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"A . |V, ' . ' ' Why So Many British 0 , ????? ?? The extraordinary fatality amoc actions at Smith Hill, Elandslaagte ar picture. While the men in the ru every cover, the officers es>teemed it i tion they became conspicuous quarry i gOOOOOOOCOOGOOOOOOOOOOOGOg fhe flans f of ttje f IK PPurnlftk flnnPiiG 3 HK | W&iiiu yLiigua. y ^Kosoooooooooocoooooooooocoo H All through the past six months preparations haye been going bnsilj on in Washington for a great publishW ing enterprise, -which will be launched promptly on the first day of the comf ing June. The results of the underl baking will begin to appear in finished i form two years from that date, and i will continue to be brought out at in| 'i tervals for three or four years thereafter. The publisher is the government;. the publication will be designated as the Twelfth Census of the / United States. \ The twelfth census will differ in sev;\ eral particulars from any of the pre1 AAdinc ones. It will be conduoted on | i " "WTLLIAM R. HERRI AM. ^ ^ [/ (Director of the Twelfth Ceosus.) W ft larger scale, as there are of coarse ' more people to be enumerated. It L will embrace a greater area;, for the f . first time the inhabitants of Alaska, I Hawaii, and Porto Rico are to be inP eluded in the oount. Moreover, the r coming census will be the first in "wiiich all the work of recording and I computing statistics is to be done by mechanical means. Electric tabulat! ing machines were introduced for this purpose toward the close of the elev' ?nth census, but in the coming enum(i oration they wjll be relied upon en tirely. j , j The thorough organization neces' Buy, in order successfully to carry through such an undertaking as this ; may be appreciated when one reflects i bpon the labor involved in counting Beventy-five millions of anything?a task that would require one man's un' divided energies for twelve hours a day during more than a year and a r. half. In the oaseof'the census the p v labor is multiplied by the considera[ tion that the seventy-five million units [' . are human beings, concerning each of I jrhom a dozen, facts must be recorded, I and that they are scattered over some j tour million square miles of the earth's | surface. | The task of taking the census will ' Require altogether the services of more Mian fnrfcv fhrvnasind. TifirHOns. Thev frill be separated into two main di?Visions?the field forces, and the headquarters staff in Washington, t { The former will include by far the greater number?nearly forty thou-. [ - jsand, all told. These will be the enutnerators, *who will gather the re . vquited information from all parts of ' y the country, and the superintendents } :J in charge of this branoh of the work, r^'. The data thus collected will be com"ia piled and prepared for publication by m a staff of three thousand clerks in the l central office. [ H Roughly speaking, there will be one I enumerator for eaoh township through oat the country, or, in the cities, one for eaoh ward. The enumerarators , will be local residents appointed by the Director of the Census, on the recommendation of some influential person, usually the Congressman from the district. The superintendents Will have oharge of divisions generally the same in limits as' the Congressional districts. In the case of the larger cities, however, there will be * ? X t "5U m M " J* FBONT VIEW OF NE $. r . but one superintendent to each city, 'although his territory may inolude aev 1|eral Congressional districts. In Massachusetts, where an efficient census bureau exists under the direction oi the State authorities, there will be a jingle superintendent. ; [i. The enumerators are expected tc Start on their rounds on June 1, 1900. Xhey will be supplied beforehand with ' portfolios containing blank schedule! on which to enter the name of eaoli v.'v V . ; fficers Get Killed in War. I i kgg | ig the leaders of the British soldiers ia id Belmont is clearly explained in this shes np the Kopjes took advantage of heir duty to stand erect. In this posi;or the Boer marksmen. person xn their districts, togemer wuu the information provided for by law. Most of them can complete their tasks within a few days, and will receive from $50 to $150 for their services, according to the amount of work in- " volved. As soon as the schedules are completed and revised, under the direction of the district superintendents, they will be forwarded to Washington. Here is where the work of putting the census data into intelligible and v valuable form will be done, and here ? is where the tabulating machinery a will come into play. These machines, I by the way, are the invention of a c former census employe, Mr. Herman c Hollerith. They were designed with p a special view to use in the census, i although they have proved valuable t for other statistical work. c By this system the statistics con- t cerning each person will appear on a i: separate punched