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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
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THE: PAOOS DMNE-
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MKVTH I'OU ,J.I HV 0 RY
THK REV. I. V. HENDERSON.
Ihfinf : irnn Christ; n Estimate,
Brooklyn, N. T. Preaching at the
frying Square Presbyterian Church
oo the theme, "Jesus Chriat; an Estl
maie. the Rev. Ira Wommoll Hen
leraon. paitor, took as hla text St.
John 1:14 And the Word waa
matte fleah and dwelt among us." He
aatd:
The blatory ot many lands and of
many people through two thousand
years la the record of the Influence
and the Inspiration of Jesus Christ.
Upon the atory of the world none haa
made a deeper Impress, none has
marked a richer fame. Rorn In a
manger, Hla early acta almost un
known, a mere pittance of Mis royal
wealth of mind and divinity of soul
preserved to ua to this day and that
pittance a storehouse of wisdom and
eternal life the character and the
claims of Christ stand forth pre-eminent
and predominant before the
world Through every epoch and In
every age the might and majesty of
His life have been a force for uplift
among nations, and a factor for
righteousness In individual lives.
Listening to the admonitions of the
Saviour, rulers have learned the way
to reign. Attending to the advice of
the Master, many a sin-seared soul
has entered Into Heaven's haven and
found safety In a sure salvation. Lay
ing His hand upon womanhood, Christ
has bid her rise. Speaking to the
hearts of men. He has counseled jus
tice, and has bid mankind be fair.
To the statesman, to the craftsman,
to the captains of Industry and to the
tillers of the soil, the words and the
works and the lite of Christ have
been the measure of true manhood
and the guarantee of Hla divinity.
Sent of Almighty God to be the Sav
iour of human kind. Jesus has taught
very mortal how to live. Preaching
no gospel of minutiae, our Lord has
given unto us a rule of faith and
practice that must revolutionize the
world. Born Into a world of caste,
clan and prejudice of blrtb, Chriat
taught the value and nobility ot each
an.il every soul. Finding pride to be
more of account than purity, He de
manded cleanliness of heart. Finding
hypocrisy to be far more prevalent
than blgh-mlndedness, He asserted
the necessity for sanctity of soul.
Trusting In the assurance of divine
guidance, and feeling the impulses of
divine love, the Son of Man came to
seek and to save that which was lost.
With sublime confidence in the In
vluclbtllty of the right, and that truth
must win. the Christ assailed and ar
raigned, with fearless fervor, all the
host of spiritual wicked ones who
prostituted to their own ends the
holy places and the hallowed pur
poses of the Most High. Filled with
sympathy for all the army of the
earth's oppressed, He spread a loving
.arm about them all, and bade them
, take courage and have peace and
cheer. Knowing the beauty and the
blessedness of holiness, and seeing
the hldeousness of sin, our Lord
yearned that men should experience
and know the joy and glory of the
Father's favor.
First and foremost In the world of
human action, Jesus Christ stands to
day, yesterday and forever as the
Saviour of mankind. The incarnation
and the revelation of the Father, He
has preached and practiced that no
bility of life that awakens within the
human heart the recognition of His
divine authority. Hearing His words
ot love and of light, and seeing His
blameless life of beauty and of grace,
men have recognized in Him that
word from Heaven which shall sanc
tify and save the world. Experienc
ing the inability of wisdom to re
real Jehovah In His ' fullness, and
longing for that preachment from on
high which shall point the way to sal
vation and the perfect knowledge of
our God, men have ever since the
days of Chriat known In Him that
power and ability which can save.
"Words are good only when backed
up by deels." Christ proclaimed His
saving mission and His cleansing
grace, and lived a life of love. "Ac
tions speak louder than words " De
claring His integrity with God, the
Lord of Life revealed, In outward act,
an inner and divluer grace. I'rglng
the need for purity, Ha was pure;
stating the nobility of righteousness.
He was just; standing Arm for holi
ness and for sanctity of life, He never
strayed from God; a counselor ot
loveliness, He was patient and kind
and true; persuading men to godli
ness, and dissuading human souls
from sin, the Christ ever exemplified
In His own career thai gouly and sin
leis life that His promises Inspire.
Christ as the Saviour Is supreme.
Of Imitators He has many, and of
equals none. To be the saviour of
this world from sin, a man must have
within his soul the fullness ot divin
ity and of Godhtod. To be accepted
tiy mankind as t.ie revelation of the
Father and the healer of the race, a
man must .how forth In act the hid
den, inner power. The Christ rings
true. The melodies of Heaven peal
through His words. He speaks, and
lo! we hear eternal truth. He acts,
knd the very manner Is divine. We
listen and we see. Our hearts re
spond. We take Him at His word,
and prove His power. We trust His
promise, and we imitate His life.
