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The Duty of a Son Is to Give Glory to
His Father's Name.
"Our father who art in heaven, hal-
lowed be 'ley name." -Matt, vi., 9.
By itselt the petition "hallowed be they
name" means little to us. Why should
Mortals pray Ibat the name of the M -
mighty should be reverenced? Great as
may be the sin of blasphemy, surely
there ora Many others against which we
need to pray before this, many that
work greater harm to him who prays
and to lite whole of society. Indeed,
does not the act of prayer suggest that
the petitioner already holds in reverence
the name of him whom he addresses?
But couple tho two parts of the sen-
tence together, "Our Father, let thy
name be hallowed;' and what a new
significance appears. It is not the soli-
tary dignity nor the exclusive office even
of. the Most High that we would revere,
but a new relationship to be reverenced,
a family dignity to be maintained. It is
the son's cry: "Make tne worthy of my
- Father's name.'
The Most High is best worshipped by
whatever gives greater worth to the
name which the great leacher then gave
him and the relationships for which it
stands. The way to reverence him is to
live as true brother to man, his child, to
he yourself his true and worthy child.
Work for stat is thus often true wor-
ship of God. The great prayer opens
with a petition that embraces in its
sweep both the divine and the human -
THE WHOLE UNIVERSE OF
BEING.
Not by carving ancient names which
have long stood for conceptions of the
Deity, gilding them, or adorning their
letters; not by putting these names over
our altars, In our halls of devotion, or
wearing them on our brows, shall we
honor the Infinite Father of spirits.
Only an unworthy son would be antis -
fled with thus seeking to give glory to
his father's name. It Is an indolent way
of worship that does no more than bow
before names and phrases.
If we are his children we shall care
more for the family honor, for the fam-
ily name, than for any other forth of
reverence; we shall honor the head of
the house by lifting up its lowliest mem-
ber. Whatever degrades humanity dis-
honors the divine. You cannot separate
your athlete to God from your attitude
to manidnd, to ever man, woman and
child. Ile alone hmliows the term;: tat
Gather who doom the duty i,f e son In
purity of heart and mabllty of neigh -
burly srrvtro.
Too many are there alta think to
honor hea••n With their pinus pluneos
or with coe!ly con ecftMd ruliticee, while
the phrusee deaden their ear: to the cry
ENTOMBED FOR FIVE DAYS
THE HORRIDLY, EXPERIENCE OF
WELSH MINERS.
Sufferings _,fleet Men's hinds - The
Only Food 'They Had Was
\Vas Candles.
The two mum who were rescued from
the flooded C:urudno Vale Calllery,
Wales, recently, Itad Thrilling sturtes
to tell of their experiences during the
Ove dots in the urine. The body of the
hist of lite sax men who were caught
by the flood twos recovered.
The men wile \veto rescued were
Rieliartt Inciterd; and David John Ste-
phens. .they had been in the aline fur
more than five Lave !without fund, and,
of their oppressed brothers and the considering the privattuns they had un -
buildings have been built by the blood dergoue their pbysival condition was re -
of those who lift wore, despairing hands t markable. Ritann'ds was exhausted,
Ste-
le the Settle Father. With their liltsand his mind was wandering, but they cry, "We IN (t1",±; white atl•pliant; tram rigorous both physically and
their lives du out dishunnr him by dr-; uleutully, and only the peremptory or•
der of tate doctor li tat rte should hat ex-
ert himself prevented him trent walking
holm.
Vehon the now; that the searching
party had found two men In the old
workings Lecane known n great crowd
gathered at tits month of the shaft. 1t
never nceurred to those above ground
that the men were alive, and two cof-
fins trere brought to receive the bodles,
whi,•h tt was expected would be brought
to the surface,
VOLUNTEERS' RUSII.
R'lrrn it was realized that the men
were really alive the cruwd went delirI-
ous with joy, and when Stephens an-
ununced that the third man, Ned hlalh-
away, was alive twenty-four hours Be-
nton brotherhood, the one family, and fere. the rush of volunteers to join the
back of that will he the simple and
sublime thought of the one Father of us
all. This will mean nut the reverence
that looks up to ani Imaginary throne in
the skies but the reverent,• (hal looks
hooding and debasing ae many ae they
can of his own family.
The blasphemy this age needs to fear
1s the failure to realize tate essential
divinity of every human behfg; Ilio sin
it most needs In dread, the worst of all
in the sight of heaven, is the reseeding
of the sons of God us
i\MACILINES Ole MEP,CI.IANDISE..
