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The main outlines of the great scheme
of defence wll5.ilt the Government of the
Austr'alten Oonhuauntvcul[h is about to
inherence are set forth in tin aliiclal
nierneraneten that bas been published
et Melbourne. The Deakin Ministry has
accepted and is going to act upon the
principle that everymale citizen Is un-
der an obligation not only to Serve in
lime of war but to preparo himself for
that duty in Lime of peace, Every boy
who is from twelve to eighteen years
oke 'must .serve in a cadet corps, where.
he wilt be insinuated in drill, musket•
re and military formations. AL the age
of eighteen be wilt have to join a re-
giment e1 the National Ceuard, and un
to the age el twenty-one he must attend
three annual Irainings, aggregating
fatly -eight days. Between twenty-one
and twenty-six the young mean, having
by this !Imo been converted into a cap-
able national guardsman, wilt be inoor•
palated In the first line of the active
army of Australia, We add that pro -
modest will be from tee ranks; every.
promising cadet or guardsman witi
have <stfered to hem facilities for pur-
suing at no cost to himself nriiilar/
studies at one of the State schools -of
instruction. He will thus be encouraged•
to qualify for a commission.
It is computed that when .Rao Aure
trallen military system Ls In working
order sortie 27,000 youths will cuter the
ranks every year; 83400 will bo un-
dergoing military training to each
twelvemonth, and in eight years Au-
stralia wilt have 214,000 men drilled,
equipped and organized in brigades,
while in less than a quarter of a cen-
tury she will bo able to call Moe -
quarters el a million of her citizen sol-
diers into the Held, Australian states
men are well aware that the Anglo -
Japanese alliance, unless renewed, will
expu'e in 1915. and that thereafter they
cannot safely rely on England for pro-
teclfon. They are thcrotor° taking time
by the ferelock and aro determined to
copy the .swiss by transforming every
allebodt•:'0 male elle a soldier and thus
creating a "nation In arms.'
A noiseless. smokeless, fleshless, col-
orless, tuneless, but not eIfeotless gun
Is the invention of Fred Baugerter, a
Brooklyn engineer. This gun, he claims,
can throw 2.000,000 bullets an hour. No
dynamite, guacotten, nitro -glycerin, or
other chemical or explosive is employ-
ed to send the Niagara of bullets rush.
ing through space at the rate ot 500 a
second or 30,000 a minute_, when the
gun is worked at ordinary speed, and
2,000,000 an hour 11 It 1s pushed to its
maxilla= capacity. The velocity of the
projectile is from 1,500 feet to 3,000 feet
a second, according to the will of the
oheratcr. There is no recoil. the gun
never gate heated, it cannot explode,
sad Iwo erten can operate It. The cast
el firing 1,000,000 bullets halt an inch
in diameter would be about 810. The
expense of firing 1,000,000 bullets re-
quiring powder and shells is more than
520,000. The gun works automatical-
ly. It the oper'alers were to place 2,-
001,000 balls in the magazine and turn
on the power, lhemen could go to din.
ner and take a walk for an hour, eon-
fident that while they were absent the
gun would continue to hurl bullets so
king as one was left in lite hopper. Mr.
'Baugerter's plan is to mount the new
gun on a truck similar to a motor car,
to be run by a 100 horse power motor,
whkh would give the carriage a speed
of sixty miles ah hour. The outfit,
when ready for action, would weigh
about 5,000 pounds.
A HAPPY SOLUTION,
T
E SNllAl10� 01' 1
E WORD
The Spirit of This Age Moves to
Better Things.
"The kingdoms of Lista world are be-
come the kingdoms of our Lord and
of urs Christ; and he shall reign for-
ever and ever;" -Rev. ix„ 15.
Once the church set up an ideal Sep-
arallon between the worldly and the
unworldly, between those who were in-
terested to and occupied In the affairs
c! our daily lives and those who with'
drew from these secular pursuits and
gave themselves to the contemplation
of heaven ee to what woes called the
pursuit et the 'higher lite.
The marls el a saint then was he
separation from this world and his ab.
sorption in another; lits disdain for the
reed, the practtcal, the everyday and
commonplace, and his devotion to the
!deal, r'emgte, imaginary, and other
worldly. The church proposed to ef-
fect the salvation of the world by sep-
arating itself from the world.
-Por a long throe this conception prey
walled. Theological seminaries set them.
selves oft In quiet retreats the ideal
church meetings were those where the
noise of this busy world could not pene-
trate; the desirable religious lite was
.that of the reeItise. One was scarcely
likely to look ter saintliness or piety
In the market or on the street.
