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THE REALM Iv York City. ? Whatever other ents may come and go the useful t is always in style, always in deI. The smart May Manton model woman's jacket. shown includes all the latest features and is absolutely up-to-date. As illustrated it i- of smooth-faced castor colored cloth, the revers and collar faced * *4 1 L ~ -1 wifK nort'AW witii wnue aiiu u.uut-u mtu uunv*. black braid showing threads of gold. The fronts of the jacket are fitted with single darts, and can be turned back to the waist line, making long, tapering revers, buttoned and turned back from the neck as shown in the small cut, or closed to the throat in Russian style as preferred. The backs include a centre seam and side-backs, and are joined to the fronts by means of under-arm gores. The sleeves are In bell style, and the neck is finished with the Afglon collar. The model is closed by means of small buttons and ' * Hiiftrmhnlps fJlTl (oops, (JUL uunuua iiuu be substituted, if desired. To cut this jacket for a woman of medium size two and five-eighth yards of material forty-four inches wide, or two yards fifty inches wide, will be -required. Girl'* Costume. The open blouse and the tucked skirt combine to make as charming a little girl's costume as can be devised. The very excellent May Man ton model GIRL"^ C Illustrated in the large drawing combines all the lntest features and is universally becoming. As shown, the material is foule cloth in Russian blue, with trimming of darker blue velvet. iuu vesi auu unuersiwYcs ui uuat'u Bilk, but Henrietta, cashmere and all light-weight wool fabrics are equally suitable, and color can be varied again and again. The pleated skirt has many advantages that are all its own. Being stitched flat it fits snugly at the upper portion, yet falls in ample folds at the feet and allows perfect freedom for young limbs. The foundation Is a fitted lining that closes at the centre front. On it are arranged the back, the fronts and the full plastron. The back is smooth across the shoulders and drawn down in gathers at tne waist line. The full plastron Is attached permanently to the right lining front and hooked over onto the left. The fronts are smooth across the shoulders, but full at the waist, and are extended to form pointed refers. The right front edge is tacked over the full plastron, the left is hooked invisibly into place. The Bleeves are double, and include the fashionable Paquin cuffs, which are attached to the lining, while the up per portions, turned bacK to iorm cuffs, are slipped over the whole. To cut this costume for a girl of eight years of age four and threequarter yards of material twenty-one Inches wide, three and seven-eighth ^ards twenty-seven iuches wide, or iwo and a quarter yards forty-four Inches wiue, will he required, with ihree-quarter yard thirty-two or fortyfour inches wide for plastron, collar #nrl undersleeves. Velvet-Topped Slippers. Fascinating as "well as fashionable 19 the little velvet slipper for house Wear. It has a dangerously high heel, to set forth the beauty of an Andalufcian instep. It has a flap which runs guite high, higher, indeed, than is necessary, over the Instep. Velvet will frtretch, and so the slipper is rounded out with points of patent leather at the toe and around the heel. The OF FASHION. 2 rnm&m buckles used with velvet-topped slippers are rather large. Neither jet nor gilt nor rhinestone buckles are used with these. Ihe silver buckle, looking as old-fashioned as possible, and called "Colonial." is preferred to any other decoration. Evening Gown* For Girls. JJance gowns 101 umu,uncu kiiisuic to be worn shorter, but the more elab orate the gown the longer are the folds which take the place of the pointed train. Many flounces are popular, and satin is made with the shaped flounce much corded at the edge. Cordings. heavily massed or in groups of graduated width, are seen on sik skirts, but for evening wear fussy little frills are much more effective. The Overdvesn In Spring Styles. For the spring season the ruling Parisian designers are again divided in opinion regarding the prominence of , the over3kirt among dominating modes. One of the great French au thorities, however, has recently de ' clared that while many other effect? ] will vie with it. the overdres3 will take i ifa nlano oc n fnr>l-nr nmnn<* other styles, particularly suited to tall, slender women. Crepe Satin a Favorite Fabric. Crepe satin remains in great favor, and it is a beautiful fabric. It is for entire evening toilets, bridal and bridesmaids gowns and various dress occasions. Its popularity is easily explained. as it is pliable, yet rich and heavy in effect, and it has a lustrous surface and wears much better than most of the satins now manufactured. Pink For Young Girl*. Where a color other than white is worn by a young girl this seasou that other is almost certain to be pink. There are so many shades of it and a youthful face is usually enhanced by a touch of rose color. Care is taken not to overtrim the skirt. Three-Quarter Coats. | Three-quarter coats will .enjoy a 1 short lease of popularity for pleasant j days. Their extreme plainness is rather trying to most figures, but the tailors manage to relieve this by cutting the revers rather broad, which breaks up the straight lines. Iw I f ; i OSTUME. ? : r Infant's Lone Dress. j Every mother takes delight in fash- ? ioning her baby's clothes. The charm- ' ins little gown illustrated is simple oP \ construction, at the same time that it i is in every way adequate to the little 1 one's needs. As shown