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P" |. |r j maiwa's -r o: I' ' ALLAN QUATERMAIN'S C By TH. RID^J Author of''She," "King CHAPTER IV. G Continued. He had been shot right through the \ i_ __ ? . * .1 u. 11 ?.UK ?eart, or lungs, ariu uuwu xit* iwi ?>n" i a crash, stone dead. - But in escaping from Scylla I had run into the paws of Cbarybdis. I heard the elephant fall, and glanced round. Straight in front of me, and jiot fifteen paces away, were the other two bulls. They were staring about, and at that moment they caught sight of me. Then they came, the pair of them? came like thunderbolts, and from different angles. I had only time to snap my rifle to, lift it and fire, almost at haphazard, at the head of the nearest, the unbounded bull. : Now, as you know, in the case of the 'African elephant, whose skull is con,rex, and not concave, like that of the Indian, this is always a most risky and ;very infrequently a perfectly useless shot.. The bullet loses itself in the masses of bone, that is all. But there is one little vital place, and should the bullet happen to strike thprp. it will follow the channel of the nostrils?at least I suppose it is the nostrils?and reach tlie brain. Down came the great bull all of a heap, and rolled over on bis side as dead as a stone. I swung round at tliat instant to facc the third, the monster bull with one tusk I had wounded two days before. He was already almost over me, and In the dim moonlight seemed to tower above me like a house. I lifted the rifle and pulled at his neck. It would not go ofF. Tlien, in a flash, as it were. I remembered that it was on the half-cock. The lock of this barrel was a little weak, and a few days before, in tiring at a cow eland, the left barrel had jarred off at the shock of the discharge of the right, knocking me backward with the recoil; so afteu that I had kept it on the half-cock till I actually .wanted to fire it. I gave one desperate hound to the right, and, my lame leg notwithstanding, I believe that few men could have made a better jump. At any rate it was none too soon, for as I jumped I felt the wind made by the tremi^ftfous downward stroke of the monster's trunk. Then I ran for it. I ran like the wind, still keeping hold of my gun, however. My idea, so far as I could be said to have any fixed idea, was to bolt down the pathway up which I had come, like a rabbit down a burrow, trusting that he would lose sight of me in the uncertain light. I sped across the glade. Fortunately the bull, being wounded, could not go full speed; but, wounded or not, he could go quite as fast as I could. ' I was unable to gain an inch, and away we went, with just about three feet between our separate extremities. We were at the other side now, and a glanced served to show me that I had miscalculated and overshot the opening. To reach it now was hopeless; I should have blundered straight into the elephant. So I did the only thing I could do; I swerved like a coursed hare, and started off round the edge of the glade, seeking for some opening into which I could plunge. This gave me a moment's start, for the bull could not turu as quickly as I could, and I made the most of it. But no opening could I see; the bush yv&s like a wall. We were speeding round the edge of the glade, and the elephant was corningAip again. Now he was within six feet, and now as he trumpeted, or rather screamed, I could feel the fierce hot blast of his breath Btrike upon my head. . Heavens! how it frightened me! We were three, parts round the glade now, and about fifty yards ahead was the single large dead thorn tree against which the bull had been leaning. I spurted for it; it was my last chance of safety. But, spurt as I would, it seemed hours before I got there. Putting out my hand, I swung round ine tree tuus onaging my sen met; iu face -with tbe elephant. I liad not time to lift the rifle to fire. I bad barely time to cock it and run sideways and backward, wben be was on to me. Crasb! he came, striking tbe treefull with bis forehead. It snapped like a carrot about forty inches above the ground. Fortunately I was clear of the trunk, but one of the dead branches struck me on the chest as it went down and swept me to tbe ground. I fell upon my back, and the elephant blundered past me as I lay. More by instinct than anything else I lifted tbe barrel with one hand and pulled the trigger. It exploded, and, as I afterward discovered, tbe bullet struck him in the ribs. But the recoil of the heavy rifle held thus was very severe. It bent my arm up and sent tbe butt with a thud against the to;i of my shoulder and the side of my neck, for the moment quite paralyzing me, and causing the weapon to jump from my grasp. Meanwhile the bull was rushing on. He traveled for some twenty paces, and then suddenly he stopped. Faintly I reflected that he was coming back to finish mc, but even the prospect of imminent and dreadful death could not rouse me into action. I was utterly spent; I could not move. Idly, almost indifferently, 1 watched iiis movements. For a moment he stood sti!!. then he .trumpeted until the. weJkin ranjr. and HffriWff .. >|P .