We still loo readily charge aur moral
shortcomings and our personal imper-
fections to the taint and contact of the
world, the daily interests and activities
is so easy to think of
HO\V GOOD WE COULD BE
were we, but where the wicked cease
from troubling, where there would be
nothing to proveice us to wrath or lure
us to selfishness.
Yet what is the use of a religion that
Is not for daily use? \Vhat is its value
11 it cannot make us strong for this
daily fight and through this strife of
living? '('his world in which we now
are and no otitet• Is for us now the
workshop of character. WIth what
other worlds may be and do we only re-
motely aro concerned. The present
needs a present piety, a present pow -
ca• in religion.
If the make up our minds that this
present social order Is doomed; it we
gloomily talk of this world as the ob-
ject of omnipotent wrath, how foolish
are all our efforts for its betterment,
how hypocritical all our talk about its
salvation. Is there any more sure way
There had been a long-standing 011-
lerence of opinion in the Plunkett family
concerning . the dining -table, Mrs.
Plunkett maintained that its legs were
toe short, and ought to be lengthened
at least halt en inch.
"11 doesn't fit our chairs, Jared, and
Y("1, know ti," she contended. "When
we sit down lo this table we're tea •high
above ft, Yon could have pieces of
wood glued on the ends of the legs,
That 'would be easter than to sew off
the eels el all the chair -legs."
"I don't agree to your proposillen at
ell, t1rdelia," said Mr. Plunkett. "I
thlnic the table is just right. But I'm
wilting to compromise the matter, You
have been wanting a hardwood floor
in this dining -room for a long time,
haven't you?"
"Yes."
"Well, we men have that naw kind
et hardlwood flooring that Ls laid err
lop of the old floor, That will raise the
entire surface three-eighths of an inch
er more, and that will rntsc the table,
• el course, just so much. Ilew will that
do?"
'i'hle, seemed to be a fair proposition
end without a moment's hesitation Mrs
Plunkett necepted tt ass- a sal.istaetory
eom],rminlse, .
Y e-
FULLY SATISFIED,
of niaking this world wholly bad than
steadily to assort that it is so and to
cun.,lnully withdraw from it every pow-
er toe goodness+"!
Just what do men mean by those
plumes setting the world and the church
in opposttioll't Do they mean, ,by the
world, the daily interests and activities
of men, Our politics, schools, work-
shops, markets, literature, all that
makes our civilization? If they do, then
they simply are setting their (aces
Against the (stets oflite and lighting
the tunes that are working cut our
rodent plion.
'Phis passion for progress, though
often ft may express Itself in brutal
and selfish Corers, is but the working
out of a fundamental r'eltglom spirit,
the attempt le realize life in the light
at one's highest ideals,
Ilse truth is the world always is
more religious than 1s the church that
separates itself from. the world.
FOR INSPIRATION AND UPLIFT
we may need lo: separate ourselves from
the day's stir and strife, but for that'
expression of the religious life, with.
out 'which the tires die down within,
we must have the opportunities of
daily living and of Ituman service.
As men move up into higher reaches
of life, as each ideal becomes the real,
other and higher ideals are discerned,
all lUe moves into fuller religious be-
ing, the world becomes more religious.
This whole fabric of our social order
is to -day shot through end through with
the spirit 01 the greatest of the religious
teachers of any age.
The world is caring for the needy,
feeding the hungry, teaching the be -
benighted, making the best of things
the common possession leading all its
children into larger powers and oppor-
tvnities, insisting on rights and duties
because the leaven of the eternal love
and the eternal light is working through
the whole lump.
The infilnile Ls on out• s1neels as well
as beyond the stars. if you canned
find religion In the counting house you
will not fled it in the closet; it you
cannot express it in the shop you are
wasting your breath in the prayer
meting. But believe the best and servo
for the best in this world and a better,
brighter day than we have yet dreamed
shall come to be,
HENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 0.
Lesson II1. Jesus Anointed at Bethany.
Golden Text, 1. dohs 4. 19.
An eight-year-old boy went to a party
and was itiberally Strpp)ied with good
things to eat.
Latae in the evening it (vas noticed
that the bey 3150 o woebegone cxpres.
San on his Mee, and 11O hands clasped
over hes bosom, ;
"Why, tvls• t'S the .matteet, Wtll1°?
the ltosless kindly asked, "haven't you
had enough le eat?'
"Ott, yas'm," said the boy, llPvo had
onsugh. 1 feed us ittentgh ; don't tryst
fill. ('+rd eedl',w
TIIE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
(Dosed on the text of the Revised
Version.)
