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} SERPENT EPTTERED i nt h , ?? I \ _ Double/ Murder Done in the Home i \ First Serious Criri i For,'the first time in all its romantic history, Pitcairn Island has been the scene lof a murder, pays tlie New York Press. For nearly 110 years the mutineers of the Bounty and their desoeiydantf lived on Pitcairn an ideal Then a young man named ? Jno?nn^oiit nf fhft lpJlflpr Iwuifiotiau, a ucotbuuuuv v? - B the mutineers, killed a young wornher little child and threw their |^Bies into one of the ocean caves. He ^Bted to get rid of the woman and ^Bld in order that he might marry ^Bother young woman on whom he had Hst his eyes. The ralers of the Hand had deoided tVat if he married By one it must be the young woman B whose child he was the father; Bat, in fact, he was to all intents and Broposes the girl's husband. One Bening Christian met the young wornjfn and her child in the forest and tilted them. He was suspected of the crime and accused, whereupon he con (fessed. It was the first capital crime ever committed on the island, and the islanders were mnch excited over it. PARLIAMENT HOUSE, C (The windows are double rows of portholes, relics of th IThe British Government was asked to aend to the place some one with judicial authority to try the murderer. From officers of the British man-ofwar Royalist information has been received of the trial, by a special commissioner sent out for the purpose. Though the settlement of Pitcairn Island was the result of a crime, the descendants of the original settlers .have lived in an ideal state of tranquility aud brotherly love. The people were religious, and such lures of the evil one as intoxicating liquors and tobacco were not allowed to be brought to the island. For over a hundred years Pitcairn Island lay Jjy sleeping in the warm waters of the South Pacific, and its people feared ' OyTHE PITCAIRX ISLAND MURDEBEB. God, kept the Commandments and were happy. The crime which was responsible for the settlement of Pitcairn Island * was the mutiny of the crew of the British warship Bounty in 1789. That mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian, master's mate of the ship. The first r murderer of Pitoairn Island was Harry r A. Christian, a descendant of Fletcher Christian. When, under the lead of Fletcher Christian, the crew of the Bounty seized that ship, they put the CAptain, Bligh, and certain others who had refused to join them, into an open boat and set them adrift. The captain and his party, after a severe and hazardous experience, reached Timor Island, in th3 South Pacific, where they were picked up by a passing ship and taken back to England. The mutineers, after setting the captain adrift, sailed for Pitcairn Island. Pitcairn is only two miles long and about a mile and a half wide, it lies in the South Pacific, between Australia and South America, oat of the pa h of commerce. Though expeditions were sent out by the British Government to find the mutineers of BOUNTY BAY, PI' the Bounty, all trace of them was 'ost until one day, many years aft9r, when a sailing ship happened to find herself in the vicinity of Pitcairn Island, and eent a boat ashore for water and frnit. A curious, isolated civilized community was found there, living under the rule of a venerable patriarch, John Adams, the last survivor of the mutineers of the Bounty. Adams had taught the natives to read and write, and beggec that missionaries be sent out to aid bim in his work, from Doing wild and reckless mutineers, the Bailors of the Bounty, bofore they k M \ THE EDEN PITCAIRN ISLAND.: b d of the Mutineers' Descendants? t ne in NO Years. \ died, became religious enthusiasts, and when they died they left a Godfearing community in their children and grandchildren. For 110 years crime was practically unknow on Pitcairn Island. Then Harry A. Christian murdered a young woman and her vear-and-a-balf-old child. It was the first serious crime that had ever bee committed on the island. Christian met the woman and { child walking in the bush one Sunday ! evening, and killed them in cold blood. After dark he returned to the ^ scene of his crime to drag the bodies down the steep face of a cliff to the rocks below, where he threw them through a "blow-hole" into a cove where the pounding surges of the Pacific soon tore them to pieces. The murderer, when accused, confessed his crime, and it is believed that hia object was to be free to marry another ? young woman of the island with whom n he had fallen in love, and for permis- Is sion marry whom he had applied un- ? successfully to the "parliament" of j the island. b g tj \ * 1 xi j f I >N P1TCAIRN ISLAND. and the supporting timbers are tlie only A > Bounty.] fi ^ The island parliament is an execu- b tive committee of seven members, fl presided over by a president. The t: parliament and the president are 0 elected by popular , vote, the women b voting as well as the men. All the in- n habitants of the island are desendants of the mutineers of the Bounty and of ? native women found there, except one ft family, and that is a family the head of which is named Coffin, and, of s course must have -sprung from Nan- d tucket. There are 141 souls on the ft island, and the families are five in Jj number. They are the Christians, the j| Youngs, the McCoys, the Buffets and s the Coffins. The president of the isl- n and is named McCoy. The Queen of v England is the "over-lord" of the isl- : 2 and, and in the island church is an 3 organ which she sent out to her "lov- ? ing subjects of Pitcairn Island in ap- { preciation of their domestic virtues," 11 according to the silver plate on the a organ. But England seldom interferes with anything concerning the Government of Pitcairn. When Christian had confessed his 1 crime, however, President McCoy called a meeting of his "parliament," and, as there was no precedent by I which to be guided, it was