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HER ANSWER. MADILINE K. VAX PZLT. They were old friends, but they hadn't \ met In many, many years; IA.nd the tide of life had hurried on, i With its joys and hopes and fears;? But both the women had met at last,? Old playmates once again. They talked of girlhood's dreams now I past,? [ Its buoyant hopes, now slain. *'Ah, Kate," said Madge, "you're not the j same,? You've lost your charm of face,? iYou've lost your pretty, rosy cheeks,? I You've lost your form of grace. Your chestnut hair has turned to gray, j Your lips have lost their red; All things are changed,?and soon our / day I Will turn to night instead." ''Dear one," Kate said, "I've nothing lost, For here's my hair of brown On Prue's dear head,?my eldest born;? And Bess has not a frown On her sweet face, that's just like mine Of thirty years agone,? ( .While Kitty's blue eyes dance and shine ; Like sunlight in the morn. "Mine shone in just the self-same way When you, dear, saw me last, 'And Margaret's lips are just as red ; As mine in days long past. i No, no. my dear, I've nothing lost, i My life is on the wane;? My children have my own youth cost,? In them I live again." U ( ?Ladies' World. fjnuunuuuOTuuOTOTrrgg PAID IN FULLf I HAD been graduated two years, and had a practice sufficiently large, I deemed, to warrant my taking apartments. Apartments surround a young doctor with an air of prosperity which people like to encourage and add to. A month later I was comfortably, almost elegantly, established on the first floor of a handsome North Side apartment house, with a careful, middle-aged woman to act as my housekeeper and cook. "Pretty -well fixed, old-man, eh?" said Jack Winters, my college classmate and chum, who had come over that evening from the West Side to make a house warming for me. "All you need to complete your happiness is to get acquainted with the pretty widow on the floor above you. She is John Redmond's cousin, you know, and a sweeter little woman nevor " "Thank you," I said, checking Jack's enthusiasm?Jack always goes off on a tangent when a pretty woman is discussed. "I am trying to get pa- 1 tients, and have no time for social ' pleasures, and, besides. I don't mind ] saying it, Jack, I'm not fond of wid- ' ows." ' "All I have to say to that is," said 1 Jack, "you don't know Mrs. Traine." ' However, my professional duties were not so arduous that I did not 1 find time to notice a trim little figure ( that flitted in and out through the big entrance door, dressed always exquisite, but quietly. 1 My interest in Mrs. Traine deep- J ?ned when I heard her story. Her ! husband had been killed in a railway accident three years before. The in- . ? ~ ?!???? <*AnA nnH eurance money was uiujuoi feuut, . the little widow added to the income that must support herself and invalid , mother by giving music lessons to a j lew wealthy girls. A daintier little rosebud of a woman j It would have been hard to find. Soft, . brown hair, tossed in truant curls ' about the low forehead, a voice that j epoke always gently, blue eyes full , of mirth and a complexion that looked like it had been bathed in the morn- ] lng dew. ' Once or twice I, had held the big . door open for her to pass out. and bowed In response to the low "thank ] you." Early after my coming to the building a boy on the top floor had , been accommodating enough to get j r I? "lMtotnr oml T hnrl hppn 1 JJUl'l ill tntr cic vulva i umv> - ? ? j called In as the most available physician. Luckily. I brought the boy through so well that his parents, as well as the youngster himself, sound- I ed my praises so loudly that I found 1 myself with quite a reputation, and ' incidentally a practice, in the neigh- ' borhood. Still, I had not met Mrs. < Traine, and I was beginning wickedly 1 to hope some accident?ever so slight 1 a one, of course?might happen to her, 1 a sprained ankle or wrist, that I might 1 have the joy of caring for. However, 1 the fates preserved Mrs. Traine from 1 accident, and I continued to watch ' for glimpses of her from my office 1 window. 1 I had bowed the last patient out for 1 the evening, and settled myself for a { smoke before bedtime. My medlta- * tions, mingling with the blue curling * smoke, were interrupted by a piercing J scream, and then another. I rushed ' Into the hall. The screams came from the Traine apartment above. In another moment I was knocking on the door, -which was opened by Mrs. Traine herself, white and breathless. 'Oh." she gasped, catching hold of my arm. "we've got him?out there?In the pantry?poor mamma " ' "Who?" I asked. "The burglar. He was hid in the ] dining room?mamma saw him and he < ran into the pantry?and I locked the I door?and?he's trying to Jump out of the window." ] I heard a noise as of some one tTy- 1 ing to push up a window, and open- < log the pantry door there he was, a sure enough burglar, evil browed and J sullen, who dropped the window and 1 turned to face me. "You can't make a jump from that < window, my man," I said. "You had ' better be quiet." I turned the lock again, but Mrs. Traine, divining my purpose, clung to my arm. "Don't go," she said, frantically. "We can't stay here alone a minute." Then to my relief that same small boy who had served me so well professionally appeared on tt^e threshold, attracted by the cries. Off he want to call the police, while I tried to quiet two hysterical women. In a few minutes the burglar was handcuffed and led away, but tl^ shock had proved too much for Mrs. Traine's invalid mother. The fainting spell was followed by delirium, and her daughter and I watched by her bedside until morning. Of course I was installed as attending physician, and never failed to call morning and evening. When the patient was able to sit up I sometimes read aloud to her, as an excuse to re. Vt/.