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MAIWA'S OR ALLAN QUATER'MAIN'S Gl By H. RIDER Authorvf "She"King & -? ? -H CHAPTER II. o Continued. 1 The bnllet struck true and Tvith a thud he dropped his great head upon . the ground, groaned and died. This little matter having been at- . tended to, I, with the assistance of Gobo, who had now found his feet, went on to extricate our unfortunate ^ companion from the aloe busl). ^ This we found a thorny task, but at last he was dragged forth uninjured. t though in a very pious and prayerful K frame of mind. j His "spirit had certainly looked that j way," he said, or he would now have been dead. As I never iike to interfere with true Dietv. I did not venture to suceest that h'? spirit hart deigned to make use of my eight-bore in his interest. Having dispatched this boy back to ? the camp to teil the bearers to come and cut that buffalo up, I bethought . me that I owed that rhinoceros a . grudge "which I should love to repay. j Sv, without saying a word of what x was in my inj*ul to Gobo, who was nowmore than ever convinced that fate r walked about loose in Wambe's coun- j try, I just followed on his spoor. . He had crashed through the bush till he reached the little glade. Then, moderating his pace some- ^ what, he had followed the glade down its entire length, and once more turned to the right, through the forest, shaping his course for the open land that lies between the edge of the bush and the river. ^ Having followed him for a mile or so j farther, I found myself quite on the c open. I took out my glass and searched the plain. About a mile ahead was something brown?as I thought, the rhinoceros. I g iidvauced another quarter of a mile and ,. looked once more?it was not the rbi- ^ ? noceros, but a big ant-heap. This was puzzling, but I did not like to give it up, because I knew from his j spoor that he must be somewhat ahead. ^ 4 But as the wind was blowing straight from me toward the line that he had ^ . lonoweu, ana as a rninoceros can smeu ^ 3'ou for about a mile, it -would not, I ^ felt, be safe to follow bis spoor any farther. , - > s So I made a detour of a mile and more, until nearly opposite the antlirap; then ooce more searched the ^ plain. jj It "was no good; I could see nothing j( of him, and was about to give it up p and start after some oryx I saw in the distance, when suddenly, at a dis- |, tance of about three hundred yards ^ from the ant-lieap. and on its farther side, I saw my rhino stand up in a patch of giass. jj, Heavens!'' I thought to myself, u "he's off again." p But no: after standing staring for a t( mirnite or two, he once more lay down. Now I found myself in a quandary. g As you know, a rhinoceros is a very short-sighted brute; indeed, his sight ? is as bad as his scent is good. Of this fact he is perfectly aware, e but he always makes the iuost of his j, natural gifts. (l For instance, when he lies down he jj invariably does^so with li:s head down wind. t, Thus if any enemy crosses his wind. 0 Jie 'will still be able to escape or at- t! tack him. and if. on the other hand, the dunger approaches up wind, he will at j Jeast have a chance of seeing it. tj Otherwise one might, by walking del- ? icatelv. actually kick him up like a partridge if only the advance was 2 inade up wind. Well, tlie point was how on earth ,T should I get within shot of this rlii- 'c noceros. d After much deliberation I determined to try a side advance, thinking that I a ' might so get a shoulder shot. r Accordingly we started in a crouch- a ing attitude, I first, Gobo holding 011 to my coat-tails, and the other boy d -on to Gobo's mooclia. o I always adopt this plan when stalk- 11 ing big game, for if you follow any h other system the bearers will get out of line. ii We got to within three hundred yards c right enough, and then the real difficul- b ties began. The grass had been so closely eaten t \ ore by game that there was scarcely any cover. c< Consequently it was necessary to go v on our hands and knees, which in my t case in volved laying down the eight- r bore at every step and then lifting it up again. However. I wriggled along somehow, e and if it had not been for Gobo and his ii friend no doubt everything would have t gone well. But as you have, I dare say. oh- r served, a native out stalking is always of that mind which is supposed to ac- 1< tuate an octrieh. f So long as his head is hidden he n seems to think that nothing else can be seen. a So it was in this instance; Gobo and r the otlier boy crept along on their hands and toes, with their heads well r down. but. though unfortunately I did c not notice it till too late, bearing the s fundamental portions of their frames liiph in the air. f Now all animals are quite as sus- li picious of this er.d of mankind as c they are oi his face, and of this fact 1 soon had a proof. t Just when we had pot witbin about s two hundred yards, and I was con- a gratulatin/ myself that I had not had r this long crawl, with the sun beating on the back of my neck like a fur- .1 nace. all for nothing, I heard the hiss- s ing notes of the rhinoceros birds, ?nd ii up flew four or five of them from j t'ae brute's back, where they had been comfortably employed in catching c ticks. 