THE S. S. LESSON FRPERNATIONAL LESSON, . APRIL 17. Th Question of John the Baptist, Matt, 11. 1-19, Golden Text, John 5. 86. . This verse belongs not wins pray follows, but with the pre- eeding chapter from which our les- een for Bae Sunday ken. 2. n John heard in the pri- neues being a fortress, it had served as a pajatial residence, first a to the iples indicates some in- tetrarch’s His dis See aad at- their loyalty in many ways (com- are Matt. 9. 14 and Mark 6. 29): e can imagine with what eager- ness he received their tidings of the universally discussed works of the rist. 3. thou he that cometh !—A question asked in the true spirit of the Hebrew prophet atiributed it to the eee cee ally arising from impris- my men were Bidder ment. is is to overlook aie in the steamboat on top o} the heroic mold in the the wagon; and in its shadow was not that he had formed an imper-|would gladly rest after a ten-mile| tity there has been an even greater —the longer the staple the more fect eb eed of the Messiah. march. Other of my men lay still) growth of quality. oRikeralan me-|valuable the wool—and the sheep, was not 0 ose who looked|as death yates eile tinder | rino wool is finer, more elastic, lon-| of course, must not be injured. for regal splendors and conquests vals of g and in the bush|ger in staple than any wool ever|few scratches and cuts they have But he did look for rovund..the eee By the time the! dreamed of a century ago, and its|to put up with in patience; but a the ‘‘fan” -taps horns announced | preduction Ue makes sea shearer who seriously nded 8 10 and 12), and the sacral Ngalyema’s arrival, the camp seem-| Some o: uisite fabric: ich | many sheep would be discharged as acts of the ‘Lamb of * John |ed practically abandoned. display the tr TaapHAKE eae of | incompetent. a Ae The acte ay hich Saat was} Ngalyema was strangely cold at modern civilization rvellous is the quick skill of anon to him, on the other hand, |my hearty greeting, and said, ‘He arly 90,000,000 sheep are pas-jthese shearers. To get through one | oo) ¢ performed at the height of the epularity of Jesus, of ar Hercan, His question, therefore, was not equivalent to a mnie) but one of impatience ted to have ial uncertainties settled as to her his work had been for no- “thing, and they were to look for ther this was actu- of whom the pro- ee like 61.1, wili convince anyone that, though Jesus cat not say directly, “I am essiah,”” John would be sat- isGed aith the truly Messianic char- acter of the works. The things which ye see and hear —I; is to be remembered that these disciples broke in upon Jesus while he was engaged in ie very kind of work (compare Luke 7. 21 5. The dead are ea up—L piaces these events directly ‘aiter the restoration of the son of the idow of Nai them—In the 5; Bogue at Nazareth Jesus had men- tioned this as the first of his min-}) siries as Messiah. sed is he--Happiness lies with Tiesa who let no uncertainties as to Christ’s Kingship stand in the way of fullest allegiance to have good tidings he sy! 7-11. Concerning John—The ques- tion sent by John would no doubt set the tongues of the multitude jing. ‘They would say the re- straint and Barer. ot the prison ite had worn down But Jesus sho} = 5 Surely, he was no vacillating reed shuken with the wind, then. fur cowardies, kings’ how clook for ys in and bore no | ro: eformer or a suffering 8 fesus_answered-—Reference to and ot aurtrollable the crowd, they swung to their Atle yeuiee and condemned him 8 glittono: Ww Wisdom i rivatited by her works ‘This is the practical test to which Jesus had put his Messianic claims, “s the message to John. As he said 0 Philip on one pee “Believe ie’ for ‘y Ks’. sal Whatever this pein generation thought, both a a Jesus were vindicated by res ras ss ra AN EFFECTIVE How Henry M an AJ an of the Stanley Pool “disttict. had peviended, wrote Sir Henry M. Stan nley in his “Autobiography,”? and ‘also receiv: ed a goodly sum for granting Stan- station pgins. os -river navigation galye- BEE and more money. Duly warned, prise for him. conspicuously near # cool place, where ing to this eRe “Nay, sae ists between u of goods which I paid him. to break faith out plausible exeus: xcuse to Chine: “What is. is that?” he said. A fetish for what ”” fetish, Ngalyem hivest sound of that Sul mpty camp with hundyeds| lot anigey warrior shed woul drop) from above, they would spring up! from the ground, from the forest about, from everywhe eae in tho stillness. nly for a few seconds, however, for a tempest of human voices was heard bursting into frightful dis- cords, and from above, right upon the heads of the asto: aad parr: ors, leaped yelling men; tents, the huts, the forest sand about, they came by sixes, dozens and soonee yelling like Se NER and seemin ngly animated with un- rage. The painted es became ample), ae Sah in him ho clothed _ raiment of worthy to be classed aS) a acres remember that he prophet, Not only did his Sonhes tic teachings approximate most closely these of Jesus, but he was the forerunner of Jesus, and his ‘baptizer. | — sents ‘did not overlook the limita- of in, but, in saying he that is wat litte 4 in the 1 eos of hea- ven is greater than he, he showed igh the Broathione of John belonged preparation, an heina outside the realized kingdom |? of heaven © one | 4; pete im- portance in this kingd was to peste in ae: eatness the Hata of 1 Re sa Moccasin: ey sooacas io ites” of jegin, a ean y, are the ones who, trai ‘the days of ohn as Baptist, ard always, will tak 13. Luke reverses ‘the’ order of these Apparently, to. accept that r true, their reason ing expected Elijah personally. tof a es anne isted that few ish | Riera such | ‘pir Se seat, then ee Reade mn “This generation — “Jesu at we eaket pac Le and quarreling over. was with as little] maid bee was chief ad all t There hath not arisen a greater|°", iran is a apes espatanty held a club #he il work ot s eeuipaes ue to children waite is ar a irs tata js and funerals, in the} «a “home” net Aare of loyalty, and fled on ub Naglyema tia his n did not fly. They caught the fails my coat, an n to dance from side to side, a devine triplet, siyeolt being rane to war tue blows savage’ imed at my “brothers,’’ and cheerfully erying “Hold fast to me, my brothers! I will defend you to the last drop of my_ blood ! Come one, come all!” F y. the order opal ae! and quickly staod in two long lines in beautiful order, Ngalyema relaxed his hold of my coat tails, and crept from b hind, Beeathing more rely xalatnad: “Where did all these peel come Ah, Nealyema,” I Hae fia ful s that emploves a are cons! a tly reltiuded: that they ar tegral part of ihe eS ‘amil iti be e anes from it at a mow . This, - pleaeely, is nob ae heat ‘spirit, either fe Ps ithe eles | al or the work she d e ut: used asily. 3 course, und stances is impo: - Stante ‘y Surprised Chie?. recently published ley the privilege of establishing a ma chose to theese this taeda tion, made an impudent demand for how- ever, puealee had prepared a sur- had hung a great Chinese gong principal arriors it ema who has forgotten the blood. veal that ex- Naglyema wh has forgotten the mountsins chil had exhausted it was not easy and i uncivil with- yes | tr: were reaching nonce to discover an it, when they rested on the eee burnished face of the forgot their | ment the 2 aes fear lifting try had 'e/ their heels high in ho but some of the seen homesteads, a feeling of Teing | winter jai ROMANCE OF THE SHEEP 90,000,000 OF THEM IN AUSTRA-|b LEA TO-DAY. The Pastoral Industry Brings $125,000,000 to the Land of the Kangaroo. There were sheep before Austra- lia was known of, just as there were Hy Australian produc- tion—one might almost say inven- as a reformatory. ‘leet’? of pr a heir guards there went a few sheep. Un- i human exiles, they were not sent out for reformation. Yet they were destined to found practi- cally a new race of sheep, vastly more valuable than any that had gone before them. WHERE WOOL ‘coMES FROM. The picked rams of the First); Fleet-would yield about 324 pounds of coarse wool. ike tl ian sto) a first-class Austral te ae in Australia to-day, and the -| pastoral industry brings to Austra-| lia’s population of between four and fou: and a half millions some $125, 000,000 a year—more than $25 a year for every man, woman and il, uch more than Australian faoment was the growtl this d wool industry. It gave England a new source of wealth, Before the days of Australia, Spain was looked upon as the o was not willing that. British looms should have any, advantage of her production, and the British wool- Jen manufacturing industry, con- ined to the use of coarser staples, Ing ed. w, Australia—and Australia ; practically alone—produces the fine woo! of the world; and if, in the course of any future developments, an Imperial Zollverin confined Au- } quelle wool to the mills of the Em- reat part of the foreign | “Sho eat at te x old} ig a customer that ate woseha! Zell that story to tho old production of Bo clothes would) boven qatyegcmngmat, tna Ngalyema. My ere aS it is| eyaha” ManAckiurs ene the strat bor sett, up their butter, iS kind of bell. Strike it and let’ yool prince of Australia, and as tye pee em. TPM Buta tn © hear it.’” such deserves to be honored as