ever, nol as some rather as heard ESTIMATE OF CHARACTER.| Bringing Out the Better Side og] Human Nature, Whatsoever. things ioe true, whatso- ever things whatsoever things are Just, siigeee jnings are Pure, whatsoc" ely, | ii Whatsoever things are se words are an appeal to the best in human nature, In every man there mon; tendencies to- toward pe inclinations in the best of us that it does not Dehoove any of us to talk about the eve ot ently speak, of the fixity of character, but alm L every passing ur our cons bali is oti de 2 es emotions, next hour these emotions are succeeded By an Hi entirely different group of sensa- in clock and the man of the morning ai the man of the evening, while one and @ same man, yel ‘0 different men. On the purely splritualcaide there is A DEEPER MYSTERY. Over the lives of the majority of m living in the confines of Christendom the single glance at the face gt Bea tre revatohied. the life of Dant meaty Afroughout all Christendoes men are b strangely ani wondrously atfectea by the sanctity of the home, the worship God, the anthem, the ‘voice of the preacht®. There is an unrealized self in every and then we catch: gleams of our better life. They come to us in moments as pros; mountain altitude—the other being, that better self buried down deep within us, that cries out now and n town. od the mere imitations nak his He thoug:t, sa sense we are all victims af the we of en} Paul aid 3 out of hinvelt as it is possible to make De success, \d. then for freedom, for a larger, truer, nobier, diviner life. Williai 20 ae tells us what it is in these Ii be} As some most pure and lovely face, Seen in the thronged and hurrying rect, Sheds o’er the world a sudden grace, A flying pai sweel Then passing leaves the cheated. sense, Balked with a phantom a attce. our souls, the visions rise,» otal fair ie we ne jendor past our eyes, re They pass and leave us ne dank gaze, Resigned to our ignoble ur souls as in raight waistcoat, but in we “fi 2 working compact BETWEEN OUR.SOULS AND GOD. ne ‘oung men port to this city westert erie them vad felt through this" (sited the 1 his Be ‘ell ihe tale, unig man ca with the determination not only to make the best his opportunites, but also, as Jean ake "as much cout of the atuff." Me put himself in touch with the best associations, yes, he went (o the church and was encourag- but also his growth He paid attention to what was Tne difference between. these ‘oung men consisted simply in the dif- Terent voices to which they responded. lo the highest, the other endeavoved to bring thered the appeal 3 every young man whi feats these’ “words tet = Overtonte” the lethargy fd (yranny which holds you down to your lower als Bring out the ate that is within rae te STINSON. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. 10. Lesson VI. Abram Called to be a Bless- ing. Golden Text: Gen. 12. 2. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES, Based on the text of the Revised Ver- Other Beginnings. — The Flood narrative ends with the account of the covenant of the rainbow which God made with Noah, that not again should “all fl e cul off by the waters of the flood” (Gen. 9. 8-17). In the closing verses ol chapler nine we find the first sad re- ference fo an example of the curse of intemperance. and eleven present in brief summary a Cables means of which hie traces the descent of the ‘diferent CRONE known to him froni the sons of N ial mention at int in his narra- tive. The aelanogical lists are also in- ten vey an idea of the length and general character of the period in- tervenin, he Flood peluated ; finally afler nine generations this knows of ce eleven is sporti in connec fion with our present lesson since ib gives “details about the immediate ances- | On tors of Abram. ‘Terah, the father of Abram, had three sons, Abram, ahor, | * and Haran. The family dwelt in f the Chaldees, i hss ee part of Babylonia. Here, , the son of Heron and nephew ot ea ‘ain, was born. Naher also. “look them a little iter ate wi hole fam- ace: of fi t Haran, wlio. ‘had died, left it nativity the desert they fourneyed first Soettnaal intending to go thence westward and then southward alestine. ary ving in north. |“ ey pala, nd. me unto Haran ‘piabenly so Called ue “them} and dwell there.” Here Terah dic SR, Ten told, God ‘soak e to His ae to be thought of, how- thing external, but thin Abram's thmost oul. re. | through which great blessings are to {| Seriptions recently Piougnele lig Thy country, . . . thy kindred=Abram was {o leave his home and his rela- Trace, “Thus oommnand to-sever bis-famnily ties and wander forth into an un mknown no small demand or test of a romise, however, is as as the requirement. In this unknown land to which he is commanded to go Abram is to become a = corsage and an example and a blessing to ations. pe thou pissing Acsordly to the Hebrew idiom the impersonation of ig, Most pee (comp. Psa, 21. 