a m ifr
I m
New York City.?The "Gibson" waist
1a quite as fashionable for young girls
as for grown folk, and is exceedingly
i "becoming to graceful figures. The ex
KIBSXS' "OIB-HOX" SHIRT WAIST.
?ellent May Mantnn model shown includes
all the essential features and
? ? v?rii?fv of materials.
JS BUtiVU IV w
pique, duck, linea etamioe. cberiot.
madras, silk, gingham and all the light
t weight waist cloths nnd silks, taffota.
peau de scle, albatross end the like,
but in the original is of wui;e mercerized
duck, with handsome pearl buttons.
and is worn with a tie and belt
of pale blue liberty satin. Silk and
wool fabrics give greater satisfaction
when made over the fitted foundation,
but washable materials require to be
on lined.
^ The lining fits snugly and smoothly.
hnt extends to the waist line only.
Tho waist pr6per is laid in deep pleats
orer the shoulder that extend to the
I .waist line at the back and front, and
? tre stitched to yoke depth with corti/
eelli silk to give the effect of pointed
straps. At the centre front is the reg '
ulation box pleat, through which button
holes are worked. The sleeves are
la bishop style, with the season's deep
call's that are buttoned up At the inside.
At the neck Is a neckband over
which the regulation stock, or linen
collar, may be worn.
To cut this waist for a miss of fourteen
years of age four yards of materUl
twenty-one inches wide, three and
a naif yards twenty-seven inches wide,
ETON J.
three aud an eighth yard# thirty-two
Inches wide, or twD yards forty-four
lnchcs wide will be required.
| Woman's Etoo Jmckct.
' * * -* ? .IAAHUA nIMUI Twl
JtfifOU jaCKCIS Ull a uruunv ui vu
are exceedingly fashionable both for
alts and separate wraps. The smart
model pictured in the large drawing is
shown in etamine. in black, with bands
of taffeta, stitched with cortlcelli silk,
and small silk buttons, and makes part
of a costume, but tbe same material,
cloth and silk, are all used for general
wraps, while all suitings are appropriate
when packet and skirt arc made
to match.
The back is seamless and fits with
perfect smoothness. Tbe fronts are
pointed and extend slightly below tbe
' waist line. At tbe neck is a square collar
that adds greatly to the effect, but
which can be omitted when a plain
A finish la preferflpd. or It la desirable to
r reduce either wctgui or warmiu. me
sleeves are in cost style, slightly flaring
at the wrists.
To cut this jacket in tbe medium
sise four yards of material twenty-one
Inches wide, three and live-eighth yards
twenty-seren inches wide, one and
seven-eighth yards forty-four Inches
wide, or one and three-quarter yards
fifty Inches wide will be required, with
three-eighth yard less in any width
when collar is omitted.
Trimajifl tha Now Hats.
Many of tbo new bats are of cMffoc
trimmed with mohair braid. This
braid has a silk sheen, which is charming
In coublnatioa witu the cbiffoiA
One pale blue bat. for Instance.^
male of layers upon layers, rows UjA
rows, whatever way one wishes tofffl
acribe It. of cUffon. rne rim is io^n
of one lot of these soft layers uHfij
rich flakey puff paste, and the
Is of more layers, until one
.where tLere is room Inside
head. Each one of tbe uraoy l^H^fl
edged with the mohair braid, fll
all there is to tbe bat. A bat^^lH
requires very little trimmin.ij^^H^|
pijk rcse or tuauy little ojj^^HH
tbe rim on top and more uni^^H|H
next tlie face, an I there is aKSkHS
kat na mar ho Odk miMt MBBHH
to forget tbe foliage
for foliage plays an imp^HHfflK
all trimmings no\vadays^Kffl?fflms|
Drraniltd Stoc|Hramfflu
stockings' lia* ho far
?.i? .. tnflBHBnH
IJOUUi Ulnunivu U3
hi* sti dlo." says the^BS^HfflEB
Telegraph. "The artl^Bffljj^S^M^^
chiefly for fair, fk s t
gout beauties of
IBMffPMl
IIWM
uHiU84*s Itself. These ladles will only
wear stocking* the patterns of which
are unique, and they retain the copyright
of the designs. It Is even more
Indiscreet of the artist to reveal thai
for one of bis customers he has made
delicate hose embroidered with a serpent
having two pearls for its eyes.
Other 'art* stockings are decorated
with perfect imitations of flowers embroidered
in colors, lilies of the valley,
violeta and lilac being favorite blooms.
Most of the ladies select a particular
flower which thej order to be worked
on &U their hosiery. It appears, however.
that generally speaking, the
stocking embroidered in colors is considered
a trifle loud. Ladies of severer
taste prefer black lice, but Jeweled
ornaments on the latter are regarded
as quite permissible. The artist in I
question charges any price, from $120
upward, for a pair of hose."
A Snmmtrj Ptruol.
A summery parasol has the uppot
I tvipf tueked. the tucking forming point!
at Its lower edge, half way down the
paras-d, and below this extending to
the edge. The other half of the partisol
is of flowered lawn or muslin.
There Is a niching of the same thin
material around the edge of the sill;,
where the hwer part of the muslin
joins it. There Is still another fluff of
the colored muslin around the stick at
the top.
A Charming Waist.
A charming walut of pongee Is mnd?
with inserts of lace in a shade to |
match. There is a pattern of this set |
*L" I* n*i ?ho tniu I I
into iue uuui, mvir ui ? ?m ... ?
of the sleeve?, and the flaring cuffs and
the collar are of the lace. From this
stock collar lines of the lace run down
onto the shoulders, set into the pongee
like the rest The waist fits smoothly
over the shoulders and bust and Is
left long at the lower ed.;e and can he
ryade to "pouch" or be pulled down
snugly as desired.
A Pretty Millinery Mode.
