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A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED,
CHRIST'S GIFT OF LIFE”
The Rev. George R. Lunn Preaches From
a Text Which He Declares Shows in
| Compact Form the Predominate Aim
of Jesus—=The Larger Life.
BrookLYN, N. Y.—Sunday night, in the
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church,
the Rev. George R. Lunn, assistant pas-
tor, preached on “Christ’s Gift of Life.”
The text was taken from John x:10: “I
am come that they might have life.” Mr.
Lunn said:
I am sure that I do not exaggerate when
I say that no words of our Lord are more
profoundly significant than these words of
the text.” We have in a compact form a
statement of the purpose of Jesus Christ.
t « All elsc is subordinated to this great and
predominate aim. Jesus Christ has come
into the world to give that life in ever in-
crcacing abundance. This is not a conclu-
sion of mine worked cut after special in-
vestigation; it is the simple and clear and
forceful statement of our Lord Himself. I
rest unon Kis word as a finality. And I
find .in this verse a fuller and richer ex-
pression of the purpose of Christ than is
found anywhere else in Scripture.
What, then, is the life which Christ
seeks to give? It is the life of fellowship
with God, the Father; a fellowship begun
oa carth and continued throughout the
ages of eternity. It is the life of spiritual
oneness with Cod, vnited to Him in
thought, in purpose, in- all our varying ac-
tivities. It is the larger lile which com-
prehends our present life, enriching it with
all the holy purposes of God, our Saviour,
lifting us by its power iato the purified at-
mosphere of noble deeds, done for His
sake. In other words, it is the life of
which our Master spokz when Ile said that
to lose it was a calamity, even though a
man should gain the whole world.
I thick I ara right in saying that a great
many people interpret the words and work
of cur Lord as applying chiefly to the other
world, not altogether, but chiefly. They
rezard the religion of Christ as an insur-
ance of safety for the next pvorid rather
than a definite program of activity for the
present. They think more of the saving
of the soul after death than of saving the
life before death. No stronger illustration
of this thouzht can be found than the
large numbers of men who delay their de-
cision in refcrence to Christ to some more
convenient season. They say, not now,
but at some future time, I will settle the
reat question of my soul’s relation to
Ber You cannot find a man who will not
express some wish to lead a better life;
but in nearly every case they see no need
of an immediate decision. In my pastoral
work I have come in contact with this ex-
perience time and again. And as I have
endeavored to understand what is the un-
derlying ‘cause of so much indecision re-
garding religious things, I find that most
of it can be traced to this fundamental
misinterpretation of the words and work
. of Jesus Christ our Lord. You may ex-
press this in many ways, but at heart the
point is this—the saving of the soul after
death, instead of saving the life right here
and now; the gaining of heaven hereafter,
rather than entering into heaven now.
‘And because of this interpretation men
feel no immediate necessity of getting
right with God. So long as they are rea-
gonably sure of life here, they are willing
to delay the great decision of the soul.
Against this view of religion allow me to
bring the message of the Saviour, “I am
come that they might have life and that
they might have it more abundantly.” You
cannot read the gospels without coming
into contact with this purpose of Christ at
every turn. Repeatedly do you find the
word life. We are struck with the fact
how constantly the word life was on the
lips of Jesus. It is a word which gives us
tne very heart of Jesus’ teaching. He was
always praising, always promising life. “If
thou wilt enter into hfe keep My com-
mandments,” ‘“He that believeth on Me
hath life,” “As the Father hath life in
Himself, so hath He given to the Son to
have life in Himself,” ‘“‘Because I live ye
shall live also.” “Ye will not come unto
Me that ye might have life.” Everywhere
we find this same eager pleading with men
to enter into life, and we further find that
Jesus identified life with goodness. To
Jesus life consisted in goodness. Wicked-
ness is death. “The soul, that sinneth, it
shall die” is not so much a threat as the
statement of a great truth. For the sin-
ning soul dies by reason of the very fact of
its sinning. There is no life for the hu-
man soul but in righteousness. Jesus,
therefore, uses language which we may
justly call violent when He referred to the
ossibility of a man’s losing his higher
ife. Better to cut off the offending hand
or foot if it hinders the aspiring soul.
