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b ??????? (New York City.?Fancy waist* that j {aclude bolero* with ell>ow sleeves are Bach In style, and are charming for Odd bodices and gowns made en suite. 9C ri-\CT WAIST. tThla tasteful May Mailtos example t mmhinM a waist of white silk mull And guipure lace, irltli a jacket of pastel pink satin sap ho. lace trimmed, fend la designed for wear with odd kirta, but pompador silks are exceed| tsglj smart for the bolero, and all the plain and flowered sorts arc appropriate. as are poplin, etamnie. veiling and the like, when the skirt matches the bodice, while the waist may be of my soft material and In the same or contrasting color as preferred. The foil polled sleeves are graceful and tjllsh, but snug fitting ones can be substituted when found more becom/ ** jTbe foundation lining Is snugly fitted if A SEASOXABL and closes at the ccntrc front. The jralst proper Is plain across the shoulders and drawn down In gathers at the waist line, but the front is made .with a yoke of lace, below which the material Is tucked for a short distance. then (alls In soft becoming folds, and closes at the left side beneatli the (jacket. The sleeves, as shown. are full and gathered Into deep pointed cuffs, t)u| can be made plain when preferred. 'At the neck Is a stock that matches the yoke and closes at the centre front. The bolero Is both novel and graceful. The back is smooth and plain, but both fronts and sleeves are laid in narrow tucks, stitched with cortlcelli silk. FurnlsMng the neck is a round collar that Is extended down the edge of the fronts where it gives a ? J hot effect. The sleeves, In Hungarian style, are in elbow length and are slashed at the lower edge. To cut this waist in the medium alse three and an eighth yards of material twenty-one inches wide, two and a half yards thirty-two inches Wide, or one and seven-eichth yards forty-four Inches wide will be required, with seven-eighth yards of allover lace for collar, yoke and cuffs for the under bodice; three and a quarter yards twenty-one inches wide, three yard* twenty-seven inches wide or one and a half yards forty-four Inches wide for bolero, v.ith four and a half yards of lace applique to trim us illustrated. A Hand?otw Costume. Blouse waists make the accepted models for ail simple gowns au<j 0(j(j bodices. The satisfactory model *hown In the large drawing includes the newdeep pleats at the shoulder.*, and Is rendered peculiarly effective by the shield and collar of contrasting material. j The lining Is snugly ?tted and closes I ? -**** ? 'A? I> aha ti ppnni?/wl I mx uie tvum; IIVUI. v/u >, uiv nuuii^u > the various parts of the waist. The hleld Is attached to the right side aud hooked over onto the left, but the __ fronts close separately at the left aide. Deep pleats are laid at the shoulders that extend to the waist line, where the extra fulness Is arranged by gathers. The back is smooth fitting, simply drawn down in gathers at the valst lino. The sleeves are full, sug jesting the bishop, but include deep cuffs, pointed at the upper edge. To cut this blouse for a woman of medium sizc tlirec and seven-eighth yards of material twenty-one Inches wkle. three and a half yards twenty* even Inches wide or two yards fortyfour inches wide will be required, with one-half yard for shield and collar. 8klrts that include variation of the Circular flounce and that flare freely St the lower portion are in the height L.>. ... .. f L : .. .. ... ... A c of present styles. The smart mode) t shown Is peculiarly satisfactory and singularly well adapted t* all figure! t as the front gore Is plain, the flouncc * being Joined to the side portions only. j, The unbroken line of the front glvet } an effect of height and slendernes* e while the flounce provides the needed J' fulness at sides and back. ? The front gore is plain, shaped to be a close fitting at the top and to flare at j ? the feet. The side portions are clrcu- ? lar. and to their lower edges the clrcu- 0 lai flounce is seamed. Short hip darts p effect a snug fit at the sides and th? : ? fulness at the back Is laid in Inverted {j pleats. I i To cut this skirt for a woman of me- j n ulum sise eight and three-quartet * yards twenty-one inches wide, sevep j ? yards twenty-seven Inches wide, thre< h and seven-eighth yards forty-four j fi Inches wkle or three and seven-eighth i * yards fifty Inches wide will be re- t quired. o Baaatlfol Sash Plas. 1 The Increasing use of sashes with * the most elaborate gowns has led tc v the making of many beautiful sash \ pins. The most popular of these are in the form of oval miniatures. " t Tnraortr Collars. j Little turnover lace or embroidered /sniinm nrm nnnnlur for wear over satin 1< or silk neck ribbons. Those with the jj pointed front effect ore the most fa* g vored. t ??? v OrmdlM Attain. Silk grenadine is to share with silk * and wool voile a very prominent plac? ? in the list of dressy summer fabrics, f and now it is very modish for home * * o r r c ,E DESIGN. J ? and evening wear. A very lovely oni j In champagne tan Is over a taffeta ] foundation slip of the same shade, j > Coat-tails adorn the bodice back, whll? j ^ the front Is In Eton effect. Point d? j Veaise lace and black velvet ribbon In j a strap effect Is the graceful finish, a i flaring fall of the lace finishing the el- < boiv sleeves. The skirt is In haiMncb J tucks to the depth of a yoke, and falls j ] in loose pleats below, short triple strap-1 ( pings of the velvet ribbon being set on ; * at intervals around the skirt J i A Jtmw Idta la Back Oombt. c A new idea in the form of back * comb is one that has a slight curve la { the centre of each tooth, giving it a , firmer bold on the hair than the ordl- j i nary comb. | HIini' Shirt TTxlit. r Waists with deep t'icks nt the slioul- ( ders are in the height of style fot i young girls, as they are for their eld- * ers. Pique, duck, chambray. madrai | and Oxford make the favorite washa 3 ble fabric* but taffeta. peau de soI? . 