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— TERNATIONAL LESSON, we Lesson V. Matt. 18, 21-35. Text, Matt. 6. 14. ey Verse 21. & Lesson on Forgive- ness. Golden Then came Peter — 3 Matthew’s peculiar interest in Peter has been notice: several times in Bom lessons (compare Matt. 10/2; 14. 28; 15. 15; 16. 18; How oft —Jesus had shown that iia man wes at fault it was neces- > sary to treat his case with patience, sesking not only reparation but for W Munificent treatment, especially since that was to be more than twice bi ag peenecans as ‘the rabbis? say not . . . seven times— The “attitude of Jesus on the ques- tion of forgiveness is, that there must be no counting at all. To have new eventy times seven suggests that there is to be no limit forgiveness. An allusion to the song of Lamech (Uen. 4. 24) is not improbable. The carnal man longs for vengeance ‘gevent seven- fold.’ But the spiritually-minded man rejoices that he can forgive with much heartiness close connection between the sa; ing of Jesus and the parable of tho unmerciful servant. ause, in m of heaven, there is no this kingdom is likened unto a King t whose conspicuous generosity debtor laid upon of dealing mercifully with others. 24. Owed him ten thousand tal- ents—An impossible sum, repre- — senting a debt, say, of $10,000,000, “which would be incapable of dis- Is our debt encrmous? or to make it right man the innouent (represented here by nt’s wife and children be- ). . Payment to be made—For- ee is possible Bay ea the fail tly. aa tee Wieintauce at thie debfor ix reckoned a sufficient. payment. § The atoning work of Christ does not must ae, on Repentance is not necessary in order to make God forgiving i it iz the evidence that a man is ready cept in all incariiy what a for has done for him in the death of his Son. 26. I will pay thee all—The man could hardly have realized how hopeless suc! ah attempt would be. like ithe prodigal son, he eares only to as a hired servant, with a ake to work the. debt off. é 27. Being moved with compassion avire anything man can do to rouse li to pity. All that God requires is’ safe ground upon which to open reree him the debt—He does “e oe asks for, paltry sum compared with the debt just remitted Probably the amount ‘ould fot’ be more than seventeen ie contrast displays the eness of our claims upon others as compared with God’s clatms upon us for our sin. Pay what thou owest—Men, act- Ping upon the harsh snpsee of a aré: iapt, to forget Into Re “till, he should pay—This was th c' nan linded by his own madn He juyjured himself by making it im- possible for the servant to earn the wherewithal to pay. 83. Shouldest not thou also have had mercy !—-Compare James 2.13: “Bor sadguent is epleroun mercy to him that hath showed no mercy.” is lérd was wroth—The an- ger of God does not come isto view until the man refuses to manifest to snother a forgiving temper. t apt to think that to may. be a sin that is greater than any of these.’ Tt Ged requires of ux what we, in| cold: justice, require of others, who cf us-is there can in all eternity pay all that was due Delivered him to the tormentors —Wiile this detail might describe the punishment infli a earthly monare! it is scarcely a fair picture of the procedure of our heavenly Father. GERMAN STEEL PLATES. JAs the Scottish steel makers aro unable to. cope with the demand for steel plates for shipbuilding, Glas- pow firms have placed heavy craess att vl Seat Ses ers, These Ger- plates are to be sen in the. Glyde ahyards at $1.30. per n less than the Scottish prices. n that man the pi fo , involving even| M. lood gates of his free, for- P with, them in un- of I will pay in language used by his! ™ | ver powerful Russia | claimed that the THES %. Se LESSON |KEEP ANCIENT CUSTOM SE CEREMONY OF RUSH BEARING IN ENGLAND. Grasmere Has Never Missed Obser- vance — Maypole Dance Follows. ack zo remote times, churches consisted of hard earth, which was covered with rushes. mee a year the inhabitants of te towns and villages enjoyed the great ceremony of goi 8:0" to e churel i stre’ floor with newly cut, rushes, and the t) little village of Grasmere, in the lake cou boasts of being the only fists ePlierorike “eiseoi tay an unbroken record of observance. There the festival is held once a year on ge Saturday after St. Os- wald’s the saint for whom the Tittle rurale is name