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Gl OFIISHIE m STORM r â-  We Find Him in the Silent Brook, the Drouth and the Parched Plain. The brock dried up.- I. Kings, «vii., 7. Elijah hro<>dc<I in ihc silence ai.d «cilitu<ln of the luunntnia by the br<x>k Clierith when the drouth fell, but <'iit ff the disastci' that threat- ened ther»> cariio to hiiu n new re\e- tatiun of G(-d aiid a broadi-r mean- ing (if life. It serins that when God has a new faith, a new truth, ii I'ow piirptisp to reveal tc man, iie weids him fur a hjihcc into the isolation of tlsi* •ileut places. Elijah at the bru<jk Chenth, Mos.e.i on the plain of Mi- dian, Christ in the \tildernc.ss, face to face with Gtd, with nature, with tlicir own souls came into and in- spired knowledge of life's meaning and miissiou. Do we not find it so to-day 1 When the sun shines nature blossjms, the br<iok babbles and prosperity sniiies, faith is easy, life joyou.s, G<k1 is pood; but the brook dries, there c^mes teniptalion, suffering, struggle, disaster, and GOD SICEMS TO FOR.S.\KK US, we arc left to battle alone, doubt ar.d pestiinisin assault us, never more, we tliink, will life he worth while; never tuorc will God show His faee ; then from the depths there comes to us the n-'w faith, the new truth, the new manifestation of G<k1. I'erliaps we are beginning to feel ourselves a peci'liar people, a sperial object of God's love; that we had reached a higher plane than- the common herd, were <'oiiiinK in- t<. |^( spirit of tho Pharisee, who tould say, "I thank Thes that I am not as titlier niea" ; then, behold, the brook dries, the drouth eonies and we cry, "Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner." So out of stress and temptation r.:id doubt there eouies to us now faith, new strength, new purpose. Old becomes the God of the sun- nhine and ti)c storm, of the just and the unjust, of the saint and the sin- ner, and thrrr. comes to us a deep- er sense of His fatherhoid, a closer sympathy with our fellows; the uni- versal brolherh'>od is emphasized. In some way every one comes to the "dried brook." THE "DROUTH" may be a preparation for blessing, success, vict)ry. Elijah went down i from the mountain to the contest v.ith the priests of Baal. In tlie solitude was revealed to him the supremacy of the God that moves in the heart of nature, in the heart v.'l man, over the gods made of wood ami stone, worshipped by the hea- then in the nlain. The brook Ch-Trith may bring <louht and suffering for a time, but .'n the end will lead to a saner hap- piness, a truer vision of God â€" a God that works in the flood of springtime and drouth of .summer, ii;evitably, unchangingly, eternally, hut beneficently along the way of law that is love, and the purling rivulet and the dried brook are but different ways Ho has of blessing, Iea<linR, developing the individual and the race. â-  Kev. Guy Arthur JaniipKon. THE S. S. LESSON IMEn>.\TIO> AL LK.SSON, ALyi.sT2'J. I.rs.<«on IX. Taiil on Christian Love. (Guillen re\t, 1 Cur. li: I-13- I. Luvc Completes All Virtues, and Makes Perfect. All the Good Things <jf Life.â€" Vh. 1-3. Eloquence, uninKpire<l by real love, not seek- ing the hip^liest guod of the lu arer, is liut i<oui>diug brass, or a tinkling cymbal; mere noise \sill. lut har- nioiiy, without meaning, without tlie suul of music. This is true even if v,c had the gift of tongues be- etoucd by the Hcly bpirit at Prntecoht, and could e.xiilCBS in use them and may trust them un- failingly. IV. The Immortal Three.â€" Vs. j;). And now, in conclusion, abideth faith, hope, charity. Faith Abideth. Wo shall never cease to trust in G(xl, for our souls can no more live in heaven than they can here, without divine help and influence which como from trusting his as Governor, Helper, and Friond. Faith will only be stronger, more complete, in heaven than here. Hope Abideth. For tho more w<^ gain the larger our vision of things to hope for. The more we gain our ideal, the more glorious tho ideal to he gained. And thi.