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p.-,.-' ...... ..t : / "PRESIDENT^ LOUBET'S /vne. loubet, /-"ps. .x^e_./a?ther-;^^p^a ooooooooooooooGooooooGcoop I "MOTHERLOUBET." | O Xlie Venerable Peasant Woman O O "Whose Son Rules l''runco Sllll O Q Manages ller Farm. q ?GOOOaOOD03C030wDODQ000300 \ .1 Above is published a picture which tells at a fflance why the monarchical press of England and the Continent thinks and says and shouts that the French people aro crazy and in the * ?1:1:?? last stages Ul puiitiuttl ouu oumui <;haos. It i6 the picture of the mother of the new President of the French Republic. What but the gloomiest view could monarchists, and especially titlehunting journalists, take of a nation that yonld select as its leaders the sons of \ich women as plain old "Mother Loubet,"when it might be led by the sons of noble and even royal mothers? But as Americans look into the face of this woman of the people they begin to realize, the truth about France, the real France, the France that is filled with just such plain people as our own, toiling aud struggling "that their children may inherit the promise." We see tiiat f'rance nas shaken off the traditions of caste and ' -and privilege, that she has become a land of, for and by the plain people. And we know that through such .homely virtues as shine from Mother .lioubet's face?the virtues of simplicity, shrewdness, frugality and industry?France is and will remain jjreat. Mmc. Loubet is living in the Southern country district which has always been her home?a typical peasaut woman of the most prosperous class. In spite of her eighty-six years, she is robust, active and still prepossessing in appearance. Ever since her sou was chosen to his high office his venerable mother has been fairly besieged by reporters from all parts of the country, anxious to talk with and make known to the French people a woman who has suddenly become a person of great public interest. Her maideu namo was Marie Harguerite Nicolet. She is a typical |p|ft (i i f"? ' ?.? - ?I! WHERE FRANCE'S TR (The old farmhouse at Marsanoe, wt landlord-peasant of France?simple, frugal, expert in husbaudry, hardheaded, with a knack of driving a bargain. The rise in her son's fortunes has not altered her. She has refused to live in Paris or to change her mode of existence. Her portrait, which the newspapers Lave managed to obtain in her ordin ary workday dress, is saiu to De au excellent likeness. The short gown, the blue linen apron, the quaint white cap and tho clumsy, shapeless shoes are the characteristic garb of tho country women of Southern France, and Mme. Loubet seems to look over her spectacles in mild wonder that any one should think them worthy to be photographed and published all over the world. TMm linnqn in TvliifVh Mmn T.nnhftf, lives, and in which the President himself was born, is near the little village of Mars&nne, a district of the town of Montelimar. A narrow river-path, bordered with poplar trees, leads from Marsanne to the Loubet farm, r |t the end of (be valley. TUere are fe- / '. ' \ - - . '>1*.. ft MOTHER AND WIFE. 0o?*0?0.0?0*0*0 ? ^ fJP^\ THfc-PRESIDENT^, ^ vRjSSgSi " WI FE. I |jwrtwo groups of square buildings, the rustic arrangements of which include stables, cattle sheds and barns on the ground floor, while above are the rooms of Mine. Loubet. In the yards surrounding the house pigs, sheep and ohickens wander about, enjoying themselves in sociable fashion and making the grounds of "La Terrosse," as the farm is called, very lively at all times with their various cacklings, gruntings and bleatings. The bright, warm sunshine of the South is reflected dazzlingly from the red-tiled roofs ancl white plastered walls of the buildings. The whole farm has an air of prosperity and industry, and is a conspicuous witness to the vigilance and capabilities of its mistress. Gcnla* iu Distress. Homer was a beggar; Plautus turned p. mill; Terence was a slave; Boetius died in jail; Paul Borghese had fourteen trades and yet starved with them all; Bentivoglio was refused admittance into a hospital he had himself erected; Cervantes died of hunger, and Vagelas left his body to the surgeons to pay his debts as far as the money would go; Bacon lived a life of meanness and distress; Sir Walter Baleigh died od the scaffold; Spenser, the charming, died in want; the death of Collins was through neglect, first causing mental derangement; Milton sold his- copyright of "Paradise Lost" for $75 at three payments and finished his life in obscurity; Otway died prematurely, aud through hunger; Leo died in the atreet; Steele lived a life of perfect warfare with bailiffs; Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" was sold for a trifle to save him from the grip of the law. Fielding lies in the burying grcuud of the English factory at Lisbon, without a stone to mark the spot; Savage died in