-iV/:-- .. ^ - . ... -V ? ; " main longer watching the daughter at some household task. One evening I stayed for tea. Mrs. Traine wore a dainty gown of white and blue, with a great deal of lace. rr,u ~J~k4 ftA rr?n1 a fn n J.UC1C 13 uu Si?Ul OU ?? mvni. vu u bachlor as a pretty woman at the head of a tea table. The next morning I pictured the pretty -widow sittini? nnnnsitf* me at my breakfast o "rt""-"- ? table, -wearing the pretty house jacket I had seen on my morning calls. That afternoon I took Mrs. Traine and her mother for a drive, and was rewarded by another Invitation to tea, A reason for such close attention tc my patient was no longer apparent I was hunting about In my mind for another excuse to prolong my delightful calls, when Mrs. Traine knocked at my door one evening. "I have come to see you on business," she said, taking the seat I offered her. "You have been very kind to mother," she went on. "Of course we want to pay you for your trouble. Would you mind telling me, please, how much the amount Is?" I saw the anxious look growing deeper in the sweet face opposite me. How much denial and privation paying a doctor's bill meant to that little woman, already burdened with responsibility! "It must be a large bill," she said at last, as I remained silent, watching her. "You ?you've made so man;; calls." "Yes. it is a large bill," I said, slowly. There was a quick uplifting of thi? blue eyes. "I hope," she said, softly, "that you won't mind if we don't pay it quite all at once; if I can arrange to pay you so much every week until the bill is settled." ? T -111*a 4nnoa 1> U| X SUiU, ill UU91UCOO-im? tvuv-u. "I should prefer to have the whole bill settled for at once." My heart smote me for the alarm in the face that was lifted to mine. I leaned forward and took her hand. "Do you want to know how much the bill will be? Well, it's a great deal. Nothing less vthan the giving of your own self to me, my darling, will satisfy my claim against you." "You mean?" said Mrs. Traine, the blushes suffusing her pal& face. "That I want you to be my wife," I said, drawing her head down upon my shoulder. "Is the price too great?" ?Chicago Tribune. . Luxury of English Coirntry Life. Various stories are told of the luxury of life in English country houses, but one New Yorker who has just returned from England thinks that he lias had an experience that marks the "?* * A - ? u J In nirrr in amir iu wuuuii [nvicuuuuo *u living may go. He was stopping at the home of an American girl of wealth who married an Englishman of title, and lives now in England in all the circumstances that his yosition and her wealth made possible. The dinner tvas, of course, served by as many men as there were guests at the table md was as pompous and elaborate is was to be expected. It was the next morning, however, that the most peculiar feature of the household methods came to his inowledge. He was awakened by the ealet at the hour he had named and was surprised to see him a moment later before he was fully awake holding at the side of his bed a silver bowl filled with water. The New Worker stared in amazement at the man and the bowl without the faintest dea what his duty in the matter was. rhe valet looked at him compassionately a moment before he came to his issistance. Then he said with a suggestion of pity for the ignorance of a ?oor American: "It's to test tne temperature iur yuur aatli, sir." It was a relief to the guest to realize chat he was not to do more than put liis finger into the water and say that t was all right.?New York Sun. Cycling Ko Longer a Fad. Cycling has now passed its fad period. Some years ago, when every ivailable hall in the big cities was :urned into an academy for the instruction of the novice, bicycling received a big boom; in fact, during '97 ind '98 nearly every person of high ind low degree had a wheel. The approval of society upon cycling enlisted lew recruits, and for a season or two ill other sports waned. This definite lpproval by the smart set succeeded n giving a much-needed impetus to :he cycle pastime and industry, which ivas responsible tor calling widespread attention to the general utility >f t'ae bicycle; and now that the fad jlen.ent has abandoned its enthusiasm i good, substantial, sport-loving crowd1 persistently clings to the bicycle for :he genuine, healthful enjoyment to be ierlved from Its proper use. It is ridiculous to assume that the bicycle tvlll supplant the horse; but for gen?ral usefulness and all-around pleasure the cycle will always have a strong following.?Walter J. Masterson, in the Woman's Home Companion. Lores Laughs at . "Do you think, ma'am," inquired punctilious Bridget, "it would be propjr for me to accept of a gift from the butcher's man?" "The butcher's man?" echoed Agnes Dorothy somewhat blankly over a lialf-drained cup of breakfast coffee. She had come to recognize Bridget as one in whom the muses of etiquette and grammar maintained an equal and triumphant rule. "Yes, ma'am, if so happen that you illdn't mind, being your tradesman and all that" "Why, certainly I don't mind, Bridget, if he is a friend of yours. But do you know him quite well?" "Oh, yes, ma'am?as well as could be by tube."?New York Sun. Throwing th? Shoe. The peasants of Southern France have the credit of originating the familiar custom of throwing an old shoe after the newly wdeded pair. It was, moreover, the rejected suitor who first made it popular. The peasant bride is conducted by her friends to her new home, while the young husband is made to halt at a couple of hundred yards from the house. If there is a rejected suitor, he then arms himself with an old wooden shoe and dings it, with his best aim, at the bridegroom as he makes a dash for the house. When the shoe is thrown it is understood that the last feeling of ill will has been flung away with it DB. TALMAGEVS SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Nature of God ? The Leant Understood Being in the Universe ? Evidence of Divine Power ? God's Infinite Love?His Nature Never Changes (Copyright 1901.1 Washington, D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage raises high expectations of the day when that which is now only dimly seen will be fully revealed; text, Job xxvi, 14: "La, these are parts of His ways. But how little a portion is heard of Him? But the thunder of His power who can understand?" The least understood being in the universe is God. Blasphemous would be any attempt by painting or