ro SHRADIS BY BHIEN Dts GOSPEL MESSAGES. Eubject: “The Gallows For Haman’ = From the Life and Death of This Persian Courtier Living Lessons of ‘Warning and Instruction Are Drawn. " Text: “So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Morde- eai.”’—Esther vii., 16. Here is an Oriential courtier, about the most offensive man in Hebrew history, Haman by name. He plotted for the de- struction of the Israelitish nation, and I wonder nat that in some of the Hebrew synagogues to this day.when Haman’s name is mentioned, the congregation clench their fists and stamp their feet and ery, “Let his name be blotted out!” Ha- man was Prime Minister in the magnificent rourt of Persia. Thoroughly appreciative of the honor conferred, he expects every- body that he passes to be obsequious. Coming in one day at the gate of the pal- ace, tho servants drop their heads in honor of his.office; but a Hebrew, named Morde- 2ai, gazes upon the passing dignitary without bending his head or taking off his .aat. He was a good man, and would not have been negligent in the ordinary court- esies of life, but he felt no respect either lor Haman or the nation from which he aad come. So he could not be hypocriti- zal; and while others made Oriental salaam, getting clear down before this Prime Minister when he passed, Mordecai, the Hebrew, relaxed not a musele of his aeck, and kept his chin clear up. Because of that affront Haman ‘ gots a decree from Ahasuerus, the dastardly king, for the massacre of all the Israelites, and that, of zourse, will include Mordecai ; To make a long story short, through Rueen Isther this whole plot was revealed to her hushand, Ahasuerus. One night Abasuerus, who was afflicted with in- somnia, in his sleepless hours calls for his secretary to read him a few passages of Persinn history, and so while away the night. In the book read that night to the Ring an account was given of a conspi- rgacy, from which Mordecai, the Hebrew, pad saved the king’s life and for which kindness Mordecai had never received any veward. Haman, who had been fixing up a nice gallows to hang Mordecai on, was walking - outside the door of the king’s sleeping apartment and was called in. The ging told him that hehad just had read to him the account of some one who had saved his, the king’s life, and he asked what reward ought to be given to such a one. Self-coneceited Haman, supposing that te himself was to get the honor, and not imagining for a moment that the deliv- arer of the king’s life was Mordecai, says: “Why, your majesty ought to makea tri- amph for him, and put a crown on him and set him on a splendid horse, high-step- ping and full-blooded, and then have one pf your princes lead the horse through the streets, erylng, ‘Bow the knee, here zomes a man who has saved the king's life!’ Then said Ahasuerus in severe tones io Haman: ‘‘I know all about your scoun- Arelism. Now you go out and make a triumph for Mordecai, the Hebrew, whom jou hate. Put the best saddle on the finest horse, and you, the prince, hold the jtirrup while Mordecai gets on, and then jond his horse through the street. Make aste!” What a speetacle! A comedy and tragedy at one and the same time. There they go! Mordecai, who had been despised, now starred and robed, in the stirrups. Haman, jhe chancellor, afoot, holding the .pranc- jug, rearing, champing stallion. Mordecai pends his neck at last, but it is to look down at thé degraded Prime Minister walking beneath him. Hwuzza for Mor- decai! Alas for Haman! But what a pity to have the gallows, recently built, en- sirely wasted! Itis fifty cubits high, and built with care. And Haman had erected It for Mordecai, by whose stirrups he now walks as groom. Stranger and more start- ing than any romance, there go up the steps of the scaffolding, side by side, the pangman and Haman the ex-chancellor. “So they hanged Haman on the gallows tliat he had prepared for Mordecai.” Although so mify years have passed since cowardly Ahasuerus reigned, and the beautiful Esther answered to his whims, and Persia perished, yet from the life and death of Haman we may draw living les- sons of warning and instruction. And first, we come to the practical suggestion that, when the heart is wrong, things very Insignificant will destroy our comfort. Who would have thought that a great £rime Minister, admired and applauded by millions of Persians, would have been so pettled and harassed by anything trivial? AWWhat more could the great dignitary have svanted than his chariots and attendants, ind palaces and banquets? If afiiuence of circumstances can make a man contented and happy, surely Haman should have peen contented and happy. No; Morde- rai’s refusal of a bow takes the glitter from the gold, and the richness from the pur- ple, and the speed from the ehariots. With r heart puffed up with every inflation of vanity and revenge, it was impossible for bim to be happy. The silence of Mordecai at the gat'e was louder than the braying of frumpots in the palace. Thus shall it al- avays be if the heartis not right. Circum- stances the most trivial will disturb the spirit. It is not the great calamities of life that eronte the most worriment. I have seen men, felled by repeated blows of misfor- Zune, arising from the dust, never despond- Ing. But the most of the disquiet which men suffer is from insignificant causes; as a lion attacked by some beast of prey turns “easily around and slays him, yet runs