it is of French 1 nainsook, with trimming and yoke of ) tine needlework, but the same mate- t rial of English make, Persian lawn, J India linen, dimity and a host of oilier ' dainty white fabrics are suitable. The t yoke can be made from tucking, all- t over lace or needlework, the trimming 1 can be lace or embroidery, as pre- j ferred, or flannel gowns can be finished i with a simple hem or frill with fine 1 tucks above. The yc.:e can be square, round or , pointed. The skirt is simply straight and full, the correct outline being in- < dicated at the top for the application ' of all three yokes. The sleeves are in , bi6hop style, with tiny folds at the i hands, and the neck can be finished j with a standiug or turn over frill, as ; preferred. . To cut this dress two and three- I eighth yards of material thirty-six 1 incnes wide will be required, with ] one-quarter yard of all-over tucking , infant's long dbess. [ or needlework, four yards of insertion, [ and three yards of wide needlework ; edging and one yard of narrow to > trim as illustrated. T\"r? m i r if i n ran nrmiiAUT Uit. lALMAttil/a SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: TVIth Silken Cords?So Should the Fishers of Men Mend Their Nets ? Christians Warned Against Harsh Criticism?Gospel Slrlfc Deplored. [Copyright 1901.1 Washington, D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage describes the gospel net and how it is to be repaired after beins damaged; text, Matthew iv, 21. "James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in a ship With Zebedee, their father, mending their nets." "I go a-fishing!" cried Simon Peter to his comrades, and the most of the anostles had hands hard from fishing tackle. The fisheries of the world have.always attracted attention. In the third century the Queen of Ezypt had for pin money ?470,000 received from the fisheries Lake Moeris. And, if the time should ever come when the immensity of the world's population could not be fed by the vegetables and meats of the land, the sea has an amount of animal life that would feed all the populations of the earth and fatten them with a food that by its phosphorus would make a generation brainy and intellectual beyond anything that the world has ever imagined. My text takes us among the Gallilean fishermen. One day Walter Scott, while hunting in an old drawer, found among some old fishing tackle the manuscript of his immortal book, "Waverley," which he had put iway there as of no worth, and who knows but that to-day we may find some unknown wealth of thought while looking at the fishing tackle in the text. It is not a good dav for fishing, and three men are in the boat repairing the broken fishing nets. If you are fishing with a hook and line, and the fish will not bite, it is a good time to put the angler's apparatus into better condition. Perhaps the last fish you hauled in was so large that something snapped. Or, if you were fishing with a net, there was a mighty floundering of the scales or an exDosed nail on the side of the boat which broke some of the threads and let part or ill of the captives of the deep cscape into their^ natural element. And hardly anything is more provoking than to nearly 'and a score or a hundred of trophies from the deep, and when you are in the full arlee of hauling in the spotted treasures, through some imperfection of the net they splash back into the waves. That is too much of a trial of patience for most Sshermen to endure, and many a man oriinarily correct of speech in such circumstances comes to an intensity of utterance lniustifiable. Therefore no eood fisher nan considers the time wasted that is snent in mending his net. Now. the Bible again and again represents Christian ivorkers as fishers of men, and we are all sweeping through the sea of humanity some kind of net. Indeed there have seen enough net3 out and enough fisbernen busy to have landed the whole hunan race in the kingdom of God long before this. What is the matter? The gos5el is all right, and it has been a good ;ime for catching souls for thousands of rears. Why. then, the failures? The ;rouble is with the nets, and most of them leed to be mended. I propose to show ,*ou what is the ivtter with most of the aets and how to mend them. In the text jld Zebedee and his two boys, James and Fohn, were-doing a good thing when they sat in their boats mending their nets. The trouble with many of our nets is :hat the meshes are too large. If a fish :an get his gills and half his body through :he network, he tears and rends and vorks his way out, and leaves the nlace :hrough which he squirmed a tangle of jroken threads. In our desire to make ;verything so easy we relax, we loosen, we ividen. We let men after they are once n the gospel net escape into the world, ind go into indulgences and swim all iround Gallilee, from north side to south iide, and from east side to west side, expecting that they will come back again. iVe ought to make it easy for them to get nto the kingdom of God. and, as far a3 ve can, make it impossible for them to jet out. The poor advice nowadays to nanv is: "Go and do just as rou did be'ore you were captured for God and heav>n. The net was not intended to be any estraint or any hindrance. What you lid before you were a Christian do now. jo to all styles of amusement, read all ;he styles of books, engage in all the styles of behavior as before you were concerted." And so, through these meshes >f permission and laxity they wriggle out, ;hrough this opening and that opening. ;earing the net as they go, and soon all :he souls that we expected to land in leaven before we know it are back in the leep sea of the world. Oh, when we go i-gospel fishing, let make it as easy as possible for souls to get in and as hard is possible to get out. Is the Bible language an unmeaning ver)iage when it talks about self denial, and ceeping the body under, and about walkng the narrow way, and entering the straight gate, and about carrying the :ross? Is there to be no way of telling vhether a man is a Christian except by lis taking the communion chalice on se.c amental day? May a man be as reckless ibout his thoughts, about his words, about lis temper, about his amusements, after inversion as before? Alas, the \v0rd3 of Christ are so little heeded when He said. 