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PRIVATE STAMPS OF How Internationc |St/r^reb^. ^ ~ _ ^73 | f p TJCl'RESCI-CENTRAL | ' la civilized countries to day gover the mails and boar stamps showing t to them. On each of these stamps ap ,%vhcre it is issued, the number of the .the initial of the I-'rench word "Ilecom :the document is franked, or, in other charges. The stamps are issued in th Finland, Japan, lioumania, Mexico. S Sweden. Ecuador, Germany, Austria. Holland, Hungary, Persia. Great Brit Rica, France and Uruguay. As grap of every human being is revealed in that national character is in cach case cially in the manner iu which the cap of this letter is not the same on all the some it is strictly regular, while on ot graceful curve of its tail shows.?New DCOOOSCOOOOOGOOOOCOOOOCOOQ 0 ? ?History of asunder Storm ? O With a Diagram Which Simplifies O q the Explanation. q O O DQOOeOQOOOOCOQOOOGOOODOOOO In a pamphlet by Alfred F. Sims, prepared for and circulated by the General Electric Company, there is given some interesting data about the history of a thunderstorm, from which the folowiug is taken: ' The attendant phenomena of a thunderstorm vary considerably, but are usually as follows: First, cirrus haze appears in the morning. Then dark Clouds are seen lying low in the western sky, usually in the afternoon; the ?ir is worm nnd sultrv Tififpr nn the clouds mount to near the zenith, and Ithe air near the ground "a solemn Btillness holds." The clouds on the front of the thunderstorm jjre grayish .white or reddish and hang over and in front of the main rain cloud. Above [these dense dark gray and violet cumulo-stratus clouds are seen, also the towering cumulus clouds which are separated from the cumulo stratus. Often these are interspersed with one or more thick cumulo-stratus cloud layers and above all is the widely distributed cirro-stratus. The herald of the storm is heard before the cloud reaches the zenith, and the flrst rain commences after it. The Interval between the first thunder and ithe beginning of the rain varies from a few minutes to half an hour or more. 'About five minutes before the rain begins there comes from the west or northwest a brisk wind which suddenly increases iu violence and becomes a souall. DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. il Franking is Done. | EtlilC^forB 1 HI | YOKOHAMA, 7t mmM CER'ni'lOVDO ^ 5^ I nment (locuments.ire sent free through hat such a privilege has been accorded pears the name of the country or city document and the letter R, which is mandee," and which indicates that words, is exempt from the usual postal e following countries: Russia, Italy, pain, Fortugal. Belgium. Greece, Chile, United States of America. Colombia, ain, Switzerland, Montenegro, Costa hologists maintain that the character his or her handwriting, so it is claimed revealed in these stamps, and espeital R is formed. That the formation stamps can be seen at a glance. On hers it is more or less artistic, as the York Herald. 11 For Western Farmers. The up-to-date farmer with a large acreage finds it slow work to plow his fields with the old single plows of the past, and so he utilizes the electric current and multiplies the number of plow shares to suit himself. In the "West this is practically a necessity, on account of the large size of the fields and the cost of labor and teams. Our illustration shows a convenient form of motor plow which has been designed by Conrad Melssm?r, of Friedrichsburg. Germany. It consists of two electric motors operating winding drums on separate carriages, which may be placed at any required distance apart, only one motor being connected with the main feed wire. To supply power to the second motor a feed cable lying parallel with the traction cable is readjusted at every trip of the plow to follow the latter down the field. The mech > The time of heaviest rainfall varies; Sometimes it oeeurs at the beginning and sometimes iu the latter part of the jtime the rain clou<l draws over a locality. The lightning strokes and loudest thunder occur some minutes after the rain begins. Gradually the western iiorizon loses its dark aspect, lightens up a little, and finally opening clouds flnnenr. Thp> srnvm rlnurls nnss hv overhead and the rain ceases shortly foefore their western edge reaches the zenith. The last thunder is usually heard after the rear edse of the cloud has passed to the zenith. The usual direction of translation of thunderstorms in this latitude is easterly, and they revolve around a horizontal axis, whereas tornadoes revolve arouqd a vertical axis. Before the thunderstorm the meteorological conditions undergo the folljwing changes: The air pressure and Ithe relative humidity decrease, and (the temperature rises; the wind is light. At the moment of bursting of tthe storm the air pressure and relative humidity increase very rapidly and the jtemperature falls; the wind suddenly fcubsides almost immediately afterrward, while at times it increases unftll near the close of the thunderstorm. /Toward the end of the thunderstorm the air pressure and the relative hu DIAGRAMMATIC SECTI