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a MORRIS COUNTY CHRONICLE, TUESDAY MARCH 30 1909. door of truth, warns the Boston Post, cannot be opened by the key of prejudice. Platitude is a handy name, thinks the New York World, with which to knock an awkward truth. When a girl wouldn't rather have curly hair than a sweet disposition, observes the New York Press, it's a sign every other girl would agree with her. We lionize too much, asserts the New York Press.

We lionize without discrimination. The only man not spoiled by being "lionized" was the prophet Daniel. We live and learn, observes the 'Atlanta Constitution. The Mississippi man who employed every lawyer in the town to defend him, was found just as guilty as one lawyer could have proved him. 'An eminent astronomer has promised the Atlanta Constitution to give notice of when the world will be destroyed; so you can take care of the note that is falling due, and be careful not to pay the house rent too far in 1 advance.

To-day war is nothing more than cold-blooded slaughter, pleads the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Noiseless rifles, long-range machine guns, mines, electric current and aeroplanes reduce the whole matter to a mathematical basis. The effect of such developments may be seen by consulting the roster at West Point. Not that youth fears war, for that can never be said of Americans, but that war is not attractive as a profession. The London Hospital has hit upon a novel idea for adding to its income.

'A sufficient number of umbrellas and walking sticks, with hollow handles, has been purchased for the use of the staff, and in these handles are slots big enough to admit a sixpence of a half sovereign. The coins drop down to the bottom of the handle when put in the slot, and when the space is full the top is unscrewed and the money taken out. What is to happen in the event of the umbrellas being stolen is not stated for the benefit of the New York Tribune. The latest letter received by the Medical Record from its London correspondent contains this paragraph: "I regret to report another victim of X-ray work. Mr.

W. H. Cox, the well-known manufacturer of instruments, has had to have three fingers of his right hand removed. He had previously lost a finger of the left hand. I understand the dermatitis was not caused by his recent work, but at an earlier period -some of it in testing apparatus to be sent out for use during the South 'African War.

The King has sent a message of sympathy." The Chinese of Oakland, have formed a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The Chinese are really a humane people, declares the New York Tribune. A man who for a long time has been president of an American humane society relates that years ago he asked Anson Burlingame, then American Minister to China, whether a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals ought not to be formed in that country. "It isn't needed," said Mr. Burlingame.

"The Chinese are naturally good to animals. Such a thing as cruelty to animals is rarely heard of there." Yellow journalism is now a thing of the past or has faded to a mild ecru shade beside the saffron hue of many books and magazines, remarks the Boston Globe. The jaundiced magazinist spatters his color with a reckless abandon. You can almost feel the chrome tints spatter on your face as you scan his quarantine effusion. You cannot get by him.

Epithet, metaphor and analogy are mixed into one chromatic mass on his and then slammed against his canvas with the splurge of a barker at a circus sideshow. To say he indulges in exaggeration is to speak tamely, He piles Pelions of hyperbole on Ossas of turgescence. If his colors do not scream loud enough to arrest your attention he bludgeons you with his figurative mahlstick into noticing their prismatic effects. Parents that want to make their boys boxers are at liberty to do so, but they can't do it in the public schools, insists the New York Journal. Parents that want to make their children Quakers, or Hindoos, or Mahometans, or followers of any other religion, are at liberty to do so, but under our Constitution, which forbids the public recognition of religion, that cannot be taught in the public schools.

Fighting and religious teaching are equally foreign to a public school curriculum. The public schools are modern, expressing the thought born with the Declaration of Independence in this country. In the public schools all boys are equal in the teacher's sight, all religions are equally entitled to respect. Cold knowledge, independent of faith and belief, and scientific hygiene- those are the things with which the public schools occupy themselves and always will occupy themselves. new to Lady Car, there were many things that pained her in her residence at the Towers.

