X Tbe Putpj A SERMON jay tAb ne- Subject: The Xcw Note. Brooklyn, N. Y. Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Hamburg avenue and Welr fleld street, on the theme, "The Church's New Note," the Rev. I, W. Henderson, pastor, took as hla text Mark 12:30: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy hoart, and with all thy soul, and with all thv mind, and with nil thv Etr.'iigth." He aald: The adaptability of the Gospel Is wonderful. In every epoch and In every age wherever the truth of God as It has been revealed in Jesus Christ has been preached, it has been found j to be a fit guide for the lending of the i tii i n 'Is and hearts and souls of men, a true solvent for the evils of the epoch and the age in which It has , been declared. Always it has pos sessed a message that has l.ren pe culiarly adaptable to the Individual and social iniquities and to the indi vidual and social spiritual yearnings and necessities of the society to which It has been proclaimed. When In apostolic times the prerlousness of budding human life was discounted ' and largely unrecognized the vitaliz ing Gospel of Jesus Christ revealed the beauty and the' value of life it elf. When In the nnte-Reformatlon ' days the truth was endangered by the regrettable unwisdom of the ecclesi astical authorities of that day and time the compelling Gospel of Jesus opened wide the treasury of written truth that had been preserved in all Its fragrance through the centuries and a new era for mankind began. As in those times so throughout Christendom It has been. Whatever may have been the sins, the spiritual yearnings, the mode of thought, ths manner of expression, of any genera tion, the Gospel has always adapted itself and been found humanly adapt able to the sins, the yearnings, the thoughts, the terminology of the period. Every revival in Christian history, especially in the history r.f the last four hundred years, has ha.l its peruliar message, adaptable to the sins, the yearnings, the spiritual needs, the thought and the terminol ogy of the time in which it has been preached. Historians tell us that when in the days of Jonathan Ed wards days In which Christianity was largely legalistic In thought and speech the fiery prophet of the liv ing God wished to bring men Into an open realization and confession of their sinfulness and their accounta bility to God he preached them Ber mons on the essential fact and neces sity of Divine sovereignty; and with burning zeal declared to humanity, as God gave him opportunity to sow the seed of His truth, the wisdom of yielding self Into the control of the Divine Ruler of the universe. Wesley preached the truth of the freedom of the will to a nation to whom freedom was life. "Whosoever will may come" was not nil the Gospel then, nor is it all the Gospel now; but It is the lever of truth by which men in the days of that great revivalist were most quickly turned to love and serve God. 'We are face to face with another grfat world-wide revival. We are In the midst of It. It may not be rec ognized in some quarters and it may be blinked iu others. Many men refuse to recognize it or they may fall to have the insight to perceive it, but It is here none the less. Evidencing ' Itself within the church It is express ing Itself more largely perhaps out- 1 side of the church than within it. Men are Gospel-hardened to the messages of yesterday. Not that they disdain Christ, but because the pro clamations of the past have lost, through perfunctory familiarity with them, the power to nV. deep into their souls. The edge of the truth has become dulled for them. It needB to be brought to the tempering flro of a flaming truth that shall startle and attract man. It must he laid hard on the wheel of a compelling Divine ver ity that shall put an edga on all that has become dulled. The preaching of Edwards will not do It. the oratory of Wesley will not do it, the burning messages of Finney will not do it, the declaration of God's love In the mouth of Moody will not do It. These are our places of departure. The truth that these men have declared, the men-we-are-afcer know. Wo must vitalize that dormaut truth by flinging a new message into their souls. We must warm the chilled embers of their own religious ex periences with the blaze of a modern message that, having its Inspirations In the historic Christ, shall bo In dwelt of Hti resencs and energized of HIb spirit for special ministry-to-day. Men know that God is sov ereign; they know that the human will Is free, for are th9- not exercis ing It ngalnst God every day" They know that personal responsibility for personal sin or decency is inescapa ble; they know that God is love. We do not need to prove these things to them moat Insistently. What we need to do Is to proclaim before them r new note from the old Anthem of God's revelation of His truth and HlniBelf In Jesus Christ that shall And a correlative note in their own souls and lead them back Into har mony with the age-long chorus of the redeemed of God. It is the business of the church of