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/ PHILADELPHIA'S EXF The event of the year in Philade This is the first show of the sort Uncle Sam's territory and the necessity Of the numerous National and In ferent part3 of the United States, the o; present year is in many respects the m( T>1.? 7rnncifinn nf 1 xuc 1 uunuci^uia ijA^voivivu v* * f xpansion of our export trade, and it w Of recent years, expositions of { manufacturing countries of Europe, atti axliibit at next fall's Exposition every li port Such exhibits will form the prin can or might bo exported, from locomo The Exposition will be under tl Philadelphia, and its exhibits will be c< and continue through November. The main group of buildings, oo\ of the Schuylkill River, fifteen minute agricultural machinery, locomotives, rai Mr. P. A. B. Widener, the stree elude many well-known Philadelphia be In October a commercial cougres be attended bv delegates from the leadi tives of foreign firms will attend its ses The department of manufactured and will show everything from locomoti An important part of the Exposit venient size, 3hape and weight to be tri nooooooooooGcoooooooooooog III PEtCE (MEICE I | IT TIE IWE. | OOOOOOOOD0000003C000300000 The building in Tne nague wmuu Queen "Wilhelmina, of Holland, has placed at the disposal of the Czar'a Peace Conference is her palace known as the "Huis ten Bosch" ("House in the Wood"). The Orange Boom has been selected lor the sittings of the members of the conference. It is a great room, lighted by a glass cupola fifty feet above the floor. There will be three sections to the conference, each with a task of its own. The general subject will be di CARON DE STAAL, PRESIDENT OF DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE. rided into three parts.' The first will luuiLi LUO qucsuuu ul uibi&rmuuieub, that is, to what extent the armies shall . be reduced. Questions concerning international arbitration will be desided by the second, while all germane questions will be dealt with by , ihe third. The palace itself is artistically interesting. It was built in 1647 by the Princess Amelie de Solini, widow of Prince Henri Frederic, of Orange. Paintings in the Orange Pioom are by such great artists as Levens, Jordaens and Van Thulden. There is an allegorical picture representing his victory over wicked temptations. There is a /HI. 1 T ?11 uninese ana a Japanese room, wicu rarest works of art in them. The walls of the dining room are decorated by De Wit with scenes from mythology. Among the people who will be present at the conference, though not as a delegate, is the Baroness von Suttner. She is the author of a novel with the title "Lay Down Your Arms." This book is said tD have had great influence with the Czar in issuing his Peace rescript. It is said, moreover, to have been the greatest single force with him to that end. It rau through <t dozen editions on the continent, and the men of the military countries were thoroughly familiar with it, strangely, before it could find an English translator or a publisher in England, i Her Majesty Que?n Wilhelmina and the Queen Dowager are now on a Continental tour. They will return to The Hasrue to receive the Peace Conference, ultimately leaving for Loo, where they will entertain the Conference twice, at a dinner and a garden party. The Rotterdam Peace Committee has obtained in a fortnight 15,000 signatures to a peace petition. Baron de Staal, Russian Ambassa THE CZAR'S PEACE CONFEI ilt is Quoon Wilhelmina's "House in tbe Vi full of historic bassador to England, who is to preside over the international disarmament conference at The Hague, will be assisted by Professor F. do Martens, the Russian privy councillor. Professor de Martens is the permanent member of the foreign affairs ministry and one of the arbiters in the Venezu 'OSITION TO DEVELOP O lphia will be an export exposition. ever held in the United states. It which is now laid upon him of seekiu iternational Expositions projected for ne to be held in Philadelphia in Sep )st important to the commercial interei 899 is an exposition for the developme ill be the first national exposition of th ;oods suitable for export have been 1 racting foreign buyers and greatly aidi ine of manufactured products of the Ui cipal department of the Exposition an< tives and heavy machinery to the sma ie joint auspices of the Commercial W jnfined to articles especially suitable fc ering at least 200,000 square feet of Ex] s's ride from the Citj Hall. Besides ilway and street cars and plenty of spai t car man, is President of the Expos: isiness men. 3 will be held in the assembly rooms < ng Chambers of Commerce of the worl sions. products of the United States will occ ve and stationary engines to the amalle ion will be the exhibit showing how go insported upon mule back in countries ela boundary dispute. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is represented by Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Ambassador to the United States. I TEIPLER'S TESTS i S KITH up MR I * x * The boundless possibilities of the twentieth oentury through an unlimited and cheap supply of power to do the work of the world were suggested when Professor Charles E. Tripler, of New York, gave an exhibition of his experiments with liquid air before the National Geographic Society at the Arlington, in Washington. These experiments, when made, filled the company with wonder and seemed to set all preconceived notions regarding heat and cold, aside in the light of knowledge that has been acquired of late years, and which is rapidly being so perfected as to revolutionize present methods of doing many things, if the expectations now entertained in regard to them {shall be eventually realized. Mr. Tripler began his exhibition by dipping a pan of liquid air from the reservoir. It boiled and steamed awav as water from the fire, yet it was cold and not heat that was creating the commotion. Spilled to the floor, it landed with a heavy sound, like the striking of mercury, and yet in a moment it had turned to air, and was being breathed by the people who had just seen it fall in a solid state. Cupfuls of the liquid were passed around. Fingers passed through the substance gave a sensation similar to passing through heavy vapor, yet there was the heavy liquid, as clear as water, CHARLES E. TRIPLER. with a vapor arising from it. If passed through the liquid rapidly the hand experienced no intensity of cold, but if allowed toremain there a few seconds an icy chill would be experienced, aud av^/tn/la/1 si rv v* l n s? f wanl/1 ^waaoa LUUJLC UAIUUUCU tUUtttV/b "VUIU 4,1 OCLO the flesh and bones, uutil they could be broken up with a hammer, as a brittle stone would be crushed. The experiment of making ice over a fire was perhaps the mo3t strikingly illustrative of the power of liquid air. Mr. Tripler took a kettle, filled it with the liquid, and it began to boil. He placed it on a gas stove so that the flame could play upon the bottom of the vessel. The heat but intensified the cold, as it accelerated the liquid in turning into gas. Ice water poured *ENCE TO BE HELD HERE. j rood," and was built in 16i7. It is a palace associations.] into this kettle still further increased the process, for it was comparatively hot water. The kettle boiled and sent a stream of steam aloft to a distance of six or eight feet. No housekeeper has ever seen her kettle boil so. All this time the water was being frozen within the kettle and beneath # UR EXPORT TRADE. follows appropriately the expansion ol g foreign trade development. the next three or four years in diftember, October and November of the sts of the country. >nt of American manufactures and the at character ever held in this country, leld at frequent intervals in the greft* ng export trade. It is the purpose tc niied States especially suitable for exi will comprise everything which ia, llest novelties. [useum and the Franklin Institution of >r exports. It will open in September position space, will be on the west side this there will bo smaller buildings foi je for a subdued Philadelphia Midway, ition Association, and the directors in>f the Exposition Buildings, whioh will d. Probably eight hundred representaupy four-fifths of the Exposition space. st "Yankee notions." ods must be put up in packages of con where there are 110 wagons or railways. it in the flame was a covering of frost. It was no' ordinary ice, either, for, later, on being allowed to rest on the table and passed around, the intensity of its freezing kept it firm a long time, in spite of the heat of the room. The concluding test was in some respects a most wonderful one. Mr. Tripler placed liquid air in a deep tin cup, lowered it in a jar of water and soon had a thick coating of ice on it. The liquid air turned into gas. He put ice water in the cup to relieve the hold of the ice on the tin cup, ana when removed he had a cup of ice. This ice cup in turn he filled with liquid air, and then lowered a piece of carbon in it. A bright light was the result, showing through the ice glass as an arc light through a globe. The carbon was burning with a heat of 3000 degrees above zero, and it was /AS. V'r-? <4?j ?> ICE ON a KETTLE OF LIQUID AIR OVER J GAS STOVE. burning emerged in a liquid with a temperature of 340 degrees below Eero, and yet the experimenter held the cup in oue hand and the end ol the carbon in the other, the intense cold preventing danger from heat so great as to be beyond the power of the mind to comprehend it. The Nightmare of Microbe*. A woman who had purchased a pair of gloves was given three one dollai bills in change. "Do it up in paper, nlpnup " nliA sn.tr! to tlia salfiscripl. The request was complied with, and the wrapped up bills were put in a pocketbook. "Some persons are microbe mad," said a physician in explaining ti a i icident. "Many have it so bad Li at they will not even pick up a pin, 'recause it has been said that all sorts of disease germs can be collected under their heads. Dread of microbes is a common form of hydrochondria. I ;an sympathize with a person who does not like to see a woman with a bundle of dirty clothes for washing get into a public conveyance, but there is no use in going to extremes. "Ever since tho researches of Koch and Pasteur have attracted attention the number of microbe maniacs has steadily increased. Take any morbid minded person and give him a little insighl into bacteriology, and the result is sure to be disastrous. He shakes with terror at the first little symptom of real or imaginary derangement."