prison at Bristol, where he was confined for the debt of $40; Butler lived a life of penury and died poor; Chatterton, the child of genius aud misfortune, destroyed himself.? Homiletic Review. Kansas City's Exploitation Methods. Kansas City, Mo., has adopted a trademark. Hereafter it will appear on all manufactured goods seat out TTZSen ft ESIDENT WAS BORN. lerc his widowed mother still lives.) from that city. Tho design wis selected by the directors of tho Manufacturers' Association from seventyeight which were submitted.. It consists of a map of the United States, KANSAS CITY'8 TRADEMARK. with Kansas City represented by a star in the exact centre. Above the star hovers an eagle with outspread iriQff?. i FAMOUS EDITOR-SENATOR DEAD. Patrick Walali, a Notable Figure ii Southern Political Life, Paaies Away. H. Patrick Walsh, ex-United State Senator, Mayor of Angusta, Ga., ant editor of the Angusta Chronicle, die< in that city a few days ago after i prolonged attack of nervous prostra tion. Patrick Walsh was one of the bea known politicians and journalists ii the South, and attained a high posi tion in national politics. He was ap pointed by Governor Northern to fill the unexpired term of Senator Alfrec Colquitt in the United States Senate PATRICK WALSH. He had been sick since Decembei 1. Born in Ballingary, Ireland, ir 1840, ho came to Charleston, S. C.; at an early ago and began newspapei work as an apprentice boy. He rose rapidly, and educated himself bj working at night and going to schoo in the day time. He moved to An gueta in 1862, and after working ii different places became the owner anc editor of the Augusta Chronicle, i leading paper of tho region. He wai always prominent in the Stst< Democracy, serving in the Legisla t.ure during the seventies. He was i delegate from his county to State Democratic conventions for mani years, served on many important com , mittees, and was a delegate to the Na tional Democratic Convention in 1880 which nominated General Hancocl for President. He was delegate-at large in 1884 to the Chicago Conven tioD nominating Cleveland. For fou; years he was a Georgia member o: the National Executive Committee. Mr. "Walsh was appointed in 1894 t< fill the unexpired term of the Iati United States Senator Colquitt. Hi was elected Mayor of Augusta in No vember, 1897, for three years. Mr. "Walsh was always foremost ii any movement for the advancement o the South. He was a prime mover in th( bigexposition3 given at Augusta in thi xpast. He was prominent in the wort of tho Catholic Church. Of his im mediate family, only his wife, former ly Miss McDonald, of Edgefield, S C.j survives him. Novel Way of Fishing:. This picture gives a very good idei of the ingenious fish-traps in us< among the natives of the South Sea Islands. These fish-traps are of varr ous designs and sizes, but are all oi the same principle, containing an in closed passage for the enhance of the fish trrnfliiallv narrowing toward the ceutre of the trap, and terminating in q number of loose strands of the vine from which the apparatus is construct A ri3II-TR.\.r IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS ed, ao that onco having entered thf trap the fisli are unable to discover an] means of exit. The sea frontage of a South Sea Island village is usually apportioned out in allotments among the natives, each man being expected to keep his fish-trap within the space allotted to him. It is sometimes very dangerous work visitiug these traps; Buddeu squalls arise, and the hapless Qsher, on his little catamaran, is blown ont to sea and uever more heard of. Feudalism in Hungary. Inconceivable as the anachronisn may seem to the Western mind, thi agrarian system of Hungary has no yet issued from the ft dal form. Th< Hungarian farmer of to-v. ay is virtually a serf, bound to his master, thi hereditary owner of tue eon wmci the peasant tills, by the tangible tii of personal liability. The Hungariar feudal lord of the end-of-the-centur; is entitled to fifty days' labor fron each male adult who dwells on hii land. The seignior is at liberty t< demand this feudal 'contribution a whatever time may seem best to him with the frequent result that thi tenant farmer is employed in gather ing his master's harvests while hi own crops are rotting after a rainfall or are being consumed by an earl; frost, or suffer damage from one o more of the many possible cause which render destructive the slightes delay on the part of the harvester ii gathering the fruits of a year's labor ?S. Ivan Toajbroff, in the Arena. Where Jesso James Was ICllled. The sensational trial and acquitta of Jesse James, Jr., at Kansas City />*? +-V.O nlinr-rra nf frain rnhViorr Vin v/u tug v<uuigv v* vvictu ? awakened an intereot in hia farnou HERE COB FORD SnOT THE BAXDIT. bandit father. The house in whicl Jesse James was killed in 1881 skil stands on the brow of Lafayette stree hill in St. Joseph, Mo. It is an un failing source of interest to mauy per ' sons who visit the city, .' . % PEACE TEEATT SIGNED. 