Exeter Advocate, 1908-07-02, Page 6WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN?
It Is the Simplest and Yet One of the Most
Far Reaching Things Imaginable
"Whwsxvee doth not bear his cress
end conte after me cannel be my ds-
eip'le."-Luke, xi\•., 27.
A Christian is a disciple of Jesus
Christ. Yet (here are many who ate
called Christians who are not the dis-
ciples of the lowly prophet of Nazareth,
and there are many wl:o are truly his
t! ,oiples whu are not known as Chris-
tians.
It rna • to that there are
r
y h [ those who
are Chrietlarw and do not know it; tt is
(w•rtain that there are those who menet
(:hrislians, acoon ing to the simple
6tandard of the founder of Christianity,
who nevertheless comfort themselves
with the delusion that they belong to
tis followers.
Organizations. churches. and sects do
not make Christianity; they aro only Ino
iru;lrumenls for its work, the vehicles
,to' its expression. Ono might have his
amino emblazoned In tho largest possibto
letters on Iho oMciary or the plain
In,eml ership et the church and ,till be
altogether n stranger In Christianity.
There are many able to prove by ar-
•guurevnls elaborate and carefully *reels
ed the hires:etc accurncy of the various
accounts of the life and word of Jesus,
-mutely proving more for him than len
clnirned for himself, who yet are utter
strangers to his spirit; who, while bit-
terly defending hs reputation by all
their lives entirely
elLSREPI1ISENT IHS CHARACTF.R.
Thee fire they who. while with their
lips they Invite men to become the diS-
cheese of the (treat Teacher. with all
:their powers are erecting barriers and
creating difficulties. They say you can-
not bo a Chretian unless, you will go
through these motions or tmless you
will bring yourself to accept these and
the other notions.
The most striking evidence of the
value and vitality of the ideas and
Ideals of Jesus lies in the fact. that, de-
spite the mistaken zeal in which his fol-
lowers have endeavored to make discip-
leship an intricate ani difficult affair of
Intellectual proposition,►. ritual. and or-
ganisms. Christianity still stands In the
world as on the whole synonymous with
the highest in character and conduct.
To be a Christian means only that
any man or ww)nian takes life on the
L-rms that this ono whom )nen call Inc
Christ look it. true his Ls the type of
life to which they seek to conform, and
his service to the world that which they
seek to render.
The distinguishing marks of that life
of king ago were its sense of the inli-
nite. so clear a c'onsciousnes.s of the
most high that it expressed itself ui
terms of relationship and s•, taught men
to cry "Our Father,' and a clear faith
in humanity, a consciousness of the
north of character, that led him to see
the brother in every man and to give
hi.: life in sincere service for
E\'EIV TFIQsE wilO OPPOSED i11�1.
!foe, too. was a Iifo lived for the
higher values and on the higl)cet lev-
els A life that ever reminded us how
nereli niers) rho awn himself is worth
than the sheep, the lemon than the pos-
sessions, the toiler Than the tools. And
so he lived, not telly for character to
himself, but that all might have the
right to the freodoin, fullness, mid joy
of life.
The essential elernentsof such a char-
acter aro few and simple. \Vc readily
recognize its faith in God, not in any
narrow or dogmatic sense, but in the
consciousness of the infinite spirit
working for good; faith in roan, in his
\fewer and possible goodness, and faith
in that high goal of all society which
the teacher called the kingdom of hea-
ven.
Whoever turns his life toward these
things, whoever looks out on Iifo with
eyes of faith and love, whoever seeks
the ideal ends for humanity, whoever
serves the eternal propaganda of righte-
ousness, peace, and brotherly love, even
thought ho never had hoard of Christ,
still belongs to him.
To be animated with that spirit, do•
literately to choose to live that kind of
life, to take its pains and joys, to do its
we•rk, to stirr)gthen one's self with its
motives and dynamics, to bo satisfied
with ifs high gains, to pay its price,
tc follow this path, is to be a Christian,
because it is to be a full roan and bro-
ther to all Wren,
HENRY F. COPE.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL .LESSON, JI'LI' 5.
er.sen I. Israel. Asks for a .King.
Golden Text, Prov. 8. 15.
THE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
(Based on the text of the Revised
Version).
