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I THE REALM rVWWWWWW^WWWM^v* i0Oo^^^o?^o5o?^^W^ V** Av^PvA /^4>V-N? *"V* >V<? ^VV? ^V "Vnrif V nrl' PHr?Th.-* citr*T?1f\ lJMln V ? JL VI U V*IJ A UV HV ? IV frock that can be worn with or without a guimpe makes one of tlie best possible models both for light wool girl's blouse dress. fend washable materials The pretty May Manton model shown is made from mercerized Madras in shades of 1 2 CI tim' f h nCoHlo. UU1I unit;, UUU 13 U1UIIUCU IIIIU.XVV.-V work insertion and edging, but all cotton stuffs are suitabl\ as are cash. mere, veiling, albatross and the like. The skirt is straight, finished with a hem at the lower edge, and arranged In gathers at the waist, where it is Joined to the belt. The waist is simplicity itself. Both backs and fronts are gathered at the upper and lower edges, the fitted lining being used or Dot as preferred. Around the Pompadous-shaped neck 's a fiat, square Collar, that is eminently necoming and ,wh:ch. at the same time, can be laun aerea wun ease. iue iuwki. euge ui the waist is attached to the upper edge <of the belt, and the entire gown closes at the centre back. The short sleeves fcre gathered in puffs and finished with ! straight bands. To cut this frock for a girl of eight years of age, four and five-eighth yards of material twenty-seven inches wide, four and a quarter yards thirtytwo inches wide, or two and seven BLOUSE ETON JACKET. -eighth yards forty-four Inches wide, :will be required. Two Stylish Garment*. No outer garment is more popular than the blouse with Eton effect. The fashionable May Manton model shown In the large drawing is suitable alike !to the entire costume and to the sep arate wrap, rue original is maoe 01 Russian blue broadcloth, with facings of white stitched with black, undersleeves of white Liberty satin, cuffs and collar of velvet. As illustrated it is worn closed by means of handsome buttons, but can be rolled open to the ."waist when the weather permits. . The fronts are smooth across the shoulders, but drawn down in gathers at the waist line, wnerp they pouch slightly over the belt, which is applied by stitching to the lower edge. The back Is snug-fitting and is joined to the fronts by smooth under arm gores. At the neck is the military or Kaiser collar that can be worn open or closed, as desired. The sleeves are turned back to form cuffs, beneath which thi puffed under portions of satin, with .wristbands of velvet, are joined to a fitted lining that can be used as a plain coat sleeve. Tn flit this hlnnco fr>r n wnman nf medium size four aud three-eighth yards of material twenty-one inches wide, three and a quarter yards twenty-seven inches wide, two and oneeighth yards forty-four inches wide, or one and three-quarter yards fifty Inches wide, will be required. The low, rouud neck with flat, collar and contrasting inner portion cakes a feature'of the latest * ists and is singularly effective. The very charming example illustrated in the large cut, is made from crepe de Chine in the indescribably tender shade known as moonlight, with trimming of cream guipure lace and plastron, collar and junaersieeves of white satin Aiglon. The lining, which expends to the waist line, is simply fitted with single Oust darts, nnder-arm and cc-ntre back eeaius, the fronts and back of the waist proper extending below in shirt waist style. The back is laid in . straight tucks that are slightly overlapped at the waist line. The fronts are tucked in groups of tnree each, and gathered at the "waist line. The plastron is stitched in horizo >:al lines, then attached permanently to the right side and hooded over onlo the left. The fancy sleeves are made over a smooth lining. The undersleeves are gathered itop and bottom and attached to the lining at each edge. The lace cuffs are faced over the lower portion, and (the finished uprr sleeves are drawn lover the whole. The neck is finished (with a stock of satin, s itcned to match !the plastron and finished with points fcf lace. To cut this waist for a woman of tnedlum size, three and one-eighth . '. / * OF FASHION. I **/ V<?^ /-V*4 Av< ^V"S? >V^*'Vv- w^/>v^4^w? l yards of material twenty-one iuclic! ! widp. thrp-? vjirds twenty-seven iuolies wide, three yards t.iirty-two iuchet wide, or one and seven eighth yards forty-four inches wide, will be re quired, with one yard of all-over lact and three-quarter yard :>f moussclini to make as illustrated. Strap* Are Smart. A favorite mode or smartening i cloth costume is to trim the edge or ? seam across the chest with a series oi buttons and straps. This is not thf somewhat passe mode of strapping across an open blouse or a lace front but occurs where the jacket is doublt breasted, and the little straps are sei on beneath the hemmed edge. They al. have one worked button hole, wklct fastens over a button placed in the blouse. Only an inch-and-a-half of th* strap is permitted to show. Where tht straps are properly set on they resem ble the rungs of a ladder, which lacks one upright on the button side. Folds of Tulle. 1 ii your rcauy-uiauc muv.y uwvu?u?. proves rather too tight and chokj around the throat you can make it more comfortable by wearing with ii folds of black or white tulle. As th? tulle passes around the top of the col lar and continues down both sides at the fastening point, it is easy to adopl j this fashion for the purpose of giving J an inch of additional leeway to the of fending neckband. You won't look happy, or have a good time, if yout neck is cramped up like a horse witl a checkrein by the tight stock collar. Marigold Panne. A little bit of marigold panne velvei is used to brighten a quiet toilet ol smoke-gray velvet. The hot color ol the marigold is almost orange, but nol quite. It is used for the tight-fitting folded neckband; for the small epaul ettes. which are laid over the sliouhlei vertically instead of in the older fashioned horizontal direction, and foi the close-fitting undcrsleeves, which fit like gloves. The upper sleeve, alsc close-fitting, but not tight, falls jusl to the elbow. It is slit for two inchos upward on the' under-arm seam to prevent wrinkling.