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A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. DR. H. ALLEN TUPPER.
Subject: Marriage and Divorce.
New York City.—Dr. H. Allen Tup-
per, pastor of the Fifteenth Street Bap-
.tist Ghurch, preached Sunday on “Mar-
riage and Divorce.” The text was
Matthew xix:4-6< = “And He answered
and said unto them: - Have ye not read
that He which made them at the be-
ginning made them male and female,
and said for this cause shall a man’
leave father and mother and shall
cleave to his wife; and they twain shall
be one flesh? What therefore God
hath joined together, let not man put
asunder.” Dr. Tupper said:
Marriage was the first institutional
gift of God to man; and the family was
the first organization formed by God
for the blessing of humanity. During
all the centuries, amid the changes of
governments, ceremonies and dispensa-
tions, the impress of divine favor rest-
ed upon these heaven-born establish-
ments, and when their integrity has
been maintained they have been the
sources and centres of light and love;
but when their integrity has been as-
sailed untold. sorrows and suffering
have come upon mankind.
Christ wrought the beginning of His
miracles at a marriage feast, in a gath-
ering of families; and the pen of in-
spiration pictures Him as the Bride-
groom and His Church as the Bride.
The holy ordinance of marriage was
given to support social order; to in-
crease human happiness, and to pro-
vide that through well regulated fami-
lies truth and righteousness might be
transmitted from age to age. The vio-
lation of its vows is the canker at the
heart of human progress and civiliza-
tion. In the West Indies, we are told,
there is a timber that has all the ap-
pearance of strength and solidity, but
when the test is applied it snaps asund-
er and a fine white powder fills the air.
The cause is now apparent; a worm has
eaten its way into the heart of the
wood and slowly but surely devoured
its fiber until 2 hollow shell only re-
mains.
The divorce evil, if not arrested, will
gradually undermine our proud civiliza-
tion, and when the testing time comes
what appeared to be so attractive will
prove to be only a hollow sham. °
In the discussion of marriage and di-
vorce I will call your attention to a
divine law, a social disease and a fatal
danger. :
First—A divine law. Centuries ago
the cunning Pharisees attempted to en-
trap the divine Teacher by asking Him
the question: “Is it lawful for a man
to put away his wife for every cause?’
In that day there existed two opposing
schools. At the head of one was Sham-
mai, who insisted that divorce should
be allowed only in the case of adultery;
at the head of the other was Hillel,
who maintained that a man might put
away his wife for any cause at all. The
tempters of Christ thought that the
trap was well set, for if He failed to
hold strict views on the marriage ques-
tion they would report Him to the fol-
lowers of Shammai, and if He held the
opposite opinion they would turn upon
Him the enmity of the followers of
Hillel, one of whose strong adherents
was Herod, who had just beheaded
John the Baptist. In the words of an-
other: “Brushing aside their quibbling,
Jesus goes back to foundation prinei-
ples and gives His message to the
church of all ages concerning marriage
and divorce.”
It is a fivefold message: The mar-
riage of one man and one woman is a
divine institution; it is a divine act; it
joins husband and wife in a relation
closer and more bindihg than the rela-
tion of parent and child; it so unifies
husband and wife that they cease to be
two and become one flesh; and it can
be dissolved only by death. When the
point was made by the Pharisees that
‘Moses maintained that a writing of di-
vorcement shall be given under certain
conditions, Jesus declared that this was
a concession to the hardness of heart of
the people.
The position of Jesus Christ on the
subject under discussion is clearly set
forth in His Sermon on the Mount: “It
has been said, ‘Whosoever shall put
away his wife, let him give her a writ-
ing of divorcement, but I say unto you
that whosoever shall put away his
wife saving for the cause of fornica-
tion, causeth her to commit adultery.”
‘And Mark records these words of
Jesus: ‘‘Whosoever putteth away his
wife and marrieth another committeth
adultery against her. And if a woman
shall put away her husband and be
married to another, she committeth
adultery.” And in Luke we have set
forth the same law of Christ. From
His recorded words we are forced to
the following conclusions: That Jesus
allowed divorce on one and only one
ground, namely, adultery, and that He
seems to allow the re-marriage of the
innocent party.
