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w TK)? E?I?T<?> New York City.?The skirt that falls to the instep and clears the ground by two or throe inches grows in favor day by day. No longer model rivals " wnll-inrr niiMnnp SPOrtS OT It IVi ?? Ull\iUh, VUI. UVV4 shopping. Graceful as long skirts are In their proper place, they are a menace to health and a detriment to comfort when the occasion demands freedom of movement. Paris has already declared the shorter length correct, t and proves daily how ready and eager p well-dressed women are to make the Change. Golfing ploth, cheviot, serge igbMMRjP CiDZBS' .short ( THESE PIBCH SKIKT. r and all similar ' materials* are used*. The only requirement Is that cient thickness arid weight tq^takc5' good folds and, if poslble, to dferpens? With lining. x' The May Manton model illo?jxated Includes all the ^latest features?5i?he skirt is cnt with jj front gore, 'iBRh flares gracefully, and circular pornois, which form a deep Lnverted'-plfett a*> the back. As shown, the m^eria^ is tan-colored cheviot, .simply Bitched down the front two. seams awMM the lower edgg at jthe top'of th^^Hfc Jng. Any quiat.tone is suitable, however.and the trimming can b&lpimBged ' to stitched bands or braid, "w*. pre iejTCU. AS 8DOWu, law leogm ia wtGlrei a Graceful Effect. The attractive May Mauton model shown in the large engraving is suifil 10*0 feti' i; /. , ' v. IRU,, .-." LADIES' DBA <r?lnn+lxr cnncr fittirM* +/v nvnlri nil KPnSG I * of looseness, yet Is draped across the front to give a most graceful effect. Cashmere, which is to be much worn ? during the autumn and winter, and all 7 soft wool stuffs,' as well as lace, foulards, crepe de chine and liberty silks, f - are eminently appropriate. As illusi.. trated, the material is a foulard in pastel blue, with bla<A, with trimming of black velvet ribbon and yoke of plain blue banded with velvet. L-' The foundation for the waist is a fitted lining tlmt closes at the centre front. The back and underarm gores of the material are plain and without '( ~ fulness, but the right front is cut to form a drapery below the yoke and hooks well into the left side, the clos ; ing being concealed by the folds. The yoke is smooth and faced into the lining at the back and right front, but hooks into place at the left shoulder and arm's eye. The circular bertha is cut in three overlapping sections that give pretty fulness over the sleeves. One or two sections of the bertha may be omitted if a plainer effect Is preferred. The sleeves are two-seamed and fit smoothly without being overtight. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size five and one-half yards of material twenty-one inches wide, or two and three-eighths yards fortyfour inches wide, will be required. A Fanc.T oT tho Time. Small black rings figure the surface of a cranberry crimson foulard gowu for late afternoon or evening wear. The skirt has a front gore laid in fine tucks and circular sides, with a border of three tucks, which go around the skirt. The corsage has a jabot front of shiny black Spanish lace. Deep points of Spanish, lace are appliqued in the bodice in front and in back. The sleeve is in two parts, a closefitting upper of crimson foulard, and beneath it is an undersleeve of black lace over crimson chifL'on The neckband is extremely plain and liooks in the middle at the back. . Flowered Silk Train*. Violets, tiny rosebuds, buttercups and asters, lightly printed upon white glace silk, form a remarkably pretty L _ _ _ ? Of FASHION. I trimming Vor a white Swiss muslin gown. The silk is measured off and crut into bins bands. It does not matter if the stem of a rosebud or a violet bead is missing, clipped away by the bins-cut of trie sharp scissors. The bands are applied as a beading U) a flounce or simply up and down in machine-stitched bands. The yellow and violet flowers are especially pretty used this wav. Inside Trimmings For SutiRhadeft. A fAttire of a modish sunshade ol opple green glace silk is that, all the trimming is concentrated inside the frame, at the lower edge. Outside the parasol is simply finished with a hemstjtched (pdge. Inside, soft ruch ings of sppteigreln silk are carefully stitched to the lining. Unless a parasol is lined it should be covered with a silk dark enough to keep the sun's rays from coming through. A palecolored sunshade often admits the glare-In di|agreeable manner. *. *' tjlany Lace Collar Hand. "kKtlfo efhjr is the verdict pronounced on our new neckband made of Clunylace. Clnny, being a rather heavy lace! stands up well, washes and weup equally well. If you can find-th^f |o|r^ct width you need, and put ribM Hinder it as a transparent, your talk fi /Uen easy, as collar stifi<at*ing Jmd* eofcr shapes are bought ready made. Perhaps you can get j&tmy lace 'especially woven with slits Ifcr inserting ribboas. This makes a stylish and novel collar band. ? / Terminate at tlie Waint Lino. TKa' mo ntf thp best COl'Set COV ers terminate at the waist line, and tWir fron.rf arc in surplice form. The high-necked or half-liigb corset cover is no longer used by the best-dressed women. Antauin Dress For a Girl. Charming aud attractive as guimpe gowns unquestionably are. every mother realizes the utility of the model that can be made of one material, and that does not inevitably involve the dainty yoke and sleeves that must be laundered after each day's wear. The very pretty aud stylish May Manton design shown has the merit of allowing the guimpe, when desired, and of being equally available for the long, snug sleeves and for low-neck and short puffed sleeves, as occasion may require. Made of one material, as il ? * ^ lPED waist. Iustratcd, it is suitable for daily afternoon wear or for a street costume wheu the days begin to grow cool; with a guimpe of white, or with low