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w II Conquering the Air. If S w Machine Designed and Used by CW | ? Sautos-Dumont. a?, SIBaSBil ! The outlires of the "aeronef' designed by Sautos-Dumont, in which the Brazilian has circled the Eiffel Tower, are shown in the accompanying cuts, from the New York Tribune. To the Tribune's Paris corsespondent be said: "Please dissuade your readers from * 4C mw * ) .. ' < , 'DRIVING MECHANISM \ OF AIRS! , Inferring that I profess to have solved the problem. The only thing I have accomplished in fifteen years of experimenting, during which I have .wrecked four aeronefs, is to be able With tolerable certainty, in fine weather and with a mild breeze, to ' atart from a given point and navigate through the air in any direction?right or left, up or down. To anything more than this I have no pretensions. We i TVTtUAVTffi T*tJAfAflD A T>TTWT% TXT TTTQ IAlMlA|-VUiUV.lJL ui uiu AIRSHIP. are at the beginning of the problem, iwhich, however, I am absolutely confident will some day be solved on the lines I have oeen patiently following." A Huge Kudder. ! The New York Herald gives this picture of a rudder, or. rather, the frame for a rudder, recently made lor a new ocean steamship. The picture will give you some idea of the giant dimensions to which ocean greyhounds have grown. The two men standing beside the rudder frame look like mere pygmies. The slightest turn of such a giant |?' ' *J rudder as this deflects thousands of tons of water when the ship is running rapidly, and. like the tail of a fish. It keeps her direction under constant control. Beyond Words. ' "Words cannot express my disgust," Baid the deaf and dumb man as he twiddled his fingers meaningly.?New lYork Commercial Advertiser. Germany and Holland are planning to lay a new cable to connect with the (Dutch Bast Indies. A SAFETY LADDER FOR CHIMNEYS. Prevents Man From Being Blown From HI a Footing. Anyone vrho has ever noticed the construction of one of the very high chimneys sometimes seen {Peering over an industrial plant of some sort could not help but to imagine himself In Hia rinolflnn nf tha wwlftlinn whrt *U Wic JJUOl kiVii V* > ?V I> t? MV must at more or less frequent intervals climb up and down its preclptious side, clinging to the tiny iron projections placed for his accommodation. In the construction of a chimney now being erected at Syracuse for the Solvay Process Company, a new idea In the erection cf the ladder is being >ntll;ncs of the Santoa-Dttmoht.ATfr .THE SANTOS-DUMOrrn ilPo ' ? ' : 'j put into effect, as shown in the accompanying cut William B. Cogswell, the vice-president and chief engineer of the company, Is in a measure responsible for th$ innovation, or at least for its introduction, into this country. He was traveling abroad a short time ago, and while passing through a part of Germany noticed this style of ladder construction, and at once recognized the merits of it and made a note for future reference. The idea is for the man to get inside of this ladder, where he is much more secure than in the more exposed position outside of an ordin ary ladder. The wind is often very strong in such an elevated place, and a greater effort is required to hold on than to climb aloft. In making an ascent of a tall chimney the man can at any time rest himself completely by standing with both feet and his elbows upon the rungs of the ladder at the same time, or he can put his arms over the rungs at any time, or if he likes can have a piece of plank thirty inches long with him, which he can put across one of Jl 8AJFETT CHIMNEY LADDER. tlie rungs and stand upon, thus making himself perfectly secure while working. While at Syracuse the ladder is applied to a brick chimnej*. there is no reason why similar ladders should not be applied to steel plate chimneys, water works' standpipes oY any other lofty structures to which ladders arc attached. Telltale Lines. We cannot keep the wrinkles away from our own faces save by sweetness and serenity, but othe~s can help to do it for us. Here is what a writer in Temple Bar says of a woman who has grown prematurely old: Her life arouses my pity. I watch the lines in her face. They are deepening rapidly. Thy two near the mouth I call "brother lines," the spendthrift, selfish brother. The wavy lines drawu perpendicularly across her forehead are querulous sister, and all that fixed network about the eyes is reading witn a bad light" to somebody. These telltale wrinkles could have been prevented if everybody had been as eager in welldoing, as unselfish and loving, as the woman who wears them. Sulphur in Rus.?ia. One of the richest sulphur deposits in the world has lately been discovered in Trans-Caspia. Russia. The geological formation is very similar to that in which the Sicilian deposits occur. It is only in recent years that sulphur has been found in Russia. Mistaken Hilarity. "The drama," said Mr. Stormlngton Barnes, "is not receiving the serious consideration mat it once enjoyed. "People want to laugh nowadays." "Yes?and usually at the time when j you are most desirous that they shaU ' not."?Washington Stat DE. TALMAGES SEEMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: A Joy Inspiring: Religion?Solomon'* Wisdom?Sweet Spices of Christianity ? It Counteracts A11 Trouble ? No Dolorous Music Needed. I Copyright 1901.1 Washington, D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage corrects some of the false notions about religion, and represents it aa hpiniy iov insnirinz instead of dolorous; text, if Chronicles is, 9, "Of spices great abundance; neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon." \ What is that building out yonder, glittering in the sun? Have you not heard? It is in the house of the forest of Lebanon. King Solomon has just taken to it his bride, the Princess of Egypt. You see the pillars of the portico ana a great tower, adorned with 1000 shields of gold, hung on the outside of the tower, 500 of the shields of gold manufactured at Solomon's order; 500 were captured by David, his father, in battle. See how they blaze in the noonday sun! Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his throne, between twelve lions in statuary, and sits down on the back of the golden bull, the head of the huge beast turned toward the people. The family and the attendants of the kinz are so many that the caterers of the pjuace have to provide every day 100, sheep and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping, and pawing of 4000 fine horses in the royal stables. There were important officials who had charge of the work of gathering the straw and the bar* * ?? Vt-nrr Rnlnmnn was ley ior mese uuiaca. um& ? an early riser, tradition savs, and used to take a ride out at daybreak, and when in his white apparel, behind the swiftest horses of all the realm and followed by mounted archers in purple, as the cavalcade dashed through the streets of Jerusalem I suppose it was something worth getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to look at. Solomon was not like some of the kings of the present day?crowned imbecility. All the splendors of his palace and retinue were eclipsed by his intellectual power. Why, he seemed to know everything. He was the first great naturalist the world ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted the basaltic walk, and apes chattered in the trees, and deer stalked the parks, and there were aquariums with foreign fish and aviaries with foreign birds, and tradition says these birds were so < well tamed that Solomon mifcht walk clear across the city under the shadow of their wings as they hovered and flitted about him. More than this, he had a great reputation for the conumdrums ana riddles that he made and guessed. He and King Hiram, his neighbor, used to sit by the hour and ask riddles, each one paying in money if he could not answer or guess the riddle. The Solomonic navy visited all the world, and the sailors, of course, talked about the riddles and enigmas that he made and solved, and the news spread until Queen Balkis, away off south, heard of if, and sent messengers with a few riddles that she would like to have Solomon solve and a few puzzles, that she would like to have him find out. She sent, among other things, to King Solomon a diamond with aknlo on small t-.hftfc a needle could not Den etrate it, asking him to thread that diamond. And Solomon took a -worm and put it at the opening in the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leaving the thread in the diamond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon, asking him to fill it with water that did not pour from the sky and that did not rush out from the earth, and immediately Solomon put a slave on the back of a swift horse and galloped him around and around the park until the horse was nigh exhausted, and from the perspiration of the horse the goblet was filled. She also sent to Kinjj Solomon 500 boys in girls' dress and 500 girls in boys' dress, wondering if he would be acute enoueh to find out the deception. Immediately Solomon, when he saw them wash their "faces, knew from the way they applied the water that it was all a cheat. Queen Balkis was so pleased with the acuteness of Solomon that she said. "I'll just go and see him for myself." Yonder it comes?the cavalcade?horses and dromedaries, cnariots and charioteers, jingling harness and clattering hoofs and blazing shields and flying ensigns and clapping cymbals. The placc is saturated with the perfume. She brings cinnanon and saffron and calamus and frankincense and all manner of sweet spices. As the retinue sweeps through the eate the armed guard inhales the aroma. "Halt!" cries the charioteers as the wheels grind the gravel in front of the pillared portico of the king. Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere bewitched with perfume. As the dromedaries are driven uo to the kind's store houses and the bundles of camphor are unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon and the boxes of spices are opened the purveyors of the palace discover what my text announces: "Of spices, great abundance. Neither was there any such snice as the Queen of Sheba pave to King Solomon." Well, my friends, you know that all theologians agree in making Solomon a type of Christ, and in making the Queen of Sheba a type of every truth seeker, and I will take the responsibility of saying that all the spikenard and cassia and frankincense which the Queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon is mightily suggestive of the street spices of our holy religion. Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicalities and angular facts and chronological tables and dry statistics. Our religion is compared to frankincense and to cassia, but never to nightshade. It is a bundle cf myrrh. It is a dash of holy light. It is a sparkle of cool fountains. It is an opening of opaline gates. It is a collection of spices. Would Godthat we were as wise in taking spiccs to our divine King as Queen Balkis was wise in taking the spices to the earthly Solomon. The fact is that the duties and cares of this life, ooming to us from time to time, are stupid often and inane and intolerable. Here &rz men who have been battering, climbing, pounding, hammering for twenty years, forty years, fifty years. One great, long drudgery has their life been, their laces anxious, tneir ieennsts cenumDea, their days monotonous. What is necessary to brighten up that man's life and to sweeten that acid disposition and to