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THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNBAY SERMON BY
THE REV. DR: R. F. ALSOP.
Subject: Graft, Ancient and Modern.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Dr. Reese F. Alsop,
rector of ‘St. Ann's P: EK. Church,
preached Sunday morning on “Graft,
Ancient and Modern.” His text was
from Luke xix:8: “Behold, Lord, the
half of my goods I give to the. poor,
and if I have taken anything from
any man by false accusation, I restore
him fourfold.” Dr. Alsop said:
; We have in these days a curious use
of the word graft. Probably the gar-
dener would find it a little hard to un-
fderstand how it came to have the mean-
ing that it has, yet it ought not to be
difficult to explain. He sets into some
plant a bud or a twig, and by and by
it grows into the plant. Then it lives
to a certain extent its own life, bears
its own fruit, drawing the while sap,
mourishment, vitality, from the plant
into which it has been grafted. It be-
comes, therefore, the figure of a thing
that draws that something else with
which it is connected, that which it
muses for its own purpose. So the habit
of drawing off for private uses some-
thing that really belongs to some one
else,whether it be a government, a
department, or an individual, has come
to be called graft. The use of the
word is peculiar to our own times.
The thing which the word indicates is,
alas! as old as history. Something like
it we find in the story of him who
claims our attention this morning.
‘Two or three things come out in our
study of Zacchaeus.
First—He was in a dangerous em-
ployment. It surrounded him with
temptations. Its usual standard of
action was low. Its prevailing habit
was one of wrong doing. It was a
course of life in which every day one
could see opportunities of getting gain
and take them. Both insiders and out-
siders took for granted a certain meas-
ure of pilfering.
Mr. Jerome has lately been holding
up to the ridicule of the public the
claim that there is such a thing as
. honest graft, by which is meant op-
* portunities which come to insiders to
take advantage of their knowledge and
of others’ ignorance to make great
profits... The employment of Zacchaeus
gave such opportunities, and men like
him were expected to gather in con-
stantly what was called perquisites of
their position. Just as a customs in-
spector is suppc:ed to look for and to
wait for a fee, or as a policeman. who
has a district like the Tenderloin, is
supposed to be waiting and ready
for bribes. We have men who have
shown a good deal of this spirit. We
have had those who. call themselves
statesmen in New York who were in
politics by their own confession not
for their health, but for their pocket
all the time. Zacchaeus, we are told,
was chief of the publicans, and he
seems to have illustrated the spirit
which is apt to prevail in a hated: and
proscribed business, namely, that” of
avenging itself upon. the public by
making the public pay.
Secondly—It would appear that he
had used che opportunities which his
position gave him. “ax collecting
proper does not bring a man a large
fortune. The income is usually grad-
ed to give him merely a moderate liv-
ing. But Zacchaeus had. not been
content with that, here are’ thou-
sands of people all through our land
who have the rare faculty of growing
rich in a few years on a very. small
salary. sen like Beavers, senators
who have been indicted and convicted
of land frauds,. judges “ho have used
appointments for personal reasons.
These things which we know of in our
day should give some insight into the
methods in Jericho of old. ~< was a
case of ‘high finance,” of a constant
, “rake of” in the year of our Lord 29.-
It-was graft nearly twenty centuries
before the word ca-ae to have its pres-
ent connotation. And so Zecchaeus be-
came rich—notoriously rich. "He was
probably like some o. our high finan-
ciers of to-day. ‘He had a {fine house
‘and garden and establishment, so that
as men pass:d it they pointed to it
and said, “There lives the richest man
in the city.”
Third—Still, in spite ot ‘his prosper-
ity, he was in ‘bad odor. The community
will stand a good deal, but there comes
‘a time -+wvhen even the. glamour of
wealth cannot hide a man’s true ‘char-
acter—when his success can no longer
blind men’s eyes, when his splendor
‘becomes an offense that cries to high
heaven. There are houses and estab-
lishments in our day that make men
‘gnash their teeth, that stand in the
community as an exhibition of what
fraud and trickery and legal stealing
and breach of trust ean do. ith
wealth honestly earned and nobly used,
the legitimate reward of real service
to the community, there is and should
be no quarrel; but with ill gotten
gains, gains got at the expense of the
community, gains which arenot the pay
of honest work, of brain, of body, but
the loot of cunning, of fraud, the booty
filched by the strong or the clever, or
the high placed from the weak, or
foolish, or lowly; with such wealth
there is and ought to be a quarrel eter-
nal. And so it was with Zacchaeus.
