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MAIWA'S *> ; o: ALLAN QUATERMAIN'S ( ^ By H. RIDEI Author of "She," "King v ^ V- - - - - V - --V - ^ V- -N- ^v.. ' - v_^ V?W>?v CHAPTER I. 1 GOBO STRIKES. i ||j!j| B?J| NE day Allan Quatermain O^0=a and I were walking liome II together on the termination ?.V^? of a day's shooting. |E]| l^ji He had about two thousand acres of shooting ground round the place he houglit in Yorkshire, over a hundred of which rtvere wood. It was the second year ol' his occupation of the estate, and already he had reared a very fail head of pheasants, for he was an all-around sportsman .othI as fond.of stiootiiu* with a shotgun as with an eight-bore rifle. We were three suns that <Iay, Sir Henry Curtis, old Quaterruain, and myself, but Sir Henry had to leave in the middle of ttfe afternoon in order to meet his agent and inspect an outlying farm where a new shed was .wanted. He was, however, coming back to dinner, and going to bring Captain Good with him. for Brayley Halt was . not more than two miles from the Grange. We had met with very fair sport, considering that we were only going through outlying covers for cocks. I think that we had killed twenty* seven, a woodcock and a leash of partridges, which we had got out of a driven covey. On our way home there lay a long, narrow spinny which was a very fa vorite "iie" ior wooucock, aim generally held a pheasant or two as well. "Well, "what do yon say,"' said old Quatermain?"shall we beat through this for a finish?" I assented, and he called to the keeper. who was following with a little ki\ot of beaters, and told liini to beat the spinny. ' "Very well, sir," answered the man; "'but it's getting wonderful dark, and i the wind's rising a gale. "It will take you all your time to hit a woodcock if the spinny holds one." "You show ns the woodcock, Jeffries," answered Quatermain, quickly, for he never liked being crossed in anything to do with sport, "and we will Jook after shooting them." The man turned and went rather ?ulkily. ' I heard him say to another keeper: "He's pretty good, the master is, I'm not saying he isu't, but if he kills a woodcock in this light and wind, I'm v. a Dutchman!" I think that Quatermain heard him, too, though he said nothing. The wind was rising every minute, <ind by the time the beat began it was blowing big guns. I stood at the right-hand eoryer of Ihe spinny, which curved round some' what, and Quatermain stood at the left, some forty paces from me. Presently an old cock-pheasant came rocketing -ver me, looking as though the feathers were all being blown out of his tail. , I missed him clean with the first larrel, and was never more pleased with myself in my life than when I doubled him up with the second, for | the shot was not an easy one. In the faint light I coiil<l just see Quatermajn nodding his head in approval, when through the groaning of the trees I heard the shouts oC the heaters: ( "Cook forward." ' "Cock to the right." Then came a whole volley of shonts: "Woodcock to the right," "Cock to the left," "Cock over." I looked up. and presently caught sight of one of the woodcocks coining down the wind upon me like a flash. In that dim light I could not follow 5iis movements as he zigzagged through the naked tree tops; indeed, I could only see him when his wingd flitted up. , Now he was passing me. Bang, and a flick of the wing. I had missed him. Bang again. t "Surely lie was down. -No; there he went to my left. "Cock to you,-' I shouted, stepping forward so as to get Quatermain between me and the faint angry light of the dying day, for I wanted to sec if lie would "wipe ray eye." 1 knew him to be .1 wonderful shot, t>ut that cock would, I thought, puzzle !him, I saw him raise his gun ever so little and bend forward, and at that nio* rnent out flashed two woodcocks into the open, the one I had missed to bis Tight, and the other to his left. At the same time a fresh shout arose of "Woodcock over." and looking down the spinny I saw a third bird high up in tbe air, being blown along like a tiriwQ and whirling leaf straight over Quatermain's iiead. And then followed the prettiest little bit of shooting that I ever saw. The bird to the right was flying low, not ten yards from the line of the hedge-row, and Quatermain took him first because he would become invisible the soonest of any. Indeed, nobody who had not his iawk's eyes could have seen to shoot him. But he saw him well enough to kill him dead as a stone. Then turning sharply he pulled 0:1 the second bird at ab<nit forty-live yards, and over he went. By this time the third woodcock was nearly over him and flying very high, . . straight down the wind, a lumdl-ed feet up or more, J should say. I saw him glance at it as he opened his gun, threw out the right cartridge and slipped in another, turning round as he did so. By this time the coek was nearly fifty yards away from him, and travel iug like a flash. Lifting his gun, he fired after it. and. wonderful as the