“4. t = J = : —* wy oe _ To ha RE ee CY Poe RS oe ! ; a et ne = Be A. a a h na ~~ +7 vay i e r 2 =" be - -" a eg ee ne eS Vises ere er ® & iri ae 4s: r c al ee The funniest things in the world are often found in the most serious places. ~~ Indeed, simee the humorist classified De * their jokes and proved them all to be y _- descendants of ancient sources, il is per- m - haps safe to say that the only original _shumor that we have is to be found where —-% parce is furthest from thought. For ‘instance, a learned scientist, Professor OH. Gross, in a new book on criminal . “psychology discusses the subject of char- -octer In its relation to hats. ITis obser- vations, he tells us, have convinced him that a hel worn exactly perpendicular -to fhe vertical axis of the head is a sign that a man is upright, bul a pedant-and A bore. A hat worn much on one side ds a mark of insolence and swagger. Wearing a hal on the back of the head proves that a man is reckless and in 4alebt. The farther back the hat is worn Ahe nearer to bankruptcy is the wearer. A hat worn Jow over. the forehead in- - _ «ficates a man of sulky temper. One of the professor's critics, while adminng his genius in this study, suggests that ‘he should add a sludy of the slyle of the Hat. <A relationship is suggested be- lween morality and- breadth of brim, wilh special reference to the Quakers, Txlra curlishness of the brim suggests wakishness, and so on, If Professor Gross were engaged in wriling books of the “nature-faking” pattern ot the orders of a_ publishing heuse one could understand his reasons fer such flights of fancy. But he isn't. ‘Books, on criminal psychology don't command that kind of encouragement. Ile is just one of our intensely serious ‘scientists, whose out pul of humor fs ‘unequaled. He is a worthy mate,, in a 2somewhatl different field, of the very great ‘rnius Lombroso, who is so intensely ‘serious thal, often aos he has been tricked ‘into making himself absurd, he never Aas realized the point. Lombroso's latest disaster was in con- ion wilh. the criminal Soleilland, saboreavhom atl Paris is talking. Some “one sent the expert on degeneracy photographs of the criminal’s hands, and The result is a published deseriplion of ‘the-marks which prove that Soleilland “belongs to the born degenerates, and “Ohght not lo be punished for his atro- scius crime. Unforlunalely. Bertillon, head of the police anthropomentrical de- partment of Paris, declares that the ‘hands have not been pholographed, and Turther investigation shows that Lom- "brcso had been duped with photographs of the right hand of a dresser of sheep- "skins and the left hand of a stableman. -bcth free of public record. v — e case is like that which happened ome yeirs ago, when Lombroso asked Tor photographs of the hands of women semminals of Paris and by mistake was ssent photographs of the hands of re- ‘speclable, hard-working women em- phived ot the Central Markets. He fou the criminal marks, however, and pl the photographs along with Tis “Cxpert study in a work that ap. ‘soon afterward, If Prof. Gross attemps 49 apply his theory practically, he will Mikewise be meat for the practical jcker. And of course, he will never see the ipoint. 7 OUR LITTLE FRIEND. “Papa,” soid Willie, as he and his father roamed over (he fields logether. eT tike to go walking with you. You ‘pow sO much aboul everything, don't your’ : “Yes, Willie, I know a great deal,” returned Mr. Bronson, conplacenily. “And itis a great pleasure to me. my son, to be able-to impart to you the auformation [ have aequired,” Willie looked as if he didn’t exactly Anow what “acquired,’ and “impart, fnd “infortnation” meant, but he took ii for granted that his father under- stcod what he was saying? and for a Tuinule he was silent. “1%n he asked, catching sight of cattle @fazing in the Micxt fleld?" “Papa, what is cows?" “Wows,” returned Mr. Bronson, after @anioment of thoughl—‘cows—er—are animals with horns, that give milk and “eit grass." “Do cows like grass beller than they no apple-pie and custard?” asked Wil- ~ ie s irs i % “Very much better,” said Mr. Br at : ter, Hid Mr, Bron- ray ott, i “Why do they, papa’ asked Ihe boy. bey Ol, becouse they were born that Way. "Why do cows. givd Can‘ they sell it?” “No, Cows don't knaw anylhing about money, vou know; ond even if they 7 we =) milk, papa? ' W/ LJ — lhe ill rey “aks they wouldn't know where to keep = 4 ; * id “Couldn't they keep it in their horns?” tt >. "Oliv try, not” i ¥ S “What pood are cows’ horns? nea they make that funny ‘nwo sound with > heir horns?" oe Whit an iden! No,- indeed. ae to (hat with their throats,” Se “Why don't they do it with their rns?” “They can’t." — *Cant anybody blow horns?” “Oh, yes. Tin horns, and—er-—brass horns, bul nol cows’ horns,” “Papa, why don't cows have tin heris?' “Oh, nonsense! Oh—cr-—because {how 4re cows, 1 suppose,” <5 And then he regretted that he led Praunised to tmpart information, i - They rs > ae 4 = i a es ———— me Oo Phy ges He Mat gives lo be seen would nevei pT ks ectieve Qe in ‘the dark, Some men would have more Wf their friends would puy up. A non-commissioned officer, €ntering @ barrack gate in Dublin, was mistaken ty the “Iresh one” on sentry ga, who immediately saluted him. The non. ssioned officer, unaware that his wns just behind, returned the | thing not permissible under cumstances, Arrived at his quar- Pp ers, ho was surprised to find an order FP. fr him to attend before the colonel. Sam th Rrosineg himself he was asked } © Faw heeame to return tho salute, know- hae ae full well he was not entitled to it * Pie “ot. in the least “embarrassed, he sae promplly answered, “Sir, I always. re- _ , ‘turn everything | am not entitled to.” Loney THE BVERYDAY HEAVEN Things _— He Is Truly Godly Who Sees God In All of Life, — “The earth is full of the loving kind- ness of the Lord."