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Kinley were to s home friends. mn kept peared offered avidson d after 5, whila World, ¥) ’ 1, oy - > - - « fle - > ele iw of vie An Old Contract Discovered. One of the most interesting literary finds was the discovery in Swansea Castle, about fiity years ago, of the orig- inal contract of affiance between Ed- ward of Carnarvon, Prince of Wales, and Isabella, daughter of Philip the Fair of France, dated at Paris, May 20, 1303. It was previously known that when Edward II. fled from Bristol for Lundy, and was driven by contrary winds to land in Swansea bay, he de- posited a number of the national ar- chives in Swansea Castle for safety. When the records of the castle were seized it is probable that the document mentioned was left behind. The dis- covery was made by Mr. George Grant Francis, of Butrows Lodge, Swansea. — Cardiff W estern Mail. French to Exp! ore Venezuela. An exploration mission, bound for Venezuela, with the avowed purpose of exploring districts of the great forests of the lower Orinoco, has sailed from Bordeaux-Paviliac. The mission is composed of Dr. Lucien Morisse, its head, and his wife, as well “as 12 others, whose special studies of profesion emi- nently fit them to accomplish the end in view. Dr. Morisse is already known for the successful fulfilling of former missions to the same region. An avant- garde of the mission left in September last with a complete outfit for explora- tion and scientific ends.—Paris Messen- ger. Austria’s Consli‘utional Crisis. Within two years the Austrian gov- ernment has changed six times, while a great proportion of those eligible to the ministry have already been called to the helm in vain. All attempts to re- store order, whether proceeding from the federal government or the several parties, have been futile. The des- tinies of the nation are involved in dark- ness and obscurity, and though the humblest citizen realizes that this situa- tion cannot long continue, none has un- dertaken to indicate the way in which order may be constitutionally re-estab- lished.—The Forum. Mahogany Brings Big Prices. At a recent auction sale at Liverpool two logs of African mahogany were sold for the unprecedented amount of £1,536. These logs formed one tree, and were bought for the purpose of being cut into veneers ior the decoration of the palatial residence of some of the mer- chant princes of the United States of America. The veneers are used in the place of wall papers. The prices real- ized for the two logs were, respectively, 10s 3d and 7s 3d per superficial foot, which is a record for African mahogany logs in the rough state as imported. — Dundee Journal Havana's Astule Health Officers. The quarantine officers have a novel way of getting estimates on yellow fever cases amone the Cuban children. They believe that the average number of cases of yellow fever among these chil- dren each year is measured almost ex- actly by the average number of births in Havana each year. They reach this conclusion by the belief that the im- munity to vellow fever is conferred only by an attack of the disease and also that the native Havanese is immune to yel- low fever when he reaches adult age.— New York Press. Garfield Hendacho Powdors Oure, One woman writes: “Periodical headaches from which I suffered have been entirely cured, Am now selling Powders to my friends.” Sendto Garfleld Tea Co., Brook- lyn, N. Y., for frea samples. The public buildings of England alone are valued at a sum appreaching £ 250,000,000. It is confidently asserted that the large decrease in infant mortality in this coun- try during the past decade has been brought about in no small measure by the universal use of Castoria—it being in almost every home, New York city owes more by $60,000,- 000 than all the 45 States in the Union together. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL ToNICc. It is slinply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure--no pay. Price 50c. It is estimated that it costs $550,000, 000 every week to run the railways oi the world. Frey's Yori uge, 25 Cts. Eradicates worms, Children made well and Sa happy. Druggists and country stores. s enjoying a street-car- ght lines are to be ex- Cincinnati line bocm. tended. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an Infalli- ble medicine for coughs and eolds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J,, Feb. 17, 1900. An estimate of the rice acreage in Eastern Texas this year places it at 30,- coo tons. Piso’s Cure Yor Consemption is an Infalli ble medicine for coughs and colds,—N. W SawvEL, Ocean Grove, » N. - J, Feb. Feb. 17, 1906 Dikes of Japan cost in the aggregate more money than those of the Nether- lands. ee To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure, E. W. GROVE’S signature is on each box. Thus far in 1900 E gland has import- ed 19 per cent. less foreign grain than in 1899. Mrs. Winslow's Socthing Syrap for children teething, softens the gums. reduces inflammo~ tion, allays pain sures wind colic. 25¢ a bottle, For the first time since the opening of Oklahoma farmers complain of too much rain. UPRIGHT Straight and strong is the statue when the twists and curvatures of are cured and straightened out by St. Jacobs Oil LETT ¥ Dr. Bulls Cough Cures a cough or cold at once. Conquers croup, brounc] Ss. Syrup grippe and consumption. 