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Maa'afaara'
IT GOD OR MAMMON?
The .,4 Are Those Who Serve One
One or the Other.
Ye cennet serve Cod and Mom-
inom-Matt. vi.
Chrietian ethics is logical, nom-
prehensioe and immutable, Like
its founder, it is .simple and un-
equivocal as well, Theoretically, it
appeals to reason and experience,
Practically, it is opliftinmand ea/1s
out what is beet in highest man• -
hood,It is for heroes and not for
weaklings,
•That no mem can SerVe God and
• Mammon is an irrefutable inferenee
from the largee principle that no
man ca,n serve two masters. It
implies that man must have a mas-
ter, that there aro but two masters
-God and Mammon -and that he
cannot serve both. It divides the
race into three classes.
There are those who servo God,
those who serve Mammon and those
who endeavor to serve both God
and Mammon. It is to these last
that this particular utterance is Lei each one be mercenary and ad-
.
made. The first Christ embraces here to the employer who gives the
as his brethren. For the second bigger, the bettor wages.
-he has infinite ,pity, For the last What stipend does Maim -non offer
and what is the security?
The collateral is uncertain and
the end slavery, not freedom, and
servitude the vilest. Is there a hu-
man being so prone as the slave of
wealth, and of all that it inspires
and procures in the way of pleasure
and crime? What does it do amaiest
sense and brain and heart, bring-
ing disease and madness and
cruelty?
What remuneration does it even
promise to render after death?
God's hire is exceeding great -
here freedom and not chains; here-
aftera compensation which eye
hath not seen nor heard, nor mind
conceived. With this Master no
panic, no failure, no bankruptcy.
He will not leave His servantnak-
ed to his enemies, Surely God is it
better master than Mammon..
REV. P. 'A. HALPIN.
on the oheele did not inflict a tithe
of _the agony which followed the
kiss of Judas. Compromisers are
Suclasee, every one a them, apd
the malediction of the prototype
is on them all. Living, they are
traitors to both masters. Wing)
they confound and betray; them.
eolves, Living honestly is better
than treating, and even the honor
that is found among thieves is hon-
or of a kind, whereas knavery is
always degradation. While angry
with your brother the sacrifice you
place upon the altar is insult, and
the widowai mite counts more with
God than the mammon bequests to
church and to charity extended by
hands tainted by the oppression of
the laborer and the orphan.
Let, then, every man unmask,
Who Is to be the master?
GOD Olt MAMMON/
.Ins scorn is almost as boundless as
hie Mercy.. They are numerous,
these wastrels of humanity. What
their number
GOD ALONE KNOWS.
In the blindness which seems their
curse they act as if they could hood-
wink God, Christ confronts them
with a dilemma 'which they cannot
escape. Both masters they cannot
minim so they must come from un-
der cover and declare themselves.
All that is left fok them to do is to
give up one or the ether Master.
Lot them advance to the open and
fling concealment to the winds.
Away with compromise! Away with
cowardice ! Away with hypocrisy
This is their best, their only chance
of regeneration.
Nothing'Will over come from du-
plitity save detainer and rune. The
soldier who rudely smote Christ
PIE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JAN. 10.
Lesson:IL The Deseeet of the Holy
Spirit. Golden Text,
John 14. 10, 17.
Verse 1. The day of Pentecost -
This, the chief of Hebrew feast
days, fell in the fiftieth day after
the Passover, and was celebrated
• by the offering of the first fruits of
the harvest in the form of "two
wave loaves" made from the new
our (Lev. 23. 11, 1'5-7), This sym-
bolic ceremony.of dedication was
promptly applied by the first Chris-
tians to the Messiah and Isis peo-
ple, and the pouring out of the
Holy Spirit upon the company of
. disciples on this .festive day was
taken as an earnest of the larger
harvest, the ingathering and offer-
ing of which' it is the purpose of
Luke in the narrative of subsequent
chapters to relate.
Were all together --And had been
on each clay since their return to
Jerusalem after the ascension of
Jesus.
In one place -The supper room
mentioned in our last lesson.
2. Secklenly-The special manifes-
tation of the Spirit's presence
broke upon them without previous
warning. The hour seems to have
been "the third' hour," or about
nine o'clock in the 'Morning follow-
ing the evening on which the feast
day, according to Jewish reckon-
ing, began.