In Ephesians v:22-28 Paul gives the
noblest picture of the sanctity and dig-
nity of ‘the marriage relation, for he
compares it to the mystic union be-
tween Christ'and the glorious church of
the redeemed for whom Christ died.
This is no temporary bond to be
snapped at will. Jesus is to-day the
Head of His Church, and it is being
purified by Him and made without
spot or wrinkle. Moreover, in Romans
wvii:1-8 Paul argues that the Christian.
is set free from the bondage of the
Jaw, as the woman can have a new
husband only on the death of the
former husband. But in I Corinthians
vi1:12-16 Paul speaks of the problem in’
family life presented where the hus-
band is a Christian and the wife a
heathen and vice versa. He has two
things to say about this new problem
that had not arisen when Jesus spoke
on the subject. His first word is that
the Christian must not force a separa-
tion. If the heathen husband or wife
is willing to continue the union, the
@hristian must be willing to do so.
The marriage is legitimate and the
children are legitimate. But the other
word is this: Suppose the heathen
husgand or wife is not willing to keep
,up the marriage relation and insists on
separation, then what? Well, let the
unbelieving husband or wife go, says
Paul. He uses the word “depart” here,
not the technical word “put away.”
it wot..d seem that this is a case of
voluntary separation, not a legal di-
vorce. If this be true, there could, of
course, be no remarriage in such
eases, for the marriage has never been
v w
legally annulled. This alternative is
not even raised by Paul in this connec-
tion. It may be properly said, then,
that Paul did not advocate divorce for
anything save adultery, though he does
not even indicate this exception save by
implication.
This divine law is set forth in no un-
certain sound on the pages of God’s
Word; and the disobedience of it must
entail sorrowful results to the indi-
vidual, the family, and the community.
Second—A social disease. Divorces
are more numerous in the United
States in proportion to marriages than
in any other country of which we have
any record. This social disease is con-
tagious and spreading. In 1870, 3.5
per cent. of marriages ended in divorce.
In 1880, 4.8 per cent. In 1890, 6.2 per
cent. In 1900, 8.1 per cent. In 1890
the percentage of the divorced to the
married was 0.5. In 1900 it was 0.7.
According to the census of 1900 there
were 2457 divorced women in the
United States under the age of twenty,
and 13,175 divorced women between
twenty andstwenty-five years of age.~
South Carolina is the only -State in
the Union which grants no divorce.
New York is the only State in the
Union which proposes to grant divorces
only on Scriptural grounds; yet New
York grants, annually, mhore than af
thousand divorces.
Illinois gives a fair illustration of
the laws of almost all the States. Af-
ter reciting a long list of grounds upon
which a divorce may be granted, the
law concludes by empowering the court
to grant a divorce upon any plea which
it thinks justifiable.
The Western States, in order to in-
,crease their population, are making
open and shameless bids for those dis-
satisfied with the married state to come
to them and have it dissolved.
Statistics given by the Chicago Daily
News Almanac, 1903, show the follow-
ing number of divorces granted in lead-
ing cities of our country in 1901:
Providence, 327;§Cincinnati, 405; Bos-
ton, 406; Cleveland, 454; Philadelphia,
492; St. Louis, 573; New York, 817; San
Francisco, 846; Chicago, 1808...
The statistics of Carroll D. Wright,
Commissioner of Labor, for twenty
years, from 1867 to 1886, show 328,712
divorces granted in the United States
in those years. In 1867, 9937 divorces
were granted; while in 1886 25,535 di-
vorces were granted, making an in-
crease of 157 per cent. The increase of
population was sixty per cent. during
‘the same period.
In 1867 Ohio granted 901 divorces,
and in 1900 the State granted 3217
divorces—one to every eleven marriages
solemnized in the State. Indiana
granted, in 1867, 1096 divorces, and in
1900, 4599—one divorce to every Six
marriages solemnized in the State.
Only a short time ago the papers were
telling of a woman in Indiana who
had eight living husbands, from whom
she had been divorced, and this same
woman was then preparing to be mar-
ried to the ninth victim. Michigan in
1867 granted 449 divorces, and in 1900
granted 2418 divorces—one divorce to
every eleven marriages solemnized in
the State.
