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.Laltra Tinton, alma Annie slitter, is, so ItS nera. No claimants have appeared for
far as the police are aware the only wo- any of the other things.
'Man burglar who works solely by herself Laura Hilton, or Annie Miller, whieli
known in the annals of crime in this Is probably her real name, is 33 years of
country. She is now in Moyamensing age and is very prepossessing. She is of
prison awaiting trial. I-Ier story, so far about the meditun height, with a slender,
as it has yet been traced, or she can be graceful, girlish tigure. Her hair is in
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induced to tell it, is an amazing mixture tensely black, and she bas the big, melt -
of romance, mystery and crime. ing black eyes of the creole type, a long
A few .nights ago, says the Philadel- oval face and very regular features, on
phia North Americam a woman was which there are no marks of dissipation.
found aPParontiS' freezing le an outhouse Her method of working, from which
in the rear of a West Philadelphia dwell- she seldom varied, was to enter a shed
Ing. She WtIS taken to the Sixteenth dis- or outhouse in the rear of a resideuee and
triet station, where she gave the name of remain there until a favorable opportu-
nity offered for entering the house. She
was not a really expert burglar, because
she could not pick a lock or open a fas-
tened window, though in one known case
In elanayunk she drew back a kitchen
bolt with a •hatpin and so gained en-
trance. She took desperate chances at
this sort of business until her last arrest,
but her sex and her quick wit always
saved her. In some cases she was re-
peatedly seen prowling about by the very
people she afterward robbed, but they
never suspected that she was the guilty
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LAURA HILTON, BURGLAR.
Laura Hilton. Here she entertained the
policemen with marvelous tales of her
experiences as a tramp in every part of
the United States. I-Ier stories were told
with so much verisimilitude and circum-
stance and displayed such evident knowl-
edge of the numerous states described
• that they would have deceived the very
elect. There seemed to be nothing sus-
picious about the woman, and she would
have been discharged on Monday, as she
doubtless had been many times before,
but for Special Ofiicer George A. Martin
of the Alanayunk district.
The residents of this district last fall
were harassed and plundered for weeks
bym a mysterious burglar, who carried
away dozens of small articles of more or
less value, usually women's clothing or
jewelry. Martin investigated these cases
carefully and came to the conclusion that
the burglar was a woman, but he could
not convince any one else of this appar-
ently improbable theory. When he heard,
however, of the woman found in the out-
house in West Philadelphia, he remem-
hered the.burgla.ries in his district and had
her transferred to Mauaynnk. Then he
visited some of the families who were
robbed last fall, and they called at the
station and examined Laura and her be-
longings.
Miss Hannah Regan of 374 Green lane,
Roxborough, who lost many valuable ar-
ticles of apparel and jewelry last fall,
promptly identified the hat, coat and
dress skirt worn by the wonaan as her
own property, and Miss Mary Peale of
476 Conroy street identified other articles.
An unabrella carried by Laura when ar-
rested was found to have Miss Regan's
name on it.
There was a hearing before Magistrate
Stratton afterward, and Laura was
committed without bail to Moyamensing
prison for trial on a charge of burglary.
Special Officer elartin took her first to
the central station, where she was pho-
tographed, and thence to the prison.
On the way to the central station the
evotuan confessed to Martin that there
were two trunks in a storage house in
Twelfth street containing stolen articles.
These trunks she had sent there, giving
her name as Annie Miller. When arrest-
ed, she had thrown away the keys and
storage receipts. She admitted that she
had stolen the articles contained in the
trunks and many more. She told the
special officer where he could ,find certain
articles ofjewelry stolen from elanayunk
people and which she had pawned, but
he professed to have forgotten where
the rest of her pluuder had been disposed
of. She denied that she had any men
•confederates, and all the evidence goes to
show that this is true.
The trunks were got from the storage
house and taken to the Alanayunk sta-
tion. They contained the most remark-
able collection of plunder ever brought
into that police station. One of the
trunks, a large eine, is nearly new. It,
was deposited in storage in Septeraber
last.
It was full of articles of ladies' apparel
and fineneedlework. In one compart-
ment were articles of beautiful "drawn
.work" and embroideries, scarfs, doilies,
table spreads and centerpieces. There
were also many expensive underskirts,
exquisitely embroidered and trimmed. On
one of these was stenciled the name A.