A sound -An audible manifesta-
tion, harcl to describe but resemb-
ling somewhat the sound which
companies the rushing of a mighty
wind. 'We are not to think, bow -
ever, oi any atmospheric motion,
but simply of the sound. .
Filled all the lumse--Wao audible
in every part of the building,
3. Apparent unto them -Were
seen bo them,
Tougues parting asunder - Or,
"parting among them" ; dr, "dis-
tributing themselves." • A visual
manifestatiou accompanied the au -
Like as of iiro-Not "et flea but
• resembling subdividlog tomeues or
re mo re than e nytai ng el se.
Sat upon each one of thrie--Ap.
peered tb hOrer afmet Or abOVe the
head cif earth.
4. They were all filled -The gift;
of the Holy Spirit was at enee
eni-
le tive and individual, as the phe.
Oomenon reported in the pre:ceding
Aerie; WaS ,intonded 0symatilize,
Oilier tarmacs-400er lenguagem
nee this Solthd 1505 heard,
the MifititlIde came together -This
POI 011,1,011 t hnislite that the soiled
intentioned in verse ti reached be.
yood t,114.1 'wails of the house Where
the -disc/Plea as ern assembled, end
Waa heard a ppa e 11 ly theouglion t
. the cif;y,,
ConfmnideateCoortisedi pouted,
ture of the miracle here recorded
it is, of course, impossible to as -
it until he has eaten meat. I want
certain. . Courtesy always gives more than
7. They were all amazed and mar- you to take it noiv, and go to him it: costs. . •
velled-That something inarvelons, like the wind. If you go directly No nation is any greater or bot -
passing human understanding, took and bring bishop safe, I will give ter than its homes.
place, Luke would clearly have us you a fine flannel shirt." Religion for the praim of men
unclerstaed. Whiotale then responded a little has no power with men, -
9. Parthiaus and Modes and Ela- more briskly:
People svho make .trouble always
mites -The inbabitants of these re- "Then it would not be hard for
spective portions of the Persian ree to go,' arid perhaps like the talk of their trial's.
True fruits are mot unwilling to
empire. wincl.'' •be hidden by the leaves.
Mesopotamia -A district between The next moment saw Inc etnerg-
the Euphrates and the Tigris. ing from my house, wrapped in Thy The man who can be bought al -
Cappadocia -At that time a Ro- deerskin robe, up the hill to the ways thinks he cannot be caught by
acts son Bay Company's officer from. a his
hbengerre.atness of any occasion de -
man province.
Pontus -Bordering on the Bl fort, where I had to rouse the Hod-
Seapends on the man more than on the
Asia -The Roman province bear- sound sleep to obtain a supply of
ing this name. moose meat. The thermometer moment.
10. Phrygia-A district in Asia was nearlY thirty degrees below
Minor, not at this time a Roman zero, and wolves in a starving eon.
• &ton had been seen lurking near
the fort; but I thought Of neither
the one or the other, and only re-
joiced to get Whu-tale off, and wait-
ed with enough anxiety through
the succeeding homes.
After darkness had set in on the
followino day the travellers appear-
ed, trudging along on snowshoes,
eveary and footsore, my husband
looking bardly able to stand, and
with his beard fringed with icicles.
A STARVING BISHOP.
One of nis many Experiences in
the NortlitWest.
When Bishop Beeves was in
charge of the diocese of Athabesce
he linderwept maps! ,severe cover-
jellqeS, among which ahould be
reckoned a names* esemae from
starving, H. A, Cody quotes, in
"An Apostle of the North," tbe ac-
count which Mrs, BoMpas gives of
her hesband's adventure. She was
roused one November night by a
loud koocking at the door, Two
Indians announced, We bring tid-
ings of bishop; he is strvitig,"
It seems that the bishop had
reached Fort Simpson some days
later than was expected. Finding
that ice was repidly forming on the
river, se that to proceed northward
by canoe was impossible, he start-
ed with one Indian, on a small raft,
which was hastily and badly con-
structed,
On this they reached at last La
ViolatW house at Little Rapid,'
al there had to remain for ten
days, stoat the river was fast bound.
Then the bishop started to walk the
remaining distance with four In-
dians, one of whom went after a
bear in the wood e and lost sight of
th e o th ers.
