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STORIES OF SULLIVAN.
Some AutobioGraphicaI Reminiscent
ees of the English Composer.


In February, 1889. M A P" published
some interesting photographed matter
from the pen of Sir Arthur Sullivan The
composers earliest musical exercises were
thus described:
when was not more than four or five
years old it became perfectly evident that
my career In life must be In music and in
| nothing else. II was the only thing l ear
ed for. When l was barely five | used to
GO to the piano and make discoveries for
| myself. l struck the keys. and found out
what notes when sounded together were
harmonious and what were discordant.
And so gradually discovered certain har-
monte progressions. my ear telling me
what was right. though. of course. could
not p6ssibly know the reason why"
Of his fathers band Sir Arthur wrote:
Il was intensely interested in all that
the band did. and learned to play every
wind instrument with which formed not
merely a passing acquaintance. but real,
lifelong intimate friendship. l gradually
learned the peculiarfties of each. and
found out where it was strong and where
IL was weak: what II could do. and what
it was unable to do.
I'm this way 1 learned In the hest pos
sible way how TO write for an orchestra.
l regularly attended the daily practices,
in which / was always allowed 20 take
part-although. of course. / was not per-
mitted TO play IN pubic. BOOSey'S Mill
tary Band Journal was then almos; the
only regularly published selection of NIT
sic for military bands and the music was
scored for more Instruments than my ia
Their had in his band. with the result that
l always had the choice of playing flute
clarinet althorn. French horn cornet,
trombone. or euphonium parts The oboe
and bassoon were the only Instruments |
was never very proficient on although /
could play them both a little
AS a feat OF memory. the following PIE
cocious achievement is sufficiently re-
markable:
my holidays from the Chapel Royal, full
of a work by Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley.
called The Martyrdom of St Polycarp'
Sir Frederick had written it as an exer-
else for his degree of doctor of music at
oxford. | sang the solo soprano part In
the performance at oxford. and thought
that there never was such music. When
l reached home>I said to my father:
"a There is a splendid march in THE
Martyrdom OF St Polycarp" You really
ought to get 1t for the band
ut was not published, but | was too
much wrapped up in the music to allow
myself to be beaten. l sat down TO work
early In the morning, and by night time
had written out the march from men,
DRY in full military band score; and II was
played with great success by the Sand
burst Band. l am happy 20 say that Sir
Frederick Ouseley was delighted when he
heard of the success of my effort.
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plats. Each row running lengthwise of
the field is given series letter, A, B. c,
etc, and the plats in each series are num-
bered consecutively The first of the Sc
ries, for instance, in field 9 is thus des-
ignated Sal, the second 9-A-2 and so
on for row A. The plats in the next row
are s-B-1, 9-B-a. etc. The same scheme is
used for field 10.
The results of the experiments con-
Quoted on the Flats are directly beneficial
to the farmer and stock raiser. who may,
by consulting the Department of Agricul-
ture, learn of the results obtained and
procure. through the same agency, speci-
mems of the various seeds gratis for their
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put into effect, as shown in the &C.
companying cut William B. Cogswell,
the vice-president and chief engineer
of the company, is in measure re-
sponsible for the innovation, or at
least for its introduction, into this
country. He was travelling abroad a
short time ago, and while passing
through a part Of Germany noticed
this style Of ladder construction, and
at once recognized the merits of it
and made note for future reference.
The idea is for the man to get
inside of this ladder, where he Is
much more secure than in the more
exposed position outside Of an ordin-
ary ladder. The wind Is often very
strong in such an elevated place, and
a greater effort is required to hold on
than to climb aloft.
In making an ascent Of tall chin.
ney the man can at any time rest him
self completely by standing with both
feet and his elbows upon the rungs
Of the ladder at the same time, or
he can put his arms over the rungs
at any time, or if he likes can have
a piece of plank thirty inches long with
him, which he can put across one OF
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Tclltale Lines.

