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\sENsE OF THE INFINITE olples. •
but were not underetoed by tee elle-
, 35, Lift up yoLu• eyes --Apparently.
. . JeSII8 die001.5 the attention of his dis-
t
• ciplee with these words Vo the approach
et the .people Mem Spatter. • We. may
. t" • 1 eget° the piclutesque sight lui•nIslied
Religion Does Not Depend on; TinifOrmity'
b by the slow tidvance of ila PeoPle lie
Om stone toward the well, thee' white
,
,
of ConoePtions of the Divine,
"Thou ate near, 0 Lord, and thy
commandments are truth." -Ps, exec.,
15L
One does not have to believe in the
same kind of a god as did the seers
arid• singers of long ago In order to
obtain the spiritual valees velitch they
found in the thought of hes nearness
to them. David and Browning, Isaiah
and Whittier, with all the centuries be-
tween them, still come to the same
thouget-we know thou ert near.
Through all ages and in all peoples
title Sense of that which Is other than
ourselves, from which our highest good
comes, toward which our ideals and
aspirations strain, the ultimate force
of eine being, this feeling after the in.
It Is the essential
of every re -
ng ago tried
the infinite
weeds which
thought only
• Iniere wiser
all, like
ed beause
really was
e precise -
ugh our
rence
r as
are
of
nd
SEEN.
personality
to one
al deity; le
all sphet
have all of
able of con-
omnatize for
pen univer-
the infinite
le to what,
v, from any
an whatso-
which lies
of that love
lighten every a
.0,, AL LEF
Definitions detet•mtne nothing, but
they do work great damage when mind
eapaele of being stereotyped to the
agree le impose those definitions o
their knows as final, authoritative
and essential to their welfare. Th
divine Ls neither infinite nor sublim
when you can say, Here are his Itnea
meets and he has no other litmus o
appearance.
To the question, How shall we thinl
of the divine? there can be but one an
swee-en higher, wider, deeper, nob
ler, purer ways than yesterday, Th
ceneeption must be a depelopIng one.
A man's spiritual. capacities develop
as his inner vision becomes more Iceen•
The soul takes wider flight, and in ou
deep thoughts we discover that which
language cannot compass.
There are those who think they must
he atheists because they cannot believe
n e God of the Hebrews, the God of
the Old Testament--
A LIMITED PERSONALITY.
Rut the genuine atheists are more lam-
b to be those who are without a sense
of the divine, because they have taken
definitions and descriptions prepared
by others instead of seeking truth for
themselves.
We are but poor learners of those
ancient teachers if we have not discov-
ered that their greatest lesson to us is
not Muth, as they hail found it, but
the blessktg of the persistent search
after truth. To cherish as final past
presentatiens of truth Is to be false le
its present possibilities,
We do not need to worry over defini-
tions of the divine. We do need to
eulthetee the temper of mind -and the
sensitiveness mf spirit. that will save
us from blindness to the higher facts
et life, that will save us from the blast,
Ing whirlwind of materialism, wee. Its
sense of nothing but a soulless world of
thing.s.
We need to avoid the mind that shuts
the divine up In some far off heaven
t..' be reached only by reread telephropy
called prayer; that tails to see the infi-
nite in all thtngs-in sunlight and flow.
er, in ehildrenes laughter, and in Mis-
ery's wall, in fackries and stores, as
well as in churches. We need the mind
that argues not about omnipresence,
in duty and delight cries, Always
nd everywhere thou art near.
HENRY F. COPE.
turbans nodding In the sunlIght, tie they
eppreached, 11 nifty eall have Mon
this scene wheel suggested to the mied
01 Jesus the field of grail' while unto
harvest moved and ewinrecl Into sletely
undulations by the Wind. This thought
in. turn calls to his mind the greater
multitude of men everywhiew ready to
O receive the message of the gospel.
• 39. Because ef the word of the wo-
e man -Even eefere they had board Jesus
e
nenself speak.
40. Meade there two deR-Tets wae
e also contrary to wind, might have been
exneeterl of an orthedex .Tow,
41. Because of his w.ertle-Tohn con-
- Lineally inleednees the tretimony cf
Jesus believe te hl.o divinity, In con-
e neetton with the teeitmonies of oilier
persons we'eh he records in successien
in his narrative.
