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But, as_a matter of fact, it does not seem confined to juries, for we read that the murder trial now rivals the opera and the thea- ter in Paris as a place of popular|" amusement. Everybody goes to murder, trials and talks about them | afterward. They are the vogue; real actors and real thrills. The | accounts of these recent trials will scarcely surprise readers of THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY TERNATIONAL LESSON, FEBRUARY 16. of Lesson VIJ.—The call of Abram, Gen. 12. 1-9. Golden text, Gen, 12. 2. in Verse 1. Now Jehovah said unto ing not Ur, but Haran. fo God spoke to Abram we are no’ told. Te voice is to be thought of, however, not as something exter- nal, but rather as heard within Abram’s inmost so Get thee out of— Dep from. Thy country... to sever his family ties and wander forth into an unknown ee cee no small demand or test of fi 2. The promise, however is as great as the require: In unknown land to alah. he is com- manded to go Abram is to becom a great nation and an example and a blessing to many nations. Be thou a blessing. ~Acoording to the Hebrew idiom, the impersona- tion of Bless BESS ae Psa. 3 8. 13). is ie Ne; 801 de: 3. I will bless them that bless isla anced wharves yak Teen: Christophe a picture of just such | a society. as they call up in the mind, a society sated with fiction | and weary for} in the jurder trials. first-hand impressions of | ek Great Britain, it seems, is con- | fronted by a eeplering: ‘architec: bs tural problem in building the new | capitol at Delhi. Is the visible | | symbol of the empire’s majesty | land ‘might to be a monument of! Indian art or is it to be mainly| western in, type? Those who an- | swer that it should conform to the} [indian type find. themselves still | face to face with this problem: If} it is fo be Indian, shall it be pre- dominantly Moslem or predomin- 2 antly Hindu? For there are ma styles in India, and a characte: istic architecture would fuse their 2 salient features. | >The Dondon © Times | “leader”? to the subject, treating it | ™ Pah vac solemnity. In the same | issue of The Times Herbert Bake a distinguished South African ar ‘tect, points out that the difficulty | jis to find in the Indian type saree and Seep the idea of law an order which have | heen produced out of chaos by the British administration.”” ‘The Hin. du genius expressed itself in i ish .ornamentation, achieving a unique splendor, but failing to give the impression of design. As for “constructive — tombs, fortresées and mosques;, they reared magnificent gateways id towers, set behind massive | walls. How can this architecture express the openness and solidity of the British rule? Better, he ‘thinks, the classic style of Jones with the nobler features of Indian architecture. yt The site of the new capitol is un-| i surpassed. It is surrounded by thing like genius will be required to devise a new type which shall be a fit pe of empire. as ably somes and well-kilown social ence was again forth. ing the recent “9 Walpole ‘he his so re port thas fon the tring "that no son < tobe tober le vi : romkenness ip not | Sands fined to the higher walls of lio. | eri devotes a} left for models | ™ thee—Thus indirectly will aptane become a source of blessedness to| 0 will be — blessed prospi erity or visited with misfor- ‘une according as ore are friendly jor unfriendly to In thee Hall a cue families of ‘the earth be peated to land agai |b: of The simplest. interpretation is that| °° Ul nations shall be blessed through |, the promine fulfilled n of the aaa and his | Gentiles The Hebrew | permits ‘of another rendering and linterpretation, according to. which {the sense of “be “bles: ond then become the eee ae bless them: thee,’ bl aelven ‘hee ill suprem for foi in use th; ie bl cording to the first Tere ai Israel is to become the organ o |channel through “which great bless- unicated ulti- world; according to tee d, the great blessings which Jehovah . will.. bestow upor mrss will attract the attention ot her nations and awaken in them a| Mangine blessings. mise i of Abra st | will be found in rine nd proceeding chapters of Genesis. acter, a strong mah t in that he was selfis! eak, and worldly. though polagisely: in comparison with his heathen neigh- bors, he was still accounted “‘righte- ersonal character being er t free from reproach to|*° rorthy 0 aera in the Bible Ties as a type of men who think too exclu sively of. marl aly advantage and resent ease, Haran—The name both of a city and of a district in the northwest- ern part of Mesopotamia on a tri- Baers of the Euphrates. still marks. ‘the On t] mounds thers village of small huts, by the ruins ot a very eastle or fortre: The city of Haran is mentioned i in some of the Assyrian inscriptions recent- ly brought On one of these Sargon, king of Assyria, boasts that ‘‘he spread out his ie: dow oyer the city.of Haran, and a: a soldier of ‘Anu and Dagon wrote = Ww ci oe Maran still flourished under he Roman its inhabitants were ante the P iulisteton Cote ing principally of cattle, horses ; clothing, silver, and gold ;! 