A SERMON 4 THE REV~" RAV LENDERSP i Subject: The Son of God. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme “The Son of God,” ‘the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor took as his text 14 Matt. 33, “Of a truth Thou art the Son of God.” He said: ; 2 In this expression of the faith of the boatmen in the Christ as the Son of God we have the consensus of a host of men and women who, for nineteen eenturies, have followed the gentle Galilean. The disciples pro-» claimed their faith in ‘the reality of the Sonship of Jesus after a visible, external, objective exhibition of His power. In ages past, however, many a song-sung martyr and many an unknown saint has held firm to the same faith, seeing only with the spir- | itual eye. -And- to-day every sincere follower of our Lord acknowledges, with a joy that passes ‘all human un-, derstanding, ‘‘of a truth Thou art the Son of God.” From the fullness of a rich and enriching spiritual: ex- perience do we, here and: now, re- iterate our belief in: the supreme di- vine Sonship of our Savior and our Lord. Jesus of Nazareth—the place from which nothing good was held to come —the Messiah of theg,chosen people of God, proclaimed by angels, adored by the wisdom of the East; youthful confounder of priests and prelates. ~—MHe it is of whom the apostle writes. Jesus-—the man of parables and of miracles; Jesus, the expounder of those wonderfully well-put doctrines contained in the Sermon on the Mount; Jesus the Christ, the King of Israel, the Savior of the world. He is the divine human of whom the disciples said: “Of a truth Thou art the Son of God.” , Let us look fer a moment into the] claims of this Man, this despised Naz- arene, this: c¢arpenter’s sen, to the title and to the office of“the-Son of God. Has He any claim that we are bound to respect? Is there any rea- son why we are ‘called upon to serve Him, shall we believe upon Him, or shall we reject Him. What, in the last analysis, is the proof that is final that Jesus is divine. If you will glance throfigh those pages of the Old Testament which give the history of the life and of the hopes of the ancient Jewish people, you will find that, running through them all, the coming of a Messiah— that is to say, a Savior—is prophes- ied. To His people God has promised a King who shall give to them eter- nal power and an endless peace. Step by step, incident by incident, is unfolded in the old prophetic books the coming of a Christ. Thus we see that the Man who is to be the Son of God, the Messiah of the Jews, the King of Israel must be a man who measures to the standards of the God-given prophecies of the centuries. So much for the historic demands upon the claims of the Messiah. No less imperative, however, is the need that the Man who is to be the Son of God and the Savior of the race shall be such a revelation of God as our hearts demand. You and I can- not trust in the Son of God save as He meets the requirements of our reasoning faculties and highest sense. The Christ must not only be a God- declared Messiah, but also a self- proven incarnation of Almighty God. ‘He must not only bear divine letters of recommendation to us, but also convince us by a living divinity that He is what He claims to be. And above all the truths of His messages must be proven practical forces in our own lives ere we can believe. Jesus is the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the Messiah of the Jews, the King of Israel. As we have seen’ the man who is these must measure true to the standards of the God-given prophecies of the centur- ies. Jesus so measures. Throughout the whole of the New Testament the revelation of Christ as the fulfillment of prophecy is set forth. He is the Messiah. He is the King whom God has promised to His people Israel. He is the Son of David for whom the holy men of many generations yearned. Christ satisfies all the de- mands of the Old Testament pro- pheti¢ writers. From that stand- point He is the Son of God and_Sav- ior. But whether or no there had been given prophecies aforetime, there are grander and more glorious reasons for faith in Christ as the Son of God. Christ is such a revelation of God as our hearts demand. For as we read the story of His life we see manifold instances of His divine power, purity and perfectness. Time and again we see His godhood and divinity in His workings and His words. He is ‘the fullness of grace and truth. Yes, my friends, in His miracles and His messages, in His acts of love and His conscience-touch- ing truths, this man of sorrows and of griefs reveals His Sonship divine The power of God shows through His physical miracles, the love of the Father shines through