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ooagooBBDoo^^ cCtfj* , The New | White House p "T-y HE White House has entered , | upon a new era In Its history. hv l_ wnen tneiwprm eiueuig ueiug ^ made to it are completed It Hll be a borne for tbe President's famH, and not a combined lodging bouse H Kp B Bp. |B THE BEAR OP THE WHI' Id office building. The lower floor U scene of desolation; the floor Is lit* wed with lumber, paint and plaster. He walls stripped of their hangings Br red eco ration, and not an apartment for habitation. Everywhere the mail. the carpenter, the electrician and Is decorator are creating the chaos at such people can create, and from Straing until night the sound of ham* lur and saw arises In the clouds of In dust and other dirt. The members I the family, meanwblie. are confined the upper floor, and the servanta to Be basement and attic, while- the lights of labor are doing their utmost | make it Interesting on tip first floor. The Executive Building, however. L *tii( *Ka Paltlnaf 9 WTii wui|m;ivui MM IUC Bdicated it with aa inaugural meeting VTbe main office of the nation repreBnts but a portion of tho $550,000 up^ opriated for the "White House im ovements." aa they are officially Hrmtil. Including furniture it cost 0,000. The porte-cochere am! npRoach to the east wins of the White nose will coat $95,000. while the al^fctlons and decoration* of the house BBif will cost nearly $300,000, yet ^Brly all of thla la being expended for Hnwww^ -1 i It or m BuroTATSD bid-boohs nu piwdut's bxd-boox. eflt of the "maa?es.M and not ?o or the occupants of the Preslmaosloa aa might be expected, sement of the east wing has anged from a bnge lumber and torn into wbat some might call le-comfort building, aa It coni*v?h1 Uhm anartrnmla for Iu as well as cloak rooms where aps of 3000 people can be cared pile tbej are greeting the host teas at receptions. In the past receptions meant standing in nree or four blocks long, for as Lours or more, often exposed to Id snow, until one at lant found I In the main entrance, and an I so later shook hands with the Magistrate and passed out To [this crowding and discomfort, lly to women, the guests in fulin approach the receptions I the basement passageway now ftompleted. which will shelter BOO people. If not more. Their Irlll be checked by attendants. m win pass on to the reception nf by two stairways?one for m of official circles, inch as the Blit in i> mamhtiPa A# Pnr. nng^HBiv vvi|?, iucmji^io wu?ivjk?, SHHl and naval officers, etc.. and HjlUHfor the general public, large MHo that tha human current can SBB^ng rapidly and easily. After UM^Khe reception they can reach R|B rooms by other passages and BmBfiBiselYes in the retiring rooms, at once. To sum It all up, appreciate the honor of th? which Is extended the poo mn^ftce to pay their respects to the HnyHfhe nation, will no. longer be BnfiSHke a mob assembled on the BBMHIMt will be shown the courtesy |m??cor<lv<l guests at any Araerlwhether they are miner* WHMHka. bankers from Walt Street ffigHHLnen from the piney woods ot HBraKroach and porte-cochere or BHnB iil. of course, correspond in Nu|hH the west approach wblcl connection with the oflei The contractors are requiret hT Februarv 1. as well ai K ration* is the mansion Itself gain, the comfort of ootsiden 9 more considered than that ol tidential family. The principa Is In the main staircase leadini K -? A IV UU UWI. A UlflMITC Oiuut replaces the former passage spacious, and will be one ol tire features of the building on to forming sn effective m the upper floors In esse 01 i President will continue ti w -Mine sleeping chamber Bereft retains her forme Wi mjllt /. flK "r-zr*-* - . r ! apartment. nltl.ouqrh both of thrso hare | been redevornicd. Sixteen additional | rooms have been provided, however? eight in the main building and eight in the wings. Of ?tVs?