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V THB ElS)I?T<?> Now York City.?The blouse waist i not alone holds its place, but appar- J ontly gains in favor week by week. It suits the greater number of figures: j it is elegant in the truest sense, being entirely simple and is equally well adapted to the odd bodice and the entire costume. The May Manton model shown here- I FANCY BLOUSE WAIST. with is made from panne satin in dove gray with polka dots of white, combined with cream point de Venisc and bunches of darker gray panne, but all the season's silks and soft wool materials are appropriate, while the contrasting material can be varied again and again. Lace of all sorts is in .vogue, panne velvet with silk is effective, panne crepe is still lighter in weight and any silk coutrasts well with woolen fabrics. The fitted lining is snug and well shaped and closes at the centre front. The plastron, or vest, is attached to ' * *- K/vaItaH nror nfl fn the ngni u-oui uuu uuvnwu w>v* the left, Tvhile the back and fronts arc arranged over the lining before the shoulder and under arm scams are closed. The deep collar finishes the neck and fronts while the stock completes the plastron and closes at the centre back. The sleeves are charming. The upper portions are .scalloped and fall over the full lace cufTs. which ' jil ^ MISSES' BL X . I are unwnea ana transparent ana are seamed to the lower edge of the lining. 'At each edge of the fronts are hands of trimmings comprised of lace outlined by the dark panne. To cut this -waist for a woman of medium size three and a half yards of material twenty-one inches wide, three yards twenty-seven inches wide, two and a half yards thirty-two inches ;wide or one and three-quarter yards forty-four inches wide, with two yards of all-over lace eighteen inches wide to make as illustrated. Misses' Blouse Eton. The blouse with an Eton effect is exceedingly popular, and is peculiarly becoming to young girls. The large illustration shows one of the latest May Manton designs in fawn colored cheviot, with revers and undersleeves of white peau de soie. and is desigued for a general wrap to be worn with Various guwus, uui iue my n: is equanj well suited to the entire costume of clotli, cheviot, serge or other fashionable material. The revers, collar and Bleeves are finished with narrow black and gold passementerie, but the facing may become any color preferred, and the trimming braid or applique white if desired: plain coat sleeves can be substituted for the fancy ones. The back fits smoothly and snugly, but the fronts are adjusted with slight fulness at the waist liue to give the blouse effect over the curved belt. The odd shaped revers are formed by the fronts, which are faced and rolled back. At the neck is an Aiglon collar that can be closed with the fronts when desired. The sleeves are made over a regulation lining, to which the undersleeves are attached. To cut this blouse for a miss of fourteen years of age. one and five-eighth yards material forty-four Inches wide or one and a half yards fifty inches wide, with one yard of silk for revers, collar and undersleeves will be retiuired. A Rattonlest Blonne. " The boy of seven years old (eels dignified in his first long trousers. He is on promotion In a white "drilling" costume, made with long trousers and ;wlth one of the new blouses made Without buttons. The blouse, in fact, has no opening in front, but is loose enough at the throat to slip over the head. It is extremely stylish made in this fashion. The collar is handsome bad carefully made of blue linen. Of fa&NION. f ?m?I> fUnAa rn\v? nf tiiirrnw I UiUiUVU nnu 14UVV %V.. ? ?... * white braid. The black silk scarf is surmounted with a bow knot, with loops and ends of fancy colored braid. The loose sleeves fasten with two poarl buttons at the wrist on the iuside seam. Enhanced With Velvet Itibbon. Black velvet ribbon is applied in rows to decorate the top of a spring parasol. Five rows is the proper number used. The ribbon should not exceed one inch in width, nor should the graduated rows come half way down from the central tip from which they make the start. The upper circle is exceedingly small. It simply appears as a border or finish to the little sathrvuPF r\f cilL- vhinll is nut like a TO sette at the top of every parasol directly below the point: of the stick, which protrudes through the cover for a few inches. Cretonne Flowers. One of the newest things in Paris is the use of cretonne flowers appliqued onto net or other transparent fabrics. Delicate garlands or detachcd -flowerets are utilized with excellent effect. The edges are outlined with cordings in brilliantly-tinted floss silk or in narrow gold braid or cord. This style of ornamentation is pretty for the ends of scarfs, for vests or parasol borders. Sometimes motifs of guipure are used, in connection with those of cretonne. This fashion will most likely be ephemeral. Fanciful Shapes in Collars. Collars take a number of fanciful shapes. There are bands higher at the back, and with narrow turn-over