Jesus Christ to strike this not and to assume leadership. Granted that these remarks be true, what then shall bs our now note? What, note ahull we strike? What word or God shall be our watch word? What text in the Scriptures shall epitomize our thought? About what Idea shall our preaching re volve? In my humble Judgment the text which shall epitomize the mes sage of the new rovival Is that which Is to be found as indicated in ths text for this evening In the Gospel according to St. Mark, the 12th cap .ter and the 30th verse: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all ,tiy mind, and with all thy strength." And the idea that shall crystallize our thinking shall be the conception of human love for God.' A the basis of Moudy s evangel wa? the love cf God for wan, so, 1 verily believe, ere we shall do the work for Jesus that wo desire to perform, we must declare, with Insistency and with cumulative force, the dignity, the wisdom, the fairness, the efficacy of human lovo for God. The trouble with us to-day Is not that we do not know that God loves us. The trouble Is that men do not love God. The evil which afflicts us can only be cured by the exercise of a controlling and vitalizing love for God, such a love at shall mellow and beautify the soul of men. The in iquity which scourges us now and torments us would not be If, In the past, men had loved Cod. A tnor o.iishgolng love for God will make e , il lit Ions hi i Ms world as im possible as they will be In the now Jerusalem hereafter. The golden rule has failed to accomplish Its mis sion, not because It Is not a truth, but because It Is only half a truth, as It Is popularly used to-day. The second commandment is a sate guide fo.- o-.ir rule and practice through life only when It is correlated with that primary commandment w hlch out Lord enunciated as at the loclcnl centre of the moral and spiritual realities. The golden rule is not enough ol a guide for us as we travel toward the undis covered country. We must be more 'han moral If we desire happiness here and hope to enter Into Joy eter nal hereafter. The golden rule must, be vitalized by the living first princi ple of the kingdom of God . The trou ble with the world Is that men have reen altogether too well satisfied to i'o and be done by, as God never In tended they Bhould. See for a mo ment how this half truth works in practice. You nnd I are on the Stock Kxchangj. You ore satisfied that if by trickery or falsification or by the spreading of dangerous reports, true or untrue, I can ruin you, I may do so, provided I afford you equal oppor tunity to do the same to me. You nnd I are trading horses. It Is all right for you to fleece me with my eyes open so long as I am permitted to fleece you iu the same manner. You and I are in business. It is Draper for me to steal your trade, provided you have an equal oppor tunity to steal mine. Of course this m.'ets a modern interpretation of the golden rule, which says, "Whatsoever ye are willing that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them." Rut how grievously it violates the spirit of Christ's law. The principle of the business world too largely Is this, that it is all right for one dog to eat the other, because they have agreed that it 3hall bs fair to play the Industrial and commercial game that way. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," we are told. Hut when this law Is separated from the correlated truth that Christ de clared, and transplanted alone Into the lives of multitudes of men to-day, we understand what an awful half truth It has become. In all seriousness, I do not desire t):at some men shall love me in the way they love themsolves, outside of Christ. I do not care to practice the golden rule as to-day It is promulgat ed lu our social life, outside of Jesus Christ, or to have it so practiced upon me. For somu men have no compre hension of their own value and the demands of their own Integrity upon their livej; and how, therefore, can they appreciate the value of the lives, the minds, the hearts, the souls, the peaco and purity and happiness of their fellow men? Some men have such a small estimate, seemingly, of themselves, Judged by the way they treat themselves, that we should be untrue to ourselves did we not resent like treatment by them of us. Some men have such a debased ider. con cerning what la right for men to do unto them that they cannot be ex pected to know, unless the grace of God inform them, what they should do to their fellows. The message for our own time, the appeal of to-day, must be based on the text I have read. Its theme must he the love of man for God. Loving God, we shall conserve the Interests of our own personalities and gain a divine value of our own worth to God and to the world. Loving God, we shall know the value of our brethren. Do you suppose for an Instant that men would have the audacity to pub lish declarations that they were only worth a paltry couple of hundred mil lions If they really loved God n9 God means they should? Do you suppose for an Instant thnt