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pi WORLD'S Bid
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The largest gan ever built is now
being constructed at the Bethlehem
(Penn.) Iron Works. This enormous
pieoe of ordnanoe will weigh, when
completed, 126 tons. It will exceed
by six tons weight the monster gun
which Krupp, of Germany, exhibited
at the World's Fair, in Chicago, and
in length it will be nearly five feet
longer than the German gun.
This monster gun is being fabricated
under the War Department. It
is the biggest order ever given to any
establishment in the world.
The great gun is being built under
V the superintendence of John F.
. Meigs, formerly a Lieutenant 01 me
United States army and a standard
t artillery authority in this country.
"Wftth him is associated Captain E. L.
Zalinski, United States army (retired).
The Government inspection
work is in the hands of Captain Ira
IfcNutt, of the ordnance corps of the
?rmy. All three gentlemen are on the
ground and personally see to every
detail of the immense undertaking as
it progresses.
The intention of the War Departr
: ment, it iB announced, is to mount the
great piece on a specially built founda.
tion on Bomer Shoals. The protection
"for this gun will be a turret,
whioh will wholly inclose the crew
and the greater part of the gnu. From
k its position on Bomer Shoals the great
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"piece oi oranance win nave a iuu i
sweep of the channels leading into
New York Harbor. There is not, it is
declared, a vessel afloat to-day with
armor of snfiloient strength to resist
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BIGGESj
'**; ' It will weigh, complete, 126 tons, and
11 wui pe mouiilHU on a special luuuuauuu a
its shot John F. Meigs estimates
jV that? blow from the new gun would
W have a striking energy equal to that of
& 2000-ton ship when running at full
j speed. The shot from the gun, he
adds, would smash, crack and batter
down any armor which it would be
possible for .a ship to carry.
k : The caliber will be sixteen inches,
r -the length, from breech to muzzle,
; >Will be forty-nine feet two inches.
v ' Through the breech in a vertical line
^ the gun will have a measurement of
exactly five feet. Mr. Meigs computes
the weight of a shot for the new
gun at a little over 2300 pounds. That
means more than a ton of metal. The
heaviest shots fired in England have J
not weiched over 2000 ponnds.
The powder charge for the Ameri^.
_ oan gun will-weigh nearly 1000 pounds.
. Provided extreme elevation for range
could be obtained, a shot from the
New York Harbor gun should be able
to travel more than sixteen miles.
The greatest known range ever attained
was from the famous "jubilee
shot" in England. The distance
measured about twelve statute miles.
The United States has never before
attempted any heavier pieoe of ordnanoe
for coast defence than a twelveinch
gun. The weight of a piece of
the latter -caliber is approximately
fifty tons. In the sixteen-inch gun
?- there is observed a jump of seventysix
tons increase in weight.
? The first ingot for the new sixteeninch
gun was cast recently at Bethlehem.
It was for the tube forging and
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- jrogaea iw,ouu pounas, xne jac&ei
/ forging is also out. It weighs 90,000
pounds. Under the contract made
with the War Department the Bethlehem
works will turn out all forgings
for the great gun. The tempering and
- .annealing process will also be applied
at-the Bethlehem shops. When all
the parts are out, the tube, jacket and
hoops will be shipped to the United
States arsenal at Watervliet, WestTroy,
N. Y. There they are to be as
' aembiea togetner, ana toe gun ltsen
rifled and made ready for service,
f All metal used is fluid compressed.
The specifications which are being adhered
to demand the most exacting
physical tests. Specimen pieces of
metal are taken from all forgings, are
subjected to elongation, breaking and
bending tests. Finally every part of
the gun must be of forged metal. The
tube, for instance, has been cast and
Tough bored, it will next have a mandrel
introduced through its length and
ihen be placed under the hammer.
For this latter stage the Bethlehem
works have the largest hammer in the
world. It is capable of delivering a
blow of 120 tons, or some ten tons
more than *the famous Krupp hammer.
The building of the new sixteen-inch
gun is an expensive undertaking. The
gun itself will cost abont 8120,000.
For single guns the average cost to the
Government for all fortification work
in this country is roughly $1000 per
ton of gun.
The cost of the gun carriage and tur
ret will bring the cost up to as much
again as the weapon, while the cost
for foundation will, it is estimated,
round out a grand total of at least
$300, 000.? The foundation for the sixteen-inch
gun will require a depth, it is
/> said, of fifty feet if earth be the basis.
m A/vnafynntAil
xhib iounuauuu must uc wuuU
of ooncrete.
For Dampening Clothes.
To dampen the clothes before ironing,
a Texas woman has invented adevioe
which consists of a water receptacle
with a sponge at the bottom, to
be attached to the nose of the iron and
the cloth as it slides along.
QEST CANNON |
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r NEW YORK. ^
IDAHO'S WOMAN GOVERNOR.
For Two Weeks Miss Margaret Reeve
Filled the Executive Chair.
The news that for two weeks a
woman had filled the executive chair
of the State of Idaho?a thing unprecedented
in this country's history?
created no end 01 lively commeni
throughout the Northwest.
The woman is Miss Margaret Reeve,
who for several years has held responible
places about Idaho's State
building, having for the last four years
been private secretary to the Governor.
