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away, not considering that they | higk. Its solid thickness was about are thus guilty of theft. seven feet, but on its inner side the "I find," writes a householder to| earth was banked up against it to a Lorndon newspaper, "that my| within about twelve feet from the dripping always disappears from |top, and the portion rising above the pantry, and although seven|the esplanade thus formed was bundles <f wood are sold for three| strengthened _ by â€" casements of pence only six are left in my cupâ€"| masonry, with loopholes for archery board ‘piereed in the thickness of the ‘‘In the mattar of fand tha «ar.|frontal wall. The whole was butâ€" "I gave a dinner party," writes| "A. B.," ‘"and there were seven| people at the table. Although my | daily girl had had plenty of food, | the next day I found that as much turkey had been taken as had been taten at the dinner. 1. ol "A servant I had recently," said a business woman, ‘"often would come to me before she prepared breakfast to say there was no butâ€" ter in the pantr Un these occaâ€" sions I had been out all the previâ€" ous evening. I have at times found little parcels of sugar and tea tied up on the kitchen dresser ready for her to take away when her time Came to go home. ‘"‘Many maids do not look upon the taking of handkerchiefs and stockings as theft. There are plenâ€" ty of servants who do this who would never dream of touching thei» employers‘ money.‘"‘ vants ° in Eng work out durin at bomeâ€"as th Most persons go home to slee ty thefts, chiel food, which t away, not col are thus guilty board ‘In the matter of food the serâ€" vant usually takes home just what one counts upon for the next day‘s use. For instance, if there are six mince pies, which are sufficient to put upon the table, three of them are taken. I am quite sure that the servants do not think they are doing anything wrong." "I gave a dinner party," writes As for geographical scholarship, it is quite out of the question for the ordinary mortal. Maps are indisâ€" pensable. _ Even the youngsters who mastered the map of Europe last year will have to be put through their paces anew when the Balkan problem is solved. No wonder geoâ€" graphy is the bete noir of the youngsters. It has terrors for the adult mind such as few other seiâ€" ences re NA V THEFTS COMMOXN BY "HELP." Willieâ€"Paw Government ‘ party in . yC sense, my son At the risk of seeming pedantic, we venture to remind those who have forgotten it that the Latin word for map is mappa, meaning napkin. Considering the frequency with which our maps have to be overhauled to keep pace with the boundary lines changed by war, it might be a matter of economy to have them made of cloth, so that we could sénd them to the laundry with our table napkins. Thus we should be sure of owning reasonâ€" wbly dependable charts. ME NOTES ANDCOMMENT s When Medicise Hat, which hugs the boreal pole, gives over making tne weather and takes to phraseâ€" making, we have a breezy style. The northern clime makes for vigor and directness, for the trumpet blast with which the Medicine Hat Call welcomed the new year to that metropolis of the winds : Hat Week by week and month by month new records have been esâ€" tablished with a regularity which would be monotonous were it not so remarkable, and toâ€"day Medicine Hat is advancing towards a position «# proud preâ€"eminence among the cities of the plain. In the percentâ€" age rate of increase, in volume of business, in building and idustrial importance, no other city can show a like record. The city has found herself, has realized the meaning and the magic of the word "Opâ€" portunity,"‘ and the significance of the development of the past and of the present, for down the avenue of the future Medicine Hat must march to a still greater and more glorious future. Risking an antiâ€"climax. the ediâ€"}walls which for a thousand years tor then goes on to say that a cenâ€" 1}'01‘1 every adversary at bay were asus taken the month previous gave allowed to decay, and now are in Medicine Hat 11,000 citizens. But, lru]l:ssao Constantine the CireSt 6sâ€" he adds: "This month there has|tablished and renamed the city of been a substantial increase of poâ€"| Byzas as the new capital of the Roâ€" pulation, and it is probable that}gfinte"ipi"”‘- 'tT'h“ P(’(P“:":e“‘;"”(]’: there are toâ€"day in the pexghbor-‘b‘?::d:nt;:: 1:Lh’adw?:id"30gwn. Van(i hood of 12,000 persons within the in 413 Anthemius, the city prefect, city‘s borders." Race suicide is‘ statesman financier administrator eity‘s borders." hWace suicide 18 unknown there, and immigration is welcomed. _ We bow to Medicine atch that morrO w th ome to sleep thefts, chiefly 1, which the y, not cons thus guilty c I find," write re are so many aries, the best of in parts