hfl vwv tinv uaro. ^ or very large. ./.,. :?S '. ... - .;: ,-k - OF FASHION. I;' Trimming For Winter Gowns. Ail the winter fashions are now set* tied, and they show a tendency for | trimming of some kind. Jet and colored gimps, blaok and colored velvet, ( black and white satin, velvet ribbon, i bands of the dress material, rc vs and j 8 designs of braid, and yokes of silk : s cord, or bead and spangle embroidery | ? ^/vMaaolina <?t?n fVick ffornifiiroa f.V*of I f will be seen on every band. Small I buckles will be worn in folded collars ' and belts, and long silk, velvet ribbon and mousseline sashes are also among the accessories designed to increase the elaborate appearanoe of winter gowns, which are all much trimmed, except the severely-tailored street suits.?Isabel A. Mallon, in Ladies' Home Journal. Collar Bands. Collar bands are still a very distinctive point in the costume, and many very somber gowns have a dash of bright color at the neck whioh adds wonderfully to the effect. Folds of white satin with three folds of blue or red satin at the upper edge make an effective collar, as do folds of white satin with gold braid between. Little ; shaped pieces stand up at the side of ^ the back with a frill of lace or chiffon, f Bows at the back of the neok are not ? in evidence on any of the new gowns. { Basque For General Wear. ' Camel's-hair epingeline, in a rich, s dark shade of plum-color, is here c tastefully decorated with braid. Bon- ? net of shirred plum velvet with strings ] to match trimming of black wings and < violets. No other style of basqne is J so generally becoming, and as herede- ^ signed, it can be made either donble ' or single breasted as pictured in small " sketch. The habit basque, with un- J derlying box-plait in centre, revived j among the autumn modes, will be < . ^ ik i NTER BLOUSE. ' _ J r especially welcomed by ladies inclin- p ing to embompoint, particularly by P those of middle age. The perfect ad- j justmen is accomplished by double t bust-darts, back, side-back and under- t this rule, and Medici effects are seen ? arm gores (of whioh there are two in , sizes above thirty-six-inch bust). The t neck is finished with a close-fitting I standing collar. -The fashionable ? sleeves that fit the arm closely have g the requisite fulness at the top ar- c ransred in box-plaits, the trimming of } braid forming epaulettes in military style. For shopping, traveling, cycling or general wear the mode is a universal favorite and can be developed in any of the seasonable woolens in plain or ladies' basque. mixed textures. Large or small buttons can be used in closing and the basque can be simply tailor finished with stitched edges or decorated with braid in an endless variety of designs. Tn make this basoue for a lady in tlie medium size will require two and one-fourth yards of forty-four-inch material. ! In every mile of railway there are seven feet four inches not co?cr?d by the rails, the SDaoe left for expansion. . ' - i ; ... .. .., DR. TALMAGES SERMON. 5ABBATH DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DiVINE. Sod Among the Stars?Our Own World the Smallest of Them AH, Was Selected as the Theatre For Sin and Sorrow as an Awful Example to Others. Tbit: "It is He that bulldeth His stories a the heaven."?Amos, 1*., 6. This Is first-rate poetry from Amos, the lerdsman. While guarding bis flocks at light, he got watcning the heavens. He iaw stars above stars, and the universe leemed to him like a great mansion many itorles high, silver room above silver room, lilver pillars besides silver pillars, and winlows of silver and doors of sliver, and turets and domes of silver rising into :he immensities, and the prophet's sanctiled imagination walk? through that great illver palaoe of the universe, through the Irst story, through the second story, hrough the third story, through the tweniet^story, through the hundredth story, hrough the thousandth story, and reallzng that Ood is the arohiteot and carpenter ind mason of all that upheaved splendor, le cries out in the words of the text, "It 9 He that bulldeth His. stories in the leaven." The fact is that we have all spent too nuch time on one 9tory of the great mantion of God's universe. We need occaslonilly to go upstairs or downstairs in this nansion; downstairs, and in the cellar itudy the rock?, or upstairs and see God in tome of the higher stories, and learn the neaning of the text when it says: "It is Je that buildeth His stories in the heaven." "Astronomy was born in Chaldea. Its nother was Astrology, or the sclenoe of oretelling events by juxtaposition of stars. Che Orientals, living much oat of doors ind in a very clear atmosphere, through vfaichthe stars shone especially lustrous, fot the habit of studying the night leavens. In the hot seasons caravans ourneyed chiefly at night, and that gave ravelora much opportunity of stellar inormatlon. On the first page of the Bible he sun and moon and stars roll in. The lun, a body nearly three million miles in slrcumference and more than twelve thousand times as large as our earth; the moon, nore than two thousand miles In diameter. Jut Ood Is used to doing thlDgs on such an >mnlpotent scale that he takes only one rerse to tell of this solar and lunar manuacture. Yea, In three words all the other vorlds are thrown in. . The record says, 'The stars also." It takes whole pages for i man to extol the making of a telescope or nicroscope or a magnetio telegraph or a hresbing machine, or to describe a line tainting