42. The Savieer of the were) - Teo
e eerier:tenon of these Sameritans of I he
SUMO Ot ha redemnlive work whiehthe
Mesetah wee In aerentreish seerne te
Mere Man Meader and deeeer than that
of most of the IesS'S themselyce
CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.
European Dorters Ilecommend 'balloon
Daily Ascension.
The knell of Davos and other Alpine
resorts frequented by consumptives is
sounded by on ever-growing band of
European medical 111811, who are advo-
cating the "balloon cure" for tubereu-
.
eases.
Go up in a balloon every uray, is the
advice of these doctors to ce»sunm-
ESSON{‘JortpShileheicssntlill aTImwnsutpici7110 jetlireif
SON, FEB. 9.
lesus anel the Woman of
erla. .Golden Text.
John 7. 37.
ORD STUDIES.
)1 the Baptist, -
Jesus tarried
dee, immediate,
ts described in
was still bapetz-
eking the Jordan
s. At &non, near to
narrow valley, between
Lund Ebal and the Jordan, word was
rought to the'Baptist that the preach-
ing of Jesus was becoming more 1pope-
lar than Ms own, as witneseed by the
number of these presenting themselves
or, baptism. This information, or m-
ime
the facts to which it called atten-
on, .gave to the Baptist the opportun-
ity for a last, sublimely loyal testimony
Id the cbaracter and mission of Jesus.
This testimony is recorded in verses
28-36 of the precedMg chapter. Ad.
dressing those who bad brought to
him the message, "Rabbi, he that was
with thee beyond the Jordan,to whom
hou hest berme witness, behold, the
time briptIzeth, and all men oome to
' ," John utters those memorable
es: "Ye yourselves bear me witness,
t I said, I am not the Christ, but
I am sent before him. . . . . Fie
• rise, but I must de,crease. He
1 Morn above is above all:
Father love% the Son and
all things into his hands.
lievete on the Son hate eke -
but he that oleeyeth not the
all not see life." Thus does the
• st testify to elle divinity of Ifestle,
there is no lineeri•nitiesottn,ci in his
Meaty. To him Jesus is the Christ,
n of God, ancl only eel/eater ot
Father, The popularity of Rises
01 In the message brought to the
st al. Xrion seen arrays against
Pharimes and others, and he
eves • Judea, the stronghold
gale opposition, end returns
m shortest route telres len'
ea, east tbe village rt
which wae Jacob's Well.
,y ef Jens northward
O thin givee oecasien for
which our prcteent les -
eats.
ela-.This nem was
to the city bunt by.
reel, on leo hill put'.
f Shemer (1 Kings 13,
by Herod. Later tee
pi inee also received ils
the or y. 'The revince IS
reed. lo. The iribnhiltmls ef
ft were a bbood populetion, with
xed religiee 12 Rings 17.. 24-41;
• Nr•h. 0), Who, however, (*Mimed
te Isteielfice and professed lea
law of Moses, • They seem te
Melly reaper/Woe the Weed
b Ile! people of Judea regar,1,
fled with Me inneern
rear Nablus, the anal -
6. Jacob's Well -A little south Of As -
Rear and about a mile Mom Nablue.
The ancktnt well, now partially filled
will): stones and rubbish, is sell !o be
seen, forming, as it doee, one of the
few undisputed sacred site d llio
Holy Land.
The sixth hour -Noon.
9. No dealings with Samaritans -The
wa•Oeies explanation of the women e
surprise et the request, of Jesus merit)
to her. The antipathy between Jews
and Samaritans caused both as ler as
possible to avoid intercourse wile (me
another. A remnant of the rineient
Samaritan ram still lives in partial lee.
Wien Mum other inhabitants of tenet.-
tine in this same vicinity of Ebel. me
1e. Living water -Well water, as dis-
tinguished ftom that of shallow cisterns.
1118 from the latter that the inhabi-
tants of southern Palestine have al-
ways found it necessary to procure
their rriencipal water supply. ,
12. Art thou greater -The: emphasis
ir on the pronoun. 'The woman oould
not understand how this hungry way.
farer could possibly furnish better water
than that which she and her people
derived Mom this ancient and hon.ored
13. Jesus replies by expanding rather
than explaining tho metaphor, as he
did his cenversation with Nicodemus,
and claims for his gift tee wonderful
power to quench man's thirst not for
O time only but forever.
15. In him a well -An inexhaustible
source of refreshing.
