eth,' a village again indicates Boe THE SUAY SCHOOL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 21. -- Lesson J1N.---The appointment of 'the twelve, Mark 3. 7-19; Matt. > 5B. 1816. Gelden Text, John 15. 16, MARK 8. 7-19. Verse 7. His disciples--the larger company of those who had given some public evidence of their faith in him. It is from this larger com- pany that the smaller group of twelve apostles, frequently them- selves called simply disciples, were chosen. Withdrew--Left the crowded city of Capernaum, where the events of the preceding lesson occurred, for the seashore, 8. Idumaea ---In south, Beyond the Jordan--Both from the rural districts and from the cities included in the group of ten cities known as Decapolis. Tyre and Sidon--Northwest of Galilee on the Mediterranean. Mark makes it plain that people from every section of Palestine were among the great multitude which gathered about Jesus on the shore of the lake. The fame of his teachings and miracles had reached distant lands and cities, What great things he did--Or, all the things that he did. 9. Lest they should throng him-- Crowd too closely about him. 10. Plagues--Virulent diseases, literally, scourges. 11. Whensoever they beheld him-- The figure of speech employed puts the unclean spirits for the men yoxsessed by them; this, doubtless, cause it is the evil spirit in each case that is conceived of as direct- ing the action of the person pos- sessed, 13. Into the mountain--A _ well- known mountain, or rather hill, in the neighborhood. Whom he himself would -- The pronoun is emphatic. It was a smaller, specially invited group that accompanied Jesus on this oe- casion. 14. And he appointed twelve -- Twelve from among those who, by invitation, had accompanied him to the mountainside. Some ancient authorities add whom also he named apostles. That they wight be with him -- With him more continually and thus in training for the larger work of evangelism, which was to be theirs more especially after Jesus himself would be no longer with them. That he might send them forth to preach--This he did on several oc- casions mentioned in the Gospel narrative. On the whole, how- ever, it is the companionship of the apostles with Jesus and his own words and works which are record- ed in the records which have come down to us. 15. To have authority to cast out demons--They were to exercise the same power over disease as Jesus himself employed in ministering to the needs of the unfortunate and 'outcast among the people. 16. And Simon--The names that follow are in apposition with the noun twelve in verse fourteen above. The enumeration, however, is interrupted in order to give the descriptive names assigned to some of the chosen group. Surnamed Peter--The meaning of the surname is explained by Matthew (Matt. 16. 18). 17. Sons of thunder--The signifi- the 'extreme cant name describes the fiery, vehe- ment temperament, not, as some commentators were wont to .sug- gest, a thunderous eloquence. The Gospel narrative does not furnish us with sufficient data to follow out very extensively the suggestion eon- tained in the name. 18. Bartholomew--To be identi- fled with Nathanael (John 1. 46-50). Thaddaeus----Called also Lebbaeus (Matt. 10. 3, Authorized Version) and to be identified also with ae the son of James (Luke 6. eevee Simon the Cananaean--Or, the zealot (compare Luke 6. 15). Judas Iscariot--"Judas of Keri- in the south of Judaea;. --. : MATT. 5, 13-26. In the remaining verses, taken from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus points out in strong and beau- tiful language the illuminating and preserving influence which his dis- ciples and apostles are to exercise in human society. '13. Ye are the salt of the earth-- As such Christ's disciples are to mingle in human society, perme- ating its every part, and presery- ing it. from corruption. through their wholesome influence. 14. The light of the world -- Through Christianity comes the en- Jightenment of mankind as well as the purification and preservation of a human society. 15. The bushel--The © common measure found in every Jewish household. The use of the article that the reference is to a familiar subject. 16. Glorify your Father who is in heaverr--That is, give to him the ness found in the = Cpe ce a eredit and the glory for the good- Christian dis- WHAT THEY DO. *Do you play for' prizes at your afternoon card elub??