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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
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3REATEST ADVENTURE.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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THE GREAT DESTROYEf
some; startling facts aboit
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
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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
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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, _
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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.
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