THEPULPIT.
BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. LEWIS T. REED.
Thome: Suggestive Therapeutic.
Brooklyn, N. Y. In the Flatbush
Congregational Church the pastor,
the Rev. Lewis T. Reed, preached a
ermon on "The Theory and Practice
of Suggestive Therapeutics." The
text wan from Matthew 8:13. "And
Jesus said to the centurion, Go thy
wav: and an thou hast believed, so he
It done unto thee. And his servant
was healed In the selfsame hour."
Mr. Reed said:
In this theme of "The Theory and
Practice of Suggestive Therapeutlrs,"
It Is not my purpose to expound nov
elties or to satlsfv curiosity, but to
assist all of you who worship here to
lay hold of some of the great princi
ples within this movement by which
It will be possible for you to live con
fident ly and joyfully. I should bo
glad to make all of you practitioners
of tho art of suggestive therapeutics.
There are a few great principles
which It. Is essential you should honor
and obey. First the power of sug
gestion. We have be-n wont to be
optimistic about everythlngthat takes
place In our lives, provided nothing
eTll appears at once on the surface.
We have proceeded on the faith that
the psychical system could take tip
and dispose successfully of every sug
gestion made to it. Evil thoughts,
envy, anger, greed, concupiscence,
gluttony - all the vices abhorred by
St. Paul might present their vile pic
tures to the mind, and as long as we
did not act on their suggestion, we
still preserved our character. We de
luded ourselves with a hope that we
were what we appeared to be. And
now we have had to learn afresh the
truth of that Scripture: "As a man
thlnketh In his heart, so is he." I
know of no process In man's life more
ralculi.ted to give him serious
thought thnn this function of the
subconsciousness of storing up the
suggestions that the outer life brings.
Day by day as we touch the world,
end get our own reactions of courage
or cowardice, of self-control or self
defeat, of purity or selfishness, ol
love or hate, we are continually drop
ping, dropping these suggestions Into
the reservoir of this subconscious self,
to como forth some day to bless or
curse. Abraham Lincoln lives day by
day the sacrificial Ufa of the burden
bearer of this people. Day by day,
hour by hour, he gives himself the
suggestion of devotion, sacrifice and
faith; and then, when the hour for
utterance has come, takes up his pen
and writes on a few scattered sheets
the supreme English masterpiece ol
half a century. Benedict Arnold was
always passionate and revengeful
Day after day, year after year, the re
action of life on him resulted in sug
gesting to his deeper self hate, envy,
pride, and self-will. When his hour
for expression came, he took up hie
pen to sign his name to the betrayal
of his trust. There is nothing In the
process of the soul that needs tc
cause us more of joy and more ol
fear f!han this amenability of the soul
to suggestion.
Secondly, you must come to a new
realization of the supreme place ol
the will. Heredity must have some
will believe tint the condition o' your
subliminal consciousness of Irrita
tion, or quiet, of hope or fear even
though yon speak no word, will af
fect those associated with you. In
no hazy way, but very definitely, thpn,
we are our brother's keepers, respon
sible for the world's stock of cheer
and faith. The home Is the peculiar
field for the operation of this sub
conscious power There the quickest
of sympathy exists, there Influence Is
felt most readily and most deeply.
Tho atmosphere of a home, although ,
a hackneyed term, expresses a clearly I
defined reality. The atmosphere Is j
the spirit of the house, emanating
from the deep well of the subeon-
SClOOS mind of the homekeeper. Ood
has created no more gracious figure
In Ills great world than that of the
wife and mother, who gives to the
very place of her abode her own
quiet, buoyant, soothing spirit. What
she Is In the unsounded deeps of her
being will appear in time In the house
where she dwells and In the faces of
the little children that look up to
her. On the other baud, the home of
the card-club woman and the home
of the gud-about! Who does not
know them and shudder at the
thought? Their atmosphere Is that
of restlessness and spiritual poverty.
Woe betide her children and her hus
band; for she cannot give them, after
their day of temptations and vexa
tion, that by which they are renewed,
tho spirit of peace and quiet confi
dence In good,
11. Now, It will sometimes happen
that, despite our best endeavors, we
shall be overborne In the press. Ill
ness comes on, whatever the cause,
and the causes are often complex.
What are we to do? Every physician
would join with me. I believe. In say
ing: make the spiritual attitude cor
rect. To use the terminology of the
books, give yourself the auto-suggestions
of courage, confidence In God,
faith In His willingness and power to
care for and restore you. Make it
the genuine conviction of your spirit
that God does provide for all His
creatures. Rest in the promises of
divine health with which the Scrip
tures abound. If there Is any cause
of Irritation, remove It, If It be pos
sible, by the right action on your
part. Nothing Is more Irritating
than harboring a vigorous grudge. I
need not remind you how strictly
scriptural Is all this method of creat
ing a correct mental attitude; and I
believe that your own careful obser
vation would come to my support in
the statement that the great majority
of tho diseases from which our house
holds suffer can be finally traced to
the fret and ambition of our present
life. As the pastor, then, of your
souls nnd the minister of the I,ord
Jesus Christ, who, through fulth, re
stored the body, 1 would exhort you
to cultivate to the utmost the virtues
that Christ always Insisted upon
trust In Ood, humility, self-forgetful-ness,
forgiveness, sincerity.
