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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
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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
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(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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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. ,
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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. "
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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.
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GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. *;
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PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROVI THE
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. :.V:
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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.
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Faint hearts, wlio toil and pray, but
fioubt
If Goil will urant!
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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
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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."
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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
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