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P% WOES OF FILIPINOS. gP? ' IHsfortusss of tbe People of the Island Enumerated. SUBJECT OF A MESSAGE TO SENATE P N * ~ Congress Urged to GIva immediate Attention to the Matter and Grant the Relief Prayed For. ST* 9 Washington, Special.?The President late has sent the following message 10 the Senate: "I Ifava just received a cable from Governor Taft which runs as follows: * Necessity for passage of the House tariff hlH fe most urgent. The conditions of productive industry and business are eoasiderably worse than in November, the date of la3t report, and are growing worse each month. There Is some revival in sugar and tobacco Viices doe to expectation of tariff law. Tlie Interests of Filipinos in sugar and tobacco is extensive and the failure of the Ml wUl he a blow in face of those Interests. A number of tobacco factforles will have to close, and many agar haeiendas will be put up for afe at a sacrifice it the bill does not pass. Customs receipts have fallen off this month one-third, showing a de P crease or purchasing power 01 ioe islands. General business is stagnant. All . political parties including labor unK?r ions Are most strenuous in petition for the tariff bill. The effect of Us failure V woufd be very discouraging." - The President endorsed all that Governor Taft has said, land hopes for a substantial reduction in the tariff levied against Philippines goods coming ??* . into the United States. "I very earnestly ask that this mat3 ter reeeive the immediate attention of Congress and that the relief prayed for be granted," he says. "As Congress khova, a rieries of calamities have befallen the Philippine people. Jnst as they were emerging from years of a devastating war, with tbe accompanying dmtmetUm of property and breaking up of the bonds of social order and tbe habits of peaceful Industry, there nocmrea an epidemic of rinderpest vrfcleb deetioyed 90 per cent, of the Caracas, the Filipino cattle, leaving 3. the people without draft animals to till the lanla or to aid in the ordinary work on the farm. At the same time a peculiar Oriental horse disease became epidemic farther crippling transportation!. The riee crop, already reduced by ark)us causes to but a fourth of its 3T. ordinary size, has been damaged by locosts, so that the price of ricd has nearly doubled. 1 "Under these circumstances, there is j& Imminent danger of famine in the islands. Congress is In course of generously appropriating $3,000,000 to meet the Immediate needs; but tbe induspensable and pre-eminent need is the Tesnrrectioa of productive industry from the prostration into which it has * aVkA iiitnwftrt QKAVO on. j" ' W 0tXQ mrvWB UJ CUC uiuoco oi/vio vm vmerated: I ask action In the tariff natter, not merely from the standpoint of wise governmental policy, but a9 a g ? measure, of humanity in response to an appeal to which this great people ' ah^ojd not dose its ears. We have asMined responsibility towards the Philippine Islands which we are in honor Bowm to fulfill. We have the specific duty of taking every measure in our power to see to their prosperity. The calamities which have befallen i them as above enumerated could bare "been averted by no human wisdom. They cannot be completely repaired; Bat the suffering can be greatly alevl&; a ted and a permanent basis of future prosperity assured if the economic re? lations of the Islands with the United 8tates are put upon a satisfactory R)r- ' Basis. (Signed) THEODORE ROOSEVELT, gv . "While House, Feb. 27, 1903." | Officers Southern Ice Exchange. t , Atlanta, Bpedal.?The Southern Ice Exokange, ha convention here Friday, cleehed the following offloers for the easing term :_Presi dent W. H. Howe, I of Maakvine, Tenn.; rice presiuem, u, " D. IfcjiM, of Richmond, Va.; secretary and treasurer, W. EL Worth, of A censed ef Killing Three Wives. Indiana pohs, Special. ? Albert A. Knapp, formerly* of Hamilton, 0., was taken by the police from the home of Ida briob on a charge of murder. The police ^ay that the wife at whose honse Knapp wao arrested and whose maiden name was- Anna Hay Gamble, is Knappta fonrth wife, and that the others have disappeared in a manner which, warrants investigation. Knapp later confessed. 5trit Against Vapderbilt. AshenHle, N. C., Special.?Complaint in the ease of Iff. C. Graham against <L W. Vanderhllt was filed in ? the clerk's offlee of the Superior Court Km. Graham is suing the owner of Blltmore Honse for $20,000 because of Aa?