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F r.v ' \ %.'> . t'".. ; ? . j A PRINCE BEAUTIFUL | i| ?* KEGILAR WEEKLY 'SERMON Tatar Genuinely Religious Life Leads 3kto Clio. Enjoyment of the Glories aryotMI. ! Xru' Yokx ( it v. I'it til Avenue Presppterun Church, which i> a very large feozMmg, w is filled in evcrv [iart Sunday awning to hear the Rev. Hugh .Black, 88JL- associate of Dr. White in the Free wk. George'/Church, Kdinbitrgh. Scotland. JWr. Black. had for his subject ".lesus His I Sign and Miracle." 'the text was I PP? Matthew xii.ltS: "Then certain of pftracribes and of the Pharisees answered, * "** ?-u u>o ititrn from But He answered and said unto 4bon, An evil and adulterous generation Befcclh after a sign; and there shall no poi be given to it. hut the *ign of the propped donas." Mr. Black saidf We gather from its source, as coining jteem (be Pharisees, that this question had malicious purpose to undcrntine the aupftoritv of '.he new Teacher with the neojptr by asking front Him what He could pat or would not perforin, hut from the [pMtorical connection in which the evann*Jv?ts place it tlie purpose was not only fiaEeious, but almost insulting. Our Lord jbarf been in the pursuit of His beneficent fmKng ministry, liaj cured uianv suffeiing Pmn and women, and the Pharisees' explajmlinii was that He had power from an ril aource; He did it, they asserted, by aatac of His connection with Beelzebub, pha prince of devils. And now. after this "explanation of the signs and wonders Unas did among men. toey came with the VMahing question, "Majster, we would see m Wgw trorn Thee." \Vbal sort of a sign (fid (hey want, and what sort of evidence CHold conv.nce them if they could attrihpfca Sis healing ministry to diabolic art? Nfce veiled insult of the demand is the (Mpercilious passing over of all He had paea and of all He had done, as if it did pat count and as if He must now begin to ift? something of sufficient magnitude^.to Bviice them that His pretensions were laaotworthy. J Now there is a demand for evidence is legitimate, evidence Which is peees*mry tor the Highest taitn, t>uc in tn:s ?mc, arpart from the hypocrisy of the ques"" km, there underlay a wrong conception of ewdation and a wrong conception of the noloro and the place of miracle?. They ywted Christ to perform some prodigy, as if a piece of wonder-working could be real lifcoce of spiritual thing-.; hence, our l?id'? rebuke. It is a religious rebuke. <9o4 should be recognized for what He is. aai the recognition of Him should not lie siapcA<tcnt upon external signs, which in HttoBselvcs. after all. have no spiritual sig afcennce. Christ's feeling as regards pis im ?eea through a graphic touch recorded W St. Mark, who writes thai when the JTaarLsces ctme seeking a sign from Him -Jfevas eighed deeply in His spirit. It dbwvrd to Him a lamentable dullness of md. to think that the recognition of the wpiiitml should be made to hang on prodiand on rairacie-mongering o> any kind. T%ere ah ill n<* sign be given unto this generation " This attitude of our Lord. Miiee, is not contradictory to the value He elsewhere placed on miracles ts evi4bmc. He pointed, you remember, to His Jaeda of niercv to authenticate His claims when, as in the case of John the Baptist", fhori' was a sincere des're to know the nrLs of the Messiah, but His miracles were moral acts to educate and to reveal. | Wtert to surprise and to astonish, lie knew ?rou Bid experience that it was possible I |kiu'r to Peiieve in tnc reauiv 01 mirac.e* Md nt the same time lose all its true evidential force, even to ascribe il to evil powers as the Pharisees did. "There shall l?e no sign given to curiosay mongers." There can be no sign given | to those who imagine that tlie spiritual <ma be proved by the material. Mere wondtr working is 110 evidence of the things whx.i Jcsas came to teach the world. Men not to be led to Uod. then or now? sea arc not to be led to Cod. iu the sense that Jesus meant?by displays ami conjur K tricks. The demand of the Pharisees hawed a radically false idea 01 the whole atofare and place of the miracle and the swjoc mistake i> possible to us. and possthJe fes us in many ways and forms. We the same mistake, for example, when me think that faith in Cod would be easier | in as if only some portent were vouchsafed to us; if only we could see some phy- j fiol evidence, especially designed to con- j peace us. We fall into the Pharisees' error 1 mod merit their rebuke wh^n we sigh