~ and the place.
SERMONS BY EMINENT DIVINE.
GOSPEL MESSAGES.
Kev. George H. Hepworth’s Sermon in
the New York Herald is Entitled
“Nothing is Small”’<.An Address by
Evangelist D. L. Moody on Bible Texts.
The New York Herald publishes the com-
plete result of its recent competition for
rize sermons printed in its columns. The
t prize was awarded by the Herald it-
self, and the second, third and fourth
prizes were decided by the votes of its
readers. The successful competitors were
as follows:
First prize, $1000, to the Rev. Richard G.
Woodbridge, pastor of the Central Congre-
ational Church, Middleboro, Mass. Sub-
ect, “The Power of Gentleness.” ,
Second prize, £500, to the Rev. W. S.
Perkins, pastor of St. Paul’s Universalist
Church, Meridan. Conn, Subject, ‘Burden
Bearing.”
Third prize, $300, to the Rev. John D.
Long, pastor of the Presbyterian Church,
Papylon, L. I. Subject, “The Good Side of
ife.””
Fourth prize, 2200, to the Rev. Edwin P.
Parker, pastor of the Second Church, Hart-
ford, Conn. Subject, “Law of Kindness.”
Dr. Hepworth on “Nothing is Small.
. Text: “Thou hast been faithful over a
few things, 1 will make thee ruler over
many things; enter thou into the joy of thy
Lord.”—Matthew xxv., 21.
I know of! no part of Scripture which
gives me more good cheer than this. It
contains the kindest and most eacouraging
statement of fact that ever fell from the
lips of Christ. I oftentimes wonder what
circumstance suggested this subject—what
impelled Him to put a gentle hand on our
shoulder, as though to say, ‘Be not trou-
bled.” To do things well is to do God’s
work in God’s way. Nothing is trivial that
is worth doing at all.
It is true that not all can be great in ths
sight of men, but every man may belong to
heaven’s nobility. There are men in the
humblest walks of life who will wear cov-
eted crowns in the hereafter because they
did their simple duty in a simple fashion.
When we get into the other world we
shall be profoundly surprised to find that
the Lord’s standard of value is very differ-
ent from that to which we have been ac-
customed. We regard social position,
wealth, intellectual culture as of prime im-
portance and rather imagine that the Lord
will hesitate to condemn any one with these
three enviable possessions. But it is clear
that we and He do not agree, for with Him
a pure heart and a sweet, placid and gentle
life are worth more than all else besides.
Not even God can make either your
heart pure or your life sweet without your
assistance. = Nor can you make a pure
heart or a sweet life without His assistance.
These desirable results must come from a
close association of God with man and of
man with God. When your weakness,
moved by a divine ambition, is commingled
with His omnipotence, then and then only
can the ideal soul be produced. He can
make wealth, He can give you the genius
which will make you famous, but it is ab-
solutely netessary for you and Him to work
in holy partnership before the thing which
heaven prizes most can be attained.
When we step across the border we shail
find that many of our earthly ideas of
value are either mistakes or prejudices,
and that lives are acceptable and profit-
able only in proportion to their spiritual
symmetry and beauty. The more a man
does for others, therefore, the more he
does for himself, and if he cares only for
himself, to the neglect of others, he will
have to go into the primary class in heaven
and learn what true religion means.
Someone said to me recently in despair-
ing tones, “My life amounts to so little. I
live the humdrum daysin a humdrum way,
and if I should drop out of existence it
would make no difference to anyone.” If
that were true it would be very sad. But
this man was to my mind one of the
world’s heroes. I knew his environmont,
and knew what he had done with it, how
much he had made out of it. Yes, he was
a manual laborer, and his hands were
grimy with toil. He was a saint in over-
alls. He was the guardian angel of an
aged mother who thought herself in
heaven long before she went there because
the son was so like Providence. He
strained every nerve to give his boys an
education that they might be fitted to do
better work than he had done.
You say ‘““Al} this is a matter of course.”
Then I add, and God’s blessing is a matter
of course. :
That was a narrow life? No; ii was as
wide as God’s love could make it, and as
noble as an archangel’s.
He who does the little duties of life with
a large heart makes himself great in soul.
You can better afford to stand before God
in honest rags than in the purple and fine
linen of dishonesty.
The important question to be answered
is not, Who are you? but What are you?
Your pocketbook does not weigh as
much as your moral principle in the scales
of God.
It is rank heresy to say that your life is
worthless if you are doing your work well.
Heaved is full of princes who found it
hard to pay the rent of their earthly
houses.
Never allow yourself to say, and espe-
cially to feel, that the work you are doing
is insignificant or the place you will flll is
of no importance. To do that is to make
an uncalled for criticism on the Lord, for
you hereby declare that the duty He has
set you to do is not worth doing. If there
is a mistake anywhere it is in your opinion
of the value of things and not in His judg-
ment as to what He needs to have done.
