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It will be ream -pored that immediate-
ly after an attempt was made to kill
King Alfonso XIII. of Spain and his
English bride—an attempt reported to
have been concerted on British soil-- a
Member of the Home of Commons in-
qUired whether prompt and effectiVe
measures woeild be taken to prevent an-
archist conspiracies for assciesination
fi'am being organized in Great Britain.
For the moment a spokesman, of the
Ministry put the question by, but it is
certain to be pressed, for public ieeling
mu the subject is for the first Woe
strongly aroused, now that an English
Princess has been the object of attack.
Timely and interesting, therefore, is the
averment made the other day by Sir
Howard Vincent, M. P., who speaks
with the authority of experience, that the
plots of anarchist assassins can be, and
have been, blocked successfully by in-
ternational co-operation.
Y SOUL 011 11* SERVICE ?
Christianity. Offers.: a..Way of Sal*ation,..fot
Ali.0.6 People
How is it that ye have agreed toge-
ther to tempt the spirit of the Lord ?—
Acts v. 9.
.At the outset. the ,Christians of Jeru-
salem agreed to have all things in'corn-
mon. Those who had fields and houses
sold them, and the proceeds were put
into the common purse. Only a certain
couple Ananias and Sapphire, decided
that they wished to be Christians and
get the advantages, whatever they might
be, of Christianity without bearing all
the burden of it.
They therefore agreed to sell part of
their property and put the money in the
common purse, but to represent that
money to be the proceeds of the eale
the whole property. They did so, and
were punished by death, visited upon
them miraculously, because they had
tempted the spirit of the Lord. The
words of the text are the words of St.
Peter, which he addresses to the Woman
when he accuses her of theconspiracy
between herself and 'her husband to de-
fraud God.
This story of Ananias and Sapphira
is, as I take it, an allegory intended to
express a profound Chrietian truth.
There can be no more complete unity
and community of interest than that
whieh exists among children of one
household. But by virtue of its funda-
mental principles, Christianity Is
SUCH A BROTHEBHOOD.
All are children of one Father—and
brothers each of the other. This rela-
tion is the first thought in the Lord's
prayer, "Our Father, Who are in
heaven," which is the pattern prayer f
Christendom. It underlies the two com-
mandments which our Lord substituted
for the ancient ten—namely, (1) "Thou
shall, love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart and with all thy soul and with all
thy mind," and (2) "Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself." Expressed in
terms of property, it appears in our
Sir Howard Vincent, it may be re -
nailed, was formerly the director of
criminal investigations in London, and
io conjunction with the late Lord Cur-
rie and Sir' Godfrey Lushington repre-
sented Great Britain in the Anli-Anarch-
ist, Conference convoked at Rome by the
Italian Government ,after the Empress
0, Austria had been assassinated by an
Italian anarchist in Switzerland. Certain
facts recited by him in an interview
with the Paris correspondent of the Loll -
don Times are to us entirely new and in
e high degree suggestive. Sir- Howard
reminded his interlocutor that the
Rome eenference had been held for the
ptirpose of inducing European nations
and the United Slates of America to
take vigorous and concerted action for
the prevention of anarchist crime. nft
was soon recognized, he says, that very
• little could beacconeplished in that di-
rection by diplomatic means. His own
experience had indicated -a. more effici-
ent method of procedure. He had come
la the conclusion that the prevention of
- anarchist crime was exclusively a mat-
ter for international ,supervision and
quick intercommunication between the
police forces of civilized nations. He
proposed, consequently, to the confer-
ence that the chief officers of police in
tile sixteen countries represented at
Rome should be formed into special
committee, deputed to consider, ewithin
closed doors and without minutes or
written reports of their discussions and
decisions, what steps could most advan-
tageousV be taken. His own conviction
that anarchist crime could be minimized,
If not wholly averted, by international
pelice communication and co-operation
was odapted, he said, by the committee,
and he went on to make an assertion
which, we iinagine, will surprise most
readers, who have looked upon the Rome
tonference as compietely abortive, the
essertion, namely, that an international
fystem of supervision and control was
tgreed upon, formulated and actually
tarried out for eighteen months, during
which no anp.rehist outrages of a seri-
sus character occurred.
