aL : The | Begiuning ot the alilean Ministry, Matt. 4. 12 «Golden Text, Matt 4. 16. We. 12, John was delivered up "The arrest of John wes due to the atred of Herodias, because he had ced Herod Antipas for making | wife, contrary to Jewish lilee--A. art of the Roman em- ire, and reflecting the Roman in- enoos everywhere. Herod Anti- pas wan the ruler, having his ca- ital in Tiberias. But Jowish ideas se prevailed in the government of the and, The population was very -- large, and tho people were broadly intelligent. Tor an account of the history, extent, ete., of Galilee, consulf' Hasting's Dictionary, "Obrist and Gospels.' "13. Nazareth--It is apparent, from John's account, that Jesus did aot immmediately detach hiniself from the home life at' Nazareth. He attended the marriage at Cana in company with his mother, and inust have lived in privacy loag enough after his return from Judea for the first disciples to return to theie ocoypations. Nazareth was yw of cansiderable importance, about five miles from Cana. Capernaum---His reason for leav- tog Nazareth wan the hostility of is Ol aeighbors (Luke 4). On his way to Oapernaum he stopped at Cana, and there received the re- quest, of the nobleman to heal his airing ohild (John 4. 46). Cana lay in tho hills, and Jesus descended _ twenty miles tothe shores of the - 8a of Galilee, and took up an bods in Capernaum. This town haa nob been located with certain- x There is still a hetbor modern Tell Hum, at the head of the lake, or Khan Minyeh, ree miles lower down, is the site. 4 wap, ab any rate, lovely for situ- wad due to its thriving fishing in- dustry, the rare fertility of its soil, and ttf olose proximity to the great highway which connected Damas- cus will) the Levant. Nowhere else could Jesus have found such an op- portugity to exercise a command- ing influence. "Spesking in pernaum, ho spoke to the world." Tho som itself and was surrounded with busy towns, Ib was thirteen miles long debate as to! ation, and most prosperous. This | Ca- | was of great beauty | aining ten _. They were used not only for worship but also 2s centers of local government, and on week-days, as schools for chil- dren. The elders of the synagogues were the rulers of the community. 24. All Syria--Meaning the Ro- }man province by that name. Possessed with demons--Disease, in the New Testament, is looked upon as @ visitation of Satan, ex- cept in a few Nervous disorders and mental de- rangement, especially, were re- garded as due to diabolical posses- sion. There was so much truth in this popular belief that Jesus ao commodated his own teaching to it. It was no part of. our Lord's pur- pose to anticipate the discoveries of modern science. He healed: them--Much of the ministry of Jesus is given up to the practical work of working miracles of this kind. Through the cure of men's bodies he was often able to effect the cure of their souls. 25. Decapolis--"Ten cities." A region of Peraea, beyond Jordan, containing ten federated cities, of which Damascus was one. rs HUNTING WITH A CAMERA. A Photographer's Adventures Hast Africa. in A recent number of the London Daily Graphic gives an interesting account of a hunting expedition into East Africa, whither the hun- ter went in search cf big game, but armed with a camera instead of a rifle. - Finding ovidence of big game hear a certain water hole, he set up his camera with its flashlight at- tachment. Night birds set off his flash several times, and thon the hunter determined to wateh all night in @ tree and set off the flash himse!f when the animals appeared. At last, he writes, two huge rhi- noceros arrived and began to play round the tree like a pair of fox terriers, making a puffing noise ex- actly like a locomotive in motion. But they never went near camera! One of them, a huge brute and stood underneath the tree. He remained for at least a quarter of a: hour, all the time maintaining his steam engine puffing and peer- were watching me. Just after this I had a shock, for while intently watching [ saw five shadowy, skeleton-looking ferms with luminous eye-sockets cdiic stealing slowly and silently towards | the tree. a dozen yards, disappearing slowly and silently as they had ap- peared, but not before I had dis as nd eight miles in width. [¢ lay within the tribe of Naphtali, but _ the borders of Zebulun were near, _ 15, 16. This rather free transcrip- tion of the prophecy of Isa. 9. tg, yepresents the northern parts of vraol, which had suffered greatly ta the inroads of Assyrians and ] yfirst to be restored to , xy the Messiah. The : sing. were to extend beyond Jordan, into the district of Peraea, which is east of Jordan, and where the father stages of the ministry of Josua were centered. As the Israc- lites sab in the darkness of despair becauso of the incursions of the Ssyriana, so Matthew represents 5 i. he condition of the people previous _ & the coming of Jesus as one of #picitaal darkness. 