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rn ??? New York City (Special). ? Of course the very newest sleeve development?"the sleeve of the year," as at is called?is the undersleeve. As 4he cut shows, it is much like the THE SLEEVE of THE YEAB. .y|v identical article worn by our grand-mothers in "antebellum days." 'UnmDie 8ICCVC 19 UtiULLiCi uamu lux i <t. All the smart challies and foulards boast this arm covering, which, of the (onlfird or ohallie, ends at the elbow, while underneath falls a scant duff of white muslin net or lace, its fulness gathered into a close band at the v wrist. The first figure of the cut, reVk produced from the New York Eveuw?r?g San, shows,a pretty frock in motiled foulard having undersleeves and yoke in transparent net. Embroidery Dver velvet trims the foulard, while , ihe left side of the bodice is fastened with silver buttons and clasps. The jther cut shows a simpler undersleeve nodel, but one equally effective. The 5urn-back finish of tira.n,{Jper sleeve is v ^n^wn as the "Puritan cuff." / Outing Costumes. ^ Although wheeling hasn't nearly so "*$; '?nany .devotees among the fashionables as it had several years ago, the fair I ~ I c? NEW AND NOVEL C Society belle still ride3 in a desultory fashion and still keeps a correct and up-to-date wheeling costum^ln good ;>rder in her wardrobe. Tbuufe is not inuch difference between the bioycle postume as prescribed by fashion now ^nd that worn for golfing, only the golf skirt is a little longer. As wom, en are riding in much longer skirts at the present time the majority of them make the one costume do for both. ; Another thing, the rainy-day or Short skirt sis so much the vogue, even for clear days, that several find a place among ma belle's gowns. The two new ideas shown in the large cut will serve equally well as bicycle, golf, outing or rainy-day gowns, and are reproduced from Harper's Bazar. , The side-pleated shirt-waist of the first ?ae in a most attractive model for mhJrt-wai9t, either of wash goods or silk, for utility or dressier* wear. The front his a centre-stitched band and three deep outward-turning pleats from shoulder to waist. The back is similar, only with a box-pleat in the centre. The design of the skirt, with its unusual yoke effect, i? especially suited to heavy galatea pique or very light weight two-toned oloth. This yoke is quite fashionable with New York women, and gives quite a trimmed appearance to an otherwise plain skirt. The salient feature of the brown covert cloth one, trimmed with stitched bands, shown at the right, is its charmingly unique little jacket. This is belted in at the back, and fashion's autocrats aver it is sure to be popular, as it is so practicable, besides looking well either in wash goods or heavy material. The hat is also a good one, as it is soft and becoming, yet it shades the eyes, too. It is of the latest style, heavy linen, corded with black velvet and trimmed arouud the crown with bands and rosettes of the velvet. ?'V. r Low Flat Hats Predicted. The latest and most desirable hats Efr are created from soft Italian straw, -with rather low crowns and broad ? brims twisted and cut up with lace9. Fruit, foliage, grapes, cherries, plums and currants are salient features in their trimming scheme, while many roses, large rosettes of silk and other stuff*, bound with velvet, maline and H- Persian silk, are to be found on the head coverings of stylish women. Daring combinations of very thiu fabrics and wings are much liked as a trimming also. It is predicted that the high-crowned hats so noticeably k ! prominent iu the milliner's realm just j now will lose favor, and as the season advances lower-crowned flatter affairs will be the mode. Tunic a la Grecaue. For a lace dress worn over a lace slip, you can have a tunic a la Grecque, draped in all one piece, in a fashion copied from the classical drapery noted in the friezes of Helenio architecture or on some antique vase. In case this place is adopted, rememl*Ar fn fr?11 rtr fVin linn nnnrnlfAH frOIH the left shoulder downward and over to the right hip, from which point the drapery can be adjusted as you will so as to secure a symmetrical habit. Keep the lines as long as you possibly cau. The Lttce Bolero. The lace bolero is still seen on some of the evening dresses, and this is beautiful in the real fabrio over a delioate tint of rose pink, whioh will become popular as an evening shade. Fitted With Darts. \ One feature of French underclothes is that they are never made with yokes. They are fitted with darts, and where fullness is necessary it is gathered in with a ribbon or tape. fy % ? : ?. . " The Season'# Fabric. The special fabrio of the season is crepe de meteor. It ia like crepe-de chine with a satin finish, very soft and glossy, and comes iu double width, both figured and plain. Modish Hftt*. Large all-black hats $re verj.fash? ioliable this season, and especially good style -with the foulard gowns. A Fashionable Summer Cape. Among the most unreasqjiflM^ada of the day is the low-ndel^^MBmoier . cape. An idea of the axraiMMBMBinay be had from the acoomptf^ni'PspaU sketch Reproduced,froagjj^^&^SBjftp Times-Herald. The peaa de soie and trimmwa euairaBM liberty silk ruffles or heaiyj 8ilk'frjyS?8^ ?? * IUTIXG COS . It is contrived espeokBy to reveal tlie wide guimpe or yokocfthe bodice beneath, and is avowedly more ornamental than nsafnl.xSi^ The same craze ha's'^ianifested itself in evening wrap^vpc full length, somewhat bos-shaped'^at, narrow at the top and widened^ decidedly at the bottom, is made low-necked in front in accordance with thifc; new caprice. The material employed is amber colored brocade, and it is lined with pale yellow liberty, tafcin. About the shoulders is a wide, round marine collar of ^Venice lace, sloped down quite low. The sleeves, which hang in bell-thape from the shoulders, are heavily incrusted with Venice lace about tne lower parr, ootu oa me uuu side and on