ntmktcb Is Mid to bo tbo *mtoot drillarr of tho world, hot it bos not yn complrtfd lu ^orb. Tborr ore ott'l tfik** of borborow ud borborout pooplo who nsc nature's noons for i ro^tx-lc* firo, oitbor by frvtkoc wilt or wltboot aproratns, or ibo ccmun of two sabr.onrcs which prodoo » spark, os flint and otodL Tbc Moroo. of grsot InttrM* to ns on orrooot of oar npenonro with them In l be East, not a metbod dlsUnrltTo from other aarapr races, and of *ntercet not only for Its nulqneoesa, bat as showing tbc effect of eoTiroonent on Invention ms apparattu ronalata. as shown In the BrrotnistLTia* pbolocrapb, of a bamboo stick, s bit of cblnn. snd Under. Tbc rji.tidertcal cases, which are also abown. are part of tbe device aa It u nsed. one betafl a case for tobacco, and'the other a ease for. tbc china

SCLF-IIATn8_mpttlll 1*01 Tbe operation of aolderlcr Is a much more exacting one than the Inexperienced person Imafines aa be witnesses the fsrtIU.T with which It Is conducted under favornbk clrru instances. It requires a knowledge and expettness which is secured only from lone practice to have the Iron at (h* proper degree of beat and the surfaces to be Joined In tbe necessary condition of abaolote cleanUneaa before the solder will flow. Unless all of these requirements have been compiled with tbe amateur will be surprised to find that toe leaden stick will not be influenced In tbe least by tbe application to tbe beat of the soldering tool. The expert workman who Is sure of hla ground is aoraewbat hampered in his work by the fact that there la moeb time lost while be la walling for the Iran to beat. A novelty In the line of tinsmiths' tools has been recently Introduced to tbe trade, which Is a aclf-con-

MOBO ITBE MAKEB. BAMBOO T O BE BTBCCK WITH CHINA AND , TIN DEB.

and tinder, rise whole, connected with cords, la worn at tbe belt. To use the apparatus, the n^tire. takes the bamboo finely An- his left haei. and in his right bolds 'J* bit of china by the finger and thumb, and STSJft miarply down __ producing a bright and Joog spark, which catches to the tinder and ignltrs It. Very UfT> practice Is required to enable even a novice to light a firt by this means. Obrtqoslj, whea the appantea was Brftt'derlaed,' bo china was available, and doubtless some afaatp stone took its place. Now. however, bits of broken china such aa arc found in cheap eating houses, are regarded, ns beat for the purpose, and

d Msffc^niarjty and obtains «T. alttoogh the flint and steel

$he thoughtful reader win at ofice draw an analogy between this means of fire making aod the flint and steel of our own ancestors. In the Eastern tropic*, -however, bamboo la the commonest of woodi. and ao was doubtless observed many times to where fllafc iu contact with metal, was seen oooe. In consequence, after the first ‘ ‘ “ srTyl

this way od held ; this day.

Is ao much simpler, easier and more

portable.

Tbe philosophy of tbe device wtn at ouae be .apparent. The sharp edge of the rVna scrapes off a bit of bamboo —not murfa. because the wood It hard and the outside has quite a glaze— but enough to be made incandescent by the friction of tne the stroke. Tbc tinder catches this spark, and the de-

■fred^a* trmnm*.

Tfx? jiettsrspb was made from the object In the possession of Mr. W. W. Dinwiddle, of Washington. D. C. —

T.r|f

Forgetten as a -statesman. Broughsm la remembered as in' elegant vehicle. Generatloos hence, when hla dramas and hlapotitlenl theories have pqased into oblivion. Ur. hba w may be xwmbered by a shirt-ertf-adjustln*. srtfeieanaing. a paragon and a paradox of a shlrt—IDuatratad London News. Tbe Blast i^tie wbde spider family Is the- -ftommk- or “dog- spider of

taloed snldericg Iron, dispensing with tbe use of the charcoal fire usually made use of for tbe purpose of beating the Iron. This tool is self-heating. Tbe handle contains a supply of gasoline and Is fed to the copper point by meant of a pressure generated automatically from the heat. It is merely necessary to give the copper point an initial heating by means of an alcohol lamp. The latter operation require*

BKnr-BKxnsG bolswuso nox.

about five or six. minutes, and after that tbe device Is acll setiny as long as the fuel supply'bolds out. Tbe consumption of tbe fuel cat >c accurately regulated, and thus it is poMlble to adjust the heat of the copper to any desired point for different kinds of work—Philadelphia Becord.'

