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tLacy elevaior is inspected night by competont experts, elevator which is not in abs perfect condition to operate lowed to ramain in service. elevat supery possib gainst fire a men who ruw engineers w plant are so gard to the honesty and The chiet c dern hoto] : p‘rdesaion. elerk. Any one desiring to call vupon a guest must first obtain from the floor clerk the information whether or not the guest is in and wishes to see him. A record is kept of every access to guests‘ rooms. The employees whose duties require them to enter the rooms are beâ€" fore employment thoroughly and carefully investigated. Each one is well recommended and furnishes We lma"' that al t Donkt. ‘ The precautions taken to protect | ainst fire are most thorough. Thel on who run the elevators and the ngineers who operats the power | lant are sclected with special, reâ€" | ard to their sobriety, reliability, onesty and stability. * % The chief engineer of a great moâ€" ern hotol ranmnks very high in his rofession. The power plant and levator system are so carefully apervised as to make it almost imâ€" ossible for an accident to occur. ach elevator is inspected every ight by competont experts, and no t abser Adicle 1t Pheir Operation Entails tention to Details oth t d IT afety rreful mative ol previous s Dr. Flexner himsel{ a vestigators. Two vear known that infantile p eaused by an extremel ganism, so small that be discovered by the t V den ite an« How important the discovery of the virus that produces infantile paralysis, announced by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefelâ€" ler Institute for Scientific Research, may be must be left to the doctors to determine. It seems likely, howâ€" ever, to result in means of curing or controlling this dreaded dissase. jwdging concern import HOTELSs PROTECT GUEsSTS n merce and themselves juncture. no necessity for feverish haste. There is no crisis in Europe ; there is no occasion for panic; Germany and France are equally pacific at bottom, and both can take pleaty of time for a sober study of the| situation. What the powers need’ is a strong dose of sound smse;" there is much childishness in whati passes for subtle and deep diploâ€" | macy. Science. industrs somâ€"| Mi€ of either the elevator rs without being seen k. Any one desiring n a guest must first obt floor clerk the inf ther or not the guest i The students of Paris and the provinces are standing by these leaders of opinion, and Premier Briand has admitted that there is Addresses to the educated and progressive classes of France, signed by university professors, historians, men of letters and inâ€" tellectuals generally, protest _vigâ€" orously against any attempt to jam through as ‘"emergency‘"‘ measures the proposed laws for a threeâ€"year term of military service, increased defense expenditures and additionâ€" al taxes. The signers do not oppose the proposed laws ; they oppose haste and hysteria; they demard facts and calm consideration of the alleged changes in the European situation. _ They point out that blind and emotional surrender to militarism may endanger the very existence of the republican r?gimc' in France. ' Arc NOTES ANDCQMMENTS The Flexner th V e LD been largely e e of knowledge + hope that it and par n m in t ars has be when trat Th it it re iz other « which A T n ne terr is not in absolutely m pr subtle and deep diploâ€" ience, â€"industry, comâ€" literature should make heard and felt at this the se health introduced pI f Dr. H th n of the guest‘s ts have immeâ€" ‘y attention. to the floor by evator or the seen by the iring to call DrAld prope mA V it ne mJ u US w statement Treatment ig to call obtain from information Th Li W ie personal he room is ach floor is a separate l n Stmet At. LrD n re treponema of general as evo soo0n arl in the is al 11 th lite or v an re great alists rized d‘ph rea veries has it n lar the makes the Russian Ambassador laugh very heartily, and his Excelâ€" leney replies with an equally witty anecdote concerning