First of all, there was her nearest neighbor, her dearest friend, her only sister Edith; the dearest companion of her life, who had stood by her in all her troubles, and to whom she had given a trembling support in her struggle, more successful than poor Carry's, againnt. the husband her father had chosen for her. Edith had succeeded at last in marrying her only love, which was a poor marriage for: an Earl's daughter. They had, indeed, finally both of them, made poor marriages; but what a contrast between them! Carry living ignobly with the husband of her choice upon Torrance's money, the result of her humiliation; while Edith was at the head of a happy, frugal family carefully ordered, with little margin for show or pleasure, but yet in all the plentitude of cheerful life, without a recollection to rankle, or any discord or complication in all her candid existence. Her father had not been able to force the will of Edith.

She had not loved her John any better than poor Carry had loved in her early tender youth the lover of all her was now her husband; but Carry dreams, the Edward Beaufort not been able to resist the other husband, the horrible life. in that Edith had so much, so the advantage over her sister! And then -oh, wonder to think it- JohnJohn, from whom nothing had been expected, except that he should show himself. as he had always done, the good fellow, the honest gentleman, the true friend he was, whether by development of his own respectable mind or by the influence of Edith (though she was never clever like Carry), or by the united force of both, John had long been one of the most important men in the district, member for his county, trusted and looked up to both by his constituency at home and the people at headquarters, who took his advice, it was said, on Scotch affairs more than any one's; whereas Edward-. Carry had long made that poignant comparison in her heart, but to see them now her to the ground setogether, cret humiliation which she could acknowledge- -not to her sister, who the old days had put so much. faith Beaufort's genius; not to Edin ward himself-oh, no, to humiliate him.

He did not seem to feel the contrast at all himself, or, if he did perceive it, he thought it apparently to be to ands own advantage, speaking now then of the narrowness of practical men, of the deadening influence of politics, and of how completely John Erskine's interest was limited to matters of local expediency and questions before Parliament. "And he used to have his share of intelligence," said all unconscious the useless man, whose failure his wife felt so passionately. Then, as if this were not enough, there was Jock, little Jock, who was younger than Janet, only fourteen, but already at Eton like Tom, and holding a place above that of the seventeen-year-old big lower boy. The reader must understand that this history is not of to-day, and that in those times big lower boys were still possible, though it is so no longer. Tom was only a lower boy, and little Jock might.

have fagged his cousin, had it not been that Jock was in college, on the foundation, saving the money which was not too plentiful at Dalmylian. "A Tug!" Tom had cried with contempt intensified by the sense of something in his mother's eyes, the comparison which made her heart sick. Little Jock at fourteen, so far above the boy who was almost a man. John Erskine, in his solid good sense, so much more important a man than Edward with his genius manque. It went to Carry's heart.

To be Continued. Phrances and Phranklin. The letter on the typewriter of a well known novelist recently went wrong, says the Chicago Journal. The author was equal to the occasion, as will be seen from the following portion of his "Phairest oph the phair," sighed her lover, "phancy my pheelings when I phoresee the phearphul consequences oph our phleeing phrom your phather's phamily. Phew phellows could have phaced the music with as much phortitude as I have.

and as phickle phortune phails to smile on our love I must phorego the pleasure oph becoming your husband. Phairest Phrancis, pharewell phorever!" Phranklin, hold!" screamed Phrances; "I will phollow you phorever!" But Phranklin had paled, and Phrances phainted. Something Like a Buck. The heaviest stag which has been killed this season in Scotland was a royal, which scaled 371 pounds. This immense beast was shot in Arran deer forest by one of Lord and Lady Graham's guests at Brodick Castle.

The stags in Arran are remarkable both for size and quality, and the forest carries a heavy stock of red deer, and affords first rate sport. The shooting; lodge on the west side of the island, where the best stalking is obtained during the first month of the season, is covered outside with over 200 pairs of deer -London Truth. Commendable Lese Majeste Law. It is lese majeste to bring the King's uniform into contempt. Members of theatrical companies who have appeared on the stage as comic characters attired in discarded military or naval uniforms have occasionally been unpleasantly reminded of this fact.

