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Christ's School.

We should remember that this IL
ChHist's school. These disciples needed
to be fitted for the great work which
was to be committed to them. This is
not an easy school. There is no path
which leads to the summit which does
not go uphill. The very first command
was staggering Command the multi
tudes to sit down upon the grass" With
that command went anticipation. But
suppose there should be failure! What.
If at the last there should not be enough!
We may be sure that some Sucn dOuptS
as these struggled for the mastery. And
even after they began to deal the FOOD
out to the people, as Maclaren suggests,
did they not feel that they must give
sparingly? Was there not latent.
haunting dread lest the last piece might
be given, and they should stand with
empty hands before the hungry? But IN
what other school could their talth nave
been matured? When the feast was over
when the demands Of the 1900 had been
met: how now must their faith nave
been able to laugh at impossibilities.
This is an old truth Yes; in morals
and religion nearly all truth Is oid. =; a
great thinker has said that wnat IS
new i'm religion is not true; and what is
true in religion is not new" But, Old as
1t is it is with most of us lesson YET
unlearned. How few of us realize When
we are fighting some great pdltie, w
hearing some great burden that this IS
Gods school. in which He is fitting US
for greater usefulness here. and for
home with saints, and angels in the bye
and bye. If this could be realized, we
would. like Paul. GLORY in tribulation
also" But like the disciples we are duii
scholars They seemed as much sur
nrised at the second miracles as at the
first. And SO with us. Gods deliverances
seem to make but little impression upon
us. At the next trial We are as unpre-
pared as before.
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that they had danced with her at Biar-
ritz. They imprisoned women for say
ing she had been engaged to Ossuna. 1t
only caused the world to whisper that
she had shameful secret in her BIRTH
1t Is tale still half believed, because
1t rounds Eugenie'S romance off and
makes her daughter Of Queen Chris
tina, blood sister to the Duchesse de
Berry. grandniece of Marie Antoinette.
Eegenies devotion to Marie Antoinette
relics helped the tale. Her mother
daughter of kirkpatrick, United States
consul-married Montijo and went to
court. Going in the suite to attend Chris
tina from Naples. she became her con-
fdante; and as Christina was known to
have given birth to two girls before her
marriage to King Ferdinand, they were
Eugene and her sister Pacca-confided to
the MontijOs. Certainly there was no re-
semblance between the countess and
Eugene, who still has the marked fea-
lures of the BourbonS.
Montijo himself lived late enough to en-
gage Merimee as tutor for the little girls
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mans for tyranny. The Bonapartes CRY
FOR the fund-Napoleon's property-whicb
they say she sequesters.
The rich, lone old woman purnS 10 Vln-
dictate herself.
Her heart bursts to explain facts that
look against her.
Some ISLANDERS have been refuted by
time Every woman wears walking skirts
today. yet when the Emperor Of Austria
saw Eugenie's at the exposition OF 1851
he said aloud to his empress. Cover your
feet.
Others have been refuted by her own
act-like the stopping of her lawsuits.
When she fed the Tuilleries she left be-
hind her 300 new dresses, her collections
of fans furs, laces and lingerie unique
in the world, and vast riches In art an.
tiquities bought with her own money or
received as gifts. ,,...,.-
The most precious she had lent to nsr
seums. She was empress. She could al
ways get them back. 5t.s,aes'
Well, she has been trying to get them
back ever since. She has won every law
suit. The republic always appealed and
delayed. Only in 1907. after she had re.
nounced 4.OOO.000 francs. capital and in
terest did she get final decision for
5000 600 francs as compensation for OBJ
jects which the government stu refuses
nier paintings. bought from Napo)eon's
private purse-and 53s specific objects
bought by Eugene. or received as gifts,
or inherited by Napoleon.
Sure that the republic would never pay
the 1900, 600 francs, she was about taking
the adjudged specific objects. when all
France went wild against her.
Among them were clock from the sue
cession OF Queen Hortense, Louis NVl
bureau bought by Eugene at the Beau
veau sale. and some arms, harness ana
old clothes inherited by Napoleon HI.
Yes. but the clock. In the Louvre. is es-
timated at $4,000: the bureau. belonging
to Marie Antoinette, is treasure of the
great museum, worth $4,000; among the
"old harness were pearl-and-gold-eni-
hroidered saddles and jeweled pistols
picked up by Napoleon / after the battle
of the pyramids, and worth 100000: ana
the ''old clothes were the "redingote
gris'' of the Man OF Destiny, his historic
battle hats, his cloak. his boots. his S1JO.
600 jeweled sword-the whole legend OF
the eagle.
"They are family souvenirs" explained
Eugene.
Not your family. madame!" screamed
the Paris papers.
She has given up the whole thing.
She no longer tries to take what the
courts gave her.
She burns to explain herself. Yet she
is silent.
The memoirs existed. The vast studied
,, of herself and her experts in the National
Library are perfectly well known. She
even bought up great patches of her an
cient enemies old letters.
She could vindicate herself Her proofs
were ready.
Yet there will be no memoirs. Through
Pietri she has warned the world that she
has written none, prepared none, COM
person to write or publish memoirs in her
name. Any memoirs purporting to be
hers will be spurious
II am of the dead past" says Eugene.
Let the dead past bury its dead
Eugene forgives. =
STERLING HELLO.
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Hungry Are Fed.

