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Yattes IR WORLD CAN COMPARE . WITH IT FOR SACREDNESS. ---- Roe 'Wete Regarded as Being in Land Upan ; 'God's Wrath Rested ' in Peculiar way. Christidh' Herald, . 'No #alléy in the world can compare with that of the Jofdan in sacredness of interest and pe- uliatity of stracture, Most hitural waterways having a steady downward trend and ! ized by shady gladés and smoothly- # rivers, running merrily to the sea. Not 50, the Jordan valley. It had its birth amid 1h Violett tremor of the terrible convulsions that shook Salestine to its very core, and its course is one' 4 downward tush, through regions of 'batten and bleak desolation, until it finally terminates in a sea of #1 and death 1,300 below sea level. Rismg at the foot of Her- & height 6f 1,090 feet above sea level, it runs a course of 228 miles, 190 of which ate below sea level. Throughout the vast de- 1 "area it runs steadily downward, except Jit 'is caught in two depressions: the first Mag Lake Huleh, and the second, at a depth 5 689 feet, forming the Sea of Gulilee. 1t runs ii a detply-cut channel, giving not a sign of life fo any part of the valley as it runs its long course [186 miles between the Sea of Galilee and the i ings, {0} born, from the bowels of Her- and around its head are scattered Palesti e's désy prof «of poplar dnd elm and maple. The joe-cold river goes gushing over stones ad timbling. per ecipices, little conscious of the 1 ding chasm of stagnation into 'which "Yo be buried forever. Over all. this scene bf ice-cold stream and gushing cataract, of niatted vines and stately elm, snow-capped Her- rises in. quiet. solitude and lends an air of Shniy 4nd everlasting strength. Ji' {is 'samictuary of the gods the earliest wan- derers of the sons of Ishmaél bowed, realizing ei Were: in the. presence of some awful er, & a later date, the Greeks, when led to dine place, were awed by the mighty river that came bursting forth from Hermon, and at ouce' erected a sacred shrine to the god of the "waters under the earth" Philip, the .tetrarch, was iso, dtawn hither, and in the midst of the sacréd- sanctuary built His marble city, Cesarea i. Only once do we have an account of isiting it, and it was while in this place, \Hetmon overhead, thet he said to Peter, "Thou art a rock." a jéré. dots the Jordan have mote, sacred ' hs than the second little lake in, which it i 4 he Senor Ciailes The green hills [ee $10 1 wit into the lake, and 3 7 fon ety ip in a thousdnd little ots. Tt 'was from. thesé green hills of Gali be that the, ancient ititude, came, down to"the $i Oi; their basy errands of commerce. . Here wis Galilean fishermen' tailed day and night, not Only» enough 'to. satisfy their simple fit: also, enough to enter into' an extensive fee 'with the: Roman world. It was in the ge dala that: some of sweetest: messages' Were spoken, and it bigoted and fil Béthsaida fr that Christ's mission and power were ly shown. { avin Galilee, ihe V tation becomes. scat- 3 d in a few miles the Scene is one of en- . desolition. 1ts distaticé 'to the. Dead Sea is 3 "by, an air-line it is galy 00 miles. The ds in and out arhorig bleak and barren fotinds of clay. The slipping or. falling of one of & pan edly acapunt for the "drying wp" of Jordan in the days of the children of Israel. wfutidy paths descend down into the river. ds of and Russian pilgrims come rom Judea over these clayey roads, to be ih the Sacred 'streamt Aroiind the lower of ils course the dampness of the Dead Sea hd To 'penbtrite the Jandy and averything 'is She fow, marshy ates of salt, As soon gs the Jordan flows sto the Dead Sea all forms of life at once Perish; nothing has yet been found . that ; ve in, this ferrible cesspool. The school- "dea that. no bird can fly dcross it, on ac- putt of the vapid and stagnating dir, is a mis- nTane. Of no lake is this true, but the Dead §6a {s niof the 'saffiest like. | The ocean is esti- 45. having 4 per cent. of salt, the Dead Sea Bj4 per cent. and Lake Elton of thie Volga 29 Jeeht. Strewn all around: the lake are the thks of dead trees and braken limbs, if which alk signs of life are fone. Over the whole of the lgke there gdes up a cotistant cloud of mist, and utfdce is characterized by a deep haze. . This evaporation accounts for the heavy dews of which are the omly supply of water ih the 'scanty crops' of Judea, Idumea ;Simatia can depend. The early Israelites, in gir Simple Arab nature, looked upon this vast cody on with awe, and described its great of vapor that are constantly risihg as the "smoke that goeth up forever." though the valley is. one of the most deso- Jon earth yet there are a few springs around an abundance of vegetation is found. Witerever a drop of water is to be found the. vegetation is profuse, the two essentials for BL Junk at work in full force---heat and r. 