Tbe Pui9t 4 A SERMON BY THE 11EV Subject: Jesus the Teacher. Brcoktvn, N. Y. Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church. Hamburg avenue and Wlerfleld hiit . on tho theme "Jesus the Teacaer," the Rev. Ira Wcmroell Henderson, pastor, took a. hts text Matt. 5:2, "And He opened His mouth and taught them." He said: From the days of His youth when He put the wise men of the temple to shame to those last hours among His disciples Jesus was a teacher. The teacher is the one who shows us how to do things, how to achieve, how to attain. Mere theorists may tell ui what we ough. to do and be: con vincing talkers may tell us what the end of tme effort is; strong preach ers may tell why wo should be thus and so; but to the teacher alone is given the task and the power to show lo us how we may become what the orists, I Hikers and preacherB declare we ought to be. Fundamentally no teacher Is of good report save his teaching comes from experience. The man who is to teach us how to do and become must, first of all, have attained. We can not Impart to others what we do not know ourselves. Ignorance cannot enlighten. Jesus nad this rich per gonal experience in spiritual things, and In the teaching of eternal prin ciples of the spiritual life He Is un surpassed. This we will take for granted in our estimate of Jesus as a teacher. Let us consider some of the minor qualities which Inhered to the preaching ft the Christ. Our Lord taught simply, seaichlnsly. realisti cally, purposefully, authoritatively. The teaching of Chrirt was simple. He did not try to mix matters or tho irind of men with complex -tate-ments. Deeper than the sea, bound less in their extent and scope, the truths which Jesus taught were yet simply told, were couched in the language of childhood, and under standable to all. The simplicity of the teaching of Jesus Is charming. The message of Christ does not be come silly merely because It Is sim ple. It is no' a message for the weak-minded. Rjuher is it a stay for those of the finest and the broad est intellect. Strong and sensible in its simplicity the gospel of Christ reaches the hearts of all men. The teaching of Chrlsr was search ing. How He burned through sham and cant and hyprocrisy, and hit at the very vitals of sin. How often He whipped the gates off at the whlted Bepulchres, and revealed the hidden Iniquity within. No wolf under sheepskin was safe near Jesus. Jesus didn't take superflclal glances: He probed deep and to the bottom to reveal the covered truth or error as the case might be. With the water from the well Christ leads us to dis cern the everlasting springs of eter nal life. The good Samaritan is the example of mercy. The Pharisees and the Bcrlbes show us the folly of Berving of the letter of the law for ita own sake. The boy who grew faint, homesick, and went back Into hla father's arms, is the type of us all. What could search out truth more finally than that story of a misspent life? "Lord, lord," we hear men cry, and we know that the Christ life 1b not an affair of declar ation so much as of doing. esus taught realistically. He did not go Into metaphysics to explain His points, but out into the world. He didn't pay much attention to philosophic language. He had little time for the Impractical But how realistic He made the truth. Sin Is exemplified In the erring son. Sel Bshne. s is shown In the elder broth er. The blowing wind is the illus tration of the Spirit. The vine re- ' veals the essential union of Chris tians with Christ. The two praying In the templo mark sharply the dif ference between self-satisfaction and religious 6elf-sufllclency, and the 3oul humble in its sense of guilt. That fellow who heaped money in his coffeid and grain In his barns has a lesson for every one. What differ ence does it make to you who und how many are the sinners forgiven, when once you grasp the Import of the parable of the paying off of the men who labored in the vineyard? These are enough to show us bow realistic was the teaching of Christ. He forced His points home in the language of the fields, th temple, the streets, the firesides. His illus trations dealt not with Impossible situations but with dally occurrences which might easily be paralleled In the experience of each of His hear ers. They knew how self-righteous the leaders of the people were. They had more than once seen a woman sweep her house in search of a coto. It was uo new thing to learn that a shepherd would go out into the mountains leaving the Hock behind to lend succor to some lost and lone ly i; ii There were tares enough and sufficient mixed ground In Judea to enablj the farming element to see the point of the parables of the tares and the sower. They knew as well as we know the pervading principle of yeast. These and a multitude of other realistic illustrations In the teaching'ot Jesus gave charm to Hts words and filled Hts messages with power. And the preaching of men will lo.se alt Its freshness and efficien cy Just go soin as the element of the realistic which holds personal Inter est