, NOTES AND COMMENTS Among the many strange rela- tionships which earthquakes hold to various natural Sheen Prof. H. H. Turner, F. R. 8 lieves that there must be a ie connection between polar move- ment and the strain on the crust ef the earth. For many years it has been observed that there are slight but irregular changes in lati- tude, og in other words, the axis of ous #irth does not always point in the same direction. The pole wand rs about in a mean position, sometimes in a path that is nearly ae while at others it appears} w to be exceedingly irregular and even retrograde. but it slightly wabbles. When the change in direction of its axis is sharp large earthquakes have been | that frequent. If a swiftly moving body | a; YOUR CREED AND RELIGION| FRANCEVERSUSGERNANT Church Service or Prayer Meeting May tee the Opposite of a aie Place. The path of the just is as a an. ing light shining more and m¢ with the perfect day.—Prov. iv. “8. in service or a “Either religion is everything ng te | wh or 9} ty On Or it ae nonin ying means|ie too absorbed iu the care of tne more thanihey inedit “Te would be: children to think of church, may a pity if the religion of forms or of/ 89 th a divine glor; narrowing philosophy became the ithe is everywhere or hole of a man’s world. It woul anywhere for us be a fine thing if the high motives of religion permeated all things in through, molds, Ss. ave become so accusto’ Leer is compelled to turn a corner that ian aligiok- and ee i it should be subjected which might result in yielding is easily conceivable. to strains |ligion mean : are our creeds and our Regarded from is e whole of life. Here churches, with their customs a pene uae we say, are relig- den to us. S| confine act and all of life or is an mpty, formal, and use’ The religion you can to a paEnes of your life nds its grave ther: les: s bur- se ey Heer ‘any faith and aie ate nd Sigeck very m t your own by i its pow- make itself felt as ‘the constant de- life. this point of view, the times at); ‘e our ae and ou which strata in seismic strain give er aRtiGnes pier i f liz Tl ing bliss, what mystic pleasures or Jtation m: ma yours way are to some extent governed we separate the caeanually ips] Se by erratic movements in the rota- Reps sie Sia angled ihe snals fone religious devotion, It dion of our sphere, For the world| $04 Pr Bes things’ with the|"", “Wook ERY AND DELUSION not carry us sufficiently far back to| religion, the. say whether earthquakes are in-| of the epinitual life of peoples; th2 ber, |creeds are their attempts to state pe understanding of religious erience From observations at the present theories of the mysteries of THE HIGHER LIFE. Ss igs: ete) Church and creed are but tools and of religion; they nei- ther constitute it uor do they make ereasing or decreasing in numbe time we know that every year sixty world shaking earthquakes are re- corded. Sudden yieldings take place in the process of rocks fold-| ing, as, for example, in the build- ing of mountain ranges. The po- pular idea that this class of east > Beet is on the increase is simply e their origins ha Peabied places. for humanity that the larger num- ve been in| values, La themse! Ol The: Sees are the agenci2s of mmunal expressions expressions an Assiot of the Ii Religion is not a department or fe. It is a motive thod of living. It is our life ote cctantonsasas Atlee taguert e just as truly Tt is fortunate | Teligious in making money as in| be ‘ou can be just as unless its power such that it goes with you on the street, guides your actions and your bearing to- ward your fellows, He translates its coe int formulate led, an eclipse of the But the religion ways religious, always fi T!jearned it thoroughly. water within olf only is religious who is al- - | deceived, the | el | cally about equal. ts. lin going to ayer meeting. ee often Bae ns that one’s Potaty is better expressed in daily com- all. HENRY F. COPE. iiiens ‘repented: shekings of si ground have been regarded ai curse to the quake is an ft is slowly closed. were not in operation, Prof. Joh: Milno, F. R. S., declares that every Jand surface would be covered ¥y This would have eccurred ages ago had there been the rising tides. no buckling crust. rogress, and, therefore, like rain- ows, indicate ot. CHILD WIVES OF INDIA. Restoration League Striving to Al-| ¢, ti Cruel System. In India a girl must before she reaches the a: nforces rule and eichie marriages. be infirm, insane. magthevens:diseated, cruel and ut terly reprobate, says the National Congress of Mothers Magazine, ve receive into is er through marriage and deal with bey girl of any age 9 of the caste relations be- hi he | Gentile who was to show Beter that as he will a little see Kham are according to nits of that system. Accepting these Cie to be|J duty and suffer: caste crmpulecn themselves, the pea eir Retest Tittle. daughters oe the nsus of ish Ind Perales under 4 years of age, 258,760; females from 5 to of age, 2,201,404; these to men of al race, but ieea aro blessings in disguise. Each earth- nnouncement that rocky strata are being folded like the bellows of a concertina when If this pees Earthquakes) that Luke tell us that this buckling is ay in| Peter and the centurion a ver; erefora ra pets The fulness of details that the world is|with which it is given. And wha'| duces in hi not yet to be destroyed by inunda- |was coe ea tion be married 1801 gives these returns ot early marriages in Brit-|™ 9 years females from 10 ears of age og 769, and INTERNATIONAL LESSON, PRIL 4. *)Lesson I. Peter and Cornelius. Acts 10: 1-48. Golden Text, Acts 10: 35. — What thought the sto Introduction. s importance? It was 0} Chrsstisnity from a Jewish sect to s|Jews at istened to a broader gospel. But Christ bade hig disciples go into all the world, an ‘the good {| news to all mankind. The tame had t {come to break down the barrier of | Jewish exclusiveness and carry out Ghist’e larger thought. I. The Vision of Sornohae the Gentile.—Verses 1-8. Who was the was not a Jew or Jewish proselyte: was fit to become a Christian? He was a centurion, to our eaptain, the company was par’ called “the, Stan nevatae p of Romans na in Italy. QUEER BREATHING APPARA- ~ THE S. S. LESSON|SONE TALES OF A SNAIL 2 TUS IN THE BODY. Has Sense of Smell and Well-de- yeloped Ear — Saw-like Tongue With 30,000 Teeth. one wishes to examine a snail apa eate he * ould place the specimen on range. The Acie ne agreeable broad sucker-like the tentacles are waved about ible, eye, whicl of A i ward. sense of smell, an from placing the he chief steps in the transition of hand oF body’ on, to at he ae coolness of is His horns are reer in an fi the obstruction more clearly, for contains at its end a small imperfect, 48 still discern- able o! pa gace between Tight and dark- mht ‘snail’ 8 manner of withdrawing HAS WELL-DEVELOPED EAR. The funny Tittle creature has a a fairly well-developed ear, wien close in| comparison | cent. of the Rctaltinuedier of ths chen the glass | 4” to his snailship, att ¢ will travel peaceably along, rapidly expanding and contracting fee! is FINANGIERS OF [IN CASE OF WAR WICH COUN- TRY WOULD WIN? A Military Expert Gives His Opin- ion of the Position of the Two Powers. COMMERCE. Banking, Ete. Things are very different now S| from what they were in 1870, Then} family the French Government was inept ote 4 a richest of all J: aan and and corruj eu my,’ the e richest of tl Emperor was ‘fs rei soma to the last paar on the last able to mobilize at the beginning) such as have made t men, against Krupp, Marshall Field, rd, John W. True, in four weeks’ time this first instalment of 300,000 was more | miners, JAPAN MITSUI FAMILY ARE KINGS OF They are Factors in Manufacturing, Exporting, Mining, Have you heard of the Mitsui ene Steph anamaker, They are famous as meer By xporte: spat came on and blew ber down all around him. fe narrowly