L. Wilkinson and on ttnother 'Edith Mc-
Kinney,. There were also- a few articles
of handsome silverware, some fine toilet
pieces and three rosaries, one with black
beads, one with red and One with pearl
mounted silver, with an artistically carv-
ed pearl crucifix. There were many ar-
ticles of small value, evidently taken in
a spirit of childish wantonnees.
The second trunk had been in storage
since July, e897. It contained principal-
ly articles of women's outer wear -ex-
pensive cloaks and jackets, dresses and
dress skirts and many unfinished pieces,
with the needle and thread still in the
seams. They had evidettly been taken
from fashionable diiessmaketig establish-
Inentin as all are of fine new material and
made in the best stifle. There were also
sevetal hate and umbrellas. • One of the
kits was identified by Miss Mary Roger
She has made Philadelphia her head-
quarters for at least three years, but
where she has lived during that time is
not yet known, for all the several ad-
dresses slie gave to the police proved
false. She was in the habit of making
trips to surrounding, towns and always
returued with plunder. There is circum-
stantial evidence that she visited New-
ark, Paterson and Camden within a year
past, and there is no doubt that her ex-
cursions extended to many other towns
also. The police expect that the seizure
of the two trunks now at Manayunk sta-
tion will solve the mystery of at least a
score of leirglaries which have puzzled
them for a long time.
Laura Hilton, or Annie Miller. has a
history which, if fully written, would
read like a three volume novel. Young,
beautiful, refined, she fell in love with a
fascinating scamp, and, against the
wishes of her parents, who are of a good
old southern family, eloped with him.
Probably there was a marriage; certain-
ly there were trouble and disgrace and
finally crime. It was the old story -the
man sinking lower and lower in crime,
and the woman clinging to him through
all and in spite of all. Finally he be-
came a professional criminal and the wo-
man WCIS his "pal." Then came arrest
and conviction for the man, and the wo-
man was left to fight the world alone.
She followed only too well the plan of
battle that had been taught her.
RAGE FOR TUSKS.
Modern Competition Applied to the
Caravan Basiness. •
So swift and complete has been the ex-
ploitation of Africa's wealth that where
it was customary and exceedingly profita-
ble only a few years ago to await the ar-
rivals of caravans at the coast, certain in
the knowledge that they would bring
enough riches to satisfy the trader, now
it has been found necessary to arrange
for the goods that are to be brought out.
Thus not long ago elephants were so
plentiful that the native caravans, even
when fitted out more or less carelessly
and without knowledge of the markets as
they often were, were sure to bring won-
derful stores of ivory to the coast. No
trader dreamed in those days of going to
the expense and trouble of arranging for
RECENT SPECIMENS OP TUSKS.
any particular consignment. The most
that would be done occasionally by some
particularly enterprising dealer svould be
perhaps the fitting out of an expedition
to some native chief who bad a kraal
made entirely of ivory, so that a purchase
of perhaps 1,000 elephants' tusks could
be made at one time.
A caravan was recently sent into core,
tral Africa by Hamburg merchants in or-
der to buy four elephants' tusks which a
native chief had held for seed's, refusing
offer after offer. It is believed that three
of these tusks are the longest which have
beep taken out of Afriea iri the last ten
years. One of them is 91/2 feet long, and
two others are 9 feet long each. Though
they probably hold the record for length,
they are not the heaviest tusks that have
been taken recently, fot ati English Ilan
has just botight a pair in Zanzibar, one 01
whiela weighs 39 pounds and the other
224 pounds,
His 'Lordship's Filing.
Hie Lordship -It was jolly enough;
but -or -but what a beastly crowd. The
scum of Europe, I ebould say,
Mrs. Fee -The scum of Hempel They
are the elite of New York.
His Lordship--Whet's the differenee,
if you only go back a little? -Harlem
Life.
LABOR LEGISLAII()N.
OPERATION OF COMPULSORY ARBI-
TRATION IN NEW ZEALAND.
ticury D. Lloyd TeUt4 Ai;oht Itiii
44.10aid'a magazine-- The Principal
Points of the Antipodean Law -said te
Be Becoming Popular Witli
era of Labor as Well as Working:mem
Lessons for workmen axe afforded
by the author of "Wealth Against
Commonwealth,' Henry Demareet,
Lloyd, just returned after a long
study of conditioris in New Zealand.
