"NOTES AND COMAENTS] Among the many strange rela- tionships which earthquakes hold to various natural phenomena, Prof. H. H. Turner, F. R. 8., be- - Yieves that there must be a direct -eonnection between polar move- ment and the strain on the crust cf the earth. For many years it has been observed that there are slight but irregular changes in lati- tude, og in other words, the axis ef ous ¢ wrth does not always point in th same direction. The pole wand rs about in a mean position, sometimes in a path that is nearly circular, while at others it appears to be exceedingly irregular and even retrograde. The world is not spinning truly, but it slightly wabbles. When the change in direction of its axis is sharp large earthquakes have been frequent. If a swiftly moving body is compelled to turn a corner that it should be subjected to strains which might result in yielding 'is easily conceivable. Regarded from this point of view, the times at which strata in seismic strain give way are to some extent governed by erratic movements in the rota- tion of our sphere. For the world taken as a whole our records do not carry us sufficiently far back to say whether earthquakes are in- ereasing or decreasing in number. From observations at the present time we know that every year sixty world shaking earthquakes are re- corded. Sudden yieldings take place in the process of rocks fold- 'ing, as, for example, in the build- ing of mountain ranges. The po- pular idea that this class of earth- quake is on the increase is simply because their origins have been in inhabited places. It is fortunate for humanity that the larger num- ber of the earthquakes have origins beneath deep oceans or in deserts. Thirty thousand minor earthquakes are recorded every year. These repeated shakings of the ground have been regarded as a eurse to the race, but they aro blessings in disguise. Each earth- quake is an announcement that rocky strata are being folded like the bellows of a concertina when it is slowly closed. If this process were not in operation, Prof. John Milne, F. R: S., declares that every land surface would be covered by the rising tides. This would have occurred ages ago had there been no buckling crust. Earthquakes tell us that this buckling is still in piceress, and, therefore, like rain- ows, indicate that the world is not yet to be destroyed by inunda- tion. % CHILD WIVES OF INDIA. Restoration League Striving to Al- ter a Cruel System. Church Service or Prayer Meeting May be the Opposite of a Holy Place. _ _ The path of the just is as a shin- ing light shining more and more with the perfect day.--Prov. iv. 18. "Either religion is everything to one or it is nothing,"? so a good many say, but the saying means more than they mean. It would be a pity if the religion of forms or of narrowing philosophy became the whole of a man's world. It would be a fino thing if the high motives of religion permeated all things in all our worlds. to calling certain things and acts' sacred while others we call secu- lar, to drawing clean lines of sep aration between religion and lif» that it is exceedingly difficult for any of us to constantly make all life mean religion and to make re ligion mean 'the whole of life. Here are our creeds and our churches, with their customs and activities; these, we say, are relig- ion. Here are our homes and our oceupations; they make life. This do we separate the essentially in- separable and confound 'the tools and products of. things with thc things themselves. The churches are the agencizs of religion, the communal expressiors of the spiritual life of peoples; the creeds are their attempts to state their understanding of religinus experience and to formulate theories of the mysteries of THE HIGHER LIFE. Church and creed are but tools and expressions of religion; they nei- ther constitute it uor do they make it. Religion is not a department or section of the life. It is a m>tive and method of living. It is our life in the consciousness of its highest values. You can be just as truly religious in making money as in saying a mass; you can be just as truly pious in making a pudding as in going to a prayer meeting. It often happens that one's piety is better expressed in daily com- We have become so accustomed} monplace living and duties than in specia! ecclesiastical exercises. A church service or a prayer mecting may be the opposive of a-holy place, while some home, where a mothcr is too absorbed iu the care of the children to think of church, may glow with a divine glory. Either God is everywhere or there is no God anywhere for us; either our religion operates through, molds, and determines every act and all of life or is an empty, formal, and useless bur- en to