'Whosoever doth not bear his cross and :ome after Me cannot be My disciple." LMie church is fast becoming as bad as the ,vorld, and when it gets as bad as the vorld it will be worse than the world by ;o much, as it will add hypocrisy of a nost appalling kind to its ocher defects. Furthermore, many of our nets are torn :o pieces by being entangled with other lets. It is a sad sight to see fishermen ighting about sea room, and pulling in jpposite directions each to get his net, joth nets damaged by the struegle and osing all the fish. In this land, where ;here are more than 70,000,000 people, ,nuiu arc ac itra&i ou,uuu,uuu not in tne Sunday-schools and churches. In such an Atlantic Ocean of opportunity there is oom for all the nets and all the boats and ill the fishermen and for millions more, there should be no rivalry between :hurches. Each one does a work peculiar .0 itself. But there are cities in thisf county where there is now going on an awful ipping and rending and tearing of fishing lets. Indeed, all over Christendom at ;his time there is a great war going on be;ween fishermen, ministers against ininis:ers. Now, I have noticed a man cannot fish ind hght at the same time. He either neglects his net or his musket. It is imazing how much time some of the fish:rmen nave to look after other fishermen, [t is more than I can do to take care of my own net. You see the wind is just right, and it is such a good time for fishng, and the fish are coming in so rapidly, that I have to keep my eye and hand busy. There are about 200,000.000 souls wanting to get into the kingdom of God. ind it will require all the nets and all the tishermen of Christendom to safely land them. Oh, brethren of the ministry, let us spend our time in fishing instead of lighting. But if I angrily jerk my net icro3S your net, an you jerk your net angrily across mine, we will soon have two broken nets and no fish. The French revolution nearly destroyed the French fisheries, and ecclesiastical war is the worst thing possible while hauling souls into the kingdom. My friends, 1 notice 4i.? >L.i T a. c rr~\? in cnc icat tiiau fiaiutrn, uiu bun ui /jculdee, and John, his brother, were busy not mending somebody else's nets, but mending their own nets, and I rather think that we who are engaged in Christian work in this opening century will require all our spare time to mend our own nets. God help us in the important duty! In this work of repair we need to put into the nets more threads of common sense. When we can present religion as a great practicality we will catch a hundred souls where we now catch one. Present religion as an intellectuality, and we will fail. Out in the fisheries there are set across the waters what are called gill nets, and the fish put their heads through the meshes and they cannot withdraw them, because they are caught by the gills. But gill nets cannot be of any service in religious work. Men are never caught for the truth by their heads; it is by the heart or not at all. No argument ever saved a man, and no keen analysis ever brought a roan into the kingdom of God. Heart work, not head worV. Away with your gill nets! Sympathy, helpfulness, consolation, love, are the names of some of the threads that we need to weave in our gospel nets when we are mending them. Do you know that the world's heart fa bursting with trouble, and if you could make that world believe that the religion of Jesus Christ is soothing omnipotence the whole world would surrender to-morrow?yea, would surrender this hour. The day before James A. Garfield was inaugurated as President I was in the cors going from Richmond to Washington. A genllfr man seated near to me in thp cars knew me. and we were soon in familiar conversation. It was just after n bereavement, and I was speaking to him from an overburdened heart about the sorrow I was suffering. Looking at his cheerful face I said: "I cuess you have escaped all trouble. I should judge from your countenance that you have come through free from all misfortune." Then he looked at me with a look I shall never forget and whispered in my ear: "Sir, you know nothing about trouble. Mv wife has been in [ an insane asylum for fifteen years." And i then he turned and looked out of the window and into the night with a silence I was too overpowered to break. That I was another illustration of the fact that I no one escapes trouble. Why, that man seated next to you in church has on his soul a weight compared with which a mountain is a feather. That woman seated next to you in church has a grief the recital of which would make your body, mind and soul shudder. When you are mending your net for this wide, deep sea or humanity, take out that wire thread of criticism and that horsehair thread of harshness and put in a. soft silken thread of Christian sympathy. Yea, when you are mending your nets tear out ' ' * * * r> mm****,* those