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"A 03 vi ---- ENT TOPICS. CURR . +The proposal for a monument to 'Shakespeare in Lindon brought for- svard by a committée of nolables oon- "Rinues to be a topic of pungent discus- sion in England. The disputants have Alivided into two 'camps, one made up of adhérents of the commitiee's project "#0 erect a monument, the other of the Iriends of a memorial theatre, By some process of reasoning which is not clear =! 'this distance {he champions of the monument have hed the conclusion that contributions [from broad might be expected and accept el for a monument but not for a ma- kional theatre. ~h There are dangers and disappoint ments in the thealre project, but they are to be welcomed rather than the pro- babilities involved in the monument echeme. The promise of a huge pile devised in the mistaken zeal of one er @ dozen artistic mediocrities is not cal- culated to unloose the purse strings of tbe judicious. Competitive designing does not produce tha best results from the arilist. The bathos of a huge, cost- y, pretentious, and mediocre monument ¥a the great esthetic genius of our race is not lo be faced with equanimity. It would merit the curses of his shade and the maledictious of a posterity doomed Ko pass unceasingly under the vast sha- dew of our banality, Shakespeare needs me giant 'memorial. But If we of the twentieth century would honor ourselves in honoring him let us make sure that our act of honor be worthy of honor. ------r-- The biggest saloonkeeper and liquor selier in the world is the czar of the Russias. He is proprietor of all the sa- foons in his vast domain, and thus owns the biggest trust on earth with competition totally barred, with profits increasing enormously every year. The great white czar's government encour- aged drink lo such a degree last year that the income derived from the sale of vodka exceeded $390,000,000. Every year the Russian peasants and work- fuen are sald to get drunker, dirtier, more miserable, and more brutal. The imperial grog shops are small and un- "clean, with a counter at one end and rows of bottles of various sizes all around the walls fram floor to ceiling, The people are not allowed to drink on the premises, s0 they go to the door step, break off the neck of their bot- tio and after swallowing their contents, fling it into (he street. The boltle holds @bout a wine glassful of the imperial drug and costs 5 cents. The daily wage of a workman in the fields is from 10 to 15 cenls. Tchelyseff is a member of the third duma who declar- ed drink kills Russia and that neither a constitution nor a revolution are so much needed as temperance. He says that the government budget is made up ol poison. I HOME CURES. Onion Syrup.--Take one large or twa cr three small onions, slice -them in a dish, cover with sugar and let sland an hour. This forms a syrup which is excellent for children with bad cough end cold. It is harmless and is not bad to take. Egg Skin Good for Eyes.--The skin taken out of an egg shell is a simple but good remedy for sore eyes, Just put on top of lid and bandage over it and you wilt. be surprised how soon the swel- ting will go down and ths pain will teave the eye. : Nail Wounds.--If every one' knew of this remedy there would not be so many eases of lockjaw. Cleanse the wound well with warm water to remove all par- ticles of dirt. Then take the yolk of an, egg, mix hick with salt, spread one- tall the mixture on a plece of clean ck:th, apply to the Wound, leave on for ten or twelve hours, Then apply the vest of' the' mixture. 'In nearly every cuse the wound will be well in twenty: four 'hours. * When a person is badly burnt ad. minister a dose of two, tablespoonfuls of brandy at once. Wrap up the wounds with lint soaked in olive ofl and lime. waler (in equal paris) while weiting for tha doctor to arrive, It is neces- gary ta administer stimulants to the per 'son 'who has been burnt, and this should "RP Christ's rayor Was That Nono of Thom: © Might Be Lost: = [tk Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.--St, John. vi., 12. The day was far spent; the night was al hand. The great multitude which bad followed Jesus out into the coun- try were ready 10 disperse to seek shel fer until the morrow. Multiplied by the Bread Giving Hand, the five small cakes and two tiny fishes had satisfied the hunger of the five 'thousand. ~ With words of thanksgiving and praise they were about to depart. The Disciples hdd gathered around the Master to ac- company Him to some evening resting place. There yet remained, however, in the mind of Christ something to be dene. A Yew words conveyed His de- sire to them:--"Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost." In them is found one of the most preci- ous and comforting thoughts of the divine revelation. In the economy of God nothing is wasted. Christ, de- spised and rejected of men, knew the futility and folly of human contempt. He knew the worth of the thing for which nobody cares, WHICH EVERY ONE DISDAINS. The fragments, in the eyes of the satls- fled multitude, in the eyes even of the chosen few, were worth nothing. They were to be (hrown aside, abandoned, trodden under foot of men, But Christ knew that they would feed some hun- ery souls who had not enjoyed the ad- vantages of the five thousand in being in close touch with Him. He knew their use. The material providence in His thought suggests the spiritual pro- vidence in His soul. "If God so clothe the grass of the field , . . shall He not much morg clothe you, O ye of little faith?" Here is a wrelched woman of the town, painted, tawdry, brazen; here is a poor, ground down, stunted, ill nour- ished toller; here Is a sickly, ignorant. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 26. Lesson IV. Jesus Teaches Humility. Golden Text, John 13. 34. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. (Based on the text of the Revised Version.) King and Servant.--Afler spending the Sabbath at Bethany and at its close attending an evening feast in his hon- ing on his journey toward Jerusalem, in company with his Jdisciples and other festal pilgrims. A rumor had already reached the city that he was coming, and an eager, enthusiastic, multitude hastened out along the highway to meet him. Now al last their oppoptunity to make him king seemed to have arrived. And Jesus did not this time repel their enthusiastic acclaim, but rather planned deliberately to augment the dignity and triumph of his entry Into the capital city. His time has at last fully come. He accepts the royal homage tendered him by the populace, nor once forbids their cry of "Hosanna to the Son of David!" As king he enters the city, and as king must the hierarchy of the nation at last accept or reject him. In him, therefore, is the prophecy fuMilled: "(» daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding up- on an ass, even upon the foal of an ass" (Zech. 9 9). In chapters 13-17 stead the work of establishing and building up his kingdom upon earth. He must choose the most important, end that is that the atlention and their sore disappointment, when (he cherish the memory of him, and cling er morning. would bring a new and] In our lesson pi it is his once more that in the approaching hour of lingering hopes of an earthly kingdom were to be shatlered, they might still 10 him by faith until the dawn of lorious message of hope, and a larger. Bion of the Master's mission upor example of self-abnegation and service that 'he would ha ider, as cr, Jesus proceeded early mext morn- |dle impudent, child of the slums; here is at idle, - selfish, depraved woman of fashion; here is a hard, bitter, conscien- celess procurer of chiki' labor; here is G wretched, perverted bomb thrower; here is a bloodless, sollless, heartless oppressor of industry--human fragments worthless in the eyes of good men, fo ba trodden under foot ruthlessly, or fo be dealt with rigorously by the law on either hand. hat does Christ say about them? We are all made In the image of God. God has a right to expect from each one of us a representation of Him. sell. What broken, mutilated monsters we show t0 the all-seeing eye of the Father! If we could see with His pow- ar of vision, with wha! horror we would shrink from wid THE TMAGE PRESENTED, what disgust would fill our souls! Yet God wants every one of those human fragments, Christ's prayer, Christ's hope, was that none of them might be lost. The image may be distorted and marred, but it is still God's image. There is some of the divine in every human being. Men cannot see it, but God can. He would fain have nothing lost, and nothing will be lost unless it deliberately loses itself. : What is the lesson of this compre- hensive, inclusive prayar--nay, oom- mand of Christ? It is the old lesson of kindness one to another, of gentle con- sideration of our fellows, of trying to discover the good in humanity rather than exploit the bad. It is a condem- nation of arrogance and sel-satisfac- tim, It (8 a lesson of brotherhood in its active sense, It says {0 us, "Judge not." "Gather up the fragments." Ah, gen- 'is reader, are you not, after all, only a fragment yourself for God's gathering? CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY. ee ------ ---------------------------- Passover feast, which on the day of crucifixion was still to be eaten. Mat- thew, Mark, and Luke, however, all speak of this meal, for which: due and special preparation had been made, as the lar Passover feast (compare Matt, 26. 17-30; Mark 14 12-26; Luke 22 7-30). Perhaps the key $0 a correct understanding of these apparently di- vergent statements is 16 be found in the words of Jesus recorded by Luke: "I have desired to eat this passover wilh you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I shall not eat it, until it ba fulfilled in the kingdom of God" (Luke 22. 15, 16) --the regular Passover being thus anti cipated by one day, since Jesus knew that on the morrow he must suffer and The devil having already put into the heart of Judas--This fact is here intro- duced to explain the subsequent refer- ence to the betrayer. It also serves as a background for a further reference to our Lord's magnanimity and love. Betray him--Or, "deliver him up." 8. From God . , . unto God --:Both phrases are emphatic from their posi: tion in the sentence. x 4. Riseth from the supper--Belore the meal was completed, as is tlear from verses 12, 25, and 26 below. Perhaps the disagreement among the disciples gencerning which of them should be "acooun to be greatest" (Luke 28. 