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*Mous ay* as * histori*
i* toted to i;•frOX0r5 quite
reted proPhet Re feiand
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t e o le
EI&Ios !itit
e
rtth Cil
atiniurs
pf
&etc of iva
though the profeseor mos evI
deetly eigiecti, his Predieted pheno-
Mena to sweep over the heavens far
within the periokf of a thouland
years. And that although they are
• far stranger ad rarer than cornets.
Indeed in his latest vision he for
what never' has been. Audi
that .is * world state, It world 114-
600.
The Bible talks ef all people
, dwelling together as one nation.
outlined -the tort of governmen
• that will rule ties world state. And
es for the of -
1,4
executive, the liters/ king of the
earth. And he believes there will
be such a sovereign within the next
eighty years. Ile finds the beginn-
ingesofAiteesanststdir'-eabin--tise
Hague tribunal and the outgrowths
of The Hague peace conferences.
Some international government of-
rteicas _exist now, And they ha
existed for years. Only they work
BO silently and unobtrusively that
no one knows about them. But the
significanee of their position is not
discounted by its quiet and non-iio-
toriety. Rather, it is glorified
They -these humble 'mad official
-are the attaches of the internat-
ional postal service with headquar-
ters at Bern, Owitzerland. They
supervise and negotiate many mo-
mentous little matters which affect
you and me and which we know
nothing about. And they are -held
bythe zealots of the world state to
be the first forerunners of the
world government departments.
They are the first fruits of the
world state idea which really was
born before it was cenceived. It
came with a spontaneous genera-
tion and began to be ere any one
realized what its coming pretend-
'
0 evons saw a
understood; Ife interprets a good
many things in the light of the nas-
r"." cent world state. 'There are the
ineehines of war. They are anni
Nil:sting the war whieh they were,
invented to abet. When airships
artive they will be the twit pr-
fj aecnuterreents ever
dreamed. But they morel
powerful in doing away with, milk
fa -Ty ladies.- 'resides, Or -course,
••••
people are growing more friend-
lier. Good will on earth is realiz-
ing as we all become more and
rnore cosmopelitan. Overweening
love of country is ceasing to be af
virtue among the ethieally'modern,
among the etbleal elite. They pre-
fer worldism, cosinopolanism. They
have evolved beyond the thought
of the "bloody furriner." yor-
eigner. and native alike are desir-
able citizens- Somebody -h** -writ-
. ten on patriotism - as a pritnitive
ideal. The civilized and cultured
prefer the world state.
."
AR [SKIM TIME ,Irtote ANTrit*
r
, Playing et "Qed Save the Nine is
. Altered: • '
The ,natipiiat anthem!by mpeiaT
fdesire of the Xing:, is in futiire to
be played more brelltly by all
tary bands.
An order of the British Arlie),
Ottildi it4S- been issued instructing
military bandmasters that the *Cli-
p of the national anthem is to be
Increased from crot•ehet equals 60
to crotchet equals 84. This means
,that the time value pi the crotchet
will ,be an Sitth part of a minute in.
stead Of i 40th.
• , The order which cancels the re
• gulation Axing the slower time was
made it is understood, beeause his
lifaje;ty and other members of the
Royal 'family' have objected to a
dirge =like tendering,' -
T e national anthem has been
lacd in the new way before the
Ring, who was greatly pleascdwith
the teration, and ex rested his
kst it should be the per.
4,
, 0 the t
i
,t greatei nuukber ,
it
't1e•:lixneligh
• • '
istPneassisliSe
s flat,' nd tit
n But ,W.e. are all too ready
to ure living by its extiiinals
rid, to ifeeide that the' life that neve
er leaps into the public glare must
be livestsui * pitiable
Are there not for all Our lives,
for these ordinary, simple Bees of
elms,' high lights, flashee that re-
deem the soul from eordid
high levels to which we May rise
in opirit at least and, save life from
the dull level of mere existence?
How MAY We find and know such
casions.
