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W 3 ed we it re 1@ n 1M wh poc 1011 **Monsieur, since you have not availed yourself of the opportunity I have given you to cut my throat, would it not be Wise to refrain from uttering threats that you have not the courage to carry out !" general entered the shop unattendâ€" ed. took a seat in a vacant chair, and desired the barber to shave him. The astonished braggart perâ€" formed the operation as well as his nervousness wonld permit. . When he chad finished, the general paid him. and said, quietly : cty () lie 7eNs Barber Given a Chanee to Carry Out His Threat. When Louis Napoleon was presiâ€" dent of the Recond French Repubâ€" lic, the officer in command at Lyoas was (isneral Castellane, a veteran whose stern rule kept in check the riotous spirits of that disorderly lt en nev AFr It CONFroUNDING A BRAGGART. A judge recently expressed the following views: "A man who gives his wile all his salary is no man at all. The man is the treaâ€" surer of the family, and he should be the financial head in reality as sehnools of this sort exist also in Norway and Sweden and ought to be tried in every country, for the desire to learn is universal and ofâ€" ten cannot be gratified until the period of mature life. _ University extension classes, correspondence courses and Chautauqua courses are all good in their way, but the Danish schools seem to have opâ€" portunities® for peculiar usefulness. NOTES ANDCOMMENTsSs th ther in Denmark, with $,000 pupils in all. Oneâ€"tenth of the population of Denmark, it is estimated, has passed _ through these schools, which now are given small state subsidies, though there is no state interference with the instruction. The schools are not technical or ‘"‘practical.‘"" They seek only to deâ€" velop minds on broadly eultural At Askov, in South Jutland, the leading one of the "people‘s high schools‘‘ has existed since 1963 as a flourishing institution. There are sixtyâ€"nine other schools of the sort in Denmark, with $,000 pupils in all. Oneâ€"tenth of the population of Denmark, it is estimated, has lat emed to work bet T D ket I th p._â€" Leaving h eral entered the Why d res and the teacher is ¢ lia D nent ught it was just a little poâ€" discussion,‘"‘ explained the m and neith« \ Natural Mistake. cement areams rificed any of h LJ > hnan tb n mandant n h istruct 10unced him as a pick i on en M n or most boisterous ¢« w} rD it ire no examinations r for leaving ; much ion is given by lecâ€" n s the finan ch head in reality as .‘ One feels that re the {.th wal t} 49 t] mar ClLy « make ind if these we urchaser ; id in the tove. She than any parties to . the man ige ible â€"fuâ€" provided gin. In ister openly for an r th 17 ge O practi n Wi inten spok the at SD nis but 1 sh th In th it 18 ‘cl 18â€"22. The omitted verses record _ Lot‘s plea to be spared the necesâ€" 4 !sity of fleeing to the barren mounâ€" ‘Sitains. and to be permitted to reâ€" @ \ main in a little village some disâ€" r tance from Sodom. t' 23, Zoarâ€"Meaning, little. l 24. Rained . . . brimstone and fire "!â€"Brimstone is the word used uniâ€" ® formly in the Bible for sulphur, @ |which is found in all voleanic h | regions both as an uncombined deâ€" , |posit and as one of the chemical _Jconstituents of gases as sulphur e ldioxid(- and sulphureted hydrogen, â€" ) which are not infrequently exhaled xt‘Thom the earth in such regions or yidis?olvcd in the water of hot oispr_mgs. It is frequently referred | to in connection with Jehovah‘s deâ€" " |nunciation of the wickedness of Inations and individuals (compare | Deut. 29. 23 ; Isa. 34. 9 ; Psa. 11. 6). JThe extensive occurrence of sulâ€" | phur in the region of the Dead Sea leorroborates the Bible statement A woman‘s headaches are ratur al; a man‘s are usually acquired. 'nations and _ individuals (compare | Deut. 29. 23 ; Isa. 34. 9 ; Psa. 11. 6). | The extensive occurrence of sulâ€" | phur in the region of the Dead Sea ,corruborates the Bible statement that this substance contributed toâ€" ,ward the destruction of the cities of the Plainâ€"Sodom and Gomorâ€" rah. It was the work of Jehovah through the use of natural means, | but, of course, was decidedly miraâ€" |eulous. the name, explained as signifying father of a multitude, is used from chapter seventeen forward. 2s. Gomorrahâ€"The twin city of Sodom and equally wicked. 20. (Giod remembered Abrahamâ€" His mercy toward Lot is explained by the writer as partly due to his regard for his righteous servant Abraham. 