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The Yale Expositor. X. A. Mcvziks, rub)!her. TALE, Mica People always know It whea a ui&u la about to fail in business. It Is not safe to bet ou what you "feel In your bones" unless you bet on rheumatism. The Buffalo Times says: "Ilcliedor Wojciechow&kl made a motion for a new trial." He should make one for i new name. The fact that the oldest man In the United States is in a poor-houso is not encouraging to those who would go be yond the biblical three score and ten. The archt-!shop of Canterbury will personally deliver into the hands of. Mr. Bayard, on the latter's return to London, the log of the Mayflower which the Conslstorial Court recently decided to present to the United States. The old canal which was constructed many years ago between Tampico and Tuxpan, Mexico, at great expense, is to be cleared and dredged and opened for traff.c. An American company has a concession for operating the enterprise. The canal passes though the country rich in dye woods and native tropical products, which will be taken in boats to Tampico and exported to the United States and Europe. Modern progress does not spare even a land so rich in traditions and mem ories as the Holy Land. The wander ing bands of Arabs along the chores of the Jordan have been surprised and horrified at the intrusion of a busy lit tle steamboat upon that historic stream. It plies between a point near Jericho and the.Sea of Tiberias, doing what business it can find to do, and incidentally upsetting all one's idea? of the fitness of things. Mr. Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, has a bible clas3 in a Washington Sunday school. A former secretary of state, Mr. John W. Foster, also teaches In that school. The highest intellect can find an ex haustleHs opportunity for acquisition in the word of God,, and the largest practical ability can have full scope In expounding the books that are a revelation of the divine will. It is en tirely reasonable to say that the bible Is studied by more people and in a wiser way than ever before. Legislation for the restriction of the rale of cigarettes has generally proved Ineffective; but as a result of a city or dinance recently passed In Chicago, by which retail dealers In cigarettes are obliged to take out a license costing ons hundred dollars, the number of places where they may be lought has fallen from five thousand to about one hun dred. The margin of profit upon cigar ettes is go small that the smaller deal ers cannot afford to purchase the li cense. This is not an ideal way to combat the cigarette evil, but expe rience seems to prove it the most ef fective yet devised. Through the liberality of the Postal Union, or through some other favoring circumstances, a king In dire want of a postage stamp has been able to com municate with a distant manufactur ing concern. King Quansah, of Tan tree, "which is somewhere In Africa, vrote to a cordage company in Ma.i.sa t'hiu'tts, inquiring as to the cost of Fome of its wares, and excused himself fcr neglecting to put on a stamp on the ground that he was in a hurry. Seeing that he is a king, the excuse was ac cepted, but probably the goods will not be forwarded until it is known whether his Laste will prevent him from promptly remitting. The following are the statistics of productions in California during 1S3G. Cold, $14,100,613; borax, $800,000; pe troleum and bitumen, over $1,000,000; salt, $130,000; mineral waters, $400,000; natural gas, $ir0,000; quick silver, 30,743 flasks; beet sugar, 40,000,000 pounds; wheat, 28,682,200 bushels; brandy distilled from grapes nearly 1.000.000 gallons; barley, 10,800,00'J bushels; beans, 6S.000.000 pounds; rais ins, 84,000,000 pounds; dried fruit. 148, 500,000 pounds; dried prunes, 51,000,009 pounds; canned fruits, 1,340,000 cases; wool, 24,500,000 pounds; hops, over 52,003 bales; oranges, 1890-97 estimated 8,375 carloads; 189G, 2,512.500 boxes; butter, annual product, 48,000,000 pound: cheese. 16.000.000 pounds: win receipts at San Francisco, 12.911,670 gallons; brandy, 103,650 gallons; pro visions, $5,500,000; value of nuts, $350, 000; powder, 12,000,000 pounds; total gold product since 1848, $1,308,429,278; quick-silver since 1877, 810,707 flasks; gold and silver since 1848, $1,475,434, 107. Seventy-six thousand acres are set to orange trees and 70,000 to prunes: there are 3,900,000 acres of land under Irrigation. There are 340.000 milch cowa in the state and $100,000,000 invested in dairies. Thero is excitement among Virginia Ianut dealers over the big Jump in the price of nuts. A 50 per cent advance on account of the prospects for an unusu ally short crop has occurred within the past few days, and prices are still ris ing. This is the first rise In the market sincrt the dissolution of the big trust six months ago. One-third of the pres ent crop la now cornered In this way, and the large dealers are actively buy ing up all the stock they c?n seciir It U thought the prices will almost reach there of 1890. when the Lest erades held at 8 cents per pound. is sorry: mil it all. PEOEBE COUSINS SAYS WO MAN NEEDS NO "RIGHTS." Their l'Ur I at