On the labor 'question he has this to
say in Ainslee's:
"The labor legislation in New
Zealand is in some of its provisicnis
the most enlightened in the world,
There is no eight hour law, but the
eight hour day is general as a cus-
tom. The factories are under sani-
tary and other supervision, but it is
not a universal Saturday half holi-
day. The tradesman can choose his
own day for closing, but close hell
a day each weels he must, and the
practice is that the stores remain
open on tho day on which the fac-
tories and workships close, so that
artisans may do their shopping.
"New Zealand showed the same
good sense, with the same good re-
sults, in its dealing with arbitra-
tion. Its 'compulsory arbitration
law' Is, on the whole, the most re-
markable legislative novelty which
New Zealand has to show us. Its
author, the Hon William Peraber
Reeves, has recently been in America,
whither he came as the agent of the
government to attend the great com-
mercial congress in Philadelphia.
"There had never been, any compul-
sory arbitration law anywhere else
ha the world, nor any state arbitra-
tion of any sort in New Zealand
when Mr. Reeves, then minister of
labor, succeeded iu inducing parlia-
ment in 1894, to pass the bill which
he had prepared. New Zealand was
still sore from the shock of a terri-
ble strike in 1890 and was tremb-
ling with apprehension of threatened
strikes.
'Mr. Reeves' study of the efforts
at arbitration in other countries had
convinced him that voluntary arbi-
tration was a sham and that com-
pulsory arbitration was the only pos-
sible solution. The law, which was
passed after three years of struggle,
has been a brilliant success. For
five years New Zealand has been free
from strikes and lockouts, which
have destroyed so much property,
done such injury to business and
created such ineradicable social ran-
cor everywhere else in Christendom.
"The law is becoming as popular
with manufacturers and employers of
labor as with the workingmen.
Business men find themselves now
able to make contracts for two years
ahead without fear of strikes. It is
one of the essential provisions of the
law that pending the settlement of
a dispute the workineMen shall not
strike and the employers shall, not
lock out. In fact, compulsory arbi-
tration proves to be not so much a
weapon in the hands of one side
against the other, either of the
workingmen against the employers
or the employers against the work-
ingmen, as a means for carrying out
the will of the majority of both em-
ployers and employes. These desire
arbitration, and by means of the
compulsory arbitration law they can
get it.
"An irreconcilable minority no
longer has the power that it had un-
der the regime of voluntary arbitra-
tion to upset the nwhole basis of set-
tlement. Time and time again un-
der the voluntary system a majority
of the workingmen and of the em-
ployers of New Zealand in.importa,nt
trades would agree upon the terms of
settlement as La wages and hours
and conditions of labor, only to
have the whole fabric of their ardu-
ously negotiated peace shivered to
atoms by the greed or folly of some
employer who wanted to retain the
privilege of cutting down the wages
of his men.
"It ,did not take the business men
of New Zealand long to see that to
leave it thus in the power of a few
to cut down wages was to leave it
in their power to cut down prices.
Arbitration, therefore, protects de-
cent) business ellen from reckless com-
petition."
INSECTS THAT GET DRUNK.
Dr. Weir's RoeentExperimonts With Pol-
len 'rltnt Are Do tquo.
Yes, bumble bees, flies, butterflies,
and beetles are habitual drunkards,
if the statements of a certain Dr.
Weir are to be believed. I -Io. found
that in some of the southern states
these insects alight on certain Plants
(ICosmos diversifolius and liosnios
bipinnatusl, drink heartily from the
callxes of the blossoms, fall pros-
trate on the ground, and after a
while rise into the air and fly
around like mad, just as drunken
men would do if they could fly.
ler. Weir then collected the pollen
of these plants, half a teaspoonful,
to see whether it would effect a man
in the same way. I -Te swallowed this
and after fifteen minutes found that
his pulse beat faster and there was a
slight rise in the temperature of his
body. Thee he g,a,thered the bles-
Some, distilled thein in water and
adininistcired a hypodermic injection
In his left, arm. Almost immediately
the pulse was accelera,tecl and aftea
a half hour lie felt !cleeiclecily dizzy.
By this observation of the insects
Dr, Weir evaa led to the discovery of
an aelherizizing oil In these plants,
atTecting man and insect ' alike. -
Ph ilaclelph otttrer.
1'111.1C1 el, \Votnen ;Iva T1M1r Fortit nen.
The Turkish women do ;not cotne
'into , aohttiol of their private for.
tunes until after Marriage.After
that they cam cliepose of otm-third
of it, without the husband's consent.
rill I 4.11,,nx11.
