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J|| North and So
fA N A L building
seems to be the
rage now.
Dividing North
and South America
by means of the
Nicaragua Canal
will be the nest
great engineering
y_ Americans win i
f T-fvJrl^fe American!
fWlwH ^ anc* ability
ItirlUuw? } will plan it, AmeriiffllB
0011 COQtractors will
;.;v ' | execute it with the
, i r > aid of American
. * machinery. It is now universally admitted
that a short cut must be made
for ships between the Atlantio and the
Paoifie.
Since 1826, when the first party of
American engineers penetrated the
^ tropical wilderness of Nicaragua, every
part of the oountry south of Mexico
has been carefully examined. The
,United States, Europe and Mexico
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{ ' . ' A COFFEE PLANTATION BO
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. "have been interested. Elaborate maps
have been made, Volumes of scientific
data compiled and every engineering
; . problem has been studied and discussed.'
The scheme has been a diplomatic
Slip!' , question for over three-^narters of a
' > -century. Several times the United
States and England have been on the
verge of declaring "war over the -poa,
?. session of Nicaragua. Each realized
"the importance of that country if a
canal were built
The Nicaragua Canal may be briefly
* -y'7- . described as a summit level of navi'
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) IXA liaau vratci, umca iuu^?
'" ; JIG feet above the sea level, reaching
| V "within three and one-half miles of the
Pacific and twelve and three-quarter
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TTPIOAIi SCENE ALONG THE CANAL BOUTS.
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miles of the Atlantic Ocean. The total
. \ length of navigation is 169$ miles;
there Trill be three lift locks at each
end of tie summit level.
Vr- For milea huge machines must dig
V. away loose rook, sand and mad and
/ * force it throngh pipes some too or
three miles away. ' For many miles
* machines must scrape out the bed of
l' the river and lakes along the line of
?; > the canal. Some of these great dredges
would dig oat from 6000 to 8000oabie
yards of material every twenty-four
/*' - : hours. Thousands of men must work
y ; iron piofcs ana snoveis wnere tne mar
chines cannot stretch out their giant
arms and dig away at the canal bed.
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UlG Iif.EDGES AT WOBF ON THE EN1
'vi The reason the Nicaragua route is
the best one is that a water way has
been found that requires canal digging
for the shortest distance. You
ean leave the Caribbean Sea in a
steamer the size of one of our small
v coasters, and can go to a point where
t -you can reach the Pacifio Ocean by
walking three hours at a moderate
gait. It is but twelve miles distant.
It your steamer has a mast fifty feet
high, by olimbing to the top of this
mast you can see the blue line of the
Pacific in the distance.
|H>; The natural part of the canal is
H formed bj the Sau Juan River and
H jLake Nicaragua, of whroh it is au outjEH
let. The lake is a basiu in the Cen
tral American Plain, filled with fresh
H- water ranging from ten to 240 feet in
H depth, and ia 110 miles in length. Its
B ' CUtJit ia not leas than 400 feat wide at
Mp? S^ipifp
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GUA CANAL. |
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sed Waterway to Divide
?uth America. Ni
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any point, and varies from twelve to ?
fifty and sixty feet in depth. Bat at ^
one point of the river, and only a few
miles from the Atlantic coast, an
earthquake or some other convulsion,
possibly a thousand years back, threw 1
up a barrier of rock, which must be
cut or rather blown out in order to al'
1 oTnra ofoamnbinn
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To take away this rook and to build r
locks and dams to support the walls of ''
water to the required depth are the
great engineering feats of the Nicaragua
Canal. Tons of the most powerful
explosives must be used. Holes
must be drilled in such a manner that
the force of the explosives with which
they are loaded will work directly on
the portion of the channel to be excavated.
Some of the blasts will contain
fully 50,000 pounds of explosive.
If a ship passes through this cut the
summit of the rock will be higher
than the top other mainmast. An ex- 11
cavation over 125 feet wide must be
made, for the minimum width of the ?
canal will be 100 feet. N
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RDERANG ON THE CANAL. le
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Two great dams will be needed to bl
maintain the water ways at a proper ar
level. These are termed the Ochoa u?
and Tola. The rock taken from the Ce
ohannel described will be used in f0
building them, mixed with cement, th
It is calculated that they will prove ur
strong enough to retain the tremend- ap
ous water presture.
On the Pacrao side is what is known
fls the Tola Basin, which will be filled
with water to the depth of thirty to
seventy feet, by another dam 1800 ro
feet long and seventy feet high. From
the Oohoa dam to the Tola dam a ves- j,0
sel will travel a waterway over 150
miles long, on which the fall is but cb
four feet of the entire* length. To
reaoh the summit level, as this is ,,
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termed, tnat is, tne nignest point 01 "
the canal, involves another engineering
problem, on whioh many years of
study have been spent by some of the ca
most noted experts in ihe world. '
The decision reached by most of the ?
engineers has been a system of locks. B"
The plans provide for three on one side BU
of the summit level and three on the P*
other. The highest will raise a vessel ?
forty-five feet, and the lowest will raise
her between twenty and twenty-five c0
feet. They are to be 650 feet long,
eighty feet wide and thirty feet deep. 1
The St. Louis or St. Paul, for instance,
could easily be accommodated in them.