Christian experience sustains Him.
He is indeed a Saviour. He Is In
truth the way and the life.
Revelation is information. To re
veal is to disclose. To Inform is to
disclose facts which wore before un
known to those who may give ear.
Disclosure Is an uncovering. Christ
the Revealer has disclosed to man
what Is the character of God, not only
hy the words He spoke, but also by
the life He lived. He has taken the
Tall away and Informed us ot the
tfollnese of the glory ot Jehovah. He
has revealed to us not only what God
la, but also what man should be.
Chriat haa revealed to us the lov
ing Father ot each ot ns In our Ood.
The Fatherb ! la individual and not
alona racial. Sonshlp la no mere
matter of nationality, but Is rather
the vlcioi s of taraoallly. Salvation
t bottom Is tint pwJItleal, but per
gonal; not social, but IndlMfual.
trough tha individual recogultlon
Ua obligation ot soushlp Is ua-
lonal salvation assured. The agree-
ant of sanctified personalities to
' God, and that well. Is the basis
tha beginning of social dellver-
,ea from tha bondage of sin. God
Qa tha Father of Israelites first, and
Hhrourfh them of Israel. His lev. Is
aha heritage ot every heart and not
Alone the portion oi tha priests. His
race will lift all okJn to g'ery and
(through them the Statt.
tTba power ot Jesus Chriat in the
o.-i'i to-day Is due to tfc ru, , that,
i Bit capacity oi ReveslSA and 3a v
lous, He measured true to divine de- ,
mands. Truth triumphs. Sincerity
counts. To straddle Is unsafe. In
spiritual power Is the greatest
strength. The straight way Is the
aafa way. Principle Is potent to gain
respect. Sham and shoddy are soon
discovered Christ claimed divinity,
and He lived a godly life. He Insist- I
ed that His was the way unto life 1
eternal, and we know He spoke the
truth. Investigation of His life flndB
His action and speech in harmony.
The measure of His conduct by His
uttered Ideals can And no flaw. He
is as He claims to be, and His glory
Is as the glory of the Father.
The Christ 'was a stalwart man.
As the Anglo-Saxons had it. He was 1
a man who was "foundation-worthy."
Fixed firm and constant the Christ
was never guilty of deflection from
the strict, straight path of loyal duty.
Full worthy waa our Lord to be the
founder of a spiritual and moral ren
aissance that will overcome the
world. Built strong and firm and
true was He. upon whom the hopes
of humanity are fixed.
The Christ was a man of courage.
He waa a man of heart. Courage is
heartiness. To bp hearty Is to be
full of heart. He did not shrink from
danger. Without a sign of fear or
fright, our Lord defied the very ;
prince of the powers of darkness
Gallantly, bravely, nobly He cleansed I
His Father's house. How mightily
He Inveighed against the powers of
Palestine we may all attest. The
Christ was not weak hearted. Hav
ing a work to do He did it with a will.
Conscious of the odds against Him.
He hp.d no fear.
Out In the open, despised, forsaken
even by His friends, trusting only In
the power of the truth. He battled
ever on for human liberty. Bearing
upon His broken body the sins of an
evil world, He was yet courageous;
He had always heart. The Christ was
sound to the core.
The Christ was a man of deter
mination. He was a man' of resolu
tion. Having determined His sphere
and His call In life, He was resolved
to fill It. To be determined Is to be
ready to go to all lengths that is to
say, to see the thing through to the
finish. The Christ was true to Hla re
solves, even unto an ignominious end.
Having marked a clear line of duty.
He walked without swerving. Hear
ing the call of the dying world, He
saw and conquered Calvary.
The Christ was a sturdy man. He
had power of resistance, and He
could not less well force the fight.
Born with antipathy to evil. He stood
against sin firmly Seeing the Inhu
manity of mankind to man, He forced
the issue, and He flayed, with burn
ing words, the evil of His day. Strong
as the oak He stood against the
storm. Keen as the tempered blade
He smote His adversaries. Were
they wary He was more. Were they
subtle-He was shrewder. Did they
lay a snare. He did but tangle all of
them in the meshes of their selected
net. When thev were mos cautious
than did the Christ confound them.
They smote Hlni and He did not Hee.
They showed him Caesar's image, but
He was not caught. They predicated
marriage in the heavenly country and
He pointed their mistake. They asked
a sign and got not one.
But sturdy and stalwart and strong
of purpose and of will, as the Master
was, He was yet the soul of sympa
thy. Hating Iniquity and sroring evil.
He had yet a healing hand for men.
