Pat es ae Pe ee, Dee hae hae Sc Oe ae facully excapt the one you are Sr BRE erg Sa 2 + and. he went to bed that night he placed the INy in = vase, and stood the v GQwake, the y ralsed If on el at the. extraordinary Spectacle before him. For there, ris- ing from the very heart of the lily, was the swoestest Iittle face ima ble, and beautiful, tender eyes that 'looked at hy reproachfully. "Toda on, why, oh, why, did you bring nie here?" came a faint, "I hope y "nw ° atands upon will he do to- tained Bes shamed ae en +: "There thing I see for You to Ps thac ts to take me back to the pond this very minute." of abt Toda had to obey. Be eated hi taking' vase, ly and all, a reas downstairs, c.f across the fields to the pond. Whew! How he shivered when he waded into that icy water! And what frogs there was!' It all the great bullfrogs, and the medium-sized frogs, and the say little frogs ct ph in expressing their Bae against Guided by the fi par Todd waded 'toward Sid very spot from which he THE FAIRY SPEAKS had plucked the roach- it ed he beheld a wonderful aight. All sround on lily pads stood immense bulifro, h a-tiny sical But the big: THE E BUSINESS OF LIVING ané bis music rack. poor hs" eta alae plainiy ae they aw Tosa ey cried in unison, with « most horribie noise, The frightened tad quick: ily atill cross with sg tems 'or having « ebgenp) her back, the lily sprite invited T to stay and listen to the concert. oo the boy's teeti were siready chat- Fate and his lipe ptly excused him- nd, wishing the fairy and the frogs "Good-night," wmipkty made his never again would 'he pluck a pond lily. Who knows but what every one might contain a fairy! Both Forgot. Mother--James, what did I say I'd do to FoR if I found you eating those pies Hal es--Why, -how funny, that you should ave Fe ormotten: toot I'm sure I can't for 'e of me remember what i wes > Generosity. Aunt Kate--Johnny, here is an opie, Be sure to share it* properly with y: brother. auntie? Seat operiy.. auntie larger piece, *Jonnsy Here, Bi, suppose you do the Bitterly As We Indict Life, the Fact Is We All Enjoy It. "To be peal minded Is death.*--~ Romuns viii. Is nat the teas of death passing from us? The dread feeting thal dying was but filing helpless into the hands iof an awful avenger, that it might be But the beginning of end} torment no longer oppresses any but those stib- nierged in ignurance and grosser ways of thinking. More than: ever men take the step into the dark in the confidence | w "~. ft must bo better farther on. © onc, however, who is possessed of himself hospi- , giving up the 'usiness of living. Death is undesir- not only because it is leaving our homes and friends but use {it means 'bolng cut off from our activitics, our Part in the busy world. Even though life means little more than {oil and the buffeting of fortunes waves and winds, we keenly enjoy it. re { found much pleasure in Sceemiplaling & heaven of rest; that is, boing ee wo do not want, - But ihe joy-of ving eS Not con- sist merely ir $elieds 4 activity: it is ra- ner in the ead ¥ responss of our inner selves: to the demands of life's Struggle nd endeavor; it is quickness of spirit, capacity for enjoyment, power to ap- DPreciete-and to sympathize. LIFES JOY IN LIVING is this keenness and re eadiness fo an Swer to every stimulus that comes to us. One does not have to wait tor the death of the body for such fullness of living: ta cease. Ma any are dead who still breathe aad soem to be full of dusi- Ness. They are life has been 2 ) yee pe -_a tek ifed tho sensitive fac- ul and splon the power to {cel et ctiow: 'the thins that to others miake hfe really wart while, Keep your nose on the Erinds!one foo Sleadily and you will, lose more than a pert of your face; you will Lise every using. pAlees powers soon pass fro One meesure of any rife ia ia the| number of alert: sympathies, fac- ing. ie must hava one lead- ing inieeeals acute if Shape interest nest usive the ea or capacity to and enjoy tho ideal, ing one -thing only. That is the death we the death that es us out from ne fair world and from the full joys o! living. When we cease to fel our bee THE RANKS OF THE DEAD, - For oi own sakes we nem keep allo. (ou sense cf regurd for others. Selfi S is the saddest form of sui- cide; phases the soul and leaves the empty, cheerless, despoiled house of the} © bedy fo go on 'with the mummery of living. We need to keep our hearts The poverty, the eae the bif- ter cry of the destitute may be our real salvation, Sometimes we talk as though all Iffe's Purpose? are defea when business goes wrong. But even in the darkest days, though they should lead us to penury, the life