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The Creation is Longing to Sae the Mani-
festation of the Sons of Cod.
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For all creation, gazing eagerly
es if with outstretched neck,. es
waiting and longing to see the
anafestation of the sons of God,—
Romans viii, 19, (New, Testament in
' m am speech.)
More good men and women—for
this the creation, gazingeagerly es
it with outstretched neck, waits
and longs, This is the energy of
all moral effort—a steady supply of
Food men and good women. This
rs the steam which makes the en-
gine hove. -
• In proportion to the extraordin-
ary increase of our resources are
we doing the good in the world that
we ought to dol I doubt it, Ste-
phan, John Ruskin once remarked,
did not get bishop's pay for his
long sermon to the Pharisees; he
only got stones, Paul had no ca-
thedral called by his name from
which to preach his gospel to the
Roman world. When Augustine
and his noble monks landed at
Ebbsfleet and ntet the English king
between there and Canterbury
there was no missionary societal
and missionary press behind him.
7t seems to me that we ought to
do rastly more with our numbers
and wealth than men did
WHO WERE FEW AND POOR.
We leave the work to the machin-
ery when we ought to do it our-
selves, All your machinery needs
intelligent people to work it. Yet
we still go on discussing "methods"
of church work or Sunday school
work or something else; and the
underlying assumption is that there
is outs particular specific, all but
infallible, "method" which, if we
could only discover it, world do
the work itself.
This is preposterous. There are
just as many methods as there are
men andwomen.
There are as
many good methods as there aro
good men and women and as many
bad methods as there are idle and
worthless people. The great soci-
ety meets, elate an influential
committee, the influential commit-
tee meets, elate an able executive;
the able executive meets; carries
pious resolutions, plans groat
schemes, goes home comfortably to
dinner, lives happily ever after-
wards and leaves two or three peo-
ple to 40 the work. This world
would be a better place to live in
if the people who carry resolutions
would go forth to carry them ort
and when they have planned the
work do it and say nothing about
it.
They are not valuable; they are
dangerous, harmful, destructive, if
they change the emphasis from. the.
inner to the outward lite.
IMPROVED METHODS ARE
GOOD,
but improved men and women are
better, and the soul of improve-
ment is the improvement of the
soul. Are you a hotter man to -day,
kinder to those about you, fairer
to opponents in controversy, more
just to rivals in business, more
anxious to render obedience to all
the claims of good citizenship, more
willing to go out to your way, take
trouble, make sacrifices to help
your church, to help good move-
ments and to help your fellows? If
not, something is lacking, some di-
vine electric spark which might
kindle in your heart the glory of
the Lord.
The machinery cannot be worked
without good men and women, so
we have seen. But this also is true:
The entire object of the machinery
is to produce more good men and
women. All preaching, all praying,
all worship comes to this, Churches,
organizations, theologies are ever-
lastingly valuable if they help us to
keep our hands clean and our
hearts pure, if they Y
assist us to
do justly and lova mercy and walk
humbly before all that we can know
or think of Cod.
Rev. Charles F. Aked, D. D.
111E S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 1S.
Leeson III. The Conversion of
Saul. Acts 9: 1.30. Golden
Text, .lets 9: 4.
I. What Paul Was Converted
from.—Verses 1, 2. Why does the
account of Sanl's persecuting be-
gin with "but" ("and" in author-
ized version)? To contrast it wit°
the propagating work of Philipp,
just described. And why is yet used
It goes hack to the mad zeal of
Saul against the Christians at the
time of Stephen's death (Acts 8:
3). That same thr•eatenings and
slaughter continued. Paul himself
(Acts 28: 9-11) paints a vivid pic-
ture of this persecntiott, which
evidently involved the death of
more than Stephen. and which fol-
lowed the fleeing disciples far be-
yond Jerusalem and even Pales-
tine.
II. How Paul was Converted.—
Verses 3-7. How was Paul journey-
ing? Perhaps on horseback, as
usually represented by painters; or
an a camel, according to Cauan
Cook; on an ass or mule, accord-
ing to Felten. After a journey of
five or six days, he was near Da-
mascus, perhaps within sight of
the beautiful city.
