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A 1,000 keit liner tit� the I.usi as sa►ed h! grace,
IO Lord, we place
i Our all upon 'Thy altar.
tania to beyond place. That such
a boat is an engineering pe•ssiLil This Day and This w These Are; Ile ttisduin's any
ity has been adisitted by a famous Year, Load us we prey
Ihmikr_boat builder of Great Britain, who That we way never falter.
-'has !afro aced into his shipyatd But Part Eterlllty
stocks an like facilities for the
_ _ _•When faint and weak
'Thine aid we seek
constructi p of a craft tne,asuring "The power of an endlc.s life."— it belongs to this passing day. No By means of earnest pleading, still very primitive, and "every ar-
210 feet !ger than the 790 feet Hebrews vii., 10. day is complete in itself ; it bears Thou dost in levo title on these islands has an almost
Lusitan a. "She may be fast ; she No man knows whit the cowing the fruitage of eternity; it sows the Our fears remove personal character, which gives this
rosy be slow ---that is to be deter- year has for him. Before us all it seeds of the unknown future. Tho And give what we are needing. simple life, w here all art. is un-
may
but fast or ,lou, Mr. Pirie stretches dark and mysterious. \'et wondrous living in eternity dues known, something of the artistic
only the eras en hearted regard it. not wait until after death for its No other friend Leanly of medieval life."
tells me he is willing to undertake with fear. Something within bids beginnings; it is ours now. Could give or send The curaghs and spinning -wheels,
a contract for her construction. us take up its days even with re- So I take up these new days with Such help beyond all measure the tiny wuod••n barrels that aro
That is the main thing." In the juicing, though it bo no other than joyous anticipation, for are they As Thou dost give s=till much used in the place of
meantime another company has or the joy of him who tackles some not to bring to me the accumulates} To those who live earthenware, the (erne -mate
new tusk, who grapples with some wealth of clays gone by't `This new To find in Thee tl►eir treasure. cradles, churns and baskets are all
detect a vessel which will be 830wurthv foo. year must of necessity be a richer full of individuality, and being
feet long and of 40,000 tains die- Why should men thus face their year than last., because it possesses May love divine made from materials that are coJn-
days: \!`hy do we feel that he who all the eternal, undying elements Upon us shine mon here, yet to.aonie extent pecu-
thinks of life as a thing to be en- of the lust. And more than this, And fit for service n.ake us: liar to the islands, they seem to ex-
dured is an unworthy being, a cow- in increasing measure it brings In ease or pain ist as a natural link between the
It will bo the largest vessel ever and among his kind, and a traitor down to me all the treasures of the Our souls sustain people.and the world that is about
seen, but will not make more than to life's opportunities 1 Is it not centuries before. And to Thy presence take us. them.
20 knots speed. Marine naval ar- because we set the present in the Each year in n true life goes a T. WATSON.aeusThe simplicity and unity of the
chitects declare that a liner of 1,- light of the eternal and think of little higher on living's long ascet1, Granthurst, Ont. dress increases in another way the
life in terms of the infinite reaches and so brings before it a farther 3, local air of beauty. The women day
000 feet longneed not bo so dee of our immortality I vista, a grander view. If I truly wear red petticoats and jackets of •rho German Emperor is said to
as to prohibit its entry into the They who live only from day to live this year, shall I not know KEEI'IN(, PROPERTIES O1' JAM the island wool stained with mad- be twenty-fourth in the line of suc-
orts of England or gastrica. R clay, like driven cattle, who set the inure of the wonder Of life, see more dor, to which they usually add aI cession to the British Crown.
