WILL OF PETER THE GREAT =f MAS BEEN PWHEUPLY FOL- LOWED BY THE CZARS. And Has Been of Importance in Shaping the Destinies : of Europe. There is no one Bai crit which has had so much to do with ghaping the destinies of Euro, Baas 3 will which Peter the Great t lett 2 rs his successors, igh their directions b for Roeren are Empire created and left to them. Peter a died in St. senate Feb. 8, 1725—180 years ago. This will, et of the plan. Hasten the de- cline of Persia; penetrate to whe of Englan X. Seek and oor keep up an alliance with Austria, acquiesce, apparenttly, in ae ideas of domin- ating over Germany; at the same time clandestinely exciting against her the jealousy of the neighbor- ing provinces. End eavor that the be called for by one and the other, so that, by Seeking a kind of guardianship ver the country, you prepare a interest for joining in banishing the Turks from Europe; defraud her of her share of the booty, at the con- quest of Constantinople, either by THE SUNDAY. SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEBRUARY 25. Lesson VIII.—The baptism and temptation of Jesus, Mark 1. 9-13, Matt. 4. 1-11. Golden Text, Heb. 2. 18. MARK 1. 9-13. Verse 9. In those days—While John was still baptizing in the wilderness, preaching repentance and announcing the early advent of the Messiah. n Luke’s account we are told that peat was at this i MAKING: SAFE. INVESTHENTS Very Excellent Investments for Businoss (EREEEE EE CEE EEE CEE EEE: veel | When Love a % Conquered Boner dna ee wince Nell shook her head sadly. ‘‘No, pony, I aa ah marry Lee West, Morris children. Epvorpees for I’m to begin Sets the first of Octo- er.” ade public. Any stu-| raising a war for her with the anei-|ed bylaw fo dent of history will at once see how] ent States of Europe or by giving Paee Valipsstibiey tine lun x" porkicn: whigh yourwill taka [arc es their ‘offs (Num. (By “Investor.”) looked at his sister in blank amaze- We have seen that so far as safety is| ment, and clutching the table which concerned railroad sculoensae ee “R08, | Separated the two young people, he sete — Com; verse 23, Text Studies. fa pee ae is The smnartaneg e Nazar- in the early life of Jesus was threcpold (1) It was a eclealed vil- . h to ‘yourselves and as- red and Sweden | semble atatid you, all the united robbed of her best provinces. In| Greeks, as also the dis! iaitedacr spite of oe? 8 interference, Ger-| schismatics, which are scattered | © many has succeeded in coming to-|either in Piungarys Turkey or the income, convertibility, prospect of appre-| simply must marry West. I tell you ciating in value and stability-may now | it’s imperative. ‘You have got to do be briefly considered. it, He’s coming here this afternoon * 4 particularly strong feature of eavip-|for his answer—and it must be SQUAD OF INSURGE NT BOMB-THROWERS. gether, and Turkey still remains in} south of Poland. Make yourselves |» pss: separated by a ponies of hills} 4 novel rae of warfare introduced by the Chinese Republican army. | ment bonds is the fact that as a rule Europe, but very many of the di-| their centers, their chic support, | om the main LAGER SCE a they yield a relatively nieh rate ot 0:1 "HT toll you it must be “yes.” You rections given by Peter the Great|and lay tho foundation for univer- and thus aford mie. AS 8 ing they return Bi 00 re Rese cee TION RU iC will have to marry establishing a| quiet cae ele life ane 1. tas it is written—In Deut. | EXTORTION RULES IN CHINA. | trom one-half to one per cent. more than h “ —<—- do th ‘tgage bonds of the railroad | hang it, Nell, West is a nice fellow. ate cele hment. kind of royalty oF sacredotal goy- would have been possible sae an 6. io the mortgage bonds ys = ee eat tot i Seernpeetery se oy , have been followed out to their ac-| sal supremacy i b onio Greeks will] Jerusalem or Capernaum, Showeth him all the kingdoms | Grafting OMicials Aro to be Found | issuing, them the name of the most holy and|erament, the : sot ¢ i i indivisible Trinity, we, Peter the| be so many Glenda What you will| the same the outloo! iB yt of Phe world, and the glory of them Everywhere. Hida aes vag Pie de ie nee me ou crazy?” Nell ex- First, Emperor and Autocrat of all| have scattered amongst your ene- this range a hills above Na Nazaret! ce ee ie see Jet et a ee The form of rule which obtains in | serial bond or for bonds of such short | olaimed onning forwiad x : monet ct “equipments,” and also to th gece Be ee eae oe RTT Aveded tovered- Persia and | highly: educative Pee Gamers Cline ab Brestnt mess, Deis tine’ | ee cho vensekt Chbaiinn ioubllo uae|fomie 7 Set ay se ane arias scendants and successors Pte. the ourse, have been purely mental, | have | fact that the general Canadian public has throne and yorernment of the Rus-|Tutkey "conquered, Poland subju-[ineluding the main, road of inter‘|and this is the, argument Gatintiet ee Sees ae bec rOnnaNe. sian nation: gated, our armies national trade with its continual] brought forward in support of the ‘od, from hoes we derive our Black’ and the Baltic Seas eelaes procession of Jerusalem pilgrims, | view that the whole series of temp- existence, and to m we owe our vessels, you must make| Egyptian and Midianite caravans, | tations transpired in the realm of wh, having constantly enlight- propeeiens, separately and dis-| Roman legions, and princes ii 8 no say whatever in the management caiity of cauipment bonds ap invest.