Are there not, too, what is of
greater'importance, eplendid met
v s Jetty__ aimsdr ins irin
'T
I the dull va ley* of the lowliest
life? May not even the mot com-
monplace lot be transfused with the
of a reat etterifirse Or a spiels. -
V
;•,4
Vho'has u
high minds, and noble souls that
have never become known beyond
their little circles, who have died,
not unwept or unh000red, but uns
entreesinieausestter
1 eir
of the bards of the great, noisy
world?
ORDINARY PEOPLE
may often be the best people. We
end to -measure ayes by -their vie-
issitudes rather than by their steady
Airtnes. Those who make startling
ascents and descents get themselves
taUced about, but for the plain busi-
Sleet, and meal work of the -world -the
folks who stay on the ground are
the ones we can eount on.
It is a good thing to be able to
pee the glory in the commonplace.
We are so easily carried away at the
sight of the ancient, tawdry trap-
pings of mediocrity that when true
worth appears' in homespun we re -
lea it; it lacks epaulets and fea-
thers. We complain of fortune be-
cause it refuses to dress us in tin-
sel array. •
Ise in jeans or in khaki than in
Modern heroes are more likely to
crimson, and great lives are more
likely to be found in kitchens and
workshops than in the council chains
; • .
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t OD the , Auee,4-1:
io-
eeognition Theworld needs
'not ,so M ' ct-t
n.of startling 'p<wcra as til0fie
of - sterling.quibties; net o much
a fevkgiauts as inasselsof.,ni,a1h....giiiiils"
A iress-Thii wei--'thsor our ctaY, uepenus
esiire on what we are building into
the everyday things"than on 'what
some 104A may be owing or doing
in the glare of publicity.
Often it seem, a weary business
to take up 'the daily task, the same
old grind day after day. Many al -
feet to devise the who tiosit, but
the • pirits of eternity look down
and
,AWARD THE CROWNS
at.
those who steadily face and fear not
the awful foes of Monotopy and
dulrplodding. Even seems is a
matter of that steady grinding at
one thing.
ye-1MM 7
'YAWS
• If
monpaue
love o other lives. ,‘ e need vis-
ion to see how great is any Iife, how
much of the real riches -of life there
'r,
e -in -an
- _ .5114
lowliest labors, loves is ?their of 706:4-°°t stesuishiPsi is the in°n”
eer German trans-Atlantic line, or-
ritotive; how the stains of toil be- ga,nized in 2847, Its employees-
ome a.garment of praise when the i number nearly .4000. Its present,
object is known. •
fleet comprises 309 vessels, with a
When we see the days as they
come along,- not -mu so many hours t441"1- tonnage a 728,799 Unit'
of dull tasks but 48 having so many The advances in steamship build-
eportunities for self-discovery and l ing-in the number of the ships as
well as their size -have been enor-
mous in recent times. Lloyd's Reg-
ister gives the following statistic:,
concerning the fleets of the world:
"Considerably the largest of these
is the Ilamburg-American Corn-
tIr
mseirtao The ltiver
InesiallY rich in salmon. h
omit Of preserved Ash exported
6 in, Sibemoria gtorneawinfro4440!; tpttenhsi in
gh
c salt and tin plate and the
lack o ekilled knowledge •
re-
tardingthe Sibe canned ib
••
414 tt• V*A t
$iberimi, is„
yielding ver. ixwrezdnquaqtitiea of. tiinbe. On January
10
dvelopd
Mining •; ee • g tutor.
beri •
placesduatry... old in
at pesei• 4bc t 11;1'4104* ritatItetit
(mut of gold produeed tin Siberia
can be obtained; as the figure* are
contained in the total otiput:df,the
* -- The ave,rageliSsinual production of
pig iron in 'the Ural and Siberia
(separate statistics for Siberia not
given) from 1902 to 1900, inelusive
wasA57,440 tone. The Siberian out-
put of coal, ehiefist from the prov-
„Ince of Akinolinalts, rose from -6O,'
770 tens in 1902, to 1,23 tons in 1906.
