One 6 ore ‘Man's F by His Choice of Better Things, Few Bible characters furnish us -|tient waiting, exile, each -lcillation and weakness, his-lack of herited so much evil tendency. The “birthright”? deal revealed in him ut Sarat footing ; one gravitated to a|°* wardly and through and through a liar. How is it that he became a chosen servant of God and a chan- nel through which great blessings ee Tenisk histo Tn the first ‘ite? Ais ae pot ths man n to sit down and whimper tive hardness of his lot, saying fate had fixed for him his HE WAS UP AND Re with a passion to achieve. in the heredity and evil circumstances man can rise above them. the second place, Jacob was a peony and followed in ue light s dream, his ideal. He was ni > man of passing whims and earns sos, but a man with a purpose. His over | of aults Are Overcome ideal keeps him moving onward with a deliberate, settled purpose through years of hardship, toil, pa year ad- gees Peg ne to his eee until | & es a giant in characte: d sce How different jee his brother Esau, who through his va- faith and principle, became a help- low level, while. the other rose through self-mastery to the higher ness. In the third place, Jacob was a man who desired FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD. It may: have been the conscion led his was sominating influence under which him gracias gaining the Hetory over his iJ tendencies. plane’ of great service and useful- B sness | a hy | HOUSE RENTIS VERY LOW [es $12.30 A MONTIEIN AN ENGLISH} PARADISE. e! Every Prospect is Pleasing—Moral Uplift Plus 8 Per Cent. Profit. “The most perfect city I have ver seen or heard of is the famous raven oy, af egret a punueD: of Birmingham, HORS writer in Country Life “J was simply ranisported by 3 jac ives the Becta: money than any rth, Any one le has cherished some nobl of a glorified hu- inanity would te Halinaele interes part “Can you imagine you Eanes four miles from a city the size Pittsburg in a oe town of in ants, where ever car dirt, peowitias ‘pill boards or streets torn up for es lighting or 2 Wouldn't you like a pale tennis, er ares s course took him through the it f wee purified—a prin¢e with God} and men. What God did for Jacob he can and will do to-day for any and all who wish to rise to place of honor and trust and be a blessing to the By ev. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 10. Lesson I. The Mission of the Twelve, Matt. 9, 35 to 10. 15, 4 Golden Text, Matt. 10, 8. Vorse 35. This verse sums up the niuiatry of Jesus—teaching, preach- | t! ing, healin 36. He was moved with compas- sicn—For he saw the multitudes as none other (Joh handed with the needs of so ignorant, diseased, apiitusily lost—like sheep not having a shep- herd (quoted from Numbers 27. 17), worn out with travel (literal mean- | t ing of distressed), and scattered (an e mics). 37, 38. Jesus seems to change the figure suddenly and to refer to the multitude as a plenteous harvest, er oc- it tis, Phowelas: @ fitting prelude to the calling of |b, the twelve to the apostolate. is twelve chosen special! followers aie! Peniondy Reveanee of in the Gospels as “‘the twelve dis- - eiples,’’ tthe twelve Papovilens “the twelve,” and sometimes simp- “the disciples.” Matthew and only once of ‘‘the| w twelve apostles.”” There were vari- in the gathering together Five at least had al- esus—Peter, James, vhn, Andrew, and Matthew. rey aod ‘Nathanael iad also enjoyed intimate relations with him. The number correspond the ‘ancient « ve them—In this Sasics it ap- hanes rit it Jesus gave the disciples not neve Rabati to cast out un- an irits (see “de- i anaes for March 13), and ro ix to heal, bee also fellowship in his toe suffering les “sent rth” the first time ais a de-| finite wclatah Later the term was ered nded to ME. races and initiatory call (ohn 1 ‘and was e spokesman of the apostles. Im- a protestations of his love for at se (John 21. 