eee ay, Hosea 7. Golden Text, Isa. 5. il. 1. When I would heal e Tarael, but his gener ; atid kindness, interp: fess a8 one of BAgTeSsONS. Pp nish wickedness. pproval. The : "people alike. sumed by their own passions. and the next. of his birthday. Oined in their sacrilege. Made ready their ming fire, had become all too common. | as elsewhere. ations. betiom while half cultured, a eal poHey that 1 iebearied. rangers have devoured ve weakened The pride of Israel and self-imagined fo Israel's apostasy. in policy ef seeking o Wib or wisdom. Such dove is continued. '@iliances shall prove an ment and a snare, 'their congregation. -Woe.. ce, the- threat res by their actions. for help. Taught and Jehovah. . benefactor. pon th; 'The fall of the princes. derision in the --Their conguerors Xs. n of wealth; te eredit, ~~ Vi.--Worlés temvecrance oul Is- vah in morey wos willing was frustzsted by the aa- iquity of Byhragm, as the én hat - se Teacmts nd the wickedness of Sa- the nafional capital, Israd ach fe Of Ishovah's lon ' Bot- eas an indication of weak- . egard fer the nation's (28. ¥) points to Pphraim's filsehood--Are guilty of deceit fet. . . the troop of rob- ft and robbery were com- 'emoember--Despite hia long- ing Jehovah will remember ; them about--Their wrongs ute an impediment to them s together delight in depray- G-erimo. =o Il adulterers--King, princes, an oven heated--They are eoaseth--The clause introduc- y these words describes the "between one outbreak of vio- . The day of our king--Some re- national event or celebration € We are to think gibly of the king's coronation shed ont his hand with scof- heart -- gthened their determination wrong by further carousing the use of etimylants until passion for destruction is as Devour their judges--The ref- of this verse is to the mur- of public officials and the as- ation of kings, practices which - Ephraim--tIn the sense of Is- th himeelf--By intermarri- hd political alliances of every ong the peoples--With neigh- e not turned--Which buzns , remaining 'unbaked on top. The figure fay cover either the thought or of folly and inconsist- or it may combine wiih both thoughts the conception of a - he, society has developed disproportion- religion half lived, and a is vacillating Foreign alliances and the of foreign habits and cus- instead of ened the nation. 'To the effect of these practices the are utterly blind. Like a who grows old without rea- strength is not perceived. lis vain <xcel- These bear damaging testi- ike @ silly dove--The nation's) © alhancas } Raypt and Assyria was wit 2 CFC, | pver, was contrary to the ex Ma-will of Jehovah, who, con-} mbly, will make if of no ef-| oe 44 s 5 Spread my net--The figure of /m The fore- en-| 4 44 § their congregation hath heard, + gin, when the report conieth | : destruction--The ex- tion of sorrow and distress is} id with the thought of folly and By of destrue- hands of his people. The ref- 6 is probably to the complaint fainst Jehovah for his lack of pro- On against the ills which the jle have imposed upon them- Not cried unto me--Religious vances have entirely ceased. owl upon their beds--In de- f and distress they ery out.in)} instead of calling upon Je- strengthened | 'arms-----Such skill and strength | nation possesses are due to This gift -of Jeho- he ungrateful people use in ng mischief against their di- Like a deceitful bow--Like a o1 is. not true or reliable. heir prioc%s shall fall--The judg- nt of foreign invasion is immin- land of shall de- : and moex them fer their mis- confidence and foolish alli- 'tpe celtar is not neces- ib may New Style of Nookw ar Was One ar Important im Spain. Tha shape of a collar may seem is _ Pg moment ey os ulttae wshionable young nian, but in these Gays tf is not generally considered & Matter 6f national iHnaportance. In the days of Philip EV. of Spain, however, things were Giffereiit ; riot an active inbérest ii the introduc- tién of a now style of neckwear, but the great ar did net dis- dain *o interféve in fhe business. Ths story of the ig told by Mortin Hume ia 'Phe Year After the Ammada." -- ret rigid in Spain. In 1611 a Bpan- iard was fer! oi to wear a ruff, on pain of the ty. When Philip i¥. same to throne, he upheld this law and enforeed it. As it wae unlawful te use starch, a bi square, limp collar was ad 5 ealied the Walloon. This soiled and wrinkled so castly that it was re- gamied with disfaver. An ingenious young tailor submitted a new device to the