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blood, if you want it. You. can be rid of pimples, boils,
blotches, sores and ulcers. . How? By the use of Dr. Ayer's
Sarsaparilla. It is the radical remedy for all diseases
originating in the blood,.
"Dr. Aye's Sarsaparilla was recolineended to me by my
pioolcian as a blood purifier,. When I began tating it
hacj lAls all over my body., One bottle cured me."—
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A POINT OF BEAUTY THAT WOMEN
CAN GAIN FOR THEMSELVES.
ceemagea That Proper Treatment Vu erake
In the montii—The Ouetivatton of a loupe
er, Gymelesties and 1114“ -
*age et the Lips,
Lips a a dear, deep red, satin soft and
with bandsome curveare desired by all
women bothyoung awl old. The thus
was when this feature of beauty was con-
sidered to be only within stature's power
to bestow. That, bowever was before art
and moderns iugenuity ba.1 set to work to
lessen Oae differences between fair and
plain women. Now it seems as if the con.
"leering of phenleal iofirmes were but a
matter
of time, and that any one weight
poseees a freeh, 'rosy sitin, sileien, wave
bair, peuelled brows Mad alirmly Outlined
red mouth with care and money. .A wom-
en who makes the molding and corne
of lips a specialty eolith when asked to talk
of ber methods:
"The firat tiding to he eonsitleral Is tbe
rigidity or Laity in the aprearauce and
actioo of the lies.it they tend to gla-
nces or amino -ea eematodon, one should
en to melee them humph+ by gentle hut
=stunt nneemr.., treatment, supplestumn
al by ib iiivation of an intellioent
ernile. "'ruder:Mimi wren Ild not Mt All a
perpetual grim for that deepines the lines
around Ilso nonith, and gives the faee a
haggard, pained expreeeion anything but
becoming. Tie. "finite to be eta: ivoted it
more a brightening of thewholo face with
a seneitive part ilog and curving of the Up
It is not nectoeary to stretch them.
"Titers. inetead of firmly amino the Ups,
as so many women have a babit of doing,
'which gives heaviness to the. jaw and
hardnees to the :mantle they ehould learn
to bring the lips together very lightly, al-
lowing that ale-nys agreeable dimpled
effect in the corners. It is that position
wbich makes the mouth of a bealtby cbild
so kissable and giVeS to bin) such an eager,
interested expression.
"But where the mouth is inclined to
stand open, with ldose, undefined lines,
the oleos: of the cone:gage should be redom
beet, using the treatment as atonic to tune
up ilaceid nerves and muscles. With snob
a xnouth the object must be to learn to
bold the lips with firmness tempered by
grace, going through the practice as facial
gymnastics for Mated periods and until
Cm 'braising becomes a natural habit.
Strange as it may appear, this style of
mouth is most connnon among MOD, and
not weak men either. Viibenever P see a
person with that mouth I feel assured that
be bas, if possible, too much firmness of
character. Such men are as a rule stub-
born. Holding the mouth open is a habit
acquired in childhood and should be over-
come.
"Closely compressed lips, I think, are
most common among women'and as a
rule not overhealthy women. To tee this
habit Is indicative of nervousness, and I
always supplement my treatment with a
good nerve food or tonic. • This is especial-
ly necessary weave the lips are inclined to
be pale and rigid.
"Besides a thorough massage onoe a day
you should spend ten minutes morning
and evening standing before a inirror and
with thumb and forefinger pinch the
curves of the mouth, accentuating their
delicacy and clearness. Until you have
given this method a fair trial—say one
month—it is impossible for you to judge
the happy result. I am sure at the end of
tho first; month you will be so pleased with
tho result that you will look -upon it as a
necessary feature of your toilet, as much
so as combing your hair and brushing
your teeth. I have seen the shape of the
flattest, straightest mouths changed by a
few months' treatment a this sort.
"The next point to be looked to is the
attaining of that exquisite polish and
satiny texture of akin without which no
mouth may be accounted period. To this
end the lips should be bathed twice a day
In water as bot as 08,11^ be borne. Strictly
avoid aranaonie, so often and so foolishly
recommended, because bartshorn parches
and cracks the akin. A good white soap
Is all that is neeessary for cleansing the
elan, and it should be freely used muse a
, day—at night just betore retiring I con-
,sider the best time. After thoroughly dry-
ehing the lips gently rub on White perfennue
vaseline or cold cream. It is well to audio
both the lips and the surrounding parts •ol
the flesh before beginning the xnassage ox
molding treatment.