+h nf h*>r hnshanri *n October, i lSdO, while hi the employ of Vanderbilt Graham was crossing the French Broad rfrtr in a boat, which, it is claimed, was defective. The boat wa.'attached hy a sort of trolley to a:i overhead eaWe and owing to the swollen condition of the river the boat became unmanageable and fiiied with water and Graham was drowned. Movement to Slop Emigration. Vienna. By Cable.?With the object of steaming the wholesale immigration of young girls to America, which is occasioning the Hungarian government considerable concern. Premier DsSzell has sect ?. circular letter to the local autboritics-o! Hungary, calling their attention to what be describes a3 "this melancholy fart.'.' He directs that tiie authorities only permit mines to emi * grate tovhpu sanctioned to do so by their parents or guardians, and when tfcey travel in charge of adults. \ * SlORfo AT GASTONIA. < t Two Girls Seriously Hurt?A Cotton Mill Wrecked. ! Gastonia, N. C.. Special.?As the recult of a storm which swept over this place Saturday morning a large section of the wall of the Avon Cotton Mill was blown down and four or five oi' the operatives injured. Two cf these, girls twelve and fifteen years of age. were dangerously hurt and may not recover. The mill was damaged to the extent of about ?5,0(i0. Other less serious damage also resulted. The storm, in its greatest force, struck the Avon Cotton Mill, in the eastern part of the town. The operatives. whose ears were- filled by the ' din of spindles and thunder of looms. ' were unaware of the storm that raged '< without until it crushed the southern < wall of the eastern half of the mill 1 and lifted one side of the roof and ' folded it over on the other half. The ' destruction came in a moment. One ' hundred and fifty feet of the wall en- ' closing the second story collapsed 1 without warning and fell inward upon the operatives and machinery, as the roof with its enormous rafters and i beams, shafts, countershafts, belts and J pulleys went flying off like so much paper. The water connections with the < tank in the tower were torn and twist- < ed like green withes and torrents of water pouring in from above were added to the confusion of the awful wreck, the darkness and the roaring storm. i Only four or five operatives were hurt. Of these two little girls are dangerously injured and may not recover. One is Sadie, the twelve-year-old daughter of Jeff Beatty. and the oth&r is Bessie, the fifteen-year-old daughter of John Lay. The little Beatty girl worked on the day shift And had just come in to clean up her spinning frames. She was found crushed against the frame by the falling wall. Her hair was twisted on the spools and blood was flowing in jets from her nose, mouth and gashes on her head. Miss Lay's jaw and one hand were broken and the back of her head was crushed. A little girl named Smith and other operatives were hurt, but none so seriously as the two named, whose chances for life are painfully slender. The reason more were not caught In that fatal wall alley is that the mill was Bhort of night hands. The damage to the mill by wreck, wind and water is about $.r>,0u0 and It will likely be six weeks before it is running to its full capacity. A Great Flood at Pittsburg. I Pittsburg, Special.?With every tributary of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers emptying swirling torrents into the banks of these two streams | and rushing dowyn to the point where , they converge to form the Ohio, Pittsburg was given a visitation Sunday ' which forced hundreds of families cither to abondon their homes, or seek escape from the water in the upper stories, Vhile mud and water spread discomfort below. Mills in the lowlying levels throughout the county, numbering between 50 and 60, were flooded and 38,375 men are thrown out of work for four or five days with a less of wages of more than $326,700. The flood was general throughout western Pennsylvania. The streams everywhere overflowed their banks, causing more or less damage to houses ana farms that lay in their course. Downtown in Pittsburg, cellars and basements of business houses which are in the general flood belt, were inudated, while in Allegheny two railroads were temporarily paralyzed owing to the water which covered their tracks. People in the first and third wards of A1-. legheny, had to adopt Venice methods . of going to and from their homes. I. Ample warning had been received by most of the residents and business firms threatened, in time for them to make preparations to minimize losses. The highest stage reached ' by the swollen rivers at Pittsbdrg was I!9.4 feet at the government dam at. Herr's Island. This was at 6 o'clock in the evening. It became stationary at that mark and gradually began to subside. The