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ENTRANCE TO sHALAM COURT.

Newbrough, h;a hands being guided
by supernatural beings, and was
printed without being read by the
doctor. It is certainly work without
counterpart. filed with extraordinary
phrases and with more peculiar illus
tratlons, but it is the sacred book of
unique cot immunity, which was
founded to establish the religion it
teaches, and ot.t of the spiritual and
economic doctrines set forth therein
to found new race. And the few
who constitute tie fraternity not only
follow its economic doctrines and re-
frain from considering anything as
theirs-they call themselves "Kos-
MONS" which is TO signify in the Ian
gusge of their sacred scriptures, nom
owners of any and everything; but the
children are taught to revere the book
as the inspired dogma of their religion.
The community of Shalam is called
"The Children's Land" and num-
Der of buildings have been erected.
The children's building, built of brick,
is the largest; the Fraternum, of
adobe, is another. The walls of the
latter are hung with a number of the
most extraordinary pictures ever
painted, the work of DR.. Newbrough.
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THE sHALAM COMMUNITY.
Homo OF tho Most Remarkable Sect In
tho World.

Homo OF tho Most Remarkable Sect In
tho World.
On q tract of land nearly thou
sand acres in extent, and situated
about six miles north of Las Cruces,
and about fifty miles north of Ell Paso,
in New Mexico, is the most remark.
able community in the world. Here
fraternity, with new civilization,
new religion and Bible of it's own, is
being reared, with the idea of the per-
Reliability of the human race, which
was the dream of its founder. From
the raw material of csstaway infants
and foundlings. a new kind of people
is intended to result.
The adults composing this COM
munity are spiritualists and vege-
tarians, but the children reared un-
der this strange system are the chief
hope of the believers. It is they, and
not the grown men and women who
live in Shalam, who are to demon
stiate to the world the possibility of
new economic and social fraternity.
Through them earth is to be regener-
ated and man led out of the darkness
of the competitive system into one
where private property, if not wholly
abolished, is made subject to sort
of communism with which writers of
the order of Mr.. Bellamy have made
US familiar. .. .-EG
The founder of this community wa.
DR.. Newbrough, New York dentist
and spiritualist, who died in 1890.
He wrote q mammoth work which is
the Bible of the sect, and is called
"Oahspe," a word meaning earth, air
and sky in a language spoken before
the food. 1t is said to have been
written on the typewriter by DR..
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Feryept in Faith and Hope.

In hope. or without hope, let us up and
be doing. Encouragements are on every
hand and 80 are menaces. The enlightened.
the true, the Jealous, are many; the wicked
and the slothful are fearfully more. The
number OF the former has been growing by
conversions, the number OF the latter grow
ing faster by the natural increase OF popula-
tion. The appliances for Christian ,propa-
CATION are vast; the faith of many in their
efficacy feeble. We will bless every laborer,
for any service done toward the mainten-
ance and advance Of the truth. for every
good word spoken. every sound argument
uttered from the pulpit. every page OF evan
gelical truth written. and every rebuke ad-
ministered In any way to those who would
falsify our faith; but let them be assured
that more than all other services, turning
many away from iniquity will counterwork
and confound attempts TO reduce Christianity
from Divine to Il human system. Thls Is
the practical answer to difficulties and OBJ
iections. Let US only have multitudes OF
new-born Christians, fervent in faith and
hope, iuIl OF love and OF good works, and
rationulists may account for the phenomenon
as they will; but the common conscience OF
mankind will feel that God is In It, BE
holding the man which was, healed standing
with them, they could say nothing against
It," Now; adorable Spirit, proceeding from
the Father and the Son, descend upon all
the churches, renew the Pentecost In this our
age, and baptize Thy people generally: o
baptizs them yet again with tongues OF fire :
CrOwn this nineteenth century with revival
OF "rure and undeflled religion greater
than that OF the last century, greater than
that OF tho first, greater than any demon
stration OF the Spirit" ever yet vouchsated
to men William Arthur, in "The Tongue
OF Fire" b" '-
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GODS MESSAGE TO MAN.
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