midity reach their maximum and the (temperature its minimum. A Juvenile Bunko Man. Tcmrav had been quiet for fully Gv< minutes. He seemed to be eoga^-x with some deep problem. "Papa." he said. "Well?" " 'Do unto other:* as you would hav( Others do unto you'?that's the goidei rule, isn't it, papa?" i"Yes, my son." "And it's puffickly right to follow tb< golden rule, isn't it, papa?" ' Yes, indeed." Tommy rose, went to the cupboan land returned with a knife and a largi apple pie. The latter he placed before [his astonished sire with great solem nlty. '^2at it, papa," he said.?San Fran Cisco Bulletin. ELECTRIC ALLY-OPERATED PLOW. _ anisjLU is so adjusted that when once set in motion the apparatus practically operates itself, moving the carriages forward at the beginning of each trip to bring the plow-shares fn position for the next row of furrows. The plows are attached to a two-wheeled j truck, which Is pulled back and forth j across the field, moving forward at the end of each set of furrows as long as the power is turned on. England's Scottish Gardeners. To a Scotsman a Scotsman succeeds as head gardener to the king at Sanuringham. Mr. Archibald McKellar, who has held the position for many years, has been promoted to Windsor Castle, and his place at His Majesty's Norfolk establishment has been tilled by a fellow countryman, Mr. T. H. Cooke. Mr. McKellar belongs to Llchgliphead, in Argyllshire, and before coming to Sandringham he had charge of the beautiful gardens of Floors Castle, the seat of the Duke of Roxburgh. The gardens at Sandringham are not very extensive, but they are charmingly laid out. The garden at Windsor is historically more interest OX OF A THUNDERSTORM. ? ia^. for it was there in a "gardyn f:iire" that James I. of Scotland." although a prisoner, wooed and won his bride. Lady Jane Beaufort.?Loudon , Chronicle. ' The U?.M or Wafer. The latest instance of the vivid insight which ks occasionally niet with in children's essays is as follows: A child had to write au essay ?n water. ' According to the most approved muthods he begun by a skilful analysis of his subject into rain water, holy ; water and soda water. In his peroration he indicated the chief use of water in the following terms: "No * one could be saved from drowning if - there wasn't any water."?London 1 News. A white disc a foot across cau be - seen with the naked eye at a distance of 17,250 feet. jk household Lemon Butter. Sandwiches made of lemon buttei are delicious and are not at all diifi cult to make. Take two ounces ol butter and a quarter of a pound of sugar and put them in a saucepan Add the juice of three lemons and the grated rind of one, and simmei gently until the mixture is well blended. Now add the beaten yolks of the eggs, but do not allow the mixture to boil after the yolks have been added or they will curdle. Stir con^ stantly until the mixture has become well thickened; then add the whites of the eggs. They should not be beaten too light or the butter will be tiaky. Stir constantly until smooth and yellow*. Bo sure to use a saucepar large enough, for when the whites are added the mixture increases iu quantity very greatly. Walnut Furniture Again. Resurrect your old walnut furniture, and If you want to be in vogue have it carved where there is a plain surface, and touch it here and there with dull gold, for the furniture that grandmother used, and which was long ago relegated to the attic of the old homestead, is coming in again. "Yes," said a Twenty-third street furniture dealer, when spoken to on the subject, "walnut is comlug in and mahogany Is going out. We are giving the new walnut a lighter finish than the old had, touching it with gold and hand carving it wherever there is an inch of plain surface. We call this lighter finished wood Circassian walnut. and I assure you it is quite fascinating, as it popularity shows. Lots of old walnut frames that have been stored for years are being made over, but as a rule the newer and lighter woods make up better for the prevailing taste."?New York Herald. Outer Coverings of Bed*. For the outer covering of beds there are all sorts of pretty and novel things in white and colors. Possibly the handsomest are those of heavy linen, embroidered in white by hand. Some of the more elaborate have the whole centre embroidered, and a broad embroidered border outlined with drawn work and a wide hem finished with a row of drawn work at the head. On brass beds these quilts take the place of the valence, hanging down on all sides. The monogram frequently appears at one side of the embroidered centre. The durable Marseilles quilts come both plain woven and embroidered. In white or in colors. The fancy for embroidery also extends to the finish of sheets and pillow cases. "Shams" are still much used, though many housekeepers prefer cases into which the pillows are buttoned. These are large and square. They are laid aside at night, however, in favor of smaller pillows with plainer covers. Monograms or initials for sheets are two or three inches high and worked in the centre just about the hem. For pillow cases the letters are smaller. YRReiFSs/ Pcach Cake?Bake three sheets oi sponge cuke an for jelly cake; slice peaches thin, and place them between the sheets of cake. Prepare cream bj whipping, sweetening and flavoring il desired. Sugar the peaches and uat cream for top of cake. Creamed Carrots?Cut sis small car rots into dice, boil gently in watei enough to cover until tender. Drair off the water and add half a cupful ol cream, half a saltspoonful of salt ant one tablespoonful of butter. Let cook to a boil and serve. Spiced Cherries?For five pounds ol fruit use two and one-half pounds ol sugar, one pint of vinegar, oue ounct of cinnamon ami half an ounce ol cloves. Heat the sugar anil vinegai anil skim: pur in the spices and fruii and cook until tender. Can quickly while iiot. The cherries may be spice*1 whole with the stems on or steiumcc as preferred. Saipicon of Fruit?Make a rnistur< of two sliced oranges, a ripe bananc cut into dice, a tablespoonful of grat ed pineapple, the juice of a lemon, anc add, when in season, a cupful of rasp berries, sliced peaches or any desira ble fruit. Sweeten with powderet sugar and chill thoroughly. Serv< with a tablespoonful of vanilla ice cream over each portion. Veal Cream?To two cupfuls of sea soned veal stock add one tablespoon fill of granulated gelatin softened ii cold water, a tablespoonful of h;mot juice, and a teaspoonful of onion juice Set away until imrtialiy thickened when add one cupful of cold (licet veal and one cupful of whipped creaiu Xnt in !< <> Iinv In Bnisili t lii:-ki>i>inr>' Serve with celery salad. Half of Uii above preparation will be sufticiei: for a family of five. Cucumber Fritters?Make a balle of out? er.pl'ul of Hour sifted with on* teaspoonful of salt and baking powde. each and salt^poonful of paprika, add lug alternately two beaten eggs ant about a third of a cup of water, tbei add one tablespoonl'ul each of viuega and olive oil, and lastly the well-beat en white of an egg. Pare and cut it long, thin slices, lengthwise threi fresh cucumbers, dip them in this bat ter, which must not be too thin. Pluug* them iuto hot fat. anfl when browi sprinkle very lightly with *alt an< paprika, drain auil serve. Particular ly nice with any kind of earne. " HIIM MM CAUGH Locked Up on a Charge of Conspirac With Nine Others. HER ARREST MADE IN CHICAG The Anarchist Leader Professes No edge of a Conspiracy to Kill the Prei ident ? She Hays That She Met Czo ros* Only Once?Makes a Detalle Statement of Her Movement*. Chicago.?Emma Goldman, the we - known anarchist leader and lecturei was arrested in Chicago, and a con plaint and warrant charging her wit [ conspiracy to murder President M< j Kinley were secured from Justic i Prindiville. C. J. Norris, at whos . home Miss Goldman was capturec i was arrested later. The warrant for Miss Goldmai > charges her with conspiracy to murde 1 D^noi.ianf Tf f*irpc n<? hpr pn-ror lac jl JLC uiucun -v ? ?- - ? spirators Abraham Isaaks, Mauric i Isaaks, Clemence Pfeutzer, Hippolit ! Iiavel, Henry Travaglio. Alfrci , Schneider, Julia Mechame, Marl Isaaks and Marie Isaaks, Jr. All ea cept Miss Goldman were arreste' 1 somo days ago, but the men wer held without bail and are now in jaii Miss Goldman disclaimed all sav the slightest acquaintance -with th President's assailant; she denied abs< lutely that she, or anarchists sh knew, was implicated in any plot t kill the President. She said she Im lieved Czolgosz acted entirely on hi own responsibility, and that he neve claimed to have been inspired bj he; as he is quoted as affirming. Referring to the attempt on the lif of the President, Miss Goldman said: - Jl-*- in 4-h "It IS U Ull'l.y IHU4V tu K.LAH.Lfrn)\^ AAA l#U newspaper Teports that it was the rc , suit of an anarchist plot." Referring to the would-be assassi: Miss Goldman said: "I feel that the man is one of tbos r.nfortunates who has been driven t despair and misery to commit tli deed. I feel very deeply with him a an individual, as I would feel wit anybody who suffers. If I had mean I would help him as much as I could I would see that he had counsel an that justice was done him." She said her purpose in coming her had been to assist the anarchists wh were arrested here several days age She had intended to give herself u to the police, but delayed it. for on " " - i-:i 4V reason ana lor uuoiult, uum iu police slie had derided so much ba< taken the matter in their own hands. Later in the day Miss Goldman wa Interviewed in the women's annex a the police station, and a stenographi report taken. Miss Goldman said: "I am an anarchist?a student o socialism?but nothing in anything ever said to Leon Czolgosz knowing ly would have led him to do the ac which startled everybody on Friday. "Not even in your lectures? He say I your words set his brain on Ore," sail the interviewer. "Am I accountable because son 1 crack brained person put a wron construction on my words. Leoi Czolgosz, I am convinced, planned th deed unaided and entirely alone. Ther is no anarchist ring which would hel him. There may be anarchists wh would murder, but their also are nie: in every walk of life who some time feel the Impulse to kill. Czolgosz itii