sculpture to represent Him. Egyptian hieroglyphs tried to suggest Him by putting the figure of an eye upon a swora, implying that God see3 and rules, but how imperfect the sue gestion! When we speak of Him it is almost always in a language figurative. He is "Light" or "Dayspring From on High," or He is a "High Tower" or the "Fountain of Living Waters." His splendor is so great that no man can see Him and live. When the group of great theologians assembled in Westminster Abbey for the purpose of making a system of religious belief, they first of all wanted an answer to the question, "Who is God?" No one desired to undertake the answering of that overmastering Question. They finally concluded to give the task to the youngest man in the assembly, who happened to be Rev. George Gillespie. He consented to undertake it on the condition that they would first unite with him in prayer for divine direction. He began his prayer By saying, "0 God, Thou art a spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in Thy being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth." That first sentence of Gillespie's prayer was unanimously adopted by the assembly as the beat definition of God. But, after all, it was only a partial success, and after everything that language can do when put to the utmost strain and" all we can see of God in the natural world and realize of God in the providential world we are forced to cry out with Job in my text: "Lo, these are parts of His ways. But how little a portion of Him is heard? But the thunder of His power who cap. understand?" Archbishop Tillotson and Dr. Dick and Timothy Dwight and Jonathan Edwards of the past and the mightiest theologians of this young century have discoursed upon the power of God, the attribute of omnipotence. And we have all seen demonstration of God's almightiness. It might have been far out at sea when in an equinoctial gale God showed what He could do with the waters. It might have been in an August thunderstorm in the mountains when God showed what He could do with the lightnings. It might have been in South America when God' showed what He could do with the earthquakes. It might have been among the Alps when Goa showed what He could do with the avalanches. Our cheek was blanched, our breath stopped, our pulses fluttered, our whole being was terrorized, but we had seen only an instance of divine strength. What was the power of that storm compared with the power which holds all the oceans? What waa the power that 8hook the hills compared with the power that swings the earth through all the centuries and for 6000 years, and in a formative and incomplete shape for hundreds of'thousands of years? What is that power that sustains our world comparea with the power which rolls through immensity the entire solar system and all the constellations and galaxies and the universe? The mightiest intellect of man would give away if for a moment there came upon it the full appreciation of what omnipotence is. What you and I see and hear of divine strength are only "parts of His ways. But how little a portion is heard of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?" We try to satisfy ourselves with saying: "It is natural law that controls things. Gravitation is at 'work; centripetal and centrifugal forces respond to each other." But what is natural law? It is only God's way of doing things. At every point in the universe it is uoa s direct ana continuous power that controls and harmonizes and sustains. That power withdrawn one instant would make the planetary system and all the worlds which astronomy reveals one universal wreck, bet-eft hemispheres, dismantled sunsets, dead constellations, debris of worlds. What power it ^must be that keeps the internal fires of 'our world imprisoned, only here and there spurting from a Cotopaxi or a Stromboli or from a Vesuvius, putting Pompeii and Herculaneum into sepulcher, but for the most part the internal fires chained in their cages of rock and century after century unable to break the chain or burst open the door! What power to keep the component parts of the air in right proportion, so that all around the world the nations may breathe in health, the frosts and the heats hindered from working universal demolition! Power, as Isaiah says, "to take up the isles as a very little thing"?Ceylon and Borneo and Hawaii as though they were pebbles; power to weigh the "mountains in scales" and the "hifis in balances"?Tenerife and the Cordilleras. To move a rock we must have lever and screw and great machinery, but God moves the worla with nothing but a word; power to create worlds and power to destroy them, as from the observatories again and again they have been seen red with flame, then pale with ashes and then scattered. What is that power to us? asks some one. It is everything to us. With Him on our side, the reconciled God, the sympathetic God, the omnipotent God, we may defy all human and satanic antagonisms, and when we are shut in by obstacles we can say, as did one of Frobisher's men when the sailor was describing how their ship was surrounded by icebergs in the Arctic sea, "The ice was strong, but God was stronger thau the ice." And, whatever opposition we may have, our God is mightier than the opposition. All right with God, we may have the courage of the general dying on the battlefield. He asked to be turned, and when they said, "Which way shall we turn you?" he said, "Turn my face toward the enemy." What a challenge that was uttered by the old missionary nero, "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Think of it! God is the only being in the universe who has power to do as He pleases. All human and angelic forces have environments. There are things they cannot do, heights they cannot scale, depths they cannot fathom. We get some little idea of the divine power when we see how it buries the proudest cities and nations. Ancient Memphis it has ground up until many of its ruins are no larger than your thumb nail, and you can hardly find a souvenir large enough to remind you of your visit. The city of Tyre is under the sea which washes the shore on which ar^ only a