* right situated in the second story will lie devoted to guests, and the other* to the servants' quarters. More toilet rooms hrtVc- in?on prorlded. as well as a new steam heating plant lo<*ated in a sub-basement.? Harper's Weekly. Arabia* Nicblt Up<lo.n?le. A Bushlre correspondent writes: Some months ago an assault was made by some Persian soldiers ou a par rB HOUSE. SHOWING THE NI doner at Dalaki. daring which a soldier. probably an onlooker, was killed, some say accidentally. The gardener was arrested and brought into tsusnire a few days ago. Orders were subsequently issued by the central government for his executtou. Last week when be was being led out of prison to pay the penalty for his crime the brother of the deceased soldier stepped forward and demanded as his right, according to the Mahometan law, "blood for blood" or complete pardon to the prisoner. In exercislug his prerogative he chose to pardon the culprit. whom he embraced and addressed as follows: "As I expect forgiveness from God. so do I forgive you. Go thy way. Tou are pardoned, and may God not call me and you to account. Take these few krans for jour Immediate expenses." One cannot help admiring such a loftiness of mind, purity of faltli. nobility of character and magnanimity of bear^bs displayed by this poor. Illiterate and obscure individual.?Lahore (Indian) Tribune. ( K?* Style of Cmi Hanting. Some time a geuius discovered a substitute for the ferret In hunting rabbits. It was to equip one end of a mall rubber hose with a thin whistle. Insert the whistle end Into the rabbit's burrow and blow. The noise brought the rabbit out at its best possible speed. A prototype of the rabbit hunter has been discovered In a Winsted 'coon hunter. Time out of mind it has been the practice to chase a 'coon to the top of a tree, then either chop the tree down or hare one of the party climb to the limb where the 'coon was perched and shake him loose. The AVInsted man fills his pocket with Roman candles and carries a few sky rockets. When the 'coon is treed the hunter starts up a pyrotechnic display In the 'coon's direction, and it is a case of Immediate come down on the part of the "ring-tail"?Oil City Derrick. PALATIAL HOME OF SOUTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER... One of the most magnificent newspaper offices in the world Is that of La Prensa. the leading daily of the Argentine Republic, a fine illustration of which Is here presented by cour4... n^ii. if ~s in; ui v.uiiu .vi. ovipu, puiMiMit-r ui the St. Louis World's Fair Bulletin. The building Is a veritable palace. It Is built of marble and Is sumptuously furn'shed throughout. Among the many features are a large lecture ball, a banqueting saloon, a free dispensary for the poor nnd a permanent exhibit of Argentine products. There are also handsomely appointed ; A SOUTH AMERICAN r , reception rooms and guest chamber ? for visiting journalists. f The editor of La l*rensa la Dr. Jos > C. Pas, who has been the chief edito . and director of the paper since It r foundation in I860. itifeijr m '' H CZU-SLs *L v kz KImm Over the Telephone. A men-bant from lTnioutown talked about fiephoueM at the hotel where he wan Mopping. "In my town." he naiil."the telephc*je i company is going to raise the rates for husini-sM 'phones from $23 to $-!">, and for residence 'phones from $18 to $32. i Do you know why? It Is to keep sweethearts from monopolizing the J wires? It is to make telephones so ex- j pensive that the young men and women who love one another won't hill and coo over the wires all day long." "In L'nlontown now It is a wonder that the wires don't blush red, the love !W EXECUTIVE OFFICES. ?From Harper's Weekly. words that pass over them. The sound that a kiss makes?that ph. pb soundIs sent many times a day from one receiver to another. And such expres h1o?8 as darling, and deary, and honey, and sweetheart drown oat altogether the plain business talk about the price fci of coal and the tram in steel, and the bills receivable that are due. "So in Uniomown, because the young mt*n and cirls have been monopolizing the wires with their sparking, the tele* phone rates are to he raised nearly 100 per cent"?Philadelphia Record. Maine's OlrtMt Hunlitr. Beyond questiou, the oldest hunter and trapper alive in Maine to-duy. both in years and in point of active service, is Nathan W. Moore, of Bingham. who is eighty-four years old. and has trapped and hunted game all of his life, or ever since he was eight years old. He trapped his Urst mink and muskrat when he was eight, shot his first moose when he was but fourteen. and reckons bis score at 270 moose, twenty caribou. 100 bears and an unnumbered host of deer. Mr. Moore says lie expects to kill bis quota nf ilour M?