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The Yale expositor., 1901-06-21
WONDERFUL GEYSERS
OF YELLOWSTONE PARK.
No other Region In the World Abounds
In such n Variety of Attractions

No Other Region In the World Abounds
In Such Variety of Attractions.
The most wonderful scenery in the
world is in Yellowstone National Park,
the great natural curiosity shop of the
universe. Nowhere else, within equal
bounds, are found so many natural
wonders grouped, almost as if by de
sign, for the special convenience of
sight-seers. The wonders of the Alps
and the Himalayas, could they be gath
cred together and compressed into an
equal space, could not hope to rival in
grandeur, in variety nor in number,
the attractions of the Yellowstone.
Were all the attractions except the
geysers removed, the region would
still be famed world wide drawing
nature lovers from all countries to
witness the exhibitions of unequalled
power of these matchless giants,
which, with a roar that may be heard
long distances, spout huge columns of
seething water high into the air, sus-
tanning them there for varying lengths
of time. Old Faithful. with regular
ity that begot its name, at intervals OF
60 to rs minutes, sends up a huge col
umn of water 100 feet into the air, re-
naming active for four minutes. Giant,
with deafening roar, spouts $50 feet
every third day for 90 minutes, while
Giantess, at longer intervals and with
slightly less power. maintains activity
for twelve hours at a stretch Many
others, at intervals ranging from five
minutes to several days spout water
to varying heights, remaining active
for periods ranging from one second to
an hour or more. In all, there are
thirty-three members of this inter-
esting Geyser family of sufficient
Importance to deserve special mention.
Twenty-eight of these are in Upper
basin. and when several nf them, with
their rainbow tints, spouting at
once, the scene is understandable. Other
scenes of grandeur that abound in IA
vored mountainous regions pass in
endless review before the enchanted
tourist, all sense of fieeting time being
lost in their admiration.
Travel to the park, following i'm
proved transportation facilities. has
greatly increased in recent years
Leaving the Oregon Short Line at
Monida, Montana. after a pleasant
ride through changing scenes from
Salt Lake City, comfortable stage
coaches run to and through the park
making the trip at easy stages in five
days, four OF which are spent among
natures wonders, and the other among
delightful scenery. Good hotels are
conveniently located in the park for
sightseers, where one may stay indet-
TIMELY, at very reasonable cost.
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-21
Lemon Juice of Barrooms.

Now that the sale of bogus lemon
ade has been forbidden by law, il
would be interesting to know what ac-
ton would follow an investigation OF
the compound used as lemon juice in
many of the barrooms that pretend to
be of the first rank and are entitled
to place in that category so far as
their prices can put them there. The
mixture commonly used in drinks re-
quiring lemon juice possesses only one
quality of the real thing. 1t is sour,
but 1t suggests the fruit in no other
particular and tastes of foreign III
gradients too strongly to deceive the
most inexperienced.-New York Sun.
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-21
NIAGARA TO THE SEA"
A Water Trip of Incompatible Beauty
and Grandeur.