As the people of Jericho passed his
gates it was with a sneer, perhaps a
curse. He is rich; yes, but he is a
sinner; his glory is his shame, His
splendor is the measure of his turpi-
tude, he has made his pile, but it is
the result of extortion and false accu-
sations. He is not only a renegade, in
that he is a publican, and the chief of
them, but he is a standing, living
monument of what conscienceless
greed can make of a man.
TFourth—Now, with this judgment of
his fellow citizens, Jesus .seems to
agree, for when the people protest
against His being this man’s guest
Jesus says: “The San of man is come
to seek and to save that which was
lost.” That word “lost” seems to
concede the justice of the people's
judgment. Zacchaeus is a son of
Abraham, indeed; th:-c¢ is, one of the
chosen people. But he is none the
less a lost man nexding to be sought
and saved.
Now, if that was his true character;
if the 'Jerichoan estimate of him was
correct, how are we to understand the
words: “Behold, Lord, the half of my
goods I give to the poor; and if I have
taken anything from any man by false;
fifth - was reached.
accusation, I restore” him fourfold.
How can a mah who shows’ such. g
erosity to the poor; who restores fo r-
fold to a:l wham he has injured, be so
bad? Have the people, and has Jesus
mistaken his character? Is he amiss
judged and una ippreciated man?
Not so do I read the sfory. :The
words which we are thinking of are
not meant to describe his past, but his
future: They do not set forth shat
has becn his habit, his manner of diy -
ing; they are the announcement, of a
suddenly formed purpose. And that
purpose, as we shall see presently; is
the natural reaction from what have
been up to this time the motive and
method of his life.
Though he has done all these bad
things, justly won the odium that he
enjoys, none the less Jesus sees in him
possibi'ities of amendment and nobil-
ity and calls him down from the tree
on which he has perched himself to
become his guest. This condescention
involves an Interview and an influx of
the personality of Jesus upon his soul.
This brings about a tremendous revul-
sion. The revulsion muy perhaps be
the end of a long, slow process, Has
he not found that his riches after all
did not pa= him for the loss of his own
peace of min. and fc the hate of the
community in which le iives, for the
scorn of a whole city? Has he not
found that after all his wealth did not
satisfy or make him happy? That tr:
sin ot its acquisition was like a canker
at its heart?
More than this, -vhen the light comes
it brings out the’ dark lines. Like a
flash of lightning, the presence of
Christ illuminates his past; and just as
Peter, when he realized the divinity
of his Lord, cried: “Depart from me,
for I am sinful man, O Lord,” so
Zacchaeus feels all at once the enor-
mity of his sin. It stands up in strong
relief against what has been his mas-
ter passion, his greed. In an instant
he sees tae turpitude, the ugliness of
what he has been doing. What he has
seen before dimly is now emphasized,
stands before his mind in clear, strong
lines.” He is in the light and all at
once a mighty resolve seizes him. He
will break with his past, will give up
his besetting sin; yea, will with all his
might battle with it. Just as in Iphe-
sus, among the converts of Paul, those
who had been dabbling with magic
brought their books to burn; just as a
drunkard knows that if he is to follow
Christ he. must dash the cup forever
from his lips, so Zacchaeus forms and
announces his purpgse to break with
his greed.
This resolve includes two things.
First—Generosity.. . “Behold, Lord,
the half of my goods, of my income,
I give to we poor.”
