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4 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE THE GLOBE CO., PUBLISHERS '; ; CFFiGIAL WR «™||||^> CITY OF ST. HI ', Entered at Postoffi:s at St. Rii!, Minn., a* " S9;3nJ-Clasj Mitt*;. " TELEPHONE CALLS. Northwestern—Business. 1065 Main. EdttDrtil. 78 Mali. Twin City— Business. 1065, Editorial. 73. CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. - <-- By Carrier I Imo I 6 moa | 12 moa Emily only 40 $2.25 $4.00 Daily and Sunday .' 50 2.75. 5..00 Sundry .. .15 .75 1.00 COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS- ' • By Mail | 1 mo 16 mos T 1 2 men Csilycr.ly I .25 $1.50 |- $3.00 Daily and Sunday | .35 2.00 4.00 Sunday I .75 I -1.00 ERANCH OFFICES. New York. 10 Snnice Street. Chas. H. Eddy In Chargs. Chicago, No. 87 Washington St.. Ths F. S. Ws Jb Coin3an7 It Our»» SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1903. FRANCHISE TAX ON EARNINGS. If ilie United States is in advance of its Canadian reigiibors in the matter of industrial and commercial en terprise, it is at least plain that we in turn can learn something from the Dominion in the matter of taxation, urn! especially in regard to the taxation of corporation franchises. As regards the plan if taxing personal property, the province to the north is a gent-ration ahead of us. The old-fashioned personal property tax on everything in iught, which means that about four-fifths of the per- Bona] property is hidden out of sght and escapes, has been largely cl ne awiiy among nr.r Canadian neig-hbors, as it has in Europe An income tax has b<"en substituted Bistead, and the very class of taxpayers who are sup posed \ ■■ \:c the bulwark of the personal property tax here is 'lie class which in Canada has benefited most from the change. The farmers of Minnesota, according to • me of their representatives in the state legislature, demand tlip; the personal property tax shall be retained; while in Ontario the farmers are the ones whose tax bur den- have been lightened by taking taxation from the :i\e stock, gr;nn, machinery and household goods. whereas a Icag list of corporations which formerly paid nc taxes at all except on a little office furniture, are new paying liberal income tuxes as :i condition to their doing business in the province. The superiority of the earnings percentage plan over the direci tax in the. taxation of franchise corporations? is seen in the annual report of the Toronto street rail way, which wa^ published in the Toronto and Montreal newspapers last week. The report shows that on the gross earnings percentage plan the city of Toronto re ceive*- for the use of its street railway franchise more than doable the income that the average American city of the same size receives. Take the figures of the com pany's report. The grcss earnings of the Toronto Railway company arc about one-half those of the Twin City Rapid Transit company, and Mere $1,834,908 in 1902 and $1,661,017 in 1901. For the use of its franchise the company paid to the city of Toronto on the percentage plan the large sum of $225,551 in 1902 and $226,453 m I9°i, which is more than both St. Faul and Minneapolis with the state of Minnesota thtown in receive for the use of theit street railway franchises. io lias about the population and business de- v.-l.: pr.HTii. of Sr. Paul, and yet derives greater income frcrti ■•!- >treet railway franchise than any American city of I üble the population. With one-half the earning power, the Toronto franchise pays more taxes -than the Twin City, or the Milwaukee street railway system. Whereas the average American street railway pays about 4 per cent tc 5 per cent of its gross earnings in the shape cif direct taxes, the Toronto, Montreal and Quebec street railway franchises bring into the city treasury in the gfaape of income or gross earnings percentages an amount .of revenue which amounts to 6 per cent to 10 per cent ■ l* the company earnings. The difference in the theories of the American and Canadian governments is this: The American city looks tip jti the public franchise as private property tc be taxed a- other property; whereas the Canadian city looks upon the franchise as perpetually vested in the public and sim ply let to the private corporation for a rental value measured by the earning power of the franchise. Cer tainly, botn in theory and in practice the Canadian system is far supcrir.r. Senator Hanna's ex-slave bounty bill is a very simple little affair whose first 3'ear's requirements would be $210. wx>,ooc. li would make the ex-slave population the recipients of as heavy a bonus as the United States gov ernment now gets from tariff customs. It certainly should capture the colored vote for the senator for the 19.-4 convention. REAPING WHAT THEY SOWED. The leading American industries now organized into trusts have for a L-.ng period of years received under the Republican protective theory the highest tariff against foreign competition known tc tariff history ancient or modern. Under the protection of this tariff wall the trusts hive been rai>ed and grown fat !