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The Clinton News Record, 1928-08-02, Page 3Sunday School Lesson August 5. Lesson VI—Paul In a Pan Country, Acts '.14: 8-20 'Golden Text—I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound.—Phil. 4: 12. ANALYSIS. 1. TIIE MIRACLE AT LYSTRA, 8-13. II. THE DISMAY OP '1I4E APOSTLES, 14-20. INTRODUCTION —.Eighty-five: miles east from Antioch was Tconium, a city of Pro -Gorman sympathies, which was the next centre of mission work. Paul begins preaching, as usual, in the Synagogue, and with such excellent results that many Tews and Greeks believe.author- However, the Jewish author- ities were not convinced and tried to arouse ti ro se opposition. The Qhris an cion continues for sometime, perhaps several, months, till the whole .city is moved by: this new preaching, and the citizens are divided into two parties. The Jews seek to arouse the enmity of the local magistrates, and. when the Christians learn of the impending at- tack P ul and Bar a as depart rt from the city, intending to return: wlien the disturbance has subsided sufficiently. Theynow pass into a district much less thickly populated, and where the people were more promitive in their habits. The region around is evan- gelized, probably by natives, who had joined the ranks of the apostles; and foundations are laid for small Chris- tian communities. I. THE MIRACLE AT LYSTRA, 8-13. V. 8. Lystra was a town off the high- way and was an important cominer- r alai and military outpost. The small population consisted of Roman soldiers and natives who made use of the Lyca- onian speech. Among the beggars who sat, probably near the ' local temple, was a poor cripple who,, ac- cording to one of the old manuscripts, had already taken an interest in the Jewish r'eligion, being a proselyte. V. 9. Heard Paul. The cripple was reach- greatly as Paul sptracted oke so wonde new erfully of the power of Jesus, he doubtless felt that it was the very kind of sal- vation which he so sorely needed, and a new light and hope began to break forth. Paul seeing the faith was start- ing decided that this was a case in which he should use his special power of healing. The Salvation of Christ is meant to include eventually the body as well as the soul. Paul commands him to stand up, and ho immediately obeyed. V. 11. The gods are come down. The people are filled with amazement, and rush to the conclusion that these must be heavenly visitors. Their explana- tion is a little more intelligible as we consider that there was 'a famous Greek myth connected with this very district, according to which two gods, Zeus and Hermes, had come down in disguise and had gone about the coun- try as simple peasants, seeking in vain for food and shelter from the rich and great, till at last they found it in the humble house of Philemon and Bancis. These.. unsophisticated and sepersti- tious natives of Lystra think that this old story is being repeated, and they identify Barnabas with Jupiter or Zeus and Paul with Mercury or Her- mes, the eloquent messenger of the gods. All the time they carried on their conversation in the native dial- ect, so that the apostles were ignorant of the strange situation which they had brought about. V. 13. The eity had a temple dedi- ,cated to the worship of Jupiter, out- side the walls. The priest, who ivas an .important personage, was told of the occurrence and he proceeded to prepare a fitting sacrifice. He hur- ries off to get the sacrificial bull deck- ed with garlands, and proceeds in a solemn procession to enter the gates of the temple to offer this tribute of worship to these men: II. THE DISMAY OF THE APOSTLES, 14-20. V. 14. Rent their garments. When the '..postles learn of what has hap- pened they are filled with dismay, and rend their garments as a sign that they regard this as an act of blas- phemy. Read the story concerning the high priest at the trial of Jesus, Matt. 26: 65, V. 15. They address the multitude in the Greek tongue which would be familiar to most of the inhabitants. All commercial and public transac- tions were conducted in that language. They assure the simple folk that they are only nien in like passions or na- ture with themseleves, and then Paul proceeds to give an addresa suitable to the capacity of this pagan audi- ence. It was quite