Better to pluck out the eye which causes
stumbling if by that i1aeans the real life of
God may be gained. I have called this
language violent, and such it is. Not that
Jesus anticipated any literal interpreta-
tion and literal following. The forceful
illustration is used to emphasize a terrible
and an eternal truth. The very possibility
of a man’s failing to enter into the life of
fellowship with God, was a thought which
brought strong tears to the eyes 6f the Sa-
viour of men. I tell you that in these days
we are harboring in our hearts a senti-
mental sympathy which overlooks sin and
condones iniquity and seeks to apologize
for the stern words of the Saviour. There
was no doubt a ringing doom against sin.
But it was not the doom of a threat.
Jesus never threatened. He revealed
what sin is; its very nature is death. The
open door of life in God is before men.
To pass by that door does not mean that
God will arbitrarily punish, but that the
very passing it by is death. The issue of
sin is doom, exile into the night, the
zclipse of desolation and abandonment.
Does there move in your hearts the sus-
picion that such a doom is exaggerated and
overdone? When that suspicion comes to
me, and it often comes, I remember the
words of a sainted preacher: “When I am
tempted to think that the doom is over-
one, I must remember that the Son of
God, my Saviour, with an infinite insight
into. all things, superlatively sensitive,
knowing the inmost heart of life, He, our
Saviour, pronounced the doom to be just.
This Christ, who gave Himself for us, who
loved us, told us in words—I venture to
say loving words, of appalling terror—that
for the deliberately sinful, and for the de-
liberately unjust, there is no place but the
night, no place but the outer darkness, no
lace but ultimate separateness, no piace
ut ultimate forsakenness and abandon-
ment. These are my Master’s words, and
against them I will rear no petty imagina-
tion of my own; I will rather silence my
own unillumined suspicion and humbly and
quietly take my place with Him. The
wages of sin is the night.” It is the night
now; it is the night hereafter. The es-
sence of sin is death; it is exile; it is aban-
donment. Jesus’ words were violent, but
He was not seeking to produce fear, but
to reveal fact.
Now to all of us who feel this fact so
keenly Jesus brings His evangel of forgive-
ness and peace.
ago have their greatest significance now,
for we can see, as those Jews could not see,
their fuller and more profound meaning.
As He spoke of the Father in such inti-
mate terms, bitter resentment arose in
their hearts. As He told them of His wil-
lingness to lay down His life for His sheep,
they retorted: “He hath a demon and is
mad; why hear ye Him?’ Possibly we
would have spoken likewise had we been
living then. But now in the light of the
centuries past, we look upon that lonely,
forsaken, crucified Christ and recognize in
His face the glory of the living, suffering
God. For the “sufferings of Christ were
the true representative symbol and prec-
The words spoken so long.
lamation cf what goes on perpetually in
God. From them God wishes the world to
learn that sin is put away only through
the redemptive suffering of holy love,
which He Himself is gladly bearing, and
which Christ, His representative and ex-
pression, endured before the eyes of men.”
It is this truth which gives to the words
of the text their power. He who said. “I
am come that ye might have life” is Him-
self the life which He seeks to impart. He
and the Father are one. The words which
the historic Christ spoke to those Jews
then are being repeated now to us by the
indwelling, immanent Christ. I like that
word immanent. It is a theological word,
but it is a_splendid word. preznant with
meaning. His name shall be called Tmma-
nuel, God with us, the inside God, the im-
manent God. It is He who says “Come
unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy
laden and I will give you rest.” It is He
who says, “I am come that ye might have
life and that ye might have it more abun-
dantly.” It is He who speaks to us in our
sorrow and says, “Come with your sin and
shame, come with your sadness and disap-
pointment, come with your heavy trial and
discouragement and I will give you peace.”