?
When Governor Steunenberg and
Secretary of State Lewis were called
to the northern part of the Stato on
business of the greatest importance in
connection with the State's vast domain
of white-pine timber, they were
at their wits' end to know whom they
could safely leave in charge of State
matters during their absence, as Attorney-General
McFarland had preceded
them from the State.
It seemed for a time the trip would
have to be postponed, or that one of
them would have to,remain .behind,
when Secretary of State Lewis suggested
to the Governor that Miss
Reeve be left in charge. The Governor
was almost stunned by the bold
plan, bnt Miss Reeve had proved herself
most efficient, being familiar with
all the routine work in the building,
and the Governor consented to the
plan, and Miss Reeve was left at the
State house olothed in full Guberna- :
torial authority, which she exercised i
mrtTtTh liifffrTOil^^
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r GUN IN THE WORLD TO PROTECT NEW
is six tons heavier than the giant gun shown 1
t Bomer 8hoals, in the lower Bay. No vessel
in a manner that not only gave satisfaction
to the Governor, bat has won
her great distinction.
Before the Governor and party had
been absent twenty-four houri matters
of great importance were brought to
Miss Reeve's attention. The Governor
and Seoretary of State had left a
number of important blanks to which
they had attached their signatures,
and it was left to Miss Reeve's discretion
to issue them or not?requisitions.
nDDlications for extraditions :
from Governors of other States, and i
many other matters. ' i
She sought legal advice, bnt the atI
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MISS MABQABET REEVE. 1
I
torney informed her she must depend
upon herself, aa he did not "care to be
?j .1.
UllAUU up iu tuo uvto yjL ouj icmoic
Governor." When the Governor re- 1
turned he was surprised at the amount
of executfve business his fair substitute
had turned out, and frankly admitted
the excellence of her judgment,
although in one instance?the case of
an application for extradition?he said
he would not have issued it until he had
given the protestants a hearing. He
has announced his determination to
defend with vigor every act of "Governor
Reeve," including those quoted:
Currents In the Atlantic. <
Experiments have been going on for
the past two years for the purpose of
trying to learn something of the
characteristics of the Atlantio ocean as
a great moving body of water. As a
result the whole Atlantic is shown to
be slowly circulating round andround,
like an enormous pool.
A Church Literally Founded on a Rock.
The tenth anniversary of the Presbyterian
Church at Waterloo, Iowa,
was celebrated a short time ago. There
would be nothing remarkable about
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CHURCH UASS FROM A BOCK.
that, only that the church is part of a
solid rook, haying been out out of a
'; big boulder ten years ago.
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ELECTRIC CABS IN NEW YORK.
Homeless Vehicles Hare Become a Fix*
tare In the Biff City.
Electric cabs, hansoms and broughams
are a sucoesB in New York, so
ELECTRIC HANSOM USED IN NEW YOBK.
much of a success that the company
operating them has just given out an
order for 100 new vehicles. Daring
Jane, the first moath of their operation,
a total number of 632 calls were
received, averaging between thirty-Wb
and twelve per day, carrying 1680 passengers
4603 miles at rates similar to
the horse-cab system, and each month
sinoe that time has seen a steady increase
in the service.
The best resalts obtained from these
vehicles show that about -1.25 horsepower
is supplied for a propulsion of
2000 pounds over ordinarily level roads
at a speed of ten miles an hour. This
consumption of power is a trifle over
two and one-third times that of similar
work on rails, which indicates that the
equipment of the battery is carefully
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adapted to trie total weigni 01 tue vemcle
and just sufficient for practical
traveling capacity. The maximum
weight of a battery for a hansom weighing
3000 pounds is 1200 pounds for a
distance of twenty-five miles at the
maximum speed of twelve miles or at
an average speed of six miles.
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YORK.
by Kmpp at the World's Fair at Chicago,
oould resist a shot from It.
A vehiole to travel twice this distance
could readily be built, but it
would need to be twice its weight in
order to accommodate twioe the bat
tery equipment, xnis type 01 venicie
is constructed -with the view of a speed
of from six to twelve miles 'an hour,
but a vehicle can be built to approximate
thirty miles an hour, although it
would necessarily be made as a raoing
apparatus and not fit for street work.
Two one-and-one-half horse-power
motors, weighing 172$ pounds each,
ore found sufficient for a hansom, and
are Operated at a maximum speed of
1350 revolutions per minute.
The Treatment of the Hair.
The hair falls out from various
causes. > Sometimes it is because of
fevers, but more often from debility,
or because there is a lack of some element
in the system which is necessary
to its healthy growth. Scientists declare
that real, genuine baldness?or,
as it was once grandiloquently termed,
a 1 -A- J J-i*
complete ueuuuauuu ut mc vmuiai
integument"?ia caused by a microscopic
creature that preys upon the
roots of the hair and deprives it of its
vitality. Then it dies and falls out.
The cause must be ascertained before 1
any remedy can be applied. If it is '
from weakness, take tonics and build
up the system. If any parasitic disease
exists, destroy the organisms and
the hair will probably recover its
wonted vigor. As to the beneficial
effects of washing the hair, all authorities
agree that it is much better for it
to be kept perfeotly clean. Frequent
brushing is very necessary if one
would keep the hair in good order,
but the brush must not be too harsh
or more harm than good will result.