Copperis mined in small quantities.
More and more foreign capital Is
becoming interested in the nunerel
wealth of Siberia and American
partaof the rimorskaya,
,
and near Alaska.
1•44,440•4444,40,04,04,44%,44,4174.44,,, -440,4,4104.4
OPP051te
WORLD'S TRA.DING Mgr.
ale& -las
-th
Th mburg-American Lines
*IditessaindzseSthemedsi
wyPt-area_
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development, so many chancee to
do good, to give love, 80 Many oc-
asions for -the graces and virtues,
and so many invitations to learrethe
real worth of thingsthen the days
afe transformed dem gloom to
glory. pany, which owns • 134 vessels of
We need new eyes and new hearts roe size, of an aggregate gross
rather than new eircionstances. tonnage of 068,000 tons. The next
Whether .we live in a prison or a largest is the North German Lloyd
palace depends not on the walls Company, whose 120, vessels lig-
about us but on the- wall within to gregate 556,000 , tons. The third
be either slave or king, bound by company is the British Elder-Demp-
our lot o efree in heart, Whether der Company; which owna.1e3 ves-
we regerd hie as an imposition or Eels, aggregating 434000 tons.
as an opportunity. The quiet parts' Then follow the British India \Stearn
are- rich to the open heart, and no Navigation Company, with lee vets.
way is so quiet that heaven may not. sels and 384,000 tons, andIthe United
be there. • States Steel Corporation, with 113
vessels aggro atin 343 517 to
HENRY F.
COPE.
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HEALTH
""IrrirlrienlireW110,0109,91,1"-
READING IN BED.
We used to-lietaugistthat reading
in bed was wrong because it might
set the house on fire. Though we
sinned it was hardly with: the as-
suranee of Macaulay that not even
the sear of "itsiiiitilittitss inatrieide
and patricide and fratricide re-
strained him from taking a book
and tho longest candle to bed: The
-coming-of gem and -electricity. -has
reuu,ed all these fears; _but no * --a
German doctor appals us with new
&tarsus; Ile finds that the eyes are
imperilledbyreading in bed .in a
host of ways. r4.• jight is bad, or
it is placed. so that it daszieti. • In
bed you ean never hold the book
tio as to IMO both eyes, You hold
it too close to the eyes, and make
yourself short-sighted.' If • your
eyes lasive atafurally any defect,
short -sight, of inmibility tp read
small print, or astigmatism, you
will infallibly itieresee it. by read-
ingsin beth The tortelueion- of the
-whole .matter is 'that children uo-
der Ot sihould -never bo *allowed to
take books to bed With them, and
adults ought not to do so, save for
seriouit and weighty reason,.
TO sTopnfcco11'catJ.
Lhuis Rolipirtski reports the
arrest of pe,rsistent hiccough by le -
pressing the. tongue. '48:, patient was
atteeked by. hiccough whic had
persisted for four days before
ing sten by the doetor. He com-
plained of the fulness in his throat,
a tendition. Which .he thought the
result of the hiccough. •
Ile was directed to sit up, And
witha-large spoon handle the
tongue was pressed down and back
with steady forte to allow inspec-
tion• of * tattoos. Firm pressure
n the tongue 'with tiat hope of fur.
her*. noting the action*of the Pei -
tit 'muscles w***contirttnid, whirl
to the dottoes surprise and the pa.
font's astonishment andO3' th
-
ktough. ceased. „ 4be,
otwtt returned the patient limit!
Lopped it by 'iticisng the spat)
1
• ,
t*,
rtd
.r e,
black pepper on a bit of cotton bat-
ting, tie it up, dip in sweet oil and
insert in the ear. Put a flannel
bandage over the head to keep it
warm. •
To kee
petticoats is a risk of taking cold
that is not -worth running. There
are a few exceptional individualt;
11
1
g g ns.