col-' lars, pointed, straight or scalloped. In others the collars extend to about three inches of the front, rounded and turned back in a slight flare. Pretty Ornamentft. I 110 prCUICSt uruauit'iua iv yc occu in the baroque pearls are pins iu the form of larse daisies. The petals are of the pearls, each formed of a single one, slender and oblong. In the centre there is a large stone, a diamond or a topaz. OUSE ETON. Woman's Plain Shirt Waiat. The plain shirt waist is preferred by many women to any other sort, and has an extended vogue. The May Manton model given herewith includes all the latest features, and is adapted to all wasting materials, silk, wool, cotton and linen, but in the original is of embroidered linen, batiste trimmed, with insertion and lace to match, and is made over a fitted lining of blue silk. When made from washable materials the lining should be omitted, but otherwise there is no change. The foundation consists of the usual pieccs, and closes at the centre front, but separately from the outside. The waist proper is plain across the shoulders, and drawn down in gathers at the waist line. At the front are hems through w.'iich the closing is effected, the band of insertion edged with narrow frills of lace taking the place of a box pleat ou the right front and concealing ;he closing underneath. The sleeves are in bishop shape opi ned at the back and finished with narrow cuffs. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size three and three-quarter yards of material twenty-one inches PLAIN SHIRT WAIST. wide, three and a half yards twentyseven inches wide, two and a half yards thirty-two inches wide or two yards forty-four inches wide will be required. THE HOTEL CHECK PROBLEM. A Question of Whether to Offend Gneiiti or Risk Losing money. Tho hotel clerk was standing behind the desk with a disconsolate look on his face. "What's tho matter?" asked a friend. "Matter?" said the clerk. "Why. it's the same old story. I've been stuck for another check. This check business causes us hotel clerks more trouble than anythingclse in the world. There is a general rule in hotels that no checks shall be cashed, but very often travelers run short of money. It is pood business policy to cash these checks when you can be sure that they're all right. No hotel can afford to be continually offending guests. At the same time, if a clerk cashes a bad chock he has to stand the loss. ' Tho average hotel clerk has learned by bitter experience to be a pretty good judge of human nature, but every now and then ho slips up. Only a week ago a big. splendid-looking fellow came to me and got me to cash a check for .$20. I sized him up and decided that he was all right, and that lie was a good man to keep among the steady patrons of the hotel. A few days later back came the check with 'So funds' marked across it. The result was that I was out $20." While the clerk was talking a swagger-looking woman came up to the aesif. ana sinning sweeny m mc ucm, said: "Will you please ca^x this little chock?" Tho clcrk was all graciousness. He took the check and examined it care fully without, saying anything. "Oh. it's all right," said the woman. "Of course, if you don't want to cash it you needn't. Mr. So-and-So knows me quite well, and you can telephone him about it if you wani- to. but it would save me a great deal of trouble if you would cash it for me now." "Certainly, madam." said the clerk, and then he went over and held a consultation with the cashier They decided that the woman was a good investment and gave her the money. She went away smiling, and then the clerk said: "Now. there is just about an evenmoney chance. If I hadn't cashed that check she would have been highly insulted, and would have talked about this hotel as long as she could remember. If she is all right she will be a good customer, but if she isn't I am out another twenty-five."?New York Sun. Japanese Stem Twistlnp. .1: fl.a or. 'j. ne cuiei. uiueit'uv;c utmccu <.u^ ??. rangement of flowers in this country and in Japan is that whereas in this country the art is merely considered as a pretty accomplishment for gentlewomen, in Japan it ranks as a science and a philosophy, which can only be mastered after several years of closc study. Far from being practiced only by ladles, this pretty Japanese art has among its devotees princes, scholars and other prominent men, who, having retired from the cares of political life, are In search of a hobby which will afford not only amusement, but will also offer intricacies and obstacles worthy of their trained minds. All cultured people in Japan are proficient In the science, just as the better classes among Western nations cultivate taste in dress, or in the artistic arrangement of their household gods. The Japanese term for a flowerliana?also implies a blossom-clad stem, and even the stumps or branches of flowerless trees and shrubs, and their science of flower arrangement consists not only in grouping flowers, but more particularly in grouping their % ?j n/tAAinlintT tn nrp. leaves uuu iwiga uhviuiu^ i-- scribed formulae. The blossom is looked upon as a minor detail in the artistic composition, and of very small value if separated from the parent stem, whose sweeping, though artifi cial, curves emphasize its beauty.