the Cid were preparing all things BSSSSSSSSIISISTIFSSRVG FEATS PERFORMED BY THEDER i LESLSA LSS LHPSSOLSEOL IOS A recent newspaper tells of an) express train, carrying scores of | Bre colt hn running for miles with i id h of os bag engineer grasping th attle. Like aA Gy. o d i. ©: story Th out of the wi ; the throttle. fireman was st- his hand on wer true incidents, "more weird ks axiy | n. e ohgineer was. at bis, post on hie side of the cab, his head | tending to his duties, tousing coal luto the furnace, and vow and then giving a blast on, the whistle. Once or twite he spoke to tile en- gineer and got no answer, but he re os one his mate was not in a talkative mood. As the train approached a sta- tion. where is was wont to the, fireman gave a long blast on the whistle, the signal that a halt was to be made. But the train arg on with unsiackened apeed. ot until ib had gone past the, sta- tion like a flash did the fireman's | suspicions become aroused. "What's the matter, Bill?" red there."' There was no response, and the wow frightened fireman placed his band on the engineer's shoulder. He withdrew it with ayell when he found the man's body stiff in death. With apresence of mind born of a life of danger, the fireman quickly reversed the lever and brought the train to a stop. How long the engineer had been dead is not known, but it was prob- ably half an hour or more. A weak heart, a slight convulsion un- noticed by tho busy fireman, and the engineer was doad at his post, -- eath's hand held the throt- Several years ago a Russian cemetery was the scene of a weird wedding. had been betrothed died suddenly on the eve of her marriage. Great preparations had been made for the wedding, and the bridegroom | and his friends determined that the intervening hand of death -ehould not interfere with the ceremony. The funeral cortege then became » bridal party. The bridegroom walked besids the coffin containing | the body of his fiancee as it was horne to the cemetery. At the gvave the marriage ceremony was performed, after which the body of | the bride, clad in her wedding gar- ments, was lowered into the grave. the Flying Dutehman, who for blasphemy was condemned to try im vain to beat around Oape Horn un- til the Day of Judgment, has its modern example in the fate of the shir General Siglin, about. ten years ago. The General Siglin sailed from San Franciseo for Al- aska, vut never reached her des tination. Months later the seal- Ing schooner Arietis wae cruising about 200 miles off the coast of British Columbia when she sighted aship. The Arietis signalled the schooner, but got no answer. Run- ning closer to the vessel, the crew of the Arietis made out the figure of a man at the helm, grasping the wheel, his gaze apparently fixed imtently ahead. The man at the wheel was hailed, but returned no. answer. The story of the ship's fate can only be conjectured, as none of her crew was ever seen alive. He oie supposed that the vessel was caught in a storm and began to leak bad- ly, and the crew deserted her, the ny en refusing to leave his ves- sel, Not many years ago a valuable cup was won in a bicycle race in Australia by a man who was dead when he passed the winning-post. The race took place befote a crowd estimated at 10,000 persons. The betting was lively and the contest close, and the spectators were work- ed uy to a high pitch of excitement. In the last icc James Somerville, one of the riders, forged ahead and got such a lead that victory assured, When within twenty five yards of the fmish those nearest to tim saw him relax his hoid on the handle bars and lose his footing on the pedals. Amid the frantic cheers of the spectators he sped past the goal, winning the race by a few yards, and pitched ferward from his machine, He was picked up dead, and doctors declare the apark of life left his body when he was seen to loge his grip on the handle-bars. It was a lifeless body that had crossed the line a winner. Many sportsmen will recall. the art which the proprietor of a fondon gambling-house was made to play after death. The man's mame was Creckford, and he own- ed many race-horses. The day before the Derby one, of Crockford's | stop | he | asked. _"We ought to have stop- | A young woman who | The story of the Phantom Ship or was | ' { \ | | t TURKEY'S SIDE DO will to a great country. But Turkey has still a trate, via the Danube, right inte shallow draught. The "Fron bar navigation until Turkey, to This great engineering feat--the If Italy carries out her threat