> j REVENGE j 3REATE3T ADVENTURE, i l * HAGGARD. ! ? ( Sotomon's Mines," Etc. I ^ >r. - .T, ^TTT^ < then very slowly, and -with great dig- < nity. he knelt down. j At this point I swooned away. ] When I came to myself again I saw I from the moon that I must have been { insensible for quite two hours. , I was drenched with dew, and shiv- , ering all over. j At first I could not think' where I j was, when, on lifting my head, I saw the outline of the one-tusked bull still ( kneeling some tive-and-twenty paces < from me. ) Then I remembered. . J Slowly I raised myself, and was instantly taken with a violent sickness, ] the result of overexertion, after which < I nearly fainted a second time. 1 Presently I grew better, and consid- < ercd the position. Two of the elephants were, as I ] knew, dead; but how about number three? 1 There he knelt in majesty in the 1 lonely moonlight. The question was, was he resting, or dead? i I got on my hands and knees, loaded my rifle, and painfully crept a few 1 paces nearer. ( I could see his eye now. for the moonlisrht fell full upon it; it was open, and r rather prominent. I crouched and waited: the eyelid did not move, nor did the groat brown body, or the trunk, or the ear, or the 1 tail?nothing moved. Then I knew that he must be dead. I crept up to him?still keeping the rifle well forward?and gave him a i thump, reflecting as I did so how very near I had been to being "thumpee < instead of thumper." i He never stirred; he certainly was dead, though to this day I do not know if it was my random shot that killed him, or if he died from concussion of r tbo brain consequent upon the tre- { mendous shock of his contact with the tree. j Anyhow, there lie was. Cold and beautfiul he lay. or rather knelt, as the poet neatly puts it. 1 Indeed, I do not think that I have i ever seen a sight more imposing in its i way than that mighty beast crouched in majestic death and shone upon by ] the lonely moon. While I stood admiring the whole j scene, and heartily congratulating my- ? self upon my escape, I once more be- i gan to feel sick. ? Accordingly, -without waiting to examine the other two bulls, I staggered 1 off back to the camp, which in due ; course I reached in safety. < Everybody in it was asleep. < I did not wake them. I threw off my coat and shoes, rolled myself up in i a blanket, and was soon fast asleep, i When I woke it was already light, and at first I thought that, like Joseph, ? I had dreamed a dream. i At that moment, however. I turned my head, and quickly knew that it was \ no dream, for my neck and face were so stiff from the blow of the butt end j of the ride that it was agony to move i thorn. I I collapsed for a minute or two. Gobo and another man. wrapped up l like a couple of monks in their blankets, thinking that I was still asleep, ; were crouching over a little tire they had made?for the morning was damp { and chilly?and holding sweet con- j verse. i Gobo said that he was getting tired i of running after elephants which they | never caught. ] Macuruazrthn (that is myself) was without doubt a man of parts, and of \ some skill in shooting, but also he was ] a fool. None but a fool would run so fast i and far after elephants which it was < impossible to catch when they kept cutting the spoor of fresh ones. I He certainly was a fool, but he must not be allowed to continue in bis folly, and he, Gobo, was determined to put a stop to it. He should refuse to accompany him ( any farther on so mad a hunt. f Yes, the other answered, the poor ? man certainly was sick in his head, and i it was quite time that they checked his 1 folly while they still had a patcb of i skin left upon their feet. Moreover, he, for his part, certainly ( did not like this country of Wambe's, i which really was full of ghosts. 1 Only the last night he had heard the < spooks at work; they were out shoot- ] ing; at least it sounded as though they ?t'11% It was very queer, but perhaps tbeir lunatic of a master? "Gobo, you scoundrel!" I shouted out at this juncture, sitting bolt upright on tlie blanket, "stop idling there, and make ine some coflee." Up sprang Gobo and his friend, and in half a moment were respectfully skipping about in a manner that contrasted well witn the lordly contempt of their previous conversation. But all (he same they were in earOni/I nVtnnf linnCntr iicot ill uuui lucj cam tiuvui tbe elephants any further, for before 1 j had finished my coffee they came to | me in a body, and said that if I wanted to follow thbse elephants I must follow 1 them myself, for they would not go. i I argued with them, and affected to be much put out. < Tbe elephants were close at hand, 1 i said: I was sure of it. I had heard them trumpet in the night. i Yps answpi'etl the men. mysteriously: they too liad heard things 111 the night , ?things not nice to hear; they had heard the spooks out shooting, and no longer "would they remain in a country so vilely haunted. It was nonsense, I replied. If ghosts went out shooting, surely 1 they would use air-guns and no black powder, and one would not hear an air-gun. ( Well, if they were cowards and would not come, of course I could not force them to. but I would make a bargain with them. They should follow those elephants for oue-haif hour more; then, if we failed to come upon them. I would , */ ' fc, " > ; 1 .. "f.iSwfiiteiis ibandon tbe pursuit, ami we would go straight to Wambe, chief of the Mntuiu, and give him boDgo. To this compromise the men readily igreed. Accordingly about half <111 lour later we struck our camp and started, and notwithstanding my aches ind bruises, I do not think that I ever felt in better spirits in my life. It is something to wake up in the morning and remember that in the lead of night one has, single-banded, jiven battle to and overthrown three )f the largest elephants in Africa, slaying them with three bullets. Such a feat had never to my knowledge been done before, and on that sarticular morning I felt a very "tall man of my hands" indeed. The only thing that I feared was that should I ever come to tell the story, aobody would believe it, for when a strange tale is told by a hunter, people \re apt to think it necessarily a lie. nstead of being only probably s?. Well, we passed on, till, having ?rossed the first glade where I had seen the lions, we reached the neck of jusli that separated it from the second wKaha /lfinrl olonh.inis wpi'A. 5HI UU nucic iuc uvuu And here I began to take elaborate precautions, among others ordering 3obo to keep some yards ahead and ook out sharp, as I thought that the jlepbants might be about. He obeyed my instructions with a superior smile, and pushed ahead. Presently I saw him pull up as :hough he had been shot, and begin :o faintly snap his fingers. "What is it:" I whispered. "The elephant, the great elephant ivith one tusk, kneeling down." There knelt the bull as I had left lim last night, and there, too, lay the )ther bulls. "Do these elephants sleep?" I whispered to the astonished Gobo. "Yes. Macumajjahn, they sleep." "Nay, Gobo; they are dead." "Dead? How can they be dea'd? {Vho killed them?" "What do people call me, Gobo?' "They call you Macumazahn." "And what does Macumazahn nean?" "It means the man who keeps his \ves open, the man who gets ut in the jight." "Yes, and I am that man. "Look, you idle, lazy cowards. rnn elont Inst nifllt' I rosp. tnd alone limited tliose groat elephants, ind slew them hy the moonlight. "To each of them I gave one bullet, ind only one, and it fell dead. "Look." and I advanced into the ;lade, "here is my spoor, and here is he spoor of the great beast charging ifter me, and there is the tree that I oolc refuge behind. "See. the elephant shattered it in lis charge. "Oh, you cowards. you who would ;ive up the chase while the blood spoor steamed beneath your nostrils, see ivhat I did single-handed while you slept, and be ashamed." "Ou," said the man?"ou. Koos. coos, y umcool!" (chief, mighty chief): tnd then they held their tongues, and roing up to the three dead beasts, jazed upon them in silence. But after that those men looked upon ne with awe as being almost more han mortal. No mere man. they said, could have slain those three elephants alone in the jiglit time. I never Lad any further trouble "with :hem. 1 believe that if I had told them to iurnp over a precipice niul that they ivould take no harm, they would have )elieved me. Well, I went up and examined the 3ulls. Such tusks as they .had I never saw ind shall never see again. It took us all day to cut them out, ind when they reached Dehlgoa Bay, is they did ultimately, though not in uy keeping, the single tusk of the big mil scaled ICO pounds?a most wonderful, indeed an almost unprecedented, ot of ivory. Unfortunately. I was forced to saw he big tusk in two, otherwise we could aot have carried it. "Oh, Quatermain. you barbarian!" I jroke in here; "the idea of spoiling such a tusk! "Why. I would have kept it whole if : had been obliged to drag it myself." (To be continued.) Country Schools. "In the old settled and rich farming listricts one would naturally expect to ind the best equipped country schools," said Charles A. Harding, of Detroit, vho represents a school supply house, 'but ten years on the road has convinced me to the contrary. If you tvant to find up to date and well quipped schools go up into some of the newly settled sections, and more than hat, they are more particular as to the nullifications of the teachers ttfey employ and willing to pay salaries which will attract the best. "In some districts in old sections the ?quipment is substantially the same as t was fifty years ago. I have seen naps on the walls that were published thirty years ago, and blackboards that liad long outgrown their usefulness. I liave visited schools where conscientious teachers have had to supply portions of the equipmeut themselves in ji'der to do satisfactory work.''