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- ? DR. TALMAGEYS SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. uhject: The Way of Destruction?Pltfnlls For the Unwary in the Great Cities ? The Third Watch of tho Nisrht? A Drama in Five Acts. (Copyright, M] rrr.??t? n in tViifl discourse UASrufluivn, v. Dr. Talmage describes some of the scenes I to be witnessed late at night in the great cities and warns the unwary of many perils; text, Isaiah xxi, 11, "Watchman, what of the night?" When night came down on Babylon. Kineveh and Jerusalem, they needed careful jratching, otherwise the incendiary's torch might have been thrust into ihe very heart of the metropolitan splendor, or enemies, marching from the hills, might have forced the gates. All night long, on top of the wall and in front of the gates, might be heard the measured step of the watchman on his solitary beat; Bilence hung in air, save as some passer- i by raised the question, "Watchman, what af the night?" It i3 to me a deeply suggestive and sol. emn thing to see a man standing guard by night. It thrilled through me as at the trate of an arsenal in Charleston the question once smote me. "Who comes there?" followed by the sharp command. "Advance and give the countersign." PVorv moral teacher stands on picket or patrols the wall as watchman. His work is to sound the alarm, and whether it he in the first watch, in the second watch, in the third watch or in the fourth watch to be vigilant until the daybreak flings its ""morning glories" of blooming cloud across the trellis of the sky. The ancients divided their night into four parts?the first w.itch from 6 to 9, the second from 9 to 12, the third from 12 to 3 and the fourth from 3 to 6. I speak now of the city in the third watch, , or from 12 to 3 o'clock. I never weary of lookincr upon the life of the city in the first watch. That is the bour when the stores arc closing. The , laboring men. having ouitted the scaffolding and the shop, are on their way , Tiome. It rejoices me to give them my , seat in the city car. They have stood ' and hammered away all day. Their feet are weary. Thev are exhausted with the tug of work. They are mostly cheerful. With appetites shamened on the swift turner's wheel and the carpenter's whet- , store they seek the evening meal. The t--? frnrn thp ?jeri:s, too. nave uium;u a>iu,i ....... counter and with brain wearv of the long , line of figures, and the whims of those who no a-shopping seek the face of moth- i ?r or wife and child. The streets are thronged with young men setting out [ from the great centres of bargain mak- ( ing. Let idlers clear the street and give ( right of way to the beswcated artisans ] and merchants! They have earned their < bread and are now on their way home | to get it. The lights in full jet hang \ over 10,000 evening repasts?the parents 1 at either end of the table, the children < between. Thank Ood, "who setteth the solitary in families!" 1 A few hours later and all the places of amusement, good and bad, pre in full tide. ( Lovers of art, catalogue in har.d. stroll ( through the galleries and discuss the pic- ] tures. The ballroom is resplendent with ] the n>h apparel of those who on either 1 side of the white, glistening boards await ( the signal from the orchestra. Concert , balls are lifted into enchantment with , the warble of one songstress or swept out ] on a sea of tumultuous feeling by t.he , blast of brazen instruments. Drawing ( rooms are filled with all gracefulness of apparel, with all sweetness <n souna, 5 with all splendor of manner. Mirrors are catching up and multiplyine the scene un- ( til it seems as if in infinite corridors , there were garlanded troops advancing j and retreating. The outdoor air rines , with lauzhter and with the moving to , and fro of thousands on the great promenades. The dashing span, adrip with < the foam of the long country ride, rushes past as you halt at the curbstone. Mirth ] revelry," beauty, fashion, magnificence, i mingle in the great metropolitan picture ; until the thinking man goes home to < think more seriously and the praying man to prav more earnestly. A beautiful , and overwhelming thing is the city in | thp first and second watches of the nieht. ] But the clock strikes 12. and the third < watch has bpgun. The thuncW of the ] city has rolled out of the air. The slight- < est sounds cut the night with such dis- j TT/-NHT* , ninjwuc;** aa iu ovuai v ,?uiu uwv\??*ww*?* The tinklintr of the hell of the street ear < in the distance and the baying of the do?, i The stamp of a horse in the next street. The slamming of a saloon door. The hie cough of the drunkard. The shrieks of the steam whistle five miles away. Oh. 1 liow suggestive. my friends, the third J watch of the night! What a stupendous thought?a whole i city at rest! Weary arm preparing for i to-morrow's toil. Hot brain being cooled < off. Rigid muscles relaxed. Excited ] nerves soothed. The white hair of the i octogenarian in thin drifts across the | pillow, fresh fall of flakes on sno\y alTeady fallen. Childhood, with its dim- i pled hands thrown out on the pillow and I with every breath taking in a new store ! of fun and frolic. Third watch of the j night! God's slumberless eve will look. Let one great wave of refreshing slumber ] roll over the heart of the great town, sub- ' merging care and anxiety and worriment 1 and pain. Let the city sleen. 1 But, my friends, be not deceived. There j will be to-night thousands who will not < sleep at all. Go up that dark alley, and i be cautious where you tread lest yon fall I i over the prostrate form of a drunkard i lying on his own doorstep. Look about i you, lest you feel the garroter's hug. Look i through the broken wirdow pane and 1 Bee what you can see. You sa< "Noth- 1 inc." Then listen. What is ft? "God : help us!" Xo footlights, but tracedv i ghastlier and mightier than Piston or I Edwin Booth ever enacted. Xo light, 1 no fire, no bread, no hope. Shivering in i the cold, they have had m food for twen- ' ty-four Imurs. You say, "Why don't they ' beg?" Thev^ do, but they set nothinc. 