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T^H B?I?T<?> New York City.?Rri and white striped madras, white lawns and allover embroidery with origin? and insertion to match are the materials combined in this attractive and dainty A DAINTY LITTLE FROCK. little frock. The full body is arranged over fitted linings, which close in centre back, the upper portions of which are covered with the embroidery to round yoke depth. The pretty bertha of unique shaping is made of the white lawn, to match the sleeves, and its edges are handsomely trimmed with insertion and edging. This lining may be omitted, and the waist finished with the bertha in guiiupc style. The lining may be used with ff l!', -i5i CHARMING WUB . ; *r.% the sleeves as i separate guimpe, to which the embroidery is applied In round yoke outline. The sleeves are gat here into wristbands of Insertion finished with a frill of embroidery. The full round skirt is deeply hemmed at the foot, gathered at the top and joined to the lower edge of waist, a band of insertion forming the belt. To make as illustrated will require two and three-fourths yards of striped madras, thirty-two inches wide, one and live-eighths yards of white lawn guimpe, with sleeve and bertha, -and three-eighths yards of allovjr em broidery for yoke and collar, turee yards of insertion and four and onehalf yards of embroidery. Wafthnhle Shirt Waist?. Midsummer demands that a generous supply of washable shirt waists be kept on hand, and the stonple styles now in vogue are easily made at home with the use of a reliable pattern. The material represented in the drawing on the left of the large picture is red and white Scotch uiadras. simply m.#hine stitched and closed in front with pearl buttons. The back fits smoothly across the shoulders, and may be made with or without applied ] yoke, the fulness at the waist being * adjusted by tapes run thrrugl. a cas- ; ing. The fronts have attractive ful-! ness laid in live small backward turn- j ing pleats at the neefc. The regulation shirt waist sleeves ' hfive mieiiinirs finished with under and over laps, aiul the wrists art* completed with straight link cuffs. The mode is desirable for all wash fabrics in plain, dotted, striped or figured designs. To make this shirt waist will require in the medium size three and threequarter yards of material twenty-one inches wide, or two and a half yards thirty-six inches wide. Ribbon aud lace insertion united jy machine stitching is the dainty fabric illustrated in the other drawing. The front and sleeves are cut en bias and a strip of the insertion is applied over the pleat in front, which renders the closing invisible. The waist is arranged over fitted linings of silk or lawn Which match th: color of the ribbon. | Gathers at the neck and waist Hue give the fronts a graceful, slightly bloused, effect. The back fits smooth!}- across the shoulders, scant ^fUlncss heiow lu'in^ drawn to the centre :it the waist line. Stylish Daring cuffs fall in scallops over the hand and finish the wrists of the dress sleeves that have only slight fulness at the top. Tiny uarts taken up in the foundation of the stock collar curves it comfortably to the neck and over this the material is smoothly adjusted. To make this waist in the medium size will require three and one-hall yards of aiaterial twenty inches wide I or two and oue-quarter yards thirtysix inches wide, with one yard of lawr or tw- y.'.rds of silk for lining. L Of PASHIONFit* Like a Glove* It fits like a glove, tin* pretty halfsleeve of shirred niousseline of cream, or white sheer material. This halfsleeve is shirred closely, but is of a material so soft and tine that it does not increase the sizo of the arm perceptibly. This has not any straps or bauds to vary its length, except the cuff band underneath. This is a pretty ?iwitli.lll.-ii !iminin>mont Tlip siilrriner [ prevents the mousseline from looking skimpy, although it is closo fitting. The shirred half-sleeve has another point in its favor. It is detachable, aiul if tired of wearing it the lady can don the bodice and wear it with the elbow slecv, and then she can replace her shirred half sleeve of mousseline below whenever she so desires. How to Fold a Skirt. PoKI your skirt lengthwise, very much in the folds in which it hangs. If it is made with a box pleat at the back see that this lies perfectly flat. Take the pleat and lay it flat on a table. keeping the front fold also without a crease. If the fulness of the back is folded inward take up the two folds and then lay it on a table, keeping, as said before, the front breadth quite flat. The Lone Glove Again. With the adoption of the short el bow sleeve oto soipe of'our smart gowns the lonrg, ^to|:e is again worn; indeed. there ^a>diisper.s that Parisians are tryli&'ro?mtroducc silk mittens. It is ajEashion for the lady of beautiful haaH^^Mutndsome rings to IVntppw Wlf^i^era Pleat in Hack. The comfo^ywgg^3ted by this pretty, cool-lookltMfcvr::pper is most bewitching. SoWool challies that has a green leaf-CflRfcream-tinted ground, is th^^kterlSWKstrated. The pointed taj|telle& yoke and colla:- of leaf greeytfXiberty satin are overlaid with Russian lace, and trimmed with a J9|_ V ' 3IDLE WAISTS. [qui!Un& of liree-quarter-lneh Liberty soun^SftboB in,, the same shade of 1 green. Ribbon two inches wide is use! fort&6- "?enii-girdlc, which is sewed on the underarm scam at the waist line, and stylishly bowed in centre front. The upper part of the front and back lining is faced to square yols^depth. The full fronts are gatHaretf%nd applied over the liuing to the edge of the yoke, and the hack is arranged in a stylish double box pleat, which is attached to the lower edge of back yoke and falls in graceful folds to the lower edge. The ! collar which curves high in the back I closes in centre front, and the dosing ! may be made visibly or with buttons j iiiul buttonholes, as preferred. The ! two-piece slwvi's are correct in shape. ! and the pretty pointed epaulettes that ; are sewed 011 over the shoulders, at I tin' yoke outline, stand out stylishly j over the tops. The wrists are simply trimmed on the edge with a band I of quilled ribbon. A wrapper in this style ciin be appropriately made in lawn, percale or ~ingh:nn. with allover embroidery insertion and edging for trimming. Made iu foulard or China silk, a combination of contrasting color or tine tucking, with trimming of lace, will be attractive. Cashmere of lightweight wool goods will trim daintily with ribb'-n or irregular insertion. To make this wrapper in tiie medium size will require six and one-half yards of cashmere or other material fortyfour inches wide, ten and one-half yards thirty-two inches wide.or twelve yards twenty-two inches wide. To t?