card. About seven- s ty-five millions of these cards will be required, therefore, to contain all the c data collected for the census. a The cards are numbered to corre- o spond with the numbers opposite the v names in the schedules. They con- c tain two hundred and eighty-eight The punched record, cards are counted, or tabulated iu the electrical tabulating machines. These machines ajre oqooo"'0 provided with a circuit clos ing device, into which the I cards are rapidly fed one by ?r^--J one. The holes in the card, nil control the electi'io circuits ! i through a number of counters, K which will as desired count I the simple facts as to the number of males, females, . etc., or the most complicated combination which the statis- \ tician may ask for. 1 j TABULATING BECOBDS. > ' symbols, each of which is ail ab- 1 breviation representing some fact ? within the range of the census enum- j eration. They are punched by means i t of an eleotric machine. i In recording the statistics a clerk 1 ? ELECTRICAL TABULATING-MACHINE; t reads from the sohedales the informa- j. tion entered opposite a certain name to an operator seated at the key-board j. of tne punching macnme. witn a a little practice this puncliing-macliine can be operated as fast as an ordinary i s t ' > y-c ; q e BMjiA# bb e5~~Tf^Lv ,__^i 1 ? { W CENSUS BUILDING. - , type-writer. Experience has shown " '" - "* i that the average number 01 recoras | > that one clerk can transfer from the i schedules to the cards is seven hun- 1 f dr$d per day. It is the intention of k the Census Bureau to put one thoas- 1 and clerks at work with thete ma> chines as soOn as the returns are in, < so that this branch of the work should i be completed in about a hundred 1 i days. < i From the Dunchinfir-maohine the < * dufj ecord cards go to thb electric tabu miug-mauuujic?, ?mvu XB even uiuro ngenious. In form it ig something ike an upright piano. In the face of he upper part of the box <u>e set a lumber of indicator dials, e<ch one levoted to some one set of faclg com>rehended in the census. In?de the aachine is a complicated system of ilectric wiring connecting these indi iators with the operating apparatus. It is the mission of this machine to otal the various facts recorded on he punched cards. To do this tfce mnched cards are slipped into tl^e nachine beneath a Bet of electric nee. lies, mounted on spiral springs. Th^ iperator presses these needles down nM THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. ipon the card. Wherever there are >unch-holes the needles pass through iiid dip into a cup of mercury placed >eneath. An electric circuit is thus ompleted, which moves up the indiators on the connected dials one r^Q-rf.inn 1 or fn.nf. IUIUI UUU VUU .^w? ndicated by each punch-hole. The otals are always in view on the indiators, and are copied off on slips at he end of each run. Each machine 3 capable of disposing of five thouand cards per day. The statistics computed by the mahines will be copied on record slips nd turned over to another force of ne thousand clerks, whose business it rill be to make up tables and prepare opy for the printers. By the act of Congress providing ~?HTT~~| fmj J THE PUNCHING MACHINE. The transcript of the original returns of the enumeraBlttii tor to tho punched card will HpSi be done with small machines, OT something like a typewriter, M called keyboard punches. About one thousand of these MsH keyboard punches will be jfe/ used, and the entire work of j|pp transcribing the 75,000,000 ^ i or more individual recorde I will be done in abont 100 I working days, or nearly foui I months after the first report* are in. I or the coming enumeration' it wa? itipulated that the foar principal rejorts?;on population, mortality, agriiulture and manufactures?must b? eady for publication on July 1, 1902. The Director of the twelfth cenins is William R. Merriam, exjovernor of Minnesota. The actual vork of preparing the statistical inormation of the census for publicaion will be in charge of Assistant. Di- i ector Frederick H. Winea. Mr. | Vines has had long experience in thie j lort of work. He was in charge of j >ne department of the eleventh cenus, and was employed also in th( ensus of 1880. A3 assistant to Mr. I Vines there are five ohief statisticians, ill experts in their lines, to each oi rhom will be assigned one departneut.?Harper's Weekly. < MOW tia UDUMnoa omnn, The tea things had been cleared j .way, and the head of the establishaent was trying to read the evening ! taper, while his better half busied lerself with tome fancy work, and al he same time endeavored to interest lim in the gossip of the neighborlood. "Maria," said he, glancing up from lis paper, "did you ever hear th? itory of preoious gems?" "Why, no," she replied, "what is t?" "It's an old-time. fairy legend thai ny grandmother/told me when I wae i boy," he continued, "about a wornin from whose lips there fell either a liamond or ? raby every time sin ipoke a word." "Well, go