1 Now this performance on the part of the birds is to a rhinoceros what tiie s word "cave" is to a schoolboy; it puts I him 011 the qui vive at once. Before the birds were well in the fcir 2 saw the grass stir. s f reveng! : <? REATEST ADVENTURE, r*r HAGGARD. 'olomon's Mines," Etc. "Down you go!" X whispered to t soys, and as I did so the rhinocei jot up and glared suspiciously aroui But he could see nothing; indei f we had been standing up I doubt le would have seen us at that d a nee. 80 he merely gave two or three snil itid then lay down, his head still do\ vind, the birds once more settling lis back. But it was clear to me that he w keeping with one eye open, and g< rally in a suspicious and uncbristi 'rnme of mind, and that it was u: e.ss to proceed farther 011 that sta io we quietly withdrew to consider t >osition and study the ground. The results were not satisfactory. j 11 ere was ?iusuiuiei,y uu w*?- siuv. 'xcept the ant-heap, which "was soi hree hundred yards from the rliiu< ros upon his up-wind side. I knew that if I tried to stalk h n front I should fail, and so I shoi f I attempted to do so from t arther side; he or the birds would s ue. So I came to a conclusion: I wov :o to the ant-heap, which would gi iim my wind, and instead of stalki lim I would let him stalk me. It was a bold step, and one whici hould never advise a hunter to tnl >ut somehow I felt as though rhi md I must play the hand out. I explained my intentions to the ro< vho both<held up their hands in h< or. Their fears for my safety were a 1 lc mitigated, however, when I tc hem that I did not expect them ome tv itil me. Gobo breathed a prayer that I mig iot meet fate "walking about, and t ther one sincerely trusted that r pirit might look my way when t hinoceros charged, and then they bo leparted to a place of safety. Taking my eight-bore and half lozen spare cartridges in my pocki made a detour, and reaching the ai teap in safety. lay down. For a moment the wind had droppi mt presently a gentle puff of < iassed over me and blew on towa he rhinoceros. By the way. I wonder what it is th mells so strong about a man? Is it his body or his breath? 1 utivtr licvci urcu uuic iv ixiunc ui ut I saw somewhere the other di Lint in the duck decoys the man wJ i working the ducks holds a litl iece of burning turf before his ruout nd if lie does this they cannot smi iin, which looks as though it were tl reatb. Well, whatever it was about me th ttracted his attention the vhinocer oon smelled me, and within half linute after the puff of wind hi assed he was up and turning roui 3 get his head up wind. There he stood for a few seconds ai niffed, and then Ld began to mov rst of all at a trot, then, as the see rew stronger, at a furious gallop. On he came, snorting like a runawi iiffine, with his tail stuck straight i i the air; if lie bad seen me lie do^ liere, lie could not Lave made a bett ne. It was ratlier nervous work, I ci *11 you, lying there waiting for h nslaught, for he looked like a mou lin of flesh. I determined, however, not tc fire t could plainly see his eye, for I thii liat rule always gives one the rig istance for big game. So I rested my rifle on the ant-he: nd waited for him, kneeling. At last, when he was about for ards away, 1 saw that the time hi ome, and aiming straight for the mi le of the chest. I pulled. Thud went the heavy bullet.and wi Tremendous snuri over ruueu u hinoceros beneath its shock, just iil shot rabbit. But if I had thought that he w one for I "was mistaken, for in a thcr second he was up ;ind coming le as hard as ever, only with his lies eld low. I waited till he was w.ithin ten yar<: iv the hope that lie would expose li host, but he would do nothing of tl ort. So T just had to lire at his head wi be loft barrel, and tnke my chance. Well, as luck would have it. ourse, tiie animal put his horn in tl ray of the bullet, -which cut tie: hrough it about two inches above tl oot. and then glanced off into space. After that things ;#ot rather seriov My gun was empty and the rhinc ros was rapidly arriving?so rapid! udeed. that I came to the conelusii hat 1 had better make way for him. Accordingly I jumped to my feet ai an to the right as hard as I could ? As I did so he arrived full ti nocked my friendly ant-heap flat, ai or the second time that day went uost magnificent oropper. This gave me a few seconds' sta: ml I riin down wind?my word. I d llll. Unfortunately, however, my modf etreat was observed, and the rhinc ros, as soon as iie {rot his legs ngai et to work to run alter roe. Now r.o man on earth can run ast as an irritated rhinoceros can g; op. and I knew that he must so atcli me up. But having some slight experience his sort of thing, I. luckily for ir elf. kept my head, and as I tied I ma .god to open my rifle, get the okl ca idges out and put two fresh ones ii To do this I had to steady my pa i little, and by the time that I h napped the rifle to I heard him sno g and thundering away within a ft >aces of my back. I stopped, and as I did so rapic oeked the rifle and slewed round ny lieel. By this time the brute was witi; six or seven yards of me, but luck >is head was up. I lifted t!.