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take: 'ith ane ee'ithitt. bii
up days even with,
Abel ioieitlit't tiiung1 t be no other than
the toy of him who tackles Sereie
ors
of 40,000 gee iZu-
ealTed he Olympic.
.1Argexit vessel ever
, but will not make more than
.cnoti *ped. ',Marine 'naval ar
.ect declare that -a .lines I-
feet
long need not be sit deep
o probibit its ' entry into the
f beam
or leta watur than the stand-
ners draw Is entirely practi-
4 ble.
as nation engines are expected
0.s iace every other variety of
aehietsigesti
seifts ats. In thesfutureAhe
retanias, Gigantitaneis, and
big Irsaisers are expected to be driv-
en not by turbines, but by gas pro-
ducing eagines.
The century of cities is the twen-
tieth century. In 1801 there were
only twenty-two European cities
new task, who grapples with Some
worthy foe.
Whyshotad inett-fhtili- UFOtheir
40'1 Why do we feel that be who
thinks of life as a thing. to be en-
dured is an unworthy being aeow-
ard among his kind: and a traitor
to life's oppotileinitiee 1 Is it not
termite we set the preeent in the
light of the eternal and think of
,life in terms of the infinite reaches
of our immortality/
They who live only from -day to
t" tete
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ear -111 an loopier*
levees -at astimeeste b4 f1'T
eseseete
4, •
it Jsy
tri fee ofeo
ttel
nekt . lLg in'et*,for j
von, .4. t
beginnitigs; itsie oueS 110W;
VOt 1 take up thee new &eye ,with
joyous antleipetiontfor are they
not to bring to me ttie accumulatetl
weelth of days'goue by? This. now
year mud of necessity be a richer
yeiaellien laets lieCiiaise it poSseige-e
all theeternal, undying elements
of the lest. And more than thi,s,
in increasing measure it bringt
down to me all the,treasures of the
centuries before.
Each year in 4. true life goes a
little higher on living's long env*,
and so brings before it a farthere
vietwe se -grander view. If I truly
live this year, shall I not know
are
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read a little farther into the. sec -
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when lying before, to such life He who es not
indeed a tale of bitterness which more life does not know
cannot too soon find its finish. Only
the fear of the darker mystery of
death binds such beings to the dark-
ness of life.
No life can be measured in any
• name_ Sevente_egers ora.
unot-telleits
reaches its roots star ha&kettr
Many centuries; it sends forth its
fruits no man knows through how
many ages. Even life drinks deep
of immortality. And it is this sense
of the reach of ourselves to the past
and to the future that makes pos-
sible our
LIVLNG LNTIIE PRESEtiT.
This sense of belonging to an end -
lith more than 100,000 inhabitants. less life is found in man Ahem
Thee cities were London, Dublin While the man of scient)cevewn;it*es
tit land the intelligent civilized ina%
dParis, Marseilles, Lyons, Amster:, ks novefr with his neighbor, the
vain, Berlin, Hamburg, Vim:in:x.0 bushman o Australiatis sitting by
aples, *Rome, Milan, Venice, Pall his fire under the tshaers maree, far in-
esrmo, Madrid, Barcelona,, Lisbon, ! to `the night, ase
down., he talks, with IX felfo3wirow
Penhai‘n; and Constantinople' the Vire Alt;$k: f b n
cto.. l'etersburg, Moscow, Warsaw
• leg; e dreams of life be ore; a:ci
OE.a...,a
theSniiit
thee only i
n.ly tw_o _h.ad more thanlpictures life beyond
b.
Ion nhabitants'..tessionl . The life that 1 must he throxi
the year belongs as much to the
f t • •
• terSburg, Oiseow; - Constanti-
nople, while Amerien his three cit-
ies with more than a -million inha-
bitants. These are New York with
over 4,000,000, Chicago with over
2,000,000, Philadelphia with over
,l.,000,000. In Asia. also there are
eeveral eitiee with populations ex-
• tootling a million. The population
of the great cities of antiquity is
- not eget-irately known. "Selena& has
,• been credited with 000,000 or 700,-
000, Remo, in the reign of A,ugus-
• tus, With '800,000; 'Certbage with
700,000, but thtei estimates are
little other than -guesses.
ThY
ir
has.
THE COlk.IING DAYS
ent
tunger toi
the life he
always promise this, the chance to
live a, little more, not simpbr to live
longer, but to live larger, to touch
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tete
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eeet.are( n'ee
otherNq ,frietld,
Could give vr send.
Suchhelpbeyond all' ;steams
As Thine dost give, ,
To those who Met
To find in Thee their treiesurt.