Disdaining sin, His heart held pity
for the sinner. Crucified by wicked
ness, He could yet pray mercy for His
persecutors. His was the sympathy
that cured. His was the tenderness
that touched. Filled with divine com
passion, He knew the sufferings of
human souls, and He preferred heal
ing and a rich release.
Men, like nails, lose their useful
ness when they lose their direction
and begin to bend," runs a piece of
sterling wisdom. The Saviour had
His bearings, and He kept tue goal
In sight. For Htm the straight way
was the surest, and He walked the
middle of the path of duty. The
offer of a whole world's wealth could
not swerve Him from His course.
"Get thee behind Me, devil." was the
motto ot His life as He dealt with
sin. His fidelity should be the fash
ion of our faith. His directness
should insure our teal. His sympathy
should sustain our love toward men
and for God. His stalwart energy
and sturtllness of soul should be our
pattern. Our lives should radiate
Hla light. Our spirits should suffuse
His love.
What Titian and Corot and Turner
did for art; what Bach and Beethoven
and Mendelssohn did for music; what
Tennyson and all the lyric host have
done for the eos-jrvatlon and the
culture of the minds of men that,
and infinitely more, can Jesus do to
ward the saving of a soul. Sturdy
and stalwart and strong He stands
to-day the Saviour of the race, the
Incarnation of the Word. His ac
tions are an open book, and he who
runs may read. His words are mighty
unto life that Is eternal, and he who
hears and heeds may live The Imi
tation of His character la the calling
ot the Christian, The re-presenting
of His strength, His power, purity
and love is the sign of Chrlstly grace.
Have you much or none?
Men who wear silk or "stovepipe
hats know that the temperature in
side the hat Is much higher thai)
outside; but it haa remained for
French physician to measure the dlf.
ference. He has discovered that when
the thermometer registers ninety de
grees In the shade in the outec air II
stands at one hundred and eight de
grees In Ills silk hat, and that when
It la sixty-eight outside it la eighty
eight Inside. From these differences
he concludes that the unnatural hoat
causes many nervous diseases. Other
persons have supposed that the haat
ot the hat made men bald.
EPWDRTH LEAGUE LESSONS ' f
1
A TRICK OK TIME.
Ask any person to think of some
hour of the day; tell him to deduct
It from twenty and remember the
remainder. You take out your watch
and inform him that you ara going to
count around on the dial, and that
when you have counted the number
corresponding with the remainder
that he must remember, he most
stop you.
Subject; Ood the Creator, fion. I!
1-2.1 Guidon Text, Gen. 1:1
Memory Versos, 1 to .1 Com
mentary. Whatever may bo our opinion as
to the historicity of -the story which
is the subject of this lesson, upon
this we are all agreed: that the beau
tiful word picture which so simply
tells the story of nod's creative work
In the days of the Infancy of the
world states the central, ultimate
nnd greatest fact of the universe of
God. In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth. Twenty
five times In the first twenty-five
verses Is the name or God used. What
a sublime, what a scientific, what a
philosophic record this Is. If It be
an allegory It Is the profoundest alle
gory that the world has ever read.
These twenty-five verses reveal Ood,
firstly, as a fact In the earliest his
tory of the universe: "In the begin
ning God." Secondly, they reveal
Got as a creative force "In the be
ginning God rreated." Thirdly, they
reveal God as a creative personality
' and God said," "and Ood saw,''
' and God made."
The fact of God Is the ultimate
s'atement of the wisest and the most
searching philosophy. Whether we
call God a force, an energy, a creat
ing power or a personality! we must,
in sound sense and as the result of
universal experience, admit Him ns
a fact. This lesson presents Ood,
secondly, as we have seen, as n cre
ative force. Out of chaos, by the ex
ercise of His own will. God created
tl'e world. But the Genesis story
de.ineatts God to us as something
more than a mere creative force. It
takes us into the realm of the per-sonallty-jf
God and It Introduces us to
n Crator who speaks, who sees, who
thitils. who Wills. And it gives to
us a God who is a creative personal- I
ity.
It is noticeable also, as In the
eighteenth verse, that Genesis gives '
to us a photograph of a God who Is I
possessed of moral attributes "anil i
God saw that it was good." A God ,
wiinout moral capacity would b un
able to make a moral distinction ns
between good and bud. A God who
did not know the right, and who
railed to exarcise righteo.isn -as,
would be unable to distinguish moral
worth either In His own actions or In i
the works of men.
The Genesis record daacltt all i'if-
ference of opinion as between theo
logical schools will be forever, as it
has been and is to-day, the simplest,
most easily understood, as well us a
profoundly philosophic, statement of
the fact of a personal, moral, crea
tive God.
This we should not forget, this we
should not fall to force home upon
the attention of all students of the
Serlptur?. lnescapeably this lesson
teaches the fact of God.
