em : eee iteration the q in re- : What doest thou here, Eli- "the sound of the feet - ay eee. ; evidenee the PE eana: rain."' the miraculous exhibition o after Jehovah's power in the sending of fire and the blotting out of tae heathenish priesthood. So Elijaa to renew his ex- Jezreel impracticable. 42. Elijah = i. to the top of Oarme!l--The rugged haunter of the wildernesses forgot his own need cf refreshment in his.eagerness to "see the hand of ----_ displayed still vt further. The attitude he assumed was one of caseush prayer. jaws of death. The sea was a course the Mediterranean from which rain ra serge 3 weep : e lad weat up to the point from th the great €x- anse of water was clearly visible, But each time saw nothing but what had appeared in the brassy sky for three weary yeara 46. The hand of Jehovah was 'on Elijah--That is, be was filled with a divine impulse of rap.urous on be- idly moving cha-ict of Ahab even 4" the gates cf the city Jezreel, where the king maiutained @ palace. Here he halted, fur he hed ho liking for cities and coald ee find shelter in the neighbo-- ilboa "hk Jexebel--To her the events cn Carmel meant more than they pcos- ~gibly could to her husband, for her devotion to the cult of her father, who-had been a high priest of the Baal-warship in Tyre, amount fanaticism. She could not sit idly by and see her work of years oblit- erated. It was to be expected that she would send just such a message to the prime mover of the threat- ened revolution, pronouncing upon -him a virtual sentence of death. 3. Beersheba--Though this wass town of Judah, abgut thirty miles south of Hebron, yet Elijah did not feel himself secure there, iras- much as the king of Israel was in alliance a the king of Judah at this: time. 80 he 'took himself, vil shasastetintio fashion, to the that could 8.. Went in the strength of - food forty days--The journey Horeb, being not over 180 miles, would require a much than that. The number forty, how- ever, is often taken to symbolize a period of testing (con/pare the cases of Moses and Jesus), and here doubtless refers to the 'time of Eli- jah's seclusion. 9. What doest thou here, Elijah? --Dr. Farrar gives a vivid inter- pretation to this question by em- phasizin the successive words: "'What doest thou here " "He was doing nothing. Was there no work to be done in Israel final mistress of the situation?' = oe doest thou heres' "Is it There are no idol- ators or murderers, or breakers of God 8 commandments here." 'I only am left; and they seek ife--A confession of conscious Zathare, on t a man ". the quiet providences of life as well as in its upheavals. "18. He wrap mantle--The. i to ~ @n.act of ment 8 con- dition smote him, and | crowns. and coin f ancient deposits have been nothing more PARIS" WOMAN: LAWYER. Reéelves Public Of Offer of Matriesé in Crowded: Hall. us experience was that of ule. oe Miropo! ceived a ee riage at the conclusion of s lecture abe delivered in the Theatre Michel he other day. "She had declared that- feminism did not drive a woman from love and marriage, and that many wom- en who worked as lawyers, as doc- tors and in other professions. did 50 because love had not come their "ie . ty said the lecturer ami ud applause, '"'to consider us inekoable of love or of marriage ecause we work for.a living." When she sat down a Paris soci- ety man rose -- his stall in front of an amused and excited audience made formal propor for Mlle. Mirepoleky's d in marriage. He was firm] ae politely refused. Mlle. Miropolsky cau:ed a sensa- tion in the public court last week by describing her client,. charged with swindling, as an old man. "Gentlemen," she said in tragic tones, "I appeal for all your "ee half of my client. e r sold man; he is fifty yan of The © judge, who is 57, sa t bolt up- right indignantly, while gray hair- ed barristers watching case looked hurt, and the public prose- cutor, who ig only 43, raised an arm above his h in silent protest. Even the prisoner himself wore un annoyed expression, lut Mlle. Mi. ropolsky went on with her' elo- quent appeal and was frankly :ur- prised when the "poor old man of 50" was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Mlle. Miropolsky herself