to blockade the Dardanelles, s extent prevent Turkey's merchandise from leaving t i t 1 ithe Dietic and Hygienic Gazette. (GREATEST ENEMY TO LiF] WAKHlG SAFE INVESTMENTS OLD FASHIGNED THEORY OE, COLD AND COLDS. Room Temperature for the Seden-' fary is That Between 66 and 70 Degrees. - Notwithstanding some strennous contemperary effort to belittle the nomenclature of eur ancestors the name "eolds" as applied to thet diamal combination of sneezing, nose blowing and general wretched- ness mw a good'one. Cold is almost invariably the primary cause, of colds, while bacteria, which of late have been receiving the chref credid, for these disturbances, come in' secondary or tertiary tequence, says Bacteria swarm most abundantly OR INTO EUROPE. he ' he side-deor whereby she can the centre of Europe in vessels o pene- Gates' of the Danube formed the great after repeated refusals, agreed to Austria constructing a canal en the right, or Servian, side of the river. last and greatest work in the pregu- | jation of the Danube, completed only some fifteen years ago -- was | Black sea.--From the Graphic. accomplished by. blasting a channel through the solid rock and build- ing a huge concrete dam, thus making the Danube navigable to the manded before his death, and his} trusty Gil Diez did nothing else but: |labor at this And the body of the; /Qid was prepared after this man- | ner: First, it was embalmed and | | anointed as the history has already | recounted, and the virtue of the ibaleam and mvrrh was such that | the fiesh remained firm and fair, lhaving its natural color, and his countenance as it was went to be, and his eyes open, and his long | beard in order, so there was not a! Iman who would have thougnt him idead if he had seen him and not i known it. And Gil Diez placed the | eody upon a right noble saddle, and 'this eaddle, with the body upon it, | ihe put upon a frame; and hedress- led the body in wgambax of fine i gendal next the skin. And he took itwo boards and fitted them to the | | body, one to the brpast and the other |to the shoulders. These were so, | hollowed out and fitted that they | imeb at the sides and under ~ the farms, and the hind one came up 'to the poll and the other up to} ithe beard, and these boards were | fastened to the saddle so that the | / body could not move. | "Now Alvar Fanez Minaya had | set the host in order, and, while| ithe Bishop Don Hierenymo and Gil | Diez led the way with the body of ithe Cid and Dona Ximena and the | |baggage, he fell upon the Moors. And so great was the uproar and confusion that few there were who took arms, but instead thereof they turned their backs and fled. . to- ward the sea. "And when King kings saw this they ed. And it seemed to them that! there eame against them on the| part of the Obristians ful] 78,000 ; knights, all white as snow, and be. | |fore them a knight of great stabure | 'upon a white horse with a bloody' leross, who bore in one hand a | white banner and in the, other ~ a isward which seemed to be of. fire, | jand ho made a great mortality, | arnong the Moors."' | | Buear and his} were, astonish RE AT OE, Pose eke ion INNOVATIONS AT WEDDINGS. | } ate } London Brides and Bridesmaids Avoided Conventional Fashions. | Theve were some innovations at the fashionable weddings in London | last week. On one occasion the, four bridesmaids were not dressed alike, but each wore the particular style of costume which best suited | her. Presumably the bride sug-| gested or the bridesmaids agreed | upon acolor scheme, for there was rerfect harmony in the shades | chosen. | Then in the arrangement of the} horses was poisoned, and the mis- | fortune brought on an attack of| apoplexy, which caused his death | late that night. Many. of his friends | had staked large sums on Croek- ford's horses, which were disquali- fied by the death of the owner. Only a few knew of his sudden death, however, and these were sworn to secrecy. On the day of the race Crock- ford' s body was made to look as life- like as possible and wag placed in a chair at an upper window of his home. partly concealed by the lace curtains, People going .to. the} Derhy and passing the houre ¢aw | the figure at the window and cheer- | ed vim, It was said that Crockford | was not well and was unable to! attend the race. His horses won, | and the next day it was aunounced that Crockford was dead. It was seyeral years before the true facts leaked out, Of all the stories of the days of chivalry none is more interesting than how "the