3 * * Queen Regent of Spain Affixes Her a Signature to the Document. t WAR IS NOW OFFICIALLY ENDED. i The Qneen Dissolves the Covtes?The DeI cree Will Not Be Published In the 1 Offilal liazette?An Exchange of the Signed Docnuienti the Only Formality Remaining?Government is Relieved. Madeid, Spain (By Cable).?Queen Re gent Christina, on the advice of Premier Sllvela, signed the United States Peace Treaty Friday evening. The Government approved this 9fbp on account of th? manifest peril of again submitting the document to the Cortes, where Its rejection was possible. The Queen Regent has also dissolved the Cortes and convoked a new Parliament. Thd signing of tho treaty ends the nominal state of war which has existed between Spain and the United States ever since diplomatic relations were brolien off almost cne year ago. The only steps now needed to establish the two countries on the old footing of friendliness are the formal exchange of r ratifications, the return of a Spanish Minisi ter to Washington and the American Minis, ter to Madrid, THE 3IONEV FOli SPAIN. r The 820,000,000 Indemnity to Be Paid [ Within Three Months. Washisotojt, D. C. (Special).?Secretary of State Hay says that the signing of the ' Peace Treaty by the Queen Regent of Spain will be followed by the exchange of ratifications, although there will be no great baste on the part of the United States. Within three months after the exchange of ratifications the $20,000,000 Indemnity will be paid. The Effect or the Treaty. 8paln, by the provisions of this treaty, abandons all claim to the island of Cuba and cedes to the United States Porto Rico, the island of Gaum in the Ladrones, and the Philippines. For the last named group the United States is to pay $20,000,000. VON DIEDR1CHS IN DISCRACE; He ii to Be Relieved |of Hli' Command For Annoying Admiral Devrey. Berlik, Germany (By Cable).?Prince Henry of Prussia has started for Kiau-Chou a Bay, China, where all the war vessels comrtAolnr* f ha f hta ^ovman oah o /1t?Ano {n Pa? 3 ADMIRAL TON DIEDBICH8. eastern waiers win aasomuie iur tun luruiiu transfer of tbe commandershlp from Admiral von Diedrlchs to Prince Henry. The former has been ordered relieved of bis command on account of tbe manner in which be bad boen annoying* Admiral Dewey of the American flee':. The removal amounts practically to disgrace. FOUND DEAD IN ALASKA. A Prospecting Party of Six Frozen on > - Valdez Glacier. j Skattlb, Wash. (Special).?The steamer , Exaelslor, which arrived a few nlght3 ago ' from the mouth of the Copper River, < Alaska, brlng3 news of the freezing to death of six men on Valdez Glacier. They wore: Alfred Aleeman, New York; Adolph Ehrhard, New York; Rudolph Ellorkamp, Louisville, Ky.; Dr. Edward Loflran, Denver; Maximilian Miller, Now York, aud August Schultz, New York. All the bodies oxcopt tbat of Dr. Logan \ were recovered and burled at Valdez. I Ehrhard, Miller and Aleeman wore mem, bers of the Scientific Prospecting Compacy of New.York. TALMACE'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED. 1 No Regret Kxpresaed at His Withdrawal 2 From tho Washington Paatorace. ' Washington, D. C. (Special).?Tue reslgs nation of the Rev. Dr. Do Witt Talmage as ? pastor of the First Presbyterian Church 2 was accepted a few nights ago at a church 3 meeting. The resolution accepting the a resignation contained no expression what1 ever of regret at his withdrawal, and no . provision was made to send him a letter of ' regret. The resignation takes effect lm1 mediately, but no successor w<;s provided 3 for. Dr. Talmnge is now traveling in tbe 2 South. He was connected with the churoh j about four years. FLOATING ISLAND IN ILLINOIS. e It Sailed Down a River and Destroyed a j Wagon Krldee. > Havana, III. (Special).?A floating Island, y between one aud two acres in extent, and I | irom lour CO UVO lUOl IU1U&, UU3 OUIUO uunu c the Illinois River. It lilt a cablnboat, J I smashod tho keol api lan led It ashore, j The Island also struck a pier ofthewaj gon bridge, throwing crossing horse3 from their feet. It is stranded between the pier and shore.auii the city authorities will blow it ap with dynamite. J INDIAN KILLS A POLICEMAN. i Sioux. Charged With Abusing Ilia While E Wife, Ileal st?d Arrest. 