decided to s imprison the young man and appeal p to England to send out and try him. 1< So the man-of-w'ar Royalist was sent * to Suva in the Fiji Islands to get the ? British "Judicial Commissioner for t the Western Pacific." The commis- 1 fcioner went to Pitcairn in the Royal ist and Christian was tried before him j. and convicted, though ho repudiated E his confession and pleaded not guilty. * He was t&ken to Suva "for final satis- ^ faction of the demands of justice." C One peculiar thing about the Pit- C cairn Islanders is that they all speak ? English with a decided "down East" ? twang, and use many expressions E which are seldom heard in Oid Eng- 1 land, but are common in New Eug- j land. They ara a light-colored peo- j pie, with blue or brown eyes. The ft: only harbor in the island, and that is not a good one, is Bounty Bay, a r slight indentation in the shore, where r the mutineers burned the Bounty * when they finally decided to stay on s the island. Bisiug up back of the little settlement is a peak called the Goat House, and near its top is a cave * where the mutineers used to hide ? when they saw a sail approaching the ? island. In the first few years follow- r ing their crime Christian used to e spend a certain part of each day on the mountain on the lookout for sails, in order that "all hands might douse f the fires Rud go aloft," when there appeared any possibility of their existence being discovered. They did not descend to the village again until not ? - ? ' i-1- ? iUfl Affin/* TITO Q TTTrtl 1 1 umjf tile UUttai/, UUII bUo uiuu^, ?? MO TTUii clear. Bat men and times are changed c now on Pitcaim, and a visiting ship is y warmly welcomed. o The Parliament House of the island I is interesting, because in it is some J timber taken from the Bounty. This j( building has for windows two rows of t portholes, which give it the appear- j auce of a stranded ship. The house j in which the president lives is the best l ?E V i rOIRN ISLAND. t one on the island, and is callcd tbe White House. Some of the natives of Pitcairn have visited the United t States, and sailing vessels from San I Francisco touch there more frequent- ? ly than any other ships." Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs. Logan are ? am one the largest women pensioners of this country. They receive respectively $2500 and $2000 a year. j In France there are 1,130,241 s foreigners, while in foreign countriea i there are but 517,000 Frenchmen. ll A LIVE ISSUE IN ENGLAND. .. 'arllament Will Inquire Into the Desecra* tlon of ths Malidl'a Body. Loxeon (By Cable).?When Khartoum ras captured the Mahdl's mausoleum was lestroyed and tbo Prophet's embalmed Ody was wrested from the sarcophagus, ismembered and east into the Nile, except he bead, which was presented to Major tordon, a nephew of the Mahdl's famous lctim. THE MAHDj'S TOJIB AT KHABTOrir. This desecration of the Mahdi's sepulhre was oondamned feebly at the time, ut now that the glamour of the Omdurlan victory is passing away a disposition' i evinced to regard the desecration as eeply censurable. A leading Conservative was asked In tho [ouse of Commons whether no one has een reprimanded for "this horrible and hastly outrage." No answer was given, hougli the inquiry was loudly applauifed. 'he whole matter is to be brought up in a ormal debate. NEW YORK'S POISON CASE. loland B. Molineux la Accused of the Murder of Mrs. Adams. . New Yobk City (Special).?Roland Burnam Molineux is In a cell in the Tombs, ccused by the verdict of the Coroner's jry of sending to H. 8. Cornish the poison hat killed Mrs. Katherlne J. Adams on tecember 28 last. The verdict was the reult of sensational testimony produced on he last day of the inquest, knd practicaly, although not technically, accuses Molleux also of poisoning H, C. Barnet, his wn and his wife's friend. Six experts in handwriting coming from ve different parts of the country, all testled, with the greatest posltlvenssss and rith no qualification, that Molineux wrote 11 the letters sent under private letter ox addresses to different Jmedicin? rms and to K. Stearns & Co., of Derolt, signed "H. C. Barnet" and "H. Corlsh," and that he wrote the address n the package containing tho poisoned romo-seltzer which was received by Corish at the Knickerbocker Athletic Club on (ecember 24. Heckmann, a proprietor of rlvate letter boxes, positively identified lolineux as tho person who, on Friday, lay 27, 1399, rented a private letter box rom him under the name of H. C. Barnet. The verdict of the jury is: "We And that aid Mrs. Katherlne J. Adams came to her , eath on the 28th day of December, 1893, t 61 West Eighty-sixth street, by pol8onig by mercuric cyanldo administered to er by Harry S. Cornish, said poison hav3g Cieen sent in a bottle of bromo-seltzer ont through the mails by Roland B. Molleux." Roland Burnham Mollneux is thirty-one; ears old. He was married on November. 9 at the Church of the Heavenly Rest to [iss Blanche Chesebrough. He is the son f General E. L. Molineux, of Brooklyn, renernl Molineux is a dealer in paints.i oung Molineux is in the employ of the rm of Morris Herman & Co., dry color; lakers, at Newark, and a superintendent f their factory. - ADMIRAL DEWEY"" FORCE; 'wenty-Two Slilps and O Four Thon? sand Men Under His Orders. , Washington, D. C. (Special).?Admiral lewey's force measured in men Is howa la an instructive statement preared at 'che Navy Department from the itest official records. It appear.? that wenty-t wo vessels are now subject to his' rders. This force consists of over four bousand men, which is half as large as hat of the entire Navy a few years ago. 'he distribution among the ships is as foliws: Vessels. Offleen. Men. Marines laltimoro 36 275 86 lennington 16 163 18 Soston 19 237 33 lufTalo 17 239 25 lallao: 10 25 ? lastine 11 ISO 12 Iharloston 20 250 33 .'oncord 13 163 13 lulfioa 10 41) ? >on Juan do Austria... 10 111 ? [elona 10 151 15 sla de Luzon ? 