?Milwaukee Sentinel. ^ Modern Beati tuilci. Blessed is he who desires nothing, Tor everybody will be willing to let tiim have it. Blessed is he who does nothing noticeable, for he wili escape the hammers. Blessed is lie who is wrapped iu selfconceit, for no "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" shall jar it. Blessed are ye when men "shall say nil innnnor nf evil JlCflinSt VOU false ly," for it proves that they consider yon worth the ammunition. Blessed is fashion, for it gives some women nn object iu life. Blessed is the man who always knows he is right, for the truth that looks in another direction shall not shake him.?San Francisco Call. Aactrala^inn Gesture L?ns:ui?xe. Gesture language still exists in parts of Australasia. Some tribes possess so excellent a code that it is almost as efficient as a spoken language. Lyons, in the valley of the Ilhone il? Franc;-, is the largest silk manufacturing centre in the world, producing annually abcut SSO.vJGO.COO worth. ' > * . ; 'r - c.'* :' * ; ' BITS I DEWS WASHINGTON. Mr. Ridgely. Controller of the Cur rency, has announced a dividend o twenty per cent, to the depositor and other creditors of the failed En terprise Bank of Alleghany, Pa. Secretary Wilson, in Washington issued stringent rules which will gov err* the meat inspectors in the en forcement of the new law. The first death from smallpox a Colon was reported at the Washing ton office of the Isthmian Canal Com mission by Governor Magcon. Rumor in Washington says tha the Nobel peace prize this year is t< awarded ti President Roosevelt, 01 the recommendation of a number o universities. Changes in American army uni forms suggested by an English tailoi have been officially approved by th< War Department. Orders were issued at the War De nntifrvirtti} nrrinnino' TVf O "inr-Clmi HTZl 1 A J'fll IUJC1I I. UCOlgUJii^ iUttjwi V.WUVI ??? ** W. Greely to the command of th< Northern Division, with headquarters at St. Louis. Attorney-General Moody has directed further prosecutions of a num her of railroade for violations of th? Federal safety appliance acts. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. William E. T-.lor Medical Inspcc tor United States Navy, died at Hono lulu, Hawaii. General Lee. commander of th< American forces on the Island o Leyte, has 500 regular troops, be i sides a number of scouts and con stabulary, to "round up" the Pula janes. Governor-General Ide has receivec reports stating that during the fisca year the importations of rice to th< Philippines decreased 61,072,41] pounds, valued at $3,0S4,183. Aguinaldo says that the presenl depressed condition of the Philippint Islands is the result, to a creat ex I tent, of gambling. The yacht Wakiva. of New York, I chartered by M. H. Dodge for a Wesl | Indian and South American cruise, ! was seized by the United States auj thorities at San Juan, P. R.. for violation of quarantine regulations and fined. The decrease of importations at Manila is a result of the poverty of the people, who are not buying rice, but are living on yams and other food. DOMESTIC. Hov/ard S. Borden, a millionaire was appointed a policeman o Shrewsbury township, New Jersey, for arresting reckless autornobilists. Lycurgus Winchester, son-in-law of Dallas Bache Pratt, was instantlj killed in a collision between an automobile and a trolley car in Baltimore Justice Olsted, of the Court oi Special Sessions, New York, handed j down an opinion saying the State had | no right to formulate laws in the ] restriction of labor. Private Duer, of the detachment ol ! marines at the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard, was killed by a blow a!I leged to have been struck by Acting Corporal Jenkins. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials issued a statement alleging thai Eorough President Coler's attacks upon the company had been accompanied by bear movements in the stock in Wall Street. licensed at taunts of girl companions, who laughed at hio inability to swim, Samuel Gutten plunged into Gravesend Bay, L. I., and was drowned. Friends < [ W. E. Corey and his divorced wife *n Bradd^ck, Pa., say the Steel Trust's head paid Mrs. Corey S3.000,000, she agreeing not to involve any woman in her divorce suit. Dr. Frank Eillings, of Chicago, presented a bill to the Field estate of $25,000 for seven days' work, at the approximate rate of 53572 a day. Judge Landis, of Chicago, decided that Alexander Dowie is not the owner of Zion City, and that he could not appoint his successor. Nearly a dozen workmen were killed by the fall of a partially constructed building at South Framingham. Mass. The referee in the matter of the looted Federal Bank ah Alleghena, Pa., decided that the stockholders are liable for the losses of depositors, The