3 Gordon, Neb. (Special).?At Porcupine Sub-Agency of Pine Ridge Agency, north of here, an attempt was made to arrest White Thunder, a full-blooded Sioux, for abusing his white wife. White Thunder was armed and resisted arrest, killing one Indian policeman and badly wounding another. He escaped to Sand, Hills, but six Indian trailers followed and captured him, bringing him in Irons to the ageucy on Friday. Cruiser Prairie to Go In Commlaalon. The Navy Department, Washington, has decided to put the auxiliary cruiser Prairie in commission for the next six mont hs, so as to give the Naval Militia of the Coast and Gulf States short cruises. An Austrian Ambassador at Washington. Emperor Franois Joseph, of Austria, has given his consent to the elevation of the 1 Austrian Legation at Washington to an Em1 bassy in the autumn. t ? Philadelphia Keacnea ;amoa. The United States cruiser Philadelphia has arrived st A^la. Samot. , I GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. A Vision of Judgment?Worship by Service?The Heathen Difference?A Prayer for Divine Aid?The School of Suffering? Souree of Lovely Character. I slept?and started broad awake with fear ! My room was light as in the noonday clear, And lo! an angel with a look severe! In awful silence he did then unroll My past before me like an open scroll? The Day of Judgment overtook my soul! "Have I so deeply sinned?" I faintly cried; "Waste?waste is crime!" the accusing Voice replied; "Look on the record, and thyself decide!" Then, self-convicted, weeping and abased? "Alas! my heedless youth!' I cried in haste, "When all life's golden moments ran to waste!" "Not so!"?grave voice that my rash thought condemned? "Youth's folly oft is wisdom in the end ? 'Twere ill to hoard what God has given to spend! "Look over again upon thy later days When trials came thou shouldst have turned to praise, And sorrow sent to teach thee heavenly ways! "Those priceless pains ?those sacred, stricken years! How thou hast" squandered them too well appears? In useless protests and unworthy tears!" The final words died on some far-off shore, And all was dart, and I alone once more And broad awake?had I but dreamad before? 0 warning dream! 0 timely, saving fear! Even loss is welcome now," and hardship dear, Angel of Judgment! till thou dost appear. ?Elaine Goodale Eastman, in Independent. Worship by Service. There is a legend in the Greek church about her two favored saints?St. Cassianus, the type of monastic ascoticism, individual character, and St. Nicholas, the typ?J of genial, active, unselfish, laborious Christianity. St. Cassianus enters heaven,- and Christ says to him: ' What hast thou seen on earth, Cassianus?" "I saw," ho answered, "a peasant floundering with his wagon in a marsh." Didst thou help him?" "No." Why not? "I wa9 coming before Thee." said Cassianus, ?'aud I was afraid of soiling my white robes." Then St. Nicholas enters heaven, all covered with mud and mire. "Why so stained and soiled," St. Nicholas?" said the Lord. "I saw a peasant floundering in the m/irsh." said St. Nicholas, "and I put my shoulder to the wheel and helped him out. "Blessed art thou," answered the Lord; "thou didst well; thou didst better than Cassianus.'.' And He blessed St. Nicholas with fourfold approval. It is like tho legend of one who saw an an?el writing in a brook the names of those who loved the Lord, and ho said: "I pray thee have my name written among tho lovers of my fellow-men." The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night he fame again with a gre^t awakening light, and showed the names of those whom God had blest; and. lo, this man's name read above all the rest. One thing, my friend. Is certain?the more truly wo love the Lord the more thoroughly shall we love and serve our fellow-men.?Canon Farrar. The Heathen Difference. /%_ ? - ? *1 ~rr.*~4.~ -1 un? 01 iuu uuuicsi utiocis ui viinni.auii.jr has been the emancipation of woman. The other ha? been the sanctiflcatlon of childhood. In the very empire into which that Saviour entered, who was to be at once its Reformer and its Destroyer, woman was degraded withe ut pity and despised without hope. A great woman was generally a more cruel tyrant or a more carnal character than a great man in the Roman world. The beautiful Cleopatra and the lovely Messalfna have descended in history as incarnations of the lowest Infamy. Herodlas-was the chief woman in Syrian society in the days of Jesus, and Herodias was simply a tigress in human guise. Good women there were, but the world round them w$s an inferno for women. And men in power, if not. Christians, have always been either the profligate puppets or the hard-hearted oppressors of women. Antony would have ruled the world had he not been ruled by the beautiful Egyptian queen. Napoleon wanted to reduce French women to mt're family incubating machines. Women as a rule do not yet know what they owe to Christ. If they did, such teaching as Mrs. Besant's would be impossible, for it would find no followers; and Ingersoll's flippant bash of Hume and Bradlaugh would never be rehearsed in female ears when he lectures. There is not a single counti y on earth where woman has any rights of hf>r own excepting where the Gospel has flung the light of hope on her path. .Unchristianized lauds are simply lands of women's wrongs. A Prayer for Divine Aid! 0 God. whoso mercy makes each morn a new beginning of opportunity and strength, so uphold and strengthen us in thine infinite compassion that we may serve thee this day in childlike love and glad obedience. If ne have sinned and wake to consciousness with shame and oontrition of heart, bring to our thought the sense of thy long-suffering pity and the promise of thy aidOut of the wreck of larger hopes and forfeited occasions enable ua to build our lives as a temple to thine honor. In the hour of temptation be thou our shield. In the uplifting of our joy be thou our deepest satisfaction. Teach us the lesson of seIf-for.