shot was, killed it dead. A tearing gust of wind caught the dead bird and blew it right away like sl lenf torn from an oak, so that it ?v;, ... fcfffc,,., * . REVENGE R <3fr 3REATEST ADVENTURE. * HAGGARD. Solomon's Mines," Etc. ' foil a hundred and thirty yards off or nior<\ "I say, Quatermain,"' I said to liirn when the beaters -were up, "do you often do this sort of thing?" "Well," he answered, with a dry smile, "the last time I had to load three shots as quickly as that was at rather larger game. "It "was at elephants. "I killed them all three as dead as I killed those woodcocks, but it very nearly -went the other way. I can tell you. "I mean they rery nearly killed me." Just at that moment the keeper came up. "Did you happen to get one of them ^hcre cocks, sir?" lie said with the air of a man who did not in the least cxpect an answer in the affirmative. "Well, yes, Jeffries." answered Quatermain. "You "will find one of them by the hedge, and another about fifty yards out by tho plow there to the left." The keeper had turned to go, looking a little astonished, when Quatermain called him back. . "Stop a bit, Jeffries." he said. "You see that pollard about one hundred and forty yards off? "Well, there should be another wood cork down In ;i line with it, aDout sixty paces out in tbe Held." "Well, if that beant the very'smartest bit of shooting," murmured Jeffries, and departed. After thnt we went home, and in due course Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good turned up to dinner, the latter in the tightest and most ornamental dress suit I ever saw. I remember that the waistcoat was adorned with five pink cornl buttons. It was a very pleasant dinner. Old Quatermain was in excellent humor, induced. I think, by the recollection of his triumph over tbe doubting Jeffries. #.,11 ~ r uwu, IUU, wiio lull ui airciuutciN He told us tlio most miraculous story oC how he once went shooting ibex in Kashmir. These ibex, according to Good, he stalked early and late l'or four entire days. At last, on the morning of the fifth day, he succeeded in getting within range of the llock, which consisted of a magnificent, old ram, with horns so long that I am afraid to mention their measure, and five or six females. Good crawled upon his stomach, painfully taking shelter behind rocks, till he was within two hundred yards: then he drew a fine bead upon the old ram. At this moment, however, a diversion occurred. Some wandering native of the hills appeared upon a distant mountain top. The females turned, and rushing over a rock vanished from Good's ken: But the old ram took a bolder course. In front of him stretched a mighty crevasse at least thirty feet in width. He went at it with a bound. While he was in midair Good fired, fiiul" killed him dead. The ram turned a complete somersault in snace. and fell in such a fash idu that his liovns hooked themselves upon a big projection of the opposite cliffs. There he hung until Good, after a long'and painful detour, gracefully dropped a lasso over him and tlshed him up. TIhm moving tale of wild adventure was received with undeserved incredulity. "Well," said Good, "if you fellows won't believe my story when I tell it ?a perfectly true story, mind?perhaps one of you will give us a better; I'm not particular if it is Que or not."' And he lapsed into a dignified silence. "Now, Quatermain," 1 said, "don't let Good beat you; let's hoar liow you killed those elephants you were talking about tliis evening just after you shot the wnodeorks " "Well," said Quatermain. dryly, and with something like a twinkle in liis brown eyes, "it is very hard fortune for a man to have to follow on Good's 'spoor.'' "Indeed, if it were not for that running giraffe, which, as you "will remember. Curtis, we saw Good bowl over with a ?Jartihi rifle at three hundred yards. 1 should almost have said that this was an impossible tale." Hero Good looked up with an air of indignant innocence. "However," he went on, rising, and lighting his pipe, "if you fellows like, I Avill spin you a yarn." ******* T was telling one of you the other night about those three lions, and how the lioness finished my unfortunate "voorlooper" Jim Jim, the boy whom Ave buried in the breadbag. Well, aftei that little experience I thought that I would settle down a bit, so I went in lor a venture with a man who, being of a speculative mind, had conceived the idea of running a store at Pretoria upon strictly cash principles. The arrangement was that I should find tlie capital and he the experience. Our partnership was not of a long duration. The Boers refused to pay rash, and at the end of four months my partner i had the capital and I had the experi IMICO. After this J came to the conclusion that storekeening was not in my line, and having four hundred pounds left I sent. my boy Harry to a school in Natal, and haying an outfit with what remained of the money started upon a bi> trip. This lime I determined to so farther afield- than 1 had ever heen