<? Miiann flu tlMlill. ivlllch Is remarkable for a man of bis years. The Cf*iU of Ireland. In the past decade the Methodists in Ireland have increased 11.27 per cent., their number now being 02,000. The Itoman Catholics have declined 0.7 per cent., and the Church of Ireland 3.2 per cent. Of persons uuder twenty years of age there has been a decrease of 12.2 per cent. There are 211,031 widows in the Island, as compared with 88,034 widowers, and one widow to every three married women. There are 497 centenarians. 194 males and 303 females. 44 of whom never married, r ' -V r w . ' . NEWSPAPER BUILDING. a. the lively daily of Buenos Ayres.) s Tbos?> who speak Irish only numbai 20.1*53, and those that speak both Irlsi e and English number 020,180. r $ Few persons have more than they want of anything, except fault*. ^ ....... I i - -*- I'La <?u?~JL* ...i * v; The German Emperor's Gift. THE accompanying picture shows the original statue of Frederick the Great, by G. Scbadow. erected in 17U3. a bronze copy of which is to be present- J ed to the United States by Emperor William. The gift has neen a good deal discusited. Some of the news-j papers have declared that we have no more use for an efflgy of a Prussian monarch tbtin a cat for the traditional ; two tails. But really we have more tails than one. and It is precisely to emphasise the truth that one of our main tails to German, that the Kaiser has offered to set up this statue of his eminent ancestor on our soil.. The President, iu designating the grounds of the Arsenal at Washington as the proper site for the Kaiser's gift, has implied that our Interest in the great j Frederick attaches chiefly to his career as a soldier. In that he has dealt skllfully with a situation for the handling of which he had no precedent, accepting the gift without discussion, and finding a place for It on land subject * - - ? -A--i A?Art?flt?A Krnnnh lO me TOUirui vi iuc ckvuiks of the Government Bnt what the statue is really meant to recall Is, not that Frederick was a great soldier, nor even that bis nephew's great-great-grandson visited this country In 1002. The point is that Frederick, soldier and statesman. Is one of the great German figures In modern history; that be was a factor of 9lgnal Importance In the complicated European wrangle which helped our fathers to win in the Revolution, and that be Is a personage with whom a nation which by descent is only less German than British, may with propriety become letter acquainted. With an Immense and very valuable German element In our population, we as a nation think of Germany as a foreign ? OEBMAN EMPKROK's PEE8EXT 70 THE UKITED STATES. lA bronze cast of the statue of Frederick the Great, by the scnlptor, G. Scha(low, ii about to be presented to the United States of Antcrica by the German Emperor. It trill be erected at Washington. The original statue, here shown, was erected in 1793.) land, uad while the great figures In English history for centuries past are familiar to our children, what they know about the German leaders In war, politics, or thought Is vague and defective. It Is this situation which has inspired the Kaiser's action. "Here," he says, "is the figure of a great German, who belongs In part to you, and who was intimately concerned with a crisis- of history out of which your people emerged ns a nation. Put his statue where your legislators may see it, and remember that there are *v# klutakv Atlfl flno g\t 1i1aa/1 tux. I1C9 VI UIOIVI/ UUU IIVQ V? wv tw??en Germany and the United States." We are used to think of the Kaiser as an Impulsive man. hut there Is .a deal of method In his Impulses, and sound and timely thinking behind some of them. He has bestirred himself repeatedly making occasion xrben It did not offer, to bid us think of Germans as our kinsmen. It Is a good message be sends us. and his evident desire that It shall not be forgotten Is something to be gravely and courteously observed.?Harper's Weekly. Acrcfd to Differ. Good stories come from Scotland, as well as porridge and bagpipes. The last is quite admirable in its way. A traveler, observing an ancient couple arguing and gesticulating in the road in order to avert bloodshed asked th? cause of the dispute. "We're no dcesputln' at a*.'