la left out. i ... too, Jesus taught with pur pose, with an end In view. He didn't talk just to hear Himself talk He 3id not engage la vocal gymnastics after the manner of bo many speak ers of this day and generation He did not talk because there was "easy money" to be made that way, or In order that He might get notoriety. On eh! contrary, Jesus talked pur posefully. It meant danger fo Jesus 'to take the stand He did He ran many and great risks In the Bpeak lug of the truth. But the Master had h purpose. He wanted men to see whr' sin is; how defiling it la; bow Ufiuiegrating ru-j disgusting ita ( facta are. He wished humanity to see and tot know that sin Is dlsobe dleuce to God; tnat It stains and soils the souls f raeu; that It wrecks and destroys all that Is best In man; how useless It Is. On the other hand, He wanted men to know what Is the nature of Ood nd His character; what ia the King dom of Heaveu, Its entratice condl tiousandlho Joys to be attained there to; what Is the glory of a godly life Christ wanted to assure men that Ood in love; He wished them to know that the Kingdom of Heaven is pres ent, as well as future, a kingdom of the Spirit and over-ruling all mate rial life, Jesus had a purpose. Therefore He pictured the new birth to men ns the entrance requirement for the Heavenly Kingdom and the Joys of eternal life with Ood. Jesus had a purpose to show men Ood, sin, redemption, the kingdom Having a deep And fixed purpose, He taught convincingly from a convicted life. In the last place, Jesus taught as one having nuthorlty. Mark tells us that at the synagogue at Capprnanm the Jews were astonished at the teaching of Jesus that Is to say, they were almost struck dumb. Con trary to the scribes. Jesus talkpd with authority. Speaking from his own intimate, personal knowledge of the truth and power of His message Jesus asked the aid and witness of no man to prove His points. The scribes cited precedent as Justification for their legalism. Jesus spoke truth under the Influence of the Spirit of Ood. The scribes rested their case oil external authorities; Jesus had the witness of the Spirit of His own life. The Pharisees made tradition the test; Christ made the Spirit. It Is no wonder that they were aston ished. The gulf is wide between the sanctions of tradition and the sanc tion of the Spirit. Traditions choke the truth; the Spirit glveth life. The hope and strength of worn-out the ories is tradition and it Is the chief nemy of the Spirit. No man of sense will, of course, break with tho past merely through perverseness. On the other hand, no one should allow the fallacies of the past to deaden a higher life new. To the post all honor; for the pre-nt the thlng3 of to-day, the hopes and visions of to morrow. The application la easy. Our pro mulgation of the truth should be simple. The teachings of Jesus should be applied searrhlngly to nil life in this day. Our method of pre sentation should he realistic, not nb struse, that men may feel and grasp and hold the truth. There ought to be no lack of purpose In our teach ing of the way unto eternal life. We tell men, or we should, the Gospel story not to amuse them, but to save their Immortal souls. And lastly, and most Important of nil, we must teach with authority not dogmat ically or narrowly but with the sureness that comes from spiritual experience. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS Calm tin- Imagination. You will tell me tftat calmness of the Imagination does not depend . on ourseWes. Pardon me, It de pends very much on ourselves. When wo cut off all the uneasy 'thoughts In which the will has a share, we greatly diminish those 'hlch are In- I voluntary. God will watch over your Imagination if you do not keep up the disturbance by your scrupulous reflection. Abide In peace. Do not listen to your imagination, which Is too lively and too full of fancies. This ex- 1 cessive activity consumes your body, and dries up your inward life. You ; are preying upon yourself uselessly. It Is merely your restlessness which hinders peace and Interior grace. How can you expect Ood to speak la that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are mok- ; ing so much voice with your rapid reflections. Be silent, und God will speak again. Fenelon. The Living Hope. "The risen Christ is the hope of the believer Christ, not in the heavens, but in the heart. And this hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth Into that with in the veil. There is saving power In this hope, for it Is not a theory or dogma or experience, but a DIvtno Personality, even Jesus, the Fore runner, who has for us entered the upper sanctuary, and there ever llveth to make intercession for us, and hath begotten us unto a living hope by His resurrection from the dead." Pittsburg Christian Advocate. SUNDAY. JULY 14. The Snsre of Avarice. Luke 18:25. Passages for reference: Exod. 23: Prov. It: 2S; Luke 12: 1.1-21; Phil. 4: 11-13; 1 Tim. fi: f! 10. No young person Is normal or genu ine without an ambition. Paul said: "It Is good to be