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"Going to Jerusalem:" became the
war cry of the Sunday school army of
the world; when the Idea of holding
.the world's fourth
international con
vention In the Holy
City was first sug
gested at the tenth
meeting of the In
ternational Sunday
school convention
at Denver, Colo., in
June, 1902. The
late B. F. Jacobs,
of Chicago, was ap
pointed chairman
e. K. warhex. 0f t))e world's com
mittee, but upon his death the mem
bers elected Edward K. Wurren, of
Three Oaks, Mich., to succeed him,
with W. N. Hartshorn, A. B. McCrlllis
and F. C. Clark as associates, " and
these four accepted the labor ncccs-
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from Scotland, Sweden, Germany,
Denmark, Switzerland, Norway,
France, Italy, Holland, and where Ori
ental representatives made powerful
appeals for India and Japan. A still
greater number recalled the third con
vention of July. 1808, again held at
London under advanced and encourag
ing auspices. All these meetings had
been notable, but that of Jerusalem
seemed Invested with Interest far
greater than thatattaehlng to these for
mer conclaves.ascrystallizlng the relig
ious convictions of many peoples. It
was a reverent journey, to a country
where Christ had made His home,
where "they might trace the paths He
trod, view scenes familiar to Him,
hallowing His memory, vivifying His
sufferings, and enlarging the concep
tion of salvation through His atone
ment. About everything tlint human skill
JERUSALEM THE MOSQUE OF OMAR.
sary to carry the great project to a
successful Issue.
The most conspicuous line of prepa
ration was the chartering of two large
steamers the Grosser Kurfuerst for
the American and Canadian delegates
and the Fuerst Bismarck for the Brit
Isu and European representatives.
One uniform Incentive prevailed to
see Jerusalem, for centuries the center
ot the religious life and history of na
tions, from period to perod and gener
ation to generation maintaining its po
sition, unique in tue world, as the
chief city of the country, where Christ
was born, taught and died. An In
spiration has always attended the In
numerable crusades of the past for
conquest, but the highest Ideal seem
ed expressed in this peaceful pllgrlm-
could devise was brought Into requisi
tion for the comfort and pleasure of
the ship load of delegates that this
continent sent to the little spot in the
east, where three continents join. They
had a musical director and an official
photographer of their own, and the
steamship company spared no pains to
make the long sea voyage as Joyous
as possible. The run from New York
to Gibraltar was marked by one call,
that at the home of Christopher Co
lumbus after 1473. rassin? the frown
ing cliffs of Spain, the next port of
call was Algiers on the African side of
the Mediterranean. The ship ran into
the harbor of Valetta, the capital of
Malta, and thence through the archi
pelago to Greece. A Sunday service
was held on Mars Hill. On through
MAP SHOWING ROUTE OF CRUISE
age, representative of the convictions
of many millions. So great was the
pressure of American applications for
transportation, that the original allot
ments as to delegates such as New
York, 28; Michigan, 19; Ohio, 31; Illi
nois, 32, etc., were modified, and book
ings allowed, Irrespective of the terri
tory from which the applicants came..
The Grosser Kurfuerst sailed from
New 1 ork In March with 800 delegates,
400 more to board ship at various Eu
ropean ports. The ardent picture was
in every mind of passing a few days
among the teuts dotting the hill on
which Christ was crucified. Many of
the delegates had attended the three
previous notable conventions o the
body, had been at the first convention
of July, 188!), at London, where 350
American representatives attended, at
which the Earl and Countess of Aber
deen were prominent, and great honor
shown to the delegates by the Lord
Mayor and other dignitaries. Many,
too, had been present at the second
convention at St. Louis, In September,
1SU3, where delegates were welcomed
the Dardanelles, passing ancient
Troy, the pilgrims proceeded through
the sea of Marmora, arriving nt the
capital of the Ottoman empire, and de
voting two full days to visiting Con
stantinople. On the first day of April the com
pany p.issed from the Europe,! n to tlic
Asiatic side, and gave twenty-four
hours to Smyrna. Those having Da
mascus for an objective point, left the
ship nt Boyrout; those who had plan
ned for a run through Galilee and Sa
maria, left at Calfa. Down the west
coast of Palestine the Grosser Kur
fuerst ran, until the pilgrims witness
ed the dropping of the anchor nt Jap
pa, from where delegates passed on to
Jerusalem, to be present at the four
days' session of the convention.
