THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. A. W. H. HODDER Theme: Confession. nrrltutln. Hrookiyn, N. T. The Rev. A W. f Hodder, pastor of the Church of I. Redeemer, Flntlnish. preached S.i . lay on a line of thought Btig 5 d tiy the Emmanuel Movement. TV subject was "Confession and Kes tltu.ion in Their Relation to Mental ind Physical Healing . " The text was from Gnlatlans 6:2 and 5: "Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ; every man shall bear his own burden." Mr Hodder (aid It Is with timidity we enter Into the teaching; of Holy Scripture In con nection with the modern movement of that which is called the "Emmanuel School," of Boston, taken up by Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, and Dr. MacDonuld. of Brooklyn, with follow ers In many cities. We have spoken on ' Christ's approach to sin and His recognition of it, rather than a denial of the fact." We have called your at tention to "the possessing of the mind which was In Christ Jesus." To-day we shall endeavor to seek more llht an the question by consideration of confession and restitution as a means to Improve physical and mental con ditions. We make bold to say pari of he teaching is too superficial, and that It does not penetrate to the core, and that some of It. Is too philosoph ical to reach the common people, who heard Jesus gladly. We also mak" bold to say divine things rre looked for from moral sources and not divine laws. There are some things which ara absolutely essential before we can make any progress whatever. They are In the teaching of Jesus and In the eternal law of how to mak-thing.-' right. It Is not our desire to raise any ecclesiastical controversy or to defend any sacramental institution of a few. We shall merely look into the face of an accepted essential Caol and leave men to decide the issue of the question. "Is confession neces sary to relief of body?" If so, to whom? Has the law of restitution, or making good, anything to do with my health of spirit, soul and body? We give no verdict, as It is too sacred a thing for any man to decide. We only try to get at facts and by God's help to assist another man to carry his burden, and advise how he shall be able to rid himself of his burden. We admit the superficial treatmnt In so short a time, but leave the though for the quiet hour of deeper thinking and working. . The sum of human happiness In this world is indebted to the feeling of sympathy. The power to make glad the heart of others, to extend ef fectual relief, to give vigor, gladness, Inspiration and endurance, is In the possibility of every man. A warm hand which has touched yours in the hour of your defeat, or desolation or bereavement, has given a thrill of living response to your emotion. This is the voice of common experler.ee. Sympathy Is a key word for the proper treatment of weak natures ar.d distressed souls. It partakes of the spirit of Christ and fulfills the law. The apostle urges us to place our shoulders under another man's load and help him carry it, to put our heart against bis haart and feel an other's woe. Before we go any further It is nec essary for us to recogniu the em phasis being placed upon physical healing by mental and spiritual pro cesses. Of the making ol many books there is no end, and cults are becom ing almost as numerous as denom inations. However, it is here, and valid testimony proves its worth. It is enlisting the best thought of sci ence and combining the teaching of JesuB. It Is In harmony with spir itual, moral and physical law. We should not be afraid of it or attack it or call it names. We should be hon est, open-hea,rted. sincere and earnest in the search for truth; for it Is the truth which sets us free. Mention iias been made of obstructions which lie ii the way. These obstacles have been classified as mental, physical, environment, Ignorance and lack of faith. The endeavor is to remove these by a knowledge of law, bring ing the soul into harmony with the laws of nature and God. But In the treatment of all cases which proper ly come under the control ot physical, mental or spiritual laws there must be a willingness on the part of the patient to lay bare the secret of their heart to either God or man. before another can get under the burden and assist in its carrying or destruction. This may seem a radical measure, but it is an axiom as clear as two and two make four. The lack of confes sion to Almighty God; the lack of res titution to wronged men; and the lack of confidence in Christian broth erhood have caused and are causing spiritual poverty, mental distress and physical suffering more than we at first give thought to. Absolute sur render of Becret sin, full restitution and sincere confidence are essentials in burden bearing, for full relief to soul. ii. ind and body. We are to be understood as treat ing the subject of confession to God. sincere confidence In men and resti tution to the wronged man, in their relation to mental and physical condi tions, and not In any ecclesiastical teaching whatever. Just downright practical