the inside. Down the full length of the front the wrap lacks four inches of coining together. Both edges are trimmed with a long folded piece of pale yellow satin, held at reg ular intervals with square pearl buckles. A fichu or a silk scarf of \Wfk ICV ? if-- if & \I*~J THE LOW-NECKED CAPE. some sort is drawn over the nock, but this is taken off and left iu the carriage and the wearer makes a grand entrance in decollete. | DR TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BYTHE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: Labor Strikes ?A Question of l'resent Import Treated in a Way Aimed to Bring About a Better Feeling Between Employer and Employe. [Copyright 1H0U.1 Washington, D. C.?At a time when la various districts labor troubles are existing or Impending the efforts Dr. Taimage makes In tills discourse to bring about a better feeling between both sides of this difficult question is well timed; tests, Galatians, v., 15, "But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another," and Philippians II., 4, "Look not every man on his own things, but every man ulso on the things of others." About every six months there Is a great labor agitation. There are violent questions now in discussion between employers and employes. The present "strikes" will go Into the past. Of course the damage done cannot immediately be repaired. Wages will not be so high as they were. Spasmodically they may be higher, but ; they will drop lower. Strikes, whether right or wroug, always Injure laborers aa well as capitalists. Yoa will see this In the starvation of next winter. Boycotting and violence and murder never pay. They are different stages of,anarchy. God never blessed murder. The worst use you can put a man to 1s to kill him. The worst enemies of the working classes In the United States and Ireland are their i demented coadjutors. Years ago assasolnatlon?the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke In Phoenix Park, Dublin, in the attempt to avenge the wrongs of Ireland, only turned away from that afflicted people millions of sympathizers. The attempts to blow up the hou9e of common, In London, had only this effect ?to ttrow out of employment tens of thousands of Innocent Irish people In England. In this country the torch put to cue lactones mm iinvo uui/uniKou Litmus for Rood or bad reason, obstructions on the rail tracks In front o! midnight express trains because the offenders do not like the president of the company, strikes on ; shipboard the hour they were going to 1 sail, or in printing offices the hour the i paper was to go to press, or in the mines I the day the coal was to be deliverer!, or on house scaffoldings so the builder fails in keeping his contract?all these are only a hard blow on the head of American labor and cripple its arms aud lame its feet and pierce its Heart. .Traps sprung suddenly i upon employers and violence never took one knot out of the knuckles of toll or put a farthing of wajjes into a callous palm. Frederick the Great admired some land near his palaoo at Potsdam, and he re. solved to get it. It was owned by a miller. Ho offered the miller three times the value of the property. The miller would not take it because It was the old homestead, 1 and he felt ubout as Naboth felt about his I vineyard when AUab wanted It. Frederick the Great was a rough and terrible man, , and H6 ordered the miller into his presence, the king, with a stick in his hand a stick with which he sometimes struck 'the officers o(;state?said to the miller, '/Notf, I have'/pffered you throe times the *alae of that property, and if you won't jell it I'll takelt anyhow." The miller said, ?'Yoar majestjff; yoa won't." "yes," said the Wng; "I will take it." "Then," said the miller, ,"If your , majesty does tako it I will sue vou.ln the chancery court." At thai threat Frederick the Great yielded his infamous demand. And the most imperious outrage against the working classes will yet cower before the law. Violence and defiance of the law will never accomplish anything, but righteousness and submission to the law will accomplish It. ' *$pt gradually the damages done the ^laborer by the strikes will be repaired, and /some Important things ought now to be -said. The whole tendency or our times, as you have noticed, is to make the chasm between employer and employe wider and wider. In olden time the head man of the factory, the master builder, the capitalist, the head man of the firm, worked side by i side with their employes, working some| times at the same bench, dining at the j same table, and there are those here who I can remember the time when the clerks of large commercial establishments were accustomed to board with the head men of the firm. All that Is changed, and the tendency is j to make the distance between employer I and employe wider and wider. The tendency is to make the employe feel that he j Is wronged by the success of the capitalist ; and to make the capitalist feel: "Now, my i laborers are only beasts of burden. I must I give so much money for so much drudgery; : just so many pieces of silver for so many beads of sweat." In other words, the bridge of sympathy is broken down at both ends. i That feellne was well described bv Thongs Carlyle when he said: "Plug?on of 8t. Dolly Undershot, buccaneerllke, 9? ys to his men: 'Noble splnoers, this is tbe huudredth thousand we have valued, wherein I mean to dwell and plant my vineyards. The hundred thousand pound Is mine; the dally wage was yours. Adieu, noble splnnersl Drink my health with this groat eaih, which I give you over and above.