Labor may be a commodity; but the
laborer can never be a commodity in a
just age. This is a lust world ns soon
as we lose the .venae of rrvereeee for
our fellows and begin to think of them
as but tools fat' our service and the
means alone of our sali-sfactien.
Back of all our Jealings with men
must lie this great ihuutld ul the emu -
searching party was so great that there
was almost n riot.
Stepllens said That when they were
cut off by tato fond, he and his "bully,"
(Richards) crawled through a small hole
out through all the world and saes in into some abandoned workings. in
It the household of beaten. time dwelling
doing so, their lamps went out, their
place of the family born of the Father
of spirits.
Just as the thought of the true family
life makes the house tate most hallowed
spot on earth, so this thought of the
divine family of which we are all mem-
bers, this conception Of such a family
with such a father, will make the whole
earth a hallowed place, will make all
living and doing ellher worship or blas-
phemy, and will make the noblest en-
deavor, the highest religion of every
life, the bringing of the Father's like-
ness to all his children and the joy of
his love to all their lives.
HENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
NOV. 11.
Lesson \'I. Jesus in Gethsemane.
Golden Text: Luke 22.42.
•
THE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note, -The text of the Revised Ver-
sion is used as a basis fur these Word
Studies.
Intervening Events. -It is Luke nem
records the fact Thai even during the
solemn hour of the Last Supper there
had arisen among the, disciples a cow
-
tention concerning which of them was
to bo accounted the greatest (Luke 22.
21-30). The answer of Jesus was given
in e. wonderful example of humility and
service when, girding hitnselt with a
towel, lie washed the disciples' feet.
John, the only one of the evangelists
who was an eye witness of the events
connected with the Last Supper and the
subsequent passion of our Lord, has re-
corded for its in his fuller narrative
some of the longer farewell discourses
of Jesus delivered after the Supper be-
fore leaving tine upper chamber and on
the way to Gethsemane. The synoptic
Gospels have no parallel account of
these discourses tate substance of which
consists of words of comfort and en-
couragement to the disciples, who were
so soon to bear the responsibility of
spreading among men the gospel mes-
sage. These discourses contain some of
the most beautiful and valuable record-
ed utterances of our Lore. Somewhere
rifler leaving the tipper chamber and be-
fore crossing the brook Kldrot beyond
the city walls Jesus Jesus offered the
fervent prayer recorded in John 17.
Referring to the words of the prayer
just. spoken the fourth evangelist con-
tinues (John 1R. :l), "When Jesus had
spoken those words he !vent forth with
his disciples over the brook Wren,
where was a garden, into whirls he
entered, himself and his disciples." The
verses intervening between our last les-
son end this one in Matthew's account
record the bold avowal of Peter ihet he
would not forsake Jesus even though all
Others wnttld flee. Following the answer
of Jesus, In which he points out. to Peter
bis own !weakness and the denial that
weakness will result in, the words of
our lesson text continuo the narrative.
38. A place -Gr. An enclosed plebe of
grnund• John, "a garden,"
Called Gethsemane -Meaning thornily
oll-press, and. se called, without deem,
because of the presence of olive Ines
and an olive press in The garden.
Gethsemane was somewhere on the
wesiee elope, of the Mount of Olives,
just across the valley of the littirot to
the cast, of the city mid temple walls.
The ft'adilinnal site is ebout fitly yards
beyond • the bridge that spans the Ki-
elron, anti )tore, Within a !walled Meth.
sure, eight very ancient olive trees nee
VII to be found.. 11 is not to he supe)
posed, however, that these Trees can
date from the lime nI lesns, which
world make ihern Mined iwo thousend
years .old. The Jewish historian Jose.
pints, nu:weever, records that during the
siege of ,Ierusa)em by Tilos (70 A,D,)
every tree. in the neighborhood of ,Tera.
salem was cut dawn- The nrctlracy n!
the tradition whish locales Gelhsent nd
itit (Ills particular spot has often been
ntalche5 got wet, and their fond was
lost. They tyre joined at tulle later
by Hathaway, and for four days the
three men wandered eboul looking for
en exit. and knocking end calling in the
hope of attrar,'Ling the attention of the
searching parties. Several times they
heard the searchers, but they tailed to
make themselves heard.
