CURRENT TOPICS. The boy who leaves school just)as soon as he is old enough to do so either | is obliged to go to work because of poverty or else has a distaste for school and has not parents wiio realize the im- portance to him of securing a better edu~ nor his parents sce the use of it, the remedy is not to compel him to attend a a school he dislikes, but to furnish a with a school that hé does like and: see the use of. A healthy boy of 14, ak a poor zeny, cae sys find work to sory schooling will not save the bo less they can be made to like it or lead it has some relation to their advance- ment in life, —}— Baltleships are safling the air in be- half of the fatherland and Belle France, Both the ae and the Ger- man armed fore may be con- ‘sidered to include sat machines. It ‘already is rumored (hat the French are building more, and without doubt the Germans and other nations — speedil, will follow suit. While public interest for the moment is absorbed in the al tainment of flight on the heavier than air principle, two marked advances have been made with propelled balloons, and if such machines are not con- sidered the ultimate ideal of aerial navi- gation, yet improvements now have been Accomplished in their construction so as Yet who to render tiem practical engines of w: Count von Zepplin, the veteran Garin general, who for many years has been striving pluckily against difficulties, Has at last achieved te success with his immense airship. This apparatus as eae con: zi ‘a large frame- k of aluminium, 430 fect long, over wih ich a smooth outer covering is ar- ranged, and within which 15 balloons two separate engines h of 85 horse power, working four small screws, placed on each side he vessel. This vast airship makes a maximum speed of thirty miles an hour. It offen has been remarked that the real test of the practicability of an airship is ils power fo stem any ordinary wind. A speed of thirty miles an hour certain- |‘ ly should suffice for this, and even if the machine is not-capable of progressing against a strong wind it should be ie to manoeuvre on any average day. Patrie” is the airship built to ne eae of the French Government. speed attained is given as twenty-eight miles an hour, —_—+—-— 0 Is bread an alcoholic stimulant? The fact that in the process of. leavening flour is made to undergo a_ restricted fermentation suggests that the finished loaf may retain amount of alcohol which has not been of two ns with walem@™nd eximined the distilates. In every instance he has detected alco- hol, though in smaller quantities than those found by Herr Balas, the propor- varying from 0.05 to 0.04 per cent. jon to alcohol the distillates in- ly contained a small amount of a dark brown oil with the distinctive odor of new bread, patie sot Rae EATING HORSE FLESH. How the In Belgium, as in “other European a thin, gs. ‘The. greatest | {y the probability |* pi mall | exan — is Conducted in 1g fee! “They shall be atraid of that which is high ang : hae shall be in the way.”"— Be two ways of viewing the on-coming years, as burdens or te op. portunities,” with fear or with expecta- ion. dags of. the new too ee lwo points between enduring life and: finding the na | life that “The wi ied feet of long ago cau, Ah of-akd.al Guisevdintinctens teat cut clear through to the roots of things, He the sign age Sonn wich of that. whiely is high. | When courage and ambition an = BS Es s & & a <I = as z 2 3 3 os g 5 him, who see gs not yet realized. a time when men must dream dreai and see visions, when they must feast on noble ses or die so far as the in vernt listless, pulses, Bul “only apathy or a. sneer tee the high purpose or the great promise, it is but a sign of the approach of senilily, FAILURE OF THE POWERS. When the ambition be satisfied with the less while the greater is before it, when things ase are pre- edito (nines ti ah, atbrsolf; and ain. cult. to attain, ihe Messt is. dying alse ark .of life the ae that the sneer of he. ils tne or even the memory of our own Talld ves wean ave. sirensexenk oss sibilities: der -therieelves to. us easily enter in the cold abtlicers ons wu view marks the ‘aitterence is that) 9) id} ning of a ty! Dealer there shall enter ner spirit and all that mékes real living {2 If you find the will becoming dull and = CONQUERING THE