We cannot keep the wrinkles away
from our own faces save by sweetness
and serenity. but othe-s can help to do
it for us. Here is what writer in
Temple Bar says OF a woman who has
grown prematurely old:
Her life arouses my pity. I watch
the lines in her face. They ere deep
eninG rapidly. The two near the
mouth l call brother lines" the
spendthrift. selfish brother
The wavy lines drawn perpendicu-
larly across her forehead are queru-
lous sister, and all that fixed network
about the eyes is reading with a
bad light" to somebody.
These teiltale wrinkles could have
been prevented if everybody had been
as eager in welldoinG, as unseltsh and
loving. as the woman who wears
them.
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The Crusade In Brief,

The demand for temperate men and ab-
stainers is more imperative every year.
In Munich, every sixteenth man dies OF
what is called beer heart" according tc
the testimony from the dissecting rooms
of the hospitals.
A recent telegram from Warsaw indi
Gates that rigorous enactments against
drunkenness in Russia have been brought
into operation.
A bill has been introduced into the Ore
gon State Legislature making it misde
meanor for any person to treat another tc
drink in any saloon or other public place
where liquor is sold.
The drink evil in Vienna has become SC
great that the authorities have declared
in favor Of closing all brandy shops on
Sunday.
The frcquentng of drink shops by chill
dren, recilessly sent to them by parents
means the creation of O future generation
of drunkards.
Nearly every patient taken to the City
Hospital prostrated by the heat is a
steady drinker. The fact may well be
noted by young men whose habits are
forming.
A novel method of controlling the drink
ing habit is being considered by the Ar
kansas Legislature. If proposed meas
ure becomes law it will prohibit any per
son from drinking whisky until he has OBJ
tanned a S5 license from the County Clerk
Of the county in which he resides.
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No Denun citation Strong Enough.

In the cities of Switzerland every tenth
man dies from drink either directly or in
directly These are not all carried off by
specific alcoholic diseases. Quite frequent
ly it is some other sickness that would
not have resulted in death if alcohol had
not diminished the power of resisting dis
ease. Any wbund, or any contagious dis
ease, consumption among others, develops
more seriously and with more danger in
an organism weakened by alcohol. The
statistics of English life insurance socie-
ties clearly demonstrate that: They have
there millions of total abstainers, people
who never touch a drop of alcoholic
liquors. Many insurance societies give
them a reduction of premium because they
have discovered that the death rate among
total abstainers is one-fourth less than
that Of moderate drinkers f OF the same age.
obliged to agree with DR.. Max Gruber,
professor of hygiene in the University of
Vienna, who has often declared in public:
eve cannot think evil enough of alcohol;
even moderate quantities Of it are always
an injury"
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Expository Preaching.

'"The work of the preacher is the e1-
position of the oracles Of Cod" says the
New York Observer (Pres.). '1That is
tacitly admitted by him when he stands
ur with an open Bible before him, and be.
gins his discourse by reading ,,an extract
which he calls his text. Even the expo
sition of text is not enough. Textual
preaching is of great service, and the
microscopic method of handling divine
truth has it's own distinctive merits, but
both encourage the tendency to regard the
Bible as book of isolated texts like a col
lection of proverbs. Expository preaching
gives large views, grand conceptions, and
q grasp of the continuity of that Scrip
ture which cannot be broken. There are
welcome signs of the revival of expository
preaching in our pulpits, and the children
Of the Bible have done much to bring
about that consummation most devoutly
to be desired. There is no originality hike
the originality of the honest and care
full exegete. Nothing 80 well supports and
freshens a prolonged ministry as exposi..
tory preaching. DR.. Joseph Parker, of
London, and Dr.. Alexander Maclaren, of
Manchester, the two greatest luminaries
of the English pulpit, are firstSand fore
most Bible expositors.E 'Back$ to- the
Bible is the cry Of the children of the
Bible, weary of studies which concentrate
their strength on books about the Bible
rather than on the Book itself. The cry
is finding a response in many hearts, and
we trust it will gain in volume until
Christians in all parts of the land awake
to the importance of surrendering thought
and life to the message of the Word of
God in all its full-orbed completeness"
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Australia's Exposition.