Sir Howard Vincent • knew but one
means to root out anarchist crime, and
• that, was by putting an end everywhere
to the expulsiOn system by a permanent
international a greement. The ideal aim
was, he insisted, to bring about the
retention by each country of its own
had characters, to whom it could apply
•such rigorous measures of control as it
Might deem ilt. As things are now Italy
drives her anarchists into Switzerland,
where the cantonal system offers ob-
struction to efficient surveillance. France
hunts her anarchists into Belgium, while
Belgium herself and. Germany and Rus -
'tit) expel all their anarchists to Eng.
land, where hitherto the traditional jea-
lousy with which Englishmen are ac-
customed to regard -any police encroach-
ment upon personal liberty has assured
to foreign enemies of society a place
of refuge where new outrages .may be
planned.
Sir Howard Vincent recalled the dec-
laration made in .1882 by Sir William
Harcourt when Home Secretary, that to
conspire to murder any person within
or without the 13•ritish dominions is an
offence against the law of England, and
Shat it was the bounden duty of Great
Britain to prevent, as well as punish,
the perpetration of crimes against pub-
lic order, whether outside or inside the
realm. Sir HowaIrd finally expressed
the hope, which now apparently .•is
' shared hy a great majority of his coun-
trymen, that In view of the execrable
attempt to murder an English princess
on her wedding day' the adoption of rea-
eonable precautions against the plot-
ting of anarchist crime under the cover
et the privilege of asylum will -not be
buridere.d any longer by a morbid exag-
raration of the old British dislike of all
restraint on individual liberty.
....,
OETIMANIC ENGLISH.
On an ashtray vebich has reached
England from Germany, is the follow-
ing : "Defilement of the room by ash ef
cigars is forbidden to the severest. '*Any
one who, notwithstanding, makes guilty
of suet' a one will be punished irre-
vocably by house arrest"
Lord's teaseling that a man 'should re-
gard himself 'merely as the steward,
not the owner of his possessions ; that
is, that his property is not his to enjoy
-for himself, but Only to administer for
the greatest good of his brethren..
-No man is a true Christian who has
not Made the fundamental surrender of
himself and all that be has to God in and
through his fellow men. He who, pro-
fessing the name of Christianity, still
regards worldly goods—his powers, 1118
talents, his knowledge, the wealth which
helms inherited or acquired—as his for
his own amusement, for his, own ag-
grandizement, for the enrichment of his
children and not for the service of Me
brother men, has tempted the spirit Of
the Lord, and his punishenent is spiri-
tual death.
•
1-Iff• CANNOT KNOW GOD, s "
for God is love,.but to know God is to
possess eternal life, and not to know
God is to be -dead eternally.
This is the fundamental truth of
Christianity, above all expressions of
creeds. A Man may believe with his
mind and express with his lies bad in
all the doctrines of the Christian church ;
unless he makes the surrender of Min -
self and what he possesses he does not
in fact believe in Christ,
True belief in Jesus Christ is the ac-
ceptance as the rule of life of the spirit
of Christ, the spirit of service and sacri-
fice. To choose as the standard and the
aim of one's nee self -advancement or
self -pleasing instead of the service of
one's fellows—above all, to anake one's
very profession of religion a means of
self-profit—that is the sin against the
Holy Spirit which may notbe forgiven,
neither here nor hereafter. That is the
meaning and the lesson of the parable of
Ananias and Sapphire, who agreed ao-
gether to tempt 'the spirit of the Lord.
JOHN P. PETERS.
To make muslin, etc.,
which are need fis draperies and curtains
t3 a wise precaution. Procure eorne tung-
state of soda and mane a weak solu-
tion of it with warm water. Alter
washing the curtains, just dip them into
this, and ary as usual.
Treatment of Bunions.— Put seine
large ivy leaves into half a cupful of
vinegar, and, after soaking some hours,
place carefully over the bunion. Change
once or twice a day, always being care-
ful to use a fresh leaf out of the vine-
gar. This is also excellent for eOrns.
Another good way to treat bunions is to
paint them every second day with tine -
lure of iodine.
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HOME.
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SUMMER DESSERTS.
Fruits served M summer should be
perfectly fresh, and, not only this; but
they should he cold when brought to
the table. Warm, stale fruit is not dise
tasteful, but absolutely dangerous io
eat in warm weather. Melons that ere
warm are unfit no be eaten, but when
placed in the icebox untll perfectly sold
and then served sliced on a plate cov-
ered with grape leaves are an attractive
wholesome dessert.