us. The religion you can confine to a corner of your life finds its grave there. You may measure any faith and you may test your own by its pow- *r to vitalize.all your life, to p2r meate and direct wvery motive, ta make itself felt as the constant de- terminative foree of your hfe. Whatever does this for you, that is your creed and your religion. No matter what dreams of liz: ing bliss, what mystic pleasures or exaltation may become yours through your religious devotion, it is all A MOCKERY AND DELUSION unless its power is such that it goes with you on the street, guides your actions and your bearing to- ward your fellows, and translates its dreams into deeds. When the religion, or creed, or organization, sect, or opinion fills all a man's mental horizon his heart is chilled, an eclipse of the soul takes place. But the religion that is like a well of water within refreshes and cheers him continu- ally. He only is religious who is al- ways religious, always facing to- ward things true, seeking the high- er and full life for himself and for all, making all his life tell for the best in all hfe, and somehow with his wholesome cheer and high faith and idealism, making us believe in goodness, and truth, and love after all HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 4. Lesson I. Peter and. Cornelius. Acts 10: 1-48. Golden Text, Acts 10: 33. Introduction. -- What indicates that Luke thought the story of Peter and the centurion a very im- portant one? The fulness of detail with which it is given. And wha' was its importance? It was one of the chief steps in the transition of Christianity from a Jewish sect to a world-religion. The narrow ex- clusiveness of the Jews, which had fortunately kept their religion pur» for so many centuries, was a for midable barrier to this extension. SOME TALES OF A SNAIL QUEER BREATHING APPARA- TUS IN THE BODY. Has Sense of Smell and Well-de- yeloped Ear -- Saw-like Tongue With 30,000 Teeth. If one wishes to examine a snail he should place the specimen on a piece of glass. The snail is a cold-blooded animal, and contact} with the warm hand probably in- duces in him the feeling which would result in us from placing the} hand or body on top of the kitchen! range. The coolness of the glass will be agreeable to his snailship, and he will travel peaceably along, rapidly expanding and contracting his broad sucker-like feet. His horns are protruded in an ANCES GER {IN CASE OF WAR WICH COUN- ---- TRY WOULD WIN? A Military Expert Gives His Opin- ion of the Position of the Two Powers. Things are very different now from what they were in 1870. Then the French Government was inept and corrupt. 'The army," the Emperor was assured, "is ready down to the last button on the last gaiter.'? As a matter of fact, it was quite unready. And when it did take the field the French War Office. was able to mobilize at the beginning only about 300,000 men, against Germany's 640,000. True, in four weeks' time this first instalment of 300,000 was more than donbled, but the same rela- tive disproportion held good, for Germany had by then 1,124,000 men under arms. The result was seen in such over- whelming disasters as that at Se- dan, when on September Ist, less than six weeks atter the declara- tion of war, MacMahon's army of 150,000 men was annihilated and the Emperor taken prisoner; and that at Metz, a tew weeks later, when three marshals of. France, sixty-six generals, 6,000 officers, and 173,000 men, with 500 pieces of artillery, were made prisoners of war. That was Germany's triumph and France's humiliation; but it was also France's lesson. She learned it thoroughly. She will never be caught napping again. _ To-day she can put 3,500,000 men into the field. It is true that against these Germany claims to be able to pit 4,330,000. This, however, is largely a paper estimate, and an exaggerated one. In effect, unless all the experts are deceived, the available armed fore- es of the two nations are numeri- cally about equal. WAITING FOR REVENGE. But only numerically. There is no comparison between the two if ef- ficiency is to be taken into account. The German soldier to-day is not the man he was forty years ago. Then he was a patriot, aflame with the zeal that is born of patriotism. There is little of that left in him now. The brutality of his super- lors, continued through a long course of years, has driven all that sort of thing out of him. There will be plenty of German officers and non-commissioned officers shot in the back by their own men if war comes. The army, too, is known to be deeply infected with the virus of Socialism. And Socialism in Ger- many is a very puwerful force in- deed, and violently revolutionary. Last year 3,260,000 Socialist