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Hf A PHILIPPI HHQ Queer Facts Abou <? and His Moham HI Americans have now a Snltan for a fellow citizen. [py His title is Saltan of Sala. We have annexed him, together with the ^ V Philippine'Islands. His subjects are all devout Mohammedans. He is everything that a Saltan shnnld be. He has a harem and a BB grand vizier. He bowstrings his Ha enemies and friends, and is in constant danger of assassination. The Sains are a small group of islRg ands stretching between Mindanao, the southernmost of the Philippines, m and the northeast corner of Borneo, W the second largest island in the world. W They have a population of 4000 people, I and an area of 950 square miles. I The inhabitants of the Sulus are F called Moros. It is their chief peculiarity to be Mohammedans. The foundation of the race is Malay, as in the Philippines, but the Moros have been strongly influenced by Arab blood. w'" In the seventeenth century an Arab named Said Ali conquered the Sulu / Islands and forcibly converted the na' - - tt J 1_*1 r~i } tives to isiamism. ne ana ui? iuifx lowers took large numbers of wives, and thus added an Arabian strain to ' the Malay race. The Moros are governed by sultans t , and by hereditary chiefs called datos. The latter are often supreme in their own domains, but are supposed to give homage to the Sultan of Sulu. The Sultan lives as we expect a Sultan to. do. He has a great harem, replenished by periodical raids among . , all the Philippine] Islands. He has a grand vizier, and a barber who tells him stories. 1 The Moros are not particularly obedient to their Sultan. Sometimes ' u | m "iifin' HEADSMAN OF THE SULTAN OP 8ULU, ASIEEICAN CITIZEN. ^ they kill him and sometimes they sel Tip another in his place. They are the fiercest and bravest ol all the races in or near the Philippines. Their skill in the use of their curved knives, or barongs, is marvelous. They have defeated the Spaniards again and again with plain steel against firearms. Spain made no sort of effective occupation of the islands until 1871. Dean C. Worcester, the acknowledged American authority on the Philippines, devotes considerable attention to the Sulu Islands, their rival Saltans' and the blood-curdling features of life there. A few years before the SpanishAmerican war, the Spaniards deposed Mahmond, the rightful Saltan of Sulu, tnil ftrvnmntAfl in liifl nl?i<A a ftllief. nnder the title of "His Excellency, Paduca Majasan Malauna Amiril Mauinin Sultan Harun Narrasid." The Spanish bad invited the rightful Sultan to come to Manila and be invested with his crown. Remember/^AH/^OUD, 5UUTAN OF 5ULU * ilPP MAHMOUD. SULU SULTi ing that a predecessor, who receive a similar invitation, had been kept i ' prison for life by the Spanish, th Saltan did not respond. Thereupoi the Spanish pnt Harun in his place. That did not worry the legitimal Saltan. Haran occupied the palac in the citv of Sala. carefully sruarde bj Spanish soldiers. Mahmond o< cupied the rest of the island with 10 000 Well-armed followers. i ' k-: NE SULTAN. ! m t the Ruler of Sulu ^5 medan Subjects. <:> The most interesting character in Sulu is the old Sultana, mother of the Sultan Mahmond. Although born a slave she married a orevious Sultan. She hastened his depasture from this world with corrosive sublimate. When Harun was appointed Sultan she sent him an offer of marriaee, but he declined it, as "he wished to die a naRoYal Yacht tnral death." Mr. Worcester remarks that she has a genius for organization, but a mania for poisoning. While General Arolas, one of the few competent Spaniards, ruled the Sulus they were fairly quiet. When he left his successor thought he could collect taxes from the Moros. Haruu called them together and asked their decision. They promptly decided not to pay the tax. On the day appointed for paying the tax Harun presented himself before the Governor with a large num1 ber of followers. They were admitted. Harun presented a large bag of pearls to the Governor. As he took them ' Harun drew a barong?the Moro sword?and split the Governor's skull to the chin. The other Moros fell on the Spanish soldiers and slaughtered them all. Then they destroyed the town. The Sulu Moro is a born warrior. He disdains to work and expects his wants to be supplied by his wives and slaves. He has many excellent quali ties. He gives much time to the care of his arms and to perfecting himself in their use. He tries to terrify an opponent by making hideous faces, uses his shield very skilfully and keeps his legs in constant motion, so that .a blow below the shield may not disable them. In battle he is the bravest of the brave. Absolute indifference to bloodshed is one of his most prominent characteristics. He will cut down a slave merely to try the edge of a new Darong. Sometimes a Moro goe3 head-hunting. This is considered a very sportsmanlike proceeding. The hunter takes with him a big and handsomelyworked basket, which he slings over i his shoulder, a3 an Ameiican would a 1 fishing basket. In this he puts the human heads which may fall to his ; skill. The Moros believe that he who takes the life of a Christian thereby . increases hia chance of a