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t HOW MUCH ONE FAMILY EATS. I E ? 5 |p Four People Consume Four Thousand K Pounds of Food in a Year. ^ Sfotlctino lrnnt Kir n PKi/in #-? -? ntnn vii UOULO uj KK vuiva^u uiau show that during a year his family, p consisting of himself, his wife and two * daughters, consumed 4047 pounds and _ thirty-eight varieties of food. The family lived under no economical restrictions, and their table was supplied as it has been daily for years with everything uesired by any member of the family. For this reason the statistics. religiously kept and accurate to the ounce, have been pronounced highly valuable by students of food statistic^ and medical men generally, especially since the tables were kept in a casual manner, no influence being exerted either to augment or reduce the amount or variety of the daily menu to which the family had been accustomed. mi *?/>! j.lie utuie iu gross uiuuums is as iuilows: Foodstuffs. in pounds 4047 Eggs, in dozen 112 a Oranges and lemons, in dozens... 54 s Milk, quarts G">0 tl Berries, quarts 125 I Apples, bushels 9 tl The table of amounts consumed per fi flay indicate that the human system is n I - 6*mm i ii ' 3*0!M ; Berr?v . ' / iJk ,a *"'?? /P i i ls^ , i8o i I ^T^mrr/liw Ii. 'A ] ' j Buttet *87 Poi ^ Si !. i 4 \Qjr FOOD EATEN BY ONE FAMILY IN A YEA.F V V-irapable of assimilating a considerable n v .amount of food beyond what it has s! been demonstrated is capable of supporting life. b The table is as follows: le x ooustuus, in pounus ii.ua a Milk ... 3.53 pints a: Eggs 3.U8 b Oranges, lemons 1.80 b Berries O.GS pints pi !Apples? 7.90 b; The varieties of cereals used during the year were large, and some of ill* ol .amounts proved surprising, when, as ft month after month crept by, the tt Amounts of the totals were observed. Crackers were used largely, much oi more so than would be imagined, and probably to a greater extent' than is cr common to a great number of families, a No account was taken of salt and pepper, they not being regarded as e< necessary to the value of statistics. m The flour used during the year would make a loaf of bread so large it would bi take two men to carry it. A chicken si 220 pounds, the amount of poultry ti useid during the year, would be almost ^iirht feet in heiirht and nerortlinr tr> w estimate its cackle could be heard four ui times around a city block. Closely ti' pressing the poultry in amount is the item of fish. A fish weigning J SO ai would be almost as large as the tish d< that always gets away. The meat total would supply a small- ly 6i/.ed butcher shop for a considerable u; length of time, and the GuO quarts of milk would require a jar several times fi: larger than the ordinary sized milk- si man. A flapjack made of the twenty- is eight pounds of pancake flour would e< make a small-sized dancing Loor. aud c< the 1344 eggs, if made into one large egg to ue coioreu ior easier, womu u require lour buckets of aniline dye tor t< thi? work. tl The 1200 p6unds of vegetables would u make a Jsew England boiled dinner large eDougb for two full regiments, ti , the fruits would start a fruit stand of " no mean dimensions, while the nine h pounds of cheese,- if turned loose, s iwoula exert, it is estimated, about si forty horse power.?Chicago Times- ti Herald. Cossacks Are Remorseless Soldiers. ' The Russian authorities have aliways been aware of the usefulness of their Cossack soldiery in quelling outbreaks even in European Kussia. Forty years ago these wild soldiers of the steppes were sent to quell tiin insurrection iu Poland. The horrible butchery which had ensued in Warsaw and other Polish towns forms one of the blackest pages iu the history of Eussia. Only eighteen months ago 1 the Cossacks were let loose in the streets of St. Petersburg to restore order among the disaffected students of | the university. Riding straight into i the band of students the Cossacks lashed right and left with their long, cruel reins, laded with lead, and the students were liberally driven into submission.?Paris Messenger. One Thing They Didn't Invent. j. T \filnc?"Tho C.hitioso tfi hflVi- -n Invented nearly everything." Giles?"Well, judging by the way e I hey wear theii hail they didn't Invent 1 football."?Chicago News. a , % g Hazing at West Point, i "f h.nvo nnlv nno tiling fr? s.iv " rp lied General Grant, when once aske< o give his views on hazing at Wes 'oint. "It is the resort of a cowan "doing spread eagles." nd the amusement of a bully." The o-called sport is generally excuscd on he ground that "boys will be boys.' t is hard to defend when it is known liat it is practiced without any regard or a man's previous education, his atural mental or physical sensitivePounds ^|| ? Poultry \ 220 Pounds^& TgSj V J&V !