the spiritual transformations that He wrought. From what other lips do we hear such deep, such soul-satisfying prom- ises and commands.” Nowhere in the history of all the world has there been another such a man. Mohamet, Confucius, Buddha—the ethical and philosophical teachers of all peoples and of every age—are incomparable with that personal, sanctifying Savior of the Christian soul; whose name is Light and Love. . But Jesus not only meets demands as a revelator, He is also assured of our confidence through the fact that His words and His life are in har- mony. Jesus not only revealed by word the sort of God for whom in- wardly we yearn, but He also exem- plified in His life the fullness of truth which He preached. Telling of the love that crowns the character of God He was lovely. Preaching the essential spiritual nature of the Fa- ther He was Himself spiritually con- trolled. Telling men that the truth of God and Jehovah Himself were to be spiritually apprehended and dis- cerned Jesus walked and talked with 4 > God. Preaching the Kingdom of Heaven as love, peace, joy, purity of life,"the Savior went about loving men, seeking and pursuing peace, bringingv joy into saddened , souls, leading hardened hearts:into purity of life. Believing that the cultiva- tion of godliness is the business of mankind Jesus was holy, upright, godly Himself. And it is because He not only preached truth “unto life eternal but lived also the life that shall gain and keep the crown of rejoicing that we hail Him Lord. History makes Jesus the Son of God. His clear-cut, reasonable rev- elation of the character of God by words so declares Him; His consist- ent practical revelation of divinity “in His daily life marks Him as God's Son. And yet it is not until we have taken His truth into our hearts, and proven the richness and practicabil- ity of His theories in our ewn lives that we can yield to Him the adera- tion that is due Him. The applica- tion by a normal man to his own life. in true fashion. of the truths..ef Jesus Christ'will prove them to’ be ‘mighty unto upliftment and enlight- enment and practical principles that shall make for good when practically used in life. The truth of Christ will be found so full of divine inspiration and revelation, and the life of the man who revealed it will then be found to be so godly that the human heart will hail the great revealer.Son of God. Jesus Christ cannot be un- derstood save.by those who have en- tered into that manner of spiritual life that shall open their eyes unto the divine wonders of His life. No man -can enter into the fullness of the truths revealed in the messages of the Master save as he stands ready to be born again and move ahead in the spiritual life. The disciples did not glory in the divine Sonship of Jesus until they had had their eves opened in part to the spiritual mys- teries which underlay the objective miracles that Jesus wrought. We know how slow they were to see the depth and the application of His principles as He preached to them the truth. And yet with them as with us the secret of their faith in the Master lay in the fact that there was no discord between the truth that He preached and the life that He lived. They waited the long-prom- ised Messiah from God who should deliver Israel;- they gave Jesus a. hearing as a self-styled and. heaven- proclaimed Christ; they heard the music of heavenly truth in all He said, and above all they marked the fact that He not only talked divinely well, but lived even as God would live. And so they followed Him. But they were not able to have con- fidence in Him that should enable them to bear witness of His divine power until they had tried for them- selves the sort of life He lived and applied for themselves to their own lives the eternal principles that He propounded and found them practi- cal. Men say to me, “I do not believe Jesus was the Son of God,” “I can- not accept Him as the incarnation of the Father.” And my first question is whether or no they are fully com- petent to judge. Are they in posses- sion of such spiritual experience as will enable them to pass good judg- ment upon the case in hand? Many a man who has no experience in the Christ life will without a blush re- ject all the truths so dear to Chris- tian hearts. If I as a minister pre- sumed to pass expert judgment upon astronomical truth, having never even seen or marked the coursings of the stars or gained experimental knowledge of the wonders of the heaven above us, you would hoot me from this church. Yet many a man with no Christian experience at all will pass final and irrevocable judg- ment upon Jesus Christ without so much as a shred of personal testi- mony that