good time in . the world to come. He who dies tak. ing the life of a Christian is sure to . be transported at once into the seventh heaven. From time to time it happens that i one of them wearies of his life, and desiring to take the shortest road to glory he bathes in a sacred spring, i shaves off his eyebrows, dresses in white and presents himself before a pandita (priest) to take solemn oath (jurament&r) to die killing Christians. He is then called a juramentado. He hides a barong, or kris, abont his L person or in something that he carries, and seeks tne nearest town. If he can Rain admission he snatches his weapon from its concealment andrnns [ amnck, slaying every hnman being in his path nntil he is finally himself dispatched. So long as the breath of i life remains in him he fights on. Eye-witnesses informed Mr. Wor IN AND AMERICAN CITIZEN*. d cester that they had seen juramentados n seize the barrel of a rifle on beinj ,e bayoneted and drive the steel furthei i, into themselves in order to bring the soldier at the other end of the piec? :e withiu striking distance and cut hin 10 rl r\-u.*n d The number of lives taken by oe? b- of these mad fanatics is sometimes al most incredible, but he is eventually killed himself. His relatives have < I celebration when ^ the news of lxi death reaches them. They say thi just as night is coming on they se him riding by on a white horse boun for the kingdom of the blessed. General Arolas, the last Spanis Governor, established a guard hous on the only road leading into the cit of Sulu. Here every Moro comin from the country was compelled t halt and give up his arms. If he ai not halt at once ho was shot dead. "Accidents" often happened at th guard house, however. One day Moro passed through and gave up hi barong as usual. When he came ou he claimed it. Before going away h handed some cigarettes to the soldier! They laid down their guns to ligi the cigarettes. Quick as a flash th 1 Moro whipped out his barong am sliced off the head of the soldier uear est him. Then he inflicted mortal in juries on two others and crippled third for life. At last the sergeant go his rifle and shot the Moro dead. In one of the Sulu Islands ther was a dato, or great boss. Once bullet struck his clothes and he es caped uninjured. Thereafter he wa regarded as having a charmed life and the people worshiped him. H was very gracious to the America! travelers. One day a native rode past them 01 a fine horse. "Do you admire that horse?" aske< the dato. "Yes," said the American. "Then you shall have him," sail the dato courteously, at the same tim raising his rifle and shooting the ride dead. The Moros are fairly orthodox Mo hammedans, although they have en grafted on the religion many feature peculiar to themselves. The Moro3 believe that the sun moon and stars are the light of God to "dominar" the whole world. Ther< are no other worlds than this in th universe, but there are beings who in habit the air above us and the eart] ^ .J Deneatn our ieec. xney worsmp urou and die like ourselves. There is on God, namely, Toohan. He is omni present, omnipotent and omniscient Without him we cannot apeak. Hi form is that of our thoughts. Am mals have spirits, but they are not lik the soul of man, and vanish into thii air when death comes. HEAD OF RUSSIAN CHURCH HERf Bishop TIklion Taken Charge of tti Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Among the passengers arriving re cently at New York was Bishop Tikhot newly appointed head of the Russia Church in America, although nomic ally he is Bishop of the Aleutia Islands and Alaska. He was met at the pier by the Rut sian Consul General and members c BISHOP TIKHOX. (He has arrived on his way to h diocese of the Aleutian Islanc and Alaska, and is the new head 1 the Russian Church in America the Russian colony in New York Cii and escorted at once to the Russif Church, at No. 323 Second avenu where, in accordance to the custom hi3 church, he conducted a service thanksgiving for his safe arrival. A reception followed upstairs in t! apartments of the rector of thechurc where the Bishop will reside durii his brief stay in New York before g ing to his new field of labor. He ha received representatives of tl different associations and national ties belonging to his flock, includii Servians, Arabians, Montenegrins ai Russians, kissing each man's brow the man kissed his hand. Bishop Tikhon won the hearts all present, not only by his words, b * - v * a>SO l)J I11H UtJUULllUl a.iLLiyi.ii;it,jr bi cordiality of manner. He is ta! slender, witli long light brown ha and the reddish golden beard whi< is distinctly Russian. Bishop Tikhon's secular name Vasily Bellarin, He was born | 1865, and has attained his promine ! position at an early age even for j Russian ecclesiastic. He was gra uated from the St. Petersburg The logical Academy in 188S, and imm diately entered upon pedagogic wor at which he continued almost to t! time of his elevation to his prese ecclesiastical rank. He recent served as Bishop of Liublin ai Vicar of Kbolma, the Warsaw dioces His new diocese is said to be t largest in tbe world, as it includes t 1-^1- ?c \T.