1t is proposed to hold an exhibition on
an extensive scale at Bendigo at the end
of this year, under the auspices OF the
Government of Victoria, to commemorate
the discovery of gold in 1851 and the first
anniversary of the Australian Common,
wealth. Prominence will be given to golG
mining and other mineral resources and
phases of mining in Victoria and other
States. Special buildings and courts, will
be erected for the display of manufactures
and industries, wool, agriculture, dairy
ing, machinery and so forth. The Ben;
diSo School of Mines will provide a model
laboratory for the exhibition, equipped
with furnaces and apparatus for metSllur'
gical and chemical work, There Will be
five main divisions Of the exhioits ana
TWENTY-FIVE sections, in which the appl;-
cations OF science to mining and to the
development of other natural resources
will be well represented
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Alcohol and Hospitals.

Some years ago DR.. N. S. Davis, Of Chi.
cago, suggested that there might be found
q close relationship between the mortality
and the spirit bills of large hospitals. A
committee has been looking up this mat
ter. and, while not ready to make for
NAL report, have already found some start
ling facts which indicate that the connec-
tion is very close, and no doubt the death
rates rise and fall with the amount of
spirits used. In one metropolitan hospi-
tai, where the physicians prescribe spirits
freely as tonics and stimulants in all cases,
the mortality was from three to five per
cent. greater than in another hospital OF
like character whose spirit bills were half
as much. In one hospital, typhoid fever
and pneumonia were treated very largely
with spirits. The mortality was greater
than in private practice, although the con.
ditions for treatment were more favorable.
One of the visiting physicians became con.
vinced that the free use of alcohol was a
large factor in these fatal cases and gave
up its use. The results were so startling
that he has become an anti-alcoholic ad.
vocate. Several hospitals which received
soldiers after the late war had widely diff
fering statistical results, which, in large
degree seemed to be due to the treatment.
There is a growing sentiment that the
free use of alcohol as stimulant is a
most disastrous remedy, although the hos
pitals are very slow to adopt this view.
We hope to publish some figures which
will bring out these facts more clearly in
The future.-Journal of Inebriety.
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Three Great Teachers.

Living or speaking we'll and nobly.H for
the life that is, is to be commended in
anyone, and to be commended by all. Yet
no one can live or speak at the best and
noblest for the life that now is without a
recognition of the life that is to come; for
a recognition of mans higher nature and
of the future life marks mans superiority
above that which dies when, this life ends.
Confucius and Benjamin Franklin wrote
well and nobly for mans present life.
Their counsels made an impress on their
peoples for their generation and for fol.
lowing generations, but neither Confucius
nor Benjamin Franklin wrote in recogni-
ton of the life that is to come; hence
their words gave no help to their fellows
for the future life, or for mans highest
nature. Jesus Christ wrote better and
more telling words for the life that is than
did Franklin or Confucius, and in ad-
dition to this He speaks words concern.
ing the future life that have told, and
10 tell. and will continue to tell, on our
:ace, for this generation and for coming
generations. And this is one evidence
ST the superiority of Jesus Christ to all
who ever spoke words for mans help
Sunday-school Times.
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Sorrows Crown Of Sorrow.