zealously affected In a good thing." His Ideal Is here "I press toward the mark for tho prize of the high culling of Ood In Christ Jesus." Wesley said: "Mak all the money you can." Garfield said: "I mean to be a gentleman. If I fall In that I will fall In everything." Christ s mail HOW! always attracts open-minded people. All nsk ques tions, and some sincere ones go away sadly because following him seems too difficult. We may help win them back by living such a Joyful, hoperul. attractive life that direful forebodings about dlsrlpleshlp will be bonlshed. It Is easy to envy people In fine houses, with competent servants, cost ly clothing, splendid Jewelry, long pleasure trips and hundreds of other privileges If we know all the facts frequently we would pity them In stead. The hardening toll of the farm built the muscle nnd brain brawn that has supported most of our great men. Our renowned President was a puny lad, and got his health on a Western ranch. The protected hothouse life of wealth does not give sturdy bodies. Plenty of money opens doors of temptation, otherwise barred Desires that can be quickly satisfied become sutlated. The boy with a few toys has more fun out of them than the one with so many he doesn't know which one to take up first. The poor lad forced to make his own way dis covers his capabilities and capacities when If necessity did not drive they might dry up. Millet was compelled by poverty and the needs of his dy ing wife to add to his Income by painting at odd hours, when not em ployed as a menial railway porter. In this way he completed the dlvlue "Angelus." Jenny Llnd never sang people to tears until her, own heart was broken. "It Trovotore" was com posed to express the author's grief at the death of a loyal friend, when tears would nut come. Only fire frees and purifies the gold. Hard knocks make r man show what he Is made of. Kasy times and places will not grow an Iron-flbered oak. ' Money cannot buy happiness. Some times it Is gotten with blood stains. At othor times even domestic love Is alowed to die In the mad scramble and all-engrossing determination to Beoure It. Many have traded honor, compromised with Satan, and sold their Lord to obtain It. Such Uvea cannot expect human happiness. Household V Matters. $ How Chicago is Solving Municipal Ownership of Transportation Facilities. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Potatoes, Cliassepot. Poel three large, sound raw pota toes Cut them Into cartridge shape, one and a half Inches long. Mince very finely an onion, one leek and one ounce of lean salt pork. Place them In a small saucepan, with half an ounce of butter and brown to a good golden color. Add the potatoes and one bay leaf. Season with half a teaspoonful of salt and two salt spoonfuls of white pepper. Mix well with the wooden spoon, add one gill of hot water. Cover the pan and boll for twenty minutes. Dress on a hot dish, sprinkle a little chopped parsley over and serve. By A. FREDERICK COLLINS. Smothered Round Steak. Tako a slice of lean round at least tWO Inches thick, trim off any extta fat and trip with a damp cloth. Peel ! and thinly slice one onion and spread It over the bottom of the drlpplng pnn. On It lay the steak. Mix one can of evaporated tomato soup or 1 one pint of thick tomato sauce with : one cupful of boiling water; pour half of It over the meat; cover close- j ly nnd put In a moderate oven. Cook I twenty to thirty minutes to the j pound. When half done add a little ; more of the sauce, If necessary; the ' remainder Is served In the gravy- boat with the meat. Scalloped Tomatoes. Butter the sides nnd bottom of an earthen baking dish. Put In a layer Of dry bread crumbs; on them put ' one-fourth of a quart of canned to- j motoes, sprinkle with salt and pep- 1 per. Then repeat with another layer of bread crumbs and one-fourth of j the tomatoes, and seasoning until nil the tomatoes are used. Put a layer . bread crumbs on top, and a j sprinkle of baking soda; then pour ' over the whole one cupful of sweet cream. Cover and bake In a slow oven for an hour. A sprinkle of I brown sugar may be placed between ! each layer. Remove cover and brown quickly, and serve hot. JULY FOURTEENTH. Pineapple Ire Cream. Pare off, cut fine and pound two pounds of pineapple to u pulp. Add tho juice of a lemon and rub through 1 a fine sieve Into an earthen vessel. Add ten ounces of powdered sugar nnd an ounce of gelatin diluted with two gills of water. Stir on ice until the preparation begins to congeal; mlt with a quart of whipped cream, ' pour into a brick mold, which should ; be wrapped In paper. Place in salted i Ice for two hours, or possibly two ; hours and a half. When ready to serve immerse the mold In lukewarm water after removing the paper and ' wipe carefully before turning out- The Spiritual Magnet. That great magnet, with its metal frame and Its coll of wire, and that strange magnetic power, reaches out and takes hold of those little pieces of metal, between which and itself there Is an affinity, and It gives them some of its