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They Settled. Long before the war General Butler, who was then a struggling young law yer. lived up in a Massachusetts manu- facturing town. He had displayed abi1~ ity at college. but had to wait the usual number of years for his first case. At last a young girl who had worked in a cotton mill came to him for redress against her employers She had been discharged without wages. and on a re- quest for three weeks’ wages was un- ceremoniously thrust from the door. The case looked blue. for the firm was a very rich one. but she needed money badly. She ofiered Ben one-half to col- lect it The next morning. while on her way to look for employment. she came upon a great gathering at a crossing. She inquired what 'was the matter and learned that the factory she had left had shut down for the first time in 30 years. Wondering what could have brought about such a state. she passed on and presently met Butler. He was leaning against a lamppost whittling a “TTsall right.” he called. waving his knife with a jaunty air. “ 'Tsall right. I've got ’eml‘i lady "Why. those old skins up at the fac. tory I went to 'em right after I saw you yesterday and demanded the hill They told me to hustle. I then got out an attachment on their water wheel and shut up the shap. You own $15 worth of the entire machinery Oh. they'll settle by noon!" And they did. -â€"Cincinnati Enquirer. ' The ”rate" of Sausage. The composition of the sausage is not only complex. but it is often obscure. In this country the preparation of this (as it should be) useful article of food is confined to the employment of minced bee! and pork. The only exception probably is the so called “black pud- ding." which is madewith pig‘s blood and perhaps some heart and kidney. _“ -u‘v r'â€"â€"â€"_‘ Abroad. however. the sausage is com- l pounded of a much wider range of sub- 1 stances These include brains. liver and ‘ horseflesh. The last substance is gener- ally considered repugnant. while. of 1 course. it is fraudulent to sell sausages f as beef or pork containing horseflesh. ' Occasionally. however. sausages do not contain meat at all. but only bread tinged with red oxide of iron and mixed with a varying proportion of fat. The remarkable feature of horseflesh is the high proportion of glycogen which it contains. and this fact enables the presence of horseflesh to be detected with some amount of certainty. The test which depends on a color reaction with iodine has recently been more carefully studied and with more satis- factory results. so that the presence of 5 per cent of horseflesh in sausages can be detected. â€"-Lancet. A Street Hustler. “What’s your business?" asked the police magistrate of a man who was be fore him for abusing his wife because supper was not ready. “I'm a street hustler. " was the reply. Explanations showed. says the New York Herald. that the man represented a large number of fellows in New York who have no regular occupation. but nevertheless manage to make a good living. particularly at this time of the year. They loiter' around the streets until they see a vanload of furniture going somewhere. Then they follow the wagon. oftentimes for miles. The wag- on drivers do not take kindly to these men and will not let them ride. 1:60.:- #7110?" ventured the 300138 Men who are ”handy with their hands." as it was explained to the magistrate. have no difficulty in get- ting a job laying carpets. cleaning win- dam: and furnaces or hanging out clotheslines. It is a poor wagon chase that does not net from $3 to $4 a load. Sometimes. when two or more men are following the same load. competition is keen The wagon driver whips his horses. and the prize falls to the man who has the fleetest foot and the great- est wind power A Sense of Security. “Eudora. " said Mr. Cumrox. “I have been several times annoyed by the way you see fit to worry about my gram- mar. “It’s awful. " said his wife. “You use commas where they don‘t belong. and you forget all about your periods. You‘ll lose all your friends. ’ “Eudora, let me remind you that l have money enough to float any scheme 1 take a fancy to. A man may be loose on his punctuation. but when be enâ€" joys my facilities for a capitalization he is bound to have friends that he couldn‘t lose if he tried. "â€"Washington Benny's Failure. Benny. the 4-year-old member of the family. had been trained to believe in the deep water form of baptism This is believed to be the reason why he was trying to plunge the household cat into a bucket of water The animal resisted It howled and scratched and clawed and used violent language. Finally Benny. with his hands covered with scratches and with tears in his eyes. gave it up “Darn you!" he said “Go an be a Methodis' if you want tol”-Chicago Tribune. Fair haired peeple are said to be be- coming less numerous than formerly. The, ancient Jews were a fair haired race : now they are. with few exceptions. dark. So it is, in a lesser degree, with the Irish, among whom 150 years ago a dark haired Detach was almost un- known The average life of a theater is 23 yeara From 1861 to 1867. inclusive. 