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Burnah and Buddha.

| In Burmah you live with Gautama
Ruddha. IT India he is a name. a mem
ory enshrined at Buddha Gya, an in
| fiuence lost and corrupted in the great
Fedic tide, says writer in 'Scribner's."
| Here he is present and active; his fnge:-
is on every lip. his glance IN every eye;
! the low sky is full of him. The people
have taken his very impression; lie fell
here upon a simplicity and sincerity
that have maintained him almost as he
was. Every male Burman is at one time
or another his disciple, and thousands
of these remain to be his priests, the
priests who give that peaceful amber
! note to city crowds, and make lonely
saffron splashcs against the vivid land
scape as the train goes past a monas-
terry in the evening. His image natur-
ally abounGs sheltered in shrines, the
| image of the teacher, and one of the
most revered oi these sits in the Ara
kan pagoda at Mandalay. AS on item in
II viceroy's program the Arakan paSoda
makes no grea- figure, but its dimen
sions are great in the hearts of the
people, and its fame spread very far.
We knew before we arrived that the
brass image in the Arakan pagoda,
twelve feet in height, was brought by a
conGucring Burmese army over the hills
from Akyab. in the year 1884. That
was explained in the tour book. which
is compiled by the military secretary
cut of me bleached bones of Oriental
empires. The military secretary did not
hint in the tour book that it was the
piety of the King that drew the image
TO Burmah. that IS the kind OF state
mcnt this author alw lays leaves 10 the
local historian; but 60 II is said in the
inscription. We also learn that it was
made In Guatama 6 lifetime, toward the
end: that he looked upon 1t with favor,
and said: Brother. | leave you to bear
my features when | am gene" Once
only the ngurc spoke. and then the
teacher laid silence upon it until
Areenadehya should come TO .'evcal the
new law -areemadehya is not vet come
he IS passing his present existence in
the form of i.ire-but the Puyah Gyec
continues to obey.
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Man. Struggle
Against Evil. .