7 ? 9la de Cuba 10 120 ? | LiiDlla 11 oi> ? [ODftdnooi: 26 175 ? [onocacy 12 129 18 louterey 19 187 ? Hvmpia .... 34 377 33 'otrel 10 112 ? 'rinceton 11 114 12 orbtown 14 163 19 olnue 10 125 27 Totals 329 3.859 304 The Oregon will add thirty-two officers, 02 men and sixty marines, and the Ida five fflcers aud niuety-threo men. The Buffalo oob out several hundred, but these do not .Toot the total, as her passengers were to eplace inen whose terms of enlistment had xpired and who wanted to return to this ountry. QUAY'S TRIAL POSTPONED, listrict Attorney Kotliormel Get* a Contlnuanco Until April 10. Philadelphia,renn. (Special).?The trial [ United States Senator Matthew Stanley [uay and Lis son Richard R. Quay, on the harge of having entered into oonsplraies with Benjamin J. Haywood, Johni. Hopkins and others to misuse the funds f the State ot Pennsylvania and of the 'eople's Bank of this city, has been postloned again. At the request of District Lttorney P. Fred Rotbermel, Judee Boitar, of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Deorft whom the defendants were brought or trial, granted a continuance until April 0. Mr. liothermel had a conference with udge Beitler before court opened, and told ilm that ho was going to ask for the post(onement. Ho gave tils reasons, which .ere not expressed iu open court, and udge iicitler agreod that they were good. Two H'jya Killed ljy a Fa9t Train. Frank Fahr, fourteen years old, and Frederick Eisle, fifteen years old, were ouud dead alongside the tracks ot the Jrto Railroad at Rutherford, N. J., a few lays ago. Both wore badly mutilated, ivideutly they had been a.ruck by a fast rails. Chira'n Stronc Protest to KiissIh. Tlio Dowager Empress of Chiua lias lirectcd the Foreign O!!lco to make a strong irolost atraiust the killing of Chinese near 'ore Arthur by liussiau forces <luriug a coulitit over the collection of tuxes. 'Corn Klric" of Illinois l)row?eili Martin Linewebber, widely known a3 ho "Corn King" of Illinois," was drowned a ew daysago near Ilartwell, Henry County, lo. Ho left Manito, 111., to look afier lis 3000-acro tract of laud in Missouri. A leuvy rain fell there and Mr. Jjinewobbor, n attempting to cross a swollen stream, vas swept to his death. He is survived >y thirteen children and a widow. The Flour lteconl of Minneapolis. The output of tho Minneapolis flour mills or 1898 reuched the enormous total of 14,190,000 barrels, whloh eolipsos all previous ecords of.this or any other milling centre n the world. ? ? DB. TALHAGUS SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "The Christian Home"?A Place For the Gene?la and Rounding Out of Character?The Family Circle a Haven of Kefuge From the World'a Storms. Text: "Let them learn first to show piety at home."?I Timothy v., 4. During the summer months the tendency 19 to the fields, to visitation, to foreign travel and the watering places, and the ocean stuamers are thronged, bat In the winter It Is rather to gather In domestic circles, and during these months we spend many or the hours within doors, ana tne apostle comes to us and says that we ought to exercise Christian behavior amid all such circumstances. "Let them learn first to show piety at home." There are a great many people longing for some grand sphera in which to serve God. They admire Luther nt tho diet of Worms, and only wish that they had some suchgreat opportunity in which to display their Christian prowess. They admire Paul making Felix tremble, and they only wish that tbey had some such grand occasion In which to preach righteousness, temperance and judgment to come. All thev want is an opportunity to exhibit' their Christian heroism. Now, the apostle practically says: "I will show you a place where you can exhibit all that Isgrana and beautiful and glorious in Christian character and that is the'domestic circle. Let them learn first to show-piety at home." If one is not faithful in an insignificant sphere, he will not be faithful in a reeounding sphere. If Peter will not help the cripple at the gate of the temple, he will never be able to preach 3QD0 into the kingdom at the Pentecost. If Paul will not take pains to instruct in the way of salvation the jailor of the Pbllipplan dungeon, he will never make Felix tremble. He who is not faithful In a skirmish would not he faithful in sn Armageddon. The fact is, we are all placed in just the position in which we can most grandly serve God. and we ought not to be chiefly thoughtful about some 9phere of usefulness which wo may after a while gain, but the all absorbing question with >ou and with me ought to be, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me now and here to do?" There is one word in St. Paul'3 adjuration around which the most of our thoughts will revolve. That word is "home." Ask ten different men the meaning of that word and they will give you ten different definitions. To one it means love at the hearth, plenty at the thble, industry at the work stand, intelligence at the books, devotion at the alter. In that household discord never sounds its warwhoop, and deception never tricks with its false face. To him it means a greeting at the door and a smile at the chair, peace hovering like wings, joy clapping Its hands wltn laugnter. .Lire is a tranqun lane. Pillowed on the ripples sleep the shadows. Ask another man what home Is and he will tell It is want looking out of a cheerless fire-grate, kneading hunger in an empty bread tray. The damp air shivering with corses. No Bible on the shelf. Children robbers and murderers in embryo. Obscene songs their lullaby. Every face a picture of ruin. Want in the background and sin starlnor from the front. No Babbath ware rolling over that doorslll. Vestibule of the pit. Shadow of infernal walls. Furnace for forging everlasting chains. Fagots for an unending funeral pile. Awful word. It is spelled with curses, It weeps with ruin, It chokes with