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X- ??? HOW AN AEROF AS SHOW7 B1 A Sirrapie Explanati techrsica" Tc A-verag The aeroplane of Glenn H. Curtiss, in which he made his Albany-New York flight. is the one from which the accompanying diagrams are drawn. The Curtiss machine is held to have I proved itself, by the recent flight, the | most advanced type of aeroplane yet devised in America, possibly in the world. The Curtiss aeroplane is shown in ground plan in Figure 1. The aeroplane flies in the direction indicated by the arrows. A is the altitude rudder, perched out at the end of a bamboo framework, in front of the driver. J 1MB 1.1. t Kl 1 H E- ~ aMMMM !/ jlS ? Vti|MIUHI>|IH'HH.i,IE7^^ Li Ill, .FIG.'!.?GROUND PLAN. B B, are the two stabilizing rudders,! out at the ends of the planes. C is the rudder for lateral steering, perched out behind, as A is before, j P P is the upper sustaining plane,, four feet under which lies the lower' sustaining plane, parallel and of the j same shape and size. In front of the ( Jr. + Vi r* efflQHnff Tlfhpol W .Til fit 1 pmUwO AO IU& ?* ... | back of W is the aeroplanist's seat, S, and between the planes is placed the1 B. ' 'FIC.TA^FRO! big engine. Back of the engine and i behind the big planes is the pro-1 neller X. In the type of aeroplane ncrw most developed, the propeller, X, placed behind the engine, E, and the driver, at S, forces the machine forward in a horizontal direction. The planes, P. P, catch the air on their under surfaces, slightly inclined and concaved for that purpose. The pressure lifts the machine in the air or sustains it there at a desired level. The engine that supplies the power i Is a gasolene explosion motor closely similar to that used in automobiles. Only slight differences are necessitated by the adapting of the engine to the aeroplane. The controls for the magneto and gasolene supply are placcd forward of the engine, at the driver's seat, S, for he is under the. dis.idvantase of sittine in front of the motor. It is now to be seen how the propeller. X, driven by the engine, E, sends forward the machine, which is sustained by the gliding on the air of the plane, P P, and the similar plane under it. There remains to be seen the more delicate and difficult part of A |,ll|tJ|Wii hg.T5^-VIEV2OF;T Manufactured Rubies. Rubies weighing eighty carats can "be built up. These rubies after they have cooled are split lengthwise. They are cut and polished, the final polishing being done with tripoli and wat er. The cut gems ready for the market are worth about forty cents a carat. This price is insignificant as compared with that of the natural Burma ruby, whose market value is almost fabul-jus. Chemically, optically and physical!'- the "scientific" rubies are identically the same as the natural ston?s. Evcmjn both forms the microscopic air bubbles called "frogs" or "inclusions" are present. Lacroix, the geologist and mineralogist. assorts ihat the artificial ruby cannot be distinguished from the natural, while Pinier, a leading gem expert of Paris, claims that they can readily be distinguished. At any rate the pawnbrokers of Paris have placed rubies under the ban. and it is almost impossible to secure loans when rubies of any description are offered as security.?Popular Mechanics. ?? & 'LANE WORKS, { GLENN CURTISS ion of Flight in Un-j irms For the Man. flying, namely the work of keeping the flyer straight and level. Each of the rudders. A, B B and C. does its own particular share of this work. It is a threefold work, and far more complicated than the control of automobile. ship or bicycle. All these travel on a horizontal surface and are guided only to right and left. The function of the forward rudder, A. is to turn the course of the aeroplane up or down. Right here the tremendous difference between the aeroplane and almost all methods of locomotion known to us becomes St R'; RW t si WT11II ll'lilr 11 111 hill I n ! ip'M-r.i i1 ,m 11 n'hi rrnr v J p k. 0 OF.CURTISS "AEROPLANE apparent. To realize the difference, it is only necessary to try to conceive an automobile that one could, by a turn of the wrist, start to soaring up J ' J-Xm. + V> ^ ri rr wara iroui nxt? gruuuu, ;>uiuiu5 ciou so free and complete in the whole realm of motion, as known to human experience, exists as in the aeroplane of to-day, rude and imperfect, compared to its prospects, as it still pre1 sumably is. And the freedom and N 1 lYlli W^UJLUd i | complete command of space that distinguish the aeroplane all lie in rudder A, the altitude rudder. Figure 2 is a drawing of the wsenI tial