All kinds of small berries should be
carefully picked over and left to chill,
Place a mound of whipped cream in the
centre of a large glass dish and fill around
with any kind of fresh chilled berries.
Raspberries should never be sugared
before serving, and are greatly im-
proved by the addition of a little orange
cr. currant juice- squeezed over them.
Suitor--"Soncoo will give your dangle.
tee $:6,000; Lhet is a Omit sum." Rich
nima—"Yes; but she will inherit the
eehole property at my death." Suitor
neibsently)—"About, what time will that
kr'
WIFE MINTING FESTIVAL
with nutmeg. Pour the gelatin over
the fruit- Scatter salted English walnuts
over the top.
IT WAS THE FOURTH YEARLY MAR-
RIAGE MART,
Two Thousand Would -he idenediets Vis -
it Eccaussines in Search
of Brides.
Two thousand bachelors !rim all parts
of Belgium, many from France, and
some from Germany, swept down on the
village of Ecaussines-Lalaing to find
brides.
It was the fourth yearly marriage
mart as establiehed by the maids of
Ecaussines, Belgium, and as there are
only ninety-seven marriagable young
ladies in the quaint little place, the sup-
ply of matrimonial partners fell deplor-
ably short of the demand. All the same
the proceedings were a great succets.
The men began to arrive early in the
morning, but it was towards noon be-
fore train -loads of them appeared. There
were all sorts and conditions of men.
One marof seventy-two bad travelled
all the way from Luxemburg to find a
wife, to whom he promised a dowry
that would place her beyond want. There
were tradesmen, clerks, niechanics,
miners , laborers—indeed no branch of
trade appeared to be unrepresented. -
WITH RICE. 7 -
Meringue. — Boil one cup of rice in
ene quart of milk until tender and drain
in a °attendee; add one pint 01 milk, two
ounces of butter, tha yolks of six eggs,
and two cups of sugar, and beat all un-
til light; add juice and rind (grated) of
one lemon; turn into baking dish, and
bake for an hour. Make* a meringues of
the whites of the eggs and six table-
spoonfuls of powdered sugar, heap on
Lop of pudding, brown lin oven, and
serve cold.
Snbwballs. — Wash one cup of rice
and put in double boiler with one pint
of milk, boil until tender and add one
teaspoonful of salt and put in small
CUPS to cool. When cold turn out on
deep dish and pour soft custard sauce
over them.
Baked. — Wash one cup of rice and
put in baking dish with three pints of
milk, a pinch of salt, and one-half cup
cf washed currants; stir well and bake
in oven one hour. Serve with cream
and sugar. '
Croquettes. — Boil one cup of rice in
Peaches should never be pared un JUSone- quart of milk in double boiler un -
before serving, as they are liable t° tit thick, then beat until smooth, sea-
son with salt and pepper, and add the
yolks of four eggs and one tablespoon-
ful of •chopped parsley. Stand away
until cold, then form into cylinders and
dip in beaten egg, and then in bread
crumbs; fry in boiling fat.
Griddle Cake. — Take two cups of
boiled rice, pass through sieve, and add
ts it three eggs well beaten, a table-
spoonful of melted butter, two cups of
flour, and one pint of milk; beat until
smooth, add two teaspdonfuls of baking
pewcier, and bake at once on a hot
griddle.
turndark. They may be chilled an
when pared cut in halves piled in a
glass or china dish and ligntly sprink-
led with sugar. Cream for peaches
should be passed in a pitcher. The
following are some very delicious fruit
desserts.
Pineapple and Strawberry Salad. —
Pare and out the eyes from a large pine-
apple. Carefully pick over 1 quart of
strawberries and pour over the mixture
the juice of two oranges and keep on
ice until ready to serve. Serve with
sponge cake.
Frozen Mixed Fruits. — Take one cup
each raspberries, blackberries, straw-
berries and stoned cherries and mash
all together, add two large cups sugar
and the juice of two lemons, let stand
-ene-half hour and then pour over the
mixture one pint ice water, stir until
the sugar is all dissolved, turn into a•
freezer and freeze. Serve with whipped
cream. This is delicious.
Strawberry Pyramid. —. Mash one
pint fresh strawberries with one pint
powdered sugar, and the whipped whites
of four eggs and whip until it will re-
tain its shape when piled in a pyramid
in a glass dish. Whip rich cream and
pour around this and Set on ice until
time to serve.
