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picture. While the men in the ru
every cover, the officers es>teemed it i
tion they became conspicuous quarry i
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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
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[/ (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
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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
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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.
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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
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ELECTRICAL TABULATING-MACHINE;
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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
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type-writer. Experience has shown
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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 <
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.?
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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
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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. /
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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.
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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
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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.