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'3‘nere is, therefure, good reason '< . . Joe. thmkxng that Francts courtesy and a proof of his forgwing disposition. No doubt it will be made the occasion ofl pleas- ..ant references to the virtues and Bibility of the Triple Alliance, but that. alliance has really got past; the poxnt where it can be resurrected by Eincantatlons. Germany has outgrown fit. Italy has half ruined herself by mg to live up to_its requirements, .. d'Austria- has gained from it only ii ale who scarifices her interests, mi..- LA_ _.-‘â€"_.-‘A-l , ‘ A BIG MATE. The Czar has one estate which cov- :a over 160,000,000 acres, more than 3 ee?’a's large as England, ana he [a another estate which is more than . use the size of Scotland. s... uuuuuzouerns as the only means . whereby the Ger'munxspeakmg Ams- : as can escape being swamped by e Slavs. It is certain that should the Dual. Monarchy break up on the death of its preséut ru ier Germany will insist on avoice in its nartimn The town of Pretoria nestles am- as hedges of roses which grow ev- rywhere in wild profusion, and reams of clear water flow down the flea of the broad streets, which are id out in straight lines axons are backed up by afactlon 1n Vienna which openly advocates ex- changing the Hzrrm'murgs for the Hohenzollerns as the whereby the Ger-munmahma hm- ’hstria. The German: Colonial party ,f doing all it can to: accmon-m. Ger- inane to look upon a larger slice‘ of Austria as their natural prey; and its aflorts are backed up by afactlon 1n Vienna which openlv advnno+n6 -â€" , i ‘ ‘ uc' There was further frwtlon between § and ”0 g that rang the two allxes over the ‘and overs Austrian subjects . . . . [exclarmed Thousands of Austnan Pones seekmg world m work tn the Polrsho orovlnces ofi Ger-5 the idea t] many were summanly turned back and ordered home. | made to defend the action on. legal! )grounds. It was. taken solely out’ of: 1 {her ally were quietly disregarded.’ However much, reason there mlght' have been for the Kaiser’s attitude, is to be an; It was felt very keenly I'm the; lhual ,no wonder Monarchy, and Francis Joseph, gosfs Yliatb would never have treated ‘ . '.a‘3r° w . 1n the days objects so brusquely us the Kaiser should haw {had treated his. would yet alled spent inion. W. ‘- v- vvug, pols her subjects and hOpeéâ€"in tune dnfide her inheritance. mg for the secession of German L_4 - The visit of the Austrian Eniperor ‘1 to Berlin, even if, as is vigorously do- clared, it has no political significance and is intendedsimply as a compliment Rev. to Prince Frederick William of Prus- sia, the Crown Prince of Germany, is' still suggestive of the relations that obtain between the two countries. For twenty-one years Austria and Ger- DiffiCUI many have been allies, and though the Dreibund is supposed to have lost W0 something of its first vigor, the fact W11 that the two chief gartners in it can . still visit one another speaks well for th" their political constancy. Nobody A despot: would care to proghesy that twenty â€"ReV. Dr.1 years hence the Car of Russia and the President of the French Republim! if there is a French Republic them! will be on speaking terms. lhe fact 3 historians, is all the more interesting when one ; artists, its 1 remembers that the' Hapsburgs and ' Were there Bohenzollerns have for centuriesuhere has b been the great rival houses of central glienophon, < Europe, the final ascendancy of theithem. W'et latter having only been achieved wi-th- l snructedt th in the last forty years through a '1: Homer tc characteristic stroke of Bismarckian _ there throne iiplomacy by which the Hamburgs be lifted? tl were the sufferers. So far, then, {David or a ' there being any historical rea.:'We1-e there following (I all.”-Col. ii 5m ions why Germany and Austria should 5 the intellect 3e friends, there is every historical has been a S reason why they should not; and that, a Cleanthes, iliiances notwithstanding, is a factgcoming forth lot to be forgotten. i OUS mission Notes and Comments. V have been allies, and though the band is supposed to have lost thing of its first vigor, the fact the two chief yartners in it can visit one another sp'eaks well for political constancy. Nobody PRETORIA. u-bjects from Germany. >f Austrian Poies seeking Polish provinces ot‘ Ger. summarily turned back and the action on. legal: was. taken solely out of: for Germany’s private! I, reason there might ' ' _ union. We all know how difficult it ’ ‘ the Kaiser’s attitude. is to be anything great or famous; and ; ry keenly im the. 1mm ,no wantiex that those 'who had been .nd Francis Joseph. boys With Christ in the ‘ I Nazareth, and seen Him in a have treated bermgm iter years ; in the days of His complete obscurity, , usquely as the Kaisertsho uld have oeen Very slow to acknow- ‘ 3. i ledge f CHitic‘T’S W'ONDERFUL MISSION. ‘ 4L- {‘9 that should k up on the as "a plant. of renown:” and then I I turn to Isulali. l of "as a Sheep before her shearers IS dumb, so He opens nut His mouth.” 