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8. And they come--Certain un- : 'persons, a larger company | than just the four men with their | afflicted friend. The incidént which ) i LL JoYt The above excellent photograph, reproduced. from the London ler, shows Lord: Londonderry, on the left, and Sir Edward Carson, the two leaders, "or ringleaders, as your: fancy may call them, of the h Unionists, who are organizing all the opposition in Ireland to he forthcoming bill giving Home Rule to Ireland. They are breath- ing blood and thunder, and every step the Government makes toward utting the bill into the form of law, is to be marked by a grave- stone. The Tatler says of this feature of the agitation: 'Underneath the cloak of political ferocity which both sides adopt, we believe there isa secret joy in the contemplation of a period when they can unre- trainedly 'see a head and hit it." A VENERABLE AGREEMENT. Natives of Egypt Loyal to' One : Written in 1799. o the dwellers in. far corners of | the earth; black or brown or yellow, rently unqui stood -duie ming for permission to follow and ver his: alata DUKE OF SUTHERLAND. Disposes of Another Big Slice of ils Holding in England. ick securely | The Duke of Sutherland, the aris- stom | tooratie. prophet. : oth it will | seems bent on prep ly, drawing| When he believes. ly good for [be a fit and proper place for noble- for ordinai ien to live in. Another proof that . | his hopes are centred in Canada, 'where picked Scotsmen are being settled on his Alberta farms, is now forthcoming: Another slice of his | fed parent goes of shedding the ke of Suther- atagious, for it of land RET Europeans are Furopeans only: They are all white 'wen and all Christians; the trifling differences between Englishman and French- man: and German are mot under stood any more cleanly by them [than the distinction between Ba- songo and Matabele and Baganda is. understood by. us, i instance in illustration is given by Butcher in 'Egypt as We {| Knew It." When the British troops : were making their way up the Nile in a vain 'attempt' to relieve Khartum and save Gordon, they came to a certain town and camped for the night. Some of the soldiers went off to obtain provisions, and appear to have behaved badly. At any rate there was a brawl of - some kind, and some natives were in- juted. Order "was restored, but a deputation of village elders shortly appeared and insisted on seeing the officer in command. : To his surprise, they formally re- monstrated with him' for breach of contract. 'On our side," they said, 'we had loyally kept and were ing. it. You were ullowed to camp without interference, and we aring" to send you sup- ! then, did you break your agreement and send your men into our village?' : t,"" said the officer, 'I haye 'eement, with you. I never or heard of your village be- '6 you nob a white man and a i174 asked the village elders, tly. "It is true we did not o contract with you; 'our made, it with the white offi- : before you. But we | guitah erer BIRTH OF THE WORLDS, Prof. Bickerton Explains How New Stars are Born. How new stars were born was ex- lained at the Royal Institution ast week by Professor A. W. Bick- erton in the first of two lectures on 'The New Astronomy.' Profescor Bickerton, who has been sent by the New Zealand Gov- ernment to expound his theory of the birth of the worlds to scientific men in England; said that new stars were born hy-solar collision. "The impact of two colliding suns," he said, "results in the for- mation of a third body; a brilliant star flashes out and becomes per- manent. "A complete collision of two gas- eous guns would result in the form- ation of a new sun. Such collisions are not accidental, and go not oc- cur at random. Gravitation is in- cludéd among a number of agencies tending te develop collisions; be- fore suns come into collision they fall toward each other, and get up gpeed for hundreds of years. '"The tremendous speed thus de- veloped is stopped suddenly in the colliding parts, and converted into heat. Thus, in about an hour a Dew star is born, explosive force ex- pands it, and it swells out its dia- meter at a speed of millions of miles an hour." "Professor Bickerton, speaking of 'Nova Persei, the new star of the w century, said it was go brilliant that nothing equal to it has been seen for 800 years. 'It was 10,000 times as brilliant as the sun. : a IMPORTANT INVENTION, From Straw It Is Possible to Obtain Ui Fibre for Spinning. An invention perfected and tested fin Austria has caused no little ex- | citement; in. the textile world. It | consists of a process of treatment of common straw whereby it is now possible fo secure ther a fibre Mpg) follows is introduced into the nar- rative. to illustrate -how the words roused , the antagonism ¥ " "gertain scribes' '(verse 6). : : Ys A man sick of the palsy---Literal ly, a paralytic. « 4..Uncovered the roof---The roofi of Palestine houses were flat and covered with tiles or, in the caseol the more modest dwellings, with thatch. : ; 5. Their = faith--More especially the faith of the four men who would not be Heterred by any difficulties, however great, from bringing their friend to the notice of Jesus: The sick manrdoubtless also exercised faith, but the antecedent of the pro- noun théy is clearly the word four in verse 3. Son--Greek, child. 6. Certain of the scribes--Phari- sees and lawyers, present for the express purpose of watching, and, if possible, finding cause for legal accusation against him. Doubtless some of those ' referred to were emissaries from the hostile party at Jerusalem, by whom the death of Jesus had already béen determined upon (compare Luke 6. 17; John 5. 18). 7. He blasphemeth--For strict orthodox Jews who rejected the Messianic clairas of Jesus there was no dlternative verdict? the claim to forgive sins implied, according to their strictly = orthodox views, a claim to distinet equality with God. This implied claim of Jesus these men were quick to recognizé. Hence their question, Who can forgive sins but one, even God! Having rejected his claim to divinity. they could not do = otherwise than bit- terly antagonize Jesus. 8. Perceiving in his spirit--Know- ing who these menrwere, Jesus knew they would understand his mes- 'sage. He knew, too, that for them there would be but two possible courses" of action with regard to himselfs Either they must receive his message and become his disciples or they must reject it and treat him as an impostor and blasphemer. The expression on their faces doubt- less indicated which of these alter- natives they were choosing. 9, 10.. Which is easier, to say-- As if Jesus had said, 'You have heard me say, Thy sins are forgiv- en, but have no way of knowing whether: my word carries the nec- essary power with it. But there is another simple sentence, as easily spoken, though as difficult of ful fillment :with which we may make the test dB the power and author- ity to, which I lay claim. That word is, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk. 'And that ye may know that this power is really 'mine I will speak that second word also." Jesus doubtless. would 'have healed the sick man any way. since none of his miracles were performed merely to gratify curiosity or prove his: power. Now, however, at the very beginning of the long conflict with the recognized religious au- thorities;. his .enemies were not to be left in reasonable doubt of the validity of his c¢laimé; and, there- fore, -the miraclé is permitted in. this case to serve a double purpose. It relieves actual suffering and re- veals to the doubting scribes a sure * and adequate. ground for faith in Jesus.