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The Brussels Post, 1909-4-8, Page 6TO FIND OUR TR[E SELYF We Should `'bink of Our Res ansibilitie as .Our Opportunities, For what is your life? Xt is oven vapor; that appoareth fur a lit- tle time and then vanisheth away. --lames iv. 14, This is an apt metaphor with which to represent the, brevity and evanescence of life, but it does not tell the whole story.The cloud which the text •epeeists of aa float- ing idly in the sky we have impris- oned in our machinery and oorn- pellet1 to do mighty things. This capacity of fleeting vapor for en- ergy and work well represents the Man, like the vapor, , will never do his best work except under prres- stu'e. .A brook will babble until it meets the darn, whorl it begins a to turn the gristmill. 'Without sense of responsibility a man will develop no force of character, Life is most truly described in the broad souse as a great opportunity: That is the way Jesus looked at it. "Treusurebktilr a field, "A pearl of great price," Talents intrust- ed to servants ; these are the, elm- ilex he used. They all emphasize capacity of the human spirits for tl inspiration and service. T;Irs con- stitutes man's greatest endowment and is the life of every faculty and attainment. of Scripture continually -speaks', man as a "vessel" or utensil whch depends fur its usefulness and gain the whole world and lose bine worth upon the valve of its con - .self it profiteth nothing. Fora ELEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY. Life is, in short, the opportunity to find our true self, and until we have done that we can never hope to find the true God. If a man tents. When noble ideals persh . our life descends- toward THE LEVEL OF THE BRUTE, man can actually and permanently poetess nothing except himself, Is a man entitled to say "I live" simp- ly because he eats and sleeps and just as vapor, bereft of its heat is physically well? A human life is turns again to its original liquid far more complex. The first reed form comparatively without value. pipe gave forth music, but its de - Life and action carried on in ac- cordance with true ideals will re- enit unfailingly in progress. Too often the monotony of life eon- soendant, the groat organ, gives forth melody. The complete life is one in which the religious or spiritual note gathers into harmony snores the energy which should go the moral, bringing them also into toward the realization of our ideals, harmony with God, the source and and when we stand before the doors fountain of fire. of large opportunities we are over- come with fear and hesitation. ADAM MACDONALD REOCH. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, April 11. lesson II. Peter Delivered From Prison. Golden Text, Psalm 34: 7. Introduction.—Between our last lesson and this from four to six to himself, waking from Ilia half - dazed oo lita o n, and knew thati e had really been released, . by en angel sent from she Lord. And lot us keep in mind the fect.,thet back of the angel was that prayer Meeting. Where did Peter naturally turn? To the house of Mary, evidently a rendezvous for the Cristians, The apostle knocked at the door of the gate, the outer door of the entrance passage leading to the inner court, This was kept fastened, and fust inside was a small room for the maid who tended the door. Tho description, according to Tristram, shows that it was a house of the better class, Who answered the knock' A damsel named Rhoda (meaning Rose). With youthful impetuusity, she was so glad•to bear the beloved tones that sho forgot to unbar the door, and left Peter knocking there while she rushed into the prayer meeting to tell the good news l Why were the disciples .astonish- ed at this answer to their .prayers? Because they had not expected the answer so soon, or in such a won- derful manner. Some of thein, per- haps. had been praying with little real faith. V. The Open Door of taster. ,"rhe angel left Peter, having ac- compiisbed his appointment. But there was to be another time when Peter would want the visit of such a messenger ! And there will be a time when we also shall want it, w hen we shall have to go out from the prison -house of mortality, and from the world itself." SMALL, HENS LAY LARGE EGGS Great Success of Danish Breeders' Methods. One of the most scientific at- tempts yet made to get at 'the lay - STORED WITH TREASURES THROUGH TIIE AIICIXIVES BUILDING, OTTAWA. An Xinrueneely Valuable Coldeetion —..Ohl R.eeords -- Indian Relies, The ,Archives