?New York Herald. The Joke on Papa. It is told of a learned professor of languages in an English university that on one first of April he was asked to bring home several th'ings from the druggist's. He carefully made a memorandum of the articles so that he might not forget, and was putting his list in his pocket when his saucy young daughter said, quite coolly, "Papa, will you bring me a pennyworth of evaporated pigeon's milk?" "Certainly, my dear," was hie reply, as he carefully noted it down, and doubtless i J i ?1 3 n :_i. t ne wouia nave asseu me uruggias ior it bad not one of the children laughed. That caused him to look at the entry, and he, too, laughed. ' l'ou caught J me that time, my dear," he said, patting his daughter's curly head. Supply of Timber in Russia. The lack of timber eupply for the world is not likely to cause much unpleasantness for some years yet. It is stated that in tho Province of Archangel, Russia, there are forests belongiug to the government which cover 88,979,100 acres in which the ring of the woodsman's ax has as yet scarcely been heard. Tlio Biggest Insect Known, TIT 1 ~ Uaa41a Vfin n7Tl O 1 Q i'q JL lie OlCpliitU V UUCl IC KJl T WUVUUU.M 4M the biggest of its species. An average specimen of this insect when full grown weighs half a pound. The per capita cost of maintaining convicts at the Michigan prison is 38} cents a day, and the average daily earnings are 351 cents. . ' BISMARCK'S TOMB. iarcopbBKni in Which the Remains of thr German Prince Will Kelt. ixr:u. a;??iA nf T?,a ?T 1 l/U liuo oiu^to VAW\.|/VtVU V4 march's Autobiography, the greatest mccess ever achieved by any publicarion in Geimany was a pamphlet bj Professor Quidde, entitled "Caligu* a." This pamphlet had, however, ;rom a publisher's point of view, iverything in its favor. Its very title 'avored of the sensational, and the Grerman-reading public knew beforehand that "Caligula" was in reality a s\f 4-Itn inoonn T?ntnon "Km* peror witli the present Kaiser. Put on eale at the extremely lew price of ten cents, it took the pamphlet eighteen months to sell 500,00C :opies. To know how far, comparatively jpeaking, the sale of Bismarck exceeds that of "Caligula," it is only aecessary to know that 318,000 copies if the former had been ordered before ;he book was published. The fact, too, that the price of the Iron Chanjellor's autobiography was twenty narks, or nearly fifty times the cost of "Caligula," makes the comparison all ;he more striking. When a German parts with twenty marks he -wants a run for his money, and also must mow all there is to know about a book aefore he buys it. It is self-evident, chen, that the German people have iccopted Bismarck's story as the only true and adequate expression of the [ron Chancellor and his influence on European history. It is interesting ilso to notice its reception in other jountries. The rights in the United SARCOPHAGUS FOR OTTO VON BI8MABCK, By Courtesy of Harper & Brothers. States were secured by Harper <6 Brothers, and the bqpk throughout America is considered the most valuable contribution to European history that has been made for many a day. In Engl&nd it has also had a sale commensurate with its importance. Another fact of especial interest abou' this book is that although it was published on November 29tb, it has already appeared in five different languages. France did not expregs much approbation over the autobiography of Prince Bismarck. It contained toe many references to Sedan, to Gravelotte and to the siege of Paris for hei tender sensibilities. Russian sensibilities have proved still aore tender, and the Imperial Press Censor has refused Russian booksellers permission to pla:e the work on sale. There are many subjects which Bismarck treats with a plain-spokennesB that is most painful to the delicately organized ear of the Russian; for instance, Bis:narck speaks of the murder of the Czar Paul; the Russians speak of if ilways as the "sudden demise." It is indeed unfortunate that the [ron Chancellor did not live to enjoy ;he success of his book. It is a sure iign that throughout his misfortunes, throughout the bitter years of his old ige, his people still believed in him. it is to iSismareK 8 crecm tnai nis anlobiography is neither pettish nor pessimistic, and it is safe to say that the best monument to his memory will be lalf a million copies of-his book in as nany German homes, and as many nore copies scattered throughout the vorld. A mln who has such a monunent need care but little what marble nausoleums are raised above his ishes, or in what sarcophagus he ileeps. Our illustration shows the :arcophagus of Prince Bismarck, yhich lately arrived at Friedrichruh, ind which has been placed in the lewly built mausoleum. It is made >f pink marble from the designs of 3err Schurbach, of Hanover, and is ir ihe strictly Roman style. Its dimenlions are ten feet long, five broad and ifty-one and three-quarter inches iigh. Rigglnc For Trottors. The multitude of appliances Drougut into use from year to year for the purpose of improving the speed of the irotting horse