or statue, but it was so easy for Jod to hang the celestial upholstery that he story is compassed ia one verse: 'God aade two great lights, the greater light to -ule the day and the lesser light to rule the tight. The stars also!' Astronomers have teen trying to call the roll of them ever ince, and they have counted multitudes of hem passing in review before the observaorles built at vast expense, and the size tnd number of those heavenly bodies have axed to the utmost the scientists of all iges. But God finishes all He has to say about hem In three words, "The stars also!" ["hat is Mars, with its more than flfty-flve alllion square miles, and Venus, with its nore than one hundred and ninety-one ailiione square miles, and Saturn, with its aore than 'nineteen billion square miles, ,nd Jupiter, with Its more than twenty-' our billion square miles, and all the planets if our system of more than seventy-eight 'lllion square miles, and these stars of our ystem, when compared with the stars of j he other systems, as a handful of sand lompared with all the Bocky Mountains md all the Alps. "The stars also!" For irevity, for ponderosity, for splendor, for uggestiveness, for sublimity pnea on ublimity, these words excel all that humah peech ever uttered or human imagination ver soared after: "The stars also!" It is rat in as you write a postscript?something ou thought of afterward?as hardly worth tutting into the body of a letter. "The tars also!" Oh. what a God we have, and le is our Father! Bead on in your Bibles, and after while the Bible flashes with the aurora lorealis or northern lights, that strange llumlnation, as mysterious and undefined iow as when, in the book of Job it was written: "Men see not the bright light rhlch is in the clouds. Fair weather ometh out of the north." While all the lations supposed that the eartb was built -J >n a foundation of some sort, and many U^pvctu kUHk AV VU W UUQW w? ome great marine creature, Jon knew nough of astronomy to say it had no oundation, bnt was suspended on the lnIsible arm of the Almighty, deolaring hat "He hangeth the earth upon nothQg." While all nations thought the earth pas level, the sky spread over it like a tent iver a flat surface, Isaiah declared the rorld to be globular, circular, .saying of Sod: "He sitteth upon the circle of jhe arth." See them glitter In this scriptural ky?Arcturus, Orion, the Pleiades, and he "bear with her young." Without the use of telescope and wlthut^any observatory and without any agronomical calculation. I know that the ther worldls are inhabited, because my tible and my common sense tell me so. t has been estimated that in the worlds >elonging to our solar system there Is oom for at least twenty-five trillion of iopulatlon. And I bellevu it Is all occuiled, or will be occupied, by intelligent beags. Ood will not fill them with brutes, le would certainly put Into those worlds elngs intelligent enough to appreciate he architecture, the coloring, the grandur, the beauty, the harmony of their suroundings. Yea, the Inhabitants of those rorlds have capacity of locomotion, for hey would not have had such spacious oplortunlty for movement if they had not lowers of motion. Yea, they have sight, Is a why the light, and hearing, else how ;ev on with necessary language, and how leir themselve? from advancing perils? tea, as God made our human race in His >wn image, He probably made the inhabtants of other worlds In His own Image; in ither words, it is as near demonstration as care to have it, that while the inhabitants if other worlds have adaptations of bodily tructure to the particular climate in n which they dwell, there is yet similarity if mental and spiritual characteristics imoog all the Inhabitants of the universe >1 Uod, ana mane m Jttis image mey are aade wonderfully alike. Now what should be the practical result if this discussion founded on scripture and common sense? It is first of all, to enlarge >ur ideas of God and so intensify our adniration and worship. Under such considiration, how much more graphic the Bible luestion, which seems to roll back the ileeve of the Almighty and say: "Host thou in urm like God?" The contemplation also mcourages us with the thought that if God nade all these worlds and populated them, t will not be very much of an undertaking or Him to make our little world over again, md reconstruct the character of its popuations as by grace they are to be reconitructed. What a monstrosity of ignorance that he majority of Christian people listen not ;o the voices of other worlds, although the Book snys, "The heavens declare the glory jf God," and, again, "The works of the Lord are great ana to De sougat out." now nucU have you sought them out? You iiave been satisfying yourself with some ;hiD(rs about Christ, but have you notfced ;hatPaul call9 you to consider Christ as ;he Creator of other worlds, 'by whom also He made the worlds." It is time you Christians start on a world hunt. That is :he chief reason why God makes the night, that you may see other worlds. Go out tc-night and look up at the groat clock 3f the heavens. Listen to the 9ilvery ,'hime of the midnight sky. See that your children and grandehildrou mount the heavens with telescope for alpenstock, eaping from acclivity of light to acclivity )f light. What a thoughtful and sublime ;hinp that John Quinoy Adams, the exPrftsidnnt hnrnw ilnwn with vojirs linilfir took at the peril of hist life the journoy from Washington to Cincinnati that he night lay the corner-stone