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fir-PIPES:IS FOR OUR SOULS
Threatening Clouds Gather and
Thicken arid Blacken.
inotore..4 ootiontliid tho Portholes:it of their prey, there are bealce of death
emcee In Ow fern' °eel' eitteee Nine nee' ready to plumes, there are claws a
too one Two, hy Wilson) Uyo„of Toronto, Rf
uto ooportuiont Of Ssenature, (*Simi
A desPatch from Washington ayea
--ROY, ape. Tehmege prom:hod frone
thefolio-wing theta Matthew -Xedila
Ti7, "Seven 'as e hen gathereth her.
chickens undor her Wings, and ye
twould not." -
Jereen,tem was in sight as Christ
carne to the greet of Mount Olivet, e
height of 7.9p root. The splendore of
the religimme eapital • oe the whale
OartInirraniated tho landscape. There
is tbe temple. Yonder is the kines
PaMee. Spread out before his eyes
etre tho, pomp, the wealth, the ,wic1*7
edness Mul.tho, coming destruction OT
Jerusalem, .end- he bursts into tears
at the thought of tbe obduracy of a
place that he would gladly have
saved and apostropnizes, saying, "0
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often
would ; have . gathered thy children
togetheM eveie as a hen gathereth her
chickens ' bedew her Wings, and ye
would nett"
Why did Christ eelopt hen emd
chielteriti st a senile? Nekt to the
appositeness of the gomparison,
think it was to, holsnall public teach-
ers :in the matter. of illuatration to
get down se,011; their, stilts and use
comparleone Diet all cep understand.
The plainest ,cbird on earth is the
barnyard fowl. Its only adornments
are the ree comb in its eead-deess
'and the wattles under the throat. It
has ne grandeur of genealogy. All
wo knos, is that its aocestors came
from halm some of them from a
height of 4,000 feeton the sides of
the Himalayas, It has no pretension
of nest like the eagle's eyrie. It has
no lustre of plumage like the gold-
finch. Possessing anatomy that al-
ilows flight, yet about the last thing
it wants to do is to fly, and in re-
treat uses foot almost as much at
wing. Musicians have written out
In musical scale the song of lark
and robin redbreast and nightingale,
yet the hen of my text hath nothing
that could be taken for a song, but
only
CLUCK A/ID CACKLE,
Yet Cluist in the text uttered 'while
looking upon doomed Jerusalem de-
clares that what he had wished f or
that city was like what the hen does
for her chickens.
There is not much poetry about
this winged creature of God men-
tioned in my text, but she is more
practical,. and more mptherly and
niore suggestive of good things than
many that fly higherend wear
brighter colors. She is .not a Prima
donna of the skies nor a strut of
beauty in the aisle of the forest. She
does not cut a circle under the sun
!eke the Rocky Mountain eagle, but
stays at home to look after family
affairs, Slie does not swoop like the
condor of the cordilleras to trans-
port a rabbit from the valley to the
top of the crags, but just scratches
for a living. Blow vigorously with
her elates she pulls away the ground
to briug up what is hidden benea.th!
When the, breakfast or dinner hour
arrives, she begins toprepare the re-
past and Calle all her young to par-
take.
T nn in warn) sympathy with the
unpretentious old fashioned hen be-
cause, like most of us, she has to
scratch for a living. She knows at
the start the lesson which most peo-
ple of good sense aro - slow to learn
—that the gaining of it livelihood im-
plies work and that sucroses do not
lie on the serface, but are to be up-
turned by positive and continuous
effort. The reason that society and
the church and the world axe so MD
of failures, se full of loafers, so full
pf deadbeatis becanse people are
not wise enough to take the Meson
winch any hen would teach them
that it they would find for them-
selves and for those dependent upo,
them anything worth having they
!nest scratch for it. Solomon said,.
"Go to the ant, thou sluggard." 1
say, ga to the hen, thou sluggard,
In the Old Testament God compares
himself to an eagle stirrieg up her
nest, and in the New Testament the
1.1oly Spirit is compared to
A DESC18NDING DOVE,
but Christ in a sermon that began
with cutting sarcasm for hypocrites
and ends with the paroxysm of pa,
thos in the text compares himself to
a hen.