The disciples were ever solicitious for
the reputation OF the Master. The peo'
pie were far from home. Their store
of provisions was exhausted. There
was no supply at hand. The disciples,
In the first miracle. dreaded the result
Of longer abstinence and urged the
Master to send them away. What must
have been their amazement when Jesus
answered.: "They need not depart;
give We them to eat" John, who is more
specific in his statement, says that it
was Christ who first suggested to
Philip the need of the people. And
John says that He did this to prove
him; ''for He Himself knew what He
would do (John. 16.) Philip said that
200 pennyworth $3.50 in our money!
would not be sufficient to buy the need
ed bread. 1t is strange that in the
second miracle I5:33) the disciples
seem to have SO far forgotten the first
that they ask the same question:
whence should we have SO much
bread in the wilderness as to fill so
great a multitude?"
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main. that nothing be lost" John, 6:12.
These. words deserve to be pondered deep
ly by every American. There can be no
question but that We are the most waste
full people on earth. The newness of
our country and the abundance of our
harvests may. to some extent, account
for it, but it is a habit that nothing can
justify. If ever there were circumstances
under which Indifference would be per-
missible they were those that prevailed
there in the wilderness. But there 1t was
strictly forbidden. 'Why be careful of
fragments they might have said. when
our master can create food for the null
titude Why not leave these for the
sparrows; but He cares more for men.
He was teaching a lesson to the world of
the sacredness of common things. He
was saying to the disciples, and through
them to us. Food. whether 1t be bread
or meat. or fish. is sacred. These are
the creatures of God for His creature,
man. Our eating should be a sacrament
in which God Is recognized, and our
food should be considered sacred. All
food has in IT the element of life. and
all life is from God. 1t was made for
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to be awake to see his boy off in the
morning, and Eugene poured it out and
made him drink it down, for his own
good.
1t gave him sleep-eternal sleep. He
never woke.
1t was accidental. They accuse her
only of criminal negligence-and a cold
hearted doing away with the will.
Plon-Plon, father of the present Victor,
started the tale. Doubtless it was Ma
poleons carelessness; yet it is fact that
emerging from war, being two years
ill, on the eve of an operation and an
armed uprising to regain a throne, he died
disinheriting his only son, heir and con-
fidant-and leaving all to Eugene.
Plon-Plon says that the only will dis
covered when he removed Pietri's seals,
affixed by Eugenie's orders, was one made
when the young prince was nine years
old-heir to throne and forty millions
civil list. Naturally, Napoleon would
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Native Alaskan to Speak.