* * Satin Plaided Handkerchief. The new fine cambric handkerchiefs for ladies' use are rather more expensive than some older fashioned specimens, consequently, they are sold by threes or by fours instead of by the dozen or half dozen. Quite the latest fashion in monchoirs is the eatnbric ot lawn which shows a surface cut up into blocks, or chequered by satin-plaided lines which cross and recross th6 handkerchief. , The Shoulder Chott. The chou, or cabbage-like rosette of velvet or satin ribbon or loops of soft silk, has appeared in a fresh direction. 14. ~, 1^1%. Af it uruuujuuid tut; icit aiut; ui iut- uuutvc worn by the slender maiden. Sometimes the ehou has two short ends of ribbon or silk, each terminating in one gilt spike. Only a thin Ugure can bear this ornament successfully. The plump sister is positively disfigured by the rotund little ehou of fancy velvet. It can be worn on or near the shoulder. Oval Dots. A modish veil now popular has an oval-shape figure in chenille on a tulle ground. You can have black chenille oval figures on a white ground or vice versa, as you prefer. The manufacturer also provides us with self-colored chenille dots on white or black tulle veils. A grayish effect is produced bv niacin" dots of black verv close together oil a white ground. You can have oval figures, large or smalL Skirt, With Circular Plcnted Floanre. Every indication points to continued, and even augmented, favor for the shaped circular flounce. The latest importations show many variations, but none more graceful or elegant than the May Manton model illustrated. The plain front gore does away with the one objection to which flounces are open, that of curtailing the height. The skirt is cut In five gores and fits with perfect smoothness at the upper portion, the fulness at the back being laid in an inverted pleat. To cut this skirt for a- woman of medium size ten yards of material FIVE-GORED SKIRT. twenty-one inches wide, nine and a half yards twenty-seven inches wide, I six yards forty-four inches wide, or four and three-quarter yards fifty j inches wide, will be required. DR. TALMAGE-S SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE 8/ THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: Sptnl; For tlic Right?THnbnTIcnI Ascnclcs Active?Silence Is Ni?t Goltl* en While There Are Evils ? Be Ready When Christianity is Assailed. [CopjTiKht 1901. ] Washington, jL). C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage calls for a more demonstrative religion and a hearty speaking out on the risrht side of everything; text, Mark ix, 25, "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him." Here was a case of great domestic anguish. The son of the household was possessed of an evil spirit, which among other things paralyzed his tongue and made him speechless. When the influence was on the patient he could not sav a word- articulation was impossible, 'fhe spirit that captured this member of the household was a dumb spirit?so called by Christ?a spirit abro;id to-day and as lively and potent as in New Testament times. Yet, in all the realms of sennonology I cannot find a discourse concerning this devil which Christ charged upon in my text, saying, "Come out of him." There lias been much destructive superstition abroad in the world concerning possession of evil spirits. Under the form of belief in witchcraft this delusion swept the continents. Persons were supposed to be Dossessed with some evil spirit which made them able to destroy others. In the sixteenth century in Geneva 1500 persons were burned to death as witches. Under one judge, in Lorraine, 900 persons were burned to death as witches. In one neighborhood of France 1000 persons were burned. In two centuries 200.000 persons were slain as witches. So mighty was the delusion that it included among its victims some of the greatest intellects of all time, such as Chief Justice Matthew Hale and Sir Edward Coke, and such renowned ministers of religion as Cotton Mather, one of whose books Benjamin Franklin said shaped his life?and Richard Baxter and Archbishop Cranmer and Martin Luther, and among writers and philosophers Lord Bacon. That belief which has become the laughing stock of all sensible people counted its disciples among the wisest and best people of Sweden, Germany, Englanu, France, Spain and New England. But while we reject witchcraft, any man who believes the Bible must believe that there are diabolical agencies -i J it-- u nru:i? auroau 111 uie wunu. ?t uuc tucic aic ministering spirits to bless there are infernal spirits to hinder, to poison and to destroy. Christ was speaking to a spiritual existence when standing before the afflicted one of the text He said, "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, come out of him." Against this dumb devil of the text I put you on your guard. Do not think that this agent of evil has put his blight on those who by omission of the vocal organs ?have had the golden gates of speech bolted and barred. Among those who have never spoken a word are the most gracious and lovely and talented souls that were ever incarnated. The chaplains of the asylums for the dumb can tefl you enchanting stories of those who never called the name of father or mother or child, and many of'the most devout and prayerful souls will never in this world speak the name of God or Christ. Many a deaf mute-have I seen with the angel of intelligence seated at the window of the eye. who never came forth from the door of the mouth. What a miracle of loveliness and knowledge was Laura