|AM ,1 t. THE AMOUNT REPRESENTED AB< VIFE AND THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS. ess. or physical (lunger from a sudden iock. They haze at Yale, Harvard. Columia and many other big and small coliges. There is little of it practiced at nuapolis. It is anywhere just about s funny as the spectacle of a big uily worrying a little man or a stout oy torturing a child. Some of the erformances required at West Point y future defenders of the nation are: Bracing?Walkiug about in position F a soldier, chin drawn In. chest >rced out and palms of the hands irned outward. Chewinff?Chewinc the end of a rone string for hours. Monkey?^Climbing a tent polo and owing like a rooster and chirping like bird. Sammy Race?Two cadets blindfold1, feeding each other from a bowl of iclasses. Qualifying?Eating eight slices of read and a bowl of'molasses or conuning eighty-two prunes at oue sitng. Sweating ? Lying in a closed font rapped in blankets and a mackintosh iitil faint. Cadets often lose from re to ten pounds in thirty minutes. Kagling?Sitting down on the toes id then rising upon them and sitting jwn again?repeat 100 times. These are regarded as exerutiatingfunuy. Young Douglass MacArthur lively says: "There are two reasons for hazing? rst. amusement, and second, the dere to reduce a man's rough edges. It the only way t<? polish the rough Iges of men who come from the juntry." If some "country" chap treated in lis manner should find it convenient ) break the heads of thr^e or four of :ie city men who think this way. hazlg might not lie so popular. Young Booz. it is charged, died from -eatment withuohasco sauce by these gentlemen" of West Point. Whether e did or did not, the very fact that ucli a charge could be brought witli ome foundation of truth well illus ates the nastiuess of hazing aud tho A MOLASSES RACE. TtfhS/th of U 1U11_U1UU3 I'UUt; Ul UUUUl nuitu om rotects its practices. Rear-Admiral Sampson when at An lapolls and while asleep had straw; aid upon his hands. These were se .fire, and when they burned Into hi! \ " fc nesh ne awoitc with pain. Now the ' ? veteran pays: "I think that hazing, as reported re- i * cently at West Point and several other i places, is brutal. Especially the prac? tico of forcing a little man to fight a big man should be discouraged, although it is not much worse than mak' ing freshmen clean tents and black - doois ior omer men. it is evidence * of a mean spirit for upper class men to compel a new man to accept a disadvantageous attitude or position. I believe that all forms of hazing should be stopped." Cadet Holwon. brother of Lieutenant Hobson, was forced to go through a repetition of the sinking of the Merrlmac. He was ordered to plunge into a bathtub and sink Rmall floating chips. "Where are you?" he was asked. "This is Santiago Harbor," he was expected to answer. "What are you doing?" he was next v asked. "Sinking the Merrimac," he said. He _ was also told to give a "Hobson" to h the trees in camp. He had to go to c ejiuu ireei, pm uis uruis arounu us I - trunk and kiss it. ii j Some of the colleges are as asinine b i in their hazing sports and as brutal as n ' West Point. A freshman sings another f i to sleep with a lullaby and a nursing 3 I bottle. Another has to "scan" the la- g > bel on a beer bottle. Each freshman t; is put on a table and asked: 0 ? I LOO fouiu^, - | $m> ~' " . \ (CofFeey / ( 4 Pounds ?N - \\JJ43 / ==^/j| ?Un^j 1 ' OVE WAS CONSUMED BY A MAN, HIS J "What is your name?" tj "John Brown." f, "John Brown, what?" a The freshman gasps. He is told to t( say "sir." Then he answers: "John q, Brown, sir." tl He gets a dozen ridiculous questions b A FIOHT IN THE OLD FORT. , al like this. Another trick is for him to ^ walk down Chapel street, New Haven, with his trousers rolled up to his knees, aud his bare legs Slackened ni wilh burnt cork. Some are forced to in run around on all fours and bark like dogs while their captors lead them with strings. A student named Rustin of was killed at Yale some years ago pi CAREER OF P. His life?farm boy, pold hunter, m >rc bridge, Oneida County, N. Y., May lu, 18; at fourteen. Walked to California at eig mining. Returned to Stockbridgc. well t Milwaukee shortly after, becoming a mn to enter the packing business. Led the w< . than any other man of his time. Employ 1 pay roll $0,000,000 to $10,000,000; annual Property interests for which he stood coi - 000; his own fortune about. ?50.000,000. A 3 charity; his private beneficences counties t ly loyal to his family and friends; loved 1 3 ness rivalries and helped his fallen foe up W/ wtille being rushed around blindfolded by an upper class man. He ran int< i wagon pole and died later of perlto litis. A Cornell student while being 'L&J' r. S. GRANT ni RECITES EULOGIES AROTTT HTMSET.P. azed in a field was told to jump into a anal. He did so and was drowned, t is the trouble of all this fool play, i college or elsewhere, that it invarialy ends in the killing of an innocent 3an, perhaps the sole strength of his amily, ioved by somebody anyway, 'hen when the killing is over the cry oes up under the "code of honor" hat there is no hazing, that it was nly sport and that the sport of "genleinen." It so happens, though, that the only rue, honorable sport ever legitimately ermitted to any man. can only be racticed under the glare of light, be3re all men, unmasked and without ^course to brute force or superiority f numbers. EORGE MASON LEE TAKES WATER BATH Plazing breans ribs, knocks out teeth, reaks arms, weakens hearts and does ?veral other things for what have een rightly termed the "monkeys" of le "upper class." Cadet Smith was ismlssed from West Point for hazing lysses S. Grant, grandson of General rant. General Wesley Merritt took is treatment jn his day, and so have lost of the prominent military and aval men. Public opinion, though, as driven the practice out of Annapos, and threatens to change the order f things at West Point. The colleges re also frowning upon the practice, nd it seems as if at no distant time ie words "gentlemen" and "cadet" r "college student" might be synonyious. The bravest are always the tenerest, and the loving the most darig.?Chicago Times-Herald. Various Exposition Crowds. The Paris exhibition, though somemes described as a failure, has truly tiled magnificently. It has broken 11 records for world's shows in regard ) attendance. In seven months 50,00,000 visitors passed through its irnstiles, more than, double the uumer who visited the world's fair at liicago. It is interesting to note how lose great shows have grown in popuirlty. In 1851 G.000.000 people at>nded the great exhibition in I-Iydo ark. Four years later the first great iow in Paris was visited by 5,000.000. i 1807 Paris drew 10.000,000 visitors, i 1S78 she attracted 10,000,000?an rerage of 82,004 a day?and in 1SS0 ie record show up to this year was isited by 28,000,000 people. Since the rystal Palace was first erected in iyde Park in 1851 there have been venty-one great international shows, id the aggregate attendance has ?en about 150,000,000. They do not iwavs pay. In 1873 Vienna lost ?2.K).000.?London Chronicle. Grosvenor square probably contains lore millionaires than any equal s\rea i London. Railways use up over 2,000,000 tons f steel a year, almost half the world's :oduct. D. ARMOUR. ^ /' :hant, packing king. Eorn in Stock52. Attended Cazenovia Seminary hteen; founded liis fortM??e there in o do, at twenty-tbre ^ocated in reliant. Came to Chicago in )iid in this line, feeding more people ed as many of 23,000 men, annual output estimated at $200,000,000. lservalively estimated at $150,000,Lrmour Institute a monument to his s, but not indiscriminate; immenseittle children; fought hard in busiagain. Died January 6, 1001. . 7r-:v. " . ' s DR TALMAGE'S SEBMON i t SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED s niuiuc S e iabjed: Knt.erlns: the Gat??Kxnltant Ad- e mission Awaits Those Who Have Lived For Others, While the Bigot and Pen- ' arlous Will Barely Squeeze Through. F [Copyright 1P01.T a Washington, D. C.?In a very novel 0 way Dr. Talmage in hie discourse describes t what may be expected in tho next world j| by those who here bend all their energies t in the right direction; text. II Peter i, f 11, "For so an entrance shall be minis- p tered unto you abundantly." Different styles of welcome at tfi* gat<> I of heaven are here suggested. We a'l hope to enter that supernal capital throueh n the qraoe that is ready to save even the s chief of sinners, but not now. No man t healthy of body and mind wants to go n now. The man who hurls himself out of t this life is either an agnostic or is de- t mented. or finds life insufferable, and r does not oare where he lands. This is the v best world we ever got into, ana we want c to stay here as long as God will let ub stay, g But when the last pace of the volume of n our earthlv life is ended we want enroll- t ment in heavenly citizenship. We want o to eet in eagilv. We do not want to be a challenged at the sate and asked to show y our passports. We do not want the gatekeener in doubt a? to whether we ought g to pro in at all. We do not want to be a kept in the portico of the temple'until g consultation is made as to whpre we came n from and who