———— —— S——— _——— 7" REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “The Bread Question.’ TEXT: “Ye have the poor clways with you." Matthew xxvi,, 11 Who said that? The Christ who never owned anything during His earthly stay, His eradio and His grave wore borrowed, Every fig He ate was from some one else's tree, Every drop of water He drank was from some ona else's well. To pay His personal tax, which was very small, only 81% cants, | He had to perform a miracle and make a fish pay it, : lenghts and breadths of poverty Christ meas- ared in His earthly experience, and when He comes to speak of destitution He always pani sympathetioally, and what He said 8 t w en is as true now—"‘Yo have the poor al- ays with vou." For 6000 years the bread question has been the active and absorbing question, Witness the people crowding up to Joseph's store- houss in Egypt, Witness the famine in Sa- maria and Jerusalem, Witness the 7000 hun- gry people for whom Christ multiplied the loaves, Witness the uncounted millions of people now living, who, I believe, have never yet had one full meal of healthful and nutritious food in all their lives, Think of the 354 great famines in England, Think of tha 245.000.6000 people under the hoof of hunger year before last in Kossia, The fall- ure of the Nile to overflow for seven years in the eleventh century left those regions depopulated. Plague of insets in England. Plague of rats in Madras Presiden DARTS of mice in Essex. Plague of locusts in China. Plague of grasshoppers in America, Devas- tation wrought by drought, by deluge, by frost, by war, by hurricane, by earthquake, by comets flying too near the earth by change In the musagement of National finan es by baleful causes innumerable I pro- ceed to give you three or four reasons why my text is markedly and graphically true in this year 1804 The first reason wo have always the poor with us is because of the perpetual overhaul- fag of the tarify question, or, as [ shail eall it, the tariffic controversy, There isu for such a word, and so I take the responsi- bility of « facturing it. There of people »are expecting Congress of the United States will do thing one way or the other to ussion, but it will never I was five yearw of age, [ 1 ber hearing y father and his neigh bors in vehement disc of this Qaestion, Its r low no tariff at o ir great-grand dies at ninety it will be ove L- | 34 | n dis YI8s tariff. On the day world there wi office another a low frees trade from excite ject. Other Mormon questi pension questi a olvil service All questions of annexation may con peaceful sattlement by the annexation of §s!- ands two weeks’ voyage away and the of the lean conveyed through pipe under the ses made useful in whiming our continent, or annexation of the moon. throning the queen of night, who is said t be dissolute, and bringing the lunar popuia- he influence of our free instita all other questions, National and ternational, may be settled, bat this traffic question never, It will not only never be settled, but it can never be moderately quiet for more than three years at a time, sach forty getting into power taking one of the our yoarsto fix it up, and then the next party will fix it down, Our finances cannot get well because or too many doctors, It is with sick Nations as with sick individuals. need rv vv 11 r 4] aons that the presant i ena 1ssion aa fron is standing or at Argument jaestion® may get quieted silver ques ir voi HOR ie body. A doctor is called In, and he admin. iaters a febrifuge, a spoonful every hour, But recovery is postponed, and the anxious friends call in another doctor, and he says ““What this patient needs is blood letting ROW roll up your sleeve! and the lancet Hashes. But still recovery is postponed, and a homeopathic doctor is ealled in, and he administers some small peliets and says “All the patient wants is rest.” Recovery still postponed, the family say that such small pellets cannot amount to much aaybow, and an allopathic doctor is called in, and he says, “What this patiant wants is calomel and jalap.” RBecoy ery still postponed, a hydropathie doctor is called in, and he says: “What this patient wants is hot and cold baths, and he must have them cight away Tarn on the faucet and get ready tor the shower baths Recovery is Btill pestponed, an electric doctor is ealled lo, ani he brings all the schools to bear Gpon the poor sufferar, and the patient, after 8 brave struggie for life expires. What killed him? Too many doctors. An 1 that Is what s killiag our National finanoss, My personal friends, Cleveland and Harrison and Carlisie and MeKinley and Sherman, as talented and lovely and splendid men as wal the earth, all good doctors, but their an ir languishing finances is so . and under the constant changes it ply wonderful that the Nation sti'l The tariff question will