The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 August 1912 — Page 6

The Syracuse Journal GEO. O. SNYDER, Publisher. Syracuse. - • • Indiana HER KISS A LINGERING ONE Imprinted by Bernhardt on the Hand of a Little Girl, it Wouldn’t Come C Ts. A London lady who returned from Europe a few months ago tells a pretty story that concerns Sarah Bernhardt and two little girls, the daughters of Doctor Bull, the famous Paris oculist, who is a Canadian. Bernhardt at the time was playing a version of the “Sleeping Beauty, and wanted a large doll to use as a baby in the play Id all Paris, however, she found it impossible to secure one that looked natural. The two little daughters of Doctor Bull were playing in one of the public gardens one day and had with them a very large and beautiful doll which had been sent them from America. The great ac.ress happened to pass by where the children were at play and at once noticed their big doll.-o She dismounted from her carriage and came toward them. “Oh, children,” she said, “that is Just the dolly I want. Will you lend it to me for my play?” “If mamma will let us w’e will lend it,to you,” said the elder of the two little maids. Madame Bernhardt inquired of their nurse who the children were and on being informed, took them all up in her carriage and drove to Doctor Bull s home. Mrs. Bull, of course, was delighted to be of service to the actress and the children’s doll appeared in all the future performances. A day or so after the little incident tickets for a box for the performance arrived for the children. • They attended, and between the acts the little girls were taken behind the scenes to meet their new friend. “And now ell the lady what the great actress did when you went behind.” said Mrs. Bull to the elder of the little ones when the incident was being related. “Well, you know,” said the child with great earnestness, “she stooped down and kissed my hand, and the kiss would not come oft and my mother had to wash it off * Early Submarine. The submarine was known in Eng land as far as the early years of the seventeenth century, when a , submarine was navigated from Westminster to Greenwich by Cornelius Drebel of Alkmaar, in Holland. Drebel, who enjoyed the patronage of James 1., was given an apartment in Eltham palace. The. king expresed his intention of accompanying Drebel in one of his submarine voyages, but was dissuaded by tils courtiers, who alleged that Drebel was “in league with Old Nick.” Drebel’s' boat was so constructed that, according to a contemporary writer, "a person could see under the surface of the water, and without candle light, as much as he needed to read in the Bible or any other book.” Bath Novelty. Carved wood bowls that float in the bathtub and hold one’s fnvorite soap are one of the liwest fads, but a bath bowl for another pose was brought from Turkey by a' native as a present to the friend he was visiting. It was about two inches deep and eight inches in diameter and made of brass, but as light in weight as aluminum. Many were the guesses as to its use, from a fern dish to a finger bowl, until the foreigner enfightened us: “It is the bowl we use in my country to lift water and pour it over the body when taking a bath in t«e bathtub. I have not seen any in the bathrooms of America.” —Good Housekeeping Magazine. First English Matches. Though the first match appeared in England as late as 1827, the idea seized a genius years before that date. This advertisement in a Morning Post of 1788 gives evidence: “For travelers, mariners, etc. Promethean fire and phosphorus: G. Watts respectfully acquaints the public that he has prepared a large quantity of machines of a portable and durable kind, with promethean fire, paper and match inclosed, most admirably calculated to prevent those disagreeable sensations which most frequently arise in the dreary hour of midnight, from sudden alarms, thieves, fire or sickness.” Regulating Foot Traffic. Kansas City has decided that as a city grows it is very evident that all traffic on foot as well as. on wheels must be controlled. It believes that the “jay walker” is a menace to traffic in a busy city and will not permit him to stray all over a street on which the movement of vehicles is strictly regulated and so Increase the danger of accidents, nor will it allow him to cut corners. School Children Farmers. A special train, loaded with prize agricultural products grown by school children in a state-wide garden contest engineered by L. R. Aiderman, state superintendent of schools in Oregon, will invade the east this fall. Oregon has applied scientific management to school gardening to '■ demonstrate what children can do to develop the economic resources of the Btate, and check a backward and unpromising tendency toward overspecialization in agriculture in this growing commonwealth. Famous Man Unrecognized. The most famous men may walk in public, disguised by the photographer and artist and quite unrecognized In the street. Not long ago Mr. Balfour (whose face I happen to know) started to walk in front of me along Picadllly, trailing an umbrella thoughtfully I watched. Mr. Balfour walked a quarter of a mile through the middle of London and not a single passer-by gave the slightest indication of his passing by the turn of a head. No one knew him.—London Chronicle.