Red Ba,spberry Parfait. — Whip to a
stiff froth one quart sweet cream and
one small cup sugar. When stiff stir
in one cup ripe red raspberries very
carefully, turn inLo a mould and press
-the cover down, covering the joining
with a strip of paraffin paper. Pack in
ice and salt for three hours,.
Raspberry Cream Mold. -- To one
pint of mashed raspberries add one
tablespoon powdered sugar and lee
stand for an hour. To one cup scalded
milk add three tablespoons sugar and
one-half box gelatin vhich has been
soaked in onenealf cup cold water. Stir
until dissolved and strain. When cool
add the raspberry. pulp and one cup
thick cream and pour into a wet mold.
Lel stand until chilled end serve with
whipped cream and troll berries.
Peach Mousse.— Peel one dozen very
mellowpeaches and press through a
ricer. Soak one teaspoon gelatin in
three tablespoons cold water, "dissolve
over hot water and strain into the peach
pulp with the juice of one-half lemon
and one cup powdered sugar. Whip
one pint cream, drain thoroughly and
set in the ice box to become chilled,
Stir the peach mixture in a pan of ice
voter until it begins to stiffen and then
fold in gradually the whipped cream,
discneding the thin cream, 'When mix-
ed evenly pour into a mould and pack
in salt, and ice for three tours before
servin g.
Fruit Salad.-- Four large peachee
Inilved, three bananas. one nice pine-
apple, slice and drain off juiee. In the
fruit ,thice dissolve orie-half box gelatin,
arrange the fruit in layers and season
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT WIN BULL
AND WS PEOPLE..
Occurrences In the Land That illeions
Supreme insthe Commercial
World.
There are 2,461 newspapers published
M the United Kingdom.
Dowlais is described as the most neu.s-
kal and insanitary town in Wales.
In 1891 the death -rate in this country
was twenty per 1,000. 11 is now
Street beggars in London are esti-
mated to make between them £312,000
a year.
The heir to the Hawarden estates, Mr.
W. G, C. Gladstone comes of age on
july 14.
It has been decided to lorm a school
of dentistry in connection with the
University of,Leeds.
The number of vehicles entering and
leaving the City of London daily is a
million and a quarter,
Mr. Charles Absolom, the old.est,
oricketer in the world, attained his
eighty-ninth birthday on Derby Day,
The average yield of oats per acre in
Great Britain Is thirty-nine bushels an
acre; of wheat, about twenty-nine.
In six yeas cabs in Manchester have
dropped from '750 to 600, in spite of the
city's great increase in population.
Sir Willoughby Wade, who, up to a
few years ago, was a well-known phy-
sician at Birmingham, has died at
Rome.
Lord Northbrook has been invested
with the office of Lord High Steward of
Winchester, in .succession to his father.
Loch Lomond and the streams con-
nected with it have been restocked with
312,000 young salmon, sea trout, and
trout.
The headland lower at Walton -on -the -
Naze is being converted into a signal-
ling station for Admiralty purploses.
The Lancashire Asylums Board has
under consideration a proposal for the
erection of villa residences for wealthy
lunatics.
Worthing's glasshouses for growing
grapes, tomatoes, etc., would, if placed
end to end, cover a distance of fifteen
miles.
A wc11-known Essex landmark—Ray-
leigh Windmill—is about to be torn
HOPE ON "LONELY."
Gay banners of Welcome, triunlphal
arches with mottoes of eneouragement
for the prospective husbands, figures of
hearts pierced with arrows were to be
seen everywhere; but the local authori-
ty had not accepted the young ladies'
proposal to name the main streets,
"Place des Fiancailles," "Place Conju-
gale," and "Place de la Concorde."
At noon the bachelors were formally
welcomed at the gates of tbe village by
the spinster committee. Last year's
president and several members of the
committee are now married as the re-
sult of the festivities twelve months ago,
and others had been elected in their
place.
All marched to the "Grande Place,"
where there was an open-air concert.
The bands played nothing but nuptial
marches and love songs. At the close
an adjournment was made to the town
hall, where the young ladies took their
places at tables on which stood bowls
of pink roses with such mottoes' as
"Hope on," "Love," "Be trusting," and
"Have faith."