Ilaflove divine
Upon us shine/ -
And fit for service make 4:
In ease or pain
Our tends sustain
'And to Thy presence take us.
T. WATSON.
Granthurst, Ont.
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liBEPING PROPERTIES OF 1A111.
as a -Normal
�n8tU
eni.
os.sf .1
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knows that' the keeptng powers of
the several batches made vary.
Some samples will go mouldy in a
short time while others will keep
in good condition almost indefinite-
ly. The differences observed may
be due to some jams being more
•ated than ethers as of
more o its tteliglite. .ftettl'wo
• rs. -lia youth we long for man-
hood simply because it pronlises
more life, in manhoed for maturity.
So, too, this sense of , the infinite
stretches of our lives, of their unity
with all eternity, gives us a brave
forelooking in the new days. We
would live these days well and
nobly be.•ause they are without end,
they go on down through all the
days. The new year is a, chance to
play our part and to give something
of ourselves to all the years.
Surely we can take these nee'
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A
e Wcst :('
1 Stilt
i We.
1Iand are f.stattiai
unt of thebeaten jiath
of reRres their wsl
uncbartge& "The
'en Zsland•," "the wt'st. to*
Irelandreeent
,
,
tiele thereAa
.e'esofial-eltarae ‘‘
ritt
nowAoomethist artiste
auty of medieval; .
' The curaglia,and $
the tiny wbodso barrels that are
still mueli .used in the place of
earthenware, the 'home-made
cradles, kluirtis and baskets.are all
full of individuality, ...and_ being
imidi-frint'usaterials that are elm -
mon' here, yet to.tiome extent peen -
liar to tlie islands, they seem to ex-
GENPIAL
CON.
• *reps sir kilo nidelit •
rol, Show*
lirfe to:uiA fullrfgew'n
Tbe, guiekeut gr4wifter 1.10;in t
bealtr,..litlisthe:tidlttlitsdttzAkuv'tzliOn kOOWn
to *tette 41101111.10.1tio
nthS
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weden' oritV
,eountr e 1,(Itere "jmketi
gown Mart On, 'read aus st
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• tseasa -has by no .useati ci
fririesVOIe'Obsbiet.e7-
i9a
,nunther c.)f them in the. evott4 is ti'
as against only 39,601.stea
efa.
The ;Nike .tsf Portlan0 Pictures
gallery i8 26 %feet long and cover*
1110re-than-a,quarter of air aerel It
is the finest private gallery* in the'
Egypt, with 10,000,000 1)0901 has
ist as a natural link between the, oiily one lunatic asylum, and that.
with only 500 beds.
The peasant of the South 40
France spends onfood for efainilv
people .and the world that is about
them. '
The simplicity and unity of the
dress increases -in another way dial of five .an average of four. vents le
local air of beauty. The women day.
wetar zed petticeetts- andejaehets-ef erhu-Genease temperer -is -t
the* island wool stained with mad- be twenty-fourth in the line of sue -
der, to which. they tu5ually add al
ee-ssion to the Britieh Crown.
theste
a
t e .
thr
waietband round their faces, or if
they are young, they use a heavy
shawl like those worn in Galway.
Occasionally other wraps are worn,
and during the thunder -storm I ar-
rived in I saw several girls with
their_bedies,_olor_skirt these export $2,520,000 %%rural of
telee.t.e
A
111-Ettroke: It °costs only
itAtikati"
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In France, for the privilege of'
wearing men's trousers, the French
Government charges women a Gait
of about $10. •
The United States now has forty.
men's waidcoats buttoned round! Fey" typewriter factories, •au
• tvateeletealtesetolue
tion of. sugar Which is antiseptro;'
says London Laneet.
It seems certain also that cane
sugar is a much more satisfactory
preservative than glucose, and the
argument' of jam makers that glu-
cose is necessary in order to keep
the jam from crystallizing is put
out of court by the fact that if the
jam is well made the adds of the
fruit Sh011id change enough cand
sugar into invert sugar to Wain)
against sugar crystals separating.
This involves, bewever, long boil -
days with the uplifted hearts, the ing, and now -a days tams, we are
hope filled faces of the children of told, must be made as cheaply es
heaven. -We are not dull -slaves possible.
being driven to daily drudgery; we It would be a somewhat curious
are free inen rejoicing to live to the fact if it proved that after all jam
full the life that now is for the sake owed its keeping powers not en -
of the life that is to be ours and by tirely to sugar, but in part to what
the garnered strength of all the
lives that have been.
tneeetuesleetelielow tbeekneesetattet•IP"In t-4 '''•;kree seeese-
--eleatinermtleat,-- •
table does not bear any label, so
that none of the guests can tell
what brand he is drinking.