>y assessing upon lhc American people the highest kind of price ■jiscrimina tiens on the necessaries and comforts of life. Finally, the time has come when the American trust is too big tor simply a domestic market, and the mar kets of the world ace demanded. In other words, Alex ander seeks new worlds to conquer. Now comes the bitch. Ye-teriL-y The Glebe referred to the proposed i<e»v German tariff, which is practically prohibitive ■i the importation of American goods. "The Amer ican trust invasion"' is the subject of hostile legislation ever nearly all Europe. The European continent is fast getting its tariff well in shape so that the American trust is comjrJetely barred out. Up in Canada the same condition prevails. Canada has always been disposed to treat the United States liberally in the matter of trade relations. The reciprocity treaty of 1846-6: they would have continued; but we preferred a tariff wall. When reciprocity was revived in 1890, Canada stood with open hands and for some six or eight years had * commission ready to deal with us. But we delayed and dickered and snubbed all advances, until, as a promi nent Canadian authority stated before the St. Paul Cham ber of Commerce the other day. reciprocity in Canada is den.!. Our Canadian friends reciprocity have been trampled* upon'-'so long that they have quit the .live branch business and will now let us do the missionary work and the sweating' over lost trade- in cur own time. If there is any/satisfaction in considering cut* own commercial losses from this tariff wall system, it yields some joy I,- know that some of the trusts that have been instrument:'! in keeping up hostile duties to high water mark are new ameng the chief• sufferers. For example, although the United States has taken the duty off coal for a year, the Canadians da.net propose (3 give the American coesJ combine the return privilege of fret Canadian markets. The ether -day, likewise, Ihe Cana dian sugar interests sot together, both the jobbers' guil<? and the sugar growers, and mapped out a programme for making the American sug9x trust pay heavy taxes THE ST. PAUI, GLOBE, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7, 1.903. f >r tlie privilege- ;>f selling its product in a Canadian market. The Conservative party, now in power, has been greatly strengthened by the hostile anti-reciprocity tac tics of the Republican trust leaders in the United States. and is now so confident of popular sentiment, that it is making its present campaign on the protective doctrine exclusively. This "one policy" of the party in power, as expressed the other day by a Conservative leader, is defined as "such adequate protection as would preserve the Canadian market to Canadians at all times in re spect of every legitimate Canadian industry." It is such actieus as that of the Minnesota state sen ate the other day, which has built up a strong protective and anti-American sentiment across the border and is defeating and delaying the development of the North west through reciprocity. The union of the Republican party with the trust beneficiaries of the tariff is produc ing its legitimate results. The crime of the matter is, that innocent people and legitimate interests that have never profited by tariff sub>idies arc made tc; suffer from the tariff retaliation. Uncle Sam will send three war vessels southward from the Pacific coast to look after the Honduras-Co lombia war. Government cares in connection with the Panama canal route are alreadY begun. When the vol canoes again break loose a dynamite expedition will be in order to silence them and when the earthquakes catch a spring attack of fever and ague, the Philippine water cui;e will be put in operation. WITHDRAWAL OF ADDICKS. ■Because the gas magnate of Delaware announces his withdrawal from the senatorial race, there is no sign that he is out of politics. Like oua3', Mr. J. Edward Addicks is not dead because he is quiet. If he drops out of the race himself, it is tc secure control of both senatorial jobs for his appointees. If he extends the olive branch to his enemies, it is that he get them within range so as to smite them on the thigh. The fact is, the Republican party of Delaware is Mr. Addicks. He is the type of Republican magnate that represents the party principles and organized effi ciency. Addicks is to Delaware Republicanism what Hanna is to Ohio, what Quay is to Pennsylvania, what Platt is to New York. As Addicks himself modestly admits, there was no Republican party in Delaware until Addicks went into politics twelve years ago. Delaware until then was Dem ocratic. The people were unorganized and had their own primitive ideas, and the Addicks doctrine which was the essence of Republicanism was unapplied. He Re publicanized the state when he Addicksated it. When Addicks leaves Delaware politics, Delaware will cease to be Republican, and will drop back into its old Democratic ways. This will not be permitted as long as the gas franchise of J. Edward Addicks holds out to burn. The latest proposition for the settlement of the claims *bf the blockading allies is to~ pay. them $27,500 apiece. Almost any American business man could take care of the great national claims of these "world powers" and consider it a small morning's business. FROM A SECULAR STANDPOINT. The address of Gov. Cummins, of lowa, before the annual convention of the Young Men's Christian asso ciation on the secular mission of that organization brings out some good practical ideas. One is that the demands ©i modern business and