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IT WAS AN ANCIENT [DEA THAT LOFTY HILLS WERE CHOSEN HOMES OF DIVINE POWER. China Thess Shrines 'Are Visited by Vast Numbers--Buddhists Take Little Their Religion Beyond Havin ! the neg In istered at Various nples. rount of Stock inj! g Their Names| k will the < Ihe weddmg." and it was House of ham ence's parr Marlb rough gs reward! Sir; small gn!" it 18 but appre SOVere gious megting nmates by an- ng thief rejoiced preacher whose A ¢ ry and ar "The dy led by the oused hymn, toy de bt deeply angregation- make up the y ' 1 wmn," said as announced. A 1 when n we asunder part thirty=th the grandmother of 'olored box ree years yman for of especially the WC mistress, you all the ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES. What is Being Done the World Over in the Movement. the « parliament represeénta- wroposal women irancnisc a principle n municipal domestic Quite ges which hasty way to in founded judging paper, pled ged I f the CCas( exercisy done over ag: rity aturday Evening aim th granted They the 'break ily bribed igh treble he sweet H , Sweet me Best Selling Books, Canada. Chambers R. W. Service McCutcheon M. Montgomery HB McGr Wright ath elevation of 5,000 feet and and climate combine to and delicious Tts purity and econd grance mere ymical to y . , States That Som in f A LAYMEN'S REMARKS CUSTOMS. | ON cf the Customs in Som Are Little Better Than Pagin-- He Points Out That the Creat Evil is the Crowded House Funeral Pecpects Qur funeral. customs are supposed to be Christian; but in some respects they are Little better than pagan. . The great evil is the crowded house fameral. In cities it'is not so bad, partly because city people are too busy | to attend funerals out of curiosity, but chiefly | because city people have 4 wholesome re- spect for the sanctity and privacy of the home, | In the death notices of city papers, the old | formula "friends and acquaintances respect- fully invited to attend" has been replaced by "funeral private"--sometimes "strictly pri- vate,' éven the ume being announced. And in such cases, of course, relatives and friends whose attendance is desired are noti- | fied personally. But in the country, especi ially and sms: \ } as a pub It must be attended, or the relatives are not satis- fie Now if the rubrics are observed, and the bags! service said in the chufch, all would be well. But, instead of this, the relatives insist on a house funeral, not for the sake of pri- vacy, for that of the question, but be- cause it customary, and because it makes the home of some very "ordinary family a momentary centre of sympathy, of and of importance [hat the accommodation quite insufficient is looked upon as some- thing that cannot be helped. Here is a case in point: A widow not funeral 1 n stall re fe rded ir. largel 15 out 15 18 with two daughters lived in a comfortable five-roomed cottage in a town. They were not poor people by any and had many relatives and connec- the vicinity and the body When the range ior that it was brought home for burial 'tor ot the funeral was to be a i ance, one at which | officiate. tion of some import- should feel compliment- ed to Owing to the smallness of the cottage, he suggested that there be a pri- vate service for the family, followed by an adjournme to the church... This offer was refused on the ground that the church was 'too public." ¥et the family demanded that the church choir be summoned to attend and sing two hymns, a request that was honored, as one of the girls sang in the choir not very regularly About score of relatives, the parson, the choir, and the undertaker, of them selves made a crowd that filled small rooms uncomfortably Chis, however, would have been supportable, but as many more friends, acquaintances and strangers crowded their way in until the place was jammed. The choir began a hymn; as though this were a pre-arranged signal, a of the deceased began to fob hysterically, and another woman screamed. The atmosphere became not mere ly close, but positively foul and nauseous; per haps this was a blessing in disguise, the n was glad t e short, and pe fresh air outside. And in circumst der the curious eyes of the family took last look » departed the sister for it the servic into God's angers, their at Another case hat of a prominent Meth- odist, the father a large family, who met his death through an accident. Two or three people attended the funeral, and al- though the house was large, the majority were compelled to remain outside. Some quiet and reverent; others were frankly gossip- | ing; and the idle men of the town were amus-| ing themselves