You have noright to hold any such opinion,
and if you do it is because your ideas are
based on false principles. .
No matter how humble your sphere, fill
it full by pouring your best and noblest
qualities of character into it. A pool of
water is a thing of beauty when the moon
shines on it, and the smallest soul that ever
breathed is @ miracle when the spirit of God
is reflected therein.
It requires many hands to make a watch.
If one of the hands which fashions one of
the cogs of one of the wheels dess its work
badly the watch will never keep good time.
If the whole is to be perfect every part.
must be perfect.
So it is in the universe. You do not know,
but God knews that unless you take pains
to make your cog of the wheel with fidelity
you may do a damage which cannot easily
be repaired. :
Little things done well make a great
soul, and small duties are always great
duties in the eyes of the angels.
George H. HEpwoRT,
ADDRESS BY MOODY.
The Fameus Evangelist Speaks in New
Yerk en the Value of Bible Texts.
“I believe in my heart that the best thing
on this earth is the Gospel of the Son of
God. I said last night that the keynote of
this mission is the sayimg of Christ, ‘The
Son of Mana is come to seek and to save that
which wag lost.” To-night I will take an-
other text to follow it. And I want xou to
remember that the object of the sermon is
to drive home the text. I would rather
‘have one text of the Bible than all the ser-
mons in the world. There ars enough of
them preaehed in New York every week to
gave the city tem times over. In John i.
29, are the first words recorded: by the
evangelist as having been spoken to him by
Jesus Christ. They are, ‘What seek ye?
It may have been sixty years after John
. heard those words that he wrote them
down, but they had made such an impres-
sion on him that he remembered the time
With another who nafter-
ward became a disciple he had gone tolook
at Christ, and asked Him the question,
*Where dwellest Thou?’ ‘Come and see,
answered the Saviour, and the two disei-
ples went, and never left Him. :
“It is very evident that these two men
found more in Christ than did a good many
others of their time. And do you know
that there are a good many in New York
the same way. It is recorded in the gos
Eels that many of those who followed the
viour left Him, and there are many who
Him to-day who say they
are disappointed. Why? I think
I can tell you. When the crowds
followed Christ in the Holy Land they did
80 from various motives. Some of them
wanted to see Him perform miracles. They
wanted to see the devils cast out and the
lepers cured, and so they were always say-
ing to Him, ‘‘Master, show us a sign.”
Others thought He was going to found an
earthly kingdom, and wanted to get into
office when He founded it. Others thought
that they might entangle Him into saying
something against the Mosaic or Roman
laws which would lead to His condemna-
tion and death. Others followed just from
morbid curiosity to see the crowd and
hear something new. Others: He Himself
accused of being after the fishes and the
loaves, They did not care about His mes-
sage.
“All these people soon got tired of fol-
lowing Christ; but I can vouch for one
thing—that no man for eighteen hundred
years who has followed Jesus Christ for
what He is has ever been disappointed.
He is all that you make Him to be. Some
make a little Saviour, because they think
little of Him.
“What seek ye, you that are horeto-night?
Come, tel me. I could go through the
crowd and find just the same motives
actuating you as those who followed the
Lord in Palestine. There are some men
back there who came to see the crowd.
Another has come bacause his wife has
been nagging at him for the last three
weeks, and he promised to come. An-
other man is here beceuse he has nowhere
else to go. He says that if he had a good
comfortable home you would not flnd him
here. Another one comes to hear the
singing. I'm glad he wanted to hear
something, anyway. Although some of
you have come with low motives, thank
God you have come at all, and you may
change your mind before you’re through.
I’m glad to have a chance at you, what-
ever your motives {or being here may be.
‘““Here is ancther text I want to read:
‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you.” So: many people think
that they will attend to temporal things
first, and after they have made a comforta-
ble fortune and settled down they will at-
tend to eternal things. God says, ‘No.
You must first seek the Kingdom of God.’
I-think if this were really done you would
never come to want. os Tan
“I have been besonght on all sides to
preach sermons on capital and labor and
similar subjects. My friends, I believe as
long as you start right and follow that text
you will turn out right in the end. I be-
lieve so many don’t get on because the
Kingdom of God comes last, not first, with
them. You can’t tell what may happen be-
fore the morning. Christ would not even
allow a man who followed Him to bury his
dead father before he had obtained the
Kingdom of God. I believe there are thou-
sands and tens of thousands of young peo-
ple who have written on the flyleaves of
their Bibles by some loving father or
mother the text I have quoted, from DMat-
thew vi., 33. ;
‘If Moses should suddenly appear here
what do you suppose would be the first
words he would say to you? If you asked
him to come to the platform and take my
place he would say: ‘The choice is be-
tween life and death, Choose life.” If
Hezekiah were to come here what would he
say? I think he would ask you. ‘How
long halt ye between two opinions?’ If
Solomon should appear he would say,
‘Whatever thy hand flndeth to de, do it
with thy might.’ Suppose that little tent-
maker, Paul of Tarsus, were hers. He would
shout, ‘Now isthe accepted time, now is
the day of salvation.” And il Jesus Christ
were to appear among us He would say,
‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness and all these thingsshall be
added unto you.’”’
follow
HOW TO AVOID YELLOW JACK.
