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l What is the moral of this? Simp- ly that team play of the right kind must, be intelligently substituted for gang rowdyism. Boys should be"organized and led to undertake tasks thaffcail‘for the exercise of their faculties. Football," baseball, basket-ball and other forms of sports and athletics give wpportu- nity, as Dr. Gulick says, for the direct employment of the great so- cial force, the gang spirit, in the cultivation of honesty, loyalty and solidarity. We would add, howev- er, that other activities besides those named Tight be encouraged. The Bay Scout movement recogciz- es this and teaches boys the art. of “roughing it," of conquering dit'- faculties, of avoiding danger or ,eoping with it. Nature study and manual training fascinate boys. It is for society to "catch them young” and provide them with V healthy fun and .exercise for body and mind under skilled guidance. This is the best anti-delinquency prescription known to social pro'- chology. Dr. Luther H. Gulick, an au- thority on exercise and play, dealt instruistively with the "gang" question in a recent review ar- ticle. There is, ho shows, nothing alarming in "boy depredations" of the kind commonly reported in the newspapers. The boy gangs that steal apples, invade vacant houses, throw stones at street signs, and so on, are not lost to good citizenship. They can be I'e- claimed, and their instincts can be utilized for righteousness. The gang instinct is really the co-oper- ative instinct, the desire to form groups and do team work. The normal boy demands associates of his own kind and wishes to "do things" through emulation, compe- tition or disciplined co-operation. Thdeiements of the gang spirit are loyalty to the leader and other members, a willingness to stand and fall together, endurance, cour- age. these are fine, masculine qualities~misapplied through no fault of the boys. Much has been written about "bad boys" and "boy gangs," and wise writers have elaborately es- plain; to those whose,impulse is to‘icall for the "police," for pains and penalties, that juvenile delin- guency does nct always mean erira- inality and depravity. The energy and spirit of youth, especially of the male persuasion, imperatively demand channels of expression, and if parents, educators and soci- ety, are too indifferent or too ig- norant to create safe, whblesome channels, unsafe and undesirable ones will inevitably be sought - and found. of the railways constructed with British capital. It will supply in the near future not only a large share of the World’s meat supply, but also a considerable proportion of.the grain supply. - Under the Southern Cross, possibly, the ma- ternal civilization will be develépc-d that will enable eventually the Ar- gentinian as well as the New 'dca- lander to stand on the ruins of Landon bridge and speculate on the greatness that was. That time, however, now seems far distant; the populationr'that, lives about London bridge is needed to con- sums the products of Argentina. and of New Zealand under balance- of-trade conditions. NOTES AND COM ME 2A~Writcr in a, recent number of the Paris Figaro gives some inter- esting facts about Argentina and calls attention to the-great pro- gress which that Sbuth American republic has made in the last few years. Argentina, according to M. Jules Huret, owes her ra- pid'increase bf wealth recently to the Italians, who have come into the country in large numbers and whose ancient genius for agricul- ture has (lone wlodevs in the trans- formation from cattle keeping to crop raising. The Spaniard.was inert and wedded to methods.o'i farming that were cent/uries old; the descendant of the Caesars has become a modern agriculturist and Ewes the latest irnm'itr7ecl machin ery. No wonder he succeeds! The land under cultivation in Argentina, has increased ninefold in the last tienty years; the c'ou.rr. try is being developed by means NTS, 5. Riblah in the land of Hemath -Hore, three months after the defeat of Josiah, in the battle of Megid-do, Pharaoh-neeho entrapped Jehcahar. and threw him into chains (r? Kings 23. 23). It was'si- tuated on the banks of a, stream in the midst of a fertile plain, and on the highway running between Palestine and Babylon. Nebu- chadnezzar found it; a, suitable place for headquarters. 7. He put out Zedelriah's eyes- About the Iastgthing the unfortu- nate king saw was the slaughter of his own sons. This method of 4. The king of Judah . . . saw them-It was about midnight, but at such a crisis nothing would be apt to escape tho watchful king, especially what took place at the gate of the citadel of Zion. We can only conjecture as to the exact location oft-he two walls mention- ed. But, the garden was doubtless on the slope of the hill, and the way of the plain indicates that he hoped to reach the further bank of the Jordan. 