common sense. Can our steps be made lighter? Can we put sunshine Into our countenance? Can we enjuy better health In every way by the means of an open, clean breasted confession? In the thought of tu-day we place to one side all the various suggestions of the many named schools, and come directly face to fare with (iod and man. Although at times we act very much as Naaman, the leper, who spurned the prophet's Instructions and was told by his servant: "If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done It?" Why seek some mysterious way, whan God has made It so easy to get at the cause? Why carry a burden when relief can be had by throwing off the albatross which hangs about our necks? In 1 857 Lady Georglaua Fullerton. of England, published her book called "Ellen Mlddleton " At the time of writing she was a member of the Tractarlan party of the Anglican Church, led by Newman, Maiinms i'nd I'iisk. in her story she en deavors to show the absolute neces sity of the establishment of the con fetslonal, for the unburdening of the soul. Ellen Mlddleton believed she was partly the cause of the death of her cousin Julia. In endeavoring to restrain the foolish child Julia from climbing an old moss-covered, slip pery staircase of EUusley Priory, she became angry and struck her cousin a blow which caused the loss of her foothold, and falling down tha stair case, she rolled into the river and waa drowned. Ellen Mlddleton, believing there was no eye witness to the tragic ending of the Ufa of her cousin Julia. and knowing in her heart tnero was waa never the slightest Intent to de stroy life, took up the duties of life, but was never free from the crushing burden of that awful hour. After aome years Ellen Mlddleton was wooed and won In marriage, and ap parently lived In peace and happiness, but never the natural woman she should have been, owing to the carry ing of her secret alone. A few more years pass by, and an old acquaintance returns, demands her desertion of her husband; If not, he would disclose the secret of her life, for he was an eye witness to the tragedy. Her hus band discovers her on her knees pleading for mercy and to be let alone. This act In misinterpreted. In ignorance of the facts, and separa tion follows, her life destroyed by the carrying of her secret alone. Shortly after publication "Glad stone" reviewed the book. and. while not Indorsing the claim for a confes sional, ho advocated the need of an establishment of confidence between splrltunl leaders and advisers for mu tual burden bearing. Are we not safe In declaring the very root of much physical and mental trouble and sorrow lies In the fact, of a secret, which our pride or shame will rot disclose? We are willing to mnk our confession to Almighty God. for we know of His eternal silence; but we fear men lest there be a disclosure and we como Into living disgrace. Human hearts are ready to leavo their sin with God end forget Its past and press toward the mark of Its high railing But are human hearts r?ady to forget the past of others? Are wn eager to stand at the jnll door and put our arms about the tall bird, not necessarily a prison with iron bars, but to deliver them out of nu eternal dungeon and help them In a fresh start of life and keep eternal silence? How shall we relievo the conscience In Its troubles with some weighty matter? The heaviness of guilt and deep anguish is on Its soul. Perhaps that, soul has been more sinned against than sinning. It suffers alone, fear Is in Its eye, dread of man in It 3 countenance. Its step Is slow and It moves with bowed head. Our text is more than a counsel to "support the weak,- "to be patient toward all men." Our personal grati fication is not to be the rule for the exercise of our Christian liberty. We must thoroughly fulfill the law of Christ, "That ye love one another." There could be no burden-bearing except from a principle of love, and the fulfillment of duty Implies a ful fillment of Christ's law. We must re move our hard a,nd unsympathetic sense that we may know the need of others, for who can tell the hour when we may be overtaken in a fault and shall need all a brother's sym pathy? But the apostle tells its every man shall bear his own burden and the teaching of Jesus tells us we may lift this, too. Every man must have a personal Initiative; his own will must be first aid to relief. Hundreds of cases of melancholia, nervous break down, self-reproach, etc., have baffled every sane remedy suggested by com petent counsel. They are chronic, for they will not be cured. And as long as we remain free will agents wo must not only consent, but aid will ingly and open freely every channel which will bring us relief. However, many are ready to follow this line of treatment providing It costs noth ing, that It will not demand some surrender of pride; that It will not cause any humiliation, that it will not compel me to sacrifice social po sition or Ill-gotten gain, that It will not cause me to drive the skeleton out of the closet of my life. And wo must be understood in the question