young king. This was a high squeve collar of cardboard, cover with light-eolored silk en the inside and on the outside with the stuff of which the doublet was made. By means of heated rollers and shellac, graeeful curve, bent ontward at the chin. : Philip was delighted, and imme- diately ordered some to be made for ctices of the people have the| him. The tailor was im high glee; king and, ut also, in those days of suspicion and persecution, heated rollers turned with handles and smoking pots of shellae were questionable articles to have about. Spies of the council seized the uneanny in- struments. The president decided that they had te do with witch- credit; tho tailor's stock was burned hefere his deer, and the peor man "pare was put under lock and ey. the arrest, was furious, and he meddling old foel for burning the the tailor was not practising witch- F STORY oF oe "commas FFnaaarp | pORRESP vn only did the tonarth himself take | y laws were at one tine | the cardboard was shaped into a The prime minister, hearing of rated the president soundly as a King's collars. The president of the council declared his ignerance of the king's interest, but held that if eralt, at least he was breaking the sumptuary laws, for the new col- promptly silenced by the minister, things ever invented ; that they did washing, and that one collar would last ten years without further ex- pense or trouble. The golillas, as they were called, became popular with high and low. Heads had to be carried stiffly in them, and turned slowly, but Span- ish heads were meant to be used 80, and no ene complained. They remained in faver fer one hundred years. 'Fhey were finally changed by Philip V., the Beurben. He was ise to run atilt at them at 1¢ «6owrete anonymous s, that held them up te ridicule and showed their unfitness for soldiers. Under his influence, the golilla was abandoned for a lace stock and tie, Siew enemas Sista Maas. A FORTUNATE MISFORTUNE. A Seasick Passenger Discovered a Fire in Time. When affairs in France, in 1848, made pogeible the return of the ex- iled Bonapertes, among those who went from America was a grand- niece of the great Napoleon, Prin- eess Caroline Murat. In 'My Memoirs,'"' the princess tells how Sy they chose for the passage--in pre- iference to "one of Mr. Cunard's addlc-hboats"--a sailing vessel, in {which they gsed on the seas for twent days. During those days 14 was demonstrated that :o undesirable a thing as sea- ; may have its welcome re- one incident of the to | su oe ve. lly ill, and while all ngers were able to ng games or enjoying forced to Hie down all 2s on deck, but more in a small ladies' ress was put on | tbe | i ! hose. weary weeks end, as I lay there, wishing the days { * | would i thinking faway. One evening, some little time af- ter the bell had summoned all to supper, I was lying, trying to read. The book was "The Vale of Ce- dars,'" Suddenly I thought I saw a streak of light from under the door of the cabin belonging to the second mate across the alleyway. For a few moments I watched, | wondering what the light could be. As I | watched, it got brighter. Springing up, forgetting that I felt both sick and giddy, I made my way tothe saloon to give the alarm. Soon all hands were at work 'to extinguish the flames. In a short time we were out of danger. | Had it not so happened that I was jon the floor, and noticed the light, ino one would have known that a forgotten candle had sect fire to some article of clothing, and we might have been burned to death in mid-ocean. ' PIA asiitinicbing never anc re AOS 9 Scientific Reeruiting Plan. Remarkable results are expected from the works of thé army labora- tory of morphology, which, by a decision of the minister of war, M. Millerand, has been opened near Paris. The object of this new de- partment of the military medical service is to study the physical structure of new recruits as they arrive and sort them out into the various services most euited to their characteristics. "--s "What have you against that! man? He has done some very good" things."" 