Homo -Suffer Little Children to Come I'nto Mo For of Much 1 th Kingdom of lleMVCu lijlug Mt .St. LouU. (St. Louis ttfttetr.) HOE1JE COUSINS, tha first woman lawyer of America, the first woman to become a United States marshal, and for many years known over the length and bredth of the country as an ardent, uncom pro raising public advocate of woman's rights, is now seriously ill In this city. Disease has laid low the wom an whoso stalwart will carried her through a successful career in the face of opposition and obstacles of every sort. Few careers have been more ro mantic. A beautiful girl, she was be sieged with admirers, and might have made many brilliant marriages. At one time a vice president of the United States and two United States senators sought her hand. But she disdained all offers. She had her mission to fulfill, and Inexorably pursued it until mis fortune and illness finally showed her the fallacy of her course. For Phoebe Cousins now believes that she has been mistaken all her life, and that the truo aim of womanhood is not civil equality with man, but home and motherhood. Her parents were originally from the East. Her father, who was among the most prominent Unionists of St. Louis, received tho appointment of chief of police and provest marshal of the city during the war. Her mother was tho head of the St. Louis branch of the sanitary commission, and had charge of the city hospitals. As a girl Fhoebe Cousins was as brilliant as she was beautiful. She very early showed her disinclination, or rather her contempt, for social life. For several years sho was the belle of St. Imls. But none of her admirers could make headway with her. It wns her favorite theme that women had a higher mission In life than marriage. When it was known that Phoebe Cousins had entered the law depart ment of the Washington University there was no surprise. St. Louis had become fully acquainted with her bent. Her ft lends knew that her years cf reigning bclkhood had been from her point of view most unprofitable, and that from them she had derived but moderate pleasure. Her beauty had won many admirers and suitors quite rs many, but so plainly did she show her preference for men of years and wisdom that one by one they left her side. Miss Phoebe did not appear to even notice their desertion. She wa3 in the zenith of her beauty then, tall, slender, supple, with delicate patrician features, brilliant black eyes and raven hair. Her complexion was olive, with a rich shifting crimson in her cheeks. Then, as until extreme adversity over look her, she was noted for tho taste ful elegance of her dress. She lacked something of the softness of manner of most Southern women. More in evi dence was a certain self-assertlvenesi. tempered by good breeding. She secured entrance into the law de partment with some difficulty, was graduated from it with honor, and then began the career which, &o far as human Insight goes, is nearly at an end. She made a few strong woman suffrage speeches one at a Presbyte rian Sunday school convention in Jef ferson city, where she startled her staid audience by asserting that "Paul's words to women amounted to nothing, for Paul was simply a crusty old bache lor, with no authority to lay commands upon womankind," and another at tha banquet of the Mercantile Library As sociation, whoro she was toasted as "our own Phoebe Cousins." Then she spread her ambitious wings and flew away to Washington. There : 'Mt-- ft ..''. ' ! IVY- ssr ted MISS PHOEBE COUSIN'S. she was entertained by prominent fam ilies and lectured before various audi ences on the cause she had espoused. She became a protege of Susan B. An thony, and the little circle of agitators hoped much from this promising addi tion to their number. Young, hand some, talented, sho would reach the ears of many who cared not to listen to the equally earnest but less favored. She was as logical cs any of them; she wrote gracefully and forcibly, and if her manner on tho platform was a little forced, that would wear away in i time. Men high In the councils of the j nation weie curious about tho brilliant young woman from St. Louis, and then became her alaves. During one winter Vice President Wilson wa3 a frequent caller. So also were a senator and con gressman. "Phoebe," her hostess often said, "do decide which of these gentlemen you prefer, and let him have a hint of your preference. All of this game Is anx ious to be bagged." But Phoebe never decided. Instead ihe bored the mag nates with long, argumentative conver sations on "advancement" and the "ele vation of humanity." Affection Is a tender plant, and cannot withstand the frosts of indifference. It was but nat ural that this distinguished trio, sever ally and collectively, relinquished Us I suit. I Then came bluff, ruddy Senator Fair, with his millions and his quaint idioms. He sauntered into a meeting of women suffragists while the young woman from Missouri was speaking. He noted her bright eyes and brilliant complex ion, her trim, slender figure and hand some gown, and before he retired that night wrote a check bearing her name. Tho next morning it was brought to her while sho was