—Ps, xxxili., 5 Life's poverty is due, not to what we Lave had and Jost, nol to .nwhat has been withheld or taken from us, but lo the good ovhich we might have had which we carelessly have. passed by. Mo others Uespoil us as we despoil our- selves by our blindness and indiffer- ence to the wealth of our own lives and Ihe beauty ever close al hand. We who scurry over land and sea, who dig, and toil, and. fret to find hap- piness. come back at last fo learn that the sweet faced guest has been wait- Ing close by our door all the time. He perishes in the pililess «nows avho, blind to the good and the glory in every velley and hillside, heels only the im- Pulse to climb and find the good in some remole height. Ambilion and pride lif, ever new peoks ahead only mock him when at last, worn, spent and emply in hearl, he falls by the pay. Tha old theology talked much of a remote future; the new fhealogy often seems inclined to ignore any ‘heaven, Fut what the hearts of men need is the sense of the heaven that is all about lhem, the God who ever is near, and lhe blessedness ¢ven now altainable. SOME LIVE IN THE PAST, complacently contemplating the grories that once were theirs or their ances- lor’s; some live in the fulure, dreaming of felicities yet to be; but they are nvise only who live to the full in the present, who catch the richness and beauty, all ‘he weallh that the passing hour or tne present. opportunily may have. He is truly godly who sees God in all the affairs of this dav, in the faces of living men, in the flowers and fields, who sees all the divine wonder and beauty of life, and not he who sees the Most High only in some legendary past or in a strange, imaginary. fulure. No nian beomes strong by reminis- cence Of his breakfast or dreaming of his next meal alone; each portion ol heaven far away, to be attained in the! time must have its own filting food. The soul of man never can find its full- ness through either history or prophecy; if necds the sense of the spiritual in {his living, pulsating, matter offact present, This, world is slovenly, sinful, and evit because so many of us are content with the past or the future, with myth or twith imaginolion, and fail to de- mand the development of the good that is our heritage foalay, The better day comes not by dreams, but by each man doing the best he can and securing all the good he can for his own day. We need to give up the plan of Savy- ing: ‘the world by the piety of postponed measures and to find the fullness of life in the present to get below the sur- face of things and DISCOVER LIFES REAL RICHES fo interpret this daily toil amd struggle, end “all (his world of ours, in terms of the divine and iniinse, How much it would mean {to Our lives if we might learn, inlead of sigh- ing’ for the impossible, to get all the sweetness and joy that is in the things we have, how rica we would find the common. lot to be, how many things that now seem dreary and enipty would bloom inio new beauty, Im 9 child’s smile, a wild flower’s fragrance, a glint of sunlight, things possible to all, we would find joys unspeakable and full cf glory. This does mean dull content with things as {he¥@pre; it does mean the de- velopment of tfe facullics af apprecta- tion, the growth of the life In power 'o see, the development of the dull earth with the glory of the ideal. Some day, when své look back Over cur lives, how keen will be our regret as we realize what we have missed, bow ‘we have spurned the substance cf life’s lasting treasures, human loves, friendships, everyday beaulies, and happiness, while chasing the shadows af imaginary joys. HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON ———a INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. .29. Quarteriy Teview. Ps. ciii., 8. A Comprehensive Golden Text: svi.. 1-15). “Golden Text, “T am the Living Dread from heaven.’ (ex, al. down derness Jchn Vi.. which came own right hand without any assilance whalever- from them gave them bread and flesh fo the full withoul any labor our Lord in John vi. He plainiy taught hal the manner was typical. of Himself. Lesson U—The Ten Commandments: duties toward God (B.r .ax, 1-11). Gold- en Text. Det. vi. 5, “Thon shalt the. Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soc! snd with all thy might.” de who loved them enough’ to redeem them and whose love to them wos an everlasting love, an unchanging ve (Deut. vil., 6-8: Jer, xxxi., 3: Mal is, a cui... G), asked that they should” love Him in return for such great love. Lesson IbF—The Ten Commandments: dutiesstoward men (Ex. xx, 12-17). -Gold- en: Text, Lev. xix:, 16, “Thou shalt love lhy neighbor as thyself."” Jt is only by oul love to our fellows thal we can prove or manifest our love to God, for “he that loveth not his brother, whom he halh seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?” (1. John iv., Bi. Lesson IV.