power through the con tact. Christ is the Great Spiritual Life Magnet, "And I, If I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me," and faith lu Him puts us In spiritual affinity with Himself, and through It He holds us to Himself and gives us power of Hla power, and purity of His purity, and character of His character, and life of His life. Fulfilling the Plan. The engineer of the Brooklyn bridge was confined to his bed when it was In process of construction. Day after day, looking from his win dow, he saw its piers rise and the spider's web of cables cunningly formed. It had all been planned and held In his mind's eye; and when it was finished, being asked how it looked, be said, "It is precisely what I expected It to be." Oh, would that Christ might be able to say the same of us; that our lite and character are according to His plans and purposes! We Belong to God. We may throw ourselves away, but God will not throw us away. We belong to Him still, and He "gath erotb up the fragments which re main, that nothing be lost." In or der to become pure, we may need sharp suffering, and then Ood will not hesitate to inflict It. It is thus that God's lovo for the soul and Its worth appear eminently, In that He will not let us destroy ourselves. James Freeman Clarke. ' THE DOO EXPRES3. Papa had gone to the station to take the train for the city, when it was found that he had left; a pack narn t home There was not time for Fred to get to the station even If he ran. "Why not send Rex? sain Alice. Rex was the dog. He had always wanted to follow papa, and they had kept htm lu the house every morning until papa was out of sight. Mamma quickly tied tho pack age to hts collar and opened the rfnnr Off he ran as fast as he could go. Papa was just going to step on the car when Rex came running up to him. He saw the bundle, and had only time to cut the ttrlug and take it, pat Rex and say, "Oood dog!" when the train started. Primary Education. QUIT PAYING ATTENTION. "Is Willie still paying attention to Ttllle?" "No." "Did he Jilt her?" "No; ut married her." Illus trated Bits. Topic Present-day applications of the I first four Commandments. Ex. 20: M1. dolutry forbidden. Deut. 4: 14-10 i An example. Acts 17; 22-29. Profanity prohibited. Matt. 5: 33-37. Sabbath delight. Isa. 5S: 13, 14. Jesus and the Sabbath. Matt. 12: 1-13. It Is quite as easy to make an Idol out of a golden coin as a golden I calf. Materialism Is the worship of the Seen. The Second Commandment summons us to the worship of the Unseen, the Divine Ideal. No- sin so quickly as profanity pro claims the status of the sinner and advertises him as a man of low 1 deals. The Fourth Commandment Is a command to labor aj well as to rest. This first table of the law Is the fundamental one; the rest would follow from It ,if they had not been given. It Is "thy son, thy servant, thy stranger." Wc are responsible for the Sabbath-keeping of others. Ood Is a jealous God because He is a loving God. Profanity h"3 been called "the great American sin." so common la It. so shameless, and so readily par doned and endured. Illustrations. Would you allow any one to treat In your hearing the name of your earthly father as the name of your heavenly Father Is often treated? Sunday is the practice ground for all the Commandments. They all rest upon Sunday. H.iw impossibie that a picture ot a statue of our loved one should take the place of the dear one! How Impossible is Idolatry when one really lovog Qod' Whatever Is habitually placed on the. floor will In rime be walkf. 1 upon. Thus does a careless use of God's Paine lead to a carelessness of God Profaneness Is a brutal vice. He who Indulges In It Is no gentleman. Chupin. O what a blessing Is S inday, Inter posed between the waves of a world ly business like the divine path of tho Israelites through Jordan' Wll berforce. How did the atheist get his Idea of that God whom he denies? Coleridge. Mutton a la Venison. Select a small leg of mutton and wipe the meat thoroughly with a cloth wrung out of borax water. Mix together half a teaspoonful ot all spice, the same quantity each of ground mace and cloves, a quarter ot an ounce of freshly ground black pepper and a saltspoonful of ground ginger; rub the meat thoroughly with the Bplces and put into a deep pan and cover with a pickle made aa fol lows: Fry two sliced onions, a large carrot, also sliced, a dessert spoonful of mixed herbs, a bunch of parsley and two bay leaves In an ounce of butter for seven minutes; then add a pint of malt vinegar and two pints of cold water; let It boil up and then simmer for half an hour. When the ptckle Is cold, strain It and pour over the meat. Leave It for three days, turning It once a day. Before cook ing rinse the meat with warm water, then dry It, flour It and roast in the usual way. Serve the mutton on a hot dish with the following sauce poured round it and send the remain der to the table In a tureen: To half a pint of thick brown sauce add a ta blespoonful of red currant Jelly, a dessert spoonful of mushroom ketch