1 You say, "Why don't they deliver them- i selves over to the almshouse?" Ah. you t would not ask that if you ever heard th<? ! bitter cry of a man or a child when told i lie must go to the almshouse. "Oh." *-ou > say. "they are vicious poor, and therefore thev do not deserve our sympathy!" Are j they vicious? So much more need they vamp niftr T'Vip r\r\r\v finrl | thenar Pass on through the allev. Open the <loor. "Oh." you say. "it is locked!" No, 1 it is not locked. It has never been locked. No burglar would be tempted to go in there to steal anything. The door is 1 never locked. Only a broken chair stands against the door. Shove it back. 1 Go in. Strike a match. Novr look. Beast- 1 liness and rags. S?e those glaring eveballs. Be careful now what you say. Do J not utter any insult, do not utter any sus- ' Sicion, if you vaiue your life. What is ' hat red mark on the wall? It is the : mark of a murderer's hand! Look at those two eyes rising up out of the dark- i ness and out from the straw in the comer, i coming toward you, and as they come i near you your light goes out. Strike another match. Ah, this is a babe, not like those beautiful children presented in baptism. This little one never smiled. It never will smile. A ilower flung on an awfully barren beach. O Heavenly Shepherd, fold that little one in Thy arms! Wrap around you your shawl or your coat tighter, for the cold wind sweeps through. Strike another match. Ah, is it possible that the scarred and bruised face of that young woman ever was looked into ttn.?? *\a e/%r?r?n uv uiaiciiuii wcnutiiicsa, v wtci "v Ltter no harsh word. No ray of hops has dawned on that brow for many a year. No rav of hope ever will dawn on t^iat brow. But the light has gone out. Do not strike another light. It would be a mockery to kindle another light in such a place as that. Pass out and pass down the street. Do you know it is in this third watch of ths night that criminals do their worst work? It is the criminals' watch. At half past 8 o'clock you will find them in the drinking saloon, but toward 12 o'clock they go to their garrets, they get out their tools, then they start on the street. Watching on ?ither side for the police, they go to their work of darkness. This is a burglar, and. the false key wJl soon touch the store lock; this is an '"ncendiarv, and before morning there will be a light on the Bky and a cry of "Fire! Fire!" t mmmmmmmrnmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmrnammmmmmmmmM This is an assassfn, and to-morrow morn* H ing there will be a dead body in one of the vacant lots. Thinng the daytime these villains in our cities lounge about, some asleep and some i (I awake, but when the third watch of the night arrives, their eye keen, their brain cool, their arm strong, their foot fleet to fly or pursue, they are ready. Many of $ these poor creatures were brought up in that way. They were born in a thieves' garret. Their childish toy was a burglar's dark lantern. The first thinp they remember was their mother bandaging ' ' -* Vw the * tne orow 01 uiuir iawiwi, o?t vr ? . noliee club. They began by robbing bovs' 4 pockets, and now they have corae to dipr | the underground passage to the cellar of ft the bank and are preparing to blast the .] gold vault. _ i] Just so long as there are neglected chil- ji dren of the street, just so long we will f( have these desperadoes. Some one, wish- fc ing to make a good Christian point and " to quote a passage of Scripture, expecting a to get a Scrintural passage in answer, said to one of these poor lads, cast out and ? wretched. "When your father and your t, mother forsake you, who, then, will take n you up?" And the boy said, "The per- a lice!" r, In the third watch of the night gam- a Ming does its worst work. What though n the hours be slipping away and though the E wife be waiting in the cheerless home? e: Stir up the fire; bring on more drinks: n Dut up more stakes! That commercial 1 house that only a little while ago put out 0 a sign of oo-partnershin will this winter ii be wrecked on a gambler's table. There u will be many a monev till that will spring T a leak. In the third watch of the night d pass down the streets of these cities, and ? you hear the click of the dice and the sharp, keen stroke of the balls on the 4i billiard tnble. At these places merchant o princes dismount, and legislators, tired j( of making laws, take a respite in brea^:- f; ing them. All classcs of people are roblied p( bv this crime?the importer of foreign tl " ' ' - it -i 4. silks and the noaier in \;namnra mh-cu ei pocket handkerchiefs!. The clerks of the store take a hand after the shutters are 4" put up. and the officers of the court while h away their time while the jury is out. p In the third watch of the night also j drunkenness does its worst. The drink* p ing will be respectable at 8 o'clock in the a, evening, a little flushed at 9. talkative and ff mrrulous at 10, at 11 blasphemous, at 12 (j the hat falls off. at 1 the man falls to a the floor, askine for more drink. Strewn 0, fhrough the drinking saloons of the city, g fathers, husbands, sons as good as you are a] bv nature, perhaps better. In the high c'rcle3 of society it is hushed up. A merchant prince, if he gets noisy and un- j controllable, is taken by his fellow rev- n elers, who try to get him to bed or take him home, where he falls flat in the w entry. Do not wake up the children. I reioicc before God that never are ? sympathetic words uttered, never a prayer a^ offered, never a Christian almsgiving in- c] iulged in but it is blessed. There is a j place in Switzerland, I have been told, j tvhere the utterance of one word will p bring back a score of echoes, and I have ni to tell yon that a sympathetic word, a cind word, a generous word, a helpful ^ word, uttered in the dark planes of the u 1 w.:ii Uftrtlr in nnn from r,OWIl >V 111 UUU^ uov,u *V,WVV VV..VVW -- ? heaven. bi I could give you the history in a minute hi r^f one of the best friends I ever had. w Outside of my own family I never had a T better friend. He welcomed me to mv 0, home at the West. He was of splendid ec oersonal apncarance, but he had an ardor fc of soul and a warmth of affection that made me love him hke a brother. I saw a! men cominc out of the saloons and gamb- tl liner hells, and they surrounded my friend, fi( md they took him at the weak point?his social nature?and I saw him going down tl md I had a fair talk with him, for 1 w never yet saw a man vou could not talk a< with on the subject