-vwt-U A mawina a r* A aai WUUlt) VL X1ULUU .1UIC1H.J, cuu VUI prise3 about thirty parishes with many churches and seventy chape } Statistics of the class of '97 at Print i ton show that fifty-five members a f studying or practising law, twenl 5 seven are studying medicine and twe i ty three are in theological schools. Now that the peace treaty has be ? signed the warships are to be paint . i white again. This fact lends color j | the belief that harmony has been pi i inauently restored. V 5 BLEW HP THE ffiAIif ie d A Spanish Judge Openly Accused of e the Battleship's Destruction, j 0 CUBAN PAPER'S ALLEGATIONS. d ,0 The El Beconcentrado Makes Serious a Charges Regarding the Blowing Up 8 of the Maine?Meeting Place of the Conspirators Was Well Known?The ? .TnHirn Hllllnff In Snaln. 3. it Havaxa, Cuba (By Cable).?An open e charge regarding the blowing up of the United States battleship Maine has caused something of a sensation here. The charge Is made in the organ of "Cuba Libre," the El Reconcentrado. El Beconcentrado openly asserts that Zacarias Bresmes, a Spanish judge, now a fugitive from Havana, was actively .engaged in the plot which resulted In the destruction of the Maine. The paper gave a sketch of Bresmes's career previous to last February, charging him with various crimes. The paper says: "Wben the Maine came into Havana harbor Bresmes openly declared In the Spanish cafes that such an act of audacity on the part of the Yankees could not pass without stringent punishment. His threats were direct and boded destruction to the American ship. His associates were Felipe Gonzales, Dion Sio Vega and Euseblo Az3 olio rinl?nt firmniards. Others with him were officers of the volunteers. "These men boasted that the Yankees were about to get their due, though no a charge can be directed against any save Bresines. He and the kot-heated Spaniards of Murailo street met nightly at a house near the corner of Murailo and Habana 0 streets, where the public know the plot a against the Maine was concocted and all arrangements completed,. When the explosion took place Bresmes was in the 3 Tacon Theatre with friends. At the sound of the explosion he cried: 'There gees the e Maine!' _ "Champagne was drunk in honor of the terrible event at tho moment when others were vaguely, inquiring of one another 1 what had happened." Bresmes's name was mentioned before 3 the American Court of Inquiry, but not sufficient evidence was forthcoming to warrant any action, and all reference to him was suppressed in the published reel port. The Cubans here almost withont excepe tion regard the charges of El Reconcenr trado as beyond dispute. Bresmes Is now said to be hiding in Spain. * " SENATOR QUAY RENOMINATED. 3 Lacks Nineteen Vote* >"ecc?sary to Reflection to the United States Senate. * Habbisbubo, Penn. (Special).?Matthew ? / S. Quay was renominated for the United 9 States Senate by a caucus containing 109 of 0 the 164 Republican members of the Penn. sylvania Legislature. He received the votes li of all of those present, but fifty-one aDti I Quay ItepuDiicans reiusea to iuibuu mo q caucus. The total membership of the Legislature is 254. It follows that the vote which Mr. Quay received is nineteen less than a majority. 3 The anti-Quay leaders confidently claim that the man they are fighting cannot be re-elected to the Senate. On the 6 other hand, the Quay people and Senator a Quay himself express confidence of ultimate victory. They say that of the absentees two members of the House, Snyder of Luzerna and Clark of Washington, were kept 'away by sickness, and will vote for Senator Quay. This would leave him seventeen votes short of the number necessary to elect, and the efforts of the Quay leaders are now directed toward securing these votes. i, u Senator Hale'* Re-Election Assured. Augusta, Me. (Special).?The general Republican caucus of the Maine Legislature n lias unanimously nominated Eugene Hale for re-election to the United States Senate. Senator Barrows Renominated. _ Lansiso, Mich. (Special).?Senator J. C. "* Burrows was unanimously nominated by the Republican caucus to sucoeed himself. As the Republicans have a large majority on joint ballot the re-elaction of Senator Burrows Is assured. Senator Davis Renominated. St. Paul. Minn. (Special).?The Republi-? I/lon/inci hna iinnnlmnnalv rp. call lU^ioimng -? nominated United States Senator Davi3. This Insures his election, rs the Republicans have n majority of ninety in th$ Legislature. PEACE TREATY IN SENATE. Ilie Document Is Referred te the Foreign Relations Committee. y Waseixotox, D. C. (Special.)