26. Pillar of saltâ€"Great ledges or cliffis of erystallized rock salt are to be found at the southwestern shore of the Dead Sea. During the rainy season, fragments of these, cliffs become isolate«d and resemble| pillars, which are in constant prov| eess of formation and destruction. | The process is, however, in some . cases very slow, owing to a chalky | limestone covering which protects. the salt. _ These pillarlike shaftst‘ not â€" unfrequently assume â€" forms which strangely suggest the outlines | of the human figure, especially | when viewed from a distance. Late Jewish writers, including Josephus, believed they were still able to identify the pillar of salt referred to in our lesson passage. 27.. Abrahamâ€"The longer form of the name, explained as signifying Ali the Plainâ€"The valley region in the neighborhood of the doomed cities. 1822. The omitted verses record with his househoid, even though it be necessary to lead him by the hand. Thus with gentle insistence they bring him forth until he is safely beyond the city gate. 17. Escape for thy lifeâ€"Further fiight is necessary to reach a place of greater safety. Look not behind theeâ€"Resist every itemptation to return or to watch with curious eyes the fate of the city. 'Lesu X.â€"The destruction of Sodâ€" om, Gen. 19. 1â€"3, 12â€"29, Golden text, 2 Cor. 6. 17. The chapter and verses immediâ€" ately preceding our lesson passages for toâ€"day record the incidents conâ€" |nected with the birth of Ishmael and the promise to Abram of the \birth of Isaac. They include an ‘account of the renewal of the covâ€" enant at Mamre, and an announceâ€" ment to Abram of the impending doom of Sodom. Chapter 17 reâ€" icords the change of Abram‘s name \to Abraham, and of Sarai‘s name | to Sarah. Verses 1 to 11 of our lesâ€" | son chapter tell of the entrance of |the two angels into Sodom and of |their reception and entertainment | by Lot. : Verse 12. The menâ€"The ange‘s, |\that is, messengers of Jehovah. \They urge Lot to lose no time in lleaving the city, and to take with |him all the members of his immediâ€" | ate family. 16. But he lingeredâ€"Reluctant to leavo his home and the city which bad been so long his place of resiâ€" dence. The angels appear sympaâ€" thetic and determined to rescue him with his household, even though it be necessary to lead him by the hand. Thus with gentle insistence they bring him forth until he is Lest thou be consumedâ€"The imâ€" plication is that Jehovah had fixed a time beyond which the destrueâ€" tion of the city was not to be post: poned. Iniquityâ€"Or, punishment. _: 16. But he lingeredâ€"Reluctant to 15. When the morning aroseâ€"At dawn. All that precedes had transâ€" pired while it was still night. As one that mockedâ€"Better, jestâ€" ed. The songâ€"inâ€"law are increduâ€" lous. To them the destruction of their city seems impossible. Thy two daughters that are here â€"As opposed to the prospective sonsâ€"inâ€"law who had chosen to igâ€" nore the warning, and who were not in Lot‘s house. Up, get you out of this placeâ€" Lot himself seems to have fully unâ€" derstood the urgency of the comâ€" mand to leave the city at once. 14. Who marriedâ€"Or, who were to marry. TBE SUMDAY SCGHQ3L STU9Y The cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah â€" Throughout the entire narrative Jehovah is spoken of as possessing the characteristics and limitations of men. This is one of the distinguishing marks of the early prophetic narrative, of which our lesson passage forms a part. _ Compare Genesis iv., 10, where a similar expression is used. 13. We will destroy this place â€" Their visit had been for the purâ€" pose of ascertaining the facts conâ€" cerning the city‘s reputed wickedâ€" ness. This being established, their commission includes authority to visit dire judgment upon the city. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 9. tâ€"Great ledges or zed rock salt are the southwestern 1 Sea. During the igments of these ate«l and resemble A man seldom laughs at tune after he gets a pers troduction to it. \‘ ride like a Centaur, and sleep in his blanket on the bare earth. It is said that to this day he finds a feather bed provocative of insomâ€" nia. He fares sumptuously on dry biscuit and water when he must, and he knows how to dross a wound with all the skill of a trained nurse.. Edvcational Training. | The formative and impressionablo: years of his boyhood include a. brief stay at that Robert College in Constantinople which has done so much to produce the Bulgaria of, toâ€"day. At twentyâ€"two he was a caâ€" det in Russia. Later he went to a military academy in Germany. By the time he emerged as an infant officer in Sofia, Savoff was grim,| taciturn, hardworking, and a trifie dull and unpromisiag. From ft~h0; first, _ however, he distinguished | himself for honesty. _ This seems| a remarkable virtue in modern| Bulgaria, where so many regard a| period of office as an :,»pportunity’ to become wellâ€"toâ€"«lo. The schools, writes one authority on Bulgaria,| produce numbers of young mc.n} than remain in civil life venality of even the hishe has become a seandal. From thisi contagion Savoff was always free.