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SP! knowledge that : "| © NOTHING LASTS FOREVER, that perhaps thé next turn of the wheel lat: Spr Tift "him to the coveted sui | Dope he doss ee n sweel lem ha « | head, a dum ngue, -a sweel temper | under 0 be because he 'most frying circumstances, can rejoice in hope in the it doesn't because of his he: de not despair,~bul silently id" struggles on. let the man lose hope, Jet the di: amid all that perplexes, annoys, {al him a 'weak! All: these are insignificant things when the sou : he Spark gis in his bosom and set him OWI) and hinders and you make ling or a madman. But Ant hopes compares them 'with hq victories and achievements he he E fees awall hun in the future 'and' he finds_strefgth to master the spirit o resentmeén Tw $i anger and 'despair. : a. hope of this kind that en- the of Tao: |evmpaty weak HE REJOICED IN HOPE. = saint, the beaulitul poised tian character, who breathes with ofthe Christ, Who is louched with: nd 'helpless, - everything (hat and suffers, and you will find 'his passed through the fire in the victory seen from afar. ford 'to = grow skeptical Christ 'does not come in our own way and in our day. But He is ooming,]| Hd is here, if the world will only book up and behold Him.: It is only by re- Sure allain, I know how disappointed we are offen with our lives, how some- times we almost despair of ever mak- ing of them ' the beautiful thing Wwe would like 10 see them; but, rejoicing in haope, in patience, we must endure tll the Christ comes to us, till we come tc the Christ. Hope will steady our lives, fill them with visions of attain. ment, with inspiration that will carry us toward the heights and anchor our I'soul to the eternal. : : - 'REV, GUY A. JAMIESON. (compare Luke 13. 1-5). « The actual sin. fulness either of the man himself or his parents 'is, of course, not denied by Jesus. . Not punishment (justice) merely, 'tut something higher, even a manifes- tation of the works of God, is the pur- pose of this personal affliction. Divinely permitled fn : the natural course of events, human suffering -is made to 4serve a higher purpose im "harmony with God's plans. AER "5. When=Or, "why," or, "as long as.' . 6.. Anointed. his eyes with the clay-- Not that Jesus could not have. healed the 'man without these means, bul be- causé he willed this'to be the channel of his power. Perhaps also these ma- Means were necessary as a peda- gogic measure whereby Jesus entered n {more direct personal contact with and loves everything that i§ i jorcing in hope that we will in a mea- | His plain but ef- t, however, serves 'but Ac augment their irritation, and brings upon 'him the severest judgment whicn it was'in their power to pronounce. Thé excommunication from the syna- » which his parents had feared is reward for his straightforwardness ©! speech. [ 34, Cast him out--By force from their and | presence, and undoubtedly also by far- mal procedure from membership in the synagogue. Finding him--These words = imply a rching on 'the part of Jesus. 89. For judgment--Not the act of We must not despair; we cannot af. judging, but ils result as determined because the by the altitude which men take toward fhrist. "This manifestation of latent character was one of the ends, although mot the supreme or ultimate end, of his coming into the world." They that see not--Those who recog- 'nize and admit their ignorance, like the 'blind man who had inquired of Jesus, #And who is he, Lord, that I may. be-| © lieve on him?" v They that sece--Those who deceive themselves and imagine that they have ao further need of light, like the Phari- 806s, who said: "We know . . . and dost thou teach ust" 41. if ye were blind--In the sense of being conscious of ignorance as was |ihe man who had been blind. Ye say, We sce--In spiritual pride and self-deception they were taking the ¥iifit of their ignorance upon them- selves, thus making impossible a fur ther revelation of truth to them. -- HUNGRY ENGLISH PUPILS DISTRESS REVEALED BY THE WORK "OF SCHOOL BOARDS. Appeal Issued in London for Fund to Supply Breakfasts to Under- : ted: Children. The most conspicuous appeal .ts|" charity during Chrisimpes senson was th¢ blind 'man, emphasizing by the foflah af hia liam dtr. oon oa that issued. by §ie' London County incil asking for subscriptions to a d for the purpose of feeding such the children in the schools under its Irol as are unable fo oblain proper tenance, writes a London correspon- t. The appeal is signed by Lords bobery, Avebury and Rothschild