"The lips should be rarely moistened
with, the tongue and never bitten or drawn
between tbe teeth. Such treatment not
only tends to chap them, but alsopercepti•
, bly increases tbeir thiekness and coarsens
their texture. For dry lips mothing is bet-
ter than keepieg them constantly greased
with some colorless perftuned amain. This
+clone pessistently, the dry feeling will soon
• be ovbroorae and the texture of the skin
inuch improved. .
"For that rich red color so remota ad-
mired. in the lips, which .oan never be im-
parted by paints, one must have a good
circulation.. The manipulations of a good
masseuse are verec beneficial find should
send the crimson . stain to tlas stream by
etinaulating qtack circulation. The mas-
sage movements for nhe lips are always
upward and eircular., Tbey are so simple
that after a few treatments by a protes-
sional any one can learn to do her own
work.
,
consider the mouth a tar index to a
person's character more thau any other
feature in tire face. A persons irtetinets,
both animal oral intellectual, may be am
eurately determined by tho euoutla. A
thiek noeutb, with thick Ups protruding
to a greater or less degree, is indicative of
animal Instincts in preponderance, Thin
Ups indicate a person controlled by her
bead, not ber beart. Snob n person is, as
a rule, sellisb and crud. 'Whet is known
a6 A pronunent tuouth---that is, where the
teeth protrude—foways denotes $ele assert, that et is intended to 'mop the men Up
ivenees. cOf eegroi this lending aurae, thane for a. number of years.
teristio is always modified by the length i Seeking UllligrAllis From Russia,
Mid thickness of the lips as well as the: The Department of the Interior lies an
texture and color. lint beauty I think ()Meer at work In Russia, promoting emi,
shore, full lips are the most admirable.gration to the Canadian Northwest. His
T/aey are, as a rum, mobile, indicating the mime is M. Klass Peters, and when last
yelling emotions Of their owner, and, heard from he was at Soratow'in Nortlx-
with jut a suggestion a the pearly teeth east Russia. Mr. Pete pects to aeud
beneath ate eiieeedienir attractive. Seth rout a few parties tbis St;e14°1-I., •
mouths indicate generosity, sincerity, but Gold in Pease giver Gauntry.
mover great self centrol. For strength of Mr. IImatain, Premier of the North-
ebaracter I OM sure the loug lips ina,y be west Territoriee. and hin Ross, Territor-
depended upon. The owners of long lipe
hold high truilme. esite one can tell by their ial Secretary. arrived in ehe city Seim'.
mouths invasion about their thougisteg day. 1.1to. are here for tho purpose of
emotions or elesteseter. Tbey may be very intagiewing the Government on matters
affeening the Northwest, espeeially in
belle.% or eery much to tbe contrary, very
the *reit, one /Hey nee Asizured the wora wisieh the . Territorial Govern
regard to the eurietliction over the Yukon
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generous or 1.'417 FeliiSh. Bdistrict
But whatever ,
Strawberry Planta Are Not Shut
Out of Canada by the Act,
XlaSpbc!rriOs.aatillAck.berries, IfeWewer.
Are Under tbe Rau -The ,Kionduce
militia win gave. Denote pey toid.1.3",
wen, Posiipped-LeolcMg for Zoete
grouts Froa gossia ganitain at,
the Capital -Goa -we. News,
• Ottawa, March 28.—The Depertireent
; of Customs bes been, asked, during the
past few days, for a number of rulings.
on the elan Jose .Scale Act. It has been,
. decided that strawberry planes are net
• shut clot by the Act, buteamongst the.
stock probibitea from, mitering the coon
-
try are honey locust plants and. all wood. -
ed plants, sucb as raspberries, biackbere
, ries, eta
The Klondike mintisi.