Their supply of provisions was
most insufficient, and from losing
the right track, the journey occu-
pied twelve days instead of, as is
usuaJ, six. At last, 'when Within a
day's reach of this place, the bish-
op was so overcome with exhaustion
as to be unable to proceed, their in view o.f the woman's past record
only meta, some time previous, the Court. of Criminal Appeal last
having been a fish and small bar- week upheld sentence.
ley cake between four men. . air Ralph was, however, .gener-
The Indians left him in the woods ally ready to consider his juclg-
.
and hurried on to tell me of his ments and to rectify at the next
condition. sessions any apparent mista,ke, and
My heart sank at such tidings, he made it a rule never to send a
But I felt that there was no time man to -prison for first offence if •be
to lose, and my first effort was to could help it. He has a, kind heart
induce one of the young Indians to behind an iron exterior, and many
set off iimnediately to discover the stories are told of the prisoners'
bishop and °take Idol the relief I families whom he has befriended
would senel. -until the head of the family was
"Whu-tale, -bishop is starving in released from prison. Ho was wont
the woods. I send him. meat- to say that his rule had always
ehiddi, elliddi! (quick, quick!) You been the eaying of Lord Mansfield:
take it to him, 010" "I -will not do that which I be -
Wise -tale, with true Indian im. lieve to be wrong, though it obtains
passiveness, replied, "Maybe to- the buzzes of, thousands."
morrow." .
• "No, Whu-tale; to -morrow bish-
op must be here. He cannot sta,nd SENTENCE SERMONS.
THE WItONGIDOER'S TERROR.
Death of Justlee Slr Ralph Littler,
of England.
The death took place in London,
England, recently (if Sir Ralph Litt-
ler, Chairman of the Middlesea
Quarter Sessions, who was koown
as the Dreeonian Judge,
To the wrongdoer bie Ralph was
an objeet of terror, because of the
repetation for severity whieli he
had earned. Prisoners, when com-
mitted for trial by the Magistrates,
frequently pleaded, "Donq send
me before Littler; send me to the
Old Bailey, inetead,"
He was a firm believer in long
sentences, particularly in cases of
berglary and assuult, and it can-
not be said thet his judgments toe
often leaned to mercy's side. Short
sentences, he held, neither fright.
ened nor reformed the criminal.
They were an injustice to the pris-
oner° themseloes and led them in-
to crime. They gave the prieciner
the impression that whatever he
did would entail po more than
about three montas' imprisonment
From time to time Sir Ralph's
judgments caused much discussion
in the public press, and only last
month the -Home Secretary's atten-
tion was drawn in the House of
Commons to his sentences.
A ease which is still fresh in the
public memory is that in which he
_sentenced A woman to penal ger-
vitude for five years for stealing a
penny., That was the nominal
caarge, other sums involveilo ancl
province.
Pamphylia-Also in Asia, Minor.
Libya -A name applied to all
Africa,.
About Cyrene -- northern
Africa.
Sojourners from Rome -Roman
Jews temporarily sojourning at
Jerusalem.
Jews and proselytes -To which
two classes all the preceding be.
looged.
11. Cretans -From the. Isle of
Crete.
14. But Poter--The spokesman of
the apostolic group.
The eleven -Including Matthias,
Int nut including Peeer,
Ye men of Judaea!, -- Literal,
"men, jell's," equivalent perhaps
to the expression "fellow Jews,'"
ancl spoken no (Millet in a tone of
respect.
13. Spoken through tho prophet
Joel -Joel 2. 28-32.
17, Upon all flesh -This expres-
FORCE : TO CRUSH A PA CHE S.
Private Body of Sleuths May Be
Formed In Paris.
M. Clernenceau, Mho French Pre-
mier, is considering a proposal to
establish a new body of semi-pra
vete police, to be called' the "Vig-
tiles Parisiennes.''
By this project the men would
take the same oath as the rest, of
slim in the original prophecy means the force, and would be under the
"all Israel." distinguiehecl from control of the prefecture, but would
.
favoeed snob as pro-
phets and priests.
Vote daughters shall prophesy -
Thus did the daughters of Philip,
referred to in Aets 9,
18: Servants , handretaidens -
The dispensation of divine favor
shell know no limitations either of
nationality, sex-, or social condi-
tam.