cold weather which set in last night served to check the flood and prevented more serious proportions. Gen. Gordon to Quit Lecturing. Jackson, Miss., Special.?General John B. Gordon, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, whot suffered a severe attack of acute indigestion, while en route to this city i Thursday night, left for Texas. It is , reported that after General Gordon has filled this season's lecture engagements ' he will retire from the platform. ] Body Recovered. , New Orleans, Special.?Missing for six days, the body of Stephen Fitzger- 1 aid, agent of the American Cotton 1 Company, in this city, was taken i from the oid basin canal. Mr. Fitzger- i aid was last seen on Saturday night, when he boarded a car to go home. His j family suspected foul play ana nis brother, John Fitzgerald, came from ? St. Louis to assist in the search. There < were no marks of violence on the body ( and no money had been taken from his . pockets. It is probable that he fell in- ( to the canal by accident and was unable to get out. Mr. Fitzgerald was from Memphis, where his aged mother ' and sister live. ' Dr. Thomas Dead. Thomasville, Ga? Special.?Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas, of New York, a spe- i cialist of note in women's diseases, s died suddenly at the Pincy Woods Ho- i tel. Saturday morning, of heart disease. ; Dr. Thomas, with his wife, was spend- ( iDg the winter here. He was in apparently vigorous health up to Friday ] night. During the night he complain- ed of feeling ill and two physicians i were called. He continued to sink, and 1 this morning died. His body will be ' sent to New York. t I I SHOT BY TEACHER.! i * . I' Sad and Fatal Occurrence That is Much Deplored < 1 RESULT OF A MUTINY AT IN MAN. j i The Teacher Claims That the Killing Was Purely Accidental ? C'on.:;m- < nity fluch Wrought Up. Spartanburg, S. C.. Special.?Eddy J Foster, the lS-year-old son of Gabriel , Foster, was shot and dangerously \ wounded Tuesday afternoon by Reu- j hen Pitts at Inman. Pias i3 a teacher ( it Inman and Foster is one of his students. Several days ago the teacher ( Bogged one of the boys and won the Bnmity of the scholars, who agreed to resist any further efforts of the teach- 1 Br as to chastisement. Pitts heard of the agreement and determined to quell this rebellious spirit Being a physically weak man he took a loaded revolver with him to school and at the noon recess hour called young Foster in to administer a whipping. Foster, as agreed, rebelled. Pitta drew his pistol, only to frighten the boy, so he states, The boy struck the pistol in an effort to take the rod from the teacher, when the revolver was exploded, the ball entering the stomach and ranging downward, making a very serious wound. The feeling is intense but both parties have friends and the manner of the discharge of the pistol is not doubted. Pitt3 is a graduate of Furman University, the son of Rev. J. D. I'itts, pastor of the First Baptist church of Laurens. The young man bears the highest character and reputation. He is greaV wrought up over the terrible affair. Foster is a member of a prominent family of Spartanburg. Eoy Shoots Three Persons. Frankfort, Ind., Special?Earl Woods the 17-year-old son of a prominent farmer, who lives seven miles west of this city, Tuesday morning murdered his father, shot and fatally wounded his mother and sister and then com raiupu suiciue. ine rnoinc lur int* iju.y ? bloody crime i3 not known. After the shooting, the young man went to the home of a neighbor and said that robbers had entered his home and killed his father, mother and sister and that he escaped after a running battle with the desperadoes. He apparently was greatly excited and said he was organizing a posse to pursue his father's slayers. He stopped at another house and told the same story. When ho was questioned concerning the shooting he became confused and resented the inqulsitlveness of the man to whom he told the story. He started away and disappeared behind the barn, when a shot was heard. An investigation discovered the youthful murderer dying, with a bullet through his breast. The Pope Dines Poor People. Rome, By Cable.?Sunday was *a great day for the poor of Rome, a thousand of them being the guests of the Pope at a dinner ih the Belevidere Court of the Vatican in honor of the Pontiff's jubilee. The tables were decorated with flowers and miniature papal flags. The guests were waited upon by nuns and the Swiss Guards in brilliant uniforms kept order, their band playing during the repast. The excellent menu included wine and dessert. Great enthusiasm was displayed