-The whole science is, therefore, reduced to obtaining curves which, though really distorted, have the appearance of being true to nature.?Pearson's Magazine. Broke It Gently. "I have just had a chat with your wife,'* said the handsome friend of a down town business man the other day, as he stepped into the office, relates the Chicago Chronicle. '"Had a chat with my wife? I did not know she was down town." "Oh, I did not see her down town. I saw her at the house." "What! You saw my wife at my | house? Indeed, I did uot think she was receiving to-day. When I left her this morning she complained of having a fearful headache. She must have become better rapidly. "She did not say anytnmg to me about a headache; didu't appear to have one, in fact." "So. I presume not." "Well, you see, I was ihere with a big crowd." "A big crowd? What do you mean, sir?" "Yes. I went with the fire engine. Oh, don't got frightened. It's all right. The tiromen put out the blaze in two minutes and you would hardly know there was a lire in the house. Good-bye!" And the handsome friend closed the door behind him and wondered if he had broken the news geutiy enough J. ri?*rj>ont IMorjfun and the Reporter, Not long ago a young man was sent by his employer to Mr. Morgan to make a verbal inquiry. When he entered the big counting-room he saw that Mr. Morgan was not at his desk, lie asked the nearest clerk where he was. The clerk pointed to a distant door. The young man vent at once into the room, and there he saw Mi. Morgan in an armchair before a snap wood fire. There were many clerks in the room working over led gers ^and sheets of figures. He con gratulatod himself that he hail found the banker at leisure. The banker seemed to be tracing a curved line on the arm of the chair. lie held his finger at the end of the line as one marks the place in a book. %vhen he isinterrupted, and he looked up am1 asked gruffly: "How did you get in here?" "I?I?I walked in, sir." stammered the young man. He could think of nothing else to say. "Walk out!" roared Mr. Morgan. Then he turned his attention again to the line on the arm of the chair.?The World's Work. . U ./ THE BIG STEEL COMBINE'1 __________ i Huge Trust Incorporated n New Jersey For $1,100,000,000. 1 CHARLES M. SCHWAB, PRESIDLNI , ] J. P. Morgan & Co. Announce tlie Acquisition of the American Bridge Conn- ] pany and tlie Lake Superior Consolldated Iron Works?Officers anil Directors Chosen?Large Incorporation Fee Paid New York City.?Shortly before the close of business on the Stock Er- i change Monday word was received ( from Trenton, N. J., that an amendment of the charter had been filed there by the United States Steel Corporation, increasing its capital stock from $3000 to $1,100,000,000. The $3000 original capital was only nom* . inal. Unofficially, on the date the company was formed, the capital was i stated to be $400,000,000 preferred and $400,000,000 common stock, or $800,- " 000,000 in all. This was increased in the official announcement on March 2 , to $425,000,000 preferred and $425,000,000 common, or $850,000,000 in ] stock, irrespective of the $304,000,OOG five per cent, gold bonds. The total j capitalization is now $1,404,000,000. Uf ttie total autnorizeu luurease .?iuu,250,000 is set apart to acquire tlie outstanding stock of the American Bridge Company and the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines. Charles Steele, representing J. P. Morgan & Co., made the following statement: , "In accordance with their circular 1 of March 2, 1901, which provided, < among other things, that the entire plan of organization and management 1 should be determined by J. P, Morgan ' & Co., they now announce the organi- j zation and management of the United i States Steel Corporation. "Directors will be J. Pierpont Mor- i gan, John D. Rockefeller, Francis H Peabody, Henry H. Rogers, Charles 1 M. Schwab, Elbert H. Gary, Robert Bacon. Charles Steele, Marshall Field Norman B. Ream, P. A. B. Widener , William H. Moore, James H. Reed, Henry C. Frick, Daniel G. Reld, E , C. Converse. Percival Rooerts, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. Alfred Clifford. William E. Dodge, Nathaniel Thayer ] William Edenborn. Abraham S. Hew ; itt and Clement A. Grlscom. "The President will be Charles M 1 Schwab; the Treasurer. Arthur F. Luke; Secretary, Richard Trimble; the 1 Executive Committeemen, E. H. Gary, , Chairman; Daniel G. Reid, Williair , Edenborn, E. C. Converse, Percival Roberts, and Charles Steele. The ' Finance Committeemen will bo Roberl Bacon, Chairman; Henry H. Rogers 1 Norman B. Ream, and P. A. B. Widener." J The properties acquired are of greal \ it- TT?U^,l + CfAA' importance to me uimcu ouum oicc, Corporation. The American Bridge : Company was organized May 15, 1900 j and is known as a Morgan corpora 1 tion, numbering among its directors two of Mr. Morgan's partners. Robert Bacon and Charles Steele. The company includes twenty four of the most important bridge ranking plants in the ountry, and manufactures bridges, \ roofs, buildings, columns and all metal i structures. Its productive capacity is ' 600,000 tons per annum.