Water Trip of Incompatible Beauty
and Grandeur.
A trip through Lake Ontario and
down the St Lawrence river! From
Niagara to the Seal Doesn't that sound
cool and refreshing and enticing? And
the mental prospective doesn't begin
to give one an idea of the delights to
be found in such voyage.
Travellers either for business or
pleasure are unanimous in the opinion
that there is no journey so pleasant in
the summer time as a stateroom voy-
age on the lakes. There is not the
dust and heat of railroad travel. There
is not the disposition to await with a
feeling of impotence the reaching OF
your destination Instead the traveller
finds himself looking forward to the
time when the big steamer reaches its
journeys end with just tinge of dis
appointments regret that there is to
be final to so charming a voyage.
No resident of North America can be
said to know his own country as he
should who has not made the trip by
water from Niagara to the Sea. Such
a voyage is the most varied in scenery,
the most exciting, the richest in his
toric association, of any that can be
made on the continent. From the
mighty cataract itself to Lewiston and
Queenston the Niagara river (the con-
Meeting link between Lakes Erie and
Ontario) dashes for fourteen miles
through that wonderful gorge made
by itself, in the excavation of which it
has taken more than eighteen hun
dred years. The rock at the edge of
the cataract is undermined by the
enormous body of falling water, which
grinds the rocks and gravel beneath
against each other and carries off the
product, and the edge above keeps con-
tinually giving away, to be in its tnrn
ground to powder at rate, estimating
from the progress made within living
memory, of four feet annually.
1t is at this spot of incompatible
beauty and scenic grandeur that the
journey from Niagara to the Sea by
the steamers of the Richelieu 81 On
tario Navigation company begins.
From Lewiston on the east side of
Niagara river, or Hamilton on the west
side, palatial steel steamers start for a
journey through Lake Ontario, the
Thousand Islands, which have come to
be known as Americas Venice" and
down the st. Lawrence river, making
the exciting descent of all the wonder
full rapids TO Montreal, Quebec, Murray
Bay, and thence up the beautiful
Saguenay river to Tadousac and Chi
coutimi.
There will be no more popular attrac-
ton at the Pan-American Exposition
this year than this water journey from
Niagara to the Sea- A visit to the expo
sition without making this side trip
through Lake Ontario and down the
beautiful st. Lawrence will be incom-
plete. Further particulars obtained in
the guide book, Niagara to the Sea-"
will be furnished on application to III.
Foster Chatfee, Western Passenger
Agent, Toronto, Ont w. f. Cloney,
Travelling Agent, Niagara Falls, n. Y;
Jos. +. Dolau, Ticket Agent, Montreal.
or Thomas Henry, Traffic Manager,
Montreal.
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-21
rive Talents.

The last man to go for a helping
hand for any new undertaking is the
man who has plenty of time on his
hands. 1t is the man and woman who
are doing most who are always willing
to do little more.
The people who are tired of life are
not those who work, but those who
are too proud or too lazy to do so.
Many of the rich are morbidly rest
less, while those who have to earn
their daily bread are comparatively
contented and happy. The Bible says
that 1.-THE sleep of laboring man is
sweet, whether he eat little or muoh."
(Eccl v. 12); and the busy worker has
health and blessing which the listless
idler never knows.-Selected.
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The all work and no play woman
soon becomes scarcely more than a
machine. machine that too often runs
without the wheels being greased-in
a hard, grinding, squeaklng way, re-
quIring much more strength and time
than IL a little fabrication had been
given in the shape of occasional pleas
antmoments snatched blythe ways, says
the Jacksonville Times Union. There is
one thing certain: 1t is better TO try
and be content with little, doing with
out some things that we may have a
great desire for, than to so wear our
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ropsr.s children Are weak.

mot infrequently, the children Of
topers die Of hereditary weakness, not
only showing a pronounced tendency
toward diseases of the brain, epilepsy
and idiocy, but they are also frequent
ly subject to vicious inclinations and
criminal tendencies. They lack per-
ception for that which is moral and
which contributes to a steady, we'll
ordered career. Weighted with the
burden of hereditary mental weakness,
they not unfrequently take to tramp
ing, fall into crime, or become the vic
Tins of drunkenness or insanity. The
tendency to drink degenerates not only
the existing race, but also the coming
generation"
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-21
Rnok of AGES. Cloft Cor Mel

The great hymns OF the world that
have touched the hearts of many thou
sands have usually been the expression
OF vital individual experience. They
have not been written as mere pieces
of literary composition; they have
been the crystallizing of personal sor-
row, personal faith, or personal reali-
cation. They have been the summing up
of years of hope and struggle, focused
in an instant of expression, as the
century plant stores up vitality for
decades to be evidenced at last in
sudden towering. The circumstances
that inspired some of our great devo-
tional hymns must deepen the interest
in both the song and the singer and
reveal that mighty kinship of human
souls, that divine sympathy, that con-
fers deathless fame on a few simple
verses, soul-biographies living in song.
This greatest of hymns was written
in 1775 by Rev. Augustus Toplady,
very learned English divine, who died
at the early age of thirty-eight. The
hymn has the rare. wondrous spiritual
ecstasy he revealed in his daily life. In
his last illness he said: 81 cannot tell
the comforts that l feel in my soul;
they are past expression. 1t will not
be long before God takes me; for no
mortal man can live after the glories
which God has manifested to my soul"
The marble tablet over his grave says:
He Wrote Crock of Ages, Cleft for
Me-"
The Sweet By and By.
In 1867 this hymn, known as THE
Sweet By and By" was written at
Elkhorn, Wis, by S. Fillmore Bennett,
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-21
Hold tho Fort, for Am Coming.