different from the sermon which he had delivered to the Jews at Antioch, and shows how Paul suited his words to the understanding of his hearers. Three great religious principles are mentioned which would be within the understanding of these people: (1) He reminds them that Gocl is the creator of heaven and earth, and that he still lives and takes an active control over the world. Thus far, these pagans have not known this true God, but now he is being revealed to thein. (2) Paul then states the diffi- culty which must always occur to one who carries the gospel to the pagans. Why was, God so long in bringing them this true light? The only answer which the apostle gives is that it -seem- ed wise for God to permit these na- tives to walk in their own ways. (3) Yet all through these years God did not leave himself without wltuess ,In•that''he'sent them sunshine and rain and fruitful seasons. It was a simple 'statement fitted for people whose religious education was very backward-' The sequel to this. shows us how .fickle were these Galatians. For a ,time Paul and Barnabas continued to preach to these people, and with suc- cess, as we know from the fact that !Timothy was among the converts, one .who did so lunch for the church in ,after years. But ere long. enemies 'from Antioch and Ieonium came and sowed seeds of discord and the crowd :which a short time before had fallen down' to worship these preachers now 'take up stones to kill them, andaul is dragged out of the city as ane dead. From Lystra they go to Derbe, a .frontier town fifty miles away. 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K -{--C- - ---z: 4 .' - a--7- )r5-.._.')--')-- t HERR 1S THE LONGEST KEEL IN THE WORLD • The keel of the new White Star 80,000 -ton liner laid down in the ship- yard in Belfast. A true giant of the waves. Preserving and Restoring Our Historic Sites Marking of Sites of National. Importance Carried Out by Department of the Interior • Pioneer ' Days - Recalled Canada's historical background con- tains some of the most romantic and Interesting episodes in the history of North Amorlca. In many districts throughout the Dominion there still , remain visible evidences of our his-' tory in ruins which have been � pre- served, but there are scenes of other) and often important actions and' events which are unmarked by any pbysical reminder of what transpir- ed at these points. Tho Depart- ment of the Interior, has been carry- ing on a valuable work in preserv- ing and restoring the ruins and suit- ably marking the sites of national historc importance. As a result along ninny of the main motor high- ways of the Dominion artistically designed cairns and tablets give motorists and toufists ' a peep into our romantic past. spirited the military orcfea,restored. the confidence of -the people, and was an mportant tactor in the immediate recovery of dost ground. Fort Drummond, Queenston Heights, Ontario. -Fort bellt by mili- tary labor •'for the defense of the frontier in •1814 and named in honour of Sir Gordon Drummond. Niagara -on -the Lake, Ontario.— Commemorating the treaties' conclud- ed with the Chippewa and Mississauga Indians by Colonel' Guy . Johnson, May .9, 1781, and Lt. -Col. John Butter, May 22, 1784. '` Kingston Navy Yard, Kingston, On- tario.—The British naval station for lake 'Ontario during the years 1788- 1818. Here. were built fourteen King's ships. In the war of 1812-14 this naval force enabled the army to re- tain control of Upper -Canada. Amheretburg Navy Yard, Amherst - burg, Ontario.—The British naval station for lake 'Erie and Huron dur- ing the years, 1796-1813. Here nine King's ships 'were built. In the war of 1812-14 htis naval force enabled the army to retain control of that frontier. On the redommendation of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board, the Department of the Interior, through the National Parks Service? has marked 118 sites by the erection of suitable memorials. Each year at the annual meeting of the Board the. suggestions of the various members ere reviewed and a number of sites are recommended for marking.