6; Isa. 19. 24; 7 3.1 will bis “them that bless th ‘Thus Sees ey Al source of blessed be Dist sate hen al infriend| “or un! eee shall all the Samlites of the earth be ieee apa e-reference here seems clear! jo the pee reli ie ivi Caner ine 4 spe its to the 3 ind 3s 4a a communicated ultimately to the w i ne great less: ‘acl will attract the attention of othe! pation: nnd awaken in them a in these blessings. In finde case the promise remains in the wider sense of the term a Messianic pro- {in the northwestern pact of Mesopotamia on a nm a the Fs ng mcg ‘of mounds tho site of the ancient “aly: the slo| lope of one o! there: is a modern village of mel reriloned ed Big tt He it ‘one of these Sargon, king o boasts that “hi over the cily 0! of Anu and Dag Senacherib also mentions Haran ing bee The city an the “Romana and’ iis inbabilants were among the last to give up the Chaldaen language and the worship of Chaldaean deities. 5. All their substance—Consisting prin- cipally of cattle, sheep and horses, cloth- ing, silver wes Ba , and other house- hold. possess The Baie: “that they shad gotten. --- In- vants and slaves. ts (Gen. westward under ram. down,” and si signifies Mowlands name was at first applied. only “to ei cat egion of enemanes +. later: These words are heart-thrilling. -They | tic out the best, ies other stifled and smo-| 7 7 0 many | eq libs ‘Abraham and his Gentiles. ‘The Hebrew, however, per- mits of another rendering and interpre- tation, according to which the sense of the verb translated “be blessed” becomes arnond ihe Rerkes. lexive, “bless themselves.” Tho ren- left the stoker dering would then become “all femilies | the latte of the earth: shall bless themselves by | brakes, went to thee,” that is, in ing themselves . they’ will uso’ thy iene a ng oF Se supreme blessedness and wish for them: | also off the Dg | miles an wi the name both of a cily and country including the mountainous dis- wlan trols as well as the lo ary pies ani istee cily malestine situated bet and unt Gerizim west o: dan i the eer allotted to penne some distance north of Jerusalem. One meat of the name is “saddle” or “shoul- >” and the name of the cily may therefore well be derived its, loca- tion on the saddle-like vale. between the two mountains. Another suggestion is ce receive e from nami sl son of Hamor, the Hivite, prineo of the land (Gen. 33. 18, 19). The former suggestion, however, seems the more probable, Oak of Moreh—The reference appears to » to a sacred tree, the word “Moreh” archs, To be identified with the’ pears Retin, about twelve miles north of Jeru- alem. NAL_The ame means “heat.” The Toca- of rs was a little more than two miles southeast o! th-el on the road a} between the latter place ang the Jordan Valley. Apparently a city of importance oe the time of the sic of Palestine ihe Hebrews (comp. Josh. 7). eee MYSTERY OF ACCIDENTS asses | RAILWAY DISASTERS WHICH COULD pe NOT BE SOLVED. Accidents Which Have Defied the Efforts sal of Experts (0 Find the Cause. It is nol often in these days that the cause of an accident remains a mystery, yet within the past few year ‘e have een n eases recorded. the spol, thal the engine ‘iself nev It has been. supposed that the cause of the disaster was the breaking of at te in the front conch; but the smash 0 complete it is not certain syheiliensthe tae roken before the carriage left, the r not. Other experts put it dawn to the spreading of the rails through the ve ery. wel wealher. Bul no one knows the cause for certain. POINTS W at seventy miles an hour Mentor, Ohi>, it suddenly dashed from the rail fora an open pair of Thirty eople were killed jured, tnd ne ‘3k 0,000-train reduced to rap-iron and most of it burnt. But how came’ the points open? That is: ques- tion which remains unsolved. There a horrible suspicion that it may have the work a a train