old tnreaas 01 giuuuoi aim ncam in a few threads of politeness nnd geniality. In the house of God let all Christian faces beam with a look that means welcome. Say "Good morning" to the stranger as he enters your pew, and at the close shake hands with hitn and say, "How did you like the music?" Why. you would be to that man a panel of the door of heaven; you would be to him a note of the doxology that seraphs sing when a new soul enters heaven. L have in other days entered a pew in church and the woman at the other end of the pew looked at me as much as to say, "How dare you? This is^ my pew and I pay the rent for it!" Well, I crouched in the other corner and made myself as onfall as possible and felt as though I had been stealing something. So there are people who have a sharp edge to their religion, and they act as though they thought most people had been elected to be damned and they were glad of it. Oh, let us brighten up our manner and appear in gentlemanliness or ladyhood. The object in fly fishing is to throw the fly far out, and then let it drop gently down and keep it gently rising and falling with the waters, and not plunge it like a man-of-war's anchor, and abruptness and harshness of manner must be avoided in our attempt at usefulness. I know a man in New York who ia more sunshiny and genial when he has dyspepsia than when he is not suffering from that depressing trouble. I have found out his secret. When he starts out in the morninz with such depression he asks for special grace to keep from snapnn nnvhnriv that dav. and puts forth additional determination to be kindly and genial, and by the help of God he accomplishes it. Many of our nets need to be mended in these respects, the black threads and the rough threads taken oat, and the bright threads and the golden threads of Christian geniality woven in. In addition to this we need to mend our nets with more threads of patience. It is no rare thing for a fisherman to spend one whole day before he can take a St. Lawrence pike, or an Ohio salmon, or a Long Island pickerel, or a Cayuga black bass, or a Delaware catfish,and he does that day after day without any particular discourt agement. But what a lack of patience if we do not immediately succeed in soul catching. We are apt to give it up and say, "I will never try again.' Into all our nets we need to weave all along the edg^ and all through the centre great, long stout threads of Christian patience. How patient God has been with us! Can we not be patient with our fellows? Again, in mending our nets we need also to put in the threads of faith and tear out - < -C ?r?... all ine tangiea mesnes ui uuueuci. uui work is successful according to our faith. The man who believes in only half a Bible, or the Bible in spots; the man who thinks he cannot persuade others; the man who halts, doubting about this and doubting about that, will be a failure in Christian work. Show me the man who rather thinks that the Garden of Eden may have been an allegory, and is not quite certain but that there may be another chance after death, and does not know whether or not the Bible is inspired, and I tell you that man for soul saving is a poor stick. Faith in God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost and the absolute necessity of a regenerated heart in order to see God in peace is one thread you must have in your mending net or you will never be a successful fisher for men. Why, how can you doubt? The rottenest thread to tear out of your net is unbelief, and the most important thread that you are to put in it is faith. Faith in God, triumphant faith everlasting faith. The time will come when you would be willing to give a thousand pounds to feel a;; you did in 1901. These men who have trivcn c.o their religion caunot help you r bit. These dear brethren Af all denominations, afflicted with theological lidgets, had better go to mending nets instead of breaking them. Before they break up the old religions let them go through some great sacrifice for God that will prove them worthy of such a work, taking the advice of Talleyrand to a man who wanted to upset the religion of Jesus Christ and start a new one, when he said, "Go and be crucified and then raise youreelf from the grave the third day!" Those who propose to mend their nets by secular and sfceptical books are like a man who has just one week for fishing and six of the days he spends in reading Izaak Walton's "Complete Angler," and Wheatley's "Rod and Line," and Scott's "Fishing in Northern Waters," and Putnam's Vade Mecum of Fly Fishing for Trout," and then on Saturday morning, his last day out, goes to the river to ply his art; but that day the fish will not bite, and late on Saturday night he goes to hia home with empty basket! Alas! alas! If, when the Saturday night of our life drops on us, it shall be found that we have spent our time in the libraries of worldly philosophy trying to mend our nets, and we have only a few souls to report as brought to God through our instrumentality, while some humble gospel fisherman, his library made up of a Bible and an almanac, shall come home laden with the results, his trophies all the souls within fifteen miles of his log cabin meeting-house In the time of the great disturbance in Mnnlpa in lfi49. Massaniello. a barefooted fishing boy, dropped his fishing rod, and by strange magnetism took command of that city of 600,000 souls. He took off his fishing jacket and put on a robe of gold in the presence of howling mobs. He put his hand on his lips as a signal and they were silent. He waved his hand away from him