escap! death but pluckily resumed his 230 mile walk til he reached Port Darwin. cyclone, See NEN See EGGS OF STEEL. Deadly Weapons 5 Carried by Ser- eiba Halil Though Seevie has a) the pow- ers in a series of notes that she not want war, she is still very fighting trim. he armed with bombs, of en five + | classes Be bei made — in- of the first type, le) which explode by fuse a percus- an effective range e eae, weight pounds. “the. detail is of the por of the ext rs; |} than doubled, but the, same rela- bankers, and financiers. tive disproportion held for|a capital running _ hig! Germany had by men under lo a busi ea nee of hundr tion of war, Mac 150,000 men was the Emperor taken prisoner; an that at Metz, a ew weeks later, the porte of East Asia. when three marshals of France, Mitsuis own sixty-six generals, ~6,000 officers, | mills and furnish 5 fee artillery, were made prisoners of| yarn, = oe Germany’s triumph} pire, and their and France’s humiliation; but, ing institutions are i was also France’s lesson. at wi y she can put 3,500, een tabishments in the adding, 868° | ate ee a It is true. that|ports of China, and in Hongkong, yeu third type is supplied to-the |™ against these Germany claims to|Manila, Singapore, and’ Bo bay: | scyetee sande le ae eRe that it be able to ait 4,330,000. Jt has branches in Australia and | nay be fired Bey? NEN This, however, is saapsly a paper fava, and also in San Francisco, |¢his homb very deadly results have estimate, and an exa; one. York and London eam ebteipods at a distance o! a on a effect, Sale all the Ser are an 5, one bales of availablé armed fore- two nations are numeri- cf good-sized WAITING FOR REVENGE. |}* merchandise t etween the tw: ef- | India. ficiency is to be taken into Sewn 0 German soldier to-day is not the man he was forty thie Bao: hee he was a patriot, aflam he zeal that is born of sethtey There is ive ot that left in him The brutality of his super- iors, gontnined through a long course of years, has arean all that ae of pa out of him. There of German officers bility. The bank, The is known to be deeply afected with the virus of Socialism. And Socialism in Ger-| the and that they a: Last year hd Socialist vot-|j ers went to the polls, nearly 25 per eleetors who other rds, one voter in ever; a Socialist. We may assume that tthe same ratio holds a in ihe and file, 5 oo makes il ALMOST $35,000, The same 009, they Tight, « or will they not, remains] o be seen. ‘They themselves are Wey tired oPdeclaring that they will not. have independen' In ti] rench army, on the other) ments, however, there hand, a “htensely. patriotic. wipe out the terrible humiliation in-|§ flicted upon their country on that black day’ in January, 1871, when | German Emperor its members. It is for things such as these that men figbt, an: eath. Majuba we in England were thinking when we went to war w ruger in 1899. , But etre was compared what France aniiered at ute hands of Ger- Sailor’s Try man; while his legions march in trivmph then Er 138 000 fee of millions of dollars, Bu t only numerically. Tite a no hea Settlements, Burm: ¢ Experience Wi Shipwreck and Hunger. A walk of 230 miles, the weather- atest cotton [a about one-third 173,000 men, with 500 pieces of|cf the Japanese exports of cotton h ALL THE BIG CITIES. 6 years 1t ships as much raw silk to the d States, and it has a fleet} in4 steamers, which carry |; o and from Hongkong, the Philippines, the | met and |The different bombs described are There js no more thriving = N which has a capital of 5,000,000 yen ‘lan unlimited roaponaibility for all As a result the people. nas that all ees wealth of 1! he bank, rae #3 5 CY 000. rule prevails as to all} eleven fami-| + property the Mitsui establish- is no parti- Tts|cular property to which anyone can enge the| enter his absolute claim. dividual the ADRIFT LN SOUTH SEAS. h recent N hema which was jams, in-charge of Ww fee was the cohort stationed | to the roots