Bridgman, of New Hampshire, not only without faculty of speech, but without hearine and without Bight, all the3e faculties removed by gickness when two years of age, yet becoming a wonder at needlework, at the piano, at the sewing machine and an intelligent student of the Scriptures and* confounding philosophers who came from all parts of the world to study the phenomenon. Thanks to Christianity for what it has done for the amelioration of the condition of the deaf and the dumb. Back in the ages they were put to death as having no right, with such .paucity of equipment, to live, ind .'or centuries they were classed among the idiotic and unsafe. But in the sixteenth century came Pedro Ponce, the Spanish monk, and in the seventeenth century caine Juan Pablo Bonet, another Spanish monk, with dactylology, or the finger alphabet, and in our own century we have had John Braidwood and Drs. Mitchell and Ackerly and Peet and Gallaudet, who have given to uncounted thousands of those whose tongues were forever silent the power to spell out on the air by a manual alphabet their thoughts about this world and their hopes for the nest. We rejoice in the brilliant inventions in behalf of those who were born dumb. One of the most impressive audiencee I ever addressed was in the Far West, an j audience of about 600 persons, who had ! never heard a sound or spoken a word, an interpreter standing beside me while I addressed them. I congratulated that audience on two advantages they had over the most of us?the one that they escaped hearing a great many disagreeable things and on the other fact that they escaped saying things they were sorry for afterward. Yet after all the alleviations of a shackled tongue is an appalling limitation. But we are not this morning speaking of congenial mutes. We mean those who are born with all the faculties of vocalization and yet have been struck by the evil one mentioned in the text?the dumb devil to whom Christ called when He said, "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge, thee, come out of him." There has been apotheosization of silence. Some one has said silence is golden, and sometimes the greatest triumph is to keep your mouth shut. But sometimes silence is a crime, and the direct result of the baleful in^uence of the dumb devil of our text. There is hardly a man or woman who has not been present on some occasion when the Christian religion became a target for raillery. Perhaps it I wd3 over in the Btore some day when there was not much going on and the clerks were in a group: or it was in the factory at the noon spell, or it was out on the farm under the trees while you were resting, or it was in the clubroom. or it was in a social circle, or it wa in the street on the way home from business, or it was on some occasion which you remember without my describing it. Some one got the laugh on the Bible and caricatured the profession of religion as hypocrisy or made a pun out of something that Christ said. The laugh started, and you joined in, and not one word of protest did you utter. What kept you silent? Mcdesty? No. Incapacity to answer? No. Lack of opportunity? No. It was a blow on both vour lips Sy the wing of the dumb devil. If some one should malign your father or mother or wife or husband or child, you would flush up quick and either with an indignant word or doubled up fist make resDonse. And vet here is our Christian religion, which has done so much for you and so much for the world that it will take all eternity to celebrate it, and yet when it was attacked you did not so much as say: "I differ. I object. I am sorry to hear you sav that. There is another side to this." You Christian people ought in such times as these go armed, not with earthly weanons, but with the sword of the Spirit. You ought to have four or five questions with which vou could confound any man who attacks Christianity. A man ninety years old was tellinq me how he put to flight a scoffer. My aged friend said to the skeptic, "Did you ever read the history of Joseph in the Bible?" "Yes," said the man. "it is a fine story and as interesting a story as I ever read." I "Well, now," said mv old friend, "suppose that account of Joseph stopped half way?" "Oh," said the man. "then it would not be entertaining." "Well, now," said mv friend, "we h;ive in this wnrlrl only half of everything,, and do you not think that when we hear the last half things may be consistent and that then we may find that God was right?" Oh, "friends, better load up with a few interrogation points. You cannot afford to be silent when God and the Bible and the things of eternity are assailed. Your silence gives consent to the bombardment of your Father's house. You allow a slur to be cast on your mother's dying pillow. In behalf of the Christ, who for you went through the agonies of assassination on the rocky bluff back of Jerusalem, you dared not face a sickly joke. Better load up with a few questions, so that next time you will be ready. Sav to the scoffer, My dear sir, will you tell me what makes the difference between the conditions of woman in China and the United States? What do vou think of the Rermon on the mount? Plow do you like the golden rule laid down in the Scriptures? Arc you in favor of the Ten Commandments? In your large and extensive reading have you come across a lovelier character than Jesus Christ? Will you please to name the triumphant deathbeds of infidels and atheists? "How do jou account for the fact that I among the oat-and-out believers in Christianity were such persons as Benjamin Franklin, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Babington Macaulay William Penn, Walter Scott, Charles Kingsley. Horace Bunnell, James A. Garfield, Robert E. Lee, | Stonewall Jackson. Admiral roore. Admiral Farrajrut, Uljrsse3 S. Grant, John Milton, William Shakespeare. Chief Jus* i