A vacant chair was left beside, each
•girl, and at a given signal th.e men with
matrimonial intent made a rush to se-
cure the seats. Then coffee and sweet
cake were served, followed by a bon-
bon tasting of liquorice. When this was
over the lady president made a speech
en "The art of pleasing man," which was
wildly applauded. Danciiig in the open
air ended_ the programme of the festi-
vities.
HINTS FOR THE HOME.
Mud stains on black cloth will yield
to rubbing with the cut side of a raw
potato.
To cleanse a frying pan, pour in a lit-
tle vinegar, heat it over Inc fire, and all
odors will be removed from the utensil.
To set the dye in black thread stock-
ings, put a large handful of common
salt in the washing water.
Lettuce for salad is greatly improved
by being put in cold water for several
hours before it is to be prepared for
table. ,
Soup and stock should be boiled up
every day in summer and put. in clean
dry basins. If this precaution be taken,
it will.keep sweet for several days.
Breadcrurnbs for Frying — Let these
always be baked in the oven without
being allowed to take color: by this me-
thod the fish or meat, etc., will be much
crisper,
Keep a bottle of linseed oil and lime -
water, together with a roll of absorb-
ent otton and pieces and strips of old
linen for bandages, all in a convenient
place to lite in case of burns.
Take an old piece of carpet or new
piece of burlap forty-five by twenty-sev-
en inches. Bind and hem the cut ends.
Sew on strong leather handles. Use to
bring kincllings and small wood in.
Articles infested with moth should be
saturated with benzine, or motor -spirit,
for it injures nothing and kills the de-
stroyer! Exposure to the wind and air
win Soon remove the objectionable
smell.
To destroy cockroaches nothing is so
clean and effective as scattered powder-
ed borax in their haunts. Do this regu-
larly every night till the plague is era-
dicSiecL
To keep sponges soft and white wash
oceaeibnally in half a gallon of warm
water in whtele a, teaspoonful of tartaric
acid has been dissolved. Afterwards
rinse h1 plenty of eold water and set in
the elm
A Mot Hint for Hot.Weather.—As it
impossible to bang meat long in sum-
mer, one Often has to put up with
tough mea t. lf the mew joint be well
rubbed with SheeS of loner), this will be
found an eecallent remedy, without
flavoring the Meat, at all tionteably,
Hundreds of letters, many of them
very amusing, were received -this year
from intending husbands. A railway
official from Paris anxiously enquired
whether, in the event of not finding the
girl to his taste, he could refuse to
marry and would be allowed to leave
quietly.
Some bachelors from Gilly, France,
explained that they were young, good
looking and earning $60 a month, and
wereanxious to find wives from Ecaus-
sines, where the girls are known for
their good looks and quiet domestic life.
Two, friends. a butcher and a hair-
dresseis asked ,to be recommended to
two nice girls by the president, but so
mixed up their qualifications that it
seemed as if the butcher shaved his
animals with antiseptic treatment, and
the hair -dresser slaughtered his mato.
mers humanely.
TIE SIINDAY S0110014
A PLAGUE OF TIGERS.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON;
JULY 15.
Lesson III, The Good Samaritan.
Golden Text; Matt. 5. '7.
ME LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note.—The Text of the Revised ',,ersion
is usea a$ a basis for these Word.
Studies,silAonrtlyAaulttuenrinhisVaiswitcoutiose joenrusheulleninni—ty
and forgiveness, parts of winch farmed
the lesson texts for the past two Sun-
days, Jesus attended the autumnal'
Feast. of Tabernacles al Jerusalem
which had coostituted his field of labor
during most of his public,: ministry.
While at Jerusalem Jesus taught in the
courts of the temple and delivered
among other diseceneee those on himself
as the Light of the World and on spiri-
tual freedom. The seventh and eighth
chapters of John's Gospel are devoted
to the events and discourses connected
with this visit to Jerusalerri. After the
feast Jesus seems to have returned for
a very brief period to Galilee, His final
departure from Galilee is recorded In
Malt 19. 1, 2; Mark 10. 1; and Luke 0.
51-62, The period between the time of
this departure from Galilee until the
final arrival of Jesus at Jerusalem at the
time of his triumphal entry is generally
known as the period of his Percale min-
istry, concerning which we shall have
more to say in another connection. The
first event of this period noted by the
evangelists was the Mission of the
Seventy, recorded in Luke 10. 1-24, and
in the parallel passage Matt. 10. 1-30.