They shall prophesy-Iteferring
to inspired religious, utterante or
teaching in general rather than to
the gift of prophecy in the narrower
sense of a •foretelling of future ee Dm the scheme may have to en-
' u , •
events,
counter evil] aS to whether the
21, Call on the name of the Lord suasempmen is to be voluntary or
in the nature of small tax,
As it is not the house owners but
the tenant:4 who are to be protect-
ed, it oil be seen Clef, diffieulty
.would arise. In the mob and eonie.
what, lonely quartere of the sveet
of Paris, from the Champs islysees
war m killing of Tri°°' The ineralua tu the Bole de Boulogne, where the
("ci dead' an'unig husiaass Dien la broad mid (Ace clerk avennee lend
our eities lots generally been var- themselves particularly to the ex.
inuely attributed to linhagiallic ploits of the '',\ Pa.111105,"' hegio71'
feeding, exposure to weethes, per- ing might be made by voluntary
tons strain and 50 on. Thi e ti eonermill mile, ut to, extend the
,Ol'obahla 710 move Potent t-o-do.Y eyetem would require probably si
then they have always /men. The
death ratt• among men has alv,•ays. iming one,s,
regular rate to be added to the
been highee than with the other
sex, bob in Ole peeeent day elle 'fife
nd eel e coshed; seems to he repine:lin; wet' tie fitlo• 'A • lei 'mita feel /whiny lonesome
imeey mem beam; them eammine tit layer, doubtless" heetoste saf fi ebvo( • kio 9,41.4,4 a, man whom all har
in his COS lane/ego-21'11c matea na- unwholesome onvirentnent, oat Eleu.
be paid by an annual sobeemption
hem the inhabitants of the quar-
ters they patroled,
They would be given a special
uniform' and thoroughly well armed
by the prefecture, and their duty
would be to watch OVer the aecuriby
of the hooses 011 their beat, as wolf
as to give their aid when required
by the nubile.
The draft project eaggests the en-
rolment of 8,000 of these "vigil-
antes," one-third of whom would
be on bicycles. The principal dif-
-Invoke the name of 100115 as Re-
deemer and Saviour,
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,FIGHT' OF MODERN LIFE.
Modern life, says e recent med-
ical writer, is quite aS effective as
No man is good enough for heav-
en whose goodness does not meke
men happy.
He ca,nnet make much of himself
who thinks of making the most on -
/y for hanself.
No man is so lacking in eloquence
that he cannot speak the fine lan-
guage of kindness.
Pessimisni is the power of enter-
taining, all the aches without eat-
itag lidariesYte°pfptihnge aaPmploeis•el iseue is mi.-
dence not of intellectual agility but
of moral obliquity.
The great difference intween men
is more likely to be in perspiration
than in inspiration.
There may be morereligien in
cursing as though you liked it than
in praying as though it hurt you.
Men will bother little over the
breadth of yeur opinions unless you
have, too, depth of ecoivictions.
llas a strange delusion of many
that God can have no new thoughts
when 011ee they have spoken.
_ Itle usually the man rth0 IlaS learn-
ed how hard it is t� begin to think
who denounces intellecteality.
Sortie people' have st way of may-
ing for peace thal only prode Clete
neighbors into open hoetility.
The man who cannot go to church
without sleeping has a, remarkable
power of keeping his eyes open at
a political meeting.
"TOPSY-TURVY" LAND.
THE TERRIBLE SECRET.
Mystery of Weenie Castle for Cen-
turies; Remilled.
Viscount Glamis heir to the Earl-
dom of Strethmore, hoe; been mon-
ried at the Guards' Chapel, Wel-
lington Barracks, London, to Lady
Dorothy Osborne, daughter of the
Duke of Lamle, Three years ago,
on his twenty-first birthday, the
Viscount learned the terrible secret
which for centuries has hung over
Glamis Castle.
• A secret chamber in the castle
is known only to the Earl of Strath-
more, Viscount Glamis, end the
factor of tbo estate. It is alwaye
locked, and its whereabouts is jeal-
ously guarded from prying eyes.
A reputed visitant of the haunt-
ed room is the ghost of a former
Lady Glamis, who Was faleely ac-
cused of evitchchaft against the life
of Seines V,, and was dragged from
the room, then her boudoir, and
burned at the stake,
It is said that the room contains
the skeletons of a rival chieftain -
an Ogavy-and some of his clan,
who Ivor° walled up in it, ancl an
agony of starvation, devoured each
other. .•
Another version of the mystery is
that the room is haunted annually
by the ghosts of a former Lord
Glamis and a friend, who meet
there and play cards until cock-
crow. -
• Thea -were playing ..caecls on the
Sab b ath- and leord G1 amis "swore
a loud (sate that the game ehould
be finished if it took them till
doomsday. A "stranger dressed in
black" thereupon appeared, and
told the gamblers he would take
them at their word.