*im as reuresented. seven-eighths .......1^ ...w.ii Ml sntin and allover lace. i i.. a dies' wrapper. , eighteen inches wide, is needed for (he yo'uo collar and bretelles, with i seven yards ol' ribbon for quilling and two and one-half yards for girdle. DR TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: God's Siivlnc Grace?Tnllclon i? fcn Acllvo Principle Which 'Work* Pon*tnntly For the Welfare of ISody and Mind and Soul?Hope For Sinners. [Copyright Imuii.I Wasttinoton', D. C.?Dr. Talmage is now traveling in Norway, where he has been deeply interested in the natural phenomena and the quaint social life of that j wonderful land. In this sermon he ar: cues, contrary to the opinion of many, that religion is an active principle which j works constantly for the welfare of body I and mind and sonl. His best is Luke xiv, 3J. "Salt is pood." The Bible is .1 dictionary of the finest simile*. It employs amonp living creatures stories and eagles and doves and unicorns and sheep and cattle; amonp trees, sycamores and terebinths and pomegranates and almonds and apples; amonp jewels. pearls and amethysts and jacinths nnd chrysoprases. Ci.Hst uses no stale illustrations. The lilies that He plucks in His discourse arc dewy fresh; the ravens in His discourses are not stuffed specimens of birds, hut warm with life from wing tip to wing tip; the fish He points to are not dull about the frills, as though long captured. but a-squirm in the wet net just brought up on the beach of Tiberias. In mv text, which is the peroration of one of His sermons, He picks up a crystal and holds it before His congregation as an illustration of divine grace in the heart when He savs what we all know by experiment, "Salt is good." I shall try to carrv out the Saviour's idea in this text and in the first place say to you that grace is like salt in its beauty. In Gallicia there are mines of salt with ex-' cavat.ions and underground passaces reaching, I am told, 2^0 miles. Far underground there are chanels and halls of reception, the columns, the altars and the pulpits of salt." When the king and the princes come to visit these mines, the whole place is illuminated, and the glory of crystal walls and crystal ceilings and crystal floors and crystal columns, under the glare of the torches and the lamps, needs words of crystal to describe it. But you need not go so far as that to find the beauty of salt. You live in a land which produces millions of bushels of it in a year, and you can take I fKn inni'niniT vnil frain nnd in a few hours get to the salt mines and salt springs, and yon have this article morning, noon and night on your table. Salt has all the beauty of the snowflnke and water foam, v. ith durability added. It is beautiful to the naked eye, but under the glass you see^ the stars, and the diamonds, and tjie white tr^e branches, and the splinters, and the bridges of fire as the sun glints them. There is more architectural skill in one of these crystals of salt than htunan ingenuity has ever demonstrated in an Alhambra or St.. Peter's. It would take all time, with an infringement upon eternity, for an angel of God to tell one-half the glories in a salt crvstal. So with th*1 grace of Ood^ it is perfectly beautiful. I have seen it smooth out wrinkles of care from the brow; I have seen it make an aged man feel almost young again: I have seen :t. lift the stooping shoulders and put snar <le into the dull eye. Solomon discovered its therapeutic qualities when he said, "It is marrow to the bones." Tt helps to digest the food and ? H I 1- 1_ XI 1 I to nunrv tne oiooa ana to caim ine i?"*co n-nd quiet the spleen, and instead of Tyndall's prayer test of twenty vears ago. putting a man in a philosophical hosnital to be experimented upon by prayer, it keeps him so well that he does not need to be prayed for as an invalid. I am sneaking now of a healthy religion?not of that morbid religion that sits for three hours on a gravestone reading Hervey's _ "Meditations Among the Tombs"?a religion that prospers best in a bad state of the liver! I sneak of the religion that Christ preached. I supnose, v.*h"n that religion has conquered the world, that disease will be banished, and that a man lOt) years of ape will come in from business and say, "I am tir.^d; I think it must be time for me to po." and without one physical pang heaven wi'l have him. But the chief beauty ">f grace is in the soul. It takes that which was hard and cold'and repulsive and makes it all over again. It pours upon one's nature what David calls "the beautv of holiness." It extirpates everything that is hateful and unclean. If jealousy and pride and lust and worldliness lurk about, they are chained and have a very small sweep. Jesus throws upon the soul the fragrance of a summer garden as He com*."