building, which stands hard by the mint on Sussex street in Ottawa, is already stored with treasures of greatest literary and historical interest, The old records, carelessly stored in the top flat of the Langevie block, or hid- den away in the tower of the Last block, formed the nucleus of what is to -day an xtrmensely valuably collection, arranged and indexed under a system so perfect that the archivist is able to place his hand upon a given document, map or engraving at a moment's notice. This miracle has been vrrought by Dr, A. G. Doughty, Dominion archivist. OF AGE GONE BY. Dr. Doughty is adding constant- ly to his records. Ho has drawn largely upon the British War Of - flee, and hes transformed torn and dust -covered maps of old Canada, found in the cellars of Downing street, into plans that to -day are almost as perfect as when they first left the ink -pots of the draughts- men -explorers of an ago gone by. Within the last five years Dr. Doughty has added to his store no less than five thousand .original manuscript plans of Canada. He has upon his shelves four thousand volumes of original military papers. The Archives collection is as varied almost as it is. rich, Here you see under a glass ease a tiny II. Prison and Prayer.—Verses ing value of certain breeds of hens silver box filled with little paper 4. e. What is implied by the clause, when he had apprehended him? That there had been some delay and difficulty in arresting Peter. Where was Peter confined? In the famous prison in Herod's resi- dence, the fortress or castle of An- p vatic 1unt tante, It was there that some think roet Brood Batched of egg'' porIird has just been corapleted at Read -'disks. On each scrap there is a ing, England. The breeds expert- picture and a story, and the con- mented with in this year's trial, tents of the little pillbox contain were live varieties of Leghorns, one' together a complete history of the of the two most popular sorts in seven years' war: There you see the world. Tho following is the the real wampum and the quill seals of the aborigines, there the written reccrds of. Canada's first settlers, the original document of Christ was arraigned before Pilate, Danish Brown s d s d the Company of One Hundred As - and there Paul was taken when Leghorns ......1807 12 9 7 8 socia las. Here is a paper tolling mobbed in Jerusalem. It immedi- Danish White of a St. Malo venture twenty-five ately adjoined the temple, on the Leghor northwest. ns ......1907 12 1 7 1 Danish White years before Champlain's first7oy- How Ives Peter guarded? By age. Leghorns . ....1900 11 8 6 8 UNDER QUEBEC BRIDGE. four quaternions (bands of four) A ,roan White of soldiers, each quaternron being rue.Doughty's hate elapsed. What occurred r guard a three-hour Leghorns .. ..1908 11 10 6 10 On one of relic of tables yearsp or g throughBritish (E hihition) rests a grim of the early wars, during that time? The founding of watch. Two of the soldiers were White Leghorns .1906 6 4 1 4 a cannon slier lately dug up from the great Gentile church at Anti- chained to Peter's arms, one on Two striking results emerge. It its long resting place twenty feet ooh, and the calling thither of ;either side.; a third was outside.. Barnabas from Jerusalem and Paul the door, and the fourth in the pas- ( is found once again that the heav-below the bed of the St. Lawrence. from Tarsus. The famine, and the .sage leading to the strong outer.eer the bird the less the egg pro- It was found by workmen exca- famine relief sent to Jerusalem gate. Doubtless Herod knew how I ld etio e The British birds in this vatting for the piers of. the Quebec case were more than a. pound heav- bridge, and was presented to the ier than any others. Of the first government by the contractor, M. four varieties on the above list, the lowest average for a pen was 142 eggs a year per bird, while the 8 pound English birds averaged only 76 eggs each. A yet more striking result comes out in the consideration of the weight of the eggs laid. The Dan- ish brown pullets yielded nearly six times. their body weight in eggs during the twelve months, and each egg was up to the standard weight of 2 ounces. The British birds did not lay twice their own body weight and a third of the eggs were under the 2 ounce standard. The Danes have arrived at this result simply and solely by breed- ing especially for this purpose. The ideal they have reached is the lit- tle hen—which implies the small feeder—and the big egg. from Antioch. Why do we omit those events for the present? In order to follow more closely the history el Peter. I. Days of Death and Danger.