*> rifle and fired at liim. It was a snap shot, but the bul struck him in the chest within thr t f / ^ inches of the first, and found its way I . into his lungs. ^ It did not stop liim, however, so all j < j I could do was to bound to one sidv. j f which I did with surprising activity, j and as he brushed past roe fire the J cfher barrel into his side. That did for him. ^ The bail passed in behind the shoulder and right through his heart. 1 He fell over on to hfs side, gave one 1 most awful squeal?a dozen pigs could not have made such a noise?and ^ promptly died, keeping his wicked eyes ^ wide oprn all the time. il As for me, I biew my nose, and going * jje up to the rhinoceros, sat on his head, 0 ,os and reflected that I had had a capital 1 morning's shooting. ?d, if CHAPTER III. < is. TIIE FIRST ROUND. After this, as it was now midday, s Ist and I had killed enough meat, we vn inarched back triumphantly to camp, J on "where I proceeded to concoct a stew 1 of buffalo beef and compressed vege- j as table. ?n- When this was done, we ate the stew, ( an and then I had a nap. } se- About 4 o'clock, however. Gobo "woke 1 Ik; me up, and told me tb,it the headman 1 lie of one of Wambe's kraals had arrived to see me. * ? I ordered him to be brought up, and i j mt presently he came, a little, wizened, Tie talkative old man, with a -waistcloth '< jc- round his middle, and a greasy, frayed I kaross mado of the skins of rock rab- < im bits over his shoulders. ,i ild I told him to sit down, and then 't he abused him roundly. |1 ee "What do you mean." I asked, "by j < disturbing me in this rude way? ! ild "How did he dare to cause a person :c ve of my quality and evident importance ( ng to be awakened In order to interview. ; his entirely contemptible self?" i I I spoke thus bocause I knew that it t ce, would produce an impression on him. 1 no Nobody except a really great maD, it he would argue, would dare to speak to i m, iim in that fashion. i )r- Most savages are desperate bullies < at heart, and look on insolence as a i] it- fiicn of rower. 1 Id The old man instantly collapsed. '1 to He was utterly overcome, lie said; '.i his heart was split in two, and well .< ht realized the extent of liis misbehavior. ] he But the occasion was very urgent. \ ny He heard that a mighty hunter was j he in the neighborhood, a beautiful white ] th man?how beautiful he could not have i imagined had he not seen?(this to me!) f a ?and he came to beg his assistance. j et, The truth was that three bull ele- j it- phants such as no man ever saw had j for years been the terror of their kraal, j ?d, which was but a small place, a cattle s lir kraal of the great chief Wambe, where j rd they lived to keep the cattle. 'j And now of late these elephants had c at done them much damage, but last night ( they had destroyed a whole patch of j n. i___i 1 i,? thnt -if mealie lium, uuu uc iwiw umv < it, they came back they would nil starve iy next season for want of food, lio Would the mighty white man then :le be pleased to come and kill the eleh. phnnts? ?11 It would be easy for him to do?oh, lie most easy! It was only necessary that he should at hide himself in a tree, for there was a os full moon, and then when the elephants a appeared he would speak to thein with id the gun, and they would fall down id (lead, and there would be an end of their troubling. id Of course, I hummed and hawed and e, made a great favor of consenting to nt this proposal, though really I was de- j lighted to have a chance. c ly One of the conditions that I made p ip was that a messenger should at once j .Tn be dispatched to Wambe. whose kraal t er was two days' journey from where I c was, telling him that I proposed to j m come and pay my respects to him in a ( lis few days, and to ask his formal per- t u- mission to shoot in his country. j Also I intimated that I was prepared ^ ill to present him with "bongo;" that is. ^ ik blackmail, and that I hoped to do a ht little trade with' him in ivory, of which I heard he had a great quantity. t lp This message the old gentleman promsied to dispatch at once, though ! r ty there was something about his manner j * td which showed me that he was doubt* j d- ful as to how it would be received. | 8 After that we struck our camp, and J th moved on to the kraal, which we j lie reached about an hour before sunset. | 6 ke This kraal was a collection of huts \ 1 surrounded by . a slight thorn fence; j ? as perhaps there were ten of them in all. ^ n- It was situated in a kloof of the ^ at mountain, with a rivulet flowing down id it. :l (To be continued.) s Is T . ' The Coatllest Cane*. , US - * ! ke "A single joint malacea cane will al- i ways fetch from $400 to $500," said the c U, dealer. "Malacca hardly ever grows E with enough space between the joints j8 of to make a single joint stick. Usually i l1(> the joints are not more than a foot c ln apart. When you find in Singapore? f 111jit is where malacea comes from?a ^ UP - piece of malacca with the joints five 1!? feet apart, so that it will make a single )C. joint stick, come to me and I will give t y you .