neck and puffed sleeves it becomes suitable for dancing school and party wear. The deep pointed collar, which is a feature, may also be varied and made all of lace or uedlework, of contrasting silk for an older child, or of the material trimmed. Cotton materials. such as dimity, Swiss, organdy , and Madras are suitable, as well as' clmllies, cashmeres and the sample I Oriental silks that are much liked for 1 ... i children's dressy gowns; but the raouei is of figured challie in eiel blue, with trimming of lace insertion joined under rows of narrow black velvet ribbon. Tbe foundation for the waist is a fitted lining, which closes at the centre back. The sleeves arc made for their entire length, the puffs being arranged over the plain portions. The skirt Is straight and full, simply gathered at the top and joined to the waist, wh^Te it is finished to a baud of the trimming. 'v , To cut this dress for a girl eight DRESS FOR A OtJiL. years of age four yards of material twenty-one inches wide, three ar.d onehalf yards thirty two inches wide, or two yards forty-four iucbes wide, will be required. i DR, TALMAGPS SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY"THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Garden of the KIne?ChrUt the Founder and Gardener?The Flowera and Fruits of tlellelom Devotion ?The iieauty of Right Living. I Copyright inuu.1 Washington, D. C.?This sermon Dr. I Talmage sends from a halting placc in his journey through the valleys of Switzerland. It seems to have been prepared amid the bloom ami aroma .of a garden midsummer. The text is Song of Solomon v, 1. "I am come into my carden." The Bible is a great poem. We have in it faultless rhythm and bold imagery and startling anthithesis and rapturous lyric nnri Qiooof rv?ofnrn 1 snrl inafrnofiwo norm. tive and devotional psalm; thoughts expressed in style more solemn than that of Montgomery, more bold than that of Milton, more terrible than that of Dante, more natural than that of Wordsworth, more impassioned than that of Pollok, more tender than that of Cowper, more weird than that of Spenser. This great poem brings all the gems of the earth into its coronet, and it weaves the flames of judgment into its gr.rlands and pours eternal harmonies in its rhythm. Everything this book touches it makes beat>?iful, from the plain stones of the summer thrashing floor to the daughters of Nahor filling the troughs for the camels; from the fish pools of Heshbon up to the psalmist praising God with diapason of storm and whirlwind, and Job's imagery of Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiades. My text leads us into a scene of summer redolence. The world has had a great 'many beautiful gardens. Charlemagne added to the glory of his reign by decreeing that they be established all through the realm?deciding even the names of the flowers to be planted there. Henry IV., at Montpelier, established gardens of bewitching beauty and luxuriance, gathering info them Alpine, Pyrenean and French plants. One of the sweetest spots on earth was the garden of Shenstone, the poet. His writings have made bat little imnression on the world, but Lis garden, '"The Leasowes," will be immortal. To the natural advantages of that place was brought the perfection of art. Arbor and terrace and slope and rustic temple and reservoir and urn and fountain here had their crowning. _ Oak and yew and hazel put forth their richest foliage. There was no life more diligent, no soul more ingenious than that of Shenstone, and all that diligence and genius he brought to the adornment of that one treasured spot. He gave ?300 for it; he sold it for ?17,000. And yet I am to tell you to-day of a richer garden than any I have mentioned. It is the garden SDoken of in my text, the garden ?f the church, which belongs to Christ, for irvy text says so. He bought it. He olanted it, He owns it, and He shall have it. Walter Scott, in his outlay at Abbotsford, ruined his fortune, and now, in the crimson flowers of those gardens, you can almost think or imagine that you see the ulood of thai old man's broken heart. The payment of the' last ?100,000 sacrificed him. But I have to tell you that , Christ's love and Christ's death were the outlay of thia beautiful garden of the church, of which my text BDeaks. Oh. how many sighs and tears and pangs and agonies! Tell me, ye women who saw Him hang! Tell me, ye executioners who lifted Him and let Him down! Tell me, . thou sun that didst hidePye rocks that fell! "Christ loved the church and gave Himself for1 it." If the garden of the church belongs to Christ, cer^inly He has a right to walk in it. Come, then, O blessed Jesus, to-day: walk up and down these aisles, and pluck w(hat Thou wilt of sweetness for Thyself! The church, in my text, is appropriately# compared to a garden, because it is a place of choice flowers, of select fruits and of thorough irrigation. That would be a strange paracn in which there were no flowers. If nowhere else, they would be along the borders or at the gateway. The homeliest taste will dictate something, if it be only the oldfashioned hollyhock or dahlia or daffodil, but if there be larger means, then you wiil find the Mexican /cactuB and blazing azalea and clustering oleander. . Well, now, Christ comes to His Garden, aiid He plflnts there some of the brightest spirits that ever flowered upon the w'orld.. Borne of them are violets, inconspicuous, but sweet as heaven. You have to search and find them. You do not see them very often, perhaps, but you find where n they h've been bv the brightened face of the invalid and the sprig of geranium on the stand and the new window curtains keeping out the glow of the sunlight. They are, perhaps, more like thft'ranunculus, creeping swiftly along amid the thorns and briers of life, giving kiss for sting, and