vot- FINANCIERS OF JAPAN MITSUI FAMILY ARE KINGS OF << COMMERCE. _--_-- They are Factors in Manufacturing, Exporting, Mining, Banking, Ete. Have you heard of the Mitsui family ? It is the richest of all Japan, and one of the richest of the world. What the Rothschilds are to Europe and Rockefeller is to the United States the Mitsuis are to Japan. They may also be compared with the Astors and the Vanderbiits, and their undertakings include such as have made the fortunes of Krupp, Marshall Field, Stephen Girard, and John Wanamaker. They are famous as merchants, miners, manufacturers, exporters, bankers, and financiers. They have a capital running high into the tens of millions of dollars, and they dc a business of hundreds of mil- lions a year. In some years the foreign trade of this family is equal tc one-seventh of the whole fore- ign trade of Japan. Its coal mines produce about one-third of all the coal mined in the Empire, and they supply a great part of that used in the ports of East Asia. The Mitsuis own great cotton mills and furnish about one-third cf the Japanese exports of cotton yarn. They have other factories and foundries throughout the Em- pire, and their trading and bank- ing institutions are in ALL THE BIG CITIES. This family has also its branch es- tablishments in the leading sea- ports of China, and in Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, and Bombay. Ji has branches in australia and Java, and also in San Francisco, New York and London. In some years 1t ships as much as 5,000 bales of raw silk to the United States, and it has a fleet cf good-sized steamers, which carry its merchandise to and from Shang- bhai, Hongkong, the Philippines, the Straits Settlements, Burmah and India. There is no more thriving corporation in the world to-day, and just at this time, when we are talking of the Japanese as being on the edge of bankruptcy, it is surprising to come into contact with an institution like this. The Mitsui house is a joint asso- ciation, consisting of eleven fami- lies or partners, who have pooled their capital in their joint name under the system of unlimited lia- bility. The bank, for instance, which has a capital of 5,000,000 yen fand a surplus of 11,500,000, inserts ja statement in all of its banking iadvertisements that it is owned by the members of the Mitsui family, and that they as partners assume an unlimited responsibility for all ers went to the polls, nearly 25 per | cent. of the total inumber of the} eleetors who voted. In other) 'words, one voter in every four is | ea Socialist. We may assume that the same ratio holds good in the army--amongst the rank and file, that is to say. Well, that makes its debts. As a result the people know that all. the wealth of the family is back of the bank, and it has the highest credit. Its de- posits are now about 70,000,000 yen, or ALMOST $35,000,000. The same rule prevails as to all 1,009,000 Socialists in arms. Will they fight, or will they not, remains | to be seen. They themselves are | never tired of declaring that they} the obligations of the eleven fami- lies. The properties are all held, in common, although each family may have independent property of cyclone squall came on and blew the timber down all around him. He narrowly escaped death but pluckily resumed his 230 mile walk till he reached Port Darwin. : ~ ye EGGS OF STEED. Deadly Weapons Carried by Ser- yian Soldiers. Though Servia has told the pow- ers in a series of notes that she does not want war, she is sti!l very active in getting her army into fighting trim. Her soldiers are to be armed with bombs, of which five classes are being made -- the in- fantry bomb, the artillery bomb, the cavalry bomb, the large bomb, and the "egg-shaped'"' bomb. -Every second infantryman car- ries five bombs of the first type, which explode by fuse and percus- sion, and have an effective range of sixty yards. The average weight cf each missile is about2% pounds. The details of the training of the homb-throwers are extremely inter- esting. In thé first place, men are supplied with stones of suitable weight, and spend a considerable time practising with these. Then they are given dummy bombs, with which they go through another se- vere course of practise. Finally the real article is en- trusted to them, and they are di- rected to hurl them at specially of each throw being carefully not- ed, The targets stand as high as a man, and the effect of a single believed. The second type has been served out to the artillery, and is a pure- ly percussion bomb. There is a parachute attachment which en- sures the vertical descent of the missile. The range is about fifty yards. The third type is supplied to the cavalry, and is so devised that