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xmc.yf. T ~ir â€" ""^nr » r- -i i nKW ' m n • M winr i mn T m)f>mm NOTKS AND COMMENTS No revelations in regard to tho BuBsiau \tai si terrors, it was tbought, could surprise the world •ftcr the events of the last lew yvars. But the disclosures in the duuia with reference to police par- ticipation in terrorist plots, coupled with government communications admitting some of tho charges and in turn acousing former neads of the secret service of active sym- pathy and aJIiance with revolution- aries, have created a sensation even among the kesn observers of Rus- sian affairs. There appears to be little doubt that tho chief of the "ilishting" terrorist organiiatiou in Russia has been a government spy. Thi^ dis- covery was made at a congress of the terrorists in Paris, and the ac- cused, who was present at the first sessions, deemed it prudent to dis- appear afterward. The govern- ment organs claim that this strange character was useful to his employ- ers, inasmuch as be prevented the •access of some plots and protect- ed the emperor and the premier. But this is a poor defense if it is tree that ho organized several â- uccessful assassinations, including those of Plehve and Sergius, and lor years guided the terrorist move- ment. The constitutionalists assert that â- omo of the reactionaries in the government have used the terror- ists to get rid of rivals, as well as to discredit the reform regime and Justify martial law, wholesale ex- ecutions and savage reprisals. That provocative agents have been em- ployed to instigate minor political crimes, and that the massacres of 1008 were ordered by officials are notorious facts, but that the highest members of the government should have encouraged and subsidized â- pics acting as energetic terrorists is amazing. The duma may well ask what claim Russia has to a place among civilized peoples and what confidence any honest Russian constitutionalist can have in the government and tho bureaucracy. BELIli M AND T HEOLOKY Wc All Agree Thai Love Is Better Than Hate, That Right Is Better Than Wrong. "Who shall abide in thy taber- nacle? He that walketh upright." â€" Ps. XV., 1, 2, It is easy to exalt opinions to "Strong-handed reform" has been tbe "liberal" premier's watchword. He has defended executions at the rate of four or five a day on the â- core of necessity. Pacification was his first duty, and to terrorists no mercy could be shown. But what becomes of this policy if many of the tciroribts crimes can be traced to police and secret service insti- gation? And if gome of the high police officials revolted against â- uch horrors and helped the revolu- tionary movement will not that be regarded as natural! Was there ever an instance of confusion worse confounded more glaring than that presented by Russia to-day? purposes. That is the only path- way into larger understanding of the laws of our universe. The mechaaic who obeys the elementary undue importance, especially if the' laws of physics i» a better scien- opinions are our own, and invari- tist than he who blindly subscribes ably if they are formed with a to all the theories of our universe, splendid disregard of all other Theology properly is just our at- opinions. There is a fatal facility tempt to read 'Sumeihing of tbe laws about thinking the same things un- that reign in the higher reaches of til opinion runs automatically and our life. Its value depends on our begins to rule us. Then we set up use of the laws. It will not keep such automatic judgments as stand- ards for others ami as objects of worship for all. This is not t.he kind of thinking that makes the world. This is notjtions of imodern and anciccrt. theo- the kind of thinking that deter- mines character. Tbe deep thoughts of the heart shape the ac- tions of the individual aiid dictate the actions of mankind. But this prejudiced and blind automatic ut- terance of opinion is often the type of thinking that domioates theo- logy. It is a disappointing experiment to ask, What ought I to do in or- der to find the way ot the religious life and service ? and to receive the answer that you must believe this statement or that dafiaitioa or opinion. Almost any worth while man would rather be damned for intellectual honesty than saved by theological hypocrisy. ETERNAL REALITIES. If you examine the formulas and philosophies upon the acceptance of which your character and des- tiny are both supposed to re^sit you will bo surprised to find how little they have to do with tho deep and eternal realities of life. Theology concerns itsdlf principally with mutters about which we never can Itave precise information, where uncertainty is most certain to be discovered, and often *'ith those rni'tters which, if they Wit-re set- tled absolutely, would lo«e all in- terest to us. People were happy in their en- jojiment of this fair world long be- fore the invention ot the nebular hypothesis. They managed to stay on the ground long before the dis- covery of the law of gravita^tion. "No man would be condemned to "be chained