The convocation was In a measure
one of the most unique in religious
history, involving as It did a trip of
seventy-one days, while the delegates
present came from every quarter of
the globe, and represented an aggre
gate membership of over 25,000,000
Sunday school workers. The actual
enrollment of delegates was 1,520,
Church of England having most dele
gates, and Toronto receiving a majorl-
ly or me votes as the point of meet
ing for the world's fifth convention.
IN THE PRESS BOX.
Where Professional Rcorera and Re
porters Keep Track of Guuie.
At the grounds where the profession
al clubs play baseball you may ha'e
noticed a small boxlike structure
perched on the roof of the grand stand.
Its position directly back of the homo
plate and on a line with the pit. -bells
the best possible for a view of the
game, and If you are lucky enough to
be invited up by some of those who
have a right there, you will be sur
prised to find how much better you
can watch what is going on than from
a seat nearer the ground.
This little house with the wire net
ting over the front to gunrd against
foul files is called the press or scorers'
box The young men who sit there
have need of every facility for observ
ing the game, because afterward they
must present an absolutely accurate
record of it If the contesting nines
belong to an important league and
play in a large city there will be an of
ficial scorer for each club, besides re
porters from each of the dally news
papers. The scorers have to record
every move of the game, and, when It
Is over, present to the managers of
their clubs a complete set of figures,
from which anybody who understands
the sport can tell exactly what each
player has done how well or how
poorly he has played.
Watch a scorn at uoik. Be-fine
him Is an open liook with the names
of one club written down the left
hand side of one page and those of the
opposing- team inscribed on the page
opposite. After each name is a line
of checker-board squares, curiously
marked off, and at the end of these
on the right of each page are several
perpendicular columns, headed A B,
R, 1 B, S B, S H, P O, A, and E, for
the summary. These stand for, re
spectively, times at bat, runs, the
times a player has reached first base,
stolen bases, sacrifice hits, put-outs,
assists and errors. The symbols used
by professional scorers are compara
tively few, and easy to remember, and
anyone familiar with the game ought
to be able to use them after half an
hour's study, followed by a little prac
tice. St. Nicholas.
GOETHE AND PANAMA.
Poet's Prophecy In 1827 About thf
Great Canal.
The Frankfurter Zeltung of Feb. 20,
1904, In an editorial states that the
Panama Canal treaty has been ratified
in Washington, and that thereby the
legal basis for the construction of thu
canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific
has been created, and that the great
work can be completed In a compara
tively short time.
It 1b perhaps pertinent, the paper
adds, to recall what Goethe said con
cerning these matters. During a con
versation with Eckermann in 1827
with reference to Humboldt's travels,
he said:
"This much Is certain: If by a
crosscut of this kind it could be accom
plished that vessels with all sorts of
cargoes and of every size could go
through such a canal from the Gulf of
Mexico to the Taclflc Ocean, quite in
calculable results would follow for the
entire civilized and uncivilized human
race.
"I, however, would be surprised If
the United States would miss the
chance to get such a work into her
hands, it Is to be loreseen that this
joung State, with Its decided tendency
toward the West, will In thirty to
forty years have also tnken possession
of, and will have populated, the large
areas of land on the other side of the
Rocky Mountains. It Is furthermore
to be foreseen that In this entire coast
of the Pacific Ocean, where nature has
already created the most roomy and
safest harliors, In course of time very
important commercial towns will carry
on a large traffic between China and
the East Indies with the United States.
In such a case It would not only be
desirable, but almost necessary, that
merchant as well as war vessels
should be able to have quicker connec
tion with the western and eastern
coasts of America. I therefore repeat
that It Is entirely Indispensable for
the United States to make a passago
from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific
Ocean, and I am certain that she will
accomplish it." Consular Report.
No Lightning Hods for Them.
During a drouth la the government
of Term, Russia, last summer, a church
official had a lightning rod put on his
house. The peasants were greatly in
terested in it, but when they learned
that It was used to divert the thunder
bolts they got greatly excited and eon
eluded that It had caused the drouth.
They promptly proceeded to demolish
It, and a rnln happening to come along
soon thereafter they were confirmed in
their belief.
Cascv Oi see there's bin another
rn 11 mud wreck due to an open switch.
Pnssldv Av. 'tis a Pity some nn
don't invint a switch thot'll stay shut
when it's open. l'Miaueipwa l're-.