1d posse: | and heuseho iS. The boule that dey had Sree and a Including children, servants anes A little later Abram is said , (on a are. rae on prince of the land The fo. seems the more probable h/ timately connected with brother, Wm. Duchess of Marlborough is buildin up a reputa dog fancier. the dog craz element. ii | Club. \sive somnolence of boy ii ay, ae ae Dr. ist: sheep, and | kee paroxysms, the eos Himees with: seas vontoleg ja andi as 33, 18, 19). former gestion, "however, Oak of M rd used eeularly the sutortatie direction given the priests. word translat- ‘oak’’ is aie in the mar- of the Revised Version Tere- as as is also the oak pro- E Caseante tee lander. 8. Beth-el—The ancient Luz, in- the his- ry of the patriarchs, To be iden- tified with the modern Beitin, about a miles north of Jerusalem. ame means ‘“‘heat.’” The Slcamtical of Moreh was a little more than two miles southeast of the road between the o the Sonnuen of Pales- Hebrews (compare 9. Journeyed—By easy stages, as ey, in Palestine. The in the original means literal- to ee up, that is, to move the]; tent or cam ik Toward the » South—Literally, the b, ge me given the ates ee of Judah, a peace een the hill id ae wil- Thess of the Sinaitie peninsula. DUCHESS AS DOG-FANCIER Following the example of her K. Vanderbilt, the tion as an time the Dachess ignored © and it matter oat ie was prac-| woman who did not pos- | Ediror iene class among her | w she appears | line with her| ing faney prices r bulldog breeds and water span-| iels. common talk Duchess of Marlborough. able for « Feyayease © yalnaile | animal whicl was being consigned) her from ceegen ue sifoeated | on the journey, Next year the Duchess hopes to igin the ranks of the society women 0 have been for a number of ATS an eave and conspicuous the Ladies’ Kennel — = SLEEPING A DISEASE. Excessive Somnolence Is So Ex- plained By a Doctor. — ‘An attempt to explain the iokewiok’'s wie sympathetic to- is ards those with whom sleep is afili fat boy may possibly pore utes iction, and he’ thinks that the a 1s ‘ enthusiastic Marvellous anataheas of es tinued Residen: At the last Bien Court i North Cumberland it was p: that a cottage ane miles from Gilsland had been in the continu- chen fire of this cottage been allowed to go out for well ape 200 years! says London An- “Hc both these _ things must constitute an actual kind in England! other similar long tenancies and continuations of things amongst us which may well hake the world stare at a time that is so prone to new and changing life and environment. Sir Laurence Gomme, of the ken = don County Council, mentioned, a meeting of the Folklore Sooile. that he knew a case where the kit- chen fire was Bok only a perpetual one, in so far it had been kept alight for finesse of years, that whenever fos ved that, in reality, this was but a relic of the fire- aes Dike pependine oEdie cine x gen- erations of this family. What shall we say about a noted vd one in England for this splend: fidelity to the old school? Fis ee family, whose head Lord e, have cer- tainly aEnerdod Winchester School since the early part of 1600. There | was Fiennes at Winchester about: 1620, and there was one at least a \y back ! i when ©: Crom- well’s savage troops pillaged Win-|* ntold chester Cathedral, and did u damage there, Secaae making |4 their way to the Beane with in- old chee) whilst he ale: to defend it! mes, in York shire; that ite ae has never been lacking to warm a traveller for over 130 years, neither day nor night, that it has been ever ready to time. The Churchyard family, at Stoke Gabriel, Devonshire, can ver ja wonderful aD ‘ich { almost a Cumberland one Chureh- } entered upon possession of their house at*Stoke Gabriel in the fifteenth century, and have never left it since i Generation after generation of them has succeeded to the house for more than 400 years; and Mr. Fred- erick Churchyard, the present hon- ored tenant. erected a stained-glass vindey im the church not long see as a thank- Ripe ‘on the 420th : erary the family’s