The Department of Militia is atpresent
• •
engeged in making up the °atilt for the
leloullike militia eontingent. It is said
thee the pay of tile Men who are eboseu
I will be doubled. The kit will (=thine
several suite of clothing, fitted for both
summer and winter wear; six pieces of
bead (trees, ineluding helmet, sombrero,
- canvas cop, far cap, woolen toque, and
luosquito helmet, are provided. The deal-
ing will coutpriee two suits o serge, ell;
skin suits, white duck suits Alaimo sultd
of winter clothing. Several suits of hear"
urnienelothinn, hoevy woolen. socks, hale
a dozen deluges* or footweer, ineltnnein
elk moccasins, "beef" boats, Mennonite
boots, heavy eventing bootsural felt balite,
to be worn' inside of moccesine, will also
be supplied, All the men who have yet
two years to serve must be enlisted for a
further period of three years, implying
4verytis meg:eery adjeetive to the tle-neas elair1/4 1';" IPre'r°41"1". Mr" II3U6
at Lama., in voth. rata anti women, - going to .,..i,. .......ii,,as a, result of
you will ne eurerieuti to find bow few Itavt the leiondlite excitement. Ilttudrede of
argil Ling lett glient lies. Tile shapes 1;1 People, wh;) do not. care to faeo the rigors
gmnizon. you Will notice the &limo min says that the Peece River country is
their no -a cent., heads, 1 I uty vary.of the sub-Aretie country on the Yukon,
ih„ nine ewes oat to tot. tat will try the region north of Edmonton,
theye."—N YorO Sun. and will proowet for gold along the Peaeo
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" and Liard River-, where it has beou dis-
covered in paying quantitiee.
The 'Working Girl's Great Chance.
Cuetonts Itelottation or Tourists.
"The average home bolds outa far more
coreftetanie time, a more leieurely life, a Tim Customs Department has felt it
bealthier exicaence and better wages, than neee.eary to inake a new ruling regard -
does the oslice, store or factory to an hate- Ing the ediniseion of tourist outate• Thu
ligent girl or woman," writes Edward W. outfits are held to enitsprise: Guns, fish -
Beek of "Tba 'Working Girl's Great ing rods, canoes, tents eamp equipment,
Chance," in Tile Ladies' Hoille Allman cooking utensils, kodaelte, musical instru-
"The gone time devoted, for example, to merits, ete. The money deposited by the
the study of sbortband or typewriting-, if tourist may be refunded if the artieles
given to the study ot nursing or domestic aro exported outwards at the Materna port
service, would mean twice the income to a 'idiom reported inwards or at another port
brigbt, steady girl. Unfortunately, girla within six menthe froin time of entry:
will not see this, and thousands of them Provided the oracles are produced mid
who are today struggling through an ex- their identity attested to before a Canto
istence in the outer world could have far diem, customs officer at the place of export
more comfaxtable lives and better wages or before a customs °nicer at a plaeo out -
be excellent homes. How the average girl side of Canada. The tourist is required
can deliberately shut her eyes to the op. to furnish the customs officer at the port
portunity which fairly glares upon ber as of mitre, with a report or invoice of his
a good maid, nurse, oompenion or domes- outfit, in duplicate, ono copy of which is
tits of any sort, passes average coinprehen. to be returnea TO the tourist when signed
elan. There bas never been a time when by tho customs officer, with tho amount
mistresses were readier or more 'willing deposited narked thereon. When a cer-
to pay good wages for good domestic serv- tificate of exportation to the satisfaction
Me—wages compared to which the pittailee of the customs officer at the port of entry
paid in sho,ps or factories sinks into insig- is delivered to hint personally or by aural
nillearace. Ape, on the other band, the the mount deposited may be paid to the
salaries of women in business, as recent party entitled thereto, personally or by
statistics plainly show, are gradually on mail, ot otherwise as he shall direct. It
the decrease because of the willingness of is suggested that post -office orders nit
hundreds Of girls to work for a mere pit- tourist's expense for charges) be used for
tame. Every business house has today safety in forwuding remittances on above
waiting lists of scores of hundreds of ap- account through the mails.
plicants, while bundreds of homes cry out
for intelligent domestic service."
POETIC PICTURES.
ARTISTIC WORK OF MRS. HENRY M.
STANLEY, THE EXPLORER'S WIFE.
eiceseten Society People Aro lar„orouol7
Am. -Notting' "Mite. Dorotby Tennant"...
• ;Or Artistic. Edue4tion Described by
,DerselNsones Of ger moo popome
Pictures wheireomposition,med,eterlt.
