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^iROUNDTIjEWORLDIN /j^ f VIaojv5b /-? / } / . V \ \ ? \ \ jfc \ \\ 1 The world's record for swift travel I y around the world will soon be cut in t F twaiu. Prince Hilkoff, Russian Minisr ter of Communication, stated at the k I'onunt n>oefinfr nf the Knronean rail- r ?Q A. way managers that when the new f< Siberian railway is completed it will p be possible to travel arouud the world b in thirty-three days. At present the r best possible record is sixty-six days, d PRINCE HILKOFl's TIME TABLE. Day?. Bremen, by rail to St. Petersburg \% N St. Petersburg to Yiadivostock 10 S Viadivostock to San Francisco 10 ? San Francisco to New York 4lX Y New York to Eremen 7 S Total 33 gOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOODO|( S FHItiFPIHE TRIBES |i? | EOMPLETEtY CLASSIFIED, li" o o i 1 ? An Ethnographic Map. Q , OOOODOODOOOOOOOOOOQ000300& y A simple classification of the Philip- i t)ine Archipelago's population may be ! ma:le with the assistance of the accom- j panying ethnographic map taken from j Harper's Weekly: 1. The Moros, or Snlus (Moharamedau Malaya) occupy the small southern islands, the southern and western coasts of Mindanao, and the southern extremity of Palawan. Their capital is Sulu. As for their number, the estimate in the Nouveau Dictionnaire de Geograpraphie Universale, by M. Vivien do Saint-Martin, is 200,009 to j 300,000. J?2. The islands of the central group; are inhabited chiefly by Visayans' (Roman Catholic Malays). Of the ' Visayans proper there are about 2,- j 500,000; but if we include the cognate j tribes scattered from Northeastern Mindanao to Mindoro-and the Calami- ! anes Islands, the total number is prob-' ab'y much greater. 3. The Tagals, Tagalogs, or Tagalos ' (Roman Catholic Malays), from whom Aguinaldo has drawn the larger part i of his forces, inhabit central Luzon. ! Their number is uncertain, though for 1 the present we may accept Saint-Mar- ' tin's estimate?1,200,000. 4. Tribe3 of Malays, which are numerically of less importance, are not always clearly distinguished from j Tagalogs and Yisayans?e. g., the Ilo- j canos, Pampangos, and Zambales of; Northern and Western Luzon, the j Bicols (or Vicols) in the extrerhe south- j east of Luzon aud in adjacent islands, i the Subanos of Southern Cebu, etc. f 5. Non-Malayan savages, remnants (I of an earlier population which was displaced by the Malays, are widely scattered, and the common uame "Indo- ? nesiens" is given to these tribes by j si the writers, who regard ttiem as repre- o: sentatives of a race which the Malays si drove into the mountains, somewhat aj as Saxon displaced Celt in the British *" m M ETHNOGRAPHIC tup OP J TITE PinLIPPrs-E ISr.A>"T3 I TH( arrvjirr cn cf THl ' t riucirit Jrinrt tlid 13 KU or miu ? ' II] ? ? M* 1* ? ? X? . | 1 ' t, lut+iti rucoi/~>u.* ->+1 | * ?. fcite, Sua C. I'M?, , rw? D'ut, r. ' ( luMsdrteknWUfrMttoi Outturn- zf/ c5.~ : ; [ V ; K?? ! F# j i * ^y*'' 'f w ?? ? i { i . MIN09 . ^ ! " ? ' ".% ClMfM Rt V' Ai'?<9 * *"*? > _. j*3> \ y/fiuwii o? . e*'"? r**?9S'jrmnt rti?e?M * ,-// | ^ XXP/UUOW IBVAMO > ' SffLff S?4 I. i. :r , I ~7fH y >K U<S osJnko rf... I Isles. That famous band of the Igor- j a rotes who trusted to charms and bows ' b and arrows in the battle of February ( 5 were of this class. The accompanying map shows the names of a dozen 11; different tribes in Northern Luzon s alone, with others in Central Minda- 3 nao, Northern Panay, and Negros, etc. a Little reliance can be placed upon the fi estimates of the total number of "In- f: donesiens" who have never consented b to stand and be counted. As an ap- li proximation, some of the authorities ii hare suggested 300,000 or 400,000. j I 6. Of the aborigines called Negritos j cl $ TpTY-TtjREE DAYS ij\ 'rince Hilkoff arranges liis thirtybree-day itinerary. In calculating this run Prince Hil off estimates speed on the Siberia! ail way at the very modest rate of bui arty-eight kilometers, or thirty miles er hour. Faster communication bott y sea and land will doubtless soor educe the minimum time to thirty ays. PRESENT TIME TABLE. Days 'ew York to Southampton 6 outbampton to Brindisi 3% rindisi to Yokohama by Suez Caual..42 okohamatoSan Francisco 10 an Francisco tc New York.. AU. Total 66 little Blacks), or Aetas, onU 10.00C r 20,000 remain. They are "as near au pproachto primitive man as cau any here be found,"says Professor Brin3n; and they at e so far inferior in phy ml GENERAL 31ASCA3DO. Ie is the Philippine insurgent leader who ha3 most influence with the savage tribes of the island.) que and intelligence to the civilized semi-civilized Malay or "Indoneeu" that they seem destined to dis>pear altogether before lonp." 7. At or near the principal port3 1' o^auii^Ctauufr) ? t ? 