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Dr. Talmage Gives Instance* of What a Slender Thread Great Resnlts Hang. A Uttk Thief May Decide Year Fataloperiaace of Trille*.

-By- •. ». SCULL. ' Fikllttir iH Proirlilir.

Entered at the poet X. J., aa aecond-ola

11th, 1901.

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It is said that Spain will contra^ for eight new crulaera In England. France and Italy. Poor old .Spain! She will never learn anything from experience. And yet she ought to know by this time where ‘the best boat* are built. The annual report of the commissioners of prisons of the United Kingdom. shows a gratifying decrease of crime. During the year 1900 184.3SC persons were committed to prison. 184.086 being, men and 4P,:50 women. During the year 185.182 were discharged. leaving 15,670 prisoners ‘In custody at the end of the year, which was a decrease from 16,593 at the close of 1899.

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Comparison between the cost of government in France today and during the last year of the empire are.being made to the dlsadvaqtage of the republic. In 1869 the total cost amounted to f386.000.000. In the year ending March 31. 1901. the expenditures amounted to f690.000.000. Meantime the population has remained almost stationary and the per capita cost of government for the last fiscal year amounted to f 18. The Increase in cost Is due largely to the French policy of refunding debts and annual deficits and to the cost of maintaining unproductive colonies. In many parts of the west and in some of the' south, community settlements of farmers are becoming numerous, says the Atlanta Journal. A number of farmers build their homes close together and from this central settlement their land lines radiate. The advantages of this plan are obvious. It affords the championship, the lack of which the wife and children of many a farmer feel so keenly. It affords mutual protection and'the means or mutual Improvement. The church, the schoolhouse, the social duo. the general store—all these are made possible and brought nearer to the people. The benefits of the community life thus established are incalculable. Instituted by a Frenchman, for n German society of truth seekers, and bestowed upon an American. This is the history of the triennial prize of 3000 marks Just awarded by the Berlin Academy of Science to the American historian. Mr. James Ford Rhodes, of Boston. Itfcarries with it fresh and striking proof that the world of sclenceland literature knows none of those political metes and bounds whose settlement and maintenance form the history / of nations, and are accountable fo/ so much of the world's bloodshed. To American historians this recognition of one who has'made a permanent place for himself in his chosen field' will be most grateful, remarks the New York

Post.

Any careful observer must have noted how much more popular recreation has of late become among the American people. The Saturday half-holiday is more general and vacations are longer and more indulged In by all classea. And In addition to these, excursions and ‘‘days off" are more frequent and popular than formerly. Some one “handy at figures” has cstmated that 10.000,000 In the United States will take a vacation this summer, and that on an overage each one will spend |10._ This would make- a total of <100.000.000 spent for rest and recreation. It l* probable that the figures are too small Leaving out the rich and leas ure class, to whom time and money is no- object, at least one 10 seven of all the people in the country will enjoy a vacation this summer, extending from fire to <0 days. This would mean a rest for over 13,000, 000 people, and If they spend only $12 each, about <160.000.000 will be used la gaining rest and recreation. It is time and money well spent Nc investment made in the whole year bring* >n larger returns. It is out of the causes which are adding perceptibly io the span of life. The lengthening of this span has become so evident that a revision of the olf tablis of the expectation of human Ufe has been made necessary.

diatinKuUhed for swordi ol the brat material cal led Damkacua blade* and uphoUtery ol richeat fabric called damaalt. A horseman of the name of Saul riding toward this city had been thrown from the aaddle. The home had dropped under a fiaah from the aky which at the Skme time waa ao bright it blinded the rider for many daya, and I think ao iwrmanently injured hi* ryeaight that this defect of viaion became the thorn in the flesh he afterward apeak" of. Be alerted for Damascus to tmteher Christians, but after that hard fall from hi* home he was a changed man and preached Christ in Damascus till the city was shaken to •“

foundation.