REGINA WRECKED BY GREAT TORNADO N • -* <: (SS ,, THIS photograph reveals the almost complete destruction of the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, by the tornado that struck it recently. Nearly 400 persons were killed and the property loss was about $4,000,000.

GUARD GOLD AT SEA

Means by Whic£ Ocean Liners Carry Enormous Sums. Fifty millions In Kegs—Contents of Strong Rooms Sealed by Government Officials Are Secure From Theft in Transi* New York. —The natural assumption would be that in the safeguarding of the treasure which the various countries are constantly sending one another by the big ocean liners there would be required the vigilance of many men. This, however, is not gen- ' trally the case, since, once the gold is stored away in the rooms set apart for that purpose on the big ships and the vessel is well out to sea, no armed guards are necessary. Taking the specific case of one liner sailing under the British flag, we find that it has two strong rooms, the smaller of the two being In close proximity to the captain’s office. This one compartment has no doubt sheltered gold enough to pay the cost of the liner many times over. The walls, the roof and the ceiling are lined with two inch steel plate, and the room contains nothing in the way of fixtures save-shelving. The locks, which are of the double variety, are rendered still more secure by steel hasps covering the keyholes, and they are provided with massive padlocks. The strong rooms, being in the most frequented portion of the vessel, where persons are passing them at all hours of the day and night, thus receive the best protection after all. There are two sets of keys, one of which is retained by the agent in charge of the consignment of gold and the other of which remains with the captain. In the case of the British vessel mentioned there is another and larger

POLICEMAN STUNG BY BEES Attempt to Herd Fleeing Swarm Disastrous to Jersey Copper. New York. —From the beehive of William Hogslin of Bayonne, N. J., the bees recently flitted. They had done no work in the morning, and as Hogslin had counted on serving honey to his guests, he was anxious to have them brought back. So he telephoned to police headquarters and Policeman Loohy was sent forth to round 6 them up. By the time Loohy arrived at Hogsiin’s place the bees had bestowed an affectionate kiss on every person within reach. Loohy was courageous and he started after the most recalcitrant bee. Whereupon the bee stung him. And about a million other bees did likewise. Loohy was becoming very warm, and he removed his helmet. His head is bald, and on this smooth and shining surface rushed the bees and stung him full merrily. The policeman called for aid from Edmond Isbills. Isbills, equipped with a box, cooed to the bees and drew them from their perch on a tree limb. They were restored to their hive. Baker Killed in Dough Mixer. New York. —Samuel Krampler , a baker, lost his balance while at work In a Harlem shop, and fell into a dough mixer equipped with revolving knives. He was instantly killed.

RICH MERCHANT IS SUICIDE

Information Physician Gave on His Condition Made Him Melancholy. Tuckerton, N. J. —In a flt of despondency, due to a belief that he was suffering from an incurable disease, Nathan Gerber, a wealthy merchant of this place, committed suicide by cutting bls throat. Gerber was one of the most influential Hebrews In South Jersey, and was the owner of a chain of stores in Tuckerton, Atlantic City, Lakewood and Mount Holly. He was supposed to be a wealthy man. and outside his family and a few intimates, was believed to be in good health However, he had been feeling bad recently and went to Philadelphia to consult a specialist. What he was told no one knows, for he would not talk about his visit to the physician with his family, but had been melancholy and brooding ever since. The other morning Gerber was up early, and bought a horse from a neighbor He went into his store,

specie room, situated next to the provision department. This is about 12 feet in length by 4 in width. It frequently happens that both strong rooms are filled to their utmost capacity, and on one occasion this liner carried some $50,000,000 in gold bulllion, packed in small kegs bound with steel hoops. Gold usually is brought to the vessel on which it is to be shipped the day before the date of sailing, and it is stored away carefully before passengers embark. It arrives at the pier in ordinary trucks, under the guard of armed men. The customary method of getting the gold on board is to haul the kegs up an inclined chute to the deck by means of a hoisting engine, but this method is not followed Invariably. Sometimes each keg is placed in a sling and carried on board by men detailed for this service. The receipt given by the steamship company sets forth that so many kegs have been received for shipment, not for any stated amount of gold to the value of so much. The kegs bear the government seal in many instances, and in such cases, when they have been safely put in the strong room, the iron doors thereof are sealed with government wax, the impression being broken only when the official on the other side comes to receive the gold. The kegs are checked thrice — when they are taken from the trucks, when they reach the gangway and when they are placed in the strong room. Although no armed guard stands by the strong room, two men watch the room constantly so long as the ship is in sight of land. As a matter of fact there is little danger of any one stealing gold in transit on a ship. It would be necessary that he should shoulder a keg weighing some two hundred pounds and vanish with it without be-