they would boast that they can buy legislatures and judges and the government, if t Ley loved God as Jesus loved Him? If wu loved God as Jesua. means we should, do you Buppose thnt to would stand for child labor, with all Itc hor rors and cruelties; for the saloon as it is, with all its fruitage of vice and crime and misery nd poverty and despair? If we loved God as Jesus meuns we Ehould, have you the slightest suspicion that we would per mit women by the thousands to be li-iit Into the brothel in economic self defense? If men loved God, v. ould It be thlnkablj that they would mur der and rape, and steep themselves in drunkenness, in hcstl-illty and crime? Do you think that If ve could get men to lovo God, they WOUld not have again a lively con sciousness of Hiu sovereignty as Ed wards declared It, and Of their Iree will to do the right n3 Wesley de clared It, and Of their personal re Sponslbtllty as Finney declared It, nnd of their indebtedness to divine love as Moody declared It? I think not. The new note of the church will be the love of men for God. For it Is the second logical atep lu the scheme of i demption in Christ. Ood in Christ hath already loved men, and now loves them. It Is for them to reciprocate HI love. The new mossage must ba the central truth of the kingdom of God on Its manwurd side. We must lead men to love God. Then shall we reach them. Getting men to love God, we shall ttausform the Individual character; we shall rvgraorate noclcty; we shall make wars to ceate end all nations throughout nil the earth to dwell in righteous and godly fraternal rela tionships.. The task le great. But it Is not impossible. The means and iho method v.o shall discuss at an other time. But when wo shall havo gotten men to love tho living God, then Khali we hear n volcn out of Heaven saying unto us, "Behold, the tabernacle of God Is with men, and Ho will dwell with them, and thoy hall be His people, and God Himself uuall bo with them, their God." Kaiser William u Matchmaker. One day tho. Kaiser was walking in civilian dress when he was recog nized by a corporal. The Emperor, noticing that the man's face wore a troubled expression, questioned him. For some time the corporal hesitated to reply, but at last confessed that he was in love with the daughter of his sergeant major, but the marriage was impossible since the girl's father-in-law wattle) have none less than a sergeant as a son-in-law. "Do you really love the girl?" in quired the Kaiser. "With all my heart," was th, reply. "Very well, tLen; go and tell your sergeant major that the Kaiser has niade you a serge int.'' From M. A. P. MAY TWENTY-8IXTH. Home Missions: The Progress of the Southern Mountaineers. lea. 52: 7-12. Jesus n missionary. Matt. 4: 12 17. Mls-ionnrles sent forth. Mark 3: 1S-11 Debtor to the unwise. Rom. Il 1S- 15. Beautiful messengers. Isa. G2; 1-6. Forsaking all. Luke 9: r.9 fi2. God qualifies. Ex. 4: 11-17. Hon e missions; The progress of the Southern Mountaineers. Isa. 72: 7-12. Mountain countries seem nearest to Ood, and It Is an especial privilege to bring their people near to God. The missionary Is a publisher. As eagelly as the newspapers tfpread abroad had news, he makes public the good news. Our nation owes so much to the Southern mountaineers thnt "the eyes of all the nation" should he watching out for their welfare. Our missionary, host has mighty re inforcement, with God for vanguard and Ood for rearguard! The Southern mountaineers are found chiefly In North Carolina. Ken tucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. This region Is ."00 miles long and 250 miles wide, with a population (1900) of 2.657.497. About two millions of these nro mountain 00 rfl, whom Walter H, Page, Southerner, calls "The Forgotten Men." They live In extreme isolation and gteat poverty, farming In an exceed ingly rude fashion. They are an un schooled people, and Ignorance nnd Immorality always go together. Yet thoy are descendants of Scotch Irish Presbyterians, deeply reverenc ing the Hlhje. nnd naturally of strong and sturdy characters. From their stock came Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. They were most efficient fighters In the Revolution, and they were a tower of strength to the Union In the Civil War. The degeneracy of this noble race came from their isolation. They are out of touch with the world of thought and progress, and It Is this, with the pure gospel which makes It all possi ble, that the missionary brings to them. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAV, MAY 26. Rescuing the World from Sin. Jonah 3. 1-9. (Missions.) Passages for reference; Psa. 127. 1; Prov. 11. 10, U Matt. 10. 