of restitution or making good, not in a financial sense ouly, but to make good In everything we have made wrong. You say, this is too revolu tionary. This may be to some, but a sharp knife is necessary to dig deep for the cutting of the roots of cancer. How in God's name ran new thought, or substituted thought, or faith cure, or knowledge of any law, or sugges tion of any principle bring desired relief, when wo will not pay the price? It's not always unbelief or I lack of faith that Is the hindering rock; its because It's going to cost something. You say it's too radical, it s against common sense, it will up set society. Why, men will be re vealed in their true character; some will be found to be thieves who al ways posed as honest; some will be reveal h) as hypocrites who wore halos; some will be discovered to have used any means for the end, so the end was all right. The price of virtue, of honor, of blood has been paid lor my ends. What! Shall I make it known, to have heart's ease and a new health? We admit some physical conditions are caused by mental and moral diseases. We ad mit some physical conditions are not caused by mental or moral diseases, and are willing to submit In the most heroic way to any measure of suffer ing If we can only be saved to this life. What is the reason of our posi tive refusal to submit to the same principle us applied to mental and moral diseases? It is at this point the question of confession comes in. We feel we are safe with God. Ills eternal quiet holds the secret of our hearts, but. Ills eternal command Is also to make good. What shall be our attitude toward those whom we have wronged? Many Instances have passed where restitution is Impossi ble, but we may not have passed the point of confession for forgiveness. God grant that in these fearfully serious times we may be led by the eternal light of His Holy Spirit to do that which Is right both to God and man. 3Tit I cunfcatj-&cftoorJ No Chance for tv Victory. Making time on Sunday doesn't rout the uevll's army during the week Relativity of Knowledge. The "relativity of knowledge" means that you can know things only as they are related to your faculties. The thing "in Itself," and apart from the way it appears to us, is unknown and unknowable. Absolute knowl edge is out of the question. In a word, we Know appearances, but nev er the reality behind the appear ances; the shadows, but never the substance Itself. In fine, the gist of the doctrine of the "relativity of knowledge" Is that our so-called knowledge Is only phantasmagoria. We know the appearance, but we have no means of deciding whether the appearance Is true or false. New York American. St. Sebastian. St. Sebastian was boru about 240 A. D., at Norbonne, Gaul. He was a Roman soldier and martyr, shot to death by order of the Emperor Dio cletian, A. D. 288. Later Sebastian was made a saint, becoming the pro tector against pestilence. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR APRIL 20. Subject: ,Tcn Teaches Humility, John 18 1 1M Golden Text, John 13:34 Commit Verses 3 Ii -Commentary on the Ipssnn. TIME. Tuesday night. April 4, A. D. 30. PLACE. Upper room, Jeru salem. EXPOSITION. I . The Humility nnd Iove of .Tcmis, 1-11. Jesus was about to depart to n world where He would be appreciated, where all the angels of God would worship Him Hob. 1:0. Very naturallv He might have had a feeling of relief at leav ing those dull, unbelieving disciples, to go to realms of light and faith nnd glorv. He was occupied with thoughts of His disciples and their need. Hli was a constant, untiring, patient, in destructible, self-forgetting love, "unto the end." Two little words marvelouslv describe our relation to Him, "His own." What a dignity It sets noon us we are "His own." How clear It makes our absolute se curity lotimn. ch. 17:12). How do I know I shall spend eternity with Him? How do I know that the rnlghfv and subtle Satnn will never nrevall to get me? Why do I rise I friumhant over the world and Its am- i hitlnn and its allurements and It? I blandishments? How do I know He will lavish upon me all the Infinite wealth of HIb love? 1 am "His own " I am His bv both gift and purchase. Note that death Is "departing out ol this world unto the Father." There Is nothing then so dreadful for the be liever in what men "nll death 'ch 14:28; Phil. 1:21. 22: 2 Cor. 5:8) We see the hlncV background of the Saviour's tmrenslnc love the unceas ing mnllgnitv of Fitan, Incarnating it pelf in a human heart (v. t. R. V.). Judas got his awful purpose direct 'rnm the rfovlt. If Judas had been told at the beginning the Hnpth of ln famv to which he would sink, he would have been horrifl-nl. Th vr same devil, who was active In Twla"" time, is around ttwtsvr, w do weii to nonder a .id act noon Eph. sT?tltS, What a ntcture of how the Fa""1' glorified .Testis anil ho-v W hnmtifrT Himself tn verses-".. Oft th npe hnd "the Father had given all tvng" tntfl His hands" tcofftp. ch. S:35; Mett 11:27: John 5:22. 17:2: Matt 28:18: Eph. 1:21. 