187 theaters were burned down, and 13 ev ery yeareincshaabeen abouttheaver- THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN A despatoh from Washington says: â€"-Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the following text: “When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion and ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him.”â€"Luke How "0 av. 1 have often described to you the’j going away of this prodigal son from "1 his father’s house, and I have showed ,2 You what a hard time he had down 2 in the wilderness, and what a very}; great mistake it was for him to leave .« so beautiful a home for such a miss-w:l erable desert. But he did not always : stay in the wilderness; 'he came back‘, after a while. \Ve do not read that his mother came to greet him. I sup- pose she was dead. She would have 1 been the first to come out. The fa- . ther would have given the second. kiss to the returning prodigal; the! mother the first. It may have been ‘ for the lack of her example and pray-: era that he became a prodigal. Some-g. times the father does not know how to manage the children of the house- I hold. The chief work comes upon the mother. Indeed, no one ever gets {in early life. Still, this young man ; was not ungreeted when he came back. {However well apparelled we may be ‘in the morning when we start out on is journey, before night, what with 'the .dust and the jostling, we have {lost all cleanness of appearance. But this prodigal, when he started froml .the swine trough, was ragged and! :wretehed, and his appearance, after‘ '3 he had gone through days of journey-i E ing and exposures, you can more easi-i Ely imagine than describe. As the ;people see this prodigal coming on ,homeward, they wonder who he is. {They say: "I wonder what prison he 'ihas broken out of. I wonder what i lazaretto he has escaped from. I won- gder with what plague he will smite lithe air." Although these people may Rev. Dr. ‘uv “v- - _, have been well acquainted with the family, yet they do not imagine that this is the very young man who went‘ off only a little while ago with quickl step, and ruddy cheek, and beauti-j fut apparel. The young man, I mink," walks very fast. He looks as though! he were intent upon something very important. The pe0pie atop. They look at him. They wonuer where he came from. They wonder where he is going to. You have heard 01' a son who went off to sea and never return- ed. All the people in the neighbor-v hood thought the son would never re- turn, but the parents came to no such conclusion. They would go by the hour, and day, and sit upon the pecting to see the sail that would bring home the long-absent boy. And ‘so 1 think this father of my text sat under the vine looking towards the road on which his son had departed; but the father has changed very much gsiuce we saw him lasu. His hair has ; become white, his cheeks are fur- ; rowed, .‘_-u“. HIS HEART IS BROKEN. “Mint is all this bountiiul table to him when his son may be lacking bread? \Vhat is all the splendor of the wardrobe of that homeStend when the son may not have a decent coat? What are all the sheep on the hill- side to that father when his pet lamb is gone. .811” he sits and watches, looking out on the road, and one day he beholds a {00L traveller. He sees him riSe above the hills; first the head and after awhile the entire body; and sis soon as he gets a fair gimme of Max he knows it is his rec-meant son. He forgets the crutch, and the zcane, and the stiffness of the joints. iand bounds away. 1 think the people mu- A__ ___;_ _ uuu vuuluuw “..__J, _ _ _ 7 all around were amazed. They said; “ii is only a footy-ad. it is only sum». old tramp of the road. Don't go out to meet him.” The father knew ‘ better. The change in the son‘s ap- pearance could not hide the marks by which the father knew the boy. Xfou know that persons of a great deal of independence of. character are apt to indicate it in their walk. her that reason the sailor almost always has a peculiar Step, not only ”because he Stands much on shipboard amid the rocking of the sea, and he has to bal-g anoe himsetf, but he has for the most. ipart an independent character, which'. ‘would show itself even if. he never‘ went to the sea; and we know from. what tranSpired after, and from} what tranSpired before, that this pro-! digal son was of an independent and; frank nature; and I suppose that the: characteristics of his mind and heart; were the characteristics of his walk; And so the father knew him. He puts out his withered arms towards him; he brings his wrinkled face against the pale cheek of his son; he kisses thewan lips; he thanks God that the long agony is over. "When he was yet a great way off. his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran. and fell on his neck, and kissed him.” 0h, do you not