| He remains toâ€"day an impoveriabedl soldier, owning a small farm,. not still shaves himsel! daily, still rubs down his own horse, still brightens his own sword. He exhibits none of _ the tendencies _ of the European army officer to horseâ€" racivg, cardâ€"playing, or theatreâ€" going. He cannot waltz. But he can shoot with unerring aim and Savoff is the scion of a native Bulgarian family, in which the traits of the peasant blend themâ€" selves oddly with those of the new nobility suddenly created by Czar Ferdinand. ~Although the hero of the Balkans is highly educated from the standpoint of his profession, and has travelled and studied in Russia, France and Germany, ho has relatives who till the soil in Eastern Rumelia, his birthplace, and cling to the peasant costume while doing it. From the period of his first appointment to the cadet corps Savoff has been obliged to live upon his pay. The frugality of his early years stamped habits of simplicity upon his mode of life which time has not effaced. He Gen,. Michael Savoff Is Grim, Seâ€" + eretive and Cold. If the Balkan allies succeed in driving the Turks back into Asia it will be due to Michae] Savoff,leader of the Bulgarian troops. Although he has spent the greater part of his lifeâ€"and he is now fiftyâ€"fiveâ€"in transforming his native Bulgarian from a peasant paradise into one of the great military powers, his name remained, until lately, quite unâ€" known to the world at large. He is now the only modern commander with a renown as a strategist equal to von Moltke‘s. To his genius is attributable the plan of campaign which brought King Ferdinand‘s leâ€" gions from their farms in all parts of Bulgaria to the final stand outâ€" side the Tehatalja lines. General Savoff had worked out a plan of operations long before the crisis. He showed its value at the decisive battle of Kirk Kilisse. He lured the Turkish army castward from the vicinity of Adrianople. He held the initiative at every step. He never lost sight of the enemy‘s main force, which he drove back after a series of routs to its final stand _ outside _ Constantinople. Making every allowance for the aid of the forces under Genersgl Demiâ€" trieff, the military experts give all the glory of the swift an‘d splendid campaign to Michael Savoff. s HERO OF TLE BALKANS. U Gexeral Michacl Savoft. e officia ith rins, , and the st officials From this t misfor nal in rom the | It is officially stated that the | amount of ecompensation paid in | consequence of footâ€"andâ€"mouth disâ€" |ease in England and Wales during | the past six months was £52,000. * Bir William ‘Couchstone, formerly |a Conservative lecturer and a conâ€" | fdant of Lord Derby aad Lord Boeaâ€" | consfiecld, died on the 16th ult. at | Manchester in his Bist year. | The Suffragists are sorry to |learm, on the authority of the Postâ€" masterâ€"General, ‘that not a single | letter has been destroyed in the reâ€" | cent malicious attempts upon pillar | boxes. There was a disastrous fire at Foulston pianoforte works at Birâ€" mingham on the 23rd ult., a quanâ€" tity of machinery, a number of finâ€" In a matrimonial case at Chesâ€" toerheld the wife said the first part of their married life was "as happy as a dove," but latterly her husâ€" band had threatened "to dance on the gallows" for her. It is a frequent complaint that the past 25 years have produced no great English poet, and that none is in sight. On the other hand, the standard of verse, gay and werious, which does not claim lofty poetic rank was never higher than toâ€"day. The Bank of Montreal has secured premises in Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, where they will sestablish a branch. This will be the first Coloâ€" nial bank established in London‘s West End. ; A Bristol policeman named Flenâ€" en jamped into the River Frome from a bridge, and rescued Ernest Ashmeaar, aged 7, who was being carried down stream unconscious. Work has been begun at the new colliery at the mountain village of Glyncorrwg, near Port Talbot, and employment will be found for about 500 men. & Co., Stafford, and damage was done to