Notice the proportion. Moses asked
at least one-tenth. add to that de-
mands for public requirements and a
This man says
“half.” Compare that with theigifts|,
of some of ‘our notoriously rich men
to-day. . Very few attain to the mark
of - this - converted publican. A man
who died the other day left an estate|
of some $7,500,0000, of which $100,000
was bequeathed to charity, and the
newspaper spoke of a large amount
being bequeathed: for charitable be-
quests. One hundred thousand dollars
out of $7.300,000 is a very small pro-
portion. Let us hope: that during his
life time the man did better. than |
that. “There was something extraor-
dinary in the bigness of this purpose
of Zacchaeus. Our multi-mlilionaires,
most of them, even those who at times
startle us by their gifts, have still
something to learn from J ericho’ 8 pub-
lican. & =
Secon diy- Restitution. erg X have
taken any thing from any man by
false, accusation, 1 restore him four.
IN
ot a vista {hese. words open back
into his life. They show how a.part
at least of his wealth had been won.
They show also how the methods of the
past look now to his awakening com-
science. He proposes to deal with his
habit by a heroic treatment. “I will
restore fourfold.” As h> carries out
that purpose, imagine, if you can, the
effect upon ‘those, who in the past,
had had bitter and exasperating exper-
iences with’ him. Should the like be
done to-day, what a stirring up there
weuld be, What a change of places
between the rich and the poor. What
vist swellings of the conscience fund
of the government! What thousands,
perhaps millions of acres of public
land would be returned to ‘government
control. What a dis; orging there
would be of exhorbitant freights. How
many policy holders would be made
glad. How mdny crushed out firms
would be resuscitated. Imagine, if
you can, the restitution of all wrongly
gotten w.alth. Why it would be like
streams of water flowing through dry
places. It would be like a transforma-
tion scene in a pantomime,
It is almost inconceivable, and yet
that is what Christianity meant to
Zacchaeus. It was a salvation not
from death eternal, it was primarily a
salvation from his greed, from his sel-
fishness, irom his isolation, from his
fellows. And notice that Jesus accepts
his purpose as a perfectly proper
thing. He has the true spirit of a con-
verted unfe—large-hearted liberality,
restitution of all wronglv taken props
erty. Given these two things every:
where and religion becomes real and
vital. Deny them and there is only a
name to live. It is icte to talk about
being Christizns, unless our religion
means open-heartedness and righteous-
ness.
Christ Anchors the Soul.
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, speaking
of Christ as an anchor to the soul, says
significantly: “You are certain to be
assailed with troubles. No hurricane
can strike a full rigged ship more sud-
denly than s orms-of adversity may
burst upon you. But if Jesus Christ
is in your soul you cannot suffer
wreck. The anchor sure and steady
will hold you. People do not see what
holds a vessel when the gale is sending
the billows over her bow. The anchor
is invisible, as it lies full many a
fathom deep on the solid ground be-
neath the waves. So, when we see a
gond man beaten upon with heavy ad-
versities and yet preserving a cheerful
spirit, we do not discover the secret of
his serenity. ‘But the eye of God sees
that there is an interior life hid with
Christ in that soul which no storm can
touch.? There is many a be creavement,
many a trouble that may
of canvas or cordage, but
the solid strength of his g
ter.”
Sey char
The nearer you are to tha Saviour
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON. ‘COMMENTS
FOR. JANUARY. 28: “ys
EBRMT viptarhi
Subject: The Baptism of Jésus, Mark. i,
1-11—=Golden "Text, 'I Sam. “vif, 3
I. Preparing the way (vs:*1-8)." I
“The beginning.”
with a genealogy of our Lord-and Luke
with-the history of His: infancy,: but.
pel events. He seems anxious to come
at once to Christ's public life and min-
istry. “Gospel.” The gospel” of Jesus |
Christ denotes the “glad tidings” or
“good news,” concerning Jesus Christ.
“Jesus.” Jesus means “Saviour.”
This name shows His human nature.
“Christ.” This name means ‘‘anoint-
ed,” and is the Greek equivalent of the
Hebrew “Messiah.” . “Son of . God.”