Professor Klek Says It is Easy to Avoid
“the Germs.
Uncle Sam has only to issue an order to
his troops to ‘‘cook your food and boil
your drinking water’ to render the whole
American army immune from yellow
fever, according to Professor Edwin Klek,
of. Rush Medical College, Chicago, an ac-
count of whose discovery of yellow fever
germs was published a fortnight ago.
The Spanish soldiers in Cuba, among
whom the mortality from yellow fever has
been great, have eaten hy drunk cooked
and uncooked food and water indiscrimi-
nately. It is Professor Klek’s theory that
if the simple precaution of boiling and
cooking had been fallowed the army would
have been practically immune from the
disease.
. In the event of war with Spain the
American troops sent to Cuba would be
forced to depend largely oh food canned
in the United States, which would lessen
the danger considerably. It is Professor
Klek’s belief that the familiar injunction
of the Chicago Health Department to
‘boil the water” would complete the
safety of the troops from the disease,
whose ravages are more to be dreaded
than Spanish bullets.
THE SAN JOSE FRUIT BUG.
New Jersey Is Its Eastern Home, Accord.
ing to Entomologists.
The Agricultural Department has just is-
sued a bulletin on the San Jose scale in
1396-97, prepared by Entomologist IL. O:
Howard. It is of much interest at this
time because of the recent edict of the
German Government prohibiting the im-
portation of living plants, fruits, etc., on
account of the alleged' discovery of scale
on peas shipped from California.
The bulletin says that in the fall of 1895
the insect was reported as being in twenty
States, but in comparatively few localities
in each, with the exception of New Jersey,
which was overrun by it. In 1896-7 actual
field inspection in Virginia, Maryland, Iili-
nois, Ohio, Georgia and several other States
showed that in them the insect was almost
as widespread as in New Jersey, while
twelve States and the District of Columbia
have been added to the number containing
infested points.
A list of fifty-five fruit and shade trees
and ornamental shrubs affected by the pest
18 given. Considerable space is devoted to
a discussion of the remedies suggested to
kill the pest.
FILLED CHEESE EVIL
Iss Exportation to Emgland Has Caused
Injury to American Trade. *
United States Consul Dickinson, at
Nottingham, England. has sent the State
Department, Washington, an interesting
report upon the quantity and quality of
cheese sent to Great Britain by Amerlea.
In it he poigts a moral and conveys awarn-
ing to exporters who have been in the
hahit of sending ‘‘filled cheese” to foreign
ports instead of the pure product. The re-
sult of this kind of fraud has cost American
cheese dealers thousands of dollars ia trade
lost durt the last few years. Canada
has gained what we have relinquished.
This gradual change of relations has been
going on since/1881. That year the United
States sent England nearly 148,000,000
pounds of cheese. Our product was then
at the top of the British market:
Ths Drought in California.
Stock raisers of Fresno, Cal., are circula-
ting a petition which is to be forwarded to
President McKinley. The unprecedented
drought has been very hard on stock, and
in the petition the President will be asked
to proclaim that stock maygraze on certain
F the coming season,
KA
| ons of the Yosemite Park reservation
(STONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
REPORT ON MINES.
oo Many Engaged in the Business to Make
it Profitable.
The advance sheets ‘of the first an-
nual report of Robert Brownlee, chief
of the bureau of mines and mining,
was made public last week. Mr.
3rownlee says there is no question
that if the mine rules ware more vig-
orously enforced the number of acci-
dents in the mines would be very ma-
terially reduced. “Some people.” he
continues, ‘‘attribute the cause of so
many accidents to the large foreign
clement employed in and about the
mines. My experience and observation
nave been that this class are as careful
of danger, if not more so, than many
of the experienced miners.” Mr.
Brownlee says there are too many
men engaged in the business for min-
ing to be profitable. He thinks this
the reason of discontent and suffering
among miners; not because the miner
does not get enough for his work un-
der existing conditions, but because he
cannot get enough work to do.
