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IT * L \ . OH. KILL ME NOT. BY BCTH KAYMOND. "Oh, kill me not," the robin snid; "Although my breast is deepest red, A nest I have iu yonder tree, A mate, and downy birdlings three; For food, alas! they'll cry in vain, Tf T the narent bird, am slain!" *'Oh. kill me not," the linnet said; *'1 carol softly overhead; My silvery music, soft and clcar, Full many an aching heart doth cheer; Oh. could you hush my voice so gay On this clear, happy morn in May?" "Oh, kill me not," the sparrow said; "On errands dear my wings are spread; Mv song may not be sweet or clear. But I stay with you all the year, And build beneath your friendly eaves My little nost of straw and leaves." "Then' kill us not," each warbler said; "But love ^nd cherish us instead, And all your kindness we'll repay By useful task and sweetest lay. One tender voice is hushed and still Whene'er a precious bird you kill!" ? ?Ladies' World. . ^gOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOGOOg gf&B jjeqtlBirtan in ? I the 0^er Hi -A By A. X. Barnes. O ? o t30D002GGCCOOOGOQCOOOOOCCCO T~T*T HAT had been the greatest I game year South Carolina sportsmen had known since the President had come down as the guest of General Ashley and the Palmetto Club; more than two score deer had been seen at one stalking. I got together my guns and dogs, and attended by Amos, my serving boy, repaired to the field. I hunted for three days, then somewhat surfeited, for I had great luck from start to finish,*! determined to rest lor a uaj ui u:. iui: ui Monck's Corner. I found the inn crowded, and, to my dismay, learned there was not a siugle spare room. In addition to the sportsmen, the lawyers, too. had gathered, for court had ' opened only the day before. "Sorry," said the host, "but there Isn't a room I could give you." Ke stopped, seemed to consider a point for a moment or so, then asked hesitatingly: "You wouldn't care to share a room IWith another, would you?" "Decidedly not," I returned. ' "Well, then, I suppose sir, there's nothing else but for you to take it sitting up in the main room. A fire will be kept burning all night. You are .welcome." \ I thanked him and walked away. I knew there was no other resource, since this was the only public house an tne town, x passed tnrougn tne .. door of the rather small office, and out Into the main room. It was crowded, and some portions of the company therein assembled were not of the Ibest. I very soon saw that if I proCured even comfortable sitting space, I should have to elbow for it. I Btood it until 11 o'clock; then, thoroughly worn out, I came to the decision that even a strange bedfellow, however disagreeable, was vastly preferable to this miserable makeshift of siitting up to sleep. I walked back to the office. "I'll take the bed with the other fellow," I said to the landlord, as meekly as I could.' "Why. I didn't c:cpect you to share the bed with another," returned he quickly. "I was going to have a second bed put up." I could have hugged him in the exCess of joy the news gave me. "Why didn't you tell me so at first?" I cried. "Why, my dear sir, I thought you understood it. I said nothing about shaving a bed, but sharing a room." "All right, I'll share the room, no matter whether the other fellow be a tramp or gentleman." "You'll find him a gentleman, de-? fcldcdly; though a little off in his .ways, and rather irregular as to hours. He may be in at 12 o'clock, or again 'he may not make his appearauce until | 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. SomeItlmes he is out the entire night. At lany rate, he isn't here now. I will ask you to leave the door unbolted. He (has his key?or, rather," correcting himself, "It is here in the office. But ithe key, of course, would be useless If the inside bolt is shot. If," he continued, "you feel the least uneasiness you can leave with me. for deposit in !the office safe, any valuables you may have." "I have nothing of special value." I Replied, "except my watch and pocket ^>ook." As I spoke I handed them to 'him. He called a servant, and I heard an order given for an extra bed Jn No. 17. Mr. Bareroft's room, as it was designated, in the course of twenty minutes or so the servant relumed to show me up. It was a room, I judge, about sixteen by fourteen feet, and on the second floor of the house. The ceiling was rather low. and the apartment had a crowded appearance. Mr. Barcroft seemed to have quite a lot of belongings. Borne of them had been pushed- rather hastily together to make room for the other bed. The two beds stood almost foot to foot. I wondered why they had been so arranged, and supposed that, in the haste with which ine other bed had been added to the room very little thought had been taken as to position. There was just room enough to nnss hetwepn them. At that time I paid but little attention to the' details of the two beds, beyond the point that they were somewhat similar?low footboards, high headboards and of rather modern make. "At what time do you suppose Mr. Bareroft will come in?" I asked somewhat carelessly of the servant. "There ain't no tellin', sir. He's likely to je in one minute, an' he's likely to be in the nex\ Him a ge'nion of great uncertaintness, sir; ' a strange ge'mon. too," he continued Without further solicitation, "always talkin' to hisse'f. an' makin' motions with his hands. An' when you Bpeak to him, sir, many's the time he jfloan never answer." i These remarks were certainly not (Of a nature to attract me to my prospective room-mate. I told the negro rlnso th<? donr as he went out .That was the one thing about which, I must confess, I felt really nervous. [Why had this promise been exacted, (that I leave the door unoolted? Mr. (Barcroft could easily have knocked, 9 I , ' and I could have risen to admit him, but I resolved to think no more about it. So I made my preparations and went off to bed. after dimming the lamp on the mantel. I thought it no more than kindness that I leave it burning for my neighbor. I must con. fess, too, a little feeling of curiosity concerning this neighbor. I preferred to study him, even by feebly lamplight, rather than to guess at hia lineaments in the dark. I must have fallen asleep soon aftei my head touchcd the pillow. How long I slopt I have