we are and whether it is C safe to admit us, lest we be a d'scord in y the eternal harmonies or lower the spirit d of heavenly worship. When the Apostle 1< Peter in the text addresses the people, h "For so an entrance shall be administered e unto you abundantlv." he i.uplies that t some will find admission into heaven easy, ft ranturous and acclamntory. while others p will have to squeeze through the gate of s heaven, if they get in at all. They will k arrive anxious and excited and apprehen- t sive and wondering whether it will be li "Come!" or "Go!" The .Bible sneaks of fi such persons as "scarcely saved," and in s another place as "saved ns bv fire," and in I another place as escaped "by the skin of n the teeth." a Carrying out the suggestion of my text, a I propose to show you what classes of t Christians will pet into heaven with a v hard push and those who will bound in e amid salutations infinite. In the first b class I put that man who gets into the o kingdom of God at the close of a life all v given to worldliness and sin. Years ago a he made the resolution that he would li serve himself and serve the world until e body, mind and soul were exhausted, and a then, just before going out of this life, would seek God and prepare to enter is heaven. He carries out his resolution, ii He genuinely repents the last day or the s last hour or the last minute of his life, a He takes the last seat in the last car of d the last train bound heavenward. His re- t leased and immortal spirit ascends. Not ii one wing bears down toward him with a it welcome. No sign of gladness at his ar- v rival. None there obligated to him for t kindness done or alms distributed or spir- o itual help administered. He will find some h place to stay, but I do not envy that man e his heaven. He got in, but it was not an t, abundant entrance. g Sometimes in our pulpits we give a s wrong turn to the story of the dying thief f( Plifiaf cairl- "Thin rlnv nhalt t thou be with Me in paradise." We ought t to admire the mercy of the Christ that c pardoned him in the last hour, but do not 1< let us admire the dying thief. When he " was arrested I think his pockets were full si of stolen coin and the coat he had on his n back was not h.s own. He stole right on u until he was arrested for his crimes. He e repented, and through great mercy arose t to paradise, but he was no example to t follow. What a gigantic meanness to de- h vote the wondrous equipment of brain and tl nerve and muscle and bone with which we t! are endowned, these miracles of sight and i hearing and speech, to purposes unworthy o: or profane and then, through hasty repentance at the last enter heaven. Cheat- li ing God all one's lifetime and then taking u advantage of a bankrupt law and made n free of all liabilities. 1 should think that ii some men would be ashamed to enter si heaven. d Again, the bigot will not have what my " text calls an abundant entrance. He has d his bedwarfed opinion as to what all must k believe and do in order to gain celestial 91 residence. He has his creed in one pocket si and his catechism in another pocket, and d it may be a good creed and a good cate- w chism, but he uses them as sharp swords a against those who will not accept his the- tl ories. You must be baptized in his way si or come to him through apostolic succes- b 3ion or be foreordained of eternity or you o: are in an awful way. He shrivels up and shrivels up and becomes more splenctic 0 until the time of his departure is at hand. f< He has enough of the salt of grace to save fi him, but his entrance into heaven will be j* something worth watching. What do they h want with him in heaven, where they tl have all gone into eternal catholicity, one ai grand commingling of Methodists and u Baptists and Episcopalians and Lutherans G end Congregationalisls and Presbyterians 8' and a score of other denominations just 0 as good as any 1 have mentioned? They ei all join in the halleluiah chorus, accompan- w ied by harpers on their harp3 and trumpeters on tneir trumpets, "Worthy is the h Lamb that was slain to receive blessing t< and riches and honor and glory and pow- n er." ? Denominations of Christians on earth were necessary in order to better work ' and to suit preferences, as an army must be divided into regiments, yet one army; as a neighborhood must be divided into !