2. The ninth day of the month- So the laying waste of the city took place exactly eighteen months, lacking one day, after the siege began. For an account of all that occurred during that time, refer- ence-must be made to various por- tions of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 2 Kings, and especially to Josephus, who had a similar experience in the siege under Titus 650 years later. 3. All the princes of the king--- Though there are apparently six of these named, in reality there were but, four. Rab-saris is the title: of S'arsechim, and means chief of the eunuchs. Rab-mag is also a, title for the name preceding it, and "signifies chief of the magi--the first mention in the Bible of the magi by this title. These generals had been condueting the siege. They entered through a breach in the walls, and sat down in state in the middle gate of the temple. Lesson IX.-Jiulah Carried Captive to Babylon, JOY. 39. Golden ' Text, Num. 32.23. Verse 1. The ninth year of Ze- dekiah--This verse emphatically marks the beginning of the siege. In another place Jeremiah names the exact day as “the tenth day of the month," while Ezekiel lays even more stress upon the time of the commencement of the siege (Ezek. 24. 2). Ity-as a date‘never to be forgotten among the'Jews. WEE WW SEEM LESSQH THE ONLY WAY TO PATIENCE is by self-restraint under irritation. If there is nothing to gnaw and Worry and heckIe us, then we never learn that beautiful art of Pati- ence. The only path to belief, that is, to the only kind of belief that is of any use to character, is through doubt. Faith is a pro- duct that is ground out of the mill of dismay, confusion, despair and struggle. Intellectual assent is cheap. The confidence that is a triumph of the soul over pessimism and fatuous reasonings is worth something. Knowing how is half the battle. Practice and study coun't. Skill and efficiency mean a long time getting ready. We are familiar enough with this truth in ordinary matters. We send boys to school and prentices to the shop, and would-be stenographers to night school. For we recognize that the untrained man these days has to get off the earth, there's no room for him. But we often, fail to carry this primitive L‘common sense over into the more serious concerns. We forget that one also has to learn-- how to live. One cannot go at it tooth and nail. It is not to, be stormed, forced, and stampeded. It takes science, training, and practice. C The learning how is hard, al- ways: but essential. The only things one can do without prac- tice are over-eating, over-drinking, laziness, bad temper, selfishness, and general meanness, also useless- ness. But the good things come hard. Take humility, wrest and noblost of virtues. In other words, pluck and force and will power are all right in their place, but they 319 far from being the only secret of success. They are downright silly without-pre- paration. One way to open a locked door work. It is to tired bones the bed is to fall at it and scratch, kick, tastes sweet. The soul can never and shove! A better way is to go enjoy letting go that has never get.the key. hung on. Real placidity is the In other words, pluck and force product of sfrenuosity. . ' The Only Road to Humility is by Being Eurniliated, Which Hurts _ BEAUTIFUL ART IF FATIENCE The only means toward rest is INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG UST 27. 14. (1edaliah--This governor be-, longed to a family friendly to Jere- miah (see Ahikam in Word Studies for Aug. 6, and Gemariah in Word Studies for Aug. 13). Gedaliah was grandson of Shaphan, the friend of Hilkiah the high priest, who may have been the father of the pro- phet. It is uncertain whether home means Jeremiah's own home, or Gedaliah's, or the king's palace, though probably the first-named. 13. Nebushazban, Rab-saris-The difference between this verse and verse three is a difference of time. This was a month later, on the ar- rival of Nebuzaradan. The "chief eunuch,” Cyl' commander of a divis, ion, at this time was Nebushazban. 16. The Ethiopian-The Jews came to be familiar with the peo- ple south of Egypt through their frequent intercourse with the Egyptians. It was an Oriental custom to have eunuchs attached to the court of the king, and these Degrees were especially valuable because of their strength and sta- tpre. For the story of Ebed-mel-. ech's rescue of the prophet, see Jer. 38. 7-13. 17. The men of whom thou art afraid-Not the princes at Judah, 12. Look well to him--Nehuchad, nezzar must have become acquaint- ed with the warnings and counsels of the prophet, by which he sought to bring his people to the point of voluntary submission to their ene- mies. Jeremiah was not compiled to proceed as far as Riblah, but was delivered from his chains at; Hannah, only four miles distant from Jerusalem. 