'The neembere a the louden, secial set •
are taking WA Miss Dorothy Terarmot ama
ber charming pictures with . a spurt of
enthusiastic interese, bliss Tennant is
known by that 'name chiefly in the (MOS -
tie world. In this country, wbicn she
visited with her husband some years ago,
she will be more roadily recognized by
the 'pause of Mrs. Stanley, wife of the.
woricl-renowned African explurer. •
It is difficult to say whether Miss
Dorothy Tennant, tbe artist, or Mrs.
Stanley, the explorer's wife, :shines with
the greater lueter in their separate spheres.,
With .eirs. Stanley this article ban little
to do. It deals with Miss Tennant, whose
pictures have excited such widespread.
interese. Iler artistie etiateaelen Miss Teel-
nant describes as follows:
"I began by painting dolls far my
sister, and when, after a great deal of
study, I Anelly began to paint other sub-
jects, it was always streee urchins and.
infants that _attracted my attention. I
was educated entirely at beetle end the
are at sketching came to Ina as Pattie -Ally
eating cake in the nureern,"
The pictures thee have proved so Replk.
lar are "Dristk," "Ileviug It Out, and
"An Arab Steed." These pictures have
been so full of the rugged poetry of the
Not Zven Time to Quarrel.
"A eympatbetio reporter," writes a
Cleveland young woman to Tbe Plain
Dealer, "recently bewailed the fate of the
overworked bud. I want to put in a plea
for the ditto bride. She not only has the
same numberless luncheons, dances, thea-
ter parties and dinners in her honor, but
they come at a time when she Is taken up
with other plans and preparations. Unless
she is a brainless butterfly, her thoughts
must be otherwise ocoupied, and if any
one thinks it doesn't take thought to keep
up with the whirl be makes the mistake
of bis life.
"A pretty and popular young woman
who has been through it told me the out-
lay ior clothes for these functions was a
serious consideration. They require one's
best and prettiest, because you can't in-
sult the friend who entertains for you by,
wearing an old gown, and you bate to get
new ones for these side shows when you
are preparing an elaborate trousseau. And
they take so much important time just at
the billing and cooing period. As a pret-
ty and prospective bride mournfully re-
marked, 'Why, Georgie and I don't even
bave time to quarrel.'
"If this sort of thing keeps up, the an-
cient fashion of elopements will surely be
revived."
• Dwellings, Not Roman
There are thousands of places in which
people dwell and which, for Molt of a mare
suitable mama°, aro called homes to -sided)
the sweet, soul soothing Saxon monosylla-
bic, word home cannot be truthfully ap-
plied. Is the brutal drunkard's den a
home? Is the fireless, bedless, inodiess
room, tenanted by a wife and children,
made gaunt with famislaing, a boom? Is
the splendid mansion where jealousy is
and faith -is not, or the pretty villa where
the vietiin of man's profligacy pines,
heartbroken, or any' other dwelling, high
er lovv, where moral degradation, liko Poo's
room, casts its harrowing shadow on the
floor, a home?
No; not one of these places deserves tbe
',Ogling name, coined in the heart, by
which the bappy designate their homes.—
Exchange.
When the student lamp or drop light re-
• quires a little more toning clown than that
afforded by the glass or porcelain shade, a
ruffle oe lace gathered 'full and tied about
the neck of the shade -will be ' found both
simple and effective.
Suits Against Conservative ministers.
Ottawa, March 28.—A writ was issued
Saturday on behalf ot Aran Davidson
against Sir Mackenzie Howell, Hon.
George E.. Foster, Sir Adolphe Caron,
Hon. John Costigan, Sir 0. H. Tupper,
Ron. John G. Ilaggart, Hon. W. 33. Ives,
Sir John Carling, Sir Frank Smith, Hon.
J. F. Wood, lion. N. Clarke Wallace,
Hon. J. C. Patterson, Hon. T. M. Daly,
Hon. A. R. Angers and Hon. J. J. Cur-
ran, members of the late Conservative
Cabinet, for $1,041, being the amount of
an account for flowers furnished for the
funeral of the late Right Honorable Sir
John Thompson, by the late W. R. David-
son of Montreal. The flowers were order-
ed, it is alleged, by the then Conservative
Cabinet, and Mr. Justice Oubnet, who
was then 'Minister of Public Works, was
the only one who paid his share, being
credited with paying $75. Further par-
ticulars alleged in the writ are that officers
of the Department of PubliC Works were
instructed to order this floral tribute,
with the inscription "A tribute of affec-
tion from his devoted colleagues," with
the names of tho defendants engrossed
thereon. Mn Davidson filled the order
having to inaporb some of the flowers.