Careful stage managers put themselves on the safe side by seeing that no uniform, whether to be worn by hero, villain or low comedian of the piece, is an exact copy of the real uniform of any branch of His Majesty's -London Pearson's. Methodist Episcopal Property. The Methodist Episcopal Church property in this country is now worth about $187,000,000, on which there is an indebtedness of $12,127,248. The herring catch off the shores of England represents $15,000,000 an- NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS, Makes Bad Boy Good. Five hours locked in Police Headquarters transformed James Dgazdrinski, formerly known as the toughest boy in Public School No.

22, Pat. erson, into the meekest and most penitent of youngsters. James had been before Recorder Carroll charged with unruly conduct in school and with striking his teacher, Miss Anna Dougherty. Whatener got me here for?" he insolently demanded when It was testified "nothin" contaken to court. thains done not'in'." sisted of threatening his teacher with a knife when she ordered him a few days ago to report to the principal, George Brinkerhoff, punching her when he was fighting with other pupils.

"Lock him up for five hours, said the Recorder. When leaving Headquarters James turned to Sergeant Ricker and blubbered, "I'll be the goodest boy in de school now." Antitoxin Decreases Diphtheria. The annual report of the Board of Health shows the death rate of Montclair for year was 10.55 in 1000 of population. Compared with 1907 was a reduction of five in the number of deaths from tuberculosis. Last year there were seventeen deaths from that disease.

The chief cause of death in 1908 was pneumonia, from which twenty-seven persons died. There were no deaths from scarlet fever, and 1908 was the second year in succession in which there were none from diphtheria. During the period 1880 to 1894 the death rate from diphtheria alone was 9.1 in 1000. The use af antitoxin started here In 1895, and the number of persons dying from diphtheria has fallen steadily since then. "Pigs is Pigs." A single-handed fight, without funds to employ counsel, has just been won by W.

M. Davis, of Vineland, a breeder of guinea pigs for laboratory purposes. When the express companies charged him double merchandise rates for guinea pigs he maintained that "pigs is pigs," and for over three years has waged a fight on that basis. He laid his case before Interstate Commission, and after several hearings, at which he was posed by the ablest corporation lawyers in the country, he succeeded in having the express companies sign an agreement to eliminate the double rate on guinea pigs, rabbits and rats. Dr.

John D. Drury Dead. The Rev, John D. Drury died at his home in New Brunswick from heart disease. He was editor of the Christian Intelligencer, with offices in New York City.

On March 2, when on his way home, Mr. Drury became ill, and had since been confined to his bed. He was born in 1838, and was graduated from Rutgers College in 1858, and from a theological seminary three years afterward. He was a trustee of Rutgers College, and left widow and four children. Wagon Cuts Off Ear.

Explaining he had fallen off his wagon and that one of the wheels of his wagon had run over his ear, Charles H. Campbell walked into St. Joseph's Hospital, at Paterson, and asked that the injured member be again made fast to his head. The physicians sewed the ear back into place, but they fear the operation may not be successful, as the ear was SO badly torn and mangled. of Patient's Death.

George E. Balantine, a former attendant at the State Hospital for the Insane, Trenton, was acquitted of a charge of manslaughter in the Mercer Court. Balantine was charged with having caused the death of Henry D. Rue, an inmate of the institution. Balantine had a struggle with Rue, and his defense was that in the struggle he had lost his balance and stepped on the patient's chest.

Sizes in Peach Baskets. The House passed a bill at Trenton repealing the law requiring peach baskets to be stamped to show their size. Assemblyman Matthews explained there are 8,000,000 of these baskets made in New Jersey annually and that manufacturers have great difficulty in selling them thus stamped because baskets made in other States are not required to be stamped. Leaves Wife Dead in Wreck. As a result of his wife's neck being broken in a runaway accident at Freehold, after which he crawled from the wreckage and walked five miles to his home at Colt's Neck, Geo.

V. Crawford, a farmer, fifty-six years old. was arrested and committed to the county jail without bail on a charge of manslaughter. Kills His Eighteenth Fox. John Ahde, an Egg Harbor sportsman, has killed eighteen foxes near there.