?When the ? Senate went into executive session on Wed' nesday, tbe Peace Treaty, which had just been received from the President, was laid before tbe Senate by Mr. Frye, who occupied the chair, In the absence of the VicePresident. The treaty was not read, but the President's message accompanying it was. 19 This was a simple letter of transmittal, Is without any word of recommendation or 0f suggestion, and was only a few lines in \ length. On motion of Senator Davis, the treaty was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered printed for the use ot the Senate. in The presentation of the treaty aroused e considerable discussion among the Senu? tors as to its probable ratification. The 01 impression gained from what Senators say of is that the treaty will no doubt be ratified. GOVERNOR LOUNSBURY IN OFFICE. iC * - - Deliver* H1a Inaugural Address Before lg Connecticut Legislature. ?" Hahtford, Coan. (Special).?The biennlui 16 session of the General Assembly opened on j1.? Wednesday, and Governor-elect Lounsbury was escorted from his hotel to the Capitol by the Hartford and New Haven compnnid ies of the Governor's Foot and Horse as Guards. After the Governor and the other officers bad taken the oatli of office , the Inaugural address was delivered before 01 the Assembly in joint session. The message at referred to the advisability of retrench1(J ment in State expenses; favored good i] roads, suggested changes for the National Guard, anil recommended that steps be lU" taken for the passage of a constitutional jh amendment to provide for the division of tho State into Senatorial districts of equal jfl population. A Widow's Terrible Death. Mrs. Lu.cretia Kent, a widow of Sprlng,a field, III., met her death in a terrible way by starvation. One hand was pinioned under a heavy folding bed when she was ie- found by a friend. The body was badly jj decomposed, showing that death had oc. ' curred many days ago. The woman lived 6 alone in the'house. nt ,ly A Military Honor For Koosevelt. id President McKinley at Washington will ie. nominate Governor Roosevelt for the brevet lie rank of Brigadier General for gallant conhe due: at the battle of Sau Juan. m" ( The Lubor World. as In San Francisco a move is on foot to Is. amalgamate all the unions in the central body?the Labor Council. >g. Judpe Meyers, of Bloomington, 111., has ' decided that the union labor only clause In contracts has no standing betorethe court, v" The native laborers of Mexico, the peon, In* receives from llfteen to twenty-five cents per day in Mexican silver at common laoor. The strike of the ?rocors' employes of en Paris, France, has suddenly collapsed. It e(| is stated that many of the strikers obtained IUCU" UQ11JUUUS. 0 The Boston (Mass.) city councjl has ordered all city departments to advance the wages of laborers iu the city employ to $2.25 per day. _ \ NEW YORK'S MURDER MYSTERY. A Deadly Polion Sent to Another In ? Present Can?e? ? Widow'? Death. Nsw Yobk Citt (8peclal).?Mrs. Kate J Adams, a widow, fifty-two years old, died suddenly a few days ago at her home after taking what sh-j thought to be a dose of one of the effervescing salts used to relieve headache. The physicians who attended her and the Coroner's office are equally certain that she tod.i one of the deadliest poisons known?cyanide of potassium? and that the investigation ql the case will result In disclosing one of the most daring poisoning cases ever attempted in this olty. The case in many ways is similar to the now famous Botkin-Dunnin* case. The present case has added interest in the ffcct that, if the police theory Is correct, the poison was Intended for Harry Cornish, the physical director and manager of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, who received the package by mttl containing the poison as a Christmas gift. Mrs. Adams complained of a headache, ana the poison wa3 plven to her for bromo seltzer. Mrs. Adams was at once attacked I by violent nausea and convulsions and died Jii twenty minutes, uornisn, wuo iusiou .the mixture after she displayed alarming symptons, suffered Intensely, and narrowly escaped the death which is supposed to have been planned for htm. It is believed that a woman; inspired by jealousy, intended to murder him because of his attentions to another, as the package was addressed in a woman's handwriting. But that, it is hinted, may have been a ruse of a male murderer to escApe detection. The police are working on the case. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN KANSAS. A BUI to Compel the Governor to Sign Fifty-nine Death Warrants. Topeka, Kansas (Special).?a bill was introduced In the Legislature Thusrday compelling the Governor to sign the death warrants of all persons convicted of murder in the first degree. The bill also provides for the putting to death within the period J of one year of all convicts now in the penitentiary under death sentence. There are fifty-nine such convicts. The number has Increased from year to year, a result of the present law relating to capital punishment, which leaves the slgniag of death warrants optional with the Governor. No Kansas Governor has ever seen fit to sign a death warrant. The bill is the result of the recent; trial and conviction of John Collins ofl the< charge of having murdered his father. J. S. Collins, a Topeka capitalist, last fall. Governor Stanley reoently declared that he would not sign Collins's death warrant. ! The passage of this bill wouia compel mm to do so or resign. Mr. 8tanley says he will resign before he will sign the death warrants of the convicted murderers in the penitentiary. "I will never permit myself to become a mncderer, even under the sanction of law," he deolared.. CLERK AND MONEY DISAPPEAR. Traated Employe of an Express Company Absconds With 860,000. Sax Autosio, Texas (Special).?The looal office of the WellsrFargo