sipping her coffee. It was for $50. There was no word of ' explanation. She enclosed it in a note, thanking him for his kindness, but caying she did not think it proper to accept it. It came back by return post. "Don't be foolish," ho wrote. "Keep the money and get a new spring bonnet with it." Miss Cousins continued lecturing in behalf of her Bex, winning fame if not dollars. When the receipts from her lectures were not equal to her needs, there was always a reserve fund to draw upon at the later family home, in Washington, and she drew upon it without stint, for the luxurious tastes developed by the circumstances of her early life were never lost. When J. D. Cousins became United States marshal he appointed his daugh ter deputy. She returned to St. Louis and assumed her duties in her father's office. Hers were chiefly clerical duties, but they enabled her to gain an In sight into the requirements of the offi cial life of her chief, and when her father died she was appointed to fill the vacancy during the unexpired term. She did this satisfactorily, al though she limited her efforts to office supervision of tho labors of the depu- JIM COL. J. D. COUSINS, ties. When her term ended she made a vigorous attempt to secure reappoint ment, but failed. One wintry morning during her brief stay In the Mormon capital Miss Cousins told me her story. "I was engaged to Senator Fair," she said, "and I loved him. He came to me In Chicago and asked me to bo his wife. We were to have been married there soon. He was summoned to Cal ifornia on business, and left promising to return for me soon. I never heard from him again, and here is the notice of his death." I "It's all a mistake,'' wrote Miss Cous ins, from California, to a St. Louis friend. "Don't, dear friend, try to re form the world. It doesn't want to be reformed. Live quietly and happily in your home. It was o decreed for women. I believe they should all be pensioned, and that bachelors should be taxed to provide their pension." 1 "Do you remember where we met, ' Mis Phoebe?" asked one of the visitors to her bedside the other day. It was the venerable Judge Seymour D. . Thompson. "No, Judge," said Miss Cousins, us ' she lifted her hand above the coverlet, j "It was on a train en routo to Chi cago from St iouis. You were talking of the mission of woman. I had the temerity to say, 'The mission of woman Is motherhood.' You disdained to reply except by a scornful flash of your bright eyes, which awed and silenced me." "You were right, Judge," sho said. "The last time I listened to a Sunday school exercise I learned that. The pupils were repeating the golden text, 'Suffer little children to come unto me. for of such is the kingdom of heaven.' I knew then that this philosophy of yours was right and that mlno was wrong, for I realized that no little chil dren could ever como unto me, and 1 am not ashamed to say that I wept at the thought." (.'Intruder from Hand Cliiup. The latest fad of fashionable peoplo is telling the character by clasped hands. A clasped hands character spe cialist says that this means of reading character is easier and more correct than all other ways. "A woman," he says, "who is friv olous will clasp her hands together with the first finger of the right hand between the thumb and first finger of tho left, but the first Anger of tho right hand lies between the second and third on the left when constancy pre vails. Those people who place two fingers of one hand between ihe thumb and fingers of the other are deceitful, and not to be trusted." It is said that in a married rouplo tho one who in clasping hands and In terlacing fingers brings the right thumb nearest the body, with the right fingers corrr rpondingly placed in rela tion to the left fingers, will bo tho dominant member of that couple. Odds. A "bicycle wedding" was recently witnessed in London. The bridal cou ple rode on a tandem to the church, and they were followed by the guests, twenty-four of them on twelve tan dems, and fclxtoea on single bicycles. -Wi . vcf T.-r rALMAGE'S SERMON. THE HUNGER IN INDIA, LAST SUNDAY'S 'SUBJECT. From tli Following Text I Tiii ! Aim- uerun Which Itelg-uett from Jit dm. Kven I'nto KthlonW i:thr If I. l.ttuil l'lundi'd by UreU. j MONO the 773,693 words which make up the bible only once occurs the il word "India." In Id this part of the scriptures, which the lUbbis call "Megillah Esther," or the volume of Esther, a book sometimes com plained against becauao the wora "God" is not even once mentioned in it, although ono rightly disposed can see God in it from the first chapter to the last, we have it set forth that Xer xes, or Ahasuerus, who Invaded Greece with two million men, but returned in a poor fisher's boat, had a vast domin ion, among other regions. India. In my text India takes its place In bible geography, and the interest In that laud has continued to Increase uutil. with more and more enthusiasm, all around the world Bishop Heber's hymn about "India's coral strand" is bein sung. Never will I forget the thrill of anticipation that went through my body and mind and soul when, after two weeks' tossing on the seas around Ceylon and India