Among the spring hats the shepherdess
mode is occupying a prominent
place. It is broad and flat, with a perceptible
droop at the back. Simplicity
\CKET.
prevails in the trimming, soft ribbons
and spring flowers or chiffons, and
sometimes ostrich feathers, being b?st
adapted to this purpose.
SulMf&n Popular.
The popularity of sashes for spring ;
and summer wear is assured, and ma'jy j
of the finest models for spring gowns
are finished in this effect
Woau'i Fmicj Walit.
Fancy bodies, with round yokes, ars t
much In vogue both for entre gowns
and the popular odd waist. This smart '
May Mmnton model is adapted to both
purposes and to all the season's dress
and waist materials, but. as shown. Is '
made of etamine in pastel tan color. j
with yoke and cuffs of twine-colored j
lace, over white, and makes part of I
costume.
The lining Is snugly fitted and closes 1
at the centre front and on It are ar- j
ranged the various parts of the waist.
D",K ?nii hint nro inld vertical I
UUIU UVUt, li uu ??. >. ?
pleats that are stitched with cortlcelll (
silk near their edges, and arranged to !
give a tapering effect. The closing Is j
effected Invisibly beneath the Inner j
pleat on the left front. Pointed tatos !
are attached beneath the edges of both i
inner tucks and are held in place by
small silk but'ons. The sleeves show
one of the latest designs, and are
tucked to give a snug upper portion,
while they fall free and form puffs at
the elbows, with deep pointed cuffs below.
At the neck is a stock that
matches the yoke and closes with it at
tlie left shoulder seam.
To cut this waist in the medium size j
four yards of material twenty-one I
t inches wide, three and a half yard* i
I ~JL I
iw 'mzg
PAXCY WAIST FOB A WOMAN.
ty-seven inches wide, or two yards
hfour inches wide will be required,
oae yard of all-orcr lace for yoke,
I ard cuffs. I
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I
T)K. TALMAGES SERMON
BUNOArSJDlSCOURSE 8Y THE NOTEO
DIVINE.
laljeet: Temptations For the Younc?The
Auillintu of Virtue and Honesty Are
Numerous? Need For Dlvlae Protection
?God'i Grace Brlugeth Salvation.
Wasoi.noto*, D. C.?A familiar illustration
from the barnyard is employed in
this discourse by Dr. Taimage to show
the comfort and protection that heaven affords
to all trusting souls. The text is
Matthcv xxiii, 37, "?vcn as a hen gathereth
he# chickens under her wrings, and ye
ivvuiu uvb.
Jertuaiem wax in sight as Christ came
to the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of
700 feet. The splendors of the religious
capital of the whole earth irradiated the
landscane. There is the temple. Yonder
is the Icing's palace. Spread out before
His eyes are the pomp, wealth, the wickedness
and the coming destruction of Jerusalem,
and He bursts into tears at the
thought of the obduracy of a place that
He would gladly have saved and apostrophizes,
saying, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
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now UIWCU w UUIU A uw v .M.
children together, even as a hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings, and ye
would not?"
Why did Christ select hen and chickcns
as a kiraile? Next to the appositeness of
the comparison, I think it was to help all
public teachers in the matter of illustration
to get down off their stilts and use
comparisons that all can understand. The
ftlainest bird on earth is the barnyard
owl. Its only adornments are the red
comb in its head-dress and the wattles under
the throat. It has no grandeur of
genealogy. All we know is that its ancestors
came from India, some of them from
a height of 4000 feet on the side* of the
Himalayas. It has no pretension of nest
like the eagle's eyrie. It has no lustre of
plumage lilte the goldfinch. Possessing
anatomy that allows flight, yet about the
last thing it wants to ao is to fly, and in
retreat uses foot almost as much as wing.
Musicians have written out in musical
scale the song of lark and robin redbreast
and nightingale, yet the hen of my text
hath nothing that could be taken for a
son$, but only cluck and cackle. Yet
Christ in the text uttered while looking
upon doomed Jerusalem declares that what
t*\m fknf u*r?a lilrn cK.lt
lie uuu nwucu iu?? ?u?*? ? ?.? ??? ..
the ben does for her chicken*.
Christ wa,s thus simple in His teachings,
and yet how hard it is for us who
are Sundav-sohool instructors and editors
and preachers and reformers and those
who would gain the cars of audiences to
attain that heareniy and. divine art of simplicity!
We have to run a course of literary
disorders as children a course of physical
disorders. We come out of school
and college loaded down with Greek mythologies
and out of the theological seminary
weighed down with what the learned
fathers said, and we fly with wings of
eagle* and flamingoes and albatrosses, and
it takes a stood whi'c before we can come
down to Christ'* similitude*, the candle
under the bushel, the ult that has lost its
eavor, the net thrown into the sea. the
spittle on the eve* of the blind man and
tne ben and chickens.
I am in warm sympathy with the unpretentious
old fashioned hen because, like
most of us, she has to scratch for a living.
She knows at the start the Icuon which
most people of good sense are slow to
learn?that the gaining of a livelihood implies
work, and that successcs do not lie
on the surface, but arc to be upturned by
positive and continuous effort. The reason
that society and the church and the
world arc so full of failures, so full of loafers,
so full of deadheats is because people
are not wise enough to take the lesson
which any hen would teach them that if
they would find for themselves and for
those dependent upon them anything worth
having they must scratch for it. Solomon
said, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard."
I say. Go to the hen, thou sluggard. In
th? Old Testament God compares Himself
to an eagle stirring up her rest, and in
the N?;w Testament the Holy Spirit is
compared to a descending dove, but Christin
a sermon that began with cutting sarcasm
for hypocrites and ends with the
Siroxysm of pathos in tne tex: compares
imself to a lien.
One day in the country we saw midden
consternation in the behavior of old Dominick.
