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; ainarily: “my Bh HS ae Life Bass iasee Is Urged as a Curz _ Beholds the fowls of the air; for hi Are ye not ang better we they —Matthew vi., 2. That the Beat teacher knew men well, their weaknesses and theii needs, i is Santa ear shown by this counsel. ted the anxiety written in their fagea: Their duties, their business, their responsibili- ties weighed down the uplift of their hearts. And how much more He would have observed the same aspect to-day. Life then was simple and free compared with the present. Social conditions grown so _ complex that it is hard to keep from : 2. strain. Life is not being lived easily and naturally, but under a pressure almost painfully. Even the faces of the. sone reveal this severe con- ion o: ow, Christ ‘considered this a dis- torted, needless and unhappy thing. And - Be calls men ee look at the freedo Petras JOY of the caroling birds—so mu wiser in their simplicity than they in all their anxious Erorstnovent and strain. How, the avoid this error and tiles life lies and naturally “ove your work. Do not think that every one else has an easier ig than you have. Most of us have found the labor fitted to our ambition beyond that of doing your day’s. work well. Exercise neigh- borliness, feel kindly to your broth- Ww an interest in his suc- ure i Tt_is our selfishness that ean 01 as if bearing | at a time. for Our Troubles. for much of our stress. Were we satisfied with our portion instead r/of cherishing a grasping spirit we a far less aes 0 takes time to do cindly ackior: Siablons his own ae speed find ie sad Hi (and illumes his own. Again, have some nt re- creation. is the presets error to confound anos with abstineace and. austerity. The church has never made the mistake of oppos- ing harmless pleasures. —_ ‘Thos Christian people who have done Ae have sadly misrepresented it. Never work over evils to come. “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” “Far more troubles are suffered in imaginations than in reality. Let us hope for the. best instead for dreading the worst. Never bear more nee one trouble bear three he: © have. Let us not, then, suffer from IMAGINARY SORROWS. when troubles do come bear ee patiently. Pati mor al heart which deadens the blows inflicted on it. Impatience not only strips off the covering, but lays bare the very quick in all its sensitiveness of nerve. To bear evils with patience extracts from heir sharpest thorns and gathers from them the sweetest graces of temper. ut the chief means of taking life easily is that to which the Mas- —a_gladsome flight, i song and yet y ore heavenly father feed- eth thet e not much Pheer in God. Let us do our work and a porte the rest to Tim. NIUS B. REMENSNYDER. THE S. S$. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. 14. Lesson VII. The Apostles Impris- oned. Golden Text, . Matt. 5: 10. 18 r) ddusaic party, which lent its support to the high a Dedestly family. sect of the Sadducees—The| i Butinctes were the artistocratic rigidly legalistic, sine in their habits of life than ie nor < the existence of angel: 4 lid not accept the an ditional interpeasaiion of the law as. insi 8 and pont f They were in league with he aerodian and ie long as the Jewish state exist- oa But with ae downfall of that ite at the time of the destruec- sian of Se Re their power and influence came to an end, and they soon disappeared from history. of the Lord by ei liel and its effect, but he is 8] mee i @ supernatural re ich it is impossible to ex- ‘ 20. A the words of oo life.— mes: relating to the Christian Iie life and its aes pplosions: consummation. 1 eil—The Sanhedrin. ie older men. words—The report of the officers concerning the mysteri- ous escape of the prisoners. «+ «+ Whereunto this aring aun ited it an end to their euahinet 26, Without violmersBetadts of the great popularity of the shar ~tles. ‘The latter, we note, did not resist arrest. 