* < The Lake Superior Consolidated J Iron Mines, a Rockefeller concern, ( was organized in 1893. The company j owns and operates lar?e iron ore mines on the Mesaba Range, Minne- I sota. It leased some of its mines to * the Carnegie and other manufacturing ! Interests. The company controls the ' Duluth. Mesaba and Northern Rail- ' way. extending from Duluth to Iron , Mountain, Minn., comprising a total i owned and operated of 132 miles of i roads. The funded debt of this crop- j erty is $5,995,000. j Die Check Paid For Incorporation. Trenton, N. J.?What is the largest j check the State of New Jersey ever 1 received as a corporation fee was re- j ceived when the United States Steel . Corporation increased its capital stock ( from $3000 to $1,100,000,000 and gave < a check for $225,249 as a filing fee. The check, certified to and drawn od the National Bank of Commerce, New York City, was signed by J. P. Mor- 1 gan & Co. The big corporation wiJ1 pay an annual tax of $58,000. ] I OHIO ELECTION! RESULTS. j ' . i Tom L. Jolinson Wlna In Cleveland ? Jones Re-elected in Toledo. Cleveland, Ohio.?The most interest ing municipal election held in this city in years resulted in the election of Tom L. Johnson (Deiu.) to the office of Mayor over William J. Ackers (Rep.) by a plurality that may go as high as GOUO. Only the head of the Republican ticket was defeated, the candidates for the minor offices on thai ticket being successful. Democratic administrations were in control at Cleveland and Springfield, where the Republicans made hard fights to control the political machinery. j "Golden Rule" Jones was a third | time elected Mayor of Toledo by a < plurality of about 2300. w While tin; Democrats carried the c larger cities aud some of the smaller, 1 places, yet the Republicans show \ slight gains in the State as a whole. In ' the three larger cities. Cleveland, Col- . umbus and Toledo, the Democrats j show gains which are offset by Re- I publican gains in the smaller cities < throughout the State. ' Harrison's Estate Worth 8373,000. An inventory of the estate of the i late former President Harrison show? that his personal property foots up ( $178,000. The real estate in Indianap- r olis, Ind., and elsewhere, it is figured, ' will swell the total estate to $375,000. I Oil Strike in Kentucky. A company which has been prospecting for oil in Wayne County, Ky., ( has made a good strike at a depth of " 800 feet. Two hundred * barrels ran to ( waste before It could be stopped. I Nemy Gleaning* ' The output of coal in Washington State for 1900 was about 2 200,000 \ trine A new bridge will spaa the Ohio River between Bellaire and Wheeling, i W. Va. < Andrew Carnegie offers Crawfords- J vllle, Ind., $23,000 for a library ( building. , The City of Boston is said to own the finest collecMon of Japanese po':- ] tery in existence. Sedalia, Mo., has a grocery clerk who ] claims to be the champion cracker | c..ter of the State. i HTE GREAT DESTROYER 1 SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. 'oein: "The Green Door .Swings"? Drunkenness is No Excuse For a CrimeGood Law Propounded by the Louisiana Supreme Conrt. .1 i me green aoor swings on us ninges, Nigh to the doors of God, [nviting their feet who must walk the street Inside, where the weak have trod, [nside, where the strong have fallen To deeps of disgrace and woe, And with laugh and song do the weak . and strong Within, to their ruin, go. rhe green door swings on its hinges. Hard by the house of prayer, And many who meet at the mercy-seat Consent to its presence there. 'Our Father who art in heaven," They pray as with Christian breath, Ihen stand at the polls and vote that i souls 1 Go down to eternal death. rhe green door swings on its hinges, Hung by the law's commands, _ I And the keys of the law its bolts withdraw By help of some Christian hands; i While motherhood weeps in sorrow, And childhood in hunger cries, And womanhood's crown in the slime goes down, . i And manhood in madness dies. rhe gTeen door swings on its hinges, Night to the gates of home. [nviting the feet of the boys we meet , From purity's paths to roam; r\nu men who gu past it, aiways, With Pharisee prayer and nride, Declare it shall swing for the votes they bring Who plunder the youth inside. ?By Alphonso Alva Hopkins, Author of ' "Ballads of Brotherhood." , , Drunkenness and Crime. We have -often heard drunkenness pleaded in extenuation of crime, and we i regret to say that we have seen such pleas ] jffpctive in Georgia courts. Men indicted for murder in this State have either been acquitted or have re- I :eived ridiculously light sentences on the zround that they had been drunk so long i that they had become irresponsible. "Mania a potu" is the high sounding name the j lawyers give to this state of mind, which, I t is