0 lOJ'%* w*? Hr D.J W ** *Vs (Mm ) fOj 1IM iV^J?1/-1* ? P'JIMvnS fffi r " H ' " ' gL : ?kS&v" ' / Jy o ! . ', > r^Prphru^ 7i ? ? * B0~*^O ?0- L>.. ^ * S*~m I u l/iM 0 A' N A O > I JMWm__, >0 < Ip- I y^-' \ .X \ u ^ N? , J -CELEBES SEA \ . j 1 iW l*tftla4# F** trm Cfr^wkk |?^ g re about 100,000 Chinese, and per iapa 15,000 whites?not including xeneral Otis's army. The present distribution of the na ive tribes has evidently been occaioned by successive waves of inva ion. The aboriginal Aetis (Negritos) s a less vigorous branch of the human amily, wore unable to resist attacks rom restless and progressive neighbors. The first people from the mainand to appear as conquerors on a arge scale may have been the so-called ndonesiens; but these ia turn were isplaced, in the mora desirable por t [ tions of the archipelago, by hordes of ) [ Asiatics coming from the Malay Peninsula by way of Borneo?the firs! ! ???"?<> A" KainflP 1^:1 Ktt Taffdlfl. ftH(l I111V/U1 OIUU *v?k ? the second by Visayans. The third | and last wave of Malay invasion oul ; miuated about the middle of the Bix 1 teenth century, not far from the tinu : when the Spaniards arrived upon the I scene aud established themselves in i the Visayas aud Luzon. The editor of the Dictionnaire de Geographie Universelle estimates the total population of the archipelago at about 9,000,000, but fails to give convincing reasons for this opinion. In view of the statements which have been repeated day aftor day for the last ten months, that the Philippines support a population of 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 persons, it may not seem that our question is too poiuted if wo asfc, ilow is tuis inrormaiion aenveu.A little acrutinj of figures given in the foregoing paragraphs will show that perhaps 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 have* been accounted for. "Within a limited area, conditions which allow half a million of people to live by hautiug are not usually such as to allow 8,000,000 or 9,000,000 more to live by agriculture aud commerce. Why, then, does it seem probable that the i population of the Philippines is bo i -lease? How has it been possible to [.secure trustworthy information on this . head??Marrion Wilcox, in Harper's j Weekly. An American Girl's Romance. I The news that the Viscountess Deer"! hurst has just given birth to a son and 1 j heir recalls her strange but romantic VISCOUNTESS DEEP.HtTRST. | history. As is known, the young Viscountess occupies au enviable position in English society. She has been twice received by Quoeu Victoria, and she has won many friends by her' charming personality. She was first * * - a? _ - tic: known to .tngiisu society as iui?s Virginia ^nynge, the daughter of C. W. Bonynge, a California millionaire. Virgiuia Bonynge became the inti-: mate friend of Princess Christian, and was patronized by all of the royal social leaders. Shortly after her presentation she became engaged td an English nobleman, and after all the arrangements had been made for the wedding it became known that she was not the daughter of Mr. Bonynge, but the daughter of a California miner who committed murder, by name William Daniel. William Daniel was an English gardener who married a housemaid and emigrated to America. The Daniels journeyed from the East to Illinois, where they begfin farming on a quarter section of land, and it was during their sojourn in this State that Virginia was born. When a mere baoe her parents started j for the Rockies. While in a ' mining camp on the Pacifi-i : slope Daniel quarreled with a number of reckless men and killed i his man. Ho was tried aijid convicted aud sentenced to life imprisonment. Soon after Bonynge, also a miner, met Mrs. Daniel an;l persuaded her to get a divorce from Daniel, which she did, and married him. Thereafter Virginia i ht?r?ftmA known as Virginia Bonynge, The Bonyuges prospered and became rich, aud eventually went to London to live. When the facts of Miss Bonynge's antecedents were made knownj to the prospective bridegroom the engagement was broken off by the scion of the noble British house. The Princess Christian, however, remained the lair heiress's friend, and she challenged her right of entre intothe most aristocratic British society. The chances are that Virginia Bouynge cared little for her first noble love, for she soon forgot him and married the Viscount Deerhurst, who, loved her in spite of the fact that she' was the daughter of a miner and a convict. The Pan-American Emblem. This design tor the emblem of the Pan-American Exposition, to be held Buffalo, N. Y., in 1901, has been awarded the first prize. It follows tli9 outlines of the map and shows South' America as stretching up her hand to North America. OFFICIAL SEAL OF PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION'. Tho design