woman pronounced the name with th greatest ease)?Czolgosz may hav been inspired by me, but if he was h . I took the wrong way of showing it." Miss Goldman detailed as best sh could recollect her movements sine last July. She went from Chicago t Buffalo, she said, accompanied b Miss Isaak, the daughter of the a I leged Anarchist editor under arres here. In Buffalo they stopped tw ! days, and then proceeded to Roche: I ter, where tliey stopped at the hom of Miss Goldman's sister, Mrs. E Hochstein. Here they visited a littl more than five weeks. The only inc dent of it was a short visit to Niagar I Falls, and another to New York Cit ! on business. In the latter city Mis j Goldman entered temporarily into th I employ of a firm, the name of whic j she would not divulge. Business fo i them took her to Pittsburg. She wa | in Cincinnati on Labor Day, and thy | night she left for St. Louis. 1 | Of her history she said: "I wa ' | born in St. Petersburg, Russia, thirtj ' j two years ago; I came to this coui > try with my sister, who is now 1 i Rochester, sixteen years ago. I spea | Russian, German, French and Englisl j I came from the middle class in Ru: ! sia, but my heart has always bee i I with the poor and downtrodden. Th l iujustiee of the Haymarket proseei I j tion made an anarchist of me. I hav ? j taught the creed of anarchy eve j since." A A Prophecy of McKinley. C. L. Pullman said in London, who: [ he read the news ot' the President' L ? r ....... | \>imuuiii?. A can L ivoiurui : a few weeks ago. I hail been tellin t him of my experiences in Itussiu where I found it easier to yet to th 1 Czar than to him. Mr. McKinley sai I he believed it would fall to the la of some occupant of the White fclou.s before many years had passed, to c-ou } trol the destinies of North and Soiiii 1 America." 1 Ching und Earl Li Express Ilejrret. Trince Chins: and Li Hung Chan, - have sent to Minister Conger at l'ekit I China, a warm letter of regret at th ? attempted assassination of I'resideli McKinley. People Moved to Tears. Reference* to the shooting of Pres; - dent inciumey were uiaae auuuay . i the pulpits of the churches of .-ill di j nominations throughout the Uui:e States, and the services, in which ini mense congregations participated were characterized by unusual so! * emnity. in uot a few instances tli people were moved to tears by ih pathos of the preacher 1 remarks I Prince Chun tu VUIt tlj? L'.-iitfJ State* Prince Chun will return (.o (.'li:na i> way of the United States, r [ Minor Mention. r The laying of the marine cable fror . Skagway to Juneau, Alaska, has bee j completed. j It is said that 7000 porsous intend t . come back from Nome, Alaska, to th United States during the present sen sou. So many Americans visit and resiil in Loudon that un American director, is being prepared, which will iucluu s upwards of 10,000 names. 1 Writers ot popular songs are unil 1 ing in a benovoient and protective si ' ciety to guard against the alleged "r? pacity" of the music publishers. r 1IN0R EVENTSOf THEWEEK WASHINGTON ITEMS. y Attorney-GenernI Knox refused tlio request of actiag Secretary of the Navy Hackett that nn assistant from the Attorney-General's office be appointed to assist Judge Advocate-Gen0 eral Lemly before the Schley Court of Inquiry. Lieutenant-Commander Sargent rei. ported to the Navy Department that United States citizens and their interests in Bocas del Toro, Colombia, were not In danger. d The Interior Department will expend $2000 per annum for Indian poUce In Alaska. Representative Bartholdt. of Misr' souri, announced that he would test '* in the United States courts the legal ih ty of the recent Congr'ssional reap?. portionment by the Legislature of that ' State. , OUR AnomD ISLANDS. I. mt. m.!i! :? InmUp In. me i uun?iniie iusui^uui icuu?, *?.. geles. having: surrendered. Malvar and n Lukhan were the only important r chieftains in the field. Delegates from Congress to investie gate affairs in the Philippines reached e Manila on the transport McClellan. [1 The Merchants' Union of Havana e ivill ask the President for a reduction of duties on tobacco. d C DOMESTIC. g Anarchy and lawlessness were bf'ie terly denounced by trades unions in j. Boston at various meetings. Resolue tions of sympathty with the President 0 were adopted. ? The prison and court ouilding con9 structed eight years ago at a cost of r $400,000, at New Orleans, La., was declared in Imminent danger of general collapse, through general faulty and e cheap construction. Otis Green shot and killed his wife e at Albia. Iowa, and then fatally !