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church He might be put TO death on
either charge If sustained. Hence Cal
aphas questioned Him concerning His
disciples and doctrine. He proposed
to eXtort from the Savlour's lips some
statement to show that the number of
His followers indicated dangerous
conspiracy, or that His utterances
were inimical to Judaism. Concerning
Ills disciples Jesus made no reply, and
He referred CaiaphaS to those who
heard Him for a knowledge of His
teachings (verse 20), declaring that He
had spoken openly. "Why askest thou
me?" (verse 81. He enquired, rebuking
the illegal procedure of an attempt
privately to entrap the Saviour in His
own words.
JESUS AND OFFICERS.-"Answe
est thou the high priest so?" exclaimed
one of the officers with a burst Of in
science, and, then, unreproved by the
priest, he inflicted an infamous blow
up the sacred face of Christ (verse 20,
the first act of violence against Him,
the beginning of contemptuous treat
ment which He would receive from
the profane mark Xv:19). This in
dignity was contrary to law. as we
learn in a similar case in the history
of Pauls (Acts xxiii:3), as we'll as from
the words of Nicodemus John vii:5D.
Even in the time of Moses there were
statutes to protect a prisoner (Lev.
| xiX:35) until his innocence or guilt
might be established, and no man
might be beaten until condemned
| Duet. xxv:2). Moreover, the same
| principle or guarantee of personal
rights had found expression in Roman
! law (Acts xx:25), which Paul quoted
! to good advantage more than once
| (Acts Xvi3O. The answer of Jesus
to the one who had outraged Him dis
played no resentment. With utmost
calmness, He enquired why the legal
processes might not have their course
(verse 23). He was willing to stand
at the bar of justice and to accept His
deserts, and sought to allay the evil
passions which might carry His enc
mics into acts of cruelty and insult.
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labor TROUBLES.

After conferences between the Car
negie officials and the officers OF the
labor organizations concerning a new
scale OF wages to take effect at the
expiration of the existing scale the
labor representatives refused 70 con-
slider any reduction in the rate paid
to the tonnage men. The outcome
was that Mr.. Frick prepared a scale
eliminating the Objectionable features
of the old one and submitted it direct
ly to the workmen themselves without
the approval of the labor officials. \
strike was the result, involving thous-
ands of men and eliminating in the
ordering out Of the National Guard
and the proclamation of martial law
at Homestead. II was in the midst of
this excitement, on July % 1892, that
the attempt was made on Mr.. Frick's
life by Alexander Bergman, a New
York anarchist, who was promptly
tried and sentenced to a long period
of imprisonment in the Western peni-
tentiary.
Mr.. Frick has resided i'm Pittsburg
all his life since leaving his home in
Westmoreland county. His residence Is
on Fifth avenue, In the east end. He
is a lover OF music, and one of the
features of his home is a magnificent
music room, one end of which is filled
with an orchestrion which was made
to his order in Europe some years ago.
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organs, yet al
without excep-
tion there lies
the tIou le.
And there is
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ANNAS AND CAIAPHAS.-Verse "a
is evidently retrospective and paren-
thetical, and may properly be restored
to the narrative after Verse IA. Annas
was appointed high priest of the Jews,
a. ID. Z, but had been removed by the
Roman procurator, and Joseph Gaia
phas, his son-in-law, had been appoint
ed in his stead. Both are mentioned in
Scripture as high priests. 1t is prob
able that while one held the office he
was really controlled by tho other.
These facts indicate the desperate con-
dition in which the Jews were at the
time-the highest functionary of re-
ligion, who according to their law
should hold his position for life, was
subject to the will of the civil author
tiles. From the reign of Herod until
the destruction of the temple by Titus,
there were no fewer than twenty-eight
high priests. We learned last week that
Jesus was first arragned before Annas.
Now we learn that He was sent bound
to Caiaphas. Canon Farrar suggests
that the first appearance was practically
designed to please those Jews who still
regarded the opinion and influence OF
Annas, while the other appearance was
potential, having authority to deter
mine guilt. AS bound He was an ac-
cused criminal.