Time, Plume, People. -This is Easter
Sunday, but since the record of Christ's
resurrection from the dead Is to be con-
sidered later in the course of lessons
to" this "quarter" that record is not
duplicated here. It will be appropriate,
however, to give further consideration
today le the story of the raising of
Lazarus studled lost Sunday. Several
weeks have passed since the raLsing of
Lazarus. Immedlateiy after this mem-
orable event Jesus himself withdrew
once more with his disciples into Eplt-
reim and Pence., spending some time
also in a last visit to Samaria and Ge
nie° (Luke 17, 11-10). For a record of
the more important oven's which ba-
long le this period we must turn to
the; synaptic Gospels, especially to that
of Luke, who has treated this partied.
tar period of rhrhsl's ministry more ful-
ly than the ethers (Luke 17. 11-19. 28;
compere Blatt, 19. 3-20. 31. and Mark
10. 2-52), Among the more important
events and incidents of this period are
the healing of ton lepers, the discourse
of Jetts en the coming of the kingdom
and his .parolee of the Pharisee and
publienn, the 'incidents• of the blessing
et little ehildron and tate conversallon
of Jesus with the rich young ruler; the
incident revealing the ambition of
Jeers and John; the healing of the
blind men. near Jericho, and the visit
of Jesus to the home et Zarchteus. With
the arrival of Jesus at Bethany on the
eve of the eventful passion week, the
beginning of the end of our Lords pub -
lie life had come. On the morrow he
teas to ride in triumph into Jerusalem
amid the .lhasannee of the multitude.
How much of conflict and labor, of sor-
row and of agony, were to be crowd-
ed Into this last week we shan see in
subcaqucnt lessons. Jesus had ap-
proached Jerusalem hem ilio east and
was accompanied by nis disciples and
many ,pilgrims journeying to the feast
et the Passover. \Vhen neer the City
he turned aside to the hospitable home
of his friends at Bethany, the little
hamlet on, the slope of the Mount et
Olives, within less than an hour's walls
of the city gate. here at the home el
one Simon the. leper WAIL 20. 6) his
trends lute arranged a reception, The
gathering created some nonce and com-
ment because both Jesus and Lazarus,
Wont he had raised from the dead,
'were there, The twelve disciples, in•
eluding Judas, were also preeenl. We
eennot doubt that Jesus fully realized
what the outcome of his last week's
stay in the capital city would be. And
yet an the eve et this lest and most
momca(ous ported et his whole minis-
(rw on the eve of all his biter suffer-
ings, he tbkes time to accept the hos.
pitality of friends, and mingles with
them in friendly social intercourse,
even to rho extent of attending this
feast or banquet in his honor. in so
doing the teaches us by his example
that it is not necessary or right to ob-
trude our own sorrow or care an others,
and that friendly sociability is not in-
consistent with a realization of the seri-
ousness of life. ^^
10, 14, and parallel passages in Mark
and !.tike*. est:sedum to Johns narra-
tive (John 0, '70, 71) Ms= lied early wee-
k. td. hie treachery, the fullest amount
of wdhielt is. given in !!lett, en. 14 ---ill,
wee alert records Ibo subsequent no -
memo end suieek of Judas (Malt, 27.
3-51. Ile was the treasurer of the upos-
t;ilio glories
5. There hundred shillings -0r, "de-
ntate" Telling the value of lime Ro
man silver coin to have Leen at this
time sixteen and two-thirds cents, as Li
suppmeed, by the best authorities, the
value of Mary's gift woes about fifty
dollars in our 500007, or about twice
that amount if we reckon nennr'ding to
the purchasing pewee of steel) to sunt at
that time. The amount if we reckon
according to the purchas-laborer foe
three hundred days.
6. Now this he .aid'• -This verse gives
one of the many tnter(ected existents-
halts fotuttt in the caursa of Joluhs ear
i'trttvtt,
A thief -•No dauht John, who was more
intimate wall Jesu-se than any of the
other disciples, had long seepecIed the
trader,
Rag --Or, "lox."
'lbwt away --earned away vette, The
Greek word mettles stculllt and d*cep-
Uon,
7, Stiffer her to keep it --Or; "let her
alone'; 11 was ::that she might keep
it."
The day ot my lyurying 1'he Greek
w'snd niers rather to the preparation
for burial than So the actual interment.
Mosleaps :teary, enlightened by her tore
had at :preeenlimmtt that this might be
the hest tribute she would be permitted
to pay her Master,
• .S. hie- ye have ' not always-\Yords'
which fully t'indlcated the mostly tri-
pule of Mary. Compare, the promises
of Jesus recerdad In Miall. 20, 13, and
\dark 14. 9.