put sparkle into the man's spirits? The spicery of our holy religion. Why. if between the losses of life there dashed the gleam cf an eternal gain, if between the betrayals of life there came the gleam of the undying friendship of Christ, if in dull times in business we found ministering spirits flying to and fro in our office and store and shop, everyday life, instead of being a stupid monotone, would bo a glorious inspiration, penduluming between calm satisfaction and high rapture. How any woman Keeps house without the religion of Christ to help her is a mystery to me. To have to spend the greater part of rne's life, oa many women do, in planning for the meals, an J stitching garments that will soon be rent again, and deploring breakages, and supervising tardy subordinates, arid driving off dust that soon again will settle, and doing the same thing day in and day out and year in and vear out until the hair silvers, and the back stoops, and the spectacles crawl to the eyes, and the grave breaks open under the thin so'.e of the shoe?oh, it is a long monotony,! But when Christ comes ' j the drawing room, and comes to the kitchen, and comes to the nursery, and comes to the d%velling, then how cheery becomes all womanly duties! She is never alone now. Martha gets through fretting and joins Mary at the feet of Jesus. Ail day lone peoor^h is happy because she can help Lapidoth; Hannah, because she can mike a coat for young Samuel; Miriam, because she can watch her infant bro'.'nor; Rachel, because she can help her father water the stoclt; the widow of Sarepta, be cause ine cruse ot on is neing repienisne;]. 0 woman, having i:i your pantry a ne.*t of boxes containing all kinds of condiments, why have you not tried in your heart and (ire the spicery of our h">ly religion? "Martha, Martha, th^u art careful ahd troubled about many things, but one thing is needful, and M ry hath chosen taat good part which shall not be taken away from her." 1 must confess that a rrcat deal of the religion of this day is utterly incipid There is nothing piquant or elevating about it. Men and women go around humming psalms in a tanner key and cultivating melancholy, and their worship has ia it more sighs than raptures. We I . do not douht their piety. Oh, no! But they are sitting at a feast where the cook has forgotten to season the food. Everything is flat in their experience and in their conversation. Emancipated from sin and death and hell and on their way to a magnificent heaven, they act as though they were trudging on toward an everlasting Botany Bay. Religion does not seem to agree with them. It seems to catch in the windpipe and become a tight strangulation instead of an exhilaration. All the infidel books that have been written, from Voltaire down to Herbert Spencer, have not done so much damage to our Christianity as lugubrious Christians. Who wants a religion woven out of the shadows of the night? Why go growling on your way to celestial enthronement: Come out A that cave and sit down in the warm Jjjjht of the Sun of Righteousness. Away with your odes to melancholy and HerveyVMeditations Among the Tombs!" I have to say also that we need to put more spice and enlivenment in our religious teaching, whether it be in the prayer meeting or in the Sunday-school or in the church. We ministers need more fresh air and sunshine in our lungs and our heart and our head. Do you wonder that the world is so far from being converted when you find so little vivacity in the pulEit and in the pew? We want, like the .ord, to plant in our sermons and exhortations more lilies of the field. We want fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesquipedalian words, and when we talk about shadows we do not want to say adumbration, and when we mean queerness we do not want to talk about idiosynnraaina or if a stitch in the back we do not want to talk about lumbago, but, in the plain vernacular of the great masses, preach that gospel which proposes to make all men happy, honest, victorious and free. In other words, we want more cinnamon and less gristle. Let this be so in all the different departments of work to which the Lord calls us. Let us be plain. Let us be earnest. Let us be common sensical. When we talk to the people in a vernacular they can understand, they will be very glad to come and receive the truth we present. Would to God that Queen Ballcis would drive her spice laden dromedaries into all our sermons and prayer meeting exhortations. More than that, we want more life and spice in our Christian work. The poor do not want so much to be groaned over as sung to. With the bread and medicines and garments you give them let there be an accompaniment of smiles and brisk encouragement. Do not stand and talk to them about the wretchedness of their abode and the hunger of their looks and the hardness of their lot. Ah, they know it better than you- can tell them! Show them the bright side of the thing, if there be any bright side. Tell them good time3 will come: tell them that for the children of God there is immortal rescue. Wake them up out of their stolidity by an insDirinc laueh. and while you send in help, like the Queen of Sheba, also send in the spices. There are two ways of meeting the poor. One is to come into their house with a nose elevated in disgust, as much as to say: "I don't see how you live here in this neighborhood. It actually makes me sick. There is that bundle. Tate it, you poor, miserable wretch, and make the most of it." I promise a high spiritual blessing to anv one who will sing in church and who will sing so heartily that the people all around cannot help but sing. Wake up, all the churches from Bangor to San Francisco and across Christendom! It is not a matter of preference; it is a matter of religious duty. Oh, for fifty times more volume of sound than has yet rolled up from our churches! German chorals in German cathedrals surpass us, and yet Geroany has received nothing at the hands cf God compared with America. And ought tiie acclaim in. Germany be louder than tjat of America? Soft, long drawn out music is appropriate for the drawing room and appropriate for the concert, but St. John gives an idea of the sonorous and resonant congregational singing appropriate for churches when in listening to the temple service of heaven he says: "I heard a great voice, as the voice or a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thunderings. Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reignethl," Join with me in a crusade, giving me.not only your hearts, but the mighty uplifting of your voices, and I believe we can, through Christ's grace, sing 5000 souls into the kingdom of Christ. An argument they can laugh at, a sermon they may talk a (C/Wrt irAi'nori iif^oranpp rtf nrfliflA UU ? II, UUI/ a, WW TUIVVU UVWW4MUVV W? to God is resistible. Would that Queen Balkio would drive all her spice laden dromedaries into our church music. "Neither was any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon." Now, I want to impress you with the fact that religion is sweetness and perfume and spikenard and saffron and cinnamon and cassia and frankincense and all sweet spices together. "Oh," you say, "I have not looked at it as such. I thought it was a nuisance. It had for me a repulsion. I held my breath as though it were a malodor. I have been appalled at its advance. I have said, if I have any religion at all, I want to nave just as little of it as is possible to get through with." Oh, what a mistake you have made, my brother! The religion of Christ is a present and everlasting redolence. It counteracts all trouble. Just put it on the stand beside the pillow of sickness. It catches in the curtains and perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens the cup of bitter medicine and throws a glow on the gloom of the turned lattice. It is a balm for the aching side and a soft bandage for the temple stung with pain. It lifted Samuel Kutherford into a revelry of spiritual delight while he was in physical agonies. It helped Richard Baxter until, in the midst of such a complication of diseases as per. . i it 1 naps no omer man ever suuncu, uc mv? "The Saint's Everlasting Rest." And it poured light upon John Bunyan's dungeon, the light of the shining gate of the shining city. And it is good for rheumatism and for neuralgia ana for low spirits and for consumption. It is the catholicon for all disorders. Yea, it will heal all your sorrows. Why did you look bo sad this morning when you came in? Alas, for the loneliness and the heartbreak and the load that is never lifted from your soul! Some of you go about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote, "If I had another month of such days as I have been spending, I would be impatient to get down into my little narrow crib in tne ground, like a weary factory child." And there have been times in your life when you wished you could get out of this life. You have said, "Oh, how sweet to my lips would be the dust of the valley!" and wished you could pull ov.;r you in your last slumber the coverlet of green grass and daisies. [ see all around about me widowhood and orphanage and childlessness, sadness, disappointment, perplexity. If I could ask all those in any audience who have felt no sorrow and been buffeted by no disappointment?if I could ask all such to rise, how many would rise? Not one. A widowed mother, with her little child, went West, hoping to get better wage3 there, and she was taken sick and died. The overseer of the poor got her body and put it in a box and put it in a wagon and started down the street toward the cemetery at full trot. The little child, the only child, ran after it thj-ough the streets, bareheaded, crying: "Bring me back my [ mother! Bring me back my mother! And it was saia that as the people looked on and saw her crying after that which lay in the bos in the wagon, all she loved 011 earth?it is said the whole village was in tears. And that is what a great many of you are doing?chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all this ?o:-row that I see about me? Yes, the Untight of resurrection and reunion far beyond this scene of struggle and tears " l.'iicy shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any hea*, for the Lamb which in in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from theii eyes." Across the couciies of your sick and across the graves of your dead I fling this shower of sweet spices. Queen Iialkis. driving up to the pillared portico of the house of ccdar, carried no such pungency ~' no ovlvilfia tn.r?!iv frnm thfl Lord's garden. It is peace. It is sweetness. It is comfort. It is infinite satisfaction, this gospel I commend to you. May God grant that through your own practical experience you may find that religion's ways are ways of pleasantness and that all her paths are paths of peace; that it is perfume now and perfume forever. And there was an abundance of spice; "neither was there any such spice as the Queea of Shcba gave to King Solomon." . V ' : "> - "iv : ~-s/v THE GREAT DESTBOTER I SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOin I THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Drink and American Womanhood ? In- } ebrtety Is Upon the Increase Among the Fair Sex, Especially In High Soclety?A Traffic That Debases. We fancy that we hear the chorus of in- j dignation that would have sounded from end to end of the country had the New ' Voice?"the prohibition sheet"?ventured to make the assertion that drunkenness