recognize that fath- er? Who was it! It was God! 1 have no symmthy with that cast~iron theology which represents God as hard, severe, and yindictive GOD IS A FATHER -kind, loving lenient, gentle, long- sutfering, patient, and He flies to our immortal rescue. Oh, that we might realize it toâ€"day. A wealthy lady in one of the eastern coun- tries was going on for some time, and she asked her daugh- the Mother Would Greet the Prodigal’s Return-J he Father’s Greeting of the Wandererâ€"God Is Repre- sented as the Fatherâ€"The Dr. Draws Some Lessons From the Parable. , ~â€"â€"- ..._!J-L . T aimage Discourses on An Interesting Subject. says: p ters for some memento to carry with m the her. One of the daughtere brought t a marble tablet. beautimily inscribed; ye. a and another daughter brought a bean-- mm, In! wreath of flowers. The third .6. fell daughzer came, and said, "Mother, I -Luke brough; neither flowers nor tablet. but ‘here is my heart. I have inscribed it all over with your name, and wherever (I the you go, it will. go with you.” The ma- from'ther recognized it as the best of all ‘ e mememtoes. Of that toâ€"day our downgsouh mighz go out towards the Lord Jesus Christ, towards our Fatherâ€"- ‘ VBIY1that our hearts might be written all leave ? over with the evidences of His loving~ 1 misfikindness, and that we might never lwayséagain forsake Him. Lord God. this ' 3dny m Thy Holy Spirit more upon our * back an ecions! ' 1that con-9.3 the sinner back again? Give 9. plummet with; whch I may A‘.-... 1’ 9n 0»- 11165 Tu begin: the Father’s eyesight. “When he was yet; a great way off this {an-her saw hz‘m.” You have notic- ed how old people sometimes put a book uf’i on. the other side of the light. They eat} see at a distancfc a great dela FAA in she first pla'ééIâ€"I notice in this text, the Father’s eyesight; in the sec. 0nd place,_ I pp§ic1e the Father’s haste; u _L-_- ‘1..- I. ’IAumwvv Ullu l’iuw' ‘, “UL“I'V Buy . ‘v vâ€"vâ€" and, in the third place, I notléé thé FaihaWS kiss. ' Aukâ€"J vuu- WV u» u. w--..___ _- ‘, ea-ier than they can close by. I do no; know whether he Could see well that which was near by, but I do kzmw hm could so 03 great way off. "BL; [ah-er saw him.” Perhaps he had been lacking for the return of that boy e.~tpeclally that day. I do not know bu; that he had been in prayer, and lhflt Gad had told him: that that day the recreant boy would come home. “The {a1her saw him a great way 01f.” I wonder if God’s eyesight can des- cry us when we are coming back to him? The text pictures our condi- tionâ€"we are a great way off. That young man was not farther off from! his father’s house, sin is not farther; Ioff from holiness, hell is not farther off from heaven, than we have been gby tur sins away off from our God; iaye so far 0 t that we could; not: hear iHin voice. though vehemently JHe has' ;called us year after year. I do not know what bad habits you have formâ€" ed, or in what evil places you. have been. or wheat false notions you may ghaVe entertained; but you are ready to acknowledge, it your heart has not been changed by the grace of God. that you are a great way offâ€"aye. so far ihat you cannot get back of your- .selves. You would like to come back. 'Aye, this moment you woulzl start, if ,it were not for this sin, and. that hab- =it, and this disadvantage. But I am ito tell you of to tell you of THE FATHER’S EYESIGHT. | “He raw him a great way off.” He: has seen all you1 fr.1il ies. all your disadvantages. He 1113 been longing for your coming. He has not been‘ looking 111 you with 11 critic’s eye or a b1.ili 11’s eye,bu1 with 11 F’a1herseye; and if 11 1121111111 ever pitied 11 child. God piiies you. You say: “Oh, [had so many evil surroundings when I started life. “Your Faiher sees it. You ~ay: "I have so many bad. sur- rcumlings now, and 30 i1 is 1ery dif- {icul1111r 1119. to 1111111: :111:1y from evil awocieuions.” You.” father sees it. and ii abis. mums-111 you should start eaveuwardâ€"zm I pray you may -â€" your Father would not sit idly down and allow you 11) 5.1 ruggl-e on up toward: Him. Oh. no! Seeing you 31 gim'r. 11:1y 0': . he would fly to the rescue. How long does it take a la- fher to [1111) imo the 1'11ld19 of the hghxay if his chill i111 mere, and a swif'. 