may still go ing, may find its pray lo be delivered from hardness cf heart, from tho crseping paralysis of oe absorotion, from the life of lust that is but death, death to human feel- ae to truth and ideals, to joy and light, to the ae of love snd life that fills the universe. HENRY F. COPE. Jt is still kept a secret and tt seems hat only one person i4 Lyons pessesses © knowledge of al! the facts on the sub- fect. He is @ prominent broker who Nas financed the enterprise, ~All the avork in perfecting the invention was carried on at the castle of a promin- ent manufscturer of Lyons, and only two persons were allowed to know what ~as going on, Some two weeks aso the first exnerimants were made, A 'miniature street car was moved over a flat space by electricity communicat- qd from ao dislance of several yards, The inventlon is being tred in Mar seilkis on a street cur line and anolied Jo several diffoient Kinds of mi chinery. -- 4 Dropping a Hint. RECENT graduate from r was given a confidential cloricshiy in the office of the »p hugo railway system. 'The young napi- what hour he sheuld report; eo the first morning he appeared in the office of his chief at 9 o'clock. He found the president hard at clerk presented Me at 6.30, only te find that the president was there ahead Sof him, working hard- The third day That night as he went home the clerk took countel with h self, and determi t ' Two lads were talking t , atedleged titk, Rockefeller makes a aetna sot sot" That's a tact. 1Zhen stop the clock." (THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. 23. Lesson VIL Jesus at the Pool ef Be. thesda. Golden Text, Matt. 8. 17, THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Based on the text of the Revised Version.) Fuller Manifestation of "Josus as the Christ--In this and the subsequent chaptis of his gospel John records the Jesits as the Christ, This revelation teok the fy outharitative teach ng ou dhe one hand, and the manifestation chivar power in the werking of satiadbon on the other, As we have al- ready noled in the previous study, John confines himself almost entirely to a record of events which transpired at Jerisat on the occasion of successive Jewish stivals. Here the self-revela- lien of Jesus was the means of bring- ing ont-the anbel el of the Jewish au thorities and pesple in spile of the so. licitous warnings and remonstrances of him against whom their -- bitter enmity Was rapidly developing. At the same time this same self-revelation of Jesus developed in the minds and hear!s of he disciples jis he had gathered aboul him a-deeper and more abiding faith in his divine character and mis- ae. In the events company of " ction doubtless, some of the sciples, in connection with the seatthen of the er man at the Pool of Bethesda. In Galilee, a little later, Jesus reveals binset If in similar way to a larger multitude of People in connection with and subse- quent to the feeding of the five thou- sand. The mirecle at Bethesda w wrought on the Sabbath day, and this fact exposed Jesus lo a charge" before b a wish authorities of breaking 'the | Galliee (6. 1-15). "Jesus wi en passion for misiarset things. ae (16. know. ceases, the man be-| comes « machine, a contrivance fe ce do- need to dread, ' ;} Goned in @ppecs and stir no tio: Tenponees we ~have Saiak ie fuller and continuous self-revelation of s law of Moses. which In its essence was ne other than the law of God: and this turn was the occasion for a fuller ex- appea mony of the Father to the Sen as im- plicd in the wo: which he was per- fe pais of the contents of has béen gives: by McClymont 'in the following firm: "Jesus the raha and suslemance of life 6. 1 to 6. "Healing of ae sick man at Bethes- a iB Jerusalem) on the Sabbath, and = desortn hostility of the tews (5. Piennolentiey 2 the Father {19-30}, and san uces divine testimony in his favor! : "Feeding ot the five thousand in wathing on the 'Sea of Galilee people follow him fo Capernaum. | je discourses soncerning himself as Br 'Life (22-59. on bearers: some helleved, hut many walked no more with him (60-71)."_ Those who are king these eres in the 'Gospel at of basia fo review of the life or. sestie satis i {that between the events recorded in : intervening events are: 1. The Rejection of fete Nazareth (Luké 4. 16-30). 2 The Re- moval of Jesus to Capernaum (Matt. 4. page Luke 4. sine 3. The Forma! Call Peter, ames, Jo (Matt. 4. 18-22; Mark 1, 16-20; Luke 5, - Preaching (Mark L 35-45; Luke 4. 42-4; 5. 12-16), 7. The Call of Matthew (Matt. 9. hat Mark 2. 13-17; Luke 5. 27-32). The Question Concernin Fasting niall 9. 14-17; Mark 2. 18-22; Luke 5. 