and there were cries of "Long live the Pope!" The Pope desired to personally administer blessing on the gathering, put although he was well, the doctors Ma ft.ocim in n^dpr that he might husband his strength for the coming functions. Kin; Bill Passed. Little Rock, Ark., Special.?The Senate passed the King anti-trust bill by a vote of 27 to 3, and it now goes to the House, which, on January 2T> last, passed a similar measure. Governor Davi3 declares that he wrote the King bill and intended to exclude from Arkansas corporations that are members of combinations anywhere on earth. Williamson's Slayer Caught. Monroe, N. C.. Special.?Henry Young, the man who shot and killed J. H. Williamson at Hamlet Saturday night, was caught Tuesday afternoon about 5:30 o'clock, one mile from Marahville, by Chief Howie. Policeman Laney, Constable Bivins and Lee Williamson, the brother of J. H. Williamson. He was brought to Monroe and placed in jail. Young offerea no resistance.f He expressed regret ior his action and begged pitifully to be protecho/1 Another Eruption. Mexico City, Special?At 5:15 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the most vidlent ruption of Colima volcano which has >ccurred in years took place. At 2:26 ?. m. there was severe earthquake shocks at Tuxapam and a heavy pall )f smoke hangs over the entire vicini:y. Both Cludad Cuzman and Tuxasam are near the volcano. Train Wrecked. % Dixon. Mo., Special.?The St. Louis fc San Francisco fast west-bound passenger train was wrecked Monday light, near the Gasonde river crossing it Arlington. Win. Giffsrd, a Wells F'argo Express messenger, of St. Louis, vas killed, and Engineer Decker, of N'ewburg, sustained broken ribs and nternal injuries that may prove fatal. ' Pour of the crew were seriously hurt. ! s'one of the passengers were injured i (xcept slightly. ] A SINOaY SESSION. j Congress too Lusy to "Remembet the Sabbath D.tv." The House held a four-hour session ; Sunday and put the District of Colum- j' 5ia bill through its last parliamentary ' stage, in the face of the Democratic f filibuster. The previous question cn ' , the conference report cn the Alaskan itcmestcad bill v/as ordered and the | rote on'its adoption will be taker. . ivhen th? House .c-ccr.vanes at 1i j eloci; tomorrow morning. That v.*a he not result of the Punday session, i Although it was Sunday oy the caiirdar. it was still Thursday, Kebru- ! rry CUtb. according to parliaments:; , i uv: 1,/viiiuv.iaio put c* i.*w\ ?u the legislative wheel at every oppoiLenity and it tequircd six roll-calls to accomplish what was dene. Large crowds watched the proceedings from the galleries. When Speaker Henderson dropped the gavel at noon, Mr. Richardscn. the minority leader, was on his f let. He announced that there was evidently no quorum pre.Tcnt and that the House could do no business on Sunday without a quorum. Thereupon, on motion of Mr. Payne, the majority loader, a call of the House was ordered. The floors were closed and the 3ergo*ut-at21 ns was instructed to bring in abscn tees. At the conclusion of the call 41 members ban appeared, more than a quorum, and Mr. MeCleary, of Minnesota. called up the conference re pert on the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Mr. Underwood, of Alabama, undertook to interpocc the point of order that the bill had not been eomnletc-d. but the speaker ruled that a quorum having appeared, business would proceed. The doors which meantime had been opened, however. 1 wer? again closed by tho direction o? the speaker on Mr. Underwood's point ru order that further proceedings un der the call had not been dispense! with by the action of the House. After a brief explanation of the report, against the protests of various Democrats who ues'rcd to be heard, it was . adopted, 144 to 30. There was another roll-call on ordering the previous question on the Alaskan homestead till, which was presented to Mr. ; I.acey, Republican, of Iowa. A half dozen points of order raif.ed by the Democrats were ruled out and the , chair declined to entertain all ap- ' peals on the ground that they were ,, dilatory. At 3:53 p. m.. the House rc- j cessed until 11 o'clock tomorrow, with j the motion to adopt the conference report on the Alaskan bill. The House committee on banking and currency by a strict party vote. , authorized a favorable report on the currency hill introduced by Representative Fowler, chairman of the committee. In reporting the bill the com- j rcittee says: "In addition to provid- ' ing for the issus and circulation of na- ! tional bank notes the object of this ' measure is to immediately put back . into circulation any money the govern- j ment may collect through its customs ; receipts as well as through its eoliee- ! tion from internal revenue. The avail- j 2ble cash balance now in the Treasury is $022.607,S82. To this amount j there is now in national bank de- ! positaries 5-17.755.300, leaving a net j balance in the Treasury of $71,994.45-1. If we deduct $50,000,000 as a ' necessary working balance for the j Treasury, wo shall have only $21.