PgJ years in separation as weary miles of the mysteries of great souls, and Difference in Sugar--FormaideII3dc plaid shawl, twisted round their
git ing the vessel plenty of Leant a lleanark's army is the cheapest
to be taken ono at a time, to be for- read a little farther into the sec- ati a Normal ('onrtiiueut• chests and tied nt the Lack. When in Europe. It costs only e
ship of that length drawing Only ,utten when trodden and feared rets of the universe? it rains they throw another petti-
a.
b livery housewife who makes jam head, against $505 spent by Bri-
35 feet or less water than the stand- when lying before, to such life is He who does not hunger for knows that the keeping powers of
coat over their heads, with the fain.
sect liners draw is entirely prncti indeed a talc of bitterness which more life does not know the life he waistband round their faces, or if !n France, for the privilege of
cannot too soon find its finish. Only bus. the several batches made vary.I g
cable.Some lam les will go mould in a they are young, they use a heavy wearing men's trousers, the French
the fear of the darker mystery of THE COMING DAYS short time while others will keep shawl like those worn in Galway. Government charges women a tax
death binds such beings to the dark- Occasionally other wraps arc worn,
Cas stiction engines are expected 'less of life. always promise this, the chance to in good condition almost indefinite and during the 0 -.under -storm storm I ar- of about $10.
to displace every other variety of No life can be measured in any live a little more, not simply to live ly. The differences observed may The United States anow
to has fu an
p jams •rived in 1 saw several girls with
ty-
allotted span. t3eventy years or a longer, but to live larger, to touch he due to some being more men's waistcoats buttoned round '`etC1
typewriter factories, and
propulsive machine for big and Plite on yet more sides, and to taste concentrated than others, as of these export _,.,.0000 ww.h of
hundred cannot tell its tale. It their bodies. Their skirts do not t ewriters in a year.
swift boats. In the future the Mau- of more of its delights and wu►► course it is only concentrate sore come much below the knee, and 3P
tetanias, Gigantics, Titancis, and reaches its routs far back through dors. In youth we long for man- tion of sugar which is antiseptic, Champagne serves} at the King's
many centuries; it sends forth its show their powerful legs in the. table does not bear any label, so
big Kaisers are expected to be driv-
fruits no man knows through hew hood simply because it promises says London Lancet. heavy indigo stockings with which
more life, in manhood ice Maturity• it seems certain also that cane they are all provided. that none of the guests can tell
en not by turbines, but. by gas pro-- many ages. Even life drinks deep So, too, this sense of the infinite sugar is a much more satisfactory what brand he is drinking.
of inunortalit And it is this sense g As flannel is cheap, the men seem she coronation robe presented to
ducicg cagines. 3' stretches of our lives, of their entity preservative than glucose, and the to wear a great number of waist -
andthe reach of ourselves to the past with all eternity, gives us a brave argument of jant makers that glu the Empress of Rossi was of fur.
and to the future that makes pus- coats and woolen drawers over one It weighed only 16 ounces, yet was
Bible our foreluoking in the new days. \Ve ,•.,se is necessary in order to keep another. The are usual( sur tis
would live these cla •s well and the am from crystallizing is put y y P worthnd on old man I spoke to for a $6,000, or $375 per ounce.
y l a nt the lightness of my own dress, ergen is one of the few
LIVING IN THE PRESENT. nobly besause they are without end, mit of court by the fact that if the countries as vet unclaimed by any
.tRtN ('l'STONt3. ! GENERAL INFORMtTION.
Island on the \fest ('oast of Ire- Little Scraps of knowledge Which
laud Still Very Primitive.
Islands are of such a nature that
if they lie out of the beaten path
of progress their civilization will
remain for years unchanged. "The
Aran Hands," on the west coast
of Ireland, the subject of a recent
�ulunio by M r. J. M. fiynge, are
placement, to he called the Olympic.
You Should Learn.
A full-rrown elephant can carry
three tons un its back.
The quickest growing plant in t
world is the kudzu, a species a
bean. It is said to have been known
to grow 60 feet in three months.
Sweden and Norway are the only
countries where practically every
grown roan can read and write. Ba-
varia curves next in this respect.
Steam has by no means made
sailing vessels obsolete. The vital
number of them in the world is still
65,934, as against only 30,561 steam-
ers.
The Duke of Portland's picture -
gallery is 236 feet long and covers
more than a quarter of an acre. 1t
is the finest private gallery in the
world.