Illinois Central has roraiiienced the construction of a third main track between Cnicago and Kankakee, and a fourth is contem plated. It was announced from Chicagc that the merger of all the elevated railroads in the city would soon he effected. Counsel for W. R. Hearst offered to supply new ballot boxes to the city, in order to keep the Mayoralty boxes impoundec. James F '.chard De Remar, buildei of the swinging bridge of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway in the Royal Gorge, died at Denver. FOREIGN. A new Krupp submarine for the j German Government "was launched at Kiel. Emperor William's visit to Spain has been fixed for the second week ic September. The new City Council has elected | Julio De Cardenas Mayor of Havana, I He is a conservative. Secretary Root held a receptior j on board the Charleston, at Rio df j Janeiro, before sailing for Monte; video. j The British Association for the | Advancement of Science met at Yori under the presidency of Edwin Raj Lankester, and decided to meet at Winnipeg in 1909. A mutiny on the Russian cruisei Bogatyr was promptly suppressed. The losses of the Hamburg-Bremer Fire Insurance Company owing tc the San Francisco disaster are estl mated at $4,265,000, and an assess' ment of fifty per ccnt. fcas been leviec on the stockholders. The crew of the Russian armoreC cruiser Pamyat Azova mutinied of the Esthonian Coast, killed the cap tain and four officers and seized th< vessel.. The Russian Government has ob tained the consent, of its Germar creditors to the postponement of tli< payment of the Treasury bonds. Charles Hodson, for thirty year! chief clerk of the American Embassy in London, is dead. Mr. Wodsoi served under eight Ambassadors. The St. Gothard Pan? has beer opened to automobile travel by th< Swiss authorities, but the restriction are rigid. ' u .. .? i*v> f < i I THE GREAT DESTROY I ? SOME STARTLING FACTS ABC THE VICE OP 1NTEMPERANC f { "Nviiat Wfrfeftf Did?Wife and Mol g Murdered, Father Hanged, C dren Outraged, Home Destrc ?Traffic Wrought Utter Ru ' I was sitting at my breakfast ti * one morning when I was callec my door by the ring of the door-1 luere stood a boy thirteen year: 1 age, poorly clad, but tidied up best he could. He was leaning crutches, one leg off at the knee. I a. voice that trembled with emot t I tears coursing down his cheeks, "> said: i . "Mr. Hoagland, I am Frei f Brown. I have come to see if will go to the jail to talk and j with my father. He is to be t r to-morrow for the murder of > mother. My father was a good n but whisky did it. I have three . tie sisters, younger than myself. are very, very poor, and have j friends. We live in a dark, di 3 room. I do the best I can to i port my sisters by selling pap blacking boots and doing odd j but, Mr. Hoagland, we are a\ poor. Will you come and be witl tv ueu icxtiici & uuuy is uruugui uu; The Governor says we may have body after he is hung." I was deeply moved to pity, promised, and made haste to - jail, where I found the father. He acknowledged that he n ; have murdered his wife, for the f cumstances pointed that way, bul . had not the slightest remembra of the deed. He said he was era - with drink or he would never Ij committed the crime. He said: j "My wife was a good woman j a faithful mother to my child ; Never did I dream that my ha [ should be guilty of such a crime.' The man could face the penalt: . the law bravely for his deed, b;-". broke down and cried as if his hi i would break when he thought leaving his children in a destil and friendless condition. I read prayed with him and left him to t fate. The nest morning I made my 1 to the miserable quarters of the r children. I found three little g ' on a bed of straw in one cornei the room. They were beautiful gi had they proper care. They were expecting the body their dead father, and between tl cries and sobs would say, "Papa good, but whisky did it." In a little while two strong offi< came bearing the body of the d father in a rude pine box. They , it down on two rickety stools. ' f cries of the children were so he rending they could not endure and made haste out of the ro leaving me alone with the terr r scene. In a moment the manly boy ner himself and said, "Come, sisters, ] papa's face before it i3 cold." T gathered about his face and smoot ; it down with kisses, and betw | their sobs cried out, "Papa was gc ! but whisky did it." I raised my heart to God and s . "0 God, did I fight to save a com that would derive a revenue froi traffic that would make a scene ' ' this possible?" In my heart I s "In the whole history of this accui traffic there has not been eno t revenue derived to pay for one s i scene as this. The wife and mot murdered, the father hung, the c i dren outraged, the home destroy* I there promised my God I wc vote to save my country from ruin of the oligarchy.?Evangel j Friend. 