It is not physical discomfort, not hav-
ing little to lie on night after night on a
Jungle tour. or swimming rivers, or short
ness of food-that is the poetry Of mission
life-but the hardship is having to look
after native churches and bear the
burdens of native converts when one feels
that the circle of prayer. at home is no not
is not flowing as it should. Never, until I
pot on Indian shores and had to do with
native churches, did I know why Paul put
at the end of his list of agonies-after
the stoning and the scourging, and that
long series of hardships-as the heaviest
of all, sorrows crown of sorrow. "the care
of all the churches. Rev. G. w. Oliver.
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GODS MESSAGE TO MAN
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

What Are the Children Saying?-Exposi
tory Preaching-Three Great Teacher
why Jesus Was Superior to Con
fucius OF Buddha.
I hear the voices of children
Calling from over the seas;
The wall of their pleading accente
Comes borne upon every breeze.
And what are the children saying,
Away in those heathen lands,
As they plaintively lift. their voices
And eagerly stretch their hands?
"Oh, Buddha is cold and distant
He does not regard our tears;
We pray, but he never answers,
We call, but he never hears.
Oh, Brahma in all the Shasters
No comforting word has given,
No help in our earthly journey,
No promise nor hope for heaven
Oh, vain is the Moslem prophet
And bitter his creed Of Fate,
It lightens no i'll to tell US
That Allah is only great.
We have heard of God whose mercy
Is tenderer far than these;
We are told of kinder Saviour
By Sahibs from over the seas
They tell US that when you offer
Your worship, He always hears;
Our Brahma is deaf to pleadings,
Our Buddha is blind to tears!
We grope in the midst of darkness
With none who can guide Alright!
Oh. share with us, Christian children,
A spark of your living light"
This, this is the piaintive burden
Borne hithcrward on the breeze;
These. these are the words they are say
ing,
Those children beyond the seas!
Margaret j. Preston.
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Living For Self.

The highest thought is living for God.
Men in the world live for self. This is the
aim of all men morn in Adam. It may be
a very cultivated self. or very low, mean
self. But mans centre is self Gods word
comes and teaches us that the highest aim
in life is to live for God. In order to live
for God something must happen in man.
We will call it faith. conversion, new
birth, born again. These are Bible illus.
trations. 1t means a change Of centre
Rev. James Mcfarland, Denver Col.
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4 SAFETY LADDER FOR cHIMNEYs.
Prevents y Man From Being Blown From
His Footing.

Prevents . Man From Being Blown From
His Footing.
Anyone who has ever noticed the
construction of one Of the very high
chimneys sometimes seen towering
over an industrial plant Of some sort
could not help but to imagine himself
in the position Of the workman who
must at more or less frequent intervals
climb up and down it's preciptious side.
clinging to the tiny iron projections
placed for his accommodation. In
the construction of a chimney now
being erected at Syracuse for the
Solvay Process Company. a new idea
In the erection CT the ladder is being
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Eovors superposed Turrets.

Rear.Admiral Bradford, of the Naval
Board of Construction, has submitted tc
Secretary Long a minority report on the
proposed new battleships. The report
favors six and eight inch guns, instead OF
a seven.inch gun, in broadside batteries,
as recommended by the majority report.
Rear-Admiral Bradford also argues for
the retention Of the supcrposed turrets,
He cites the discussions leading up to the
adoption of plans for ships now building:
to show that the present majority plan Is
not in line with the best judgment of ma
val experts.
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Sulnhur in Russia.

One of the richest sulphur deposits
in the world has lately been dis
covered in Trans -Caspia. Russia. The
geological formation is very similar
to that in which the Sicilian deposits
occur. 1t is only in recent years that
sulphur has been found in Russia.
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Filipinos Buy Moro Jewelry.

Jewelry and manufactures of gold and
silver to the value of $223.4l3 were im
ported into the Philippines during 1900
fairs of the War Department 1T Washing
ton. The imports OF this sort for 1899
we're valued at S44,957, thus showing an
Increase OF 39S per cent. for 1900. Goods
,f this character from the United States
alone were imported TO the value of $3.50
IN 1900 and $2l62 in 1899.
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tnferring that profess to have solved
the problem. The only thing I have
accomplished in fifteen years Of ex-
perimenting, during which have
wrecked four aeronefs, is to be able
with tolerable certainty, in fine
weather and with a mild breeze, to
start from a given point and navigate
through the air in any direction-right
or left, up or down. To anything more
than this I have no pretensions. We
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the rungs and stand upon. thus max
ing himself perfectly secure while
working.
While at Syracuse the ladder is ap-
piled to a brick chimney, there is no
reason why similar ladders should not
be applied to steel plate chimneys,
water works standpipes or any other
lofty structures to which ladders are
attached.
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Purpose OF Christianity.