od," she paid. "That's all there ia of it, Maria,' le replied. "Bat I was jast thinking ;hat if such things happeued nowadays ['d open a jewelry shop the first thing n the morning." And then for thirteen consecutive ninutes silence reigued supreme.? Tit-Bits. Pointed Paragraph*. A good character is more easily lost ;han gained. Money talks?but it converses with jnly the favored few. Luok is blamed with a lot of misfortunes of which it is ignorant. The way of the wise man is to let a woman have her own way. One is apt to strike a happy vein in ;he vicinity of the funny bono. If you don't care for the things you ;an't obtain you -will be fairly happy. Probably the most difficult man in ;he world to please is the one who loesn't know what he wants.?Chijbko new. t THE SHALAM COMMUNITY. Home of the Moat Remarkable Sect in th? World. On a tract of land nearly a thoa sand acres in extent, and situated about six miles north of Las Cruces, and about fifty miles north of El Paso, in New Mexico, is the most remarkable community in the world. Here a frateriiity, with a new civilization, a new religion and a Bible of its own, is being reared, with the idea of the per' ? . m ,? i L.'-l. ieccaomty ot toe numau race, -wuiul | was the dream of its founder. From the raw material of castaway infants and foundlings, a new kind of people is intended to result. The adults composiug this community are spiritualists and vege' tarians, but the children reared under this strange system are the chief hope of the believers. It is they, and not the grown men and women who live in Shalam, who are to demonstrate to the world the possibility of a ne*r economic and social fraternity. Though them earth is to be regenerate^ and man led out of the darkness of t^he competitive system into one where private property, if not wholly abolished, is made subject to a sort of coipinunis?i with which writers of the order of Mr. Bellamy have made us familiar. The'founder of this community wa^ Dr. Newbrough, a New York dentist and spiritualist, who died in 1890. He wrote a mammoth work which is the Bible of the sect, and is called "Oahspe," a word moaning earth, air and sky in a language spoken before the flood. It is said to have been written on the typewriter by Dr. rvwo i vnw mr\ qxtat. a\c pattpt i ? - ? ? i j Newbrough, h.s hands being guided : by supernatural beiugs, and was printed without being read by the doctor. It is certainly a work without a counterpart, filled with extraordinary phrases and with more peculiar illustrations, but it is tbe sacred book of a unique community, which was founded to establish the religion it teaches, and oi;t of the 6pij;itual and economio doctrines set forth therein*; to found a nert race. And the few who constitute tie fraternity not only follow its economic doctrines and refrain from considering anything as theirs?they call' themselves "Kosmons," which is to signify in the language of their sacred scriptures, nonowners of any and everything; but the children are taught to revere the book as the inspired dogma of their religion. The community of Sbalam is called "The Children's Land," and a num ber of buildings hare been erected. The children's building, bnilt of brick,, is the largest; the Fraternum, of adobe, is another.. The walls of the latter are hang with a number of the | most extraordinary pictures ever | painted, the work of Dr. Newbrough. Tlie Difference of Clothing, i How much more toughness and en durance the average woman has than the average man when it comes to a question of the cold. Oue would bave. a sort of pity for a man who should venturd out on the cliilly days of autumu with no overcoat. Yet the extra coat that the woman dons is no thicker not warmer than the ordinary inside coat that a man wears within doors, and in which he looks "peaked" in the outer air. But the woman, on the other hand, wears that little coat over a cotton shirt waist, and is warm and comfortable. Often in this ciimate the addition of a fur collarette is the only concession she makes to the colder days, when a man's light overcoat is banished by the coming of the heavier winter garment. In summer it is as mnch of n mystery how the man can smilingly endure the eternal coat, while his sister or wife, or mother covers her shoulders with the airiest of muslins. ?New York Evening Sun. Not Eqaal to the Occuflon. "Harold," murmured the beautiful maiden, shyly, "am I the only girl you ever told you loved?" "I will tell you the truth, dearest," answered the manly youth, leaning fondly over her. _"You are not." "I think you might have lied a little, Harold?for me," she said, turning tearfully away."