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Takes More Than a Good Breakfast to Equip a
Man for the Day's Business.
"Give us this day our daily bread."—
il1att, vl., 1.
There is sone:thing strikingly 'pathe-
tic in U10 thouent that the most thane
iar patten In the prayer most cote-
monly used airing all prayers Ls the
ono in whecll we cry, "Give us this day
aur daily bread.' 11 is the cry of the
child looking up to he Father of all and
wailing for toad for the present.
None has caught tho spirit of this
prayer who has thought that such a
petition made daily loll 'unnecessary;
who has thought of las bringing about
that condllion of life, Ideal to many, in
which the needed meals would fall from
the heavens as the suitable seasons be-
tween sleep and the pursuit of pleasure.
The spirit of the prayer puts a higher
significance into these simple words.
Each day comes with its deep needs,
its heavy cares, ifs high 'pcssibilttes, 1Ls
trying duties, ite splendid joys, and we
ask not for three meals or five, but kir
all that the day may have we may fled
sufficient strength and sustenance.
1L takes more than a (,coed breakfast
to equip a man for the day's business.
11 tales a bracing of the will, some up -
31`t of the heart; 11 lakes some inner im-
pulse and power tbat• helps vs to see
the glory of a new day, to feel the thrill
of its possibilities, to face It with de-
light, and to end in it every good and
every noble thing it may have for us.
There ere hours every day when the
inner light burns dim, when the heart
Se0m5 le fall and almost, faint, when
despair creeps over us and
1'IIE SPIRIT OF PESSIMISM
comes up like a bewildering mist, when
cynicism's cold fingers lay LMenselvas
Icily on our warm latah in our fellows,
Such periods of depression and doubt
become habitual wills some; they serve
to block every high endeavor.
These hours simply mean that the in-
ner life needs its daily bread; that for
the high business of living, for. the soul's
service In the world, we need the toed
01 the spiritual life. The advice to read
u good and noble thought every day,
a.; some poem, and to see some good
platui'e or to hear an elevating strain
of music every day Is as simple and
practical es the advice to Lake your
meals regularly.
The physical plays a large part in
llfe, but 11 doe; not play the largest.
Or, if it does, then there are reaches
of this physical that aro nol, to be ex.
eared ly runlerbal observ'allce nor sat..
(slkvl with material supplies. You can
afford to neglect no need of your nature,
no ns,peet of your life, A heartache
is just as real us an ache In the empty
stomach.
The Tragedy of alt our lives is that
we sock e1 satisfy them with the bread
that - perishes; divine as they are, we
seek to lie them down to the dust. 1\'e
shut ,out heaven and cry aloud in de-
epen' that earth Is so dark and its tasks
so irksome. Lilo becomes hopeless, ns
IL seems to be empty of things to erre
Lsfy the higher life.
Yet this daily broad Is not some man-
na to fall from the skies, is not some
peculiar privilege belonging to a few
choice souls.
IT IS TO BE IIAD FOR TIIE TAKING.
Our great heritage of cheering thoughts,
of noble Ideals, of visions that elevate
and inspire, is at the sanlo tone the
Cheapest and the richest thing obtain-
able,
To those who look for beauty every
common bush is soon aflame with God;
to those who look for love, how won-
derfully rich Is our poor humanity in
gentle kindliness, in tender service, 114
deep•, thrilling sacrifices! They who
walls the common ways of life, mingling
with men and doing this world's ma-
terial tasks, find, if they but have the
open mind, that which gives them faith
and strength for their daily living and
for higher endeavor.
What (hough the hands be tied to
toilsome task, may not the heart go
out in memory of the best thoughTs
that Have ever come tothe race, in
imagination of heroic scenes, in aspla
alien after the best? May not the will
respond to every stimulus and aspira-
tion to greater life? May not our hearts
feed on those things that have made
men brave and Godlike in the past?
I.8 not this our deop need? Is Hol this
the bread we ought daily 10 desire?
For what is life Lo any of us if 11 be
no mare than Lhe feeding of this outer
shell, and what may 11 not become it
it be, the nurturing of the whole being
by those ideals, and passions, and serv-
ice that have most mightily moved our
race to days gone by?
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 12.
Lessen II. . 'rhe Ilolsing of Lazarus.
Golden 'Text, 30110 11. 25.
'. TIE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
(13ased on the text of the Revised
Vel'StOn.)