it may be fired from a carbine. With this bomb very deadly results have been obtained at a distance of 300 yards and over. The fourth type is larger than the others, and is intended for use in. storming entrenchments. Judg- ing by the feel of it, it must weigh something more than four pounds. The different bombs described are being steadily manufactured at half a dozen places in Servia, and a very large number must be already available, Finally there is the fifth type-- the egg-shaped bomb. Dynamitein one form or another is known to be the charge in the four regular types, but the composition of the explosive in the last-mentioned is kept a profound secret. The ef- fect produced by the explosion of one of these steel eggs is nothing less than devastating. FOUR FISH IN ONE CAST, Two Perch and Two Trout, Accord- ing to This Angler's Story. It is something after all to be the hero of a record, even if it does not mean much, and perhaps the successful landing of four fish on one cast is not unworthy of being rescued from oblivion, says a writ- er in the Field. It happened with me here on the Shannon some few years ago in the last or very nearly the last of my more remarkable as I have not fished with four flies on my cast prepared plank targets, the result! well-judged shot must be seen to be | seasons with the wet fly, and is the| hat NOTES OF INTEREST | BANES AND BRA Scotia. Roller skating has ionable in Dundee. Montrose lunatic asyl nyside is to be exten Niddrie school, Edinburg be enlarged at a cost of ££ Francis Cullen, draper, gate, Edinburgh, got three for setting his shop on fire Bonnington church, whi tuated at Bonnington Bi practically destroyed by fi On the 30th ult. Agnes Robs (81) got an arm torn off by th chinery in Camperdown jute ' Lochee. : In Dundee last year the fire grade was called out 180 times loss within the city boun fire was $145,230. : Mr. John Torrance, grai chant; Hamilton, died rec ntl had been in business in for nearly half a centur St. Leonard's paper mil |wade, Midlothian, wer by fire, the damage bein; at from $75,000 to $100,000, Some sensation was ca in Calder Ironworks by a finding a canister of exp a limestone heap within - Greenock Infirmary repor that last year 909 were the medical and surgi ments, and that 1,147 were treated. In 1889 the late Mr. die, Glenisla, lost a pai glasses while deer stalking Grampians. They have ju found, and practically ux coming wedding of Miss. Coats to the Marquis Douré ést son of the Duke of Wellif and great grandson of Duke." . : Paisley Town Coun resolution calling upon Brown to resign, in vie cent conviction at Ayr f ing the Glasgow and So Railway. At Linwood, near blackbird, which is the posse two formed heads, has beer It has two bills, and can make use of both, but wh can pass food through both -- Paisley is much interested yet be stated. ' -- THOSE WHICH BRIN HIGHEST PRICES od The Lion Sold From $375 t Polar Bears Always Mainta' Their Price. Wild animals from the Zoological Gardens in Egypt livered during the years 1896 London, Marseilles, Ham! daries by will not. its own. In the Mitsui establish- The French army, on the other} ments, however, there is no parti- hand, is intensely patriotic. Its} cular property to which anyone can members are burning to avenge the| enter his absolute claim. The in- Christ himself had preached only to Jews. That was necessary, for the time of his ministry was too brief for a larger field, and the In India a girl must be married |and Rotterdam, realized the fol--- before she reaches the age of 12, . o1 she and often her whole family is ostracized and suffers under the inquiring manner, and if a finger is placed in front of him he will half a dozen times in my life. I! lowing prices. ; the 1 probably walk on until these feel- was fishing from a boat anchored| he "king of beasts,'? at the-tail of the strong broken! sold comparatively ; loss of caste. Caste enforces rules and regulaties marriages. A man may be infirm, insane, loathesome, diseased, cruel and ut- terly reprobate, says the National Congress of Mothers Magazine, yet he can receive into his power through marriage and deal with her as he will a little girl of any age under 12 of the caste relations be- tween them are according to the laws of that system. Accepting these sacrifices to be duty and suffering under caste compulsion themselves, the parents lace and often even drive their elpless little daughters into the most cruel unions. The census of 1891 gives these returns of early marriages in Brit- ish India: Females under 4° years of age, 258,760; females from 5 to 9 years of age, 2,201,404; females from 10 te 14 years of age 6,016,759, and these to men of all ages, In 1901 two women travelled