'Yes; but I was one of them." lars were lined with silk, besides being ridiculous in shape. He was who informed him that the collars were the best and most economical away with the constant need of | ting -2 INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM ONTARIO'S GAPITAL: Some Characteristics of the City's New Mayor--Thée Wuke's Pépularity-- Sir Thomas Lipton. = A @oven years ago Horatio 0. Hooken G8 feporter fo ren aper on Gy an agsiguereat, A he is Of the town @ salary of er 1 W 7,- : ' power d influence equsiled 'by lox es in this patazer 3 ken is a Mog journalist. He a ° Brow as 3 Seorge a, : préic- 2 in the ber 3 ot in bs 8 ohair, late EL F. tke. is now years cince he left the Gleke the News, where he beontac foreman, ten years Inter, when a lot of the went oni on strike, owing to the introduction of linetype machines, Mr. Hocken helped them found the Star, of he was the first business mana- . in a few months he returned to the 'ews, where he remained until 1902, when for a year he edited the Bt. as Jear- nal, after which he returned to the News fer a period and then purchased the Oran; Sentinel, which he has since edi so} Ret is the secret ef his sueeess ia Re ? Fer one thing he is an optimist. '© years age last January he was beat- en for the Mayeralty by a large majer- ity by Mr. Geary. It had beea a hard fight aud Mr. Heckem's friends had been tonfident. Seme soreness might have been forgiver. Mr. Mecken shewed none. 'Oh, it will de my business good te have me out of the City Mall for a year," he said. "And, amyway, I'll. be the next Mayer." And true enemgh he is. As soon as Mr. Geary steps eut he steps in. He will be a candidate for re-eleetion in January, and with the edds in his faver. Tommy Church says ke will run against him, but nobody knews what Temmy will do. Maybe is just getting im line to succeed Hocken when he dreps out. Typisally Torentoesque. Mr. Heeken is a clean, creditable type of pg man, not particularly brilliant perhaps, but an earnest student and con- selentious werker. On the plaiferm he is & ready speaker, and 'n débate puts hig ease clearly ard well. He is not the wire- puiling type of ward politician whe will 'bis suppert in return for support for some pet measure. Nevertheless, he has several times/ proved his popularity with the electors by heading the poll for Beard ef Contrel. Amd the Council unanimeus- ly chose him for the Mayor's chair. He is a streng church worker, temperance man, 2 Bonus ef England (Cornish descent), and, of course, an Orangeman. So, in many respects he is typically Torontoeaque, He is inclimed to be tenacious of enmities. B. J. Meming of the street ra-lway is a pocsates bete noir of long standing, and is inclined sometimes to embrace haltf- baked propositions, as, for exampie, his early advocacy of "tubes." But on the whole he will undoubtedly prove to be a eredit to tne Masz:or"s chair. The Duke Was Hoarse. The Duke of Connaught further popn- lavrizved himself on his latest visit to To- ronte, though he stopped off only long enough to have luncheon with the Cana- dian Olub. It was not that he said any- thing tmportant, but rather his demoora- tic demeanor that pleased everyone. He intimated that he could not speak very well and excused himself accordingly, be- cause he had a bad cold and was there- fore hearse. We said it just as would any other erdimary mortal who is called upon to make a speech, aud it amused immensely the four hundred members of the Canadian Club who were present. It is the sympathy with the rest of mankind in little thimge that makes the Reyal family ef England so popular. The Duke's 'eeld' recalls the cheers that used te greet a2 scene in the cmemategraph whieh chewed his late brether, King Ba ward, on beard ship, rise from hig seat and walk a few paces past seme ladies to the ral to filek his ofgar ash overbeard, just like any ¢ther man. During the lungheon, Mr. J. 5. Willison spoke, as always, gracefully and accepta'- ly, dwelling specially on the growth of national gpirit in Canada, but peinting out that is grewth was net resulting in amy weakening of the Imperial bond, but rather the reverse. The function througkent, at his Beyal Highness' special request, was thereughly demecratic. The OCanadiau Club members aitended, as usual, im their business dress, and abso- lute informality prevailed. As a matter of fact, hewever, they did go to a better restaurant and order a better luncheen than usual in honor of the occasion. Sir Thomas Lipton and Royalty. Sir Thomas Lipton was a guest at the luncheon to the Duke ef Connaught, and his presence was quite appropriate, fer the famous yachtsman, no matter how numerous are his enemies in high places, he has not, in recent years, lacked fer friends among the Reyal family. The late King Hdward was always a strong backer of Sir Themas, though he