A Greater Sign.—As the great tragedy
nl his own life approached Jesus had
a Nodal pul'peee In revealing to men,
and to leis disciples 111 particular, his
power over life and death. This pur-
pose was to establish their faith in his
divine and superhuman character and
power so firmly that even in Lha dark
hours of grief .and dlsappolnlanent
which he knew awaited them, when all
their hopes and expectations would Ile
buried with him In Joseph's tomb, they
rebated still cherish the memory of has
words and deeds, and be. prepared for
the glorious message of his . resurreo-
San. Tho -story of the raising of Lae-
: emus is thus a Ailing 011108.5 in the
evangelist's record• of signs wrought by
eases as the miracle Itself may bo re-
garded as the culmination of Ills' 101n-
. Jetty. The next miracle recorded by
John is the resurrection of Jesus him-
self. At the flute of the cull of the first
disciples, even before the first miracle
at Cana ha Galilee had been wrought,
Nsthnnael bud marveled at Ito mira-
cmiens power implied in the Master's
words: "Before Ph!11p called thee, when
thea wast under 111e fig tree, I saw
thee." At that time Jcsue had said to
the ns•tonlshed beltevea, "'Thou shalt see
greater things than these," and now the
fulfillment of that promise and 11re-
phecy had reached• its climax in Re
revelation of the Mester's power over
1110 roue death. He led come to con-
quer death and to bring lite. it is In-
te.nded that to -day's lesson shall bo
mese the basis of whelever.spccial eon -
sideration is given In this power of
Jesus over dental in eonneetien with ibe.
observnnen of ]:aster in the Sundny.
Echoed next Sunday (April 19).
Verse 1. 1aznr11s—'rho Greek form
rf the Hebrew Eleaznr• moaning "God
Is my help.'' The brother of Many 8111:1
Meelhn, end probably Tho youngest of
• the tntnily group. Later when the sup-
per wee given to Jesus at neleeny Luz-
•�y. r erne eelspies nl, end many pr .pie
gnl,ltored hernese of a desire to see the
man who 110511 land I
h r r nscd from n the
ele.ri. Convincing
an evidence of the
power of Jesus cool(] ant; hale but be
a
istas+-
,l
to 'Ih,e able
!
prie
sts. with
n1Dot rouneel that, 'they ntghI pet inz•
eras also to deo UP (11,10); This they
probably :1ic1 nob do, but satisfied them -
solves with the cleaih of ,(esus,
Belleau. -•_AAI, .ream¢ called; el -A0',".
yrh. meter o' 41'11111! tenth tor "I,nzar•
nee" elle h•ilinge is 81/0111011 new, -es
eel the time of Christ. on the boulhen4t-.
ern ,slope of Olivet, abate, •two I111105
?ran Jerusalem,
2. 'ruttt. Mary who nnoinled l.bo TAM—Tbus de;agnnled to dis1infinish her
common flame, not less than six 5;f
whom are mentioned in the New Testa-
ment. The anointing referred to had
not yet taken place, but °Colored later
at the feast in the house of a certain
Simon in Bethany, in Sona' of Jesus,
and recorded 1n the next chapter ,
0, The sisters therefore sent unto him
—Unto Jesee, who et this time woe in
Pewee, ' bcyonel Jordan" with 1118 dts.
alples.
He whom thou loves:—The members
of She little family group at Bethany
wore among the few very Intimate
friends of Jesus outside the apostolic
circle. This warm human attachment
of Jesus for his blend Lazarus throws
an important silo light, on the char-
acter of Jesus 111 its human ospect,
8. Seeking to stone thee—The severe
persecution with which he had recently
met in Judean was in part, at least the
reason for his retirement filo Perara
(compare John 10, 30, 40).
9. Are there not twelve hours 111 Ilia
day?—In figurative language Josue
poi11Is out the fact that he had not yet
reached the end of has divinely intend-
ed. ministry (hls working cloy), and that
hence there was no immediate danger
that the plotting of his enemies against
him would be successful
11. Our friend—]n Christ friendships
survive death.
Fallen asleep—A common metaphor
for death, both I1 the New Testament
and In the classical lite•atuire of all
peoples. Tho "Greek word hero used is
the sotto from whicil we get our Eng-
lish word "cemetery," meaning, Tiler.
ally, sleeping place.
1A•: Lazarus Is dead—A ,statement im-
plying the seperhumnn knowledge of
Jesus, since no messenger had e5 yet
announced the sad event..
10, Thomas . Didymus—The s,ec-
clnd mune means "twin." Since in three
formol lists of the apostles preserved
In us in. the Gospels the name of this
disciple is coupled with that of eine
thew, It 41544 been inferred that the two
men Were teen brothers.
17. In Ih,e tomb tour dries already—
The journey of thirty or more miles
f:vn1 11o11115'0 Peron, sande by slow
stages, would occupy about than length
of time.
18. Fifteen furlonj:'s--A trifle less Then
two miles. the furlong being approxf-
mutely one eighth of a idle,
20. Martha stent hen — Martha
seems to have been the older, ns she
was the there energetic and active.
• 2e. Whatsoever thou shalt ask of God,
Cio1'1. will give thee—\\'oreis 1'ave0lleg a
positive inith in Jesus and his Athealah
shi 7 a fat c
1 , fate) expressed in verses >r7 in
even more 110811ive and explicit theme.
28. The '1'eac•her--A title indicating
reverent regard )or the person thus
spoken of.
