rfiTMIVf. 1C INCIPAinriMT Talmsge Gives Instance, of What Slender Thread Great Results Hang. On I LiHI Thln May decide Your rale -The Importance of Triflt. tCoPrrlsht 1MI.1 Washington-. I). C A Bible incident got often noticed ia here ued hy Dr. Tab mage to aet forth practical and beautiftd truth; text, If. Corinthinn xi, 3.. "Through a window in a basket wo a I let down by the wall." Sermons on Paul in jail. Tan' on Mara hill, Paul in the shipwreck, I'nnl before the aanhedrin, Paul before Felix, are plentiful, but in my text we liaVa l'aul in bnsket. Damascus ia a city 01 wnite nna glisten ing arcnitciiirc, sometime, caiiea me eve of the Kaat," aometimea called "a pearl surrounded by emeralds, " nt one time distinguished for swords of the beat material called Dntpascus bladea -and tip holstery of rirheat fabrto called damat-k, A horsemsn of the name of Saul riding toward thin city hnd been thrown from the aaddle. The horse had dropped under l flush from the sky which nt the aame time waa ao bright it blinded the rider for many dnya, and J think ao permanently injured his eyesight that thia defect of vision became the thorn in the flesh he rd speaks of. He atarted for Da to butcher Chriatinne. but after that hard fall from hia home he una a changed man and preached Christ in J)a mascue till the city was aliaken to ita foundation. The mayor, givea nuthority- for hia ar rest, and the popular cry ia, "Kill him, kill him!" The city ia aurrounded by a high wall, and the gate arc watched by the police lest the Cilicisn preacher ea cape. Many of the houaea are built on the wall, and their hulconiea projected clear over and hovered ahove the gardens out aide. It waa customary to lower baaketa out of theae balconica and pull up fruits nnd flower, from the garden. To thia day visitor at the monastery of Mount final are lifted and let down in banket. Detectives prowled around from house to house looking for Paul, but his friends hid him now in one place, now in another. He ia no coward, aa fifty incidenta in hia life demonstrate, but he feels his work is not done yet, nnd an he evades assassina tion. "Ia that preacher here?" the foam ing mob about at one house door. "Ia that fanatic here?" the police about at an other house door, Sometimes on the street incognito be passes through a crowd nt clinched fists, and aometimea ho aecrctca himself on the house top. At Inst the in furiate populace get on sure track of him. They have positive evidence that he is in the house of one of the Christiana, the bal cony of whose home reaches over the wall. "Here he ia! Here he is!" The vo ciferation and blasphemy and howling of the pursuers are nt the front door. They break in. "Fetch out that poapelizer anil let ns hang hia head on the city gate. Where ia he?" The emergency waa terri ble. Providentially there was a good atout basket in the house. Panl'a friends fasten a rope to the basket. Paul ateps into it. The backet is lifted to the edge of the balcony on the wall, and then while Paul holds the rope with both hands his friends lower away carefully mil cautious ly, slowly but surely, farther down and farther down, until the'bnsket atrikca the earth and the apostle steps out and afoot and alone starts on that famous mission ary tour the atory of which has astonished earth and heaven. Appropriate entry in Paul' diary of travels: "Through a win dow in a basket was I let down by the wall." 1 observe first on what a slender tenure great results hang. The ropemakers who twisted that cord fastened to that lower ing basket never knew how much would depend upon the strength of it. How if it had been broken and the apostle's life had been dashed out? What would have become of the Christian Church? All that, magnificent missionary work in Painphv lia, Cappadocia, Galntin. Macedonia, would never have been accomplished. All hia writings that make up to indispensable and enchanting a part of the New Testa ment would never nave been written. The atorv of resurrection would never have been ao gloriously told aa he told it. That example of heroic and triumphant endurance at Philippi. in the Mediterra nean F.uroclydon, under flagellation and at hia beheading would not have kindled the courage of 10.000 martyrdoms. Hut that rope holding that basket, how nvith depended on it! So again and again great result have hung on slender circum stances. Did ever ship of many thousand tona crossing the sea hnve such an important fiasaenger as . had once a boat of leaves rom taffrail to atern only three or four feet, the vessel made waterproof by a coat of bitumen nnd floating on the Nile with the infant lawgiver of the .lewa on board? What if some crocodile should crunch it? What if some of the cattle wading iu for a drink should sink it ? Vessels of war sometimes carry forty guns looking through the portholes, ready to open battle. But the tiny craft on the Nile