details of this wonderful rudder. The rudder is shown from a point of observation forward of it and to its left. The rudder consists of two horizontal planes, p p. They are connected with a framework similar in shape to the skeleton of an oblong box. This framework has the planes p p for its top and bottom sides. The framework hinges at the two ends on the axis represented by the dotted line, a. It is by turning on this hinge that the planes are made to act as rudders. This action is produced in the following manner: When the framework is tilted so that the fronts of the planes point upward, the air through which the aeroplane is advancing catches on their under side. The pressure of the air on the under sides of the planes lifts them up, and so lifts the nose of the whole aeroplane up, making it take an upward direction. When, on the other hand, the rw "LINE. jPROPEUEft HE "AEROPLANETSHOWINGiTH How to Hunt Wolves in India. The authorities of Hazaribagh are inviting sportsmen to help in the extermination of a pack of wolves which have established a reign of terror in the neighborhood. The reward is at j present Rs. 50 for each full grown > wolf. Eleven children have been ! killed between February 7 and 23 in : the tract lying between Barhi andl i Cohwparan police stations, a distance ! ! nf thirteen miles. The wolves hunt I j from early morning: till coon and again from 2 o'clock till sunset. The authorities make the following suggestions: Sportsmen should not attempt to ride up to the wolves. . When the pack is sighted the sports-' j man should send away his pony and | ! his attendants and should approach j ! them leisurely and alone. He should ; j wear a turban and make himself look ! I as like a peasant as possible. The j rifle should be carried as if it were a stick.?Allahabad Pioneer. I The salary of the Lieutenant-Gen-, I eral of the United States Army is; | $11,000. [ NEV r~? ) 1 1 " "X " ' " " TS&fcQ THE TWO MOST planes p p are tilted downward, the is air as it is cleft presses on their o top surfaces and forces them to point si earthward. And so they give the d downward direction to the coarse of ti the aeroplane, when the flyer desires w to fly lower. tl It will readily be seen that without s: the altitude rudder. A, the aeroplane r; would be helpless. is Hcfw is the altitude rudder con- si trolled by the areoplanist? The tl view in Fig. 2 shows this in the ap- p paratus, c c c. This is a peculiar but ii perfectly simple device. The rudder p is pushed forward or pulled back by a long rod. The rod runs from a ti crosspiece of the framework of the si ntHdor hanU- tn thp stpprine wheel. It si is fastened at the hub of the wheel. The wheel works backward and forward as well as turning. More vital still than the altitude j rudder, and certainly more of a departure from all ether known methods of equilibrium, are the stabilizing rudders or fins, B B. The working of these is shown in Fig. 3. An aeroplane is poised as delicately on its airy even keel as a tightrope walker on his wire. The stabilizing fins serve the same purpose as do the fan of the Japanese tightrope performer. They save the flyer from tipping over to one side or the other. Fig. 3 will show how this is done. ~ The purpose of the arrangement here b shown is to to tilt the one plane up- n ward and the oppisite one downward ^ at the same time. t' The control of the planes, B B, lies in the wires c c c c. The axis of each s' plane lies in the dotted line, A. The V wires, cc, fastened behind the axes of P the planes, tilt them by an upward or P downward pull. The wires c c run a down from each plane to a pulley at d the corner of the lower sustaining u plane, P. From the pulley they run H straight to the top of the back of the ^ driver's seat, S. There they are P fastened. When it sways to the right, A it pulls the wire tha.t draws down the a rear of the Stabilising plane out at n the left wing tip. When the seat H sways to the left, it draws down the stabilizing plane at the right wing tl tip. d The wring, c c, suns also up from 2 the tops of the stabilizing planes i1 J lne^BJBI a Vi through pulleys overhead, and so con- c nects the stabilizing planes from above. When, therefore, one stabiliz- ^ ing plane has its after edge pulled down by the tilting of the seat back, the same pull, communicated by the wire overhead to the other stabilizing plane, pulls its rear up. Whichever way the one stabilizing plane is turned, the other one is turned oppositely. The manner in which this action rights the aeroplane will be readily understood. The process is