and they retired to their homes. Armies passed in review before him. He became the nation's idol. The rapid rise and complete supremacy of that young fisherman, Massaniello, have no parallel in all history But something equal to that and bettor than that is an everyday occurrence in heaven. God takes some of those who in this world were fishers of men and who toiled very humbly. but because of the way they mended their nets and employed their nets after they were mended. He suddenly hoists them and robes them, and scepters them and crowns them and makes them rulers over many cities, and He marches armies of saved ones before them in review? Massaniellos unhonored on earth, but radiated in heaven. The fisher boy of Naples soon lost his power, but those people of God who have Kepc tiieir ners menaea and rightly swung tncm shall never lose their exalted place, but shall reign forever and ever aud ever. Keeo that reward in aigbt. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC PACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The Traffic Mast Die?Tlie Human Body j ax an Engine of Life in a Water En- I glne?Why Alcoliol I* Injurious to the Delicate Machinery. An enemy strong in our land, Spreadins ruin and crime and woe; It is time the people should stand And order this monster to go. The laws of the land he defies, And the statutes of God he spurns; While the world is filled with sad cries, And joy into sorrow he turns. He pays from his ill-gotten (rain, For a license to rob and kill; And he laughs at sorrow and pain, That comes from "the worm of the still." ? Come, let us arise in our might; In the strength of the Lord on high; And proclaim, with faith in the right, This monster of evil must die. -C. H. Mead. A Water Engine. Are engines a modern invention? Yes. No. There is a fashion of engine several thousands of years old. No patent was ever put upon it, because no machinist was ever able to infringe title by building one. Countless millions of this engine have been, are and will be. Nearly all the world's work is performed by them. They ?n ?<-u ? ? ?-i? uuiu.c nil tiiat la nuim uu uic earth. What engine i9 this? The human body. "The human body, as an engine of life," says Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, "is a water engine." Let us see about this. That this water engine, the human body, should do its work well and not wear out prematurely is must not be: 1. Worked at too high a temperature. 2. The fluid supplied to it must not be too light. 3. The fluid must be pure, without clogging elements, which will cumber the delicate machinery. 4. The fluid supplied must keep the engine at work at a steady, even rate of speed. 5. The body engine is expected to last not for five, or ten, or fifteen years, but for sixty, eighty, even a hundred. 6. It must be carefully run a3 it is exceedingly liable to injury and hard to repair. Water is the fluid which was designed to run the body engine. 1. Dr. Richardson says that only water will run the engine at a proper temperature. The blood, the organs, must not be run overheated, or too much w?ar will ensue. 2. Alcohol is too light a fluid, too uneven in its effects, to run the body engine. 3. Alcohol i3 not a clean enough fluid for this engine. It contains a large amount of carbon, and carbon closes and fhrows out of Rear and stops this famous engine. 4. Alcohol, much diluted, seems capable of running this body engine, but when we watch its effects and its work we see that its qualities are false, its work is uneven; one while the physical part of the engine fails under it. or again the mental part. The maker of the body engine made the fluid by which to run it, and'that is always and everywhere safe, and the only safe thine for tne work?Water.?Mrs. Julia McNair Wright, in the Temperance Banner. Scots Torn Against Whisky. We learn that in Scotland a new society has been formed, with his Grace, the Duke of Sutherland, as president, to be called the "Scottish Self-Control Society," or, briefly, the "S. S. S." The members undertake three things: First?Not to drink intoxicants before noon or at any time except at a regular .lieal. Second?Not to treat?i. e., not to offer or to accept alcoholic drinks except with a regular meal. Third?.Not to give or to accept drink In return for services rendered. That in a country like Scotland, famous for its religious, intellectual and academic Superiority, the people, without distinction of church or class, should consume alcohol, chiefly in the strong form of whisky at all times and on all occasions aas long been an inexplicable fact. We r.o not know whether the "Ten Tumbler Club" still survives, but it is not many /ears since its existed, and included men high character and celebrity. When eld;rs and professors have been involved in -he habit of drinking a poisonous quantity | }[ alcohol daily how could a high standard of national sobriety be expected? The ase of whisky by the Scotch has proved /infectious, and it has extended to England jn a scale which deserves, and is now re- , reiving, the grave study of the medical profession, whose authority is too often juoted in its support.?The Lancet. .1 Drink Habit Among: Women. 'Intoxication is growing among women it a faster rate than among men. The i .'uture of the world depends on the moth* i irs even more than the fathers, and what I .s going to become o? it if our -women become drunkards?" This' was the problem which Bishop i Leighton Coleman, of Delaware, presented | '.o the Church Temperance Society nt its feccnt meeting in iNew York. The nineteenth annual meeting of the society was held at Squirrel Inn, No. 131 Bowery, and the large proportion of the 'Oil women and olemvnien nrcser.t had lever before been in that neighborhood. 