$500 for it. j ou' "Malacca sticks with tie joints three I feet apart are worth $30 or $40. Snake- ! |Kl wood sticks, if they are marked well? 1 ,0 snakewood comes from Tritish Guiana s? lt) ?are worth $40 or $30. A yellow ebu(j ony stick?ebony comcs to us in logs a a from Ce.vloti and Mauritius?is worth n $20 or $25. Wanghee, from China, f makes an excellent and costly stick? * a perfect wanghee is wortu $20. Some men tarry canes of rhinoceros horn. ^ These cost from $100 apiece on up. r "The wood for canes comes to us - - 'V.ij) from all parts of the world. Myrtle, L olive and orange eonie from Algiers. * ns Bamboo comes from Singapore. Rataj. tau comes from Singapore. Gnie-gnie fi on comes from Mauritius."?New York Press. s of 1 Seek to Cure Deafness. f n. In a London hospit.-.l wave siren is s rt. used to test what sounds a deaf person a hears. Wlieu ouce it is discovered b ce th.it a certain note is not heard or only fi a(] heard indistinctly a tuniug fork of this rt. note is selected, and an attempt is h ,w made to stimulate the muscle and to b arouse the nerve. If the tuning fork is a - - < Uj. not sufficient, tne souuu is juwwom u 01) by iue^ns of a resonator. c A small bag of camphor gum kept ^ "n in ?i drawer or cupboard will drive ' :'-v away red ants. The Greut Salt Lake, in Utah, is now let crossed by a trestle bridge over twenty ci eo miles long. ^ Hi pi igopul^gefsqoegl I VVlAWtVl'VVVWW'WVV'VlW'V Dr. Tli. Mortensen, of *thc Zooogical Museum of Copenhagen, is 6 n Washington to study the fish in he National Museum. The trials of electric locomotives within the Simplon tunnel have ? ;iven a speed of forty-three and p :hree-quarter miles an hour, 'which b .vould reduce the passage through ii .0 about seventeen minutes. 6 k The rangs of years over which A lancer is likely to occur is practi- # rally the same in both sees?forty- g iix-sixty-four?but the mean age of g ncidence of the disease is 55.2 ears in males and 40.9 years in fe- 1; nales. li 6 The latest theory about appendi- , litis is that advanced by Dr. Alexmder Schmidt, of Altoona. who be- t] ieves it may be caused, by the min- jj ite metallic particles that get into a inned food when the can opener i3 f tpplied. h A writer in the American Ma- ? :hinist stated recently that a steam ? )ipe of six inches diameter was cov- jj jred with a wooden bo< of twelve nche3 diameter which was filled with l i sawdust mortar, one barrel oC u ime in five of sawdust. Before cov- n jring the pipe?nearly 700 feet in ength? It condensed 1440 pounds 11 >f water hourly; after covering it Q :ondensed 193 pounds hourly. ^ It is at last definitely settled that 1 he six new battle ships decided upon r )y the French Government to rival r ;he Dreadnought, are to have a per- ? nanent protection of a special kind ^ igainst torpedoes. M. Bertin, Chief g. Construction Engineer to the French a ?leet, has made the announcement ;o the Academy of Sciences. The vi Drotection is to consist of internal fi irmor-plating inside the vessel at a u certain depth below the waterline. ^ 3ut nothing very heroic is claimed ? or the system. The most expected e s that a battleship even badly hit e )y a torpedo can be kept afloat. .( The diamond has Tiow to yield its jlace as the hardest substance d cnown. The title henceforth belongs " :o the recently discovered metal J tnown as tantalum, which cuts it- -j ;elf but diamonds only wear out b .heir own edges against it. The ex- p Deriment was tried of working a g iiamond drill continuously for sev- ^ mty-two hours on a sheet of pure netallic tantalum one twenty-fifth ^ )f an inch thici:?hardly thicker, jj herefore, than a sheet of substan- 0 ial note paper. The speed of the ii Irill maintained night and cay was f< >000 revolutions a minute. At the tl >nd of tbe test the sheet of tanta- 8: um, so far from being perforated, " vas only slightly dented but the liamond in the drill was worn to ^ i stub. : h XTEREST IN ZAPLTE CULTURE, ji a Capitalists Investing in Mexican Land For Raising Fiber Plant. Zapupe culture continues to be a d ield of largo investment for many " :apitalista of Tampico, Meiico, and ^ ilso of many investors from the ^ Jnited States. Within the past f. nonth there have bean six large ti :oncerns, two of which are located t< n New York and one in Kansas }ity, that have sent their represen- ? atives to Tarapico to look carefully nto the question of zapupe culture. Phree deals in land suitable for rais- e: ng the fibre have been made, and h everal others are pending. g The nature of the plant has many "w hings to recommend it to the Sl ilanter; tt is very hardy, rans little & itocks, matures quickly and lasts ifteen years, is not dependent to 0 my extent on climatic conditions or e noisture, and the fibre