- | 994,431 to meet the demand on the Treasury growing out of the Panama , transacticn, which will call for $50,- ' 000,000. It is evident that the government will not have any additional money to deposit with national banks j \ ior the next six or eignt raonms. me i, effect of this will be to release the total amount of bonds now deposited to secure government deposits, vis: $125,000,000 of government bonds and $22,000,01)0 of State and other bonds, now held by the Treasury In addition thereto, as security for such deposits. The bonds so released may then be used by the banks ior further increas Ing their bond-secured circulation, which will undoubtedly be much ! needed during the coming fall i months." : The Senate spent three hours Sunday in eulogies of four deceased members of the House. Messrs. Martin, cf Virginia: Gallinger. of New Hampshire; Perkins of, California; Clay, of Georgia, and Daniel, of Virginia, spoke of the late Peter J. Otey, of Virginia. Messrs. Pritchard, of North Carolina, and Mallory, of Florida, spoke of the late James Moody, of North Carolina, uthers spoke of the late James Tongue, of Oregon. At the conclusion of the addresses the several resolutions of regret wore adopted, aud as a further mark of respect, the Senate at 3 o'clock adjourned until tomorrow at 11 o'clock. ' Bow-in's Proposition. Washington. Special.?Mr. Bowcn. the Venezuelan plenipotentiary, has proposed to the allied powers that the Czar of Russia be asked to name three arbitrators who, as "The Hague" tribunal, shall decide the question of preferential treatment. The suggestion has been approved by the State Department. Mr. Bowcn submitted to the allies the representatives the copies oi c the proposed protocols submitting the. J Venezuelan ease to The Hague triba- i nal. ' c t May Be Removed. Richmond, Special.?The committee 1 of the General Assembly which has f been investigating the charges against ^ Judge Campbell, of the Amherst Coun- J ty Court, decided, it is understood, tc d recommend the adoption cf a join J resolution providing for the removal { of the judge from the bench. The ma- B jorjty of the committee will make ?. ^ report recommending censure. Th t charges against Judge Campbell crrev s out of the widely reported horse whip ( ping by the judge of Rev. Dr. Crav 1 ford of the Anti-Saloon League. f t Immense Forests of Russia. Forest covers 36 per cent of Rus- J, sia's total area, or, in all, 464,500,000 ji teres. In other words, there are four? v teres of forest to every inhabitant ofIs Russia. 11 I POVERTY AND PIETY. THE GOSPEL TO THE POO? riie PremrhHg of It Is An Evidenn of the Prrgress of Christianity ' c?* m^n r New York City.?"Poverty and Piety" Vu the subject of this sermon delivered by the Rev. James Alexander Jenkins, pastor of Immanuel Congregational Church. His text was chosen from Matthew xi: 5: "The poor have the gospel preached to them. The words of onr text constitute part of the reply of Jesus to John when He sent two of His disciples with the anxious question, "Art Thou He that should come or do we look for another?" In this reply the Master assumes that John is familiar with the character of the work of the expected One, so He sets before the messengers His own work as meeting the requirements. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, "the poor have the gospel preached to them." The preaching of the gospel to the poor may be regarded as only an evidence of the far reaching mercy of the great God, but it may also oe regarded as testifying to the preparation of the poor for receiving and spreading the good news from God. It we believe in the fitting of means to ends in the world of nature, if we are upholders of the great law of design, may we not with reason insist that the Father through the course of the ages prepared certain of the sons of men for the reception of the truth. It we concede this we behold in the preaching of the gospel to the poor an arrangement of providence, a far reaching plan of God. The pages of the gospels reveal Jesus as the preacner to the poor. The rich He regarded as being for some reason less fitted to be chosen as pioneers in the work of establishing His kingdom. Of