of the pier of the great refracting telescope, and there making his last oration. What a service tor all mankind whon, in 1839, Lord Rosse lifted on the lawn of his castle eighty mile3 from Dublin a telescope that revealed worlds as fast as they could roll in and h;hnt ntnrt-flfl nn nnthiiainsm whifth thl? moment concentrates the eyes of many of the most devout in all parts of the earth on celestial discovery. Thank God that we qow know our own world is, bounded on ill sides by realms of glory, instead of being where Hesiod in his poetry described It to be, namely half way between heaven and hell, an anvil hurled ont of heaven, talcing ten day* to strike the earth, and burled out ot eariu, isiciag tea mora anyi to strike perdition: From the high heaven a brazen anvil out. Nine days and nights In rapid whirls would last; And reaoh the earth the tench; wheao? strongly hurled, The same the passage to th' Infernal world. I thank God that we have found out that our world is not half way between heaven and hell, but is In a sisterhood of light, and that this sisterhood joins all the other sisterhoods of worlds, moving round seme great homestead, which Is no doubt heaven, where Ood Is, and our departed Christian friends are, and we ourselves through pardoning meroy ezpeot to beoome permanent residents. 0, what a God we have, and He Is our Father. Furthermore, I get now from all this an answer to the question whioh every InteilU gent man and woman sinoe the earth has stood has asked and received no answer. Why did God let sin and sorrow come into the world when He could have prevented them from coming? I wish reverently to say I think I have found the reason. To keep the universe loyal to a Holy God, it was important in some world somewhere to demonstrate the gigantic disasters that would come upon any world that allowed 'jln to enter. Which world should it be? Well, the smaller the world the better, for less numbers would suffer. 80 our world was selected. The stage was plenty large enough for the enactment or the tragedy. Enter on the stage Sin, followed by Murder, Pain, Theft, Fraud. Impurity, Falsehood, Massacre, War and all the abomlna* tions and horrors aad agonies of oenturies. Although we know comparatively little about the other worlds, lest we become completely dissatisfied with our own, no doubt the other worlds have heard and are ?Anr Kaorlnff oil Q KaM f fhffl WAfIH in fKft awful experiment of sin which the human race has been making. It Is no longer to me a mystery why so small a world as oars was ohosen for the tragedy. A. chemist can demonstrate all the laws of earth and heaven In a small laboratory, ten feet by Ave, and oar world was not too small to demonstrate to the universe the awful ohemistry of unrighteousness, its explosive and riving and consuming power. On the tower of Pharos, Egypt, a metalllo mirror was raised whioh reflected all that occurred both on land sea for a distance of three hundred miles, and so Egypt was Informed of the coming of her enemies long before their arrival. By what prooess I know not, but in some way this ship of a struggling earth, I think, is mirrored to distant worlds. Surely this one disastrous experiment of a world un loosing itseii irom uou win u? oauugu iut all worlds and all eternities. But notice that as other worlds rolled into the first book of the Bible, the Boole of Qenesla, they also appear In the lost book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation. They will take part in the scenes of that occasion which shall be the earth's winding up, and a tremendous oocaslon for you and me personally. My father was one night on the turnpike road between Trenton and Bound Brook, N. J. He was oomlng through the night from the legislative halls, where he was serving nis State, to his home,where there was sickness. I often heard him tell about it. It wu the night of the 12th and the morning of the 18th of November, 1833. Suddenly the whole heavens became a soene never to be forgotten. From the constellation Leo meteors began to shoot in all directions. For the two hours between I and 6 in the morning, it was estimated that a thousand meteors a minute flashed and expired. It grew lighter than noonday. Arrows of Are. Balls of Are. Trails of fire. Showers of flre. Some of I the appearances were larger than the full j mnou. All around the heavens explosion i followed explosion. Sounds as well as ! sights. The air filled with uproar. All the luminaries of the sky seemed to have received marching orders. The heavens ribbed and interlaced and garlanded with meteorio display. From horizon to horizon everything in combustion and conflagration. Many a brain that night gave way. It was an awful strain on strongest nerves. Millions of people fell on their knees in prayer. Was tnn world ending, or was there some great event for which all heaven was illuminated? For eight momentous hoars the phenomenon lasted; East, west, north, south, it looked as though the heavens were in maniao disorder. Astronomers watching that night said that those meteors started from 2200 miles above the earth's surface and moved with ten times the speed of a cannon .ball. The owner of a plantation In South Carolina says of that night scene. I was suddenly awakened by the most distressing orles that ever fell on my ears. Shrieks of horror and orles of mercy I could hear from most or the slaves l on three plantations, amounting In all to ! about six or eight hundred. While earnestly listening for the