Tho action is entered by his widow as
executrix of the estate.
• The Rainy- River Railroad.
Theo Masks, Col. Ray and other Port
Arthur citizens saw the Government Sat-
urday and urged that the maximum bonus
of $6,400 per mile should be granted to
the Ontario and Rainy River Railway. It
Will be remembered that last session an
Act was passed providing that this
amount might be given to any railway
costing over a certain sum per mile,
which had previously been voted the
nainimuna subsidy of $3,200 per mile.
Most Encouraging; Report:
Toronto March e8.—The tooth annual
report- of the Provincial Inspectors of
Factories was issued on Saturday by the
Department of Agriculture. It coins:emits
upon the revival of business among 'the
manufacturers, following upon the boun-
tiful harvest of last, year, and higth priot3
of vabeat. Many factovies, it stabes, have
beeu weeking overtime, and twice as
many faetotees employing W02)1811 had
been granted permission to lengthen the
• boars of labor, as clueino the same period
last year. No intringenaents of the law
regarding tho employment of children
had been found. '
TbI9AtriP.a-1,41.:
streets that they have won for the talent-
ed lady the title of "or:1st-laureate of the
street arab." In all lee. pictures there is
a moral. that inspreoeo ono like a solemn
sermon.
*the nest mine I. -Diann," tells the
story of ram anti ewer aletion wrought
by the demtm 4.11:d is notable for
effective eltaracteriottion and brilliant
color work. The grouping is especially
clever and the sal nosey told by the de-
graded figuN Is ittor.1 impnrzsive than a
dozen temperance leentres.
The pieture called **Having it Ont" is
a typical street scene, in which are pox'.
trayed two boys of the raggad street
whin type engaged in a fierce but
particularly unstatogifie struggle on the
sidewalk of the Thames =bent:silent.
One tattered urchin has grasped the
other by t/ae ear ana with one leg en-
twined around him is doing his best to
commit murder, 'while the other, with
the light of battle in his eyes, is struggl-
ing for dear life. In the action a the
boys there is it wonderful amount at liv-
ing reality,
"An Arab Steed" presents the picture
of a London street of the poorer clam. In
the streets aro Sen. the Usual concourse
of poorly dressed women, rollicking boys
aaidotirls, and bouncing cherubs of babies
In very much undress uniform. The pic-
ture represents a barefooted boy OD Lands
and knees on the cobble stones. On his
baok, held there by a healthy looking
girl, sister to the pair, is a curly headed.
child, who is driving the boy by means
of a chord placed rein -wise through tbe
bby's mouth. On the faces of the trio
there is shown the greatest possible
amount of enjoyment, and the contrast
between the happiness and the poverty-
stricken appearance of the group is
particularly striking.
Although Miss Tennant has not con -
lined herself to painting as a pursuit, the
quantity and quality of her work would
suggest that she had made painting her
life work, as for many years past her
pictures have beenshown at the Royal
Academy, the Grosvenor, the Society of
Lady Artists, and at the New Gallery,
so that her output of work, which has by
no means been, confined to the street
arab, has gained for her rare astistio
ability a very wide reputation both on
the part of the critics and of the large
Both Miss Dorothy Tennant and her
elder sister have boon painted by Mr.
Watts, R. A. Miss Dorothy was depicted
by him holding a squirrel in her arms,
which, it has been said, is a conceit
intended to symbolize the vivacious tem-
perament of the lady. More familiar is
the portrait painted of her by the late Sir
John Millais, representing a girl medi-
tating on the fateful answer to a letter
which she holds in her hand the title of
the picture being "Not"
Possessed of a bright and winning
temperament, Mrs. Stanley is well known
for her generous disposition. Her tendency
bas ever been to sympahize, and in no
Inactive way, with the homeless and out-
cast; the seamy side of life has had a
keen interest for her. It is the result of
no passing phase of fashionable "slum-
ming," but the outcome of a very true
and womanly tenderness towards those
whose lives are a constant struggle with
privation and euffering.