to tho earth for fear of falling off because he refused to believe that law. The great thing to do is to accept the facts as they are for working you from internal disturbances and regrets to indorse the theories of modern dietetics ; neither will your wholesale reception of the elabora- logy save you from confliot with the laws of the life of the spirit. All thinking is for the purpose of living. It must come to the test cf its product in CHARACTER AND CONDUCT. It is worth while to remember this when narrow views are insisted on by small men, and others seek to emphasize their cullandish opinions by their eccentric and often un- savory living. The poorest kind of a religion in this world is the one <that can be embalmed in a theological mummy case, dried up dust, labeled and laid away, awesome with antiquity but utterly helpless. The life has died out of any faith when it can be thus cased up and catalogued. A vital belief always defies precise analysis and the processes of pigeon-holing. As soon as the heretics all die in a church the church dies. The here- tics are those who 1-eave yester- day's forms for to-day's facts. The only dangerous heresies are these : When wo love and lie and refuse the truth, or when pride persuades us to be singular in error rather than 'to be lost in tho larger com- pany who see the truth. If you are perplexed over opin- ions in matters of religion turn from the uncertainties to the cer- tainties. We can all agree tho-t it is better to live up than to die down ; that it is better to lift up 'than to tear down. If we will gradually build such a form and certain platform for our practice we will cease to look for stability HORSE AND MAN RACE TBIAL THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE PARIS COURSE. Horsca Oatdid Foot Sunncr. Who £xhau8ted. Some interest was created in the sporting world in looo by tne aa- uounueuieul tnat a bpamard named Oeuaro, a uuteU runner, nad wag- eieu two taousauu traucs tuat ue would run agamsfc aay number of borbes an the racecoarse ox l>oug- cuamps, Pans, wiucu is '^290 yaius rounu, the nerses to trot or gaiiop, but not to waxK, and Ueuaro not to walk either, the winner being GERMAN SPIES AT WORK TWO THOUSAJSD OF THEU ARE Ui EiSuLAND. Kaiser's War Office Has a Large Army Picking up Uilitary Secrets. [WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED ENGLAND HAS LITTLE LEABN IN GEIUIANT TO Labor Exehaogcs Help to Mitigate Evil â€" Are Not Complete Sncccss. A report of an enquiry into the methods adopted in Germany for Major Alfred J. Reed the other nigut supplemented to a corres- - , _.. pondent of a 1-ondon newspaper at oeaJmg with unemployment has Auchterarder the statemnts regard- i »«eo presented to the British Labor ing the presenie of Ucrman spies I P»rty by Mr. George N. Barnes, in England and Scotland which be , f-^- -toe enquiry had special re- made at a Unionist meeting in '"ence to insurance and labor ex- Perthshire, Scotland, recently. ^^ ^f'" "°® conmiissioners found "I regret that for obvious reasons »''»?, »â- '>«>â- Â« was little to learn,, even I am not at present permitted to "> Ixermay, as regards the practical divulge my source of information," application of insurance to unem- the horse or ^an who sHould g^ i he said, "but I may tell you that I P»oy»«nt^ The mat^^^^ the greate'st ! have in my possession cert^n con^ to°rlt^fs:^"x?ep'Lt^nTTal *^ >e affair '^'^^^ ^f^'^'"''^ ^'^''^'^^^^'^^J'^^;^^^^^ eoll'eetion'and* tabulation Tt otherwise, which proves beyona ° ' .... . , * doubt the activity of spies in Lon- statistics bearing upon it, may be in our eastern counties and described. But it was found that round the course number of times. The on on September 9, and thirteen horses were entered, named 'i'iiere- sine, Tom, Pacha, Taurus, Old Ire- land, Jenny btane. Penman, Miss Grinaway, Loto and Mobbicr. Gen- aro, who was thirty-three years of age, and of a vigorous and wiry don, in certain districts of Scotland "ITaese, if pubUshjed, would, I feel certain, CAUSE A GREAT SENSATION. frome, but of the thirteen horses j The methods, organization and de- portment of the German secret agents operating among us are at last exposed, and before long I think we may expect certain amaz- ing revelations. "The fi-vt,d agents, who are only ten were taken to tho post â€" Theresine, Tom, and Jenny btane being withdrawn. TWO HORSES STAYED. The signal having been given, the horses ana lienaro staa'teu. In tnc tnird round .Nobbier and Miss Griu- away were put out of the race lor having fallen into a walk; tor tne same reason Penman was beaten in the fifth rotfcd, Schavenger in the seventh. Pacha in the thir- teenth, Coquette in the fourteenth, Taurus and Sultane in the twenty- third. There now remained but two horses running, ijoto and Old Irei,and; but these ha' galloped away at a most unnecessary pace, and had made forty turns, while poor Gcnaro was only in his twenty- third. Still, there was a chance for the pedestrian, for those two horses, which were much distress- ed, could n-rt have continued to run much