like a nV day ribb ked ; always dis try, and al «£1 wood are nly six are le he matter of wally takes h« sess raphy ind up« rerge goroflfe..cccee ie Ito the Xvloâ€"Ports on the Golaan P Kees+~ w. what is a >stable| Horn This wall, though never apâ€"| ‘‘Money, voenmn. know, is man‘s Â¥ Pawâ€"When â€" the|parently covered by anv «d <â€">. is worst snemy."" ‘"I suppose that‘s power displays horse in itself immensely strong, a>< ~ : come folks like it for the eneâ€" frs: ‘blcked up as it is by a hill, was mies it has made." MJ ns ing t their D And entory ngla A) th w ve be day of map a badiv d In<t ant and rqu d sleep n t oug U Nuy n k D 10 18 d It n | The inner ard higher esplanade | was known as the Peribolos, or inâ€" jelosure ; it averaged about 60 feet | in width. On its inner side was the \first or great wall, a huge barrier | fising 45 feet from the level of the | esplanade and to considerably more on each flank of the towers, where it was carrtied up to protect the stairways which gave access to their tops. This wall ‘}nd a solid thickâ€" !ness of fifteen feet, increased in ‘many places to over twenty feet by \the staireases which led up to the platforms. # !Lrunt of ihe city. but ended at the <hill of Blachernae, a quarter of a ‘mile from the Golden Horn. In |front of this hill, which formed a | vast natural platform and embankâ€" \ment to it, a single wall axtended This outward espl ly known as the 1 about 40 feet wide. ner side stood the fearfully shattered â€" cannonade in â€"145; largely heaps of ru originally about 25 which spannea i broken down in tin great civil gates clo and only the na gates which have : planade â€" behind were used. which frontal wall. The whole was butâ€" tressed by some 100 towers ranging from 30 feet to 35 feet in height from the Parateichon, and usually about sixteen or eighteen feet in diameter. of _ restoration ; _ 16,000 _ citizens served as laborers; in 60 days the fallen wall had risen anew, and a second line of defense had been constructed in advance of it. It was, indeed, a wonderful achieveâ€" ment. On the gate called anciently of Rhegium we may read to this day the simple, proud inscription. which proclaims it to the world. ‘"In 60 days, by command of the sceptered emperor, Konstantinos the Eparch, added wall to wall.‘"‘ In the succeeding years the work was completed ; the gigantic moat, with its solid embattled scarp, its counterscarp and dams, was excaâ€" vated. The seawalls were conâ€" structed, and when Avar and Perâ€" sian and Saracen began to beat at its gates the citadel of the Roman aCr | _ In 330 Constantine the Great esâ€" |\tablished and renamed the city of | Byzas as the new capital of the Roâ€" man empire. _ The population of \Constantine‘s city soon outgrew. the bounds that he had laid down, and in 413 Anthemius, the city prefect, statesman, financier, administrator and military reformer, raised the first â€" great Theodosian _ rampart more than a mile in advance of that of Constantine. In 447, in the stress of the disasâ€" trous war with Attila, an earthâ€" quake fell on Constantine City, overthrew the wall and shattered 357 of the towers. The Danger was Imminent. The Huns were in Thrace. The Illyrian provinces had been wasted from sea to sea. Three Roman armies had perished in the attempt to hold back the raging torrent of Mongo!l savagery, and Attila, the scourge of God, the Dread of the World, was advancing against the city. Hope there seemed none, but Constantinople rose grandly to the occasion. Every craftsman in the city was set to work on the task There Woere 95 Flanking Towers about 60 feet high, projecting from eighteen to 30 feet into the Periâ€" bolos, chiefly of square or octagonal shape. This vast bulwark of wall and moat did not quite cover the land On May 20, 1453, the Turkish hordes, under Mohammed II., the conqueror, stormed the great city which has since then been their eapital, as for a thousand years and more before it was the capital of the Roman empire. In those days, says the London Mail, it was a vast fortified camp, the strongest fortress in the world, as it was the greatest city, impregnable so long as it was adequately garrisoned. That was not the case in 1453 ; 9,000 men could not maintain nearly fourteen miles of walls against the attack of 150,000, supported by such an artillery train as had never previously been gathered together. Since 1453 the city has never been actually â€" besieged, though more than once threatened. The mighty walls which for a thousand years CREAT WALLS Of TurKs City YVast Bulwark in the Past Halted Many a Victorious Army. CONsSTANTINOPLE KEPT SAFE FOR EIGHT CENTURIES. 