- Dur- ing 1927 tablets were placed on twenty-five sites and one of the most picturesque 'ceremonies in this con- nection was the unveiling of the cairn and tablet at Blackfoot Cross- ing, 'neer where the Cluny -Milo sec- tion eation of the Alberta Provincial High- way crosses the Bow River. This memorial commemorates the signing of ' September 22, 1877, near this Point, of Treaty No. 7 by which the wide plains were thrown open to the white man and peace and security was assured the Indians. The un- veiling took place on the fiftieth an- niversary of the signing, the princi- pals In which were: Hon. David Lard and Lt. -Col. James F. Macleod, representing the Crown; and the famous Indian leader, Chief, Crow- foot, and other chiefs and council- lors of the Blackfoot, Blood, Peigan, Stony, and other Indians. The Red Men relinquished their , claim to 59,000 square miles of fertile prairie in southwestern Alberta by this treaty. The site of the memorial is' also near the grave of Chief Crow -1 foot. Indian treaties signed in each of the other Prairie Provinces, Manitoba and Saskatchewan,, are also to be commemorated. Theaty No. 1 was signed at Lower Fort Garry, Manito- ba, on August 3,' 1871, and Treaty No. 6 at Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan, between the 23rd and 28th of August, 1876, and at Fort Pitt on September 9, 1876. Recently the 1928 annual meeting of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board was held at Ottawa. One hundred and ten sites' were reviewed and a number were selected to be marked as of national importance. Brigadier General E, A. Cruikshank, who is a recognized authority on the military history , .of Canada and is chairman of the Board, presided at the meeting. The other members in attendance were, Dr. J. C. Webster, Shediac, New Brunswick; Judge W. FINANCING OF CHINA T. V. Soong, Nationalist finance minister, who presided at a meeting of 80 Nationalists and bankers in Shanghai for the consideration of the problems relating to finanelug the re- public. British Launch 8000 -Ton Cruiser Government . Builds Vessel Smaller Than Washing- ton Treaty Maxi- mum London.—Tho cruiser York, one of the new ships authorized by the Brit- ish Navy estimates of 1926-27, has been launched by the Duchess of York at Yarrow -on -Tyne. It is the first of the new 8000 -ton typo Whloh^ the Gov- ernment desires to substitute for the larger 10,000 -ton cruisers hitherto fav ored. Thus the other two cruisers of the 1928 program are still on the stocks, the Dorsetshlre at Portsmouth and the Norfolk at Fairfield Yard, Govan. Both belong to the 10,000-ton,type. Only ono cruiser was provided for in the 1927 estimates. This vessel, which is to be named the Exetera, is about to be laid down at Devonport and it will •be of similar size and de- sign to the York. "In voluntarily building cruisers of a smaller size than the Washington treaty maximum,” says the Daily Telegraph„ "Great Britain is setting. an example of armament limitation which the 'other signatory' powers, with the exception of Italy, have not yet seen fit to follow." Ch..' i°ged With Crowe, Sydney, Nova Scotia; Hon. the Leviathan P. Demers, Montreal, Quebec; Dr. J. H. Coyne, St. Thomas, Ontario; Judge. F. W. Howay, New Westminster, British Columbia, representing West- ern Canada; Mr. J. B. Harkin, Com- missioner, National Parks of Canada, representing the Department of the. Interior; and Major A. A. Pinard, Secretary, Of the new sites or events selected for commemoration the following are in Ontario and Qw5 uebeol St. Johns, Rue ee. ite, near here, of the Battle of Mentgomery',g Creek, Septem'ber 6, ,1775, with. 1�iontgom- ery 0 invading army, The defeat of s invaders had the effect 6f repell- ing a formid,ple invaajop, For the time 'baro nest, 'witted gredt'enthus- iasm in the eq nt'i, anticoic- r1, a '' Co+ 't r t i1— n fit , qr 01ir Yo uhf, gqandggfit, fzed this aiin li- `�1iY %"xoioit" Iw Mail Robbery Official in . Steward's Office Said to Have Secured $6 000 New York,—Arehtbald Chapman, assistant linen keeper in the stew- ard's' department, was cha}g'geci recent- ly with theft of registerednail from the Vatted' States liner > eviathanl between lune' 16 and lune 22, while the veriest was on the high seas. Chapman wave held in $7,500 bail io nearing on', ugust 9, when arraigneEd eters COT States pommissione}}'' rancis fl !Neill.: Ste is at and c6 -Mee from pion, England, The Leviathan docked Q , he r recently. C.m�o ore iin niughamr �eimas- hat it baa been learzi.