80,—Jesus does not hurry abruptly in-
to 141
e house Ise of mo r ,�
urn(n but r.v a
$, b ).
the, bereaved sisters lime to realize the
stignillcance .of his nearnees before he
01'rivcs on the actual scene of tiro seSr-
tow,
oa, kfy brother had not died — Roth
the Melees shared Ute sante profound
faits In Jesus,
93, Groaned in life aptril- dr, •'was
Moved wilih Indlgnetion In the splrlt,'
The le probably la some strong
emotion, Implying condemnation
fi of
cniothbng that hes already ocelirred,
It has been suggested that Jesus Wee
front bt"i:r wem,ns bearing this very
angry with the (also or pretended Byrn-
paltry of 11,: Jetts, but (hero i.'3 nr,1hh'g
ru the language. of the mare',t!ve ler w111'-
I11li1. 11118 assu1111)1ion, 1.111,,11 the 41ea•,I
lrrutsla(oti "wcr'ping," whit', it signill+s
"vatting," is the Hume 1)1 both cat:.
used 01 mere les well (s of the
Jew 110110) 0h41N1` aro itni bably lir.: 00
nearly correct who think in this eon -
LJ• -u of cad
,.r'
)io• l l0 1 S 11 401114 ening-
41.111%,1)1 10 &Oil nail ntl 11111 1. 1t implied
et, 1110 trait , f in, As 1h•Clyluonl, elate
weds:
)1-
5981: "Deeply reeved ly the sight of to
1ru1:11 sift ctrl=, it eeele 11in1 a etrugget
to brace his pmt fir tle dread cnc.nut
Ler with ih' theme, i.1 flaricnese."
35. Jeees v, no. 1', sere lieu's, 5 r.`f crinsnal police in Berlin, (remnant -
THIEF -TAKER IS INSANE
ieeel'ED A31'1:ONDiNG I1A.NKEB TO
(.191 HIMSELF LP,
Said lo,-Iln've 'Palen 8500,000 0f Deposi
tors' Aloe"y --A Pollee Memo
Eeposed,
Were it net L,r it= pathetie eide,
caoo of Waldemar Muller, verniniestate
e
Shun. but arrest Metalware. Maier -gent,
11 umy hichk°nluily he noticed 1!1111
nes Is the shoetree Verse; In 1h: Pibh.
30, Cave ---In the 1neekince Idlls of
(9: eating are t0 be found ninny nutter -
el caves, Such, as well 11s many arti-
ficial 4excavutIons of the saran Jaid,
weiv Heal 115 0111135 for the dead, the
erat.runee to mast cases being from the
side,
Against -Or, "upon," the Greek pre-
pos(lion permitting of either transla-
tion.
39. The stone—'1'mnhs in the hillside
worn closed by placing round flat s1'nes
Is -fore the opening. This was dune
principally to keep dogs_ and wild
lcosis from entering.
lie hath been dead 'four days -'rho
cheek expression is idlolnatie, and leaves
s:unolhing Lo be supplied in thought,
which in English 1L Is necessary to ex-
press In words. It would be equally
correct to translate, elle tins been four
days in the tomb," or, "11 is four days
since he was buried.'
42. The mailliludo—Tho miscellaneous
crowd which had gathered, es distingu-
ished from "the Jews" previously men-
tioned, and among whom we:ro doubt.
less many sincere, sbnpthereu'leel peo-
ple-
45. Believed on him—Believed him le
bo the Messiah.
40. •Cniaphas—Before whom later Jesus
was brought to be tried.
51. Being high priest that year, he
prophesied—We note the exalted con-
ception of the high priestly office held
by John, as indicated In this explana-
tion.
52. Not for the nation only—Prompted
possibly by the thought of non-Jewish
reeders of bis.narratvn, John Iapses in-
to this theological reflection, which is
to he regarded as his comment on his
own narrative, of which 11 really forms
no intrinsic part.
53. Prom that day forth—Promptond
radical action was cleorly necessary if
the infhterice of testis over the common
people was to bo stayed. Tho only
adequate remedy from the standpoint
of the Jewish authorities was .lo put
him to death.
55. To purify themselves—From the
many conteminatiens necessarily inci-
dent to the long overland journeys from
outlying provinces to the capital city..
SHOCK FOR TEETOTALERS.
Analysis Showed as Mach 118 Eight Per
Cent. Alcohol in Soft Drinks.
Teetotuleis have been roughly shock-
ed by (.,ho publication of the Britislh
Government's analyses of so-called tem-
peranee drinks, which show aneaston-
ishina percentage of alcohol in certain
(nvor;e teetotal beverages. Tho liquor
laws male) drinks containing more than
2 per cent. of alcohol taxable as intoxi-
cants, but of 4,147 samples of temper-
ancedrinks tested in 110 last four years
no fewer than 3,008 exceeded the limit.
In a majority of cases the excess was
shghl, but in several of Llse samples
113 much as 8 per cent. of alcohol was
found while in a few 9 and 10 per cent.
was revealed. One sample of a mysteri
cue decoction called dandelion stout con-
Joined 12.8 per cent.