— Writes anger—Verses 1-3. Wliat, was that time, when oar lesson begins. The spring of A. D. 44, while the he was trying to please, if he exe- events described in chapter 11 were cuted Peter during the Passover occurring at Antioch. Who was (that is Easter). ruler then? Herod Agrippa I., Peter in Prison. Remember the! grandson of Herod the Great, who free outdoor life of e fisherman that Peter bad always enjoyed, his im- petuous character that would not brook restraint, and the probabil- ity that he was the oldest of the apostles. Imprisonment is bitter to any man; it must have been doubly grievous to Him. And yet, doabtiess he rejoiced in this oppor- tunity to prove his loyalty to the Lord whom he bad denied. What is it to "pray without ceasing" (1. Thes. 5: 17)1 We are peror Caligula. He helped to set told that we are not, heard for our the weak Claudius Caesar on the much speaking (Matt. 6: 7); but throne of Rome (A. D. 41), and in that is simply a warning against return was made king of all Pales- long prayers for show. Christ's tine, where he reigned only about parable of the importunate widow tbree years before he came to a (Luke 18: 1-8) shows his approval horrible end, as related at the al impassioned, determined prayer, close of this chapter. that will not let the angel go with - What was the policy of this out a blessing (Gen. 32: 26). Herod toward the Jews? He tried Christ's own example in Gethse- to do whatever pleased the Jews mane shows how inevitable are re - (v. 3). He lived in Jerusalem. Be peated prayers when the heart is took pains to observe the minutiae strongly stirred. of Jewish ceremonials. He hong III. The Chains Fall and the up in the temple the gold chain Iron Gate Opens.—Verses 6-10. which Caligula had given him. He How long was Peter in prison? Till NAILS only part Jew, and part Edo- near the close of the Passover, mite, and greatly feared the people when Herod would have brought would hate him as they had hated him forth. Herod the Great. At the feast of Why was not Peter released ear - tabernacles in A. D. 41 he had read lier by the angel? For the same to the people the whole of Deuter- reason that often causes a delay in enemy, bursting into theatrical the answer to our prayers—to test tears whon he came to the words, our faith and strengthen our char- -ellen may -est not set a stranger acters by the endurance of afie- over thee, who is not thy brother." tion. This waiting and the bearing Thereupon the obsequious popu- of trouble, teach us patience, coir - lace had cried, "Don't weep, Agrip- age, hopefulness, cheerfulness, wetpa! You are our brother, faith. What school has a nobler The Blessings of Persecution. ourrioulum? The early church had many oppor- In what way was Peter deliver- tenities of realizing the blessings ed? He was sleeping quietly, like of persecution promised by Christ. David (Psa, 3: 5) when Absal +m That is the last of the Beautitudes, and all his foes pursued him. "Fee as if the climax of those heavenly so he giveth his beloved sleep, or paradoxes; and it is three tines "in their sleep (Psa. 127: 2). 1t • as long as any of the others, as if 'was in the last watch of the night, our Lord knew that it needed the between three and six o'clock, fee strongest emphasis. When men re- Peter was nut missed at three, preached them, reviled them, per- when the guards were changed; scented them, deprived diem of all nor until sunrise (v. 18), when the joy on earth, they were still to have guards were changed again. In the kingdom of heaven, and great this darkest hour which is ,just, was to be their reward there. before dawn' an angel of the Lord What would be that rewartll Caine upon him (stood by him). --a Fellowship in (Christ's sufferings, brilliant presence radiating light Fellowship in one another's afflie- which filled the cell, Peter wag time The, purification of charas- sleeping so soundly that the hgrt ter. The strengthening and beau- diol not wake him, and the anger tifying of oheraeter. Consciences .smote. Peter on the side. at peace.. The knowledge of the IV. "The Lord Hath Delivered." coming triumph . of their cause.