The events of to -day's lesson follow
immediately after the sending forth of
the seventy and occurred somewhere
outside of Galilee, probably in some
town or village to the south or south-
east.
Verse 25. • A certain lawyer—Appar-
ently an emissary of the Jews wailing
for an opportune moment to engage
Jesus in just .euch a discussion. A law-
yer among the Jews was one who by
profession was an interpreter of the
Mosaic law. His work was closely re-
lated to that 01 1110 sane° and doubtless
the same person often held both ofnces.
down. It was built, in the reign' el What shall I do to inherit eternal
George IL
In September a choir of 300 singers life ?—A question much debated arming
the scribes and lawyers, emphasis being
from Leeds and Sheffield will visit Ger- laid at all times on the word do, the
many, holding concerts at all the prin- keeping of the law being considered the
cipal cities. . 1 only requirement for entrance into
"Licensed to sell crockery, tobaccon
to
eternal. The question, however, as
and other necessities for animals," is thel, t _
o just how much it was necessary lo
sign over a general shop' -in Carshalton,
I do or how much might be left undone
Surrey. land still eternal life be achieved, was a
question much debated.
26. What is written in the law ?—
Since the canon of the Old Testament
had been fixed long before the time of
Christ, the law renarred to can be no
the third year in succession in one of the
other than the Mosaic code as contained
local glove manufactories at 'Yeovil,
in the Pentateuch.
Somerset. How readest thou? — This counter
There is one public -house for every
question cif Jesus, since addreseed to a
People to the number of 670,000 are
engaged in food dealing and cooking in
this country, and 146,000 M making er
selling drink?
A white sparrow has been caught for
Chance for Hunters of Big Game in the
Irrawaddy Valley.
The British shikarra need not, leave
his battery idle, even if big game in Af-
rica has become too scarce to be worth
the cost of pursuit. He has only to turn
Itis footsteps to the Irrawaddy Valley
to secure quite an amplitude of that,
most heroic of all field sports, tiger
shooting.
For some reason or other Mr. Stripes
has begun to colonize that locality on
guile ap extensive scale even invading
villages at, night and talcing heavy toll
off their inhabitants. The natives, much
to their credit, offer all the resistance
in their pewee, but, wretchedly armed
as they are, the, intruder takes little
harm from their fusilades. Here, then,
Is an excellent opportunity for the well
endowed British sportsman.
Burma is more accessible than the
African interior, and also a far pleasant-
er and healthier country to knock about
In. And who will deny that tiger
shooting affords more exciting sport
than potting wild elephants or hippote-
mi? Those who pursue on foot the
gl eat, cat carry their lives in their hands
every moment, while even from etc-
abant back or froth a "machan"—a plat-
form constructed In a big tree—there
is alsvays a possibility of a combat at
close quarters,
The strongest argument for the inter-
vention of the British Nimrod is the hu-
manitarian; It rests with him and with
him alone to save the lives of hundreds
of u rt for tunetes.
sixty-eight residents in the Cay of Lon-
don, states e return just presented to
the London County Council.
The latest return, shows that our canal
question was thereby thrown back upon
companies carry 31% million tons of
goods yearly, or five times as much OS; the lawyer himself. Be could not do
the railways' canals carry, otherwise, therefore, than to show by
The Recorder at Bristol says. he would his answer that he really did know
hesitate -to order flogging at any time, wherein consisted the sum and sub-
stance of the whole decalogue.
23. This do, and thou shalt live—It is
the Master's turn to place the emphasis
on the word do. The practice of the
scribes and lawyers, and Pharisees
cent, tour to japan and Canada, for pra evidently did not always correspond
vate circulation among the Royal with their theories, and this personal
Family and his personal friends. application of the whole matter to the
In order to improve their marksman. lawyers own practical life must have
been to him as unwelcome as it was
unexpected.
29. Desiring to justify himself—For
raising a question in the first place
which had been so briefly and pointedly,
answered.
Who is my- neirhhor?--This second
professional teacher of the hiev, must
have seemed eminently fair to all pre-
sent. The burden of answering his own e
as 11 18 the punishment of a slave, and
no Englishman ought to be subjected to
IL
Prince Arthur of Connaught, it is re-
ported will write an account of his re-
ship, Lord Kesteven has invited the
members of the Stamford (Lines) Bine
Club to shoot the yoting rooks on his
estate at Casewick Hall.