The only food they had was some wax
candles, but, of course, there was plen-
ty of water, and to'this they owe their
lives. On the fourth day Hathaway
went mad and wandered away, and all
Stephens' attention was devoted to look-
ing after Richards, whose mind had also
given way. When Hathaway's body
was found later 11 ryes quite naked,
. and his legs were terribly scratched and
called in question; but since the garden Iaeeraled from falling over the coal,
must have been somewhere in this in- Stephens wes seen at bis borne by a
mediate vicinity and no outer site London Express representative, and ho
scents to have so much in its favor, the lull the story of his terrible experience.
inaccuracy of the tradition cannot be
proved. The strongest objection urged SURVIVOR'S STORY,
against the tradition is that the site is _"\\then Hathaway left us he was quite
too near the city. and," he said. "I managed to control
37. The two sons of Zebedee -John. him unlit my 'bully' (Richards) got 1n.
the author of the fourth gospel, and to a similar state. I could not manage
James, has brother. These. with Peter, the two, and had to let Hathaway go.
"1 had an awful time with my 'betty'
during the Inst. ten !tours. At limes he
was cross. and sometimes playful. At
other times he became quite childish
and would try to turn somersaults over
and perhaps Andrew. formed what may
bo called the inner circle of the apos-
tolic group, in whom Jesus at limes re-
vealed himself more fully Rum to (be
otters,
Sorrowful and sore troubled - The me,"
words in the original convey the notion , Mr, Howell Kelly, who led the rescue
of intense agony and maddening grief. pony said:
38. Abide ye here -Spoken to the three
apart from the others.
Watch with me -The words of Jesus
recorded in this verse give us a deep
insight into his perfect humanity. It is
as a nen that he craves human com-
panionship in. the agony of his great
sorrow.
30. Let this cup pass away from me -
This destiny which 8 in store for me.
Compare the use of the word "cup" in
Isaiah 51. 17. "The cup of his wrath;
Thou Inst drunken the bowl of the cup
,of stagget•irtg. and drained fl,"
40. Cometh unto the disciples - Still
the three only.
"We thought we should find three
dead bodies. We had gone abaft flf-
ly yards into the old workings when
1 thought 1 heard some one calling. I
shouted. and Stephens mush have re-
cognized my voice, for I heard hint cry
in a shrill tone, 'Howell! Howell!'
"We brought them hack through the
hole, and I pieced Richards on my knee,
and put some clothing around him, for
he had divested himself of several ar-
ticles in his delirium."
A pathetic feature of the flnding of
ilalhuway's body was that he was to
have been married shortly. \Vhen the
hope that he alight still be alive was
Sethi unto Peter -Who has been the •ttevived his sweetheart rushed to the
spokesman in the previous profession es shaft and declared that the wedding
loyalty and willingness to shore his fatewould take place as arranged. When
bit; dead body was brought up site be -
Melt (Or, watch ye) and pray,
Iltat ye enter not into temptation -This
was special counsel for the special
emergency al hand. Only because of
the approprinloness of the exhortation
for Christians al all limes has it come to
be needled in its present more general
usage.
The spurtt indeed is willing. but the
flesh is weak - Note the touch of cle-
mency mingled with the words of re'
hake so characteristic of the gentleness
of Jeett5.
45. Sleep on now, and lake your rest
-Perhaps the marginal reading of the
Revised Version better conveys tine (n -
fended menntng, Do ye sleep on, then,
and take your rest?
47. Judas, anti with him a great
multitude with swords and staves, from
the chief priests and elders of Into
people -At this point also John's mere -
live is more explicit in details, "Judas
Ilten, having received the band of sol-
diers, end 'officers from the chief
priests and Ilse Pharisees content lid -
!her with lanterns and torches and
weapons."
49. Kissed him -Tire expression In
the original signifies to kiss with fervor
or repeatedly.
50. h'riend-Perhaps comrade !would
be a better word, since the Greek de-
notes not friendship in our sense, but
companionship.
CAUTION.
"And now," said the friend of other
days, "you are rich and Independent."
"Well," answered M'. Cumrox, "1 ant
rich all right, but when mother and the
girls ere around, I don't take chances
on being too independent."
THE QUESTION.
Mr. Toijarly: "Could you marry a
very old Mon with n good drat of mom
ey if he loll you lreukly hew old he
wes and how nluch he was worth?"
Miss Timely: . "11oty much Ss Ire
worllt.?"
came hysterical and was taken llouto in
a fainting condition.
REPEATING TiiE E11000,
What a woman doesn't know about
newspupes isn't worth knowing, 'rho
outer morning Mrs, Blank was lalling
le her husband,
"I notice in the paper that Mr. Jones
died an Sunday."
"1t is a mistake, my clear," replied the
husband; "he died on Nionday.
"But the paper said Sunday."
"T know it, but It Wos an error in the
print.'
"I thought en, too, et first, but I got
n half-dozen copies of the paper, and 11
tuns the same in all of them, They cer-
tainly couldn't have made Llie mistake
over and sees again.,,
The husband tried to convince her,
but it was no use, and, ire ga'o it up.
rc./kw..I—
Niles I.11ernry-Are you t'ery
Revolt, tate. Sephead?