24) prompted Jesus to interrupt the course of the meal in order to geltle forever this question by his example of humble and humiliating service, Layeth aside his garments--The loose outer mantle, logether with the girdle, both of which would be in the: way in performing an aot of service such as Jollawed. id John's narrative are recorded ei 5. Began io>wash the disciples" 8 Thus performing for them the menial] service of a slave, There could be no} misunderstanding | the intended mean: ing of this act on the part of Jesus, fr | view of the foolish controversy i which | they had just been engaged, 8. Cometh to Simon Peter--Apparently in regular course, several of | ciples having already submitted act of Jesus, { et Jo wash ny lett tn Ahe' : proneuns 4 togéther in sharp ocontrasl. The remons characteristic of Peter's outspoken, though loyal and nature, ATLA Rl 7. What Ido thou kno the personal pronouns are dicating a contrast.' Peter' wility had brought with it u is that disciples of ind mility and utter sell-abasement to seek | the to serve one another, For the disciples, in their time and under the social con. ditions under which they lived, the ex- |Spend hortation might well have a more literal meaning also, hardly so, however, for Christians fo-day. Ho 3 © 15. An example--Which fay not so] 0¢sS. much in the form of the service as in the spirit 'which had prompted it. Jesus taught both by precept and by personal example. . Of the former. method his parables are the most {llustrious éx- amples, «of the 'latter this incident of washing the disciples' foet is perhaps the best {lustration. In the hands of the Master Teacher -of. all ages both methods were eminently and perhaps equally effective. : 16. A servant is not: greater than his Lord--A solemn declaration which had already been made to them belore, at the beginning of their apostolic. work, as recorded in Mati, 10. 24, and paral: lel passages, - * i One that fs sent--Greek, "an apostle." The literal English equivalent is here used in place of the familiar Greek word, which among us has come to' be used in a slightly different sense, { 18. I know--Jesus desires fo have no room for doubt as to his prevision of the betrayal, which it is essential that the disciples shall not regard, when it comes to pass, as a defeat of his plans. He that eateth my bread--Or, "he that eatoth his heen! with me' --a common pledge of friendship. IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOBN BULLE AND. HIS PEOPLE, Occurrences in the Land - That Reigns Supreme in the Commercial : ! World. During a.run with the East Kent Hunt the fox was chased through one of the Dover streets and kil in a garden, . The loss in rates to 'the Woolwich borough council on empty houses and "irrecoverables" is 'estimated ' al. up- wards of $50,000. ) A well-dressed man of thirty was found shot on Hampstead Heath. In his cigarelte case was a oard bearing the name of C. H. Hibbert. oH A man who has nol been identified dropped dead at the corner of Batter- sea Park road and Queens road: while apparently walti Jor a (ramcar. e! up alive, though terribly in . While a number of miners were play- ing cards at Tamworth a arose over 'fivepence, and a man ni Al- =| trusted with' letters from our dear ones -ernor- of 'the 1aab, the capital of the 'Greenland. The White women f South' 3 the summer hours;on 'the 1 view, is a great suc- (A broad wa parts, On one side beets, radishes, cabbages, and 'some other vegetables: grow lustily and malure even in THE SHORT SUMMER. "Om the other is a beautiful grass | he 1 colony divides it into two}: plot, 'sprinkled with. dandelions and | but "she daisies; 'and in a corner is a litle hot- house in which we bring a. few Euro-|' pean flowers and strawberries to per- fection. Near the entrance are chairs and a little table, and-often, in the afternoon, all the while women in the colony sit here with their needles, enjoying their tea and the bouquets of roses and gillyflowers which thé hot- house provides." » The Dapish mothers 'and their chil: dren are often seen on fine summer' days climbing the hills behind the set tlement, some sith their sewing, others with books, while a tea kettle and a basket of fresh baked cake are carried by young Esquimaux. In sunny-filaces, protected from the wind, the plonig| papa party enjoys the glorious view of the blue sea, and the entertainment is varied by visits from the village goats, | imported from Europe generations ago and thriving in their new home, The single street of Godthaab is lined With houses and bears the name of Lange Linle, in memory of the famous promenade of that name in. Copenhag i hare ST mr | life of the people and the playground ol the children, both Greenlanders and wropean. ; fh The. little folks recognize no racial distinction. : They are all playmates fo- gether, and in" fact there is a large 'European admixture in all the Esqul: nau, old and. young. MRE _ "Sometimes." the narrative continues, we hear a joyous shout, : "THE POST, THE POST" and in an instant the whole colony is out of doors, amir "We seo a boat coming up the bay propelled by the paddle of one of the Esquimaux whase business is to travel from one settlement to another with the mail. The Esquimaux are just as inter ested as we are, for all can read write and are eager for news {rom their friends in the other Solonties. / a tow old women standing in thelr doors or sitting on the flat roofs have no part in the { al exci | EAN il oy : pri and p ; an oar i&-fixed upright like a mast in the boat. . This means (hat the boat is from one of the southern seitlemen! where a vessel from Denmark has arriv- el, and the Esquimaux postmen aré 'oome_ here! Toby is W i tow to walk!" wh es The papa and mama and 'and. grandpa came running room. But Toby did not con take notice of them, but wi y. gazing his {ail, a8 much as lo Aired, dear liltle-Marguerite; we a while, and when you are will give you another son {And so in the 4 another walk with. Tob! day - she" walked 'round; the thy. day' aller she walked alone. Now do you mot think Ta good teacher? And would ny if Toby should advertise sons in" walking, 'and send hi all the babies of his. 'Perhaps 'he would sign his fessor Toby, and 1 do not prices would 'be very high, is sa fond of babies. <I would be quite modera a bone a lesson too mug would be a good way Youth's Companion, eile ies TRAINING THE in the home land, 4s the ship is un-| {he lvading a part of her cargo and will pot arrive for several days,