tice Marshall, John Adams, Daniel Webster, George Washington? How do you account for their fondness for the Christian religion? "Among the innumerable colleges and universities of the earth will you name me three started by infidels aud now supported by infidels? Down in your heart are you really happy in the position you occupy antagonistic to the Christian religion? , "When do you have the most n?pturoua views of the next world?" Go at him with a few such questions, and he will get so red in the face as to suggest apoplexy, and he will look at his watch and say he has an engagement and must go. You will put him in a sweat that will beat a /Lurlcish bath. You will put him on a rout compared with which our troops at Bull Run made no time at all. Arm yourself, not with arguments, but interrogation points, and I promise you victory. Shall such a man as you, shall such a woman as you, surrender to one of the meanest spirits that ever smoked up from the pit?the dumb devil spoken of in the text? Hut then there are occasions when this particular spirit that Christ exorcised when He saia, "I charge thee to come out of him" takes people by the wholesale. In the most responsive religious audience have you noticed how many people never sing at all? They have a bock, and they have a voice, and they know how to read. n UA?r warn' r\f fV?a fiAipa anrl vpf. are silent while the great raptures of rauaic pass by. Among those who sing aot one out of a hundred sings loud enough to hear his own voice. They hum it. They give a sort of religious grunt. They make the lips go, but it is inaudible. Wi*** a voice strong enough to stop a street (Jar one block awav, all they can afford in the praise of God is about half a whisper. With enough soprano3tj enough aitos, enough bassos to make a small heaven between the four walls, they let the opportunity go by unimproved. The volume of voice that ascends from the largest audience that ever assembled ought to be multiplied two thousandfold. But the minister rises and gives out the hymn, the organ begins, the cnoir or preceptor leads, the audience are standing so that the lungs may have full expansion, and a miglity harmony is about to ascend when the evil spirit spoken of in my text?the dumb devil?spreads his two wings over the lios of one-half the audience, and the otuer winji over the lips of the other half of the audience, and the voices roll back into the throats from which they started, and only here and there anything is heard, and nine-tenths of the holy power is destroyed, and the dumb devil, as he flie3 away, says, "I could not keep Jpaac Watts from writing that hymn, and I could not keep Lowell Mason from composing the tune to which it is set, but I smote into silence or half silence the lips from which it would have spread abroad to bless neighborhoods and cities and then mount the wide open heavens." Give the lone meter doxology the full support of Chrsteudom and those four lines would take the whole earth for God. Do not, however, let us lose ourselves in generalities. Not one of us but has had our livta sometimes touched by the evil spirit of the text?this awful dumb devil. We had just one opportunity of saying a Christian word that might nave led a man or woman into a Christian life. The opportunity was fairly put before us. The word of invitation or consolation or warning came to the inside gate of the mouth, but there it halted. Some hindering power loeked the jaws together so that they did not open^ The tongue lay flat and still in the bottom of the mouth as though struck with paralysis. We were mute. Though God had given us the physiological apparatus for speech which, by the command of our will, could have made the laryngeal muscles move and the vocal organs vibrate, we were wickedly and fatally silent. For all time and eternity we missed our chance. Or it was a prayer meeting, and the service was thrown open for prayer and remarks, and there was a dead halt?evei^thing silent as a graveyard at midnight. Indeed, it was a graveyard and midnight. An embarrassing pause took place that put a wet blanket on all the meeting. Men, bold enough on business exchange or in worldly circles, shut their eyes as though they were praying in silence, but they were not praying at all. They were busy hoping somebody else would do his duty. The women flushed under the awful pause, and made their fans more rapidly flutter. Some brother, with no cold, coughed, by that sound trying to fill up the time, and the meeting was slain. But what killed it? The dumb devil. This is the way 1 account for the fact that the stupidest places on earth are some prayer meetings. I do not see how a man keeps any grace if he regularly attends them. They are spiritual refrigerators. Religion kept on ice. How many of us have lost occasions of usefulness! In a sculptor's studio stood a figure of the cod Opportunity. The sculptor had made the firiir fall down over the face of the statue so as to completely cover it, and there were wings to the feet. When asked why he so represented Opportunity the sculptor answered, "The face of the statue is thus covered up because we do not recognize Opportunity when it comes, and the wings or the feet show that Opportunity is swiftly gone." But do not let the world deride the church because of all this, for the dumb devil is just as conspicuous in the world. The great political parties assemble at the nrooer time to build platforms for the candidates to stand on. A committee of each party is appointed to make the platform. After proper deliberation the committees come in with a ringing report, "whereas" and "whereas" and "whereas." Pronunciamentos all shaped with the one idea of getting the most votes. All expression in regard to the great moral evils of the country ignored. No expression in behalf of temperate living, for that would