5-39. The main reference for the lesson telle us of Jonah's second commission to preach to Nineveh. Obedient toj his command, nil word was with ef- feet. Jesus commissioned his discip les to go throughout all the region proclaiming the truth and telling them what kind of a reception they might expect. The World lies before the church with the cry for help making a con stant appeal. Not one portion of the world to the exclusion of the rest, hut the whole world, all kinds and con ditions, are to be reached and won to the Master. Educational work and social reforms are secondary to the one great work of saving from sin. Paul said that he made himself all. things' to all men, If by all means he might save some. Any legitimate method of getting at the hearts of men we are authorized to use. so that we may get them saved. Probably there is no means better adapted to gain an admission Into a new country for tho gospel tht.n by the medical missionary. The story Is an interesting one. Medical mis sions deal with the bodies of men and worsen, and with them In often the most loathsome forms, but tho his tory of that work reads like a ro mance. Many cities and provinces have been closed to the regular mis sionary, till the doctor came and by his remarkable cures found a way Into the respect and sympathy of the leaders. The condition of medicine In the heathen world is most terrible The heathen believe that disease is due to an evil spirit. "In some coun tries to secure relief they deify their maladleB, bo that with them small pox. ineaBles, and typhus fever are gods which can be thrown off man, not by medicine, but by invocation and exorcism. They resort to horri ble reinc-iles, like human flesh, aB a cure for leprosy.'' "The treatment of the sick is often marked by an In humanity which staggers one's confi dence in human nature." They fre quently abandon the Incurablos to the storms, and leaving them outside the cities let them die without any at tention. Opposed to such cruelty comes the practice of tho medical missionary and his tendernesB; and his disregard for the classes to which his patients belung Is a strong plea for the Christianity that he displays, attending alike to the high and low. Poultry nnd Frail Growing. A combination of fruit growing ind poultry raising is especially roc immended In a bulletin from the Pennsylvania Department of Agricul ture. Locate the poultry houses if ( osslhle so that the runs will be In he orchard. The fowls will dertroy iiousands of harmful Insects, thus roatly benefiting the trees and In Teasing the prospects for fruit and :he fowls will at tho same time gain reat comfort and benefit by the pro tecting shade of the treeB. Plum Irees nnd cherry trees nro especially benefited by the presence of fowls lbout their roots. Peach trees will irow most rapidly and soonest give in nbundaut shade. Weekly Wit The Family Horse. The family horse Is not what Is un derstood by n "coach" horse, though the latter Is usually all. that could be desired for the horse that Is to give comfort and convenience to each member of the family. The coach horse, so cnlled, Is driven by a regu lar hired driver, and If the horse has style, life and size, he answers the purpose very well; but In the case of the family horse, there must be per fect safety when each and every member of the family becomes driver. The family horse must be sound, kind and willing, cool-headed nnd intelli gent in an onfergency. He must be safe to leave unhltchel, for a horse that one can't trust to stand for a moment without hitching is no kind of an animal with which practically every member of tho family can be trusted. Weekly Witness. An Egg. Seventy-four per cent of an egg Is water. Note the Importance of pro viding good fresh clear water for the fowls for best results in egg pro duction. Fourteen nnd a half per cent, of nn egg Is protein. Give feed rich In protein. Lean meat, fresh cut clover, alfalfa and wheat bran are also pos-je-tsed of protein. Ten nnd one-half per cent, of an egg is tat. The shell of an egg Is composed of lime, and it takes considerable to produce the shell for an egg every other day. it is a drain on the sys tem, nnd sea shells, alr-sluked limes and fresh cut hone assist the hen materially in the production of eggs. Corn will produce tho fat necessary, wheat being preferred to corn in warm climates. Petaluma Poultry Journal. Best nnd Cheapest Fence. Experience, that grim, practical teacher, has many a time and oft proven thnt the most expensive, most unsatisfactory, most absurd and most lnnrtlstlc fence yet Invented is that blot on any landscape called a picket or paling fence. Us first cost Is always astound ing to the inexperienced because of the unexpectedly great amount of lumber necessary to encompass even a small lot. Combined with this is tho oxasperatingly slow dnlly prog ress nnd heavy strain on the bank account caused by the skilled labor that must be utilized in Its erection. And then there comes another as , founding expense the painting. And i after it is all completed and paid for, what has the possessor to show for I it? Well, flrst a continuous perform ance of repairs; here a picket is gone some small boy needed it for a but. Beyond, a couplo moro are missing. Some young man has proved his muscular strength to hl3 beBt girl. Repair bills are continu ous, and, oh! how shabby it gets ami what o. wad of money it takes to re paint It! Dut still worse than the praeLical financial aspect Is the men tal effect on the general public and the family. Low stone, concrete or boulder walls are by nil odds the most beau tiful fences. They can be covered by vines nnd made tilings of beauty. But they come higli and must be topped with barb wire or spikes so that they shall not bo used as open air meeting rooms by budding politi cians, or those lorn ones who are quite sure they havo me their affini ties for keeps. Washington Star. 