1 and such simple wools, albatross and ^ veiling are all in use for the cold ; , weather waists. The admirable model, t shown Is of white mercerized duck ; J with handsome pearl buttons, used J J for the closing, and Is unlined, but the j ] fitted foundation Is adrisable for all < ? ?1-1- i < MI&8 UUU WUUU-U UiUirilUIS. The lining is carefully fitted and , ' closes with the waist at the centre | back. On it are arranged the front , * and backs proper, laid in two deep I j pleats that extend over the shoulders, | , l ut are stitched to yoke depth ouly. j i The sleeves are In shirt style with | 1 deep cuffs, and at the neck is woru a j plain stock collar with a hat-wing tie. To cut this waist for a miss of four- i teen years of age. three and three- 1 eighth yards of material twenty-om j . MISSKfl' SHIBT WAIST. inches wide, two and five-eighth yards twenty-seven inches wide, two yards thirty-two inches wide, or one and three-quarter yards forty-foar lnche*: wide will be required. / )B. TALMAGES SERMON UNOAY'S DISCOURSE OY THE NOTEO DIVINE. nljKti The Art of rorcettlng?now to Do liappjr?Canceling Vour Detlt-Allow Otlter* to Forget?Come Into Mercy and rartion. u u, i/.?* rom nu icuci 0 tlic Hebrews Dr. Ta!ma;e takes a text ad illustrates how all offenders nay be mancipated; text, Hebrews via, 12, Their sins ar.?l their iniquities will I reacmher no more." The rational Cower of the Egyptians is he heliotrope, of the Assyrians is the rater lily, of the llin-Jcos is the marigold, 1 tic Cruncee is the chrysanthemum. We iars no national flower, but there is inrdly any flower more suggestive to aany of uj than the forgctmenot. Wc all ike to be remembered, and one of our mi:ortuneo is that there arc so many things re cannct remember. Mnemonics, or the rt of assisting memory, is an important rt. It was first suggested by Simonides, 1 Ceos, 300 years before Christ. Persons rho had but little power to recall event* r put facts and names and date? in proper recessions have through this art had their aemory rc-enforced to an almost incrcdiile extent. A good memory is an invaluaile possession. By all means cultivate it. had an aged friend who, detained all ight at a miserable depot in waiting for a ail train fast in the snowbank*, enterained a group of some ten or fifteen clerymcn, likewise detained on their way iome from a meeting of presbytery, by 1 .L . ? ?? h?)lr rtMlrin? Ollfc on TBI YVllU U JiiVVC V* VllttIA IM.n .... he black and sooty walls of the depot the baracter.i of Walter Scott's "3Iarmion" nd then reciting from memory the whole f that poem of some eighty oages in fine ."int. My old friend, througn great age. ;'t his memory, and when I asked him if his story of the railroad depot was true i.' said, "I do not remember now, but it ::i ju-.t like mc. Let me see," said he to a.?. "Have I ever seen you before!" Vcs," I said; "you were my guest last izht, and I was with you an hour ago." Vint an awful contrast in that man beween the* greatest memory I ever knew nd no memory at all! ? But right along with this art of recolxtion, which I cannot too highly eulogize, I one quite as important, and yet I never icard it applauded. I mean the art of forcttiae. There is a splendid faculty in hat direction that we all need to culti* ate. We might through that procesn be ca times happier and more u?eful than re now are. We have been told that forctfulacss is a weakness and ought to be "* nnmiKlli HlMni Sfl far ram a weakness, my test ascribes it to Jod. It is the very top of omnipotence hat God is able to obliterate a part of His wn memory. If we repen: of sin and ightly seek the divine forgiveness, the ccord of the misbehavior is not only rosscd off the books, but Ood actually ets it pass out of memoir. "Their sins .nd their iniquities will I remember no lore." To remember no more is to forget, ad yon cannot make anything else out ot t. God's power of forgetting in so great hat if two men appeal to Him and the mo man, after a lite all right, gets the ins o! bis heart pardoned and the other osn, after a life of abomination, gets par[oacd God remembers no more against ine than the other. The entire past of *oth the moralist, with his imperfections, nd the profligate, with his debaucheries, s as much obliterated in the one case as a the other. Forgotten forever and forver. "Their cine and thei? iniquities will remember no more." This sublime attribute of forgetfulnesi >n the part of God you and I need, in our inite way, to imitate. You will do well to ast out of your recollection &u wrongs bnc you. During the course of one's life ic is sure to be misrepresented, to be lied .bout, to be injured. There are those who :eep these things fresh by frequent rchearal. If thing* hare appeared in print, they :ccp them in their scrapbook, for they cut heso precious paragraphs out of newsa per.3 or books and at leisure tiroes look hcci over, or they have them tied up in lundlcs or thrust in pigeonholes, and they requeatly regale themselves and their riends by an inspection of the^e flings, heae sarcmins, these falsehoods, these cruHies. I have known gentlemen who caried them in their pocketbooks so that hey could easily get at the-se irritations, nd th:y put their right hand in the inside <f their coat pocket over their heart and ay: "Look here! Let. he show you somehwg." Scientists catch waips and horictj and poisonous insects and transfix hem ia curiosity bureaus for study, and hat ia well, but these of whom 1 speak atch the wasps and the hornets and pois* couj injects and play with tht*m and put kem on themselves and on their friends md sec how far the noxious things cau ump and show how deep they can sting, lave no such scrapbook. Keep nothing n your possession that is disagreeable. re.