SCHOOL AIDS ALIENS

University of Paris to Help Students Learn Language. Move Will Benefit 3,ooo—Alliance Francaise Assists in Establishment of Faculty to Instruct the Pupils From Abroad. Paris.—The question of foreign students at the University of Paris has been brought to a head by complaints from the French Students’ association that the teaching of the university is being hampered by the presence of so many .students with an imperfect knowledge of the language. There are now over 3,000 foreign students entered at the university, most of them at the Faculty of Letters, which cannot, it is alleged, without grave injustice to the French students, give courses which foreign students are capable of following. To remedy this state of affairs, the Alliance Francaise, in co-operation with the university authorities, has decided to create a faculty where the French Janguage will be taught from its earliest origins to its latest developments, and the foreign student fitted to follow any course in the university without Inconvenience to his fellow students and with a profit to himself. The university has offered bo sell to the Alliance at a reasonable price a

which stood beside his dwelling on Main street, took a brand new razor out of the show case, went up to the third floor of the store and cut his throat? He was dead when found. Gerber was a prominent Mason. He was well liked by every one who knew him, and was a man of weight in business and financial circles. ANNOYED BY COOK’S PRANKS Bertha Heida Sent a Washing Machine to One Doctor and Three Lemons to Another. Cincinnati. —Bertha Heida, aged 33, a cook who has been employed by prominent families in Clifton, Avondale and Walnut Hills, fashionable suburbs, was committed to Long Viev. insane asylum. She was taken into the probate ■ court on the affidavit of Dr. Frank ; ' Perry and Lieutenant Kent, of the j i Norwood police department Dr

ing seen. Masters of vessels declare gold is the safest cargo of any to handle. The total weight of one consignment of gold shipped by the British vessel in question amounted to something like 30,000 pounds, or sixteen tons, and the freight charges amounted to $12,000, or, roughly speaking, one-eighth of 1 per cent. Specie thus shipped is insured at its full value. MUST WED RIGHT MAN Fortune Awaits New York Girl If She Makes a Good Match, but Trustees Must Give Approval. New York. —Fearing that the “large sum of money” she bequeathed to her gi*anddaughter “might attract incompetent and designing persons to her," Mrs. Caroline Falconer Butterfield provided in her will that the granddaughter may never marry a McKeague, and that when she does marry the man she choosey must meet with the approval of at least four of the five trustees of the estate. The girl, bound by this odd codicil of the Butterfield will, which was filed in New York city, recently, is Miss Dorothy Bullard Smith. She is just blossoming into womanhood and has spent most of her life in London. Six codicils in the will are devoted to the granddaughter and the problem ji marriage. She is cautioned against u. hasty marriage, advising that she consult her mother. She is warned never to marry a McKeague. It appears the grandmother was a former friend of Mrs. McKeague. Nene of the three McKeague, boys have ever been attentive to the young woman. If the codicil is broken the money set aside for Miss Smith goes to six charitable institutions. Miss Smith will enjoy the income from the Butterfield estate until she is thirty when it will come Into her own right, unless she marries not in accord with the directions in the will.

plot of land conveniently Situated on the left bank of the Seine, close to the university. In order to raise the necessary funds to buy the land and build and equip the necessary prem ises„ a stock company has been formed under the name of the Society of Friends of the Alliance Francaise, with a capital of $120,000. The mountain sickness experienced by mountain climbers and the species of same ailment affecting aviators at great heights can be prevented by hypodermic injections of oxygen, according to Dr. Roux, the director of the Pasteur Institute. Dr. Roux read a paper before the Academy of Sciences, demonstrating the results of a series of experiments made with rabbits at the summit of Mount Blanc in Switzerland. Some of the rabbits were treated with oxygen and the others were not treated. Subsequent examinations showed that the blood of the treated rabbits was of the natural red-purple which would be found when at their normal altitude. The blood of the remaining rabbits was blackish and unhealthy The scientist says the injections may be made very easily and that very little oxygen is required. Dies Playing Sacred Hymn. Scranton, Pa.—As he was placing “Neare", My God, to Thee,” on the piano, at his home, Augustus Laubach suddenly fell forward on the keys and expired.