The purpose of Christianity was the de.
struction of sin and the salvation OF
people from their sins. That it effects this
purpose is seen in the remarkable con.
trast between the highest forms of heath
euism and the lowest forms Of Chris
tianity.-Rev. DR.. George, Kansas City
Mo.
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A Huge Rudder.

: The New York Herald gives this
picture of q rudder. or. rather. the
frame for a rudder, recently made
for a new ocean steamship. The pic
ture will give you some idea Of the
giant dimensions to which ocean grey
hounds have grown.
The two men standing beside the
rudder frame look like mere pygmies.
The slightest turn Of such giant
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False Idea Of Liberty.

Liberty to get drunk cannot be regard
ed as one of the fundamental rights of
humanity. Since the Legislature has de-
cided to limit the freedom of the individ.
ns 5 to DG ruin hms5 BY {be e9es ses g1mRs noSnss
with complicated measures, it surely will
also be permitted to extend precautionary
measures to the sale of this poison which
ruins thousand more victims than any
other.
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Conquering the Air. )
Machine Designed and Used by
Santos-Dumont.

! The outlires Of the "aeronef' de-
signed by Santos-Dumont In
which the Brazilian has circled the
Eiffel Tower, are shown In the accom-
panying cuts, from the New York
Tribune. To the Tribune's Paris cor
respondent he said:
"Please dissuade your readers from
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foundations.

Consider the temptations Of the various
temperaments and talents. The peril of
the 'fve-talent man is selfshness. With
holding allegiance from the one-talent man
compels modesty within him.. But the
honor and allegiance given to the fve-tal-
ent man nourishes pride and selfsutti.
cheney. Because he rises above his fel.
lows. the great man thinks himself to be
the sense of exclusveness and counts
himself better than others. So he passes
under the condemnation of the wise man.
Rev. DR.. Hills, Congregationalist, Brook
lyn. New York.
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The Young Vfctims.

The majority of people dying compare
lively young Of paralysis of the heart are
victims Of intoxicating drinks, and their
dangerous condition never became appar:.
science to be of any help. The disease be.
gins with difficulty OF breathing under any
severe physical exertion and terminates
with dropsy of the entire body.
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Mistaken Hilarity.

"The DRAMA" said Mr.. Stormington
Barnes. sis not receiving the serious
consideration that it once enjoyed"
people want to laugh nowadays"
"Yes-and usually ut the time when
YOU are most desirous that they shall
not"-Washingtop Star
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Personal Liberty,

There IS no such thing as personal liberty
in the general acceptance Of the term by
prodigals and politicians. The. only pos
sble personal liberty is found in doing
right. Rev. w. F. Crafts, Washington
y. g.
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are at the beginning Of the problem.
which. however, I am absolutely con-
fident will some day be solved on the
lines have oeen patiently following"
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Beyond Words.

"Words cannot express my disgust"
said the deaf and dumb man as he
twiddled his fingers meaningly.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
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Worlds Forest Area.

Fore :, cover one-tenth of the land OF
the. earth and one-quarter Of Europe's
land surface.
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Germany and Holland are planning
TO lay a new cable to connect with the
Dutch East Indies.
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France May Abolish the Duel.
The French Government is urged to
abolish the duel
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rudder as this defects thousands OF
tons of water when the ship !s running
RAPIDLY, and, like the tail of q fish, It
keeps her direction under constant
control.