we Be a NOTES AND COMMENTS We have referred heretofore to aha novel feature of the British “prevention of crime’ act, de- signed primarily to suppress or segregate the confirmed, hopeless criminal. The act has passed both houses of parilament, but not in its original form. | It was found necessary to make concessions to those whe objected to the ‘‘revo- lutionary” principle of punishing defendants not for specific crimes, but for “habitual criminality’’ and | ¢ who, moreover, thought that it would preve class legislation, di-|¢ rected against the members of the home office. der such a provis- ‘For we ate his workmanship.” -—Eph., ii-, 10. Almost an the lives that reach any measure of right self-consci- ousness regard themselves as in a stant struggle between the things prey. ia hes do. leed doe: n that one can find his iene i in ed things he loves | m: Seldom|to you it r ON: of righting it. ae mok it is your duty to i Tt is better to © the eS of thinking you r times than to be Could We Ever Dream of the Higher Tasks Bete” Rie But for the Lower Duties ? ee @ full life in the present, LIONS IN THE BUSH. A Hunter’s Experience With the BURDENS THAT MAKE US) ose: Lions were not Seo ined British Last toes: and™ sneer did not see a oe lion except on one single occasio! It is perlite needless to remark that lions do not roar when hunt- __ It would be @ foolish AA the lion- 1 my position piven esd. atibiod tayadlh on tha long grass abont half a mile from the noisy line of beaters poorest and most unfortunate sec-| may. rest, however, are not|bnt at lay oe be molded by your mali guo-bearer, Elmi tion of the population. necessarily justified in regarding | time’ Hast = yi g beside. me, pointed their unwelcome wor = the foe Hor then can we learn to live in ead sayin aS, CBee bee nella aietheke teghaat welt cur lives so that, with all this seem- ce yard In the original bill the court was} It is true that many oa are illy | 12g conflict, they will be right! How | 5 eerily “hd nae hon er aan. given authority to impose on a per-| adjui ets are king in|Cam we reconcile all the opposing time I could distinguish nothing on tried for the third timo on a|brickyards and plowmen are trying) Peccssivies and aspirations! | Me¥| noving whatever; but at last, as eriminal charge not merely tho or-/*° make poems for a living. | Wei 'r sie necessity upon us to the lions came exactly opposite my dinary sentence, but, in addition, |}<xs than to ourselves to discover £0 ee sof nirecliee away in the pease w poe was Tap- “preventive detention” during he ou own aptitude, clint ers, hel ofthe words erst ans a8 SAE Sagat be s for which | Mach ‘ z Biegeure otrne crgwe,, seeming ie best powers in the tad We hate nol Could:-we' ever Bt t ourselves for|lo7 and seslthy was their advan 'y ion the incorrigibles would remain in the ponitentiary to the end of their days. In the act as passed the additional sentence of preven- tive detention is expressly limited to a maximum of ten and a mini- mum of five years. Habitual crim- inality is fer the first time definite- i ly recognized by the British law as ® distinct offense, but the maxi- mum penalty for it is not perman- ent isolation from society, but de- tention for ten years. No doubt this penalty is likely to prove a deterrent in many cases, but it will not rid the community of the hard- ened and confirmed criminal. government or its supporters lacked the courage of their reform and Baht to drift; we ought to summon every power we have in order to select a work that we can do and do -well, task he could do best, we. woul ae have the contlict between the Even then, with each man at the| nc any greater a oF THE FAITHFUL DOING tushes that grew within a do: of that which seems so little? Are|yards of each other beneath the not learning reater by|last straggling trees. I beckoned means of the less? And, beside, |to my left-hand neighbor, told him can we be always qui ite sure whic w old do. the things he w ngs we must do an Perhaps you have heard it said that in the goo None would for | lo. ng be satis- fied with that aerannereh nt. \d those we harps would soon be sighing for LESS EXALTED DUTIES. The res would be an easy matter to is the segs pad dee tne less? may be tl he plowman is really doing a huge work than the poet, for what is the real measyre of all our works. Is the chief exe- putin for the time being abandoned the ins =e a tle Gat anny 3 ae ‘ cs nas ‘ cessit ides of trying the effect of perman-| “iy aspirations: Be content; life i