up, and cayenne and salt to taste. fUlNT.S FOR.. THE. HOUSEKEEPER:, If Money Would, Then of Course By ELLIS O. JONES. "Hello, Is this Jawbreaker's mam I moth department store which fur- nlshes everything for the home? "Well, this Is Mrs. C. Money Burns. ! No. 23 Bullion Bullyvard. Take an , order, please. "All ready? Well, send me one I hundred ninety dollars' worth of do : mestlc felicity, two thousand dollars' I worth of dutiful offspring, twenty , five hundred dollars' worth of unadul ! terated contentment, eighty thousand dollars' worth of Jealousy-remover, a quarter million dollars' worth of aa aorted knowledge, a half million dol lars' worth of ennul-klller, four ounces of gray matter and a half dozen earnest purposes. "Now read It to ma, pleaae. "Yes, that's right Send It up right away. "--From LUe. Drowning representa one of the greatest causes of accidental death. A little milk added to the water In which silver la washed will help to I keep It bright. If the kitchen walls are damp have them washed down with a strong so lution of alum and water. If alum is added to the paste used in covering boxes with paper or mus lin, moth and mice will avoid them. Wring chamois out of soapy watet without rinsing. When It dries It Is soft and serviceable, Instead of stiff. Milk which has slightly turned may be sweetened and rendered fit for use again by stirring In a little soda. A few drops of good perfume Iropped on small pieces of pumice atone and put among clothes keepa away moths When a house is being painted, palls ot water should be kept In the rooms. A handful of hay plunged into the water helps to get rid of the smell. It pots and pans have a atale and unpleasant odor they abould be, thof oughly rlnBed out In water and char coal. If thu odor is very strong allow the charcoal to remain several houra. To polish cut glass wash It well with soap suds, rinse and then, after drying it with a cloth, polish It with, sawdust and a washleather. The glass'wlll be brllllautafter this treat ment. New flannel should be put Into clean, cold water and kept there for a day or bo. changing the water fre quently. Wash well In warm water, using a little soap to remove the oil. Flannel thus washed does not harden or shrink. When atarchlng any article finished with a triage gather the fringe tight ly in i h baud, and dip the material only in the starch. When dry shake thoroughly, and either beat the fringe on the edge of a table, or comb with a large toilet comb. Chicago Is the second city In the Union, yet for the past decade It has had the most abominable transporta tion facilities of any city In the Uni ted States. This untoward condition Is chiefly due to the fact that the principal franchises under which the various stree. railway companies op erate have expired, and the city, heeding the cry ot the radicals for municipal ownership, would not re new thelrcorporate privileges. Hence, .inder these unstable circumstances, the corporations could not see their stay clear to rehabilitate their run 1own lines. The problem of serving the popu lation ot Chicago has always been an aggraratlng one, fir the transpor tation system has been necessarily laid out and developed on what Is ermed tho "radiating plan," since :he city embraces a territory having in one side a water front. In this respect It Is not unlike St. Louis, Boston and Brooklyn. The shore ilne of Chicago Is. however, much 'onger than that of the cities Just :lted, being about twenty-six miles, vhlle the limits extend Inward for a llstance of ten miles. This great trea is divided by the confluence of he two branches of the Chicago Rlv !r into' three portions, commonly mown as the north, south and west ildos, with the heart of the business llstrlct on the extreme northern part )f the south side. To this centre all :he various lines converge. This seg regation of the city has resulted in lumerous lines operated by a num ber of companies; so that Chicago, from Its transportation viewpoint as well as In some other things. Is really :o be regarded as three cities Instead .if one, and as a consequence a pas senger often finds that he cannot be carried over the most direct route be tween the two point within the city limits for a single fare. The traction question has been a political football for many years; the citizens and the companies here looked askance at each other, and municipal ownership seemed to many to be the only hope; while the more conservative believed there were other and better solutions of the problem. This, In brief, was the status of affairs when the City Council em ployed Blon J. Arnold, the noted elec trical engineer, as the man best suited for impartially investigating the situation and recommending measures for relief. Mr. Arnold was engaged to procure Information and to furnish estimates and opinions re lating to the cost of operation and the earnings of the companies, their capitalization, their valuation and cost, together with estimates of a new system, and all other details of a scientific and financial nature. Among