Mr. Snp(t8 tai-Vtl'as, especially 10
Meweing with eggs.
fond
LiiN Home
DOMESTIC RECIPES.
floslon Baked trans. -Use the small
while pea hruns, Nick over one quart,
wash thoroughly and seek •over night
in fresh cold water. In the morning
drain them, cover with fresh water, and
(teat very slowly. Keep at the Mimed,
lug
ime r -
lug point until the skins cruel; and curl
bunk when held in a °etrent of air. In
the meantime emelt a half -pound piece
of fat salt pork, score the rind, and boil
slowly for an hour. In a cup 1TtIx 0110-
gttarter of a teaspoonful of dry mus-
tard, ono tablespoonful of salt, and two
tablespoonfuls of molasses, and gra-
dually thitt by stirring in boiling wa-
ter. Mix this with the beans, tura them
into a bean pot, and push down the
pork mail only tho rind is visible.
Cover, piece ire a moderate oven, arta
balco for about eight hours, adding
more water whenever the beans become
Iso dry, The mustard is not apparent
as a seasoning, but is thought to make
the beans snore digestible; for a similar
reason, as well as to render them more
delicate in Oliver, the water In which
they have been boiled is frequently dis-
carded, fresh boiling water being add-
ed after they are in the pot. The latter
has bulging sides and a comparatively
small top.
Drown Italian Seuce.-In a saucepan
place one tablespoonful of butter, two
tablespoonfuls of chopped onion, and
one tablespoonful each of chopped cel-
ery and carrot Set over a moderate
the and cook for five minutes after the
belie!' is melted. Add one tablespoonful
of (lour and stir until it is coffee -colored.
Gradually pour In ono pint of hot lieef
stock, stirring until slightly thickened,
then add a bouquet of herbs and sim-
mer for fifteen •mtnutos. In the mean-
time put in a second saucepan a hall
tablespoonful of butter, and when
melted, add one-quarter of a cupful each
of chopped cold boiled ham, fresh
mushrooms, truffles, and white onion.
Cook slowly together for flve minutes,
then add one -halt of a cupful of sherry
and shunter gently for ten minutes
longer. [drain the mixture in the first
saucepan into the second, stir until
well blended, add salt to season, and
simmer for live minutes longer.
Bananas. - To keep bananas from
turning dark in desserts or fruit salad,
take a fork and cut them crosswise.
They are not so smooth as when sliced
with a latife, but retain their natural
color a much longer time.
Raspberry Bavarian Cream. -Soften a
quarter of a package of gelatine in half
a cup of raspberry juice; dissolve over
hot !water, and the juice of half a
lemon, a cupful of raspberry juice, and
half a cup of sugar; stir over ice water
and when it begins to "set" fold in a
cupful and a halt of double cream
beaten solid. Pour into a mould. When
cold servo surrounded with the froth
from whipped cream.
Stuffed Egg Plant, -Cut in halves
lengthwlso and dig out the white part
without breaking shell. Boil till ten-
der in slightly salted water; mash and
add as touch rolled crackers as you have
egg plant, butter size of an egg and
half a cupfui cl' creann. Boil together
and season delleatcly with white pep-
per en0 some salt if needed. Fill the
shells will! this batter and bake twenty
minutes.
Coln Soup. - Pass a can of corn
through a neat chopper. Add two
slioas of onion, a sprig of parsley, and
two cups of water. Let simmer fifteen
minutes, then pass through a sieve,
pressing ottt all the liquid mad pulp
possible. Meat three tablespoonfuls of
butter, coots in this three tablespoonfuls
of flour, half a teaspoonful of suit, and e
dash of black pepper. Stir ttnd cook
while adding gradually two cups of
milk. Let boil after all the mills is add.
cd, than stir in the corn fillip and
liquid. Add more seasoning; if needed,
also, if at hand, tine yolk of two eggs,
beaten and diluted with half a cup or
more -of ot'eant. The soup will curdle if
it is boiled atter the eggs are added.
WelshRarebit,-A very light Welsh
rarebit sufficient for two generous help-
ings for three people can be made with
two. cups of grated cheese, half a ottp
of milk, end the well -beaten yollcs of
two eggs, season with salt and cayenne
or a dash of Worceslershiee sauce in-
stead of the pepper. Put the milk In
the chafing dish, and when it is boiling
hot add the cheese, stirring continually
until melted. Theft put int the seasoning
and slowly add the eggs, stirring the
mixture vigorously. Pour a fete spoon-
fuls over three-inch squares of hot but-
tered toast, Eggs nonce the "rabbit"
very light. The stringy kind require
two cups of grated cheese, half a
cup of
beer, a small lump of butler end sea-
soning, but Is mado in the same way.