pebbles ths jewelscars: discovered ently segregating the human beasts! chort heaven: awaits time’s Eee japidary © called. sorietimes of prey. There are those who vigorously deny that there is such a species ads people s a dose for the sake of Pee nal health hereafter. None of the problems of uring are dieparitis will be adjusted in ie duty Bee Aorotines adversity. nly as we seé life in the Halt of these higher values does the duty and desire appear and the necessity fer the conflict ee 5] what . had seen, and arcanged that he should advance from # t waite. { went straight in to the lions left. 5 i Naturally, under such circum- stances one went in with sense on full stretch, anticipating and prepared for any contingency, but on drawing nearer and nearer to those two bushes without seeing ;\a sign of movement within, the tension ap as to slacken. y yards distance it seem- eaniaposible what so large a beast s a lion could be lying in so smal! a bush without my seeing it. They must, I thought, have slipped away unobserved valking on almost carelessly until ain yeards of the right-hand tues when Elmi suddemy seize pointing the rifle he eo the base of the bush, and his ue see! the lion! Shoot, “nts line Che more I anit admit I cous as the habitual criminal, who argue/solved by a mechanical content, by| meaning of the toil and hardship see nothing. Strain my eyes as that freed convicts are driven back | 9" assumed costa auliesphiee Pechigere rine: would, T could antagean nothing. into the paths of violence and ag-|*© the facts that fre ab-|longs to a nobler or. n is| Yet Elmi was so positive that I de- Meaty , : 8") solutely certain pieaeue will not/|ir the making he learns not simply ated perhaps rather recklessly, gression by the inhumanity of so-|pe rightly lived until it is more(to endure but to delight in the toils [to fire eiety and the universal fear, dis-|than a probation for a problema-| o! nt, to circum-| There was no mistaking the res- trust and hatred of ‘jail birds,” |tic future. Folks will endure all| stance, to show himself master of|ponse, a grow] more savage than But instances are notorious where freed convicts are given encourage- ment and opportunity and yet re- turn to criminal careers. At any rate, thie new English act contains provisions for the reformation of criminals before they fall into the “habitual”? class. NKaRR RS. BRS ae other scientist, Sin aes ob ono glad. heaped {l THE BLARNEY STONE. the heavy price of amputation for| kinds of discomfort and even wrong on the bleak threshold when they know the door to warmth and cheer will soon be open: The ‘world abeda those who are 1 to find the life that strikes its roots so deep into eter- nity that neither parching drought nor rising flood affect is prosperity. HENRY F. COPE. DEVOTION TO SCIENCE. Costs Another ‘Scientist the a of Pa t of His eure Han convinced that if they were gather- ed where the salmon were watching Bacay would: bese nght. primitive women W. left at home are not aered to talk, lost the fish might hear isap- prove, while the first fish is anaes —_— experimenting “x-rays.” brought in through a window in- Romance and Superstition Cluster _ Mr. Cox, who is one a the lead-| stead of a door, so that other fish Roun manufacturers of ‘‘x-rays’’ and | may i see. Among the old castles of Ireland a of this building that the Blarney stone is set, a stone that has given to English speech a name for what is otherwise sometimes known as The castle itself dates in ds author of ‘Shamrock . F. Jones, visited the the Se its neighborhood” ‘a short ime ago, and ee entertaining- } ¥ on the sw Blarney Castle ‘obtained its pres-| ¢ gnt fame from a famous stone, still uy successful, and ill turn out as well as that in tho| ‘eft hand, which has siseonecix the cht operation was apparently oped that fn the walls, round which clusters | Jost both his hands a much of romance and pepe ae: Pitas says that—after Cormac Jarthy had built the Say He aes one day to save an old w: awarded a pe list, Mr, Cox has suffered from the respect: early - |dangers of the then newly-discover- ignorance 's operators ae elabor it is ho; ‘ing ie ‘frequency coils and ppeeate The Eskimo women of Alaska ; {never sew while the men are fish: ing, and should any mendin, perative they do it ae a in little tents out of sight of the sea. Under no peaestenoe on the north-east coast of Scotland will a ed. fisherman at sea mention certain contracted the| js given to Hall Edwards, who has the the li |, SO at sea fish must not be counted until they are all caught. It is good luck to find mice nib- bling among the nets; a horseshoe nailed to the mast will help; and a herring caught and salted down will preduce wonders. In the Shetland Islands a cat it golden tongue which should have | ately eS , being the power of fluent persuasiveness {practically impervious to the ‘"xjh¢ meets a woman wearing’a white —a tongue that could influence | trays,” the experimentalists use| ®PTOD- men and women, friends and foes, | spectacles eiatatnine glass with a!