The mayor gives authority for_ his arrest. and the popular cry is. ‘‘Kill him, kill him!” The city ie surrounded by a high wall, and the gate* are watched by the police lest the Cilician preacher escape. Many oi the house* are built on the wall, and their balconies projected clear over and hovered above the gardens outside. It waa customary to lower basket* out of these balconies and pull up fruits and flower* from the gardens. To this day viaitor* at the monastery of Mount Rinal are lifted and let down in basket*. Detective* prowled around from house i‘ house looking for Paul, but hia friem_ hid him now in one place, now in another. He is no coward, as fifty incidents in his -life demonstrate, but he feels his work is not done yet. and ao he evades assassination. "I* that preacher here?” the foaming mob about at one boose door. “Ie that fanatic here?” the police shout at another bouse door. Sometime* on the street incognito be passes through a crowd of clinched flats, ana sometimes he accrete* himself on the house top. At last the infuriate populate get on sure track of him.

her* may get

■ia. -ui«. but no one a] to the satisfaction of knowing that

ids the rope.'”

Once for thirty-six hours we expected rery moment to go to the bottom of the .cean. The wave* struck through the alights and rushed down into the hold of the ship and hissed against the boilers. It waa an awful time, but by the blessing of Qod and the faithfulness of the men in charge we came out , of the cyclone, and we arrived at home. Each one before leaving the ship thanked CapUin An-

Ziizrjsrs si-cEiis. ny.

far

cony of whose home reaches over t wall. "Here be i#! Here be is!” The' — --— Madnben!- * u i;

at the in. “Fetch out that

cifaratioa and ^Uilpbemy and howliru^of

fra are at the front door,

""i out tl

bead <

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Providentially there waa a good basket in the honae. Paul’s friends lagten a rope to the basket. Paul step* into it. The backet is lifted to the edge of the balcony on the wall, and then while Paul holds the rope with both hands his friend* lower away carefully and cautiously, slowly but surely, farther (down and farther down, until the basket strikes the earth And the apostle steps out and afoot and alone starts on that famous — ; ^— ary tour the story of which has as earth and heaven. Appropriate entry in

wall.' ,

I observe first on what a slender tenure greet results hug. The ropemakers who twisted that -ewtf fastened to that lowering basket merer knew how much would depend upon the strength of it: How if it had been broken and the apostle’s life had been dashed out? What would have V—rtf ,V.. /• C I. , All .L-.

e of the Christian Scent missionary

ionis, would

_appadoci*, Galatia, Macedonia, wi never have been accomplished. All bis writing* that make np so indispensable and enchanting .a part of the New Testament would never nave been written. The storv of resurrection would never have been «o gli

That

endurance at i-miippi, in tne Mediterranean Euroclydon, under flagellation and at his beheading would not have kindled the courage of 10,000 martyrdoms. But that rope bolding that basket, bow much depended on it! So again and again great resnlts have hung on slender circum-

stancee.

Did ever , chip of many thousand tom the sea have such an important

d once a boat of leave* stern only three or four

> waterproof by a coat iting on the Nile with

ofthe Jews on board? some crocodile should onmch it? some of the cattle trading in for

—ihoold £nk it? '

Vessels of war sometimes carry forty guns looking through the porthole*, ready

passenger a* had from taffrail to si feet, the vessel i— of bitumen and

' ‘ lawgi

to^open battie.^BuMhe tinj^craft^on the 5''thuBdrr that*bombarded Sinai'at'fK lawgiving. On bow fragile a craft sailed, how much of historical importance!

the hallway for the rescue ofjus

“the* build indow, and

SdTSgfcJbSf. mg crumbling,

— fire'in through 1

on the grounc^but

on fire i

a AO the window,

- , a ladder of their bodias, one peasant standing on the shoulder of the other, and down the human ladder

the boy descends—John Wesley.

If Vou would know how much depended on that ladder of peasants, ask the millions of Methodist* on both sides of the sea. Ask tbeir mission stations all around the world. Ask their hundreds of thou--sands already ascended to ioin their founder, who would have perished but for the

living stairs of peasants' shoulder*.

