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r 1^*-*??1??M??MM MOPttuuoupguuucjTOUoae > ProTrisioijing a Trans- = d Atlantic Steamer. 1 IflflQfl 0 QQQflQ QaaQQQQgg * Not by any means the least lmpres(rtve evidence of the bnge size to which modern transatlantic steamship I has grown Is to be found in tne graphic representation, reproduced from the Scientific American, of the bewildering amount of provisions that have to be taken aboard for a single trip lacross the ocean. Our pictorial representation Is, of course, purely imaginary, particularly as regards the live stock; the beef, mutton, game, etc., received on the ship in the dressed ^condition, no live stock whatever being carried. The drawing was made up from a list of the actual amount of provisions carried on a recent eastward trip on the Deutschland, and the number of live stock which contributed to meet the supplies for one voyage was estimated from the actual number of cattle, sheep, etc., 'tnn^ vnnn\tt*/1 fa molra nn I'iuat. n vuiu uv iv\|uiivu w mmuv the total weights In dressed meats given in the table. With the excep, ,t!on of the live stock, the provisions are shown in the actual shape in .which they would be taken on board. The dimensions of the vessel are: length, 686 feet; beam, sixty-seven feet, and displacement, 23,000 tons; her highest average speed for the whole trip is 23.36 knots, and she has made the journey from Sandy Hook to the Lizard In five days, seven hours and thirty-eight minutes. The total number of souls on board PROVISIONING A TRANSATLAS of the vessel -when she has a full pasBenger list is 1617, made up of 407 first cabin, 300 second cabin, 300 steerage and a crew of 550, the crew comprising officers, seamen, stewards and the engine-room force. Sixteen huniflred and seventeen souls would constitute the total inhabitants of many an American community that dignifies itself with the name of "city," and it Is a fact that the long procession which is shown in our illustration wending its way through the assembled provisions on the quay, by no means represesents the length of the line were the passengers and crew strung out along any great thoroughfare. If this number of people were to march four deep with a distance of say about a yard between ranks, they would extend for about a quarter of a mile, or say the length of four icity blocks. To feed these people for a period of Blx days requires, in meat alone, the equivalent of fourteen steers, ten calves, twenty-nine sheep, twenty-six lambs and nine hogs. If the flocks of chickens, geese and g.?ne required to furnish the three tons of poultry and game that are consumed were to join In the procession aboard the vessel, they would constitute a contingent by [themselves not less than 1500 strong. ,The ship's larder is also stocked with 1700 pounds of fish, 400 pounds nt n-nniriiPH B-n.*ppthr<>?rts. ptrv. 1700 dozen eggs and fou-teen barrels of oysters and clams. The 1700 dozen of eggs packed in cases would cover a considerable area, as shown in our engraving. while the 1000 bricks of ice cream iwould require 100 tubs to hold them. Of table butter there would be taken on board 1300 pounds, while the 2200 quarts of milk would require sixtyfour cans to hold it, and the 300 quarts of cream eight cans. In the way of vegetables there are ishipped on board 175 barrels of potatoes, seventy-five barrels of assorted .vegetables, twenty crates of tomatoes and table celery, 200 dozen lettuce; ."while the requirements of dessert Blone Tvould call for four and a quarter tons of assorted fresh fruits. For snaking up into the daily supply of bread, biscuits, cakes, pies and the toothsome odds-and-ends of the pastry Oook's are, there are taken on board at ieacb trip ninety barrels of flour, each ' ;xsa ' r - i weighing 195 ponnds, this Item alone adding a weight of eight and a half tons to the cooks' stores. To this also we must add 350 pounds of yeast and 600 pounds of oatmeal and hominy. Under the head of liquids the most Important Item is the 400 tons of rlflnlHncr irnfop whnno htllk IS ade quately represented by the circular tank shown in our engraving. This Is supplemented by 12.000 quarts of wines and liquors, 15,000 quarts of beer In kegs, besides 3000 bottles of beer. Last, but not by any means least, Is the supply of forty tons of Ice. Of course It is not to be supposed that all of this supply will be consumed on the voyage. There must be a margin, and a fairly liberal margin, of every kind of provision. Moreover, the extent to which the larder and cellar are emptied will vary according to the conditions of the voyage. In tempestuous weather, where the trip is a succession of heavy gales, and the diuing room tables are liable to be practically deserted for two or three days at a stretch, the consumption will be modified considerably. The Engineer Then and Now. Most of us remember tbe days when au engineer was