1Y ad probal ith. on the The th, from be 1 slingers « the <litch. was W Solid Ston nea the later were in times of siege, the tes closed or walled up he narrower military have access to the esâ€" hindl the breastwork y twent farther s n M meé t lanade, ancientâ€" Parateichon, is % Along its inâ€" second â€" wall, by the Turkish 3, and toâ€"day iins. â€" It stood feet to 30 feet kness was about n Brid fire directl 0 feet wide feet deep, l a masonry sevel arch ‘nse wide wa The opening statement of W. H. Upjohn, K.C., took four days and he called 24 witnesses. Most of their testimony, of course, was techâ€" nical, but some of it was exceedingâ€" ly funny. Among other things, it was affirmed that there is no mud in the world to compare with Singapore mud, which is slithery, oily, watery and impossible to handle. W. H. Upjohn, K.C., leader for Messrs. Aird, received $12,500 on being bricfed, and the leader on the other side, $10,000, each getting a refresher of $500 per day of the trial. In the fees paid, the mass of documents and the time occuâ€" pied, this case beats the previous recordâ€"holder, the famous Wyler v. Lewis action in the King‘s bench division, which lasted 35 days and was known as the everlasting case. thai s ~ â€"% neen a subnject of controversy as to whether Scotland or Ireland originated the bagpipes. This legal battle, in which no less than five K. C.‘s, the king pins of the English lawâ€"world, and a whole galaxy of juniors were engaged, arose out of a $5,000,000 contract made by John Aird & Co., the famâ€" ous English engineering firm, for present? through sunk. Hemmandham â€" Yes; _ Scotland blames Ireland, and Ireland blames Seotland. ’ Thus during the eight centuries | of its pride was the city of Constanâ€" ‘tine guarded from attack. Before [ that vast bulwark in their myriads ’lie the bodies of Huns, Slavs and |\ Avars, of Saracens and Bulgarians, ‘of Magyars and of Turks, of those , who came and fought and perished ‘in the vain endeavor to beat down | the desperate resistance of the rear [guard of Christianity standing at |bay against unremitting onslaught through the long ages. English Court Triat Cost at the Rate of $45 a Minute. Fortyâ€"five dollars per minute was the cost of an extraordinary trial which has just come to an end in the British chancery court and has proved the most expensive on reâ€" cord in that country. it lasted 42 days, and the documents on each side weighed half a ton. arose out of a $9,000,000 contract made by John Aird & Co., the famâ€" ous English engineering firm, for the building of a dock at Singapore for the Tandjang Pagar Dock Board, Aird Company claiming $2,â€" 500,000 damages for alleged misreâ€" presentations regarding the strata through which trenches had to be ‘"‘Don‘t you think that we should have a more elastic currency ?"‘ asked the Old Fogy. "It is elastic enough,"‘ replied the (Girouch. ‘"Why don‘t they make it more â€"adbhesive." has, on high ceremonious occasions, to appear clad in dazzingly gorgeâ€" ous apparel; but nothing delights him better than to be able to flout convention, and to show the most comfortable contempt for ostentaâ€" tion. As Earl Marshal and Chief Butâ€" ler of England the Duke of Norfolk is head of the College of Arms, and judged by, the Turks in 1456 too strong to be attacked. Successive emperors gave their attention to the fortification of this quarter, and in some places the rampart is nearâ€" ly 70 feet high and 33 to 60 feet thick. England‘s premier duke and earl is personally the most modest, not to say undistinguishedâ€"looking man imaginable. Born a couple of days after Christmas in the year 1847, he would pass easily for one just turned fifty. T Worth Fighting For. Memmandhamâ€"1 learned toâ€"day at _ z been a subject of BEATS THE RECORD. THE PREMIER DUKCE. Duke of Norfolk. Sure. The first newspaper in the world was probably the Roman ‘"Acta Diurnae,‘"‘ which, it is said, was published in 691 B.C. Later, there came the "Acta Senatus," containâ€" ing an account of the various matâ€" ters brought before the Senate, the opinions of the chief speakers, and the decisions of the House, which was published regularly every day by command of Julius Caesar. This formed the earliest approach to the modern journal. The first London newspaper was issued in the time of the Stuarts. This was the ‘‘Weekly News," and the date of its birth about 1622. The ‘"Post Boy"‘ was the first daily, and it began some seventy years later. London used to possess the cheapâ€" est journal ever published. It was called the "Sixâ€"aâ€"Penny,"‘ and subâ€" scribers of one penny per wéeek had the paper delivered to them every day, while single copies were sold at one farthing. Nowadays, Gerâ€" many‘s list of newspapers is the largest in Europe. "‘History of Birmingham‘‘ Hutton refers to a milkman in humble cirâ€" cumstances whose ancestry include Lady Godiva of Coventry fame, and descendants of men who made Engâ€" land‘s history are to be found at the present day in almshouses and poor law institutions All Over the Country. One of the most striking examâ€" ples of the vicissitudes of fortune is that of a member of the Braceâ€" bridge Â¥amily, who owned immense estates in Warwickshire in the days of the Stuart. He was a peddler in the district over which his ancesâ€" tors were lords of the manor. Hugh Miller tells an amusing story in one of his works of a laborer who used to serve him when he was a working mason. â€" This man claimed to be entitled to an earldom. His elaim was admitted by the men with whom he worked, at any rate, and it was a usual thing with them, on requirâ€" ing service, to shout, ‘"John, Year) Crauford, bring us another hod of lime !"