3229 Oliio Saloons Close.. Now that the new Aiken high i cense law has gone into effect Ohio 3229 saloons have been clo and their owners and keepers h been compelled to go out of busin One thousand dollars for a permii i carry on the work of the devil 1 more than these men could pay, they will seek other means of ea ing a living and leave the business ! the hands of law abiding "gen men" who can afford to pay the cense fee. Now it is proposed that a law s ! ilar to the Aiken law be enacted Indiana by the next Legislature, certainly would get rid of the lo^ dives and groggeries if such a 1 would be passed. So much at 1( > would be gained. I ,. A Japanese Soldier. A Japanese lieutenant will wound in his left lung lay in hospital nest to an officer witt wound in each lung. The see* ? was in a far more serious conditi l vet he recovered far more quid i and was dismissed from the hosp more than a month earlier. r L lieutenant, when asked the reas was told by the surgeon, "The ot ! officer's blood is not poisoned by cohol anfl tobacco as^ yours fis." r lieutenant is now an outspoken t< ' perance man. Every soldier in company has signed the pledge Christian Endeavor World. * Gospel For Saloonkeepers. What gospel of redemption cl > the saloonkeeper offer to men v 1 have blighted their careers by ac terv, who have stained their nar t by embezzlement, who have distor t their souls by graft, who have lap into moral bankruptcy by re^ I against the law of God? Only thi: eat, drink, be merry?drown y life in drugs?bury your soul in , | ileptbs of a wild debauch. Getdru: Discharged. ; A brakeman on the Consolida ' Road, which was formerly a part the old New England Railroad s tem, was discharged by the compj for entering a saloon and takinj drink. He was informed that he forever barred from being emplo; i by the company in any capacity wh ) soever, for breaking the rule that 1 bids the use of intoxicating liqu at all while on duty, and the ex< I sive use of them while off duty. i The President and Rum. I President Roosevelt, when at v.^o/1 nf (ho Mow Ynrlr Rnarrl nf } li<*:>. gave his opinion of the r traffic as follows: "The liquor bi ness tends to produce criminality 1 the population at large, and li 1 breaking among the caloonkeep themselves: debauches not only 5 body social, but the body politic , well." j Twelve cities as valuable as j burned area of San Francisco co . be built in a year with the money i liquor traffic costs this nation. ER I THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. , )UT INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMIE. ME NTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2. Lher Subject: Bartimacus and Zaccliaeus, Hiil- Luke xviii., 35, to Luke xix., 10 >yed ?Golden Text, Luke xix., 10? in. Memory Verses, 42, 43. able T. Bartimaeus cries aloud for I to mercy (vs. 35-39). 35. "Was come sell, nigh." When Jesus and His discis of pies were entering Jericho they met 1 as the blind men and Bartimaeus was on healed. Mark 'says it was when they In were leaving the city. "Certain blind ion, man." Matthew says there were two. he 36. "The multitude." In addition to the crowds that frequently 3die followed Jesus, there were many peoyou pie on their, way to attend the Pass>ray over at Jerusalem. 37. "Jesus of ung Nazareth." So called because Nazareth was His home until He began aan> | His active ministry. litw [ 38. "He cried." He had evident? ly heard of the fame of Jesus, and Vi r>r\T Uc onnlH 1 +Via Klltifl T + i'c? ilVH AAV vuutvt UP(41 lut U11UU> lb 10 the chance of a lifetime; there is no sU^" time to lose; in a mofaent He will ^5?* have passed. "Son of David." With ?D ' the Jews this expression was applied to the Messiah. "Have mercy on me." The case of this blind man ilj.' lustrates well the condition of a sinner and his efforts in coming to God. y 39. "Rebuked him." Whenever the a soul be?ins t0 cry a{ter Jesus for light and salvation the world and the lust devil 3?in together to drown its cries cir_ and force it to be silent. "Cried? l more." He was in earnest, and opince P?sition only caused it to increase, -i II. Jesus restores Bartimaeus' sieht (vs- 40-43). 40. "Jesus stood." The csy.for and J mercy will always cause the Saviour rei). to stop. He takes not another step; nds this is the first thing to be attended to. "To be brought." He could havo f of healed his eyes at a distance, but this he is an important case and He decides jart to show I-Iis power before this whole of company. "When he has come." uto Mark tells us that in his haste to and reach Christ he cast away his garhis ment. 41. "What wilt thou?" Christ knew what he desired, but He tvay must know it from him; the divine ,oor P*an is to ask if we would receive. ;iris "Lord." The Revised Version in of Mark renders this Rabboni?my Masiris, ter. This was the highest title of reverence. ' of 42. "Thy faith hath saved thee." iieir~ His faith was the medium through was which the blessings of God were brought to him. It was not his earners nestness, or his prayers, but his faith ead in Christ that was commended, and set yet earnestness and prayers are also The important. 