*" Now what we want is to rebuild that bridge of sympathy, and I put the trowel to one of the abutments to-day, and I preach more especially to employers as such, although what I have to say will bo appropriate to both employers and employes. The behavior of a multitude of laborers i toward their employers during the last ; three modtbs may have Induced some emi sloyers to nefelbot the real Christian duties | that they owe to those whom they emploj?. Therefore I want to say to you whom I i confront face to face and those to wbom these words may come that all shipowners, all capitalists, all commercial firms, all master builders, all housewives, are bound to be interested in the entire welfare of their subordinates. Years ago some one gave three prescriptions for becoming a millionaire: "First, spend your life in getting and keeping tlie earnings of other people; secondly, have no anxiety about the worriments, the losses, the disappointments , of others; thirdly, do not mind the fact that your vast wealth implies the poverty of a great many people." Now, there is not a man here who would, consent to go into life with those throe principles to earn a fortune. It Is your desire to do your whole duty to the men and women in your servlco. first of all, then, pay as large wages as are reasonable and as your business will afford; not necessarily what others pay, certainly not what your hired help say you must pay, for that Is tyranny on" the part of labor unbearable. The right of a laborer to tell bra employer what he must pay implies the right of an employer to. compel a man into, ft service whether he will or not, and either of those ideas Is despicable. When any employer ftUows a laborer to say what he must do oYllftve his business ruined, and the'employer submits to it, he does 'every business man in the "United States a wrong and yields to the principle which, carried out, would dissolve society. Loot over yoar affairs ana put yourselves iu imagination in your'laborer's place and thou pay blur what txjfore God and your own. conscience you think you ought to OTfiiim. "God ydnsl"- are well In their place, but tlrty do not , buy coal nor pay. house rent.fior'get shoes for the children. At the same time you, the employer, ought to remember through ..what straits aDd strains you got the fortune by which you built your store or run the factory. You are to remember' Ibttt you take all the risks and the employe takes none o,r scarcely any. You are to remember that there may be reverses in fortune and that some new atyle of machinery may make your machinery valueless or. some new style of,tarlff set your business back hopelessly and forever. You must take all that into consideration and then pay what is reasonable. Do not be too ready to cut down wages. As far as possible, paysl), and pay promptly. There is a great deal of Bible teaching on this subject. Malachl, "I will be a swift witness against all sorcerers and against all adulterers and against those who oppose the hireling in his wages." Leviticus, "Thou sbalt notkeep the wages of tne hireling all night unto the morning." Colossians, "Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven." 80 you see it is not a question between you and your employe so much as It Is a question between you and God Do not say to your employe?, "Now.it you don't like tills place, get another," wliea you know tliey cannot get another. As far as possltle, o'ace a year visit at tbeh homes your clerks and your workmenThat Is the only way you can become acquainted with their wants. You wtU by such process And out that there is a blind parent or a slok sister being supported. You will find some oI your young men In rooms without any flra In winter and in summer sweltering in ill ventilated apartments. You will find much depends on the wages you pay or withhold. Moreover, It is your duty as employer, a3 fn n a n naol hi Q trt m r\M fUn ttta! fo ffl n t HlP employe. You ought to advise him about investments, about life Insurance, about savings banks. You ought to give lilm the benefit of your experience. There are hundreds and thousands of employers, I am^glad 'to say, who are settling In the very best possible way the des tiny of their employes. Such men as Marshall of Leeds, Lister of Bradford, Akroyd of Halifax and mon so near at home It might offend their modesty it I mentioned their names?these men have built reading rooms, libraries, concert halls, afforded croquet lawns, orlcket grounds, gymn&? slums, choral societies for their employes, and they have not merely paid the wages on Saturday night, but through the 'contentment and the thrift* and thej good mortis of their employes they are paying wages from generation to generation forever. , -i Again, I counsel a)i employers to loofc.. well after the physical health of their subordinates'. Do not put on them any unnecessary fatigue. I never could understand why the driver^ on our city cars must stand Ml day when they might just as well slt'dowt a^d drive. It seems to,riie.most unrighteous that so mapy of the female clerks in our store* should be compelled to stand all day and through those hours when there are but few or no oustomers. These people have aches and annoyances and weariness enough without putting upon them additional fatigue. Unless these female clerk* must go up and down on the business o the store, let them sit down. Then I would nave you carry out thi? sanitary Idea and put Into as few hours aa possible the work of the day. It seems tc mo all the merchants in all department; ought, by simultaneous movement, to come out In behalf of the early oloslng theory These young men ought to have an opportunity of going to the mercantile library, to the reading rooms, to the concert hall, to thd gymnasium, to the church. They have nerves, they have brains, they have intellectual aspirations, they h ave immortal spirits. If they con do a good round day's work in the eight or ten hours, you have no right to keep them harnessed for seventeen. But above all I charge you, 0 employers, that you look after the moral and spiritual welfare of your employes. First, know where they spend their evenings. Thut decides everything. You do not want around your money drawer a young man who went last night to see "Jack Shep pard!" A man that comes into the