‘ A lot of people waste their valuâ€" able time in trying to get rid of the reolacse thiges itan A We have a record of a Plantageâ€" net descending from a long line of kings to carn a living as a cobbler in Shropshire, and a very poor livâ€" ing at that, and a natural son of Richard I1II., after the Battle of Bosworth, worked as a bricklayer in a little village of Kent, and died there in a miserable state of poverâ€" ty at the age of eightyâ€"one. In his An Inberitance of £300,0006 in something less than twelve years. Another, who had earned not only wealth, but name and fame, by his briliant literary abilities. threw all away and drank himself on the Embankment, and over it into the river. Representatives of great families are often found in humble posiâ€" tions. A direct descendant of John of Gaunt is an engine driver in Cinada, and a grandson several times of Edward I. was once a butâ€" cher in Birmingham. Another man claiming Royal descent was a tollâ€" gate keeper near Dudley, and the greatâ€"grandson of Cromwell kept a grocer‘s shop on Snow Hill, near Holborn. The story of these fallen favorites of fortune is writ large in workâ€" house records, and this last reâ€" source od the destitute has sheltered men and women who have had in their possession fortunes of hunâ€" dreds of thousands of pounds. Another case well within the reâ€" collection of newspaper readers is that of a Midland merchant who at one time possessed an enormous fortune. _A bank failure or some big commercial catastrophe swept it all away in an hour. and pfter long years of privation and strugâ€" gling he was forced to apply for adâ€" mittance to the workhouse of the very town he had once been Mayor of, and on which he had conferred lasting benefits. A man charged with begging in a London suburb and sent to jail for a month for vagrancy was found to have run through Not long since there died in a miserabie garret in Paris an old woman who for years had lived in dire penury. Nearly fifty years ago she was a beautiful and talented soprano, with a huge fortune of her own making and a voice that could coin gold as easily as the blackbird can make notes. She sang in every capital in Europe, and so much of a popular ido!l was she that she is said to have netted over £30,000 in one brief London season. Then, she suddenly "dropped out‘""â€"why, No One Ever Really Knew. For thirty years no one, save posâ€" sibly her relatives and personal friends, knew what had become of her until news of her death in such painful cireumstances recalled her i{lmost forgotten name to the pubâ€" ic. We hear a great deal of men who have made fortunes and "got on," but the story of those who have lost them is generally told in a few lines in the newspapers, if told at all, and apropos of a bankruptcy, a suicide or a poorâ€"law guardians‘ meeting, says London Titâ€"Bits. It is an easy matter to lose a fortune if you have a fortune to lose,; but the story and example may be just as dramatic and striking, and as useful as an obâ€" ject lesson, as the making of one. BIG FORTUNES DISSIPATED PEOPLE WHO HAYVE "COME DoOWwX‘" IN THE WORLD. There Are Many Striking Examâ€" ples of the Vicissitudes of Fortune. _ > All About Newspapers. s thoy don‘t want everal a butâ€" r man a~ t~ll. 12. A fugitive and a wanderer â€" The word translated "fugitive" means literally a man of unsteady or uncertain gait, a totterer, like one not knowing where to go, or fainting for lack of food, or under the influence of drink. 13. Cain said unto Jehovahâ€"The severity of the curse alarmed him, though there is no intimation of penitence unless it be intended in the Hebrew word translated punâ€" ishment, which means also iniquity, as the marginal reading in the Reâ€" vised Version indicates. _ In harâ€" mony with this thought of a confesâ€" sion of guilt we would have to transâ€" late the phrase greater than I can bear to read greater than can be forgiven, which is permissible (comâ€" pare marginal reading). . 14. Whosoever findeth me will slay meâ€"The conscience of the guilâ€" ty man is at least sufficiently aroused to impress him witch the justice of the punishment and reâ€" veal to him his precarious position as a culprit from justice. 15. Vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfoldâ€"That is, seven of the murderer‘s family shall be slain to avenge the dezt)x of Cain. The venâ€" eance, according to ancjent gons, would be executed by ret tives of the murdered man. Lifted upâ€"Bright and open, the opposite of downcast and sullen. Sin coucheth at the door â€" The figure is that of an enemy, like a wild animal, lying in wait near the habitual haunts of man, ready to spring at the first opportunity. 8. Cain told Abelâ€"Heb., said unâ€" to, that is, conversed with, _ The grave warning of Jehovah proved futile, and in spite of it Cain yields to the promptings of his sullen and envious thoughts; he invites his brother to walk with him to a soliâ€" tary place in the field and there attacks and slays him. 9. Where is Abel, thy brother !â€"â€" Again Jehovah attempts to rouse the conscience and bring Cain, now become a murderer, to a recogniâ€" tion and confession of his guilt. But a warning query no longer sufâ€" fices to awaken the heart already hardened in sin. 11. Cursed art thou from the groundâ€"From in the sense of away from. Apparently _ the _ word "ground‘"‘ here refers to the cultiâ€" vated soil more particularly. in contrast to the face of the earth in general. In wild and unknown regions, far from the seene of his present prosperity, Cain is to beâ€" come an outcast wanderer. _ The succeeding verses give in detail the results of the curse. A sign for Cainâ€"Clearly a sign for his protection and apparently attached directly to his person. Just what this sign was, however, is not stated, and it is wholly useâ€" less for us to speculate concerning the matter. Heâ€"â€"What are you going to give Kitty and Jack for a wedding preâ€" sent 5. Unto Cain and to his offering he had not respectâ€"The reader is left to infer the reason for God‘s displeasure from the sequence of the narrative. From this it is plain that it must have been the spirit and motive behind the act rather than the act itself which determinâ€" ed its value in the sight of Jehovah. Wrothâ€"Angry. His countenance fellâ€"He became downcast and sullen. 6. Why art thou wroth!â€"As in the case of Adam and Eve, Jehovah seeks by means of a direct question to rouse the conscience of the guilâ€" ty man, and to elicit from him a confession of his guilt. But while Adam and Eve sought only to exâ€" cuse themselves, Cain does not hesiâ€" tate to tell a deliberate falsehood, even dlefiantly denying his obligaâ€" tion toward his brother. Sheâ€"Oh, I guess I‘ll send Kitty the bunch of letters Jack wrote me when we were engaged. 7. If thou doest wellâ€"Wel!l in the sight of God. _ _ j If a man boasts of his past after reforming, it‘s a sign he didn‘t get tho richt brand. An offering unto Jehovah â€" The author assumes the existence of alâ€" tars and an established custom of sacrifice. It is quite in accordance with the simplicity of this early narrative that it should explain the origin of some institutions while taking for granted the existence of others. We should note also that the author is careful to point out that it is Jehovah the God of Israel whom the first family of men worâ€" shiped. J 4. The firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereofâ€"Later Jewish law required that the choicest animals and the choicest parts of the aniâ€" mals be reserved for sacrifice. Comâ€" pare Num. 18. 17. A keeper of the sheep . . . a tiller of the groundâ€"The origin of two primitive occupations of mankind is thus accounted for. In the deâ€" velopment of Hebrew national life the nomadic or pastoral stage preâ€" ceded the agricultural. Verse I. I have gottenâ€"The Heâ€" brew word for "to get‘‘ is kanah, which thus resembles the Hebrew of Kayin (Cain). The choice of the name is explained on the basis of this resemblance in sound, which must be carefully distinguished from relationship on the basis of a comâ€" mon derivation. 3. In process of timeâ€"When both sons were grown to manhood. _ Lesson IVÂ¥.â€"Cain and Abel, Gen. 4. 1â€"15. Golden text, 1 John 3. 15. 