Why the hen shouM be so disturbed
we could not understand. We
looked about to see if a neighbor's dog
were invading the farm. We looked up to
see if a storm cloud were hovering. We
could rcc nothing on the ground that couM
terrorize, and we could see nothing in the
air to ruffle the feathers of the hen, but
the loud, wild, affrighted cluck which
brought all her brood at full run under
ber feathers made us look again around
and above U3, when we saw that high up
and far awav there was a rapacious bird
wheeling round and round and down and
down, and not seeing us as we stood in
the shadow, it came nearer and lower until
we saw its beak was curved from base
to tip rnd it had two flame* of fire for
eves, and it was a hawk. But all the
cnickens were under old Dominick*s wings,
and either the bird of prcv caught a
glimpse of us or not able to find the brood
huddled under wing, darted back into the
clouds.
So Christ calls with great earnestness to
all the young. Why, what is the matter?
It is bright sunlight, and there can be no
danger. Health is theirs. A good home
is theirs. Plenty of food is theirs. Prospect
of long life is theirs. But Christ continues
to cali, calls with more empbasi*
and urges haste ap.d bays not a second
ought to b* lose. Oh, do tell us what is
the matter. Ah. now I sec; there arc
hawks of temptation id the air. there arc
vultures wheeling for their prey, 'here
are beaks of death ready to n.unge. there
are claws of allurement^ ready to clutch.
Vmv T ?! .' thp n??ril. Xow I understand
the urgency. Now I see the only safety.
Would that Ciifi.it might this day take
our sons and daughter.* into His shelter
''as a nen ga'hereth her chicken* undo
her wing."
The fact is that the most of them wi'l
never mird the shelter unless while they
are chickens. It is a simple matter of inexorable
statistic* tact most of those who
do aot come to Christ in youth never come
at all. What chance is there for the
young without divine protection? There
are the grogshops, there are the gambling
hells, there are the infidelities and
immoralities of spiritualism, there are the
bad books. *here are the impurities, there
are the business rascalities, end so numerous
are these assailants that it is a wonder
that honesty and virtue are not lost arcs.
The birds of prey, diurnal and nocturnal,
of the natural world are ever on the alert.
They arc as*a?3ins of the sky; thev have
varieties of taste. Toe eaijlc prefers the
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nnn Ot llic living Ullllliain. iuc <uinu<;
prefers the carcav*; the falcon kills with
one stroke, trki!c other style* of beak
give prolongation of torture. And so the
temptations of this life are various.
Fathers, mother*, older brothers and
sister* and Sabhaili-schooJ teacher- be
quick and earnest and prayerful and importunate
and ^et the chickcns under win?.
May the Sabbath schools of America and
Ore at Britain within the next three months
sweep ?11 their scholars into the kingdom.
Whom they have uow under charge is uncertain.
Concerning that scrawny, puny
child t tat lay in tee cradle many years
ago. the father dea<], many remarked.
'"What a mercy it the Lord would take
the child?" And the mother really thought
so too. But what a good thing that (Jod
spared that child, for it became world renowned
in Christian literature and one of
God's most illustrious servants?Jobs
Todd.
My hearers, if we secure the present and
everlasting welfare of our children, mo.?t
other things belonging to u* are of but lit
? ? :?:? a i i.._
(ic comparative uiuvc. aicuuuii
the Great allowed his soldiers to take
their families with them to war, and he
accounted for the bravery of his men by
the fact that many cf them were birn in
camp aud were used to warlike scenes from
the start. Would God that all the children
of our day might be born into the
army of the Lord!
But we all need the protecting wing. If
you had known when vou entered upon
manhood or womanhood what was ahead
cf you. would you have dared to undertake
life? How much you have bcea
through! With most life hi* been a disappointment.
They tell me so. They have
not attained that which they expected to
attain. They hare not bad the physical
and mental visor they expected or they
have met with rebuffs which they did
not anticipate. You are not at forty 01
fifty or sixty or seventy or eighty years ol
age where you thought you would be. 1
do not know any one except myself to
whom life has been a happy surprise. 1
never expected anything, and so when
anything came in the shape of human favor
or comfortable position or widenina
field of work it was to me a surprise. I
was told in the theological seminary by
some of my fellow students that I never
would get anybody to hear me prcach unless
I changed my style, so that when I
found that sorre people did come to hear
mc it was a happy surprise. But most
people, according to their own statement,
nave found life a disappointment. Indeed,
we all need shelter from it* tempests.
The wings of ray text suggest warmth,
and that is what most folks want. The
fact is that this is a cold world whether
you take it literally or figuratively. We
have a big fireplace called the sun, and it
has a very hot fire, and the stokers keep
the coals well stirred up, but much of the
year we cannot get near enough to this
fireplace to get warmed. This world's
extremities are cold all the time. Forget
not that it is colder at the South Pole
than at the North Pole, and that the
Antic is not so destructive as the Antartic.
Once in awhile the Arctic will let
exnlorerv come back, but the Antartic j
hardly ever. When at the South 1'oie a
hip saib in, the door of ice is almost
sure to be shut against its return. So life
to many millions of people at the south
and many millions of people at the north
is a prolonged shiver.
But when I say that this is a cold
world I chiefly mean figuratively. If yon
want to know what is tne meaning of the
ordinary term of receiving the "cold
shoulder/' get out of money and try to
borrow. The conversation may have been
almost tropical for luxuriance of thoi^ht
and speech, but suggest your necessities
snd sec the thermometer drop to fifty degrees
below zero, and in that which till a
moment before had been a warm room.
? 1? ?
Talc: wnat is an unpopular immuu v?
eome public question and see your friend
fly as chaff before a windmill. As far u
myself is concerned, I have no word of
compuint, but I look off day by day and
see communities freezing out men and
women of whom the world is not worthy.
Now it takes after one and now after another.