Great care should be used in the
selection of a good pomade.
Largeat Cast Iron Pipe Ever Moulded.
Theilargest pipe ever cast was turned
oat at Bessemer, near Birmingham,
Alabama, the other day. The pipe was
FIRST 72-INCH PIPE OAST. '~i
seventy-two inches in diameter on the
inside,and seventy-six and one-quarter
inches in diameter, outside measurement,
and twelve feet six inches long
over all. The metal in it weighed 20,000
pounds. The seventy-two-inch
pipe was moulded for the New Orleans
& Northeastern Railroad, to be used
for culverts under their tracks. A
small river can flow through one of
these pipes. It is as large as the great
sewers of Paris which were built of
brick and stone.
"Dead ai a Door Nail."
The door nail in earlier times was
the plate of the door upon which the
old-fashioned knocker struck to
arouse the inmates of the house. As
the plate or nail was struck many more
times than any other, it was assumed
to be more dead than other nails.
Hence the phrase, "Deap as a door
nail." If old ideas 'are to be revived,
as now seems possible, the phrase may
soon have a present application.?
Hardware. . -
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CURIOUS FACTS. Q
, Red hats were first worn by card!*
nals in the year 1245. pF
It is said that soaps that floats gen
erally are spongy on account of the
air that is in them.
There is a club in Penang, on the Lo
west coast of the Malay Peninsula,
composed of Ohinese who hold debates
in English.
The want of employment in Mel- \
bourne, Australia, has created a new rh
"profession." Those who sit on the Coroner's
jury get four shillings a day.
There is a rush for those berths. > :
It is estimated that over twelve p1
million pounds of human hair are used '
annually for adorning the feminine
heads of the oivilized world. Four
tons is the allowance for New York
City. To
An tone Yallbs. of Sacramento, Cal.,
is alive with a ball in his brain. The
man who shot him had taken several "C
balls before the ocenrrenoe of the rt"
tragedy. ]
It is said that a stammering temper* anoe
orator irresponsible for the word
"teetotal." He assured his audience
that nothing but "te-te-te-total" ab- ,
stinenoe wonld satisfy temperance re* ca
formers. Idi
The Constantinople Museum has "
been enriched by archaeological treas- gp
ures taken by the Turks during the tu
late Greek war from the museums of
Larissa, Trikkala, Tyrnavos and at,
A.lmyron. Tt
Mashonaland natives, fighting the
British, seem to be provided with bli
small bore rifles. They are pulling sa
down the African transcontinental 111
telegraph wires and cutting them up ?c
into ballets. im
For once, at least, the practioe of ^
pouring oil on waters has resulted in wt
trouble. Georgia cows whioh drank let
from a brook into whioh oil from a
burning mill flowed have been sickened
unto death. an
The expression "pin money" oomes Jjj
from a oustom observed in the four*
teenth century, when women were lm
given money on two days of the year, ?P
January 1 and January 2, to purohase ^
the then expensive pins. cl<
The University of Heidelberg has mi
made an arrangement with a German gr
company whereby students who are
totally disabled by an accident in the
ohemioal and physical laboratories are wl
to receive $500, or a proportionate ?}j
sum for temporary damage. The an- W]
nual dues are seventy-five cents. hti
Alois P. Swoboda, of Omaha, Neb., j^?
who three years ago was a physically tn]
weak man, is to-day a marvel of th
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strength, Having omit up nia ooay aiter
ft new"system of onlture. He now p?
challenges Sandow to a competitive th
etaminatipn, will allow a strong man ne
to place his hands aronnd his (Swo- [j*
bodo's) neok and try to strangle him, br
and will permit Fitzsimmons to strike ml
his hardest blow on his face.
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Lifeboat Propelled By Hydraulic Power. J?
Even though Germany can boast of je<
the largest and fastest passenger ves- cc
sel afloat, England has the finest,
largest and safest lifeboat ever iQ"
launched. She is the Queen, built by of
Messrs. Thornycroft, at Chiswick, and yo
is of thirty tons displacement.
Although propelled by steam, she co
has neither paddles nor propeller, wl
Her motive power is rather novel and ba
an innovation in maritime architecture.
Her power is hydraulio, sea
water being pumped in fore or aft, as to
may be required. po
The force of the water ejected from the
tubes drives the boat through the jg
water'at a rate of speed equal to sh
that of a similar sized propeller- &b
driven vessel. The advantage . of
this method of propulsion lies
in the fact that, having neither pro- ev
peller nor wheel, these appendages
cannot become entangled in wreckage,
thus endaugering the stability of the br
boat. mi
The Queen carries a crew of nine 'Jjj
and oan oarrv fortv passengers. She 0f
can barn either ooal or liquid fuel and
lias been thoroughly tested by the
officials of the Lifeboat Association. .
