want "et ous ae Bing: 3 gently et Billy 4 Shorty, from seera waite ~fapd-o ""BIO0G| bers" at the cori- chadan ot oy, eeting In the store- room over t's hardware store, tently. 5 me mt merely éye and aalled ty yaterioisly. Billy needed rther coaxing. iitully sntiag. thelr companions, Shorty @ patos Were soon on their way to the Not until the two were within the lub's 'boathouse ol Billy cret. ped: - ee aay one. Pa bein see, mnorty was ri wiser. <a though to look pocket, a moment later he 'came Sv "Sr nging the _ ae vation aha "alssovered, to ae surprise that ~agea great clod o of earthen Bisicpe ed bad hotles pas per, Oe Keep the ground so wot," thous, t be; "at ar' rate, they haven lat the Gellar wae 'atone." cite was eto a cake tha on cellar. Standing uber seve: hours, 4 digging a woe up around "the aide of @ "how He made a TF sofemaeltt th cana. a Lait scfambling u ro) e siidin nirth, ft reed fs t the TO} hole, Then he crept a ay the payne rothbe back -- the cree 5 aay, that. the he hag. bv dma been discovered. Fortuna ely, the wind ber changed, and . aithowss Shorty disliked to risk the un- ng, he decided that a greater risk ay ain remaining' anywhere near the - ia you woul& think he was just any other "Bloody Robber." es wasn't "atuck up," and if any pn aid b as, pone Au Sweety would pow 2 del n "trying out" she 'acht, the too ald It out on "the "Climb in! ye slled ahort? Se a flew ierkaeee "sho orty's sie mainsail swung around: sending: Buly e feet through t air, and own the cree ie acuddeds the yacht Sejere, © budaterin Peet na, Koran 25 hcg ms a BILLY WAS EKENOCKED SEVERAL FEET THROUGH THE AIR cabin. Besides, he had by this time gained a little confidence regarding the Luck; m Ing else, fa- vored him, so that in an Incredibly short time he ie thouse, and, after some maneuvering, ground- Fifteen minutes later he was rela a sae ate of his adventu; 'ure to his fetnee 'ko « UsT sores for a moment that you bi J by a busy, puffing little tu; ares to- a great, big masAe And the great, thin' lace in your head where almost aches, and you yy Feely' don't think I'd mind it so very, muci 'cause father and mother' would be. sure to take care of can't pour "another and ave ott oie her arms are around you; suppose there's nobody --nobody In the wide world--with you, and that people e only know where you're going astips eon. ve @ little tag pinned on "Now you your wasad real WOULD ache TS weuee to" that. Perha cue a ats A eM often = eee tt Neatly rey wtime 'the eee na cboya. who" 0 come all ee ere 25: oe "@ 0: b ee é oe , . © oe. AWFUL brave, you think. he's given something to eat. bee rey traveler x does feel a little o bad. be still after tha. he's you can't eae ilitla. girl or bey. train that puffs even more than the tug Even yo pty Brant, a boys, y whe aS feel «28d whirled miles and miles over the por eg He country to the place that the conduc- ig, You were were th the same Feads on the tag--perhaps to som a ale rhe. you K you wouldn't, one whem he e has rever seen. But jo 5 'ore Ppened your head woul and wakeful i Bef the wee voya er can make ou surely feel happened and dizzy, were end sleepy and bright and what it all means he is hustied off the you he. Even with father and mother And every ono's hunting a new home! hip and Into a room where a wise ma with you you'd be bound to feel this No doubt they'll fin y ow looks at his eyes and ton Way upon such a long voyage. friends about this home. Pevshaps--who i there's anything that feels funny In the pictures 9) you #ee some of tho knows?