* ornnn/lprl himself. While at work in a canning factory ' at Rome, N. Y., Miss Lenore E. Haynes, twenty-six years old, was 2 caught in the machinery and thrown 0 around a shafting. She died from the e effects of injuries. b Edwin H. Piatt, of Esopus, N. Y., g was arrested upon the charge of rei. moving valuable oil paintings, which, J it is alleged, he had mortgaged for $725. e Peter Jackson and his wife, both o more than sixty years old, were found >. dead in their flat In Chicago. The n eas jets in the parlor were wide open. e It Is the belief of the police that the c couple died together by agreement, d Steel strikers beat three workmen in McKeesport, Penn., and policemen s were called out to prevent more serit ons trouble both there and in Pittgc burg. A letter threatening the life of Su^ perintendent Pierce, of the Boston police force, stirred up renewed ac[* tivity against anarchists. ? Galveston, Tex., on the anniversary s of the great storm, reported larger j foreign commerce than year before and rapidly increasing prosperity, o The Government authorities assured g the New Jersey Riparian Commissionn ers that the United States had no idea e of infringing on their rights. e Miss Maud Willard was killed in an P attempt to go through the whirlpool o rapids at Niagara Falls, N. Y. n Levi Carroll, a negro, who murdered s his father and a negro woman, was L* hanged at Macon, Ga. e e A flowing well of sulphuric acid was e discovered in Vineland, N. J. Because sixteen-year-old Bertha e Riehter would not marry him, twene ty-two-year-old George Kenelle, at St. T aiiJr. Irlllorl V?r?r? onH fofollv chnf 0 1.UU 10, .'iu? O.U.C.U uvi ?"J ~v y himself. I- Thirty nuns out of 200 in the conit vent at Oldenburg, led., were down o with typhoid fever. 3" The Ruskin Commonwealth in Geore gia was sold out by the sheriff, g At Lexington, Miss.. Monroe Hitch* . ford and Spencer Wright, colored, fought a duel with shotguns^ and both were killed. s e FOREIGN. Chinese troops have reoccupied re's kin" X The report of an attack on Rio Hacha caused inhabitants of Pauama s to make a demonstration against the .. Venezuelan consul. l- Barker's column returned to Winn burg, Orange River Colony, after capk turing many prisoners and a great i. quantity of supplies. 5* The recent educational edict in Chi11 na is thought to show the power of the e Liberal party; classics are relegated '* to the background. e Emperor Francis Joseph closed the Hungarian Diet, delivering the speech from the tlirone at the palace. The fishery along the northern coast of Labrador is a failure. 11 At an explosion in the Llansradach 3 colliery, near Caerphilly, two miners ? were killed outright, aud the total ? death roll will probably bo ten. Many '* were seriously injured. d General Kitchener reported that the t British columns in the previous week reduced the Boers in the field by GS1. i. Little significance was attached to |i the outbreak of French reserves at Montceau-lcs-Mines. The Mexican National Railroad acquired o" ' ol of the Mexican International i. The -iran settled one of the French e claims, and it is believed that oiplot matic relations between Turkey and France will soon be resumed. The life of the late Dr. Von Miquel, for many years Prussian Minister of Finance, was insured by tlie New 11 York Life Insurance Company for j $250,000. ^ Ice lloes blockaded the coast of LabI rador; bergs were floating southward, i] forming menaces to navigation, e A fierce light between Congo Free t. State troops and slave traders uear Katanga resulted the traders' defeat. Turkey sent a rebuke to Great >' Britain I'd;1 the action of a warship's commander in the Persion tJviif. Portuguese officials seized on the Trau-svaal frontier a large supply of aniiuunitiou intended for the Boers. M. Sanios-Dumont made three successful ascensions in his new airship ? at Paris. France. During his final de0 scent the superstructure of the mal" chine was damaged. Consternation was caused In London 0 by the news of the attack on Presi,vt dent McKinloy, Americans anxiously L' besieging the telegraph offices. The Lord Mayor sent a message of syrnt pathy. The Lord Mayor of London received '* $5001) from W. 0. Whitney for the national memorial to Queen Victoria. \ V DK. TALMAGES SERMON 1 1 I SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED < DIVINE. { Subject: The Sin of Borrowing Trouble?A ] Bad Habit That Unfit* Many to Proper- < )y Discharge the Duties of Life?God ? Will Meet Oar Exigencies as They Arise ICopyrijfht 1901.) [ Washington, D. C.?In this discourse j Dr. Tallage shows the folly of allowing j forebodings to influence us and how ex* j pectation of evil weakens and destroys; ; test, Matthew vi, 34, ''Sufficient unto the i day is the evil thereof." j L The life of every man, woman and child ( is as closely under the divine care as j though such person were the only man, 1 woman or child. There are no accidents. i As there is a law of storms in th<? natural J world, so there is a law of trouble, a law j of disaster, a law of misfortune, but the i majority of the troubles of life are imag- ] inary, and the most of those anticipated i never come. At any rate, there is no < r.niflp nf comnlaint aorainst God. See how ( much He haa done to make you happy? < His sunshine filling the earth with glory, f making rainbow for the storm and halo ] for the mountain, greenness for the moss, < saffron for the cloud and crystal for the j billow and procession of bannered dame < through the opening gates of the morning, j chaffinches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas j to chant and springs to blossom and over- i powering all other sounds with its song I and over-reaching