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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-7-29, Page 9•"'-' -" NOTES ANI) COMMENTS. A.t no since the <ileac+ of the . 'Oraeco-Turkish war ins there been anY Oloubt that the powers could by con- ! - nuoing the sul Lan of their readiness ...,, ) apply coercion, have secured accept - n• • nee of their draft of the terms of woe. It is true that the concert was ot framed to coerce Turkey, but was einstituted in 1a94 to investigate the te, Armenian massacres, and continued in o'er to secure the application of re- Illekerms to the disturbed provinces. But en the Cretan troubles and the war ` eith. Grew followed, the coneert was still maintained, and though it did nothing to prevent, the war it asserted ae ability and intention, to settle the *erns of peace on its own lines. A.nd. 'I•ere is•no doubt that if in pursuance f their purpose. Russia and, A.ustria, j Iliad simultaneously entered Armenia : od Macedonia, and the maritime pro - es bad blockaded the Turkish ports, rie sultan would have yielded and have evacuated Thessaly without first re- ,•eiving his indenniity. There is no rea- m to believe that be would not do so ' :tow, for although he has a huge army in European Turkey, and. Mussulman pride has been greatly quickened as the ' result of the Ottoman victeries, he woula. realize that, with all the powers moving at oncer the odds were irre- sistibly against him. But the sover- eigns did statesmen of Europe are 6(1 with with the idea that any coercion of Turkey will, by letting loose ambitions now curbed. percipitate a general Euro - teen war, though Turkey has been more than once defeated witleout in- volving so widespread a struggle, and there is no room why she should not be again. mslawm•••••• The probability is that were her chief seaports bombarded and occupied, the sultan and. his generals, seeing Europe united, and in dread of final expulsion. would. yield, with the result that met - tens would. fall back into the condition in whioh tbey were five years ago. No doubt Ottoman pride would receive a hard blow, the forces of agitation would be in ective ferment, and the possibia ity of the deposition of the sultan would, become probability. but there would be nothing to provoke a goner- Eurimeen war. Indeed, were the Turks to fight as they did in 1878, and so compel a partition. there is no good reason why, should the reported. un• - aerstanding between ttustritt and Rus- sia. with regard. to the Eastern ques- 'On Lirove true, even that solution should preduce such a result. For if a European war is so tremendous a cala- mity that any suffering and humilia- tion must be borne rather than pro- voke it, some way would be found to avert the *dangers involved in peace- • able partition. Nothing, however, will convince the powers of this fact. and -ewhen they grow insistent, the sultan has, in their fear of war, only to make some new proposition or to demand. some new concession, to hopelessly di- vide them. It is possible. of course, that if Great Britain should threaten to withdrew from the concert rather than be involved in its defeat, the pow- ers might in the fear of new alliances, the quarrels which might ensue, or the ability of England to act alone, agree upon actual coercion. But the intima- tion that the ambassadors of the five remnining powers might sign the treaty of reacewithoutGreat Britain indicates that they would not, and that tho sul- tan may still continue to defy the con- -tart at wiln FA URE FOR CLEANLINESS. Ih Ifp:iets Provincial France with ills De- mands for Bathtubs. President Fetlx Faure devotes special and unceasing attention to cleanliness. He is doing moro to 'spread the use of the bathtub in Frame than any other Frenchman of these or former Limes. A Paris correspondent says that when- ever the President goes for a week or ten days there must be a bathhouse with. all modearn improvements. BO refuses to stop even overnight in a house or hotel that has no bathroom. His hobby cremes many persons incon- venience, for the bathroom is not a universe1 institution in Frame as in this country. In fact, the provincial Emma towns are as barren of pri- vate bathtubs as most prairie villages in this country. Nevertheless the President holds fast to the bathtub as • oondition precedent to his visit to any town or castle. In the Presidential palace in Paris and io the castle at Fontainebleau, M. Faure had eiaborate bathrootas fitted with the latest appliances and luxuries. In the castle at Ramboillet last year the Presideot ceased 100,000 francs to be spent for bathrooms which he might 1.14Se during his three or four weeks' residence there. The Presicient's passion for oleanli- roes has been a source of moth vexa- tion and induatry at aall the provin- ciaa prefectures which he bas visited. since gm:Meiling M. Carnot. Usually on his exottrsioms throtagh the land he lodges et these prefeoturres, and, as none of them was provided with bath- rooms when he begin his tours, there has been a great • bustling about to make good the deficiencies. A large othahlinuisle was buiet last year at Use prefecture ih Ronnes, preparatory to hie brief sojourn there, and a similar house was erected at the prefecture in Valence thie year in anticipation of • his visit.The vigor with whioh the Presideint is leading hie movement for bath reform le said to have brought him many converts and to have given the negletned bathtub industry a great • boom in the repulblio. ALL GONE Bur OUTLINES. She—Wieen a man le in love, does he !ever make mental reservations in re- gard to hie ad.ored eine? 