1!. is Jesus all the way between Gen- l esis and Malachi. Then I turn over to f the New Testament, and it is Christ in the parable. n. is Christ in the nut- acle, it is Christ in the Evangelists lstory, it is Christ in the Apostles 5' epistles, and it is Christ in the trum- ipet peal of the Apocalypse. g I know there are a. great many 3 people who do not find Christ in the ' Bible. Here is a man who studies {the Bible as an historian. Well. if lyou come as an historian, you will ! find in this book how the world was lmade, how the seas fled to their 3 places, how empires were etablished, ‘ how nation fought with nation, Jave- ; iin ringing against harbegeon, uhtil . ' the earth was ghastly with the dead. 3 You will see the corenatio ' .' ces. the triumph of conquerors, and the world turned upside down, back again, and down again, cleft. and scarred with great ' .. _...-.._â€".. -.»«- :5 on H 0 pg» tr 0 tr e? 31‘ 'm :2 0 0+ If 5 P H tr a but it took 3 Moses to tell how the heavens and the n . in one chapter. and ; 3 of. thousands of years find in this book faultless rhythrn, it and bold imagery, and startling anti- i. thesis, and rapturous lyric, and sweet .. pastoral, and instructive narrative, 5; and devotional pedal-thoughts, ex-H pressed in a style more solemn than 1 Who ta'kethâ€" provided for wilderness, him exclaim: traversy. 'Theiy . away the sin of 'the 3 come to it an a government in timo’ worm." Then I go an the Israelites m the? for weapons and mun “I know that my Re. deexner livelh.” Then kxel. and I find Chris: turn to Isa 1:4 11. :md’ L‘ 01 as a sheep before and I say: "Jesus. the , det-Rared everlasting Then 1 look at the rock ; other sects; and they want so many' Men by prophet’s rod ibroad a see the manna ;' of war comes to armories or arsemalsi itions. They have; war against all. ,. swords, so many mnskets, so ter gushes out, I say: : many hOW1tzers, so many colnmbiads J 130 back and i tgeld pieces, {with which to’sake the! Job, and I hear 3 held of dlspvuee, for they mean to get. the victory though the heavens bei I go m Eze- ; darkened with smoke. and the earth? presented there : rend with the thunder. What do they; as “a plant. of I'enown;” and then I 3 care about. the relimon of the Lord“ hrist m spoken {Jesus Chrlst! I have seen someg; her wearers ,9 such men come back from an ecclesias- ‘ ‘ 1 remark. in the first place, Christ is everylhing in the Bible. I do not care where l own the Bible, I find Jesus. In whatever path Istart, I (mine. after awhile, to the Bethlehem manger. I go back to the old (118- who taketh away the sin of the worm." Then I go and see the manna provided for the Israelites in the wilderness, and I say: "Jesus. the bread of life." Then I look at the rock which was smitten by prophet’s rod, and: as the water 9113th run? I" (enâ€"- 1 Jemzuk. 1n the firs1 is everything in the Bi care “hete 1 own the Jesus. In whatever n ua:the intellect and the heart? there :al ’ has been a Socrates, and a Zeno, and it, a Cleanthes, and 8. Marcus Antonius ct coming forth on the grand and glori- ious mission. Every age of the world lbas had its triumphs of reason and ye : morality. There has not been a single mgage of the world which has not had erfsome decided system of religion; the Le. ' Pla’tonism, Orientalism, Stoicism, j m anhminism, and Buddhism, consider-i :3, ' ing the ages in which they were estab- d_flished, were not lacking in ingenuity 1'. land force. Now. in this line of bene- s {aristocratic pretension. He became a} e .