_ Every year the natives of the as he willed, To get this power, Noy, gloves made of rubber) Puke of York Island decorate however, Cormac must climb to the ne with lead, and Ae masks|C@n0e with flowers and fern, fill it Koop of the castle, let binwalf down /for the fees Aud. shoulders awith = eel) money, ani iy stmwe dificult way, and Kise ox, however, was ono of|adrift, ‘'to compensate the fish for certain ating: in the walls situated about t once ob- tained all the persuasive eloquence which had been promised him. h joon the story was told through- |} out Ireland. It went also to other countries, and made Blarney~ one during the Boer In. testing the the first Saas of ‘ feet below apparatus in Oe EA tie Heat to be nraughbinke une War, where it was of great veld. to the surgeons. He worked a great deal in conjunction i : Gall. Edwards. apparatus ands, naturally, were the first to en the disease first x-ray’ | their fellows caught and e the aten. Tt was always the custom of the ere the paar a prayer that it might tempt pahejedieh to copretand be caught.” ee BELGIAN CHILDREN form of of chap—which! ‘This delight in th Sel best-known castles in the often disappears if the ‘‘x-rays’’ characteristic of al 5 ake oie are at once left alone—Mr. Cox} cacg in issels and Autwe: Walking round the top of the disregarded it, and went on test- castle walls in the warm sunshine, look for rom the very top of the stone bat- |o pee et to kiss the stone by be- ix let down over the walls by thé heels, ar was the custom at one on the fir body at the waist and thrust his head and shoulders down about three fect through a position turn his neck and kiss the stone from the under side. An at- tendant with aed muscles must be at hand to h hole to the prawn: o hundred and peration. bat-j intolerable pain. ing his work so that it might be! \,,. the noted | sent out. to the war i The pain became so intense, how- Cox has been a eile to aluioat Pe Ro FISEING SUPERSTITIONS, and be Caug! In British ae sted Indians ceremoniously out st salmon, ay in fla Karaks used to dance Meanwhile one of their secluded Pitinelt as the mountains and fasted for return he reste approached the iver, took the first salmon of the y ith th to Curions Ways of Tempting Fish to eet the tte: sear voices : try to win their favor by calling thetes: The tovabo them all chiefs. Every spring in California the | for salmon. Upon his number ‘| remainder lighted a sacrificial fire. same Indians sahpriouy elimb- ed to the mountain-to: er the Monsieur eowienading’ in the boule. ° prOud byes BESheir peredth Gee finds children in the restaurants and children in the music halls are shared always with the nursery. To go junketing without the ehil- happiness is the happiness ‘of children. shops in Brussels tell of the res amount part played by the child. ‘he fabian of this people is the pleasure of domesticity. aera First Office-Boy—"‘T told the gov- under my eyes-and see if I didn’t Office-Boy—‘‘He paid I needed a twenty fe 9 Selo) poles for the spearing-| Pastis being | half-bar of soap. ea eee ; Ss pg Se ya ae os a = 2 cs ae, ees os ee % a re SSE eee ce a a cotton ‘hres, still en to its ernor to look at the dark circles} {i there was any I sent the second bullet, and the beast droppe hile rushing forward to examine east, citement fe the second lion, I was promptly ee y shouts and y fired shots in that direction Turning, I was just in time to see iis seccod Meant cundscnt ser the thick covert. I remember see- ing her ae ‘teeth as she -com- menced a Bie paecnig ivan cardi aay, but that movement was her last. A Paradox bullet on the shoulder dropped ODD CAUSES 6F FIRE. Will Catch in the Most Unaccount- able Ways. It seems almost a wonder sae the world is not burned up, w ne realizes what strange circum tehaes may cause a disastrous fir one case, according to a well known insurance man, the peaceful crawling of an iasect set a e cotton watse had Leen used with minera and then thrown away. An unlucky