roar- ing through the forests at the alichting on iis brawny neck of a few insects. You ‘meet some great loss in business with com- parative composure; but you can think of petty trickeries inflicted upon you, which arouse all your capacity for wrath, and re- main in your heart an unbearable annoy- ance. If you look back upon your life, you will find that the most of the vexations and disturbances of spirit, which you felt, were produced by circumstances that were 10t worthy of notice. If you want to be happy, , you must not care for trifles. - Do not be too minute in your inspection of the treatment you receive from others. Who cares whether Mordecai bows when you pass, or stands eregt and stiff as a cedar? hat woodman would not make much learing in the forest who should stop to ind up every little bruise and seratch he received in the thicket; nor will that man accomplish mueh for the world or the thurch who is too watchful and apprecia- tive of petty annoyances. There are mul- {tudes of people in the world constantly arrowed because they pass their lives not {in searching out those things which are at- tractive and deserving, but in spying out with all their powers of vision to see whether they cannot find a Mordecai. Again: I learn from the life of the man ander our notice that worldly vanity and in are very anxions to have plety bow be- fore them. Hamau was a fair emblem of entire worldliness, and Mordecai the repre- gentative of unflinching godliness. Such were the usuages of soclety in ancient times that, had this Israelite bowed to the Prime Minister, it would have been an aec- knowledgment of respect for his character and nation. Mordecai would, therefore, have sinned against his religion had he made any obeisance or dropped his chin half an inch before Haman. When, there- fore, proud Haman attempted to compel an homage which was not felt, he only did what the world ever since has tried to do, svhen it would force our holy-religion in any way to yield to its dictates. Daniel, if he had been a man of religious com- romises, would never have been thrown nto the den of lions, He might have made some arrangement with King Darius whereby he could have retained part of his form of religion without making himself so completely obnoxious to the idolaters. Taul might have retained the favor of his rulers and escaped martyrdom if he had only been willing to mix up his Christian faith with a few errors. His unbending Christian character was taken as an in- sult, Fagot and rack and halter in all ages have been only the different.ways in which the world has demanded obeisance. It was once, away up onthetop of the Temple, that Satan commanded the Holy One of Naza- reth to kneel before him. But it is not now so much on the top of churches as down in the aisle and the pew and the pul- pit that Satan tempts the espousers of the Christian faith to kneel before him. Why was it that the Platonic philosophers of early times, as well as Toland, Spinoza and Bolingbroke of later days, were so madly opposed to Christianity? Certainly not be- cause it favored immoralities, or arrested civilization, or dwarfed the intellect. The genuine reason, whether admitted or not, was because the religion of Christ paid no respect to their intellectual vanities. Blount and Boyie, and the hosts of infidels hatched out by the vile reign of Charles the Second, as reptiles crawl out of a marsh of slime, could not keep their patience, be- cause, as they passed along, there were sit- ting in the gate of the church such men as Matthew, and Mark, and Luke, and John who would not bend an inch in respect to their philosophies. 3 ~ Satan told our fipst parents that they would become as gods if they would only reach up and take a taste of the fruit. They tried it and failed, but their descend- ants are not yet satisfied with the experi- ment. We have now many desiring to be as gods, reaching up after yet another apple. Reason, scornful of God's Word, may foam and strut with the proud wrath ‘of a Haman, and attempt to compel the homage of the good, but in the presence of men and angels it shall be confounded. “God shall smite thee, thou whited wall.” When science began to make its brilliant discoveries there were great facts brought to light that seemed to overthrow the truth of the Bible. The archeologist with his crowbar, and the geologist with his hammer, and the chemist with his bat- teries, charged upon the Bible. Moses’s account of the creation seemed denied by the very structure of the earth. The astronomer wheeled around his telescope until the heavenly bodies seemed to mar- shal themselves against the Bible as the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. Observatories and universities rejoiced at what they considered the extinction of Christianity. They gathered new courage at what they considered past victory, and pressed on their conquest into the kingdom of nature until, alas for them! they dis- covered too much. God’s Word had only peen lying in ambush that, in some un- guarded moment, with a sudden pound, it might tear infidelity to pieces. It was as when Joshua attacked the city of Ai. - He selected thirty thousand men, and concealed most of them; then with a few men he assailed the sity, which poured out its numbers and strength upon Joshua’s little band. According to previ- ous plan, they fell back in seeming defeat, but, after-all the proud inhabitants of the city had been