---Verees 11-19. What did Peter Christ's "Well clone'." An titer- perceive, when the angel disap- nity of bliss unimaginable. peered thus suddenly? He came there, the apostles had escaped from the prison of the Sanhedrin' (Acte 5: 19), and meant to keep Peter se- curely this time. Why was Peter imprisoned, and not executed at once? Because it would have offended the Jews whom murdered the innocents at Bethle- hem, and nephew of Herod Antipas (son of Herod the Great), who murderer? John the Baptist. It was his son, Herod Agrippa II., be- fore whom Paul made his famous defense (Acts 26: 28). What was the history of Herod Agrippa I.1 He was born B.O. 10 and educated in Rome. Amid a rash and adventurous career, he rose through the favor of the Em - MR. PORTLINGTOWS DISMAY. Admonished by a Discovery, Ho Forms a High Resolve. "Within the last year or two," said Mr. Portlington, "I've noted a growing snugness in the fit of my garments. I go always to the same tailor and have my clothes made from the same measure, and so I came to recognize finally that I was growing stouter. Certainly my clothes couldn't be growing any smaller, made always from the same patterns, but I filled them out more. I was eertaialy growing plumper, ' 'My good boy,' I said to myself, `that's your good living, and grate- ful you ought to be with health and happi---- and some slight port- liness. I smiled when I thought' of my- having some plumpness, of figure. "This morning to my dismay 1 discovered that I cannot cross my legs over quite as far as I used to. Yes, sir ; that's what I mean, I found that I couldn't cross my legs over as far as I used to; the leg that I used to be able to throw clean over I now find stops of na- turally on the other knee ! In other words, without my having realized it, I have come to have more than some slight portliness of figure; I am getting fat! "This may not seem a matter of grave bn ortanoe to you, but ib is to me. The snugness that before had made me smile now strikes me as a warning, and from now on there's a little more of labor and Less of good living for your Uncle I' ortlingtoe." ' For many years no one has been married in Madrid on a Tuesday, it being considered an unlucky day rows turned by the ploughs of the men who settled on the outskrrta of Quebec. The fauces peethere around the fields; the heighte are there, the river, the fortiiioatiens, the wharves, the houses end all thepeblio buildings of the historic city. Tiny guns peep out of the emhra- aures, match-llkc bits of wood -- miniature timbers—lie upon the quays, stacks of cordwood stand along the front of the lower town. You see the old ,Chateau Fronton- ao, the palace of that worthy gen- tleman, the Intendant Bigot, and you see Le Chien d'Or. It is Que- bec as pictured in those two books, curiously similar in material, the Le Chien elOx, by Kirby, and The Seats of the Mighty, by Gilbert Parker. MONEY UNDER GLASS. Those persons who are interested in money will. find money at the. Archives, It isn't money which a Modern coal dealer would care to accept, but it was the everyday Paper currency of long ago, It is kept under glass in the library,. time-worn Niagara bills mostly, plain -looking probably, but service- able enough in their day and gen- eration. ' Their associates in Dr. Doughty's glass oaee are the wam- pum of the Indian and the letters of the men, English and French, who helped lay.' the Canadian foun- dation, letters upon which the ink has faded from black to yellow. Not the author only, but the il- lustrator also, finds his raw materi- al ateri al on the shelves and in the files •of the Archives. Pictures of one sort or another, of most of the men and planes of note in Canadian his- tory are to be found there, The system inaugurated by Dr. Doughty works in such a way that additions are constantly being made to the Archives. In the search for his- toric data, the happenings of the Present day are not lost sight of. They are recorded, and the records filed and indexed for the use of future generations. LABRADOR MOSQUITOES. Ter+riblr, Pest to Travellers and Na- tives in the Northland. No account of travel in Labrador can be complete. without some men- tion of the terrible pest of mosqui- toes. These were always present in, immense swarms from the begin- ning of our trip to the end, and sometimes they made life almost unbearable, writes a correspondent in Forest and Stream. Nothing could be heard but their buzzing. Whenever we attempted to cat they were down our throats and in our eyes and faces and in spite of our bead nets and fly dope we were always badly bitten. The natives seemed to mind them al- most as much as we did, their rem- edy being rancid sea oil. I am satisfied that were, one so unfortu- nate as to be caught out at night without protection he would be either