17. Jesus seoms intentionally to ce up the cry of John. His com- ing meant not only that the work <a 28 the Messianic kingdom. Mark adds ) this message of repentance, in view of the nearness of tho heaven- kingdom, something which John iow nothing of---"Believe in the - ospel." In addition to the life of renunciation he taught to make room in their hearts C: the good tidings from God. 8 Simon... Peter, and Andrew se two were among the first ' yield to Jesus down at Bethany 1. 40. 41). They had returned leo with him, and now were r old pursuits, Casting a net into the sea -- Im- ing that thoy had already put oul into the deep. They were fishers--A lucrative business, since the Sea of Galilee ped with fish. It cannot be uvany of the apostles were They are called "un. ignorant men," but only to their lack of wining in the rabbinical echools, 19,1 will make. you fishers of non--"'Their earth!y omployment was & parable of their divine yo ion, As David was taken from 10 sheepcote to be t shepherd to » and Paul from his tent- ng to be a maker of heavenly ernacles, so they were taken n their boats to be fishers of . med and refers Fe 29. This account by Matthew b be taken togethor with the eago in Luke 5. 1-11. What oc- ad, apparently, is this: while "wore still wondering at the rful catch of fishes Jesus ad John was to be carried on but | y / { bis advent was tho advent of| then dashed off into the bush. Need- |lsss to say, I did not come out of | ' to see what| dent, but not before she had made| covered that they were nothing }more formidable than zebra ing down to the water to drink. only been nitted' a few After waiting and watching near-| months earlier. d Jady, who} jly all night, and never beinig actu ; little | j ally certain when and what ani-| ri 24 gnored or jmals were there, so silently do| slighted by her fe 1eats, some | they move, I felt sure that some big of whom had the 1 aste to make | animal was near the camera. I fun of her behind her back The ifired the charge, and on develop-' only exception was the oung law-| jing the plate next morning found) yer, who, t hed by her loneliness, I had secured a picture of a rhin )-| paid her special attention, conyers ceros drinking. led with her, and escorted her on The next night I repeated the | her daily walks until he completely | 3, | the same experience proved to be rather a pugnac specimen, for on the charge } O01 Lous ng about 25 or 30 feet straight camera, seizing a leather with which it was covered tect it from any possible rain, and legging red to pro my tree that night damage had been done. In. the morning I found the camera unin- jured, but the legging, which the lion had dropped some forty or fifty yards away, had a big bitten clean out of it. Set ee +e A RESOURCEFUL QUEEN, Hiow Queen Alexandra Kepl fer Promise, Queen Alexandra and the Em- press Marie of Russia recently pur- posed to visit the aged Countess Donneskjold-Samsoe, who is living at Stege, in Moen, one of the Dan- ist. Islands. The Countess has been connected with the Danish Court since childhood, The Russian Imperial yacht Czayr- evna was ordered from St. Peters burg expressly to convey their Ma- jesties to the island, and the visit was arranged to take place on a recent Saturday. But on Friday night a fierce gale blew, and it was. still raging Saturday morning. Meanwhile } great preparations had been made all over the island to welcome the Queen and her sister. The commander of tho Czarevna informod the Empress that it was impossible to sail through the nar- on row straits leading to the island in such weather. On hearing this the Queen, without saying a word, went into the next reom, telephon ceases (Heb. 12. 6).}> the | t and with aa immense horn, caina! ing up iuto the tree as though he | They passed within half | #Same performances, with very much | but this time | was rewarded by obtaining a mag | nificent picture of a lion. The Hon} fired he took a tremendous leap of | at the | piece | FORTUNES IN HOLIDAYS RICHES CAMH FROM TRIVIAL EVENTS. -- t Instanees When Litile Kindnesses Haye Been Returned With Interest. The average man regards his an- nual holiday as a fatally easy, however pleasant, means of empty- ing his purse; but to a fortunate few the expenditure proves by far ths best investment they could pos- sibly make, says London 'Tit-Bits. This was the experience a few years ago of an acquaintance of the writer--a youthful junior clerk ia a Government offica, who, at the time fortune smiled so romantical- ly and unexpectedly on him, was "'passing rich" on $450 a year, and in his most golden dreams never hoped to enjoy more than four times this income. It was at the popular Lancashire holiday resort, Morecambe, that fortune came to him in this fash- ion. One morning he was reading his newspaper and enjoying his after-breakfast pipe on a seat on the pier, when an elderly