Intr)ductory.-We resume our study
of the Old 'Testament at the point in the
history of Israel where we discontinued
it six months ago. The twelve tribes
have entered the land of Canaan, and
for a period roughly estlinaled at from
two to four hundred years have boon
under the rule of -ledges who governed
'In different parts of the country with
vnrying degrees of strength and faille
h:lnees to tho 'N o ice welfare. Samuel
Ryas lho last of these Judges. and a aur-
,vey of his early life ns helper in tho
talernacle and of his later years as
'ruler in Itarnah (1. Sam. 7. 17), dtspens-
elg justice throughout the country (1.
Earn. 7. IG). performing the functions of
priest on behalf of the people (1. Sam.
7. 9). and standing as the prophet of
Jehovah brings tri to the time of our
study for this Quarter which Includes
the remainder of Snmuel'a life and the
establishment and enrly years of tho
monarchy In Israel. 7T:e nrat"riaLs for
this study are to bo (Duni' in the first
ani send books nt Samuel which were
trig:natty :.no. The Crooks received their
•teems front Snrnuel, net as an Indicntkon
•that ho wrote them. but he ens° he Is
the central flgnre thr•,ughout much of
the period which they cover. Their
author is unknown. but It is generally
thought that he included In his work
pevernl very old accounts dating tack
to Davids reign and, perhopes, even
earlier contemporary prophetic record,,
and oral traditions. If this I*r ao, the
Pother broken narrative and the re)peti-
ilon of storks differing in their details
arc enslly understood. A knowledge of
this period ef transition from the loo.•se
tribal life of the confoferacy to the con-
tra:ieo.l 'internal life of the ktng•lom is
lndwpensablo to an understanding of
fernel's history and the reading of some
history of Israel, such as that by Wade
nr by Mei. and of the articles "Judges,
Period oi" "Samuel.' end ,other appro-
priate ones in ilastine s Dictionary of
the Bible, Is rcconunend•d to onyone
tithe wishes to hake a mere thorough
study of this period.
Verse 10. All the words of Jehovah -
Which he received in private consulta-
tion with him.
Unto the people -That Is, b) the "El-
deitr of Israel" who Mr,ughl the pie.ples
request. and wore an „flicini represe'nta-
1:ve M.ty of much importance,
'chat naked of hen n king -For the
tetens bk' reoson WO the Mel hart of
sere, 5 and for the r, nl reason tie Int -
1 - part of the same verse (read verse,'
1 to 91.
I1. The manner of the king -- Thio
"custom" et "law' !Compere 2 Kings
1'. IWO. There a, vnme ambiguity as In
Fnmeels nttituefe here. Aeo. riling to t
Som. S. 9. this is a solemn protest and
est -meg le the irimte emend the dee•
pf'Ism t\ hieh the king eel exerci•ae;
elsewhere it epee -ere lo be simely an
expinnntion of what w•ns n('cesar ly in•
Velvet in Israel's demon.' given than
Po that they might net choose hlin.11y.
while In 1 RAM. 10. 2.5. ;1 is Patti, "Sain-
te,' Mkt the people the manner of the
ktncdom, en.l wrote 11 in the book. enol
1a• l It 1Ip before Jehovah," thereby gist.
rAGE U his sanction and setting apart.
these customs as the constitutional
right of the monarch. Perhaps his ac-
quicsecence was given reluctantly when
he saw the determination of the people;
and in the interests of order ho him-
self helped formulate the "manner of the
kingdom," In any event, tt is clear
that, as a whole, the attitude of Samuel,
beth personally and as the representa-
tive of Jehovah, was unfriendly to the
proposal of the elders and the people.
ito will lake -All service from the
most honorable to the most menial was
to be compulsory. The price of the
king's luxury was the people's personal
fiberly.
For his chariots. and to le his horse-
men -Either as grooms and drivers in
Ire. king's rereunal retinue, or he offi-
cers in the imperial troops. Probably
the latter, In view of Solomon's cus-
tem of taking Israelites for the higher
places in his service and foreigners for
the kisser ones (I Kings 9. 22). The
Moe of chariots and horses; was always
J.alehil to the prophets and aesociated
with regal potter and independence of
Jehovah (Hos. 11. 3).