22: Heh. 1:2: J-V. : 1 Cor. 15:271: "Ho camo fo-th from God," nnd "went to G"" 'vt the other hnnd. "He rlsth from Ml4 supper." "laid nlde HIb ga-m"t." "took a towel." etc , etc. H did th"s seven things in full roneousnps ol His divine authority, dvin origin and divine deatlnv. When thp con sciousness of superiority of -nnk ot ability tempts us to shirk the lovt'-st services for the hnmblesf of God' children, we will do wpII to rp"'ll this scene and remember baf "t4 servant Is not greater than Vs Lord' (v. 16). and to let this mind be In " which was also In Ch'ist JHHtl (PMl 2:5; note context). This w a mira cle of humility and grace. So we can make the common acts of lire amaz ingly glorious If we perform thaw) In His spirit. Oh to think of tb floHnnt Christ takins. our vile feet into thos hands that by their touch clean-""! the leper, opened b'lnd eyes. Healed the sick and raised the desd, nd washing and wiping them! There 1 a filth Infinitely more repulsive tc Him than the filth of the roads, thl filth of sin. and He is handling out fen each day and washing It of,' What a wonderful Saviour! Jesus act3 in this scene svmboll.e His wbolt work. He "rlseth from rapper" rises from His rightful piece In glorv and enjoyment. He "laid aside Hit garments" so He laid aside the gar ments of divine majesty i Phil. 2:6 7). He "took a towel and girde.l Himself' took upon Him the farm of a servant (Phil. 2:7). "He pour eth water Into a basin" provides the cleansing word (John 15:3). "Begat to wash the disciples' feet" applies the cleansing water (ph. 5:26). Took His garments (v. 12) reaBsumed His glory (Jno. 17:5). "Sat down again' (v. 12) reassumed HIb place af Lord (Heb. 10:12). As to Simon Peter, note: (1) His Imagined hu mility, but real pride (vs. 6, 8); (2) his failure to understand the meaning of Jesus' acts (v. 7); (3) his failure to ponder the meaning of Jesus words (v. 9); (4) his talking when he ought to have been thinking ( vs 7, S, 9); (5) his promise of future understanding (v. 7, he knows all about it now); (6) his prompt and eager repentance (v. 9). II. "1 have given you an example," 1818, "Know ye what I have done to you?" They did not know, was some time befjre they under stood the full meaning of His act, and little do we understand oftentimes whut - (h that the Lord has done to us. What He had really done was to set them an example whereby He would remove the dirt of pride and self-seeking and self-sparing from their sln-stalued souls. They were uavlng a quarrel among themselves us to who should be accounted great est (Luke 22:24). Oreatly did they need to be taught to take the lowly place of service rather than to seek the exalted place of honor. We call Him "Master" and "Lord" and we do well to call Him so; for "Master and Lord" He Is. But It we call Him so let us not play the hypocrite, but let us rather make Htm In our live, what we call Him with our lips. If He, Our Lord and Master, performed the lowliest and most disagreeable service for others, for those under Him, we too must stand ready to perform the lowliest Bervices for all others. Are we ready tu do itJ Australia, i The first civilized settlement in Australia wus made at Botany Bay In 1738 by somo 1030 persons, mostly convicts. In 1825 Moreton Bay, New South Wales, was settled. The settle ment of Western Australia dates from 1829. Explorations of Austra lia began In 1815, and have been kept up at Intervals ever since. The great er part of the interior of the conti nent is little better than desert, being either sand or dense shrub or porcu pine bush. In 1876 Olles traversed a territory 3500 miles in extent, which was declared "unfit for human habi tation." And yet the artesian well may yet make Australia bloom like a garden. New York American. EVER HEAR 'EM BAY IS? Jersey Commuter (crossing West street slush) "Wasn't the snow glorious In the country this morn- ln?" His Neighbor "Great, by Jove! If we could only stay out there and en Joy IU "Puck. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, APRIL 26. Immortal Till My Work Is Done Deut. 31. 6-8; Josh. 1. 5-9; Matt. 28. 20; lia. 54. 16, 17. Every Christian has a tnsk, a call ing, a lifelong assignment to service. There is nlways difficulty In this service. The world Is not friendly to Christ and so It opposes his fol lowers. Then there are In ourselves powers and desires which, If used us we are tempted to use them, would hinder the work which we are called to do. How, then, shall we do our work? How may we be sure we will suc ceed? We do not know how to do It: we do not know where to do It; we do not know why to do It; we have no strength with which to compllsh It. All this Is true, but other things are true. It was never Intended that we should do our work alone, any more than It was Intended that Moses should be left to his own resources, or that Joshuu should he expected to bring things to pnss without help. The same Helper that promised to be with Ihent has promised to be with us. The Christian has guidance, which Is far better than his own wisdom can devise: he has leadership whlrh Is not dismayed or deceived