11~lnicle is comivg. an .l may de- 8111))? him? Five hua lmcl limes long- er man it takes out heavenly Father to spring 10 111-11. deliverance of a. lost child. "When he. was 11 great way off his, Fa: her saw him.” And this brings me to notice the] Father’s haste. The Bible: says he} ran. No wonder. He did not. know but that the young man wnuld change htifi mmd and 30. back. lit: (lid not know but that he' would drop down from exhausiou. He (lid not knnw but that: something ivtnl might over- tak», mim hature he 3);; up to the door- séll; and 30 thus father run. The Bible. for 1h“) moshp‘art, speaks 03- God. as wa kEng. “In 11:»: fourth watch of the 2ng t,“ it. 55:.3'5, “Jesus came unto them walkflg on the sew” "He walk- eth upon the wings of the mind." Our first. parents heard the Vuice of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day; but when a sinner Starts for God, the Bath-2r runs to meet him. Oh! if 6. man ever wants h-le, 3L is when hr. tries to become' a Charmian. The warm. says to him: “Back Wi‘h you. Have more Spirit. Don’t. be. hampered with rvligiou. Time enough yet. ‘Wait until yuu get sick. ‘Vâ€"Rii unti: you get old.” Satan says, MB (k nith you; you me so bad; that qu will have would ng to do with you;” or, ‘You are good enuugh and need no Redeemer. Take thine ease, eat, d1ink.and he merry." Ten thousand ivoices say: “Back with you GOD'S A HARD MASTER. The church is a collection of hypocrit- es. Back into your sins; back to! your e’vil indulgences; back to your prayer- less pillow. The silliest thing that :1 young man ever does is to come home after he has been Wandering." Oh. how much help in. man does‘want when he tries to become a Christian. In- deed, the prodigal cannot find his way home to his father’s house. alone. Unless some one comes to meet him he had better have strayed by the mine-troughs. When the sea comes in at full tide. you» might more' easily with your broom sweep back the surges than you could drive back the ocean of your unforgiven transgres~ sions. What are we to do? Are we to' fight the. battle alone, and trudge on with no one to aid us, and no rock to . helier us, and no mom! of encourage- ment to cheer us. Glory be tq God, W0 Father’s £21789?l 811?; have in the text the announcement: "When he was yet a great way off, his father ran.” When the sinner starts for God. God starts for the sinner. God does'not come out with a slow and hesitating pace. The in- finite spaces slip beneath His feet, and 1 he takes worlds at a bound. “The father son." Oh, wonderful meeting, when God and the soul come together. “The Father ran." You start for God and God starts for you, and; this morning and this house is the time and the place when you meet; and, while the angels rejoice over the meeting, your long injured Father falls upon your neck with attestations of compassion and. parQon. Your vmyuwsv“ “a... w_ __‘,_ 3001', wandering, si‘hful, polluted soul, and the loving, the eternal Fath- el‘. have met. - . A." V" Lou-v “JV”. I remark upon the father’s kiss. “He fell on his neck,” my text says. “and kissed him." It is not every father that would have done that Will“ He would have scolded him, and said: "Here, you went off with beautiful clothes. but now you are all in tat- ters. You went o'f healthy, and come back sick and wasted with your diesipations." He did not say that. The son, all haggard, and ragged, and 1 Ffilthy, and wretched, stood before he lfather. The fa'her charged him wi h none of his: wanderings. He fust re- ceived h’m. He just ki*sed h‘m H's wretchednee was a reco‘mmendatirn to that father’s love. Oh, that faher's kicsl How shall I describe the love of Godfâ€"the ardour with which he re- fathom this sea. Give me a ladder with which I can scale this height. Give me wordu with u hich I can de- scribe this love. The apostle says in one place, "unsearchable‘." in another, “past finding out.” Height overtop- ping all height: depth plunging he- neath all depth: breadth compassing all immensitv. Oh. this love! GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD. He loves you. Don't you Lenieve it? Has He not done everything to make you think so? He has given you life, health. zriends, homeâ€"me use of your hand, the sight of your eye, hearing of your ear. He has strewn your path with mercies. He has fed you. sheltered you, defended you, loye‘d DHCLLULUU JV“, “CLOMUUU JVâ€"7 "' ' "‘ you, importuned you all your l.fe 10118. Don't you believe He loves you? Why, this mozning, it‘ you should start up from the wilderness of your Sin. He would throw both arms around You. To make you believe that He loves you, He st00ped to manger, and cross, and sepulchre. With all the passions of His holy nature roused. He stands before you to-day, and would! coax you to happiness and heaven. 0'1), this fathers kiss! There is so much meaning, and love, and .com- passion in it; so much pardon in it; :0 much heaven in it. I proclaim Him the Lord God, merciful, gracious, and long-suffering, abundant in goodness i and truth. Lest you would not believe {Him, He goex up, to Golgotha, and gwhile the rocks are rendmg, and the , graves are opening, and the mobs are .howling, and the sun is hiding, He' dies for you. See Him! See Him on 1 the Mount ofCrucifixion, the sweat on 1 His brow tinged with the blood exud- 1 ing from Hie lacerated temples! See .his' eyes swimming in demh! Hear : the loud breathing of the Sufferer as ;He pants with a world on His heart! 311311: to the fall of the blood from brow, and hand, and foot, on the rocks‘ beneathâ€"drop! drop! drop! 5Look at the nails! How wide the ' wounds are! Wider do they gap- as His body comes down up- on them. Oh this crucifixion agony. Tears melting into tears. Blood. flowmg into blood. Darkness dropping on darkness. Hands of u-vrr..