as follows: As soon as, in the course of flight, the aeroplane sags to the left, the driver leans over to the right in his seat. It is the motion that he would naturally make to And his own equilibrium. In leaning to the right he pushes the seat back over with him. This pulls the wire that draws down the left stabilizing fin's after ' part. Thus the fin turns on its axis, or in such a way as to present a slant- . ing under surface to the wind. The wind delivers an upward pressure on this surface, and this upward pressure tends to right the sagging left end of _ the aeroplane. At the same time the ti pull that started from the seat: back is . si , f<? J [E'JSTARIOUS PARTS:- v An Opalized Snake. What is supposed to be an opalized snake has been discovered by & pros- a pector at White Cliffs opal fields, ? South Australia, from whom it has ^ been secured by an Adelaide resi- s . ~ ... d (lent namea s. oaunaers. On what appeared to be a f iere of j 1 iron-stone, dark brown in color, and a therefore making an excellen; back- 1 ground to show off the preciou:; stone, ^ was embedded the form of n aniall 0 snake or lizard of pure opal. The coiling body measured about two inches in length and the head and eyes ^ are to be plainly seen. Even the scales of the back can be discerned. M Before Mr. Saunders secured it the 3 - - . ... ! w specimen nau ueen suuiuuieu iui examination at the museum, and he was informed on making the purchase that it was a reptile of some kind ossified and then opalized.?Adelaide Advertiser. Si At the bottom of the sea the tem- 1 perature remains practically unal- s tered at any one spot throughout the t; whole of the year. P % V YORK-CHICAGO FLIGH ggtfSaaw?-. FEASIBLE ROUTES FOR THE All i sent on froir. the left fin over the i verhead wire and down to the upper J jrface of th'j right fin, which is < rawn up. The right fin is thus made , ) present its upper surface to the < ind, and the wind then depresses, le right end of the aeroplane at the line time that the left is being ] lised. In a moment the aeroplane < i righted. The driver thereupon < traightens up in his seat, bringing < le seat back again to the uprigh" i osition and so drawing the stabiliz- i ig fins back again to their original j lace. I The third of the important con- : ols of- the aeroplane in the air i:5 i bown in Fig. 4. It is the side to sidij i Leering gear, the most complicated, i it ? " ' , ^ **^j FIG.'2.-ELF-VATI0N 0F_7 ecause it is the least important. It eeds a second motion of the hands, rhich are already busy with the altiade control. i Fig. 4 shows a view of the side-toide rudder, C. It is cleft, and irough this cleft passes a horizontal lane. This is just a fixed plane, laced to sustain the weight of the fter end of the aeroplane. The ruder C, save for this cleavage into an pper and a lower part, is very simar to a ship's rudder. It is noterorthy that this is the only vertical i lane on the whole Curtiss machine, he rudder C swings on a vertical sis, a. The positions into which it 1 lay swing are shown by the dotted nes. It is with this wheel, of course, that (le driver turns to right and left, oubles on his course and makes the lost complicated evolutions. There are other things that the viator has to attend to besides his irection and stability control, of ourse. But they do not require his ver taking more than one hand from ae steering wheel. There is the arottle whi:h feeds the fuel to his ngine. It b a short, slender 'ever, t his right band. A brief motion L'ts off his fuel and shuts down his ngine, or lessens his speed or inreases it. The electric control is in little twist-button fastened on the ront of his seat between his knees. In Star ;ing, uuruss, alter lcolius is engine, first takes his place in the river's seat, turns on the throttle nd grasps the steering wheel. Then, rhile two or three men hold the mabine from darting forward on its heels, a mechanic starts the engine 'ith a quick turn of the propeller, kith the propeller going bri3kly, Curc I , J / o Jj^? 