-.r up the falsehoods and the slanders .ad the hypercriticisras. Imitate the Lord in mv te-t and forget, ictually forget, sublimely forget. There a no happiness for you in any other plan >r procedure. You see all around vou in he church and out of the church di*posiions acerb, malign, cynical, pessimistic. >-> you know how these men and women ;ot that disposition? It tvai by the em;ilmment of things pantherine and viper>ua. They have spent mu.h o: their time a calang the roll of all the ran that have libbled at their reputation. Their soul is i cage of vultures. Everything in them is lour or imbittcrcd. The milk of human tindncss has been curdled. They do not >clieve in anybody or anything. If they ice two people whispering they think it is ibout themselves. If they see two people aughing, they think it is about themelvcj. Where there is one sweet pipmn n their orchard there are fifty crabapp'es. riicy have never been able to forget. They 1j not want to forget. They never will orget. Their wretchedness is supreme, 'or no one can be happy if he carries perretually in mind the mean things that lave been done him. On the other hand, ;ou can find here and there a man cr voman (lor there are not many of them! vhoie disposition is genial an<l summery. IVhy? Ilave they always been treated veil? Oh, no. Hard thing) have been i-aid ig^init them. They have Ik en chargcd vitli officiousness. and their generosities lave been set down to a desire tor display. md they have many a time bten the subject of tittle tattle, and they have ha<! rnoujh small assaults like gnats and enough great attacks hke lion* to have r.ade them perpetually mnera'?!e. if they ,vou!d have consented to miserable. But they have had enough divine philolophy to cast oil the annoyances, and they lave kept themselves in the sunlight of Jod's favor and have realized that these jppositious and hindrances arc a part of a uifjhty discipline by which they arc to be prepared for usefulness and heaven. The secret of it ell is tfte.v have, by the help >f the Eternal God, learned how to forget. Another practical thought: When our faults arc repented of let them go out of mind. If God forgives them, we have a r;ght to forget them. Having once repented of our infelicities and misdemeanors, there is no need of our repenting of them again. Suppose I owe you a large sum of money, and you are persuaded I am incapacitated to pay and you give me s -quittal from that obligation. You nay: ' l cancel that debt. All is right now. Surt again." And the next day i come in mid cay: "You know about that big debt I owe you. I have come in to get you to let nie o5. 1 feel so had about it 1 cannot rest. Do let me off." Y'ou reply with a little impatience: "I did let you off. Don't bother yourself and bother me with any more of that discussion." The following day 1 come in and say: "My dear sir. about that debt?I can never get over the fact that I owe you that money. It is something that weighs on my mind like a millstone. Do forgive me that debt." This tunc you cicar lose your jiuuciire mm m< . "You are a nuisance. What do you mean by this reiteration of that affair? I am aimoiot scrry I forgave you that debt. Do you doubt ray veracity or do you not understanl the, plain language in which I told you t])6t debt ww canceled?'' Well, my iriends, there are many Christian* guilty of "worse folly than that. While it is right-that they repent of new sins and of recent sins, what is the use of bother-1 lag youmlf and laiuiting God by a3lunj| Rim to forgive tin* that lose ago were forgiven? God has forgiven tnem. Why do voj not forget them? No; you drag the load on with you, and 385 times a year, ii you pray every da^\ vou ask God to recall occurrences which He has not only forgiven. but forgotten. Suit this foliy. I do not ask you less to ize the turpitude of sin, but I ask you to a higher faith in the promise of God and the full deliverance of Hia mercy. He does not give a receipt for part payment cr so uuch received on account, but receipt n full, God having for Christ's sake decreed "your sins and your iniquities will I remember no more." As far a3 ;.auib!e let the disagreeables of life drop. We have enough things in the present, and there will be enough in the future, to disturb us without running a spccial train into the great Goneby to fetch us as special freight things left belj v i ... t Xlinu. X car %?ucu kurrc was a railroad strike, I remember seeing all along the route from Omaha to Chicago and from Chicago to New York hundreds and thousands of freight cars switched on the sidctracks, those cars loaded with all kinds of perishable material, decaying and wasting. After the strike was over did the railroad companies brin~ all that perished material down to the markets? No; they threw it off where it was destroyed and loaded up with comething else. Let the long train of your thoughts throw off the worse than useless freight of a corrupt and destroyed past and load up with gratuuae ana uun ana noiv aeiermination. Wc do not p'.casc God by the culti\ation of the miserable. Not onJv forget your pardoned transgressions, but allow others to forget tacm. The chief stock on hand of some people is to recount in prayer meetings and pulpits what bia scoundrels they once were. They not only will not forget their forgiven deficits, but they seem to be determined that the church and the world shall not forget them. If you want to declare that you bare been the chief of sinners and extol the grace that could save such a wretch at you were, do so, but do not go into particulars. Do not tell how many times yoa I got drunk or to what had places you went or how manv free rides you had in the Erison van before you were converted. >ump it, brother; give it to us in bulk. Tt ??? k<ir? nfit- ?MPa mt in Kononhll A* * ? Y ? ? warfare, show them, but if you hare scars .cot ia ignoble warfare do not display them. I know you trill quote the Bible reference to the horrible