He recently killed a black known only in the Northwestern States, and it is a puzzle how it came. Besides the value of the fur, Ahde will receive $2.50 bounty for each fox killed. Trolley Prospers Under Receiver. The fourth quarterly report of Major Wilbur F. Sadler, receiver of the Camden and Trenton Railroad Company, shows a steady gain in the company's business.

The net earnings were $516, whereas during the same time last year there was a loss of $2025. a In All Parts of the State. The Elmer Board of Education voted $500 to put fire-escapes on the schoolhouse. The Tuckahoe Gas Improvement Company has completed its line of pipes through the town and turned on the gas. Owing to the serious illness of his daughter, Ruth, Rev.

James William Marshall, D. who was transferred from Millville to New Brunswick by the recent Conference, is unable to move Boner Than a Maratnon nace. The Promoter--Yes, the Marathon race is being overdone. The Friend What are you going to work up now? The Promoter- I am going down to Washington to see if I can't get a bunch of those admirals to do their fifty-mile walking test on a tanbark track for half the gate receipts.Cleveland Plain Dealer. Farmers In the Upited States an nually lose $800,000,000 through in sects.

TEACHER KILLED IN STREET LADY CAR: SEQUEL OF A LIFE. 8 BY MRS. OLIPHANT. "Oh, that humbugging game. Do you think I'm a baby or a girl? I hate your tennis.

It isn't a game for a man." "Quantities and quantities of gentlemen play. Beau plays. Why, the officers play," cried Janet, feeling that nothing more was to be said. Tom could not refuse to acknowledge such authority. "Well, then, it isn't a game for me, playing with girls and children.

A gallop across country- -that's what I like, and to see all father's old friends, and to hear what they thought of him. By Jove, Janet, father was a one to loung about in a drawing room like old Beau." Here the boy's heart him a little. "Beau's kind enough," he said; "he doesn't look at a fellow as if- as if you had murdered somebody. But if father had lived- "I Janet said, but she did not go any further. Her bright eyes, wondering under her black brows, were round with a question which something prevented her from putting.

'The possibility of her father having lived confused all her thoughts. She had an instinctive sense of all the difficulties conveyed in that suggestion. She changed the subject by saying unadvisedly, "How bad you look, Tom! Were you ill last He pushed her away with a vigorous arm. "Shut up--you!" he cried. "You are always telling me shut up; but I know you were have to taken Miss Ogilvie to dinner--that pretty Miss Ogilvie-and when you did not come, it put them all, out, I heard nurse.

He said 'your boosing, Hampshire, telling, Mr. and nurse fired up. But afterward she cried--and mother has been crying this morning; and then you look so bad. Do tell me if you were ill, Tom." He did not reply for some time, and then he burst out: "Mother's such a bore with her crying! Does she think I'm to be a baby all my life?" "Do you know," said Janet, "you're very much like that portrait of father in the hall--that great big one with the horse? Mother looks frightened when she passes it. He does look a little fierce, as if he would have scolded dreadfully," the girl added, with the air of making an admission.

"I had rather have been scolded by him," cried the boy. "No, he wouldn't have scolded, he would have known better. A man like that understands fellows. Jan, we're rather badly off, you and me, with only a woman to look after us, and that Beau." Do you call mother a woman? You might be more civil," said Janet; but she did not contradict this assertion, which was not made for the first time. She, too, had always thought that the ideal father, the vague impersonation of kindness and understanding, who would never mock like Beau, nor look too grave like mother, was something to sigh for, in whose guard all would have gone well.

But the portrait in the hall had daunted Janet. She had felt that those black brows could frown and those glowing eyes burn beyond everything that her softly nurtured childhood had known. She would not betray herself by a word or even a thought if she could help it, but it could not be denied that her heart sank. "I wish," she said quickly, "you'd leave off breakfasting, Tom, and come out with me for a walk. What is the good of pretending? One can see you don't want anything to eat." "Walk!" said Tom.