Still, in many cases, the conditions
of 111 health will continue. What Is
to be done then? Manifestly, If the
trouble be serious, it Is the time to
employ the physician, who can diag
nose the case and prescribe the regu
lations under which recovery can be
most rapid. 1 earnestly hope that in
the excitement of th!3 naw discovery
of th- therapeutic power that is in
the mind no one here will believe that
he is privileged to sin against either
himself or his brother. All laws of
action are laws of God. The best re
sults ensue wnen we learn how to
, j 7ht
iTi:nATin.r, lesson com-
MEXTS FOR MAX :!.
placo In the formation of character, use all ot God-s lavvs , harmony with
although that place Is not yet very
clearly determined but the most
weighty discovery ot the present day
seems to mo this rediscovery of the
regal power of the will to do right:
These psychologists, and hypnotists.
In their Investigations Into the unex
plored tracts of personality have come
across not only a God-like aspiration
after virtue in every soul, but also
an unlimited power for the attain
ment of that aspiration. Just, as the
Master of Life stooped over the crip
ple, saying, "Arise and walk;" and
knew that within that stricken form
thero was the ability to rise and
walk: so modern psychology stoops
over every sinful soul and repeats the
Scripture command, "Be ye there
fore perfect," for ye are In the Image
of your Father in Heaven, who i.
perfect. This is a tremendous doc
trine (jf individual responsibility. II
is an old Scriptural doctrine, but It
gains a new force when, by the mod
ern hypnotists' appeal to the soul of
goodness In a man. you see the drunk
ard go forth a new man, the spend
thrift reformed and the invalid made
well. If there are in us those pos
sibilities of virtue, there is no escape
for us from the responsibility of at
taining that for which we were cre
ated. There has come to us the con
viction that Inspired Jeremiah: "In
those days they shall say no more.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children's teeth are set on
dge. But every one shall die for his
own iniquity; every man that eateth
the sour grapes his teeth shall be set
on edge." There Is no more proper
incentive to earnest living than the
realization of the fact that Ood has
intended life to be perfect for every
creature'; and that if it U otherwise,
the fault is In ourselves.
"Dark Is tho world to thee; thyself
art the reason why." Whoever would
possess the reality of the Christian
life must achieve the victory over his
moods, and the must heartening mes
sage of this or any age is that by our
God-given endowment of the will It Is
possible for us to give to the deeper
Ufe of the soul the suggestions ot
courage and faith and pall nee and
strength, which altogether means
eternal life.
In the third place, you will have ts
form for yourself very likely a new,
and very stern, doctrine of sin and
virtue. The old doctrine of a forensic
Justification before God was an ad
mirable thing to look at, but it did
not work very well either for the
each other. Quinine is just as much
a creation of the divine spirit as Is
the mind of man. and we may as well
acknowledge that infection Is a
process likely to take place under pre
vailing conditlous, unless guarded
against.
The employment of mental healing
In cases of physical disorder Is the
employment of a therapeutic agency.
You may use medicines if you see fit
and they produce the results, al
though us a matter of fact medical
practice of the present day makes
less and less of the treatment by
drugs and more and more of the
treatment by the natural agencies of
rest, air and water. On the other
hand, you may employ the mental
healer, provided your own spirit is so
attuned to the spiritual life that you
Are able to receive its benefits. My
own belief is that those who are
wonted to the spiritual life by which
I mean the life of communion with
God through prayer, the life of falih
In a controlling power, and of inter
est in the life of the spirit In Its
higher manifestations are best pre
pared for the reception of these ben
efits. No one can be benefited who
setB himself even secretly agalnBt his
healer, who prefers his own will and
way to tho will and way of God, or
who cherishes a false self pride in his
own condition. The only way of
I restoration is the sincere and humble
committal of oneself Into the hands
1 of God that He may work His restor
lug will. One must leurn the very
heart of the meaning of the sixth
chapter of Matthew, the core of which
is the insistence upon the necessity of
the genuine union of the llfo of man
I with God. If there is one place in
which no deception is possible It li
In this relation of life with God.
; Whoever the healer may be. the pre
requisite to success is the sincere de-
; sire of the patient to be helped.
I Greater than the desire of having
' one's own way, and of cherishing
, one's own foible, must be the desire
';o receive that more abundant life
that. Christ came to bring.