pit from which voa were dieged. Yes, be thankful for that rescue. but do not make displays of the mud of that horrible pit or splash it over other people. Sometimes I nave felt in Christian meetings discomfited and unfit for Christian service because I had done none of those things wh teemed to be, in the estimation of t necessary for Christian usefulness, for I never swore a word or ever got drunk or went to compromising places or was guilty of assault and battery or ever uttered a slanderous word or ever did any one a hurt, although I knew my heart was sinful cuough and 1 said to mvself, "There is no use of my trying to ao any Rood, for I never went tnrougn mosc uepravcu ujicncmcK. uu? afterward I saw consolation in the thought that no one gained any ordination by the laying on of the handi of dissoluteness and infamy. A sin forgetting God! That is clear beyoad and far above a sin pardoning God. How often we hear it said. "I can forgive, but I cannot forget." That is equal to saying. "I verbally admit it is all right, but I will keep the old grudge good. There is something in the demeanor that seems to say: "I would not do you harm. Indeed, I wish you well, but that unfortu* nate affair can never pass out of my mind." There may be no hard words pass Between them, but until death breaks in the same coolness remains. But God lets our pardoned offenses go into oblivion. He never titrows them up to us again. He feels as kindly toward us as though we had been spotless and positively angelic all along. Mmy years ago a family consisting of the husband and wife and little girl of two years lived far out in a cabin on a western prairie. The husband took a few cattle to market. Before he started his little child r.?ked him to buy her a doll, and he promised. He could after the sale of the cattle purchase household necessities and cer " - ' . .L. J.ll 1 k./l ta:n:y wouia noi torgui mc uuu uc u>? promised. In the villajce to which he went he so!d the cattle and obtained the groceries for hiii household and the doll for hi* little darling. He started home along the dismal road at nightfall. As he went alonj on horseback a thunderstorm broke. <>.nd in the most lonely part of the road a ad in the heaviest part of the storm he heard a child's cry. Robbers had been known to do some bad work along that road, and it was known that this herd** man had monev with him, the price of the cattle sold. The herdsman tint thought it as a stra^cm to have him halt and be despoiled of his treasures, but fhe child'* cry became more keen and rending, and so he dism runted and felt around in the darkness and all in vain until he thought of a hollow tree that he remembered near the road where the child might be, and for that he started, nnd, sure enough, found a little one fagged out and drenched of the storm and almost dead. He wrapped it up as well as he could and mounted hi* horse and resumed his journey home. Coming in sight of his cabin he saw it all lighted up, and supposed his wife had kindled all these liffbM so as to guide her husband through tne darkness. But no. The house was full nf excitement, and the neijhbors were gathered and stood around the wife of the house, who was insensible from some great calamity. On inauiry the returned husband found that tne little child of that cabin was gone. She had wandered out to meet her father and get the present he had promised, and the child was lost. Then the father unrolled from the blanket the child he had found in the rield i, and, lo, it was his own ch?ld and the lost one of the prairie home, and v.. ??k;> wi?h ih.i shout over the IIIC ?.uum v|uunv?? ? -... ? lout one found. How sugjenlive of the fact that once we were lost in the open field* or among the mountain crag*, God'* wandering children, and He found us, dying in the tempest and wrapped us in the mantle oi Hi* love and fetched us home, gladness and congratulation bidding us welcome. The fact is that the world doe* not know God or they would all flock to Him. So I set open the wide gate of my text, inviting you a'l to come into the mcrcy and pardon of God?yea, still further, into the ruin* of the place where once waj kent the knowledge of your iniquities. The place has been torn down and the records destroyed, ;\nd yet you will find the ruins more dilapidated and broken and prostrate than the ruins of Melrose or Kenii worth, for from these last ruins you can pick un some fragment of a sculptured -tone or you can see the curve of some broken arch, but after your repentance and your forgiveness you cannot find in all the memory of God a fragment of your nnrdoned sins so large a* a needle's point. "'Their sins and their iniquities will I re member no more." Six different kind* of sound were heard on that night which was interjected into the d tylight of Christ'* assassination. The neighing of the war hor.?w?for tonic of the soldiers were in the saddle?was ona sound, the hang of the hammers was a second sound, the jeer of malignant* was * third sound, the weeping of friends and followers was a fourth sound, the plash of blond on the rocks was a fifth sound, and the groan of the expiring Lord was a sixth sound! And they all commingled into one sadness. Over a place in Russia where wolves were pursuing a load of travelers and to save them a servant sprang from the sled into the mouths of the wild beasts and was devoured, and thereby the other lives were sa\ed arc inscribed the words, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend." Many a surgeon in our own time has in trachteo. ??