is only 23. > GOLD IN SCOTLAND. Believed That it Can Be Mined in Paying Quantities. One scarcely thinks of Scotland as an Eldorad it is a matter of pride, witn the poorer Scots especially, that in its tiver beds Seotland h Id. which in the ae the Se rt es like.. For centuries the than a tradition. From time to oy less time/!ered until recently. Doctor Recommends "Gaping" for as ae- spiratory muscles of the chest and time gold seekers have dug pits and channels in the river banks to the annoyance of huntsmen, but no- thing worth while had been discov- In the last days ofthe Scottish kings * gold mining in the Leadhill district of Lanarkshire was said to have been qui ite an industry, 'end certain coins of that period were struck rom native gold. The i immedjate supply probabiy worked out and the workings were abandoned. A few years ago gold was discov- ered in workable deposits in Argyll. 'But wheh a few grains were recov- ered it was neted that the expense made further mining impossible, so it was abandoned. At Kildonan: where gotd is anid to be deposited in considerable quantity, opera- tions have always been forbidden. Now it is reported that thé Duke of Sutherland is about to permit mining on his estates at Kildonan, and experts believe that with im- proved apparatus the gold can be taken out profitably. ----_--_t--__ ENCOURAGE THAT YAWN. Respiratory Organs. Dr. Emil Bunzi, of Vienna, Aus- ria, in iseases of the throat and their remedies that yawning hed its great "value. Yawning has recently been recom- mended, independ able exercise for the respiratory organs. "According to Dr. Naegli, of the University of 'Leuttith,"' *said Dr. Bunzi, "yawning brings all the re- one te So, and is, there- fore,-the best and most - natural com-/ npon the head, which stunned me || most ontirely 'nexplaed, 60 ly teemed ado or a Klondike, yet|t 'two partners had it : Sopitited in his quarter. ently as @ valu- hi Beve years wher was fetching pre 'almost aa. as th rumor had. of the the Pat ara, Centr: ith rubber. on the river bank, about forty-five 'ate from. the their "crew" of ten -men--nine} Caribs and an Indian w which the two prospectors got &. to Diego's character came on third sn when he refused to take a turn to hunt for fresh meat, aod mutinously declared as there was plenty of reserve of tinned meat he meant to have some of that An- a|son thereupon threatened him with strong measures. "Bah! yor -- you do?" r joined the Indian. "See--T mt you nicely aa ' he continued, nonchalantly. And, suiting the ac- tion to the word, he raised his gun. to his shoulder and, screwing up one eye, glanced along the a in a very ugly fashion with the o er. Whether the native' really = tended to shoot at Anson or no is) still an open question, but shoot he did, for Anson--naturally alarmed at Diego' s action--instinctively put his hand to his hip for his revolver and--well, that did it Considering that sanity -. paces separa them, it is little short of marvelous that Anson was not blown to pieces. Instead, how- ever, one tiny shot alone reached him, lodging in his forearm and causing quite & minor wound. With a savage howl, the Indian just as Cater arrived on he scene with the nine Caribs, for- tunately in time to prarent iurther trouble.' ~. x overpow Next morning Diego expressed sorrow for his action, sa, ing that he was DRUNK AT THE TIME, and the partners decided to forget} the affair; merely resolving keep a closer eye on the Indian and never again permitting him to handle firearms. But Diego. was merely biding his time. He was out for revenge. On the twelfth day, Cater and Anson decid th near supply of rubber was | exhaust- > abandon the first camp and trave] farther up the stream. Two or three nights before mov- ing the camp, however, Cater, who had been unable to sleep on, ac- court of thé mosquitos, and who had gone outside \the little spart- ment which he shared with Anson for a smoke, observed a light gleaming through the trees in the direction of the crew's camp, which forty or fifty was situ. BO) yards farther along the bank. Creeping up, he dis covered Diego and one of the Caribs range dag bale after bale of rubber to the boats, evidently with the intention