God with us! now to give us the victory.
God with us, now, to forgive our sins. God
with us! now, to give us heaven in our
‘consecrated labor for Him.
I weculd that these words of Jesus which
we are considering might live in your
heart, as I try to have them live in my
heart, as words spoken now, to-night, by
the ever-living, ever-loving Father! How
common it is for us to think of God our
Father as far removed! It may be because
of cur training, but however we may ac-
count for it, the fact remains that many of
us fail to realize that God is dealing with
us now just as intimately and just as gra-
cious!y az He dealt with the great prophets
of old. Hovs many of us earry about with
us the sense of God? Do we have the con-
vicetion of God’s abiding nearness wherever
we are? If not, the greatest blessing of
life has been missed. There is nothing
more needed to-day than a truer, larger,
more Scriptural idea of God. We need to
realize His abiding nearness. But we need
to forget the old idea of an unapproach-
able God. I recall the words of Henry
Drummond, that great teacher, who, dur-
ing his short life, won so many men to
Christ. “I remember very well,” he says,
“the awful conception of God I got when
I was a boy. I was given a book of
Watts’ hymns, which was illustrated, and,
among other hymns there was one about
God, and it represented a great black, |
scowling thunder cloud, and in the midst
of that cloud there was a piercing eye.
That was placed before my young imagina-
tion as God, and I got the idea that God
was a great detective, playing the spy
upon my actions and, as the hymn says,
writing now the story of what little chil-
dren do. That was a bad lesson. It bas
taken years to obliterate it.” And I fear
most of us have had to go through a sim-
ilar experience before we have been rid of
the terrible God of childhood, the far-
away God of childhood, and come into the
spiritual conception of the everywhere
present God of the Bible.
Now it is this everywhere-present God,
our Father, who seeks our life to save it.
He wants our life now, for without God
life is a living death. With God, life is
growth, development — heaven now and
heaven hereafter. Without God it is de-
terioration, atrophy, death. Here are two
facts which our own experience confirms
as true. We need to realize, therefore,
that there is never a time when God the
Father is not near us to lead us into His
life. In the hour when you feel the stir of
divinity within you, in the hour when con-
science speaks and says, be a nobler man,
a purer man, a truer man, in that hour “it
is God which worketh in you.” Possibly
it was but yesterday that you spoke the
unkind word that wounded a devoted
heart, or gained your point in business by
ruining your fellow man, or committed a
sin that leaves a blot on the scutcheon, but
afterward, unless your heart is already
dead, you heard a still small voice plead-
ing with you to repent your evil way and
live a better, higher life. It was “God
which worketh in you.” ; ;
Multiplied are the experiences in which
God is speaking to our souls, and many of
us have never heard the voice. Ears have
we but we hear not. We have eyes but we
fail to see. There are great crowds who
trample upon the beautiful violet, never
thinking that they have one of God's
sweetest thoughts under their heel. There
are myriads of stolid eyes which look up-
ward to the stars but see not God's glory
in the robed beauty of the sky. There are
multitudes who stand beneath the magnifi-
cent blue vault of heaven, gazing upon
some gorgeous sunset, never dreaming that
God lighted ‘the fire. And beyond number
are they who fail to feel the presence of
God in the ordinary experiences of life.
My friends, God wants our life. Do some-
thing with your life. Let your energy,
your talent, your service be for God your
Father. Be not so concerned to save your
soul as to save your life. Give God your
life and He will sanctify your soul.
God’s Service,
I thought within those cherished days of
old—
Oh, days that knew the tinge of morning
sky - :
When night’s blue star veil vanishes on
o
1 .
And flares the first wild radiance of gold
Along the hazy lengths of field and wold,
That my chief services to Him must lie
In rapt devotion thro’ the inner eye
Of meditation, opening toward the fold,
But, lo! the vast is gray, and I have
learned
Tong gone — ah, how the truth has
pierced me through!