iahinay the: Whilst speaking of these splendid it may be worth men- that. Florian’s, ‘been closed at all, night or day, wn. | fOr three anes whilst the Mai- | son Dore, in Paris, © |favorite house of call in the Empire ee can proudly claim that its doors have never been ae since they were first opened, dur: of Lo XIV. the wonder ‘of the ewvileed wo. ge : : get ELECTRICITY IN CHINA. he ‘of the Power for Adyer é ‘Growit ond. rT + Durii “ye ant > Ghidess merchants in Shanghai have’ taken |! up ue a! ae eir has “tikaye been - ee eustom oo ae Chinese to drape the y in red hang- cites: the case of a Seles who, when charged wi tel el as eb or nearly ited it. record: sates whi ial sleeps. cool a and months ; “80 bed. of a housemaid who Jor a ‘ent to sleep in the act of announc- |; He At one large store on Nanking , the. hengtas Settlement’s ipal_ Chinese ve the munic to move their premises ack so” cae for* Eee fearing. ui they should be the shade by TENANT FOR 600 YEARS! s se | gi great eave ‘when the onions Court | and ‘dire made ae high “will eineins a 7 | The One Enduring Lesson of the Story Denial Is the And h he took one of the stones of the Secs put it under his an v hen Jacob lay down to sleep that night no doubt he thought that was the hardest part of his life. But he never thought so af- terward. “was a necessary ex- Perens and he praised God for it. We do not ordinarily thank for difficulties and adversities even have come safely through improved did. re altars that ought to be built by us and consecrated vith costly oil that we have neglected The Law Is eat, no stone pillow, no vision; no hard nocks, no heave comes at last an unsteady, unreli- able and unable nomen ever a man. Ability is not a gift; it i Blea Sa eens by ioeaad buf- feting winds. But the boy who kets out in life crying, “Fetch me a lio to fight, show me a mountain’ 4a God! on characters | g; are many | gig Is that «Sle Road to. tents climb, set’ me a.task that will all ree is in m eace and joy. ‘ cometh will T § my throne. “He Dreamed.” Nay, but he had been dreamii is that it ie sentinelled by His angels, — who are ever at our service.—Rey, . Johnston. ; F THE CAMEL. . To Be Made to Feel That He Can Be ee Without. journals were w PASSING 0 stood there |. i inv propeller working in the air, and. altogrtier ceive the coming guest during that ao sounds ean essential means of locomo- ion Alas, camel! Through the centuries he has bela a proud place |? in the hearts of me ani- mals none but Re eu weenie the termors of the desert; without him an Was anes to penetrate the Heante'of tie great continents, And now, like the rest of us, he is to be superseded by a mere machine. He will become a drug in the market and when we no pee to little Willie that he is ‘the ship of the desert.” — i. MUST SC Bou DESK G0? Children Sit Dowit a Too Much, Ore- gon Teacher Claims, The familiar school “desk, as we know it, is soon to become a curi- Progress in education has The school desk must enemy to health cctly responsible for many unnual Teachers’ Institute in Oregon, recently. Professor Sisson soe the teasione i ners, in ae seat’ of pais She be He said. enches and tables and oe cand ie childr en will not be’ dow. hrown out, ede iis: do just the oppos tell yor ab ting poet eee , too roach w to result in organic 4 tay of the ‘roilaeon eee =e = Emperor and Kings. é aoe s the sates 2 ‘taking the tite St Bat per- nly be Tollowing Mibe ae set in the Balkans. eZ ati a t | of renee h, “In its | place we will have | o: thatthe atte i as it — OT eusnerary ee Bulgane : ime FO ERIN'S © GREEN ISLE - : Happenings in the Emerald Isle of — Interest to Lrish- men, The National School, near Ne Ross, been burned groun. The death has conitened ae Ms. Carri ickbes eg, rs. Clonmel branch of - the eague are to hold an Tndueteial Exhibition in Clonmel next June. “The licensed premises of (pee Corrigan, Main Street, Newtown- stewart, have been destroyed by of hay, the a acta aieiant of Mile- hae been destroyed by _Twenty--fix perty of W eight, Kerry, man named O’Brien, a native has died of blood.» poisoning, “the result of a scratch by — a cat The death has occurred of Mr. William, Lorrha, ‘County Tipper- ees — the advanced age of 1 yea: pee ‘old man named James Fegan of Jenkinstown “district, nly expired in Church Street, Dundal! He was 85 years of age. At a meeting of the Sesee Cor. away in Heat es e old lac aoe ict terms of Imprisone: all cases of drunkenness and fested itself i in tn Doble ae urbs within the pasi Upwards of 200 horses isolat ae iain Thomas Crot ford s. ealkstan z od t “in rad rs