What wonder stopped him in the
va • ?was about22:
t It neon Acts
(8), and the Eastern noon is ex-
ceedingly bright; nevertheless,
there fell about Saul a light from
heaven that was brighter than the
sun (Acts 26: 13), and in the midst
of it he saw the glorified figure of
Jesus (vs. 17-27).
III. What Paul was Coqverted
to.—Vs. 8-30. At least five results
of Paul's conversion are indicated
in these verse", which may beet be
studied from this point of view,
1. Converted to Lowliness (vs. 8,
0). How is that shown? ..By what
immediately followed, The com-
pany with aul, in spite of their
amazement, arose and stood (v.
7, before he did. Paul's eyes had
been closed, and when he opened the
lids, he perceived to his horror
that he was blind,
What was the outward sign of
this new lowliness? That he was
led by the hand, and thus brought
into Damascus, What a con-
trast to the entrance he had
planned!
How did he spend the next three
days? In helpless blindness, so ab-
sorbed by his new situation that
he could neither eat nor drink.
What did his new situation in-
volve 1 If he yielded to what he
now clearly saw was the truth,
and proclaimed himself a Christian
it meant the loss of his former in
fluence and power, the surrender of
his ambitions and hopes, the giving
up 01 his family and his wealth,
becoming a despised outcast, him-
.
-
self subject to tho same perils and
persecutions that he had been in-
flicting and knew all to well. On
the other hand, the radiant vision he
had seen commanded his allegiance.
It was a promise of ultimate vic-
tory. He would only be leaving the
losing side, And Christ himeelf
had promised him (Acts 26: 16-18) a
notable part in the conquest of the
world to Christianity, that he, blind
as he was, should "open men's
eyes, and turn them from darkness
to light." It was a terrible three -
days struggle.
2. Converted to Christian Testi-
mony (vs. 10-15, 20). What disciple
was sent to help Saul? His name
was Ananias. It is good to have
some one to redeem that name.
Paul afterwards (Acts 22: 12) said
of him that he was a devout man,
held in high honor by all the Jews
of Damascus, in spite of his Chris-
tian profession. Moreover he was
learned in the law—precisely the
man that could appeal to Paul.
3. Converted to Sufferings (vs.
16, 23-25, 29, 30). What very
strange motive for following him
did Christ present to Saul? That
he was to suffer many things for.
the sake of Christ (v. 18). These
sufferings began at once, in separ-
ation from his family, isolation
from his friends, the entire recast-
ing of his life. It is to this period
(the "many days" of v. 23) that we
must assign the retirement into
Arabia mentioned in Gal. 1: 17,
16, which lasted three years — at
least one full year and parts of
two others.
4. Converted to the Divine In-
dwelling (vs. 17-19). How did Ana-
nias obey the vision? By finding
Saul,
laying
ands on him,cal-
ling him Brother Saul in tokn of
his admission into the Christian
brotherhood, and telling him that
the same Jesus that had appeared
in the way to him had sent himself,
that Saul might receive his sight
and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Two great gifts—the greatest in the
physical and the spiritual realms.
IV. Have we Experienced This
Great Transformation? — That is
the question for us as we close this
lesson,
"Conversion" means "turning."
It implies turning from something,
and to something else. Paul, as
we have seen, turned (1) from
pride (intellectual and spiritual) to
lowliness, a humble following of
Jesus and co-operation with other
Christians; (2) from violent oppo-
sition to Christ, to the boldest and
most persistent testimony for
Christ; (3) from a life of author-
ity and ease, to a life of persecu-
tion and suffering; (4) from the
emptiness of worldly wisdom, to the
unfailing guidance of the Holy
Spirit; (6) from the weakness of
worldly power, to the invincible
strength of the Spirit. Such a
turning is made by -every true con-
vert.
4-
There are 150 firemen on some of
the larger Atlantic steamers.
11 is estimated that the l{alilrs
s'eal $1,210,000 worth of diamonds
every year from the Iiirnberley din, -
mil s.1 mines.
MOST HATED PUNISHMENT
TUE WIII4EL•IIO USE, A. CRUEL
PEVJOIi FOR PRISONERS,
Little Meet Is Provided ---Bread,
Porridge and Potatoes are the
Staples;
iii ht onnees of broad and a pint
of guel for breakfast and supper,
bread and suet pudding or potatoes
for dinner, not one morsel of meat
fey seven days --that is how a Con-
vict begins a sentence of bard tabor.