Yet, it niay well be mentioned, Miss
Dorothy Tennant has had a time of
suffering, of anxiety, which was entirely
her own. She became engaged to the
famous -explorer, Henry M. Stanley,
before he left England to proceed to the
r0S0110 of Endo Pasha, though the fact
was kept secret, aud consequently she
suffered three years of groat suspense.
Most of us oan remenaber the rumors
which came through the press thee the
traveler bad been lost in the almost im-
penetrable wilds of mid -Africa. At one
time it was said tiaat he had not succeed-
ed iu traversing the forest, at another
that he had been killed by the savages,
or again that he had been killed at Xhar-
tourn.
When one thinks of tho interest vrhioh
was everywhere felt in the fate of Stan-
ley, and the way—very fax from anything
approaching callous indifference —
isrhich that Internet was expressed, one
can faintly imagine the sense of Alternat-
ing hope and, fear which must have dean -
Mated the mind arta heart of the not less
courageous Miss Dorothy Tennant. Yet
no oue had. any notion that she had more
speeiaIly eause thon the rest of us for her
pooionate interest and anxietY—the 56"04
wlo; Well kept, and only on the safe re -
tura of the explorer from "Darkest
Aerial," in 1800, did the publie know
thee Miss Tennant had been bis affianced
bride, and bad been 'watching and, wait-
ing during the wild° of those three
anxious years.
The brightness of the down, however,
'was in fitting CelltreSt to the darkness
and gloom of those three yearsof anxietY;
and On the 12th of July, 189%. the two
were nuteried in the preciaces of We*
usiester Abbey.
MRS. $TEVENS. .
The Lady Who May Possibly fineeeed the
Lote Miss winare as World's
•President of the W. C. T. V.
"Who will tate Miss Willard's place?"
was the query in the mixed of every
wearer of the white ribbon badge as soon
as it was known thee the great leader of
• the woman's temperance pones:omit had
pa away.
Her strong personality, her genius for
organizing, her readiness as a public
speaker, he facility iu writing, her bus -
fatigable energy and her dominant will
fittel her to corer on the wore: she had.
Memo up with an efficiency and success
tint few women could. ever hope toattein.
The W.C.T.:(1. and its allied uudertalet
ings Mbed her life, awl to them she de-
voted all the powers aufl energies of lice
She organized the National
The World's WAS the outcome
of Iser thought and effore. Lady Henry
Somerset, tile vice-preeideut of the world
union, will 4130(100a her intimate friend
and ea -worker as the heed of the general
organization.
Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, thenational
Arse vice-president, will be the nominal
head. until the convention meets, which
• will be none November, at Los Angeles.
Vies Willard sent for Mrs. Stevens as
soot as S110 realized that alga was critically
They wore together wben the elld
tome. Since thou she bas been ao over-
come with grief and so tanen up with the
details of Arranging for Miss Willard's
funeral that she has been unable to
formulate her poliey or piens.
• 1 ;tin hearthrolien; I cannot tell you
whtt I shall do," she bas replied to all
4 eos fa.r as any ono can fill Miss Wile
Ile oh; plate. Mrs. tevens is the woman
to do it," remarlool a prominent ruember
lit the union. "We all feel that there will
lie a vatiancy filled only by the memory
we have et Miss Willard. but ber spirit
(will animate her followers, and inspire
them to carry forward tbe work sho has
lett in their bands"
hire :nevem was intimately associated
with Miss Willard perionally, as well as
aud was familiar with her plans
and policy. Twice else was in England
with her, and in same of the most trying
periods of the union, when serious dis-
ruption was threatened, they stood firmly
MF.S. L. M. N. STEVENS, FRANCIS WILLARD'S
PROBABLE SUCCESSOR.
by each other until they had gained their
point.
Mrs. Stevens is a few years younger
than Miss Willard was at the time of her
death, having been born in Dover, Me.,
in 1844. Like Miss Willard, she began
her career as a school teacher, but she
gave up that work, when 21 years old, to
marry Mr. Stevens, a business man of
Portland, Me. He sympathizes with his
wife's aims, and they have a pleasant
home at Deering, Me. One child, Miss
Gertrude Leavitt, is her mother's right
band helper in her temperance work.