"You can get that little sap to walk with you. I've get to meet a fellow- his name- away on the other side of the town at twelve. Just ring the bell, Jan. In five minutes I must have Bess at the door." "It's twelve o'clock now. Don't go to-day.

Besides, mother-" "What has mother to do with it?" cried Tom, starting up. "I'm going, if it was only to spite mother, and you can tell her so. Do you think I'm tied to mother's apronstring? Oh, is it you, Eeau? I-am going out for a ride." "So am said Beaufort, entering. "I thought it likely that would be your intention, so I ordered your horse when I ordered mine. Where did you say you were going? I caught somebody's name as I came in." "He said he was--a friend of my father's," said Tom, sullenly.

"Ah! it is easy for a man to say he is the friend of another who cannot Anyhow, we can ride What's the matconteradictaim. ter? Aren't you ready?" Beaufort said. "He has not finished his breakfast," said Janet, springing to Tom's defense. nonsense! at twelve o'clock!" said Beaufort, with a laugh. And presently, notwithstanding the youth's reluctance, he was carried off in trumph.

Janet, much marveling, followed them to the door to see them mouat. She stood upon the steps, following their movements with her eyes, dimly comprehending, divin(ng with her feminine instincts half awakened. Tom's sullen, reluctant look was more than ever like the portrait, which Janet paused once more to look at as she went back through the hall. She stood looking for a long time at the heavy, lowering face. It was a fine portrait, which Torrance had boasted of in his time, the money it had cost filling him with ill-concealed pride.

It was the first thing which had shaken Janet in her devotion to the imaginary who had been the god of her childhood. Tom father was not so big; he was not tall at all -not more than middle height, though broadly and heavily made. It was very like Tom, and yet there was something in it which made the The Sunday -School Miss Anna Mangano Dies on Her Way to School. Shot by Philip Mangano, Her Father, Who Tries to Kill Himself- Refused to Explain. New York City.

-After shooting and instantly killing his daughter, Miss Anna Mangano, a teacher in public school, in 103d street, near Third avenue, as she was walking through 103d street on her way to school, Philip Mangano attempted to blow out his own brains. A man who had witnessed the murder seized him and two shots fired by Mangano went wild. Miss Mangano, who lived at St. Cecilia's Institute for Working Girls, 1068 Lexington avenue, left shortly after 8 o'clock to go to the school. She carried her lunch, some books and a pair of slippers to wear in the classroom.

Walking down Second avenue to 103d street, she turned west toward the school. As she got opposite 166 East 103d street Mangano, who had been following her, ran up behind, pulled a revolver and shot her through the head. When he saw that he had killed the girl Mangano fled east through 103d street, pursued by a mob that had been attracted shot and the screams of the teachers. He had gone but a few yards when Adolph Schwartz, who saw the shooting, hurled himself on the fugitive just as he turned his revolver on himself. Schwartz knocked Mangano's arm up, and the bullet went through the slayer's hat.

A second effort to shoot himself resulted in the bullet going wide of its mark. As he crossed Third avenue Sergt. England and Patrolman Gisselbrecht grabbed him. His strength was equal to theirs, and they had to club him before he would submit to arrest. Frank Lacatira and his wife, the latter a sister of the dead girl, arrived at the station house soon after and Lacatira asked that Mangano be brought before him.

As soon as Lacatiro saw his father-in-law, he cried: "Mangano, you dog, you should be tor tortured for this; it is lucky you are under the care of the police or I should punish you myself." Mangano refused to explain. Shoots Father and Himself. Jamestown, N. -Lynn Holges shot and fatally wounded his fatherin-law, A. P.

Anderson, at the joint homo of the two, at Youngsville, Pa. A few minutes later Holges placed the same revolver to his own head and put a bullet in his head. The shooting took place in front of Mrs. Holges, who is a daughter of Anderson. An old dispute was renewed when Holges stepped up behind the aged man and, placing his revolver at his back, fired, the bullet penetrating the lung.

Mrs. Holges alarmed the neighborhood with her screams. Twenty minutes later, as neighbors began to arrive at the house, Holges stepped outside the door and shot himself. JERSEY SLAYER HANGED TWICE. Frederick Long Found Alive When Lowered After First Suspension.