of his horns. His ing of a cyclone on a 1 : Be ee ap Se ing ‘Edw ard a sEeisency i > est. descri mae north of Joppa, where Peter was Looking creflly at his right sepia, or country overvun and of the experiences which laesarea was & W! thy and im-|side, one may see that a. distinct] «owned in ” Westminster bag |the ly ugger portant city, built by Herod the hole: occasionally appears there, re- »| befell Capt. mil-| time practising with tl the | they are given dum hang-| jn, the about Is omni tly inter- stones of suitable spend a iilas SHOR en my ane with which they go ‘ough another se- vere course of practise. article is en- supplied with weight, ‘ect of a nae Spall? Sudaeil shot nue be seen to 12) ave other factories believed. foundries throughout the Em-| The seco trading and bai ak nd type has been served yard tended for use available. Finally there is the fifth type— the egg- abiged bom ‘Dynamite in one form or aaaiber is known be the charge in the four Ds as types, but. the somponden of the reat in the t-mentioned is a Se secret. ef: fete prodlged bythe reploticn| of one of these steel eggs is nothing less than devastating. a FOUR FISH IN ONE CAST. ‘¢| Two Perch and Two Trout, Accord- ing to This Angler’s Story. It is something after all to be | the hero of a record, even if it does not mean much, and perhaps the | successful. Tanta of four fish on one cast is not Tore “of being rescued from oblivion, says a writ- er in the Field. It happened with me here gn-the "y| more remarkable as fished with,four flies on my cast half a dozen times in my life. I was fishing from a boat anchored t the tail of the strong broken ter of the weir, and rose and hooked what T saw was a trout of half a pound. Presently as I *was playing him his mpeone seemed to become most ratic; he would pull heavily down ‘and then instantly there would be aes and his troops paraded i dof an institution is in accord- mp in their ’ hundreds of thou. | ance with the social organization of eo eeenaes eee et re ae hile through the principal streets | Japa ore the individual is sub-|\°Suddenness quite: bewildering, of Above all, too, it is anxi-| servient to | the family, and the| °.d'ioc's few minutes Leould make ous to recover Alsace and Lorraine. Hiehts .d obligations of the family | neither head nor tail of the action GERMANY’S ARMY IS RUSTY. sitar ee igh those of any of|{hat was going on below. At last on the, line eoming closer Lean these sized perch on the and presently I aw there Ss 5 z s 3 Fs g 2 ES 2 3 Ss be F so hauling up the stone and ropo n Mie Seinan. “dravelled \axe named after Caesar| mains open ew moments “and i lost on Green Hill Island, 100 miles| which held me, I quietly started through India investigating these | Augustus closes again. ‘Thia is simply @ cay- ef humbardnent by his etek. r thereabouts from Port eae paddling for th re dreadful conditions. With hearts} What was the name of this cen-|ity in jthe snail’s body, into which | {> this happened to us, woul Jin the northern territory of off with alternate strokes of rent with w they had discover- turion? Cornelius, indicating per-| he allows a certain quantity of air} 154 fght like Fae a eta hit stralia, says the London Ribadant the oars. Strange to say, I reach- they returned ¢ ‘Unitea| haps that he belonged to the fam-|t« enter, “whenever he thinks of of ee Acai basil? af ever “we: got When the lugger broke up. Capt.