The coronation robe precented to
the Empress of Russia, was of fur,
It weighed only 10 ounces, yet was
worth -$6,000.-- $37.0 per- ounce.
Spitzbergen is one of the few
countries as yet unclaimed by any
nation. aAnyoue may dig the coal
found in the cliffs there.
An Italian nobleman, who also.
belongs to. the Austrian nobility,
has for several years been making
his living as a crossing ?sweeper in
Vienna,. .1
months ago in England, was tbe The greatest proportionate toss
leader of the search -party whichlof officers, to men in any battle WAS
rode through the African bush to at the capture of the Redan, where-
. find- the body of the Prmce Loper- three officers were lost to every
twenty-two men. •
Statistics prove that nearly two-
thirds of the letters carried by the
world's postal services all written"
sent to, And read by English-speak-
ing people.
show their powerful legs in the
heavy indigo stockings with which
they arc all provided.
As flannel is cheap, the men 5.=cein
to wear a great number of waist-
coats and woolen drawers over ors
another. They are usually surpris-
ed at the -lightness of my own dress,
and on old man spoke to for a
minute on the pier, when I came
ashore, asked me if I was not cold
with my little clothes."
FACING THE ENEMY.
Major Cary, who • died a few
may be regarded as an artifima
l
preservative -- namely formalde-
el of France. It was with Lieu-
t
'de. It has been agreed that for-
enant Cary of the 98th Regiment
that he ,went out on the fatal ride
is in objectionable pre -
in the Zulu War. Ellen Barlee
r foods on account, of
ng effect upon foods in
gives an account. of the tragedy in
.
her life of the pyinee, and also men -
upon prateid in parti-
calor. AiI yet it would appear tions a little incident of his boy-
hood whith is curiously prophetic
-that formaldehyde is readily formed
the spirit ,he showed le his last
in small quantities by Merely boil- of
ing solutions of cane sugar, the fight.
amount reduced depending possi- The prime was a Welt, jovial
esxpztk ni nag.. on t e duration ef the boiling. youth, with high spirits. "The
According tothis it would not iDear Boy" he was called in tamp.
recorded surprising to find forinaldehyde When the corps of volunteers under
La to ea- be
presentin many jams as a perfectly Cary's command found his body in
„ unintentional or even normal con- the tall grecs, it was seen he had
nu mart stituent. Its presence indeed may, received seventeen ,assagat wounds, every rn
arvelousi, , be essential to the keeping powers all in front.
' gt -weKt of -the- jam._ The subject -deserves When_the_riWAS A mance ti boy
• ave UM further investigation, since analy- he was attacked by a deep-seated
sis'maY be put off their guard and abscess in his back. An operation
Ela,- ordered, and the little fellow
be the means of instituting proceed -loss
e Ye' ings for fraud where no fraud ex- , submitted bravely. Something
lanlists. Moreover there is no evidence :troubled him, however,. which at
en'
that the health of the e
jam eating last he confieded to his father.
public suffers at all in spite of th
The abseess being in h , is back he
i
small 'quantities of formaldehyde would have a wound behind'.
"If a sear remains," _he_si
Tpirlitifot in# eiieiiiieieesiiieZW-w
INTERNATIONbAL LESSON,
JAN. 10.
Lesson II. The Descent of the Holy
Spirit. Golden Text,
Job's, 14,. 16, 17.
Verseil 1. The day of Pentitost-
This, t e chief of Hebrew feast
days, fell on the Eftieth day after
the Passover, and was celebrated
by the offering of the first fruits. of
the harvest in theform of "twO
wave loaves" made from. the neW
flour (Lev. M. 11, 154*. .This
sym-
bohc ceremony of dedi
nrnrrftv'aTmlied'
4
tly throughout
•ed, puzzled
was hear
the city.
Confound
and astonished.
Every man
in his own lan
ture of 'the •
it is, of cours
certain. „
7. .They were
o lied- hat 80111
sin
place, Luke woul
understrid.
9. Partitions and
mites -The inhabiter)
spect,ive portions ee
empire.
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septa "(IU
LOS'--Aallidia-ththaet t
England has one member
hament for. eoseti f, /9(1 e4eCtitti*St,^
Ire la,40:4440.1rOr (W4 Seaem
land' one for esery, 8,014,and
• n freVerY 9,013.
eglantlaud Wales about *the
our 431,0• Population has q.,11..ae-
Ba tit in tho, Post Mee Savings
ribald one in ten, red
in Se and one in eleven.