longer, and had they given up the conte.t, Genaro would have been allowea by the terms of the race to go on at as slow a jog there wits a very considerable in- terest being taken in the question, and that three of the five towns visited had schemes in operation. LABOR EXCHANGES. . . . Of public labor exchanges there are in Germany about 400, and the number is increasing. As to their utility, the report of the commis- sioners states, there are, of course, ' difierences of opinioB. There are French, Belgian and Swiss, as well ^j^^^^ ^j^^ Tega.Td them as the first as German subjects m various ^^^ indispensable step to the walks of life, and of both sexes, are 'further dealing with the problem of known only by number at the cen- j unemployment, inasmuch as there- tral bureau in Benin, their names j,y ^^^ actual condition of the labor only being known to the travelling agent directing operations in their particular district. "The work of these secret agents. market may' be ascertained. There are those who regard labor ex- changes as in themselves providing a remedy for unemploypient by plac- who are marvelously well organiz- ^^ jg^ij^^ where it is wanted, and ed, has taken a new turn within the | ^here it could not otherwiese have last tew months, the seriousness of : jj^g^ placed which wiP be at once recognized. Hitherto it was mainly confined to defences, military and naval sec- rets, food supplies and communica- tions necessary to be destroyed. At the present moment, however. FINDING THEM WORK. .. . The report for August of Sir, Francis Oppenheimer, Counsul- General at Frankfort, -showed thaf in thirteen towns workers were there is great activity among them i found for more than 10,000 vacan- in the preparation of plans of thel"es, and m eight smaller towns* water supplies of our large cities, vacancies were filled in numbers; and of how reservoirs may be des- ! rangmg from 5,000 to 10,000. In „, . _ troyed and the supply of water cut ' Berlin 107,398 vacancies had been trot as he pleased, till he had made ! from the morse densely populated filled out of a population of 2.040,-' 222, in Frankfort-oc-Maii;i l-J,bC»5. out of a population of 48ti,413, and in Dusseldorf 27,301 out of a popu-, lation of 25.^,099. The figures in-. up the distance that they had gained upon him. MAN GAVE Uf . But, between reven and eight in clouds of theory, and will find o'clock, when it was very neariy truth through life, right doctrines through duty. HENRY F. COPE. _♦_ SOME SIMTKFIL WILLS. Three of Them A(?oinMt Women, One I'oneorned u .Man. Quite a number of wills have been proved recently which have con- tained f.trange beeiuests, evidently prompted by spite. Strangely enough, most of those vindictive wills are directed against women. A St. Louis citizen left a thousand dollars to a certain party on the Kround that he "never forgot a favor." Ten years ago, it ap])earH, the logiitcc ran away with the tcs- lator's wifi) I Anollinr will was proved of a man who left Ills wife one farthing, and directed that it shoulrl bo sent to her by post in an unstamped en- velope. His will was made two years before his death, and he gave •t the reason fur his action that his wife lind (ailed liiin an "old pig" and other names. The other day a man died and left bis property to his daughter on condition that she paid to a eertaiii | person the sum of 7 cents for tho purchapc of a hempen cord or hal- ter for the use of the dear wife of that person, e.xpJ'SBing the hope that she would Viiake use of the •ame without d^lay There is at least one case, how- ever, in whicli a man is concerned. One (if the uniformed officials of n popular railway line who died re- cently left an estate valued for probate ut $],.'i8.^. In his will ho made some unkind remarks against • certain person, of whom ho states that "My estate would have been considerably larger if it tiad not keen for my association with Ibis perntnbulating human vinei»ar eruet end <ha elcverest known legal day- T'ht rol)ber." These assoeiations % • ci.f.;..!, trd to have cost hira con- â- '..'..• over C2,000. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 14. Lcs.son XI. AcnoRS and Dorcas. Golden Text, Acts 9: U. V^erse 31. The story of tho con- version of Paul is pas«cd over at this time, to be taken up in tho ne.xt quarter, when we begin the second division of tho Acts, tho Work of St. Paul. To dwell on that great event here would interrupt the course of the history, and is especially fitting in connection with the beginning of his career. 32. Peter passed throughout all quarters. â€" Peter's first home mis- sionary work was in connection with John in Samaria (Acts 8). They both returned to Jerusalem preachiug in the villages of Sa- maria on the way. Now we find Peter again on a gospel tour' throuRliout Palestine, preaching the gospel, and healing the sick, as his credentials, and as illustrat- ing the spirit and nature of the Gospels; visiting and eiw-ouraging and teaching the new churches formed by the persecuted Christi- ans, and keeping them in touch with the apostolic church in Jeru- salem. 