Express Company 13 out a money package containing $60,000. The money was sent here from Houston for the Southern Pacific to meet its pay roll west from this city to El Paso. It arrived Wednesday morning, and was given to C. A. Beeler, the WellsFargo .money delivery clerk, to hand over. Beeler started for the station, and was seen en route. Four hours after his departure his wagon was found five miles west of the city in a thicket, the horse almost dead from the effects of hard driving, Inquiry developed the fact that no delivery had been maae. There was no evidence of a struggle In the vicinity where the vehicle was found. Beeler had been in the employ of the company for nine years, and enjoyed the confidence of all. Hu spent several years on the frontier as a cowboy. _ . . A PECULIAR ADMIRALTY CASS. . Fishermen Sue For Money Found on the Body of a La Bonrtfo/rne Victim. Boston, Mas9. (Special).?A unique admiralty; case was heard In the United States District Court a few days ago namely, a libel brought for salvage for the saving of United States and Frenoh money of the value $1,050 found by Gloucester fishermen on what t be Jaw terms a derelict at sea. The derelict in the case wa9 the dead body of a man, believed to have been a victim of the dlsasterto the steamer La Bourgogne last July. The body has not been identified. The libel was that brought by the owners of the fishing schooner William H. Cross, in behalf of themselves, her master and orew of fourteen men against the property found. The body was burled at sea, nna all efforts to find relatives of. the derellot have failed. After hearing the case, Judge Lowell took the matter under advisement. WOMAN MURDERED BY A DOCTOR. Many Persons Witness a Tragedy In the Street In UloomBeld. Ind. Bloostfield, Ind. (Special).?Thursday afternoon Dr. ?. E. Gray killed Mrs. Lizzie Skinner on the street within 100 feet of the railroad station In plain vie* of many peopie. He stabbed her fonr times with a surgical knife, and she died instantly. Gray made threats that he would kill the woman on Thursday. He was watching for her at the station, as she was coming to take the train. After the kllttog he Immediately gave himself up. Mrs. Skinner left a former husband on account of Gray, and he has deserted a wife and family for her. Dr. Gray is about thirty years old, and is a son of J. W. Gray, one of the most prominent physicians of the county. KILLED FOR FORTY DOLLARS. I A Man and HI* Wife Confess to Poisoning h Soldiers' Home Inmate. Milwaukee, Wis. (Special).?Albert Funk | and his wife were arrested a few night3 ago for the murder of Chris Melga for his I money. The murder was committed two I weeks ago, and Drs. Washburn and Wilson, who conducted the post mortem, pro| nounced it a case of heart failure. Funk j and his wife have confessed to having put I a large dose of rat poison into a cup of coffee whfcli Melga drank a few hours beI ? Klo of I, IUIC UIO ugubu. Funk Is a teamster andjhas been working for a dollar a day. He was In bard 9tralts. Melgo was about sixty-five years old and I an inmate of the Soldiers' Home. The j victim was supposed to hare a large sum of money about bim, but the Funks got only $40 as a reward for their crime. A Faith Cnrlst Die* of Burns. Mrs. J. Weller, of Omaha, Neb., was so I badly burned by the explosion of boiling j turpentine on a store that she died Tues) day nlgbt from the < fleet of her injuries. I Her husband and two son9, Wayne and | Hartley, were also slightly burned. The I members of the family are Christian Scientists, and refused medic&l assistance. Mrs. George's Trial In 3Iarcli. Mrs. Anna George, the woman accused of having murdered George D. Saxton, brother-in-law of President McKinley, at Canton, Ohio, will not be placed ou trial I before about Maroh 1. Kevrsr Gleanings. London had seventy-two fatal cases of | influenza in six weeks. Australia will join with Canada in deI fraying the cost of a Pacific eable. ' ti>? fuirnorj about Saleai. Ore., are con- | sldering the project of ti co-operative creamery. The French were reported to be fortifying Tahiti, the prlucipal Island of the Society group. Consul Washington at Alexandressa thinks there Is a good chance for American wind mills in Syria. An American has founded Buskin Hall at Oxford University, England, forthe benedt of poor young men. / y V \\ ' 1' ':v'- " I t THE SABBATH SCHOOL ( ikiTrsutTiAiui i reenu rnuuruTS Jill bnun I iv/linu UUWWVII wvinmna* V I FOR JANUARY 22. taaaonTText: "Christ and Nlcodemaa," John ill., 1-16?Golden Text: John ' HI., 16 ? Commentary on th* Day's Leiion by th? B?v. D. M. Stearna. 1. "Now there was a man" (R. V.). In verses 11, 22, 23, of chapter 2, we read that j the disciples believed and many believed, bat then we read that' Jeans did not com- ] mlt Himself unto (believe in) men, fov He knew what was in man. Then we have HIjj dealing with this man, a ruler of the Jews, and revealing Nlcodemus to himself, that he might know God, for tliig greater than riches or wisdom or might (Jer. ix., 23, 24). 