Tho chief offending drinks were gin-
ger beer and herb beer. Many samples
0t these were found to bo as Intoxicat-
ing ns claret 00 hock, while others, con,
twined ns much alcohol ns beer. The
temperance advocates were startled to
learn that n child drinking a pint of
S01110 of the teetotalbeverages consumes
More alcohol than Is contained in .half
a pint of champagne. it is adniited
that the high percentage is accidental,
and that it is due to fermentation in
bottling.
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Inspiration is half of education.
Manliness is -the best kind of godll-
MSS.
Ready made opinions aro always
mien I.s.
Smartness is never a match. for sin-
cerity,
It's not tho misery but the motive
makes the martyr.
The worn out religion is the one that
is 3104.00 used.
There can he no right manners with-
out right motives.
We are seidom sorry for' the sting-
ing words we have left unsaid.
You can never wholly satisfy heart
hunger through I.he ears alone.
A omen misses the blessingindiet-
malty when he crawls around a. nd It.
Nothing pleases one kind of sinner
better than pounding the other 'kind.
The pe.,ple who are not afraid to die
are tiro 01103 the world wants to live
Advertising the sins of our Mons
15 not the same thing es confossing our
0w'n.
The church is sure to be left in the
dark when the preacher la Only a gas
fixture.
Light hearted people are Almost sure
len be found carrying somebody clso•s
burden.
Everyday expesperatttn$ ere windows
through which wo,.e
es thereat man With'
11).
To Int your heart id the 'needs and
griefs '
ra�f others tilers i� to shill, out the world's
dt.t,C
o�y.
Vets' ie o f q i t
s ial,en the appetit0 of
men for righteousness by preoching en
rottenness
The only sympathy some folks cut-
tivote le 8 keen feeling of being sorry
for themselves,
les a Waste Of breath le point the way
to heaven with your lips while your
IN is headed tiro Athbl way;.
1,
weu d deserve to rank side by side wfil
the intim rlyd esculent -Pe of the captnii
o[ J{op, nick as the funniest story of 111
ape, 11000 Muller, however, 15 in re
l,r5mcut ut it sanitarium 1)1 Saxon
nervous derangement, end smile
are suppressed in eoalnll'51)1Ibou fo
his sad e.mditnn, writes a Merlin our
respondent, 1ie:Ar'e his free slate tea
realized Germany did indulge in a thun
demes roar of merriment, for 1111.8 zea
thus police official of the lin ser resort
cd to the novel method of capturing
Siegmund Friedberg, a Perlin hanker
who is nldssing along with some $500.
1011 of his depositors funds, by issuing
an open telegram asking the fugitive
to erne home and give himself up.
The police aommissery appealed to
the banker on personal grounds, as-
suring him that unless his arrest was
speedily accomplished the commissary
W0s in grave danger of nervous pros-
traGon. Friedberg was supposed to be
in hiding in London, 60 Muller caused
his open telegram to be printed in the
Daily Mail, ]raping thus to catch the
fugitives eye. After 48 blurs had pass-
ed and Friedberg had had the Impo-
liteness to decline his pursuer's polite
invitation to came to jail, Commissary
Mellor
TENDERED HIS IIESIG,NA'IOIN
0
y
r
s
as a pollee officer and published the
following weird connmunicalion in the
local papers:
"The reasons for my resignation 110
in 'the insuperable conflict raging in
my breast between discipline and the
dtetales of profeseinnal responsibility,
For years I have tried io effect a com-
promise between these duties, .I have
fought and fought. But in order not to
wredc finally the best of my powers 1n
this useless struggle a voice within
cries, 'Free yourself from these unbear-
able bondsl' Strenuous days and nights.
in investigating the Friedberg cash have
ire no way weakened my physical and
mental powers. I feel unusually hap-
py :and blessed with the joy of week.
Whether Friedberg;s arrest takes place
(0 -day or to -morrow must recede into
the background when tho service of Lhe
German nation is concerned."
Mutter's conduct during the preceding
week had been of such an eccentric
charactelr that his supemtiors lost no
time in relieving him of duty. Then.
they proceeded (o undo some 0f the re-
markable work he had carried out in
hes zeal to ferret out the mysteries of
Banker Friedberg's pequiations, Their.
first act was to release from jail four
persons whom Muller had arrested
wholly
WITI•I'OUT LEGAL GROUNDS --
(he banker's lawyer, the finance° of Lhe
bank cashier and 111)3 young woman's
mother, and the cashier himself. They
also released a quantity of jewelry
'which the strenuous commissary had
seized from several of the banker's wo-
man friends, on the ground, that the
gems represented property paid for
with depositors' money.
Muller, who Is 37 years old and was
formerly a military officer at Bremen,
is known among his comrades es the
"poet commissary,' as he has dabbled
in literature and written four or five
books and plays. One of his plays,
called Locomotive Engineer Klassen, Is
shortly to be produced at a Berlin the-
atre. He has been an earnest and suc-
cessful pollee ofteial, his superiors say,
and his eccentricities in the Friedberg
case are ascribed to overwrought nerv-
ous condition brought 011 by 11.18 exces-
sive zeal and sleepless labors. He work-
ed day and night at the hank premises,
snatching limo for meals and sleep at
various odd hours, and never geltng
out of his clothes, he says,
FOR ELEVEN DAYS AND NIGHTS.