An English ship stopped at Pitcairn Island, end right in the midst of surrounding cannibalism and squrjor the poasengen discovered a Christian colony of churches and schools and beautiful home* and highest style of religion and civiliza-

tion. For fifty year* no mi '

heathendom! Sutty years before a ship bad met disaster, and one of the sailors, the Bible held in his taet_. read on all sidgs until the rough and

history has no i that which Jell* of the U

u , "*•*» mighty Practical ‘inference: There .are no inaig-

mficancee in Ufe. - The minutest tkingla part of a magnitude. Infinity la made up of infinitesimal* | great thina an aggrega-

thmef anall thing, MlEtSm

*f papyrua on the Nile freighted with

event, for all. ages. The fate of Christen-

for you know not bow much may depend on your workmanship. If you fashion « boat, let it bo waterproof. «or you taojr not who may sail in if. If you put a Bible in the trunk of your '

home, let it be remec

ers, for it may have a

ins as the book which the sailor c in hi* teeth to the Pitcairn beach. ' * - The plainest man's life ia an island between two eternities-i-eternity past rip*

' his shoulders, eternity to

in your prey* a as iar-rcacn-sailor carried neaeh.' s--an island be*

lity past rip* plittf against hia ahouldera. eternity to .come touching hi* brow. The casual, the accidental, that which merely happened

ing the ship of storm of the centuries. Aaain, notice unrecognixed and unrecorded service. Who spun that rope? Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Wbf relaxed not a muscle of the arm or dismissed an anxious look from hi* face untiLtbe basket touched the ground and disenarged it* magnificent cargo? Not one of their name* has come to us, but there was no work done that day in Damascus or in all earth compared with the importance of their work. What if they had in their agitation tied e Idiot that could slip? What if the sound of the mob at the door had led them to aay, “Paul must take care of himself and wa will take care of ourselves?". No, no! They held the rope and in doina so did more for the Christian church than any thousand of us will ever accompliah. But God knows and lias made record of their undertaking. And tBey know. How exultant they mu*t have felt when they read hia letters to the Romans, to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippian*, to the Colossitns, to the Thessalonians. and when thev heard how he walked out of prison, with the carlhqunke unlocking the door for him, and took command of the Alexandrian corn ship when the sailors were irly scared to death and preached a **--* *- shook Felix off his

be .pin-

judgment, rn who help dow and oi

and over the wall talking in private over the matter and saying: "How glad 1

am that we effected that rescue! In

Paul's work, but no one shall rob us of

we held

thanking Captain Andrews, and when year* after I heard of his death I was impelled to write a letter of condolence to hia family in Liverpool. Everybody recognised the goodness, the courage, tbs kindness of Captain Andrew*, but it oocur* to me now that we never thanked the engineer. •-He stood away down in the darkness amid the hissing fur his whole duty. Nobody that gineer. bat God recognized ; and his continuance and hia fidelity, and there will be just as high reward for the

domg heroism

Come, let us go right up and accent those on the circle of heavenly throne*. Surely they must have killed in battle a million men. Surely they must have been buried with all the cathedral* ■ouiidiaca dirge and all the towers of all th* cities tolling the national grief. Who art thou, mighty on* of heaven? "I lived by choice the unmarried daughter of an humble borne that I might take care of my parents in tbeir old see, and I endured without complaint all their quernlousnas* and administered to all tbeir wants for twenty years.” Let us pass on round the circle of throne*. Who »rt thou, mighty one of heaven? "I waa for thirty-five yean a Christian invalid and aonered all the while, occasionally writing a note of eymP»thy for those woibe off than I, and ww general confidant qf all those who had trouble, and once in awhile I was strong

t for that poor Pass on to anthou, mighty one

awhile I waa strong

enough to make a garment for that poor

family in the back tan*.” F other throne. Who art tho-,

of heaven? "I waa the mother who raised a whole family of children for God, and they are out in the world Christian merchants. Christian mechanics, Christian wives, and I have had full reward for all my toil.’’ Letts pas* on in the circle of thrones. ‘T had a Sabbath-school class, and they were always on my heart, and they all entered the kingdom of God, and I am waiting for their arrival.” But who art thou, mighty one d( heaven, oo this other throne! "In time of bitter persecution I owned a house in Damascus, a house on the wall. A man who preached Christ waa hounded from street to street, and I hid him from the assassins, and when I found them breaking into my house and I could no longer keep him aafeadvised him to flee for hia dear life, basket wa* let down over the wall