Be sure and have the mustard on the
table when serving rarebit, es nearly
everybody lakes it.
HINTS FOR TiME HOME,
When windows are difficult to open
rub the cords with soft soap, and the
sashes will Pun smoothly, •
For n Shnmpno Mixture, - Make a
froth of gootl toilet soap, and when
lukewarm add to it the beaten yolk of
an egg and a dessertspoonful of spirits
Of rosemary.
Mustard water is useful for cleansing
the )lands after touching onions or any
other ntnindorots eubstsnne.
To restore ivory knife handles which
are stained, damp a rag slightly, and
with it 0pply a vary litho snits of iemon
11 1.11e spots. Wipe with a damp rag
and polish with a soft duster,
If fat rip leek is spilt on 1110 kitchen
range a little salt thrown oil It will keep
down the smell, and if grease is spill
on the table salt will keep it from sink-
ing in.id the wood.
Whooping hough lentbracalinn. -
Shake together in n butte, fettle ounces
of olive nil, two nonce of oil of ember,
of mol sulTirtent erealyptus, of nil of
move$, to went all nicety. Rub the
the chest and back .with this at night in a
wenn- rootn
Dining Table, -Rub lined weekly with
a soft flannel ntuislcated with paraffin oil
and turpentine, then with a piece of
soft old linen. Let it rest for an ltotu',
and rub luted with a piece of chamois
or dean old Iliten, Clive it a dally rub-
bing with chamois or linen.
For the removal of hroumould on your
beautiful house linen try this recipe;
stains may be treated by the saner) pro-
cess, First soak the et'tele as if it were
to be washed. Heat un Teem, and on
this' lay a wet cloth, When the Ileal
tuultes the dont steam, put the (rots•
madded spot on it, and rub on a Ilial
oxnllo acid with the finger. The heti
and moisture )fastens the effect of tit
acid, and consequently the rust dlsap
penes stare quickly, 'Then wash out tit,
linen in the ordinary way.
FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE
NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRELAND S
SHOVES.
Happenings 111 the Emerald Isle
Interest to Irish -
Custodians.
of
c, Marconi Is building a station in Ire -
1 tend for regular wireless truffle across
e the Mantic.
Bullaghudurin, County Mayo, possesses
a population of 1,000, welshes 72 pub.
lie -houses.
Mr. Janes i-lynam, United Irish
League organizer, died suddenly at
Miltown Maley, County Clare.
For the last len years lite population
of Ireland has remained fairly station-
ery, the average being 4,481,504.
13y a fire in a range of coal sheds at
Ilse Waterside Quay, Londonderry,
tlmttege was caused to the extent. of
£2,500.
TO Lord -Lieutenant of Ireland has
approved of the election of Mr. John
Lavery, II.S.A.. as an Associate of the
Royal fliberniun Academy.
In a Dublin court n girl of sixteen
was mado to lake a lead pencil and il-
lustrate on the clerk how her father, es
asu'oat. alleged, tried to out her mothers
wu
Indications in Ireland point to a 10.
bncco crop worth about £50 un acre.
lrolend is to enjoy a rebate of one-third
of the usual customs duly till 1013.
Dublin Corporation Is about to apply
to the Local Government Board for a
loan of ;8134,842 to enable it to con-
struct a new reservoir at lloundwood,
near Bray.
A clever Irish woman has patented an
invention called 'the happy thought."
IL is a portable cage canopy, which,
when adjusted on it cradle, will prevent
the liveliest youngster from tumbling
out.
A policeman, while batting near
Twin islands, Delfest, had a most un-
pleasant experience. Ile was 150 yards
from the shore when he was suddenly
attacked by a porpoise, He did not, tape
it into custody.
Dr. O'Dwyer, naimun Catholic Bishop
of Limerick, asks 0 it is not incredible
that last year the people of Ireland paid
for drink four limes the amount of
money that would melte them owners of
all the soil of Ireland.
The report published in the Dritish
press that Lord Kitchener will shortly
be appointed to the Irish command is
discredited here, es it is thought that
far too much remains to be done in In-
dia to justify the removal of the Cmm-
utanderdn-Chief, whose las(; is regarded
as only half completed.
The new curate of Armagh, the Rev.
Hobert Walter Scott Maltby, B.A., is
closely connected with old Protestant
families in the south. His uncle, Sir
John Barley Scott, J,P., of Knockrea
House, Cork, has been recognized as one
of the leading Churchmen and strongest
loyalists in Cont for many years past.