- "No, We fight for 'eim."" : 7 © Why, Lunderstood Mr. Cloxe is full of generosity?" "Probably. Oley x LETTER FROM THE GAPIAL \ ' ae Temperance Question In the Legislature --Inspectors Hughes' Excursions--How Our Legistators Dress. ----~ (We have arranged for a weckly letter about Toronto affairs, which, we believe, will be of great imterest to many of our readers. These letters will be from the on of one of Canada's foremost journa: ists, a man who hag covered some of the world's greatest happenings and now 0c- cupies a leading position on one of the Toronto dailies.) -- The temperance issue, once projected in concrete form into the Iegislature, de- veloped with surprising rapidity. In- deed it is doubtful if it is fully realized yet what radical changes we are in for, or how soon it is possible, these may come about. Until the announcement of an alternative policy by the Premier many people did not accept Mr. Rowell's proposals as necessarily meaning there would be any immediate change in the license laws, It was felt there would not be an election before four years, and that then the result would be doubtful. But the Government's proposal puts am altogether different aspect on the ques- tion, 'The Government having declared. a policy, may be expected to put it into effect. And whatever the original plan was, it is reasonably certain that the temperance forces will bring strong pres- sure to bear on the Goverriment to get it to put its anti-treating legislation into force immediutely. The argument will be that if it is recognized as a good thing now there is no need to wait until after another election to put it into opera- tion, Thus we may have within a year or two an actual anti-treating law in force in the Province. If so, at the next elec: tion the issue will be between the system of anti-treating then in foree and Mr. Rowell's abolish the bar policy. INSPECTOR HUGHES ON 'TOUR. Every Easter Chief School. Inspector James L. Hughes organizes a party of teachers to make an excursion to some American city of interest. One year it is New York, another Washington, another Boston, This year Chicago was chosen. Mr. Hughes and his party, which gener- ally numbers hundreds, and are nearly all ladies, creates something of a senga- tion, and the teachers find the trips have great educational advantages as well as providing a good time. Mr. Hughes is one of Toronto's institu. tions. He looms even larger in the pub- lie eye here than does his brother, the Honorable Col. Sam. Hughes, the Minister of Militia, te whom he displays a strik- ing resemblance in many ways. He has been accused of running to fads and frills im his educational methods, and of keeping himself tn the foreground. But in many directions his influence ou the life of Toronto has been good, and there is considerable regret expressed at his vo)- untary retirement, which is to take place at midsummer, Had he wished he could have remained Toronto's school inspector for many years to come. 'fo mark his long service, extending over a generation, the teachers of Toronto purpose to make him a presentation, He has asked that instead of this taking a personal form it should be made the en- dowment of a cot or cots in a consump- tion sanitarium, to be at the disposal of afflicted teachers from Toronto, or from the Province as a whole. ALLAN STUDHOLM'S BOOTS. A Toronto newspaper man who has been investigating the clothes worn in the Legislature has made some interesting discoveries. Hon. Adam Beck is the best dresser, He is always immaculate in silk hat and heavily braided morning coat. Hon. J. S. Hendrie is the next best, R. R. Gamey third. Hon. W. J. Hanna, Pro- vineial Secretary, is the most careless. Neither the Premier nor the leader of the opposition are notable for their good clothes, comfortable black suits of various cuts characterizing the costume of each. Allan Studholm, the labor mem- ber, has an odd habit; he changes his boots while in the House. He arrives in heavy walking boots, which he takes off and leaves under his desk, donning light slippers until going-home time, WHAT A LOBBY, REALLY Is. Every session a great deal of the time of the Legislature, particularly in com- mittees, is taken up by specia! legisla- tion sought by the city of Toronto. And every session there is always a big pro- test from Toronto because a lot of this legislation is killed. A good many of To- ronto's bills bring the eity in conflict with one or other of the big corporations, and whenever Toronto gets a set back the cry is made that the members of the Legislature from the counties have been "lobbied" by the big interests. No doubt @ more general cause of failure lies in the fact that Toronto asks for too much legislation, and that many of the bills proposed. are. ill-digested and impracti- cable It is, however, reasonably certain that & more or less effective "lobby" is car- ried on among the members by the cor- porations. There