before, so I got. a passage for a few pounds in a trailing brig that ran between Durban and Dolagoa Bay. From Delagoa Bay I marched inland, accompanied by twenty porters, with the idea of striking up north toward the Limpopo, and keeping parallel to, but at a distance of about one hundred and fifty miles from, tie const. For the first twenty days of our journey we suffered a pood deal from fever?that is, my men did, for I think that I am fever-proof. Also I was hard put to it to keep the camp in meat, for although the country proved to he very sparsely populated there was but little game about. Indeed, during all that time I hardly killed anything larger than a waterbuck, and water-buck is, as you know, not very appetizing food. On the twentieth day. however, re came to the banks of a largish river, the Gonooroo it was called. This I crossed, and then struck inland toward a great range of mountains, a continuation, as I believe, of the Drakenberg range that skirts the coast of Natal, the blue crests of which we could see lying on the distant heavens like a shadow. From this main range a great spur shot out some lifty miles or so toward the coast, ending abruptly in o;ie tremendous? peak. This spur I discovered separated the territories of two chiefs named Nala and IVam be, "Wambe's territory being to the north and Nala's to the south. Nala ruled a tribe of bastard Zulus called the Butiana.and Wambe a much larger tribe called tlie Matnku. which presented marked Basutu characteristics. For instance, they had doors and. verandas to their huts, worked skins perfectly, and wore a wnistclotb. and not a moocba. The Butiana were more or less subject to the Matuku. having been surprised by them some twenty years be- j fnro nnrl rnprrilPKRlv slaughtered I down. The tribe was. however, now recoverin?, and, as you may imagine, it did not love the Matuku. Well, I heard as I went along that elephants were very plentiful in the dense forests that lay upon the slopes and at the foot of the mountains that bordered Wambe's territory. Also I heard a very ill report of thi$ worthy himself, who lived in a kraal upon the side of thp mountain which was so strongly fortified as to be practically impregnable. It was said that he was the most, cruel chief in this pnrt of Africa, and that he had murdered in cold blood an entire party of English gentlemen who some seven years before had gone into his country to hunt elephants. They had an old friend of mine with them as guide. John Every by name, and often had I mourned over his untimely death-. All the same. Wambc or no Wamhe. I determined to hunt elephant in his country. I never was afraid of natives, and I was not going to show the white feather now. I am a bit of a fatalist, as you fel lows know, so I camp to the conclusion that if it was fated that Wain be should send me to join my old friend John Every I should have to go, and there was an end of it. Meanwl/ile I meant to hunt elephant with a peaceful heart. On the third day from the date of our sighting the great peak wo found ourselves beneath its mighty shadow. Still following the course of the river which wound through the foresls at the base of the peak, we nearcd the territory of the redoubtable TVamhe. This, however, was not accomplished without a certain difference of opinion between my bearers and myself, for when we reached the spot where Warnhe's boundary was supposed to run the bearers sat down and emphatically refused to go a step farther. I sat down. too. and argued with ihein. putting my fatalistic views before them as well as I was able. But I could not persuade them to look at the matter in the same light. "At present," they said, "their skins ? " "> St'hAln. if WAYlt irtfA Wnm. WiJUiU, iX 14IVJ "vwt ituv be's country without his leave they would soon be like a water eaten leaf. "It was very well for me to say that that would be late. "Fate 110 doubt might be walking about in Wambe's country, but while they stopped outside they would not meet liim." "Well," I said to Gobo, my headman, "and what do you mean to do?" "Wo mean to go back the coast, Maoumazahn."' lie answered, insolently. "Do you!" I replied, for my bile was stirred. "At any rate. Mr. Gobo. you and one or two others will never get there. "See here, my friend." and I look a repeating rifle and sat myself comfortably down, resting my back agaiust a tree (To be continued.) " No Surprise# in Dreams. No one is over surprised in a dream. A man dreaming is at one moment bathing in the sea and at the next moment soaring in a balloon; but tbe sudden and inexplicable change does not surprise him. Nor is lie surprised to meet in the flesh friends long dead; nor is he surprised tn find himself doing deeds that" really are beyond him, as -winning llie iove of notable beauties. or knocking out champion lieavyweights, or besting in debate Senator Beveridge or Senator Tillman. The reason is that dreamers hare sa memory. In real life to be pursued through the streets by a lion