the most important recom mendations proposed by Mr. Arnold were the "one-clty-one-fare" propo sal, with all divisional lines as far as possible obliterated, so that a passen ger could be carried over the most direct route between two points for a single fare. Ot the three plans sub mitted, the best one, though not the easiest to execute, contemplated the complete unification of ownership and management. The through route principle was strongly advo cated, which means that routes through the business district should be substituted for down-town termin als, wherever possible, while outside the business district better results would follow by connecting the de tached lines and operating cars over such lines from end to end. The scheme Includes a Bystem of subways to accommodate the street car traffic and relieve the street surface conges tion in the I i - district, with gal leries for the accommodation of pres ent and future underground utilities. The plan calls for three north-and-south subways from Fourteenth street on the uouth to Indiana street on the north. These are high-level subwayB throughout, with no dips. In combination with the above sys tem there will be three or more low level subways from the west aide, passing under the north-and-south subways at right angles to them, and extending to Mlchiganavenue. Should future developments warrant It these may be extended under the lake front district, now known as Grant Park. TheBe latter low-level subways would require the use of elevators or esca lators, irnder this plan there will be a surface system and eventually a subway system conhectlng all the de pots and the entire system designed to accommodate the short-haul traffic In the business district. This plan for a new, reorganized and unified combined surface and street railway system would com prise the lines of the City Railway Company, the Union Traction Com pany, the Chicago General Railway Company and the Chicago Consoli dated Traction Company within the ity limits and new lines necessary to properly connect the disconnected parts of the system. The total single track mileage as outllncu above would be about 74S miles, und its estimated cost. If con structed new, with everything flrat- claae throughout, but exclusive of the subways, would be $70,000,000, add ing $20,000,000 for the cost of the aubways would make tho total coat of the new system complete $90,000, 000. Under the low-level eubwaya will be the freight subway, while the atreet aurface will run elevated lines, making, In all, five lines super-Im posed at various street intersections Altogether, It will form the most comprehensive city railway system in the world. Mr. Arnold's plans farther pro vide for the utilization ot the present river tunnela aa parts ot the future subway system. At tho time these plans were submitted cable power was employed, hut on hla recommen dation the cable systems were changed to overhead electric systems which are now in aarvice. He stated that fbe electrlo underground con duit system, such as is installed In New York Clty la practicable and feasible from an engineering polut of view and that the overhead trolley construction -hould eventually be INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR JULY 14 Y THE REV. t. W. HENDERSON. prohibited In congested districts, but that outside of these districts the ob jections are entirely of an aesthetic nature, and It Is for the city authori ties to say after balancing the finan cial against, the aesthetic considera tions how much, If any, under ground conduit construction should be required. Although at first hostile to the proposed Improvement, the traction companies have since admitted the correctness of the conclusions, and these havei been adopted and form the basis of the principal physical el ements entering Into the ordinances recently passed In Chicago. The principles above laid down were rati fied by a aTi.000 majority of the citi zens of Chicago on a referendum vote of the ent'tj city. The financial provisions of these ordinances are precisely the same as they would be ff the city of Chicago should purchase the entire property or the companies, undertake Its re- I construction and rehabilitation, and I then lease the lines for private oper ation, upon a division of the net re ceipts with the lessee company. These ordinances, In fact, give the people of Chicago to-day. In all the essential principles, municipal own ership of the city's Btreet railways, and their operation by a lessee com pany, without saddling the burden upon the city or raising the money necessary for the purchase, and with out the possibility of any effect Mpon the financial credit of the city. To protect tho city's share of the net receipts under its agreements with tho companies, and to absolute ly assure the maintenance of the properties at the highest point of ef ficiency, the ordinances con'aln cer tain provisions never befor included In any public utility grant, which are amply sufficient to protect to the full est extent the city's interest. For