This shows His divine nature. See’
John 1: 1-8, 14. He was very God, the
second person in the Trinity.’ “Is
written.” See Mal. 3:1; Isa. "a 1
send.” * This “I” in the prophet is spo-
ken by Jehovah. But this Jehovah is
the Messiah. So that we have here a
true Jehovah-Jesus. “My messenger.”
John the Baptist, Christ's herald.
3. “The voice.” Attention is called
to the message rather than to the mes-
senger. John was weak and insignifi-
cant, but he was delivering God's mes-
sage, and his words produced a ‘mighty
effect. “Crying?”’ Heralding, pro-
claiming. “Wilderness.” John preached
in the wild, thinly inhabited region ly-
ing west of the Jordan and the Dead
Sea as far north as Enon, two-thirds
of the way to the Sea of Galilee, and
on both sides of the. lower Jordan.
“Prepare — paths straight.” This 1s
figurative language. The words illus-
trate the straightening force .of the
gospel.
preparation before God, our King, will
‘come: to us.
moved.
SII. - John baptizing (vs. ar 15). nd.
the proclamation of a king.
a great reformer.
ance.” John was a repentance preach-
representing an inward spiritual
change; the pledge of remission of sins
the remission.”
be received.of Christ, the repentance
was preparatory to Christ’sicoming and
work, and John’s baptism was a sign
of true repentance. . .
5. “All the land.” “A figure repre-
senting ‘the sweeping
John’s preaching. “Confessing.”
true repentance. Repentance includes
- (1) conviction, (2) contrition, .(3) con-
‘conversion.
IIT. John’s
“Camel’s hair.”
testimony (vs. 6-8).
called sackcloth in the Scriptures. It
.out the heat, cold and rain.
content themselves with a strip of hide,
“Locusts.” The, law of Moses gave
;permission to eat"focusts. (Ley. 11:21),
“Fhe ‘common ‘locust is about; three
inches long and closely -resembles our
“grasshopper. Locusts are abundant
by the poorer classes. “Wild honey.”,
or in the clefts of the rocks. ‘John’s
ness life. 7. “There cometh.” The
preaching of John was "preparing the |
minds of the people for the coming of
the Messiah, and they began to ask
themselves whetherhe were the Christ.
But John was not slow to, undeceive
them regarding himself. “iMightier. 2
fect what mine is powerless ‘to do.
“Latchet.” The latchet, a word now
obsolete, was the thong or lace with |
which the shoes or sandals were fast-
ened. “Shoes.” Or sandals:.
worthy.” John shows his greatness by
his self-abasement.
could not renew their hearts. -
IV. Jesus baptized (vs. 9-11). 9.
“In those days.”
preaching
came."
and baptizing.
entered upon their ministry (Num. 4:
8), and when the rabbis began to teach,
“From Nazareth.”
age. “Was baptized.” Any confession
of sin was of course out of the ques-
He became subject to the law, and
that He was connected with humanity
by the ties of blood, of suffering and
of love.. “Of John.” At first John hes-
itated about baptizing Jesus (Matt. 3:
14, 15). 10. “He saw.” Christ saw
it, and John saw it (John 1:33, 34), and
it is probable that all who were pres-
ent saw it; for this was intended to be
His public inauguration. “The heav-
ens opened.” Luke says that Jesus
prayed as soon as He was baptized
(Luke 3:21). Here is the first recorded
prayer of Christ and its answer. “Like
a dove.”
gentleness, purity, fulness of life, and
of the power of communicating it.
11. “Voice from, heaven.” At two
other times during our Lord's earthly
ministry was a voice heard from heav-
en: At the transfiguration (Mark 9:7).
and in the courts of the temple during
passion week (John 12:28). The Father
indorsed Christ's earthly mission. “My
beloved Son.” Jesus Christ is the Son
of God from eternity.
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God’s Best wifr,
Blessed is the man who has the gift
of making friends; for itd is one of God's
best gifts. It i ; r things,
but above all, tiie power of giving out
of one’s self and seeing and appreciat-
ing whatever is e and loving in
another man.— Thomas Hu:
eS,
Passion For Salvation.