10. Gave them vineyards and fields-Not outright of course. Pos- session might be resumed at any time. This is brought out in other accounts (for example, Jer. 52), where it is said they were assign- ed positions as vinsclressers and husbandmen. 9. .Nehuzavadan-He was chief executioner, attached to the kmg's bodyguard. From other accounts (Jer. 52 and 2 Kings 25) we learn that this ofhce1s was not present in person at the siege, but arrived some weeks afterward. With the residue of the people of any note or worth, he carried away to Baby- lon the deserters to the Chaldear, army; of whom there had been many. "r-a punishment is still, and always has been common in the East. The younger Cyrus inflicted it frequent- ly. Josephus called attention to the manner in which this event ful- filled two opparently opopsing pro- phecies: "Thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon" (Jer. 34. 3); "I will bring him to Babylon; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there" (Ezek. 12. 13). We have no information concerning the fulfillment of the rest of Jeremiah's prophecy (Jer. 34. 4-5). Sorrow, disappointment heart- break, bereavement, all such things are. the anterooms of great- ness. There is a state into which a man can grow where he resembles an ordinary man about as much as a fine thoroughbred horse resembles a cheap, brokendown hack, or as a, rose resembles a dusty weed. Nobleness of character, grandeur of soul, sweetness of spirit, no one can get these without being pre- pared. What a, deal of getting ready to live is needed! A man’never real- ly learns how to live till he's ready to die. And if with most of us, all of us, life is a mighty getting ready, then it is a getting ready for--- what? lt is this tremendous question that unlocks the door of death and gives us our surest hope of the life beyond. So also the preparation for knowledge is love. Truth is not a Jump of somthing a man may go and pick up. Truth is not any thing at all. It is relation, a qua- lity, a shine, an odor. It is not perceived by the intellect; it is perceived by the heart; the intel- lect merely criticises and classifies it. The secret of Edison's discov- eries, and of Koch's, and of Mar- ooni's, is love. Only love can see. It has the X-ray eye. And this is true in business, or science, or lit- erature, or art, quite as much as in religion. Brains can amass truths and pigenhole them and arrange them; only passion of some sort can find them out; WHERE THEY ARE HIDDEN. Some of us have the ignorant no- tion that we could be noble if we cared to make the effort. We are like the man who, when asked if he could play the violin, said he didn't know-he'd never tried. DR. FRANK CRANE Her Shoe Broken and Injured Bow and Stern. A despatch from Halifax says: Particulars of the damage to the Niche was obtained on Tuesday. Her metal shoe, seven tons in weight, is broken, her bow and stern are both injured, and her bilge damaged. It will take ten days to make repairs, which will permit, her to be floated again.,Tl}e Cornwall wirfthen go into the dock; Her repairs vi The repairs to meted to take The damage is pated. Price of Beef Soars in the New York Markets. A despatch from New York says: The wholesale price of beef soared to It new high level in New York on Tuesday. As announced at various local wholesale centres, the price of ribs and loins in the best grade of beef is now sixteen and a half cents a pound, as compared with twelve cents at the first of the year. It is an advance of one and a half cents since last week. Best rounds of beef are advanced to eleven and a half cents as compared with nine cents at the first of the year, and a proportionate increase is made in second and third grade beef. The advanced prices are at,- tributed to scarcity of good cattle in the west, and the fact that more stringent cold storage laws are go- ing into effect in the State. NIOBE SEREOUSLI DAMAGED. Wilda] Statement Gives 632 Deaths in Five Days. A despatch from Chiasso, Swit- zerland, says: The Italian Govern- ment's official statement shows that from Aug. 8 to Aug. 12, inclusive, there were totals of 1,736 cases and 632 deaths from cholera in Italy. These were chiefly in the Provinces of Naples and Palermo, though there were 40 cases with 30 deaths in Rome; 11 cases and four deaths in the Province of Rome; 15 cases and two deaths in the Province of Venice. A despatch from St. Catharines says: The shortest potato crop on record is the news that the farm- ers on the market here Saturday gave out. To show the shortage in potatoes here already, many car- loads are being shipped in here from the United States, noewith, standing the duty of ten cents a bushel. A prominent fruit grower says that the peach and graps