* anaweret). the man. I lit - M(? J V I He re unui. u uir mi nit- unuu. i hub got a half-crown In ma pooch, an' sha thinks she's no gaun to get It?an, I think the same."?London Globe. TVIidom. When Emll Gariosannl started out yesterday morning for the Wall Street district with a pushcart tilied wl?h bauanas h;> little thought that before day was over he would be richer by f100,000. Ernil was a sensible man. As a matter of fact he took In only eighty-seven cents ail J?r, and one of the nickels was plugged at that.?New i York Sun. A Mixed Jury. In the southeast corner of England a jury recently met to Inquire Into a case of suicide. After sitting through the evidence tbeue twelve men and true retired, and after cogitation returned with the following tale:' "The Jury are all of one mind?temporarily Insane." Not a packed Jury, hut a cracked Jury.?London Clobe. Barely ten per cent, of the children In Brittany can speak or uuderauud I French. \ r-rr ; , , ' y ? PRQ OIL La HOWL QUESTS. In a ereat metronolltan hotel there Is some out to be called at almost any hoar of the day and night, and It is ! a matter of considerable Importance | that there should be no mistake or neg| lect In attending to these matters. There are guests arriving in the middle of the night who may not want to be called until the middle of the folI lowing day. but it Is extremely Important they should be called as desired. This feature of the hotel business has " * rl ib?1? m * il i 41 i? ^mtyi APPARATUS FOB CA1XISO HOTZX. 0CUT8. heretofore been looked after by one of the clerks, whose business it was among other things to frequently consult a card on which all calls had been put down. Sometimes he would assign a bellboy to visit the room of the patron and knock at the door nntil be received some response; At other hotels there Is an electric bell connection with all the rooms by which the calling operation is done ^directly from the offlce. Neither the clerk nor the bellboy are Infallible and either one la subject to interruptions and diversions which might cause him to forget the call. At the best the system at present in rogue is uncertain and unsatlafactory. A means of performing this duty with absolute certainty has been reI cently invented by a New York man i anil is now being tried at several of the hotels of that city. A view of the apparatus is shown herewith. It Is a combination of clock mechanism and electricity, and is set up in the office of the hotel, with a wire connection to each of the sleeping rooms therein. There are different dials containing the hours of the day and the number of the room, and when a guest expresses a desire to be called at a certain hour, a connection is made by a plug by which the bell will ring in the desired room at the hour named. The bell, once set in motion, rings until an answering signal is received from the guest. LATS8T LBM09 8QUXXZM. A rather effective lemon squeeser with some new features is ?hown here ? ?Wa? If Wim. us merit lies iu iur mvi, uwt does not braise the peel, ao that the oU does not contaminate the flavor of j the Juice, and the seeds are not j crushed, so that the juice Is likewise free from the bitter add taste. In operating the device is quite simple. half THE LATEST LEXOX BQtniBB. lemon Is placed on the stand, and a few turns of the crank scoops out tbe palp, which falls into tbe glass funnel, from whence the juice Is expressed into tbe receptacle provided below. Tbe palp is removed by means of rapidly revolving cutting cones. The glass funnel and the lemon holder i proper are easily removaDie ror cieaosing. . COST OP SCIENTIFIC RESKABCH. Professor Dewar, in his address as Pre-.'dent of the British Association, has given an accurate estimate of the cost of maintaining the Royal Institution of London during the nineteenth century. Sir Humphrey Davy became the head of the Institution in 1801. He discovered the composition of the fixed alkalis in 1807 and invented the miner's safety lamp in 1815 and made, as did nil his successors, many discoveries of immediate practical value. Faraday became director in 1825. To him more than to any one man we owe the modern theories of electricity and magnetism and the modern practical application of them. Tyndall became professor in 1853. His