lose the vote of the liquor traffic. No expression in regard to the universal attempt at the demolition of the Lord's day. No recognition of God in the history of nations, for that would lose the vote of atheists. But "whereas" and "whereas" and "whereas." Nine cheers will be given for the platform. The dumb devil of the text puts one wing over the one platform and the other wing over the other platform. Those great conventions are opened with prayer by their chaplains. If they avoided platitudes and told the honest truth in their prayers they would say: "0 Lord, we want to be postmasters and consuls and foreign ministers and United States district attorneys. For that we are here and for that we will strive till the election next Npveniber. Give us ofilce or we die. Forever and ever. Amen." The world, to say the least, is no better than the church on this subject of silence at the wrong time, in other words, is it not time for Christianity to become pronounced and aggressive as never before? Take sides for God and sobriety and righteousness. "If the Lord be God, follow Him; if Baal, then follow him." Have you opportunity of rebuking a sin? Rebuke it. Have you a chance to cheer a disheartened soul? Cheer it. Have you a useful word to speak? Speak it. Be out and out, up and down for righteousness. If your ship is afloat on the Pacific Ocean of God's mercy, Jiang out your colors from the masthead. Show your passport if you have one. Do not smuggle your soul into the harbor of heaven. .Speak out for God! Close up the chapter ot lost opportunities, and open a new chapter. Before you get to the door on ? -..i -1? i__ yuin way oui khukc nunua wiwi buiiii; one, and ask him to join you on the road to heaven. Do not drive up to heaven in a two-wheeled "sulky" with room only for one, and that yourself, but get the bigfest gospel wagon you can find, and pile it ull of friends and neighbors, and 6hout till they hear you all up and down the skies, "Come with us, and we will do you good, for the Lord hath promised good concerning Israel." w-j'f m I r ,---V 'is 'r,' GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROVI THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. The Idnnl ? Fxpectance of the Divine I'reteiice?Ztrul for the lJIcht? Preacli to the Minuet* ? Only Active I'urtner* Wanted?Search Out Wicked Thoushiit. Hold thou fast an Ideal pure, High and holy; keep secure? luuiry, [htkmt, nign. uau urigm, Shilling with celestial light. Leave the lower; seek the higher; Ever upward still aspire. In the highest and the besc Thou shalt find the sweetest rest. Never lower, always higher! Thrill thy soul with heavenly fire! Upward! Upward! Still ascend; For the best thy soul contend. Rest not in a lower plain, When the heights thou may'st attain. Heed thy inmost soul's behest: Love the highest, seek the best. -Rev. J. H. Myers, Ph. D., in "The Transfigured Life." Expectance of the llivlne Prcnence. You have noticed how a great audience which may have been idling its time away is hushed into intense silence and keyed to the highest pitch of expectancy by souie intimation, which spreads like lightning through the audience, that the great orator is at hand. Some such change would certainly come aver the surface of our fevered modern life if the areat exnectanev took possession of men's hearts everywhere that the Lord was at hand. If we absolutely know that he was coming today, or even tomorrow, would we uot be kinder to our own, draw back more quickly from the deed that has the /savor of dishonor and unfaithfulness about it; would not the. clamor upon the boards of trade grow less noisy and competitive; would not the artifices and fihams of social intercourse be cast one i;ide; would not long ranks of men drawn up in battle array grow sober and tender as thoy reflected that every future act of warfare must be done ia the visible presence of the great Peacemaker? Zaal Tor the Right. There was once a monk extremely fond of playing ball, and when some of his less muscular, but perhaps not less heavenly minded, associates took him to task for his interest in a purely human pleasure and asked what he would do if Christ should come and find him playing ball, he replied: "I would play bnil the best I knew how." Better than idle gaziug up into heaven, better than frequent computation on the basis of certain figures in Daniel and Revelation, better than the purpose to put on some exceptional behavior as a garment in which to welcome the heavenly Guest, is the constant purpose and effort to do (he thing given us to do in the best possible way, as an nrtist paints a picture, as Christ himself lived and wrought in his humble home in Nazareth. In this way we shall be true followers of the great apostle who said: "Whether present or absent, we make it our aim to be well pleasing to him." Preach to tile Sinner*. An attendant upon the services of some of our churches would reasonably infer, from the praying and the preaching, that there was neither sin nor sinner, ueithcr wrong nor wrongdoer, to rebuke and condemn, but that all people were saintly, and that society, politics a ad government were already redeemed. So shielded have some of our ministers been from their youth up, and so secluded and partial has been their clerical life, that they really have no practical knowledge of the world iu which they live, nor of the average experience of the people with whom they have to do. Their pulpit work, therefore, lacks the humanness and sympathetic touch with life which is needed to give it effectiveness and moral grip. These cloistered ministers do not address themselves to men shot through with temptation, sin, soul-strife, and humiliation. Ontv Active 'Partr.em Wanted. A shrewd young business man once called upon a minister for what he termed "especially important business." "What is il?" inquired