Perry, Lieutenant Kent and Dr. Thomas P. Dickson of Norwood, testified she had been annoying them with letters and telephone calls. Dr. Dickson said he performed a minor operation on her four years ago, and that since that time she has been telephoning to him five to twenty-five times a day. He also testified she sent a cemetery monument maker to his office, and that she sent him a washing ma chine and large orders of groceries. He also charges that she threw a coffee cake at him when she met him on the street a few days ago. Dr. Perry testified that she sent him three lemons by mall, called him up frequently, impersonating his patients, and sent him late at night to a far address by telling him a child was dying. She appeared rational in court, and insisted that the witness** against her be made to testify In her presence. Not In the Same Claes. “Pop, tell me one thing.” “Yes, son?” “Are Skye terriers anything like sun dogsf

TO TEST ROSE OIL Uncle Sam Is Trying to Make Perfume. Bureau of Plant Industry Experiments Result in Producing Extract, but Quality Still Remains In Doubt. Washington.—Uncle Sam’s latest step in conservation Is an effort to retain in American pockets an annual sxpenditure of several millions which is sent to European markets for (he purchase of attar of roses—a luxury which feminiity regards as a necessity. The bureau of plant Industry of the department of agriculture is conducting experiments at the Arlington plant farm to determine whether this perfume can be produced in the United States as a commercially profitable enterprise. Under the direction of Dr. Walter Van Fleet, an expert rose grower, and Dr. Rodney H. True, in charge of drug plant investigations, about 40 varieties of the roses grown by the French and Bulgarian producers of rose oil were imported last year and set out at the Arlington farm. There are now between 700 and 800 plants in the experimental bed and the directors of the new enterprise gathered their this spring. The yield for two weeks was about 40 pounds of petals per day. These petals have been distilled and yielded about the same quantity of the highly scented oil which is usually extracted from a similar quantity of Europeangrown petals. The experts Os the department of agricultui’e are not ready, however, to say how this American oil compares with regard to quality with that produced across the seas. It will be submitted to rose oil experts for classification and upon the report of these experts will rest the future of the department’s new investigations and experiments. The mere fact that the oil can be produced in this country, say agricultural experts, does not establish the fact that the new enterprises will be a commercial success. There are a number of other factors which will enter largely into the equation, even if the quality of the oil is found to be equal to the imported product. Prominent among the difficulties to be met and overcome in the production of “rose essence” in this country is the high cost of labor. This will principally come into play when the flowers are harvested and the rose growers find that they will have to pay from four to six times as much to laborers over here as is paid “across the pond.” The plants require but little personal attention and can be worked by horses, but the picking of the roses has to be done under peculiar conditions. To secure the best results the flowers must be gathered early in the morning, not later than 10 o’clock. As the perfect flowers are only to be found on clear, dry days, the grower can never determine beforehand on what days he will pick. But as the full grown flower is practically worthless, he must have a picking force ready to enter the gardens the moment conditions are suitable to gather the buds. In southern France, which, with Bulgaria, supplies the American markets, the rose growers solve this problem In an unique manner. On each farm is a large bell. When the pickers’ services are required this bell is tolled at an early hour and the peas ants hasten to the fields. It may be difficult, say farming exports, to pursue the enterprise in this manner under the present labor conditions existing in this country. 8 The rose oil is used principally in the manufacture of perfumery and as flavoring agent for certain unpalatable medicines. Statistics compiled five years ago showed that the United States imported annually more than $300,000 worth of the crude rose oil from Europe. Today this oil wholesales at from $9 to $lO an ounce. The perfume manufacturers convert about an ounce of this valuable product into manufacture# products, the principal Ingredient of value in which is the oil. These manufactured products usually sell for about S2O, allowing the manufacturer a profit of from 90 to 100 per cent, on purchase. America, however, does not confine her importation of the attar of roses to the crude oil. The importation of perfumes annually foots up more than $4,500,000 and a large percentage of these finished products contain a greater or lesser quantity of the costly oiL OPEN TO YOUNG MEN. There are a number of vacancies in the diplomatic service just at present, and now is the time to apply for them. It is a fine chance for live-wire, alert young men. The state department has not even any eligibles at hand to fill these places, oddly enough—whereas in the consular service there is a long list of el’/ibles, waiting for vacancies to occur. One reason for this curious situation seems to be that in the lower grades of the diplomatic service the pay is not so good as in the consular branch, while expenses are greater. A young secretary, especially if attached to an embassy in a gay European capital, is liable to find himself burdened with social obligations which are an embarrassment to a slender purse; and thus it is that in a majority of instances such positions are held by men who have some means of their own. On the other hand, the service offers a number of very considerable prizes attainable by good work and through the exhibition of efficiency. Os forty-three ambassadors and ministers on the list, fifteen have been promoted to their present rank from secretaryships, and four from consuU*’*. positions. The “spoils system” has neen done away with < barring the fact that men are sometin <*s appoint,ed to the highest ranks from outside) end the service has been so' 'r taken ent of pr’itka that during; be last