Order, We learn in our copy -book,
The very first law of the heavens;
Yet often a pokee hand's found to
Pc best
When Wholly at sixes and Reverts.
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SUBMARINE 60 TS.
,Jel111 1. tiollande tato inventor, Tolls
Reporter Some linterer,.ting; •
torien A bout Timm.
"I saw in the ,Post a few clays
ago,'' Joha Idollaad, inventor
of the famous submarine boat which
bears his name, "0 story in evhich
the writer told of a loss of life that
had occurred in an pld submarine
boat now in the 13rooklyn navy yard
and owned by the (iovernment. The
writer states that the boat was
known as the 'Plunger, although its
original name was the intelligent
Whele. De avers that in the course
of the tests made by the boat in the
Passaic River many years .ago from
tweeter to thirty lives were lost, eith-
er by suffocation or drowning.
"Tho Plunger," said Mr. Holland,
"is a new submarine boat; she has
not yet been tried; ,nobody was ever
drowned or sullocated in her; she was
never out of the harbor of Baltimore,
Mcl. The Intelligent Whale was not
built in Newark, N. j., in 1863-64.
The heads of the firm. of I-Iewes
Philips, who fitted her out,, told me
that no one was ever smothered or
drowned in her. The late General
Sweeny told me that he assisted at
the only experiment Made in Newark
Bay by putting on the diver's spit
and conducting the work When the
owner of the boa Z refused to go into
her; that he passed out through the
lower manhole while the boat was
submerged, placed a torpedo under an
old canal boat 'provided for the oc-
casion; returned to the subnaarine
boat, moved her to some distance,
exploded the torpedo and made
match wood of the canal boat.
"At her second trial in the navy
yard, about 1872, she remained un-
der water lotie enmesh to convince
the observers she had been caught by
the East River tide and carried away
to destruction, when a sailor who
was present suggested that she might
possibly be under a raft of piles that
lay near where she had descended.
The piles were immediately separat-
ed, and the boat rose to the surface
with no one 'drowned. Only one
man was ever drowned in a submar-
ine boat while she Was acting as a
submarine boat. Tha,t accident oc-
curred early in this century, sonie-
where in the Netherlands or Belgium.
"The David that sunk the Housa-
tonic was not aeting as a submarine
boat when she drowned three crews
in succession. A Mr. Holgate, who
was associated with a Mr, McClin-
tock in the construction of that boat,
and who dispatched her on her last
mission, told me that her hatch
coamings ,were over water, and the
hatch wide open when she started,
and that the crew positively refused
to close it.'
"This was confirmed to me by a
man who was on guard on the quar-
ter deck of tbe Housatonic at the
moment she was struck by the David's
torpedo. He said he saw somethitag
very 'low in the water approaching
slowly. He challenged it, and when
he got no answer he fired his musk:et.
Tee call to quarters sounded immed-
iately. At the same time the ship
vibrated heavily, and water was
thrown up through the after hatch-
way; she then filled quickly and
went down." - Washington Posts
.QUEER CHINESE DELICACY.
Peanut Bads Rubbed Into Ginzer
JeIly-
Cot SU) an Otinee.
"The Chinese have a strange idea
of table delicacies," says a writer ba
the New Orleans Times -Herald. "A
few days ago I received a small jar
filled with a peculiar brownish paste,
which was seut mo as a present by a
young Chinaman who used to have a
laundry here, but is now living in
San Francisco. A letter which ac-
companied the gift explained that
the paste was a combination of Dca-
nut buds and ginger jelly. That
sounds like a jolse, but it isn't. If
you will break open tho kernel of a
peanut you will find at the base a
little cone-shaped formation usually
surmounted by two microscopic
leaves. It; is the life germ of the
nut, and if planted would develop in-
to a tree. As my friend Wong ex-
plained to me, the nuts are first
roasted, and then these minute
growths are carefully extracted. They
are so small it takes many thousands
of them to fill a teacup, but when a
sufficient number are collected they
are put in a mortar and ground to a
fine flour, which is subsequently mix-
ed with the ginger jelly and rubbed
down to a smooth paste. That sent
me was about the consistency of
cream cheese, and it had a peculiar
aromatic taste that was rather
pleasant. It is one of the oueer senti-
confections that the Chinese like to
nibble at between courses, and as it
costs $10 an ounce it is literally
worth almost its weight in gold.