'Afound such springs as. these are built thie few cities that are to be found in the valley, It was around such that the ancient city of Jericho ofice stood. With such a meagre supply of water all such cities were built only for a day. There is not a single atcount in history of Jeri- che ever withstanding am attack. & peferences. that are made. in Scripture to the valley are always of drought, desolation and dati. Even in the time of the new dispensa- | tion the old cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were 1 regarded as b . as being in a. land upon. which God's Wrath fested in a most peculiar way. In fhe vision of Ezekiel we have the influence of Christianity pictured as a. stream that rises in the temple area, flowing through the valley of the Kidron and the desert of Judean hills, and ut last forcing itself into the Dead Sea, where "ihe waters shall be healed," and there shall be in abundance of fish, even as "the fish of the great Sea," the Mediterranean. \ Today the Jordan lives in the religious feeling and expression of all people throughout Christen dom. = With some it excites so deep a devption that long pilgrimages are made in order to be baptized in its sacred waters; with others, it lives in song as the last narrow boundary that separates us from the "land of the-blessed." pind : King Reassured the Chief. Canadian Colirier. a 1. is a fotm of British law, as those who reside in British countries are well aware, to style all actions under criminal or common law as initiated by the sovereign agdinst the individual; allegedly offending, Rex vs, John Doe 'being the stereotyped title : Everyone comprehends that this is. mere tech- nical 'phrakeology--that is, everyone is pre- sumed to. Once ih a while an exception pre- sents itself. ia yy Thus; when Chief Capilano and his brother t¢ibal 'rlérs of British Columbia paid their formal 'visit to the king a year ot So ago, they had 2 card up their sleeve that was quite un- suspected. It was played by Capilano him- self during the interview granted the blanket: ed défegation at Buckingham Palace. 4 Chief Capilano had been eloquently present- ing what his people regarded as grievances meet for royal redress, somewhat to the sur prise offkhe 'interpreter, he produced a bulky notebook. 'The entries therein referred in- variably to cases in the police courls wherein Indians had been fined, for minor misdemean:, ors, such as drunkenness, possession of .in- toxicants, etc. His Majesty, "some of our young men when they behave foolishly are seized by the police and taken to the skookum-house. "Then they are tried before a judge and it is ordered that they must pay $50 for what they have done. Je ask where all this money goes and they tell us it goes to the king. "Now what I want to know, and what my people want to know," concluded * the chief slowly and impressively, but with the hopeful horror of the muckraker scenting a depart- ment scandal, "i, did you get that money?" Edward VIL is'not for nothing termed the first diplomat in Europe, and was not even to be surprised into a smile. "You: will tell your people," he answered ¥ indictments. " "Every little while," the chief explained tof with becoming gravity, "that it is all right. I got the money, and please tell 'them further for aie that I am' very much obliged." { iy SIR"JOSEPH WARD, PREMIER OF NEW ZEALAND. For Johnson and Boswell. World. if Dr. Johnson could know of a plan to celebrate sin - September the two-hundredth annivErsary: of 'His birth, he might, say; as:he did te"Boswell, when it was proposed to send him at, publi expense to Italy for the benehit of his. Health: . "This 'is. taking: prodigions Pairs 'about a-man." Dogmatic Johnson was, and had a tight to be, sure he was of his als mast. usiversal : knowledge, s yet was modest and at timés seli-deprécigting. ow to celebrate appropriately his birth must. give his admirers some thought. He loved the city and despised the country. He Ltravelled little. Hé did pot' figure in politics or at court. He had few intimates, He was insensible to music and art. He was a devout churchman who feared death. He was, in the language he applied to Boswell, 'a clubable man," one who frequented caffeeshouses and delighted in taverns. He compiled a great dictionary; he wrote stories and biographies that have become classics, and yét he is best known to the world through'the rémarkable work of his own biographer, the most loyal, painstaking and appreciative literary satellite that ever attended a human being. It is. practically impossible _to celebrate Johnson without celebrating Boswell. If it had not been for Boswell, we should haye known little of the strange old philosopher whose wonderful memory, slovenly dress, fer- ogious. controversial powers, almost childlike attachments, great and conscious =kearning, humility mm the presence of every lord. save Chesterfield, and lifelong poverty presented contrasts unknown in literary circles at this day. \ i ------------ Table of the Ten Demandments. From Fhe Man You Work Fon Rule J--Don't lie--it wastes my time and yours. I'm sure to catch yon in the end and hat's the wrong end. Rule 1I--Watéh your work, not the clock. A long day's work makes a long day short, and a day's short werk makes my, face long. Rule I1I--Give me more than 1 expect and Ill pay you mote than you expect. I can afford to increasé your pay if you increase my profits. 