10. The chief priests -Usually essod
aled in John's narrative with the Phari-
sees, who doubtless in this case also
were among those whe took counsel
against Jesus. The demonsiratl sa In
honor of Jesus in Bethany had been so
remarkable that it had attracted the
attention and determined opposition of
the authorities at Jerusalem.
11. Went away and believed on Jesus
The niton of tolling away from al-
legiance to the Jewlsh blerarolty lies to
the centred, though perhaps not literally
in the word -•s.
AN IMPORTANT PIJUSON,
Them ape not a few wren who [alley
that becarse they are- persons of wealth
and consequence I. a community they
arc exempt from the duties and liabili-
(•ies of the ordinary citizen. A man of
this soht was drawn to serve upon a
jury, and did not appear tvlten bis name
was called ht cone(. 1'h0 COWL arder-
ed that he be fined twenty-five dollars,
About half an hour afterward the man
appeared in the court -roam to answer
tardily to his name.
"You have been tined tweeLy-010c dol-
lars fur non-attendance," said 111e judge.
"Birt I had a very important business
engogement," said the man.
"Did you suppose that. an engagement
wou,LI excuse you for not answering
the surmnons of the Court?" asked the
judge, rather angrily.
The juror, who was a pompous ninon
with an important air, began to grow
indignant at being adds'asscd in this
way.
"I would have your honor under-
stand," he cxetauned, "that 1 am one
of the most premineet bustness men
in this commueltyl"
"Ohl in that case," said the judge,
quietly, "you wilt be able to stand a
larger fine. Air. Cleric, you wilt in-
crease this gentleman's fine for non-
attendance to fifty dollars!"
TRAMP WAS WEALTHY.
Had Five Thousand •Dollars on and
About [els Person,
The "splendid tramp" hag turned up
sr, the shape of Patrick 1•Iaihoran, at
the Middleton workhouse, Dublin. Hal-
loran demanded lodging, was aecem-
=dated, and after several days It
e'
was persuaded to change his clothes.
11 was then discovered, that 'sewn in
the lining of his various end 'numer-
ous garments Ise had 'gold so0ereigns
and halt ,sovereigns to Use value of more
than $1;000,
Ole was repoctad tm the. guardians,
whoat first wanted to turn -him out,
but he pleaded that it •he were to go
cut he might be robbed, and the soft,
hearted guardians deoided to net, him
stay while they gave his case further
consideration. They directed that the
money be placed In a bank for htm,
and he was taken back lo the work-
house,
-NOT ONE WAS LOST.
The teacher wes trying to explain to
the class the indestructibility of matter,
"Nothing Is ever wholly annthitated,"
she said. "It may change its form,
Se that you see ft no longer,. but it still
exists'. A solid may become a liquid,
and a liquid change to vapor, but it Is
just as much a parte! eroattors .as aver.
Not a partlele of It has been. Test,
"it is se, as I believe, in the world
of mind. No spoken ward, no thought,
even, fades away into tater nothing-
ness. It lives' on, whether for geed or.
beds •A minister ,may preach. a sermon
anis see no oiled front it, but that ser-
mon, is not lost. 'No sermon Is ever
lost,('
"( know papa never losses any of hiss"
spoke up a little girl, the daughter of
ono of ;the Local pastels, "! know
where he keeps 'em.. 'They're in a bar-
rel to the hack attic"
'ritotJG[rr III. WAS N.OAti,
Mr, Walker is 8 bright, well-preserv-
ed old gentleman, but to hes little grand-
daughter •Mabel he seems very old in-
de'ad,
Slse had been sitting Oreille knee arid
looking serialls.tor some moments, when
sho said, "Grandpa, were you in the
ArW"h
y o, dear." gasped the olid man.
Mabol's eye'', grew large with amazo-
tncnt.
"'Then," site said in a voice full of sur.
pl'ase, "Why weren't you dreW,tld?"
Verse 1. Jesus therefore -The au-
ttor"s simple way of resuming the nee
rsliVe hone the point where he had last
referred to Jesus (John 11. 5G.
Six days before the passover-The
Passover began at sunset onthe i41(t
el •Nesan. Six cloys before this would
therefore bring us to the 8111. of this
same month. The year was A. D. 30,
and the day of the week and month,
according to our ;present calendar,
Friday, Meech 31. Jesus and hes dis-
ciples seem to have arrived at Bethany
NI the evening of !lits day after sunset,
the Sabbath hating therefore already
begun. The feast occurred probably
twenty-four hours later, after the close
et the Sabbath, that is, after sundown
en Saturday.