@@ thaly, m qi<0 from the htaf soul, �0 see 64900, hut s'inepee- » t y� �t pq or � od t td loss` '4 000 hila ei< Sherlock Holmes Wins Victory in. Slat r' Appeal. Scottish Court Unanimously Sets Aside Murder Verdict -:NOVELIST JUSTIFIED Edinburgh, Scotland — Sherlock Holmes won his latest victory ovaY his 'rivals, the police' Iaet week, when the ` Court of Criminal Appeal, presi- ded over by Lord Clyde, unanimous- ly nanimo elY set aside the conviction of murder as the result of which Oscar 'Slater had spent 18% years In prison. Slater was convicted of the murder of an aged woman, Miss Marion Gil- christ, but always maintained his in- nocence. After nany Years, the e sac - seeded ini wnnin wide w de support for his demand that he bo freed from a life sentence. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, y e,. creator of Slierleck Holmes, took charge of the case, and spent many, months in- vestigating It. He reached .the 'con- clusion onclusion that "Slatei+ was innocent, and summed up his reasone in a book. Last November.•the Government or- ders Slaters eters releases Not 'satisfied, Slater appealed to the Court of CrimI- nal Appeal -which did not exist when he was convicted—$o that the stain on his character might be removed. The recent decision leaves him where he was before the crime was com- mitted, legally, but he is on old, broken man after 20 years of suffer- ing. Jewels Were' Stolon In 1908 all Glasgow was shocked by the brutal murder of Miss Marion Gil- christ, elderly spinster, who lived alone in a fiat with one maid servant, One' evening, while the servant was out, -she was beaten to death and her Jewellery stolen, About three weeks later Oscar Slater was arrested in.New York. Ile had left Scotland shortly after the murder. Certain witnesses identified him as the man they had seen leaving the Gilchrist neighbor- hood. He had pawned a brooch in Scot- land, but proved it was not the prop. erty of Miss Gilchrist. None of the dead woman's possessions ever was traced to him. Finally Got Life. Slater waived extradition proceed- ings and went back to Scotland. In 1909 a jury convicted him. The death sentence was commuted to Iife impri- sonment and Slater was sent to Peterhead prison, That seemed the end of Slater. But Sir Arthur Copan Doyle raised his voice. The creator of Sherlock Holmes, using some of the logic he attributed to his famous detective character, analyzed the evidence and stoutly maintained that a grave mis- carriage of justice- had been com- mitted. Something like a govern- mental review of the ease was there- upon undertaken and Sleter's guilt was reaffirmed. Years . passed. The man still lay in prison. Ordinarily in Great Britain a lifer is released on parole after do- ing 15 years, but Slater was kept be- yond e'yond that period.' Then a Scatole journalist wrote a book on the Slater case in which he flayed the conduct of the case. Conan Doyle wrote a strong :preface to it. Another Review Stator's , release followed. But Conan Doyle and others would hot let it rest at that. Questions were asked in Parliament. The Secretary for Scotland finally agreed to refer the whole case to the courts. Craigle Aitchison, one of 'the greatest of Scotch lawyers, was re- tained by Slater's friends to repre- sent him. The Crown was represent- ed by William Watson, Lord Advo- cate of Scotland. Lord Clyde, Lord Justice General of Scotland presided. Contention was made that identifi- cation of Slater as the man seen leav- ing Miss Gllohrist's apartment was erroneous, that the trial judge erred in instructing the jury a "bar charac- ter" for Slater had been proved, and that therefore he had not the pre- sumption of innocence in his favor, that new'evidenco shows Stater was not at the scone of the crime. After a dinner party when all the guests were gathered in the drawing - room, It was suggested that every woman should state the gift, she most coveted. Promptly each woman an- nounced her choice. Mrs. Johnson wished for exquisite jewels, Mrs. Wil- liams desired to be the best -dressed woman in town, while Mrs. Smith craved for popularity. Suddenly, how- ever, a tactless husband exclaimed:— "I say! Don't any of you carefor beauty?" Courtesy is the lubricant that quite often eases the bearings of the over- bearing. Laxity of Law Aids Murderer Doctors Issue Certificates Without Seeing Patients After Death SUICIDES HIDDEN' Disadvantage of Cremation That it Prevents Crim- inal Investigation 'London.