of his habits if you ti talked with him in the right way. I tc said to him, "Whv don't von eive up vour a) bad habits and become a Christian?" I gj remember now just how he looked, leanjnc; iver his counter, as he renli^d, "I wish w T could. Oh, sir. I should like to be a jj< Christian, but I have gone so far astray b] [ can't get ba"k!" So the time went on. fe After awhile the dav of sickness came. I foj ivas summoned to his sickbed. I hastened. jn [t took me but a very few moments to ^ ?et there. I was surprised as I went in. bi [ saw him in his ordinary dress, fully a] riressed. lyincc on top of the bed. I trave him mv hand, and he seized it convulsive- .j( ly and said: "Oh. how glad I am to see vou! Sit d<->wn there." I sat down, and he said: "Mr. Talmaee, just where you sit now my mother sat last night. She ~V( tos been dead twentv years. Now, I don't |g want you to think I am out of my mind rr that I am superstitious, but, sir. she sat there last night, and she said. 'Ros* ? well, I wish you would do better. I wish ec irou would do better.' I said: 'Mother, jj. [ wish I could do hotter. I try to do m better, but I can't. Mother, you used tf Pl help me; why can't you helo me now?' 0, And. sir, I trot out of bed, for it was a f0 reality, and I went to her and threw my irms around her nock, and I said: 'Moth- ^ ?r, I will do better, but you must help me. I can't do this alone.'" I knelt ;n ind prayed. That night his soul went w to the Lord who made it. Arrangements were made for the obse- lj. 3uies. The question was raised whether they should brinw him to the church. r?i Somebody said, "You cannot bring such cQ i dissolute man, as that into the church." [ said: "You will bring him in church. L FTf> ahnntl Viv mp whf>n hp was iilivp. and I will stand by him when he i8 dead. Bring R. him." As I stood in the pulpit and saw gj hhem carrying the body up the aisle I u Felt as if f could weep tears of blood. On ,< ane side of the pulpit sat his little child u sf eight years, a sweet, beautiful little Tirl. that I had seen him hug convulsively Fin his better momenta. He put on hei " ill jewels and pave her all pictures and toys, and then ho would go away, as if bounded by an evil spirit, to his cups and the house of iniquity, a fool to the cor- UI rection of the stocks. She looked up won- P? leringly; she knew not what it all meant: ?he was not old enough to understand " the sorrow of an orphan. On the other 11 side sat the men who ruined him. They I .vt svere the men who had poured the wormtvood into the orphan's cup; they were J P1 the men who had bound him hand and i Foot. I k^ew them. How did they seem ] to feel9 Did thev weep? No. Did they j iay, "What a nitv that so generous a fii man should be destroyed?" No. Did tbev w ?ich renentingly over what they had done? is >To: thev sat there, looking as vultures oi ^>ok at the carcass of a lamb whose heart re i hey have ripped out. So they sat and pi looked at the coffin lid, and I told them (1 the judgment of God upon those who SI had destroyed their fellows. Did they reform? I was told they were in the fci r>!aces of iniquity that night after my pj Friend was laid in Oakwood cemetery, and fc} fchey blasphemed and they drank. Oh, n< how merciless men are, especially after 01 they have destroyed yon! Do not look ti bo men for comfort or help. tj But there is a man who will not r?- ai Form. He says, "I won't reform." Well, then, how many acts are there in a 6j tragedy? I believe there are five acts in 1 tragedy. Act the first nf the tragedy: A young man starting off from home; parents and sisters weeping to ha've ftiin go: wagon ? rising over the hill; farewell kiss flung ? bark. Ring the bell and let the curtain ni fall. ic Ant the second: The marriage altar: full organ, bright lights; long white veil trailing through the aisle; prayer and con' gratulation and exclamation of "How well a! she looks!" " Act the third: A woman waiting for ^ staggering steps; old garments struck into ?. the broken window pane; marks of hardship on the face; the biting of the nailB lc of bloodless fingers; neglect and cruelty 111 and despair. Ring the bell and let the curtain arop. Act the fourth! Three erraves in a dark place?grave of the child that died for m lack of medicine, grave of the wife that bc died of a broken heart, grave of the ti man that died of dissipation. Oh, what it a blasted heath with three graves! Plentv ei of weeds, but no flowers. King the bell tr and let the curtain drop. gi Act the fifth: A destroyed soul's etern- re ity; no light, no music; blackness of dark- ai ness forever. But I cannot look any long- fr er. Woe! woe! I close mv eyes to this tl last act of the tragedy. Quick, quick! ir Ring the bell and let the curtain drop. "Rejoice. 0 young man, in thy youth, and ^ let thy heart rejoice in the days of thy youth, but know thou that for all these things God will bring you into judgment." Q "There is a way that seemeth right to a vi man, but the end thereof is death." ^ rrrrn C A "DT> A mTT CmTTnni LJIJi OilDUAin 0LO11/UL international lesson comments for november 3. abject: T)enth of Joseph. Gen. I., 15-2G? Golden Text, Pbi?. xc., 12 ? Memorj Verses, 18-21 ? Commentary on tlie Day's JLesson. Let us study carefullv the intervening listory. 1. Joseph sending for his father. 5: 17-2S. Pharaoh and his servants were rell Dleased when they knew that Joseph's rethren had come. The king joins with oscph in sending for Jacob and his fam|y. Great provisions were made for their ourney. At first Jacob's heart fainted, or the news seemed too good to be true, nit when he saw the wagons and the good things of Egvpt" that Joseph had ant he believed and his spirit revived. 2.. The journey to Eforpt. 40: 1-27. Immediately the whole family prepared o move to Egypt with their flocks and lovable pronerty. The journey was bout 250 miles along the usual caravan oute. but it was a long, hard journey for n old man, with women and children, nd flocks and herds. When they reached teer-sheba God sent Jacob a vision for his ncouragement, confirming the ancient romises and bidding him go on to Egypt. .if+lft /.ahU qoa fV?o "imnnr+jinrv* f t.his journey, but it was one of the links i the chain of divine providence through hich the promises were to be fulfilled." 