professional life, which force men to work under high pressure, compel a man to be equipped for it mentally, physically and in moral living and habits, and that the Y. M. C. A. in this respect is a strong factor in the community. It fortifies a young man in each of these respects. It fits him to stand the strain. It capacitates him for important positions.. It helps him to sustain his energies and hold his place until the high rewards come. Another practical turn which' Gov, Cummins gave to the subject was, that it is cheaper for a commune to invest its money in a Y. M. C. A. than in police. The organization which teaches and helps young men to obey both the moral laws and human statutes accom plishes more to make a law-abiding and law-respecting stste. than all of the state's police and sheriffs, jails and prisons. The St. Paul Y. M. C. A. is engaged in the worthy cause of raising a fund of $200,000 for the erection of a permanent home. Certainly few more worthy and val uable institutions can come into a community than this, and public-spirited citizens, regardless of the religious side of the subject, will find it a first-class investment. The idea of some people seems to be that when there is a coal shortage all that is required is a political In vestigation. These same people, when enterprising fuel and transportation companies go out and get the ccal in spite of the Eastern blockade, have nothing to say ex cept to belittle the results accomplished. As a matter of fact, more efficient work has been done and success fully done in bringing to the Twin Cities a coal supply, than for almost any other points in the country, and as a result Twin City coal, supplies and prices have been easier than those of any Eastern city within close dis tance of the great ccal mines. Without the 100 to 150 cars daily of Illinois coal which Minnesota roads have brought into the Twin Cities during the past three months the state and local health boards would have more to do in an hour than the coal investigation com mittee in ten 3-ears. Cole Younger will go into the live slock business. But will he be allowed to place his stock on exhibition; or, will his cattle have greater legal rights in this regard than Younger himself? New- York has only one-half of its usual monthly supply of 100.000 barrels of Minnesota flour, and the price has risen 30 cents a barrel. The aggrieved blockading powers now have a Bowen of contention for whose removal the}- vainly pray. The Idiotic Tariff on Art. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. One of the absurdities of the Dingley tariff is the 15 per cent ad valorem duty on works of art, by means of which our people are deprived of the .opportunity to see and enjoy many splendid collections of priceless treasures. For instance. Air. J. Pierpont Morgan does not confine his purchases to railroads and steamships. He is also a collector of paintings, books and other artistic objects, and he has the purse of Fortunatus with which to gratify his desire for works of art. The result has been that it is said on good authority he has now ac quired $35,000,000 worth of pictures and other artistic creation- which he stores in Europe and in his London home. If the tariff is removed he will bring them to this country and place them on exhibition in museums and art galleries, where millions may see his masterpieces with out charge. At present a collection worth millions is in the British museum, though, but for the tax on art, it would be in the United States.. The United States has grown in wealth, and with tidies are coming refinement and culture, but their de velopment is restricted under the silly excuse of protect ing- American art. An art or a learning that requires the protection of a tariff is not worth having". Art has de veloped itself in the face of every privation, but it de velops mere rapidly when facilities are given for the study of the masterpieces. Europe is full of art galleries, while our collections in America are so few that we are sadly lacking in opportunities for inspecting the works of the immortals. The tariff which restricts their im portation is too petty to be worth consideration for a moment. A movement is on foot to secure the repeal of the tariff, and by all means it should succeed. Every blow that is given the stone wall of protection will im prove the position of the country. Certainly there is no | excuse for shutting out art collections. —At ST. PAUL THEATRES Walker Whiteside as Hamlet. Walker Whiteside impersonated Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark at the Metropolitan last night. The audi ence might woll have been much larger, but those. who witnessed Mr. Whiteside's portrayal were amply com pensated for their loyalty to this nub lime tragedy—the phenomenal exposi tion of a man's mind. That the characters of this tragedy live in the imagination as surely and as vividly as do those of the world's most recent history, is an undying tes timonial to the genius of their creator. Till the crack of doom, humanity will love Hamlet, pity Ophelia, indulge Polonius, cjptest King Claudius and de plore the weakness of Queen Ger trude, as sincerely as though they had all really existed and met their tragic ends. The minute study which Mr. White side has bestowed upon the character was at