|do you mean when you eay T will of imperial, national or even muni | ments, Yor this reason tho return ia|have to marry Mr. West! cipal affairs. The mangarins, or lo- | yigh. In the case of Canadian Northern jood heavens, Nell! I—I—well, cal iagietrates, have full power of | “Equipments,”—the only bonds of this|I owe him a great deal of money, | may lose adjudication, from which there is no | class at present available to the Canadian| and if you refuse him I m: ened us by His Spirit, and sustain.| creetly—first to the court of Ver-| ues. Well might the diversified cle-| of the argument is evident. ‘The 1 Hoppe naoiae £4 us by His divine help, allows me|Sailles, then to that of Vienna, to| ments mingling in such a scene in-| realism of the narrative, however, they have fal SO Ee | ae ge needa i Uoar aun ane to look on the Russian people as|share with them the Empire of the| spire within the mind of a thought-| adds vividness to the whole and|their machi ations with complete | for bonds with some years to run. ear ‘bl £ them accep’ 1 and especially gifted youth, | brings us into vital touch with the As regards convertibility, equipment mans A is it possible you irresponsibility, and every officer Seance SABRE r théy are rapidly approaching it. Naturally, then, they will be casily. and indubitably ‘conquered by a poe- f Fi ple strong youth and vigor, especially. selene nid tatearauall , Darian invasions ; ened men tron MeN orth sree the reflux of, the Nile, which, at certain periods, comes to fertilize the impoverished lands of Egypt by oY its deposit. I found Russia as a yates’ Tr eek it a river, My suc- cessors will make of it a large sea, , destined to fertilize-the impover- ' ished lands of Europe; and its | aters will overflow, in spite of op- 3 posing "4 countries to their watchfulness and \g the law to the J. 3 \ I. Keep the Russian Aa ina state of continual war, so as to nave these means you will be ready for war evi the time of peace. This itor sia aite cent the future ag- : grandizement ‘of : TI. Undeavor, by every possible boring civilized countries of Eu- rope, officers in times of war, learned men in times of peace, thus giving the Russian people her coun- ss aed without allowing ae to lose f eir own self-r ine On'every eon rake apart in the affairs and quarrels of Eu- many, which country, being nearest, more immediately concerns w IV. Divide Poland by exciting civil discord there; win over th nobility by bribery ; corrupt the iets, so as to have influence in the election of kings; get partizans in- office, protect them; bring sojourn there the Muscovite one: s until such time as they’ can be per- er i | parceling out the country, until ou can retake in detail all that as. been cede: ‘ . Take as much as you can from Sweden; and cause yourselves so as to have a pretext for subduing her, To ac- complish this, sever Denmark from Sweden and Sweden from Den- cane oul: keeping up their rivalr’ Vik sAlnavd neal as macs for -—~the Russian pain German prin- cesses, so-as to sicseaee faaiily al- care, as Moses Bess the sous of ‘ jatter their pride and ambition— te | make use of it to crush the other; os ca in ae turn, the surviv- ing with it in a death sateagale, the issue of which be doubtful, Russia pos- dete already call oe East and a great part of RLV, tiowhich de nob Likely — both refuse the proposition of Rus- a, you must manage w raise quar- s for them and make them ex- Rett eas sanuther Heal profiting by a decisive moment, ahs ae “bring down her assembled on Germany; at the same oie ee? ; | considerable fess will set out—the one from the of Azov, the other rom the port of Archangel—load with Asiatic hordes, under the con- ing by. the Meditcranean and ¢ Atlantic Ocean, they will sate rancé on one side, whilst Ger- many will already have been in- vaded on the other: These coun- tries conquered, the rest of Europe will easily pass under the yoke, without striking a single . Thus Europe can ae [cate to be subdue Dave Heaiboral ot all ths Rae: ias. SAE SCOTCH MARRY EARLY. Official Records Show Many Girls] | 1 Wed Before Sixteen. That early marriages take place