2 Rule FV+-You Es much to yourself that you can't afford to owe anybody else. Keep cut of debt or keep out of my shop. Rule V--Dishonesty is. never' an accident. Good men, like good women, can't see tempta- tion when they meet it. Rule VI--Mind your own business and in time you'll have a business of your own to mind. Rule VII--Don't do anything here which hurts your self-respect. The employee who i$ willing' to steal for me is capable of stealing from me, Rule VIIT--It's none of my business what you do at night, but if dissipation affects. you néxt day and you do half as much as I de- mand, you'll last half -as long as you hoped. Rule: IX~--Doiflt tell me what I'd like tp hear, but what 1 ought<to hear. I don't want a valet to my vanity, but I need one for my dollars. . ¢ Rule X--Don't kick if I kick--if you're worth while correcting, you're worth while keeping. 1 don't waste time cutting specks out of bad apples. The traveller leaving Cincinnati, Qhio, over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad may ride to New Orleans, 904 miles, and pass through : ofily. two towns or commiinities where. the. sale 'of intoxicating liquors is Ji- censed--Louisyille, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn. This 'country once reeked with whiskey, from the lowly moonshine of the mountaineers to the mellow old bourbon of the "Colonel from Kentucky; gah." 4 ; The umiverse is not quite complete without your. work. well done, however small - that wok may be 3° : ¥ The peasantry of Greece firmly believe that the future of every child is determined by the three fates, known by tlie name of, the Mora: in the popular mind this trid of Files ate supposed 10] be three old and wrinkled women whose habita- tion is a na Sve. 'They come. tan ously 10 a house where a new baby, has appearance. When, they are expected § ture is: set aside so that their aged 2 feet may not be hindered, nd cakes, winé are placed ready for these am invisible guests. Money, 100, isp ed as a bribe to get their favor for the his future may be one sweet S0n8 stition being that all things oF and the giving of the Fates, On no & child's beauty be allided to when the 3 present, as this will certainly make « its. g9 looks. disappear--marks on a babys. in are, look: ed upon as sent by these harbingers. of weal or woe. a 111 Tuck is supposed to be the lot of the children who cut their upper teeth first. There are one or two African tribes who so fipmly heli © this that they are said to kill all jes put those whose lower teeth appear first. Another rhce of people in_the dark continent see all the 'sighs of bad fortune in twins, and so they avoid it by slay- ing all of them. Should a child grow up bad in China the parents are said to have forgotten to bind its wrists--alluding thereby to a4 native sup- erstition that if a,red cord is tied around an in- fant's wrists it cannot fail to grow. up quiet and obedient, aw le Coming back to western civilization, ll Tuck 8 supposed to hover around a baby if its finger nails | | are cut during the first six weeks 6t life, dnd there are many more omens conmeet: with 2 baby's hands. Should the, desire he. that a babe <hould have riches in abundarice when it is grown up, then on no account should i be forgotten that the binding. of is right hand for a. short period {i soori after birth will ensure its coming in for wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. Good luck to the infant:in the future is also supposed to be assured in other ways. The Spaniatds sweep their children's faces with pine tree boughs for that reason, while to keep the Irish baby from harm a belt -of woman's hair is placed 'about it, and to achieve a similar object Roumanian mothers tie red ribbons around the ankles of their offspring. ob 3 Et A very old but very pleasing custom: prevails in Iceland when the first tooth makes its appearance, for then a lamb is presented to the ghild to be its "very own." In Holland 'garlic, salt, bread and steak are put in the cradle of the new arrival, while to protect theie children the mothers of Wales place in the youngsters' dosey, heds a pair of tongs or a knife, and the Jatter, weapon is util- ized for a like purpose in some districts in Eng- land. 3 ------------ Relics of the Crusades. Among, the 'trophies 'of arms displayed on the walls of Windsor castle, is a group of weapons' and 4rmor sent to Queen Victoria by Lord Kitchener after the Dongola campaigh of the Upper Nile in 1890. It consists of a coat of chain mail, a number of spears and a long cross hilted sword. On the. straight steel blade of the §word is an inscription in odd-fashioned: letters, in Spanish, but the.niotto was ihscribed on sword blades in . the days of chivalry, in most. of -the languages. of Europe. 