"In point of total number of ves-
sels oWned and of their gross ton-
nage, the fleets of the *United Stetes
etand second among those of the
world. Great Britain and her tot-
onies, out of a total for the whOle
world (including countries pessess-
.
ITO I 'I*1
ri
US 0 6 113P10g o
V9,091 ships, aggregating 20,000,810
gross tons, possesses 10,809, with a
o ,
• total tonnage of 14,'709,203 tons
0
4°143,- one-seventh of which -is composed Of
but the solo of the foot is one of
the itiost sensitive parts of the body sailing ships. The United States
and it should be protected accord- °Ives.3s2g6 'vessels, with a gross
tonnage of 3,077,344 tons„ of which
iniglY1.. 8 a °)0141°n °mallow 1°T,thert follow Germany., with 2,900,182
two-tiftlis are sailing vessels; and
children to get beans, grains of tone, of which one-sixth are sailing
vessels; Norway, WW1 1,627,220
tons, one-half of which are
emit' r-rtance; with 1,4o;3
mg114-1s-vesstr,tr"nd Italy; with 1,117,-
438 tons, of which two-fifths are
raihng vessels." ,
corn and foreign substanceup
their noses. This simple remedy is
worth tquieluhorlisig, Get_theschild
o open its mouth,- apply. your
mouth over it and blow hard. The
offending substance will be expelled
from its mouths •
SplERIA-1118 GREAT runnE.
.444.4444.14
Its Soil Rich and It Ras Vast Thu.
her -And Mineral Resources.,
The vast area of Siberia is as. yet
scarcely touched commereially,
when We consider the richnessand
eapability of production of its soill A 'man May be measured Iy the
end-itrionstantly groWing, popu a tingS he seeks; •.
tion You canot hoodwink heaven with
In 1900 it was estimated.that out holy aspect.
of a -total of 10,727,000 tierce of cu1.L 'soles gives no Howie to dispense
tivated land .14025,000 acres were with eourteSys. *
under Crops in. Siberia. 'Crops They who walk with God do not
greatly fluctuate • 'Siberia; the walk sways from men.
-Yield ea mi .podlyear istwoor three He can bear a -groat trust who
time that :of a bad one, csn bear little .trials.
Siberia's exports . of dairy Pros It is „bettr to lose your joys ,thait
ducts are tepidly inereasint and ettcipe his sorrows.
have,* Most 'proniising folio; Tit xt; slow *6* &tangy/44 4
'is. 4o000lbotkets of butter, tat grub *.t *00017 *.vrock.
containing thirty.si* pen
Sent as an eXperillient to the A. veneer of religiosity bat non
the vIttliell 4)f "1184"
don market; 30,000 buckets of hut'
tor atweek were „sent thither in
)n01'. The pasturage in this butter
producing region, whielviiin chiefly
in, the district of Tomsk, is so good
that there fa per cent, Of Witter
fait itt tbe nmilk.-
Itt 100$ a Danish -firm*** the Ars
to export., tatted beet riiutton and
pork from Siberia to London. 'Its
•uccess *hosted that Siberian mut-
ton wa
good ertougir to compote
reetandie mutton and
rnay in future become/in 'WI
factor imi tit *est -Markets.
ern
itt 1P02 the first canning est*
in Asiatic Itnesits'***,
ii,XpotS$ of hid**
and skin* front Ritteritt liseitaatsti
_
'SIENTENCE SERMONS.
l'ractzceis prayeer.
1iety never parades- itself. '
iesself-satisfied need to be short
sighted.
There are 'no*wolves- in, the empty
sheepfold. •
iI
ndo
It take* less than two half tiutht
to make a full.stred lie.
Mtn are net drawn to the church
by using the creed as * club.
poor religion that lets tlie
prayer meeting bide the poor.
eaven,dOtoe not stop to consult
the vogue before itpkka out *
You esomot blame a bag of wind
for steering clear of pointed tutor.
Habit may be 'one of our boot at.