HOW IT IS KEPT. The villagers combine the rushes —now no longer needed for a car- 2) pet—with wild tlowers and make them into various forms suggesting Christian truths. e late af- ternoon the children assemble with admire, or at least to study, wonderful devices. Moses in the bulrushes is still a leading favorite, he visitor was privileged to view a little chin Moses lying on a soft e bed in a nest of s. He says in the Outlook that the flaxen-haired baby carrying this exhibit e honor later of leading the children in the Maypole ie lowed closely by a small girl and bearing the ae This device et, and as it was in spiral form its actual length could not have been le: than iKelte feet. SATURADY EVENING. a‘ 6.30, when the clergy and choir and band and children are arrang- ed for the procession, sts hymn of and plays ls ringing 9 On returning to the church the gerlands are hung about and a full choral evensong follows. | with the rush bearers’ hymn. On ations are Temo' ing field, where the May pole up and @ regular gala day enjoyed by the children. NEO ip ia oe As AGED MEN HAD GENIUS, Did en Work in the After of Their Lives. “Old age is a ee un- Dant: 70 when ne ccmposed his famous ep: Milton was 57 and ‘lind ‘when he wrote ‘Paradise Lost Robert srobicate 8 sf reatest poem, “Ring and Book,’’ was com use when he was over 69 was Lees 80 whea ho “Oliver Wendel “Hol prefessor at Harvacd at + y battle resident tvs sses 8. Grant was nowrly 40 vhen he emerged the tannery eu Galena, Ill., to become one of greatest generals ¢f history sae the leader, wom his ¢ and all his corps com over 50. Ito, Japan’s urtatest stat who did more tian anv apaa what it is to day, s busy plaan'ng still greater Nihisvamenia 1o5ch cunt ylien aysassinated at 2a SEN ieee a ELECTRICITY IN MILLS. In the development of electr' as a motive power for cotton-m in England. the plan has generally heen adopted-of using-a separate motor in every foom. mili this’system en farther, each machine haying ats otor, so that no shafting is employed. Yorkshire man; mills have recently eal driving exolusively. It re is a considerable increase in the RPE of the mills. NOT THE SAME. “T had half the young men in town for rivals when I was doing a courtship stunt,” said the sad- oe Sew ger. d did you land the prize?” light,” replied he cf ae Say eyes, ‘but I married the gir ‘A quaint ceremony known as rush| § cx the outskirts of the settlement ; she ,| wasn’t a fact the following Monday all the decor-| a felesice, \t et| The Under Bee i vA was a Michel Angelo completed the great b on Sunday, ‘y EFUGE, Children Resoued From Cruelb Gwners—A Gry wing Work, iii the foreign quarter of Shaitg: hai Ley is a slave refuge which and whic! Mayar actos ints woke: wondioind- ous quarters before | cerning this pase the North China Daily News says: “It is ten institution was tarted, then in a small house in , its present home, a Chinese building at the corner of Avenue and very roads, which was built in 1905, and it is a proof f the extent to which the work of sent inmates is sixt ages of the children vary between 2and 17 years, maintenance is about $3 (Mexican) They also instructed i: non-sectarian form of Christisnity, When old enough they are marrie: Bee ule tack welaaetnemen ta Speer husbands—this is easily manag e put to some post in pes ae or hospitals. “OF the tragedies with which the wefuge has to cope, the following recent case will serve as a good illustration: A little girl, 9 years old, had been brought by kindly neighbors to a hospital on ibe “condition. etter her owners claimed her, Heee to kill her when she ie return. was taken to the refuge, the Raporintendant of which was oblig- ed to communicate with the police, in view of the owners’ behavior. © mixed court by which she was formally handed over to the refuge, where we are glad to learn she is doing w. ED FOR GIN. CHILDREN PAY A Widespread Custom in the ¥oru- a Country of West Africa. In the Yoruba country, West Africa, when a thirsty native finds | 7 he hasn’t the price. of a drink of i of his oe | nies, takes it to the nearest bush aloon and pawns it for the ace i hi was disclosed when | Sir George White in the British Hou Commons asked if it] that “thousands of children are pawned by their pa for ¢ | a and kept ina condi-| ae of the Co- |lorial Office replied that the eu ton was W! idespread and