The canal will be less than thirty
feet deep and 100 feet wide on the bot- *"
torn. The locks will be constructed
of the largest blocks of stone and concrete
ever used for this purpose, and J4
will be olosed by gates of steel, be- 7?
side which the largest lock gates in *
the world will seem as pigmies.
The greatest industry in Nicaragua wc
is coffee culture. The one drawback
to the business and to all enterprises
in Nicaragua, is the want, not only of
labor, but of the proper kind of labor. a 1
A gentleman who is engaged in the ??
coffee industry said recently that his
laborers would get drunk on Sunday, il1'
take all day Monday to sober up, come
to work on Tuesday and continue y0
working until Friday or Saturday, ]pe
when they would lay off again, so that *01
Via mnM r?f fh? fnnntrir lnhnrs ftVinnf
one-half of the time. Counting Snndays
there are 165 fiestas, or feast .
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USANCE TO THE NICARAGUA CANAL. hi
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days in Nicaragua, during which time
the mozo "toils not, neither doth he 8
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spin.
The Department of Matagalpa is 1
destined to be a great coffee center at
no far distant day when the great
canal is bnilt. There are now, about
4,000,000 trees under cultivation and
each month the number is largely in- J111
creased. Persons who claim to have a :r(
knowledge of the subject state that
whereas in other parts of Nicaragua eT
the yield per tree is from half a pound
to a pound and a half of coffee, in
Matagalpa the trees produce from two
to four pounds. A number of Ameri- pa
oans are engaged in the coffee indus- in
try, some owning as high as 2000 man- ha
zanas?nearly 4000 acres. These wi
lands can be purchased from the Gov- dr
ernment at the rate of $1.50 per man- bl
7an? hairier ohnnt twn C.norliaVi a/rros o i
If pll Wmm
lough there are some large holdings,
e majority do not average over
enty aores.
DOES IT MEAN SEPARATION?
Stir Caaaed by an Act of the Norwegian
Diet.
A great stir has been caused in
orway and Sweden by the recent acsn
of the Storthing at Christiana in
e matter of the Norwegian flag. The
orthing has voted that hereafter
mutNf KAC HOW<?rv>. s""1
IE LABGE FLAG ip THE PE0P06ED FIiAO
OF NOB WAT.
orway's banner shall float without a
ck?the symbol of the union with
weden. Some say that should King
scar veto the resolution two more
[ets must pass upon the matter be re,
it can go into effect; others that
le new flag will come into immedi;e
use. Since 1844 the closest relaons
have been maintained between
orway and Sweden. At that time the
ag of each nation was changed so that
le jack in the upper left-hand corner
jmbined the colors of the other naon.
For several years past, howjqt,
there has been a growing feel*
ig of discontent in Norway concernig
the close relations of the two pow s.
This dissatisfaction King Oscar
is fstriven to assuage. The two
mntries have entirely separate and
istinct governments, but are ruled by
le same king, Oscar of Sweden. Eaoh
untry has its own parliament, which
isses laws for its respective conny.
All laws are subject to the ap oval
or disapproval of the king.
The flag of Norway, with the jack
ft out, will be four red corners, with
Greek cross of blue through the
inter. The Swedish flag has four
ue corners, with a jack of red, blue
id yellow in the upper left-hand cor?r
and r (rreak cross of vellotf in the I
nter. The Norwegian flag had
rfcierly the jack, which contained
e bar of yellow as a symbol of the
lion with Sweden, but this will not
>pear in the flag in the, future. *
Very Absent-Minded Men.
A friend calling upon Peter Burwes,
a celebrated Irish barrister,
ie morning in his dressing room,
and him shaving himself with his
seto the wall, and asked him why he
ose so strange an attitude. The
swer was, "To look in the glass."
iVhy, there is no glass there," said
e friend. "Bless me!" exclaimed
irrowes, "1 did not notice that
fore." Then,, ringing the bell, he
lied the servant and questioned him
specting the looking-glass which
d been hanging on the wall. "Oh,
r," said the servant, "it was broken
c weeks ago/' A certain learned
ofeasor at Cambridge is a very
sent-minded man. A friend of his
,d been seriously ill. When he was
nvalescent the professor used to
ad him .jellies and other delicacies,
le day he took him a fine bunch of
thouse grapes. The old friends
ire very pleased to see each other,
d were soon deep in a discussion,
le professor, beooming interested,
gan absent-mindedly nicking the
apes, takiug one at a time till they
>re all gone. On going out of the
or he called back to his friend,
tfow, mind you eat those grapes;
ey will do yon all the good in the
>rld."