store In the morning ghastly with midnight rev< elry Is not the man for your store. The young man who spends his evening in the society of refined womed or in musical 01 artistic circles or in literary improvement Is the young man for your store. Do not say of these youna: men, "II they do their work in the business, hours, that is all I have to ask." Qod has mad? you that man's guardian. I want -you to understand that many of these young men are orphans or worse than orphans, flung , out into society to struggle xor inemsolves. And then I charge you not to put unnec". essary temptation in the way of youi young men. Do not keep large sums of money lying around unguarded. Enow how much money there is the till. Do not have the account books loosely kept There are temptations inevitable to young men, and. enough of them, without you putting any unnecessary temptations In their way. Men in Wall street having thirty years of reputation for honesty have dropped into Sing Sing and perdition, and you must be careful how you try e lad of fifteen. And if he do wrong do not pounce on him like a hyena. If<he ptovr himself unworthy of your confidence, dc not oall in the police, but take him home. Tell why you dismissed him to those who will give him another chance, Many a young man has done wruug once who will never do wrong again. Ah, m> friends, I think we can afford to give every body another chance when God knows w should all have been in porditionjif He had not given us 10,000 chances. Employers, urge upon your employes, above all, a religious life. So far from that, how is it, young men? Instead of being cheered on tbe road to heaven some, of you are carlcatuced, and it is a hard thing for you to keep your .Christian integrity in that store or factory where there are so many hostile to religion^ Zlethen, a grave general under Frederick the Great, was a Christian. Frederick the Great was n skeptic. One day Ziethen, the venerable, white haired general, asked to be excused from military duty that bo might attend the holy sacrament. He was excused. A few daya after Ziethen was dlulng with the king and with many notables of Prussia, when Frederick the Groat in a jocose way said, "Well, Ziethen, liosv did that sacrament of la9t Friday digest?" The venerable old warrior nro9e and said: "For your mhjesty I have risked my life many a time on the battlefield, and for your majesty I would bo willing any time to die; but you do wrong wUen you' insult the Christian religion. You will forgive me If I, your j old military servant, cannot bear In silence j any Insult to my Lord and my Saviour." j Frederick the Great leaped to his feet, and i be put cut his hand, and ho said: "Happy | Ziethen! Forgive me, forgive me!" Oh, there are many being scoffed at for ' their religion, and 1 thank God there are I many men as brave as Ziethen! Go to I heaven yourself, 0 employer! Take all your people with you. Soon you will bo through buying and selling, and through | with manufacturing and building, aud God will ask you: "Where are all those people over whom you had so great influence? Are they here? Will they be here?" 0 shipowners, Into wtyat harbor will your crew sail? Oh, you merchant grocers, are those young men that under your care are providing food for tho bodies aud families of men to go starved forever? Oh, ycu manufacturers, with so many wheels flying and so many bands pulling and so many new patterns turned out and so many goods shipped, are the spinuers, are the carmen, are t tie.draymen, are the salesmen, are the watchers of your establishments working out everything but their own salvation? Can It be that, having those people under your care flve, ten, twenty years, you have made no everlasting impression for good on their immortal souls? God turn us all back from such selfishness and teach us to live for others and not for ourselves. Christ sets us the example ot sacrifice, aud so do many of His disciples. One summer in California a gentleman who had just removed from the Sandwich Islands told me this incident: You know that one of the Sandwich Islands is devoted to lepers. People getting sick of the leprosy on the other Islands are sent to the tele of lepers. They never come off. They are In different stages of disease, but all who die on that Island die of leprosy. On one of .the islauds ttero was a physician wbo Always wore his hand gloved, and ty was often dlscu^ed why be always had a glove On that hand under all circumstances. One day he came to the authorittte, and be.itfthdrew his glove, nnd he said to the 6fflcers of tbe law: "You see on th&t hand a spot ot tbe leprosy nod that I am doomed to die. I mlgbt lildo tLIa for a little whlle and keen away from the isle of lepers, b<ft I am a physlciau, and I can go on that island and administer to tbe sufferings of those who are further gone la the disease, and I should like to go now. It v.'ould be selflsh in me to stay amtd'these luxurious surroundings when I, might be ot so much help to the wretched. Send mo to the isle of tbe lepers." They,.eeeir.g tbe spot of leprosy, of Course took the man into custody. He bade farewell to his family and his friends. It was ton agonizing farewell. He could never gee them again. He was taken to tbe isle of the lepers nnd there wrought among tho sick until prostrated by his own death, which at last came. Ob, that was magnificent self denial, magnificent sacrifice, only surpassed by that of Him who tailed Himself from tue health of heaven t# this leprous Island of a world .that He mlrtt physician our wounds' ind weep our grlhjfs and die our deaths, turning the isle <)jf a leprous world into a great blooming, g'forlous garden. ' Whether employer or employe, let us cttfch that spirit. M { V ' I GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. ?recnant thouchts from the world's createst prophets. The Coming of tlio Spring?The Spiritual Straight-Edge?Our Faith Bridge* the River?Willing SubminHlon