never be set. tied because of the fact—which I have nev-r one re ognize, nevertheless high tari? is best for some se trade is best for others, This froversy keeps business struck with uncertainty, and that uncer. taiaty resuits in poverty and wretchednees for a vast multitude of people. If the eternal gab on this question could have been fash- foned into loaves of bread, thers would not be a hungry man or woman or ohild on all the planet To the end of time, the words of the text will be kept true by the tariff controversy —'‘Ye have the poor always with on y Another cause of perpelual poverty la the cause aleohold The victim does not last long. He soon erouches into the Aruakar.'s ave. But what about his wife and o%! ron? She takes in washing, when she cas Ret it, or goes out working on small Wages, because sorrow and privation have loft her fneapacitated to do a strong woman's work. The children are thin blooded aad gaunt and pale and weak, staoding around in cold Fooms, or pitching pennies on the strest cor. ner, and munching a slice of unbuttorsd bread when they can get it, sworn at by pass. ershy because they do not get out of the way, kicked onward toward manhood or womanhood, for which they have no prep- aration, except a depraved appetite and frali constitution, eandidates for aim- house and penitentiary, Whatever other canse of poverty may fail, the saloon may bs depended on to furnish an ever in- oreasing throug of paupers. Oh, yo grog. alops of Brooklyn and New York and of all the cities ; ye mouths of holl, when will yo oC Lo ceaunch and devour? There is no danger of the liquor business falling, All othor styles of business at times fail, Dry Ko0ds stores go under, Hardware stores go under, Grocery stores go uuder, makers fail, hut raggists fall, bankers fal, butchers fuil, bakers fall, confectionars fall, but the liquor dealers never, It I8 the ons @scure business 1 know of, Why the pur. manence of the alcoholic trade? Becnuse, in the first place, the men in that business, if tight up for money, only have to put tuto large quantities of water more strych. nine and Jogwood and” nux yomiea and vit. lol and other congenial concomitants for Adalteration. One quart of the real genuine wai dsmoniae elixir will do to mix up with saveral gallons of milder damnation, osides that, these dealers oan ‘of demand on the part of thelr customses, The mors of that stufl they driok, the thirst. All the heights and depths and | as to his | t neither treatment hasa fuil op- | Harness | holism sides its victims claret, champagne, port cognac, whisky, tom and jerry, sow mas, on and down until it Is a sort of mix. ture of kerosene oll, turpentine, toadatools, swill, essence of the horse blankets and gen ornl nastiness. With its red sword of flame, that liquor power marshals im Procey- sion, and they move on in ranks enough tc girdle the earth, and the pro- cesston is headed by the nose blotched nerve shatterad, rhoum eyed, lip bloated, soul scorched inebrintes, followed by the | women, who, though brought up in comforts | ible homes, now go Umping past with aches {followed by their children, barefoot. un. [ combed, freezing, and with a wrotehedness of time and eternity seamingly compressed {In thelr agonized features, “Forward. { maven!” erlos the liquor business to that | army without banners, Keep that influence moving on, and you will have the ways with vou, | the elties, | tannts are out of work and dependent on | charity, vet Inst yoar thay spent more in that { ity for ram than they did for clothing and | groceries, | Another warranty that my text will prove true in the perpetual poverty of the world is the wicked spirit of improvidense, A vast {| number or people have such small fneomes that they cannot lay by in savings bank or life insurance one cont a your, It takes every { farthing they aan earn to spread the table i and clothe the family and educate the ehil- dren, and if you blame such people for im- providence you enact a cruelty, On sucha salary as many clerks and many ministers of religion live, atid on such Wages as many workmen receive, they can- not, in twenty years, lay up twenty cents, Bat you know aud I know many who have competent incomes, and could provide some- j what for the future, who live up to every follar. when they die their dren go to the poornouse or on the street, By the time the wile gets the Ausband buried, she is in dobt to the under. taker and gravedigger for that which she can never pay. While the man lived he had his wine parties and fairly stunk with tobacco, and then expired, leaving his family upon the charities of the world, Do not send for me to and conduct the obsequies and read over such a carcass the beautiful litugy, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord,” for, instead of that, I will turn over the leaves of the Bible