'The great work of this.society for the joining year, and in fact for the entire jentury," said Bishop Colemac in hi.n address, *'*is. while not neglecting the men, , ;o reclaim the women. During the past ( Ifty years statistics prove that drunken- , less amen? iczv. steadily decroaccd, tvhile the incrsasft attcc-j woaea haa beta nost alarming." Bad Enough, However. In so dread a crime against humanity is the drink traffic it is hardly fair to ex- . iract relief from the dark picture by comparison with one's neighbors, but we can it least be thankful that we have not reached the worst depths. Belgium uses 195 quarts of alcoholic beverages per capita; England, 141; France, 137; the United 1 States, 70.?Union Signal. Drunkonnesfl and the Length of Skirt. At the Rational Dress Convention the other day, Viscountess Harberton made the statement that drunkenness in women [ increases in exact proportion to the length af their skirts. Twelve or fourteen inches from the ground was the correct lenath { iccording to the laws of hygienec. This < is about the length allowed by lady golf- 1 fcrs.?London Golf Illustrated. , ? The Crusado in llrlef. Men. not drink sellers and '"strong drink," make a city. Whoso would be a man must steer clear ( of the dram-shop. If thou wouldst be true to thyself avoid I "vice" and '"strone drink." "Strong drink" is midnight darkness; ! total .abstinence is noonday light. In the New York Central service twen- j ty years ago the aggregate proportion of i men discliarpci??i for drunkenness was twen- i ty per cent., but now, with 300,000 men in , the employ ?f the company, less- than one j per cent, is dropped from the rolls for that cause. i There was fifty-six times as much liquor exported to Porto Rico in 1S99 as in 1S9.S; fifty-eight times as much to the Philip pine Islands, and 1000 times as much a? the average to the Philippines for the last ten years. The brewers of Cincinnati protested against the International Christian En- i dcavor Convention for 1901 coming to that ( city, but it was invited in spite of their protests, and the Christian people propose to pay the bills themselves. The temperance movement is making marked headway in the old Latin Quarter in Paris. This section is occupied largely by students, and one of them, the son oi a well-known physician, has been very I prominent in the movement. " & THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR FE8RUARY 17. Su)>.j<e : The Lord'* Supper, Matt. xxvi. 1". )0 ? Golden Text, Lake xxii., 19 ? Memory Verneo, 26-28 ? Commentary on the Dav'* Lefaon. 17. "The first day of the feast." The 14th of Nisan was the day of preparation and hence called the first day of the feast. "Where wilt thou." Jesus had no home of His own, and the disciples knew that some place must be chosen at once. "That we prepare." That which was required consisted of a room furnished with a table and couches; and for food, unleavened bread, bitter herbs, wine and a paschal lamb, which must be slain in the.temple between 3 and 5 o'clock, and cooked in a private house. 18. "Go into the city." Luke says that Peter and John were sent. They were now at Bethany and Jesus sends them to Jerusalem. "To such a man." It is probable that this meant some person with whom Christ was well acquainted, and who was known to the disciples. Mark and Luke state that they would meet a man bearing a pitcher of water, whom they were to follow. "Say unto him." Say unto the master of the house, "who was probably a disciple, but secretly, like many others, for fear of the Jews (John 12: 42); and this may explain the suppression of his name." "The Master saith." The Teacher saith. "My time is at hand." The time of His death, elsewhere called His hour. Jesus knew that in a few hours He would yield up His life. "At thy house." This message seems stranger to us than it would to the man, even if he had little knowledge of Jesus. During the week rf the Passover hospitality was recognized as a universal duty in Jerusalem. 19. "Did as Jesus had appointed them." They obeyed in every particular and found everything as Jesus had foretold. 20. "The even was come." It was probably while the sun was beginning to decline in the horizon that Jesus and the dis:iples descended once more over the Mount of Olives into the holy city. "Sat down." Or reclined, according to the custom of that time. It was at this time that the disciples strove among themselves as to which should be accounted the greatest. Luke 22: 24. The strife probably began when they were taking their positions at the table. It is suggested that this contention is the probable reason for some of the exhortations in John 13: 1-20, and for the washing of the disciples' feet. Possibly those sought the places of honor at the cable who had been especially honored on other occasions. Let us remember that "the self-seeking spirit leads to Satan's kingdom, hot to Christ's. 'To be first or .lothing' leads to crimes and wars." He who does the humblest service in order to relieve the wants of others, or cleanse their souls from sin, does to them as Dlirist did to the disciples. 21. "As they did eat." The Passover, not the Lord's supper. "He tnsted first the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs before the lamb was served." The significance of the Passover: 1. It marked the beginning of the Jewish nation. 2. It reminded them of the mercy of God in pro ^citing tueu 111ol uwu. o. it uuiniuciiiurated their deliverance from Egyptian bondage. 