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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 ft 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, " ?."IJ 1 kit** m fr Koro/i fhv 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 " ' -t .1? l:-.- ,| 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, " L *??? lit'rt on/1 f hn f ii 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.