through India investigating these dreadful conditions. With hearts rent with what they had discover- ed they returned to the United States and spread their knowledge wherever opportunity permitted. Thus they succeeded in enlisting practical sympathy, which has been embodied in the Indo-American Woman's Restoration League. The purpose of this organization is to aid in bringing about the enactment of a special law to protect the lit- tle girls of India until they are 16 from child marriage. Great Britain in its treaty with India agreed never to interfere with the customs of the Hindu people. No change in laws. can therefore be made until India peti- fions that such laws be passed. The Indo-American Woman's Restora- tion League is working earnestly to organize the sentiment of the most | thoughtful and advanced men of| the Indian race thus to petition Great Britain. Race pride and the conviction that child marriages are causing the deterioration of the Indian race may cause a change. . The sta- tus of woman in India is go low that such a change must be made for other reasons than pity for helpless childhood. The movement is one that must be kept distinct from missionary work, for the Hin: dv would not co-operate in any ef- fort which savored of interference with his religion. -----4,- It is the man who can't do things that is always telling others how to do them. Jews at first would not have listened to a broader gospel. But Christ bade his disciples go into all the world, and preach the good news to all mankind. The time had come to break down the barrier of Jewish exclusiveness and carry out Christ's larger thought. I. The Vision of Cornelius the Gentile.--Verses 1-8. Who was the Gentile who was to show Peter that aman who was not a Jew ora Jewish proselyte was fit to become a Christian? He was a centurion, corresponding to our captain, the head of a company of soldiers num- bering one hundred when full. This company was part of the cohort called the Italian), band,..because made up of Romans born in Italy. Where was the cohort stationed ? At Caesarea, on the Samarian coast, about thirty-three miles north of Joppa, where Peter was. Cacsarea was a wealthy and im- portant city, built Great, and named Augustus. What was the name of this cen- turion? Cornelius, indicating per- haps that he belonged to the fam- ous Cornelian family (gens or clan), which counted the Scipios and Sulla among its members. II. The Vision of Peter the Jew-- Verses 9-16. As the centurion's! messengers, having on the way, were approaching| Joppa about noon the next day, | Peter in his turn was supernatur-! ally prepared for the coming event. What was this preparation? It| was a vision, received upon the! housetop. The sixth hour (noon)} was "a set time of devotion witn! pious Jews." He was very hungry, | for~ he "probably had not yet | broken his fast." Ill. How the Visions Brought | Them Together.--Verses 17-20, and' Acts 11; 1-18. What had been hap- pening while this. vision came ta! Peter? The messengers from Cor- nelius had made enquiry for Simon's house (the Grek word im- plies a careful search through the streets), and while Peter was medi- tating on his vision, they were even at the gate, and calling for him. Before word of his visitors could reach him, the Holy Spirit in some way madé Peter conscious of their coming, and bade him go with them. after Caesar } 1 When a very young man is in love it is awfully hard to interest him in the things pertaining to the next world, by Herod the! spent a night | laden with carbonic acid, is allowed ers come in contact with it. Then the tentacles are withdrawn and waved about in the effort to see the obstruction more clearly, for each feeler contains at its end a small imperfect,-~but still discern- ible, eye, which is capable of dis- tinguishing between light and dark- ness. A snail's manner of withdrawing | his horns is very curious. He does not pull them back bodily into their receptacle, but turns them inside out, just as one turns the fingers of a glove in drawing it off back- ward. HAS WELL-DEVELOPED EAR. The funny little creature has a sense of smell, and also a fairly | well-developed ear, which lies close | to the roots of his horns. His breathing apparatus is of the simp- lest description. Looking carefully at his right | side, one may see that a distinct hole occasionally appears there, re- mains open a few moments and; closes again. This is simply a cav- | ity in the snail's body, into which he allows a certain quantity of air} to enter, "whenever he thinks of} it,'? as one might 'say. When air has thus found its way into his interior, he keeps it there disasters of Metz and Sedan, to wipe out the terrible humiliation