1 ill I __ FIG i'-ELEVAnON OF.S iss gives a signal, and the aeroplane i released by the men holding it. It tarts forward rapidly on its wheels. Then the right speed is reached, Curiss pulls the steering gear back d ittle toward him. The aeroplane ises from the ground. The ground riction overcome, it gains speed raplly and rises faster, till it reaches tie desired level.1 In descending, Curtiss picks out j nth his eye the favorable spot, j rhen within some 200 yards of it nd at some twenty yards' elevation, e shuts off his engine with a movelent of the right hand. Depressing le head of his flyer, he glides down lentum.?Condensed From the New otk evening ouh. Camels in South Australia. Camels are used by pastoralists nd others iu central Australia lor arting wool and stores. These are forked by English as well as Afhan drivers. Tlaey are used for sadle at eighteeu months of age; at svo years, says the British Australsian, they carry from one owl. to wo cwt., at three years, four cwts. lulls at four years can cake six cwts. f loading. The camels are bred in South Aus ralia: those locally reared are better eight carriers than those imported; bey are lower set, better boned, and ell footed. They thrive on the rasses and bushes of the country, on 'liich they can be worked for many j ears.?London Globe. Drop in England's Birth Rate, England's bin1: rate last year was tie lowest on record?25.5S a thouand of population. This is nearly .0 below the rate for 190S, which howed a slight increase over 1907. J he first for many years.?Medical j Lecord. T. Z 3,ffiAfaajg^^^ ISHIP RACE. I ? n ieteeoe?fioo9iotett*8oioi0 E | The Value of an Eye- ; e S Witness. | J.1 ! 7, l?H??HWMMMMW>l> tl The experiment tried by Professor j McKeever, of the Kansas State Agri- i ^ cultural College, as to the reliability j" af the average witness is but the rep- ^ stition of other tests upon a more extended scale and directed toward the ^ same end. The results also were sim- tl ilar, and they help to satisfy us that r the evidence of the ordinary eye-Wit- h ness ha? a very slight value and that a there afe few among us who can de- J scribe accurately even the simple _ r\-rrs*vy + n + V* ty + nrtn? fO in fllll oicrVlf" I ?. crcuto (.uai iiauoptic i u iu*i b*q u v* : i J I a a g li J? TTUDE RUDDER." A., J ? D Professor McKeever went to some j o trouble in his experiment, which was n arranged in imitation of an actual I o crime. He drilled three of his stu- ? dents tc perform a "hold up,", and the little drama was enacted upon a ? stage in front of the class. A subse- . quent examination of the audience s disclosed the fact that it was at sixes li and sevens as to what had actually e happened. The students were unable to agree as to which of the "robbers" ' had carried a revolver or worn a rain- ? coat, and all the other facts were sim- g ilarlv nbsr.ure. Any one of the wit- t nesses could have given an account j e of what he believed he had seen, and I o no doubt by itself It would have j e passed as good evidence, but unfor- ] 11 tunately the student who sat next to j jhim believed himself to have seen i B something quite different. j v Professor Munsterberg recently car- j fc ried out a whole series of experi- 1 ments directed toward the same end, and the result was even more remark- ? able. He used for the purpose a , _ large class of students whose powers j c of correct -observation ought to be j jj above rather thai} below the average, i He tested them in a great many ways, j I requiring them to estimate the num- ! 1 ber of colored spots upon a sheet o^ . *' whTte paper, the numberof persons in ' * a room, and the length of a pendu- I , lum stroke. The results showed not j e only an extraordinary incapacity to/ j c hut n afill more ex- ! I UUOC1 TO Wi 4 WV4J , WM? ? ?? traordinary difference in the kind of 1 E incapacity, inasmuch as the estimate : of one student would be ludicrously ! too high, while that of the man next | to him would be ludicrously too low. j It is evident that we must revise j our opinion as to <he value of eye- | r witness evidence. Its value seems to i f/ M C w' 7 !l jj^ I [DE .TO SIDE RUDDER7C" be very slight, even with the best of I intentions, and we may yet find it i necessary to subject our legal witnesses to Lome kind of test before al- ! lowing them to testify as to what j they have seen. They may be incap- j able of seeing anything with accu- ! racy.?San Francisco Argonant. I Truthful Bobby. ! Mother (reprovingly) ? "Bobby, I j told you distinctly if Mrs. Jones asked j 1 you to have a second piece of cake, to ! j say 'No. thank you." " j c Bobby ? "I know, ma, but she c didn't say would I 'have,' she said , c would I 'like' another piece, and if j t I'd said 'No.' I'd er told a lie."