all other splendor with i its triumph, covering up all other beauty 1 with its garlands and outflashing all other thrones with its dominion?deliverance I for a lost world through the Great Re- 1 deemer. i I discourse of the sin of borrowing i trouble. t First, such a habit of mind and heart ? is wrong because it puts one into a de- J epondency that ill fits him for duty. I 1 planted two rose bushes in my garden. The one thrived beautifully; the other < perished. I found the dead one on the ] shady side of the house. Our dispositions, 1 like our plants, need sunshine. Expec- 1 tancy of repulse is the cause of many sec- 1 ular and religious failures. Fear of bank- f ruptcy has uptorn many a fine business 1 and sent the man dodging among the note < ?C an/4 QKIICO Vina BII(IVCIT). 1'COl Ui Oiaauci auu ai/uuv 4^un often invited the long-beaked vultures of 1 scorn and backbiting. Many of the mis- 1 fortunes of life, like hyenas, flee if you ] courageously meet them. I How poorly prepared for religious duty i is a man who sits down under the gloom < of expected misfortune! If he prays, he says, "I do not think I shall be an- i swered." If he gives, he says, "I expect i they will steal the money." Helen Chalm- 1 era told me that her father, Thomas ' Chalmers, in the darkest hour of the 1 Free Church of Scotland and when the 1 woes of the land seemed to weigh upon ] his heart, said to his children, "Come, let < us go out and play ball or fly kite," and i the only difficulty in the play was that ! flio miilhran ponlh ?r?t IceeD ud with their 1 father. The MoCheynes and the Summer- < fields of the church who did the most good toiled in the sunlight. Away with the horrors! They distil poison. They dig graves, and if they could climb so high they would drown the rejoicings of heaven with sobs and wailing. You will have nothing but misfortune in the future if you sedulously watch for it. How shall a man catch t^e right kind of fish if he arranges line and hook and bait to catch lizards and water serpents? Hunt for bats and hawks, and bats and hawks you will find. Hunt for robin redbreasts, and you will find robin redbreasts. One night an eagle and an owl got into fierce battle. The eagle, unused to the night, was no match for the owl, which is most at home in the darkness, and the king of the air fell helpless, but the morning rose, and with it rose the eagle, and the owls and the nighthawks and the bats came a second time to the combat. Now, the eagle in the sunlight, with a stroke of his talons and a great cry cleared the air, and his enemies, with torn feathers and splashed with blood, tumbled into the thickets. Ya are the children of light. In the night of despondency you 'will have no chance against Sour enemies that flock up from beneath, ut trusting in God and standing in the sunshine of the promises you shall "renew your youth like the eaele." Again, the habit of borrowing trouble i is wrong, because it has a tendency to i make us overlook present blessing. To i Blake man's thirst the rock is cleft, and I cool water leap into his brimming cup. 11 To feed his hunger the fields bow down 1 with bending wheat, and the cattle come < down from the clover pastures to give him milk, and the orchards yellow and 1 ripen, casting their juicy fruits into his ! lap. Alas, that amid such exuberance of i blessing man should growl as though he i were a soldier on half rations or a sailor i I on short allowance; that a man ahould i stand neck deep in harvests looking for- < ward to famine; that one should feel the Btrong pulses of health marching with reg- i ular tread all the avenues of life and yet 1 tremble at the expected assault of sick- i ness; that a man should sit in his pleasant i home, fearful that ruthless want will some day rattle the broken window sash with tempest and sweep the coals from the hearth and pour hunger into the bread tray; that a man fed by Him who owns , all the harvests should expect to starve; ] that one whom God loves and surrounds , with benediction and attends with angelic j escort and hovers over with more than | motherly fondness should be looking for a heritage of tears! Has God been hard J with thee that thou shouldst be forebod- , ing? Has He stinted thy board? Has He | covered thee with rags? Has He spread | traps for thy fset and galled thy cup and , rasped thy 60ul and wrecked thee with j storm and thundered upon thee with a ] life full of calamity? _ i If your father or brother come into your , bank, where gold and silver are lying ;i about, you do not watch them, for you ] know they are honest, but if an entire < stranger come by the safe you keen your \ eye on him, for you do not know his de- i signs. So some men treat God not as a < father, but a stranger, and act suspi- ] ciously toward Him. It is high time you i began to thank God for present blessing; ] thank Him for your children, happy buoy- ? ant and bounding; praise Him for your 1 home, with its fountain of song and 1 laughter; adore Him for morning light 1 and evening shadow; praise Him for fresh, s cool water bubbling from the rock, leaping in the cascade, soaring in the