?Chicago Tribune. A Pigmy Poitofflce. The accompanying cut conveys an I Arrtnl 1 f i/^no nf Vir/rinio PnafnAFiAA which is situated on the stage road between San Diego and Escondido, in San Diego County, California. Two stages stop at this postoffice daily, except on Sundays, to deliver and take on mails. The entire structure of the postoffice wa9 originally a mere piano-box, and is about- six feet high, three feet wide and five feet long. It h&B five private boxes on one side, fitted with Yale locks. It is undoubtedly the smallest postoffice in the United States, if not in the whole i ???i J =* THE SMALLEST POSTOFFICE IN THE UNITED STATES. world. The postmistress and'ber son are seen standing outside. Virginia Postoffice is not a money order postoffice. For the last ten years there has been an increase of 2,000 annually in the number of Great Britain's ^nsane. f 1 . god's message" to manT PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. Afterwards?'Fervent In Faith and Hope? Man's Destiny and God's Way?SelfDenial Determine* Success?The Lord Is Sly Slieplierd?Good and Evil Lives,God laid a Burden on me when I came To man's estate. At first I took it sore, And grieved because my freedom was no more. And wrought unwillingly. Ah, me! tho shame, Tho blindues3 of it! Afterwards I saw The blessedness, the crown, of duty's law. Then Disappointment came, and I rebelled ' And thought it God's unkindness. Daj by day I wep.. because my will was not God's way, And childish, bitter thoughts within me welled. But afterwards, 0 Father! when I had Life's l>?st through that refusal, I was gla-J. And last, nud bitterpst of all, came Grief. Then was I sure that God bad struck in wrath, x How deep the night that closed about my path? 2fo gleam of hope, no comfort, no relief! But light was in the gloom, though I was blind; I see it now?all life transformed, refined. r have learned to bide God's purpose. Sure . Am I He doeth naught for us amiss. Pain is His shadow when He stoops to kiss, And sorrow is His fire to make us pure. r\ f?flfhori Kv THw rflfv fatherhood. We do believe Thou sendest naught but good! ?James Buckham. in Zlon's Herald.' Fervent in Faith and Hope. In hope, or without hope, let us up and 6e doing. Encouragements are on every band,and so are menaces. The enlightened, the true, the zealous, are many; the wicked and the slothful are fearfully more. The number of the former ha9 been growing by conversions, the number ol the latter growing faster by'the natural increase of population. The appliances for Christian propagation are vast; the faith of many in their efficacy feeble. We will bles9 every laborer, for any service done toward the maintenance and advance of the truth, for every good word spoken. wvcry eound argument uttered from the pulpit, every page of evangelical truth written. and tivery rebuke administered in any way to those who would falsify our faith; but let them be assured that more than all other services, turning mauy away from iniquity will counterwork and confound attempts to reduce Christianity from a Divine to a human system. This is the practical answer to difficulties and objections. Let us only have multitudes of now-bom Christians, fervent in faith and hope, lull of love and of good works, und rationalists may account for the phenomenon as they will; but the common conscience of mankind will feel that God is in it. "Beholding the man wh>ch was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it." Now, adorable Spirit, proceeding from th? Father and tlie Bon, descend upon all the churches, renew the Pentecost in this our - - - .11^ A age, and baptize iny people generawy. u baptize'them yet again with tongues of Are ! Crowa this nineteenth oentury with a revival of "pure and undeflled religion" greater than that of the last century, greater than that of the first, greater than any "demonstration of the Spirit" ever yet vouchsafed to men !-William Arthur, in "The Tongue of Fire." Mail's D??tuiy and God'* Way. Carlyle, having been asked to take the reading at family prayers during a short visit paid to hl3 friend, the provost of Kirk* caldy, aud, as chance would have It, opening the Bible at the first chapter of the book of Job. read on and on to the end of the last chapter: then, closing the volume, be remarked, "That is a marvellous, lifelike drama, only to be appreciated when read right through." If anv of our readers have ever tried to perform this feat la their study, they will not be astonished at the consternation of the provost,nor will they wonder, with Carlyle, why it was that he was not asked again to assist at family prayer* in that h/Miachnl.l ft will h? tn thnm still 1m? a matter of surprise that the book ebould be the subject of such entrancing Interest to the author of Sartor Itesartus. in which a similar Held of inquiry is traversed in tbe modern way of viewing the same problems. For in this "all men's book," as Carlyle calls Job, we have, as be says, "the oldest statement of tbe never-ending Eroblem? man's destiDy and Ood's way with Im here in this earth." Self-Denial Determines Success. Many a man, in bis boyhood, had a giant for bis ideal. In manner, speech, studies, all his little world saw his" superiority over his companions. He finished school and college