^ through eternal ages. We do not cease growing, developing, by go- ing to heaven. Love the Greatest of All. But the givatest of thcFC is charity. I^ovp. (1) It is greatest in its nature, nob- lest, dccposti happiest, most per •very language ttith the utmost j vasive, most heavenly. (2) It brings eloquenc-e, every rapt tmotiim, ' us closest to God, makes us par- t-very highest experience and 1 takers of his nature, his children e. May of the hunian heart, that ' nnd heirs. (3) It is the one thing KKVOLIJTION.WIY REPORT. Voiiiif; Itritoim NuHt tic to School Until Seventeen. "â- â-  Mr. llunjjjman, British Minister < f I'klucati'on, has issued a revolu- tionary report, wnieh, if adopted, will compel boys and girls to go to school until tho age of seventeen and \4-ill supply them with such situ- ntions as are unlikely to leave them later stranded among the unem- ployed. This reiKjrt is the work of a committee whicn includes Mr. Dyko Acland, Professor Sadler, Mr. Shackleton, M.P., and Mrs. Sophie Bryant. A feature of the report is tho care taken to avoid hardship where young boys CRn help their fathers in the fields and where girls can help their n-others at homo. But a blow is Etruck at the half-time system for children earning wages. The report of 237 pages covers a vast field of investigation, especi- ally showing the lecrets of Ger- man education, but the following are the essential recommendations : More manual work in the schools and domestic subjects for girls. Abolition of half-time under thir- teen and as soon as possible under fourteen, except for boys at work in agriculture and girls helping at homo. llxemption from school under sixteen only when the child is suit- ably employed. Registries (at tho cost of the State) to help parents to find pro- per work for children leaving school. Every town and county to sup- ply continuous classes up to the age of seventeen. Children to be compelled to go to these classes and employers to he compelled to give them time to do so and punished for employ- ing children who do not go. These classes to give practical instruction in tho trades of tho dis- trict. Physical training to be always given. Tho report says that 170,000 chil- dren between twelve and fourteen have left school entirely, while large numbers are injured by wage- earning occupations. Of tho 2,- 000,000 between fourteen and sev- enteen, only ono in four receives any education. "An increasing number of 'blind- alley' employnents tempt boys and girls by high wages, but give no permanent employment." WORD FOR BUSINES GIRL CAPABLE, INTELLIGENT AND SELF-RESPECTING. 'ihc Woman Wage Earner May be as Modest as Her 8tuy-at- Uoiuc Sinter. Most of those who do not come in actual contact with tho business A DISTRESSED SEAMAN. A Stranded Iadian'8 Pathetic Er- forts to Get Ifomc. The contpiitteo of the British House of Commons which is to in- quire into the question of distress- eo Colonial and Ii d'an seamen will have material to work upon of such interest as seldom couiea before a parliamentary committee. "It is not so very long ago that an ex- traordinary case came under our observation," sa^s an official. "An Indian found himself adrift in Lon- SPAIN'S UNHAPPY TIMES REVOLUTIONS HAVE TOBN • THfNCOIJNTRY ASUNDER. • last Upbenval Resulted in Restora^ 4ion of a Monarchy in 1H7S. Spain has been second only to France in the turbulence of its his- tory and the regularity with whkh wars and revolutiora have strip- he could n<jt get a ship that would pcd it of its youth and its ter'ri- tako him back to India. tories, and altered its form of gov- "He loafed ibout tlie East End ernment. * i o/ London, living on the charity of The last great upheaval was that compatriots until, tired of getting v.hich resulted in three different his living in this way, he itarted f,,rms of republic and a military <ff to tramp through EnKlind. He dictatorship in the stormy yea'rs world why the business girl should had no knowledge of the language which preccied the restoration 'in not be a very capable housckeep - ' " .... er. The g^rl who has the brains to girl have the vaguest idea of what don, and for some reason or other she is really like. In the first place, they look on her as thoroughly uudoinesticatcd and devoid of all womanly accom- plishments. In this thoy make a great mis- take, for there is no reason in the in household affairs. DON'T WANT IDLE LIFE The business girl is not always or of tho country, but, by some 1875 of the monarchy with Alfon-i means or other, no rcache<l Aber- f-o XII. as King. . I deen, where he found a ship bonnd The founding of the kingdom of' be intelligent in business affairs ha^ f<'r Jamaica. It was the only ship Asturias dates back to tne eigh'th the brains to be^ equally intelligent ho could get, and eveutuaUy ho ar- centur,^ ; that of Navarre to the riycd at his destination and was ninth ; Castile aud Aragon WQre