gentle- man sat down by his side and wish- ed him a pleasant '"'Good morning." Conversation naturally followed, during which the old gentleman asked his young acquaintance if he would be good enough to read a little of the morning's news to him, as ho was almost blind and un- able to read himssli--a request ; which was cheerfully complied with, jand a very agreeable hour was | passed. | FRIENDSHIP CONTINUED. | Morning after morning the same | Programme was repeated, and when | at last the clerk had to eay "'Good- bye'? he received a cordial invita- tion from his old friend to call on him at his home at Highgate. For wo years the yourg man was an daily visitor, giving up | } 1y ¢ almost Mr. B-----, never dreaming of j any reward for his kindness, until last the little romance came to a dramatic conclusion. Mr, B---- died after a short jwhich his young friend searcely left jhis side: and he learnt, to his ;8mazement, that Mr. B---- had left him his entire fortune--a large tate in the North of England lan income of $15,000 This story, a es- and a year. which is well known iin Civil Service circles, had 2 curi- | jous counterpart only last year. j; Among the guests at a Brighton | arding-house were an old lady ;and a young City solicitor, who had won her heart. ASTONISHED THE HERO. The to this little adven- ture, which is known personally to sequel 1 n than the hero of it. few months later, when his hol } ito eall a firm of | Lincoln's Inn, and learnt tl old lady whom he had bef nded at Brighton had died from an acci- iday 1€ was invited solicitors in iwas only a memory, on £ $50,- murth of which it was 1¢ should buy a part- |nership or a practice, and on con- dition that he should add her nam {to his own, "in memory of an olc | woman whom he had been kind.' But fortune eccasionally comes to the holiday-maker in a guise even agreeable. In summer 1902 a Cambridge undergradu- was walking*along the seashore Ventnor and Shanklin, turning the corner of a cliff, he heard cries of distress. The cries proceeded from a lady who was swimming about hundred yards from the shore, and who, un- able to make headway against the receding tide, was in danger of be- ing carried out to sea. Without a moment's hesitation he | a will ueaving him a legacy o | 00%, with one-f: |her wish that | @ 1 to sO more of ate between when, on a to land in a half-fainting ly exhausted condition. ' he had rescued proved to be a be kU | tiful young girl, the orphan daugh ter and heiress of a wealthy De- vonshire | The apitda | anceship so romantically begun vip- | ened into friendship; then into a| deep and mutual love; and 6n the } second anniversary of their first | dramatic meeting the wedding bells | were ringing in their honor. | andowner. ead to Copenhagea, and ordered al special train. / ised the words to Peter, "Krom ceforth thou shalt catch men." | m their reaching shore Jesus | to Simon and Andrew, "Come | fier mo, and | will make you} rma of men," They obeyed! sitway. Their partners, the Zebedee, of whom John at ad received and heeded a -oall, were in a nearby boat, en Jesus called them, they shtway left, and followed » A general sketch of the loan ministry, exhibiting Jesus tho threefold work of teaching, ching, and healing. After this _ review Matthew gives at 1 the Sermon on the Mount, rns to events at Ca- \, # then retu fy | ladies ues in} th In this way the roy aly would have merely to eross the straits » Moen fr Zeeland in the ordinary whereas journey though pleasant in f would have meant distance in a stormy sea. "In twenty minutes a train will be ready," was the reply. The Queon went back to the room where her sister was still discussing with the commander tho bad weath- er. In a few minutes the two gis- ters left for the railway station, The special train was already wait- ing for them and departed without delay. There was indescribable de- light on the island, where for a week the population had been busi. ly decorating their streets and houses for the royal visit, whic would never have taken place { he Oueen had not given proof of senarating the by vacht, veather, considerable ine n LOVE AND RICHES. This is but one of sevéral similar of recent years in which! a summer holiday has proved to be | he portal to both love and riches. | mil probably the most remarkable: { | | } | r I "OMAanNnces | jot ail these true stories that haye| | piv it. i led to fortune is the following. A familiar figure at Hastings a few years ago was that of an eccen- tric old gentleman who used to hobble about on the pier with two sticks, When he saw a stranger sitting alone he would sit down be- side him and would startle him by asking, "What are 94 times 365?' fixing a@ pair of keen black eyes on him as he awaited the answer. If this was not forthcoming in a few seconds he would hobble away with & grunt of disgust, : uuch of his leisure time to reading | illness, during | the