'lie..—No; when a non is really in love, he lit eel: any reeeta,lity. THE DIMUENT iIAL A TALMAGIAN ENCOURAGEMENT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE HIRED. The nighty UOAS of Toilers In Stores and leaetortes Slave a Sermon Fresielied to MOIR by the Noted Divine — He Gives AdvIce That is Good For Two Worlds. Rev. Dr. Talmage preacleed on Sun- day, from a double text: Acts xvi.,14, "And a certain woman kiarnedLydia, a seller of purple in the city of Thy- atira, whioh worshipped God, heard us, whose heart the Lord opened." Pro- verbs, exit, 29; "Seest thou a man dili- gent in his business?. He shall stand before kings." The first passage introduces to you Lydia, a Christian merohantess. Her business is to deal iv purple cloths or silks. She is not a, giggling nonent- ity, but a• practical woman, not ashamed to work for her living. All the other women of Philippi and. Thy- atira have been forgotten, but God. has made immortal in our text etyd'a the Christian saleswoman. 'Cho ether text shows you a man with tea,' eti band and heart and foot all busy toil- ing on up until he gainmi a prinoely success. "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand. be- fore kings." • Greet encouragement in these two pftsso,ges for men and. women who will be busy, but no solace for those wbo are waiting for good. lock to show thorn at the foot of the rainbow ••a casket of buried gold. It is folly for, anybody in this world to wait for something to turn up. It will turn down. The law of thrift is as inex- orable as the law of the ticlee. For- tune, the magician, nein, wave her wand in that direction until castles and palaces come, but sbe will after a while invert the same wand, and all the splendors will vanish into thin air. There are certain styles of behav- ior wbich lead to u.sefulness, 'honor, and permanent success, and there are certain styles of behavior which lead to dust, dishonor and moral de- fault. I would like to fire the ambi- tion of young people, I have no sym- pathy with those who would prepare young folks for life by whittling dome their expectations. That man or wo- man will be worth nothing to church or state who begins life owed. down. The business of Christianity is not to quenth, but to direct humon amble • Therefore it is that I utter words of encouragement to those who are occupied. as clerks in the stores and shops and banking houses of the country. They are not an exceptional class. They belong to a great company f tens of thousands who aro in this country, amid circumstances which will either make or break them for time and for eternity. Many of these people have already achieved a Chris- tian manliness and a Christian wo- manliness which will be their pass- port to any position. I have seen their trials. r have watched their perplexities. There are evils abroad which need. to be hunted down and. dragged out into the noonday light. In the first place I counsel clerks to remember that for the most part their clerkship is only a school from which they are to be graduatedit takes about eight years to get into one of the leerned professions. It takes about eight years to get to be a merchant. Some of you will be clerks all your lives, but the vast majority of you are only in a tran- sient position. After awhile some December day the head men of the firm will cell you into the back of - and they will say to you: "Now, you have done weU by us. We are going to do well by you. We in- vite you to have an interest in our concern." You will bow to that edict very gracefully. Getting into a street car to go home an old comrade -will meet you end say, "What makes you look so happy to -night?" " Oh," you will say, 'nothing, nothing i" But in a few doe your name will blossom on the sign. Either in the store or bank where you are now, or Ln some other store or bank, you will take a higher position than that which you now occupy. So I feel. I am now addressing people who will have their hand on the helm of the world's commerce and you will turn it this way or that. Now °larks, but to be bankers, importers, insurance company directors, shippers, contrac- tors, superintendents of railroads — your voles mighty "on 'thange"—stand- ing foremost in the great financial and religious enterprises of the day. For. though we who ere in the pro- fessions may on the platform plead for the philanthropies, after all, the merchants must come forward with their millions to sustain the move- ment. Be therefore diligent and patientin this Lransient position. You are now where you can learn things you can never learn in any other place. What you consider your disadvantages are your grand opportunities. You see an affluent father some day come down a prominent street with his son • who has just graduated from the university and establishing hira in business. putting $50,000 of cap- ital in bis store. 