discharged. [founded respectively in 1033 andl "After months of waiting he got 1035. The two last were united' in' another ship, this time round Cape 1492. - i driven to earn her own living Horn to San Francisco, where he Spain reached its greates gVory through necessity. It frequently hoped to connect with aa Indian and power in the sixteenth century, happens that she is one of a largo ship. He was succes.sful to this Ihe Hapsburgs ruled from 161& to family of girls and that her com- 1 extent, that he secured a berth to iTOO, when the Bourbons succeeded mon sense tells her that she is Colombo. Here, again, he waited them. The throne was given to much better off earning her living until there camo a tramp steamer Joseph Bonaparte in 1808, and the tiian idling away her time at home, j -n ballast, bound for Calcutta, and Peninsular war kept the kingdom' If a girl is not married at twenty- i he got employmciit on board. Be- if a state of ferment from tha* I've she is usually tired of dances i mg a ship with a mixo-d crew, there year till 1814. "harp of a thousand striiigs' ; yea, ihoMgh 1 have tiio elotiucnce and peifiet language of the angels. without wliieh faith nixl hope, are (if little avail. (-1) It is the most poweiful, exerts the widest influ On the other hand, eloquence is | eneo for good, is the strongest mo- onc of tho most powerful iiistrii- j tive for the upbuilding of character, mtnts of love in persuading nun | (5) It is universal. Kvery person, to repent, in moving men toward 'of every degree, may have tliis righteoiihntws, in portraying the love. More th"n all other things blessedness of serving Ciirist. l)e | together it makes those that have Bpise not these gifts, b'lt transform I it "free and equal." (G) With and give them power as the instru- | faith and hope, love is eternal. Tho meiits of love. Then they are sweet : hmgcr ono lives, the more love he the music of the ang:-l harpers ran have. It, will ex as in heaven 11. The Speetriiin of Love. The (jiialitieg Which are Combine*! in Perfoet Love. â€" Vs. 4-7. The abso- lute importance nf love, as an esEential part of all virtues and ac- tions, has been shown in the first three v<'rsou. Our next duty is to Ir-arn what love is. iJke life, love cannot be defined, but it can be deserilied and re<-oKiiized l»y vihal it does, by it.s fruits, by the expression of itv qualities. It is like life. The great I'ht scientists cannot t«-ll what it is in its esMen<-o, hut only describe it by qualities and results. .Ml tho qualities t<>gelh<r do not make life or love. "Love is a compound thing," Paul t'-lls us. It is lik<> light. As you have seen a man of science take u Iw'Uiii of light an<l pass it through a <'rystal priKUi, as you Lave seen it come out on the other Bi<lc of the prism broken up into Its component colors- red, and blue, and ><>llow, and violet, and orange, and all the colors pand and grow forever and ever, in increasing blessedness and giniy. +â€" M. VI LED BY PANTHERS. (iifl's Fierce Struggle in a Seaside ChTiis. A girl animal turner, "Mile. Alice," was a(l.uke<l and badly mauled by twcj piirithers in tlic Ma- rine Gardens at I'orlobello, the sea- side resort near liklinburgh, Scot- land. She was taking the animals from the cages to the arena for the per- formance at the time. The panth- <r.s were in a sullen humor, and resented her efforts to ^oax them along the passage leading to the arena. They hung back and sud- denly sprang on lier, bearing her to the ground. The large crowd present were horrifie<l to hear screams coming from the passage. Tho manager rushed to the girl's rescue, firing his revolver, which was loaded with 'f the j hiiiiik cartridges, while others, with rainbow-so Paul pasM-rs this thing, j iron bars, after a fierce struggle, love, throuRli the niaguificent prism thrust the infuriated animals off of his inspired intellect, nnd it j their victim, who by this time had comes out on the other side broken | swooned. up into its el'^nieiits. And in these few words we have what one might call the spectrum of love, the analysis of love. III. Love is Imperishable. -Vs. 8-12. Love, like light, shines on however it may he received. Men may hale it, but love continues. Men may get so Imrdenc*! as not to be inllueneed by it, but (lod loves them still ' The girl was badly lacerated on tho chest, thigh and H<'alp, and was covered with blood. LA8SA GUOWING MODHHN. Lassa, the mysterious capital <,ity ol Tibet, which