--some little boy or girl who 'inside, or in his head, or if there's ople o heave just arrived on the lecture you see hore will Le writing anything at all wrong with him. Some- Pa ship. There's the manly, little chap, Fetters to Polly Evans, just as you've he has 'to be vaccinat thoug: © looks just as eels as can be; there' gn for 80 10ng O time! Then YOU'LL such a brave wouldn't m dithat. the jittle girl wh: Sope the' ieee indy since nl! of Polly Feige that ano his het courage; and there. are. boys and giris Rrane ithe and boys are made friends and points out where to 6°. After and babies who Iuok cheerful and wee ~ pad, throw, ugh her stories Among the Dwarfs in Goblintown SYNOPSIS OF FIRST INSTALMENT. A colony of dw e. home desp down in an abandon ei coal ynine. Pee. of ee meets Trixie and her courin and invites them to descend Intu the peruse we ptt ee then ead girl a not pena that they y catch a elizpe 4 ry iets ¥ iz the dw Pee of a (¢ ELL," observed Fred to ep vend. is spite ors all ais Trixie. as they sat on che in apie 1 bench In the little compart- that mjateed out into the ment where they wero to past the night, "there seems to be nothing to @o but stay here." For some time they talked togethor and then lapsed into silence for sov- er bours, Fred, who med to be éé RANCES, I showd ike you to at gee, pecs ge deeply, suddenly leaned for- sao thie. pce' : gout ek "i a. d Seared to Trixte: ma, and remember, don't 6 *: --a e stop to fos the way, but go es paae Gok ty sctentifie ainet helps me a lot in my ate i, ' ther d picee eagieliy & as you can and ro- Ps. ne a ea me ia little ask "containing : } c . wou put cheerfully, ae P securing the tia SS houte' 1 ha re tt wit me a ier the Danket on her atm and was soon : game of thie auld' Iso ene ot tne trudging on one ray, ta Nat ' resale Tne ae qu nto of the But = . cooking pots on the morrow Mabel, "ae forgot" about what -- 3 My The . when | rheyy re all asleep, we can ad told her, and st t egan a 'bed long ot ge 'ap night could not Brn saplaiy sous muischlavous: Brodie; tonsa rt notice 4 as fun $6 ; nen' eon y a on oun o s joy that it w b A CABIN IN THE WOODS J piss or Keone (the basket and z ea matter to carry ow ' is pt re A mtered grandma's 2 ot the Mand Woy wetitr re pe ' te > etling away, a creek. Bang it went against the house, * After "kissin the sGear wie 8 ept very Ap Ue Fratch aver then erous p rty Ww: url~ 'Sent a plump Tabbit. As she er es thin angst av after the dwarfs i mM the box and the yacht was D e ba 'to a bd had break tad » from their immense in high on to the ia: ahateats ret y they were "i bowl of porridge every one of t..em ' exing himself up, Shorty fou aeae Prd Let i Acie ooh | Was sound asleep. t a was fon" the bruised to a trifling epiint: erscelf mania. C00 | in © grande TaN £7 fe But how could the two find their eread Re fo te to Oey Ee ee. - r s n or gre ie th the" small that. ber it ns ware the cs Frances mie re passages. In their wanderings they het been harmed in the slightest" dae at woh, bow her pal te ah a been . it 69 gaine across the Little ornite boy they a a 6 or a mo © evening ie " at not going hat before. Fred hesitated moment, : ne sald ue acquaint ie ned sei callin, Breday. Jone a quiletly took ihe : 7 otter OT cee 'many bottiea he alwaya " Sbore 'fe = the peunte , @ e doubt carrie 'orced do oy's 7 _ B whic gp 4 way Ne Te ht to gente Frances poured TORED er. 'tale. £0 BS throat some of the fluld with which it he plunge through the under- doubtful, so Frances raised e 4 Was filled. An Instant, and then the ian straight - ore him, in the hope the basket order to s ark . r bey"s eyelids quivered ew min- eaching some sort of road or But instend of the cat she found the er ona as 'the bey "c ould Rds aa i n eo ou ae » he had proceeded = than a few was much Evleved ¢ explained that he had been captured when he camé Upon r . mall clear- that Frances mcculd tell het ane & NX he dwarfs some time . and ng. 'tn the peels of Hie |W s built a for her fault--not for her untruthful- that they had brought him down here me cabin. emight ees nes: mamm ed, f to ork for them--undoubdtedly for = note, oy aides tak "direction to other fault 'of seouslping and. dis I Trinie and Fred into the 'nin . ¢, the ped at the door. t ' ¢ no r 4 a0 tried to peer fearned from Freday orth the ee he You're. ait "mixed. spe Sith cleans ge eS Wee ee aaa howe oe oe pet workin, 7" he isd soon, wdlded thom to rough ae bg F es served had p yed, she resolved never to be n But what about her uncheon And then tell n elgnbors 'not @ few enasl. and was familiar with . woe heavy sone Rerctch' & seule aaetn The doorbell rings and rings--and then When but a Joos of roll waa all 'That housework you've been shirkin'! {he Working of the "bucket, fhancd Tadd on' his wnbee, Hie ture goin u shudder at its meanin You 'spected to be munchin'? you've 8 were soon in the outer alr. a to Gg hi Geet ce 7 ed by a surly a a sigh of relist they thanked man J . u . miHere, y Genk i" ye still more heartily for delivering his. jg Ma Mi enastnata The Bird Told Her Greatest Concliteent A Dangerous Question --bame"" DBSEned toward Trixie's ne ' . 