the clergyman, with an air of solicitude. "I have come, sir, to inquire if Jesus Christ will take me into the concern as a silent partner?" "Why do you ask that?" said the minister. "Well, to be frank, I should like to be a member of the firm. smu <lo not wish nnyoou.v u> nuw? n. The man of God replied, gravely: "Christ accepts no silent partners. The firm is Jesus Christ and Company, and the names of the Company, though they occupy a subordinate place, are to be written out on the signboard." Sparcli Out icked Thought*. Where thou dwellest, O my Ood, clear light and warmth of love forever glow. Come and abide in my cold heart and fill it with thy genial fire. TlfOtigh winter rules without and earth lies barren under frosty skies, let there be fruitful life and joy within. Come as a fire to burn the evil in my soul, searching out every wicked thought and selfish hope and vain affection. Come as a light to make the way of duty " tA-X- ~ nn<l trt plain, v oir.e wirn new llUJ/f Ullli IV I Klorif.v'the life of faith ami work. And let this warmth and liirht. this* cleansing and impelling tiro I ask for my own heart be given to others whom I see distressed and hindered by the trials of the way. So let the peace of Christ abide and rule and make thy people one in joyful work and hope. Amen. I.ive for Eternity. We are writing with a diamond on a rock. We are writing in the Book of Remembrance with invisible ink. W6 are accumulating for the future. What we do. is done forever. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the kindly and unkindly acts of daily life, we must face them again. Take heed therefore. Live for eternity. And the way to live for eternity is to concentrate all the energies of our life upon the discharge of present duty. Therefore, live today!?1>. J. Rurrell, D. D., iu "The (Jolden Passional." Oh, that Christ would break down the r.tii 11 *ifiviw vessels of these narrow and ebb souls, and make fair, deep, wide and 11road souls, to hold a sea, and a full tide flowing over all its hanks, of Christ's love!?Samuel Rutherford. CableloRH Cables Are Comtnj* Soon. Professor A. Slaby, of the Berlin Tcchrise he Hoelisehule, in a remarkable interview on "The Comins? Electrical Revolution." asserts that his recent invention, multiplex wireless telegraphy, will produce a very great transformation in existing methods. It will be possible, he denrir/iiulp tn mihmarine Clares, lo " j? , cablcs in such a way as to send hundred* and even thousands of messages simultaneously on the same wire, thus enormously eheaDenine the rates." National Debts of Eorope. The national debts of the European an^ principal countries not in Europe amounl to 933,700,000,000, or about $20 per capiU and $100 per family. A v' ' * ' / ; ' ' let*.- . -'A ? THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 3. Subjcct: Jemis Betrayed, John xvill., ! 14 ? Golden Text, Matt, x x v 1., 45 ? Ulemory Verges, 8-11 ? Commentary on the Day's Lesson. 1. "Had spoken these words." The discourse and prayer recorded in John 14, 15, 16 and 17. "Went?the brook Cedron"?Or Kedron. This was a small stream that flowed to the east of Jerusalem, through the valley of Jehoshaphat and divided the city from the Mount of Olives. "Where was a garden." Gethsemane, which means "oil-press." It was near the foot of the western slope of Olivet, and "was probably an enclosed olive vineyard, containing a press and garden tower." "He entered and His disciples." John passes over the circumstances connected with the entering and the agony of Christ in tne garden, probably because it was so fully described by the other evangelists. (See last lesson). 2. "Judas?knew the place." Luke tells us that this very week they had spent their nights on the Mount of Olives (Luke 21: 37); and having been there frequently with the Master Judas was familiar with His resting places; yet he went so far as to meet Him in that sacred place and | there betray Him. What a picture of a fallen nature! 3. "Having received a band of men." Judas received the Roman cohort, which consisted of from,300 to 600 men, who quartered in the tower of Antonia and guarded .the peace of thfc city. "Lanterns, torches and weapons." The ordinary equipment for night duty. The Roman soldiers were armed with swords, the Jewish officers with stones. With the Roman cohort came also a great multitude. Mark 14: 43. 4. "Knowinz all things." He was not taken unaware, but voluntarily delivered Himself up. "Whom seek ye?" He would have them own distinctly their dreadful design. He speaks to make them confess their object, and then to show that they can attain it only by His actual permission. Christ "went forth" from the company of the disciples, and facing the Roman soldiers asked them, "Whom seek ye?" ! 5. '"Jesus of Nazareth." The answer may perhaps reveal the light in which Judas had represented Jesus to the Roman authorities; "of Nazareth"?a Galilean prone to revolt. "I am He."?Look no farther; I am the One for whpm you are searching. "Judas?stood with them." That is, with the band of soldiers. A kiss had been agreed upon as a signal to mark the person they were seeking. As the band reached the garden Judas went somewhat in advance of them (Luke 22: 47), and reached Jesus just as He had roused the three?Peter, James and John?and was prejfering to go and meet His captors. Judas saluted Him, "Hail, Rabbi," so as to be heard by the rest, and kissed Him repeatedly, loudly, effusively. Matt. 26: 49. The Saviour submitted to the indignity, not stopping, but only saying a9 He passed on: "Friend" (not the endearing word, but "companion"), "is it this for which thou art here?" (Matt. 26 : 50); and then, perhaps in answer to His questioning gesture, "Judas, with a kiss deliv eredst tdou up the Son of Man?" Luke 22: 48. 