—Fhe golden calf (Ex. XNXii,, 1-6,°30-35. Golden Text, 1 John v., 21. “Lithe. children, keep yourselves from idols.” The people who promised li alo all that God said could not keep if six weeks, could nol Keep their pro- mise at all, bul hey made a show. of obedience fora lithe while, V.—The tabernacle (Ex, xl. I-13, 34-38... Golden Text, Ex. xi, -34. “Then a ¢loud covered the tent of the eanprepalion, and the glory of the Lerd filed the tabernacle.” A dwelling plac for God in the midst of Israel erectéd by Spirit filled men from the wiling offer- ings of the people, who had fo be re strained from bringing, Lesson Vi.—The sin of Nidab and Abthu (Lev. x., 1-11). Golden ‘Text, Prov. xx, 1, “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever deceived thereby is not wise.” The sin of these men was the strange fire they offered hefore the Lord, refusing a willing obe- (ience and presuming lo do as they Khought best. Verse «| may possibly im- [.e@s50n | oly that the cause ,of their sin was slrong drink. Lesson VIl.—The day of atonement Lev. XV, o, Golden Text, Heb. vii,, 23, “Wherefore Ee is able to save them lo the ullermos: that come unto God by Him.” . God's provision for the pulting away of the sins of Israelonce ayeor faintly ivpified the eterna redenipiion which we hive in Christ Jesus by His one offering up,of Himself, anee for all. AS in Jsrael’s case, so in Ours—the priest ‘iv, it alls we receive tae benefit. Lesson vall.—Israel — journeying | to Cannan (Num, x., 11-15, 29-26). -Goden bext, Ex. xilhe2T, “And, the Lord went before Ahem by day ja oo pill of a cijud, (o~ lead thenr the way, and by eighh inner of fire, 09 pive. them ehh”. — Delivered “fran tiem -enemies, ther Deliverer even with them, dawell- Un elaeir mist previsvon for all -the ‘Aurney assured diye Be diay, the ood ‘rb before hem, and atl the way thefr faithful guide to tell then when to po und when to-stay. Lesson IX.—The two reports of the spies (Nflm. xili., 17-20; 23-33). Golden Text, Num. xiv., 9, “Ihe Lord is with us, fear them not.”. Under such pecu- lierly blessed circumstances and with sich assurances from the living God to lalk of sending spies to seo if il was as God had said was surely sinful unbelief, and yet Moses fell info line with it, and God in gracious compassion for their weakness permitted it that those who would not believe His word might. learn in their own harder way. Lesson X.—The bazen serpent (Num. xxi., 19) - Golden Text, John iij., 14, 15, “Ag Moses lifted up the serpent in the alia] oo ee >. The colonel, taken aback by his ready ee: wil, Tnughingly diauniesed him, a a — ae eS a el = - : “<e oh I <a <4, _ “s okt * ed " “* wilderness, even so must ihe Son of Man be lifted “up, that whosoever be-| lesson I.—God feeds Israel in the wil- licveth in Him should not perish, bul huve eternal life.” Natl hiking God's way and speaking against God brought a ict of trouble, and vet it is the ordinary way of all men since that old -serpent enused Adam and Eve to fall in with his plan of geting on in defiance of God. Lesson X1.—Moses pleading with Is- rael (Deut: vi., 1-15). “Golden Text, Deut. v1., 12. “Beware, lest thow torget: the Lerd-” In the end of the fortieth year since they left Egypt (Deut. 1., 3) Moses rehearsed all the Lord's dealings with them, reminding them of all the ways {hat the Lord had led them, of His un- changing Jove and manifold mercies, He ai who redeemed them froin Egypt bv His | on their part; and in the discourse of | Lord is the death of His saints,’ love and he may be said to sum up his ex- raion to them in the words, “ies<m- ker, forget nob the Lord, love and obey Him.” Lesson (Deut, XNXXIV., CAVE, ld; Afoses LS. the steht of the In John xvil.. 24, He said lo His Father that He longed to have them with Him that they nught see His glory, In Phil. i., 21, 23, we Tend nat “lo die is oain, wbhe'e: rst e part and be with Christ is far better.” More literally the last two words should be “very far betler:* dealh of Golden Text, AIT.—The 1-12), * : 4 : i PeC hus in bi =e ee WARSIIP BUILDERS BUSY. Firnys Vlave Secured Many Large Contracts, British Brilish shipbuilders are experiencing que a “boom” in contracts for war- ships, Brazil has recently given contracts la Messrs. Armstrong, Whilworth and Company and Messrs. Vickers, Sons und Maxim for the building of three battleships and two cruisers, Japan has ordered two submarines of the Holland type from: Messrs. Vick: ers, and the Argentine Government twce powerful cruisers from Messrs. Armslrong, The Vickers Company has also. se- Cured an order for two battleships fer Chink, which country is also in the natkel for twenly shallow-draught gun- Lodis for patrol service on the Yang- Ise-Kiang, ihe «announcement — being medo that tenders from British firms wil. receive favorable consideration. Tenders are alsa out for the 33-knal (astrayers, provision for which has Leen made in this year's navy esli- mates, ond. shipbuilders on the Admir- nity list have just been asked to tender for the consiruclion of lorpedo boals. which-are to form the basis of the new Australian Navy, but as a hitch has accurred in the negoliations there wil] probably be some delay in