for - {be. certitude which we imagine would aeuoc from a celestial appearance or from a vwicc from heaven, or if we could put our fiocer into the print of the nails. TTt> understand Christ's attitude on tir.s Stion we need to have our minds di?cd of the idea that a mere miracle in the sense of prodigy is ever evidence of ( ritual thing*. Some miracles are sign* i?dred, but only when there is spiritual evidence in them; that is. when they are snore than mere wonder-working, which the Pharisees here desired, l'or example, our Lord's healing ministry was a great mb4 constant sign of the-love of Ood, carvying a revelation with as truly as any loving; word of the Master ever did. This lets l*kt iu upon the true way in which to I wiev the whole question. Our Lord's miracks cannot be separated iroin the great vcvelalioas ci His whole lite and teaching H'3 words and His works are co-re"^Bfead; the miracles are not to be looked on nw. isolated exhibitions of power, but as Uaiginselves contributing to the 1 evolution. TWy were not signs, but vehicles of teaching. They are not signs externally atJfcaiJii'-d to thn teaching to give it weight, kind therefore to make it creditable; not unexplained occurrences testifying in a Mysterious fashion to tlie possession of di-vwae power; they did not evidence the "torching, they themselves are the teach jag. iney ai> paraoiea in action m^icau ?it in words, moral and spiritual in their effect, not.tvidential at all, except by the I any. jPhey aie an integral part of the rev. Nation of the love of God in Christ Jesus ^*osr Lord. They have an essential place in ^ the whole round of the Christian revelation as fruits?fruits of the pity of God. ~aa manifestations of the divine love and wisdom; they are part of the manifestation of Christ; they are hot guarantees of His message as the Pharisees here meant them, but part of the message Itself, as xnnch evidences of God's love as His gracious, tender words are or ever could be. therefore Christ's miracles are never to be conceived ox as mere dispkns of power. He persistently refused from first to last to work wonders to make men believe. It as not that the demand for evidence is arronc, it is a natural demand that proof should be given of all claims, hut we must make sure what reallv is evidence. A miracle is in itself 110 proof of a moral truth. never i.i itself engender t if one rose from the ssariiy imply the existthe soul's immortality. ; that everv miracle was pied to induce to spirit1 men to God, but, like they could find no foot>f man except through lity in the man himself, for'evidence, but what ence of what? We say 1 Christ if only we could convinced how, and behrist? Men have somem injured ayr. why they iced bv an unmistakable ivh.r Christ it He should 5 could not break down euns the barriers of unopen the door ?: the heart and find entrance? What would such an entrance be worth morally? A mere sensuous or intellectual gratification which might come from a sign from heav en would ne quite outside me purpose aimed at by our Lord. What would persuade the carnal mind of the spiritual, what? not the carnal, surely. Not if one rose fro nit he dead. Christ was accred- I ited to His generation, not by this or that sign or wonder-working, but by His whole ministry, by Himself, by His life and teaching. He Himself was the sign. If the sign of Jesus will not be to Jerusalem what the sign of Jonah was to Nineveh, would a moment of astonishment at some wonder working create spiritual certitude? If the. sign of Christ will not now convince man of the eternal love of God, what sign from heaven will? In asking to be convinced of the spiritual bv some impression of the senses we ask the impossible. A sign to prove the spiritual must itself be spiritual. If God asks from man love, will some celestial appearance create love? If God asks from man that free allegiauce of the will, could a voice from heaven or a succession of voices subdue the mind and capture the heart? If God asks for righteousness or loyal obedience of the life to the law of life could anything material generate the moral? There can be no sign given to men who cannot see the sign which Jesus is Himself. He authenticates the spiritual to us. Seeing Him we must "believe in God, or if not how could we be made more sure of God? Christ is the revealer of the Father. He is the sign and symbol and evidence of God. He is Immanucl. the Sign and Seal of God with us and God for us, the proof of the divine in our midst. There shall be no sign given to this generation other than that; there can be no other. He is the highest sign, and if the greater tails now can tnc lesser convince, and as a matter of fact Jesus has convinced the world of God. and is convincing the world. Through Him we, too. know God. By Hira we have access to God. In Him we recognize God. For His sake we love God. The vision of Him is the vision of God. This generation thirstcth for a sipi. We think it an evidence of our spirituality that we do So thirst, and so we tind many modern versions of the demand of the Pharisees. Sometimes in the name of science, sometimes in the name .