the extent of several thouâ€" sand pounds. Work has been begun at the new It is announced that the Mersey Dock Board contemplate installing a new lightship at the bar with a 40,000 candleâ€"power lantern. A big fire occurred at the engiâ€" reering works of Messrs. Dorman John WilNams, known as the "Hocded Man,"" has been executed in Lowes Jail for the murder of Inâ€" spector Walls at Eastbourne. Burglars, who raided the Two Eagles Hotel, Brock Street, Lamâ€" beth, S.E., satiated the watch dog with the proprietor‘s cakes. A hostile crowd invaded a Morâ€" mon meeting at Ipswich a few Sundays ago and broke up the proâ€" ceedings. A case of "spotted fover‘"‘ has been admitted to the Metropolitan Asylum Board‘s Hospital from Fulâ€" ham. Frederick J. Wonson, a boy of nine, was knocked down and killed in East Street, Taunton, by a moâ€" tor car. Aiter having sat for 30 years without missing a hearing, Mr. T. 8. Soden, deputy recorder of Birâ€" mingham, has retired. After being blind for upwards of 20 years a lady of 80 living at Porthcawl, Glamorgan, has recovâ€" ered her sight. Every English prison has now a library, but prisoners condemned to only a month or less are not alâ€" lowed books from it. Sir Robort Sidesman, 73, died in a Boston church on the 15th ult., while the Bishop of Lincoln was conducting service. ‘‘‘The sea, Tord help us all, it is the greatest thing God made!"‘ And (adds a writer) the greatest thing man has made is surely the ship. The old town hall at Newbury, Berkshire, has been demolished for street improvements. P _ Strawberries from English hotâ€" houses are selling in Covent Garden Market at from 18s. to 30s. a pound. FROM MERRY OLD BNSLAY) During the last fifteen years the cost of living has advanced in Engâ€" land by 25 per cent. 7 At the London elementary schools 54,000 children under five years of age are in attendance. _ $ The King will open the Metropoliâ€" tan Water Board‘s new reservoir at Chingford on March 15th. * Mrs. Emily Phoebe Winham, of Upper Richmond Road, Putney, has just attained her 100th birthday. During 1911 boys to the number of 17,139 in excess of girls were born in England and Wales. About 8,000,000 men are employed in regular occupation in Great Briâ€" tain. No fewer than 2,500 train engines move in and out of Waterloo Staâ€" tion, London, on & busy day. _ The late Viscount Peel left es tate of the gross value of £128,175. The year 1912 was one of unexâ€" ampled prosperity in Great Briâ€" tain. One sign of the undoubted prosâ€" perity in trade is the small number of tramps ‘"‘on tour." s â€"~ 00â€" An Australian team will visit the National Rifle Association meeting at Bisley next July. F : The King forwarded £25 to Genâ€" eral Bramwell Booth for providing food for the poor at Christmas. _ At the age of 106, a woman named Hale, has died at Rock Ferry, Cheâ€" shire. In Lordon there were 2,101 births and 1,433 deaths for week ending February 2nd. s 8 Inge. A new Guildhall is to be built at Devonport at a cost not exceeding £70,000. 4 » l o y 4 + Since 1841 the area of the British Empire has increased by 2% milâ€" lion square miles. 2P «4 Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Comâ€" mercial World. NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. ‘"A man who can hold his tongue n hold anything," says Dean ‘"‘There is also an old tradition among Japanese sailors, which surâ€" vives to this day, according to which a threeâ€"colored tom cat (white, black and brown) is an exâ€" cellent charm against evil spirits. He knows when a storm is coming and climbs up on the mast, where he drives away the demons ; and the sailors of Dai Nippon do not care what price they pay for such a cat, and make great sacrifices in order to have one as a mascot on board ship," ‘ "It is interesting to nots the diiâ€" {ference between the parts played by the dog and the cat in Japanese legend and superstition; the forâ€" mer, being a protector of mankind, | the latter usually its deadly enemy. The character representing the word "inu"‘ (dog) is still written on the forchead of a Japanese baby to protect it against the demons of 'disease. Utterance of the words i“jnu no ko, inu no ko‘ (puppy, |puppy), is supposed to make an 'infaut» quiet when it cries in its | dreams. ‘"Legends about wicked cats are of a different character from those about dogs, which protected manâ€" kind ; the Japanese ‘nekomata,‘ or bewitching cat, with her forked tail being anâ€" exceedingly dangerous demon. who devours old women and assumes their shape," writes Mr Lawson. "In the seventeenth con tury she is spoken of as