groom, driver, rubber, machinist, repairer, oiler, polisher and everything else about an engine. Today? Bless you! In fashionable clothes he ascends to his cushioned seat. His hands are gloved. Patent leathers are on his feet. The gong rings. He opens the throttle, and off!! At the end of his run he descends to mother earth, unsoiled, unspotted, unscathed, ready for any social function of his set. The stablemen hasten to take his horse for a rub down, and w Vtf. ' j /3ooolb? bee<- " , WL ^ ^ 0/5* Poultry * G-ant( :tic liner-eq.ivalent in live & when he mount9 again on the following day the iron stead is clean, bright, lresh, aching for another run. With oil as fuel of what use would a fireman be? At the engineer's elbow will be a button, by pressing which the petroleum will be fed to the furnace. There will be no great tender for coal, but a small tank for kerosene inside of the one for water Tons will be taken off the weight of the locomotive, which will mean a saving of rails, bridges, ties, etc.?Victor Smith, ha New York Press. A Canoe That Folds Up. Among recent inventions, the portable canoe is receiving notice in sporting circles in Europe. The middle secKEpj tion, which folds so as to form a trunk--liu-o hnv with convenient lian dies, receives the two hermetically closed ends, the oars, etc. The oar can be unscrewed into two parts and singly stowed away in tbe "trunk." The length of the boat is about thirteen feet, and it can easily be carried overland by two men.?New Herald. Authors and Publisher*. The immense competition among younger publishers and the hawking round of books to the highest bidder by the literary agent has made publishing a less renumerative pursuit than formerly; and I have in my mind's eye a number of publishers whose houses are less magnificent than those o? at least a dozen autnora wuum i I could name.?Sphere. J : r -vi-..,/ .V - rarsri | OF STREET CABS. g. I ? Queer Settlement by the Wam of S X the Pacific. n 00000000000000000000000000 There is a little settlement Just outside the city of San Francisco where _ "OARTOWN," S A the large majority of tlie structures were once street cars. It is located at the ocean beach on the ehore end of Golden Gate Park. There are perhaps fifty of these car dwellings in the little settlement, many of them fitted out with considerable elegance and numerous conveniences. They are arranged upon. a general plan affording their occupants the widest view, all fronting the sea. Streets intersect, at right. Y'^??1 ' 5 STOCK AND GENERAL STORE& angles, and plank walks are laid so as to give pedestrians access to their homes without wading through the deep sands. Few of these cars have been adorned with a coat of paint The exteriors are generally intact, and the conspicuous signs denoting the route toIi^k fim mn on re npranibulat ed are not obliterated. Some methods are used In the adornment of these '.'urious resoits. Many of them are covered with vines, most have galleries extending around the front and sides. The roofs of some are arranged as lookouts, and awnings drop over the windows. There fsm-ipn INTERIOR OF A is considerable space for storage he- I low the cars, while other cars acquire 1 I -..J*-. ....... ;.* .... .' 1 i additional room by little" extension!. In some instances one car Is raised above another, and sometimes the cars are laid upon other buildings, tbns giving an extra story. The platforms of the cars are often transformed Into balconies and bay windows with the aid of the carpenter and glass fitter, and afford points of observation protected from the cold winds, besides giving extended view of sea and land. ?? ? K <v vine arrangeuiuui vt imu?uo vi. I : ; 1 Jf FRANCISCO* these dwellings is highly Ingenious, the necessities of tbe case requiring the utmost economy of space, the average sleeping car* suggesting a model. Half a dozeu persons have bi-en at ulght accommodated with loggings in one of them. Ventilation Is always assured. While there ate many families permanent residents of "Cartown," the larger number occupy the "vehicles" as others do the houseboat, giving opportunities for original methods of entertainment and diversion for themselves and friends. Confined and restricted as these dwoilings art, there is compensation in the fresh ocean breezes which here blow rigut from the sea, besides the enjoyment of a health-giving environment. History and romance have been ransacked in a "cabtown" home. providing names for these car "villas" suitable to the facetious idiosyncracies of tlje various owners. In "Car town," the "Villa Mlramar" and "Chateau Navarre" adjoin the modest restaurant and more conspicuous bar. There are many kinds of trades pursued in tin's odd settlement, restaurante and bars beiug most numerous.? Scientific American. Did Yon Ever Octupus? A young couple from Northleach, on a visit to Barnum and Bailey's had suocunibed to fatigue, and were stated on a bale of hay in an obscure