didn't secure his election te the Royal Yacht Squadron, the premier yachting club of the world. The King and Queen of Spain, the Hmpress Eugenie, the Queen of Nor- way and other royalties are all friends, frequently accepting his hespitality and, it is said, being sometimes associated with him in business ventures. This friend of Kings and Queens began life at the bottom as a grocer boy, but he never hesitates to talk of his early struggles, or of his "trade." They say he is too proud to attempt to hide any- thing. He has long held the reputation of being the foremost advertiser in Eng. land, and no doubt-he is a good one. Even the money he has sunk in yacht races has no doubt returned to him many times over in tHe form of free publicity. A certain type of Englishman i¥ contemptn- ous of advertisers, and of trades people, a faet which explains many of the rebuffs Sir Thomas has received in English go- ciety. His First Employe. Sir Thomas is a typical Irishman who! talks Scotch. He always has a story on} tap. Here is one he iold in Toronto: "In my first little shop I was so poor I could afford only one assistant, a boy of fourteen, who was faithful, honest and willing. He complained that bis clothe | were so shabby he was ashimed to go! to church. "There's no chance of my gat- | new suit this year,' he told me. 'Dad's out of work and it takes all my wages to pay the rent.' "T thought the matter tver and took a sovereign from my carefully hoarded say- ings and bought the boy a stout. warm suit. He was so grateful I felt rewarded. Next day he didn't come to work, I met his mother'and asked her why, " 'Sure, Mr. Gipton,' she gaid, curtsying, 'Jimmy looks so respectable, thanks to four de Lote a ae better job.' " ; Reporter. Be Gaal tan tomngoirtig fesse ae a: re ine 'nls igit. 'Ono of the. newspaper men 0 caliéd on him had been a reporter when sur an was, niiaiios poe A ter ths og Ee Be : ei how on board the Erin he had spilled a cup of tea over the raporter's Knee. Dr, Herridge as Revivalist. rivals' they wey 4 § ren apericee = 3 may ca. in other Di 4 ale and Westminster Presbyterian and is one of the distingu- thirty years ished slusmni of Toronte University, of whigh he was for mapy years a Senator. He bas membered anwng the members of his church | me age ga Aberdeen, while Lerd ai Miate, theagh members of fee aft denomina: _ -- frequent eloquence, thought and learning. Ten years ago he was eafled to | » & fashionabie West Bad Leonor » but declined, and ether solicitations from the United States and elsewhere have net shaken his | ent to his in Ottawa, wh has been his sole charge since taduation. He is am auther of repute, aving written essays on Beethoven, Browning, Milten and "Woman--Her Work and Place." He has recently been placed in nomination for the positien of Moder- ater ef the General ly, at whose delikerations he has long wielded a streng imflwence. Naturally, the congre- gatiens at Westmineter and at Rosedale church, which ie one of the newest con- gregatians in the oity, are greatly pleased at haviwg so distinguished a preacher to work amorg them. me 18,015,006,000.000 ANCESTORS. Statistics Show Great Multipliea- tien Since Time of Christ. Statisties say every adult has be- tween the birth of Ohrist and the present moment been blessed with 18,615,000,000,000 ancestors, includ- ing fathers and mothers-in-law, back through the generations. One hundred years ago, the age of Napoleen, each adult now living had eight ancestors. Going back 150 years, to the Seven Years' War, the table shows there were sixteen ancestors for each person new alive. From this period back to the birth of Christ the figures grow at an incredulous rate. For instance, during the Thirty Years' War, 250 years ago, 128 ancestors had ac- cumulated, while 350 years ago, during the reformation period, they numbered 1.024. Four hundred and fifty years ago, when printing was discovered, every adult of to-day had 8,192 ancestors. From the time of the Mongolian invasion of Eurepe to the present age, 650 years, the total number of ancestors given by the table is 524,300, while from to-day back to the time Pope Gregory VII. was in- stalled, the family trees had in- creased to 16,770,006 ancestors. Frem the time when Mohammed began te teaeh a new religion down te the present age, a period of 1,300 years, each adult persen in this eountry can lay claim to 137,400,- 600,000 ancestors. . Meonomaniacs on ancestral por- traits have