During his second ,week he tastes
meat but twice, on Mondays and
ilridays,-and then only three ounces
at a time,.seee an English paper.
Even after four months) when
long -sentence hard -labor men aro
at last put upon full diet, there is
still meats but twice a week; and
of that four ounces only each time,
The rest of the diet is broad,' por-
even the toughest convict dreads
is a "haehing." Thirty-six lashes
tray bo given, .and few men oan.
keep consciousness beyond twenty-
four. The punishment over, the
man is wrapped in a blanket soaked
with salt water, and taken to the
hospital.
The birch is used as well as the
eat, and almost equally feared:
Next to a thrashing, the Dolls aro
the most dreaded punishment with-
in a punislunent, The man sen-
tented to solitary confinement is
put on a diet of
BREAD, WATER AND GRUEL.
If be is noisy he is shut up in a
noise -proof cell, which is almost
dark.
Third in the list of severe punish-
ment contra the wearing of irons.
In these a`nan must eat, sleep and
work, and even bathe, perhaps, for
six, months on end. These punish-
monts aro wonderfully rarely neces-
sary. The dread of being degraded
from his °lass to the one below it
is the .beat weapon against the con -
vier in the hands of authorities,
ridge, potatoes, suet pudding, and No prisoner•cares to risk this, or
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satiesr-"run the chance of losing any re -
days a pint of soup, e; +ee;s, p of sentence.
THE AWFUL WHEEL -HOUSE it-ifity be news to some that,
is the fate of the hard labor man. though the diet is everywhere the
chmc by law, sat there i$ much
The "house" has four wheels, each
wheel divided into compartments, Worm in deo matter prisons.
or -
so that no convict can talk to or Woif r he Scrubs seemsathe nfcan
ite, for there, they say, a man can
communicate with his neighbor. live without being hungry. But
Fifteen minutes on and five minutes Portland and Princetown none like,
off is the unbending rule. It is particularly the former. The ]teen
cruelly hard toil for then novice, sea air gives the convicts an ap-
climbing this endless staircase. petite which their food is never
Try walking upstairs for a quer- sufficient to entirely satisfy, especi
ter of an hour without stopping, ally as the work there is perhaps
and see how you feel at the end or the heaviest of any that is done by
it. Try it again after a brief five convicts.
minutes' rest and then a third and I. —
fourth time. Try it alter breakfast.
FOUND AT LAST.
of half a pound of whole meal bread
and a pint of sticky gruel. There A. Poor Cobbler Who was Perfectly
is no possibility of rest, for if the Content.
foot remains an instant too long
upon the step it moves away and Charles Frohman, the theatrical
the next step scrapes the skin from man, talked the other day about
the shin. Small wonder that "two contentment.
years' hard" is a sentence which "I don't work for, money," he
the most hardened erimiallooks on said. "The hardest workers never
with dread, work for money. When did money
As a matter of fact almost any
of themP refer five years' penal
servitude to two of hard labor. The
food of a convict undergoing penal
servitude is hardly luxurious, lint it
is better than that in hard labor
prisons. Breakfast consists of the
usual pint of gruel and half -pound
of bread. But the gruel is better
than the hard labor skilly. It con-
tains two ounces of oatmeal and
half an ounce of molasses.
There is meat on three days a
week—beef twice, mutton once—five
ounces each time, and it is boiled
with onions and vegetables. A
pound of potatoes is the dinner al-
lowence.
THE SOUP IS GOOD,
being made of beef, pearl barley
and onions. There is cocoa for sup-
per, of the very same quality as
that which is served to the navy.
The .whole meal bread is well
made, and of full weight. Small
wonder that on this diet men fro-
quently regain lost health, and the
death rate is only ten per thousand
—less than half that of the healthi-
est towns in the country.
The work is not the hopeless toil
of the treadwheel. Men are put to
trades—tailoring and shoemaking
principally. Many at Portland and
Dartmoor work in the open air.
Then there are various privileges,
and even money, to be gained by
good behavior and hard work.