That His approval is the fullest earned
By worship in the kindly deeds we do;
God’s service is as broad as needs that cry,
God’s service knits man to eternity!
—L. W. L. Jennings, in Religious Herald.
The True and the Artificial.
Tt is not difficult to distinguish between
the true and the artificial. The moral test
is the sure one. When conscience is sensi-
tive and the will submissive, and the life
consistent, there is no doubt about one’s
spirituality. When the soul sings: “I de-
light to do Thy will, O, God,” and then
does delight to do God’s will, or dees the
will of God from firm resolve, there can be
no doubt. When one loathes sin and tries
to leave it—all sin, all kinds of sin—sin
against the body, sin against the soul, sin
against the neighbor, sin again Christ and
the Father—there is no difficulty in reach-
ing a decision as to the genuineness of
Christian character. It is no mirage. The
garden of the Lord is there.—Bishop John
H. Vincent.
Making Your Temper Over.
If you were not born with a good tem-
per. make your temper over. If cheeriness
and patience and amiability are not nat
ural, cultivate them as a second nature.
No one can be really happy who is irrit-
able and fault-finding, and what is worse,
he renders his nearest and dearest equally
unhappy. Determination can conquer
these faults, and a disposition as full of
pricks as a bramble bush can be rendered
sweet and tranquil and lovable. Don’t
imagine you must accept the nature you
inherited without any attempt at change
or alteration. If it is not what you wanij
make it over.
Optimism of Jesus.
You remember the famous line of Robert
Browning, “God’s in His heaven, all's
right with the world?’ That was tne one
source of the optimism of Browning, but
the optimism of Jesus went a great deal
deeper. 1t was the fact that God was in
His earth, so that the ravens were fed and
the lilies were adorned, and so that the
very hairs of a man’s head are numbered—
it was that which gave a radiant quictude
to Christ.—G. H. Morrison,
A
ARIZONA OSTRICHS DO WELL.
They Are Acclimated and Are Taller
Than the South African Birds.
A letter received in this city last
week says that the ostrich industry
in the Salt River Valley, Arizona, is
fast becoming one of the large com-
mercial importance.
When the ostrich was introduecd
from South Africa, 11 years ago, it
was feared that the experiment would
he a failure. The change of food and
climate did not agree with the birds,
and very litle progress was made dur-
ing the first years. The business also
is one that requires experience, and
until :those engaged in it had learn-
ed everything worth knowing about
ostrich culture they made little head-
way. .
About five years ago the birds had
become acclimated, theircare was more
thoroughly understood, and they began
to thrive. It is believed that they
are doing better in the Salt River
Valley than in South Africa.
At any rate the American ostriches
are several inches taller than those of
South Africa and their feathers are
of somewhat finer quality. Full grown,
they stand eight feet high and weigh
200 pounds.
The rich, black, glossy feathers of
the male are far superior in quality
to the drab plumage of the female,
and the feathers plucked every eight
months are sold as high as $125 a
pound in the eastern markets. The
average yield is a pound of feathers
to the bird.
Over 1000 ostriches are now on the
alfalfa pastures in the valley, feeding
contentedly - on the rich herbage.
which makes them as fat as any
ostrich should be. The climate of
the valley seems to be particularly
adapted to ostrich raising.
These farms are not far from the
city of Phoenix, and visitors often
drive out to them to see the birds
by the hundreds on their pastures.
About 50 of them are also kept on a
small display farm near the city lim-
its for the benefit of tourists, who re-
gard the birds as among the sights
of the place. This little farm pays
for itself by the sales of plumage ‘to
risitors.—New York Sun.
Flowers in the Desert.