His Plaintive Plea Prevailed.
A homesick Japanese iB as homesick
uau as can be. One who acted as
ok on the Indiana la9t summer sent
the following pathetic petition for
s release: "Excuse me. Honorable
Fers. I am always thanking ior
ur kindness, thit I could not forget
rpetuality. Last month 1 higned
r my work, therefore I have a duty
do make my responsibile for a year,
.t for the sake of I could not undermd
English language, I could not
vq you even a satisfaction and moreer
I would often trouble my friends,
this I have many sorrow. If I
ist bear with patience this work for
pear, I must take a sick surely. I
,ve to do much thing for my native
untry. Though you will refuse my
sh'I will never free away because I
lieve a God and have many honor,
it my Honorable Offers please exse
me my work and give me a free."
is pleasant to be able to add that he
d not have to take a sick, for he got
s free.?New York Commercial Adrtiser.
The Gnest and the Ice-Padding.
A story reaches the Scots Pictorial
ncerning an occasion on which Lord
jsebery was entertaining a large
,rty, among others a farmer who
sted ice-pudding for the first time,
linking that something had gone
:ong in the kitchen, and desiring
save his fellow-guests the pain of
s own experience, he whispered to
a host that the pudding by some
iscbance had got frozen. His Lordip
listened gravely, witliout mofing
muscle of his face, tasted the pudng,
thanked the farmer, and then
lied a servant. After some little
nversation, he turned to the farmer
th a relieved expression, and said:
It's all right, Mr. . They tell
s it's a new kind of pudding, and is
)zen on purpose." Thereafter the
rmer partook of his portion with
ident relish.
To Dry the Hair.
A New Yorker Has patented an ap?
xatas for drying the hair after washg
or shampooing, a metallic casing
.viog a heating stove at the bottom
th air inlet holes, the air being
awn to the top of the casing and
own through a funnel by means of I
anftlvina f?n. j
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SHEEP SWUNG OVER A GORGE.
Pastured On an Island One Hundred and
Hlxty Feet Higb.
Ponies are not the only things for
which the Shetland Islands are fa*
ions. They exhibit also some
3tartling and pictnresqne arrangements
in rocks, one of the most remarkable
examples of which lies off
the southeast coast of Bressay, and is
known as the Noss. It is famous, not
only for the peculiarity of the formanlon
tny. o af-ronrro on/1
gerous custom which prevails there.
The Noss is called an island, and it
answers to the definition, since it is
certainly an extremely solid "body of
land," and the bleak northern sea foams
completely around it. But it looks
more like a hnge black "stand-pipe,"
for it is a cylindrical column 160 feet
high, its flat top having an area not
much larger than an ordinary village
door-yard. A child could almost
throw a stone aoross it.
It is said that more than 200 years
ago a reckless bird hunter, tempted
bv the eggs of the numberless sea
galls which whitened the top of this
giant column, and influenced by the
promise of a cow, actually succeeded
in scaling the almost perpendicular
wall of rook, and established a sort of
rope bridge between the island and
the mainland. When he had driven
his stakes and secured the ropes, his
friends entreated him to be the first
to try the new device. But whether
he had shrewd suspicion as to its safety,
or whether he wa^ prompted by
mere bravado, certain it is that he
refused, and chose rather to return by
STRANGEST SHEEP PASTURE IN THE WORLD
the same perilous tr^sk by which he
had come.
But as he was slowly and paiafally
toiling down from the dizzy height,
his foot slipped, he lost his hold, and
men?mere was xio unu vu cmim ms
promised cow, bat the sea claimed oae
more victim.
Nevertheless, the frait of his bold
eadeavor remained, aad it is still there
to substantiate the story, for the
bridge of rope between Bressay and
the Noss is still maintained. The
canny Scotch farmer, whose means of
existence in these bleak isles are not
calculated to excite envy, saw that
th9re was a bitof good pasture on this
summit; so he made a kind of wooden
chair or cradle just large enough to
hold a man and a sheep; and in this
primitive way he still transports his
Hock, one at a time, over to this little
browsing place.
Of course not many sheep can be
takqp over, for more than a dozen
would dangerously crowd the place.
Joseplilne'a Birthplace.
It has been said that places as well
as people, songs as well as perfnmes,
elude description. This may be aptly
applied to the Island of Martinicjue,
the pearl of the Lesser Antilles, a
neighbor of that spot upon which the
keen interest of the world has been
centred within recent months.
A century ago, however, it was
Venus, not Mars, that became the ruling
deity ovur Martinique, it having
won undying lustre for being thel?irtholacc
of Josephine Tascher de la Pa
gerie, known m after years as the wife
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I HE STATUE OP EMPBESS JOSEPHINE AT
FORT DE FBAXCE.