in- flicted upon their country on that black day in January, 1871, when the first German Emperor was crowned in the ~Palace of- Ver- sailles, and his troops paraded in pomp. in their hundreds of thou- sands through the principal streets of Paris. Above all, too, it is anxi- cus to recover Alsace and Lorraine. GERMANY'S ARMY IS RUSTY. It is for things such as these that men fight, and to the death. It was of Majuba we in England were thinking when we went to war with Kruger in 1899. But Majuba was @ pinprick compared to what France suffered at uhe hands of Ger- many in 1870-71. Imagine King Edward a prisoner | of war, our armies destroyed or} eaptured, our country overrun and| dismembered, and the Kaiser| crowned in Westminster ~Abbey, | while his legions march in triumph | through Lordon after it has suffer-| ed bombardment by his artillery. | If this happened to us, would we} not fight lke demons to get "a bit} of our own back'"' if ever we got! the chance? Of course we would. And so will France. She has ben preparing for until its oxygen is exhausted by his vital processes; what remains,| to escape by re-opening the little] tiap-door, and the. receptacle is} filled by another «supply of fresh air. A SAW-LIKI TONGUE. The snail's mouth is armed with a saw-like tongue, which resembles a long, narrow ribbon, coiled up iit such a manner that only a part of it comes into use at once. Dis- | tributed over the surface of this} ribbon are tiny tecth, one animal's sometimes having as many as 30,-| 000. } As one set.of teeth becomes worn away by leat-cutting, another, sec- tion of ribbon is uncoiled, and the teeth which before were wrapped up at the back of the mouth come forward to take their turn in press- ing the food against the horny up- per surface of the mouth, and thus cutting it in clean incisions. The shell of the snail is a horny covering that serves to protect him against his numerous foes. Slugs are simply snails that live a retired life, and consequently need no covering at all. Tho snail's shell is built up from lime in the plants on which it feeds and the creatures are never found on soil which preduces no lime, | venre. twenty-three named Paris, and thir- it for thirty-seven years. Nursing ber wrath: Brooding over her re- Perfecting her arrange- Waiting. Watching. Dril- { | ments. ling. Germany, on the other hand, has | allowed herself to become more or less rusty; while, of late years at all events, money that should have! been spent upon a@ very necessary} army has been diverted to build-| ing up an altogether unnecessary | navy. This, of course, is the Kai-| ser's doing. A strong fleet is his pet hobby. The result has been to estrange from him large masses of his sub- jects. The. inhabitants of the South German inland states--Sax- ony, Bavaria, Baden, Wurtemburg --are quite willing to submit to be heavily taxed for the upkeep of the army. But they are not at all wil- ling to pay for a navy into the bar- gain, and have said so at the polls. For this reason it is by no means certain that South Germany would not rather be a source of weakness to North Germany if war came, in- stead of a tower of strength, as in 1870.--Pearson's Weekly. In the United States there are thirty towns or villages named Ber- lin, twenty-one named Hamburg, teen named London. ; small supplies thus obtained and stitutions are managed by the Mit- sui family council, according to the rules laid down by one of the heads ci the family who lived more than £00 years ago. This making the family, and not the individual, the head of an institution is in accord- ance with the social organization of | Japan. Here the individual is sub- servient to the family, and the rights and obligations of the family should outweigh those of any of its members. S me ADRIFT IN SOUTH SEAS. Sailor's Trying Experience With) Shipwreck and Hunger. A walk of 230 miles, the weather- ing of a cyclone on a bamboo raft and an existence of three weeks on turtle eggs and iguanas are some of the experiences which recently the lugger~ Nebraska, which was befell Capt. Williams, in charge of | j lost on Green Hill Island, 100 miles or thereabouts from Port Darwin, in the northern territory of Au- stralia, says the London Standard, | When the lugger broke up Capt. Williams swam to Green Hill Is- land and then tried to make the mainland in a dingy which he was able to make seaworthy. He was caught in a squall and after drift. ing for three days was carried into | the gulf and eventually landed on| Field Island, off the mouth of the| Alligator River. This island is destitute of water, | but some rain fell, and he eked out) they an existence for twelve days on the| turtle eggs. Both turtles and. al- gators were numerous. He