43. "And immediately." art- it was not necessary to wait a long it, time for a gradual healing, but inom, stantly he saw. "Followed Him." ible As a disciple. AAA. uacv^uucuo uvu wuica UliilUUl" ved ties (vs. 1-4). kiss i. "Passed through." "Was passbey ing through."?R. V. Zacchaeus bed evidently lived in the city. Tidings een 0f the appr h of Christ and His >C(J? apostles must l * preceded Him. 2. "Zacchaeus." was a Jew by birth (v. 9), but because he had engaged itry in a business so infamous in the eyes a of the Jews he was considered as a like mere heathen (v. 7). "Chief among ai(J- the publicans." At Jericho was lo"sed cated one of the principal custom u&h houses. The trade in balsam was ucl1 extensive and Zacchaeus was evidenther ]y superintendent of the tax collecthil ors who had the oversight of the rev*d. enue derived from that article. As ^ a publican he was a religious outcast, the "Rich." And like many rich men ical had not always come honestly by his money. 3. "Sought to see Jesup" At this time Zacchaeus must have had li- conviction of sin. He was not satisin fled with his riches and his dishonsed est, wicked life. "Little of stature." avo And could not see over the heads of ess. the multitude. 4. "Ran before." ( tn Lavine aside his dienitv as rhtef nnh. was lican. so IV. Jesus abides with Zacchaeus irn- (vs. 5-7). 5. "Jesus?saw him." 3 in The truly divine part was that Jesus tie- fathomed his heart and understood li* its longing. "Zacchaeus." Jesus called him by name, although He im- had probably never met him in the in flesh before. "Come down." Those We whom Christ calls must come down, rest must humble themselves. "Must law abide." Christ invited Himself, not :ast doubting a welcome. How long He remained we do not know. 6. "He made haste," etc. He had not expected to have the honor of being j noti<*d, much less to entertain the I i a Royal Guest. the 7> "When they saw it." The 1 a crowd of Jews murmured. It re-vn . ? ? ... *-" quireu courage to meet tne preju- I on> dices of the nation, but Jesus always ! had courage to do the right. "To be ital guest." Thus recognizing Zacchaeus rhe as an equal, socially. * ^n' V. Salvation comes to Zacchaeib her (vs. 8-10). rhe "Tlie half of my ?oods>" etcSome consider this to mean that he 'hjs had already done this, but it is far more probable that he now determines to use b#; property for God and humanity. "If?by false accusation." The "if" does not imply doubt; he had taken money wrongoes fully. "Fourfold." This restitution irlio the Roman laws required the tax Iul- gatherers to :u.i!;o when it was nes proved they hau defrauded the peoted pie. 9. "Salvatioa come." Zacsed chaeus was saved ? delivered from rolt his past Bias aiu1 made "a new creats? nre." 10. "Is com; to seek." While ! our Zacchaeus was so desirous of seeing the the Saviour, Jesus we*; iiu.u-6 desirous ait! to see and save him. MoulitTul ol' Gold and Diamonds. Alfred Eeit was a friend of the young Sultan of Johore, who once ted visited him at Johannesburg for the of purpose of purchasing a handful o? ;ys- diamonds. Tho Sultan was accommy panied by a large retinue, including ? a a celebrated Paris dentist. While a was mere lad an accident with a horse , yed resulted in the loss of nearly every iat- tooth in his head, and when he :or* reached his majority ne naa iwo ors plates of solid gold substitutes inside, . :es" and in the crown of each a De Beers diamond was set. When he laughs the effect is weird, more especially when the sun catches the gems and the makes them flash like fire. Po um Rocord Price For a Blooded Pig. usi- p Martin, of Beloit, Wis., paid *n J. Querrelo, of Kansas City, Mo., aw" breeder of Berkshire hogs, near Indelprs pendence, $3000 for Lord Bacon, a ^ie Berkshire boar. It is said to be the as highest price ever paid for an American bred hog. Lord Bacon is a grandson of Masterpiece, which was the sold by Querrolo for $1000 to an "Id Illinois man, who afterward sold him the to M. T. Gentry, of Sedalia, for$2500. Querrolo raised both hogs. ?? ; i , -' % jflfilf CNVE1LED. Deep in the stillness of a night ?Vhose rain had drenched the way I ' rod. _ .' 1 wakened from day's earthly dreama And walked alone with God. v'q The moaning winds were hushed in rest* The world seemed sleeping after pain, And where the cloudy rack had gloomed The stars shone clear again. 