A table of divorces in the Christian
world in 1885, as given in “Studies in
History, Economies and Public Law,”
issued by Columbia University, gives
the following interesting fact: Canada,
Great Britain - and Ireland, France,
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland,
Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria,
Roumania, Russia and Australia grant-
ed a total of 20,111 divorces, while in
the same year the United States grant-
ed 23,472 divorces—an .excess over all
other countries in the Christian world
of 3361. :
Forty-five States and several Terri-
tories have various and conflicting
laws, and more than 3000 courts beve
jurisdiction of divorce cases. A
learned essayist says of our legislation
that it “presents the largest and strang-
est,and perhaps the saddest experiment
in the sphere of family laws which
free, self-governing countries have ever
tried.” It was published in a recent
journal that divorces were granted in
Chicago for the'following causes: Snor-
ing, cold feet, eating with a knife, in-
sisting upon going to bed in his over-
coat and boots, smoking' cigarettes,
failure as a cook.
During recent years divorce has de-
veloped into an industry in the United
States, the legal profession and the
bench have done much to encourage
this terrible traffic.
For 6211 divorces in France in a
given period, the United States offers
25,000, the United Kingdom showing
475 and the German Empire 6078 for
the same time. For a period of twenty
years in Maryland the rate of marriage
to divorce was 61.94. Massachusetts
averaged 31.28 to every divorce.
Some of the popular theories are that
divorce is due to the conflicting and in-
harmonious statutes of varios States.
Thus as Colonel Wright, in his report,
informs us, it is the belief that persons
residing in the State of New York,
where the law is strict, are in the habit
of seeking divorces in Rhode Island.
But the statistics show that of 4462
divorces granted in Rhode Island only
ninety-seven were to parties married
in New York, and of 6020 granted in
Pennsylvania, only 765 were to parties
married in New York, while of the
289,546 couples whose place of mar-
riage was ascertained, 231,867 were di-
vorced in the same State in which they
had been married.
Third—A fatal danger. The attack
upon the integrity of the family is an
unmitigated evil and a crime against
social order, which can only result in
the destruction of all that is purest,
noblest and best in the world. Here
we find the secret cause of the decline
and fall of the Roman Empire. The
laws as to family life were loose; di-
vorce became epidemic, and the empire
‘went down in ruin and disgrace. The
Reign of Terror in France followed the
establishment of a law that marriage
could be dissolved merely by applica-
cation; 20,000 divorces were granted in
Paris in one year, end during the same
period 48,000 outcast children were car-
ried into foundling hospitals and near-
ly 10,000 new-born babies were taken
out of the sewers of the city and from
the secret places by the police. The
indescribable horrors of those times it
is impossible to picture, and who will
say that directly or indirectly the vio-
lation of the sanctity of the marriage
state and the purity of the family life
did not contribute largely toward those
days of terror? The rejection of the
Bible, the denial of God and the dese-
cration of the home yi2lded bitter fruit,
the taste of which still lingers in the
mouth of France, and lessons written
in blood have never been forgotten.
.wiet is now known
To-day in that country it is allowable
to obtain separation for five years,
and at the end of that time to apply
for the conyetsion of the separation
into absolute divorce if the parties
have not been reconciled: . ,
The praetical results of the imperial
divorce law in Germany. have ‘been
gratifying. It gives four grounds for
divorcée—namely, adultery, attempt of
either husband or wife on the life of
the other; malicious, willful desertion
and continued violation of the marriage
vows. Both in France and Germany
attempts are being made to escape
threatening dangers by the -enforce-
ment of stricter laws on marriage and’
divorce. f f
In New ‘England and Wales® there:
were 176 divorces in 1870; 336 in 1880;
364 in 1900, and 727 in 1889; and the
growing evil is at last attracting tha.at-|
tention of the lawmakers. . We:.do.not
recognize the family at all in our na-
tional constitution. It appears in our
State laws only as an object of some
care, byt not as an clement of political
power. Mr. Gladstone declared that
his fear for our future centered very:
largely: upon our ability -to protect the
family, for weakness here means disas-
ter everywhere. -
Realizing the perilous position in
which we are placed by the increasing
social evils resulting from divorces, a
number of public spirited men initiated
a corrective: movement in 1878, and
as the Natioial
League for the Protection of the Fam-
ily, founded upon a broad basis, was
organized in 1881. The results from
this and kindred organizations have
been marked and’ encouraging. Radi-
cal improvements are noticed in the
laws of New York, New Jersey, Penn-
sylvania and Wisconsin; divorces after
residence of only three or six months
are no longer permitted, as they for-
merly were, in North Dakota, Georgia,
California and several Territories. All
causes for divorce but one have been
stricken from the laws of the District
of Columbia, and commissions on uni-
formity by co-operation of the States
now exist in no less than thirty-four
States and Territories.