--° -_~ men joined with hands of devils to tear apart the quivering heart of the Son of God! Oh! will He never speak again? Will that crimson face never light up again? HE \VILL SPEAK AGAIN; while the blood is suffusi-ng H13 brow, and reddening: His cheek, and gather- mg on nostril and lip, and you thtnk that He Is exhausted and cannot speak. He cries out until all the ages hear him: “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do!” Is there no Ptmphasis in such ascene as that to make your dry eyes weep, and your hard heart. break? Will you turn your back upon it. and say by your actzons what the Jews said by their l Him down. Love opened the gate. Love '1 led to the sacrifice. Love sheltered thefi grave. Love lifted Him up in the re-* surrection. Sovereign love. Omnipo-‘i tent love. Infinite love. Bleeding; words: “His blood be on us, and on’ our children? What does it all mean, my brother, my sister? Why. it onetins that for our lost race there ; was 8 Father’s kiss. Love brought i love. Everlasting love. ”Oh, for the; love let rocks and hills, Their lasting silence break; And all harmonious human tongues The Saviour’s praises speak." l New. will you accept that Father's kiss? The Holy Spirit asks you to. The Holy Spirit comer.) to you this morning with His arousing, meeting, alarming, inviting, vivliyjng jnflu- once. Bearer. what creates in thee that unrest? It is the Holy Ghost. What. sounds tn your ears to-day, the joys of the saved, and the sorrows of the condemned? It is the Holy Ghost. What influence new tells thee that it. is time to fly, that to-morrow may be too late; that there is one door. one road, one cross, one sacrifice, one Jesus? It is the Holy Ghost. Don't you think Heishere? Isee it in those solemn. looks. I see it in those tear- ful eyes. I see it. in those blatnchedl cheeks. I see. it in the upturned face; of childhood and the earnest gaze of old.- age. I know it. from this silence like the grave. The Holy Ghost -. is here. and, while I speak, the chains of. captives are falling, and the dun- geons of sin are opening. and: the pro- ‘ digals coming, and the Father is run- 3 lung, and angels are shouting. and . devils are trembling. Oh, it isa mo- ' mentous hour. It is charged with ' etemal destinies. The shadows 0! 3 the eternal world flit over this assem- blage. Hark! I hear the songs of the saved. I hear the bowling ot the damned. Heaven and hell seem to 01111816, and eternity poises on the pivot of ‘this hour. Thy hestiny 18 being decided. Thy doom is being ii:- ‘_A-. (DVWWH; ed. The door of mercy, so Wideâ€"open, began to close. If trembles on! its bulges, and soon will be shuts-These go mto lite, and those go into death; and these have begun the march to heaven, and those have commenced to the. These have those havehegnn to $111k. - Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Woe! ”Woe! It seems to me as it the judgment were past. I 1m- agtne it 13 past. I imagine that all thesentences have been awarded, the righteous enthroned, 1h: wi ked druen away in his wickedness. Shut all the gates of heaven. There are no more to come in. Bolt all the gates of dark- nessâ€"no. more to be allowed to come out. Hark! the eternal ages have beâ€" gun thelr unending tramp' tramp! All Europe Ila: In Eyes Upon an PM". to lixn-rmluato m.- Pests. More than one nation of Europe is now anxiously following the progress of the remarkable war which Denmark is waging against rats. The Danes have so far been victori- ous, for during one week recently there were 90,00.) on the enemy’s death list. Wise men planned ways and means. These, when decided upon, were so well directed toward the end~which was nothing less than the complete ex- I tirpation of the enemyâ€"that every more brought defeat‘antl death to the :0 eat trioe. The diminisnel num:..er of rats to be met on tue Street, in houses and at dinner tables was amazing. The death-dealing warriors beamed with the satisfaction of accomplishment, but relaxed not their efforts. it is said that all vowed never to rest so long tas there should be a living rat in Cop- lenhagen. If it took zeal to wage the war it has required ingenuity to dispose of the results of it. Wnut was to be done with the thousands upon thousands of dead rats! The Rational Danish hat-Exterminating Smiety, organized in Copenhagen, attempted burial. of the vanquished. But before long the health authorities woke up to the fact that this would never do. They decided, therefore, that a crematory must be built expressly for the consumption of the dead rats. The Government agreed, and the furnace is now being built in a field in the vicinity of the capital. _ - _ ‘ . - g I O. i NeEQay, which has been similarly afflicted, has been eager for reports of the progress of therat wag. Likewise the Prussian authorities, who have been seriously alarmed lest the rrat plague should spread to Prus- sia, have asked in elaborately