A convict on arriving is placed in
the probationary class. He can
earn eight marks a day. If he has
720 marks at the end of his first
year he gets into the third class.
He then has black facings on
sleeves and collar, he may write and
receive one letter in six months,
and receive one visit of twenty-one
minutes in the came period. He is
also able to earn a gratuity of one
shilling a month,
If at the end of the second year
he has succeeded in earning 2,290
marks, he passes into the second
class, distinguished by yellow fac-
ings, He may now send and get
one letter every four months, and
receive three visits during the year.
Another 2,920 marks, and he passes
to the first class,
IN BLUE -FACED DRESS.
A letter may now reach him once in
three months. He may look for-
ward to a forty minutes' visit once
in the same time.
A year before a penal servitude
prisoners' discharge he may pass
into the special class, with all -blue
uniform, tea instead of cocoa, and
—greatest treat of all—roast in-
stead of boiled beef. Many men
say that the everlasting diet of
boiled meat is one of the worst
parts of their punishment. Tho
craving for a chop or a sausage be-
comes simply terrible, and lasts
long after the desire for tobacco
has vanished,
Penal servitude convicts may also
gain considerable remission of their
sentences by good conduct and hard
work. Hard work pays in every
way, for a clever, handy man may
get the greatest coveted job of
cook or cleaner, or even of gard-
ener, which is the biggest prize of
all,
The governor of a prison has, of
enerse, power to punish refractory
bring content?
You know the story of satrap
a
and the Persian physician? A cer-
tain young and profligate satrap,
;exhausted alike in body and in
mind, sent for a famous Persian
physician and said :—
"'I have squandered my youth
in riotous living. My frame is en-
feebled like an old man's, and my
mind disordered with remorse and
horror. Can you help hie?'
"The Persian physician, looking
gravely at the pale satrap, answer-
ed
"'You have but one hope. Go
forth and find, if there be such, a
perfectly contented man. Persu-
ade this man to exchange shirts
with you, and you will straightway
be strong and happy again.'
"The satrap set out upon his
search. He travelled many months
in vain. But at last he heard of
a cobbler who was said to be abso-
lutely contented.
"The satrap came at last to the
cobbler's door. The house was but
a hovel, and on a board before it
the cobbler lay asleep. Awaking
him, the satrap, asked if it were
true that he was quite contented,
and the cobbler, with a laugh, de-
clared that it was
"'Then,' said the satrap, 'I have
a boon to ask at your hands. It
is that you will exchange shirts
with me. For thus, a wise physi-
cian has said, I may become strong
and contented also.'
"But the cobbler shook bis head.
"'Most cheerfully would I grant
your request, young man," he be-
gan, 'but—'
" `Nay, nay, deny me not,' the
satrap cried. 'Z will pay you any
sum that you may name.'
" 'I seek not your gold, youth,'
said the cobbler, 'but—but—'
'But what?'
" 'The truth is, I have no shirt.' "
e•
WHAT IS
NEXT ST
THE NLA STOP?
0
In New Zealand an automatic
device has just been patented for
telling railway passengers the name
of the next station, The names of
the various stations aro printed on
a roll, which is rotated by toothed
wheels. A "tripper" is placed,
either on the track or by its side,
between each station, and this is
so adjusted as to strike a lisver on
the passenger oar. The motion is
communicated to the toothed
wheels governing the roll bearing
the station names, and the ringing
of an automatic bell announces to
the passengers the fact that the
name of the next stetion is on
view.
CANTON FULL OF ROBBERS.
Canton, China, at present is full
of robbers. It is said that in some
parts the people are really afraid
to go to rest at night, inasmuch as
it is certain that thieves will en-
ter and rob the place, According-
ly some Dna sits up, while others
sleep. The following is a queer
oritleism of China's police by a
correspondent: "We have a police
force, whose work consists mostly
in sleeping at post or helping the
nearest shopkeeper to chop wood
or a neighboring blacksmith to
blow his dire."
Teacher—"If. you are kind and
polite to your playmates, what wills
be the result? Soholar—They 11
prisoners, The punishment which think they can lick ins I
VY OIt l'lI if NO°FVI 1O,
A Few Items of Fret That Should,
Interest You,
The cotton faewries in Lanca-
shire spin enough thread its sax see-
orale to go 1'o.snd the world.