25C. ENSION WILT. IonE ? Successfully Br Prosecutes Claims. Far 5 Si Sdlcating clair a3, , atty since Sal d wel AN UNTOLD LOVE. OR, the birds sang it And the leaves sighed It, The brooks rang it the rain cried it, The sun glanced it And the flowers blestheq it, Tre boughs dJanced And the buds ite it, The stars beamed it And the [rings JN it, My Jars are; me it she er 2 Madeline Ss. Boles he ray Even- ost. £ CLS CONERSIN “It’s your own fault, Clara,” Walter May. “OI course it is,” cried out Clara, pas- -ionately, stamping her foot on the carpet. “Do you suppose I don’t know it perfectly well? And that is what slakes it so hard—oh, so cruelly hard io bear!” The fact was that Mr. and Mrs. Wal- ter May had begun life at the wrong end. Clara Calthorpe was a pretty young girl, just out of the hotbed atmosphere of a fashionable boarding school. Wal- ter May was a bank clerk who had not the least doubt but that he should ul- timately make his fortune out of stocks and bonds. “Clara,” he had wife while the honeymoon was their lives, life?” “Oh, dear, no!” tarily recoiling. “Because,” said Walter, some- what wistfully, “my father and mother are alone on the old farm, and I think they would like to have us come and live with them.” “I shouldn't like it at all,” said Clara, “and mamma says no young bride should ever settle down among her husband's relations.” Mr. May frowned a little, but Mrs. Clara had a pretty positive way of her own, and he remonstrated no further. But at the year’s end Walter May had lost his situation, the clouds of debt had gathered darkly around them, and all the pretty, new furni- ture, Eastlake cabinets, china dragons, proof engravings and hothouse plants were sold under the red flag. They had made a complete failure of the housekeeping business, and now, in the fourth story of a third-rate hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Walter May were looking their future in the face. Clara had been extraxagant. There was no sort of doubt about that. She had given ‘recherche’ little parties, which she couldn't afford, to people who didn’t care for her. She had pat- terned her tiny establishment after models which were far beyond her reach and now they were ruined. She had sent a tear-besprinkled let- ter to her mother, who was in Wash- ington trying to ensnare arich husband for her younger daughter, but Mrs. Calthorpe had hastily written back that it was quite impossible for her to be in New York at that time of year, and still more impossible to receive Mrs. Walter May at the monster hotel where she was boarding. And Clara who had always had a vague idea that her mother was selfish, was quite cer- tain of it now. “There is but one thing left for you, Clara,” said Walter, sadly. “And that—" “Is to go back to the old farm. I have no longer a home to offer you, but you will be sure ‘of a warm welcome from my father and mother. I shall remain here and do my best to obtain some new situation which will enable me to earn our daily bread.” Clara burst into tears. “Go to my husband's relations?” she sobbed. “Oh, Walter, I cannot!” “You will have to,” he said dogged- ly, “or else starve!” So Mrs. May jacked up her trunk and obeyed. And all the way to Hazel- copse Farm she cried behind her veil and pictured to herself a stony-faced old man with a virago of a wife, who would set her to doing menial tasks and overwhelm her with reproaches for having ruined “poor dear Walter.” As for he farmhouse itself, she was quite sure it was a desolate place, with corn and potatoes growing under the very windows, and the road in front filled with cows and pigs and harrows and broken cart wheels. But in the midst of her tears and desolation the driver called out: “Hazelscopse May's! said said to his young golden circle of the yet overhadowing “would you like a country said Clara, involun- Farm! Mr. Noah Here's th’ 'ouse, ma'am.” A long, low, gray stone mansion, all | garlanded with ivy, its windows bright with geranium blossoms and the scarlet autumn leaves raining down on the velvet-emooth lawn in front. Clara could just see how erroneous had been all her preconceived ideas, when she found herself clasped in arms of the sweetest and most motherly of old ladies. “My poor dear!” said Mrs. May ca- ressingly. “You are as welcome as thesunshine, daughter,” said a smiling old gentle- man in spectacles. And Clara was established in the easy chair in front of a great fire of pine logs, and tea was brought in and the two old people cossetted and petted her as if she had been a three-year-old | child, just recovering from the measles. There was not a word of reproach— not a questioning look, not a sidelong glance—all welcome, and tenderness and loving commiseration. And when Clara went to sleep that night, with a wood fire glancing and glimmering softly over the crimson hangings of the “best chamber.” she began to think that perhaps she had been mistaken in | some of her ideas. The next day she had a long, confi- dential talk with her father-in-law, while Mrs. May was making mince pies in the kitchen. “But there's one thing I haven't dared to tell Walter about,” she said, with tears in her eyes. “What's that, my dear?” said the old gentleman. “My dressmaker’s bill,” said Clara. “It came the night before I left New York—oh, such a dreadful bill! I hadn’t any idea it could possibly amount up so fearfully.” “How much was it?” said Mr. Noah May, patting her hand. “A hundred and fifty dollars,” said Clara, hanging down her head. “Don’t fret, my dear; don’tiret,” said the old gentleman. “Walter need never know anything about it. I'll settle the bill and there shall be an end of the matter.” “Oh, sir, will you really?” “My dear,” said old Mr. May, “I'd do much more than that to buy the | color back to your cheeks and the smile to your lips.” And that same afternoon, when Mrs. May had been talking to Clara in the kindest and most motherly way, the girl burst into tears and hid her face cn the old lady’s shoulder. “Oh,” cried