Sh is stationed at New Brighton.? ou
New York Journal. thi
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A Carious Case of Snmjjglinir. in<
A curious cases of smuggling has ??
been disoovered by the Government m?
officials on the Mexican border. In gl<
May last, when the land about Nogales *n
was declared subject to entry, a man |iv
located a town site directly on the Tt
border line between fthis country and an,
Mezioo, and built a honse so that the
front doors was in American territory wi
and the baok in Mexico. Goods un- we
loaded at the Mexican door were sent D0
1 -1 at-? a ? jaaw ilina ava/1. 9^
OQl til 1)11(3 AXUOnUltU UUUi J vuuo v v MV4ing
the customs duty. The case was *go
reported to the Government, and the ey
land office has now cut off the operations
of this enterprising man by deoiding
that no town site may be located
there unless there is a street run- J
tjlng along the border line.?Detroit fj1
Free Press. joj
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Made Blind by m Fright. tin
While on her way home from Union no
Hill a few evening ago Mrs. Henry j\b.
Schaffier, of West Hoboken. N. J., jnj
stumbled over a carcass of a horse, lty
whioh lay in the street. She fell to
the ground, and when she discovered ?0D'
what'had thrown her she was com- 9tr
pletely unnerved. While riding home pr<
in a trolley car she was seized with a "T
fainting spell and had to be assisted
to her home. She recovered sufficiently
to inform her husband of what 1
had caused her illness. Several limes
that night she was seized with faint- inj.
ing spells. The next day she was un- nr<
able to spoak or to get out of bed. A co!
high fever set in and in a short time ?5e
her eyesight began to fail. Soon she cai
was totally blind.?Trenton (N. J.)
American.
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In Fainting Spell*. cul
Whatever the cause nominally of a of
fainting spell, it should be remem- <T
bered that specifically it is due to an
absence of blood in the brain, and the
first thing to do is to remedy this de- Ne
feet. The head should at once be
placed lower than the rest of the body, 1
so that the deficit may be restored by
circulation. If the patient is sitting
in a chair this is easily done by tilting , gCi
the chair so that the head of the ox<
patient rests gradually on the floor.
There should be no crowding of people pj,
about the patient, and fresh air should oit
be freely admitted into the room at la
once. Then dash oold water in the ^
face and apply salts to the nostrils.? <oc
Boston Cultivator. th<
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OD'S MESSAGE TO MAN.
:EGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS.
?? Lends a Spell?The Autnmn of Life
?The Secret of Gladness- Mutt Look
Beyond the World ?Give Thanks In
Everything:?Psalms of Gratitude.
Is within the hazel's bough
gift of mystic virtue dwells,
lat points to golden jres below,
ind in dry desert places tells
iVhere flow unseen the cool, sweet wells,?
?o, In the wise Diviner's hand.
Be mine the hazel's grateful part,
i feel, beneath a thirsty land,
The living waters thrill and start,
The beating of the rivulet's heart!
ufflceth me the gift to light
With latest bloom the dark, cold days;
> call some hidden spring to sight
rhat, In these dry and dusty ways,
Shall sing its pleasant song of praise.
I Love! the hazel-wand may fail.
But thou canst lend the surer'spell,
iat, passing over Baca's vale,
Repeats the old-time mlraole,
And makes the desert-land a well."
?Mrs. S. E. Kennedy, In Zion's Herald.
Tito Autumn of Life.
ro the eyes that can see and hearts that
n interpret there is more wealth of mean;
and more real wlnsomeness in the chaste
d charming colorings of an October wood
an in the blossoming orchard of May. 3*he
ring's loveliness is all garnered in aumn.
and a thousandfold more. The one
gromise, the other fulfilment?the one a
eate and transient beauty, the other the
iding richness of matured character,
tere is more of usefulness and infinitely
>re of hope and 'joy in the culminating
aries of the ripened year than in the
Dom of spring, even as there is more to
tisfy and delight .in the perfected
e of an aged saint than in the
imitive maturity of the . child,
i associate advancing age with decrepi- .
de and discontent, feebleness and petu
nee. is to rob life of its rioheat sweetness,
pe old age Is rather the richness and
irmth ana brightness of the resplendent
if. The true life appears when its mateil
robe is about to complete its transient
inistry. The spirit's radiance then capres
the physical until its own sweetness
d saintllness finds some measure of adeate
expression, and prophesies by its diae
transfiguration of its diviner destiny,
iture given no surer foregleama. of man s
mortal glory than in the unspeakable
lendors of an October day. Her revelains
unveil the infinite. Paul's paradox is
oven true?the invisible things of God are
jarly visible through the things that are
ide.?Eev. Dwight Mallory Pratt, In Conegationallst.
The Secret of Gladness.
Although I cannot say to myself "Now 1
u De iziaa, ana cannot attain to joy uy a
jvemont of the will or direct effort,
though It is of no use to say to a man?
lich Is all that the world oan ever say to
m?''Cheer np and be glad," whilst you da
>t alter the faots that make him ssd, there
a way by which we can bring about feelgs
of gladness or of gloom. It is jast
la?we can choose what wa
ill look at. If you prefer to occupy
ur mind with the troubles, losses, disftfH
intments, bard work, blighted hopes of
Is poor, sun-ridden world, of course sadss
will ccme over you often, and a general
ay tone will be the usual tone of youi
es, as it is of the lives of atony of us, ,
oken only by occasional bursts of foolish
irth and empty laughtpr. Bat if yoa
oose to tarn away from all these and insad
of the dim, dismal, hard present
sun yourselves in the light of th?
t unrisen sun, which you can do,
en, having rightly chosen the sub>tn
to tbink about, the feeling wil/
me as a matter of coarse. Yoa cannot
t*e yourselves glad by, as It were, laying
>ld of yourselves and lifting yourselvei
10 gladness. but you can rule the direction
your thoughts, and so can bring around
u summer in the midst. of winter, bj
:adlly contemplating the fact?and the]
0 present facts,though we talk about then
Ueotively as "the future"?the facta or
tioh all Christian gladness ought to b<
sed.