Cid. Champeador. "God's scourge upon the Moors," won a battle after death. The Cid died at Valencia, and before denth direoted that-his body be tak- en to Sawtile. Just about this time a mighty army laid siege to Val- encia, but the etory is best told in the quaint language of the ehroni- vler i= '(All this while the comvany of bridal veils there were touches! which showed a desire to escape; from the traditional long veil fall- | ing over the face and heal and | ehrouding the, wedding gown. One bride chose to wear her veil under a wreath of oranzre blossoms which bound the soft tulle closely to the | head, then the veil» fell over her brows in a short frill which shaded but did not completely cover the face. At the back it was. gath- ered into a straight fold so that it left uncovered the beautiful and) elaborate wedding gown. Atother brido wore the tradi-| tional orange blossoms on her head, and from the wreath her. veil fell down just covering the face in; at the back. WEATHER SUPERSTITIONS. Superstitions about the weather} declare that a mackerel sky | ed hing was once a joke, 'ing a bore--or bor, if they prefur tion of itis not so very tong since the pig- ai} black velvet on will) 4f officars in the Royal Welsh Fusil- See ee cane ee to go into Castile, as he had com- | LANGUAGE OR LANGWIDGE. | Some People Wik: uage Worse. They are at it again--they ar at it agane. of our language--theese terribul fanatties (or farinatics?) heo wish tee simplifie, ther speling ov langwidge (or langwadge)--are go- ing to held a conference--ar gow- ing (or goweing or gowin or goin) toe holde (o wid) a conferensze ; (or ho fi % Contere. | was too dangerous for them to have (or confrens). These invincible acs : ; : 5 "pt ne epee ares "1a smoking fire. They dug apit in fellows--theere invinsibul-- But we : 2. wees Pa which they set fire to charred re- must abandon our perspiring ef- : forts to live up to our subject. The | difficulty of spelling in a simplified i much for unproiesser- Mr. William Archer, a manner 1¢ te ial minds. Scot, and Mr. Brander Matthews, f) 1 to Make Lang- These terrible fanatics who wish to simplify the spelling ar} in warm weather, and yet winter is ithe season of colds. Yes, there (are summer colds, but they fol- 'low. séme * ifdiseretion, such as | sitting on the cold ground or lying: 'in.a relaxed state in too much in: | timacy with - a heat extracting, i draught. In either of these in- istances fatigue-may be placed first | etiologically and cold second, but neither of these places can be given |over to bacteria, which, thus given | the opportunity to do so finally kick | up the MAIN PART OF THE TROUBLE. Cold is and always has been -- the |greatest enemy to life. Life }swarms in the tropics, but leads a jsorry existence at the poles. Ard |this reminds us ef the chief argu- iment of the all bacteria etiologiste ifor colds. They will say immediately that Aretie explorers do nét suffer from colds until they return to civiliza- tion, when "'they all come down with colds,'? It may be that the aiders and abetters of cold in its preduction of disease are absent or in abeyance in the Aretic regions, but. men who go into that region become so exhausted during their prolonged exposure to cold that they are rendered upon their re- turn to warmer regions amore than easy prey to the bacteria We have never read thet explor- ers in the tropics succumbed te colds on their return to the tem perate negions, even though the return is made in January. Even the Indians knew enough to | keep themselves warm and especial- ly to guard against refrigeration of the extremities. Ben Franklin tells us how they took this precau- tion even in time of war when it | ' | | | | | mains of burned trees, and slept with their legs dangling in the hole. A hunter in the Canadian woods RETURN GN INBUSTRIALS GREATER THAN FROM ALMOST ANY OTHER CLASS OF BOND. L Rather More Than One and Cne-halt Points Above Municipals as a Rule-- Bonds Usually Fairly Easily Marketed and Have Falr Prespests of Appreciat-. ing in -Value--Industrial Price Fluotu- ations Bepend on Guiloek for Business Conditions. The articlew contributed by "Investor" are for the sole puriose cf: guiding pros eee abiir steed and. if posstbie of say: ng them from losing money through vincive it in ""wild-sat" »nterprises. The Gnpartial and reliable eharacter of tha sBiormatien mey be relied upon. Tha writer of these articles and the publisher of this paper have no interests to serva in connevtion with this matter