is by Raphael Beck and is considered a splendid effort in artistic endeavor. Some Gorman N'^vaI Tillm. The titles of some of the officials in j - the German navy wonld tangle the 1 tongue of an American oflicer, aad the Emperor is trying to simplify them. For example, a frigate captain was formerly known as a "korvet ten-capitan-mH-ooersueiuenamraug. | There is an officer on the list of thtf i German navy known as the "mariuei kaaseninspector," whose duties are to inspect the marines, while the chiei inspector of marines is known aiinplj i as a "marinegamisonverwaltungsober? t inspector." Imagine the Admiral i calling for that officer in the midst ot >. a battle. OOOOOOCOOOOOOC0O6OOOOCOOCo ? Jfost Wonderful I | of Gas Wells. | n O 5 ?3 8 INDIANA'S "OLD VESUVIUS." o O Q ooooooooooooooocoooooooooo "Old Vesuvius."at Anderson, Ind., is no more. The greatest and most remarkable gas well of thorn all was packed a few weeks ago and from a thing of splendor, attracting sight-' seers from almost every State in the Union?drawing the American Association of Scientists all the way from Boston in a special train?it has sunk to the level of a common, every-day, deep-water well. It was an expensive thing of beauty. Figuring on a basis of coal at ordinary market prices, it is estimated that $2,300,000 worth of " 1 awarw tTOOrfl\af. natural gna w>g waawu muij j ? old Vesuvius might rule as one of the greatest gas wells of history. The Indiana natural gas fields -were opened in 1886, and Vesuvius was brought into activity in the following year. The discovery of the Indiana deposit was due to the grandeur of the Korg well at Findlay, Ohio, which up to the time of the discovery of Vesuvius, was the greatest of them all. So wonderful were the illuminations from the old Korg well that excursions were run to that point from every section of the central States, while many went even a greater distance to witness the display. It was this, in fact, that started the great natural gas fever which spread all over the country between 1884 and 1888. Among the excursionists from Indiana were a dozen or more from a hamlet called Eaton. Eaton, then as now, 'was only a speck on the map, while many maps did not even give it recognitiou. Twenty years previous to this a party of Fort Wayne capitalists had drilled at Eaton in search of coal. After getting down 600 feet, they were compelled to abandon the driller because of opening a deposit of "most maladoious vapor." They gave up their search for the coal vein and in order to shut off the "stink" they drove a long wooden plug into the opening. Then the well was forgotten. The excursionists from Eaton who went to Findlay to witness the great Korf? well display, notice the peculiar odor of the escaping gas. It struck them that there was some similarity between that peculiar small and the smell which they had found around the old well, twenty years before. "oLD VESTTVIus" IV ER" PTION". : They returned home, cut down the brambles from around the old hole, pulled out the plug and found that the smell was the same. They applied a match. It burned and from that three-foot blaze which leaped from the old stand-pipe came Indiana's greatest wealth. It was in the following spring that Old Vesuvius came into being. The drill was sent down under the city of Anderson and the roar announcing the opening of a well that took all before it awnlrp flirt rtihv a.arlv nno mnrninc. | The pressure from this new well was i astounding. The roar of the escaping gas could be heard several miles and when put on full force and lighted the pressure was so great that it would blow out the flame. For this reason j aud because of the deafening roar it I became necessary to pipe it to White River, running the pipes to the center and the deepest portion of the stream, so that the gas might be disseminated and the pressure broken. When the gas was turned on the water would begin to boil ana as the pressure was increased it leaped into the air, a white, seething foam, surging and plunging until a geyser was formed, reaching to a height of twenty-five feet. Then when a burning newspaper was floated down the current and came within twenty feet of the place there was a flash and the great fountain of soothing foam became fire, leaping far above i tha siirrnundin? treaa find snreadina 3ut until it was thirty feet across. Like a great candle it lighied the surrounding country. An eighth of a oiile distaut it was possible to read a newspaper on a dark night, while the roar of the water and flames sounded like that from Niagara. It was a sight to justify the pilgrimage which many trainloads of peopie made from distant States. Tl?e Writer of "Uoch, <ler Kaiser." Speaking of the late A. M. K. Gordon, the Montreal journalist who is said to have written the