A report of the inspectors of lunatics
in Ireland shotes That tlto proportion of
insane to the total population in 1901
was K2 In 1,000, compared with 15.2 in
1851. The nutnber of patiepis in public
asylums roan from 8,807 in 1880 to 18e
332 111 1805, and 18,004 in 1903.
The Lord Chaiceitoe leas, on the re-
conunetdalton of Sir Il. Hervey lirtlee,
D.L., appointed Mr. Thomas Graham,
R.D.C. for Maghera, to the Commission
of the Pence for the \laghe'a division,
Courtly Derry. Mr. Graham is a well-
known gentleman in the district, and
is chairman of the Magherafelt Board
of Guardians.
Tho mantbens of the Institute of
Journalists attending the Dublin Con-
ference were entertained at a luncheon
lust week by the International Exhibi-
tion Commitee, whose vice-president,
Mr, William Murphy, J.P., look the
chair. A company of 250 guests included
their Excellencies the -Lord-Lieutenant
and Countess of Aberdeen.
LUCKY LITTLE SLAVEY.
After Years of hardship Fortune Came
Her Way.
The following extraordinary story of
en heiress held es a slavey in New
Zealand, lost track of for years, end
finally rescued by Iter uncle, who
brought her to the Pacific Const, comes
from San Francisco. An unfortunate
orphan in a foreign land since seven
years old, reads the report, enslaved
for almost it decade by en aged couple
1n Ne' Zealand, who worked her al
mental service and refused her a decent
education, lost track of for years by ler
American relatives, little Miss Violet
Gilbert, whose summers iruntber no stor0
then seventeen, is now Nan -
cisco on Iter way to Portlandin,San Oregorn,
to come into a fortune of 3100,000.
Accompanied by her uncle, air. J. 13,
Davidson, a business man of Portland,
she arrived at Vancouver, B,C., the outer
day on the steamer Sonoma from Auck-
land, N.Z. Two months ago she was a
drudge In a poverty-stricken home; to-
day life seems a fairy decant to her by
reason of alto sudden change for the
better. The finding of the girl in New
Zealand is a story of remarkable fea-
tures. Her father, John Gilbert, was a
daring young sea captain, who imme-
diately after his marriage in Oregon
went to Australia, and then to New
Zealand. There violet was born. Most
of her mother's relatives have long
lived In Oregon, and an aunt resides in
Woodland, Cal. After his wife's death
Gilbert seldom communicated with his
relatives in America, When Violet was
seven he died, leaving her penniless.
Nobody in New Zealand know where her
American relatives lived, so the girl
tell into the hands of an aged couple,
who treated her as a slavey. Less than
two years ago Mrs. Davidson of Port-
land learned that her brother-in-law,
Gilbert, had died in New Zealand, and
she at once took steps to find if ire lett
any family. After a good deal of corres-
pondence, sho located the girl Mean-
while another aunt heed died and left a
large sum of money to the girl. Mr.
and Mrs. Davidson thereupon deter-
mined to bring their orphaned niece
from New Zealand to Ilse United States.
.from
girl who was thus suddenly taken
away front a home of poverty to become
tiro -owner of riches, was brought over
an the Pacific mail steamer Sonoma.
She made many friends among the pas-
sengers, and everybody rejoiced in her
good fortune.
4
ACTRESS SWOT DEAD.
Jealous Lover Kilted Himself After Deed
Was Committed.
Frauleln Rita Wolter, the leading lady
at the Comic Opera house, was shot
dead in Berlin, Germany, by her lover,
Herr Augustus Hesse, a young man of
considerable private means,
Fraulein Wolter, who was the dmlgh-
ter of a wenllhy manufacturer of Augs-
bttny, South Germany. obtained her par-
ents' consent to follow a theatrical
career with_ great dilnoulty. Finally,
with their reluctant permission, she
went to Berlin to study for the stage,
and last year succeeded in obtaining a
position nt the Contac Opera house,
where she soon became, leading lady.
During the period of study she be-
came acquainted with Herr Hesse, and
they became engaged. 'their relations,
however, cooled after Frnuleht Wolter
achieved success on the stage. Herr
Hesse worried her continuously with
joulons outbreaks, which rendered her
life miserable.
At I.le saute time the leading tenor of
the Comic Opera Clouse, a talented
young Spaniard, Senor Reveilles, fell
in lova with Fennell Wolfer. Ile press-
ed her to marry him, and Frnuleln Wel-
tee, who had become tired of Herr
Hesse, was very much In love with Se-
nor Reventos, end desired to marry
him, but feared her former lover's re-
venge.