A nave has lately been discover-
ed in New Zealand whielt is larger
even than the Mammoth Cave of
Ken tu°Iry,
Germany's colonies are five times
as big as herself, those of Trance
eighteen times, and Britain's
ninety-seven times.
At the Strozzi palace in Rorie
there is a book made of marble,
the leaves being of marvellous thin -
In Persia there are no distiller-
ies, breweries, or public -houses,
and native wine is the only intoxi-
cating beverage used.
When a dentist in .China is ex -
treating a tooth fora patron, an
assistant pounds on a gong to
STILL TO I3E EXPLAINED
MANY AREAS OF THE WORLD
Ally ENOISUOV3'1Rl:D,
The 'Tread of the Pioneer Is Still
Waited on Nearly all the
Continents,
Few people probably realize the
great areas on nearly all the con-
tinents which still await the tread
-of the pioneer. That there still
remains plenty of scope for research
on the face of the glebe is brought
vividly to tate mind by a long and
interesting survey of new and pro.
jested exploring expeditions print-
ed in the London 'Times,
SOUTH-EAST ARABIA.
South-eastern Arabia is ane of
thrown the cries of thepatient. the regions which await ,the pia
The same force which nibves one neer. • Here, embraced within a
ton on a smooth high -road will line drawn ' north from Aden to
move eight tons on a railway or
thirty-two tons on a canal,
Aeronauts have noticed that the
barking of a clog is the lastsound
they hoar from earth, being some-
times then at an elevation of four
amiles.
A pigeon used by a Manchester
firm of mill -owners to carry mes-
sages from one mill to another has
saved the firm $1,145 in telegrams
during the past ten years.
A bridal wreath in England is
usually composed of orange blos-
soms, Germany uses myrtle, Italy
white (roses, Spain red roses,
Greece vine -leaves, and Bohemia
rosemary.
Three hundred Berlin streets are
planted with 14,000 trees, which
are said to represent a valve of
nearly $200,000. About 1,000 gar -
Najd and another eastward to the
peninsula called El Kate, is an
Area, of some 400,000 square miles.
It is largely occupied by the Roba
el Khali, the "Dwelling of the
Void," probably the most forbid-
ding desert on the face of the earth.
The southern border has been ex-
plored, but the desert itself has
been untrodden except perhaps by
hurrying Bedouins. Now G. W.
Bury, an experienced Arabian
traveller, proposes to make en ex-
tensive expedition into the un-
known interior, examining ruins.
and buried cities on his way.
IN TIBET.
In Tibet, Dr. Stein will follow
Dr. Sven Hedin. "While the main
object—the search for the trea-
sures that have been buried for
denei•s and assistants are employed centuries under the ever encroach-
to take care of them. ing sand -is archeological, he re
A' public notice to the following gards -geographical exploration as
affect was recently placarded at of first importanee." n
•.'hirlstane, Tasmania: "I, Sarah Another problem is "that of the.
Fitzpatrick, if not claimed by Fran- unknown stretch of the Lower
cis Fitzpatrick in fourteen days, Brahmaputra, which flows for 100
will be married again.—Sarah miles or more through the country
Fitzpatrick." of the intractable Abors. An ad -
In Abyssinia it is the law that venturous Englishman, taking his
on hi
0 s
life in his. hands is now the murderer be turned over to
away
,
the relatives of the deaderson through :Assam bent upon solving
and they, if'they please, may put this problem. It is only a few days
him to death in the same manner ago that Mr. Brooke, who was mak-
in which the murdered person was ing for the same district from a dif-
killed. forent direction, was murdered on
A naturalist asserts that if the the Tibet -Chinese border.
earth were birdless man could not ANOTHER ATTEMPT.
inhabit it for more than nine years.' Several African expeditions are
All the sprays and poisons in the
world would be quite inadequate planned, some of considerable mag -
to keep down the insects, which nand°, but, as the writer in the
would eat up everything. Times remarks, "one might walk
A .fox can scent a man half a over any part of Africa now with -
mile away if the winch .be blowing out meeting with adventures, .un -
in the animal's direction. A mouse less, indeed, one provoked them."
can smell cheese 50 feet away. A But Mr. Pinscher will make another
cheer may be sound asleep and yet attempt to reach the Tibesti high
he will catch the scent of a person
passing 200 feet off.