brought out of their homes, and had joined in the pursuit of Joshua, suddenly that brave man halted in his flight, and with his spear ponving toward the city, thirty thousand men bounded from the thickets as panthers spring to their prey, and the pursuers were dashed to pieces, whiletho hosts of Joshua pressed up to the city, and with their lighted torches tossed it into flame. Thus it was that the discoverles-of science seemed to give temporary victory against God and the Bible, and for a while the church acted as if she were on a retreat; but when ail the opposers of God and truth had joined in the pursuit, and were sure of the fleid, Christ gave the signal to His church, and turning, they drove back their foes in shame. There was founi to be no an- tagonism between nature and revelation. The universe -and the Bible were found to be the work ofl the same hand, two strokes of the same pen, their authorship the same God. Again: Learn the lesson that pride goeth before a fall. Was any man ever so far up as Haman, who tumbled so far down? Yes, on a smaller scale every day the world sees the same thing. Against their very ad- vantages men trip into destruction. When God humbles proud men, it is usually at the moment of their greatest arroganey. If there be a man in your community greatly puffed up with worldly success, you have but to stand a little while and you will see Him come down. You say, I wonder that God allows that man to go on riding over others’ heads and making great assump- tions of power. Thereis no wonder about it. Haman has not yet got to the top. Pride is a commander, well plumed and caparisoned, but it leads forth a dark and frowning host. We have the best of author- ity for saying that “Pride goeth before de- struction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” The arrows from the Almighty’s quiver are apt to strike a man when on the wing. Goliath shakes his great spear in deflance, but the small stones from the brook Elah made him stagger and fall like an ox under the butcher’s bludgeon. He who is down cannot fall. Vessels scud- ding under bare poles do not feel the force of the storm, but those with all sails set capsize at the sudden descent of the temp- est. Again: this Oriental tale reminds us of the fact that wrongs we prepare for others return upon ourselves. The gallows that Haman built for Mordecai became the Prime Minister's strangulation. Robe- spierre, whosent so many to the guillo- tine, had his own head chopped off by the horrid instrument. The evil you practice on others will recoil upon your own pate. Slanders come home. Oppressions come home. Cruelties come home. You will yet be a lackey walking beside the very charger on which you expected to ride others down. When Charies the First, who had destroyed Strafford, was about to be beheaded, he said, “I basely ratified an unjust sentence, and the similar injustice I am now to undergo is a sensible retribu- tion for the punishment I inflicted on an innocent man.” Lord Jeffries, after in- carcerating many innocent and good peo- ple in London Tower, was himself impris- oned in the same place, where the shades of those whom he had maltreated seemed to haunt him, so that he kept crying to his attendants: ‘‘Keep them off, gentlemen, for God’s sake, keep them off!” The chiek- ens had come home to roost. The body of Bradshasw, the English judge, who had been ruthless and cruel in his decisions, was taken from his splendid tomb in West- minster Abbey, and at Tyburn hung ona gallows from morning until night in the presence of jeering multitudes. Haman’s gallows came a little late, but it came. Opportunities fly in a straight line, and just touch us as they pass from eternity to eternity, but the wrongs we do others fly in a circle, and however the circle may widen out, they are sure to come back to the point trom which they started. There are guns that kick! Furthermore, let the story of Haman teach us how quickly turns the wheel of fortune. One day, excepting the king, Haman was the mightiest man in Persia; but the next day, a lackey. So we go up, and so we come down. You seldom find any man twenty years in the same circum- stances, Of those who, in political life twenty years ago were most prominent, how few remain in conspicuity. Political parties make certain men do their hard work, and then, after using them as hacks, turn them out on the commons to die. Every four years there is a ‘complete revo- lution, and about five thousand men who ought eertainly to be the next President are shamefully disappointed; while some, who this day are obscure and poverty stricken, will ride upon the shoulders of the people, and take their turn at admira- tion and the spoils of office.’ Oh, how quickly the wheels turn! Ballot-boxes are the steps on which men come down quite as often as they go up. Of those who were long ago successful in the accumulation of property, how few have not met with re- verses! while many of these who then were straitened in circumstances now hold the bonds and bank kevsof the nation. Of all, fiekle things in the world, fortune is the most flekle. Again: this Haman’s history shows ue that outward possessions and eircume stances cannot make a man happy. While yet fully vested in authority and the chiel adviser of the Persian monarch, and every: thing that equipage and pomp and splen: dor of residence could do were his, he is an object lesson of wretchedness. There are to-day more aching sorrows under crowns of royalty than under the ragged caps of the houseless. Much of the world’s affluence and gaiety is only misery in colors, Many a woman seated in the street at her apple-stand is happier thanthe great bank- ers. The mountains of worldly-honor are covered with perpetual snow. Tamerlane conquered half the world, but could not subdue his own fears. Ahab goes to bed, sick, because Naboth will not sell him hig vineyard. Herod isin agony because a iit. tle child is born down in Bethlehem. Great Felix trembles because a poor minister will preach righteousness, temperance and judgment to come. From thetime of Louis the Twelfth to Louis the Eighteenth was there a straw-bottomed chair in France that did not sit moresolidly than the great throne on which the French kings reigned? Were I called to sketch misery in ite worst form, I would not go up the dark alley of the poor, but up the highway over which prancing Bucephali strike the sparks with their hoofs and between statu- ary and parks of stalking deer. Wretch- edness is more hitter when swallowed from gemmed goblets than from earthen pitches or pewter mug. If there are young peo- ple here who are looking for this posi- tion and that circumstance, thinking that worldly success will bring peace to the soul, let them shatter the delusion. It is not what we get, it is what we are. Dan: iel among the lions is happier than King Darius on his throne. And when life is closing, brilliancy of worldly surroundings will be no solace. Death is blind, and sees no difference between a king and his clown. between the Nazarene and the Athenian, between a bookless hut and a national library. In olden time the man who was to re- ceive the honors of knighthood was re- quired to spend the previous night fully armed, and with shield and lance to walk up and down among the tombs of the dead. Through all the hours of that night his steady step was heard, and, when morning dawned, amid grand parade and the sound of ecornets the honors of knighthood were hestowed. Thus it shall be with the good man’s-soul in the night before heaven. Fully armed with shield and sword and helmet, he shall watch and wait until the darkness fly and the morn- ing break, and amid the sound of celestial harpings the soul shall take the honors of heaven amid the innumerable throng with robes snowy white streaming over seas of sapphire. Mordecai will only have to wait for his day of triumph. It took all the preceding trials to make a proper background for his after successes. The scaffold built for him makes all the more imposing and pietur- esque the horse into whose long white mane he twisted his fingers at the mount- ing. You want at least two misfortunes, hard as flint, to strike flre. Heavy and long continued snows in the winter are signs of good crops next summer, So, many have yielded wonderful harvests of benevolence, and energy because they were a long while snowed under. We must have a good many hard falls before we learn to walk straight. It is in the black anvil of trouble that men hammer out their for- tunes. Sorrows take up men on their shoulders and enthrone them. Tonics are nearly always bitter. Men,like fruit trees, are barren unless trimmed with sharp knives. They are like wheat—all the het- ter for the flailing. It required the prison darkness and chill to make John Bunyan dream. It took Delaware ice and cold feet at Valley Forge, and the whizz of bul- lets, to make a Washington. Paul, when he climbed up on the beach at Melita, shiver- ing in his wet elothes, was more of a Chris- tian than when theship Struck the break- ers. Prescott, the historian, saw better without his eyes than he could ever have with them. Mordecai, despised at the gate, is only predecessor of Mordecai, grandly mounted. \ Late News Paragraphed. Twenty-five applications for pensions on account of the Maino disaster have been filed. Ceylon and the Straits Settlement, Hayti and the Dutch West Indies have declared their neutrality. The Bertillon system of identifying criminals has been adopted in the Denver (Col.) Police Department. Meat in the shops at Santiago de Cuba, $1.50 a pound; eggs, $1.50 a dozen; milk, &1 a quart; goats, $30 a piece. The University of Oxford has rejected the proposed innovation of a Final Honor School of Agricultural Science. Jy the operation of the age limit retire- ment law Acting Rear Admiral Sampson will soon become a Commodore. Two hundred and forty-three prisoners of war, the passengers and crews of prize vessels, were paroled at Key West. The Woman’s School Alliance in Mil- waukee, Wis., provides clothing for poor children to enable them to attend school. "It is estimated in San Francisco that $20,000,000 would be shipped from Dawson Jity to San Francisco within the next two months. Mrs. Betsy Trout, who celebrated the one hundred and Hrst anniversary of her birth at her home, in Farl, Penn., August 13 last, is dead. It is announced officially that the Gov- ernment will pay all volunteer troops for the time between the dates ol enlistment and muster. A Chinaman enlisted in the army at cisco are contributing Cross Society. Zoological Park at Washington have con- structed three large dams, one of which is four feet high. The Senate passed a bill conferring American register on the steamship China, which has been chartered as a transport for the Manila expedition. Thirty-nine of the crew of the Spanish taken