One day in the country we saw
sudden consternation in the behavior
of old Dominick, Why the hen should
be so disturbed we could not under
stand. We looked about to see if it
neighbor's dog were invading the
farm. We looked up to see if a
stormcioud were hovering. We could
see nothing on the ground that
could terrorize, and we could see no-
thing in the air to ruffle the feathers
of the hen, but the loud, wild, al%
frighted cluck which brought all her
brood at IuU run under her feathers
made us look again around end
above us, when we saw that high up
and far away there was a rapacious
bird wheelleg round end retold and
doWn and down, and, not eating u
as wo stood in the shadow, it came
nearer and lower until we sem its
beak was curved from bilge to tip
end it had two flames of fire for eyee
and it was a hawk. But all the
chickens were under old Domeock's
Wings, and either the bird of prey
caught a, Ohmage of tie, or not able
to find the brood huddled *antler wing
darted back into the elouds, So
Christ calls with great earne$Lness
to all 11)0 young. Why, what is tee
raidterel 11. le bright sunlight, end
there cao be no danger. Health is
tholes. A good' honie is theirs. Plen-
ty of food le theirs, Preened taf long
life is theirs, Bat °Mat doldinues
to call, calla with more etimhasie and
urges haste and nays not tt secOnd
ough I, 10 he 1ost Oh, de tell us
what is the Matter, Ah, mew I Floe;
there are hewits of temptation in the
Mr, 0100 are vultures Wheeling for
allurement ready to dutch. • Now 1
see the peril. Now X understand the
urgency, Now I see only moiety.
Would that Oiliest might this day
take our sons and daughters Into hie,
shelter, "as a 'hen go.thereth her
chickens unclor her wing."
But we all need the protecting
winos If you had known when you
entered upon manhood or woman-
hood what was ahead of you, would
you have dared to undertake life?
How much have you been through?
With afloat life has been
Dig bnelclOg before whieta you fiat end
the neighbors and the 'aerial and the
deep enowbanks and bear the Village
bell that Celled you te woreelp and
seeing tho horses which, after PUIlIng
you to chureh, stood around the old
ciamboarded meeting house and
thew wbo set et either end of the
church pew and, indeed, all the
eeenee of Your first fourteen years,
and you think a What you wern
than end of What you ars now, and
n,11 those thoughts are aroused by
the sight, Of the old hencoop, Some
of you had better go heels and start
again. In thought return to Oa
place and hear the cluck and fale
the outspread feathers and coffie un-
der the wing and make the Lord
your portion and shelter and warmth
Preparing for everything that may
come and so avoid being classed
among thoee described by the Mos-
ing words of my text, "as a hen
gothereth her chickens undor her
wings, and ye would not,"
When a good man asked it young
woman , who had abandoned bot'
home and .who was deplorleg her
wretchedness, why she slid not rettirn
the reply was a "I dare not go
home. My father is so prOvoked ho
would not receive me home."
"Then," said the Christian man, "1:
will test this." And so he •wrote to
the father and the reply came back,
and In a letter marked outside "Im-
mediate" and inside saying, "Let
her come at once ; all Is forgiven."
So God's invitation for you is mark-
ed "Immediate" on the outside, and
inside, it is written, "He will abun-
dantly pardon." Oh, ye wanderere
item God and lumpiness and home
and Heaven, come under the shelter-
ing wing. Soma of you have been
long while drifting in the tempest.
of sin and sorrow and have been
making for the breakers. Thank
Gbd, the tide Ines turnede Do you
not feel the 1.ift of the Mitotic ? ' The
grace of God that bringeth salvation
has appeared to your soul, and, in
the words of Boaz to Ruth, 1 com-
mend you to "the Lord elect of
Israel, under whose wings them hest
come to trust,"
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
They tell me so, They have
not attained that which they
expected to attain. They hatve not
had the physical and mental„ vigor
they expected or they have met with
rebuffs which they clicl not anticipate.
You are not at forty or fifty or six-
ty ma seventy or eighty years of age
where you thoUght you would be.
I do net know ,anyone except anyself
tca whom life has been a happy surs
prise. I never expeeted anything, and
so When anything ca.me in the elute°
of human favor, or comfortable posi-a.
tion or widening field of work it was.
to Me a sorprise. X*as told in the
theological seminary by some of any
follow. students. that I never would
get anybody to hear mo pecach un-
less I changed my style, .so that
when I found that some people did
come to hear me it was it happy
surprise, But most people, exceed-
ing to their own statement, have
found life a disappointment. Indeed,
we all need shelter from its tempests.
The wings of iny text suggest
warmth, and that is what most folks
want. The fact is that this is a
told world whether you tole it liter-
ally or figuratively, We have a big
fireplace called the sun, and it has a
very hot fire, and the stokers keep
the coals well stirred up, but much
of the year we cannot got near en-
ough to this ..fireplace to get warm-
ed. The world's extremities are cold
all the time. Forget not that it is
colder at the south pole than at the
north pole and that the Arctic is
not so destructive as the Antarctic.