researches on light (and lighthouses), sound (aud fog signals, heat, glaciers, electricity, fermentation and the like are well known. To Ills succesg-KV "*rofessor lH?war, w<? owe epoch-making discoveries in chemistry, on the liquefaction of gases (liquid air) and the like. There can be no doubt that whatever be the cost of maintaining the Boyal -. iPnr -- ^ - 1 ESfor ' GBESSm Institution, it hM returned to mankind all and more than baa been given to it. Now. what has been the cost? Professor Dewar gives the main items as follows: Salaries of the professors, about $278,000; laboratory ex* penmc*. about 1122,100; salaries of assistants, about $107,960. Total for 100 years. 9303.100. The British Government has given grants in aid and private persons have subsidized the Institution. so that uie total expense for a century of scientific work bat been about 1590,000, or, an the veraf, say. $6000 per year Tte total amount is considerable; the average annual cost aa ridiculously small. The returns on the capital Invested have been immense. The moral is that gifts like that of Mr. Carnegie to the Carnegie Institution are none too targe, auu that we may expect a fall return. ? t USB 07 LUFT HAJTD. * A great deal of attention Is gire& ? in German educational quarters to the p idea of making tbe left band aa useful t sod dexterous as tbe right, says tbe Westminster Gasette. There is no rea- f son. it is said, why human beings, like ii apes, should not use both bands with k equal ease. Most of tbe mechanical ^ work which is generally done by tbe j right band only might just as well be performed by tbe left hand after some * practice. In most of tbe technical j schools in Germany tbe experiment Is a now being tried, and pupils are taught * to wield tools with the left band, and J so far. we understand, tbe result fully y Justifies tbe experiments. Tbe sdran i tages of dividing manual work more < equally between the, two bands are so , obvious that It la to be hoped this at- i i tempt at creating an ambidextrous nation will be widely taken up. It Is a well-known fact that artists have long ago proved tbe possibility and usefulness of using the left ts well as the right hand In their work. Tbe eminent German painter. Menzel. uses his brush with equal ease In either band. In Japan every child is taught to write and draw with the right and the le? hand, and It is attributed to this fact that in some respects Japanese art excels the art of any other country. It Is said that anyone wisb tag to acquire toe art ot writing whu tbe left band baa a good chance of doing so without much trouble. Tbe recipe is: Write tbe alphabet fire times a day for a month with your left band, and yon will find that yon hare almost mastered the art. In the same manner sewing with the left band is said to be soon learnt if a little dally practice is given to it for a few weeks. SOTSL SHOE SOL*. 8ometbIng entirely novei iu wui i soles Is shown In the accompanying 1 Illustration, representing a product J that Is sold very largely In Australia. , ^7 I The sole Is secured to tbe boot or shoe by means of fine pegs or nails. It certainly is unique in construction.' it in this part of tbe world it would prob- i ably not bare a great following. Dsrosrrnro mural o* lac*. i Tbe illustration presented below 1 sbows a simple method of depositing ] 'copper, silver, gold or otber metal on i lace, producing a material wblcb is in < high favor for trimming purposes. Tbls j METHOD 07 PBOSCCIXO DBEM TIIXVIX08. ' process consists in first coating tbe lace ! 1 or otbcr fabric with a conductor of1J electricity by rubbing powdered graph- j | Ite into tbe threads or applying a thin ' coat of adhesive varnish and tbe dust- 1 ing witb a fine bronze or similar metal- J lie powder, after which tbe lace is bus- < pended in tbe wire basket as shown. ? This basket is then placed In the usual j electroplating bath, being insulated ; from tbe bottom by suspending it on i non-oouducting blocks. When the bas- j ket is connected witb a wire leading \ to one pole of a battery and tbe other < wire is attached to a block of gold. *11- 1 ver or other mctul It will be found that 1 tbe lace is immersed, regulating the thickness of the deposit. The Inrentoi of this improved process is John A i Daly. < 1 fcaw Thr*e Cent uric*. Sonora Caiallna Florea. who dioil rc cently In Pasadena. was the oldest woman in California. At th<> time of her death she had Just completed her 110th year, and for over ninety years j she had lived under the shadow of j the San Gabriel Mission. Her bus- 1 hand had heen dead for more than J Ufty years, and none of her children or grandchildren was living. The relatives which attended her funeral were descendants of tbe fourth aud fifth ' generations. She came to California ] with her husband in l.sii\ I'p to the i - *? 