Hot at wolf as one of' our wort
enemies. #
iquity thee the *
t One*
Tbe NU who IrtatONA) are soother
poi is eert*imi'y WI from Clitth.
Ishnoilf.
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T. Thoi*of forgivene.0s.:P0a.n.
, David grieves for Absalom; 9:
Se '
Th. Theilsorel our Shepis_e_irel. Pia.
23.
F. The birth of Christ. Luke 2:
8-20;
S. SoloMon anointed *Ring, 1
Kings 1 :0240.
Solomon ehooses wisdom. 1
Kings a :443;
The lessons of the, quarter extend
over a period of 31 ,yrsare. They are
*11 concerned with the life and
words of David and Solomon. A
profitable r0140W telltla be conduct-
stinirtea-c,I
„ a out : Another'
,
would he to s etudy the teaching
about ein,. its consequences and par-
don. Material for *uch revieweean
be .found in the. notes. Still an-
other review would ,be„to get each
member -
„.
tu ba
fhc OK',
it; so..Dmrrny'.114kndi witheut,.
fear, ind fitialist pule Off itAsviirstiOit
thus rendering it itt-ill mute help-
less. He thought it 'great sport to
see it eiawl cleeperatelY, iiret in one-
-direetienrthen-sn cinothers-in-sirders
to get away from its tormentors.
harder it pulled *flies' string,
the more it pleated Danny, who
yanked the 'poor insect hero and
there, leughing heartilte at it* ef*.
forts to e8041301
After it,time the, bee's struggles
became less violent it movements
more feeble, until finally they ceas-
ed altogether, and the little crea-
ture lay, apparently lifeless, on the
• 0
. - ,,-t •-J,
M4,1. •-0 1
• auntookWYVin.Y.ru'
e I Ni
an
-dangled it on the string. It hung
there,. quite inert and, limp, so he,
threw it into the long grass, de-
elering that the fon, was over.
It was too Waiel to hunt up some.
*
*,^
ber
le,104,,Of
of opinions will begivenalbo
the teaching in each lesson. Th
jollinr ven b 1JpTaD .51
irt
0
soft, green grabs, and blinked lazs
:_icarmwilyaingAtilvadup.Trat::00;twar,:ihite clouds.
- -
one of there. Re was just_
8 "mak-
ing holieye” that 110 was king in,
,.4151,-4Arslup,44zhen-84(Idenly-le.-Mt..-
a ,violent pull on his arm; - then
another, and still another. He was
about to protest against- beingseo
rudely disturbed, when he saw
something that made. him forget.
everything ekes -- -
A great -creature (if- seemed to
him a giant), towered_above eas.
raPelittrilw:bire gra° other et;;-d"end "4)lie'a.
fast-
ened to Danny's artn. Every .min-
ute or tivo, the giant would give a,
jeek to the roper_ond tae -poor boy
was pulled hither and thither, with
an abruptness that was anything
but agreeable. Besides the rope
hurt Danny cruelly,. The giant,
however, was so big and strong,
and Danny -ea email and helpless,
he could do nothing but try out
with pain and anger. The giant.
only laughed at that, and pulled
the harder. Poor Danny was yank-
ed this way and that, until he was
so dizzy and sore -it was misery to
"W'veh'en he felt he 94thear no
more, to his horror, the came
quite close to him. "I think I will
pull 'off your arms and legs,"r roar-
ed be, in tonesofthunder.
In an agony of fear, Danny burst.
111 o ears, tryiiipPlati-e-,--
Mr, Giant, do net kill me!" ,
"But you did not mini killing the
poor bee," returned- the giant,
doming still nearer,- SO close that.
Danny could eees quite plainly, his
dreadful, rolling eyes.
"But never :do it again,"
wailed Danny; "I never once
thought WAS 1.10.11ing it. It was
only a bee." s
"Well, you are 'oily ahoy, nnd
rithave you to know that bees
trve-feelinglisess-weilsate-boysimsre---
rtait4hes-Paz
you will never be so cruel ag in, .
will let you off this time," and the)
giant turned assif ta''' depart. Be-
fore he dropped the rope however,
he gave a final jerk, *doh was so.
violent that, Danny -awoke.