To Got a Sptiotor obi •» Tojr Umm*. When a apllnier has been driven Into tbe hand It can i* extracted by steam. Fill a wide-mouthed bottle nearly full of hot water, place the Injured part over tbe mouth and press it slightly. The action thus produced will draw tbe flesh down, and in a minute orjtwo the steam win extract the. splinter, alto the Inflammation. Try It —- vlnced.—National Magazine.

The (srllest knowp mention at afanvtoff la In the Bible (GMeafe xllr, |d):* “And he (Joseph) shaved himself and came before Pharaoh.-

THE TULT1T.

Brooklyn. N. Y.-Tbe Rev. C. Georg* Currie, D. D.. preached to Holy Trinity Church Sunday morning to tbe congregations of Holy Trinity and St. Ann's. Dr. Currie's subject was “Growth." and he selected for bit text II. Corinthians. v:4: "Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon." He said: These words of tbe epistle express the Importaat principle that wherever there la vitality life not only adds to Itself continually, but at the same time sever throws away, never entirely loses the essential elements that it has once succeeded to acquiring. That is to say, that all the time that life Is putting on raiment, aa It were, or being "clothed upon"—say. to the flowers, or hush or Insect or man. for that part—all that time It keeps tbe essentials of whatsoever It has invested itself with. And It U never perfectly unclothed of Its fundamental gatoi; "not unclothed hut clothed upon.” These 'prlndp'et hold good to relation to life of every kind and under all condltioua. It la one of the great keys of nature that have been furnished to us. and Its universality springs from the fact that the universe is fundamentally similar to all Its parts. I mean to say that thy universe Is constituted to such a manner that the different plant of being, the physical, tbe Intellectual, the moral, tbe spiritual, all correspond to.one another. So that whatsoever Is true to one Is true to all of them. Mankind. In fact, hat an Instinct to that effect. Our ordinary words that we use to talking, for instance, for physical things are mostly the same as those used for intellectual or spiritual thing*. The word, ‘'right" meant straight, and "straight" is constantly, used by o* to a moral sense; the word "wrong" meant twisted or corrupt, and "corrupt" often means dishonest. The thing* that are seen are. that la to *ay, divinely created picture* of the thing* that are not seen; and It U a great aaUsfaction that we can have o trustworthy picture of spiritual thing* that We can see. Our blessed Lord totted to parable*, not because parables are simple, but because the truths expressed by parables (as the loaf of bread or the raiment or the water from the Well, or the sparrow having food prepared for him. or the toy getting Its raiment without worrying about 10 are not merely physical truths—you must not fan Into that blunder—they are truths that reach all the way up Urougn all the plans to tbe eternal kingdom. Our Lord talked to that way because He saw the whole of tbe plan, from tbe top to tbe bottom. and He talked to no other way to the people at large: ''without a parable spake He not unto them" The plana. Intellectual, moral aod spiritual, are represented to the physical, and all of them are fundamentally alike. That it why Ue talked to parables. Now come back to the general principle before u*. "not unclothed, but clothed upon." and let ne see to it that we have tbe physical and distinctly to our brads. Here, for Instance. M tbe stump of a tree with tbc different ring* of wood of which It l* composed. Year by year the tree ha* put on new grqwth. which you can ace to the surceulve rings. But all tbe time that it hat been putting on the new ring* It has never completely lei go of thr old ones, and tbe first ring of all 1* right to tbe centre, all the time. [Let me give Jbc little folk a simple 11l* lustration, that they may take It away with them. Children, you turn an apple on its side. Cot Jt down to the centre through and through. Then you havt two halve*, have you not? Well, rut/off from either half a slice, very (hm, tbe thinner yon cut it the better. Then bold tbe slice up to the light. Now, what do you see? You see to the centre, distinctly, the dark outline of tie original blossom that was on the apple tree to tbe springtime. Now. take some examples of principle- There U the Bible, for tostgoce. It Is a living book. I mean by that It was not flung down from the sky, like a meteorite, sc os to land like Joseph Smith's Bible somewhere In a alley all made up and ready. It did come that way; but It grew to tbe rorld like an oak or pine G ordtog to what the Savtoa tbe Holy Ghost continually teaching in the word to soccesslrc ages, tbe Bible, which la God's truth or the word of Cod, is. In n manner, still growing. Do you know that? It la'coining out In part*. It is life from beginning to end. It onfoHU. not a single period of man's history only, but sncceualre stage* to the growth of the human mind. Therefore It contains, like a tree, successive rings, us it were, greatly contrasted one with another. Widely differing one from another. In one ring, ao to speak. i«y* fqr an ayeandB tooth for