seems to be armed with all the gutis of thunder that bombarded Sinai at tho lawgiving. On how fragilo a craft sailed how much of historical importance! Tha parsonage at Kp worth. Kugland. ia on Hie in the night, and tho father rushed through the hallway for the rescue of his children. Seven children are out and safe on the ground, but one remains in the consuming building. That one awakes and, finding bis bed on fire and the build ing crumbling, comes to the window, and two peasants make a ladder of their bod ies, one peasant standing on the shoulder of the other, and down the human ladder the boy descends John Wesley. If you would know how much depended on Hint ladder of peasants, uk the mill ions of Methodists on both sides of tint sea. Ask their million stations all around the world. Ask their hundreds of thou sands nlready ascended to join their foun der, who would hnvo perished but for the living stitii of peasants' shoulders. Ail Rnglislt ship stopped at Pitcairn Island, and ii;;ht iu the midst of surround ing cannibalism nnd squalor the passen gers discovered a Christian colony of churches and schools and beautiful homes and highest style of religion and civiliza tion. For fifiy ycart no missionary and no Christian influence had landed there. Why this ousis of light amid a desert of heathendom? Sixty years before a ship had met disinter, and one of the sailors, unable to sate anything else, went to his trunk nnd tool: out a Ilible which liii mother had placer? there and swam ashore, the Bible he'd in hia teeth. The book was read on all sides until the rough and vi cious population weio evangelized, nnd a church waa started, and an enlightened oinmonwealth established and the world history has no more brilliant page than that which tella of the transformation of a nation by one book. It did not eem of much importance whether the aailor con tinued to hold the book in hi teeth or let it full in tho breakers, but upon that mall circumstance depended what mighty results? . Practical inference: There ore ro insig nificance in life. The minutest thing is part of a magnitude. Infinity is made up M iniiiutesimals; great things an aggrega tion of small things. Bethlehem inungur pulling on Ji star in the Eastern al;v. One oook in a drenched sailor' mouth the evangelization of a multitude. One bc.-t of papyru on the Nile freighted with events for all ages. Tho fate of Christen dom m a Wet Jet down from a window on the. wall. What you do. do well. If, you make a rope, make it strong and true.1 for you know not how much may depend on your workmanship. If you fashiou a boat, let it be waterproof, for you know not who may sail in it. If you put a Bible In the trunk of your boy a he goe from borne, let it be remembered iu your pray er, for it may have a mission a fur-reuch-iR as the book which the aailor carried in hi. teeth to the Pitcairn beach. the pluinest man's life ia uti island be tween two eteruitiea-eternity past rip pling against In shoulders, eternity to come touching hi brow. The casual, the nowiiig the vhhi ,,f il, i. n" norm of the .enturics. - Ai-sm. notice mwoguiu-d and untfc ,.,;.,.' w"uu ne"'.V happened that let the fugitive apostle from the lia rnasens wall in i . il,..f i,i.u rorflefl service, who spun that rots!? Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher a he stepped into it? Who relaxed not a muscle of the arm or dismissed en anxious look from hi fare until the basket touched the ground and discharged its magnificent cargo? Not one of their names has come to us, but there wn no work done that day in Damascus or in all earth compared with the importance of their work. What if they had in their agitatiof a knot that could slip? What if the sound of the mob at the door had led them to ay, "Paul must tnko car; of himself and we will take caro of ourselvea?" No, no! They held the rope and in doing o did more for the Christian church than any thousnnd of ua will ever accomplish. But (od knows and has made record of their u' ertakinir. And thev know. How exultant they must have felt when they read his letters to the Romans, to the Corinthians, to the (Jnlatians, to the Ephesian. to the Philinpisns, to the Co lossians, to the Thes'aloninns, and when they heard how he walked out of prison, with the earthquake unlocking the door for him. and took command of the Alex andrian corn ship when the aailora were nearly scared to death and preached a sermon that nearly shook Felix off his judgment seat! 1 hear the men nnd wom en who helped him down through tho win dow and over tho wall talking in private over the matter and saying: "How glad I am that we effected that rescue! Tn com ing times othera may get the glory of Paul's wirk. but no one shall rob lis of the satisfaction of knowing that we held the rope." Once for thirty-six hours we expected every moment to go to the bottom of the ocean. The wave