THE SABBATH SCHOOL. latcrnaticcsl Lesson Commenlg For Sepltmbcr I. Scbjecl: Irtac the Peacemaker, Oca. zxvt, 12-25-(ioli)en Text, Mall r„ Memory' Verses, 24-25-CoaimeaUry on the Day's Lesson. Connecting Link*. Soon after the events of our last Icmod Sarah died at Hebron, and Abraham purchased the cave of Machpelab for a burying-place for his wife. .When Isaac was forty vear* old Abraham aent hia servant to Mesopotamia, railed Abraham’s country (24: 4) because it wa* the place where the family of Haran, hi* brother, had settled, and where Abraham's father was buried. The servant succeeded in hia undertaking and Rebekah wa* brought back to Canaan and became Isaacs wife. When Isaac wa* sixty year* old Jacob and Esau were born. In B. C. Iffil occurred the death of Abraham. He had lived to the good old age of 175. He was ‘ quiet and restful in his later year*. ssra CTs and hia grandsons, Jacob and Eaau, with whom he lived until they were fifteen pears old, showing them act* of kindness add lore." Abraham was buried in the cave of Machpelah with hia beloved wife Karah. At present tbia cave ia covered by a Mohammedan mosque, which is acridly guarded against the intrusion of traveler*. When Jacob and Eaau were thirty-one yean old Esau, the elder, sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage. Gen. '25 : 27-34. We read that he "deapiaed hi* birthright.” About a year after Eaau had acid hi* birthright there wa* a famine in the land, and Isaac went to dwell iu Gerar. which waa the chief city of the Phillatines. He aeems to have been making

but the Lord appeared unto him anc him not to go down into Egypt, b dwell in Canaan. At tbia time the nant made with bia father. Abraham, wu renewed. Gen. 26: 3-5. It teems strange that when Isaac went to dwell at Gerar be should fall into the same snare that Abraham had fallen into in the very •, but auch waa the caae, for

said. "She is my aiater,” for he feared they would kill him f<r. hia wife. This wa* untrue, for Rebekah waa only hi* cousin. 12. ‘‘Isaac.” Isaac was a man of faith, but in many respects a great contrast to his father. He was patient, but not enterprising and powerful. He was devout and submissive, but not active in organizing in God’s service. His life was uneventful, almost monotonous. He was not physically robust, and aeenu to have come into a condition of bodily prostration, for be moat have spent forty or fifty yean in blindnem and incapacity for all active work. "In the tame year.” While there waa a famine in the land, when others scarcely reaped at all, he reaped thus plentifully. See Isa. IU: 13. ‘‘Hundredfold." Probably meaning a very great increase. 13. "Went forward.” Hebrew, Agoing:" that ia, became increasingly greater. The Hebrew term for walk is frequeittly used in the sense of continued increase. See B. V. He grew mere and more until he be-

came very great.

14. “Envied him.” Here we see bow vanity attaches to every earthly good; prosperity begets envy, and from envy proceed* injury. Envy is the constant

companion of prosperity.

15. “For all the wells.” etc. In these countries a good well of water was a pqsaeaaion of immense value, and hence in their ware it was an object for either ly to fill the wells in order to distrea*

Envy considers that which is

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lost to another as gain to itself. 10. “Go from us." Isaac does not in* •ist upon the bargain he bad made with them for the lands he held, nor npon hi* occupying nor improving of them, nor does he offer to- contest with them by force, but peaceably departs. We ahould deny ourselves rather than quarrel. 17. "Valley of Gerar.” The country

around Gerar.