Df Napoleon?Josephine, Empress of
the French.
The childhood of Marie Joseph Rose
Xascher d'e la Pagerie?afterward abbreviated
to Josephine?was one calculated
to enhance those physical
oharms for which she was always noted.
Her father's home was built on one of
the great hills at Grois Islets, overlooking
the bay of Fort de France.
The people of her beloved island, in
memory of its most famous woman,
have erected one of the most beautiful
statues of modern times, and it stands
as guard to the shining waters of Fort
de France Bay.
Too Mean to Get Married.
A bachelor one day set the table in
his lonely abode with plates for him-1
self and an imaginary wife and five
children. He then sat down to dine,
and as he helped himself to food he
put the same quantity on each of the
other plates, and surveyed the prospect,
at the same time computing the
Wft is still a bachelor.?Weekly
Telegraph.
The children of the United States
each year consume toys that cost at
retail 345.000.000.
* GOD'S
MESSAGE TO MAN.
PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE
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WUKLU'b UHtA I ts I rnwrntis.
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The Celestial Country ? Christianity Not
Explicit?Redemption Is Christ's Warrant?A
Prayer for Worthiness?Impossible
Not Demanded?The Strength.
Midst power that knows no limit,
A wisdom free from bound,
The Beatific Vision
Shall glad the Saints around:
The peace of all the faithful,
The calm of all the blest,
Inviolate, unvaried,
Divinest. sweetest, best.
Yes, peace! for war Is needless?
Yes, calm! for storm Is past?
And goal from finished labor,
Arwl onnVinrnera at. lflat
That peace?but who may claim It ?
The guileless in their way,
Who keep the ranks of battle,
Who mean tbe thine they say:
The peace that is for neaven,
And shall be for the earth :
The palace that re-echoes
With festal song and mirth;
The garden, breathing spices,
The paradise on high*: .
Grace beautiful to glory,
Unceasing minstrelsy.
There nothing can be feeble,
There none can ever motirn,
There nothing is divided,
There nothing can be torn :
'Tis fury, ill, and scandal,
'Tls peaceless peace below;
Peace, endless, strifeless, ageless,
The halls of 8yon know:
0 happy holy portion.
Beliection for the blest:
True vision of true beauty,
Sweet cure o/ all distress!
Strive, man, to win that glory;
Toll, man, to gain that light;
Send hope before to grasp It,
Till hope be lost In sight:
Till Jesus gives the portion
Those blessed souls to fill,
The insatiate, yet satisfied,
The -full, yet craving still.
That fullness and that craving
Alike are free from pain.
Where thou, midst heavenly citizens
A home like theirs shalt gain.
Christianity Not Explicit.
The Christian doctrine of the future life is
not matter of direct and explloit revelation.
It is a corollary of direct revelation.,
Let ue hold fast to the luminous principle
however revolutionary, that revelation is
not in tbe first instance a doctrine, or even
a fact, so much as a person and his act;
and we shall be preserved from much anxiety
and much that throws our Christian
creed out of perspective. So far at least
as detail concerning the.future life goes,
almost every other religion is more explloit
than Christianity; and some would drag it
to their level. Tbe want of insight is made
good by foresight, und details of time and
space squeeze out soul and leave no room
for faltb. Prophecies become programs,commentators
become calculators, history becomes
the filling in of a huge puzzle. And in
the medieval degenerations, of Christianity
there Is an abundance of such detail which
startles a mind renred on the New Testament
reserve; and wo do not know whethertomar aI
m/wa of f ka {pvaravonnanf thft
or the cruelty of it. Its futility has often
been felt Every effort to particularize the
terror destroys the solemnity and therefore
the moral effect. The hell fire preacher
becomes first a sensation, then a derelict,
then grotesque. There is not enough of
judgment preached; but there has been
too much of the pictorial and remote,
and too little of the truly awful as
revealed in\ His agony on whom the
sin of the world was laid. It is a worse
hell to realize what our sin cost Him than
to feel what it briDgs us. It is never the
great ages of faith that are most ourlous oparticular
about the scheme of the life to
come. Thffengrossing and enduring objeot
of faith is love and its righteousness and
its judgment in the cross. All else may
Eass and vanish, prophecies, tongues and
nowledge fail; but this aDides forever
solemn and forever sure.
Redemption la Christ'* Warrant.
Christ is the Christian's Immortality. His
redemption is its warrant. But it is a remarkable
symptom of our time that, while
the interest of the church is increasingly
centred in redemption as the key of all else,
the interestVf the age to which redemption
is % mere piece of theology is passionately
focused upon the question of Immortality.
Tennyson s biography only makes more
dlear what his poetry showed ?how
central this questioh was for hi*
faith, now detached from redemption and
how unevapgelical, therefore, its basis was.