crazy or dead by morning. Our tents were provided with a tify man's love of the marvellous fine mesh bobbinet inner tent, but and mysterious, Two precipitious some would always find their way cliffs in the Pyrenees are called the "snorers," from the peculiar sounds which the south-west wind them we went outside to see if it draws from them. The faces of. were not raining, for the constant these cliffs are marked by deep gill - tapping of the mosquitoes against lies which roughly resemble organ the canvas sounded so exactly likel pipes open in front, and occasion - rain that it was impossible to tell ally the front is practically closed the difference. by a stratum of air held motion - On many nights I had to give up less between the cliff anti the trees the observation of stars for lati- which graze it while the wind The Archives building has be- come the Mecca,eof the historians and the story -writer. The _,old books of the Archives library con- tain malarial for romances innum- erable, and, moreover, the atmos- phere is there. Public reading rooms are provided. PICTURES AND -FLAGS. A valuable collection of pictures and flags has recently been given to the Archives by Lady Caron, widow of the late Sir Adolphe Caron. One of these flags is that of the "Quebec Militia" of 1775. Another is the flag of the 1st Ca- nadian Regiment, which went through the Red River Rebellion. On the walls of the Archives building hang rare pictures of el - Canada. There is a colored engrav- ing of Toronto in 1840, another of Toronto in 1854, by Kellner, a German. There is a picture of Quebec published within three months of the siege. The plan of the battle of the Plains of Abra- ham, handed Pitt by General Townsend, is iu the possession of the Archivist. The maps which Dr. Doughty procured from the War Office—in which work Lord Minto gave him valuable assistance --had been long neglected. The work of restoring these maps is still in progress. The torn scraps are pieced together, mounted and cleaned, and are then stored flat in fireproof steel draw- ers, and kept under lock and key. BROOK'S SCARLET COAT. One of Dr. Doughty's prizes con- sists of the scarlet Goat worn by Sir lsaac Brock in his last victori- ous fight at Queenston Heights. The coat was obtained from the Tupper family, and although well preserved, hears upon it the evi- dences of the struggle which cost the gallant general his life and eased the country from invasion. Brock's military sash is also there. Away back in 1790 a man named Du Berger began to build in minia- ture the city of Quebec. Ho toiled for months and probably years be- fore he finally produced the old city and its surroundings in a model some 30 feet about, built to scale in every detail. This model was sent out of Canada by Col,.By, he who began the city of Ottawa., and was for a succession of decades in the possession of the 13ritish military authorities. It stood in the rotunda of the Woolwich Ar- senal. Dr. Doughty saw it, made up his mind to get it, and now he has it, MINUTE EXACTNESS. Dtt Berger psrfeeted his model with minute exactness, even to the sbubble in the fields and the fur- don Globe. INDIAN WAS ORATEEUL WIIA'I+ IIE DID ?OR WRITE MO WPM SAVI♦U UIS TO% 'J'a'aWllod 400 Miles fn do Wildere noel to Bring Back Xlot'n8 of a Moose. Indian gratitude has probably never been more sincerely proved than in an -incident which recently occurred to James Oliver Curwoodj the novelist and writer of boys books, who returned from the Hud- son Bay wilds a few weeks ago,, JYIi', Curwood is the author of "The Wolf Bunters," an exciting tale o0 the wild northland, in ,which th author has spoilt so iuueh of his time. It was while gatheelee ma- terial for this, story that he by the Merest chance saved one of Ins In- dian guides, Mukoki, £tom severe injury-eprobably death. FOUND SKELETON. .A few weeks after this, when Curwood and his two Indians were on their return to civilization, the bones of a huge bull moose were discovered, and near the bones of this moose was found the skeleton of a man, The story of the tragedy was plain. The unfortunate hun- ter had mortally wounded the moose,, and had been killed by the animal, Naturally the writer wished to bring something of this wilderness tragedy home with hint. The remains- of she bunter were buried, but the old and rotting gun and the splendid horns of the moote were carried - along, After toting the antlers for 20 miles it was rea- lized that they were too great a burden to pack two hundred miles and consequently