is upon the increase among American worn- , en, and especially American society women. The New Voice has not made such a , charge. At this moment we do riot recall that the matter has been referred to in these columns, at least not recently. The ' charge has been made by people who are not prohibitionists, has been emphasized ' in publications that are not prohibition publications, and has been testified to by numbers of reputable physicians who, in ( their practice, have met with the results of the growing inebriety among American 1 women. Lamentable as the state of affairs is, it is nothing other than might have been | expected and confidently prophesied, and perhaps is no more menacing to the welfare of the nation than has been the similar appalling inebriety of the American men for half a century past. We look upon it as inevitable that if the American people will continue to sus- 1 tain the saloon, and the saloon system, and the saloon's standard of morals, they must pay the full price therefor. No peo- ; pie have ever succeeded for any considerable length of time in keeping any marked < difference between the moral character of their men and of their women. Debauchery begins with the men of any nation, ' but it reaches the womanhood of the nation soener or later with infallible cer- < tainty. The Rome of Nero and the France of Louis XV. and the full fruit of the Anglo-Saxon surrender to vice in the court ! of Charles II. are illustrations in point. . The American people for almost half a ! century have been fostering an organized institution which we call the liquor traffic with full knowledge that it debauches and debases everything that it touches. We know, and have known for years, that it takes of the brightest and best and cleanest aod purest of our boys, and transforms them into loathsome beasts without the 1 beast's excuse for bestiality. We have let that vile traffic extend itself till it ' touches practically every avenue of our 1 national life, domestic, social, business * and political. We have granted every ] new demand that it made for furtiher sur- ' renders of the national virtue. We have ' expected our women to submit to the de- j bauchery and butchery of their sons. We have bidden our maidens take uncom- I plainingly diseased and besotted youths j for husbands. As & people we have denounced as fanatics and cranks all who j have opposed or protested against the domination of the traffic. Ana now, for- ^ sooth, shall we wake up with a start and hold up our hands in horror because the same fiend that has devoured our men ia ' reaching out after our women? The New Voice would welcome a cru- ! sade to save the womanhood of America ] from the drink curse, but such a crusade must mean a real determined effort to ! ttr^Ala A marirton T\OAnl<l frrtm flio . oavc VUC *T UUIt ilUikl 1LWU *?VU4 VMV drink curse, for in this age of the world no people c^n build a zenana wall arcwnd its womanhood.?The New Voice. Alcohol and Hospitals. Some years ago Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago, suggested that there might be found a close relationship between tne mortality and the spirit bills of large hospitals. A committee has been looking up this matter. and, while not ready to make a formal report, have already found some startling facta which indicate that the connection is very close, and no doubt the death rates rise and fall with the amount of . spirits used. In one metropolitan hospital, where the physicians prescribe spirits freely as tonics and stimulants in all cases, ' the mortality was from three to five per ? cent, greater than in another hospital of 1 like character whose spirit bills were half 1 as much. In one hospital, typhoid fever 1 and pneumonia were treated very largely 1 with spirits. The mortality was greater c than in private practice, although tne con- ' ditions for treatment were more favorable. * One of the visiting physicians became con- ' vinced that the free use of alcohol was a * large factor in these fatal cases and gave [ up its use. The results were so startling 1 that he has become an anti-alcoholic aa- j locate. Several hospitals which. received J soldiers after the late war had widely dif- J fering statistical results, which, in a large ' degree seemed to be due to the treatment. ' There is a growing sentiment that the iree use ui aii'uuui aa a Btiuiuiaui 10 ? most disastrous remedy, although the hos- { nitals are very slow to adopt this view. ; We hope to publish some figures which j will bring out these facts more clearly in *he future.?Journal of Inebriety. No Denunciation Strong: Enough. In the cities of Switzerland every tenth man dies from drink either directly or indirectly. These are not all carried off by specific alcoholic diseases. Quite frequently it is some other sickness that would i not have resulted in death if alcohol had j not diminished the power of resisting dia- i 2ase. Any w6und, or any contagious dis- 1 ease, consumption among others, develops t more seriously and with more danger in 1 an organism weakened by alcohol. The ( statistics of English life insurance socie- c ties clearly demonstrate that. They have i there millions of total abstainers, people f who never touch a drop of alcoholic i liquors. Many insurance societies give c them a reduction of premium because they t have discovered that the death rate among 1 total abstainers is one-fourth less than t that of moderate drinkers of the same age. > Considering all of these facts we are obliged to agree with Dr. Max Gruber, professor of hygiene in the University of Vienna, who has often declared in public: ( "We cannot think evil enough of alcohol; < even moderate quantities ox it are always f an injury." False Idea of Liberty. Liberty to get drunk