The following notes may be found
to be of value:
Vs. 1. "In (the) beginning." No
article in Hebrew is given. But It Is
here properly supplied. The first
verse tells In general language what
God did. The rest of the verses par
ticularize from this generalization.
"Created." This is a special term
for the new and unique. It does not
of necessity imply creation from
nothing. God likely In the Idea of
the writer is conceived as begiunlng
with primeval chao.s. The writer
does not go back further than that.
But either view may be held from
the context. That is to saw there la
reason to believe either that God is I
pictured as making the world out of
nothing or out of formless matter.
Vs. I. "Without form nnd void."
The R. V. gives waste and void."
These two words represent our
"chaos."
"Deep." Primeval abyss.
"Moved upon." R. V. "was brood
ing upon." This word suggests a
generative process.
Vs. 3. "Said." God's word Is ab
solute. Thus the words of a god
were considered in that day to be
unalterable.
"Light." Not. the sun, moon,
stars, etc., but generic light, cosmic
light.
"There was light." A creative act
of God. It was a definite act and not
a mere emanation from God.
Vs. 4. "Divided." A further pic
turing of the act of God in bringing
chaos into shape.
Vs. 5. "Called day." The name
God gave It is important. Names
were very Important among the early
Jews. They never mentioned the
real name of God. They used the
symbols, but they used a different
word having the same consonantal
symbols to designate Him.
"Evening morning." The Jews
reckoned from the evening in count
ing the hours of their day. That
may explain the context. R. V. And
there was evening and there was
morning, one day.
"Day." This author thought of n
day In the narrow use of the word.
This does not prevent us holding to
au evolutionary theory ot creation if
we so are im pressed by scientific
knowledge. The writer of this story
is not relating sclent iflc, but relig
ious truth. He Is i ntiug to the
fact of God.
Vs. 6. "Firmament," expanse. Vs.
. 11. "Grass," general vegetation.
"Herb," grain.
Vs. 14. "Lights, sun, moon and
stars. Subdivisions of the light of
vs. 3. "Signs," astronomical.
Vs. 20. "Fowl," birds, Insects, fly
ing things. Vs. 31. "Whales," sea
monsters.
Vs. 24. "Beast," wild beasts;
"cattle," domestic animals; "creep
ing things," reptlhr,
Ready For the lluitl.
Mrs. Sarah P'att Decker, of Den
ver, aald recently that all nien, as
. soon as they hud acquired a moderate
fortuue, should retire from busiuesa
! and devote their lives to the State.
"Then," said Mrs. Decker, ampll
I tying her views the other day, "poll
J tics would be pure. Then there would
; be no graft in public contract,
j Every vote would count. There
I would be no graft-protected crime. ,
"As to graft-protected crime, have
you heard the latest?
"A police captain was about to raid
a gambling den. t midnight, taking
bis place at the bead of a squad of
stalwart men, be looked them over
cloUy and then said to his lieuten
ant: " Is everything in readiness for
this raid?"
" Yes. air,' replied the lieutenant,
salutlug. 'Our arms ure in first-class
order, here are the reports, there are
the flashlight camera men, and 1 no
tilled the proprietor of the place this
afternoon.' " Philadelphia Bulletin.
SUNDAY. JANUARY 6.
ltcrst Communion With Qod. Matt.
C. 6.
Passages for reference: Gen. 32. 24
19; 2 Kings 4. 11-17; Matt. 14. 23;
Lake 22. 41-43; John 1. 48.
When Jesus gave the disciples the
first principles of his kingdom In the
Sermon on the Mount, among other
things he gave them Instruction on
the subject of prayer. In Matt. C.6
he tells them that the truest prayer
Is In the secret place alone with the
Father no ear but that of Him
whose eye has seen all we have done
and who knows our motives, us well
as the things we do and the things
we ask for. At Penlol, as recorded
in (len. 112. 24-:il, is the place where
Jacob met Ood face to face and learn
ed that the promises were to be ful
filled to him through God's merey.
and not because of his own cunning
or power, Alone with Ood by the
brook .labbok, his nature was so
changed that the wily supplanter be-,
came the prince who had power with
God and tnun. When Ellsha would
gain u victory over death In behalf
of I he son of the Shunammlte woman
he shuts himself away from oven the
anxious mother, alone with his task
and his God. Full of suggestion for
us Is the conduct of our great
Exemplar when he sent the multi
tudes away, and went tip Into I moun
tain apart to pray; and when the
evening was come lie was there
alone." The wilderness campaign
was fought nnd won by hlni alone,
ami Gelhseniane settled Ihe confllcl
as tilonc with God he said. ''Thy will,
not nni. b done."