Give Thanks in Everything.
Am I to thank Ood for everything? Am ]
thank Him for bereavement, for pain, foi
verty. for toil? Must I lift my hands ovei
y dead and say: "Father, I thank Thee
at Thou hast taken away my friend?'
it pleasing to my Father that lost
ould be pleasant to me? Is it good that 1
ould be told to give thanks foi
erything? Be still, my soul, thou hast
sread the message! It is not to givi
auks for everything, but to give thanks is
erything. It is not to praise Ood tor th<
ght, but to bless Him that the night is not
eper. I have read of the 8on 'of Mao
at He gave thanks OTer the symbol of Hil ;
oken body. Not for the pain, but for th?
ligation of pain, did the Son of Man giv<
inks?not that His body was broken, but
at it was" broken for me. In thine hout
sorrow give thanks like Jesus.?Matheson
Knit Look Beyond the World.
K. picture which has no sky in it is witht
the highest beauty. ''It is the'horizon
at gives dignity to the foreground." A
o without sky in it is most unworthy and
complete. A man who sees only bondf
d stocks and deeds, bales of goods and
)cks of houses, stores and faotorles and |
tcblnery and chimney tops, with no
jams, above and beyond all these, of star*
d blue skien and a Heavenly Father's faoe,
not living as an immortal being .should
e. There is no sky In his vision of life
lis world is very beaatiful in Its place,
dOod means us to enjoy it axd do faithI,
earnest, and beautiful-work in it; but it
only one little part oI our Father's house,
hen in our thinking, planning and doing
i do not look beyona this world, we are
t living worthily. Wben wd lose the sky
t of our life-vision the glory fades trow
The only, secret of spiritual safety and
od in prosperous times is in keeping the
0 fixed on heaven.?J. B. Miller, D. D., in
Ivery Day of Life."
Psalms of Gratitude.
V psalm which cultivates the spirit of
atitude is a psalm which we ought often
read. If we were more gateful both oui
r and our strength would be increased,
atitude is born in hearts which take the
je to count up post mercies. If we cant
sing about them, we can at loast think
out them. Thinking about them is a
"??o 9 cv~n/iq Xfo/litafino An 'a Hani.
Wi gtnvv. V? w ?v?
js with us begets in us a spirit of humil.
It leads us to magnify the pronoun
'hou," and cultivates a feeling of dependce
and trustfulness which is a fountain of
' and strength Not only happy but
ong is the man who, in the midst ol
jsperity, can look Godward and say,
hou hast girded me."?C. E. Jefferson.
Life Not a Mere Playground.
Life is ample as eternity. Beginnings
ine are here. Life is enjoying, but life is
o achieving. To lie by brooklets dream;
in the nun is not life at its best. We
<i to do. We are parts of hi?torj\ We
ne and pass but leave a.shadow and footnt
where we trod. We change the world
came to. . . . Make self a prince, a
sr'nty memory on whose wings the ages
ill be upborne. Achieve ! Life is more
in playground. It is harvest-field and
tie-field. It is a place to sufTer and bear
?nt sorrow, a- d exert the effort of a Heres,
and know the prose of toil and poetry
battle.?Rev. William Quayle, D. D., in
he Poet's Poet."
UNMAILABLE ADVERTISEMENTS.
wipapors Exploiting Prize Scheme? to
Be Excluded Prom the Stalls.
rhe Post Office Department at Washingi
has notified Postmaster Van Gott, o[
w York City, that newspapers and other
rlodioals containing advertisements of
lemes offering prizes by ohance will be
rinded from the mails. The order farther
'? *??' nnnnmnlntArl vrnrda
iloh the contestants are to solve by aupnthe
missing letters: V?E??A, a
Austria ; 0?P?N?A?EN, a city
beamark, etc. It Is a mere matter ot
ance whether the competitor selects the
>rds designated by tha promoter as the
oreot Liat/ a?d apon tfis selection hugs
5 ohanoe of obtaining the prise."
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THE SABBATH SCHOOL, i
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS Tf
PAO nCACUOCD OX
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Lesion Text: "God's Love In the Gift of Hli T1
Son," I John It., 9-16 (Christmas Lotson)?Bead
Luke II., 1.20?Commentary
by the Ker. D. M. Stearns.
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The lesson committee baying given the
choioe of this as a Christmas lesson instead
of the quarterly review, doubtless w
the .majority will prefer this to'the review,
and a? the quarter has taken us over the ry
last stages of Paul's sojourn in the mortal
body and given us his oft repeated, testi-' (
mony that he was ready to die for Christ B
it is not aside from'the main thought of
the review to turn to Him who died for us tt
?11 o./I moa Ka?? In PofkloVoM + K.+ ITo Ul
Oil QUU TT CkO UUIU 1U UObU^DUUUi WLIOW UO
might die on Calvary, the just for the unjust.