'Well, you are envious. You say, "Oh, if I only had a chains like that young riaan —it 1 only ;mei a father to put §50,000 in a business for me, then I would have some chance in the world." Be not envious, You have advantages over that young man which he has not, over you. As well might 1 come down Lo the <locks when a vessel is about to sail for Valparaiso and. say, "Let me pilot this ship out to sea." Why,. I would sink crew and cargo before I got out of - the harbor, simply because know nothing about pilotage. Wealthy seacaptains put their sons before the maat for the reason that they knowit is the only place where they can learn to be,. successful sailors. It is only un- der drill that people get to understand pilotage and.ntivigation and I want you te understand that it takes no .more skill to coeduct a vessel out of the har- bor and across the sea than to steer a commercial estatilishment clear of the rocks. You ,see every day the folly of people going into a Moiness they know THE .EXETER TIMES nothing about. A man makes a fortune in one business, thinks there is another occupation more comfortable, goes into it and sinks all. Many of the commer- cial establishments a our cities are giving their clerks a mercantile eduoa- tion as thorough as O. ale or Heovard or Princeton are giving scientitie attain- ment to the students. matriculated. The reason there are so many Limn founder- ing in business from year to year is because their early mercantile educa- tion was neglected. Ask the men in high commercial orioles, and they will tell you they thank God for this se- vere discipline of their early clerkship. You can afford to endure the wilder- ness march if it is going to end in the vineyards aud orchards of the prodds- ed land. But you say, "Will the womanly clerks in our stoxes have promotion?" Ir. es. Time is corning when women will be as well paid for their toil in mercantile circlet as men are nolo Paid for their toil. Time is coming when a woman will be allowed to do anything where they ige she can d well.It ' lal while ago when women knew ew noh of of telegraphy, and they were kept out greatraany commercial circles a y are now- welcome, and the time will go on until the woman who at one counter in a store sells $5,ocio ohwtiohgrehtrha000st: .1 gatoore3r.demo ti n a year will get as ; $5 CO9 worth of gttohhoeem d s. same al onlwstorehwho ao tr s et ihtl to Lydia, the Christian saleswoman! ' Ho not get the idea that your boi terests and those of your employer are antagonistic. His success will he your ; hont3r. His embarrassment will be !Your dismay. Expose none of the frail- ties of the firm,. Tell no store secrets. Do not I who come to find out from clerks t hlab, 'h I store; n.Deoveoro*ttobeteamknozoligyntboousetsidyeouto.lage persons • men who take on a mysterious eir 1 when something is said against the ! firm that employs themas much as to say. "I could tell you something ! if I would, but I won't," Do not be lamong those who imagine they can I build themselves up by pulling some- tiody else m . Be not ashamed to ! beau 1 Again. I counsel elerks to smirch out •b . are tho unlawful demands of an t stablishmeaut I anhreere-t !stet them. In tbe 6,000 yews that have I passed there has never been an mea - 1 sten when it was one's &Ay to sin !against Goa. It is nerver right to do , wrong, If the head men of the firm iexpeet of yoo dishonesty. disappoint , tb•exn. • "Oh," you say, "I should lose I my place them" Better tese your place -lost your place. Cal. risButiatn ohuerwoiill not th 1 — Ialways honored. You. go to thesheal leirovaatnint of yoourryostore anct say: "Sir. I ; you. 11 Isis from you,„IlaCrcantt industryo to oblige 1 one t rybe is part, but thin thingseems to i wrong, and it a sin against I my conscience., it is te sin Lig,ainst God, ' and I beg you, sir, to excuse me." He ;may fluOh up mad swear, but he wtll cool down, and be will hove more ad - 1 miratiora for you than for those who isnbraie to his evil. dictetion, end while . t be - Do ! they sink you, estits - ; cause of sem:Ming temporary advantage • give up, your cbaracter, young man. Under God, that is the only thing you. bave to Wild on. Give up that, you give up everything. That employer asks a young man to hurt himsell. for time and for eternity, who exoects him to • make a. wrong entry, or 0 ange 011 . .voice,, or say goods cost so m;aoh when tbey cost less, or impose upon the ver- dancy of a customer, or misrepersent a style of fabric. Bow dare he demand. af You anything so insolent? If I were asked which class,of persons retest need, the grace of God amid their annoyances. I would sax, "Dry gooas clerks." All the indignation of custom - ere about the high prices comes on the clerk. For instance, a great war comes. The manufactories are closed. The Peo- ple go off to battle. The price of goods runs up. A. custmner comes into a store. Goods have one up, "How much 15 that worth?" " A dollar,' "A. dol- lar? Outrageous! A dollar!" Why, who is to blame for the fact that it has got to be a dollar? Does the indignation go out to the manufacturers on the banks of the Merrimac because they have clos- ed. up? No. DORS Oat indignation go out toward the employer who is out at his country seat? No. It comes on the clerk. He. got up thewax. He levied the taxers. Re put up the rents_ Of course the clerk! 