‘Galilean mechanic. He had no ad-g kivantage from the schools. There: Uthing remarkable. Yet, notwith- ,fstanding all this, and without any I ,; title, or scholarly pretension, or flam- ' _:ing rhetoric, He startled the world ' iwith the strangest announcements, .. . gran in collision with solemn priests I ;and proud rulers, and with a voice that rang through temple and palace, .3 s and over ship’s deck and mountain top, " * exclaimed: “I am the light of the : world 2” _ Men were taken all aback at a the idea that that hand, yet hard from ll 3 the use of the axe, and saw. and adz, :1 Fahd hatchet, should wave the sceptre ‘ C . .l‘ iof authority; and that upon that h Ebrow, from which they had so often 3' '1: Homer to construct them. Were there thrones lustrous and powerful to be lifted? there has always been a Daxid or a Caesar to raise them. :Were there teachers demanded for ! Every age of the world has had its historians, its philosopher-3‘ its artists, its thinkers, and its teachers. Were there histories to be written! there has been many a Moses. or 8 Xenophon, or a Josephus, to write them. W'ere there poems to be con- sxructed? there was always a. Job or A despatch from Washington says: â€"Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the following textâ€"“Christ i8 ali and in all.”â€"Col. iii. II. Difficult to Be Anything Great or Famous--ln This World We Get Only the Faintesr Outlines of What Christ ls--The Dr. Says Christ ls Every- thing in the Great Plan of Redemption. Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on His Wonderful Mission. mm are a. great many do not find Christ in the Is :1 man who studies 8 an historian. Well. if s an historlan, you will book how the world was the seas fled to their empires were etabhshmi empzres were etabhshed ought with nation, Jave- against harbegeon, uhtil s ghastly with the dead. the coronation of prin- mnk A: - I am the light of the 1911 were taken all aback at at that hand, yet hard from the axe, and saw. and adz, fluid the Lamb of Godfsoctinz-knife < away the sin of ‘thegcome to it an I go and see the manna f of war comes the Israelites m the 5' for weaoons M 1036 who had been in the streets of Him in after years complete obscurity, rry slow to acknow- , you can put the cid in the blood 1: d g resulting from deranged kidneys. 1n ' g The nature of your ailment will be de-l' stry. : cided by your c onstitution. The poison; . find lod eat in the i thm, : weaknf More ....I . 8m , _â€"â€"â€"â€"-vJ-O . the nature of yogiP ailment will be de- onstitution. The poison m. nuns a: we moneys are in perfect health the uric acid is passed out of the body by way of the bladder and the blood is kept pure and clean. The most pain'bl, the most fatal and consequently the most dreaded diseases of the human body are caused by the pre- sence of uric acid in the blood. Uric acid is the name given to the foul, if so urlo acid poison is In your system and your sufferings will be great until you set the kidneys rightâ€" Dr. chaso’s Kldne -I.ivor Pills make the kidneys healthy and cure all uric acid troubles. a 3 MODERN SCEPTICISM. ‘ , 3 They do not believe it possible that! 'the Bible story should be true which; ' says that the dumb ass spake. whilef they themselves prove the thing pos-g Bible by their own utterances! I am; amused beyond bound when I hear one of these men talking about a fu-S .ture life. Just ask a man who re-i- jet-ts that Bible what heaven is, and; a man; it is efflorescence of the dyna- ; 5 mic forces into a state of ethereal and I f transcendental lucubration in close: fjuxtaposition to the ever present; “was,” and the great “to be,” and f - the everlasting “ not" Considering) f themselves to be wise, they are tools}: 3 Then, there is another class of per-1‘ ; sons, who come to the Bible as contro-E 1 grereialiets. They are enormous Pres-fI gbyterians. or fierce Baptists, or vie-3' :lent Methodists. They cut the Biblei‘ ‘, to suit their creed, instead of cutting : ‘ their creed to suit the Bible. If the'5 their creed to suit. the Bible. It the}t Scripture thinks as they do well; it I not, so much the worse for the Scrip-I c tures. The Bible is merely the whet- 8 stone on which they sharpen the dis-f v ceding-knife of controvern- The-f -A '3: that of Montgomery, more _bold than be that of Milton, more terrible than . that of Dante, more natural than m that of “’ordsworth. more xmpassmn- ed than that of Pollock, more tender :8 than that of Cowper, more weird than ts that of Spenser. This great P0?!