9. "In this was manifested the love of >?
God toward us, because that God sent His
only begotten Son into the world that we
might live through Him." In ehapter Hi., 7]
16, it is written, "Hereby perceive we*the
love of God, because He laid down His life yj
for us, and we ought to lay down our lives
for the brethren." In Bom. v., 8. it is,
"God commendeth His love toward us in
that while we were yet sinners Christ died Aj
for us." At the Christmas time, when all
are. merry and send gifts to each other as w
they talk and sing of Him who was born
in Bethlehem, do we stop to consider what
it cost Him to leave His home in glory and
become a helpless babe in Mary's .^rins or
.Whatitoost His Father, God, to give Him ,?r
up to this humiliation unheard of before .
in the history of all worlds as far as we
know? ' a.
10. "Herein is love, not that we'loved ,
God, but that He loved us and sent His S1
Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
Oh, the depth of meaning In that phrase^
"propitiation for our sins!" See Him in
Gethdemane sweating, as It were, great M
drops of blood. Hear Him on Calvary ory
out, "My God, my God, why bast Thou G]
forsaken He?" ana talk not ot Livingstone,
for Africa, or Llnooln (or America, or a
mother for her ohild as an analogy or in
any way illustrating His sufferings for as.
It is next to blasphemy so to do. His sufferings
for onr sins as far exceeded all suffering
earth ever saw as heaven Is higher >
than earth and God's thoughts higher than,
ours. He who knew no sin was made sin .
for ua. The Lord laid upon Him the in- r*
iquity of us all. It pleased the Lord to
bruise Him. He. was wounded for. our
transgressions. -Who can measure the sig- 0
niflcanoe of suoh statements?
11. "Beloved, if God so loved us, we
ought also to love ene another." How .
often we have read and heard "God so loved j"
us," and we are glad that He so loved iv
us as to provide eternal redemption freely
for us even at suoh a cost. But what do if
we know about loving one another and ^
laying down our lives for the brethren? Do
we not often know more about hating one
another, or at least 'disliking one an-. ?
other? I speak of Christians so called. ?
And as to loving the heathen in Africa or *
China or Japan or India, or the Islands of t
the sea, or the poor Eskimos for Christ's ^
sake?what do wa know or it? ta
12. "No man hath sees God at any time, j.
If we lote one another, God dwelfeth In V(
as, and His love is perfected in as." It is *L
also written in John i., 18: "No man hath ^
seen God at any time. The only begotton ?
8on which is in the bosom of the Father,
He bath declared Him." We cannot know m
God exoept as we know Him 4n Christ. tn
When Philip said to Him, "Lord, show as th
the Father," He answered, "He that hath _
seen Me hath seen the Father." God was m
in Christ. We who have received Christ te
and are saved by- His precioaa blood are <t
saved in order that Goa may dwell in as
manifestly and be seen in our words and n
works. There 1s nothing that manifests at
God quite so mach as love?the love that BI
was seen in Christ and is bo fally described
in I Cor. xili. Let the children at this' w
Christmas time be taught that He who tB
dwelt in the little babe of Bethlehem will th
dwell in them and manifest His love in w
them. " . Ill
18. "Hereby know we that we dwell in
Him and He in as, because He hath given
us of His Spirit." The flnt fruit of the j
Spirit Is love ("G&l. vi, 23), and love seem UI
to include all the rest, and love is the fulfilling
of the law. Notice that as' freely as i0
He save His Son He also elves His Spirit, hi
And if we are not filled with His Spirit it
can only be because oar hearts are not
open to Him, and if onr hearts are not M
open to Him if is because we have not be- an
held as we might.and should His great ^
love to us in Christ; the love that spared on
not His own Son, but delivered Him up for th
us all, and will with Him also freely give ^
as all things. pa
14. ''And we have seen and do testify bli
that the Father sent the Son to be the ?
Saviour of the world." As the angel said ^
to the shepherds at His birth, "Behold I th
bring you' good tidings of great joy, whioh y
shall be to all people'* (Luke il., 10). The
Father did not send Him to be the Saviour |n
of a few, but of all who will oome to Him. ^
The time will come when all Israel shall re
be saved, and after that alt Nations, but in a ,
this age the gospel is to be given to all the to
world, that all who will may believe, and te:
thus His body be completed from out of all Qe
Nations. He is therefore calling upon us [n
who believe to show these things to all the QC
world as quickly as possible. What are we q,
doing about it?
15. "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus
is the Son of God, God dwelleth In him .and
heln God." According to John x., 33, 86,
the Jews understood the Son of God to be wl
annul nrtth find, and Jesus SO taught DC
and said: "Though ye believe not Me, tn
believe the works; that ye may know ana qi
believe that the Father Is In Me and I in a i
Him." To receive Jeans as Ood our Sav- ra
lour Is life eternal, and makes us to be h?
