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(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.
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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/
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jTbe foundation lining Is snugly fitted
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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
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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
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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. "
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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
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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 *
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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
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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 <
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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.
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)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
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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