?Bos- j i ton Transcript. r _ i i Woman's Gift of Rare Mosses. i it Announcement was made recently j r by Dr. J. M. Macfarlane, professor of 'j j botany at the University of Pennslv- <j vania. that 300 specimens of moss i t have been received as a gift from Mrs. i c Josephine D. Lowe, of Washington. These specimens will be made the I j nucleus of a large collection of mosses I t representative of every section of this ! t country and of many other countries j 1 ol the world, he stated. In it were 1 rare specimens from Canada, Ireland. ! z England and Japan. The work of \ I increasing the number of moss spc-c:- s mens will be delegated to members * of the society and men connected ^ with the university botanical depart- \ jment.?Philadelphia North Ameri- . s can ' v i Will riant a Virgilian Grove. A plan is approved whereby an area | between Mantua and Pietole, Italy, is j to lie converted into a wood sacred to c the memory of Virgil where all the j herbs, trees and plants mentioned la a Irs Bucolics will be represented.? s The Rosary. * e " THE PULPIT. N ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. DR.'ROBERT M. MOORE. i Theme: The Resources of God. Brooklyn, X. Y.?Dr. Robert M. loore began his pastorate Sunday lorning in St. John's M. E. Church, ledford avenue and Wilson street, [e had large audiences morning and veiling. Dr. Moore's morning subset was: "The Resources oE, God." le took his text frcm II. Kings 6:17: Lord, I pray Thee, open his eyes, lat he may see." Dr. Moore said: Ben-hadad. King of Syria, was at ^ar against Israel. He had a supeior army and was a great strategist, ut he failed. And he failed because fod was with Israel. For God is a Dree to be reckoned with in life and tie side that He is on is always tie victorious side. The King of Syla was anxious to know the cause of is defeat. He suspected treason, but fter consulting with some of his rusted advisers he knew that the ault was with the prophet of God, ^ho was chief adviser to the King of srael. ' Carlyle has well said that God's * rophet is not only a preacher of ighteousness. but should be a politial force whom the cause of evil hould have reason to fear. Then the hole plan of campaign adjusted itelf in an effort to capture Elisha. Jlisha had with him as a servant a oung man from one of the theologial schools. One morning, in serving is master, he f6und that they were Tactically captured by the Syrian rmy, whoss forces were encamped 11 about them. Immediately he tean to think of escape and realized its ^possibility. He appealed to Elisha, nly to be laughed at. for the old man ad a vision that the young man did ot possess. The young man saw nly the forces of opposition; the eld ian had caught sight of the resources f Gcd and was confident. He was nxious that his companion should tave the same vision, and so he rayed "Lord, open his eyes, that he lay see." This incident may be very ircfltable to thos9 of us who are eaking to estimate the resources of ife or who find themselves in an un qual contest with threat of defeat. In the first place, we have her? ilustrated the fact that one may look nd yet not see. They see some hings but not all. They may even ee all the adverse or disappointing hings and become pessimistic; their yes never Uiauuvci lUC luiuga \jl uuyo , r the powers that~'make for rigbtousness. They see the shadows, but lever stop to think that the deeper he shadow is the stronger the sunight must be. In nature, how few ieop4e understand completely the di- ' ine lesson; how few catch all the , eauty that is displayed. Bayard 'aylor has told us that one day in ooking over the Mere de Glace, he , tood beside an Englishman, whose ( >nly comment was: "All that ics ( could bring a lot of money in Cal- , utta in the hct season, don't you ( :now." But we do not forget the immortal " ines of Coleridge's "Hymn at Sunrise ' n the Vale of Chamounix." One ooked and saw, the other only looked .nd saw nothing. Or, in our estimate if humanity, how many of us get the . ision uf the higher things. . In our J stimate of a man, his wealth or so lai position greany innuence our ap- , ireclation of him and we sometimes : lever seek for those" virtues that re- , real the better quality of life. There . tands before us the figure of the ' Christ, that great form which dominites the ages, and yet there are those rho look and see only a man like into other men and nothing more. [ There are pthers who look at that ife and discern very God manifest in 1 he flesh, the Saviour of the world, t seems to be difficult sometimes to 1 iscape the memory of Mary and Jos- : !ph, the earthly mother an'*, father. ( The young man who serves as the il- j ustration in this story was thinking ?nly of self; therefore, when he dis- | :overed danger he prepared to run. It is often said that it makes little >r no difference what oar creed may ' >e or what we believe so long as we ire good. But it makes an infinite ! lifference what we believe and