other thas these of the reuder. (By '"'Investor.") While, as we have seep, the satety of industrial bonds varies very considerably 'rem the higWiy speculative--in the ease ef mining companies--to the, relatively, very where the value of Yand equals or exeeeds the amount of the bond issue, the rate of income does aot, as a rule, vary greatly. Of course, she net return on the amount of the investment in Black Lake asbes- sos bonds at the present time cannot, be far short of 23 per cent. (one cannot speak with accuracy as the makers of any bond income table that the writer bas seen did not contemplate euch a huge return on bonds). Outside of this, we may well hope, unique instance, the return varies about as that on municipals with the very important difference, that the of comparison is about a point higher. The average net return on in- dustrials is higher for equal security than thet wpon any other form of fund- ed corporate cbligation. This constitutes one of the chief ad- yantages of industrial bonds. A second point in faver of "Industri- sls" is their marketability. Not all in- justrial bonds possess this advantage, and to some degree at least it depends | on the policy of the issuing house. As a | rule, however, an issue which could be careful investor conservative, basis recommended to a would possess the very distinct advant- age of being readily marketable. On the other hand, many very well secur- ed and otherwise desirable industrial pends are difficult to market. It is im- portant, therefore, to decide beforehand whether marketability is a feature to be particularily desired before deciding on an investment. The prospect of appreciating in value in@ustrial bond depends a great ot the market' for Through impreve- increased husiness, aug- and other ways the its position, and, of an deal on the that particular bond. activity ment in plant, mented assets in company may mprove who notwithstanding his absence asked his sole, companion, an Indian a distinguish American, may be : ae , & rd pe guide, how to keep from taking capable of nu speling without in-|* x ae Sse. - eae py aoe eae. - 1 cold. He received the laconic re yolving the English language in ey ; ive knots and contortions which make the brain reel Ordinary Englishmen, who neither professors ner fanatics, cannot possibly accomplish the feat. It may be absurd in us to spell that word "feat" er word "feet," different. But these cies are, after all, less absurd than ithe turmoil to which this alleged simplification reduces language. These amiable visionaries can never make any progress until they have settled finally the vexed ques- tion of pronunciation. We must first chave it absolutely establish- that "'gairl" or "gurl," "esot- eric' or "'esoteric," 'imbecile'? or 'Gmbecile," "eether" or "either," is the correct usage before we can possibly contemplate any attempt to reduce the writing of the words to simplicity. And these, few words, taken st random as the first erossing our mind, are only a fraction of the pronunciations that, perhars by reason of the advance in general ignorance, have become doubtful. Of course, the English language is a topsy-turvy business. Like Topsy and the Constitution, it has "orowed," But he would be an in- curable pessimist who believed that the recent destruction of our an- cient Constitution, with the kind assistance of Lord . Lansdowne, had given the British people any violent passion for the overthrow of the Enghsh language. We shall not defend that, language from the accusations of these phonetic re- formers, though we might remind them that the English language, 1s still the most beautiful and flex- ihle vehicle of thought and expres- sion, It is enotgh to know that their distinguished and sincere de- sire for these reforms must be balked by the fact that the proposed reforms can only make confusion worse confounded, The new spell- i Tt is becom- ti "PIGTAILS: Che edict IN: BNGEAND: sanctionme the aboh- the yigtail reminds us that merely from tail disappeared not the army and navy but even from everye i 'says the Ix a 4 if : 'I yoovilian life -in-Ki mdon Chronicle. ls were the f and, Waist- shir mnnable long pigts 'wear in England about 1740 and hbe- lfore that the bag wigs had been f h adorned with a pigtail looped itp in } the front and was drawn into folds; 2 black « {st | Cheapside with his gray hair 'ied behind in a short queue, and even |to-day we can find | pigtail, for the ik-hag. gentleman As- late as 1858 1 ole was seen a relic of the three | pieces of the dress tunic : Sees epee pees i leave the ground dry; that between 'jors are the remains of the ribbon 12 and 2 you can tell will do; that when apple thick you may expect a ter; that the day of the month of the first snow indicates the num- ber of snowstorms to be expected that season," and that if the wish- bone of the turkey at Thanksgiving be light in color you may expect reat snowstorms qising the ensu- ing winter, skins are! eald win- what the day) with which the queue was. tied. x, ie Ss TRS a UNPROMISING »* APPRENTICE Plumber+Well, 'what have ye forgotten? Anyrentica--I ain t= forgotten potty' bos Plumber Ye ain't! Yell never make a phumber. are and to use anoth- which has the same ;sound, to express something quite inconsisten- 46 $58) "KEEP YOUR FEET DRY." Even an Indian whose skin_ has not been so softened to the effects of colds as have ours appreciates that cold is the antecedent of colds and takes precaution accordingly. Undeubtedly overexposure our immunity to the germs about, but the colds we take after being in overheated rooms prob- ably more often come from the re- sulting chill of going too abruptly of the room itself, although super- heating renders an animal more susceptible to infection. Lt 38 however,' only in cold weather that rooms are heated much above the surrounding atmosphere. cold is really to blame for the re- sults, 'Bad air' sult of economy in fuel. ventilation is unknown in July. An ideal room temperature for the sedentary is that between 66 and 70 degrees. Below these temperatures the heat regulating apparatus of the body finds it neces- sary to close ur the peripheral ves- sels more or less, internal conges- tion slowly begins and the tions for a cold are secured. WATCH THE THERMOMETOR. As most of us are slow to respond to the intelligence of a temperature for comfort, though we. are less obtuse to stronger thermic 1m- | ipulses. the temperature between 60 | degrees has been well term- ed the danger zone and undoubt- edly more colds i#we acquired at these than at lower temperatures. We should be alive to our ther- momonitor, if we may coin. the word, and respond even at the expense of a few hod- fuls of coal, for often a cold and its and 66 ton of fuel. For those of weakened -- cireula- tion, and especially old people, the temperature must often be higher than 70.degrees in order to be on the safe side. ae RAW FOOD AND. THE BLOOD. Two French physiologists have. re- cently 'demonstrated that a raw feod diet develops, under certain conditions, a considerable increase of the white. blood corpuscles which +play such an important part in. the i fight against invading bacteria. Cooked food, even in double doses, thas no similar effect, according' to 'these scientists. They aceredit the f-value of the raw food diet to the juices extracted from it in the pro- cess of digestion. Pei tea." THE ANSWER. "T don't see why he wants to marry her, he has only known her a week." "That's the answer.' LIKE SHAKESPEARE' PLAYS. Mrs. Malaprop--"No, I was strong on literature. To save my life, T-couldn't tall you. who > 33 wrote 'Gray's Elegy'. never. from civilization took a severe cold} to } high temperatures may also reduce | lying | into the cold than from the warmth | Again, | is usually the, re-| Poor | be noted--nor our periods of prosperity ; condi-" behind its bonds the bonds; the mar- therefore, the security and naturally the value of but if not this is reflected in yt is pass 'is sike."--The Bystander. Judge--'Prisoner, have you got anything to say before sentence THE QUALITY OF MERCY. ' Prisoner--"All I arst, yer lordship, is to tike into account the ox- treme youth and hinexperience of my lawyer, and to be lenient. for THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY NTERNATIONAL LESSON, JANUARY 14. Lesson 1i.--The birth ef John the Baptist, Luke 1. 57-80. Golden Fext, Luke 1. 