corner of the menagerie-tent "What do you reckon Is the most strange thing we seed?" said the girl. "It's hard to say; out i Know wpac ['d like ter be now." "The flying-trapeze man?" she ventured. "No, not him." "Mebbe the ring-master?" "Nor him. You recollect the octopus in the glass tank? Well, I'd like to be he." "Why?" " 'Cos he'd nigh unto a hundred arms, an' I'd like ter use 'em all ahuggin' you a hundred times at oncost" "Jerry, that's a very wrong wish." " 'Taint, neither." Ti'? Iai. tttocIa "UU, vcs lis; lib cjului ici nunit rime Ashing for the impossible, 'stead o' makin' the best of sech opportunities ez yer happen ter have." And Jerry rose to the occasion, and put all his energy into the gentle art of octopusing.?London Answers. Primitive Writing Material*. Among the North American Indians picture-writing on stones, horn and buffalo robes was common, but bark was also largely used. Then much writing has been done on bone. Prehistoric man used it, of course, for his imperfect picture-writing, and the Koran was first written on shoulderbones of mutton, and kept in a chest of one of Mohammed's wives. Something akin to bone is ivory, and writing on ivory, as early a practice as writing on bone, has persisted to the present day among Oriental na nons, ior uie reiisuu ium i?uij ia a. beautiful and expensive material, fitted for, the reception of Important ceremonial writings. The edicts of the Roman Senate were written on plates, of Ivory. These plates wer? called "libri elephant," by way of acknowledgement to the elephant who had provided the article. The Eskimos, too, in their cooler climate, have used walrus Ivory for records of hunting and fishing expeditions. Their hone implements also are covered with such picture-writing. ' ^IIOME.' I Bostpn pays $106,000 a year for lta school janitors. - t - * ' DB. TALMAGES SEBMON cinanA.v?<? nisrmiQSF BY THE NOTED / For Better State Highways. ONE of the marked exhibits'of machinery at the Pan-American Exhibition this summer constitutes a collection *of th& latest and most improved roadbuilding and road-repairing machines. It is intended to make this exhibit of permanent benefit to the country by showing in detail to visitors what can be accomplished in Improving our public highways, and incidentally the nannifnrnnna ilr?nn tv\nH ImnrnVd. 11UUUI V.VULV/lbUVV' UJ/VU 4 V14W i v ment that will be held in Buffalo late In the summer will tend to emphasize this point In many rural parts of the country little is known of modern road-machines, and it is to convince highway superintendents and residents of the rural districts of the economy in road building and repairing when the latest labor-saving machines are used. As delegates from all the different States will meet in Buffalo at the good roads conference, it is expected that a new impetus to roadbuilding will thus be given to all parts of the country. In connection with this it is inter?-L! e ii? J t'SUUg LU UUie ISUU1K Ot IUU VUUUgVS iiuu plans for road improvement that have been made by the State of New York for the coming year. It is estimated from official figures that contracts will be given out this year for road Improvements in the State involving an expenditure of nearly a million dollars. The State has appropriated $420,000 for road Improvements for the current year, and about a similar sum will be expended by the different counties. This State appropriation Is in strong contrast with past sums voted for road improvements, and is more than twice the amount ever turned over by the Legislature for such purposes. In 1890 the sum appropriated for State highways amounted in round numbers to 3150,000, and in the two preceding years $50,000 each, making the current appropriations much larger than for the three previous years. The expenditure for the current year is no indication of extravagance, but rather a conservative and sensible outlay of funds at a time when road improvement^ have reached wh4t might be called an economical period of evolution. Because of the invention of new road machinery it is possible to construct public country highways today at a cost of one-third and one-half the expense required five years ago. It is to demonstrate the success of this that the road machinery exhibit has been made at the Pan-American. When good highways are once made to-day according to careful engineering plans, the modern road-repairing impleihents enable the counties and towns to keep them in excellent condition at a very little annual outlay of funds. As an illustration of the reduction In the cost of road-building through better engineering methods and the employment of new road Implements, it is estimated by the State Engineer's office that the new road extending from Newbtirg to Woodbury in Orange County, New York, can be constructed at a cost of about $2000 per mile the .whole distance of eleven miles. This road is a broad macadam running through some very