surprises the man who remains away from the harness-racing jourses for a few seasons, and the vet rtlE PACER EXPLOIT, Rifijced with Chin Check, Two-MInutc Hurness, Roin Holders, Gnltlng Pole, Hopples, Knee Boots, Shin Boots, Quar ter Boots and Ankle Boots. aran who saw Lady Suffolk, Flora Temple and other champions in the early days of the aport is reminded that this is the age of invention. Toe weights are by far the most common of all artificial appliances used to improve and correct defective action in the trotting horse. They are used for a multitude of different purposes. Heredity unci Environment. Her clothes did not fit her. Her conversation, also, betokened the tlirmorhtful nftl'son. "Do you believe criminal tendencies to be due more to heredity or to environment in youth?" she asked, eagerly. "Alas! it is hard to say," replied the burglar in the end cell. "I was an only son and I wore long curls until I was ten years old. Which circumstance had the more to do with making me what I am I cannot decide." Here his voice broke in a sob, ? Detroit Journal. 'DH. TALMAGES SEEMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Parental Heedlemneaa" ? The Vow of Jephthah Typical of Maeh That 1* DI?tr?iilsi la Modern Life?Chll? dren Sacrificed to Worldly Ambition. Text: "My father, If thou hast opened thy month nnto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded oat of thy month."?Judges xl., 36. Jephtbahwas a freebooter. Early turned out from a home where he ought to have boen cared for, he consorted with rough men and went forth to earn his Jiving as best he could. In those times it was considered right for a man to go out on independent military expeditions. Jephthah was a good man according to the light of his darlc age, but through a wandering and predatory life he became reckless and Dre clpltAtc. The grace of God changes a mail's heart, but never reverses his natural temperament. The Israelites wanted the Ammonites driven out of their oountry, so they sent a delegation to Jephthah, asking him to become commander In chief of all the forces. He might have said, "You drove me out when you had no use for me, and now you are in trouble you want mo back," but he did not say that. He takes command of the army, sends messengers to the Ammonites to tell them to vacate the country, and getting no favorable response, marshals his troops for battle. Before going out to the war Jephthah mnkes a very solemn vow thiit if the Lord will give him the victory then, on his return home, whatsoever first comes out of his doorway he will offer In sacrifice as a burnt offering. The battle opens. It was no skirmishing on the edges of dangers, no unllmberlng of batteries two miles away, but the hurling cf men on the points of swords and speara until the ground could no more drink the blood and the horses reared to leap over the pile of bodies of the slain. In those old times opposing forces would fight until their swords were broken and then each one would throttle his man until they both fell, teeth to teeth, grip to grip, death stare to death stare, until the plain was one tumbled mass of corpses from which the last trace of manhood had been dashed out. Jephthah wins the day. Twenty cities lay captured at his feet. Sound the victory all through the mountains of Gllead. Let the.trumpeters call up thesurvivors. Homeward to your wives and children. Homeward with your glittering tAasures. Homeward to have the applause of an admiring nation. Build triumphal arohes. Swing out flags all over Mizpab. Open all your doors to receive the captured treasures. Through every hall spread the banquet. Pile ^p the viands. Fill high the tankards. The nation is redeemed, the invaders are routed and the national ho&or Is vindicated. . tt k.u nuzzii lur jtspuiuttu, mo couquoron Jephtbab, 9eated on a prancing steed, advances nmid the acolalmlng multitudes, but his eye is not on the ezolted populaoe. Remembering that he bad made a solemn vow that, returning from victorious battle, whatsoever first oame out of the doorway of nls home that should be sacrificed as a burnt offering, he has his anxious look upon the door. I wonder what spotless lamb, what brace of doves, will be thrown upon.the fires of the burnt offering! Ob, horrors! Paleness of death blanohes his cheek. Despair seizes his heart. His daughter, his only child, rushes out tbe doorway to throw herself In her lather's arms and shower upon him more kisses than there were wounds on his breast or dents on his shield. All the triumphal splendor vanishes. Holding back this child from bis heaving breast and pushing the locks back from the fair brow and looking Into tbe eyes of inextinguishable affection, with choked utterance he says: "Would to God I lay stark on the bloody plain! My daughter, mv only child, joy of my home, life of my life, thou art the sacrifice!" The whole matter was explained to her. ibis was no wuiuidk, nonow uaarieu gin into whose eyes the father looked. All the glory of sword and shield vanished In the presence of the valor of that girl. There may bave been a tremor of the Hp, as a rose leaf trembles In the sough of the south wind; there may have been tho starting of a tear like a raindrop shaken from the anther of a water lily. But with a self sacrifice that roan may not reaoh and only woman's heart can compass she surrenders herself to fire and to death. 