the rich men oi the tsew Testament, not uives, not tnc rich fool, but the young man who came to Jesus with eager inquiry, may be regarded as typical in the mind of Jesus ox the hosts of the rich and powerful. Thinking of hint Jesus said: ' It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man :o enter into the kingdom oi God." From this statement we naturally infer that the absence of wealth or poverty is most favorable to the reception of saving truth, to the entering of the kingdom. Jesus Himself, coming as the founder oi the kingdom of God, chose the material unon which that kingdom Khali be bai't. Me did not preach to the pour because others would not hear Him. The influential He could have commanded, strength ol arms lie could have enin-led, wealth would have served Him. But He chose, desired, determined, to preirh the gosnel to tin; poor. Says l)r. Bushntll. speaking of the character of the ministry of Jesus: "He adheres to the poor and makes them Ike fibjcct of His ministry. And what is more peculiar, He visibly has a kind of interest in their society, which "is wanting in that of the higher classes, perceiving, apparently, that they have a certain aptitude for receiving ri?ht impressions which the others have not. They are not the wise and prudent, filled with the conceit of learning and station, but they are the ingenuous babes of poverty, open to conviction, prepared by their humble lot to receive thoughts and doctrines in advance of their age." With equal acumen does this great writer rceogn'xe the fundamental and distinguishing nature of the choiec of Jesus, is contrasted with the teachings of the statesmen and nhilosophers who had gone before Him. Thcv began at 'he ton. Ho of fka -iml or* His U'/inl* lui. rause it was tnie to nature, was lasting, ibiding, eternal. ' The twentieth century finds sboicty divided. as it has always been divided, int.) two clashes, the rich and the poor. Civilisation has crept onward, changing many things, hue it lias not removed the distinction between wealth and poverty. The distinction may be less brutal. less crude, tout it still exists, and the very refinement of the classification of men is often ihc lause of added bitterness. So to-day the student of men and events, whether ne be sociologist, economist or preacher, is -.onfronted by the difficulty of adjusting one part of society to another. We are conitantly asking certain questions and clamoring for a reply. Can the poor man sc:ure a just share of ihe good things of ;arth? Is it possible for him to get an education? Will society receive him? Aud low, it seems, another question presses jpon us. What is the relation betweeu joverty and piety? It would stem that the world, in an :? *i.: ? i? w,. , .# >1... iwcrmg IIII> iiucsuuii, /J3i. wt vi*w :eaching and practice of Jesus, for the c<*ndusion usually arrived at is that the poor nan is at a disadvantage in his struggle or the soul culture which every human aeing should desire. Many, listening to Ihe reasoning of the world, have, because )f their poverty, surrendered their religion, le3erttd the church and rejected the Jhrist. To them the Christian worker l as :ome to seem the advocate of impossibilities, hut this attitude of mind is not conined to the simple and unthinking, for we ire reminded that even thoughtful writers teem to assume the existence of a natural lostility between poverty and piety. Let us keep in mind the attitude of (he Lord Jesus toward the poor as He delivered His message, and let us. remembering ;hat. ask ourselves what that piety is. the elation of which to poverty we are to deermine. L>t us p.sk whether there is in liety any -dement to the producing of rhich poverty is hostile, ana let u.s tind, >n the other hand, whether it may not be jossiblc that poverty assists the soul in its mdeavor to become the possessor ot true >iety. i Piety is not, primarily, something in the itmosphere; it is the rather something in he heart of inan. Among the elements vhich enter into it. a few of the principal mes may be mentioned: Sensitiveness of hinga true, beautiful, good; receptivity, ?r the ability to appropriate the good that ippeals to the soul; power to apply ihs irinciples of truth; recognition of love as he great animating, sustaining. Codmowing principle. J^et us see whether loverty may not be an aid to the sopl in ts development along the lines indicated. We may, I think, claim with justice that loverty renders the soul supremely sr native to the best things. Poverty is too fre [uently regarded as synonymous witn pau>erism, and pauperism is the embodiment ?f grim, unfeeling heedlessness. Paupcrsm is cold, indifferent, dead, but poverty s warm, alert, alive. Poverty needs its ivery faculty, its every power. It must ight battles and anticipate the onslaught >F unseen foes. It must read the signs of he morrow in the evening sky and adapt tself to sun and shower and storm. "The nan with the hoe" is not the poor man, or poverty neither deadens nor bruiali7.es. Vere I to choose m,v illustration of hon ?