New Brunswick, N. The last hanging of a murderer to take place in New Jersey occurred here and was attended by a seasational episode, which is regarded as fully justifying the change from the rope to the electric chair as the means of executing death sentence in this State. The doomed man, Frederick Lang, condemned for the murder of 'his stepniece, was found to be still alive after he had hanged for eight minutes and had been lowered until his feet touched the roundies was again raised and ten later was pronounced dead. Nearly three years have elapsed since the murder was committed. He is the last man to meet death by sentence in this manner in the State of New Jersey, as hereafter all men condemned to pay this penalty will be electrocuted.

The murder of Mary Gordon took place on April 20, 1906. Lang had proposed to the girl, who was then nineteen years old, several but had been rejected. She threatened to tell her stepfather if he did not stop bothering her. Lang drew his revolver and killed her. PREACHER KILLS PREACHER.

Capitalistic Divine Fatally Shoots Complaining Minister. Lebanon, Mo. -The Rev. M. D.

Church, shot and killed the Rev. SolJohnson, of the Free Will Baptist omon Odell, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, quarrel at Russ. Johnson surrendered. He is also president of the Laclede County Telephone Company. Subscribers, including Odell, complained of the telephone service.

To adjust matters a conference was held. A quarrel developed and meeting Odell later Johnson renewed the trouble. Witnesses say Odell had an open knife in his hand when the other preacher met him, but closed it and began pulling off his coat. Johnson then drew a revolver and fired, and Odell fell, mortally wounded. Cranberries Are Cheap.

Cranberries have not been doing so well since the high prices, reached at Christmas, and those remain $8 $10 per barrel. are to" poor condition and selling at GOVERNOR LILLEY TO REST. Secretary Goodwin, of Hartford, Issues a Statement. Hartford, Conn. -Charles A.

Goodwin, executive secretary to Governor George L. Lilley, issued the following statement: "Governor Lilley, after spending yesterday in office in Waterbury, returned to his home here suffering from nervous exhaustion and was ordered to remain in bed for a week by his attending physician, Dr. C. C. Beech, thereby to secure a complete DAUGHTERS GET $5,000,000.

Legacy of $100,000 For Miss Young From General Palmer's Estate. Colorado Springs, Col. -The will of General William Palmer was probated here. The estate, which amounts to about $5,000,000, is given to General Palmer's three daughters, with the exception of about $700,000, which is distributed among friends and family servants. The largest single- legacy was $100,000, which was given to Miss Gladys Young, daughter of a Colorado landscape artist.

INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 4. Subject: Peter and Cornelius, Acte Golden Text, Acts 10: 35 Commit Verses 13-15 Commentary on Day's Lesson. A. D. 40.

and Joppa. CHAPTER VII. 8 Continued. afraid. As she stooa gazing with more and more uncertainty upon the pictured face, Lady Car came quickly into the hall--almost running--in evident anxiety and concern.

She stopped suddenly as Janet turned round, casting a half-frightened, shuddering look from the picture to the girl before it. There was something like an apology in her nervous pause. -thought Tom was here," she said. "He has gone out riding--with Beau." "With Beau?" Lady Car breathed something that sounded like, "Thank God!" there anything wrong--with Tom?" said Janet, gazing round upon her mother with defiance in her eyes. "Wrong? I hope not.

They say not. Oh, God forbid!" Lady Car put her hands together. She was very pale, with a little redness under her eyes. mother, if there's nothing wrong, why do you look like that?" "Like Lady Car attempted a little laugh. what, my dear?" She added, with a long-drawn breath, "It is my foolish anxiety; everybody says it is foolish.

It is plus forte moi." que, wish you would not speak French. Tom," said Janet, "is well enough, though he doesn't look well. He ate no breakfast; and he looked as if he would like to take my head off. Isn't Tom- very like father?" she added in a low voice. They were standing at the foot of the picture, a full-length, which overbore them as much in reality as imagination, and made the woman and the girl look like pigmies at his feet.