few. . crumbling pillars left. Sodom and Gomorrah are covered by waters so deathful that not a fish can live in them. Babylon and Nineveh are so blotted out of existence that not one uninjured shaft of their ancient splendor remains. Nothing but omnipotence could have put them down and put them under. The antediluvian world was able to send to the postdiluvian world only one ship, with a verysmall passenger list. Omnipotence first rolled the seas over the land and then told them to go back to their usual channels as rivers and lakes and oceans. At Omnipotent command the waters pouncing upon their prey and at Omnipotent command slinking back into their appropriate places. By such rehearsal we try to arouse our appreciation of what omnipotence is, and our reverence is excited, and our adoration is intensified, but after all we find ourselves at the foot of a mountain we cannot climb, hovering over a depth we cannot fathom, at the rim of a circumference we cannot compass, and we feel like first going down on our knees and then like falling flat upon our faces as we exclaim: "Lo, these are parts of His ways. But how little a portion ig| heard of Him? But the thunder of His power who can understand?" So all those who have put together systems of theology have discoursed also about the wisdom of God. Think of a wisdom which can know the end from the beginning, that knows the thirtieth century as well as the first century. We can guess what will happen, but it is only a guess. Think of a mind that can hold all ' 'fn v..st. 'x* 'A ?jil* the past and all the present and all the | future. We can contrive and invent on a small scale, but think of a wisdom that could contrive a universe. Think of a wisdom that can learn nothing new, a wis* dom that nothing can surprise, all the facts, scenes and occurrences of all time to come as plainly before it as^ though they had already transpired, ne coma have built all the material universe into one world and swung it, a glorious mass, through immensity, out beho'.d His wisdom in dividing up the grandeurs into innumerable worlds, rolling splendors on all sides, diversity, amplitude, majesty, infinity. Worlds, worlds, moving in comSlete order, shining with complete raiance. Mightiest teleacbpe on one hand and most powerful microscope on the other, discovering in the plan of God not one imperfection. What but divine wisdom could have planned a human race and, before it started, built for it a world like this, pouring water to slake human thirst ana giving soils capacity to produce such food and lifting such a canopy of clouds, embroidered with such sunlight, and surrounding the world with such wonders that all the scientists, of the ages have only begun to unroll them? Wisdom in magnitude and in atom, in archangel and in mollusk. Think of a wisdom that was able to form without any suggestion or any model to work by the eye, the ear, the hand, the foot, the vocal organs. No wonder that Galen, the most celebrated of medical authors amonz the ancients, fell on his knees | at the overwhelming wisdom of God in the constitution of the human frame. Our libraries are filled with the'wisdom of the great thinkers of all time. Have you considered the far superior -wisdom which fashioned the brain for all those thoughts of the Infinite mind that built those intellects? But it is only the millionth part of that wisdom that has come to mortal appreciation. Close next to every discovery is a wonder that has not yet been discovered. We see only one specimen among 10,000 specimens. What we know is overwhelmed by what we do not know. What the botanist knows about the flower is not more wonderful than the things he does not know about the flower. " Witty writers sometimes depreciate the thunder and say it is the lightning that strikes, but I am sure God thinks well of the thunder, or He would not make so much of it, and all up and down the Bible He uses the thunder to give emphasis. It was the thunder that snook Sinai when the law was given. It was wun thunder that the Lord discomfited the Philistines at Eben-ezer. Job pictures the war horse as having a neck clothed with thunder. St. John in an apocalyptic vision again and again heard the thunder. The thunder, which is now quite well explained by the electricians, was the overpowering mystery of the ancients, and, standing among tnose mysteries. Job exclaimed: Lo, these are parts of His ways. But how little a portion is heard of Him? But the thunder of His power who can understand?" So, also, all systems of theoiogy try to tell us what is omnipotence?that is, God's capacity to be everywhere at the same time. "Where is God?" said a heathen philosopher to a Christian man. xne unristian answerea, uec me ass you where He is not?" The child had it right when, aaked how many Gods are there, and he answered, "One." "How do you know that?" he was asked again. He answered, "There is only room for one, for He fills earth and heaven." An author Bays that if a man were set in the 'highest heavens he would not be any nearer the essence of God than if he were in the centre of the earth. I believe it. If this divine essence does not reach all places, what use in our prayer, for prayers are being offered to God on the other side of the earth as well as here, and God must be there and here to take supplications which are offered thousands ot miles apart. Ubiquity! No one has it but God. And what an alarm to wickedness, an everywhere present Lord, and what a reenforcement when we need help! God on the throne and God with the kneeling child saying his evening prayer at his mother's lap. God abdve you, God beneath you, God on the right of you, God on the left of you, God within you. No pantheism, for that teaches that all things are God, but Jehovah possesses all things, as our souls possess our bodies. God at the diameter and circumference of everything, as close to you as the food you put to your lips, as the coat you put upon your back, as the sunlight that snines in your face. Appreciation of that, if through Jesu9 Christ, the atoning Saviour, we are right with God, ought to give us a serenity, a tranquillity, that nothing could