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Resurrection Life.
r Postmaster Message.
Nv Rev C. wnbgler Pastor of the First Baptist Church

Colossiaus, iii;1-4.: IF We then be risen
with Christ, seek those things which are
above where Christ stitch on the right
hand of God. Set your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth. For ye
are dead. and your life is hid with Christ
In God When Christ. who is our life
shall appear. then shall ye also appear
with him in glory
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the
keystone Of the arch of redemption. The
first and second coming are the but
tresses. In the first coming we have the
Incarnation. Christs life and His death
and in His second coming His glorious re-
appearing and the contamination OF Gods
eternal purposes. The resurrection COM
pletes and pcrcects the arch for the COM
plete redemption Of mankind.
When Jesus came into the world it was
God coming down to man. When He went
into heaven it was man going up to Cod,
and the glorious connecting link between
these two great events was the resurrec-
ton Of Jesus Christ.
If lie did not arise from the dead
preaching is vain" "our faith is vain
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turns aside for nothing but the bit or some
object OF terror. He will walk right over
YOU II you stand IN his way Anybody or
anything can take hold of the bride ana
lead him. He seems to have absolutely no
initiative, no choice and no judgment
This is not because the horse naturally
has no sense. IT is a remarkable thing that
the people who live with horses the most
have the highest opinion of their intelli-
gence, and almost any hostler, If asked how
much sense a horse has, will reply: Just
as much as a man" Why is 1t. then, that
he never acts except as he is acted on, that
he obeys everybody alike, and that II he
Is not watched over and cared for he Will
walk into the jaws of death?
It is because he has been given to under
stand all his life that he IS to do no think
ing; that other people are to do that for
him. and that all he has to do Il TO obey.
The exception proves the rule and this fact
about tho usual stolidity of the horse Is
proved by the different conduct of horses
that are treated otherwise The Arabian
horse, that dwels in the same tent with
his mister, would no more step on the baby
than the master would. and horses that go
over the same route every day and are al
lowed some freedom know 1t as well as
their drivers.
The lesson we are trying to deduce from
this horse talk Is the impossibility or the
extreme difficulty of learning anything by
having II done for US and never doing II
ourselves.
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febre>v Charities.
National Conference Be Held in Philadelphia May to
I0-Efors in Behalf of Dependent Children
in New York City
in New York City.