is extracted " rom the leaves with economy. TherG o: ire several grades of zapupe and danters have not as yet come to an ^ agreement as to which is the best. ?: The industry is in its infancy as et. Planting at present is more in w he northern parts of Vera Cruz, ^ hough there are several large tracts et out in Southern Tamaulipas as 2 veil. n Experts say that the zapupe fibre ^ s far superior to henequen fibre, ? an be used in the manufacture of a ^ nuch finer grade of material, and as tl uch will command a eood deal w iigher price. On the other hand, pi ne experienced, wealthy and in- hi iuential planter in this State claims hat while zapupe is undoubtedly a ;ood thing, heneouen in these parts s better than zapupe, and far better m han it ever was in Yucatan. ai d( Blind Men Successful Fishermen. ui Three blind men fished skilfully, P' ide by side, in a launch off Anglesea, ? rawing in black bass and flounders c? t the rate of one a minute. They jtl ever missed a bite. They never tt ailed to land a fish. Only the cap- ei ain had to bait their hooks for them -but then the captain baits the looks of all deep-sea anglers as a ule. ' . ii The sightless trio, smiliug, said S< bat blind fishermen were not rare; P' hat in the institution where they ^ ived a full third of the inmates shed. Ir They pointed out that fishing is a r port singularly suited for the blind. 3j 'o sit still, to catch fish by "feeling" ir hem on the line, is, indeed, the only w port where the blind are at no dis- f? dvantage. Fly fishing, of course, is e1 eyond them, on account of the difcuities of the cast. Side by side in the rocking launch, b auling in the bass and flounders risklv their faces crnwiner rpdripr ? nd redder with sunburn, the three lind men fished and smoked antl nattered, and at the day's end it ras found that thoy had severally aught more fish than any other man S1 board.?Chicago Chronicle. A r "Grass" widows mear.s in reality curtesy widow, from the French m orti "grace." - PHE SUNDAY SCIIOOl 1 ^TERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS ? FOR AUGUST 12. ? ubject: The Parable of the Two Sons, Lake xvM 11-32?Golden \ Text, Mat. iii., 7 ? Memory Verses 17, 18. I. Leaving home (vs. 11-13). 11.- b A certain man." The simple, un- I retentious beginning of th-e most o eautiful of all parables. The man d s here the image of God the Father, c Two sons." The two sons may be g aid to be representatives of man- t; ind, for we have in them examples s f two great phases of alienation " rom God?the elder is blinded by ti elf-rig'nteousness, the younger de- r raded by his unrighteousness. 12. "v The younger." He represents open- j. Y wicked persons, such as the pubican.s aDd sinners. He also repre- v ents the thoughtless, careless youth, t! 13. "Not many days." He had r ecided upon his course and hast- ^ ned to be gone. This shadows forth t] lie rapidity (1) of national and (2) ^ adividual degeneracy. "Gathered ]j 11 together." Sinners who go astray g rom God venture their all. "Took 6( is journey." He was weary of his h other's government and desired g ;reater liberty. The journey the ^ rodigal took represents the sinner ^ a his departure from God. He went e ito a "far country," far from.truth. a II. *In deep distress (vs. 14-16). 4. "Spent all." He did not stop y ntil his last dollar was gone. "A g lighty famine." The soul living at h distance from God, and shut out j, rom intercourse with Him, will very j( oon feel its utter emptiness. A lighty famine will follow. "In tj rant." Real want is soul want. 15. "Joined himself to a citizen." 'he same wicked life that before was epresented by riotous living is here ? epresented by servile living, for siners are perfect slaves. The devil is he citizen of that country; he is j. oth in city and country. "To feed wine." This was doubly degrading, . nd especially so to a Jew. 16. "With the husks." The husks g rere not trie poas qi some otuer . ruit, but "the fruitof the carob-tree, sed. for feeding swine." He was ^ riven to the extremity of trying to ? atisfy his hunger with the food that | ras fit only for swine. So sinners ^ ndeavor to satisfy the soul witb ~ arthly and sensual delights. J! III. The decision to return home vs. 17-19). tJ 17. "He came to himself." Sin ethrones the reason. A state of sin 5 a state of folly and madness, hut L - ?? ? J ^ ~ /\n wf / H Lit; UlilUiiCbb 19 iU LUC UCC.lt II :3). "Bread enough and to spare." g he lowest in my father's house has 0 read to give to the poor. God's f, eople are abundantly supplied with tl ood things. "I perish." Sinners $ 'ill not come to Christ until they see n tiemselves ready to perish. 