whut >ur conception of life is, for even un- ! :onsciously our conduct is conformed o our creed. If th? difficulties seem o be greater than we can overcome ind the forces in opposition stronger han we are. able to meet our course >f conduct will be entirely different rom that which we would pursue If ve felt that we would be victorious, t is highly important, therefore, that , >ur eyes, should be open to all the orceg that zit in alignment with our , :aase; that we should know all the lowers that we may command; that , >ur eyes should be opened to all the , esource3 of God and to Kis own great . lowers, which ara available to our ne- ( :essity. It was to thic er.d, therefore, hat the man of God proved that the ;ift of the opened eyes might be given o the young man who journeyed with iim. In the second place this battle , ;tory reveals to us the fact that the . inseen world i3 a real world. That | here are infinite movements in life hat do not appear upon the surface J if things; that there are great forces ( n the universe which in the most sient way do their work and- make heir contribution to the ministry of if<i. There was a man, who, in one if his letters, wrote about "beiug :ompassed about with so great a , :loud of witnesses," and lived as hough all those spiritual presences vere visible to him. History is glo- ' ious in the character and deeds of jreat souls, of great souls who have endured '"as seeing him who is visi- j >le." And the questions of douht lever seem to shake their confidence n the reality of the life that is unseen by eyes of flesh. In this story : here is a young man who is a type of :haracter which we often meet, who aw Oil IJ uuauuij ui null aim tuvlorsemen and car>tains of an earthsting. It was possible for him to see be hills round about covered with be chariots of God, but bis eyes were lolden. This unseen world is a real world. , is manifested in the inrerest dis- (' ilayed by this celestial army, mar- . haled by infinite love. What were t hey doing on tte hills if they had no j oncern about what became of Elisha , md his helper? And they were there , cr the miruose of defense, if neces- , arv, so that the reality of this unseen vorld is manifested as being a help- j ng world. Elisha contended that they thkt be with us are more than hey that be with them." We cannot orget the statement of the sufferer 11 Gethsemaue. who declared that "I ould pray to My Father and He shall 1 iresently give Me twelve legions of ingels." We do not calculate the reources of righteousness well, for 1 here are things making for right- '< lousness in the world whose power do not fully apprecate. We need ncreasingly in this age of materialsm the consciousness of God's re.lity. In the third place we-have revealed o us in this incident how the vision ?f the higher life and its forces may >e obtained. This young man saw he vision of the army-covered hills jecause he was in the companionship >f Elisha. The comradeships of life vill very greatly determine what the mtlook of the soul shall be. In anwer to the question "Is life worth ' iving?" it often may be said that it lepends upon whom we live with. No natter what strength of purpose we nay have our high desires are always nodiSed by circumstances and peo>le who are near about us. Edward Everett Hale said that he made it a jractice tc spend at least one hour (very da7 in the presence of a supeior. Thus books may come to influince us more largely than we dream >f. A summer day's reading someimes has determined a campaign for ruth that has meant great things for ighteousness among men. < Probably underlying the organlza,icn of the Church of God there Is his subtle philosophy or principle? hat by association with people of ugh thought and noble purpose and nighty resolve, our eyes may be ifted to the summits toward which ca. ahmil/1 aacrarlv nrasQ "Ri + fhdrA vas also the determiuing influence -or )raver that made p-isstble the vision )f the higher resources of life. Elisha jrayed and the young man saw things n a different light. Both Browning ind Tennyson have reminded us that" * jrayer is an important factor in life's ictlvities, and that many a battle has ssued in victory 6r defeat, as the remit of steadfast prayer. Mtny a prodigal has come back to the Path- , jr's house and many a wayward heart f las returned to the statutes and tes- , ' :imonies of God because, in a quiet Lv ' ?lace, some heart has fervently besought the .intercession of the Most Eligh. It seems to be a great thing to je able to beget a vision of the higher * A; :hings in another soul by the