woe, it sweats with the death agony of despair. The word "home" in the one case means everything bright. The word "home" in the other case means everything terrific. I shall speak now of home as a test of character, home as a refuge, home as a political safeguard, home as a school, and home as a type of heaven. And in the first place, home Is a powerful test of character. The disposition in public may be in gay costume, while in private it is dishabille. As play actors may appear In one way on the stage and may appear In another way behind the scenes, so private character may be very different from public character. Private character Is often public character turned wrong side out. A man may receive you into hi3 parlor as though he was a distillation of smiles, and yet his heart may be a swamp of nettles. There are business men who nil day long are mild and courteous, and genial and good natured in commercial lire, damming back their irritability and their petulance and their discontent, but at nightfall the dam breaks, and scolding pours forth in floods and freshets. As at sunset sometimes the wind rises, so after a sunshiny day there may be a tempestuous night. There are people who in publio act the philanthropist who at home act the Nero with respect to their slippers and their gown. Audubon, the great ornithologist, with gun and pencil went through the forests of Amerioa to brlnar down and to sketch the beautiful birds, and after yoars of toll and exposure completed his manuscript and put it in a trunk In Philadelphia and went off for a few days of recreation and rest and came back and found that the rats had utterly destroyed the manuscript, but without any disoom- 1 posure and without any fret or bad temper he aga(n picked up his gun and his penoll and visited again all the great forests of America and reproduced his immortal work. And vet there are people with the ten-thousandth part of that loss who are utterly irreconcilable, who at the loss of a f>encll or an article of raiment will blow as ong and loud and sharp as a northeast storm. Now, that man who Is affable In public aud who is irritable in private is ; making a fraudulent and overissue of stock, and be is as bad as a bank that might have $400,000 or ?500,000 of bills in circulation J with no specie in the vault. Let us learn to 3how piety at home. If we have it not there, we have it not anywhere. If we have not genuine grace In the family circle, all our outward and public plausibility merely springs from the fear of the world or from the slimy, putrid pool of our own selfishness. I tell you the home is a mighty test of character. What you are at home you are everywhere, whether you demonstrate it or not. Again, home is a refuge. Life is the United States army on the national foad to Mexico?a long march, with ever and anon a skirmish and a battle. At eventide i we pitch our tent and stack the arms, we ) hang up the war cap, and our head on the knapsack we sleep until the morning bugle calls us to march to the action. How pleasant it is to rehearse the victories and the surprises and th>s attaoks of the day seated by the still eampflre of the home circle! Yea, life is a stormy sea. With shivered masts and torn sans ana nunc aleak we put in at the harbor of home. Blessed harborl There we go for repairs in the drydock. Tbe candle in the window is to the tolling man tbe lighthouse guiding blm Into port. Children go forth to meet their fathers as pilots at the Narrows take tbe band of ships. Thedoorsill of the home Is the wharf where heavy life is unladen. Tbere is the place where we may j talk of what wo have done without being charged with .self adulution. There is the place where we may lounge without being thought ungraceful. There is the place where we may express affection without being thought silly. There is the place whero we may forget our annoyances and exasperations and troubles. Forlorn earth pilgrim, no home? Then die. That is better. Tbo grave is brighter and grander und more glorious than this world with no tent from marching, with no harWor from thu storm, with no place of rest from this scene of greed and gouge and loss and gain. God pitv the man or the woman who has no home! Further, home is a political safeguard. The safety 01 uie mtuo mun do uum un the safety ot the home. Why cannot France come to a placid republic? MacMahon appoints his ministry,and all France is aquake lest the republic be smothered. Gambette dies, and there are hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen who are fearing the return of a monarchy. The Dreyfus case is at this moment a slumbering earthquake under I'aris. France, as a nation, has not the right kind of a Christian home. The Christian hearthstone is the only hearthstone for a republic. The virtues cultured in the family circle aro an absolute necessity for the State. If there be not enough moral principle to make the family adhere, there will not be enough political principle to make the State adhere. No home means the Goths and Vandals, means the Nomads of Asia, means the Numidlans of Africa, changing from place to place according as the pasture happens to ohange. Confounded be ail those babels 0 of iniquity which would overpower and destroy the home! Tiie same storm that upsets the ship in which the family sail will sink the frigate o'the constitution. Jails onH nanlfnntinrina and armies and navies are not our best defense. Tbe door ot the home Is the best fortress. Household utensils are our best artillery, and the chimneys of our dwelling houses are the grandest monuments to safety and triumph. No home, no republic. Further, home is a school. Old ground must be turned up with subsoil plow, and it must be harrowed and reharrowed, aqtJ then the crop will not be as large as that of the new ground with less culture. Now, youth and childhood are new ground, and all the Influences thrown over their heart and life