as they might have done at an auction sale or a baseball match. One of the daughters of the deceased, unable control came to an open window and scream- | ed for her "dear papa." It was really a pain- ful and could not but pity the family, the victims of an absurd custom, which | made them the target of curious eyes at the very time w henggecency would have suggested seclpsion Deat ath 1s was hundred tl I to herself, one scene, sudden, and few care. to plan funerals in advance. low falls, the tender arrange every- thing aceording to a code of snobbery, r than of common sense. Everybody is sup- posed to give to wishes of the be- eaved fam ions, even from the p Indeed, t i thing to of minister, yet th rein the minister is al- lowed rity the Burial of | the Dead. Everything is arranged t o suit the ney or prejud ces of people whose ideas dre often ignorance, and selfishness; led in much as one might | hired fiddler for a dance. Never- theless, the clergy might do much to instruct their people, by occasionally preaching on the subject of funerals, and by explai ning the | seemliness and convenience of ing the church, ih all where a funeral is not strictly private At the there prime requisite for any ceremony. The min- ister, the choir, the congregation, all have | their accustomed places; there can be no rude jostling, nor crowding in bad air; and the sur- roundings all make for seemly and reverent behavior. Friends and acquaintances, always 1S to way the and sugges t i wit red ly, ces a as m msm red the parson is « engage cases church is plenty of room--a spect, or that they are, by force of circumstances, intruding in the house of grief. Those near relations who cannot master their feelings; need not attend the publi¢ service; but if they do, they are far less servation than in their own homes. events, that distressing scene, the last look, is enacted in the privacy of the family circle. | When the poor cold clay comes to the church for the last time, the coffin should be con-| sidered as finally closed; and the thoughts of the relatives should be withdrawn from the | bitterness of the final parting here on earth, to the > bright hope immortality, where part. be no mor n in heart; 1t is good for everyone. least advantage of the church ser- vice is the opportunity to rise above the dole- [Et what has been los hymns and t inspiring strains of | hymns that Christian, and the sure | are really and certain hope of ] whence Lord Jesus Christ; anew. the body of our hu- may be conformed the No doubt, this is to some f perfection. But it should ch funeral, well-managed, g to the feelings of re- ywided house funetal It oc- Savi ur, fast hion that it 1s glory - exten the counsel be known tH 2 cl listres to s far less latives than a Cre interest, | small | A son died in Manitoba, | the parish called to ar- | he was quickly apprised | vere | and common sense | people When the | rather; who at- | tend the funeral from motives of genuine re- | need not feel that they are in the way, | exposed to curious ob- | At alll And this is good for | ul contemplation of | "For our | also we 3 x spre, and tarties 3 it ma i: reduce the expenses $ who can attend the church service are | | many THE spared the time and cost of going to are { cemetety--~W. Q. P., Jarnia. i THE LAND OF RUINS. I: ---- c 1 Palestine is Tull of Them--An Unrarranged and Overcrowded Museum. i Above all countries, Palestine is a land ¢ il runs In Judes whilst for miles there us no i appearance of life or habitation, except the | occasional goat-herd on the hillside or '| | gathering of women at the wells, there is yet hardly a hilltop of the many in sight but is | { covered with the vestiges of some fortress or | Ruins isolated, ruins superimposed in | strata as at Samarid, or most notably in Jern- salem, are ubiquitous, and promising only to the antiquarian, to whom the country cries sut tor excavation. Canaanitish, Mycenman, As- syrian. Egyptian, Jewish, 'Grecian, Roman, Crusading, and Saracenic, all ages and many forms of civilization are repreSented, many of them in the same place and even in: the | same building. De we land at Haifa? Of the | histery of Carmel above us a few ruins re-| mind us. We reach the Sea of Tiberias and | find it surrounded by a ruined medieval wall, | outside of which are rubbish heaps that are the ruins of the ancient tdwn, while the walls | | of a Roman city can be traced up the hillside. | he Saracenic Castle is of course a ruin, ! | city, avoided by the Jews of our Lord's time be- | cause it had been partly built on ancient grav- es. The lakeside towns and villages of that | date are all but scanty