frequently in Scotland is prove y the annual aa rt of the regis- Papelera recently issued. Here are some of the most notable cas- means, to bring in, from the neigh-| es: One girl of 14-married a man twice six married at the age of 15; fifty-four at the age of 16, in ree cases the bridegroom being a widower ; 326 at the age of 17; ten ule of 18 married widowers. Of ie boys eres enteret matrimony, trae we: ged 16 married a girl of 15; one are 16 married a girl of 16; one aged 16 married a wo- man of 21 ieventy boys married at the age n erat to these youthful partners, there were recorded the weddings of a widower of 86 years of age, and two others of 78 re- marrying, and eight others of over 70. Most of the latter married widows. Since thé introduction of regis- tration, over half a century ago. irregular marriages in Scotlan have greatly increased. Of the 30,- 108 marriages recorded in the year under review, 2,015 (or 6.69 per cent.) were irregular, the majority of them Bene place in Glasgow and Edinburgh. ea HEREDITY AS HE SEES IT. Biologist Says Sons do not Inherit Characteristics of Fathers. Sons do not inherit personal fraits and saree eu ries of their fathers, acco 0 statements a liances, to draw mutual interests | made by Dr. aThanieah or iena << oloser, and Propagating our versity of Copenhagen in an address his rinciples in Germany to enlist her} on ‘Inheritance,’ in Huntington in our cause. VII. England requiring us for our navy, and she being the only pow- er that can aid in the development of ours, seek a commercial alliance Exchange our wood and the pro- ductions of our land for her gold, and establish between her mer- is wi in perfecting the Russian ‘fleet for pave tion and commerce. VIII. Extend your possessions to- pee the north, along the Baltic, ward the south, de the Black ae TX. Approach as near a sible to Constantitntople its outskirts. He who shall Ses there will be the true sovereign of the Hall, of ths Instituté of Techno- logy, eens That as inherited his fa- ther’s bal ‘habit of eae or that Harry has inherited his mother’s sweet dispositioh are onse mis- conceptions, according to the Den- mark biologist. ‘‘That is only tra- dition;’’ he pat “Tt has absolute- ly nothing to do with inheritance. ee % not the transmission personal characteristics, but cae the existence of the same constitutional characters in par- ents and offsprin; 2 SNS ee ENLIGHTENING. Alice—“What kind ot : girl has}? a Sal ge himself hh, she’s tie Ae of wo- nee ee ver dare ask to lunch- rsia. ao for fear she’ll stay to dinner.” Many a girl fails to select the © | right husband because she is the of being left. was open to the best Nor could a life philosophy or vis- ion of opportunity thus cbisited | be eramped within the narrow bou aries imposed by n pace! sects es and traditions. @ 5 ituated aa Galilee, the village life of Naz: eth was under the fodlueee state simple synagogue form of worship rather than that of the temple, with its greater emphasis on for- mal ritual. In the Jordan—The place of bap- tism is not positively known. fourth Gospel speaks of John as baptizing in ‘“Bethabara (or Beth- 8 3. 23). The eater of these places is, however, uncertain. | 10. Straightway—The word characteristic of the Fae ee vivid & He saw—That is, Jesus, although the Baptist also was a witness of je heavenly manifestation (John ry The Spirit as a dove descending upon him—Compare Luke’s word- ing, “‘the Holy Spirit descended iy a pee form, as a dove, upon mG. voice came out of the heay- ns—For two similar instances of a ice speaking from heaven, com- pare Mark 9. 7 and Jo The wilderness—An unin- babited region, not a barren de- Forty days—Perhaps The temptation is here represented as coco neat through the entire Eo euiah oA Habioy Word meaning adversary. Compare 1 Chron. 91. Psa. 109. 6; Matt. 16. 23. To ihe sense here used as the adver- sary of mankind its Greek equiva- lent is diabolos, meaning devil, the vas used by both Matthew and he ke. MATTHEW 4. 1-11. Verse 3. Command that these stones become bread—The first temptation is prompted by phyricnl appetite, the. suggestion being to make use of powers gran for higher pes in allying the se ‘a ings of hun: It is oe Deut. 8. 