Give me three hundred men, give
me one hundred men with a passion
for the salvation of this city, and I will
answer for it,
the farther are you from siu.
Phillips Brooks.
SHEN i STADE TESS
Memory Verses, 10, 11—-Topié: Christ’s
: Preparation For His Life Work, . . "|-
: + | Koon has two claims to the atten- |
> Matthew begins® tion of all, Western people.
Mark commences in the midst of gos-.
The self-life" must be | ities. Its
“brought low;” the’ crooked ‘life must jealousy, and the degradation of wo-
be “straightened;” ghe: obstructions of | man.
unbelief and carnal desires must.be re- | is an indescribable mixture of supers
was cheap, but admirable for keeping | tion.
“Girdle.”
The Orientals delight in costly, orna- | ever crossed the shores of Korea,”
mental girdles, but poor people must | has 6,000 patients in a year. in a year.
and cheap and are still used as food |
Honey stored by bees in hollow treed |
habits were in keeping with hi§ wilder- |
John clearly outlined the work of the |
coming Messiah. His baptism will ‘ef<
“Not
8. “With water—Holy Ghost.” John
had administered the outward rite, ‘but
While John was
“Jesus
Jesys was about thirty years
old. This was the age when priests
Where He. had
lived in seclusion all these years. So
far as we know this was His first pub-
lic act since He was twelve years of
tion. There was only a profession on
the part of Jesus that as an Igraelite 3
Boston shall be saved.—} Mr. Roc
so Ee
PSO
FPNOATH THRE LESSONS
JANUARY FWENTY-
BAGHTH, sew ta
| sunny,
Korea The Progress of Two Botatbs:
a 1:.76- 905 a
She was
practically’ the ~ ast” ‘country on “the
Asiatic seaboard to ‘open her doors
to foreigners, and she was one of the
chief centers of interest in the.recent
struggle - between Russia and Japa.
To Christians Korea is of yet great-
er intérest as one of the youngest and
yet most promising of all the world’s
mission fields.
A medical missionary’s skill in
treating a royal patient opeaed
Korea to the gospel. In view of this |
+4 beginning medical ‘missions have
paturaily been made prominent, and |
‘their work is its own highest praise.
Dr. Johan F. sioucher proposed - ~the
beginning of ‘Methodist ‘mission work
in the “Hermit Kingdom” twenty
years ago. More than that, he sup-
ported his proposal by the gift of two
thousand dollars, to form part of the
fund which the planting of the work
would require. The first missionar-
ies, W. B. Scranton, M. D., and Rev.
H. G. Appenzeller, went out in 1885,
and began what has proved to be a
most fruitful and prosperous mission.
Korea has much or little religion,
as one may choose to look at it.
Confucius is‘ the great teacher, but
Buddhism has its place, and an even
larger one is" occupied by a degraded
Spiritism, in which - sorcery and
witchcraft are important ' elements,
The best Korean religion is a present-
There must .be a. thorough day, worldiy-wise system of conduct,
with small thought of the great real-
fruits are selfishness,
- The worst of Korean religion
stitition, licentiousness, and misery.
Small wonder that the present king,
“Preach.” Herald; a word.suggesting:{in his memorable” intérview with the
John ‘was | late Bishop Ninde, said, “Send more
“Baptism of repent- | teachers.”
The attitude~of the king
is also shown in the fact that he gave
er. This was a baptism required and | the name to our school in Seoul by
which it has always been known—
Pai Chai Flakdans, ¢‘Hall for Rearing
‘to those who were truly penitent. “For | yyseful Men.”
The remission was to |,
One of the ‘noteworthy features of
Korean missions is the beautiful fel-
lowship of the various denomination-
al groups. The Presbyterians and
Southern Methodists have been es-
influence of! pecially helpful to our own mission,
Con-+| and have
'fession of sin is one of the elements in |:Wa¥Ss.