Edwin Marsden. native Alaskan. will
address the Woman's Home Missionary
Society Of Washington Presbytery at
Berwyn, Md, Friday. June - A spe-
ciaI effort is to be made during the
summer for the Sheldon Jackson School,
at Sitka, Alaska. 1t is declared to be
most fortunate that a native has come
to tell the members the interesting
facts about the people. customs and
schools OF Alaska. Mr.. Marsden has
come from Alaska to attend the meet
ings of General Assembly in Atlantic
City, and will only make this one add
dress in the Baltimore Synod.
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while in Spain writing Carmen; yet
Eugenie's slanderers completed her lille
gitimacy by destroying the Arevale regist-
ter that certified the year of his DEATH
They substituted Montijo who had di-
vorced before Eugene was born-and
blamed the mountaineering on Napoleon
III to conceal his wife's fatherless state
When Merimee offered his testimony
they called him Eugenies lover. Mother
and daughter, lonely in Paris, had well
coined the former tutor. and Merimee had
taken them to the reception where Eu-
genie met Napoleon. With these facts the
BOnaparte family tried to break the
match.
'Have you heard of Merimee?" sneered
de Persigny.
HE is a great writer" replied Napo-
leon.
"He writes Eugenie's letters to you.
Mother, daughter and newspaper man
concoct them. Did you make your coup
d'etat for that?"
1t was always known why Eugene
hated a whole section of Bonaparte lead
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ers; she could forgive political counsels
against her. but not the powerful ones
who never ceased to steal her reputation.
scott the Monti1o titles and bring out
Kirkpatrick bankrupt raisin merchant
On the famous visit to Windsor, when
her first impression Of royalty was vital.
enemies among her very ladies managed
to send all her trunks astray. Eugene
was presented to Victoria in makeshift
blue silk of the simplest description. has
tiy refitted to her-and made an immense
success of modest worth.
Nine. de Metternich had sworn her de-
struction. Once at Fontainebleau she led
her into going to the races in short skirts.
Would you counsel your own SOW
ereign.' some one asked. ito get herself
up like that?'
THAT is different replied the wife of
the Austrian ambassador. my empress is
royal princess. while yours, my dear, is
Mile de Monitor
The old French artistocrats slandered
! her at her own dinners. In vain Napoleon
gave them coed jobs; they took all az
their due. Hearing that hard-up rela-
tive of hers had dined with Eugene, the
Maruuise de Roche-I.ambert-gr aunt
of the aviator-said:
He did we'll to go. He was at home in
the palace-where those Bonapartes and
Montiios are only ca,nping."
When pretending to defend Eugene they
condemned her with inSinuati0n, as
when the Duchesse de Dino wrote:
1.-THE poor empress has been so DIRE eged
through the mud that. If only by Chris
allowance for her eccentricities her good
heart is admitted"
At masked ball of the Due de Morny
a husky young aristocrat f1irted with a
witty domino-who. to finally esca pc him.
laughed a rendezvous: Tomorrow at 3,
in the Bots, near the lake. / shall pass
my handkerchief twice over my lips
At hour and place the marquis waited.
While he dreamed his romance in ad-
valfce there was a movement. Liveried
outriders preceded the empress Of the
French in her landau. All men uncover
ed. The imperial beauty passed, smiling
graciously on all; but opposite the young
marquis she raised a lace handkerchief
up to her lips twice!
That was all. Eugene was a teaser
It was her joke: there it ended, and as
the marquis was a gallant Partisan, the
story did not get about for three days,
enlarged to palace visits by a side door
To answer aristOcratic disdain she en-
couraged recklessness in her court her.
self, running to balls Of the ministries
and engaging in reckless adventures One
Caro-. a handsome fellow, getting acct
dentally invited to Compiegne. went wild
over supposed encouragement. An invi-
tation to foreign Office ball coming to
him, he had the faulty to imagine that
Eugene wanted to meet him again; and
when she learned his ideas, she thought
it good Joke to lead him on a moment
All the same, it ended in foolish, COM
promising letters written by him and be-
lieved in, by many people, to this day.
=
Thousands of eyes spied on her, and
thousands of letters Of those old times
have since been published. From them
and hundred memoirs it is certain that
Eugene was a faithful wife.
She fiirted to the limit, but without
real peril, being neither tender or senti-
mental; and the befooled men whose love
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leave his private property to his wife
then, but now there was no throne, no
civil list. but only the private fortune-on
which Eugene laid hands wholly.
1t was for her boys good. and when
the Princess Bacchiechi left him real
estate in Florence, Eugene also took its
revenue. l have known a middle-clas SIS
French mother to do the same thing. and
her son did what the young prince did on
coming of age-brougft family council
proceedings. 1t adjudged him Napoleon's
entire fortune, subject to Eugenie's DOVER
and the Bonapartes say that Eugene
simply put the papers in a drawer and
went on as before. In any case, he never
got it. going off in despite to Zululand,
where he was killed.
Certainly, her only hope of ruling was
through him. She hoped to bend him to
her will. They have found paper con-
stitutions which he should give to France
In them the legislature would have no
Importance, the executive would attend to
everything.
The French sheer at these supposed
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Mr.. Woodward, Deacon.