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UUI IRHUIaINN -III NVIIVN rIIEIH
thousands OF innocent wom-
en- to an equally painful aud
more lingering death.
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CONTENT AND ORDER. Strictly
speaking the four evangelists were not
historians, neither biographers. They
did not attempt to give a full account
of what transpired between the arrest
and the crucifixlon of Jesus. Each Sc
lected events to suit his purpose in
writing and arranged them according
to his line of thought. AS a conse-
quence no two of them agree in details,
and 1t is impossible at this distance of
time to arrange an orderly narrative
and present the precise relations Of the
various actions recorded. This fact,
however, increases the interest of the
student, who, by comparing one gospel
with another and casting the fragments
into new form. obtains a perspective
and outline that is even more instruct
i've because of its brevity. Our study
Of the present lesson will be conducted
with reference to the deeds and rela-
tions of the person mentioned.
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friendly monarchs. Under the old regime
when kings and palaces were the fashion
in France there were more opportunities
for the tapestry workers-there were
more whims to crafty.
However, one feels that it is well that
these hands have not lost their cunning,
for the days of kings and whims might
come again After visiting Fontainebleau
and Versailles and Saint German, where
these silent palaces are always ready for
occupancy, one receives an irradicable i'm
preston that France is half expecting the
king to arrive at any hour of the night.
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MARIE ANJolNEJJE AND HER CHILDREN
By Nme Vgee hebfun The Picture That Is
Being Reproduced in Gobelin Tapestry for
the Czarina of Russia.
Cobgbn Tapesv Aeer on the Banks Of the River Biewe


give her the original; it was not his to
nestow, and so he promised her a copy of
the picture done in Gobelin tapestry.
The tapestry makers commenced the
work at once, and although four persons
nave given their entire time to it since,
IL Is not yet more than half completed.
so beautiful is the tapestry even thus in
complete that one longs for a few Gar
ina tears, those that were sufficiently eff
fective to precipitate such a presentation.
If the tapestry can possibly be finished
1t is expected that IL will be one of the
attractions of the exposition of 1900, where
1t will be exhibited before it's presenta-
ton.
Can an artisan produce a work of art
is question that naturally suggests it
self in watching the tapestry workers.
The tapestries are surely works of art,
the laborers as surely artisans, clever
and skillful in a remarkable degree but
not artists. Each worker has his partic-
ular corner, al which he stitches away
without the slightest attention to his
neighbor. He is seated always behind the
frame, the picture that is being copied be-
hind him: thus he does not see either
the model or the work that he is execut-
fng-two Inconvenience which there
seems TO be no way of rectifying.
In the olden times the cleverest workers
were employed exclusively on the faces
and figures, others passed their lives with
draperies, backgrounds, leaves and flow
ers; but nowadays the much better sys-
TEN exists of training the young people
to execute heads and flesh as well as ac-
cessories. The cleverest worker cannot
possibly complete more than three and a
half yards in a year, while an average
worker does not execute annually more
THAI one yard. And how much do they
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God of our fathers, known of DID,
Lord Of our far-hung battle line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine,-
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forgeti
Far-called our navies melt away
On dune and headland sinks the fireI
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!
Tho New World.
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1t was yonder," he said. pointingS TO a
group of buildings, that Jean Gobelin. in
the days of the middle ages, established
an institution for dyeing. The scarlet that
he produced was the most wonderful that
the world had ever seen. In fact men
had never known the real beauty of scar
let before the days of Jean Gobelin, and
the secret was in the waters of the
Bievre."
80 this muddy little stream possesses
magical qualities for turning things red
Its appearance is certainly deceptive. 1t
looks as though it could only turn things
brown"
Yes. it is brown nowadays" said the
old man. 1T has lost much of it's magic.