The question of a constitutional
amendment and admission of a nation-
al law on the matter under discussion
have been agitated; but as long as
twelve States can be rallied in defense
of the maintenance of State rights, it
is a waste of time to attempt the
amendments on marriage or divorce.
But the agitation against this evil goes
on as never before. The pulpit, the
press, the: platform, ‘the schools;: ecol-
leges and universities are awakgning
to a sense of the moral and social dan-
ger that threatens us, and the out-
spoken discussion of the marriage re-
lation and the divorce laws must result
in great good.
Thirty years ago none of our high-
er educational institutions gave any
attention to the study of the family,
but now the theological seminaries, the
law schools and the universities are
giving special care to this most im-
portant subject. We may be assured
that our boasted civilization, our proud
commercial greatness, our high edu-
cational attainments and our brilliant
material developments will only hasten
the day of our disaster unless we pro-
tect the family and honor the God of
the home, who is the Father of us all.
An Infidel’s Sermon to a Preacher.
Never shall I forget the remark of a
learned legal friend who was at one
time somewhat skeptical in his views.
Said he to me:
““Did I believe, as you do, that the
masses of our race are perishing in sin,
I could have no rest. I would fly to
tell them of salvation. I would labor
day and night. I would speak with all
the pathos I could summon. I would
warn and expostulate and entreat my
fellowmen to turn to Christ, and re-
ceive salvation at His hands. I am as-
tonished at the manner in which the
majority of you ministers tell your
message. Why, you do not act as if
you believed your own words. You
have not the earnestness in preaching
that we lawyers have in pleading. If
we were as tame as you are, we would
never carry a single suit.”
A decade of years has passed away
since that remark was made. I bless
God it was addressed to me. It put fire
into my bones which I hope will burn
as long as I live. God preached a
stirring sermon to me that day by the
mouth of that infidel lawyer.—Peter
Stryker.
Life is Constructive.
A certain evangelist is using a card
on one side of which is the question.
“What must I do to be saved?” and
following it are the Scriptures which
point out the way of salvation. On the
other side of the card is the question,
“What must I do to be lost?” and the
answer follows, “Nothing.”
The reply is simple but wonderfully
impressive. Many think that in order
to be lost they must run the log gamut
of vices and be aggressively bad. Not
so. We are all bad enough to miss the
kingdom in spite of the good points we
may have.
Life is an active, constructive force.
It is likened unto a living temple or
unto a vine. It must therefore be built
up, and unless there is activity there
is no building. Unless there is active
goodness there is no character, and un-
less there is character there is no sal-
vation.—Brethren Evangelist.
Spiritual Poverty.
Professing Christians sometimes at-
tribute their spiritual poverty to na-
ture. One is penurious, another cow-
ardly, and they ’say it is because they
have been less generously endowed by
nature than others and cannot help it.
It would be quite as reasonable fer one
whose father’s table, to which he has
free access, is dmily loaded with
wholesome food, to go about the streets
with gaunt, bony fingers and ghastly
countenance, starving to death, and
saying, “I cannot help it.” God is
able to make a penurious man liberal,
generous and benevolent, or a cruel
msdn as gentle as a lamb, or a passion-
ate man as calm and serene as the
bosom of a mountain lake when the
winds are hushed to rest. He is able
to make all grace abound toward all
His children.—Christian Advocate,
Learning What Life Is.
Sorrow is not an incident occurring
now and then. It is the woof which is
woven into the warp of life, and he
who has not discerned the divine sa-
credness of sorrow and the profound
meaning which is concealed in pain
has yet to learn what life is,.—F. W.
Robertson.
Girl of the Day.
She will feel old-fashioned the first
time she clasps this bracelet round her
glove, but she will realize in a few mo-
‘ments that it is the fashionable thing
to wear; and she will wear a bracelet
of gold or silver, or made entirely of
- links set with mock - jewels, and the
jewels will match her gown.