Evil has a thousand forms and en-
velops us on all sides. Every hour
we have to defend ourselves from it.
In order to trace a complete plan
against it it wG,S:id make 1t necessary for
US to dictate for our private as well as
public conduct, for our intellectual and
moral interests. and for our economic
and material interests.
l do not make pretense of promul-
eating this immense code. and to formu-
late its innumerable articles. There are,
. however, certain essential points where
useful hints may be given of errors to
avoid.
1t is with individual efforts that evil
is to be conquered. This is a truth
most profound which people are willing
to recognize in theory, but which they
decry in practice, as for example the
voter who does not go to the polls be-
nause his voice does not signify any
thing and will not affect the result.
What does 1t matter?" he says. II
am only drop in the ocean,"
| 1t matters much. The least acts Of
private life contribute to general NOR
ality. The person who on a public fete
day prefers exercise in the open air,
the gay and wholesome promenades or
public lectures, popular concerts. or
good dramatic presentations to the
racecourses, to vulgar resorts, and ig-
noble entertainments, that man, accord
ing to the degree OF his personal activ-
ity. by his preferences and aversions,
gives benefcent impulse which, multi
piled by thousands OF others like him.
can produce a social movement fertile
in happy results.
II anyone wishes to better the social
state he must always do 1t by individ-
ual effort-individua personal effort at
first, collective personal effort after
ward, is the only talisman for good that
may be depended upon. Each man must
look first to his work, and after his
work to the proper employment of its
products, economy, and provisions for
the future.
Associated effort follows, in an asso-
citation which is voluntary. which does
not enfeeble the individual, which, on
the contrary, fortifes him, which COM
pels his self-respect
1t is not thus, unhappily, that most
OF our contemporary apostles of social
regeneration labor. They usually op-
crate with systems which have as lit
tie respect for human dignity as 70.
Justice. and whose realization, If they
attain momentary success, by favor
Ing some to the detriment of others.
only cause an artificial return to in
equalities.
Everybody should be guaranteed the
Tree exercise of his faculties and the
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days, and "seven times" represent
twenty-five hundred and twenty
(7x360-2520) symbolic days, or
$3.50 literal years.
That the "seven times" of punish
ment, four times declared in the twen-
ty-sixth chapter of Leviticus, are SYM
bolic is evident from the fact that
they cannot be literal, for if literal
they would represent but a seven
years captivity as the last and great
est and final punishment of perverse
and apostate Israel, whereas there
were numerous other captivities pre-
ceding of much greater length, as, for
instance, Israel served the king of
Moab eighteen years Judges, iii 81 /,
King Jabin twenty years (Judges,
tx :2,3), the Philistines one period of
forty years and another of eighteen
years (Judges, MS; xiii ~ besides
their seventy years in Babylon.
AS the "seven times" are plainly
symbolic and not seven literal years,
and so represent 1920 years of time,
from what limit to what limit must
we count this last long captivity of the
Jews?
Gods word supplies the answer in a
single verse, although countless other
passages do the same, more or less di-
rectly, supported by the whole con-
sensus of Bible truth.
In Ezekiel, xxi, in speaking of the
overthrow of the kingdom of rebel
lious Judah, which took place in 6O6
B. c.. God. through the prophet, says
in the twenty seventh verse:
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to Leviticus. XVI. it will be seen that
God, after telling of the great bless
ings which should attend his people,
Israel, if they would keep his com
mandments and serve him with the
whole heart, begins in the fourteenth
verse Of the chapter an enumeration
of the curses which will attend them
if they do not, reaching in the eigh-
teenthverse this remarkable utterance !:
"And if we viii not for all this heark-
en- unto me. then / will punish you
seven times more for your sins" This
is repeated in the twenty-tirst verse
and again in the twenty-fourth verse,
and for a fourth time in the twenty
eighth verse.
To the casual reader this significant
"seven times" might mean but little,
and so be passed with scant attention;
but to the student it will at once oc-
cur that in the Bible ''time" is used
in the sense of a year whether the
year be literal or symbolic, the SYM
bolie use of the word occurring espe-
cially in the books of Daniel and Rev
elation. A comparison Of Daniel
VII :25, Daniel XIII, and Revelation
xii a with Revelation xii IS and Rev
elation Xiii :5 will reveal this fact, and
also that symbolic year as used in
prophecy is reckoned on the basis of
lunar year-twelve months of thirty
days each, or three hundred and sixty
days-each symbolic day representing
an actual year. Consequently,
''time," OF year, if symbolic, signifies
three hundred and sixty symbolic
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THE MAKING
OF WORDS.
A man who patents a good
thing has a right to name his
own offspring, and he generally
does about as well at the busi-
ness as most people do in naming
their children, which is not say
ing much.
By L. L.

Every object the world there pre-
the public the problem of naming it. Different countries fol-
low different plans this The American plan is sort of mix
of all the others.
Greek words conveying the meaning Gaces them by end
ing and an accent, and there you
The picks all the words the idea
German strings them along together like consolidated
The consequence of this plan is that when You discussing old
things possible quite rapidly
but you approach modern times the deliberate
be- This perhaps the why French scientific books
scholars without translation To translate them
discuss the subject German would take long that the scholar
would die before he to the end of his argument
English system usually take Latin dervatye and nick
bptize slang and make English word in good
regular standing Being relatives of the English have adopted
their plan certain extent Our of ncknamng however, diff
take the beginning of word; take the end We
phone for teephone they would ey' they in aste
And s.
There really ought 20 be of preventing the absurd
gomeratons which duty for the of modern Inventions
but long this free country and the human imagination
ratio be inevitable. who patents good thing has
right his offspring and he generally does about well at
business people do naming their Children which
saying much
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Premier an ex-Priest.