>f religion. We con even manufacture signs when they seem to be lacking. Sometimes by emulating the methods of medievalism, in which the so-called lives of the saints are flouted before us. and asking us to believe in the great realities of spiritual life because of some material sign. Answers to prayer, it may be, providences which, however cogent to the individual concerned, have little meaning to others, or sometimes wc have a recrudescence oi* the crudest spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning, teacup manipulating, after which the devotees go home feeling that they themselves have been assisting at some act of profound worship, as if the melodramatic vulgarisms of spiritualism could prove anything but the folly of the race. Or agajn. we have the j>ame claims appear in a more pretentious garb in Theosophyr br Christian Science, or whatever happens to be the fashionable form of it at- the time, where esoteric mysteries oi some kind are practiced. The root of all such things is this same unspirit.ial thirst for a sign, after thauraaturgieal wonders, faitli healing and other things pretty much on the level of conjuring tricks. Ah, me. Ail this is a sign in itself, a sign of the weariness and despair and breakdown 01 the black materialism of our day to satisfy the heart of man. but it ha* i the terrible danger of inducing a worse I form of materialism still, deceiving the j carnal neari u\ wearing mt* uies? ox >ju nual religion. How i:nstab!e it is we see from the constant swing of the pendulum now from atheism and materialism to the most outrageous supernaturalism as in the case of Mrs. Hesant and others, and now in the opposite direction from ultra-mysticism to ultra-rationalism. The cause of these seemingly contradictory changes it is not far to seek, as both are really based on the same foundation?a wrong conception of what the spiritual is and therefore of what is true evidence of the spiritual. This generation thirstcth for a sign. There shall be 110 sign given to it. No sign can be given to an unspiritual generation which would judge all things by material standards, a generation that is blind to the spiritual signs of which lite is already full. There can be no voice from heaven to men who are deaf to the heavenly voice of which the whole world is already full: if the spiritual does not evidence itself; if man w ill not see God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself; if the sign of the cross cannot convince the stubborn heart and bend it to acknowledge its divine power. If Jesus Himself is not seen to be His own s'gn and miracle. His own evidence and proof, there shall be no sign given; there can be no sign given. '"There shall be no sign given unto this generation.'' Is that the last word? Is that the clang of the closed door in the face of a seeking soul? "Master, wo would see a sign from Thee." That pitiful cry if truiy asked, not as by those Pharisees, but craving for spiritual enlightenment and spiritual communion, that pitiful cry has ever been answered. Never turned He away from earnest, sincere, honest inuuiry after light and-truth. Hi condeseeuos to our weakness when we cry. "Oh. that I knew where I might find Him." He meet* us by the way. He makes our heart- to burn within us as we walk with Him. convincing us ox Iiis love, convincing us of the path, showing us the path, and it >ufrtceth us. When the heart thirsts with a deeper thirst than for a sign, when it thirsts after the love of God, when the I i xl ...t. 71. .1 ... *1.