>' 4-Kmi/vU ftno noicrKVinrhflod. But Luiiiuico, W,Wnto.. ?..w there is no need for such divisions in heav- r en, and therefore all belong to one denomination of sainthood. What will be .. the bigot's amazement when he sees 7 seated side by side on the banks of the river of life Calvin and Arminius, Arch- " bishop Crannier and some dissenting . preacner of the gospel who never gradu- 1 ated, one who on earth was a robed and ? surpliccd ecclesiastic, and a backwoods J. minister who in the log cabin meeting P house preached in a linen duster? Among P the great surprises of heaven for the bigot will be the celestial friendliness of those who on earth opposed each other in wrath iest polemics. He will get through the gate, for he has a spark of divine grace in his heart, but there will not be an inch of room to spare on either side of him. It ,, will not take long for heaven to educate .. him into a glorious big heartedness. ' Again, the penurious Christian will not .. have an abundant entrance. Perhaps he j0 was not converted until all nis nanus 01 tight fistedness were fixed beyond recov- ^ ery. The people who are generous were taught to be generous in childhood. You | can tell from the way that boy divides the tj apple what his characteristics for gener- j osity or meanness will be for the next eighty years if he lives so long. If he eat sc it all himself while others look wistfully j on, he will be a Shylock. If he give half w of it to some one who has no apple he will be an ordinarily generous man. If rt he give three-fourths of it to another, he ct will be a baron Hirsch or a George i'ea- i., b0dy' . , . m For thirty years tms man has been prac- ai ticing an economy which prided itself on never passing a pin without picking it up, and if he reopondtd at all in church m would put on the collection plate so insig- sa nificant a coin that he held his hand over j,( it so that 110 one could discover the small- (]< ncss of the denomination. Somewhere in m the iiflies or sixties of his life, during a ai revival of religion, he became a Christian, ai He is very much changed in most respects, in but his all absorbing acquisitiveness stiil c;i inllucnccs him. To extract from him a gift hi for a* orphanage or a church or a poor p< woman who has just been burnt out is an achievement w I3ut the day is coming for that penurious In .1 tu wrvrl,) l-i? si: UUi labiuii o uc[;auutc nvm wnw ?iva?vi. *.?. t has an awful struggle in giving up his t'iiovernment securitiaa. The attorney who drew his last will and testament saw how ar hard it was for him to leave his farm or his storehouse or investments, especially y< those that in the markets are called fji.'t- ar edged. Tho>?e that yield only three prr p! cent, he easily resigns to the care of his w executors, but those that yield qigh' or to tune or teu per cent., how can he *ivc ar * K hem up while th!e market is still risingl bolstered up in bed, knowing he has gpt o sign it, he reads the document over and iver again, and then, with a manner thai eems to say, "Well, if I must I must," h? iomo Viia name trt fSnf mil-render of hi? ast farthing of earthly possessions. He nters h?avm, but he has not an abundant ntrance. I asked manager of an insane asy um in Kentucky, "From what class ol lersons do you get most of your patients?" nd he said, "From farmers' wives." 1 sked the same question of the manager if an insane asylum in Pennsylvania and he same question of the manager of an nsane asylum in Massachusetts and got he same reply. "We have on our' rolls or treatment more farmers' wives than lersons coming from any other class." .'hat answer will be a surprise to some, t was no surprise to me. The simple reason is farmers' wives have 10 diversion. It is breakfast, dinner and upper, sewing, scouririg, scrubbing, kniting, mending, year in and year out. That nother is the milliner, the mantuamaker, he nurse, the doctor, the accountant, of he whole family. She plans the wardobe of spring, summer, of autumn, of winter, cutting, fitting, completing garments, out of which the children soon row and must have something else. The lewspaper does not come, or if coming here is no time to read it. No selection f good books. The neighbors cajling in re full of the same grinding routine. ??o ronder so many of them go into dementia. Now, the mother of whom I speak has one through all the drudgery mentioned, nd her children have turned out well, ood and useful men and women, ornalents of society, pillars in the house of Jod, and that whole family, after the ears have passed by and their work is !one, will meet in the heavenly country, 'rom such a family some will certainly ave preceded her, and the time of her xpected arrival will be announced to all he members of that family^lready gloried, and to the old earthly neighbors who ut down their toils a little sooner than he did, and she will have the warmest :ind of home coming, and she will .go hrough the gate as easily as ever she ifted the latch off her front door coming rom