Instance, a commission has been appointed In which three engi neers are appointed, one by the city, one by the railway 'companies and the third being Mr. Arnold, who Is the chairman, and represents the city and the companies Jointly. Thla commission has general supervision of all the principal street railway lines In the city of Chicago. Other provisions of the ordinances are, that the city should have fifty five per cent, of the net profits of the companies; that there must be dally deposits of the gross receipts to be used for the payment of mainten ance and repairs, and a separate spe cial fund of eight per cent, of the gross receipts for renewals and de preciation, and that the companies must supply whatever additional money may be required for these purposes. Any surplus remaining in either of these funds can, under ne circumstances, revert to the compa nies, but becomes instead the prop erty of the city should it eventually purchase the lines. In turn the companies get forty five per cent, ot the net profits, five per cent, for brokerage and ten per cent, as a construction profit upon the new money actually advanced by them under the provisions of the or dinances. The city Is given the right upon six months' previous notice to the company to take over the entire properties upon payment of the agreed value of the present property and the additional capital invested. By this ingenious plan the resi dents of Chicago will have all the advantages of municipal ownership, secure fifty-five per cent, of the net profits of the companies, and, at the same time, the operation of the lines will be under the management of practical street railway men. Scien tific American.. Genealogical Wit and Wisdom. Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. Voltaire. He who boasts of his descent praises the deeds of another. Seneca. The pride of ancestry Is a super structure of the most Imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. Colton. I am no herald to Inquire of men's pedigrees; It sufftceth me It I know their virtues. Sir P. Sidney. Birth and ancestry and that which we huve not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call'our own. Ovid. Philosophy does not regard pedi gree; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but ahe made him so. Seneca. He that boasts of hla ancestors, the founders and raisers of a family, doth confess that he hath less vir tue. Jeremy Taylor. Verily, I swear It ia better to ba lowly born, and range with humble livers In content, than to be parked up In a glistening grief and wear a golden sorrow. Shakespeare. It is with antiquity as with ances tors, nations are proud ot the one, and Individuals of the other; but If they are nothing In themselvea that which Is their pride ought to be their humiliation. Selected. Indian Court's Verdict. According to C. L. Timmerman, vice-president of the First National Bank, who has just returned from a business trip to the Standing Rods Indian reservation, an Indian judge and jury rendered a remarkable de rision in the case of an Indian who aued another tor the alleged aliena tion ot his wife's affectlone. Mr. Timmerman aaya that the trial lasted for an entire week and that many witnesses were examined. After due deliberation the Jury decided fur the plaintiff, and the Judge sen tenced the defendant to haul eight loada ot hay. The huaband who made the charge waa ordered to haul seven loads, ot hby and the squaw was or dered to alt by the roadalde and keep tally on the loada of hay aa they paaaed. An Interpreter explained to Mr. Timmerman that the Court lu paaalug this sentence took the ground that if the husband had devoted more of hla attention to making the home Ufa of his squaw pleasant the woman would not have allowed herself ta ba beguiled by another. Mandau Cor. respondents It. Paul Pioneer Press. Subject: The Ten Commandments Duties Toward God, Ex. 90:1. 11 Golden Text: Deut. n : rs Memory Verses, 1-11. This lesson and Its successor deat with the ten commandments. Of all Old Testament writings these are perhaps tho best known. There are no words In all the Old Testament more Important than these. They, should be written large upon the walls of every building In the land. Especially large and lasting upon the walls ot the public buildings. They should be the guide for the guidance of the life of Lumanlty In so far aa they meet the moral neceaaltlea of the times. For the ten command ments are eternal. They are not only tho word of God but the testi mony ot the ripest and best human experience of the agea. They are valuable because they are God's law, because they are simple, because they have been found efficient In the paat and particularly applicable and necessary in our own day and age. The first commandment Is to be found In verses 1-3. It Is a call of Ood to undivided loyalty. There cannot be right relationship between man and God unless man stands ready to yield fealty to Ood to tha exclusion of every other fact and force in life. Originally and specific ally it was a call