>t >overty I should find it in the humble toilers of "The Angelus." Clad in the rough ;arb of workers in the fields, holding in heir hands thp cumbrous instruments of heir daily toil, they are, nevertheless, ;eenly alive to the beauty, the poetry, the uggestiveness of the sounds wafted upon he gently stirring summer brace*. Truly vpical are they, as with bowed heads they tand, of the succeeding generations of lod's poor. a<f. amid toil and tribulation, hev seek t<. find the good, to know f?od. The sensitiveness of hone-i noverly 1 I oe it in the iittle chi'drea of the rabble r.< hey followed Jesus through the street, of erusalcm. and I see it in the children wi> i o-day clutch the- {lowers carried i?^<> t*: lomes of the poor bv sweet charity, i set t in the zeal, tlie devotion of the slaves rho first heard the (losp?l_ message, and 1 pe it in t^ic enthusiasm of the multitudes rho caught the inspiration of the Renais?nee. I see it iu the faces of the "eomuiou 1 , people" who "heard Him gladly," and I see it in the faces of the lowly as they liaten to a Chrysostum or a Moody. Disguise it as we may, deny it il wo w:i!r the soul of poverty has been the oae attuned to catch the messages sent front heaven out of the heart of God. Wei*?. can do no more than furnish the material for an Angelo; it can only create the. opportunity for a Savonarola; it can but jprovide Jesus with the stage for His sab ime activity. Again, is it not apparent that poverty tends to the development of the power ot receptivity? Rightiy understood poverty is a wonderful aid to clear vision, enabling man to distinguish between the esseiui.at and the unnecessary. It enables its possess; 8or (not its victim 1 to develop self rather than to collect "things." It enables hi * to see the difference between "having** and "being." Wealth shouts: "I have, but poverty whispers, "I am." Poverty conies to know that onlv spiritual appropriation gives real ownership. This is one of themessages of the old Eden story of Genes,., for God placed Adam in the garden as a poor worker. He was to till and to kec*j- * the place and only to enjoy so much of it as he made his own. The supreme joy-oi his position was that through toil he wa> able to look upon God and the good and make them his own. In his sin ha filled" his heart with substitutes for God, and thus shut Him out of bis soul. The return to Eden is the return to simplicity and receptivity. It is the becoming sensitive once more to the good and the taking in ?.-? truth, beauty, holiness. It is a false theory which assumes that the activity of poverty is due to recklessness. that the poor may choose anv course of action, disregard any existing orde?\ because they have "nothing to lose." Even for the poor it is true that "life is more than meat and the body than raiment." Thetrue cause for the activity of poverty is found in the rugged strength developed by adversity, in the constant need for adaptation to the demands of the nassing days, and. finally, in the undying belief cherished that there is "a good time coming" in the. go'dfcn future. * It ?a the tendency of wealth to be satisfied with things as they are, industrially, sociallv, morallv. Truth's cartoon. "At* English Board Meeting." is stnrtiinglv suggestive when applied to morals,,as well a* when applied to money. "Whv, the aged and wealthy directors of the great railwayare made io ask. "why must the public interfere with our business? Whv monk inventors suggest new devices? What'#, the ; good of these innovations?" The great labor saving ideas of '.he age have come into the minds of the poor; they have been developed amid suffering and ; stress, and thev have been forced upon a reluctant world by men who cared wore for progress than for ease. So it is withthe men and women who, hungering tncS . thirsting after righteousness, have become" i po,-.A.?*c<l of great moral ideas. The gradi* of these ideas upon their own souls renders them ucrestingly eager to see therm enthroned in the heart of the race. They are willing to fight seemingly hopeleee battles. to champion despieea principles, t?v advocate unwelcome truths.