for the winds did not, according to the old hymn, "blow fcoft o'er Ceylon's isle" our shin sailed up one of the mouths of the Ganges, past James and Mary Island, so named because a royal ship of that name was wrecked there, and I stepped ashore at Calcutta, amid the shrines and temples and sculptures of that "City of Pal aces," the strange physiognomies of the living and the cremations of the dead. I had never expected to be there, because the sea and I long ago had a serious falling cut; but tho facil ities of travel are so increasing that you or your children w ill probably visit that land of boundless fascination. Its configuration Is 6uch that no one but God could have architected, and it seems as if a man who had no religion going there, would be obliged to ac knov. ledge a God as did the cowboy in Colorado. His companion, an atheisl. had about persuaded the cowboy that there was no God, but coming amidst pome of that tremendous 6cenery of high rocks and awful chasms, and depths dug under depths, and moun tains piled on mountains, the cow boy said to his atheistic companion, "Jack, if there is no God now, I guess from the looks of things around here thero must have been a God some time." No one but the Omniscient could have planned India, and no one but the Om nipotent could have built It. It Is a great triangle, Its base the Himalayas, a word meaning "the dwelling place of Bnows." those mountains pouring out of their crystal cup the Indus, the Brahmaputra and the Ganges to slake the thirst of the vast populations of ludla. That country Is the home cf two hundred and forty million souli Whatever be one's taste going there, hl3 taste is gratified. Some go as hunters of great game, and there Is no end to their entertainment. Mighty fauna; bison, buffalo, rhinoceros, ele phant, panther, lion, User this last to be the perpetual game for Ameri cans and Europeans, because he conies up from the malarial swamps, where no human being dare enter; tho deer and antelope his accustomed food, but once having obtained the taste of human blood, ho want3 nothing els and is called "the man-eater." You can not wee the tiger's natural ferocity after he ha3 been humiliated by a voyage across the rea. You need to hear his growl a3 he presses his iron paw against tho cage In Calcutta. Thirteen towns have been abandoned as residence because of the work of this cruel invader. In India in the year 1S77 eight hundred and nineteen people were slain by the tiger, and ten thousand cattle de stroyed. From the back of tho elephant or from galleries built among the treej fifteen hundred tigers went down and tlghteen thousand dollars of govern ment reward were paid the sportsmen. The Baptist missionary, Carey, who did infinite good to India. had two great passions first, a passion for souls, and next, a passion for flowers, end he adorned his Asiatic home end the Am erican homes of his friends, and mu seums on either side the sea. with the results of his floral expeditions In In dia. To preparo himself for morning prayers, he was accustomed to walk amid the flowers and tree. It is the heaven of the magnolia and obe!mosk. nnd palm tree. The ethnologist, going there, will find endless entertainment In the study cf the races now living there and the races of whose blood they are a commingling. The historian, go ing there, will find his theory of War ren Hastings' government in India the reverse from that which Edmund Burke gave him in the most tnmoiu address ever made In a court room, its two characteristics matchless elo quence and ono 9idedness of statement. The archaeologist will bo thrown into a frenzy of delight as he visits Delhi of India and digs down nnd finds Geven dead cities underneath the now living city. All sucpfss to the hunters ami the botanists and the ethnologists and the historians and the archaeologist who visit India, each one on his or her errand! P.ut wo today visit India rs Christian women and men to hear the full meaning of a groan of hungor that has traveled fourteen thousand miles, yet gets louder and more agonizing us the days go by. But why have nny In terest in people so far away that it is evening there when it is morning here, their complexion darker, their language to us a jargon, their attire unlike that found in any American wardr.tc, their -in i memory and their ambition unlike any thing that we recall or hepe for? With more emphasis than you put into the interrogatory "Why," I answer, First: Because our Christ was an Asiatic. Egypt gave to us its monuments, Rome gave to us its law, Germany gave to us its philosophy, but Asia gave to us its Christ. His mother an Asiatic; the mountains that looked down upoa him, Asiatic; the lakes on whose pebbly banks he rested and on whoso chopped wave he walked, Asiatic; the apostles whom he first commissioned, Asiatic; the audiences he whelmed with his il lustrations drawn from blooming lilies and salt crystals, and great rain-falls, and bellowing tempests, and hypocrites long faces, and croaking ravens all those audiences Asiatic. Christ during his earthly stay was never outside of Asia. When he had sixteen or eighteen years to spare from