to I Fimothy v., 18, where it says: “If any pro- vide not for his own, aad espocially for those of his own house, he bath denisd the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” or I will turn to J xxil., 19, whera it says, ‘He shal with ths burial of ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem I cannot imagine any more meaner thing than fora man to get pardoned at the last minute, and th heaven, and live fn a mansic n, and about in a golden chariot over the streets, while his wife and childrer 1 for, are begring night vided f oe basement door It seems t ' somewhere on the those guilty of su ald be kept forawhile Of gristie instead of the King's banquet. It jssaid t} is a divine institut) ily are the ng ANes ol x1 often cot f prebabilities ealou ghes and Professor Pascal for games of chance, eame the caleulstions of the proba. bilities of human life as used by life insur- ance companies, and no business on earth fs more stable or honorable, and no mightier merey for the human race has beens born since Christ was born. for my signature to papers of all sorts, there is one style of paper that I always sign with a feeling of gladness and triumph, and that is a paper which *%a life insurance company requires from the clergyman after a decease i In his congregation, In order to the payment of the policy to the bereft household. I al- ways write my name then so they can read jt. I eannot help but say to myself : “Good for that man to have after his wile and children after earthly departure. May he have one of the best seats in heaven Young man! The day before or the day after you get married, £0 to a life Insurances company of established reputation and get the medical examiner to put the stethoscope to your lungs and his ear “lose up to your heart with your vest off, and have signed, sealed and delivered to you a pment that will, in the ease of your sud- den departure, make for that lovely girl the difference between a queen and a pauper, I have known men who have had an in. come of $3000, $4000, $5000 a year, who did not leave one farthing to the surviving household. Now. that man’s death is a de. falcation, an outrage, aswindle, He did not die ; he atscondead, in America to-day a-hungered through the sia of improvidence, “But,” say 3 income is 80 small I eannot afford to pay the premium on a Lie insurance.” Are you sure about that? If you are sure, then you have & right to depend on the promise in Jeremiah | xiix., 11, “Leave thy fatherless children. I will presarve them alive, and Jot thy widows trust in Me." But if you are able to, remem. ber you have no right to ask God to do for your housshold that which you can do for them yourssif For the benefit of those young men axousa practical personality, Beginning my Hie's work o munificent salary of $800 & year and a and when the call was placed in my hands I did not know how in Report comes from ons ol and coma roemiah be buried an unfair or his sins 1 goto riding golden TIE pr at t me thers ong siti evil go § L parsonLge, the world I would ever be able to spend that | amount of money, and [ remember indulge. ing ina Youn wish that I might not be led into worlllliness and prodigality by such an overpius of resources, and at a time when articles of food and clothing were higher than they are now, I felt it a religious duty to get my life insured, and I presented my- asif at an office of one of the great cCOmpan« is, and I stood pale and nervous lest the medical examiner might have to declare that I bad consumption and heart dizease and a ball dozen mortal ail ments, but when I got the which I have yet in fall force, I folt a sense of manliness and confidence and quietude | aad re-enforcement, which is a good thing | for any young man to have, For the lack of tact fesling thers are thousands of men to- day in Greenwood and Laurel Mount Auburn who might as well have been alive and well and supporting their families, They got a little sick, and they were so wor- | ried about what would become of their house Eolds In case of their demise that their agitctions overcame the skill of the physi- cians, and they died for fear of dying, 1 have for many years bsen such an ardent advocate =f lite insurance, and my ssrmon | on “The Crime of Not Insuring” has been so long used on both sides of the sea by | { the ohlet life Iusurance companies that | some peoples have supposed that I received | sation for what I have said | drop from the anther of a water lily—the | Otonn ! | A sohoolboy's breath the world ! monetary com and writton, Not a penny. 