cause I heard a faint voioe near the dour calling my name. I arose, and taking my sword, stood at the door. At this moment I heard the same voice still beseeching me to rise, and saying: "Oh, my God! the world is on lire!" I then opened the door, and it is difficult to say which exoited me most, the awtulness of the scene or the distressed cries of the Africans. Upwards of 100 lay prostrate on the ground; some speeohless and some uttering the bitterest cries, but most with their hands raised, Imploring God to save the world and them. The soene was truly awful, for never did rain fall muoh thicker than the meteors fell toward the earth. The spectacle ceased not until the rising sun of the November morning eolipsed it, and the whole Amerioan nation sat down exhausted with the agitations of a night to be memorable until the earth Itself shall become a falling star. The Bible closes with : such a scene of falling lights, not only I lldgety meteors, but grave old stars. St. John saw it in prospeot, and wrote: "The I stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as i fig tree oasteth her untimely flgs whou she is shaken of a mighty wind." What a time that will be when worlds drop. Rain i of planets. Gravitation letting loose her grip on worlds. Constellations -flying apart. Galaxies dissolved. The great orchard of the universe swept by the last hurricane letting down tne stars like i ripened fruit. Oar old earth will go with the rest, and let it go, for it will have existed long enough to complete its tremendous experiment. But there will be enough worlds left to make a heaven of, if any more heaven needs to be built. That day . finding us in Christ, our nature regenerated, and our sins pardoned, and our hope triumphant, we will feel no more alarm than when in September, passing through nn orchard, you near the apples thump to the ground, or through a conservatory and you hear an untimely flg drop to the floor. You will only go upstairs into another story, a better lighted story, a better furnished story, a better ventilated story, a better pictured story, and into a story where already many of your kindred are waiting for you, and where profits and apostles and martyrs will pay you celestial visitation, and where, with a rapture be yond the most radiant anticipation,"" you shall bow before Him that "buildeth his stories in heaven." .CREATER NEW YORK PAY ROLL More Than Fifty Thousand People Will Draw Salaries. More than 55,000 persons will, directly or indirectly, draw pay from the city in tho first administration of the Mayor of Greater New York. Tho salaries of 33,000 of these, who^e names will be actually on the city's pay-roll, will aggregate $33,000,000. Part of this amount represents the salaries and patronage of the other officers elected recently, but this is comparatively small, most of the total representing the patronage of Greater New York's first Mayor, Robert A. Van Wyck. A conservative estimate of those who will draw payment indirectly from the city through city contracts and the like, is 22.000. Mayor Strong, at the time the greater city charter was passed, estimated this force as equal to, if not exceeding, the actual number of all offloe-holdcrs. Sccond only to the President of the United States in the value of his patronage, the first Mayor of the greater city 1s first In the significance of this patronage. With bis colleagues-elect, of the same political party as himself, Mr. Van Wyck can lead an army of office-holders and those indirectly employed by the city as great as the Army of the Potomac. Gold in Abandance. Secretary Gage's son, wbo Has reoenuy come from Dawson, stated that the first steamer from the Klondike in the spring would probably bring down 115,000,000. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. The Bitterest Lesson of Life-Christ In V?., *2* 1 /I. ...? quer io Secret -Light of God Obscurer All Elie-An Aututnn Pastel. Just to give up and tru9t All to a fate unknown, PloddinK aloug life's road in the dust, Bounded by wall9 of 6tone ; Never to have a heart at peace ; Never to see when care will cease ; Just to be still when sorrows fall,? This is the bitterest lesson of all. Just to Rive up and rest All on a love secure Out of a world that's hard at the best, Looking to heaven as sure; Evertu hope,through cloud and fear, In darkest night that the dawn is near; Just to wait at the Master's feetSure, now, the bitter is sweet! ?Rev. Henry Van Dyke. Christ in You. Memory has been taking me back to a summer holiday, years ago, in the pleasant valleys of Nova Scotia. i recall the woudet and delight with which I saw the ocean tide come up the Bay of Fundy and All the empty river beds. Through the hours v)f tu.* et>b, the Nova Scotian rivers dwindled 2nd shrank within their banks. Broad and barren reaches of sand exposed themselves; ships listed heavily on their sides, deserted by the feeble stream trickling in mid-channel. Then came the tide up the Bay of Fundy, up from the abundance of the unfathomable sea. You could hear it coming, With a distant sound of motion and life and unmeasured power. You could see it coming, with a pure white girdle of foam, that looked in sunlight like a zone of tire. You could smell it coming, with the smell ot freshness, the breath of coolness, the waft of far off scents from breeze-blown ocean leagues. You could almost feel it coming: for the heart stirred at the sight of it, and the joy of strength arose in the soul. It came trom the mighty fullness that could afford to give so grandly; it came from the opulence of an ocean that could spend itself without fear of poverty, that could pour itself out tn All fi thnnannH rivnra v?? nnt he dim inisbed; it came, as Arnold said, "with murmurs and scents of the infinite sea." It entered the river-bed; it filled the ?mpty channel as one fills a pitcher at the fountain; it covered tbe barren sands with motion and sparkilng life; it lifted the heavy ships, gave back to them their rights of buoyancy, set them free upon the broad waterway of world wide opportunity; it changed the very face of tbe land from sadness and apathy and dullness to animation and color and glittering activity. 