1 Therefore, while, on the one hand,
this is only a system of therapeutics,
or. the other, it is a system tho suc
cess of which is so intimately related
to the attitude of a man's spirit to
ward the infinite that It becomes a
mutter of religion,
An Epigram by Dr. Frank Crane.
Life is 'a perpetual choosing; the
Justified or for his family. Those who road to ruin branches off atevery step,
deemed themselves "saved" very '
often failed to possess the homely vir
tues of cheerfulness, kindness, cour
age and forgiveness; while many who
were obviously "good" were not con
scious of salvation. The religion of
to-day gives the genuinely "good"
man his due, and placards in their
proper place these hateful sins of un
klndueas, Intolerance, moodiness,
worry and hardness of heart. . It Is a
great service that any sect bestows
when that, body of people stands forth
to proclaim that the Ills of the flesh
have an origin In the 111b of the mind,
and that the thoughts that issue In
these bodily Ills are lias against the
High ana Holy One. From whatevei
source derived, the couvictlon of tht
necessity ot controlling the outbreak.
of our evil moods would be the great
sat concelvsble blessing In so-called
Christian homes. This Is surely no
new gospel. All this teaching is from
both Christ and the apostles; but it
Is undeniable that tha recent presen
tation of it has amounted almost to
a discovery.
The fourth principle which must
govern your thought Is that ot the
very great Influence that we exercise
Novelty Improves Hill oT Fure.
Novelty being tho splco of life, It is
the essential quality for the methods
of the cook. Food must be pala
table and tempting, else It will fall
in its mission, and the cook with the
Imagination who uses her talents Is ;
the one who makes the success. A
monotonous run of diet very often
runs down the appetites of the fam
ily Tho matter Is that steak, potatoes
and colfue have been before the din
ers too often, and their eyes and their
imaginations are tired of them. Ev
ery meat should have its little stock
of surprise, causing the mouth to
water. The tempting thing may be
very simple, but because It is a sur-
Srlse It will stimulate the taste and
Ivy a pleasurable feeling for the oc
casion. Buffaio Express.
At the last Cbamonlx meeting a
Norwegian on skis made a Jump of
twenty-six meters, it was magnlfl-
over one another. It you believe in ! cently done, and be allgbted upon bis
the telepathic communication of one 1 skis without Injury. This Is s dls
auUcoasclous mind with another, you ( tauce of nearly elghty-slx feet.
Subject: Our Heavenly nomr, -Tnriti
1-1 Golden Tet. John 11:2
Commit Verses 2, 3 Commen
tary. TIME. Tuesdny night. April 4, A.
D 30. PLACE. Upper room, Jeru
salem I POSITION. I. will Come
Again. 1-8, The 14th chapter of John
Is the rlrliPBt vein In the most re
markable gold mine In the world
the Bible. The first clause of verse 1
Is the keynote or the chapter, espe
cially of verses 1 to 27. Verse 27
and rsrss 1 begin with these words.
All In between might fitly be entitled
thoughts for the comfort nnd encour
agement of believers during the ab
sentee Of their Lord. The remainder
of the verse contains Jesus' Infallible
prescription for heart trouble (see
Am. It V.). The one who trulv be
llves In God and believes In jesus
Christ will never be troubled In heart
(Is. 26:3). We can tako our choice
between believing hearts and trou
bled hearts. When faith comes In,
anxiety goes out. A number of spe
cific comforting thoughts follow. The
first Is that heaven, the Father's
house, is a large place with .room
enough for us all, as well as for
Jesus. The second comforting
thought ts that Jesus is coming back
personally to take us to that place.
The temporary separation Is to be
succeeded by eternal reunion (v. 3).
He does not send for us. He conies
Himself. Any one who has learned
to Interpret scripture by scripture
can easily satisfy himself that the
coming here spoken of Is the personal
second coming of Christ by a careful
comparison with 1 Thess. 4:16. 17.
The return of our Lord has ever been
"the blessed hone" of believers (Tit.
2:13). Jesus here speaks of It to
banish heart troubles, nnd when Paul
speaks of It In Interpreting this pass
nee he closes with "Comfort one an
other with these words."
If. The way to the Father, 4-fl.
The third comforting thought was
that they knew the place where He
had gone and how to get tl.ere. To
this statement Thomas interposed a
doubt. Thomas' expression of doubt
was the occasion of some very pre
cious teaching. Verse 6 is one of the
mountain peaks of scripture. It tells
lis the wav to God. Jesus Himself Is
the way. We get to Ood through Him
and no other way. That way is open
to nil (ch. 10:9; 6:37). How Jesus
Is the way the Bible makes very
plain: (1) Eph. 2:13. IS: Heb. 10
IS. 20; (2) Matt. 11.27; John 17:3;
(3) Heb. 1:1-3. He is not onlv the
way, but "the truth" also. He Is
"troth" incarnate. Other messengers
of God teach us truth. Jesus is the
truth. H we are then to know the
truth we must know Him (Col. 2:3;
John 17:3). He Is also "the life."