verses "Hoch, dei* Kiiser," the Toronto Mail and Empire says: "He was originally a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, and assumed the name of Gordon after, leaving the Church, his real name being A. McGregor Rose. The verses first appeared in a paper called the Hornet, publisned in Vancouver, B. C. Tl> a nrtntilohntl r\ ? Tarnoollim It oa ' been rapidlj increasing of late, and is now about 45,000; of these, 28,000 are1 Tews. Bridgeport, Ohio, has issued bonds, for $70,000, with which to pare every! itreet in town. A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. Oar Battle Cry?A Thrilling Lecture Delivered by a Kansas Judge In a Divorce Case?Tliere is No Excuse For ' Drunkenness Under Any Circumstances Come, onter ojur ranks, there la room for you nil; There's glor.ous work, If you nnswer our call; There's flghLing iu earnest along all our lines, And yonder our banner with victory shine9. Oh! come join our army, aad nobly we'll stand, For God and our loved ones, and dear native land. We don't mean to wait 'till the enemy's slain. We will shout in advance our glad jubilee strain; We will sound a loud blast as we compass the wall; Though mighty, We know It is destined to fall. Old Bacchus, the king, on his. tottering throne, Will yet And that his minlon3 have left him alone; By the might of our God they are destined to bow. And by faith we rejoice In the victory now. We know that the battle will be fierce and long. But we trust In our God, for we know He is strong: Come, eallst 'neath the banner that ne'er kfBsed the dust, For the cause that prevails Is the cause of the just. ?Temperance Banner. Tbe Record Would Diigrace Htm. The editor of the Concordia Kansan tells of a temperance leoture given by Judge Sturgis while deciding a divorce case before him. The divorce was asked for by the wife on the ground of the husband's habitual druukqnness. The objections raised bv the defendant was that the record of the divorce would disgrace him. To this the Judge replied bv saying that all of the court records or all the newspapers in the world could not possibly add to the disgrace already heaped ou the man by his own act of Retting drunk. Gonttuuing, the Judge said: "He claims bis fiuanclal misfortunes have led him to excess of drink. That is no excuse for a man to get drunk. There 19 no oxcuse for drunkenness. If reverses or troubles come,a man I needs his best judgment, his best vitality, I his brightest intellect to cope with his mis! fortune and to try to regain his lost advanj tage. Why auy man of ordinary intellect I will place himself in such a condition by Ills own acts as to merit the contempt and loathing of his best friends and disgusting his own wife and children, is something I do not understund. The drunken man excites the same feelincr in the mind of the | average person as does u snake. We in! stinctlvely pounce onto a snake and kill it ! or else flee from it for fear of contamlnaI tiou. The person" who voluutarily places I himself in the condition more loathsome | thau a snake, more disgusting than a brute, canuot be disgraced by the record of this court in this case. It was drunkenness that brought about thlscondltiou of things in this family, and it Is on these grounds the divorce is asked for and on which It will be granted. "Tim man claims be has quit drinking. I bopo lie has, and I hope he wilt keep steadfast in his determination to abstain from it. Wben this man is sober he is always a gentleman; when he is drunk.hu is not, neither Is any other man. We are all disgusted with a drunken man?what must be the feelings of a wife who is compelled to live continually with a drunkard? This woman detests this man because of his own acts. He is to blame and no one else. If she persists In asking the divorce It will be granted." I Ruilyarj Kipling on Temperance. Hud yard Kipling tells us how, In a concert hall in America, ho saw two young men get two girls drunk and then lead them, reeling, dowa a dark street. Mr. Kipling has not been a total abstainer, nor have his writings commended temperance, but of that scene he writes: "Then, recanting previous opinions, I became a prohibitionist. Better it is that a man should go I without his beer in public places and conI tent himself with swearing at the narrowI mindeduess of the majority; better it is to I poison the inside with very vile temper| auce drinks and to buy lager furtively at nack doors,.than to bring temptation to th? lips of young fools such as the four I ! had seen. I understand now why the preachers rage against drink, I havesaid, 'there is no harm in It, taken moderately;' and yet my own demand for beer helped directly to send these two girls reeling down the dark street to?God alone knows what ond. If liquor is worth drinking it Is worth taking a little trouble to come at? such trouble as a man will undergo to compass his own desires. It is not good that we should let it lie before the eyes of children, and I have been a fool in writing to the contrary."