struck through the skylights and rushed down into the Hold of the ship and hissed against the boiler. It. was an awful time, but by the blessing of Cod and the faithfulness of the men ia charge we came out of the cyclone, and we arrived at home. Each one before leaving the ship thanked Captain Aa drews. I do not think there was a man or woman that went off that ship without thanking Captain Andrews, and when years after I heard of his death I waa im pelled to write n letter of condolence to his family in Liverpool. Everybody rec ognized the goodness, the courage, the kindnes.i of Captain Andrews, but it oc curs to me now that we never thanked the engineer, lie stood away down in the darkness amid the hissing furnaces, doing his whole dutv. Nobody thanked the en gineer, but God recognized his heroism nnd his continuance and hia fidelity, and there will he just as high reward for the engineer, who worked nut of tight, aa for the captain, who stood on the bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling tem pest. Come, let us go riirht up nnd accost those on the circle of heavenly thrones. .Surely they must hav. killed in battle a million men. Surely they must have been buried with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the towers of all the citie tolling the national grief. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I lived by choice the unmarried daughter of an humble home that I might take care of my par ents in their old nee, and I endured with out complaint nil their querulotisness and administered to all their wants for twenty years." Jet us pass on round the circle of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I was for thirtv-five years a Christian invalid nnd suffered nil the while, occasionally writing a note of tym piitliy for those worse off than I, and was general confidant of nil those who had trouble, and once in awhile I was strong enough to make n garment for that poor family in the back lane." Pass on to an other throne. Who art thou, niightv one of heaven? "I was the mother who raised n whole family of children for Cod. and they nrc out in the world Christian mer chants, Christian niechnnics. Christian wives, and T have had full reward for all my toil." T.ct us puss on in the circle of thrones. "I had a Sabbath-school class, and they were always on my heart, and they all entered the kingdom' of God, and I am wnitinir for their arrival." But who art thou, niiehtv one of heaven, on this other throne? "In time of bitter persecu tion I owned a bouse in Damascus, a house on the wall. A man who preached Christ was hounded from street to street, nnd I hid him from the assassins, and when I found them breaking into my house and I could no longer keep him safe ly, I advised him to flee for his dear life, and a basket waa let down over the wall with the maltreated man in it. and I was one who helped hold the rope." And I said, "Is that all?" And ho answered, "That is all." And while I wa lost in nmazement J heard n atrong voice that sounded aa though it might once have been hoarse from many exposures and triumphant aa though it might have be longed to one of the martyrs, and it said, "Not many mightv, not many noble, are called, hilt God hath chosen tho weak things of the world to confound the thing which are mighty, and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen; yea, and things which are not to bring to nnught things which are. that no flesh should glory in His presence." And I looked to see from whence the voice came. nnd. lo, it waa the very one who had said, "Through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall!" Henceforth think of nothing as insig nificant. A little thing may decide your all. A Cunnrder put out from England for New York. It was well equipped, but in nutting up a stove in the pilot box a nail was driven too near tho compass. Von know how that nail would affect the compass. The ship's officers, deceived by that distracted compass, put the ship 2(K miles off her- right course and suddenly the man on the lookout cried, "f.anil ho!" and the ship was halted on Nan tucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came near wrecking a Cunarder. Small rope hold mighty destinies. A minister sealed in Boston at his table, locking a word, puts his hand behind his head and tilts back his chair tn think, and the ceiiing fails and crushes the table unil wyild have crushed him. A minister in .lamnica at night by the light of an insect called the caudle fly is kept from etenpin? over a precipice a hun dred feet. V. W. Robertson, tho cele brated English clergyman, said that he entered the ministry from a train of cir cumstances started by the barking of a dog. Hud the wind blown one way on a cer tain day the Spanish Iiumisition would have been established in England, but it blew the other way. and that dropped the accursed institution, with seventy-five tons of shipping, to the bottom of the sea or flung the splintered logs on the rocks. Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. Three naughts placed on the right side of the figure one make a thousand, and aix naughts on the right side of the figure one a million, and our nothingness placed on the right side may be augmen tation illimitable. All the age of time and eternity affected by the basket let down from a Damascus balcony, Swiss Town lo Abolish Fnsl. The town of Davoa, writes a Swiss correspondent, la considering a bold scheme for the abolition of all the or dinary forma of fuel. It la proposed to erect an extensive electric plant at the confluence of two large mountain tor rents, whose united waters will supply the necessary motive force. A large firm of Swiss electricians haa been studying the problem for over a year, and has obtained the conreekn of the forces of the torrents alluded to. The same firm has bought out new electric heating and cooking appartua espec ially designed for the scheme. The first coat of the Installation ia estimated to be 8,500,000. franca. Already electricity la not only used for lighting and mo tive power, but Is adopted in many vil lages for cooking and heating and tn one of the largest bakeries. The Idea Is to do away with all contamination of the air by the use of fuel. In 1870 tba savings banks of the United Rtates held $549,000,000 belong ing to l,fi30,84B depositors. In 1000 the deposits amounted to $2,384,000,000, and the dc-pewlta numbered 6,b75,4o0, THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesron Commend For September I. Subject: Iwac the rcaccntiker, Geo. xxvL, I2 25" Golden Text, Matt, v., o.. Men.ory Verses, 24-25-CoTtncnUrT oa the Day's Lesson. Connecting Link. Soon after the e-ent of our last lesson Sarah died at Hebron, and Abraham purchased the cave of Mich pclah for a burying -place for hi wife. When Isaac was forty years old Abraham sent his servant to Mesopotamia, called Abraham' country (24: 4) because it was the place where the family of Haran, hi brother, had settled, and where Abraham' father was buried. The servant succeeded in his undertaking and Itebekah wa brought back to Canaan and became Isaac wife. When Isaac was sixty year old .lacob and Esau were born. In B. C. 1H21 occurred the death of Abraham. He had lived to the good old age of 173. He was "quiet and restful in hia later years, growing in faith and piety, and guiding with his counsels and his example Ins son and his grandsons, .lacob and Esau, with whom he lived until they were fifteen years old, showing them acts of kindness and love." Abraham was buried in the cave of Machpelah with his beloved wile Sarah. At present thia cave is covered hy n Mohammedan mosque, which is sacriMly guarded against the intrusion of travelers. When Jacob and Esau were thirtv-one years old Esau, the elder, sold his birth right to Jacob for a mess of pottage. Gen. 23: 27-34. We read that he "despised his birthright." About a year after Esau had tfi'.i hia birthright there was a famine in thte land, and Isaac went to dwell in Ge tar, which was the chief city of the Phil istines. He seems to have been making preparation to go to Egypt, where his lather had gone during the first famine, more than a hundred year before this: but'the Lord appeared unto him and told him not to go down into Egypt, but to dwell in Canaan. At this time the cove nant made with his father, Abraham, waa renewed, (ten. 20: 3-3. It seem strange that when Isaac went to dwell at Gerar he 'should fall into the same snare that Abraham hud fallen into in the very sania place, but such was the case, for when they asked him concerning his wife, Isaac said, "She is my sister," for he feared they would kill him for hi wife. This wa un true, for Kebrkah wa only his cousin. 12. "Isaac." Isaac was a man of faith, but in many respecta a great contrast to hia father. He was patient, but hot enter prising and powerful. He was devout and submissive, Put not active in organizing in God's service. Hi life wa uneventful, almost monotonous. He was not physi cally robust, and seems to have come into a condition of bodily prostration, for he must have spent forty or fifty year in blindness and incapacity for all active work" "In the same year." While there was a famine in the land, when other scarcely reaped at all, he reaped thus plen tiful. See Isa. 65: 13. "Hundredfold." Probably meaning a very great increase.- 13. "Went forward." Hebrew, "going;" that is, became increasingly greater, lhe Hebrew term for walk is frequently used in the sense of continued increase. See R. V. He grew nioro and more until he be came very great. 14. "Envied him." Here we see how vanity attaches to every earthly good; prosperity begets envy, and from envy proceeds injury. Envy is the constant companion of prosperity. 