then re-embarked in the dingy and made his way into the mouth of the West Albgator River, but could find no fresh water. He obtained from the bark of trees sufficient liquid to sustain life until rain fell, Abandoning the dingy he made his. way up> the east bank of the Wildman River, living on sweet potatoes and iguanas. His matches having been exhausted, he carried firesticks with him. He eventually crossed Wildman River and came out on what he thinks was Lake Finnis, where he found plenty of swamp turtles, iguanas and other native food. On striking the Adelaide River jungle Williams saw plenty of buf- falo, but his only weapon being a revolver he did not shoot any. He got down ito the Adelaide River near what is known as Lawrie's landing, where ke built himself a raft of bamboo and crossed, He had not long gone south when a water of the weir, and rose and hooked what I saw was a trout of about half a pound. Presently as I was playing him his motions seemed to become most erratic; he would pull heavily down slack, or a movement down stream would become a movement up with a suddenness quite bewildering, and for a few minutes I could make neither head nor tail of the action that was going on below. At last on the Hne coming closer I saw there was a good sized perch on the highest dropper, and presently I saw a second perch on the lower, while a moment later I was aston- ished to see that my trout was also still on the point with a smaller trout on the dropper next him. None of the fish was large, of course, though the perch next me was quite a pound; but I saw there was searcely a possible chance to get all four into the boat safely, so hauling up the stone and rope which held me, I quictly started paddling for the shore a hundred yards off with alternate strokes of the oars. Strange to say, I reach- ed the low shelving shore without cut of the beat drew the string ashore in triumph. The four fish were about two pounds in weight, and I had an applauding gallery of several young fellows on the bank whom it took me all my time to restrain rushing into the shallow scoo whole water p out the struggling fish when saw the extraordinary cateh I was trying to drag ashore, ee "A ery! HIS CATCH, Irate "Hail you You're fishing in my waters, [ mand what you've caught." Angler--' i ue ug Squire ta } ) > All right, guy nor, I've caught a cold and I'm catching the rheumatics, ; both of er fs ALL FOR HIM. Hubby--"Yes, dear, nice in that dress; a heap of money.," Wife--"Freddie, dear, what do I care for money, when it is a ques- tion of pleasing you?" 1 , . " ae The Major (thinking to hs fun out of Pat's ancient and skinny steed)--"Good ; ate x000 morning, Pat!' " food morning, yer --honor!'? _ That 8 a fine horse you're driy- ing.' "Tt is, yer honor.'? "Draws well, doesn't it?% ¢'T does yer honor, It draws the ttention of evely idiot that posal you look but it cost me ave some | from | this to! wo because the cost of feeding n buyers shy of the investment, wild-born lions realized from to $500. ' Menagerie-born animals co: ; an average $50. A lioness has and then instantly there would be | ae . sold for under $20; while, or other hand, $1,200 to $1,50Qe too big a price to ask for a tionally fine specimen of liom, Pumas--occasionally described lions--are not in such demand; will often buy one; fair ave | Specimens fetch $75, $100, few $150. The tiger is, h a high-priced animal; $500 i lowest figure at which he se $400 for the tigress. A specialty of value is t pean lynz. A young one ca had for less than $100, and grown animal is worth from $175. WOLVES ARE A WEAK M $10 is their average per he minumum and $25 the Catch a fox young, and the realize $7.50, or only jus full grown, its value is $10 Very rarely does a pol v-hange 'hs 2 : . P : ala i change hands at less than as rea sscapine ¢ " . | 1? 6 a single fish esc Aping and slippi 18! other kinds of bear com A sea-lion costs $100. Th is good for $100, a price d animal's destruction for the Rhone Valley, ; _ Eippopotami have no Im some markets. Wh prchistoric-lookin rth from. $3,000 to $3 phants are much more wi in. A young one may b for from $1000 to $1,28 But most considered mals is the giratfe. 1898 it was impossible for less than $5,000; price had shrunk to did not repay the co tions ~The actual ma ' [a young giraffe in 00 1 and you're weleome to | Leite: ue} " may now be quoted. from $2,500 to $3, 00 AS TO -THE MONK the chimpanzee varies a in price, a young 0: fetching from $230 to big apes are' more though at times th a good chance, as market, where a yo ang, almost full gro fer at $40 recently-- Barbary apes, of still inhabit Gibral at $15 to $40. Bo West China mo of much account; Baboons. cost more cheap, main é 3