would be astonishing; but this accident would be accepted in a dream as horrible, but quite commonplace, the memory not being there to say that it is unheard of for lions to pursue one in cities. In the same way. in dreams, men a re not surprised to find themselves ballnmiin!' liernusp tliev don't remember that thr-y were never up in a balloon before, and they are not surprised to find themselves conversing with dead people, because they don't remember that these people are dead ?New York Tress. ObaerTRtions From aTourift, Citizens of Atchison do not realize the great number of people who travel from place to place, seeking recreation and amusement. Most of the malr travelers are.old: a few of the women are young?not more than one in twenty. It is very unusual to find a young man traveling: the bulk of the travelers are oid men looking for rest and relief from business cares, or foi health, and most of the eideriy men art accompanied by elderly women.?Ed Howe, in Atchison Globe. i n VWVA^ W\^/Wl-VVVVVVVW/W ii D-t--* I- (? +a ^il |*| lobular ^cf&qce fe| XCX r? * Sba/ ___ *** J(VP;)fs M/WA?1AMWVWI\IVUVWM? TlOIOr The Government are having gasolene engines put in some of their new life boats. These boats arc built in New Jersey. The Louisiana State Home for Lepers is said to have cured nine patients of the drea*J disease by a new treatment, which may prove to be the boon for which suffering centuries have waited. San Francisco's earthquake was felt and duly registered by the seismograph of the Zikawei observatory, near Shanghai, China. The perturbation wa:? rather strong, and the commotion propagated through the earth's crust lasted a little over one hour and thirty-five minutes. Pontypol, England, is anxious about the electric cable that runs through the town. The corporation surveyor asserts that several horses have taken fright owing to the electric current catching their shoes and throwing them on their haunches. A town councilor said the streets were "full of currents," and that "the town might be blown up at any moment." E. F. Bobrich utters a warning in regard to lie danger from bacilli in the mouthpieces of telephones in which lurk the bacteria of influenza, pneumonia, diphtheria and tuberculosis. His tests show that the coatings of the mouthpieces contain many species of bacteria and he urges that the health departments compel the telephone companies to furnish antiseptic devices to destroy germs in the transmitters. Alcohol is used in the manufacture of transparent soap, as a solvent for clarifying. Transparent soap is made by mixing fat and soda to form a soap | mixture in the usual manner. Alcohol is then added and an emulsion formed by violent agitation, thus bringing the alcohol into contact with every particle of soap. The alcohol is then allowed to evaporate and the now transparent soap is run into melds and pressed into the shapes in which it is Eold. Typhoid fever deaths in New York State numbered 1554 during 1905, according to the report of Dr. Eugene H. Porter, State Commissioner of Health. Dr. Porter says that it is no exaggeration to attribute almost every one of these deaths to infected water. While there may be some doubts as to this statement, unquestionably many of the deaths were so caused, and there is no doubht that his recommendations for a better sanitary control of the potable water of the State should be heeded. He recommends legislation "providing that all plans for public water supplies be approved by the State Commissioner of Health, and also to secure inspection of proposed and exist ing sewer systems and water supplies." MEN WHO LIVE ON STILTS. Turpentine Gatherers and . Sheep Herders of Par>; of France. The people live on sixteen foot stilts in the remarkable turpentine growing country of France.. They don these stilts after breakfast. They do not remove them again till it is time lor oea. There are two reasons for the wearing of stilts in the turpentine country. One is the turpentine gathering* The other is the herding of the great flocks. The turpentine comes from the maritime pine. This tree is tapped, a sbingle is inserted, and from the shingle is hung a tiny bucket, into which the turpentine drips. Th3 tapping process is like that used on the American sugar maple. Young pine trees are tapped low, but with each year's passage the incision is made higher up, so that it is not long; before most of the trees are tapped twenty or thirty feet from the ground. Hence the huge stilts of the workmen. On these stilts they traverse the flat country, covering five or si:: yards with each stride, and quickly and easily collect the turpentine that overflows the little buckets hanging hitrh ud in the trees. It is for herding also that the stilts are useful. The country is very fiat, and the herdsman, unless ho continually climbed a tree, would he unable to keep all the members of his huge flock in sight. But, striding about on his stilts, he commands a wide prospect; he is always, as it were, upon