The narcotic bomb of an Austrian
surgeon can be fired from any gun, and
Is claimed to give off powerful nar
cotic gas enough to render two thou
sand men unconscious for several
hours. ,
A discussion of the great dust storm
of February, 1903, estimates that it
covered twenty thousand square miles
of England and Wales with a deposit
of at least ten million tons. The dust
seems .to have been brought from
Africa.
Human senses vary greatly in acute
ness. so that, for instance, a few in
dividuals hear the shrill cry of the
bat, which is Inaudible to most ears.
It Is more than probable that the
senses of the lower animals vary even
more, and that there are even kinds of
perceptions unknown to us. W.
Wesche F. R. M. S., reports the dis
covery on the femora of many files of
a curious organ that seems to repre
sent some sense altogether unlike any
known.
A remarkable suggestion, bearing
upon the survival of organic life at
extremely low temperature, was made
In a paper by Professor Travers, of
University College, of Bristol, read
recently before the Royal Society In
IximUin. He said It was quite possible
that if living organisms were cooled
only to temperuture at which philcul
changes, such as crystallization, take
place with measurable velocity, the
process would be fatal, whereas If
they once were cooled to the temper
ature of liquid air no such change
could take place In finite time, and
the organism would survive.
Ancient time-keeping has receiv
ed new light from two remarkable
stones lately unearthed by the Ger
man explorers on the site of the old
Ionic port of Miletus. These stones
are the remains of calendars, of which
one is shown to date from 100 A. I).
The year was divided into twelve
zodiacal signs, and against each month
the motion of the remaining signs was
given, with a note predicting the
weather. On the left side were thirty
holes, a wooden peg being moved for
ward one hole each day, thus giving
the astronomical date. This new find
has made clear the meaning of para-
pegnia, or peg calendar, a name by
which other stones have been rather
mysteriously known.
The Indian frult-cuckoo, wuieh, like
all members of the cuckoo family, lays
Its eggs in the nests of other birds,
and thus avoids the trouble of hatching
them, is said to exhibit most Interest
ing strategy In dealing with crows,
which are its enemies. Whereas the
hen, an inconspicuous speckled gray
bird, conceals herself In the foliage,
the cock, remarkable for his brilliant
black plumage and crimson eyes, places
himself on a perch near a crow's nest,
and makes a great noise. The crows
immediately rush out to attack him,
and he takes to flight with them In
pursuit. The hen meanwhile slips Into
the nest and dejwslts an egg. Some
times the crows get back before the
egg is laid, and then the Intruding hen
cuckoo gets a trouncing.
Prof. W. lie Conto Stevens, acting
on the theory that the metric system
can only be made popular in this coun
try by adopting Its decimal plan
while changing the present names of
familiar weights and measures as lit
tle as possible, suggests the following
changes: Let the yard be made equal
to the meter; let the foot be made the
fourth instead of third part of a yard,
and let it have 10 Instead of 12 inches;
let the pound be made equal to half
a kilogram; let the quart equal the
liter; let the ton be 1,000 kilograms;
lot the pint, gallon, peck and bushel
be defined In terms of the quart. Pro
fessor Stevens ixiints out that In this
way the Inch would be shortened less
than two per cent, but he admits that
eveii this slight change would incon
venience mechanical engineers and
machine manufacturers.
GOOD IN COLp WEATHER.
Winter Air Strengthens Heart and
Lungs and Makes Wood Hie her.
Gold, fresh air has special value be
cause it stlmurates the organs and all
the functions of the body, says Goxl
Health. It quickens the heart to the
greatest activity, aud increases the
number of red corpuscles In the blood.
Cold air also contains more oxygen to
the cubic Inch than does warm air.
The volume of air Is reduced one five-
hundredth part for each degree of re
duction In temperature. Consider the
dlfferenco between a hot summer day
with a temperature of 100 degrees and
a winter day at 30 degrees. Even a
moderately cold winter day marks a
difference of seventy degrees. So the
air has been reduced one-seventh of Its
volume, and In six breaths of cold air
one gets as much oxygen as ho would
in seven breaths of warm air. Hence
the body takes In one-seventh more
oxygen In cold weather than In warm
weather. This Increased amount of
oxygen taken Into the body Is a matter
of great consequence. This is why one
feels better In cold than in warm air.