33-3 39). Verse 1. After these things--An inde- Gnite time reference. equivalent to the phrase "some time later." We should mote the evenis which have intervened since the healing of the nobleman's son recorded In the last verses of the 'pre- Ceding chapter (compare introductory note above), A feast--Many ancient manuscripts read "the feast." indicating an tradition that this, feast Passover festival, i rot lUkely, since John elsewhere in staking of other Passover feasts ra fers to them specifically ag such (2, 13; 6.4: 11. 55), and the preponderance of authority on. this passege is in favor of the reading "a feast." which, if it be the correct reading. ts conclusive eng iis being the (well-known) feas! i) feasts, the Passover. It has been wang with much plausibiity that this-s s tho feast of the Purim which came o the early spring and commeni- ora'od the deliverance of the Jews from Haman tn the days of Esther (Esth. 3. v9 ) 2, Shey gale--The noun the adjective pertaining to following sheen {ts in the orignal of this pagsace omitted, as the ttalies In the text indicate. The Jer English version treerted the word Shoerkel instead of "pate," Since, bowever. (here is no reference to any sheep morket in the Old Testament, ) while the sheop gule is several times re- ferred to (compare Neh. 1. 32; 12. 39), the wording Revised or Stand- and Version {ts prohably the correct one. A . Which is called in Hebrew Rethesda---Sinre the city gale. known in Old Testament times as the sheep- gate, was north of the temple and 1s now generally identified with the mod- ern Saint Staphen's gale, through which flocks and herds fre still beought Into Jerusatem from the east and north- easl, commentators identify ancien! pool, or tank: discovered in} 1S88, Just northwest of the present} Church of Saint Anne, an: not far dfs- fant fre Saint Stephen's gate, ton the Pool at B thesia referred to in ou lesson ae This tank, or cistern is cut he rock to a depth of thirty feet, is "hfly. -five feet long and twelve and one-half feet wide. A flight of twenty-four a leads down into the . The pool liself is ve ie with fi five corre. sponding porches by tts side. On the wall of the ancient crypt of a ruined crusader's church built over this rock- hewn cistern was found a fresco ver, fact-that it has failed to convince meri {such as Sanday and Conder, The lat- the! "Jesus his position as the]: ga 4 en." This bh TRL was thinking, You "eeula aa Pecan is the tiny puck- li Boy wan't ¢ hints sg hg "te was wary #eldom that one found Little Boy think- ing: he -atppenita DOING. zeal which he now Pest upon his tin trum- "Wouldn't tt be tots micer, Brother, if all our Playthings would 'vent games to "muse us Instead of our having to think' always of some something to play with them?" fle Little Girt nor Little Boy knew that Anabelle heard; nor did they hear her nkcpaed whisper; come true? We'll see about that. "Sesias io you must know, a wi fatled Upon the death of its editor, the French dragoon. Since that time Ana- Fes Yalnly tried to find ans table to accomplish. It was Little ¢ "NOTHING LESS THAN A TOY VILLAGE--A REAL DOLLVII.LE" Girl who now furnished her with a sum Sestion, and a brilliant one at that. to show the toys Yen play- things would teach Little Gitd and Little really how to play. All night long tho Teddy Bears and the tin soldiers heaped in der " How they did work! Anabelle seemed to be everywhere in. suggesting . there, until the Gisorder be- came ord Little Girt and Little Boy lay peace- fully ----s ag oe of thage great or their surprise on the nice 'Were they surprised? You should have seen them! It was | ie Boy who, after ed stairs and reached the prove 'Aret: Bang! went fist against the door, and in he plunged. This, you know, was Little Boy'a ordinary of entering. "Sister! Slater! Come quic~!" Sister came: And she, too, stood "But, where did this happen?' ask. country of magic, now enter who passwor or fairy my whisper it to YOU, and Girl and Little Boy we time the fath Sway to visit the king. Sizes he was the Grat man of tho village to be I ses the face of a benutiful woman, amiling ever sp happily at me.' The husband amen tes Bey a beau is urself. pier simply reflects ywhuterer 'se minced Ag tho wife did no round-eyed and wondering before the astonishing slight. For built upon the: floor was nothing less than a mag-! thers were a-motoring; baby dolls were being wheeled about by their nurces: ere tinier atili--oh, it was all too wonderful for, anything! "The playthings are really plaxing' for us--just like you wished they would!" Little Boy managed at last to gasp. Little Girl, still too surprised to Speak, nedded hor head. And so the playthings continued to play, until Littl sal were all worn out with thelr ef- you In Never-never- land, of course--the e d. Perhaps some lime an elf then you'll be as sure ris ed as Little ter in his article on cone in Has- tingss Dictionary of the argues ifs rigs of the fountain of the virgin, rs poof southeast of the eis &t the foot of the Ophel slope, whigh still presents the strange phe menon © no! of an intermittent Tedauett of the waters," caused by the cal overflow 4 nulural syphon une der the cave. catipare verse 5 In this Shiga 1 it is ill the custom of the Jews to bathe at the Time its ' Santevin that the ; discase. 