cannot be regarded as one of the fundamental rights of humanity. Since the Legislature has decided to limit the freedom of the individual to ruin himself by closing gambling dens and suirounding the sale of poisons i with complicated measures, it surely will also be permitted to extend precautionary measures to the sale of this poison which ruins a thousand more victims than any other. The Young Victims. The majority of people dying comparatively young of paralysis of the heart are victims of intoxicating drinks, and their dangerous condition never became apparent until it was too lute for medical science to be of any help. The disease begins with difficulty of breathing under any severe physical exertion and terminates with dropsy of the entire body. The Crusade in Brief. The demand for temperate men and abstainers is more imperative every year. In Munich, every sixteenth man dies of what is called "beer heart," according tc the testimony frotn the dissecting rooms of the hospitals. A recent telegram from Warsaw indicates that rigorous enactments against drunkenness in .Russia have been brought into operation. A bill lias been introduced into the Ore- j gon State Legislature making it a misde- ] meanor for any person to treat another tc < drink in any saloon or other public plact i M-lipcp liniior is sn!<} The drink evil in Vienna has become sc great that the authorities have declared an favor of closing ail brandy shops on Sunday. The frequenting of drink shops by chil 3j dren, recklessly sent to them by parents, 3 means the creation of a future generation j, of drunkards. f: Nearly every patient taken to the Citj t< Hospital prostrated by the heat is a n steady drinker. The fact may well b< U noted by young men whose habits ar? ?l forming. il A novel method of controlling the drink ''r ing habit is being considered by the Ar kansas Legislature. If a proposed measure becomes law it will prohibit any pep son from drinking whisky until he has ob tained a $5 license from the County Clerk of the county in which he resides. a 1 1 " J -r'v ' V*-4 . A SOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN 'REGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE ' WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. EVhat Are the Children Saying??Ex polltory Preaching?Three Oreat Teachers ? Why Jesus Was Superior to Con facias or Baddha. [ hear the voices of children ' Calling from over the seas; rhe wau of their pleading accent? Comes borne upon every breeze. Aiid what are the children saying, Away in those heathen lands, they plaintively lift their voices And eagerly stretch their hands? "Oh, Buddha is cold and distantHe does not regard our tears; We pray, but he never answers. We call, but he never hears. 3h, Brahma in all the Shastera No comforting word hag given,No help in our earthly journey, No promise nor hope for heaven. Oh, vain is the Moslem prophet, And bitter his creed of 'Fate,' It lightens no ill to tell ua That Allah is only great. We have heard of a God whose mercj Is tenderer far than these; We are told of a binder Saviour By Sahibs from over the seas rhey tell ua that when you offer Xour worship, lie always hears; Our Brahma is deaf to pleadings, Our Buddha is blind to tears! We grope in the midst of darkness? With none who can guide aright! Dh. share with us, Christian children, A spark of your living light!" rhis, this is the plaintive burden Borne hitherward on the breeze; rhese, these are the words they are saying, Those children beyond the seas! ?Margaret J. Preston, Expository Preaching. "The work of the preacher is the exlosition of the oracles of God," says the New York Observer (Pres.). "That ia :acitly admitted by him when he etanda with an open Bible before him, and be* jins his discourse by reading, an extract which he calls his text. Even'the expolition of a text is not enough. Textual preaching is of great service, and the microscopic method of handling divine truth has its own distinctive merits, but both encourage the tendency to regard the Bible as a book of isolated texts like a colection of proverbs. Expository preaching jives large views, grand conceptions, and i grasp of the continuity of that Scripture which cannot be broken. There are ivelcome signs of the revival of expository reaching in our pulpits, and the children , >f the Bible have done much to bring ibout that consummation most devoutly lo be desired. There is no originality like the originality of the honest and careful exegete. Nothing so well supports and 'reshens a prolonged ministry as expository preaching. Dr. Joseph Parker, of London, and Dr. Alexander Maclaren, of Manchester, the two greatest luminaries >f the English pulpit, are firsthand forenost Bible expositors. 'Back) to the Bibl^,' is the cry. of the children of the Bible, weary of studies which concentrate ;heir strength on books about the Bible ather than on the Book itself. The cry is finding a response in many hearts, and re trust ifc will gain in volume until Christians in all parts of the land awake ;o the importance of surrendering thought ind life to the message of the Word of 3od in all its full-orbed completeness." -di Three Great Teachers. Living or speaking well and noblyxfor :he life that is, is to be commended in inyone, and to be commended by all. Yet 10 one can live or sDeak at the best and loblest for the life that now is without a ecognition of the life that is to come; for i recognition of man's higher nature and >f the future life marks man's superiority ibove that which dies when, this life ends. Confucius and Benjamin Franklin wrote veil and nobly for man's present life, [heir counsels mada^n impress on their jeoples for their generation and for folowing generations, but neither Confucius lor