^ Mean anu ncaii cry out, ire shows u-< mv signs %> His passion, as with Thomas, "Heboid My hands and My feet." He comforts us. He comforts us with the sign of the cross, and before that wondrous manifestation of the eternal love, before that revelation of the Father's heart, wc believe and worship, and adore and love, and we say in penitence and in faith. "My Lord and my Clod." Do v. j believe'/ "(tod's Veils." Little Mary had just come from the window' with evident pleasure, and sat down on her little stool at her papa's feet. It was just at sunset, and a most glorious sunset it was. The Western sky was mantled with clouds of the most gorgeous hues, upon which the little girl gazed with thoughtful pleasure. "Papa," she said at length, "do you know what I think when 1 see those pretty cloud*?" "Xo. What do you think of t'ueni, Mary?" "1 always think they are Hod's veils. Doesn't He have beautiful veils, papa, to hide Hint from us?" "True enough, my little one, thought f. The clouds that veil Him from our sight are now beautiful. There is a rainbow on them if \ve will sec it. They shine \vich mercy and truth." Was that not a pretty thought of little Mary's? Does it not remind you of the time when the veils shall be parted, and He shall come without clouds and every eye shall see Him? Think More of Others. The surest criterion of our advancing in real excellence and perfection of character. is our acquired disposition to think less of ourselves and of our own hapniness and more of that of others.?l)r. Priestley. Enriched aud Expaudcd. Life is the goal of knowledge. All learning has, as its ultimate aim, better living. When what one knows is assiduously applied to what one does, the knowledge itself becomes enriched and expanded. ?Sco:t:-h Reformer. household | ^ patters A Sewin; Koo-ii Convenience. No sewing room is complete, suggests Vogue, without one or more wooden clothes trees or costume hangers, which can lie bought very reasonably at any furniture shop. On these may be hung garments that are in process of making, or if the various garments ui;u come irniii ine lauuury requiring a few stitches or mending are bung in the sewing room, it is an easy matter to drop in for an hour or so and mend them when one feeis in the mood. Freshly laundered garments are kept in a much better condition if while waiting to be mended they are hung on a clothes tree, than when they are laid over chair backs or put away in chests and drawers. i To Iteinove Stains. If linen is badly stained with fruit, tea or coffee, put plenty of water into a boiler or other vessel, and when it boils hard drop in the stained article. Stir frequently, and after a few minutes rapid boiling the stain will disappear and the water be colored. Lye or washing fluid may he used for cleaning. but no soap, as that sets the stain. I had a tablecloth half covered with a bad coffee stain, and a few minutes' boiling made it as white as ever. Blood stains may be removed in the same way. If the article is soaked a short time first in cold water. Cyanide of potassium in the proportion of one ounce to a quart of soft water, is a perfect cleanser of badly oxidized silver. I sen liv (tenters ill eternising niiri-s. Prepare a sufficient amount so the article can be completely immersed. Examine every few minutes, but return to the bath until elean. Immediately on linal removal, rub dry with a soft woolen cloth, or the silver will iook streaked. The preparation will not hurt the hands, but it is u poison, and must be kept carefully out of the way of children.?Philadelphia Inquirer. To l>o Little Thine*. Always keep your celery roots and dry them. They are good l'or seasoning soups and sauces. Table oilcloths or the linoleum ou the kitchen floor can be kept fresh and cleaner with oil than with soap and water. When weighing molasses sprinkle the scale well with dour and then it will slip oft again quite easily without sticking. A plain brown or green wall paper ?nn!.-iw ?in i.io-ii li:icL'<rrrkitnd l"er nie ture?, ami the absence of pattern on walls au In immensely to the apparent size of the room. When tomatoes and milk are to be put together, as in a cream soup, have the tomato juice and milk of the same temperature, then beat vigorously as the tomato is added, little by little. A good general rule always to remember in tiie use of gelatins is to soften Urn gelatin in cold water, then to dissolve in boiling water. Neglect of either parr of the process will cause trouble in making jellies. To save the knees of boys' ribbed stockings one mother re-enforees them by sewing a piece of strong black cloth behind tliem before thev are worn at all. It is remarkable liow much longer stockings wear when treated iu this way. In hanging a mirror choose a spot where it