quoted the owing extract from a report a committee compose natives on the laws and customs of the Yoruba country When st tence edeatices money to a borrower he asks the latter to provide an acceptable surety, who 1s responsible in Gael of payment | 5 by the borrower, The borrower is drawn into service ae the lender one day in the week, the service re- presenting interest for the money advanced. He lives in his own house. “But if a child is provided as a substitute he is to live with and work for the lender as his child, the consideration for the loan be- the borrower is deprived nut become the slave of the lender. “Phe child does not forfeit his 5 | Hiahte and privileges 2 as a free born. He can behave to the lender pre- 0 live w On the other hand the lender is re- ep oecee to the public authorities lor anny to the health of the child es 5 FALSE COMET. How Russian ‘Peasants Suffered From a Terrible Fright. One of the most rénces in connection with the ap- pearance of Halley's comet is re- ported from the township of Niko- Isk, in the Alexandriesky avis Russia. The inhabitants, who mostly Believers, were told that the comet might be expected ay 15...In view of the amusing ocur- en Shortly after midnight the watch- ere reported that the comet had ap- peared over the hills and was rap- idly approaching the village. There arose universal shrieks and lamen- tations, and the villagers hastily wrapped themselves in white eloth. ight came straight towards yy the time they realized that it was only tlie powerful acetylene lamp of a motor-car, on which a party of gen- tlemen were igusing the country. COST OF Sav uninceats In the growth of the cost of goy- ernment in Great ube sere is no lagging. Fifteen the annum. At the close of Conserya- tive rule it was $650,000,000, in five years more: it has increase: 823,000,000. Fifty million dollars of this increase is cau payment of old age pensions. But the cost of government is also. ad- ded to by the great increase in the number of government employes who, when the telephones are tal en over by the govervment next year will number nearly 250,000. long. Con-} ks Finally the child was taken before} ana means y | das = w 7 this arrangement the child does | expenditure was Bho! 000,000. per] c the| jured living in STRONG RELIGIOUS SIDE. King George’s Reply to Two Church Addresse: That the King’s ¢’atacier has a aca religious side is woming to the knowledge of the people of ahs ae to whom he was an antity, when he ascended a nation is enone simple eatin and the cost of their| and unity of nati the public es am encouraged in all this by your good wishes and prayers for God’s blessings on all my endeavors and am fortified. by the belief that the ends we pursue. in harmony with the teachings of the church will be achieved only vhile we seek in faith and humility that perfect standard of conduct aud sacrifice revealed to Christian en His Majesty spoke in a similar jonse to several other ments that have emanated from the throne in many years, They form the subject of congratulations both ty the celuar an religious re cited as proof that g ‘realizes the devotional quality of the English character to make his reign dis- tiuctively Christian. ET. SYMPATHY AS A CURE. Marvellous Cures by Stone Gods in Ja 2 very one knows the comfort lit- le people derive from a kiss pie folk of greater growth not proof against such eyomeliane alleviations of their pain of body or mind. A tender little bit of human abate is re told by Gilbert Wat- “Three Bolling. Stones in n.’’ The a i a tem- ple where one of oe big stone gods ‘as supposed to heal all bodily ‘How does he work his cures?’ | asked rsonal contact. Rub the place on wish healed bas ae same hand you have rubbed hi I ill be sure to see cus ne came for a long time, save aueold oan , who laid a little ie h of flowers between the feet f the image, in gratitude, doubt- less, for restoration from ‘disease. By and by a shrill childish ery Bie us turn. ittle girl fallen and hurt herself; the Tittle Tie kad bruised itself against the sharp corner of an uneven Tears welled up in her eyes and trickled down her cheeks as the small one held up her knee for the cld woman’s inspection. The rose- leaf sk'n roken where the pavastent had scratched i e old woman bent over the lit- te aplisser and whispered consola- The look of pain confidence took its