Any one going to California’ crosses
the desert, and if tney go when the
rainy season is past, it is truly a
desert. But in the spring of the year,
acter the wild flowers have responded
to the gentle raing, the desert looks
like a great flower garden, and one
cannot put one’s foot down without
crushing beautiful, delicate . flowers.
1 ne wild flowers of the desert are in a
class by themselves, springing to life
in a single day after the rain has
touched the loose, sandy soil. When
the rains cease the flowers wither and
blow away, and all that remains is a
wide expanse of unlovely sand stud-
ded with huge native cacti and Spanish
Dagger. The latcer is the Yuca and
bears encrmous spikes of waxen bells.
[ts leaves are veritable daggers, sure
encugh, and wce betide any one who
runs into them unwittingly.
Some of the Opuntias among the
cacti, especially the Tuna, are called
prickly pears, and Indiam-1igs, from
the shape of the fruit. They have yel-
low, pink and red blossoms and they
grow to immense size. The old mis-
sion fathers planted them along the
boundaries of their missions to keep
out savage Indians. These hedges have
grown for the last century until ‘mow
they are great walls twenty feet high
and as many wide, and perfectly im-
pregnable. ‘The fathers have long
since mouldered to dust, the Indians
have faded from the country, and the
missions are crumbling to decay, but
the prickly pears are, growing and
nourishing and gaining strength as the |
years pass. Tne Turk’'s Head cactus is
the oddest one. It is round, with a
pink body and yellow spines; which
are in the shape of curved
cacti of the desert. They possess neith-
er beauty nor grace, and the brilliancy
of the flowers does not atone for their
hideousness. The prickly pears supply
various reptiles as well as travelers
with drink, as the fleshy leaves give
forth water when crushed. The Indians
and Mexicans use the fruit as a fig,
and dry stalks to burn, so that the
Cacti have their uses if not beauty.
The rattlesnakes abound on the des-
ert, and the slow-going tortoise will
be found hundreds of miles from wat-
er.
Inspirations of Authors.
According to the “Book Monthly,”
Sir Lewis Morris wrote most of “The
Epic of Hades” on the Underground
railway. To the profane and superfi-
cial it will doubtless appear that the
title was more naturally suggested by
such a sulphurous environment than
any other portion of the poem; but
the story only confirms the truth that
all roads lead to Parnasus if the right
man sets out on them. Lord Macau
lay composed the “Ballads of Ancient
Rome” while walking about, as if for
a wager, through the crowded streets
of London. W. E. Henley composed
fn an Edinburgh hospital, and James
Thompson in a barrack room at the
Curragh, and Matthew Arnold on the
south side of the Gemmi, where he
must have been in imminent danger
of falling over precipices while cast
ing about for rhymes. Mr. Kipling,
again, is said sometimes to be in
spired in telegraph offices, and to dash
off immortal verse upon the forms
provided by the department. The
source of Sir Lewis Morris’ inspira
tion is not, therefore, so astonishing
after all, though he might have had
more time to polish his verses if he
had travelled on the suburban lines
of some of the southern companies.—
London Graphic.
thorns.’
There is nothing fascinating about the,
. The Contented Woeman.
The happiest woman in the world is
she who is contentedly serving those’
she loves, says the Philadelphia Bulle-
tin. 5%
Go West, Young Woman.
wo west, young woman, and save
from race suicide the country. Near-
ly 300 miners of Silver City, Nevada,
are advertising in eastern papers for
wives, and scores of other western
camps are offering similar induce-
ments.
Women in Japanese Army.
Richard Chester of Tanegashima
Island, Japan, a contractor to the Jap-
anese government, states that at least
10 percent of the Japanese soldiers
in the field are women disguised as
men. He says that the average Jap-
anese woman of the coolie class is as
strong, if not stronger, than the man.
Short Dress Sleeves.
The fashion for short dress sleeves
will be more generally followed this
summer than for a good many years.
Even the girl whose wrists and hands
are not remarkable for their beauty
will venture to follow her more fav-
ored sisters. Some will wear them to
the elbow and others will cut them off
half way between the elbow and the
‘hand. If the arm is very thin, lace
should be used plentifully.
Beadwork Redivivus, .
Women who wearied of the bead
work in Indian patterns which enjoyed
such a vogue last summer will now
find an excuse for taking up their dis-
carded looms. The rage for anything
Japanese has found vent in headwork,
following conventionalized Japanese
patterns. These cannot be bought at
shops as yet, though doubtless the pat-
terns will soon be on the market, but
any woman with an eye for colors
can evolve her own patterns from Jap-
anese prints, showing borders or pan-
els.
Cherry blossoms, pride of Japan, are
easily conventionalized, and dragons
are stunning done in gold, green, blue,
and crimson beads. The bead fringe
shown on the new, dull-hued lamp
shades are made from beads ip myri-
ad tints, run on the finest of copper
wire.—New York Press.
The Face Beautiful.
How unreasonable some women dre.
They have a bad complexion. They go
to a specialist and expect wonders to
be worked on. their faces in a single
treatment of an hour’s length. They
are advised to come often and régular-
ly of they want to see improvement,
but they think it is because the mass-
euse wants to “make” more out of
them. They mean to come again
“next week,” but when the time
comes they want the dollar for some-
thing” elsg and they don’t, go. Then
they de¢ry the masseuse and her ca-
pabilities. If one has a face that
needs treatment—and whose could not
be benefited—she should begin with
treatments every day until she sees
improvement. Then it is well enough
to make weekly visits. Persistency
and faithfulness on the part of the pa-
tient are as necessary as skill on the
part of the masseuse.
Hintg on Shades.
White makes a woman lock inno-
cent, winsome and classic. Clear
white is for the blonde, cream white
for the brunette. It is not the woman
in white who has all the attention,
and the wide-eyed young thing in
white with a blue ribbon who cap-
tures all the beaux?
“Black suits the fair,” a poet tells
us. It is the thinnest color a stout
woman can wear; indeed, the woman
who wears black to best advantage is
she who is stout and has black eyes
and black hair. It is well known that
in gowns of certain colors flesh seems
to shrink; in others to expand.
A subdued shade of blue, heliotrope
and olive green, with black, of course,
are the colors under which flesh seems
less ostentatious, while wedgwood
blue, pale gray and almost any shade
of red are to be avoided. Mauve and
the higher shade of green are two of
the colors that in decoration about the
throat and shoulders are especially
helpful in diminishing the effect of
flesh. :
Helen Gould in Fear of Her Life.
“If I went about conspicuously I am
sure my life would be attempted,” de-
clared Miss Helen Gould to some of
her friends on the board of lady man-
agers at the St. Louis exposition.
“As it is few persons are certain
of my identity except when I am in
the company of those I can thoroughly
trust. There are times, however,
when I get so nervous that I do not
stir out of the house for a week at a
time.
“You cannot imagine how dreadful
it is to receive in almost every mail
letters from persons who declare that
unless some impossible demand is
complied with they will do you phy-
| sical injury.
“If the writers. were .merely crim-
inal,’I would: have no fear, but crim-
inals seldom or never commit crimes
such as are threatened. Worse than
being criminal, the writers are as a
rule mentally unbalanced, and as a
result of their diseased imaginings.
“I would do almost anything to be
freed from this necessity for constant
espionage by paid protectors. As you
can imagine, it grows very wearisome.’
Know One Thing Well.