68. Verses 24-56---The verses which intervene between the text of our last lesson and this one record a number of events of special inter- est for us in our study of the life of Jesus. These include the fol- lowing: The annunciation by the ange! Gabriel to Mary of the com- ing birth of her Mary to Elizabeth at her home in difference in time between | %et price of the bonds it is of small im- | portance. So, very inactive bonds not | the more speculative iszues often show | marked eppreciation as Take, example, ment bonds. ary5, 1911, the bonds seld in some volume fat SB. Last week the quotation {011-4 bid. solely from the improved position of the Yet, had the bonds not pos- active this improve- not have been reflected. As a industrial bonds be said to stability of price in a very high degree. Some of the smaller fictitious stabil- \ ity owing to the fact that they have no reflect thetr price however, conditions im- Ganada_ Ce- On the week ending Janu- £ prove, for was company. sessed an market ment weuld class, eannot DOSKESS market issues enjoy a market quotations to movements. On the | these bonds are subject to fluctuations, | depending on the business outlook. Of | course, just as our business depressions | j | whole, do nct reach the same depths of dejection to such heights of over-expan- of business carry us gion and credit, as similar conditions do with our American cousins in the States, our industrial bond prices do not fluctuate se violently. On. the whole, there has been more up than down in Canadian price movements 80 far. Fx eBeAM es ton: Yor t Decline HAVE ROYAL BLOOD EN VEINS. only a few degrees lower than that | : Tee | Easy to Trace One's Descent Back | accordingly, | | De Rose began winning their spurs : feach ons of us consequences will cost more than a/| to Kingly Ancestors. Ninety years ago eight great- grandparents of most of us were liv- ing; 90 years before that eight ancestors of each of the eight, or 64; ana so on indefinitely. The barony of Mowbray dates from 1283, that of De Ros from 1264. When the first Mowbray and had about 2,097,152 living ancestors. In the year of th: battle of Hastings--and some continental families trace to allow for duplication of ancestors in re- mote generations. We prefer to remain upon the. impregnable ground of historical fact. ~ Kingdoms in the old days were much smaller and far less populous than now. T.cre were four king-, doms much further be-«--each pres- ent-day mortal may: claim more than 67,000,000 forbears. We leave to statisticians the im possible task of figuring out how much to deduct from these theore- tical totals in Ireland, half a doz- en in England, no one knows how many in continental Europe and Asia. Mark Antony bad a whole bench show of kings behind him at Actiam and got thrashed in spite of them. Tf an average kingdom in ancient times reckoned 500,000, souls, it is easy to see that from the dawn of human institutions down to modern time the number of kingly ancestors available -- for everybody approaches infinity. Tt is not necessary to prove anv one's toyal birth. It is self-evid- ent. : Cs Lawyers would probably starve 45 death if the fool killer wasn't so far behind with his work. --by a very wide margin, indeed, it may | { i } | } throughout the centuries as the Magnificent. should be read in connection with our to-day's lesson. Verse 58. Magnified towards her--Shown his mercy her especial This advance has resulted | favor. : 59. On the eigth day--In harmony | with the requirement of the law. Compare Gen. 17.12; Lev. 12. 3. The religious ceremony of circum- cision was administered simultane- the hill country of Judaea; the re-} ference to the kinship existing be- | tween the two women and to the) the | are| birth of John and of Jesus; and the | likely to appreciate materially while | Song of Mary, known to the church 2 ar BC x z acy és son; the visit of, come; : The entire passage | from foreign rule, as well as from spiritual bondage. 69. Horn of salvation--A fre- quent metaphor found also in clas- sic ancient writers outside of the Bible. The figure here signifies the power of the Messianic king, which is ikened to the strength of a wild ox as represented in-its horns, In the house of his yvervant David--A statement implyieg that Mary, as well as Joseph, was de- seended from David, 70. Eis holy prephets--"In ine law of Mcses, and the prophets, and the psalms'? (Luke 24. 44). 72, 73. Covenant; . . .cath--These were identical. Compare Gen, 22. 16-18. 76. Thou, ehild--Zachsrias has been speaking of the Merziah to now he addresses his own in- fant son, who is to be the prophet f the Most High. Make ready his ways--An allu- sion to the prophecies of Isaiah 40: 3 and Malachi 3. 1. The figure off the forerunner taken fiem the! ancient Oriental custom of sending a special advance messenger to an- nounce the coming of any royal personage, one funetion of this 5 | forerunner being to see to it that: | the roads oyer which the royal traveler was to go were put into | good order for his coming. ously with the naming of the male, child. In the Christian Church the sacrament of baptism takes the slace of 'the Jewish ceremonial; but, like the latter, it is still asso- ciated with the giving of the name. Thus the expression "to christen," tian by baptizing, has come also | tO Meo Ca aply to name. signs to his s still wnable to speak, the penalty of his unbelief, referred to in verse 20 of our last Jesson. What he would have him called- The word of the father was the final authority. 