I have eaten a little of the prepara-
tion, hut I don't think I am apt to
acquire a taste for it."
Electricity lc Styltzerland.
The busy little republic of Ssviter-
land does not produce any coal, but
Is exceedingly rich in powerful water-
falls. New electrical plants spring
up almost' daily; in niany factoriee
steam is now being supplanted by
electricity, and a great number of
electric railways are under way oi
construction and others centeinplat-
ed., Switzerland liaa stlrea,cly,
standard gauge electric railway, the
only one in Europe, with the ex-
ception of a short line, Afonza-Milan,
in Italy. The Swiss Coventurient is
notv considering a plan for the utili-
zation of the Rhino at Rheirm,u,
where a huge electric plant Will be
estaleltehece The whole canton oi 0
Lurich is to receive power for lightti
-
leg and industrial purposes from this
general power etetion, which will
cost in elle neighborhood of $5,000,-
000.
THE ,SENDAY SCHOOL
1..SSSON V, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 29.
THE COST OF COALs
The • ,
Price at the l'It's'31Outit In IT•efoste
Countrics iii Ettrope.
The price in coal at the pit's moutl*“
varies a gooa deal in the differena•'
centres of production. The lowest
point appears to have been touched,
in 'British India -viz.: 88 cents per:
ton -while the dearest coal is met
with in the Cape Colony, where thei°
pit's mouth price ie $3.55. The cdear%
responding price in Natal is much les*:
-vie., $2.50 per on. Coal can
obtained at the pit's mouth in Near
Zealand for $2.45 per ton; in etaa=e
mania for $2 per ton; in Victoria. for
$2.30 per ton, and in New South
Wales for $1.38 per ton. Transvaal
coal cests' $1.82 per ton at the pit's
mouth. The United States claims to
rank next to 'British Innia. as a cheap,
coal -producing quarter, the average
price at American pit's mouth being
$1.15 per ton.. As regards European
countries the cheapest coal would ap-
pear to be available in Spain, where
the pit's mouth price is only ;1.52
per ton. Austria comes next with.
$1.55 per ton; Great Britain third
with $1.62 per ton; Russia fourth
with $1.68 . per ton, and OarmanY
fifth with $1.72 per ton. The average
pit's mouth price in Belgium is $2.04.
France figures to still less advantage
with an average of $2.10 per ton.
The average output per ' man employ -
'ed is 450 tons per year in the United
States; in Great Britain 297 tone; in..
the Cape Colony only 56 tons.
Natal, which has the advantage of a
good supply of coolie labor, the- an-
nual average output is 156 tons per
man. In British India the average
stands at only 68 tons per man. Ths
German average is 271 tons per man,,
and the French 216 tons per mamper
year.
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Text of the LetilsOir, babe vil, 18-2s,
Memory Verne',, 22, 2.3 -Golden Text,
'math. vil, 31-cerioluentarY
by the Itev. in. Stearns,
[Copyright, 1900, by D. M. Steam]
18. "And the disciples of John shewed
hirn of all these things." The harmonies
thina thet the order of events la thie
chapter is the historical ordern that after
the healing of the centurion's servant
the widow's son was raised, and then the
lesson of today (leath. xi, 2) say e that
John heatd in the prison the works of
Christ. This first verse of out lesion
tellhow he heard and suggests to all
disciples of Christ to be ever telling His
wondrous works. Are you so glad that
you have heard that you, with all your
heart, want others to hear -those in the
prisons, those in heathen darkness?
19, 20. "Art Thou Lle that should
come, es look we for another?" John
had baptized Him, had seen the Spirit
descend upon Him, had Pointed Hind out
as the Lamb of God, and now this ques-
tion. What does it mean? Is it for him-
self or for his disciples' sake that he
asks it? Would hmhave these disciples cit
his made sure that Jesus was the Christ,
that they might follow Him? For it
would seem that up to this time they
continued as John's disciples, or in his
imprisonment and seeming neglect, for
we do not know that Jesus ever visited
him in the prison. Dal the devil present
doubts to John's mind concerning Him
whona he had pointed out as the Lamb
of God?
21, 22 "Go your way and tell John
what things ye have seen and heard."