many a man who has* had in his way some {?reat black rock of trouble has found that they have covered it all over with fltWery jasmine running in and out, amid the crevices. * These flowers in Christ's garden are not like the sunflower, gaudy in the light, but wherever darkness hovers over a soul that needs to be comforted, there they stand, night blooming cereuses. But in Christ's garden there are plants that may be betx? ??J xer cumparcu LU buc ^ucAiuau vuuvu o? thorns without, loveliness within; men with sharp points of character. They wound almost every one that touches them. They are hard to handle. Men pronounce them nothing but thorns, but Christ loves them notwithstanding all their sharpnesses. Many a man has had % very bard ground to cultivate, and it' has only been through severe trial he has raised even the smallest scrap of grace. A very harsh minister was talking to a very i>la~id elder, and the placid elder said to the harsh minister: "Doctor, I do wish you would control your temper." "Ah," said the minister to the elder, "I control more temper in five minutes than 1 you do in five years." It is harder for some men to do right than for other men to do right. The grace that would elevate you to the seventh heaven might not keep your brother from knocking a man down. I had a friend who came to me and sr.id. "I dare not join the church." I 6aid, "YV'liv?" "Oh, he said, "I have such a violent temper. Yesterday morn ing I was crossing very early at tne Jersey City ferry, and I saw a milkman pour a large quantity of water into the milk can, and I said to him: 'I think that will do,' and he insulted me and I knocked him down. Do vou think I ought to join the church?" Nevertheless that very same man, who was so harsh in his behavior, loved Christ, and could not speak of sacred things without tears of emotion and affection. Thorns without, sweetness within?the best specimen of Mexican cactus I ever saw. There are others planted in Christ's garden who are always radiant, always impressive?more like the roses of deep hue that we occasionally find, called "giants of battle;" the Martin Luthers, St. Pauls, Chrysostoms, Wycliffes. Latimers and Samuel Rutherfords. What in other men is a spark in them is a conflagration. When they sweat, they sweat great drops of blood. When they pray, their prayer takes fire. When they preach it is a Pentecost. When they fight, it is a Thermopylae. When they die, it is a martyrdom. You find a great many roses in the gardens, but only a few "giants of battle." Men say, "Why don't you have more of them in the church?" 1 say, "Why don't you have in the world more Humboldts and Wellirjtons?" God gives to some ten talents, to others one. Again, the church may be appropriately I f/v i rrnTvlnn ViPonncA if. i< n UWlli|JUiCU VU u V" ?v.., - . w ? place of fruits. That would bo a strange garden which had in it no berries, no plums or peaches or apricots. The coarser fruits are planted in the orchard or they arc set out on the sunny hillside, but the choicest fruits are kept in the garden. So in the world outside the church Christ has planted a great many beautiful things ?patience, charity, generosity, integrity, but He intends the choicest fruits to be in the garden, and if they are not there, then shame on the church. Religion is not a mere flowering sentimentality. It i& a practical, life giving, healthful fruit?not posies, but apples. "Oh," says somebody. "I don't see what the garden of th6 church has yielded." Where did your asylums come from, and your hospitals, and your institutions of mercy? Christ planted every one of them. He planted them in His garden. When Christ cave sight to Eurtimeusj He . * V' . > laid the cornerstone o! every blind nsylum that has ever been built. When Christ soothed the demoniac of Galilee, He laid the cornerstone of every lunatic aavlum that has ever been established. When Christ said to the sick man. "Take up thy bed and walk," He laid the cornerstone of every hospital the world has ever seen. When Christ said, "I wa.? in prison, and ye visited Me," He laid the cornerstone of every prison reform association that has ever be?n organized. The church of Christ is a glorious garden, and it is full of fruit. I know there is some poor fruit in it. I know there are some weeds that ought to be thrown over the fence. I know there are some crabapple trees that ought to be cut down. I know there are some wild grapes that ought to be uprooted. But are you going I to destroy the whole garden because of 11 little gnarled fruit? You will iind worm eaten leaves in Fontainebleau and insecta that stine in the fairy groves of the Champs Elysees. You do not tear down and destroy the whole garden because there are a few specimens of gnarled fruit. I admit there are men and women in the church who ought not to be there, but let us be frank and admit the fact that there are hundreds and thousands of glorious Christian men and women?holy, blessed, useful, consecrated and triumphant. There is no grander collection in all the earth than the collection of Christians. There are Christian men in every church whose religion is not a matter of psalm singing and churchgoing. To-morrow morning that religion will keep them just as consistent and consecrated in their worldly occupation as it ever kept them at the communion table. There are women with us to-day of a higher type of character than Mary of Bethany. They not only sit at the feet of Christ, but they go out into the kitchen to help Martha in her work, that she may sit there too. There is a woman who has a drunken husband, who has exhibited more faith and patience and courage than Ridley in the lire. He was consumed in twenty minutes. Hers has been a twenty years' martyrdom. Yonder is a man who has been fifteen years on his back, unable to feed