-n lm? drawn froni the windpipe of a diphtheritic patient that which cum! the patient and slew the surgeon. and all have honored the self sacrifice. But all other scene* of sacrifice pale before this most illustrious martyr of nil time and all eternity. After that agonizing spectacle in behalf of our fallen race nothing about the sin forgetting God ij too stupendous for my faith, and I accept the promise, aad will you not all accept it? j Thpir sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Copjrlfht, LN3, L. Klspsch. I . "WK .. BiriCl' , :i I, T GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. Pmib: Ha Understand*?A Trna Christian Should CnrclM Self-Control Until 11a Hm Gained a Mastery?One Is Hindered by Brooding Orar His Discomfort. Our censors guard us roundabout, And hedge us with their dusty creeds; They cry us wrong in hope or doubt, And howl like ban dog* at our deeds. They wail our knotted skein of life. And flout us tor our clumsy hands, oecausc wim inngirs u 11 rue? But all the time God understand*. Our censors measure step and stride With mathematic rod and rule, And when we wander to one side, Straightway they cry aloud, "Thou fool!" And book and b?fl and candle bring To curse the one who halting stands. But, ah! the footsteps wanderingHe understands?He understands. Our censors weigh our every word. And sift its sound for sign of sin, And whispered dreams that are unheard Against the screen of late they pin. With harpy smile they search out brain To bind our thoughts with braken band*, But hope shall struggle not in vain, An/t nil thi> (imp (livi understands. He understands our little fears, Our little doubt* and little woes; And in the shadow of the years He sees the soui. He knows?He knows; He scans us, not as censors doTo mark the blindlv searching hands? But all our good He brings to view. He understands?He understands. ?Josh Wink, in the Baltimore American. SClf-PolM. It i* possible to conduct oneiielf in Christian fashion in the Viidst of aggravating and unnecessary annoyances. If one may not run away or extricate himself from his try* ing connections, he must surely endeavor, for his own peace of mind, and for exam* pie's sake, to exercise self-control till he shall gain a certain mastery. Dishonesty, inefficiency, profanity, ugliness of temper, rudeness and d'scourtcsy in others are ob: iect lessons with no uncertain emphasis as to one's duty to yoid ximilar confusion in conduct and speech. While they arc discouraging and irritating, it is good to reflect that one's best life is hindered by brooding over his discomfort, if he is powerless to remedy matters. His own best attention to the work that falls to him will yield a glad satisfaction, and his practice af blindness and deafness will help toward patience and forbearance. Wrongdoing is always wrong, and injures many besides the wrong-doer. One may believe this thoroughly, even while he exerts himself to ?elf-control that he may not be oppressed [ and borne down. If one may not be hapI pily placed, even though his duty holaa I him, one's better nature is severely tried, ! but a determined direction of one'a I thought from the fiction of what is unlove iy and untrue will help to a nerenity that is juite necessary if one would suppress his impulse to freouent and har*h condemnation, and hold himself in check because of ! the Christian ideal he is striving to reach. : Prayer, patience, pewintence are helps to this end.?Universalis Leader. God's Mmtey. Let us learn that there are times in out brief lives when, like our great high priest, j re are sore amazed and very heavy by rea10a of strange and startling changes in our ! lircumstances. Sometimes unexpected agonj ies come into our own hearts when, though I )ur work appears to be acceptable and suc| ressful. the worker is ignored and forgot Tk;- iu Vot an much ( (CI1. J Ilia ta naav vvimj ? ?. j :he wilderness solitude, or the greater powI tr of another, or the specially successful rork of another, but rathwr dismissal from i #ervice just when we feel most equal to the j rork. to be limited in opportunity, to feel I i seeming neglect and realize an apparent j lefeat. Then it is that we need supremely j to know Him with whom we have to do, I To know that He delighteth in mercy, and j Chat it is His good pleasure to give us the ; kingdom, and though circumstances would I jeem to indicate that we are forgotten, or 1 that our case is unimportant, to be assured i within ourselves of His love, His mercy [ ind His care.?Rev. E. Duckworth. Th# Spiritual Kept to the Front. | "The theory that men may be won t? ' the spiritual life by ministering to their I physical necessities, or by providing for | :hem amusements and social opportunities, i is not to be entirely discarded," savs the j Watchman (Baptist) of Boston. "But toj day, as in the times of our Lord, the eyes j that are largely fastened upon 'the loave* ind fishes' are not apt to discern the heavI ?nly vision. The chief spiritual value of j this ministry is that it serves as a model , for manifesting human sympathy and for : internretinir the divine love. Sometime*, | I M in the case of the desperately miserable, I it in the only avenue through which they } :an be reached. The vast majority of pco? ! pie, however, can be most directly and et'? j tectively reached by the clear and loving freaentation of the gospel. No man ever ad a harder field that Dr. Edward Jud- ; j ion in New York City. Ku: the distinguishing feature and the secret of hi* sue* cess, is that he has always kept the spirit* aal aspects of his work primary." Oar Companions. Every man is born into a vast workshop full of materials and tools. His busine?4 j in life is to select the material ui?on which and the tools with which lie shall work, I | and then, out of his own imagination, he j | fashions hi* world, and. as th? product of what he thinks and does and feels, that ! j world passes out of the realm of imagina- j j tion into reality and becomes his world. | I So every man creates his companionship j ! *ccordinif to hi? thought. If his thought | i is fine and generous and hi;h, he is the | j l>est company and the most inspiring; if it | i is mean and low and vile, no rratter what I ! deserts surround him. he is in. base and j i vile and ignoH!.' fellowship; :t is a mfctter | ! $[ character, rompanion^hi? does not <le- I j pend upon accident, but upon selection. I I Even* man makes his own friends, and it is i this fact which gives the profounder truth ! to the o'.d proverb. "A man is known by ! the company he keep*.."