It was only a dream, after all
but dreams sometimes teach useful
lessons, as this one did to Danny,
for never again was he to•
torture, for his own divertion, even
such 411 hunible treature" as a- bees
'reiSon-r -141Te—neearibily-0f serv
g God in the precise way
Word instruct,
Lesson IL Goes supera-bounding
grace; David purposed to build
00d A, house and God covenanted_
build him a house and to establish
• his houee and.his kingdom forever
Lesson III. David's kinduess to
Mophibosheth, .a type of our David's
kindness to us:
Lesson IV. If weileaLst tisseko
our sins from Girdlie will uncove
them and fill our hearts with heav-
iness, but if we uncover our sins
!before God with frank and fulLcon-
fession God will cover them up and
fill our hearts with praise and light.
Lesson V. 'Whatsoever a man
semeth that will he also reap: a
sinful father will reap in his' way-
ward children an awful harvest of
the sins he has soivn ; the king who
is disloyal to Clod will reap the dis-
loyalty of his people.
Lesson VI. The man who de-
stroys the love and peace and joy
of another's family will reap heart-
breaking agony in his own house.
Lesson. VII. Jehovah is the be
liever'e• Shesiherd. Every want wit
be met, every fear wi1 be vanished,
every longing will be satisfied_
Leeson VIII: God keeps Hie
promise in spite of all the schemes
-
of men to thwart it.
4.•
so • er is u er rum
for the individual, and for the na-
tion, in the wine cup.
Lesson X. We should desire wis-
m-that-ii*--may berve -God effect -0.
ively, more than we desire long life
ordeath „
Lesson XL. "When a house is set
apart for God in the way appointed
Re will fill the house with His
,glory.
RE 8OVERt16,1VS' AftgElq-K
•
Laws le Great Britain.
1 I
According to the ancient British
law the sovereign shall not leave
the kingdom without the*conEent of
both 'finites of Parliament. in
ancient times the absence :of the
Xing, was root by the appointment
of an officer .caliedttlie "justiciar."
This, talker was afterwards- supev.
eded by -the appointment of lords
ustieee under thi great seal, but
one bas been commieeioned M1Oe
fill.- In -1104 'when -queen- ie
oria was about to visit Germany,
Lord Campbell urged that the lords
ustiees should be appointed /w-
ording to constitutional praetice,
ttt the Lord Chancellor (Lord
yndhurst) convinced the House
hat, this ;was no longer neeeSsitry,
wing, to the 'Walern facilities of
opreunititiens yllis has teriCii
reeeVent ever' since,
dPiliZTLY.
. evident "that something
rnorc *molt than usual was
gbing on the smell hoy'S mind. ,
eC es he passed the door of
houw and peered through the
ow before he dared. to enter.
n he made his appeatance with
an air that dozens of brOken
or 'bushelsof' stolen apples
could not have given him.
• s. Murphy, littl Mickey's
new tin whhtle's all broke." t
Railway Builders in Afriea Rare! ,
0 Trout/10 With Tbent,, -
tvery„ Month brings us nearer to,
the realization of gr. Cecil Rhode's,
dream of Pape -t4 -Cairo
'The rails have en laid for a dtss
tance eft over 2,600 ?tales from the'
Joe OuPotte, 043LoArde.f*, is not, '
4 Milei oft
• t;oni arki built of allianized iron,
In t sparts e the ratiway ta.
s
while the telegraph -poles,
"ties" into whirh the railj,,mirir -
ielamped are of ateel. Even the,
buts for tho railway workers littler
or no wood is, used,. (m teeount or
the tone upon tens of thouesnds of
white ant 4 wind* .Infest, the regtons
north Of the Zambesi.
These voraciou* pests will destroy
Anything fo, the nature of wood, zror
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