It becomes popular to depredate
and defune and execrate and lie about
tome people. This is the best world I
ever got into, but it is the meanest world
that some people ever got into. The worst
thing that ever happened to them was
their cradle, and the best thing that will
ever happen to them will be their grave.
What people want is warmth, warmth
of sympathy, warmth of kindly association.
warmth of genial surroundings. Tho
world declines to give it and in many eases
has no power to give it, and here is whero
Christ comes in, and as on a cold day. the
rain beating and the atmosphere full of
sleet, the hen clucks ner ehickcns under
her wing* and the warmth 01 ncr own
breast puts warmth into the wet feather*
and the chillcd feet of the infant group of
the barnyard, so Christ rays to those sick
and frosted and disgusted! and frozen of
the world: "Come in out of the March
winds of the world's criticism, come in
out of the sleet of the world's assault,
come in out of a world that does not understand
you and docs not want to understand
you. I will comfort, and I will
soothe, and I will be your warmth, 'as a
hen cathetrth her chickens under her
wingf" Oh, the warm heart of God is
ready for all those to whom the world has
given the cold shoulder.
But notice that some one must take tha
storm for the chickens. Ah. the hen take*
the storm. I have watched her under tho
pelting rain. I have seen her in the pinching
frosts. Almost frozen to death or almost
strangled in the waters, and what a
fi?ht she makes for the young under wing
j if a dog or a hawk or a man comes too
near! And so the brooding Christ takes
the storm for us.
Once the tempest rose so suddenly the
hen could not fret with her young back from
the new ground to the barn. And there she
is under the fence half dead. And now
the rain turns to snow, and it is an awful
night, and in the morning the whiteness
about the gills and the beak down in the
mud show that the mother is dead, and
the younj; ones come out and cannot understand
why the mother does not scratch
for them something to cat, and they walk
over her wings and call with their tiny
voices, but there is no answering cluck.
She took the storm for others and perished.
Poor thing! Self-sacrificing eves
unto death!
And does it not make you think of Ilim
who endured all for us? So the wings under
which we come for spiritual safety are
blood spattered wingj, are night shadowed
wings, are tempest torn wings. In the Isle
of Wight I haw the grave of Princess Elisabeth,
who died while a prisoner at Carisbrook
Castle, her finder on an open Bible
and pointing to the words, "Come unto
Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest." Oh, come under
the wings!
My text has its strongest application
for people who were born in the country,
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wnercvcr juu umj uv? ?.?, ??
the majority of you. You cannot hear
my text without having all the rustic
scenes of the old farmhouse come back t3
vou. Gooil old day* they were. Yoa
knew nothing much of the world, for you
had not seen the world. By law of a**ociation
yoa cannot recall the brooding
hen and her chickens without seeing also
the ban and the haymow and the wagoa
shed andl the home and the room where
vou played and the fireside with the big
back-log before which you sat and the
neighbors and the burial and the wedding
and the deep snowbanks, and hear the vil!are
bc!l that caKed you to worship and
seeing the horses which, after pulling you
to church, stood around the old clapboardr?l
meeting house, and those who sat at
either end of the church pew and. indeed,
a'l the scenes of your first fourteen years,
and you think of what you were then and
of what yoi* are now and all the?c thoughts
arc aroused by the sight of the o'.d hen
K/iffor f*A
coop. OUIUC Ul Jl),i .11. n....
and start again. In thought return to
that place and 1-ear the cluck and sec the
outspread feathers and come under the
wing and make the Lord yovr portion
r.nd shelter ar.d warmth, preparing for
everything that may come, ar.d so avoid
Jving classed among those described by
the closing words cf my test, "as a hen
rathereih her chicken* under her \rinzs,
md ye would not." Ah. that throw* the
responsibility upon r.s. "Ye would net."
Alas, for the "wou'd no;*!" If the wandering
broods of the farm h-cd not their
mother's call and risk the hawk and dare
the freshet ar.d expos? themselves to the
frost and storm, surely their calamities
arc not the mother': fault. "Yc would
not!" Cod would, but how many would
not?
When a gud man a?';cd a young woman
who had abandoned 1 cr homo a"d who
was dcplon i* her wretchedness why she
did net return, the reply was: "I dara
not go home. Mv father is co provoked
hp would not rcceive ne home." "Then."
said the Christian man. "In-ill trot this."
And to he wrote to the father, and the reply
came bark, and in a letter marked outHide
"Immediate" and inside saying. "Let
he. come at once; a!l is forgiven.'.' So
Cod's invitation for you is marked "Immediate"
on the outside, and inside it ia
written, "He wilt abundantly pardon."
Oh. ye wanderers from Cod and happiness
ami home and heaven, come under the
sheltering wing. A vessel in the Bristol
Channel was nearing the rocks called the
Steep Holmes. Under the tempest the
vessel was unmanageable, and the only
hope was that the tide would change before
she struck the rocks and went down,
and so the captain stood on the deck,
watch in hand. Captain and crew and
puisengers were pallid with terror. Taking
another look at his watch and another
look at the sea, he shouted: "Thank Cod,
we are saved! The tide has turned! One
minute more and we would have struck
the rocks!" Some of you have been a long
while drifting in the tempest of sin and
sarnw and have been making for thi
breakers. Thank God, th? tide has turned.
Do you not feel the lift of the billow?
Tii,. of God that brin~eth salvation
has apjM'arrd t> your soul, and. in the
words of Doaz Uuth, 1 commend you 11
"toe Lord God of Israel, under wlicM
tviuga tbou hast come to tfuat."
[Copyright, lfcri L. Ucpjcfc.]