Once in a while the Arctic will let
explorers come back, but the Antarc-
tic hardly over. When at the south
pole a ship sails in, the door of ice
is almost sure to be shut against
its return. So life to many mil-
lions of people at the south and
many millions of people at elle
nerth is a . .prolonged shiver. Mit
when I say that this is a cold world.
chiefly mean figuratively. If you
want to know what Is the mooning
of the ordinary term .of receiving
the
"COLD SMOULDER,"
get out of money and try to bor-
row. The conversation may have
been almost tropical f or luxuriance
of thought and speech, but suggest
your necessities and see the ther-
mometer drop to 50 degrees below
zero, and ist that which till it mo-
ment before had been a warm room.
Take what is an unpopular position
on some public question and see
your friends fly as chaff before a
windmill. As far as myself is con-
cerned, I have no word of complaint
but I look off day by day and See
communities freezing out men and
women of whom the world is not
worthy. Now it takes after oeo
and now after another. It becomes
popular to depreciate ancl defame
and ' execrate and lie about some
people. This is the best world I
ever got into, but it is the meanest
world that some people ever got
into, Tho worst thing that ever
happened to them was their cradle,
and the best thing that will ever
happen to .them will be their grave
But notice that some one must
take the storm for the chickens. Ale
the hen takes the storm. 1 have
watched her ender the pelting nain.
I have seen her in the pinChing
frosts. Almost frozen to death or
almost strangled in the waters, and
what it aight site makes for the
young under her wing if it dog or a
hawk or a man come too near I And
so the brooding Christ takes the
storm foe us. What flood of an-
guish and tsars that did not dash
upon his holy soul ? What beak of
torture clid tot pierce his vitals 1
What barking Cerherus of hell was
not let out upon him from the kete.
nels 1 Yes the hen takes the storm
for the chickens, and Chrlst takes
the stolen for us. Once the tempest
rose so suddenly the hen could not
get With her young back from the
new ground to the barn, and , there
she is under the fence half dead.
And now the rain turns to snow,
and it is an awful night, and in the
morning the whiteness about the
gills and the beak down in the mud
show that the mother is dead, and
the young ones come out and cannot
understand why the mother does
not scratch for them something to
eat, end they walk over her wings,
and ce,11 with their tiny voices, but
there is no answering cluck. She
took tho storm fogsethers and per-
ished. Poor thing I Self sacrificing
.even unto death ! , And does it not
make you think of Him who endured
all for us ? So the wings under
which en come for spiritual safety
are blood spattered wings, are
night shadowed Wings, are
TEMPEST TORN WINGS.
My text has its strongest applico,
thin for people who wore horn in
the country, WhereVer you snag now
live, and that is tho majoeity of
you. You catmot hoar my text with-
out havieg all tho rustic scenes of
tho old farmhouse ceine back to you.
Good old days they Were. Yost know
tothingotitich of the world, for you
had not seen the World, 13y lew of
association you cathet retail the
brooding bee and her clilekees with-
out seeing also the barn and the
hayMele and tho weggen shed and
the liOuSe and the fireside With the
THE S. S. LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
MARCH 23.
Text of the Lesson, Eph. v., 11-21
Golden Text, Eph. v., 18.
it, 12. "Have no fellowship with
the unfruitful works of darkness."
able week's study in this epistle and
the next on the resurrection need
not necessarily break the continuity
of our study of the acts of the apos-
tles, for in all the Scriptures we
have the things concerning Rim of
whom Philip spoke to the eunuch
And whom we must see as the cen-
tre of every lesson. . In this epistle
Ire aro, as one has said, taken into
the presence chamber of the 1,111
'n
and ode acquainted with His se-
cret counsels and purposes concern-
ing' us. Only as we by faith enter
into His love and purposes will we
be delivered from the works of dark-
ness mentioned in chapter iv, 8.1.; 1.
Cor. vi, 9, 10; Gals v, 19-21.Intem
perance, as generally understood, is
one of the many works of darkness,
but the child of God should be free
from all if he would know the joy of
being a child of the Lord Almighty
(11. Cote vi, 16-18).
13, 14, "Awake thou that steepest
and arise from the dead and Cheist
shell give thee light." The three
apostles, 'heavy tvith sleep on the
Mount of Transfiguration rind actual-
ly sleeping in Gethsemane, show us
how the most highly fascored believ-
ers may be indilTereut to the great
things of God and how this cry,
"Awake thou that steepest," may
apply to us all,
15, 16, "See, then, that ye walk
circumspectly, not as fools, but as
wlse, redeeming the time, because the
days are evil." The Revised Ver-
sion has on these two verses either
in the text or the margin "Look
therefore carefully how ye walk,"
"buying' up the opportunity." The
life of the believer is spedsen of as a
continual dying to self, an overcom-
ing, a conflict, a ram (H. Cor. iv,
11; I. John v, 4, 5; Eph, vi, 12;
Hob. xii, 1), but in this epistle and
elsewhere it is rilso called "a walk."