Prolongal rest, he thinks, will make
hint as sound as ever, physically and
mentally, but lie says a policeman's lot
is not :a happy one card that he will
hereafter devote himself exclusively to
the more congenial pastime of book
and play -writing.
Ills ease has a serious and disquiet -
in. side—that of .the ease with which
police officers In Prussia may make ar-
rests and throw people into prison. No
sort of advance Inquiry is necessary,
'and the whim of a commissary like
Muller 111ey result in landing the most
innocent of persons in a cell for an in-
definite nulnl.er of days or even weeks
before chane Is given to establish one's
innocence. This aspect of the Fried-
berg case Is attracting wide attention
In Germany, and' if it results in reme-
dial notion which will a little more
guarantee liberty and the pursuit or
happiness in the Kaiser's domain, the
broken-hearted commissary who would
eliminate oldt!me police methods and
simply invite criminals to go to jet,
wet have made himself imperishably
101130138•
A BAD RREAIG
\VI•fn— \\hy did you givo ural phone-
graph away just before w0 w•050 mer-
vied? llldd L 'ort tunic I could use it?"
fins' and --'My dear, 1 gave it away
to Seep pence. Don't you know that
4150 house Is big etsouglr for Iwo Mang
,unaahfnes?"
And al Hie last report he vvas elle
trying to square himself.
AN IMPOSING FAMILY.
"Tho Swett es seem to keep up an
1rn110sh19 c'st(bliehlnent,ir'01ua.101(1 the
canned-08ds drummer,
"You bet they do," replied the grocery-
'
maa, With a sigh Meg drawn out, "and
I'fn One of the fellows they impose on,
SOME CLEVER BURGLARS
BILL SIKE':S 111!1 175,' NO !11F1.A:14 GONE
Ol'T OF BUSINESS.
Ile Has :ltarrelied \Vie;it the 'Mires, and
le Fur More Canning
Than Ever,
The o.lnec' and iugl:,ucity o1 tli
In: dal n burglar , indeed, as v:+,(11101
t.11 as anything iu fletion, Some lite
tone nen 11 thief broke into a house 11
\\'rmb'cd,n, Englund, i11 bread daylight
But a maid heard him, and found Sin
hu.;y pot:4e'fug tba eun141110 ",f the Ode
basket, Ian run, and cutting x05011
80)111 open tn'.,und, came. to 80 A!1•
England bonnie and croquet ground,
Ifs slipped through the le.lge, and
walked ...thirteen into the 'dubhonse,
where he nia,le for Ilia dressing -room,
and began 10 wash his lands as if fro-
thing lead happened.
Itis coolness was ,:o superb that, the
attendant, laking him for a member's
trend, suspected nothing. having com-
pldle.l Ms toilet, the burglar coolly
strolled out by thn front dour, walked
to the gate, and departed.
A CONNOISSEUR IN ClUel...
To steal jewellery from the front of a
brill:anlly-lit shop -window which crowds
of people are passing constantly is an
idea which would only occur to a con-
notsseur in crime. Yet this is what
actually happened at Erie, New York,
ono autumn enema m a couple of years
ago. A watch repairer al work with-
in a yard of the show -caro suchelenly
noticed that half the cnnteels of the
case had rey'sterlously disappeared. Ile
gave the alarm, and investigation show-
ed that the thief had gained access to
the cellar under 'the shop, and then,
mounting a pile of boxes, had drilled
a hole in the cellar roof, cut out the
bottom of the ease, and qu'elly remov-
ed some 09,000 worth of booty. This
roan was never caught.
New ideas are valuable in every pro-
fession, and at least as much so in
that of burglary es in any other. A.
few menthe ago a lady living in Streat-
ham, England, went out for the after-
noon, and soon after her departure a
van drove up, and the man 111 charge
told the servant that he had brought
an ottoman. The maid said she thought
there must be some mistake, but the
valmtan replied with a grin that it was
a present, intended as _a pleasant sur-
prise, so the article was carried up to
the best bed -room.
PROFITABLE FURNITURE.
FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE
it \}:S ilY MAIL. FROM IRELAND'S
SHORES,
happenings in the Emerald felt: 01
!Merest to h'ialt-
m1n.
o \\Swing 4111!10119 cat the 1.4.1)441 0(
roue t 1 I tf ,lu Ur, m place.
Douep el 0" pruviug 1:0140101 to til' hca 4411 la e,y chaing.
° ring I"llel res, y people, to
1 A Seim of (IV 11fres in Slkr ook,
fx.unt Al•ala. lan, was re+:all • sold 51)311 il. has b0uuden duty to pay le his
Y g y L`alpreor iha c,ouplilnelll a( the sitter' -
1 y auli001 to jl„Jit. est 9,r in of eatery.
s
Groat di.44h•ess (4x811 curving the poor A pretty story is told e''neernlng the
G.rurtess rf Dudicy, 151 which the aro-
MIAs persence included two well-icnowln
Japan. es jugglers, who were giving et
Performance at a Landon inusic-hall,
and a canny which constituted a part
et their sleek -in -!rude. The Countess
occupied a seat in lire stalls: and dur-
ing the performance one of the little
birds, cflcr hovering round the auditor-
ium for sone time, gently flew down
and revelled on her lap. 'mien eel at-
tendant came forward to claim the bird
the ()aimless begged tc be permitted to
loop it, and the manager having given
11 s concent I.0rr1 Dudley promptly eon-
sli'uclecl a tiny e0g0 out of his pro-
gramme, and in this the little songster
was safely conveyed to his house 111
Carlton House Terrace.
Although her fortune has been esti-
mated at 915.000,000, the late Baroness
A. de Rothschild lived a Inst simple
and unassuming life. The most ex-
quisite dishes were served at her table
and the rarest wines set before her
guests, but she scarcely touched them.
In later years she hardly even made
use of her equipages, 11 was quite a
usual thing to see her tako the tram
which passed her gate. running from
Geneva to \'ersoix. The guards all
knew her, and used to point her out
sometimes to the ether travellers. After
she had seen all the Wender which
wealth and a high social position can
secure, the Baroness seemed to be more
convinced than anyone of the vanity
of 01111ea and earthly magnificence. Her
desire seemed to be et Iive like the
humble, and find peace end happiness
in the routine of their' ordinary lives.
Mr. Justin McCarthy is now living In
quiet retirement at Westgate -on -Sea,
England, and his withdrawal from ac-
tive literary fife has leen a distinct
loss. No man of our time has seen
more of lite than this brilliant Irisli
man. He has known every man worth
knowing in the Victorian era, It must
seem an age to Mr. McCartily since he
caught his first glimpse of London.
The Crystal Palace was in 11'cle Park
then, and the Duke of Wellington was
walking down Whitehall in his blue
coal and duels trousers. Lord John
Russell was passing Reform Bills; Ptak -
ens, Carlyle, Tbadceray. John Bright,,
and the young Victorians were In their
prime. The young reporter knew them
all. 1L^. McCarthy has written novels,
hietories, and poems too many to re-
arenlber.
The death of Sir henry Colvile haat
removed from the British Army a man
of many tastes and talents.: Soldier,
surveyor, balloonist, expltrer, author,
yachtsman, and photogre.pher, ho seem-
ed able to turn a ready haul and facile
brain to the most unexpected tasks;
and the one clouded spot of a brilli-
ant record is that Baer War incident
at Lindley', the ultimate result of which
vvas that General Colvile was placed on
half -pay. Years ago, before balloon-
ing become a fashionable pastime,, Sir
Henry bad made a deep slu,ly cf aero-
nautics, and one of his many ascents
was on the °pension of his marriage,
when he spent the first day of his hon-
eymoon in navigating a big balloon
from (he Crystal Pnlece to Ely. He
was as' much at home on the wale's
of the Channel as are tees in the air, and
on one occasion, when serving hl the
Guards, he paddled a canoe from Dover
to Calais in half -a -dozen bouas. Sir •
Henry was also a lover of the drama-
tic art, and he has written two or three
plays, 0110 of the best of these being
The Nick of Time,” the. Guard ,' play
at Chelsea. Barracks last year.
Sir W. 8. nic11men11, R. A. is one
of the most interesting artists of the
time. ile bales ugliness as much as
he bates mise, and equals iluelcin In
his antipathy to the unlovely in life.
lie also stands for pure air in London,
and smoke is his sbeminetion. No man
is more toady to lend a helping hand
to struggling genius. 14 is Sir \Vi1-
liens's proud hast that when he is et
home he hes as guest and student every
third Sunday a poor factory boy who
has a gift for drawing, He it vv0s who
"discovered" Austin 0. Spare, the re-
markable pailtel'-pr'edigy, The famous
Royal Aeademiclan w'as himself one of
London's boy prodigies 1110)11 than fifty
years ago, when he astonished his re-
lations by cartooning 'thein upon floors,
walls, tables, and window triunes -41p.
071 anything, in foot, which would bear
the mark of Ws pencil
Queen Maud of Norway has been do -
scribed as one of the cleverest mem-
bers of the British Royal Fancily. She
is talented beyond the average, resde
herd, wr les bolls prose end • poetry,
and spe sirs live languages fluently.
Then she meows mealy minor arts and
PERSONAL PARAGIIAPIIS.
1111crestng Gossip ;%bout Some of Me
Worl'd's Leading People,
The Mearr's moustache, ere Its pre.
