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in the c.et
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no church
ou not
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night,
you to
11 is sm.
aseociates
Iwn11t
people.
up
you will
you
enough
with me
together,
room for
men, strangerS
there who
to come
if thus eceoeted
dedicated
of the
of
erupts.,
Christian
, .
IVOUJO go --
and give
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Saint:0,140n
1 ?lave indicated?
people
personally
duty
as
WORK,
field of Christian
found in
I mean
the cannibals
Among the
their igloos,
tse
mad
the orient?
•
included in
The
Go ye, therefore
baptizing
le thee
t it
Ghost,"
• One
is
society
donations,
pledges
Christian
in foreign
woeld's
the black
yellow man
of India
in Christ,
mispionary
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Christiaa
living
labor
social. outcast's,
a lady some
me in a beautiful
asking
child
wanted to
knew that
n '
tight ultinaately
of themselves,
never.
adopt a
boy while
enough
child alter
is the true
care for the
moral
ou Call find
• can hear
You
you in
SurrEaliNG
for Christian
hospitel
spent
is found
filled
e-wtA,
hro
of encouragement
It is found
where many
with
existence,
that they
the old .peop
and. the
petulantly,
and longingly,
summons
beyond,
the house
house of
believe it
of the
caskets
couch of
for
thee by
departed.
are
few of
to carry
elreeel
Christian
tht work
do ot
.a
that
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scone hospital
find there
Of all works.
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into
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in
you
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or
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would
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do
is
invited
well
mission-
by that?
t IAesed
the
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them
and
has
of
to
fields.
Saviour
inter-
labor
in
among
me
who
adopt
'
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crippled
in
erip-
them
them
can
the
week,
most
in
leer
it futile
curs-
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• play
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feast-
is
of
phyei-
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tilled
us ever
when
work
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the bletutid words of ellillesS Vat-
trate. You will not, only hear .i._
man tionunentlations, but you will
01FlO hear the D11.1110 Sarlorle saY1 "I
was Rick, and ye vleited me, Verily
I say unto you intisinuch as yo done
it, unto ono of the lewd of Lii900 any
brethren yo have (10)19 it mita ine."
TEA cospia, naysTATToN.,
But there is still ono more field
or Christian activity to which .i.
would direct your attention, That
is to the hide 1'00111S where the after-
meetinge should 1,te held in every
Christian church Immediately follow-
ing the of the Sunday-
night services. That /a the place
whore the gospel net is drawn. That
JO 7,100Ak 13 .101)13 geppa to moos mei se
prayer the sinners oss, given is mood,'
josi tation to join the church, There
they ore brought face to face with
Jesus libelist and are urged to make
a decision in reference to their soul's
0slimed destiny. That is the one
p1e040 above all ahem whore tle
Christian should expect to see the di-
red results of his spiritual labors.
It is the one place toward which
his scholars and yoUng people should
converge and concentro arid find
(10111)01 clthax.
THE CALL TO CHRISTIAN LIFE,.
the call to the Christian life
ia bugle blast for work. The
pew is 110t meant for a bed
of roam where indolence and sloth
can lie down for perpetual elumber,
Cosecrated church membership 18 ato
sacred alliatty for intense missionary
I. s.
activity as well as for "gospe re. 1:.
A famous mustelan once said, ess i
stop practising upon the piano one
'day 1 will feel my deterioratiOn if
two clays the musleal metics will 'feel
it, if three the world at large in my
promiscuous audiences will feel it.,,
If the consecrated church member
8110 (45 workin • for Christ one day he
hinisolf will arsoi i • Iv spiritual
rasa 0 nh.sp chr.
d • . ..• .1 ,
eterio"ation, ! two 11YR IS 1S-'
friends will realize it if three
thin . '
days the world. at largo will be tho
sufferer laocause of it. Faith's wings
,
ate movable. They must be kep•t
working all the time. Now comes
- 0 . .
tn practical determination for the
Christian to settl • where cire you
) c• 11 fittecl to ' to work for
8...1.1e1 la Y 00 .
0.1 ist? Choose Your spiritual
-- pc-
cupations. From among the many
fields of gospel opportunities choose
them now,
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LITTLE THOUGHTS,
drinks one -hail of its own
poison.
A day without a good deed leaves
you in debt.
The best way to lose your Own
troubles is to lift another's.
Truth i - • • s - • •
s a et) easel. that a good
many people do not care to meet.
It is only to -morrow's burdens thet
break the bace of to -day. "
Experience takes dreadfully high
w . . .,
ages, but it Is 1110 liest teacher,
It is the little things of life that
ke th•• I 1 ty vl. I ,
Ma t ,T) g 1 i. 1 100-8 00 rmma•
Our friendships are usually row-
roe. s, w e oue latre s are inen-o -
1 t hil ' 1 cl ' '
When-
an individual minds his o
,.. , . . .. wil,
us ness he IS one km I F
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ist.
.r.s. .
-'-'• appmess greivs at om: own fire-
sides, anti is not, to be iciced 11 111
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stranger's gardens.
. .
Is it not eoteelames better to walk
off svith your dignity intact than to
stand too long on it? ' '
Men of small minds aro slow to see
in any man more than they are cap-
able of seeing in themselves.