mist, falling in the shower, dashing against the rocks and clapping its hands in the tem- j pest; love Him for the grass that cushions ( the earth and the clouds that curtain the : sky and the foliage that waves in the for est; thank Him for a Bible to read and a t Saviour to deliver. , Many Christians think it a bad sign to ( be jubilant., and their work of self-exam- t ination is a hewing down of their brighter [ experiences. Like a boy with a new jack- . knife hacking everything he comes across, , so their self-examination is a religious < cutting to pieces of the greenest things { they can lay their hands on. They im- , agine they are doing God's service when r they are going about borrowing trouble, , and borrowing H ac tnircy per ceni., T which is always a sure precursor of bankruptcy. , Again, the habit of borrowing trouble is wrong because the present is sufficiently taxed with trial. God sees that we ail need a certain amount of trouble, and so He apportions it for all the days and years of our life. Ala* for the policy of gathering it all up for one day or year! Cruel thing to put upon the back of one camel all the cargo intended for the entire caravan. I never look at my memorandum book to see what engagements and duties q are far ahead. Let every week bear its' j" own burdens. The shadows of today are thick enough. Why implore the presence j! of other shadows? The cup is already dis | tasteful. Why halloo to disasters far dis- ^ tant to come and wring out more Tall in the bitterness? Are we such cluti pions j that, having won the belt 111 former encounters, we can go forth to challenge ail i the future? Here are business men just able to manage affairs as they now are. They can I pay their rent and meet tn?ir not^s ami t manage affairs as tliey now are, but how f if a pani.: sliould come and my investments li should fail? Go to-morrow and write on r your daybook or on your ledpnr or on your s money safe. "Sufficient unto the day is the t evil thereof." Do not worry abouv, notes \ that are far from due. Do not pile ut> ou 1 * - - J*. v ' . . . , ' V.' ?c rour counting desk the financial anxietfe? if the next twenty years. The God who lias taken care of your worldly occupation, guarding your store from the torch if the incendiary and the key of the burjlar. will be as faithful in 1910 as in 1901. Jod's hand is mightier than the machinaitions of stock gamblers or the plots of political demagogues or the red right arm if revolution, and the darkness will fly ind the storm fall dead at His feet. So there are persons in feeble health, md they are worried about the future. They make out very well now, but they ire bothering themselves about futur? ileurisies and rheumatisms and neuraljias and fevers. Their eyesight is feeble# ind they are worried lest they entirely lose t. Their hearing is indistinct, and they ire alarmed lest they become entirely leaf. They felt chilly to-day and are exacting an attack of typhoid. They have ieen troubled for weeks with some perilexing malady and dread becoming lifeong invalids. Take care of your health iow and trust God for the future. Be lot guilty of the blasphemy of asking Sim to take care of you while you sleep ,vith your windows tight down or eat :hicken salad at 11 o'cloek at night or sit lown on a cake of ice to cool off. Be pru* lent and then be confident. Some of the liekest people have been the most useful, [t was so with Payson, who died deaths laily, and Robert Hall, who U3ed to stop n the midst of his sermon and lie down in the pulpit sofa to rest and then go on *gain. Theodore Frelinghuysen had a ;reat horror of dying till the time came, ind then went peacefully. Take care of :he present and let the future look out for itself. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Again, the habit of borrowing misfortune is wrong because it unfits us for it ivhen it actually does come. We cannot ilways have smooth sailing. Life's path will sometimes tumble among declivities ind mount a steep and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss our chcek and then sell ua for thirty pieces of silver. Human scorn will try to crucify us between two thieves. We will hear the iron gate of the sepul:her creak and grind as it shuts in our kindred. But we cannot get ready for these things by forebodings. They who fight imaginary woes will come oat o? breath into conflict with the armed disasters of the future. Their ammunition will have been wasted long before they :ome under the guns of real misfortune. Boys in attempting-to jump a wall sometimes go so far back in order to get impetus that when they come up they are ex naustea, ana tnese long races m oraer u> ?et spring enough to vault trouble bring us up at last to the dreadful reality with sur strength gone. Finally, the habit of borrowing trouble is wrong because it is unbelief. God has Sromised to take care of us. The Bible looms with assurances. Your hunger will be fed, your sickness will be alleviated, your sorrows will be healed. God will sandal your feet and smooth your path, and along by frowning crag and opening grave sound the voices of victory md good