‘Bad For the Complexion. ?
+ The uSe of rouge and powder.is very
injurious to the complexion, clogging
the pores of the skin, causing black-
heads and a dull, sallow look that is
far from pleasing. Many of the face
powders contain bismuth, which in-
jures the nerve centres when constant-
ly employed, and has been known to
cause serious results.
Ivy Screen of a Duchess.
So attractive is the novel natural
screen the Duchess of Westminster
has in-her morning room in Grosvenor
House, London, that all the women
who see:it are delighted, except those
who are artistically blind. It is of ivy
—a mass of beautiful leaves, richly
green—and it stands across the great
room almost like a wall. Such a screen
requires space, and is not designed for
flat dwellers.—New York Press.
Eugenie’s Sad Pleasure.
When Empress Eugenie visits Paris
she almost invariably occupies a suite
of rooms facing the Tuileries gardéns.
Much surprise has been expressed that
she should take up her abode in such
close proximity to the scene of her
triumph long ago, thereby invoking
memories which could not be other
than bitter. The subject was delicdte-
ly, broached in her presence recently,
whereupon the old lady ‘said: “It is
perhaps the greatest happiness of my
life to look upon the garden where my
son played in his childhood—d sad
pleasure, if you will, but one I would
not. forego willingly.”
The Sunday Dress.
There is one section of the dress re-
form which pleases many, and that is
the new fashion of dressing plainly for
church. The Sunday dress has really
gone out of fashion. It is no longer |
considered proper to wear one’s best
clothes to church. The best clothes
must be laid away for worldly pleas-
ures—for the theatre or circus—and the
plainest gown, or, in fact, the every-
day outfit, is to be worn on Sundays.
Women of the East have leaned grad-
ually toward this, and for some time
it has been noticed by strangers they
look exceedingly plain when attending
church.—Chicago News,
College Outfits.
As for the underclothing, it should be
new and of the best quality, but plain.
A girl with all the novelty of college
life upon her will have little time to
mend, and her underclothing should
be mew and strong enough to resist
severe laundry treatment. It should be
plain, as in most college laundries an
extra charge is made for elaborate
pieces. “I shall never forget,” said
one girl recently, “my experience with
some ruffled white skirts. They were
so much more simple than anything
I had ever worn before, that I was
filled with indignation when they were
subjected to an ‘extra’ charge at the
laundry. I went down and remon-
strated and finally refused to pay. A
day or two afterwards I was sent for
to go to the president’s office. Imagine
my. feelings when, on entering, I found
that severe and reverend gentleman
engaged in contemplating: my unlucky
petticoats. Needless to add I agreed
at once that they were elaborate, and
sent home for some others.”—Harper’s
Bazar,
Fur Coats in All Lengths,
All fur coats are not short, however.
There are half-length coats.
There are three-quarter-length coats.
There are coats of full length. h
A redingote of broadtail is an edition
de luxe in the three-quarter length. It
is double-breasted in the slightly diag-
onal fashion from the left side of the
square neck to the centre front at the
lower edge of the garment. Both fronts
are cut in the same fashion which
makes a full length, graduated lapel on
each side, should the coat ever be worn
open and turned back. It is not likely
it will, however, as it looks too well
buttoned down from the left of its
square neck, with white xid buttons
rimmed with black jet. These buttons
are gems of beauty and smartness.
Three of a smaller size adorn each of
the cuffs, which in this case finish
sleeves that just fall short of reaching
the wrist.
To harmonize with the buttons
there's the lining of white silk and the
band, over an inch in width, that out-
lines the square neck—square at the
front, that is—and a portion of the
square-builf cuffs. These bands are
made of white kid, embroidered in
black silk, in the Greek key pattern. At
intervals the embroidering is adorned
with a cable made of the tiniest black
jet beads.
And so it goes.
Apparently there’s no limit. The
gilet of one coat is embroidered in wee
rosebuds delicate enough to adorn lin-
gerie, while that of another shows
leather strappings upon a cloth founda-
tion.—Philadeiphia Record.
The Menace of Low Shoes.