80 Chj-ist comes into empty human lives,and fills them witb His fullness, which is the very fullness of God. So He stops the ebb of power, entering with His flood of strength. The difference between a life without Cbrist is the difference between ebb and flood; the one is -growing emptier, the other is growing fuller. Tbis does not require to be argued ; It is proved by living. The glory of this mystery of Christ In us Is Honor. An unconquerable grace and dignity invest the person of Christ. Christ is majestic. And when He comes within us, all our life Is honored and ennobled through His presence. At His coming the flat and barren materialism of our unspiritual thinking ia oovered and buried beneath the clear, deep waters of earnestness aud grandeur of purpose, And lAWtt nnr\ nruvpr xxrhtah POmH with Him. Every life fee is truJy permitted to enter becomes in Him a grander life. He seems to sweep pettiness and meanness of thought out of sight. He seems to swallow up in His broad fullness the failing streams of ourmoral life that were growing shallow and turbid. Christ Is great and clear and beautiful and noble ; and if Ho fills us in our inmost life, then?wondrous and impossible though it may seem?we receive of His fullness, and as He is, so are we in this world. Yet why Bhould we o ill this wondrous and lmEossible? We have had friends who enno led us by their nobleness. We could not resist them, but became beautified in spirit by their beauty seeking our inmost life. "The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares." Must not Christ do more even than this when He enters our inmost .being? Is not He that deepest soul, the Soul of God, who must lift us to the level of God's lite V?By Charles Cuthbert Hall, D. D. The Flowers of Grace. There are certain flowers of grace which will bloom upon the grave of Jesus to the end of time. Because He rose and lives again, we shall live also. Not only on Easter Sabbath are there flowers to be found on our Lord's emptied sepulchre, but every day and in every clime, wherever death hallows a grave, these precious plants of grace may be made to bloom and to scatter their delicious perfume. Where may we go to find faith and hope and resignation for yonder ireshly filled mound over our departed? To the tomb where Jesus vanquished death?in the garden, where tbe spices within and the plants without made tL - ? I? mU<Ak \f ocitoi* alumliaroH IIIO Sput 1U nuiuu UUI uum u<uiuw.w>? exceeding fragrant.?Theodore L. Cuyler. D. D. Mast Conqner in Secret. Wbat we are in solitude we shall, be io public. Do not for a moment suppose, 0 Belf-indulgent disciple ! that tbe stimulus of a great occasion will dower thee with a heroism of which thou betrayest no. trace in secret hours. The crisis will only reveal the true quality and temper o( the soul. The flight at the Master's arrest will make it almost needless for the historian to explain that the hour which should have been spent in watching was squandered in sleep. It is the universal testimony of holy men that lonely hours are fullest of temptation. It is in these we must conquer if we would be victorious when the eyes of some great assembly are fastened upon us.?Bev. F. B. Meyer. Light of God Obscures All Else. I climbed a mountain of the Sierras. The way was steep, the bowlders were huge, the nnMrnholloH lilrfl hAttfllionS of soldiery, when, on a sudden, I found me on a height; and a lake bluer than skies of Italy filled all my field of view. The background was snowy peaks, and the hcllow filled to the brim with a wonder of blue waters. I saw nothing else. This seized my senses. Thus David caught sight of God. Moral truth made his landscape. God swallowed up all besides. He was blinded by it and broke of! bis music. \\ hen God is seen, who shall attempt song or harp??W. A. Quayle, D. D., in "The Poet's Poet and Other Essays." An Autumn Pastel. The scarlet maples burn, the golden leaves of poplar and birch shine through the misty veil, and the deep purple of the ash glows as If it held a smoldering fire that the first breeze might ran into a flame, and through all this luminous leafa.e one may trace branch and twig as a wick in a candle flame. Only the evergreens are dark as when they bear their steadfast green in the desolation of winter, and only they brood shadows.? Rowland 13. ltobinson, in "Now England Fields and Woods." Many of us cannot be used to become food for the world's hunger until we are oroseu | in Christ's hands. "Bread corn is bruised." | Christ's blessing ofttSines meant* sorrow, but even eorrow is not loo great a price to pay j for the privilege of touching other lives with benediction.?J. It. Miller, D. D. Be true and retil in al] thy sacred acts; remember with whom thou hast to do. The Home of FlllbuAterA. Spain has been a little oft !n charging all the Cuban filibustering to the United Htates. The breaking up of the rendezvous on the Bahama Islands uncovorod the fact that most of the expeditions had their origin in those islands. Vesuvius Spouting Lava. Mout Vesuvius Is in great activity. A mass of lava is pouring out ol the Atrio del Cavallo crater, which opened in 1895. Two wide streams are flowing down in tha direction of Vitrova and Piano del Incstre. A Novel Locomotive. Four-cylinder locomotives are bein| tried on two railways in England. c ; ' j . X s THE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR DECEMBER 9. LNIon x nil; "vuniu nuuiuu} nuu ?