his early days in the diplomatic service. â€" The French .artist later on greatly amuses the company by some lightâ€" ning sketches which he makes on the back of the menuâ€"cards, at the King‘s requestâ€"goodâ€"natured, but exceedingly clever caricatures of presentâ€"day celebritiosâ€"and the King homors the artist by asking bim to present him with onre of them. k .grams. and they will be sorted, opened, and got ready for the King‘s inspection on his return to the Palace, and, if necessary, any. that require immediate attention will then be answered; otherwise the replies will go into the mornâ€" ing‘s correspondence. Twenty minutes later the King is seated at a round dinnerâ€"table, beautifully decorated with erimson roses amd white carnations. The room is filled with an exquisitely soft light, thrown from a myriad of little roseâ€"shaded electric lamps with which the beautifullyâ€"painted ceiling is studded. Dircct From the Premioer. ! Aiter cofifec and a cigarette, the Majesty, and will not leave it until \the departure of the Royal guest. I' Whilst these arrangements for safeguarding the sovereign are beâ€" |ing unobtrusively carried out, let | us return to the King‘s Room, where his Majesty is being helped on with his overcoat by the equerâ€" ry. A servant enters the room with \a pile of letters and telegrams, | which are placed on the King‘s desk. The equerry runs through the telegrams, and takes up two of the latter, the envelopes of which are marked with an "R." This sigâ€" nifies that they are from members of the Royal Family, and the King opens them. One is from the Queen, who left London that mornâ€" ing for Sardringham, and announcâ€" es her safe arrival. The other is from the Duchess of Fife on a priâ€" vate family matter. Guests of Distinction. Whilst the King is reading these messages, the equerry has pressed the electric button on the King‘s desk, which summons a clerk on nightâ€"duty in the private secreâ€" tary‘s department The eanerre| Th and ere the Ring icaves the Palace every policeman on duty ia the streets through which the Kiag will drive that night has been notified to expect his Majesty ; and a minâ€" ute after the King leaves the Palace the chief detective himself. will folâ€" low the Royal carriage on a bicycle, and will enter the house of the King‘s host a minute or so after his Majesty, and will not leave it until t |_ At 7.45 the King leaves his dress ingâ€"room and passes into the King‘s Room, where the equerry who is to be in attendance on his Majesty for the evening is engaged in conversaâ€" tion with a slightlyâ€"built man of medium height, dressed in a darkâ€" grey suit. His eyes are keen, and the mouth firm and wellâ€"cut. He is listening attentively to the equerry, and occasionally jots down a few notes in a pocketâ€"book. When the King enters the room the man in a grey suit salutes, and retires to the anteâ€"room. He is the chief deâ€" tective at Buckingham Palace, and is engaged in completing his arâ€" rangements for the evening. In a few moments the equerryi follows him to the anteâ€"room, and informs the detective that the King will leave the Palace at a quarterâ€" past eight, and tells him of the route he will take going to and comâ€" ing from the house where he is dinâ€" ng h his Majesty, when putting on his shirt, catches sight of the links, and nods his approval of his valet‘s selection. = His Majesty dines out toâ€"night. Not at a great dinnerâ€"party, but at the house of an old friend. It is to be quite & quiet, informal enterâ€" tainment, as is evident from the fact that the King is not wearing ) Court dress, but an ordinary dressâ€" suit and white waistcoat. ’ ,It is 7.30, and his Majesty is goâ€" ing through his short toilet in his dressingâ€"room. The chief valet unâ€" locks a very heavy, solid old gold jewelâ€"case, selects from a treble row of sleeveâ€"links a pair of old purple enamels, gold framed. These are perhaps the most valuable links his Majesty possesses. They were a present from the Tsar. The enamâ€" els are many hundreds