<jetfuiness that we may lose our gloomy fears in thoughts of thee aud in happy service to others. So may our day bo spent in quiet work and restful faith, to thine etc r lal glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amon. The School of Suffering. Many a word spoken out of season haa fallen like a need on the wayside to bo devoured by birds: whilst the 6arae word, uttered at the right time by a voice with less quality of tone, has been God's balm. It is not easy to know just when to speak to the weary. There are times when the nervous system is so overstrained that it cannot bear oven the softest words. It Is best then to be I silent. A caress, a touch, or the stillness ; that breathes an atmosphere of oalm, will j then most quickly soothe and heal. This [ delicacy of perception can only be acquired ' in the school of suffering. Our Master knows when to speak and when to be st II, , because he baa graduated there.?Kev. F. B. Meyer. 1 Thp Source of Lovely Character. There lived once a young girl whose perfect grace of character was the wonder of those who knew her. She wore on her neck a gold locket which no one was ever allowed to open. Ono day, in a moment of unusual .< confidence, one of her companions was al- 1 lowed to touch its spring and learn its secret. Bhe saw written these words: "Whom hav- < (ng uot seen I love." That was tho socret ( nf luiuiihTnl I i htiil ho??n i?hnni?i?il into tho siiinu image.?Prof. Henry Drum- i mond, in "The Changed Life." Many of our cares are but a morbid way J of looking at our privileges.?Sir Walter Scott. ^ A Scrum Cure For Pneumonia. I Professor Wassermann. one of the most ' diligout and most capablo of Professor Koch's pupils, nt Berlin, Germany, hopos 1 that ho has dlsoovorod a serum cure for 1 pneumonia. He does not commit biiraelf J to a definite statement, being mindful of former disappointments, but prolonged &x- 1 periments with rabbits and mice have con- < vincoti 111m nine nn iidiuomu kt jjruuuuou In tlio rod marrow of their bones and iu tlip marrow of a human being who has died 1 from pneumonia. j 10,400 Dervlfllies Wore Killed. ^ According to official reports to the War ' ORlco, London, 10,000 D?rviflhes were t killed at Omdurmanand 16,000 wounded, < besides the 400 killed In taking thq town. ' No official retqrna exist of the nnmber of 5 wounded treated in the hosDltals. \ THE SABB1TH SCHOO: INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMEN fOK Af'KIL V. Lesion Text: "The Anointing: at Be any," John *11., 1-11-OoIden Te "She Hath Done What Site Conli Mark xiv., 8?Commentary. 1. The rising of Lazarus from the f : (19 described in our last lesson, produced much excitement and awakened suoh t ter hostility that Jesus left the region Jerusalem and spent a few weeks in reU ment with His disciples at Ephriam int mountainous district north'of Jfrusale The disciples probably needed His instri tlons more than the people, in order tl they mifcht be fitted to carry on His gr< work after His death. As the Pa3soi drew near, Jesus went across the Jord An thii nHiar atria fhmil Ferea to the fords opposite Jericho, he ing and teaching by His way. Thence went up toward jerusaiea and reach Bethany on Fridav evening, March 81, i days before the Passover. Here He sp< Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, doubtl with the family "that Jesus loved." 2. "There they made Him a supper." the little town of Bethany Jesus bad 1 come popular, and sfncethe rising of La: rus He was regarded with marked vene; tlon. Hence this token of esteem a honor. The supper was on Saturday evi leg, after the Jewish Sabbath was ended sunset, and at the house of Simon the lep probably one who had been cured by Jes According to a tradition, He waa the fatl of Lazarus; according to others, He wai husband of Martha, or Martha was 1 widow. "Lazarus was one of them tl sat at the table." What bad been done him by Jesus made him an honored guc His very presence was an expression of gardtohlmwho bad restored him. ft the characteristic part each of this fam took at this feast. 