?Tho Young Man. The Drinking Women of England. The alarming increase of the drinkiug habit among English women is causing serious consideration among temperance workers. In an Interview on the subject Lady Somerset said to a correspondent: "There can be no doubt thstt the vreat problem is presenting itself to the temperance people of this country of bow to arrest the great increase of inebriety among women. It is a lamentable fact that In Ha Wrtnoon 1a aanonlnllv iQtfnM'l. tod with the sale of Intoxicant?. This country is par excellence the land of barmaids. That tbey are to be found behind the bar of every drlnkshop has caused the safeguards that surround them in other couutries to be set aside. "As a nation we stand in the unenviable position of being almost the only oDe that | lias a drunken womanhood. The question j for us to decide is not only how to stem the : growiug evil, but also how to deal with j those who have fallen and are fulling every ; Inunitj Caused l>y Drink. X notable paper was recently reail before the British Medical Society iu which the author maintained that insanity cav j be largely traced to the Intemperate use of | intoxicating drinks. He held that "th? | public Is responsible for allowing men and j women to continue In the intemperate inI dulgenee of alcohol to such an extent as to I become burdens to the State. He took the I ground that the habitual inebriate has for foiled the right of personal liberty, and ue Intimated that the freedom of the will, as a natural right, Is dependent on the ability to control the will. When any man or woman reaches tbo point where the de3tre for alcoholic liquors is not controlled, he I should be treated as a public nuisance."? Christian Work. Notes oi the Craiade. Beer is never as flat a3 those who drini it. Wine smiles in the cup, but stings in t"he conscience. The bar of the liquor saloon is a bar to the progress of many a young man. Three hundred naw liquor saloons are reported in Manila since the American occupation. . The Army Temperance Association is an organization in the British military service which has a membership of 33,000. Preveutlon of intomperanco is not only better than cure, but prevention Is a duty, and cure Is a lame, halting attempt to undo nu evil which we have permitted. Saloons are toll-gates on the way to perdition. There are church members who act as if they thoughf God's Idea of the saloon inferior to theirs. The ab3iirdfool Is one who says his burdens are greater than he can boar, and on that loads himself up with a jag. The man who 13 spending two, throe, to I five dollars a week In the salooon, as many .4 poor man does, is paying a high price ror a very low diversion. London authorities still permit young woman to serve liquor in saloons. A dully paper Lias taken up the question, calling attention to the indignities, temptations, vulgar treatment, long hours and unnecessary restrictions that are at onca unjust and degrading. I [THE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS .* FOR JUNE II. _________ V? V Snbject: "Christ Blsen," John xx., 11*20 ?Oolden Text: "Now la Christ Risen From the Dead." I Cor. 15-20?Commentary on the Day's Lesson. 11. "Bat Mary 9tood* without." As goon as she had told the disciples her fears, she returned to the sepuleher, and reached It probably soon after Peter and John had left for home. "And as she wept she stooped down and looked into the sepulcher." Because she was anxious to see whether she might not, after all, be mistaken about the absence of the body. She stooped because the top of the entrance was so low that she could not otherwise uet a near view of the inside of the tomb. 12. "And seeth two angels in white." In white raiment. White signifying the pur* lty of their character. Matthew speaks of the angel's raiment being white as snow, and his countenance like lightning. "The one at the head, and the other at the feet." The idea is apparently that of sitting and watohing the hody. The angels' presence, showed the divine hand and care. They were ministering spirits to comfort those who were In such great sorrow and need; and they gave explanations of what had 1 been done, no one else being able to give them. 13. "She saith unto them." While the other women were terrified, Mary seems to have had no fear, so wholly was she taken up with her great fdeslre of finding her Lord. 8he was ready to brave more heroically than ever all danger if she might only find His corpse. "They have taken away my Lord." This has been applied typically to those who have tried to take the divine nature of Jesus from the Scriptures, and left them but an empty tomb. 14. "She turned herself back." She was outside the care looking in, and now she turned away, perhaps hearing footsteps behind. "And saw Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jesus." Why did she not recognize Him at first? (1) She had her eyes dimmed with tears, ana (2) her mind occupied und excited with otner thoughts; besides, (3) she was not at all expecting to see Him alive; (4) His garments certainly must nave oeen cnangea, as me soiuiers had those He was accustomed to wear; (5) she may not have looked up to His face, perhaps hardly looked at all; (6) the long agony on the cross mast have made some difference in His appearance. 