no idea. All at once I became conscious that I was sitting up in bed. and that there were peculiar noises in the room. Some j one had entered, I was positive, for 1 i heard the door creak, then open and close again. That some one wn? now stirring about, walking with soft footfall. I found the room in total darkness; the treacherous lamp bad gone out. I wondered why Mr. Barcrofl did not light it, for, of course, it was he who entered. Was it out of regard for me? Did he fear the light might awaken me? Was he creeping off tc bed in the dark so as not to disturb | me? I would reassure him. I spoke to him. There was no re ply. I spoke again. Still no reply, Was the poor man really deaf or only j surly? I remembered what the serv- j ant had said abou his paying no at- j tontion when spoken to, and decided j it must he the former. With a feel- ! ins of pity for the poor gentleman in j his infirmity I lay down again and j went off to sleep. The sun was just beginning tq j tinge the window panes when I i awakened the next morning. My first j lb ought, as had been my last, was ol ! the gentleman in the other bed. I dci j cided that I would raise myself and j take a cautious view of him. I knew ! that ? could easily do this, as the foot^ boards of both beds were low. Lift' ing myself on my elbows, what was my astonishment to find him doing the same by me! I was not only surprised, but somewhat angry. I ; scowled at him, hoping to make him succumb. This scowl he returned with compound interest. What a vilI l_t 1 --1-1 ? ~l nrncl Vrt ittlIlUUS-lUUi\llI?? wicitu jju nuo. aiv wonder he was spoken as queer and keeping late hours. I could guess at his calling without trouble. If he j didn't patronize the high roads then I was no judge of appearances. Highwayman was written on every line of his face. And to think I had been for the night at the mercy of such a villain. in the room with him! I was indeed glad that I had left my watch and purse in the hotel safe. I wondered he hadn't cut my throat I supposed it was only because he was afraid to, under the circumstances. The risks were too great. We continued to scowl at each other. What would lie do next? I was determined I would speak to him. "Why do you stare at me in that impertinent way?" I asked. He opened and shut his mouth a3 i though to mock me. I could stand no i more. I unclosed my lips to use a ! more vigorous tone in addressing him ' when?I sneezed. Where was my i handkerchief? I reached for it, keep- j 1 tKA vlllninmic nniin. LL1J tTJtJ llj/v/ii luv f Iim*uvuw vvUM I tenance of the man in the other bod. What movement was that? He had surely reached under the pillow. Of course it was for his pistoL I had no j weapon at hand. Only my gun was j in the room, and that I had carelessly ! left leaning in a corner. In a moment or more I would he entirely at 'the mercy of the villain; he would have his pistol drawn on me. I must act, and act quickly. Near my pillow lay my water-flask. I had placed it there to have It convenient, as I fre- j quently drank water during the night. : This I grasped swiftly and hurled at j the man in the other bed. I would | either knock that pistol out of his | hand or stun him so he couldn't use it. I There was the sound of breaking | glass, and the man in the other bed i vanished as completely as though he j had been ground to dust and blown j away on the air. At the same mo- j ment, with a yell of fear, my favorite j hunting dog, Beppo, came from un- j der the bed and approached me. I stared at him stupidly, and then at the empty bed before me. I saw It all now. Beppo was the intruder?the one I had heard moving [ about softly the night before, the gentleman to whom I had spoken without eliciting any reply. He had left Amos to come in search of me. Finding the door ajar, for the careless servant had failed to latch it securely, he had pushed it open and entered, i the door swinging to behind him. The sly rogue had refrained from coming to mc for fear I'd drive him oui again. I shook myself free of the bedclothes and stood upon my feet to contemplate the damage done to the j ~4-1.U?/l A Kor?/1e*Ai>-tn mlr^AP thflt I UlUCr Ut'U. II iiauuoi/iuu v* v?w? had adorned the centre of the headboard was smashed into a thousand pieces. In making wrathful fling at the man in the other bed I had simply thrown at my own reflection in the glass! I must confess to a feeling of wounded pride when I recalled tEat I had stamped myself as a villain and highwayman. I Later in the day I learned that Mr. Barcroft had not come in at all that night. He had sat up with a sick friend. But the part I shall remern- J ber longest about this little episode is the bill I had to pay for this little fling?at myself. Hard, wasn't it?? ! Waverley Magazine. A Deadly Trade Malady. The worker in match factories suN | | fers from a peculiar complaint known as ' pkossy jaw." This was at one time the most deadly of all trade maladies, but matchmakers studied the " problem and they now use a newly invented kind of phosphorous, which reduces the number of fatal cases to a minimum. Nevertheless, a large number of workers in these factories succumb to this trouble every year, and insurance companies are extremely loath to insure the life of any man in a match factory. The symptoms of "phossy jaw" are a crumbling away of the jawbone, this ending ultimately in total paralysis and death. Pineapples come Into bearing In Hawaii when the plants are four months old, and bear In abundance for years. Lettuce can be planted at any time, and It develops quickly. The same is true of celery. } DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON ! SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. - - i Subject: The Sweet Influences ? We Are Affected For Good or Evil By ForceH That We Seldom Itecognlze?Importance of Good Action*. [Copyright, 1901.] Washington, D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage demonstrates that we are affected by forces that we seldom recognize and enlarges upon human accountability. The text is Job xxxviii, 31, "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?" What is the meaning of that question which God put to Job? Have we all our lives been reading it, and are most of us ignorant of its beauty and power and practical suggestiveness? A