writer, astonished no one more | One day, a! 1at the flung off coat, waisteoat, and boots, My Dearest* Wife,--This will be : : : : ; 4 plunged into the s<¢ he last you will hear of me in this to her rescue, bringing her safely | world. I yielded to temptation, and P iy , by ts | Fup a stranger, who was a_ London ac- countant and a perfect magician with figures. For two years the two strangely-contrasted men, with this common taste for figures, met constantly and when tho old gen- found himself the richer by $125, - 600 for his promptitude in giving the product of 94 times 365. ~~ DETECTING CRIMINALS. Expert Says There are Few First Class Professionals. Sir Robert Anderson, for many years the chief eriminal expert in Great Britain and until a few years ago in charge of London's Scotland Yard, declares that when it comes t> special feats, such as safe break- ing, the men competent for the task are so few that some police officers cculd probably write down the names of them all from memory. "On taking charge of the crimin- al investigation department in was no novice in matters relating to criminals and crime. Notwith- standing all this, to my surprise [ found myself credited with a vast amount of ignorance by one of my principal subordinates, 'When any notable crime occur- red and I began to investigate it, a la Sherlock Holmes, he used to listen to me in the way many peo- {ple listen te sermons in church, and at the conclusion he would stolidly announce that the crime was the work of So-and-so, nam- ing one of his stock heroes--Old Carr,' 'Wirth,' 'Sausage,' 'Shrimps' or 'Quiet Joe'--and I soon found that my prosaic subor- dinate waa right. Great crimes are the work of great criminals. "There is nothing spontaneous and occasional about the crimes of 'professionals.' 'lake the case of a 'ladder lareeny,' for example. While the family is at dinner the house is entered by means of a lad- jder placed against a bedroom win- dow, all outer doors and ground | floor windows having been fastened from outside by S or wire or irope. Wires are stretched across jthe lawn to baffle pursuit in case | the thieves are discovered. | 'A> case of: this: kind 'occurred ; Some years ago ata country house jin Cheshire. The next day brought i the chief constable of the county to i Scotland Yard. Such a crime, he | said, was beyond the capacity of | provincial practitioners, and he ex- pected us to find the delinquents among the criminals on our list at Scotland Yard, "He gave me a vague « scription of two strangers who had been seen near the house the day befors. An hour or two later I handed him three photographs. Two of these were promptly identified as the men | who had come under Jocal observa- tion, and arrest and conviction fol- screw le lowed. They were well known 'ladder' thieves. "Once Dr. Max Nord: called jupon me. J put his 'type' theory | to the test. I took a couple of pho- | tographs, and covering all but the face of each told him that-one was an inent public man other a notorious crininal. lenged him to say ft em T chal- which was the e, but he evaded the test. One Raymond, ali: one of the most able crimi y time; the other was Dr. Temple, hbishop of Canterbury, and if ything the former's countenance vn vt ce aaa Was | as | was more replete with strength and benevolence than the latter's, It vas Raymond who stole the fam- oue G record price of £10,000." -- A GAMBLER'S SUICIDR. Left a Pathotic Letter to His Wife. OT. it | | | | | yielded to temptation, and evidently made a final plunge on ths Cesarewitch for the purpose of recovering himself, but could not do it, and then took the final step. Such was the coroner's summing-up of the evidence at the inquest on the body of William Sherwood, mas. ter of the Malton Workhouse, Eng land, a of london Daily Chronicle tells, was found dying from the effects of car bole acid poisoning. By the man's side was found pitiful letter addressed to his wife, in which he said: who, issue recent f a now I am going to take the whole friendship | with -- the young tleman died the young accountant 1887,'" he writes in the Strand, id and the} > } } Pi 2, es! ainsborough picture, for which | Mr. Agnew had recently paid the the | = cs -- ABOUT THE UNDERWORLD OF DIPLOMACY. os - Late Queen Victoria's Letters--In- teresting Phases of Diplomacy. One of the most fascinating phas- es of international life is how secret news is obtained and how it travels through the underworld of diplo- macy. The late Queen Victoria jealously guarded the secrets preserved at Windsor Oastle and her refusal to allow documents to be examined prevented many "memoirs," "con- fessions" and "revelations" ap- pearing during her reign. But her own letters, published recently reveal a great deal that was only within the knowledge of the very few. Her engagement to j Prince Albert, usually declared to have been "a case of a wife falling in love after marriage, is