Egypt, with 10,000,000 peopltr, has
only one lunatic asylum, and that
with ouly 500 beds.
The peasant of the South of
France spends on food for a family
of five an average of four cents a
,l.
The century of cities is the twen-
tieth century. In 1801 there were
on
1 twenty-two 'I'
This sense o{ belonging to an end -
they go on down thiough all the
less life is found in man everywhere. days. The now year is a chance to
with more than 100.000 inhabitants. less
the taan of science writes of play our part and to give something
'
These cities were London, Dublin of ourselves to all the years.
it and the intelligent civilized man
Paris, Marseilles, Lyons, Amster- talks it over with his neighbor, the
dans, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Lushnian of Australia is sitting by
Naples, Rome, Milan, Venice, Pal• his fire under the stars and, far in-
ernto, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, ' to tho night, as the ' inhere glow
down, he talks with Its fellows on
St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, t;,e w l euro r..ld ,- .,' itjtur of be -
Copenhagen, and Constantinople. nig; he dreams of life bci4es.c and
Of these only two had more than lectures life beyond.
half a million inhabitants, eisse'un The life that I must live througtl lives that have been. preservative — namely formnldc
the year belongs as much to the ti•
es witcs• tun asi-iiid the intistil 'fztture es - - H•iilllidiii-4: -COP(:. 1 hycle. It •has been objectionable
that fur-
' - `trope -an ins seven cities with g P ,� I maldehv a•is an objectionable pre-
a million or more. These are Lon -
Surely we can take these new
days with the uplifted hearts, the ing, and now -a clays jams, we are
hope tilled faces of the children of , told. must be made as cheaply as
heaven. We are not dull slaves I possible.
being drisen to daily drudgery; we It would be n somewhat curious
are free Wren rejoicing to live to the; fact if it proved that after all jam
full the life that now is for the sake owed its keeping powers not en -
of the life that is to be ours and by ; tirely to sugar, but in part to what
the garnered strength of all the' may bo regarded as an artificial
jain is well made the acids of the
fruit should change enough cane
sugar into invert sugar to insure
against. sugar crystals separating.
This involves, b-,wever, long boil -
THE - S U N RA
Petersburg, \i.,SCOW, Constanti-
nople, while America has three cit -I
ies with more than a million inha-
bitants. These are New York with
over 4,000,000, Chicago with over
2,000,000, Philadelphia with over
1.000,000. In Asia also there arc
t.everal cities '.ith populations ex-
ceeding a Million. The population
of the great cities of antiquity is
not accurately known. Seleucia has i Verse 1 The day of Pentecost—
been credited with 000,001 or 700,- This, the chief of Hebrew feast
000. Home, in the reigi/ of Aligns- , days, fell on the Eftieth day after
Carthage with 'by the offs ingAfhe Passover, cwas thc fir tefruits of
lebrated
eststimatates are re
the harvest in the fore( of "two
wave loaves" made from the new
flour (Lev. 23. 11, 15-17). This sym-
bolic ceremony ,,f ii.•dicati
promptly applied
time: t••
1NTI:RN.t'l'iO\.tl. I.i esex,
JAN. 19.
i scrvative for foods on account of
minute on the pier, when I came
ashore, askedation. !rayons may dig the coal
Incme if I was not cold found in the cliffs there.
with my `little clothes." An Italian nobleman. who also
i, — belongs to the Austrian nubility,
has for several years been making
FACING THE ENEMY.his living as a crossing?sweeper in
Vienna.