could be worthy of notice. Jesus is the Son of God. And the only way you can come to know that is through the spiritual, personal ex- perience .of the fact. Jesus is the Savior of our souls from sin and the only means to a convincing knowl- edge of this truth is through the en- trance of the saving truth of Jesus Christ into your life. Jesus revealing the truth, you testing, trying, proving its reliability and reasonableness in your own personal life. Ee What is Worth Coveting. It requires a well kept life to do the will of God, and even a better kept life to will to do His will. To be willing is a rarer grace than to be doing the will of God. For he who is’ willing may sometimes have noth- ing to do, ‘and must only be willing "to wait; and it is easier far to be do- ing God’s will than to be willing tc have nothing to do—it is easier far to be working for Christ than it is tc be willing to cease. No, there is nothing rarer in the world to-day than the truly willing soul, and there is nothing more worth coveting than the will to will God’s will. There is no*grander possession for any Chris: tian life than the transparently sim- ple mechanism of a sincerely obeying heart.—Professor Drummond. ee True Prayer is a Great Achievement. Believe me, to pray with all yout heart and strength, with the reason and the will, to believe vividly that God will listen to your voice through Christ and verily do the thing He pleaseth thereupon—that is the last, the greatest achievement of the Christian's warfare on earth. Teach us to pray, O’ Lord!—Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Character Alone Endures. Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and for others. That which is done for self dies. Perhaps it is not wrong, but it perishes. You say it is pleasure—well, enjoy it. But joyous recollection is no longer joy. That which ends in self is mor- tal. That alone which goes out of self into God lasts forever.—Fred- erick W. Robertson. Be Appreciative. Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.—Alexander MacLaren. A Poor Reward. ‘A Christian citizen who sacrifices his convictions for a small and dirty victory advertises a pusillanimous Christ, : SHBBATH SCHOOL LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- MENTS FOR MAY 19 BY THE / REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: Israel Enslaved in Egypt, Ex. 1:1-14—Golden Text,”Ps. 107:183—Memory Verses, 13, 14 —Commentary. This lesson takes us out. of the Look of Genesis into the second book of the Bible, the book of the Exodus. The book otf Exodus is the record of the enslavement, the deliverance of a people; it tells of the economic and religious struggles of the early Jews. The lesson ior to-day plunges us directly into the heart of the begin- ning of the trials and tribulations of “the Israelites after they fell, in Egypt, into the toils of a Pharaoh who knew not Joseph. Jacob and Joseph and their immediate descendants are ‘dead. With the passing of the years the Hebrews have so multiplied that the land is filled with them, and their povier and influence is a cause of dread to the Pharaoh of their day. And so measures are taken to check their growth. The Pharaoh put vpon them the hardest labor that could be devised, . they were reduced to con- ditions of the ‘most abject slavery, their boy babies were ordered to be killed. Everything was done to check their progress and to counteract and destroy their power. But still, as under the promise of God to Abra- ham and Isaac and Jacob, they grew in numbers even in the face of the most -discouraging economic condi- tions. The book of the Exodus is not well grasped until we understand in some measure at least that it is the record of the industrial hardships and deliv- erance of a people as well as the his- tory of the beginnings of a national religious consciousness and spirit that was to blossom into the most influen- tial and pure religious system of the ancient world. God had to get Israel out of economic and industrial bond- age before they could be greatly in- fluenced by the deeper forces of spir- itual truth. Their affliction in a ma- terial way was good because it brought them face to face with the need of a salvation and a savior. It caused them to turn to God. Op- pressed as they were the way was dark about them. They were undone. They were in danger of becoming submerged altogether under the pressure of the impure religious thought with which they were sur- rounded. In the face of these adversities God was yet with them. The promise made to their fathers was continually fulfilled in their experience. They throve on adversity. That which was intended to be their destruction