she, “how good you all are! And I had an idea that a father l and mother-in-law were such terrible personages! Oh, please, please forgive me for all the wicacu things I have thought about you!” “It was natural enough, my dear,” said Mrs. May smiling, “but you are wiser now, and you will not be afraid of us any longer.” When Saturday night arrived Wal- ter May came out to the old farmhouse dejected and sad at heart. He had dis- covered that situations did not grow, like blackberries, on every bush; he had met with more than one cruel re- buff, and he was hopelessly discour- aged as to the future. Moreover, he fally expected to be met with tears and complaints by his wife, for he knew Clara's inveterate prejudices in regard to country life. But to his infinite amazement and relief, Clara greeted him on the door- step with radiant smiles. “Tell me, dear,” she said, “have you got a new situation?” a. shook his head sadly. glad of it,” said Clara, brightly, we've got a place—papa and mamma and L” “It’s all Clara’s plan,” salA old Noah May. “But it has our hearty approval,” added the smiling old lady. “We're all going to live here to- gether,” said Clara. ‘And you are to manage the farm, because papa says GAL 29 he is getting old and lazy,” with a merry glance at the old gentleman, who stood beaming on his daughter- in-law, as if he were ready to sub- scribe to one and all of her opinions, “and I am ready to keep house and take all the care off mamma’s hands. And, oh, it is so pleasant here, and I do love the country so dearly! So if you're willing, dear—" “Willing?” cried Walter May, ecs- tatically, “I’m more than willing. It's the only thing I've always longed for. Good-by to city walls and hearts of stone; good-by to hollow appearances and grinding wretchedness! ‘Why, Clara, I shall be the happiest man alive. But—" “There,” said Clara, putting up both hands as if to ward off all possible ob- jections, “I was sure there would be a ‘but.’ “I thought, my dear,” said Walter, “that you didn’t like the idea of liv- ing with your husband’s relations.” Clara looked lovingly up into her mother-in-law’s sweet old face, while she silently pressed Mr. Noah May's kindly hands. “I am a deal week ago,” she said. much happier!” “30 am I!” said Walter—Waverly Magazine. wiser than I was a “And, oh, so EACLE A CREAT FIELDER. Swoops DownlInto Danbury and Catches a Dropped Rabbit on the Fly. Like lightning from a cloud a mon- a crowded street of Danbury, Conn. and, seizing within two yards of the | ground a rabbit that had fallen from its talons high in air, soared into the sky again, before the hundreds who saw could realize what had happened. Persons on White street, one of the principal business thoroughfares, got their first warning of the fierce bird's nearness by hearing a shrill cry above them, and Looking up, they saw a white rabbit a hundred feet or so from the earth, fall- ing through the air. Above it, with | wings half drawn in, cutting the air like a knife, came the eagle after its prey, which had slipped from its claws. The rabbit had almost reached the | ground when the eagle overtook it and, describing a sharp circle and crying in triumph, mounted into the air with the rabbit fast in its talons.—New York World. PEARLS OF THOJGHT. A lie in its own clothes is always impotent. It takes two to make a quarrel, but one may mend it. A sincere man is and 99 percent pure. nine-tenths right You may measure a man by the things that move him. Though the fire is extinguished in death, the gold will remain. There is only one place where gold | rusts, and that is in the heart. It home means only fine furniture, children will mean only bitterness. It is beter to have our bank ni your heart than your heart in the bank. The man who reflects deeply will | soon be a light instead of a reflector. A man’s life never rises above its source, hence the need of being born from above. It is praiseworthy to aspire to the stars, buf you must also plan to drop on the earth. Only the life that has mountain heights to tap the clouds can have fruitful valleys. It is better to have your bank in your the house than to allow fashion to ruin your home. Only the man who can say “all my springs are in thee,” can go through { the dry and thirsty land.—Ram’s | Horn. Forgot His Horse, A heavy-set German of the type usually caricatured on the vaudeville | stage, walked puffing and wildly paw- ing the air at La Salle and Madison | streets the other day and attracted no | end of attention by the queer figure he | cut. Finally he stopped short, wheeled | around, and looked about him with a | most perturbed expression of amaze- ment. The big pecliceman was a few feet away and edged up to find out what was the trouble. “Vhat, golly!” burst out the little fat man, as he pawed the air more wildly than before. “I drove off mitout my horse.” The policeman stared at him as though his eyes would jump from their sockets and two or three bystanders, who had heard the exclamation grad- | nally began to see an enormous humor in the remark. The little man opened his mouth and spake again: “And mitout my buggy, too!” he ex- claimed “I go pack and get him!” Puffing, steaming and pawing, the little man wabbled in the direction | whence he came. It was several min- | utes before the policeman recovered sufficiently to laugh.—Chicago News. srasshoppers Stop a Train. At Kalamazoo, Mich., between Cress | and Delton, a train was stopped by an army of hoppers which extended for several rods, and completely covered i the track for several inches. The | crushed bodies of the hoppers acted | like oil upon the rails, the drivewheels | of the engine refusing to work until the bodies of the insects had been shovelled away by the {trainmen.