hilly and rough parts of the county. Similar roads a few years ago cost upwards of $5000 and $7000 per mile. This reduction in the cost is not entirely due to improved road machines, although they form the most important factor in the question. The engineers have developed better and more economical plans for building and Improving roads, and the price of trap-rock for finishing off the surface has been reduced in cost There has been a more general demand for crushed stone since the modern road-improvement crusade was started, and this' has caused the construction of many new quarry factories, and the invention of new machines for crushing and supplying the stone. It is estimated that the difference in the cost of trap-rock to-day saves the engineers nearly a thousand .D O milfl in rnnri ronstTUCtion. The New York State Engineer is | busily employed in considering further reduction in the cost of trap-rock for State road building purposes, and he has suggested the advisability of the State purchasing a trap-rock quarry, and putting the convicts at Sing Sing to work in preparing the stone for public highways.?Ha rnor's Weekly. Go Hand In Hand. All experience with horseless carriages and vehicles of every sort shows more and more clearly that the success of the automobile is inseparably conuccted with the improvement of country roads and city streets. Where the highways are always in good condition nothing prevents the "auto" | from doing what Is desired. It goes anywhere and does anytning wuum reason. But where or when the roada are soft the horseless carriage is a practical failure.' This broad fact means much for the improvement of the highways of the United States. It will give newTorce to the agitation for good roads which has been gaining ground of late.?Cleveland Leader. Improve Country and Town. One of the essentials in this life Is a good road from the farm to the market. The product of the farm can be marketed at a lower cost. This means that you can' buy more for your money. It saves your live stock. The farmer need not send up the country for so many horses and mules. One horse can draw more on a good road than two can on a bad road. Good roads and street sprinkling improve the county and town. ' Better Roads Are Needed. American roads must Improve greatly before this country can hope to match Frcnch feats with horseless vehicles. Some day we shall have highways such as are enjoyed In France. Then there will be gfeat race records for automobiles on this side of the Atlantic.?Cleveland Leader. DIVINE. Subject: Sin In High Placet?The Same Law of ltlght and Wrong Should Apply to Both Rleh and Poor?J?*a*clnation of Fraad. t Copyright 190L1 \VA8HIWGT01T, D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows that there is a tendency to excuse brilliant faults, because they are brilliant, when the same law of right and wrong ought to be applied to high places and low; text, Daniel iv, 33. as mo hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he wis driven from, men and did eat grass as oxen." Here is the mightiest of the Babylonish kings. Look at him. He did more for the grandeur of the capital than did all his Sredecessora or successors. Hanging garens, reservoirs, aqueducts, palaces, all of his own planning. The bricks that are brought up to-day from the ruins of Babylon nave nis name on them. "Nebuchadnezzar, son of Nabopolassor, king of Babylon." He was a great conqueror. He stretched forth his spear toward a nation, and it surrendered. But he plundered the temple of the true God. He lifted an idol, Bel Merodach, and compelled the people to bow down before it, and if they refused they must go through the redhot furnace or oe crunched by lion or lioness. So God pulled him down. He was smitten with what physicians call lycanthropy, and fancied that he was a wild beast, and he went out and pastured amid the cattle. God did not excuse him because he had committed the sin in high places or because the transgression was wide rosounding. He measured Nebuchadnezzar in high place just as he would measure the humblest captive. But in our time, you know as well as I, that' there is a disposition to put a halo around iniquity if it is committed in conspicuous places, and if it is wide resounding and of large proportions. Ever and anon there has oeen an epidemic of crime in high places, and there is not a State or a city and hardly a village which has not been called to look upon astounding forgery, or an absconding bank cashier or president, or the wasting of trust fund or swindling mortgages. I propose, in Carrying out the suggestion of myv text, as far T ?