wreck x lealhs Were caused in Sep- ember, 1901, “hy one of the most extra- orinnry ee accidents ever record- A freight train was standing in a e called in Montana, and stands high: up 1@ engine-driver eon the engine, and afer carefully setting the air- -so happened the office get- two brakesmen were train. Suadenly and with- out any warning whatever, THE HEAVY ane RAN AWAY, and before anything could be dono was t =the: Jatler lastrophe was appalling, for the timber with which the runaway was loaded took fire, and mise. uelily twenty of tne injured were burnt h. jon ct Haran and nephew Of} to death. ‘The only reason that could be Abram story of his life will be] given for the runaway was that the air found in this ‘nd the two succeeding |feaked from the bra es, yet the latter naplers: of Genesis. In character a) were in perfect order just previous to the strong contrast to Abram in. that he was run away. selfish, weak, and worwly, though rela-} Near Indianapolis there was a similar lively, in comparison with his heathen | accident seven years eigh rss he still accounted | without such terrible results, “sighteous,” his personal character people were hurl. But t ing suMoiently tree from re {ol runaway train and all her render him worthy in the sight of God] that the brakes were full in, and why 9 | of special deliverance. “He ids in the| their train Should have run a the; Bible narrative as a type of meh who] could not comprehend. It was some time think too exclusively of ord advan- ystery was solved. The that the mt els of the following. train simply ski ‘The most 5 egnian and costly pearl ‘orld is now the pro- |. Ibis aia each 2 her lately sold to a Lon- tas Teac for $100,000. Mrs. Brown: “And have is taken 5 ve Deen. v vac: cinated, a ive got my husband to in- sure it t was, therefore, quite a company, oF | sna th | out the usurper, Cather aan pelotatnit to the Empress: Eu-| not USE OF CLOTHES IN CRIME * IMPOSITIONS PRACTISED BY CLE-| VER CRIMINALS. Usually Done by Means of Uniforms and Assumption of Military Character. Ey contains man. imples the people's giicutty in alterentating an, writes court not that Czar Peter had been dead eleven which is ee resembling the oak, is still ars nts had seen the me common in Palestine, as is also the oal years ee oe a ee thei roner old was confirmation strong Cannanito—Lowlander. enough to confute a dozen death certifi: 8. Both-c cient Luz intimalely | Gates. They. rose succeeded n_almost conneeted with the history 0 alri-| cnaking Cain therne tom throne, an aid succeed in. nding Pougatshel, ss instigator, on the scaffold at Moscow hint ‘vith the deference due to hi u and accommodated him with a chair. The genera had come to choose a birth- prest for his wife. Tho tradesman displayed his most valuable collars and tiaras, The veteran lingei ver them lovingly. At last he made choice of a costly et and inti- was acute. The general, how xed for writing materials rae: accepted the ee n the business paper of his firm the to the stumbling words ‘ar Anna: I have need of mone; please take five thousand roubles an return by bearer.—Loving- spalched with the note. fingering the jewels, in ¢ servant refuted Will IN6 five thousand roubles. and paid for. The jeweller assisted his distinguished client fo the carriage and stood owing as he drove away. nat evening, when {he Jev eller re= turned to his ehiesrite abked srny. he had withdrawn 0 large 8 sum from the family safe, “What sum?” asked the shopkeeper. in surprise. “Why, the five thousand roubles you eos for this afternoon.” ive thousand roubles! 1 don’t ancestry “Heavens, here's your wife jeweller’s own jeweller’s own business notepaper he, for le produced the Heller in the handwriting upon the and the first time realized that the 4 az of iis pulsied officer and his visionary pol THE MINISTER'S TIARA, though differing in rpetrated Of the same genre, Russian criminal, kaia is jewellery stores in Europe—ihe house of e_monihs ago, je Uhe gems of ti ectio uch isan, ‘the lady pate expensive, but price exceeded that gested by her husband. dreaded to lose so profitable a customer. Could not madam obta Her excellency’s husband ase? The lady meditated, fength pegged permission to drive to the oflice of her-hus band’s ministry—the dis- eat—to show him the mgs shop durin The jeweller was detigntea with the sug- gestion. ‘The ‘lady departed in her carriage, Time passed. Quarter of an hour Fas BRS rhe pevellet to effect thelr confines me ago, ate ‘at nig) from the chief Sot eae at the town hall ler to Scloriots political prisoners for imme- diate remov: a guard woul ensure their safe transport through the course, at stay us night, a deputy-{ hae to remove soners to the gene of the aad utes,| Everything was in readiness. 