They shrill run before his chariots -
Runners were used by Oriental kings
as a personal bodyguard, as heralds
who precczdcd the royal train, and as
messengers in peace and war,
le. Captains of thousands , ff-
ties -Local officers in the military ore
ganizations of the country. The divis-
ions were roughly mode according to
numbers, but eoon became territorial,
se that a district was a "thousand," a
smaller ono an "hundred," and so on.
His ground -The royal lands, which
would be very extensive and fertile.
9'o snake his . , . chnriels-Royal art
miners and blacJ;smiths. 'ro men who
are wad k) ngricull►rrc and herding
these occupations were all unproductive
and to lereetites They indicated a dis-
leyally to Jehovah.
13. Daughters -The need of their ser-
v•ces tuns especially unreasonable be -
mese occasioned by the whim of the
king tvho could well have employed
men for all of these duller.
Perfumers - Compounders of spire;
one ointments, the use of which at this
time was looked upon as an effeminate
luxury.
I1. To his servnnls-(',curt termites
\']o were especially hateful t'ecause for
the most part they were foreigners.
They had no intere.ls in common with
the Ample of the lend.
15. The tenth -The more forrnnl lefty
ler defraying the great expenses of the
Ionize household,
Officers--Charnbertalne.
16. Young men --One of the earliest
mc.nuscripts reads "hen's" instead. 'This
would seem to 1)e the more prehabie
reading as "men-eervnnk" have already
been mentioned.
17. And ye shall be his servants -
The summing up. The royal iggres•
s:on having touched all their property
and fnmillee reaches their own Lateen.
The erre is etnt•ery,
It). Na} ---V' twifn.ilandknu all tri+ pod
reasons to the contrary. They had al-
ready male up their mined,.
20. That we also May be like-lernel's
sinful habit of copying her heathen
neigh!ors was overly devekplcd.
All the nalinne-N;)t only the greet
ones such as Egypt and Assyrle, but the
a'ijo!nfng Canaanite tribes whose con-
taminating influence wns even more
dangerous.
Tint our king may judge us ,
lollies -The threefold functie.rys of me
(astern ruler --{1) to administer internal
affairs, i2) to represent the 'cope. on
t.'uhtic occas°ons, 43) ,u lr the leader In
1 me of war. Samuel hail (tone alt
three but net with the eslentat1on and
d; )iy which they (Reseed.
21. Ile rehlear* d them in the oars of
Jt hosah--. otice the striking s;mphcity
of the Hebrew tteu*'ht and language.
All of Samuel's dealings with the poo -
ria and his relations with God are
the quaint terms of Wilting and Ilse
ening.
22. Go ye every man unto his city -
This was a set forme for dismissing a
csuncil er ass<mbly,
1'11EsIHF:NT FALLIERS.
The Plain, Sale elan Who Helps to
Govern France,
Armand Fallieres, Pres -relent of the
French Republic, is robust and large
bodied old gentleman of sixty-six. Ile
iz from the t1 di, the south that pros; des
France t\•ith officeholders as inevitably
a, Ireland provides New Yoe( with po-
licemen, says the Paris Daily Ma I. Like
all men from the south he p:ss s.e; the
gift of oratory, but cembines With 1t a
leve for brevity, in fact it is sa d that
the longest speech he ever mad • only
occupied halt a column of a 11(w:emcee
end that since he has become Presi,'1ent
he Felder]) needs more than twenty lines.
When \f. Fallicres t'ok over Ih- Ely-
se& Pnlaoe after his election his first act
was to reduce the military raid naval
slat( attached to the Presidency. The
fifteen or twenty officers of high rank
en M. Loulet's personal staff were cut
dawn to there, the leghtest n rank be -
Me a Colonel. Fourteen officials attach-
ed to the protocol or etiquette depart-
ment were disiii ed.
"It is out of place for the chief mog-
strate of a democratic republic to bo
surrounded with so much ceremony,'
was the new chief of states rernalk.
Madame Fathoms ran her sid' of the
flicial residence on the same I ne.. An
1'my of cooks, scullions, chambermaids
nd valeta hied to go, and Mar.e'ts, tee
amity cook, who has been in ills Fal-
!eres service from limo immemorial,
'as installed in the Presidential kitch-
ns.
These changes and others, such as not
coping up the stele stables but hiring
nese.; sea when They are needed for state
<visions, are ascribed by Parisian sa-
;rical now•spapets less to a disl;ke for
slentation than to a love of thrift.