Major Cary, who died a few
months ago in England. was the
leader of the search -party which
rode through the African bush to
find the body of the Prince Imper-
ial of France. It was with Lieu-
tenant Cary of the 99th Regiment
that he went out on the fatal ride
in the Zulu War. Ellen Bnrlcc
see.'".!' its toughening effect upon foods in
gives an account of the tragedy in
•'vend tl qa.. life 11 Ude �il g g p• her life of the prince, and also men -
4 •es i isir",;•,' lesas_and i general and upon pratetd in parti-
tions a little incident of his boy
arcutly tt hroughout celas And yet it would appear
hood which is curious( befit
that furnialdcliyde is readily formed y prophetic
in ental( quantities b.• merely buil- of the spirit he showed in his last
nc astonished.
ing solutions of cane sugar, the
amount produced depending possi
Es :tees iron L•eael thein speaking bly -
on the duration of the boiling.
in his own lanKna les -The exact ua I According to this it would not
.\
Lesson 11. The Descent of the HolySpirit. Golden Text,
John la. 16, 17.
tus, with 800.000;
700,000, but these
little other than guesses.
e•
ONE THOUSAND NINE
Intr.!) ANI) NINE.
Father, Thy pit -ewe.
g
in,
l;i'\
was ln•ar
the cite.
Confounded-)
a 1 tones 1 d
C'onftrcd, puzzled,
s
fight.
The prince was a br'ght, jovial
youth. wit h high spirits. "'1.1►e
Dear Boy" he was called in camp.
turn of the Aviv.Tea here? recorded be surprising to find formaldehyde When the corps of volunteers under
it is, of tours inipr�ssible to as-
be
in many jams as a perfectly ('+try's conunand found his body in
certain. 1 unintentional or even normal con- the tall grass, it was seen he had
7. They were a amsa. d and rear stituent. Its resence indeed may received seventeen assegai wounds, real to ono
vellcd—That sons king marvelous,
he essential to the keeping powers all in front. it
a"p '� 14 ;l ��• obit( �trii
passing human un eternal 'ng, took of the jetn. The subject deserves When the prince was a small boy the amoun •� � I,as
place, Luke would'tcleart rave us further Investigation, since nn81y he was attacked by a deep -sealed earned during his w.• s ang days.
understand. i lis mat be put off their guard and abscess in his back. An operation In South Gresulnnd the color of
9. Parthinns and encs a.�itl Iaa he rho means of instituting proceed. I was ordered, and the little fellow the hair-eibbon which a woman ties
o social
speed --The iuhabitat of th a r, ings for fraud where no (rand ex• I submitted bravely. Something round
n ofe the ad e(wearerenotes —whether
spc.•tive portions _ of 1;ttle 1 •s,:ui ists. Moreover there is no evidence troubled him, however, which at she be maid, wife, or widow.
empire. t that the health of the jam eating -last he conf,edcd to his !other' In some German towns children
11e>,tpntsauia 'dist t bet preen public suffers at. all in spite of the; The Abscess bring in his back, he are allowed to trate( free on the
tit ,.es and the grit-.
small quantitiev of formaldehyde; would have a wound behind.
s --At that t ne ej. till,- present in this favorite and nutri- ..local tramway cars if they are un-
lit a sear remains," he said, der a certain height, which is mark -
"perhaps my enemies some day will ed on the doors of the vehicle.
think 1 ran away." Turkish women do not come into
4.
The greatest rroportionate loss
of officers to men in any battle was
at the capture of the R.edan, where
three officers were lost to every
twenty-two men.
Statistics prove that nearly two-
thirds of the letters carried by the
world's postal services are written,
sent to, and read by English-speak-
ing people.
England has one member .' ;
,cc.ors,
Scot --
'lament for ,Fveiv 10,290 13cot-
i,177,
Irclnnd�aetfrt'� for e'"'' and \�'alee�-:
land ono fur ;eery 8,t):4,
one revery 9,613.
n England and \Vales about ot.e
it (our of the pcipulatu�}�asanine-
c ant in the Post Boni., Ireland one in ten, r -id
iu fleet*,r.d one in eleven'loor law
every m4.•i sixty years old is tht
Under the Austrian 1
i`
•e.tions article of diet.
urdtring un tkr Illack' {,.
Roman pre. lute bear- ;t II I.SSIAN SPEND'f11::1FT.