all times apparent last night. He was in excellent form physically— every move was facile and graceful— and his voice, always resonant, vi brated In perfect sympathy with the immortal speeches of the prince. The tendency to stilted ittteranee oc casionally noticeable in his Shylock the night before, was absent. He dropped to the colloquial in an easy, natural manner that gave his speeches the flavor of spontaneity. His read ing; of the two great soliloquies— "What a rogue and pleasant slave am I" and "To be or not to be" —was highly commendable. One might well say with the garrulous Polonlus, "Well spoken, and with good accent!" Tht-t Mr. Whiteside has bestowed in telligent study upon these speeches, and, indeed, upon all that Hamlet ut ters, was unmistakably evident. His emphasis are exceptionally effective, which is proof of their correctness, for no line of Shakespeare properly spoken Is without its effect. His management of Hamlet's scene with the ghost was admirable in point of stage business and settings. Mr. Whiteside effectively denoted Ham let's reverence and love for the spirit of his father. Had Mr. Clifford, who impersonated the ghost, spoken his lines with a little more deliberation, the scene would have been enhanced, for his tendency to hurry the poetic exhortation necessarily detracted from its impressiveness. But for the dis tinctness of Mr. Clifford's delivery he merits much praise. Not a word of this eloquent appeal to Hamlet was lost, and for this relief from a sep ulchral mumbling of the magnificent lines, "much thanks." Mr. Whiteside was altogether happy in his conduct of the brief colloquy between Hamlet and Polonius. . Here, too, his own excellence proved telling, because of his Polonius, which highly important character was intrusted to Mr. Chester. An inadequate, unappre ciative actor can utterly «poil Polon ius, and to that extent sp^il "Hamlet." Fortunately, Mi-. Chester was compe tent to give expression to the proper conception of this character. Hence an added delight often absent from presentations of this tragedy. Mr. Whiteside played the closest scene with gemiine intensity that did not smack of theatricism. It must be confessed that the Queen Gertrude, of Miss Kathryn Keyes, was disappoint ing, mainly because she was indis tinct. Interpreters of Shakespearean roles lose nine-tenths «* whatever ef fectiveness they might posses, if they do not get 'the dramatist's words over the fooyiglHs. Right :"%jere it might be mentioned that the incidental music, while me lodious, was occasionally loud enough toflrown the words and to that extent fatal to the enjoyment of those who want to hear Shakespeare, not the or chestra. The colloquy between Hamlet and the grave digger is not Mr. AVhiteside's best scene. He seemed inclined to hurry over it last night, and even cut out that characteristic speech wherein Hamlet traces the "noble dust of Alex ander" till he finds it stopping a beer barrel. The Ophelia of Miss Lelia Wolstai* stirs the sympathy that the character itself awakens in the reader of the play, and that is a tribute to her act ing of it. She "looks the part," to begin with, a victory in itself —and she acts it with commendable taste. In the mad scene Miss Wolstan, displays a discretion and a restraint that can not but appeal to the discerning. She received well merited applause. One more member of the company, deserves special mention, for nig ad mirable delivery of the lines allotted lo King Claudius, and that is Mr. Sears. Mr. Sears played the ungrateful, yet strong character of the king with ex ceptional appreciation of the nature of the man. His^jnake-up was almost too comely to correspond with Hamlet's designation—"bloat king," but perhaps Hamlet was prejudiced against his Uncle Claudius. —Fred Hunt. This afternoon Mr. Whiteside will present his impersonation of Shylock, tonight he will appear as Richard 111. A. W. Pinero's comedy of English so ciety, "The Guy Lord Quex," will be gin a half week's engagement at the Metropolitan .tomorrow night. The principal female role, that of the mani curist, will be played by Sylvia Lyn den. Williams & Walker, the colored com edians, and their company will close their engagement at the Grand with today's matinee and evening perform ance. The show is worth seeing. Yesterday at the Star theater over two hundred ladies witnessed the per formance of the High Rollers, a large increase over any previous ladies' mat inee. The popular innovation ha 3 • aught the public fancy and Manager Singer will undoubtedly have to give two matinees a week for the fair sex in order to accommodate the patrons. TODAY'S WEATHER. For Minnesota —Fair Saturday; warmer in northwest portion. Sunday cloudy; probably snow; variable winds, becoming southeast and brisk. For Cpper Michigan—Fair Saturday. Sunday snow; variable winds. Far Wisconsin —Tartly cloudy Saturday; probably snow in east and south por tions. Sunday fair in south; probably snow in north portion; variable winds, becoming southeast and brisk Sunday. For Montana and North "Dakota —Fair; warmer Saturday. Sunday probably snow. For lowa—Snow Saturday. Sunday probably fair. For South Dakota— Fair Saturday; wanner in extreme west portion. Sunday fair. St. Paul — Yesterday's temperatures, taken by the United States v. ■ ither bu reau. St. Paul. W. E. Oliver, o' server, for the twenty-four hours ended ■ c 7 o'clock last night— Barometer correct^! for tem perature and elevation. Highest tempera - ture, -.'; Lowest temperature, 8; average temperature, 15; daily range. 