Judging from the letters that many
of my girls are sending me there are
a large number of them career-ward
bent and bound, says The Housekeep-
er. I mean to help them, of course,
to the best of my ability, and accord-
ing to the promise I made them .when
we met, in the Cozy Corner, for the
first time. Nevertheless, I want to do
a little bargaining with them. I want
each career-ward bound girl who
comes to me to be honestly able to
say that she is reasonably well
grounded in the science of home-mak-
ing and housekeeping. The knowledge
will be of value to her no matter
what her station in life is or may
be. There are few sadder creatures
to contemplate than the women who
go through life ignorant of the things
that rightfully belong to their sphere
of knowledge, and who haven't the
grace to be ashamed to say, “I don’t
know how.” Yes, I will help you in
any way I can, but always and ever
will I say to you, that hte world has
nothing to give you that is half so fair,
or high, or holy, as honored’ wifehood
-—the first place in some honest heart,
and, perhaps, the crown of mother-
hood. These things are holiest and
best for women, and for hte welfare of
the human race and the world at
large. Slowly, but surely, in many
cases reluctantly, I admit, is there an
acknowledgement of this fact by the
deepest thinkers among the men and
women of our times. Glory and fame
are high sounding words, and the price
a woman pays, more often than not,
for either or both, is her'happiness.
The beat of a drum may be loud, but
oh, how hollow, after all’s said and
done, is the drum. Where the sun-
light is the rosiest on snow clad moun-
tain heights—it’s ever cold, always
lonely. .
Fashion Notes.
Tucked coats are many and effec-
tive.
Linen ribbon trims a.walking hat of
white Japanese straw.
If you can wear a wide belt, do so;
they are very, very stylish.
Champagne pink is ‘a new French
designation for the modish tint.
The cape bolero is one of the de-
signs: suited to th&. linen and other
wash suitings.
A touch of gold is introduced in
nearly all the passementeries, embroid-
eries and laces.
To lend a touch of brightness to gray
costumes, dark orange velvet is em-
ployed for garniture.
Some of the. newest hat pins are
oval, and in the peacock coloring—
green toning into blue.
With a little practice one can pro-
duce a very pretty marcel wave with
an ordinary curling iron.
One can hardly get through the sum-
mer without a white hat. She will
want it if she doesn’t need it.
White velvet or panne, embroidered
with chenille dots in different colors,
represents a novelty in garnitures.
Do not put your furs away with the
dirt on them. It is not only a slack
way of doing but helps to ruin the fur.
The practical automobile cap for a
long ride on a hot day out into the
dusty country is a linen duck of tan
color. J
There is a new nine-gored skirt with
habit back that flares very prettily
about the feet. If one wants to strap
her skirt this is a suitable model.
Wide linen and pique collars are be-
ing very generally worn by young boys
and girls. They brighten up a dark
frock and are very neat on the white
ones.
A novel combination of Parisian
origin is that the crepe de chine and
velvet, the latter as a trimming in a
paler tint than the sheer fabric it
adorns. 7
The little medallions of fine embroid-
ery can be utilized by the amateur
dressmaker on sheer lawns and mus-
lins in making some very handsome
gowns.
A Possible Explanation.
“Ah!” sighed the spring poet, “there
is nothing so sweet and tender as the
bleat of a young lamb.”
“Think so,” replied the practical
man. “I suppose, then, when you git
lamb in a restaurant that ain’t tender
it’s because the bleat’s cooked out
of it.”"—Philadelphia Press.
The French state barge, which was
built in the reign of Charles X., has
just been sold for rather less than $50.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Habit is the deepest law of human
nature.—Carlyle.
Men makes laws; women make man-
ners.—De Legur.
Study the past if you would divine
the future.—Confucius.
There is something of woman im
everything that pleases.—Dupaty.
Who makes quick use of the moment
is a genius of prudence.—Lavater.
Discontent is the want of self-reli-
ance; it is infirmity of will.—Emerson.
Men err frem selfishness, women be-
cause they are weak.—Mme. de Stael.
He who rises late may trot all day
and not overtake his business at night.
—Franklin.
Shallow men speak of the past,’ wise
men of the present, and fools of the
future.—Mme. Du Duffiand.
. The true object of education should
be to train one to think clearly and
act rightly.—H. J. Van Dyke.