a hill. The stilt wearer- carry a fifteen foot staff with a rouud, flat top like a dinner jnate. When it is lunch time, or v.'hen they arc tired they ' plant upright uudef them the staff and sit down on its round, flat top. Then in comfort seated so dizzily high, they eat and rest and chatter ?a strange sight to behold.?New Orleans Times-Democrat. t New Spellings. The twelve words which the school superintendent's department of the National Educational Association convention advise should he given uew spoiling in the schools of the Unite.! Stale-: are liaise: "Red" for read. Tuf" for tough. "Kuf" for rough. "Tung" for tougue. "Yung* for young. "Enul" for enough. Truuf" for trough. "Tlinie" for througb. "Fetber" for feather. "Mesure" for measure. Plcsure" for plen.sure. 'Buziness*' for business. George Meredith, it is saiil, will write no more novels. Though both legs were fractured in an accident some months ago, he is, when his age is considered, making what seems to be surprising progress. 1 THE GREAT DESTROYEf some; startling facts aboit THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. 1 Thanked the Lord For What Re Lost. The following speech, which Is quoted in "Weapons for Temperance Warfare," was made by a reformed drunkard at a temperance meeting: "J have been thinking since I came into the meeting to-night about the losses I have met with since I signed thetemperance pledge. I tell you there is net a man in the society who haa lost more by stopping drink than I have. Wait a bit till I tell you what J mean. There was a nice job of work to be done in the shop to-day and the boss called for me. 'Give it to Law,' says he: 'he's the best hand in the shop.' "Well. I told my wife at supper time, and she says, 'Why, Lawrie, he used to call you the worst! You've lost your bad name, haven't you?' " That's a fact.wife,' says T, 'and It ain't all I've lost in the last six months, either. 7 had poverty and wretchednei-s. and I've lost them. 1 had an old ragged coat and a shockin' bad hat. and some waterproof hoots that let the wet out at the toes as fast s they took it in at the heels. I've lost them. 1 had a red face and a trembling hand, and a pair of shaky legs that gave me an awful tumble now and then. I had a habit of cursing and swearing, and I've got rid of that. I had an aching head and a heavy heart, and, worse than all the rest. a. guilty conscience. I thank. God I've lost them all!' "Then I told my wife what sne had lost. 'You had an old ragged gown. Mary.' says I, 'and you had trouble an:l sorrow, and a poor, wretched home and plenty of heartaches. for you had a miserable drunkard for a husband. Mary! Mary! thank the Lord for al! that you and ]-have lost since T signed rhe Gcod Samaritan Pledge!'" Wen By a Letter. Tp a discourse on one occasion, discussing the reasons why the liquorsaloons should be closed on Sunday, writes the Rev. Louis Albert Banks, 1 stated that the great army of bartenders ought at, least to have one day in seven to remember that they were something more than purveyors to the self-indulgent habit of others: that surely they needed, as much as anyone, one day in the week to recall their duty to God. This discourse was printed in the pacers of the city, and that week a bartender wrote nre a very thankful letter, giving me a number of instances out of his own experience to show how hard was his position, and telling me how he loathed the business, but that he did not know how to get out o? it. 1 answered his letter kindly, and asked him to call to see me. He came to see me, and expressed great, surprise that I should take such an interest in him. I found him a gcod, straightforward fellow, who had got into this bad business because he had been a long time out of work, and felt that he must do something to keep him from starving. 1 had a long talk with him, and he decided to give up his business, and did so that very day. He found anotheV position in the course of a few days, at good, honest work, and a few weeks late:- united with the church. The last timev I saw him he said. "It was your kind letter. reached out to me like a loving hand, that pulled me out of the saIood." The "Thunderer" Speaks Giif. The London Times ;s not generally accounted as a temperance journal. yet in a reccnt article it says: "The whole question really turns upon the consciousness that alcoholic drinks satisfy some kind of temporary want, or produce some temporary comfort or exnilnration. It may be stated as an opinion on which most, if not all. physiologists are agreed, that alcohol contributes nothing to the permanent powers of the healthy organism., whether physical or intellectual. No man. it is said, is the stronger for taking it, and no man is the wiser. The experience of insurance offices seems to palce it beyond doubt, that even the moderate regular use of alcohol, in any form, is contributory to the shortening of life. When these views conic to oc i<iiny udmut^u against, temporary' gratification of