THE GREAT DESTROfER;
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
TheTrazedr of Michael Kllroy?Alcnbolle
Drink* Transformed Him Into a Fiend |
? Murdered Hli Wife In tho PrtHDc*
f HI* Children? Such Ca*e* Common, j
When Michael Kilroy rcele<l home in the |
early hour.* of the holy Sabbath of Sun- i
day, January 20, in the Chrifltian city of j
Bo*trm, hit* pockets empty of the money !
that ho had promised to hi* wife to buy j
the clothing for lack of which bin children
were freezing; when he annwered her appeal
for the fulfillment of hi* promise with |
a blow that knocked her to the floor; when I
he choked, with his finger* upon her
throat, her appeal for mcrcy; when he i
kicked her with bin heavy hoots, and she .
about to become the mother of another
clyld: when he sat for hour* unmoved, lis- |
tening to her moans and watching her suffering*;
when he brutally mistreated the
children who would have brought her help;
when he struck away the water that her
little daughter was lifting to her bloody,
thirsting lips?it was drink, gentlemen?
the drink that Professor Atwater tells us
is food?the drink that you gentlemen recommend
in "moderation." that made him
do it, and neither in earth nor hell has any
other ngencv been found, in the history of
the whole human race that inspired men
to such deeds.
Rut drink, gentlemen, alcoholic drink,
pot only made Michael Kilroy do that brukal.
devilish deed, hut has transformed un
J counted thousands of men into fiends
j of the name character, and fyi* driven them
| to dee da equally brutal. Drink, gentlemen,
j has inspired auch tragedies no commonly
' and in such multitude that the public
scarcely pauses to notice their occurrence.
Drink, gentlemen, is to-day preparing
more men for just such deeds as that, ana
you know and we know and the world
j knows that it will take boys from your
churches, boys from your schools, aye,
God pity you, perhaps boys from your
homes, and will make them into such
brutes to work such fiendish crimes in future
years on women who to-day are lovely
and laving girls.
It was only twelve days before the butchery
in that Boston tenement that Vincent
Vincelsk came how drunk in Pittsburg
and choppcd his wife and little children to
death with a rail-cutter. It was only thir
teen days before that John Blissctt, of
Detroit, drunk, emptied his revolver into
hi* wife's body ana poured kerosene over
her and stood with lighted match to make
her a burnt offering to drink when the police
broke in upon him. It was juxt one
month and a day before that a father in
Indiana came home drunk, sought to kill
hi* wife with a hatchet and was shot dead
' by hi* son.
| Cut why go on with such a list? The
J cnncs are innumerable and before Michael
! Kilroy came home to kill Bridget you and
we and everybody in the whole land knew
that some man, because of the drink traffic,
would come hom? and kill his wife, and
that the terrible profession of crime would
I keep right on.?Tlie New Voice.
Dr. Atwittr Repudiated.
; The American Medical Association at
1 its annual meeting in St. Paul unanimous*
. ly adootcd the following resolutions:
j W her.-.is, The American Medical Assoj
ciation, the members of which are physiI
cians and medical teacher* who have de1
voted years to the study of alcohol and it?
effects, and who are conversant with the
| work <Jonc by scientific men the world
I over to determine the cffects of alcohol
i when given in any quantity, have noted
, the teaching of Professor W. O. Atwater,
of Wes'eyan University, upon the food and
medical value of alcohol as set forth by
him in the pages of the influential lay
press; be it
' Resolved. That this association utterly
1 repudiates the pro-alcoholic doctrine of the
, laid ProfcMor ?V. O. Atwater as being con:
trary to the evidence deduced by scientific
i experimentation, and that his conclusions
1 ire unwarranted by the evidence resulting
i from his own experiments. Be it further
| "Resolved, That this association regards
i the teaching of Professor W. O. Atwater
! i* erroneous and a source of danger to the
| laity inasmuch as such teaching contribj
utes towards the increased consumption of
j alcoholic beverages by giving supposed reason
for their safe use."
(Signed) N. S. DAVIS. M. D..
Pres.. Chicaco. 111.
! T. D. CROTHERS, M. D.,
Sec., Hartford, Conn.
A Traffic That Corse*.
j The horrors of the drink traffic have
: never been fully portrayed. No pencil in
| black enough to paint the picture and do it
' full justice. No tohgue is eloquent enough
to tell the sad story in all its dreadful details.
The use of alcoholic beverages is of
ill scourge* the most wide and withering,
j It is a physical curse: Blearing the eyes,
i blistering the tongue, deranging the stom'
ten, paralyzing the nerves, hardening the
j liver, poisoning the blood, coagulating the
. brain, inducing and aggravating many dis|
eases, and digging many premature graves.
I It is a financial curse: Draining the pock1
it, producing poverty, diminishing comfort,
multiplying miseries, filling almshouses, inI
leasing tares and creating hard times.
It is a mental curse: Clouding the judg1
ment and dethroning the renson, promotI
ng ignorance, producing imbecility, and
I transforming iU unhappy victims into ma|
macs und fools.
It ia a moral curie: Weakening the will,
; inflaming the passions, hushing the voices
j of conscience and preparing the way for
I every vice and crime. And vet, strange to
J say, there are those who advocate the re|
moval of this curse by legalizing it. Eut
j the colossal curse of drunkenness will con;
tinue so long as drunkard factories arc perj
milted, protected and perpetuated by law.
Why Germany la Apathetic.
1 At the annua! meeting of the Society for j
Combating the Abuse of Spirituous Liquors j
! it Besiau la?t month, Baron von I)ier- [
j gard* said he believed that alcohol would
j one day be universally regarded as an eu,
emy of civilization, but at present it wan
! only posiible to recommend moderation in
j its us?. Seven hundred and fifty millions
I of dollar* was yearly spent in Germany on
j intoxicating liquors, he said, and it was
! estimated th.it the average German consumed
tb? equivalent of five glasses of spirits
a day. Karon von Dierjiardt added that
! one difficulty in the campaign was that the |
! State it.oif was interested in alcohol, det
riving, as it did. a revenue of $41.<HW,009
from spirits and MS.OJO.OOO from beer, j
Drink and Infant Mortality.
| Dr. Whitford has gone carefully into the j
I subject of infant mortality in Liverpool,
and he reports for the year* specified the
following case* of suffocation almost entirelv
due to drink: 1??. 164; 1891. 144;
1892, 164; ISO:?. 19G; 1804. 182; 1895, 189.