1 rt: f 1 4 Trixte's mother was almost {li sy 7 aie. "tot Oren ry ot, cee ps "threats ome -- LATE Lord Shaftesbury ve OR many tiresome minutes had rom rr meat bu now she e @ ice-yac' for fear " tatght b . wingiy, he int gi related an incident regard- the visitor addressed the chil- atrulghtway recovered. And what " g lan, sre Pe He ther arefore con- bt and sald emphatically: ing which says that the little before him. Finding that reception was given oe" infor re on me if by saying that he -had "Chirpy, kk a heap of you, but girl' t wes to him the greatest their attention was beginning to rixie's father was prom ripples is f been walking through the scuee things uv just got to stop or-- compliment he had ever received. 'This gts he successfully aroused them 04 of shaly sate Orr aval. He at once ; + well, | t v ite ne followin ; og thin, Bieigs comme with mel" Take rota tingle thing Tose aoce watcle tet oroea the Street ietd westtiting ier, cAnG now I want to tell you of © few could penetrate to, "Geblintown" . he bor (ty: ne Se ee ed but I once knew & good Trixie called it, every one . ns RY firm "¥ cdbia a wa then Pe... what ma's found out. And it' ways =a and mother. imho aid all Lent evil HMttle men nad disappear , { 4 rough a traploer thet led to a the same--she says a little bird, -- her saibly could to he Trixie doesn't to go inte any ss cellar a maeree beta wanter w she' ut ¢ boy was minoughtiess and more abandoned watiien, while even Once "by bimeelt, Shor began abguyt it. * ing: thought rm tee fecure, eee oon Seem Fred in tore care' ef i tn fuen matters bis light. " "Please, -air, ver?' than wes formerly «, he teselved ot to stay & bik ees eee he = ae peu help me oves "Today, instead of filling en hon ehae ger than he could to fo straight through the pantry fro It By. aule and nsetut portion tp where Coulén't Help It. - SPO) ay about the hig to bottom, and if ma Re about Leonard retu from his first visit a" ne pees Sees: * ---- Inquisitive Gentlemap--What makes ; what fut Tike 2 roll of spener. tae, iE mite bird. Copy why to i schos} with the remark: ~ase stands ee Mette [os ganar go it's "cause : M 0 ore bask: fl Litule ; - Phie bo ebeeui-mindedly pu Ris =FREDDIE'S MISCHIEVOUS BRK =the cach that's a" « ane bat ae oot scours teote. aa iWeame te one united I'm only ®. balt-brother. bike ages == fk . - "! -- om = -- ; ' The law of the moral world is such} thing that.:bin together, go that = need to foster and cherish our fow-| SPRAYING PAID FOR POT TATOES. br . that neither of these views can ba|nc one can a a the philosophy al of virtue and love a goodness i. . adopted as always absolutely true; there} despair and gi¥e himse ils way a will make all the difference whe Careful polate growers can no longer Ber 's na exlemal law or force cunpelink without helping to nine it true that] ther you go through the days thal come | Count the advantages < Bt ge es us, in spile of ourselves, el alt are moving: to darker days. simply looking for disease and depra- hlight vears; but some doub Pi nether a : TO BF > EF To believe that the race is doomed is} vity or go looking for the 'hings the. practice is profituble year after year, ke ' FE GOOD OR TO BE EVIL. y g e 'hings of oe A Man G a + Sa ' : ' ts doom it. Yel many have declared|peauty and joy. You find that for| test along this line have con- : 06s pail 6 Direction Which He Even more sublime then the fact that} the dings of religion in such @| which you look. This will be na vear | tinued for five sears by the experiment the trend of mankind is forward and| way as to make it seem thet ition }.o? darkness and defeal or of igh! and {satan at Geneva, N. Y.. and the evi b. _ ¥ v : . ¥ , a : . e Is Facin, ---- ae tome fact ~ we ra Was the greatest certainty of all. It is| larger living becdeding