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IIIE S S 1 ESSON
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON;
,TA.N. 24.
Text of the Leseou, Luke iv.,
16-30. Golden Text,
3"ohn i., 1 1,
,iii,i is iiiispisou and rejected of
1110111 num of $orrows mid acquaint -9'91'y
ed with grief, and We hid RS it Were
olle faces fr0111 Him/ He 1908 111'808°4
end We eat Ponied Him not," "110
was la tile world, and the world WaS
made by 111.111, and the world know
olio "tots Fre came into Els own
and ;His own. received Himuot ' (Ise,
lili., 3; John. i., 10, 11). Ho knew
it would be so and yet 1113 came,
and become a son of man that We
might become sons of Cod, For us
He suffered and died; wit,h Hen we
must die and suffer if we would reign
with Him (Ileb, 119, 14-1(1).
Haviug met thwild beastand
the rdevil in the wilderness, a
ig ovecome by te wordof ClodIre
retued ithe power of tho SpiritUNFORTUNAIE
to 1111(419», but not until he returned
Lo where John the Baptist was buss-
tieing and John had 90111190 11110
out as the Lamb of God, and An-
drew, Simon, Philipn•od Nathanael
had 1)1010 n • Ills disciples' Itis prob-
able also that lie changed
rcinter
wine at Cana, '0101)4. to . a,use ameiaclzvolcailai)soment
to the 2ussover, cleansed the temple
'
mot Nicodemus and the 190111(111 of
Samaria aim' healed' the .nobleman's
son at Capernaum before the incis
dents of our lesson occurred at Na7.-
meth. See John i., 19, to iv., 51,
That :Fie had been brought up at
Nazareth woulu hot add to His rums-
lia Lion, judging from John 1., 46. I.et
a. such ns llve at some Nazareth
take courage. It is not our environs
anent that mars or inelcos w:, else
Ad d .10 • wo ld eves have fat-
am eel -ii 0 11 11 •
len 'rho ex .iression "brought up" is
. r i si 1.- .
soMetimes trans ated cm oi
"nourieh" (Matt. vi. 20; imke xii.,
o . s . ,
- il; Bev. xti., 6-1a) turd may suggest
in addition. to physicel groWth a
nourishing by God with His word
and 8 Pirit, and a trairring or educe-
tion by Flis providences, .
It was Ilis Sablorth (lay cuidom al-
wayS to be in th° Place 041 w°r8h1P
on that day, even though the visite
al benefit, open from that derived
from the reading of the Scriptures,
may have been very small. If the
statement implies that it. was also
His custom to read. the Scripteres,
then \'l,13 131'O increasingly interested
to See llin, as a young 911a11, always
taking part in the services. As Ho
.
uno o [led the scroll of • the prophet
Isaiall Ho Sound what we call Ism
Dd., 1, and Ho must have read, am
cording to Neb. viii 8 distinctly
giving the sense and causing them to
-undeestand the reading. no mod ,
lo o a P01 -100, 5,011110 111 ie
vet. 1 .1 ... • .1.' 'f • d • ti
midst of a sentence folded up the
- '. .
roll, or rolled up the scroll, gas°
it to the minister, sat (town and be -
ay ' "This day is the Scrip -
gals to s . ,
i e fulfilled In your ears" (verso
.0.,
21). He eidently had nodifficulty
in finding the place, but this is a
matter which is not easy to a good
meny believers to -day. AS to 1;11e
portion Ile rend, is it uot it coms
, "
plebs :summary of the giosious, goss
poi of silo glossed (so(4 ? (1 Thu, i,
11.) Glad tidings for the poor, the
broken hearted, tho 0)9(41.4919. the
blind, the 411-9404(1 (Isa. Wit. 1151
brie, 2; Matt. v, A; ix, 27; Ps. Xxx..-
111, 18; IL 17; 'Luke 'VW, 27; ix, 89;
xiii, 10; lain'. Hi, 3.7). The accepts
able year is etill yith ita-sit 114 still
true that "110W iS th 0 EICeepIld I i100.
nOW is the dies of salvation" fl I:
001•• vr. 9; •1 °ha v. •`"°). "I104 Mors
truth is worthy of every one's
acceptation 111(14.. "Chriet Jesus came
into the world to save sinners" (1
• -
Tim. 3 1o). As Fie took His seat
all ' d . s
eyes were faslone on him. • Vas
it hecause o 4.1)0 way I11O 1011 0, or
woe it, because of what lie left Un-
read ? Bad He read the next. sens
tence Ere could not have said Unit
it NVOS' then felfilled, for the 0h37 of
issegetInce is not yet. Redemption
for Israel and vengeance upon her
mammies, RO often ',wet:hated in Scrip-
isn•e, will 130 al; 1119 second cooties.
(Ism xxxle• 8: xxxv, 4; 111(11. 4;
Luke mei, 24-2(3; 11 Those. i, 7-10).
Only the first worlds. of His diecousse
aro given, but as ono has Raid, "It
tiltnit have been rich in matter and
trweet in manner." He was full of
.race end truth, 011 1 of the Spirit,
amid it was 'the Father 'who spoke
through HI (19 0)111 i, 14: xil, 49).