placing them, % BOUND TO- SUCCEED. The old -gentleman didn't want the young gentloman to marry (he young lidy, the young lady being the old gen- leman’s daughter, So, when the young gentleman came-on the all-important mission, the old cgentieman set his face against the young gentleman, “NO, sir,” said he, with angry em- pe ‘you cannol have my daugh- or? “Bul I want her,” urged the young Benilemin, “and, what is of some con- sidvration in the count, she wants me.” “That makes no difference, sir; you com have her,” “That means, | presume, that you watt me to give her up?” “Exactly.” “Do you think Tam going to do it?” he asked, in, @& tone whieh did -not strike the old gentleman as altogether siibmissive, “I. dow” “Well, no wonder you don’t wan! rie for a son-in-law, if you (bink I am that kind of a fellow. I don’t blame you at all; I wouldn't have that kind c! a son-in-law myself, even if sons- in-lanr were going at a premium, But. my dear sir, I am not that kind. |} want your daughter for my wile, and am going to have her; she wants me for a husband; I have no objection te you as ay father-in-law, and she rather aGmires you as a falher, Therefore. I am warranted in joining the combin.- ation, and mean to do it. See?” And the old genlleman saw, ee : “Why did you leave your last place? sure, I worr discharged for doin’ wel! ium.” “Discharged for doing well Why, where Were you?" “I worrin th herspital, mum,” i] A GHOST STORY WHICH IS SAID TO BE TRUE. Man Came Back to Deny to His Niece That He Had Committed Suicide, I was at the period of which I am writing, a highly supersensitive child of 7-years. We lived in a great square two- Slorey house of the colonial type, having ® wide middie hall with some rooms opening from both sides of it- and-a bread staircase leading lo the upper floor. ay Of this same hall and staircase 1 still retain a most vivid recollection, as I-was eonipelled -la traverse -them every night ut precisely 6.30 o’clock on my way to bed. The room in which T slept was a large one and boasted of a “four-poster? bedsuead with curtains, that towered, eaclafalquelike, in. my faney, two-thirds of the way to the ceiling, Afler I] had been undressed and put belween the sheets by the maazt and she had taken the candle away T would lie qujelly enough in the slillness, for | cclld hear not the slightest sound from ihe other parts of the house, but a great dread would come upon me that some- thing was about to happen. And something did invariably inke place. As T lay expectantly, too frightened to move or ery out, the curtains at the foot of the bed would be slowly. very slowly, moved aside and three or four “person- aces,” in flowing robes of a long past century, their heads surmounted by iall peaked caps having streamers falling from them, would look in upon me, their eyes dancing with wicked mirth and lheir lips wreathed in mocking smiles. Affer regamling me in this fashion for several minutes they would bow deri- sively once or {wice and vanish, sometimes they came no more that night, though I offen saw them three or Icur times in succession. Occasionally they varied the performance by ayital- ing the curtain as thodgh about to pari them and then not doing so, keeping me In. an agony of suspense and fear until such time as my mother thought fit to come upstairs and retire with me, for il was in her chamber that I slept. AGONY OF SUSPENSE AND FEAR. fwas again heard, and D0 THEY SAY 1 DID IT?” Frequently when my mother had been lying in the bed beside me the curtains would be displaced and her counterpart | weuld look in upon me, wilh the same mecking smile worn by. the other ap- pearances, & look of gratified malicious- ness on her face, as if she were saying lo herself: | a | of “Ada is half frightened out of her wils | and | am glad-of it.” IL muy be wondered al that I did not | relate. my experiences to my mother, with a request that Ibe not sent to hed | in 60 distant a part of the house, but it | rust be remembered that at the time | @¢lberaton often ‘these events took place (1827-28) childrén | stood so in awe of their parents that | they never once thought of questioning | their commands or seliciing a change | in any arrangement they might. see fit | Lo. mate, In fact, on one occasion, when seated | on my Uncle Walters knee, I ventured | ini@ht- after if was made the three anti- ha open my heart to him on these mat- lers, my mother overwhelmed me by saying : “All these things are ‘allowed to hap-; pen 1o you because you have a wicked | heart. If you were a good girl - you} would go to sleep like other children,” EACH WITH: A. HUMAN “SKULL, This last observation I was led to he- lieve is literally true, for on the yery quated, tall-capped dames appeared to me, each one with a human skull, red | anc dripping, in her hands, and gnaw- ing; al it. When they saw me they flung the skulls at me and disappeared, As may be imagined [ was: more. than delicghivd when my mother, affer what seemed to me an age of waiting, at last eame to me, allhough I never breathed a svilable 40 her of what had ‘oeccurréd, fearing she would make still further wn- complimentary remarks, eoncerning my wicked heart, a description of an organ my Unele Walter smilingly argued 1 never did or could possess, for of all my mather’s numerous iamily of boys and