his active work, Instead of spending that tliae in Eu rope, I think he goes farther toward the heart cf Asia, namely, India. The Bible says nothing of Christ from twelve years of ago until thirty, but there are records in India and tradi tions in India which represent a strange, wonderful, most excellent, and supernatural being as staying In India about that time. I think Christ was thero much of the time between his twelfth and his thirtieth year, but how ever that may be, Christ was born In Asia, suffered In Asia, died in Aslt, as cended from Asia, and all that mi'.kes me turn my ear more attentively tow.ird that continent us I hear Its cry of dis tress. Most interesting are the people of In dia. At Calcutta. I said to one of their leaders, who spoke English well: "Have these idols which I see any power of themselves to help or de stroy?" He said: "No; they only represent God. There Is but one God." "When people die, where do they go to?" "That depends upon what they have been doing; if they have been doing good, to heaven, and If they have been doing evil, to hell." "But do you not believe in the trans migration of soul, and that alter death we go into birds or animals of some sort?" "Yes; the last creature a man Is thinking of while dying is the one into which he will go. If he is thinking of a bird, he will go into a bird; if he is thinking of a beast, he will go into a beast." "I thought you said that at death the soul goes to heaven or hell?" "He goes there by a gradual process. It may take him years and years." "Can any one become a Hindoo? Could I become a Hindoo?" "Yes, you could." "How could I become a Hindoo?" . "By doing as tho Hindoos do." From the walls of one of their mu seums at Jeypore I had translated for me these beautiful sentiments: The wise make failure equal to suc cess. Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads, let love through good deeds show. Do not to others that which if done to thee would cause theo pain. And this is the turn of duty. A man obtains a proper rule of action by looking on his neighbor as himself. From that continent of interesting folk, from that ontlncnt that gave the Christ, from that continent which has been endeared by so many mis sionary heroics, there comes a groan of eighty million people in hunger. More peoplo are la danger of starving to death in India to-day than the en tire population of the United States. In the famine in India in the year 1S77 about fix million people starved to death. That is more than all the peo ple of Washington, of New York, of Philadelphia, of Chicago, put together. But that famine was rot a tenth part ai awful as the one thero now raging. Twenty thousand are dying there of famine every day. Whole villages and towns have died every man, woman nnd child; none left to bury the dead. Tho vultures and the Jackals are the only pallbearers. Though some help has been sent, before full relief can rcr.ch them I suppose there will be at least ten million dead. Starvation, even for one person, is an awful pro cess. No food, the vitals gnaw upon themselves and faintness and languor nr.d pangs from head to foot, and hor ror and despair and insanity tako full possession. One handful of wheat or corn or rice per day would keep life going, but they cannotgct a handful. The crops failed and the millions are dying. Oh. It is hard to bo hungry In a world where there Is enough grain, and fruit, and meat, to fill all the hun rry mouths on tho planet; but alas! that the cu.Terer end the supply cannot bo brought together. There stands In dia to-day! Look at her! Her faco dusky from tho suns of raanv centur ies; under her turban such nchings of brow as only a dying nation feels; her eyes hollow with unutterable woo; tho tears rolling down her sunken cheek; her back bent with more agonies than she knows how to carry; her ovens containing nothing but ashes. Gaunt, ghastly, waited, the dew of death upon her forehead and a pallor such as the last hour brings, eho utrotches forth her trembling hand towards us and with hcarso whisper she pays: "I am dying! Give me bread! That Is what I waut! Bread! Give It to me quick! Give It to me now bread! bread! bread!" America has heard tho cry. Many thousands of dollars have al ready been contributed. One ship la den with breadstuffs has failed from San FranclFCo for India. Our senato and house of representatives in a bill signed by our sympathetic president have authorized tho secretary cf the navy to charter a vessel to curry food to tho famine sufferers, and you may help to fill that ship. We want to send at least rlx hundred thousand bushel of corn. That will cave the lives of nt least' six hundred thousand people. Many will respond in contributions of money, and the barns and corn-cribs cf the entire United States will pour forth their treasures of food. When that ship Is laden till it can carry no more, we will ask Him who holds the winds In his fist and plants his trium phant foot on stormy waves to let noth ing but good happen to the ship till it anchors in Bengal or Arabian waters. They who help by contributions of money or breadstufi3 toward filling that rpjief ship