15; barom eter, 30.42; humidity. 83; precipitation, 0; 7 p. m.. temperature, 21; 7 p. m.. wind, southwest: -weather, clear. Yesterday's Temperatures— *SpmHigh *BpmHigh Alpeiif! 20 -S Kansas City ..30 32 Atlanta 4.' -H: Marquette 18 22 Kaitk-ford ....22 22 Milwaukee ....22 30 Bismarck B l-Minnedosa 4 10 Buffalo $$ SO Montgomery ..44 46 Boston 32 38 Montreal 16 18 Calgary 94 :;s Nashville 38 38 Cheyenne 2 lo New Orleans ..54 60 Chicago 26 20 New York 30 40 Cincinnati 88 40 Norfolk - 42 48 Cleveland 28 SOjNorth Platte ..18 20 Davenport 24 24 1 Omaha 20 22 Dcs Koines ..,20 22 [Philadelphia ..36 42 Detroit 28 32IPttteburis 34 38 Duluth 24 30!QuAppeile 12 16 Edmonton 30 32.1' Frisco 50 50 Galveston . ...5S BBBBt. Louis 38 40 Grand Haven .2t> 32 Salt Lake 18 22 Green Bay ...18 2SS. Ste. Marie...22 24 Helena 14 ...3§ 42 Huron ........IS 22 Winnipeg 0 16 Jacksonville -.54 60 •Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul). What the Religious World Is Thinking About and Doing SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S TOPIC COMMENTS BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. THE TENTMAKER AND MISSIONARY The International Sunday School Les son for Feb. 8 — "The Church at Corinth Founded"—Acts 13, 1-11. The greatest forces are often im peceptible in their beginnings. An in conspicuous Jew once came down from Athens to the splendid city of Coiinth, 2,000 years ago. Few in that dazzling and cosmopolitan city noticed him, for he visited none of the palatial dwell ings, and was not seen promenading on the fashionable thoroughfares; nor was he to be found in the schools of philosophy, or in the baths, or any where else that the prominent citizens and sojourners were to be seen. The truth is, he had to work; he was en gaged in the humble calling of making tents, and that left him small leisure tjme. Yet that obscure toiler was des tined to be the principal instrument in overturning the life of that metropolis of the world, with its 4,000 inhabitants. Of the men who filled the public eye of Corinth, all are unknown to the mass of mankind today. But that tentmaker has a first place in the world's hall of fame. The Best "Good Society." "When the apostle reached Corinth he hunted up some fellow craftsmen, and found Aquila and Priscilla, a Jew ish man and wife, who, up to that time, had doubtless been bewailing the cruel fate which had driven them from Rome, but who henceforth blessed the em peror's edict which led them to know Paul. Paul was a Jew, and he was by trade a tentmaker, here were two strong ties to bind him to these exiles. Fellowship, to endure and to be worth anything, must be built on some strong kindred interest. One reason why much present-day "society" is shallow and foolish and vain, is that it has no other common basis than the posses sion of wealth. All sorts of people, with divers tastes, have money, so that mere riches are an insufficient tie to bind men and women together. The society which affords^ real and satis factory fellowship, springs from com mon interest in serious things. There is no "good society" equal to thtit of the men who are working together along similar lines for high ends. When a few congenial spirits, animated by similar lofty ideals, get together, there Is good society, even though they all together may not own a dollar or a change of raiment. The best society in luxurious Corinth was to be found in the house of Aquila, after the day's work was done, when Silas and Timo othy dropped in to talk over matters dear unto them all. Laboring Man and Philosopher. In our own democratic land there are today an alarmingly large number of men and women who look down upon the man in overalls. Too ir.any of cur sons decline to do any work at which they cannot wear linen collars. Men choose to be ten-dollar-a-week clerks rather than to be grimy, brainy, in dependent mechanics. The present day tontempt which many show for manual laj?or Is as foolish as it is snobbish-. In a really great man there never is a taint of it. The world will not willingly forget that the Redeemer of mankind was a journeyman car penter. His great apostle was but fol lowing in his train, then, when at Corinth he supported himself by his trade, stitching into his tents the pro foundest thoughts of God that human brain has ever formulated. In order to be free from all suspicion of self-gain, which no propagandist can afford to have attached to his name, Paul la bored with his bjtnds, and at times, be cause business* Ivas dull, or for other reasons, we know that he suffered real warvt. This man, whose words are as full' of comfort as of power, wrote out of the depths of a real and intense hu man experience. That he made good tents we may be sure, for we know the kind of sermons he preached and the letters he wrote. "Tour father blacked my father's boots," sneered a cad to a self-made man. "I am sure he blacked them well," was the retort. Paul is a good example for the per sons who think that they cannot un dertake any religious or philanthropic work until they have first secured a society to back them and pay