so hmg remained el<ise*l to Kuropcan iiillucnce, np- jears to be in tho way of eiviliza- A ("alcutt.i newspaper states WHITE MAN IN AFRICA. Lives of .Men Who Recruit Negroes for Hand Mines. The labor agent in Afri,ca is a man who recruits natives for work m the mines. On the face of it the thing sounds prosaic enough, but it. is far from being so in actual fact, for the recruiting has to be clone in the remote native districts, often hundreds of miles away from any white settlement, and tho agent has literally to take his life in his hands. Up to ten years ago many labor agents, even in nr)niii;ally Tritish territories, were little nujro than slave raiders, says a writer in The lj<mdon Daily News. I have met them going out with a dozen armed 'police" whose business it was to surprise a village after nightfall and capture all the likely-looking nien. In tho Portuguese colonies the raids were carried out on an even larger scale by regular uni- formed troops, though latterly the ugly temper of the natives them- selves has made tho business a risky one. I remember veil an alarm in one of the big villages, when within a couple of minutes there were more than a hundred sturdy savages, armed with long bows and poisoned arrows, crouching in the jungle just beyond the huts wait- ing for the raiders. On another occasion some Portu- guese native soldiers tried to ex- ploit what was to them a new dis- trict. I saw them going down, but never heard of them coming back, although I had a cainx) a few miles away. Months afterward 1 learned the story of their fate. They passed through a number of tiny, poverty-stricken villages, where they found no one but women, though everywhere they were told of the big kraals on ahead down to the southwest, and so they tramped right into tho deadly thorn jungle, where tho M'Chopi, the "archers," or "bushmcn," are, and the archers killed them to tho last man. It waH a grim trick to play, hut the old chief who told us the story chuckled over it. To him it was evidently a humorous side. nnd the tiresome round of social life, and she is very glad to get into some congenial lino of wjrk. The pride of being independent is very sweet, and, though a girl may be independent as far as money matters go, it does not follow that she loses her femininity in the smal- lest degree. She can be out in the world, â- x wage earner, nnd still be as mod- est aud womanly as though she had Lever left the home nest. INTELLIGENT AND CAPABLE. The girl who is inclined to be bold and fast is in just as much danger of becoming so if she stays at home as when she is engaged in business. In fact, there is tven more change of her getting into these bad ha- bits, as she has more time to get into mischief. vsas no sarang (chief native officer) cu board, and the ship had been at sea three days before the unfor- THE PENINSULAR WAEf. Charles IV., a weak and ighor- tunate Indian discovered that at ant ruler, was responsible for Na- the last moment the captain had poleon's accession and the Peitin- received orders to go to the Capo sular war. His wife, Maria Loiysa for a cargo. Tho ship called at j ol Naples, was in love with a brain- Capetown, oniy to sail almost im- 1 less young man named Manuel mediatelyâ€" for Aberdeen! After! Godoy, and she prevailed *on J5 months' wandering tho wretch- j Charles to make Godoy Prime ifin- ed man found himself bock again ister aud Generalissimo of fhe ill tho port from which ho had army and navy. Godoy was beguiled than a_ by Napoleon, by a promise of prtn-. cipalitics for himself, to allow the sailed so hope'ully year previously." EACH BOY HAS FARM. Succcs»<ful Experiment with Deflci- ent Children. French army to march through Spain to invade England's ally, Portugal. When it was too la'te the Spanish people awoke to the situation, and the Peninsular war ensued. Charles abdicated at Napoleon'si request, and his son, FernaucIo, was taken to France a prisoner. In his absence a party of extremists Mrs. Henry Pars'.ins, who is di- recting the school farms of New To my mind the average business i i<>rk city, is making an experiment girl is about the finest product of j h* fuming with a class of «lelicient met at Cadiz, and "adopted a new this country. children. To each of fourteen boys constitution, which was altogether She is an intelligent, capable, has been given a farm four by eiglit different from anything the couii- selfrespccting, womanly girl, ar.d , feet. .try