himself, yet calm and peaceful as though he lay on one of the green banks of heaven, watching the oarsmen dip their paddles in the crystal river! I have not told you of the better tree in this garden and of the better fruit. It was planted judt outside Jerusalem a good while ago; When that tree was planted, it was so split and bruised and barked men said-Sot hing would ever grow upon.it, but ao^boner had that tree been planted wp it;;budded and blossomed o<\liflJaro' anoo ra woro only ,gaHMK(|*hick clown that fruit,and at!fell into tie lap of the nation*, ana'ihe men began lp pick it up and eat it,, 4bd -they found in it an antidote to all thflfit, to all poison, to aft sin, to all death,' the smallest, cluster larger than the fam3U3 one of Esbcol, which two men carried'Oh'a staff between them. If the one apple in Eden'" killed the race, this one cluster oS^mercr ahail restore. t, the-xhurcn in my text is approcalled' a garden' because it is hly irrigated., No- garden could l$ig withopfc plenty of water. i 2fKjen a> garden in the midst of a desert, jfigtyboifting and luxuriant. All around ;VU .dearth and barrenness, but therev'tfiare'pipW, aqueducts reaching from this garden;. up to the mountains, and througfl these'aqueducts toe water came streaming doiro and tossing up into bewj$ ul' fountains tintil every root and leiriand'flifwer was saturated. That! is like the church. The church is a garden in the midst <jf a great desert of sin and suffering, but it is well irrigated, for "our eyes are unto the hills from nnm?tK rair Hpln" From the mountains of God's strength there flow down rivers of gladness. "There is a river the stream whereof Bhall make glad the city of oGr God." Preaching the gospel is one of the aqueducts. The Bible is another. Baptism and the Lord's supper are aqueducts. Water to slake the -thirst, water to Wash the unclean, water tossed high up ip the light of the Sun of Righteousness showing us the rainbow around the thrdne. Oh, w?#s there ever a garden so .thoroughly irrigated ? ' Tnen I see Jesus going-up another garden path, and I see great excitement among the leaves, and I hasten up to that garden path to see what. Jesus is doing there, and, lo, He is breaking off flowers, sharp and clean from the stem, and I say: "Stop, Jesua. Do not kill those beautiful flowers." He turns to me and says, "I have come into My garden to gather lilies, and I mean to take these up to a higher terrace, for the garden around My palace, and there I will plant them, and in better soil and in better air they shall put forth brighter leaves and sweeter redolence, ana no frost shall touch them forever. And I looked up into His face and said: "Well, it is Thy garden, and Thou hast * ? ?iiL id. rri... a right to do wnat inou win wuu it. xuy will be done"?the hardest prayer a man ever made. It has seemed as if Jesus Christ took the best. From manaof your households the best one is gone.^foii kiow that she was too 'good for this world. She was the gentlest in her ways, the deepest in her affection, and when at last the sickness came you had no,faith in medicines. You knew that the hour of parting had come, and when, through the rich grace of the Lord J28US Christ, you surrendered that treasure you said: "Lord Jesus take it?ifc is tlit best we have. Take it. Thou art worthy." The others in the household may have been of grosser mold. She was of the finest. ' The heaven of your little ones will not be fairly begun until you get there. All the kindnesses shown them by fromor$als will not make them forget you. There they are, the radiant throngs that went out from your homes. I throw a kiss to the sweet darlings.1 They are all well now in the palace. The crippled child has a sound foot now. A litfle lame child says, ' -I. T 1 1 ?% 9" ,r "iUa, win x oe lame in ucavcu. i<v, darling, you won't be lame in heaven. I noticc that the fine gardens sometimes have high fences around them, and I cannot get in. It is so with a king's garden. The only glimpse you ever get of such a garden is when the king rides out in his splendid carriage. It is not so with this garden, this King's garden. I throw wide open the gate and tell you all to come in. No monopoly * in religion. Whosoever will, may. Choose now between a desert and a garden. Many of you have tried the Sarden of this world's delight. You have ound it has been a chagrin. So it was with Theodore Hook. He made all the world laugh. He makes us laugh now when we read his poems, but he could not make his own heart laugh. While in the midst of his festivities ne confronted a looking glass, and he saw himself and said: "There, that is true. I look just as I am, done up in body, mind and purse." So it was of .Shenstone, of whose garden I told you at the beginning of my sermon. He sat down amid those bowers and said: "I have lost my road to hapT 9m anfrrv nnH envious and |/iuvoo? m. uiu j ^ frantic and despise everything around me just as it becomes a madman to do." 0 ye weary souls, come into Christ's garden to-day and pluck a little heartsease! Christ is the only rest and the only pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do you not think your chance has almost come? You men and women who have been waiting year after year for some good opportunity in which to accept Christ, but have postponed it five, ten, twenty, thirty years?do you not feel as if now your hour of salvation had come? 0 man, what grudge hast thou against thy poor soul that thou wilt not let it be saved? Some years ago a vessel struck on the rocks. They had only one lifeboat. In that lifeboat the passengers and crew were getting ashore. The vessel had foundered and was sinking deeper and deeper, and that one boat could not take the passengers very swiftly. A little girl stood on the deck waiting for her turn to get into the boat. The