'he number of Jacob's children that went own into Egvpt, including his sons' wives, as seventy-five. Acts 7: 14. 3. The meeting of Jacob and Joseph. 5: 28-34. When Jacob reached the land f Ooshen Joseph went forth in his charit to meet his father. Joseph fell on his ither's neck "and wept on his neck a nor! while." It had been nearly twenty[iree years since Joseph had left his fathr to no to Shechem. 4. The meeting of Jacob and Pharaoh. 7: 1-10. "First Joseph selected five of is brethren and introduced them to 'haraoh, who welcomed them, and bade oscph crivc ofiicial positions to any who roved themselves men of activity, energy rid ability. Then Joseph introduced his ither to the king. Here Joseph shows le nobleness of hi.? character in not being ?hamed of his father." _ Jacob's account i! his life to Pharaoh is very touching, in and sorrow had weighed him down ad was bringing him to an early old age. 5. Jacob blessing his eons. Chapters J, 49. The time was approaching when acob knew he must die;' he is sick and early blind. Josenh took his two sons, [anaaseh and Ephraim, to his father, ho blessed them. "In this scene we need ut notice the prophetic adoption of Iphraim and Manesseh as his own sons nd heads of tribes, and the giving of the lief blessing to Ephraim, the younger." phraim bccame the leading tribe next to udah. Just before his death Jacob prohesied concerning his eons and proounced blessings upon them. 6. Jacob's death and burial. 49: 29 to ): 14, _ Jacob was 147 years of age when e died. .Ketone his death he secured a jlemn pledge from Joseph that he would urv him in Egypt (47 : 29-31), and later ? charged them to bury him in the cave here Abraham and Isaac were buried, hese instructions were carefully carried it. At this time Joseph revisits the jcncs of his boyhood, after an absence of irty years. 15. "Saw their father was dead." This t once argues both a sense of guilt in leir own consciences and a want of conience in their brother. 16. "Thy father did command." Allough this is not recorded elsewhere it as undoubtedly true. They had probably sked their father to help them in their ouble. Jacob must have advised them i humble themselves before their brother id obtain a fresh assurance of his forveness. 17. "Forgive," etc. These words were onderfully well chosen, and were spo?n in a way to appeal in the most forcile manner to Joseph's piety and filial aftction. They cast themselves wholly on is mercy. "Joseph wept." How touchg! He wept out of sympathy with their ;ep sorrow of manv years which nothing it forgiveness and reconciliation could leviate. 18. "Fell down." Thus again and again ) we sec the fulfilment of Joseph's dreama i a remarkable manner. 37: 5-8. 19. "In the place of God." I have forven you and the matter is now between >u and God. I am not your judge to punh you. OA tCXT_ _ - J - / * -rf * A % ? . tv. le meant evu i?. v.) An<l wtiat ley did was just as wicked as though the -suits had been disastrous. They intend1 it for evil, and God judges according to le motive which prompts the act. "God eant it for good" (R. V.) God overbed their wickedncss and made it work it good. This fact would comfort them, ir it would be a great relief to know that le injury to Joseph which they had innded had been averted. 22. "Dwelt in Egypt." He continued i Egypt until the time of his death, hich was fifty-four year* after the death : his father. "His father's house." All le descendants of Jacob remained in zypt 144 years after the death of Joseph." hey came to Egypt seventy-one years here his deathv which makefl the entire tie in Egypt 215 years. "An hundred and n years." He was seventeen years old hen he came to Egvnt, thirteen years ere spent in slavery and prison and ghty years on the throne: for it is probaP fcnflf Kp rofaina/) V??a ~ ??? *vw*iu\,u iiio UigU VUIWC tu bUC ose of his life. 23. "Upon Joseph's knees." They were lucatod by him, or under his direction; s sons and their children continued to knowledge him ab patriarch, or head of le familv. as long as he lived. 24. "Will surelv visit you." Joseph had abounded confidence in the promises ade to his ancestors. The Egyptian irone had not weaned his affections from ie tme God. He died in the "full, assui*ice of faith." "Bring you out." Thoueh ? have everything that can make life >mfortable, yet this is not the land van by covenant, the land which rep reTits the rest that remains for the people ' God. 25. "Carry uo my bones." "That I may naUv rest with my ancestors in the land hich God gave to Abraham, and which a pledge as it is a type of the kingdom : heaven." See Heb. 11: 22. Joseph's inuest was cranted. When Moses deirted from Egypt he took Joseph's body Sx. 13: 19). and Joshua buried him in hechem. Josh. 24 : 32. 20. "They embalmed him." The Egvpans had special physicians for each disisc; the embalmers formed a class by lemselves. "In a coffir." Coffins were ot universally used in Egypt, and were ily used for persons of eminence and disnction. Joseph was nut. as the duty of ie embalmers, in a chest of wood, such ? may be seen in our museums to this ay. Others think Joseph's coffin was of one. America's Earliest Mops. There have just been found in the his>ric Castle of Wolfegg, Wurtemberg, ermany, the first maps that contain the ime and geographical outlines of Amcra. They were discovered by Father oseph Fischer, a priest and professor of ;ography at Feldkirch. The maps bear ;spectively the dates 1507 and 1516, and re stated to be in a remarkable state of reservation. The first, it is believed, as drawn under the personal supervision c Columbus. German geographers conder the find the most important of its ind in modern times. For years the taps were regarded as hopelessly missing. ?>oraan Almond Trees Imported. The Department of Agriculture at Washgton has at last succeeded in securing ime Jordan almond trees, the exportann nf h.iq been rifforoufilv nrohib ed by Spain for some years. The Gov nment will now experiment with the ees to determine the b? t localities for owing them. This species of almond is .'garded by the agricultural authorities > the finest in the world, but only its nit has heretofore reached this country. >e trees having been jealously guarded l Spain. " Value of United State* Minerals. A report issued by the United States eologieal Survey shows that the total ilue of minerals of all kinds produced in sis country in 1900 was $1,070,108,889. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN I [ PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. (1 Poem: Creeping: or Soaring??Tlie Toon That Blesses?Comfort and Help in the Book For JEvery Experience of This Life? Passages mat tomiorr. Upon a couch of pain she lay, And watched her treasure day by day. It was an emperor-moth's cocoon, From which new life was coming soon. f So very small the opening seemed, How it would come she little dreamed, As eagerly she longed each day To see the prison-house give way. At length, from out that hole so small, She saw her moth begin to crawl, While slowly and most painfully j The insect struggled to get free. "How can it pass that narrow door? j When will my lovely treasure soar Free on its brilliant wings?" she said, * "Unless I give it timely aid?" ( Then, knowing not its Maker's will. She cut the binding threads, until ( The moth was loosed; but as it came , Out into life 'twas weak and lame. c rr? i VvU IU1 I11CU A 1/ inuo, ttliu X lO l/VOVj The insect needed to be pressed Through that confined and narrow space To give it winga of strength and grace. 0 foolish hearts, that think to show More tenderness than God can know, And by their lack of wisdom thwart The grander end His grace had wrought! False theories and weak love are ours? They leave the soul with stunted powers; And lives God meant to soar on nigh But creep awhile and early die. Give God's strong love the final test, Whose ways are always right and best; Made perfect through life's sufferings, The soul may mount on rainbow wings. ?Christian Standard . Most Precious Book. 1 was very much impressed recently, says L. A. Banks, D.D., in making a pastorial call on a lady who had but a few weeks before been greatly afflicted by the death of her mother, bv another chase of this growth and development in a Bible, i The mother, who had gone away to heav- ' en, had been a very devoted Christian ' woman through a long life and had dearly 1 loved her Bible. The sorrowing daughter < brought me that precious book to examine. It was an old-fashioned looking book, 1 bound in the thick leather so common a . hundred years ago. But thick and heavy as the binding had been it was pretty well worn through, and was frayed at the ' edges from much use. And a great many chapters showed the evidence of having been read and re-read over and over again, j One very interesting characteristic of ( Inis Bible was that a great many places were marked with the occasion when they had been used to the dear woman's com- * fort. Here was one that was read at the < funeral of her child. Here was another < that had been her comforter when she < was sick. Here was still another that she ] had exulted in in a time of great happiness. And so all through the Bible were . these little wayside shrines where the good woman had paused in her pilgrimage to ' worship God, or to find the comfort or in- 1 spiration she needed on her hard days, or ] to give expression to her joy and gratitude ] in times of happiness and. rejoicing. ( I was greatly interested at hearing the 1 daughter tell how delighted she had been , to find that many of these passages which had been such a comfort to her mother ' were now of the greatest possible comfort 1 to her, though she had never noticed them 1 with any particular interest until after \ the great sorrow of her mother's death < same upon her. And with tearful eyes she turned to me and asked: "Why is it that these verses which I did not before ' carc iur seem uuw ciiiu yiouiuua iu inc | now? Is it because my mother loved them so, and I loved them on her account?" I 1 told her I thought there was a deeper reason for it. Her mother had found the comfort of these heavenly words in times when great sorrow and trial had come to her own life, and had marked them then, and the daughter now rejoices in them because she has grown into the same experience. She has grown up to her Bible. She had not found them before because she had not specially needed them, but now that she needs them they are waiting there, running over with blessing and comfort. As I handed back the worn and soiled book I said: "That book must be a great treasure to you these days!" "Ah, yes, was the answer, "a big fortune would not buy that book from me. When I see that mother seems nearer to me than at any other time. I see her I again in her rocking chair by the window with the Bible on ner knees and the old faraway look of heavenly pcace on her J face." I walked away from that home thinking how many people there are who are losing beyond all possibility of recovery by not 3 planting out a Bible in youth, so as to I nave it growing and blossoming and bear- ] ing its fruit through all the years of life.? ( Prom Unused Rainbows. ( Joy in relieving. Wherever there is living faith there Is j joy. A Christian may well doubt the re* s ality of his faith if he have not this joy. j It may not always be consciously present, . but it dwells in the soul and givea character to his life none the less. The deeper and more substantial the joy the less de- 1 monstrative will it be. True Christian joy is more than a passing emotion; it is a i condition of soul that grows out SI living( j faith. We first believe and then have joy? f joy in the Holy Gho^t. The essence of . this joy is peace?that peace which pass- ' eth all understanding. It is the highest note in the ascending scale?first, the re- ( alizing sense of sin, then faith in Christ, who alone can forgive, then the sense of * pardon which faith bestows, then the peace which flows from pardon, then the s joy which we'ls like living water out of the fountain of peace. It is this joy which begets that holy boldness and confidence ^ which enables us to exclaim with Paul: ^ "Who shall separate us from the love of -1 trod?" May tins joy De our never laiiing u possession. Lutheran. 