1 will give any man $100 for every peuay I have received from any life insurances company, What I have sald and written on the subject has re. | sulted from the conviotion that these insti. Christ Who sa tutions are a benadiotion to the human race, | But, alas, for the widespread improvidence ! | You are now In your charities helping to stipport the familiss of men who had more | Income than you now have, and you can de- { pend on the improvidencs of many for the ‘truth of my text fn all tines and in all | planes, “Yu have the pour always with you," m , “1 do not eb cepaniusg, long | | lithograph, poor ul | were the majority of the inhabi- | | good honest, | of business employes and | ohil. | Bored beyond endurance | | minm snd tontine- looked | poor invalid, every star of hope you make to | mitten There are 100,000 people | pepe well, and that which you offer is mors Hike a me, “my | | L {| Weil, | policy c2 document, | Hill and | i { Insurance companies of the earth will fail, { for how reould they make {and how could i that They buy when things #0 high- est and sell when things are lowest, Beme one tells them of oity lots out West, whers the foundation of ihe first houses has not yot been latd, They say, “What an opportun« | ity |" and they pot down the hard cash for | an ornamented doad water, They hear opened in Nevada, chance ¥' and they for ten lots under of a new silver mine and they say, “What n take the little money they have in the savings bank and poy it out for wus Dbeautifal 8 esreifl. onto of mining stock as wns ever printed, { and the only thing they will ever get out of | and pains and pallor and hunger and wos, | the {investment is the aforesaid illuminated They are always on the verge of milllonniredom and are sometimes worried | a8 to whom they shall baqueath thelr excess | of fortune, They invest in nerlal machines or new inventions in perpetual motion, and they succeed in what mathematicians think impossible, the squaring of a circle, for they do everything on the square and win the whole circle of disappointment, They are brilliant failures, They die poor, and leave nothing to their families but | & model of sorue invention that would not work and whole portfolios of of things impossible. I cannot help but like them, because they are so eheerinl with great expectations, But ther ehlliren are a bequest to the bureau of city charities, Others administer to the crop ol the world's misfortune by being too unsus ecting, Honest themselves, they belleve all others aro honest, They are flesced and sealped and viviseeted by the sharpers in all styles and cheated out of evarything between erndle and grave, and those two exceptions only because they have nothing to do in buying either of them, Others are retained for misfortune by inopportune slokness, Just as that lawyer was to make the plea that would have put him among the strong men of the profession, neg. raigia stung him. Just as that physi- clan was to prove his skill in an epi- demic, bis own poor health imprisoned him, Just as that merchant must be ut the store for some decisive an introductory bargain, he sits with a rheumatio joint on a pillow, the room redolent with linfment., What an overwhelm tistic wonld be the story of men and wo... snd children impoverished Oy sieknesses | Then the eyclones., Then the Mississippi and Ohio freshets, Then the stopping of the factories, Then the cure: among the peach trees, devastation of potato diagrams ios Then the insectile patches and wheat. Then the epizootics among horsss, and the hoilow horn among herds Then the rains that drown out everything, and the droughts that burn up hall a continent, Then the orange groves under fly white testh of the hoar frost, Then t§\ coal strikes. ana the iron strikes, and the mechanios’ strikes, which all strike labor harderthan they strike mpital, Ti the yellow fever at Brunswick Jacksonville and Shreveport, Then the lors at the Narrows threatening 10 land at New York, Then the Chatieston earth. quake, Then the Johnstown flood. Then hurricanes swoeg + Caribbean Baa to Noewlou thers are the groat the earth with their 1 there are the necessitios he scuttle instead of the y pound fastead of the injustices multiplied, are overwhelm! ith of my text, flelds, the thi die and so the » wake of all diustrations of the tr have the poor always with you," Remember a fact that no one emphasines A fact, nevertheless, upon which I want to put the weight of an eternity tonnage that the best way of insuring yourself and your children and your grandehildeen against poverty and all other troubles is by helping others, [aman agent of the oldest insurance company that was ever established. It is nearly 3000 years oll. It has the ad. vantage of all the other plans of insur. anco—whole life policy, endowment, joint life and survivorship policies, ascending and descending soules of pre- and it pays up while pays up after ara Every cent you give in Are em tho you live and dead, it Th. | tian spirit to & poor man or an oS, ry | shoe you give to a bareloot, every gy wood or lump of cosl you give to & hearth, every drop of medicine you give tos over unfortunate you knit ment on the prem shine maternity, every for cold fingers, Is a pay- um of that poliey. I hand about 500,003,000 policies to all who will RO forth and aid the unfortunate, There are only two or three lines in this policy of life insurance Ps, xii., 1, “Blessod is he that nsidereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of uble.