1 the rought round to the man sleepy prisoners wero not a strategist without resource, With | Pt iara was bought | 4, ine. jeweller had paid for the officer's} q; The salesman | ® e e,{0us beach sand ‘autorenuy | countries they are profilably wi e governor seveiven | 3 repare ten} ‘al to the citadel. He was in- db x i-| has been uninterrupt ‘The customary driver took the reins, and a soldier from the escort mounted beside im. re of the cit fe had been chloroformed, @ wagon was discovered in a field. ten pri icer, and the Med easier ie disappeared. ‘They were but revolutionaries in the uniform of the Czar, ae, RECENT OUTRAGES, Precialing, the ttoops of the quar- 7 tered i The yice-consul indig foreseen the result, had taken lodgings overning every approach fo the insulted nm stewaes reside result was the ust 18, the summer residence FALLS FROM THE SKY AND SLOSHES UP FROM THE SEA. Regularly Falling to the Earth. The world's gold supply is absolutely inexhaustible, no matler what. demands made upon it, says. a writer in a the atten: tion of miners hes been énlively lrected >. comparatively rich, easily worke posits. But it has to be nebere that gold in small quantities occurs enormous masses of rock throughout the yee all volcanic rocks and wwe for- mations derived from them, such ra vast ene such voleanic formations contain in concentrated form, and are Say ib some 1664 Profliably worked. Profit is and always nthe in- centive to gold pro oducton. Should there the’ voleanie aurifer working ane sedimentary is the ae ce cprolltably, them will be Experiments irs shown that gold is jolved hy acid surface waters and redeposited in a more concentrated form, is recoverable. THE WATERS OF THE SEA, so ae auriferous, for oi seawater. of the “sea-bed is much larger than that of the land. Its com- position is similar in every respect with 1 that land, UL is Ber age of mountains, Plains. a and plateaus; of ig-| 5! us, melan hic and se Stats ‘adbich:oomtatn. grog areas of gold bearing and other mineral v Only in netics, swhere the submarine gold lose to the land will i ses the shedding ated by. th exist in are remark- renewed or en- able-in that they ate riched by alnfost evehy storm (hat passes hem. hese, posits. are known various names, ie term aurifer- describes ne ze ae them. fr 1eg0, throughout the coasts of postal and New Zealand, where they have long een svorked with: pro ofilable results, output from the gold-bearing Decchel “at Name mmnseat this y expected to reach’ $4,000,000. between Cape Nome and. Point nahore for miles is being worked for gol ) HUNDREDS OF MEN. The beach is in places auriferous for a f ized : ae gh she was UGA en a'hack, and] Width of 2,000 feet inland from the tide driven away to the police orice. evel cand epmelinies lara y-depth ot 50 It was the last the jeweller saw ot {he feel. From the. w router: arin the police agents, dia- | Nome ther 8 -serles.-of gray sea So ne ee eeeatavo the coachs | beaches extending inland several miles, man and the footman of the briltiant| Which contain, weld and are equipage, who had sie their clothes teats wide a ae see and returned to rescue their accomplice, | ROSS ee tice TERRORISTS iN cae $2,850,000 int In the present year, on at least oe ho: art! “also immense deposits |! occasions, the revolutionaries ones i mi safids. dad Cl These ave-ehfefly tn the avid vegions. “In auuny fed by ary blowing processes. gold by the action of wind and rain, ae OLDEST CHURCH. ~ e oldest building in England that pul nl rly used as a for lace for religious gal han 1,500 , s of international amenities, andthe new i Fy "The awful tragedy of August 25, when re G But this s. SM trek ;| THE WORLD FULL OF GOLD aa a Experiments Haye Shown That Gold Is conta T ce peoflably reducing the gold in the] ustralia have] 0 ttt +F4+t4tts $44 tt+t t+ Great Trek t @raphic Article by story nantly replied. “The officer repeated his | 0°) Nemenly insulted the | German, and palin oe are eventually struck him. a grave 4 pen last great trek, the trek. nm man and ma to the North-West is feelin, hat the et was young. iv and odin Tait re Sani is trekking thither; for ue comes near to the ful ent, the resources, and characteristics of the whole vast region are matters in part of ie education. 