to God? Dying Tliou Conquered Death. She has come who tarried long, Gentle rains have hastened her; In the woods a welcome song, On the grass an eager stir, And she whispers, "I am hero, Sweetest days of all the year." Gceen the grass about her feet, Blue the ukies above her head. Myriad flowers with perfume sweet Crowd the path that she must tread; All the world, for love of Spring, Gives its best of everything. But where'er the sick and sad In dark places watch and wait, Hearts are suddenly made glad That were lone and-desolate. For the Spring calls Hope to wake, An A hi* of?sin rm Ia* Intra'a Haar an L-A Ah! what song of trust have we Who through all the winter drear Saw the thick mists on the sea And all fair tbing9 disappear? Grown impatient of delay, Feared that pain alone would stay? Faint hearts, waste not In regret These uew hours of sun and song; Ood will let us all forget Winter woes that lingered long; Spring shall banish fear and doubt, Let the song of praise ring out! ?Marianne FarninRham.in Christian World. The Spiritual Straight-Eilge. One of the best tests of the experience c* perfect love is, not our emotions, but out fulfillment of tbe thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. This chapter is the straightedge, which laid alongside of our experience, will surely show us whether we have it ot not. If we fulfill this measure, we need not look at the experience' of others to see whether oure Is like theirs or not, nor need we doubt as to its possession. St. Paul says of love, "It suffereth long." It is opposed to haste and passionate expression of our thoughts and feelings concerning others. It suffersthdlr treatment without irritability ot vindictiveness. It is not in haste to trp.caout the motives of others. It shows itself in example of meekness and forbearance. It is not overcome of evil, but overcomes evil with good. It-loves its neighbor, when perhaps there is nothing lovely about him? loves him not for bis sake, but for God's sake, and the sake of the truth. It seeks to be as klud to the failings of others as It knows God is kind to its own faults. It treats others as it desires God to treat it. mu? *.1 -- 4- |? KAffl J. Lie 4UOSLIUU LU UO UCCIUCU la ui/fa UW?? straight and uncompromising we ara on "the doctrine," nor how much we shout.nor how easily we can weep, nor how ecstatically we can glow, but. have we the love that suffers long??Christian Standard. Our Faith Bridge* the Itiver. In a Scotch valley, beside a little brook, where there was no kindly soil, a Highlander once planted a tree. Of oourae it wilted and dropoed. But suddenly, to the surprise of everyone, it took a new start in life tuid bore rich fruit. What was the source o? its new life? That was the query put by all who knew it. Ad examication revealed its secret With a marvellous vegetable instinct it sent out a sh )ot which ran along and over a narrow sheep bridge, and rooted itself in the rich loam on the' other side of the brook. From this rich loam it drew its new life. Even so our faith in Jesus Christ bridges the River of Death that flows between earth and heaven, and the souls of men who see this and know this send oat the shoot of faith, and this shoot, running over the bridge between earth and heaven, roots Itself in the spiritual realities beyond, and draws spiritual life from the very fullness of God. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, acoording to His abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a living hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."?David Gregg, D. D. Willing Snbinistion to God. It is idle to talk of suffering as if it were the privilege of a few select lives only. Suffering and its culture, like joy and its culture, are within the lot of every man. He lives unworthily whose nature never clashes against the lower natures, and suffers pain, but mere pain is not education; does not bring growth. It is the suffering of willing submission to God and of self-sacrificing love for fellow men that softens and spiritualizes and blesses us. In all such suffering let us rejoice. We shall not need to seek; opportunities enough for it will meet us everywhere. And may God help us svorywhere to And the treasures they contain! " We take with solemn thankfulnesss Our burden up, nor ask it less, And count it joy that even we May suffer, serve, or wait for Thee, Whose will is dono." ?Phillips Brooka I Dying Thou Conquered Death, Lamb of God, who take3t away the Siaof the world, our hearts are bowed la reverencfd and humility before the wonder of thy cross. Thou hast borne our grief and carried our sorrows. With thy 9tripes we are healed, and the Lord hath laid on thee the iniquity of us all. By thy temptation and obedience, the betrayal and forsaking, the scourge and .piercing thorus, the cruel wounding of the nails, the taunts and burning thrist, the lingering anguish of the cross which thou hast so willingly endured for our salvation, grant us thy peace. Through dying thou hasc conquered death, and risen again that we may share thy life forevermore. Let thy glory shine amid the trials of the earth. Quicken our faith and make our love effective for service. Draw us to thyself in true repentance and unfeigned humility, and may our lives .bear witness tc thy love through all our years. Amen. Drinking as Socrates Drank. If life has not gone well with us, if fortune has left us disconsolate, If love has grown cold aud we sit alone by the embers; if life has become to us a valley of desolatioo tKi-nnrrh Ti-hifli ron?rv limhs must drai? an unwilling body t/ll the end shall come, let us not radiate such an atmosphere to thos* around us: let us not take strangere through the catacombs of our life and show the bones of our dead past; let us not pass out cup of sofrow to others, but if wa must drink it, let us take it a* Socrates did hif poison hemlock?gradually, heroically, and uncomplainingly.?From "Kingjhipof Self