* in sav. ing, "I am the Bose of Sharon." and He submerges it with the glory of a snring mominc. as He fays. "I am the light." Oh, how mu^h that grace did for the thr^e Johns! It took John Bunvan. the foul mouthed, and made him John Bunvan. the immortal dreamer; it took John Newton, the infidel sailor, and in the midst of the hurricane made him cry out. ."Mv mother's God. have rnercv upon me!" It took John Summerfield from a life of sin and by the hand of a Christian maker of edge tools led him into the pulnit that burns still with the light of that Christian eloquence which charmed thousands to the Jesus whom ITp once despised. Ah, you mr.v search all the earth over for anything so beautiful or beautifying as the grace of God! Go all through the deep mine passages of Wieliczka and amid the underground kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt and show me anything so transcendently beautiful as this grace of God fashioned and hung in eternal crystals. Again, grace is like salt in the fact that it is a necessity of life. Man and beast perish without salt. What are those paths across the western prairie? Why, they were made there by deer and buffalo going tr, nnil rnniinf nwav from the salt "licks." Chemists and physicians all the world over tell us that salt is a necessity of life. And jo with the grace of God; you must have it or die. I know a great many speak of it as a mere adornment, a sort of shoulder strap adorning a soldier, or a light, frothing dessert brought in after the greatest part of the banquet of '.ife is over, or a medicine to be taken after powders and mustard plasters have failed to do their work, but ordinarily a mere superfluity, a string of bells around a horse's neck while he draws the load and in nowise helping him to draw it. So far from that I declare the grace of God to be the first and the last necessity. It is food we must take or starve into an eternity of famine. It is clothing, without which wo freeze to the mast of infinite terror. It is the plank, and the only plank, on which we can float shoreward. It is the ladder, and the only ladder, on which we can climb up into the light. It is a postive necessity for the soul. You can tell very easily what the effect would be if a person refused to take salt into the body. The energies would fail, the lungs would struggle with the air, slow fevers would crawl through the brain, the heart would flutter, and the life would be gone. Salt, a necessity for the hfe of the body; the grace of God, a necessity for the life of the soul! Again, I remark that grace is like salt in abundance. Uod lias strewn salt in vast profusion all over the continents. Russia seems built on a salt-cellar. Hiere is one region in that country that turns out 90,000 tons of salt in a year. England and Russia ami Italy Uave inexhaustible resources in this respect. Norway and Sweden, white with snow a?ove, white with salt beneath. Austria, yielding 900,0(H> tons* annually. Nearly all the,nations rich in it?rock salt, spring salt, sea salt. Christ, the Creator of the world; when He uttered our text, knew it would become more and more significant as the shafts were sunk, and the soring were bored, and the pumps were worked, and the crystals were gathered. So' the grace.of . abundant. It is for all landa, f^r all ages, for all conditions. Ifc ?eems to uiidergirt everything?pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering,' brightest light for the thickest darkness. Around about the salt lakes of Saratov tlv?re are 10,000 men toiling day and night, nd yet they never exhaust the saline treasures. And" if the . 1,600,000.000 of our race should now cry out to God for His mercy there would be enough for all?for those furthest gone in sin, for the murderer standing on the drop of the gallows. It is 1 an ocean of mercy, and if Europe and Asia, Africa, North and South America. *nd all the islands of the sea went down 1 in it to-day they would have room enough to wash and some up clean. Let no'man think that his ease is too I ! " " ~~~ I tough ft one for God to act upon. Though your sin may be deep and raging, let me tell you that God's grace is a bridge not built on earthly piers, but suspended and spanning the awful chasm of yojir guilt, one end resting upon the rock of eternal promises and the other on the foundations of heaven. Demetrius wore a rope so incrusted with jewels that no ohe #fter him ever dared to wear it. But our King, Jesus, takes off the robe of His righteousness, a robe blood dyed and heaven impearled, and reaches it out to the worst- wretch in all the earth and says: "Put that on! Weax it now! Wear it forever!" Again, the grace of God is 'like salt in the way we come at it. The salt on the surface is almost always imuure?that innmoto n,/? Itf/Mintjiina nnd the South American pampas and in India ?but the miners go down through the shafts and through the dark labyrin*Hs and along by galleries of rock, and with torches ar\d pickaxes, find their way under the very foundations of the earth to where the salt lies thq.t mukes up the nation's wealth. To get to the best saline springs of the earth huge machinery goes down, boring depth below depth, depth below deptli, until from under the very roofs ot the mountains the saline water supplies the aqueduct. This water is brought tothe surface arid is exposed in tanks to the sun foe evaporation, or it is put in boilers mightily heated and the water evaporates, and the salt gathers at the bottom ot the tank. The work is completed, and the fortune is made. So with the grace of God. It is to be profoundly sought after. With all the concentered energies of body, mind and soul we must dig for it. No man stumbles accidentally on it. We need to go down to the very lowest strata Of earnestness and faith to find it. Superficial exploration will not turn it up. We must strive and implore and dig until we strike the spring foariiing with living, waters. Then tne work of evaporation begins, and as, when the saline waters are exposed to the sun the Vapors- floaj away, leaving nothing but the pure white salt at the bottom