virls | was my undle’s pet, And he was a.man. of independent means and had given up all occupation, except his favorite cne of shooting. Eh had plenty of time at his disposal, much ft which he spent at our house; taking me upon his knee, stroking my hair, spilling kindly inlo my eyes the while, kissing his “child,” he invariably termed me, and then carrying me away ‘oar whole days of pleasant walks in the wills, or drives throuch the surround- ing country pleasures thal were so many ccol, green spols in an olherwise cormh- monplace life. Bul these blissful excursions came {0 an abrupt. termination, for one day news was brought to us drat mv Uncle Waller had that morning, while cleaning his guns after a day's sport, accidenlally shot himself through the head, dying al. most instantly, Of course there were a few individuals who instantly raised a cry of suicide. but my unéle’s well-known blani@less- ness of living, coupled with the facls of his ample income and entire freedom fiom unpaid debts, soon shul the mouths of his traducers and left his memory in peace. CAME AT HEAD OF HIS TROOPS. iis One night as TI lay mourning: the beautiful life that had gone out of my brief life, 1 heard a sound of music in lhe distance, slow and exceeding sad. | elmbed oul of bed and hastened to a window of my room, looking oul upon a road which ran past the house, Nearer. and nearer came the music, muffled, solemn and dirgetike, Then the tramp of marching fect was heard, and an regiment of Highlanders, of which my Uncle Walter had been colonel, with his awn tall, powerful form at ils head, slowly approached, When ib-was direcily underneath my window the word. of. coinmand was ciyen, the regiment halted, the music eeased and my uncle turned to me. 1 neliced that his face wore an expression sf most indescribable despair. “Child,” said he, in the same kindly lones wilh which | had been so familiar, “what do they say about me?.-Do the3 sty J did ib?” L hesitated fo answer him, as I was /Carftul of wounding his feelings, but-he spoke again. “Tell. me, child; I wish to. know.” “Well, yes; they do,” I replied. He shook his head gravely and mourn- Thy. Ney ne,” -he- said. "Far from vishing to put myself out of the world, would give alli ever possessed to be ack in at-once more.” m3 My uncle turned away, the word of ® .cmmand was given, the dirgelike music! the. regiment passed slowly from my sight. reness I have just set down took place, not during sleep or a-state of clairvoy- ance, but when I was wide awake, and. (hat I was, at the time, a child of little more than 7 years of age. nee. PRACTICE PERFECT WALK. Remember That © Short, Indolent Gait is Not Exercise. _ The perfect walk must be straight, Each slep should measure lhe length af the faot apart, Do not dake short, choppy steps, Re- member that a short, indolent gait is net exercise; m fact; you are repeatl- ig litle mere {hans a minor action that takes place from the knee down. _ No exercise is more health-produc- ing than a long walk, governed by cer- tain rules. that must necessarily be ob- served. With the slep draw in a deep breath, slowly exhaling, The value of walking as an exercise and for graceful carriage depends en- nel = He ne the correct posi- On and in taking dee hest-ex - ing breaths, : eed First of all, see to it that your shoul- ders drop straight back, Lift your feet neally. Some women shullle along and never Seem to. ‘iff Lheir fset at all, Watking, which goes with houschold work, that done during the hours- when In the shop or office, when the brain Ww occupied, is nol true walking. About the same may be said -of tha kind of walking in which the feet fee) as heavy as lead and the mind is eon- cerned wilh every care and woe ef tne pussing moment, Regulate the length of your step hy yeur height. CHILD SUICIDE EPIDEMIC ——e IN GERMANY DURING FEW YEARS, {,152 LAST ee Grave Concern Caused by the Memark- able Increase of Terrible Crimes, The glowing number of child suicides in Germany—t 152 have occurred during thie last few years—is CHusing grave canes rn in (hal ¢ountry: “This. problem of child suicide,” says well-known Beriin doctor. “ts one ihe most fascinating, one of the mast lerrible and, «at the same lime, cuc Of the most urgent of the preseni day. Precise statistics. are not easily cblainable, but it is safe lo say thal. although our record is nob so bad as that of Russia—in which eountey ada eeses were registered during a limited period recently—it is suM@ciently dis- quieting, "Why should boys and girls upon the brink of life, so to spenk, take (heir uwn lives with a determination and a a unequaled jy. sui- c.des Of mature years? Many clever rains have confessed that ‘ iT Is A PAINFUL. - RIDDLE. *ersonally, I helieve that a large pro- RESON ef child suicides—quiie apart ira Ine admitted danuver of mental Versirain al sehcol—are ihe direct re- Bull of wha [may call the disillusion: ment of life, ie eta! ee is : ™ A young mind, when -first bronaly| INTO ouch with stern realities, invari ity suffers a woefy] disappointment. (irls and boys alike eherish Ouixotie lomanic ideas, The Schoal girl thinks i she will meet her hero; the sehoolkay Wiagines that the world is at his fect Al Ine first contacl. with the sordid rouline of life they recoil, and in this recoil, which occurs as a