has never been any sug- gestion of direct bribery. But through- out the session representatives of the companies, whose interests are stake, mix freely among the members. Im this way friendships are established, which, no doubt, are valuable when voting time comes around. And the big corporations have a hundred ways. of befriending M.P.Ps and others whose good will they want. They may find jobs fer relatives and friends, or they can give 'ips on the stock or real estate markets, These and similar things are hard to fix on, and, in any event, might be regarded as legi- timate, though '%~ is safe to say that a good proportion of the members in Ca- nadian legislatures scrupulously avoid compromising themselves even in. this way. at th HE SPOKE IN GAELIC. When Sir William Howard. Rus- sell--then Mr. Russell--was a young reporter, he was sent to Ireland by the London Times to report Daniel O"Connell's speeches during the re- peal agitation. One of the first meetings he attended was in Kerry. Having heard of O'Connell's ecour- his permission to make a verbatim report of his speech. The "hberator" not only. con- 'sented, but in his suavest manner informed the assembled. audience that "antil the gentleman was pro- vided with all writing conveniences, he wouldn't speak a word." Russell. was delighted. His pre- parations were soon completed. "Are you quite ready?' asked O'Connell, "Quite ready," Russell replied. "Now you are sure you're enttrely ready?' I'm certain, sir." The crowd was becoming excited and impatient. O'Connell rebuked them... : "Now, upon my éonscience," said he, "I won't begin my speech till the London gentleman. is entirely ready." : After waiting another moment, O'Connell advanced to the front of the platform. Eyes glistened, ears were all attention, and the. report- er's pencil .was poised: in air, O'Connell bestowed one more be- nignant smile on the correspondent, winked wickedly at his auditors, and began his speech--in the Gaelic language. § x Few -people have -will power enough to stop talking when they Wane ee tesy, he thought that he would ask. : ing it out. WONDERS OF PORCUPINE ITS PRESENT STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT. { f _-- The Dome, Hollinger, McIntyre, Vipond and Other Important Properties Deseribed From a Personal Visit. : A representative of this paper has just returned from a trip to Por- cupine, Where he found Ontario's gold camp passing from the pros- pect stage into the producing era. He had the pleasure of handling a bar of the yellow metal valued at $3,000, the product of a few days' run of a.ten stamp mill on the Mc- Intyre Mine. He saw the mill it- self at work and was told by Mr. ©. B, Flynn, the Vice-President of the Company, that the daily output would immediately be raised to $1,000, and that it was hoped be- fore the end of the year to take out $500,000 from this, property alone. THE DOME'S BIG MILL. The most Porcupine to-day mill of the Dome mine. This is a huge structure containing forty stamps and accompanying equip- ment, which probably makes it one of the most up-to-date mills in the world. One is told that it cost be- tween $300,000 and $400,000, and that it will have a capacity of 400 tons of ore a day. The other equip- ment on the property is on a simi- lar scale. There is a power house worth $100,000 and residences for the managers, club house, dining halls, ete., the latter are all of brick, indicating plans for perman- ency. Altogether it is estimated that somewhere between a million and a million and a half dollars have been spent on the property. These figures are eloquent of the confidence the owners have in the future of the mine. The owners represent interests close to the United States Steel Corporation and Standard Oil Company, and also own the International Nickel Company, the big Sudbury concern, and control the Nipissing Mines Company at Cobalt. FORTY STAMPS AT WORK. The mill has just begun operation, and the sight of the stamps pound- ing away on the ore, pulverizing it te a powder, so that the gold can be removed, was worth going a long way to see. The mill would have been running several months ago had it not been for the fire of last July, which swept away everything. The mine gets its name from the fact that fairly regularly the gold: is found distributed in a great dome shaped hill of réck, which has been impressive thing in is the new big found to broaden as it goes down, and is known to earry gold to great | depth, The entire mass will be| milled, and is expected to yield} about $8 a ton, the cost of produc- | tion being perhaps $3. HOLLINGER'S RICH ORE. -| A visit was also paid to the Hol-| linger