3. “that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that pro- ceedeth out of the mouth of Jeho- Ses doth man live.’ 5. The devil taketh him—A lite: al interpretation of this account oe the temptations of Jesus would re- quire us to think of both Jesus and the See eee leaving the soli- tude o! e wilderness, and to- gether es ane te Jerusalem, many miles distant, and then back tothe high mountain-top, or vice versa, if we follow Luke, who places the sec- ond and third temptations in re- verse order from Matthew. The journey would occupy some time, ‘possibly a full day, unless we sup- pose Jesus to have been transport- | ed instantaneously i in. some miracu- lous manner into the holy city and to the pinnacle of the temple. imagine Jesus, fatigued and all but exhausted, making that long jour- hey slowly, andl in company with mn, is to recognize the improba- bility ond incongruity of the situa- tion implied. To i imagine the trans- te agine Satan performing acle aa and taking Jesus with him by fo: 6. It is frriton the reference is to Psalm 91. awful mental struggle which trans- pired in that lonely Judaean wild- erness. 9. If thou wilt . . . worship me— Acknowledge my lordship over the eangtioa 2s es wor Ge hence, Satan—The hae of ‘ae temptation has come. A point has been reached where Jesus must either surrender or rise Th henge nae aed “for a season,’ indicating that we are not to imagine the subsequent earthly life of Jesus as entirely exempt from further jepneeor Indeed, the writer to the Hebrews tells us definitely tha ae “in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb, 4. 15). See bees anes :'FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going on in The Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. The last a Seeih rate in Edinburgh is 12.1 It is proposed 3 burghs of Motherwell and ee ‘ishaw. Last month 246 persons were sent to prison from Edinburgh Wot Courts. There were 600 persons dealt with at Musselburgh Police Court last year, an increase of ‘Almost 100 tons of coal were dis- 2). | tributed among Renfrew poor dur ing the festive s The Territorial Perea in the te burgh Aisteisy is 1,140 short of th establishm of 6,066. ae oct there were 262 pati- ents in the wards of the Hospital eo Sick Children in Edinburgh. During 1911 there was a total 114,504 tons of coal shipped from Trvine, as against 115,942 tons for previous year The Scottish coal trade, ner passing through a period of abno mal depression, is now experie: nee ing “Something in the nature of a “Statistics for last year show a Bictined due wciermevaloetie pauper ‘disqualiieation for old age pensions The Northern Artisans is the hailing from pats parts of the North of Sco It_is ‘tecided that a sufficient number of practitioners have ex- uined choir of bbey, as a memorial to their parents. The esteemed principal of Edin- burgh University, Sir Wm. Turner, completed his 80th year the other jay, and was the recipient of con- gratulatory mestages from various bodie Troon Town Council has agreed | to ith the widening of Lochgreen Road and eideess which give access to the n from the south end. It is Seanad to cost $10,000. The death has taken place at ae of a century. A noted eels oie was known in every town or village which held “Frighland games has assed away in the person of Ser- geant aie M’Lennan, of the e zie, Hainburet Police Force. A re issued on a “and” "OE a silver coins near Kel- The evidence ‘shows that the sone were Sones! 2 -) the troublesome sine of Je Wars In dependen i pein the) me: may fatten himself with impunity. they ae sae and it is only when the bleeder is a bungler that the eee steps in with pretended Gecealeas to ameliorate, but more eee to complete, the deple- i ion. English readers are probably un- aware of the smallness of the estab- lished salaries of provincial mag- nates. They will scarcely credit that the viceroy of, say, ruling a country with a = omsation larger than that of G + Britain, is allowed as his feet Seay the paltry sum of £60 a year; so that, in order to live and maintain him- self in office, accumulating fabulous riches the while, he resorts to ex- tortion and the selling of justice. So with education. The results of examinations are the one means of | 4 ohievane official notice. Granted ey and, by bribing the Pe- king authorities, an oficial post weaned oaks pete We be weleey oenene ke he even pays so much annually £0" |may is post, license to squeeze is the rent and the man must be stupid who cannot, when backed up Peguudtentiage sake eel by rich enough to buy a still higher Pie ina fos years. With advance- increased license and wyditional facilities for his enrich- ment, so that the cleverest “squeezer’”’ ultimately can obtain money enough to purchase the high-| » . est position This official thief, with his mind warped by his mode of life, is the ultimate authority in all matters of social, polit'cal and criminal life. a, fatal system, an imperium in ee an unjust autocracy which aaa ye its own rottenness. But thi of fattening on the pub- lic valet selling of Rares the chief means by which the Man- chu dynasty continues to exist. With this legalized corruption Sane as the iighest ideal of gov- ernment, who can wonder at the ex- istence of a strong undercurrent of | a dissatisfaction among the people ?