Perhaps girls are more prone to re-
sent interference when presented on
the score of health than on any other |
If the cause for this impa-
ground.
tience remains inscrutable, it no less
certainly is a fact. Yet it may be sug-
gested, with all due deference to possi-
ble prejudice, that there is certain and
great danger in the common habit of
wearing low shoes regardless of weath-
er. These older and sadly wise women
who have bought their knowledge with
| a heavy price see their younger sis-
ters. tripping abeut on cold, stormy
days in F'rench-lieeled “ties,” and shake
their heads sadly, remembering how
they too learned by experience that.
high heels and damp feet were sure to
work mischief to that marvellousiy del-
icate organism with which femininity
is endowed. They are aware that ‘the
ankles are peculiarly susceptible to
chill. They recall—one does—espeecial
instances when most direful illness has:
followed such rash exposure. A cer-
tain beautiful young girl lay on a bed
—not of pain alone, but of torture—
through her long-anticipated summer
vacation, bemoaning when so much
too late the deaf ear turned to warn-
ing8 which, the doctor sternly informed
her, might have warded off disease.
It was only “getting her feet wet,” enly
a sudden chill. But the consequences
were serious.—Harper's Bazar.
* A New Field For Girls.
There is an -opening for a capable
young woman in almost every country
town. This is in the combined profes-
sion of catering and fine cooking. Once
upon a time in our villages ladies per-
sonally superintended their family bak-
ing and were proud to be known as
“famous+eooks.” That day is gone, and
with it.much of the delicious food that
few servants save chefs can attempt,
and, as well, much of the entertaining
that was wont to provide a ‘groaning
table” of good things for the obselete
tea-party, superseded by the wafer and
cup of bouillon of an afternoon tea.
Many women would be still more hos-
pitable if, in their country homes, that
did not imply disorganization and dis-
comfort extending from the kitchen on
throughout the house. A moderate-
priced caterer, who could take entire
charge of the function, would be a boon
to them. Our villages are supplied
with bakeries—plenty of them. But
the product is usually poor. The best
cakes, pastry, and breads, furnished at
reasonable prices, will find a ready
market for them, while orders for sal-
ads and ices might be taken, and if
well filled will be often and often re-
peated. These statements are not the-
orizing; they are the result of observa-
tion that has noted what women with
but slender equipment have achieved
and can guess what better preparation
might effect. The fact cannot be stated
too strongly that, outside the large
cities, there is an enormous unworked
field for such provision as is here in-
dicated.—Harper’'s Bazar.
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Ostrich plumes rival floral creations.
‘As many as six bracelets are worn at
once.
Black velvet ribbon lends chic and
beauty.
Varying shades of the lilac make a
lovely hat.
Lorgnette chains retain their vogue
and variety.
With elbow sleeves so much in fash-
ion bracelets of all sorts are now great-
ly in vogue.
Black gowns are coming in fashion
again for street wear, and some most
attractive ones are being made up at
the present moment.
A gray leather belt with a handsome
gold buckle is very effective when worn
with a dress of the same color. Un-
dressed leather is mostly used.
A charming example recently seen of
an informal hat for street or carriage
wear was a pale-blue, satin-finished
felt. It was a tricorn shape, and was
small and trim. The turned-up brim
was trimmed with many small ruches
of black satin ribbon, and the crown
of the hat was slightly trimmed with
a twist of black velvet.
Velvet heavily embroidered, silk
heavily embroidered and cloth heavily
embroidered—all are in fashion—are
most effective and: certainly give a
charming finish to what otherwise
might be a gown on the rather sewere
order. A surprising amount of warmth
can be gained in these little packets by
having an interlinimg, which will not in
the least interfere with their fitting
well.
Rather a noticeable feature of many
of the more elaborate gowns for cool
days is to be seen in the elaborately
trimmed boleros that are worn with
the cloth or silk skirts. A silk or cloth
costume that would in itself not be
warm enough without some outside
wrap is made quite possible by one
of these boleros, with its short sleeves,
that slip on over the waist of the
gown.
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The young King oi Spain comes of a
long line of royal ancestors, including
such rulers as Charles V., Philip XIV.
Empress Maria Theresa, and the inevi-
table Mary Queen of Scots, from whom
many royal families of Europe are de-
s'ended. He is now nineteen years
old.
To commemorate the meeting oi the
British Association in South Africa a
plan has been formulated to found a
British Association medal for South .
