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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
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statue when the twists and
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are cured and
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Conquers croup, brounc] Ss. Syrup
grippe and consumption. 25C.
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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
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“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.
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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-
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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.
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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-
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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-
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In 24 hours nearly 700 trains pass in
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