\Vnntor and summer \I. Miens rises
t 6 and immediately lakes a cold
hower bath. Then, weather rermitting,
^ starts off for his morning ctnslilu-
'nal walk, never less than flvo m le;,
c 'veins with a four mile an hour
alt, wheel dwindles down to a stroll
as is usually the case, the walk (tit-
hes along the quays of the Seine, for
e i3 a great book lover and cannot pass
he old book stalls along the embank -
en t,
Luncheon is always a frugal meal,fished down with a mild claret, the
'adust of the Loupillon vines, M. Fal -
re
,es's native place. He ernes eren,)t-
at 7, and if there is nothing to pre-
ent him doing so speed's the evening
Wetly in the family circle, retiring to
at 10.30. He rarely goes to the
entre or the opera except when ob-
god to do se on stale occasions.
A man of s;mple latstrs and straight-
rward character, M. Failio;es was
ectcd to the Presidency first of al! on
ccount of his personal merit and mod-
al()views, and second, because the
tench Republican leaders have laid
tun ns an axion) that the President
ould never lea what is commonly
fled a mnn of action who might be
dined to interfere with the decisions
his Min's'eis and even at times try
lead them. They selected Armand
!litres in opposition to Paul Deemer
cause They knew he was a safe man
o would confine himself .strictly to
constitultnnal prerogatives, wh?reds
Dimmer was tainted with a suspicion
self -assertiveness.
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HINTS FOR THE SLEEPLESS.
Try al iteing a Philosopher and Do Not
Worry.
Many find themselves unable to sleep
until the whole household is nccounted
for and the house locked for the night,
until certain news Ls received, and the
like. The same tendency postpones sleep
tilt all nffnirs are straightened otit in the
mind, as well as in reality. A little re-
flection shows how indefinite must bo
the postponement of sleep under such
conditions.
No training Is more important for the
victim of compulsive tendencies than the
practice of trusting something to luck
and to the morrow, and rcooncilMg him-
self to the fact that al no time, in this
world, will all Things be finally adjusted
to his aatisfacllon.
Next comes the Insistent desire to sleep
In n certntn heel. with a certain degree
et light or derknees, heat or cold, nir nr
absence of air. 'i'his is in lino with the
desire to eat certain twirls only, at a cer-
tain table, and nt n certain time. The
reran who loses his appetite if dinner Is
half an ielie late Is unable In sleep again
If once wnked up. This individunl must
Fay to hirnself. "..ny one cnn stand what
h.' Ilkes; 11 takes n philosopher to slnnd
what he does not like," and try et le-
ing a philosopher instead of a sensitive
plant.
inability to sleep while certain noises
or, continued must be similarly combat-
ed. if one goes torn) pine() to place in
search of the quiet spot fair sleep, he may
finally find quiet Itself oppressive, or,
worse still, may be kept awake by hear -
Ing his own clrculatinn, from which es-
cape Is out of the question.
He who linds himself persistently out
n! joint with he surroundings will do
well to ponder the language of the Chin-
e a' phi!oiopher:
"The legs of a stork are long, the legs
et a duck ere short; you cannot mnke
floc legs of the stork short, neither cnn
you make the legs of the duck long. Why
worry•
ntn-rlh.
"If yon refuse me," a young man cried
wildly to a fair one, "life will 11e an emp-
ty dream!"
"Tt►nt's heater then getting married to
find out you have an empty purse!" re-
plied the matterof-fact maiden.
M011E nf.\\IF F'OIt WIFE.
You seldom see is man so honest Met
he say. to his wife, "Where diel I lease
my halt"
Ile usually says. "Where did you put
hitt
THEY OWN MUCII LAND
FOREIGN 1'.1RTti I'OSSF_SSED BY TIIE
H1tl LIi U.
They Have 11i111ens of Pounds Invested
in Eery Country in the
World. •-
A well-known music -hall manager'ge-
ccntly took a lease of the Alhambra
Theatre, in Brus•els. Nothing very ex-
traerdnary in that; but what is some-
what remarkable is It;o fact that Ih•
leeee was sign -d I y 1t•as,.s. Josef h wind
Arthur Chnmlerta1n, es owners, safe
1.0ed )n Answers.