Cco- -operated with it in many
Seventeen years after the’ baptism
of the first convert” these are the
fession, (4) reformation, and leads to, facts that can be shown ‘by figures:
distriets, 7,796
14 local
‘3 presiding elders’
members and probationers,
In appearance John’ ‘preachers, 111 churches and chapels.
resembled Elijah, the prophet. He | Korean ministers
was clothed in the coarse, rough eloth | year $1,504. for self-support.
contributed last
A pub-
lishing house is in prosperous opera-
The Hall Memorial Hospital, a
monument to “the ‘saintilest man that
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR ENDEAVOR NOTES
JANUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH.
‘Home | ‘Missions in our: Cities.—Luke
19: 41-48.
_ Since Christ wept over Jerusalem,
must . He not be grieving over our
- modern- eities?
Our cities’ think they ‘know wha
contributes to ‘their peace and pros
turmoil and disaster.
The thieves that make dens of our
[cities are not aiways thieves of
money; often they are thieves of hon:
[ or and: purity, of health and happi-
ness.
“The people” are always “vary at-
tentive” to Christ, or to whoever
carries the true’ Christian message.
Cities have been called.the failures
of our Christian civilization. .They
are failures only so far as they are
not Christian.
Mission rooms are generally small,
but they are the greatest rooms ip
the greatest cities.
No church can do so much for it
self as by doing much for a city mis-
sion.
Too many churches sit down and
ges” do not come and hunt them up
BAPTISM.
Alternate Topic for January 28:
The Meaning of the Ordinance of
Baptism.—Matt. 3: 13-17;
Rom. 6: 1-11; Gal. 3 27.
The duty of baptism rests on
Christ’s example and Christ’s com-
mand; either of them is enough.
Baptism leads the devout soul inta
the inner experience of Christ’s death
and life. Is not that worth every?
thing?
Baptism is a token—the commonly
accepted token—of Christian disciple-
A symbol this of perfect | SRID-
It is the token Christ chose to pre-
scribe, and He alone had the right ta
prescribe it.
“Repent and be baptized”—they are
always linked together.
If we have centered into baptism, it
should be a present, as well as a past,
experience. It was a death to sin; it
is a life in Christ.
—
The exifiencies of human existence
sometimes make it necessary to de-
stroy much that has been attained,
that a little may be gained. Wars are
mostly fought on that basis, and the
French Revolution is the great his
torical demonstration of its truth.
eee
has advised young
1
ghts to higher
Mr. Rockefeller
men to turn their tho a
things than money, which is not all
Aer is in the world. If the young
it after the higher thirp
will look auter
» London Punch.
men will look
money, av the
| perity, but often choose what causes :
wonder why “the highways and hed- |
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PINEAPPLE |S, H ALTHUL-
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Juice “of This Fruit ‘Acts as an Aid-to
thre Digestive Urgans.
If the virtues®aseribad to the pine-
apple; by’ “Phe Floridan Christian ‘Advo-
id cate, are not exaggerated; there ought
to be a*good market ‘for theijuice of.
the over-ripe pinéapples “w hielr go to
waste ‘every year.
digestion the canned juice will be in de-
mand ds’soon as the fact Becoities gon
erally known.: v
. Pineapple jitles bids fair to take Hire:
place of the pepsin as am encourager.
of digestion. - Recent. investigations
have shown that for such:a purpose
it is wonderfully efficacious, rivaling
if it does not ‘excel the product of Poot
pizg »
If a piece of ordinary Deetstedis be
placed in a bowl of pineapple juice, it
is found after a few hours, to be re-
duced to a lump of mere jelly, having.
undergone a process of digestion. In
the same way the juice, when drank,
acts upon the food of -the stomach,
and is capable, it is authoritatively
stated, of digesting something like a
thousand times its own weight of ed-
ible substances. ’
' Now, the reason back of these facts’
is that the juice of the pineapple con-
tains an “enzym,” a species of fer-
ment, which attacks the beefsteak or
other food, and disorganizes it. It is
such an extremely powerful ferment
that, acting much in the same way as
pepsin, it will, in the course of a few
hours, cause substances upon which it
works to dissolve and melt away. The
name “bromelin”’ has been given to it
by science. !