YEARS One Is Young as Long as His Heart|m -Responds to a Noble Call. jthal denden our aspirations, nay subtle {the temptation. to be with the condition that pe east a toil nor in. How an a itation <6 world some worthy service, 0 yield 10 the heart yanng; is poi dei Ra ‘as they may S be, the daily duties _ of home or shop o# store, the care of the baby, or the run ‘THE GREAT AND HIGH MOTIVE. This is what we all need, is not place nor authority nor Ww: that makes the work. high or low; it is His spirit of the service and the part it lays je. world’s great business of nity. er fecling hum: P you ward ‘off 0 value 1d age, cherish to your days, above, the life seek the things that are that serves some worthy end. One is young as long as his heart. leaps re- ".| sponsive to a noble call. But he who lives fo pleasure. to the. Batiste 0 self, who has shut his eves to the high things that call for selidenial, for toll and loss, is dead already. HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN, 20. Lesson IM. Man's Sin and God's Prov Golden Text: I Cor. 15. 22, LESSON WORD STUDIES 5 ‘on the text of the Revised Ver- mise. One more premis down for our ment studies upon which n our firs te as a fundamental law of wankers, is found to be operative separate stages of God's larger Phe a Sire, mentioned. In the onward march of the wo! tory there are ni bil 9 sudden and complete breaks with the past, no ushering in of new dispensa gard the com npley a8 such an abrupt heginai of a ne fethtenern al a stated tim process was necessary. eclal gift to “man, diarcatives “an History: esque, conerete form ineewee transplanted the beliefs, the fancies, an reas ae the sale ofyhorseflesh is be+| writ ming, & reeogaized “branch: of bute ng busines: are. any saitens selling horse nied exclusively, @ horse head attached lo the front a the shop or a sign indi- the business. within. While it is not forbidden for a meat market to handle bol and. hors quit unusual to do so. hele separate lines. and exposes , no aticeable difference is in the col- which is ef red a has a than the beef. Those the tered through Be that horseflesh {is form no exception. But as CharlesFoster Kent has pointed out the first volume of his Student's ‘old Testament, insi the stories preserved in the books of the Old Testament are found to possess a unique value, for they reflect but thos them an the human tradi- Mis for about half the tiohs ae oo ee boat ct ations and the eternal truths held by In China he horse has. been eaten the generations which received an for 600 rst European peo- bese them 2h we narratives m f ple ebenty price “lppophagy were those of Denmark in 1807, when Napol- fon invaded that country. The Ger- ‘mang also altribute that practice in their le whom. ‘God sd training by varied ex- purpose to the world.” Verse 1. Prussia in 1847, also a year of great|—Crafty. So con: rf jong a famine. rimilive and semi-pri people, to In Belgium the eallte ‘of horseflesh | whom the peculiar habits and gait of the Wates back to 1870, from which time it] serpent appears here as the embodiment has been in increasing steadily. In Liege of subtle wisdom in a bad sense, but many colls are slaughtered for sale, the narrative itself does not identif well as young Mes he“animnal-ane the ‘serpent with Satan. This identifica- cuts of horse meat sell cents a pou while the beet Gorteria about 35 ce tion bel nae (o a much later period, an ‘ appears first in “Wisdom” “ eayy of 168 devil death entrd tit the world. Iso Rey. 12. 9, “The ‘an, the deceiver of the whole and. Sati won ey ‘God. "ot ‘ne races, was “Yahweh” written sometimes “Jahveh”) of mefich tha English hovah” is a corrupted jiorm arising ap As has ee The girl whe speaks slightingly of her parents, r is abstract sense, but a ime, and trois he ne - | “the tree of life. periences to. make Known is gracious) 5, 00 The airpeiit was more subtle} old serpent, he that is Palied ie Devil} 6 M jersonal name of in previous “Word been pointed out sacred {to be pronounced. In speaking and reading, therefore, they. regularly substituted for i the Hebrew wor Be meaning “Lord.” In the later Christian centuries when ihe Hebrew. dantiage no longer |i xte and rd jonai” iy eee sheeted to points Tenders of the Hebrew text to pronounce of “Adonai” wel correctly, the