™ Other life insurance sompanies nay fail, but this celestial Jife Insurance company never. The Lord God Almighty is at the head of it, and all the angels of heaven are in its board of direction, and its assets are all worlds, and all the charitable of earth and heaven are the beneficiaries © jut,” says some ones, ‘I do not like a tontine policy 80 tontine and to be chiefly paid in this life "Blessed is he that considareth the poor ; the rd will deliver hin in time of troable if you prefer the old fashioned life insurance, which i not paid til after death, you oan be ae. commodated. That will be given you in the lay of judgment and will be handed you by the right hand, the pierced hand of our Lord Himsell, and all you do in the right tpirit for the poor is payment on the pre mivm of that lite insurance policy, I read you a paragraph of that poliey . “Then shall | the King say unto them on His right hand, ‘Come, yo blessed of My Father, for I was hunirered, and ye gave Mo meat ; | wast ty, and yo gave Me drink : I was n ranger, and yo took Me in, naked and ye elotbed Meo * © In various colors of ink ance policies are written, This one I have Just shown you is written in only one kind of ink, and that red ink, the blood of the cross, Blessed be God, that fs a paid up policy, paid for by the pangs of the Son of God, and all we add to it in the way of our own good deeds will augment the sum of eternal felloition, when the will go eompanios re. other life insur. banks of down, and will all Inrgest the fire g0 down, and the lite insurance companies will all go down. In the last great earthquake all the sities will be prostrated. and as a ronsaquencs all banks will forever sspend payment. In the last conflagration the fire capital stock apprajsement of the Joss on a universal fire? Then all the inhabitants of the round world will surrender their mortal existence, life insurance companies pay for depopulated hemispheres? But our eelestial life incurance will not be harmed by that continental wreck, or hemispheric accident, or that lanetary eatastrophe, Blow # out fike a candle <the noonday sun! Tear it down lke wornout apholstery the last sun set! Toss it from God's Auger like n dow. Heatter them like thistiedown before They will not disturb the omnipotence, or the com. posure, or the sympathy, or the love of that ie onve on earth, and will say it again in heaven to all those who have been heipful to the downtrodden, and the coid and the hungry, and the houseless, and the lost, “Inasmuch as yo did it to them, yu didto Me!” i IR sh Bacteria in Animal Saliva, The saliva of dogs and oats is es pecially rich in bacterin, that of the Iatter containing a form which is sels dom observed and so fatal that rab. bits and guinea inoculated with it die in twenty-four hours. The dog's saliva contains an even greater number of bacteria, plus ocosdonal of intestinal worms and so on, fond and loving women who are to waste their caresses upon lap ge will be diteTutted in this : Pharmecentizel SABBATH SCHOOL, LESSON FOR 21. INTERNATIONAL JANUARY Lssson Text: “Cain and Abel,’ Gene enis iv., 3-13 Golden Text: Hebrews xi. 4 Commentary, 8. “And In process of time (at the end ot days) it came 10 pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord,” It is probable that somewhere nom the vast of the garden of Eden, before the where thay came to worship Jehovab (Ex. XxXv., 22: Pn, Ixxx., 1;xcix.. 1). It may be that up to this time Adam had been in the habit of o¥sring sacrifice on behalf of his children, as did Job in Inter days (Job 1. 5). This offering of Cain may have boen the best he had, but it lacked the essentinl element of blood, signifyiog a life laid down. Compare chapter fil, #3. with Lev,, xvil., 11; Heb, Ix. 24. 4. “And Abel, he also brought of the first. lings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering.” Here is obedience, for it is writ. ten that by faith hoe did this (Heb, xi., 4), and Inasmuch as faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Bom. x. 17) thus He did with Gideon, Manoah and Yes, the time will coms ] insurance | Jah, and st the dedication of 21 Lev. 19, 20 24 ; ahd the tempie (Judg. vi, I Kings xvitl., 24, 38, 89; Chron, vit, 1). 