18. "I p 'ill aris.?." He had left home of his v wn free will, and he must return 1 the sanre way. God compels no n ne to do right. "And go." Follow- a lg the decision there must be an ef- e, Drt put forth. In returning to God n here is something to do. "I have t( [nned." The first thing to do is to t] lake a full confession of our sins n 1 John i: 9; Job 33:27, 28). e. Against heaven." Against God. !very sin is a sin against God. 19. No more worthy." He is ready to umble himself. He knows that in jstice his father could shut the door . gainst him; he pleads for mercy. IV. The return and the welcome vs. 20-24). * 20. "He arose." He immediately id all of these things that he had n ecided upon. "Great way off." He 11 ras coming slowly, in rags, in dis- ^ race, questioning aDout his wel- cl orae. "Father saw him." The ither was ever watching for his re- " jrn. So God knows when we start sward Him. "And ran," etc. Thi3 * apresents the readiness with which rod receives returning sinners. 21, The son said." He makes his con- ?> ;ssion; he abases himself. C 22. "But the father." The fath- Id r did not wait until he had finished cl is confession. In mis we see tne w reat affection of the father and hia in 'illingness to forgive. "Said to his m srvants." The father's joy is full lo nd he instantly issues orders to m slebrate his return. "Bring forth P< uickly." (R. V.)?Let us show at pi nee by our actions that the wander- d< r is fully forgiven and reinstated. SI Put a ring' on his hand." A sign w t affection. tc 23. "Be merry." Be joyful and , it appy. The Bible gives the children V f God license to shout for joy. 24. ki Was dead." Lost to all good, given ec p to all evil. "Is alive again." Her6 tb as special cause for rejoicing. Who c? ould not be a partaker of this joy? al V. The elder brother (vs. 25-32). Is S. "He was angry." Our Lord bs ow holds up to the murmuring t harisees a likeness of themselves, tt s the elder brother is angry at the ci >y which welcomes the prodigal ome from his wanderings, so have lese men murmured at the mercy ith which Jesus has received the Liblican and the sinner. "Intreated b< id." As Jesus was then entreating SI le captious Pharisees not to spurn ti le repenting outcasts. 2 9, 30. In ly lese verses Jesus gives, in parable, ti le substance of the Pharisaic mur- U urings: We are better than others ly ad should have great respect and ri 2'erence paid us; but you have left fc 3 and interested yourself in these tt iblicans and r.inners. 31. "All? el line." All is within thy reach. If w )u do not enjoy my bounty it is be- of luse you v/ill not. Notice .that the \i irable leaves the elder brother on tc le outside, stubbornly refusiug to f.a iter. F Field Gun to Kill Farmer. An Algerian farmer defied the poce and barricaded his farmyard. rc sveral rifle volleys were fired at his jr lace in the hope of terrifying him. s this apparently had no effect, a j iree-inch quick-firing field gun and elinite shell were brought into use. ^ ? ?-? H ? ! * f non hnmhe woro firPfl A U.I1 ^IgUbCViil K?\Sl*AK/K* VT Vt W ? . v?. he first two flew wide, but the other xtcen reduced all the farm build- J11 igs to heaps of rubbish, under !a hich, when search was made, the irmer's body was found. He had fidently been killed by a rifle bullei i the preceding day, so that all the ;rrors of artillery and melinite had ir sen wasted on a corpse. It is per- D aps ihe first time that the police s< ave tried heavy artillery on one loua to .aR. t-r ca Cnp For Channel Swimmers. at Additional stimulus having been th ven to swimmers who wish to cross w ie Dover Straits by the offer of the 7.y lexander Channel Cup, valued at lb 1250, Burgess, Weidmai1, Mew, rol?fe, W. J. Jones and Mi >; Keller- sp an have all beguu practicing in the ag jighborhood of Dover. as rHE~GREAT DESTROYED IOME STARTLING FACTS ABOU1 THE VICE CF INTEMPERANCE. itnrUing Figures Regarding tlu Growth of the Liquor Traffic and It's Vicious Results in the of Wisconsin. In a remarkable report just made y State Commissioner of Labor, J. ). Beck, of Wisconsin (part third f the twelfth biennial report of the epartment for 1905-1906),that offiial gives some startling figures rearding the growth of the liquor raffle and its vicious results in the tate made famous by the brewers. It is evident," he declares, "that be liquor traffic is about- as deeply ooted and important a business in Wisconsin as it is elsewhere in the fnited States." The -commissioner says that the alue of all property employed in he liquor traffic, both owned and ented, is about $33,500,000, of 'hich $26,300 is in real estate and ae remainder in fixtures and sunries. The total tax paid by the quor traffic ii^ the State is about 594,000. The total number ofperons in the State dependent on the quor traffic for a livelihood is 68,00. The total annual revenue from le manufacture and traffic in alconHn Urmnrs in Wisconsin fnr Per! ral, State and municipal governlents is about $S,3S4,786. In connection with his report of /isconsin conditions, Commissioner leek epitomizes the official figurefc e has secured regarding crime "om the whole country in the foljwing figures: "In the United States out of a toil of 25,630 persons convicted of rime., who were interviewed in gathring these statistics, 24,457, or 96 er cent., were addicted to the use f liquor. Of this total number conicted of crime, less than 1 per cent, sed wine only, 17 per cent, malt iquor only, 3 per cent, distilled quor only, and 76 per