20. In this mountain -The summit of
Gerlzim, which for centurles had been
the seat of Samaritan worship. The
Maim for its sanctity was based on
Deut. 27. 11, 12. The mountain also
Imre the ruins of a rival temple which
had been the object of contempt and
ridicule to the. Sews. Josephus ernnea-
sizes the importnnce which was eltaith-
rid to the question raised by the Sa,
maritan woman's words to Jesus end
ones an ineiened In which a deputa-
tion of jetvs arid Samaritans was ap-
pointed le argue the Annie queetton,
end in whittle the Samaritan speekers,
because theirs was the losing side in
the debate, were put to (Math in har-
mony with the terms of a previous
agreement.
25. Messiah -The, promised deliverer
was exreeted alike by the Jews nail
Smnarilties. •
He'lleet is called Christ -A perenthe.
Heal explenntion of the evangelist, not
pert of what the women said,
27. Marveled -At the seeming Impre.
priety of their Master's speaking with
a woman who was not only a stranger,
,but n despised ear/tertian no well, this
being contrary to the permilited CUP -
km of the lime,
29. Can tbis be the Ceirlste-That ft
Mantle thus lie her gond fortune le
treat Him Inc whose coming both Jews
mul Serpareens had waited so long,
seemed at that too geed to he true.
80, They went .out of lee city. -Se et-
feelludly bed the woman'e stray exce-
ed their cure:telly and intereet.
32. Meat to eat thet, 3•r3 know not -
We have here one et theee elite/m[1-
mi sayings ea ellen end reo effeetuelly
Heed by /Oils tee the plapote ot dime-
Meng- Efor infelligerim of hes lienrere.
The Words enmeshed feed ter tellection,
The cure hns many advantages. Lack
of expenses is one of them. It is tar
cheaper to keep a balloon in your back
garden in the suburbs and take your
daily two hours up above the cleudee
than to have to go away and live in
expensive hotels for months at a lime.
It is aim claimed foi• he "balloon
cure" that en)) a wide range of alit-
tude is obtainable by means of a bal.
loon tea 1 it makes it a far superior
treatment to that of ordering a patient
away to some Alpine village, where,
even with hard exercise, he cannot
vary ha altitude by more than a f•ew
hundred feet a day.
In a paper he read. recently before
the Academy of Seknces, a.i MunIcb,
M Christian Reck, a well known sci-
entist, declared that the balloon treat-
ment could be carried on in conditions
impossible of attainment in any moun-
tain resort.
In a balloon, he said, the patient
could be oonveyed in a few moments
into an alrnoephere where neither min -
prat nor vegetable particle% Were pre-
sent in the air which would also be
bacteriologically pure.
The dose can easily be wattled, the
patient being able to breathe air at any
altitude the physician thinks best for
Even on the foggiest London deye
he can ascend through the °muds into
ar atmosnhere 01 perfect purity, and,
silting 'well wrapped up in th•e cur,
enjoy the keen, pure air end bright
sunshine denied to his unfortunate
fellow -creatures Meow.
• e.
SEA MONSTERS THAT SINK SHIPS'.
Vessels Wrerked By Porpoises, 'Whams
and Sword-Pise.
An extraordinary affair bappened the
other day in the estuary of the Shannon,
Ireland, the yacht Water Hen being cap-
sized by a school of giant porpeises, who
were blindly pursuing some salmon.
The local papers, In reporting the oc-
marence, speak 01 11 as unique; but this
is not quite so, gnat no longer -ago than
July, 1905, the smack Jean Roy waes
wrecked in a precieely similar fashion
while trawling M the North Sea,
Then, of course, there are nenlePOUS
weleauthentieated instancee of sbips be-
ing charged and sunk by whales. Thus,
Ili. Danish solemner Anna was rammed
by a hundred -foot monster in mid -ocean
while on a voyage from Iceland to 'New
Brunswick mot long same, and had her
bows stove in, the crew being rescued in
tee nick el time by the Liverpool liner
Quernmore.
In this instanee, according to the story
told by the captain of tIte Anna, there
could be no question of accident. The
whale, a huge old bull, ("Meted round and
round the ship CB if challenging attack,
and then suddenly charged it *full Ult.