18. "Digged again the wells,” etc. It is our duty to keep up the memorials of the great and good. The Philistine* bad filled the wells Abraham bad dug. and Isaac resolve* to. open them again. Many

ir fa the corrupted by adve _ we must restore them to their former D

’» “D* *rtw/'‘ < fta P thit® I *wa

and a basket wa* let down over the wall with the maltreated man in it, and I wa* one who helped hold the rope." And I , » ~&.T: .v ^ .isJ ".rcri !

heard a strong voice that ] "*» likely to be a subject of s hough it might once have ! contention, he always chose t

"Diorf another well.” "Never did i more implicitly follow the divin* id. .‘Resist not evil ’ than did whenever be found that hia work

ely to be a subject of strife and sounded a* though it might once have ! contention, he always chose to suffer been hoarse from many exposure* *nd ; wrong than do wrong. He overcame evil

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“Not many mighty, net many noble, are i told mat ne met the envy with pati called, bnt God hath chosen the weak -'wnd reroovtd from well to well. At .U ~t .1 is* r -**«--things ‘ -

of the

things of the world to confound the U which are mighty, and ba*a thini

— ........ -rhich are ...—A, God chosen; yea, and thing* which are basket was I let down by the wall!" Henceforth think of nothing a* inv'g-

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for New York. It was well squioped, but in putting un a stove in the pilot’box a nail was driven too near the compass. You know how that nail would affect the compass. The ship’* officers, deceived by that distracted compass, put the ship 100 miles off her right course and suddenly the man on the lookout cried, "Land ho!" and the ship waa halted on Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came

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A minuter aeated in Boston at hi* table,. KfU '32- 23 £ fftSLtfffar&aLVs

bnud Eafluh

Robertson, the raleclergyman, said that be S2Tb, ta S.*b£Sl.‘‘J i 7

Nothing unimportant in your life or

removed f — — — Philistine* deaiated. Endurance, meekness, the gospel apirit, are the only true weapon* to use against th* world. Isaac, lixe Christ, conquered by meekness. Abraham waa the man of faith, Isaac tb* man of endurance, and Jacob wa* the man of PI 23 t “Went up—to Beereheba.” Isaac had trouble while among the Philistine*. “To enjoy God’* presence we most be where He is, and He certainly is not to be found amid tha strife and contention of an ungodly world; and hence, the sooner 24. "The Lord appeared." The angel of the covenant—the Messiah. "The same night." "He needed special encouragement when insulted and outraged by the Philistines, and God immediately appear* to comfort and support him in hu trials by a renewal of all His promiaes." “The God of Abraham.” "God it not the God ol the dead, but of tb* living." MaU. 22:. 32. Therefore Isaac is assured that hi* father has not perished by death, but that be is (still alive. "With, thee." Isaac was

thJ L^dkmmeU. ^

25. “Builded an alter.” "faaac first built an altar and then digged a well.

wKefth^Pbilist cause they were not there.

t be had real

Uaputed well Philistine* could not fill up, be-

The Suita

lUn of Turkey annually gives

away a Kreat many presents, moet of which are made in a ipeclal work*hop In Constantinople, half a hundred men

aatly

In the quantity of annual rainfall tha continents rank as follow*: Sonth America. Africa, North America, Eu-