15. "She, supposing Him to be the gardener," and therefore a servant of Joseph of Arimathea, who owned the tomb, and, of course, friendly. No other person would be likely to be there at so early an hour, unless It were the Roman guard, of which she probably knew nothing. "And I will take Him away." See that It is done. She would take the care and responsibility on herself. 16. "Jesus saUti unto her. 3Iary.'? Tills word spoken in the old, familiar tones, and showing that Jesus knew who she was, led her instantly to recognize Him, The voice is one of the last things to change. I'have known ministers, after many years' absence, to be recognlzod by the voice, when all things else bad changed beyond recognition, "She saith unto Him, Rabboni," Hebrew Tor my master' or .teacher. 17. "Jesus saith unto her, Touoh Me not." The verb primarily means to fasten to; hence it Implies here.notamere momentary touch, but a clinging to.?M. R. Vincent. The translation "touch me not" is inadequate and give a false Impression. The varh ninnfA9thn.O Hnfls lint mrtan tn " futinh" and"tandle" with a view to seelnst whether His body was real; this Christ not only allowed but eDjoined (v. 27; Luke 24: 39: comp. I John 1; 1); rather it means to "hold on to" and "cling to." Moreover, It is the present (not aorist) Imperative; and the lull meaning will therefore be, "Do not conttnae holding Me," or simply "hold Me not." "For I am not yet ascended to My Father." This Is the reason given why Mary should not cling to Jesus at this time. How Is it a reason? (1) It means, do not stop now to embrace Me, but hasten away to the disciples, for you will have other opportunities to express your devotion to Me. since I remain some time on earth before I ascend to heaven. Or (2) Mary would have held her Lord fast with the grasp of earthly affection and love. She seems to have thought that Jesus was to remain henoeforth with them in the body. Jesus reminds her that this is not true, but that onlyafterHis ascension could there be the truest, fullest, most spiritual expressions of devotion. (3) Gripim explains it thus: "Do not seek to learn by touching Me whether I am even now clothed with a body; there is no need of fhia aanrnh tnr T hnVA not Vflt Amended to the Father"?and am. therefore, still ia the flesh?"but go unto My brethren," etc. "But goto My brethren." "Here, for the first time, Jesus speaks of His disciples as brethren."?Hovey. In spite of their fallurea,the disciples were His true brethren in love, and service, and fellowship with God; being sons of the same Father. "I ascend." The next step in the work of redemption, the completion of His earthly Intercourse with them, was at hand. 18. "Mary Magdalene came and told.'She obeyed the command of Jesus. It is ;i matter of no little interest that the first appearances of Jesus were not to the apostles, but to women. (1) Probably because they "loved much," and showed thei< love by going earliest to the sepulcher. The first, the highest, the best revelations of God are to love. (2) It was typical of the changed position which the gospel was to bestow upon woman. Much as the gospel has done for man, it has done still more for woman. (3) It was typical of her work la the church, as a messenger of Ohrlst. Murk speaks of the angel as a young man. It strikes one as very j-emarkable that this superhuman being soould be described as a young man. Immortal youth, with all of buoyant energy and fresh power which that attribute suggests, belongs to those beings whom Scripture faintly siows as our elder brethren. No waste decays their ? H. iKan/ya fftKfl thom nf oa SirOU^lUi UV WUOU^U iUk/a kuuui v? which have ceased to increase. Age cannot wither them. 19. "The same day" on which He arose. During this day Jesus appeared Ave times. "The doors wore shut for'fear of the Jews," who might easily be angry at the disappearance of Jesus from the tomb, and the rumors of His resurrection. "Where the disciples were assembled," in some upper room in Jersusalem belonging tc | some disciples. "Came Jesus and stood in che midst." Either