Very few people have the sl ghtst
idea of what an immense amounto'
British capital is htves'ed in foreign
h,:entries, its apart from our own Colon-
ies, and what hue areas of land abroad
are in the hands of British owners.
About a year age, little Crown I'rince
Olaf of Norway r.calved a present of an
!stand on Ili * oon-t • 1 tho country over
which he will proeably some day rule.
This island was not given le hirn by one
of hs father's subjects. but by an Eng-
lish lady -Miss Ada Musgrove. The
island, which is known ns Fort n Bra.,,
er Sunbeam Island, Ce: in th i tamers
Cede) Sound, in the midst of exquisite
scer:ery. •
ON THE RIVIERA.
Many of the finest sites in that coun-
try of beautiful views and exqusite cli•
mate, the Itiviera, are twee] by Eng -
esti Teeple. Miss Alice Itolhschil1, for
instance, has a house at Grasse, reel
gardens which produce exquisite flow-
er, at a Lane when winter still rules
over the whole cf these northern islands;
white Mr. Arthur Wilson has (ought
land for build:ng near Villefranche.
in Italy you will find a great deal of
land in the ownership of English peo-
ple The D::wager Lady Carnarvon
spends mulch time in a villa built by her
isle husband at Itapallo; while Lord
rtose ery has near Naples a property of
which he is very fond. Lord Wrs'bury
is another peer who owns Italian Loin.
His estate is in Florer.ce. Down in Sic-
ily Lord Bedport possesses a home ani
beautiful vineyards which have beta in
hs family's possession ever since they
were originally granted to his famous
ancestor, Lora Nelsen, after the Battle
of the Nile. The name of th's place is
the Castello di Maniere, ani the wino
s,rmetertes known as "Bronto" is grown
there.
IN SUNNY SPAIN.
Speaking of grants of foreign fond.
the present Duke of \Vellingten has in-
herited the Spanish property which a
grateful nation wive 10 the Iron Duke
after the Peninsular catrnpaign. Th's
is at Soto de Roma, near Grenada. and
consists of four thousand acres, which
give a revenue of sennething lite $10,000
a year. The Duke of Wellington is
Duke of Ciudad Rodrgo in the Peerage
of Span.
An immense amount of Britsh money
13 invo-t'1 in Spain. We now draw u
very targe proportion of both our iron
and copper ore from That comers'. The
whole town and d strict of leo Tinto, in
the province of Huelva, is in the hands
of n great British syndtca'e, who bought
the copper and sulphur minas foe sense
teing like 820di00.0u0, and who employ
ever ten thousand hands. Tiro) ni`ncs
were recently partly flooded, and dread-
ful damage wrs done 10 the .town.
There Ism European country in which
English people .lo not own largo areas.
Fully half of the valuable petroleum
lands o;t the Caspian are in the hands
of British comp:an:es, and so is a groat
teal of the famous IA'netz oonlfkW,
which covers teen Ihuusand square miles.
in 1899 a second Britsh c 6npany -the
Russian Collieries Company -began op-
erations In this district. So irnporlaiit
has British o\wtership become I) Bus.
sii that M. do Witte recently nrdifled
the existing law of land ownership sok'•
ly MT their behalf.
IN TIIF IIOI.Y LAND.
Even in such distant oatut'ries as
Egypt and the Iloly Land you fled Eng -
Leh people ening properly, bah
and Mouses, The Irate Lord Bute, who
was devoted to Palestine, and whose
Mart wise buried en the Mount of Olives,
be•ught land and house property In
Jerusalem, which has now passel L) Iiia
daughter, Lady Merl/fleet Cricht. n Stew.
art In Egypt, Lord William ('^oil the
el<i•'r-not the brother of the present
beet Salisbury -height a tract of land
containing ruins and tombs. He and
L;idy Cecil have spent much tame dig-
ging and del:ng amemg these racer of
the nnclent Pharaohs.
The aggregate lend owned by Eng•
I.shmcn in the United Stites and Merl-
e,' w•a,ul.1 make nn island as large as
Ireland, Lord Caithness is the owner
of a lergo estate in Southern Dakota.