official language for " reports” of the rat- slaughter, a plea for special informa- tion being signed by Herr von Koel- ler, the Governmental Pyesident. And 891’snuv VVV V- uâ€"uvâ€"vvwâ€" a Prussian lady of wealth, Graefinn Noer, the owner of three large estates has written to Copenhagen to learn the secret of eat-protection. _ V-V vvw-vv Meanwhilvc; the fats not yet caught are thoroughly "rattled." Saved the Vase. The little son of an English gentle- man. in mischievously playing with a vase. managed. after several attempts to get his hand through the narrow neck, and was then unable to extricate it. For half an hour or more the whole family and one or two friends did their best to withdraw the fist of the young offender. but in vain. It was a very valuable vase, and the father was loath to break it, but the existing state of affairs could not continue for- ever. At length. after a final attempt to draw forth the hand of the victim, the father gave up his efl'orts in de- spair. but tried a last suggestion. “Open your hand!” he commanded the tearful young captive, “and then draw it forth.” ' “I can’t Open it. father,” declared the boy. “Can’t?” demanded his father. ““Yhy ?” “14¢ got my penny in my hand,” came the astounding reply. ““Why. you youngâ€"raséai,” thundered his father. “drop it at once!” The pain mined in the bottom of the vase and out came the hand. A. Mole Catcher. A farm manager at Fodderty. Ding- wall. Scotland, watching a mole catch- er at work, saw sea gulls hovering over and occasionally alighting upon a turnip field in which the observer and others were at work. A particularly large and handsome bird attracted his attention by the graceful way it float- ed slowly over the drills, intently scanning the surface of the ground. Suddenly, steadying itself a moment. it dropped, dug its bill into the heav- ing ground and rose with a mole for its prey. Resting a few minutes, it gracefully began again a further search for prey. in a few minutes a second mole was unearthed. Cale of Cruelty. A little girl whose acquaintance with the zoological wonders of creation was limited was looking at one of the elephants in Lincoln park, Chicago. while on her first visit to that popular resort. Observing that the animal stood 'mo- tionlesa near a. watering trough. she “â€"“f’oor thing! Why don’t they lift up his trunk and fasten it back so he can drink ?” 8011! Human Bones. The keeper of the public cemetery of a small Bohemian town near Prague excavated the older parts of the grave- yard. and sold all the old bones he could find for Industrial purposes, as he found that certain manufacturers paid more for human bones than for those of animals. He had been earning money in this way for several years before he was detected and suspended from his post. Too Often Traci It requlres 40 horses to pull fumlly vanity at a funeral and only two to null the corpse.â€"â€"Catlmllc Universe. But TYPOGRAPHICAL Yes, Naturefs wise, We can’t deny, In all her hidden yays, ‘ -I. mk- “UV.- vv *0 â€"' nt in her " types of men ”, oh why. Are there so man! “J’s!" __‘ WAR AGAINST RATS. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 18‘ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. “Jesus at Matthew's House.” Mark 2- Golclcn Text, lukr 5. 21. PRACTICAL NOTES. . ‘Verse 13. He went forth again. From Capernaum. All the multitudeI resorted unto him. They kept com- ing constantly from the cities and villages which crowded that neigh- borhood. There was no building large enough to accommodate them, and "outdoor preaching” became a neces- sity. He'taught them. Whether hie marvelous deeds or his winning words were the greater attraction no one could say. .14. H: saw Levi the son of Alpheus ‘ Saw the, min, and doubtless also, with keen insight, foresaw his career; saw the possiLthies yet unsanctiiied that eventuated in Matthew’s Gospel. Luke calls him “a publican, named. Levif’ Ma1thieuw identifies h'unseh' with this publican. Sitting at the receipt of custom. Or the place of. tell, the seat of the collector oi taxes. Orientalâ€" ists have frequently noted the squat posture which is so common in the! East, where all sorts of aetivities are engaged in whle sitting on the floor or ground. No one stands if it is pos- sibLs'to sit. Capernauun was on the highway of commerce, and it is prob- able that a large tarifl was annually *Paid here. Remember. L00, the con- tempt with whlch Publicans were re- garded by the Jet is. Bild as Mat. thew’s calling was. he had. apparentâ€" 1y retained a simple heart. and he had ‘ that hunger and thirst after righte- oaness on which our Lord pronouncâ€" ed one of his choiceSL beatitudes. Fol-W lcrw me. Probably many overheard' this imitation. he arose uni mallow- ed. him. Perhaps by swinging up from his place 0: toll and walking :xfâ€" ! (er .36 us. but more lib. 13' by V'UWing at. % once that the rent 01' hEs {Le shnuld be given over 10 the discipleship of this strange Ra’bbi, and devoLing himâ€" :eeli winh renewed energy to closing up his business. 