by some miracle, as when He walked on the sea, or escaped from the mob at Nazareth, or by quietly opening the door. The fact that Jesus entered through the closed door does not Indicate that the body was other than the natural body which !'ad been laid in the grave; and Christ's language at this very time, as reported by Luke, "A spirit hath not IJest] and bones, as ye see me have," appears to be conclusive that His resurrection body was His physical body. 20. "Shewed unto tbecv His bands and His sldei" To prove to them that He was the same Jesus, with the same body, that had been crucified, but now come to life again. This was essential to the complete nl Pla raanrraction. WANT TO BUY FUNSTON A HOME. 8om? Kanaans Think a Sword li Not Sufficient Iteward For Their Hera. A counter movement against the purchase of a sword for General Funston has been started In Kansus. An appeal has boen made for fands with which to buy him a home. W. H. Barnes. Secretary of the Kansas Horticultural Society, leadj the movement, and his appeal for funds says: "In a tight place auy General would trade a $10,000 sv/ord for a $2.50 revolver, if the revolver w?ts well loaded, or even a hat full of rocks might be better. In a pinch David's pebbles were mighty than Goliath's sword. General Funston has found a bride since he left us. A married couple ehould have n homo. "How much bettnr to present them with a pleasant and useful home in Topeka than a useless s^ord. Let the subscriptions roll in and buy them a home and then furnish it, and put a rig ia the barn and money in the bank for the little necessariaa nfljfl arl until ha la GAfflflfl." Baltimore and Ohlo'Stopovera. The Baltlmoro and Ohio Railroad, at the request ot numerous business organizations of Baltimore and Philadelphia, has arranged for a ten days' stop-over at each . of those cities under the usual procedure of the passenger depositing the ticket with the ticket agent upbn his arrival. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad now grants ten days' stop-overs at Washington, Baltlmoro and Philadelphia. ; fWji / it ? '~^53l GOD'S MESSAGE TO MANj PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. v \ One of the Rlest?Man Alone Responsible^ -Seeing God Face to race?A Prayer for Perfect Trust?Facing tlie Rich* Way?Keeping Onr Wings Unclogged*. Her face was beautiful with perfect calm, Peace sealed the brow, and peace the tender mouth, To wounded hearts her geutle gaze was balm. Her words like winds blown softly from the South. ? Wj ;.K& Her eyes were wells of lustre sweet and stiii, Sometimes you felt they mirrored hidden things You might not read, but only feel the thrill As if there flushed an augel's passing wings. And on that face shone always a white light, A soft, transfigured splendor, till you thought Only a glory fallen from the height , ! Of heaven itseli such lovely marvel wrought. Serene she went her way through grief and strife, Trouble was not trouble where her presence came, . Vw-J She bore about with her a joy of life, Love burned within her breast u fragrant flame. /ou heard, while wondering how every Ion She carried lightly as a bird half-lit, A gracious spirit say, There is no cross Where no self is to suffer under it. , & And you remembered th'at in ancient law By the broad arrow was the king's tre? known Through the dark forest, and believed you saw The Lord's broad arrow mark her as His own. ?Harriet Prescott 8pofford,in Congregationalism Man Alone Responsible. , God is contiuually loaded with responal*biilties that belong to men. There Is a perpetual throwing off of burd&S, a constant resignation of trusts, ar dally shirking o( duties. "It is the Lord's will," says the unsuccessful man in the same moment that he casta away the tools or the material which. the Lord gave him to achieve success with.. God is responsible for the manner of a man's success, because that is largely determined by his surroundings; but. for the success itself the man alone Is always and everywhere * responsible. Talents, gifts, opportunity, are veiy unequally distributed, but the possl bilities of energy, Industry, persistence, are shared alike by all men, and these are the ' , r; qualities which not only win but command success. To have the power of trustworthy thought and yet be a superficial thinker, to jj have the faculty of persuasive speech and yet deal out ill-constructed sentences and hastily arranged ideas, to have the power of the artist and yet paint weak pictures or carve Boulless statues, is to fail without a shadow of excuse; to throw that failure upon God 1s to add ingratitude to unfaithfulness.?Lyman Abbott, D. D. Seeing God Face" to Face. Each of us is set in a very small cleft or a , . f very large world, and no one of us can see the whole horizon, but as each