3. "Then took Mary a pound of ointm< of spikenard." A Roman pound of twe ounces. By the ointment we Are to und stand rather a liquid perfume than wl we commonly know as ointment. T ointment was in an alabaster flask (Matl usually made of Oriental or onyx alabas with long, narrow necks. Ointment spikenard is literally "ointment of pis nard," "pislic" meaning either "genuin or "liquid." It was puro nard. like atl of roses, unadulterated, la full strong Its costliness made it peculiarly liable adulteration. Spikenard (spike-nard) v a plant closely allied to valerian, and n found in the Himalayan region. The or is described as resembling that of a m ture of valerian and patchouli. It is woi 300 Roman pence, denarii, silver co worth fifteen to seventeen cents. Hei the whole was worth about $50, or $300 $400 in our time, a penny or denarius I ing then equal to a clay's wages (Matt. 2). "Anointed the feet of Jusus." S first "poured it over His head" (Mark),? John notices only her pouring it upon I feet, for it was common to pour it up the head, and expressed the usual sec ments of honor to n guest; but anointl the feet was unusual, and expressed 1 tenderest, most humble, most reverent! unutterable affection. "And wiped ] feet with her hair." This, too, was i usual. She took "woman's chief ori ment," and-devoted it to wiping the trav stained feet of her Teaober. She devot the best she had to even the least horn able service for Him. It was the utm< possible expression of her love and dei tlon. 4. "Then saith.... Judas Iscariot." looked upon this as a waste, and his m terlngs convinced some of the other d clples so'that they joined wit* him in condemnation of the act (Matthew a Mark). So often a bad man, working fr< selfish motives, by plausible argumei gets good men to unito with him in opposl things that are really good. Thus usua the opposition to good wears a mask virtue; religion is opposed in the name liberty; faith, in the name of free thoug 5. "Sold and given to the poo Jesus was a poor man, and His very i pearance may have suggested that thi were other things He needed more urgen than such a gift as this. Had the fam provided a home for Him or given Him 1 price of this ointment, no one would br uttered a remark. But this was the ki of demonstration reserv^ for princes persons of great distinction; 'and when pi to one so conspicuously humble in 1 dress and habits, there seemed to the l instructed eye something inoongruous a bordering on the grotesque. It was a li ury, Jeremy Taylor says, that even no e peror till Nero ever indulged in. 6. "Not that he cared for the poo; He was acting under false protences. "Ei what was put therein," rather, took awi as B. V., stole. Or his bearing the mor bag gave him the opportunity to ste Note that the apostles do not hesitate record even those actions which are d creditable to themselves. They hide no ing. And this is one mark of the divi authorship of the Gospels. These recoi are a comfort, also; for what Christ! could find hope for himself, or lor nis a, if all the early saints had been perfect? 7. "Then said Jesus." If we combl the reports of the tbree evangelists, it v appear that Christ's words were subste tially as follows: "Let her alone. W trouble yethe woman? for she hath wroug a good work upon Me; she hath done wl she could; against the day of My buryi hath she kept this, and Is come befo h?nd to anoint My body for the buria "Let her alone." Spoken chiefly to Jnd It was the language of sharp rebui Jesus was indignant at tbe hypocrisy Judas and the dull preceptlons of t others. 8. "For the poor always have ye wi you." They would have plenty of oppi tunities to aid them, and the more tb did for their Master, the more they woi do for the poor, for the poor they are 1 in His stead, and through them would J 1 th. Woof press t?u mo mciotuou iuto ui mo iuuo^ It is the want of love, cot of money, tt allows any poor to suffer; so tbat nil gl to Christ which increase our love will i crease the gifts to the poor. 9. "Much people." The R. V. uses Greek text wnich Inserts the article so tb it reads the common people, in contr< with the rulers. Great crowds were gath< ing at Jerusalem for the feast of the Pa; over. These, incited bv curiosity, went see the wonder worker, and the man whom He had wrought this marvelo work. The result was tbat many of the believed (v. 11). The facts were so plal so completely proved, that they were coi pelled to accept Jesus as the Messiah. 