A poulterer in the Rue Mont-
martre, Paris, who makes a speci-
alty of game of all kinds, is selling
a dromedary and two kangaroos.
He expects, he says, to see camel
cutlets and kangaroo steaks. as
Stems on the bill of fare of every
restaurant in Paris.
New York is to have another
"skyscraper," with towers which
have forty-six and forty-seven Polar regions more than elsewhere
storey- respectively. The building that popular curiosity still hovers,
'will have a tower of sixty-two since these are still surrounded
storeys with a main building of with a veil of mystery."
thirty-four storeys, and it will be In the south Polar area Lieut:
over 900 feat high. This is easily Shaekieton's expedition is still at and jell and jam for them. They
a record. work. What he has accomplished get her to make cakes for their
In ono of the excavated come cannot be known until March or iooetts, and she door plan tho
teries in Egypt the bodies of many April, when it is hoped that the
nicest deooral and luncheons oven
pet dogs have been found. One of Nimrod will return to New Zea- to the decorations and place cards.
the animals had ivory bracelets land, either with the expedition on Of tencse,'ft is all done under the
round its legs, while several had board, or with the information that pretence that since she does these
collars of twisted leather, one with Shackleton ha" decided to continue things so much better than any-
aleather lead attached. The teeth his work for another year, Mean- one else, wo simply couldn't ex -
of many of the dogs were in a no- while Dr. Charcot in the Pour uoi fst unless she helped us out, and
°ably bad condition, the result Pass has begun his enterprise on the pay is simply—oh, the pride of
of idleness and unhea_ lthy luxury. the Graham Land side of the A.nt-'that courageous little mite would
d man named ert, who wasarctic, creak your heart!
lands the practically unexplored
mountain range which runs for
some 700 miles north-west from
Dar Fur into the heart of the Sa-
hara.
WORK IN SOUTH AMERICA.
More pioneer work perhaps re-
mains to be done in South Ameri-
ca than in any other continent, for
here "probably some 2,000,000
square miles are still unexplored."
But after all "it is around the
A GOO D FELLOW'S W
ILEA LOT IS CERTAINTLY NO7i rim
HAPPY ONE,
Seigel*, Heartless Alan About Town
Lets Wife Slaye at
Home.
"The furnace is broke," ex-
plained the lady of the house as
she led the way to the kitchen and
invited her guesta'to take coats near
a stove. "So I brought the cliil•
dren and my sewing out to the only
warm °pot in the house, My em-
broidery? Oh, I'm just doing some
marking for Eleanor, She admirea
my work so I simply couldn't re-
fuse to do tbia, I'tn marking all
her linen as well es her lingerie—
with a monogram I designed for
her,"
GOOD FOOD, BEST WINES.
The guests admired the work,
and the afternoon chat flowed
smoothly enough until the man of
the house appeared. Well dressed,
full blooded, with the effects of
conceit, good food and the best
wines marked all over his hand-
some, if puffy face, he cast the
pale, frail personality of his worn
little wife quite into the back-
ground. Her gingham, which had
been neat before, looked worn and
faded. Her thinness became
scrawny, and her face was pinched
Math nervous anxiety.
VISITOR'S OPINION.
The advent of the suave, jolly
man brought the call to an abrupt
close.
"L'ean't bear to breathe in the
same room with him," stormed the
oldest of the group as they walked
away. "I hate ham so at times I
feel like running a hatpin into his
nine, round,complacent body. That
wife of his is a saint; if there was
ever one, although I do think she
is too saintly with him. If she'd
get a little more devil in her and
n little lees patiencethat man
might get what he deserves.
000D FELLOW'S WIFE. .
"What's
the matter? Why,
o•
s
a good fellow, and she's a good.
fellow's wife. He is a 'spender
down town, and he does not half
support the family he has at home.
He is 'one of the boys' down town
and a nagger and a bully and a
coward up town—that's what he is.
He spends all he chooses to spend
on his vile, conceited self, and his
wife pretends the furnace is bro-
ken when she knows that it is sim-
ply because site can't afford to
keep a furnace fire and she and the
children live in the kitchen to save
fuel all winter long.