15. As Jesus am at meat. in his hnube. In the house of Mnuhew. gwhere ‘hx: converted pu‘hlican made “a '1grea‘ ieast.” (See Luke 3. 29.) Many Epublica-ns and sinners sat also with Menus and his disciples. We can hard- [1y wonder that the Phariwes thought 3n ‘5.th the rest 0" his 9‘“ should! Even in the brilliant and terrible )6 given over to the dJscxpleship of .. . . .. . 7 ma Strange Rabbi, and deVOLing him- 808138 0: bedun (1811 de (JEllllet 166 h“ kli WILh renewed energy to closing up sguldrons in their spendid uniormfl,’ miswale-ZS- ‘ t ‘ . h: only to be annih.lated by the Prussia! a . s esus sat a means rs . . .. hsuae. In the house of Matthew. {am The 1.110“ . der’pel‘u'e effortsl where the converted pu‘blican made “a there utterly “1 vain, and n" 0"“ Wk”? grea} least.” (593 Luke 5, 29;, Many remembers that scene can believe that publica-ns and .SllIlD-ev‘l‘s Sui also with i any caVah'y charge, could [we against *3 Jesus and 11s demples. We can hard.l h f l , . . d .. ‘ 11 ‘= 13 wonder that the Pharisees thought i t e rm 0 modern rules an -iti ery- our Lord’s life inconsislent with his 5 under any Cl‘cumswncw‘ Unlestl professions. If he was pure, why did 3 they could spring out of the ground h” cheeseampurepeople 35,11“ compan-j u-pon intantry, they would melt away was? It he was the typical Hebrew, l - . ~ . ' why did he associate with the excom- belore the. magazrne rifle long below maunicated and boycotted publ.can.~s! the)‘ com” ”99‘0““.d05e quarters. l6. Scribes and r’harisees. Revised . Atwuhs ““3 the ”33°39‘13"" “b0.“ Version, "the scribes 01' the Phariauhed by ”3" same “Ol‘d'lmna' 0‘ sees.” These men were as typical of :cuurs‘e, any general who brought piety as the public-ans and sinners i cavalry ““1“” 3 mm ”1 ’* ”we” ?_were of loose and worldly habits. It long 1 t0 be rhot. lo the British would not appear from this recordiui'm) the dim-Dibhfid imi‘““-‘"‘C‘3 0' that they were invited guests, and, l cavalry in battle is not a loss, but a strange as such conduct. would apâ€" ‘ gain. Uurbavalr) was wretched in the [pear to us, it is not unlikely thatireninruia, and has been generally. .they had followed him into the hall ;inleraor to the Frenchâ€"though it is 'where the diners were lolling about 3. one of our characteristic (minions that the table. But it is not oecessarytola t‘renchman cannot ride. 'lhs old .hplipvp. that they were actually pre- 7, role of cavalry may still he maintains- u...â€" 16. Scribes and r’harisees. Revisedl. Version, “the scribes ot‘ the Phat-i».J sees.” These men were as typical of :' piety as the publicans and sinnersi were of loose and worldly habits. It‘g would not appear from this record} that they were invited guests, and,‘ strange as such conduct. would apâ€"‘ pear to us, it is not unlikely that? they had followed him into the hall; where the diners were tolling about: the table. But it is not oecessarytoi believe that they were actually preâ€"; sent at the feast. Jesus was the cenâ€"‘l ter of a great and continually chang»i ling crowd; everything he did was ;0penly remarked upon and criticised. l'l‘hey said unto his disciples. Compare= lMatthew 22, 46. Luke says they! murmuredâ€"that is ”they talked over, in a low voice 1): ivately, not intending ? Jesus to hear." How is it that hei eateth and drirketh with p-ublicans and sinners? This criticism is often? misunderstood. They find no fault: with h'm, but would have praised him, for teaching sinners: their anger is raised because he associates with them. Dr. Abbott's statement thr‘t a similar complaint would be made now against any clergyman who should associate with a similar out- lawed class in our community merits our close conscientious thought. The :Christian Church has yet much to 1 learn of the supitit of Christ. 3 17. When Jestus heard it he saith ‘ unto them. But what had the disciples said? Probably they knew not what to say, and, like wise men in such: condi- tion, said nothing. I came not: to call the righteous, but sinners to repent- tance. The implication is that there are none righteous. But those . who are conscious of their need of Sal- l vation are called by Jesus to repen- tance. What does repentance mean? Turning away from the wretchedness of their lives to Jesus. If they turn from their sin to morality, they will turn back again. for their own moral force has heenM-eakened. They are “Wit-k." But. if? they turn to Jesus. he will stretch out his hand, as he did to Peter on the water, and hold I them. l l - n- ! _ ‘ ,_b ‘L‘ 18. The disciples of John and ofi :he Pharisees used to fast. Every rabbi head his group of disciples, and most of the rabbis prescribed fre- quent fasting as a holy habit. The Mosaic law, required but one fast during the year. Many of the rabbis made their discipms fast two days of each week. Thy disciples fast not. It must have seemed strange now that John was in prison to find the rabbi whom he had introduced as the Lamb of God feasting with pub- licans and sinners. ‘l 4‘- . I~.v§:x‘n_ IlC’iIUD auu aye-guy...” 19. The children, sons. of the bride' chamber. Particular friends of the bridegroom, who had a half-ceremon* ial part to perform at the week-long wedding feast. Jesus was now in Cali. lee, where “sons of the bridecham- her” performed their pleasant social duty instead of the “ friends of the bridegroom," or groomsme-n, oi Judeen weddings. The bridegroom here rep- resents Christ, and the children of the bridechamber his disciples. They cannot fast. Opr Lord’s entire re- means mourning. His companionship with his followers {rept them happy, A! 1....L :- and would hm‘re made formal fast in- oon-gruous. 