by the nppearance of opposition ; most of all. he has with him a present aud abid ing Companion whom he cannot see, and who cannot be aiscorned by any of the physical senses, but who Is none the less really present In his life. What does all this mean? It means that the Christian Is immortal till his work Is done, and afterward. Whatever happens to the Christian, no opposition can succeed against him. He may be disappointed and troubled; he may see no apparent re sults of hla work; he may feel that he is a fallnre; but all thlH Is mere seeming. So long as he Is doing the work of God In obedience and faithfulness nothing can succeed against him. There are some things that the Christian must be Bure of, however. He must find what God's work for him Is. He must be euro of his own powers, and not attempt to do things for which God has given him no equipment. CHfltSTIAK ENDEAVOR NOTES APRIL TWENTY-SIXTH. Big Rents Paid by New Yorkers. A BROADWAY CORNER HOLDS WORLD'S RECORD. Enormous Sums Charged for Offices and Apartments Both Downtonand Uptown Br M. W. MOt'NT. Foreign Missions: Paton, and Mis sions in the Islands. Acta 28: 1-10. The missionary command. Matt. 28: 16-20. God's purpose. Luke 24: 46-49. Three early missionaries. Acts 12: 24, 25. The excellency of missions. Isa. 52: 7-12. The sacrifice of missions. Luke 9: 59-62. Prayer for missions. Eph. 6: 18- 20. Everywhere, even among the worst of savages, we may count upon the niovings of God's Spirit. Everywhere also there Is the ser pent of sin. quick to attack the ser vants of God. The servant of God lo immortal till his work Is done; but mat the ser pent Is not always shaken off is proved by the deaths of those mar tyrs of the Islands, Williams, Patto son, ChaltnerB, Lyman, MunBon, and Gordon. The missionary life la one long struggle against disease disease of the body as well aa of the soul. The Life of Paton. John G. Paton is often called "the Apostle to the New Hebrldea." Spur geon called him "the King of the Cannibals." No missionary ever had a more thrilling story than he. He wa3 born In Scotland. May 24, Ut4, Hla father was a man of much prayer, and had a deep Influ ence upon him. Though he worked from six In the morning till ten at night at his fath er's trade of making stockings, the lad found time to learn the rudi ments of Iatln and Greek. He became a city missionary in Glasgow, and his congregation grew enormously because he led each member If It to invite some one else. In 1858 Paton was sent to the New Hebrides as a missionary of the Re formed Presbyterian Church. He first spent four years on the small island of Tanna, where he had the most terrible experience among I he most bloodthirsty cannibals on earth His wife and child died. His fel w missionaries, the Gordons, were Itllled on a neighboring island. An other missionary fell at hla side. Still he continued to preach faithfully against wlfe-beatlng, widow-strangling, the eating of human flesh. Iniquitous traders Introduced measles, to kill off the natives, and I one-third of them died. Confound- i lug all white men, they set about murdering Paton. After a thousand hairbreath escapes, he aucceeded in getting away. Hunters Do Well Off Hi. untie,. Two old uimrods, William and John Coldpltts, who llvo in a tiny hunting lodge In the midst of the pine forest near the small village of Se ney, in Schoolcraft County, have re ceived $450 In wolf bounties from the last meeting of the county Board ot Supervisors. The old men, who are brothers, are both well advanced In years, and have lived In the hut they now occupy for over a score of hunting seasons, at:d practically make their living by hunt ing and fishing. Thirty large timber wolves have been killed "in School craft County since October 1 last, for which bounties amounting to 1730 have been allowed by the Board of Supervisors. Besides wolves the re port shows a lynx, for which a bounty of $:. is paid, and five wildcats, which bring $3 each, have been killed dur lug the same period. Beside the Coldpltts brothers sev eral other well known characters have made considerable money dur ing the present season devoting their time to the pursuit of such animals. Manlstlque Correspondence of St. Paul Dispatch. Spend MiUloos Abroad. It Is estimated that American tour ists spent 140,0.00,000 ln Europe Ilut summer. The Island of Manhattan Isn't very big. but It makes the most of Itself. One little chunk of It, at Broadway and Wall street, commands a higher rental than Is paid for the same amount of space anywhere else In the world. Slightly over $35 a square foot, averaging, It Is said, $40,000 a year, is paid by a cigar company for one small store on this site, which goes to show that money Invested ln cigar stores does not all go up In smoke. A quarter of a million Is the con servative sum estimated as represent ing the combined rentals of space on the concourse floor of the Hud son Terminal Building, while half a million Is paid by a single firm for ten floors In a neighboring skyscrap er and, It Is said, the Erie Railroad more than matches