Tule behween the ges Of 12 and. 16,“ their minds which are in a delicate, half-formed lnpressionable deranged, Slag@—may be— egsily Common sense has not yel come to their aid, and the «mall Te. buifs of life sink deeply into thei; minds,” The following cases were cited-— A’ key of 12 hanged himself because he was dissatisfied with his duties in & news-agent’s shop, A lad of 16 poisoned himself thr Nigl nol being able to make headwav as an iminteur playwright. . A liltle girl, aged 12, poisoned her. Self because a childish love affair wis CHECKED BY HER PARENTS. A boy of 14 vears of age threw hin. selt overboard fran a vessel and was drowned Lecause he was dissatisfied with sea life, Because she was reprimanded slealing sweels, a 12-vear-ald drowned herself in a pond, Greved at not winning a prize in a school competition, a 45-vear-old lad shot himself with a revolver, What is the remedy for child suicide: Lininent aulthor:ties, alihougsh agrecine in the main, differ in detail, A parti- clilar. solicilude in he case of - excit- tble, imaginative children recary- mended, and parents are advised 14 s.udy the temperaments of their chil caren. Many a childish tragedy has it is asserled, been prevented by an overwrought boy or girl being able to pour into sympathetic ears a story ef disillusionment and grief. a— FIGHT WITIL JACKALS. Seltler in South Africa Has Narrow Escape in Encourter, for grin’ is While he was on a shooling trip about fourteen miles from lis home a! Beaufort West, Cape Golony, this week, A. E. Clarke Kuir, a British set- Ger, had a terrible fight with jackals. What he took to be a herd of buck epproaching him turned oul to “be ‘n pick of “Panhe” jackals, the large va- riely so much dreaded by farmers .and kerdsmen, Instead of allowing the pack to,»pass unmolested; he fired and Killed the. leader, The others advanced on him. and. be- fre they surrounded him he-killed threa mare ond wounded two. Then a grim Tight against overwhelming adds. be- gan, for he was alone in {he bush. Using his rifle as a‘club, Mr. Kuir dis- (pased ofa few more of the brutes, bul ‘bis weapon broke and’ he was lef with only the two barrels t4 defend hupselt, By this fime he was fearfully torn anid mauled. about the neck, “arms and thighs, and was ~ rapidly growing: ex- hausted. Just before he sank to the ground unconscious one large jackal sprang en his shoulders and buried ile tee!h in his neck; and he remembered no- thing more. When he recovered his senses he was.in a sheep kraal with feur friends, who had saved: lis ‘life. They came on the scene as he was falling, and as the infurialed beasts were rushing on him to tear him lo ‘pieces a few shols and a combined mish scattered the animals -in all] directions. Afler taking him. hone, Mr... Kuir's rescuers returned, and found twenty- one dead jackals which they skinned. | ‘They. sent him “half. a dozen of the skins as mementos of the incident, a 7 a i -* a = a ay . PEOPLE MAD. * Shown In Some Men's Wills. _ “The true index of a man's character is contained in his last will and -testa- ment,” somebody has writlen. If this is %3, then the late Lord Grimthorpe must have been a peculiar and eccentric man; fur il has taken nearly two years to ob- lain probate of his will on account of the fact thal it extended to 11,070 words, no fewer than twenty-five codieils being at- tached, each contradictory of. the other and of the will. These codicils were written on odd seraps of paper—circu- lurs, bills, and envelopes—and alte- gether form a remarkable and miscel- laneous collection of teslamentary | pa- pers, says London Tit-Bils, In contrast to ihis elaborate and puz- aiing will il is interesting ta note thal [ard Inverclyde disposed of more than S.,000,000 on a sheet of notepaper; Lord Manslield found half a sheet sufficient, while a dozén lines -served to dispose of Lerd Russell of Killowen's estate of nearly $750,000, The will of te late Mr. Justice Stephen was a model of brevily, for it began and ended in the thirteen words, “I give all my property: to my wife, whom I appoint scle executrix.” The shortest will ever wade, however, was that of a well-known resident of sireatham, who. died last year worth 342,250. On the back of an old envelope he wrote in his last moments “ALL FOR MOTHER. C. 'T..” This was witnessed by his twe sons, Bequests to a wife, however, are some- limes marked by vindictiveness instead of generosily. Some years aga, for in- slance, the will was proved of a man who left his wife the sum of one far- Lung, and ordered that it should be sent uy her by post in an unslamped enye- lcpe. He complained that she had called him an old pig and other names. His wili had been made twa years before his death, Equally spiteful was the man who left 92.500 to his widow, “which she is only la come into the enjeyment of after her death, in order that she may be buried svitably as my widow.” ‘This bequest the judges set aside, and a similar fate befell that of a man who left a legacy to a relative on condilidn that the legatee drank up all the waler in the sea, Coun- se, on both sides. argued the question very learnedly for several days, and the judge reserved his judgment until the fallowing term. He then declared. that “as apparently the condilion could nol be performed, the hequtést was void,” Mention -of vindiclive wills reminds Ihe writer Of..a_ will ~vhich. was proved last vear at Somerset House, in which a man left all his poods to his daughters. wilh instructions that the -residuars ‘epalee pay seven cenls lo certain eentleman for the purchase of A HEMPEN -CORD OW TALTER the use of his “dear” wife, with recommendation that that lady shautd niake use of the same wilhout delay! Particulars of a $40,000) legacy whic! has already driven one man mad come from Paris. Two years ago a Russian lady, who had led a mysterious €Nis- tence in Paris, died, and bequeathed a sum of $40,000.0n the following strange <nditions. A mausoleum was ta be rected over her grave at the cemetery . Pere Lachaise, and inside was to be 1 small chamber, or cell, in which .t aspirant for the legacy of $40,000 was { inke up his residence night and day for iNmelve months and watch by her wmb. Whoever should undertake the vigil wus 4 hold no communication with anyon “cept the person who should . supply him with meals from a neighboring res- (nurant, A candidate duly came forward, anc luring the first few months all wen: well, At the end of six. months, how- ver, Lhe man became very morose, and tt the end of eight months the local po- lice magistrate was obliged to interfere, fcr the man had lost his reason. He i- now in the hinatic asylum, and the $40. WG, so far as the writer has heen able lo learn, is still waiting to be eclaime: oy someone who will fulfil the conditions required by the legacy. WANT TO BE CREMATED, il for It is curious how many people ar Viraid of being buried alive. Some rea lera may remember that when Mis< Francis Power Cobbe, the well-known suthoress and-social reformer, died two years ofo, the will conlained an injune- ram to her medical adviser to “complete. 'y and tharovghly sever the main arter- 3 Of fhe head altogether, so as to ren- lei my revival in the grave absolutely mpossible. If this operation be not per- armed, and iis completion witnessed hy ne ar other of my excculors ond lesti- iat by same, 1 pronounce all the be- pests In this will to be mull ond void.” Mr. Henry Thomas Elwes, a wealthy hnchelor of Sussex, who died recently at the age of seventy and directed that his remains should be cremated and ihe ashes aflerwards scattered on lhe lawn Of the house in which he had resided fo) many years, is one of the many men and women who have made equally re- markable arrangements for the disposal ? their mortal remains, Hlis instructions remind one of the late Mr ‘T. Bevan, one lime M.P. for Graves- end, who directed in his will that his bedy should be cremated, and “the ash, residue ground to powder and — again burnt and dissipaled in the air.” Even this request, however, was not s0 re markable as that of an angler who directed that his ashes should be carried Tt tet oa ie a * _e ~~ T £ ae oo - rare iyo = re =. 'y- = 7 a | me, =, 2 0 -— ae £ i at a setae Ore = - = li must be recollected that. the [WHIMS OF WILL-MAKERS LEGACIES THAT DROVE SOME Vindictiveness Instead of Generosity Is aa | oe - oo LIFE IN THE CELLS OF A. Great Severity, S chine Abel in civilian life. habe by a fine of half-a-c ‘ in aur gallant eae nissed with cells!" M a trifling “Fourteen Surely it is foolish to thus depends, and reforms are bound {o- fol- low when the general public know all the facts, says London Answers. - On the sacred Oner’s se captain ba quarter-deck, the pris« ‘The culprit stands barcheaded between the escort of sturdy Marines: then, the sentence haying | : mans cap is replaced, and, in obedi- ence to the sharp command. of “Left turn! Quick march!” the prisoner and escort march off to the cells, which - ees in the foremost Sc. Before enterin Be, g@ the cell allotted to prisoner removes his uniform, Which he is supposed to have disgrac-| “1, and dons a coarse white duck suit, stamped prominently with the number of the cell’in which the man is to be confined. His cap is of the same ma- lerial, bul shaped somewhat like a smoking-cap, The massive iron door hen clangs noisily upon him. the key crates in the great brass padlock: anu the prisoner is alone in the tiny, SILENT COMPARTMENT, The cell is about -¢ fcur feet wide, w six feet. The furniture, or fittings, CCMprise & woden bed, a tin plate, and a basin of the same unbreakable ma- terial. The walls of the cell are white. Washed, and the compartment is well lighted, At night the cell is illuminated by a single electric globe, which sheds ils! welcome rays through a square of plate glass, the light being switehed on and! oft from the oulside. In tha door a biny glass is let in, of the size of a lilly cent piece, through which an ob- servant eye occasionally lakes -a fur- ‘ive peep al the prisoner, Early in the morning the tin plate iS piled up with hard ship's bisewit, which supply has to last the prisoner for the whole day, without any other variely of food, Occasionally, however, when dhe incarcerated sailor conducts himself in a praiseworlhy manner, he is dllawed the luxury of a few. boiled po- laloes. ai dinner-time, All prisoners are allowed about two ucurs' exercise per day—one hour. in the forenoon and one hour-in the af lerncon. An escort of two Marines and’ one corpcral arrives outside the cells, and the preal doors are swung back. ‘ha prisoners then step forth, and, hanked by the