The new generations have invented other
processes of dyeing, and we do not need
the Bievre, but truly we are indebted to
this little river for the first Gobelin tapes
tries. Had it not been for the beauty and
durability of the coloring which Jean
Gobelin produced the idea of making these
beautiful pictures in wool would never
have been born. There are people nova
days who declare that the Bievre never
possessed this quality; that it is all a
played-out tradition, but know that it is
true. 1 had it from my grandfather, who
learned it from his grandfather"
And the tapestries are manufactured
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Cuba, but not at once. We must take
our time, and do it in decency and or
der, as we have taken Alaska and Ha
waii. We take Cuba, Porto Rico and
Hawaii, not because we want them, but
because we have no friends who can
manage them we'll and give US no
trouble, and 1t is possible that in CEN
tury or so they may become part OF our
nation as well as of our territory.
American enterprise will flow into Gu
ba, no doubt, when Cuba is free. 1t will
clean up the cities, stamp out the
fevers, build roads where the trails for
mule sleds are, and railroads where the
current of traffic goes. Doubtless a
great industrial awakening Will follow
our occupation of Cuba when we have
taken away the barrier of, our tariffs.
The Anglo-SaXon nations have GER
tain ideals on which their political
superstructure rests. The great politi-
cal service of England is to teach re-
spect for law The British empire rests
on British law. The great political
service of the United States is to teach
respect for the individual man. The
American republic rests on individual
manhood, the right divine Of man, the
million trained to be free" The chief
agency in the development of free man
hood is the recognition Of the individual
man as the responsible unit of govern
ment. This recognition Is not confined
to local ana munlClpal dlalrS, as Is
practically the case in England, but ex-
tends to all branches of government.
1t is the axiom of democracy that
government must derive it's just pow
ers from the consent of the governed"
No such consent justifies slavery; hence
our Union could not endure half slave
half free" No such consent justifies
our hold on Alaska, Hawaii, Cuba.
Porto Rico, the Ladrones or the Philip
pines. The people do not want us, our
ways, our business, or our government.
1t is said nowadays that wherever our
flag is raised 1t must never be hauled
down. To haul down an American flag
is an Insult to Old Glory. But this
patriotism rings counterfeit. 1t would
touch truer note to say that wherever
our flag goes it shall bring good gov
ernment.
Take the Philippines or leave them!
No halfway measures can be perna-
nent. To rule at arms length is to fail
in government. These islands must be-
long to the United States, or else they
must belong to the people who inhabit
them If we govern the Philippines, so
in their degree must the Philippines
govern us.
There are some economists who intel
ligently favor colonial extension to-day
because to handle colonies successfully
must force on US English forms of gov
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world becomes one vast commercial re-
public, there will be leveling down of
government character, ideals, as we'll
as leveling up.
I'VE want" some say, "our hands in
Oriental affairs when the great struggle
follows the breaking up of China"
Others would have American freedom
upheld as a torchlight amid the dark
ness of Oriental despotism." We can
not show American civilization where
American institutions cannot exist But
the spirit of freedom goes with its
deeds.
l do not urge the money cost Of hold
ing the Philippines as an argument
against annexation. No dependent
colony, honestly administered ever re-
paid its cost to the government and
this colony holds out not the slightest
promise of such a result. In fact, the
cost of conquest and maintenance in
life and gold is in grotesque excess of
any possible advantage to trade or to
civilization. individuals grow rich, but
no honest government gets it's money
back But with all this, If annexation
is duty, 1t is such regardless of cost
But America has governmental ideals
of the development Of the individual
man. England has no care for the man,
only for civic order This units Amer
lea for certain tasks for which England
is prepared.
But though one in blood with Eng
land, our course of political activities
has not lain parallel with hers. We
were estranged in the beginning, and
we have had other affairs on our hands
We have turned our faces westward
and our work has made US strong. We
have had our forests to clear our
prairies to break, our rivers to harness,
our own problem of slavery to adjust.
While England has been making trade
we have been making men. We have
no machinery to govern colonies well.