mine, which vies with the/ Dome for supremacy. Here a 40-| stamp mill is nearing completion. | The ores found in this property oc- | eur in fairly regular veins, and is | very rich, running, it is said, $28 | a ton. The only question is as to} the extent of the veins, but the! main one has already been traced | 1,000 feet on the surface, and to a} depth of 200 feet. We descended to this level in the Hollinger and} also in the McIntyre and in the Vi- | pond mines, and it was encourag- | ing to see the well defined quartz | yeins at this depth, and to be able} to pick out samples carrying dis- | cernible free gold. Mr. Arthur Cole, mining expert of the Temis- kaming and Northern Ontario Rail- way Commission, accompanied the party, and secured some. striking | specimens. | The Vipond is also rushing a mill | to completion, and it is expected | that within a couple of months the | mills on the Vipond, Hollinger, Mc- Intyre and Dome will be running} and will have an aggregate capacity of 800 tons of ore a day. It is esti-! mated that by the end of the year $1,500,000 in gold bars will be pro- duced thereby at long last, putting Ontario in the list of gold produc- ing areas. Other properties visited included the Little Pet, which contemplates putting in a five-stamp mill, and the Dome extension. PORCUPINE'S HOPES. Porcupine hopes that it will, in a few years, develop one of the great gold camps of the world. The next few months, with the four mills in operation, and with the pushing for- ward of underground work, will do | much te:show how well founded is this hope. Already on the leading properties an aggregate of some 3,- 'and carefully weighed. 500 feet in shafts have been sunk, and some 15,000 of drifting and tunnelling done. On the whole, the | results of this underground werk have been satisfactory, though some of the prospects have disappointed their owners. fo celebrate the opening of the; "=F .. : : oe go. eoprete: the: ep oe | weighing the birds a curious thing Pome mill a celebration was held under the auspices of the Sonth Poreupine Board. of Trade. The arrangements were in charge of the President, W. Proctor Smith, who with a fund of anecdote and wit, proyed to be a delightful eompan- ion, and as a host attended to every desire of his guests, : aK. Small men feel big when stand- ing on their dignity. f as --s A man is seldom so level headed that he can't get a hat to fit him. Perhaps a weman changes her mind frequently to keep from wear- HAKING SAFE INESTHENTS AT PRESENT TIME BANK SHARES YIELD ABOUT THE SAME RETURN AS MUNICIPAL BONDS. -- But They Possess Prespect of Appreciation in High Degree Owing to Increase In Reserves During Last Few Years, as Market Prices Have Generally Declined, (By "Investor.") The articles contributed by '"Investor"™ are for the sole purpose of guiding pfoe- ective investors, and, if possibla, gt sey: ug them from losin money thro lacing it in "wild-cat" enterprises. e mpartial and. reliable character of the information may be rel upon, aus writer of these articlos and the publisher of this paper have no interests to serve in connection with this matter other than those of the reader. ' (By "Investor"). The question of the rate of income on bank stocks is an important consideration which is too often confused with the per- centage the dividend bears to the par value of the shares. One buys Dominion Bank shares, bearing a twelve per cent. dividend, to find that at the present mar- ket price, 230, the return on the money invested is 5.2 per cent., while on Bank of Montreal the return is 4.1 per cent., and on Commerce is just slightly over 41-2 per cent, althongh both these stocks pay 10 per cent. Of the listed stocks the highest yield is that of the Banque Na- tionale, with returns 6.7 per cent,, while Bank of Montreal is the lowest. The re- turn on this class of security is soarcely as high as on sound municipal bonds, which yield in the case of the City of Toronto 41-4 per cent. at the present mar- ket, and range up to 61-4 in the case of the City of Nelson, B. CG As compared with other shares, there is an average difference of about 2 points. In point of convertibility bank shares do not stand particularly high. Being now-a-days strictly investment shares, the market for them is narrow and confined 'o investors. Therefore, except occasion- ally. there is no demand for more than a few shares at a time. Consequently, if'a large block, say of 500 shares, was offered at a forced sale the price might decline. many points before a purchaser could be found, unless time could be taken to work it off. In the matter of prospect of apprecia- tion bank stocks for purely investment