will come up in after life luxuriantly. Every time you have given a smile of approbation all the good cheer of your life will come up again in tbe geniality of your children. And every ebullition of anger and every uncontrolable display of indignation will be fuel to tbls disposition of twenty or thirty or forty years from now ? fnel for a bad fire a auarter of a century Irom th(9. You praise the intelligence of your cbllrt too much sometimes when you think he is not aware of It, and you will see the result of It before ten years of age In his annoying affectations. You praise bis beauty, supposing be is not large enough to understand what you say, and you will And bim standing on a high chair before a flattering mirror. Oh. make your home the brightest place on earth if you would oharm your children . to the high path of virtue and rectitude and religion. Do not always turn the blinds the wrong way. Let the light, whioh puts gold on the gentian and spot9 the pansy, pour into your dwellings. Do not expect tbe little feet to keep step to a dead maroh. Do not cover up yonr walls with suoh pictures as West's "Death on a Pale Horse" or Tintoretto's "Massacre of the Innnocents." Rather coyer them, If you haye pictures, with "The Hawking Party," and "The Mill by the Mountain Stream," ana "The Fox Hunt," and the "Children Amid Flowers," and the "Harvest Scene," and "The Saturday Night Marketing." Get you no hint of cheerfulness from grasshopper's leap and lamb's frisk and quail's whistle and garrulous streamlet, which from the rock at the mountain top clear down to the meadow ferns under the shadow of the steep comes looking to see where it can And tbe steepest place to leap off at and talking just to hear itself talk? If nil the skies hurtled with tempest and everlasting storm wandered oyer the sea and every mountain stream were raving mad, frotnlng at tbe month with mud foam, and there were nothing but simoons blowing among tbe bills, and there were neither lark's carol nor humming bird's trill nor waterfall's dash, but only bear's bark and panther's scream and wolf's howl, and you might well gather Into your homes only the shadows. But when God has strewn the earth and the heavens with beauty and with gladness let us take into our home circles all innocent hilarity, all brightness and all good cheer. A dark home makes bad boys and bad girls In preparation lor bad men and bad women. Above all, my friends, take into your homes Christian principle. Can It be that in any of the oomfortable homes whose inmates I confront the voice of prayer is never lifted? What! No supplication at night for protection? What! No thanksgiving in the morning for care? How, my brother, my sister, will you answer God in the day of judgment with reference to your children? It is a plain question, and therefore I ask it. In the tenth chapter of Jeremiah God says be will pour out his fury upon tbe families that call not upon His name. Oh, parents, when you are dead and gone ana the moss Is covering the inscription of the tombstone, will your children look back and think of father and mother at family prayer? Will they take the old family Bible and open it and see the mark of tears of contrition and tears of consoling promise wept by eyes long before gone out into darkness? Oh, if you do not inculcate Christian principle in the hearts of your children, and do not warn them against evil, and you do not Invite them to holiness and to God, and they wander off into dissipation and into infidelity, and at l*st make shipwreck of their immortal soul, on their deathbed and In the day of judgment they will curse you! Seated by the register or the stove, what if on the wall should come out the history of your children! What a history?the mortal and Immortal life of your loved ones! Every parent Is writing the history of bis child. He Is writing It, composing it into a song or pointing it with a groan. One night, lying on my lounge when very tired, my children all around abont me, in (all romp and hilarity and laughter?on the lounge, half awake and half asleep?I dreamed this dream: I was in a far country. It was not Persia, although more than oriental luxuriance crowned the cities. It was not the tropics, although more ,than tropical frultfulness filled the gardeni. It was not Italy, although more than Italian softness filled the air. And I wandered about looking for thorns and nettles, but I found that none of them grew there. And I saw the sun rise, and I watoued to see it set, but it sank not. And I saw the people in holiday attire, and I said, "When will they put off this and put on workmen's garb, and again dejve In the mine and swelter at the forge?" But they never put off the holiday attire. And I wandered In the suburbs of the city to And the place where the dead sleep, and I looked all along the line of the beautiful hills, the place where the dead might most peacefully sleep, and I saw towers aud castles, but not a mausoleum, or a monument, or a white slab could I see. And I went into the chapel of the great town, and I said, "Where do the poor worship and whoro are the hard benches on which they sit?" And the answer was made me, "We have no poor Id tbia country." And then I wandered out to And the hovels of the destitute, and I found, mansions of amber and ivory and gold, but not a tear could I see, not a sigh could I hear. And I was bewildered, and I sat down under the branches of a great tree, and I said, "Where am 1 and whence comes all tuts scener" Ana taea uui irum among the leaves and up the flowery paths and across the broad streams there came a beautiful group throngiQjr 'ill about me, and as I saw them come I thought I knew their step, and as they shouted I thought I knew their voices, but theu they were so gloriously arrayed In apparel such as I had never before witnessed that I bowed as stranger to stranger. But when again they clapped their hands aud shouted "Welcome, welcome," the mystery all vanished, and I found that time had gone and eternity had come, and we were all together again In our new home in heaven, and I looked around and I said, "Are we all here?" acd the voices of manv generations responded. "All here!" And while tears of gladness were running down our cheeks, and the branches of the Lebanon cedars wore clapping their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome we all together began to leap and shout and sing, "Homo, home, home!" SPAIN'S OLD, GRIM JEST. Requests Great Britain to Give Her Back nihrnltiir. a* a Part of Trade. Spain Las repeated its utmost annual request to Great Britain for a transfer of territory, Including Gibraltar. The story comes to Washington from the highest official sources in Spain that Eugiand has been asked to yield up the the historic fortified peninsula. Spain offering to cede to England her possessions in Africa, notably Ceuta, Rio do Oro, tho strip of territory on the west coast of Sahara, the Island of Fernando Po and some smaller possessions on the Guinea coast. The Spaniards maintain that tho African possessions of Spain are of far greater interest and strategic importance to England than Gibraltar. The English can readily transform Ceuta Into a new Gibralta, "they argue, on the south or African nl.lr. H.I.a I.ntlln.r F.niTl.and within strikintr distauco of some of tiie treasured territory of France, uud at the front of nil northern Africa. Ceuta is already a strongly fortified seaport. Its defences are naturally strong and have been reinforced artiticially by the Spaniards. It is directly opposite Gibraltar. It is an interesting fact that the masses of the Spanish public do not know that Spain has no title whatever to Gibraltar. They are fod with repeated stories of lease, temporary occupation, and so on. It is probable that the request now made is for home political purposes only. No ministry in Great Britain, it issuggested, could out live tho ptorin which a serious propositi iu give up the Rock would arouse. Dominion Parliament to Meet. The Canadian Parliament has been summed to meet at Ottawa, Ont., on March 16. 0 THE SABBATH SCHOOL. 'INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 19. L??on iexi: "isnnat me oooa onepnera, John x., 1-16? Golden Text: John x., 11?Commentary on the Day's Leasoii ' by the Rev. D. M. Stearn*. 1. The misconduct ot the scribes and Pharisees, who ought to have been the faithful stiepherds of the people, brings to mind the words by the prophets, notably in Jer. xxlii. and Ezek. xxxiv. Unfaithfulness and unbelief seem to prevail in all ages In the professing people of God. By the gate of Eden, with its sword and sacrifice; by the gate and door and veil of the tabernacle He taught tho people the only way of access to Himself. He now reminds them of It and says that all other ways are invented by those who would rob God of His honor. 2. The true shepherd accepts God's wny and knows no othor. Like Noah building the ark or Moses the tabernacle, he has no suggestions to make, but simply obeys God implicitly. He does not appoint himself to oflce, but God calls him and appoints him, as He did Moses and Joshua and Samuel, Isalab, Jeremiah and Ezskiel, the apostles and all who are will* Ing to be wholly subject to Him. 3. His voice Is recognized as the voice ot one In authority, and He Is followed and trusted. He said to Moses, Thou hast found grace in My sight, and I know thee by name (Ex. xxxlii., 17). Through Isaiah He said, Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine (Isa. xllll., 1). 4. A great manv people who bear His name and seem to be doing His work do not understand this, for they complain of not been able to accomplish what thay wish nor get where they desire to go. There must be a misunderstanding somewhere, for when we follow where He leads all should be easy, and when He goes before He will not leave obstacles in the way ot those whom He leads. 5. Sheep must be wiser than people, for, while sheep will not follow a stranger, many who call themselves Christians follow those who do not follow Christ and yet think they are in the right way. They do not seem to know the difference between His voice and that of strangers. His word Is His voice. It is true from the beginning and forever settled in heaven (Ps. cxix., 89). 6. "They understood not." It seems a fllmnlft narahlfl In thA Hpht of the prophecies we have referred to, but It was all dark to them, for they were more fall of tradition than of His Word, the Scriptures. It is even so now, and a Bible study Co those unaccustomed to it is something very strange. How sadly He says even to His disoiples, Do ye not yet understand? How is it that ye do not understand? (Math, xvi., 9,11). 7. Now He says plainly, "I am the door of the sheep." The gate of the garden of Eden, the gate and door and veil of the tabernaole, the door of Noah's ark, the entrance to the city of refuge, were all typical of Him who is the way and the only way. There is none other name given under heaven among men whereby we may be saved (Acts iv., 19). Christ told men to look unto Him and they would be saved. Christ is God, and when we receive Chri3t we receive God. The 8on has left on record that blessed truth. "Him that cometh unto Me I will in nowise cast out" (John vi., 37). 8. All before Him or beside Him wero thieves and robbers. I take it that the expression "All that ever came before Me" has the same thought as in Ex. xx., S, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." The first thief and robber was satan, who tried to take Adan and Evo away from God. 9. Again He says ""that* He 'is the door, and He speaks of safety and plenty. Not only is He the door, but He is also our salvation and our food. He said, "He that eateth Me, even He shall live by Me" (John vi., 57). Any one may enter In and nnd in Him salvation and rest and peaceand plenty. 