|cd the low shelving shore without States and spread their knowledge | ous Cornelian family (ge clan), |ip,”” as one might say Shaaeet Watans swam to Green Hill Is-|a single fish escaping and slipping! wherever opportunity permitted. | Which counted the Scipios and Sulla) “wy hen air ine Ecertona for BEV cavern oa wp wee dad then tried to.make the} cut o} boat dre Thus they succee in enlisting bers. int Jor, he keeps ib there| France. She has bent preparing at ai and a a dingy geist he was} string ashore in sehinols practical sympathy, which has b ARLEasteyneuie exhaust it for thirty-seven years. Nursi ing | Sought, je ccuatl aud alee jet poueiay mela ene n he jo-American his yital processes ; ains, . wre my ed, 3 is Woman's Restoration League, The 6 te eee er ebonle sears atintped: her rath ae ee |ing for three days was carried into | applauding gallery of several young purpose 0 ofganizations: ji |t0 Seen ee eonning the Killa ete etdda Watching Dr the gulf and eventually landed on| fellows on the, bank. whom it took aa bringing abeut the enactment trap-door, and the receptacle is Ting. Field Island, ne houdeebt thal wer all my time to restrain from a sRecrs tle girl from child marriage. law to protect the Great Britain in its treaty with ae India to interfere|housetop. The sixth hour (noon) with. the xiclene ce the Hindu| ¥as “‘a set time of devotion wita people, No change laws can| pious Jews.’’ He was very hungry, therefore be made mint ee peti- tions that stich laws be The thoughtful, and advanced meno! the Indian Ft thus to petition Great Brita Ri the conviction that child marriages are causing of the Indian The sta-| tating o is so low thst such a change must be made| him pity for the deterioration zee may cause a change. — woman in India than is one that mi from missionary work, for the Hin- uv would not co-operate in any ef- lit- s of India until they are 16 rican Speaks 8. seers oy prepared for the coming even this preparation vision, received upon the for he “probably had not broken his fast. Ill. How the Visions Brought) Simon’s house (th streets), and while on his vision could reach him, the Holy ‘Spine in some way made Peter reel alse of their coming, and bade hi with them, fort which sayore: with his religion. It is t! then man who can’t do things that is always. telling others how to do them, % When a very young man is in love it is awfully hard to interest him, & the things pertaining to the next im: plies a ci Bete seatch heute h the | t eter was Pes: uw , they were The snail’s a saw-like tongue, a long, narrow ribbo o ibuted over the 3 3 g on 2 = 5 38 Pig > & B 3 £ Ba pee it in wering creatures are never. which: produces no Ii m, ¢o A SAW-LIKE TONGUE. mouth is armed with which resembles iled up in Sali cg aaawer thatronly-m paah|@ i it comes into use at once. surface of this ribbon are tiny teeth, one animal’s -| sometimes having as many as 30,- Dis- clean: incisions. ‘hell of the snail is a horny|not rather be a source of weakness] p, ive 10 ‘im go Soyering. tt at serves’ to protect|to North Germany if war camo, in-| On strikin ig ale ‘im again: his numerous foe: Slugs are Saray snails that live a paged life, mud sensesuen tl need snail's shell | is built op een ine 3s the plants on which it feeds and the found o1 on soil} t Alligator Riv stead ofa tower ot strength, as in 1870.—Pearson’s Weekly. teen named Lon This island ae destitute of waar e eked out, k of trees sufficient liquid to sustain life until rain fe vk s| Pinole, where -he found plenty of swamp turtles, iguanas and other Adelaide River jungle Williams saw plenty of buf- falo, but his only weapon: being “ reed) ad not Teme “gone saheh when a rushing into. the shallow water to. cor out the struggling fish when they saw. the extraordinary catch 3 I was trying to Mes asho: caught a cold anal Pm arate the rheumatics, and you're welcome to of mone; Wife—' Uppoddie, ete what do I care for money, when it is, a ques- tion of pleasing you eee The Major (thinking to have somo fan out of Pat’s ancient and skinny morning, Pat!” Se revolver he did not shoot ning, yer honor!” In the United States there are| got down ito the Adelaide River ieee gnc forse you’re driv- thirty towns or villages named Be near what is known as Lawrie’s| ing.” tt i is, yer honor.” “Draw lin, twenty-one nam iam landing, pee he built himself a| well, doesn’t it?” "It doos, ye twenty~ ste Eee Pas and thir.