insect cravicd i eth that oil-saturated wasie, and then cai ut with some of nthe oily fibres | athenon ad its body round the eno coming at last to the gi eet its fate. The body, ¢ t fire, and the unfortu- nate creat Stopped Blazing ¢ He the floor, setting the place Cotton waste was also partly re- sponsible for another curious fire, This time an electric spark did the mischief, passing from a belt to some conducting substance near it and communicating with the cot- ton, Two instances may be cited of fire Tn the first case a flood caused the water inside a factory until it reached a ae fe of iron filings. W last set fire ey em, and so the building was de- ved. te the other Re the water from the engines during a fire found its way into a sea Pntaenine quick- im The heat ed slacking of the lime set fire to the pees and this to the other bxild- Glia globes, which act as lenses, in pavement are dangerous, aad should be abandoned in favor of lights with flat tops. One of the curious facts about fire is te re) a peer iota th It seems to be an ing bothered to set fire to a stove- ful of ope tinge ve lett to itself, re will one e most unac- countable to have t for manufactur- Sess The average man seems a natural taleni MEAL TIME IN SWEDEN HOURS FOR SERVING THEM IN THAT COUNTRY. Breakfast at 11.30, Dinnor at 4.30 or 5—Schools Open Daily at 8.30 or nee Tio osthmein particular seems to be expected of the servant,” writes “ correspondent of an English paper. “She appears to be usually dress- ed in a cittevent volored skirt and blouse, vap, en without a collar. In times of stress she arranges a handkerchief upon her head, and if fold wears a little |j scarlet. coat, which is more sugges- tive to the English Gund of the golf course than of housework. She is, jowever, usually a capable cook, and having dished up her dinner waits at table, ys: 11.30. “Tn Stockholm breakfast is usu- ally taken about 11.30 and dinner. at 4.30 or 5. It requires a little time for English people to accom- modate themselves to these hours, but there are consolations. m,, or even ; but there is a long break about 11 o’clock, when the ~ chil- dren come home, hungry, cheerful and ee of breakfasi the nature of ce Smeal 16 is diffoult te prophesy. It may con- sist of beefsteak and onions or 0} eggs and pancakes. sausage in some form or other are usually provided, and the beverage is always milk and sometimes tea as well. In most households coffee is served between 1 and 2, and this meal is often z he occasion a Blatant little pattevinn of intiniate PREAMBLE TO DINNER. “Between 2-and 4 in the after- noon is the usual time for formal ealls, and people then return for 4.30 or 5. The preamble to a Swed- ah dinner is often rather confus- ing to the uninitiated. There is usually a small table laid with diff- erent kinds of cheese, eu ne but- ter and hard bread all help f | ourselves, and eat oes paading or refine about the room. This done, we return to Sts big table and the real meal beg’ “Well-to-do Beaded: Bete con- tent tuemselves. with two courses, either meat and a sweet or soup and a sweet, as the case may be. Different varieties of stewed fruit are more frequently served with with us, and I remember a dish aildh consisted of bacon, boiled paste and Frencn plums, which seemed to one a_ strange mixture at first. “At 9 o’clock tea‘is usually served with bread and butter, cheese and old meats. Of the tea it must be said that it is quite harmless, but it is difficult to speak enthusiasti- cally about it. It is not likely to keep awake even the lightest sleep THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, M Review. Golden Text, Acts 8:4. Three eras are considered in the Two Great Powers producing Chieti ently: its rutts and successes (A:D. 30). The Everliving each and Sayi- heaven, sittin but also ich he wrought through So the picture of the in 2 is the out- shining in agtual life of the tea h ngs of Jesus, the Beatitudes and Golden Constantine’s motto signo vinces,’’ ‘‘By this sign fer the eros) thou shalt conquer," 's true ehurch in all he men which largely successful in spreading the gospel, or building up the religi- ous life. The Holy Spirit coming with new because made esence was made manifest to the senses we that people’ would realize tl and the nature of the power beam ee the acter of the people, and mul- ehaled the number cofsihe a ometene Relate the stories of the Ascen- sion, the Prayer Meeting, the Day of Pentecost. The Second Era. The Home Church at Jerusalem (A.D. 30-35 