vowels regularly printed with the consonants of ord “Yahweh” to remind the reader. that the one word was to be pronounced eB; place of the other, Through peat “el ess or ignorancs began Aten 1500 A.D. (first known wenge 1518) t m= ait only Ss ise, and that he, in distinction heathen deities, really himgelt eontnually in ation mid thus manifestin, elt to the Said unto the vom acini corvette. ing tae Watien wha had the prohibition as thus soisicciad. Doubts suspicions. are sown in the heart of cc waning’ audeahen step little it dy talee: (a, NedE Men EP the bold . | denial fe God’s command by the temp- 2, e woman said—She cones. ane serpent and shows that she aware of the strictness. of the ‘probit mn ion, The garden—Apart from the account ke bi ex: geraled the. command to her and made Walricter than it-really: was.” The com- nand as given to Adam said nothing about. nae Toetings the fruit. Lest ye die—The common explanation of Jehovah's word “for in be, day that thou met hereof thou ‘shalt surely ‘ . 17) is that this expression is tend ‘to mean “become mortal”; s in the sense of not being Mets mitted. es his trans; 3, 3 w = 2 = a Z S 8 3 é e lity very often ascribed y ng wen of its Creator, and hence in thei ier ee not re ears th we great gull te Rote ize that this is p all men uae a thrill of ge pa wy to onsistently with its Se poe hit 4. Ye shall mot surely eee temp- ter's at deni 's 5. You 5 shall be ope ay al penn man and God, which exists in our minds, 6. To be desired—Or, desirable to loo! upon. Perhaps the profoundest touch of the entire narrative is given in verse “And yes of them both opened, and they knew that they were 1." Verses 7-12 should be treated a: part Hearn What is this thou hast done?— ea asks thus to elicit from. both the man ah the woman a full admission of Ee Ge A ze thou above all cattle— The’ author is sul accounting for ori- gins: here ae ete the peculiar habits of s 15: He shall ruse {Marg., lie in wait for) thy head—We nole that to the ser- promise is given in the ruise his heel. It is a perpetual conflict that is foretold; b=*, as n_-has pointed out, “a conflict ed by God, in which the serpent is lol wewed vient as the offender aggre: thus strikes at the outset of bie bistory 2 of redemption the note of proinise and of ise thas "not inenpropri- aay heen called the Protevangelium of redemptive hi —— 4 BLACKS V. WHITES INU.S. "| THE STORY OF THE TROUBLE FROM THE XGINNING. ‘The Negro Problem in the United States is Fast Arriving at a Climax. Ever since the day of their emancipa- the. negro. inhabi- tants of the United States have been detested by the white inhabitants, and more particularly of the Southern Slates. 3 vw and again, when an. atrocious crime is per- petrated by a negro, hatred Teaches a white keat, and does not stop short of lynchin nth part of negroes, which len ~~ milliol the population are means that there are Jil ve tue Soulhem States, principally aime the banks of the Lower Missis- lion negroes, or half their number, are illiterate; but der A y thirty-five sinee ‘the ‘lvil War put an end to organized sla negroes are pay- ing $300,000,000 anaes in: ties upon THE PROPERTY THEY OWN, Twenly banks, and 400 newspapers are run by colored men, while over 300 fire practising as physicians, and sev: eral hundred have fortunes of upwards of $50,000 apiece, Of course, it is the five million illit- e particular] ‘oes, large section jonds who onl; mn they can- not steal, that have embiltred the white man against th hem. In the Northern States the feeling is ago, because he entertained at dinner Dr. Booker Washington, the ex-slave, and founder of many, colleges and in- stitutions for negroe Admiral Dewey Biea ta go ashore at Sun Domingo, when his janded he and his officers would have tia to dine with him, lespite the opinions of the s Colom the Navy Giepariment: have. Seen eliminating for three years past all negroes from ser- ico IN AMERICAN WARSHIPS. The ailieuily bas been. breached, ao-ter ed States Army is concern- a dralling all colored soldiers to geriain regiments. where whiles may serve in t yan dics lie chacluegs Blalesivinny colleges, hotels, and theatres refuse. to Bow negroes to enter their nebeaaes: But in’ the Southern States the fee! ing towards negroes is most bitter. By what is known as the “Jim Crow law,” : Seer not enter a railway car- riage street car, or any other public vehicle Ieawhehteritesseen travelling. ‘onvicts and lunatics object to oc- cupying prisons or asylums with ‘the man of coloi while it is a case of certain da fre for libel for one ie. man to call another “a colored er Pethese Sects alone are sufficient to ‘o hate the while man. as hated; but ¢ ni States, has m come unt rier its ban one of tyran- nical intolerance. ee, STILL EXISTS. che ite" Fi the egress word for “peonage’ is sins nothing Jess. The a rise judged by a court of mags any white man who will have fi 4 s » hundreds cf 2 lesperate at their ill-treatment, we sou their iets ery week, Ww vengeance against the white portu aks crime he unintelligent, ‘embittered brain Geis think of. equence is that the puee States finds herself in the yds a vy racial war.—Pearson’s Weekly. eater Sen BENE oie “Ther insomnia in this here youn ” “aid | Uncle Josh this morn- e fixed between the finite ¢ and: the inte, Rabe Seuthean’aiaven chara ie “/MUTINIES ON THE OCEAN vere | ONE QF THEM ENDED WITH THE SKIPPER UNDER THE PUMP. Comedy Instead of Tragedy — Starved Sailors Were Justified in Court. I have witnessed three mutinies, in 2 last of sauce I took part, although mber of the ship’s crew, 6. 8 Sie: Louis "Beck My first experience occurred ae i sort of an glorious delight; in fact, it was en joyable mutiny in some fase) for wi might have been tragedy was info comedy. “'With-a brother two years olde was then 11 years o' Pere ews nt to San Francisco by our parents to “begin life ina commercial house and subsequent- 1 red haired Iri: we were. comnitied,' was & ito Joyable woman, generous to a fau He was about the saneet specimen of an Irishman that ance on his quarter deck as h ted: up and down Artesilibly suggested stick, and my brother and mysaif took a quick dislike to-him, as also -did the other passengers, ef whom there were thirty, cabin and steerage. His wife, who was the daughter of u distinguished Irish prelate, was actu- the little man, who SOBEDIENT oe D. Both of them are long s! ‘ aes write freely of their scharailerl®? e bark had formerly been a French corte built at St. Malo, it found and leaky aS left Newcastle the pumps vere kept going, an ‘eek later the y came Aft and demanded that the ship should return to port. ‘The little man succeeded in quieting them for the time by giving them ety focd, and we continued on our cours meeting with such a series of adve gales that forly-one days tales Wve sighted Ine island of Rurato in the South Pacific. By this time the erew and steerage passengers were in a very angry frame of minds. the forfer were and exhua the Fy F FS out to them by the equally miserable captain. At Rurutu the natives. brought off two om t loads of fresh provisions, but the captain oe only one small vig, for the cabin passeng aos he steerage pas- sengers: au ht up everythin; and in a few valnted the bade came ‘all a asked tho captain te bay | food 1 plies of the dec weevily_ bi upon which they had been existin ge Bes ‘and ordered them for'ard. headed Yorkshireman. ota Angry words followed é litle man down. mself up he wen brace of old- one of which afler declaring that he woul “DIE LIKE AN IRISHMAN,” he pointed at the mate and, calling up- surrender an empathic che all, seized the skipper and, nade a rush after knock: everely, held nd nearly th lieve they would pave killed pin, for joa pitch of fury aie? carried him belo locked him up in one of the Alalerooms, and there he was: kept: in confinem {it the bark. reached “Honolulu iwwenty £33 the attempted id mate and the subsequent spectacle of the evil-tem- pered, vindictive little skipper held un- der the force fy third experience of a mutiny ond rose from a rman case to the rst. I was a jund from Samoa to the Gilbert ielende: (equatorial Pacific). ster was a German, brutal oa overbearing to a degree, BROKE A wee JAW with an iron belaying p! crew at ‘all natives, ves of Niue (Savage Island), one of these latter whose rely new crew, and vance of the char- ol rd et eta; the Marshall Islands as quickly ahaa ible. here were but five Europeans on board—captain, two mates, ’n and myself. The bos’n, although hard on the crew, was not brutal, and he never siruci ray not been out three days when the cap! see in a fit of rage, knocked a Ginert Islander down for. dropping a aint brush on the dec! about the eon until the poor fellow awas insensible, z landers ware getting into daggoral Taine of mi These natives were ed all over the fee tor thei sh said it was no use speaking to the sl the captain and officers Di: if}ing. " people c'd only hear tonal: Ae ’ nights, b’ jinks!"