1s 8 AAvte that Aes aa one ression age a Seaetor: tent died seth rma rae were in part ners! hue ‘mother Ww: 7 ni meas min- ly ae ere with | Sess them asy prey, therefore, for their ene-| with re years | tl Edgar D. Van Horn. tolic nd ); 8; re as Bartholomew—The mg of the word is “Son of alae and} he probably Nathanael, who} oak “attinely be sent out on the jon with Philip, the man who} breught him to Jesus. Compare} mention ile by (who never speaks Bartholomew) of | nanacl, who is never mentioned | in the other Gospels (John 1. 45 21 1.14). Thomas: Ne 16), nh b ae Didymus (John | homas, mea he tw Tradition gives him | the cane of Judas. John’s refer- | ences ty him give us the picture of | a despondent, apron type of man, yete man of courage, and possessed of a dogged devotion te the Master. Matthew—This was the name giv-| en Levi, the publican) after his onl The other lists of apostles make ni reference to his hated pba oc- eupation, ai vhen ea ‘k and Luke early mons of Ley they GbAeeably omit 6 identify him) apostle, though | ark “the little,” to distingu- ich him from James the son of Z bedee. His companion, Thaddaeus, is called by Luke ‘Judas the son mes.” He also went under the appellation of Lebbacus. once does he figure in the Gospels Gah a4. 20) margin gives ‘‘Zea- tt tor: “eanaenean. The Zealots ‘e the opposite extreme from the aublicaea Tike Levi; for they were patriots to the death, and were bit- terly opposed to the Roman rule Judas Iscariot—So called because. was from the allege of Kerioth, in southern Judah. ugh brand- ed “thief”? (John 12. 0), “‘hetray- er’ (Matt. 10. 4), ‘traitor’ (Luke 6 16), “a devil’ (John 6. 70), and ‘son of perdition’’ (John 17. he must have tolie Pome called b; 5, 6. Hess i8 indicated. the ee in which the apostles were to wor Gentiles and Samaritans were to have was necessary for Jesus to secure strong base-of Sperihons among the chosen race. This was accord- we find illustrated again and again in . the method. of Paul 8, The nature of their worl. It was % be gratuitously performed, in accordance with the authority ant assurance of strength which ey had freely repens ‘stance is recor: of their raising the dead on this mission ; but even at was accompli is hed in the later shor of ath m het 9. 40; old, to SADR Y mallet at or anaes ion “ba ket.”? ne coat and sandal; -15. The ee G established | f here ‘is that the messenger of Je: not a beggar. “The Sblessing: ngs i such a nature ae x to b as it it haa Sead : Only | qi ing to the divine programme, which | 4, He y under ideal ¢ cumstances at a cost of a few cents ac i W one you be satisfied with the ia’ of a community that has is splanaid saehhdlay chore ches, baths, jgymnasium, meeting house, an tenth ot its wholes area given ‘up to parks and nds! eypuiin t you feel safer ina city jwhere the national birth rate ‘tae baat doubled and the death rate cut in two? And what would you y to a handsome brick house of en rooms and a bath, with an | eighth of an acre already planted {with fruit trees, vines and lawn, at | the rental o! | $12.30 A MONTH? | | | “How can such superb punertt ities be given at so low a 33 ways, each of ‘whic by |ten. Ag in oe npland. the plan of Lever Bros., soap manu- s|facturers, who built Port Seat a suburb of Liverpool, at a cost ot $1,700,000. It is the most beewital \of all, has the greatest variety of ed garden, and is better ia the art: Mee fot a New Mnothier excellent feature is the Boeoeer ani s- The factories Toney. ane elec- tric power from a central plant, which is equipped with a smoke consumer, The whole factory quar- toca is sereened by a hill and a belt © But. the ersten teste oe all is that the inhabitants of Le! werth will get naan all of ae ; collectively earned increment. Few * | people how quickly this ee we Letchworth and livi people ica ociegers Melt a cst crease ee ene alton dollars! “All of this profit ordinarily goes to real estate® speculators, 1 3 | eventually the people of Letchworth t other 5 per cent. goes to the com- peny Which finances the whole en- Garden City Pee stock company Gag in b zd toa 5 pe nt. cumulative div dend on the capital invested. shares placed at $25 each in order to give jworking men a chance to ‘subse ech | eres LOSS OF A JOB. Due Not to Hard Luck, the Man Thinks, but to His Own Fault. “As a matter of fact,”’ said a man who has found it pretty diffi- Hae ppely to connect with a Bee I n't believe much in luc! chink “that when a man fails he owes his failure as a rule not to hai luck, but to some fault of his own. illustration very bad, and I saw an advertise- ment of one that I thought would a t me an ne could down in good shape, so I applied ize Simply by moving tol 5 one *| gathering nt. of itn,” S The ‘The i y | times POLICE “ARE HELPLESS -| WAVE OF MURDER AND CRIME £ IN AMERICAN CITIES. Many Guilty Ones Eseape—Chicago Averages 118 Murders _ & Year. 200 persons a week are be- i ugh C. Weir in The World| To-Day (Cl Bisseoy He figures that, matic pursuit of erime as a bus ness.’’ Meanwhile the police de-| vote a large part of their time to in it of 786.000 arrests in this country saat police could give more attention to pretecting life and property, and seems, ch mp- nd unp gins with some HORACE remar' on amurde ler fen “thousand Ber dered in this count Ae eae evel eebiied, r beaten with a club or a sand- ie Gi the murderers, two in ev are oe The remaining nur-| es of American ng the nation scBele. ie atcnate made that m only 1.3 per cent. Ee one Ren ce. | cides do we secure a conviction. CHICAGO'S AWFUL RECORD. hicago averages 118 murd . In the same of time Donarietirds only 15 murders and! attempted murders, London, four size of Chicago, hasan. prospect that I was going to et it, and inwardly felt very much eleted, and then all of the sudden my nee caught the manager’s eye and he said to me Una ee aout tae tian with a coat like that,’ and he point- We idiaeotor inetal purposes, and | 6; d the cheapest rents, but it has two serious drawbacks. pee social life of a com- | mun jnot a Taine as at of a mixed | community. ers at Port olsen nlight are all See of the same factory, and the magnificent 1 features provided for their ‘comfort and pleasure are not uset as much as they ought to be. Sec- city sie ever paid its dividend, al-! a ly self-support- if The sTecees ace believe that. 3 an ample financi- al return in the increased efficiency of their employes. “But we cannot expect that. the i the world will be revolu- tionized by kind-hearted manufac- turers. Port Sunlight is superb, bux its plan implies too great an in- vestment for the ordinary manufac- turer, and the rete’, are too in- he average “"poth of these de- a which was founded by George Cadbury, the cocoa manu- facturer. “In the first place only 42 cent, of the renter aie employes of the factory, others came from nie and ey- per em™spe: ngham. Conse- qui enue he ea lite is that of a normal, mixed merely -| INDUSTRIAL OR SUBURBAN. “In the second place Bournville really pays. The city’s chief source of income is rent. Everybody pays per cent. on the investment actu- | ally made in his house and lot. The city’s income ‘y five years (it is now 15 years old), and in 50 years at this rate it will sate an annual income of ane $5,000, - ood And since it w hav 0 pay back Mr. Cadbury" 8 gift of about $775,000, the city will have a larg’ ‘other cities like Bournville. “The most important idea in all these garden cities is that repre- fo in-| 7 trains ee less Ele Letchwos build “igi fully, ae to the Bourn- gp Sti tact aaa depending oO w Lete seth, in 1908 ‘the city a lost ¢ years old. Yet it had a vopilaion | oe E00 cand there were 21 f. At co comprises 3,818 acres, 2, 300 em | eeu: rved for an dgricul- SF eat belt. : Thus the people scene, even si build up sll ‘oun ce E (ete rs To receive ian ines true| Ses of one lest sor ts i the eral nds tonesesee} ris rs at Bournville |i The | job community—not hi e. sum available ae building oa oF shen or 65 per cent., being per-| fy, ‘ng Pes) ‘ air indulge 1 | be¢ et m | nearly every from defective or ming Peon “As away; I failed to get that job be- cause a paces of my coat was worn) and Ww! “You’ a ‘say that was hard luck, loss of that job was due Pie, sheer neglect. Thad Loge for] a week that t and f knew I pate to ink it, but I simply failed to do any new clothes and naturally my clothes now show quite some signs of wear, but you can keep clothes looking pretty good if youll only take the trouble to look alter them, show white about two months ago, aa] then of course I inked it. When