Acknowledgement in Faith and Hope.
Mans Destiny and. Gods Way-Self.
Denial Determines Success--The Lord
Is My Shepherd-Good and Evil Lives
God laid Burden on me when came
To mans estate. At first I took 1t sore,
And grisred because my freedom was no
more.
And wrought unwiilingly. Ah, me! tho
. shame,
The blindness OF it! Afterwards I saw
The blessedness. the crown, Of duty's law.
Then Disappointment came, and rebelled
And thought it Gods unkindness. Day by
day
wep.. because my will was not Gods
And childish, bitter thoughts within me
welied.
But afterwards, Father! when had
Life's best through thut refusal, 3 was
glad.
And last aud bitterest Of all, came Grief.
Then was sure that God had struck In
wrath,
How deep the night that closed about my
path
No CLEAN of hope, no comfort, no relief!
But light was in the gloom, though was
blind;
.. SEE it now-all life transformed, refined.
T have learned to bide Gods purpose.
Sure
Am He doeth naught for US amiss.
Pain is His shadow when He stoops TO
kiss,
And sorrow is His fire to make US pure.
O. Father! by Thy very fatherhood,
We do believe Thou sendest naught but
good!
james Buckham. in Zion's Herald.
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person in their districts, together with
the information provided for by law.
Most of them can complete their tasks
within a few days, and will receive
from $50 to $3.50 for their services,
according to the amount of work in
volved. As soon as the schedules are
completed and revised, under the di-
rection Of the district superintendent,
they will be forwarded to Was hing
ton.
Here is where the work of putting
the census data into ineligible and
valuable form will be done, and here
is where the tabulating machinery
will come into play. These machines.
by the way, are the invention of q
former census employe, Mr.. Herman
Hollerith. They were designed with
special view to use in the census,
although they have proved valuable
for other statistical work.
By this system the statistics con-
cerning each person will appear on a
separate punched card. About seven
ty.five millions of these cards will be
required, therefore, to contain all the
data collected for the census.
The cards are numbered to CORE
spond with the numbers opposite the
names in the schedules. They con-
tain two hundred and eighty-eight
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The Difference OF Clothing.

How much more toughness and en-
durance the average woman has than
the average man when it comes to q
question of the cold. One would
have sort Of pity for man who
should venture out on the chilly days
of autumn with no overcoat. Yet the
extra coat that the woman dons is no
thicker nor warmer than the ordinary
inside coat that a man wears within
doors, and in which he looks
"peaked" in the outer air. But the
woman, on the other hand, wears that
little coat over cotton shirt waist,
and is warm and comfortable. Often
in this climate the addition OF fnr
collarette is the only concession she
makes to the colder days, when a
mans light overcoat is banished by
the coming of the heavier winter gar
ment. In summer it is as much of u
mystery how the man can smilingly
endure the eternal coat, while his
sister or wife, or mother covers her
shoulders with the airiest of muslins.
New York Evening Sun.
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The Cruiads In Brief.

The man who "csn drink or let It alone"
ls generally one who does not let 1t alone.
Health Is the workingman's capital. To-
diligence in strong drink destroys this
capital. .,. o
To-day It Is the rarest thing In the world
that a member OF Congress ts seen IN q
state OF intoxication.
The spirit OF this age Is against overln-
diligence In strong drink. Slowly but
surely drunkenness and lewdness are be-
coming things OF the past.
Nineteen thousand one hundred and sew
enty.fve men and women voted this year
in favor OF the prohibition OF the liquor
traffic in Chrlstlana, Norway.
The Great Northern Railway has an
nounced that it will no longer deliver IN
North Dakota, @. o. D. packages OF liquor.
North Dakota Is "dry" State.
Chief Arthur, Of the Brotherhood OF Lo-
comotive Engineers, says: III could,
would inaugurate strike that wouid
drive the liquor traflc from the face OF the
earth."
Experiments carried on In the French
army show that under all circumstances the
French soldier Is forty per cent: more en-
cient when SUBJ to regime OF total
abstinence.
BIZ careful estimates It Is stated that the
same investment that gives employment 20
1874 men In the breweries OF Rochester, n.
Y, would give employment to 97S6 hands
hit was invested In making shoes.
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for the coming enumeration it was
stipulated that the four principal re-
ports-on population, mortality, agri'
culture and manufactures-lnust be
ready for publication on July l, 1902
The Director of the twelfth CEN
sus is William r. Merriam, e1.
Governor of Minnesota. The actual
work Of preparing the statistical In
formation of the census for publlca'
ton will be in charge of Assistant Di'
rector Frederick Fl. Wines. Mr..
Wines has had long experience in this
sort of work. He was in charge OF
one department of the eleventh CEN
sus, and was employed also in the
census OF 1880. As assistant to Mr..
Wines there are five chief statisticians,
all experts in their lines, to each OF
whom will be assigned one depart
nt.-Harper's Weekly.
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Mana Dss,.uy and Gods Way.