10. "But the chief priests consulted tb they might put Lazarus also to death A.11 the ruleis, including the Pbarlsei would wish to destroy this rising se< which would take away their power ai undermine their influence. This standii public proof of Jesus as the Messiah mi be put away at any cost. But ihe chi priests, who were mostly Sadducees, wou "'I'UMAnal yet aar\r\ In thttt" T.fl7.flP U4VO UU uuumuuai 1WBJWU, ? ? ?? was a living refutation of their doctrl that "there Is no resurrection" (Acts 23,1 11. "Went away, and believed." Bett< "were going away und believing." T imperfects denote a continual process. STATISTICS OF CUBAN WAR, IVeyler'g Cruelty Responsible For Dea of 378,000 l>y Diienie and Starratlon. Professor Arthur Codezo Vlnageras, Lbe Academy of Sciences, at Havana, Cub has compiled the vital statistics of the la war of Cuba with Spain. Ho does n 3laim that it is absolutely accurate, b chat it is approximately so. He: estimates the mean population of t] island in the years 1895-1398 as 1,516,000, which 532,000 were colorod. Of this numb torty-flve per cent, of whites and sevent two per cent, of nogroes were llllterat rhe percentage of male to female was lift [our to forty-six. He estimates the number of theSpanli vrmysent to Cuba during this period 234,000, and the number of Cubans Iltted aite arras its dt>z,wu. ui tins nuuiDer . finds that 71,000 actually roso In arrr cvhlle 262.000 remained irresolute. The r minder, almost 30,000, went Into exi] Clie number of armed Cubans killed durii :he war was 10,300 whites and 6600negro< )f unarmed flgating men, 11,400 whites ai 12,000 negroes. Weyler's order of rcooncentratlon w responsible, Professor Vlnageras estimate or the death and starvation and disease 187,000 persons?men, vjomen and ch Iren. OI this numbor 202,000 were whit< Ihe total loss of Cuban llfo by the revol :ion was 418,800. The Cubans in armB iheendof the revolution he oatimates 18,600. The total Iqbs of the Spaniards w 12,000 In battle and 109,000 by aiaeaae. v_. . . .. J-A - . ' W ... ? ^ \*3?SS '....? a - Vf - . - i i ' r - * * . M r L. A TEMPERANCE COLUM?| TS THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFESTS IN MANY WAYS.: / *\ Hi* Tbe Drnnkard'a Lament?An Appeal xt: the Beforui of a Cnatom That la tW J." Prevalent Among People of W??Hk and Refinement? Society and Drink. \ | id, (Bvtba late Richard Lyle, a member of | so tlifl New Orleans har. The pathetlo story >lt- of his ruined life.) ?| ot I lia.ve tyien to th? funemi of my hopes* r?* And entombed them one by one, "0 Not a word wns sa'd, Not a tear was shed. 1C: When the mournful task was done. ] JHt sat Slowly and sadly I turned me round ?er And sought my silent room, in And there alone gh By the cool hearthstone a|- I wooed the midnight gloom. led And, as the night wind's.deepening shad^ six Lowered above ray brow, ;nt I wept o'erth* days ess When manhood's rays Were brighter far than now." In ' -Jp be- The dying embers on the hearth za- Oavi out their flickering light, ra- A? if to say, ,nd "This Is .the way an- Thy life shall close in night." ftt er I wept aloud In aritralsh sore as' O'er the blight of prospects fair, jec While demons langhed , a And early quaffed 3js My tears llko nectar rare. Through hell's red ball an echo rang, ._t An echo load and long, _ ' As in the bowl ,t? I plunged my soul ' . { jly In the night of madness strong. . And there, within that sparkling glads. * * I knew the cause to lie; This all men own ;, "Z From zone to zona. ? ^ Yet millions drink and die./ "*T Ought to Know Better. \ | of In an article on social abuses the BostOK tic Herald had recently .an excellent appeal, L6? for the reform of n custom that Is unhaptar p">' 100 prevalent among people who haT?v th. or at least are supposed to have the advanto tages of culture and rjsflnemeat that the ra9 possession, of wealth confers. This bad! ow custom is the unlimited serving of intoxllor cants at entertainments given by what la fX. rather vaguely known as "society," and Pth our esteemed contemporary says: I v inH | "Another reform which should be takea ice up under similar conditions is. the laying! t0 down of a limit at these entertainment* be- upon the use of intoxicants. It Is a custom; 20; at these young people's dances to ser*re) ihn champagne, and In quite a number of in-> )ut stances this has been done with an nnfor-j tunate absence of moderation. Opinions lOU may differ as to advisability of freely dto-* Ltj. penslng a stimulant of this kind at dances; :nR where the great majority of the gaesta are] under the age of twenty-one. Bat eveaj alt those hostesses who believe It desirable to follow the existing custom must, If they 1Q. think of the matter at all. question the ad-; 3a. vlsaolUty of having It drunk to exoese.< el. For the benefit of all oencemed, it wouWJ ted surely be better to limit the serving ofj or. champagne to the supper hour, when those j3t who drank it would do so with the mlnf-J f0. mum of resulting disturbance, rather tham have it served at various times or at elM He times until the hour of departure, thusgir-; at. ing direct encouragement to something; liS. which rightly goes by an exceedingly hara. hig name. < -v, ,Q(1 "There are ladles prominent in the eoolat \ om life of Boston who, if they realized it, would: Qt3 not on any account do a wrong ?o a yonngj QK man or young woman, or willingly be tho Hy cause of leading not overstrong young per0f sons into temptation, and yet it. i? by no' , 0{ means impossible that some of these have,! ht by their thoughtlessness, done, not a little r >> to undertake the moral resistance of those' who have been the recipients of their hoe-f 0}.e pltallty. All that is asked is that mattets tiv 3hould be brought wlrtiln what every one! jjy nuuiu jjoxauiiaujr itoio io<uuuai/u7 the bounds, bat bounds now found somewhat lve difficult of establishment because there la n j qo social code laid down, and there is a disor inclination on the part of eaoh hostess to| ^(4 set up an arbitrary standard of her own J 2^3 It wonld be easily possible for fifteen of* ln. twenty soolal leaders in Boston to lay dow?