'IrXKCUlAPH OPERATOR'S JOKE. plants In In rows from twelve to fif teen Inches npart. Plants should be four or five inches in the row. Some stable manure ought to be Incorporated with the soil by plowing or spading It In. Chicken manure makes an excellent top-dressing when it Is lightly raked In beforo setting tho plants. During the growing ooa son two applications of nitrate of soda will ndd much to the size and erlspncsB of the bulbs. Wood ashes will take the place of poultry drop pings if iho latter can not be ob tained. If the ashes are used they should be applied as a top-dressing nt tho rate of 100 bushels to the acre. The most Important thing nfter the plants begin to grow is frequent cul tivation to keep the weeds chwn nnd the surface soli loose. While many of the other large growing varieties mny be raised In this way the Prize taker stock Is the one most likely to give satisfaction. Indianapolis News. Feeding n Horse. We go to France for good horses, and following Is from the Petit Jour nal Agrlcole, of France, on how to feed good horses: "Three meals are necessary nnd sufficient, with an Interval of four or five hours between, to keep a horse in good condition. Oats take at least two hours to digest, hay takes three hours, and because It takes so long to digest It should be given when the day's work Is over. The evening menl should bo a full meal, the animal being then at rest and able to digest its food at leisure. 1 There should be nn Interval of half an hour between the return of the horse to the stable and his getting his even ing meal. "Too much food nt a meal or too I long abstinence between mealB, fol lowed by voracious feedings, is con- tfucivo to colic and Indigestion. Ir regularly fed, he Is given to showing i his impatience by letting his hoofs play about the woodwork of his stall. Mlvlng 'refreshers' nt odd times is nlso bad. Remember that both stom ach and bladder should never he load- 1 ed in work time, whether light or heavy work Is done. A horse, there fore, should not be ridden or driven 1 Immediately after a meal, on the MUie principle that !t ought no. to be ! fed sooner than half an hour after work Is over. Between one end of Vie year nnd another a horse con- i sumes the amount of dry heating food which calls for a special regl- j men to neutralize the excessive pro toln consumption that has taken ' place. Thus In autumn a ration of carrots given before the evening menl , of oats Is good, nnd so in the spring, I nt the fall of the winter coat, a little ground meal is beneficial, mixed j with hay and oats, for the evening meal. Another maxim much dlsre- i garded In practice is that tho horse should he watered long before being put to work, and then very sparingly." THE BLIND uOD, Ethel "Jack la blindly In love with you " Rose "How do you know?" Ethel "Hetold me he didn't think you looked a day over twenty-nine." Cleveland Leader. A Point That Brings Business. Hero Is a good argument for a country publisher to use while mak ing the weekly rounds of the stores in his community: The wide awako country merchant is rapidly coming to the conclusion that the bent way to meet the com petition of the city merchant, the de partment stores, and mall order houses is to fight them with their own weapons. Tho day when a man can put in a stock of goods and alt down and wait for business is past, lie bus to hustle for it, and advertise his goods, in order that people may know that he has what they want. A merchant who knows how to ad vertise never complains of dull tlmea. When things quiet down, he adver tises a little more, and in this way keep things moving ull tho time. Soap Sixty-seven Years Old. While assisting his wire to clean up the garrut of his l-Just Main street residence on Monday, Kzeklel Elden, of Waynesboro, came across a bar of soap which, he avers, his mother. Mrs. Mary Ann Elden, made in the spring of 1840, or sixty-seven yeare ago. Tho aoap la in an excellent state of preservation and ull the bet ter, doubtless, on account of Its age. Soap boiling was evidently one of the arts among the houiewlvee of those early rlajs. How to Grow I . 