5. "But unto Cain and to his « had not respect And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell,” unconsumed ; no fire fell upon it. It was doubtless much more attrac than Abel's bloody sacrifice and was perhaps the finest the earth produced, but It was not of God, There was no and no uesd of atonement re like those to-day who I the best they can God 6 And the Lord sald thou th? And wi fallen Although Cain the Lord and If pe He is not and He I ners t Acood I1 Pet, 111 15: ly 1 xiii, , ix., fvn ive of an and wr vet ndescends waitae win willis { wir i Nin for God's way, simple, Jesus sald xi 6 k And Cals ! brother, aad it + I inthe field that | his brothe r, and slew | two seads, the 3 i i 1 | with Abal, his ) they were talked ) pass wie ra hin { the w * moe 1 Cain } RERinst Here man and the although both could Adam lather the one righteous and the other for All are not children of God, K are sod o seed of the serpent, for esll Eve mother and | stands for the the wicked, many religious peepls who profess to worshiy " 3 God are all the while children of the devil ; Cain was of the wicked one | 4 and slew his brother beasuso his own works | ! | (John vill, 44), were evil and his brother's righteous #. “And the Lord said unto Cain. Where ie Abel, thy brother? not. Am 1 my brother's koeper?” bardens and deadens 10 all that is good and true! Cain is proving himself a good child of the devil, for he is now both murderer i and liar (John vill., 44) Is it possible that any of us are guilty iz wpeot of our breth. {| ren in India or China or Japan ¢ And question presses Upon us ¢ ing their salvation 10 We nak Am | her's keeper quiet i haps the Lord will } for then 10, And Ha said hast thou The voice of thy brother’ ood erjet me from the ground AH wis | for vengeance Even ifa bh fraud, tt} shall ery and the beam out of the timber it (Hab. i. 11 How much 1 of those who are slain for Christ's sake ( Jlov i v.90 Another view of it, more in line | of the last verse, is found in Ezek xxxiil,, 8 { where the blood of the unwarned is to be re quired at the hands of those who know | do not tell R% Lhe OnoSrn inclined 1¢ try to that per fering = fen] my hrot ny or conselation ait 1% sone n Heb, xii, 24, we are pointed ! tothe blood whist peaketh better things | than that of Abel. Abel's blood eries for vengeance and Christ s for mersy, or ii re. fers to the blood of Abel's sacrifice that was a type of Christ 11. **And now a thou arsed fr earth, which hath ot ed her mouth eojvs brother's vi from This fx the first direst curse on man. 1 | first curse was pronounced upon the serpent and the next on the ground hapter {i1., 14, 17). It bs suegestive that the last word in { the Old Testament is wires,” We {to | Him who pleaded in vain with Cals and re : Jolee that Christ hath redeemed us from the carse of the law, boing made a cures for ne, | and we look for the time when even on this | #arth there shall bs no more curse ii. | 18; Rev. xxii, 12. “When thou tillest the ground. itshall | not heneelorth vield unto thee ber strength A fagitive and a vagabond st alt thou be in | the earth Adam was told that the earth | would bring forth thorns and thisties and | that in the sweat of his face he should est fis bread (chaptor Hi.. 18, 1805 hat this fe much worse, for it looks as if the earth would henceforth give this man little if any retarn, Some one has said that Adam's sin brought on the ground fruitfuiness in evil, while Cain's sin brought burrenness in good. perhaps helping to drive them to the me. Yhanical arts and the bullding of eities. As to fugitive and vagabond,” both words sig. alfy fleeing, removing, wandering up and down, and the word for vagabond is “mood,” which is very suggestive of Nod, where Cain Alterward dwait (verse 16), 13, “And Cain sal! unto punishment js greater than | san bear.” Of perhaps, as in the margie, “Mine inlquily is Jroater than that it may be forgiven.” There forgivenness for all who mecept the Bon of God ns their sin offering, thers is no forgivenness, Heo Math, xil,, 81: Job v.., 16, Lesson Helper, —— A Chinese World's Fair. The official Chinese interpreter at San Francisco says that within a yoar there will be a tremendous exodus of Chinese from this country, and from all the other countries of the world, 10 the Celestial Empire, They will go to attend the great fair, which Is held avery sixty years, and which food Chinaman that ean afford it attonds, Be, the interpreter, says that the attend. ance will run wel: up into the millions, In. vitations will be extended to the people of all Nations, and he says that eve y t to go, ax it will be one of the sights of etime, Th ounded many cen. hb been hold regularly ov : FXACT date fins not yet bows fixed, but A wilt. within two years, and great prep. arations Are already In progress iu all parts of tw Vonnie 4 4 —— Americans in France, m the to res thy thy hand he fly (ial the Lord, My but apart from Him n There are about 8000 Americans less than oBo-01th of whom are ALR — presence of the Lord, manifest in the flaming | sword between the cherubim, was the