to New York to be sent to Spain by the Austro-Hungarian Consul. A sheet containing war news, condensed from the newspapers each morning and printed at the printing-office at Joliet, Ill} is passed into the cell of each prisoner at two o’clock every afternoon. J. W. Howard, son of General O. O. How- ard, obtained his commission as Major of volunteer engineers in the army without the aid or influenee of any one. He was appointed on merit after having passed a rigid examination. A pamphlet issued by the State Depart« ment containing information as to the re- sources of the Philippines shows the isl- ands to contain valuable deposits of gold which can be easily mined. The natives are highly spoken of. A citizen of West Newton, Mass., who was reported to have made some slighting re- marks about the Stars and Stripes, found his doorsteps painted red, white and blue when he woke up the other morning, and small bits of red, white and blue paper scattered all over his lawn. - A Railway’s Huge Ice Bill. i Among the many expenses borne by railroad companies the ice bill figures quite prominently, For instance, on the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad it is expected it will take over 50,000 tons of ice this year to meet the requirements of the service. The greater portion is used in connection with shipment of perishable goods; the balance in the passenger trainservice. A great deal of this ice is put up by the company in its own ice houses, but as the past winter has been so warm a very larg: proportion will hava to ba nurchasad. | sends us, do just ! speak faithfully and | sages, ' complish all His pleasure (Isa. lv., 11). The colony of beavers in the National | S ess! | assurance that God is for us, Christ is for ! us, the Spirit is for us (Rom. viii., 31, 34, | 36). steamer Rita, captured off Porto Rico,were | THE SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 19. Lesson Text: “The Risen Lord,” Matthew xxviil., 8-20—=Golden Text: Rev, i., 18 Commentary on the Lesson by the Rev. D, M. Stearns. 8. “And they departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy, and did run to bring His disciples word.” The women who in love, but not in faith, had come to anoint a dead Christ find the tomb open and empty, the stone rolled back from the door and an angel sitting upon it who speaks to them, with the result stated in this first verse of our lessan. Angels know when we seek Jesus and they are glad (verse 5 and Luke xv., 10). They, like their Lerd, would dispel our fears. It is very helpful to make a special study of the ‘fear nots” from Gen. xv. 1, onward. Having believed, we are to ‘go quickly and tell” and the burden of our preaching is to be that Christ is risen and is, therefore; the ore who fulfills all Scrip- ture. 9. “And as they went to tell His disci- ples, behold, Jesus met. them, saying, All hail. And they came and held Him by the feet and worshiped Him.” It is written in Isa. Ixiv., 5, “Thou meetest Him that re- joiceth and worketh righteousness.” A little earlier in the -morning He had met Mary Magdalene and had dried her tears and given her a message for the disciples, but He did not allow her’ to touch Him, because Ho had not ascended to His Father (John xx.,17). But now He al- lows these women to hold Him by the feet, so that He must have ascended and re- turned since meeting Mary. I doubt not that He was ever ascending and returning all those forty days until His visible ascen- tion, since which time He has not yet re- turned, but He will, and:it may be soon (Acts i.,,3, 11). 10. “Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid; go tell My brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see Me.” The angel said, ‘“‘Fearnot; go and tell; He goeth before you into Galilee,” and now Jesus Himself-says just the same. If.our message as His messengers is in strict ac- cordance with His word, without adding unto or diminishing aught from it (Deut. iv., 2), we need have no fear but that He will indorse it all, but how we will be ashamed (I John ii., 28), if we have in the least altered or diminished His word through feir of man or for any reason whatever. Let us, like Samuel, believe and tell every whit, that, like him, we may be established as the Lord’s messengers (I Sam. iii., 18-21). Believing all things that are written in the law and ia the prophets, let our unwavering attitude toward all Scripture ever be “I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me” (Acts xxvii., 25). 11, 15. “This saying is commonly re- ported among the Jews until this day.” That is the saying that Hlis discipies came by night and stole Him away, which was a lie that the soldiers were paid to tell. It is stilltrue that some people will lie and do even worse if they are paid for it, for the devil has a great many children, and | lying is part of their business and a badge | of his service. He {is a liar and the father of it (John viii., 44), but he would have us believe that God is a liar (Gen. ili., 4; ii., 17; I John v., 10). It may bring a little money just for the present and possibly enable one to do a little more business for a time if we are willing to lie and practice | deceit as many do, but the end of “such is the devil’s portion which is the lake of fire and the torment forever and ever. 16. “Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.” He had said: ‘‘Af- ter 1 am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee” (Math. xxvi., 