ruins. Opposite are | the ruins of Gamala, To the left we pass the | ruin: of Arbela, ruined waterworks, the blocks | that mark two supposed sites of the once im- | portant Capernaum, and the ruins of ar azin. The lake, indeed, is girdled with ruined | villages and towns, whereof only two are in- { habited. Or do we land at Jaffa? Destroyed | by the internecine wars of the Jews, rebuilt by pirates, again destroyed py~Vespasian, re- | built, destroyed by Crusaders and Paynim, ne | habitable house remained in the fourteenth century, and not until centuries after i much but a ruin." Driving to Jerusalem a | prominent object is the great tower of Ram- i leh, belonging to the (ruined) fourteenth cen- | tury mosque. Further on is Gezer, where the | | Palestine Exploration Fund = has discovered | traces of seven successive cities on one site; | on to Latrun, where the castle of the Knights | of St. John was dismantled by Saladin; then to Amwas with its ruined church, Abu-Ghosh | or Kirjath-Jearim has another ruined twelfth | century c! and on to the oft-ruined | are the houses or cottages | that have not been Sopepeted out of ruins, | and the future ruin 6f any may bring to light | some ancient carving or J aceription buried in | the wall The land is an BuaHuEed and 1 museum wherein most rer-crowded .are forgotten in the cellars was wrch, £0 erusalem. Few ov objects of A Solomon in Wisdom. women came before a mandarin in| China, each protesting that she was the mo- ther of a little child they had brought. They were so eager and so positive that the man- | darin was sorely puzzled. He retired to con- \ sult with his clever wife. She deliberated and | asked: "let the servants catch me a large fish the river, and let it be brought here This was done. "Dring me now the | she 1, "but leave the two women | {in the other ¢ amber." This was done too. | { Then the mandarin's wife caused the baby to be undressed and its clothes to be put on the | fish. "Carry the creature outside and throw | it into the river in the sight of the women." The servant consigned the fish into the water, | where it rolled about and struggled, disgusted by the wrappings. Without a pause one of the women threw herself into the river with a | shriek; she must save her child. "Without doubt she is the true mother." She was res- cued and the child was given to her. The { mandarin nodded his head and thought his wife the wisest woman in the Flowery King- | dom. Meanwhile the false woman crept away and the mandarin's wife forgot all about her in | the occupation of attiring the baby in the best silk she could find in her wardrobe. Two alive" inf: ant," sa i Story of the Fool Bible. In the famous library of Wolfenbuttel, in , Hesse, is an old German Bible, greatly treas- | ured, but until recently it was not known why it is so valued. The mystery has been solved by the discovery of papers relating to it. \ It appears that in that passage of Genesis wheye i God tells Eve that Adam shall be her master, {and shall rule over her, in place of the word "Herr," which means "master," there appears the word "Narr." which means "fool." The wife was vengeful, and in the silent watches of the night she entered. the room where her husband had been setting type, and malicious- | {ly changed Herr into Narr. After the book {had been printed the mistake was seen, and the printer arrested, but the apprentice testi- fied that he saw the wife steal into the com- | posing-réom and alter the word. Afterwards | | the woman was imprisoned for blasphemy. | {| Orders were given that all the copies of the | | edition should be destroyed. This was dane, | | with the exception of the one copy now in the'! | Wolfenbuttel library. 5 i Unhappy Are the Literary Homes. | | Someone h a pdssion f been wing the private English writers, and portion of celibates unhapp ly | persons. , His list -of foremost British authors {is so full of matrimonial wrecks that the com- I piler is forced to wonder whether the rest of | {us in more prosaic cal have pocr a | chance at domestic happiness as poets and playwrights. No fewer than 25 out of 68 well-} {known authors were married. A num- ber, including Milton, Bunyan, Southey and Hazlitt, made several matrimonial ventures.| | Shakespenre, Dryden, Addison, Coleridge, Car- {1yle, Ruskin an Dickens are the most not- abl: of those unhappily married. Are hterary! {men capable I lawyers and plumbers' {of choosing congenial The truth] seems to be, that. the husband is at {home so much of the time that he becomes | as familiar an: object there the old cane-| {bottomed chair." 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