Control." Regard suffering as a vocation, having itf special duties and offering its special grace Say secretly of it, '-Here for the present lies thy allotted task, 0 my soul; consider how much may be madw of this period: how largely it may be improved to God's service and thy salvation. It is the post to whiot thou art appointod; seek to occupy it bravely: and more good shall accrue to thee frorr it than what thou didst propose to thyself ai the line of service of thine own choosing.' ?E. M. Ooulburn. As lone as it is grievous to thee to suffer, and thou deslrost to escape, so long shall thou be ill at ease, anil the itesire of escaping tribulation shall follow thee everywhere. ?Tlmrnna il Kamnis. When once an invalid has strength to say, "It does not much matter; at worst I can but die," sickness and death itaelf lose th?.ii terrors.?D. M. Craiii. VALUE OF A LABORER'S LIFE, 33$ Judge Opine* Time It Depends Upon ? Man's Earning Capacity. Justice Gummere, in charging a jury at Trenton, N. J., said: "It is difficult to as certain what loss children sustain In the premature death of a father. In the doati. of a laborer the loss In sorrow' Is just as much as in the death of a millionaire, but the pecuniary loss Is greater In the case oi the depth of a man who was malting S10 000 a year than in the death of a man male fog a dollar aud a half a day." Filomeua Cuveelia, the wile of an Italiat laborer, who was killed in a fight with Vltc Dlleo aud Pasqual Cella, has sued the two men to re -over damages. Thejury brous.il in a verdict ul $1500. THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 17. Subject: Feeding: the Fire Thousand, John vl.( 5-14?Golden Text, Matt., vi. 11?Memory Verses, 9-13?Commentary od the Day's Lesson, Connecting Links.?The twelve apostles who had been seat out over Galilee were preaching and healing the sick, when, suddenly, came the news that John the Baptist uttu ubou ueuauuBu. me aiscipios uiistened to Jesus, probably at Capernaum, and all retired across the sea ot Galilee, to the lonely plain at the foot of the hills near Bethsalda, just outside of Herod's dominions. Multitudes followed them. 5. "Lifted up His eyes." This was la the afternoon, toward evening, "when the day began to wec.r away." Luke 9:12. The Jews had two evenings; the first began at three o'clock, the second at sir o'clock. "A great company." He was moved with compassion and walked among the people, teaohlng them many things and healing their slok. His disciples called His attention to the ftfct that this was a desert place, and as the multitude had been there sin?e morning, It was time to dismiss the oongrpgatlon so that the people could go and buy victuals, lest they faint by the way. Matt. 14:14, 15. "He salth unto Philip." Philip lived at Bethsalda, a oity near Capernaum, and not the Bethsalda where this miracle was performed, as some have supposed. He was probably the provider for the dlsclple3, us Judas was the treasurer. "Whence are we to buy bread." B. Y. Christ had fed their souls, and healed their bodies and now He proposes to feed their bodies, and thus show that He 13 able to provide for all their necessities. 6. "To prove Him." Philip had Jesus for more than two years, and it was now time that be, and the rest of the apostles, should begin to have wide conceptions of Christ's ability., "Knew what He would do." Our Lord is never at a loss In His counsels, but In the most difficult case He knows what course He will pursue. Christ proposed the question to test Philip's faith. This gives us a glimpse In? /> A/lnnrtfUnnl mnVU A# LU tUD OUUUttUUUai UiOiyaU Ul bUU I^LOuL Teacher. He knew how many people wore there, how much bread It would take, how many fish He would want to feed that crowd. 7. "Tvto hundred pennyworth." The penny was m allver coin and was wofcth about sixteen cents. The value of the bread neoessary would be, therefore! about $32. This appears to bare been all that our Lord and all of His disciples were worth of this world's Roods. This amount at that time, with them, would probably represent an aotual value equal to ton times the .same amount now, with us. Peloubet thinks that In this "conference between Jesus and His disciples as to wars and means," there was some discussion, and that at tbls pblnt the apostles advised sending the multitude away, whereupon Jesus said, VGlve ye them to eat" (Luke); the apostles then asked In dismay, Shall we go and buy tbls great amount of bread? Jesus asked how much they had (Mark), and Andrew said, Five loaves and two-' small fishes. ' 9. "There is a lad here." The multitude had not thought of their temporal necessities, so anxious were they to see and hear Jesus, and this lad,.."who had charge of the provisions of the^oompany to which He belonged," had al^tbat-oould be found. "Loaves fishes." The: -loaves' . were round, flat cakes like large bracken. Barley was their poorest food,; /The fish were ' small, dried or pickled, and were eaten with bread, like our sardines. "But what are they?" No sooner.did Andrew make tbls little suggestion than he felt half-, ashamed and would have withdrawn it. 10. "Make the' ipen sit." In orderly ranks for the convenient distribution of the food. Mirk says they sat by hundreds and flftle3. They appear here as heads of families around whom, in many - oases, , women and children were grouped, though 1; the men alone were arranged In companies . and nambered, while the wom?a Ana children were served separately, as -Oriental , dustom required. "Much gnus." The grass was ready for mowing at this time of I the year." "About five thousand." Be sides women and children. '< Matt. 14:21. There must have been ten thousahd persona to feed. Jesus had arranged them so they could easily be counted. ' 11. "Jesus took the loaves." Thus noting 1 like the master of a famil v among the Jews, 1 who took the bread into his hands to give ] thanks to God, before any at the table were permitted to eat. Jesus