In the climax in :Isaiah xl, 31, the
walking—that is the stendy plodding
—is more difficult than the mounting
on wings or the running. We are
entreated to walk worthy of our vo-
cation, not as ether gentiles Walk,
to walk in love, as children of light,
to walk worthy of God, who hath
called us' Milo His kingdom and
glory (13ph. iv, 1, 17; v. 2, 8; 1.
Thess, 11, 12). As to buying up the
oppoetunities, if tee had the zeal. of
unscrupulous business men, who for
their own gain. make corners ev-
en in the lleeeFaarlefi of lite how
much might be accomplisheil in the
service of Christ? If wca walked as
Ohrist walked (0. John 6), all
would be well, but who is sufficient?
Our sufficienesr is of God (IL Con
in, 5),
"Wherefaro be ye not -unwise,
but emdersiencting what the Will of
God is." It 1$ not the 'will of God
that any should perish, for De will
have all to be saved and has made
full provielon for the same (11. Peter
111, 9; .1.. Tine it, 4; John iii, 16),
When sinners aro saved, IIe desires
that they ehould be holy and so ful-
ly ylelcl to Him that they may
prove in daily life how good and ac-
ceptable and perfect His will is (I.
These. iv, 8Rmr
; Rom. d(, 1, 2). Ou
blessed Lord could truly say "'X
seek Imb mine own will." "/ de-
light to do thy Will, 0 any God"
(John iv, 34; v, 30; vi, 38; Ps, xl,
8). •
18. "Bo not drunk with wine,
wherein is excese, but be filled with
the Spirit." Drunkenness belongs to
the =fruitful works oT darkness; to
be filled with the Spirit is the privil-
ege of every child of light. Wino
etimelates and exhilarates 11005-
terelleta bet the Holy Spirit stimu-
late:a supernaterally ; the ono is for
Self, the other ior God, There is at
'drunkonnes$ that does not come front
wine Or strong 'ffieffic (Tha, xxiX, 15),
but is just as mech the work of the
esiVersary, ()ally that which is of
00c1 tbreligh Christ gives light and
life 1 all that is not Of flied cseeee
Wiper end drunkenneeei, and the
Mapifestntion of the flesh as 00d
only Min glee ,life, so God only. can
Hee in ite the life He desires, and
kie le .pleueed to do this by lilti
591111., therefore the necessity Of be-
ing filleci With the Spielt by Whom
nlone the life can be lived,
19, "Speaking to yourselves in
psalms and beenns staid spiritual
songs, singhig arid making melody in
your heart to the Lord." A drunken
masa is apt to melee himself known
by his noisy talk or ribald song, but
a Spirit filled person, Moving tree
melody in hie heart, will eing unto
Ute Lord, Leach proclaims, lis mace
ter by that which comes from the
abundance of his Ilona. In Col.
10, we have the same result fr011a
the word of Christ dwelling richly In
; therefore, according to all
extom which says that, things that
are equal to the same Oleg aro
equal to one another, there Is pro-
bably some conneetion between being
filled with :merit end filled with
the word of God, We know
that the Spirit has writtell
tile Word, and the Spirit is the
word, and the word of God, the
Lord JeSUB, is the embodiment and
manifestation of the written word.
If 11/0 would be filled by the Spirit
and -used by the Spirit, hat us lay up
His word diligently in our hearts
(Reek. 111, 10, 11).
40. "Giving thanks always for all
things unto Ged and the Father in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.'"
In 1. These, v, 18, .it is written "In
everything give thanks; for this is
the will of God in Chrise Jesus con-
cerning you." How earnestly we
elMuld covet to be filled with the
Spirit since he alone can live this
holy and beautiful life in us 1 "He
who spared, not His own Son, but
delivered tlim up foe us all, how
shall He not, with Him, also freely
give us all things" (Rom. rili, 32),
and siece "God iit love" and has so
loved us, Ile cannot give las any-
thing that is not love, so tve will
thank Him for all things if we be-
lieve this. Mrs. Bottorne tells of
two waiters whoin she saw accident-
ally jostle one another, the one
thereby spilling some hot water on
the other, who meekly replied.
"Never mind, it is all in the will."
A lady whom T know told inc that
having spilled a bottle of iffic on her
carpet she MIS able to take it meek-
ly and as part of His will.
21. "Submitting youi selves one
to another in the fear of God."