an anima of darkness, a domestic tiger, and the Japanese place a sword at the side of a corpse in ovder to prevent the cat from walking over it or causing it to revive and change into a terrible demon. "In the legends of the nineteenth century, however. the cat plays a good part, instead of that of an evil demon, and in these tales she sacriâ€" fices ber life on behalf ofi her masâ€" ter, and is rewarded by burial in a Buddhist churchyard, with masses read for her soul. ing Sun," writes Blackford Lawâ€" son, "greatly puzzled to find the lion and the unicorn, so familiar to them as fighting for the crown on the British standard, at the enâ€" trance to a temple in Tokio. f "I have more than once seen Eng lish visitors to the Land of the Ris ing Sun," writes Blackford Law son. "greatly nuzzled to find the Formerly in the Imperial Palace a body of guards called the "hayaâ€" bito"‘ was specially appointed for the purpose of driving away all evil spirits by means of their barking, and in\ addition to this the Emperor and Empress were guarded by the Corean dogs, the "shishikomainu,‘‘ one of which was a lion and one a unicorn. These images came from China through Corea, and soon found their way from the palace to the Shinto shrines, which they still guard. JAPANXESE LEGENDS OF CATS. The lights not only warn the marâ€" iner of the proximity of the shore, but also give him a clue as to where he is, This is chiefly done by dimming or ‘"shuttering‘‘ off the light for a feow seconds. â€" Thus, should a seaman observe a light which ecopsists of.a long,, followed by two short flashes, a glance at the chart would give him his posiâ€" tion. Demons That Devour Old Women and Assume Their Shape. The chance came on November 26, 1705, says the London (Gilobe, when on & storm appearing eminent he set out from Plymouth, The hurriâ€" cane was one of the most terrible recorded in history, and among other damage it swept away every vestige of the lighthouse, those in it, of course, being lost. Within three years another was built, known as Rudyerd‘s, and, like Winâ€" stanley‘s, of wood. * The obvious occurred after an exâ€" istence of fortyâ€"seven years, it beâ€" ing utterly dlestroyed by conflagraâ€" tion. The nextâ€"Smeaton‘sâ€"was of stone, and lasted until.â€"1881, a period of 120 years, when it was fourd that it was being underâ€" mined, and a new structure, the present and fourth, was erected on an adjacent rock. Smeaton‘s tower was rebuilt : on Plymouth Hoe, where can be seen the original canâ€" dle chandelier and the gongs operâ€" ated by clockwork to keep awake the drowsy keepers, so that they should snuff the candles at the proâ€" per intervals. In mediaeval times the usual illuminant was a coal or wood fire in an open grate, which gave a fairâ€" ly good light on a breezy night. For beacons on rocks at sea canâ€" dles were used. In 1729 oil was first employed, and in 1700 the Argand cirecular wick lamp, with silvered reâ€" flectors was introduced. Gas was first experimented with in 1817, and in 1838 the South Foreland was lit by electric light. ished pianos, and stores of seaâ€" soned timber being destroved, and damage totalling many thousands of pounds was done. Romance of the Eddystoncâ€"The Early HMlumirants, The origin of the lighthouse is lost in the darkness of antiquity; but we have records of its existence before the birth of Christ, as witâ€" nes the ‘"Pharos‘‘ at Alexanrdria, built in 280 B.C. Probably it first came into use when voyages began to extend beyond the hour of sunâ€" set, and maybe the earliest beaâ€" cons took the form of fires kindled on the shore to guide fishermen to their customary landing places. The romance of lighthouse conâ€" struction _ unrdoubtedly _ centres round the Eddystone. As long ago as 1696 Winstanley commenced building. Two years later the weak beams of light from the tallow candles first piecreed the darkness. The engineer had an unshakable beâ€" lief in his tower and often expressâ€" ed a wish to be in it during a severe gale. LIGHTHOUSE BUILDERS. i to uind the £o familiar to The only other mutiny in a Briâ€" tish prison during the present cenâ€" tury was in Marnch last, when the Buffragettes confined in Holloway On the next day a convict asâ€" saulted Dr. Murray, punching him in the face; but the ringleader» were quickly brought to book, and No. 1 diet (bread apd water), punâ€" ishmentâ€"cells and floggings soon reâ€" stored order, About four in the afternoor a party of sixty Roman â€" Catholies were being escorted from their chaâ€" pel t> their cells, when a conviet named â€" Johnson sprang from