8h&or(es oat in the words of my text, "My father, if thou bast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do unto me whatsoever hath proceeded from thy mouth." She bows to tho knife, and the blood, which so often at the father's voice had rashed to the crimson cheek, smokes in the fires of the burnt offering. No one can tell us ber name. There Is no need that we know her name. The garlands that Mlzpah twisted for Jephthah the warrior have g6ne into the dust, but all ages are twisting this girl's chaplet. It Is well that ber name came not to us, for no one can wear it. They may take the name of Deborah or Abigail or Miriam, but no one In all the ages shall have the title of this daughter of sacrifice. Of course this offering was not pleasing to the Lord, especially as a provision was made in the law for suoh a contingency, and Jephthah might have redeemed his daughter by the payment of thirty shekels of silver. But before you hurl your denunciations at Jephthah's cruelty remember that in olden times, when vows were made, men thought they must execute them, perform them, whether they were wicked or good. There were two wrong things about Jephthah's vow. First, he ought never to have made It. Next, having made It, it were better broken than kept. But do not take on pretentious airs and Bay, "I could not have done as Jephthah did." If in former days you had been standing on the banks of the Ganges and you bad been born in India, you might have thrown your children to the crocodiles. It is not becausA we are naturally any better, but because we have more Gospel light. Now I make very practical use of this question when I teil you that the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter was a type of the physical, mental und spiritual sacrifice of ten thousand children in this day. There are parents all unwittingly bringing to bear upon their children a class of influences which will as certainly ruin them as knife and torch destroyed Jephthah's daughter. While I speak, the whole nation, without emotion and without nUn mA IaaI/q ii nnn l ha afiinan^AHQ u r? r? r i _ OUULUUy IVV/aa upvu buv o?u|/uuuvua oxvk*flee. In the first place, I remark that much of the system of education lu our day Is a system of sacrifice. When children spend six or seven hours in school and then must spend two or three hours in preparation for school the next day, will you tell me how much time they will have lor sunshine and fresh air and the obtaining of that exuberance which is necessary for the duties of coming life? No one can feel more thankful than I do for the advancement of common school education. The printing of books appropriate for sohools, the multiplication of philosophical apparatus, the establishment of normal schools, which provide for our children teachers of largest caliber, are tnemes on wuica every pananthropist ought to be congratulated. But this herding of great multitudes of children in ill ventilated schoolrooms rdJ poorly equipped hulls of Instruction is making many of the places of knowledge in this country u huge holocaust. Politics in many of the cities pets into educationul affairs and while the two political parties are scrabbling for the honors Jephthah's daughter perishes. It Is so much so that there aro many schools In the country today which are preparing tens of thousands of invalid men and women for the future; bo that, in many places, by the time the child's education Is ilnished the child is finished! In many places, in many cities or tho country, there are largo appropriations for everything olse and cheerful appropriations, but as soon as the appropriation is to be made for tho educational or moral interests of the city wo are struck through with an economy that Is well nigh the death of us. You may flatter your pride by forcing your child to know more than any other childron, but you are making a sacrifice of Hmt ohild if bv the additions to Its intolli pence you are making a subtraction from Its future. The child will go away from such maltreatment with no exuberance to fight the battlo of life. Such children may get aloug very well wbilo you take care of them, but, when you are old or dead, alas for them if through the wrong system of education which you adopted tbey have no swarthlnesa or force of character to take care of themselves! .Be careful how you {pake the child's head * ' : \ * ' \ aohe or its heart flatter. I hear a great deal about black man's rights, and China* man's rights, and Indian's rights, an<J woman's rights. Would to God that some? < body would rise to plead for children'! rights! The Carthagenlans used to saorl? lice their children by patting them into the arms of an idol whloh thrust forth ltl band. The child was pat Into the arms oi the Idol, and no sooner touched the armi than It dropped loto the Are. But It vai the art of the mothers to keep the children smillDg and laughing until the moment they died. There may be a fascination and a hilarity about the 9tyJes of education of which.I am speaking, bat It is only laughter at