The following pensions were issued
‘ast week: Daniel J. Skull, Chambers-
burg, $6; Thomas Simpson, Altoona,
Fifteenth, Engle, Duval, Forty-
$6; Samuel A. Pierce, Allegheny, $6;
John Rosenberger, Franklin, $8; James
Miller, Bellefonte, $6; Aaron French,
Wurtemberg, Lawrence, $8; David Ly-
barger, Speelman, Bedford, $6 to. $14;
Willam Walter, Hilsdale, Westmore-
land, $6 to $10; James 1. arnell, Snow-
shoe, Center, $6 to $8; Samuel Bristel,
Feree, Westmoreland, $16 to $24; Eliza
Wilson, Beaver Falls, $8; Sophie J.
Thomas, Harrisville, $8; Margaret J.
Rearick, Beringer, Indiana, $8; Evan
Lloyd, Sewickley, $6; Cornelius Bacon,
Delhi, Erie, $6; William McDivitt,
Johnstown, $6; Frederick Raser, Phoen-
Ixville, $6; John Core, New Salem, Fa-
vette, $12; Robert Maloney, Hollidays-
burg, $6; Perry Lewis, Elgin, Erie, $6;
E. P. Bennett, Titusville, $6; Jacob
Condron, Williamsburg, Blair, $6; Am-
brose ILosekarn, Pittsburg, $12; Moore
Bridges, Franklin, $6; George W. Croft,
St. Thomas, Franklin, $6; Lewis Par-
ker, Titusville, $2 to $12; Anthony Gates,
BeHefonte,—$8 to $12: William Mec-
Knight, Chambersburg, $6; John Mc=
Henry, Ambrose, Indiana, $16 to $17;
Samuel Grossman, Parkers Landing,
$12 to, $17; A. F. Gorley, Uniontown, $6
to $8; Eliza Ball, Sandrock, Greene, $8;
Margaret Mulholland, ‘Apollo, $8; Cor-
delia Hoagland, Wellsboro, $8; Nancy
J. McMillen, Oak Ridge station, Arm-
strong, $8; Catherine Powell, Altoona,
$8; Mexican war survivor, Ferdinand
Memoring, Ashland, $8 to $12; Thomas
S. Betty, (dead), McKeesport,, $3 to $10:
J. W. Dever, Lone Pine, Washington,
38; Judson B. Phelps, Conneautville, $8
to $10; Adam W. Park, New Castle, $16
hy John H. Sones, Unityville, $6 to
Word reaches Bellefonte of a strange
case near Milton, brought about from
the effects of taking ether. Miss Grace
Wilson visited a local dentist. After
the operation she became unconscious
and like dead. She remained in a trance
several days. Then ,she awoke and
told of a vision of heaven, .and hell.
Miss Wilson also told that Harry Far-
ley, a young man then lying ill, would
die that night, and he did. The girl
then relapsed into unconsciousness and
has apparently lost her reason.
Charles Swartzhop, aged 38, died the
other night at Oil City, a victim of the
epidemic of spinal meningitis. All of
the victims have been strong and
| healthy people and have died within
three days after having been attacked.
Of 20 cases or more there has not one
recovered. The medical authorities at
first contended that it was not con-
tagious, but it is now admitted that it
{ is a germ disease, and people are be-
coming much alarmed.
Five students of Growe City College
were permanently suspended from the
institution the other day for belonging
to a secret fraternity in the school. For
a long time the faculty has suspected
the existence of such an organization,
and as it was in direct violation of one
of their strictest rules they made
strenuous efforts to ferret it out, but
were unsuccessful.
A mystery surrounds the disappear-
ance of Seymour Lint, who it was
thought had been drowned Saturday
night trying to ford the Yough at
Dawson. The theory advanced is that
he was murdered and his body thrown
into the Yough and his horse started
across the river to mislead. His father
has offered a reward for the recovery
of his body.
By the death of William Wolf, at
Washington, a large estate goes to two
sisters, Mrs. Dr. O'Kells of Pittsburg
and Mrs. Jane Copeland of Stcuben-
ville, O.; and the heirs of the late Mrs.
Sarah Brister of Steubenville, who in-
clude William 8. Brister and Mrs. E.
Dean, of Pittsburg.
Arthur Harper, a 21-year-old son of
Samuel Harper, of Pittsburg, a few
days ago peceived notice of his success-
ful examination for naval pharmacist
on one of the new warships.
were 32 in the number of applicants.
He was ordered to report for duty in
Washington at once.
For the third time within three
months an attempt has been rad: to
wreck
county. Monday morning the villagea
water works system was blown up by
nitro-glycerine. Two 250-barrel tanks
were destroyed.
The Bethlehem Iron Company re-
cently shipped to the navy department
at Washington two five-inch guns and
eight hoops for six-inch guns. The to-
tal weight of the shipment was over
seven tons.
James Herman of Latrobe, has been
awarded the contract for the erection
of the new six-story brick brewery at
that place. The &ontract price is about
$25,000.