boat came and went, came and went, but her turn did not seern to come. After awhile she could wait no longer, and she leaped on the taffrail and then sprang into the sea, crying to the boatman: "Save me next! Save me nexil" Oh, how many have gone ashore into God's mercy, and yet you are clinging to .the wreck of sin. Others have accented the n.irrlon of Christ, but you are in peril, Why not this moment make a rush for your immortal rescue, crying until Jesus ah a 11 hear you and heaven and earth ring flth the cry: "Save me next! Save aie nejt!" Now is the dty vi salwitioa! Nowj^KgwV "TEE GREAT DESTROfEfi. V some startling ' facts about the vice of intemperance. / Lord Robert* U a Firm Believer In Temperance 'itnd. To ail. AbgMnence?How lie Worke8F*lteformation In the Canteen System ili the British Amir. Lord Roberts," who brought .order out of chaos in South Afrfca as far as British military interests were concerned, and who to-dav in consequence stands the greatest soldier in that vast empire, is of Irish blood. He is also a believer in temperance and total abstinence. He has done much for the soldiers in this direction. We may not be enthused over Lord, Roberts's defeat' of the Boers, but we *-.n I on of with inforoaf nnr? nrnfif of the change lie ha* wrought in the canteen system of the British army. Here is what a writer in the Standard says of him: "Knowing the terrible amount of drinking in tha army in India, and that drunkenness is the father of many other vices, and Beeing that evangelistic work met with so much opposition on the part of many officers, Sir Frederick determined to'remedy these evils. Accordingly/ a thorough reformation in the canteen system was attempted. And no one outside of the army knows Mjbat a gigantic undertaking this is. Where formerly men sat within bare walls and at dirty benches drinking bad beer from tin pots, which 'they carried to and from their barrack rooms, and with absolutely nothing to divert thei^ minds from drinking, there sprang up decorated walls, clean floors, covered tables, glasses, innocent games and reading matter, all of which taught the soldier something of self-resnect. Aftej; a while the coffee shop, which hitherto had been in the hands of native Mohammedans, was taken up by the soldiers themselves and greatly improved in cleanliness, respectability and attractiveness. The temperance cotjee shops, too, came to be a recognized institution and received a due share of attention. "Here men could spend a quiet evening, writing letters, sipping a cup of tea or coffee, or even having a substantial meal served. No half-arunken comrade could molest the self-respecting man here. To my personal knowledge the regimental savings banks in the Lucknow cantonments received a marked increase in the number of depositors as a result of these changed conditions. In fact, men began to see that some one cared for them and desired to elevate them socially and morally. Non-commis sioned omQers were at this time strictly enjoined to teach self-respect by example, and if they themselves were found drunk, either on or off duty, they were severely dealt with." The March of Disfranchisement. The following extract is made from a sermon by the Rev. E. Teazet, Liverpool, reported in the Christian Nation, of New York: -t , "In the drink problem we are face to face with one of 'the. most wealthy and selfish combinations that ever threatened the national well being. And the ^ all-important question is, how shall the nation best protect itself from this danger? Tem* perance societies and temperance ins^ruc-tion and restrictive legislation have been tried, but the evil and danger are still with us. That ragged and reeling procesnion wends its way through the doors of uhe taproom to the haunts of poverty, crime and death. The true remedy can onlv be fonnd in Durcrinz the electorate and through it the Legislature from the drink interest. "Why not place the members of the drink trade under a drink disability, and exclude them, not only from Parliament, but also from the polling booths? Such a measure would meet the liquor dealer and. shareholder on theit own ground. They,', by a' wide distribution of shares, have been laboring to create thousands of interested votes, and thus push theii "trade" regardless of the public good. Disfranchisement of the drink interest would set the electors free to give unselfish votes for unselfish and public-spirited men. . "The dis>anchuement of the drink interest seems the only remedy capable' of meeting the situation. When those men who clothe their fellows in rags, and 6end them through poverty and prison to drunkards' graves, are excluded from the pooling booth and Parliament, godly citizens who have hitherto been compelled to 3taod aloof from politics will be induced to play their part and cast their vote for the public good. The civil ruler "will again become what God intended he should be, the minister of God to the people for cneir gooa.j An Object l>?Mon. Only a few years ago and Sockalexis, a i full-blooded Penobscot Indian, was a Prominent figure in the baseball world. [e was the star player in one of the big league teams, ana his name was one to conjure with. Strong, wiry and agile, he was the iaeal of an Indian athlete. He drew a large salary, and his future seemed ! unusually bright. To-day that same Sockalexis, or rather the same in name only, still a young man, is locked up in a Massachusetts workhouse on the charge of vagrancy. He is a victim of that worst en- ^ emy of his race. Fire-water has got ttoe better of him, and now he is but a broken, shattered wreck of his former self. Sockalexis is a living obiect lesson of the evils of intemperance.?Washington Star. Saloons and Tuberculosis Dr. J. Wheatley, medical officer of health, lilackburn. England, in his annual report