of the tank, so, when the Christian's soul is exposed to the Sun of Righteousness, thg vapors of pride and selfishness and worldliness float off and there is chiefly left beneath pure white holiness of heart. Then, as in the case of the. salt, the furnace is added. Blaring troubles, sturred by smutted stokers of worldliness and the crystallization of jrrace. Have you not been in enough trouble to have that work go on? I was reading of Aristotle, who said there was a field of flowers in Sicily so sweet that once a hound, coming on the track of game, came' to that fiiild and was bewildered by the perfumes and so lost^the track. Oh, that our souls might become like "a field which the Lord bath blessed" and exhale so much of the sweetness of Christian character that the bounds of temntation, coming on our track, might lose it and go Howling j back with disappointment! But I remark again that the grace of j God is like the salt in its rreservative i quality. You know that salt absorbs the j moisture of articles of food and infuses I them with brine, which preserves them for j a long while. Salt is the great antiputrefactor of the world. Experimenters, in . preserving wood, have tried sugar and smoke and air-tight jars and everything ! else, but as long as the world stands j Christ's words will be suggestive, and men will admit that as a great preservative "salt is good." But for the grace of God the earth would have become a stale Carcass long before ' this. That grace is tjgftonly preservative of laws and constituj|fty and literatures. .Tusfc ns snnn as a. iflimrment loses this salt of divine grw^HP^erishes. The philo- , sophy of this aay',^0 far as it is antagonis- i tic to this feligion, putrefies and stinks, j The great want of our schools of learning j and our institutions of science to-day is ! not more Leyden jars and galvanic batter- | ies and spectroscopes and philosophical ap* j paratus, but more of that grace that will teach our men of science that the God of the universe is the God of the Bible. | How strange it is that in all their magnificent sweop of the telescope they have | not seen the morning star of Jesus, and i that in all their experiments with light and i heat they have not seen the light and felt ! the warmth of the Sun of Righteousness! j We want more of the salt of God's grace ; in our homes, in our schools, in our col* i leges, in our social life, in our Christianity. [ And that which has it will live; that which has it not will die. I proclaim the tendency of everything earthly to putrefaction and death, the religion of Christ the only ! preservative. Mv subject is one of srreat congratulation to those who have within their souls this j zospel antiseptic. This salt will preserve them through the temptations and sorrows .of life and through the ages of eternity. I do not mean to say that you will Knvfl n owiAAfh fimfl VtonnnoD rAii flro a Christian. On the contrary, if you do your whole duty I will promise you a rough time. You march through an enemy's country, and they will try to double up both flanks and to cut you off from your j source of supplies. The Avar you wage will j not be with toy arrows, but sword plunged j to the hilt, and spurring on your steed j over heaps of the slain. Eut I think that 1 God omnipotent will see yoi? through. I J know He will. Eut why do I talk like an I atheist when I ought to say J know He j will? "Kept by the power of God through i faith unto complete salvation." When Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, i died yeats ago I lost a good friend. He j impressed me mightily with the horrors o^ war. In the eight hours that we rode to- j getncr in the cars he recited to me the j scenes through which he had passed in the | />ivil TTp s.iid flint there came one I battle unon which everything seemed to j pivot. Telegrams from Washington said I that the lif6 of the nation depended on ' that struggle. lie said to me: "I ivent into ' that battle, sir, with my son. His mother ! and I thought everything of him. You i know how a father will feel toward his i soil who is coming up manly and brave and ! good. Well, the battje opened and con- j centered, and it was jiwfal. Horses and i riders bent and twisted and piled up together. It was awful, sir. We quit firing j and took to the point of the bayonet, j Well, sir, I didn't feel like myself that day. j I had prayed to God for strencth for that j particular battle, and I went into it feelins that I had in my right arm the | strength of ten giants," and as the Gov- i crnor brought his arm down on the back j of the seat it fairly made the car tremble, j "Well," he said, "the battle was desperate, I but after awhile we gained a little, and we j marched on a little. 1 turned round to the I troops and shouted. 'Come on, boys!' and I stepped across a dead soldier, and lo, it was my son! I saw at the first glance he was dead, and yet I did not dare to stop a minute, for the c-isis had come in the battle, so I just got down on my knees, and I threw my arms around him. and I cave him one cood kiss and said. 'Good-by, dear.' and sprang up and shouted. 