News has been received In this city of
the ordination May in Little Rock,
Ark, Of Arthur E. Woodward as a dea-
con. He was for several years mem
Der Of the Brotherhood Chapter of
Epiphany Church and was quite active in
the general work of the brotherhood in
Washington. Mr.. Woodward left this
city about three years ago to engage In
lay missionary work in the diocese OF
Arkansas Since his ordination he has
been made a member of the clergy staff
Of Christ Church at Little Rock.
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Bread Of Life.

John tells us that the people We're so
impressed with the miracle that they de-
termined to take Him by force and make
Him king. Jesus went to the other side
Of the lake, but they followed Him. He
then charged them with having no higher
object than the loaves OF which they
had eaten. Then He told them that their
greatest hunger was spiritual. and that
He alone could satisfy that hunger. 'I
am the bread Of life: he that cometh 70
me shall never hunger. and he that be-
lieveth on Ne shall never thirst" This
hunger we all have. and for this hunger
Christ is the only provision.
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Social Unrest and Progress

By Rev. Charles Stelzle.

to set it off. The present social unrest
is one of the most hopeful signs OF the
times. 1t is made possible because. or
what has already been achieved. Social
conditions in New York city, for Instance.
were worse one hundred years ago than
they are today.
There were never SO many agencies at
work in our cities to purify them. For
years the church and the labor union
have been raising the standard Of living
among working people each in its sphere.
Only the pessimist sees the eddy in the
stream which seems to indicate a back
ward course. The flood in the midst OF
the stream shows the read tendency.
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Tennis Tournament.

The tennis tournament between the so
cieties Of the First Congregational and
the Vermont Avenue Christian churches
did not open until Thursday afternoon
on account Of the rain. Honors, for the
first day were divided: Stuart, First Com.
gregationaI, defeated Jennings. jVeruonf
Avenue Christian, in singles. &-2,p46,
60, and Grinnell and Winchester yers1
mont Avenue Christian, defeated Chad.
burne and Swift. First Congregational.
in doubles. 81. rs. The tournament
will probably be completed early next
week. The games are being played on
the court of the Vermont Avenue Chris-
tian society. 10th and streets northwest.
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In the Washington Churches
Christadelphians to Meet.

HE CHRISTADELPHIANS will
hold a fraternal gathering at
Naval Lodge Hall. 4th street and
Pennsylvania avenue south
cast, tomorrow and Monday.
Three sessions will be held each day'
at 10 a. m. and and pm. Many Of this
sect will be present from Maryland,
Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey. Illinois, Iowa and Canada
and other points. Among the number
are some prominent leaders in the
work. notably Thomas Williams, A IT,
Bilmer, H. III. Rich, A. Hall. j. T. Ed
wards, Il. A. Parker, j. p. kerwain.
]. A. Robbins, j. w. Lea, e. Hill, L.
Jung, G. B. Taylor and John A. Cliff.
Much attention has been given to the
music for this gathering. 1t will be
the last for some time. Great interest
is manifested by the Washington
Ecclesia for its ultimate success.
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The Bishop Of Washington will make q
visitation to Christ Episcopal Church at
Rockville, Md. tomorrow morning at IL
o'clock. In the evening at o'clock he
will preach the baccalaureate sermon to
the graduating class OF the National
Cathedral School for Girls. The service
will be held in st. Adams Church.
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Christ the Healer.

Verse IA says. HE healed their sick"
and 1880 says, And great multitudes
came unto Him. having with them those
that were lame, blind, dumb. MANNED
and many others, and cast them down
at Jesus feet: and He healed them"
We have seen the mother bending in
speechless grief over her only child,
which was writing in pain. How quick
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A College Chapter.

The first chapter Of the brotherhood to
be organized in any Of the colleges of
Washington has just recently been form
ed among several of the students. who
are Episcopalians. Of George Washington
University.
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Reception to Clergyman.