1ts meaning is the knights ly rule for all who bear the. sword :-" Dont. draw | nip without reason. Do not sheathe sme without Bonor" . The weapon was takes from the aban: doned camp.of Wad Bishara, therdervish general, after the battle of Hafir, 1896. How came such 2 bladé in a Moslem bivonac in: the heart off the Soudan? Tn the. eighteenth ceptury «the Mae- successful wars: against, the: crusaders, in Syria, destroying the last vestiges of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, but also defeated. two attempts of the Europeans to invade Egypt itself, one of them led by St. Louis of France. Enormous' quantities of western arms and equipments must have thus passed into the possession" of the Mohammedan CONGUesors. Judges Themselves On Trial. J They have still a quaint way of installing judges in Scotland. = Before Lord Ciiflen 'took his seat on the bench the other day in the Conrt of Ses~ sion. the Lord President, in presence«of the as: sembled : judges, on receiving. the mew Judge's commission, ordered it to be read with all Toyalty and respect. The commission; which was. in the Lusual archaic terms, narrated how the, vacancy arose inthe College of Justice in "that part of our United Kingdom called .Seotla and de- clared that as it was requisite to. appoint a iF son of the loyalty, learning and knowledge of.and, expetience in the laws, and being well informed of the loyalty, literature and: good qualifications of "our trusty and well beloved William Jas. Cullen, we have thought good to nominate and present him. uato you." The. commission havihg been read, the Lord President intimated that as Lord Probationer Mr. Cullen would proceed to Lord Skerrington's court and hear two cases an return to the First Division and, report, his opin- jon. on them, after which he would hear counsel, and deliver his opinion «in another case... That procedure having been followed the judges: re: assembled and the Lord 'Presidentiint that the Lord Probationer- had passed his. trials satis: factorily. Lord Cullen was, then "ingested with his robes and the ceremony endeds 2 City Children in the Country. A young Italian boy wis taken» from a Brooklyn tenement district to a summer settles ment camp. He had never been inthe coun) try, and he asked, "Is this the same. Surf that shiges in Front street?" On his first evening hie said, "I have never seen the might before," meaning, of course, that he had never beén able to see well the moon 'and the expanse of stars, nL wa One girl who was taken to the camp was so loth to feturn to the city that she deliber- ately got into contact with poison ivy so-that she might have the privilege of remaining until she was well just as another girl, whose poisoning was accidental, had really enjoyed. Vacation schools are carried on each year in increasing numbers. There is no need to employ an attendance officer to bring the children to the open-air schools; they may be seen waiting outside two hours-':before . the school opens. every day, that't what it is," said one puny little chap; while a girl, with the gift of im- that "It ain't school at all, it's heaven." Sensible Canadian Holidays. Niagara, (N.Y.) Gazette 3 ' In sharp contrast with the rush and hurry of life on this side of the. border, is the na- tional attitude of our Canadian cousins. Life as our Canadian friends live it is worth while, we waste our energies in mammos worship! 9 ; Re {saac; and here, long afterward, hammedan caliphs. of Egypt not only carried onl "It's. a Sunday School treat{$1126550Q0. They pluck the flowers hy the wayside while l The Mosque of the most celebrated. sites in the world--the 'the huge mass of Fock still lying in majestic repose beneath the great dome, visible to all in its naked simplicity, that Abraham is sup- 6° hitve erected the altar to offer u his de lis sucrifice, then the thréshing floor of nah the Jebusite. Solomon. built his "and. the third temple, that of Herod, ich. Christ walked and 'taught, both cov- mare sacred! The Caliph Omar, clearing away re the rubbish from the rock, built overt 2 |. 00d | mosque which, in A.D.686, Abd-el-Melik re- built, and which was occupied as a/Christian church during the crusades, "This last struc- 'ture, having undergone mafy repairs from Damascus tiles, its. world-renowned. mosaics, and rare stained glass of the windows, which have been ripening to that perfect mellowness 'through, sq many . centuries, 'js the present mosque. : ., Pilgrims of every peasantry, come from all quarters of the globe fo wisit this wonderful shrine; and the'worship is. #0. simple as to offend none, Though we might object to being Moslems, is there not something for us to learn here? = PT at A snapshot of 'the 'motor 'funeral outfit brought into service in Chicago, as reported recently in these columns. . Not the Leprosy of od. The cifious case of John R. Early, held in géclusign