— Chicago Record. At Pasteur’s, During last year 1465 persons were inoculated by hydrophobia at the Pas- teur Institute in Paris. ster bald-headed eagle flashed down in | then the whirr of wings. | DR. THLNAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON AN E'.OQUENT DISCOURSE. —— Subject: The Mission of Christ — Yt Was to Teach the World That God is Love = The Sympathy and Compassion of the Almighty King. [Copyright 1360.1 WasHINGTON, D. C.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage describ a new way the sacrifices made for the world’s disentrall- ment and deliverance. His text is I. John iv, 16, “God is love.” Perilous undertaking would it be to at- tempt a comparison between the attributes of God. They are not like a mountain range, with here and en > a higher, peak, nor like the ocean, with here and there a rofounder denth. We cannot measure nfinities. We would not dare say w hether His omnipotence or omniscience or omni- resence or immutability or wisdom or justice or love is the greater attribute. But the one mentioned in my text makes deeper impression upon us than an y other. It was evidently a very old man who wrote the chapter from which I take the text. John was not in his dotage, as Professor Eichhorn asserted, but you can tell by the repetitions in the ‘epistle and the rambling style, and that jhe called grown people “little children,” that tle author was probably an octogenarian. Yet Paul, in midlife mastering an audience of Athenian critics on Mars Hill, said nothing stronger or more important than did the venerable John when he wrote the three words o my text, “God is love Indeed, the older one gets the more he appreciates this attribute. The harshness and the combativeness and he severity have gone out of the old me , and he is moge lenient and, aware of hi © wn faults, is more disposed to make excuses for the faults of others, and he frequently ejacu- lates, “Poor human nature!” The young minister preached three sermons on the justice of God and one on the love of God, but when he got old he preached three sermons on the love of God and one on the justice of God. Far back in the eternities there came a time when God would express one emotion of His nature which was yet unexpressed. He had made more worlds than were seen by the ancients from the top of the Egyp- tian pyramid, which was used as an obser- vatory, and more worlds om modern as- tronomy has catalogued or descried through te.escopic lens. All that showed the Lord's almightiness, but it gave no demonstration of His love. He might make fifty Saturns and 100 Jupiters and not demonstrate an instant of love. That was an unknown passion and the secret of the universe. It was a suppressed emo- tion of the great God. But there would come a time when this passion of infinite love would be declared and illustrated. God would veil it no longer. After the clock of many centuries had run down and worlds had been born and demolished, on a comparatively obscure star a race of human beings would be born and who, though so bountifully provided for that they ought to have behaved themselves well, went into insurrection and conspir- acy and revolt and war—finite against in- finite, weak arm against thunderbolt, man against God. If high intelligences locked down and saw what was going on, they must have prophesied extermination — complete ex- termination—of these offenders of Jeho- vah. But, no! Who is that coming out of the throneroom of heaven? Who is that coming out of the palaces of the eternal? t is the Son of the Emperor of the uni- verse. Down the stairs of the high heav- ens He comes till He Tepchios the cold air of a December night in Palestine, and | amid the bleatings of sheep and the low- | ing of cattle and the moaning of camels, {and the banter of the herdsmen, takes His | first sleep on earth, and for thirty-three | years invites the wandering race to return to God and happiness and heaven. They were the longest thirty-three years ever known in heaven. Among many high intel- | ligences what impatience to get Him back? The infinite Father looked down and saw His Son slapped and spit on and supperless and homeless, and then, amid horrors that made the noonday heavens turn black in the face, His body and soul parted. And all for What? Why, allow the Crown Prince to come on such an er- row and die such a death? It was to inv ito the human race to put down its i and resist- (ance. It was because “God is love. | ‘Now, there is nothing a in a shipwreck. We go down to look at the battered and split hulk of an old ship on the Long Island or New Jersey coast. It | excites our interest. We wonder when {and how it came ashore, and whether it | was the recklessness of a pilot or a storm | before which nothing could bear up. Hu- | man nature wrecked may interest the in- habitants of other worlds as a curiosity, but there is nothing lovely in that which has foundered on the rocks of sin and sorrow. Yet it was in that condition of | moral break up that heaven moved to the rescue. It was loveliness hovering over deformity. It was the lifeboat putting out into the surf that attempted its demcli- tion. It was harmony pitying discord. It was a living God putting His arms around a recreant world. The schoolmen deride the idea that God has emotion. They think it would be a ! divine weakness to be stirred hy any | earthly spectacle. The God of the learned | Bruch and Schleiermacher is an infinite intelligence without feeling, a cold and cheerless divinity. But the God we wor- ship is one of sympathy and compassion and , helpfulness and affection. “God is In all the