2. So they made him a supper there-
An evening neat, or banquet, in lids
honor, thus gtving expression le then'
high regard for him, and their grate-
ful r000gnitton of what he had done
for and among them. John teils us
nothing with regard to the place where
the supperwasheld, and it it were not
for the specific statements of Mathew
'26 6) and Mark (14. 3) that it was in
the house of Simon, we might infer
from John's narrative that the supper
had been given In the home of Lazarus
and his sisters, since all. of the mese.-
bens of this little family group are
specially menitoned as being present.
Murtha served -All that Is recorded In
Luke i10, 88.42) concerning the charac-
ler of both Martha and Mary Is In full
accord with the representation o1 Johan
concernthg.both.
Sat -Greek, "reclined."
etical --Referring to the meat as a
whole.
8. A pound --A Roman weight, equiva-
lent =proximately : to our pound (Troy)
et twelve ounces.
Ointment of pure .hard -The wort!
translated "pure" is of uncertain mean.
ing and hos been variously translates
as "gentdnc," "pure," and "liquid," The
ointment referred to WAS probably an
aronsattd oil extracted teen. an. East In-
dian plant, and, therefore, as the evan-
gelist explains, very precious, The
weight and nature ot the ointment are
apeei led to emnhaslzo its value, which
Judas gives at `three hundred shlllings"
(compare Verse 5),
Anointed tate Icel. of Jesus -,lyse his
head, In harmony with the usual cus-
tom (compare the narratives of MaltheW
sand Mark, and also Luke 7, 46 and
Pse. 23. 5), :john, hotvevor, Is probably
the only one of the evangelists who
had been an eyewttnese et the event
ttho recalls that Mary's •aot of dovotten
went beyond the customary manner of
expressing esthete, the depth el her
reverence and gratitude prompting her
b.: anointhis feet else, and to wipe them
with tier hair.
4, ludas. l,a
aariot, one of lits disciples
-Tele Call et Judas Is •raeordeat 10 Matt,
SAVED FROM GALLOWS
91Y TEE $W1N iTI11'1t11T Ole A PIIiS-
ONIiR ANJ) A BOGUS EASY.
Band of 'I'birlpen I'tti eiun• .Crbrrinals
Concocted it Suesesbl,ii Schemeto 11'ei% duddes.
To the clever acting of a Young gird,
Ute sweetheart of Ono of their member•,
and the assistance of a baby borrowed
for the occasion, thirteen precious young
Russian tooundreis owe their tsetse('
frust the loungman's arouse. The teen
W4)P0 nhellbert of ono of the worst and
most Miring gangs of thieves and high-
waymen that mete So tested Wersuw,
Poland end vicinity. They were found
guilty by oourl-manial and the penalty
i; drab, a le, by lia way, wtrich they
'slily desertaved, AlIUte psyohologt ui
moment, however, just before sentence
was passel upon hen, the neeommudut.
hug sweetheart and Ilia bogus baby were
brought In and the former was married
to the youngest of the prisoners. ' A
few tears on the part of tiro wife, a
prolonged screech. on the part of the
Leby, who thus showed hes objection
to having a pen stuck it hes leg, and
the hearts of the judges were melted.
Instead of death penally the. sentence
of the thheeen was commuted to twenty
years' im.prisoitnent east.
Tire funniest of the whole business Is
teat neither the polio° nor the judges
suspect to this day that they were beim
boozled by an ingenious plan ooncooted
by one of the prisoners. The real facia
of the ease west told 1110 by the mother
cf the chill which played so Mega a
part ie the comedy, writes a Warsaw
careespondent.
Ste nisms Lulcasialc, the youthful pris-
oner, who rnarrlcd under tiro shadow of
Use gallows was the son of a respect-
able workingman. Ile was apprenticed
to a locksmith and worked in lint ca-
pacity for some time. When the revo-
lution brake out in ilas oia l,ulcastek
'vas,
(.110. MtOS'l'' YOUNG MEN,
dragged into the vortex of strikers and
demonstrations. He, with many others,
lost Isis iilace arid, driven le despera-
tlort, determined Le become a bandit.
Ile joined a bandit society which. styled
il:•elf The Worlaingnlen's Union to dis-
ggnrise its nefarious purpose. There
were thirteen members, whose ages
ranged from eighteen to twenty-five.
They had no political aims, but exerted
el, (heir energies to robbing the rich
wl.erever they could. Being well armed,
they were very successful. More than.
one death is laid at their (look' as their
victims Dalen offered resistance. For
over three years these thirteen youths
were the terror of the country. in
that date they robbed offices and pri-
vate people of upwards of 100,000 rou-
bles. It was while he was a member
of The Workingmen's Union that Lu-
lcasiak met !Marla Borowski, the girl
who was eventually to save him and
has companions, and became engaged
to her. He did not, however, tell her
how Ie got his money and when he
was arrested, as ha et'enlually ti'as,
and taken to the citadel of \Varsaw she
had not the slightest idea that he was
guilty of the charges laid against him.