“ 3 brings all the gems of the! earth! m- ' to its coronet and it weaves tithe ' flames of judgment in its garlands a um p on e;ernar hzrmomes m e its rhythm. Everything this book - tour'hes it makes beautiful, from.the 3 plain stones of the summer threshing- 1' floor to the daughters of Naher filling e the trough for the camels; and.» the mfish pools of Heshbon; up to the 'psalmist praising God with diapason ‘ I of storm and whirlwind, and Job lead- -;ing forth Orion, Arcturus and the rlPleiades. It is a wonderful poem, and ,’a great many peeple read it as they ’ do Thomas Moore’s ”Lalla Rookh,” and 1 Walter Scott’s " Lady of the Lake,” sland Southey‘s "Curse of Gehenna.” . ; They sit down and are so absorbed in Hooking at the shells on the shore, Ethat they forget to look off on the 5great ocean of God's mercy and salv- , ation. - , Then there are others who come to -this book as sceptics. They marshal [passage after passage, and {Matthew and Luke in a quarrel, and . have a discrepancy between what Paul and James say about faith ‘ Iand works; and they try the account ‘ of Moses concerning the creation by 1 modern decisions in science, and re- l ;solve, that in all questions between 1 ithe scientific explorer and the in- ( iSPired writer, they will give the pre-‘( i‘ference to the geologist. These menâ€"3i ,these spiders I will sayâ€"suck poisonts ’out of the sweetest flowers. Theyjt fatten their infidelity upon the truths; ‘ which have le ' some had trait of character in a man a of God mentioned in that Bible, these t; carrion crows caw and flap their wings over the carcase. Because they cannot 3 j, understand how the whale swallowed; . Jonah, they attempt the more won- in"ul, the most fatal and e most dreaded diseases of y are caused by the pre- id in the blood. nd pains about the heart; :ak, dizzy and become mdent; you can put the uric acid in the blood 's 1 will sayâ€"suck poison sweetest flowers. They infidqlity upon the truths 3. They cut the Bible eed, instead of cutting suit the Bible. It the suit the Bible. It the 's as they do, well; it d poisoned blood may cause the cure can »f only be brought about by setting the kid- - neys right. The experience of tens of thousands of , men and women in Canada and the United 3 States points to Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver l Pills as the most effective means of setting : the kidneys right. No other kidney medi- cine can produce so much irrefutable : evidence of its wonderful curative virtue. 2 No 'other kidney medicine has received I such hearty endorsation from physicians. Nor is this to be wondered at when it is remembered that Dr. Chase is a prince among physicians. ‘ Nature has only provided one means of _keeping the blood free from uric acid ; fically prepared from the great formula of : Dr. A. W. Chase, thoroughly tested in iin the blood. Dr. Chase’s Kidney‘Liver I Pills stand alone as the world’s .' d test :kidney medicine. They prevent an, cure disease by_ ridding_poisonoos impii‘ities from the vblood. . box, at all dealers, 00., Toronto. r___ uvoyulc, uuu here by these bleeding feet, and by this wounded heart, cry. “Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power he unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb for ever and (or ever.” Tell me of a tear He did not weep, of a burden that He did not carry, of a battle that He did not fight, of a” victory that He did not achieve. “All in all is Jesus” in the great plan of redemption. Let us go forth and gather the trophies for Jesus. From Golconda mines we gather the diamonds; from ICeylon banks we gather the pearls; ffrom all lands and kiugdoms we 9 gather precious stones ; and we bring ’the glittering burdens and put them .down at the feet of Jesus, and say. l“All these are mine. Thou art ‘worthy.” We go forth again for lmore trophies, and into one sheaf we ll 5 gather all the sceptres of the Caesars, , land the Alexanders, and the Czars,‘ {and the Sultans of all royalties and; dominions. and then we bring the? sheaf of sceptres and put it at the 5 feet of Jesus, and say. “Thou art; King of kings. and these thou hast ' conquered.” And then we go forth; again to gather more trophies, and ; we bid the redeemed of all ages, the , sons and daughters of the Lord Al- T mighty, to come. We ask them to; come and offer their true thanksgiv-I ings, and the hosts of heaven bring !; crown, and palm. and sceptre, and; L-_- L74 ‘ - v..