Hold tho Fort, Tor Il Am Coming.
In October, 1854, Allatoona Pass, o
defile in the Mountains of Georgia, was
guarded by General Corse with 1,50c
men. 1t was strong strategic point
and, moreover, million and hall
OF rations were stored there. Fresich
the southern general, with 5000 men
attacked the garrison and drove the
defenders into a small fort on the crest
Of the hill. The battle was fierce; the
northern soldiers fell in such numbers
that further fighting seemed folly. But
one Of Corse's officers caught sight OF
white signal flag futtering in the
breeze on the top of Kenesaw Noun
tain, across the valley, fifteen miles
away. The signal was answered, and
then came the inspiring message from
mountain to mountain: Hold the
fort; | am coming.-W. T. Sherman"
Cheer after cheer went up, and though
hopelessly reduced in numbers they
did hold the fort for hours until the
advance guard of Sherman's army
came to their relief. Six years later
P. p. Bliss, the evangelist, heard the
story in all its vivid detail from a
soldier friend, and then wrote the
words and music of this famous hymn
From Greenlands Icy Mountains.
On Whit Sunday 1919, Dr. Shipley
an English clergyman, was to preach
a missionary sermon. On the day pre-
ceding, DR.. Shipley requested his SON
in-law, Bishop Reginald Heber, tc
write something for them to sing in
the morning." Heber retired from the
table, around which group of friends
were assembled, and in corner of the
room wrote this hymn at one sitting.
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selves out body and spirit in their at.
tainment that we lose the power OF en-
joyment, too tired to care for anything
So the wise woman, though, like the
woman in the Bible, she rises while II
is yet night" she yet makes sure of a
little time every day-perhaps moi
more than a half hour-which is hel
very own, and with which stranger OF
friend 'intermeddleth not"
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by, and that first look gave the pleased
curve to the dying lip and smoothed
out the wrinkles and touched all the
lineaments with an indescribable radi-
ance. AS no one else explains that i'm
proved and gladdened post mortem
look, / try to explain 1t, saying: HE
saw God!" "She saw Godw
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Individual Responsibility.

Francis L. Clark says: Many re-
vivals can be traced, so far as human
agency goes, directly to the prayer of
some individual Christian; sometimes
to the prayer of helpless invalid who
could never attend a prayer meeting.
What God has done, God will do. II we
are ready for Him to work through
u.s.
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Office, and when asked Whats the
matter, now?" answered ut is no
matter, it will all be right
by and by" The idea flashed into
BENEFITS mind, as he then expressed
1t, was The Sweet By and By!' Why
wouldn't that make a good hymn"
Turning to table he at once wrote
the words; Webster jotted down the
music as If inspired. Half an hour
later two musical friends entered the
room and it was sung by the quartet.
Nearer, My God, to Thee.
OF the many hymns written by Mrs.
Sarah Flower Adams, the only one
that has survived is this hymn, based
on the Bible story of Jacobs vision at
Bethel, the imagery of which narrative
1t follows most faithfully. 1t first ap-
peared in volume called Hymns and
Anthems" published in 1871. The. chief
criticism made against this hymn is
that it does not mention a Savior. Rev.
A. L. Russell added a stanza covering
this lack, but the new lines are rarely
used and they never became popular.
jesus, Lover of My Soul.
One day Charles Wesley was sitting
by an open window, looking over the
beautiful fields, when he saw little
bird pursued by a hawk The poor
thing, weak and frightened, in seeking
TO escape from it's enemy, few into the
room and found refuge In Wesley's
bosom. AS the poet was then in great
l..
uge, the consolation of help from a
higher power than his own, the Incl
dent seemed to him divine message,
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-21
Electricity at Long Range.