1 1 , Onions. It Is the ambition of every cultivat or to raise largo onions. The only way of crowing them to nn immenso size is to start the plants Indoors and set tho seedlings iu the open when tho ground becomes tillable-. In this way ono can raise onions as lare as the Bermuda and Spanish varieties. In fact, many of tho so-called Im ported onions are nothing more than home-grown bulbs produced by this method. Tho variety known as Prize taker does not look unlike the Span ish type nnd it is equal to It In mild ness, flavor, size and color. Good teed should be secured and sown ear ly In hoxos In the greenhouse or hot bed. When a hotbed Is used the boxes are not necessary, although they are convenient nt transplanting time, since they can be taken directly to the Held before the plants are removed. Fnrm Notes. A cow that does not eat heartily will not yield an 'abundance of milk. Never use barbed wire oxcept, per hnps, one or two strands on a low hog fence. They are too dangerous to be used for cattle, horses or sheep. There ought to be two step-ladders on every farm. The one for the house should be about five feet high and the other, for the orchard and outdoor work, about nine feet. Make the latter yourself, taking tho house ladder for a pattern One of the handiest things about a farm is a cart made from the wheels of an old buggy on which is mounted n light frame, constructed to hold hay or other light material. A pair of hand shafts can ho attached, and these should be supported by a slick hinged to the handle. Station experiments show that the growth of turnips late in the season proceeds rapidly as long as tho weath er is open, and point to the advan tagu of allowing turnips to remain in the ground as long as it Ib practic able, especially If the seed was sown lute. If left too long, however, or until the ground Is frozen, the crop t, ill be harvested with more diffi culty. When wind breaks, in the form of hedges of straight rows of trees, are not desirable a group of evergreens will turn the currents and break the force of the wind, it is well also to note that on the cold side generally the north and west is the place to set the very hardiest trees. Among them birch, poplur and willow rank fljet. The birch Is one of the hardiest of all trees und may be planted very close as u wind break. Sheep are excellent foragers, and can secure a large umount of their food from certain plants thnt aro of nu valuu to farmers, but during peri ods of thought there may be a scarc ity of even weeds or coarse herbage. Wlilie It is well to utilize sheep, in order to have them consume such foods, yet there are periods when sheep should be assisted. It pays . i v. bheep an .... i adanoe of past ni ls Fun He Sent n Cnble Message o Kniperor Napoleon. "The story of Billy Holtbnm'a costly Joke Illustrates that the laugh Is not always on the sldo of tho Joker," said W. B. Bassett, an old, time telegraph operator to a reporter of the Kansas City 8tar. "The Incident occurred a short time after the Civil War, when Holt ham was assistant operator In Den ver, Col. In those days two operat ors did all the work of the Denver ofrtco. Holtham opened the offlco one morning, took the dally paper, and began rending about the war be tween Germany and France. All at onco the desire to perpetrate a prac tical Joke seized upon him. Taking the pencil from his pocket .he Indited the following cablegram upon one of the office blanks: "To the Emperor Napoleon. Garden of the Tuillerlcs, Paris, France: Colo rado will not accede to the cession of Germany to France. Please let Bohemia aloue. Gov. Gilpin or nny other man.' "Holtham called up Omaha and Bent cue cable to the man on duty there, Just as he would have sent a bona fide cablegrnm. "Omaha was the repeating office for all Eastern business. Holtham then tore up his copy and threw the remains in the waste-basket. Then ho sat down nnd laughed. He sup posed that the man on duty In Omaha would, of course, see the Joke and after laughing himself over it would throw his copy into the waste basket. But the Omaha operator was a man who took everything seriously and hanging the cablegram on the New York hook thought nothing more about it. "This happened about tho middle of the month and nothing more was Tieard of the fateful cablegram until about the middle of the following month, when Mr. Woodward, the Denver manager of the Western Union office, received the following message from the secretary of the cable company in New York: " 'Please como down with the dust.' "Woodward scratched his head, but could not solve the enigma, and replied: " 'Don't understand your message about dust. Please explain.' " 'In due time an answer was re ceived, saying: " 'Your cablegram to Emperor Na poleon, Garden of the Tulllerles, Paris, France, signed Governor Gilpin or any other man, $187.50 in gold, please remit.' "At this Juncture Billy Holtham stepped in, nnd, pushing tho message toward him, Woodward remarked: " 'What do you suppose that New York idiot meuns by that?' "Holtham read it and, turning pale, blurted out: 'Why, I sent that thing to0Omaha as a joke, supposing the man receiving it there would see the point and throw his copy into the waste basket as I did with mine.' " 'Joke!' replied Woodward, an grily. 