2. Nlcodemus knew that Jesus was at least bent of God and that uoa was witn Him, and his soul was hungering for mora of God, and he felt that Jesus had power to help him, yet, being a ruler and Jesus be- < lng evidently a very humble person, not having been taught in any of the eohools, 1 nor having, like Saul, been brought up at the feet of Gamaliel or any great teacher of the day, he soems to think It wise not to come at first to Him too publlclv. 8. Jesus passes by the seeming compliment and, recognizing the longing in the heart of Nicodemua, tells him briefly the '1 only way to see the kingdom for which he longs. To be born of God (1-13) or from above" (margin) is the only way. No human wisdom nor royal lineage nor position' among men can entitle any one to see or enter the kingdom ,of God. It must be a work of God in the heart?nothing less than the receiving of the Son of God (chapter i., 12). 4. Nlcodemus, though very religious and a ruler of the Jews, was only a natural man and understood not spiritual things. He could only think of a natural birth. 5. A little more fully Jesus now states it, hof tn ha hnrn nf flr.il mflftns to be " /'"b --? ? born of water and of the Spirit. By calling up three witnesses?Peter, James and Paul ?and by comparing I Pet. i., 23, Jas. i., 18; Eph, v., 26; John vi? 63, we learn that water suggests the Word of God, by which tho Spirit always works. 6. The flesh Is the natural man. the man not subject to nor controlled by {2od. He may be Intellectual. educated, talented, wealthy, a good citizen, moral, philanthroplc and.ln every way all that could be deslred~a& a loving, father, son or brother, yet If only that nev?r see the klngdopi of God. He that hath the Son hath life, but' he that hath not the Son of God hath not life, whatever else he may have (1 J^hn v., 12). 7. "Ye must be born again." There is much teaohing nowadays to the effect that there is a. spark of the divine nature in every one and that it only needs to be developed, but suoh Is not the teaching of the Word of God, which says that tbe carnal or natural mind is enmity against God, for It is not subject to the law of God, neither, Indeed, can be (Rom. vlii., 7). 8. We can /eel the wind as it blows upon us, but we oannot tell whence it came nor whither Its destination. ThuB the Spirit ; moves ana worus. in me aurnaus ui uou. 1., 2, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God spake, and there was light. So God, by His word and Spirit, shines in hearts and gives the knowledge of Himself, causing life and fruitfalness : where all before was waste and void (II Cor. iy., 6, 7J.:' 9. "How can these things be?" The blind was groDlnff for the light and but very dimly perceiving. These spiritual things, so simple to the Spirit taught, wore too much for the natural man, even though he. be a ruler, u I have wondered if one reason why the wisdom of this world dislikes the book of Daniel and would fain have done with it is that there, as perhaps nowhere else, is shown the utterimpotence of such wisdom to deal with the things of God. 10. A master of Israel should know something of these things, for in Ezek. xxxvi.,26, 27, it was written: "A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes." Gabriel was sent from heaven to cause Daniel to know, but here is a greater than Gabriel, and yet Nicodemus does not un, dentand. 11. This Is the third verily,' verily of our lesson. Only In this gospel do we find the double verily or amenor in truth, tfhd He who uses it is Himself the Truth. He knew all things and all men, even their utmost i imaginings. He said through Jeremiah: "I, the Lord, searoh the heart; I try the reins" (Jer. xvii., 10). 12. There are celestial and terrestrial things as veil as bodies, but the glory of- , the one differs greatly from that of the other (I Cor. xv.t 40). The kingdom, although not of this world, is to be set upon this earth, and will Include the whole world (John xvlii., 36: Dan. vli., 27: Hab. if., 14), bat there is a new Jerusalem to come dowu oat of heaven from > God, in the light of which the nations of the earth are to walk. 13. What wondrous sayings are here! While He was on earth He tras in heaven; He came down from heaven, and do6s He say.that as man He had ascended opto heaven? If so, we must believe it. But what about John xx.. 17, "I am not yet ascended to My Father?" That was in His resurrection body, 14. Our Lord Jesus never made light of or In any way discounted any record la the Scriptures, but spoke of them as realities. Here He refers to the incident of Num. xxi., 6-9, where the people, dying from the bite of fiery serpents, were to look upon a brazen serpent which Moses, at God's command, lifted upon a pole high enough for all to see, and when any dying one beheld the serpent of brass he lived. 