just issued states that no places, excluding the workrooms of some trades, are more favorable to the spread of tuberculosis than saloon parlors and other frequented rooms of saloons. This is not to be wondered at when one considers the filthy habits as to expectoration too common among those who freouent these places, and the neglect of -r-? -l.i.:? ,?.l, n,? Cieaniiness (.nut uiiuu uuiuun mvu u?c people jn charge of the lower-class drinking places. He urges most scrupulous c'canliness in the management of these placci.?Lancet. A General's Testimony. General Gallieni, Governor of Madagascar, says: "I have never drunk anything but water, and not filtered water or boiled water; no, but the water found within reach?in the Soudan, water often proceeding from a marshy stream and having an unpleasant odor?at Tonquin, water from the rice swamps, from the marshes encountered in the course of our operations?at Madagascar, the water from .*?wl Afkar lnonlifioc U'Kiph. ? auaiuiiv %j auu wubi ivwu..?.v.., ..... , moreover, are considered bad. I do not | mean by this that I would recommend bad water, but what I would say is simply this, far better bad water than any sort of alcoholic liquor." The Crnitade in Brief. The deaths from cirrhosis (drunkard's liver) in men have increased twelve pet cent.; in women, twenty-six per cent. According to the London Lancet, chronic drinking in 1897, as compared with 1878, is the cause of an increase of 82% per cent, of deaths among men, and of 145% per cent, among women. Statesmen may create for themselves theories that extenuate a national vice like intemperance, which yields the ex chequer so many millions a year, but, speaking from a medical point of view, Me must point out that it is disgracefu' and disastrous. Russians do not aim at total abstinence, but attack drunkenness by less direct means, such as organizing healthy rcerea tions for the people. The little town of Mary, Iml.. is in a state of excitement because a man nameij Andrew Oliver has secured a license tc open a saloon there. l'\>r thirty years the place has been without a saloon, though I hundreds of attempts have been maue 10 start such places. Twenty years ago, when there were about 15,000 men in the New York Central service, the average proportion of men discharged for drunkenness within a certain period was at least twenty pei cent. Now, with 30.000 men employed by the company, not one per cent, is ill ' lied from the service for that uiu&'e. ?" n nil i iB V. ? . ? v'"t GOFS TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUGHTS FHOVI THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS Love's Victory?How God Manifests Him> self? Take .Your Troubles to Cbriet? Your Own'Foundation ? The Lay ot Cold Water?The Morpe Ever Upward. Oh. Thou beloved one-*For Thee this work is done, For Thee alone! Father of tenderness, ITdp us to wrongs redress, Thy sheep to tend and bless, Over this atone! Wa nm ftiT f>hilHri>n. Lord. Teach us to keep thy word Precious and pure! Lead us in paths of right, And make us clear of sight. Noble and true and bright, Steady and sure! Thou God of boundless love. In earth and heaven above, Take Thou Thy own. This stone we lay for Thee, Make it n token be Of Love's great victory? 'Bless Thou this stone. ?13tta Wattice Miller in Universalis! Leader.'' How God Manifest* BltnseK. Even to the world about him th* Christian is recognized by his resemblance to Christ. It was true in the | days of the apostles that men took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus. This is God'? way of manifesting Himself to the world. His Spirit ia embodied in the members; they are like Him. So it becomes God's method ot propagating the Gospel among men, making it known by the light, the spirit, ' which lives in and shines out from them. In this important sense every tr'je disciple is a messenger and missionary ,ot the Gospel. It does not matter that the disciple is but a weak and frail instrument. It is not ye that speak, but tfce Spirit of you Father that speaketh in > you. The filmy thread in the electric; lamp is .but an insignificant thing; bat when the electric current courses through it, it makes the room luminous with its radiance. So the weakest servant of Christ shines with a glory un surpassing the light of the world, and men come to rejoice in that light Every child of God is required to let his light shine that others, seeing, may glorify the Father. He who dwells with (iod becomes partner of His Spirit, and that Spirit cannot be hid. It will, it must, shine out through the face. MeD perceive it and are affected and influenced by it. . The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ shines, also, in the face of His disciples. If you have not been with Moses on Sinai, nor with the Master od the Mount of Transfiguration, nor with the eleven in the upper chamber and seen the tongues of fire, none the leap will your face snine to tne worm u you have heard the voice of God^and obeyed I Tak? Your Trouble* to Clirliit. The cares of this life, unless they ar% kept continually in the second place, will eat aa doth a canker; they will poisoD everything spiritual within you; they will dry up'all the springs of your religious feelings; they will wither every biossomtbat may have appeared. 9 peeds that God doth plant are very tender! They will not bear the crowding and the jostling of ten thousand earthly schemes; they must have the best place in your affections; the broadest, sunniest spot within your heart, or else they will most surely perish. Think not to tel1 i me that you hive so much anxiety about ^our families, your husbands, yout ) wives, your food, your clothing, your neighbors?ho many troubles of an earthly nature?that you cannot think so much of heaven as you desire, but you , hope some time to have a better oppor- 1 tunity. It will not do. This is the poor 1 est, commonest excuse of all. There 1 never was an almost-Christian who did 1 not find out he had some peculiar difficulties which no one else experienced. Re sure vour cares will never cease: it is the cup which every man must drink. 