Carlyle, having been asked to take the
reading at family prayers during short
visit paid to his friend, the provost OF Kirk
caldy, and, as chance would have 1t, open
irg the Bible ut the first chapter Of the book
OF Job, read on and on to the end OF the last
chapter: then, closing the volume, he re-
marked, That Is a marvellous, lifelike
drama. only to be appreciated when read
right through. II any OF our readers have
ever tried to perform this feat IN their study.
they will not be astonished at the consterna-
tion OF the provost, nor will they wonder. with
Carlyle, why 1t WAS that he was not asked
again to assist at family prayers In that
household. It will be to them still less a
matter OF surprise that the book should
be the subject OF such enhancing interest
to the author OF Sartor Resartus. In which
a similar field of inquiry is traversed In
the modern way OF viewing the same
problems. For in this ''all mems book"
as Carlyle calls Job, We have, as he says.
1.-THE oldest statement OF the never-ending
problem mans destiny and Gods way with
him here In this earth" .-
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How He Obtained Silence.

The tea things had been cleared
away, and the head of the establish
ment was trying to read the evening
paper, while his better half busieo
herself with some fancy work, and at
the same time endeavored to interest
him in tho gossip of tho neighbor'
hood. =. -
"Maria," said he, glancin2 up from
his paper, "did you ever hear the
story Of precious gems?"
"Why, no." she replied, "what is
it?"
"It's an old-time fairy legend that
my grandmother told me whom ( wa.
a boy" he continued, "about won.
an from whose lips there fell either q
diamond or d ruby every time she
spoke word"
"Well, go on" she said.
"That's all there is Of it, Maria
be replied. "But I was just thinking
that if such things happened nowadays
I'd open a iewelry shop the first thing
in the morning."
And then for thirteen consecutive
minutes silence reigued supreme
Tit.Bits.
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self-Deniai Determines Success.

Many a man, in his boyhood, had giant
for his ideal. In manner, speech, studies,
all his little world saw his superiority over
his companions. He finished school and
college and put himself into harness for
work in the workaday world. The noun
tain was in front, where he expected a
plain. The load behind was not to his
taste. Self-denial was not easy to
practise, and "giant" dwindled as
sst-love grew. To be clerk in a
dry goods store was easier than to study a
profession or to stay on the home-farm and
help lift the mortgage. To live at home In
ease was moro congentai than to go out into
the world and fight for himself the battles
Of life. Selfsacrifce was delightful as a
theory, but disagreeable to practice. Early
ideals faded away. The struggle OF life
ended in dreams even before it began. He,
who might have been giant and reached
the heights, ends in being a dwarf at the
foot OF the mountain.-Mrs. c. F. Wilder,
In The Classmate.
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: o larger scale, as there are of course
more people to be enumerated. 1t
will embrace greater area for the
. first time the Inhabitants OF Alaska,
Hawaii, and Porto Rico are to be in
cluded in the count. Moreover, the
coming census will be the first in
which all the work Of recording and
computing statistics is to be done by
mechanical means. Electric tabulat-
ing machines were introduced for this
purpose toward the close of the elev-i
I enth census, but in the coming enum-
Grafton they will be relied upon en-
tirely. .... .r
The thorough organization neces-
Bary, in order successfully to carry
through such an undertaking as this
may be appreciated when one reflects
upon the labor involved in counting
beventy-five millions of anything-a
task that would require one mans un-
divided energies for twelve hours
day during more than a year and a
half. In the case of the census the
labor is multiplied by the considers
tion that the seventy-fve million units
are human beings, concerning each OF
whom dozen facts must be recorded,
and that they are scattered over some
! tour million square miles Of the earth's
surface. ....
The task of taking the census will
require altogether the services of more
than forty thousand. persons. They
will be separated into two main di-
Svisions-the field forces, and the head
Quarters staff in Washington.
4 The former will include by far the
greater number-nearly forty thou
sand, all told. These will be the emu
merators, who will gather the re-
iuuired information from all parts of
| the country, and the superintendents
in charge Of this branch of the work.
The data thus collected will be COM
piledand prepared for publication by
o staff OF three thousand clerks in the
central Office.
A Roughly speaking, there will be one
enumerator for each township through
out the country, or, in the cities. one
for each ward. The enumerarators
will be local residents appointed by
the Director of the Census, on the
Recommendation of some influential
{ person, usually the Congressman from
the district. The superintendent
will have charge Of divisions generally
the same in limits as the Congress
sional districts. In the case OF the
larger cities, however, there will be
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A Touching sosne.