-??o ffa*. +K/J ooi n n firm a US A UaUy W OltfcbWW* wuw around iniquity and show ycu that sin is sin and wrong is wrong, whether in high ?lace or low place, and that it will Be ealt with by that God who dealt with impalaced Nebuchadnezzar. All who preach feel that two kinds of sermons are necessary?the one on the faith of the gospel, the other on the morality of the gospel?and the one is just as important as the other, for you know that in this land to-day there are hundreds of men hiding behind the communion tables and in churches of Jesus Christ who have no business to be there as professors of religion. They expect to be all right with God, although they are all wrong with man. And, while I want you to understand that by the deeds of the law no flesh living can be justified and a mere honest life cannot enter us into heaven, I want you as plainly to understand that unless tne life is right the heart is not right?grace in the heart and grace in the life. So we must preach sometimes the faith of the gospel and sometimes the morality of the gospel. It seems to me there has not been a time in the last fifty years when this latter truth needed more thoroughly to be presented in the American churches. It need* to be presented to-day. T all t-VkA foorti'nnfinna f AiUUXV UJ7UU Qll VUV iwuvtuumvud around fraud in this country. You.know for years men have been made heroes of and pictorialized and in various ways presented to the public, as though sometimes they were worthy of admiration, if they have scattered the funds of banks or swallowed great estates that did not belong to them. Our young men have been dazed with this quick accumulation. They have said: "That's the way to do it. What's the use of plodding on with small wages or insignificant salary -when we may go into business life and with 6ome stratagem achieve such a fortune as that man has achieved?" A different measure has been applied to the crime of Wall street from that which has been applied to the spoils which the man carries up Eat alley.. So a peddler came down from New England many years ago, took hold of the money market of New York, flaunted his. abominations in the sight of all the peo-' Ele and defied public morals every day of is life. Young men looked up and said: "He was a peddler in one decade, and in the next decade he is one of the nionarchs of the stock market. That's the way to do it." To this day the evil influence of that profligate financier has been felt, and within the past few weeks he has had conspicuous imitators. There has been an irresistible impression going abroad among young men that the poorest way to get money is to earn it. The young" man of flaunting cravat aavs to the young man of humble apparel: "What! You only get $1800 a year? WKir J-Vinf. wnnlHn'fc keen me in T)in money. I spend 85000 a year." "Where do you get it?" asks the plain young man. "Oh, stocks, enterprises, all that sort of thing, you know." The plain young man has hardly enough money to pay his board, has to wear clothes after they are out of fashion and deny himself all luxuries. After awhile he gets tired of his plodding, and he goes to the man who has achieved suddenly large estate, and he says, "Just show me now it is done." And he is shown. He soon learns how, although he is almost all the time idle now and has resigned his position in the bank or the factory or the store he has more money than he ever had, trades off his old silver watch for a gold one with a flashing chain, sets his hat a little further over on the side of his head than he ever did, smokes better cigars and more of them. He has his hand in. Now, if he can 'escape the penitentiary for three or four years he will get into political circles, and Ur% ir?o 1 -inka nnrl Trill HflVP something to do with harbors and pavements and docks. Now he has got so far along he is safe for perdition. It is quite a long road sometimes for a man to travel before he gets into the romance of crime. Those are caught who are only in the prosaic stage of it. If the sheriffs and constables would only leave them alone a little while they would steal as well as anybody. They might not be able to steal a whole railroad, but they could master a load of pig iron. Now, I always thank God when I find an estate like that go to smash. It is plague struck, and it blasts the nation. I thank God when it goes into such a wreck it can never be gathered up again. I want it to become so loathsome and such an insufferable stench that honest young men will take warning. If God should put into money or its representative the capacity to go to its lawful owner, there wpuld not be a bank or a safety deposit in tfoe United States whose walla would not be bhown out, and mortgages would rip and parchments would rend, and gold would shoot, and beggars would get on horseback, and stock gamblers would go to the almshouse. How many dishonesties in the making out of invoices, and in the plastering of false labels, and in the filching of customers of rival houses, and in the making and breaking of contracts. Young men. are indoctrinated in the idea that the sooner they get money the better, and the getting of it on a larger scale only proves to them their greater ingenuity. There