It is extremely easy to separate the
digestive principle from the pineapple
juice. All you have to do is to take
some of the juice and dissolve a table-
spoonful or so of common table salt in
it. This will cause the digestive stuft
to fall to the bottom of: the receptacle,
when it may be easily: separated. A
good-sized pineapple will contain more
than a pint of juice—a quantity which
is amply sufficient to help inthe diges-
tion of half a dozen hearty meals,
How powerful it is may be.judged
from the fact that a single slice of
the fruit, laid upon a raw beefsteak,
will, in a very short time, change the
consistency of the surface to. that of
a jelly. But it should be realized that
cooking destroys the “enzym,” and that
the only way to get the benefit of the
digestive ferment is to eat the pine-
apple in ‘the natural state. =
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“WORDS OF WISDOM.
The theory of religion belongs to
poetry, and its practice to, painting.—
Anna Jameson. i
Every aman is valugd in this, world
as lhe shows by, his .qonduct that he
svishes to be valued.—Bruyere.
Those who are formed to win general
admiration are seldom calculated to
bestow individual. happiness.—Lady
Blessington.
The signboards. marking the way to
usefulness are “Honesty,” “Industry,”
MEfficiency,”: #Loyaltys” «“Persever-
ance.’—Dallas News.
When“a man has been guilty of any-
vice or folly the best atonement he can
make for it is to warn others nos to
| fall into" the like.—Addison.
! You may think in looking "out upon
‘the world that the great difference be-
tween people is that some have many
things to enjoy and others very few;
‘when you know them better you will
find that a’ greater difference is that
some have great power to enjoy and
others very little.—Rhoda Williams.
: "Train of Thought.
“Acts that have become habitual are
‘performed without effort. But if in
the midst of a series of habitual acts
one is called upon to do something
slightly out of the beaten path it will
throw the cog chain out of gear seem-
ingly, interrupting the habitual pro-
cesses and making it nard to ‘“‘get go-
ing again.” A street tar conductor can
collect fares, examine passes, issue
transfers, give directions, ring up fares
and call streets, at the same time giv-
‘ing the motorman his signais regularly,
no matter how confusing the jumbled
crowd may be. These acts have be-
come second nature to him and require
little effort of the conscious mind.
The other day in a crowded car a
young man opened his passbook, held
| out a five-cent piece and asked for a
This was unusual, and the
conductor's subconsciousness was not
equal to it. He stood bewildered, un-
able to do anything.
“Aren't you the conductor?” asked
the young man.
#Xos.
“Well, this pass is for me: the nickel
is for this young lady, for whom I
want the transfer.”
At once the conductor ‘woke up”
and began performing his “functions”
again. “I thought,’ said the young
man, “when you failed to act that
maybe you were a policeman, instead
cf a conductor.”
transfer.
fe RR Sha ae
Bread More Nutriticus Than Meat.
According to Dr. Robert Hutchinson,
of the London Hospital, who supplied
evidence regarding food supply to a
royal commission, bread is the most
important of all the common foods of
the people. As a yielder of energy one
pound of bread is more valuable than
a pound of meat.
One interesting point on which Dr.
Hutchinson insists is the value of or-
dinary white bread. Rye, he says, is
lower in nutritive value than wheat.
The next most important article of
diet as a source of energy is sugar.
Among the nitrogenous foods in-
stanced as good adjuncts in supplying
the defects of bread are beans, cheese
and fish. The white of an egg is stated
to be an essential element of food. If
no meat is available at any time bread,
Sugar and eggs are ail that is wanted |!
i for “a very respectable support for
! the body,” says Dr. Hutchinson.
If so goed for in=-}-
izorene.
‘as they entered it.
a
: Six miles is the length of a petition
, promoted by the British National Ca-
nine Defense League in support of the
bill for the prohibition of the vivisec-
tion of dogs.
. . The clever cigar rollers of Seville
have rivals in the insect world. By the
aid of its tiny feet the wevil rolls vine
leaves into a cylindrical shape and
Aides itself inside.