A brisk walk on a cold, crisp winter
morning creates a splendid appetite
for breakfast for the same reason that
the fire burns brighter on a cold win
ter night. When the fire burns with
a particularly bright glow, people are
wont to say: "Winter Is coming. See
how bright the fire burns!" This is
due to the Increased amount of oxygen
in tho air. The fire burns brighter and
faster because It has one-seventh more
fuel supplied.
So it Is with the body the vital fires
burn brighter in cold weather.
The whole tide of life moves with
greater activity. Cold air aids in the
elimination' of the poisonous matters
which are all the time forming within
the body. When oxygen is not plen
tiful enough to make the vital fires
burn sufficiently to consume the fuel
and waste of the body, then much of
the waste material Is left behind in
tho form of Imperfectly burned sub
stances, which may be called cinders
of the body Uric acid Is cinders.
As the result of sedentary habits,
there Is not sufficient oxygen taken
Into the lungs. The lungs do not ex
pand as they ought to, so enough air
Is not taken in. Then the overheated
air is dllutt-d, and one must breathe
seven times to get as much oxygen as
he would get in breathing six times out
of doors, and so, breathing only im
perfectly and slowly, because he is
not active, the amount of oxygen tak
en Into the body Is Insufficient. One
exercising vigorously In the cold air
out of doors breathes more rapidly, ob
tains a larger supply of oxygen, and
the rubbish of the body the uric acid
cinders Is burned up and the whole
system Is kept clear.
This is why cold air Is so beneficial
to nervous people. The oxygen In the
air burns up the poisons which Irri
tate the nerves, and the person Is relieved.
THE "OVERS."
Charm Lingers about the Things W
Have Used.
It was one o'clock, and Miriam knew
from Hannah's disapproving tread In
the dining room that luncheon was
waiting, yet Miss Hildreth was still
talking about the gild. Miriam's
thoughts were far from the gild; she
was thinking of the lovely untroubled
serenity with which her mother would
have solved the problem. Serenity
was far beyond Miriam's achievement
just then, but her mother's daughter
could not fall to be hospitable. She
marshaled all her forces and
"Miss Hildreth, I should like very
much to have you stay to luncheon
with me, but I shall have to tell you
what to expect. I am the only one at
home this noon, and there will be only
'left-overs' warmed-up potatoes and
meat, and the muffins that were left
over from breakfast, and cold pudding
and apple turnover. Do you think you
can stand it?"
Miss Hildreth's face lighted up with
pleasure. "Oh, may I?" she asked. "If
you knew what a treat it will be, after
months of hotel fare, and. how often
I long for a home table with left
overs and home rooms, where things
grow shabby and dear because they
are lived in!"
Miriam looked at her guest In frank
amazement. "And all my life," she ex
claimed, "I've been sighing to be rich
enough never to have a single 'over'
left-over, made-over, turned-over or
warmed-over again as long as I
lived!"
It Is a wish that many a weary
housewife has echoed, and yet, after
all, Is there not something to be said
on behalf of the "overs?" Who that
has achieved a similar triumph does
not appreciate Gall Hamilton's "men
tal exhilaration in the conversion of
an old inuslln gown Into a new toilet
table cover?" Does It not often hap
pennot always, to be sure, but often
that a made-over gown pleases us
more than a new one? As for the
house, how instantly the charm of cer
tain rooms we know would vanish If
ail the worn and shabby furnishings
were replaced by new! Of course one
does not want everything left over, nor
things left over too long. Perhaps the
question of the "overs" Is another In
fctanee where desirability rests In tho
golden mean of the wise man's prayer:
(ilve me neither poverty nor riches.
Youth's Companion.
A New Carpet Needed.
Willie Ma, Seller & Co. are adver
tlsln' some awful cheap carpets this
week, ain't they?
Mother They are, Indeed, my son.
They're real bargains; never were so
cheap.
Willie Yes, ma'am, I'm glad o' that.
'cause I Jest spilled the Ink all over
tho parlor tloor. Philadelphia Press.
Sure) Knougb.
McJlgger I wonder why young
Rakeley doesn't settle down."
Thingumbob Oh, I suppose that
goes against the grain.
McJlgger What grain?
Thingumbob Well, the "wild oats."
Philadelphia Press.
Don't think for a minute that any
man Is interested in your troubles
unless he is a lawyer.
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