Some one has said that submission,and receive it at the same station
is tho highest mission on earth. 11005 the westward,
higher than home or foreign missions
and that unless one has learned it he
is not fit for missionary service
anywhere, In Mis life at Nazareth,
in His baptism, in His public minis-
try and in His sufferings our Lord
fully manifested this grace of the
Spirit. As we can only show our 'e
love to God by our love to others,
so we can only manifest true sub-
mission to God by submiesion to
others.
FOR AN EASTER PARTY.
NEW WIRELESS 11E0ORD,
MgSSAGES xrczouxvr,p 2,099
ranms MON =WAND,
—7
Inventoe Marconi IS Jubilant Gliclar
This Latest Great eSehleVille
neeest.
Tbis is on aceouet of the most
aniazing triumph which wirelese
telegraphy has yet achieved—a story
of hew an Atlantte liner mitintained
communication with the Cornwall
signal station throughout nearly all
Of her three thousand mile journey
from Cherbourg to Now York.
There were many to doubt Mar-
coni's recent assertion that by means
of his wireless telegraph eystem Ite
had sent a signal from Newfoundlend
C
to the ornish coast, but there can
bo none to doubt this litter and
greater feat, which was accomplish-
ed. during the just ended voyage of
the steamship Philadelphia froM
Cherbourg to New York.
Captain A. R. Mille, master of the
Philadelphia, bears witness to the
fact that six messages were received
during tile first four days of the
run, theee beginning when the steam-
ship was 250 miles distant fruin
Poldhu, the Marconi Cornwall sta-
tion, and ending when the eessel nes
2099,miles from that point. The
other officers of the ship attest with
their signatures the accuracy of this
statement. Mr, Marconi rook these
precautions tlaat the sceptical. might
be eonvinced. Tho young inventor ie
very proud of the tape bearing the
"S" sigeal, which was received when
2,099 miles distant from the :dation,
and which is signed and certified by
Captain Mills and Chief Officer Mars-
den.
INEQUALITY IN APP.ARATUS,
all that ilea Wen accompliehed up
to data, and explelnecl What he Ime
laid out to accoMplish in the int -
Mediate hater°. The sbereholdere are
all oetheetastic over the results an-
eeMplifalied 1111(1 have the utmeet con-
fidsncs 113 Mr. Marconi.
NO FRARS OF )IVALRY.
"To the stet:1010111(ms Mr, Mer -
coni 901010(1 out that so far as lone;
distance transnilseloo is ooncereed 110
now fears rivalry from no one, and
that wheretis the speed of the sub-
marine cable is direetly effeeted by
length, that of the wirelees system
is not effected the leclet by dis-
taupe. It is just as eaey to work fit
high mood acrose the .A.thintie or
acrose the Pacific as to work acroes
thErom
the English Che',"
..A.11 the inessanbs were Ube w ay—
all from, the station to tho ship.
Mr. Marconi explained this by saying
that while the apparatus installed
on the Philadelphia. admitted of the
reception of messages it was not
sufficiently powerful to send them
such a distance as the more power-
ful Cornwall station. accomplished.
believe," said Mk. Marconi,
quietly and without a trace of ex-
ultation over the marvel which had
been accomplished and his own
m
triuphant vindication of what he
had claimod—"I believe that the dis-
tance at which a wireless message
may be sent depends only ou the
power of the sending station. I I
think it possible to send a message
entirely around the world—to start a
message eastward around the globe
"I now know," continued the
young inventor, in the same even
tone, "that the curvature of the
earth does not in the least affect the
waves. Many who have reasons for
boning se have said that this would
prove a fatal defect to tbe system
But it is not so. During the voyag
I made a number of evperunents
which I had long wanted to make,
but had eever attempted before. You
meet pardon me for not disclosing
their nature. All 1 eau say is that
they were eminently satisfactory to
me.
The invitations should be written
on it heavy quality of light, old red
cartridge paper, and tied with willow , "There, is one other thing which 1
green rope -silk, and sealed at the imay and. It has been urged as an
place of tying with deep mahogany I objection to any system that under
sealing wax. Extending from the it secrecy of messages is impossible.
upper left hand corner to the lower I admit that in the earlier stages of
right heed corner in fancy Jetterieg the system's development this ob-
should be tbe words, "Who wilt sing lection might have been advenced
an Easter carol ? 0, Pussy Wil- with some cause. But now that dif-
low 1" At the left side, a little timely has been entirely overcome by
above the center, should exteud a adoption of syntonic devices by
row of six or seven cats, done in which messages may be transmitted
crayon or waster colors, every sue- from ship to shore, from ship to
ceoding cat on the right growing ship, or even across the ocean with -
smaller. Below this in the open mit interference of any sort. As an
space the invitation should be meet- illustration of the point to which
ten. There should be a border of tuning has been already developed, I
pussy willow and cat tails C10110 ill may say that the Lizard station is
oils or water colon; around the in- at present able • to 'work with ships
\citation, The paper should then be without suffering ally interfereece at
folded over to about the size .of f, nil from the contemporary working
very large postal card, the silk cord of the big power station at "'ohmic,
put in plate, the wax put on and
the addiess written on the outside.