and put himself into harness for work in tbe workaday world. Tbe mountain was in front, where be expected a plain. Tbe load behind was not to his taste. Self-denial wus not easy to practise, and " giant" dwindled as self-love grew. To be a clerk in a dry goods store was easier than to studv a profession or to stay on tbe home-farm and help lift tbe mortgage. To live at home in ease was moro congenial than to go out into the world and flght lor himself the battles of life. Self-sacrifice wa3 delightful as a theory, but disagreeable to practice. Early ideals iaded away. The struggle of life ended in dreams even before it began. He, who might have been a giant and reached the heights, ends in being a dwarf nt the foot of the mountain.?Jlrs. C. F. Wilder, in The Classmate. Tlie Lo:d Ik My Shepherd. It will bring rejoicing where otherwise there would be despuir; it will inspire a song where there might bave been a groan; it will put a silver lining on every cloud; it will gird you with strength for every temptaI tion. Say it over and over today. "He is* [ my shepherd; He is my shepherd." This little word will make a paradise of earth, and fill with glory the home where I you live and tbe place where you work; In a word, it will lift you | up to the heavenlies. Tbe water-spider j forms a sac-like cottage and fills it with air; men snuis nersen in nau biuks iulu iuo aca. 8he then anchors it and (here brings forth her young; she practically lives in an upper world, although surrounded by all the dangers of the great deep. This is your privilege for this day ana every day, to live in the very atmosphere of heaven while working down here in this sin-tainted atmosphere of this world.?J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D., In "Th? Secret of a Happy Day." Good itncl Evil Live*. Tbe 3un sets behind the western hills, but tbe trail of light he loaves behind him guides the pilgrim to bis distant horned The tree falls in the forest, but in tbe lapse of ages If Ts turned into coal, and our fires burn now the brighter because it grew and fell. The coral insect dies, but the reef it raises breaks the surge on the shores of great continents, or forms an island in the bohom of the ocean to wave now the har rests ror Hie good 01 man ana 10 oo a gpm hereafter for the diadem of the great Redeemer. We live and we die. but the good or evil that we do lives after us, and "is not buried with our bones."?Cumming. Goi* of joy and of grief, do witb me what Thou wilt; grief is good and joy is good also. Thou art leading me through joy. 1 take it from Thy haudn, and I give Thee thanks for it.?Ami>-I. tier Curioim Application Denied. The Board of Health ol the District oi Columbia has received a curious application from Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, of New York City, who says that she Is about tc erect a residence lu V street in Washington and desires permission to ca_?truct In th< cellar a vault for the buriul of the bodies of herself, her husband aud two children who died some time ago In Baltimore. The application was denied. emrner m cub jvxe oi cixuifxium. The Dlrth of an heir to a veteran of ihi Florida war of 1836 Is the social sensatioc. at Saluda, 8. C. Dr. Jacob Trotter, wealthy and eighty-three, having married a young wife, has become the father of a bouncing boy. . - \7: v- ' 1 ? ? i THE SABBATH SCHOOL.! INTERNATIONAL LESSON C&MMENTS! FOR DECEMBER 17. 8abject: Fruits of Rtglitand Wrong Doing Mai. HI., 13 to Mat. It., 6?0olden Text; Gal. rl.,7? Memory Veraea: Mai. !ll., 16 18?Commentary on the D.ij'a Leiaon. 13. "Your words have been stout against me." From this verse to thc> end o( the chapter and to chapter 4:3, the prophet Malaoht expostulates with the wltfked (ot their hard speeches, and declares that God will make a fearful distinction between them and the righteous. See Joh 21: 14, id. xour words nave Deen aiaspuemous and void of all reverence nnd duty. Ya have spoken Injuriously ol me, and have uttered such things as dishonor me. Ye have even arraigned my proceedings and spoken against t:hem. "Salth the Lord/' God takes careful notice of all the ways ot men. He does not forget their abuses except as they seek pardon, nnd their sins ;i o then blotted out of the book ot His remembrance forsver. "What have we spoken so much." They Impudently deny the c&arge as In v., 8, last lesson; therefore the prophet renews it against them In the following words. In this question they Infer that the Lord is grieved over trivial matters, too email to be mentioned, and they are not disposed to seek a reconciliation. 14. "It Is vain to serve God." There is no real advantage to be gained from it. A rebuke of persons who were impatient under temporal trials and murmured agalcfct God because they did not ut once reap the fruit of their service In temporal prosperity. They presume to dictate how they shall be rewarded for service, forgetting bow dependent thoy are upon an Independent God, dictating to tbe author of all good liow He shall bestow His bounties., He, the fountain of all good, la repro&ohed for not bestowing Hts blessings upon those who count themsolrer worthy, being forgetful that in themselves dwelleth no good thing. . 