a fine opportunity of making a genealogical gallery that will outrival any gallery in histery if they start collecting pictures of their eighteen trillion ancestors. It is easy to see how such, stag- gering figures can be preduced. Each adult has had a father and mother. Each father and mether had a set of parents. That makes six ancesters, and the statistician has hardly started. Keep multiply- ing with each generation and it does not seem incredible that the statis- tics are correct. x, Ls) Pushed, Not Pulled Upward. David Lloyd-George, who is per- haps the most conspicuous Eng- lishman of his time, is a man of the people, in a position of power, who does not forget his humble origin, and remembers gratefully the hum- le friends of his youth. On the day he became Chancellor |of the Exchequer, says a contribu- tor to the London Daily News, he left the House of Commons with a friend of his boyhood, a man as poor and obscure as he had once been. They talked of his advance- ment, #"Tn all my career," said Mr. Lloyd-George, "I do not remember a hand being held out to me from above, or a voice saying, 'Come up| higher. Climb thou up here.' "But don't misunderstand me," he added, with a smile. "There have been. thousands of hands that have pushed me up from behind." wh It's mighty uninteresting gossip that doesn't give somebody the worst of it. father told me not ter !"---Puck. "TWAS EVER THUS. The Man--"'Isn't the water rather cold at this time of year?' The Kid--"Oh, it's somethin' terrible! I wouldn't go in only me ONLY INVENTED THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. ee Twenty-two Billion Conversations Over the Wire Held in One Year. There were approximately 12,453,- 000 telephones and 29,566,000 miles of telephone wire in use in the world on January 1, 1912. Com- pared with January 1, 1911, this is an increase of 10 per cant. in telo- phones and 19 per cent. in wire. A careful estimate places the world's telephone investment on January 1, 1912, at about $1,729,- 000,000, which is very nearly the value of all the gold coin and bul- lion in the United States. The annval number of telephone eonversations is placed at 22,000,- 600,000 by the Telephone Review, which is about five times the annual number of passengers carried by all the railroads of the world. The year 1911 was the thirty-fifth since the invention of the telephone by Prof. Alexander Graham Bell. During the past year the long-dis- tance telephone service of the world has received Notable Extensions. : In the United States commercial service was opened between New York and Denver, 2,160 miles, this being now the longest distance over which oral communication is given commercially. In Europe long-distance service has been greatly extended by utiliz- ing both the new loaded cables be- tween Great Britain and Belgium-- by which telephone service is ex- peeted to be given between London and Berlin--and the new telephone eable, constructed also on the Pu- pin principle, between Dover and Calais. The latter enables conversation to be carried on between Glasgow, Edinburgh and Paris, and also be- tween Aberdeen and the French eapital, a distance of 910 miles. Successful trials have also been made between Loudon and Geneva, a distance of 560 miles, and from Londen to Basel, a distance of 600 miles. Recent progress in the art of sub- marine telephone cable manufac- ture will have far-reaching conse- quences. At the present time there are over 400 miles of submarine telephone cable in use in the world, and of this total about one-half is represented by the four cables be- tween France and England and the two between Belgium and England. The longest submarine telephone cable lies between La Panne (Bel- gium) and §t. Margaret's Bay (England), A Distance of 55 Miles. The Kurepean international long- distance land live systems have likewise reeeived important addi- tions, due te the opening of the line between Paris and Madrid, 900 miles, and the direct line between Berlin and Rome, still under con- struction, a distance of over 1,000 miles. As regards the Continent, there is nuw scarcely any important eity that cannot talk with any other important city. By far the largest interurban or toll telephone plant in Eurepe has been built by the German government, which, ac- cording to the latest official statis- tics, had about one-half of the total interurban or toll telephone wire of Europe. Bis GLOSSY PAPER BAD FOR EYES Children Suffer