'Come on. bovs!'" So it is in the Christian conflict. It is a fierce fight. Heaven is wait1 i.U- i. I ing for the bulletins to announce me ? i mendous issue. Hail of shot, gash of sabre, fall of battleax, groaning on every side. We cannot stop for loss or bereavement or anything e'sc. With one ardent em- | bif'e and loving kiss we utter our farewells and then cry: "Come on, hoys!" There are other heights to be captured, there are other foes to be conquered,, there are other crowns to be won." Yet as one of the Lord's surgeons I must bind up two or three wounds. Just lift theni now, whatever they be. I have been told there is nothing like salt to stop the bleeding of a wound, and so I take this sal*, of Christ's gospel and put it on the lacerated soul. It smarts a little at first, but see, the bleeding stops, and lo the flesh comes again as the flesh of a little child! "Salt is good." "Comfort one another with these words." HEROISM REWARDED. Good Position For a Newiboy Who Savsd Many Live*. - "j Heroert -Botsford, the newsboy, who saved scores of lives at the time of the reservoir disaster at Grand Rapids, Mich., by arousing nearly every family in the valley, has been rewarded. Several weeks ago Congressman Wdiam Alden Smith offered to a boy to be chosen from the Evening Press Association a permanent place as messenger in the Census Department at Washington. Botsford was selected for the position. He is bright, quick-witted and hfteen years old. Great Britain imported 16,000,000 great hundreds (1,920,000.000) of eggs last year. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. 3 The Drankard'* Child, by Chariot TV. Hurrlf?A Harrowing Story?Detperafe Deed of a Sot'n Wlfe-Pltlfnl Note She Wrote Before Suicide. You ask me why so oft, father, The tears roll down my cheek, And think it strange that I should own A grief I dare not speak; But 0 my aoul is very sad, My brain is almost wild; It breaks my heart, to think that 7 a 11-. j _ j i ii .? . | <-ttjicu a uruQKara 8 cnytiMy playmates shun me now, father, * Or pass me by with scorn, Because my dress is ragged, and My shoes are old andtorn; And if I heed them not, "there goes The drunkard's girl," they cry, , Oh then, how mucn I wish that God Woula only let me die.' You used to love me once, father, And we had bread to eat; Mamma and I were warmly clad, And life seemed vep' sweet; You never spoke unkindly then, Or dealt the angry blow; Oh, father, dear, tis sad to think 1 The runi has changed you so. Do not be angry now, father, Because I tell you this, But let me feel upon my brow, Once more thy loving kiss, ' \ And promise me those lins no more, With drink shall be defiled. That, from a life of want *and woe, Thou't save thy weeping child. ?Lutheran Observer. . / YFlio la Responsible t A Rochester correspondent sends us the following sad story, the harrowing details of which the papers of that city recently printed. In Rochester a coal driver, earning $1.50 a day, whose famity consisted of his wife ,and three children, two girls, aged ten | and three, and a baby boy of twelve months. Through the winter scarcely a dollar of this man's earnings we fit to pro* vide for the necessities of his family. ' Ih spite of the toil of the wife there has been neither fuel for the fire nor food for i the table, day after day. Meager crusts of|bsead broken into three fragments have made the suppers for the little ones, while the wife went; fasting, because his earnings have gone to swell the profits of the saloonkeeper. On Tuesday morning, April 3, with neither coal nor bread in the house, the Eoor woman, worse than a widow, because er husband was not dead, listened to the cries of her children for food, and sent the little ten-year-old girl to the grocer to buy a loaf of bread on credit. The credit was refused; she owed a bill of 91.89 there. "No more bread without cash," said the grocer. Driven by the cries of her little ones the woman herself went to the grocer}', and although the groccr would sell her nothing on credit he gave her out of pity a loaf of black bread. With that alone for food, in the chilled, cheerless rooms of their tumbledown home the children and their mother lived until noon. Driven to desperation, the sorrowing woman, on the frayed tablecloth, where lay the last morsel of the black bread, penned this note to her husband: "I had no mqpey and could buy no bread, and I had nothing left to do but to take my children and go where the hunger could not pain us., I was refused credit and :ould. no longer stand the terrible poverty that I have endured for years. I was weak j _ 11 A _ i e T i r ma u was au too mucn ior me. i nope i will be forgiven for my act, but if my heart could be seen the act would not be :alled a crime. I am sorry, but I cannot prevent it now. It is too late." Then taking her little ones -> the back room of their miserable home she lifted the cover from the cistern, threw them in" ind plunged in herself?and they found them there, all dead. Still, who cares? The saloon must thrive. ?National Advocate. A Novel Temperance Society. A peculiar society, having, as its object the suppression of the liquor traffic, has been organized in Great Bend. The organization is composed of the society young .vomen of the town and is called the D. D. VI. B. Club. The initials stand for "Don't Drink, My Boy." The girls stand on guard ill day long, each a day at a time, taking aote of those who patronize the saloons. \ complete record is kept of those with svhom they arc personally acquainted, but :he club is especially directed toward suppressing the evil among the young men of :he town. Meetings are held once a week :o exchance information which they have secured. On first offence?that is, the first discovered offence?a card is sent to the ,-oung man informing him that he has :ertain hour on a certain day, and if the offence is repeated lie can consider himself ostracized by the good society of Great Bend. The club members are. pledged never to tell an outsider the name of the jffender,' but if the offence is repeated they make his name public in a little pamphlet called the Monthly Bar Record. ?Great Bend (Kan.) Correspondence Kanias City Times. A Tendency Toward Sobriety. The growth of sobriety among the working classes is one of the most promising features of the social conditions of to-day, ind it has been enforced by the immense development in the responsibilities of daily life. Never were intoxicating linuors and paralyzing drues more in reach of the people, but their excessive use is confined to verv few. The man who is known to be lddicted to them soon falls into disrepute in I and