meaningless passage of Scripture many thought it to be, but the telescopes were busy age after age, and astronomical observations kept on questioning the skies until the meaning of "my text comes out lustrously. The Pleiades is a constellation of seven stars appearing to the naked eye, but scientific instruments reveal more than 400 properly belonging to the group. Alcyone is the name of the brightest star of that group called the Pleiades. A Russian astronomer observed that Alcyone is the centre of gravitation of our solar system. Hugh Macmillan says that the sun and its planets wheel around that centre at the rate of 422.000 miles a day in an orbit which it will take 19,000,000 years to complete. The Pleiades appear in the springtime and are associated with flowers and genial warmth and good weather. The navigation of the Mediterranean was from May to November, the rising and the setting of the Pleiades. The priests of Belus noticed that rising and setting 2000 years before Christ. Now, the glorious^ meaning of* my text is plain as well as radiant. To give Job the beautiful gi'ace of humility God asked him, "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades?" Have you any power over the laws of gravitation? Can vou modify or change an influence wielded by a star more than 400.000 miles away? Can you control the winds of the springtime? Can you call out the flowers? How little yon know compared with omniscience? How little you can do compared with omnipotence! The probability is that Job had been tempted to arrogance by his vast attainments. He was a metallurgist, a zoologist, a poet, and shows by his writings he had knowledge of hunting, of music, of husbandry, of medicine, of mining, of astronomy and perhaps was so far ahead of the scholars and scientists of his time 1 A Ct I that he may have oeen somewnai puneu up; hence this interrogation of my text. And there is nothing that so soon takes down human pride as an interrogation point rightly thrust. Christ used it mightily. Paul mounted the parapet of his great arguments with such a battery. Men of the world understand it. Demosthenes began his speech to the crown and Cicero hi3 oration against Catiline and Lord Chatham his most famous orations with a question. The empire of ignorance is so much vaster than the empire of knowledge that after the most learned and elaborate disquisition upon anv subject of sociology or theology the plainest man may ask a ouestion that < will make the wisest speechless. After the profoundest assault upon Christianity the humblest disciple mav make an inquiry that would silence a Voltaire. Called upon, as we all are at times, to defend our holy religion, instead of argument that can always be answered by argument let us try the power of interrogation. We ought to be loaded with at least half a dozen questions and always ready, and when Christianity is assailed, and we are told there is nothing in it and there is no Gqd and there never was a miracle and that the Scriptures are unreasonable and cruel and that there never will be a judgment day, take out of your portable armory of interrogation something. like this: What makes the condition of woman in Christian lands better than in heathen lands? Do you think it would be kind in God to turn the human race into a world without any *' * L~ onr] on. written reve;auuu iu ?uiam ....... .... courage and elevate and pave? And if a revelation was made, which do you prefer?the Zenda-VeBta of the Persian or the Confucian writings of the Chinese or the Koran of Mohammed or our Bible? If Christ 19 not a divine being. what did He mean when He said. "Before Abram was, I am?" If the Bible is a bad book, what are the evil results of reading it? Did you see any degrading influence of the book in your father or mother or sister who used to read it? Do you not think that a judgment day is necessary in order to explain and fix up things that were never explained or fixed up? If our religion is illozical and an imposition upon human credulitv. why were ITerschel and Washington and Gladstone and William McKinley its advocates? How did it happen that our religion furnished the theme for the greatest, poem ever written, "Paradise Lost," and to the painters their greatest themes in ii? ??j?fT,? AT ;" "The tllC AUUKlUVll V/ l v?.w Transfiguration," "The Last Supper," "The Crucifixion," "The Entombment," "The Last Judgment," and that all the schools of painting put forth their utmost genius in presenting "The Madonna?" Why was it that William Shakespeare after amazing the world as he will amaze the centuries with the splendor and power of "The Merchant of Venice." and "Coriolanus," and "Richard III.," and "Kin? Lear." and "Othello," and "Macbeth." and "Hamlet" wrote with his own hand his last will and testament, beginning it with the words: "In the name of Cod. amen! I, William Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-Avon, in the County ot Warwick, in perfect health and memory (Cod be praised!) do make and ordain this mv last will and testament, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting and irty body to the earth whereof it is made?*' Had Shakesoeare lost his reason when he wrote his faith in Christ and the great atonement? Put your antagonist a few questions like that, and you will find him excusing himself for an encasement he must meet immediately. These words also recognizo far-reaching influences. Job nrobablv had ro adequate idea of the distance of the worlds mentioned from our world, but he knew them to be far off, and we, who have had the advantage of modern sidereal investigation, oueht to be still more impressed [ than was Job with the question of th? | text, as it puts before us th* fact that tvorlds hundreds of thousands of jmiles distant have a grip on our wor'd. There itc swept influences which ho!d us from afar. There may have been in our antestral line perhaps 200 years ago some :onsecrated man or woman who has held aver all the generations since an influence for good which we have no power to realize, and we in turn by our virtue or rice may influence those who shall live 200 years from now. Moral gravitation is as powerful as material gravitation, and if, as my text teaches and science confirms, the Pleiades, which are millions of mile3 from our earth, influence the earth we ought to be im Dressed with how we may be influenced by others far away back and how we may influence others far down the future. That rill away up among the Alleghanies, so thin you think it will hardly find its way down the rocks, becomes the mighty Ohio, rolling into the Mississippi and rolling into the 6ea. That word you utter, that deed you do, may .augment itself as the vears go by until rivers cease to roll and the ocean itself shall be dried up in the burning of the world. Paul, who was all the time saying important things, said nothing more startlingly suggestive than when 1 L- J?1 J r\f itQ UvnfJi nr flirth I fie uuciurt-ii. I'vnt ./? .... ........ fo himself." Words, thoughts, actions, have an eternity of flieht. As Job could not bind the sweet influences of the Seven Stars, as they were called, so we cannot arrest or turn aside the good projected long ago. Those influences were started centuries before our cradle was rocked and will reiun centuries after our graves are dug. Oh. it is a tremendous thing to live! God help us to live aright. Astronomers can easily locate the Pleiades. They will take you into their observatories on a clear night and aim their revealing instrument toward the part in ihe heavens where those seven stars have J tbeir habitude, and thev will Doint to the i constellation Taurus, and you can see for yourself. But it is impossible to point to influences far back that have affected our character and will affect our destiny, Wc know the influences near by?paternal, maternal, conjugal?but by the time wc have gone back'two generations, or, at most, three, our investigations falter and fail. Through the modern, interesting habit of searching back to find the ancestral tree we may find a long list of names, but they are only names. The consecration or abandonment of some one 200 years ago was not recorded. It would not be so important if you and I, by our good or bad behavior, blessed or blasted only those immediately around us, but our goodness or our badness will reach as far as the strongest ray of Alcyone?yea, across the eternity. Under this consideration, what, fin von think of those who cive themselves up to frivolity or idleness and throw away fifty years of their existence us though they were shells or pebbles or pods instead of embyro eternities? I suppose one of the greatest surprises of the next world will be to see what wide, far-reaching influence for good or evil we have all exerted. I am speaking of ourselves, who are only ordinary people. But who can fully appreciate the far-reaching good done by men of wealth in Great Britain for the working classes ?Mr. Lister, of Bradford; Edward Akroyd, of Halifax; Thomas Sikes, of llud/tersfield; Joseph Wentworth, and Josiah Mason, and Sir Titus Salt. This last Kreat soul, with his vast wealth, provided 7:16 houses at^ cheap t for 3000 working people, and chap and cricket ground and croquet lawn and concert nail and savings bank, where they misht deposit some of their earnings. Rod life insurance for those who loolced further ahead, and bathhouses and parks and museums and lecture halls with philosophical apparatus, the generoiu example of those men of a previous generation being copied in many places in Canada and the United States, making life, which would otherwise be a prolonged drudgery, an inspiration aud a joy. My text cal'cd Job and calls us to consider "the sweet influences." We put too much empha?is upon the aridities of ? ? _c i:f? I1IC, upon inc IXTllilllUllS U1 UlC, U]<VII Wib disappointments of life. Ammiamu Marcellinus said that Chaldca was in olden times overrun with lions, but many cf them lost their power bceause the great swamps produced many gnats that would get into the eyes of the lions, and the lions, to free themselves of the gnats, would claw., their own eyes and then starve. And in our time many a lion has been overcome by a gnat. The little, stinging annoyances of life keep us from appreciating the sweet influences. And how many of these last there arc! Sweet influences of home, however plain it may be! That is the harbor into which we sail; that is the goal for which we run; that is the place where we rest; there abide all confidence and affections; there we lay out our plans; there we extend our sympathies; there we talk over our successes; there we unload our griefs. Its four walls shut out a prying and inquisitive world. Thank God for the home in which we were born, the home in which we now live, the home in which we expect to die! If something appears against us, they sav. "Wait till 1 hear the other side. If disaster shall befall us, we know from whom would come the first condolence. Family friends, church friends, business friends, lifelong friends. In our heart of hearts we cherish them. Sweet influences of our holy religion, surrounded as we are by all the amenities of Christian society'?men and women who have felt the rehning and elevating power of the Gospel! Sweet influences of the Sabbath, tifty-two of them chiming their joy into every year! Sweet influences of the Scriptures, with their balm for all wounds and their'light for every darkness. When, the heirs of a vast estate in England wished to establish their claim to property worth $100,000,000 they offered a reward of $500 for the recovery of an old Bible, the family record ot which contained the evidence requisite. But any Bible, new or old, can help us to a vaster inheritance than the one spoken of, one that never fades away. ' -- nf iVip hpavenlv jLiie aoccb ittiiuwtivv?