27, Set. them before Examined. them and. .gaye the: hearing before the Sanhedr‘a. "26. We strictly charged you—Or- tin wt Jewish peep citizen would giye careful heed to instructions emanating from the Sanhedrin, which was the highest source of ly aeporved unto themselves by the Raters Chilat fergenlou: with yowr teaching—An unwilling tes: timony to the success of the apos- tles’ efforts to acquaint their fel- low “countrymen with the facts con- ing the life and work of Jesus, a0. Peter ar the apostles—Peter was spokesman, but others second- and affirmed what he 30. Raised up Jesus—In 'the sense of appointing him to the special and ministry which he ful- filled. met exp vewiott does sth case relate to the resurrection. ha ath of Jesus rest- eprfex the deatl with the “Jewish author 2 who were. instrumental | ing it about, even though fl id been pronoune- cuted by Roman soldiers. Hanging him on @ See faite him to death by the most ignom- inous of all forms of Sentai a early au- io. him, es the Holy Spirit,’’ -ete., or, are witnesses in him of these ae i He apostolic witnessing and the Spirit as tho secret. of the life par x in believers. This alsovis the keynote of the entire narra- tive of Acts. 83. Cut to the heart—Conscience- 3 é =z companions. Pharisees, named Gamaliel, Canhod bearing the same name. 30 great an his scholarship that he was the fi seven eminent and in- ica person Se the title belonged to the entire sh Sine than to any Particular : satper by Josephus, the Soe brated Ro ‘ish historian (A. 38-100), a w cessful revolt against the Roman ee? was..some fittnen. years after the bl events here r, 87. Judas of Pguinte-Abotier un- successful revolutionist, of there were many during the perio of Roman supremacy and just prior to the final dea ion of Jerusa- = S PEE | lem in A. In the days ot the enrollment— An enrollment or ‘‘census taking’’ which pactnechass A. se by Joseph 3 here referred to “should be lier enrollment mentioned in-Lu Q, as occurring at the time of the pie of Jesus. 0. To him hey agreed—The fact: that Gamaliel’s sober counsel out~ weighted the impulsive anger o his fellow-members of the Sanhe- rin ia a slestimiony to the regard! se héld by this su~} preme, Tccesatial riody of the a Te. i—By way of a mora em- stant ‘vatsing that they * desist than they? ae us then have faith |W in| extended 901 - | ol workmen em; a doctor of the law—The descend: nue tb of a inaneneaned family of Jewish scholars; the son of Rabb Simeon, randson lel, the founder of the liberal sehr of Jewis Pharisees. malie] ae se at is known as Gans liel I, 0 distinguish him his own}; *36, Theudas—Another. Theudas is| clearly. distinguished from the earl io trom their public teaching and speak in the name of pit mene Ae faethe 42. Preach—Greck, “bring good) tidings.” THE WALLS OF JERICHO CITY DESTROYED BY HOSTS OF JOSHUA REVEALED. Rampart Wall in Three Parts Must Haye Been a Striking Structure. ae Deutsche Orient Gesellschaft blishes in- supposed site of the a cho, a collection of mounds in the vicinity of the Village of. Ericha of Professor Sellin, pres a Government arehi- tect, and Professor era archaeologist, of Rost The excavations ducted from Jar. most interesting results. invesigated was a plateau 4 long by 180 board, containing seven After shee con- the exterior wall of THE VANISHED CITY feet below the surface. The ex vators were astonished at the tack struction, gravel a meter ter here points us. It is the lesson| Which o 8 taught by the birds. They are by os bulging externally, is superim- no means idle. They work from|Posed by a height of twenty feet k/morning until night. But their ac- the breadth being Ron an tivity is without care. Their ae is| one-half feet to eig! The ree, joyous, unbur jety | wall is built of mM tas rubble: which becomes finer toward the top, . Every interstice is most care- as filled in so as to offer no ad- vantages to the implements of des- truction of a hostile force. inally, upon this imposing foun- sets is the fortification wall pro- ‘BUILT OF CLAY BRICKS. In one place this part of the wall|¢ reaches height of eight fect, but woul ‘0 have been consid- The whole mus! have ing structure whieh dominated the mhole plain without the city, and must have een visible for Bite aes itage acti Sa point of technical perfection att esses over ex xcavators erably higher. The walls are estimated to have 0 yards; 450 yards have already been laid bare with the aid ployed by the ex- pedition. To the north the fortifica- tions are breached by a large heap rubbish, which would seem to in- ate med enemies must hay penetratedbere or some occasion. : ~ SSI STATEMENT OF VALUES IN DIFFERENT PROVINCES. Latest Reyort of the Bureau of Sta- tisties and Ceasus of the Domiuion. The Bureau of Census and Sta- tisti¢s issued recently a report for the cpecrinest is $55.70 per acre. In five of the Provinces it. is under 820, being $27.30 mn Manitoba, $25 in* Nova Scotia, $21.40 in New Brunowick, $20.40 in Saskatchewan, Satan $47.30, and in British Co- comparatiyely large extent ebtaeec land diets ta aecksed td small fruits. VALUE OF HORSES. The average value of horses at the end of the year is $46 for those under ‘one year, one to miader three years, and $143 for eo years Horses of | i Nova ie and