will reflect the view from the window or something pretty; then it will add to the beauty of the room. In any case, whether the object of the mirror be decorative or merely useful, do not place it anywhere where the sun's rays will fall on it, for the sun acts injuriously ou the mercury ami clouds the glass. :j?rr*ro Steamed Sponge Pudding?One cupful of light bread sponge or dough, one tablespooriful of butter; mix well, and set to rise in a warm place; when light, roll out thin and spread with fresh or canned fruit, jam. raisins or dried cherries, or any one kind of fruit desired: roll up into a small loaf, place in a buttered basin or tin and let rise again; when'light, steam one hour and a quarter. A ntnf. hPAdil xuupic x>uu>?a 1.11m. \>l i/ii.uv> sponge add one small cupt'ul of grated maple sugar, two large eggs (well beaten*, one-half cupful of soft butter, a little salt, and Hour to make a soft dough. When light, shape into buns and let rise again. Bake in a quick syrup and sift grated maple sugar and cinnamon over them. Nice for the children's lunch basket, and particularly good with cocoa or chocolate. An Easy Omelet?This is made in an uncovered casserole, the sort one buy? for twenty cents at Italian groceries in any city. Beat the yolks of the eggs until they are light in color and quite stiff. Beat the whites stilHy. Add to the yolks grated cheese, chopped mushrooms, or whatever variation of the omelet is required. Add salt and pepper, a cupful, more or less, of milk, very gradually, aud fold In the whites of the eggs. Turn into the butterec i casserole and bake in a moderate oven These little shallow casseroles, which are to be had in several sizes, are rather fragile affairs, glazed on the iusldt only, aud soft baked clay on the out side. They have a short handle, liki ! the old time porringer, and are, alto pother, very pretry dishes. For a disl j af baked mncaroui, baked beans, sof ! corn bread or any ^vegetable au gra j tin, tiicy arc recommended. i CUr MEMBERS OFF i Measure to Reduce Representatioi Of The South i * ' rue ccrc/-t nt tiic ni i TT Dili : iijc crmii yr mil run un.t ? * The Purpose of the Measure Intro duced at the Instance of the Repub lican Club of New York is to Re duce the Representation in Congress of Those Southern States Which Have Disfranchised the Negro?Ac cording to the Provisions of the Bil North Carolina Would Have Eight Instead' of Ten Representatives? Senator Piatt Issues Statement Con cerning the Measure. Washington. Special. ? Senatoi Piatt, of New York, has introduced the bill, prepared tinder the direction ol the committee on national affairs ol the Rcpnblican C!ub of the city ol New York, having as its purpose the reduction of the representation in Congress of the Southern States thai have disfranchised the negro voter. The measure, if enacted in its prw ent form, would lessen the member j ship In Congress by nineteen, accordj Ing to the estimate that his been ! made by (he Republican Club, which j originated it. The bill and a state1 ment issued by Senator Piatt were j referred to the committee on the ceni 6us. The statement follows: j '"This bill is framed upon the low; est limitation possible, and treats as ; excluded from the suffrage only the ; male negro citizen over 21 years of age. classed by the Twelfth Census as illiterates, nnder the libJO census tables published since the apportionment act cf January it). 1901. The aggregate actually excluded from the suffrage in each of the States mentioned are in truth larger than those used as the basis for thi3 act. If all negro votablcs (i. e.. male citizens over 21) regardless of illiteracy should be deemed to be excluded, the reduction in representation figured from the same tables would be nearly twice as great as stated in this bill. Ic requires no evidence beyond tne notorious historical fact for Congress to adjudge what cannot be denied, that the clcss of negro illiterates, to the ' extent stated, is practically excluded j from the suffrage in the States men: tioned in the bill, no matter what may 1 be nominal provisions of their respective constitutions or election laws. I The bill therefore presents the small] est reduction practicable and is very j conservative. "How much further, meritoriously j considered, tlio reduction should exi tend can be readily arrived at by i more specifically regarding the actual j facts of total exclusion in respect to each State. In treating fractions of ! representation, the benefit