_ HEARD THE NATIVES TALK. aS: I said nothing of that to the fc. suet said to him that he was run- to haze the now sulky and brooding na- ue. Im Sunday night we were in slant of Funafuti Lagoon, and ae ofa schooner which I knew to be the Hazel- dine of San Francisco. She, ike us, was becalme In. the middle watch 1 went on dec! and found the skipper and second inate runk. The mate, who was below, wa three men had been drinking heav- ily for some days and the second mate was hardly able to keep bis feet. Th ptain was asle the skylight, ly- ing on, his back, Tsaw th of his mevolver showing in. the in- tr pocket of his coat. Presently rain began 10 fat, and the second mate called ot he hands and told him a3 iiring’ ci his oilskin ‘e and knocked him off the cap. Then the brute followed him and be- gan xian him with drunken fury, then = = p of him and lay there, nat Tor" ‘ard and found all the na- set on deck, very excited and armed with knives. Addressing them I beg- ged them t KEEP QUIET AND LISTEN TO ME. league away. Get your clothes together as quekiy a5, posaibles (han lower aavay the quarter boat, 1, too, am yerag: this ship, and 1 want you to put me on board the Hazeldiné. ‘Then you can g m shore. Now, put up your knives, 0 and don’t hurt those three men, beasts 1 they are. s I was speaking, Max, came for'ard and. listened, ho was asleep. nerely siting me..an expressive en he sk hetacio Tock mma up in the deck ees the bos'n I thought He did not. interfere, look. quielly this" was done; and then asleep in his ons but one of the Niue men took t:he key of his door and lock- ed it from ‘the outsi Presently I heard . sound of ary ood, and, going on deck, found thal ine_eltbere, (otanterssiad stave: iting straboard quarter boat and the long- boat (the latter was on deck), Then [ second mate was lashed. pump rail, His face was plood, and I thought dead, but found that/he had only been struck with a belaying pin, WHICH HAD BROKEN HIS NOSE. “He drew a tot of blood fro one of ‘a have drawn, some from him.” eck house, and told tho bor’n what had occurred.” He iw an, up a carpente proadaxe, smi door of the deckhouse, Then he looked at me and smiled. “You see; I'm gaining ‘ae liberty — captain and officers tied up, and no one ty Jook, after the ship. stood perfectly and, shaking ing nia 8 bet- ter ship, er the side into the beat, and lett: the brig Hating ‘ately on the placid surface of the ‘The eight native sailors made noiso, although they were all wildly ex- cited ‘und jubilant, but 8 we they called out “Good-by, bos'n.” One hour ifort I was on board the Hazeldine and telling my story to her skipper, who was an old friend. Then Dade good-bye. to, the. natives, he started off for Funafuti with mi ressions of good “will to thelr: fellow nutineer, t daylight a breeze came away from the eastward and at breakfast time the Hazeldine was out of sight of the Al freda. 1 learned a few months later that the skipper ‘had succeeded in bringing her into. Funafuti. lagoon, where. he-man-|..y aged to oblain another orew. HEROISM OF A NURSE. She Sacrifices Her Own Life for That of a Child, Ethel Harrison, a nurse, gave her life for one of; her charges’ near. Chester, England, the other d She and another mie: children of Mr. Adamson, three niles o the north of Cl . Whet ochgly a hild, a boy of the three who lives hester, et a aie from threw ere no. belier. One ped’ ani sAimerioare tought ane, other s as an stones into the canal to induce his dog a to enter the wate ‘ heavy drake a re aide 8 re haraty | Suddenly the child overbalanced and tea oApia. before. the Swede. (escony [fell into the canul. Nurse Harrison, Fiala without “9 moment's hesitation, rushed down th the nurse on the towing Cae but in doing 80 she lost her aaa d fell backward into dee Phe second. nu brought a plownian 10 dhe-bonk. Buk be. seks he not swim, and stood helpless |F while the heroic woman sank and: aos wwned, Her body was rec