.\ district in Asia laierite•d $3 75.0011 a \'ear .ego, Now
this time a Berrien Sweeps the Streets.
so in Ash Miner. The chief of the sanitary depart-
• applied to ail ment of the city of St. Petersburg
!got a surprise the other day when
— In northern one of his hest friends, a young is the Emperor of China, known to
I man named Vladimir Niedochin, his subjects as "the Son of Iteav-
e—Rotnau: walked in and asked for a job as • en, The Emperor's whole life is
iig at 'street scavenger. The official lised in obedience to the most.
1thought Vladimir was joking. but stringent etiquette, and his food is
all regulated for him by statute.
control of their private fortunes un -
FEEDING BY S'1':\TUTF. til after marriage. After that they
can di;poso of one-third of it with -
Although the majority of royal out the husband's consent.
personages are noted for their lav- A dog lives on the avcrnge from
ish dinner -tables, there is at least ten to twelve years, n cot nine to
ono reigning monarch whose meals ten years, n rabbit about seven. a
are of the simplest. This monarch squirrel or hare about eight, and a
fox about fourteen to sixteen years.
The rate nt which the Zulus can
run in an emergency is astonishing.
Some mill cover as much as fifty
miles in six hours. Eight miles in
an hour it an ordinary feat.
The British Empire outside the
United Kingdom only contains some
8,t,00,000 cf people of British de-
scent—that is to say, only one; in
forty of its total population.
In a paper read before the Char-
ity Oraginration Society it was
stated that there u ere now 473.0(k)
fewer agricultural laborers in Eng-
land than there were fifty sears
ago.
The modern bullet. will pierce the
carcasses of three horses in sueee'-
fion at 550 yards : of four at half the
distance; or kill n mon after i•n-s-
ing throug
treo.
Without losing n ring(' ultimo(,
seven shep
flock of 11.000 *beep hem Jinrnn-
ee, in Quee
New South
miles.
Ladies are f•• bidden to wear
trains to th
by anew hy-law pn 'rd by the toss
nicipality o
under a pP1181(3 of a maximum lino
t.f $1.10.
it is not so very long ago that
the elan ens in dead earnest ant!
explained Isis case.
1t. seems that a year ago Niedo-
in inherited 6375.000 and at once
Heti to spend it His ettrnva-
Mo strict are the laws governing the
imperial Household that when he
desires a new dish he has to pass
a special decree before he can have
s have been the talk of the it, and the Court physicians keep a
Just before the Neva was strict watch over his appetite.
over he entertained his Should he show a special liking for
one of the islands in the any particular viand, the chances
hems manner. the guests are that they will persuade hien
sect by a specially built not to take it. under the pretence
ht.'that it may prove injurious to his
oat did not tell them health.
ntertninmeut was
eel finale of his
d
, that he had
is reseurees.
he splendid
but. with
a Nero
1 have
o he
tt-
TOO MU( If ELOQUENCE.
Mr. Popinjay (falling on his
knees) --"Miss Perkins, 1 can no
longer resist the -passionate
to appeal to you on the momentous
iubject that is fraught for me with
the issues of life and death. And
3 -et I am overawed at my presump-
tion when i take into consideration
the celestial glamor of your person-
al charms, the dazzling lustre of
our intellectual attainments, the
quisite, the adorable-- -"
iss Perkins --"Excuse me, Mr.
ay, but there are linter when
ce is rather out of place. if
to pap the question, pup
one u ith it :"
heart to guide lit
It of •raling-
by the Great.
kit the Lord
•
t
h the trunk of a thick
herds recently dear! a
•nslaud. to Narrahii. in
Wale'. a distance of Net
sir dresses in the streets
f RudenLv h, in Austria,
copper was used in Rweden as 0,0
chief medium of exchange. and at
times merchants bed to take is
barrows with thtr.n when they Hent
to receive payments of large •tins.
There is a wild flower in 'flukey
shit)) is the exact floral ;mare 4f
a humrning-hird. The breast i♦
green. th' %intt. are a deep rope
e-4)1hr, the t:1r1.i is yellow, And tLet