11# ..u ? .I.I,, i last row uays 01 ner me *?>? ??* ?"? ( to care for bornplf. an ?bc was neither ] . ,l..n t tilui llflil won I nunc, imuii urn . , great fame as a needlewoman, and many of the most beautiful altar elolhlt in the San Gabriel C'liurcb were of bor 'handiwork. The man who pays cash Is rue out) who takes time by the forelock I ' rX; * ^ t/' aif $ rHE RELIGIOUS LIFE tEADINC FOR THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. 'oota: God's Gift?Tha Lift of Cbrlit Is Mots For Imltatloa Tbu For Admin* Uti-Btotjt OiMlpIo li Difiuly Of* dsi nod?Grostoct Tktaf of AIL God give me s little light To carry ss I go; . Bade me to keep it clean sad bright^ Shining hish sad low; Bear it steadfast, without fear. Shed it? radiance far and near. Make the path before me dear With its friendly flow. God gave me a little song To aing upon ray way; Rough may be the road, and long. Dark may be the day. Yet a little bird can wing. Yet a little flower can spring* Yet a little child can aing. Make the whole world gey. God save me a little heart To love whatever He made; Gave me strength to bear ray part, Glad and unafraid. Through Tlur world so fair, so bright. Father, guide ray steps aright! Thou ray song gad Thou ray light, So my trust is stayed. ?Laura E. Richards. Livtar His life. "As Tbon hut aent lie into the world Ten so hare I also sent them into the rorld." John 17: 18. Krery Christian is * eprodaction of Christ. His life is for imi* stion more than for admiration. In the erfect life there is a constant parallel boween what He was and what we are. He i the first-born among many brethren; He ave to earth the likeness of the heavenly amihr and all His brthren are to maintain L His life has long been the world's IdeaL rat when His people lire aright the world rill see that ideal made real in them. Hut life is more than a glorious picture; t is a practical pattern. As truly as He was Himself coromiasioncd or His great life work so truly are we ommissioned of Him., He was the apostle eat from the Father: we are His apoctles ent from the Son. This ^ftn*oo*y true postolic ordination and nppointmentrtfci^ me that He bestows' upon all His foIlow^^H^^^ ts. Every disciple is divinely ordained. Ye sometimes look forward to the tun* ' rhen we shall be free from oar present arthly duties and hope that, after death. Jod will coramiasioD as to do some great rork for Him. The time will never come rhen we shall be mora truly sent of God han we now are to thia poor, sinning^ ott world. No cerefonials or ordinance* >f men can add to or take away from tbe act of your heavenly commission. Yam iare not happened into life; yon have >een as truly sent aa the Master was. knd you have been sent to do the tame rork that He came to do. Life, with the Christian at least, is not eating and drinkng; it is not getting riches or winning ame;it is not evcn^cking health or hupMness, but.it is what it waa to Chriit, loing tbe will of Him that sent yon. And what is His will! It i? not His nill hat one of these little ones should perish; hen it is His will that all should be savid. four business is not being sared, but se?