15. The Israelites bitten were as good as dead unless they looked. Nicodemus was as helpless to save himself as a bitten Israelite; so are we. When a bittea and dying one looked where he was told, he saw 1 * ? ? -1 ??W4/?K wo a ntneinff tne resemDiaucw ui mm nu?,u ? ? his suffering and probable death, but It was fastened to a pole, and thus In the place of death to Itself. < 16. In Jesas Christ on the cro9S for our sins we set tne love of God as it never was seen elsewhere. We see the fulfillment of Gen. lit., 15,21; Ps. xxll.;.lsa. 111}., and every other Scripture concerning His sufferings and death. We are not asked to understand it nor to grasp its full significance, for that would be Impossible, but, like the bitten Israelite, we are asked to behold Him and believe He is for ine. Then we are assured that through Him wo have life and can never perish. All who are helpless and'turn to Him and simply receive Him are born of God. It is evident from chapter xix., 39, that Nicodemus received Him, aid the secret disciple became the bold coafessor.?Lesson Heloer. TO CHECK CONSUMPTION. ~~ Movement Started at a Meeting Convened by the Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales presided nt a private meetlDg at Marlborough House, London, *Ua /1uw innvonuH hv Mm tn fc?lkl4 steps to check the spread of tuberculosis. The Marquis of Salibury, tho Enrl of Rosebery, and a number of noted scientists and physicians spoke of the urgeut necessity of educating tbe people in th* means of preventing consumption and of checking the spread of tuberculous disease amonp cattle. Special stress was laM upon the importance of erecting open-air sanitaria. The Prince of Wal^s, who promised bis heartiest support to the movomeat, said Great Britain ought to follow the good example set before her in the United States, Germany and eisewhere, in the effort to stamp out the disease. He mentioned tho fact Uiat the Queen had ordered tho destruction of thirty-six of her dairy cows, which had been found to be suffering from tuberculosis. It is an example, he urged, tuch as the farmers ought to follow. Convicted of Being ? Common Scold. At Fair Play, a little town in Maryland, Mrs. Jennie Mickley was committed to jail for ten days the other day as a common scold under an antique statute of colonial times that has never been repealed. The prosecution was brought by her husband. Charles Mickley, a respectable mechanic, Industrious and sober, who brought his neighbors as witnesses to testify to her bad temper and unruly tongue. Mrs. Mlckl?y is said to be a good-looking woman, thirty years old, and has two children. aged nine ana nve years, who nave suifered much from her ungovernable passions. This is the first aflse ot the kind known in that n?-t of Maryland since the war. ? * *// * l;V%< *.V V ' , f-'.' ' - . ? *rV ' 11 ! SOD'S MESSAGE TO.;HA$ 'REGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THfc | WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHET& jg rhankAglring ? The KeatonablenM* ^ Gratitude ? Problem of "Clirtst'i fw eon ? Think and Thank ? Christ fa Breath, lood and Drink. > - f For early and for latter rain; ~ For fields so vast with fatness crowned jflKg For banner feared on land and main; . For peace In alf our borders found? Almighty God, our'tbsnlu ite bring, .Thy mercy and Thy goodness slngl m Ehat we did stay onr vengeful band; . . - \ That we did not our honor stain; ? rhat In Thy fear we took our stand,' > Fought not for glory nor for gainNot unto us?no praise we claim; The honor be to Thy great name! rhat heaped with sacrifices rare Our country's altar blazed again; rhat life and limb we did not spare, Nor failed to quit ourselves like men? We thank Thee, and exult in pride O'er those who uvea,oer those waoaiea. That we some dim perception show .? Of what is meant by biotherhood; , That we Thy poor remember, (hough The evil mingles wuh our goOd? We thank ihee,ior thougu biowot heart,, We yearn to turn the beit?r port. That Thou dost signal honor lay Upon this nation, and oraala Thai we like Israel display Thy power, and inane. Inypurpose plain? We bless The., Worsnip'xhee, content IX we may be Tnine instrument. 12; ?8. J. Underwood, in Zion's Herald. j3$j The Beaaonablenes* of Gratitude. Too many peopie regard, gratitude as a ' duty to which they are compelled by virtue . of their religion. Bat gratitude is a spontaneous and eminently reasonable function. . of the soul. It rests, indeed, upon the mom of dependence, but it can never b* whipped into action. It springs into < *" v. life of itself. A child does not stop to reason about his motives befora \jy showing gratitude to his parents; to /, Is simply gratefal because he cannot help it When he looks back from, t^ stand point of his mature manhood he <nm, also, that the BDontaneous action of his child heait was also most reasonable. The man tinder- 3 stands the meaning of parental-care'and -;J the largess of love into which he entered la r the old home days, and he knowB folly that no thankful confession of his childish -Hps went a line beyond his reasonable earvice. Thus it to with our gratitude to God :M for the measureless bestowments of HI? - ,3 abundant love. We may nof see today luwr, ' ' reasonable our gratitude for them really la; j'.MaS but some time we surely, shall. In the ua- . ' J tried future even this will b? revealed* Wo see it now with partial clearness. But not yet all. We must enter ihto conspiracy with th? , < & coming years for the perfect view. Only let as bold fast that which we have. Our gratitude to the Heavenly Father Is no tender; \Si passing tentimcnt; it Is a sweetly reasonable function of the soul. All our past warranto it; all our future invites It; Ood Himself,who : ^ reasons together with men in tbe highest life of the soul, inspires and sanctions ode thanksgiving. < Problem of Christ's ^Person. . ? .'J The fact simply Is that tbe actual and hto? . { torical Jesus Christ, the Christ of the go?