Benjamin Franklin wrote in recogni;ion of the life that is .to come; henc9 Uaii* (Tarn Koln f/1 fhflir fplloWfl or the future life, or for man's highest lature. Jesus Christ wrote better and nore telling words for the life that is than lid Franklin or Confucius, and in adlition to this Hp speaks words concernng the future life that have told, and lo tell, and will continue to tell, on our ace, for this feneration and for coming fenerations. And this is one evidence >f the superiority of Jesus Christ to all vho ever spoke words for man's help.? Sunday-school Times. Sorrow'* Crown of Sorrow. It is not physical discomfort, not havng little to lie on night after night, on a ungle tour, or swimming rivers, or ahortless of food?that is the poetry of mission ife?but the hardship is having to look ifter native churches and bear the jurdens of native converts when one feels ;hat the circle of prayer at home is not :omplete and that the tide of sympathy s not flowing as it should. Never, until I jot on Indian shores and had to do with iative churches, did I know why Paul out it the end of his list of agonies?after ;he stoning and the scourging, and that ong scries of hardships?as - the heaviest >f all, sorrow's crown of sorrow, "the care >f all the churches."?Rev. G. 'W. Oliver. Temptations. Consider the temptations of the various ;emperaments and talents. The peril of ;he five-talent man is selfishness. WithfViA Ano.folonf man aucgiauic itvui v??t vuw vm.vU? :ompels modesty within him. But the lonor and allegiance given to the five-tal:nt man nourishes pride and self-suffi:iency. Because he rises above hia felows. the great man thinks himself to be mart from his fellows. He soon develops :he sense of exclusiveness and counts limself better than others. So he passes inder the condemnation of the wise man.? Rev. Dr. Hillis, Congregationalist, Brooklyn, New York. Living For Self. The highest thought is living for God. Vten in the world live for self. This is the lim of all men horn in Adam. It may be i very cultivated self, or a very low, mean ielf. But man's centre is self. God's word :omes and teaches us that the highest aim n life is to !ivo for God. In order to live for God something must happen in man. , We will call it faith, conversion, new , jirth, born again. These are Bible illua- i trations. Tt means a change of centre.? | Rev. James McFarland, Denver," Col. i Purpose of Christianity. I The purpose of Christianity was the destruction of sin and the salvatibn of j jeople from their sins. That it effects this 1 purpose is seen in the remarkable con- f trast between the highest forma of heathenism and the lowest forms of Chris- * tianity.?Rev. Dr. George, Kansas City, I VIo. Personal Liberty. There is no such thing as personal liberty in the general acceptance of the term by ' orodigals and politicians. The only pos < lihlo noi-JonM 1 is frmnrl in doina right.?Rev. W. F. Crafts, Washington, I), a Filipino* Buy More .Jewelry. ' Jewelry and manufactures of gold and ilver to the value of $223,413 were inv ] orted into the Philippines during 1900 j ceording to the Division of Insular Af- * lire of the War Department at Washingan. The imports of this sort for 1899 ^ere valued at $44,9.'57. thus showing an icrea3e of 398 per cent, for 1000. Goods ' f this character from the United States lone were imported to the1 value of $8860 l 1900 and $2102 in 1S99. France May Abolish the Duel. The French Government is urged to < bolish the duel. m ? nnT SABBATH SCHOOL ' " INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS * FOR AUGUST 25. Subject: Abraham and Isaac, Gen. xxtf.* 1-14?Golden Text, Heb. xl? 17?Memory Verges, 6-8?Commentary on th? Day's Lesson. 1. "After these things." The things recorded in the previous chapter regarding Hagar and Ishmael and their banishment. ' DiH nrnvp AKraViam" fP V ^ "Vrtt- in> cite to sin (jas. 1: 13), but try, prove. give occasion for'^the development ot faitl*." 1 Cor. 10: ?eb. 11: 17; James 1: 12. It is well to. see' that God confers a signal honor upon us when He thus tests our hearts. Tempting is for the sake of leading men to evil; testing them is for the purpose of making them better. The trials of life are to prove what we are, to see if we are fitted for larger things. "Here I am." Ready at a moment's notice for God's service. 2. "Thine only son." His onlv son by (. Sarah, his legal wife. Had Abraham s whole soul not been stayed simply on the Lord he never could have yielded unhesitating obedience to such a searching command. Abraham desired earnestly to ba let into the mystery of redemption, and God let bim feel by experience what it was to lose a beloved .son. "Land of Moriah." A general phrase for the mountainous district of Jerusalem. This Moriab was the same site upon which Solomon built the temple, and Calvary was near by, "For a burnt offering." Abraham was living amidst idolaters who sacrificed theii first born to their idols, and "Abraham nimseu raignc not nave Deen sure mat ns ought not to offer as costly sacrifices as th? heathen did; but God at this time taught him and his descendants not to offer human sacrifices, and yet they were to retain ' the spirit of sacrifice out of which they grew. 3. "Rose up early." That there might be no appearance of delay or reluctance on his part he made every preparation for the sacrifice before setting out?the materials, the knife, the servants to convey them; and he had the painful secret pent.up in his bosom during the three days he was journeying to Moriah. He murmured not, nor took counsel with flesh and blood. He waited not to consult with Sarah, nor listen to the misgivings of his own mind. < The command was clear and the obedience. ; prompt. _ I - "ii 4. "The third day." Beer-sheba, Abraham's present home, was a town on the southern border of Palestine, forty-five miles south of Jerusalem, and three days was the usual time it would take them to make the journey. In the three days' journey there was time given for reflection: thus the struggle of faith is not short and momentary, but prolonged. As this sacrifice was typical of that of Christ, so here may be a reference to the third day oi His resurrection. "Saw the plaoe." The hill Moriah can be seen about three miles distant by one coming from Beer-sheba. 