1 Then a great trial comes to clerks in the fact that they see the parsimon- ious side of human nature. You talk about. lies behind the counter—there are just as many lies before the coun- ter. Augustine speaks of a man wlie advertised. that he would on a certain occasion tell the people what was in their hearts. A crow11 assembled., and he stepped. to the front and said, "I will tell you what is in your hearts— to buy cheap and sell dear." Oh, lay not aside your urbanity when you go into a store! Treat the clerks like gen- tlemen and ladies, proving yourself to be a gentleman or a lady. Remember that if the prices are high and your purse is lean that is no fault of the clerks. And if you have a son or a <laughter amid those perplexities of commercial life and such a one comes horns all worn out, be lenient tindknow thet the martyr at the stake no more certainly needs the grace of God than our y'oung people amid the seven times heated exasperations of a clerk's life. Then there are all the trials which come to clerks from the treatment of ioconsiderate employers. There are pro- fessed Christian men who hireeno more regard for their clerks than they have for the scaies on which the sugars are weighed. A dierk is no more than so much store furniture. No consideration for their rights or intere-sts. Not one word of encouragement from sunrise to sunset, not from January to Deoember, but when anything goes wrong—a streak of dust on the counter or a box with the cover off—thunder showers of scolding. Men, imperious, capricious, cranky toward their clerks, their whole manner as much tra4p say, "All the interest I have in yotris to see what 1: can get out of you." Then there are all the trials of incompetent wages, not in such times as these, when if a man gets half a salary for his services he ought to be thankful. Then there are boys ruined by lack of cozapensation. In how many prosperous stores it' has beeet for the last 2oyears that boys were /even just enough mon- .ey to teach tbem how to steal. Some were seized upon by the police. The vast majority of instances were not known. • The head of the firro. asked, "Where is George now?" "Oh, he isn't here any more." A lad might better starve to death on a blasted heath than take one farthing from his employer. Woe be to that employer who unnecessarily puts a temptation in a boy's way. There have been great es- tablistiments in these cities building marble palaces, their owners dying worth millions and millions and mil- lions, who made a vast amount of their estate out of tbe blood and muscle and nerve of half paid clerks. Such men as —well, 1 will not mention any Mime, but I mean men who have gathered up vast estates at the expense of the people who were ground under their heel. "Oh," say such merchants, "if you don't likt it here, then go and get a better place." As inuoh as to say, "I've gat you in ray grip, and. Imean to hold you You can't get arty other place." Oh what &contrast between those men and Christian naerohants who to- day are sympathetic with their clerks, when theypay the eatery, acting in this w,ay: ' saaary. that I give you is not all my interest: in you. You are an immortal man; you are an immortal woman. I am interested in your pre - stand that if T am a little higher fare. I want you to under - sent and your everlasting wen on in this stare 1 am beside you in Christian sympathy." relo bark 40 or 50 years to Arttleux Tappen's store Lit New York, a man whose worst enemies never questioned) has honesty. Every morning b.e brought all the clerks, and tbie accountants, and the weighers in- to a room for demotion. 'Utley safeg, they prayed, they exhorted. On Mei• n - day morning the tilerks were asked !where they had attended church on the previous day end what the sermons were about. It must have sounded strangely, th.at voice of praise along the streets where the devotees of Mammon, svere ' golden beads, You say Artbru.r 'Appeal failed. Yes, he was unfortunate., like a great many good men, but f understand he met all his obligations before he left this world, ' anti 11 know that he died in the peeve of the gospel, and that he Is before the throne of God to -day, forever blessed. IT that be failure,- I wish you might all fa. .il • My word is to all clerks—be niitrht- wiesi Wader used to think when he slew an enemy all the strength cif that enemy came into hes own night arm. Atari Iltawe to WI you that every mis- rortune you conquer is so much added to your own moral power. With om- nipotenee for a lever and the throne of Gott for a fulcrum you can move earth marl heaven 1,Vhile there are oth.er younreig men puttiaag the cup of !. sin to, their lips, you. stoop down and drink olut of the fountains of God and yen wilt rise up strong to thraeli the mouutains. The ancients used to, think tlhat pearls were fallen rain drops. hardened into t' d ed to ter -aa your temptations, A Sand.- t • tCli, onoh tag the surface of the sea, gems, r pp .,- THE SUNbAY SCHOOL 11.11.••111.1 INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. 