one CKraoh rhe Dae et Butlin in Ne my, brother, the/of the founders of the Common- ae: ea eee consent uences would be too dread-|wealth. From him. stretch, in de-|9j),0f that way of thinking, for one i me ae think of such a thing?” | Seont of industry though not of| © ee Re ee ee Miedisaciong Gre of big-hearted, not persuade our fellow country- a ietfork Je Und: bd fast, and bie brained men, who hide under|™(n 0 eat butter with their cake. langorous roll rang out like) the curious name of cpavattere yeu aek how.thte st) tish farm e fact that they were, and the chief pillars of Australian So perity, and the dominant types ol Australian character SQUATTING ON BIG eee e squatter earned from the fact that in the a ae land was his use of it. As settle- progressed, that free a1 easy method of occupying he coun- to give way to m elab- orated and not, in all cae such satisfactory tenures. The squatter, |" however, remained still in title a squatter, though he was ae a ten- ant of the Crown on a g lease, or an actual dreeholder a right of grant be Bud Mieabave dnecannenay Held by Sesh in Australia. In the Nexthern territory, . where primi- tive conditions still rule, some of sf tettled parts of Australia it is Rat uncommon for one man to hold w io a million acres of land for a cat- tle or sheep run. Generous Oe mrs the ie aly erent oe the loan or gift beg resume his jour- cious {custom of hos- c lays sehen se matly as the yallroad campaign against pri- ne merino sheep needs a ry climate to grow its wool rs perfection, so the big sheep-sta- tions are mostly in the hot belt; feels eoun- , far from any rai Ais , manage | hi ois sure und life with maudh refined Tux: a mustalig started. wg national hfe & ith the ‘‘First ! ¢ The picked ram of | sy. nd ate Hot a litle prond of the process. are the two anxions times for the Australian squatter. me in stralia, FREEZING THE SUPERFLUOUS The superfiuous sheep, who is wool-grower,-is, as eonyertible into ig sent to the meat markets of the cities, or, if he is of saa good quality, to the freezing orks for export to Great Britain. The sheep kept for wool-growing should earn for his owner about six shillings a year. It can, from these facts, be understood how fine 9 money-spinne is. The er princes pasture up to one mil- lion sheep. tue days of hand-shearing are almost over in Australia. AJ) but small sheds have sheep-shearing machines, driven by steam or elec- tricity. Whether the shearer uses handshears or machines, the work aditi rae reached maturity—is off ae reer the makes great THE ART OF SNIPPING. ee also, great care is necessary, : the wool must be cut at one ae as close to the skin as possible |hundred sheep in a day of eight |hours is a fair average for goo Seine Bane d the price is from $5 a hundred upwards. shearers’ earnings are high. ervedly, for tne Austral ee n shear- probably the workanan in the world for speed and skill combined. The wool shorn—its value over fie rhole at Australia reaching to that of 175 tons of gold—it is pack- pitier Sclchalen sactaienie s- to the ports for sale at Sydney, Mel- bourne, Adelaide, or Brisbane, or for direct shipment to the other great eee of the world.—Lon- dou Answ Soa eee DANISH FARMERS. Everything is Done hy Co-operative Sovieties. The Danish farmers, living as they do on or near the seacoast, are ors manage to ace with our (the British) increasing appetite for Danish eggs, buiter and bacon, the answer “is, they co Spee The butter which is expor made in their co- operative dutvieg? The pigs are slain in their co-operative slaughter-houses, and the anes One distinguished traveller com- plains that Sunn his stay in Den- mark he was always being asked to come and sce a pig killed. “The: eggs are exported by co- operative societies. It a Dane has ently one egg he can export it—al- ways provided it be a goo: Before the eggs are pack pert, down in the co- See fac- tery on oo slfore, they are held over a filled with’ electric light, hae all defects can be de- tected with the naked eye. It is no ee as a young egg is marked with the owner’s number ani egg eighteen thousand Danes belong to ere, too, but tor is packed for the English mar- ket, MURDERED son BY MISTAKE. Ls Failed to i Recamtias Him 0 He Returned Home. “A tra: on almost without paral- ie is reported from the Province eens Poland lish emigrant named Przeni: ions. cetiened to his home in the village of Zeilony a he years’ absence in the Unit tates. lis parents did not recuse him, so Przenikowski pretended to be an intimate friend of their son’s He asked for a night’s lodging. The a couple aaa pon senieed fe kee) im for a ni i ite