HARNESSINC JOVE'S I

f'Mlactloa Against l.lgliiiilng Mill m I is 14 i fur Invrtilor*. A severe eltK-trijpal atonn visited 8t. Lou In last week untl h considerBide property damag- resiflti-d.' while Bcveral person* were more or len* seriously Injured. In recent yearn St. Ixiula Ki-em* to have become a’ favorite target for Jove's mlBsilcK, and the frequent repetition of *ueh dlnai.ter* has moved the Poat-Dliipattli to remark that It 1* time Rome uteps were taken toward the poKxibllity of controlling the dlRchargen from the artillery of heaven. Our contemporary miggcHtH Unit 150 years ago Franklin showed that lightning nun nothing more than untrapped electricity, and that since that time no progrean tutu been made on the lines which he started. It is argued that If Franklin. with hi* primitive apparatiiK. could harnrHH the lightning on a small scale, modern science, with all the resource* which it has at hand, should be able to subdue the thunder-storm. The Pout-Dispatch also calls attention to Home experiments made in recent years by an English scientist, who erected tall poles about his estate, topped with lightning rods, and stored the electricity caught In Leyden jars. There seem* to be no ‘doubt. In view of the statistics compiled by meteorologists, that damage from lightning is steadily Increasing In UiIh country. Various causes a re'ascribed. Some scientists say that the destruction of the forests ha* resulted In an Increase In the number and severity Of electrical storms. Others say that the centralization of Industry resulting In vast emanation* of steam from every city in the country, has tended to Increase the amount of vapor In the atmonphere and resulted In more frequent jitorms. But whatever the cause the fact remains. Latest figures show that more than 500 people were killed by lightning In the country last year, while the property loss ran high Into .the hundreds of thousands. Of course, a* has been said. 600 people out of 76.000.000 is not a great number, but the loss of that many lives yearly from any cause which might be removed by proper effort Is appalling to contemplate. Moreover, the property damage is a factor of no small Importance, andcne which cannot under present conditions be entirely guarded against. There se~ms to be little doubt that science will soon be called on to take up the question of wholesale protection from lightning The writer quoted above favors an endeavor not only to make the Ughtlnng harmless, but to make It the servant of man. This is a tremendous proposition.

FEARLS O' THOJCHT. Nature and wiedou always say the same.—Juvenile, Ufe Iihk no messing Tike a prudent friend.—Eu rl pld'-a. • Wealth In nht bis ii.nt ha* it. but hi* that Mfiy* It.—Franklin. Polifcne-a* is good nature regulated by good sense.—Sidney Smith. Choose Niii-h pleasure* hr recrogto much and cost little.—Fuller. Every on- has a talr turn to be as great as h<- pleases. —Jeremy Collier. The le** we parade our miurortunes the more rympathy we command.—O. Dewey. A crowd always thinks with !t« sympathy—never with Us reason—W. R. Alger. There Ik not a string attuned to mirth but ha* Us chord of melancholy.—Hood. . Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what Is plain.— Aubrey De Vcre. The innocence of the intention abates nothing oi the mischief of the example.—RolK-rt Hall. A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has-them.—Livy.

STRIDES I

MATCH-MAKING.

4ty has to a remarkable degree. Today nlshes man with heat, light and power. It carries his messages for him.

we do not know what It Is. No man know* whence It comes or whither it goes. Its most tremendous and ter rifle demonstration Is in the lightning. Men who attempted to follow the example of Franklin have met death as the result of their temerity, and we have no assurance that an effort to enlarge on his ideas might not result in disaster on a larger scale. But the experiments of the English ecfcntlst spoken of (bore seem to have been entirely successful, and there appears to be no reason why they should not be followed on a larger scale. In the cities immunity from danger might In all probability be procured by the erection of very tall poles, equipped with proper conductors for carrying off the current from the clouds before ft has time to concentrate into a destructive discharge. This experiment has been tried with success. But so far as the country districts are concerned such safeguards are. of course. Impossible. And as to utilizing the electricity taken from the clouds in the manner suggested. It would probably be not ao much a question of catching as of

although, except for about 20 miles. It has always appeared to me a trifle.

_ r * app<

and monotonous. But the less-'

iusqui

hanna is a much finer and more li

gray at talked-

of and too-neglected Susi

teresting stream. I had ample opportunity of forming conclusions as to the respective^ beauties of the two rivers as I was whisked from Hoboken to Buffalo the other day. For upward of nine hours, and for a distance of at least 300 mile*, the tracks run through

country which to an English

a country which to an English eye has a peculiar charm, recalling as it docs (but on a grander scale) the reaches nnd the woods of the Thames. Over and over again as I looked from the windows of the limited I could have _ sworn that I was nearing Cliveden or Medmenham or Paagbourne. Then, however, the hills would rime almost to the dignity of mountains. Broad meadows, filled with rich. lush, summer grass and c-dotted with cattle; great hanging woods, reflected In calm, winding waters; villas, seeming to apeak of comfort and peace: and, from time to time, a glimpse of some village or town—at a distance not very unlike Henley or Great Marlow, are among the features of-this pleasing route.—Buffalo letter to Lon-

don Chronicle.