Jesus does not nierelv give life He
is "the life." H you wish life, you
must take Him. As soon as you have
taken Jesus, you have life (John 5:
11, 12). If you haven't taken Jesus,
you may have edsience, but you
haven't life. If you are anxious to
know what life, real life, eternal life
Is, look at Jesus and vou will see
(John
HI. "He- That Hath Seen Me Hath
Keen the Father," 7-11. If Jesus were
were a mere man and not divine In a
unique sense then verse 7 would be
appalling presumption and blasphe
my. But Jesus had a right to say if
they had known Me they should have
known My Father also. God perfect
ly and fully revealed Himself in
Jesus. So Jesus could sa what He
did. To know Jesus is to know God.
To see Jesus Is to see God. To know
Jesus fully is to know God fullv.
Jesus Is God manifest in the flesh.
That was a cry of deep significance
that Philip uttered. "Lord, show us
the Father and It sufflceth us." Yes,
that will suffice us to see God and
nothing else will. But for several
years Philip had been looking at God
and not seeing Him or knowing Him.
There are many to this day who are
Just as blind as Philip. Jesus longed
to have Philip and the rest of the
disciples to believe that He was in
the Father and the Father in Him.
And He longs to have us believe it
also. His works prove it to all who
have a discerning eye (vs. 10, 11).
IV. "He Tluit Believe th on Me, the
Works That I Do Shall He Do Also;
mill Greater Works Than These Khali
He Do," vs. 12-14. Verse 12 contains
another of the comforting thoughts.
They certainly do not describe the
experience of the average Christian
to-day, but wo must not bring God's
word down to the level of our exper
iences, but bring our experience up
to the level of God's word. Jesus
meant Just what He said. We are
now by our faith united to the risen
and ascended Christ, the One who
possesses all power in heaven and on
earth (Matt. 28:18), and by reason
of this union we have power to do
greater things than Jesus did during
tho days of His humiliation. Those
to whom Jesus first spoke these words
saw 3000 converted in a single day
(Acts 2). That was a far greater
work than any that Jesus did while
on earth. Works in the domain of
the spiritual ure greater than works
in the domains of the physical. To
raise ono dead in trespasses and sins
is greater than to raise one physically
dead. It ts for each of ub to claim
our measure of this power. Versos
13 and 14 tell us how. These verses
toll us of the prayer that gets Just
what It asks and anything It asks. It
Is prayer in the name of Christ.
ODD ROMANCE OF A CONVICT.
From Rome comes the odd romance
of a convict in the penal settlement
on the Islaud ot Lampudusa, near
Sicily, who has just been set free,
uourly three yearn before his term
Tor larceny expired, to enter into tho
enjoyment of the great fortune which
he hud inherited last spring from his
aunt, besides a villa on the lake of
Como and a city flat fSlod with costly
and beautiful works of art. It was
no doubt felt that It would be easy
for him to be good with all the
money he needed, and that he would
be better off than In Jail. He prompt
ly married a widow whom he bad eu
guged as housekeeper, and they spent
their honeymoon at the convict set
tlement at Luinpadusa. While a pris
oner he had found the lack of any
wuy or telling time s great trial, and
ho presented to his late companions
a handsome clock to be placed In a
tower where It can bo heard striking
the long hours. San Francisco Argonaut.
EPWOHTH LH LESSONS
SUNDAY. MAY 3.
Untroubled In Trouble Prov. 16. 7;
Pta. 125. 1; IM. 26. 3;
John 14. 27.)
Not many people find life entirely
easy, and those who do are not hap
py. We need some measure of
work, some element of difficulty,
something which will chnllenge nil
our powers, or else life Is a poor and
empty 'hlng. The next world may
he differently organized, but here,
difficulty is a part of lire's enjoy
ment as well as or Its discipline. We
cannot escape It, and when we try wP
usually get Into worse trouble than
that from which we have fled
The true Christian reckons on
tumble as a constant fact; he knows
It Is sure to come, but he also knows
It will In some way bring a blessing.
He Knows that some of his trials
come Just because he is a Christian.
He Is a follower or Christ; he seeks
to do the will ol Christ. In doing
thnt he gets Into trouble, for The
world Is not organized with the
Christian in mind; its business
i not operated according to
Christian standards: Its pleasures
are not meant to be pleasing to the
Christian; and so the Christian must
at times go against the tide of
things He may he called queer, pe
culiar, eccentric, possibly fanatical.
Again, the Christian Is one who
counts love the supreme force of his
life. He loves his Master; he loves
his brethren; he loves the whole
world which Is not Christian; and
the more re;tl his religion Is the more
Intense his affections. But see how
that makes for trouble; he who loves,
suffers; you cannot love Jesus Christ
without entering Into the fellow
ship of hll sufferings. You see every
day such opposition to him. such an
tagonism or selfishness und sin. such
crucifying arresh or the Ixird of
glory, that you share his sorrows.