?Outlook. I Obedient to Cod. ! Oh. that wc cou'd take that simple view ! of t''intr* a* to feel thit the one thinu ! which lies before us is to please (iodl j What srain w it to please the world, to j please the great, nay. even to please those j whom we love, compared with this? What ; fain is it to l>e applauded, admired. courted, followed ? compared with this i one aim of not heimr disobedient to the heavenly vision??-J. H. Newman. Factor) of Christian Life. It ought not to surprise u? that pride i* perhaps the greatest sin and weakness of I our Christian lite to-day. I know we are I told that even holiness mal:es its possessor* 1 M'.n tlm Anline?4 that m.ikes a i pniU'l. i?tn. V... _ | man nroud is the holir.en of the devil. and I n >t the holine** of God the Holy Gho*t. No man is entirely sanctitied in whom there i* the ulightcst welcome or the slightest nlace given to the smallest measure of pride. It in no wonder, therefore, that when Augustine was asked what were the three most important tilings in the Christian life, he Raid: "The first is humility; the second is humility: the third i? humility!"?Tlie Rev. Charles Inwood. I(ountllng I'p the liuAilod. The Interior Dtpartment, at Washington. has under consideration the advisability of starting a new herd of buffalo in the Yellowstone National I'ark by buying . -1..? !r* oil fhft nuinc hill- I some aim i-frd-mug ?|. .? ...? .. ? ? falo that can bo found and placing them in j the reservation. Twenty-two of the?e animals are now located near the head of Pelican Creek. Toe Controller of the Treasury will pay the expense involved, cs- | penally from the hotel leases, transportation and other privileges Ostrich Farming in Africa. Oouih Africa iias ostrich farms containing over $X).00U birds. _ . . . _ ... THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FCR MARCH 30. of tb? First Quarter, Acts l.,fl-14i II., 1-4?Golden Text: Acta II., 36Toplc: The Power of GotMamintrj of th* Preceding Lessons. Introduction.?In the lessons this quarter we nee very clearly what God is able to do through His people. At the very beginning cf the new dispensation they received a baptism of fire and power which enabled them to triumph over every foe. Miracles were wrought, hypocrites were discovered and punished, and even in the midst of persecution and death His name was magnified and His glory revealed, so that even the sufferings that they endured tended to the advancement of the cause. Thousands were brought to believe in Jehus. The supreme promise of prophecy and thp rlimtr of rnanpl fulfilment if the beatowment of apiritual power. Thia ia the central thought of the lesaona of the quarter. About thia thought they may b? grouped aa followa: Power promiaed, leanon 1. Power poaaeaaed, lesaona 2. 3. Power exercised, (a) in bleaaing, lesson 4; (b) in puniahment, lesaon 6. Power opposed, lesions 5, 7, 10. ?Power prevailing, lesaon II. Power practiced, leaaon 12. Summary.?Lesson 1. Topic: The com[ ing kingdom. Placet: Mount Olivet and Jerusalem. Lake the author of the Acta; Jesus about to leave the disciples; they were commanded to return to Jerusalem and wait for the promise of the Father; they ask Jesus if He will restore again the kingdom to Israel; He promises the Holy Spirit to them; they are to be witnesses in all lands; Jesus ascends to heaven; angels appear to the disciples; they return to Jerusalem and continue in earnest prayer. II. Topic: The pentecoatal outpouring. Place: In an upper room at Jerusalem. At the feast of tne Pentecost; fifty days after the Passover; the disciples assembled in an upper room; with one accord; suddenly a sound from heaven; tongues "like as of fire" sat upon them; they were filled with the Holy Ghost; spake with other tongues; the multitude heard the sound and came together; Joel had prophesied concerning thu outpouring. III. Topic: The effect of gospel preaching. Place: Jerusalem. Peter continued his sermon begun in last lesson; showed how great a person Jesus wan; the people were priclccd to the heart; they saw their ain tn crucifying Chriat; Peter calla upen them to repent; they were promised the gift of the Holy Ghoat; three thousand believed in Chriat and were added to the church; the apoatlea did many signs and wonders; those that believed sold their possesions and had all things in common; they continued daily in prayer in the temple. IV. Topic: The power of Jesua Chriat. Place: At the temple in Jerusalem. Peter and John going into the temple aee a lame man; he asks an alma: they ask him to look on them, they do not give him money, but command nim to rite up and walk; the man was healed and went leaping and praising God; the people came together in Solomon'a norch; they were filled with amazement; Peter preached to the peopie; asked them wny tney marveled; naid God had glorified Jesun whom they had killed; and had raised Him from the dead. V. Topic: Jesus Christ, the cornerstone. Place: Jerusalem. While Peter and John were preaching the authorities came upon ihem; they were grieved because they preached Jexua and the resurrection; the apoatlea were arrested and put in prison; many that heard the word believed: the next day the rulers assembled and Peter and John were set in the midst; Peter spake to them and again preached Jesus; the Sanhcdrin con* siderea the cane and decidcd to threaten them and let them po; Peter and John would not promise that they would stop preaching in the name of Christ. VI. T opic: The trials of the early | church. Place: Jerusalem. Those who believed were united; they sold their possession* and had all things common; no