Under. the Austrian poor in
n sixty years old is eitt
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equal to one -Ono*
doing Oa
I man prosinc
A district ''.in
this time a, 114etteat
*
50
in Alia. Min
applied to ail
• northern
°man
ng at
41,
present ie this favorite and nutri-
iontriteticU of
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RUSSIAN SPElii)TIMIrt
erited $375.1000 a Year Ago, -'Now
\ Sweeps. the Streeis.
htnrr ran away.'
tlic amount
,earned -during -las ng
In South Gresuland the color ot
-theivisiessilsitosuwhich a woman ties,
round her head denotes the social;
condition of the wearer -whether
she be maid. wife, or widow.
In some German towns ,children,
are allowed to travel free an the
local tramway cars if they ,are nu-
tlet* certain height., -which Is mark--
ed-onsthe- doers of the vehicle.
Turkish women da not come ffItO
control of their private fortunes un-
til after marriage. After that they -
can dispose et one-third of it with-
out the husband's consent.
A dog lives on the average from
ten to twelve years, a cat nine to
ten years, a rabbit about seven, a.
squirrel or hare about eight, and a.
fax about fourteen to sixteen years.
• The rate at, which the Zulue cnn
run in an emergency is astonishing.
Some Will cover as much Ad fifty
miles in six hours. Eight utiles in
onr_is_itil ordinary feat.
The British Empire *outside the
United Kingdom only Contains some
,a
'fl,
people of British de-
scente-that my, only otesin
forty of its total population. -
In a parer read before the Char-
ity Society' it eet*
• tated that there were now 473,060
fewer astliturall laboreiis in Eng-
land than bere were fifty years
-ago.
The modern bullet will pierce the'
eareasses of itinfee horeeein etieeess
eion At 550 yards; of four at half the
distance; or till a MAD after pass-
ing through the 'trunk of a thick
tree.
Without losing a single animal,
seven shepherds recently drove a.
noels of KM sheep from Masan -
gal in Queensland, to nirribri, itt
New South Wales, a distance of 900
Ladies are forbahlen to wear
trains to their dresses in the street0
by a new by-law passed 13y the mu
nicipality ef BodenbaA in Austria,
under *penalty of a matinatuviin3
a *MO.
It is not so vets. long ago that
,41)per was used in Sweden *A, the
chief medium of oteheriel and at.
Wet ruerthEtts had to take whorl.
arrows with tluSn when they 'aert
reeeive pot -lents 'of 'Urge yulti*.
There is * floser in Turltor
hidi is the exact floral image
t,......,;,1410.1.611. vitt^ hrosst %IL
FEEDING BY STATUTE.
Although the majority of royal
personageate noted for their lav-
- The chief of the saoitery depart"! isb dinner -tables, there is at least
merit of the city of St. Petersburl one reigning monarch whose meals
got a surprise the other day when are of the sjinplest. This monarch
one of his best friends,a young is the Emperor of China, known to
man named -radii -air Niedochin, thzs subjects as -"the. Son of Way -
walked in and asked for a job as en." The Emperor's whole life is
street seavener. The official lived in obedience to the most,
.thought Viadimir was joking, but stringent etiquette and his food
the man was in dead earnest and- alt-tegnlitted for 'hint- by- atatilte,
xplained his case. • So strict are the *NAVA governing the
t stems that * year ago Niedo- Imperial Household that whenhe
n inherited $375,006 and at once desires e, new-diih he has to pass
d to spend it. His ektrava- as special decree before lie can have
s havb ,been the talk of the it, and, the Court physicianis keep st.
Just before, the Neva -was strict • watch overhis appetite...,eeuntertaiss_edsSnhs9poti
over 1i uldhectiarviand,
sthow aspi,thai ea
l giZeors
te 4 the Iseldsin
ous Manner, the•irtestA are 61* they will perau0e him
d by * Specially built, not tO take it, under, the pretence
.•, that it rtviy prove injurious to his
did neilell them 4ealthi
rtaitiment wars r
*le of his TOO MU( II ELOQUENCE.
that be bad
eseeeee_. Mr. Popinjay (falling on his
e
''''xprn'Tmo'n'tiftt Artees)-"Miss Perkins, I can no
but I,enger resist the.passionate impulse
to appeal to VOfl on the momentous
subject that is fraught for me with
have the issue of life and death. Aid
yet I am 'overawed at my presump-
tion when 1 take into consideration
e eelestial glamor of your person.
therms, the dazzling Justre of
Ger intelleetitat attainment", the
uisite, the soloritble----"
Perltins-"Exeuse rise, Mr.
but. thexe are tintes 'When
IS rattier OA of 'dike. I1.
to p the question/ pop
ont 'th it r .
•*eide
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