| ntj a code of procedure in the matter we hav? 1X. (indicated, and possible ln others, which! m. practically all would observe." r ? Anatomical Effects of Drink. \ . jje Moved by the ever-increasing amount of: ay drunkenness in TFrance, a Paris physician! Jv i3 preparing for the instruction of the pub-; ia'j lie (? series of lantern slidts showing the , to anatomical effects of the use of alcohol., lis- It would appear that most of the diseases th. treated in tne French hospitals arise from1, lne the uso of alcohol. All alcoholic drinks an; r(j3 more injurious when taken on an emptyj ian stomach or between meals. The man who! ?e drinks every day alcohol in the form of ? ' liquors, or too much wine, becomes slowly [na poisoned. The effect of this pofeoning 1st?! .m destroy, more or less quickly, but none the lQ. less certainly, all the organs most neces-' ijy sary to life?the stomach, the liver, th? kidneys, the blood vessels, the heart andi jat the brain. Habitual imbibers of alcohol to I DJZ excess are much more liable than temper-j re. ate persons to illness, and when 111 have j ? much less chance of reoovery. The lnves-. ^ tigations of the Parisian medical faculty! , .e' sonflrm strongly the well-known fact that! tree drinking is a frequent cause of conilQ ?umptlon from its tendency to weaken the lungs. Ith M TTT 1< lalrn ey A whisky drummer, who has sold th* ild' liquid damnation for twenty-flve yeare| aft past, stood In the Globe Hotel the other* be day and made a speech that ought to make; er. every temperance man shake hands with' s lat himself. He said: fts "In this section of the country the sole [a- of whisky is decreasing veify rapidly. We jell less and less of It with'each succeeding a rear. People have quit drinklog. It is no lat longer considered in good form to swill it.) isS A. drunken man is a disgrace. A tippler, jr- cannot hold a job anywhere that is respect3s able and progressive. The railroads won't to have him, neither will anybody else. The on sentiment is getting stronger against lti us all the time. The teacher, the preaaher im and the paper are all creating sentiment' In, against hard drinking. In twenty years n- from now the whisky problem will have solved itself. Then soda water, lemonade at and other light beverages will have crowd* ed it out of the saloon and the drug store; 33, into the medicine chest of the doctor."?' it, Centralla (Kan.) Oourier. i ad I . ncr Shots at tho Ram Demon. ist The liquor truffle will never commit suiief :lde. A Kr?f? sll0P I9 the devil's 3ign that he is jtlll doing business in the neighborhood. j jn The liquor shop will go in a hurry whea ,r* i ihe ohuroh goes for it in real earnest. : ha I Necessity was not the mother of invention when the process ot manufacturing strong drink was invented. t i The drink bill of Great Britain, just published, 9hows that the Englishman drinks, th 2.41 gallons of alcohol a year. Next to him comes the Scotchman with an appetite slacked with 1.66 gallons. iQi I To countenance a wrong is to do a to wrong. He who shelters a criminal be0t comes himself a criminal. He who legal-i ut izes a crime is morally a criminal and' wrong cannot be rightfully legalized, he Some people are showing a great concern nf Utt tliulldiinr Irjifflf. hn e-ifllhllnh?rl In OUP er new possesions. Well, that Is all right,. V- but now about our own country? Is it e. more Important to protect toe black y- children ol tho ruiiiopines than American boys at home? ! The National Temperance Federation has as prepared a memorial to the Canadian Govt0 eminent urging precaution against multl"plying Incentives to drunkenness and lawls lossness in the northwestern parts of Brit,e" ish aorth America. i A saloon keeper disobarged a cleric for getting drunk. A distiller advertised tot two teetotalers to run bis still. A drunkard is at a-discount with all people. Even the devil wants a more respeccaDle man than ? [g drunkard to work for him. of | "Havana." says a recent writer, "is getH ting Americanized very rapidly. American 33, business men are pushing to tho front. One u. of tbe hrst of these to offer his wares to the ut jpubllo is the irrepressible saloon man. at American saloons are opening in all parte . as 'of tbe city." Trade follows the flag, par-, 'tloularly th* trade la IJanrr. ? l ii tA'j' i r8 ~ iIbB