3. "Pout's arotor.)ey to Jerusalem," A et* el 145, Golden It, Acts 21:12. PRACTICAL NOTES•'. Verse 1. After we were gotten iron them. Separated from the elders oi Epbesu,s, who had met Paul received his parting counsels in Miletus. Read the preceding chapter. Launebed. • "Set sail." Coos. Cos, a little island near Miletun The day following. The pre- cision of the narrative is verified by the distances of the ialaxide, Rbodes. Fifty miles from Coos. It was famous for its beauty. Here had stood the mighty Colossus, between wht.a,-. ClItstretched legs, ships, it is said, en- tered the harbor, but it had been over- thrown by an earthquake and now lay on its bronze back in the water. Patera.. A anyn in Asia Minor, capital of the province of Lycia. Finding a ship. To find, a ship may have taken a long time. In ancient days tbere were no lines" of navi- gation. Retell shipmaster owned his yes - vet, or a group of merchants owned it, and it wee sailea at whatever time and to whatever place suited the in- tekests of its owners. Every men was at the mercy of merchant mariners; even king e had to wait their cenven- ience. t nto Phenicia. The roast of S3' - ria, north of Palestine, the country around Tyre and Sidon. We went abroad. Who were "we?" Paul, Luke, Timothy, Sower, Aristarehue, lieoun- dus, Gaius, Tychicus, and Trophimus. Their ship probably carried to Tyre sil- ver and gold, ;statuettes, and parch- neentee treasures of classic lore and classic art, to bring back from Pheni- eia, a few weeks later, Tyrian purple. Arabian, spice, and the amber of the Hyperborean.s. Of such wealth its en - the bottom. L heve to tell you to -day perishable pearls into many a young tlina::.sotoL7p;s of trial have showered. in - After the last store has been closed., afeftimtbePltsgecT. afteeshoifleottuquce foot the custom home steps have stigma& aftr4teeo raeitaheihalvorngo talkinene Deaf itearrarantatiteartfter 1\ aelongton end New York and ',An- dorra tend Vienna have gene down tnto the greve where Thebes and Behylora tend Tyre lie buried„ alter the great. fire bells of the judgenene day hive tolled aaltIttitibilalifaaiiurgoifs a'bervetkrilndg—ronttifst a(11111Yd• stores will dome up for imepectioni Oh. evtret ten opening of accoont booke Sule by sid e the clerks atad the men who employed them. Every invoiee • roadidatet, nal the labels of geode, all certificates of stock, all lists of prices, all private marks of the firm, now ex- plaLned so everybody oan understand them. All the maps of cities tha.t were never built, but in whicii lots were sold. ..e.11 bargains, all gougings, oil snap • Juclgrneints, alt false entries, all adult- . eratton a liquors with copperas and strychnine. All, tnixing of tees and osurg:Tustandfn coffees and sirups web, rkNQIIV.1.01 ; and iron. anind4oail aAnidl ssillIvirnerdliTandislitoeepica; tsratot1Pdar material. seell embezzlements On tha,atrthedesa,raytr,o4kwialthfevnirlthe oities of this en an amlamate of desgottif5ruenitia'sotanne'°(11:ialf°11!vgglio- . those who wronged mon or woman, in- ! suited God and defied th.e judgment. !Oh, that will be a great day for you, leanest Christian clerk! • No getting up early, no retiring late, no walking around witth. weary limbs, but a man- seon 112I whioh to live and a realm of -light and love and jay over wbieb to hold everlasting clealioion. Hoist him up from glory to glory, and from song to eang„ and from throne to throne, for while others go down into the sea. with their gold, likee a millstelne hanging to their neck, this one shall come up the heights a amethyst, and alaleister, holding in his right hand the. pearl pf great price in a sparkling, glitter - mg, flaming casket. AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE. Caused Titters and Sly Clinekles — She Wasn't Ills Wife. A laughable, but rather embarrass. bag ease of mistaken identity occur- red the other day be a large drap- er's store in London, England. A gen- tleman who is a little too fond of joking, entered. the shop for the pur- pose of meeting his wile at a certain counter. Sure enough, there stood a lady dressed, to his eye, at least, just like the woman he was after. Her back MS turned and no one was near leer, so he quietly approach- ed, took her by the arm. and said in a voice of stimulated severity: "Well, here you are, spending my money as usual, eh?" The face turned quickly toward him was not his wife's; it wag that of an acid, angry, keen -eyed woman of about a0 years, who attracted the attention of everybody in that part of the shop by saying in. a loud, sbrill voice: "No, 1 ain't spending your mon- ey or no other man's Money,: and "I beg your pardon, madam," cried the confused gentleman. "I supposed you were me wife, and--" "'Well, I Just Lan't your wife, nor no oth,er man's wife, thank 'fortune, to be jawesi at every time I buy a yard of ribbon! I pity your wife if you go about shaking her like you did rile. If I was her rd—" The chagrined joker waited to hear no more, but made his way, out of the shop, amid the titters and sly chuckles of those who had witnessed his confu- sion. CHRISTENED HER HUSBAND. In West Ansi:retie the other day a mine manager's wife was christening an engine and had bte throw a tham- pagne bobtle a,t it. It was somewhat larger than the proverbial baystack, and she was only a !couple of yards from it, yet' she cleverly munaged to miss it, and hit her hubby—a portly person—below. the belt, knocking him into a cistern ten feet deep and. Ina; ly hurting.hira. • -winning merchants and rough sail- ors had some knowledge; but, little, did thee- dream that on their southern ' journey they carried the richest tree, - sum of cosning centuries, the became- gtiroenatofpre.L. ilicos,,ed enterprise. "a inari of 3. 