The late Earl of Strathmore spent
many holies in bis ptivate .chapel
"praying, down the sinister in-
fluence" of the secret room. He is
credited with having said to a
friend, "If you can guess even the
nature of this secret you would go
down on your knees and thee* God
you were ignorant of it."
'CUTE CANINE CAPERS.
, --
Simple Ways of Teaching DOgs. to
Do Tricks.
A dog -fancier recently gave the
following information:
"In teaching a dog tricks, hear
these points in mind: Do not make
the lessons too long, or endeavor
to teach a dog two or three tricks
at once, or the dogewill get tired,
and lose all interest in the work.
Always reeva,rd a dog for his of.
forts; give him, if possible, some
little dainty of which he is fond.
"Start off with something simaile
--such as sitting up. For this, the
dog must be placed in a corner of
the room, where the angle of the
walls will support him. Tempt hins
to try to keep up by holding a piece
of sugar just above his nose. Then,
by degrees, coax him to try it in
the middle of the floor.
'The next step is to teach him
to balance a bit of meat or sugar
on his nose on 'Trust.' At first it
will be necessary to prevent him
trying to obtain the dainty before
the magic words, 'Paid for a are
said. But if you persevere he will
eoa,Bnytleazkinn. g
the front paws in the
hand alternately a few times, and
then asking for the right ore left
paw at the same time indicating
which it is with the hand, the ani-
mal 'will soon learn to 'Shake a
• "A good trick is teaching a dog
to shut the door. Place a piece of
meat on the handle of an open door,
and ask the dog to get' it. As he
does BO the door closes, and he thee
gets the first idea of the trick."
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LONG WENDED PREACHERS.
Three Roues Once Considered a
Pair Time for a SCrIal011.
Dean Lefroy, who has expressed
the opinion that ten minutes is
long enough for a sermon, would
have met With scant sympathy from
mum divines of past centuries, says
the Westimineter Gazette. .
Thomas Hooker considered three
hours a, lair allowance for aa tier -
mon, though, on one occasion,
when he was ii, lic let his congregae
tion off more lightly. Pausing at
the end of fifteen minutes, he 'rest-
ed a while and then continued his
homily foe two hours longer.
China is often spoken of aS C,rannter s seemons were each a
iscetie-tau,rvy" land, Reim area few of email book.when set up in type; and
the, cuseems which give rise to thMo
e Baxtor, e, Bunyan and Cal-
, win rarely reached "Lambly, my
When a Chinarium meete a friend, brethren," undcr two hours.
he greets bios by shaking heeds Cleorge Herbert once said : "The
with himself, pa,P8011 exceeds not an hour in
The Chineee conmaes, instead of preaching, heeause all ages hitve
pointing to north, points to eolith, thoeght that a competency ;" but
&tropes (boots) al'O "Manned" by a certain rector of Bilbury, Glee -
women, who row, facing the three- mist:Mire, wee of another opinion,
lion in whieh they aim going, not for he Traver sob down under two
ehe other way, about; as we do, hours. The squire, we learn, es -
Women do all the laboring and Rally withdrew after the text WAS
aimouneed, 'smoked hie pipe out -
gide and returned foe the blessing,
' SAM OF Id EN.
heavy earonng ("cod,
bricks, Sand, and lime, d OCk work,
ete,, Men de) the laundry and bowie-
wolOc.
Wolter weer /autism% and men
mime which hove the eppeamilice Tho older a hien gets, the less
of skirts, he tries Is, ellow off,
When it (Minimum motelsa angle, No Irom man is ever too busy to
he begies et the part we call the hailer a bossy ooe,
odd, and sea& 'from the bol tom up- alcannees in a boy' often develtips
wardei and from right, to leftinto worthleesnese 'in a, men.