ty hour and a q a Nurse Was 27 a native ae Newark: in Se aniany wa shire, fe ens vet LOGIC IS LOGIC. Tha Irish, Intellect Is more often nsso- ciated etl it than with logic; but on Irish recently 8 for a Sneak (oe “upbraiding -Wwnigue of. his foreman by display of something which enough tesemblanes 10, logie i oie his hears The wo: tan enjoyed leant hod ona: making shrewd ob: much more and the cr boil n his: vations thar he did stirring: about, fur “Mort! Mort!” felon duil Why don't yeu atend to your hot and keep. that. man going?” domanded the foreman severely when Patrick was J enjoying one of his frequent periods of te Patrick raised his hod with a Jelsure- \d turned a pair of twink- - eyes on his accuser, ‘Sure, now,” he said, easily, “if I was to keep him going all the time, biti a thing he'd say at all, at all; an’ he wasn’t there. An’ if he wasn’t Ask ‘sorr, what eae he be wanting of mor- thar sprue TESTED SI OF SUCCESS. The world owes a dust exoclly what willing to work aWe are all tn-thp ace, nen: and .wvo- mien, lo ai tis tony wecan out of us ANIMALS AS TRAVELERS SOME PETS THAT ARE VERY FOND OF ROAM Tame Bear Caused a Sensation in Lon- don — Leeds’ Wandering Goat and Dog. An exciting time was experienced’ rec- ently in the neighborhood of King’s voss. A tame bear, bank A the 2nd rene uards, railwa; ay lorry and went sightseeing. It was ont a small animal, yet it Th nough this bear will probably not indulge in such a trip again, there are Sane pels who almost revel in sight ing. n the most crowded streets of Leeds black jog about. 0 he goat merely has to mt a bleat, and the dog rushes to i This strange traveller much prefers the most populous parts, favoring caly or the vicinity of the It = a reguiar a its habits: in fact its owner can tel! what the ti e Tew “ quarter as # ur, by its return home in the e THE ake AND DOG were brought wy SHS and they both sieep together in. the stable. is wandering pet and its faitntul protector are town bred, though © goat's mother showed no desire. to andes In the Workshop Railway Station re- freshment rooms thet { portrait of a dignified cat, adorned we and hiya -advealurag ride he: 1oblst0 Len ig the refreshment rooms le Jeaped on the botfer of @ truck nllneh: ed to-a goods train then in the station. When ‘he. tain. started fo foreman porter noticed the four-footed pas nar and intimated the fact by telegraphing to She On arriving at te su atiy city the cat was found gravely silting on the buffer, + unharmed. Buller. travel- y rail also. W ry fond of roaming, few can be si be really travellers, The Duchess of Bewufort v THE STORY OF A CAT which was taken from the house of a vin P, 2 in: Gloucestershire, Having travelled” by Toad a disiance of Tullysa couple of huns dred Doas io notorious travellers. is ater chant living av nunden It was disposed of to somebody living m the eily: but it straighiway retumed i home. sold to some- find ats way-baek from Breslau: to Mun. den is a complete p cars, 8 fairly’ wellsbred fox-lerrier, as noted: for-his travels. He wi pione for some years Station ‘as a collecting rse was his stomacl made an extra effort on Dee half of some charity fund, de ii LARGE A cotton, is “purse” was fina ° monteinalhines oneshiling plee- es, two sixpenny bits, six pennies, and nieven helfeenries. je goose can be si @nily in the Viet fori Deck Road, London, Just before reaching Tiaat Basta Station, aln pposite the Thames Iron- works ‘Si pbuilding Yards rom place to place ways to be found out in tho ‘pen road during the day. e great travellers, of course. works out lo a speed o} uur m_possesses a travelling rook, which eer @ ride a tram-car, ently i perched itself on eats, flew from ie ty and calml one of the outside about. the many pete os occupying the surround: ing seats.-Pearson’s Weekly. POISONED 20 PEOPLE. © a Series disinter! ments which Boe Goes to Bio Sara Was itty of jurders wane ale were of financial advantage ¢i- £8 Aili, crv to other rin bodies have already , and a ninth will Dee aniereeel the father: Le as of young. woman's son, the full of ar- ie son could not have rgasbed the bballee waiter ae? Frau Feige denies her guilt, but the proof against her is of a damning char- a Ts st —- Sete en man bumps up LI luck he always blames «i exe other falow foe shoving him, A vey ae