Ifo sees the unbelief and enmity in
their hearts, mut Iie reminds them
Wet in the dys of .Elij,ah and 'eBlls-
hnot ay benefited by the tach-
hsor the nivten1ull: 110VOIS 0
Gott,s servats. IT1(11010 tlii1
Nazareth considered Hen Joseph'S
son arid that His townspeople wOuld
• ' • • •
not receive Him, but it, was in the
P Ian that He should thus offer Him-
self to them.
whet great blessing was within the
math of Nazareth that day, hut
Wesat bliadness post -lessee her 1 She
kneiv not, the, time of hie. visitation.
God, the God of Israel, had been in
her intdet naknowe, Nis glory veiled
in huitem Ione those 1)4111194 yo(9es;
0,11t1 11019 Ho reveals Ilimeelf a.s
Jesus, their brother, the long Re 0-
toll :gee:Atilt of Israel, but they will
not 'receive Hitn, 'for. to them Ile is
0111y ,,,r0801)h ,s squ .,! . 011,. ' soa.
great aed all important the 000s...
tion, 'What. 01011 ye of Christ-.
whose Son 18 Ile 1" i 'fat.t xxi1, 40.)
They would have kit 1011J-111es but
Nis emir to die had not vet coons
11)111) 00 1l 1)(11 94)914take Ilie li_fe nfrom
Him (John , :18). •
From the time tat Ile tlevil 990'110nt0110183"k°in
told that'the seed ofthe wome1l
would 90119um, him he ever sou il,
i0 aeg 1°Y 1,,1". ,'n°. 0' ,,..,'041Is"'fln't
end le Ies 1)04. yet given up the tors ;greatst
ilict• lin't "e Lab sh'ell oveee
fr Tn s- toof Tol1 ad ISig e
Mites" (Rev4, 9(1.11,11), 130 quietly
))i113041Soa 01,9144.1)1141' (411(411(11(1 10111 went
down to Copertuom ond taught
them on the Sabbath days; but
esdle they seem testonisluel nt. His
ensiling they didigit receive HIM
talatt.•el 211. 111,84.104).
AY 'YET BUILD ON $AN .
Modern Invention DieeenartS • the
Work of the Ages.
1 but alli sib -
Ilotiees built, of Sitin , '
etantial and durable ful granite, have
jinn, been Illade poinlible. A. bud of
.
clean Mimi and grottni cinickillne are
all the materials -needed. The • in-
gredieuts are mixed in proper pro -
poitionti mechanicallY, ford forced by
Is seem into a moultf formed of a
strong 114.001 cylinder,
After the mould is Piled it if; lilacs
, sucked 01)4, by airspump. Hot. sea -
is sed in n box, Mid the air it 001,4.491104001,4.491104benediction
', tor 10 then admitted. The svaatnerd•
I ushee into every minute 'mace
r
1 41' te the particles of linur slacking.
P110 11100 SWelhf, and causes a great
pressure In the mould, Willie at tile
fauna time an intense heat Is pro,
duced,
Under the influence of the beat and
presetire the sand and lime are mould -
ecinto a rock, which has 60 per
cent. as much strength as the hard -
0811 granite. It is ready for Use in
eight hours. The new building 140na00)9180.35mu
9111110 f004.,11ed,
coss but a-quart4e-r a
-.a
Mitered According to A91 of 190 Pere
filament of tlatiatio., fa tee end year one
meausane Nino Rewired Three,
by Wm. Bally. et Toronto. at *ft
Department of Agriculture, ottawfal
--:-.,..., so sass -
A despatch from imisses . •
oe, rooms Do moss Talmage presses
1 from the following text *. Matts
x, 7, "Go ye alS0 1 111:0 the Vi 110-
evil."
A iiiospective theme I It iee98(409'-
LII,S (131))11'0(4I'14919 foe 011 fli•980r-Are•You
.•s
u11 of Dew year. '(41)18lia Inot a
site to sound tt recillem
I11.18 time whim the -aneI
does shellIcbe 91efeelecdefiantly
.L3
the breeze end Mien an aggressWe
ee campaign shoud be planned for
ivediug the strongholds of evil
erroancled by satanic intrenelunetits.
Forward, march I" should be ,to
nrunand all along the lines, no"t
Mark timel" not. "1altI" ,"„"
loan back I) not (stellaeat for
intinel duty. Mn 1( 101.1191 haVe f
' - -10111 1 - - - -°r
1)) gospelranks a grand charge and
et a tattoo. There should be no
lilingness to sleep upon our arms
9 peace.
A negative poliey will never can-
are this old wet Id for Christ. It
1 19011 °L tint°5 to 1)5°"°11 th° 110111-
tend, "'Thou s I 1 elt not." There
Imo into my posseesion the other
ay a bountiful suggestive :booklet
setten by 131shop John IT. Vincent.
ts • title Wild "13etter Not." Hut
ho Christian's library. to 130 com-
leta needs 49 companion volume
allecl "13etter Do.'' The Christian
I called to a life of positive, active
"mice.
i0111K. IN THE suNnAy sgRooLs
There is work, unlimited work,
meericlous, OVer powering and vital
Twit, to do among the Sunday
111001S. This gospel woek is the
tore important because It must be
one quickly 01 9,11 will never be done
.
t all. The verdant fields of child-
ood do not stay verdant longs Our
W64111119019scorn to spring up 110-
0)'our very eye. It is but a short
ime since they Were babies. Now
110y are boys and girls. Soon they
ill be grown men and womeh. We
0 back to visit the Keens% of our
we left only a, f91V
ears ago, and we find that the
enspanions or 0111' youth are now
rown up and married and have
&Mee of their own.