claimed, excuses crime. The Louisiana Supreme Court takes no I stock in this mania. _ i A man named Boab was indicted for , manslaughter. His defense was that he I was suffering from delirium tremens and I did not know what he was doing. The I jury found him guilty and he was sen- I tenced to four years in the penitentiary, l'he case was appealed, and in affirming the judgment of the court below the Supreme Court said: "Where a party m possession of his | mind enters into voluntary drunken debauch he is not legally excusable for a j homicide which he commits during its continuance, and while in a condition of drunkenness, even though the_ drunken- i ness may be such at the time of the com- j mission of the homicide as to render his , mind incapable of knowing right from j wrong. If the debauch be one continuing irnliintarv drunken debauch, starting with the sanity of the partv encaged in it, the mere length of time the debauch may ex- , tend over is immaterial. Drunkenness for a week no more excuses a homicide committed as its immediate and direct result than would drunkenness for an hour." This is good law and real justice. We do not wonder that the decision is commended highly by the press of Louisiana.?Atlanta (Ga.) Journal. A Good "Idea." Eleanor Kirk, in her monthly known as Eleanor Kirk's Idea, says in answer to a question regarding Mrs. Nation's work: "There is neither reason nor excuse for the liquor saloon. To say that the majority of the frequenters of these places are unhappy in their domestic relations and ire driven to drink by scolding wives and fretful babies is the biggest lie that ever ivas told upon this earth. Suppose the statement to be true, who is responsible for the babies, and who for the scolding wives? 'It is the ljght and th^ cheer and the warmth of these ?rOg shops that attract men.' we are told bv liie sentimental ind superficial thinker. 'If they had more :ommodious tenements, better warmed and lighted, they would stay in them.' What bosh this is. Does the rich man always stay in his comfortable and elegantly appointed mansion? No. The liquor saloon or the bar of the club is just as necessary to him as to the poor man who keeps himself and his family poorer by spending his money in these infernal holes. All this talk of 'moral suasion' is rot. I have worked on the suasion line for years, and [ might as well have spent my time throwing straws against a cyclone. The time is here when the words, 'Thou shalt not' must be used and carried into execution by force if necessary. How much longer ivill we look on and see our precious boys turned into drunkards and the happiness >[ our dear girls destroyed?" German Cnltnre In RetroRresalnn. Edward von Hartmann, the German philosopher, author of the "Philosophy of Unconsciousness," in "Das Judenthum," says: "Although of all nations the German has the greatest capacity for culture, the zeneral culture of its higher ctesses is un 3ergoine a frightful retrogression, because the beer consumption of its student youth is affording neither time nor sobriety to icquire more than is demanded bv the advanced requirements to prepare for their professional life." Ernst Eckstein, Ph. D., poet and novelist, arraigns the drinking habits of the Sermans as a foreigner would scarcely iare to do: "But a few steps more and our modern Jerman drinking will signify financial ruin. A. German has time to pour ten muea of ieer behind his cravat night after ni<rht, but for comfortable digestion of intellectual food that appeals to both heart and reason, for that which is indisnensable to verv cultivated being, for reading, he has 10 time." The Foolish Moderate Drinker. Where is the boundary between the Irunkard and the moderate drinker? S'othing appears to be more ludicrous now than the contemptuous attitude the mod?rate drinker assumes toward the toper. Are. for instance, all of our staggeripg jfficials, professional scientists, artists and physicians at the close of our official banquets moderate drinkers? Does the offi:ial debauch characterize moderation? Do lot the number of deaths from fatty defeneration of heart, diseases of the vessel < .vails, delirium tremens, the hardening of ;he liver preach loud enough that our irinking customs are ruining our bodies i ind shortening our lives ? The Crusade In Brief. All saloons are kept tightly closed on j Sundays in Honolulu, Hawaii. In England 10,000 out of 29,752 conlemncd at the assizes, and 50,000 of the 0,903, summarily condemned, were trained n crime in liquor shops. The candy men of Lansing, Mich., have i seen warned by the Michigan anti-saloon eague not to sell "brandy drops" any longer. The use of alcohol, as with narcotics in {eneral, is followed byfa reaction. The use of alcohol is followed bv a decrease in the activity of the muscles and jrain cells. Only ninety-seven abstainers were convicted by court-martial last year in India, is against seventeen times that number of ion-abstainers, who were convicted. And ? * - il:?l _r ^et tne aostainers were a uiuu ui mc whole Indian army. Out of seventy-three new ordained minster in the Free churches of England sev;nty were pledged abstainers, forty-five de:laring they had abstained since c&ildhood. Twenty years ago out of 2080 ministers i >nly 703 were abstainers; now, out of 2800 ninisters 2480 were abstainers. Superintendent Talcott, of the State Elomoepathic Hospital at Middletown, N. 5f., assigns intemperance as the cause of the greatest number of cases of insanity imong the men in that institution, and nental strain and worry the cause of ireatest Dumber among the women. ? THE. SABBATH SCHOOL I ( INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS F FOR APRIL 21. Subject: Tlio Walk to Einman*, Lr.Ue y xxiv., 13-35?Golden Text, Lake xxiv., 32?.Memory Verses, 23-27 ? Cominen?? fVio Tlnv'a T.ocann. 