upset. Would it make us gloomy? No, for God is the God of joy and will augment our happiness. We have "all been painfully reminded in our own experiences that we cannot be in two places at the same time, and yet here comes the thought that God can be in all places at the same time. Madler. the astronomer, went on with his explorations of the heavens until he concluded that the star Alcyone, one of the Pleiades, was the centre of the universe, and it was a fixed world, and all the other worlds revolved around that world, and some think that that world is heaven and God's throne is there and there reside the nations of the blessed. But He is no more there than He is bare. Indeed Alcyone has been found to be in motion, and it also is revolving around some great centre. But no place has yet been found where God is not present by sustaining power. Omnipresence! Who fully appreciates it? Not I; not you. Sometimes we hear Him in a whisper; sometimes we hear Him in the voice or the storm that jars the Adirondacks. But we cannot swim across this ocean. The finite cannot measure the infinite. We feel as Job did after finding God in the gold mines and the silver mines of Asia, saying, "There is a vein for the silver and a place for the gold where they fine it." Men speak of the love of God as though it were first felt between the pointing of the Bethlehem star and the pounding of the crucifixion hammer. But no! Long before that existed the love of God. Th,e nature of God never changes, and from all eternity that holy passion glowed in the Infinite, and I think He was throw'J *- J ing out -worms into space luiu liwiaumug them and more worlds for the application of that love. He may not have told the other worlds what He aid for this world, as He has not told us what He did for them. I think the love of God was demonstrated in mightier worlds before our little world was fitted up for human residence. Will a man owning 50,000 acres of land put all the cultivation on a half acre? Will God make a million worlds and put His chief affection on one small planet? Are the other worlds and larger worlds standing vacant, uninhabited, while this little world is crowded with inhabitants? No, it takes a universe of worlds to express the love of God. And there are other ransoms and other rescues, and other redemptions, as there may be other millenniums and other resurrection mornings and judgment days than those of our world. But in the space of six feet by five was comprised the mightiest evidence of God's love that any world ever uw or ever will see. Compressed on two planks joined together as a cross, there was enough agony there concentrated, if distributed, to put whole nations into torture. Tnat God allowed the assassination of His own Son for the rescue of our world is all the evidence needed that He loved the world. Go ahead, O church of God! Go ahead, 0 world, and tell as well as you can what the love of God is, but know beforehand that Paul was right when he said, "It p.isseth knowledge." Let other poets take up the story of God's love where William Cowper and Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley and Horatius Bonar left it, and let other painters improve upon the "Sistine Madonna" and tne "Adoration of the Magi" and the "Crucifixion" as Raphael aud Titian and Claude and Correggio presented them. Let the German pulpit orator take up the theme of God's love ) where Frederick Tholuck left it, let Ital- 1 ian pulpit take it up where Gavazzi left it, j let French pulpit orator take up the i theme where Bourdeloae left it, let the j Swiss pulpit orator take up the theme < where Merle d'Aubigne left it, let the < English pulpit take it up where George j Whitefield left it, let the Scotch pulmt | take it up where Dr. Candlish left it, let j the Welsn pulpit take it up where Christmas Evans left it, and let the American pulpit take it up where Archibald Alexander and Dr. Kirk and Matthew Simpson left it. But the world will never appreciate fully the love of God until they heat from His own lips the outburst of His infinite and everlasting affection. tiOD'S Mr ,oAGE TO MAN. .* PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE VORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Tlie Changed Key ? Bringing to Kemernbrance? A Place for the Heart?A True Christian'* Ambition?The Amiability of Tribulation ? Coming of Spring. I listened to the ocean As it beat upon the shore, And it chanted something to ma That it never had before. With a Ioug, resounding cadence, \ ~ J.. I 1 _~I1 auu u utrc(j ami stHcmu run, It voiced the 'sin and sorrow Of u wrecked and stranded soul I wandered through the forest When the wind swept past the trees; And it seemed the whole creation Prayed for help, upon its kqoes, With a wailing miserere And with penitential tears, Till I felt that hope was dying In a gulf of mocking fears. But a bird's song, sweet and joyous, Rose and fell upon the air, And a child's laugh echoed near me, And the sun shone everywhere; And the minor chauged to major, As the brook went laughiag by; For all things looked up and trusted Him who rules the earth and sky. ?Mrs. E. A. Hawkins. Providence, R. I. Bringing to Remembrance. What is the office of the Spirit? To guide, to quicken, to sanctify, to comfort.. One thing mentioned by Christ at the Last Supper is "to bring to remembrance." Perhaps this would come under the general head of quickening. The Spirit has a piercing, penetrating power which gives vitality to old truth uud past things spoken. Among friends here, the actual personal presence seems necessary. Away from us a lone time, they grow dim and unreal. They lose something of their own distinctiveness, and become invested with traits which our fancy gives them. If the quality of our lives is lower than theirs they sink to our level: if it is higher, tney will rise ,to our own height. The frail memory needs quickening. Many things accomplish this?trifles, small incidents, little surprises, as well as greater events and. experiences, when for a short time the absent one is brought vividly before us "in his habit as he lived." But long separation tends to dim the