of years old, of the rarest quality, and are worth several thousand pounds. Instructing the Guardian, The valet selects these links beâ€" cause he knows that the Russian Ambassador is to be one of the King‘s fellowâ€"guests toâ€"night, and HIS MAJESTY INVITED OUT How He Is Guarded From the Time He Leaves the Palace Until He Returns. PEX PICTURE OF AN EÂ¥YENING IN OUR RULER‘S LIFE. Our Severcign‘s Safeguards Thank you, sir‘‘‘ savs the de n is studd butler _ shut rush th ting up his note} es off. He is at inother couple of letective that the King > Palace at a quarterâ€" nd tells him of the take going to and comâ€" house where he is dinâ€" d. Ca f the King‘s host is Majesty‘s chair, ne detecâ€" ook, and the teleâ€" miautes, off. Eeveral uckal Ccoigut ed Hurgarman | There is in ‘"‘ant suture Those who I nation to disappear from the lists of official remedies have been preâ€" parations made from ants. _ Such ‘pxcparatiuns, however, have not obtained much recogaition in this 'cuuntry, even among the wise old women _ in domestic practiceâ€" though in parts of Europe they are yet in use. Ant baths, made by boiling ants in water, are yet in use by Bavarian peasants for rheumaâ€" tism and gout, and also in Hessen ard Hungary. (In Bohemia, it is said, for paralysis of the lower limbs patients are placed in an antâ€" hill and allowed to remain until the whole body is covered with the inâ€" sects, which are thea shaken off, when the cure is effected. In Branâ€" denburg an aching tooth is rubbed with blood by means of a erust of bread. azd the crust is then placed in an anthill. In _ Europe Proparations Made From Insects Aro Used. Among the last of the remodies proyecative of nausea of the imagiâ€" nation to disappear from the lists of official remedies have been preâ€" parations made from ants. _ Such preparations, however, have not obtained much recogaition in this Mr. Birrell‘s duty, as Irish Secreâ€" tary, to walk backwards as the King advanced, and toâ€"carry the big sword of state. Walking backâ€" wards is not one of Mr. Birrell‘s accomplishments, ard he looked forward to the occasion with peculiâ€" ar emotion. When, therefore, the horrorâ€"strickea officials announced the disappearance of the regalia, Mr. Birrell replied, "Good heavâ€" ens; I hope they remembered the sword." Many are the stories told of Rt. Hon. Mr. Birrell. His wit is irreâ€" ‘prossible. When things were going | badly with his Education bill, he met a bishop, who said to him, "I am afraid your bill is dead.‘""‘ "Yes, it may be, my lord,"‘ was Mr. Birâ€" | rell‘s answer, "but I believe in the | resurrection of the dead.‘""‘ At the \time when the Crown jewels had | been stolen from Dublin Castle, the | visit of King Edward to Irelaad | was nearly due, and it was part of At 11.15 the King takes his deparâ€" ture, ard, as the Royal carriage bowls _ rapidly â€" along _ Berkeley Square, thera comes stealing swiftâ€" ly after it the greyâ€"clad figure of a man on a bicycle, who has appearâ€" ed suddenly apparently from noâ€" where. He passes with the Royal carriage through the gates of Buckâ€" ingham Palace unchallenged, and speeds away to the back entrance of the Palace. Ho is the chief deâ€" tective, and when he gets his report from the night detective on duty his day‘s work will be over.â€"Lonâ€" don Answers. ‘ The Silent Rider. A few minutes later the King is playing a game of bridge with his host and two of the other guests. After the rubber his Majesty inâ€" spects his host‘s collectionâ€" of stamps, in which he is much interâ€" ested, and gives his host quite a useful and interesting little bit of information about a very rare class of Spanish stamp. _ _ The white sheet of paper is from the Prime Minister, seeking for an interview with the King the followâ€" ing morning. < His Majesty sits Jown to write a short note to Lord Knollys at Buckingham Palace to inform the Premier at once that the interview will be granted the followâ€" ing morning at eleven. ‘The serâ€" vant from Buckingham Palace then departs. ter for his