His dwelling place. Our works should gc
plainly deolare that Ood Is in us, and this th
should be our constant aim and desire. If Hi
it is really so, He will work In us that which he
Is well pleasing In His sight. How wonder- sa
ful that to be saved we only need to be at
willing to come to Him, and to live a life mi
to His glory we need only to yield willingly ag
and fully to Him, and He will by His Spirit
do it. of
16. "And we have known and .believed lb
the love that Ood hath to us. Ood is love, w<
and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in pr
Ood and Ood in him." We certainly oan- as
not comprehend His love, and we are not w<
required to, but we know it from His word, th
and we can believe it. Some day we shall mi
be able to comprehend with all saints what th
is the breadth and length and depth and
height of it (Eph. Hi., 18), but now we can ap
each one for himself believe that it is broad m
enough to take in even me; that it is as pa
long as eternity; that it is deep as from an
heaven to Calvary and high as from my on
lost condition up to the throne of Ood. lej
Believing this and thus our oneness with
Him to all'eternity, we will want to make
it known to all people, and thus hasten the bo
consummation of peace on earth under to
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JAPANESE GIRL AT YALE. gj
Miss Yamaffuchi,a Student at the Unlver-. til
slty, Wears Her Natlve^Costume.
Yale University has for the first time In
its history a Japanese girl as a student. .
Miss Yoshi Yamaguchi and her brother, IT
Leliehi Yamaguohi, have come from Kioto, Ar
Japan, to complete their education. Both ?5
have studied at the Doshisba University,
one of the leading colleges of Japan.
Miss Yoshi intends to make a specialty
of English and music under Professor Cook
and Professor Parker. The girl is at her
sister's home, in Washington street. Mr. c/
Yamaguchi is rooming ;at West Divinity.
He expects to be at New Haven for four or
five years and to study economics in the ,
classes of Professors Haaley and Sumner.
The first appearance of the Japanese girl
on the Yale campus attracted much atteution.
She wears her native costume. Her
"'""i kinrtl' hnfr Hhs close to her head and 8 i
Is very gl09sy. She has bright red cheeks ge
and is short fn stature. Her manners are
refined and pleasant. Her brother Is very ho
enthusiastic over Yale. ar
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A Demand For Meat Inspectors. in1
The Agricultural Department, Washington,
Is finding difficulty In supplying the ?r
demand from the live stock centers for In- De
spectors required to exAtnlno the dressed
meats for shipment, There has reoently by
been a very pronounced Improvement In is
the European market for Araerloan meats, on
whloh the law requires shall be. inspected is
before it is ahluDed. and as a consequence is
Inspectors are oalled for from C&ioaRO, 8t?. va
Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and other on
Western points.
TEMPERANCE COLUMN'
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HE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST]
IN MANY WAYS. .y U
ie Train Wrecker?The Erlll of Social
Drinking?Earneit and Convincing
Words of a Member of the English
Parliament?Preserve the Desir Boys*'
Chere 1b danger aheadl" Throngb the!
darkness of night,
HarkI a voice full of anguish Is callings
ho con blame the brave heart lor its mo-1
ment of fright, ~ ,
hile the far-reaching gleam; of the engine's
headlight
On. a vision of horror is falling? ; .< ;
it the hand at the throttle doe* not falter
or fall; i
nr^rinvn CAM fhAlAVAr fhAtKrhthA/thAAk* '1"
may turn pale V"
At' the thought of a death soappalllng. r
|here Is danger aheadl" See, each mo- ' ment
more near; .
God of meroyl how fast they are going.; /
hough the brake on the wheels grate
harsh on the ear,
hile the echoing valleys and hills, far and! .
near,
Catoh the sound of the shrill whistle'*
blowing.
ad the onlooker questions Kwlthf ear-bated'' .jri
breath; :WS|
ill they stop or ga.ddwn -in-thb river of
death;
That so near at the momantjeema flowing?
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mere is danger aheadl'V,,flushing swiftly*.
along,
Our Bepublio drives onward, unheedingJ - '-^c
3d of lovel is there none to arouse the
mad throng?
tail no cry reach their ears midst th?
laugh, jest and song? i
Are they deaf to all warning?all plead*
tag? a i
ighty God! give the strength; give the)
courage we laok. |
[ve us courage to hurl the Bum Power .
from the traolc.
Bare Thine arm; give the power we are]
needing. <
?Thomas Sullivan, in Barn's Horn,
Social Drinking.
Sir James Haslett, member of. Parliament
r Belfast, syeaking at a meeting recently
>ld in London, presided orerfty^he prea- , -r
it Archbishop pf% Canteqbpry, gave the
llowlng Important testimony, ynlch we
tmmend to the statesmen and public men
the United States:. ...