being unable to secure eniplcyment in any important caoacity he must in a short time degenerate into the class of incorrigibles and cease to have any recognition iir.ong decent people. There can be 110 doubt that the use of powerful and dangerous physical forces in the ordinary operations of life will constantly increase, and the need 'of sober, reliable and competent men bcrome so urgent that no man of irregular or intemper 1 - - LI- i-- 1 lie nanus win ?e ;inie io sci-uic chhjiujment of any sort in the years to come, and the time will not he distant, either.?New Orleans Picayune. How Drink Deludes. The effect of alcohol is to make a dazzling palace of the vilest slum; thr-ugh alcoholized eyes .crime, tilth and rags are < beautiful. Drifik makes the one-room dweller contented with his lot. We may despair of breeding uiscontent while drink holds sway. People who would reform society must make the dethroning of drink a plank in their platform. The Crrmade in Brief. The Sons of Temperance, an English society, has an adult membership of 42,775, a gain on the year of 230!). In 1893 the city of New York drank more than 5,1)00.000 barrels of intoxicating stuff, and paid $140,000,000 for the privi lege. During the last twenty years the deaths from alcoholism in Great Britain have increased 82 per cent, among men and 145 per cent, among women. William Amendv the "champion beer drinker of New York," died recently in Jiellevue Hospital of the worst case of cirrhosis of the liver ever seen there. It' you want to boom your city or town banish the saloon. Intemperance is bred in the club, in the home and in the social circle as well as in the barroom. The Red House, "a public house without beer," the first experiment of the kind in England, conducted by a religious organization, was dedicated recently at Stepney. Every one who buys an intoxicant, or offers an intoxicant to another, does his or her part toward maintaining the drink customs which underlie the waste and the woe and wretchedness of intemperance. In London. England, at Coroners' Inquests during ISSfi there were .'ilti deaths which the juries laid at the door of drink, although, if possible, they invaryibly bring in a verdict showing some other cause of death. THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 29. Subject: Xlie Transfiguration, Lnke Ix., 28-30 ? Golden Text: Lake lx., 33 ? Memory Verses, 33-33 ? Commentary , on tlie Day's Lesion. 28. "About an eight ciaya after." Matthew and Mark say six days. There were six full days and the fractional day3 at the beginning and the end riiaking "about" eight. "These sayings." Tire sayings of the last lesson. Edersheim supposes the great confession occurred on the Sabbath, and the transfiguration on the night after the Sabbath one week later. There is no intimation as to how the intervening week was spent. "Peter and John ancH James." These same apostles witnessed' His agony in the garden. He took these tnree (1) because He needed witnesses to prove the fact when the time came to reveal His glory to the world, and (2) for the purpose of encouraging and establishing tliem in the truths His kingdom. "Into a mountain." The .place of the transhguration scene is unknown, but it was probably Mount Hermon, not fart from Caesarea Phihppi. This is* the opinion of nearly all modern authorities. "To prav." It was the habit of Jesus to go alone in tha night to pray. Before He chose the Twelve, and after feeding the five thousand, we see Him praying in the night-. This time it was a "prayer mcetine.' 29. "As He prayed."' He was doubtless praying for strength to carry on His work and for the enlightenment of His disci-t pies; the transfiguration was the answer.' 'His countenance was altered." Matthew says, "His face did shine as the sun." It would' appear that the light shone not jpon Him from without, but that it shone >ut of Him from within; it was one blaze of dazzling, celestial glory; it was Himself glorified. "Rajment became white and lazzling" (R. V.) Mark says: "Exceeding white as snow." His face shone with divine majesty, and all His body was so irradiated by it that His clothes could not :onceal His glory, and became white and glistening as the very light with which He covered Himself as with a garment. 30. "Moses and Elijah." (R. \.)?Moses was a representative of the law; he was che founder of the Jewish dispensation, which for centuries had been preparing the way for Christ; he was a type of Christ, and had foretold His coming (Deut. 18:15-18); and through Him had been instituted the sacrifices which Christ fulfilled and which explained His coming death which so troubled the discioles. Elijah was the representative of tne prophets. They had foretold the coming and the suffering, of Christ, and Elijah was the one. who was to prepare the way of the Lord by his character and spirit reappearing in John the liaptist, the forerunner of Jesus. 31. "Who appeared in glory." In like dory with Jesus; with glorified bodies. i A J 1 _ .C TT* J >? A- A Ana spase 01 nis ueuease. v/r ucijuiture. or exodus from'the world; including, ao aoubt, His death, resurrection and ascension. "Which He was about to accomplish (R. V.) This conversation .would enabfe the disciples to see the importance and necessity of that which wa3 ;o them the greatest mystery?the suffering and death of their blessed Master. 32. "Were heavy with sleep." It was !n the night, and th/ time when they usuilly slept. Our English version implies that they fell asleep and were awakened ;o see His glory, while the original implies that, though heavy with sleep, they Kept cully awake. '"Were fully awake." (R. V.) Even though they may have been asleep it first when He was "transfigured before them" they were fully awake. "Saw His glory, and the two men." The brilliancy of their countenances and the dazzling brightness of the garments. It was i reality. It was not a dream, they were fully awake. 