cheer. The summer clouds that >eem thunder charged really carry in their bosom harvests of wheat and shocks of :orn and vineyards purpling for the wine press. The wrathful wave will kiss the feet of the great storm walker. Our great Toshua will command and above your soul the sun of prosperity will stand still. Bleak and wave struck Palmos shall have ipocalyptic vision, and you shall hear the :ry of elders and the swceo of wings and trumpets of salvation and the voice of halleluiah unto God forever. Your way may wind along dangerous bndie paths and amia woirs nowi ana the scream of the vulture, but the way still winds upward till angels guard it and trees of life overarch it, and thrones line it, and crystalline fountains leap on it, ind the pathway ends at gates that are pearl, ana streets that are gold, and temples that are always open, and hills that liiake with perpetual song and a city mingling forever Sabbath and jubilee and triumph and coronation. Let pleasure chant her siren song; 'Tis not the song for me. To weening it will turn ere long, For this is heaven's decree. But there's a song the ransomed sing To Jesus, their exalted King, With joyful heart and tongue. Oh, that's the song for me! Courage, my brother! the father does not give to his son at school enough money to last him several years, but as tb? bills for tuition and board and clothing and , books come in pays them. So God will not i?ive you grace all at once for the future, but will meet all your exigencies as they ?crae. Through earnest prayer trust Him. People ascribe the success of a certain line of steamers to business skill, and know not the fact that when that line of steamers started the wife of the proprietor passed the whole of each day when a steamer sailed in prayer to God for ita safety and the success of the line. Put -in fli-iH'a Kandu and leave it there. Large interest money to pay will soon eat up"a farm, a store, an estate and the interest on borrowed troubles will ?wamp anybody. "Sufficient unto the dajr La the evil thereof." The Monntaln Creation. Moses was to build the tabernacle aftet Ue pattern he had received in the mount. God was the architect, Moses only the builder. That method saved much discussion and trouble with the workers about the tabernacle. There are some things the world cannot change; God's plan for a human life is never out of date; the mountain architecture is perfect. It is neither Grecian nor Roman; it does not follow any human school; it is after the heavenly ciesiarn. See that you make your xrchitecture after the holy pattern, perfected from foundation to capstone. Strange to say that while there is wide difference of opinion as to what is artistic in Kumon wnrlrm5i nahiiv AllU UCUUIUU) All uwiiiu.4 ??v. men are of one mind-when they stand before the mountain-creation. The sermon in the mount is the pattern of the mount, the architecture of a right life. When men cry: "Back to Christ," urging us to :onform to the principles and rules of the Master, they are simply repeating to all men the command that was given to Moses: "See that thou make all things ac:ordir.g to the pattern shewed thee in the mount?' What perfect harmony there ivould be among the life-buildings in the ivorld if we followed the heavenly deligns!?Baptist Union. Give Instead or Get. "Working men are outside of the church or the same reason that rich men are ratside of it," reasons the Congregationilist and Christian World, of Boston. 'Both are living for what they can get, :hough they are pursuing it in different ways, and the rich man seems to have ;he advantage. But the church can atract neither by offering them substitutes or what they possess, to aid them in their mrsuit. What it lias to otter is a ciinerenc >urpose in life, to give, instead of to get. Suppose it be admitted that the church ias forgotten its mission, that, as some vorking men say, it does not teach the >rinciples of .Jesus Christ. Then never vas tfiere a greater opportunity to serve nankind than is open to those who know {is principles. It is not necessary that hey should join the church, which they Junk is corrupt, nor that they should lave money, nut only that their lives hould be like His. They believe that true hurehes of Christ are needed. Let them brm organizations tilled witli His spirit. Vhere two or three are gathered together n His name He is in the midst of them." The Setting of u l!o|H>. The setting of a great hope is like the etting of tiie sun. The brightness pf our ' * i* : ife is gone, mijuows cu evening inn round vis ami the world seems but a dim ejection?itself a broader shadow; we r>ok forward into the coming lonely ni^ht. The soul witlulraws inlo itself. Then tars arise and the uight is holy.?II. W. -oagfellow. Kindness. What does it all mean that a person is ;ind? That he remembers oilier people; hat he is not bound up with his own afairs; that he is capable of making sacnices; that he is willing to serve his fellow nen. It means that his heart is not of tone, but of flesh; that his spirit is not of he world, but of Christ.?ltev. Dr. John Wtson (Ian Maclareu), PresbyterUn, iiverDOol. England.