13. "For nil the wells," etc. In those countries a good well of water was a pos session of immense value, and hence in their wars it was an object, for either party to fill the wells in order to distress the enemy. Envy considers that which is lost to another ns gain to itself. 111. "Go from us." Isaac doc not in sist upon the bargain he had made with them for the. laud he held, nor upon hi occupying nor improving of them, nor doe he offer to contest with them by force, but peaceably departs. We should deny ourselves rather than quarrel. 17. "Valley of Gerar." The country around Gerar. 18. "Digged again the wells." etc. It is our diit to keep up the memorial of the great and good. The Philistine had filled the wells Abraham had dug, and Isaac resolve to open them again. Many : our enjoyments, both civil and religious, are the sweeter for being the fruits of the labor of our fathers, and if they have been corrupted by adversaries since their day, we must restore thein to thsir former sur itv. lfl. "Well of springing water." "Well of living waters." This is its meaning both in the Old and New Testaments. See John 4: 10-14; 7: 38; Rev. 21: : 22: 1. An unfailing spring wa an emblem of the grace and influences of the Spirit of God. 20. "Did strive." Those that avoid striving, yet can not avoid being striven with. l'sa. 120: 7. In this sense Jeremiah was a man of contention (Jer. 15: 10), and also Christ Himself, though lie is the Prince of peace. 21. "Digged another well." "Never did any man more implicitly follow the divine command, 'Resist not evil ' than did Isaac:" whenever he found that his work waa likely to be a subject of strife and contention, he always chose to auffer wrong than do wrong. He overcame evil with good. 22. "I'emoved from thence." We are told tnae he met the envy with patience and removed from well to well. At lust the Philistines desisted. Endurance, meek ness, the gospel spirit, are the only true weapons to use against the world. Isaac, lise Christ, conquered hy meekness. Abra ham was the man of faith, Isaac the man of endurance, and Jacob wus the man of prayer. 23. "Went up to Becr-shcba." Isaac bad trouble while uinong the Philistines. "To enjoy God's presence we must be where lie is, and He certainly is not to be found amid the strife and contention of an ungodly world; and hence, the sooner the child of God gets away from all such the better; so Isaac found it." 24. "The Lord appeared." The augcl of the covenant the Mcgsiuh. "The sume night." "He needed special encourage ment when insulted and outraged by the Philistines, and God immediately appear to comfort and support him in his trial by a renewal of all His promises." "The God of Abraham." "God ia not the God of the dead, but of the living." Matt. 22: 32. Therefore Isaac is assured that his father has not perished by death, but that he is still alive. "With thee." Isaac wus encouraged not merely by the Lord' bless ing, but by the Lord Himself. 25. "Builded an altar." "Isaae first built an altar and then digged a well. Every dwelling-place of the godly should be a sanctuary. Here at lust he had real enjoyment. He had an undisputed well which the Philistine could not till up, be euue they were not there. Maria Note xvhlle Unconscious, Prof. C. Le Neve Foster, D. Sc., the . British inspector of mines, Is retiring from a post which he has filled for nearly thirty years. His blue books on mines and quarries are well-known works of reference. On at leaBt one oc casion he was placed In Imminent peril through carbonlc-oxlde fumes, the re sult of an explosion In the Snaefell lead mine, Islo of Man, During the In terval which euaued before aid could ba rendered from the surface, and while his companions were being drawn up, each In turn, nnd in vari ous stages of unconsciousness, be made pencil notca of his tensatlons and the surrounding conditions. Now York Post, , . A Urowlni Family, Mra. Will Burnett of Dunlap, 1 the prize mother of Tennensee. Married five years 'ago she haa ten children, born Iu thia order: First, one child; tec on (1, twins; third, triplets; fourth, a quurtet. The latter arrived a tew days ago. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. September I - Spiritcal Aconaiatsact - Job nil., 21-21 Scripture Verm. Kph. II, ll-22; III., 14-L'l: Phil. I., nil; III.. 12-14; Col. I.. Ml; Tlx-. 111.. 