day's glory goes away the light of it illuminates our memory and suggests our hopes. And so the insignificant life gets meaning, and the darkened life Rets light, and the lonely life* gets companionship, and we walk, as the Bible says, not by sight, but by faith. That is the meaning of the limitations and mysteries of life. They are , the hand of God held gently before the eyes. And that may be the difference between the life of earth and the life of heaven. ' Here," says Paul, "we see In a mirror, by reflection imperfectly;" there, we may be strong enough to see God face to face, and to know as we are known. Here we are in the cleft of the rock; there, we may survey the whole horizon. Here, faith; there, sight. "On earth the broken arc; in heavea the perfect round." Here, the departing glory; there, the promise of the Book of Revelation, that we shall see His face and be satisfied, when we awake, with His likeness.?F. G. Peabody, D. D., in "Afternoons in the College Chapel." -4 - **; A Prayer for Perfect Trunt. . Have mercy upon us,0 God, in thetemptatior, of our Unsatisfled desires and the perplexity of our disappointments. Teach ua the childlike faith la whose sim; iclty Is perlect rest. Thy purposes are larger than our thought or hope; thy love denies as well as gives. So help us to desire thy will and \J?? trust thy love that each refusal may only bring us revelation of a wiser care. \ ^ Hear our petitions for all earthly good according to thy wisdom, not our ignorant desire. Let not the fulfillments of earth become the disappointments of etdrnity nor the pleasures of today sources of weakness for tomorrow. Forgive us our wteak striving, our impatient yieldings to spff-will, our unresisted doubts and fears. Confirm in ua thy strength that when our time of blessing comes and thy love provides according to our heurt's desire we may be ready to make the noblest use of every opportunity. So keep our hearts and minds in perfeot peace . through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Facing the Right Way. The strongest have some weaknesses, tho bravest show some scars. Christian char acter is to be estimated by the whole trend and bent of the man. No ship makes an absolutely straight track from New York hartr. Voati.at Rn/?lr nn fhfi Irish Annst? nn Christian can show a chart of his voyage without some variations from the air-line; but if he holds on his way hoading for heaven, bo will, by God's help, reach it. 8ome Christiess people do many good things, and some Christians may commit sad sins.aa Noah and Hezekiah and Peter did, and yet have their faces set towards God. Everything depends on the direction in which the life is steered, and on patient continuance in well-doing. To "continue in the faith" means?continue in vital heart-union with the Lord Jesus, evermore in His omnipotent grasp, and evermore under His supreme guidance.?Cuyler. Keeping Our Wing* Unclogged. If you will go to the banks of a little stream and watch the flies that come .to * ba'.he in it you will notice that, while they plunge their bodies in the water, they keep fhftir wines hiffh out of the water: and. after swimming about a little wbilp, they fly away with their wings unwet through the sunny air. Now. that is a lesson for us. Here we are immersed in the cares and business of the world; but let us keep the wings of our soul, our faith and our love out of the world, that, with these unclogged, wo may be ready to take our flight to heaven. ?J. Icglis. "Be of Good Cheer." Pleasantness is the keynote of His religion. He teiis His disciples not to have long faces, liice the Pharisees. They are not to * look melancholy, but are to let their light shine. "Be of good cheer" is the constant * -v watchword upon His lips. The first sermon He preaches ia on the text, "Do not fret or fear." Never was there one who so loathed and hated sin, and yet He looked and spoke ti so pleasantly that the publicans and sinners WArA nlujflva Hmurinrr near fn hpur Him And the outcast found in Him a refuge and strength.? Rev. Mark Guy Pearsc*. Beginning prayer? with praise and intercession is the way to make petitions for our own needs wise. Weat Point a Military To?t. The Assistant Comptroller of tho Treasury at Washington has decided that, inasmuch as West Point Is a regular military post, as well as being Hie seat of the Military Academy, the War Department has authority to construct a building for the quarters'of the bacbulor officers out of the regular appropriation for military posts. It bas been represented to th? War Department that there Is groat n09li for 9UC[j a building, both as a resideuce for tb? bachelor officers stationed at the acadeinj and for the entertainment of the visitor; from foreign Government*, who are constantly increasing in number. ^ : '