their ex penses—often consuming more energy in effecting an organization than would be needed to carry on the work itself. That man should count himself highly honored who is able to do a definite Christian work while support- Ing himself. William Carey, the fa mous missionary and scholar, said, "My business is serving the Lord; I cobble shoes to pay expenses." Religion and Riots. An aroused church arouses the devil. Unusual activity on the part of Christians generally causes the forces of evil to bestir themselves afresh. So it was at Corinth. In connection with the visit of Timothy and Silas, Paul had a new spiritual experience—just what, we are not told —which caused him to preach with new power and zeal. Even the most faithful Chris tians at times have similar experi ences, resulting in an access of ef fectiveness. In this case it caused the apostle to be bitterly opposed by the Jews. Whatever venom there is In a man's nature seems to show itself when he gets into a religious contro versy. Only the other day the papers reported a bitter quarrel in a Penn sylvania church over the use .of indi vidual communion cups! We all know the virulence of the anti-Semitic riots abroad, and of the anti-Catholic or anti-Protestant outbreaks that are oc casionally to be witnessed in our own land. All these are un-Christian, just as the outbreaks of the Jews from which Paul frequently suffered were contrary to the teachings of the Jew ish scriptures. Unable to tolerate their blasphemy—for there is a point beyond which patience ceases to be patience—the great missionary turned indignantly from the Corinthian Je\v3 whom he had been trying to persuade to accept the Messiah. A Preacher's Mettle. The incident is but one of many touchep showing the apostle's spirit. He shook his mantle before them, in token of having repudiated all respon sibility for their future, and cried: "Your blood is upon your own heads; I am clean." He could do this, be cause he himself had faithfully declar ed the whole counsel of God toward them. His faithfuiness^ exonerated him from blame for their unfaithful ness. Paul's severe but manly course ap pears to have brought some of the Jews to their senses, for Crispus, the over seer of the synagogue, became a Chris tian, after Paul had taken to preach ing in the house of Titus Justus, near by. The greatest results, however, were to be seen in the in-gathering of the heathen Corinthians. Even in that sin-steeped city, so vile that "Corinthianize" remains to this day a word of wickedness, the gospel had power to transform men's lives. We may imagine how hard it was for those Corinthians to turn their backs upon their old life and come out bold ly and be baptized. For they not only believed, but they also gave the visi ble sign of their belief. As followers of Christ, they were willing to wear His badge. A Fighter's Vision. Almost anybody can make a spurt, but only the rare men can keep on. It is easy to be a hero in the lime- light. To be or do the best when the troud is looking oh ana applauding tests no man's nerve. The proof of one's character comes in the long stretches of hard duty that are out of sight, when no man appears to know or care, and when it seems but a lit tle thing, and an easy thing, to let down a trifle. Paul's active life had these long periods of difficult duty when no man praised him. Here in Corinth he was entering upon such an experience, for he was settling down to a year and a half of preaching, teaching and tent making. He knew how to stick at a hard job. He was a pastor as well as an evangelist. Evidently, though, he needed cheer ing up, for one night the Lord appear ed to him in a vision. God know^ that the men who seem to their fellows to be the strongest often have sore need of the heartening word. That man is doing the Lord's work who goes through the world reviving men's courage. The message that came to Paul was one that crowds the pages of the Scriptures—"Be not afraid." God has many words of courage to speak to his servants, and they are strikingly alike, whether found in the Old Testament or the New. Fear not and fight on, said the Lord; and then he added the best reason for encour agement, "For I am with thee." There is nothing else that so fits a man for a brave, hard task as the conscious ness that he is working with and for the invincible Jehovah. When a new nation was needed in this Western continent the men chosen for the work were men who were so filled with the fear of God that they had no room for any other fear. Like Paul, they con quered because they believed God. Fearlessness is a child of faith. MEN WHO MISSED THE MARK Terse Comments on the Uniform Pray er-Meeting Topic of the Christian Endeavor Societies, the Baptist Young People's Unions, Etc., for Feb. B—"Bible8 —"Bible Lessons for Men That Failed." Gen., iv., 8-12; Judges, xvi., 20-21; I. Sam., iii., 11-14; xv., 26-29. In railway stations, in public reading rooms, in court houses, in the visitors' galleries of congress, wherever a warm coriier may be obtained free, we see the melancholy company of men who have failed. What a host of them there are, men without spirit or pur pose, making no return to society for the benefits it bestows upon all, and seeking only the gratification of their few material wants. Sad as is this spectacle, which