From Prolonged Reading, Writing and Drawing. | Why do so many of us become short-sighted when nature obvious- ly intended us to have normal isight? The reason lies principally lin the misuse of the eyes during a brief period of childhood. Dr. Bogdan, of Budapest, has just published an account of his ex- amination of 200 school text-books from a sanitary point of view, He has here drawn particular attention to the fact already established hy many prominent: investigators, that short-sightedness in children either originated or developed in connec- tion with school. education. The chief causative agency was, in fact, to be found in too prolonged read- ing, writing and drawing, whereby visual accommodation, as well as ;convergence, wére greatly fatigued. ft must also be observed that in some of the children short-sighted- ness was hereditary, and they be- eame affected much sooner thax their healthy comrades. In addi- tion to the above causes producing short-sightedness, mention must be made of insufficient admission of light in many schools ;'a similar re- mark apphed to unsuitable - desks and other school furniture. - As re- gards the influence of books on the eyesight, Dr, Bogdan insisted that paper should not have a glossy sur- face, for under artificial light a:sur- face of this kind prevented the eye from secing well and necessitated moving the book to and fro, as well as frequent changes in the position of the head. Again, the -- paper should be thick enough to prevent the printing of the next: page from obtruding itself upon the reader's eye. A few authorities have recom- mended yellow paper. but the 'ma- jority were in favor of white paper, which gave a better contrast be- tween the printed matter and the background. In any event, how- ever, the paper should be rough or dull-surfaced enough to absorb the light. oe "By Jove! I came away from home this morning without a penny in my pocket!' "'What made you do a thing like that?' 'I don't know. But I guess my wife had a Rand "in. it-7) -2 ra WARUEL OF THE TELEPHONE] SUBDUING AN ELEPHANT. Description of An Elephant Drive In India. exciting as the capture of a herd of elephants stockade ereatures, their furious efforts to escape, and the courage and skill that their captors must show in the act of noosing and subduin combine to make a speetacle that even the crowded benches of the Colosseum would have found thril- ling. One of the incidents of an elephant drive is thus described by E. Alexander Powell in the Outing a I was particularly struck by the air of utter dejection worn by one of the jungle Samsons that the ained Delilahs of the kraal had shorn of his freedom. He was the very picture of elep ine despair, or rather, that was the impression he wished to convey, his wicked lit- tle eyes being, in truth, but half- elosed, and keeping careful watch not only of the throng of spectators beyond his reach, but of the deceys on either side. Several unsuceess- ful attempts were made to untie him, but he proved se savage and gave the attendant decoys such a very bad time of it that the task had to be abandoned as too danger- ous. _Eventually they decided to thrash him into submission, and the largest and strongest decey present was sent to tackle him in single combat. With the mahout seated well back toward the tail, this majestic crea- ture bore down upon the unruly one like a battle-ship going into ac- tion. Then there ensued an epic struggle. As the combatants came within reach of each other, they en- twined their trunks, and the awed group of human beings witnessed a display of brute strength such as it has been the lot of few men to wit- ness since the wild beasts fought in the arenas of Rome. Again and again the combatants, bellowing with rage, would raise their fore- quarters off the ground and for a second or two poise themselves in mid-air, only to fall back with a thud that seemed to shake the earth. Every time the eaptive's trunk came within range, the ma- hout gave it a vicious spear-thrust. This fellow pluckily kept his seat throughout, and appeared rather to enjoy the frightful risks he was run- ning. The fight did not last long, but I fancy that if there had been no ma- hout and no spear-thrusts te de- pend upon, the wild animal; in spite of his cramped position, would have emerged victorious. As it was, honors were easy. Toward nightfall, covered with dust, streaming with blood and panting from exhaustion, the monster was tackled