15. "We call the proud happy." W9 oan now do no less than think them happiest who do not ooncorn.themselres about the observance of Gcd'alaws, but live according to their pleaauro and do everything that their lnollnaMon prompts them to do without Any fear of God's calling them to account for It. 16. "They.that feared the Lord." God always has a remnant of falthfal people. Whea they saw the awful tide of Iniquity aweep Into jtheir borders they were Alarmed for the safety of Zlon. "Spake often one to another." In former years tbe Jews had been Instructed to talk In tbelr families, upon thber journeys, and with these with whom they met, about the laws of God. They had them written in parts upon their door-posts. In tlmej of digression the falthral souls were thoughtful ot doty and sought com fort In the exercise of all the means of grace they knew. 17. "Tliey shall be Mine." The Lord will own all His faithful ones. Ia the great day of final judgment He will not mistake which are His peculiar onea. They are reserved as Hla jewels, to be honored before His Father and the hoiy angels. "I will spare them." I will preserve them from those calamities which' gbnll fall upon the wicked and unbelieving. 18. "Then aBoil ye." Ye wicked contemners of God aijdreligion.. "Betarn and discern." See plearly that God makes and keeps distinction?. u.-is.. , 4:1. "The day Cometh that shall burn as an oven." God is describe as 9cpn< suming fire when He comes to execute His' judgments. Dent.-.4:24. "All the proud." Those that have been esteemed happy in verse 15. .''All tbat do wickedly." All im? penitent sinners, of whatever kind. ,"Aa 'Stubble.!', A$ the dry stalks of grain lqft'In the field after reaping, just suitable for destruction. "Shall-leave them nelthet roDt'nor branch." A proverbial expression for utter destruction, and signifying, as ipplled to the nnbelleving Jews, that botb ibev and their families should be utterly lostroyed. v - i 2. "Bat unto yoa that (ear My name.' Suoli as spake often together; who worship, reverence and obey God. "Shall the Sua of righteousness arise:'.' Blghteousaess has here the common sense of deliverjnce, salvation, blessedness.'- The sua which God sends to produce In his-people righteousness and blessedness wb!ch~eomes only with righteousness. "With- heartag In His wlngs."> So called to signify that, His light consists In clearing up men's un-' derstandings and chasing away the darkness of their minds?whose rays and kindly warmth will heal all the diseases of the soul. Healing from trouble and from sin and all the miseries with whloh they were surrounded. This doubtless refers to the Messiah. "Ye shall go forth." Into liberty and new life, saved from evil, equipped for abetter life, strengthened and enllghtoned. "Grow up as calves of the stall." Leap or gambol as stall-fed calves whloh, Wbeu let out to the fields, caper and frolic |n the exuberance of healthy life. Grow up in strength, vigor and spiritual stature, safely guarded, well ordered and provided for. , 8. "Tread down the wioked." 'Bightsousness shall be victorious over evil, ;'Ashee." All false Ideas, all boasting irreligion, all vloes and crimes, all oppreslions, all wrong fasbiohs and customs. ball be like ashes under the feet of the righteous. The triumphs of saints are all awing to God's victories; it is not they tvho do this, but God does it for them. 4. "Remember." This doubtless is intended for a solemn conclusion of this prophecy, and is a plain information that they were i all iU. not to expect any more propneoy uum m<j beginning of the Gospel of the Messiah. "The law of Mose?." Keep up an obedl* ant veneration for the law of Mosos; not anly the law of thoten commandments bat all the other appointment*, ceremonial and judicial. The law and all the prophets were to be In force until John; therefore they are told to "remember," for In the absence of living prophets they were likely to forsret it. 5. "I will Bead you Elijah." A second Elijah, John the Baptist, who was animated by tho same spirit. Elijah was a man of great austerity, zealous for God, bold in reproving sin,- and active to reduce . an apostate peoplfe to God and their duty. The call to repentauoe, the vision of the fruits of sin, the terrors of the law, the reproofs of conscience, the stern and awful rebukes of sin, are still the Elijah who comes before the Messiah to prepare the way for Him in the individual heart and in the nations. "Great and dreadful day." To warn In mercy before Hesmltes in Judgment is evermore the order of God's throne. Hence the second Elijah should oome before the Jewish people, and polity should be smitten down by the terrible Bomar arms. They were fearfully oorrupt already 0. "He