0 IIow God Controls Soul*. Exactly as we are aware of some nidden means by which the heart, of our friend, also separated from us by spaces which cannot be crossed, nevertheless reaches out invisible hands that grapple us by "books of steel," so we have bc-en at times made conscious that the far-off Deity controls them and commands them where frhey stand by the spirit which searches a their inmost souls. ? Rev. Howard N. p Brown, King's Chapel, Boston. No Sudden Falls in Character. ^ No one falls all at once. What seems n like a sudden fall is reaily the sudden c breaking of a shell from which the inte- tJ rior has been gradually removed. A boil- v er suddenly bursts over on the west side *" in this city and a half-score of men and women are killed, but that boiler had for many years been preparing for the final catastrophe. R.ust and wear had done C their work. How much we need the ex- j] hortation of the apostle: "Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith; prove . your own selves."?N. W. Christian Advo? rate. Threatened Strike of Domestics. Berlin, Germany, is threatened with a strike of domestics. The woman servants e; show a tendency toward social democracy. 3 Recently they have been meeting in public assemblies to denounce the existing system of hiring, to claim higher wages (a cook H can now be had for $5 a monthL more 3 free time and a larger liberty in the way of social intercourse with friends of the } opposite sex. A big revolt ia predicted in ,( the spring. 4 Town* Lighted bT Acetylene. K The number of towns and villages lighted p j by acetylene throughout the world is now f< I estimated to be about 100. y (EVEALS HIS LIFE SECRETI' | /lillicjiaire Teiis of Early Disgrace to Avoid Paying Blackmail. MD SERVED A TERM IN PRISON t. F. Wolfe, of Columbus, Olilo, Confesses Tliit He Wan Once a Convict? Saya That He Will Pay No More Money to Those Who Have Been Bleeding Him ?His Lawyer's Statement?The Offense * Columbus, Ohio.?Harassed and exlsperated beyond the limit of pa- i :lence by a gang of blackmailers who lave threatened to blast his reputaion by revealing a disgraceful secret )f his early life, R. F. Wolfe, millionlire President of the National Shoe Company, the Shoe Trust, has Issued l statement which has amazed the :ommunlty. Mr. Wolfe Is one of the jest known and wealthiest citizens in :he city. Socially and commercially lis character is above reproach. However, of his own volition, he has idmitted that he was once a convict; ;hat while in jail as a result of a fight tie attempted to escape, and in so Joing assaulted a keeper, for which he suffered a term in State's prison. All this happened many yeare ago, when WAHA TTTOc f\ linv. His early offenses were known to )nly few, and by them ho believed it tvas forgotten, or at least forgiven, but as lie grew richer and his social ispirations broadened, some who knew his secret attempted to turn it to their pecuniary advantage. They threatened him with exposure, demanding large sums for their silence. Mr. Wolio realized that it would only bo temporary, and that if he yielded to the first 3emand It would be simply the first step in the payment of blackmail levied regularly. He could afford to spend half his fortune to maintain the reputation he had established in the community, but after consultation with his attorney he determined to thwart all further efforts of the blackmailers by a frank statement E. N. Huggins, his legal adviser, has issued the following card: "At eighteen years of age 11. F. Wolfe, of this city, was sent to the penitentiary of another State upon the charge of assault with intent to kill. When released he determined to overrule the cloud that always surrounded the victims of the renal Code, and :amc to Columbus penniless. His suecess since i3 a matter of general knowledge. "The story of his early trouble was known to a few, some of whom, knowing all the facts and circumstancs, ?ave him in the noblest way their friendship and support Others saw in bin necessity a means of extortion and oppression. As Mr. Wolfe's prosperity has increased threats of exposure have multiplied, and have at last become intolerable. Kuowipg all the facts and as his attorney, I have advised him to make this statement tc the public. He knows that the world sxacts a further penalty from those it lias punished, but he authorizes this statement, that he may be forever a free man." Mr. Wolfe's offense was committed tvlien he lived in Spencer, Ind. The assault grew out of a quarrel with a friend. He was seut to jail and might have been pardoned, if he had not made the attempt to escape. When tie got out he went from Indiana to Ohio, where he was not known, and began life anew. So long as he was struggling he was safe, but after he began to pile up svealtth the harpies appeared and tried :o play upon him. Who they are has lot been revealed, but it is believed :hat they are almost as well known in Columbus as Mr. Wolfe himself. His lttorney's statement has created a deeded sensation. MEN OUTNUMBER WOMEN. ?lnal Census Report on Fopulatlon by Sex, Nativity and Color. Washington, D. C.?The final census report on population by sex, nativity md color covers the entire country, [t shows that the males numbered 39,? wy.z-iz, ana constituted oi.u per cent. 5f the total population In 1900, while :he females numbered 37,244.145, or i8.8 per cent. There is a difference in favor of . males at the present census of 1,815,097. There has been an ncrease in total population of 13,233,>31, or 21 per cent., since 1S90. There nre 65,843,302 native born, md 10,4G0,0S5 foreign born persons. As to color ancl race, the population n 1900 is made up of G6.990.S02 white lersons and 9,312,oS5 colored persons, :he latter figure comprising S.S10.739 oersons of negro descent, 119.0.30 Chiiese, S5,980 Japanese and 2GG.7C0 Inllans. 033 WOFITH 525,000 CD BECGINC , iecretary Gage Says Demand For Good Bankers is Greater Thau Supply. < Denver. Col.?Lyman J. Gage, Secreary of the Treasury, at a meeting of Denver banking employes to institute i branch of the American Institution if Eank Clerks declared that the demand for good bank officials is greater ' ban the supply. Said he: "if I knew that you were capable could take twenty young men out if your niidst aud place you in posiious in various parts of the country | rhich would pay you $23 UUO a year. iMfrr ronvo tfvnm r>n\tr tl>.t nAiinfrw ?