Alberta; in New Brunsw. t tario they ae gai $140, and in are $170 to Milch cows have an average value in the Dominion $34, ranging from $20 in Prinee Edward Island and New Brunswick to in On- tario and $37 in in pont Columbia the average is r horned cattle have an average rile over the Dominion of 9 $32 for three These averages are Eeneray pee forall the Provinces, but t ‘igh- ést values are given for Ontaric, ate the western Provinces. SWINE AND SHEEP. The average value of swine is yen at per 100 pounds live weight, being lowest in Manitoba, sk: and highest in Quebec, Ontario “and é) British, eee lheep ven an average value of $5.23 erhead for the Dominio) and are below* the average in fel pa mounds. aw week's digging % was encountered at a depth of sine * FARM LANDS AND STOGK| ers Quebec and On-| ni Manitoba and Saskatchewan they ES Saskatchewan, but | seu Maritime Saskatchew: The fatal value of farm animals, computed on the foregoing ayer- ages and the number of animals on the farms in June, was $530,000,000. e June price of wool for the Do- minion Boe 18 cents per pound. The rage wages of farm and seantie help ors . e Dominion per nth wi $24. for males and ES Qusban and hi pes verages are reported for the western Provinces, where ey real pent €000 per year tor th males and $160 for females. tario and Quebec the average for sanlea-ge afieut WHA) andtne terinles 120 per EARTHQUAKE SUFFERERS REMARKABLE STORIES COME TO LIGHT. ;| Daily Tragedies of the Modern In- ferno — Ghouls Wage Open ‘Warfare. Tt is aonb a ee ae horrible 1 ile @ a s 5 a Ro aan S @ ned by the falling odie tise ‘The aw- Citar writes a Naples correspondent. owever, some few have been able to put their sensations’ and experiences into, ave of a man who inhabited the fourth floor of an apartment-house and who was awakened by what he self in an alarming position, ‘Th floor, probably through some de- fect in building, had given way cleanly as thoug b ife, which thus had two legs hanging in from it had rolled his wife into the gulf, he saving himself from a like aie throwing himself violently on to the floor on the other eide. e was Sonne iy the Reece after eee 48 hours, hots food ai ans and cries 2 ot ite Eta dunes Oke: Hh SHARED HER MOTHER’S FATE, She was afterward ear out of the debris, with scarcely in her body, dead. oor woman who was the streets of Mess attention through her str havior. hat her terrible experiences had turned her brain, but it was after- found in as| ward discovered that she was per- .|fectly sane. It seems that’ she had Ab cecaiacatiliident tigecoe encircle in a room together, while she and a baby occupied a small room near- by. ‘They were all buried among hele bristol tue houae oaenebineer children probably killed in the no sound. The : iat attested spot, brutally ed it, killing it immediaiely..] The mother was afterward released] terrible teal: dently been the peating a street and crosi he self five times, her childron, if not yet dead, id reviv. the year just ended ‘on farm land} perambulations for 24 hours, with- values in the Dominion, the value | out » never stopping for fear of farm animals, an @ average ae thus indirectly killing her poor ildren, long since dead. She eBuplubelystalunell evon. to ait dows until assured by the archbishop of Messina, before whom as taken, HER ee WAS IN VAIN. d $1 18.90 in Alber In Princes Conditions in Reggio are worse | 4 Edward Island the Soe, is $33,-| than at essina us would take per acre, in ec $41.90, in| the vivid pen of a Dante to give an adequate idea of the conditions in the’ sister cities. eggio two thirds of the po) lation lee under the debris of fallen buildings, the other third are in the etreets, without roof, without food, without water, without clothes. ose fa- 1 30 seconds cast down all the conventional barriers set up by so- ciety and reduced rich and’ poor alike to primitive man who must have shelter from ee and cloth- the round of the lugubrious rub- bish, to see slink they sania steal from t the bodies of the dead. ye jackals, caueerel of the e town, are co bold that they resist with firearms and knives anyone who saci © interfere with them. In.oi putting his peiterta safety, return- secure some of his once his house he was forcibly pre- vented from entering by a couple of men who, when he iapinteds shot, him dead. noice ate soldiers that there are are totally inadequate to keep langerous and puseron waar ae within bounds, so y have orders to % Reber ON SIGHT, the result sal peplee pitched battles in ht ae princi- 1 stect and. - | three ae wit only FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE on Fs sents applied for an old age pen- Le Waid era ine, ny, is at last fhe hoes: emu a amongst the rightful owners—the bed was dangerously inclined, and} ‘22"*s- stopping in his dangerous enton £ ee ‘3 Pet list. | castle (eaislen or r eaistel) was erect- whole bone | limi ret, it was he ae 5 : bay. poor thing had pursued her pitiable le} under the above der do not always get the best of it. Thus several soldiers Bee lost their lives and several more. will undoubtedly do so baloges Sara: ne particularly touching case of this kind has just occurred at. aoe A soldier who had, through his exceptional strength, sucet ed in lifting a beam which had ae He Pree and a group of whom a girl of eight was strupeling Sean came in view. wietadn the child fea are ial was afterward proved to be a con- siderable sum of mone; cree she had gathered together in her fa- ther’s house. i im, set upon the soldier and killed him by kicking him to ¢ n inferno, the victim of water, fire and earth- quake, and rendered a hell by man; one moment the most beau- terror and iniquity. SS NEWS BY LAND’S SHORES. nterest to Irish- men, A serious outbreak of fire oc- curred recently at - Drogheda Workhouse, Louth. rs. Mary O’Donnell, of Dra- more, Co. egal, aged 104, re- ioha W. McGoldrick, prominent athletes of Dundalk, has emigrated to Buenos Ayres. The & jJhtough the generosity of Mrs. Muray, Enniskea, a workingman’s clibhouse diss: recently been erec- ted at New lphesis onesof theclee plies in Trela © we are tol ed in pre-No The Goverment patrol boat Hel- ga, recently tured four steam trawlerent Try land Caceres, maleic sete Gehan mies the teas it. twenty-one years of faith- ful service, Mrs. Fever hospital nurse, in the Mul- lingar Union, has resigned on pen- ion Police mane busily engaged one day rece! listing posters and leaflets: which had ben posted in the town of En- nigcorthy, The death of Thomas Murphy, Kilmore, one of the best known and most popular men in County Ros- TPenuy: at the advanced age of 90 e Barrystone Miner? ‘Oo. fied have recently been opened. A large lump. of era weighing over six-pounds, was found by one of tho workmen recently. months past the work of erecting a new railway ‘station on the G. S. and W. Railway line at Kildangen, peree rea eR and | Kilds isre, has been in progre: ane the fact that 190 or 130 tram) it “Strabane workhouse weekly ee guardians have decided espace oes isiked. Laan which she was driving, becoming restive, Mrs. Mar , 80 years old, was thrown under a cart and drowned in a flax hole, near Bally- sal was recently made at a pheting of the Galway Guardi- ans to withdraw the doctor, nurse and sare be officer from the Is- lands » be nee Ame inhabi- tants re eae mg Dr, Walsh oe aeitien of Dublin, has been appointed Chan- cellor of the new i the Belfast Model schoo! Torney was knocked oa and fa- ba injured by a horse in the stre: Dawaneack Guardians are ex- periencing some difficulty in aes the position of registrar of births, deaths an marriages Strangford division owing. to Aue e is over 70 years of age, and had for many years been ex- hibited in oa 8 pacts of Europe n returning Sane ‘froma day’s shooting a farmer named Keileher, residing at losin, near Schull, laid his loaded fowling piece on the table. His son, Saas of five, Happened to touch the trigger, and the gun was discharged, the being shot through the Death was instantaneous, Saas ee | NOT ON HIS SIDE, - ‘Who is there,” cried the impas- sioned orator, “who will lift voice goa the truth of my state- men aay then a donkey on the out- skirts of the crowd gave vent, to one of the piercing ‘‘hee-haws”’ of the tribe. . The laugh was on the orator for assuming an air of triumph, he lifted his voice above tiful epdispn cards tiecieat eaitk 2 MAIC FROM IRE- s °. Mappeniags in the Emerald Isle of ntly in removing anti-en-| t o proseoute all other than genu-| WORKING DAY BROKEN UP] & TOO MANY MEALS IN BUSINESS HOURS IN GERMANY. Two Hours Allowed for Hot Din- ed an ner — Meals of Different Establishments. Complaints are common in Ber- 8] Germany, that the hours: of ‘k are not better arranged and more generally observed. Berlin, it is declared, no. business day ae other. capitals: and consequent- xX any rendezvous mi even in the banks and other big offi- ces, but if so there is always a which usually ours, during which thousands of employes go home by street car and get through a satisfying hot meal. NOT CONDUCIVE TO WORK. The result in the majority of oas- exactly, to “pause” and ‘“‘table times’ it would not be so bad, but as a mat- ter of fact Berlin has not reached