< altatlon," Phil. 11., 1-11?Golden Text: Phil. 11., 8?Commentary on the Leason by the Rev. Dr. D. M. Stesrna. 1. "If there be therefore any consolation (n Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies." Consolation "here is literally ' one called to your side," and comfort is *:one speaking beside you." So we might read, "If there is anything in Christ being ever with you and ever talking to you,-fcnd in having the constant companionship and guidance and teaching of the Holy Spirit, if there fc anything In the tenderness and compassion of the Father manifested in the Son by the Spirit, then let it be seen in you to the glory of God that Christ may be magnlAed." 2. "Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like I ? Ihalnrr nf nna I accord,.of one mind." Oneness of the members of the body In the service of the' head Is something greatly desired by oar blessed Lord, as is very manifest in His prayer in John xvii., and it will also be the great desire of all who are tally one with Him. Not only does He comfort as with the assurance, "As the Father have loved Me, so have I loved you," but He also adds, "This is My commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you" (John rv., 9,12). 3. "Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind leteaoh esteem other better than themselves."' Another reading is, "In nothing follow self seeking." Jeremiah said to his scribe, Baruch: "Seekest though great things for thyself? Seek them not" .(Jer. xvl., 5). Although the whole land was Abram's and not .Lot's, vet rattier man nave sinie A.bram told Lot to take his choice and go whither he would. When the Philistines strove for the wells which Isaac had reopened, Isaac did not resist, bat kept on yielding until there was ropm for all and the strife ceased (Gen. xlii., 8, 9; xxvi., 22). 4. "Look not every man on his own things, bat every man also on the things of others." Not enviously, as some would pervert it, but desiring the welfare of others as much as or more than your own. Love aeeketh not her own (I Cor. xiii., 5). Let Episcopalians seek and rejoice In the wel-' fare of Methodists, and so Methodists of Baptists, Baptists of Presbyterians, and so one, all Uniting heartily to seek the honor of the H6ad in the completion of His body, the ohurch, which has no name Dut Christ (I Cor. xii., 12,13). 5. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." It any man hav? not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of Hia (Rom. vlll., 9). Now, every penitent sinner who trulv receives Christ receives also the Spirit of Christ, but some are mor? controlled by and manifest more of that Spirit than others. It is the privilege of every believer to be tilled wltn tne upim (Eph. v., 18), and led by the Spirit and to walk in the Spirit, and when one Is onl* willing to have no will but the will of God, no choice but God's oholce, no way but God's way, no service but what He ap? points, God will quickly fill that one with His Spirit and continue to fill him day by day and moment by moment. 6. "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God." Another reading is, "Deemed not his equality with God a thing to grasp at." He was not always saying: "I am God; I created all things; I own the universe; I do as I please in heaven and on earth, and therefore you must bow to Me, and if you don't I will make you, for I have all power." Those who are always grasping at their position as if they might lose it, or at least some of the honor belonging to it, are very small people, or people of very small minds, whatever their position may be. I. "JDUt maao aimsau 01 uu rejiuiatiuu, and took upon Him the form of a servant and Was made in the likeless of man." He took not on Him the nature of angels, which would have been a very great humiliation, but as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself like* wise took part of the same (Heb. ii., 14,16). He emptied Himself of the glory which He had with the Father before the world was, and consented to endure the limitations of a mortal body for over thirty-three years? not only so, but he consented to endnre suob limitation under the most limited of earthly conditions, such as the manger at Bethlehem, the humble home and the oarpenter's shop at Nazareth. 8. "And being found in fashion as a man He humbled Himself and be came obedient unto deathj even the death of tho cross." The Son of Man came not to bo ministered unto, but to minister and give His life a raDSom for many (Math, xx., 28). He consented to be despised and slandered and misunderstood, perseonted, blindfolded, buffeted, spit upon.soourged, led as a lamb to the slaughter, cruoifled. 