33. "As they departed." Peter must have seen that they were about ready to leave. "Peter said." Peter is always ready to speak. "It is good for us to be here." Peter spoke the truth. The apostles would be stronger, and more useful because of the divine manifestations. It is always good for us when the Lord esjecially manifests Himself to us; when we see His glory. "Let us make three tabernacles." Or booths, from the bushes of the mountains; such as were made at the feast of the tabernacles. He greatly desired to have the heavenly visitants renain with them. "Not knowing what he said." Peter's plans were frequently in apposition to those of the Lord. He was so amazed and bewildered by the glory of the heavenly manifestations that he know aot what he said. How manv times do we speak unwisely because we do not stop CO consider our worus. 34. '"While he thus spake." Here was the response to Peter's suggestion, a wise answer to a foolish prayer; denying the petition in order to grant something better. "There came a cloud, and overshadowed them." Matthew says a "bright" cloud. A cloud had frequently been the symbol of the divine presence. "They feared." This glorious manifestation of God's presence caused them to tremble. It is very likely that the transfiguration took place in the night, in which case the light of Christ's countenance, the dazzling brightness of ?is garments, and the glory of the cloud, would have a marked effect, because of the ab; sence of the solar light. "Entered into." It was first above them and then seemed to descend over them and envelop them. 35. "A voice." The voice of God the Father. It revealed nothing new, but :ontirms the old, for it was the same voice which had been heard at his baptism. This would show to Peter and the apostles present that tluy did not need to detain Moses and Elijah in order to add to their happiness, "l^his is i?Iv beloved ' Af.iH lioit' n/Irlc "Tn w'lrtm f am well pleased." They had Jesus with them, and He was more than all the hosts of heaven would he without Him. "Hear Him." He is superior even to Moses, the ?reat lawgiver. Moses himself had made such a statement.* Dent. 18:15. He is superior to Elijah and the prophets, and is the One to whom they |?ovrfted. Hear Him; attend to His instructions and obey His words. 30. "When the voice was past." The iisciples fell on their faces, and were sore afraid.?Matthew. They feared as they i antered into the cloud, but now when they heard the voice of God. probably as loud as thunder (see John 12:29), and full of divine majesty such as mortal ears were unac&istomed to hear, they fell fiat to the ground on their faces, being sore afraid; an eftect which manifestations of this kind commons had on the prophets and other holy men to whom they were given. It was so with Abram ((Jen. 15: 12); and Ezckiel (Ezek. 1:28); and Daniel , (Dan. 8: 17; 10; 8, 9); and John (Rev. i:17); and I have known peopli nowadays, wTien under the direct .illumination af the Spirit, to lose their strength and fall to the ground. In this condition the three disciples hv until Jesus carno and touched them and raised them up, dspeiling their fears. POPULATION OF PORTO RICO. The C?mm Show* 003,243 Inhabitants or 264 to tho Square Mile. General Sanger, Director, of the Census of Porto Rico, has issued a bulletin showing that the population of the island on October 16, 1899, was 953,243. The population of the island to the square mile is 204. The people of Porto Rico are, in the main, a rural community. There are no large cities in the island, the two largest being San Juan, which has a population of 32,048, and Ponce, with a population of 27.952. There are in Porto Rico fifty-seven cities, each having a population of 1000 or more. The total urban population of the island, under this definition, numbers 203,792, or 21.4 per cent, of the total number of inhabitants of the island. Walnut Log For Tiirl* Exhibition. At Dewey, thirty miles south of Coffeyville. Kan., a walnut log has been shipped to the Paris Exposition. The tree from which the log was taken is supposed to be 400 years old. The trunk is sixteen feet in circumference, and the first limb Mas forty-five feet from the ground. The Centre of ropulntlon. The census of 190:) will probably show, figuring on the old basis, that the centre ?f population is somewhere between Terre Haute and Vincennes, Ind. i GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. The Joy of Living?Made a New World to KxUt?The/Heart and the Brain? The Grammar of Christianity ? Infinite Love Makes No .MUtake. O give me the joy of living, \ And some glorious work to do; \ A spirit of thanksgiving, With loyal heart and true: Some pathway to make brighter, V Where tired feet now stray; Some burden to make lighter While 'tis day. 0 give me the joy of living. In the world where God lives too; And the blessed power of giving. Where men have so much to do; t ...i., Ajiri iui' wum* iiiru ait; numii^, And help them up the steep:? May the trees I pla.it ho thriving While I sleep. On the fields of the Master cleaning, May my heart and hands he strong; Let me know life's deepest moaning, Let nii?sing life's sweetest song;? With some faithful hearts to love mo Let me nobly do my best; And, at last, with heaven above me, Let me rest. ?The Iiev. Julian S. Cutler in Uni* verbalist Leader. Made a New World to Exist. I Pray that some portion of Wesley's spirit may descend on us. Think of his purity, his disinterestedness, his love of the poor, his willingness to take up the cross and. follow Clirst. Consider what a great thing this is?that a man s?ould devote all his powers to the good of his fellow-men; that his thoughts should be wholly turned, not on himself, but oo God. Try and imagine seriously the ef* * feet of his life-long labors on this country. on the British Colonies, on the United States. He may be truly said to have changed the face of the religious world. The English High Churchman may sometimes regret that the Wesleyan has got the start of him in Wales, or Cornwall, or in the towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire, and will be inclined to hope that all may come right in the end, as they say. But we may be allowed to regard the labors of Wesley in a very different spirit; for we know that every year, for many generations, thousands and tens of thousands have gone to their rest all over the world, men and women, young and old. blessing Cod that they were brought to the knowledge of him and of his truth through the teaching of John Wesley. There is probably no considerable townr wherever the English language is spoken, in which one of his f1innel< lir.o not" )??