In 1904, again, the schooner Monaghan
was wrecked by a swordelsh off Block
Wand, the long -toothed spear ripping
open her planking for a space of several
feet, GO that she foundered almost 1m -
mediately ; while at, St. John's, New-
feundiand, there is pre.serv•ed a portion -
nineteen feet long -of 000 0! the arms of
o gigantic octopus, which, in elm year
1873, attacked and sunk -one of the fish.
Ing fleet there. The monster was killed
t•y the crews of tee other boats, and
afterwards canefelly examthee by Dr.
M. Harvey, LL.D., who • estirbakd its
weight at over three tons. ee
WASTE OF ENERGY.
• The prize hen resolved ,to quit laying.
"ft seems so utterly absurd," she
roucked, "tor a 8500 fowl to spend her
time and strength In turning out eggs
al 36 cents a dozen."
Perching 'herself on her exclusive roost
•eho eyed the common barnyard hens
low Mr with lofty disdain.
•
Was his flyIng-mattlene a etieetris?"
eree, yes; it failed to week before he got
Inc enough up to hurt himself!" '
George: "So you asked old Drown' Mr
hie daughter's hand, Whet did he say?"
"lee said; 'Take her( And lei ine be bap -
pee i•
Mie Mester ; "Yetie hat looks very
Well With Mat wing In it." Mrs. Dreeler;
"Yea, bue It would look better with 1We
wings *et," Mr. Deemer: "Oh 1thee
nuez'erya 0440 of it pinion," • e
W-ORKifiG LADS' SUCCESS
BEST POSITIONS IN EDUCATIONAL,
SOCIAI AND POLITICAL WORLD.
—
Welk -Nor English Roes Rave Had
BrIllittee Careers Through Hard
' Work and Pluelc.
In this cemuley the educational lad-
der has literally bt.s font resting In the
getter and its top reaching to the Cab-
inet of the British Empire, says 'Me-
rton TieBits, So Melly meolarships
ellti tinier uids ale Mere, indorse for
the poor boy that It has been said of
late that it is the rich student, who ts
handle/tepee in the race, tied teat the
advantage is decidedly o11 the elde of
lee poor lad.
An ounce of fact is werte a pound of
theory-, and a few instanees will go fee
le prove that the right of way for
brains line been secured, and that the
race for the highest positiena in the
educational, social and political world
is mita nearer being a race where all
elart from seraleth than 11 used te be,
when Um boy with means had a fifty
peels' start in a hundred.
I.ess than a score of years ago the
son ef a poor widow at Wukefield won
a scholarship which took him to the
Grammar School of teat town. He
worked hard and won prizes galore.
finally going to Cambridge with 80010
three or four extremely valuable schol-
arships to sunport him there. His ca.
rem at the 'Varsity was a brilliant suc.
case, for he worked like a Trojan and
emerged triumphentay with the blue
ribbon of the educational world, the
Senior WranglershIp.
SubsequenLly a fellowship of his col-
lege was conferred upon him, and for
scene years he acted as a tutor at the
University. To-dtey he is one of the
most famous inlesion preachers of our
erne, and
A MAN OF GREAT MATIK.
Best o/ all, his' widowed mother is still
living at a good old ege. Needless Le
say she rejolems in the 'success of her
boy, and no one will wonder that she
should be prated of him. •
We wiLt take now an instance from
London. There was a boy who, in 1872,
won a soolarship from an ordinary
Board school to a secondary school.
514' gained the Carpenters Foundation
and the Conquest Gold Medal. A few
years later he obtained the proud posi-
tion of captain at the City of London
School on the eineankment. Going
to Cambridge on rseholarsnips, he was
a Foundation &Molar at Trinity and
litter was made a fellow of that re-
new -lied college. At the and of his
'Varsity course he resolved to go in for
the Civil Service and passed the neces-
sary examtnation so well that he was
drafted at once into the Beard of Trade
offlees. There les great, ability soon
made him prominent, and he has been
promoted with altnost unexampled ra-
pidity, until to -day he stands 'practi-
cally at the heed of the permaneni al'
etas. in thai important department of
(Ise Government.