Mrs. Stevens has been identified with
the W.C.T.'Oe since 1874, when Miss
Willard went to Old Orchard to speak
and organized the Maine union. Mrs.
Stevens was matte treasurer of this body,
a position she held for three years. She
was then elected State president, and bas
been unanimously re.eleoted every year
liter.• thirteen years she was assistant
recording secretary of the National W.C.
T.U.; for one year recording secretary,
and at the Cleveland convention, in 1894,
she was elected vice-president at large for
the national union. She was a close
friend of General Neal Dow, and during
She last few years of his life made publio
his views.
Since hie death she has been recognized
as his successor in the leadership of the
prohibition muvement, and. the recent
attempts to 800111.0 a more rigid enforce-
ment of the prohibitory law in Maine
wan under her direction. She is consid-
ered one of the most forcible woman
speakers in the State.
In addition to her temperance work,
Mrs. Stevens is connected with a large
number of charitable organizations. For
years she has been the Maine representa-
tive in the National Conference of
Charities and Correetion. In 1892 'she
was one of the WoDiell managers of the
World's Calurabian Expositiou, and had
entire charge of the cherities and coreee-
tion exhibits, including homes, hospitals,
asylumsetc. For three years she was
treastrer oe the National- Commil of Wo-
men, and when she resigned that position
Was placed in the cabinet of the council
and given the portfolio of moral reform.
She has always been a pronounced
wOrnart suffragist, and stood by ivliss
Willard staraohly when she introduced. the
question of the ballot for women as an
aid to temperance reform into the coeval -
tions of the W. C. T. tie against the protests
ise so many of the members.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LE:SSON 1, SECOND QUARTnR, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, APRtL 3.
Telt of the Lesson. Meth. eV, et -s1.
Memory verses, 25-28 Golden Text,
Meth. xv, '3—Cchtunentary by the Kev.
D. et. steams,
eCoperIght, 19e8, by no M. Stearns.]
21. "Then Jesus went theuee and de-
parted into the coasts of Tyro Feld S'idOtke^
The berald of Clu•ist haebag beeu cut off,
and thus His own death, bur/lately speak-
ing, having been mule more sure,. Ile seta
forth the great truth, by the only miracle
recorded in all four of the gospels, that He
is doe true breed for the perishing, suffi-
dent fee all. Ho only cart still tbe storms
of this troublea life, and He will in the
morning wetelse but He will not accept
the position of Xing till then. Those wile
would make Him Xing are more occupied
with wesblog *their bands thou their
bearts. They draw nigh with moutit and
lips, but their heart is far from Ilion and
even the disciples do not understand that
it is the bears that God looks at sued what
Ile wants tbere is truth, bumilityandfaith
to Him, although thiewas plainlyset ferth
In their Scriptures. See 1 Sam xvi,
Ps. in 6; MM. vi, 8; II Chrom xx, 20.1. 0.
22. "And, bebold, e woman of Comeau
came outof thesame coasts sod cried =to
Rim, saying, Have mem, on arm, 0 Lord,
thou, Sore of Meld. My daughter la grieve
ously vexed with rt devil." It Is wily fn
trial that fettle shines brightest, As in
Gen. 1, 2, it was in tbe darkness the Spirit
Is first heard al and Rea 1110Villa. $0 it
is even %lie devil is allowed to work io
order that the Ivories of God may be made
manifest (John ix, 3; xi, 4), As far aa WO
know nee oilier gismo the SRA Ot God was
seen on the plain of Duro WAS ill tile fur-
nace with thaw wbo bad unbounded faith
In Rim,
23, "But 3Ie anawered ber not a word.
And His disciples come aud besought Him,
saying, Send her away, for sbe orient after
us." He knew the eacw thoroughly and
how to deal, with it. Seance is not denial,
and delay is not uokinie The Lord waits
that lie may be grachrus; blessed are all
they that wait for Him (John xi, 6; Is.
xxx, Ile saw her faith grow even.
under His silence. It was a good deal to
her that He did not say no mad drive her
away. Tbe disciples were like most of us,
selfish, and warned quietuces for them-
selves. They had not learned to liv'e unto
others and forget self. HMV you?