We want no such machinery if we can
help 1t. The habit of our people and
the tendency of our forms of govern
ment are to lead people to mind their
own business. Only the business of in
dividuals or groups of individuals re-
ceives attention. Our representatives
IN Congress are our attorneys, retained
to look after our interests, the interest
Of the State or district, not of the ma
ton. A colony has no attorney, and
its demands, as matters now stand.
must go by default. This Is the reason
why we fail in the government of colo
MES. This is the reason why our con-
sular service Is weak and inefficient.
This is the reason why our forests are
wasted year by year. Nothing is well
done in a republic unless it touches the
interest or catches the attention of the
people. Unless a colony knows what
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over there?" I inquired, nodding toward
the group of buildings. 81 have intended
for long time to visit this institution
If 1 may enter 1 shall go to-day"
Yes, this is Saturday. 1t is open to-
day to the public. If you hurry you will
yet have time TO see good DEAL he
said leaning forward to look at the clock
of the brasserie.
Very well, | will go, but first tell me
If there are other families who have been
employed at this occupation Throughout
generations. Is your case a unique one%'
'Ah. no, my LADY, he answered, there
are families who have been making Gobe-
lin tapestries for longer time than my
family. They count their connection with
the institution by centuries. You know it
is a great honor TO be a Gobelin tapestry
worker We do not receive very much
money for our labor, but when we are old
the Government gives US each a pension
and a house and garden and we pass our
last days in peace. l have not taken
stitch for a number of years, but my son
has succeeded me and his son will sue
ceed him..
you must be sure to look at the tapes
try they are making for the Czarina,' he
said, after 1 had thanked him and had
started on my way.
With these words in my ears, naturally
the first thing that l sought was the
tapestry for the Czarina, which will be
present from President Felix Faure. Two
years ago when the Czarina visited Paris
she craved a beautiful picture of sweet
maternity that hung in the forsaken gall
Iery at Versailles. 1t was Nine. Lebrun S
portrait of Marie Antoinette and her
children. Herself a young mother and a
Queen. the picture is said to have touched
the Czarina to tears. What else could the
gallant French President do? He could not
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race problem. Already Booker Wash
ington warns us that this problem un-
settled is a national danger greater
than the attack of armies within or
without. The race problems of the
tropics are perennial and fnsoluble, for
free institutions cannot exist where free
men cannot live.
The territorial expansion now con-
templated would not extend our institu-
tions, because the proposed colonies are
incapable Of civilized self government.
1t would not extend our nation, because
these regions are already full of alien
races, and are not habitable by Anglo
Saxon people. The strength Of Anglo
Saxon civilization lies in the mental
and physical activity of men and in the
growth of the home. Where activity is
fatal to life, the Anglo-SaXon decays.
mentally, morally, physically. The
home cannot endure in the climate of
the tropics. Mr.. Ingersoll once said
that If a colony of New England
preachers and Yankee schoolma ans
were established in the West Indies the
third generation would be seen riding
bareback on Sunday to the cock-fghts
Civilization is, as 1t were, suffocated in
the tropics. 1t lives, as Benjamin Kidd
suggests, as though under deficiency Of
oxygen. The only American who can
live in the tropics without demoraliza-
and will never go there.
The freedom of Spanish America is
for the most part military despotism.
1t is said Of the government of Russia
that it is 'despotism tempered by as
sassination." That of most of our sis
ter republics is assassination tempered
by despotism. Mexico, the best of them,
is not a republic; it is a despotism, the
splendid tyranny Of a man strong and
wise, who knows Mexico and how to
govern her, humane and beneficent
tyrant.
We shall find in Cuba all the prob
lens that vex Latin America. There
are three things inseparable from the
life Of the Cuban people-the cigarette,
the lottery ticket and the machete
These stand for vice, superstition and
revenge.