'Do you understand that gold 1b now worth just two to one and the cost of your little Joke is $375?' "Manager Woodward wrote a letter to the cable authorities explaining the matter to them nnd asking that the cablegrnm be cancelled, but they were inexorablo and demanded pay ment In full. At that t'.me cable grams were enormously high and payable In gold at that. The result was that poor Holtham had to make the amount good und the telegraph company permitted him to pay $50 a mouth until tho whole sum was paid. Fortunately operators were then paid $125 a month salary, and It was not as hard upon Holtham to li quidate tho obligation as it would be upon a telegrapher at the present day, with salaries so greatly reduced. "The late Edward Rosewater, who was manager of tho West Union of fice at Omaha when the Incident tqok place, secured copies of the cable gram and of all the correspondence relating thereto, and put tho whole thing in n frame, and it is no doubt Bomewhero among his collection of telegraphic curiosities." THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL tVT2tMsi.nl 0OM M K NTS FOR MAY 26 Bt THE REV. I. W. HKXDKRSON. The seed must be sown rather I provioea gooa nreeas are useu. thtckl) In rows a hulf inch deep and I throe Inches apart. When the seed- Luxurious Royalty, lings are large enough thin theiu to Queeu Alexandra's bedroom Is pan M.uifl half an inch apart in the row j t ied in palo ruse silk with hangings so that stocky plants will be pro (I need. The soli in the seedbed should be very rich nnd of a light texture to insure a rapid, uncheckod growth In growing the plants give them plenty Of air, but do uot allow them I to bocome chilled during the early I stages of growth. If they are kept j too warm thoy become drawn and i spindling und nover makci a satlsfac J tory growth during the summer. 1 Whon the weather settles prepuce a rloh bed lu thv garden aud pnt the l white satin, those of the bed being surmounted by the imperial crown. The curtains of her boudoir are of Ivory silk, bordered with heliotrope. Here the panellngs are of ivory silk in gilt moldings, und other ini-eBsor-it s are DeuuvoU tapstry, French car pet and Louis XV. furniture Her Majesty's bathroom Is quite new, and was specially built out. It is fitted with a bath of Grecian marble from quarries which bad been disused a ihouiaud i ear. -.'lOuUoc MAP. Berlin Bars Billboards.. Billboards nre prohibited in Ber lin, but public advertising is con fined to neat pillars on the edge of the sidewalk at the principal street corners. Thcso columns (culled "Lltfass Saeulen," after the origin ator) aro twelve fect high and three feet Iq diameter, the exterior having un advertising surface of from eleven to twelve square metres. In April, 1901, Berlin advertised for bids for tho privilcgo of these advertising columns for ten years, und tho successful bidders are pay ing nn annual rental of 400,000 marks ($95,000). At that date there wore 700 columns already erected, and tho number was at once to be materially increased. The city may use the interior of the columns for storing utensils for streot-cleanlng and sand for uso iu the streets, for switch apparatus, for public electric lights and meters for electric street railways, etc. These columns, therefore, aro provided with doors and locks. All placards must be approved by tbe police authorities before being poBted. The city authorities havo the right to demand at any tlino the tree posting of official notices. At the presont time, as in America, multicolored, changing, electrically illuminated signs are much in vogue, so that the business part of the city, at night 1b dazzllngly brilliant. "Sandwich men" are occasionally seen, but this is regarded as degrad ing labor and is not much practiced. From Consular Reports. Encore Demanded. "A young man," said Miss Thomas, of Bryn Mawr, "presented himself lor his examinations, and failed lguo miulously. To his family, on flro to hear how he made out, he wired: " 'Examinations splendid. Profes sors enthusiastic. They wish for a second in October.' " Pidlanapolls News. Subject: Childhood and education of Moses, Ex. 2:1-10 Golden Text, Acts 7:28 Memory Verses, , 10. Tho first two verses give us an In light. Into the humble beginnings of Moses. A simple man and woman marry. And from that inconspicuous union the leader of a mighty people and the leader of a social epoch ap pears. The mighty men of God have quite generally and equally remark ably been the children of humble lomes and of simple parentage. It Is unnecessary to mention names; they are familiar to us all. In the light of these verses every marriage Ib fraught with everlasting posslbill-' ties. And Just because in our own homea perhaps we may unwittingly and unconsciously be rearing the fu ture leader of a nation it behooves us under God to look carefully to the teaching and the training of our youth. Tho mother love of the humble soul who gave the breath of life from God to Moses was as. loyal and as faithful as any that we may suggest. She could not see her child slaugh tered, beautiful baby tbat he was, and so trusting In the compassion of womanhood she floated her child Into tho presence of the princess of the Empire. Somehow or other we are im pressed with the fact that this simple woman must