,cul forte. dates built to 1894. If, was
e. development of that individuality
which the definitely ',esu m4,1 519oh. his
tweel0101) 1n 1888,.although 1110 credit
of the acted. "diseovory" »lust be elven
1. th" ]{u" 51 a ,.:wn 11 vale ps':uquler,
w•ho, 11 ilrr r 415'13' '41501:8 of 1'15 exist-
cn'e, had to be in 5144x1 atloidau0e al
x reel, ,e 1110 u.. .,
N. Metrical bees 111411)3 re ) t
ed the phyci..l':,5 (11 e r a ,00,10 r
every geed German has serer consid-
An hour later the van returned, and
the driver told the maid that the otto-
man was intended for another house.
So it was taken dawn again. It was
not until the mistress returned that the
discovery was made that all the jewel-
lery and valuable silver in the Ileum
had accompanied it. The burglar had,
of course, packed his booty inside the
ottoman.
Another burglars' ruse was practised
with semen in Sheffield not long ago.
Receiving an urgent ielephona message
late on a Saturday night, the Sheffield
fire -engine was despatched to a large
timber -yard in the suburbs. The alarm
proved 'le be false, and, after inquiry,
was shown to have conte fr0111 a sil-
ver warehouse neer the flrestatlon. This
the police promptly visited, and found
the place ransacked. Some of the goods
stili lay about in sacics, which the
thieves had not yet had lima to remove.
Evidently - the burglars had 14051:oned
en getting away with their plunder dur-
ing the excitement caused by the turn-
out of the brigade.
SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS,
A gang of burglars who brake into
the 511op of a firm of wholesale jewel-
lers in Holborn, and got .away with
aver $5,000 worth of loot, took the
most extraordinary precaution to avoid
leaving any traces or being disturbed
while at work. They began by !noir-
Dig into a lady's dressing -room and
stealing several pairs of gloves, which
they worn while al, work In artier to
leave no finger -prints. They then muf-
fled the telephone -receiver with silver
paper, after which they carried the
show -cases into the back premises, and
there went through them leisurely, be-
ing careful to take only gold end silver,
end to reject all plated articles, They
(then made a meal of feed found en the
premises, but carefully washed the
Flosses to avoid the danger of being
Uncoil by finger -prints.
inn Vienna a year ago an artist to
crime committed an audacious theft. A
handsome gate and paling of hammer-
ed iron and copper Ind just been erect-
er' round the garden of •a nova villa in
the Thirteenth District, when, late en
the evening, a cart with several work-
men drove tip, reused the watchman,
011(1 grumbingly informed hila That they
had been sent to take.. away the gele
tend paling. They Insisted on his help-
ing them with the job, end, under the
egos of a policeman. spent three hours
.getting the tette up and lending it hi
the cart. About midnight they drove
54vny. In the morning, velem the reel
workmen arrived, they were sin1p1y
,paralyzed with astonishment, mid the
disgust of the robiceman may be tang-
bled when be found 1101 he lend levet
watching three thieves 00rry away their
:booty Under his very nose: --London
Answers,
O
l PO11T'U\1'1'1',
'She•--"1Iy busband won't listen to
reeeon."
tie—"lie ought fe Tse nshnrued of hie: -
see. It isn't every married Ulan that
(las tete chancel"
• 941,5S943 111\1.
Alice --"Last night, et oiu,k, 91aud
fomhdi a. harem.' in her room."
hrji.lh---"llld she catch hire?"
A,lk'a--"No. Titnt girl Is always 'lot.
ting Wren slip through her lingers,"
LESS Art' TO BREAK.
"There's 51803' a slip '(10(x1 I1,1 0119
Hud the 1ip," quote;l the moralizer,
"Yes," rrj0Jned the demoralizer. "it's
Safi' to (14114k Ota ut a Uri biretta,"
rt Portadown, on account 'of depres-
sion in 1110 11115)1 11.1)10,
The Irnunis on the estate o1 Col.
Loyd Reid ,cirned agreements for the
i'ur1 hn •e •:f their holdings.
Two c•o01l4.8l5, both Iabor men,
have been oppolute,t meg4, hates ut
liens and Limerick respe;tiveiy.
Detective Rowland was ,stabbed in
the ba•:lc at Belfast by a man mune!
B:ncicw'3od, whom he had arrested.
The Beneridge Rural Council is plan-
ning to erect 23 cottages at an average
cost or about 91,000 per cottage.
Mr, John Kerr, who was Mayor of
Limerick last year, has been appoint -
cu to the commission or the peace for
that city.
Riuherd Cody, of I{ylanna (Tipperary),
has died at the age of 100 years. He
leaves a wife aged 80 and seven in
fancily.
John Cassidy, of Clonderlaw, County
Clare, while trout fishing recently, was
so badly bitten by an otter that hls
hand had to be amputated.
It is officially notified that General
the Ilion. Sir Neville Lytelton will be
appointed Commander-in,Chief of the
Forces in [Poland from April 29.
A subterranean passage, consisting et
three chambers running lengthwise was
recently unearthed along the Great
Northern 14. R., in County Louth.
The contractor has commenced the
sinking of a new reservoir for the sup-
ply oI water to the town of Longford.
The contract was taken at 915,001
The debt on. Barrington's hospital,
Limerick, which stood at £1,405 at the
end of the year, has been reduced to
:2800 as the result of three legacies.