done, but sometimes I’ve ean eee lectf:1 as I was in this case. “I knew well enough a week ago jj thai that coat ought to be looked was all due plain as could be to my_own fault. “Lots of us no Eee tee ees es in just that eS ard luck, as they ¢: s the use? Beene seoms to oe against me, and w sheuld I try “Of course there eouldn’t be any worse mistake n that. What a mau wants to do eke luck seems pee ae is we up better than © He must put up a good ge TaouEE inaude wie Wear may sag a little he should keep a cheer- ful cpuntenance; nobody, positive- ly nobody, wants a downcast man 0" ha: a shoes. after detail. See t I lost by neglecting just one yale little tl ‘ “But I’ve got it Fae up all right © sha’n’t lose another good chence right away just because coat aloe 2 on the edge. a ay THE FALSE TEETH TRADE. “that onded it and Thad to come | .| that, t edge had got white | atin some little time now since sae ve had ness le! “There are four Ana a "halt times is that the rest of ee wo p| Was cheape’ lously than ever after uae coat and P hi 20 murde In the course of t | mc nths, Georgia—a typical exanple of the average American Sta’ —more fan the | {rhol je of the British Prpire) More ople are murdered in this coun- in a year than are ‘killed on tl roads. In three years the vic- \tims of-our murder cases total more ‘than tl ee of the British army in the Boe War. . “And now uy discover that when our poets and our orators and our artisis have finished telling of our greatness and our glory, we havi |Bistere edness out ie esaricen as has no other ni in the world; behind our canted institu: tions of Government, the thug and the aU: fees the assassin are oper- a freedom laupheated ates aes in. eiviliz- ation. ae our crime ae wicked- © steadily in as many murders for every million| of our BopHIMten to-day as were twenty years ago! “The significant fact sey it all] world does not share these sta: Oi in- ercased, wickedness is P euaaed to our own borders, tie white shows through as the ink/| gy wofully be- may lead the globe ‘in many things. We assuredly lead it crime. In 95 per cent. of the ho- Higides of Germany, the ane per- ut per cent. in. why yl we Sina nan italy, “Austria, F ateacy ¥ Ballina; combined? . . PRIVATE oe ECTIVE CORPS. elers of America were form a national detective organiza- tion to guard their property. ‘the ees ae faint ae have done like- e the hotel: ose te ‘eats They could not depend on the public shelice: x to main system of rthele own. police W il fis: peo- to ured in property stolen 0 or coy acune n the money Police Courts, ial, etc., reaches impr tal a. $1;373,0 m helpless 000. ach the tee Some idea of the general use of. them are exporte: Jand every yea ; ser that. erohably. not more than alf the inhabitants of Great Bre i the aay ot false far 5 oe eens goes, one better has zs utter, > M: hat w tne’ Bolles Tse <4 \efiiensy Fad by [to make up in sae busbar “third na e. ae vriter compares with the San sh Tnquicition in ferocity, any innocent, cua not Gee charg ith may be Se Oa to the police sta ‘put through torture: HEART IS suBspCT OF MANY SUCCESSIUL OPERATI NAS S It is Pe ee Can be Accomplished by a Skilful Surgeon. ing to Dr. Andrew Wilson, xs ere | h ain, | soldier, . eae! against our convictions no. “4 number of years ago, the jew-|a forced to} a -keepers. So} bul Tt | lifeg: se And, as if this aiiaging incitonenel : equal 2 Oe ‘Maton ‘gan “sll operator, art, ane very citadel fea ite has now come to | within the auEiSOn: *s provinee. Not | so wen leas age: Hcutous case oc- London sabbed | in the heart was taken to hospital. The wound i sutured or atitalieds and ple intent to kill, prevented thik a sea from being indicted on a capital char a | To understand wounds of this na- ture it ui be borne in mind that the A HOLLOW MUSCLE. jie a vital part, and one claxely. 