32), and it would seem that He had designated some mountain it was, and we may also then know why He preferred to meet them in | Galilee, but one great and precious lesson for us is that He always does just what He says He will do. 17. ‘‘And when they saw Him they wor- shiped Him, but some doubted.” IIe has nowhere told us that all will believe, but on the contrary, has plainly taught us in | J i ments for duty of regiments of volun- the parable of the sower the various re- sults of the seed sowing. of the tares He has further taught us that not all the grain in the fleld will be true wheat. There came a time in His own min- istry when many went back and walked no more with Him (John vi., 66); but He was | not discouraged, is not now, nor ever will | i be (Isa. xlii., 4), and if we are ‘‘workers to- gether with Him” there is no room for us | i ever to be discouraged. Until He come it will be, according to Acts xxviii., 24, ‘““‘Some believed and some believed not,” but He shall see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied. 18. “And Jesus came ! them, saying: “All power is given unto Me To John on ! in heaven and in earth.” Patmos He said: “Fear not, I am the first and the last. I am He that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore, amen, and have the keys of hell and of death” (Rev. i., 17, 18). Through Jeremiah ! He said: “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” (Jer. xxxii., 17). When in response to His question, “Whom shall I send and who will go for us?’ we are led to reply: ‘Here am I. Send me!" (Isa. vi., 8) then our only ! responsibility is to go cheerfully where He what He tells us and | lovingly His mes- sure that He will not fail to ac- 19. “Go ye therefore and tench all na- tions, baptizing them in the name of the . Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Santa Ana, Cal., and Chinese in San Fran- | funds to the Red | Ghost.” These are the three who in Isa. vi., 8, say, “Who will go for us?” When we go for them, we may and should al- ways find strong consolation in the blessed What we are to teach is simply stated in Luke xxiv., 47: Acts xiif., 38, 89, ete. 20. “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the worid. Amen.” It is therefore necessary to know all that Christ taught or we cannot teach the all things here re- ferred to. To teach people how to be saved is but a small portion of what Christ taught. for He taught from all the Secrip- tures the things concerning Himself and told them they were foolish if they did not believe all the prophets had spoken (Luke xxiv., 25-27). Only those can fully enjoy the presence of Christ all the davs who are in sympathy with Him_in His great desire to give the gospel to every creature. That this world will end by being in some way annihilated is not taught in the Book (II Pet. ifi., 13), but this age will end and another, and perhaps another, ere the new earth. See R. V., margin.—Lesson Helper. Needed the Gardner This is the London version of the story of Mr. Vanderbilt's parting with his celebrated Paris chef, Joseph. One day the millionaire sent for Joseph and rzold him frankly that he was growing rather tired of his highfatlutin, “‘artis- tic” French dishes. “The fact is,” said the millionaire, “I'm darned hungry, and I want a square, old-fashioned meal. x0 and cook me,” he added, ‘‘some nice boiled beef and cabbage.” “Monsieur,” replied Joseph, in his suavest manner, “I think you have sent for me my mistake. Shall I ring for the gardener?” Joseph has just be- come the presiding genius of the kitchens of a big London hotel. To an interviewer he said the other day: “A dinner should be short—like men. The shorter they are the better.” If the sun was to be divided into emaller planets it would make 1,310, each the size of the earth. . In the parable | | were | assigned to Sheridan Point, i Hungarian and spake unto | few days ago. (EYSTONE STATE NEWS GONDENSED PAY FOR SOLDIERS. fhe Volunteers Have Received Money for Services Bee fore Being Mustered into the United States Army. @ Adjutant General Stewart has con« tluded the payment of all the Pennsyle vania volunteers for duty at Mount Sretna before they were mustered inte the United States service, and is ar- ranging th2 rolls of the officers and men of the Guard who declined to vol« anteer or who were rejected by the medical oflicers. This work will be fin shed next week. The Adjutant (Gen- eral will be required to draw 2000 in- dividual checks. The following pensions ast week: ‘Michael Daly, £6, William Jones, Pittsburg, $12; T. McClelland, Idlewood, $6; M. Ridgway, Soldiers’ home, John M. Fleming, Kittanning, $10; James K. Dick, Croft, $8; Reynoldy Everts, Wallacetown, $17; Andrew J. Wait, New Castle, $10; Sarah D. Clark, Mill Village, $8; Charles Tallemand, Pittsburg, $12; Franklin Hoch, Anita, B8; Eli J. Campbell, Rochester Mills, }8; Geo. W. Weamer, Plumville, $8; John Sims, Port Perry, $12; Rufus Lu- tore, Penfield, $12; Dennis Ring, Erie, $16.50: Alice A. Marshall, Flatwoods, $8; Mary M. Armstrong, Lindsey, $8; Catherine Schmitt, Pittsburg, $8; Mary E. Parsons, Blacklick station, $8; Sarah Gallagher, Prospect, $12; William H. King, Uniontown, $6; Joseph Mitchell, Towanda, $8; Levi Berlin, Bradford, $10; Israel H. Shuster, Boquet, $i0; Carson Lutz, Patchinsville, $6; Thomas Hogue, Marionville, $8; Charles T. King, Uniontown, $8: John H. Houl- ton, Pittsburg, $6; Levi Hanley, Johns- town, $10; Alexander Coulter, Six Points, $12; Mary A. Duchanois, Frenchtown, $12; Hettie M. Mengie, Everett, $8; Caroline Miller, Pittsburg, $8; Charles QG. Catlin, Emporium, Canieron, $8; Thomas C. Laughery, Johnstown, $8; Thomas J. Crago (dead) Carmichael, Greene, $6 to $8; William Hippenstel, Frankstown, Blair, $4 to $12; L. G. Huling, Williams- port, $310 to $12; Robert Culby, Lock Haven, $12 to $14; Andrew J. Miller, Crete, Indiana, $6 to $8; Dezra Schroy, Rice Landing, Greene, $9 to $12; Amos C. Sturdevant, East Hebron, Potter, $& to $12; John Yowler, Glade, Somerset, $17 to $24; Henry Dibble, North Fork, Potter, $8 to $12; Thomas E.