"once priest always a priest accord
ing to the canon law, says the London
Truth" If so, the French republic has
for the first time a priest at the head
of the government as prime minister.
The premier set out in life as the Able
Combes. but soon threw aside the SOU
tame, or priestly gown. After being a
doctor Of theology, he become an NJ. D.,
and had the good luck to be, as republi-
can mayor of a commune, where he
practiced in the Charente Inferieure.
prosecuted by MacMahon's moral or
der" government. By rapidly success
sive efforts of universal suffrage he. in
consequence, became again mayor, court
councillor and senator.
He is now, though but sixty-seven,
among the senior of the elected mem
bers of the Senate, where he soon took
leading place as a useful member. In
no haste to shine as a speaker, he dis
tinguished himself as hard working
member of special committees and then
as a reporter on bills. He speaks re-
markably well, and always out of knowl-
edge of the subject with which he has
to deal. By his application to business
this little mamie is a hop-o-my-
thumb-puts to shame his big colleagues.
NJ. Combes is a good writer, and has
considerably added to his income BY
furnishing articles on physiological sub
jects to the papers and on physiological
and historical subjects to the reviews.
He distinguished himself by work ON
la Psychologist de Saint Thomas
d'Aquin," the great Catholic doctor OF
theology and casuistry. He also dis
sected the soul of ST. Theresa, and went
into the causes of ''rInferiorite des races
royales," physical and mental He DEM
onstrated his thesis in this instance with
a crowd of examples. AS an NJ. D. he
never lost literary style, which he cul-
tivated in youth as professor of history
sumption at Mines. His literary style
has derived body from medical studies.
NJ. Combes had very large provincial
practice before he betook himself to leg
islation as senator. AS doctor in hot
haste to render assistance to his many
patients, he acquired his peculiar way OF
running when he walks.
The breath of scandal has never touch
ed this ex-priest. who is a true philoso-
pher. He has known how to bide his
time, how to be thoroughly useful IN
his sphere, and has found too much en-
joyment in activity to care for wealth.
His quarters salary. what money he can
make with his pen and a small inde-
pendent income amply suffice for his
wants.
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Into the Silence.
By JULIA NELLY FINCH.

Into the silence, my soul,
And there be healed and made wi.o,s
With force conserved, leara to wait
The moment for Thee k;g with fots.
Let not the cankered poison, hate,
Upon life's festercd scres abide,
And in thy secret places h;de,
To rob of strength aud make unciean;
But from the fount and source unseen,
Let evermore at thy command,
For all thy need make bold demaul.
1t is thy own: thou art a part
Of grace and goodness, brain and
heart.
A spark thou art from out TIE fire,
Of all uplifting. high desire.
This is thy heritage and right!
The source for thee of strength and
might;
Thine armor for the daily fight
That thou must wage, and win, with
wrong.
Assert thyself, be sternly strong,
Yet human in all tenderness.
Let all that is within thee bless,
And better life for that thou art.
Into the silence. 90, my soul,
And there be healed and made whole.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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THE BEGINNING OF THE F1ILLENNIUr1.
By CHARLES |. MCMASTER.

Rev. J. S. Washburn's very sensibly
written article in The Times on "The
End Of the World was entirely in
agreement with the most exact Bibli-
cal and historical proof, except III the
concluding statement, In which he
said: "No one can know the exact
time of the end of the world, but that
it is soon coming the wise and diligent
student of the Scriptures cannot
doubt" With the last part of the
statement not only is the Bible in
fullest accord. but it is astonishing
how many able and earnest investiga-
tors, writers, and scientific men have
come to the same conclusion.
In regard to the first statement,
however: ''No one can know the ex-
act time of the end of the world" Mr..
Washburn is wrong; for the date of
the beginning of the millennium, the
fifth universal kingdom referred to by
the prophet Daniel, as explained by
him, is definitely stated in the Bible,
not only one, but several lines of in
controvertible proof, pointing, each,
to a very near-at-hand date as the
year in which Christ's endless reign
of Righteousness shall begin; in which
every wrong system, social, civil, and
ecclesiastical. will fall, and all wick
edness cease; and when the resurrec-
tion of the dead shall commence and
all sorrow, pain, and death begin for
ever to pass away.
But one of the many lines of proof,
each of which is complete in itself,
will be taken up here. By reference
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~ will overturn, overturn, over
turn it; and it shall be no more, until
he come whose right it is; and l will
give it to him."
Who is he to whom God will give
the kingdom so long ago overturned7
1t is he referred to in the vision in
terpreted by Daniel to King Nebu-
chadnezzar, in the second chapter of
his prophecy, having special refer
ence, for the point in hand, to the
thirty-ffth, forty-fourth, and forty
fifth verses. 1t is he whose kingdom,
the fifth and the last, is represented
by "a stone cut out without hands,"
that smote the preceding kingdoms
and "became great mountain" that
''filled the whole earth." and (which
shall stand forever" and with refer
ence to which by way of further en-
phasis Daniel adds in the forty fifth
verse: "The great God hath made
known to the king what shall come to
pass hereafter; and the dream is GER
tain and the Interpretation Of it sure"
Counting. then, the ''seven times"
or 1920 literal years from COG B. c.,
brings us to 1914 A. d. as the date
of the setting up on earth of Christ's
eternal kingdom of absolute right
eousness, when, the "seven tines of
punishment of Israel being ended, the
Jews will be returned to their country,
Palestine, according to innumerable
prophecies to that effect, many of
which are already having so striking
a commencement of fulfllment as to
excite universal attention.
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The Newspaper.
From the Address of ARCHBISHOP IRE
LAND before the National Education
Association.