place | there must have been some command of God | which Abel obeyed in bringing this sacrifice, | It is probable that the Lord accepted Abel's | offering by sending fire to consume Es { 21. / the tabernacle | | Yering He His offering lay | Abel, | the | And he said: know | How sin | r Afriead | MARVELS OF THE FUTURE. | BOME OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS PROMISED BY SCIENTISTS. Life to Be Prolonged by Electric ly Unwritten, Unspoken Thoughts May Be Registered, XY THE following interesting , forecasts of what is to happen in the various fields of “ trical meicnce, industrial mechanism, chemistry, Christianity, National progress and social tions have collected men recognized the head of various branched of thought and induetry by the publisher of MeClure's Magazine : Professor Fdwin J, Houston, the electrician, writes: “The #dge of the electric future is bright with imme- diste promise for the world's weal In the nearer foreground I see a prac- tical method for the production of electricity directly from the burning of conl. This achieved, there neces- sarily follows the dniversal adoption of the electric motor as a prime mover, the relegation of the steam engine to the scrap heap, and the almost imme- diate realization of the air ship as a means of transportation, “Assuming the cause of affinity to lie in the unlike charges of the combined atoms, I seo the practical realization of elsctrie synthesis, whereby food products will by direetly formed under the potency of electric affinities. I sou, 900, a marked advanes electro- therapeutics, whereby human dife will be prolonged and its sufferings alle- Dingnosis rognosis will be I rofoundly aided by exact ele ctrieal measurements of the various organs of ther elec- condi been from as nt f chemical electric wholesome 1 vinted, and j the human body as regards elec- tro-motive force and electro-therapist of the future will The rogigtanocs nd currents for I Ald cur- the muscular AX f{ r even ntervene, I soe iown of a he step transformer for preparation r road surface by the vitri- tu, of clay or other suit heating power ond bed « il, by the intens [ enormqus currents electricity. “These things I believe 1 with fair distinctness n the further back- ground 1 faintly see, dimly outlined thiSugh the apparatus for the automatic registration of unwrit- ten, unspoken thonght, and its accu rate reproduction sat indefinite time afterward.” Professor Robert H. Thurston, of Cornell University, says of the devel: Bee clouds, ar KLy I a a VIRTUE, Bweet day—~#0-co0l, #0 calm, so hrighs The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, Forthou must dis! Bweet rose whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eyo; Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must dis? Bweet spring full of sweet days and rosey A box where sweets compacted lio My music shows ye have your closes, Aud all must die | Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber. Never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives George Herbert. » ue HUMOR OF THE DAY, Fast colors —The regimental flag in un cavalry charge. — Lowell Courier. A small soul has plenty of elbow room in a narrow-minded man, Texas Siftings, When a real-estate sgeut begins to go down hill he loses ground very fast) Texas Siftings, A man can talk himself out of a job easier than he can talk himself into Atchison Globe, A baby alw ays he Ips to make home happy-~particularly when the baby is Texas Siftings, one, ane ep. ~ Professor A “Whom do you res gard as the greatest linguist of ’ ' Professor B.— “Mrs. B." —T11t- Bits Hicks Your ympsthy the | but it sound out in Wicks— s like rank egotism heart poor ’ Loes lor to say it.” The new fad, pedistry, or the telling {your fortune by your fect, is gets r seience down 1 retty low, — Harte | Journal. ng Many a chap thinks himself brow- beaten when he beaten by the i fellowls 18 only ZTRAY ma the other 1 Tr brow. —Pucl 14 Jove, Cholly, 1 polite and Casy way nuns Stripes ‘Just pay Harper's Baza: IMAIrTY & Woman who mn 1 Khe she will never Detroit Free Press. that “ the football playah ent you out with Miss ; ] “Cut wew me out !"—New do Wise Chap; 14 heah ly (shuddering th a The Youth— “Does a man ever get too old to take any interest in life?” The Sage “Oh, yes, Sut he penere ally recovers by the time he is twenty- five."