20. The days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away. There was a hint here, but no defin- lte pmphecy, of the awful tragedy of the crucifixion. Then shall they fast In those days. the _ system of 132:. moat other religions in "he fact that no r049" gular fast is presrvrt‘bed. Fasting a} 3m accompaniment of prayer, when‘lt is not merely formal and ritualistic. but rather is the outward and ViSlbl. Sign of an inward and spiritual con- dition, is a great help in worship. but it is the prayer and faith that aocom- 4 [may it which really bring the bless- '., mg. :51. Study this verse and the next in the Revised Version. "Und cloth” is unshrunkan cloth or untan- ‘ned leather, the shrinking of which would pull together the edges of an {old tear and make it greater. ’0- As-â€" WW- w..- w__ 22. Bysnother figure of speech our, Lord now teaches the same less?!» Bottles such as we are familiar w: would not burst because filled wi . new wine, but old wine skins would” The thought. in brief, is that therag are power and vitality in Gospel ex-i‘ perienoe which must find their own; channels. As the old wine skin is burst ~i' by the new wine, so the old Hebraism is burst by the new Gospel. The new . kingdom must have its own legislati ‘ ‘suited to its own spirit. It was ritiable sight. that of the disciples ‘ John vainly trying to unite the new: svi rit of reform with the old Pharisah' spirit of co remonialism. No Place. or Use for It In Modern Warfare. Under the new conditions of war. and above all in such a war a! the present, the old heroic function 02 cavalry is at an end, and the great charges, which have been lhe mast thrilling and :plendid episcdes of battles in the past, may never again be seen. War on land, as on sea becoanes less pictures rue as it lmcomen‘ ,more Lueinesslke and deadly. The use of cavalry against infantry resolves itself simply into a question of time. At Balaclava the charge of them from the moment the word was given until all that was left of them reap- ‘peared out of the smoke, occupied Iscarcely twenty-one minutes. In that interval oi time, with modern weap- ‘ons, cavalry mould be utterly an- '. nihilated. «.3qu bus. I In reconnuiteang, on we, 0.13“” hund. E the work 01' cavalry is much wow im- ;p~ortant than ex'er, and. at. the: bums itime, more difficult. Au enemy who gcannot be approached with mulch thing much under two miies canno ,' the precisely Located, and )‘Hi it it! . . luLely, necessary that his gexmral pm, 2 1 tion should be d.scovared. 11. would hard to say “nether there is a risk in gaining such vague and 9a iinform-mien m‘ in acting upon i don’t know how the imperial manry are to be used, but for their way prematurely 10 Pretor .- They will be annoyed by the stat!) 1 patches creeping out on the veldt and Isometuimes as smooth as glass ed in purxuiL, Lhough on that. point the unhatppy experience of the ligh- teenth Hussars when their aguadron was captured after Gicncw is not re- usuring. “ Ak.‘A Ah, my friend, sighed :he reform- er, rum 03:15:15 3018 oi trouble in this world. indeed, it does, agreed the listener. No doutyt you or I would be nap-d went. on the reformer. Indeed, we would. again zwreedihe pagiegt . listener. ' ...... J __.-.-‘ .mhd.'k_ t’u\.\4-v wâ€"vâ€"vv And how has it. caused you unhap- piness? asked the reformer. Years ago a woman told me that f I stopped drinking she would mar: me. And you could not stop? No, roared the patient listner; No I did stop! Mr. Bizzymanâ€"I took my new. tm writer to lunch with me to-day. Mrs. B.-â€"You brazen thing] Mr. B.â€"Why? [ guess if I want lug that: machine. around to keep 0‘ er people from using it, there’g harm done, is there? Mamma. finding the children pla3â€"1Jarling, don t fly about make such a spectacle of yourself how quietly your little brother a Gladysâ€"\Vhy, of course he does. V are playing papa and mamma, He papa, who came home late last nigl and I am you. You re looking badly. Are you ill To-day is the first; time in t‘hr months that l have been able to go out :52 W'hat in the world did you do! I didn’t do anything. But the Judge wouldn’t believe me. a; 1' CAVALRY OUT OF DATE. HIS GRUDGE AGAINST RUM. Quoth he of wisdom deep. _ b, no, indeed, 'the _fool rgpliod; fan see, we sometimes 31389. TRUE T0 LIFE. HER MISTAKE. CON FIN ED.