He was the poet of immortality, not, lfke'
Hilton, the poet of redemption. He does
not touch the true nerve of Christanity,
therefore, nor the true note of the sublime,
nor the true secret of our future. And be
Is, therefore, very welcome to the scientific
mind with its mystic bauntings. its spiritual
timidity, its moral inexperience and its want
nf nnuir.ivA hlatnrin hase.
A Prayer for Worthiness.
0 Lord God Almighty, redeem my soul
from lis bondage, that I may be free to live
henceforth, not for myself but for thee.
Help me to put away self, and to remember
that this life is not given for my ease, my
enjoyment, but is a schooling time for the
eternal home thou bast prepared for those
who love thee. Keep my eye steadily fixed
on that haven ot rest and peace, that
I may not faint nor be weary from the
length of the way. but may strive to
walk worthy of my high calling in all meekness
and lowliness of heart. And after that
I have suffered a while, when I am strengthened,
established, satisfied, settled in thy
love, when I have done all the work thou
hast for me to do, 0 graolous God, be with
me to guide me through the valley of the
shadofr of death and, in thine own good
time, take me to dwell with thee. Amen.
impossible Not Demanded.
woiHoftr In thfl r<?ft of fruitful
ness, according to the goodness of the Boil;
that is to say, according to the thoroughness
and depth of the reception of the word. The
great Husbandman does not demand uniform
fertility. He is glad to get a hundredfold,
but He accepts sixty, and does not refuse
thirty, only He arranges them in descending
order, as if He would fain bave the highest
rate from all the plants, and, not without
disappointment, gradually stretches His
merciful allowance to take In even the low- i
est. He will accept the scantiest fruitage,
and will lovingly "purge" the branch "that
it may bring forth more fruit."?Alexander 1
Maclaren, D.D.
He Is the Strength.
When nerves are unstrung and natural
strength fails, we must learn over and over
again that He is the strength of our heart
and onr nortion forever 8ervin? is not
over; tnougn externally suspended, the end
is not yet. We must receive from the Spirit
before we can give forth, for after all we
can but say "Of Thine own have we given
Then." This may be one reason why those
who suffer according to the will of God are |
enriched through the promised "afterwards."?Anna
ahipton.
Yes,we may knownosln,though itdo hang
about us. The apo9tio does not say equal
God in holiness, but imitate Him; and he
doth not say follow Him fully, but even "as
dear children." The Father is inflnitey full
of holiness. Follow Qod as dear children,
do what you can, and then cry to Him to
enable you to do what you cannoC do.
?Thouias Hooker. I
Accuses tne JDowager JhmpreiH.
Kang-Yu-Wel, the fugitive Chinese reformer,
in an interview with the Hong
Kong correspondent of the London Times,
accuses the Dowager Empress of misappropriating
immense sums intended for the
construction of the Chinese Navy and
other national improvements, using the
money for the repair and embellshment of
I her magnificent flower gardens.
A Georgia H*j Day.
Albany, Ga., has Just celebrated a "bay
day," at whloh seven prlzet were distribated
for the best hay production on
flve-acre lots.
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THE SABBATH SCHOOL
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JANUARY 8,
Lciaot Text: "Christ's First DlidplH,'*
John 1., 35-46?Golden Text; John 1.,
36?Commentary on the Day's Leiioii
by the Key. D. BX. Steams.
35,36. "Again, the next day after John
stood, and two of his disciples,and looking
upon Jeans as He walked, he salth, Behold
the Lamb of God." John was preaching
and baptizing In Bethabara, beyond Jordan,
and spoke of Jesus as one standing
among them whom they knew not. The
next day he Roeth Jeaus coming unto him
and eaith, "Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world" (verse
29). The nert day of this verse therefore
was a third day in the story. He does not
now speak of taking away siD, but only oi
Him who takes it away. ?Hp Himself must
occupy oar attention, not as a mortal man,
but as He who. having purged our sins, Is
at God's right hand, a risen immortal man,
who was and is and is to come. The phrase
"as He walked" makes us think of Him as
He walked In the garden of Eden In the
cool of the day, for He is the same Lord
God who said to Adam, "Where are thou?"
and who has ever been seeking the. fellow*
ship of man since first He created him In
His own image.
37. "And the two disciples heard him
speak and they Jollowed Jesus." When we,
as His witnesses, so speak that those who
hear will follow Him, it is well, but If thej
follow us it is not well, for there is no man
worth following except In .so far as he follows
Christ. When He Is by us lifted up,
He will draw unto Himself, and He wat
lifted up on the oross that all who look unto
Him might he saved.
38. "Rabbi, where dwellest thou?" As
Jesus turned and said, "What seek ye?"
this was their reply. I think He Is always
saving that to us every day that wa live.