Tbf> Crattdt In Brief.
The life of the saloon depends oa the
death of souis.
Any one who wanted to find "temperi
a nee lessons" m the Bible could find an
! r,rmi*ul with both hands tied behind his
back.
AH that the words "murder," "shame."
"ruin" mean, a thousand times repeated ,
! and a thousandfold intensified, the saloon
! means and the saloon is.
i Under the influence of liquor a Jersey
City man was arrested tour times in five
davs. Tlu.s is certainly an indorsement of
a high order for the booze distilleries of
tii.it town.
The drunkari <\irrie? the disregarded
da:i?ir .-i^n.;! h i.t way between his lustful
eves and i'!? devouring mouth.
| For :i real temperance lesson take the
no.viv ini/.ed K.irtcn<lors A*->ociation. :
Only iikt. ?*f abstemious Is ;lnts may join.
There in a clini'eatine movement on foot
to aooliah the international Quarterly
Tei:i|?cranec taiwons which have wen the
I occacion of ho nun i? good during the pa?t
j ten y?siri in the Suiiilay-M-hooU of AmerI
ua.
j When the evidence of the <m.*o has been
I all sifted fact alone remain*. that the
| 11.1 .! <: trartic ?i;y< ;:i bu*it:e*< because the |
j American |? o;-le irons slier:- inertia, con-|
j viiuetl a thou-a.i.l ti;n*? over iu pernicious j
' character. will not abolish it. {
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR MARCH 23.
fiabjeet: Trraprrmmre, Epb. v., 11-11?
Uatdcn Text: EpW. lR-Mtmor)
Vchm, 13-18 ? Commentary n* th?
Day's Lewon.
11. "Have no fellowship." H*ve nc
connection with or sympathy for anything
done in the dark?under cover. We may
not actually commit certain sins, but if w?
tolerate or cncourege them, we are partakers
with the transgressor*. We should
never be accessory to the sins of others,
cither by commendation, counsel, consent
or concealment. See 2 Cor. 6: 14-18. The
gospel standard demands a complete
separation from this present evil world,
both in spirit and practice. 1 John 2; 15.
lo; Rom. 12: 1, 2. "Unfruitful works,
f ins are called works, not fruits (Gal.
r. lo-ooi. ik.;. a.i? /u? I
?/. ?? */ I WUI/ i Uib in ukuvil I 1\UIU.
6: 21; Gal. C: 8), which is not fruit in
true Honse. "Darkness." Sin u darkncf*
and its parent is the prince o!
darkne**. Plant* cannot bear fruit in the
absence of light. The graccs of the Spirit
flourish in tne light. Sinful work* coma
from the darkness of ignorance, seek the
'darknen? of concealment and lead to the
darkness of hell. "Reprove them." Speak
against them. Take a firm definite stand
againht every form of ain, as did John
the Baptist, Jesus and Paul. The parent
of crime and pauperism in our country today
is the liquor traffic. It thrives in
darkness, behind screens, It could not .'ot
I a moment endure the gaze of an enlightened
people. And yet this iniquitous
traffic is entrenched behind the Law of
the land and public opinion. The superlative
duty of the Christian citizen is to
oppose and denounce this vile, soul-destroying
business, by voice, by pen, by vote.
12. "It is a shame," etc. They are too
vile to be mentioned or even thoueht of
with but abhorrence. The only sign of
their shame wan that they sought the
covr of secrecy. How low they must
have sunk when it was a shame for the
n|>ost!e to even "apeak" about what they
"did." But there are some eubjects about
whsch it i* our duty to remain ailent. It
is a ahame and diagrace for the public
prints to be filled with the low and nauseating
details of crime. "In secret." Ob
the abominations that are carried on in
secret! No Christian should join himself in
any way to those whose actions muat be
| kept covered. Jesus said, "In aecret have
| I said nothing." The apostle seems to
aneak here of the Gentile idolaters, and of
their horrid myaterie* which none were
permitted to dirulge on pain of death.
13. "That are reproved." "When they
arc reproved."?R. V. "By the light." It
is the light which diacovera what was
concealed before in darkness, therefore
we ought to be shining lights in the
world, and by a holy example and a
godly life make light! Let us know the
truth about the devastations of the liquor
curse. Let it be known that it makes
ninety per cent, of all our paupers and
criminals, and that it costs us more than
one hundred million dollars each year,
i Draw back the curtain and let us for one
moment nee the heartache and sorrow and
| disease and death that it brings to us;
blighting, ruining, cursing wherever it
touches; and then with an enlightened and
awakened public conscience we will rise up
and drive out this monster.
14. "Awake thou that sleepcst," etc.
Sleep is an emblem of death, and both
sleep and death are used to represent the
I soul in a sinful state. Sleep is & state of
(1) unconsciousness, (2) seeming security,
(3) <larknew, (4) inactivity, (5) unconcern;
while 'death includes the idea of corruption.
From this state, through the power
of the Holy Ghost, we arc to awake and
arise. God uses means to awaken men,
and by His power we are to come forth
from the death of sin to a new life in
Jesus Christ. Chap. 2: 4-6. "Shall shine
upon thee" (R. V.). Shedding forth His
love, joy and peace into our hearts, and
thus bringing us into a state of rest, comfort
and holiness.
15. "Circumspectly." See R. V. Watchful
and cautious in order to avoid danger.
The Christian needs to be prudent.
16. "Redeeming the time." To redeem
time is to regain what is lost and to save
wnat is left. "Buying up the opportunity."