the palate, or temporary stimulation of the brain, they will be likely to lead, not to a single wave of sobrifetv. but to a gradual change in the habits of the more intelligent portion of mankind. A Bottomless Pit. A sneaker told us of his throwing a s:re?t stone down "The Bottomless Pit-' in Luray Cavern.' writes Margaret Meredith. For some time he could hear it strike the sides as it bounded back and forth; then nothing more was heard, but one knew that it was otill going down. Thus it is with drink; we hear of the miseries of a drunkard's children, but wo can not estimate the bittei results going on. on. for grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as they pursue the courses natural to a family thoroughly started out in ra- "rism. drink and degradation. No Cause For Strike. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers have dont a good work lor temperance by refusing to sanction a strike of three hundred skilled men on account of the discharge of a pnddler for going into a saloon during the working hours. This holds up the hands of emnlovers in their efforts to repress drinking by 1 h*?l : employes. Temperance Notes. The saloon instead of being a social necessity is a breeder of social disease The saloon is Satan's recruiting sta tion, the gamblers' haven is the front door to hell. A movement has been started in France to introduce a law there stop piny tlie manufacture iiud sale of absiuthe. The Belgian Parliament has almost (luaui xiously appro vet I the law forbiddins the ?alp and manufacture of ab siiitiic iu Belgium. Captain Schutz. of the Fourteentii Bavarian Infantry. at Nuremberg, has been combatting alcohol with soda water and lemonade. The consumption of beer, during the first year, fell oil KMX) gallon?, and his regiment was uotioeabiy fresher and brighter in the instruction classe' United Slates Ccr.s:?T Brittain at Keh!. Germany, reports that one of the results of efforts n;<r;de to secura absolute safet> on ailroads in the empire has been to give railroad employes coffee o. non-alcoholic drinks, to take the place of the beer and spirits that, ones were popular. Efficiency has increased, accidents iiave decreased. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ?? - V INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 29. a Subject: Jasqs Dlneo With a Pliarl?ee, Lnke xIt., 1.14?Golden Text, Luke xlv., 11?Memory Ver Bee, 13. 14?Topic: The Believer's Social Unties?Commentary 1. The true idea of Sabbath observance (vs. 1-6). 1. "Chief Pharisees." It I has been suggested that this man may have been a member of the Sanhedrin with a country home in Perea. "To eat bread." Our Lord had no home and, when He was invited to dine, it was as proper for Him to go on the i Sabbath as on any other day. 'They were watching Him." R. V. were maliciously "^.itching Him. 2. "A certain man." This man may have been brought there by the Phar: isee in order to test Christ. "Before Him." Before the company had taken seats at the table. "Dropsy." A disease in which the body or some part of it is tilled with water. 3. "Jesu? answering spake." Jesus knew they were deceptive, and He was ready to meet them. "The lawyers." The teachers of the law who were present. "1$ it lawful," etc. They are in a dilemma; as lawyers they ought to know, but if they answered in the affirmative they would endorse Christ and His work, while to answer in the negative would be to show their lack of love and lay themselves liable to a charge similar to that given in chapter 13:15. It was seriously argued that to walk upon the grass with nailed shoes was a violation of the Sabbatb. 4. "Held their peace." Unable to condemn, unwilling to concede. But such silance was our Lord's complete public Justification. If the contemplated mirrcle was unlawful why did not these i frrosit rpiiirinns authorities forbid it "Took him." Took held of him (Luke 20:20; 1 Tim. 6:12). "Healed him." Showing the opinion of Jesus as to healing on the Sabbath day. "Let him go." Dismissed him and turned back to the Pharisees, -whose sanctimonious hatred -was worse than this poor man's disease. 5. "Fallen into a pit." Jesus silences them completely by calling attention to the fact that they on the Sabbath day would have mercy on a beast in distress. Read Matt. 12:10-13; Luke 13:14-17. 6. "Could not answer Him." Silent, but not convinced. The question Avas unanswerable. If they would deliver an ox or an ass from a pit on the Sabbath, by what reason or common sense could they say it was wicked to save a man from his affliction? II. A parable of humility (vs. 7-11). 7. "A parable." The selfish struggle for precedence as they were taking their places at the table gave Jesus an opportunity to teach a lesson in humility. "When He marked." Nothing escr-fies tbe eye of the Lord. "How they chose out." To take the highest place when it is not our due is public vanity; to obstinately refuse it when offered, is another instance of the same vice, though private and concealed. "Tbe chief rooms." The chief seats. R. V. The guests reclined on couches around the table which formed three sides of a hollow square. On each side there were three places, '?ne miaaie piuce was the most honorable. 