Stanislas and his twelve( companions
were tried by court-martial and the
lawyer they employed assured them
that scntenoe of death was inevitable.
The thirteen there pul. their heads to-
gether and deliberated upon some
means of getting this sentence com-
mitted. Fortunately for ahem, life be-
prlsomnent deer not exist in Russian
law.
AFTER SENT.INCE OF DEATH
there is nothing heavier than twenty
years' hard labor. So they racked their
brains for a means of escaping the im-
pending death sentence. Twenty years'
hard labor was infinitely preferable to
the harsher punishment. At the end
of that time the oldest of them ttrould
be only 45 -and 'there was always a
chance that so coronation -would be the
means of cutting 0(f another (lie y'eat's.
But the officials who preside Over courts-
marttals are partilulariy hard upon
'bandits. Some eight or ten ase hanged
ntghliy in the Warsaw citadel. One
night, since these men were arrested,
ns many os thirteen were hanged. To
the members ot the Wonkingesen's Un-
iaml, iles coincidence of numbers was a
bad sign.
Suddenly, one of the mon, known by
the name of Lanky hit upon an idea
tllal, immediately appealed to ail ex-
cept Stanislas,
"Slanlslas is going to save us alit"
ha exclaimed, and unfolded his plass.
"You've got a girl to whom you are en-
gaged," he said, "She's got to do the
.triol."
Lulcasiak remarked despondently that
being engaged to a girl did not help
any of them much when he was likely
le be (ranging by a rope within a few
bouts.
"Before you hang by the rope, you've
got to be married to that girt," said
Lanky. "The .president of the court.
martial. General Uversky, looks a good
old bulks'. We'll try to play on Isis
feelings.; 'You've got only to -day to do
it in because the trial well be over 10 -
morrow before dark and it, will be all
Meer with us
BEFORE THE NEXT DAY DAWNS.
You must ask permission to sea your
betrothed and tell tier to get hold of
somebody's baby-the.younger it, is the
bettor -and be ready le come here With
It tomorrow afternoon. You must
speak to the lawyer to -morrow morning
as soon as he comes kt the citadel and
tell him you want to marry the girl
you've lived with beloro you're hanged
so that your child shat have civil rights
and not be f nameless outoast,"
At first Lukaslak said he would riot
cast such a slur on his gilt's name (or
any of them, But the others Soon per -
=vied him that it would be far better
than !ranging and that, if he were
hanged atter, all, his sweetheart Would.
be none rho worse as she Witold: be tree
to marry wlloni oho llllett. .
Prisoners under sentence or even
likely to be put Under sentence of
donee In lite neut. future, ure allowed
to seo vihitst'8.
Mnry'a isappcned Ic come that mutt+
duy Io lilo citadel and ngroeb to the
young bandit's psvpu,illon, She even
said she would go le their lawyer and
tell haat the ,elory Lanky had can.
canted and helmet !tint to see they pest•
dent of the oourlentwilai that sane
day,
1'Ite law'yas' fell. in(its' ap--\allele
went' wtti tine bot'rmtovrd btraby' ir1 her
arms -•-and posted off le the citadel
where iso sew Gemmel thereto' and ob-
tained, nom that astonished man, per-
mission to bring Marva and is priest to
tb,• citadel next morning.
The following day the trial of lite
thirteen betides was continued. The
proceedings were short and wore cx-
lected to end before overarm. As there
was not the slightest, doubt !hut they
were minty of lite most daring robber -
ie, oornmitied in the country for many
years they were (wetly cereals of being
condemned le death, At three o'clock
Crenerol [,versky told the. court Thal
therm would be len i n:nutes pause, as
one of the jrt'iscner:s had asked and ob--
Wined leave to get married bcf0tes eon -
knee was passed upon item Lukasiak
Was then list, guarded by a
STRONG CONVOY OF 50501505,
o e ext ahpriest,
Mintarysth(witnh Iharobognuswbabyerea tet iter
arms.) her mother and ,sestet', were
awaiting luhts, The president and the
eleven generals who formed the court,
a:so came in, tea telling the short cere-
mony wills considerable interest. When
it was over bride and bridegroom took
leave '0(000 another, Roth wept copU
orfs !oars, for they had little (hope of
seetng one another again., and the baby,
Jabbed w1Lh a , pin at the proper neo•
stent, added his voice le the dein. The
twelve generals were visibly moved and
s•) was the lawyer.