^ They^ know what they have neiievea, ana ineir xnow.edge gives them willingness to utilize theiihard earned strength for the education and advancement of mankind, and these ehamtiions of the principles of Diety have beer* from the davs of Jesus and from the apostolic times the sons of noverty. When in "-the days of primitive Christianity the gos- * nel unread from Jerusalem, it was carried" by the poor; when it laid siege to hostile lands, poverty fought for it; when it grew corrupt tiirough the machinations of a. wicked priesthood, poor men purified it.. when in these last days it has become ready for world conquest, bumble servant* of the King have been called to carry it. But we have said that piety has as or.<of its important elements the recognition of love as the great animating and sustaining principle: this recognition poverty glad?!v accords. When we are told in the te.rt that the poor had the gospel preached t?> them, we have, as has been said, more than |o a mere statement of fact that Jesus delivered sermons to multitudes of the needy: wo have the implied declaration pf a condition of understanding of svoipatsy.. between His soul and theirs. Men wW were dominated by selfish principle? aid not understand Him, for they were incapa? b'e of recognizing love as the supreme motive of a soul. Action, for them, was !- ways dictated by policy, and they suspected a hidden motive behind the activity ?f Jesus. The Master declared that for a rich manto enter the kingdom is difficult. /Whttt did He mean? He doubtless considered the increasing dancer of basing action upon false motive. He knew that it is the tendency of wealth to render action mechanical. careless, and. too frequently, heartless,, that the rich man may give bis gold< to "charity," while his heart is as mm; toar he mav snnport the gospel with his worthwhile his heart feels no joy in it* messageBut he knew that poverty rightly conceived tends to keep the life normal andtrue to the true spring* of action. Heknew that the poor who heard Hira when thcv gave their mites gave them heeanseof love, for no other power could causethat to be sacrificed which represented? bread, shelter, life. He knew that they were familiar with the ministry of poverty to poverty, and that thejr were able to grasp the significance of a ministry based upon simple, unselfish love. So He preached to them,, unfolding His conceotion of the approaching King lorn of God, the kingdom of love. Calmly He revealed to them a life whiehneeded for its realisation neither might nor money. Sweetly He discoursed to them of the inward nature of the kingdom, of the hunger, the thirst, the meekness, thepoverty necessary in order that men night possess it, and they understood. Serenity of Character. Who docs not love a tranquil heart, ? sweet-tempered, balanced life? It doea not matter whether it rains or shines, or what misfortunes come to these possessing these blessings, for they are always *weet, aereneand calm. That exquisite poise of character which we call serenity is the last les- * son of culture: it is the flowering of life, the fruitage of the soul. It is nreeious as. visdoru, mori to be desired than gold? vea, than even line gold. How contemptible mere money-wealth looks in comparison with a serene life?a life which dweDa in ihe ocean of truth, beneath the waves,. l>evond the reach of tempts, in the eternal calm! How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that ia sweet * i 1 r 1 t.~ famnPN. TSrhfV anu oeamnui uy cajhuji.v- , destroy their poise of character br bad blood! In fact, it is a question whetherthe great majority of people do not ruin their lives .and mar their happiness bylack of self-control. How few peorfe weme;i in life who are well balanced, who have that exquisite poise which is characteristic of the finished character! Righteousness Creates Happiness. A life of unselfish devotion to God *n<F to righteousness is the unfailing secret of* happiness. He who lives for himself alonewill dwindle into miserable and pet^yiasijmificance. He who lives to glorify (Lid and to make the world better and happier is sure to be happy. No one can prevent if. Usefulness is true greatness and true gladness. If we wish this to be a happyyear wo must love God and work His holjr will. Think Ttcfcre We Speak. Let us thin!: before we speak, since thewords we must -peak must enter into the life of the- world and make it worea or better, and if we err on either side, err I in gentleness end tenderness and low.? I The llcr. Dr. lavage. Happiness Lasts. Misery will not last?happiness will, if" only in remembrance. Mo pure joy, bowever fieetinjr, contains any real bitterness,.. t\?u wlieu it is gone by.?D. Af. Craik. . . J} ^|| :'y