all dwellers in cities knows, yet it does not represent so great failures as does such that wears fine raiment and dwells in opulence. These poor wrecks of humanity are, as a rule, simply the incompetent, the lazy and the unfortunate. The failure that spells tragedy is that of the men who have repudiated their convictions and higher nature, and, for the sake of some low goal, have sinned against light. For, after all, the only failure that counts is a failure in soul. In ability to attain worldly ..goods may signify little or much; but it is never a true test of the success or failure of the real man. It is to be noted that the Bible writes no man down as a failure simply because he is poor; most of its heroes were that. Only moral failures are recorded as failures in that wise Book of human life. Faithlessness is always failure. Not merely does it produce failure; it is failure itself. The first man to live was a failure. Adam had the best chance and made the worst use of it. H bequeathed to the race an inheritance of failure. Dis obedience was the pit into which he fell, and it Is a pit whose mouth yawns for all of us. All failures may be said to spring from disobedience, since all other sins are born of it. The man who obeys succeeds; the man who disobeys fails —that is a law of life, as certain in its working- as the sun in its setting. Disobedience caused the first failure and jealousy caused the second. If Satan may be said to need a motive for sinning, it was supplied by jeal ousy. Outside of Eden's gate, jealousy took possession of the second man, and Cain became a murderer. Books of morals and counsel do not say as much about jealousy as they do about many lesser sins, but every man who has his eyes open to the real world about him knows that jealousy is one of the primal and potent forces at work in society. Perhaps in social life it is most manifest, but it is none the less present in the business and pro fessional world. Jealousy robs many a man of his birthright of manhood, and makes him stoop to deeds almost as foul as that of Cain. Whenever jealousy enters a life, failure speedily follows it. Success is in fulfilling the divine plan for a human life. Most of the Bible's greatest char acters, its men who won success that shines to this day, were apparent fail ures. From Abraham to Paul, its mightiest men appear to have closed their careers in defeat. This was most notably true of Him who ended His life on a malefactor's cross. Ap parent failure may be real success and apparent success—such, for instance, as Herod's —may be deep and eternal failure. He fails who climbs to power and place Up the pathway of disgrace. He fails not who makes truth his cause, Nor bends to win the crowd's applause. He fails not —he who stakes his all Upon the right and dares to fall. —Richard Watson Gilder. Fear, some say, is the only ill: if there be the courageous heart, nothing else matters much. Whether or not this extreme view be correct, it cer tainly is true that fear is one of the first curses of life and the cause of many of its failures. Israel was kept out of the promised land for forty years because of the craven hearts of the ten spies and the multitude of peo ple who needed their cowardly counsel. Peter missed the eternal glory of hav ing been a loyal friend of his Master by his fear on that chilly night when he sought to warm himself at the fire of the Lord's foes. Fear paralyzes the arm, befogs the brain and turns the heart's red blood into water. He Avho seeks the secret of success has need to learn courage, first of all. Early in the Bible story, grim and leering appetite stalks in. At its worst, it built the cities of the plain that were so intolerable that God consumed them by fire from heaven. It snatched the birthright from Isaac's older son, and in every generation that succeeded it committed offenses against man and God, making a murderer and adulterer of Israel's best king. Still its deadly work goes on. Almost every day we read of some man, towering above his fellows, whose success is turned to shame, like the fall of a &iant tree rot ten at the core, because of appetite. Against this type of failure there is provision made in the divine economy; the secret is given in the words of the inspired apostle—"Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." Lack of money and l.">ve of money are responsible for most commercial successes. But the latter is also re sponsible for some of the colossal fail ures of history. It was love of money that made an Achan, an Ananias and a Judas. So dangerous is this spirit that the Bible, which has many admonitions against it, speaks of covteousness as idolatry. LOT OF THE LIAR. Comments on the Epworth League Topic for Feb. B—"Truth and Lies"—« Eph. 4, 25; Prov. 12, 19; Psa. 51, 6. Only because they are short-sighted do men ever lie. For lies, in the long run, are always futile. There never was a permanently successful lie. The habitual liar is also a habitual failure. Truth alone can endure and prevail. He who calls a lie to his help is only calling an enemy into his camp. Lying is either born of, or breeds, a dishonest state of mind, which makes one suspected and suspicious of all men. Truth always fits itself. Lies do not match, and any structure they are used In building tumbles to