Marys begged leave W be present due
ing the rest of the trial and ryas allow.
ed to take a seat in court. Lukasialc
was led back to the d+eek and the trial
stent 00. In hal( un hour ll was UMW
ed and, In a husky voice, the president
passed :sentence et death upon the
thirteen prisoners, Poor Marya fainted
and Lek:mita( burst Into tears, The
court retired and the prisoners were led
back to their cell, gloomily to await rue
acquel.
Soon their lawyer appe.arod. lie said
that the court, dthough obliged by
martial law to pass senlonee of death
en them, telt strongly moved to recom-
mend them, and especially Luksstalc
to mercy. Death eenlenccs of this sort
are usually confirnsed by the governor
general of Warsaw, who signs theist
tamest as soon as the trial is over so
that the.. prisoners are quickly dislaased
or. But General Uvertsky determined
that these thirteen should. If possible,
I'e spared. Ile wrote a petition to the
governor genervsl and presented IL lam -
self. The sentence was conmtulcd to
twenty years' hard labor in Siberia
and perpetual. exile in that country.
All the bandits were delighted and
Lanky took the credit of it to himself.
There Is no doubt tltnt, had Lukastak
not married Marya at the very last mo -
meal of their trial,they would have
leen hanged before the next sun stone.
But the ceremony broke the monotony
e1 these daily coast-maridat and.
Marya being young and pretty, appealed
lu the rental -die element that every-
body, even old generals possesses.
MLsl;ya will be able to join her hus-
band in Siberin. and (ravel there et the
expense of the government. \With
Lanky to advise them there is Little
doubt that the enterprising thirteen
will shift very well for themselves, even
in that uninviting country.
--e,
N•0 CONSOLATION.
The S'uiter-"Sir, I love your daugh-
ter'."
The rather -'`Well, don't come to me
with your troubles."
SOME'T'IMES!
As a rule there's nothing in a name
-.but sometimes everything re man has
is in his Wife's nein:
SAV'i •
Silence Is well in Its own way,
Don't overplay it,
If you have anything to say,
Say it.
STRAIN ON TRE NERVES.
"Site is going to play us a that on
the piano," whispered. Mrs. Gumbo.
"You know, music has charms, to seethe
the savage.'"
"Bart 1 am tie savage,' replied
Gumbo, somewhat teritated.
"Ali, but you will be when you hear
tier playing."
NOT AP,PRECiATED,
"What week' you say,' queried the
party with the uobarber'ed hair, "if 1
were to confess to being the author o5
'Beautiful Snow'?"
"I'd say you ought to gel six months
at hard tabor for writing such slush,'
answered the, unsymrmpathetic man.
What man has, done women t111155
she can undo.
Many women have discovered Ire
secret at keeping secrets:
It's easier 'to try to look intelligent.
than it is to mulct good.
Air. Meenly-"Ids your birthday to.
morrow, my dear, and here's !tali a
Waller far ydu, You'd bettor, p'r'aps,
keep 11 by you, beeauso It's my birth.
day next anonih,"
"I'm, afraid, George," Bald has fiancee,
"that you are going from bac) 10 worse,'
Quite a coincidence, muttered George,
"'That's what Cldra said when I threw
her over tor you."
A witty priest was co visiting a
"selt•mado" millionaire, who teak. 11tH
to see lee seldom -Used l.ibrery,'"There,"
said the millionaire,inting la a table
covered with books Neve are mY
best
trlaitds.., "Alt,"„ replied the Wit, as he
glatleed, at that leaves, 1 m glad -you
ddtet ottt f4{t!11't .
FAMINE FROM rliiSA'r 1I1.1101I'1's.
Tito Sensation as i)esct'Shed by Ono
Who !las 7't•ietl It.
A Unman seientist1 t'i'e(. Albert
Ileitis who full 0085' a preetpire in the
Alps bit Lived le telt the tale, =thee
that story a very encouraging account
i, tisoso with an. inclination W !nigh
jt,inps tied the like,
lfte fall was only seventy feed, yet
that would bo more Than enough to
satiety 'a temperate person, tie has
overrated Isis sensations in minute de-
tail.
AL (lest he seemed to himself to be
flying Through the aft. Elis fall really
mould have occupied only a fest' sec -
ends, but his Irwinof thought was long
taxi full of interesting detail.
"1 clearly saw," he says, "the possb
Hay of my fete. 1 sahl to seyselJ,'The
rocky wall from which I ate now being
hurled psovents my seeing what is at
Its base, 'Che snow may •bo melted
!)here, or there may be none; if there is
any my I1fo may be saved. Otherwise
death is inevitable.