M the early eightiee a Scottish 101
3vhose parents had migrated le Liver.
pool, took a scholarship at one of Lee
ordipary schools whkit gave him Um
adyenlage of secondary education. Sub-
sequently be eleveloped
VERY REMAnKABLE GIFTS
arid c•aerted everything before him 10
the way of prizes, exhibitions, end
ecieolarships. Under ordinnry circurre
staneee his father would have been able
be give 'him only a meagre education,
hut from the age of ten he never had
to epend a penny upon him, and flie.
ally he went, with flying colors, to
Cambridge. There he did brilliantly and
was Senor Wrangler. He remained at
the University and specialized in medi-
cine. For twenty years he has been
one of the most Paulette mon at Cam -
Midge, and he Is to -day the Principal
or one of the gr•eatest Universities in
Scotland, e position (hat, in tee wildest
dreams of his youth, he could scareely
have leered to attain, and one certain-
ly whieh would have been absolutely
impossible of attainment had it evot
been that the right of way for brains
is indeed open.
In 1880 a boy in a London •elemenfery
schoel, named Wild, who had \von
many valuable scholarships as a lad,
went to Baleen College, Oxford, entirely
on Um proceeds of exhibiliona and
seholarships, He did very well there,
and sebsequently went in Mr the In-
dian Civil Service. Taking a high posi-
tion on the class /We be went out to
our Eastern poesessions, and he has
risen since until er-day he is at the
top of the ladder in his own depart-
ment, and not only has an excellent
position, but
A MAGNIFICENT SALARY,
The London papers a few weeks ago
chronicled the unique stiece.ss of the
son of a bargeman on one ot the ca.
nals in the Ve•est Riding of Yorkshire.
This lad's Veber sent hirn at an early
ago to an elementary salami, where be
won a local scholarship to the Gram-
mar Scheel. Gifted with brains, Ile then
began an extraordinary career of eche
°attend and practical success. He car-
ried all before elm, went to Cambridge
on seholseships, had a most elislingu-
felled career there, and was mearly at
iro head of the exame foe the Indian
C111'11101 35eveieleo. India with a good salary,.
and mon did so well that he wee ra.
eider ,promoted to high boners, Recent,
iv lie came home to visit his father -
new, thank re to the brilliant and loyal
gen, no longer a bargeman -and that
same boy, sell Considerably underefelie
years ef age. has returned to Incite to
take up the high position of Cheat hist
tete of a weleknown Indian proVirteer
trt, a salary ef not less than rei,800.
'YeAe)bay whom father 3vorkrd le it ?ergo
ert the 'North of England was mot to a
Wesleyan flobool in the tome in \vetch
fie lived, A wealthy ceitotesplerier Ip
the town, whose sem Is rieW a wetTi.
lenewn newspepee peepeloter, hed er•!
tobliebed a number et seliehetellipe in
Ofirtnection with the elementary eiele •Is
Tat ClmcW o 6
t
HAT do you coy to Rein'
sketin' t 131 s arternonn,
Shorter' asked 13111y Istum-
ford, In the leisurelY manner which 011
bOYS haVe On Saturday morn3n5. •
"ree on the creek lit strong enottgll 1"
relshed the other, chortly.
"Don't you believe 1 wee down
Met evening, and right by the cave it
was fine and dandy."
Ilpon Shorty promising to acoorneane
him, 13111y was outelde of Shorty's house
promptly at 1 °Weak, A shrill whIelle
aoon brought the chum together,
In hand, they trudged toward•
the creek,.
While the km had been thick enougti to
bear Billy's weight the evening before,
the min had mince been beating down
upon it, as that now It was decidedly
uswafe, But once there, the boys de-
cided to run the Halt in order to obtain
a little enjoyment. So • long as their
movement was rapid there was no great
likelihood ot the Inc >hiding,
Unfortunately. however, SholLty'a.
skate caught in a twig frozen in' the
faction pt the -day tho ma cave beneath
1130 lodge had been flooded; how the
"DleedY Rehears,- within had narrowlY
eeeaped from being drowned When the
onrushing weters aurprieed them, and
hovr he had gone to the rescue of little
gleinnlY Bowes, loft behind In Me cave,
110 remembered that the floor of the
cave rose rapidly from the entrance
and that back a short distance it was
above the level of the water,
Juat a moment it took him to make tho
reselye. With Shorty dill 10 his asms,
he plunged benoath the water and sfwern
Vigorously through the aubmerged en-
trance of the old cave. He battled furi-
ously tvitn the Icy water. Junk as he
had about given up hope of reaching the
dry floor, and when he was all but ex-
hausted; Jae teat touched bottom and
lils head rose above the water. Stag-
gering forward through the now shal-
low water, he tell with Ms burden, upon
the dry cave floor beyond.