* ng. Tbe Father sent the Bon to be the saviour of the world and the Son *V|ie 7is aprintfl tn K* fk* eivinnft ftf t\I* rorld. We may not offer our poor aisaintcd lire* in sacrifice for the tint of otb>rs, but we can give ourselves in serrioo or them, to save tbem from sin. How nean. paltry, unworthy eeem all other lima beside this of earing lives. You may lo many ereat things, bat nothing greett than this of raring men from sin. What a breadth of life this gives. Our ires seem narrow and circumscribed*, so -.is His. But th* breadth of Hie sympor . hies bore Him f*r above His circmnitancco. He loved all the world and tint ifted Him before all the world. Tour ni**ion will determine vour position. Com* nitsioncd by the love of God and sustained ?y love for man and heaven alone can comprehend the greatness and the glory >f your service. Yon must expect to par* illel your Master's experience m bcinjr de> -M .11 a J J !J 1 ipisea, opposea, ui-imicu, umucu mu rejected of men. Bat if too are sent into Hit trials vou shall also enter His triumphs. While serrinjr and fighting iron may know His inner joy, calm, peace md strength, and when the work is ended the joy of vonr Lord will be bnt begun.? Barn's Horn. e Brtrr dood Dn4 Btamkmi He who was mindfnl of the fragments of rood at the feeding of the 8000 will not be unmindful of the fragments of good, when the results of a good life are gathered up. There tre those who go through the world lirinf simple, healthful, and helpful lives, who never seem to do great things; the reason is that the opportunity docs not come to do work that makes the world stop to look and admire. Sfet nothing will be lost; the Master Is not more mindful of bread than He is of service. If every idle word is to be accounted for. every good word will be remembered MwarAawl Wk?n tHa final accounts ire made up it will be discovered that the moat fruitful n^ga are those filled *ith*what scejyd to be little aenricee. rendered each^ffr without thought of the outcome or **ire for praiae. There art many people who*** nrmea never get into the newspapers. thcv never say anything', or do anything which the reporter la nx< ioua to repeat. "Virtue ian't news." There are many gifts made every day, but no account is taken 'of them, for to the eve* of the world tlie figures are too small. But He who gathereth up the fragments in Galilee, will also gather uo the "frag* ir.ents" of every life, and in thia alao many that are first shall he last, and the hut first. Perhaps it is juat aa well that tho trnrld has not very much to aay of na; wo ball have a more moderate opinion of our* xelvea, and God ahall have an opportunity to sav some glad?ome things to u? when wo tee Him face to face.?Baptiat Union. Pride. No man will acknowledge that he is rain, but almost any man will acknowledge that hp ia proud. But, tried by the bal a nee of the hanrtuary, there is little to fhooM between the two. If a nun look for greatness out of God it matter* little irhether he aeeks it in his own applause or the applause of others. The proud PhariK-e who trusted in himself that he wao righteous was condemned by Christ as sererelv, and even more so. than the vain Jews who "could not believe because thejr tought honor from one another, and not tbe honor which cometh from God only." ft may be a more dazzling and a mora ipiendid sin to be proud. It is not le?a Ii3tct'ul in God's sight. Let us speak God'a word to our own unquiet, swelling, burning hearts. Pride may disguise itself as it will in it* own maiestv, but in the prea?nce of the high and lofty one it i? but littlencn, after all.?F. W. Robertson. American Tooth. The only salvation of American vouth, the only mean* of iraintaining the liberty if oar ton*:atlier.<. U a belief in God. it true, healthy, religious instinct which ilone can preserve the Americans from M the shadow ami burden of materialism.? I'hc llev. Dr. Grant, New York City. Th? Brniiilfit Prartlf*. I submit this for your candid consideration: Di> you iiutl as a matter of fact those ft'ho proles.-! the broadest creed encased in i he broadest practice? Do you lind the:.i exereUin* their bcnefuence over the fth?'e 'i<;Id of humanity??The Kev. K. F? L'oyle. Denver, Col. A Shrewd American's AdtfltU*. It is said that a civilian employe of th? Amy, who is a phunlter b> trade, got hit discharge as s>hjii a* he arrived in Porto Rico, and rented a plumber's nhot) on borrowed capital. He is now one of the bus* est men in the island. He was nhrewd Munich to see the great possibilities in his line ny -'sson, not only of the bad sanitary o Jition there, but of the Government's speedy action to improve them. Sow the American resident* and the better c!tu of natives will not occupy house# ihat do not have modern bathing facilities and plumbing, and the Hoard of Health in every important city and to?* is literaUj uprooting the old order ?! thinps.