had one loaf i for a thousand men, besides the women ' and children. We may have but little, but I If we will give th& little we have to Jesus, 1 He will multiply it a thousand-fold and pass it back to us, and grant us the prlvl- ' lege of passing It out to the starving, sin- < burdened multitudes. "Given thanks." Jesus thus sets us an example; we should never eat without first thanking God for our food, and asking His blessing upon ft. "Distributed to the dfsolple9." There has been much discussion as to just how the miracle was performed. Did, the'bread multiply in the hands of Jesus, or In the' ' bands of the disciples, or,.as some think, diet the disciples put a piece of bread and 1 fish In the bands of those who sat at the ends of the ranks with orders to give It ,to 1 tuelr companions/ mere 1xid aoupt ux my mind but that the food multiplied ail along the line. Jeans banded out to His disciples; It Increased ,ln tbeir hands as they banded ont to the multitude, and as it was passed from one ta another the bread and flsh continued to sw6U In tbeir : bands until tbey all bad enough and to spare. "The flshes as mueh as they would." This does not mean that there ' was a scarcity of fish, but that all ate as 1 much as they cared to. 12. "When they were filled." Here is 1 one miracle of our Lord attested byjat least five thousand (probably ten thousand) persons. No one need ever leave Ghrlst's table hungry. He Is able to satisfy every de- I mand of soul and body. He is the bread of ' life. Whether we demand "little or much" 1 it is an easy matter for Christ to All us. I "Gather up the fragments." The broken 5 pieces whloh remained ov$r. R. V. "That i nothing b0 lost." The design is to bring t out the preclousness of the food which ' Jesus bad given. < ?"? - -- ? ?? mu- 4-.Ana i la. "1 weive uasseis. xuu wuiu nmulated "baskets" means pockets or wallets. The twelve baskets were probably the twelve wallets of the twelve apostles, which they carried on their journeys. Jesus evl- < dently intended that He and the apostles < would eat the pieces as their needs de- t mandedthem. f 14. -'That prophet." All who had seen s this wonderful miracle were so profoundly 1 impressed with it that they said there can r be no doubt but this is the Messiah. The f Prophet that should come into the world, according to the prediction of Moses. Deut. 18:15-18. They at once tried to take Him by force and make Him their king. V. t 15. Where else would they find a king who s could feed his army without expense or trouble, who could care his wounded soldiers by a word, who had wisdom and ! , power divine? Such a king could easily ? overcome the Roman power. But Jesus re- j slated them and spent the night la prayer, j ? ' i ARMERS TAKE FORTUNES WEST, i o Cows Agriculturists Enriched by the Set- t tlewent of a Gambler's Estate. il By the settlement of the half-million- . dollar Maxham e9tate among the Heirs, j Charles Roe. of Arlington, Iowa, and Corry Y Atwood, of Strawberry Point, Iowa, botn t farmers of modest olrcumstances, started r from Vineland N. J., for their homes re- " jolclng a few days ago each with over >3100,300 In cash, checks and securities In bis ' * pockets! representing the shares of their is wives, nieces of the latfl~B. D. Maxham. P The two farmers also took over ?100,000 for tl Daniel S. Muxham, of Strawberry Point, a ?< brother of the deceased. D. 8. Maxliam was a famous faro i gambler of the West during the early ; sixties, and who frankly admitted to VineBinders bavlog made his wealth at the p gaming tables of Virginia City and 'Frisco. ^ He came East, forsook bis old ways, joined tbe church and became a xhllanthroplst. v Storin-warnliit Towers. ? A now iron storm-warning tower has . been adopted by the Weather Bureau, and , 150, half the proposed equipment, are to be built this year. ti Value <>f Sweden's Grain Crops. * Tbe total weight of all thegrain and pol 'n crops of Swedeu for last year was 2.06J,- ;< 000 tons, valued at -$67,616,400. * '*' '"'.I;'" ^'f4M r r&P *&9rm ' * -& ME^REAT DESTROYER] I SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. It JToldfl an Adder's Stilts?A Touching Incident Which Show* the Power of Song to Reclaim the Drunkard?The Keacuo of a Rum-Sodden Wretch. . .v| To earth tho cup be hurled, That holds uu adder's sting; And V*t ns pledge the world With nectar from the soring, That hence, like Recbab'a ancient lino, \ Though prophets urge, we drink no wine; ?L. M. Sargent. m Saved liv Sloclntr. \ Tbe following touching Incident, as related one day by Mr. Sankey at Mr. Moody'a Gospel Temperance meeting, Boston, well illustrates the power of pong to reclaim the inebriate, and its Influence and importance in the ovangellstic work: "Many have wondered that I sang her? alone in this way, but if is because I thought I might preaoh some little truth! from the Word of God in these slrnpW hymns. And I tbank God that He ha* blessed His message as sung. For lastance, here is this hymn: 'What Shall thai Harvest Be?' There is no praise In that; . Not long since in a meeting we were holding a man came staggering through the door, and was directed Into the gallery,' and he staggered down the aisle and got a seat near one of the large posts that held tbe buildiug up, and his testimony afterward was that while he was sitting there in a drunken stupor?he just wandered la) off the street, a poor, lost man, lost la! iriuk?he leaued his head against the poet;j and when the people came In with their; happy faces, he said; 'This Is no place for me, I'll go; I have no friends, no happyi home to go to;' and he attempted to ralsa blmself up and go out, and just thea the little hymn'What Shall the Harvest Be?'; was given out from the pulpit, and the first strain of that hymn caught the atten-4 tlon of that poor man and he sat down! again, and when we got to that verse whicli says: J 'Sowing the seed of a tarnished name, J Sowing the seed of eternal shame,' , ^ be said those lines went as a dagger through his heart, and he said to himself: That's me; 1 That's what I've been doing. 