armed escort, make their woy up [he iron conmpanion-ladder to Ux breezy fo'e's'le above. The escort is Slalioned af the taffrail in. the form «f a triangle, while the prisoners aval triskly round and wound the deck, eagerly breathing in the pure, REFRESIUNG SALT. BREEZES. The hardest part of cel-life is tha dtly task which wwe prisoners are sel, Hach man is foreed io pick dwo-pounds «f oakum per day—hy no means an eesy task, - Old tarred rope is cut into “engihs of oboul six inchés each, and wo pounds of the material weighed liu. This rope, being almest as hard and as tough as iron, the prisoner finds it necessary to spend the greater part of the doy in patiently untwisting the nnany strands, and picking them anti] ne materiv] has been reduced to a fine, fl, hairy mass, ' When the day for «release arrivés, th: ship's corporal enters the cell wilh a bucket of sleaming water and a scrub ber, with whieh the man-is ordered 4 scrub the cell, Then, to the delight 3] Ihe prisoner, his old familiar suit al Navy-blue is fassed in to him. «vhich suil he quickly dons, kicking the old prison. duds contempluously into the ‘arthest oorner, Aft Jasi the great door swings backward, and the prisoner— pale, tired, unshaven, but childishhy nappy in his release—steps from the ml a-free man. —— a = SHOOTING-BON ON WHEELS, Tridian Rajai’s Luxurious Caravan for Hunting in the Jungle, “The most luxurious caravan of mod: ern times.” Such is the Claim put for ward by a London firm on behalf of a vehiele, the lolal cost of which amounts Mi considerably over $5,000, which they have just constructed. Ten weeks apo Lhe order was placed by an Indian raja whose intention It is to use the vehicle ts o movable shooting box. It is now ready for exportetion to Bombay. Between the windows—strongly bar. red withoul, so that they may be loft open in safely, with mo fear of intru. sion from the wild béasts of the jungle —ten portholes are interspersed, The roof is curved slightly in the manner «f a quarler-deck, . The walls are built of the strongest leok—the only wood capable of with. stunding the full onslaught of the In- cian sun—lined with light oak.” ‘Ibe caravan, which is ¢cliborately fitted, waiphs ton tons in all, and will be con. veyed through the jungle by. eight bul. hicks, wiule On emergency elephants uy be omployed. The body of the erravan will be carried an a_ trolley, ee “fhe + mw __ tl i ~. : :- JZ Sl Fal ” = . * ; = Ai = ) : BAT I LESI HI -. z . f .C -_ a2 HS impo ne hy Se EN = = i _ chi. _— E- “ The Most rifting Offence in. His ‘Mae mies 4 SS ee } waar WA ’ ¥ wae ee “fighting Navy," dis-\ ae {he men on whom our national safet ek: ee ntence is read out by the stern : lo the assembled company of Sympathizing Bluejackets and Marines. <a been passed, the ae hich are — partcof the ves- — | cight feet long py; ith a height of about! = my" Ari a WP = 1G oie ie oy i ~-, eh ol mt “ee | 7 : aa 2. ao - ( i ia, as 2 ss =— Ff ao Lo ® a a 7" 1 _—— oT ee _ ; =, = i -_ | Fd a. 7 "any a ma" + : es , _s oe | = ¥ . * - + are “2 a) r ino bail-can and sealiered from a boal . ‘ . : aver the surface of his “favorite stream.) ‘e Springs, ¢f | which ~ have ‘been so ae fashioned that nol the slightost vibra- ae NAGGING MOTHER WORSE. Nap Cathe nan rio cama tele ai ae Children Shrink From Continual Fault z ~Finding. si } When anybody tatks of a nagging} Misery lives company. “That is why = , Wife His. generally fo refer in pilving | scme bachelors and spinsters marry 4 terms to the man whom ‘she has mar- ae : : . : hee ' ried, Much more to. be pitied, how- Meeihs: ee. yi de) miss the water “tll %. : ever, ate the children, A man can} "elt thtoats get, dry. - endure muel and find a remedy in re- : 2 raliaton, bul sensiiive children shrink BOE oe, seb iain ae poe aes he sails . Vrom Gonlinual faullfinding and suffer | ne. * f bin silence. There {s some hope for the fool wha ros In fairness fo mothers it must be sald dees nol bodst: Of ig> wiedons , a that they unwittingly fall into the ha-} Many a family tree has a bad branch ee? 5 ' hii of nagging their chiklren. ‘The | ond a shady reputation, : J ‘iresome ways of the latter seem mare r Ph than they can“bear at times, and the}, 1S up to a Ns had to Jearn, hoy, x4 result is that they are apt fo forget | © Strike a match. } : ‘i ‘ thenusel ves, _ There are sermons in stones and ica ~ - ie ; “Don't do_ this,” and “Don't do, that,” | cream in bricks, — OL ee Dae ye and so forth are remarks calenlated | Every man has his price, but in ning ot eee ta neduce children to a slate of sulky | cases oul.of ten. he isn't worth it, te Ps Re. irrifability, Unless the rights of the] .A girl is always sure she is in lova. + oe +“ lite people are carefully kept in view | with some man, even-if she isn’t surg, ©). > by Whe grown-up ones, it is small won-| which man he is, Tae il ee ae der that they sometimes rebel openly; “How's your wife™, “She's haviya 9 against an authority whose pressure | constant trouble with her head,” “Catt tet Se {they feel In galling Jerks and unreu- | the doctor help her?" ‘No -nobody. bul. eee oe cionable restrictions, Toe Laie y abe PUIG lt a8 eat ea ge nite Re ates cae ph eek B64, ng Stacie ace y Se ey ohn: Sa Me Ye et tie” ome thats ne OLN A RS ere ae Ow ea elo \-. ee ae 3 Rat Bt rt ha << 1s if: ee f ae ee 5.0 sa Vere