Becret co,. rsVnlon with God Is the
secret of power In life. It Is then
that we learn his will for us, and
catch Inspiration for the performance
of our tasks. The hiding of his pow
er Is found In the secret place. The
business of my life has to do with
hlni. My Innermost life concerns him
and myself. No one else hut any
right to enter Its mysteries. In the
secret place I get. direction for my
personal life. Men of power In the
kingdom of God are the ones that get
In touch with the current of power In
the secret pluce. Public prayer, with
all Its benefits, cannot meet, the de
mands of the Individual soul.
The essentials of the ' Morning
Watch" are a quiet room closed
doors a mun God between them
The Book. The heart is lilted In
prayer for the Spirit to Interpret the
Book. Man looks Into the Hook, and
thinks long enough on what It says to
hear Ood's voice. Meditation brings
God and man together in the Book.
God speaks through the Book. Man
alone vviih nature gets God 'a truth
out of nature for the needj of the
body. Man alone with the. Book gets
God's truth for the soul.
GOOD m
mm ENDEAVOR NOTES
JANUARY SIXTH
Beginning With God, and Continuing
With Him. Gen. 1:1; John 1:1-
14; 15: 4-7.
"In Ihe beginning God" will nt any
time create a new day for you, on- a
ntw life.
If you allow nothing to enter your
life except whut God has made, this
year will be for you as great a suc
cess as God's natural world.
There is this Inflnlie difference be
tween Ihe natural world and the
Spiritual world within you, that the
one does not know Its Creator, and
you may.
You want to grow this year. There
Is only one way; live In Him who
created growth.
Suggestions.
If you begin Willi God, II is not cer
tain that you will continue with Hlni;
bin it' you do not begin with Him, it
is certain that you will not continue
with Him .
There is nothing which God gives
us so freely as time. Should we not
us freely give It to Him?
"It Is the first step thut costs," and
It begins at once to pay good Inter
est. The man who looks ahead Is Hie
man who gets ahead.
Illustrations.
If your life Is not parallel with the
light, tho farther It goes from the
beginning, the further it is from the
right.
A foundation Is good or had, not
only for Itself, but for every brick in
the building above It.
Morning starts are Inspiring, but
evening starts are depressing. Begin
early with Ood.
The sooner you deiosit your life In
the Hank of Heaven, the larger divi
dends will you draw.
Questions.
Whut do 1 want to curry over from
the last year Into this?
What lias been the result with other
beginnings when 1 did not make them
with Ood?
What are some of the things I wish
to huve uccompllshed by the end of
this year?
Roads and the Automobile.
Bicycles did not a little toward
creating a general appreciation ol
and desire for good roads, and they
would have done more had It not
been for the mysterious blight which
fell upou the popularity of those
very able little machines Just when
they -seemed about to become an es
sential and permanent part of civil
ized life. But the task which the
bicycle only began the more efficient
automobile has taken up. and now
it really looks as If a long-standing
disgrace to tho country, the condi
tion of its roads, was Boon to receive
serious consideration. Of course, It
needs nothing else to be remedied,
for the question of good roads Is one
with only a single side, and when the
arguments are heard actions must be
taken.
II would be a mistake to assume
RACE BETWEEN TRAINS.
Neither of ihe Engineer Headed the
"Broke In Two" Signal.
The following story was told last
week by J. D. McNamara, assistant
general passenger agent of the Wa
bash Railroad:
"From Clark to Mexico, Mo,, our
line ruus almost parallel with that of
the Alton. The distance Is about
twenty miles. It Is open country and
the grades Are light. The 'going' Is
good nnd trains race with each other
ii often as occasion offers.
"One day two long freight trains,
one on each road, reached Clark
about together. A race, of course,
was In order. Passing Centralla the
Wabash engineer turned partly
around in his cnb and noting that the
Alton man was minus a portion of
his train gave a 'broke In two'
whistle signal for the information ot
his rival. The Alton man. hearing
the signal Nmself. turned in his seat
and observing that the Wabasb train
was consldeiably shorter than when
the race began be vulled the throttle
It Is reported from Paris that
Prof. Retiring has discovered a new'
I method of sterilizing milk, without
; bolllug It or destroying any of Ua
essential principles. The method ia
based on tiio powerful qualities of
German perphydrol, simply oxy
genated. One gramme per liter of
this substance Is sufficient to deBtroy
all noxious germs. Milk thus steril
ized can be kept a long time, and h
not injured by transportation, but
cannot be drunk until it has been
gently warmed and a drop of a cata
lytic substance addad. Dr. Behring
has proved that light has a very
harmful effect on milk, whether ster
ilized hot or cold, and he recom
mends that It should be kept In ft
dark place or in red or greeu bottles.