33. Aeneasâ€" Very nearly the same name as Virgil's hero ot Troy. Kight yearsâ€" Showing that the cure was miraculous. Rick of the palsyâ€" Palsy is a cantraction of the word "paralysis." 34. Jesus Christâ€" That is the Mes- siah. Peter guards against being thought the .source of the healing. He draws men not to himself, but to thft Saviour, and shows that work through his disciple Peter a miracle of restoration such as he himself had wrought during his earthly life. Peter went, and like dark, Geuaro, who had suffered much from the heat of the day and the heavy nature of the ground, fell down senseless, and was caned off to the weighing house. The owners of Loto and Old Ireland, not wish- ing to kill their horses, immedi- ately agreed to divide the stakes. These horses (old and famous his MaBter at Capernaum, (40) put ^^eei/Jechasers) had done twenly them all forth. Then ho kneeled f „„,^„„ „„j n;,„„.n,..rtnr, in fivr down and prayed. Then, with as Burancc of an answer, he, turning . . . to the body, said, Tabitha, arise. 41. (jiave her his hand, to help lier up after she was alive. Jesus took Jairus's daughter's hand be- fore she was restored. TO DESTROY EXPLOSIVES. Powder May bo Thrown Iji Wa.tsr, but Dynamite Never. The best way to destroy ordinary black gunpowder is to throw it in- to a stream under conditions that prevent any harm coming to hu- man beings or aniiiuils through the dissolving of the saltpetre. If no «uitable stream is avail.xhlo iho gunpowder may be stirred with water in tubs, or tbe dry gunpow- der may bo poured out on the ground in a long thin line and ig- nited with a fuse at one end. To destroy dynamite cartridges tho paper wrappings should be carefully removed, the bare cart- ridges laid in a row with their ends in contact and the first cartridge ignited with a fus« without a cap. Even with these precautions a simultaneous explosion of the en- tire mass may occur, so that it is wise to retire to a safe distance. The. row of cartridges should ue laid parallel with tho wind and ig nited at the leeward end so that the flame will be driven away from the mass. Frozen dynamite should be hand- led with special care, as its com- bustion is peculiarly liable to as e an explosive character. leagues and three-quarters in five hours and a half. Genaro, in the same time ran nearly twenty-three turns, or about twelve leagues. « Rume an explosive character. A small quantity of dynamite may bo Jesus i.s still doing the same kinds destrojed by throwing it in very of work he did when he was living small bits itito an open fire, or the on earth. So the true preacher or [cartridges nuiy be exploded one by *»»,.v,„. »i..,».,„ A attention one in the open air with fuses and teacher always draws not to himself, but to his Lord. 30. There was at Joppa â€" The modern Jaffa,, nine or ten miles ^ north of liydda, the seaport of j Jerusalem, having at presenteight tliouHand inhabitants. A certain disciple named Tnbithaâ€" This in Byriao, the common language otthe region, means splendor, beauty. Called Dorcas (Gazelle), which in the Fast was a favorite type of beauty. 37-13. Tho disciples at Joppa learning of Peter's presence at Lydds, sent for him to come with- out delay, apparently with some hope that the unseen Master wouldfic American. caps. Dynamite should never be thrown into water, as the nitro-glycerine which it contains remains tindis- Bolved and capable of doing mis- chief. Other explosives whicn eon- tain nitroglycerine should bo treated in the sarno way as dyna- mite. Ammonium nitrate explosives may be thrown in small fragments into an open fire, or if they do not contain nitro-glycerine may be de- stroyed by means of water. Ex- plosive caps should be exploded singly with pieces of fuse.â€" Scienti- MAORIS IN PARLLVMENT. Present-day Native .Vembcra arc CoUcgc-brcd Men. In the New Zealand parliament there are four native or Maori re- presentatives. The old-time Maori members were a rather rough, on- ly partially civilized lot, who had gone through the wars with the British and whose only conception of parliament was a place in which to ventilate thier personal griev- ances in prodigiously long orations. But present-day Maori members are college-bred, highly civilized, well-dressed legislators. Once in the olden time a famous fighting chief took his seat, and there was immedialely a general exodus of white -M.P.'s from his vicinity. With a sublime contempt for Euro- pean conventions, he had come into the house with the tail of an ancient and odoriferous shark protruding from his pocket. areas. 