ject OF family desertion. at the session OF
Monday afternoon. May T.
paper on THE Persistency OF Depend
ence As Indicated by Relief Statistics will
be presented by DR. Boris ID. Bogcn. super
intendent OF the United Hebrew Charities
of Cincinnati. Ohio.
The session OF Tuesday morning. May 3,
will be devoted TO consideration Of sta
tistics of Institutional Management"
on Tuesday afternoon In addition TO n
statement of the varied activities OF tho
Baron De Hirsch Fund by Eugene S Ben
jamin, It's president, there viii be consid-
Grafton OF various phases OF agricultural
work. The papers VIII be a Plan OF Agri-
cultural Settlement" by 4. ". Rich presi-
dent of the Wisconsin Agricultural Society.
which has inaugurated a very successful
settlement under novel conditions a Arpin,
Wis; possibilities for Agricultural Settle
ment in the South by Or !. |. lseucht Of
New Orleans; Agricultural Education" by
DR.. Joseph krauskopf. president OF the Ma
tional Farm School. Doylestown. Pa, and
DIR. II. J.. Sebsovich. general agent of the
Baron De Hrsch Fund, and Agriculture.
a Most Effective Means In Adjusting tho
Compromised EcoE1mic Condition of the
Poor by Rabbi n f. Levy. secretary OF
the Jewish Agricultural Aid Society OF
Chicago.
The session of Tuesday evening Will be
given over to the consideration OF the cues
ton Of tuberculosis, which viii be discussed
by DR.. Sachs.
An exceptional opportunity IS offered TO
the delegates TO the national conference Of
Jewish charities by reason OF the fact that
Immediately following its meeting ihe ma
tional conference of charities ana Cprrec-
tons VIII convene in phiad.lrEi4, so that
the delegates VIII be enabled 10 attend the
sessions of both conferences.
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sional cemetery were conducted by MI
Hawley. The National Inteligencer states
that at the preliminary ceremonies at the
Presidents house, which were very impress
sive, the rector declined to make an adj
dress; but, pointing to a Bible and Episco-
pal prayer book lying on a table before
him, stated they had been purci ased by the
President Immediately upon his arrival IN
the city and had been used daily by him
ever since He added that the President
had assured him personally OF his full be
lief in the Christian religion and that his
purpose had been to present himself to the
church to become connected with 1t on the
succeeding Sunday but his illness had pre-
vented him from doing so.
MIR. Tyler, the Vice President. assumed
the vacant office He, too, was a church.
man. and the Presidents pew was again
occupied by the family of the President
Shortly afterward the Executive Mansion
was again in mourning for tie wife Of the
President; and again in March. 1874, when
the explosion of a cannon mammoth for
those days. on board the L. S. S. Prince
ton caused the death of the Secretary of
State, Mr.. Upshur; the Secretary of the
Navy, Mr.. Gilmer. and Of others, one OF
whom was Mr.. Gardiner of New York, the
father of the lady the President subse-
quently married.
Gen. Taylor, who was inaugurated In
March, 1919. only survived until Fourth of
July, 1850 He and his family were church
people and a part of st. Johns congrega-
ton, and the funeral sermon was delivered
by DR.. Pyne at the obsequies.
Vice President Fillmore. who succeeded
was a regular attendant at the Old church.
''Mr. Buchanan, who followed Gen. Pierce
in the succession, was constantly seen at
st. Johns. His brother. Rev. Edward Blu
cianan, a Clergyman of the church, was a
frequent visitor during the time at the
Presidents house and at St. Johns. Among
the occasional occupants OF the President s
pew his guests were the relations of
Judge Roosevelt, knsfolk of tie present
chef magistrate, who, with his family, now
occupy the same pew.
mo other President became connected
with St Johns until the death of President
Garfield, when the presidency devolved on
Gen. Arthur. His wife had been n church.
woman. and the handsome stained glass
window the south transept of the church
was erected to her memory by the Presi-
dent. who was seldom absent from the
morning services.
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Sunday Morning Talk.
The Religion of Being Decent.