What seek ye In the house of God on His
. holy day? What seek ye in His hook
when ye read it, or when ye read any othei
hook? What seek ye in your daily occupation
in home cr store or office on land 01
sea, af home or abroad? Is your answei
, like that of the Greeks, "We would see'
Jesus?" If so, He is always ready to ret?unl
UirMflntf f a an si h V\nf 4a 4 n t Ha nM
. way of I Sam. 11L, 21?"The Lord revealed
Himself to Samael by the word of the
Lord." Where dwellest thoa? might be
answered by Isa. lxvi., 2, and lvii., 15, "He
dwells is the lowly heart where there is a
broken and contrite spirit."
89. "He saitn nnto them, Gome and see.
They [came and saw where He dwelt and
abode with Him that day, for It was aboat
the tenth ho\ir." It was aboat the sixth
hour when before the crucifixion on that
same morning Pilate said, "Behold yoni
King" (John xis., 14), and as He was crucified
at 9 a. m., as we reokon time it mast
have been 6 a. m., when Pilate said those
words. 'At the same hoar of the day He
talked with the woman at the well (John
iv.,6). Supposing that John uses the same
reckoning in all his gospel, it must havo
been 10 a. m., when the two dlsolples went
with Jesus.
40. "One ot the two which heard John
speak and followed Him was Andrew,'
Simon Peter's brother." It is probable
that the other of the two was John, the
author of the gospel. There la an inoldent
in each ot the other gospels .in which the
writer probably refers to himself as the unnamed
party. We are sure that It was so
in the case of Matthew. See Hath. lx., 10,
and compare Luke v., 29. The others are
Hark xvl., 51; Luke xxlv., 18. But it is
Jesus whom we must see, not John, or Andrew
or Matthew, Mark or Luke.
41. "He first findeth his own brother Simon
and saith unto him, We have found
the Messias, whloh is, being Interpreted,
the Christ." By the testimony ot John and
the teaching of Jesus Andrew was convinced
that Jesus was indeed Israel's long promised
Messiah, and he hastens to tell the
glad tidings to bis own brother.
42. "And he brought him to Jesus* and
when Jesus beheld him He said, Thou, art
Simon, tne son of Jona." He therewith
gave him a new name, Cephas, which
means a stone. He did not need to be Introduced
to him to be told who he was, for
He knew nil men, and He knew what was
in man (John 11., 24, 25). There is much
pratty talk about Jesus which does not
bring Him to the heart as the one altogeth'
er lovely, nor does it bring people to Him
as the only one who can meet the soul's
need by taking away our sins.
43. "The day following Jesus would go
forth Into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and
"?w? Mm Tnllnif Vfl '? Wm an?m tn
have set before us the events of consecutive
days, and If so tfila would be the fourth
day of this series. Why fie should go and
seek Philip we do not know, but He kneW,
for He always knows just what He Is doing
and why He is doing It, and some day we
shall see that He has never done without
cause anything that He has done (John
vl., 6; Ezek. xiv.,23).
jf44. "Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the
city of Andrew and Peter." Perhaps the
three, with Tames and John, were all, like
Simeon and Anna, looking for the
promised Messiah. The eyes of the Lord
run to and fro throughout the whole earth
to show Himself strong on behalf of those
whose hearts are perfect toward Him (II
Ohron. xvi., 9).
45. "Philip flndeth Nathanael and saithij
unto him, We have found Him^of wtwfla.
Moses ;in the law and the prop hat# did
write, Jesus of Nazareth, thr flip' fit
Joseph." These men were atofoai* of
prophecy. xcey naa ,.proo?oiy uuiw
many a time of Him of wfccm tPt road Ut
Gen. ill. and xiix., in th'9 ptcailteolfli of
Balaam, In Dent, xvili. ana amti?..:ft Pa.
11. and lxxli., In Isa. Ix. aod;;jrt.f In Jer.
xxili. and Ezek. xxxvfL itta, in fact,
everywhere.
46. "And Nathanael said nnto him, Can
there any good thing oome out of Nazareth?
Philip saith unto him, Come and see."
When he oame and saw and heard Him for
himself, then he cried, "Babbl, Thou art
the Son ol God, Thou art the King of Israel"
(verse 49). Micah had said that the
Messiah would be born at Bethlehem. Hosea
"said He woitWjiome out of Egypt. Jeremiah
said He w<5\U^~r?igB?<Jljrejyjsttemr
but where was it ever said that He would
oome from Nazareth? Nathanael was Impressed
with the thought that he wa6 speaking
to one who saw him when he evidently
thought that no mortal eye beheld him.
Perhaps under that fig tree he was communing
with God. Jesus surprises him
still further by telling him hereafter he
would see still greater things, even an
opened heaven, and the angels of God ascending
and descending upon the Son of
Man?evidently a reference to Jacob's vision
of the ladder and a yet future fulfillment..
Jesus said that Nathanael would
see it; so shall we. Wfcen Christ, who is
our me, snail upjianr, luou 9uui no nuu
appear with Him In glory (Col. 111., 4).?