's Bi to-} souri farmer came and ousted him. son's Bay Company did not tree trader or the rancher, these mer was kept out by deliberate propaganda, but he came, THE C.P.R. ADMIRERS. Canadian Pacific Rail- jit ae Fe It looked 01 placed the a pox of eat American Desert about Aynere Baitleford is to day. '$ good wheal as ever grew SF ee ze BS pack = i ° wentysfive million acres of land, certai completed railway lines in the East and thers.“upon- the Pacific -slope,” “Now,” said the Imperial and Colonial: Govern- ment-to the Company of Adve {he Canadian Pacific Railway, is ee you do it!” The Com| pany of Ad: Reathbers did it, but ey did | it in ignol ance, They some of the poorest facrninge country, ‘and, rebelling at this, lege of selecting lands on covenanted belt of twenty mil They got Doce Jand all Wes nothing, ‘They Bold i inal seas at two, , five, jek seven dollars an acr take it or leave it, and would rather Jefl It, for next year-it will go up ag in the Canadian Pacific nineteen new ion dollars for rails, millions tor rolling § nce more the coun- has “oulgrown all prophecy. The ers threaten to swamp all transporta- 2 BS ig ATS THE WORLD FOR WHEAT. not receive quite so good treatment at the hands of the Government. or' Iso, are discounting, Geom The Canadian Northern. Rail: Way got some lands and had ils bonds : Northern conn itl ought. ieghound throughout. the yen The truth ts a From the foot y Luke, eight miles north-w absolutely” the the lies “entire rd of the ‘ilk 's About bviee as rt unis 2 ori Dakolw at- lier best pel 2 is icy land Baers oe Sapo out. of ystery? No one knows. It is as much latter figure is the average price to-day. Tt will be fifteen flat next year. Three ars ago, two urs ago, — eighte mont low much has ipert's Land enhanced in value in the last f five years? Tenfold? Once it fete: hed “two elks and two black eavers.” back eastward, but with. trans- continental ambitions, comes the Inter- colonial Railway, also the Grand ae "Pisi rarest westward across the continent, — seeing that what has sapeenen in the trans: ibs al hupy eg I ine atest. story of the day is the| hes wrilt =i _ if .; south. of the Canadian border. if nds Anernae ge have doubled, in many 6 at the map, and the map | f @ being a (rifle “stuck t railroad that came along did 4 | Hopkin Ht TFET HPP tte teed tte te Into Canada United States Writer. POAC EASB Rah wed ant Nichi antes Tw ago the bomb outrage Canadian North-West, which has] Assiniboine. It puts out oon for ‘which ‘nearly cost the etait? or Wars] cone nator Do: JitUe publicity from | eight mamaeds miles of new line, an w his life was made possible by the|Uniled States publications durin crowds on all elec, Maro misconcep= iform disguise when one attempt to} past year or two, has now attracted the tions haye wl lecred 0s Avy The Govern- attack General de Seaton. had failed. | attention of Out ing Magazine, which be: | ment e tight-fisted now. rarely ventured out from the Palais gins in its January number a seri The Grand "Trunk Pacific gets Belvidere, and th a were Sees ee “The Last Stampede guaranteed, and should be glad of that; despair of catchi mal ne Cheap Homes,” by Emerson Hough, but it must submit to rate control by tho a captain in aN unio called mpan first aril is called “The G ” | Government the Germén vice-consul and entered into } and es interesting reading for Cane ‘an actual’ and not a theoretical conversation. “tre mahen the official of ela The following are a few eX-| tro) another greet Ganadlegie ving sent. reports to the Kaiser : the able “emigre,” James:J. Hill,” who rillen history in Aransportallon THE GREAT TREK. all. through the THe DEBILITATED GENERAL as such was promptly reported to the} american contin as ed, in “value, In stile ot tite e three years 960.8 Jeweller on -Fovernor ‘general and an official apology oe0pia movement the world ever saw; | fact that reat tracts are continually ne eNCiE. Fa Bek t of St. Petersburg | dem: realer the | opening in the vest settlement, and received fternoon Gen. de Seaton investigated the affair, Avrans, in spite of the fact that only a small per from an old