Appropriate Vehicle.
Mrs. Newrlch lived In an expensive
and luxurious hotel. She knew that
well appointed equipages of many
sorta ware to be had. and proposed
to show that she knew what was suit
able for each occasion
"Chawles," ahe said to Mr. New
rlch'e valet one afternoon, with great
dignity, 'I am going to return some
calls this afternoon, and you may go
to the stable and tell them to send
up the best cart-de-vlslt they have."
that the automoblllsts are more in- Psn a notch ur two more and smiled
as he looked forward to winning the
contest. As the speed of the Wabash
train continued to increase the Alton
man In a spirit of banter gave with
his whistle the 'broke In two' signal.
As there was no apparent effort made
to stop the signal was repeated.
"Again and again was the signal
given by the racing engitiemen.
"At length Mexico was reached,
both trains urrlvlng there at the same
time, each engineer laughing at the
terested In the Improvement of hlgn
waya than other people. The farm
ers, for Instance, suiter much more,
In pocket at least, from bad roads
than do Hie uutoniobilists. but both
the expense and the personal incon
venience fall so directly upon the
automoblllsts that the latter are
moved to "do something," while the
farmer can and does forget how rap
Idly bad roads wear out his horses
and his wagons, and lie has not been
tnh in number Ho. hnniim, of hla i Joke ho would have on his compel !-
loads with a small expenditure ol
snergy among the possibilities of li If
life.
Even for the autotnobilist good
roads have some advantages to which
he has paid little or uo attention.
He knows what a difference It makes
'o the machine he now hus whethei
highway grades are easy or steep.
and whether the road surface I?
tor when the break would be dis
covered. As soon as he stopped nt
the Mexico water tank the Alton man
called ucroBB the right of way:
"How far you goln' without - out
tail llgrfts?"
The Wabosh man. observing foi
the first time his own predicament,
said :
"Oosh! but I thought you was
smooth and hard or rough and soft ' whlstlin' for your own hind end.
but it has not been noted by man)
af the fraternity thai it is the low-
power machine thut profits most bv j
good 'roads that is turned by them
from an unsatisfactory vehicle, fre- I City Times
queutly stalled mid barred from mn I
routes. Into one la many ways as effi
cient for practlral purposes as th
big cars. And low power means a
comparatively small original invest
ment, simpler engines, smaller con-
" Ditto, Bud!' exclaimed he of the
Chicago and Alton, as he noticed re
gretfully that about two-thirds of his
own train wns absent " Kansay
WORDS OK WISDOM.
sumption of fuel, and a marked de
crease In bills for repairs.
Good roads would therefore enor
mously increase the number of peo
ple who could afford to have auto
mobiles of people, therefore who
would buy and use them. And It
would be much for the advantage,
even of those to whom the cost ol
the best of the present machines Is
not prohibitive, If machines much lest
expensive could come Into something i
like common use. The greater ttu
Mttbor of automoblllsts the less arc '
they a "class" to be viewed onVtOMlj
and hoe tile ljt and the less will they
be bothered by neadle33 and Irritat
ing regulations. New York Times.
Road to Adirondack,
A preliminary survey has feeon
made for macadamized roads, such a
are built by the State, through Hit
heart of the Adlrondacks from Old
Forge to Blue Mountain. The gen
eral plan proposes that the road shall
start from New York City, proceed
thence to Albany, to Utlca, Reinsen
Old Forge and fourth Lake. Th(
roud will then follow the northern
shores of Sixth, Seventh and ptghtb
lakes to Blue Mountain.
The scheme Is to return by way ol
North Creek to some point ou Lake
George, nnd thence to Albany and
New York, the starting poltu. The
circuit -will include all of the Fulton
chain of lakes and nearly all the
The avenue ot escape is a popular
thoroughfare.
SchoolR for scandal seem to be
badly overcrowded.
Once in n great while a cook gets
contrary nnd refuses to quit.
A child's first Impression Is usual
ly made by the paternal slipper.
If a man is easily bought. It's dif
ficult to make him stay bought.
A man seldom prays that his
friends may be saved from him.
Old bachelors are men who have
given marrid'ge a serious thought.
Ever notice how polite the average
man Is when he has something to
sell?
Some men are no mean that they
even refuse to let their wives have
the last word.
It's difficult for a woman to make
a dollar go farther than the nearest
bargain counter.
Some men cling to single blessed
ness because they consider It the les
ser of two evils.
A baby is about the only precious
thing a woman possesses thut doesn't
excite thfe envy of other women.
There may be sufficient money In
circulation, but It's sometimes diffi
cult to induce II to circulate o'ur way.
Every woman is firmly convinced
that she earns the money every lime
she purchases a dollar article for
ninety-eight cents.