acaba ions, tuld Hee that their son had pros- a ae Water is ueuehe Torn a river or ad ae ‘grapes, Bteaues: lemons, ebolieg y pieal fruits make gra: ee undings. as the 's heat, w registers over “00 degrees Fahren-| heit for weeks at a etal int chee ‘of these - | steal the money. his ne pers. ‘The; find | ~ pessnor! bearing tl name, and, 3 on the body a ihe at man, Eales dis- |pered in the Uni' said that he himself hat - his pocket book, the ce at hie savings. ~ After he heed far the night the old couple decided to kill him and him in bed, and then went through horror- steer to ter ‘examining aller | documents’ cand 3 rk: ‘at they had killed thei morning by rvant, stone ae? ee ing They strangled | MEDICINES YOU CAN TRY SIMPLE REMEDIES TO USE EMERGENCY. IN Cold Water for Burns or Scalds— Virtues of Borie Acid are Many. The following rimple remedies will save aon a tot at pain and trou- ble, if used ii Ti you vald your fingers, ane the hand instantly into cold water—the colder the keep it there for five or a aaa The cold water removes all pain, rs and as long as the hand is kept there no pain—or practically none —will be experie bod en treated by plunging the atorer clothes and all, into warm, bath, do in this case HOW THE-WORKLESS FARE IN FOREIGN CLIMES. The Chinese Poor are Looked After ~—Happy Life of the Beggar in Brazil. g The sad way in nealeets her homeless ployed is a da s The here is a lesso son for us drawn even from China. It 3: prising, no doubt, but the Chinese sf Spain have great cone a > for those who struggle te b> sur- erous buildings, resembling barns, with floors covered with layers «ft multi-colored feathers. They ae called | “‘ki-mas-fans,”” and are open all night. By paying balf cash—a hundred eash are equ- vaseline, can be used. etter even than carron-oil cite oi}, which soothes pain and acts ‘as an antiseptic. BED FOR BURNS. Severe burns cause a great shock and the healthiest and strongest kets, and applying a hot-water bot- tle to the Cuts are Siren poisoned by being torered oe se ever-clean rags, bwebs, mp-paper, ar other uate Bite are sure to have any ef microbes upon then ater thoroughly, until the ceases, ani too tightly, with a piece of scrupu- lously clean cotton or linen. This: should be steeped in a solution of boric acid, or sprinkled with dry berie aci hand, arm, or foot, raise iS pa high as possible. The bes the cage of, say, the hand! is to put it under the cold-water tap for a minute or half a minute, and then raise it above the head. To eure corns, get fro mist either fi ents of Be ster, or, better stil, a small bot. tle of salicylic acid dissolved in ether, with a little Indian hemp to remove the pain. If either of piheee is applied: steadily for a week or tw rn will disappear. sae in the head can generally be io short if attended to at once. ee & easpoonful of whisky, or @ Pea Be eer amie ES ary salt, dissolved in it, or a satur- aie solution of borie Beidnsete —should be squeezed from a piece of cotton-wool into each nostril un- i i w to tl eA @ rons Your cold will be gone in the morning. BORIC ACID. The virtues of boric acid, by the way, are not, so well known as they should be. Yon can get a quarter of 2 pound for five cents, and it will effectually cure a dozen slight ail- ments. sgll Four face feols sore after shor. ing Tub in a little boric acid mixe ease. alia and Pieline! Are the: over your mous, aaa pe y you feel oe easy t aselin oric acid will aimene pene in np nights. Do you suffer from dandruff? Rub in the vaseline and bo id, and the dandruff disappear after the first or second application. It is also the use Ss great mod- ern eye-cure—at lea for many kinds of diseases of ah lids and the rane, about But for this purpose you sheatla get the lotion from the ¢che- ist, for it must not be too strong. j| The majority of the ‘‘kj-mas-fans’ are for men are set apart fo: e home as provi To stop bleeding of the fingers, be ae in y ba ed by putting into hot water as much | of the powder as will dissolve in it) an the politest beggars {and this politeness seine for them | more popular heh essays at them. m-wool, Car-lvalent to 7 cents of our money—!tand. dest of which ih the homeless and weary can obtain aay Sab Souket (New South, Waled, night’s rest. Ande sab: vi > Hed oll ait Tce An The beds on which they sleep are Wales) Ta the lave 4 re xe ie he feathers, and so soon as the al- jotted number o! tes are in- stalled in a houses, attendants throw over them HUGE FELT BLANKETS. The lights are then put out, after which conversation is forbidden only, but one or tw? x women and girls. phop wood or cut the grass of the front. aan