Walter Irwin, of McFann, has been
committed to jail at Butler on the
charge of forgery and obtaining goods
under false pretense made by John
Heckert. :
J. W. Todd, who last week flnished a
fix months term for forgery, pleaded
guilty at Butler, to another forgery
charge and got six months more and
$100 fine.
President McKinley hag decided to
participate if! the Decoration Day cere-
monies at Gettysburg on May 20.
Laport Myers, of Dunbar, was found
dead at tke bottom of a deep embank-
mend with a gash in hia sknll
While walking in his sleep Vincent
D. Studson fell from the porch roof of
his boarding house at Altoona, last
week, and died from his injuries,
Alfred Duff was killed and George
Miller fatally wounded by an explosion
of dynamite at the Kagka- William ccl-
llery near Pottsville recently.
Hon. W. W. Barr, late judge, has
dopated his law library to the Clarion
County Law Library association. The
gift amounts to $1,000.
Conda Rice, at . Robinsonville, Bed-
ford county, was ascidentally killed at
his sawmill last week.
As New Castle Mrs. Walker was
stunned by lightning recently snd was
unconscious two hours. 5
the
There
town of IEdenburg, Clarion |
CONGRESS.
Senate.
In the Senate Monday Mr, Bacon
“(Dem., Ga.) gave notice of an amend-
ment which he intended to offer to the
joint resolution for the annexation of
the Hawaiian islands. It provides that
the joint resolution shall not be opera-
tive and of binding effect, either on the
United States or on the republic of
Hawaii, until it has been consented to
and approved by a majority of the
electors of the Hawaiian islands—all
male natives over 21 years old, and all
male naturalized foreigners entitled to
vote; the time and manner of the elec-
tion to be prescribed by the president
of the United States.
A feature of the Senate proceedings
Tuesday was an extended speech by
Mr. Caffery (La.) in support of the
pending National quarantine bill. Mr.
Caffery said the United States Govern-
ment was the only authority which
could make a quarantine effective, and
he added that he was as staunch a
State’s rights advocate. as any man.
State quarantines were, he said, utter-
ly powerless ‘against an epidemic of
yellow fever. Mr. Carter (Mont.) of
the committee on territories, in calling
up the measure making further pro-
visions for a civil government of Alas-
ka, said the committee had not deemed
it wise to provide for a legislative as-
sembly for Alaska on account of the
nomadic character of the inhabitants
and the vast extent of the district.
Mr. Hale, chairman of the naval
senate committee, called up for passage
in the senate the Maine relief bill, and
it was passed without a word of debate
by a unanimous vote last Wednesday.
An amendment to the sundry civil
bill is pending before the senate com-
mittee on appropriations appropriating
$250,000 to furnish supplies to the desti-
tute people of Cuba.
Thursday Senator Thurston delivered
a speech on the Cuban situation.
House.
After various corrections had been
made in the record, Chairman Boutelle,
of the naval affairs committee, called
up in the House Monday the bill “for
the relief of the sufferers by the de-
struction of the United States steamer
Maine in the“harbor of Havana, Cuba.”
It reimburses the survivors for losses
of personal effects; gives heirs of those
who perished a sum equal to 12 months’
pay, not, however, to interfere with the
right-to pensions:—— she
The naval appropriation bill was re-
ported to the House Tuesday, carrying
a total of $35,683,058, an increase over
last year of $3,764,432 and over the cur-
rent estimates of $2,514,824. For the in-
crease of the navy the bill allows to be
constructed by contract three sea-go-
ing eoast-line battleships, designed to
carry the heaviest armor and most
powerful ordnance, displacement 11,000
tons, with the highest practicable speed
for their class, to cost, exclusive of ar-
mament, not exceeding $3,000,000 each,
one to be named the Maine; six torpedo
boats, 150 tons displacement, and six
torpedo-boat destroyers, about 250 tons
displacement, to cost not exceeding
$2,340,000; and one gunboat, to take the
place of the United States Steamship
Michigan, to cost, exclusive of arma-
ment, not over $260,000, to be built on
the great lakes. One of these sea-going
battleships is to be built on the Pacific
coast.
The army reorganization bill. was
adopted unanimously by the House
committee Thursday on military af-
fairs, and it was subsequently reported
to the House. In passing upon the
measure the committee has disposed of
a significant point as to the President's
functions in war time in allowing the
establishment of the third-battalion
war formation only upon the declara-
tion of war by Congress or a declara-
tion that war exists. The committee
in its report cites official reports as
showing the increase of the commis-
sioned force of the line of the army
needed to change it from a peace to a
war footing, and puts the enlisted
strength at 104,384 men, an increase of
78,954 men, an equivalent to 66 regi
ments of volunteers of 1,200 men each,
the pay aggregating $4,928,800. To of-
ficer the same number of troops under
the provisions of this bill in time of
war would cost $1,078,600. This, the
committee concludes, effects a saving
in organization of $3,850,200 per year.
Gen. Wheelock of Alabama Friday
introdyced in the house a bill provid-
ing “that in the event of an act of war
being committed by Spain or any other
foreign nation prior to the meeting of
the next session of congress, the presi-
dent of the United States is hereby
authorized to accept tenders of volun-
teer troops, to purchase arms and mu-
nitions of war, to equip troops for ac-
tive service, organize such troops un-
der brigades, divisions and armies for
active service, appoint necessary gen-
eral, staff and other officers, except
such fleld’and company officers as may
have already been selecteds or may
hereafter be selected by proper au-
thority, and do any other act neces-
sary to the safety of the country, or
any part thereof, and to protect its
honor and prestige.” The second sec-
tion appropriates the necessary money
to carry out the provisions of the act.
Labor World.
Mexican miners get 3744 cents a day.
Trades unions are causing an advance of
wages in Japan.
The laundry workers of Syracuse, N. Y.,
have just organized.
The streot rallway workers of Donver,
Cols, are woll organized.
Utica printers have voted to assess them-
selves one per cent. on all earnings for the
shorter workday fund.
Striking employes in most of the New
England eotton mills returned to work
without getéing the increase demanded.
The 1100 operatives of the Whettenton
Cotton Mills, at Taunton, Mass., have re-
turned to work after a flve weeks’ strike.
Postmaster Dickinson, of Detroit, Mich.,
has yielded to the protest of organized
labor in that city against putting mail cars
on street railways.
Iwesident Mahon, of the Street Railway
Workers’ Union, advises his constituents
to move for less hours per day, wherever
promise of success attends.
In the faotories of Osaka,
average wages of the men ara twenty
cents, of the women 134 cents n day. The
price of meals at boarding houses is about
seven cents a day.
In Holland women and persons of either
sox under the age of sixteen are now for-
bidden to begin work earlier than 5 a. m.,
or to continue at work after 7 p. m.; nor
may thelr work exceed eleven hotirs a day
in all.
Twenty-four New York clergymen in-
dorsed the short-hour bill for drug clerks.
A velvet mill at Mystic, Conn., has re-
cently been erected for a firm that bes
come here from Germany. Work was be
gun with one hundred operatives, but the
number will soon be considerably in-
creased.
Utah has a Jaw which fixes eight hours as
a day’s labor in the mines and smelters of
that State. It was exacted in Territorial
times, byt still holds good, and the Su-
preme~Court of the Untted States has just
affirmed it.
A monument bas been erected at Flor-
ence, N. C., tothe memory of T. W. Talbot,
founder of the machinists’ organization in
1888, Talbot was killed several years ago
while in the act of borsewhipping a man
who had insulted Ils daughter. :
Japan, the
“house of Israel?
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR APRIL 3,
Lesson Text: “The Woman of Canaan,'
Matthew xv., 21-31~ Golden Text: Matt.
XV., 25~Commentary on the Lesson
For the Day by the Rev. D. M. Stearns.
21. “Then Jesus went thence and de-
parted into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.”
The herald of Christ having been cut off,
and thus His own death, humanly speak-
ing, having been made more sure, He sets
forth the great truth. by the only miracle
recorded in all four of the gospels, that He
is the true bread for the perishing, suffi-
cient for all. He only can still the storms
of this troubled life, and He will in the
morning watch, but He will not accept
the position of King till then. Those who
would make Him King are more occupied
with washing their hands than their hearts.
They draw nigh with mouth and lips, but
their heart is far from Him, and even the
disciples do not understand that it is the
heart that God looks at and what He wants
there is truth, humility and faith in Him,
#lthough this was plainly set forth in their
Scriptures. See I Sam. xvi., 7; Ps. li., 6;
Mic. vi., 8; II Chron. xx., 20,1. c.
22. “And, behold, a woman of Canaan
came out of the same coasts and cried unto
Him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord,
thou son of David. My daughter is griev-
ously vexed with a devil.” It is only in
trial that faith shines brightest. As in Gen.
il, 2, it was in the darkness the Spirit is
first. heard of and seen moving. So it is
ever. The devil is allowed to work in order
that the works of God may he made mani-
fest (John ix., 8; xi., 4). As far as we
know the only place the Son of God was
seen on the plain of Dura was in the fur-
nace with those who had unbounded faith
in Him.
23. “But He answered her not a word.
And His disciples came and besought Him,
saying, Send her away, for she crieth after
us.” He knew the case thoroughly and
how to deal with it. Silence is not deniai,
and delay is not unkind. The Lord waits
that He may be gracious: blessed are all
they that wait for Him (John xi., 6; Isa.
xxx., 18). He saw her faith grow even
under His silence. It was a good deal to
her that He did not say no and drive her
away. The disciples were like most of us,
selfish, and wanted quietness for them-
selves. They had not iearned to live unto
others and forget self. Have you?
24. “But He answered and said, I am
not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
So he had commissioned
the twelve (chapter x., 6). He might now
have added, ‘But they have rejected Me,
therefore have I come to you,” but it was
not necessary. He saw her faith still
strong under all this, and how it delighted
Him! Did He not say: ‘Other sheep I
have, which are not of this fold. Them
also I must bring, and they shall hear My
voice, and there shall be one fold and one
shepherd?” (Johnyv., 16.)
25. “Then came she and worshiped Him,
saying, Lord help me.”” How His heart re-
joiced in the clinging of this helpless cone.
He longed to help her. He intended to,
but it was not quite time. Though the
need is not personally hers, but the
daughter’s, see how her ery still is,§‘Lord,
help me!” When we by faith—in Christ re-
ceive Him, and are assured by His word
that now we are accepted, redéemed, justi-
fied, and that some day we shall he like
Him (Eph. i., 6,7: Rom. v., 1;:I John iii..
2), is not all this in order that ve may one
by one take up the case of others and bring
them to Christ?
26. ‘But He answered and gad, It is not
meet to take the children’s bread and eas:
it to the dogs.” His wordslook hard and
even unkind, but “God is love,” and lic
was “God manifest in the flesh,” and there
isnaught bat love in all this. We must
not judge Him. He is the Judge. We
must trust Him and wait patiently, and
we shall one day see that He has not done
without cause all that He has done (Ezek.
Xiv., 23).
27. *‘And she said, Truth, Lord. Yet the
dogs eat of the crumbs wliich fall from
their master’s table.” She had addressed
Him ag Lord and, Son of David, and now
as Master. Let Him say what He will, let
Him do what seemeth Him good, she will
trust Him, she will cling to Him, like
Ruth to Naomi, and like Ittai ito David,
like Elisha to Elljah. Nothing can drive
her away. . She has come for somewhat,
and she will have it—if only a dog. He
shall be her Master, He is so very great
and she so poor and needy.
28. “Then Jesus answered and said ynto
her, O woman, great is thy faith. Be it
unto thee even as thou wilt. And her
daughter was made whole from that very
hour.” So she triumphed, her faith in
Him gave her her heart’s desire. He in-
tended to do it. I doubt not that He
took that journey in order to do it, but
there is a time that is always best. If He
keeps us waiting, it is because He is saying
to us as to His mother at the marriage,
“Mine hour is not yet come.” It is some-
times asked, “Can our faith bring blessing
to others?” Let this case answer, for we
have no reference to the daughter's faith.
He said, ‘Great is thy faith,” yet the
daughter was made whole.
29. “And Jesus departed from thence
and came nigh unto the Sea of Galilee, and
went up into a mountain and sat down
there.” He took the long journey to be
refreshed by great faith and to do wonders
for His hidden one. =~ We read of nothing
else that He did at that time. He sent
Philip, one of the seven, a long journey to
bring joy to the Ethiopian. He sent Ga-
briel from heaven to instruct Daniel and
comfort Zacharias. He sent an angel to
the ship in the storm to comfort Paul.
There is nothing too wonderful for Him,
and He is always ‘‘this same Jesus (Acts
i., 1D):
30. “And great multitudes came unto
Him, having with them those that were
lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many
others, and cast them’ down at Jesus’ fest,
and He healed them,” What a sample of
what His kingdom will be. ‘‘T'he inhabitant
shall not say I am sick, the people that
dwell therein shall be forgiven thelr in-
iguity”’ (Isa. xxxifi., 24). It will be heaven
come down to earth. One doesnot wonder
that they wanted to take Him by force and
make Him their King (John vi., 15), for
when hungry He coujd feed them, when
sick He could heal them, and {if they died
Huacould bring them to life.
31. “Insomuch that the multitude won-
dered, when they saw the dumb to speak,
the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk
and the blind to see, and they glorified the
Yod of Israel.” But why did they won-
der? This was just what Isaiah satd that
their Messiah would do (Isa. xxxv., 5, 6).
Why did they not weleome Him and sub-
mit to Him as their Messiah, that they
might as a pation obtain joy and gladness
and have sorrow and sadness flee away?
No, they were not ready for God’s theughts
and ways. Like their forefathers, they
wanted a king like other nations.—Lesson
Helper.
a A FE
The gun-carriage that survives the
tests given it before its acceptance by
the ordinance inspectors of the German
army need not fear for the emergencies
of actual campaign. Near the arsenal
at Mandau a tract has been built ¢ov.
ered with all sorts of obstacles. It is
in imitation of bad roads at one nart.
is crossed by a ditch at anothér, and
there arc realistic imitations of moun-
tain passes and ravines.