the moment of sacrifice. Would God there were only oneJephthah's daughter! Again, there are manyparents who are sacrificing theli children with wrong system of discipline?too great rigor or too great leniency. There are children in families who rale the hoasehold. The nigh chair in tfhlch the Infant sits Is the throne, and tho rattle is the sceptre, and the other childrea make up the parliament where father and mother have no votei Such children come up to be mlsoreants. There Is no chance in this world for a child that has never learned to mind. Sach people become the botheratloa of the uburoh of God aad the pest of the world. Childrea that do not leara to obey hamaa authority are unwilling to learn to obey divine au money, unnaren win not respect parents whose authority they do not respeot. Who are these young men that swagger through the street with their thumbs In their rest talking about their father as "the <jld man," "the governor," "th* squire." "the old ohap," or their mother as "the old woman?" They are those who In youth, In childhood, never learned to respeot authority. ?11, having heard that his sons had died In their wickedness, (ell over backward and broke his neck and died. Well he might! What is life to a father whose sons are debauched? The dust of the valley is pleasant to his taste, and the driving rains that drip through the roof of the sepnloher are sweeter than the wines of Helbon. In our day most boys start out with no idea higher than the all encompassing dollar. They start la an age whioh boasts It can scratch the Lord's Prayer on a ten cent piece and the Ten Commandants on a teu cent piece. Children are taught to reduce morals and religion, time and eternity, to vulgar fractions. It seems to be their chief attainment that ten cents make a dime and ten dimes make a dollar. How to get money is only equaled bythei other arthow to keep it. Tell me, ye who know, what chance there is for those who start out in life with such perverted sentiments! The money market resounds again and again with the downfall of such people. It I had a drop of blood on the tip of a pen, I would tell vou bvwhat awful trasadv manv of the youth of this country are ruined. Further on, thousands and lens of thou* sands of the daughters of America are sacrificed to worldfiness. They are taught to be in sympathy with all the artiflclalties of society. They are indaoted into all the hollowness of what is called fashionable life. They are taught to believe that his* tory is dry, but that fifty cent stories of adventurous love are delicious. Witt oapaclty that might have rivaled- a Florence Nightingale in heavenly ministries or made the father's house glad with filial and sisterly demeanor, their life is a waste, their beauty a curse, their eternity a demolition. In the siege of Charleston, during ouz CJvll War, a lieutenant of'the army stood on the floor beside the danghter of the ex*.. Governor of the State of South Carolina. They were taking the vows of marriage. A bombshell struck the roof, dropped into the group, and nine were wounded and slain, among the wounded to death the bride. While the bridegroom knelt on th? carpet trying to stanch the wounds th? bride demanded that the ceremony be com*' pleted, that she might take the vows before her departure, and when the minister said: "Wilt thou be faithful unto i /laath?" tulfVi hap Hvlncp lma aha anlri* < "I will," and la two houra she bad departed. That was the slaughter and the sacrifice of the body, but at thousands of marrluge altars there are daughters slaia for time aad slaia for eternity. It is not a marriage. It la a massacre. Affianced to some one who is only waiting until his father dies so be can get the property; then a little while they swing around in the circles, brilliant circles; then the property Is gone, and, having no power to earn a livelihood, the twaln?slnk into some corner of society, the husband an idler and a sot, the wife a drudge, a slave and a sacrifice. Ah, spare your denunciations from Jephthah's head and expend them all on this wholesale modern martyrdom! I Hit up my. voice against the sacrifice of children. I look oat of my window on a Sabbath, and I see a group of children uq? washed, uncombed, un-Christlanlzed. Who cares for them? Who prays for them? Who utters to them one kind word? When the city missionary, passiDg along the park In New York, saw a ragged lad aad heard him swearing, be said to him: "My son, stop swearlngl You ought to go to the house of Qod to-day. You ought to be good. You ought to be a Christian." The I lad looked up in his face and .said: "Ah! It < Is easy for you to talk, well clothed as yoo I are and well fed. But we chaps hain't got i no chance." Who lifts them to the altar ! for baptism? Who goes forth to snatoh | them up from crime and death and woe? ] Who to-day will go (orth and bring them i Into schools and oburcbes? No, heap them i up, great piles of rags and wretchedness < and filth. Put underneath them the fires 1 ox sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put on more i fagots, and, while we sit in the churches 1 with folded arms and indifference, crime I and disease and death will go on with the t agonizing saorlflce. t