3, 5. We "that the Revised Ver- sion (Nelson) omits part of the third and all of the fourth verses of this chapter as found In the older King James version. The part omilled ts re tained in the margin, is re- ferred to as follows: "Many ancient au- thorilies insert wholly or in part (afler the word withered), waiting for tho moving of the waters: for an angel of the Lord went dawn at certain seasons into ~ pool, and troubled the water; whosoever then first affer the troubling of the via stepped in was made W ith seg disease he was "hold: ference fo the miracle is antes fram the' text of both the Eng- ish and the American Revised Versions a the ground of its omission by the best and oldest of the ancient manu- scripts, and the further fact that those of the older manuscripts w tain the passage differ greatly from each other in its exact wording. It seems that the people of ancient times, understanding the true csuse of the periodic bubbling of the water, ascribed this to the ection of an invisible angel. This popular explanation was probably first written on tho perp din of one and then others of the sst manuscripts 95 an expression of vette! ble opinion, end was later introduced into the body of some of the texts by those whose business it was to multiply copies cf these manuscripts by the slow process of writing. 10. Not lawful--Compare Exod. 23. 12; Jer, 17. 21. The rabbinital law based on these gt as -- by Light- foot reads: "Whosvever on the Sabbath bringeth anything in or taketh st cut from a public place to @ private one, if he hath done this seagveantty, he shall sacrifice for his sin; but if w fully, he shall be anid off and shall be 12. Who is the man that said unto theo, Take up thy bed, Note the malice tn fhe question which asks, not concerning the healing wrought. but concerning the Lreaking of a pelly rabbinical rule. 14. In the termple--Perbaps in the act ef sacrificing for his ansgression + the rabbinical Sabbath law referred to above, 18. Making himself equal with Go- This in all age@ since the time of Christ has been the rock of offense on which the faith of self-righteous and unrighte- cus men has shipwrecke k?-- - --_--or- AS AN INVESTMENT. ----r "A mon," said the tiie - boarder, "is like a gokl mine. never know what's in him until a have run drifts through him, as it re. and explored him in sll That' ae I take mighty litte stock men," marked the pessimistic ne A NOTE. bic et Agent--I have héefe an automatic « ed for planos that I'd Uke sh ve Sho at No ge! Our plang haes t orts Le atiainent on it that will hold for NOT YET- We still must tote the coal about, We still must clear be ashes oul-- Such time's hot past; There's e'en a Jot more coal to buy, We must pede our supply, Ht just won't test. Some people are £0 rich they don't Lave © keep a dog. their own age appears in door of "pope. MYSTERYe"dUDITH LEP. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENT. Judith was shipwrecked the coast when a baby, Temmy Lee's father. pardon," said he, very pelitely, "can you tell me the name of this island?" "It has no name that I know of," re piled the girl. Her voice, though sweet, was strangely drawling; a she spoke with an -_ as thovgh OMMY >was the first to speak. | "I beg how you cae," continued she, bestowing a nod upon the airship; "and Guests. My name, by the way, Is jory Livingston." Tommy and Judith introduced them- selves in turn, and thanked her for her courtesy . Without more ado, Marjory led the Marjory deftly drew the boat close to the landing and touched a little but- ton at the side of the turret; t looked Uke an eelctrio switch- board. Seating herself before this switch- board, Marjory puiled one lever, then another; immediately the boat glided out from the cove and began following the shore line of the island. As the newspaper, she hid the in appearance that one could hardly tel them apart. daughter, she Fagie to her the pnt A mirror, : ee she smiled, the face in the malrror back at her; and when she sore jomed. the face in