securities stand particularly high at the present time. The fact that they have not, on an average, appreciated in value to any extent--even declined in many cases---for several years, they are in shape now to make some advance. As was pointed out recently, the process ef laying up reserves increases the book value of bank stocks every year, with the result that in many cases that I have worked out, the market value of the sioek in con- siderably below the beok value. As a result, the price of the. shares is likely to approximate closely to.the book value by an adjustment in the market. Another reasou why bank shares are likely to advance is due to the fact that their expanding business requires yearly more and more capital. In order to sell the new stock advantageously and to give their shareholders a profit the manage- ment usually issues the stock at a price which gives them a substantial discount from the market price and, as it is almost always offered first to the shareholdera, the resultant profit. adds materially to the. income. Like all stocks, and particularly stocks with a narrow market, bank stocks are not particularly stable in price, and so anyone who cannot afford to take chances of market fluctuations should not buy bank stocks. In fact, they should con- fine themselves wholly ta bonds. Fiat REMARKABLE RESULTS. Makes the Grow Big. Electricity Chickens Electricity applied to agriculture is no new thing, but an ingenious Englishman recently conceived the idea of applying it to the cultivation of chickens, and the results, he as- serts, are remarkable. It is a scientist of reputation who made this experiment--T. Thorne Baker. scientific expert. He has been ex- perimening with twenty-four young ehcikens, all of which were exactly the same weight when they camic under his care. - Twelve of the birds he placed in a Hearson "foster-mother," and these. were allowed to grow in the ordinary way. The other twelve birds were placed in a "foster- mother,' in which the, perches are wires, and through these 5,000 volts of electricity are passed every day. So powerful is the cur- rent which passes to the electric "foster-mother" that sparks fly out to one's finger when it is put near the perches. Mr. Baker decided upon a test to prove which of the chickens had thriven the most. In appearance the twelve electric chickens were obyiously larger and more healthy looking than the other twelve. Four birds' from -each ~"foster- mother' were taken out haphazard The reason given for the exceptionally light electric chicken (No, 2 in the follow- ing table) is that the bigger birds took away its food. Here, are the figures: Weight, ounces. 595 23895 Electric chickens-- No. 1 INO SRS a wae No, 3 2.665 NY; hay ens ce nee eae La tOD Average weight, 12.855 ounces. Weight, Ordinary chickens-- ounces. No. Mita BD. No. 14.275 No. 11.045 No. Ayera In other words, the "electric" chickens. have grown over. 15 per eent. heavier than the ordinary birds. The heavy weight of the | second non-electric chicken--1l4 oz. '§ gms.--is accounted for by the fact that Mr. Baker specially selected 'it from the brood as being notice- ably plumper. than the rest. In was noticed in the demeanor of the electric and non-electric chickens, Those which had been under hig :- frequency treatment remained per- fectly calm and sedate when Mr. Baker placed them on the scales. Not so the ordinary fowls. They gquawked and kicked yiolently when taken out of their "foster- mother," and when on the scales they. blinked their eyes and opened their beaks in fright. The. electric chickens, on the other hand, were quite placid and confident, ready to peck anybody that interfered with them. : * A wife should act like one pos- parce ; The London Daily Mirror's } wires! SHELTER HUMAN DERELICTS ABOUT THE COFFEE STALLS OF LONDON. One Penny Makes the Curbstone Hotel a Palace tor Very Many. They are of the night time, the shadow time, these curbstone ho- tels, called coffee stalls by an un- romantic world. They belong to pthe cloaked and hooded hours when the world stretches itself after a comfortable dinner, when the work- er draws his chair to the fire, when old shuffling shades creep along the curb, their eyes ever downcast, To the night and to those whom the night shelters and shields, coffee stalls belong by right of association. To a palace a coffee stall may be refuse, but to refuse it is a palace-- a, palace where shining paraffin lamps cast a comforting glow on the pavement, where stacks of plum be- spattered cake and piles of sand- wiches make the absence ofea penny a thing of shame. Through rain- bow-hued windows the passerby see the announcement of tea, coffee