Then, all the world with which the
Christian comes Into contact puts a
burden of trouble upon him. He sees
oppressors and nnd oppressed: he
sees the sick and the blind and file
lame who have need or a physician
but reruse that Great Phylslclan. He
hears the exceeding bitter cry of the
world's travail and sorrow, knowing
how little he can do to help; and so
on every side he finds that trouble
comes.
WIND-BAROMETER TABLE.
Cy Prof E, 8. GARRIOTT, Weather Bureau.
The wind nnd barometer Indications for the United States are pener-
nlly summarised In the following table:
Wind,
direction.
Barometer reduced to sea
level.
SW.toNW.
SW.to NW.
SV. to NW.
8V. 10 NW.
SW.toNW.
SW. to NW.
8. toSE
S. toSE
BE, te NE...
M, te NE...
E.toNE....
E. to NE....
se.ioNE...
BE. toNE...
S. toSW.. .
S. to E
E. lo N
Going to W.
30.10 to 30.20 and steady
31)10 to 30 20 and rising rap
idly. 30.111 to 30.20 nnd falling
slowly.
30.10 to 30.20 and falling rap
idly. 30 20 and above and station
ary .
30 20 and above nnd falling
-IrnvH .
30.10 to 30.20 nnd falling
slowly.
30.10 i,, 30.30 and falling rap
idly. 30.10 to 30.20 nnd falling
lowly.
30 10 to 39.30 and failing rap
idly. 30.10 nnd above nnd fnllir.g
slowly.
above nnd falling
below and fnlling
below nnd falling
heloW and riding
below nnd falling
below nnd falling
Character of weather indicated.
rapidly.
j 30 00 or
slowly,
130.00 or
rapid lv.
i
, 30.00 or
slew ly.
Jli.so ,
rapidly. I 20.80 or
rapidly.
I 2P.H0 or below and rising rap
i idly.
Fair, with alight temperature changes, for
1 to 2 days.
Fair, followed within 1 days by rain.
Warmer, with rain within ?4 to 30 hours.
Wanner with rain within 18 to 24 hours.
Continued fair, with no decided tempera
ture change.
Slowly rising temperature and fair for 2
nays.
Uain within 24 hours.
Wind increasing in force, with rain within
12 to 24 hours.
Ham in 12 to IN hours.
Increasing wind nnd rnin within 12 hours. '
In summer, with light winds, rain may not I
fall for several days. In winter, rain I
within 24 hours.
In summer, rain probable within 12 to 24
hours. In winter, ram or snow, with in- i
I creasing Winds, will often set in when
the barometer begins to fall and the '
I Wind sets in from the NE.
(lain will emitinue 1 to 2 davs.
Rain, with high wind, followed, within 30
hosts, by clearing, and in winter by
colder.
Clearing within t few hours, and fair for
several days.
Severe storm imminent, followed, within
24 hours, by clcnnng, and in winter by
colder.
Severe northeast gale and heavv precipita
tion; in winter, heavy snow, followed by
a cold wave.
Clearing and colder.
MAY THIRD.
3cn;s of the Heavt. V. The Silver
Lining of Dark Clouds. Ps. 42.
43. (Consecration Melting.)
Lot's silver lining. Gen 14: 14-16.
Daniel's sliver lining. Dan. C: 1G-
o
The apostle's deliverance. Acts
5; 17-20.
Job'.; gleam ol brightness. Job 6:
17-10.
Deliverance rrom roes. Ps. IOC:
42-48.
Deliverance Irom death. Ps. 5C:
9-13.
That Is a good question, "Why am
I cn3t down?" Often, If we require
n leascn lor our grler, we shall find
that there Is no renaon.
Because his soul was cast down,
therefore, would the Psalmist remem
ber Cod. The b?st of conclusions!
It la His song that shall be with
me In the r.'eht: not my song.
Le: me be led by 1 1 Is llgh' through
my darkness, by nis truth through
my uncertainty. Let me not try to
n at kr.ow my own way.
Suggestions.
If I cannot see Hie lining of the
cloud, yet surely It Is there, und Ood
can fee It.
l oo'.; back on the sorrows of the
past, te.ust of which you cannot even
remember; so win it be with the sor
rows of today.
Cheerfulness ls not quality; It Is an
art. to be cultivated.
The best road to happiness Is help
fulness, making others happy.
Illustrations.
We can get above the clouds by
the hill of work or the balloon of
faith!
Fur the finest sunsets we need
clouds; nnd so for the sunset or Ufe.
"It Is not raining rain," cries the
poet Loveman; "It Is raining roses
and violet!"