had had before. Ferna ido re- tho men of the country should be! "Few of these children can ei- pudiatcd it when he came back from proud of her. She goes about her ' ther read or write," «xp.ai.ied Mrs. France in 1814, but a revolution; business in a modest, sensible way, I Parsons. "Almost none of them asking nothing but just recognition I can do the simplest sums in arith- of her services and respectful treat- { uietic. It looked lather hopeless nient from those with whom she^^hcn Miss Crampton, my assist- comos in daily contact. aut, and I began the task. She is usually a good daughter, | "When it caii.e to planting I ex- made him see things in anotherj light in 1812. ' DEFEATED HIS SUBJECTS. ' The triumph of the revolutionists was short-lived, however, for in' and, ov*ing to her generosity, many 1 plai.ied that the beans wero to be 1823 Fernandc enlisted the help afi little extra comforts creep into the home. If any young man reads these words let him remember that a good daughter makes a good wife. Do not for a moment think that I am decrying the home girl, for I am not. 1 am merely telling some facts about the business girl. Tho girl whcse plain <luty it is to stay at home and help her mother is earning her living just as much as tho one who goes to business every day. Kojp that in mind, lit- tle stay-at-home sister, and don't le blue because you are not paid a salary every week. As long as your mother needs you, you are do- ing the very best kind of work in helping to lift the burden from her overweighted shoulders. â€" Beatrice Fairfax, New ifork Evening Jour- nal. , tion. ... Men may per>.ecute and j (l,ut a c.nnnissi.in from that city Injure and r<-b«-l against nnd hate , !:„!< received fnnn a l.'irge convent those who love them, hut tliese in Lnssa an order for nu-iierous ob- tbings cannot destroy the love. Love is like the laws of nature ; yon mny break tlu-ni, hut they do nut change ; you may dify them. I-. t il ;.â-  Rork right on ; you may jectg of F.iiropean nianufaclure, in- rliidiiig 101 blast niu.sical i.istru- n.cits. Appare:-Jy Orci<le.ilal cul- ture «in make iL.« fMitra.Ko with a brasii baud. LAND BY THE GALLON. \ farmer living in a wet and late district in the east of Scotland fiiumk times and seasons so against him that he ih^cided not to renew I'ls lea.'^o. Meeting his laiwllord the other day, he said : ''I can mak' nothing o' sic wat nnd sour land, an<l I'm no' goin' on wi't, or I'll be ruined." "Well, J.ihii, take time to think o't," said the landlord; "no doubt we'll 1)0 able to cimio to terms. 1 niislii let you have the farm at a rcdrcti.in on the arie. ' 'Ah, laiid,' rcplit^d tho farmer, 'your land sli)iil<' be let by the gal- h n, n-j' by tlui a .'re !' POLISH GIRLS ON FARMS. They are Taking the Place of Men on German FMclds. Owing to the lack of farm hands in the agricultural region in the centre of Prussia farm owners there are now importing girls from Po- land to do all the minor work in the wheat, potato and beetroot fields. These girls, tho majority of whom come from the Polish part of Ger- many, are very strong and muscu- lar and at the same time very un- pretending, and they attend to the work assigned to them v.ith greater yeal than the male hands formerly employed for this purpose, says an Lngliah paper. They get on an average one mark (ab<jut 24 cents) a day and free bed and board, which consists of a couch in a roughly-built barrack and of one substantial meal, whereas they have to pay extra for the board they consun o, of which they eat a lot. Most of them are also very fond of liquor, and during their work they drink a good deal of the cheap- est stuff. They usually leave their country in the months of March or April. There are certain agents who make A business of engaging these girls in tho name of the big farm owners, and as soon aa a gang is complete they arc shipped to their destina- tion. The Government, which owns the railroads in Germany, allows Efecial rates to such transports. They usually hjave Prussia in the autumn to return to their native country, where they spend the win- ter and their savings. They are much more intelligent than ordin- II ry farm workers, and many of tlieui are handsomA. planted a span apart, the onions French arms, and adiuiaistercd .a; two spans and so on. I showed beating to his own impetuous sub-j them that one span was just the jects. When he died in 1833 he| width of the rake. Like a hash one enjoined upon lis wife and his in- cf the boys replied that they would fant daughter Isabel to preserve not need to use their hands in intact all the regal prerogatives, lueusuring, as t'lo onions would Maria fouad this harder to do thdn have to be plantf d tvo rakes apart, to say, because the people whoia This the other boys understood and Fernando had persecuted had ral-, acted accordingly. 