Accompany me, please, and 4 viii show
you q scene that will touch a9heart OF
tone. We will enter miserably futmtshed
home where want and misery reign su-..
sreme. There, before dlmly hickarin8
Ire, sits mother clasping to herbosom 9
some these words, "Mamma, am so
aungry and coldl Why does not the fre
BURN better2 It used to burn brightly,
Khen papa was here" Tho mothers face
is drawn with pain and her eyes are filed
With tears as she replies, eyes, dear, but
papa Is q drunKnrd now" What punish
ment can be meted out that will seem sur
icIent for q man who causes such misery
God pity the man who can hear the cry,
Mother, give me bread" and not raise his
aand to avert Its cause.-Mabel storer, In
BAPTIST Argus, s...
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A Plpnly Postom CO,

The accompanying cut conveys an
excellent idea of Virginia Postofice,
which is situated on the stage road
between San Diego and Escoudido,
in San Diego County, California.
Two stages stop at this postofice
daily, except on Sundays, to deliver
and take on mails. The entire struc-
ture of the postofice was originally
a mere piano-bo1, and is about six
feet high, three feet wide and five feet
long. It has five private boxes on
one side, fitted with Yale locks. It is
undoubtedly the smallest postofice in
the United States, if not in the whole
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The Lo!d Is My Shepherd.

1t will bring rejoicing where otherwise
there would be despuir; it will inspire song
where there might have been groan; 1t
will put silver lining on every cloud; 1t
will grid you with strength for every tempta-
tion. Say it over and over today. lie IS
my shepherd; Heis my shepherd" This
little word will make paradise OF earth.
and fill with glory the home where
you live and the place where you
work: In word, 1t will lit you
up to the heavenlies. The watsr-spider
forms a sac-like cottage and fills 1t with air;
then shuts herself in and sinks into the sea.
She then anchors 1t and there brings forth
her young; ;she practically lives in an upper,
world, although surrounded by all the dan
lage for this day und' every day.. to live In
the very atmosphere of heaven while work.
ing down here in this ain-tainted atmosphere
OF this world.-J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D.,
in 1.-The Secret OF a Happy Day"
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upon the card. Wherever there are
punch holes the needles pass through
and dip into cup of mercury placed
beneath. An electric circuit is thus
completed, which moves up the indi-
Gators on the connected dials one
point and records the particular fact
indicated by each punch.hole. The
totals are always in view on the indi-
Gators, and are copied off on slips at
the end of each run. Each machine
is capable of disposing of five thou
sand cards per day.
The statistics computed by the ma
chimes will be copied on record slips
and turned over to another force of
one thousand clerks, whose business it
will be to make up tables and prepare
copy for the printers.
By the act of Congress providing
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The Drlnkine Habit Disrsputabls.