in the United States for a year be- cause he was thonght to be a leper, has at- tracted attention to that rare disease. Dr Bulkley, oi the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, declares it to be in this climate a "harmless: affection, the dread of which has been furthered by ill-informed and irrespons- ible writers of fiction." What we call leprosy is, He contends, not the biblical disease at all. In several places in the Bible the expression is used, 'A leper white 'as snow.' Now we know, says Dr. Bulkley, that neither the tubercular nor the macular, leprosy ever pre- seats a white surface, . and these instances probably related to psoriasis. Also, in many places, the Bible speaks of the skin turning white 'with white hair on it, referring to leucoderma, 'etc. Finally, the word zaraath, translated leprosy in the Old Testament, sig nifies a smiting or stroke. In the German of the middle ages the same word was translated baussassig, indicating an outcast, or one unfit to live with others. But our leprosy is prac: tically noncontagious,, Father Element, whose dedth 'was recently reported from Honolulu, 'rent from France in 1863 with Father Damien to devote his life 'to work among the: lepers there for forty-six years, in cofistant contact with lepers, and finally died 'of another cause, Lwithout: having contracted the disease. The People Welcome Sobriety. Worcester, Mass, is the largest city in the United ; States, not in. a prohibition state, which has banished the saloos' by popular vote, A yedF.ago the whole nation was sur prised at Worgester's going dry, because it was a. city of 125000 and because as a manu- fdcturing city its population is, in. large part, composed of alien: immigrants, or their im- mediate descendents, Most people, friend or foe of; alcohol, predicted that the saloon would be successful in the contest. After a year of experiment, the citizens; voted to prohibit. the license to sell intoxicating drinks: The. dole- ful consequences that the liquor dealers. pro- esied under. a prohibition, administration were, not realized: the city has: been greatly benefited hy the absence of the dramshog. . In the year of no license, arrests were decreased, hase fof drunkenness from 3924 to 1,843; for assault and battery, from 382 to 263; for lar: ceny, from 343 tg 255; for negléct.and non- support, from 112 to 87; for disturbing the peace, fram 210 to 109. Deaths from alcohol- ism, were. reduced from 30 to 9. The exper- jence dissipates two popular errors: thats the working people favor the saloon, and that for- { eigners and people in large cities cannot' live without their daily portion of = intoxicants. | Germdns._and other foreigners, especially of the younger class, are voting for noslicense: "Growing Cause of Abstinence. {A gray-haired employee of the Carnegie Steel Company, Pittsburg, Penn, staggered condition, He was pointed out to Henry C. Frick, who put. him in a cab and sent' him t home. - This. was not all he, did... He; visited the other : steel magnates in Pittsbyrg, and entered into an agreement with them that all workers. 'in the stéel anills: should take a pledge of abstimence, which should --msure 'soberness during business hours, with "more work and better work. Men applying for wark will be required to: be t ate; the | 60,000 men now at work, will be asked to sign the. pledge--anather illustration of the: econ- | omic reason for the abolition of strong drink, . becomisig' common, in industeial . institutions. This and the Sentimental and moral reasons are making a ceaseless warfare against the American saloon. i a en : Only One Livingy Parallel, By his recent gift of $10,000000 to the Rockefeller Foundation of the General U. S. Education: Board, John D.. Rockefeller has brotight his contributions to education and philanthropy up to the amazing , figure of Of this amount: $53,000,000 is under the 'contrdl of the board mentioned for the endowment of colleges and universities. agination more highly developed, declared About 'ninety-five: per cent. of his. gifts have gore fot the general cause. of _ education. His first large gift of $10,000,000 was made in A408} his latest marked his seventieth -birth- day.» In the twelve years intervening, he Has given at the rate 'of $9,500,000 . per annum without the proverbial "string" attached to them, as many. large contributions, have had; he granted .the largest freedom of action gompatible with the general character of the trust. sth of Mount Moriah, venerated alike by | Jew, Chtidtian and. Moslem. It was here, on | avid | origus. temple over it; the second inferior i ered the sacred place, now a thousand times |= ime to time, with its matchless coloring of |}' class, from royalty to] inthe 'settlement 'on' Molokai; le bad been |' fnto the building to his work. in intoxicated Tans; Black and Patent Goll: NOW, bisus igubesprasiniione sisemnss sisrsssssossoasinirs Bil U8. 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