outlines and fade the colors of reality. < Without the quickening Divine Spirit, the memory of Jesus, even in the minds of His closest friends, would have grown obscure. He had often uttered enigmas, habitually taught in parables, and when He spoke most plainly had sometimes not been understood. Hie words either mystified His hearers 01 seemed to fall dead. This must have been lost but for the Comforter who was to "bring all things to remembrance,'* or into living consciousness what lay slumbering in the mind.? Zion's Herald. A Place for the Heart. "I married you in order to love yon in "God, and according to the need of my heart, aud in order to have in the midst of the strange world a place foi my heart, which all the world's bleak winds cadnot chill, and where I maj find the warmth of the home-fire, tc which I eagerly betake myself when it is stormy and cold without." Can you imagine whose words are these? Perhaps you might say they were written by some love-sick sentimentalist; bin you would mistake. They are found in the "Love Letters of Prince Bismarck,'' which have just been published, and from their ample pages you could cull a hundred similar passages. There are many different judgments of Prince Bismarck current in the world touay but whatever men may think of his statesmanship or his personal character, there cannot be two oninions as to the pMritjr and depth of his affection for Jo'janna von Puttkamer, his bride and the mother of his children. Probably she was the greatest single fore? that evet entered his life. She does not seem tc have been au intellectual or a brilliant woman, but she was clean?-minded sensible, and full of sentiment for hei husband. And he found in her "a place for his heart." Does not that happy phrase throw more than a flickering beam of light upon the conditions to an 'deal marriage??Watchman. A True CliriMttan'fl Ambition. We are to be followers and imitator? of Jesus, but it is well for us that his character is so clearly shown and established before he comes to the supreme trial of his life. We are to follow hiir ?to the cross, if need be?but first tc home obedience, and trade faithfulness. and patience under wrongs, and steady truth, ai\d helpful friendship. No wise heating or drums or blare ot trumpets. Its approach is "down-shod to every sense." Great elemental forces are in activity, and they push their results into manifestation. Some day \v; may find that all the triumphs of Christianity nver which we now rejoice are. to what is coining, as the swelling twigs of the pussy-willow in March to the glory and beauty of the month of blossoms.? Watchman. Your son hath changed dwellingplaces, but not his Master. Christ thought good to have uo more of his service here; yet, "His servants shall serve him."?Samuel Kntberford.. The Amiability of Tribalnllon. If I only wish for clear water, it is of little consequence whether it be brought iu a vase of gold or glass. I should even receive it with more pleasure when presented in glass, because I can then see it more clearly than in a- golden cup. In like manner, if I seek only the will of God* I should be indifferent whether it be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, provided I can clearly discern it. It should be even more agreeable iu suffering,, because it is then more visible. and the only amiability of tribula tion is that which it borrows from thj divine will.?Frauds of Sales. Tomlng of Spring. The spring comes as the kingdom of God comes in the world. There is no man is ambitious for Gethsemane 01 Calvary?in his own life experience. How can we know that we are strong enough to drink the cup, to bean, the i cross? But the ambition of following I Christ in little duties, trials and temp- | rations of our daily life ought to possess the soul of every disciple. If we can I live with him in home and business, in the life of the heart and the social life of the world, where the heart finds nourishment or bane, we may be sure he will not bring us to the agony until he has built in us the strength to beai it. tone Distance Electric Lines. Concerning the ambitious trunk line ong-distance electric projects now being worked out in a numoer of States it is i jointed out that suggestion? have been i nade. to connect, and in most eases, at east a portion of the distance is already :overed by lines, Chicago and Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit, Detroit and Bufalo, Cleveland and Pittsburg, Washington and Baltimore, aud New York and Philadelphia. i Cuba's Army of School Children. A year ago there were 3025 public schools in Cuba, with 125,000 children. Now there are 150,000 school children, and new schools are being built. THE SABBATH SCHOGI international lesson comments for july 7. Subject: God, the Creator of All Tliinjfi, Gen. i., 1 to 11., 3?Golden Text, Geni., 1?Memory Veraes, 26-27?Commentary on the Day's Lesion. 1. "In the beginning." The discoveries of gcoloey prove the globe to have existed at an indefinitely remote period before tlie creation of man; that is, long before the six days' work so definitely described. It has Ueen supposed by some that "in the ucgiuuiiig naa mc tUHIIUCIlCtJUieOt Ol Wile first day, and of course only about 6000 years ago. But no phrase could be more indefinite as to time. It means "m former duration," "of old." "God." The Bible does not undertake to prove the existence or God, but at the very outset His existence is assumed as a fact. "Created." The primary sense of the word is that of the divine act of absolute creation out of nothing. Rom. 4: 17; Heb. 11: 3. 2. "The earth was waste and void" (R. V.) There was confusion and disorder. The history of creation is confined simply to the first two verses. The apparent conflict of this chapter with geology has arisen from the mistake of supposing it to be a narrative of creation, when all but the first two verses is an account of the adaptation of the created material of the earth as an abode for man. "Moved." God proceeded to bring order out of the matter that was existing in a chaotic state. 3. "Let there be light." Nothing pan be conceived more dignified than this form of expression. It shows God's authority and power. 