A reception was given last evening by
the members of Bradburn Methodist
Episcopal Church to their new pastor,
Rev. George f. Barber. The occasion
was a surprise to the clergyman, who
was under the impression that the serv-
ice was to be a memorial one. The
church auditorium was decorated with
American flags and cut flowers. George
+. Bateman presented the pastor with a
handsome Japanese vase and Rev. Mr..
Barber responded with thanks.
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Board Meeting.

The regular monthly meeting Of the
board Of control Of the District Epworth
League will be held at Wesley NJ e.
Chapel, 9Th and F. streets, Wednesday
evening at 8 o'clock.
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III most fortunate
and beautiful of
girls, the most
brilliant and pow
erful of women,
forgives the world
her vast unhappi-
ness.
Eugene, great ro-
mantle figure, one
time empress of
the French and
arbiter OF fashion,
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man, the lower for the higher And
herein consists its sacretdness LET
nothing be lost" There will be another
day, or there are those i'm need In the
alley yonder, or in the lane nearby.
These provisions are Gods lower crea-
lures for the use of the higher Let US
regard the gift and the purpose as sa-
cred.
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Pastors Federation to Meet.

The Pastors Federation will hold its
bi-monthly meeting at the Y. NJ. c. A.
Monday morning at IL o'clock. A SYM
postum will be held on the subject Les
sons from the Worlds Sunday School
Convention" The annual election of OFF,
GERS will be held at the meeting.
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st. Marks.

st. Marks Junior Brotherhood Chapter
has selected the following officers for the
ensuing year: Director, j. Sterling Will
son; secretary, William II. Beck; treas
urer, Hugh Suits.
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DR.. and Mrs. Radcliffe Going Abroad
Solemn High Mass.

A solemn high mass will be celebrated
in St. Josephs Catholic Church for the
repose of the souls Of deceased men,
bers of Holy Name Society Monday. at
3 am. The celebrant of the mass will
be the Rev. Father Schmitt, with
Father Fealy deacon and Father
Morris of st. Peters Church as SUBJ
deacon. Several visiting clergymen
will occupy seats in the sanctuary,
among whom will be Monsignor Mackin
Of st. Pauls Church.
The sanctuary choir of ST Paul
Church. under the direction Of Prof.
E. L. Winchester, will render a special
musical program which has been ar
ranged for the service.
The Holy Name Society cordially in
vites all the members of the parish.
and especially the families and friends
of the deceased members of the society,
to be present on this occasion.
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Representative Helm to Speak.

Representative J. T. Hefiin of Alabama
will deliver an address to men at North
Capitol NJ. e. Church. North Capitol and
X streets, tomorrow evening at o'clock.
Rev. w. p. Thirkield will preach at the
II o'clock service.
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EX-EMPRESS of Beauty,
- Power and Fashion Burns
Her Proofs and Stops Her
Lawsuits in Chris ian Abne-
cation Last of a Great
Romantic Figure Terribly
illuminated.
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Field Secretary in Nashville.

Field Secretary Karl Lehman writes
from Nashville. Tenn. where he is at the
state convention. May 27-29. Since his
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lks1 III Sunday srhnn Grssnn - fur Unmnrrnm fsH1 Il
y Rev.. Dr. Joseph dmudSm M.N

go into the vineyard and toll; why we
are exhorted to endure hardness as
good soldiers; why we must be faith
full unto death if we would receive a
crown Of life.
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Reception for New Pastor.

Rev ]. r. Meagher. the new pastor OF
st. Dominic's Church, will be rendered a
reception and smoker next Wednesday
evening by the members Of the Holy
Name Society.
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Bishop Talbot Here.

Bishop Talbot Of Bethlehem, Pa, will
preach In st. Paurs Episcopal Church to-
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times as deplorable, would be absurd. No
one would insist that the present uprising
among the Russian peasantry indicates
that conditions in that country are worse
than they were when the common people
were too thoroughly under subsection to
protest, no matter what their condition.
The world is growing better. Crime
seems blacker because there's more white
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Leaders.

Vice President Gates of the District
Union will visit the Temple Baptist So
ciety Sunday evening, and Secretary Gill-
man will lead the meeting OF the Takoma
Park Presbyterian society tI' ,e'i'