During the early Frenoh revolution at ' Bourges there was a company of boys who ' used to train every day as young soldiers, 1 and they carried a Aug, and thev had on the flag this Inscription; "Tremble,tyrants, 1 I tremblel Wo nre growing up." Mightily f suggestlve! This generation is passing off, J and a mightier generation is coming on. 1 Will they be the foos of tyranny, the foes of sin and tho foes of death, or will they D0 me I06S 01 uuur j.ury am uuuuug upl I congratulate all parents who are ( doing their best to keep thdir children t | away from the altar of sacrifice. roui prayers are going to be answered. Youx children may wander away from God, but they will come baolc again. A voioa comes from the throne to-day, encouraging you?"I will be u God to thee and to thy seed after thee." And, though when you lay your head In death there may ta some wanderer of the family far away from God, and you may be twenty years In heaven before salvatfon shall come to hli heart, he will be brought Into the Icingdom, and before-the throne of God you will rejoice that you were faithful. Come at last, though so long postponed his aomIng. Come at last! I congratulate all those who are tolling . * ? ? ?/! man^Aflni* Vnnf ^ iur llit) UUltaDL UUU luo nnuuuiu|t, ?... work will aoon be over, l?ut the influence you are settlw? la motion will never stop, i Long after you hkve been garnered for the skies, your prayers, your teachings t nnd your Christian influence will go on and help to people heaven with bright h inhabitants. Which would you rather c see, which scene would you rathei mingle in in the last great day? t being ablo to say, "I added house to t house nnd land to land aud manufactory t< manufactory, I owned half the city, what t over my eye saw I had, whatever I wanted ti I got," or on that day to have Christ lool T you full In the face and say, "I was bungn y, nnd ye fed Me; I was naked and ye clothe^ Me; I was sick and in prison ye visited Me; y inasmuch as ye did It to the least of thes? r My brethren, yadld it to Me?" fl a Onr Island Trade. Acting Secretary or War Meikeljobn, at y, Washington, has given out some Interest n lngstatistics regarding the trade of tlW 0 United Statos with Cuba, Torto Rico and al the Philippines. The returns for Februarj show an increase of imports from the isl< 5( Innds into this country amounting tc lj, 5'374,40S, and a corresponding increase ol * exports from the United States to the isll ?' amis of $693,269, as compared with the same month a yearago. Catholic* Enter West l'oint. Acting Secretary Mocklejohn at Wash- D ington hus issued a license granting author- a ity to the Catholic church to build a church ^ 11 non the West Foint Military Reservation. 11 Tlie license, which was delivered to Archbishop CorriKuo, was authorized by legi9- n lution, the bill providing for it cnu9lnp con- ? siderable contention in Congress before It ? passed. - <j It costs about $1000 to bulid an electric ? cap of the kind new In use in Paris, ? / A TEMPERANCE COLUMN^ | THE DRINK" EVfL MADE MANIFEST1 IN MANY WAYS. Foolin* the Taxpayer*?An Addresa by . -ft Brilliant Scotchman That T??mi With. Telling l'oint*?If You Want to B? Health* anil Rtrnnv Dnnt flrlnb Rnm. We will talk ol Taxation, and smile as w? see Still bow easy to fool the poor taxpayers We wttl tell how Abe bar and the brothel have-paid ' " *28 The high taxes tbat on the poor voter w* laid; For the dollar we show he will vote for the dive That, so long as it lives, on his pocket most thrive; But we never will tell him?we haven't -JM the tongue? Thus to save by the ballot is waste at th* bung! Yes, we know that the tolls which In taxes we take Come at last (or at first) from the many who make / By the bar and the brothel their manhood a He; - -fflW But so long as the tax (or the license) ia rr, h'8b- ' M Tlien the millions we get from the sin and th$ shame Shall begHd all the voice and efface all th? blame, V And thft man vhn nrn v Inn A fnrth* lng of Christ Will with gold to our guilty success b9 enticed. We are proud of the mlllionsl But what of the men And the women who pay? They shall pay * i j us again! ! We will fatten on sin and will thrive upon While we hold the State's virtue for sale at a price. The saloon shall renaln with Its festering orime, And the brothel shall fume with Its terrible . * slime; * They may mln young men, but as long a* they pay tie win snare in caeir proncs, taeir Diddlngoboy. A Witty Btfeech. ' In an address on tfte. "management" of public houses, at tliedecent CcottishTernperance Convention, - James Guthrie, J. P., of Brechin, made as many points as there are prickles on a porcupine, as well as enlisted "apt alllterutlons' artful aid." Hera is an interesting specimen or two: / "K you want the life that is long, It you. r', wish to be healthy and strong, and bappx as you go along, then don't drink. This dealing in alcohol from the babe to the bar. and on to the gallows, begins with destrac uon, tends to aeatruotion, and ends la destruction. It ruins both customer and seller, ana while it may be a legalized trade, Is & not a legitimate one. This Is not trade: it is swindle. Pharaoh's daughter took a lit- v tie prophet oat of the water, the publlean takes a big profit out of the beer. Aloohol is certainly good for cleaning silver, especially out of a worklngman's pocket. As to the"publlo management of apublic-housa for the public benenfcit 4s false. The only way to reform tbe'liflffllclsto manage to do without It, We *dfant management to ?