5. "And worship. Perform a solemn ^ act of devotion which God requires. "Come again to you." This may have been an expression of faith that God .would >> Ui'a oAn Airan if anfllflllw I C31UIC LLITJ OUil vtcu i*vvw..v . v?v. Heb. 11: 17-19. Thia reminds tu of our Lord in Gethsemane; going into such an agony. He would not admit others to go * with Him. 0. "Laid it upon Isaac." Isaac carried the wood for the burnt offering, so Christ carried the tree whereon He died (John 19: 17); the binding: of Isaac was also typical, for so Christ was bound. Matt. 27: 2. "Took the-ftfre." That is, carrying in his hand the vessel containing the coali ' of fire. ej 7. "Where is the lamb?" The tenderness of this scene is only to be surpassed by those of Gethsemane and Calvary. Nothing can be conceived more affectionate and affecting. 8. "Will provide." The patriarch spoke prophetically, and referred to that Lamb of God who in the fulness of time should take away the sin of' the world, and of ' whom Isaac was a most expressive type. \ The giving up by the father of his only and well beloved son (v. 3: John 3: 10), the ready submission of the son = (v. 9; John 10: 15). th>earing of the instrument of death by tn? victim (v. 0; John 19: 17), the violent difeath consented to (v. 10; John 19: 16), the deliverance from death on the third day (vs. 4, 12; Matt. 20: 19), can not be mere accidental coincidences. . ' 9. "Bound Isaac, hia son." Had not the patriarch been sustained by the full consciousness of acting in obedience to God's will, the effort must have been too great for human endurance; and had not Isaac, then probably twenty-five years of aee, displayed equal faith in submitting, tnis great trial could not have been goae through. 10. "Stretched forth his hand." The deed is virtually done when the will shows firm determination. God who looketh upon the heart regardeth the sacrifice as already made. He will take the will for the deed, but never the deed for the will. 11. "The angel of the Lord." The very {>erson who was represented by this ofering; the Lord Jesus, who calls Himself Jehovah (v. 10), and on His own authority renews the promises of the covenant. He was ever the great Mediator between God and man. "Called unto him." When we cannot see on any, side, a way of escape, then God comes and often shows us * . wonderful deliverance. 12. "Lay not thine hand." The sacrifice was virtually offered, the intention, the mirnose to do it. was shown in all sincerity and fulness. ''I know." The best evidence of our fearing God i3 our being willing to honor Him with that which is dearest to us, and to part with all for Him. "That thou fearest God." This was faith in action. Paul says that Abraham was accepted by faith, and James says he was accepted by works of obedience, but these are only two sides .of the same thing, for not a single act of faith can be named but what has in it the nature of obedience. 13. "Behold?a ram." Though Christ was typified by Isaac, yet the offering of him was suspended, and in the meantime the sacrifice of beasts was accepted as a pledge of that expiation for sin which should be made in "the fulness of time;" the great principle of tfie Mosaic economy was the acceptance of animal sacrifices instead of human. 14. "Jehovah-jireh." That is, "The Lord will see, or provide." "It shall be seen." The meaning is that this was the spot of God's choice for the maniTestation * > of His visible presence, where the sanctuary should be erected and sacrifices offered. After the ram had been offered the angel of the Lord again called to ' *?-- ..w Abraham ana renewed me tmcuum mm, God had made with him. Abraham then returned tn R<w-sh#?ha Australia's Exposition. It is proposed to hold an exhibition on an extensive scale at Bendigo at the end of this year, "under the auspices of the Government of Victoria, to commemorate the discover}' of gold in 1851 and the first anniversary of the Australian Commonwealth. Prominence will be given to gold mining and other mineral resources and phase* of mining in Victoria and other States. Special buildings and courts will be erected for the display of manufactures and industries, wool, agriculture, dairying, machinerv and so forth. The Benriigo School of Mines will provide a model laboratory for the exhibition, equipped with furnaces and apparatus for metallurgical and chemical work. There will b* hve main divisions of the exhibits and twenty-five sections, in which the applications of science to mining and to tha development of other natural resource* will be well represent'1 Favors Superposed Turrets. Rear-Admiral Bradford, of the NavaJ Board of Construction, has submitted tc secretary Long a minority report on the jroposcd new battleships. The report favors six and eight inch guns, instead ol i seven-inch gun, in broadside batteries, IS recommeiiueu uv luc majuraj icpviic Rear-Admiral Bradford also argues for the retention of the superposed turrets. He cites the discussions leading up to the idoption of plans for ships now building, to show that the present majority plan u not in line with the best judgment of na? pal experts. World'i Forest Area. Fort j cover one-tenth of the land ol the earth and one-quarter of Kurope'i land surface. . ' <