8. "Bidden?to a wedding." He speaks of a "marriage feast".(R. V.) because the rules of procedure would be more carefully insisted upon. "Sit not down." The pride that apes humility violates the spirit of this teaching. 9. "H*e that bade." The host who has authority to decide the matter. "With shame." Sooner or later pride will have a fall. 10. "In the lowest room." The high place was occupied very briefly; the lowest place was permanent. "Go up higher." The way to rise is to begin low. What Christ commanded He Himself did. "Thea shalt thou have worship." "Have glory." R. V. Have reverence, respcct and honor in the presence of the company. 11. "Whosoever exalteth," etc. Now follows the great principle illustrated by this parable. Humility is the passport to promotion in the kingdom of God. The one who is proud and seeks to be honored above others, shall be abased, or humbled, both by God and man. III. A lesson on our duty to the poor (vs. 12-14). 12. "Call not thy friends." The second parable Is to the host. It is a sharp rebuke on account of a fault which is almost always committed in the choice of guests. "Nor thy rich neighbors." "He that giveth to the rich shall surely come to want" (Prov. 22:16). 13. "Call the poor." Feasts to the j poor are not forbidden. Ho that giveth I to the poor lendeth to tbe ix>rd. What I the Saviour here commends to others He has Himself fulfilled in the most illustrious manner. 14. "Shalt be blessed." The poor who h.ive been fed will bless tliec, nnd so will the Lord. "Resurrection of the just." There is to be a future state, wc are all hastening on toward the resurrection. At that time God will reward those wbo have done gcod, for His sake, without the hope of any earthly recompense. Subway For Pedestrians. A network of subways for the use of pedestrians only is proposed for Paris. The idea is to allow the construction ol' a subway to connect the Odeon Theatre with the underground railway. The application was granted, and tbe managers of other theatres and big department stores followed with similar requests, which were all granted. It is now contemplated tc link these subways and create a system of underground footways in those parts of the city which are most obstructed by vehicular traffic. Japanese immigrants tiarrea. Mr. Zeddou is determined that the "little brown men" must be kept out of New Zealand at all costs. In his latest speech in the British Parliament he said he had no desire to offend in any way the national susceptibilities of the Japanese, but Nerv Zealand's racial purity must be preserved, and this could only be done by pre' venting Asiatics, whether subjects of ' King Edward or of tlie Mikado, from coining into the colony in such nuin1 bers as to constitute a real menace. Clam Digger Finds Monster Pearl. A poor clam digger of Ellsworth, 1 Wis., working in the Mississippi River, found what is believed to he the largest pearl ni the world. It weighs eighty-five grains. William 1 Bates and wife were dragging for ' clams and brought up a small haul, in which Mrs. Bates quickly discov| ered the pearl . It is as round as a marble, and will probably sell for about $100,000. Kfi.il> <inr rli?. (,iir|\ts. A bibulous gentleman tit Norwood, W. ! Va.. forgot to put out tlie light wlien i lie went to bed. Ruther tlmn get up i again be shot the light out in the approved Western style of twenty-five years ago. The lamp exploded, the ' house burned up, $20,000 worth of property was destroyed, and the man i was cremated, _ . * QUJET^tS^tt. CHRIST'S PRESENCE. . , Still. still with Thee, when purple znorninf breaketh; When the bird waketh, and the shadow# flee; Fairer than morning, lovelier than the day* light, I Dawns the ewoet consciousness, I an* with Thee. ; v Alone with Thee, amid the mystifl shadows, The solemn hush of nature newly born? Alone with Thee in breathless adoration. In the calm dew and freshness of tli0 .morn. . : * \ When sinks the soul, subdued by toil, tfl slumber, Its closing eyes look up to Thee in prayer; Sweet the repose, beneath Thy wings o'ir< shadowing. But sweeter still to wake and find Thee there. _ Ob, shall it be at last in that bright H morning, When the soul waketh and life's shadow* flee?? Oh, in that hour,, and fairer than day1* dawning, Shall riae the glorious thought, I ami i with Thee! ?Harriet Beecner Stowe. , Th? Brighter Side ?f Life, All things were created by Him.? Col., i., 16. 9 # ... - ?, xt.i i-i. / 4 r>y nun ail uuuga cuuwei.?vui., ^ 17. The teaching of these words is that! the world in which we are is God-made and God-cared-for. It is a thought that should give a very bright look to life* Granted there are harsh things here-M the drought, the cyclone, the earthquake. For a full understanding of these things we will have to wait until we pass into a higher room and hav?