Bible there is no more con- solatory statement. The very best peo- ple have in their lives occurrences inexpli- cable. They are bereft or persecuted or impoverished or invalided. They have only one child, and that dies, while the next door neighbor has seven children, and they are all spared. The unfortunates buy at a time when the market is rising, and the day after the market falls. At a time when they need to feel the best for the discharge of some duty they are seized with physical collapse. Trying to do a good and honest and useful thing, they are misrepresented and belied as if they had practiced a villainy. There are people who all their lives have suffered injustices. Others of less talent, with less consecra- tion, go on and up, while they go on and down. There are in many lives riddies that have never been explained, heartbreaks that have never been healed. Go to that man or that woman with philosophic ex- planation, and your attempt at comfort will be a failure, and you will make mat- ters worse instead of makinz them better. But let the oceanic tide of the text roll in that soul, and all its losses and disasters will be submerged with blessing, and the sufferer wili say. cannot understand the reason for ry troubles, but I will some day understand. And they do not come by accident. God allows them to come, and ‘God is love But for this div world would es azo ished. Just think of edness of the nations! tions continental! 1 gions that ho Ash and Confucius! Took the Shastra and the would crowd cut of { Scriptures! Iook at trenches for the dead spheres. Sec the great holacaust of destro anhood! What bla heavens! What butc turies! What proc atrocity and woe enc justice had snoken, “The world deserves fon annihilation come.” If immu bili spoken. it wonld have said: “I have alw been opposed to wickedness and alwa will be opposed to it. The world ix to me an affront infinite and awav with it!” If omniscience had spoken it wonld have said: “I have watched that planet with: minute and a!l comprehensive inspection, and T cannot have the of tinued.” If truth had spoken it would ave said: “T declare that they who offend the lav must go down under il i » But divine love took a different view of the world’s obduracy and a It said: “I pity all those woes of the earth. I cannot stand here and see no assnage- ment of those sufferings. T will eo down and reform the world. T will medicate its wounds. I will ealm its frenzy. I will wash off its pollution. T will become in- carnated. I will take on My shoulders and upon My brow and into My heart the e con- sequences of that world’s misbe y 1 start now, and between My arrival at Bethlehem and My ascent from Olivet I will ween their tears and suffer their oriefs and die their death. Farewell, My apa A heaven, ne feeling T think our been gona ¢ omina- hold the fat reli- ied and Buddha { Koran and Zend-Avesta, that the world the v digging ons oF crime and rele the globe! If have said: nd 1 0) nee Jonoer con- environment, My ill 1 hn finished the work and come Cai kk!” God was never conquered but once, and that was when He was conquered by His swn love. “God is love In this day, he 'n the creeds of churches are being revised, let more emphasis be put upon the thought of my text. Let it appear at the bes inning of every creed and at the close. The ancients used to tell of a great miitary chieftain who, about to go to battle, was clad in armor, helmet on head and sword at side, and who put out his arms to give farewell embrace to his child, and the child, affrighted at his appearance, ran shrieking away. Then the father put off the armor that caused the alarm, and the child saw who he s and ran into his arms and snuggled against his heart. Creeds must not have too much iron in their make up, terrorizing rather than attracting. They must not hide the smiling face and the warm heart of our Father, God. Let nothing imply that there is a sheriff at every door ready to make arrest, but over us all and around us all a mercy that wants to save and save now, If one paragraph of the creed seems to take you, like a child, out of the arms of a father, let the next paragraph put you in the arms of a mother. ‘As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you.” Oh, what a mother we have in God! And my text is the lullaby sung to us when we are ill or when we are mal- treated or when we are weary or when we are trying to do better or when we are be- reft or when we ourselves lie down to the last sleep. We feel the warm cheek of the nother against our cheek, and there sounds in it the hush of many mothers, “God is love.” Out of vast eternity He looked forward and saw Pilate’s criminal courtroom anc the rocky bluff with three erc and the iacerated body in mortuary surroundings, and heard the thunders toll at the funeral of heaven's favorite, and understood that the palaces of eternity would hear the sorrow of a bereft God. ‘What do the Bible and the church litur- ies mean when they say, “He descended into hell?” They mean that His soul left His sacred body for awhile and went down into the prison of moral night and swung back its great door and lifted the chain of captivity and felt the awful lash that would have come down on the world’s ack, and wept the tears of an eternal sacrifice, and took the bolt of divine indig- nation against sin into Himself and, hav- ing vanquished death and hell, came out and came up, having achieved an eternal rescue if we will accept it. Read it slowly, read it solemnly. read it with tears, “He ‘descended into hell.” He knew what kind of pay He would get for exchanging celestial splendor for Bethle- hem caravansary, and He dared all and came, the