> .... ? ? world, which many wise men thought for a long while was Alcyone, the centre of the constellation of the Pleiades? world of our future residence, as we hope: world of chorus and illumination; world of reunion; world where we shall be everlastingly complete; world where our old faculties will be itensitied and quickened and new faculties implanted; world of high association with Christ, through whose grace we got there at all, and apostles and poets, Habakkuk^ and St. John of Paimos, and Edward Young, his "2vight Thoughts" turned into eternal day; and Horatius Bonar of modern hymnology, and Hannah More, and Mrs. Remans, and Mrs. Sigouruey, who struck their harps till nations listened; and Darid, the victor over Goliath with what seemed insufficient weapons; and Joshua of the prolonged day in Gibeon, and Havelock, the evangelist hero, and those thousands of men of the sword who fought on the right side. What company to move iiV What guests to entertain! What personages to visit! What choirs to chani! What banquets with lifted chalice tilled with "the new wine of the ' *T*t- - A. ?' oaloKpifnl Kingdom: wnat viviuncs w v^.vu..?. The stories of that world and its holy hilarities come in upon our souls sometimes in song, sometimes in sermon, sometimea in hours of solitary reflection, and they are, to use the words of my text, sweet influences But there is one star that affects us more with its sweet influences than the centre star, the Alcyone of the Pleiades, and that is what one Bible author calls the Star of Jacob and another Bible author calls the Morning Star. Of all the sweet influences that have ever touched our earth those that radiate from Christ are the sweetest. Born an Asiatic villager, in a mechanic's home, living more among hammers and saws and planes than among books, yet at twelve years of age confounding robed ecclesiastics and starting out a mission under which those born without optic nerve took in the clear daylight and those afflicted with unresponsive tympanum were made to hear and those almost doubled up with deformities Mere straightened into graceful poise and the leprous became rubicund and the widow's only son exchanged the bier on which he lay lifeless for the arms of his ovex*joyed mother and pronouncing nine benedictions on the Mount of Beatitudes and doing deeds and speaking words which are filling the centuries with sweet influences. Christ started every ambulance, kindled every electric ray, spread every soft hospital piilow and introduced all the alleviations and pacifications and rescues ^nd mercies of all time. He was the loveliest being that ever trod our earth?more beauty in His eyes, more tenderness in His manner, more gentleness in Jlis footsteps, more music in llis voice, more dignity in His brow, more gracefulness in the Wks that rolled unon His thouldcrs, more compassion in His soul. Sweet influences of the Hoiy Ghost, with ail His transforming and comforting and emancipating power. When that power is fuliv felt there will be no more sins to pardon, and 110 more errors to correct, and 110 more sorrows to comfort, and no more bondage to break. But as the old-time ship captains watched the rising of the l'leiades for safe navigation and set sail in Mediterranean waters, but were sure to get back into port before the constellation Orion came into sight?the season of cyclone and hurricane?so there is a time to sail for heaven, ana mat is nuuc mc gn?t ... fluences are upon us and before the storms overtake and delay. Open all your soul to the light and warmth and comfort and inspiration of that gospel which has already peopled heaven with millions of the ransomed and is helping other millions to that glorious destinaj tion. Do not postpone the things of God ! and eternity until the storms of life swoop and the agitations of a great future are upon us. Do not dare wait until Orion takes the place of the Pleiades. Weigh anchor now and with chart unrolled and pilot on board head for the reunions and raptures that await all the souls forgiven. "And they need no candle, neither light nor the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign forever and ever." TOE SABBATH SCHOOI j (NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT! FOR NOVEMBER 17. i Subject: The Childhood of Moses, Ex. II. I 1-10 ? Golden Texf, Prov. xxll.. C Memory Verfles. 7-10 ? Coinmcntar, | on the Day's Lesson. 1. "A man." His name was Amran ! and his wife's name was Jochebed. Ex. 6 j 20; Num. 26: 59. "House of Levi." Thu : Moses's parents were both of the tribe o j Levi. j 2. "A son." There were two childrei older than Moses, Miriam (15: 20), wh< j was; probably from eight to ten years old er, and Aaron (7: 2), who was three year older. (7: 7). "Goodly child." The lex simply says that he was cood, which signi | fies that he was not only a perfect, well ' formed child, but that he was very beauti j ful. This very circumstance was wisel; ordained by the kind providence of Goi I to be one means of his preservation ! Scarcely anything interests the heart mor than the sight of a lovely babe in distress His beauty would induce even his parent to double their exertions to save him, am was orobably the sole motive which lei the Egyptian princess to take such partic ular care of him. and to educate him as he i son, which in all likelihood she would no i have done had he been only an ordinar; i child. "Hid hiin." That is, kept hir | within the house. 3. "Ark." A small covered box or bas l_?j. rv*olro if fVion V*nf. ton! | M'O. 13IIC UIU I iUb munt. v i it and prepared it for her purpose. "0 *| bulrushes." The papyrus plant, a thicli strong and tough reed, which sometime I reaches a height of from ten to fiftee; j feet. "Slime.". The mud of the Nik ] which, when hardened, is very tenacious ' "Pitch." Mineral tar. Boats of-this dc I scription are seen daily floatincr on th surface of the river, with no other calk ing than Nile mud (Isa. 18: 2), and the j are perfectly water-tight unless the coal I ing is forced off by stormy weathei I "Flags." A general term for sea or ?ive ; weed. The spot is traditionally said t be the Isle of Rhoda, near old Cairo, j 4. "His sister." Miriam. It appear that Moses had only one sister. Num. 26 59. "Afar ofF." So as not to show he anxiety. "To wit." "To know." R. V It was her duty to see whether Pharaoh' daughter found him, and whether he wa in danger from any cause, i 5. "Daughter of Pharaoh." It ha been estimated that she was about sixtee: years of age at this time, and that Mose was born in the sixth year of the reig of Rameses II. "To bathe" (R. V.) Th women of Egypt are now kept jealous! secludcd in harems, and it is not custoir ary for them to bathe in the Nile. But i has been shown that the women of ar cient Egypt were qujte unrestrained, an had liberties, such as women in Christia lands do now, and bathing in the rive was a common practice with1 them at tha time. "At the river." The water wa there fenced off as a protection from th crocodiles, and doubtless the princess ha an enclosure reserved for her own us< the road to which seems to have bee known to Jochebed. "Walked along. Hence the discovery of the ark was no made by them, but by the princess he; self, a providential circumstances, as i led her to a personal interest in the ,bab< "Sent her handmaid" (R. V.) Her fmm< diate attendant. 