this sum by the tidy renin! It pays for five floors ln the Cortlnndt street Terminal Build ing. No other corporation has as much floor area in this structure. People who want office space In Manhattan never seem to lot a tittle matter of rent stand In the way of acquiring It. When John W. Gates desired a suite of private offices In upper Fifth avenue he pnld $55,000 a year for a modest sl7.ed floor and fitted It up cozlly at an expenditure of $12,000. His suite In the Trinity Building cost him $50,000. The postofflce Is one of Manhattan's good tenants. Close upon a quarter of a million dollars goes Into Father Knickerbocker's pockets from the government, which pays 52.10,000 a year for postofflce stations, finding space In the Grand Central Palare nt $33,500 a year, at West, and Morton streets for $20,500 and at the Madi son Square and a few other stations at almost as high a figure. The Pro duce Exchange has the postofflce for a tenant. Like others. It has to pay the $7.50 a square foot, whlrh totals up to $4500 a year for store space In this building. Lessees are so nfrald that rents will continue to soar In Manhattan that many the government Includ ed have taken out as long leases as they could, while, on the other hand, numerous agents have wisely provided against future contingencies of another kind and refused to lease except on long terms. A !2,000,000 Lease. The longest lease of its kind tn New York is that of a Greeley Square site at the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-third street for a term of 105 years for $12, 00,000. Four millions will be paid for the first forty-two years and $8, 000.000 for the rest of the term, an arrangement on the part of the les see, Harry Levey, which goes to show that he believes the site will Increase ln value a generation or so after he has erected a two or three million dollar structure to stand upon that corner on completion of the Penn sylvania tunnel. The old New York Club site, at Fifth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, has been taken by a grocery firm for a term of twenty-one years for $4, 000,000 net, while another lease for the same period has been entered In to for No. 1 WeBt Thirty-fourth street. "Notwithstanding the present money stringency, there has been no appreciable reduction in rentals for office space this year," said Robert A. Grannlss, Jr., vice-president of the firm of Pease & EUIman, speak ing about downtown office buildings. "The general average of offices rent for $2 a square foot, and $30,000 for a floor is considered a pretty good rental ln the average office building. A common price is about $1000 a year for an office about twenty-eight by eighteen feet in size, which is usu ally partitioned off Into three rooms. "Of course, there are exceptions to all rules, and certain buildings ln Broadway, ln the neighborhood of Wall Street get from $3 to $4 a square foot for a floor 20,000 to 30,000 square feet in size. "A brisk demand edsts for offices, and, owiug to the opening of the new buildings, many firms have been at tracted to New York who have never had offices here. Of course, store rents are always higher than office rentB, and ground floors are looked upon as practically store floors and rent accordingly." Rent of 91000 a Room. It is said ln the Empire Building, in which the Carnegie Steel Company Is, that its offices rent for over $3 a foot, or more than $1000 a room, and some companies occupy several floorB ln thlB building, each represent ing an annual fortune in rentals. The same prices obtain ln the Trinity und its companion building, where no company occupies more than two floors at an estimated rental of more than $30,000 a floor. It is said tbat these prices are matched by those obtainable in the City Investing Com pany, Hanover Bank, Equituble, Singer and Terminal buildings. The two latter are, respectively, the tall est and largest office buildings lit the world, while the City Investing Com pany Is said to possess the longest main corridor ln the country. In the neighborhood of these structures store npace rents at $15 a square foot, or $6000 a year for a small store of four hundred square feet, while Becond floors, with only a short flight of stairs from the street, bring $10 a square foot, or $4000 for a small store. Correspond ingly high prices are also paid for offices which occupy especially ad vantageous positions. In the uptown office district $30, 000 a year la said to be the highest rental paid for a store floor. This Is at Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street, and rooms for offices ln this locality bring about $1000 a year, or $2.75 a square foot. Significant of the times In the fact that private houses which have rent ed at $9000 and $10,000 are now bringing only $4000 and $5000. For e '""S"y f hnusex nenyle pr a rental of from $25,000 to $7.",000 a year, a price which would have made the early Knickerbockers gaap, while the fact that the late J. Henry Smith paid $2,300,000 for the Whit ney house when he bought It, with a few of its furnishings, would