crop, especially in the St. Catharines district, will be very good. Parrot Saved Lives of 20 Persons in Burning House. A despatch from New York says: A talented green parrot gave an alarm of fire in a, ben-storey Madi- son Avenue apartment house early on Monday, and saved the lives of 20 persons who would otherwise have been suffocated by the dense smoke which filled the upper floors of the building. The parrot, owned by Henry W. Dearborn, noticed the smoke shortly after midnight, and roused its master by calling repeatedly, "Come on, Harry, come on! Come on E” The fire was in the apartment just above. Mr. Dearborn wakened his family and ran with the parrob's cage under his arm to the street, where be found a policeman. The blueeoat manned the elevator and rushed through the upper floors of the building, rousing all the occupants. Farmers in St. Catharines District Look for a Low Showing. Hero Sinks the Chieftain in St. Lawrence River. A despatch from Quebec says: Four people met death shortly after 1 o'clock on Sundap’ morning in the St. Lawrence River, when a collision took place between the steamer Hero and the tug Chief- tain. The Hero was bound down, and the Chieftain, which had brought down a raft to Quebec, was on its way up. As a result of the collision the Chieftain was sunk. When the crash came most of the people on board the Chieftain were rescued, but Mrs. Haggerty, the cook, and her daughter, a man named Menard, wro had been capâ€" tain of the raft, and a Swede named Alwar Thomas of the crew were lost. Mrs. Haggerty and her daughter are supposed to have been killed in their berths, hut the others were drowned. The acci- dent took place between St. Anto- ine' and ‘St. Croix, Lothbiniere county. 18. Thy life shall be for a prey unto thee-Not a secure possession, but something caught up in haste and carried away precariously. as the next verse makes clear, but the conquerors of the city. AT A NEW IliGH LEVEL. J POOR POTATO CROP. "CONE CHOLERA IN ITALY. FOUR LIVES LO ST. will take two ON, HARRY." E tike tam mnrrhs. the Niobe are ex- about six months. worse than antaci- ' Hon.“ G. P. fyyfit announced at Brookville that,an Agreement had been reached with {he Grand Trunk to reinstate all the strikers recommended for Such action by Judge Barron. , The Scotland Yard sleuth who supplied this information wbuld have it known far and wide that the shortest cut to peace of mind is for the blackmailed instantly to in- form the police when the first de- mand is made for money, and let the sceundrels know that they have done so. In nine cases out of ten this course will effectually free them from persecution, for the blackmailers fear the police court even more than their vie- tims do. Although the Comte is known as the King of Blackmailers, there are two others, a man and a woman who work together, known to the London police, whose. criminal ye- cord is almost as shocking. In this case the woman, a, very at- tractive brunette, acts as the bait. The victims are rich men, prefer- ably married men. A young poli- tician in a prominent position was the first victim, who only eseaped from their clutches at the cost of forty thousand dollars. Their next victim was a, young army officer, who, rather than con- fess his folly to his widowed mo- ther and get the money from her for the exorbitant demands of these blackmailers, blew out, his brains. Women of wealth and position are the Comte's chief prey, pre- ferablrmarried women. He stays at the best hotels, is always seen at the great race meetings, and Iwas recently at Cowes regatta, for he is an enthusiastic amateur yac htom a n. There is one notable gang of blackmailers in London, which owes its success to the fact that it has as its chief an ex-Seotland Yard man, a sauv-e, polished man of the world, who knows how to keep on the safe side of the letter of the law. He is known as the Comte, and has been blackmailing people for nearly thirty years. Two elderly blackmailers have just been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for squeezing large sums of money out of Colonel Bain, an ex-M. P., over many years, by the simple means of threatening to expose an early in- discretion. At last the perseeut- ed man turned at bay, made his rwife his confidante, and called in the police. 