have been supremely conscious of the providence of God. And her confidence was rewarded. Her Intuitions wero correct. The mother In the princess went out to the lonely little waif In his little float ing ark. By the most fortuitous of circumstances Moses Is returned to the custody of his mother beforo be ing taken to the palace to live among the princes. It is after Moses enters into the inner life of the palace that our in terest in his character deepens. We are Impressed with the fact that in spite of the ease and pleasures, the peculiar charms and seductions of the palace life Moses did not Iobo hts Interest in his own people or his sympathy for their distress and op pression. The first act recorded of the man as he contemplates the social conditions under which his brethren live Is indicative of the character and the future life of the man. Filled with a holy Indignation at the cruelty of the Egyptian taskmaster In his dealing with his kinsman, he strikes the Egyptian down. We may not be able precisely to Justify the act, but we can readily understand the provo cation and the spirit of the man who In midst of ease could so condemn and resist unnecessary hardship be ing forced unwillingly upon any hu man being. Tho second act recorded of the man after his life of ease in the palace of Pharaoh is equally indicative of tho temperament, and more indicative of the philosophical Insight of the man. It was also the means to the reveal ing of tbe denseness of the very peo ple whom he wished to rescue from affliction. His admonishment of the two fighting tollers shows us his wis dom. Their answer, which drove Moses in fear into a distant region to escape the king, reveals the lack of insight of these men whom be wished to aid. The most amazing thing in all the world is the unklndnessot the world's tollers to each other. The oppression of the poor by those who are socially and Industrially above them Is an un questioned feature of too large a por tion of our modern life. But. the un charitableness and unkindness of multitudes of the working class to ward their own kind is as Inexplica ble from the standpoint of wlBdom as it is appalling. I am conscious that the courtesy and generosity of many men and women among the poor is an object lesson to many who are boun tifully blessed wlth this world's goods. But no man who is at all familiar with life and observant of conditions in the industrial life as they are can fall to be impressed with the appalling amount of divergency and discord among the very class in society td whom union and amity is strength. The salvation of the work ing class to-day is to be tolerant of wise advice, to lay aside contention, to cease to fight among themselves, to make life easier for themselves as they progress toward better condi tions by the exercise of a commo'n courtesy and good will, to pull to gether. The advice which Moses offered is all too often answered with the an swer of these men to Moses. Men who might be leaders of the people Into a freer and a larger life are dis couraged by the inhospitable replies of the very people whom they wish to aid. Moses was not offering pat ronage. Ho was offering sound ad vice. A child of the common people, though bred in luxury and ease, he had a heart that felt for the common woe of his people. There is a vast difference between patronage and sound advice. Oftentimes the sound est advice may be annulled by the appearance of patronage. But when ever there may arise in the provi dence of God a leader, whether he live In luxury or In squalor, who has the marks of a divine gift for leader ship, may the hungry, tired, weary host of this world's oppressed have the sense not to rebuff him, but the wisdom to welcome him with rejoic ing, attend to his message, ponder his advice, adopt his wisdom as their own guide, follow his leadership out of Egypt up to the confines of the land of promise and eater in. D. L. Bathurat, a clerk In the Now York City postofllce, expects soon to got a goodly sharo of a heritage of $8,000,000 and wear the title of Boron of Lacklade. I.'bt it it al Light For Tioplcni Birds. Ono of the difficulties encountered by keepers of aviaries lu zoological gardeiiB Is the providing of a proper environment for birds brought from the tropics. To warm the air to a tropical temperature is not enough. Tho birds demand light as well as heat. Many of them in their native homes are accustomed to feed at sun rlso and again just before sunset, and their habits in this respect are seri ously disturbed by the shortness of the winter days lu northern climes. Recently It bus been found very ben eficial to keep aviaries containing traptcal birds brilliantly illuminated In the daytlmu with electric light from 8 o'clock In the morning to 6 o'clock In the evening, thus closely Imitating tho duration of daylight to which they are accustomed in their natural habitat. The result is tbat they feed in the normal way, live longer and remain In bettor condi tion. -Youth's Conipsalen.
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