have caused the very wigs to rise from their heads In amazement. "The most expensive residence property In Manhattan," said Messrs. Pease ft Elllman, "MeB between Fifth and Madison avenues from Flfty nlntb to Seventy-second street. In good sections this property sells for $400,000 to $500,000, while ln Park and Madison avenues values run from $100,000 to $200,000 for a house and lot. 910,000 For Eight Months. The highest rental paid recently for a house was $10,000 for a period of eight months. This house Is ln Sixty-second street. Just off Fifth avenue. Scarcely two blocks below It in the avenue nre apartments which are said to be the most ex pensive in the city, with an average annual rental of $15,000 each. Peo ple who have two of these apartments thrown Into one to enjoy a spacious home pay Just twice that sum for the additional privilege. In this locality ten-room suites, unfurnished, may be had for $12. 000 a year, while a block further down large suites entice the gre garious householder at $7500, unless he wants them furnished, when he can get them for $9000. Around Fiftieth street housekeeping apart ments bring $12,00", while an apart ment hotel not far distant aska $1000 n room n year aand rents small suites at $5000 a year. Certain apartment hotels consider $600 to $800 a room no unreasonable figure to ask for suites of rooms, and that homeseekers agree with them is shown by the cheerfulness with which they pay this price. New York hotels no longer shelter only a transient population. Each great caravansary means home to un numbered families. John W. Gates is said to have paid $50,000 a year for his suite at the Plaza Hotel. A certain wealthy woman is said to exceed this figure by $10,000 in the sum she pays for her luxurious ho tel apartment. At the Holland House one may enjoy the use of two rooms and a bath for $15,000 s year, and at the St. Regis at the rate of $25 a day, while the Waldorf charges $20,000 a year for small auites. The St. Regis Is perhaps the only place In New York which will not make a long lease. A tenant Is charged by the day only, and may decrease or add to the number of rooms in his suite at his own con venience and depart at pleasure, with no lease to occasion months of out lay during absence. Special Privileges Costliest. The highest rents in New York are paid for standing room. The moBt princely rental paid for store, office, residence, apartment or hotel' space does not compare,, proportionately, with the sum expended for an hum ble bootblack stand, a soda fountain or cigar kiosk. A. Schulte pays $30 a square foot for cigar privileges in the Cortlandt street Terminal Building, and this is said to be next to the highest rent paid by anybody In the world. The cigar lease for the northwest corner of Cortlandt and Church streets runs for twelve years at a cost of 30 a square foot for 600 square feet, while the lease includes five other stands in the Terminal Building at a total cost of half a million. One of these Is in the exact centre of the Hudson terminal concourse floor, and for this glass booth, open on three sides and covering a space twenty-one by nine feet in size, a rental of $7560 a year Is charged. It is said that 188.000 cigara at two for twenty-five cents would have to be sold to cover a year's expenses of this stand, and, taking other expenses into account, a quarter of a million would need to be disposed of before profits would be gin. Higher prices are paid for Tiigar privileges than for any other occupy ing a proportionate amount of space. In a Broadway office building $1500 Is received as annual rent for a stand ninety-nine square feet In size, and such stands pay correspondingly high prices tor space in other buildings and hotels. Booth space is rented subject to bid and charged for on the basis of the business proposed as much as on the location ot space. Eight trades are great lessees of space privileges, and rank ln the following aider as profitable tenants of theae: Tobacco, bootblack, soda water, package candy, news, flowers, fruit und cutlery and satchel stands. A bootblack formerly rented a large stand ln the Empire Building at a cost of $10,000 a year aud one paid $4000 for a small space in the Equitable Building, which was the first to establish booth lined corri dors, and even now charges as high as $2000 for stand privileges. The bootblack privilege in the Hudsou Terminal rents for $10,000 a year for a term of t'velve years. Notwithstanding such a tax upon the privilege of shining shoes, boot black stands netted Tony Aste a for tune and enabled him to maintain a costly racing stable. Office bulldlug booths pay on an averr-a of $450 to $800 a year, with exceptions here and there, notably ln the Terminal Building, where a small central space of about ten by twenty feet rents for $6000, a soda water stand for $15,000 and ordinary side booths from $2000 to $3000 a year, while In the corridor a booth about 560 feet square Is leased at $3000. A small bar pays $26,000 a year for its space and a restaurant on the coneourse floor