The use of molor-cycles in the United
Kingdom is largely on the increase
(says the "Motor -Cycle"), but foreigners .
are capturing the trade, as the first question was doubtless asked with a
show of sincerity, since from a lawyer's
standpoint here, too, There was room for
dispute and difference .of opinion.
80. A certain man—Unnamed and un-
identified as • to• nationality and social
standing, but from the entire setting s
of the narrative presumably a Jew.
Down from Jerusalem to Jericho—
Jericho lay in thedeep gorge of the Jor-
dan almost nine hundred feet below
the level of the mewl erratican; Jerusa-
lem was a mountain city on the high-
lands of Judea. The distance between
the cities was about twenty miles. Hence
the decline of the narrow mountain
road was steep. The road itself was
rugged and the surrounding hills and
narrow gullies offered a convenient
place both for attack and for retreat to
robbers who then as now infested such
Iiighways in great nembers.
Stripped him—Bobbing him of his
clethee, which in all probability were
the most valuable part of his posses-
sions. An Oriental's wealth consists
lorgely In the flocks. and herds Ise pos-
seases and in the clothes he wears.
32. A Levite—All priests Were TAvites,
that Is, merebers ef the tribe of Levi,
though not all Levites were priests..
Yet both -these men, the priest and the
Levite, were by profession closely as-,
socinted with the .serviees of the sane -
limey and hence men from whom assis-
Once in such •eircurnetences might well,
have been expected.
35. Two sbillings—Li loony two de -1
narii, a.beut ihirty-foUr cents, Which,
-
however. wag eneivillent to two days'
wages for a Inhering man.
BM Which: of these three—Only one
anewer wns poeeible, and the lowyer
to avoid aildirg the charge of ineineer-
tly or ignorance to litter defeat in argu-
ment gave flint answer.
3'7. Go, end do time likewise—The
final edreionitIon of tile Master to one
whie knew the way but was not wain -
therein. There was nothing left for
the lewyer to say, the answer of Jesus
was* complete.
English machines are practically fail-
ures.
The parish of St. George's-insthe-East,
Stepney, has the highest birthrate in
the kingdom. According to the report
of the medical officer of health for the
last fortnight, the rate was 57 Crp1,000
annually.
BIG TRIP TO CLEAR 1115 NAME.
Man Returns to Britain When Accused
of a Crime.
A voyage of 3,000 miles to clear his
name from the suspicion of a crime is
the remarkable feat of a man named
William' Fleming, of Scarborough, Eng-
land.
Fleming is an an ex -soldier. Some
time ago he went to America to seek
tis fortune, and found what, to a man
in his humble position, was a good post.
A few weeks ago he received a letter
from his wife, saying he was suspected
of breaking into a house and stealing
$140. Fleming soon made up his mind
what to do. He threw up his work, got
n berth on a cattle boat and worked his
way to Liverpool. From that port he
went to Hull, and gave himself up to
the police. They would not take the
charge, so he tramped as far as the po-
lice station at Scarborough.
"I am innocent," he said, "but I want
to be proved innocent. Arrest me."
The other day he was brought before
the magistra Le and discharged wilhelit
a slain on hi8 eharacter. The niission
for which he Crossed the Atlantic was
actomplished.
There is an element of potties in the
strange story. Fleming'e hillier, who
was in New York, wasin delicate health
and so Shocked by the news of the ac-
cusation that he died. Another point
Is that his sense of hinter has been his
ruin In a money tense. He is now
penniless and out of work. But he still
looks on life eheerfully, and end hopes
to be able to work his way back to
America soon,
"I have cleared my eharacter," he
gi
Teacher—"Hoow many bones hve "and thane evhat 1 carne back
Tommy—"Two for."
you in your body?" hun-
dred and eight." Teacher—Wrong. The
human body has only two hundeed and The men who wouldn't tell 4 lie 1.0
" Term —"nut I sveallowed a Save hie life hes IWO up the businesS
A CONSIDETIAT5 PATIENT.
'.Clasehee--14rive you env Idea, dearest,
Whet yolir father evoind say it 1 askea
Win for yew' harid?
"Clarice—No, lt haven't.. Ile never t:,et
fish bone this morning." nf an advertising agent. Oat kind of language helves bus familyt