word of irayer, and yet it is true that many a \. ife would have gone unblessed and' . nany a mind would have been permanently beset by doubt Were it not tor the praying soul that has been ^ persistent before the throne of God. Rut anhr^TTi^lv the vision of the' > Vi ligher life io the gift of God. How-< ;ver eager Elista was that the larger <,7 vision might be given to hib friend, ind\ however fervently his soul poured itself out in prayer, the eyes wore >pened and th? young man saw be- ; :ause God uncovered his eyes. Same )ne in critical mood once said to J. : -f-J VI. W. Turner, "I never saw such sua- y:A sets," and Turner replied, "Don't you irtsh you could?" ; 1 If life ia ever to be successful; .if . 7? ire hre ever to enter into the mastery jf ourselves; if ever -we abandon the iisposition to shirk and dodge life's esponsibiltties and duties, it will b? ? made possible largely through the^ greater outlook on life which shall bp 3 jurs. When our eyes ar? opened and- . ffe see life's problems in their proper setting, ana men appreciate aji uie t r:,^ resources and reservations which are ' ^ within the reach of those who try to \:;$| io God's will, we shall go forth with ^ the step of ccnquestand enter into the yi larger victories which reward those. . ^ 3illy who have had the larger vJpiQUr, ;'. jj [t is vitally important that we should $ ilways be on the lookout for God. * Imputing Motives. . ,T; ' "jm "0. yes, it looks very brave and' 'r^1 magnanimous, "and all that,"' said. Wilbur, ' but Steve knew well enough- .^ that people were looking on, and that It would take!" "Do you mean, Wil-; bur," asked Geraldine, "that that would have been your motive if you had done what Steve did?" Geraldine had. almost without vi knowing it, discovered a great truth ?that motives which we ascribe to -"J, others are almost always those which -v.v.would have actuated ourselves in the 3ame circumstances. There must always be a known, unit. The standard by which we measure the character and conduct of Dthers, too often a poor little pocket rule, is consciously or unconsciously that of self. It is hard for most people. perhaps for all, unless refused, with the spirit of divine love, to' believe in springs of action purer, loftier, more unselfish than our own. Let us, then, be careful how we ascribe motives for the acts of others. For, after all, it Is largely ourselves that we see in our companions. No-? billty has a clear vision for nobility, meanness is swift to discern meanness.?M. G. Daniels, ii The Class- . matt. Spiritual Cripples. . Looking abroad among Christians, how many evidences do we meet with of general shortcomings? Some seem without arm3; th*y never help anycn-s over rugged places in life. Some seem without feet; they never go an inch out of their way to serve others. Sopie seam voiceless, they never, even by a word, encourage &nyont who is cast down. Some seem deaf: -they never listen to the voice of suffering. Soma seem without hearts, they do uot 3cr>n: to kuuw what sympathy and generous feelings pre. What an appearance a procession of such characters would make if they could be s?en as they are in public streets. Many seem to have no ears, and the Savijur might well exclaim, "He that Lath ears to hear let him hear." ? The Christian. '.j Must Kneel to Sec Glory. It is said that there is a bust of our Lord in a Roman Catholic chapel on the Continent, before which a stool is placed, that the beholder may kneel and l*>k. To the one who is standing uji the bust has no beauty. It is essential to kneel in order to see the glory and beauty of the countenance. So. as long as we stand in self-satisfaction we see no beauty in Christ, but the moment there is humbling of soul before G)d on account of sin, than we behold a worth of excellence we did not see before ii Christ.?* Nighc Scenes of the Bible. 1 Afraid of My Will. In the noon prayer meeting not long ago a good sister prayed, "Lord, we're afraid of our wills. We're afraid to do our wills for fear of the consequences Teach us Thy will!" There was something striking about that Drayer. The majority of people, including even some professed Christians, are afraid of God's will rather than their own. But the real Christian is afraid of his own, and like his Mastet says, 'Not my will, but Thine, be done."?Moody Church Herald. False Religion. False impressions about religion, if they are equally strong, are much more forward to manifest themselves, than true ones; because it is the nature of false religion to affect show ind court observation.?Jonathan Ed- .: wards. * - Jj