has been I given in facor of the representation, according to the size of the fractions. The apportionment remains as fixed In 1901, and the reduction is to cease when the facts shall warrant it. The bill has been prepared under the ; direction of the committee on national ; afTairs of the Republican Club of the ! City of New York: the club, having | at its first meeting after Cue Presiden; tial election, unanimously voted to | ask Congress to take action, pursuant j to the representation plank in the 1 national Republican platform." i The bill provides for the reduction ! of representation in the House of Rep: resentatives as follows: Alabama, | from 9 to 7; Arkansas, 7 to 6; Florida, ' 3 to 2; Georgia. II to 8; Louisiana, 7 to 5; Mississippi, 8 to 6; North Caro lina, 10 to 8: South Carolina, 7 to 5; Tennessee. 10 to 9; Texas. 16 to 15; Virginia, 10 to S. This bill amends the act "making an apportionment of representatives in Congress among the several States under the Twelfth j Census" by adding new sections. The first is a preamble as follows: "Section 6. Whereas, the eonstitu; tion of the United States prescribes in article 14. section 2, that when the rfght to vote at any election specified in said article is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such States, being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States or in any way abridges, except for partiqjpation in rebellion or other crime.' the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number uf male citizens 21 years ol age in such States;' and further proscribes in article 15 that 'the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition ol servitude:' and whereas, the Congress is satisfied that the right of male inhabitants of certain States being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States to vote at some of said specified elections since the passage of the act herehv amended has in fact been denied or in some way abridged for causes not permitted by the constitution of the United .States, and that the representation of the States hereinafter specified should be reduced persuant to the constitution." It then provides that after the 3rd of March the representation of certain States shall be as giver above. The bill also provides: "That whenever hereafter it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Congress that th? right to vote at the elections sDecifled in section 2. article 14. of the constitution in any of the States last specified is no longer denied or in any waj abridged for causes not permitted bj the constitution of the United States then the number of members appor tioned to such State in the House o: Representatives by section one of th< aforesaid act of 1901, hereby amended may be restored to said state by < further- amendment to the aforesait act This reduction shall apply to thi next election for members of the Hous< of Representatives from said last men t.ioned States in the Sixtieth, Congress "Section 7. Unless the Legislature ? % J J of any of the specified States whose i representation is reduced by this act : shall have provided before the time I fixed by law for the next election of | Representatives therein for the ] I ! election of Representatives by j I districts, after the manner de- ; I noted in section 4 of the aforesaid i i act of 1901. herein amended, then the j -whole number of Representatives from . such State as apportioned by the re- i < duction hereby established shall be I X J ,lrwl : J I eieuufti ai laige, as piuviucu ilti iu ouiu ; aforesaid section wherein respect to i cases where the number of Represen- i tatives provided for in any State shall be less than it was before the change was directed to be made." 1 i NEWSY GLEANINGS. Navigation on the Elbe, Germany, I was reopened recently, after having ' t bo?n interrupted for eighty days. Timber wolves in the country north 1 ' of Laramie. Wyo., are said to be more i . numerous this season than for years. In order to supply their regnlar tra3e butchers in many parts of the country j have been slaughtering all t'ueir own I meat. A new marine reptile has been dis! covered in the Hosselkus limestone in ' the upper triassic of Shasta County, ; California. > More tlian $1,000,000 is to be spent In the construction of a huge reservoir ' and irrigation system in Platte can' yon, Colorado. ; A semi-club and boarding house for . j young women of the stage is to be . started in Chicago. 