4. It reminded them of their sin and need of atonement. 5. Unleavjned bread signified separation from sin. 8. Bitter herbs signified repentance. "One Df you." How sad! One who is pledged to be faithful and true. Jesus was troubled in spirt. John 13: 21. "Shall betray me." Judas had already agreed to betray Him. The Saviour was not taken by surprise. 22. "Exceeding sorrowful." Because tie was to be betrayed, and because one of their number was about to perform the dastardly act. "Is it I?" They also asked themselves the question. Luke 22:23. 23. "He that dippeth." The thought of verse 21 is repeated. It was at this point that Peter beckoned to John who was leaning on Jesus's bosom, to ask Jesus who it should be (John 13 : 22-27); and Jesus gave them a sign by which they knew. 24. "Goeth." To the cross and to death. "As it is written." In such Scriptures is Isaiah 53. "Woe unto that man.' "A sad statement of a terrible fact." Jesus had previously told of His betrayal and death, but it must be remembered that the betrayer acted voluntarily; the prophecy did not compel him to sin, but merely told that in the natural course of events he would sin. "Had not been born." This proves conclusively that for the lost soul there is no redemption. 25. "Is it I?" Judas tried to cover his hypocrisy and wickedness by asking this question. He knew that he was even now seeking an opportunity to do this very thing, and if he had not been spiritually blind he would have known that Jesus knew all about it, too. "Thou bast said." A Hebrew form of affirmation. 20. "Took bread." Took the loaf or thin cake of unleavened bread which was before Him. "Blessed it." Invoked the blessing of God upon it. "Brake it." The act was designed to shadow forth the wounding, piercing and breaking of Christ's uody on the cross. "This is My body." This bread represents My body. 27. "The cup." The word "wine" is not used, but "cup," "the fruit of the vine" (v. 29), so that "unfermented grape juice was all that was used." "Gave thanks." It was like giving thanks over the shedding of His own blood. "Drink ye all." They were all to drink of this. Mark says, "They all drank of it." 28. "Is My blood." Represents My blood. "The sins of the world are put nnfr mArolv fVirnnerh fVin Christ's life, teachings and example, but by His blood that was poured out for lost man." "Of the covenant" (R. V). It was in old covenant renewed, and thus a new promise to men that God would provide a ;rcat salvation, and use His infinite wisdom and love in seeking to save a lost ivorld. "For many." For all mankind. 'Remission of sins." "For the taking iway of sins." But although the atonement is made yet no man's sins are taken iway only as he repents and turns to God. 29. "Xot drink henceforth." He would lot eat and drink with them again; this ivas their last meal together. "When I irink it new." When I drink new wine ?"wine of a different nature from this"? n the kingdom of God. Here is a pledge ;o them that they would again assemble, n the kingdom of glory, to.commemorate ;he triumph of Christ and His kingdom. 30. "Sung a hymn." Which was always lung at the close of the paschal feast; it :onsisted of six psalms, from Psa. 113 to IIS. "Into the Mount of Olives." Where ve will presently find them again on this sventful night. Deer That Barks Like n l>oiy. Adjutant-General Corbin, at Washing;on, has received word from the com; nnnding officer af Dapidan, Mindanao, P [.. that he has in his possession a ina.e )lack deer of a species native to tnar isimd, whose peculiarity is to bark and bay ike a hound. Authority is requested fo'. ;he transportation of the .strange animnJ ;o the United States with a view to it* >ein? placed in the Zoological Park at Washington. The necessary authority rill be given, but it is not believed tint :he deer will be abl>* to survive thf Ion? >cean journey from his home and the clinatic changes. Blinded by TJrass Door Knob. The great brass door knobs at the ,nair >n trance of the Executive Mansion have Mused severe eye troubles among ein? .iloyes of the White House at Washington Now the knob.s have been covered with buckskin. Fine particle of metal ha<j rubbed of! on the hands of the men whe jpencd and closed I ho doors for visitors' and were transferred to the face and eye* jf the victims. Italian Pontal Receipt*. Ja 1000 the gross receipts of the Kalian lost and telegraph offices amounted to ibout 316,000,000. and the nfct profit earned >y the State to $2,040,500. ..v. ; : y ' . GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. *; * .: PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROVI THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. :.V: . *: * fa Anxiety ?The Art of Being Cheerful^ Wholly Sane i3ed? A Frayer for fur# l-rlendnhlp*?The Wltne?* of \Vork?