"And so." cries another poet, "I
turn my clouds about, and always
wear them Inside out, to show the
lining!"
Quotations.
An ounce or cheerfulness Is worth
a pound of sadness to serve Ood
with Fuller.
The burden becomes light which
Is cheerfully borne. Ovid.
If good people would but make
their goodness n-reeable. and smile
Instead of frowning In their virtue,
how many would 'hey win to the
good cause! Archi'-iiop Usher.
The most manifest sign of wisdom
is continued cheerliiness. Mon-tlgne.
Inventor of Envelopes.
It ts somewhat curious that such a
simple contrivance as the envelope
Bbould be a comparatively modern
invention.
As a matter of fact it ls Just n
hundred years since a paper manu
facturer of Brighton named Hrewes
Invented envelopes for letters In their
present form. Even then It was some
considerable time betore their use
became at all general, not, in fact,
until somewhere about the year 1850.
Before this date (as many who are
living now will remember) a letter,
written only on one side, was folded
In two, then in three, sealed with a
wafer or sealing wax, and addressed
on one ot the Mank sides. Uaulols.
Minnie on Him!
"Of course, Johu," a!d Mrs.
Younghusband, "I Hie my kitchen
quite well, but I'd like tc have one of
those new portable ranges."
"But. my dear," protested her foxy
husband, "we'd have to get portable
ccoklns uteusllr to go with it."
"That's so: I never thought of
that." Catholic Standard and Times
As a rule, winds from the east
quadrants and falling barometer In
dicate foul Weather: and winds shift-
j Ing to the west quadrants Indicate
clearing and fair weather. The rapid
ity of the storm's approach and Its
Intensity are Indlcnted by the rate
and the amount In the fall of the
barometer.
Tho Indications afforded by the
wind and the barometer are the best
guides we now have tor determining
ruture weather conditions. As low
barometer readings usually attend
stormy weather, and high barometer
readings are generally associated with
clearing or fair weather, It follows
that falling barometer Indicates pre
cipitation and wind, nnd rising bar
ometer, fair weather or the approach
of fair weather. As atmospheric
waves or crests (areas of high bar
ometer) and troughs or depressions
(areas of low barometer), are, by
natural laws, caused to assume cir
cular or oval forms, the wind direc
tions with reference to areas of low
barometer, are spirally nnd contra
clockwise Inward toward the region
of lowest atmospheric pressure, as
Indicated by readings of the bar
ometer. Areas of low barometric
pressure are, in fact, whirlwinds of
greater or less magnitude nnd In
tensity, depending upon the steep
ness of the barometric gradient. The
atmospheric crests, or areas of high
barometer, on tho contrnry, ohow
winds flowing spirally clockwise out
ward from the region of highest bar
ometric pressure.
The wind directions thus produced
give rise to, and are responsible for,
all local weather signs. The south
winds bring warmth, the north winds
cold, the east winds. In the middle
latitudes. Indicate tee approach from
the westward of a low barometer, or
storm, area, and the west winds show
that the storm area has passed to the
eastward. Tho indications of the
barometer generally forerun the
shirts of the wind. This much is
shown by local observations.
During the colder months, when
the land temperatures are below th
water temperatures of the ocean, pre
cipitation will begin along the sea
boards when the wind shifts nnd
blows steadily from the water over
the land without regard to' the height
of the barometer. In such cases the
moisture In the warm ocean winds Is
condensed by the cold of the conti-
The top of a carriage wheel in
passing along the road moves more
quickly through the atmosphere than
the bottom. This eounds almost fool
ish, but It ls absolutely sound. It is
due to the movablo axle or axle. The
top of the wheel has forward motion
plus forward -evolution. The bottom
of the wheel has the eame forward
motion niiuue backward revolution.
nentnl area. During tho summer
months, on the contrary, the onshore
winds are not necessarily rain winds,
for the reason that they are cooler
than the land surfaces nnd their ca
pacity for moisture Is Increased by
the warmth that Is communicated to
them by the land surfnee. In such
cases thunderstorms commonly occur
when tho ocean winds are Intercepted
by mountain ranges or peaks. If,
however, the easterly winds ot sum
mer Increase In force, with falling
barometer, the approach of nn area
of low barometric pressure from the
west Is Indicated and rain will follow
within a day or two.
From the Mississippi and Missouri
valleys to the Atlantic coust, and on
the Pacific coast, rain generally be
gins on a falling barometer, while in
the Rocky Mountains and Plateau
districts, nnd on the eastern Rocky
Mountain slope, precipitation seldom
begins until the barometer begins to
rise, after a fall. This is true as re
gards the eastern half of the county,
however, only during the colder
months, and In the presence of gen
eral storms that may occur at other
seasons. In the warmer months sum
mer showers and thunderstorms us
ually come about the time the bar
ometer turns from falling to rising.