was for them socially, as the prison had been for Joseph individually, their discipline, their strengthening, their energizing. The deeper down they were plunged the nearer apparently God drew to them. The more they were hounded and driven and de- spoiled, the more they augmented. Overwhelmed with a common evil they had an ever increasing social need. And with the social need there came an increasing social conscious- ness. Desiring in their common woe a deliverer they looked forward to one who should lead them as a social unit out of the industrial, economic and spiritual darkness into which they had been immersed. : The lesson of the industrial and spiritual bondage of the children of Jacob in the land of Egypt is one that is essentially apropos. We are face to face to-day with condi- tions that are as startling economic- ally and spiritually as those which alarmed Israel inthe time of which our lesson treats. To be sure, in civ- {lized countries the system of chattel slavery, which for many years was a factor of civilized life, is quite abol- ished. But multitudes of men and women and children are to-day, by virtue of the economic conditions in- cidental to the mighty age of ma- chinery and individualism in which we are living, as truly in a land of bondage as ever the children of Israel weré. The masters are prosperous even as the masters of Egypt were. The oppression of the people also, different in kind, perhaps different in degree, is just as real as the Egyptian bondage ever was. And this con- temporaneous {industrial distress is nowhere more felt than, on the one hand, in the prevailing distrust of ecclesiastical institutions upon the part of the industrially oppressed, and, on the other hand, in the pre- vailing call for and confidence that God will send an inspired deliverer who shall regenerate with flaming truth the social as well as the indi- vidual life of man. As with Israel so with modern so- ciety. The very injustices of our modern ‘industrial conditions are leading men to grasp the idea of uni- versal brotherhood and to desire and to strive to bring to pass by the grace of God such a regeneration of mod- ern life as shall transform not only individual conditions of life and char- acter but also society. And God is brooding over modern society as really as He brooded over Israel. The cry of the oppressed reaches up to His ears. The sin that {s done in darkness for the spoliation of His people in His own good time will be brought to light. He will send the deliverer to the modern bondman. He will send the prophet of His simple, unsullied, life impart4 ing truth to the people of our ow time. The cry of lives that are “bit ter with hard service” falls on a Di4 vine ear that heeds. The social lifq of to-day as surely as God lives will go through the wilderness to Canaan, We shall have to have our Sinai: May the church be the pillar of cloud and of fire. Judge Lindsay's Indictment. As a judge I have faced the woes, che trials, the miseries, and broken homes of society caused only by the want of a proper solution of this problem of problems. : Thousands and thousands of homes have been broken up, caused by the traffic in intoxicants. I have divorced four thousand peo- ple. I have tried no less than 6000 children in the past six years. This lamentable social condition is traceable in a large degree to the legalized saloon.—Judge Ben. B. Lindsay, Lanver, Col. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, MAY 19. Stewards of Grace.—1 Pet. 4. 11. Passages for reference: 6-8; 2 Cor. 6. 1-10. ; In this lesson there is a great deal of light on ‘the relation of our powers to the work we have to perform and the spirit-in which- it is to be done. The “gifts” we possess are the be- stowments of ‘‘grace.” They are not originated by us, nor are they ours to use. with no reference to anyone else. They are hestowed with a view to service to others. The word “stewards” Indicates the relation which we have to these things and what we are to do with them. It makes no difference what the talents are, they are intrusted to us for use in helping others on to a better life in the service of‘the Master. In’ Ro- mans we have a rehearsal of some of the gifts bestowed, and the teaching that underlies the passage is that we should receive. the gifts as God’s be- stowment for us, and to use them as the talents which God has given with which we are to serve. It encourages us ‘to feel that our service is in the line of @od's will as much as that which a more conspicuous talent may render. In Corinthians we see the possibility of proving ourselves the ministers of God by all sorts of un- favorable conditions and circumstan- ces. It gives us the hard conditions and then tells us by what grace we are to prove our devotion to God in those surroundings. _ How often ‘we find the plea made, “I cannot do it. I have no ability.” 