'When we had discovered. "When we had sighted." Cyprus was the scene of one of Paul's earliest Chris- tian triumphs. It was neeable to many as the birthplam of Berrettas. We left ! it on the left. On the northeast. Failed into Syria. "Unto Syria." which here stands for Phenieia, the eastern enast of Syria. Landed at Tyre. Centuries , before this Tyre heel been the great mart of the moditerranean. One of the most eloquent deseriptions in all liter'- atur'e 18 that by the prophet Ezekiel ,of its mercantile glerv, phapter 27. But in Paul's day Tyr' had test its primal prestige, though still a. large city. 'Tbere the ship was te uniti•le her bur- den. "Dispose of her merchandise." 4. Finding diseiples. The Revised • on. "having found th d ia•t pi es, shows that they hod to look for them. The Christians in that. city were evi- dently few and not prominent. Tarri- ed there seven days. To proceed in the POMO vessel at the enti of that time. Through the Spirit. The eaeiest ex- planation of this is Dr.Jacolitson's:"The foreknowledge of Paul's misadventure at Jerusalem was inspired; the advice . 5. Went our way. "Were going (lit: upon it, that he ehould not go on our journey;" started for the thither, was a human inference." They all. . . with wives and children. We ean sm. in imagination the nine leaden: Osoorted by 'all the Christians of Tyre—men, women and children—who milled and wept at awe as they necompanlea their visitors to the ship. The mention of "wives and children" shows that al- ready the leaven a the Civilization of Lave had begun to work. It i,00n arous- e4 hostility. There was hardly a va- gary conceivable that had not the ap- proval of Some of the many religions of antiquity, but an overflowing pure love !which bound together men and wo- men and children of all daises was such. a novelty as to lieget almost uni- versal disfavor. Tal we were out of the city. There, was, we may suppose, a wide space between the huddled houses of the town and the "port" or eml ark- ing patee.. 1Ve kneeled down on the share. fn their formal prayers .Tews eustormarily stood, but the attitude of the heart enprayer is far more impor- tant than that of the body. There would he some he.siteuney on the part a even some leading members of mod- ern chtorches to go to one of the busier dooks in a great city and with prayer and going to bid farewell to friends about to sail; and those who saw such agathering would assume that this was either a - aavation Army meetmg" or a new missionary hand, exc.eptienal peo- plit ineither case—"cranks," probably. But in the ancient East svhile meet of the religions were depraved, they were weedy avowed and practiced. and we may be sure ant it was no cross for Paul rencl ;has friends to kneel down en the shore. nor a specially notable net on • the, edge of a town crowded with, zeal- ome and eereraonious worshipers. 6. When we had taken our leave Though the acquaintance was short. yet the friends lip Ives strong, for the bond that united them was a common love to Christ rind a eommon ex- perience of salvation. All lovers of the Lnrd love all his other lovers. 7. When we hod finished our eourse from Tyre. Tbe Revieed Version uses the word "voyage," They sailed from Tore to Ptolemois, eight miles north of Mount Carmel, where they finally left the ship nnd pro.ceeded to aerusa- lem by land. Saluted the brethren. The Christians; who, however, at this period, were r not quite separated from their associations with devout Hebrews. 8. The next day after reaching Ptole- mais or Acre, Costirea. A sea -part town built by Herod the Great, and named In honor of the Roman em- peror; in a direct line forty-seven miles north-west of Jerusalem, but a longer journey by the roads; the scene of the first Gentile conversion to Christianity; at that time the resid- ence of the Roman governor; soon alter • the place of Paul's imprison- ment for 3 years; now a deserted rein, known as Kaisariyeb. Philip. Ile wbo bad anoe been driven from his home in Jeruselem by Saul the persecuter, nro im this old age welcomes to his home n Cesareit, as a beloved Impeller, Pau he apostle. Evangelist. "A messen r of •-eold tidings." One of the seven, Gen- exitaly knonen as &acme, though the name is not applied to them m the New Testament. Abode wale him. Thus clid the, early dieciples open their hoes and heartto one another. 9. Fuer daughters. The Gospel honors and bailors the family relation. The early mints lireed in homes, not clois- ters, and reared up Obriotian families. Virgins. Not as nuns, but living at homLfaomidoojsocsebec% uppringopth Oftime 15gifts works ofo 01 tospitration have not been manned bo ane sex. 1:11o:18ath and Deborah in the Old Testament, Anna and these four maidens ha the New, appear in the "goaday fellowship, of the prophets." 10. Agabus. Twenty years before this he hard pxedioted a famine. 