Tlie ranch of the ilon. Oliver Wallop,
blether of Lord Portsmouth, is at ,13ig
in Wyoming. and is the largest
end 1w141 pn eperous in Shcri.lan Count
tv. Its owner married n Chieag) lady.
and live; on his American property,
But rhe li.t :s endless, In Ih' Argo/l-
ime, in Peru. and Chili. thoutaeds of
square rules are in Reit sh hands. Even
the islnnee of the hen are bought up
when climate Or commercial re=ources
protege pleasure cr 1r fl'. Sir Alfred
Jonas. for instance. has bo fight a trete
tract in the (:annries, \vt.cre he grows
1i:twinas. Intl el, the present plr.•sper-
if; iof Ihore islands may he Ariel to he
entirely dere lo this (n'cr,ars:ng British
steamship owner,
SPICY
Lots wife became a pillar of salt,
Iv't most wives become pei,pery.
Cholmondeley -"You and your sister
ere twins, ere you not?" Marjoribanks
-"We were when we were children.
Now, however, she is five years younger
Than 1'"
"Jahn, t ria t a woman to-alny I hadn't
seen for years. "Diet she knew yoar?'
the reengnlzad me by the old
Rat." Th n the silence bac Ime oppn'»-
91' e.
D.) not put on style at the expense of
your friends.
LIONS AND TIGERS, AHOY ;""`)``c'°O
YOUNG
FOLKS
HOW IT FEELS TO TRAITRAVEL1%Tilt t
C tit1:O OF N II.D HE %STS.
:trilint► incidents of a tilurnry ..wage
- .t keeper', "Awe ieuce %lith
Llan.
The job of m1 ging wed beasts is
never particularly easy; but w11Nn one
re to deal with them at sea it is Pr,pugh
turn a coon's hair grey orerteelit.
"I
niter
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y made a voyage once on a
C. mein steamship from Hamburg to New
lurk, with an assor',ed collection of ani-
mate for the Bronx Zoo, and realized
seine of the troubles with which Noah
and his sons must have contended.
Most bt.the temporary cages in which
the wild beasts were confined were on
the main deck, and they were flimsily
made. The ship experienced terribly
Fought weather, with heavy seas svree
nip; from stem to steer nearly every day.
'trine and again some of the cirp were
washed adrift or smashed to pieces, au(4
the animals set free to roam the decks.
A there were env lions, three leopards.
some panthers, several bears, and other
dengerous creatures amongst them, it
n:ay be imagined That the crew contin-
urlly went about
IN TERROR OF TIIElrt LIVES.
The writer was taking his turn at the
wheel one night, in a heavy gale, when
Le heard the male by his side give a
startled cry. There was a low, purring
growl in answer. Looking round he saw
a big lion -the gift of a famous Ameri-
can millionaire to the Bronx Zoo -
crouched at the foot of the ladder which
lel to the bridge on which they were
;t: ruling. Two of the men on watch were
.winging themselves up on top of the
deck -house ter safety.
Before they could say or do anything,
n keeper rushed up, armed with a light
switch, and tried to drive the lion back
l: its cage. The ship was rolling so
hen\'ily that he lost his footing, and fell
right under tenth the beam's head. As
hr, rose to his feel he seized Its mune,
dragged it from its crouching position,"
and struck it unmercifully with the
switch. Cowed by the storm and by sea-
sickness, it suffered him to drive it meek-
ly back to prison.
Later on the reale praised the keeper
for his pluck. •
"Oh, that's nothing!" he said. "I'm
never scared of n lion; but 1 wouldn't
dare to do that to a ieopard."
LEOPARD ON DECK.
Three days later one of the leopards got
Icose, and held possession of the deck
Ice nearly Iwo hours before it was put
behind Lars again. All the men were
ordered below -you may be sure they
were glad enough to go -and to shut the
doors tightly. The skipper and the mate,
aimed with revolvers held the bridge.
Five keepers pursued the leopard up and
down the ship very warily, and nt Inst
resiled hie) over in a net, but not before
he had broken into a cage -which held a
small proboscis monkey and killed it.
That monkey's fate was quite a blow
to the writer, as it was quite a pet of his,
snuggling down inside his jacket In the
friendliest manner.
There were some prong -horned ante-
lopes aboard, and the keepers said they
were not dangerous. On one of the rare
fine days they took them out of their
close cages to give thein a little exer-
cise on the decks.