Thus said Jesus to John's disciples afte
Isle had done many works before them
which only God could do and preache
Ithe :gospel to the poor as only He who
spake as never Irian splice could preach
it. He said on another oceaeien; "The
works that I do, bear witness of Me, that
the Father bath sent Me. The Father
Himself which hath sent Me, hath borne
witness of Me. The Scriptures testify
ofMe" (John v, 36, 37, 39). John had
heard the Father testify at the baptism;
he knew the Scriptures, and if he had
never seen many mighty works wrought
through Him he now heard Of thernt
through his disciples.
23. "And blessed is he whosoever shall
not be offended ie Me." Does not this
seem like a very special word for John
and indicate that John was somewhat
offended? If you wonder at it, try and
put yourself in his place or imagine a
very common occurrence: Mr. or Mrs. B.
is sick; they do not send the pastor any
word, for he is supposed to know every-
thing; a week, or two, or three have
passed, and the pastor has not called. If
you know what they are apt to say, I
need not tell you. If, meantime, they
should her tbat the pastor had actually
called three doors from them, the case
would seem worse still. If the pastor
knew of a ease of distress among his peo-
ple and did not call for a month, or even
two, would it not seem a cause to leave
that church? If you were in real trouble
and your dearest friend knew it and did
not come to see you, would you not be
offended? Do not condemn John even if
Pc really was offended unless you never
under any circumstances become °trended
with God or man. ,
24. "What went ye out into the wilder-
ness for to see? A reed shaken with the
wind?" Thus began Jesus to speak of
John after his messengers were departed.
Some light upon this figure May be found
in I Kings xiv, 15; Isa. xxxvi, 3.
It may be suggestive of weakness easily
influenced, which John certeinly was not.
In Ise. vii, 2, trees moved with the wind
is a symbol of fear in the heart, but
John had no fears. In Eph. iv, 14, we
read of those moved with every wind of
doctrine, but John, like Elijah, was well
established: John was a tree of. right-
eousness, the planting of the Lord, that
He might be glorified (Isa. lxi, 3).
25. "But what went ye out for to see?
A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold,
they which are gorgeously appareled,and
live delicately are in kings' courts." John
was not rich in this world's goods, his
raiment being camel's hair and a leath-
ern ,girdle, and his meat, locusts and
wild honey (Math. iii, 4). He sofight ne
favos from earth's great ones, nor did he
covet' their food or raiment. He was
great in the sight of the Lord and sought
only His approval, filled with His Spirit
(Luke i, 15). He sought the hearts of
men for God, that they might learn to
Welcome the Son of God when He came.
26. "But what went ye out for to
see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you,
and much more than a prophet." His
Father, filled with the Spirit, said, "And
thou, child, shalt be called the prophet
of the highest, for thou shalt go before
the face of the Lord to prepare His
ways" (Luke I, 76). By comparing Ex.
iv, 16; vii, 1, we get one meaning of the
tertu "prophet" -one who becomes the
mouth or spokesman of another, The
great business of every prophet was not
so much to predict future eVents, but
just to be a mouth for God and say what
God told hini, just to be the Lord's Mes-
senger, with the Lord's message unto the
people (Hag.. i, 13).
27. "This is he of whom it is written,
Behold, I send My triesseng,et before thy
face, whieh shall prepare thy way before
thee." While all the prophets spake of
Him (Acts x, 43), it was given to John
only of all the prophets to be His imme-
diate forerunner and to see Him in the
flesh and to point Him out as the Lamb
of God ancl Israel's Messiah. To John
only of all the ,prophets was It given to
publicly set Brim apart to His public min-
istry in baptism, to see the, Spirit come
rei a dove, upon Him and to hear the
'voice from heaven.
28. "For I say unto you, Among those
that are born et women there is net a
greater pronhet than John the Baptist.
But be that is least in the kingdom of
God is ,greeter than he." Math. xi, II,
uses the term "kingdom of heaven" in
this sante statement. It is the kingdofn
Terrors of Lydd it,,
ThSe inhuman explosive is composed
largely of picric aeid, mode by treat-
ing carbolic acid with nitrite says
Popular Seience. It has aboet eleven
times tee force of gun eetton, and
the concussion is even more fatal
than the fregtnente of the shells,
The name comea from the town of
whore. it was first made.
f God, rot (led is the author of it, and
m kingdom of lierreen, for heaven is the
character of it. But to my, mind the
terms rtr'e synonymous. I think the DA,
gin of both is Mend in Dan. 11, 44. As
to the not douse of thie verse of our
lesson, there are two expineatiens, either
of which is simple, ensil 'both are true.