9 con- h the internal m ‘of the organ has been feaanede ‘covery is, of course, impo 0 the other hand, se Ses the substance jof ithe heart itself alone been fected, surgery is enabled to place patie in a condition favoring y hough: a work of the appa ing the Ba = Sone! e eS, 30 for a wound of the heart in a iNew York jwas on the le: and at the bi lof the left ventricle. ¢ upper part After dhe op- act ration the patient made a full r ough he Hon ¢ distance to tl | the Bs where inju eae ie janother case, repor ted at a German | ong had salen a ete 1 fro heart was successfully treated, injury being on se v that this wound in the closed by three silk suxtures; and, g {though the patient suffered from a © ‘complication of troubles thereafter, his recovery from the effects of the eperation was perfect. IN A RECENT CASE, recorded in the medical journals of Paris, a French soldier was wound- ed in the left side by a ball from a stol. The bullet was Seaplanted +5 in the lett spe chamber or auricle of the t first no very seri- ons epimpta s but ultimately the pa ftom difficulty ot br eathing and pain e side. piiclsd by rare |and moyed with the impulse of the cart. » An operation was under- taken, the bullet removed and the soldier within a short time was able t ds very materially upon the part of the organ affected. As just noted in the case of the French a bullet wound in the heart: NOT NECESSARILY FATAL. in The records kept by military sur- geons show that such eases aré by uncommon, there are even well-attested instances of com: plete yeoarony from such wounds annals of the Ameri seems to prove live bedded. which have, so themselves quite at hom 1e ave, through the wonder- er of accommodation of that rgan, remained in the eats since the day the wound war. received. they — apparently || je or no trouble to the Ideals live ouly® as wi ward them: “Heaven sends some yurdens just ast an argument re -rieh in = art) me ‘ht “ha pe ie e. «Often fa: ayer. can Es ‘The habit of pri mean” ttle as the aie & by ore a 9) it in the heart! ¢, Gr W Eee though 8 state of sur-|) joni mon vetiove one pan fen Fe lis Source and Mouth—Rapi ts na Re: ane . ‘Its Banks. While the Amazon is the wo flows through i strangest river as well. ‘The few travellers and exp M| who have journeyed w ve aacludee i where a veo m the gaa ON) ts orks its way ugh labyetith of teow ak eres the mariner van tell the place where the Amazon really | tts mouth, because the opening it has made on Hee eastern coast ¢ South Ameri ‘it ‘extends over “100 mi distance before meuth of the river, however, | really sailing on the waters be Ont i out so far into th: Se say that 300 MILES OUT AT SEA, off the mouth of the Amazon, you can hoist a bucketful of fresh water out of the ocean from the deck of the ship, such is the quantity of its — ree that flows from that gigantic © Long after you have penton’ the — actual river and have oe to. north and south of var ify in midstream you will still ss but" of meh of Jand, eh is the breadth ot vast he river far into the ‘ocean and far ee pe coun ake p of South America and look out a ras calied Tquitos. It lies four-fifths of the way across the contineat from Ye east to west. is a fortnightly. oceangoing steamers Europe, which descend some 3,000 miles of — the river before they reach the sea. Ic is not only one branch of the Amazon but many that are thus to — das the same as ocean — The southern branches — of the Amazon are broken by rap- ids along a line where a low contin- ental shelf exists. Above these rap- however, there is again deep water. Thus beyond the fa ls i the Maderia there a: OVER 10,000 MILES of navigable water on that river, and its branches, and these only await the making of a short» rail- way less than 200 miles long to be South has been indeed generous, addition to the wealth” of r there are saee to be Hepsi Oba gold and other precious minerals, | , |e is sad that ne: en s sand laden with gold. Saks Hans ae accumulating r distanee A there. erent al 0 a and to there being no which machinery or tools pe ret i: oy oa e gold can be taken to lac PN Not. vonly Sir Martin Conway bi other travellers who have ventw ale. ng the upper river and its iataries oa that here <8 poets is LS |where it is w DARK AS ‘NIGHT. t because a Sa is almost. comple ely shut out by the mass of which ihtarlaes the trees and are i so thick» es. Deprived the aah ‘all, nie vyapo Above this | He vaally: a sei life and beauty. avorag i is: ving than . edding