ANTELOPE ANI) COOK.
The cook teasingly offered one of these
beasts a large mess -tub full of curry,
which he lied got ready for breakfast.
The animal looked at him disdainfully,
and then charged, butting him hill In
the stomach. Back he went through the
gal'ey door, on top of a s!ove, with the
curry all over he face ant his white
jacket. He never tcesed the antelopes
again,
1I was rather wierd and hair-raising at
night to go through the alley -ways on
lb main deck, with cages all round you,and see glaring eyes in the darkness, and
hear blood -curdling growls and snnrls
lie every key. The crew knew only too
well how weak those cages were, and
every one of them heaved a elgh of re-
lit. when the mo ken N,ah's ark oafe'y
d,scherged her cargo at New fork. 'they
felt they had earned their pay, if ever
sellers dell
ANCIENT WI:ATIII:R 1'i oI'IIF:Tti.Ii
Cheek, First to %lake Itrpular O'rrsa•
Clans iIles!Neasuremenl of Main.
Meteorology as a science is in 11A in-
fancy. but as a branch of knowledge it
is perhaps es old as mankind. The be-
ginnings of meteorology are to be found
at the origin of civilization.
It would be error to imagine that the
rich weather torn found in the Bible, es-
pecially in the book of Joh. and in the
menet of limner and Ilesiod, originated
in Palestine or Greece. On the confrere.
the fnmlliarity of the people with the
sayings and rules concerning the weather
revealed by these writings show clearly
that they must be onnsklered as a prime-
val stock of the culture of that limn.
There Is reason to believe that the oreg:n of mush of me le: n w ether lo•o inn
1'•• traced toits Inde-Gerrnnnic source.
The Greeks as far back ns the fifth con•
tory B. C. were the firth to make regular
meteorological observations. some re-
sults of which still are pres,'rved. Their
great capaelly for pure science induced
them to propound meleorogical theories.
Ae this lime They used wind vanes and
in the first century 11, C. they built the
T •w.•r cif tie Wind at Ath ns.
The first quantitive oleo rvalions--that
k, iii^ measurement of rave --were mule
in the first century A. i). These wore
made in Palestine end their results are
preserved in the Mishnah. \lelaw'roloole
made bel little progress among the Rt.
mans. The barhnrous elate of Europe
after the fall of the Western Empire was
not adapted Io the furtherance of science,
which was barely kept elive within the
Christian Church.
The fathers of the Church, writing com-
mentaries on the week of the seven days,
often Leek oecn,ion M insert long etre
I(rntions en the almesphere ani the
The revival a.f esperimeuel
sc.ence in the Ihirlrsn csniury lot In the
deseiopmenl of regular rn• te')minsecnl
observations in the fonrtmnlh century.
11 etas only 'toting the hill. r pert of the
t;inetcentli century Mot ma•teasil,gy 1 '.
Game partially an exact science.
tececiocsoseesoi
Tll1i LONG ML•:.\DO\\ t'ti:,NIC.
When Min -jerks and liel.;tiffsei ammo
tc grandpa's they were a title lonely.
The house was so far from the village
and they were so unus.d to the country
that the litter grove back of the house
seemed \•. ry dank and solemn aft:r sun-
set. "1 could forget about the sha-
.u.w•s,•• Helen said, "if it weren't for the
screechy lioe'10 t3!'
But grandpa explained about the ha-
bits of these lilit!o animals, and they
seemed more friendly, and it was not
Icng before their song seemed as na-�
tura) as the biabble of the brook.
They used to go to the post -office
every day to get the mail, and after a
while they began to say "Hell,!" to the
children they met on the way; and when
flee £awing -circle met al grandma's,
scree -of tete number brought heir chil-
dren.
writLe day they received an invitation
neon birch bark. It said: "\far-
jerie and Helen are invited to a barefoot
picnic In long meadow Saturday morn-
ing."
They could not imagine what kine
cf a picnic this could be, and could`
hardly wait for the day.
'When they w'crr ready to start that
morning, grandpa gave them 801114)
wonderful toy boats, newly rigged and
painted. 'Tit'y were ro pfeas•d wadi
these They wandered if they ought to
lake them to the picni when the others
could not have Them; but when they
joined the children at the cross -roods,
they found that grandpa had provided
one for each child, and the barefoot part
was to be wading in the brook.