If you iossl bo lied it.rneo'ii weak
job wee 55, patient men, het lot spot, let, him talk, end he mall
nen-
nevar had occasion to study rail- Lieu it,
•
•
RING EDWAltD A. WililaelaULLElt
Exerts s Soothing Influnnon in
• Plablac and Private Affair&
There is a peed reason why Ea. -
ward VII. should be called the
"Fleet Diplomat in Europe," The
extent to which he hail made hie
presence felt, not wily io Great
Britain but also abroad, fano) he
came to the throne, is little short
of amezing, says Peareon's Week -
That His Majesty intervened with
euecess in a recent scandal in Ire-
land is one of those open secrets
that never got into the papers.
Thinge were beginning to Ionic out,
a,ncl several reputations were tot-
tering, The Taing decided that this
was not for the goodof the public
service, so he put his almost ir-
resistible influence to the bask of
smoothing =eters over • before it
was too late.
Again in Parliament; some mem-
belie showed a disposition to ask
questions, but in the end it was al-
lowed to fizzle out, One of those
mysterious "bints from high, quar-
ters" reached the leaders of the
Opposition -and that was sail end
of it:
His Majesty has taken a keen in-
terest in everything connected
with the life of the nation, both in
society and in government affairs,
and several times lie has interven-
ed to save a delicate situation arid
to clear away a difficulty that it
would have'been inadvisable to un-
ravel in public. He heartily disap-
proves of the public washing of
dirty linen.
• The recent Naha scandal caused
the King a grettecleal of annoyance,
and far mote is n 0 IV going on be -
SfCRETS OF AST
MONUMENTS altRattitaHT e TO
"s LIGHT Alt POMPEII.
1404.1ValOr$ Oa Tema: Ise the ;Maar,
bon Neeropelie Me:Monad
TheItsslinn Missistsry of Public
instruction has received ip report
from. Prefessor Antonio S001990,
pdoili.,j
eiet olly ‘Ovfhifeelel 1cl:00%7s4919 at P era -
long,. and patient work of
escaa•vation outside the Porta, 'Vo-
mit) (the Vestivian Gate) has been
attended with remarkable 011eeeSS.
Meng the Publics Road, a few yards
outside the gate, three sepulchral
ve
monuments haboon brought to
light, one after the other, the first
having been erected to an aedile,
Or magistrate, named Ves-
toriue Priscus. It consists ofan
eltar decorated in stucco between
four pillars, also covered with
stucco, and which give indicatione
that they were originally - -
COLORED VERMILION.
tTliceloisatillio
o.o. lstands in a rectangular
(in
The second monument, however,
is• the moat beautiful, and cousists
of a slender column with two baps,
a square 0150 on which is tlie
scriptione and under it the second,
eiecular In form, adorned with a
semi-cireulter seat known as a
schola, completed et each end by
a plinth with bae-roliefs. It has
been ascertained that it was collo
hind the scenes than the public
inia,gine. Army scandals, pleted by a sundial, emblematic of
being dealt with none.the less sev-
too, are time, which runs towards aterinty,
and which was, moreover, the or-
erely because little is heard about iginal of the celebrated sundial to
b° seen ne the mosaic of the phil-.
osophers in the museum of Naples.
"The third monument is a square
bloek of stone sueniounted by an
es:unneatecioyir a
'tufa, which, un -
s isa
foRATHER BAD CONDraION.
On the front of the bleelc is an in-
scription .by which it is learned
that the monument ivas ereelmd to
matron called Septimia hy her
daughter, and that, as in the first
case, the land was granted by thc
city, which gave the usual 15,000
sestereee for the funeral, shelving
that the matron was either much
beloved by the people, or was near-
ly connected with some great per-
sonage.''
The excavations have now ceased
for the -winter, except in the spas-
modie waa, on account of the bad
weather.
Serious hopes are entertained
that this is the beginning of the un-
earthing of the long -sought Pont-
peiian ouburban necropolis, spoken
of by Plium
them, ancl on a recent visit to Al-
dershot the King used some very
strong language on the subject of
Army diseipliee. As 'o result one
or two "sleek" officers have got an
attack of "nerves."
King Edward, it is well known,
is doing all he min to push forward
Mr. Haldane's territorial scheme.
One peer, who severed his connec-
tion with the Territorials in a fit
of pique, has, to the surpriseof
his friends, renewed his connection
with the scheme. It is whispered
that his asecond thoughts" were
due to the personal intervention of
the King, who did not vetint to lose
his help, and quite frankly told
him se.