6. "Went backward and fell." Thi9 was the manifestation of superhuman power. The divine majesty of Jesus, just from His intimate communion with God, the unexpected boldness of innocence, smote terror into hearts conscious of guilt. 7. "Whom seek ye?" The question was repeated, perhaps in irony. Why this exhibition of power? 1. To show that He surrendered Himself willingly, as to God's plana and not to man's power. 2. It drew attention away from His disciples to Himself. 3. It gave courage and faith to Hie disciples in after days, to know the power of Jesus, and that He could use it it' He would. See Matt. 26 : 53, 54. 8. "I have told you." An intimation to the armed crowd what playthings they might be in His hand. "Let these go their way." Let the disciples go their way. It was necessary that they should live to carry on the work, and Christ'proposes to protect them from all harm. These were words of authority, not of entreaty. 9. "Which He spake." This has reference to the prayer just offered. John 17: 12. "I have lost none." This is here applied to the preservation of their natural lives; even the body is a part of Christ's charge and care. He had kept them for tilree years. Jesus perished. 10. "Peter having a sword drew it." From Luke 22: 49, we see that the disciples asked Jesus if they should defend Him with the sword. Peter did not wait for an answer, but at once begins the defense. Probably he wished by this blow to prove his readiness to risk his life for his Lord, and to fulfill his vow (Mark 14: 27-31); in all probability it was also his design to give a signal to the friends and the Lord HimSelf to rise in arms against the foe. "Cut off his right car." This was a very rash act, for it compromised Jesus in His teaching that His kingdom was not of this world, but a spiritual kingdom. Ihe external ear, though severed, was apparently hanging on the cheek; for our Lord is said, in Luke 22: 51, to have touched His ear in performing the heaiing. xuis was Christ's last miracle before His death. 11. "Put up thy sword." He was opposing the divine plan and Christ rebuked him. "The cup which My Father hath given." What God hath arranged for Him in making atonement for sin is represented as a bitter medicine put in a cup for Him to drink. Exactly the amount designed to be drunk was placed in the cup. "Shall I not drink it?" The fact that the cup was given Him by the Father was sufficient. We learn from Matt. 26 : 52-54 that Jesus gave three other reasons for not resisting. 12. "Then the band?took Jesus." Some of the more eager ones had taken hold of Jesus before the attempt of Peter (Matt. 26: 50); now the guard took possession of Him and led Him away. At this time not only Peter, but all the disciples forsook Jesus and fled. Peter and John afterward followed Him to His place of trial. 13. "To Annas first." Because this old man had formerly been high priest, and was still the legitimate high priest according to the law of Moses, the office being for life (Num. 20: 28; 35 : 25), and may have been so regarded by the Jews. An- i nas, as father-in-law to Caiaphas. doubt- I less exerted a strong influence over him. 14. Caiaphas." He was a wicked, self-seeking man. He was willing to destroy even an innocent person to save the nution from what he considered a great peril. Famous Tunnel Complotcd. 1 A Geneva correspondent says that after thirty months of continuous boring the two c;angs of workmen engaged in tunneling Sit. Jamau recently met in the centre, thus completing the work. Seven miles of galleries have had to be opened, and $90,000 worth of dynamite has beeD used. This tunnel will give direct com munication from parts of Lake Geneva tc the Montreux Valley without the necessity of climbing peaks 12,000 feet high. Oldest Man Never "Was III. After searching six months for the oldest persons in tne world, the Committee -> f i? t r? j i -\r on Vital statistics 01 tiie nunurca a cur Club of New York CiLy has prepared a refort which shows that the oldest man is zai ltodofsty, of Moscow, Russia, who is in hi3 136th year, and the oldest woman Mrs. Nancy Hollifield, of Battle Creek, Mich., who is 117. Rodofsty's sight is good, but liis hearing is poor. He was never ill, uses liquor, but nas never used tobacco. How Admiral Dewey Was Hazod. Admiral Dewey was asked recently if he had been hazed while at Annapolis. "Well," said he, "if eating dough, chewing the end of a hawser, going around with a shingle down my back, drinking vinegar without putting my nose in the glass, and such other triHcs is being hazed I shouldn't wonder if I was." ... aj THE GREAT SOME STARTLINC FACTS THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE^HB^H YTIiat Can a Roy Do? ? The Economl* 81de of the Drink Question Shown in ^ n Way to Convince tbo Most Skeptical of Its Evil Influence. Oh, think, what can a boy do? What u?c am T at all? A noisy boy from morn till nigjiti i Yet even I can help the right, And make some otner pathway bright, Although I'm only small. I ' Oh, think, what can a boy do? . | Well, now, I'll try to tell? v ; If but a humble tasK be mine, In household labor to combine; The boots and shoes to black and shine, I'll clean them, oh, so well! Oh, think, what can a boy do? \ Now don't despise a boy, He'll clean the knives and window?, too. Your errands he will ran for you, With willing feet and spirit true, He's mother'3 pride and joy! A .