proved conclusively by the letters that passed between them before the ceremony to have been a case of really genuine love at first sight. The reason for the resignation of Ler¢ Randolph Churchill is of course vell known to have been due to an imculse, but if Lord Salis- bury had been consulted it would have been kept secret to this day, says Cassell's Saturday Journal. The father of Winston Churchill was, however, rather hot temper- ed, and he gaye the news to the werld himself in the shape of a let- ter to the Times. The same paper secured tho first intelligenc of an event which altered THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. This was Sir Robert Peel' sion to free trade. . He did not know which party to jfavor. England was Protectionist j and he seemed inclined to keep with the anti-free traders. On a certain day, however, he startled a Cabinet meeting by announcing his conver- sion to the cause of free imports, and when they had recovered from their astonishment his colleagues |resolved to keep secret for a jtimo at any cost. But that night |at dinner a certain Minister whis- ;pered the news to a lady at his side jand she immediat sold it to the iTimes. The premature announce- |ment forced the hand of the Gov- lernment, and England became a free trade country. George Mere- | dith adapted the incident and called it "Diana of the Crossways." A servant made a small fortune by selling to an evening paper the O. M. was about s conyer- it it I a } jnews that the G. {te bring in a bili proposing home {rule for Ireland. It is this chanee | gossip that has led to dozens of important official secrets reachi | 3 of the ge ul public. Ey- | 7 dy in these 3 & reporter. ; Germany is par rly prolifie jin ding surprises in the matter jor secrets. 'Perhaps there is no | othe great ce ign which is the i subject of so much conjecture as man war. Many ac- in have been giv- r in some material muught that Bis- and in his tae Franco-{ counts of its en and all di points. - marek had the secret, letter--published, it is believed, by the order of the fallen ChaneceHor to spite the -he gives a con- Kaiser jvincing d iption of the evenis] | that preci ted that war. But { es, a $43 ithe Ka retaliated with ANOTHER STORY. It may be remembered that the two nations were at diplomatic logger- heads over the candidature of a German Prince the throne of Spain and toward the close of the the rival flices Trance sent a tele- for correspondence between an Loreign 0 gram defi demanding Prince | Leopold' snt and request- jing an aj In the ordinary course this mes- ; sage was delivered to Bismarck, who was thirsting for a trial of strength with the French. But the ram disappointed him. It did not seem bell In- ceed, it was worded so politely that tel llicose enough. it really meant all end of talk about hostilities. The Iron Chancellor, however, was determined to try conclusions with his neighbors, and therefore he deliberately omitted certain words from the telegram before issuing it for publication. The result was to convert Mrance's message into a threat, and the ter- vible offspring of Bismarck's trick upon myself. Look to my two fine ys, and.do entreat never » start the cursed gambling. This | them as been the only thing between vs, hasn't it, my dear? T[ cannot face out what hangs over my head, but I can say something about one ol the heads who poses as a gentle- man in Malton, but my bload he upon him. Good-bye, and God bless you all; and if there i3 2 lov ing Saviour may He have merey up- ou me.--Your miserable husband, W.-8: / A Malton chemist stated that. on| Wednesday evening Sherwood | sent. for two shillings' worth -- of opium for experimenting with! plants, but witness refused to sup- | A representative of another firm of Malton chemists spoke of supply- ing Sherwood with an eight-ounce bottle of acid, which it was stated he had no authority to purchase fur the workhouse on his own re- sponsibility. The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane, and considered the firm of chemists had not acted carefully in supply- ing carbolic acid without the doc- tot's orders, ne day, however, he asked the --- - uestion of a young man who gave] Many a ma oginpels himself to o 8 gly Bares as soon as the/believe that he is-- having a good 'words had left his li 8, The old|time when he is pends more] man Was so delighted that he struck | money than he can afford, | Thus'she worked day and night te we all know now. But this is only one side of a most interesting story, If Bismarek was working at Berlin for war he« had a helpmeet at Versailles in the per impr meri She the as a ted 1 A vay Germa 1S, THE SURES OF STATE 7 [press Eugenio's share in the war! came to light as the direct result of journalistic enterprise. Ces. é -ARCHIST CONSPIRACIES EN. Woman Leader of Russian Terror- ists Scorns Defence. ; After two years' imprisonment in the