- “snag. "a are n hungry; Jesus says, “I am the bread L- of life.” We are condemned to die; 1-. Christ says. “Save that man from go- -‘1 ing down to the pit. I am the ran- 3,som.” We are tossed on a sea of V} troubles; Jesus comes over it saying, 3! “It is I, be not afraid.” \Ve are in .gdarkness; Jesus says. "I am the t; bright and morning star.” We are -; sick; Jesus is the balm of Gilead. \Ve ’1 are dead; hear the shrouds rend and I grave hillocks heave, as He cries, “I 1 am the resurrection and the life. he ’ that believeth in me though he were ‘, dead. yet shall be live.” \Ve want jjustification; “being justified by l; faith, we have peace with God '1 through our Lord Jesus Christ.” \Ve 'j want to exercise faith: “Believe in {the Lord Jesus Christ. and thou ‘shalt be saved.” I want to get from i under condemnation: "There is now, Etherefore, no condemnation to them fwho are in Christ Jesus.” The cross ‘ 3 -â€"He carried it. The flames of hellâ€" iHe suffered them. The shameâ€"He {endured it. The crownfhe . wore V I remark agam tnat bhrist is every- thing in the great plan 01 rpdemp- tion to slake our thirst. We are hungry; Jesus says, “_I am the bread 1“ ':‘A ,, ‘i? ~â€"â€"â€"~-‘ -I There are men who seem to think the only use of the sword of truth is to stick somebody. There is one passage of the Scriptures that they like bet- ter than all others, and that is this: " Blessed is the Lord which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight.” Woe to us if we come to God’s word as controversialists, or as scep- tics, or as connoisseurs. or as fault- finders, or merely as poets. Those only get into the heart of God’s truth who come seeking for Christ. Welcome all, such. They will find, coming out from behind the curtain of prophecy, until He stands in the full light of New Testament disclosures, Jesus the Son of God, the Saviour of the world. The ' will find Him in genealogical table and chron- ological calculation, in poetic stanza and in historical narrative, in pro- found parable and in startling mir- acle. They will see His foot on every sea, and His tears in the drops ,of dew on Hermon, and hear Ilis walk around this temple of truth and merely see the outside. There are others who walk into the porch and then go away. There are others who come in and look at the pictures, but they know nothing what are the chief attractions of the Bible.. It is only the man who comes and knocks at the gate, sayingâ€"“l would see Jesus”â€"for him the glories of that book open, and he goes in and finds Christ, and with Him. peace, pardon, life, comfort, and heaven, “All in all is Jesus” in the Bih'e. Ytical massacre as proud of their achievement as an Indian warrior boasting of the number of scalps he has taken. I have more admiration for a man who goes forth with his fists to get the championship, than I have for these theological pugilists. who make our theological magazines ring with THEIR HORRIBLE WARCRY. the pit. I am the ran- .re tossed on a sea of sus comes over it saying, not afraid.” \Ve are in râ€"vâ€"â€"vâ€"v-â€". ther the; 28. An enemy hath done this. Th Golconda ‘eonversation is added for picturesque ds; from g effect. The farmer knows that no acci- , pearls;ident could have brought this evil oms we IOTOP- He Whose ripe powers are bent We bring ; on tne destruction of every human mt them gsoul 18 the great sower of tares. Wilt and say. {thou then that we go and gathef them hou art gthou then that we go and gather them rain for flip? The questi_o_n is ignorant zeal. on An ‘v 32. Is the least of all seeds. It 18 not needfu-i to prove this statement to be. scientifically exact. Jesus was holding conversation with country toll: of: Galilee: he was not teaching science to a class of students. He talked to them as they were accustom- ed to talk with one another. It is not certain to what plant he referred as "mustard.” The birds of the air come and lodge in‘ the branches; A (act that is mentioned. to show time great size or the treeégfil‘he thought is not SO much now concerning the ysf 'er as ‘ concerning ' the’.7":"sebd;jzgfi9€7'3.f:t 81'0“ 31. Another parable. Still our Lord has the fields in full View, amd this third story also takes its figures and symbols. from them. A grain of mustard seed has remarkable growth in size when compared with its small- ness. .8! 29, 30. Nay. There was a greater 3 [difficulty than even the similarity of 3’!the two plants; their roots were so dlclosely intertwined that to get rid lot the tares would destroy the wheat, e E Our Lord distinctly applies this para- 2 ible to the development of the kingdom t :‘of heaven on earth. God’s method is ,for us to wait. not hastily- to decide 3 :questions of character and life, but to i ’give good as well as evil time to grow, 3 'This is a difficult course for a zealous ' jeoul to take. Almost any action is "easier than that of patient waiting, ' land the purer and the more progres~ Igsive men are, the more impatient are ' they of evil. Cowper’s nervous hymn, 'l"God moves in a mysterious way His, v: wonders