11. Gixdle. A. garment worn riroond ths vralist by bath Wen 341C1, women m the Eat, made of leather or of linen, often richly embroidered, and fastened 15 a• knot or by a metal elasp. Heu,na his Own hande and feet,. Such often were thedramatir actine of the pro- phets, more impressive tham words. Thus was Ahab warneda 1 Kings 20. 35-42; so Isaiah walked naked and bare- foot; Tsa. 20. 3; so Ezekitea delirered ntany predietkins. Tams saith the propIkets were TihObi voine HWY' Ghost. tto Tatottoom.ennoot 8-5 their warrant. 'Tbus saith the Lord." Bind. . deliver, Ful- filled in spirit, though not precisely in letter. The arrest was by Jews. but Paid was elelivered to the Romans un- der compulsion of the authorities. 12. We. Paul's °monitions in the journey. Tbey of that Tam*, The Chris- tian% of Cestirea, who bad known of Pad4 by report, and in their brief ac- quaintanee had alrearly learned to love bim, desired to preserve so precious a life for the cause. Besought bim. It is often hard to decide wbee we ought to face danger> and when to flee foun them; when to yield to persuasion and are mounted eleetrie seerchlights. each having a lighting power equal to 25,000 candle.e. HOW SUE IS PROPELLED. The propelling machinery of the Re- nown consists of two sets of triple etwoitlercylinders, h es. terioVmerso ela Ndilath three von- 1(00.1 which are: High pressure, 40 inches; intermediate pressure, 59 inehes low pressure, 88 paches. • The bigh pres- sure cylinders are fitted witli Piston valves d Ibe jnjerziidjate and IOW pressure cylinders with double posted slide valves. The length of streke15. 51 1utijonnellsestre.rTraibenuentegionieteli fmore.ild 1d0r1)eurgl-4it), and develop, colleetively, 12,000 hove - power, while with the natural draught they develop 10,000 horse power The cost of the hull of the Renown ioeleo4i.oe3167t0,11021r07.2at andofmofsaak.ti5hooeog.01-ealoe.sstielt'os a orf- Tbe Renown has bunker stowage for 800 to of coal, which will drive the shUI' 6,500 miles a 10 knots an hour, but on emergency, by utilizing the wing spaces, she can stow Obeli tons of reel. • : -Ihienciii4hiwnigliheennaLlenkheerrs.to steam 12.000 . milee at 10 knots an heur without re - I The results of the speed trials of the Renown gave the greatest atititefaction, land she hare proved hex:sett the fast- est buttlesinp in the British navy. or in any other navy. Indeed, 'mustier- ing ber tontrige, 0 mean speed of 1875 knots, on re four hours' continuous run, ceoxred.ed.d. for *Lih itgt leslanp. • den I re-, The sltip's minion', of officers and men, including the Vice -Admiral awl his staff. is 701 of all ranks and ratings. The officers' quarters have been fur.. nestled. on a most luxurious seele, the like of which dues not find a record, in the atho inInntsofprea6eneo- t (tiltry.rtt I esh ip ft The lighting of the ship throughout , is on the incandescent prineiple. the motive power being supplied by three powerful dynamos. In addition to the two mai-alights mounted in the tors of the fore and main meets, there are afo:ler. other searchlights, also 800 inean- descant lamps, some of which are mov- HONntar (SWEDEN. ln Sweden a crime is an event; theft, partieulerly, is very rare. Ren- e:Ay 18 the fundamental quality of the race. la naturally recognize..1 and offii•iday counted. upon. In this re- gard the StockhoOnters show a confi- dent carelessness which is always a suxprise, to strangers and muses them some uneasiness. In the theatres and concert ball% there are large cloak rooms, where hats and flies are left without the team:lest safeguard; the performance over, eaeh one again takes poresession of his effents, and an mei- dent never moors. 'the inhabitants are accue.tomed to expect a reciprocal probity in the transactions of every- day life. Upon m.ost of the tramways in Stockholm conductors have been dis- pensed with. The passenger throe:a deposits his teal ore in a little till plac- ed at the end of the vehkee, behind the driver. It is partia.rchal—and eco- nomical. PHOTOGRAPHING IN COLORS. Albert Schenitner, a St. Louis photographer. bas perfected a process by which he is Lible to photograph car- pets, dress goods, etc., and retain all the colors exactly as they are in the originel. He does this by permitting the rays of light to pass through a prism', whirl separates the various colors. A. plate is made from each col- or and the finished pieture is, secured by printing from each of these plates, The invention means much to mom- mercial travellers, who will be enabled to carry photographs, instead of bulky samples, of the arne.les they have for e. A. GOLDEN CANNON. A canneu made of solia gold, Blount - ed upon a carriage of rosewood, and inlaid with oostly gems, is the unique bauble of warfare that has come in- to the possession of the Imperial Army of Berlin. • Phis singular gun was presented to the Berlin army by the managers of the Hamburg Museum, in whose keeping it has been for two cen- turies. It is valued at £5,000. • ONCE WAS ENOUGH'. First Boarder—Were you here last summer Second Boarder, crossly—No; think I'd be here now IS I hub been here last summer? RE WAS A BIRD.. A.id, charging furiously uP—Generat, the enemy has captured our left wing, What shall we do? . The commander—Fly with the other. • TRAIWAY OTREtogue.m A MINER WHO ONOR OPERATED. ONE WILL BUILD ANOTHER. Mt Plan a Novel One—Snow-shoes