1 My name Is gone, and I'm sowing the seed of eternal siame.' God sent those lines, down into the heart of that poor man, and1 he came out and went to a saloon to see if he could drown them from his memory, but he said, as he went to the bar to drink be could see hanging on the walls of that bar-room, 'What sball tbe harvest be?' and as he lay ou his bed that night he could see in the darkness and gloom of thai tionse the same sentence, 'What shall the harvest be?' It stayed on the maa's heart ana brought him back to the meeting, and; there a man of God met him, and this day he is a bright and shining light In that city over yonder. 4 "And just before I left that city he 9al<j| to me: 'Here Is u letter I have had frooi my little girl. My wife and family I have been separated from for eight years.' They bad heard that the Lord had found him in that great city In which he was. And as the .tears rolled down his oheeks he went on to read that letter. His little girl wrote and said to him: 'Pupa, I knew you woald come back to us, sometime. I knew that the Lord would find you, for I have bees praying for you all these years.' And he said: 'I thank God Jesus has found meA Jesus used that little hymn to And him ift that great congregation." Which Bond Will You Take? ' | You may have beard the story'of th? mac who, being obliged to be driven ovet a dangerous mountain pass, tested the coachmen in this way: He asked thre* drivers how near they could go to a cer tain precipice and not overturn the cari riage. One said he could drive within s< many inches; another, a few inohes less) but a third said ho should keep just as fa) away from the dangerous edge as he could get. That coachman was engaged. Thert was no need of going near the precipice, forjiearby there was another road?safe and sure?for it hugged the inland rooks. , We are all travelers?are all taking a journey. There are two roads before U9< On one road there are, daily, many aoclj dents, men and women going over tb< precipice. It is called Saloon Highway, Moderate drinkers take this road because It is exciting and gives pleasure for a time. Fhey are not afraid of dauger, but man] rail over the precipice of intemperance Into the gnlch of drunkenness and ruin. 1 The other road is broad and safe, called Femperanoe Road?seoure from dangertor it hugs the solid rock of Total Abstl' nenco. Which road will you take? The Drink Deatli-Rate. \ Some years ago a statement was made Cf\ AAA /Iwiinlrnw/la /4(a/4 ai*Ao?> irnov In LUCtlr UU,UUV UlUU&CUUq UlOU Ol V4J J \Jf\i. IU tbe Urflted Kingdom. Dr. Norman Kerr, who is President of the Society for th? Study of Inebriety, did not believe that . tbls terrible statemeat was trae, and be set to work to try and prove tbat it wu untrue. It is very remarkable to note wba! was tbe end of bis inqalrv. As soon as be began to And ont tbe real facts be learned tbat, so far from the number given being oo high, it was much low. Not only did be And. out bis mistake, bnt be had tbe honesty And tbe courage to acknowledge It, and at tbe great meeting of the Sooia) Science Congress be publicly deolared that Ih bis opinion not 60,000 but 120,000 persons lost their lives in a year through ex? :essi ve indulgence in drink.?Cassell's Tem< perance Reader. Ueer Makes Wife Beaters. \ A woman in Trenton, N. J., confesses .hat she has been in the habit of putting nudanum int6 her husband's beer la order :o mate him sleep, and thus to save ber 'rom tbe beatings he would otherwise be ture to infllot upon ber. Some of bei lelghbors corroborate ber story and admit hat they do tbe same thing, while their telghborhood druggist says he has been lolng a rushing trade la laudanum for :hat purpose. A saa lTe-nmiiience. The Frencli have an unenviable pra. >miaence la alcoholic Intemperance. They jonsume eight times as much wine as tb& bree other natlpns combined, and nearly Ifty times as muoh per head. The conlumption of spirits In France Is also so sigh as to fill serious observers with alarm is to its effect upon the character and uture of the nation. The Crusade in Brief. , A neighborhood is poor iu direct propor- 9 Ion to the number ofsaloous in has to; upport. The oldest teetotaler in Great Britain is aid to be Mis. Sampson,aged ninety-seven. Ihe was born at King's Lynn, and signed he pledge in January, 1820. She bad ten laughters, and the dlgbt still living are ectotalers. , "The Clibans are a temperate people," ays a recent writer. "It'might perhaps e impossible to And a total abstainer on be isiund, but drunkenness Is practioally: uknown." 1 The number of saloons in New York is 3,064, a reduction of nearly 2200 iu three ears. The New York Sua says "That tho^ mailer the number of saloons the lesai rinking there is, is an axiom which expejnce shows to t>e irrefutable." Total abstinence societies degenerate Ina mere clubs for sociability only if there ? not continuous discussion of the temerance question, and constant striving on he part of the members to understand the )glc of the temperance movement. The American saloon, open by law and cense, is our greatest single enemy of deency, morality and raliglou. > Nearly thirty per cent, of the patients in 'arls hospitals have been fouml to be per ons who were addicted to rue excessive se of alcohol. The Christian Endeavor unions of Louis- J llle, Ky., have decided uot to accept J loney from distillers. More tlinu $1000 M outributed by Louisville distiller.-* for a fl irm, to be used as a playground for the oor during tbe summer, will ho returned, (SB j tlif donors. The calling of a grand jury in Hutchln?n, Kan., caused a stampedo of journalits, gamblers and boot-leggors until tiie ;tv was as "dry" as the most anient tern- flH erance worker could wish. And now they ilk of muxlug the grand jury i/erootual. 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