two Republican administrations there has been a large increase in the num ber of Democrats on its roster. A young man who enters the serv ice is always sure of an opportunity to show efficiency, if he possesses it. and good work brings certain recog nition and rapid promotion WASHINGTON REAPS HARVEST. While Baltimore was sending up a wail of disappointment over the limited number of Democratic dollars be ing deposited in her midst during the recent convention, merchants in Washington were chuckling quietly For, without contributing one cent to the SIOO,OOO fund by which Baltimore drew the Democratic convention, the tradesmen of the Capital city enjoyed all the week a generous overflow from the convention city Many delegates and visitors, including both politicians and the merely curious, took up their residence in Washington as a result of the overcrowding in Baltimore. In addition, thousands of others who spent their nighfs in Baltimore put in manyhours sightseeing at the capital So many of these visitors were wearing delegates’ badges that the wonder was as to who did the balloting at Baltimore. Nearly everyone in Washington had visitors those days. Thousands took advantage of the combined opportunity of taking in both the capital and the convention. Even the marriage license clerk did a big business as a result of many couples wishing to include a capital and political convention in their honeymoon trip. PLAN BABY SAVING SHOW. Not only will there be a baby-saving show, paid for by contributions of babies in Baltimore, at the exhibition on health in connection with the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. which meets in Washington in September, but the recent baby-sav-ing show held in Philadelphia will be discussed at the congress by Dr. Samuel McClintock Hamill of that city. The baby-saving exhibit will cost about $1,500, and belongs to the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, of which Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, chief statistician for vital statistics of the census bureau, is president, Land Miss Gertrude B. Knipp of Baltimore is secretary. It is planned to take the show out through the country after the close of the congress in Washington. BARS WOOING BY “ADS.” Gustav A. Manther is against the new fangled practice of getting wives by correspondence. The police have just brought him back from, Newport. Manther is employed at the navy yard here. He saw an “ad” in the paper and answered it. A widow with $3,000 wanted a husband. Manther paid successful court and got the widow. He didn’t get the $3,000. He says he discovered after the ceremony that the $3,000 represented three children, each valued by the mother at SI,OOO. Manther was ordered to send his wife $8 a week. BUY MANY LUXURIES. , Americans expended $200,000,000 this year for foreign luxuries, according to a bulletin issued recently by the bureau of statistics Art treasures worth $40,000 000, diamonds costing $41,000,000 and laces and fancy feminine “trimmings” worth $44 000.000 is the record of American extravagance for the fiscal year ending next month. Unbreakable Glass. A recent invention of some interest to motorists is that of a material called “Verre Soupie” (flexible glass). It is said to be practically as transparent as glass, negligible in weight and unbreakable. So far as Its used for wind screens, windows etc., in motor cars is concerned the only virtue of glass is its transpar ency. It is very heavy in itself, be ing - necessarily made of thick plate and, moreover, it requires very heavy fittings to support it and keep it rigid In addition to this drafcback, it con stitutes a source of danger in the event of breakage through a collision or other accident. Os course, there have been attempts to remedy 01 minimize this risk by wiring the glass, etc., but the processes are ex pensive, they add to the weight anc impair the transparency to an ap preciable extent. Celluloid, which has also been tried for wind screens, etc. is light enough for the purpose, but it is not perfectly transparent, and il is inflammable. Causes of “Holes in the Air.” Aeronauts have Adopted the pic turesque phrase “holes in the air,” tc describe that condition of the atmoa phere that makes uniform horizontal flight impossible, and causes greai danger to the aviator. Among the atmospheric conditions that may cause a greater or less drop of the aeroplane are (a) horizontal strati moving with different velocities, (b) columns of air with different vertical components. The boundary berweer such strata and columns often it quite narrow, and hence the aviatoi may pass with disconcerting abrupt ness from one to the other. On cer tain conditions the downward accel eration may be even in excess of thai due to gravitation and thus the avia tor thrown out of his seat,—Science. Women’s Interests. There is in all women a. peculiar circle of Inward interests, which re main always the same, and fron which nothing in the world can di voroe them. In outward, social intercourse, 01 the other hand, they will gladly an< easily allow themselves to take then ’one from the person with whom al the moment they are occupied; ant thus, by a mixture of impassivenesi and ’susceptibility, by persisting am by yielding, they continue to kee] he government to themselves, ant no man in the cultivated world cai ever take it from them. —Goethe. When a girl refuses a fellow hi feels that he will never love another but that doesn’t always bold good I she accents him.