place, hand, the two crossed over figure of the god. The woman clap- peo her hands, uttered a prayer, od’s. knee with her , and then The cure was effected at once the child smiled up at the ugly de- y gratefully, with naive affection in her eves. The impassive stone statue seemed beautiful to. her now. . nies and made it » e loved him, ea would SS of hin seats sitting there in the tem- ig to heal little children he Mad hark themselves. a a eras rats TRAGEDY ENDED WELL. pees Husband face He Disfigu: A pice family were entertain- ing a group of friends, the eldest daughter having just become en- gaged to a very promising young man. The youngest daughter, a very delicate oa turned ie hae aint during the evening, a sister’s fiance ‘lifted what = $ook ‘be a bottle of perfume which ntied on a table close by and threw part of its contents on the girl’s Man of Girl Wh red. face. Instantly she screamed in|in ge, Bay in 1588, has been direst agony, and as the others Ze came rushing in an yee yenture is being under- found, to his undying remorse, that tance by a London syndicate, which) ;, what had suppo er-| secured a lease from the Duke of fume was in reality a strong acid| Argyll 2 Rertenbet last, Lieut.- used by a young brother who dab- ia . Mackenzie Foss, who bled in chemistry, and who had “extensive experience of carelessly left it lying about. The Siemasie work in Ceylon, is super- peor girl suffered terribly for|intending tho actual operations. weeks, and her face was frightfully eae though her sight was ed. man’s regret for the Shady end to his well-meant efforts to make matters 6 what had happened. By sailed for Canada, prospered e, and re- to} turned at the end of av years, to widowed mother, her sisters having all married. There was a few week’s courtship, then a quiet Fess ding, and now a happy, honore: and prosperous woman blesses oe vently the day which held for hor all the slamasia of tragedy. rubbed | \y TRADE If CIGAR STUBS JT IS A THRIVING BUS! IN NAPLES, Cui -Up and Manufactured Into Nes and Smoking Pobaesge Buying and sotiing ¢ garetubs ts bas Inge kite Mbekgi vo easineke Si Spyies and many persons are en= gaged in its Bom “of them ae little stalls or sheps near the docks, the arsenals the oe establish- ere workingmen is in the Fe from OE 3 2-5 Be xe 2 © » have little stands at race corners—a. board laid across a iM kcerse, upon which their stock displayed, while the petty toads exhibit their stock a newspaper being under The supply comes from uh cates, reuters hotels and other pub- lie plac a Wo! pick rer tie attains heaps and the dust boxes, and boys run up and down the pavements in front of the ho- tels early every morning looking for “‘snipes.’? PAY FOR PRIVILEGE. Some of the restaura: keepers sell the pr ing up the cigar ‘stumps in their -| Places to dealers, and the proceeds mi in little piles upon the ene sometimes OS even | gs: A SOCIALIST FUNERAL. Wild Scenes in es ee of Paris, Ten ae or ae shout- ing and singing revolutionary songs and firing revolvers, atten the funeral in Paris recently of a cab- inctmaker named Clerc, who was recently mortally injured in a col- lision between strikers and police. At 8 o’clock the police ony strug- 0 disperse a mob of 8,000 re- volutes ntisat All the traffic in the .neighborhood of the ae Be R aa a; id an ramway.and omnibus services Tae iatteses : Singing the SERGCRE ‘se the Hipoestion m towards ‘the ES the Siar rs of hous: Toute and shopkeepers “hastening to. put up their shutters, Returning from the cemetery, twenty of the crowd roceede: Numerous arrests were “Be é On leaving the Pantin Cemetery a very large number of demonstra- ere gathered around red or black man; Police and cavalry kept the Porte de Flandre, and the demonstrators were sum- fonedts disperse. Then the police charged with drawn swords. At this inerien sev- eral shots were fired anda melee ensued, blows boing exchanged ae fists, sticks and sw 2 ° £ Be = B 2 all airectons. amount to a r ing the year. In er places it is e head SaaS make a little something out of it. Some of the stubs are taken to factories, where they are cut uj and manufactured into cigarettes and smoking tobacco, but the great- er part of them are sold to the low- er classes of workingmen, sailors and dock wallopers, who smoke them in their pipes. SECOND HAND. At the entrance of the nay. i:|yehich i upon