1 lied to Don Carlos, who claini^dj "When the vegetables began to the throne under the Salic law, and^ grow to enable the boys to culti-'the Queen Regent found it'ditiicillt| vate them most effectively I got' to maintain :ier position withoiltj wooden meat skewers whicii I had their support. them gra.sp as though about to i Then followed a long civil waif, write. With the point they stir- 1 in which Don Carlos' pretention^ red the soil a'jout the pla.its, and' were disposed of, but the despotic in doing f j mauy of them made tho leanings of the Queen were so at motion as thou'jh about to write. "It was very simple, ar.d after a variance with the democratic views o( the party which supported hec little all of them were using the that Spain was plunged into s^ skewers as if they were pens, and each farm was thoroughly tilled. Their school teacher is following this up, and we believe in a short time the children will learn to uso tneir pens and be able to write." ORDER IN THE GALLERY. A noted superintendent of the Sons of Temperance was talking at an hotel about temperance orators. "The temperance orator of to- day," he said, "is always sure of a respectful hearing. In the past it was not so. At the beginning of the temperance movement drink- ing men came to our meetings for no other purpose than to interrupt and wmfuse. The orator had to be very careful in his remarks. He had to look out lest he gave his hearers an opening for some oppor- tune but ribald interruption. "I remember when they began temperance work here. ,\ series of meetings was held in a largo hall. The audiences were always numer- ous, but they interrupted horribly. In the end an ex-prize-fighter was hired to sit every night in tho ob- streperous gallery and keep order there. "Well, one night the orator con- trasted the clean content of home life with the squalor of drunken- ness. He spoke beautifully, and at his climax he cried, in ringing, im- passioned tones : â€" " What do we want when we re- turn from our daily toil ? What do we desire to ease our burdens, to gladden our hearts, to bring smiles to our faces and song to our lips'" "Here the orator paused for ef- fect, and the conscientious prize- fighter tiptoed hurriedl period of turbulence, pronuncia-_ nientos and civil revolts which cul- minated with Prim ond Serrano's" s;;ccessful revolution of .868. and' the (light of Isabel to F"rance. ADOPTED NEW CONSTITUTION' Then followed the jeriod describ- _ <,d above, in which Spain tri«^d a ' variety of forms of government. " Alfonso XII., who was restored to the throne at the end of it all, was ' the only son of Isabel. A new mod- ' erate coustitution was adopted, and â-  still remains in use, for the most ' part. The years which have passed • since then have been comparative- ly tranquil. Alfonso XII. died at ' the age of 28, and hi'? widow, Marii , Cristina of Austria, became regent . until her son, the present King, reached his majority. The threatened secession of Cuba brought on the Spanish-American war in 1898, and Spain lost all that was left of her ancient Western Empire. To the natior as a whoU this was desirable freedom from an < Id burden, but the loss of the co- lonial markets dislocated certain manufacturing interests, especially in Catalonia. This accounts for thw fact that the separatist tend- ency has always remained strong among the Catalans. ABOUT DRINKING WATER. .\t least three pints of water should be drunk daily by the aver- age adult, in addition to what is present (50. CO per cent.) in the solid food- A lack of water to flush the sowers of t^||^dy loads to constipation. niMJ^milation, nielanchol.v , aid many obs<-nre aches and pains. Water is best taken mostly between meals, s<i as y to the front of the gallery, shook his fin- j not unduly to dilute the digestive fer at his unruly charges, and said, juices. A glass of i-.-e water taken in a threatening stage whisper :-- at a meal drives the blood from the " 'Mind, the first feller among! sHoniach and delay 1 digestion at je who says 'Beer!' out he goes I j le:ist an hour. Â¥