to perform,” draws its key-E ’;note from the strange patience of; fI'God, who waits by the decade and; Ithe century for the development off ' I Christian graces in the Church; who ' 3allows good and evil 'to work to-' lgether, even to the apparent peril. ,of the good, until the true character ‘ of each is shown and the final vic-' tory comes to the good. God wouldf teach mankind that there is only one . safe time to make judgment, and; that is the last hour. Do not decide: until all the testimony is in. Do not g' reap until the harvest comes. The H reapers are the angels. Gather ye} together first the tares, and bind ‘ them in bundles to burn them. In 3 harvest time there is no difficulty in separating the tares from the wheat. Our Lord explains the harvest to be. i the end of the world, the eonsuuixna-' itipn of the age, the time of final de- cision, when nothing shall be left in the kingdom of heaven but the sons of the kingdom. We are not to ex-‘ plain this parable as referring to‘ church discipline so much as to the development of the kingdom ,‘d of God on earth. 'l‘hat king-I dom was to be. as Dr. McLaren says, “a rose amid thorns,” to grow up amid antagonisms, as the next two parables. set forth. I c l t F c s a. f t 27. Whence then hath it tares? How can the Church or any portion of it ever do wrong? Why ig evil permitted? the grain appeared could the differ- ence be seen. 80 only by the full "fruit” of men’s lives can their char- acter be discerned. __ _.____..°_.- 26. When the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appear- ed the tares also. The Lures were sown boon atter the wheat, but not until . . sowed (ares. . . went his way. Satan often does his work in the dark, and hastens away knowing that evil seed as well as good will germinate. T‘ares are darnel, which in the early stages of growth is not to be readily distinguished from wheat. So counter- feit Christians are someiimes indistin- guishable from real Christians. “It is notorious,” writes Dr. Turtle, “that; many in the Church cannot be distin- gu‘ishe'd'from. avowed worldlings.” 25. While men slept. At nighttime. There is no hint that the servants of the farmer were negligent. His enemy U that there was an original sowing in their hearts of good seedâ€"holy intui- tions, impulses, etc. They may, by a little graphic description, be made to realize the base interference of Se- tan, with his false seed. Their experi- ences, like our own. are of conflicting growth, good and bad apparently thriving together. But in personal life one sort tends to kill the other; and there is no need to wait for the 1 final harvest before extirpating the tares. l world,” human life. But what is the kingdom of heaven? It is “ the con- dition in human affairs in which those two petitions of the Lord’s Prayer, ‘Thy kingdom come,’ and ‘Thy will be done in earth‘ as it is in heaven,’ shall be fulfilled.” Salient features of that kingdom. have been and are about to be made plain. From this parable we learn that in the earth- ly organization of the spiritual king- dom. what we call the visible Church. there are persons who do not belong; to it. Other applications may be? made with profit to our classes. Most “ boys and girls, recognizing the mom-5 tions of their consciences, will agree} I Verse 24. The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed 800d seed in his field. \Ve are to ‘think of the seed as already sown when the story begins, and a good and whole- some growth already begun. For a key to the explanation of this parable see verses 37439. The sower of wheat is the Lord .Tnnnc . {-In.‘ -A----_. -1 J ...... INTERNATIONAL LESSON THE S. 8. LESSON. as of the Kingdom.” Matt. 13. :. Golden Text. "an. 18. 38. PRACTICAL NOTES. I, MAY 27. The largest body of water in the world having no outlet in the ocean is the Caspian Sea,, it being 180,000 equate miles in extent. Why, of courgé, they have. he an- swered triumphantly. that’s where the ships go that are reported miss- vâ€"v Hub“ bv “Lu-I VILUU, But if the earth is as you say. Cap- tain, there must be an edge to it. How is it that no one has ever tumbl- ed over the edge? °_v_.v -w I‘vv -- DI VVU “9 “LL, ”UL a flat surface. No arguments, dexis- ive or painstakingly educational, could alter his opinion one jot. Some- one said to him once; An old sea. captain who had navi- gated his ship many time: round the world persisted in maintaining that our globe is not a globe at all, but dows. Only once has an attempt been made by outsiders