Ya whether yan Fence presented. -- NO, br giv. ; £. shah ot rec to clioose what way life|a = soot thing that man shall know a be hove jarger faith in the good or in the | Me deiails, a i et! oa ake a $ no one but a perfec summaries Beri. There is another natural law in mor- ay r i urself: | cnclusive ia tavor of the prgctice. The olpage must bered; that ts, | evil thing prety 4 ino ula ¢ PP to think Have ta gee Fe in 2 the gain each year has been profitable; and bs ~ &@ man yhici q than ooh, MLSE S| a! whe ren aoe |i ete we nrg ee | ade ees | citer, "Lat your tell forte) tere ie slrendy much more, than es that we may apply our hearis unio| them are doing their best to demon-| faith If te beiores in the posi -- upward life of all because as you set | enough Srna Oe nore. Similar a f . strate 'thelr lets by ot ness veres in { THE PRINCIPAL DANGER | your face toward the heights, you be ag dm ght y areal, were me: It is only mire and it is quite neces- We need deliberately © free ourselves if he believes tn "oe Ineviebility "vi ri moral stocktakin ig that we man. | leve that every good life Bg lived ar iained by farmers under test, care 5 Bary that men should slop ak Uinee wat from any such paralyzing preftstice, evil he submits to { y. e@ to pass-by. t are most] gain, that all good that has been may fall hese' by the stalion end by & sk, are we moving forwerd or om the motion that there ls an in-} We are each making our own world, west preserving; "those that are our be in lerger meas, "that the In ea larger number of farmers who ae ing back, are we on an adiathuay a ia 'able moral grartiation of human- | op r it be better {Telly valuable . a: charge| finite might that moves the world is rayed independently. : jen outgoing tide? Old as the question |') toward the pil. or worse to-day than yesterday. There | Sgeinat ourselves only our debits end Cie TS 6h Ne See eee sath F {tes it has a perennial for every two ble views of this| is such e thing as a worid spirit, a tide to the RY F. COPE. ( -- o-------- Cage But these times:of review | World: One, thal it ds nororally ia human affairs, but we are not de have will works } much harm as blind. stocklaking slways bring out the | bed. ven sent gleams | relicts drifting hetplessly upon its on-| 269 fo the evil-thet may be, BIRD-LORE. Caen a Wile wie ber eae oo .: , monger with his cry of e eeetnes fo throw its night into | sweeping , OF we-ought not to be,| _ No rn was the worse for the when she grows Up. old 'times gnd 'the present evi! | greater relief; ~ other, that it is nor- must we think we can take | discovery of in him; every pow-|Sisler got the wing and breast " ray fe 'i maily right. wrong and sin are|our course in life alone. helps | ¢* of be pp gives p And daughter got the quill; Women wear fine dresses to attract ny als 9 6eem to ba born with | unnatural ly 'nat the trend of human-| {to determine other = ive, by influence, |<! yet better ind greatest power. | Mother's on me plumes, the attentlon of the men, and worry Se to Rersuasion of the total de [M7 ts upward and veaward, hy example, by. tbat mysterious come] WS ond aS fo fight our weeds,| And fat olaer women. "{THE-S. S. LESSON ENTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 26. Lesson T¥. Jesus Cleanses the Temple. : Golden Text: Psa. 93. &, THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Per ae the text of the Revised Ver- « Adational Testimony.--We have called " he rant was a definite testimony to mentioned in the first chapter. testimony sciples, including Andrew and Philip and 'Mettanee 1. This was the personal testimony of individuals, and in ecnnection with the record of this are people, producing, as i! did, unbelic!, on ithe one hand the part of certain «* the Jews, and simple faith, © S eiples of John and olbers who heard the testimony. Bulat is the purnese of the evangelist to introduce also the words and works of Jesus him-slf in witness wrought by Jesus ¢ Galilee al the very beginning of ies pub- lic The formal 'i aut ing of y be consideral to dale irst appturan « of 'Sesto in the lemple at Jerusalery. fallowing the short visil at Cupernaum corded ja tie twelfth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel, Tl is customary to distin- guish an "early Judeun ministry" from subsequent portions of the public woe of Jesus, a brief accounl of which ts given us in John 2, may, however, will equal propriely, speak of @ larger early ministry of Jesus, inciud- ing his appearance in the temp ple (2. 