Majesty, and he conducts the King and the equerry in attenâ€" dance to his own l‘i%nry, where a Palace servant is standing with a long white envelope, which he hands to the equerry, who opens it. King rizses. A servant at the same moment comes up to the King{. host, who at once appromaches his Majesty and informs his Royal guest that a messenger has arrived from Buckingham Palace with a letâ€" AXTS AS REMEDIES. MR. BIRRELL‘S l1 are applied a.l&ng the sérve instead of the t stitches. T WIT. ’ ‘"Look here, now, Harold," said a father to his little son, who was naughty, ‘"if you don‘t say your prayers you won‘t go to heaven.‘" "I don‘t want to go to heaven," sobbed the boy ; "I want to go with you and mother." } Japan‘s Paper Umbrellas. The paper umbrellas of Japan are rendered impertious to viter by an application of oil secured from the seed of the rubber plant. The oil is extracted by means of presses, and before it is used is boiled and then cooled until it can be applied by hand to umbrellas with a piece of cloth or waste. No machinery or tools are used in applying the oil. When the oiling is completed the umbrellas are exposed in the sun for about five hours. noticed them and their efforts toâ€" day lacking adequate support from the homeland, are like throwing birdâ€"shot against Gibraltar. These river rats are of necessity piratical and lawless, A body floating unâ€" not‘ced and uncared for down the stream some bright morning tells the tale of a fight or treachery the night before or perhaps days ago. The river population of Canton, China, and vicinity is computed at 500,000. ~Rapid breeding and conâ€" stant recruiting from the pirates of the West River further up keep pace with the high death rate. They have no schooling, no religion, no morals, no hope. Until three years ago not even Christian missionaries noticed them and their efforts tn. eagerly invites a friend of his youth to dinner. | When a customer comes with a penny, in goes the ladle and comes up full of savory broth and chunks of meat, odds and ends, that the ’hntch(-r has had le‘t over. _ And what comes up the customer has to take. Once can imagine how anxâ€" iously the hungry urchin or the mother of seven must eye the incxâ€" orable ladle and how a pretty girl might get another draw from the butchor‘s boy. At ammny rate "to take potluck" means to take what you get and say nothing whether the pot is in Liâ€" moges or in the flat of the man who 'Onv Flunge of %g Ladie and Take II What You Gel. | The real crigin of the word "potâ€" luck" is unakrown to most of the Ipmplc who uss it. In Limoges, France, however, one runs into potâ€" luck itself. In a certain corner of \that quaint city of jostling roofs | there is still segregated, much as if in a ghetto, a Saracen population, [ probably a remnant of the wave of |Saracens that swept over Europe \hundrods of years ago. Here they ‘live in their crooked, narrow streets, following old customs handâ€" ed down from generation to generaâ€" ‘ tion. There are many butcher shops in the quarter, and outside of each steams a great pot of soup over a glowing brazier. In each pot stands a ladle as ancient as the pot. I yoo smm Rinsdchs WihiAn inb |hours and fifty minutes; the third, |three minutes and fortyâ€"six secâ€" ‘ords, giviag a total of fortyâ€"nine |hours, â€" seventeen minutes, â€" aad |fiftyâ€"five seconds. During the first 4,000 miles, he ’ says, the passengers would have the [ sensation of weighing oneâ€"terth more than usual, but afterwards *the_v would cease to weigh at all ard have the sensation of falliag inâ€" ‘dvfl ritely into space. To remedy the bad physical efâ€" ‘fccts which might result from these pheromena, _ special _ appliances, !says Capt. M. Pelterie, might be inâ€" stalled. The first of these phases, accordâ€" ing to the lecturer, would last twentyâ€"four minutes and nine seeâ€" onds ; the second phase, fortyâ€"eight REAL MEANING OF POTLUCK. For a vehicle weighing one ton the motor would have to be of 414,â€" 000 horsepower. For added weight the horse power must be proporâ€" tionately increased. When this combination is realized the journey would be divided into three parts. The first would be to drive the vehiâ€" cle with increasing speed until the sphere of the earth‘s attraction was passed. During the second the vehicle would continue its journey by inertia until it reached the point where the moon‘s attraction began, while the third would be the simple matter of dropping onto the latterâ€" surface, no motive force being neâ€" cessary. The first of thass rhases anmarA: The motor then would work a kird of continuous rocket, and M. Pelterie has made calculations of just how much power the engine must have to carry the vehicle along the 240,000 odd miles between the earth and its satellite. Since there is no atmosphere in the space between our planet and the moon, no system of propellors would be of any use, and the only possible means of driving the vehiâ€" cle forward would be an adantaâ€" tion of the rocket principle, which, he says, works as well in a vacuum as in air. The vehicle for the first travelâ€" lers to the moon will be, ‘he says, a closed vessel of extrems lightness provided with a motor of great power, a combination which the asâ€" tonishing advances of locomotion during the last hundred years brings well into sight. young engineer, on how to get from the earth to the moon in fortÂ¥4i3ht hours. M. Pelteric insists his idea is practicable, based on scientific calculations, and not reminiscent of Jules Verne‘s romance. 41 S was causeq by a paper read recently before the members of the French Physical Bociety by Robert Esnault Peltcrie, the brilliant French Engineer Says It May Be Done at No Distant Time. _ Astir was caused by a paper read Lawless River Population TRIP TO MOOX IN 4s HOURS! TORONTO Many a meek and lowly man has ruled the roostâ€"as a baby. One swallow does not make a summer, but oneâ€" grasshopper can make a dozen springs. Better be a busy little body than a little busybody. Paris has female bootblacks. You don‘t have to be a cannibal in order to live on your wife. The Turks believe amber to be an infallible preventive of nicotine poiâ€" soningâ€"hence its use for pipestems. A pen may be driven, but a penâ€" cil does best when it‘s lead. Brushâ€"tail goldâ€"fishes bring $500 apiece. Blue coral, the rarest of all, is only found in the Ray of Reaia. "I‘m after you!" the trapper cried. ‘‘Don‘t care a wrap!‘ the seal replied. Fish never stop growing. A bee collects a teaspoon‘ul of honey a year. Lesson XII.â€"The Finpty Tomb. (Easter Lesson). â€" For what did Jesus‘s women friends go to the tomb on Easter morning? Why bad this errand been delayed so jlong!? Whom did they find at the tomb? What did the angel bed them do? Who lingered near the tomb! Who apeared to her there? How did Jesus make himself known to her? What did the disciples think when Marvy told them whom she had gseen 1 l _ Lesson XI.â€"The Test of Abraâ€" ham‘s Fa‘th.â€"How old was Abraâ€" ham when Isaac was born? What had been promised to him concornâ€" ing Isaac‘? What supreme tost of his faith did God make? _ Where did. Abraham take Isare for sacriâ€" fice? What question did Isaac ask on the way? How did Abraham answer? How did God provide a sacrifice? _ What was God‘s real purpose in moving Abraham to ofâ€" fer up Isaac? |__Lesson VIII.â€"Abram and Lo#.â€" |How did the wealth of Abram and [Lot increase while they were in Egypt! _ What caused strife beâ€" 'tween their followers ?Q\\'hat did | Abram think it was b for them | to do? What did he offer Lot? Why did Lot choose the cities of the | plain? Where did Abram make his | home ? Lesson X.â€"The Destruction of Sodom. (Temperance Lesson). â€" Why did God destroy Sodom ? Whom did he forewarn of Sodom‘s doom ? What did Abraham do when he heard of this? Why did his plea for Bodom faill How was Lot saved? To what city did he flee? How was Sodom destroyed? What became of Lot‘s wife? Lesson IX.â€"God‘s Covenant with Abraham.â€"For what did Abram earnestly wish? What did God promise him as to his descendants!? How was his race to affect the world? Where were they to make their home? How did God change Abram‘s name? What did the change of name signify. an altar to God 1 For what purpose did he go _down into Egypt? of the ark!? What did God give Noah to do? What promise did he make Noah!? What was the token of this covenant!? Lesson VII.â€"The Call of Abram. â€"Where had Abram been born? Where did he emigrate with his faâ€" ther Terah? â€" What did God call him to do when Terah died? Where did Abraham go?t Whom did he take with him? _ Where did they stop? Where did. Abraham build Lesson VI.â€"â€"God‘s Covenant with Noah.â€"How long did Noah remain in the ark? How did he know when it was safe to leave the ark? What did he do as soon as he came out Lesson V.â€"â€"The Flood.â€"Who was Noah!? _ Among what kind of peoâ€" ple did he live? What did God deâ€" termine to do to these people! How did God plan to save Noah? Whom did Noah take into the ark! What happened when Noah had entered the ark!? How long did it rain! What became of the earth‘s inhabiâ€" tants ? Cain do to Abel!? How did God punish Cain? How did he protect him from the revenge of his fellow men. Lesson IV.â€"Cain and Abel.â€"Who were Cain and Abel!? What were their occupations? What sacrifices «lid they offer to the Lord? Why did God accept Abel‘s and reject Cain‘s? How did Cain feel toward Abel because of this? What did Lesson III.â€"â€"Man‘s First Sin. â€"â€" What was the only prohibition God gave Adam? Why did God give him any prohibition? Who tempted Eve to do the forbidden thing! How did she cause Adam to sin! How did they feel when they had sinned! How did they try to esâ€" cape from God? How did God purâ€" ish them? What hopeful prophecy did he give them ’ Lesson I.â€"The Creation. â€" Who lived before the world was created!? How did God create the universe! How many stages of creation were there? â€" What was the first thing God created? What was the work of the sixth day of creation? What did God say of everything he creâ€" ated? What did God do when the creation was finished ! Lesson II.â€"Man the Crown of Creation.â€"In whose image was man made? Of what did God make man‘s body ? What did he breathe into man‘s nostrils ? Where did Gt)d‘ place the first man? What did God give man to do?" Whom did he give him for a helpmeet!? _ What were God‘s intentions for man ? Lesson XIH.â€"The God of fathersâ€"Review. Golden text, Psa,. 22. 4. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY QUESTIONS FOR PUPILS INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 20. Fact and Faney. ‘‘Don‘t bother~ asbout studying whatâ€" you will .say,‘" replied Mi.s Cayenne. ‘"Rehearse an eloit to look surprised." ‘"What shall I say if Mr. Blinkâ€" ton asks me to marry him?" asked the young woman. Doris was radiaat over a recent| addition to the fam:‘y, and rushed| out of the house to to‘l the news | to a passing neighbor. ‘‘Oh, you | don‘t know what we‘ve got upâ€"| stairs ‘‘ ‘‘What is it?!! "lt‘s a| new baby brother!‘‘ And she setâ€"| tled back upon her heels and foldâ€". ed her hands to watch the et'fect., ‘‘You don‘t say so! Is he going to| stay?‘ <"I expect so," very| tl&ogghtfull)wâ€"“he‘s got his thingsl Olf. The staff of the Dungravan and district postâ€"office have presented Mr. R. E. Brennan with an i}lumiâ€" nated address in recognition of his 50â€"years‘ service as postmaster of the town. The reath is aanounced of the Rev. Dr. P. J. Kain, a Protestant minister, who was a member of the Fenian organization ard one of the Erin‘s Hope expedition in 1837. A wellâ€"known farmer of Castleâ€" town, near Thurles, Thomas Maher, has died as the result of injuries sustained through his horse boilting near the hill of Loughtugalla. ' The death has occurred of Mr. John Reilly, Red Bog, Belturbet, |at the age of 101, one of the bestâ€" !known devotees of cockâ€"fighting in | the north of Irelan Mr. John Redmond, M.P. for the city of Waterford, opened the new bridge, stated to be the largest of its kindâ€"a ferroâ€"concrete structure â€"in the United Kingdom. The Oughterard Board of Guvarâ€" dians have adopted a resolution urging that all oldâ€"age pensioners in the workhouse and all entitled to pensions be discharged. Miss Anastasia Keh_y, the Quay, Enniscorthy, has been appointed school attendance officer for the portion of the district at the westâ€" ern side of the Slaney. At Cookstown rural council, Mr. Bole mentioned that portion of the Kildren old churchyard wall had fallen and the ends of coffins were exposed. The ctores owned by Mr. D. Jamieson, wholesale confectione; and tobacconist, Conway Square, Newtounards, have been practicalâ€" ly destroved by fire. In taking a fence while out with the Westmeath Hounds, Alfred Curtiss, the second whip, â€" was thrown from his horse and fatally injured. Cookstown rural council have deâ€" cided not to consider any tender for building a laborer‘s cottage when the price exceeded $750. In consequence of a severe epiâ€" demic of measles in Newry, several of the Public schools have been closed forâ€"the present. Mr. J. C. Ryder, chief clerk of the Portadown postâ€"office, has been promoted to the position of postâ€" master at Wexford. The Rev. Robert Carroll, rector of Goleen, County Cork, has died as the result of injuries sustained in a driving accident. W A link with the Fenian movement has been snapped by the death of Thomas Crowe, Blackboy Pike, Limerick,. Lurgan rural council has secured a loan of $51,000 for the erection of laborers‘ cottages in the district. While attending to a crusher Thoâ€" mas Jones, Ballinglen, was caught in the machinery and severely crushed. While fishing in Athy, Constable Dunne, of the Royal Irish Constabâ€" ulary, hooked a pike weighing 16 lbs. Patrick McNamara, for 43 yei;s a member of the postâ€"office staff in Athenry, has just retired. Margaret Hayes of Little Corporâ€" ation Street, Belfast, has died from the effects of a burning accident. Happenings in the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irishâ€" men. FROM ERIN‘S GREEN IS!? NEWS BY MAIL FROM IREâ€" LAXNXD‘S SHORES. A great deal of our lives is comâ€" monplace, with little or nothing that is sensational or spectacular. The same routine of business or home work awaits us toâ€"morrow His days were just like those of anybody else who has to work for a living and upon whom the supâ€" port of a family depends. His life was full of routine and commonâ€" places. His teaching is remarkably simple. His figures of speech are of the commonest kind, and when He instituted His sacraments He used most commonplace things â€" water and bread and wine. His very name was an ordinary one. This was the common salutation of the Jews and meant ro more to them than ‘"Good morning‘‘ or ‘"Good evening‘‘ means to us. From the lips of Jesus it meant all that the words implied, and this was a characteristic of His life, to put a meaning into the commonplace. The Language of Our Saviour Is Always of the Commonplace Character Jesus saith, Peace be unto you John xx. 19. HIS TEACHING IS SIMPLE New Baby Brother. The Thing to Do. "An artisan, my son, can ‘l;sual‘ make at least §#8 a doy." The man who can laugh at a funâ€" ny story after hearing it the third time should not be trusted. He is a hrpocrite. "Pop, what is the difference beâ€" tween an artist and an artisan t‘ wisely, and snapped at a beetle. ’ ‘‘Mother, father, look!â€" Just see that toad! Where do you suppose it came from ?" ‘*Why, how lucky!"‘ said Wilâ€" lie‘s mother. "How lucky!" said his father. ‘‘Now your garden is complete ; J was going to hunt for one and bring it here. It‘s a sort of partnership, isn‘t it? I am to find the flowers and keep the weeds down, and the toad will kill the worms and buge, and you and mother can watch things grow.‘"â€"Youth‘s Companâ€" ion. | â€" Happy Hoppy was puzzled. She |did not understand until the big !man explained to some one who looked down from one of the winâ€" | dows. ‘‘You see, Willie could not go to grandmother‘s this summer, so weâ€"are trying to make the counâ€" |\try came to him." "est. of umbrellas to sit under on hot days; and there were big bunches ‘of clover, just the thing to attract moths ; and Solomon‘sâ€"seal stood up I’as i it had always grown therc. Happy Hoppy found that she had Idone a great deal of worrying for | nothing. Ah, that was it! Happy Hoppy had never heard of such a wonderâ€" fvl thiag, but right then and there she made up her mind to keep the bugs out of Willie‘s garden, She hopped from her hidingâ€"place in full sight of them all, rolled her eyes wisely. and snannad ut n hasel ' ‘iKerns, clover!‘ What can they mean {"‘ said Mappy Hoppy. and ,stretched her â€" short nr winked hard, and looked about. ' |enough! There were ferns, tender, | green shoots, curving up from the | earth to make, by and by, the coo!â€" boy said she sat quite still and blinked her eyes in the strong sunlight. ‘"‘This is such good, rich loam the woman was saying. ‘"Look how the things have started already! Why, the ferns are beginning to uncurl, and the clover is in bud _ *"I can see the tiny buds," the But one warm day she was so hungry that she had to come out to find somethicg to eat. She was just in time to see three people comâ€" ing out of the doorâ€"a man, a woâ€" man, anad a palefaced boy who sat in a strangeâ€"looking chair that moved on wheels. _ Happy Hoppy was too much surprised to move ; Happy Hoppy tried every cormme: of the yard to see if there were a hole big enough for her to craw) through, but there was not. That made her so unhappy that she hid hersell way down in the loose earth as far as she could go,. Bhe was so preoccupied with her troubles that when some one came to rake the earth she neither heard nor felt him. Happy Hoppy was sure tha would starve to death. Where the nice, fat cutworms, and busy â€" blackâ€"andâ€"yellow cucw bugs! She would have to : on houseâ€"flies, and she saw onl crawling about! Think how flies it takes to keep a healthy from hungerâ€"three hundred a When Happy Hoppy woke from her long winter nap, she felt so drowsy that she snuggled down in her warm burrow to take anothc: nap. She closed her eyes comfor tably, and thought that whén the sun climbed a little higher she would hop out and take a look at things. Thump‘! thump! What was that? _ An earthquake! _ Happy Hoppy‘s eyes popped open. What do you think had happened! ho had been shoveled up with a load of loam, hauled into the city, and dumped into a back yardâ€"and such a back yard! It was so small tha she could cover it in three good hops. Bhe looked round scorni ly. Not a bit of grass, not a i» was in sight ! Do you wonder that Hay py longed for the big gard where daisies and clover ; bes848t%e8e8eee%e | Young Folks morning, and a number of toâ€"moyr. rows ashead. We plan great things, but routine keeps us from carrying out our designs. The teadency of our modern industrial life is a)l {o increase this and to make machines of us. What shall we do! The ex. ample of Jesus is the answerâ€"p;; heart and meaning into the comâ€" monplace. Bo few do it that the field is large. A choir will strive after an anthem and neglect the singing of a hymn, Like Micawher, men will wait for something to turn up, and not only let pass the things that do come, but unfit themselves for the opportunity when it arrives It takes years of service and appli cation to win a battle. But this is the way to success. â€" "He that is faithful in that â€"which is least is is faithful also in much, and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much." To put this meaning inâ€" to the humdrum of life and to en courage us in it was a reason of Jesus‘ coming.â€"Rev. William M Horn. QWQW‘WM“' Mappy Hoppy‘s New Home. A Man to Avoid. How The Cholceost Pro« of the finest Teaâ€" ducing Country ln( Worlad \ 11 Its flavour and nent f n Â¥I 17 And BLACK, COREEN and A L L 17 H Record of Fixe Minute Water Has Reen Establ M y dlarling heat those nsecleanin ARABS PISH POR pper comaf« ind until the irthings of s y was to some e the issue of penai U t An 1 packet. 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