There are some •people -wise do not
like, what they call, this "medd-
ling," bet as they are generally
Ma e people who are ready to accuse
kings of being "a pock of idlers,"
little attention need be paid to
theta complaints.
In international politics His Maj-
esty's influence is .enoimous, and in
this field he is ablo to exercise his
perfect tact.
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. EYES TO ORDER.
Artificial eyes, which have nowa-
days reached a high state of per-
fection, are by no means a recent
invention. The Egyptian priests,
who practised medicine centuries
before the Christian era, made sub-
stitutes for eyes. Taking a piece
of flesh -colored cloth the Size of the
empty ,socket, they attached it to
a piece of clay of the size of a hu-
man eye. This was painted, and
the Whole securely fixed over the
socket. It was not until the six-
teenth century that artibeial eyes
'were made te fit into the eocket.
Previous to that, a thin metal band
covered with leather was used, the
eye being painted on one end, the
other end gripping the back of the
head. Then, in 11581, eyeballs of
gold, with a pupil done in enamel,
came into vogue. Next carne porce-
lain eyes; which, on account of
their cheapness. were very popular.;
and, laetly, glass was used, Even
in Shakespeare's day glass eyes
were very well made; but, compared
with modern specimens, they were
crude, and easily distinguished.
CARRIED OUT ORDERS..
A certain weelthy American in
London dropped into a shop not
long ago to purchase a set of de-
canters, As the purchate repres-
ented more money them be had on
hie person ab the Halo, he gave Hs
address at the hotel and instructed
the.assistamt to mark them C.O.D.
The assistant made a note of the
requesb, but the purchaser WM sur-
prised to find the goods left al; the
hotel witoout demanctfor payrnent.
When the parcel . WWI unpacked,
however, it developed that oath de-
canter had been beautifully engriv-
ed in twining' letters, '
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The greatotAt thi»g tafaculty for making
lent most
men is their
NOW S THE TIME 1
If you have hard work to do,
Do it now.
To -day the skios are clear and blue,
To -morrow clouds may come to vies:, .
Yesterday is not for you;
Do it now.
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If you have a song to sing,
Sing it now.
Let the tones of gladness ring
Clear as song of bird in sprihg,
Let every day some mimic bring;
Sing it now.
If yon have kihd words to say,
Say them now..
To -morrow may -not come your way,
Do a kindness while you ma,y,
Loved ones will nob always stay;
Say them now.
If you have -m smile to show, ,
Show it now.
Make hearts happy, roses. grow,
Let the friends about you know
The love you hey° before'they go;
Show it now.
DECAY BUILDING ST9N.ES1
.The causes of decay in building
stones are various and, depend on
the physical structure of the stone,
its' composition and the ore atuof
the surrounding alenoephere. The
most destructive agent, to which
the -stone is exposed is rain os oa
moist atmosphere; and also to a
minor degree, wind, frost and
smoke. The air of largo towns is
usually charged with valloue delet-
erious acids • these • 4teitIA are solved by the ram, whieh pene.
'writes the stone agreiate;orseetal
etiterugliTturctLe°,e°aIncitle
inglotslwcs
ombines with the
conlaetun
ets of the stone, 'causing
it to deca,y, 10 that any contriv.
tacos that will check the adiniesion
of water will bo • mosb likely to
et:tweed in arreeting clecay,
p IY1 i Bee LAW'S LQNC4 ARM,
The length of the law's ario sum
Paday was sowing potatoes in hie prised is Victoriao (Australian) the
geaden, when Lord A— atone other day. Tit 1902 a policeman
Lord A --ea evidently wish- stopped two merawfmwove driving
Ng to test Paddy's knowledge ef a cart containing stolen peoperty
the different varieties of potatoeS, end ea jemmy, One man woo cap-
ealled oot in a anthoritative tone ; tered and sentenced; the other ('5-
-'1 055 ready, whet sola of po- cupric], but eetirencel the tithe day
tattoos ime • joie ing tbeee i" from Soot)) Alaimo Ile lied just, got
Paddy, not caring lo ilf9 lord- lsl foot o the whiter when a deter-
ehip Iwo the better Sidecif the lave touched 111111 on am ehoulaer,
joke, politely touching hie hat, se- and a Sheri; collaestatleo led 111; to
plied; "Haw .0110S, yet' iord.hip.' a ssoatosa,jo Of two ysorie hss 41:
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