63. A writing tablet--A small wooden tablet, smeared with wax, on which the impression. was made with an iron stylus. 64. His mouth was opened power of speech was restored, Spake, blessing God--There was a double reason for his thanksgiv- ing, the restoration of his speech and the great*blessing that had come to him in the gift of this child. 65. Fear came on all that dwelt round about © them=-There was something mysterious and awe-in- spiring about the events which they had witnessed. 67. The Song of Zacharias, known to the Christian Church as the Be- nedictus, is worthy to be the in- spired utterance of a saintly priest of Jehovah; -- The text of the song His ig given in verses 68-79. Jt con- sists of five. strophes or Hebrew stanzas, @ach of threé yerses; but in English is most conveniently di- vided into two. parts, verses 68-75, and verses 76-79. The first of these parts thankfulness: to God for having. fulfilled his prom- ises to Israel in the seading 'Messialy, 4 spring © for fhe salvation establishment of riehteo child. eame., They segonel matte with "a reference § owh ¢hild-as the annoinated expresses he at SHESS. a f Aiea pe i Mary prophet of Jehovah and forerunner of the Messiah. In this capacity the child, when grown to manhood,: shall proclaim the message of salvation, the reniission of sins, release from bondage, the dawn of hope. and the reign of peace, which the birth of the Saviour shall bring. 68. Blessed' be the Lord -- The hymn of praise which follows ets its name, the Benedictus, from this opening phrase. It has been im use in. Christian worship since the sixth century. Wrought redemption--To Zach- aries this would mean redemption 78. Dayspring from on high--The expression in the original may mean either the rising of a heaven- ly body, as the sun or morning star, or the heavenly body itself. -It is thus equivalent to speaking of the Messiah as the Sun or Star of Israel. 80. Grew--Developed normally. The same expression is applied to | Jesus in Luke 2. 40. father a ihave been + Way by India lf i meaning literally, to make Chris-} } Waxed strong in spirit--Develop- ed unusual strength intellectually and spiritually. Was in the deserts--His boyhood home was in the hill country of Judaea and in this quiet seclusion, far from the tumult and distraction) of city IMe, he grew t) manhood. rs sd te BE) ale ae hs OEE * CHEETAITE, HUNTING THE Spert Onee Popular With English Residents of India. The cheetah hunt which the Vice- roy witnessed recently at Hydera- bad reminds one that cheetah hunt- ing was an extremely popular sport with Indian princes in former x enh although the 'initation of European forms of sport has done much in these times to rob it of its ancient vogue, says the Madras Mail. It was practised both by Hindu and Mohammedan chieftains over the greater part of India, for the cheetah even now is not a rare beast, and a century or so ago must common enough, Anothe? animal used in the same an nobles was a sort of lynx, spelled variously as ""Shoe- goose,' ""syahgush.'? But this was used much more rarely than. the cheetah. However, it was not anly Indians who indulged in this foria of sport, It was enjoyed and: practiked by Kuropeans as well in the daye when they were content to abide in India for fifteen years at a stretch and when they dived a. lV Indienne in a way unknowh to modern © times. More than one' of- the "Company's nabehs kept? their own © cheetahs, \\ 1s Wer frecnently' presants Prom dy i chiefs. Tt may easily be imagined "thet cheetah huntme: was very. good snort and welcomed by the servants Y of: the Comnany "dis: an excellent sub:titute for the coursing which was familiar to. them in' England and which, like the cheetah hunt, has vanished before the spread of games such as tennis and golf. ¥, ncaa Semgetiaes M S easaals There may be people who «ara beneath flattery, but did you ever see any one who was above it? "Captain, is .there no way in which the ship may be saved? 'None at all, sir. 8 are going to the bottom; but I should noti worry about the ghip, sir, if I were, youshe is fully insured. You'd better find a» life-belt."2. C