5. The nrat dav." There has alwava been much discussion as to whether t&e days referred to in this chapter were twenty-four-hour days or indefinite periods. Certainly the first three days could not have been natural days, for the sun had not yet appeared. The term "day" is frequently used to designate periods of indefinite timS (see 2 Pet. 3: 8; Luke 19: 42); but these days were probably the same length as our days at the present time. 6. "Firmament." Expanse; properly something beaten out. The space, above the earth. 10. "Earth?seas." By this separation both were rendered useful. The earth was prepared for the numerous living creatures, it requires this great surface of water "to yield a sufficiency of vapors for the purpose of cooling the atmosphere and watering the earth." "God saw that it was good." This was the judgment which God pronounced upon His own works. This clause is often added to show.that all the disorders, evil and hurtful qualities that' are now in creation, are not to be changed to God, but to man's sin, which hath corrupted their nature and perverted their use. 11. "Bring forth grass," etc. In these general expressions we are to understand that all kinds of vegetable productions are included. Thus, before God formed any living creature to abide upon the earth. He wisely provided for its sustenance. "Whose seed is in itself." Either in the root, or branch, or bud. or fruit: which is suffi cient in itself for the propagation of its kind. / , 10. "God made two great lights." The moon is referred to as a great bght merely because it appears great to those on the earth. 28. "Let us make man." K&8*the Father unites with the Son and Spjfct. This was the last act in the worJi?<0rcreation. Man . was "created," not "evolved from some other animal." Man was created about 6000 years ago, and in this there is perfect harmony with science, which shows that the appearance of man upon the eartL is comparatively recent. Image? likeness." It was man's soul that was made in the image of God. This image consisted of knowledge, righteousness and true holiness, or, in the wordu of .TV. Hannah, "Light in the understardirj;. rectitude in tne will, sanctity in <;he purposes and affections." A more detailed a?count of the creation of man is made in the next chapter in which is made cleai the distinction between body and soul, cstween the animal man and the spiritual man. The body was made of the dust of ihe earth, and this is tr?s not only of the body of Adam, but of the bodies of all his descendants. But an absolutely perfect body without a soul would not be a man. It was onlv wi en God eave the body He had formed fronr the dust a living sou1 formed in His ow.i imape, that the creation of man took place. The soul was not evolved, it was created. Man is the son oi God. 27. "Mala and female." The story of woman's creation is given in chapter 2: 2124. Womat was created by taking a rib, or a part oi" the man's side, for the original word nay mean either, and forming it into the woman. 28. "God blessed them."_ He gave them His favor. His care for their posterity and their good, so that it would be a blessing, a happiness to live. And the divine benediction is still essential to the ideal life, which is the only true life here below. "Be fruitful." The first family was founded with one husband and one wife. It was God's purpose to fill the earth with hanpy beings, enjoying the good things He had made. Children are a great blessing in the family. They tend to remove selfishness, to develop benevolence, patience, love, hope antl jelf-government. "Subdue it." Bring it under cultivation. The labor of subduing the earth has stireula'ied invention, and is the origin and bone1 of civil society. "Have dominion." Man_ oas bw>: aptly described as the creature wac .vas to I ho finrl's -ranresentative. clothe! Vith au- I thority. ancT who should rule is visible head of the world. 29. "Hare given you." The world is a divine gift to man, valuable and ncreasing in value, expressing God's love, teaching His truth, sustaining His life, ministering to every sonse. "Every herb-for meat." In this and the ensiling versii the death of any cnature does not appear in the original design of God. Man was neither to eat the flesh of brute arirnala, nor were these to prey upon each other. It was only after the fall that such things were, at all provided for. t 34. "God saw." Seeming to pau^e -to inspect Hi s work. "Very good." Superlatively good, perfect. Toothing could be added, or diminished; no change, alteration or modification could be made without marring God's handiwork. The creation was "good as showing God's love to His creatures, and good as the expression of His nature and character." 1. "Thus." The division of the chapter should be at verse 4. "Were finished." His work of creation was completed. 2. "Rested." Not because God was wary, but because the work planned was done. Y. o are living ia the seventh day of divine rest. " ?T>I 1 J.U? A*v ' T> h.ia O. DiLWU buc gcrcu?*i uuj . ? *een impartially demepffcrated that physi.lay -.demands thii we rest one d.^.y ia seWlr timfi ,. Kew Non-Poisonous Antiseptics. An important antiseptic discovery has Deen mace by Dra. Frederick G. Novy ind Paul C. Freer, which may, it is claimed, lead to the further discovery of the fundamental causes in an important Held of medical and surgical science. The new antiseptics are organic acid hyperoxides. In a water solution 5-1000 of one per cent, of active oxygen derive.', from the hyperoxides is fatal to all > - cteria. i'he hyperoxide that was used for she experiment is benzozlactzi, and *his, as was shown by experiments on Gjgs. can be taken internally in large doses without poisonous cffects. KI War Map For TThlte House. A new map just placed in the War Room at the Executive Mansion at Wash!?w*? fiffann in Himpn ingim l?L UllllLjr uy tUkCVit ??