the old country meeting house where he used to worship. Go in, mother! leaven has been waiting for you a good lany years. Got rid of all your aches nd pains and weariness, have you? Go nywhere in heaven, and they will be glad o see you. On the highest throne you rill find one who said, "Behold thy mothr." Sit anywhere you please. You will e at home anywhere. Take your pick ut of that sheaf of scepters. What! The 'rinkles have all gone out of your face, nd the once rheumatic step has become ike that of tue bounding roe. Just as I xpected. you aged, glorified soul, you had n abundant entrance. Well, this man of consecrated affluence s about to go out of this world. He feels n Virgin nnn nerve the strain of the earlv truggles by which he won his fortune, nd at sixty or seventy years collapsea uner the exhaustions of the twenties and hirties of his lifetime. When the morn:ig papers announce that he is gone there i excitement not only on the avenues 'here the mansions stand, but all through lie hospitals and asylums and the homes f those who will henceforth have no elper. But the excitement of sadness on arth is a very tame affair compared with lie excitement of gladness in heaven. The uardian angel of that good man's life wept by his dying pillow the night bejre and on swift wing upward announced hat in a few hours he would arrive, and here is a mighty stir in heaven. "He omes!" cries 6eraph to seraph. The Ling's heralds are at the gates to say, Come, ye blessed," and souls who were aved through the churches that good lan supported and hundreds who went p after being by him helped in their arthly struggle will come down off tbeir hrones and out of their palaces and hrough the streets to hail him into the md which they reached some time before hrough his Christian philanthropy. Now, hat is what I call an abundant entrance. !ou see, it is not necessary to be a failure n earth in order to be a success in heaven. JJur. 1 promise that all those who have ved for others and been truly Christian, hetlier on a large scale or a small scale, 'ill have illustrious introduction into the npearled gateway. Here and there in ome large family you see an attractive aughter who declines marriage that she lay take care of father and mother in old ays. Ibis is not an aostraction. i nave nown such. You have probably known uch. There are in this world womanly ouls as big as that. They cheerfully enure the whimsicalities and querulousness hich sometimes characterize the aged nd watch nights when pneumonia is tireatened and are eyes to the blind and t in close rooms lest the septuagenarian e chilled and count out the right number f drops at the right time. After years of lilial fidelity on the part f this self sacrificing daughter the old >lks go home. Mow the daughter is free om marital alliance, but the dama3k rose 1 her cheek is faded, and the crow's feet ave left their mask on the forehead, and ;ie gracefulness is gone out of the figure, nd the world calls her by a mean and ngallant name. But, my Lord and my od, surely Thou wilt make it up fo. that irl in heavenly reward! On all the banks f the river of life there is no castle of merald and carbuncle richer than that liich awaits her. Its windows look right ut upon the King's park, and the white orses of the chariot are being harnsssed ) meet her at the gate, and if there are o others to meet her father and mother ill be there to thank her for all she did >r them when their strength failed and le grasshopper became a burden, and :iey will say: "My daughter, how kind ou were to us even until the last! How sod it is to be together in heaven!" That the King's chariot come for you. Mount id ride to your everlasting home!" Now, lat is what I call an abundant entrance. Know right well that in whatever staon of life you now move, and whether our intellectual faculty be brilliant or till, and your worldly resources opulent r poor, you may have at the gate of eaven jubilant and triumphant reception. >11 soldiers cannot be Hannibals and [arlboroughs, all admirals cannot be Duants and Farraguts, all authors cannot e Bacons and Southeys, neither can all hristians be Pauls and Richard Cecils. io your best right where you are, asking od's help, and you will not only win gloous admission, but you will make all aur life in heaven a grander and higher fe. Oh, child of God, if you had never lought of it before, I present the startng fact that you are now deciding not uly the style of your heavenly reception, it the grade of your association and enyment of the world without end. Are )u satisfied with yourself that you can ford to throw away raptures and ignore ;avenly possibilities ana elect yourself to