0 go to Christ at once, and take your ' cares with you, and lay them all on j Him! The more trials you have in this . World, the more you should be looking , to the world to come.?Bishop Ryle. Your Own Foundation. It is told of a great English preache* that when he was once approached with propositions from two fields of pastoral service, he declined one and accepted the other, saying:,"If I go to one I shall bo somebody's successor; but if I go to . the' other I shall be' somebody's predecessor." He was only repeating in substance the principle of Paul, who longed to build upon his own foundation. If we were to point out one of the gravest faults in the whole matter of religious training of the young it would be just here. They are not trained to independent religious action, and to the eager readiness to begin and carry out definite lines of necessary Christian service in the church; It is not enough to be an imitator or a follower. Every .member of a church has some piece of work to do which ran be planned and executed by him alone. Find and do this thing. Be somebody's predecessor. The Lay of Cold Water. It is n pitiful sign of destitution and improvidence when one ' willingly de- I pends upon others for common neces- ! saries, and when life has nothing but what is brought to it, being without re ? sources within. There should be a re- j serve for time of need, when neighborly offices fail. Cisterns are filled from ' above, if conductors are furnished for the rain from heaven. So every one j may have sources of refreshment and ' supplies that shall defend him against ( loneliness and despondency wheu out- 1 side helps nre cut off. There are count- | less neighborly interchanges that cheer ! the way, and cups of cold water are given by friendly hands, but not all daily ; needs can he ministered unto by others, ( nor can that which gives refreshment to ( one ue ni iin* uisposai 01 anoiaer. uou i { depend upou neighbors for everything. . "Drink waters out of thine own cis j tern."?Julia H. Johnston. The Slope Ever Upward. The slope of the valley of trouble U ever upwards. Never mind how dark i the shadow of death which stretches / across is; never mind how black it may look, or how frowning the rocks; from between their narrowest gorge you may see. if rou will, the guide whom God hai sent yon; and that angel of hope will light up all the darkness, and will only fade away when she is lost in the sevenfold brightness of that upper land, whereof our God Himself is Snn and ; Moon?the true Canaan, to whose everlasting mountains the steep way of lift has climbed at lost, through valleys ol trouble aDd of weeping and of the shadow of death.?Ales audar Maclaren, D. D. If a :na# cannot be a Christian in th? place vb*r? h? !?. be cannot be a Christian aaytrhere.?Henry W?r< Beecher THIN COMMUNITY IN KANSAS. Citizens of Neoriuslin Curiously Aflected by (lie Well*. The little town of Neodesha, Kan., claims a remarkable distinction. Ft has a 1 population of 1500. and it is claimed that I there are more thin people living theiv ! than in any place of similar size in the ! United States, many of its men and I w'omen weighing less than 100 pounds, al- 1 thonjjh in perfect health. iMiysidans explain that the Xeodesha Petroleum and natural pis wells are responsible for that condition, and that these elements are nature's antifat remCt!y" / Vv THE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 23. Subject: Tlie Uutj of Watchfulne??t f.uke zll., 36-40?Oolclon Text: Matt. m*I.i 41 ? Memory Verne*, 43, 44 -? Commentary on the Day's Leaaon. 35. "Let ydur loins ,be girded about." "This is an /allusion to the long robes of the East, Vbieh those who wear must bind up before' they engage in any active employment." Jesus hid just admonished them against, undue anxiety about temporal affairs (vs. 22-32), and now He gives an admonition to watchfulness. "And your light burning." The roaster was likely to *cwuu? ftmu) nuur 01 tuc uigm, ana in order to be ready to receive him their lights must be burning. 36. "When he will return from the wedding." The Jewish weddings were conducted with 'great pomp. The ceremony wm usually performed in the night. The festivities lasted from three to seven days. "That when he cometh." As these servants waited, with girded loins and burning lights,vall readv to meet their master and ' run at his bidding as soon as he approached; bo we are to wait for the coming of our Master. Wait (1) with eager longing and (2) with joyous expectation. "May open?immediately." Few will thua "open immediately." They will have something to do first?will have to get ready. 37. "Blessed." Those who are ready are blessed and arc highly honored by their master1. "When He cometh." Christ returns to all from the heavenlv wedding afc the end of the world, when He has taken to Himself His bride the church; to each individual He comes when He stands suddenly before a man^at the hour of death. "ShatU find watching." We are to watch against temptations from within and without; against pervading iniquities which fill the air with moral malaria, and even chill the piety of the church; against failure in duty; against the loss -f the warmth of love;' Against the dav of death and of judgment, so as to be prepared for them when they-come. We are also to watch for the coming of the Lord; watch for it with hope and joy.; watch for the signs of Hia special presence and power; watch for openings to serve Him by helping His poor , children: watch for opportunities of comforting the