10. hie desires to give me auu me ciuuudantly, while the thief seeks only to de-. stroy. The father of all the thieves Is called the adversary, who goeth about seeking whom he may devour (I Pet. v., 8). Christ Is our life. When we receive Him, wehave life, and when we let Hlin Alius with Himself we have abundance of life. 11. He says, "I am the Good Shepherd." Elsewhere He says, or rather Is spoken of as the Great Shepherd and the Chief Shepherd (Heb. xlii., 20, 21; I Pet. v., 4). As the Good Shepherd He gives His life for us that He may save us. As the Great Shepherd He works in us the things which are pleasing to God. As tbe Chief Shepherd He will reward us at His coming for the service we have permitted Him to accomplish in us. 12. The hireling thinks more of his own life than the welfare of the sheep. He Is not one with the Good Shepherd, though professedly serving Him. This and the next ver3e are fully set forth in those chapters in Jeremiah and Ezeklel already referred to. Let each answer for himself as pastor, teaoher or Christian worker, Am I one with the Good Shepherd in self-renouncing and self-denying labor, seeking nothing for myself, but only the welfare of those with whom He brings me in con tact? 13. "Because he is a hireling." There may be Christian workers in all positions, even as missionaries on the fcrelgn fl,eld, whose principal thought Is their position and their salary, rather than the salvation of souls and the glory of God. 14. He knows His sheep, and they know Him. The Lord knoweth them that are His, and in the judgment He will make no mistake. He weigheth our actions and regards our thoughts and is ever ready to show Himself strong on betialf of those who trust Him (II Chron. xvi., 9). He even keeps a book for those who think upon Him (Mai. Hi., 16). 15. The Father la wholly occupied with His Son and with tho welfare of all through Him. The Son is wholly occupied with the Father and with seeking the welfare of nil whom the Father has given to Him. They understand each other perfectly. They would have us as one of them, as they are with each other. lfi. "Other sheeDl have." Until after His resurrection there was no command to preach except to the Jews, but now the command Is to go into all the world, to every creature, that all who will may come, Th* worker must not be discouraged because all who hear do not believe. All that the Father giveth Hir~ shall come to Him. He shall see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied, and He shall not fall nor be discouraged (John vi., 37; Isa. llll., 11; xlii.. 4). May the frequent repetition of these and other texts in these lessons be as helpful to the reader as to the writer. I do believe God.?Lesson Helcer. ' KLONDIKE MAPS WRONC. The Supposed All-American Route to the Yukon lliver Found Impaasable. Advices from Dawson received at Seattle, Wash., say that Lieutenant Castnor, of the Fourth United States Infantry, who started almost a year ago from the southern coast of Alaska to explore the interior and And, if possible, an all-American trail to the Yukon, has arrived there. ? Finding the trail they had believed to exist impassable, Lieutenant Castner and two companions starteu 10 reauu uiviutiitlou. They put tbeir provisions, guns, etc., on ii raft and set it afloat oil the Tanaua River. The raft was wrecked the second day and all the provisions, rifles, axes, etc. lost. All that was saved was a coil of rope. With the rope another raft was built, and for six days tho tbree uieu floated down the river, living on berries and rose apples. They were without shoes or moccasins, their feet being covered by canvas tied with strings. Just as hope was almost gone the party drifted into an encampment of 'Xanana Indians. Here they were hospitably treated and conducted to the camp of white men a hundred miles up the stream, where the party restejl until a boat could carry them to the Yukon. Lieutenant Cnstner found all maps to be i Uir, n Kornmafar fa i lad HJCUrrCUk* ?413 uueiUiu V(4ivuiuhw? 4Mi?v<t to work, and in consequence be was unable to measure the height of the mountains or thepnsses. The Lieutenant says, however, that thero is a feasible route for a trail or railway from the coast to a point on the Yukon River below Circle City, but lack of provisions prevented him from taking the time to muD It out. GOD'S MESSAGE TO~MAN; PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. ' t? One Tear ? The Type of Modern Sainthood ? Antagonizing Temptations ? Calmed and Fortified by Prarer?God's Kesintleis Energy?What Is Required. A year has been gone! And none may tell What that baa meant to us who love her well; A year, with not a word, a touch, a smile, A year that has stretched out aweary while. A year has been gone! And, strange to say. Not yet accustomed are we to her stay; _ But, at a sudden step upon the stair, We fancy^he Is coming, unaware. Vain momentary thought. Mo feet return From that strange journey. Andsosloww? learn To iruther un and weave life's broken strands. Whose golden threads paled out at Death's commands. A year! Sometimes a brief and happy . space. But when the earth is heaped above a face Which was the very light of dally life, A year can with strange bitterness be rife. 1 A year! What has it brought to her wo love? , Vffl Do years pass like swift days to thoso above? We question and we wonder how she fares, And if she knows our longings and our prayers. Our prayers?the while our hearts are sad and lone? That if there be a bliss she has not known, : A sweet surpriso In store, it may be given - ?: To crown this year, this glad flrst year la heaven. ?Emma E. Lente, in Zlon's Herald* ' -Z, The Type of Modern Sainthood. Life to him (Phillips Brooks) was one great unity. He did not stpnrate the re! ligious from the secular life. He dl(Unot 9narpiy aistingmsn Detxrwn religious duties and. the duties of common life. The ' obedience called for In