Lesson Helper.
A MATRIMONIAL RECORD.
Squire Ephraim Kelrwin Who Married
Over 9000 Coaple* Is Dead.
Squire Ephralm Kelgwln, who'since 1877
has married more than nine thousand
.couples, died the other day at his home In
JeffenonTllle, Ind.
He regarded himself as a matrimonial
masoot. Less than one hundred of his
"weddings," as he was proud to call them,
resulted In divorce or serious domestlo
troubles.
The Squire's fee ranged all the way from
a kiss from the bride or five cents from
the groom to $50 and $100. He had married
Supreme Court Judges, Congressmen,
treasurers, auditors, State and county
11 * ? mA/ikanlAoand hnqh.
cierKs, premjuoro >uu
ful swells by the hundred. The large majority
of his patrons were, however, runaway
oouples from Kentucky and Tennessee,
and with these espeolally he had a
hobby of maintaining a correspondence
for a year or two until he wassatisfled that
they were steered aright on the matrimonial
sea.
He went to California In '49, but did not
succeed. Returning to Indiana, he dabbled
in photography and drugs. He was
made a magistrate In 1877, and for fifteen
years had a monopoly of the marrying
business, maintaining two sets of parlors
in Jeffersonvllle. He made a fortune in
this way, but died a comparatively poor
man, being too free with what he made.
ile was marneu mree uuics.
Jane Cakebread Dead.
Jane Cakebread, for yeara one of the
most notorious figures in London police
courts, is dead. She held the record for ',
convictions upon charges of drunkenness
and disorderly conduct, having been found
guilty of those offenoes about 800 tines.
t ...
THE DRINK EVIL MADE/MANIFEST 1 dp
IN MANY WAYS. 1 f
' EngUnd-DrlaklDC cLtomj
Tor the B?tt?r-*tIJUry "Mm; Admit JTliat
Bum la * Weakens of Axmle*.
Look not upon tha wtnr
When it is ted; '
It sparkles to destroy, '
Its pow?r is dread.
Taste not the rosy |rtn?; f > - ; ;
, Thy Hps were given . > t' ._-i
To 6pe?i of hope and Idro, .... V=
Of God and heaTen. . , ' ^
Lei thy hands handle not
The accursed bowl;
It holds a poisoned draught, ' v y-M
To kill the soul.
.
A sweeter oup Is outs? . . .
Water so bright? , j
Jod's precious gift to man, A
Sparkling With dfUght. ^ : [ ' .1
?Selected by Alexander 8. Arnold, 4 J
Drink Habit Abroad. : fl
iter. j. t. uutneriana, wao jus maa? ?t/, ,-^m
study of the temperance question in several/ r
foreign countries, finds some hopeful signet :
in England. Heze are a few extracts from? fl
his deductions:
Increasing attention called *to the ?yll?
of drink in England. Te mperan oa societies ?x
Browing steadily stronger and mow numerone.
One vigorous society recently formed V
for the express purpose of 'waking np the
churches. Temperance literatureincreas-' ?. - P -<?*
log fast. Drinking"customs changing for .-'Wfl
the better. Stateemen slowly waking op I
to see what a burden strong drink i? to the J
kingdom, as a destroyer of wealth and a . .',5|
orippler of Industry and what a menace as - J
a corrupter of politics and a producer ot .
srime. Military men beginning to see that r.tfa
drink is a great weakener of the army.
Total abstainers found to stand the severcec ,,'J
campaigns where even moderate drlnkewt ' vaSSal
break down. Medical men recognizing the ; _ :fi
serious effects of drink uj>on the health 6E ' .'. '.^1
the people. Laboring men learning to sea X fl
I in it- a fn? to <niln?trv. Children receiving fl
temperance teaching. I
Nearly everywhere the native race* ofi ( ' ~ r
Africa brought into contact with Bon>peans
ore decaying. Investigations have
been made again and again as to tbs :< Wfi
causes. Always the answer is the sa^e.
The causes are vices introduced by Europeans,
the most widely spreading ond dA- k
struotive of which is the drink habit.. v'
In France and Germany a somewhat
larger proportion of wine and beer la uaed
and relatively lesrdistllled liquor than tm . , r>
England, and there Is not so much drunJr4,
enness in sight. But in both countries
drinking is even more unlvera&l.than lu '
statistics Issued by the 'French Mln- J:.
later of Justice for ISM taUs its that of ill
persons convicted for murder in Farla that ,/:
fear fifty-three per cent, were confirmed Y4i
AI natwAiia nnnolrtfAil' ffti?
ou? offencee against morals the same per!" 1
sent, were confirmed drunkards,- ofper- I
ions convicted of begging and vagabond- ]
age seventy per cent, were oonflr^wt . i
drunkards, and of persons convicted far \ '
srimes of violence short of murder ninety J
per cent, were confirmed drunkards. "i
Not only does wine-drinkinx hold > It* \ I
own, but the appetite whion. it create* ?'1 AfftS
leads steadily to the use of stronger
liquor?. The drinking of absinthe is cotm
Ing to be widely prevalent. and tlie use of "riH
distilled spirits has increased S3> per cent. J?