shall turn." The reconoillatloi to be effected was that between the unbeMariner riinnhArllflnt children and the be lieving ancestors?Levi, Moses, Blljab. eto The-threafrhei-e la that, If this restoration was not effected, Messiah's coming woul<J prove a curne to them. It' proved-so to the land of Jitdea when It rejeoled the Uesslab at His first coming, though He brought blessing to those who accepted Him. CATLING'S AUTOMOBILE PLOW. One Alan to Do the Work of Eight Hen and Twelve Hones. One of the most novel machines that have come from the brain of Dr. R. J. Oatling is an automobile plow. With it he expects to supersede the plow that is now in general use for the preparation of land for cultivation. The machine will be bult on Che principle of the automobile, with disk plows so arranged as to do the work of the Implements now in use with greater facility and rapidity and at a great saving. He proposes to build tbe inacMneso it can 00 operated by a single man. It will eft) the work or eight men and twelve horses. The o .wer will be either gasoline or oil. In ad liticu to its primary use in tbe flald, the machine can be used in driving a tbrasher, shelling flora, or for hauling purposes. As '.o the cost 'and weight, Dr. Gatling preferred to withhold details for the present, remarking, however, that what he proposed was both feasible and practicable. Another machine is for the cotton fields, and is designed for'-thiunlng out" cotton plants in their early growth. This ma:hiue will do away with "the man with the hoe" in chopping out the young cotton plants. Tbe implement consists of a bed somewhat like a wagon, with shovels that are worked by the motjfcu of the machine. Meat Supply For Greiper New Yorkers It requires 10,800,000'pounds of meat t week to feed the inhabitant* in Slunliattan Brooklyn aud Jersey Cltr. ;; ' -\vV. v ''" ''' : V-- -> , rrtn? nBTJAOl TtlX3TDAXT7I>! ILL .Li UiLLiO.1 LMJJ1IAVXJUJU4 , * i SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOU^ ' THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. v The Han Behind the Bar?Amerlau Workmen Are Better Artisan* Than the English Because of Their Comparatively Abstemious Habits. They t*lk of the man behind'the sron, '% And the deadly work that he has done; But much mote deadly work, by far, ^ M Is done by the fellow beliind.the bar. 1 They talk of the man bfthlnd the una-" let only in battle his work isUone; * Bat never ceases, in peace ot (rar. The worlc of the man behind the bar. ?Sacred Heart Bevlevr. Sober Workmen. . 1 ^ The faot that tbe industries of this coat.- ' ff ?W, try are making iaroads upon territory^ Jr*}'hitherto controlled by British manutiw* turers and bave obtained a large trade ii the British home market Itself) has given rise Eomuoh study and investigation of tb? causes which produced this remarkable recult. The New York Commercial publishers an Interesting letter from London on this subject. The writer is an Englishman, but In reply to a question as to why it is that so ' u many orders are coming to the United States from England he answers that It Is because the American workman are better artisans than the English. The main rea< *on assigned by this writer for the superiority of the American artisan Is that b? spends more money on nourishing food antf less on Intoxicating liquors than the British worklrigman. There are about 40,000,000 people in Great Britain and Ireland. Of this number it is estimated that 17,000,000 are abstainers from strong drink. The * drink bill for the nation was 772,604,000 in 1898, and the 23,000,000 people who did the drinking paid an average of 06 8.60 year or sixty-five cents & week for th at inJ dulgence. 1 , ? The average rate of wages in the blghei ; lines of manufacture is about the same in this country and In" England, but tb# American trorkingman spends an averag* of only tlilrty-flve cents a week on drink - >? as against slxty-flve cents by the British nuiAiu^uiau. m The former is, presumably, .therefore.1 ; V" mora energetic and in better pieaesslon or -r~the faculties Vhlch-his wott requires.; . . ' v;s There may be something la the theory, which the London correspondent o! the-' New York Commercial pnts forward, bat' * he does not give due consideration to one of the main reasons, in fact the principal! reason why so many orders are being received from England by the great Industrial establishments of this country. It * Is that the British have found that they oould get their orders .filled so much more readily here. ' . Vr The British Government Itself has borne testimony to this fact. When it wanted" . < great quantities of steel for the railroads flfad bridges whloh It Is to build la the Soudan the contracts were captured by A.merloan manufacturers simply because they could fill them in so much shorter time than their British competitors. Ihe, great nutriber of American locomotives} which the English railroads have bought and ordered is ,dae to the same cause.