will flavor, their own food for their lifetime with appetizing qualities, and insure their own welfare through tho promise of him who said, "Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him la time of trouble." And now I bethink myself of some thins I never thought of before. I had noticed that the circle Is God's favor ite figure, and upon that subject I ad dressed you somti time ago, but it did not occur to me until now that the Gos pel seems to be moving in a circle. It started in Asia, Bethlehem, an Asiatic village; Jordan, an Asiatic river; Cal vary, an Asiatic mountain. Then tola Gospel moved on to Europe; witness the chapels and churches and cathed rals and Christian universities of that continent. Then it crossed to Amer ica. It has prayed and preached and sung its way across our continent. It has crossed to Asia, taking the Sand wich Islands in its way, and now in all the great cities on the coast of China people are singing "Bock of Ages" and "Thero Is a Fountain Filled with Blood;" for yon must know that not only have the Scriptures been trans lated into these Asiatic tongues, but also the evangelical hymns. My mis sionary brother, John, translated some of them into Chinese, and Mr. Glad stone gave me a copy of the hymn, "Jesus. Lover of My Soul" which he hlmEelf had translated into Greek. The Christ who it seems spent sixteen or eighteen years of his llfo In India Is there now In spirit, converting and saving the people by hundreds of thou sands, and tho Gospel will move right on through Asia until the story of tho Saviour's birth will anew bo made known In Bethlehem, and the story of a Saviour's sacrifice be told anew on and around Calvary, and the story of a Sav iour's Ascension be told anew on the shoulder of Mt. Olivet And then do you not see the circle will be complete? The glorious circle, tho circle of tho earth? This old planet, gashed with earthquake and scorched with confla gration and torn with revolutions, will be girdled with chuiches, with schools, with universities, with millennial fes tivities. How cheering and how inspir ing the thought that we are, whether giving temporal or spiritual relief, working on the segment of such a circle. And that the Chrlatly mission which started In Asia will keep on its way until it goes clear around to the place where it started! Then the earth will have demonstrated that for which it was created, and as soon as a world has completed its mission it dies. Part of tho heavens is a cemetery of dead worlds. Our world built to demon strate to the worlds which have been loyal to God the awful results of dis loyalty, so that none of them may ever attempt It I say our world, having finished Its mission, may them go out of existence. The central fires of the world which are burning out rapidly toward the crust, may have reached tho surface by that time and the Bible prophecy bo fulfilled, which declares that the earth and all things that are therein shall be burned up. May the 10th, 1SC9, wa3 a memorable day, for then was laid tho last tie which connected tho two rail tracks which united the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The Central Pacific Railroad was built from California eastward. Tho Union Pacific Railroad was built westward. They were within arm's reach of meeting, only ono more piece of the rail track to put down. A great audience assembled, mid-continent, to see the last tie laid. The locomotives of the Eastern and Western trains stood panting on the tracks close by. Oration explained the occasion, and prayer solemnized it and music enchanted It. The tie was made of polished laurel wood, bound with silver bands, and three spikes were used a gold spike, presented by California; a sli ver spike, presented by Nevada, and an iron spike, presented by Arizona. When, all heads uncDvered and all hearts thrilling with emotion, the ham mer struck tho last spike into its place, the cinnon boomed it amid the re sounding mountain echoes and the tele graphic instruments clicked to all na tions that the deed was done. My friends. If the laying of the last tie that bound the East and the West of one continent together was such a resound ing occasion, what will it bo when the last tie of the track of Gospel Influ ences, reaching clear around tho world, chall be laid amid tho anthems of all nations? The epikes will be the gold en and silver pplkes fashioned out of the Christian generosity of tho hemis pheres. The last hammer stroke that completes the work will be heard by all tho raptured and plled-up calleries of the universe, and the mountains of earth will shout to the thrones of hea ven, "Hallelujah! For tho Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah! For the kingdoms of this world have be come the kingdoms cf our Lord Jesus Christ!" Oltl Soldier nnd Religion. In Fitzgerald, Georgia's soldier col ony, thirty-six dlffe-ent religious be liefs are represented, the Methodists being in the majority. A Kansas City wcraan sued her hus band for divorce recently, alleging harsh.bartarous and unbearable treat ment." The specific charge was that 1m camo home mnd one day and cast hex tealskiu Into he furnace.