7 A joint committee of five, mem- bers composed of two represents tives of the railway companies, two of the men, and a non-partisan Chairman, will be appointed on Tuesday to investigate the work- ings of the conciliation act of 1907, which the men claim is the root of all their grievances. This de- vice overcomes the men's objec- tions to a RoyalCornrnission, which they contend, always has been in practice a synonym for delay. Blackmailing is Profitable in Mod- ern English Society. Every few days the veil is lifted on a lurid under side of English life where refinements of cruelty which the police cannot; remedy vare perpetrated by human vam- pires, Most of the credit for the settle- mend appears to rest; upon the shoulders of Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who in his statements to Parliament; and in interviews with managers and men, worked for conciliation when all others of the interested parties seemed to have given it up. So far as technical advantage in the compromise goes it appears to be in the men's favor, particular- ly as the managers consent to meet their representatives. The official A despatch from London says: A great wave of relief swept over the country on Saturday night, when shortly after 11 oklock the announcement was made from the, Board of Trade offices phat the railroad strike had been settled, and that the men would return LO work immediately. Telegrams were quickly despatched to all import- ant railway towns bearing the in- formation arrd crossed in transit messages to London describing strike riots in Llanelly and smaller towns in the United Kingdom. SENSE STEM SETTLEB Credit for the End of the Trouble Largely Goes to Ll0ird-(?reorge, A PAYING CRIME. Stork Yards at North Portal cone), g. _ ' I ' d gested ll ith Settlelsjélgw. A despatch fromorth Portal, Sask, says: The stockyards for the last week, and at preseht, have am appearance of the rush oi,; spring. There are prairie sehootiP' ers, covered wagons and vehicles of various types to be seen around all en route for the Canadian Norm? west, and Tuesday night for the first time since spring, every van is filled, as well as the corral; T This i, owing to the almost total failure of crops in Dakota. Nan Sprung From the Inter-Pl. xrineial Bridge at Ottawa. A despatch from Ottawa says: An unknown man plunged to his death from the Interprovincial bridge here about nine o'clock on Sunday night. The unknown walked over from the direction of Hull, and when about 100 yards from the Ottawa end suddenly mounted over. The prophecies sublimely fair T Ho is at length fulfilling: t In answer to unceasing prayer Earth's tempests He 1: stilling. Since His great banner now un, furled Leads on the grand endeavour, Soon will the kingdoms of this world " Be His alone forever. The hearts that were against Him sealed Are for His presence yearning; The risen Saviour stands revea And men to Him are turning And He who all the host commands Controls the earth's commotion: He holds creation in His hands And rules the air and ocean. Young men who love the Saviouv's name , Themselves to Him are yielding; hnd maidens His great promise claim Who is the sceptre wielding. And rich in His uncounted Wualth, His praises they are voicing: & They bring to Him their youth and' health : Long seemed the dark and starless night _ When timid ones were fearing, But now the gleam of morning light Is everywhere appearing. His servants who have steadfast been . In their unchanged decisions, _ Are viewing now with interest keen The grand success of missions. Courageous souls this day can see N0 cause to fear disaster; For grandest days are, yet; to be In service for our Master. The victories that have been won Have made a grand beginning;' And He who is our Shield and Sun Still larger ones is winning. There is no doubt that Satur- day's aifray at Llanll-ey, Wales, where troops fired on a mob, killing two men and wounding two others, had much influence in ending the strike. The Liberal Government had almost its existence at stake because of the strlke, as it depends upon the working classes for its power. The shooting of citizens by soldiers occurs less often in the United Kingdom than in any other European country, and is partiem- larly repugnant to all classes. The settlement was reached at a. conference between Mr. Lloyd- George, the Chancellor of the- Exchequer, and the Executives of the men's societies. A; "The joint committee has settled the strike. It is a victory for trades unionism. All men must return to work immediately." . As a result of the settlement, the soldiers, who had been scattered at strategic railroad points about the country, will be withdrawn S fast as arrangements for transpcé ing them can be made. statement concerning the agrees ment says the managers consented to this scheme in view of certain representations made them by the Government, including a promise of legislation to permit of an inc C'l't?CtyH? in railway rates. The men claim a victory for trade unionism on the point of recognition of un- ions, which was one of the most vital principles at stake. _ _ _,' Messages- were sent to 1,800 branches of_ the labor unions, say; nfl T. WATSON. Iona Station, Ont., 1911. In Him they are rejoicing. AN UNKNOWN SUECIDES. T HE THE TRIU MPHANT Aunt RL'SII TO CANA DA. the railing and sprang Acts 2: 17-2i.