ring Insida of It. Another thing. God eoutlnuea to clothe mankind, aa He did at the first. Us clothes I be human race wlili Ideas. Where do you think lb# Idea* come from? Did man produce them? They come from outside, my friends. Or, rather, from tbe God, who Is within us. and Inspires the whole. He clothes tbe human roc* with Ideas. You open the wardrobe, aa it were, and there, hanging up. so to speak, are Genesis and Judges and Jeremiah and Isaiah and tbe Gospels, tbe successive garments for **'

clothing, the young __ matured clothing, tbe perfectness of tbe fulness of stature, as to the Beatitudes. here and there, to Epistles, to the Apocalypse, hot above all In the deep mystical sense of tbe Bible all through—tbe true mystic*, that we do not get from hearsay, that we know by Intuition, but which, of course, to the mats of men are abaoluf and Invisible. So far as concerned tbe principle Is 1 unclothed, but clothed upon? You cannot make anything grow that has hot roots. U is curious,-but you cannot. Whatsoever It la sooner later It will wither. In order to grov has got to grow out of something. Ideas are precisely like plants. As I told you, all the plants of the universe are alike; growing things are all alike, whether Ideas or anything else. It la of absolute necessity that they abail bare roots. Thus, for example, love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, troth are Ideas. Nobody can complain of them, but of what conceivable nse would It be to stand on a pillar and coll out ti mankind, "Be loving, be Joyous, lx peaceful, be gentle and good and true.' If you had nothing more to say to them

those principles have world without the spiritual reasons out of which they grow and on which they depend, namely, the facts of living religion? Tbe blunder of planting ideas without roots la as old at tbe bills. Every scholar, every student of hi* tory, Is up to hit knees, up to his chin, to withered sects, withered religion withered kinks and notions of this ni that sort, every one of which had good aide to it, but all of which hav« died for want of roots or continuous power—evolution. I do not like that word, but w# will use i Now, as opposed to both of these people. those who give tbe world no new truth and those who give the world nothing but new truth. Tbe Christian church at large represents tbe latest truths, as well dk the first truths, and the first as well os the last. There Is no fault to find with these new doc trines. Of course nob On the con trory. For Instance, tbe d cr—that capital and most the dynamic power of the forcea ol nature—a prayerful desire for the heal tog of tbe sick. All right T of altruism, sacrificed for the the atot of society. All right. My good friends, they are plucked straight from the branches of the tree of th« gospel. There "Is' no fault to find will these. On |he contrary, It is for tb« take of their production that we to alst that they be taken to connect lot with the tfe* _— JL— Jesus Christ and His Mcrlflce from which they sprang Every tostitutio: springs from some root or other. Then Is tbe font at the door of the church Well, it represents baptism, and some body says It is a good thing to hav< a conventional symbol of purity prove ment. But do you would be there at SO If It were conventional symbol of purity .. — pro re meat ? Why, my friend, that font reaches down and down through all the strata of history; through tb< darkness of the Middle Ages, down tc the first Chril" - - - Jewish rites; down to the andenl pagan and prophetic mysteries; all which had their thought or what t. swero to It. under the direction of Hln who lighted, not merely Jews sot Christians, but “every man that eth Into tbs world." This baptism t» a reality to tbe uni verso forever, because It Uvea by 1U roots. I might prove the tame thing If I had time, with regard to the croai or the altar, which goes down througt tbe centuries, back to time and sp*c< before the fabndatioa of the world These, with other Christian doctrines Illustrate the Divine method, which 1> continual progress without any loss In other words, as the apostle says “not unclothed, but clothed upon." Th( principle U equally true of ourarivei sod our whole existence, for apparent ly there M p«ver a reel break to th< progress of humanity. Tb* Christlai Is never ripe, be to always ripening Even to the moment of death he Is ttll growing Obscurely, but Just as stead Uy at when he'was a babe. Whet passing by death through the bleasef gate Uke the new-born Infant he to be e-- —‘

Ing died, . j the arms and Umbs of hit being and U ‘Clothed upon" Uke a tree to spring Jme. Ufa to worth living Aye. to deed. It to. Don't you ever Imagine for a minute that It to not. Life li worth living to a degree you have n«

THE" -SUNDAY SCH001

INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT! FOR SEPTEMBER *♦

Topic: God's prelection ol His people. Place: Jerusalem and the Assyrian camp Heseklab was Ktof of Judah and Sennacherib of Assyria At this time Assyria was s great and powerful country, tod at the height ol its power. It was a mighty nation ol warriors. Nothing could stand before the Assyrian host. They swept ovei the country leaving desolation and death behind them. Their king seni abualve letters to Heseklab to affright him. Heseklab and the prophet Isaiah prayed and God destroyed their ene

mies.