For months she wavered between the
two, but showed much favor to her
Spanish colleague. Herr Ciesso, on
perceiving how things were going, one
day broke into newton! Wolle•'s fat,
seized her by the throat, and nearly
strangled her. That decided hat., and
she resolved to become Senor Ravetto's
wild,
(lent Hesse forced an entrance into
her Oat fho other evening, and, after a
long conversation. In which ire failed to
persuade iter to abandon Senor !Seven-
ths and to marry him, be produced n
revolver and slid her dead. Then he
sliot hhmstl[.
A few day's ago herr nesse hle-
genphnd to Raventos, enllhrg him a
coward and Traitor, and challenging
him to a duel, mitt Senor nrventos, who
was ill In bed, replied that lie was will-
ing to fight at any time.
HIS TROUBLE.
Sunday School Teacher: "Who was it
that Lite whole swallowed?"
'Pommy; " r)tyY.ar._ar. P
Sunday School 'Teacher: "Come, nowe.
that's an easy quostiott,"
Tomtny: "Oh, a ain't the queelton
that bothers nto, but the answes"
IT 19..
An netting teeth,
else to shout,
Is just about
The bast .thing Out,
se-
•
EYESIGHT ANi) MARKSMANSHIP.
Some curious researches have recent -
1y been made by French army surgeons
on the relationship between good eye-
sight and goad target -practice. At first
glance one would say that the two
things• must invariably depend the one
upon the other. But the feels lead to a
difteronl, conclusion. Al least, they
show- that one may have very defective
eyesight artd yet be a very oatmeal
marksman. Astlgmatistn, myopia and
other ileleats of vision nay exist. In n
marked degree without desh'o•ving aha
ability to in alai shoot alrelght, ht
the French and German armies soldiers
TRAVELLING SPAIN
A LADY WRi'I'ES A CI01iT IN'l'1RI4ST•.
INF DESCRIPTION.
Leisurely Rafhvay TravRlllnp -- ;Tho
Burial Flare of Spanish
A vivid picture of the drawbacks of
treveiling in speln Is given by Mrs.
Alegi. 'l'werrlin
rayins: the pages of the
"Queen," Site
it was a cold wintry evening. I look
esaift d lagood-y jewehyo Inllery, Ila! my watch, and
n cbtu'uting Spanish
hnulo and its kind inuta)ee, and left Mu -
cited by the Sud expects.; for the Es-
corial, the tomb of the Kings of Spate.
The distance Is exactly ihirI -two tulles,
end Ihls express train front Madrid with
11,t sleeping cars and restarants, look
one hour and twenty mimeo for the
jnthnney.i)o. What a desolate w'aae sur-
rounds Madrid. Those weird glglaredrocks looked even math weird than 11311 -
al in the moonlight, and Um few dark
shrubs cast still ducker shadows on Lite
gru
The train slopped at Esc -nein!. "Elgin
minutes' Halt." and 1 tens tho otily pas-
senger to get ht or out. In feel, the
heggars and several lnuls seemed quite
surprised to see anyone on such a
wintry evening, and hung at to my fur
cunt with oven mora (hart usual vehe-
mence. The exit, from the station was
locked, and a buneti of keys had to be
found to Id me out. There stood tiie
hotel ''bus, ss my Sentitor-host halt
kindly wired to the hotel for a fire in
ny room, so es to let the penpitt know
n lady was arriving Isle.
The 'bus drew up al the door of the
hostelry. The landlord arrived from
a long room where sten wore thinking,
PLAYING CARDS AND DOMINOES.
Joy -he could speak French? ile es•
forted ale tlpstolti In a charming lithe
room,'all white nlul elven in spite of its
simplicity, and there in lite mulatto of
the floor stood an emir:netts bretsea'o.
The charcoal was covered by a wire net-
ting to keep it. safely !within. bounds,
anis)td e(1.
the wide brass rife w•as well me-
th the !tight I woke hearing n strange
sound In my cies. and Wittig uppeess-
ed. Suddenly my Ihoughte wandered
to that brazier and to Zola:s death, and
i jumped out of bed to open the win -
duty. A flood of moonlight tittered the
room; but the brasero had gone, so my
fears went ton.
Ab -but n•hat was [bet .end cry? tt
rose and fell upon the night na ihsw
strange it snorted, as of lost souls
meaning. Yes -ii tens human -marl
men's voices. I looked at. my watch; 11
was sill very early, but presumehly this
was the first mess nt the priests yonder.