St. Petersburg fortress; Cath-| erine Breshkovskaya, who is to be placed on trial in February on tha charge of being a momber of the HER SPIRIT UNBROK ee eid "i The Miduight Air Resounds the Melancholy Voices of the "Night Watchman, _ "If you give stones to the '|yerb, and it sums up. remarkably the character of the men whose re: cent revolutionary risings have been startling civilized -- urope. Spain is a land o Iness an inconsequence; but Catalonia with her counsel, M. Zarudny. Zarudny said later that he had. found Mme. Breshkovskay in sur- prisingly good health, bright and cheerful, but utterly unreconciled to the Government. She declined to ask for a transfer to the prelim- inary detention prison, and may possibly refuse to present a de- fence. Nicholas Tschaikovsky, who will be tried at the same time on a si- milar charge, will present a series of alibis for the specific instances | of revolutionary activity with which he is accused, and a denial of mem- bership in the social revolutionary = Peninsula, and these Spancastrians regard with contempt the people of the surrounding _ provinces, London Answers. True, Catalonia is part but Catalonia does not want to be, independence are always seething in the pot of insurrection. In enorgy, intelligence, t superior to all with its own grammar, dictionaries and literature. Their industry in proverbial, and in some provinces the phrase for going to market is, "Go to the Catalonians." THE CITY OF STRIKES. -- Breshkovskaya and served on them Dec. 25, is a document of 58 pages. It describes the careers of the two defendants up to 1905, charging membership in the Central Revo- lutionary Committee, and citing articles to prove that they advo- cated terrorism. Tschaikovsky is quoted as making speeches in favor of regicide, and Mme. Breshovskaya is avowing participation in the preparations for the assassination of yon Plehye, Grand Duke Sergius and Constan- tine Pobedonostseff, Procurator- Genaral of the Holy Synod. Both it is alleged, were membérs of the Peasants' Union and incited agrar- ian disorders. The indictment separately charg- es Tschaikovsky with visiting the United States in 1906-7 to arrange fox the shipment of arms to Russia, and to collect funds. It cites the revolutionist organ in substantia- tion of this. it has developed that Tschaikoy- sky had in his possession an Ameri- car passport under the name of John Smith, and cards bearing thy name of "Prof:ssor Smith, Bos- ten,"? when arrested. Catalonia's storm centre, Anar- chist conspiracies, attempts at as- have been hurled in the streots, the cafes, the theatres, the churches even. inhabitants, with their defiant eyes, strong features, glossy dark hair, and national Catalonian head-dress a gaudy kerchief tied under the chin--proclaims their character. priorato wine. By day the Catalonians manufao- ture cotton, silk, and goods, brandy, paper, cordage and firearms, and industrieusly tend their cork-trees, dwarf palms, orange, lime, and olive groves, pomegranates, nuts, almonds, figs, walnuts, and so forth; but they are pleasure-lovers, too, and in Barce- lona alone there are no Jess than fourteen theatres, one of which can accommodate an audience of 4,000. Towards midnight, in the cities, the still air resounda with the me- lancholy voices of the night wateh- men, wrapped in their stone-color- ed mantles, and with their lanterns dangling from the end of a pole. Not content with watching over the sleeping townsmen, they chant the passing hours, and as the nights in Spain are usually calm, these watchmen have received the name "serenos," On the Catalonian high-roads one might expect that the chief dan- ger to the traveller would be the brigand. By no means! The greats est pests are the small children, who accost one at every turn, Treated with the utmost considera- tion by their parents--they are never corrected, it is said, in any circumstances whatsoever --- they track the foreigner with the irritat- ing pertinacity of the mosquito. And, like the mosquite, they seek blood, only they call, "Canki, sous," or "Cinco centimos.'"' "T have neither father nor mo: ther! Cinco centimos!" And the grubby hands shoot up into one's! face. | eng DOOMED. MESSINA Will be Swallowed by the Sea and Disappear. The popular tradition that Mes- sina is doomed to be swallowed by the sea and disappear like the land which united the north coast of Sicily to Italy and its south coast jto Africa receives confirmation by | @ strange phenomenon observed re- cently. Since the great earthquake and tidal wave of a year ago a gradual slow depression of the land has been noticed in several parts of the coast. Within the last year the land along the sea coast sank about eighteen inches. The promenade on the sea front, which was greatly damaged by the earthquake and partially washed away by the tidal wave, has now in a way been re- paired, as its level has been raised by