ono of the: mast fre- quented streets in Naples, @ very euous place, dozen of the ‘second-hand cigar dea- lers can be found when the men are orang out of the Gass at the close their day’s worl a) mployes are not allowed to smoke inside and their wages do not permit ipa to indulge in the lux- ury of cigars or even smoking to- bacco at first ha For a catigind: which is the smallest coin imaginable—one-fifth of a cent—they buy a cigar stub, we ong| crumble it in their hands and cram i t into their pip A Strano ua Moin the ae decks—a thriving business is done with the sailors, teamsters and reustabouts, jue 2 the market place — ai ar three stands. two TO CHEER HIS WIFE. London Boot-Finisher Pretended He Had Work. A tragic story of unemployment and and a husband’s ruse to ‘bab hie wife, ates relat at, the inquest on uis Defries, -d forty-one, a London boot-fin- he My husband had no work for a month,” the widow stated, ‘“‘and this worried him greatly. He was in arrears with the rent, and the children were crying food, vhich he could not give them ij the time a doctor told him he ahr have a rest and take more +! nourishment, “He told me on Monday last that he had obtained work at Waltham- stow, and he went out every day until Saturday, when he got up "larly in the morning and hanged himself. His story about obtaining work was untrue. I suppose he only said that to cheer me up.”’ ‘ e ee simply to cheer his wife, Saturday came and :ad no money he Sopa remy, could eae face the situatio The jury created a verdict of “suicide while temporarily insane.”” Siete SEARCH FOR SUNKEN GOLD. Syndicate Starts Probing for Ves- : sel of Armada, The search for the Spanish Ar- mada galleon Florencia, which sank with treasure of fabulous amount The silt under which the galleon lies will be yy a mining ex- pert, and when anything resembling A hvll_ has been - located, native pearl divers from Ceylon will take up the investigations. For at least two years ee of a historical character hay. view of establishing the actual facts. SN of the} ¢; ted to within four hw riers aan and the problem correspondingly narrowed the Florencia was 120 feet in length, with forty feet beam, and carri fifty-two wins, in addition to a very large sum in coin and bullion. thy Colonel Foss has discovered that Many rolled. on ee Wo- decWiicteens wereeeram pled The chyalere aley) ahurdebapieh rawn swords, and the melee be- came general. Blood flowed from the woun who remained stretched on the RA, The demon- strators were pursued up the neigh- boring streets, where many took refuge in cafes. eeu GUR RELATIONS yiTH U.S. A. No Differences Soon, Says British Tho British Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, writes ington heamoadert of fice upon the relations °. He de- cribes the weiatioue as S Feaaly) and ci the various agreements that have been made to insure the continuance of this condition. It is interesting to. coasider what has he one during the last year. The] be tos countries Entered into new v tarift relations. Adopted the ndary . waters ey, which . affects particularly the great and the Niagara River, and insures the Sanehs of Niagara Falls Drawn up. regulations protection of food fishes gieat Delimited the international fron- ticr through Passamaquoddy Bay. Begun the itration of the Nerth Atlantic coast fisheries dis- efore a court for the in the pui at Thi ee eee the delimitation of the th Alaska boundary. Negotiations for tl aoa pabsed/ Hista:-qill heli be’ ms sthule difference of importance between the two countries, N’S LOVE QUE FOR FURS. Queen Mary Posscases One of Most Wonderful Collections, Queen Mary, as everyone knows, has a great affection, in common with not a few more of his Majes- ty’s subjects, for furs, Simple as she is in her tastes in the matter of dress, nice furs are a sort of hob- by, so much so that she possesses the one ost wonderful collec- tions of is in the world Included in Sear bo rattan ac- cording t magnifi- cent set of Ruedian’ Seatlek whith was presented to her a few years he |ago upon the panenlon of hee birth- day by the Czar and Ozarina, She 1s often chaffed pear of her family regarding rv peatanenbe for furs and fur-trimmed garments, and a short time ago his ed wail ® the present King, was asked w! he thought -she would wear th the occasion of a yachting trip in the Solent. “Well, Tam not quite