cent, used svo or more kinds of liquor. Out f 1836 cases of insanity examined, 71, or 37 per cent., were addicted 3 the use "of liquor, and one-half lis number is classed as excessive rinkers, and over 25 per cent, of tie 1836 cases of insanity were lused directly bythe use of liquors, f the poverty which comes under le observation c> charity organiz#.ons, 25 per cent, is directly due to le use of liquor." Moderate Beer Drinking. The Evening Sun informs us that ae fifty million barrels of beer conumed in this country in a year give nly one glass for every working day ar every man. woman and child' in he country, allowing none for Sunays. That is a good illustration of tie way figures are often used to rove that black iis white, or at least, cry nearly white. It is quite safe to say that fully ine-tenths of the children never get ny beer, and it is probably safe to stimate that three-fourths of the wolen and one-half of the men do not such it. We suppose there is fully tiat proportion of persons who do ot use alcoholic drinks at all but ven among those who do, there are ery many who seldom if ever touch eer. We think it is quite safe to stimate that at the outside there re not more than fifteen million abitual beer drinkers in the country, nd as the large majority of them re "moderate" drinkers, there must e enough beer left out of the fifty lillion barrels to keep three or four lillions of men and women pretty rell soaked all the time, Sundays inluded. Verily, as the Sun remarks, "the rewers have reason to be satisfied" nd so has .their master.?New York /itness. Crime Product of the Saloon. Under the caption, "Are We a hristian Nation?" a correspondent l Blackford County shows the small aim we have to such a title when e spend millions yearly in supportig armies, building ships of war and anufacturing ammunition, and aliw the saloon to exist everywhere, aking criminals and increasing the Dverty and wretchedness of the peoe, protecting some 250,000 of these 3ns of iniquity under the Stars and ;ripes, etc. The articlewould sound ell as a temperance lecture, but is >o lengthy for our space. But one em we quote, namely: "Judge aughan says, from his own personal nowledge as Circuit Judge and pros:uting attorney for thirteen years, lat ninety per cent, of the criminal ises that come before him are due most directly to the saloons.This a terrible indictment against the iloon. made by a thoroughly compe :nt witness, and ought to be loughtfully considered by all good tizens. What It Costs. "Some one estimates that getting jrn costs the people of the United :ates $225,000,000 annually; getng married, $300,000,000 annua'i; getting buried, $75,000,000. Getng drunk costs the people of the nited States $1,300,000,000 annual, or more than getting born, mared and buried put together. What Ily is this last expenditure, when ie drink thus bought handicaps the lildren with a deadly heredity; hen the drink will make thousands ! marriages end in divorce: when it ill bring at least tens of thousands i premature death, as insurance ,bles prove."?Dr. and Mrs. Wilbur . Crafts, in the Christian Herald. Temperance Notes. Forty-seven of the great trunk rail* )ads now discriminate against drinkig employes. A Cleveland bank requires its emoyes to 6ign an agreement not to enr any place where intoxicating juors are sold. Governor Hanly. of Indiana, estiates that it cost the State of Iudiana st year $100,000 simply to pay the irnkey and to supply the board of en in the county jails under- the large of intoxication. Some people think that ycu can oprove an iniquity by washing it. r. Herrick Johnson punctured this jphism: "Eetter saloons is better idness, improved vice, a moral conadiction." A Pittsburg brewery is making a mnnisrn against the horrors of tea id coffee. Both are said to contain ejn and caffeiii. The brewery ad. riter has worked himself into a frcnin detailing the frightful results of ein and caffein. The working population of Glasgow ends annually in drink. 011 au ;iver;e, $10,707,230, which is three times much as it pars for rout. ' I T^gUGHTS^ Fp^THE; QUlET^^Sorv TWO PLOWMEN: A PARABLE OB ! LIFE. Two fields lay side by side. Only a hedgs Which ran athwart the plain dissevered them. i In one my title lay, and he who owned j The other was my brother. Each alike Had generous part of one ancestral lot, And each alike due diligence displayed V On that he called his own. At early spring' Jlach with a shining share upturned the soil And gave it to the sun, the wind, the shower. >, Thenceforth we rested not. Busily we. wrought And wiped our briny brows 'neath bun* ing suns, Biding tne time of one far-off event. . At summer's end we each one came at last 'jlo find our recompense. Each had his own. The end for which he'd toiled. Thro' all those days y Mv only thought had been no weeds should grow, But he had plowed 'mid rows cf waving .corn And in so doing killed the cumbering weeds That grew between. And now at sunt' mer's close Behold! my field was verdureless and bare, While his was clad in vestiture of gold. How vain