heaping rubble and loose earth on it; still several steps of the dif- ferent landing stages on this prom- enade originally built above the water and which remained dry after the earthquake are now completely under water. Likewise ths peninsula in the shape of a sick which forms a natural breakwat in the harbor of Messina, is under water in those portions where no fortifications and lighthouses exist, and in rough weather the waves wash over it from_the strait into the harbor. Tho Citadel has its moats all flooded, a proof that the land on which it is built has sub- sided. A similar proof is afforded along the railroad between Messina and Catania, where the sea now laps the embankment originally built at least a couple of yards inland. Some attempts are being mado to remedy the evil, especially in the harbor, where the rubbish cleaned from the streets of the ruined city is dumped, but the subsidence of the soil con tinues, and the sea in rough wea- ther washes away all the loose earth heaped on the natural break- water, This phenomenon is causing alarm among the surviving inhabitants of Messina, who are in a continual state of panic owing to the daily shocks of earthquake felt sinee last December, but evidently -- their } | VF ing tongue of land or le, t 2 STRENUOUS SPORT. The national game of Catalonia is pelota, a ball game, played on a concrete floor marked out some. thing after the fashion of a tonnis court. The players are usuall four--two on ¢ach side--and tha ball is delivered from a Secervecy basket arrangement strapped te the arm against a wall, and on it return struck by one of the oppo- site side. The ball must always be ia motion, and never retained i the hand. Played widely in Mas drid it is in Barcelona that the games may be best witnessed, fon here the professional bookmaker are forbidden to ply their trade ing side the courts, and so one can al in a gallery and drink one's coffe in peace, while watching the AMAT ing strength and quickness of the professional players. So greatly, however, does pelota tax the con stitution that none can continue a it for more than three' or fouy yea rs, r | = NEW ELECTRIC HEATER, aeter to. as ly w passionate aniard to allow throne of mined not a nton cond the HE -GOUN ERY, | : ! give the French the opportunity of! huinbling the pride of the Clormans, | Time falsified her ambitions very! tragically and Jod to her Ii on. the OW Tuan, even rz of the of the} ; said that day that witnessed the firing first shot she pave cxpression -- to! that terrible phrase, 'This is my} war!' Within twenty-four hours} she bitterly lamented her indiscre- tions, and with the approach of the victorious legions of Von Moltke her throne gradually receded from her. : It was not until 1894 that the German Foreign Office issued the French telegram in its original en- tirety, and then at the instigation of the Emperor, who wished to get even with Bismarck for the ex-Min- ister's hostile attitude toward his sermons. The publication of the} a few years later shot, was the Prince's maker of modern Germany's letters 'are. I've go "em so. th The Bastian electric heater, ros cently invented in England, consista! of tubes of quartz containing ql alarm is not shared by those in au- thority, since it is settled to rebuild the city on the same spot, areas suet spiral of nichel or other wire mounts Vady eaneL sae jt ed in a frame, from which they en A. STREET COMEDY. roadily be yemoved for renewal, Consternation "was caused the] Within a few seconds after the curs) other day in the Rue Lafayette, | rent is turned on the tubes become | Paris, when an elderly: man who | incandescent, exposing a large ped. had fallen under a motor-omnibus} het surface, which can be used? fo was found to 'have scalped. }ecoking or heating, He reassured the by manding his wig pronounced British aceent. PLACE OF RELUGE. "When J got home yesterday I found that my wife had gone home to her mother." =a You did? What did yow do?' "Oh, I just hurried over thero and had a good meal, too,' aE 5 thar ea are 4 FINE KIDS, ' "Your children are pretty well trained, aren't they??? « "Yes, I flatter myself that they yen even before coms | been spectators de- in a mo ne ammar correct. my gr revolutionary _ organization, has |lonian, he will extract breag from been allowed her first conference |them." So runs the Spanish pr f backwardness and no! It is the Lancashire of the pays of Spain, and struggles to regain its former -- erganization, although sympathiz-| Wealth, they are ] ing<with its'aims. Becta ere Spain; while they differ not only -- The joint indictment found |i" habits and costume, but even against Tschaikoysky, and Mme.|Speak a language of their own, Barcelona, the city of strikes, ig sassination, anti-clerical and antl Budgot riots, abound there. Bomba The very appearance of the And they shout, sing Ropublican -- songs, and drink their favorite woollen --