0. "Saw the child." As soon as 6he sai the child she knew that it was one of th Hebrew children, for only a Hebrew mot! er would have need to hide her child i this manner. "The babe wept." Th sight of a beautiful babe in distress coul not fail to make the impression here mer tioned. See v. 2. It has been conjecture that the cruel edict of the Egyptian kin did not continue long in force. See chaj 1: 22. "Had compassion." Thus the bah found a protector in the very family c the king who decreed its death. "Save the boys." Our great cities ar filled with children who are exposed to worse fate than Pharaoh's decree or cro< odiles in the river. Legislation is too ster and severe, and will destroy instead c ?ave. Only recently two six-year-old boy were arraigned in the Chicago police couri Such a course is the worst that could pos sibly be taken with such small childrer Official charity is also' too rough to h trusted with the little life that must b | lifted out of the slum, render nanus ar ' needed to dry the tears of these "wee] j ing babies." We must look to Christia I women. They should use their eyes t I see the facts, and not be so busy abou I their own luxury and comfort that the I pass the poor pitcji-covererl box unnoticec and they should conquer the prejudices ( j race and the fear of lowering themselves 7. "His sister." Miriam had draw near enough to see and hear everythinf No doubt the child had been carefully ii structed by her mother. But God's nan was directing matters and to Him, rathe than to any human wisdom, must Ih praise be given. " *<? -i- " t>? ii? ?1,il V. murse it. XJ> tjius baiwug I,IIV. vuii I the mother became from this time i aome sense the recognized servant of tli I princess; for otherwise how would she ei joy more safety with her babe than b< fore? "Thy wages." She was doubl paid. She had not only the wages whic made her safe as the servant of the roy{ princess, but she had the infinitely bette wages of seeing her son safe, and havin the privilege of caring for him and trait in? nim. "Took the child." No dout this God-fearing mother trained her chil very carefully. Children should be ver thankful when they have Christian pa: ents who bring them up in the knowledg and fear of God. 10. "Unto Pharaoh's daughter. Though it must have been nearly as si vere a trial for Jochebed to part with hii the second time as the first, she wai .doubtless, reconciled to it by her beli< in his high destination as the future di liverer of Israel. "He bccame her son. By .adoption, and the high rank affords him advantages in education which, in th providence of God, were made subservier to far different purposes from what h royal patroness intended. We can obtai an idea of what his education was froi Acts 7: 22. But Moses had not only moral and an intellectual training, bu according to .Tosephus. he had also a pra tical preparation for the great work thr Viofn Vilm Tf nnne.irs that the Eth I opians came into Egypt and routed tfr army that was sent to resist them, wheri unon the command was given to Mose He immediately took the field and d feated the enemy with great s'aughte His military achievements outshone i popular estimation his intellectual attaii ments, and he returned from this can pai^n the most popular man in the kin dom. "Called hi3 name." What name 1 had from his parents wo know not, b; whatever it might have been it was ev< after lost in the name given to him by tl princes of Egypt. Bath Rooms For Scholar*. Five new Boston schools have bee opened up this fall, each of which equipped with bath rooms. This innov tion was first tried in the Revere Scho about two years ago, and proved so su cessful that it is announced all futui schools in Boston are to have bath roon as a regular adjunct. When a questio able-looking urchin comes to school tl teacher conducts him to the bath roo and instructs him in one of the lirst reqt sites of cleanliness and good eitizenshi It is said that the effect has been vei beneficial on the general behavior an hearing of the pupils. Treasure Trove In the Cayman Isles. Dispatches received from Grand Ca man, a dependency of Jamaica, repo the finding of valuable treasure, in go and silver bars, at a point where the s< breaks and where the remnants of an a cient shipwreck are still seen. The trea urc was washed out of the wreck by r cent heavy rains. The Commissioner < the island verifies the report. Tetanns Anthlote Dangerous. Dr. .Tosias, at Paris, France, repor that after experimenting on goats wil the alleged antidote for tetanus lie fin< that it aggravates the disease, and hi been the cause of many deaths. Coinage or Cents. At the United States mints 06,838;7 hronze cents were coined last year larger number than was produced durii any previous twelvemonth. . GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN | 5 PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. i Toem: Thy Will Is Beit?Happiness a ] Duty?Christians Have No Right to Go Through Life Complaining, Fault- j ' Finding: and Apprehensive. ( I would have climbed at early dawn ^ Up the steep hillside, toiling where ' Tnc paths led on through sun and shade, ? Till 1 had won its summit fair; 1 I would have kept mine own rash will, When, lo! He whispered me: 1 1 . "Bs still." 