13. "Two of them." In verse 33 it is , implied that they were not apostles. One J was Cleopas, of whom we know nothing; the other is unknown. "Emmaus." The ' word means "hot springs," and was probably a place where there were hot springs. ^ "Threescore furlongs." About seven and I one-half miles. The site of the city is 1 somewhat uncertain. 14. "They talked together." Their con- I vernation naturally turned on the all-ab- ; sorbing question of the hour?the cruci- { fixion of Jesus and the reports which they had heard of His resurrection. j 15. "Communed together." . Probably consulted together what to expect, or to i do, in such perplexing circumstances. They exchanged views and feelings, and weighed the fapts before them concerning the prob- \ ability of Christ being the Messiah, "Drew near." Coming up behind them as from Jerusalem. 16. "Ej-es were holden." Purposely as- ( aiming a different form than usual, and r supernaturally influencing their sight that 1 they might not know Him. See Mark 16: 12. ' I 17. "Said unto them." As a good teach- i er, in order to be heard, He begins by get- j ting then to speak first. "What?communications." What is the nature of your i talk which so absorbs you? By this ques- ; tion Jesus introduces Himself into the j conversation. "As ye walk and are sad." 1 Thus Jesus leads them to open their haarts to Him. He would have them relate to Him what He already knows. 18. "A stranger." If He knew not the 3vents that had been sft public, ao awful, and so universally known, He must be a 1 mere sojourner; if He did. how could He J suppose they would be talking about anything elss? Cleopas appears astonished i i': His question. * 19. "What things?" He evades an answer by another question. He wants to \ hear from their own lips their exact feel- ^ ir.gs. "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth." \ As He was commonly called. They are t full of things concerning Him, and give a c summary of Christ's life. Now the stream ( d5 their lamentations are over their disappointed expectations break loose. "A prophet." He preached a true and excel- * lent doctrine, which had its rise from, ind its tendency toward, heaven^ He con- ' firmed it by many glorious miracles of ? acrcy. "Mighty." However the death of f Jesus may have made them waver in their i faith about His being the Messiah, they r tad no doubt that He was a prophet, for t tliey knew what He had done, and they < had heard His teachings. "Deed and ? word." There is but little use of our un- t iertaking to speak for Christ unless godiy ^ iction3 precede our words. . 20. "Crucified Him." Our rulers treated Kim as a malefactor and not as a prophet, [ - - j * 'cl ?i tt: a. i ma nave cmcuieu xnm. xucjr s^cuiv caic* Fully with regard to their rulers, because f they are speaking to a supposed stranger. i 21. "But we hoped" (K. V.) Here ia e in intimation of their disappointment as a reason of their sadness. V. 17. "Redeemed Israel." They had confidently believed Him to be the promised Messiah, who had so long been predicted and was then expected. "The third day." Referring either to the length of time as tending to extinguish hope, or to the promise of Jesus that He would rise on the third day, and hence the reports may be true and there is hope. 22-24. "Amazed us" (R. V.) The original verb means "to drive out of his Benses." In these verses we have a brief review of our last two lessons. Cleopas also speaks of h's doubts, since only the women had seen Him. 25. "Said unto them." They had spoken, now He would speak. They had poured out their grief and opened their hearts, now was His time to fill them with new things, and first by way of rebuilt "0 fools. The word is equivalent to auil of perception, and refers to their understanding. "Slow of heart." If they had embraced the living God with more fervent faith, the fact of the resurrection would not have been so strange to their hopes. "To believe all." The emphasis s&ouia De piacea on an. iney oenevea many things tfhat the prophets had epo- s ken, but some things which seemed un- i pleasant to them they failed to notice. 1 ?5. "Ought not," etc. Were not these | things a necessary mark of the Messiah, i without which the world could not have | been saved and the Messiah's kingdom cs- 1 tablished? 