Sunday school work offers an un-
mited field for gospel effort. Many,
tany are the children among Whom
to 'earnest disciple can labor. Pre-
idea Roosevelt may be right In
ttering e, vehement protest against
ao tendency of the upper classes to
Uric parental responsibilities, but
mong the- initiate and . the lower
,asses children 'seem to be every-
•1101e. There aro broods of them,
MarOIS of them, flocks of thew,
teat hosts of them. The multitudes
A
f pattering fool, lately fill the earth.
ith memo when these infantile
-"mugs every morning start on their
ally tramp to the public, schools,
I order to lipase them for octet's-.
onal.purposes neilliobs upon mil-
ons of dolltues must be spent OD,
unity. NO Christian disciple need
D afraid of building upon another
LOA'S 101111dati011 1911011 110 gOOS to
ork foe Christ omeng the little
Aldren. There 19 not a consecrat-
i Sunday school superintendent in
11 the world who is no 1 at his wits'
ld to find the right kind of teach -taus
u 0111:0 101)1 gather the boys and
m girls into the studente' classes
,r• his Sunday school,
'1'
A. FIELD FOR GOSPEL 1.4.13011.
Sunday school work is of the most
.tal inmortasice. Among all the
Ads open for gospel labor I have
loosely placed it first, because 1:
Hove it to be the most important
I alt. .No one can fully petiolate
te 'future influence of the children
110 are now playing, aka:tut our
mrs. OSIerenistocles, the ' great...
atesmen, once placed hes beryl up-
9 his eon's head and said, "This
did is greeter then any ono in
reece4 for the Athenians cornmend
le tsreeke, I command the Athens
ns, his mother commands Me, and
f commands his.. mother." Wie, in
hrist's namo, eon piece our heeds
ion the children. In Sunday school.
Ork WO can says "The children will
; greater than all, because the
licen of to -day will bo the men
d the women of tomorrow," If
01 aSave the 11)0.1(10(4 and the
irseries for Christ, you can save
0 world for Christ, I Pleed • and
g of you, Christian disciples, 1,
-0
peed a great part of you"; gavel
orgies ' •ill workillie lonollg• the
'Wren. •
Another gate stands wide open for
actical gospel , usefulness. 'rills
,to leacie into • a field i -
1o,cls , , aglow a Ills
/on0d lunnan grain, ready to be
enerell, It isycrowded with young
ople. But, 11101.101 crowded . with
o .young men and maidens, yet
ch (4)9)10011(10)' 11101)1 coming into
r Inego cities is emptying part of
; load into this field as the freight
94110 lially .. disgorge their cattle'
ri. her:sea and sheep into the Chi.
go steels yarde, and yOL there is
ways room for 81.090. Y00110 Mee
:d• infLIII0118, Me Children, seem to
everywhere. Wo crowd against
0111 4 11 the electric: miss, We bump
against them on street ,eorners,
see them theouh the 111911)4111141
osaloon urd blliard halls,
will help !1111'o them '4 Church
Inet Christ tailing you
,) . ;g
and lance, among the salwart
0]94004.19 as well as to 41)50
ax among Omgnarled and
111 )1ealele' of 91l91111 old
/11..
611SOIAiSS DUTY,
I, the Ohriatian to go after
ft people 9 Simply ()trough 'iodide
lo ester thqui with the
f Ofi al* 44991i190 of ,,.9i1 go
D1'04,4.. Me*, floe hustseaces
is a yOung man who
, ,g° cit , s
0111)'. lee
"rill'ollgh MI old thalUoilitance
father' /10 gets a
store. Ile has a small
lotiethise. boarding. hottea
t e grail disciple to
he to merely pass
„ .
ing or is Ire to go
Man and opea a conveesetion
tlko,-Hs,ssiss,"Goodroo
e
a )1trangoi
ssu from a Cbristian
have
Hone as yetWill
;
to c1i; clurch next
have out. Chr
social nextirleursday
that I coul11 introduce
of our young poofgo.
(hft 1/11011ff bad
'
itrgctOW1like this.
get among the good
some fne young folk
church, I know that
190,1111 welcome....Perhaps
know the city well
your way. Come
per, and we will go
will cell at your
How many young
a large city, are
refuse an invitation
Christian people
Flow many rooms
thureh foe the services
tian EndeaVor society,
league or Brotherhood
and Philip would be
fleetly empty if the
.."000s -of the -church
a plain, practical way
. . ,
11. WOLIn heartea, loVim,
the young folks as
The reaSen the young
mono into cinu-eh followshiP
cause they are not
'to come. This invitetion
with the new convert
with the old.
MISSIONARY
AnOther glorions
usefulness, is to be
(fly work. What do
Christian laboe among
of the south seas?
robed 19011110408, in
the icy north? Among
Maoris of New Zealand
civilized nativee of
yes. They are all
term, "missionary work."
s. - e
ime command,
and Leach all nations,
11 Li of th;
1 re name
Son and the Holy
" •fi. 1
worldwide sigiu came.
first 0111109 01 a, Christian
for the foreign missionary
his church. By money
needlework, and by
should re -enforce our
sionaries laboring
You cannot have a
unless you feel that
of Borneo and the
China and the 13engall
your brothers -brothers
But in reference to
/ had in my mind also
mutation. I moan
among those who am
bads alleys, Christian
the poor and the
Christian labor, as
ago expressed it to
letter, She wkole
knew of any crippled
no Mends. She
that child. She Well
ablebodied children
be able to take care
but the crippled ehild
fore she wanted to
child and care for the
lived and leave money
Will to ease foe the
was dead. Alt that
sionary spiritl To
ples and the holplesss-the
physical cripples.
in the shims. You
knocking at your door.
them pushing past
light.
THE RELIEF OF
. Another glorious field
aCtivity is found in
It is found 'where Christ
or his en.rthly ininiatry-suenely,
among the sick, It
Mg through the wards
white cots and leaving
and these a word
nd yonder a prayer.
the childree's 'ai'ds,
tie ones aro cursed
struggle for physical
ed from the moment
born. It is found in
homes Where the aged
. • ' . ,
smelly ninon, sometimes
' "' •
sometimes .lovingly
aro waithur for the :laet
min ti silent
•", re majority
is ,better to go. to
momming than to -the
riV'''' Yoe.. That 31
ter to go the bedside
than to stand by 'the
dead, ily the white
Cal pain the oppoetunities
good aro 09011 greeter
white shrouds of the
BIM, tholigh the hospitals
toVerfowlg, how
e
think .. of goieg theee
Christ's message of good
Wethink 'Of genUlna
We are apt to look for
boyend thWe
iste the opportunities
• . 'o
our verydomeOh,
and 190111011, neVOr let
yew? lie pass tiniest
earry Gods lve into
Or 810113'oont YOU eat
of the most bloted
YOU apProach the ''6191)11-11114,"
who are eroilpelled
en a bed of elakeessf
Week oeti, yoU Will &In
enand the lin smile
-
INVENTOR .
"When I was 9(111111(1,'' remarked the
51)10.1)' Juan, "I was an Inventor, And
ono day, when X had the disease bad-
ly, I invented mael.ue which I
celled 'Mother, dear,' because it
voiild(:all 9(01) (14911)'. lt• ivas a
‘v.hiehwas
meant 10 stand by your bedside, and
t el t v • t* ' ti morel's it'
a la 0 el IMO Ln. us g
Was fixed for it would drag you out
of bed and forte you Into your
1 t a,.
hes.
9 0,, _
'There were a, lot of other things
attached to it as well, such as a
ourchine which would black your
boots, and an arrangeMent for • malt -
Ing a cup of coffee and frying bacon,
and so on. Well, I got it all com-
lileted at last, and it worked beau -
thelly; and then I got a millionaire
to come and look at it, so that he
rnieht find the capital to put it on
e . .
the market."
"Well " said the listener, breaking
.
in upou the sileuce; "didn't it
. work?
1 "Yes," replied the inventor' Safibr,
I "it worked. very •well, but that idiot
I of a millionaire insisted on t17111g it
11i111901f; and he lay C101911 011 the bed
•the wrong way for the machine, so
ithat it dragged MM. out the wrong
19115' 1119, tool the boot -brushing op -
parttime got to eyelet on Ole top of
his head, while the other end poured
19
hot coffee (1019 n the leg of his trolls -
era and when he finally got free he
broke up my humble little home with
scouraged me,elldhoodwhich
LIre pa'tent. Th t 9t
and I haven't invented anythieg
slams, •
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WATER COLDER THAN ICE.
Water, as wo know, expands as it
solidifies, and tho mechanical theory
of heat points to the feet that if the
liquid is subjected to external press
sure its freezing point will be lower-
ed. Sir W. Thomson, by a, pressure
of 9.1 atmospheres, succeeded in ob-
tabling water 106 deg. F. colder than
100, 110c1 with a pressure of 17.8 at
.,.. cog. i. co er. 0118-
mos hems 0132 I I' Id 111
P .
son, by means of an ingenious ap-
paratus, invented by himself, kept wa-
r in the liquid state for really de-
te , .
grecs he low the normal freezing
point. Water, if allowed to remain
perfectly still, may become consider-
ably colder than ice and yet not cott-
gem!, If however, it is subjected to
the least motion, or if ct e•agment of
ico be brought into contact with it,
it at onco crystallizes, and the tem-
perutere rises to that of ice. Des-
pretV, by 1111919111(1 11811 of capillary
tubes, seas able to obtain water 20
deg. O. colder than ice. 13y this me-
trod he helped to explain the reason
why plants aro able to withstand Se -
vere froets without injury. The Mites
contained in their tiseucei r main Iiq-
- • 0 q
a 0 1 e consider s la .
uid, alt a tg . (13 . colder
than ice
'
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OSTRICH -FARMING.
s.,.
Many of the curious animal inhabi-•
tants of the earth are threatened
fr
with extinction, but the ostrich, o -
tuna e y, am be preserved by artific-
t 1 1 ' ' '
ial rearing. Considerable attention
has latelY been eirawe to the os-
trich-fareis or California, and now
it is reported that ostriches have
boon successfully reared in Australia.
They produce magnificout white lea-
tilers, as estlels as 27 inches in length
and 15 inches width. The first birds
were impoetect from Africa.
.IIOW MANY.
How many bowls to make a bowl -
der? ,
How many 91101.118 tO Make, a shool-
der?
1-9019 many 11919115 to melte (9 ll)9ma? .
How many drams to make a drama?
How many bats to make a battle?
How many rats to make a rattle3
How many folks to make a focus?
How many croaks to make a, mu-
cus? •
Ho • 1
w ninny quarts to mace a guar -
tee? ' -
How mie' ports to tulle 19 porter?
How many aches to make an etre? 1
How many fakes to make a fakir? I
How nany raps to make 4). ra'p,- 1
ture?
How many caps to make ft et9(41110? 1
1
HOW Many SUMS 10 Make a. team
mor?
IIow
HOW litany p1111118 10 make a. plena- 1
mer? I
• , •
]Tow many mass to make a IliCkle? ,
How Many picks to make a pickle'? c
1 -Tow alanY tons to make a tunnel? 4
A.nd how much fun to make a fun- 1
lel? , • t
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GIRL'S SECRET S0C1E11Y.
, .
A secret, society bas IMO f01.1110(.1 I
among the sehool-girls of Brookly1
n, .,
3300011115' an initiation ceremorty took 1
ploys end these membere of the 00-
elety with their clothes put on backs
wards and with gloves and boots on
the wrong hends and feet, eolemnly (
(mulcted down Fulton Street, BrOolt-
1v11 • c
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* A CURIOUS LANE. I
In te110tVIIiIVSII Or 1C 1 - 1 11 1e10, On /eland
In the North Sea, Is perhaps thoors
11° WOrifThe10
1,,,rsss1,",-,,",°r5,5eth,t°fail'11)1)01',
est(1supports iresi-war Creaturesgo ;
diem stoen it is as alt 1111 the1044
dot1le eif theeons soul salt.gospel
wel" rll livoiit,set1•ea1
.---4,----.
1 1("„8 -‘ 1„. -.,, s tsa 11,9, 9s51939,
,THE
It is declared at VidillbUrgh reeent.
ly Linde more fishelatell Were drewntel •
frole Ole custom. or Wearing leag,
Wrote than by ell thil atoms in 4100-
1
A .
WHAT'S: 17 1 NAME?
Eight different kinels of microbes
have been proved to exist in onorm-
oat; quantities in. •the French Chain-
her of Deouties. 'With regard to
One the authorities do not a.gree as
to wbether it is the Staphylococcus
eereus fluves or the Microcoectis Mt-
1'011R coegIchnerittus.
COM:83N_ATION 910IC111.
Papa -"If the moon is made of
geen 01.10080, whom did the milk
that the cheeve is made of come
fr',1,111?" s •
'-'11110yieve-'"Feom the MilkY WaY
of course."
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•• '
THE PBOPER PROCESMaltE.
.
"Did it ev 9 OCCUr t• you' that
. ' " • -
news is like ars ogg 7"
els 11 1 1 ii
u Li 0 Mee', y011 Mean '1
No. , .11 it's bad it ehould be
broken gently."
• ----4------
YOURS WITHOUT 4\ 8111N0,.
' •
lesseente oi mind-geateitime ed-
eke. .
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'WhY,'•'• asked the new ledger, "wily
do yols stay that, there is er resembl-
once 41e1190011 riding 0
ebicycle and
Selling a bat?" "Because, said
the funny man, "because you 1o811 the
wind
tasc."
'ewhen 91011 001, 'en the 1)1011(1
"rhe butcher efete(me his hand
this morning," said the new (ervent,
"itsvoll" said her nietress.
"708111, 11etried to sell it to me
Vith the Bleak, but I made hintake
it. off the scales,"
A Mee recentlY cOlibted the motions
nteski by a baebees hand during, the
(110(089 oshaviig ono into), and
follnd theni te 110 678. • Add to 019
the MOtkina Made by the batiber'e
this whiir,, and the result is i(9
inirvoliouri son100 or What May 1)0
got for toe cents.
Th BIERRY ,OLD ENGLA.N1)
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
ZULL AND IIIS REoptz.
oceurrnnces in the /sand That
Reigns Supreme iu the Cone-
rnercial World.
HEM BID 1101IBY ME?
etTIZEXt TgINGS 134 Zall UNIT'
ED STATES orAxLs.
Careletienfese Is the Vice of the
Age -Lettere With, 70
Address,
Special grants to the value of What is tho natural Vice of the
Zen/ lfie, havo been made to the p0-
1144t1jt 1'11111!d 414.01111801'?
lice and flefeetives engaged In 11(0 74,, itC101. O1000t 19110 3(10131.10/11 Paten investigations.
office Department at IVastiagton ems
Th° 4)e114.11 18 11411011°•"(1 of 1411Jer- SWOI'R 11111 it 11) ettreleesness, AS
,LN110e
1,0'Ros1•19.11.01
much service 111 DOM.
'The memorial to elle Walter Re-
sent, 11104 130011 011;01011 1.131 11113 "grate-
ful brethren in Ilioratare," in the
cmait of 8 Cathedral.
The East Goodwin Sands lightship
WO So badly damaged. by 01411181011
with a. stemma. (recently that elle had
to be replaced immediately,
Them young men were ehooting
tuts on a refuse heap In Durhalu,
wheu a rifle exploded, mad one of
the party, (loom° Dunn, wits killed,
Sir A. L. Jones stated at Mans
(tester thet in Lively(' months' time matter handled.
large sup-4111le:4 of cottou would bo,
coming to this countries, from West WHY imply "DIED."
ef the fishing boat
Rescue, W11011 it WTI 90(1 111, Buckle,
reported seeing a. wnterspout in the
8109119' Firth fully seventy feet 11)height.
proof of its 1(0514.1014 Rs enteral res
port Offel'S 11g11111f3 which shoW that
there were at least 10,0(10,000 care-
less people In that 9011111917 last year,
To be exact, there were 10,1:50,000
pieces of mail matter sent to the
dead letter office last year -an 110'
C1'.'1190 of more than 850,000 over
the year before,
"shows a continuous and heavy' in-
erease from year to yews" In other
words, people are growing 111(199 care-
less evor,y 94001', )1V1111 taking 1140 0011-
sleoration the growth in population
end the larger total amount of mail
It is interestieg to notice the vart-
pioneers, pipers, bandsmen, drum- letter office in the hope of loeatill0
shortly be published,
week in February. wrappers,
mers arid buglers with. the rifle, and the writers, n. total of 51,000 (mo-
an army order to that effect will tailed motley ;humiliating in the ag-
of Tecic and 13(1111(9)96 Alice of Albany 000 letters and 41,000 parcels were
el, Windsor Castle, diming the first, dress whatever on the envelopes or
will take plaee al St. Georg'e Wrap-. found In the malls without any ad -
The War 011Ice has decided to arm Of the lettere opened In the dead
mho ,ineerlaf,,,e of prime asesooms. the year 1)8101')), 70 leSS than 48,-
letter °ince. .More' than 7,000,000
01114 reaS0116 Why ii. was neceseary to
Bend letters 4914(1 packages to the dead
were misairected in ono way or an-
other -an Increase of 9 per cent. over
peen:-
. The 'dock companies have a pro- geir this tnolutnhb°01S•uaniC°Ofns$14cle0;a0b010(3;
Poeal on hand to construct a great eentage were simply blank envelones
clam across the Thames, between Til -
the river independent of the tide ters which inclosed bank drafts,
111119 maidell 71101-0 19(9)1. 52,000 of the opened let -
containing 01(0011)17 and nothing else,
bury and Gravesend,
It is understood that ('1. loan of
Z200,000 will shortly be placed on cheques, money orders, and other
the isinclon 12141)1(04, hy the mould- e.ufgalenis for money the total sum•
pality of Pretoria. The whole issue sal found 13eing 61,506,000.
hes been untlerwrttten by it colonial
financi4 1 house.
A site Poe the ereetion of 11, statue
WHERE THE. MONEY .WENT.
Over $18,000 in money found in
misdirected letters could not be re -
to the late Mr, (Sulam ITogg, fo)]nd-
er (111)) president of the PolyteChnic• turned to the senders, even after the
Institute, Regent street, Imes_ envelopes had been opened, and were,
granted in Oxford -circus, London.
h -e°11 therefore, turned into the Treasury
On the same day turd at the sf... Department for deposit to the credit
Lemuel, St. Stokers's, Twickenham, ol the Government.
two brothers of 0110 finnily married. More than 80,000 people sent their
two sisters of another. 'rho eldest
brother married the youngest sister
and the youirgest brother married
the eldest sister.
A. child has been found starved in
O house at Liverpool, the another at
the time being in prison. Investiga-
tion is being made ea Lo why the
ohild was thus lefts It is stated
that some mistake WEIR made es to
the house in which the child was.
Thomas Greaves Norris, aged 81,
oabinet maker, WAS, tit ITants '4.0-
8)008, sentenced to five years' penal
171 it; 11 9 11161117'
over 111S eon, Thomas Norris, a res-
taurant keeper, at Aldershot. The
throwing oil of vitrol
not much
' The death of Mr. Alfred L. colion,
a member of the London County
Council, removes 11 promiuent Ag-
ue in the Jewish, conamenity. Ete
19119 the sou of the late Louis Cohen,
and was formerly head of the fi9111
f Louis Cohen & Sons, and a, gov-
ernor and manager of the Stock
Ifixehange.
Lord a renfell, commadding the
Fourth Army Corps, in referring to
photographs in irrappers so imper-
fectly addressed that they could not
be delivered.
Exclusive of the blank envelopes
containing money found in the mails,
the superintendent reports that at
the present tune more than 1340 let-
ters are mailed every day without
any addresses whatever on the eeve-
lopes.
Out of the snore than 10,000,000
pieces sent to tho dead letter office
it was found possible to return to
the owners 0111y 1,350,000 piemis, ev-
en after their wrappers had been op-
ened and the contents studied by the
department experts, who can solve
almost any riddle, no matter how
complicated,
SENDERS NOT ANXIOUS,
31 is particularly surprising to note
that althouglt more than 10,000,000
pieces of mail matter were eels/lent,
only 82,000 written inquiries were
received from people who thought it,
worth while to mako a search for
missing letters and pacicages. It
would certainly seem. that a. much
larger percentage of the sender5.
the velmiteers, said that the g°11- 190111(1 have tried, at least, to trace
eral °Moloney of those who 'have their missing mail matter.
qualified was salisfectory, but the Iluder the law the magazines,
deficiency ia the numbere borne o s
sus9ratml papers, fancy cards, and ,
the strength of nearly all corps was other similar articles of small value
Which are received at the dead
tfie iowners claont-
s
d fr sh
°moue, and demanded the attention
f these in command.
The Director of Army Contracts erofcnovch
las written to' the Northampton "0,1" ""un" ere yearly distributed.
0111011(1 the hospitals and other chase -
own Council 111 reply to a petition
table inatitutiene et the District of
n regard to the War °Mee having
army boots from India. He states Columbia, and in 1902-011 mom than
hat it is not Proposed to obtain
ny further supplies of enkle boots
rum India after the termination of
he existing arrangements.
ITis Majesty's creiser Pioneer has
been paid on at Chatham d.oeltyar•d
on her return from a. 'three years'
onnuission in the AreCliterranean.
Phe Admiralty have given instrtic-
ions for her io be rescommiseloned
inmeillately with 11 11099 080\9.'100 a
ruttier three seers' seevice on the
lediterratean e19.1i011.
'1414.44)70*307 TIIE 13E7C11 NOW?"
A worthy shoemaker had nequieed
uite a good property end retired
rom his nseful 'employment. From
is dignified and Judiciel demeanour
e had gained among his friends the
itle of "Judge."
Once rut eminent etranger was vis -
Ling 4.19 401911, and the citizens were
rakin(1 alt elfort to show off tho
lace and give a reception to the
isitor. The "Judge" was on the
onunittee of entertainment. 'rhe
teartger, heisting him ealled "Judge"
hought to do a gi•acelul thing by
string, "Judge, aro you on the
melt now?" '
The "Judge" turned ot him a
oodssattueed face and replied:. "Why
less you, I haven't waxed a thread
or tWenty yearsr"
PEARLS OF 71.81101\1.
"Never do to -day what can be pet
if till to -morrow or the text day."
"Never do for yourself' what an -
thee willdo for you.'.
"lle good to yourself, and you'll be
appy -even though. you (Iota de-
erve to be."
"Speak twice before yott think --
hat lit if you have More to Hay than
du have time toetty it hi."
"If yoli bee° aeything mean to
ay abelit a 11005011, Nay it behind his
ack--not to his faces -It is kirelor
mi Wises',"
111,vrrion TITAN,MAIMIED,.
flesidie--T hoar Goodman is 118
000 rie married to Mise
erstlilie-011, bettor than that.
Gaddie--Really 'Yon &net reeen-
Crabbe-T, Mean thef Sei41'049C11tent's3
20,000 pieces MVO so utilized.
A man in lliftwettia, Kam, recently
received 8. letter addressed to hisn,
but, instead of the name of the
town wile a bar or so of music. The
postollice officials had passed the let-
ter along until ono was found who
could sing, and he sang the tousle
and found it to be ti, part of the song
which has driven so many to the
brink of an early grave. The letter
was then sent at once to the man in
the Names towu.
is-
SMA1tT ADVERTISING.
TheEnterprising Merchant Inas
proves Every Opportunity.
The clevereet advertisers are those
who lake advantage of every wave of
public Interest and are alWaYs o11
the, look -mit to make themselves the
centre or public attoution. 111
large Western city those is a mer-
chant who makes it a business prin-
ciple to kit pass no toiportunity for
advertising 99111011 ho can afford to
acNe1oPt"
t.long ego horse driven by an
,
0991(w/tee fellow backed On tlie side-
walk and pushed the ewe: right
through the ineechaut'e window, '
thereby smashieg piece of plate-
glass worth tfeveralhendreds of dot -
The morehant Was annoyed, but,
not disconcerted, and almost before
the inevitable crowd had 11 chance to
collect the following type -written no-
tice appeared in , the empty frame,
attached 4.0 a fragment of glass
which still remained in the sesli Iss -
1'.111119 wiedow was broken by 00.
eicient. A. countr,y horse, being led .
doWn the street, unaecustomed to
eity life, berme() frightetied, plunged,
reared, end backing, filially eat
doWn ie. this Whitlow, No, the horee
Was not hurt, Thegiclee is insured,
11114 4114 8O4)11 0$ ri, plate ergo enough
tall be Mede it 'Will be rreineed, The
Work ie at the expellee of the iusiers
Mice compally, and doesn't emit 113)
a, tont, Tile interior of our /store
8 3111 perfeet oedor, end 9'0t1 Will fled
re better opportunity .thaSS tile mete
sit 190 Uo buffinella With 141,
0