Carry gave a slight shiver in spite of herself. "Yes," she said faintly; "and, my dear--so are you, too." Janet met her mother's look with a stolid steadiness. She saw Lady Car's eyes turn from the picture to her own form and back again, half sorry, half pleased. She had very little understanding of her mother, but a great deal of curiosity. She thought to herself that most mothers were pleased with such a resemblance -so at least Janet had read in books.

She supposed her own mother did not care for it perhaps disliked it because she had married again. "You never told us anything about father," she said, "but nurse does a great deal. She told me how he -was killed. Was that the horse?" "Yes," said Lady Car, with a trembling which she could not conceal. "It is because you are sorry that you are so nervous?" said Janet, with those dull, light eyes fixed upon her, which were Torrance's eyes.

"Janet!" cried her mother, "do not ask me about it." She said in a low, hurried voice, "Is it not enough that it was the most terrible thing that ever happened? I cannot go back upon it." "But afterward," said the girl, impelled by she knew not what- some influence of vague exasperation, which was half opposition to her mother and half disappointment to find the dead father, the tutelary divinity of this house to which she had been so to come, so different from her expectations afterwardyou married Beau." 'Janet!" Lady Car cried again, but this time the shock brought back her dignity and self-control. "I don't know what has got possession of you, my dear, to-day. You forget yourself and me. You are not the judge of my actions, nor can I justify myself before you." She added, after a time, "Both Tom and you are very like your father. After a while he will be master here, and you perhaps mistress till he marries.

Your father- might have been living now" (poor Carry grew pale and shuddered even while she pointed her moral) "if he had not been such a hard rider, SO--SO careless, thinking he could go anywhere. Do you wonder I am anxious about Tom? You will have to learn to do what you can to restrain him, to keep him from those wild rides, to keep him-" Lady Car's, voice faltered, the tears came to her eyes. believe it is common," she said, "that a young man, such as he is growing to be, should not mind his mother Sometimes, people, tell me, much. they mind their sisters "Tom does not mind me a bit," said Janet, "Oh, not a bit--and he will never marry. He does not like girls." "Perhaps he will change his mind," said Carry, with a faint smile.

"Boys often do, Will you remember what I have said, dear, if you should ever be mistress here?" "But how can I be mistress? Where will you be? Why should there be any change?" "The house is Tom's, not mine. And I shall be at my own house at Easton--it I am living." "Oh," said Janet. Carry, though a little roused in her own defense, almost quailed before the look in the girl's eyes. "You will be happier then, she said, with the air of an assailant hurling a stone at his victim; "for you will be all by yourself -with Beau." "Go upstairs, Janet!" "I will not," she cried. "You said it was Tom's house, not.

yours. He would not let me be sent away out of his hall, from father's picture, for -anyone- if he were here." Carry raised her eyes and saw him standing behind his child. There seemed a dull smile of triumph in his painted eyes. "You thought they were yours -but they are mine," rance to say. Both of them! their father's in every to do with her." CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER VIII. Apart from these painful struggles with her children, which were quite EXPOSITION. -I. A Godly Soldier, 1-8. The central figure of this lesson is a captain in the Roman army.

The barracks at Caesarea would seem to be a most unlikely place to find the first Gentile convert to Christianity, but there is where he was found. Cornelius was a Godfearing man. He was one who did not keep his piety to himself, but called upon his whole household to share it with him. He was a man of prayer and a generous giver. He prayed for light (cf.

vs. 31, 32) and followed the light when it was given. It because he asked for light that was he got it (cf. James The alms he gave God's to others had much to do with giving the saving truth to him (v. 4: cf.

Luke Prov. 2 Cor. Cornelius does not seem to have been a proselyte of the Jewish faith (v. 28; cf. ch.

11:3) and he certainly was not as yet a saved man (ch. 11:13, 14), but he was on the road that leads to salvation. He became a saved man by believing on Jesus Christ (v. 43; cf. ch.