Realizing that they would freeze to
death unless they kept their blood oir-
through vigorous excrete*, BIllY
swung his arms savagely, and then pro-
ceeded to rub the still uneonscious
ee-- ear, r
•
BILLY FELL IN, TOO
ice, and he was thrown heavily. The
forms with which he landed sent him
right through the thin ice sheet. Billy
hastened to the rescue, but, creeping
too near the hole, he, too, fell In.
It was imposelble to draw themselves
up upon the eurrounding ice. No sooner
would they lay hold upon It than great
chunks would immediately break off.
The freezing water was rapidly benumb-
ing their Ilinbe, Thole plight was de-
cidedly seriOus. No landing, could be
effected at that point ha the creels. in-
asmuch ae a rocky bluff rose sheer from
the water', edge affording not the
slightest chance of foothold. The two
desperately made their way toward the
siker% hoping In some way to gain the
land.
They had just about reached the edge
of the bluff when Shorty _fainted. Billy
Supported him svith one arm and rested
the other on a little ledge on the bluff,
His head svas beginning to swim. Evi-
dently he could hold out very little
longer.
Suddenly there came to him a recol-
The Spider
Imeow that some, it not an, oe the
boys and girls who read my little
stories dislike spiders as well as I.
it we stop to think, even spiders
are very useful. In their finely -woven
webs they cateh files and bugs and
many other nasty things.
And what is more beautiful atter a
heavy morning dew in the country
than the hundreds of webe clinging to
the grass -every. one differeat, and all
so fine and neat! Then in the woods
you will find festoons of webs run-
ning great distant:ea front tree. to
tree. How does the little epider man-
age to complete such a giant task?
Juitt by sheer industry. I often used
to hear my mother scold old Ann for
not brushing away the webs froin
corners. But no matter how often she
Would sweep, the next: day there wOuld
always be a new web.
The little :spiders about the house are
harrelesa, But you would have to look
out for the big tarantula, which is very
poisonous, indeed. This spider le often
carried front place to place, cOncealed
in clusters of bananas,
•
Pray, busy hunchback friend, where did
yet? learn
To spin that pretty web? Ono need not
epurn
To copy such line lace -so rare, come
plate:
Ilandweave X might, but that your feet,
Instead, spin out the wondrous warp
and woof;
A.nd with vrhat cunning ekill-behold the
proof
In these strong silken threads, that
stretch amen's;
Frew. aide to center, bright as shining
flees.
•
How Innocent yoU seem, how modest,
shy;
Pm aura / should be caught were I a fly;
.and, drawn by luring words, YOU Whia-
por low:
"COrno IntO my parlor" -in I'd go.
Weave on, VrOlVe On, ray patient huneeei
back friend,
For soon you, work, not' !nine, will
have art end;
But In roue cunning craft I claim no
hare;
For I but spilt a tale -you epin a snare!
81100
Shorty. soon had the satisfaction
of seeing Shorty open his eyes.
When the lada were able to move for-
ward, they advanced tbrough the cave
as rapidly as they could. At times they
Iost their way In the chambers which
branched off from the nsaln corridor at
Irregular intervals; egain they would
have to squirm along on their stomaohs
where the roof would almost approach
tho floor,
On and on they went. There was a
rumor about town that but one Mom had
ever traveled the length of the cave, and..
that, When he came out of a little hole
at the other end, the dog svhich accom-
panied him had lost half of his tall.
Billy had never ceased to wonder how
the dog met vvith such an accident, but
now he began to dream of the little
opening at the and of the cave. Would
they ever reach it?
"Billy!" Shozity exclaimed, "1 think I
see a little p eh of light 'way before
Sure enough, daylight was certainly
not far beyond. They summoned all •
their strength and crawled toward the
distant goal.
At last they arrived. They had reached
the end of the cave. But the hole was
above their heads, Billy, though weak,
managed to raise Shorty so that he
could squeeze through the hole. Then
Shorty reached down and helped )31117
out,
They looked around them. Beyond the
SHORTY SQUEEZED THROTTOSI
outskIrte of 'the town they found them-
solveal, and the walk to their homes
never (learned so long before. But it
was accompllehed, and they were
promptly stowed In their beds after
ecoldIngs and promlees of more ReVero
Ptinishment.