12-13; 2 TIm-m. I., a; He-It. vl., 1; sill., 20, 21; 2 Vctvt III.. 18. lesson Thoughts. nod In a burnK'n carrier. Arp you welched down with btialtic rarcs? - Have dlMipNliit-liu-titH made your life hard? Have frk'nds forsaken you? ihnn Anything cause you Borrow or nnxloty? "Ac quaint now thyself with him, nnd be at rwacee." Acquaintance with God menu n growing fuinllliirlty wlrti his word and loving olMillcticr to his law. Hatavd of aln iilway nc-oiiriinlcj acquaintance with God. There Is a deadly, uninterrupted .eternal war between God and Hutnn, and friend uhlp with one menu enmity with the other. Selections. Lenrn that to love is the one way to kuow. Or God or man; It. U not hive received That iniikerh man to know the Inner life Of them that love him; his own love iH-stowed Shall do It. Jean Ingelow. Iot all our employment be to know God; the more one know him the more one ilewlivs to know blin. And ua knowledge Is commonly the meas ure of love, the deeiicr and more ex tensive our knowledge alinll be, Mie grewier will be our love; anil If on' love of God were great we should love blin equally In pains or pleasure. Whatever below God Is the object of our love will at some time or other be the matter of our sorrow. The history of all the great character of the Bible Is summed up In this sen-U-nce: They acquainted themmlve with God, and acquiesced p n wm Iu all things. God In n center of the soul; and. Jtmt ns In n circle, whnt is nea.tvt the ceutrr Is subject to leant motion; so the closer the soul Is to God, so the lesx movement nnd og Itution to which It Is exposed. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS. September Spiritual Acqualntaace xxll., 21-21 Job We canni't know anything aright Mil we know God. We may not know Him with he head. Hut we can know hi in with the heart. Good always comes when God comes. His law Is the method by which be does tilings. We ought to know bis; word. We idiall never be able to put away In litliyq till we have God's word In our hearts. To know God. there mut be a kipnver. before nii.viliing can be known. There can be m eorresptm dciire until I hire is Miiuctliiug to cor respond. Mind 1!" at the base of every temple of knowledge. Mind Is the billion God touches when he wish es lo send a iiiissagc to mankind. The mightiest liioveiueiils are the movements of mind. Jesus said: "He that hath cars to hear, let him hear." St. Paul said lo Young Timothy, "Give attendance to reading." Strive to un dei:anil, the very effort to know hulps one to understand. Jesus mid, speaking of God's doc trine. "If any do His will, he shall know of lhe doctrine." We inav know God through his hanc'lwnrk. It would acquaint ns bet ter with heaven If we wudhil the heavens more. The lion von il.wlni-.. the glory of God. mud the firmament showefh bis handiwork. The love of God's heart is revealed In the work of bis' hands. In bis immortal mountain senium Jesus said. "Behold the fowls of the air." and "Consider the lilies of the Held." We are to learn from this that he cares for souls. We should love Jenus more If we. Kuow the lilies butter. We may know God through bis word. Speaking of the godly man. and God's law. Davhl says. "In Ills law doth He meditate day and night." As the summer sun Ix-aius upon the rosebush till the buds break Into bloom, so the n.miI mnt bold Itself upon God's word Mil the lulluite beau t.v unfolds. The searchers are the finders. Men search mines and find gold. If they will search the Bible they will find God. We may know God by experience. Many 'things may be experienced that cannot be explained. The soul may know God by personal experience of His fKiwer, and love. The peace this knowledge brings can be experienced, br.t not expla luetic M Is ouly knowing God that brings true peace. RAMS' HORN BLASTS HE loss by grlnd- g is the gain of he axe. His sacrifice ia , the seed of our salvation. God's provi dence Is proof of Ills presence. The bpolls of avarice build tho ?uV JvZ1 tomb of all the ( Yvvv .virtues. J 'ft Vou cannot keep tho Sabbath till you love and prize it. His glory surpasses the sun because He stooped to sinners. Earthy church-going may end in heavenly church-being. It Is not the truth so much as the Teacher who saves. God's songsters sing In the bare tree tW well aa in the green. A s'tppery character will not Insure you aiJtilnst friction In life. An interrogation point makes a flue book for the devil's line. All agree that It la more blessed to give than it is to receive advice. He who slanders another smuts himself. There are no passporta to heaven. To abide In God's love ia to live in heaven. The best praise of tho sermon la Its practlca Gratitude doubles the gift and halves the debt. Trials may be God's testimony to our strength. Much of the sting of life comes from our smart saying';. He who persecutea the Christian pains the Christ. He that aims at a reputed wolf may kill a lamb. boiling anger scalds uobody'a fing ers but our own. The best graces of life come from the grace of God! Life's commonplaces fit us for Us uncommon places. Love Is tho only lever long enough to reach the heart. . mm. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Qeswral Trade Coadltloa. New York (Special). Bradstrcct'f review of trade says: An improvement alike in tone and in demand is noted in trade circles this week. Weather and crop conditions in the Nerrhwest combine to give that section specially generous yields. Good crops in the Pacific Northwest are also re ported. , The iron and steel strike shows little change, but despite the lowered con sumption growing out of the strike stocks of pig iron are smaller that they were a month ago on a comparatively trifling decrease in production. Boot and shoe mnnu(ac:urers have booked good orders. Leather is active and hides are firm. Wheat, including; flour, exports fot the week in the United State aggregate 9.0.19761 bushels as against 8.8JJ.109 last week, and ,1.11.1,641 in the week last year. Wheat exports, July I to date aggregate 44.07j.j32, as against 19.044.996 last year. Corn exports aggregate 508,807, a against 900.714 last week, and 3.017,08c. last year. July t to date exports are 9.2:7.168 against 23.676.349 last season. Business failures in the United State? number 178, as against 185 last week 168 in this week a year .tro, 172 in 1899, 195 in 1898. and 221 in 1807. Fcr Canada failures for the week number 25. as against 29 last week. 24 in this week a year ago and 20 in 1899. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review ol trade says: Crop conditions in the ter ritory most affected by the recent drought are improving and the weath er has been highly satisfactory in near ly all districts east of the Missouri river, though rains have interrupted the spring wheat harvest. The steel strike has affected prices extensively, particularly on sales for immediate delivery. In tin plates the advance has been greatest, while hoops, sheet, skelp and billets are sold at premiums. Confidence is steadily shown by placing of distant deliveries at regular prices. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Rest Patent. $4.60: High Grade Extra, $4.10; Minnesota bakers, $2.ooa3.to. Wheat New York, No. a red. 78'c; Philadelphia. No. 2 red, 74a74)4c: Baltimore. 76c. Corn New York. No. 2, 61; Phil adelphia, No. 2, ooj-iaoic; Baltimore, No. 2, 65c. Oats New York. No. 2, 40c; Phil adelphia. No. 2 white. 4444!jc; Balti more, No. 2 while, 43344c. Hay No. 1 timothy, $17.00; No. 2 timothy. $i6.coal6.5; No. 3 timothy, $15.00315.50. Green Fruits' and Vegetables Ap ples Eastern Shore. Maryland and Virginia, per bbl, fancy. $1.7532.00. Beets Native, per 100 bunches. 75aooc. Blackberries per quart. Wilsons. 6a7. Cabbage Native, per too, Flat Dutch. $3.5035.50. Cantaloupes Gems, per basket, green, 2oa25c: large, pcr too. $2.0034.00. Celery New York S ate, per dozen stalks." 25a40C Corn Per dozen. 4.16c. Damsons Maryland and Virginia, per bbl, $3.5034.00. Eggplants Per basket. 30335c. Huckleberries Per quart, 6a8c. Onions Maryland and Pennsylvania, yellow, per bushel, 60a 65c. String Beans Native, per bu., 5oa65c Peaches Maryland and Vir ginia, per box. yellows, bsca$l.oo; Georgia, 6-basket carrier, $t.25at.75; South Carolina, per carrier, St.25a1.75. Pears Manning Elizabeth, per basket., 40a6oc; Eastern Shore. Bartlctts, per basket, 30340. Plums New York, per 8-lb basket, 15320c; Eastern Shore, per quart, aj4a.Vjc. Squash Per basket. I5a20c. Tomatoes Potomac, per 2 basket carrier. 75a8oc; Rappahannock, per peach basket, 3oa35; Maryland, per basket, 30335; Anne Arundel, per bas ket. 40350. Watermelons Per 100, se lects, $ 16.00a 18.00. Potatoes White New York River, per brl. No. 1, $3.0033.50; Rose, $3.ooa 3.50; Eastern Shore, Maryland, per brl, $3-2533.50: Virginia, per brl. $3.2533.50; Sweets New. North Carolina, per brl, yellows, $3.7534.00; do. Eastern Shore, Virginia, per brl. yellows, $3.5084.00; Yams New, Virginia, per brl, No. I, 1 nni 1 -?e Provisions and Hog Products Bulk rib sides, g'ji; shoulders, 8M; do, fat backs, 14 lbs and under, 8; mess strips, do. ham butts, 8; bacon clear sides, io!4: sugar-cured breasts, small, I3J4; bladecuts. Q'A; California hams, gii; hams, 10 lbs, 13 to 13!; do, 12 lbs and over, J2?4: beef, West ern, canvassed and uncanvassed sets, i4'i; mess pork. $16.50; ham pork, $16.00; lard, refined w-lb cans, g'i; do do. half-bsrrcls and new tubs, Q4- Hides Heavy steers, association and callers lair kill. 60 lbs and nn. close selection, toanj-jc; cows and light steers. gagVi. Dairy Products Better E1gin. 23a c; separator, extras,2Ja2jc; do. firsts, 2oa2tc; do, gathered cream, tgujo; d. imitation. 17319: ladle extra. 1517: ladles, first, 14315; choice Western rolls, 1 5a 1 6 ; fair to good 13314: half pound creamery, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, 2iaJ2; do, rolls, 2-lb. do. 20. Eggs Western Maryland and Penn sylvania, per dozen. at6c: Eastern Shore (Maryland and Virginia), p:r (loz. ai6; Virginia, is!4ai6; Wcste n and West Virginia, 15316; Southern 14315. Live Poultry Hens, 10c; old roos ters, each.. 25330c: spring chickens. i3l4ai4C Ducks, 839c. Spring ducks, 9a 10c. Live Stxk. East Liberty Cattle steady: extra $5 5oa'5. 75; prime $5.4035.00, Hogs rime heavies, $6. ioa6. 