10, Rom. 12. ticular thing asked of them, but they can do nothing is false. It is a dis- honest answer, for anyone that has mind enough to answer a sensible question has talent enough - to do something. There is no sane mind but has gifts. ‘We as Epworth Leag: uers, or as men and women without regard to membership in any society, ought to be made to feel that we have gifts. These gifts are from God. What are we to do with them? It will save us many experiences if we first find what talents we have, then serve in the place those tal- ents would naturally put us. Too many think that-only the professions are honorable, and that a trade is not so desirable. But God wants Chris- tian men in the ranks of trades as well as in the professions. What an opportunity there is for Christian workingmen to mold the forces of so- ciety into a right spirit through the unions! God has given to some men ithe ability to make money, but still it is a gift from him, and should be used to the advancement of the Re- deemer’s kingdom. That ability is hard out and al fortunes, but to bring the money of the world into the service of our King. So it is: with all positions in the social organization. CHRSTINERDENDR NOTE MAY NINETEETNTH. Little Faults That Spoil Our Song of Solomon 2: 15. The fault of 12: 24-28. Nagging. Boasting. Backbiting. Vanity. Prov. 30: 7-9. Brawling. Prov. 21: 8-10. The little foxes or jackals of Pales- tine were seldom more than fifteen inches high; but mischief is not pro- portionate to size. The vineyard, throughout this poem of the Song of Solomon, is the love.of Lives. slothfulness. - Prov. 2: Cor. 13: 10-14. Jas. 4: 13-17. Rom. 1: 30-32. ly love is a vineyard, full of :rich clusters of fruit. : Foxes are fond of grapes. Our little faults attack what is best in our characters. ; In the passage from which the verse is taken the little foxes symbo- lize whatever. hurts the vineyard of love. Rightly they have been made to mean the little faults that spoil our lives. Suggestions. Every fault, however little, grow into a sin, however large. “It's only a little fault!” It's only a little flame back of the wainscoat- ing!” It's the little things that make a vineyard—little drops of water, little rays of sunshine; and it's the little things that spoil a vineyard: Measure your own faults by your dislike of the faults of others. Illustrations. We set traps for some foxes, but the little faults set traps for us. Little faults are like Samson's fox- es: every one of them has a firebrand fastened to its tail. It is easy to kill the foxes before they open their eyes; but let them As little grains of sand are most iischievous when they get in the bearings of wheels, so little faults are most hurtful where lives rub up grow up, and you have many a hunt. against lives. A Cluster of Quotations. If the best man’s faults were writ- ten on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.—Gray. It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us.— Swift. There is nothing that weighs more heavily upon a right minded man than the slow progress he makes in overcoming his fauits.—Munger. may NO CHANCE. “Why are poets so little appreciat- ed?” asked the young man with long hair. “Well” answered Mr. Cumrox, “it's this way with a piece of poetry; it wou can't understand it you don’t care to read it, and if you can under: stand it you haven't any respect for it.”—Washington Star. They may not be able to do the par- not to be used to amass great person- | Comella, the two speakers for each other: Tru-- KEYSTONE STATE CULLINES NEW LEGISLATION. Does Away With Troublesome Feature of the Primary Election Law. The Senate passed the Creasy bill doing away with the necessity of hold- ing State conventions within a week of the June primary. The Senate also finally the Pfaff bill to tax surplus funds in insurance departments of trust companies and the following: House bill to fix pay of township and borough assessors at $2.50 a day. House bill to require all dogs to be licensed, this being the bill designed to protect sheep raisers. ; House bill providing that liens shall rest on properties after judicial sales unless amount raised will discharge them. : House bill to maka confidential and not to be required in evidence munications to physicians, civil cases. Senator E. I.. Tustin’s new osteo- pathic bill was passed finally and sent to the House. Z Instead of enacting a new law pro- viding for the State reclaiming. aban- doned railroad franchises, the Legis- lature