at Newel sIty, but Every Mau Will Take a Tit* ' Outfit-311d8li4er Is the limo •.1J/cording to This Contrary to the general belief that the spring and !mourner months are the only ones in whioh to attempt to reach the Klondike country from the coast, Captain Peter 11. Peterno, an old California. miner, insists that the be.st and. easiest time is midwinter. Captain Peterson has had nine years' experience in Alaska, two of which W&1-5 devoted to oarrying freight over Chilkoot Pass. Ile has eaught the fever afresh, and. proposes to start from San Premise° in the dead. of winteir and guide a party over the Chilkoot in record breaking time. His plan, is a oovel one, based largely on his own successful experience two and three years ago. "November," says Captain Pete.rson, "is the best time. • to make the Obilkoot trip. Then there is no rain to wet your eupplies. All you have to do is to gutted against the cold. "For two years / had. a. tramway over the Chilkoot, but I left there Lwo years ago. Since then others have tried to operate a tramway, Out tbey were not so. successful as I was. With' air tramway I took over a, steamer twen- ty-six feet long and eight feet beam, built in Portland. I took ovee a good many of the earlier outfits in user rea the 'Yukon. "I am going to put up a.nother tram- way, but only to gat over the outfits of my party. every man int whioht will take with him A TON Oh' SUPPLIES„ And I am not going to have any man Meng that is, not able to manage, that big an outfit. 1 "The traraway till be from Steno House, :tbout two miles ota t"'" of the summit, to Crater Lake, ilearierg O mile en the other side. It will lief just :Ike my old iramwey, erossing the summit about MO yazds ta the left of the route travelled bet men afoot, end by a eteeper and short- er ascent. "I will drive stakes in tbe soft snow and pack the snow mound. them to get an anchorage for the pulleys that the cable will pries through. Out+ or two men on a sleigh at the, summit can CefiSt down the other side and drag up a load from this side( That, 31;stt' sent down the other sIdi wilt drat up another load from tithe side. "There is nu danger oit h a tramway from sudden blinding snoestorme We saveri several men that way. A Man on the sumraitsimply slays by the tram rope and follows it up until ha gets into clamp. "I am thinking of taking some et. - Ile along with me to dot the he ling on the level stretehes. When et them to Lake Li.ndermen we cent kill them and the beef will freeze and keep well, and it will come in znigley bandy. I have used horses on the route, but they would be a. loss. I don't go anything on dogs: they eat too much. "The most important part of the outfit for a, winter's trip 15 snow- shoes, for the snow is very soft. Bar- rel staves do pretty well it a man can't get regular snowshoes. Four or five men making one trip over a route on snowshoes ma easily pack the snow down so that the cattle can go over it with freight on sledges. "From Dyea, ori this side at Chile koot, for the first twelve =ilea the route is over flee ice and itin snow, easy hauling. The next distanoe is tbrough or round. Dyea Canyon, and is over soft snow where eINOWSHOES ARE REQUIRED. The next stage is from Dyea Canyon to Sheep Canyon, where no liye sheep have ever been. And all along here to Lake Linderman you have to use snowshoes. "The next stage, from Sheep Camp to Stone House, which are pretty olose together, to the foot of the prise is two miles, up grade, From the foot of the piles over the suntratt to Crat- er Lake is one mile, anti from Crater . , Lake on to Lake Linderman, is eight ir miles. That makes a total dista,noe from Dyea to Lake Iniderman of about twenty-nine miles: some call it twen- ty-eight. "Wee Linderman and the .other lakes along there are passable all winter through for mail carriersend others. Travel is all on smooth ice to Daemon City. "The rawer way to travel on these lakes in winter is with sails on sledges waiting for the wind. "Prospecting is good anywhere after you reach Lake Linderman, and there the party will probably break up end scatter, some looking for quartzmines there and others going ,caeniera plaster diggings. . "If everything goes reasonably well pal get through with my whole party in winter in record time. "%It is pretty safe to say that of all those men now blockaded at Dyea not one of th,erm ever made the trip in be- fore or he woutd not be there." GAS ENGINES FOR VESSF.O.S. Ships propelled by gas engines are growing in favor in Frame. A new boat ot this type recently. added to the Havre-Reueo-Paris line is 100 feet long, 7 feet draught; is divided into four water -tight compartments; has a two -cylinder, 40 horse -power engine, and runs seven knots. The gas, sup- plied from shore, is stored he a. steel holder, an accumulator composed of steel pipes, under a. pressure of 95 atmospheres, about 850 pounds. NO CAUSE F011 SI/SP/OTOS. Marnraa—Who's been in the 4uger- boo-1 agaite children.? Beth, with two tempts still in her pecket—Baby, I gums.. 'You can't 'speot Tony 'if me, for we're too big to, get into men a little place. SUFFICIENT REASON. The sanitary condition of this boas* is shriply awful. Willy dore't you hive it improved? We rent Item a tneMber 01 ther board. of heratle.