2. Abelâ€"Heb., Hebel, meaning ‘"a breath." THE SUNDAY SCRO9; STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JANUARY 26. A Present. TORONTO to a recogniâ€" of his guilt. no longer sufâ€" heart already HIVES i The Favorite of a Kingâ€"â€"An Unusual Event | â€"An Alderman‘s Opportunityâ€"Local i Optionâ€"A Bright Nowsboy. | The visit of Gaby Deslys presented a curious study in pyechojogy. in ability | and appearance tins famous young woâ€" man has little to distinguish her from ‘lhouhunds of other actresses. She is neiâ€" | ther a great singer nor a great dancer and her beauty is of the not unfamiliar doll type. But the fact that, according | to z& report, she was once the favorite of a King is her great asset. The theatre ,was .crowded at every performance, and hours before the doors opened each afterâ€" noon and evening a string of men exâ€" tending several blocks lined up at the | gallery entrance ready for the rush seats. The unueual curiosity to see the former ‘bourzmis girl who has taken the name of Gabrielle of the Lilies, must be put ‘ down to a species of abnormal flunkyiem }which is curious about everything perâ€" ‘taining to a King. There may be some )salish(-tilm in knowing that Toronto is | by no means alone in this weaknese. Al | though it is reported that Gaby was | something of a frost in Montreal, her | success in praciically all American cities { has been phenomenal. Even in England | she had a marvellous run and some of the lnrticles about her appearing even in |etaid papers and magaxines were of the imost gushing tysnle. shrouding her with a | complexity of character and wonderfal | mentality which if applied to a Cleopatra | would have been high praise. As a matâ€" lter of fact, she is an ordinary woman, | of rot uncommon type, who travels with her husband, who is also her danciang partner. But she has a press agent who is making her fortune. Mr. O‘Neili‘s Success. _ The surprise of the Municipal election | in Toronto _ was the _ phenomenal vote |pollcd by John O‘°Neill in the race for |the Board of Control Mr. O‘Neill is a | Liberal Roman Catholis who in Orange ’Tory Toronto polled the second highest vote of the cleven candidates. Thfl is [ just one of those unusual events which | sometimes vary the monotony of voting in this eomewhat unusual city. Mr. O‘Neill is a man of no little perâ€" sonal strongth. He has a human, aifee tionate element in his make up which makes friends easily and llol(?s them fast. Me is also a man of wealth, being largely interested in real estate and in several hotel properiies, one of which, the St. Charles, is a wellâ€"known downâ€"town | property controlled by his brother. Some criticiem has been offered against Mr. O‘Neill‘s campaign on the ground that he spent too much money. ‘There is no euggestion that any of this money was spent for corrupt purposes, but he used printing and advertising very ex tensively as well as other means of proâ€" moting his campaign. One roport states that his election cor: | rot lecs than $5,000. His ealary as Controller will be $2,500. The argument is that such a scale of expenditure makes it lmggaaible for a poor man to run for the ard of Conâ€" trol, or if he does run, that he will be tempted to get his necessary expenses by graft or other improper means at the ultimate expense of the city. It is likely that the movement to require the publicaâ€" tion of all election expenses and Perha 8 to limit them will assume cons demb'{o proportions. At 'tho Council Boqu taooul nrt“\v mknny A u’lnt T. rle ickoit, ? "‘fifn gm candidate \v{n headed the po lq’ hie ward. Dr. Wickett now has an excellent chanee to put his theorics of Municipal Government into uractics, His friends r»v he will make «ood. T he does. he will have lit‘le troutle in beâ€" ing elected to the Board of Control in the near future and possible also to the Mayor‘s chair, especially as during the last year or two the calibre of Conserâ€" vatives offering for the highest positions in the city has not been, in some instancâ€" es, nearly up to the standard of the party in Toronto. For this reason the path of Dr. Wickett, who is a prominent Couserâ€" vative, ought to be easier than it otherâ€" wise would be. Mr. O‘Neill is sonal strength. tionate element makes friends nR CC PCTOOT mel p fed.. To the Temperan that thevy held practics] cipalities where renes} attempted is nroof t+>~ the provinee has â€"»~: againgt the carss a though inspired by patriotism, he championed the movement to exâ€" terminate the sect of Jesus. _ In pursuance of that policy he grew inhuman, _ played _ the _ tyrant, turned spy and bloodhound _ and inquisitor and assassin; employed all the means which a cruel and faâ€" natic ingenuity could invent upon men and women whose only offence was loyalty to conviction. He was sincere, conscientious to excess. "‘I verily thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth." _ Later, however, it was sackeloth and ashâ€" es, remorse and penance. And the memory of his blunder and its conâ€" sequences to those whom he outâ€" raged, humbled and grieved him to the end of his days. TORONTO CORRESP3NDERCE Municipal â€" elections â€" throughout the Province have now come to be overshaâ€" dowed, as far as interest in Toronto is concerned, by the local option campaign. With the results this year both temper. ance and liouor men profess to be eatis. fled.. To the Temperance forces the fact that they held practicaliy all of the muntâ€" cinlllti‘e.l‘ where reneais of t*o sot were Antbsutmead wo ce those mumicipaiitics hate boon ~*a + INTERESTINC BITS OF COSSIP FROM THE QUEEN CiTY. Every peried has its own peculiâ€" ar standard of morals, its own peâ€" culiar codes of behavior; and each of these in turn gets out of date and is presently .succeeded by a higher. There was a time when the ten commandments answered the purpose. They were considerably in advance of the habits and above the ideas of the people. _ When Jesus came the Jews were prepared for a new law and a nobler ideal ; and the master supplemented the decalogue of Sinai with the sermon of the mount. The difference beâ€" tween the decalogue and the serâ€" mon measures the strides made by conscience between _ Moses and Christ. Ignorance and arrogance are near neighbors. Wisdom and meekness develop together. _ The older one grows, provided that intelligence keeps pace with time, the less infalâ€" lible he comes to think himself; the less disposed to dogmatize on many subjects; the more inclined to tolerance and charity toward the opinions of other men. ‘ Like the eye and the ear the conâ€" science is at first but a capacity. It develops hand in hand with the unâ€" derstanding and requires constant care and culture. It may be stuntâ€" ed by negligence ; it may be almost destroyed by abuse. Given due atâ€" tention and proper discipline it beâ€" comes more and more competent and reliable, both as monitor and as judge. Intellectually Saul of Tarsus has had few peers. And yet, notwithâ€" standing his extraordinary brain, he became the victim of mistaken conscience. MISTAKES OF CONSCIENCE Cffects of Falsehoods and Follies are Evident in the Sentiments and Tendencies of the Times Bincerity is not everything. It Ald. Wickett‘s Opportunity. Interest in Local Option Blinded by Prejudice, string of men exâ€" ks lined up at the y for the rush seats. y to see the former 1as taken the name Lilies, must be put abnormal flunkyiem Ait@u hel “"; “"j P-W(:‘?ln-‘:-htg! I At the Reformation the chief of an abbey in the West of England | resolved to surrender, and in token ithereof to send the deceds of the religious house to Henry VIII at 'wmteha,u. For security‘s sake the abbot placed the documents in al pie | dish and covered them with crust. The dish, without saying a word about the contents, he gave to a ;lqut, Jack Horner, with instrucâ€" trons to carry it by road to the Nursery Legend About the Pie Conâ€" ceals a Real Tragedy. Few people know that the nursâ€" ery legend of "Little Jack Horner®"® econceals a real tragedy. JACK "HORNXER®" A REALITY. About half way Jack Horner beâ€" came ravenous and came to the conclusion that it was foolish of him to starve while he was the cusâ€" todian of a pie. Bo he broke the crust and put in his thumb and pulled outâ€"a roll of parchments ! The disgusted Jack Horner chucked the lot into an adjacent brook. The monâ€"arrival of the dcods caused Bluff King Hal to suspneci the abbot of contumacy, so his Majesty commanded that the poor cleric should be hanged . corner of King and Yonge Sts., is now the owner of property valued at £25,000. He sold one lot the other day at a profit of €10,000. He has made this money by sellâ€" in# papers at 1¢. apiece and by inrostinx the proceeds. It is the result of some 1 or 12 years‘ work on the streete of Toronâ€" to. Bammy is, of course, a young man of unusual endowments. He has the moneyâ€"making instinct, has forée of char acter and ability. When he found he could not sell papers fast enough himâ€" self, he hit upon the echeme of buving them wholesale and getting other boys to work for him. He has been the leader in the organization of the News Boys Union and other movements looking@ toâ€" ward the betterment of their condition. He says he is going to stop the newsnaper business next summer, but it may be a long time before Sammy gives up his stand_at the northâ€"east corner of Klnfi and Yonge. Sammy knows how to sel papere and likes the business. King in London I am under a solemn obligation to do always the right I know ; but no less am I bound to inform myself to the utmost as to what the right is. To act according to the light I haveâ€"that is one thing. To make sure that I am following the true and not a false light is quite anâ€" other. I must aim at the highest that I see; I must also be certain that it is the highest. â€"Rev. David Hugh Jones. The ecene on pollinge night when the reâ€" turne were beinlgo received at the headâ€" quarters of the minion Alliance was in some respects an impressive one. A large atendance composed of ministers and laymen and women prominent in social work was fired with mmethinf of the spirit of crusaders. The fervor with which they arose and sang t‘e doxology was significant of further fights to come and plain indication of the fact