There are those who contend we should never get a man to pray until he is. definitely saved, but it was in answer to prayer that Cornelius got the light by which he was saved. Of course, if a man is a deliberate rebel against God, we should not get him to pray; for the prayer of such a one is an abomination unto God (Prov. Is. 59:1, 2).

But a man may be a sincere seeker after truth like Cornelius, though he has not yet found the truth. There is nothing better for him to do than to pray (James God will always lead into light all those who sincerely desire it (John It was while Cornelius was praying that the first leadings, came draw to near unto Cornelius. God It that is He draws near unto us (Jas. Cornelius was frightened by the celestial visitor as sinful man always is by the approach of the supernatural (St. Dan.

But Cornelius Luke while frightened 24: maintained his equilibrium and was ready to obey; he was every inch Roman soldier. He was encouraged by being told that God had noted and remembered his prayers and alms. His prayers and alms did not save him (ch. 11:13, 14; but they bad prepared the way for his salvation. God takes note of sincere prayer them.

and of the alms that accompany Praying and giving should always go hand in hand (1 John 22). Cornelius' faith was put to a severe test; he was told to send to a certain unknown man who would tell him what he ought to do (cf. ch. 11: 14). The angel himself might have told Cornelius this, but it is the plan of God to have the way of life made plain to man by man (cf.

ch. Cornelius proved his faith by his prompt obedience. piety was of the communicative sort; for the soldier who waited upon him continually was also a religious man. II. Peter Prepared to Preach the Gospel to the Gentiles, 9-20.

While God prepares one man to hear the Gospel, He also prepares another man to preach it to him. It be explained away as certainly cannot empty dreams of a fevered imagination that Cornelius at one end of the line saw an angel who bade him send for Peter, and that Peter at the other end of the line should have a vision preparing him for the call just before the messengers arrived, and should him hear the voice of the Spirit bidding go. There is, beyond question, a of supernatural world and a possibility natural present contact between the superworld and human life. History demonstrates this. One can be an Atheist or a Deist or by Agnostic only deliberately shutting his eyes to the established facts of history.

how the supernatural and natural play into one another in Bible history: Peter's hunger was natural, and there is nothing more natural than that a hungry man dream of eating, but God gave supernatural direction to the dream that had a natural origin. God knows how to time things just right. Just when Peter was in a perplexity about the meaning of the vision of unclean beasts, the "unclean" Gentiles are asking for him at the gate. The Spirit was very defnite in His words to Peter. He told him just how many men there were at the gate asking for him 4.

19) Peter had a very practical test as to whether it was the Spirit of truth that was speaking to him. How unlike the confused and uncertain (oftentimes mistaken) voices that people tell us are voices of the Spirit. When the Spirit sends there is nothing left to do but to go and that without doubting, even though we do not understand at all (v. 20). Peter's faith was equal to the occasion, he obeyed orders.

It was while Peter was in prayer that the guidance came to him (v. 9). Breaks His Bridge, He that breaks the must pass need to be cannot forgive others bridge over which he himself; for every man has forgiven -Herbert. A Bad Plan. Running another down is a poor way of making the Christian race.

Roads to Gridiron Alberta. The Government, at Alberta, Canada, guaranteed the bonds on a railway running from Edmonton to Fort McMurray on the Mackenzie River, promoted by a Kansas City capitalist, at $20,000 a mile. The Government also guarantees 850 miles of Canadian Northern Railway branch lines and 500 of Canadian Pacific branch lines, all in Alberta, at $14,000 8 mile. The total aid given to railways. in Aiderta at one session of the Legislature was $27,500,000 in bond guarantee.

The intention is to gridiron the province with railways. Preached of Death; It Came. "No one of you tell at what hour death will come," said the tor of the Presbyterian Church at Poland, Ohio, in opening his sermon. Hardly had he spoken the words when Mrs. Matilda Williams fell from her seat, dead of heart trouble.

The service was brought to a close with a prayer by the pantor. an increase of $14,116,000 over those of last year. British Navy Costly. The British naval estimates show.