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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-4-16, Page 2NOTES AND CQ.cia,il).EN !1 S 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 ,