they were left behind. ' INDIAN GOT HORNS. BIIBGl)AIl'S TOOLS, They f-'wy 1'iye T`unca the Price tit Thom Node, Xiiftv0 .l a n j'� 4l Bvery little while, said It Lon• don detective reeently, the polio arrest a man with a set of burg- lar's tock in his possession and one naturally wonders where they all come from, says London Tib Bits, It is easy to buy a gun of any dee scription, and the most reputable person would not be ashamed to be seen purchasing the most wicked looking !mite ever rnade, but who would know where to gob a jimmy or a device for drilling into a safe or any of the many tools heed by the professional burglar Inc the calling? g pursuit of his There probably are places in the large shies where these things are made and sold to the users, but such places are exceedingly scares._ Jb may seem a little strange to learn that most, of the tools used in brlrg- laries are made by tneehanics who are looked epee as respectable men In the community, When a burglar wants any parti- cular tool made he goes to a me- chanic who can do the job and pays him perhaps five times what it is actually worth for making the tool and keeping quiet about it. Many detectives can recall cases of this kind that have come to light in London. • One in particular occurred some years ago when an escaped convict named Williams went to a black- smith in the East End and got him . to make -a lot of drills to be used in safe cracking. He personally superintended the tempering of the steel, but when the job was nearly completed it leaked out and Willi- ams was arrested, In this instance the blacksmith knew nothing of the use to which the tools were to be put. Most of the tools used be burglars are secured in the same wThe only regular establishment ever discovered where they were made was in the East End. This was years ago and the place wet soon pounced upon. "I come get Neem weh nsnow fall," said the old Indian, whose life the author had saved. Weeks and months passed, and back in civilization Mr. Curwood forgot all about the horns•. One clay recently he received notice from the Detroit customs officials brat a package was being held in bond. Investigating, he found that they were the old horns. Mukoki, the uncivilized savage, had kept his word, and had travelled a full four hundred miles in the wilderness to do a kind' act for the white man whom he loved. He sent no word, with the exception of four niches in ono of the prongs, which was his "forest sign." Mr. Curwood has dedicated his stirring book to this faithful old Indian. MOUNTAINS THAT SING. Wind BMWS Through Great Organ Pipes on ClitY. Singing- and speaking stones gra- inside or come up from the ground. At times our light so attracted tette and longitude because a can- dle could not be kept lit long enough to adjust the artificial hori- zon. We unfortunately had no chimney and the mosquitoes swarmed so thickly - that without this protection the flame was quick- ly smothered. There were but few nights cool enough to afford us any relief; we found that it required c• temperature within a few degrees of actual freezing to subdue them. 3' SAILOR BROUGHT 'MUMS. front% Sailor First Brought Chry- santhemums to Paris. It is more than 100 years ago shat a French sailor living near Marseilles went up to Paris by dili- gence, guarding with the utmost care two precious little flower pots in which he had specimens of a strange plant. • His name was Pierre Blancard, and on his arriv- al in Paris, in November, 1808, he obtained an interview with the Em- press Josephine, who was devoted to flowers, among other things. Blancard had frequently sailed to China and Japan, and there had been struck by the beauty of the flower which was held in such high esteem in the Far East. He had the greatest difficulty in getting his specimens out of Japan and 'n bringing them home safely ie the slow -sailing vessels of diose days; but he succeeded and managed to grow the plant in his garden at A.ubagne, a suburb of Marseilles. The ehrysanthemum has now spread over most of 'Europe, and to Held in alrnoat as great esteem as ibis in the Far East, where it was known certainly as long ago as the ninth century before the Chrii- tian era, In Europe there are many societies which ale devoted to the culture of the chisanthemum, het probably the growers will never at- tain elle splendid colors which dil- blows freely through tht gullies,or organ pipes, behind. On another mountain in the Pyrenees certain cliffs emit, plain- tive sounds which resemble those of a` harp, and are known locally as "the matins of the damned." 