wer status and classify yourself amid le less efficient when you may mcunt a gher heaven? While I thus discourse I am aware that me have not taken the first step toward ?aven, and they feel like Jacob Strawn, . ho took some ministers of the gospel on j le top of his house to show his farms, :aching in every direction as far as eye >uld see. He was asked how many acres ; owned, and he replied, 40,000. "How uch is it worth per acre?" was asked, id he replied, "I'ifty doliars, at least." Then," said the minister, ' you are worth !,000,000." "?es," said Strawn, "and 1 ade it all myself." Then the minister ' lid, "You have shown me these earthly jssessions, and now will you look up yonir," pointing to the heavens. "How uch do you otvn up there?" and Strawn iswered, with tears in his eyes. "Oh, I n afraid I am poor up there." Alas, , >w many there are who have acquired all , nthly prosperities and advantages, but f ive no treasures in heaven. They are ( >or up there. ] But 1 am to day chiefly addressing those < ho are started for heaven and would ive them know that while we are apt to icak of a Lamphier, the founder of Fulin street prayer meetings, as having an j nindant entrance, and Thomas Welch c id Fletcher, the glorious preachers of the J >spel, as having an abundant entrance^ i >u also, if you live and serve the Lord id fulfill your mission, whether it be apau3ed or unknown, will have when your ork on earth is ended and you are called i come un higher an easy, a blisaful, an I irapturing, an *btt?d&at entrauce. I . n m TTTR S A RMTTT SOFOOIwHB HI li KJi ? ? ? INTERNATIONAL LESSON C0MMENT9 ? B FOR FEBRUARY 3. 1| Subject: Parable of the Ten Virgin*,* 1H Matt, xxv., 1-13 ? Golden Text: Matt. xxv., 13 ? Slemory Verses, 10-13?Com- W mentary on the Day's Lesion. * B 1. "Then." At the season referred to 1 in the preceding chapter where there are * reasons for believing the coming of the Savious is near; but still it is impossible ' to fix the exact time. "The kingdom of heaven." The gospel kingdom, or the state of things in the visible church, parr ticularly the character, conduct and condition of the, subjects of th$t kingdom* "Ten virgins." Ten as a symbol represents completeness, and the virgins represent tne purity of the Christian church, "Took their lamps." Each had a lamp, "which signifies individuality, preparation, independence of others." The lamp signifies the outward profession of religion. "Went forth." The procession accompanying the bride from the house of her father to that of the bridegroom was generally one of more or less pomp. "The bridegroom." The bridegroom means the Lord Jesus Christ, and all who are making preparation for r?is coming, whether to , call men by death or to summon them by His second appearing may be said to be 4 going forth to meet Him. 2. "Were wise." These left nothing to be attended to at the last moment; they were prudent and fully prepared. "Foolish." Careless, negligent. The visible church of Christ consists of true and false, members spiritually dead and others spiritually alive, 3. "Took their lamps." We must carefully note the contrast: In the case of the foolish the taking of their lamps is everything, but in the case of the wise it is the taking of oil in their vessels. "Took no oil with them." The oil represents the grace, or love of God in the heart. These virgins represent a class of so-called Christians who make profession of religion, but who lack tne faith which worketh by love. 4. "Took oil." They carried a vessel with oil to pour into the lamp when necessary. The decisive test wa3 not the lamp( but the oil?the Spirit, the spiritual life, and yet they must have a lamp to hold the oil. Let U3 be careful not to despise the forms of religion. True Christiana unite both external and internal Chris-' tianity. 5. "Tarried." The figure is generally modified by the circumstances that the ';> bridegroom comes from afar, as in Judgee 14; this would explain the long tarrying ol the bridegroom. The Bridegroom fai> Y away is Christ, who is come for the marriage feast from "the far country"?the home above. "Slumberejl and slept.'" The time passed by the virgins in sleep represents merely the waiting time, during which time the true Christian is fully prepared for the coming of the heavenly Bridegroom at any hour. 0. "At midnight." The Jewish wed? dings were generally celebrated in the night, yet they usually began at the rising of the evening star, but in this case there was a more than ordinary delay. This was the most unfit time for the virgins to obtain the oil they needed. "The Bridegroom cometh." Though Christ tarry long, He will come at last;- though He seems slow, He is sure. The year of the ; redeemed is fixed, and it will come. Death # J * i - -T-- J i- :n 1 i v* ana tne judgment win come wneu ieaor expected. "Go ye out to meet Him." Here is a summons. What does this mean? It means, go forth \f> receive the recompense of your doings. What a fearful thing to be thus summoned to appeal before the judge of all the earth! 