Making a Holy Man or Salvation from ■. the Subjective Side I By Rev. James M. Gray, j Dean of Moody Bible Institute, Chicago

TEXT—For they that are after the rtesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.—Romans 8:5. There are several things which God does for the Christian believer In an

objective sense, that is, In the. sense that they proceed from himself without be4ng necessarily known to or experienced in the believer’s life. In other words, he reconciles him. he saves him, he justifies him, he blesses him with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. These things all speak of the believer’s

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state or position before God, and constitute what might be called his legal standing. In this sermon, however, we are to think about what God graciously does to transmute this legal .standing of the believer before him into the actual experience and conduct of the believer himself. This is what we mean by “salvation from the subjective side.* If the things touch on Christ’s work “for” us, these relate to Christ’s work “in” us, on the supposition that we 'have received him as our Savior, and confessed him as our Lord. In other words, he, through the Holy Spirit, does several things which go to make the true believer a holy man. and which are enumerated in this .eighth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans; for although our text is limited to one verse, we intend to speak of more than one. In the first place, the Holy Spirit sets the believer free from the law of sin and death, verses 2 to 4. Prior to his regeneration through faith in Christ, the believer was under the power of a tendency or law in the direction of sin, the otftcome of which was death, eternal death; but the incoming of tht 'Holy Spirit to him means that a new tendency or law has been set up within him whose-di-rection is just the opposite to this. In the second place, the Holy Spirit gives him the spiritual “mind” or disposition to obey and fellow out this tendency in the direction of holiness and eternal life—verses 5-10. In the third place, he not only gives him the spiritual mind, but goes farther and gives the spiritual pow*er to exercise that mind, versed 11-13, so that the Christian has no excuse for committing sin. . A Life of Victory. The New Testament does not teach a doctrine of sinless perfection, or the eradication of evil from our hearts, as long as we remain in the flesh, but it does teach that there is such a. thing as living a life of victory over every known sin every day Christians have no juustification for apologizing for quick tempers and irritable ’ speeches and envy and jealousy—not to speak of grosser sins lof the flesh—on the ground that such things are part of their temperament and can’t be helped. It is true that they can’t help them so far as their old nature is concerned, but the very purpose of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit Is to enable them to live a supernatural life of power over them if they yield their wills to him. In the fourth place, the Holy Spirit ’gives the believer spiritual encouragement to exercise this power, for he bears witness within him to his Sonship to God and heirship as well through Jesus Christ—verses 14-17. What stronger motive could there be to stir a man to put away sin and live a holy life comparable to the apprehension of the fact that he is indeed a child of God and a joint heir with Jesus Christ? People of the world are inclined to smile at these things and consider them ethereal and visionary, because they cannot understand them, lacking the spiritual discernment, but these are, after all, the real things, the substance of life, while the phenomena that occupy so much of man’s attention now are only the shadow of the true. Change in President Arthur’s Life. I remember the great change that came about in the character and in the outward Hfe of President Chester A. Arthur. a New York politician and collector of the port, he Bad been — one of the “boys,” the higher and finer class of “boys,” and yet one of them. But when a strange providence placed him in the presidential office after the murder of President Garfield, what a change came over him! What a steady, sedate, wise, successful, honors * able and pure chief magistrate ha made! All speak well of his’inemory. The dignity, the exaltation, the privileges which had come to him contributed to make him over. It is much the same with the Christian who knows who he is and what he has In Christ. Finally, the Holy Spirit gives the believer spiritual access unto God in prayer— verses 26-28. This is the crowning act of grace and power. In the Stream of Power. Was it long ago, or was it but yea-, terday, that we prayed for strength to perform a certain duty, to bear ai certain burden, to overcome a certain temptation, and received it? Do wei dream that the divine force was ex<i hausted in answering that one prayert) No more than the great river is ex-. hausted by turning the wheels of onai mill. Put; it to the proof again with; today's duty, today’s burden, today's! temptation. Thrust yourself further and further and deeper into the stream! of God’s powef. and feel it again as you have felt it before, eb’e to do ing abundantly Remember «nd trwtJ —Henry Van Dyke. .... ■