to learn the history of the night that she separated from her lover. A newspaper man sought the house on one occasion for that purpose, but was refused an interview or even permission to see her. He per- sisted beyond the limits of courtesy, and narrowly escaped a scalding from a bucket of hot. water that was; thrown from one bf the upper win-i J--___ -sâ€"w n-vvva. DUVM U’ any 1 Jof the customers through the ten 3 years or more that the business was 3 carried on. > :' After several years of waiting Had- . ley Johnson went west and became a I prosperous business man in Utah Ter- I;ritory. Then be invested in mining , stocks, and ere long became one of the -iwealthiest men in the Far \Vest. 0n . his return home he stopped at Brook- .;ville, and made a last effort to see his affianced bride of more than fifty . r'years before. Miss Meeks was obdur- Qate and refused to see him or even to {receive any word from him. Johnson Ewas destined never to know what. oc- buried on that fatal night. He died last year in his Western home, never having married. ‘ Miss Meek’s only companions are her 'sister, several years younger than :herself, and the birds. She has ample E fmeans on which to live, and the busi-; " ness of milliner was taken up for the ! irecreation it would give, and was; iabandoned as soon as it ceased to be 1' diverting. She is said to be an omni- ’ fvorous reader, and nearly all.of the popular high-priced magazines are! taken. ‘ i In June, 1835, Phoebe Meeks was en- gaged to be murrred to Hadley John- son. One evening just before the swedding they were seated on the fcanal bank watching the boats go by, when she suddenly rose and, without a word, went home. Despite the plead- ings of the young man she refused to see him or explain how he had offend- ed her. I Month after month passed, and Miss Meeks remained in her home, and ru- ’mor said that she remained as well in her own room, the blinds to which were now always shut. The father and mother died, but Miss Phoebe heard the funeral sermons only from the adjoining room, to which no one else was admitted, and did not even follow the bodies to the graves. The months lengthened into years and still the hermit kept in the old home, and the fact of her existence almost ceased f to be known to any except the older residents. . An only sister lived in the house with . the parents the two opened a millinery ‘ Miss Phoebe, and after the death of store in one of the front rooms. The younger sister attended to the store , and Miss Phoebe trimmed hats in her ' own room, and was never seen by any 5 “f ‘1‘!) 1'..an __..A_, {woman whose life has been a mystery Ito the two generations that have :grown up during her self-enforced lseclusion, without having so much as l ,a glimpse of her or ever having been {admitted to her room. In the sixty-l ffive Years of her seclusion the popula- . ition has changed two or three times”! 'and toâ€"day there are few who knew; that the hermit exists, and fewer still who can recall the days when, for; some unexplained reason, she shut} herself up in her room and bade a; final adieu to the social circles or? which she was admittedly the brighTt- ; est ornament. I A WOMAN HE'RMIT. On one of the principal streets of the quaint old town of Brookville, Indiana, in a weatherbeaten two. story frame house, the blinds to one of the windows of which have remain. ed closed for sixty-five years, lives a men ‘cannot of itself develop a king- dom of heaven. It: is an exotic. God works in secret. His Spirit comes into the depths of the individual spirit and gradually permeates the whole being. But this cannot be done without a thorough fermentation and stirring up. I‘n anoxher place our Lord says he comes not to bring peace, but a sword; that is, not at first, but even- tually he is to bring peace. Till the £111 indication of the final permeation of the mass with holy influences. 7â€", w. J slant, ‘9 U§Uu as a symbol of the ransforming power. The woman seems to have no special meaning. Three measures of meal are mentioned because probably that was the quantity most usually leavened at once, or because a definite number "in... I A _- â€" ‘-â€"- - ‘ inwardly. “ increases in bulk; but it transforms inert matter into its own nature, and thus R‘I‘OWS bv ngnimilqi-inn n 1r-r-_ unngs always have small beginnings. Ezek. 1‘7 23 has a beautiful allusxon which comes to our mind while study- ing verse 82. The first of the th_r_ee parables we ni'nflw AA--_:¢_ . . HIS EXPLANATION .NO OUTLET. Luly. u spreads in space and 3.888 in bulk; but it transforms matter into its own nature, and grows by assimilation.”