or cocoa, 'Tantahzing, the words seem to taunt him, for the coffee stall holds just enough warmth, just enough comfort, to make the vaga- bonds wish for more. An elbow may rest on the counter, while, eyes tired of the darkness feast omthe light of the coffee stall. Quite a long time may be spent over the consumption of a penny cup of cof- fee or a sandwich. Time enough to talk, time enough to jest, in a grim, unsmiling way. Time enough, too, to watch the busy veridor serving out WARMTH AND COMFORT and receiving the coin that repre- sents the difference between rich and poor. ing the streets who would rather stand by a coffee stall at a windy corner than sit huddled in some cheap lodging house. spent is neither mere nor less, but the association makes all the differ- ence. There is something of gypsy life, of vagabondage, surrounding the coffee. stall. And so it makes something fine and primitive _ stil] world. Food in the open than any house meal. tastes better Pienics have tions of society. And. the stall offers a perpetual picnic to those toil. It may not imply lobster may- onaise and champagne, with an ex- laughable descent of weird insects into coffee eups. Bub it is an ever- lasting pienic, nevertheless. Some of the picnickers haye ceased to re- i i | i | | | ii | | member anything else, anything better. The time has passed when a their numbed brains that it is usual to return home after a picnic. Per- haps that is just as well, since home is a negligible quantity to them. BECOMES A PALACE. A coffee stall and its merchandise beneath a roof would be the most hopelessly prosaic and sordid crea- tion. The food would become mere- ly unpalatable, the drink anything but appetizing, and the associations painful past bearing. But on the roadway with lights running to and from it like a string of gems, with distant traffic roaring along, and the flotsam and jetsam. of life nausing to satisfy as much hunger} } : as the means allow the coffee stall beeomes a thing of interest, of rom- ance. Run by the poor for the poor, these outdoor caravanseries have found and kept their own level and their strange pathetic charm. 'To some of us'a cup of coffee on the curb among these "queer crea- tures' is quite a decorous adven- lture after a dance or theatre, and we patronizingly the beverage "quite passable.' pronounce our "decdrous adventure' is their sad life. REGULAR CLIENTS. The comedy and tragedy of a con- tradictory world may be met round the coffee stall. There a laugh is so nearly a sob, a caress so nearly a blow, and a steaming cup of coffee éan turn a tear into a smile. There frequenters of these vagabond ho- tels. Not a stall in London but possesses its regular clientele. Wet or fine, winter or summer, at about 10 o'cloeck every in their different localities. the early closing of public houses made such refreshment booths a necessity the metropolis has never been without its stalls. Starting with a board propped on trestles, they. have yearly improved, until to-day many of them are regular As a picture in contrasts, mighty seene round the celebrated coffee stall in Piecadilly, known as the Junior: Turf Club. is 'unsur- passed. spk oe Mae ee STARVE. AND THRIVE. A prominent British labor leader coal strike that ccturred im Scot- land thirty years age. The strike lasted six weeks, he said, and every week showed a reduction in the death-rate in those districts where the strike was. That did not merely apply to the men who worked un- derground, aud whose risk of acci- dent was lessened through the stop- page of work, but it appiied equal- ly to mothers and to the children. Inquiries led to the astonishing re- sult that when wages were very low the death-rate was low. * Some men are so stingy they won't even tell a joke at their own expense. There are many vagrants wander- | The money | its strongest appeal to those with | lurking in natures warped by the} a fascination for all grades and sec- | coffee | who can pay the necessary | pensive cigarette to follow, or the, n echo of convention whispered to | '- But to} the "queer creatures" it is nectar | ; and is a kind of freemasonry among the | evening, | London's coffee stalls are erected | Since | caravans, drawn by sturdy ponies. | the | hes called attention to an 'interest-| ing fact.in connection with a big} a ee KING VICTOR'S UPBRINGING. As a Lad Italy's Ruler Wad to Sub- mit to a Spartan Regimen. The attempt on the life of, the King of Italy has recalled many anecdotes about him. : King Victor came to the throne 19 1900 under tragic circumstances. For the third time, and this time suecessfully, the hand of the assas- sin had been raised against his father. Italy