111., by the Actors' Church Alliance. The little gasoline schooner Barbara I He raster returned to Seattle, Wash., 1 recently from the Arctic with $30,000 : worth of whalebone, i Admiral Nelson's statue, at the Royal , 1 Naval College. Greenwich. Eng.. was , j found the other morning with its nose I painted a bright red. ! The valuable collection of minerals ' 1 b.-dnnirinr to Georce .T. Brush, late di- j roc-tor ol' the Sheffield Scientific School M at Yale University, has been given to i the Institution. Dr. Thorley, a medical town councilor, at Bolton. En?., calls small bed-1 rooms death traps, and the Council is ! ' seeking parliamentary powers to pre- j scribe a minimum cubic space for bedrooms. Captain Wise recently arrived at Margate, having made a voyage of 40,000 miles from British Columbia In a two-and-one-half ton "dugout" canoe. , called Tillikum. The jouruey ocenpied three years, three months cud twelve ; days. . rWLXWl | . .A*kSW2? COLLECR NOTES. Optional classes Mare been stnrted'ia' i gymnastic work at rrinceton. The University of California now | spends SSd.000 a year on agricultural. ! education and research, j/ More than 34.000 young men and women have been educated at the , j University of Michigan, i The (lore Hall Library at Harvard | has lately received dissertations i from Herman universities. The decision of the United States Su' preme Court in the Payer weather will ease eon firms to Rochester University about $225,000. At a recent meeting of the Princeton Historical Society it was decided to ' publish immediately the third volume of Freneau's poems, j The gift of his mineralogical collection by Professor Brush to the Yale | Scientific School transfers permanently to that institution one of the finest working collections in the country. A bibliography of "Columbiana." the books, pamphlets, manuscripts. etc.. relating to Columbia, lias been published under the editorship of C. A. Nelson, reference librarian. St. Paul's Chapel, at Columbia University. which is now in process of construction south of Fayenveather Hall, will be cruciform in its general plan, and will have a seating capacity of ; about 900 persons. Mr. William A. Wheeloek. chairman of the New York University Council, has provided for the continuance of the lectures at Washington Square. New York City, under the auspices of TAlliance Francaise. Williams Collegehas already received j; I the sura of $100,000 under the provisions of the Fayerweatber will, and therecent decision of tire United States | Supreme Court affecting the residuary ; estate will give the college about $90,900 more. t ; RAM'S HOBN BLASTS ' / ' love mtmey ft never yet % lived in i ^ the same house with what you can't buy. UfiK vSRA God often says, ^ "Wait;" but ne 1 Xjk never says, "Wor! K^- ,J^g> > " [ No trial comes #* , without a triumph ' In it somewhere. The hands are apt to think that they . make the clock go. ? Money can do everything except the : things we want it to do. Men must enter into the eternal for 1 the infinite has entered into them. Men may differ on their theories of ) sun-spots, but they agree on the sun> shine. I Keep your faith with God and you will not be so likely to lose your faith I in man. r Some men are like matches, there is r nothing in their heads until you strike , them. A man who will only be as honest as f he has to he will be a3 dishonest as he i can be. Some men think they a.r9 mighty 1 engines because their leaky boilers * makes much noise. 9 When a man is commissioned by God he is not going to turn back on account of the commands of men. e You may build your own fortune, Gut1 you will need God for the architect. A 1J 1 ;; mm. r t IN SOUTH' CAROLINA' 1 9 .1 Many Newsy Items Gathered From ^ all Sections. v ? V Will Order "Calhoun" Election. At a late hour Thursday night Gov, Heyward announced that he had decid- , e l to order an election for the new county of "Calhoun," which is to be taken if established from the counties nf PilirpifipM Ahhovlllo and flreenwood The county seat of Calhoun will be McCormick. Gov. Heyward issued a statement as to the election Friday. It will be he'd on the first Tuesday in. January, which is the third. The State board of health held a meeting lastweok to consider the proposition made by the federal government in regard to turning over the quarantine stations now under State control to the government. The government proposes to maintain the eta tions at its own expense and eqtrip them without cost to South Carolina. After a