will adopt Governor Stuarts suggestion and provide by resolution for the proposed State Commerce Commission taking charge of the mat- ter. Bluestone’s bill to reduce the penal- ty for Sunday law violations in Pitts- burg. was killed, as = well as: many other measures. com- except in SAY NOTE WAS FORGED Waynesburg Concern: Denies Respon- sibility for $5,000 Note. The first answer in any of the many suits started on rediscounted notes since thé fallure of the Farm- ers and Drovers. National Bank was filed in the Greene County Court at Waynesburg, May 7. The affidavit of defense is to the action begun by the First National Bank of West” Newtop against the Waynesburg Forge Sheet and Tin Mill," on a rediscounted four- month note for $5,000. The answer is. made Baker, general manager who avers it is not true Bowlby, as president, and Ross, as secretary, signed any such note: that their signatures to the note on which the suit is based are not genuine, and that the company did not receive any money on such note. * by _ Walter of the plant, that C. H-. Timothy Application was made in court at New Castle for a charter for the Law- rence County Industrial School. The incorporators are the -Rev. Geo. W. Kincaid and Esther Kincaid, of New Castle: Geo. A. Neale, of Pittsburg; Chas. Reeder, of Latrobe, and James Monroe, of Greensburg. The charter will change the name of the insti- tution founded by Mr. Kincaid three vears ago. It is to educate colored boys and girls in manual and donies- tic trades. : Eleven Black Hands Convicted. leven cof the 13 Italians who had been on trial at Wilkes-Barre, charg- ed with “Black Hand” crimes, were found guilty. The other two defend- ants were acquitted. Those found guilty are Chas. Buffulina, Antonio Taglorina, Chas. Gonzaza, Josey Steven _ Latore, ‘Salvatore Luchinna, Pietro lL.auchinna, Chas. Domencian, Guechina Cimmone, Vincent Loubouna and Chas. Cor- nella. Schuylkill Reveals Murder. The body of John, alias-“Hardy,” Lovett, a river hand. was found at Philadelphia, in the Schuylkill river. A rope was knotted tightly around his neck and 24 stab wounds were found in an area of 10 inches over the heart. - The man's neck had been fractured, one arm was broken, and his lower jaw and chin had been cleft open. Lovett had been missing for about three weeks. Electric Current Kills Man. By falling against .a motor in the foundry of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. at Trafford City, John Kamdras was electrocut- ed. He and Mike Danich were ex- perimenting with the motor. Danich has fled from his boarding house at Trafford City, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Forgot One Husband. Martha Hynt, of New Kens- pleaded guiily to perjury, sworn falsely when applying at New Castle several weeks ago for a license to marry Addison C. For ney, when she has a husband living Judge Porter sentenced her to. the Polk institution for feeble minded. Mother and Children Burn. Mrs. Deteavey and two infant children burned to death when their home at Beaver Drook, near Hazle ton, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. ington, having Jos. H. E. Bodine, of Wellsboro, Tioga county, was appointed to a clerk- ship in the internal affairs depart- ment by Secretary Henry Houck im- mediately after he succeeded Isaac B. Brown, of Corry. Bodine is a young attorney and accountant, and will be assigned to an important place in the department. Raid Black Hand. County Detective Berkebile and 25 members of Troop D, of the State Constabulary, arrested eight ‘Italians at Rarnesboro, on charges of a black hand conspiracy. An Italian was shot and badly wounded by a member of the black hand because he refused to advance a sum -of money. The body of Mrs. Rose Gage, of Huntingdon, was found in Stone creek, under the Pennsylvania rail road bridges Mrs. Gage, who had been missing, accidentally fell iato the creek, it is supposed. ( cc —— HORSES IN THE PHILIPPINES. Opéning There for Breeding Exper ments by Government Bureau. Horses cost so much landed in the Philippines that there should be an opening in our Pacific possessions for stock farms, according to a corres- pondent of the American Horse Breed- er. He also suggests that the Govern- ment might establish an experimental breeding station in the Philippines; as the necessity seems greater than to breed the Morgan-horse in- Vermont or high-steppers in Colorado. The" writer who has been in the army service, states in part: “Transporting animals across the Pacific is’ something of a lottery. We reached the Philippines. with all but two of ours. A ship. following ours landed; “as I remembered. it, but six alive out of the whole cargo, of