15; assorted me diums $6.05; heavy Yorkers $6.0036.05: pigs as to weight and quality $57oa 5.87!. Sheep slow; best wethers $3. 90a 4.00; culls and common $i.srax50: yearlings $3.0034.20; veal calves $6,503 7.00. Chicago Cattle Texans firm, active; butchers' stock 6te3dy to slow; canncrs stronger; good to prime steers, $4-45a 3.40; poor to medium $4.0005.25; ows $2.5084.35; bulls $2.2534.25; calves 3sier, $3.0035.75: Texas steers $3,403 '.50; Hogs mixed and butchers $5,553 6-17!4; gcxd to choice heavy $5.623 6.22'i; rough heavv $55035.60: light S5.50a6.00; bulk of sale $5.8036.05. Sheep Good to choice wethers $3,503 t.io; fair to choice mixed $3.1013.50: Western sheep $3.4034.10; yearling $3.5034.10; native lambs $30035.40; Western lambs $4.1035.40. LABOR AND rNDUSTRY Texas cowboy will organize. Canada has 0X127 postollices. Brooklyn bricklayers earn 60 cents per hour. Pittsburg stone cutters get $4' for eight hours. An ordinary pi3no contains a mile ol piano wire. Cstnbridge. Ohio, plumber now ge: $3 for nine hours. Wisconsin is to esiabli&fc free employ ment bureaus. The London Spectator thinks trad:' rivalry ol nations will ca-tise futuri wars. Easily United. The druggist had written it on the labels and also cautioned the old negro by word of mouth that the contents of one bottle were for internal use and the ttthcr for external use, but he hadn't got a block away before he stopped a pedes trian to ask the difference. "Why, one is for external and the other for internal use," was the reply. "But which is it?" "This is for external. External means outside, you know. You rub it on." "Yes. sah." ' "And the other ou swallow." "Yes, sah: but a posin' 1 dun git dem bottles mixed up arter I git home?" "Yes. you may do that. Have you got a wife?" ".Siiahly. sah." "Well, then, let her take the contents of one bottle and you ri;b vonr legs with the other. Understand? "I docs; sah." said the old man. with a look ol admiration." nnd I'zc mighty thankful to yo' 'bout it. Bcfo' de Lawd, but when dese ycre niggers roun' yerc purtend to assimilate de conspicu osity alongside a white man dcy don't come widin a hundred miles of it." llitr.l'.y Aecnritte. She had returned with an M.1J. from a university after her name, and had been elected to the chair of English lit cia:ure in a small local college. On the day before the session opened the presi dent was explaining to her the duties ol her place. "In addition to your work in English literature." he said, with apologetic hesitation. "I should like you to take the junior and senior classes in elocution and also assume charge of the physical culture." "Is there no teacher of elocution?" asked Miss Jones. "Well, no, not at present." "And who has charge of the physical training?" "To tell the truth, we have no tcsclier as yet. You perhaps noticed in the caraloguc that those two departments were 'to be supplied.' " "And I ' was elected to the chair ai Eiglish literature " "Yes," the president answered gloom- But he was reassured by her winning smile. "I will take the work and do what I can with it, Dr. Smith." she said brightly; "but why didn't you write me at first that the 'chair' was a sct:ee?" Thirty minutes is nil tho time required to lye with Putnam Fadeless Dvks. buld by nil driiKKifcts. To maintain the public schools of the 'onntry costs every mun, woman and child a little more than $!). It's a cold day when Cupid meet with a frost. . Rest I'r Hie Howrls. No mattor what ails you, hea'lac'ts to a cancer, yon will never net well until your boirelsare put rii?ht. Cascahhts help nstnrj. cure you without a (tripe or pain, product easy natural movements, cost you Just 111 cents to start trettintf your health back. Cs cahetb Candy Cathartic, tho irenuinc, put no in nmtal boies, every tablet has C. C.C. stamped on it. Beware or imitation. Queensland' principal paper currency treasury notes now all but supersede tin ordinary bank notes. Beware of Ointments for Catarrb That Comai it ..rrcury, as mercury will surely doUroy the sense ot smell and completely derange 'the whole ays t 'm when entering it through the mucoir surface. Buch articles should never be use I except on preicriptions from repntable phy sicians, as the damage tlmy will d) ia ten f .iiil to the good you can powibly tlor.ve from ihom. Hall Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F, J. Cheney ft C .. Toledo. O.. contain lio mer uury, and is taken internal y, anine. dire.-t: upon ths blood and mi 0 tn aurta;e o.' it system. In buying Hull's Catarru t.nre b sure to got tb genuine. It is a'ien int-rnal-ly, and is made in Tuleiio, Ohio, by F J Cheney A Co. Testimonials free. sW.-totd by Drurgists ; price, 75c. per bo,t e. Hall's Family l'illt are the best. In spite of its capacity for hard work the elephant seldom, if ever, sleeps more than four, or occasionally five, hour. FITR permanently 011 red. 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