The ract that during practically the
entire year precipitation on the great
western plains and in the mountain
regions that He between the plains
nnd the Pacific coast districts does
not begin until the centre of the
low barometer area hns passed to
the eastward or southwnrd and the
wind has shirted to the north quad
rants, with rising barometer, ls un
important one to note.
In meteorological work, ns con
ducted by the United States Weather
Bureau, observations, simultaneously
taken, are collected by telegraph from
great areas, and it is possible by this
means to calculate for several days
In advance the local Blgns that will bo
produced by the general conditions
that are presented. In other words,
modern meteorological appliances,
methods and skill make possible fore
casts of the conditions that produce
the local signs that presage weather
changes. Furthermore, It 1b practica
ble, by the employment of present day
methods, not only to foreenst general
weather changes, hut also to calcu
late with great accuracy the course.
Intensity and duration of storms.
J I it iv. "IN THK CHEAP."
It Is Unattractive to the Avcrngr
American,
The "old follows' invasion" In the
Latin Quarter In Paris Is discussed
by a corresponded as a peculiar fea
ture of life In the French capital.
Many middle-aged American business
men nnd Englishmen. It Is stnted,
suddenly abandon work nd money
making to drop out of sight and re
appear as Bohemians. Many of them
have only enough money to pay their
bills at modest hotels, or penrlone,
r.nd some of them live In lodgings,
eating the questionable food nnd
drinking the watery wines of the
cheap cafes. Their compensation for
living an aimless, hand-to-mouth ex
istence is that they are emancipated
from the grind of the office and from
such responsibilities as attach to
being a person well known In a com
munity. One American, who sunk
all of his capital In an annuity of
$20 a week, Is pictured as the most
contented nnd light-hearted of men.
He professes to know more about
French, Swiss and Italian boarding
houses at "under a dollar a day" than
any English-speaking man In Europe.
All of the sunniest corners on the
Continent where a poor man may
nestle in contentment nnd revel in
freedom from enre, at less than $7
a week, are parts of his pre-empted
territory.
Henr this philosopher upon a poor
man's paradise In Holland:
"I know n boarding farm with the
use or a horse, a piano nnd a boat,
with table beer and coffee after
meals, at $4 a week."
. Another haven of refuge and rest:
"I can take you to a green-bowered
whlte-as-snow cottage on the hanks
of the Adriatic, where delicious pink
wines, a different fish every day in
the week, fruits galore, goat's milk,
cheese, bread and cake, and all the
honey you want, come to what we
call In America, 'six bits' a day."
All of this seems alluring In print.
It is, doubtless, appealing in fact, to
many English remittance men and to
a few Americans, but of the millions
who work In this country until they
reach middle life there will never
be many whose Ideals of happiness
will ever bd realized in a third-rate
Paris pension, or who will find con
tentment eating bread and cheese and
drinking goat's milk by the shores
of the Adriatic at an expense of six
bits a day and the loss of their Iden
tity, their opportunities, their home
ties and their friends In America.
There would be less nervous ex
haustion and heart disease In Ameri
ca If a higher percentage of Ameri
cans would be contented with mod
erate Incomes and be happy after
mMdle life with bread and cheese
and honey and table beer, although
there might be fewer new skyscrap
ers, rnllroads and other visible mani
festations of American restlessness,
energy and constructive genius and
there might be more real happiness
per capita among American men. But
water will run up hill sooner than
the average American will find hap
piness in idleness and contentment in
living within an Income of $20 a
week, while ho has enough of his
Ilfespark left to burn a part of it each
day In pursuing the elusive dollar.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Belt Made of tSU Steer Hides.
Washington State boasts the larg
est leather belt ever made In the
world. The hides of a herd of 225
steers wero required to furnish the
material from which the big endless
belt was built. Only the centres of
the hides were used, and each cf these
was stretched for weeks to Insure
perfectly oven strength in all parts
of the proposed belt. The belt is 114
feet long, three feet wide and three
ply thick. The weight of the belt i3
something more than 2500 pounds.
Not a peg, rivet or fastening ot
any kind was used to -veld the pieces
of hide together. The best quality
ot cement was used nnd the placos
where tho hldesoverlap welded by the
weight of a hydraulic press bearing
2 50 pounds pressure to the square
foot. The big belt has just been In
stalled in the new Dempstc, sawmill
at Tacoma, Wash. Seattle Post-ln-'eMIgencer.
Chamois Maker is u Magician
Most everybody uses chamois, und
everybody Imagines it comes from
the graceful goats of the Swiss Alps.
But It doeen't. It really halls from
the cavernous depths of tanneries of
Peubody, in New England. Peabody
tanners make beuutirul leathers or
sheep pelts. The chumols maker is
a magician of the leather trade. To
his uoors he draws sheepskins from
the great ranches of Moutana, or
their possible future rivals on tho
plains of Siberia, the pampas of Ar
gentina, or the fields of Austrullu.