one lacked anything; Barnabas sold his land and laid the money at the apostle*' I feet; the apostles witnessed of the resurrection of Jesus with great power; Ani anias and ?api>hira sold their possessions; they tried to deceive the apostles and kept bacA part of the price; the Lord is not mocked, and as a punishment for their sin they both fell down dead at Peter's feet; fear came upon the church. VII TrtniA* TKa imrtrwsiiUi'itt? f\f fftllV | pressing the gospel, f'lace: Jerusalem, f Such great numbers were added to the church that the ruler* and Sadducee.i determined to utamp out the new religion; the apostles were arrested and brought before the council; Peter preachcd Jesus to them; they were cut to the heart and "took counsel to slay them:" Gamaliel's speech ?aved their lives. VIII. Topic: Choo?ing the seven deacons. Place: Jerusalem. The number of the disciples wax large and the apostles could not properly attend to all the worthy poor; a general meeting was called and seven men were chosen to attend to that hu?ine*s. IX. Topic: Stephen's death. Place: Jerusalem. Stephen still before the Sanhedrin; make* a long addres* in which he hows that their charges arc false; they cried out against him: cast him out of the city and stoned him; Saul consented to his death. X. Topic: Preaching to the Samaritans. Place: A city in Samaria. Saul persecuted the church greatly; the disciples were scattered abroad and went everywhere preaching the word. Philip preachcd in Samaria; many were neaica; unciean spirits were cant out and there wa* much joy iu the city. Simon the sorcerer protended to he converted. XI. Topic: Salvation through Christ. I Place*: (Jnza. Caesarea. Azotus. Philip I i* directed to gu south of Jerusalem into Gaza; he draw# near to a man of Ethiopia who is reading the Scripturc?; I'h-lip Aiiked him it n? understood the pa*>agc j he was reading; the man did not. whereupon Philip was invited into tiie clianot; the place lie read was Isaiah 33; Philip preached Jesus to the eunuch. XII. Topie: The gudlv walk of the Christian. I'lace: Rome. Christian* should walk in lovo. avoid all untleanness. eovetov.sncs*. foolish joting and idolatrv; have no felloivthip with the t:nfruitful worJ * ?>f darkness; reprove sin; walk in the light; awake from spiritual lethargy; l?e r.ot drunk with wine; he filled with the Spirit; give thanlu to Cod; I submit to one another. Tt?e Carnegie acottUh Fund. The trustees of the Andrew Carnegie endowment of $1U,OUO.OOO for the Scottish universities have held their first annual meetins in London. Lord Elgin presiding. j The report h ho wed that o! IWJO students | - -? - nnat who applied -Mi wj jmjsivu, >. .? ot $1U.7u>. lor the winter session of 11W1* I 190"_\ The trustees had ample proof that the paying ot fees was the greatest boon j to many deserving students. Two fees I have been returned already by assisted student*. One received an unexpected legacy. the other won .1 4cUolar?nip. Both expressed pleasure at being permitted to j repay the fees advanced to them The World's Shipbuilding Output. | The total shipbuilding output of the I world during 1W1?exclusive of war ships | ?appears to have been about 2,617.imW tons, of which "J.SO'J.OOO is steam and 31^.- j U00 sad. Lloyd's Register wreck returns | show that the tonnage of all nationalities j totally lost, broken up. etc.. in the course of twelve month*, amounts to about 7PJ.- | OOO tons. The net increase ot the world's j mercantile tonnage is. therefore. l.STl.'Wi tons. Compared with this net increase for the world the n?: increase of tons for the I'mted Kingdom i? equivalent to twenty nine per cent. To License llorui. aiiroad ;ire not >hod with *har;> calked t*ini<e-|uent!y. ?!.? not lantage ntroet paving a? mucii .i* they ?! > m the I'mtc 1 St.-.:*.*. The ?ti,fc?>!>*''>ti ha* 'ie?':i rsaii"' that all h?>r*e; shouM be !: ieu-:?l. t > :'jr?.v tlu'ir owner* to pay a proliar:. >nate cos: ot iruitntaining the a:r.-:< in repair. THE GREAT DESTROYER _______ V SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. rbo Harden of Drink?Ei*ht Hand red and Twenty Homicide# Is the United Stated Last Tear TTere Canted by Intoxication?Blood of the Saloon'a Crime * For several years past the Chicago Tribune has annually published a statement , regarding the crimes of violence in th? l'nit?d States. The method used in gath IVSIClg IUUIR" BUll.iai.IUll ? IIVI* HW?|uvav>vu ably accurate, since, as we understand it. I the report given in merely a nummary of what the new* di*natche* bring to the office of the Tribune in the course of the year. However, the figure* are valuable and probably approach nearer to authentic statistics than any others in cxis(cnce. According to the Tribune'* r.gt:there were in the United 8tate* duri. g the year 1901 820 murders caused by iutoxicatiag drinks. The incompleteness of thia statement is manifest in a moment when it ie noticed that the list includes 4640 murder* t that are recorded as the "outcomc of qoarre U." It is a matter of common kuowlcd^e that comparatively few quarrels end in murder where the principals of the quarrel are sober. For some reason or other of ., late years there hai been an extreme disinclination upon the part of the newspapers to report drink's part in a murder caw. Vet tnc intelligent reader readily recognize* it in numerous instance*. Take as an illustration a murder occurring in Chicago last Saturday eight. Two men quarreled over a matter of |7. One of them went out and was gone a few minutes, returned and renewed his demand, was refused and shot the other man, instantly killiog him, and turning ran from th* orfice, entered a saloon and took a drink. That that was not the first drink in the tragedy needs little confirmation, but tb? published reports will record this as crime due to a quarrel, rather than due to drink. But suppose that the figures of the Tribune were accurate, and that only 830 peo a _ .1 _ Oi.i pie were muraerea in mi umica owia during the last rear on account of intoxieating liquor*. Even with that, the showing would be that u a people we arc allowing a well-known, preventable cause to deprive a large number of fellow-citizen* of life and to carry crief and suffering to a much greater number. Even 820 murdera stand a* a charge of appalling blackness against a people wMb will not take the nece?