een decrepit officer in cote that t sailant.was not an ent, of 01 i uniform of a general. The old abs officer attached to any corps in Pol in was assicied from his carriage 10| and, of niecessity, drove out to rende ter by an alteniive footman in} his personal explanation of the affront miling jeweller received |to the vice-consul. The ‘Terrorists had | ost not to menti m hund masquerading of the miscreants in uni- rch, other than’ the ever- | thousan rope. rm. The man who de: the out- Joyous marching of man to” do battle figures are far within eicouraey, for it rage and threw the bomb got past the with the wilderness, with the outof-|nol claimed by the officials that they pale eng! seal his entrance to ~ doo! get the f every man use by virtue of his wearin; moving over the line in these packed clothes of a captain of gendarmes, Kt “sin WILFRID'S: PHRASE. ren the Great Trel tess All through the year, in every part of} The nineteenth century belonged to| stagger, and, indeed, their ethical im- lussia, uniform has en made ib the United States, ‘e used it magnifi- | Port might ear cause a certain confu- cloak to cover innumerable illegal acts. | cently, even our fin crim hme - mn ment; ret u here was still ind our- vi it, ev The twentieth century belongs to Can- {it repre: a cerlain hardship to the a, Yet between these two, Canada| United States. One able objector out in ind the Unitéd , cates, 1 saw no line of | lowa cor sin ely circulal demarkation. of the trekkers | American periodical that this “wild land could <e that line. They only feel, as | craze” is taking away f his common- any man may feel who ..as ridden where | Wealth thousands of men, and. causing the ans blow and read where the types | the loca’ inks ardship, He re, late the true empire of the| Pines that folic presently will realize west of the Missouri, | !hat Jowa land 4s better than wild land, ww it is north-west of the{ and so will come back Ie, sun to the ice, from | test sheep return. Werf these are terms of The truth is that the population of obia that to call sh or |is thirty thousand less than it wad tw ean ob ‘ely. Catt it years ago, m is loss occasioned opportun- | by the Great Trek. ‘That is not becat NOT A MATTER OF SENTIMENT. There is little sentiment in these mat- Norl-West, the more pe aes erp oes he discover that history to be a ee simple and continual record: of miscon-| Wich described the thrills experienced i gree ‘ a Russian Jew immigrant when. he 7 imate ountry where they can beller themselves. him where he can uel g tenth what it costs mplaint of the Iowa writer that mese oultinens will meet disaster ris based u xeeimep ied of an: 00M, al deunley, OF any. comimenclet system. Penske eit HIS MAJESTY’S *CHORISTERS, ‘The Most Expensively Clad Boys in the ft World. le boys are overproud of their Whose Sunday suit cos to be clothes, ot disposed es, but a lad its some nd cler is OW i up” in this con- ects : Yet, in Londadt every Sunday there are {en boys who are th brilliantly habited. choristers belongiti chapel in St. and traly gorgeous are they iin arrayed in their “Stato suits.” Scarlet cloth fs ae {foundation of the costume, and bands | tween ro adorn’ng of Grandest of all, “old te Ulta are worn at je nec and se ni a elie: yng sine is replace th titan sion to warrant th eine white: lawn (fands substi- tuted us a general thing, A boy eens great care ov a State suit, for it must last hime three ee his undress suit is replaced jxht months. ‘Tie 4: ints of this oval sohepel is one it the historical inst f Eng- Jond, a femec Os ware re: this days 1 has numbered aon its singers Sir Arthur ee Ge Edward Lloyd, Sir John Goss, Dr 3. tho veteran organist ne “the a ene cand many other famous: \ ane ms, peculiar-to St. f ‘ister may be mentioned, the me at if titencs tig of these is the ri ght of the head bey to deajand one agunea ay “sper money,” from any officer Avihur Sullivan the Duke of Welling! come To she chanel tr mi to have the pleasure paving the forfelt to ils favorite choris- \ t . tee CITY BUILT ON ISLANDS. There are other cities besides “Venice: built. on islands, Anstean and Ghent. are both built on small is dam cc is hs coanected by alm ihent stands on twei ues. Gi ys islands, jolned by 270 be ridges ae ponies St a Sparks iz genius have nothing io common with lovemakin; ing. Pleasure stove duty means that aut will lose 01 ‘ Ee ae