When the kingdom comes, the least in it
Will be greeter than John then wes, and
John himself in his glorified body at the
resurteetion' of' the just shall be greater
than he ever nets before, The ether ex-
planation is that Jesns Himself 'ftS for
the time theti being the least having
taltee In His - Immilintioa the lowest
P11001‘tegy
0,0i !Ohi tt being the Kingo' 110 th
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PUNCHING HOLES WITH A RIFLE, ,
Drilling; Holes Done in en Emergency lay
it Glin,
"Up at my camp near the Four
Peaks," told Jim Bark, the well-
known cattleman, "the boys are all
handy with a rifle. We've a lot of.
guns up there. The old-fashloned.
black -powder Winchester has been
discarded and nothing but the best
goes. Most of the new guns were
bought during the Spanish war,
when we would experiment all, day
with tree trunks and rough trenclieS'a
learning the art of war at home.
We found that a bullet from one of
the new Winchesters, driven by
smokeless powder, was good for fur
feet and more of pine timber and for
more than an inch of iron.
I thought the boys had done aboet
everything in the shooting line that
could be done long ago, but I seas' ,
mistaken. I sent them up a wagon.
In hauling down some firewood they
broke the bolsters all to splinters.
The bolsters hold up thewagon bed,
you know. Well, the boys figured
out all right the rebuilding of ttas
wood parts, but came near being'
stumped on the iron fixings. They
got some old iron wagon tires and.
cut them in proper lengths, but hari.
not a way -they CO-Cild SQ0 to1011.11C11
the necessary bolt holes. Finally
the question was solved. One of the
boys carefully marked the place for
the bolts, stood the piece of tire
against a tree and put a bullet, 30 -
calibre, through the tire at each
place marked. It was a novel sort
of blacksmithing, but it worked' -
The Arizona Geta,pevine.
soleises etas..
Improbable as it may seem, the
French army has lately been making -
experiments with a view of testing
the value of stilt walking. The re-
sult appears to be, according to the
Leisure Hour, such as to render their
adoption by the French army for,
special purposes highly probable.
They are found to be serviceable not
only in placing telegraph wires in
very rough country, but also as a.
means of quickly ascertaining where
a river can be safely forded by
troops. The stilt man, by the aid
of his lengthened legs, can measure,
the depth of the water with great
ease and. precision. He can feel about
the shallow places and thus lead the
way. A few soldiers expert in the
use of stilts might have been of ser-
vice to our commanders in South
Africa., where the watercourses are
strategical obstacles of great advan-
tage to the enemy.--Westnainster Ga-
zette.
A Cilre for Tooth:it:1,o.
A medical remedy for toothache
of great repute is sodium salicyIate,
and Dr. Frederick C. Coley, in a re-
cent article in The Practitioner,
states that he knows of no other
drug to equal it, especially for thoso
cases where the pain is started by
'taking- cold. The pain is generally
proicaptly relieved by a close of 4.5
grains, and if this be repeated every
four hours the inflammation may en-
tirely subside, leaving of eoneee
decayed tooth, which will need at-
tention, perhaps extraction, at the
hands of the dentist. The addition
of belladonea is often advantageous,
and it is said that 15 grains of sali-
cylate, with 15 minims of the tinc-
ture of belladonna, Will often give:
the patient a good night's rest, whon
Without It sleep would be impossible.
Rabbit 1 .tt
In an aviary In one of the wards
at Caterham Asylum last year 'Jaya
Na Lure a wildrabbit t1nited, a dove
oa its nest and sat on , two doves'
eggs till CI, ay were la a tch ed Th is
year the -nurses are trying anothe,n
hatching operation. 'they 'have plac-
ed two bantnin's writs .in 'the same
nest. Thamobbit has taken to these
eggs, a na only laveS the eggs to
take its food, returning at 01100 to
the neSt:. 'The nest is Six feet front
th e 'floor; the rabbit Whert talneii
Out of tho nest and placed on the
floor 'by o nurse, very quickly olimbe
up again to the nest,
,-ta'a sent, us's 'am
. Therm are eight Inches ..mOre rain-
fall annually on the south''shore of
Lake StMerion than on She north,
shore and stheee, inches more In the"
eases. 'of Isaltes Erie ancL''Onfasio.
There is • alSo tt,' greater Proaipital ion
on the eastern shores of, Lakes Hur-
on situi Michigan than on he wee --
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