In twenty-flve years. -4
Statistics regarding drunkenness aref .'JB
?ery difficult to obtain in Germany, be- >?w
jause drankenness is looked upon
great leniency and is not usually classed: %.
among crimes. Even the president of r?h? .
oest known "temperance" society in: Ger-j
many declares that a man may get drank
a great many times without being in th?
least addicted to drink or in danger of he-1
soming so." Careful and conservative eatlmates
put the number of habitual drunk* /
ards at 400,000.
Of the SSjSOO patients in the insaaa
asylums 01 irrassiR m mo jrov w? ? .. _
less than ten per cent, had delirium tx?- - .]
Economist* are beginning to see that if
Germany could get rid of the disadvantage#
that come to her from the friok habit of . B
her people It would give her a tremendous ,
advantage xin her industrial competition -I
with other nations. 'm
Soldiers who are habitual b^ drInkers 9
are found to have only elghty^^HscMy- I
five per cent, of the endoranceoTT?<&3a i
who are total abjtainers and consider3il(( I
less mental quickness and precision.?Tte I
True Beform. ' . . -, -
A Whisky Drummer.
A whisky drummer, who has soJ?4jfiB$
liquid damnation for twenty-fla^^^H^^B^H
past, stood In the Glob* Hotjtfi - j-%
day and made a speech thatjRHI I
every temperance * 1
hlmeell. He said: ' - * .. 3
ili. S
ggjrthe time. Tne teacher, the preaahar.l 1
and the paper are all creating sentiment! |
against hard drinking. In twenty yoarai ]
from now the whisky problem will have) (
solved Itself. Beer, soda-water, lemonade,; I
milk-shake and other light beverages'will! \|
have crowded it out of the saloon and thw \
drag store into the medicine chest of thai -r.
doctor."?Centralla (Kan.) Courier.
A Poor Dinner. i
The Montreal Witness prints this. Uttle
story of a poor woman who recently want
to a saloon In search of her husbsad: ?
Sbe found him there, an4 setting a cov-j V
ered dish, wkinh. she had brought with her,}
uparjl the table, she said:
"jinking that yon are tooHfcunr to oomo
home to dinner, I have btonghfcyon yours,":
and departed. ; i
With a laugh the man Invited his friends s '
to dine with him; but on removing the
cover from the dish he found only a slip of
paper, on which was written:
"I hope you will enjoy your meal. It Is '. {]
the same as your family have at home." r [
Motes of the Crusade. !
Wherever there's a drink there's danger.
It is essential to good military service;
that the soldiers be clear-headed, monu
and healthy, and their nervous systems1 - V
should not be weakened by alcoholle
drinks. The army "canteen" is an a bom
liiation, as weli as any other saloon, it
should go.
The proprietor! of a manufactory, store
or printing offloe, employing a laige number
or hands, would be considered very Unwise
if they added a liquor saloon or beer
garden as an appendage to their establishments.
Such places would demoralize the
men and impair their health and efficiency.
A. saloon in a military camp is still worse.
The evidenoe multiplies that beer and)
whisky undermined the strength of our
soldier boys and made them easy victims '
of disease.
The Presbyterian Synod o! Illinois,, in
session at Bloomington, passed a resolution
pledging the Presbyterian Church to
prohibit as the most affeotive plan for dealing
with intemperance.
The Christian and temperance people of
this country mast rise up ana acmana uw
army and navy authorities prohibit anyone
from selling strong drink of any kind to
the soldiers and sailors in the service of ths
United States. This is the only way to break
up the terrible drunkenness among
' our volunteer soldiers.
' Dr. Cayler makes the sweeping assertion
| that all saloons, from the glided ones to
the slummy ones, are poverty breeders,
{scenes of plunder and robbery, and the
drinkers are publio impoverishes.
It 13 no exaggeration to say that three*
' fourths of the saloonkeepers of New York
' State are in a state of financial collapse,
They are kept above water only through
. the backing and help they receive from th?
' brewers and wholesale llquc.r dealers.
By a unanimous vote the Judiciary Com,
mittee has recommended to tho Ohlcagc
City Council for passage Alderman Fran:
cis's ordinance prohibiting saloons from
' being established In strlotly residence di?
? mnlA.lfn r\9 Ka voaManffl rvl
triCkS, CAUCUC a JLUOj VI 4WJf VI fc**V w.
'.the block give consent. The measure aiw
I prohibits the establishing of a saloon wltiv
la 250 leet of all churches and schools.
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