that a moral issue is likely to have a long life. A Newsboy‘s Fortune. It is not nhvngn necersary to pity a neweboy because he may seem to be poor, Sammy Lichtman, who «clis papere at the Patron (to very _ slow waiter)â€"â€" Bring me some salad, please. And yon might just send me a t card cvery now and then vhi?eosyou’ro away . The P(ec)ace Maker. Village Grocerâ€"What running for, sonny? running for, sonny ? Boyâ€"I‘m trying to keep two lers from fightin‘. Village Grocerâ€"Who are the lows ? Boyâ€"Bill Perkins and me. Tip to the Waiter. number of others is oar:."uhrl‘ encour. aging. On the other hand, the liquor forces rejoice because such notable conâ€" tests as the propogal to reduce the numâ€" ber of licenses in Hamilton and the Jocal option contest in the city of Peterboro went in their favor, to eay nothing of the large number of important towns and villages which they also held. From these facts they argue that the local option or prohibition wave has about reached its height. e C C of duty. Onâ€" every hand are proâ€" phets and teachers proclaiming reâ€" ligious heresy and peddling moral fallacies, confusing men‘s minds, and jeading their lives astray. Multitudes of people mistaught and misdirected, while doing what to them seems right, are none the less doing wrong. 4 should be first of all intelligent and rational. Like other energies it requires direction and control. I the hand of ignorance, misguidez by fallacy, it is capable of no small amount of mischief. What I beâ€" lieveâ€"that goes far to determine what I shall do; and right thinking is the only safe guarantee of right action. Ideas are apt to issue in deeds; creed and conduct usually correspond. The revolutionary and the anarâ€" chist have their creed ; and plenty of them are strangely sincere in what they believe and advocate. Were it not for another belief more ow BB dsc tet What you and I think is right!?! Granted. But whence do we get our ideas of what the right is! Around us are the ethical standâ€" ards of politics and business; the notions current on the thoroughâ€" fares and in the markets. In our ears are a thousand conflicting voices with their diverse definitions wise than theirs, another reign of terror, another era . of confusion would visit Christendom, the issues of which no man can predict. Obey my conscience ! Certaialy. There is no other way. And yet, is it reliable! +Is it fitted to proâ€" nounce and to prescribe! I am reâ€" sponsible for my conduct. I am likewise responsible for that which is back of my conduct and deterâ€" mines and dictates it. I am the master of my conscience. Like my intellect, my heart, my will, n d n oi ray c 2 ue 5 too, to see to it that it is worthy to hold its office, that it is compeâ€" tent to serve as my counselor and my guide. o o I Have the Making of It. It is mine to accept its verdicts, to perform its oon}mands.. It is mine, are vou fel fel 70,459,851 ; } of #1,5 ~ wnfla Om y hbe ga 760,435. rQ‘d_\ fnl' OJ iles under con railway mil w over 30,.00 , doubleâ€"tra ing Governm pital liabilits ys on June 3 r mile. On "e,nt dividend: .;eulling #31,1 hr cent. on 1 The rapid gro The genero! aid to rail way ada is shown total Federal nicipal cash : ©§208,000,000, tal over 56,00 and Provincia They call her Lady," and decl: sgesses a hitherto 1 O human eMuvia some preservativ« hands. The nam« not made public and Liagnet of Bo many experiments able woman, and they do not ask : HERE IS AN ANTISEPT C L3\ FREXCH DOCTORsS ARI ED ABOUT HER Bcientists in Paris time been consideral the «dliscovery of a they are now convi serve vegetable and luem." * §$32,500,000 ; . Maxz 660, and Ontario, mid to railways t« for the twelve n $4,994,416 to the « cific under the ‘"im Preservative Powers Arc Emanate From 1 Hands. JDominion s berta has 1 extent of â€" lumbia, 83 man nearly fNve that time have } by her various and small anim preserved and â€" sign of decay or ti ghe upon their )rtation development ol inion. During the twelve mon I by the report iles of railway tion, with 1,738 : &A despatch from Ottawa summary of railway statist p vear ending June 30, 1912 P Trafic shows a 1 veries aAcof so experit ib,' 4. L. Payne, C« Btatistics for the Rail rals Department, and Commons by Mon. ] M|'es many illumina e recent remarka These D« @ The Ready to Serve _ Direct From Pa Handy Iway Statistics Show in Every Ph Post Toasties A dainty dish of toastâ€" ed Indian Corn, brimful of swee: favor and subs:anâ€" tial nourishment. Post Toasties in the pantry mean many deliâ€" cious breakfasts. Direct to your table in sealed. air â€" tight packâ€" .gcs. Sold by Grocers every where. t be Record Gain in Tra®D divid« x @nerois Memory Lingers" N« s Postum Cereal Co., Ltd bfiu.o-wlo. Breakiast SPORTAT & ViI ects LNG & n LrC ant TP bli and cream M mpti« ways table« An< U«