of mek. ing off with a goodly portion before sunrise. ao does this mean?" he quer- lt means, boss, dat we dosn got no mo' use for you at presen,"" was his impertinent response; and with the last word yg rushed re veer, aiming a nasty blow at his with a cudgel, Stepping aside just in time to avoid the blow, with a lucky shot from his right hand Cater sent him reeling backwards, and, tripping over a sapling behind im, HE FELL UPON HIS BACK. "'T lost time in springing upon him," says Cater, "and pinning him to the ground, but my acvant- age was short-lived, for 2 moment afterwards I myself' lay beside him, at once.' About an hoa Jater . Cater re: | covered consciousness. He aroused partner yeti itched their tainp|! rubber tresit he rushed towards} ys ic kare adju dp "a te give ne help'ta tignpa and beg- << | gars. ©\the tiger trainer, was attack who were in receipt "ph -| been given the A pesigeay i the con- , and as the robbers._had| at. ho seat : a aa Bae Daas pur- ¢ ow. We recovered « ly. portiam. of our 'stolen 'rab- ber. Delighted with the success of name [Our x SHAS. ¥ @.; ahoek aia pce) r ; addition | °Urselves and-each other 'all the/ so: ife me. what | su os maoerhly eae iy rae Was ay back to. camp, journeying| was in two. "tin: pails: sitting} entitled'to premium of tw2"pesos, | throughout: the night. 'nen came] near the stove. Sho said that she} or native dollars, for em hun- the bardest of five|had a suspicion it might be nitro- dredweight of rubber rought | men ats Fes in charge aoe ae glycerine, and she pore achage into the camp. Little nid Cater det of, oe of just been and Anson know, howevergsthat of | 9¢% of. pe ci at tak stirring the fire hob zaee the sparks cunning thieves, 1 vagabonds, ing a leaf aeen's they | flew out in all , some of| re and cehasl-cet" scoutdrels there| )ad«fashioned eh them lighting in the buckets ets, to -be was none to beat Diego. . pg us elo Me ly aon =o a a on the top of the oily THE FIRST INSIGHT and probably. by theme. hed dispos- "Horrors PI said, 'It is nitro- ed of their gains tten and reached a safe hiding-place !" 'NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOIN BULL AND DIS PEOPLE. Omorronces tn the Eand That Reigns. Suptemo-ts the. Com mercial World. Last. year London had a lower death rate than the other great cit- ies -of the world, Three hundred omnibus horses used on the streets of ala were sold by auction last wee Some fishermen hom a largo seal in their nets on Dover beach recent). It fought as for its liberty, but was secu Old silver plate ae at $1,500 was stolen recently from the library at HKirmingham omer office. The thief escaped unsee During a dance ay the West 8on- erset. County Hunt ball.at Taunto 1, at Edgar Watson, a Pome ag- ed about 45, suddenly fel] dead: cople:in. Bough a ad adjoin' lac ards | During 1910 25,764 dogs--ot which about 23,000 were "'strays'--were received into the temporary aon for Lost Dogs, Battersea, 8 That form of animal cra rwhich is known as.distemper has been raging much beyoad ths. ner- mal among all classes of dogs, cs- pecially foxhounds. ere was a terrifying scene in Bostock's Jungle at Sheffield the other day, when Herr Felkendorf,4 b ~a tiger and seriously injured. The White Hart Hotel in Spald- ing market place, a the history of which goes back to the fifteenth century, was sold by auc- tion the other day for $25,000 Arthur Samuel! Bradley, a neo of seventeen, left his A petition has been presented to the eereraces of Dulwich College, asking for the removal of the an- clent tou-gate in Dulwich Hamlet, the only one now now in or near London A Roman urn 'decorated with leaves, and an ancient stone coffin containing cremated remai two ancient glass "tear bottles," were found recently on the South Common, Lincoln. At a recent meeting in London of the Royal- Commission on Metallif- erous Mines, it was stated that some workmen in factories used their trouser pockets to keep dyna-| to mite warm. « Up to January Jast the only: pau- rs in the Parish é o Hol- and, Essex, were f out-re Fat All of them have now obtained eld- age pensions, so that the parish has not a single Messrs. Pau remaining struction of a in . connection with the Bombay