24. "But Ile answered and said, 1 ant
not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
house of Israel." So lie had commissioned
the twelve (chapter x, 6), lie might now
have added, "But they have re3ected Me,
therefore have I come to you," but it WAS
not necessary Ile saw her faith still
strong under all this, and bow it delight-
ed 1111 1)1(1 Ile not say: "Other sheep
bate, which are not of this fold. Them
also I must bring, anti they shall bear My
voice, and there eball Ito one fold and one
shepherd?" (John x, 16.)
25. "Then came sho and worshiped
Iliru, saying, Lord help me." How. Ills
heart rejoiced in tile clinging of this help-
less one. He longed to help her. Be in-
tended to, but it was not quite time.
Though the need is mat personally hors,
but the daugleter's, see how her cry still is,
"Lord holp met" When eve by faith in
Christ receive Hine and are assured. by
Ills word that now we are accepted, re-
deemed, justified, and that some day we
shall bo like Him (Eph. 1, 6, 7-tRom. v,
1; I John iii, 2), is not all tbis in ordor
that wo may ono by one take up the case
of others and bring them to Christ?
26. "But He answerad and said, It is
not meet to take the ohildren's bread and.
cast it to dogs." His words look hard and
even unkind, but "God is love," and He
was "God manifest incite flesh," and there
is naught but love in ,all this. We must
not judge Him. Ho is the Judge. We
must trust Him and wait patieritly, and.
we shall ono day seo that He has not done
without cause all that He has done (Ezek.
xiv, 23).
27. "And she said, Truth, Lord. Yet
the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from
thole master's table." She had addressed
Him as Lord and Son of David, and now
as Masten Lot Him say what He will, let
Him do what seemeth Him good, she will
trust Him, the Vidll cling to aim, like
Ruth to Naomi, and like Ittai to David,
like Elisha to Elijah. Nothing can drive
her away. She has come for somewhat,
and she will have it—if only a dog. He
shall be her Master, He is so -very great
and she so poor and needy.
28. "Then Jesus answered and said un-
to her, 0 woman, great is thy faith. Be it
unto thee even as thou wilt. And her
daughter was made whole from that very
hour." So she triumphed, her faith in
Him gave her ber heart's desire. He in-
tended to do it. I doubt not but that Ho
took that journey in order to do it, but
there is a time that is always best. If He
keeps us waiting, 12 15 because He is say-
ing to us as to His mother at the mar-
riage, "Mine hour is not yet come." 12 1.
sometimes asked, "Can our faith bring
blessing to others?" Let this age answer,
for we have no reference to the daughter's
faith. He said, "Great bothy faith," yet
the daughter was made whole.
29. "And Jesus departed from thanes
and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee, and.
went up into a mountain and sat down
there." He took the long journey to be
refreshed by great faith and to do wonders
for His hidden one. We read of nothing
else that He did at that time. He sent
Philip, one of the seven, a long journey to
bring joy to the Ethiopian. He sent Ga-
briel from heaven to instruct Daniel and
comfort Zacharias. He sent an angel -to
the ship in the storm to'comfoin Paul.
There is nothing too wonderful for Him,
and He Is always "this same Jesus'" (Acts
t, 11)-
• 80. "And great multitudes came unto
Him, having with them those that were
lame, blind, dinnb, maimed, and many
others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet,
and He healed them." What a sample of
what His kingdom will be, "The inlaabit-
ant 'shall not say I aan siek, the people •
that dwell therein shall be forgiven their
iniquity" (Ise. mill, 24). It will be
heaven come dowo to mirth. One does not
wonder that they wanted to take Him by
force and make Him their Xing (John
15), for when hungry He could feed them,
when sick He could heal them, and if they
died eile could bring them to life.
81. "Insconuott that the multitude won-
dered, when they saw the dumb to speak,
the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk
and the blind to see, and they glorified the
God of Israel." But why clid they won-
aer? This was just wiaa,t Isaiah said that
their Messiah would do (Ism, xxxv, 5, O)
Why did they not welcome Him and sub-
mit to Him as their Messiah, that theo
might as a nation obtain joy and gladness
and have sorrow and sighbag dee away?
No, they-vvere not readyfor God's thoughts
and ways. Like their forefathers, they
wanted a king like other nations,
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