African students. a ea
A capriscus, a Mediterranean file fish, T
has been caught at Wyke, Dorset. It
has ‘large tusks protruding from its
jaws, and instead of lateral fins, it has
two flippers, like thcse of a seal. It
is said that only one other of its kind
has ever been taken on the English
coast. 5 ,
Vigorite, the new explosive of Profes-
sor Shulz .and Engineer Gelire, of =
Switzerland, is a nitrous compound
which, united with saltpeter, has given
‘results claimed to indicate a strength
about ten times greater than that of
any other explosive. In the air it
burns without exploding. It has the
further advantages of being insensible
to friction, sheck or concussion, while
it is mot injured by wetting or freez-
ing. '
Physicians are interested in a new
anesthetic prepared from a tree called
“yohimbehe,” that grows in West Af-
rica. - It yields an alkaloid which crys-
tallizes into silky white needles easily
soluble in alcohol, ether and chloro-
form. Doctor Magnani, an Italian phy-
sician, reports that he prefers it to
cocain and tropococain for operations
on the eye. Hypodermically injected,
it causes local anethesia, lasting almost
two hours.
Graphite deposits. are not common,
and since the failure of the old mines
in Cumberland, England, worked for
more than 300 years, the largest supply
has come from Ceylon. Now, however,
it is announced that an important de-
posit of graphite, worked during the
past year on a slope of Mount Bopple,
near the north coast cf Queensland,
gives promise of furnishing a large
supply. Seams varying -in thickness
from one to six feet have been discov-
ered. :
The repulsive action of light is shown
in a very pretty experiment. An hour-
glass shaped glass vessel is filled with
very fine and light lycopodium spore
and the air is then pumped out to as
high a vacuum as is practicable. The
spore falls down through the orifice of
this hour-glass in the usual way. As
the light dust jet falls an intense beam
of light focussed on it just below the
hole spreads it out into a spray, the
lighter particles being repelled most.
On comparatively heavy material, like
sand, the light beam couid have n
effect.
Water exists in three different
states; as a solid in ice; as a liquid in
water; as a gas in vapor. To cause it
to pass from one of these states to the
next following one, Leat is necessary.
Dig a hole in the ice of a Swiss glacier
in summer, and place a thermometer
in the hole, it will stand at thirty-two
degrees Fahrenheit. Dip your ther-
mometer into one of the glacier
streams; it will still mark thirty two
degrees. The water is therefore as
cold as ice. Hence the whole of the
heat poured by the sun on the glacier,
and which has been absorbed by the
glacier, is expended in simply liquify-
ing the ice and not in rendering either
ice or water a single degree warmer.
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YOUNG MEN OF THE SOUTH.
How They Win Their Way to Success in
New York City.
In deploring the sudden death of
Third Deputy Police Commission Har-
ris Lindsey Mr. McAdoo refers to the
young men who come to New York City
from the South as having “marked
ability, inborn integrity and a chival-
rous sense of honor.”
No class of men win an average of
higher success than the South’s con-
tribution to New York’s cosmopolitan
population. But Mr. McAdoo did not
mention the most marked difference
between them and the delegations from
Eastern, Northern and Western States.
In honesty and ability no comparison
can be made to the disparagement of
any section. ‘In persistence and train-
ing to stand hard work the boy from
a Northern farm or village at least
equals the Southern boy.
It is by his better manners, by his
habitual courtesy, that the young man
from the South often succeeds where
hard work alone would bring less re-
sults. He goes into a profession as a
rule rather than into business, and
there his appearance, his breeding and
his manners secure him good connec-
tions and lucrative work.
The influence of older women has
much to do with a young man’s suc-
cess. Southern men come to New York
with a social training and a liking for
feminine society that is of great value.
Such social graces are a good profes-
sional asset in New York, where the
power of women is exerted much
further than appears on the surface.—
New York World.
Chimney Caps Revived.
Quite a boom is on at present In the
supplying of caps for chimneys. Build-
ing authorities say that the absence
of such protection accounts in large
measure for chimney fires, foul, sooty
chimneys, back draughts and other
troubles by allowing the elements to
enter the open flues.
It is claimed that rain and snow
cause no end of damage to the bricks,
and that frost, combined with mois-
ture,disintegrates the masonry. The
statement is made that dampness in
{ houses is often attributable to uncov-
! ered chimpeys.