in ee for the meal ‘© is also given he by ihe. head of the house. You will never see in Brazil the miserable wanderers so common @ sight in British towns. Out there the lazy and the pennies take to e blessed read well butter- Rio Tetsle is the happy hunt- ing-ground of the professional beg- gar, and he can be seen RIDING ABOUT ON A MULE, sitting comfortably in a woode chair wheels, which is puller alcng by a diminutive black boy, or reclining lazily in a hammock strung from a pole and borne two full-grown negroes. ne of these neseare admits making twice as much money in a week as a goo es ay ean in a month in Eng- s the authorities make no Hasioaice effort to aunty out this state of affairs, beggii one of the commonest professions in the in equence, n and are are al- a angarian empire the same thing is maeeuloats fa aed falls out of work and cannot tan fresh employment he joins es, school,” and there are ane or more such establishments in big town. Here goes Bagh a regular course of instruc- tion, and is taught a number of set sure pathetic. And what is more, he is] TAUGHT TO BE POLITE. Thus it happens that the a ay golicit alms inthe towns of A ngary have the reputation net ce atlable ob: perhaps—of being in existence, a ae good living in When a country te not look up- on begging as a criminal offence the homeless are few and far between all anny of Pele France uae asp Those too idle to work, an sank who cisgint obtain work—and and beg alms. from passers: kept by al rmap-Jew. This mar. was in =the eC habit ak employing “out-of-works’’ to collect the names und addresses of the _charitably-dis- “su- he sold to borane slip, to the mutual cana of | himself and his numerous work- a chents, * BENTENCE SERMONS. 2 No day is too short to be kind. man of words is seldom. a man of his wor A little act may We larger than a great big aspiration. wind in Seeale gives n: ee ee his weight outside. lightho uses are needed, all our ee were pesto es ‘oblems are always It Aa more important to get ready by) The Sa aac THE POVERTY PROBLEM which Britain { Ky Pekin, for instanee, there are nain- loss a that could follow from this food eed ‘oo many want to be sirens pnetS row es FLOODS OF AUSTRALIA phy weatner rouowsh wt HEAVY RAINS. Town in New South Wales Destroy- ed and Many Lives Were Lost. Australia has the pepepaons ob cing a very dry country. matter of fact, tie rainfall aoe one: -third of its area is greater than that of England, writes Mrank ‘Vox in London Answers ost. places the. caintall is, however, badly distributed. After long spells of very. This fact, and the curious physical formation of the eoatigeats make it Hable to lo cies floods of the pase have been at Brisbano, the capital of Gaoeie, cs LIVES WERE ‘Lost. Another flood on the Hunter Riv- er ten South Wales) was marked by the arowning ef the Speaker of the local Parliament. Cattle fare better than sheep, for they will imes, however, enormous. t to reach a int of on pena sheep will, as le tonether ina : sense even to seek the little clavate which aie called “hills,”” though onl 'y raised a few feet above the general ‘0 raed well a flood in the Nar- rabri district of New pouty Wales seventeen years ago, Poe tive bear—rabbits, and snakes. MUTUAL HOSTILITLES were ¢ for a time suspended by mn danger, though the mire nm} human beings happened to be pre- d | sent. n incident of that flood was that — the little nas of Terry-hie-hie thy original tbe strange ieee by starvation. black-soil plains was, just as for- midable a barrier. Attempt alter spe thirty horses to get through with one ton of flour, and the situation began to look desper- ate. e siege was only rai when the population of the little es was on the very verge ol of sta: aut The ‘suburbs of Melbourns itself: used ‘f pas severely from floods; — but o! - Li ie RELIEF WORKS in the River Yarra have made in. undation of the Victorian capital, man has bee atyrg iS ensure safety aerate gooditge after torrenti: “the loss of the Laanecoorie weir ue —one of the incidents’of the 1909 — is Denenuaey uunfortunate,/ ie There. ce "to he an ofc i in Paris | ©") ° by Jack weir. an ce Ee whi, ivals in size the Nile dam. A discouragement to ty .|many experts, quite the nm ost ons to. Australia” industr: our OF THE GINGER JAR, : The crow sticks teadfastly to hi ch eine: Aas girl lives from Ps nd to mouth, “The ugh key is not asually the key to: eee ies vile men are occasion be otherw - the house ns. Bs we oe tis best, while. e ers dim * oriole to _ There is oer eek “many Gath muct Beds De a mal eves : ‘n ae ob—I see motive brought hint sure, but T aie wi One ae alwa than ae to