* ?J J \.lll kl ?.1 VJi* UV IT V.V/UU 11 jr j nil have a population of 1!X>,UUO,UOO. , ml the'banking business will increase j ropcrtionately." Capo Rebel Put to Death. The sentence ol' death against Loter, the Cape Colony rebel, anil com- ' :ander of the force which waa reently captured by colom-l Scoboeil's , ion. was executed at .Uiddleburg, . iouth Africa. AnavcliUt IVIaj^lo Held. The United States Grand Jury at Las ^ Jruces, -New Mexico, has returned an idictnient against Antonio Maggio j or conspiring to take the life of Presi- ( out McKinley. Bonds in the sum of ! 5UUU were lised for his appeurance. Prominent People. The new President of Ecuador, Genral Plaza, is only thirty-eight years c Id. ] Henry W. Cramp, Vice-President of ! lie great shipbuilding company, is , ead. 1 j Seth Low has resigned the Presi- . ency of Columbia University, after 3rviug the institution twenty years in n official capacity. The term of James K. Jones, of Ais fi ansaa, as United States Senator ex- t ires on March 4. l'JUo, and be and j jrmer Governor Jnnws P. Clarke are ^ ie rival candidates ror the place. .. " ) ? I ' NAVY SHORT OF OFFICERS | Rear-Admiral Crowninshield Makes a Recommend vi!on. n {Vant* More Cadets at AnnapolIC and a 11 Shorter Course?Favors the Crca- ^ tlon of Four Vice-Admirals. ^ t: Washington, D. C.?In the annual report of Rear-Admiral Crowninshield, * Chief of the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, the most im- 0 portant feature Is that of personnel. C Admiral Crowninshield has already given warning to Congress of the ab- F solutely imperative need of the Navy ^ for more officers and men. Now he T adds some startling figures to support his renewed recommendations. He I says that If the department were r called upon to man the ships for war- s service It could not meet the demand. There are not enough line officers to e man the ships already constructed. 1 When In three years the vessels now t under construction shall have been s completed, the number of officers necessary to man them and a few auxiliary vessels would be no less than 1000, and the problem presented , is how these officers can be secured in the short time remaining. At present the line of the navy under the person- 1 nel act, and as fed from Annapolis, is ^ increasing only at the r^te or ten a ? year In number (forty officers being retired arbitrarily each year), which 1 would make thirty for the three years, t According to Admiral Crowninshield, the only remedy is to increase a the number of cadets at the Naval ( Academy to not less than 800. It is recommended that, beginning with the next Congress, there Bhall b<! allowed at the academy two naval cadets for every Representative or Del- ( egate, two for each Senator, one for 1 the District of Columbia, and ten al ( large annually, and that the course be limited to four years. 1 Another striking recommendation 1 of Admiral Crowninshield under the t head of personnel Is that four ViceAdmirals be created, reducing the ( number of Rear-Admirals to fourteen, ( if necessary. It Is said that the Unl- , ted States often has been placed in a 1 humiliating position on important occasions abroad by reason of the low . rank of its naval representatives. The report makes an earnest recommendation for the creation of ? National Naval Reserve. 1 DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES, l Mortality Rate Id 1190 Cities Last Yeai Was 17.47 a Thousand. Washington, D. C.?Statistics com- ] piled by the Marine Hospital Service J for 1190 cities and towns in the Unl- ' ted States having a population of 100C or more indicate for the United Statee < an annual mortality for the last cal- 1 endar year of 17.47 per 1000 of popuation, according to the census of 1900. i The population of ttiese cities and < towns aggregates 20,712,608, and deaths from all causes In 1900 num- f bered 361,779. There were 36.24C ? deaths from phthisis pumonalls, 64? ( from smallpox, 7007 from enteric fe- t ver, 2850 from measles, 2237 from scarlet fever, 9698 from diphtheria . and mebraneous croup and 2539 from whooping cough. 1 The table shows North Dakota, with a death rate of 6.95 per 1000 of popula- 1 tion, was the most healthy State in the * country. MANY PAN-AMERICAN AWARDS. J We Get 001 Gold Medals, 063 Silver, 662 Bronze and 470 Honorable Mentions. 1 Buffalo, N. Y.?The list of awards i at the Pan-American Exhibition has i been announced. The total number of awards announced were dibo, divided as follows: Gold medals, 887; silver, 1159; bronze, 1147. There also were 1384 exhibits that received honorable mention. The United States heads the list of prize winners with G01 gold trophies, 663 silver, 562 bronze and 470 honorable mentions. Mexico comes next with 78 gold medals, 151 silver and 139 bronze. Argentine received a total of 87 awards; Bolivia, 29; Canada, 87; Chile, 419; Costa Rica, 53; Cuba, 232; Dominican Republic, 34; Ecuador, 185; San Salvador, 30; French Colonies, 32; Guatemala, 13; Honduras, 48; Jamaica. 25; Nicaragua, 164; Peru, 90; Porto Rico, 145; Hayti,4; Brazil, 4. REPORTS IN FAVOR CF CANTEEN. T*a lit**** TTaa TV7/>VITAH tx TTarHiMn An the Soldier# In Caba. Washington, D. C.?The old canteen J issue is revived in the annual report * of Major-General Wood, commanding the Department of Cuba, through a sub-report furnished by InspectorGeneral Burton. He says that the ex- t change is a great comfort to the sol- s dier in Cuba who is deprived of many < of the comforts known to bin at t home. The officers generally complain that t the elimination of beer from the exchange has worked a hardship on the < soldier, and has been detrimental to r good order and military discipline. < CHINESE WOMAN'S SUICIDE. dho Gives Public Notification, and Spcc- c tutors Are on Hand. Victoria, B. C.?The steamer Duke e of Fife brings a story of the public r suicide of a Chinese woman at Foo- c Chow, China. She resolved on the rioprl nftpr rlio rlpnth of hpr hnshnmr and informed the public of her lnten- , tlon. The Taotai endeavored to prevent her. and on account of typhoon and t floods the suicide was twice postponed, but all efforts failed to divert the woe- t an from her purpose. Bedecked in her i finest clothes ?he publicly hanged herself on a platform before which stcod j several hundred spactators. j The Health of tho Array. j Surgeon-General Sternberg has ], made his annual report to the Secre- r tary of'War at Washington. He says the health of the army has been unusually good during the calendar year , L000. 