was in the depth of financial depression, many of her eople were starving, and disorgan- ization prevailed throughout her public offices. Little was known of Victor when he ascended the throne. ' A in his childhood, it At one time, seemed unlikely that he would ever grow to manhood. After mueh con- sultation it was decided to try what was called the English system. The little Prince was put under a milt- tary governor, Col. Osio, the stern- est disciplinarian in the Italian army. The Colonel's jnatructions to the Prince's private tutor were as follows: 'Treat the Prince as any other pupil: use . no indulgence, even in the very smallest things. If, for example, during the lesson you need something he, nob you, must rise and get it; or, if a book falls, he, not you, must pick it up. Nor was the governor himself slow in administering pointed and trenchant reprimands to his royal charge. : "Remember," he said to him one dav. "that the son of a king, no less than the son of a shoemaker, when he is a donkey is a donkey." The Prince's regimen was of a Spartan character. He slept In a cold room, took a cold plunge bath every morning whether ill or well, had his breakfast at seven if there was time, but if he was late went without; began lessons at half-past seven, being made to devote him- self to those he particularly dis- liked. and was afterwards sent for a ride, rain or shine. Even his holidays were not his own. His apparent haughtiness ai lself-will were qualities _ which caused some apprehension in his youth, and more than once he was punished for escapades by being put 'under arrest.. As late as 1896, just before his marriage, when he was in his twenty-sixth year, he was | sentenced by his father to a month's 'confinement for upbraiding Crisp1. But this was only a proof that he 'who had dared to face and cow the omnipotent Crispi while he was only ia Prince would be able to face any other Minister that might come | along when he was king. And so 1b was: After the assassination of Hum- bert he sent fof the most advanced among the statesmen of his king- 'dom. made no change in the laws in and | les for warmth. the direction of panic-stricken coer- cion, as some had thought he might, and went on just as if nothing had | happened. He has proved himself, 'resolute, strong, modest and cle- | yer, a master where his father was a cipher." He is now one of the |most popular monarchs in Europe, as was once more proved by the de- monstrations of joy in Rome and | throughout Italy at his escape from the would-be assassin's bullet. HON. WHITELAW REID. United States Ambassador to Great Britain. wks. FISH THAT FIGHT. In a garden of Singapore it is the | custom to stock the ponds witlr all | manner of queer fish--many of | {them of the fighting variety so dear 1to Orientals. This spécies of fish is so combative that it is only neces- sary to place two of them near each | j other, like fighting cocks, and per- haps to irritate (bring on a_lively conflict. They | i charge each other, with fins erect. 'at the same time changing color from the dullest of grey-greens to | brilliant reds and confinement in close quarters is {not needed to arouse their comba: itive, propensities. blues. fish. seeing himself refiected in a ; mirror, will dart at his own image : failure to reach | will assume the most brilliant hues: i seeing /te reach him, : --- FACT AND FANCY. Horses, on the |roads of Australia, are shod like j er é i . }men with leather shoes. Some people. to brush the cob-| | Webs from their brain, would. te- | quire a vacuum cleaner, Man being clay, woman makes a Pmue of him. forget-me-not, In Arizona the temperature will sometimes' charge $6 degrees half day. The only difference debutante "and a twenty years. in ia between a suffragette -- is rameore ss: THE MAKING OF A NATION. A nation is made powerful and to be honored in the world not so much by the number of its people as by the ability and character of that people depend in a great mea- sure upon the economy of the sey- eral families which, taken together make up the nation. There never yet was, and never will he. a na pe ppemisnently ; <! or the great part of w A, : ecatte lier Ween them a little, to} Indeed, | | charitable organizations. Even a single! and, irritated all the more by his} his supposed enemy, f ' | for his reflected antagonist do | 'the same, he will double his efforts | it the worst season of the year to | attempt road making. unpaved, sandy | tA Swedish writing from China to her friends in | Hutope, gives the Chinese explana- The waiter's favorite flower je the | 4. for Oceidental monog ae great consisting | APPALLING TALE MISERY OF RUSSIAN PEA- 