Three deaths and eight fresh cases
c1 spotted fever have occurred at Bel-
fast, and there are now twenty-one
cases in the Infectious Diseases Hos-
pital there.
A serious outbreak of typhoid has
taken place in the Uragh, County Let -
rim, portion 0f Ballyshannon Union,
There are at present eight cases in the
fever hospital.
A craft, hired by four young Wren'
wets found bottom uppermthsl on the
Shannon between Clare and Limerick'
end it Is Pared that all He occupants
have been drowned.
Seven cases of robbery and attempt-
ed robbery of his Majesty's mails in
Ireland have been reported in the past
thirteen months. In none of them were
arrests made.
The sub -commission 014 Irish minerals
appointed to visit Ireland, reported very
(encouragingly respecting the 'Pyrone
coal fields. !'here are 18,000,000 tuns of
coal to this dbstrict.
In spite of wild statements as to an-
archy and disorder in Ireland, banks
and railway's are in a prosperous state,
and the export cattle trade is increas-
ing in price and volume.
Application has been made to the
Waterford sessions for leave to exhume
the body of Martin Brien, a Balaclava
veteran, who was buried in the paupers
burial ground without notice staving
been given to his relatives.
While Hugh Cochrane, farmer, of
13051410111s, County Antrim, was work-
ing recently on his holding at Lough-
linch, he unearthed the remains of an
ancient Irish boat, cut from solid oak,
IS feet long and 40 inches Ovide.
Horses attached to an ambulance ear-
rying an Injured man, ran away in a
Belfast street, colliding with a lamp-
post, and throwing the driver from his
seat. The Invalid was taken in a van
to the hospital, but died almost im-
mediately.
Marten Higgies, a Kilmeadirn, count,"
Waterford, laborer, has been comnitJ-
fed for trial on a charge of manslaugh-
ter. \\'}silo engaged in a drunken
brawl with another laborer named
Murray, he inflicleel wounds which ul-
timately proved fatal.
A farmer named John O'Ilare, Belly -
lough, obtained in the Newry market
lihe suns of £'2 for 80 stones of flax,
which was raised from [hvo bushels of
seed that met £1. alis working ex-
penses Dost Mui 5)1t, leavhsg him a
net gain of 4201
The Derry Port and harbor Cenh-
missioners have 9065.1d a resolution
asking the Government to give a fine
grant of 8350,000 towards building a
graving dock at Derry, (ho commis-
sioners to add $130.001—making a to -
tai of 9500,000 for the project,
The tether of n largo family having
died of consumption Ina house. near
Newry, the collage became infected
with the germs. 91ve children died in
'rapid succession, and two mope 651
$.ick of the slime disease. The huniiy
is too poor 1.1 move tram tine house.
Drlunnler .\ltchaet Began, or the 5th
801/011011 Connaught linegers 1111111n,
W85 discharged 1111,101' 010 I1)'OVtsi011s
r'
., e new army nrder, Mier r
om tel•
ing a -r,P.r'vfre r,f forl,0-one years and
1116 dries. There woes never the segh(-
co( record ngoinst arm.
On the 1st thee.n kap,t grass farm
he'ong'ng to Memel Flynn, of
Carmw-
rengh Rnlihsn s
se Comity
Roscommon,
1
nmon,
was eleared of ratite
amt clock, which
Included a large 1lunlb41' +1f sheep, '('isey
were being driven on the Mabee 'rota
when the pelice Arrived on the scene,
nn'1 lilt raiders mule af(.
1{14 L+ Wilson, a. nurse, vvas clinrged
in the 1)itillil Pollee Court with lntan
tickle, 11 being ehifnled shot she hod
wilfuliy n518810lrrl Louise Sinnott, an
eight-month,, betty, 4104 as to cause her
deans, Eliente,111 Sinnott, ti. domestic,
the moiler of the dd.Jild, earl pined 11
to the woman Wilson's care, paying
50e a week for 11,
crafts, sews end splits \ve11, can eerv'8
wood, bind a book, Inlet a photograph,.
1en11 a stocking, play .lie's, and use a
t ewriler, And Queen 9(nucl is a
god athlete, rides well, 01111 sail 8 boat,
pull all Dar, skate (levelly ,and has of
late taken up the, pesthne of. seeing,
She is also a linen cyclist, end may
often be seen wheeling ab'sul the leans
near Sandr)nghnm. Children aro one
of her greatest interests. The story
gees Thal once, when a school emir; was
unele't' exlminatien for 114)0 nnnlsenleet,
sire took a airy 7;1110 gird on her knee,
171105111 '
end the 5.111111'8 element! y show-
ed a marked impi`oventenl, '1'1se neer-
ret; however, carne eel lathe on,,vvilate
lire little one sale l0 her troth ,
"Picas., ma'am, the lady told mo what
tea ,any."
d*,
nrirdrmscwi trytot ga.nf 5 t
her wet " "firx'u'l Oni;r against has