'The musical stones of the Ori- noco interested Humboldt, and are granite cliffs situated at the con- fluence of the Orinoco with the Rio Meta, which ,occasionally emit at sunrise sounds which resemble the ton -es of an organ. The organ toues which are heard when the ear is laid on the rock were caused by the outrush of warm air through the narrow fissures whichare par- tially obstructed by elasbic layers of mica. A sand bank about sixty feet high n.- Hawaii produees a tone like that of a melodeon when the hand is moved in a circle through the loose sand. If the observer stands with both hands in the sand and slides down the hank, the sound becomes louder and loader until it resem- bles thunder, and alarms horses tethered near by. Bach grain of sand is perforated by a narrow canal, which, as a rule, is closed at one end. The sand is of volcanic origin WHISTLE MADE LOVE SONGS. Row a Driver on 'Virginia Rails road iron a Bride. "Then You'll . Remember Me," played on the siren whistle of his locomotive, followed by "Love Kull and the 'World is Mine" and other classics, has won a bride for Robt. Freeman Ellington, engineer on the Southern Railway. The only siren whistle courtship in the history of love -making ap- pealed to Miss Margaret Angel, a Manchester, Virginia, belle. She lived near the railroad. The night- ly serenade rising above the rattle cf the trains won her heart. It's strictly against railroad rules to blow off steam into love songs, but Ellington has won a pardon from the chivalrous master mechanics and train masters of the Southern. For weeks the officials were hunt- . ing for the unknown engineer who. used company coal to make the night beautiful, but Ellington, aid- ed by the other railroad men es- caped. Now he's married, and the officials have seen his pretty bride and they don't blame him. WONDER OF THE WORLD. To realize fully the wondrous beauty of the Zambesi Falls, Rho desia, one must have time to lin- ger and watch the ever-changing scene. The depths of the chasm below are veiled from sight by the rising columns of opalescent mist, and above the yawning abyss the ane glints and sparkles, weaving the drops into a magnificent rain - Low, Three hundred feet below roars and boils the swirling flood, as it emerges from the Boiling Pot, rushing on down the zigzag gorge between towering cliffs of reek, narrow, fierce, and of unfathom- tinguished the flower in China a'id able depth. One feels. that Rho - Japan, and here in England the desia is indeed thrice blessed to gardenerswould hardly know khat possess within her territories the to do without it nowadlitys,---Lon• Eighth Wonder of the World,—Af- rican World, "A railroad man . doesn't get much time to court," they decid- ed. "We'll call this an excep- tion." Now Ellington has a little home not far from the yards, and every night when he pulls out for his run, he wistles Then You'll Re- member Me." And the Illrs. sits by the open window and smiles. Ellington, his wire, and bis tunes, are destined for a wider fame. During the Chapman -Alexander revival at Manchester, Mr. Alex- ander heard the strains of music one night. "I bet that man is sending a message to someone," he said: The idea appealed to Dr. Chap- man, who used it as the text for his sermon that night.• Later the evan- gelists found the engineer and got pictures of him, his wife, his pretty home and the welded steel iestru- ment of love. He will use them in slides in all his sermons around the world. "There's a very pretty moral for every one in the story," Dr. Chap- man says.—Philadelphia Star. Queen Victoria and Stores CERTAIN. lady, engaged upon, sons work for her majesty, Ives! A allowed to bring her daughter, al child, With her. The queer, taking al fancy to the little girl, entered pros -i ently into the following conversation: ! Child: "Where do you ,alto when yon:. are In town?" The queen: - "I live at Buckingham Palace, My dear, Where do you live?" Child: "Ohl we 11ve In the Fulham road. (Short pause.) "Where do you get your things from? Wo always get ours from Harrods' stores • F It bakes a snail fourteen days to travel a mile, Since their incorporation, the, Kimberley diamond -mines have produced over twelve tons of dia- monds, the estimated value, of which is $000,000,000. The tea used by the ilhnpert 1 of ,, a Lhina le prepared with the tlhuost }' care.. It is grewn in -a walled gar- den, so that neither man nor beast may be able to touch the plants.