about $30,000 for a room in which to feed hungry trav elers. While cigar stands pay the highest rentals, bar privileges make a close second In buildings where these exist, nnd flowers sometimes match their fragrance against that of the popular "weed" when it comes to paying rent, as In the Grand Cen tral Station, where a flower stand pays the highest rent for the space It occupies of any booth actually en gaged In business to-day. Flower booths In hotels pay an average rental of $1500 to $2000 a year, and In the Terminal Building nosegays will cost their sollers from $3000 to $4600 ln booth rents. Those who adorn every available spot from chimney tip to bedrock with advertisements have to con tribute not less than $404,338.34 a year to the coffers of the subway and elevated systems for the privilege of Informing the wayfarer what to cbew nnd how to make hair grow, while railroad trunk lines derive a pretty penny from news companies who dis pense news and candles along their lines. New York Tribune. The salaries paid the employes of New York City aggregate seventy 8lz millions dollars a year. It is estimated that nearly 400t acres of cedar trees are cut down annually to provide the material for lead pencils. Alason Canfleld. of New Mllford. Conn., Is the oldest voter In New England. He is 100 years old and has deposited a ballot at every presi dential election since 1328. Cremation Is not. yet permitted In Austria; from Belgium, too, bodies must be sent to France or England, as there are no crematory ovens ln the country. Spain has no regulations on this matter. In the collection of armor in the Tower of London is a helmet sent to Henry VIII. by the King of Portugal. It Is a mask of Satan with gleaming rod eyes and the usual horns of Mephlatopheles. The Portuguese po tentate evidently possessed a senso of humor. In Russia and Saxony they are a little more sensible, for in both coun tries a youth must refrain from mat rimony till he can count eighteen years and the woman till she can count- sixteen. In Switzerland the men from the age of fourteen and the women from the age ot twelve are allowed to marry. The Ko hi noor Is no longer In the , Tower, Queen Alexandra having an I nexed It, but the Orleans diamond glows like a crystal sun In the Lou vre, alongside of a romarkable carved ruby of extraordinary size, that was once a breastpin belonging to Miss Jane Fish, better known aa Maio. de Pompadour. ! The young bee, as she Issues from her cell, Ib a baby-like creature, but I ln a few days she Is at the height of , her strength and usefulness. She stays at home, as a rule for about two weeks and helps to do the house work of the hive, removing dead , bees and foreign matter, attending 1 the queen and feeding her, secreting : wax, building comb, caring for the larvae and ventilating the hive. i When a New York florist brought from his refrigerator a bunch of roses of a velvety blue-black hue, I such as certain dark pansio3 possess, I he remarked: "These black roses are i called 'Fetisoffs,' ln honor -of their creator, Piotr FetiBoff, a Russian of Voronezh. FetisoflV a- poor man originally, Is growing rich from his I black roses. He sells slips at a tre mendous price to florists and nursery, men all over the world. Some peo ple think that black roses are simply red roses dyed. It Is a great mistake, i They are the real thing." Desperate means were sometimes resorted to In order to get men for British warships. A chronicler writes I that in the year 1738, "a fleet of ships, being required immediately to be manned, the press gangs placed a live turkey on the top of the monu ment, wnicn, drawing together a great number of idle people, they bad the opportunity of selecting as many men as answered the purpose of their Intended schume." The scene so enraged a cltlsen that he fired a shot at the bird, "which occasioned It to fly away." But the mischief had been done. Approves Publication of Letters. Colonel George Harvey, of New York, closed his lectures on Journal ism ln the Bromley Foundation at Yale, New Haven, concluding with a recommendation for a "laboratory of JournalUm" ln some university. He said in part: "The newspaper progression is the most potent for the future guidance oi our nation. Is there not some thing wrong when only three per cent of the graduates of Yale in recent years have taken up that profession? If some wealthy man endowed a course of Journalism in a university und practical men of wide experience In newspapers were placed there as instructors the result would be tbat a boy who had taken such a course suc cessfully would walk right Into a Job and be the most capable man in any office tbat he might go into." Colonel Harvey commended news papers which priut letters from their readers even when the newspaper has the courage to print letters In dis agreement with its own course and its own views. Joseph Davoy, of Big Rapids. Mich., began putting cement to its jrrejpnt uses away back ln the forties He claims to be the original cement
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