"My Lord Bishop, it Is with very great
easure that I rise to propose th&t the -*5
Mt thanks of this meeting be given to yet*
r presiding on this occasion. I think youi . J-fi
e the right man In the right place. Thei
lurch muat lead if we are to have a1
ialthy influence in society. As a strangers
nongst you, I have had very great pleas-1
e in hearing all that has been said in retv/i
fn fnfnl aKefinnnnm T havA nAVAW
sted drink. And, what possibly Is not an
isy matter, I have never offered It to
hers. The greatest difficulty we have Is
the soolal Intercourse of life?to enter- -
in publicly, as a public man, without .
inking. So strong are social habits that ,V.
m have raised against you all the
eapons that satire and evil oomunlcation
can possibly flild. . Ton a
called 'mean5 ana 'Niggardly.'
id a hundred other things* I think
y lord, that the change must come from \e
women. They must aot as a lever in
is matter, though I do not know very
all how they are to ^o it. It wias one of 1
y duties, as the Majbr of Belfast; to erirtain
the representative of royalty, and
was a difficulty with me how I could do
without drink, Unfortunately, the Lord] '
:eutenant dropped upon me just the week
ter I was appointed. That difficulty was
eater, I think, that I might have been
>le to withstand; but I ^had then my wife
Ithme, and she said, 'Well, you had bet- .
r resign your office,' We carried iti , i
rough at best we could. -I trust that the
collection of that may still brighten her . > A
'e in-the other world. But it Is the diffiilty
of soolal life that you must seek to1
travel. You eannotdo itby legislations >; :?
am bound to say that when I waited
>onthe Lord Lleutenaift and told himl ."M!
K)ut my difficulty, he said, 'My dear felw,
I would only spit upon you if you sacIced
your principles.' Lord Londonderry
is too muon of a gentleman to seek that II
ouldln any way lower myself, and IfeltJ
an old Sabbath-school teaaher, working!
aongst the young, and addressing meetgs
all my lire, that if I had then put drinlq
i the table I would have sacrificed all}
at I had ever done. Hy Lord Bishop, ltj
not an easy thing to aot thus. I nave*
ssed through a recent election, and my)
tterest enemies were those who 1 soldi
Ink. It has been sala in Ireland that thef
adiest way to a man's intelligence laf
rough his stomach. It is wonderful how}
ndly we are disposed after we get our
oner. It has unqt*estionably an immense
Huence; and there is a large class In our:
untry ot v&om tt may oe saia tnai sn?
sdiest way to their Intelligence 1b through
glass of beer or spirits. Ton have that!
fight against. During my recept const,
and daring a oontest ten years ago, I
ver had at the election committee meet- - lij
ga one drop of strong drink. If we oan->
it carry an eleotion without--It, then, in
id's name lot us surrender."
1'iwtrre the Boys.
Durlng an aotive temperanoe revival, in| ;
iloh the Order of Good Templars was es- ':: ;
:cial ly active, the depression In the Uquorj
afflc in a certain New England city was
lite marked. A prominent dealer said to
friend: "Bankruptcy seems to be staring) ' . ^ J
s in the face, for moat ot my customers
ive either Joined the Good Templars or ,
me to the House of Correction, ana som?-<
ing must be done to save my business.'* , \
9 proved himself eqaal to the needs of th? . jflM
or. by renovating and decorating hlM
loon, and in varloos ways making It sof
naar iiMtn A# VAnnM ' i
lirdUUTO 09 kvi aouuio n www v*v|/ ? j- "Of f "1,
9n as his customers, sad abundant moneyf
:ain flowed to his ooffers. I -J.
The Nation spends hundreds of mllllond i. v
dollars aDnually upon the education o?
i boys and girls, in order, id" swore aj
Drthy oitizenshlp. The,Christian oburohi
ays and tolls and sacrifices, that the boya
id girls may become Christian men and)
jmen. But the ram-shop ""can 'live onlyj"
rough the baffling of all Christian, hu-> '
unitarian and eduoatlonal effort to rear . i
e young In the ways of wisdom.
/Lnd the Nation not only looks on, in J
lathy, while the vast procession of young
an Is being wlokedly diverted from the
ith that leads to virtue, honor, hea|fh,
id prosperity, into that path that leads
dy to degradation and death, but it gives
gal sanction to the work of the. emiffriea
of Satan.
Reader! it may be only your neighbor's
iy to-day, but it Is likely to be your son
-morrow, li you ars coo seiosu 10 muu
the public welfare, we beg you 'to reember
that your own boy bus no security
aInst the enemy that Is on the lookout
r him. The liquor-seller want# boys, and
ill have them if existing conditions con- '
iae
A BleMed Change.
Temperance people in England are notg
with muoh gratification the fact that
e present Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.
smple, has dispensed with the use of
Ines at Lambetb Palaco, where during al)
ilscopal regimes since the Reformation
ch refreshments have been habitually
rved. This is just what was to have been
:pected from as staunch a friend of tern- '
trance as Dr. Temple Has long suown
mself to be.
Temperance Now and Notes.
The little principality of Waldeok, inOerany,
has forbidden the granting of marige
licenses to habitual drunkards.
rt isn't the drop in the wages that hurts
man so much as the drop he takes after
tting his wages. That's what drops him.
Drink destroys tho serene and peaoeful
ippiness which a mother feels, who see?
ound her sober and loving and respectful
ildren.
Scientific temperance instruction is to b?
troduced into Queensland, Australia,
ts of approved physiologies have been
dared for examination, and all steps wilt
taken as rapidly as possible.
A. little fellow, in response to a question!
his teacher, said, "The Monroe doctrine^
knowinor what Is vour own and holding
i to it." I think that the Monroe dootrina
a good temperance doctrine. Know what
your own and hold on to It. Know thai
lue of the mind Ood gave you and holdj
i to It.?Rev. Dootor Conaty. .;
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