27. "Beginning at Moses." The promise to Eve (Gen. 3: 15); to Abraham (Gen. 22: 18); the paschal lamb (Ex. 12); the scapegoat (Lev. 16: 1-34); the brazen ser- , pent (Num. 21: 9); the greater prophet | (Deut. 18: 15); the star and scepter (Num. , 24: 17); the smitten rock. Num. 20: 11; 1 , Cor. 10; 4. "The prophets." Isa. 7: 1C; 9: 6, 7; 40: 10, 11: 50 : 6 ; 53: 4, 5; Jer. 23: ; 5: 33: 14, 15; Ezek. 34 : 23; Mic. 5: 2; 1 Zech. 6: 12; 9: 9; 12: 10; 13: 7; Mai. 3: 1; 4: 2. "Expounded." No wonder their hearts burnca within them while hearing such a sermon from such a preacher. Wc t may naturally suppose that our Lord explained and applied to Himself thecc pro- j phecies. ,, i 28. "Made as though." He would have really gone on but for that sort of constraint which they exercised over Him. ! 29. "Abide with us," etc. But for thi^ the whole design of the interview had been lost; but it was not to be lost, for He, who only wished to be constrained, ' had kindled a longing in the heart3 of T-T,'a nnmr nninna nrViinli wm nnf I ( to be so easity out off. I 30. "He took bread," etc. This was a I common meal, but Jesus acted as Master, as He was accustomed to do, and this startled them and brought back a rush of associations. 31. "Opened." Whatever had hitherto held their eyes was taken away. "Vanished." Like one of supernatural power, j not like an ordinary guest. 32. "Burn within us." This accounted for the glow of light, love and glory that ravished their hearts. 33. "Rose?and returned." After Jesus | ieft them they immediately hastened back j to Jerusalem to report the woaderful in- ( terview to the other disciples. 34. "Hath appeared to Simon." "These | two disciples found t.ic apostles and those j who were with them testifying that Christ had risen from the dead." It was not the two disciples, but the apostles who said 1 the Lord nath appeared to Simon. 35. "They tola." This added testimony ' would, seemingly, le%ve no doubt on the 1 minds of any. ? uu{6 map i'or Uuiralo. The Navy Department will have a unique ' exhibit at the Buffalo Exposition, consist- ' ing of a large map of the world eight by } twenty feet in dimensions. The various i divisions of land and water wil' be appro- i priately colored. The principal maritime j ports of the world, and of the United r States navy yards and stations at home j and abroad will be designated in larze let- , ters. The novel feature of the exhibition is the distribution of 301 miniature models ^ of ships, representing cach vessel of the 1 United States Navy from the navy yard tugs to the biggest battleships, to be shifted about day by day, just as the vessels are moved about from Dort to oort. ( Head of the Standardizing Bureau. Professor S. W. Stratton, of the University of Chicago, has accepted the appoint- J nirontnr r>f tlie new Standardiz ing Bureau at Washington. He will resign his professorship. He will go to Eu- ? rope to studv systems of weights and measures in 'France. Germany, England and Austria. The new bure.au, of which he is to be the head, will cost $250,000. According to the present plans of Professor Stratton it Will embrace commercial p measures, manufacturing measures and p educational measures. ' j, b Wireles* Telegraphy In Scotland. 0 Wireless telegraph stations are to be ^ erected at Inisntrahull, in the north ol e Ireland, and at Kildonan, Arran, Scotland, 1 respectively, for the purpose of reporting F and signaling vessels at sea. t Apartment Hotel For Horse*. A seven-story apartment hotel for horses ia to be built in the Back Bay, Boston, U Mass. " t( w WD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. " ?'-<g '3 'RECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THI WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS ? 'm Vho Shall Deliver Me? ? Itsinemberiof Birthday* ? Needletn Hurls ? Frictlo* in Dally Lire?Railroading Keligion Prayer ? If Thoa Wert Worthy. 3od strengthen mo to bear myself, Chat heaviest weight of all to bear, lualienable weight of care. U1 others are outside myself; lock'my door and bar. them out, Che turmoil, tedium, gad-about. locky my door upon myself, ^.nd bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself most loathed of all? f I could once lay down myself, V.nd start self-purged upon the race Chat all must run! Death ruus apace, * f I could set aside myself. Ind start*with lightened heart upon Che road by all men overgone! ?' ! rod harden me against myself, Chis coward with pathetic voice iVho craves for case and rest and joys: viysoir. arcn-trauor to inyseu; H.v hollowest friend, tny deadliest f<H. tfy clog whatever road I go. V ; 1 L'et One there is can curb myself, >an roll the- strangling load from me, 3reak off the yoke and set me free. Christina G. Iiossetti. Remtmberlng Birthdays. In the journal of Louisa Alcott occurt his sad little record: "My birthday; hirty-six. Spent alone, writing hard. S'o present# but father's Tablets. I lever seem to have many presents, as iome do, though I give a good many. < . Thnt is best, perhaps, and makes a gift rery previous when it doeS come." This vas like her