I know the nature of women. When
you will, they will not; when you
will not, they come of thelr own ac-
cord.—Serence.
Not a day passes over the earth but
men and women of no note do great
deeds, speak great words or suffer no-
ble sorrows.—Charles Reade.
I don’t care to meet the man who
has never made a mistake, for that
infallible individual has likely never
made anything else.—H. Macaulay.
SCIENCE WARS ON RATS.
A Bacillus Used to Exterminate the
Dangerous Rodents.
The spread of the plague in the east
has veen shown to be due to rats
which are carried from infected ports
on vessels. Just the precise way in
which this is accmobplished, says Har
per’'s Weekly, is still a matter of de-
bate among biologists, but the fact is
appreciated, and in Manila and else-
where. the health authorities endeavor
to kill all the rats in an infected lccal-
ity and on board shins. about to dis-
charge their cargoes. This is accom-
plished in several ways, such as traps,
catching rats by hand or by animals,
and on board ships sometimes by as-
| phyxiation, with carbonic acid, the lat-
ter a costly method, and often difficult
of application. A method promising to
be most efficacious has recently been
devised by M. Danysz, of the Pasteur
Institute, in Paris. He has found the
bacillus of a disease which is peculiar
to rats and extremely ‘fatal to such as
are inoculated with it, while at the
same time it does not affect other ani-
mals or human beings. A culture can
be made of this bacillus bouillon in
which bread or grain is scaked. This
is exposed for the rats to eat, and has
been found a successful means of com-
municating th® disease, which usually
proves fatal in five to 12 days. The
method has been tried on the rats in
the Paris sewers and those of the
Bourse de Commerce, which attack
the grain supplies. It is now recog-
nized that if the rats can be destroyed
it is possible to keep plague and other
diseases from Europe and the civilized
portions of the east, and it is to be
hoped that the new method of inocu-
lation will be found successful when
practiced on a large scale.
§
Animal Language.
A sound or gesture made by an ani
mal under any mental or emotiona¥
impression and calling out a similar
one in another animal is an element
of language. When the rabbit quick-
ly beats the ground, its fellow rabbits
know that there is danger somewhere,
and they take action accordingly.
That is rabbit language. When the
hunter imitates the rabbit and thus
conveys the same idea, he is ‘‘speak-
ing” the rabbit language for the time
being. Many animals use signs, which
of course are understood through the
eyes. The ants converse by touching
antennae and feet. Many insects rub
the elytra. This is animal language
in its simplest form. It expressés but
few ideas. But there are animals
which are capable of modulating their
“voices.” a
Even the common rabbits, which
seem to be mute, are constantly mak-
ing sounds, which a little observation
will soon discover to be ever changing
in volume, modulation, etc. Much of
this method of communication changes
when the animal is brought into civ-
lization from the wild state. The
wild dog, for instance, barks very lit-
tle when in freedom. How the house-
hold dog barks and is able to express
himself is well known.
Bowyer’s Bible.
It is eighty years since William
Bowyer put the finishing touch to his
monumental Bible — an anniversary
which is of peculiar interest just
now. Bowyer was a miniature paint-
er of fair abilities, who devoted ev-
ery spare hour for thirty years to
extra-illustrating a copy of the Bible
which came into his possession. With
infinite patience and at considerable
cost he collected every drawing, en-
graving, and etching of Biblical sub-
jects he could lay hands on, to the
number of 7000, and interleaved his
Bible with them, until the original mod-
est book had expanded into forty-four
imposing folio volumes, containing
the work of 600 artists, from Michael
Angelo to Benjamin West. The work
was completed in 1824, at a total cost
of 4,200 pounds. After his death it
figured as a lottery prize, and under-
went many vicissitudes before it pass-
ed into the possession of Mr. Hey-
wood, of Bolton, for little more than
an eighth of its original cost. — West-
minster Gazette.
Engine drivers working from Crewe
to London and back have to notice
no fewer than 570 signals.