sure,”’ he replied with a humorous twinkle in this eye, ‘‘but I rather imagine it cur a iponast 3 with fur on it.’” rangely enough, despite | a artiallty for fur, her Majesty loes not care for ermine, and som ago she suggested that the ats of peers a ‘ar more imposing ii were trimmed with dark fur. The automobiling coat that the Queen susually wears is a marvel- lous specimen of the furrier’s art, and. is sys ae uD of some thousands of tai perfectly matched and ined that it looks like one jarge piece of fur, even when sub- jected to the closest scrutiny, they é Ea — TOOTHLESS REPTILES. Very few people know that nei- ther a turtle, a pores nora to: ad is provided with teeth. There general sgperseicae uae a turtle can bite o} man’s ; but the turtle can do othing ot the kind. Its jaws are very strong, and the horny’ membrane that runs round e jaw, where, in other animals. e found, is so hard any tough that the turtle can erush ihe bones of the hand to pulp; but a for biting off even a finger, the feat is to the turtle an impossibility. » porters bhaghied'y bolting : of arbitration arbi rs and peeresses would | ** CAREER OF TERRORIST SOMETHING OF THE LIFE OF( MICHAEL RIPS. Scenes of Misery Determincd Him! to Devote His Life to Cause of Liberty. ing a year ago ted, in a, ay hotel, Pe assassinate Col. yoni a Nihilist Hedi after the ap- pioyed patlern { He himse ut told the court in im- dd o the story of his’ Ri Ho is still a young man of shitty three, with x eyes are large, and full of fire, his expression sympathetic. He d noc look at all the conventional ase sassin, , Born in Russian Poland, of Jew- make miserable the lives St the Rus» s'ap peasant. 1d how he had scen a whole starving village go in procession to the authorities to beg bre and how’ mounted Cos- sacks, armed swit THY TERRIBLE KNOU, were Bent ee siete te rive them, enaries ti ok “delight in "thath acta work, and spared neither age nor “i; then pierced to the heart, ” he cricd, “‘as with the blow aint brute forced it, on paper, one! must defend one’s jhonor with pons in the hand. by, apne like these, atisinal Rips se ined to devote his life to Soe of libert; * Fhese oe four years he managed to keep free of the kands of the police, esas deeply engaged in revolutionary ry intrigues. | But in 1906 he was arrested for sup- posed domplinlyt in a plot, and Hae, epee to Siberia. He alle; t he had not even the seuilines aes a trial, but that by a convenient much-used’ regulation called he ohkrana he was handed over by the civil to the sae authori- ties, who have the it without giving the accused the The ohkrana was pu$ in force in his ease, but when om his way to the mines he managed to escape, and mi 0) m Khoten co: into the story. This typical officer THE SECRET POLICE, before whom Rips was brought, told him that he was now liable ta banishment to Yakutsk, one of the ts avoid deportment, and that war to become an “agent provoeate- uc.’ e trial Von hoten vigor- Paind denied tt at a that all asked Rips t to do was to Reon ‘of the He added that there were many 0! secret police among the ranks of the revolution- aries. itnesses, ai em an ex-member of the secret re lear that it was police to avoi instigator of crimes, if only to ward. off suspicion from himself. It was the nolorious traitor and spy Azeff who, whon thus engaged, planned the assassination of M. Plehve, the Governor of Moscow, and of tho Send Duke Serge, brother of the Cx Rips says he refused in to betray his Sees » bub last he agre ome to Paris as a of the secre eon intend- ing, as he affirms, FIND OUT THEIR SECRETS, and divulge them to his revolution- t he w on Lae ‘is PRUNE brethren, aud determined to do a ae which should prove his good fai e invited Col. Kh teh to visit him at his hotel so that he might give him a report of hig work, When the chief of the Moscow police _ entered his room. he fired seven” shots at him, but only wounded him slightly. Tt was for this attempted assassination he was tried, and ac- itted. DONKEYS LAUGH NOW, Fresh from the Italian Riviera, where the sojou used to be seriously marred by the anys of the horses, mules and don- keys, a correspondent writes with extreme satisfaction of the. improve- ; ménts Good treatment of al working ani- mals is the rule wl than the ex- ception and this implies a whole- sule change of hak’ ts and presums', ubly of mind,