and Balfour, eT ; hese gentlemen ask for aid mainly the ground that it is not expedient put into farce the education (feed- of children) acl. This act is not pulsory, but permissive, and al- a the local educational authority to y a {ax for this: purpose equal to c cent on each $4.80 of the 'actual tal value of 'residential or business pperty, "the occupant "of a elling vented at £100 would have fc additional taxation of $1.04.. he sum Taised by this tax can only used for the feeding of necessilous dren, and the act J for full uiry- to be made into. the home cir: stances of children provided with als and alsd gives permission horities: to. pix 1s discovered thal the provide food, bul have ' fa HA ESS CA LEFTHANDEDY thinkers and the curiqus whe L pare not satisfled with accepting. things as they are, but must know why they 5. The | évery hundred use the right hand by -| fell short ot 89.600 An example of the 'fdilure of. this 'means of raising money is given in Bermondsey, a south London suburb. 'As Chaucer School alter investigation 419 pupils were found to be In need of food. A fund was al once apened. resulted in a sufficient sum being raised to feed 148 children; but in three other schools in the borough, where he number of necessitous children was 108, 278 'and 245, an appeal for help 'was in' vain, IN THE BOROUGH OF HACKNEY. an East End district, over 800 children are reported as starving and there are no funds in hand. The Salvation Army which last year supplied over 350,000 breakfasts to chil- dren at a charge of half a cent each. abandoned this side of their work among the poor on the passing of the act. Owing to the distress it has been compelled to resume the distribution of theso meals. It has already opened dining rooms "at Custom House, Ber mondsey, Shoreditch, Canning Town, Scuthwark and -South Lambeth. These are all poverty stricken districts. The army has issued an appeal for funds to supply the difference in the cost of these breakfasts and the charges made. These hall cent breakfasts con- sist of a currant roll weighing six oun- ces and a mug of cocoa; the average vost is two cents. The children pro- vide their own drinking vessels. These consist of anything that will hold hot 'tocoa, ranging from a cup to a sardine an. Most of the great provincial towns have already adopted the act, but Leeds, which is receiving considerable dona. tions from local philanthropists, has up to the time of writing been able to supply all needed meals. Liverpool has refused to put the act into force. Bradford has published the report of the medical superintendent of the schools, Dr. Crowley, and also gives the menu of the breakfast and dinners supplied by its educalion committee. Breakfast consists of porridge with milk and molasses, followed by bread and margarine or dripping. Dinners con- sisted of lwo courses, varying from day to day. A FEW SAMPLE DINNERS are given, the cost of which never ex- ceeded 3) cents and occasionally fell to 2 cents. Pea soup, jam roly poly pudding. Haricot soup with dumplings; jam pudding. Savory batter, gravy and beans; rice and currants. Yorkshire cheese pudding, peas and gravy; butlered rice and sugar. Vegetarian ple; blanc mange and jam. | Meat hash, savory balls and rice; stewed fruil. Scotch barley broth; rhubarb tart. Shepherds pie; milk pudding and slewed fruit. Fish and potato pie, blanc mange and jam. Dr. Crowley's report stales that at the end of the first week the average gain in weight of the children lo whom these meals were supplied was 1 pound 4 qunges, and at the end of four weeks {he average gain was 1 pound 14 ounces. About the middle of December the education committee at Hartlepool in- stituted an inquiry into the condition ol the children in the schools under its control. The committee, discovering that 270 children had come to school without breskfast, immediately voted $744 lo be expended on feeding these children. : At Newcastle on Tyne 2,500 children were reported by the school managers a3 having insuflicient food. The edu- cation commitlee is now spending $7,- 200 in providing meals al an average cest of three cenfs a child. rad fe ae - ONE-PIECE DRESS. The. prediclion of things tailor-made was largely insirumental in bringing green peas, | about a marked favor for the one-piece dress, in w ample scope is allowed '} lor - individual effects, especially in the way of combining simplicity of outline | with elaboration of detail, Here, alsb, the overskirt finds opportunity for ex- ressio Be A Sharmin ode of: Ameri« dest