} . Tho American wodcmau profoees more la' a given time than any oth^pAd does his' A wA-lf ntilfA.m mall v>fm , :.ln' vl. rlid VT Wi m. VJUUO Wl TT?4I? . VUf ?i?y mwmmvu -.'7 may claim that this extra spaed '-without ' ij the f aoriflce of efficiency la largely at4 ' trlbutable to the comparatively, ab- . atemious habits of our artisans.?Atlanta Journal. / .. 1 ^ 4 The Drinking Habit Disreputable. In view of the Immense amount of llguor | jonsumedin the United States, It Is diffl- I cult to bqlleyq that the temperance cause, v . ^ Is miakfn'gmuch progress, but It is a fact' | that ezoesstve drinking was never so dls- 9 imputable B8 Jt is to-dav. Self-respecting: men shun the society of the immoderate! drinker njore f !yia Star before. They m lou't like to be saoa tn nls company- A) young man. Who Is known to drink even moderately Is distrusted by his employee 'SJ and his standing in society suffer* a de-' * ~1 :llne. Society frowns more and more upoa! 1 ;he drinking liablt, and tlppllhg as a fash- | lonable accomplishment 1b on tfce! deollne.1 ' Liquor is not as openly presented to guest* it private houses ns it .wps twenty-five M Shears ago. An Invitation from your enter*. :alapr to "take sntbin'" is apt to be comEfi n*?n ted by a whisper and a wink, and her ads yofo to some secluded oupboard. He s ashamtfil io mention whisky In the J' presence of tnajadles and children. There ;4 is' much talk outside, of oliibs about the j llsslpation indulged in there, but it Is 7?3 jreatly exaggerated.-Excesses are frowned jpon in all reputable elubs. When drunk* snness becomes thoroughly unpopular it f irlll be confined to the dlaaoiure alone.? Texas Sittings. A Touching Scene. Accompany me, please, and 1 will show o anrnna will frnnrth U Mlirt of t V/IA a avou*/ huu? n wwva* n. ? . J itone. We will enter a miserably fuynlshed' tome where want and misery reign suireme. There, before a dimly fliaitttring ire, sits a mother clasping to herhdeom a . _ ^ thild of five years, and from its white lips some these vprds, "Mamma, I Am so hungry and coldl Why does not the fire Jurn better? It used to barn brightly, (rhon papa was here." Tho mother's faoe is drawn with pain and her eyes are filled srith tears as she replies, "Yes, dear, bat papa is a drunkard now." What punishment can be meted oat that will seem sufJclent for a man who causes such misery? 4 Sod pity the man who ean hear the cry, 'Mother, give me bread," and not raise hie iHnd te avert its cause.?Mabel Storer, In ? Baptist Argus. ~~? Absinthe in the Tropics. The use of absinthe under the equatorial , juu oi Africa would dccount for the sudlen freak of Insanity which led the oBcere >f the Voulet-Chanoine expedition to fire >n a column under their own flu* AJ>llnthe in any oltmate Is fhUhReroul drink, >ut in the tropics it saps the Intellectual !oroes faster than opium. -.Tha? it ha* turned French officers into madmen and1 let them running amuok in"the African )ush is not at all surprising, but al It will irobably kill them before long It must be Credited with a certain amount of compensatory good In the way of warning to Dthers. Temperance Pays. Young men and women rqay still believe chat, with trusts or without them; with a combination or competition, with depart- I meet stores or individual enterprises, boal- 4! ness cannot go on wlthoat workers who 1 are accurate, honest and capable. In business these gifts are indispensable; and those who need them mast pay those who have them, whether they will or not.* / More and more, also, they may he sura that steady nerves and unolonded brains / are the most valuable commodities In the market. Temperanoe pays now as It never . paid before. The Croiade In Brlaf. t ? ? ... - ?? TUB man w.no "oi.a anat or 101 u nuuo (5 generally one vrbo does not let it alona. Health is the workingman's capital. Indulgenoe la strong drink destroys this capital. . To-day it is the rarest thing in the world tlmt a member of Congress is seen in a state of intoxication. j The spirit of this age is against overln- , dulgence in strong drink. Slowly bat surely drunkenness and lewdness are besoming things of the past. Nineteen thousand one hundred and seventy-five men and womeu voted this year in favor of the prohibition of the liquor Irafflc in Christiana, Norway. The Oreat Northern Railway has announced that it will no longer deliver iu North Dakota, C. 0. D. packages of liquor. North Dakota is a "dry" State. Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, says: "It I could, I would inaugurate a strike that would drive the liquor traffic from the face of the Experiments carried on In tbe Frenoh army show that under all oircumstancea the French soldier Is forty per cent, more efficient when subjected to a regime ot total abstinence. By careful estimates it Is stated that tha same Investment that gives employment to 184 men In the breweries of Boohester, N. Y., would give employment to 9736 hand* if it was invested in leaking shoes.