After it was all over, they were proud
of their adventure, I can tell you! The
rent of the "rtobbers" listened to Its re,.
Cital yfith wide-open eyes: The lads'
(Recovery of the Other end Of the cave
was destined to become of consIderatilo
importance:3 to the ''Sloody Robbers -
but thstets another tale.
. .
1 HOW ADAM WAS PUNISHED.
A prominent pastor tolls this story ;
"I visited a certain school one day
where Bible instruetion was part of the
deity course, and in order te test the.
thildren's knowledge, asked some ques-
eons. One elese of little 'girls looked
'eartleelarly bright, and I asked the
(retest one : 'What sin did Adarn core -
mil ?'
"Ile ate forbidden fruit.'
"'Right. Who tempted Adam ?'
Eve,
"'Not really Eve, but the serpett.
And how WaS Adam penished I' • s/
"The girl hesitated end lecik eonfused.
Beheld her sat a little eight -pier -old
girl, who raised lior hand and said;
'Please, pastor, I knoev,'
"'Well, tell us, leow was Adam put-
ished e
140 had to meets, Etre.'"
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rat the place, and one of these the yonth
eaptueed when he WEIS
TWELVE YEARS OF AGM'. I
Thee scholarship took him to Mambos.;
ter Grammar School, where he did well'
and obtained a Bailee, Solielnrship. Ho
took a double first at the University
We is no3v the secretary of ono of the
greatest and most beneficent week,
lione in the world.
A gatelener a vicarage in Ilereford
bad a driver, plodding boy, who ae
kneed the village sehool, He did his
week se well that 110 attracted the par.
liouthe notice of Me Vicar of the parisb.
Ely les teivlee the gardener alleivect thie
trey le compete tor the C.ounty Colin -
01 Sebolattehips in, The Hereford Au.
thorny, and the lad was successful,
From this peek, of Vantage be won
prize after prize, until at length it cur-
mlnakd in a sehelaiship at Balliol.
Welk there he gained the higheat hen.
eis, end new holds a meat Important
arid reeponsible Net, sueh ea Me fa-
ther would never WM dreamt et tWen.
ty smelts agre
Instaneee Streh as these, Might, be Mute
tiplied,„ad In Rime entree et
keen eompetition hatweert flatten end
Milton, the terfesti people cermet afore
to let any fic0c1 Melerfal 11111 k Matte
and lug of alle-brelitei
TelE DIFFERENCE,
A teateher in, a Certain settee! Seld 10
11. dull Mil 1 '
"When I Wile yeer age 'Weld ereerer
any teleeteen In atillanelio."
"Yee," laid (Ito siege child, "but you
forget that yeti had a different teacher to
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Interesting Gossip A.; me weem.
I
e olwtenaci, II :
Peolleieleee 01 011°,01 •reWn huncireels a
tbe liarnum and Bar enw, mo bigoest
United slates. TeVeeraliwity train
esbe'llirige.eeliii•sshglie:inaulcigfit.clttrewVe:eileel aecietteuAilietentletee'
,oarebination, wile is
Mr, kb n Ringling,
,
United States tie the Swinatetel•
I
traveLs in a Melo that wou '' \1,40 yV1
derielt envious. Hie prime 1 L 1.1
aixm
cost over 1115n00, is 111040nm
tin ho has a permanent .pass feheleel'
vehicle and les passengers over I
whole 'elevate seetem of the Unite
States.
Altheugh the various illegibene Of 1
Vanderbet family have MN more
do than spend the tortunes Mune
them by the famous "Conine:More,"
me by no means lacking in the
businees acumen whicbt that gent
showed during his Lifetime. Here
stray about Mr. W. K. efendereet,
the eldest son of 'W. K.," the pr
'head of the Vanderbilt family,
goes le prove tais assertion. Na
New Hampstead residenee lm oovet
Mlle lake, for which he Olieresil the t
authorities e50,000. The authorities
clamed the offer, however, and, net
mindful perhaps of whom they
dealing with, atuck ou-t for 810
Whereupon Mr. Van.derbIle q
•bought up all the land immediat
peeling the lake, and so cut it 0
He astonished owners. They in y
eaross the intervening strip of fl a,,,,
the mooldng waters, but they aneote
reach them without trespassing 4 I:• lea,ThA
deebilt land -or empleyIng a bal oorieSee
lh Germany a woman is jud ad, rieeee
acooreing toher drawing -mom aux)
plishments er knowledge of len a a:
molten of the eine, but •acc neeng to
Ler domesticity. That Is ex- eLly how
the Kals•orin likes te be jud ed. She
prides herself upon belie model
housewim, and has alwi ende voted'
te set an example ( her men rywo. •
men by keeping se. cliously aloof from .