3 * ' I would have rested at the hush Of eventide, by some calm stream, , ; And there, with folded hands, content, [" Lived o'er again life's checkered dream; l* But, ah! through twilight's deepest ray i " Hia clear voice thrilled me, \ Whispering "Nay." j ' 0 God! I thank Thee; I have learned 0 That Thine unerring will is best; ' At Thy command, tnat rest is toil, ? That, with Thy presence, toil is rest; ;} Content, through bright or shadowed way, 1 At Thy sweet will to go Or stay. Christianity a Religion of Joy. n i Everv mornincr naner comes to us with a shock, for we are sure to find in its very i. fir3t columns the'names of those who durk ing the preceding twenty-four hours have f "rashly importunate" gone to their death. The fact is that we are passing through a a period of spiritual depression, and all of n God's people ought to feel some responsi!, fcility for keeping ?p the cheerful tone of i. life to which the Master has called them. Christianity is *a religion of joy, and it e can only be well represented to the world when its children live up to their privily eges. We must not permit men to find excuses for our lack of control. It is our . duty to live not only blamelessly, but hapr pily, and to show to the world that tne o peace which Christ gave to His people as a parting gift the world has not taken s from them. Christiana have no moral : right to go through life complaining, faultr finding and apprehensive. Down in New England they have an old wives'* pro venb s to the effect that: "A great deal is laid to s the nerves which comes from the devil," and the world is very likely to judge after a that manner, the peevishness of God's n people. Our best friends' may say for us, a as the Htle boy put up the pica for his n dog when he had bitten a neighbor: "He e don't mean anything by it; it is only a y way he has got." The truth is that we i- are responsible for our ways, which belt come part of our character. No farmer i- is responsible for the first thistle-seed; d but he is at fault for the crop of thistles n that follows undisturbed. We cannot ir? prevent wild birds flying over our heads, .t but we can keep them from making nesta ,s in our hair." e It is the privilege of the Christian to live d near his Lord. Iso one can so live and be >, permanently unhappy. Happiness is made n up of content, gratitude and hope. The " firet is ours when we realize that the stait tion in life we occupy is the one chosen r- for us by our Heavenly Father. The burit den we bear, apart from its relation to j. our possible sin, is the one He thought > best for us to bear. But beyond mere content we can all find positive reasons for ; it grateful love. Every life has its own*; e providences which may excite'-woiider and i i? which (flight to inspire praises But most of n all, the eweet hope of a blessed and holy e immortality is enough to support the most d tempted soul who cherishes it, and comesi to know its power. It is the presence and d the glory of the world to come which eng ables us to bear the evils that we know ). rather than as some who fly to others e that they know not of. >? It is the blessed privilege of the child of God to show to the too often depressed ^ anrl /Iflonnnrlon f wnrlH f.llJlt "Olir ifl a not as their rock, our enemies them: selves being witnesses."?Chicago In* n terior. if 3 Never Ueapntr. How apt we are to forget that though J* clouds overcast our sky, the sun still ' shines, that behind these trials and afflictione, which are "but for a moment," e lies the blessings most needed. He is His j. own interpreter, and He will make plain n what seems dark and mysterious now. In 0 His own good time He will deliver. Never despair. Perhaps it is to make y trial of our faith that we are tried, or to j show us our dependence upon a higher power for support in trials. The world j offers no hope, it cannot satisfy the soul ^ that has tasted of the powers of the world T to come. When tempted, tried or desolate, to such a soul He is indeed "the j shadow of a great rock in a weary land." ,r Some one has said: "Tic Lord never takes e anything from us, but with the design of giving us something better." We have d had this verified in our own life. Our n plans have come to naught. The work of e months of patient toil has yielded "noth- . x. ing but leaves." We werd' heart sick and a. ready to despair almost,1 but the "why ? -1 * ? J- in y I ana wiiereiuic was juauc j/juiu ?v? ... ^ His own time, and compensation came in t] the best form, end our hearts were filled ,r v^ith joy,\ which erstwhile were filled with g the ashes of heaviness. Never despair. Jj. Have Faith In Yonrielf. d No matter how dark and discouraging y the outlook may be, have faith in yourr* selves and in the good providence of God, ;e and may this year bring you the fruitage of your hopes, the transformation of life " which is as wonderful and yet as possible 2- as the change which comes to the earth in a May, when the warm rains and the mountb, ing sun suddenly work the miracle of ;f the springtime, when the cold and barren e- earth, as in response to the touch of an " invisible wand, blooms with verdure.? d Watchman. ie it Persistent Obedience. 13 Persistent obedience to the commanun ments of God, regular hours of reading, n meditation, attendance on church services a and doiug good to others, will finally, if '? patiently adhered to bring both faith, c* nope, love, peace and happiness. Regul. larly and continuously these things must be practiced if it is to be well with one's soul.?Reformed Church Messenger. Religion of Humanity. r Religion has heard the call to come down from the cloudlands of the specula-, jj. tive to the thought and work of the real, * a. the practical, to the questions of social ?. justice, of the rights of the people, to the ie religion of humanity.?Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas, People's Church, Chicago. ;r ;e Real Wealth. If you have God and Christ and immortality you are rich, but without them you are poor indeed, though wealth is your ,n most humble servant.?Rev. Georze H ,a Hepworth, Congrcgationalist, New York a0] The Great Lessons. c- If you would fittingly teach the great re lessons of history, teach lessons of frater(19 nity, co-operation and service, glorify uie n- men who have won bloodless battles ie against unrighteousness, disease and sin? m see that these civic heroes have their reli nown.?Edward Cummings. -y Life's Basis. id Life has to have a basis deeper than pleasure seeking, mere gratification, to be at all satisfactory. There have to be real aims of a higher sort, including some good v. for others, and these earnestly' pursued, or '? we do not reach the happy life.?Rev.. U David Utter. Unity Church. Denver. . a B- The World's Wires. s" The International Telegraph Bureau, ?t e; Berne, Switzerland, has recently issued some astonishing figures in regard to the length of telegraph and cable lines the world over. It appears that there are 1380 Government cables, covering -*,v<u ta miles, and .'