mv toil. His recompense how, full- ' Who reaped so much, yet plowed 110 more than I! ?'T. Berry Smith, in Christian Advocate. , Hope of Glory. In the change -which ta*5s place when a soul comes to God tlie future is changed as well as the past. All things become new. . r Some refuse to think of the futnre. Having no hope, the future has no attraction for them. They fix the mind on other things and shut out the future. Some dread the future. They sbud-T der when the thought of death en-' ters the mind. But one who has found Christ has at new experience with regard to the future. He delights In the thought. He rejoices that he is pressing forward. tttaii 1^ Lo wa voflvci mnua IXC IT VUiU 4iVt AiU TV LAJV jr wwfv;, more slowly if he could. He is not afraid to die, because God Is with him. ' Though I walk through the valley, of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." He la not afraid to meet God, because he ia acquainted with Him. He is not ft afraid to Jeave the world, because he la sure of a better world. He dreada ,* not to close this life, because be JiSS the jtssurance of a better life. There is a'bond of union between his spirit and the invisible world- which he dla tinctly feels. He has tasted the good Word of God and the powers of the world to come. 'The apostle exhorts us to be ready? to give an answer to Him that asketbi I a reason of the hone that is in us; who can give such a reason??Cliris- / tian Advocate. / A Leftion From the Power House. "It is the earnest life after all that is nedeed most," says the Rev. S. V. Cole, in "The Life That Counts." "If you should visit the power house where they generate the electricity! ' that lights the town, you would find there a switchboard' on which two kinds of registers are set. One kind , measures what is called the ampfcrage, or amount of electricity used, and the other measures the voltage, or intensity of it. The light that comes does not depend upon the amount of the amperage; the amount of electricity; may be large or small; the light de- ' pends on the voltage; that must be I kept always at tue ngnung poim; m! tensity and not quantity produces light. It is something like that with persons. Ability may be great or meagre; ability, Is only thp amperage. But look at the earnestness of a man's life; that is the voltage and determines the light. A. man may-be able to do many thingsr well and yet lack earnestness enough to do anything sufficiently well to j shine. When Jesus said to His disciples, 'Ye are the light of the world,' He did not refer to the great amount of truth which they possessed?they were unlettered and ignorant men?but He referred to the earnest way in which the truth was held; they had left all for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake." On loor Knee*. I remember some years ago climbing the Weissborn above Zermatt Valley. With two guides. There had been a series of severe storms, and ours was the first ascent for some weeks; consequently we had a great deal of step- ' cutting to do. We had left the cabin at two in the morning, and it was nearly nine before we reached1 the summit, which consisted, as on so many peaks In the Alps, of splintered rocks, protruding from the snow. My ieading guide stood aside to let me be first on top. And I, with the long labor of the climb over and ex-, bilarated by the thought of the great view awaiting me. but forgetful of the high gale which was-blowing on the'' 3ther side of the rocks sprang eagerly np them, and stood erect to see the view. TUe guide pulled me down. ''On ;our knees, sir! You are not safe there ?xcept on your knees." j? llf+c, ,,e. oil .U)' yuUiJg J licnua, uuu mi.* mo ?.v summits in life? high, splendid, perilous. But these are nowhere more splendid or more perilous than in our routl;; summits of knowledge, of friendship, of love, of success. Let wr, as we value our moral health, tho growth of our character and of our fitness for God's service, see every one of them as an altar on which to devote ourselves once more to His will.? George Adam Smith. Make It Plain. The past is written, the future is beyond our control, but today is ours, and is an opportunity to bestow a gift which will be more welcome than any whkh money can purchase. There should be no guesswork concerning affection; "make it plain," "write It large."' Silence is golden when it renfcccccc hiftcr words or ienorant com raent. but it sinks like lead into the heart which has a right to expect tender and ;;ustful utterances. | Rabbits Killed by Thousands. Myriads of rabbits are causing the* Southern Pacific Railway Company trouble west of San Antonio. Texas. It is exceedingly dry in that region v and the rabbits are attracted to the railway right of way in search o? food at night. The electric lights in use on the engines seem to daze them and they ,are run over and killed by the thousands. In some instances so many have been killed as to seriously impede progress of the trains. Motor Boats at Venice. Motor boats are taking the plactf of gondolas for excursions at Venice. * J . _