the university, or in the professions, the institutions and vooa- .M tlons of life, was a religious principle aa much aa prayer or worship. He knew ,only one distinction?between good and bad, right and wrong. Life was the good and the right; all that ministered to these was religious and sacred wherever It might be found, in art or literature, philosophy or science. Whatever increased vitality was of divine origin. It was not things in themselves that were worldly or injurious, but the spirit or temper "with which the world and the things that are in tha world were followed. Worldliness was' simply the absence or the love of God. He who loved God possessed the world in its fullness, and his life becamo ever more rich and fulL Thus, as far as it was in his power, Phillip Brooks was a man of the world because he was first a man of God. He gave us therefore in himself the type of x modern sainthood. It is consecration, not ' renunciation,which makes the highest character.?Alexander V. G. Allen, D. D., in "The Message of Christ to Manhood" (Wii* liam Belden Noble Lectures). . v il Antagonising Temptation*. V ^22 The true way to conquer temptations la not to fight them in detail, but to go up into a loftier region where they cease to be ' . temptations. How is it that grown men do not like the sweetmeats that used to tempt them when they were children'? They have outgrown them. Then outgrow the temptations of the world. How is it that there are no mosquitoes nor malaria ou the mountain tops? They cannot rise above the level of the swamps by the river. Go up to the mountain-top, and neither malaria nor mosquitoes will follow you?which being interpreted is, live near Jesus Christ and keep your hearts and minds occupied with H m, and you will dwell in a region high above the temptations which buzz and 6ting,which infest and slay, on the lower levels.?Alex? ander Maclaren, D. D. Calmed and Fortified by Prayer. Certainly there nev?r was a buster life . 48 than that of Jesiu?Hb whole great mission bounded by three hurried years. Yet in the morning He say9 to His friends: "Let us come apart and rest awhile;" and again, when the evening is come He is in the mountain apart, alone. That is the place of worship in a world of work. It is not a refuge from duty, or a shirking of it; it is the renewal of power to meet one's duty and do it. The work of life Is not to be well done with a hot, feverish, overwhelmed, and burdened mind; it is to be well done with a mind calmed and fortified by moments of withdrawal; and it is to be best dono by one who from time to time pulls himself up io his eager life and permits God to speak to $ his soul.?Francis G. Peabody, D. D., in "Afternoons in the College Chapel." God's Resistless Energy. Any race horse will start at (all speed; but how few bare staying power! The tyro In cycling will go at full polt; but oniy the experienced rider can walk or stand. To pursue tbo common track of dally duty, not faltering or growing weary; to do so when novelty has worn off, when the elasticity of youth has vanished, when the applause of the crowd % has become dim and faint?this is the greatest achievement of the Christian life. For this earthly and human strength will not avail. But God is all-sufflcient. Never faint or weary Himself, He is able to Infuse such resistless energy into tbo soul that | waits on Him that if it mounts, it shall be * on eagle-wing; if it runs, it will not weary: if It walks, It will not faint.?Rev. F. B. W#v#r. Only Wortliineaa Required. You desire some spiritual blessing, eithei for yourself or some one else, or for all, but the Lord desires the same, loftg, long before you. and is ready to grant tbis blessing to you and others; only readiness to accept the divine gift is required; it only requires some worthiness in those who are to receive it.foi God is infinite mercy, infinite goodness and is always ready to grant every blessing and often bestows It even before we ask for it and in every case "Is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we a*k or thtok." Therefore, it is always with hope and b&idness that I ask spiritual and even material blesslnus of the Lord, when these latter ar? needful.?John bergieff.. "Speak From Your BearU." i Tell Him about the unwatchfulness; an' if there Is sin, bring it right out. Call it bj the proper name. Ask the Lord to make it hurt, so that you won't go doin' it ajjain But be sure o' this: Don't gc confessin* eins that you're not sorry for, an' that yoa haven't done. 'Tlsn't religious, though scores o' people think it is. 'Tisn't. . . Do 'e be real, young folks, and speak from your hearts. The e's lot's o' people who think if they do only kneel down an' call thoirselvee dreadful names, an' own to all sorts o* dreadful things, they're sure o' heaven. An' all the time the Lord isn't listeuin' to their words't all.?Daniel Quorm. There is only one thing the servant of the Lord Christ cannot do; he cannot stay; ho cannot linger, forever looking up into the Master's face. The world calls him. The word of the Master rings out like a clarion, "Go ye!''?David J. Burrell, D. D. We ordinarily first bring our own needs to God in prayer. The Master reverses the onlor. First Thy name, Thy kingdom, Thy will: then cive us, forgive us, lead us, deliver us.?Hov. Andrew Murray. L>at!y Curzon Decorated. j The official Gazette, published in Lon* don, announces that the decoration of the? Imperial Order of the Crown of India harf been conferred upon Lady Curzon, wife o? Lord Curzon of Kodleston, the Viceroy on India, and the daughter of Air. L. Z. Leiterj of Chicago. ; ^ No San Jo?e Scale in Uermany. rroiessor iran*:, or me Agriouiturai University, of Berlin, Germany, has reported to the Prussian Government after* six months' investigation tbat the Saa Jose scale is non-existent in Germany, but that a similar insect, the "aspidiotua oscreao tormls." Is indigenous. , V-'fi 3fl . s