9. "Wherefore also God hath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name." He i3 now at God's right hand, with the Father on His throne (Bev. ill., 21), and In due time all kings shall fall down before Him and all nations serve Him (Pa. lxxii., 11). By His work and by that alone, which He has finished mlfKrtiif Valnfrnm man AtArnttl lfffl Ifl frflfl. ly given to every one who receives Him, and a share In His glory.and a place on His. throne (John xvil., 22; Rev. III., 21). 10. "ThAt at the name of Jesus even knee should bow of things in heaven, ana things in earth, and things under the earth." And so it shall come to pass, for God has purposed it. "The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand" (Isa. xiv., 24). John saw the consummation of it in his vision when he heard every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are In them, saying, "Blessing and honor and glory and power i be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever" (Rev. v., IS). There Is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we maybe saved. 11. "And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." It shall surely-|>e, to the ever'astlng comfort and bliss of some and to the everlasting woe of others. Saved and unsaved shall all oonfess that Jesus Christ is Lord. The saved shall rejoice in Him as their Lord, while the unsaved shall have to confess Him as t<ord to their everlasting confusion, but in each God will be glorified. See IT Cor. ii., 15, 16. A good test as to whether we are now honoring Him as Lord is seen in verse 14 of onr lesson chapter. If by the Spirit we have confessed Him as our Lord and daily do so, there can be in our lives no mur* j muring or disputing, no strife orenvy. He is not Lord of these things.?Lesson Helper. THE TENNESSEE EXPOSITION. Proposition to Make Permanent Some of the Kxhlblt*. Herman Justi, Chief of the Bureau of I Promotion and Publicity of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, has issued a letter directed "To the Press of the Country,in which he makes a handsome acknowledgment of the great and indlspensible aid ?h? omnaifinn hv the newsDaners. In his letter Air. Justl incorporates a suggestion for the continued use of some of the exposition buildings. He proposes that the State of Tennessee shall maintain, enlarge and elaborate the displays in the mineral and forestry and the agricultural buildings as a permanent advertisement of the State's resources. He also urges that an effort should be made to secure a permanent Government exhibit at Nashville. He says it is simply a question of time when Government exhibits will be maintained in all States; he suggests that Tennessee make an effort to secure the ilrst of such exhibits. Curious Slcn of Motirnlnj. A schoolma'nm in Fayett , Jle., pinned her Mack shawl over one side of the school house flair as a sign of mourning for General Neal Dow. National Meet of Stock Growers. A National C?? iv>ntioa of stock growers tm?s hp?n c.iilel for Denver. Col.. January 25 to 27. " For an Ambulance Ship. The Navy Department Is considering the advlsaMlitv of instal'fner aa ambuiana? ahiD to av.j'niiany tb^ (!>*ot in servloa. ?? ,11 iaad? _ A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.! ^ THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST! IN MANY WAYS. i M ftolf-Conqnea* ? A Floktinf Moot ? Aj Udy'a ObMrrktloni of the D*#nkla* ladnlftd In by Passengers in the Atlantic Line*?Captain Crawford'* Tom* Toa may win your way if you will, my Wend, You may conqaer as others did, Yon may storm the oltadel still, my friend, Where fortune and fame lie hid. ? The heroes whose names you 'read, my" ' friend, Are common-place folks like you, ' . . ? . And they never have done a deed, my friend, - fi That you may not also do. But there Is a knowledge of right, my friend, In whioh you must needs be versed: That If you would win in the fight, my friend, TourselT you must conquer first. And here is a thought to think, my friend. And ponder on day by day, < Tou must conquer the habit of drink, my -t friend, ? Before you oan win your way.- '-vfi ?Sacred Hart Review. "-*" , ' v_i A Floating Saloon. A lady writing.to a Canadian paper "5 "I was appalled by the terrible drinkinS* , habits Indulged in by the passengers whU3v"-; <,?* C coming over on an Atlantio liner from '?: Liverpool to Montreal, and the metnoa 01 the stewards and stewardesses and otbel steamship employes In inducing them to * vi drink. For instanoe, in speaking from a woman's standpoint, when a lady first suf- v i fere from seasickness liquor is at onoe sag- * i gested as a remedy, and usually the poof -,v victims fall into the trap, and, supposing . ! she has the money, she will be kept in that condition for days. The steward ass, it 1* y said, gets a good margin of the profits for what she procures as a great favor for her 'sick ladies,' and the prices on all. drinks , ; > are more than double those usually ohargetf I on shore. English bottled pale ales were the favorites, next to stouts, as a-common drink on the boat, not to mention the more expensive liquors, wines and other mixtures, which were served even, to men in theix cabins when wanted. It is very hard to ofc tain any temperance drinks, and oventbdtt a small bottle of ginger ale otat sixpence? twelve cents. , . . . tSg "Two days before landing one poorwoman* out of the steerage exolted the interest abdj compassion of many as she lay Btretohedl ,: on deok for two days and'one night,wrapped! ?i-'M In blankets. 