—"There are probably a considerable number of murders and suicides hidden i n away," said a London,. doctor in criticising the present regu- lations under which deathcertificates are issued by medical men. The subject was first raised by Mr. Ingleby Oddie„ the :Westminster coro- ner, who said that owing to the laxity of thet1 xi e s ng law popple- could be "tucked away under ground" practic- ally full of arsenic without the fact being discovered. "One case Was certified, as death from heart disease," said Mr. Oddie, "when the dead man wasfound, to have a dagger through his heart," As the law stands a doctor may, under certain circumstances, issue a death certificate without seeing the body. SECRET SUICIDES. Supporting the coroner's criticism, a London doctor said: "Under the Births and Deaths Registration'' Act, 1926, a doctor has to send the death certificate to the registrar, at the same time handing to the relatives a notice saying that he has done so. The doc- tor has to state on the certificate not only the cause eof death, but the last occasion on which he saw the patient alive. "He is not compelled to see the pa- tient after dgatlt, but if he has not seen him withinl4 days before death the registrar will automatically com- municate withthe coroner. "Even under these circumstances it would be possible for a person, already ill, to be poisoned and burled without the doctor seeing the body "I have known cases where a person suffering from an incurable disease has committed suicide. The relatives have stated that death occurred natur- ally, and the suicide Lias only been discovered by accident. "I consider that no medical man should issue a certificate without see- ing the body, but it would. be grossly unjust for the State to add to the du- ties of doctors without remuneration, and some scheme should be devised for doctors to receive payment for the issue of certificates." DR. WALDO'S WARNING; Another aspect' was mentioned by Dr, P. J. Waldo at a Southwark in- quest recently. Though .there was no authentic case of any individual - having been buried alive, he said, stop- page of the action of the heart, such as occurred in a fainting fit, in a trance, or in other conditions such as electrocution, drowning, and gas pois- oning, might easily simulate death. It was, therefore, of vital import- ance that the doctor should examine the body and make the simple tests to ascertain the fact of death. Dr. Waldo also -said that coroners should use ethe greatest care in ac- cepting the evidence of a doctor who made a post-mortem examination and in dispensing with an inquest. The new law which made this procedure possible might lead to the discovery after burial of poison and crime. Cre- mation was not without its special danger In the same connection. Reds Gain Upper Hand in Australia Resolution Agrees to Affilia- tion With Pan -Pacific Secretariat Sydney, New South Wales.—With an overwhelming majority, the Red element, by a snap vote, carried a resolution at a recent section of the all -Australian Council of Trades Mons supporting affiliation with the Pan -Pacific secretariat. Supporters of the "white Australia" policy were jeered at by the Communists when they crossed the floor to vote 'against the measure. The resolution, which, was moved by J. Garden, secretary of the Trade La- bor Council of •Sydney and an avowed Communist, was that the Australian Council of Trades Unions should unite to combat thedangers of a Pacific war and also to assist the workers of more backward countries to improve their position. It declared emphatically that afidlt- ation•with the Pan•Pacific Secretariat did not mean affiliation with the Third. Internationale,' but the moderate ele- ment warmly challenged htsic lahm. The tax on credulity remains about the same. The Empire's. Knight of the Keen Eye A View of the Very Lhansual' IRON MONSTER 1S THROWN, FROM THE TRACKS • Twenty-threeeo le killed and 4 P p n Bin are i r injured in a coli son between an excu Mon train and,a parcels train at Darlington, Eng., where train •operationla usually so efficient that certain newspapers habitually insure their readers :against such a happening. Any of the estates of the killed or the injured who carried one of these papers would unhesitatingly receive up to $1000. Europe Is Bitter Over Disclosures on Nobile Wreck Demonstration of Co-oper- ation Turns to Outburst of Ill -Will MALMGREN'S FATE Swedish and . Russian Press Voice Grace Charges— British Silent London.