^ more light. r>;T/ Meanwhile we should see that there1Is another side to life and that it fc? much the larger side. There are more sparkling springs in the earth than malarial swamps: more flowers in the fields than nettlen; more song birds Id the trees than croaking ravens. Tty? world is full of good we could have gotten along without. There need not have been anything like thfe variety that there is in fruits, nuts and food*: There need not have been such profuse beauty as there is in flowers, wood and precious stones. There need not have be?n such sweet sounds as corae Troro musical instrument, human voice* or bird's sone. It isn't simply life, but bappj life, tLat bas been provided foiyl: Ibe great thought of nature is najfe';" how little will do, but how much can . be used. Even things which sometimes dfl? harm often do more good. Electrldtjp does much mischief. It strokes the. bouse and burns it to the ground. It, strikes the innocent inmates and prostrates in death. But what is all thi? compared with the good it does in purifying the atmosphere, lighting one Etreets, driving our cars and bringing every part of the earth into dose touch! with each other? Fire is dangerous Rnd sometimes does much evil. It destroys valuable property and cause? great loss of life. But from this same thing we get almost infinite gopd. . Think of what it does for us in foundry and factory, on railroad train and steamboat, in place of business and '' place of living. Water also is danger-/ ous and causes not a little suffering. ? I^ /IATtm ?n fni?T?Anf o on/1 fniilPOfl 1 L LVUiCO UUYYJJ Hi IV/ 11V.AJIO uuu Kijutvv the growing crop. It swells the stream* and breaks the dam, wrecking houses" by the score and smiting in deatli by, the hundred. At the same time water / i is one of the greatest blessings that, we hnve. What is true of these things is true of others. Under certain circumstances they do great harm. But the good which they are capable of doing, and which every day finds them doing, is far in excess of the harm. Many ills of the material world have nlready disappeared and others are i sure to go. Manual labor is a much ) easier thing than it was before laborsaving machinery was invented". & severe winter is nothing like what it was before the coming of the furnace or steam heater. To be called to live ? tar away from those we love is not so bad as it once was, now that we have the fast mail and the long distance telephone. The sick room has beett made into a different place from what it used to be, comforts have greatly,. multiplied and the physician is able to restore to health in many instances ? u?" lirtlnlAPft Cn/>li fnnfd 1ylitre ue ivuj uucc uci^icn. uuu ought to make it easy to believe that we are in a world Christ-made and Cbrist-cared-foi. The belief should do great good. It flhould lead to the feeling that every spot of ground upoa tvhich we tread is in the divine domain, that during every moment of life wa ' are in good hands.?Pleasant Hunter, Pastor Fourth Presbyterian Church, in the New York Suudav fJp'-aU). The Time in Short. Oh, my dear friends, you who are letting miserable misunderstanding* run on from year to year; you who aap < keeping wretched quarrels aiive h!? cause you cannot quite make up mind that now is the day to sacrifice ( your pride and kill thorn; you who are ! passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them, out of some silly [ spite, and yet knowing that it would j fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead to-morrow morning; you who are letting your neighbor starve till yon I hear that he is dying ot starvation^ oc letting your friend's heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy | which you mean to give some day?if ! you could know, arid see, and feel all of a sudden that "the time is short,*' how it would break the spell! how you would yo instantly and do the thing which you might never have another chance to do!?Phillips Brooks. The Scheme of Temptation. There hath no temptation taken yoo but such as mar, can bear; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to bo tempted above that ye are able; bnt will with ihe temptation make also the way of escsine, that ye may be able to.ennure it. Leave to Serve. I rriiot ,i.. Ti-B n?k- of life hprp. or il>? deed, hereafter, but leave to serve, to commune villi ourselves and our fellow men. and from the lap of the earUr I to look up into the face of God. * Warships to Salute Mount Vernon. All vessels of the ntfcy will salutfl Mount Vernon, where the tomb of Genera! Washington is located, on their way up and down the Potomac River. President Itoosevelt issued the order. A bugler will sound "taps,"' the ship's bell will be tolled and the marines on duty vi ill staud at present arms. Japanese in Texas. Plans have been perfected for thd colonization of several thousand Japinese in Southwestern Texas, 250,000 acres of land having been acquired. % V xi ? *3