The street cars in Oakland, Cal, are
now operated with electricity from the
Yuba river, 140 miles distant. The wa
ter power, having been converted into
electricity, is carried on wires six
tenths of an inch in diameter, made
of an alloy of copper and aluminium.
The electrical pressure is 10000 volts,
and the loss in transmission is said
to per cent This is by far the long.
est electrical transmission system for
power purposes in existence, and if the
loss is as small as it is stated to be,
it is the most promising indication OF
the possibilities of long-distance trans
mission yet furnished. Something
like six years ago." says the Railway
Engineering Review, "a test of cleo
trio transmission over line between
Frankfort and Lauffen, in Germany,
a distance of ITO miles, was made for
experimental purposes, but not until
the test of the plant above referred to
has transmission for commercial pur-
poses over a line of such great length
been a fact"
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-21
Cutting Down tho Army.

The initial step has been taken by
the War department toward the reduc
ton of the force of regulars in the
Philippines to 10000. Orders were ca
bled General Macarthur to send to the
United States the Fourteenth, Eigh-
teenth and Twenty-third regiments of
infantry, Fourth cavalry, Twenty
ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-second and
Thirty-third companies of coast artil-
lery and the First, Eighth, Tenth,
Twelfth and Thirteenth batteries of
fed artillery. The homeward move
ment of these troops can not be begsn
until after the volunteers have been re-
turned. At present it is believed that
10000 men will be enough for the Phil
ippines. The manner in which the
troops shall be distributed among the
different arms of the service is as fol-
lows: Cavalry, 1880 men; artillery,
coast and field, 1892, and 3S,529 in
fantrymen. The total enlisted strength
will be 74,504 men. The army, includ-
ing officers, will aggregate about SO,OU0
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who was as
S &C a t e d
with J. p.
Webster in
arranging a
new collec-
hymns,
s [ er w a S
nervous SEN
sitive q n d
easily d | S.
coura g G d +.
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workings of tho Divine Power.

We get some little idea of the divine
power when we see how it buries the
proudest cities and na:iGns. Ancient
Memphis It has ground M Until many
of it's ruins are no larger than your
thumb nail and you can hardly find
a souvenir large enough to remind you
of your visit The city Of Tyre is
under the sea which washes the shore,
on which are only a few crumbling
pillars left. Sodom and Gormorrab are
covered by waters so deathful that not
a fish can live in them. Babylon and
Ninevah are so blotted out of exist
ence that not one uninjured shaft of
their ancient splendor remains. Moth
ing but omnipotence could have put
them down and put them under. The
antediluvian world was able to send
to the postdiluvian world only one ship
with a very small passenger list. On
impotence first rolled the seas over
the land, and then told them to go
back to their usual channels as rivers
and lakes and oceans. At orsnipotent
command the waters bouncing upon
their prey. and at cmni,icient COM
mand sinking back into their appro-
pirate places. BY such rehearsal we try
to arouse our appreciation Of what ON
impotence Is, and our reverence is ex-
cited, and our alteration is intensified,
but after all we find ourselves at the
foot of a mountain we cannot climb,
lowering over depth we, cannot ia
thom. at the rim of a circumference
we cannot compass, and we feel like
first going down on our knees and then
like falling fiat upon our faces as we
exclaim: 10, these are parts of his
ways. But how little a portion is
heard of him? But the thunder Of his
power who can understand"
The Yale expositor., 1901-06-21

Fools and sensible men are equally
innocuous. II is in the half fools ant
half wise that the greater danger lies
Goethe.
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The carly strawberry crop in the vi
entity of st. Joseph is now considered
a failure.
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The first American theater was OPP
ened in 1850 in the city Of New York.
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Seeing God Face to Face.