—Indianapolis Journal. “My!” exclaimed Alice, “the Mz Jones that Aunt Clars knows must ba an awfully small man. Aunt Clare says that his wife keeps him under her thumb. "— Philadelphia Times, opment of industrial mechanism - “With reduced hours of struggle for life and needs, time will be afforded every good citizen for rest, for enjoy. ment, for thought: and all may then become clusses of leisure in or their best lives will come wo and grow classes mple degre ef fare. Easy omfortable world will own wel mean The RTOWSE older, after the struggle for survival shall have ceased the length of f the individual will be pro- while the growth of Po] 11a. i nly by the suYer- upon overcrowding the be given its natural | comfortable expansion to a limit by the extent t expended in mental The : happy lives. Deller as it ot and {or wed which vital powers llecta mily oo” the nation the individual, the Bre snd int a! exertion. like the fam smaller hing instead of the body, all physical powers Of the future in Ira Remsen, of John has this to say will, I and mind, utilize Wfoessor Tuiver- sits ity Fhe indicatic present een to me to point y two onecin- { : sions bearing undamental : That the rma of matter are in some related, and that the num- ros will be much That future to de. the iechanios upor proble ms of chemistry: 13 different { way closely ber of elementary { reduced by it will be possible in velop a mechanics comparable to the heavenly As regards investigation a) tha eenles of the mi bodies applications of chemistry, tw robabilities also ap- pear 1) That the time not far distant when the artificial preparation of i food AOCOMm plished. (2) That the chemical stady | of the substance present in the animal body under normal conditions, and of those form~d in the body in dis. 1 5 i articles will be | eases, will lead to chemical methods of | treating diseases that will be thorough. ly scientific,” C—O ——— Simple Remedy for Nose-Bleeding, 1 Obstinate nose-bleeding, pays | Beience, is frequently one the most dif- ficult things to check. Several agpra- vated cases have Intoly ocour “ed at the hospital of the University of Pennsyl- vanin. As a last resort, Dr. D. Hayes Agnew tried ham fat with great sne- cose. Two large eylinders of bacon were forced sell into the nostrils, and the hemorrhage ceased at once. This is a very simple remedy and one «lich shonld be remembered for cases of | emergency in the country, II 5...) i Largest Snake in the World, Naturalists say that the largest ser. pent of which nconrate measurements have been taken in moderns times was an anacouds whieh Di. Gardser found dead and suspended in the forks of a tree in Mexico. It was diagged out into open ground by two horses and a cars ful mensurement with a tape live proved that it was thirty seven fent in th, “Is there any chance for s man to vise in this community?” asked the stranger. “There is, sir,” replied the old inhabitant. “‘Lynched three this morning by daylight.” —Atlanta Con- stitution Dinwiddie “Bookkeepers * and sleight-of - hand performers have much in common.” Van Bream —**How so” Dinwiddie “They both flourish in the ledger domain.” — Pittsburgh Chronicle, “It's queer abont Jaywink never taking his wife out into society any more “Well, no it isn't: his doctor told him he she 1 not take anything that disagreed with him. "Chicago Inter-Ocean. Wife} about ROM nl MI want Wo talk with yon things wo need for the house Husband — “What sre they # Wile— “Well, to begin with dear, don’t you think we need a new bone net 7" —Tit-Bite, Artiet— ‘IT painted this picture, sir, to keep the wolf from the door.” Dealer (after inspecting it) — “Well, hang it on the knob where the wolf and he'll skip quick Detroit Fre Press. “And what is that a photograph of # she asked of the young marx =ho was exhibiting his collection of instantane- ous pictures. “Of a football game.” “Dear me! 1 thought it was a lot of musicians having a quarrel. ”—Wash- ington Stas Mrs. Dobson “Bridget told me she Mr. and Mra. Hobson going to church this morning. I wonder what's the matter,’ Mr. Dobson ‘Why, either Mr. Hobson has had another attack of his heart trouble or Mrs Hobson has a new hat Puck. “There Roes Judge Sohkem,” said Meandering Mike, “An old scquaing. ance of yours, I &'pose,’ rejoined Plod- ding Pete, saronastically “Oh, we're jest on speakin’ terms. I know him well enongh to say ‘not guilty’ to ‘im oneet in » while. "— Washington Star, Domestie (trembling) — “Oh, please, I hear barglars in the house.” Mrs Blinkers (resssuringly)— “Most likely its Mr, Blinkers just in from the club.” Domestic (positively) -- No, mum, it's burglars. Thoy haven't stntihled against anything at all” New York Weekly. “Can yon let me have five dollars? Tleft all my money at home and I haven't u cent with me," said Johnnie Fewsonds to his friend, Hostester Me- Ginnie. “Sorry 1 can't lend yc five doliars. Bat here is a nickel carduca, Yon can ride home and get your money,’ replied Hostetter, - no Sifting “I sm a poet,” said the yonng man, ressintely. “Indeed 7" replied the kindJbenrted, but absent-minded, odi tor, “Yes And onme to see if will not gave me a trial” “Dear, dear! My good fellow, 1 wonldn't bother about a trial. T'a just ty and take my chances. "-- Wash- Can EE it. enough BAW
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