One of the things a conceited youth
can't understand Is bow uny girl can
Adirondack and other resorts en j be so foolish as to turn him down
route. It Is said that this Improved
highway will be hullt from the ?f,0,-
000,000 fund recently voted by the News
State for highway improvements and
new State roads. There will be com
paratively little to do in the way ol
new road building between I'tlcu and
New York, as much of that distance
for some other chap.- From "Point
ed Paragraphs" in the Chicago Dally
Till' Great "Fault.'
One of the most Interesting and
ailirieurlva nt-tlolna tha aiil.tant nf
has already beeu covered by the Slate, ' earthquakes that has appeared since
but the improvement along tbit tne great California disaster is con
stretch will be extensive. The toad trlbuted to ilnrnnr'a WooiHv hv n,-.
from Uticu to Old Forge will be im
proved by widening and macadamiz
ing. Then through the Adirondack
Mountains, where tha course follows
the highway, the road will be Im
proved, but for the most part the
road will bo new. Utlca (N. Y.)
Correspondence of The Automobile.
Improving Highways.
Massachusetts is malntuiuing hei
very enviable reputation of pi ogres
slveness by adopting u policy ot lni- I
proving the State highways by meant
9l shade tree planting. During the
pust year, according to a recant re- I
port of the Massachusetts Highway
man Whltaker. It is called "The
Fault," and traces the visible cause
of the California earthquake from
the point at which It conies out of
the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of
Point Arena, 120 miles north of San
Francisco, until it disappears at San
Juan, IIS miles farther down the
coast. The dictionaries define a
"fault" us "a severing of the con
tinuity of a body of rock by a break
through tbe mass, attended by a
movement on one aide or the other
of the break. . . . Occasioned by
movements of the crust of the earth."
The great fault of April 18. says Mr.
Whltaker, "was the most stupendous
in history, exceeding by four times
Commission over 3200 trees were the length ot the fault in tho ereat
planted along tne various atttio roans,
the varieties being restricted prlncl
pally to Norway, white and-uugai
maples and a considerable portion ol
the different kinds of native elms.
Vuporiiug Iron.
Henri Moissan. the French chem
ist, has recently continued bis ex
periments In the distillation, with
the 'electric arc, of various metals
and metalloids. He concludes, as the
result of these researches, that there
exists no known substances which
'cannot be distilled in our labora
lories. Tho ebullition of iron Is very
difficult to produce, yet Moissan hus
distilled 400 grams of Iron in twenty
minutes with an electric current ol
1000 umperes at a pressure of 110
volts. In all t-a.- the vapors ot the
metals condense In the form of a
crystalline dust, possessing all the
chemical properties of those metals
when reduced to the form ot powder,
Molssan's experiments throw light
on tho probable temperature of the
sun, where Iron and tho other chem
ical elements exist la the state of
vupor. The maximum temperature
of the electric arc is about 3500 de
grees Centigrude. But, owing to
the greater pressure produced by
gravitation on the sun, it is probable
that the temperature of ebullition of
the elements there Is higher thuu ou
tbe earth.
Japanese earthquake of 1891." Mr.
Whltaker followed the line of the
fault down the coast, taking a cam
era with him; and lie tells with vivid
plcturesquem ... of the freakish and
widespread destruction wrought
throughout Its length. It spilt and
. rent tbe earth, rearranged the con
, formation of the coast, threw dams
and roadways many (eet out of
plumb, flung railroad trains about as
it tbey bad been children's toys, aud
uprooted great forest trees six feet
in diameter. Mr. Whltaker's article
la Uiustratod with remarkable photographs
Living on Air.
A very distinct advuntage about
motoring is that It does not give one
uu uppetlte. Most open-air exercise
sends one home n hungry as u htm
ter; and If one oats largely in these
daya of strict regime and restrict, u
diet, all uorts of terrible things are
sure to happen at leaat are prom
ised by tbe doctor. It b pointed out
in a daily contemporary that while
all tbe good effects ot working up an
appetite are produced by u long drive
in a motor, yet the amount of food re
quired to aatlsfy what seema to be
one'a huge hunger is actually very
small. The air Itself feeds one, and
air neither upsets one's digestive ap
paratus nor does It supply, one with
adipose tlMue. London World.
The proposal to transmit electric
ity generated at the Victoria Falls
to Pretoria and Johannesburg Is tak
ing shape, and a first Issue of capital
will, It Is said, be announced within
tho next few weeks. The distance
from the Fnlls to the Rand as the
crow files is 600 miles, but It will be
necessary to make deviations that
will Increase the distance to be cov
ered to nearly 700 miles. Th', ex
traordinary pressure of 150.00C volte
la proposed. At the outset provision
Is to be made for 30,000 horse pow
er, but this may be tncreaaed as ne
cessity arises.