The Religion of Being Decent.
ut all Sits down to this does it not?"
said thoughtful, high-prncipled gentle
man in my hearing the other day, that
religion is simply matter of being de-
cent" great many people today would
agree with him. A widely circulated pc
riodical recently wound up an editorial
with a statement TO this effect IF we
behave ourselves in this world we can al
ford to take our chances in the world 10
come If there be any world to come.
Such a statement is not to be scoffed
at or the maker of 1t branded as an athe-
list or skeptic. One has a certain respect
for the honest, serious man who says IN
suhstance: "All this discussion about
creeds is confusing to me- The separate
and often hostile camps in which religious
folks assemble themselves perplex an out
slider. 1 find 1t hard to realize that there
is any spiritual world, anyway But TINS
much 1 can dol can behave myseil oe-
Gently. / may not be able to pray or sing
songs or talk in meeting, but can at least
try To do the square thing by myself, my
fay,sIv NV neighbors and the world.
We'll and good so far as 1t goes IN ms
-eiis;on of decency, but without being cap
tious or sanctimonious, let US ask IN an
kindness just how Iar TINS theoaS bow do
NE know what decency is IN all us iehstn
ND breadth apart from interpretations OF
# through a revealed and proSressEe iS :
ita,on9 The savage may consider hirnseii
nnita a decent fellow despite the fact thae
he enioys all day long the pleasures ~. y.
The chase and leaves to his "ile VI ii
wives all the laborious manual .Uil
,aans more to be decent TO-DAY wien :"
man is living in a highly ciVihzeu Coa
mnnity In the full light or the M" 20
r,bristian ideals. The really decent man , ~
dav Is merciful, well as just teiioeI nue., 90 90
we'll as honest self-sacrificing' as Met
n,re forgiving; as well az brave lii' 80, ioes
If dacency has been rendered ho.S 49, 49,
and far-rea ching by the enilghtmeit ,iia.
comes not simply from system oi es ili.s1
or an instructive sense or ~nat ~ i.s
ord bonorable but through contact VIZ,
the towering ideals of pure ana uhoeiieu
religion. x,or. 5ecencv
-us IN dynamic power--that Is. IL cannot
i., oo-nn,on variance deliver the goods.
NO usually discerns more of that which is
riyht than he Is able to attain. You really
u5nf TO he decent but how are you going
to be able to hold your tongue when the
neonle about you are saucy and hatefui!
Won want to be decent, but how are you
going to keep your purity when temptation
lies in wait for you around the next cor
ner? You want to be decent, but how are
Won going to forgive that enemy OF yours
who persists in his meanness? Such tri-
,Imuhs OF self-control and magnanimity are
not easy for the natural man. Your VIII
must be reinforced. Your eyes must be
opened to rec that they which night Tor
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and We are yet in our sins" For He died
FOR our sins, but was raised for our justi-
icatlon. Hence. If He did not arise we are
stu in our sins and there IS no hope of
immortality. For without Immortality and
a positive proof of 1t we are left TO cry
aloud, with no answer except the echo Of
our hopeless cry, and no help, for He in
whom we trusted is dead and did not arise
II Christ did not arise, then LIES In
equaIltes will never be leveled up; mans
deals will never be realized; prophecies
Will never be fulfilled; the deeper mean
ings of the souls longings and natures
teachings will never be understood
Christs character is n wreck and His
promises fade away like a moments foam
fades into the wave that bears II and is
lost forever. If Christ be not risen' then
Christianity Is a false religion, for it has
been founded on Christ and His resurrec-
lion. and 4o0Oo0OO0 Christians have been
deceived. If Christ did not arise. then
death is one long. dark night without any
lay, and the hopes, deep Iongings. future
perfection and eternal peace and JOY are
shrouGs for the grave, but not robes of
resurrection glory. The saddest, darkest
hought that could come to our world is
hat Jesus Christ did not arise from the
dead
If lie did not arise. then we I3ve no
authority fer observing the first day Of
he week as our Sabbath, no foundation for
the Christian church. no ground for the
teachings Of the Scriptures; no fuldllment
Of a large part Of prophecy and no mean
ing TO the ordinances Of the New Testa-
uent and the Christian church.
DR.. Arnold. whose ability as a thinker
none VIII doubt, says: Il have been used
sor many years to study the history OF
other times and TO examine and weigh
he evidences of those who have written
about them. and know Of no one fact In
he history of mankind which is proved
~ better and fuller evidence OF every
.ort TO the mind Of a fair inquirer than
he great sign which God has given us.
hat Christ died and rose again from the
cad"
Then If Christ has arisen from the dead
Ie liveth forever, for there IS nothing in
his universe TO destroy Him. and our
aith in Him IS q channel through which
se receive HIS life. which is eternal life
( He has arisen then the Christian Sab
,aths are linked with the open grave;
he Christian Church is a consequence OF
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The national conference OF Jewish chart
ties Will hold It's third biennial conference
in the city of Philadelphia from May to
0, 1906.
The opening session on the evening of
May will be given over to addresses of
welcome, the presidents biennial report
and reports OF the various committees of
federation. distribution, dependent chill
dren, etc.
The session of Monday morning will be
devoted to the care OF children. The work
done during the past year by the Joint
committee of dependent children In New
York city in the way OF placing out chill
dren for board and adoption viii be dis
cussed by DR.. L. r. Bernstein, supcrinten-
dent of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society of New York. who has had direct
supervision of this work. In connection
with this paper Rabbi Simon Peser. as
sistant superintendent OF the Jewish Or
phan Asylum of Cleveland VIII present q
discussion of the English and German cot
tage plans for the care OF orphans. The
care of Jewish delinquent children. COM
paratively new problem In Jewish philan-
thropy, will be the theme of paper by Mr..
Julius NJ Mayer attorney general of the
state Of New York, pres dent of the Jewish
protectory of New York and formerly judge
of the children's court in New York city.
Homes for Working Girls will be the
subject of n paper by Miss Rose Sommer-
field. superintendent of the Clara De
Hirsch Home for Working Girls OF New
York city. DR.. Lee X. Frankel manager
of the United Hebrew Charities in New
York city, VIII present a paper on the sub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-22
ONE OF NATURES TOOLS
How Teazels Are Used In Finishing
Different Cloths.
From ST. Nicholas.