the ground. Be cause truth is always consistent, the lot of the truthful man is the simple and easy one, as well as the successful one. Truth on the lips springs from truth, in the heart. The liar is in perpetual slavery. Only the truth makes one free. NEWS AND NOTES. A quarter of a million persons were fed on Christmas day by the Salvatioa Army. A hospital is to be built at Foochow, China, as a memorial to Dr. Rich ard S. Storrs, the famous Brooklyn preacher. The British house of lords has had a special committee to investi gate the gambling evil, so great has the vice become. A $75,000 club house is to be erected in Calcutta by the Y. M. C. A. for the English-speaking young men. Dr. H. K. Carroll, the expert in reli gious statistics, says that last year the growth of the churches in this "country failed to keep pace with the growth of population. The famous Thursday morning serv ice at City Temple, London, where Dr. Joseph Parker preached, is to be taken permanently by the Rev. R. J. Camp belL A Christian man, Hon. K. Kataoka, until recently president of Doshisha university, has lately been elected president of the Japanese parliament by the largest vote ever received bjr a candidate for the office. In a recent issue of the Messenger, Thomas F. Meehan urges that Roman Catholics adopt new and more aggres sive methods to combat the Protestant propaganda among the foreign-born Catholics in the great cities. Lutherans are now more numerous than Presbterians in this country, taking the fourth place, which the latter formerly held. The Roman Cath olics, Methodists and Baptists outnum ber the Lutherans in the order named. Dr. W. S. Rainsford has completed twenty years in the pastorate of the St. George's church, the Episcopal church in the down-town section of New York, "which is noted for its many celebrated members, including Mayor Low and J. P. Morgan, and for its. suc cessful institutional work. A gold lov ing cup was presented to Dr. Rains ford. Missionaries are of-ten obliged to make queer changes in familiar fig ures, when translating into the native tongue. Pilgrim's Progress has been done into Matabele and Christian is made to set out from a "kraal," while the slough of despond becomes a mud hole in the veldt, and a war dance takes the place of Vanity Fair. "Ev angelist" is railed a missionary. A splendid memorial to Henry Ward Beecher is to be erected alongside of Plymouth church, Brooklyn. There will be a monument, under which the great preacher's remains will rest, and there will be additions to the church buildings that will extend and in a measure, institutionalize its work. A collection of Beecher relics will bo placed in the new building. The whole is to cost $150,000. SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS. Words are always actions and actions are a kind of words. —Em- erson. Let God do with me what He will; it will be either heaven itself or some beginning of it. —Mountford. I have never yet known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's y&o --ple were divided. —Moody. The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience.—Seneca. The more thou spendest from thy lit tle store. With double bounty God will give thee more.—A. A. Pro tor. Ten thousand of the greatest faults in our neighbors are of less conse quence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves. —Whately. So much we miss If love is weak, so much we gain If love is strong, God thinks no pain Too sharp or lasting to ordain To teach us this. —Mrs. Jackson. RUSH TO NORTHWEST CANADIAN FARMS INCREASES British Emigration Becomes Almost Unmanageable. MONTREAL, Feb. 6. —L. D. Arm strong-,, immigration agent of the Ca nadian Pacific railway, says that 100, --000 Americans, Scandinavians and English farmers, from Western states; French Canadians from New England factory towns, and Swedes from New York will come to settle in Canada next year. LONDON, Feb. 6. —Commissioner Preston says that the British emigra tion movement to Canada has already become almost unmanageable under existing conditions, and that the Ca nadian government will need to make special arrangements for supplying a largely increased number of town ships in Northwest Territory and tak ing care of the settlers in transit. He admits that the American invasion from the Western states has b<-,<?n a convincing argument in favor of a British movement, and asserts vh't while few Scotchmen seem interested, thousands of English and Welch emi grants are applying fjr passage U the ne ft lands. ■ Theft of Letters Explained. TOLEDO. Ohio. 'Feb. 6.— Postrlfice In spectors Moore, of Toledo, and Burr, i>{ Fort Wayne, Ind., today cleared the mys tery surrounding the theft of letters in this city during the last few -weeks, by ar resting and securing a confessicn from John J. Everett, of. this city. Everett was. a hanger-on at the union depot, -where he committed the theft. The inspectors traced the crime to him by comparing his handwriting 1 with that on an envelope which Had been forwarded to A..Man, Mich.; inclosing a letter that he had opened. - ~ ■_:?i..^ Kills His Wife and Himself. ROSEDALE. Ind.. Feb. 6.—John Stark, a saloonkeeper, shot his wife to death tcday and committed suicide. Starks was thirty-iii c years aid and his wife waa thirty. Domestic trouble caused the trag edy.