According to Dr. P. Marchal. some
Insects are as fond of eggs for food
as human beings are. He haa ob
aerved that a hymenopterous Insect.
Tetrastichus xanthomelananoe, has
made a practice of sucking the eggs
of the elm beetle. It first perforates
them with a small hole, and then
swallows the contents. Afterward
the tetrastichus utilizes the empty
egg shell by depositing Its own eggs
within. It might be supposed that
the primary object of the operation
was that implied by the last state
ment, but Dr. Marchal Ib confident
that the eating of the egg is a no
less important motive.
Every summer several astronomers
visit the Janssen Observatory oa the
extreme summit of Mont Blanc to
take advantage of its great altitude,
which favors the study of solar phe
nomena. At present another effort
Is being made there to photograph
the sun's corona without an eclipse.
The observatory Is remarkable for
having its foundations laid In hard
packed snow. The builders found it
Impracticable to reach the underly
ing rock. At a recent meeting of the
Academy of Sciences In Paris, Mon
sieur Janssen announced that the
measurements of level executed In
1904 and 190(1 showed that during
that interval the observatory had
not appreciably shifted in position.
Gas mounds is a popular name in
Texas for the low, circular eminences,
averaglug twenty feet In diameter
and two feet In height, which abound
In forest and prairie regions In Lou
isiana, Texas, Southern Arkansas and
the Indian Territory. On the suppo
sition that the mounds have been
raised by ascending gas from subter
ranean oil pools, they are regarded
as Indicating oil beneath. Robert T.
Hill, the geologist, who has examined
the mounds, -J'.sputes this theory of
their origin. They occur In many dis
tricts where not the least sign of oil
or gas has been discovered. Mr. Hill
thinks that they owe their existence
mainly to unequal settling of the
ground In poorly drained areas sub
tected to abundant periodic rain fall.
Some curious researches have re
cently been made by French army
(urgeons on the relationship between
good eyesight and good target prac
tice. At first glance one would say
lhat the two things must itivariably
iepend thu one upon the other. But
the facts lead to a different conclu
sion. At least they show that one
may have very defective eyesight and
yet be a very accurate marksman.
Astigmatism, myopia and other de
fects of vision may exist In a marked
degree without destroying the abil
ity to aim and shoot straight. In
ihe French and German armies sol
iiers are peruilted to shoot from the
right or Hie left shoulder, according
;o their own preference, which is of
;en guided by the superiority of one
ye over the other. Accuracy of
iudgmont counts for as much as
tcuteness of vision with the good
iiarksman.
EVEN HEAT IN TEMPERING.
Fluid Ruth and Electric Furnace
to Supply It.
In tho process of annealing aud
tempering Bteel It Is desired to con
trol the heat, which is applied with
great precision. If the temperature
Ib too high, too low. or too fluctua
ting the object under treatmeut may
be ruined. To produce the best re
sults. In hardening tools for high
speed cutting, or gears or pinions, a
continuous heat of 2340 degrees Far
euhelt must be maintained for a con
siderable time. The old methods of
securing this directly, with gas or
coke, presented difficulties which
made them highly objectionable. One
of the recent attempts to Improve on
them Is described in the Loudon
Standard.
An English compauy is Introducing
an electric furnace to do the work.
In this apparatus a mutalllc salt or
mixture Is brought into a molteu
condition by means of an electric cur
rent passlug through It, thus provid
ing u bath In to which the pieces of
metal to be heated are placed. The
electric current flows through every
part of the bath and the tool alike,
thus Insuring a perfect uniform beat
ing. By simply regulating t(je cur
rent It Ib possible to attulu any tem
perature between 1350 aud 2380 Far
enhelt. The furnace consists of a
fireproof rectangular tank for hold
ing tbe aalt bath, which is built luto
fireproof cement contained in an iron
box.
. The temperature is regulated by a
awltch. The furnace, when cold, can
be brought to a white heat in about
hall an hour, and the makers assert
that the cost ot operation Is very rea
sonable. The exactness with which
it can be controlled will appeal to
t.u;se engineers who are desirous of
turning jut only the best work.
Makers of I. injur,-.
i'i . British empire is built upon
engineering achievement. ,The fab
rication and perfection of firearms
and heavy ordnance, ot great fighting
ships aud speedy mercantile vessels,
and the wholesale use ot steam
power in other apheres, have placed
Oreat Britain where It is to-day, poli
tical Intrigue and diplomatic dls
agreements notwithstanding. With
out the engineer this vast over-sea
empire of ours could not have com.6
into existence. London Electrician, i