matters political ant concentrating her le
attention upon the 1 equirernents of her '
home, husband, and children. Oulside-
these, Me serious ir terests of the Ent -
'
press Ile mainly a ong t -he poor anti
suffering. She Ls ntensely charitagee,
and has done won ers to help forward
philanthropic mot ements in Germane' '
and it is in.cons quence of her work
In this direction that she has begh
teemed "Empre4 of Goodness." At
the same ebne filer Majesty is knee otere
oueloor receeati4ns, beinsequite an exee
pert tennls-player and one of the best .3
herse-w.emen "in the Empire.
In spite of hLs n.any other laborse,
Lord Alviostone still keeps up his in-
terest In music, and is .proterbly tee
only judge who retained les aseoceation '
wilLIt a enure!' choir aner his pram-
tem. to the Bench. In his younger e
days the Lore chief Justice Wes lam-
eus for his voice, ahd his connection
vith Um choir of St. Mareenebore, Ken- •
Melon, Is Lvell known. 11 May surprise ,
some people to know that Lord Alver-
lone can sing a correc eking excellent, '
y More than once ihr hos at a festinte,
gathering amused les fellow-dinerej
eith "Sieber Mary Wallis Like nese:
r moo other old-fasbioned dilly. Here,
$ a sample of his humor. A learnee
i. C., who was about. to make an ap-
Heal:Ion to him in, court one day re-
urding a licensing matter, explained,
vIth a considerable amount of porn-
osity, that Ile represented tato pale '
an. et the case. "And not the sinner, '
presume?' asked his Idedehip, airily.
Mr. Corklyou, Secretary of the Unit -
d States Tneasury bas risen to his pre-
ent position Mom the pest of shore
and writer in •the Post Office depart.
ent. In a certain sense, however, 'Ito
ees hie success to a lucky chance. One
ay President Cleveland asked whether
y 01 his colleagues•in the Cabinet
uld recommend hen a competent
enographer. The Postmastee-General
plied that he knew of "a handsome
ung man, as smart as lightning, as
ethodical as a machine, and a gentle -
an aLmve everything." The young
Iletv in question was Mr. Cortelyou,
lo was sent for and appointed. -Presi-
nt McKinley retained his s.ervices,
O induc•ed -Congress te create a new
st for ben --that of assistant mone-
y, while Pt•esicient Roosevelt round
. Cortelyee invaluable. Through. all
cat•eer Mr, Gortleyou bias been ttn
coedingly fregal and peen man, liv-
g en his salary and reassessing 04
ivate income. His sole relaxation Ls
este, and he plate the piano maga. .
ently, being a gradeaM of the New
rk University of Mustc,
A picturesque celebrity, in the pereon.
General Porfirio Diaz Presicteet et
Mexican States,' is sald to be going
O visit to England this year. The
reeef les career glitters with gcnu-
mid altering leerrianee. Diaz was
ginally a common wiener; but men
d quickly in Mexico clutieg (he Ire- '
utionney were, aed 'the elenerness,
t, and couregeousness of Diaz tin-
ed him to limome in turn caPt
omit, gen real., commence -Tenter,
, Melee, Peceidene in which lam
Wields gtoatee po3ver ever )0
n the Czar, over Adele or lee v.
r Germany. But be is a wise e
the namy reforme he 11aS, b t
tit has transformed Mexico. f t .
(.1 of chats ink one of rad
sperity, ' Wien Mae fleet MI
et', rebbory end coeruptio e
. fn fact, bandits kept the.
error,' end the manner iri wl
Mon t , dealt , evith them eh
iteneets, He offened• them L ,.
enrolment le a sportielly
cavalry corps -or Mat Lo
gen rebbed any brinde enugh
at once shot. AnneeSty wee
AA an Illeistration, by the
stirring them theough whi •
Misted, 11 nifty be nientien ,,,,,, 1
record line been summed up as 11
agemeets, twice eerieuely Worm
three three 4 prisoner, •
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