—With the element of mys- tery and hints of more sinister as- pects injected into the latest phases of the grim Arctic drama, all Europe is watching tensely while the disaster to the dirigible Italia in Polar ice is rapidly transferred from a demonstra- tion of international ea -operation and sympathy into an outburst of the bit- terest international ill will. Tlie revelation that Dr. Finn Malm- gren, the brilliant young Swedish meteorologist with General Nobile's expedition, was left behind to die In the frozen waste while his two Italian companions, Majors Filippo Zappl and Mariano marched on until they even- tually were picked up by the Soviet ice -breaker Grassln, has stirred feel- ing in Sweden to fever pitch, and a diplomatic demarche toward home• may follow the official probe which the Swedish Government Is carrying out into the circumstances of the sof- entist'sdeath. Russian reports have it Malmgren was stripped of his cloth- ing and his body eaten by' the Italians, Series of Disclosures The partial bearing of Dr. Malin- gren's still mysterious fate, however, is only the climax of a long series of disclosures thinly veiling the grave charges on the conduct of the expe- dition since its take -of from Spitz- bergen down to the rescues otits scat- tered survivors. These are now more freely voiced in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries, as well as in Soviet Russia, but while the British press has scrupulously abstained from intervening in view of the cool rela- tions already existing between France and Italy, it is freely adopting the charges against Nobile and his Italia colleagues. The Italian newspapers, on the other hand, are stung into furious anger by the criticism in foreign news- papers, and the dispute has now spread over half the continent of Europe. The charge that the disaster was primarily due to Mobile's insist- ence on starting in time to reach the North Pole on the anniversary of Italy's entrance into the war was offi- cially denied, but there 1s the testi- mony of the Swedish newspaper cor- respondents otrespondents at King's Bay that the takeoff was made in the most light- hearted spirit with Dr. Malmgren al- ready going on record that conditions were unfavorable. Then, ever since the Italia's radio flashed from the northern silence the first news that the expedition had met with disaster, the question of the conduct of the expedition, and some of its individual members has been piled on question. Why, it is asked, in the fleet place, were the main relief efforts left to Sweden and Russia, which undertook to rush 'all aid to the castaways, despite Rome's rejec- tion of their offer of assistance? Lack of o -operation The Moscow Government, . which through the efforts of the ice -breaker Krassin finally was responetble for most of the rescues, has gone officially on record against the lack of co-opera- tion, while members of the Swedish expedition, headed by Lieut. Torn - berg, including Lieut. Lundborg, the hero of the dramatic air swoop to pick up Nobile drifting an floes,have been in the gravest peril, ` and Captain Amundsen, famous Norwegian ex- plorer, with the French Captain Gil - baud and his companions in a Latham plane, are feared lost. Then, there is the charge of Pro- fessor Behouneh, the rescued Czecho- Slavia survivor, that the disaster was due to Mobile's insistence, against ex- pert advice, on investigating the re- gion to the northeast of Spitzbergen and the consequent drifting of the air - the Wreck ship into a storm, led to w when a jutting ice peau tore off the gondola from the dirigible'spyelo e. Next, there is the question 'why EO. pile, contrary to all the traditienaol. commatulers of sue'h expedtth;Mit Pak, matted himself to ije rescue a'bead 14 his omrados , t✓j t ;. , a THE CHAMPION SHOT OF THE BRITISH ARMY tepoirted'to hxs ' ai ,•'br kra'tr • i fired titan' litmse mail ,idr s1 t 1 the3rd Guards as , E. .Pon ton o Battalion Grenadier Gix d w E. fG d a Lance -Sergeant ��r en a r e e br � . elm is it , t y o d thdi