which but one was in serviceable condition. All of ours were in serviceable condi- tion when landed. The only one lost in- landing was one mule drowned at a place in south Luzon where we had to swim the animals ashore a distance of over a mile. Five boats were in use, each leading two animals. While [ was at breakfast the one man that it had been necessary for me to place in irons chanced to be left.in charge of a boat and one mule was drowned. This was not necessary. It frequently happens; but the men on the ship were then engaged in swimming animals ashore at their third landing plate, and men with that much experience should be able to swim animals ashore for only a mile with no there being no unusual surf. ‘At each place of unloading I used to take the first boat ashore and lead one animal myself and locate the best landing place. That horse sometimes had to swim quite a bit more than a mile. 7 ; “In handling a horse at the end of twenty or thirty feet of rope in the water one finds a long experience at halter breaking colts of value. Some fair horsemen, teamsters, packers and cavalrymen of the army would be apt to go a long way toward drown- ing a horse until instructed. = The last resort is to haul the horse close to the boat, snub up his halter stale:so that his nose is out of water and tow him in; but this is necessary very seldom. ‘Later, on another ship, I took ani- mals to a port in north Luzon where the natives were employed to get the horses ashore, and “there they used this last method, which is very clumsy. [ presume they used this method be- cause they had beén accustomed to tow cattle ashore in that manner by their horns. I do not know this, for [ have never scen cattle taken ashore in the Philippines, but that the manner in which cattle are taken from ship to shore in eastern Cuba, though sone swim. “Horses cost quite a bit delivered in our far Pacific possessions. It is a cause for conjecture why the Govern- ment does not make an experiment in breeding over there as. well as in Ver- mont and Colorado. Horses over there while seldom over thirteen hands in height, are not ‘pony built,” but rather look like miniature horses, «i least so long as fed by natives. An American owner soon feeds him into a somewhat more roly-poly condition. While I do not know, one would im agine that mares could be cheaply pur- chased by reason of the fact that only stallions are used in harness. on the street. Thoroughbred stallions not over fifteen hands high and *which are “all horse” and of good weight for their inches might bé valiie. This sort of thing would seem to be worth while, remembering that it costs more to transport a horse across the Pacific than the average amount paid at the last big sale in New York for the well-bred trotters. Also, it would be matural for a native bred horse to stand conditions in our islands better than those shipped from’ the United States, and from what little [ have observed, a good half-bred horss four- teen hands high should well answer requirements.” loss, is ot Art Profits by Courtesy. That is a pretty tale of how the late Captain Salter of Portsmouth, came to bequeath his coliection of pictures ‘to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Happening into the museum one day a few years ago, he chanced to see a curator, to whom he remarked that he had been collecting paintings for some years; that they were valua- ble and that he had no place to show them properly. The curator saw his chance, and it wasn't long before Cap- {ain Salter's pictures were well hung on the museum walls, and their ewner vis- ited the gallery frequently to admire them. Now at his death they become the property of the museum re- quest. -The moral of which should be obvious to all are museum authorities, Always be courteous and accommo- dating to art collectors.—Boston Her- ald. = by Telephone “Statistics: Figures of the amount of business connected witih telephones made pub- lic today, indicate that there were 5,071,500,000 exchange telephone talks and 133.600,000 long distance or toll communications in the year 1906 in this country. On December 31 there were 7,107,835 instruments in use, 1,436,236 miles of toll wire, 2,383,742 miles of underground wire, 11,373 miles of submarine wire, and an ag- gregate of 6,080,282 miles of wire de- voted to telephone service. The sta- tions number 2,715,367; the total cir- cuits 1,407,900 and the employes 90,- 000. These figures show a growth in six years of 171 percent in number of employees: of 239 percent in the num- ber of stations, and of 349 percent in the total number of miles of wirg.— Scientific American.
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