The house decorations should con-
sist of pussy -willow eud cat tails,
with lilies banked - On In ejurdinieres.
Them should also be nests of colored
eggs, some downy chickens and mis-
hits (cotton flannel ones) 10 unex-
pected. places. Refreshments muy bo
served as for any party.
SECRECY IS. POSSIBLE,
GRAINS OF GOLD,
Nothing is so isifeetious as exam-
plo—Charles
Observe your enemies for they Med
find out your fehlts.--Antisthenes,
Envy always 'Implies conscious in-
feriority wherever it resides.—Pliny.
The less heart a man puts into -a
task the more labor it regeires.—
Anatol.
Evasion 1$ unwoethy of as, and is
always the intimate cf equivocation.
— Balzac,
If there is any person to whom
you feel dislike, that is the person
of whom you never ought to speak,
—R CeciL
The chief pang of most trials is
not so much the actual smeeriug
sell' as mer own spirit of resleteneo
to its -jean Gem
Th-ero is no bee.utifice of complex,
ion,. or form, or behavior, like the
wish to scatter joy and net pain
around us.—lemeeson.
Typhoid fever deaths have fallen in
London from 374 per million in 1871
th 166 per million cit present.
"If there are twenty chickens in a
coop," said tho teacher, ' and two
were missing one morning, how
many would you have?" "WWI,"
Said the leading ruffian or tho class,
"if they Were my chic:kens to begin
with I'd have eighteen; but if they
were somebody olso's I'd have only
two."
"Tom," said the newly -Wed trust-
ing girl, "didn't you promise forth -
Daly to give up smoking the day I
married you?" "Yes, niy dear," re-
plied Tone. "I believe T did." "And
ratite what explanation have you to
Offer?" "Well, I kept my promise,
tosteway," replied the husband; "I
didn't smoke a single cigar on our
Wedding -day,"
only seven miles distant.
"There are several in England tVil
have urged this objection ageinst
the wireless system, claiming that it.
is possible to intercept and read
nieseee es transmitted by this meth-
od. Before leaviug England 1 gave,
these gentlemen ne opportunity Of
making a test, offering to place nny
station of mine at their disposal for
the purpose. The offer was made in
all sincerity, but di was not ac-
cepted.
"I do eot believe it any exaggera-
tion to say that it is now practi-
cally impossible to intercept wire-
less messages. Had the Philadel-
phia been accompanied on this, trip
by another vessel, and had the two
travelled side by side, it would not
have been possible for ono to have
received messages intended for the
other, oven though both were fitted
with identical instruments."
TWO WESTERN STATIONS.
Taking up the story where Mr.
Marconi left off, Director Saunders, a
director of tho Marconi Wireless
Telegraph Company, who accono
pantos Mr. Mcmconi, said that work
would be commenced immediately
and simultaneously on the Cape Bre-
ton and ,the .Cape Cod stations and
that the -company. hoped to be ready
for business by May. A larger tower
will be meted at Cape Cod to re-
place the poles which succumbed to
December storms, and a permanent
station will be built at Cape Bre-
ton, As the distance from that
Point to the Cornwall station is
considerably less 'than the distance
at which the station signalled the
Philadelphia, Mr. Saunders sees no
reason why messages cannot be
transmitted directly across the ocean
and with as noteh certainty and cel-
erity as they aro uow carried lsy sub -
Marine cables.
"We are prepared," Mr. Saunders
continued, "to confute any who nnt,y
be disposed to doubt, the genuine-
ness of the work done on this trip,
as We have ineontrovertible proof.
After we lost the Poldhu station we
did no more talking until eleven
o'cloelt :Friday nights At that hour
we spoke the Nantucket station and
sent several private messages ashore.
"aust before sailing; Mr. Marconi
addressed it meeting of the Own -
holders of tho ciampittly,in London,
una gave them a Meer Stattnuent of
TRAILING SISIRTS.
They Are Absolutely Dangerous to
Healtls,
Ladles cannot be told too often to
abandon the unhygienic fashion of
trailing deems, at least in the
street. They should be brave and
show the world that they eare for
the health and welfare of others.