,U•nted with en inhndur:litnl In the Mi-
nter Superior nI Thr monastery from a
Senator friend--w'r;lten on nflleittl paper
-i felt pretty sure of seeing: Ese„riot
uncler Invertible cironntsianee:s, Earr-
inl is the burial -plane of. kings. In a
small chnmlrer of Spanish melee. melt -
el by a narrow slnh•rase, Ire the Kluge
of Spain, each in n marble, eolith on
his own shelf. They are rmbalned and
buried, and Mier about ten years are
laid upon a shelf,
EACH IN 1liS COLO GREY BOt.
There are twenty-slx sorb bobs. four .
On f01) of one enolhel•, all of gray mar-
ble with braes fret nncl mountings. and
the best. king, Alfonso Tell„ is UM in-
terred therein. it is n dietary (dace,
with small windows so high up they nd'
mal little light, and everything is mar-
ble except the brass fittings on the saw
cophagi.
Cot's belonging to the 111911 fantiltrs
of Spain were pinyIng foalhall mttside
in long grey topcoats mid blue , 0;011
Scotch ceps. They had not We slight-
est idea of the game—but they kicked
the ball about and apparently enjoyed
themselves. The Freer>h-epeoldng land-
lord was not about when I left the ho-
tel at 9 p.m„ so 1 could not pay hint
for the 'bus. Arriving five Mini lee pul-
er el the dreary station, where there
was no more. sign of lite I1ten There
had been the night before, i asked the
driver what 1 owed him,
"Six francs,” was the reply.
"Six francs!" I exclaimed. "Non-
sensol hots can 1t possibly be six
francs?"
Ile bn"istnd mauls claim. I rmpuelial-
el, 11, for I know it was en imposition.
Ha saw I was n women -and alone. --
he knew there was no one niton. and
be seized the opportunity to rob me, ler
such 1t was, of Three or fou' hence. 110
bt'cane, most ebiis1ve. My heart al-
most stood still. But with a brave fere,
and the best ,Spanish 1 knew, i deter-
minedly refused his demands. At last
s man passed. Do you speak EnglIsh,
aro permitted to shoot from Ito right, French or German, sir?" Tasked, "French
or the left shoulder, according to their -n lillle, madam," replied the cninmer-
own preference, which is orlon guided dal traveller, for such he proved to be,.
by the superiority of one eye over the
other. Accuracy of judgment counts for
a" much es nuttiness Of vision with the
good marksman.
1
A KING AS GUiDE•..
nese- an tourists in De»inalgc paid a
visa to Charlollcnburg with the nbjeel
ei ,seeing the sonnet. palace of King
Frederick, They met a gentlemen walk,
ing Mona n1 whom they inquired Wife-
Iher It would be possible for them 10
obtain fleeces In the gardens. "Cerinhl-
1y," he replied, "1 happen to have a key"
and for halt at ltnnr he led the party
metol the grounds, pointing out their
lyenuttes Mel enler(alliing the sh'angers
with lively ennversntion. At lust he
loolt Ills Ienve with the w'ords,,"1f.you
cure to see the a[nhles, just say That
yott have the ]ring's permission.' It
was the King himself. Ile shook hands
with each member of the party 01111 bade
them farewell.
Daughter: "Olt, dere, smell a lithe 1
de hove with [hat husband nt mine! 1
dzwet have nue minute's penes when he,'.s
in the house, tie's nitve s eollblg me to
an somuething! nt the oilier;" A((8)010
Mnd'a'a: "!Cita) al.rs he went ltnw'?"
Daughter; "I1;' wants me to go upstnb's
to Wald a needle for Ila, so that ho
can ntend 1115 clothes,"
1 TOLD HI\l MY STORY.
"The tea 15 half n franc per person
and thirty cents for luggage,. total 80
cents, not, even one Irene, es you only
have a travelling bag," was his reply,
"end that is all you owe."
"I've offered hint Three trines seven!
limes, end he refuses; and has been
most impudent 'and abusive," 1 replied.
The little comnerniel Traveller, over
whose head 1 towered, offered to do Ms
hest, They argued, they got eugry,
end the train arrived. That 'bus man
held on to my hug end retina to hand
I1 over. The teeth ring its bell, it wes
about to start, end I had to haul over
these six trance 10 ihat veritable thief
after all, en es In get niy hag, Meth
was naturally worth far. more, The
4patlsh driver lsughwi wildly at its
success end my diseotnflure.
; ,
BY WAY OF A CHANGE.
"Conte, now," said her hither, oiler
sho- 115(1 tressed 111111 effusively two op
three therm, "whet is it you watt? Out
with it"
"I don't !vela anything," replied the
405r girl. "I want In give you sonte-
IhIng."
"indoell What is it?"
"A son•in-law. kelt asked me is
speaic to .you abort tt,"