13- 2?), in the city of Jerusalem (2. 23-3. 20), in Judea (3. 22-36), in sce tS. VAS), ond jn Galilee (4. $3-54). It will be of in- lerest ly note the vary.ng results of this earlier ministry of Jesus on dillereat classes of people, both in the capital eity ant! in the more ruval distoicts of Sumar- ja and Galilee. We ehowd bear in inind the purpose Joho te petal out the gradual development of feth, on the one hand, and unbeliel. on the other hand, as a result of the impression made by public dis ourses and miracles of Jesus, in subsequent chapters af his Gespel, following: the fourth, abienuen tg ecntred on the ae manifestation of Jesus as the Ghrist, resalling ain ag cone firmed unbelief ou the purt af the Jews. Verse 13. The passever of the J ws-- The warding of this phrase deta, taken partly from the Gospel ibseif and partly from other s, IL Reerns probable that it wns written at ss r soures where John seems have spent the -- years of his life. 'The passuver here mentioned is the first o verol epecificat ly noted by John, and furnishes one of the importint indicators of tne sagan which, lop ther with others. it ts Sible fer iseut ruan, though with no yreat de gree ol ert lae a ' heats of Carist's yn mada Vetuas!} whole, which is usually laken ty Nh ie eNxt tended over Lhe prettter ' . mF ppt 1 af spines I « distance to the thoes sary for different sactitherss \sthwut benging the same with them fren: their homes. Notoonty was tlie heepaip af so many sheep and caltle and pigeons with- tu the oul@r enclosure of the sanciuary oan of keeping will the sacredriess of » place. und out of harmony wilh the noel of worstup, but the seifisiness < and cevelousaess which had devel in connechon with this trafn a3 to ullerly seculurize and vrbete the whole service of religivn which e@stensitly was intended 19 foster The esil was aggravated stil, mere by the presence of changers of nrney, wha made «a bust ness of supplying lie Jewish temple coins in exchange for Greek and Homan money brought by hipers from @ distance. and who toak care fe make a profit on every transuction of this hind. 15. Cust all out of the ltempie--We rote that it was primarily the sheep and th: oven whieh Jesus drove out with the scourge of cords 16. Take Thes Things Henee,--The oLedience apparently rendered te Jesus yall the traffickers whet be some manded to Jeave the sacred precincts with thee wares was die, no doubt, t "the naght of Jus indignation and the imajesty o penton supparted by fhe n of superhunten abe vile conse tence thus reluke {he conse yr wer. as we cf these whan bie My Father's, Heuse--With emphasts on jhe pronoun, indicuting the Measl- anic conseousness Of Jesu< House of Merchandise--Jesus is re- @ortel Ly Matthew to have used the expression "a den of robbers" Math 2) 13). though [t is possible. af some hold, thal we are to think of two sep- orate cleansings of the temple. one re ported John, occurring at the be ginning of the ministry of Jesus, tha cther reported by the three other yoa- writers, a near the closo Us thorities fo demand who thus assumed eulboetly in the sacred courts of the lenmple 19. This Temple--Or. "sanctuary." ferring as la explained temple of his body, which after having been three days in the tomh -- to be raised at again to life and g 2%. This Temp!e--The fe neie Herod, the third hg last greal Jewiati -- of serusalem The Seriphire--Referring probab- ly Mo Psa. 16. 10. "Ther my club." le of awfyl bores at "eind ? Who is the other She: shireman." him ages i who 6ecks office y cthen the pub- 4o consider himself the "You can glways tell a York- He: "Yes, but you can't tell lic pro is ap entire public p< fog he Guest (suspiciously eyeing the ain the = supa io pitlows here, landlord, this bed bh Den sent In." Landlord {Eegsonsnt "That's what it's meant for