- Lewis, Austin, Potter, $8 to "$10; . Charles A. Folts, Edinboro, Erie, $6 to $8; John Shower, Lock Haven, $6 to $10; Leslie Ripley, Sylvania, Bradford, $24 to $30; Susanna. Winter, Kephart, Clearfield, 18; Eliza B. Lowry, Shadeland, Craw- ford, $12. A. 8. Van Wickle, the millionaire coal operator and philanthropist of Hazel- were issued Pittsburg, R0bt. Warren Erie; $6; i ton was accidentally killed a few days ago while participating in a clay pigeon shoot with friends. Just aa the shoot was about to close Mr. van Wickle leaned over his loaded gun, the trigger was touched and the weapon went off. The full charge entered his body. Mr. Van Wickle was one of the | most prominent coal operators of the Lehigh region, was president of the Hazelten National bank and was prominently identified with amateur sport in the city and at Newport, hig | summer home. John A. Merrick, former deputy clerk of the United States circuit court, who pleaded guilty, some weeks ago, to fssuing fraudulent naturalization | papers, at Philadelphia, was sentenced ! | by Judge Butler in the special mountain where He would meet | them. They will tell us some day what | gndergo an imprisonment of two years. United States district court to pay a fine of $2,000 and Advices received by friends of J. H. Edwards, Secretary of the Young | Men's Christian Association of Read- ing, who went to Cuba last Mareh, say i that he has been arrested as a spy and | has gone { have been received. insane. No other details At Governors Island the assign- teers In the department of the east announced. They include as- signments of troops now at Mt. Gretna as follows: Fourteenth Pennsylvania regiment—To Fort Mott, N. J., and to Fort Delaware. Eighteenth Pennsyl- ania regiment—To Delaware City and Alliance, O., to guard gun works. Fifteenth Pennsylvania regiment is Va., ‘and to Fort Washington, Md. Rev. Frank Ferency, pastor of the Reformed Church, Pitts- burg, shot himself through the head a His body was found a few minutes later by his housekeeper lying on the floor of his study. The bul- let had entered the right ear and had come out just above the forehead. There appears to have been no motive {| for the crime, asd the 350 Members of his congregation are wondering what could have led their pastor to have taken his life. . Joseph Goodwin, aged 16, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in court at Uniontown for the Killing of his uncle, John Welsh. The murderer lives in Coal Spring hollow and has | never baen on a railroad train. During a quarrel, which arose over his punish- ing his cousins, the children of John Welsh, he threw a hammer at his uncle. It struck him over the heart, causing death in two minutes. Walter E. Goodwin, who on Septem- ber 8, 1897, murdered his wife, at Mans- field, Tioga county, was hanged in the county jail last week. He died pro- claiming his innocence and protested that the deed was done by Gertrude Taylor, and that he was only an ac- complice. The Taylor girl was with him at the time of the crime, and at the trial turned states evidence. Rev. John Peate has, after many months of labor, completed the lens at Greenville which he has been shaping and polishing for the American uni- versity at Washington. The big glass, the largest of its kind in the country, is boxed ready for shipment, and will be transported to Washington in a special express car. Robert Stotler and George Bennett of Greensburg were out driving near Herminie the other night, when they were pitched over a 70-foot embank- ment. Bennett recovered consciousness and found Stotler dead. Stotler was a bartender. ° George McElhaney, a wealthy farmer of Mechanicsville, committed suicide the other day by shooting himself. He was 78 years old, and 16 years ago loaded the revolver intending then tc end his life, but deferred action. Nash Sheridan, caught breaking intc Mike Wonawiez’s home, at Lawrences ville, Allegheny County, was fatally shot bv the hausahalder By the withdrawal orf J. N. Cas- sanova from the Congressional race in the Twenty-eighth district, Colonel J. L. Spangler has a clear field for the Democratic nomination. The 2-year-old daughter of Samuel Glass, superintendent of the Waynes- burg electric light plant, fell from a window and was killed. Bold thieves in Allegheny smashed the plate-glass window of Theodore Frey's store, and got away with $2,000 worth of jewelry. While out hunting Morris J. Tnom- as, of Warrior Run, Luzerne county, accidentaily shot himself in the shoulder and bled to death. AGRICULTURAL TOPICS, Ornamental Plants From Seed. The castor oil bean (ricinus) is one of the best of ornamental leaved plants which may be grown from seed and bloom the first year. They grow rapidly and make a fine hedge or screen if planted in open