-? Christ'* Joy?Life Lie* as tbe Quarry. & Faint hearts, wlio toil and pray, but fioubt If Goil will urant! Tk.:... :,. ?i,. i. -a. ...kA xaltrila m luu u?ll > mi will? iii uu91 Do how. and plant, Nor ponder whether it will be Or full or scant. If once it fail, with diligence " . They how again; Another year will surely bring The needed rain, The needed sun, to fill the fields With fuller grain! ' -,v A The Lord of love may hear as though He heard us not, But never yet the prayer of faith Hath He forgot; Some day His word will fruitful make Each waiting spot. We rise betimen, as if our zeal That word could speed; We eat the bread of carefulness, That cannot feed; Delaying rest, we only add Sore need to need. Oh, happy they who quietly Anticipate The blessing He will shower down. Or soon or late! They toil, they pray, aright; tkeir faith His will cau wait. ?Harriet McEwen Kiuaball, in ladependent. The Art of Being Cheerfnl. Bearing a burden gracefully is no siga that the burden is unfelt. It rather signifies that the bearer has been schooled i by experience to his task. The 6rst biting sorrow that comes to the Christian brings with it a train of trials which intensify his suffering. The world forget? him, he tinds no real" sympathy where ha hopes to get it, he is chafed by the loneliness. But in time he comes to learn , . that this is to be expected, with the world as it is. His next sorrow finds him none the less truly grief-stricken, but he has learned that there is an ait of bearing up and being brave. He knows already that he must not expect to roll his whole burden off on a world absorbed in its own self. His burden rests more gracefully on him. Heshows the result of a hard course of training. But now the world owes him a new duty. It is to refrain from charging him with insensibility and an easy escape from grief. He who smiles through his tears has learned what true joy is, and he who steps lightly under a heavy burden has performed the duty of acquiring a new, and Christliko strength.?Patterson 1Du Bois, in "Chatwood." V'; ~~ ? "t Wholly Sanctified. % Paul prayed that his brethren and sisters might be wholly sanctified. He desired that they might be wholly devoted to God, to be used by Him in all things according to His good pleas.!ie. Their spirit and soul and body, their entire being, Paul would have set apart for God's use. Christ died for their whole being, and He owned it all. So it is now. Our minds, our souls, our bodies, all belong to Christ. We have not a single claim upon ourselves. Our wills have been bought by Christ. We have no right to say or to feel that we shall will to do anything contrary to th? known will of Christ. We have no right to dictate to Christ how we shall serve Him or where we shall labor for Him. And not only what we are, but what it is possible for us to become by using His wisdom and power in self-betterment, is due to Christ. To be thus wholly sanctified involves the most obedient activity iu practically carrying ouf Christ's will concerning us and our re lations to others. This is more than a doctrine. A Prayer for Pure Friendship*. O dearest Friend and Lover of our souls, we ask thy blessing and thy care for friends, who are thy dearest gifts on earth. We bless thee that the love tuon hast for us. and the love we owe and fain would offer thee, can neither contradict nor lessen love of kindred and the pure communion of our souls with iUI.. C3? .|Aon<,A,?nJ ..nnhlo trai LUIJ Li it.'UUDi v.ic?uot aui& vuuvr*s?w all our affections that, with joy and singleness of heart, we may entreat thee to be sharers of our happiness. Guard these whom thou hast given us from all overmastering temptations and all weakness of their ow. heart's faith. Teach us to understand and to be helpful without intruding on that inner life which each must live alone with thee. And quicken us to holier life that we may be found worthy of the love thou hast so freely given us. Amen. The Witness of Works. It is noticeable that Christ did not ask His enemies to take His words merely, as a witness that He was the Messiah. His opposers said: "If Thou art the Christ, tell us plainly." He replied: "I told you, and ye believe not: the works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of Me." It was not that Christ thought that His words were any less authentic than His works, as a witness of His being the sent of God, but He would have His enemies look at His works as a most tancible attestation of the divinity of His character and of the divinity of His mission. There could be 110 greater witness than this. His words and works perfectly match each other. Hence the power of such witnessing. Hence, also, the power of a Christian's witnessing, whose works completely harmonize with his words of testimony. Christ'* Joy. It is essentially different from ordinary human joy. Observe how fervently Christ prayed that His joy might be ia His disciples. He would have them filled with the supreme joy?the very joy which Cod had. It was not joy for happiness, but for service. Christ never told His disciples to pray for happiness. Nor did He say, "I give you My happiness," but He said, "I give you My joy." This means that He gave them His strength. There is 110 greater strength than the joy of Christ. By such strength Christians in all age* have overcome the greatest powers of darkness. The divinely joyful Christian is always a conquering Christian. Such an one has an immense advantage over a merely nominal Christian. The latter is lamentably weak; the former is progressively and persistently strong. I.ife lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and cope.stones for the masonry of today.?Emerson. Convertible Freight Cars in the Northwest The railroad companies operating in the Northwest have, after considerable experimenting, found a convertible c;tr which tln-y can use for both winter and summer trafiic with but a nominal expense for alteration. In the open season these cars, which are mostly made of steel, are u*cd to haul ore. In the winter the steel hoppers are removed a?d platform cars are ready to haul loirs. This s.-lietre is expected to result in pronounced economics in the operation of railroads. Wealth of New York State. 1 ? The wealth of New York State is eatn mated to have increased $203,171,058 ia one rear, i ' : &&