. The Swiss town of Zurich has taken
a step toward the municipalization of!
medicine, and puts a poll tax on-all the
population over sixteen years old suf-
ficient to make an income of $100,000
to pay the doctors.
Marken, in the Zuyder Zee, is one
of the most curious islands in’ the
world. Horses and trees are unknown.
The island produces one crop—hay—
and of this the women manage: the
growing and harvesting.
. Among the curios preserved in the
Bank of England is a banknote that
passed through the Chicago fire. The
paper was consumed, but the ash held
together and the printing is quite legi-
ble. It is kept carefully under glass.
The bank paid the note.
After keeping a body in a hermetic-
ally .sealed coffin for ten years, in the
hope relatives of the deceased would
fulfil their promises and pay for the
burial, a firm of Leadville undertakers
has given up in despair and buried the
body.
DEFIES TIME
A Liquid, Newly Discovered, That is a
True Preservative.
' The Hungarian chemist Brunn says
he has discovered a liquid chemical
compound which renders certain: kinds
of matter proof against the effects of’
time..+.He asserts that it doublés the
density of nearly every kind of stone
and renders it waterproof. It imparts
to all metals qualities which defy oxy-
gen and rust.
hitherto unequaled powers.
The professor says that while trav-
eling in Greece some twenty-five years
ago he noticed that the mortar in
stones of ruins which were known to
be over 2000 years old was as hard,
fresh and tenacious as if it had been
‘made only a year. He secured a piece
of the mortar and has been working
on it ever since until now, when, he
says, he has discovered the secret.’
The compound is a yellow liquid,
which the professor has christened,
He describes the following
experiments: A piece of ordinary and
easily breakable slag after immersion
in zorene defied the full blow of a ham-
mer.
There was the same effect on ordi-
‘nary bricks and a block of red jareah
wood. All three were then (after im-
‘mersion in zorene) immersed in water
for a long time. Re 1
weighed with delicate scales the pres-
‘ence of “a single particle of added
moisture could not be detected. Two .
pieces of steel submitted to an ams @
monia test equal to five years’ expos: .. ..
When taken out and
ure to the air emerged from. the bat»
knife which had lain open five months
did not show the slightest stain.
Professor Brunn asserts that he will
be able to make roads dust, germ and
waterproof, thus giving commercial
value to hundreds of millions of tons
of ‘slag which is now useless in the
‘mining and smelting districts. His
discovery will, at the very least, he
‘says, double the life of metals exposed
to the air, such as bridges, railroads,
vessels and tanks.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Honeymoon Trips to Avoid.
“There are two pieces of advice I'd
like to give about honeymoons,” said
the man who has had two of them.
“One of them is, never go on a long
sea voyage with your new wife. The
other: is, never take a long automobile
trip with her. I've tried both, and
both have been miserable failures. I
would not be guilty of such an un-
chivalrous comment had both of my,
wives not agreed with me in both in-
stances.
“Just think of having knocked down
all the barriers of conventionality
which practically shielded you during
the courtship to find yourself for eight
or ten days in such close companion.
ship with your better half as is offered
on an automobile honeymoon! It's aw-
ful to think of it.
“When I was on my last honeymoon,
which was the automobile one, we
were only three days on the road when
I was reminded of the man who turned
to his wife during their honeymoon
and said: ‘Don’t you wish some friend
would come along? ‘Oh, yes, dear,’
she sighed, ‘or an enemy even.,’—
Philadelphia Record.
©0il and Lime Water For a Scald.
Heads of other families may like to
know what one mother did in an
emergency. Her five-year-old boy up-
set a pitcher of boiling water over one
shoulder, and, while she sent post
haste for the doctor, she also ran to
the storeroom for salad oil and to her
washstand for a bottle of lime-water a
dentist had recommended for the teeth,
Mixing equal parts of the oil and lime-
water, she soaked a cloth in the result-
"ant and bound up the wound. When
the physician arrived he said she had
{done really a'l that was necessary, and
pos prompt action had saved the little
atient much suffering which his later
farrival could not have averted wholly.
«Presbyterian.
It is also a germicide of
An ordinary ‘table
awa rome