4 Each wayside puddle held a glimpso ! Of heights wherein it used to dwell, As if the rain had brought with it j Memories of whence it fell. * Rained down and drowned in dusty pools The quiet stars lay shining througn; And earth was all so steeped in Heaven \ That it wa3 Heaven, too. / T tliA rAi'/ift r\f fJnH Spoke to ine in that lonely place; 1 raised my eyes in wondering fear, And looked, and saw His face. And ever since, I see but God . In earth and man, in deep and height, As one whose eyes the sun has filled Looks round, and sees but light. ?A. St. John Adcock, in The Academy. The Fundamental Truth. How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord??Acta, At the outset the Christians of Jerusalem agreed to have all things in common. Those who had fields and houses sold them and the proceeds were put into the common ? purse. Only a certain* couple, Ananias and Sapphira, decided that they, wished to be Christians and get the* advantages, whatever they might be, of Christianity without bearing all the burden of it. They therefore agreed to sell part of their property and put the money; in the common purse, but to represent that money to be the proceeds of the sale of the whole property. Thcv Hid so and were nunished by death, visited upon them miraculously, because they had tempted the Spirit of the Lord. The words of the text are the words of St. Peter, which he addresses to the woman whom he accuses of the conspiracy between. herself and her husband to defraud God. This story of Ananias and Sapphira is, as I take it, an allegory intend- , ed to express a profound Christian i-"iU Ua ?A />om? iruiii. 1UCIC ^au UO UV uiViv plete unity and community orinterest than that which exists among children of one household. But by, virtue of its fundamental principles Christianity is such a brotherhood. All are children of one Father?and brothers each of the other. This relation is the first thought in the Lord's Prayer, "Our Father, which are in heaven," the pattern prayer of Christendom. It underlies the two Commandments which our Lord sub- stituted for the ancient ten?namely, (1) "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," and (2) "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Expressed in terms of property, it appears in our Lord's leaching that a man should regard himself merely as the steward, not the owner, of his possessions; that is, that his prdperty is not his to enjoy, for himself, but only to administer ^ for the greatest good of his brethren. No man is a true Christiail who has not made the fundamental surrender of himself and all that he has a- ~ J v? in fallAW IU VjUU ill (tiiu imuugu uio iguvTn men. He "who, professing the name of Christianity, still regards worldly, goods?his powers, his talents, his knowledge, tbe wealth which he has inherited or acquired?as his for his own amusement, for his own aggrandizement, for the enrichment of his -1 children and not for the service of his brother men, has tempted the Spirit of1 the Lord, and his punishment is spiritual death. He cannot know God, for God is love; but to know God is to possess eternal Hfe, and not to know God is to be dead eternally. This is the fundamental truth of* Christianity, above all expressions of creeps. A man may believe with his mind and express with his lips belie? in all the doctrines of the Christian Church; unless he makes the surrender of himself and what he possesses he does not in fact believe in Christ. True belief in Jesus Christ is the acceptance as the rule of life of the Spirit of Christ, the spirit of service and sacrifice. To choose as the standard and the aim of one's life self-advancement or self-pleasing instead of the service of one's fellows?above all, to make one's very profession of religion a means of self-profit?that is the sin against the Holy Spirit which may not be forgiven either here or hereafter. ) That is the meaning and the lesson of the parable of Ananias and Sapphira. who agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord.?John P. Peters, Rector of St. Michael's Church, New York, in the Sunday Herald. The Judas Tree. "What is this tree?" I asked. "The Judas tree," said Vittoria. "Do you not know how it got its name? In the Garden of Gethsemane grew a beautiful tree covcred w/'"5 white flowers. When Judas eL?.ered the garden and betrayed his Mister with a kiss, the tree blushed for shame. It blushes still, and will do so till the end of the world.'-? From Howe's Two in Italy. "Blessed Are They That iinngcr." "To be satisfied," writes another, "is to stagnate and become unwhole- (^^ some; to be satisfied is to petrify.- fl and become a monument sacre.l to! H the memory of an experience; to bo- 'H satisfied is to lay down the histor-. 9 ian's pen; to be satisfied is to term-; 9 inate one's spiritual biography. No, i 9 no. Blessed are they who arc not) 9 satisfied, who long for more, for taey.: 9 shall find both joy and inspiration in ( 9 nnrsnit "?Christian Intelligencer. 9 High Record on Births. " ' ' Jpsala, a town of European Tup* ^ key, has a remarkable case of fecundity. A Turkish woman there has had seven children in two years. She had quadruplets in 1904 and recently she gave birth to two sons and a daughter." All are in excellent health. The mothsr is twenty years old. Titles For Mayor. Mayor Ekers. of Montreal, Canada, is addressed personally ?;s "your worship," and in the third person as "hi3 worship." i We ? - - -