'Poor thingl' and other ex- ' preeslons of pitv accompanied the placing, . of many a bit of dainty food or fruit before her, of whioh she took not the slightest notice. Later on it was discovered, that she was'sobering up,' having been placed there to hasten the process by the doctors ordei3- -M " 'How can snob things do counrenanoeari ? Unfortunately, I was told, on Rood authority, the actual takings at the bar on everr . 0 trip across averaged from (2000 upward. This was told to a gentleman by the bazH S>"" V; tender himself. The ship was a floating ~v saloon, open all day Sunday, there beUg. Y . ao perceptible dlfferenoe on that daylniespeot to the liquor drinking, ' "Much Indignation wai caused too, Jbpfc fisj the taking of a sitting room, ad verttoeaWf. the use of lady passengers, and devoting ft' to purposes of gambling. Though an- ' oounced on land as a 'ladles room,' It vu ' known on board as the 'card room.' In passing the half-curtained door I frequently1 3aw stacks of money belnggambled for." Captaln Jack Crawford'* Toast. ' ' ~r\ The following is a reply made by Captain! . yf Jack Crawford, the poet pcout, to a young ; vjj lady at a banquet who had asked him "to' . drink a toast to the ladles": ?%Fk. "Miss , vou little know what 'a dlffljult task you have given me; nevertheless, if I can reoall a toast that I once heard delivered by a reformed man, I will try to Rive It to you. It was a toast to woman, to be drunk, not In that which may bring .fyi her husband reeling home to abase where he should love and oherish, send her sons '-y to drunkards' graves, and. perhaps, her >,. . : y J ~Wn Tint ..'j: udugniura iu uvoo vi ouawv. ?w- y- & * that, but rather in God's life-giving water,',: f>ure as her chastity, clear as her lntu-jy. US lions, bright as her smile, sparkling as thaj laughter of her eyes, strong and sostaiaj ; Ing as her love. In the crystal water 1} will drink to her, that she remain queens '.if?, regent in the empire she has always won; grounded deep as the universe in lovej ' -*{s built up and enthroned in the homes ana hearts of the world. I will drink to. her' :' who In childhood clasps our little hand* and teaohes us the first prayer to the' great Father, who comes to us In youth 'is with good counsel and advice, and who, ' < when our feet go -down into the dark shadows, smooths the pillow of death as - f$ no other can; to her who is God's last, but' God's best, gift to man?I drink health in jv.'Q Clod's own beverage, cold, sparkling! water." A Word of Advice. - ^ In a sermon delivered In St. Andrew's! Cathedral, Grand Rapids, Mich., recently, -/<>* the Rev. John A. Sohmitt spoke as follows:! } "Donot have liquor in your home In sight: of the ohildren. You may say thatyouj need It as a medloine, but the drag stores' A are near enough In oase of necessity. Tool '-v|0q do not need to make a saloon out of your: '."A homes for fear of a possible emergency^ uive gooa example iw mo yuuug. the pledge yourself, and let the most) prominent place on the parlor wall be*. given to your framed, pledge of abstinence. "Let everyone lend his influenoe to v) stamp out this terrible evil of intemperance. Do not merely bewail the general rulnj N '< wrought by the ourse. Take an aotlve pare in preventing, or at least opposing, thai evil. Saynot/I can't.' You can and must J Every word, every effort, helps, It Is only] by united and continual effort that any good Is accomplished in this world." The Question of Expense. Waiving any moral considerations volved in Deer drinking, the faot of its o<?t should throw It out. It Is not a thrifty habit and no young man who has his wa* ? to make In the world Is entitled to an un?"'v' thrifty habit. It is idle to repeat the tru- \\ Isms of the theme. We have heard till we cease to heed, that drink is the great waster of society. Oreat Britain spends annually two hundred and fifty millions of dollars in drink. Our own statistics are neariy as bad. Drunkenness Defined. Drunkenness is a vice of a very ugly kind, and is occasionally productive ot disastrous consequences. It frequently leads . _ . ' ? ?- f nrol I a men into collision wuu mn juw, uuu onviu the ranks of our paupers to a most undesirable extent. Generally speaking, It \r ! makes its victim a less flt and valuable member of society than he would otherwise be, and therefore caunot be reprobated In unduly severe terms by all good citlzens. Reduced to the Samo Loir Level. How liquor brings all classes to the sam? i low plane is shown by a certain English novelist, who found, within a short interval of time, in a singlo slum lodging-house in London, two officers of tiie army and, navy, a physician, two university men' (one of whcm had kept a pack of hounds,, and succecded to a large fortune), a master of a college and fellow of the royal so- ^ . ciety, and others from similarly good sta-, tions in life, all of whom had been brought to the last stage of degradation aad pov-* erty through drunkenness. Temperance News and Notes. Love of God and love of drink do not agree. Driuk makes nceessary a great number of our orphan asylums. If sociability endangers your temporal and eternal welfare, don't be so foolish aaf to be sociable. Australia has ruled out barmaids. Thos? now in service may be registered and licensed, but no more can be engaged. Drink destroys tho happy home life which Is part of tho joy of childhood. What child can bo happy whoso home Is cursed by the blighting influence of drunknn n Ana t 1 One hundred persons took the pledRO recently, at a rnwtiug of St. Peter's Total Abstinence Society, Oshkosh, Wis. Mora than sixty of them took tho pledge for life, and none for less than a year. . 1 ;.! j, ' * . ...