*arv ?ttps for the removal of the cause. We say "will not," for, ao far u the great multitude of the American people in concerned, that is the case. It ia true there are propositions for regulation, proportions for changing the method by which drink is sold, propositions to increase the revenue received, but each and all of such propositions offer not tbe slightest deviation from the one constant net that the sale of intoxicating drink, under any regulation, by any method, produce* crime, make* murder. The *urpming fact about it is that the Anglo-Saxon race ha* known this for centurie*. Two hundred and fifty 3?ara ago Sir Matthew Hale, then an eminent jurist of England, said: ''The place* of judicature whicli I hare held in this kingdom have given me opportunity to observe the original cause of most of the enonnitiea that have been committed for the space of nearly twenty year*, and by close observation I have found that if the murder* and maashughters. the burglarie* and robberie*, the riota and tumult* and other enormities that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them hare been the issue and product of excessive drinking at tavern* or ale-house meetings." Murder touches us quickly enough sometimes The whole country was convulsed and even now there are thousand* who would legislate away the dearest bought rights of the people because a single murder was committed last summer by a poor fool at Buffalo. But how long can not the saloon spatter the blood of its crimes in the face* of Chri*tian people with impunity??New Yofk Voice. f Wlthflnl the Cm of AlnhaL The London Temperance Hospital, whictl wa.t founded in 1873 for the treatment of medical and surgical case* without the u>e of alcohol, has just iiuucd its twenty-eighth annual report. It covers the period of 1990, and itatei that during that year 1^82 in-paticnU were admitted, being 72 fewer than in 1800. The case* cured were 831; relieved. 234; unrelieved, 80. The deaths were 117, of which no fewer than 32 occurred within twenty-four hours of admission. The death rate is therefore 9.1 per cent., whieb may be regarded at moderate. Excluding moribund rose* the death rate was 6.0 per cent. From the opening of the hospital in 1873 the in-patients have numbered 17,910, the cures have been 10,372, and th? death* 1290. giving the low death percentace of 7.2. The out patients treated in 1900 were 8327, who made 21,015 visit*. In 1899 the figures were 8328 and 22,043 respective! v. The casualty patients in 1900 were I i.n.o -Willi In Ifltt) th# figure* were 12,54.') and 30,856 respectively. Added together the out-patient* and casualty patient* in 1900 numbered 22,339. These were r.ow caste*, the visits being 53,376. > Insaaity Due to Liqnor. "There has been a remarkable inerea* of io>anity in thin city in recent years," j said A*Ji*tant Warden Rickard, of Belle* I me Ho.pital. to a reporter of the New I York Tribune. "Here at this hospital, ' where most of the cases are examined, a I can-* of insanity was not so common twenty | years ago as to fail to attract the attention ' of everybody connected with the instituI tion. Now we have 2000 insanity cases a year at the hospital." ' Mr. Rickard opened a book and showed I that durins the year 1803 1150 men and j 945 wo.-ncn had been sent to the hospital ! as insane patients. Of the whole number I only 103 had ix*e? discharged as cured or i not insane, while 77S men and 745 women I had been sent to the asylums on the isl; and. and the rest had been sent to otbr institutions. The Crniailr In Brief. For t!ie be*t picture ilhutrating the evflk ' of intemperance she ttelitian Government ! ha* offered .? prize of 100(1 franc". ! Judge Templeton. of Toledo, Ohio, ha* ] decided that a wlo^nkceper can he compelloi to retund the money npent in his place !>y .1 man who in drunk. An Enc!i!?h law pa**ed in 1774 providing thai no: more than to can he recovered for I liquor debt*. wa? te.ted lately by a phv?i! cian wh < owed over SiiO. The law was de1 elared valid, aad the liquor dealer is out I $243. IV.ragould. Ark., ha* found a night marI shal unnecessary nincc the town went dry. According to Mr. Wynn Wentcott, an j Engl^n C oroner. it i? very rare when a total abntainer commit* micidc. | Tlie wonderful physical vitality of the Turkifth race h due to the universal ahtti| nence of th? c minun people. Alcohol u I not touched by the iieanantn. no'.diem, merchants or members of the learned profe*i aionn. What legislation, we a*k. can make rep! utable the nu.*ine** of tho*e men against : whom (?nd in- pronounce>l thin voe: J "Woe u:i;.t hir.i that giveth hi* ncitf.thor drink, that put'.?.?! the bottle to ht:a and inaki''.:i him drunken aim)?" '1 hi* drinker* are the principal part of the problem, and drinking will rontinue to im:ca*e Ions a? they are permitted j *o their appetite* at will. Would we deal with the *a'o.>n a* we | deal w:th other -ourco of con;sgion. would j we :n.i: i!ie *alo >11 a* we would treat any j other 1 r.nse cut re that wa* spreading ?imilar baleful influence*, the liquor trathc would hv- abolished before *i::idowu. The wholesale liquor dealer* ?*f Okla' h'tiiia have agreed to buiid a home (for orIphan l to ?o?: ftX'MO, at *<>:nc point in OUlr.h.tnia. and the retaii liquor dealer* 1 -1 ?!.a rn ?M't?" 4>\ ! w r\ 1m | ii.ivv ai;rucu i ? |"?? i.?v | ?Now.- in ok-ah-mi pa;*?!*. Oklahoma j liquor -leaicr* r?:-f.?r k > ni?rcc with wrw !>?: >; i tiii*. the sa'.coa ou^ut | to "j ay :tj v'vj