-â€"MOLar- Leaven, or yeast, is used as a brough the teng the business was, The people on shore were transfixed with horror. She was about to sink for the last time. But, stay! Th. hero was almost within reach of her now. Give me your hand, he cried. This is so sudâ€"â€" she gut‘gied, and the cruel wave engulfed her. Cashierâ€"I cannot pas: the salary you are paying Emp-loyerâ€"H’m! just as You must give me abonc for $5,000. Bessâ€"So Jeannette married er! I thought she said she marry only a man of (sun-u: Nellâ€"And so she. didâ€":1 man culture. ' vvâ€"n .Iowettâ€"Iust the same. I sisters -â€" same mother-In-law Topics. - Hewittâ€"Do you love your seconl‘ wife as much as you did your first? ‘« The Dlflerence. Willieâ€"Pa. whar’ s the difference be 1 l ,1 j tween “insmance” and “sumac-e?" Downes (one of the re. rented? I beat.) ghe’d to Kansas City Independent. Upson-Jl‘hey my Miss MIR-Xmas!) has rented a flat. Paâ€"W’ell. tlun latter is whittntbo agent has. and the former Is what he tries to sell you.-â€"Pbiladelphia Press. A Torturlng Suggestion. The doomed man shuddered. “There will be no music when I march to the scaffold?" be asked anxiously. They reassured him. “There was a march played when . was married," he muttered. “1â€"! could not bear to be reminded of that.’"â€"Nev York Press. Hewittâ€"Do '1--- IV’. Bathing with alcohol will prevent in- Jurious effects from poison ivy. or, it the poison has taken etfect. wetting the afected part with alcohol. to which sugar of lead has been added. until I milky appearance is obtained will give relief. The wash is poison and for ex- ternal use only. Herouard alwan maintained that n certnin reluctance to both spend and give, which characterized Louis in iat- er years. was the direct result of Mme de Moneiat’e teaching and example. not complain, but soon after ‘be sawid'. "But I, too, was t soldier. and I didn’t get any money." Mme. de Monglat took it, [uttered together all the rest of the coins from the reluctant hands of their possessor: and kept them :11. The dauphin did wâ€"J â€" ; Mrs. Lucy Crump in The Atlantic. The f news of the superintendent's arrival feet the whole household astlr. eager § for a share in the expected spoil. Mme. fde Monglat hurried the dauphin into 3 the great courtyard of the castle to re- ceive Sully with as much honor as it Lhe had been the king himself. To please the great man the little prince put his entants d’honneur and other attendants through a drill with their toy arquebuses and swords. At the end of the show 11. de Sully gave the dauphin 50 crowns, which hi- mock soldiers seized out of his hands so quickly that he had scarce time even to feel them. At last but one piece re- mained, which he held fast hold of in spite of the efforts of Mme. de Lion- glat’e tailor to get it from him. Heâ€" heâ€"he's trying to take it from me!” shouted the child. A. Incident In the Boyhood LII. cl Lenin XIII of France. One day, when the dauphin. after. ward Louis XIII, was 5 years old, the Duke of Sully came not to St. Germain well supplied from the treasury with pocket money for the dauphin, any. - -_ ..â€".‘..-w ‘5qu the loudest strains of an orchestra or clamor of a band sounds to them like a mere hum. Then they are forced to stop. Their usefulness is gone. “The musician’s deafness is undoubt- edly caused by the injurious efiects of ears. When the playing is kept up ev- I ery day in the week and every week in the year for a long number of years. it’s no wonder that deafness comes. ‘ Some musicians play without eflort. ‘Their skill is natural. They pour out music as free as breath. But the skill of others is acquired only by hard and constant labor. In addition to their regular playing in band or orchestra they must practice industriously sever- al hours every day. And these are the ones who lose their hearing and drop out of sight unnoticed.”~Kansas City OJ.-â€" years has stopped playing now be- cause he is losing his faculty of hear- ing. He went out of the business be- fore it was too late. Many of the old players hang to their Instruments until 4.1.- I-“ the Munr- Who STRONG iN DEATH KEPT HER \VORD‘ THE PENALTY OF MUSIC. The Voice of Envy. HE GOT NO MONEY. A REMEDY. cannot possibly live I! are paying _ me 2 Same Rule. Poison ' the rejected)-Only spe’d married him.â€" 181 as I thuughtl abond to~murrow 88 me. I marriect 9f cu1ture ? ied a farm. fishe would '!‘(J wl‘ Of agri.