hydro-electric scheme, the total cost of which is estimated to be about a.million and Night the] Be ig ee mah oe See cut a cdke FROM MERRY OLD- ENGLAND $3".. TIT saw John glycerine |' . "Lealled the man who had placed it there and told h athe mg 3 it oma, As it was senses sep Se terial from treushag ed Poe ¢ into. the boiler sepa near by. A little r on going into the boiler house I saw one of She men stirring the fire while the ther was stand- ing with his coattails ontstretehed in either hand FORMING A SHIELD - to keep the a from tiying into the nitroglyterin: "In the Tanufacture of high ex- plosives and in experimenting with them a little absent-mindedness, a very slight lack of exact caution, & seemingly insignificant in advert- nce for a moment may cost one-a limb or his life. The secident that cost me my & case in "On t in-{ soda from the drying inten- tion of filling it with tot eee of . "he Verep scolded Pa Pat oundly or told him west, Peet he do & reckless me be iateanti rite The a then went to the superin- 8. office 'and 'reported the "Pat waited for the fore- Over & in a superintendent' 8 of- fice the foreman had just complet- ed his narration when there was a thunderous report and s crash of plass. Then Pat's booted foot gented on the offiee floor betwren rema. rked : 'Calo your aeration le Pat is already discharged |' " + , ----_$-_--_--- WOMAN AGED 126 YEARS. Bulgarian Woman Has Record to Prove Great Age. The claim of Frau Dutkiewitz of Posen, Poland, born on February | ; 21, 1785, to be 'the oldest woman in the world is now contested by a. a V who was bor 1784, in the little Bulwerian has of Bavelosko, where she has lived ever since. The record of her irth is preserved in a neighbor- ing. monastery of the Ort! odox | ne Greek fai She is the daughter of: a peasant, and has worked herself as a pe Sere Pes of ; In the morning 7 Tose | about the size of an Each, Pent BY; broke off a small pig? ed it. fon a io. ou utside the ry eee _ match, touched By "Owing -to my lore of sleep the night ore my -was not 50 alert as usual, and I forgot to lay aside the remaining piece of ful- minite compound, but instead held it in my left hand. A spark from the ignited piece of fulminite com- pound entered my left hand be- tween my fingers, igniting the!a pioce there, with the result that my snd was blown off to the wrist. "Once when entering my storage} magazine at Maxim, in which were seyeral carloads of dynamite along with 37,000 pounds of nitrogelatin, Beads, one of my em ployees, calmly but emphatically opening a case of dynamite with A HAMMER AND CHISEL, I promptly discharged him "Not lo afterward the inn- as a at Farmingdale called on me uy some dynamite and said he had engaged Bender to blow the stumps out of his meadow lot. I | told _ him nder was courting death for himself and everybody around when handling dynamite. But farcmpees still wantdd Bender wo "Well, " said. I, 'the dynamite! ou want is 16 cents a poun ohn Bender does not succeed blowing himself up and killing, him- ge with the dynamite you can have - if he does blow himself u pay for the dynamite.' 2u must "A few days later there was some nn Bender' i. Srperiionst luck. partivider ly. stump ee resisted a" ie ale of Ben.| = 8 dynamic attacks. failure dislodge the stump Bender took as & personal affront because it re- flected upon -his skill as a stump blaster. said-he, 'sorsething 'Next time,' is going to happen.* -He Placed ab- ek succession. The:huge stump let go its ters on earth apd proceeded to hunt EBen- "Tt was a level sacs, but the stump won. sore Bender 'on the! north" qua Trarove' IN FOUR RIBS, dislocated 'sevérsl joints'and dam-' him in several other respects Boniface caine ws ale seth grog > © fir the dynamite. i with = STs sos cpr jonnts & pound { For-really Ido Pete ia pes , but if} he t for nothing. On the other hand | bid '| coron stg] tle * briiise and will often prevent dig- sant up till a comparatively or date. For more than 100 yea | Fegularly worked in the folds, ac oo g to the custom of her coun- sorts of manual 'Jabor. The events of her life up to the time when she attained the ° 808 of 80 ae far more distinctly impress- mn her: mind than- the appen- ears. dees