this stage of unanimity and each place of business arranges them to ae its own convenience or caprice, Hence the difficulty of getting busi- ness men together for any common object or even for an appointment between two men. REMEDY PROPOSED. The remedy proposed is that Ber- lin should follow the example o London, where work is not crowded Bedi s day | a e with the es ‘thing at, say, 5 o’clock. In that case, it ed with some force, called night life, which means that in the centre of the city saloons and fe d restaurants are allowe main open the night through Certain well known saloons and cafes have not interrupted business for several years, for when night work ends day work be; Devlin maine Gis area for provincials, for whom it seems ave a powerful attraction, but is also largely due to the needs of employes turned loose from busi- ness too late to go home for a com- fortable meal or for the enjoyment of sports or other recreation. POLITICAL DANGERS. Bronson—‘‘Is it hard for a wo- man to “se see odson—"T say so! My wife eiked me s oe if a candi- date who was scratched at an elec- tion ever had blood poisoning.’’ pain a 4 Johnny said to his father the other day, ‘‘Father, have you ever noticed how often mother says, so on, and so on’?” “Oh, yes, Johnny,” was father’s reply, looking sadly at the breast of his STABLE WINDCW VENTILATOR. useful of _venttlati sabiss by, the use of winmiws Is of; fered tn bulletin 53 from. Station at that “numb windows opent tneh oF two at the top will fur fiat fair ventiletion P 4 oo gare arai Hg The window! the. pevesity of. the weather, It ie a to allow at aie on cubic it of ia Bo prs per cow this amount is means ae P ass tem fod changing the air je in w = Rr: MOW FOOD FLAVOR MILK, ee foods on have strong tastd and of milk their eharac- anette within a few hours before milking. | Most com- S due to 2ueterta on these matked point of aitter: | lenea between bad flavors of bactert origin and those coming from abs0i bares and len one Ber ‘Mas manifest 1 pres ; ye mai a io dettvened mile claariy when at the factory, a: moved by proper y aaration axd-oats, 10 the ol! = operation nat os ‘ tifa cow is ab ates oF reeled fut per ‘s rains mill and Se ARSE GRATUITOUS ADVICE. A man had sat for some time a restaurant, es thoughtfully at his saucer of melting ice-cream, i tant be lefsias clair anion his way to the proprietor. fae m advertise that you make y own ice-cream,’” he said, in a confidential tone. you a cent, and it’ll be money in your pocket.” “Glad to hear it, I’m sure,’’ said the proprietor. “Get somebody else to make it,’” said the man, in a hoarse whisper. HANDICAPPED. 2 find—a perfect fiend— That T would like to smother ; But he’s immune because My, little brother, hae Solas APPROPRIATE per They hired a girl to dus A girl both tried and ve eae Pie took all the dust in sight— hirt; “but as never applies to but- tons, my d then the dust girl «usted, The Old Hermit oe ee Cameron's Pluff O*™ might suppose a boy would in the treetops. his tale is about a MAN who lives there. Of course, ho {8 a very wise man, beeause only the wisest people know what fun can be had among the tree brane) 78 ago this wise man found 5 often very tiresome. could be better friends, he knew, with the birds, the THE HOUSE IN THE TRED trees, the flowers—the growing things of C nature. ‘Thi he becams @ herm Let us suppose tt 1s summer, and that Wo are on our way to visit the wise ma) We the to of Lawre ree—the ‘summer man. Wo should like to be polite and to knock at the door. Fé . sion is granted we climb up a ladder that the din to say, “I knew, nobody ut an ass Rome try it.” Jeads to a Uttle platform bullt ia.» fork of the tree. ae upon a platform just big enough f pox of books, a flag- pole and a ahalfer for a bed, we find our host. us kindly, does General stories of the early days of Kansas, he- fore the emigrants came and whon the memory of Indian twat was juat tells of the atin ring days of the Civil ‘War, and of the noble President, Abraham Tincoln. It 1s Ike delving into a history bool, but much more interesting. While he ts talking wo carefully ob- man. COMFORTABLE ABODE: ‘Under the hermit's guidance, we now escend the ladder. At tho base of tho tree ho shows us his winter ho self.Jn with a key, ho locks it when he 4p insid 5 But the wise iit ts'not fitout. modern orovertnty, ‘Ho light electrict| Hits Blutt, tho he spends a part of the summer, ting a sround (using @ @ tending to his orch- ara. ten at the Uniyersity sae Sabet e all firh the “old suhie of Cameron's eee ‘Ag the “old eegli courteously bade any peculiar property fu‘