or Chetan has the Growth of the church af four directions. . The Weanstormating of charac: r, seen in the in n Peter} and Seea also in the oF hs first Christians. expressions which emai: Growth in aes on. Give the ek marke. wth in extent of “country fenched by the pel. icnlGcr awn Bee They Were Overcome. out, from within. ous incidents which illustrate, and express both the difficulties and the the early Christians overeamo anand The Third Era, of the Church (A D. The causes of this sepeton The places to which the church was ex Thecvelne ui thie exara tare the Progress of the church, State the main incidents of this pape he. srricinaeoaaes Mpc anias Magistrate (to. burglar)—"‘Look here, my man, if you do your ways you are sure to come ‘ rief. What made you take to such a miserable business?” Prisoner— usiness ix gdod enough, ‘ohly between your worship and the police it has beon ruined.’ State the obstacles in|. Riijo WT ae OSC” | vi ee TELLING delighted as than anything else. ‘There always stood about him a a of gaping coolles, listening with reat astonishm: ‘onderful tale; hot where there wa: of story-tellers. mon who related teles of war and o} ft ing their recitations with the Professional Foresnlace °: formed a gui me called a rented of people we: eing very clever, he would Tap with a litte slab of MIJO aerate THE STORIES 1s Mijo with the talos that upon mache gathor hi tell again the stories, He seria im aging weil, go that when he con- cluded the tales of the story teller, he n to constru janever his f¢ trom the masters of story-tellin; to help then in some way. But should Best of all, he could telt aa he was only old enough to become story: Yot not way, But stories wore vite as ers as those told yy the “ @ pity not to mako his talent ee Auk something. ing hot air. PSS . ee . = : é 2 Setar = eae nes ieee : a See = = é en s. epee saree 2 “T shall have a little ‘yore’ house of my own,” said Mijo determinedly. “1 shall have a room set apa) our house, and there I will Invite all my boy friends who Iike to hear mj stories. But, while heretofore they have listened and have not been asked to pay anything, I shall now request them to make small donations,”” From the very start Mijo's plan was hi call upon one; a while the members of the big ft thelr best oy, famous. His wil ‘The boy had becom fame for’story-telling had gone through- was that through again wealthy— possessing more riches than ever be- fore. Improved Upon It NE of tere Ee teachers at an wile chool was putting begin= through the bi I have one pencil tn my right hand and one in my left," she said. How many pencils have 1? ‘Thompson, you may answer,” 1d & small ¥ “So that, one and one Brn two, Isn't that right?” “You bet." fev: ‘Thompoon, with the flush of victy veloher “towns at this disre- Apectful ani “That is rst aes saa epee have said,” she | adiipias nak uld have been?” : ere was a moment of hesitation, Thon brown frst shot condently Inte Can, Jamies, you may tell, Thompson ne howd ha PPL be bet your, meds "shouted James, 00K ‘most like persons, dont port they?” said ie agreed ey aNd But then, cane never siete with | Efe, so that before makin 5 a TebubIe to 100) r to wher little girl wa playing with several _ poi taken trom th 0 n't. male him d she, ently coming: an’ we ve got a shplendiagy erate aon" y doit party, ee did she for; ic mae {doll f course, Bi ‘couldn't imagine what sort is & parti show this pro- ib ts. who always ippose must come from Paris in order to be EMe was delighted puzzled everybody was. “No, haven't come from anywhere yen sh 0 Luey; “avers girl has te tanks her ewaapaante brought out the foi she had nice, to find Ae the pe “cone fer own porsto doll ubstatra nae 1 it away dn the, bureaw tn her jong: Not got all about. ‘One date dolly. “gol drom that she Thad sprouts all oh Yook at the pict BMe for 1 G oust. have etlevaualy offence innocent potato Goll ae Answering Beforehand iI ahop in Brighton boy. nol knoe, wuss tae Ver Ok th Th ha: naver ‘ ‘4 Meeps we do not kno oh the water as often as wo We a0 not know how long {tt will live, ‘ We do not mian the water tt drink do not know how large tt wilh — we Bgl ‘eatch tt, but do not want to, When wa get to mun water in the r ¥ ane Pe a pout tt, js not Rabsticy Tina WHEN 'l’M enh or 0%, iron bars he looks just #0 ide PR Ng You will 4 roars and cries so loud and 5) ‘Way up my back thers runs a Sn Oh, bears and Bete: Resi eat = ye oe Eveyining that Bae ee mo, Eo stewie: ane’ hawte Al) Sores a beast, and es ae fret,