the ranks and struck Warder Birch a tremendous blow. Warder Bailey ran to his hbelp; but the two were set on by a dozen prisoners, knockâ€" ed down, and brutally kicked beâ€" fore other warders could come to rescue them. a kind a Al Through Kindness, In Janvary, 1908, the goyernor, Captain Guyon, invited a concertâ€" »arty from Plymouth to give a musical programme on Sunday afâ€" ternoon in the Protestant chapel. This is the largest room in the priâ€" son ; but there were only seats for nine hundred, so three hundred were left out. thori We have but three big convict prisons for men. These are Dartâ€" moor, Portland, and Parkhurst. Dartmoor, with twelve hundred of the worst old lags in Englard, is much the largest; yet discipline there is so good that only once in the.last twenty years has there been anything like a real mutiny. And, oddly enough, this also arose out of Then the authorities woke up, and took strong measures. A numâ€" ber of the ruffians were birched, and the worst offenders have been drafted back to Dartmoor or Portâ€" land, where they will not find life so easy as they have at the Prison Hotel. little, â€" ironâ€"hbar Dartmoor. The these, tore out their furniture, generally. The plan has failed to work. In the first week of December last the prisoners went on strike because one of their number had been sent to a punishment cell. The Hand of the Destroyer. Armed warders were summoned by â€" telephone from _ Parkhurst. When they arrived they found a mutiny in full progress. The men were driven back into their cells; but, instead of quiesting down, set to work to smash everything they could lay their hands on. The cells at Camp Hill bhave reguâ€" lar sash windows, instead of the little, ironâ€"barred lights as at Dartmoor. The mutineers smashed convicts wear The way to counteract and conâ€" quer evil in the world is to give our own hearts to the dominion of good and work the works of God while it is day. The strongest of allâ€"obâ€" stacles to the advance of evil is a clean and generous man, doing his duty from day to do, and winning others, by his cheerful fidelity, to serve the same Master. Take the Lifz of Him Who Not Only Did No Evil, But Went About Doing Good Diseases are not the only things that are contagious. Courage is rontagious. Manly integrity is conâ€" tagious. All the positive virtues, with red blood in their veins, are contagious. unncanu ol, says Lonadon Answers, For instance, they can earn money, anrd buy jam and potted meat and other delicacies; they can write to their friends; they are even allowed to smoke. What is more, they wear a sort of uniform which is not disfigured by the big, black br The heaviest blow that you can strike at the kingdom of evil is just to follow the advice which the dyâ€" ing Sir Walter Sceott gave his sonâ€" inâ€"law, Lockhart: ‘"Be a good man." And if you want to know how, there is but one perfect and supreme exampleâ€"the life of him who not only did no evil, but went about doing good. PRISONERS WENT ON STRHKE Camp Hill Prison was opened a year ago with the object of curing habitual prisoners by kindness. The buildings lie amid charming surroundings in the Isle of Wight, close to Parkhurst Convict Prison, and the inmates have been granted all sorts of privileges, previously unheard of. says London Answers Now, take that thought of fightâ€" ing evil with good and apply it to our world and to ourselves. Here are Monstrous Evils and vices in society. Let intemperâ€" ance be the type of them all, beâ€" cause so many of the others are its children. _ Drunkenness ruins more homes and wrecks more lives than war. How shall we oppose it! I do not say that we shall not pass resolutions and make laws against it. But I do say that we can never really conquer it this way. I hold with Phillips Brooks that ‘"all prohibitory measures are negative. That they have their uses no one can doubt. That they have their limits is just as clear.‘" Curing â€" Habitual â€" Criminals â€" By Kindness Did Not Prove Satisfactory, wBHEN MEX INX DURANCE YVILE DECIDE TO MUTINY. HOW TO LIVE TRIUMPHANT The stronghold of intemperance lies in the vacancy and despair of T10 ARCHIVES TOoRronNnto adâ€"ar n the part of the au row which all turee big convict _ These are Dartâ€" and â€" Parkhurst. twelve hundred of the frames, broke and played havoe ©uler Batchâ€""Has your wile a motâ€" to?"" Hatchâ€"*"Yes,. Her motto is ‘Never put off iil] toâ€" morr>« what you can say toâ€"day I‘ * Hard on Royaliy‘s G nosts. Dinners grow shorter each soaâ€" son. King Edward was the first to set the cult of the brief dinner, and King George, who, in epite of the greatest care, is .still a dyspeptic, cuts them shorter still, as he doos not taste half the courses, and conâ€" sequently it is not etiquette to cat when the King is not 3oing $o. he did not own the proper clothes. In spite of theso handicaps, Broadhurst quickly made his way to the top. Once, in a parliamenâ€" tary debate that dealt with Oxford University, Broadhurst displayed such intimacy with the university and its buildings, that some one arked him whether ho was a gracdâ€" vate of Oxford. The zon of a stoneâ€"mason, Broadâ€" hurst followed his father‘s trade until his thirtyâ€"second year, alâ€" though he occasionally worked as a blacksmith. But during this period of his life he gave cvidence of such ability that he was placed in several important offices of trust. He was elected to Parliament in 1880, and six years later Gladstonc persuaded him to become Underâ€"Becretary of the Home Department. For a long time Broadhurst refused the post, for he feared that his lack of eduâ€" cation might _ create â€" prejudice against him. Even after he had entered upon his duties, ho found it necessary to absent himself from court, for the simple reason that he did not own the proper clothes. In spite of theso handicaps, shows, he knew how to turn it to good account. A â€" British Underâ€"Secretary Was Once a Stone Mason. The training that the late Henry Broadhurst, former Underâ€"Becreâ€" tary of the Home Department in Great Britain, and for many years a leading member of the House of Commons, received in his youth, was certainly not of a Parliamenâ€" tary nature. Yet, as this story men‘s minds. The wiy to attack it is to make the sober life beautiful and happy and full of interest. Teach your boys how to work, how to read, how to play, you fathers, before you send them to college, if you want to guard them against the temptation of strong drink and the many shames and sorrows that go with it. Make the life of your community cheerful and pleasant and interestâ€" ing, you reformers; provide men with recreations which will not harm them if you want to take away the power of the gilded saloon and The Grimy Boozing Ken. Parks and playgrounds, libraries and music rooms, clean homes, and cheerful churchesâ€"these are the efficient foes of intemperance. And the same thing is true of gambling and all the other vices which drag men down by the lower side of their nature because the higher side has nothing to cling to, nothing to susâ€" tain it and hold it up. That was the beginning of a fearâ€" ful fight, in which Drahounet, getâ€" ting hold of an axe, killed a second warder, Bonnet by name, while anâ€" other mutineer murdered a wouldâ€" be rescuer, Boldiers were called in; a volley drove the prisoners to their cells, and when order was reâ€" stored Drahounct was found dead in his cell. hounet began the trouble by shoutâ€" ing out that his food was bad. The chief warder, Achinard, _ ordered the man to be aniet. Drahounet rushed at him, and, drawing a raâ€" zor which he had somehow concealâ€" ed about himself, with one slash cut Achinard‘s throat. The unforâ€" tunate man fell dying. Achinard‘s wife heard his last scream. _ She rushed up. Drahounet seized her, caught her by the bair, and with his bloodâ€"stained weapon cut he! head completely off. rioted. The trouble began during exercise in the prisonâ€"yard, and the officers had a nice piece of work to get the screaming, crazy women back to their cells. There the deâ€" monstration broke out afresh. The prisoners smashed all their winâ€" dows, waved their handkerchicfs through the openings, and sang the ‘‘Marseillaise"" for a couple of hours on end. What are you going to do, my brother men, for this higher side of human life!? What contribution are you going to make of your strength, your time, your influence, your money, your self, to make a cleanâ€" er, fuller, happier, larger, nobler life possible for some of your felâ€" low men! I do not ask how you are going to do it,. You may do it in business, in the law, in medicine, in the minâ€" istry, in teaching, in literature. But this is the question: What are you going to give personally to make the human side of the place where you do your work purer, stronger, brighter, better, and more worth living!? That will be your best part in the warilare against vice and crime.â€"Dr. Henry Van Dyke. As in France. Happily, we have never in land witnessed such terrible s as occurred only a few week in the big French prison of R fort, On Tuesday afternoon, 19th last a prisoner named PRACTICAL TRAININXG. g t Â¥ 4, | g