'SANTS INCREASES. -- With Famine Already in the Land : New Crops are Foredoomed to Failure. % Decpening the present famine misery in southeast Russia comes' the confirmation of the failure on three-quarters of the tilled land of the empire of the wirter sowings, writes a St. Petersburg correspone dent. The official report to the De- partment of the Interior covering the past half of the Russian winter, a period ended January 23, records -- that the snowfall came very late and that in most of the classifi areas (in the Baltic provinces, in the trans-Volga, on the Steppes, on the Volga, Don and Cis-Causasian territories) in the Polish provinces, and in all trans-Causasi and Cen tral Asia there has not been enongh snow to overlay the seed sufficient, for good crops. In Russia it is" proverb that three good harvests -- cannot follow in succession ; aaN calamity has now to be faced of see> ing one failure of the food supply of over twenty millions of the popu- lation, followed by a bad beginning for the next season all over the. country. PICTURES OF DESOLATION are painted by doctors, clergyme te schoolmasters and public spiri ; men of conditions on the further side of the lower Volga, in Oren- burg, and in large areas of near Siberia. Mostly the villages are im: = mute despair. ; A. medical report to the Saratofi zemstvo describes the doctors' --~ quarters as besieged by hungry crowds. An epidemic of typhus and scurvy has followed on people fore- ing themselves to swallow bread that is filled out with chapped straw and earth. Women and children are huddled together in the church-_ The strongest are able only to wander in the snow with empty sacks looking for serapa of fuel. There is no milk, as the ~ cattle had to be sold long ago or have since died. Jn a village. baek- yard where a doctor found a man idying from stomach poisoning by foul bread, a starving horse wam hy- ing not far from him licking help- lessly THE FROZEN GROUND Pastor Herschelmann, leader of a large colony of settlers in Oren burg, appeals to the German com- 'munity in St. Petersburg for fur- ther subscriptions. He writes! "The state of want is appalling: |For want of fuel families are hud- dling together in one house, pulling down their own for the means to keep warm. In_ these hovels chil i dren are lying sick from being fed-- on pieces of melon rind. Very old people sit dumb over their Bible. Horses and cattle have mostly been sold; those that are left have been taken out of their stalls, where they would freeze, to live in the family. The air of these, households is pesti- lent. The schools are kept open, but the children can rarely go for want of clothes. They change about what they have, so that one day one goes and another day another. "The stricken villages lie as far as fifty versts from one another and are often nearly two hundred versie from the nearest town. The only refuges left are the old dugout holes made by the Kirghises. An old Cossack who knew the Kirghise tongue took a villageful across the snow to these holes, where THE COLD WAS LESS BITTER, "Relief agents from the hunger lands write that meal is the most urgent necessity. A pood (thirty- eight pounds) of wheat meal will, last a peasant for a month. JI Karakutsk a steam mill was got tom) @ work, and the strongest of the pea sants and horses were able to make | the three days' journey and bring | back 400 pood i ished peopl s of meal. The fam- broke out in. thanks--- giving and count on holding ont for another month. This argosy cost only $20 rubles, given by charitable | subseription."' The sanetioned food relief makes its way in general too slowly. The bureaucratic anthorities fear the independent 'co-operation -- of the The Gov-~-- ernment having the -- of scheme | Starving peasants earn their relief money on public worke was fore- doomed to failure, The peasants were already too physically weak outdoor labor, and even haa. they been stronger the frost made WHY GNE WIFE IS ENOUGH. | Chinese View of Matrimony in the Occidental World. Wweman missionary, gamy. Bl that she visited a marda : family and that the Chinese ladies examined her very clovely and finally were horrified at the sive. of her feet, ; oe "You can walk and run bk man ? said one~Chinese lady. "Of course," replied the visitor You are no doubt as strong as -- ' man 4 said another Chinese. ef hope go," : eee "And no man could give you thrashing. not even if you wex married ?? : . No; it would not be good for = he tried it." ' j the mandarin's eight wives look ed at each other, and then the old est said reflectively, os Now I know why the fore relates in' s devil never has wore than one ? lie icaltadd 4. 3