-v. ? ?? sion. Xne location of all the ocean rabies, coaling stations and repair docks arc sho't'nC The present sovereignty of all the soil in the world, including even the smallest islands, is indicated by a special color representing cach of the srent colonizing Powers. The Philippine Islands nppear twice on the ma; so as to bIiow both the sunrise and sunset routes. Irotnnd'a Population Decteane, 348,204 Th? official census of Ireland shows a population of 4,456,540, a decrease in the last ten years of 248,204. s 1' . - \* y -f HH' . to -*. J v' Boers Take 200 Men and Two Gun* After a Sharp Fieht. ;.t$ ? MILITARY SITUATION IN AFRICA TLa Boers Likely to Cont1na? the Ajr*re#-i live Tactics YPhlch They Beeently Adopted.?A^orce of Australian Monntr ed Few of Whom Escaped ? HJUclrener Reports the Losses*.' j , Ji London. ? The War Office has re-t celved the following dispatch from! General Kitchener, at Pretoria: "Near Wilmansrust,. twenty miles j south of Middelburg, Transvaal, 250' / Victorian Mounted Rifles, who. had| been detached from Beatson's column, were surprised In camp at Stenkool; Spruit by a superior force of Boers. "The enemy crept to within short range and poured in a deadly fire, killing two officer* and. sixteen men, and ' ' wounding f<?c.ifaicer8 and thirty-eight! men, |went/-^?ht of whom were only1 slightly wonftdwt;';. 'i^wo officers andj fifty men escaped' to'Beatson's camp. The remainder were taken prisoners, bat were afterward released, "The enemy captnred two pompons." Whatever may be the troth In regard to the reported peace negotiations In ? South Africa, the commandos in the field are evidently not a party to them. In addition to the defeat reported by,i General Kitchener, which offsets thei report of the defeat of General De Wet near Vrede, there are reports of vigorous activity on the part of the Boers, eopeclally on the border of the Orange Blver and Cape Colonies. It Is stated from a British source that the'Boers and Cape rebels there continue to Increase in numbers^nd Commandant Kritzlnger told ^farmer In the neighborhood that th^fetovement of the commandos southward wits only beginning and that the Boe'rs'Intend to compel the British to devastate Cape Colony as they have the two republics to the north. The Boer tactics are the same as for) s mnn+Via noof . Thar gvnM !/? *! when possible, snipe at every opportn-i nlty and manoeuvre for surprise?.! Many British troops who are now ln[ Pretoria are refitting after arduous op-i eratlons In the north, which have left! Js marks upon them. They say It Is veryi ^ very difficult to locate the small bodies o? Boers, who conceal .their stock an<f| stores in Inaccessible ravines. It Is onej t \ ' f continuous trek after bidden enemies,) whose fresh horses enable them to etw cape when located. WIDESPftEAQriRRICATION. NeceM*ry in Two-flM^ of the Country's Area to Maiic^ritrmlnx Pjy. Washington, D. C.?Professor Meade^l the Agricultural Department's irrigation expert, in his testimony before the Industrial Commission, said that irrigation Is necessary In two-fifths of, ? ^ the area of the United States to make fsirmlng profitable: that it had re?| deemed an area in Louisiana and Tex-j v as larger than some New England; States, causing an Increase in the- , ? 1 9Xf\ ?a! vaiue ul muu ivuui q>o iiuui %h/v iv> ^ $100 an acre; that it is considered a! V;& necessary adjunct to market gardening all along the Atlantic coast, and; that there aije 75.000 irrigation ditches; in the United States, costing $200,~ ooo.oop. ; MAN AND WOMAN DROWNED. Went Bowing: on a Lake and Boat Waa Fonnd Floating Bottom Upward. ' Oak Orchard-on-the-Lake, N. Y.? Earl Bently, twenty-two years old._and; Miss Dora Phillips, aged twenty, of; West Barre, drove up to Oak Orchard! Inn and left their horse and buggy, go-; > leg to the lake and hiring a boat. Later their boat was found drifting' bottom up near the mouth of Oak! Orchard Creek. Near by floated the; 38| girl's black Jacket and her companion's; derby hat. The bodies were recovered. It Is thej general opinion of the people at the; lake that the act, as far as Bentley; was concerned, was premeditated. Transport Tlp? Over In Dry Dock. t The United States transport Ingalla tipped over in dry dock in the Erie; Basin, at Brooklyn, N. Y., where she; was awaiting repairs. One life was lost and twenty-five men were serious- ^ ly injured. The accident was caused' by a careless adjustment of the bilge blocks under the ship, and by reckless- , ' ) ness in attempting to adjust the shoring timbers along her sides. It will take several months to put the transport in serviceable shape. Kennedy Jury Again Disagrees. The jury in the case of Dr. Samuel J. Kennedy, who was accused of the murder of "Dolly" Reynolds at New York City, three years ago, failed to agree aiM- were discharged. It is not believed thatt.Kennedy will be tried again. It is estimated that his three :rials have cost New York County more than $75,000. He was convicted in the first trial, but the juries failed to agree on a verdict In the other two. .m Max La gar Discharged. United States Commissioner Robinson, at Buffalo, N. Y., ordered the discharge of Max Lasar, of New York City, who has been in Jail nearly a year for trying to smuggle $31,000 ^ $ worth of diamonds into the country at Suspension Bridge. Lasar bad served his time, but could not pay tbe fine of $500. He secured his liberation under the Poor Debtor law. American Seek* Titled Chaperon. The following advertisement has appeared in the London Times: "An American gentleman desires the services of an English lady of title as chaperon for his daughter during a three months' visit to England. Honorarium, ?5000." Two Children Killed by a Tornado. A tornado did extensive damage in Hall County and other Panhandle communitites in Texas. The house of W. it. Moore and George Wickson were demolished. Two of Moore's children were killed. - ? Prominent Feopie. Portugal's King is an artist of much ability. Mr. Wu, the Chinese Ambassador, is writing a book. Secretary Long returned from Colorado Springs, Col., where he has been visiting his daughters. Thomas Nelson Page, th'o^American author, has been named lor membership In the Astronomical So^gty of France. v A meeting between tbe Czar of Afr sia and the Emperor William of Ge^* many Is believed to have been ar-^k ranged. S m . . ,,, . . a ; ^ . . i ' A