When one considers how many mil-
lions of dangerous bacilli and micro-
organisms are gathered up with the
clust and brought into the house by
this unhealthy inocle of dress, further
armament is hardly necessary to
Prove that the wearing of trains is
absolutely daugerous to health, As
the poet of the London Truth Puts
It in his, "Song of the Skirt," why
should dresses be made to do "the
scavenger's dirty 1V01."1
'Sweell-'41WeOP—S1COOP—
Where the waste of the street lies
thick,
Sweep--swesp—sweep—
HoWever our path we pick;
Dust, bacillus, and gerin,
Germ, bacillus, and dust,
Till we shudder and turn from the
sorry sight
With it gesture of disgust.
NEV AND STRANGE
Fruit growers foie Adopting the
idea of coveving their crops with
paper sheete during tile cold nights.,
A small outlay In labor and Paper
results in cOneidernble seving in the
Ion
Vaccination of plants is the ides of
a Frenen botanist. Ile proposes tie
raise suitable eultures of parasitie
fungi and inocalate the plants in ols,
der io make them proof against the
attacks of those parasites.
Tho vegetarian mrvoltiee in hate
und bonnet:i, include the eels:MO-I-
lion of 0. rosy -red tonutto and tho
!lower of the French bean, for the
wing and Other animal deeorotions
now commonly used on ladles' head -
The Four-UourseSleep Society 18
the latest thing in associations, arid
it is Chicago bred. The members ar-
gue that more than four Metre sleep
is unnecessary, and they pledge them-
selves not to have More, and to
bring up their children on the same
plan.
The musical staircase will probably
not be regarded as an unmixed bless-
ing. As yon walk up or down, yOur
feet. press various buttons that act
upon mechanism for beating gongs
and drums, blowing trumpets, and
so forth. The object aimed at by
the inventor is not stated:
The latest, theory in connection
with drowning is that no Water en-
ters the lungs, alla that heat,' pro-
perly applied, witIvegtifielal respire,
lion, will resuscitate persons who
hove been under water an hour. This
feat has been accomplished by the
doctor who advances the theory.
Mosquitoes are fond of anything
blue. That is a scientific discovery
that is causing an alteration in the
color of the 'United States Army
shirt; it is to be changed from blue
to white (which does not attract
these pests) in the malarial -districts.
Mosquitoes, it is now known, spread
malaria.
"Olt, men with sisters dear!
Oh, men who have well-dressed wives
It is not alone an expensive mode,
It is one that hazards lives!
For malignant microbes swarm
In the triturated dirt,
And the dress that sweeps it up may
prove
A sbroud as well as a skirt!"
Footwear is also it mai.ter of im-
portance. Shoes should never be
worn tqo tight. They not only hin-
der free movements, but the constric-
tion of the blood vessels causes im-
paired circulation and coldness of the
0111 13'011100S.
If it is 'found necessary to wear
underwear at night, a different net ,
should be kept for that purpose,
which. with the night-dress or night- •
shirt, should be well aired during the
,day-tinae.
RASTER GIFTS.
Now that the custom of giving
Easter tokens has become general,
there is quito a call for articles ap-
propriate for tho occasion. There
aro it few articles that, while inex-
pensive, are pretty.
Materials required are st few small
round trays, such as grocers use for
butter, green, broom and yellow tis-
sue paper, and diamond dyes of such
colortt 118 3701.1 wish Cut yellow tis-
sue paper into strips two and one-
half inches wide, fold and cut, crow
wise, leaving one-half inch at each
edge to hold the fringe.
With a little paste fasten a strip of
fringe close to the edge of the tray,
then another strip a little way in-
side, so that the fringe will cover
the pasted edge of the arst row ;
continuing until the tray is entirely
co t ereil. Crumple the fringe elightly
with the hand, to give it the ap-
pearance of straw, and your nest is
ready for the eggs. These must first
be laolled hard in clear wator
Dissolve a very little blue Diamond
dye ill it 511110e1' of hot water ; then
roll three of the eggs around in it,
and they will be it lovely sky blue.
A. name, si little sketch, or an Etna -
ter greeting may be traced on the
egg with a stick dipped in lard be-
fore ila v are wit itito the dye bath,
and it will remain white.
Place the blue tend white eggs in
the yellow nest, and it is dainty en -
°ugh to please anyone. Make nests 1
in the same way of the green or
brown paper, and color eggs to con-
trast prettily.