1 Indiana Die From Smallpox. t The Indian Bureau officials estlmare u ihat the number of cases of smallpox -J )n the reservations through the West s between 100. and 100. About ten c leaths have been reported during the t >ast week. c New Ameer Reassures Great Britain* t; Hablb Mullah Khan, the new Ameer >f Afghanistan, has olhcially informed Lord Curzou, the Viceroy cf India, 1! hat he will follow in his father's uuLsit^jja, nulling lum mo ineaasuip listing between the Afghan and P Jritlsh governments will continue to c ncrease. 11 6000 School Children Strike. 11 Six thousand public school children 1 it Kansas City, Kin., struck because he Board of Education would ;.j: al- e ow them a holiday to seo the Carui- ii al parade. p , . S \ W ' . 4 V * . . V;. -T.^rtV : '" lOR EVENTSOF THE WEEK; WASHINGTON ITEMS. Rear-Admiral Crownlnshield recomlended in his annual report barracksistead of receiving ships for sailors. Attorney-General Knox advised' 'resident Roosevelt to take no action * ?? 4-\>r\ Dnrtlfln r?oVIIA nnoa> t picoi;ui uu cue i. atmv. \,c*kr?v. \juv? Ion. President Roosevelt appointed Ulys tobert Webb an Assistant Surgeon q the Navy. It Is probable that Senator Cullom, f Illinois, will be Chairman of the Jommittee cn Foreign Relations. Rear-Admiral Sampson's second apilication to be represented by counsel iefore the Schley Court of Inquiry ras rejected by the Court. Thaddeus S. Sharretts was apjointed by President Roosevelt as aember of the international commision to revise the Chinese tariffs. Attorney-General Knox held that 10 monopoly exists of the right to and a Pacific cable on the shores of he United States and its new possesions. . . OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Governor Dole, of Hawaii, declared lie had no intention of resigning. There is intense feeling among the larives in San Fernando, province of ?ampagna, P. I., over the killing of l native by a soldier. Eugene R. Hendrick was appointed ? .i nt-i.? %e - r iU ~ m?MM( jnnea status luarsuai m uic xcmory of Hawaii. The annual report of General Leonird Wood on the work of the army In 3uba was made public. - ?y DOMESTIC. Nearly the entire business portion )f Los Gatos, Cal., has been destroyed iy ?re. The loss is estimated at $250,)00. Johann Jfost, Anarchist, at New V fork City, was sentenced to one year n prison for publishing an incendiary trticle. The House of Deputies of the Episcopal Convention in San Francisco, 3al., adopted the new canon, already, )assed by the Bishops, prohibiting re-^ narriage of divorced persons. A large quantity of grain was H'ought from London back to Boston >wing to low prices on the other side. Five masked men robbed the post)fflce at' Harrodsburg, Ky., securing 530 and having one man wounded in ai unnlng fight with citizens which folowed. A hired man'and the wife of John Black were arrested at Gallatin Valey, Mont., charged with killing Black )y morphine poisoning. Dill inn Hnllar Qfflol TVlinf Wflfl 1UC JU1UJIVU JLS1SA4UL MWVk leclared Dot amenable to the Ohio ?i aw taxing foreign corporations. ' Charged with robbing the postoffice it Orlando, Fla., W. E. Medford, an ilectric light employe, was arrested. Letters boasting of burglary and arson in Newark, N. J? which were sent to the victims, led to the arrest )f four men, who are charged with :he crimes. \ Carrie Nation gave bond at Wheel- v * ng, W. Va., to keep the peace, and . ippealed her fine of $20 and costs. Louis Hermann, a wealthy cotton )roker, committed suicide by shooting it New Orleans, La. Oil fields at Beaumont Tex., valued it $25,000,000 are In litigation on ac:ount of contested claims. W. M. Kenyon, of Chicago, drowned iimse!f at Omaha, Neb., and left a lote saying he feared the long, cold vinter. Four men were killed in a collision >n a California electric road, and two vere killed in an explosion in a chemcal works at Essexvllle, Mich. The town of Alba, Tex., was destroyed by an incendiary fire. 1 A large quantity of cotton was also jurned. The State Bank of Narka, Kan., ,vas broken into and the safe dynanited by burglars, who secured $14,)00 in cash and securities. The South Park Commissioners of Chicago passed a resolution changing he name of Brighton Park to Mc- , Sinley Park. George Allen Buffum, President of he Rhode Island Society. Sons of the American Revolution' and widely cnown socially, committed suicide at Providence, R. I., by cutting his hroat. His age was ulxty-three. He eaves a widow, two sens and a daugher. FOREIGN. Colombia revolutionists surprised be garrison in Taboga Island, a re- / iort near Panama, kidnaped the Al;alde and two others and captured wo schooners. Swedish postal statistics showed hat since interchange money orders vere inaugurated in 1SS5 the United states sent to Sweden $13,700,000 nore than was received in the United States from Sweden. The Russian naval budget for 1902 vas completed, with a total of $30,100,000. Berlin newspapers urged the Eaist's Government to take energetic neasures against Venezuela on ac:ount ol the Puerto Cabello incident Lady Curzon, of Kedleston, wife of he Viceroy of India, arrived at Eom>ay from Europe. The Danish Legislature passed a >ill authorizing a new State loan. The old Stepney Church, at London, vhich was built In the fifteenth cenury, was destroyed by fire. A Turkish officer -vvas arrested In Ugiers ou the charge of inciting the irabs to rebeh H. M. S. Amphion was ordered to 5anama by the British Admiralty to ooii after British interests during the irogress of the rebellion. A Lascar, suspected of having the ilague, was landed at Glasgow, Scotand, from a vessel from Bombay. Eighteen more Boer cfiieers. capured since September 15. were peraancntly banished from South Lfrica. Emperor William, in consequence of rop failure, remitted more than half ho rents payable by peasants on rown iands near Colmar, Prussia. By decree of a Paris court the esT/icuit-s jinr! Assumntfon aico VL lut sis are to bo liquidated because they ailed to comply with the Associations i\v Cecil Rhodes proved by letters that e subscribed Sl'5,uui) to the Liberal ariy's funds iu Gladstone's time on onditiou that the English should ot evacuate Egypt. Emigrants from Germany from Janary 1 to September 30 numbered 50,44 & A movement is under way for the ntry of the Northwest territories 3te a coufederation as a full-fledged Kinrt ronn/lo