7. "All?arose." There is something terrible in the security of the foolish, maintained up to the last; they, too, arise and trim their lamps, even though there is nothing but a foul wick; they are not yet aware that their fate is already sealed. "Trimmed." Adorned^ 8. "Give us." They now began to realize their serious lack. Those who take up with something short of true grace will certainly find the want of it, sooner or , later. "Lamps are going out" (R. V), This shows that their lamps had been lighted. Many who once have had hearta filled with faith and love have allowed a worldly spirit to take possession of them, and now they are entirely backslidden from God; their "lamps" have gone out. 9. "Will not be enough" (K. V). It-, was impossible to render any assistance. There was a time when they might have i helped each other, but that time is now past. "Go ye." They could tell them what to do, but it was now too late. "To them that sell." To God." "For your selves." They must have oil of their own. Nothing short of personal holiness is suffi? cient. 10. "While they went to buy." What a dismal thing it is not to discover the emptiness of one's heart of all that is good until it is too late to be saved. God only knows how many are thus deceived. "They that were ready." Those who were prepared; who not only had a profession off godliness, but who possessed true holiness. "To the marriage feast" (R. V). To be ? eternally glorified; to be in His immediate presence. "The door was shut." There comes a period after which change is im- Impossible. 1. In some cases that period is death. 2. In other cases the day of hopeless hardness comes before the termination of the natural life. 3. At the-time of the second advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to this period especially doth the par able refer. As the Lord finds us so we remain forever. 11. ' Open to us." Earnest prayer, when used in time, may do much good,' but it appears from this parable that there may come a time when prayer even to Jesus may be too late! 12. '"I know you not." There is an estrangement of heart that separates them from the Saviour. Heart prepavatiort alone could fit them for the enjoyment of the presence of the Lord, and this they lacked. 13. "Watch." It is our dutv to watch with the utmost diligence. We are to watch against temptations, failure in duty, loss of love. Watch for the coming of the Lord and for an opportunity to lead men to Christ. The time is uncertain, we must always be ready. "Wherein the Son of Man cometh." These words are omitted in II. V., and are undoubtedly no part of the text. Recruiting: the Navy From Farms. A plan of recruiting sailors for the United States Navy from the farms and the country towns is now under consideration at the Navy Department. Already the recruiting is carried on outside of the large cities, but it has not reached the interior sections remote from large centres. Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, states that a number of boys in the interior of his dis- .5 trict would be glad to enlist in the navy if they had the opportunity. The depart ment will devise some means uy wmicii enlistments cun be secured even in the most remote sections, and from the farms and country districts. Five-Cent Bleats !n Chicago. The penny luncheon room organized by St. Luke's Society in Chicago fed 1200 men on the opening day. and nineteen other rooms, with a capacity of 25,000 to 30,000 ;l a day, will soon be in operation. Every article on the bill of fare is one cent. For three cents a man gets a pood, wholesome breakfast, and if he can afford to pay tive cents he can have a "spread." : A KusHiau Scot So Immigrate. The Molokancn, a seel, numbering 40,000, vhose founders removed in 1840 from va ioits parts of Russia to the Caucausus, ind whose delegates have just brought flowing reports from the Douknobnrs, or Russian Quakers, in Canada, contemplate migrating to America. Emigration Depleting Norway. The population of Christiania, Norway, . s decreasing, now being 225,729, against 126,423 on January 1, 1000. Emigration is esponsible partly for this, 10,725 nersons laving emigrated from Norway in 1900. Tho Trolley in Berlin. The electric trolley system is rapidly isplacing the stora^ battery system oa he busiest streets of Berlin. >.v Swg