Ball Ta*k Aaraait-Starr Room. Missing a young bull, weighing over 300 pounds. Henry G. Y/agner, a farmer of Strausstown, Fa., instituted a search, and found the animal looking out of the second-etory window of a vacant house. With the assistance of neighbors the animal was driven down a winding stair* and oat of the building.—Philadelphia Record.

Ore*! ran flayed by Muehlnery - Cub* Unconquerable, The consolidation of two large match companies recently effect-d in 1-ondon attarcts attention to th" great growth of the business abroad, and, curiously. Its apparent inability to secure a foothold in Cuba. The union of the Diamond Match company with the Bryant £ May concern makes undoubtedly the largest incorporation of its kind in the world. An Idea of the total output of matches is to be had by figures famished by the Atiantic Match company, one of the strongest competitors. Five hundred million matches are said to be made daily In Europe, and these figures may be doubled for the United States. One factory in Ohio alone is credited with turning out 100,000.001) finished matches in 24 hours. Fifty million feet of lumber are used In the Whited States in the manufacture of mttiches. and some <20,000.000 invested. What an important part modern machinery plays in this Industry may be Imagined when it is said that only about 15.000 people are employed. "There are but a few statistics to give," said a match representative recently, "to convince one of the strides in the business. American matches have been able to secure a foothold in Europe because of the superiority of American machinery over tools that were in use 25 years ago. In Cuba, however, machinery is almost unknown. Matcb-.-s are handmade. and yet we do not seem to get in. Some attribute this lack of success to the popularity of the small wax match made in. Havana. - Which' boys peddle on the street for almost nothing. There are about nine of these factories in Havana alone, and It would be a strange Havana. Indeed, without the ragged Utile matchboy. Cubans will not use any other kind of a match."—New York Post. Personnel of the Nnvx. The semi-annual edition of the naval register, bearing date of JuJy 1, but which has been delated In publication Through the failure oi the board of rear admirals to report the names of the two lieutenants whom they have selectedifor retirement, shows that there have been 26 resignations, 23 retirements and 30 deaths in the navy and marine corps since Jan. 1. One naval cadet was dismissed, but subsequently pardoned. There are 21 rear admirals, of whom three are "extra members." promoted for war services, whose retirements will not create vacancies; 70 regular and three extra captains, 112 regulars and three extra commanders. 170 regular and t*o extra lieutenant commanders, 300 regular and four extra lieutenants, and 104 Junior lieutenants. The register shows that there is a serious shortage In the number of ensigns.' The law authorizes 245. but the list contains only 126. There has been mnch complaint over the lack of watch and division officers for warships, but although secretary lx>ng has frequently urged on congress the necessity of authorizing An increase in number of naval cadets and shortening the course of Instruction in order to provide enough Junior officers, his efforts have been unavailng. The fact that 119 vacancies exist among the ensigns at a time when there are more vessels In commission than ever before except in war times, will be brought to the attention of congress as an argument in favor of increasing the number of naval cadets.

Cunba, that solitary Island m the mld-

Hydrographiques,” by a German captain who recently visited It There are sixty-three inhabitants on the island, he cays, and their time la spent in fishing and breeding cattle. They have Between live hundred and six handled cows, and as many sheep, and they also have an abundance of batter, milk, eggs and vegetables. On the other hand, they are often in need of floor, tea. coffee and tobacco; though, as there are only five smoker* on Tristan da Cunha, the occasional dearth of tobacco.cannot be regarded as a national calamity. The German captain found the itUndars very sociable. They provided him and his men with a supply of fresh meat, and In return received tamo article* of clothing, which were