*? Oh, think, what can a boy do? at.. , ' Here in the temperance band, s To help the free to light the foe, To lay the cruel tyrant low. And freedom's banner far to choir, A soldier he can stand! Oh, think; what can a boy do? j When.tempted, even I, ? , By HeaVen's help, can still refuse The droP3 of fire and woe to use. And sparkling water I can choose, With purpose brave and hijh. Oh, think, what can a boy do? Life's battle he can win; For Jesus, once a boy below, , Will help us one ana all we know, j . The powers of wrong to overthrow, j And conquer self and sin. ' | ' -11. S. H., in the Temperance Banner/ In a Nutshell. Suppose four fanners came into town, each with $30 in his pocket. One goes to a dry goods store, one to a hardware store, one to a boot and shoe store, and the other to a saloon, and each spends hit money in the nlace he visits. j After two weeks I come to you and saySj "Let U3 go and see those producers; see what they have received for the money; they gave those 'non-producers." We' drive to the home of the man who spent. his money at the dry goods store. "What. did you get?" "Do you see that dre?' which Neiiie is wearing and the coat that! Tom has on? Well, I gave the merchant; $30, and he gave me in exchange these; things. He is better off; we are better , rtff " TT-v-oViq nrrn rvf r.il'lO , hrtfch ap(? hpTM?*' fited. I We go to the man who traded at the hardware store, and we say: "What diet, you receive?" "Do you see the stove, and' the axe, ?and those kettles?" "Yea."-, "Well, 1 pave him $30, he gave me these.' We are better off; he is better off." < We go to the man who spent his money at the boot and shoe store. "What did: you receive- for the money you paid?". "You see these boots which I am wearing' and the shoes Nellie has on, and the bootaj. that Will, Dick and Harry and the rest; are wearing? I gave that Merchant $30* for them. vVe needed the fboots and' shoes, he needed the money, so we traded." An exchange of valiie; both arej | benefited. Now we go to the man who spent thef I 530 in the saloon and say to him: "Sir.t 4 you paid that non-producer $30. What dial you get back?" Come here and I will; I show you." Will he say that? No; he! will hang his head and say: "I got this; [ flaming nose, these bleared eyes, and! have been sick ever since." * r "My farmer friend, would you not have| been better off if you had put the $30 in! the fire and burned it, and never had gone to the drinking place at all? Yes, because you would have had a clear head, hard! muscles, and could have gone to work at I once and produced more wealth to take the place of that destroyed. The liquor! dealers took your money and unfitted" your brain and muscles for the production of more wealth." t How to Stop Drinking. William Penn's keen understanding was often directed toward drunkenness. "All excess is ill," he wrote, "but drunkenness is of the worst sort. In fine, he that is | drunk is not a man, because he is bo long; void of reason, that distinguishes a man from a beast." But if Penn was the living spirit of' aphorism he also knew when and how to; apply his maxims. Given a drunkard, he] could treat his case in a characteristic yet' plain and reasonable way. He was once advising a man to leave off his habit.of drinking intoxicating liquors. ! "Can you tell me how to. do it?" said the slave of the appetite. "Yes," answered Penn. "It is just as easy as to open thy hand, friend." j "Convince me of that, and I. will promise lyjon my honor to do as you tell me." I "Well, my friend," said the great Quaker, "when thou findest any vessel of intoxicating liquor in thy hand, open the hand that grasps it before it reaches thy mouth, ana thou wilt never be drunk again."?Short Stories. ucu-uoniroi. A man who lately came over from America told the writer that on board the steamer one of the passengers went up to another in the smoking room and asked him to have a drink with him. The man tLus invited continued reading a newspaper and made no reply. The other man. again asked him to drink with him. No answer again. "A third invitation was then given in these words: "Sir, I have asked you in as friendly a way as possible to drink with me, and each time you went on with your reading, and had not the civility to answer me. Now I ask you for tht third time if you will drink wine, whisky or anything else With me?" The mm then put aside his paper and answered very ruietly: "Do you see that glais, sir? \Vttl, if I were to take even a quarter of it, I could not leave off until I had drunk all the liquop on board. This is why I would not arink'with you." All present admired the man's self-control, and learned a striking lesson on the danger of putting temptation in a brother's way.?The Quiver. A Successful Experiment. The good condition and good behavior of the troops m South Atrica is recognized as largely due to the fact that they h?./e had no strong drink. General Kelly, L. A. G., said lately to a newspaper correspondent: "This campaign has been run entirely on teetotal principles, and the experiment has proved wonderfully successful." The Crusade Id Brief. Corkscrews have sunk more people than cork jackets will ever save. There never wa3 a surer way to get behind the bars than to stand too much in front of them. Legislation against drunkenness in Belgium dates from 1887. It deals with the drunk and uisorderly, supplying liauor to a drunken person or to a child under sixteen. Honolulu is soon to be the scene of an active temperance crusade led bv the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The advance guard of crusaders has just arrived. A liquor license issued to a Philadelphia retailer and having only six mouths to run was sohl the other day tor In the London Temperance Hospital, during twenty-five years, alcohol .has only been used in thirty-one cases out of a total of more than 31.000. The number of wholesale dealers in beer and other malt liquors in this country increased from (5577 in 1898 and 7257 in 1899 to 7730 in 190fi. and the number of retail dealers from 12,071 in 1893 and 12.327 ia 1899 to 12,716 during the same period. Alderman Strange, of Eastbourne, EngIr.n.1. v>t.b compelled to withdraw from the position of Mayor-dect by the members of he Council bccau3? of his announcement that ho proposed ta give thera a teetotal banquet instead of serving wines as usual.