the mirror was s syme Pathetic, too So, with the face of her mother ale ways before her, the maiden as beautiful !n character ay she was lovely of feature, ti @ prince, eecing her, was charmed with her foodness and beauty, The wanes and the Japa. marrie Nor was it une act truth about the mirror. and that 'or yours she had been looking utendfastly at her own f: igre it -- such a be ure. she little de« may ou e atruight- ay forgave ber mother. , er QUEEN A LOVER OF CATS. Other English Ladies Also Have Exten- sive Feline Collections, The love of English 4 mmen Of 'rank for culs is the subject of wonder Ping yt recogn.tion in an articke in a German b& recorded as special. writer she the owner of v ts and has a speciu! corps of servants to keep them: in order. one special favomie. canted platform. Sliding back a glass parti. Sandy becuse it was bern at Sanil- tion In th ttom of their boat, Mer mnghim House, hoapy of the reval Jory pushed a butten on the surface of palaces it has the run of the private once a metal apart(nents. When the Queen abroad it is part of her suite ter from entering, while a pipe at tho bottom carried away what wat "This is what explained Marjory, we call our landing as they "JUDITH AND TOMMY ENTERED" stepped out upon the platform. "When o out we simply enter the boat Openin, landing stage, side*of which were magnificently fur- USHERED INTO THE PRESENCE OF PROFESSOR LIVINGSTON bottom cf the craft wes entirely af siass, the two had ample oppertu , to examine the animal and vegeictble life so beautiful and abundant in these @tas. pical Suddenly they turned and entcred @ of Ty steered for man exact of the past, until Temmy ane suse saw far beneath them bn He age 4 Then te be an se Rouse boat began to sink slowly, " down--right Into a chimkey strange house buflt under the water. At last they came to reat on @ little nished rooms In ene of thege -Stted Mel Be a ste te eee fet Barlory's focuer, a Sgenitemean of "sary learned appearance 6 received them very quietly, with- out seeming the least astonished. Wh they described the fight of the airship, however, he begin to manifést tifwets say the aolrship 7 Lye en the ta entirely tntagtt' orlod, a an being aseured iar the hip hi ngt been igured in the slightest way, he es "frm, t hhust make a close cramina- tlod, of Jt. ¥ery a indeed!" ae -- © The man who gets what be wants in. -- of what he deserves has go kick Teacher--"Now, Johnny, what does the busy bee teach ust' Johnny--"Te her pets of times, singly and =. peed hy attitudes, mal "painter he Red by 4 "ine ebee In Charge of a gpecia! groom. The Queen is fond of photographing ; she has taken them hundreds of the cals is cared for b inary Surgeon et the reyad stables nnd a m is set* apart as 23 & Respite! for Queen SUTpISSCH gs a at fancier 'by La y 'be a ae wWhege $, including > thd. a aay Ber sford .5 the lle of Club. whieh since 1890 has held "anna exhibtkons in fendon. The greater num! ell ot her Caio inhabit a caituge spew buatt for them at her country alare The coltage cum be converted into an open pavilion in hot weather: in wine ter it is warmed by &n elaborate heat ing apparatus. One roam is u xt as a kitchen, where : for the cals, porcelain wplates Several servants. ere The collection ts said to be of great value, FOUND IT So. Biggs--""Ikw quiet und homelike tg this pluce--~) still, nobody speaking a word!' Jiggs--"Single man. ain't van?" ' {IS SUARK, "The worid awes me oa living." The inzy pers n suid: The cynie ered. "you have it, Thats why you uren't dead." -- THE RETORT COURTFOUS. "You had the ve fo marry te for ais maney, sir." madam, you certainty ie meg to sugges! that Ion NM! jou ior your beuuty?" ptininaitnnslleth Ifeant to Go Skating. THle--What did your pa whip you fer, 3'Ihe? . it was cause [ went _itte--gwimming? And in such culd I went skatin' first, but up ' g-swimmin', ---- 4. ----- Sympathized With the Lions. Mamaia (to wejl-fed-looking little boy* looking at picture of Danie! tn the lion's den)--Don't you feel sorry fer Daniel, dear? ; Well-Fed-Looking -- Boy--Nom; I'm sorrier for the ilo whe now hava to go without their coment a Floating Villages. Not ene knows that in the {n- terior of Africa several floating villages have been constructed on the waters of lake. They were discovered in 15t@ by Stanley. stan Reeeraennosiemenans We can always think of a et of rea: 'sons why other people 1 fo be sab ished with what they hav Many a man who acts smart is made te smart for it A man's jeve for his wife doesn't necesserily include her chin music. Things that are beller left unsaid are sure to be' heard, keep away from the hive." « father wis culled...