Marjorie and Helen had been to many
parties and learned to play all the jolly
house games, but they never had so
gee! time els they did that day, sail-
ing boats in the long brook.
The company was divided into',s:<les,"
and tho navigation of the brook was
established. At first the girls fest a lit -
lie shy to be playing in this fashion
with the others, but they soon forgot this
in a busy attempt to get a cargo of
wheat safely from tho Great Liakes to
the Gulf of Mexico.
Each one had brought a small gasket
c( luncheon, which they ate under a
big elm -tree, while the b,als were sup-
pc.sed to Le unloading in their various '3
pc rts.
At lour o'clock grandpa came drifting
up the field with a load of hay, and
they all piled into the rick, and tramp-
ing and singing. rode hack to tho barn.
"I wonder what made us icnesoine at
first?' said \lar•jorie, when the day was
over. "There is so much more to uo
here than at home."
\VIl.tT TIIE BIRDS SAID.
"i think these cherries are ripe.
They're as red as they can be."
Harry stood by his w;ndow and look-
ed out at the cherry -tree just before iso
went to bed. Grandma afid told him
they must not bo touched Ateorne days
yet.
"1 can see them shining red in the
moonlight. If I get up early in the
interring no one will know if 1 lake
seine."
Harry k•ft •the curtain up( so that the
sun would awaken him early.
11 did. As we all know, the sun is
a very early riser,
Ilarry Iny fora few minutes half•
asleep. Jest outside the open window
the brds wen! singing. They brought
to ilarrys mind a funny story grandma
I,a l told him the night lelu•e, in which
some little boys had fen::ed Vey heard
words in the bird twitter,
"I wonder it you really can?" said
Harry. "There, now! (fear that one
tee near to the window."
"Cherry-tr.e, (sherry -beet' chirped tho
bird.
Ilarry opened he eyes wide.
"1l certainly did say it!' It came
again:
'Cherry -tree, cherry -tree, cherry -tree!'
Ile listemd eis a soft cooing come from
a tree farther cf1.
"I do believe R says, 'Don't touch!
Don't -touch!'"
By this time all the birds were join•
irg in the chorus, and if you could have
heard ill %Verbre, WO, twitter, tr il',
chirp.
"Cherry -tree. ch•rrytr(e, cherry-'rte-
1:•ce-troe Irv'treetroel \Vail a hllielittl.e•
lilts-little-li((Iel Dont--touch, don't
-touoht Liston-4)-me-me•me•ntemel Wail
a lathe, wait n littler
'That's Just what I'm going to do,'
sail Ilarry. "I'd be ashamed to Have
these birds kn••w I'd .'o a mean thing."
Three days later grandma gave hint n
Mindful of cherries. And in three dnyi
mole she told him he m.ght eat all tie
want'] of the shining red (suit. How
he thanked the Lirds'-Youths C,in an•
1\P\M; I: TRI:list nt: srORI'.
1 . rcftiher's Hurled Coins Thal Proved r
Disappointment.
A h gl►iy r(15,'' lei zn n • f Id 'pp '1
Lad a "chamber of se.crees in hieerseee
which the sfinilnry aullienties the illy
insisted on enkring. Iieneraltr tho hoer
the semen's found n large antiquated
earthen pot. which was fit once taken to
the 'meter. Kitayarno. elle opened it in
expectation of finding something, nriJ
true ll his anticipations the pot was (Diet
with ancient gold coins, says the Japan
Tunes,
Hie joy WAS unbounded. The valunele
end, evidently ea intended gift of his
(,rdnlherrs, W13 car•fully depositee in
1')' family shrine. to winch sake and
other offerings were made In profound
obedennce to the memory of the g.,o.1 an-
cestors who left such a splendid gift to
posterity. :\ Nutmeg w"s given on the
1. IJowing evening in honor of the nus
wines event. to which s, veral (Nene:.
mind neighbors were invited.
Ilere a curl, denier prose -dee M tn•
elect the Gins le the brenthlns, Inler.•st
.,f the while group, amt the critic at once
pr• m'un'•e.i them all lead washed with
• lel.
les"•'.• Ile•• • r 'sell 1 r4i .I, 1•r,ty 171, ItorA
ttcause !hes like 1' a reu',G.
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