Only glimpses of God have we in
this world, but what an hour it will
be when We first see him, and we will
have no more fright than l feel when
now see you. 1t will not be with
mortal eye that we will behold him.,
but with the vision of cleansed, for
given and perfected spirit. OF all the
quintillion ages of eternity to us the
most thrilling hour will be the first
hour when we meet him as he is.
This may account for something you
have all seen and may not have unv)r-
stood. Have you not noticed how that
after death of the old Christian looks
young again or the features resume the
look of 20 or 80 years before? The
WEAKNESS is gone out of the face; there
is something strikingly restful and
placid; there is a pleased look where
before there was a disturbed look.
What has wrought the change? l
think the dying Christian saw God.
AT the moment the soul left the body
what the soul saw left It's impression
on the countenance. | ,think that is
what gave that old Christian face after
death the radiant and triumphant look.
The bestormed spirit has reached the
harbor; the hard battle of life is ended
in victory. The body took that look
the moment heaven began, and the
curtain was completely lifted and the
glories of Jehovah's presence rushed
upon the soul. The departing spirit
left on the old mans face glad good
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God's Way of Doing.

We try to satisfy ourselves with say
ing, 1T is natural law that controls
things, gravitation is at work, centri-
petal and centrifugal forces respond to
each other" But what is natural law?
1t is only Gods way of doing things.
At every point in the universe it is
Gods direct and continuous power that
controls and harmoniZes and sustains
That power withdrawn one instant
would make the planetary system and
all the worlds which astronomy re-
veals one universal wreck, bereft hem
ispheres, dismantled sunsets, dead con-
stellations, debris of worlds. What
power it must be that keeps the in
ternal fires of our world imprisoned
only here and there squirting from
Cotopaxi, or a Stromboli, or from a
Vesuvius, putting Pompeii and Hercu-
laneum into sepulcher, but for the
most part the internal fires chained in
their cages of rock, and century after
century unable to break the chain or
bust open the door! What power to
keep the component parts of the air in
right proportion, so that all around the
world the nations may breathe in
health, the frosts and the heats him
dered from working universal demoli-
ton! Power, as Isaiah says, Ito take
up the isles as a very little thing"
Ceylon and Borneo and Hawaii as
though they were pebbles; power to
weigh the mountains in scales" and
the hills in alances"-Tenerife and
the Cordilleras. To move a rock we
must have lever and screw and great
machinery, but God moves the world
with nothing but word; power to
create worlds and power to destroy
them, as from observation again and
again they have been seen red with
fame, then pale 9TH ashes and then
scattered.
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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN
THE SUBJECT.
10, These Are Parts of the Ways
hut How Little n Portion Is Heard
of Hlm"-Job XVI, 14-worklngs OF
Divine Power.

Copyright 1901. by Louis Klopsch, N "
Washington, June 16.-In this dis
course DR.. Talmage raises high expec-
tations of the day when that which
is now only dimly seen will be fully re-
vealed; text, Job XVI, IA: 10, these
are parts of his ways. But how little
a portion is heard of him? But the
thunder of his power who can under
stand?"
The least understood h,jng in the
universe is God. Blasphemous would be
any attempt by painting or sculpture
to represent him. Egyptian HERO
glyphs tried to suggest him by putting
the figure of an eye upon sword, i'm
plying that God sees and rules. but
how imperfect the suggestion! When
we speak of him, it is almost always
in language figurative. He is Light"
or "Dayspring From on High" or he
is High Tower" or the Fountain Of
Living Waters" His splendor is so
great that no man can see him and
live. When the group of great theo-
logians assembled in Westminster alb
hey for the purpose of making a sys-
tenn of religious belief, they first OF
all wanted an answer to the question,
"Who is God?" No one desired to un-
dertake the answering of that over
mastering question. They finally con-
Guided to give the task to the youngest
man in the assembly, who happened to
be Rev. George Gillespie. He con-
scented to undertake it on the condi-
ton that they would first unite with
him in prayer for divine direction. He
began his prayer by saying, 20 God,
thou art spirit infinite, infinite, eter-
nal and Interchangeable In thy being,
wisdom, power holiness, justice, good
ness and truth" That first sentence
of Gillespie's prayer was unanimously
adopted by the assembly as the best
definition of God. But, after all, 1t
was only partial success, and after
everything that language can do when
put to the utmost strain and all we
can see of God in the natural world
and realize of God in the providential
world we are forced to cry out with
Job in my text: 10, these are parts
Of the ways. But how little portion
is heard of him? But the thunder OF
his power who can understand"
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The Sweet By and BY
In 1867 this hymn, known as "The
Sweet By and By" was written at
Elkhorn, Wis, by S. Fillmore Bennett,