full tiiscBSsion it was decided to refer the matter to the attorney general, who will draft a bill so that the general assembly may give its consent to the plan. Tht3 will decide the mat- . ter finally. Met Peculiar Death. Edgefield, Speeial?Mr. T. B. Bailey, a son-in-law of the late Hon. G. D. Tiliman, met with a tragic death list week while %out hunting. Ho shot a squirrel which lodged in the limb of a . tree. Mr. Bailey climbed the tree for the purpose of getting the squirrell and fell, striking the ground and crushing his skull. He hailed a companion just before falling that he was sick and it is thought be was seized with apoplexy, which caused him to loosen his hold on the tree: He 1 lived at. Clarksville and was a prominent citizen of the county. Palmetto Items. Facts and information brought oat at the annual meeting of the State board of health show that the small pox situation is rapidly growing mora serious througoout the State. The mortality percentage has been more than trebled since the first of January, and there are cases now in practically every county in the State. The situation is at present particularly serious in Georgetown and McColl, iu the lower part of the State. Secretary Evans reported that the mortality has increased to 3 1-2 per cent., since the first of January, as against a highest previous record of one per cent. The virulence of the disease is also rapidly increasing in the Northern States, the mortality in some being as high as 20 per cent. So far tills year the secretary reports 1.332 cases and 39 deaths, as against 1.992 cases the previous year. The Marlboro County Medical Society has petitioned both the Governor and the State board of health to quarantine the town of McCOll, in that county. Secretary Evans reported to theboard this morning: that when he was at McColl about two weeks ago, he saw two men at.work in the knitting mill in the seventh day of eruption. He warned the authorities then that the town would Soon be full of the disease, but the piiysfcians disagreeing as to the dagnosis, nothing was done to prevent the spread of the infection. The board: is without author!- j ty to order a place quarantined unless there are instructions to that eiTcgJ^. * from the Governor, but the secretary^ was directed to call the attention of the town authorities to the fact that, the State law compels them to*adopt preventive measures against the spread of an infections disease. In the matter of the quarantine stations at Charleston, Georgetown, Beaufort. Port Royal and Helena, the board de cided to memorialize the next Legislature to give the board the authority to transfer br lease cr sale these stations to the Federal government, the State to be relieved of the expense of keeping them up, but to retain a supervision- over them, as wasdone in the case of the Florida stations. The South Carolina stations are worth iii tile aiggregate about $75.000. The annual report of Wintbrop college was received Thursday by trustees and turned over to the State superintendent of education. Most of the facts and figures in the- report have already'been* published and are familiar to the public. The cost of thecollege last year was *64.689.63 and the receipts were$65,691.6?* The col-* j* lege next year uiil ask for a State appropriation of $57,435.75. Edwards, the alleged Eutawville lyncher, who ha3 turned State's- evidence, gave important testimony at > fhrt hftirini hr>fnrr> Magistrate McCov at George's. Edwards was brought in by a penitentiary guard and irumedi atcly after giving his testimony, left the pJaee in a bnggj: His evidence resulceti in Andrew Martin, Eastons, Pinoy Martin and Policeman Palmer being held for triai The prisoners v/Hfc at once apply f/t>r bail, Edwards said: that Butler and Pioey Martin were not present at the drowning ol the. negro Bockhardt, twit he implicated Piney Martia. who had net been arrested. According to Edwards, Eastons, Palmer and the Martins tied the bar of iron to Bockhanit's body and rowed him out into the stream and threw hini overboard ^ Charters and Commissions. A coramissionwas issued to the Part fihoals Power company of Newberry., capitalized at 150,000. The incorpo rators are H. L. Parr.Z. F. Wright, W. C. Houseal, C. H. Cannon, and W. K. Sligh of Newberry and A. L. Scott ol Greenville, The City Drug company of Green jville received a commission. The in Corporators are J. H. Austin of RocJt I Hill and G. P. Neal of GreenwooJL 1 The capita! is 55,000. V-,!