In view Of the immense amount Of liquor
consumed in the United States, It is dl1a-i
cult to believe that the temperance cause,
Is making much progress, but It Is fact
that excessive drinking was never 80 dis
reputable es It IS to-day. Self.respectlnSj
men shuh the society Of the immoderate
ion'E like to be seon 10 his COMPANY. ~
young man who Is known to drink even
moderately Is dIstrusted by his employers
and his standing In society suffers de-
slime. Society frowns more and more upon
The drinking hablt,and tipplihg as q fash-
.onable accomplishment Is ON the decline.
Liquor is not as openly presented to guests
1t private houses as Il WIS twenty-five
gears ago. An invitation from your enter,
:Nper to stake suthin'"is apt to be com.
ntnfsated by whisper and q wink, and he
;eads you to some secluded cupboard. He
8 ashamed~ 10 mention whisky In the
presence Of the ladies and children. There
Is much talk outside Of clubs about the
dissipation indufged in there, but It Is
greatly exaggerated Excuses are frowned
lpon In all reputable clubs. When drunk.
snness becomes thoroughly unpopular It
will be confined to the dissoiuts alone
Texas SiitinSs. NJ.
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record cards go to the electric tabu.
'lating g.machine, which is even more
ingenious. In form it is something
like an upright piano. In the face of
the upper part of the box are set
number of indicator dials, each one
devoted to some one set of facts com.
pretended in the census. inside the
machine is complicated system of
electric wiring connecting these indi
Gators with the operating apparatus.
It is the mission of this machins to
total the various facts recorded on
the punched cards. To do this the
punched cards are slipped into the
machine beneath a set of electric nee.
dies, mounted on spiral springs. The
operator presses these needles down
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Sober workmen.

The fact that the industries Of this couE.
try are making inroads upon territorJ,.
hitherto controlled by British manufae.
turers and have obtained large tradeii
the British homo market itself, has given
rise to much study and investigation OF the
causes which produced this remarkable re-
suit.
The New York Commercial publishers an
Interesting letter from London on this sub
iect. The writer is an Engilshman, but In
reply to q question as to why It Is that 50
many orders are coming to- the United
States from England he answers that It Is
artisans than the English. The main reat
son assigned by this writer for the superb
orltY OF the American artisan Is that he
spends more money on nourishing food and
less on intoxicating liquors than the Brit
ish workinRman. There are about 40. .000.-
600 people in Great Britain and Ireland. OF
this number It Is estimated that 17.000, 900
are abstainers from strong drink. The
drink bill for the nation was e772, ,504 ZOO
in 1888, and the $4,000, 900 people who did
the drinking paid an average OF S8 $50 q
year or slxty-fye cents week for th at In
diligence. !!
The average rate OF wages in tho higher
lines Of manufacture Is about the same IN
this country and In England, but tho
American workingman spends an average
OF only thirty-fye cents week on, drink
as against sixty-ave cents by the British
workingman.
The former is, presumably, therefore.
more energetic and In better possession OF
the faculties which his WORK requires.
There, may be something In the theory
which the London correspondent OF the,
New York Commercial puts forward, but
he does not give due consideration to. ono
OF the main reasons, In fact the principal
reason why so many orders are being re-
ceived from England by the great In
dustrial establishments OF this country. II
Is that the British have found that they.
could get their orders filled 80 much moro
readily here. 1s
The British Government itself has borne
testimony to this fact. When 1t wanted
great quantities OF steel for the railroads
and bridges which It Is to build In the
Soudan the contracts were captured By
American manufacturers simply because
they could fill them in SO much shorter
time than their, British competitors. The
great number OF American locomotives
whlch the English railroads have bought
and ordered Is due to the same cause.i
Tho American workman prodnees more In
q given time than any etASE Md does his
work quite as we'll. DutthS SBondon writer
may claim that this extra speed hwithoutt
the sacrlace OF efficiency Is largely at-t
tributable to the comparatively abb;
stemious habits OF our artisans. ATLANTIS
Journal. ,i. ,1"y ,s&rH .er.
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The punched record, cards
are counted, or tabulated in
the electrical tabulating ma.
chimes. These machines are
provided with a circuit clos
ing device, into which the
cards are rapidly fed one by
one. The holes in the card
control the electric circuits
through a number of counters,
which will as desired count
the simple facts as to the
number of males, females,
etc., or the most complicated
combination which the statis-
tician may ask for.