Littlo gifts may be nettle of egg 1
shells which have been prepared by I
carefully breaking the small end of .
the egg so that the contents may be
poured out. Trim the edge of •the
shell as evenly as possible and hiad
It with a, strip of gold paper pasted
on. Use Ramon floss to crochet a
cover. Plain open work crochet or a ;
fancy pattern may be need, shaping •
it to fit the shell ; make a row of
shells to finish the top. Use Asiatic
couching silk of the seine color 1 or
a draw string, milking a tiny bow
at melt Side and leaving four strings
to hang it up by. Tie them together
about- six inches •from 1,he top of the
shell, with blue Roman floss or
Asiatic Meted embroidery silk.
Baby ribbon may he used in place of
the Asiatic couching silk, but is not
quite as pretty to work with and the
color cannot be so readily matched.
Any color to suit the fancy may be
used and the little cases so made,
can be ueed to hold hairpins,
matches, a thimble, rings, etc,
4
DORMANT MONEY.
A good deal of money became dor-
mant through the carelessness or
forgetfulness of the oweer. When
Mr. Goschon's Conversion and Re-
demption Scheme of 1887 mole into
operation the Bank of England 1R/ -
titled 33,000 holders of consols that
their 8 per cents were no longer 8
per Cents. No fewer than 11,500
letters failed to reach the stock-
holders to whom they were ad-
dressed ; the people were dead, and
their relatives were nnknown, says
Chambers' Journal. One omen who
Could not be found had consols
risme:tilting to 'upwards of £187,593;
and over forty possessed a210,000
each ; and this Money uevcdts law-
ful ownership.
The strangest idea for regulating
treffic comes from Paris where cer-
tainly, traffic requires a good deal of
regulating. The police are to be de-
corated with colored electric light
bulbs on different parts of their uni-
forms and at the end of the batons.
The bobby presses a button and
lights himself up.
.A. new device for use with tele-
phones has been patented in Sydney.
IL is a clockwork mechanism with e.
dial that registers the time occupied
in speaking; the hand of the dial
works only when the receiver is tak-
en from the hook. The idea is that
subscribers should, be charged so
much per hour instead, of so •.much
per call:
Snapshots can now be taken with
X-rays, so that you can have a pho-
to of your internal economy in a se-
cond or two, instead of having to
wait an hour. This new diecovery is
to be utilized for the popular amuse-
inent, and in it short time you will
be able to put si penny in the slot
and see right among the bones of
your hand.
Two Ingenious cyclists have colla-
borated to 1.urn the bandle-bar into a
gas generator for an acetylene
The handle box is divided into a
water chamber and a. carbide cham-
ber, the two being connected by it
P190, and the Ilow of water being
controlled by it valve front outside.
In the centre is a gas chamber, hav-
ing an outlet to feed the lamp.
A travelling savings bank has been
inengurated by the authorities in the
French provinces. It is a motor -car,
with seats for driver, two clerks, and
it. cashier. A table is arranged so
that persons on the road can place
their money on it without entering
the vehicle, and under the table is a
Rafe into which the money drops
through a slot. A proper receipt is
given and an entry made in it book,
This is to encourage thrift by mak-
ing deposits easy.
Butter is now being packed in
111aallel: that permits of its carriage
from Australia without losing Re;
£t'ashness. 0. box is foamed of six
sheets of ordinary window glass, and
the edges aro sealed with gum paper.
This box is then enclosed in plaster-
of-Paris inch thick, this being
again covered with special paper.
The plaster is a bad conductor of
heat, so the temperature inside the
box remains the mune. Boxes are
now made to bold 200 lbS. of butter,
A Viennese surgeon has invented a
new method of raising the broken
nose or filling up similer cavities in
the human anatomy. Under the skin,
which is over the break he injects,
some luquelled vaseline mixed with
paraffin. This mixture solidifies at
the temperature of the brads-, so ad-
vantage is taken of the time during
which it cools to shape the hardening
mass and give the hitherto cleformed
micaubee quite a. 11100 appearance. The
solid mixture remains there, and,
moreover, the surroencling tissues
join with it, so that in time the vas-
eline becomes like cartiluge. Nature
readily weds art for the benefit of
TO THE END,
Persistence is a great thing in ad-
vertising. Fighting the campaign
to the end, making success in spite
of all obstacles, planning largo sales
with ati tsst'asit:o of values in stook
and conveying the inipression of a
desire to supply the wante of the
people at the rieht time in the right
way, this is what is necessary to -day
to -morrow and every day. This is
What makes biasinees certain this
week, next 'week, all through the
spring and all through the year.
Keeping at it makes greater success
possible. Keeping at it insures the
attention of the buying public.
Advertising 'gives life to 13111.111101a
and keeps dull days from the adore
when the non-asivertiser is wonder-
ing what to find for hie Ilerits' to
keen Ulm busy,