R. V. margin. By eagerly seizins the moments.
by diligence, by continued application
this can be done. "Days arc evil."
The present times are dangerous, and are
full of troubles and temptatious, and only
the watchful and diligent have any reason
to cxoect to keep their garment* clean.
17. "Be ye not foolish.' (R. V.) Here
is a moat evident allusion to the orgies of
Bacchus, in which his votaries acted like
madmen, running about, tossing their
heads from shoulder to shoulder, appearing
to be in every sense completely frantic.
18. "Be not drunk." Do not become
drunken with wine and act like fools or
madmen. There were doubtless converted
drurkards amcag the Christians to whom
Paul wrote, and wine was their especial
danger. Intemperance is folly, a waste,
a degradation, a tin. It (1) divests men
of their native dignity; (2) sinks them
below '.he brutes; (3) injures body and
mind; (4) wastes their substance; (5) de<
stroys the sacredness of the home; (8)
is the parent of other vices: (7) is prohibit
by the Scriptures; (8) must be renounced
or the end will be destruction'
"Wherein i< excesa." "Wherein is riot."
?R. V. The word here translated excess
means proflgacy and debauchery of every
land, such as are generally connected with
drunkenness, and especially among the
worshipers of Bacchus. Paul's prohibition
is positive and absolute. Wine that causes
rioting is forbidden. "Filled with the
Spirit." Here Paul shows the difference
between the worship of the true f?od
and of the heathen deities. After offerI
tn Bacchus. the cod of wine.
t was the custom of the people to get
drunk in hi* honor. The jov that H
kindled by wine in degrading, that which
U kindled by the Holy Spirit in edifying
and oal-insniring. To ! filled with the
Spirit is to ho in possession of the grace*
of the Snirit: it implies divine guidance;?
it i* to he filled with fJod and to accept
Him as the only portion of the soul.
19. "Speaking." etc. Men filled with
wine rag vile *mg*. but God's people
sim; the son.ts of Zion. Christianity is a religion
of song: infidelity docs not sing
'With vour heart"( R. V.). The Lord
is not satisfied until He gets the heart.
Christianity i? a heart religion.
2?>. 'Always." In times of adversity and
I trial as we!! as in times of blessing. "For
I all things." Rom. 8: 28: 1 Thcss. 5: 18.
-"I'nto (tod." James 1: 17.
21. "Submitting." etc. There is a muI
tunl submission that Christians owe one to
j another, condescending to bear one another's
burdens, not advancing themse.voj
above others, but in love serving one a?
?ther.
Largest Can in tb? World.
The greatest piece of ordnance ever
manufactured in the United States has
been completed for the army coast defence
| system, and wili shortly he mounted at
I v....I,, i!?,?! Thi? wi-innn oi sirtcen
I inch calibre, was authorized by the Government
several y.ar< a?o. .it the nstigat:on
of the Sate ilrigadierdenera! Flagler.
With a range of twenty-one mile* it
can throw a five-loot projectile beyond the
vision of the moat powerful lieid glass.
There in not a war vessel afloat that it
could not penetrate from side to side iind
still hr.vc Kunicient energy to j*i.ik another
vessel alongside. Th." gun will .'oat nearly
SWO.OOO. and is the last of the large
guns to be built for either army or navy.
A board will shortly lie a?emj?lcd .:t
Sandy Hook t.? observe the work of tiiu
leviathan of rifles.
South Carolina'* Industrie*.
The Census Bureau, at Washington, ha*
issued a report containing the statistic* of
manufacturing industries for South Caro
Has, which idiow* a capital of S?>7,.V><i.Itu,
invested in the 3702 entaidnhmentH in the
State. The value of product* i* jriven an
M8.74H.731, to produce which involved an
outlay of .<?>:! for salaries of oiiidaW,
clerk-, etc. lor wajitii. *1,111
5S7 to- mise<*l!aneou? expcnucM, including
rent, taxe*. etc.. and ?24.027.7!) i for material*
u*c l. mill *?i??i?!ie<?. freight and fuel.
A Itrrp Artoinn H ell.
Australia ha> aa :r!ciiao well WD feet
deep.
i
GOVS MESSAGE TO MAN _ J
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THt
WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHCTSL
Pwin: PIlcHn'i OartntaluTkt OnUaMf
Christian Doss >ot otv? SuMelea*
Prominence to God's lin Why <W>
Was Sent as Eftrth-Traof of Bis Lsffc
Ah! This life-jarmect with its rente sad
stains,
So soiled ere life's long journey we com*
plete.
Despite our care, despite our watchful
Eain*. , It
eep it always clean and whole anl
sweet.And
yet I lore to think that, mother-wiss^
trod lovea the garments that are (rayed
and worn,
And look* with pitiful and tender eye*
Upon the robe* of life we've stained and
torn.
He knows what atone* and thorns beset
our way.
He will not chide, when we come hooM
at night.
But, mother-like, when babes come in frooi
play. .
Clothe His tired children then with ft!*
ments white.
-James Suckham, in the Sunday-8cho?l
Times.
Does God Lot* tlasmT
Th;re is one trait or characteristic of
God that does not receive doe prominence
in the mind or the thought of toe ordinary;
Christian, and that is God's love. What*
ever the ordinary Christian thinka of God'a
love, be doe* not give it sufficient prominence
or importance. And it ia much the
same as to many a theologian and expertin
systematic theology. The Bible dtstiae?
tivelv declare* that "God is love;" not
merely that He ahowa or exerciaee or MM
love, but that He "it love." This being to,
it is obvious that whatever God doea ia a
manifestation or ezpreaaion of love. Yet
there are definitions, or deecripttooa, ol
love, in atatementa of truth, that actually
omit the very mention of love, la tab
same line, or in the same twist tad per*
version, many a child and grown peraoa
wonders at some Bible statement of God'a
love. Little children say at times thai
God doea not love a bad girl or a bad be?,
but it ia because God does love ainaen
that any of us expect or hope to be saved.