sad, upholding the weak, reclaiming the erring, teaching the ignorant, leading men to Jesus, aiding His cause. "Gir<^ hrmself-r-serve them. Whatever we do for God" He" will do in return for their servants/but;Jes^s Ctjrist wia'among His disciples aa onethat served. See John 13: 4, 5.:> This also ngnifles the joy with which they shalj be tfweived i#o the other world by the Lord Jtsua, who has gone before t6 prenare for then, and has told them that -I^is Father' will honor them. Jews had^utaSja the 'Mainan custom of dividing the nigjlst into four watches. The first watch was from, six to Sine, the second from nine to twiflv#,-%ae third from twelve to three, the fourth from three to six. 1 39. "Had known what hour." The house- .i holder's ignorance of the. time when the thief would come is the reason why he does not watch. He cannot always keep awake, so he h&a to go to sleep and ia robbed. But our; ignorance is the reason for wakefulness, bec^usfe'We can keep spiritually awake all through life. The house holder watches to prevent, but we to share in that for which the watch is kept. But with all the obscurity thus, intention* ally thrown around the day and the hour of Christ's coming, let usjiot forget that no obscurity, no uncertainty hangs' around the great event itself. In the East the State punishes, but leaves the prevention and detection of theft and robbery to the individual interested. Hence the watchman is necessary and important everywhere. ' 40. "Be ye therefore ready." Always ready so we will never be taken unawares. Watchfulness insures readiness; readinesa insures safety. Indifference marks the way to sin and despair1. A scriptural preparation includes repentance and inversion. "Cometh?when ye think not." See 1 Thess. 5: 2; 2 Pet. 3: 10, We should resist the temptation to spiritual drowsiness. Nothing is much worse than a sleepy religion. Rev. 3: 16. 41. "Peter said unto him." This apostle was the one who afterward most ,need sd the admonition (Matt. 20: 74), and u* so sad a manner forgot it. Those who ' stand in most danger are often slowest to profit by words of warning. "Unto us, or even to all.'' Is it meant for us as Thine apostles, or for all men? Our Lord in His answer in speaking of a steward, intimates that the parable has its highest reference to the ministers and rulers of Hia church; but shows at the close (v. 48) that it applies to every one according to the i measure of his knowledge and of the duties laid upon him. 42. "Faithful and wise uteward." The steward was a middle person between the master and slave, and tad,the care of the whole household. It was a post of confidence in which faithfulness was required. As the steward to the test of the servants, so should the apostles stand with reference to other believers.. "Shall make ruler." That one would be made ruler who had previously proven himself faith- > ful and wise, who attended to his duties during his master's absence with the same fidelity that he did when he was present. "To give?meat." As God's stewards we should be ready to give out to others what He places at our disposal. 43. "Blessed." He is blessed in his deed; he rejoices because he is found in the faithful performance of his duties by his Lord and he is blessed With a high promotion "Shall find so doing." We see nere what Christ means by watching: "not gazing up into the heavens for sifps, but the faith ful performance ui uui.y. 44. "He will set him over all that he hath." (R. V.) So each saint owns all of (Jod's possessions, even now. 1 Cor. 3: 21, 22. The reward is both outward and inward; more glories and blessings and ioys, ind larger capacities for usefulness ana enjoyment. To him that hath shall be given. 45. "Say in his heart." If, instead of being faithful the servant begins to plan wickedness and to actually enter into sin, a different "portion" will be appointed him upon his Lord's return. "Delayeth his coming." The fact that Christ's coming is delayed causes the love of many to wax cold. 2 Pet. 3: 3, 4. "To eat and drink." Self-indulgence is a very common sin. "To be drunken." This was not only a comnon and terribly destructive sin in Christ's time, but it is the same to-day. The licensed saloon is the direct road to "degradation, vice, the gambling hell, the brothel, ppverty, wretchedness, want, robbery, "- rnllnwu. the drunkard'8 grave. ?ciP' ? -? 46. "When he looketh not." The Lord wiO come suddenly and call every one to m account. "Will cut him in sunder.' This was a most terrible method of ereeutina criminals, anciently. "With the untx>lipvfm " Read Rev. ~21: 8? LIBRARY OF NIPPUR TEMPLE. PrfAmt nilprecht Discovers Over 17,? 000 Ancient Tablets. Hail advices to the London Daily News from Constantinople, dated August 8, announce the arrival there of Professor Hermann V. Hilprecht, head of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to, Nippur, after having discovered the library of the Great Temple, with over 17,000 tablets dealing with historical and literary matters, not one ot" them of later date than 2280 B. C. "The unexplored remains of the library," says the correspondent, "will require five years for excavation. If these parts tirove ns rich in results as the portion al ready found, there will be no example in the world's history, not even in Egypt, of so complete a recovery of the records of ancient civilization." Afchftn Army Collected. It is reported from Constantinople that dispatches from C'ai ::1, the capital of Afghanistan. announce that a great army of iletence is being mobilized there, incited by the fanatic fakir priests, who are [.reaching a holy war against Great Britain. The Indian authorities use greatly i!iiruit>J. To Rnnnoin an American. A fund of $300 has been raised in Portland, Ore., to ransom Arthur \'enville, au American prisoner, from Filipinos.