presented with the championship Cup by Field -Marshal Sir ir''eorge Milho. ; •with t>�e einlstersugieatio"fl' ectell that there was a fight between Nobile and the Swedish meteorologist" over the foimer's alleged mismanagement of the airship, that Nobileiwas afraid of certain revelations which the latter might be able to make, and that the dirigible's commander was recalled to Rome in order to'suppress documents which might be injurious to the pres- tige of Italian aviation. Majors Zappi and Mariano have capped the climax of the drama, charged throughout with the most in- tense human interest, by going on record that they abandoned Malmgren at his own request, when the injured Swedish scientist gave out in the March ' of the party toward land from Nobile's main camp. Into the tangled problem of ethics involved in the be- haviour of the two Italian officers, if their version of the tragedy is accept ed, the British press so far has re- fused to enter. There is a consensus here, however, that for the sake of the wider inter- ests of aviation, as well as to clear the impunged good name of those in- volved, and to.damp down the inter- national i11 will excited by the whole story, the 1'talia expedition from start to finish should be impartially probed. This all bears out Amundsen and Ells - worth's siting up of Nobile's ineffici- ent character after their "Norge" flight of last year. A House for Peter Pan It Peter Pan wants another house to live in—just for fun—there is a wonderful one waiting for him. There would be one for Wendy, too, and two over—in fact, four. Perhaps it is rather a liberty to think that Peter Pan could want another dwelling, when he is so happy in his treetops, Yes—but this is a holiday cottage by the sea. His little )rouse is on 'one side of a bridge over the river, and Wendy's is on the other side. They aro as like as two peas. Both are painted gray, with little rounded tower -like tops with windows in them. On the bridge -level is one diminutive rounded room with three windows and a front door. The door has a letter box and a handle, and it hu white curtains, like the windows. One could almost turn the handle and walk in. Suppose Peter Pau were there! Just eupposei Bach house has a steep little garden, almost tum- bling into the river, only there is a wall between. One hag a grass plot— such green grass!—and purple irises (it must be Wendy's), and one has a flower bed with wallflowers (Peter Pan's). Outside'the wail which keeps the : garden from the river is a tiny bit of beach at low tide—and then, just the shining river, flowing softly away under the bridge. There is no doubt at all that it ie the very place for Peter Pan, The Love of a Dog Most boys and many girls, and ten thousand tithes ten thousand men and women, love dogs. We don't know when this loyal, unfailing friend of man first met him, first learned to defend his flocks, his dwelling, his person, and the lives of those dear to him, but wherever we have tills we have this creature we call man, there we have found his faithful friend and companion, the dog, always willing to follow him through thick and thin, never seeming to care for an instant whether his master was ridit or poor, wise or ignorant, saint or sinner, alas even when beaten,' starved, cruelly treated, ready to lick the hand that has hurt' him. A good man once said, 'When my father and mother forsake me then the Lord will take me up," Might not one say that( when a man might feel forsaken of every earthly friend,there would still be looking up into his face the gentle, trusting eyes of his dev •tell dog, saying by every look and sign, "Where thou 'goest I will go, thy lot shall be my lot, 'nor shame, nor loss, nor prison bars shall, move me from thy side.'" I• never knew a dog to betray his master, to give frim evil for good, to return kindness with :ingratitude, to forsake him when friends, or wealth? or reputation/ were lost. Such dogs, have a their influence over my owti� 1 �, �iini iiot ashamed to saythat iraves the I have knownbite en the died v ( and dugtheir of bitter tears with a heavy heart. fiave Choy tibula f 1 w} ish I kne But- 9 fan• ei1 endo 8 hat da p 3 'w dee I Yrs t,ni e Iva n IaY G N Y ;� i' vanf i" j�g�0stj 1 oi�i xtunu,n 1 h� ti ..� o i t,ki6er Silo( in Qss lyhen they jeave, 148.—Dumb Anldsafs.