“Offbway Joe,” the Chippewa chief,
who died in Superior, Wis., the other
day, is sald to have killed more North-
srners than any man in the Confeder-
ate armies He says he killed 113. He
was a sharpshooter, having joined the
Jonfederacy because of a personal
grievance against the Federal Govern-
ment. :
adm i mi bn wt ea al
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
According to. the best authorities,
there has never been a race of men
that was ignorant of the use of fire.
All the swing bridges across the
river within the limits of the city of
Chicago are operated by means of
electricity.
Pneumatic pressure is used to ring
a new door bell, the push button pump-
ing air into a tube, which has a piston
at the other end to slide out and push
the bell clapper.
Bricks made of plaster of paris and
cork are now used in the construction
of powder mills. In case of explo-
sion they offer slight resistance, and
are broken to atoms.
Draughting compasses are being
made with a flexible rubber suction
cup on one end to fasten to the paper
and hold the instrument while the
circle is being drawn.
During certain definite seasons of
the year sun spots travel across the
sun’s surface in straight bands. Dur-
ing other definite seasons of the year
they travel across the surface in curves.
Sun spots occur in greater or less
numbers, new. ones forming and old
ones disappearing constantly. There
is a maximum number at periods about
eleven years apart, according to obser-
vations made continuously during the
present century. .
The sun’s distance is equal to about
two thousand times the diameter of
the earth. A train running at sixty-
fivegmiles an hour wonld reach the
sun in 175 years. At the rate of two
cents a mile the fare to the sun would
be about $1,500, 000.
The force of gravity at the sun's
surface is twenty-seven times greater
than the force of gravity on the earth.
An average-sized person would weigh
a ton on the sun’s surface. The aver-
age density of the sun is only a quar-
ter of that of the earth.
Bears sleep for months during the
dead of winter. Fattening in the fall,
they creep to some cave or hollow tree,
and pass there into a state of hiberna-
tion, which reduces them, physiologi-
cally speaking, to the condition of
cold-blooded animals. The vital ac-
tivities of their bodies are reduced to
a minimum, and yet they appear in the
spring lean and exhausted by this long
fast.
HEAT OF SUN AFFECTS IT MOST.
Influence of Elements on Pendulur at
Washington Monument.
“There is-a misconception as to the
extent of the influence of heat and
cold upon. the perpendieularity of the
Washington monuiient,”” remarked a
well known engineer to a Star re-
porter, ‘‘and the idea that the moun-
ment sways far out of plumb is wrong.
The pendulum apparatus which is in
use in the monument shows occasional
divergencies, but even with the most
exact observations made by most com-
petent men, these divergencies are
very slight. The apparatus is gradu-
ated so tine that it shows a leaning of
one-tenth of an inch. Now, I tind that
the idea very generally prevails that
the monument leans away from the sun
several feet. This is far from being
correct. The heat from the sun af-
fects the monument, as it does the
dome'of the capitol, but by no means to
the extent that is generally believed.
In winter time this is much less
marked than it is during summer, for
by the time the sun warms the struc-
ture to any appreciable extent it
passes around, first to the south and
then on to the west, so that it equal-
izes its inflnence. The effect as
marked by the pendulum is, there-
fore, on many days more imaginary
than real, though, #8 I have stated,
in very warm weather the pendulum
shows a variance of an ineh or so from
plumb. The same thing occurs in
very high brick houses, the 20 to 30
story buildings in New York and Chi-
cago, for instance, but it is so slight
and so difficult to measure that no at-
tention is ever given to it. A daily
record is kept of the pendulum at the
monument, but the matter has been
regarded as so unimportant that there
has never been any record published.
The dome of the capital being of iron
is much more influenced by the sun
than the monument, but even this is
unimportant and so slight that it has
never been accurately ascertained or
measured. The word picture of the
Goddass of Liberty ‘going out every
morning to receive the kiss of the sun
god’ is, therefore, to a very great ex-
tent, a fiction, thonghno doubt a very
benutiful one.”’— Washington Star.
Thomas Jefferson’s Ten Rules.
Never put off until tomorrow what
vou can do today.
* Never trouble another for what you
can do yourself.
Never spend your money before you
have earned it.
Never buy what yon don’t want be-
cause it is cheap.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst
and cold.
We seldom repent of having eaten
too little.
Nothing is troublesome that we da
willingly.
How much pain the evils have cost
us that have never happened.
Take things always by the smooth
handle.
\ hen angry, count ten before youn
speak; if very angry, count a hun-
dred.
A Peculiar Town.
Bue little town of Peculiar, in Cass
county, Mo., got its name in rather ga
curious manner. Its founders got into
a controversy over what they should
christen if, and finally they referred
it to the postofiice department, saying
that they didu’t care what name was
given the place as long as it was -pe-
culiar. One of the Washingten offi.
cia!s then, in a spirit of waggery.
named it accordingly.