Growing by the wayside you will often
see that stately, splnylooking plant, tho
teazel. but 1 wonder how many know that
1t has helped TO finish many a piece OF
cloth they wear?
We are apt to think of a tool as some-
thing of a mans make. yet here is one OF
natures own. and nothing has ever been
manufactured to successfully take its place.
For ages the teazel has been used for full
ing cloth, that is, raising the nap" and
the manufacturers refer TO map goods"
thus treated as ''gigged."
When ripe the dried spike heads are gath
cred, packed carefully IN bundles and
shipped in all directions to factories The
variety mostly used have the extreme end
of spikes hooked or curved backward. This
is called fullers' teazel. These heads form
sort Of brush and are attached to a
wheel or cylinder which reyolyes against
the surface of the cloth, and these curved
spikes catch part of. the threads and pull
them UP, making a fuzzy nap. This is
trimmed down and leaves that soft velvety
finish to the cloth. The spikes have
strength enough and elasticity, but when
they come in contact with rough place in
the cloth they break. and so avoid tearing
the material.
Try as they may, no one has ever been
able to invest a tool possessing ali of these
qualities, so the teazel stands unrivaled for
that use. The plant as we see It growing
wild looks, perhaps, at first glance some-
what like thistle, but II really has a dig
nifty and character all its own. The heads
in flower are covered with a fluffy down.
lavender or white, and as the blossoms
drop and the spikes appear. until little
later 1t fairly oristles. The leaves, pointed
and spiked. shooting out each side of the
stem, meet at base and form little basin
in which is usually water. So-we have the
name OF the plant from the Greek Dipsacus,
meaning thirsty, and many other faneifui
ones, such as Venus Cup, Venus Bath.
Wood or Church Brooms. Gypsy Combs,
Clothier's Brush, etc.
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PRESBYTERIANS HAVE 600
MISSIONARIES IN FIELD

NEW YORK. April 21.-A resume just
made of the work of foreign missions car
ried on by the Presbyterian Church In the
United States, north, shows that the board
is maintaining about go missionaries in six
teen different countries. besides $500 native
helpers in the various fields. There are
close to go, 900 native Christians under its
supervision, representing some 100000 ad-
herents.
The board also maintains 932 schools and
colleges, 10 hospitals and dispensaries. in
which were treated last year 423,ol9 pa
TENTS In addition to these there are eight
printing establishments which are turning
out in the neighborhood of 123, 900 pages
Of printed matter year.
With the exception of the Church Mis-
sionary Society of England the Presbyterian
board has had committed to it the largest
work among Protestant missions in the
world. The cost of administration OF TINS
work is less than 8 per cent.
Regarding the financial support or TINS
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you are more and mightier than they who
fight against you.
There must be, then, a background and
basis for the religion OF decency Some
times It is true that more has been made
of the background than Of the Character
which those hidden forces are meant TO
produce. Men have acted as IL they thought
that psalm singing and talking in meeting
exempted them from the need Of being de-
cent in ordinary relations. Some rells!ons
indeed, have been associated with indecent
practices and IL is hardly to be wondered
at that If the world ever gets the impress
sion that IL must choose between morality
and religion. it chooses religion every time
want no man In my church who is unctu-
Gus on Sundays and slippery on Monday,
But the right kind of religion and the right
Kind of morality walk arm In arm, and
the truly decent man nourishes his de-
cency at religious fountains
THE PARSON.
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PASSING oF BIG CoTroNWooDs.
Only Ones Along the Missouri on Gov
eminent Reservations.