| raft of bamboo and créssed. He| honor, It-draws the gttention aed every idiot that p: sae In the first Ske aon are} out to the artillery, and is a pure- # The fourth type is larger than| (7m ¥, & 1 blackbird, which is the possessor of NOTES OF INTEREST FROM WES BANKS AND ERAES. : What is Going on in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia, Roller egak has become fash-— ionable undee, Pann “upatie etre a Sun- eee is to Niddrie TakoBs Paina is to” ate, Edinburgh, got three years _ ‘or setting his shop on fire mnington church, abi is si- uated at Bonnington Brae, was practically destroyed by fire rec ently. he ‘the 0th ult. Agnes Revorg i, (81) got an arm torn off by the ma- — He in Camperdown jute work: Se S Bg ee, In Dundee last year the fire bri: grade was called out 180 times. The in within the city boundaries by. fire wai Mr, John Torrance, grain mer- chant, Hamilton, died recently, He nin business Hamilton for nearly half a centur; St. Bats Na paper’ mils Lass: wade, Midlo' destroyed by fire, the aie Babe estimated ‘oats to the Marquis Douro, ‘ est son of the Duke of Wellington, cae Rieke grandson of ‘‘The Irom PS aley Town Council passed a spalation calling upon Covneitor Brown to resign, in view of his r cont conviction at Ayr for datenuae ing the Glasgow and Southwestern — Hastvay. Linwood, near Paisle; two form eads, has It has two a) and can pick ai make use of both, but anethge " an pass food through both cannot Paisley is much dateeavel in the yet be state COST OF WILD ANIMALS THOSE WHICH BRING THE | WIGHEST PRICES. ‘The Lion Sold From $875 to $500— Polar Bears Always Maintain Their Price. Wild animals from the and lowing prices, The ‘‘king of beasts,’ the lion, buyers shy of the AN eae Fine course, though the perch next me) §1 wild-born lions realized from $375. 3 $500. Menagerie-born animals cost om A lioness has even tionally fine specimen o! Pu ee ionally described as: Y: lions—are not in such demand ; $25. will o buy one; The tiger is, eA a high-priced ‘animal 00 is the lowest figure at which he calld, with $400 for the tigress: A specialty of value is the Euro- pean lynz, had for less than $100, grown animal is worth from $125 to 75. WOLVES ARE A WEAK MARKET $10 is their average per head, $8 the minimum and $25 top price, Catch a fox young, and the cub may. x only. just ane) 25 | bear sea-lion costs $100. is good for $100, a price due to the animal’s destruction for bounty im the Rhone Valley. Hippopotami have no quotation When in supply this prehistoric-looking beast it worth from $3,000 to rad phants are much more widely dealt ar in. A phe rakk one may be purchased for from $1 000 $1,250, But. ee considered of wild ani- been spent ery nec y B 4 be a ie dearcambed ecenses Soy oe caus. Both tu urtles and al- “THIS © ‘Gated. mals is the giratto, Previous to 1 hi gators were numero' e 1898 ib was Spout to buy one ing oe an wee ie eee Kot re-embarked in the dingy and m rate Squire— “Hil you, sirl!for less than $5,000; in 1903-4 th. his, eee a Aahag ky the £ bis way into the mouth of the West Toute. fishing in my waters, I d ce had shrunk to $1,260, which ser’ % oie. strong fleet is his) Aijigator River, but could find no| mand what you’ve cenit di repay the cost of importa. pet fresh water. He obtained from tho| Angler—‘‘All right, guy’nor. I’ve} tion: ‘The actual market value ch —— a youn may poe g¢ giraffe in good nani eC aunts: at anywhere: Ele g tenecnne tS dingy he made} both of ’em,.’” rom. $2,500 to 83,0 his way up t pank of the -—— 7 > + + Wildman River, living on sweet ALL FoR HIM. AS TO°TRE MONEYS MARKET, © | potatoes and iguanas. His matche: the chimpanzee varies good «leal beaches been ey he carried| _Hubby—‘‘Yes, dear, you look | in price, a young one in meet firesticks’ with hit eventually} pice in that aa but it cost me fetching from $250 to $350. é “| erossed Wildman ica and came|@ heap o! ig apes are more expensive, ~— see at times there goes begging 01 nee, as, in the Sue: riaekeots where a young pemngeehes Fee