Mary's little Iamb, masquerading as
brave Swiss chamois, has a wonderful
career. New York World.
Our Disappearing Forests.
Not until we pause and consider
that our reproduction of forest trees
is so sadly neglected that we cut
each year three times the annual
growth; not until we realize that
each year 125,000,000,000 feet of
lumber ls cut. a cut which means
,over 10,000,000,000 a month? over
338.000,000 feet a day and over
13,000,000 feet each of the twenty,
.four hours of the day; not until we
remember that by our tariff laws we
i are keeping out reinforcements to
protect our timber supply from ex
j Initiation do we begin to realize the
appalling fact that the sands which
number the hours of our forests are
falling fast; that from the snow-clad
hills of northern Minnesota to the
sun-kissed shores of tho Gulf, from
the wave-beaten rocks ot Maine to
California Golden Gate the cold
steel of the tree butcher's axe Is ring
ing the death knell of our once proud
American forest tree. Representa
tive Philo Hall, of South Dakota.
Big Maine Pine.
There are evidently some big pine
trees left up In the northwestern
part of the State. Here Is a descrip
tion of one of them sent by C. W.
Edgerly, of Old Town, scaler at the
lumber camp of Flavlen Choumard,
on the northwest branch of the St.
John River.
This pine had three branches, and
the tree was three feet ten Inches
throughout the butt log. From the
tree were taken but two butt logs,
each sixteen feet long, and four logs
fourteen feet long were taken from
each of the branches. The top log
was thirteen inches through at the
top. All of these logs were sound
white pine. Besides these logs one
piece eight feet long al the forks of
the branches was left in the woods.
Fourteen logs from one pine Is
certainly a good record, and shows,
that nil the raonarchs of the forest
from which Maine takes her name of
the Pine Tree Stele are not gone yet.
Bangor Commercial.
A Way Out of a Difficulty.
An old highlander, being sent one
da, for Ave yards ot satin, forgot his
err.tnd, but, not to bo done, said to
the shopman: "Can ye give me an
lther name for the dell (devil) forby
the dell?" The shopman said "Bstau."
"That be him," was the answer.
Whang me off five yards of him,
white." Dundee Weekly News.
In the last ten years over $20,000,
000 has been spent by the Wesleyan
Method i i i Church of England on
churches and hulls for religious work.
A Blessing Not it Wow.
"Hero is a good one," said the
telegraph operator. "A dear old
Methodist minister came in yesterday
and sent this telegram to a confer
ence that had assigned him to a
churge: 'Acte, 20:32." He explained
that the citation was: 'And now,
brethren, I commend you to God.'
"Well, the careless operator at the
other end handed the message to tho
conference so that it read: 'Acts,
23:2.' That text the bewildered con
ference found on reference to Its
Bible reads:
" 'And the high priest Ananias
commundod them who stood by to
smite him on the mouth.' " Los An
geles Time.
Stereotyper Does Needlework.
A horny-handed man who spends a
largo part of his time In the hlgh
tomperatured confines of the stereo
typing department of a dally news
paper would hardly be expected to
I bo an adept at fancy needlework, but
i Joe Gerdom, an employe of the Jour
nal, ls a versatile genius of this very
type. Gerdom's latest creation Is the
cover of a sofa pillow, upon which he
has designed In a raised figure the
picture of a Teddy bear. The design
is constructed of Teddy bear yarn and
is made by the skillful operation of a
tufting needle. Thousands of feet
of yarn were used in order to proper
ly raise the figure above the base,
which ls of very fine velvet, and the
actual time In which Gerdom was em
ployed waB twelve hours. Kansas
City Journal.
Mothers In Factories.
Ignorance, no doubt, accounts for
much of the waste of infant life, but
Lancashire's industrial conditions
give her her bad pre-eminence.
Mothers who work In the factory can
not roar their children naturally, and
the cure und the akil! and the atten
tion necessary for successful artificial
feedlug are beyond tbem. Manches
ter Qusrdisu.
Missouri School. With One Pupil.
Worth County has a school dis
trict that we believe cannot be du
plicated in the entire State.
It Is District 2, tit.. 33, Greene
township. There are only three chil
dren of school age In the district, and
only one of them Is attending the
home school, the other two attending
elsewhere. The teacher ls paid $32
a month to teach this one pupil, and
there ls no doubt about the child get
ting good Instruction. A district
that will keep school open for the
benefit of one child and pay a teach
er $32 per month mutt certainly be
loyal to the cause of popular educa
tion. Grant City Times.
Art end Materialism.
"Literature has to face many dis
couragements," said the sympsthetlo
auditor,
"Yei," answered the man with Ink
on his fingers. "There is Just one
thing' to be thankful for, and that Is
that they don't boost the price of
postage stamps as fast as they do the
price of white paper." Washington
Star,