"'If I am conscious on reaching the
earth 1 have by use a bottle of aroma-
tics and my alpenstock. I will' stet
groan 11, for 11 mol serve mo an gout(
stead.' I thought, the, of removing my
eyeglasses lest their splintering might
cause injury.
"Other and gentler thoughts for those
I was to leave behind tante upon me.
For myself 1 telt 1nd11ferent,. easing
really little wlselher 1 should be much
Injured or not; but from motives of
carasideralaon for others I felt impelled
as It were, to make light of the mat-
ter. I seemed to call aloud, 'I am not
much !lust.'
"I recollected that In five days more
(
was to have delivered an inaugural
discourse, and thought of the grief my
Math would cattle to those near and
deur to me. Anon, lying as it were, on
the limit of a far distant horizon, ap-
peeved ensiled and divers Images and
episodes an my past ate. The whole
mental picture stood out clear cut and
Illumined by divine and mysterious
light.
"All things seemed lovely and of good
report. There were no n115145ings, no
anxieties, no sorrow, pain or terror.
"There were no sensations of contest
or strife, All Was merged In feelings
of genial good will tied kindly feeling.
Such feelings predominated over all
and formed whai ryas truly a unaqua
and lovely picture.
"Gradually a heaven oI glorious blue,
Ik'ciced with crimson clouds of gossa-
mer lightness, stsruunded ate. in them
1
was wafted to and fro, borne up from
below, but painlessly and pleasantly,
t'hlle a vast and moving snowfleld
seemed to accompany me. Anon Ihd
perception of objects, subjective
thoughts, a medley of various tentage,
seemed to circle In concentric mavzs
as ma centre.
around acommon cc t .
"'Then Dame a dull thud, which 1 heard
very distinctly, but did not feel -ant
uty •4111 was. ended. At that, instant a.
dark veil, passed before rue.
"1 celled aloud three or four times,
'1 am not much hurl,' grasped my
glasses, whaclt lay near inc. and touched
my limbs le make sure they were not
beaten.
Tlsen i sets my companions slowly
approaching. They told me a good halt
lit UP had elapsed after my [all before
I spoke.
"1 had lost conscieusness, and (nal
explains the dark veil, Later the power
et thinking returned, i was conscious
only 5o long es 1 was (eltissg of the
perception of beautiful images. At ilia
moment of contact with earth they dis-
appeared,"
On, timelier occasion Dr, Heim was
injured in a carriage accident. Ile said
that he distinctly heard and counted
the bone fractures -seven in all -which
Ise received. ile quotes the evidence of
nn Malian who had a seminar experience.
J3
JUST LEG A WOMAN.
A well-known judge had a habit of
slipping his watch under hies pillow
when he went to bed. One nigist, some-
how, it slipped downs, anti, as the judge
was re 1less, it Worked its way to the
foot of the bed.
Atter a lilt he awoke, and his' took
touched it. It telt very cold, and he
was scared and jumped from his bed.
and shouted: "My grnclous, Maria;
there's a toad or something under the
covers. t touched it with my fool•"
Ills wife gave n loud scream, and
3'38 en the floor In a moment.
"Now, don't go waking Lite neigh-
bons up," sold the judge. 'You get
a broom or something, and we'll tlx tt
guide,"
The broom was given Then.
"Now turn down the covers slowly
while 1 bang it. Pitt a bucket of water
alongside the bed, so as we can shove
It in and drown 1t."
Marla axed the bucket and reetovott
the (levers. After three or four good
bungs they pushed it in the bucket, and
then they look it to the light to investi-
gate.
When the lodge saw It was This wake,
he sold: "I might Have known, It 1s
just like you women to go screcching.
and flossing about nothing; it's tatorlyl
ruined now."
Ile tossed tete bed, end spoke no mire
that night to poor Maria
RAPID ADVANCE.
A century ago the Hawaiians were
savages and caunl'bals. Now !here are
over 300 telephone wires in Ilse in line
city of Honolulu, and even the planln-
tkns are in telephone communiczl)kn
with the capital. Some of the planters
now cul thole eerie at night w'iti the
aid of electric light.
"Jack. told mo be could lit° mi my kis..
00s ter ever," "Are you, gang le let
lite?". "Net till I fled out whet I'm
going l4 live one"
Mr, b3rown-"Is that dog of yours
smart?" Mr. Ridge tproirelly)-';Shnari'!
Well, 1 should say sol t was going out
with him yesterdnyi and 1 slopped and
sold, "rowscr, we have forgotten sosm.
lhingl' And bolhathe-d, It the delth't ,sir
dowelaridireratoh Pitts hat iia see 14 be
mould tltlnk *that i5 ,