- Jm tlngutoh; they want management to perpetuate. Ttereis nothing easier than to oe-' iieve a lie, unless to tell one, and half the truth is sometimes worse than a whole lie. A liar may be reformed, but not a lie, unIasr rnn rafnrm If r\ff fho r\t I have no personal objection to the publican. We are told to love onr enemies, bat we never told to like them. So, though. I love the publican as a man, I may bata him as a publican. Yet he olaims compensation. Zaccheus also believed In compen* aatlon. Now, Zaccheus was a publican. But it was the other way round. He called it restitution. That shows a mig'aty difference between Zaccheus and our modem . 'X publican. That is not the only difference, (or, as yoa know, Zaccheus was really a (actor; he collected the taxes. Our publl:an is a malefactor; he creates the taxes. The one lived off the taxation of the people; the other makes his living off the intoxlea~ tion of the people. Further, we read about Zaccheus that he was a little man and climbed a tree, and then made hasto to come down. But none of these things are irue of our publloan friends of to-day.' iuey are Dig men, do not climb trees, and If ever up a tree they don't come down In i hnrry. One distinction, more Important, [ hHve forgot. Zaccheus, you remember, :ould not get forward for the press; that is nore and more unlike the publican of our :ime, for we see by every newspaper, that instead of not getting forward for' the press, why, it is tne press nowadays, that iuts the publican forward." m It Pays to Exclude Saloons., < The trustees to whom Mr. George Pea>ody entrusted <2,500,000 for the purposes )f building dwellings for London artisans lave guided the scheme with' marked ability ?nd success, and ther? are now between >000 and 6000 dwellings accommodating a jopulation of 20,009. Although these peoile are so thick on the ground that they lumbor 725 to tbe acre (a mean density learly thirteen times that of London genjrally), the death rate is nearly tbree to 1000 below that of London, while the infanc nortality is twenty-two per 1000 births beAm + Vt <1 * A 9 T And An T K 3 nearly Ave In the thousand above that of ill London. As for the financial success of he scheme, it Is sufficient to say that the )roflts last year were $160,000, even after leducflnsr $50,000 voted to the Prince of bales'Hospital Fund. i The secret of this remarkable success is indoabtedly due largely to the fact that be trustees have rigorously excluded Icensed drinking sa'.oons from this comnunity. Gin and Handcuffs Go Together. When Sir William Branforth Griffith waa Jovernor of the Gold Coast, Africa, he paid i visit to King Quamin Fori, and that nonatch preferred one request, namely, hat Her Majesty's Government would intruct the merchants'of Addah to pay for >aitn oil in cash Instead of in gin, to whioh be Governor replied that he could not in offot>o rrffh th? nrmraft r\t t+nAn TTfnt* attar [Ins preferred the same request, but each a turn received the same nnswer, and one it the native chiefs, with sore heart overlowing with the bitter iro.iy which baffled iurpose speaks, replied: "tend us, with -our gin, a plentiful supply of handcuffs; hey both go together." Shot* at the Ram Evil. It is in the distillery that the devil finds lis best artillery. Before the devil can be chained, the sa< Don door must be bolted. Temperance is not everything, but la? emperanee mars everything. ' You may vote to "let the saloon alone," ut it will not "let you alone." When you talk of the responsibility ot Fnclo Sam In the liquor traffic, remember J. S. spells us. The fact that saloonkeepers are willing o pay a mgn license Is a confession that heir business Is different from all others, 'he use of screens is a confession that it is rorse than all others. Mrs. Barnes, General Secretary of the dung Woman's Branch World's Woman's hrlstian Temperance Union, says there re Y organizations in Japan, China, India, :orea, Australia and South Africa. Between the ages ef twenty and thirty, rhere ten total abstainers die, thlrty-ono loderate drinkers die. Between the age3 f thirty and forty, where ton total abtalners die, forty moderate drinkers die. The saloon tax paid in Ohio is about $3,1)0,000. But the expense to the State or tie poverty, crime and waste of labor the aloon causes is fully $7,500,000. The sawn is indebted to the expense account of ?blo quite $4,000,000 yearly. The Archbishop of Canterbury, as Presl? eutofthe National Temperance League. as issued from Lambeth Palace a prelimiary call to the various national tempernce bodies for a "World's Temperance ingress," to be held in London during 900. One of our liquor exchanges saY9 ther? re several persons in Los Angeles, Cal., enaged in the liquor business who never istod intoxicating liquor. They know the anger and avoid it, but are unscrupulous nough to make money out of th03e who o not realize their danger. / ; ; ,'. > m' *