>n mwteil And lift who went on his ill-starred expedition to Georgia, and returned again with scant success, was in one respect like Columbus: he did not know that he had called into existence a new world.?Professor Benjamiu Jowett, M. A. The Heart an<l the Brain. Heart is a word of which the Bible U full. Rrain, I believe, is not mentioned in Scripture. Heart, in the sense in which it is currently understood, suggests thb warm centre of'human life or any other life. When we say of a man that he "has a good deal of heart," we mean that he is "summery." When yon come near him it is like getting round to the south side of a house in midwinter and letting the sunshine feel of you, and Watching the snow slide off the' twigs and the tear-drops swell on the points of pendant icicles. Brain counts for a good deal more today than heart does. It will win more applause and earn a larger salary. Thought is driven with a curbbit lest it quicken into a pace and widen out into a swing that transcends the dictates of good form. ICxubeiauce is in bad odor. Appeals to the heart are not thought to be quite in good taste. The current demand is for ideas?not taste. I asked a member of my church the other day whether he thought of a certain friend of his who attends, a certain , phmvh Mini is pveentionnllv brainv was really entering into sympathy with religions things. "Oh. no."' ho .said, he likea to hoar preaching because ho has uu active mind, ami the way that things are spread on* in front of him." In the old days of the church a sormou used to convert liooo men; now that temperature is down, it takes 1000 sermons to convert one man.?Ilev. Dr. Parkhurst, D. D., New York. The Grammar of Christianity. It is perfectly possible to maintain th? sweetness and the strength of the Chris- ? tian lif'? here among our fellows. This is the evident lesson from the life of Jesus. Wo often miss it. But see Him always in closest touch with life, see Him there doing the will of God, see Him saving Ilis soul in service and inspiration given to others. So much has been said about the other-worldliness of the disciples of Jesus. The Christian life is the life of the present tense and the indicative mood and the active voice. Its xraiutuar must emphasize the pro gressive present. Wi- are not sunt up ny ourselves, we are not surrounded by those who think Alike, nml bidden here to live for our Lord. We are sent out where we may meet the must men in the most varied ways: we are sent out where we may he questioned and tested: here in the croud we are told to do And he what Jesus of Nazareth was. This is the neglected note in the present conception of the Christian life. Infinite Love .Make* No Mistake, There are dark problems which evett faith dues nut make plain to us. The empty cradle and the aching motherheart: the turn infant tendrils vainly reaching out for mother-love, which uuthing else un earth can satisfy; the broken heart of wedded luvc; the cry of widows and orphans for the strong arm snatched away; the unfulfilled promises of youthful life; the uncompleted arcs uf circles; buds that are never allowed to blossom? oh! we cannot understand these tilings. Even the glorious hope of immortality beyond does not make clear the necessity of shattered hopes ami crushed hearts and bleeding lives here. But hope leans on the strong shoulder of faith, and faith gathers inspiration from the sunshine of hope?and both together are encircled by the arms uf eternal love. For Christ is tin1 sun st proof that God is love and that life is luvc. and that inr r null.-,, un mistake.?Iter. iuiii.tr %mi - ? ?- - Charles A. Savage. It is a profound remark of Prescott'a that "liberty is dependent upon forms." But what i* of more importance to remember is that love is dependent upon forms?courtesy of etiquette guards and protects courtesy of heart.?F. \V. Koi>ertson. . I If we would live in peace, let us make the best constructions of one another's words and actions. Charity judgeth the best, and it thinks no evil. If words and * actions may be construed in a good sense, let us never put a bad construction on them.?John Bunyan. |fl Dost thou well to be discontent when God has given thee the whole tree, with HR all the clusters of comfort growing on ^Hj it. because He suffers the winds to blow BH down a few leaves??John Flu vol. Won a Ball Game and 815,000. For eight years Wooster University, in Wooster, Ohio, had tabooed intercolle giate athletic?. Several years ago Jvlward S. Kelly, of New York City, a graduate^HHS in the class of 78, stated that when Woos^HHH ter had a ball team and won one game h^^HH would make a donation. Athletics wer^H^H reinstated this year and one game was won^^^^fl A few days ago President H olden an^HHH nounced a gift by telegram from Keliy o^HH $15,009. Lived to He 133 Yn.tra 01<l. .Tames lied dick, believed to be the ofl^H est man in Ohio, if not in the Unit^^H^^H States, died in the Columbiana Intirm^^Hn^H a few days ago. aged 123 years. He born a slave in Virginia in 1777. His b^H^fl^H wife, aged ninety, survives him.