-' ' pels and the church, was a man with a btfc- ' ^ man will and human freedom, who, by thagrace of Ood, through. His human faith. '\;f overcame sin and destroyed death, and bq redeemed and exalted human.nature and V"! human life to Its true human destiny ol onenees with Ood and eternal life ; and in Hli humanity, which is ours, once sinful, now ' ^ holy,- once dead and now alive, we are all " now sanctified and risen. , The true Chrto- ^ tian explanation of this act and,fact is that as It is human, so also is. ,it .divine, and that (here could have been no such ha- : man act that was not divine; that -Jesua . , Christ, as man, so realized' in Himself the y /H?Ua ?Anl(?nnr humonlh; hAAAHOA TU* flrtd. . ;1 U1VJUU iCIMHjT MUIUUUXJ! v-t-ittm.. ,j He so humanly realized Himself In humanity. ,, ? Sj And, moreover. Dot only was.the complete . ',v humanity of our Lord an historical fact.' bat only as human coold He havd Wen really divine. God fulfills Himself In'tfhd not instead ? of, or as a substitute for.'HtS works, whether , >5 they are natural or spiritual. We repeat that a redeeming God only reveals Himself ') In a redeemed humanity.?Prof. W. P. G. Dubose; in Ecumenical Counoils. ' Think and Thank Don't let us forget to be grateful for the common mercies; not only for recovery frost ? I illness, but for unbroken health4, for proteetion from accident; for that bfcat of gifts, a . place to work in aid work to do; for the group, for your parents, your children. Thank Him for the love that binds together brother and sister, lover and friend. Thank. Him for the family, that blessed institution. out of which grow all othSr good institutions. Thank Him if your f&(nily has not ; not been invaded by death. Thank. Him for the memory of th6 loved ones it any have beeu taken away. Thank , 5 Him for the goodness that mude yon a bob. native or adopted, of this land most favored by His smiles. For blessings temporal and blessings spiritual, for blessings personal, family and national, for such multitudinoas blessings that when you attempt to count them you find them more in number tha*. the stars in the heavens or the - sands upon the seashore?for them all thank Him who is the giver of them all! Think, and as you. think, thank!?Bev. G. B. F. Halloek, fax rj Presbyterian. . Christ In Breath, Food and Drink. What is thtf sign that a Christian man is ; near to Christ? The man who Is near to M Christ often turns with faith and love 4 to Christ, often pronounces His sweetest name, often calls upon Him for help, often turns his eyes, thoughts and heart towards * Him. Christ the Lord naturally reveals Himself upon his lips and'in his glanae, because without Chrht'he is powerless, joyless. The man who is for from Christ x . seldom, very seldom, turns his thoughts towards Christ, and even then not with. hearty fai:h and love but only through some 1 / necessity, and as to a person who is little known to him, who does not delight his heart and who has no attraction for him. This is why we see that those who are near . to Christ do aot let Christ out of their thoughts ar>i heart, they live in Him; He is their breath, food, drink, dwelling?everything.?"Father John/' In the Light of ChrUt. * " -V"-?. Take short views. Do not attempt U* ' climb the high wall till you get to it, or f light the battle till it opens, or shed tears over sorrows that may never come. Bo careful lest you lose, the joys that you / have by the sinful fear that God may J have trials awaiting you. He promises M grace sufficient for today, but not one M ounce of strength for tomorrow. Yoa . fl cannot create spiritual sunshine any fl more than you can create the nurniog ptar; but you can put your soul where Jesos fl Chri3t is shining. The closing year is a fit- * ting time to Inventory your mercies blessings. Set all your family to the puc^R^H of the one hundred and third Psalm, anH|^H hang on the wall these mottoes: <;A merrS^^^H heart is a good medicine" aad *'He that *- ?*-l ? faoQ^ mhi or a cneerrui nenrc aum a tuimuum ?Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. Is there anything that pleases 70a than to bo trusted?to bave even a child look up into your face, and put out^^^^^l hand to meet yours, aud come to you d^H|| fldinglyV By so much as God is better you are, by so much more does be love trusted.?Henry VanWke Survived Hi* rallbearer*. Herman Grunberg, of San Francl&^^^^H Cal., died a few days a?o nf the Pacific brew Home, aged 102 years. Nlnete^^^^H years ago he bought a coffin, had a shro^^^^H made and selected his pallbearers. He burled In the casket he kept for so but he survived all but three of the chosen to bear his remains to the grave An Iowa Xown Without Smith*.' In all the town of Hayes, Iowa, there^^^^H not n resident who bears the name Smith. This fact was brought out by^^^^H inquiry from Postmaster Gordon, of oago.asto a letter which had been dressed to J. W. Smith at Hayes. Postmaster of the Iowa town replied t^HH there were no Smiths there.