is a glitter thrown around all these things. Young men have got to find out that God looks upon sin in a very different light. And remember that the man who gets his gain by iniquity will soon lose it all. One moment after his departure from life he will not own an opera house, he will not own a certificate of stock, he will not own one dollaif of Government securities, and the poorest, boy that stands on the street with a penny in his pocket looking at the funeral procession of the dead cheat as it goes by will have more money inan that man who one week previous boasted that he controlled the money market*? Oh, there is such a fearful fascinaMon in this day about the use of trust funds! It has got to be popular to take the funds of otnera and speculate with them. There are many who are practicing that iniquity. Almost every man in the course of his life haa the property of others put iu his care. Ho has administered perhaps for a dead friend; he is an attorney, and i mojrcy passes from debtor to creditor tVll-ollo-K hia tliinHd or he il in a ??????? ei&I establishment sad gets a salary for the discharge of his responsibilities, or h* is treasurer of a philanthropic institution, and money for the suffering goes through his hands; or he has some office in city or atate or nation, and taxes and subsidies and supplies and salaries are in his hands. Now, that is a trust. That is as sacred ft trust as God can give a man. It is the concentration of confidence. Now, when that man takes that money?the money of others?and goes to speculating with it for his own purposes, he is guilty of theft. ' falsehood ana perjury, and in the mod intense sense of the word is a miscreant. There are families to-day?widows and orphans?with nothing between them and starvation, but a sewing machine, or kept out of the vortex by the thread of a needle red with the' Mooa. pf their 'hearts, who were by fatfce*'o^lHi&band left a competence. You read the story in the newspaper of hruip who have lost by a bank defalcation. and it is only one line, the name ot a woman yon never heard of, and juat one or two figures telling the amount of stock she had, the number of shares. It is a very short line in a newspaper, but it is a line of agony as long as time. It is a story long as eternity. ' So there has been a great deal cf fascination thrown around libertinism. Society is very severe upon the impurity that lurks around the alley* and low haunt* of the town. The law pursues it, smites it, incarcerates it, tries to destroy it. You know as well as I-that society becomes lenient in proportion as impurity becomes affluent or is in elevated circles, and finally society & >silent or disposed to palliate. ' Where is the judge, the jury, the police . , officer that dare arraign the wealthv libertine? He walks the streets; he riaes the parks; he flaunts his iniquity in the eyes of the pure. Sometimes it seems to me as if society were going back to the state of morals of Herculancum, when it sculptured.its vileness on pillars and temple wall and nothing but the lava of a Durning mountain, ( could hide the immensity of crime. At what time God will rise up and extirpate these evils upon society I know not nor whether He will do it by fire or hurricane or earthquake," but a holy God, I do not think, will stand it much longer. I beI lieve the thunderbolts are hissing hot, { and that when God comes to chastise the community for these sins, against which He has uttered Jtiimseii more Dineny ww Against any other, the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah will be tolerable as compared with the fate of our modern society, which knew better,-but did worse. We want about 10',wSJ:pulpits in Amerj ica to thunder, "All adulterers and whoreI mongers shall have their place in the hell that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." It is hell on | earth and bell forever. We have -got to understand that iniquity on Columbia Heights or Fifth avenue or Beacon Hill it j as damnable in the sight of God aa it i* in the slums. Whether it has canopied couch d? eiderdown or dwells amid the' putridity of a low tenement house, God is after it in His vengeance. Yet the pulpit of the Christian church has been so cowed down on this subject that it hardly dares speak, and men are almost apologetio when they read the Ten Commandments. < Then look at the fascinations thrown around assassination;* There are in all I communities men who have taken the lives of others unlawfully, not as executioners of the law, and tney go scot free. Yon say that they had their provocations. 