rich soil in a dry situation. As the young plants do not bear transplanting well the seed should be planted directly where the plant is to remain,in the open ground, when the weather becomes warm. The richer the soil the more rapid the growth of the plant and the more brilliant the color of foliage and stalk. According to variety the plants grow from six to eight feet high, and have foliage of shades of green, red and purple. Nicotina affinis is also readily ‘grown from seed. The plant grows to a height of three or four feet, its broad green leaves and blos- soms of white being very attractive. The soil should be rich and well- drained. A packet of seeds of each variety, or rather class, costing ten cents for the best variety, will furnish a display equalling mere costly palms and foliage plants. Heredity in Stock Breeding. The attention of the stock breeder who is striving for improvement in the character and quality of his stock must be directed to the study of the individual characteristics of his breed- ing animals, with a view to ascertain- ing not only their merits and defects, but the causes of such discernible in dividual characteristics, whether they are hereditary or acquired. Also he must apply himself to the study of the indications of invisible qualities, and to testing for such characteristics to learn if the invisible qualities are pres- ent as indicated or not. In producing high-class stock to be used for further purposes of improvement attention of the breeder must be directed toa study of ancestry to ascertain what latent qualities his stock is likely to possess —that the undesirable latent qualities may be overcome and the best may be brought into activity and usefulness. A study of the formation of any breed brings us to the conclusion that the value of the breed is due to seleec- tion, the breeding of blood lines and feeding conditions. To maintain and strengthen the present degree of ex- cellence it is necessary to bring to bear equal method and system. This can only be accomplished by working along with nature and building on strong foundations.—C. H. Elmendorf, ‘n Nebraska Farmer. Care of Young Pigs, If young pigs have plenty of exer- cise and the right kind of food there is no danger of over-feeding. A small quantity of corn ground with wheat or rye and middlings, and the whole mixed with milk, is a first-class food for young pigs. The common field varieties of peas are also an excellent food for pigs, young or old. Sow at the rate of two bushels per acre and cover four inches deep, sowing after the peas are planted three pecks of oats per acre, well harrowed in, to serve as a support for the peas. The food for pigs of all ages when not being fatted should be that which has bulk, Middlings, milk, ground barley and swill for pigs, and for shoats and breeding stock, fed in ad- dition beets or other roots cooked and mixed with cut clover hay. For young pigs, ground oats with the hulls, sifted out is an excellent food. Have part of the feeding pen so arranged that a portion of the grain food ma be scattered over it broadcast to give the pigs exercises in feeding it. A run of liberal dimensions should be pravided for young pigs if they are kept in confinement, in order to get the amount of growth from the feed given to be profitable, otherwise lib- eral feeding will only result in an ex- cess of fat before the formation of the desired amount of bone and muscle, Colic in Horses. It is stated on good authority that keventy-five per cent. of the horses that die each year are victims of colic. During the spring the trouble is fre- quent among farm horses, although it is usually wind colic, but this may turn into the nervous colic so gener- ally fatal unless prompt and intelli- frent treatment isgiven. The stomach of the horse is peculiarly susceptible to the changes of food that are fre- quently made in the spring, and that invariably causes an attack of indi- gestion more or less violent. Any change in food should be brought about gradually, and so also should radical changes in the work required of the animal. Tt stands to reason that a horse lightly fed for two or three months of winter with but little work to do is not in fit condition to put into the field for ten hours’ work at heavy plowing. Give horses whole- some food regularly and -according to the work done by them. Keep them from exposure to draughts of cold air, especially when very warm; give only pure water to drink, and they are practically insured against colic. Should the colic attack the horse, the following treatment will give re- lief in most cases. An injection of clear water of the same temperature of the stable should first be given, followed by a pill made of five drams of powered Barbadoes aloes, one dram mercurious chloride and enough lin- seed meal to make a stiff pill with the addition of a little water. Rub belly and flanks with coarse cloth or sack- ing if the animal is chilled. After this treatment the horse should not be worked or violently exercised for at least twenty-four hours. If the at- tack does not succumb to this treat- ment it is sufficiently severe and dan- gerous to need the immediate services of a skilled veterinarian. In Mexico every thing and every- nody pays a direct tax, from the street porter to the largest mercantile estab- lishment, and the stamp tax for docu- wents is equally lucrative. N
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