From the Address of ARCHBISHOP IRE
LAND before the National Education
Association.
If were to choose where outside
the classroom, for the general well
fare of humanity. / should have de-
votion to truth prevail. I should
name the newspaper. The newspaper
is today pre-eminently the mentor Of
the people. 1t Is read by all; it is
believed by nearly all. Its influence
is paramount; Its responsibility is
tremendous. Its province is to mar
rate facts-to give the truth. nothing
but the truth: to allow both parties
to a controversy to be heard; never
to palliate or distort; never to omit,
when that which is omitted may be
! of relevancy in the formation Of pub
lie opinion, never to publish the
doubtful as certain, the mere gossip
as we'll acertained news; never,
above all else, to put before readers
error and talSenoOd. Journalism
that is honest and honorable is one
of the nations most precious Inherit
ances; that which places notoriety
and pelf above truth and virtue. and
adopts as its tactics the stunning
sensation rather than the calm state
ment-of facts. IS one of the nasion's
direst calamities. Numerous in
America is the journalism which is
honest and honorable: here and there
is found that which Yorships above
all else notoriety and pelf. There
is here a duty Of conscience and of
patriotism for Americans. May they
ever be mindful of that duty
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By Frederick Pdssy,
Paris Institute of Moral and
Political Science. E

free employment of his resources. The
state should have its place, and should
render to the Individual isolated or as
sociated, everything to which he has a
right.
II is important for us to be persuaded
of the fact that social power cannot be
efficacious and beneficent II individual
| initiative is repressed. Coed deeds, on
the contrary. will have attained the
maximum power when individual effort
ergy
From the blood Of an inert mass hab-
ituated to wait upon the power which
dominates it 1t is difficult to extract
men capable of legislating, of govern
ing. of administering, and of controlling
1t breeds men who are apt in intrigue,
in invective, in threatening, and in over
turning ministries as IL they were card
houses. 1t does not bring forth serious
men-men of resolution and action. We
cannot make chain of gold with links
of lead.
The religious sentiment, like other
sentiments of the human soul, has It's
errors and shortcomings. Accordingly 1t
sometimes can be one Of the forms or
one of the causes of the evil against
which we have to strive. 1t is necessary
to recognize that religion only too fire.
Quently is but the definition of evil Man
incarnates his advices. his passions, his
enyies, his hates into a god which he
imagines. But this is not the true re-
Iigious spirit. To the true religious
spirit we can and must appeal In COM
batting our tendencies to evil and In es-
tablishipg Justice.
Against the religion of force or dis
couragement end of inertia the religion
of right. founded upon belief in some
thing higher and more durable than
passing accidents and ephemeral sue
cess. should react toward the realization
of the eternal ideal. The danger lies In
fatalism, which accepts evil as inevita-
BILE and submits thereto.
Fatalism and the religious spirit
should not be confused. Nor should IA
talism be confused with resignation,
which, as some one has beautifully said,
is indomitable hope and indomitable en-
ergy.
The future is open before us. The
human being finds himself growing in
definitely. Pleasure gives him field of
action only for the moment. Duty shows
him a law which commands him with
out constraining him. Religion goes
further. 1t leads him into eternity for
his own sake; for those who belong to
him; for the living, for the dead; for
those who have not yet been born.-St.
Louis Star.
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Tolstoy's Religion.