A good Kansas brother, who ie exercised
on thia subject, writea:
"For once I intrude on yocr valuable
time and biblical aeholarship to aak foe
light on what to mi ia a mystery. Egypt,
of all the n .it inn i of the earth, treated
God'a elect race with the least tamwrity
and greatest barbarity. After brad's settlement
as a nation in their promised is*
heritance, Egypt was as a reed which, U
they leaned on it, would give no support.
Egypt was as idolatrous as any of the cos*
temporary nations which Jehovah said Ha
would utterly destroy. Yet I read m
Isaiah that God calls Egypt His people.
He ssys in Isaiah 19: 25: *B1??d bo
Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of
My hands, and Israel Mine inheritance/
Jehovah says there aball be a pillar at the
border (of Egypt), and it shall be for a
sign and for a witness unto the Lord at
hosts in the land of.Egypt. In verses JO
and 21 Jehovah promises political redemption
and spiritual salvation to this nas
people. Why is this distinction? Had the
prophet the present political redemption
in EkO'pt and the freedom from reatraiat
VI IItl?91UIl?i/ Ul TWW
It <ru becaune of God's lore for sinners,
not because of His lore for good people,
that He sent His Son into this world to
more among sinners and then to lajr dowa
His life for tbem. That gires hope and
cheer to all of its. It is because we are
nen that we hare a right to claim th*
promises to sinners. The Egyptians and
Assyrians were idolaters. They were in*
deed unworthy. They were almost as bad
as our fathers were, and as some of m
Christians are. Yet Qod lored tbem, and
was ready to sare them. It is bccause God
lore* sinners, in Egypt and outside of it.
that Christian missionaries go to them, and
urge them to be sared. God did not lore
Egyptian* or Assyrians because of their
idolatry, but in spite of it. He did not lorn
them bccause they were sinners, but in
spite of that fact. It is-because of the lik*
nex* to God in their hearts that Christina
missionaries go to Egypt, and to the Fiji
Islands, and eisewhere, and urge men to be
sared. What a God we bare to lore and
to serve and to trust! And what lore God
has ?hown to Egyptians and Fijians and
Americans.
I ? -
Sabbath and the Tonsi Hsa.
"The causes which turn young men from
the church and the Sabbath are many and
complex," says the New York Christian
Intelligencer (Rcf.). "in the cities a chief
lidUZiU ia iuc aviciiuvuvucva vt wwiuvs?
Conditions of living have changed greatly
within a generation. Home has ia many
instance* bccme a mere sleeping place.
Pressure to meet trains and exacting engagements
hare overthrown many family
alum. Athletics, duos and society absorb
time and strength and money. Sunday has
become leu sacred. From a holy day it has
conic to be regarded by multitudes as a
holiday. Fashion sets the example with
Sunday entertainments and Sunday golf,,
and the young man with little other tim*
for rccreation goes on the Sunday excursion,
or lolls over the Sunday newipaper,
and the habit of church-going, if ever acquired,
is speedily lost. Similar conditions
prevail in ttie country, though less generally
The remedy ia as varied and complex
as the causes. The statistics quoted shov
the might of home influences. Wise parent*
will strengthen these and seek to make
them endure even beyond childhood and
youth. The Sunday-school and young people's
societies inust pay particular attention
to the critical period when youth
passes into manhood. The Iom or gain of
the young man to the church is dccided
before he attains his legal majority. The
personality and tact ot the pastor and
teacher couut for much at this crucial period.
The church may need to reform its
methods. It must give a more cordial welcome
to the young man, must find something
for hint to do, make him feel at
home not only, but that his presence and
services are of value."
Hsra Faith In Tounalf.
No matter how dark and discouraging
the outlook may be, have faith in yoursclve?
and in the good providence of God,
and may this year bring you the fruitage
of your hope*, the transformation of life.
which 15 as uonderaii and yet as possible
as the change which comen to the earth is
May. when the warm rains and the mounting
nun suddenly work the miracle of the
springtime, when the cold and barren
earth, at in response to the touch of an invisible
wand, blooms with verdure.
Watchman.
ti boats.
The wm?M is full of ghosts. They am
coming nn from the ruins of their blasted
hoiies, blighted joys, ruined credit and
blackened reputation to tell us of their
woe. their ruin, the folly nud the hitternea*
that come to lum who lives without God
and without hope 111 the world.?Rev. W<
K. Arnold, Christian Church, Pittsburg.
Haw (5oil Speak* to Ua.
ITapptly life give* us many opportunities
of losing our>e!ves in our ideals. Nor
should itt ncgleot V. cultivate tlieni, for in
uch opportunities (.oil u *pca<;ing 10 a
huu.an hoiil. ? Krv. Edward C'uiiuninga.
Gougii'Salioiiaiiat. Boston.
Ccuaoa Report oa Farm Stock. 1
The Census Bureau, at Washington, i?
a report on domestic animal?. fowls and
bee* in the United States on .June 1. 1900,
announces that all the domestic animal*
in the I'nitcd State* have a probable value
of at least ^.200,000,000. Of this amount
the value of the auimals on farms and
range* constitute over ninety-three per
tent, and tbw not oa farms seven per
tent. The Census Bureau received no
rep'Tls on value of animals, but estim
tf.?* i' at ?-2l."?.lft.,.<>2S. Tb? total value
pi all donuftk' animals on firms and
rar.-t-s was vJ.PSl.'JLll.!!-'?, n^nntit ?2.2?S.?r?7.*;!*
in !?>?. YLcre was t ??in it . 'I
prrt ? ?.' the - ? -y tn ;Jje .N'ji.j
Ai a-:'.i: Sta.M.