to the undivided loyalty of the Israelite to the one true Jehovah as opposed to the mul titude of deities that infested the ec clesiastical and theological world of that age. But In its wider signifi cance It Is a call to the service of the one true God over against the seduc tions of the pleasures and the slna and the engrossing cares of the lite temporal. For many a man makes money a God, or position, or power, or intellect, or pleasure. The second command Is Included In verses 4-6. Given In the midst of an idolatrous age this command waa especially appropriate. For idolatry had destroyed the finer spiritual fac ulties of the nations that practiced It, lowered their conceptions of the ma jesty and spirituality of Jehovah and debased their religious life. The principle underlying this command la valid to-day. There is great danger In any attempt to portray the Invisi ble and omnipotent Ood. In the very nature of the case It Is an Impossi bility adequately to convey, however skillful we may be, any really com prehensive idea of the glory and per sonality of God. Fbr God Is divine. Humanity nnd the works of human ity are finite and partial. And any attempt to convey to the mind and heart and soul, by means of purely finite and temporal agencies, a true conception of the infinite and eternal is hopeless and quite dangerous. Its hopelessness la nherent In Its very Impossibility. Its danger lies In the human proneness to elevate the visi ble to a place of prime importance. The third commandment Is In verse 7. And It Is a good command. It is as timely to-day as it was when God thundered it into the souls of Israel. The language of the times is In many ways a gross violation of this command. The vocabulary of the streets Is so positively Indecent that one cannot walk the thoroughfares ot any village or city In this land without having one's finer sensibili ties shocked. The amount of godless talk that Is prevalent In this country Is positively awful. And It Is not only unrighteous to use the name ot Ood In vain, but it Is also unmanly, indecent and disgusting. Every small boy and growing youth should early learn this truth it none other that bad language Is simply a con fession of a fundamental Inability to talk the language of civilized and decent men. The idea that it Is man ly and an evidence of maturity to curse and swear and be generally profane Is totally erroneous. A man's culture and refinement are shown not by the amount of bad language that he uses, but by the amount he doesn't use. There Is uo excuse for bad lan guage. It Is simply a dirty habit. The fourth commandment may be read In verses 9-11. It is a plea and demand for the dedication of one seventh of one's Mm- to the particu lar purpose of religious and physical refreshment. The writer personally has no preference for any particular day as a rest day. For he conceives that the important thing to-day Is to so remedy conditions In this country that men shall be able to have one day a. week for spiritual and physical refreshment. He Is perfectly willing to allow Individual liberty ot prefer ence and conscience full sway when lfr comes to the consideration ot what day In the week shall be used as the rest day. He is, however, puritani cally narrow on the proposition that we must so adjust present Industrial conditions In America that men may be able, one and all, to secure one day a week for the special culture ot their souls and the best refreshment of tbetr bodies. The fourth commandment contains another adjuration that might well be pondered by some of the laay loaf era of young men who waste their time hanging around hotel and sa loon cornera Instead ot doing some thing for the betterment ot the world and themselves. It aays "six days shalt thou labor." And no man la really entitled to any consideration at the hands of society unless he has in some fashion measured up to thla command. No man really appre ciates the rest day who haa not lab ored over against It. And no man has any business to live on society without rendering some sort of re turn tor the living. STORY OF A CLEVER JACKDAW. In a small cottage in Herefordshire there lived a family who owned a very large but clever Jackdaw which was noted for Its very witty sayings. One day the jackdaw saw the lid ot the stewpot partly off, so thinking he ibould like a meat dinner he went out and caught a frog and put It In the boiling water in the stewpot, which had In Some pieces of beet. After this the jackdaw went quietly back to his porch and waited tilt din ner time. All went well till the cook began to share the dinner out before the family. Every time she pulled a piece ot meat out of the pot tho Jackdaw said, "That's not mine, that's not mine," till at last the cook pulled out the frog, wheu he exclaimed In a very trlumphunt voice, "That's mine, that's mine." The shock nearly madn the guestB faint away, but, neverthe Itss, the jackdaw got his meat din oar, while the otheis did without (or a change. Answers.
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