1,500 IN SCOTLAND. "In the industrial centres of Scotland alone there are at this ^ dicate that the exchanges are large-, moment no fewer that 1,600 per- Uy used, and that they have won. sons, male and female, in the em- I the confidence of both employer and ploy of the German general staff, [workman. Tneir usefulness is in-] It is now known that the whole of i creased by the system of co-ordina- \ the defences of Scotland have b^em 'â-  tion which obtains in some of the ' secretly investigated during the German provinces, for by tliis ' last two years, and reported on to Berlin. "The number of Germans regii- larly collecting information in England, more erpecially on the east and south coast, is computed to be over 5,000." DOG WITH TUTOR AND MAD. Nana, a French poodle belonging to Mr. Edward Ellsworth, a retd estate operator, of New York, is surely the most pampered canine in the world. A private room at the Plaza Hotel, a tutor, a maid, a private bath, and a special menu are among the items on the list of necessaries of life provided for the dog. xiie tutor is engaged to teach Nana tricks more complicated than the ordinary jumping through hoops and "shamming dead," and Nana' 8 food is specially prepared in the servants' kitchen. Attorney (for defence) â€" "Now, what time was it when you were attacked!" Complainant â€" "I don't know ; ask your client â€" he took my watch I" "What sort of a man is Jinks?" "The impression vou get ot Jinks depends on the circurastanees un- der which you meet him. If you're there to collect money you won't like him; but if j'ou're there to pay Anoney be leemi a lovely charac- ter." «. SENTENCE SERMONS. Growing is in inverse proportion to blowing. A good day's work is the best prayer for rest. He who fears to make foes fails to make friends. The best way to be loyal to the past is to leave it. For the work of heaven you need the bread of heaven. True friendship is always richest in days of greatest need. It's no use wasting blows on the man who is afraid of being hurt. You get mush instead of men when you offer them only soft places. It's no use sighing for a chance to lead if you dare not go alone. Out of deep sorrows come high powers to comfort, and strengthen. Idleness makes tho hours wear- ily long and the days woefully short. Tho mark of a heavenly blessing is that it ignores our earthly boundaries. He can never know any deep joy who can laugh at the sorrows of another. The man who is liberal in his faith is not always the same in his finances. Sometimes we need tides of grief to carry us over the bars of our dull content. The only way to get all the hap- piness in life is to give for the hap- piness of all. The man who hangs his head against hard facts feels his bumps and calls them faith. If you would make sure of your sins being fruitful bury them under a pretense of piety. There is always greater benefit in enduring my own pain than in envying another's pleasure. The devil is worried by ..le people who work tor the good, not by those who worry over him. Some religious engines are run with all the steam on the brakes and all the air in the cylinders. The man who thinks he carries the key to heaven in his pants pocket Boons finds it fits tho wrong door. There are too many churches praying for souls to be added to them and providing only cold stor- «C0 houses for them. means they assist in the mobility of labor. The investigation of the commis- sioners led them to the following conclusions : FINDING OF COMMISSION. .. (1) That notwithstanding protec- tive tariffs there exists in Germany a large amount of unemployment, though in tho places visited the actual numbers of the unemployed and the degree of poverty experi- enced appeared to have been pre- vented from reaching the same aciitq stage as obtains in towns of sim- ilar size in Great Britain, owing to the following, among, other, rea- sons: (a) The co-ordination and system- atic management of public labor exchanges, which admits employer! and workmen uore easily to ascer- tain the actual condition of the labor market, and tends to lessen the number of Vuose unemployed. (b) Tho desire of municipal au- thorities and many employers to minimize unemployment by regular- izing their requirements. (c) The greater facilities possess- ed by the German municipalities to cope with unemployment in their respective areas, owing to their freedom from the resiriction impos- ed by centralized authority. (2) That inasmuch as the German schemes of insurance for unem- ployment are only in the experimen- tal stage, and having regard to their obvious limitations, they can- not bo recommended for adoption in Great Britain with much con- fidence. HOT TALK. Nagget â€" I hear she rejected you, III bet you felt foolish about that time. Lovettrâ€" Yes, I guess I felt jusJ as foolish at that time as you looi all the time. ^ f . Guest â€" "How comes this dead (ly in my soup I " Waiterâ€" "In fact, sir, I have no positive idea how the poor thing came by its death. Perhaps it had not taken any food for a long time, dash-ed upon th« isoup, ate too much ot it, and con- tractC'd an inflammation ot the stomach that brought on death. 'Ths fly must have had a weak consti- tution, for when I served up ths (SOUP it was dancing merrily on the surface. Perhap-s-and the idea preseubed itself only ait this mo- nientâ€"it endeavored to swallow loo large a piece of vegetable ; this, remaining fast in his throat, caus- ing a choking in the windpipe. These are the only reasons I tan five for the death «f that insect." <!>»-? L «" » li|l lW