Taine the family tradititin, has also worked | 000 Chine in the fields as a peasant nearly all his life, but he has also taken part in various wars and rebellions in the Balkan Peninsula. He is not quite so fresh mother, 'although he is still 'enjoy- ing such small luxuries of life as and the strong spirits drunk by Pipe Bulgarian populace. ee eae AGAINST HIS CONSCIENCE German Soldier Sentenced to Im-| der prisonment. For refusing to perform his mili- | ° tary duties on a.Saturday, a Ger- man soldier tamed Naumann, who is_a Seventh Day Adventist, has been sentenced to five years and six months' imprisonment. . At the hearing of his appeal before the|! chief court-martial of the Third Army Corps, he told the-president that his conscience would not allow him t violate the commandments of Ga and work on = Sabbath. 'One must regard God a: the high- est authority and" obey Him i in the first place." The authorities had him examined by experts to see if was sane, and the worst they could report was that he was --_ the influence of-an "exaggerated idea which could not be i mor- " Un less the Imperial court- tween abandoning his belief and spending the rest of his Lead in 4 prison. ; ----------kh--_ 3 GRACES AT CORONATION. Unigue Trio of Palr Young: Prin-| > cesses Will Adorn Function. Not the least' interesting fact in connection with the forthcoming is that among the dis- tingui participants in the cere- nen, "wilt be a trio of fair young rincesses, the father of each of en is among the most ,powerful monarchs on earth. girls are: Prineess Victoria Alexandra, the 14 proeery| and 'only dau hter of the King and Qué-n of gland ; noess Olga, 16, the eldest ja pe of the Czar and Czarina Bussia, and Princess. Victoria Tastes: mee 5 ad 19, and the he soongect the Kaiser and Kaver-} ao In each instance, Sees bave s fall 'share. of! fa pos-/ may - be occasion for the an-|. toa all their engagements. Sa a, ened Butter will take the sorencss from yey sible ee the coronation . a wien | "x A. eis aoe eres hs ws superintendent drily head the and vigorous as his | the ta. "or Na heng : < eee ceandiog te passed s meas-' ure comm: REMOVAL OF ALL QUEUES, This change is all the more sig- nificant in that it came bres Chin-: . within» last ten or fifteen years that anti-foot binding societies of 0 made any great the eo against the evil, and now sen publiched in Hong Kong var 0,000 that in December alone over 40 ese in that city and its vicini cut off their, queues. A despate Chine D Pekin, eee in the Nori 8 2 will soon go out to all réptesente-: tives in the diplomatic and Consu: Jar. services ordering to dis- pense with the . APPENDAGE OF DARKNESS; -In the ere. were r aa festivals in Cate How: ahace on) 'Ohiistanas bing over ~'I,- " ' shearing. In Bingepors and other cities -of the Straits Settlements, down in Batavia, throughout the cities of Japan and Corea, the snip-snip of progressive shears has been oi the knell of the old re- gim Ts. "'Ghangliad me a has a . ried it home with him in the sleeves of his blouse. The North China Post: describes a remarkable scene which occurred in Hong 'Kong recently. Thé oo- casion was the shearing of six of the oldest and most: influential Chinete of the city. A congregation of Chinese =, ed in the largest hall available in. the city and the six old men took - their seats on the rostrum. : while all who could found seats on the floor an was around, five of the leaders in THE NEW CHINA PARTY addressed. impassioned oratory tor the multitude. r The old men sat nursing their queues in their hands meanwhil ra] not seeming at all ardent in n thels -- to fall so suddenly in to the stage. Every ang wat silenced and the whole assemblage sat in breathiess awe while the barbers snipped the grey queues from the hads of 'six pat- riarchs. Then when the six thin wisps were held up there was a@ great cheer, and the old men left © the platform with tears in their ~ dimmed eyes. --_----2___ KING MAS NI NEW CITEF. | ogsicur Cedara Vi Will he teieiatso Coronation Banquets, ; Rich witogg di King George of Eng: ad has f, or rather: Tt may be a far cry from a king' . kitchep to Westminster Abbey, ' the may who has been. im ; i cceeele NONE me A I AES