WS 8 princess with seams left open, baie edges tely to disclose what aps a.skirt of contrasting maleri- reallly 15 nothing more insaried and. aitached lo from | preference for grasping objects, writ ing, and all the more delicate and in- tricate of movements, while {he remain- ing three find the left hand to be the "handy" hand and the right hand the wrong hand? * Why, indeed, should (héte be any preference in the matler, anyway? Why not use one hand or the other indifferently? One 'is able to appreciate the advant age of this arrangement sometimes, when one sees'those who are ambidext- rous, so-called." This name, meaning right-handed on both sides, is incor- recl, for in most cases they are really left-handed qn both sides. They are awkward and often vexed with what one might call manual indecision, hesitat- 'ng as to which hand to use, and then not infrequently using the wrong one, alter all, or perhaps stretching out both together. If such a person has an ob- ject in each hand, one to be kept, and the other to be put down, he will be as likely to lay down (he one that should have been kept and retain the other as to make (he proper disposition of the objects, This is an argument against forcing a naturally left-handed child to use the right hand, like other persons. If al- lewed to follow out his natural impulse, his left hand will become skilful, and he will get along as well as his right handed brother, except that he will be bothered more or less through life by the fact that tools and machinery are made for right-handed people. This is nol so much of a handicap as It might seem, for the left-handed person can train his right hand to sub- ordinate acts, just as most of us train the left hand to carry food to the mouth with a fork, and Jo other things re- quiring more or less dexterity, Recently Doctor Gould, an oculist of Philadelphia, has shown that one is right-handed because his right eye is the better eye, and that the child {herc- fore uses the right hand by preference because he sees it beller and can guide its movements. If by chance le is born with a superior left eye, then just as na- turally he uses the left hand. By the use of the left hand the brain cenlre cn the other side, which guides its movements, becomes better developed than (hat governing the right hand, and any attempt on the part of parents oc leachers to force the Jominion of the right hand will only produce con- fusion in the brain--a confusion which will never be wholly overcome. Instead of being skilful and easy with {he left hand, the child will be awkward with bo'h.--Youlh's Companion, OPEN YOUR WINDOWS. "When men lived in houses in reeds they had constitutions of oak;éwhen they lived In houses of oak they had constitutions of reeds.' So says an old wriler to illustrate the necessity of ven- titation. The modern tendency in many in- slances is to live in houses so closely confined that fresh air, as well as draughts, cannot enler. Further, win. dows are frequently curtained so heav- ily that sunlight, which is almost as important as fresh air, cannot enter. But it is not at all necessary to have the modern house unhealthy, and, by using intelligence and thoughtfulness, a well-built house can be kept as fresh and breezy as was ever the most pre- historic wicker hut. Fresh air and sunlight--two of the most necessary aids to health--are free gills to all, and they should not be shut out, even if the first is inclined to chill cne, and the second lo take the color from furniture and carpets. md - FAMOUS BANDIT CAUGHT. Once Captured and Sacked a Town -- The Terror of Spain. El Vivillo, the famous Spanish bandit, tas been arrested at Buenos Ayres on the request of the Spanish Government. There is eager interest in the ultimate fale of the most p'cturesque of mode.n Spaniards, who has combined the ca- wers of politician, philanthropist and highwayman for many years past. His 'office" was a cavern near 'the old town of Estefla. Here he came lo live in early youth, after his employer, a farmer, had dismissed him, and af- ter he had 'burned down the farmer's house in revenge, Worshipped by the populace for his generosity, the bri was quick lo see and use his po, litical opportunities. Municipal. and parliamentary candidates whom he favs ored were certain of success. dates and iocsl party leaders, there foro, sought audience of "him in his cave. He soon controlled [ politics, and was , em! left-handedness has long. Cand! barrass ing aflentio ons. gt he fare. 'Why should 'ninetysseven out of -