most illustrious example in all the ages of disinterested love. Yea, it was most expensive love. There is much human love that costs nothing, nothing of fatigue, nothing of money, noth- ing of sacrifice, nothing of humiliation, But the most expensive movement that the heavens ever made was this expedition salvatory. It cost the life of a King. It put the throne of God in bereavement. It set the universe aghast. It’ made om- nipotence weep and Man and shut taxed the resources of the richest of empires. It meant angelic forces Slt to fight forces demoniac. It put three worlds into sharp collision—one world to save, another to resist and another to de- stroy. It charged on the spears and rang with the battleaxes of human and diabolic » ate. Had the expedition of lovz been de- feated the throne of God would have fall- en, and Satan would have mounted into supremacy, and sin would have forever triumphed, and mercy would have been forever dead. The tears and blood of the martyr of the heavens were only a part of the infinite expense to which the Godhedd went when it proposed to save the world. Alexander the Great, with his host, was marching on Jerusalem to capture and blunder it. ‘Lhe inhabitants came out clothed in white, led on by the high priest, wearing a miter and glittering breastplate on which was emblazoned the name of God, and Alexander, seeing that word, bowed and halted his army, and the city was saved. And if we had the love of (God written in all our hearts and on all our lives and on all our banners at the sight of it the hosts of temptation would fall back, and we would go on from victory unto victory until we stand in Zion and before God. Leander swam across the Hellespont uided by the light which Hero the fair held from one of her tower windows, and what Hellesponts of earthly struggles can we not breast as long as we can see the torch of divine love held from the tower windows of the King! Tet love of God to us and our love to Cod clasp hands this minute. O ve dissatisfied and distressed souls who roam the world over looking for happiness and finding none, why not try this love of God ©s a solace and inspir- ation and eternal satisfaction? When a king was crossing a desert in caravan, no water was to be foand, and man and beast were perishing from thirst. Along the way there were strewn the bones of cara- vans that had preceded. There were harts or reindeer in the king's procession, and some one knew their keen scent for water and cried out, “Let loose the harts or rein- deer.” It was done, and no sooner were these creatures loosened than they went scurrying in all directions looking for water, and soon found it, and the king and his caravan were saved, aud the king wrote on some tablets the words, which he had read some time before, “As the hart panteth after the water brooks 80 panteth my soul after Thee, O Cod.” Some have compared the love of God to the ocean, but the comparison fails, for the ocean has a shore, and God’s love is boundless. But if you insist on compar- ing the love of God to the ocean nut on that ocean four swift sailing craft and let one sail to the north and one to the south and one to the east and one to the west, and let them sail on a thousand years, and after that let them all return, and some one hail the fleet and ask them if they have found the shore of God's love, and their four voices would respond: “No shore! No shore to the ocean of God’s mercy!” NEWSY GLEANINGS. Louisville, Ky., has a vice crusade. An anti-Nanchu rebellion has brok en out in Xwang-Tung, China. A serious landslide has occurred in Heligoland, engulfing thirty houses. All available British mounted infan- iry has been ordered to South Africa. A seat on the New York Stock Ex- change was sold a few days ago for $47,500. Professor G. W. Tyrrell has discov- ered rich forests on the so-called bar- ren lands of Northern Canada. The French Government has ordered cases of Chinese loot sent to Presi- dent Loubet embargoed at Marseilles. There is a penny famine in the West, and the Phila ‘elphia saint is working overtime in an effort to wneet the de- mand. American competition has forced the syndicate controlling the gas pipe and boiler pipe industry in Germany to cut prices. vhe State Department bas been in- formed of the death of Henry Morris Hunt, United States Consul to An tigua, W. 1 The distribution of the surplus ap- ples of New England to the people of Boston who could not buy them was a decided success. Recent sales of real estate in Galves- ton, Texas, show that current property values are held at only aboutl one-half the figures prevailing prior to the storm. Aororad Wilson, Chief of Engineers, U. S. A., proposes to establish an elab- orate system of searchlights as a part of the defences of Nev: York Liarbor, costing $150,000 for the purchase and installation. Early in the new year competitive plans will be invited for the physical design of the new capital of the Aus- tralian federation. The intention is to make it one of the most artistic cities in the world. The astonishing total of $483,000 has been realized from Kipling's “Absent- Minded Beggar” in vario the proceeds going to the f the men fighting in Sonth i at the rate of $10,000 a I'ne less breaks the nc 7 The sultan has forbidden the ‘Turkish war department to use balloons or car- rier pigeons for army purposes. FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SENATE. TWELFTH DAY. In the execution session of the Sen- ate a fruitless effort was made to se a day for the vote on the Hay-Paunce- fote treaty. Senator Money said he was repared to speak for a week against it SH defense amendments were offered. THIRTEENTH DAY. The Senate finally reaches an agree- ment to decide the canal question. Mr. Mogey strongly opposes any convention with Great Britain on the matter. Mr. Mason would have the United Stat claim every right to fortify and defend the canal. The Montana senatorial case was up for discussion, but the matter finally went over. FOURTEENTH LAY. Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, -f fered in the Senate an amendment which he will propose to the army re- organization bill, providing for the is- suance by the secretary of war to the governors of the States and Territories of Krag-Jorgensen rifles and equipment for the use of the national guard. FIFTEENTH DAY. The Senate committee framed a new army reorganization bill, which fixes the strength of the army for the present, at 100,000 men. It also authorizes the en- listment of 12,000 Filipinos. The bill permits the retention of the canteen, but limits them “o the sale of beer. SIXTEENTH DAY. By a vote of 55 to 18 the Senate ap- proved Hay-Pauncefote treaty, which, as amended, supersedes the Clayton-Bul- wer agreement of fifty years ago, and re- serves the right of defense to the United States and discards approval of any na- tions other than this country and Great Britain. HOUSE. TWELFTH DAY. Tlie House passed the bill to reduce the war revenue taxes $40,000,000. The amendment placed in the bill Friday to tax express receipts and compel the companies to pay for the stamps, was struck out bv a vote of 125 to 139. The amendment exempting from taxation the estates of persons who died prior to June 13, 1898, was adopted. THIRTEENTH DAY. The House passed the bills to divide West Virginia and Kentucky into two judicial districts each, and to create an- other district judge in the northern dis- trict of Ohio. The bill giving soldiers and sailors of the civil war, the Spanish war and the Philippine war preference in appointments to and retention in government offices was defeated by no vote of 51 to 103. FOURTEENTH DAY. The House devoted the day to Dis- trict of Columbia business. The whole time was occupied in consideration of a bill to change the terminal facilities of the Pennsylvania railroad in Wash- ington. Opponents filibustered, but the friends of the bill succeeded in securing a recess in order to continue the ley- islative day and complete consideration of the bill. The entire time of the Sen- ate was devoted to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. FIFTEENTH DAY. A bill to require the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to change its route into Washington and build a new station was passed by a vote of 151 to 49. The latter bill appropriates $1,500,000 to the railroad company in consideration of the changes it will be compelled to make. SIXTEENTH DAY. Three reports were filed on the re- apportionment bill. The majority of the census committee would hold the num- ber at the present figure of 357, while a minority proposes to place it at 386, in order that no State may lose a repre- sentation. The Grout oloemargarine bill was ap for discussion. SEVENTEENTH DAY. Without transacting any business, both Houses of Congress adjourned to January 3. In the Senate the death of the wife of Senator F rye was announced, and in the House that of Representative Wise, of Virginia. SPORTING BREVITIES. Amos Rusie, the famous pitcher, has signed with Cincinnati for next year. The Royal Canadian Yacht Club wants the Canada Cup races next year held before the America’s Cup race. There is a deficit of nearly .$12,000 in the athletic account of the Athletic Association of the University of Penn- sylvania. Jockey Sloan said he would not at- tempt to ride in the United States until his case has been finally settled by English Jockey Club. The probable resignation of Presi dent W. B. Thomas, of the United States Golf Association, is causing un- usual comment in golfing circles. Four New Jersey hockey clubs, the Montclair, South Orange, Crystal Lake und Short Hills hockey clubs, have lormed the New Jersey Hockey League. Golf as a winter sport may not have she attractiveness of the midsummer game, but there are several prominent clubs near New York City which have stamped their approval on cold weath- er play. In the annual cross-country run ut Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., F. 2M. Kanalay won the time prize and made a new record for the course. The dis tance was four and three-quartas miles; time, 24m., 38s. A wave of reform seems {to have struck the A. A. U.,, and in future all athletes will be compelled to pay en- try fees to championship meetings, clubs will have to pay dues and med- als must all be inscribed. Harry Elkes, of New York, and Floyd MacFarlaad, of California, were the winners in Madison Square Gar den, New York City, of the most re markable six-day race that has ever been run. Archie McEachren, of Tor- onto, and Burns Pierce, of Nova Sco tia, were second. They were beaten by twelve feet. Britains Most Important Vegetable. 1f asked what was the most important event in the history of British vegeta- bles, most people would say the bringing over of the potato from its home in America. They would be wrong. The introduction of the turnip—that is, of the Swedish variety—was of much great- er value. Until Britain got the field turnip people had to live during the winter chiefly on salted meat. And se- vere winters were dreaded on account of the terrible mortality among sheep, which were then left ont at pasture all through the cold weather. The growing of Swedes changed all that by providing cheap and wholesome food for stock when penned up. Turnips. like so many other sogsishles came from Holland about 16go.