by the three largest decoys, one on each side and one butting him from behind. After many des- perate struggles and much bellow- ing, they dragged him from the field, wounded, angry, and protest- ing, but doubtless consoled in the knowledge that he had put up a stout fight for the liberty he had loved and lost. Teint ERRORS MADE BY AUTHORS, Great Writers Guilty of Mistakes of Most Glaring Kind. The mistakes of great writers are always amusing and they console the weaker brethren, says the Jour- nal des Debats. Alexander Dumas in his "Che- valier d'Hormental" made the ex- cellent Buyat declare in 1718 that his pupil "paints like Greuze," who was born seven years later. . The same character admires the galler- ies of the Palais Royal, which were not built till sixty-two years later. Balzac makes Cousin Pons buy a harming fan, "a divine chef d'oeuvre painted by Watteau and ordered. by Mme. de Pompadour," who was born in the very year that the artist died. Flaubert, in "Madeame Bovruy," tells us: that 'fold Rouault went to pay Charles for setting his broken leg ; the bill was for 75 francs, which he paid in 2 frane pieces."? Fur- ther on he describes "a beautiful phrenological skull marked with numbers down to the gullet.' In| "Boavard et Peuchet" he makes as | priest celebrate the midnight mass "fon the evening of December 26." Alphonse Daudet shows us in "Tartarin'? 4,000 Arabs "sruling like lunatics, till 600,000 white teeth glistened in the sun." From Coppe we get:---"Two twins, both of them eighteen years old."? M. Jules Claretie instructs us in 'Tne Femme de Proie" that '"'she kicked her ball along with shouts of laughter, and when she felt it at her feet plunged it into the Few sights are so interesting and | in an Indian kraal, or . The enormous size of the| them, | not seem greati, but, says a lin the zine, it is sufficient to maintain fone twenty candle-power each of twen ty-five hours; run a sewing machine [anus oF "gong" ecg BAD LUCK CAMP TQ SOME OF THEIR POSSESSORS, owe Dagser Made Owner "invisible'?-- $10,003 Collar Develops Acute Mania, The Egyptians embalmed their dead for the purpese of preserving the bedies for the day of resurres- tien, placed 2,000 yesre ahead; hence the mont torrizle calamitica were to be visited upon the heads of any irreverent enough te inter fere in any manner with the pro- ramme. The case is cited by the id of a sarcophagus, new in the British Museum, ee has ongrav- ed upon it the effigy of a priestess of Amen-Ra. 'This was dissevered in 1888 and treuble hegan ad once. The five men who found the cover died all within a short time of each other; the men who transported ib from its plaice of discovery were likewise unfortunate in varleus ways, while the servant who took the object to the muscum, the pho- tegrapher whe was called in to take a picture of it, and the archneolo- gist who translated the insc? pion were one by one overtaken by a series of disasters. Wonderful Dagger. The late Shah of Persia posses ed a dagger which, actordins t6 tradition, would make invincible whoever concealed it ahout his clothing, but if ence need the per- sen using it would die by it. It ts said that this dagger is one of the oldest in the Orient and tas beon "used" but five times in histary-- always justifying the prophecy ihat it would likewise cause the death of the user. In 1906 a business man in St. Petersburg acquired at an auction sale a collar for which he paid $10,- 000. It had been made 120 yeara earlier by a Parisian jeweller at the order of the unfortunate Louis XVI. Every member of the royal family who had worn this collar perished in the French Revolution and the man who first purchased it fled to Brussels and sold it in that city to get money for his sojourn in exile, Subsequently it changed ownership frequently, always bringing misfortune to its pos es- sor, Dancer's Misfortune. Finally it was sold to a Russian prince for $20,000 and he gave it to the dancer Tzukki. lost her health and was compelled to part with it and it passed into the collection of Linievitch. This man died suddenly at Monte Carlo and his heir lost the collar and ev- erything else he possessed in play. The man whe then purchased the collar Gn 1906) lived in the greatest harmony with his wife and family, but almost at once developed acute mania and ended by killing his wife. One very surprising thing was some years ago vouched for by -M. 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