We are pledged to give self-govern-
ment to Cuba This we cannot do in
full without the risk of seeing it re-
lapse into an anarchy as repulsive, if
not as hopeless, as the tyranny of
Spain. Only the splendid apparition of
the man on horseback could bring this
to an end. The dictator may bring law,
but not democracy. Its ultimate fate
and ours is annexation. 1t is too near
us and our interests for us to leave it
to it's fate, and to the schemes of its
own small politicians 1t therefore re-
mains for us to annex and assimilate
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ernment. A dose of Imperialism would
stiffen the back of our democracy.
1t is true, no doubt, that our standing
in the world is lowered because our
best statesmen are not in politics to
the degree that they are in England.
The rules of the game shut them out.
But believe that we can change these
rules by forces now at work. Wiser
voters will demand better representa-
tives, but these must keep in touch
with the people, acting with them and
through them, never in their stead. For
reasons l shall give later on l believe
that to adopt British forms, with all
their unQueStioned advantages, would
be a step backward and downward.
The chief real argument for the re-
tention of the Philippines rests on the
belief that if we do not take them they
will fall into worse hands. This may
be true, but it is open to question. 1t
is easy to treat them as Spain has donei
but none of the eloquent voices raised
for annexation has yet suggested any
thing better. We must also recognize
that the nerve and courage of Dewey
and his associates seem spent to little
avail if we cast away what we have
won. To leave the Philippines, after all
this, seems like patriotism under false
pretenses. But nothing could have in
duced us to accept these islands, II Of
fered for nothing, before the battle Of
Manila.
So far as the Philippines are con-
cerned the only righteous thing to do
would be to recognize the independence
of the Philippines under American pro-
lection, and to lend them our army and
navy and our wisest counselors, our
Dewey and our Merritt, not our poll
ticians, but our jurists, our teachers,
with foresters, electricians, manufac-
turers, mining experts and experts in
the various industries. Then, after they
have had fair chance and shown that
they cannot care for themselves, we
should turn them over quietly to the
paternalism of peace-loving Holland or
peace compelling Great Britain. We
should not get our money back, but we
should save our honor. The only sensi-
BILE thing to do would be to pull out
some dark night and escape from the
great problem of the Orient as sud-
denly and as dramatically as we got
into 1t.
AS for trade. to take weak nation
by the throat is not the righteous way
to win its trade. 1t is not true that
trade follows the flag" Trade flies
through the open door. To open the
door of the Orient is to open our own
doors to Asia To do this hurries us
on toward the final manifest destiny"
the leveling of the nations. Where the
barriers are all broken down, and the
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receive for all this eyesight and patience?
After five or six years of apprenticeship
II the worker be more than % years or
age he receives the equivalent OF $3.50 or
$500 a year. The veteran workers receive
ordinarily $400 a year, and the cleverest
in the institution not more than $500, with
$1,000 for the superintendent. or course
the pension and the house for old age
ameliorate these conditions. The honor
too. as my old man indicated, counts for
much.
Twelve or fifteen years OF constant Ia
Dor are at least necessary before one is
considered an experienced worker and
sufficiently qualified to labor on the finest
tapestries. We will never have any Gobe-
lin tapestries in America 1 thought
when this last statement was made to
me. To leave man in a Government po-
sition until he was qualified to do some
thing would be considered a sin crying
out to heaven for vengeance. Imagine
q Gobelin tapestry being executed under
our system of position holding. A Dem
ocrat would, perhaps. be working on the
nose Of Marie Antoinette; a change of
edministration would occur, out the DEM
ocrat must go and In would stalk a ruth
less Republican, who had never seen a
tapestry, to finish the poor little nose.
The principal pictures that are now be-
ing translated into tapestry at the Gobe-
Inns and that all the world will be ad-
mtr1ng at the exposition of next year are
1.-TWO Episodes From the Life of Jeanne
dare" by Puvis de Chavannes, the "Ex-
ploration OF Africa" by M. Rochegrosse,
and six subjects from the life of Jeanne
dArc by Jean Paul Laurens.
The Gobelin tapestries are beyond the
power Of money. The Government Of
France will not sell them under any con-
ditions, but reserves them for the decora-
ton Of public buildings or for gifts to