SHOES LIKE PAPER.
"She goes about with shoes like
paper while he buys his clothing
from the beat tailor in town—and
she excuses him because his busi-
ness standing demands a certain
good appearance. He spends more
for cigars in a week thanshe does
for food for herself and the chil-
dren, and, worse, she works to feed
and clothe them. Yes, she doesi
She sews for her friends—hor shirt'"
waists are dandy.
FRIENDS HELP.
"In the fall some of her friends
insist that she put up some fruit
turned out of his house on the out -
PITY "POOR FELLOW."
skirts of Paris in October, has
• 4:—
"Of course, some of the other
a bridge,
out with placedfa family muni -under "'good follows' suspect that 'he' is
n. bridge, and has the a sneak. But, some men don't
ci alit Ina quandary. —
p Y q div y. The pre-fect of the department has even seem to mind such things, exactly.
offered him a house but Robert They aro too lazy and careless to
says no. He cannot be arrested for feel squamish over a pal's lack of
vagrancy, because he neither begsprinciple, lids mother-in-law is the
nor moves from his position. only one who wont 'pretend for
SPECTACLESSFFOR HORSES.
Used When Young, They 'Produce
Iliglt-Steppers,
The business of ono well known
firm of opticians in England con-
sists largely in, the manufacture of
spectacles to promote high step-
ping. They are made of stiff lea-
ther, entirely closing the eyes of
the horse, and the glasses used are
deep concave and large in size, The
ground seems to the horse to be
raised and he steps high, thinking
he is going uphill or has to step
aver some obstacle. This system
of spectacle is generally adopted
while the horse is young, and its
effect on his stepand action ,is said
to be remarkabl. It has been dis-
covered'that the cause of a horse's
shying is as a rule short sight, and
i+, is now suggested that the sight
of all horses should be tested, like
that of children,
4,
In Abyssinia, the wife is master.
The house and its belogin a are
hers, and, if her husband ,Mends
her, she can turn him out.
ROYAL EDITORIAL OFFICES.
Iris Majesty is a Great Newspaper
Reader.
people eop le are aware of the.
multitudinous duties of King Ed-
ward, hut it is not generally them. She visits theta once a year
known that there is a department —yes, she has money, but she won't
in each of the Royal residences give her daughter much beeauseslhe
which approximates to the news says it encourages the husband to
room of the daily paper. Here give even less to the home,
newspaper items from the great "Not a few people misunder
journals of the world are "cut" steed. They pity hint for having
y newspaper mon, say, for reports
f news dealing with the higher
spheres of polities, foreign affairs,
and a myriad other topics, alike
of interest to the King and his re-
sponsible advisers.
H'is Majesty is a keen man of af-
fairs, and probably the best-in-
forined monarch in the world. Even
when on a special journey, his news-
papers are set out on the table in
his saloon carriage for his'perusal,
and the morning news finds no
more omnivorous reader,
In the Royal work -rooms cuttings.
and references are carefully pre-
served in special books, and in-
dexed for future references. King
Edward's editorial offices, as we
may call thein, are the hest or-
ganized of all, though those of the
ICaiser•, at Potsdam, run them very
ileac.
Now -a -days, however, every
Court has anintelligence depart-
ment attached, arid its multifarious, Tho selling of wino in Spain on a
duties provide plenty of work for Sunday is prohibited, and inne
Royal Mee:a tiros and: other mem- must eteee by watinigir•' on, Satur-
hers of the confidential staffs. day.
a wife who is eo dull she doesn't
care to go rotund with hint and have
a good time, and so stingy she lives
in the'kitchen to save work, and
ec careless she wears shabby clothes
and never makes an effort to keep
his love by keeping her good -looks.
"Think of it, he is actually piti-
ed, when the Whole situation is due
tc his own •seifiahness."
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An elephant works from the ago
of ttvelve•to the age of eighty. He
can haul fifteen tons, lift a half- ,.
ton, and carry three tons.
After losing a -ease a lawyer is
willing bo "try, try again" -.as
long as liia client is willing to pay
the freight.
On au average, 1,490 lives ore lost
by fires in England and Wales
every year,
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