II. Topic: Study of an Old Testa ment prayer. Place: Jerusalem Great • offering and sickness came upon He* rklab. King of Judah. The prophet laalah saw that death was the inevlt able reault of 'tuch sickness only as God Interposed Then It was that Heseklab asked for added years, and received promise of flfteenyaars ipore III. Topic: The suffering, stoning Bavlour. Place: Jerusalem, the pro- ! pbet Isaiah's home. This Is the deepest and loftiest of tbe Old Testament prophecies, and points clearly and dell | nltely to the atonement. Tbe life end nrisskm of Christ Is related In few I words embracing humiliation, suffer ! tog atonement sod exaltation. Tbe main thought Is that the Servant Is to be the Instrument in establishing tbe true religion, by removing the burden of guilt and bringing many to rightIV. Topic: Tbe gospel's gracious call. Place: Jerusalem Regardless of tbe mean opinions of men and their lack of faith to the Saviour a magnificent kingdom was founded, add to It Invitation and Joyous welcome Is extended. Jehovah's thoughts transcend those of man as much at the heaven Is higher than the earth. The thoughts s * wtye of Jehovah are Hla purposes redemption. V. Topic: Chapters to s sinful life. Place: The kingdom of Judah, particularly the capital. Jerusalem. Tbc faithful Hezeklah closed bis life, leaving hla son Manasteh to reign in Judah. By him the good work of reform was worse than undone: the people went into the lowest depths dl wickedness. In hla mature years Manasseb was made to feel the rod of affliction which led him to repentance. Then he sougbf to repair some of the evils. VI. Topic: Vital factor* to a successful life. Place: Jerusalem and Judah. Mauaaaeh'a effort to reform nis kingdom did not produce much fruit. His son AmoQ disregarded this effort on the part of hla father, and led people on to Idolatry for two year*, when he was slain by his servants to hi* own bouse. Than hit youthful son Joslsh came to the throne. He made earnest work of destroying Idol worship and of repairing the house of the Lord. VH. Topic: Purpose and mission of the Bible. Place: Jerusalem. With the neglect of The temple the people hod been without the book of the law. In repairing the temple this book was found and brought before the king. He was greatly moved bafiante of the fearful disobedience of the people, and the awful curse of -God which was pronounced upon the very sins Judah had committed. He at once sought to know what the Lord would say unto them. The promise to him was that the curse should not come upon the people during his life.' VIII. Topic: Trying to destroy God's word. Place: Jerusalem. At the death of Josiah his son. Jeboabaz reigned tores months to Judah. Hr was taken by Necho to Egypt, and hla brother Jchelaklm was made king. He reigned eleven year* and did evil to toe sight of toe Lord. In the fourth year of his reign he burned toe Book of tbe Law. Tbe Lord directed the prophet Jeremiah to write another. In this were more warnings to toe people. The king waa slain, hla kingdom destroyed and hit son carried to chains Into Babylon. IX. Topic: Persecution of thr rlghteoas. .Place: Jerusalem. Tire kingdom of Judah was fast hastening to Its end. The Judgments of God were about to fall upon the people. Jeremiah. the prophet was almost alone to standing for the right and hla life was to constant danger. Hla was a mission requklng courage, faith, strength, will. X. Tooto: Decline and fall of the ttntfqMT JMace: Jerusalem. Zedekiah was tit twentieth and last King of Judah. He took no warnings from the Judgments of God which had fallen upbn tbe people before his reign. He despised the warnings of the prophet Jeremiah, and mocked the messenger* of God. Then the city was taken by the Babylonians. Tbe bouse of God was burned, tbe wall about the city broken down, the palaces were burned and the vessels from the temple were carried to Babylon. The sons of Zedektoh wece slain before hla eyes, and s awn eyes were put out' and _ carried captive to Babylon. XI. Topic: Vision of the glorious gospel. Place: Babylon. Ezekiel was among the captives carried to Babylon to toe second siege against Jerusalem. But God gave him visions of the future and bow He would bless Hla people. Ezekiel prophesied for twentytwp year*. Hla prophecies were a 'study of a ^ . oung man. Place: 'Babylon. Hare we learn of the beginning of tbe captivity of Judah. Babylon was at this time to the Benito of its power, ruling nil Western Asia and attending Its authority to the river of Egypt. Daniel the cantlres of tbe first Jerusalem. Ho twelve year* old. He lived the seventy years of oaptivKy.

Orest ObbbISsI Orrr. PaSMt.g, r> from ILe Stote who arrived by -Tiamsliii say that a report lr current colony that r tribe of nulbale. negroes and eight ',<-rui. i. >i>!< Antwerp Correspondenc* to it York Kuo.

Dr.a. K. Hu

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