From the LeavenwoFth Times.
The giant cottonwood trees which once
stood as great white-limbed sentines along
the Missouri river throughout all that sec
ton have come to be a thing of the past
Such is the report made by one of the own
ers of the steamer Moline of Kansas City,
who is doing contract work along the
stream and has been looking for big cot
tonwood trunks TO be used as plling In
river construction work.
He found that the only large trees Of
this sort along either bank of the Missouri
river. for fifty miles either way from Leav-
enworth, were In the government reserva-
tion OF 1000 acres on the Missouri bank
of the river just opposite Fort Leaven-
worth.
When the first settlements began to grow
up along the river in Kansas and western
Missouri the banks were primeval forests
OF willow and sycamore and walnut, with
many oaks, but, greatest of all. the giant
cottonwood trees. Many of these old trees
were more than 100 feet tall. with trunks
that not infrequently measured five and six
feet in diameter.
They seemed at once the boon and bug
bear of the man who cleared his lot and put
up his cabin; the one because Of the I'M
mense amount of labor 1t took to bring one
TO the ground, and the other because Of
the fine, lasting building lumber which each
yielded. Many of the first residences and
business houses in IleavenWorth were con-
structed mainly of planks and beams sawed
from these great cottonwood logs. In many
of the old houses the cottonwood lumber
can be found to this day; thousands of feet
of 1t have gone into the construction of
the new federal prison, but now the supply
Is practically exhausted.
The government got it's part which went
into the prison from its 1,000-acre reserva-
ton. and 1t is in this patch OF wood that
the only even partial impression of what
the big cottonwood forests once were can
be obtained. Even in this stretch Of the
woods the larger trees have all been cut
out, but the government wisely husbands
its tmbers, allowing the younger trees
growing room and keeping them secure
from the vandal and the professional
woodsman.
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great work II may be said that during this
year contributions from the home churches
have steadily increased, but the success of
the missionaries abroad has been so re-
markable that the work on the field has
gone beyond the income of the board and
this in spite of the fact that no money
whatever has been appropriated for new
property or buildings. excepting such
amounts as have been given to the board
especially designated for that purpose
Unless some $4,000 is received between
this date and May l the board will be
obliged TO close its fiscal year with a deficit
OF between 5000 and $1,000 and this In
spite of having refused earnest appeals
from the field which have constantly come
in for further extension of the work Such
deficit is exceedingly undesirable but in
view Of operations involving an expenditure
of a million and a quarter dollars such q
small deficit is evidence of great care and
restraint in management. In addition to
the sum mentioned the board is sending out
an appeal for $4,000 to take care OF a def
lett of the last two years.
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Stunted Initiative.
the Chlcare Chrenlcle.

From the Chicago Chronicle
There Is a great deal OF human nature In Il
horse and many useful lessons for the d.
-ection of human life may be learned from
uorse life. one OF these is the atrophy OF
faculties that are not used and the diff
dculty of learning how to do thing with
tut doing It. The particular thing about
1 horse that illustrates this is his loss or
Judgment and initiative by being trained all
lis life to act on the Judgment and orders
of others. A horse II he is halted Will gen.
erally stand in one spot. il he Is comforta-
1le for hours If he is set going again he
viii continue going until he is stopped. He
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Frogs Foam Nests.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
A naturalist has just discovered in the
Bugomo forest of Lake Albert, Africa. a
frogs nest made of spittie-iike froth and
attached to the back of some leaves over
hanging a small stream. He took the pre-
caution of photographing his find before
placing It in alcohol. and as soon as this
was done the mass collapsed. revealing.
however, wriggling mass of tadpoles
about one-third of an inch in length. Foam
nests OF this kind. the scientists say, are
made by certain frogs in Japan. az well as
by some South American species. Some
fishes also make foam nests, OF which the
paradise fish u conspicuous example.
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HEAD OF JESUITS, KNOWN
AS "BLACK POPE" IS DEAD

time in the history of the order an Ameri-
can, Father Rudolph Meyer OF -. Louis,
is generally believed to be the strongest
candidate for the honor
Father Meyer is well known in every
part of the United States. He has served
as provincial of the order in ST. Louis. and
was president of the Jesuit colleges In Gin
cinnau, Chicago and Detroit In his early
life he studied at Georgetown Univ ersity.
and was afterward an instructor in phil
osophy. He made his theological studies
at Woodstock, Md. and Is personally
known to nearly all OF the distinguished
men of the order in Boston. New York.
Philadelphia and this city, as well as to
those In the western province with which
he is affiliated.
The greatest Interest IS manifested IN
Father Meyers candidacy, not only among
the clerics. but among the body OF alumni
of Jesuit universities and colleges, O of
whom would like to see their old teacher
thus highly honored
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CORNERSTONE LAYING
TOMORROW AFTERNOON

The cornerstone of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church of Petworth D. c., will
% laid with proper ceremonies tomorrow at
, pm. The building will be located ut sth
and Shepherd streets.
The order OF exercises Is as follows.
Comet solo by y. +. Gottwals; doxology
aymn, choir; prayer by Rev. Carl S. D0ney
nymn; laying OF corner stone; hymn: adj
iress by Rev. II. Il. MAYOR, presiding
elder; hymn: benediction by Rev. Joseph
Dawson.