1m . JIa olnna Viaa ft I VJUU gave 1UC, uiiu uv ?IVM? mww w --p? to take it, and He may take it by visita| tion of Providence or by an executioner of the law, who is'His messenger. But when a man assumes that divine prerogative he touches the lowest depth of crime. Society is alert for certain lcinds of murder. If a citizen going along the road at night is waylaid and slain Dy a robber, we all want the villain arrested and exe- > . cuted. For all garroting, for all beating out of life by a club or an axe or a slungshot, the law has quick spring and heavy stroke, but you know that when men get affluent and high position and they avenge their wrongs by taking the lives of others great sympathy is excited. Lawyers plead, ladies weep, judge halts, jury is bribed, and the man goes free. If the verdict happen to be against him a new trial is called on through some technicality, and they adjourn for witnesses that never come and adjourn and adjourn until the community has forgotten pll about it, and then the prison door opens and the murderer goes free. ? t m. l__ T JNow,'it capital punisnmenc ue ngm, * say let the life of the polished murderer go with the life of the vulgar assassin* Let us have no partiality of gallows, no aristocracy of electrocution chair. Do not let us float back to barbarism, when every man was his own judge, jury and executioner, and that man had the supremacy wno had the sharpest knife and the strongest arm and the quickest step and the stealthiest revenge. He who wilfully and in hatred 'takes the life of another is a murderer, I care not what the provocation or the circumstances. He may be cleared by an enthusiastic courtroom, he may be sent by the Gov- ' eminent of the United States as Minister to some foreizn court or modern literature may polish the crime until it looks like heroism, but in the sight of God murder " ?*?/! fl*o 4tirfrrmont Hnv Will on ID 1UU1UC1) UUU vuw jUUdU?vU, ..... reveal it. Now, do not be fascinated by the glamor thrown over crime of whatever sort. Because others have habits that seem brilliant, but yet at the same time are wicked, do noc choose such faults. Stand independent of all such influences. Put your confidence in the Lord God. He will be your strength. "Vengeance is mine. I will repay, saith the Lord." Cultivate old fashioned honesty. This book is full of it. Old fashioned honesty such as was spoken of by Dr. Livingstone, the famous explorer. You may not know he was descended from the Highlanders. Dr. Livingstone said that one day one of pallpf? bia children. around him and said: "Now, my lads, I have looked all through our family line. I have gone back as far as I can, and I find that all our ancestors were honest people. There doesn't seem to be one rogue among them, and you have good blood. Now, my lads, be honest." There are hundreds of young men who have good blood. Shall I ask three or four plain questions? Are yonr habits as good as when you left your father's housp? Have you a good- ticket in your pocktft? Have you a irauduleut document? Have you been experimenting to see how accurate au imitation you could make of your employer's signature? Oh. you have good blood. Remember your father's prayers. Remember your mother's example. Turn not ?n an evil way. nave you pccu uumx astray? Come back. Have you venturea out too far? As I stand in pulpits looking over audiences sometimes iny heart fails me. There are so many tragadies present, so many who have sacrificed their integrity, so many far away from God. Why, mjr brother, there have VenAoo many prayers offered for you to have you go overboard. And there are those venturing down into sin, and my heart aches to call them back. At Brighton Beach or Long Branch you have seen men go down into the surf to bathe, and they waded out farther and farther, and you got aniious about them. You said,-"I wonder if they can swim?" And you then stood and shouted: "Come back! Come back! You will be drowned!" They waved their hand back, saying: "No danger," They kept on waaing cleeper down and farther out- from shore unul after awhile a great wave with a strong undertow took them out. their torpses the next day washed on tlie beach. Bo I see m^u wading down into sin farther and "--I T ?11 'TV?? I el 11. x j *-4 , uuu x can tu tucui. wuic uava. Come back! You will be lost; you will be lo-t!" They wave their hand back, saying, "No danger; no danger!" Deeper down and deeper down until after awhile a wave sweeps them out and sweeps them off forever. Oh, come back! The one farthest away may come. "Oh," you say, "you don't know where I came from. You don't know what my history has been. You don't know what iniquity I have plotted. I have gone through the whole catalogue of sin." My brother, I do not know the story, but I tell you this: The door of mercy jo wide open. "Though your sins be as scarlet, taey shall be as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall De as wool." Though you have teen polluted with the worst of crimes, though you have been smitten with the worst of leprosies, though you have been fired with all evil passions, tMAmon f An Knl". with WU19 UtUIU^Ub VU JVM* ?* , quitous indulgences, mav be set the tmsainar coronet of a Saviour forcrvenesa. ' .kSJi . . ..." %- iJ/J.'Vl'i