Tolstoy was recently asked by
correspondent to give his opinion as
to the birth and person OF Christ,
the problem of immortality and the
church communion. His reply, as
quoted in the Revue Bleue," of
Paris, was as follows:
81 believe that Christ was a man
like ourselves; to lcok upon him as
God would seem to me the greatest
of sacrileges and an evidence OF
paganism. To recognize Christ as
God is to deny God.
81 believe that Christ was q man,
but / believe his doctrine divine, as
expressing divine truths. ! know of
no doctrine superior to it; it has
given me life, and strive to follow
it as far as l am able.
"Of the birth of Christ l know and
need to know nothing. AS to life be-
yond the grave we know that it ex-
lists; that death is not the end of
life; what that other life will be
we do not know, because we do not
need to know.
by Pharisees l understand In
general the clergy; by doctors,
learned men who do not believe in
God. As to eating the body and
drinking the blood, | think this
passage one of the most unimpor
tant in the Gospels, and that it sig
nifies either the adoption or the
recollection of the doctrine. In
either case 1t is of no Importance
and has not the meaning church
fanatics have attached to it"
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WHAT IS IT7
By JOHN A. JOYCE.

We kneel unto the sun and pray
That God will grant happy day;
And gaze into the stars at night
For some small token of the light
That shines beyond this earthly gloom
A promise of eternal bloom.
And yet we sigh and look in vain
For knowledge from yon starry plain,
That beams the same through all the years,
Indifferent to smiles or tears.
While tidal waves and earthquake shocks
Rip up volcanic, rooted rocks.
The human midgets come and go
As wavelets in their ebb and flow.
a thousand years is but day
And youth is ever growing gray;
Injected TO this world alone,
And destined to the vast unknown!
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TWO SLAYERS.
By GALA HARCOURT.

The jewel-winged bird on your bonnet
Last summer was happy and free;
Was flashing across the blue heavens,
Or filling the treetops with glee,
He died in the midst of love song
Oh, woman's soft heart, think of that!
He died never dreaming YOU wanted
His beautiful corpse for your hat
Each bird that is worn for adornment,
Each heaven-taught singer that dies
For vanity's sake, has two sayers-
The hunter, the woman who buys
One kills and one pays for the murder;
Both equally guilty hold;
Because the sad slaughter would sIaclen
If woman paid not with her gold.
Our Dun
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CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.
Democracy Like Religion.

Memphis Commercial-Appeal u In re-
ply to the Louisville Posts" query,
What Is Democracy" We would say
that Democracy is not unlike religion.
When you've got It. you know 1t. When
you haven't got IT. you are always ask
ing what IL Is.
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In the seclusion of a Cell.

Atlanta JournaI-Capt. Oberlin NJ. Car
ter, retired army officer of oonsidera-
lie note. will come to Georgia to meet
his old friends Messrs. Greene and Cay
nor. when they arrive from Canada.
They are expected tc spend some time
together.
The Washington times., 1902-07-27
Getting in a Stab on St. Louis.

Chicago Chronicle-As no prominent
citizen OF st. Louis has been seen head
ed toward Mexico lately. we may a: 'ume
that the municipal rottenness is pretty
thoroughly uncovered by this time. We
may also assume with safety that there
Is not much left TO steal.
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Modern Diplomacy.

Boston Journal-"Amhassado Choate
lie suspected of having fallen victim TO
the golf mania" There may be a method
in his madness. Mr.. BGlfour. the new
British premier. is an expert golfer.
The Washington times., 1902-07-27

VINO cannot buy the Morning. Afternoon Sunday
don of The Times stand Washington suburban
railroad trains. elsewhere will confer favor by
notifying Publisher The Times, Tenth
Washington, D. c.
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Gambling All Around.

Indianapolis News-According to re-
ports, John B. Gates averted panic by
refusing to call This shows how close
ly the stock game resembles poker.
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A Great Irrigator.

Rochester Post Exprcss-The water
supply OF Denver is running low and
there is much suffering from thirst. Let
Denver borrow Devery from New York.
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