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A FAIRYLAND MODEE, - Misses dress of tol | blue crepe | and light bine voile. * Broad 'gol a w. strength. "This was the tenth and 0 ash plague) and proved: so eonving . ing | that even: Pharaoh 'was not only 1) | ow! ling But Auiou: to Save: 'the Js- raelites depart ro! The manner in which the Hebrews themselves, efca drom the rav: ages of the deat angel i is recorded in our next lesson, in which we re- vert to the Exodus narrative. Japs ARE ALWAYS READY. ; Marched Directly IY to a Mohument in 30 Heart of Melbourne, James Francis Dwyer, the Aus- ralian novelist, tells the following story aboup the Japanese. Dwyer began as & reporter in Melbourne. "Japan sent a warship ow invita- tion to Australia, " said he: 'We were to unveil .a .monument, in a park in the interior' of Melbourne. The Japanese sailors were to grace the occasion.' ™ * Not one' of the Japanese hid ever heen on shore there before. When morning of the unveiling came Melbourne sent a mounted escort to show the visitors the way to the park. "The escort wasn't needed. At' the head of the brown column marched an officer with his nose on ; pinned to a bit of board. | never looked up," said . "Now. and thghhed give apanese, and the col- su would wheel to the left or Kind friends would wave ab the mounted escort, roudly on the wrong Ey Soll them they had lost g turned' their heart=The and: it will not harm bjeot | is Johuvakiand De reference. 5 to the Egyptians, whose hearts,' like the heart of "Pharaoh, were 9 ded. to | hardened 'and je toward Posted Frid fo pro ag idm am. they, came top of 'the' Shove: LL ly to f of their : bble, stra in belt vison Plested{? : hich is much more frequently that | o sven days. His elephants harstors are accustomed to: wo whenever ar de are called 0 Now it happened dink 0 urday afternoon 'thé rivervh to rise 'rapidly, 'abd early: Su morning news. from the intetion to! of still greater floods above. The firm: had thousands ol; dollars' worth of logs piled on the le bank, sud it became necessa 'hove them early Sunday 'fo; if they were not to be swept outs ' bg Hols 0, oni tars a a bi Rn pen. At daybreak the manageror-|. dered out his own. herd, and told his 'men to hire every available gléz 3 phant from native owners, As the Burmese drivers came hurr; with their animals, word w the beasts in the firm's"éd fall into line. 'But not an elephant moved; It was Bunday, and they didn': werk on Sunday. The drivers coaxed and cajoled ; the hathis stood blinking} their little eyes in. sco at the hurrying native beasts. Then the drivers borrowed 'an old 'tugker from the Burmese, - and. tried: to lead them with' him: Not. an; ele- phant moved. The frantic, drivers |i dug the goads into the necks. of their charges, whereupon, as i by preconderted signal, each' elephant swung up his trunk, seized 'hig 'dfi- ver about the waist, and put him gently but firmly on the ground; as who. should say, . 'You mustn't 'do that, you know! We'll work faith- fully. on weekdays, but we won't work on 'Bunday. "At length, the head driver, in desperation, seized the ear'of his elephant with the ankus, or'liook, used to' subdue: . fractious: ibeasts. Conscious of the indignity, the elo phant picked him up in; his trunk and flung him against the. gide .of the corral, twenty feet away, and: then resumed that clumsy, swaying that marks the elephant well ; fied with himself. ~The man get out of the hospital * weeks!" The English firm Had up, and the elephants had "thelr | Bunday rest. Several months ] discovered 'thatr the 0 he only by their war taken the 'shortest route their destination 'through a strange city. Re Ap x Australia, ; the temperature oiten ; 115 in the shade to 140 and has reached. over ward, Mr: LeFevre, on retuimifg Rasigion; asked about the Ssbbaths keeping 'elephants: 'It wei no nieré whim,*" replied the manages. | "Twice since that we have 'tested them to gee if they did notuslipkeep an accurate. account of workdays, : and once again got the. Bums [to trat their Honats by. But diya yout work iy unday. J not seem to be any cons, frasy: a- | each brute has | ured out Hn a 'ation "for _himge! ot hy 0 as LAE | omisnkins oil {ohms hg Sire 'ee he ou m The O.P.R. from Suaskasson ii ao opeén'tip Ww rishi i 4 lel:he O:N.R. Guone' Like: Linmsiian & considerable distances we "Railway: workmen in endl were sucoessiukin finding may: cubs, for somes ook:whioh ox | ogived fram bh I $2,000, A "navvies" clean 000 Two icking 'tog ¢ and one; Julie Ta prairie chicken -#t tis SPREF arine'Simon. Phodatter themibeat the; Janis inl tou: casloith AD : ended sentese, Wi FY of RL Having' oa os arms at the time, Tn wollte' pound and a , halt in rept ! had dee: a valuable } a pn the pock-