—Washington Star. Money in ‘Cocoanut. This cocoanut industry is well worth the consideration of enterprising Amer- icans, for it has resulted in the making of tremendous fortunes. A cocoanut tree yields fruit within five years after planting, and then bears uninterruptedly for over a century. Those engaged in shipping the copra to Europe pay $1 per year for the fruit from a single tree. The trees, once started, need no further consideration. Ten thousand trees cov- er a comparatively small space, as there are no branches. The trees invariably poses the poorest soil.—Leslie’s Weekly. | self. It is as much a part of the ex | pression of your being as your manner | certain because no one, grow best in what is for all other pur-] Handwriting Characteristic of a Person. The inexperienced ones are blissfully | unaware that handwriting is reall | physieal characteristic of the human ody, which is innately peculiar to its | wner. You may, indeed, alter its gen- eral form, like the man who wr anonymous notes, or cover it wi make-up, like the man who forges a nature—the actor does both to his vc and face on the stage—but this, aiter all, | | is the most you can do. You cannot destroy or even temporarily get rid the characteristics of your writing of talking or your gait in walking, and | that it cannot be destroyed is the more no matter how much study he might give it, could ever find out all of the unconscious charac- teristics of his handwriting.- Repentance Stools at Girard College. Any infraction of the rules at Girard College is punished with 20 minutes on a stool of repentance. When the insti- tution first adopted this scheme of pun- ishment one stool was enough. As the college expanded the stools multiplied, and to-day no less than 60 four-legg: >d painless instruments of discipline are in more or less constant use in a room de- voted excluively to the punishment of those who have transgressed the rules. There is absolatedw othing to the dis- ciplining excejt th. order to sit on a comfortable stool for 20 minutes and “think it over.” Any of the lads would sooner take a sound thrashing and have done with it, but the stool of repentance has proved itself an idea’! punishment, and it has come to stay at Girard Col- lege.—Philadelphia Record. Chinese Expected Disaster This Year. Though professing to know nothing beyond the domain of sense, the China- man is really an extravagant in the supernatural, writes Sir Robert Hart in the Cosmopolitan. Times and seasons, too, have their meanings for him. In 1898 the eclipse of the sun on the Chi- nese New Year's Day foreboded calam- ity, especially to the empire, and in Sep- tember that year the empress dowager usurped the government; then, as chance would have it, this year, 1900, is one in which the intercalary month for the Chinese year is the eighth, and an eighth intercalary month always means mis- fortune. When such a month last oc- curred, that year the Emperor Tung Chih died, and accordingly the popular mind was on the outlook for catastrophe morbidly willing to assist folk-lore to fulfill its own prophecy. European Nations Careful of Horses. In France there is a rule by which horses and mules in excess of needs are handed over to be fed and cared for, at a price, to farmers, who agree to repro- duce them in good condition or pay for deterioration. In Germany, where horses are bought between three and six years of age, they are kept at re- mount depots till matured. Ttaly has two horse-training establishments where new purchases are handled and daveloped till fit for cavalry service. Trading on Child- Labor. Seores of towns in the southern States are seeking to attract capitalists by ad vertising the absence of any legislativ restrictions upon child labor in their State. When the children of southern factory towns are reclaimed from ig- norance and premature decay, it will not be through the efforts of the so-called upper classes, but through the strenuous fighting of the working classes orguan- ized in trade unions.—International Monthly. Porvam FADELESS Dyes do not pot. ,8treak or give your goods an unevenly dyed ap- pearance. Sold by al all ¢ druggists, A bill has been prepared for introduc- tion in the Georgia Legislature provid- ing for the use of the Australian ballot at all future elections. Carter's Ink has a good deep color and it does not strain theey rter's doesn't fade. Merchandise expo from France in October increased $1,300,000 over 1899, and imports increased $4,000,000. Garfield Headache Powders 1 relieve men- tal exhaustion. rte i . A single leaf of the orange tree, care- fully planted, will often take root and grow. Anarchists Find Safety in London. Anarchy at this present moment 1n London is in a latent, if not dormant state. Its activity is, however, only re- pressed by the knowledge that trained officers are alert to note every move- ment of these undesirable visitors, for though it would not be difficult to name some half a dozen English members of the advanced school who would think nothing of killing a king, vet it remains the fact, generally speaking, that the violent, blood-thirsting Anarchist is a foreigner who has found asylum in London and has learned that it would be foolish ta destroy the refuge which the neighborhood of Tottenham Court road is so ready to give.—London Tele- graph. In 24 hours nearly 700 trains pass in and out of New Street station, Birming- ham. FOR GOUT, TORP covered more than nation in the world. for the full name, ¢ Hunyadi Janos.” v a | th | f in 1900, and perhaps the people were | An African, wk lead, described snow a i slee. | had visi s “rair gone t¢ | How’s . 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