brave, unselfish soul, but vhere were her friends? Why did they lot remember? It requires more of an effort to keep in mind individual birthlays than to send tokens of friendship it Christmas, but is this not abundantly ippreciated by the one who has been ofingly remembered by a gift, a lower, or a letter? One busy woman of >ur acquaintance is dispensing a good loal of birthday happiness besides havng reached a solution of the "Christnas problem." Her Christmas list had rrown hopelessly long. With one courteous move she cast it aside and itopped all holiday presents except to he poor. Yet, not willing to deprive lerself of the joy of giving to dear 'riends, she has adopted the plan of reliembering their birthdays. With the - *i> lelp of a birthday hook this is easy, and ls the birthdays come one at a time it s possible, to put special thought into ;ach gift.?Congregationalist. Needless Hurts. ' "Taking life thrdugh and through," laid a thoughtful woman, "the larger >art of the sadness aud heartache it -.-j las known has not come through its i l|j crent sorrows, but through little, needess hurts and unkindnesses; not so nuch through the orderings of Provilence as through the mis-orderings -of lumanity. "Look back and you can readily ;ount up the great griefs and bereavenents that have rent your heart and :hanged your life. You know what veary months they darkened. There vas a certain sacredness and dignity, ike the dignity of lonely mountain-tops, n their very greatness; and, looking >ack, if not^it the time, you can often inderstand their purpose. "But, oh, the days that are spoiled by mailer hurts! spoiled Because some)ody has a foolish spite. *n wicked nood, an unreasonable 'prejudice that Must be gratified and have its way no natter whose rights, plans, or heartB, ire hurt by it. There are so many hard jlaces along the road for most of us, , nade hard, needlessly, by human selishness, that the longing to be kind .vith a tender, thoughtful, Christlike viiidness grows stronger in me each day [ live."?Wellspring. 1? Friction in Daily Life. Vj A friend once said to me that she ould fancy few situations more difficult han that of life in the same house by , ' wo persons who were obliged to have he rooms at a different temperature. If lane iusists on seventy degrees and Mary cannot breathe if the thermom?ter is above sixty, they cannot be comfortable together. Similarly, if A.iice insists on an early breakfast and A.my on a late one, aad they cannot compromise, and neither will abate a iot of her own preference, the home ' ^ tviil not be peaceful and serene. Tlje battlefields of domestic life are carried by those who have the stronger ivills and the larger equipments of comnon sense. Few of the strifes and rtnisgies which make uncongenial companions actively antagonistic are worth ;vhile. There is no principle at stake. Dnly a petty self-denial, a mere trifle, i little difference of opinion or of taste, jut the home is rent and marred, hearts iche, and the loving are alienated. Enlire self-restraint would do away with :he outward expression of most of the rritability and friction in home life, ind if it were unexpressed, it would won become non-existent.?Christian [ntolligencer. Railroading Religion. The Bible puts a great premium on ?loddinz. "Be not weary in well do- / n*." "Ye have need of patience." "Go :o the ant," thou .sluggard; "consider 1 i.? >> "T.nf nnfipnf(> 1PT WU.VS, UUU UC 1TWC. r.?..? lave her perfect work." There is need n those <inys for these sober counsels, 'or we live amid an atmosphere of ush and hurry. Speed is more esteemed :han safety, and the very word "slow" s often a term of reproach. This rage 'or rapid money-getting. rapid social ldvancement, and fast living, is very iemoralizing. People who sit up till Midnight at a concert or a play or a jarty: hut an instructive gospel disburse must be cut down to the ininnte! Religion catches too often this prevailng fervor. There is an unwholesome lemaod for pulpit sensations, hasty nethoils. superficial church joinings, ;vhich end in a half-way, halting ami 'eeble piety. Young friends, I lovingly ivarn you against all this railroading of >ur holy religion!?Rev. Theodore L. 2uvler, D. L>., in Christian Endeavor World. Prayer. "0 Father! help us to resign )ur hearts, our strength, our wills to Thee: Then even lowliest work of thine ilost noble, blest, and sweet will be." I If thou wert worthy thou eouldest lave 110 mercy.?John Mason. Say* He Han Chinese Euiperor's Kobe. r Charles Kilburn. of the 'ourteenth Infantry, who arrived in San 'rancisco, Cal., a few days ago on sick eave, is the proud possessor of an emiroidered robe, which experts say was nee worn by the young Chinese Emperor, Cwang Su. The robe is superbly embroidred. It is arranged with man pleats, and he figures are so designed that with the tleats opened or closed the design is con* inuous and complete. Dimension of the Liberty 8t*tue. The Liberty statue in New York City is 51 teet high, the pedestal it) 155 and the jtal height above low water mark is 305 tet eleven inchea. A