{70 cables owned by private th companies, which have a length of 198.929 -la miles, in all an aggregate of 223.836 miles, as The United States has the greatest amount of telegraph wires, there being one mile for everv seventy-seven persons. The figures for this country show 222.587 00 miles of telegraph lines, representing -a 1,118,086 miles of wire. The mileage of la Europe is 425,600 miles of line, and of wire 1,585,267. IINOB EVENTS OF THEWEEK 'f I WASHINGTON ITEMS. Andrew White. Ambassador to Ger- . " many, made his farewell at the State Department. .; & TIia fiinlinnt TrinPrtrd will be Bent to Panama to relieve1 the cruiser Philadelphia. , . Rear-Admiral Taylor, as Chief of the - + Bureau of Navigation, will advocate . extending the duties of the General Board, of which Admiral Dewey i& president. Citizens of Chester, S. C., protested , against the appointment of William ' ' P. Crawford as -lieutenant in the army ' because he jilted his fiancee. . . ^ Much regret is expressed by officials over the hostile attitude to arbitration y assumed by Chile in the Pan-Ameri- V can Congress. ' ^ The body of Senator C. K. Davis was removed from Minnesota to . Washington and interred in Arlington Cemetery. # ^$5 Special Commissioner Rockhill, back . 1 , ; from China, resumed charge of the Bureau of American Republics. The annual report of Rear-Admiral ' O'Neil, Ciief of the Navy Bureau of Ordnance, submitted estimates aggre- * gating $10,902,GOG, of which $0,000,000 is ior navy increase, armor anu arma? / ment. . . Thomas W. Cridleiv Third Assistant . -v" tecrctary of State, resigned to be represell tativc in Europe of the St. Louis Fair Commission. 5 , _ . " ~i?v }.;><! OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. . '* Y'; 3j Crston receipts for seven months in . s the Philippines reached $5,025,139, an "1 increase of $1,124,333 over a year ago. The Division cf Insular Affa'irs . >'.;> figured Cuba's customs receipts to Oc* c^ J tober 1 as $11,584,837. ' Ptineas Fourz, a soldier convicted of murder in the Philippines and under sentence of death, has escaped. \ ' The dro-ight in Hanakua and- Ko- ? ' ic'a, Hawaii, continues. This "is the severest drought knewn for fifteen years. I Ant'.rew Carnegie agreed to give a $100,003 library to San Juan,. Porto Rico, on the usual conditions. 1/UXUAOAJlVt ? Eight hundred toys saw Directorot- . ' Public Works Salen, of Cleveland, : Ohio, to ask park privileges during the skating season. * v'.yv^jsS Burglars testified Moundsvllle, W. Va., but secured little from the nu merous breaks. ' During a ^est at the Sandy Hook N proving ground the breech of the teninch Brown wire wound gun was Mown off. . J. M. Fisher & Co., of Boston, Mass., were accused of conducting a getrich-fast concern in whlih many per-- . sons were swindled. * ' Frank M. Wise, teller of the Mer- 1-,/ chants' National Bank at ^Richmond," ' ^ Va., was paralyzed at his desk and died. He was a brother of former, . Congressman George D. Wise. : ; ' James W. McCarthy, one of the slx^ '.*?* ; ' -V hurt in the automobile accident , lif . Gardner, Mass., died froip his injuries. . By the overturning of a canoe in Moosehead Lake. CJia.rles Dydley, .slx-i, teen years old, and Louis Duffy, twen-. ty, both of Bangor, Me., were drowned. , V. , With her throat cut, ribs broken and practically disemboweled, Mrs.' .* ' ' ** Effie Louise Koeller was found dead . at Chicago. * . \ ' During a quarrel Robert" Harvey and Charles Borden killed William Price at Pinto, Md. The National Bank of Commerce, Omaha, Neb., will wind up its affairs, ^ being unable to compete with larger institutions. ' * ' vj Burglars secured $700 from the bank . . ^ safe at Huxley, La. . - - >* ).*% The United States revenue cutter" Tuscarora was launched at Richmond, Va. " , y *^g( It was discovered that Charles D. Norris, who was arrested at Irhaca, N. Y., on the charge of robbing Mrs. Denman Thompson of $60,000 worth of valuables when the "Old Homestead" was at Ithaca, about a month ago, is innocent of the crime. ., . . While in the woods near Marlboro, , / Mass/,'with several companions, Dennis Dunn, fifteen years old, son of * Frederick Dunn, stepped between the muzzle of a rifle and a target and was. shot and instantly killed by Joseph Santolo. - i n Earl Russell, because he was convicted of bigamy in England, will be held if he attempts to land in the United States. In hunting for a "hugger" a crowd or angry citizens ot jruLerscu, r*. o.# caught Frank A. Young, a school principal, of Hackensack. After killing Mabel F. Mayer, aged thirteen, at San Francisco, Cal., John Stano, aged twenty-two, killed himself. Case of hopeless infatuation. Three tons of gold dust reached Port Townsend, Wash., from the Klftndike. An almost complete fossil remains * of an immense brontonsaur was discovered at Medicine Boro; Wyo. foreign. The Duke of San Donato, who was ft strenuous promoter of Italian unity, Is dead, aged seventy-eight years. In a conflict in Belgium peasants armed with spades and pitchforks re- * ? pulsed soldiers, killing three and wounding man\*. Turkey made another payment on account of the cruiser being built for that country by the Cramps, of Phila- # delphia. A speech by General Reyes. Colombian delegate to the Pan-Ameriean Congress, paying a warm triDute i? Spain, caused considerable comment in the City of Mexico. Consul-General Dickinson undertook to negotiate directly with the Bulgarian kidnapers of Miss Stone, the American missionary, to obtain her release. The Jamaica military authorities were asked to receive a number of Boer prisoners. A daughter was born to the Duchess of Manchester. M. Deulfich sent to M. Santos-Dumont $5000 for the poor of Paris, in addition to the balloon prize of $20,000 which he feels sure M. Sautos-Dumont will receive. President Castro, of Venezuela, who has been provisional President for one year, was re elected. At an expense of $1,340,009, the Danish ministry proposes to adopt a new gun for the artillery., . The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York sailed from St. John's, N. P., for England. The next German army budget will provide for a machine gun division for each light infantry battalion. An official report proved that the Camorra Secret1 Society permeates publie life in Southern Italy, interfering with all business.