— From an article by Dr. Sun Yat Sen SCHOOLBOYS FIGHT DUEL. German Youths Use Firearms to Settle Dispute. mee again the morbid reading indulged in by German schoolboys and youths, and the peculiar ideas er- | no of honor and the duel hel m: as | probably cost him ‘his A hoy of seventeen years was found a few days since in a smal] ni é az scious condition, with a bullet wound in the right breast. He was taken to the local hospital, where his chances of recovery are regard- aoe sma) ms that the lad, a scholar It in the e Detmold higher grade school, quarrelled with a schoolmate of his own age over a girl, even younger than themselves, and for whose fa- knowledge that each was sharing the girl’s affections with the other, “ Hee youthful Romeos mutually Calf cided on an ‘‘affair,’’ in bial oie should seek the only possible es- eape from his passion while the victor r arms, and repaired to without seconds or other witnesses. tele to his fallen opponent. — She—‘‘You married me simply be; cause I had money!’ He—‘‘Ni I married you because I didn't hi 1. ave money 10 to — highly liquid and secycatintantac? tredigin tn wibadidh tae EUG ak te Se ie. Wee iy vil 00 shares, which possesses a readier market Shares, however, are by no means stable | * y are Rupitacge! sbenallcaey more ‘The short maturity of equipment bonds, FISHING FOR HIS SUPPER. A Black Bear’s “Method of Catching Fish. Camping in the thick forests of mn stream of clear water, the hye of call of the wild Boones cea the and eal As chit a fees of na- Barts as ‘the pees ae aan divocispibig oP ‘wild ‘nthowettos, rotting log that lay across Es narr trout, and another aati ‘sided fish that 2 cannot fame, in dozens with below were nersunded that it was gathered ae iat shoaie: Becapes the a in the paw was an se on a fistful “of Sr ae alee: eatsee he released most apetwly, = ate pach course of his benguey he cat meditate a while, as if A cilipatd pistes “eset, the fond Bea 3 ried out. The boys, by some means, obtained possession of fire-|_ For halt an hour I watched him. With an Aner shuffle, he backed from his log and went off into the dim forest. avs “Bee here, Nell, I mean to put it back; every cent. of it. I’ve been . unfortunate, that’s all, Dropped a PI “| few hundred in Leen but Vil «| make it up all rig] on’t, don’t, ae I cannot bear to hear any more. There’s the im in a few minutes. Now Half any hour uber Hane bane back into the sitting-room, to find his sister standing by the table, white to the lips, one hand support- ing her weight, while the other was remit to her brow, as if she were es “ave all right, Henry; I’m going to marry him. I’ve consented— -| consented to save my brother from. Henry, as he saw the Mr. West reappear between the cur- ains, But it was too-late. Lee West had heard Nell’s last words, and had caught a glimpse of her horrified ace. “T beg your pardon, Miss Jack- son, for returning so ‘suddenly. I 1d fin: ave forgott lo Henry, will aa kindly leave your sister and lone min- utes? T wish to speak with her pei vately. Turning to the girl by his side, he gently took her small, trembling hands in his. “Nellie, my dear child, I cannot let you sacrifice yourself for Henry. ww your noble heart prompted along until he has restored the eee he 80 foolishly lost. It will © a lesson to him, a severe lesson, 2 wg but his sister is not the one price of suffering for her Prather 's wrongdoing. “T will go away, Nellie, dear, out of your life. I love you too dearest girl, a ever cause you @ moment’s pai “Don’t cry, vibtle woman; it will be all right. You do not have to marry me. I understand; I under- stand. - Nellie raised her white, tear- ti his own kind blue eyes, buried her face in sae ‘hands and wept even more bitter] Putting aye ee, arm about her shoulders, Mr. West tried to com- fort ee with words of Boge and ten- dernes Présently, between Nellie said brokenly: alt ey 7 want you to-go eo ca me. I want to go with y ‘Nell, anne is te t possible’ Do mu care for just.a little? Oh, my g’rl, if you’only can care a little T will make you love me deal.” “J do love—you a great—deal, Cae think 4d al@avarire: loved you, Will you take me with you, . please?” “Will F-take you, with mi » into| my darling, my darling! We wt be eiater te Detentty held it here married to-morrow if you say so.” And, clasping her in hiscarcin ti ed the tears Hee blinded her, murmuring words of love “That fellow is making money hand over fist.’ ‘‘How is he doing Sis v Climbing a circus trapeze,’ o these are the you advertised t Bl ive! Recta eh for nothing. ye LOVE ISN’T BLIND. “Love is blind,’”? murmured Mr. sp a regretfully. “That’s all _nonsense,’’ replied his wife. * When a git) falls in love with a man, she sees magnificent nee The poor need be for kindness only in the dictiona: