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- 3 as a - *jomies u Y scene, = without. SH Marto and at stands mouthpiece of of Jehevah, {he Mot of oe in ing his origin is the name given him. .The implied name sof a place, Tishbeh, or Tishbi, gives No clue, as no such place is known. If the word translated-sojourners is regarded, as it may be properly, as a proper noun, the verse would read, "from Thesbon of Gilead," and this is in accord with Josephus. Somewhere, then, in the severe, but pea! district of Gilead, east () rdering on the désert, the etnias had his origin. she ruggedness 'of the hills on whence he came passed into tharacter: ' i b--He was a short man, like Paul, and the unkempt hair of the Nazirite fell over his thoulders. He was clad in rough attire. He waited for none of the usual courtesies and homages of the court. With bold abruptness, he breaks in upon the royal pres- ence and announces his startling Why should he fear on senger el bee God of Israel before whom I Dew deg aie! was a recog- nized form of punishment for apos- tasy. Compare Deut. 1117. or .three years or more there followed | tim a severe famine which afflicted all Israel. James represents the _odrought as an outcome of the pray: er of Elijah, though that "¥8 no mentioned here. But the 'prophet does say that the curse shall terminated only in accordance with his own wo 3. Hide thyself--He would of -course..be in immediate danger from the revengeful disposition of Jeze- 1. The king himself seems to have had a reer et 9 reverence for the prophets of God brook Cherith--As this was on the east side of the river Jor- dan, Elijah would be thoroughly mtg with its hiding places, for ap * had had most of his train- . | The ravens to feed thee--At- tempts have been made to elimin- ate the supernatural element in > thepe stories of Elijah, Here, for ate word ' or o : s the "thought worth repeating and pre- "serving except for this mreonlegy element, 9. Zarephath--Thither he was sent es soon as the' dreught had dried up the brook Cherith. It is th 'modern Sarafend. Un a promon- tory, about eight miles south of /e Sidon, it would afford both shelter in. an unexpected place, and would not be entirely given over to the drought because of the unfailing fountains of Lebanon. The haugh- ty Jezebel would scarcely think to search in her own Baal-worshiping country for the prophet of the Lord. It was here that Jesus, cen- turies later, went on a mission of mercy. As it turned out, Elijah went on a mission of mercy valso, as well as for the purposé of sus- taining himself. je orl A little water . . that 1 may drink--He had come a long j journey, 'through a parched country, and - Must have been exhausted. \2. Jehovah thy God--His speech or his dress must have betrayed him. She herself was, of course, only a heathen woman. Elijah was to_Jearn that even in the heart of a despised worshipper of Baal there _ Was & warm symputhy and a capa- city fur kindness which no doubt went a long way toward softening his own rough nature I have not a cake --The devasta- Sots of the famine. had extended as far'as Zarephath, and brought with . it widesperad misery. 13-16. One must not overlook the .. tremendous faith which was neces- "sary on Elijah's part to speak these A "words, Fear At ay and The jar of shall not waste. How 'long "he remained here we do not khow, tei seems safe to conjecture at tea two years. , = 19. No breath ee in him--It has been suggested that this language 'pot decisive as a description of Peete But it is certain Elijah con- ~ on 'the porderipad it was through -- of the prophet t he ie, What have 1 to do with théet : ga i terror. the poor widow is man of had never Lj was 2 common supersti- that. death acéompanied th ice of aupel ih beings. ming, she ght; called the e.4 ion to some sin of her © - she' h h n A 'slumbering consci- Often awakened in the pre- he. chamber where he abode um ption |' bo opt Man Those were Yorso oe 'Bhijah the rite ae or fresh perplexitics that each €/ nations and the most brilliant Ad- ~ it is getting more' and more ry day, owing to the our brings, owing to the strangeness of the position in which this alleged Prsident finds himself. 6 setting, I have often seen in 'Gor and Macao--express' dreaminess enthusiasm, honesty, good nature, but id is easy to-see that they look out on a world of which they know nothing. "They are ol eyes of . gentle Seelam a devoted scholar, a:tenth- rate poet, an placer Sy pro- fessor, an innocent "man who really should 'be pottering about, an unconscious pensioner' of t state or of some religious ondary in @ royal library or in the shad aaigced of some wealthy Benedict- ine abbey "The President has, as photo- graphs show, a scanty moustache on his upper lip, balanced: by a scanty patch of hair on thé lower lip, jamal being of a color which may' be d as dirty gray. The rpg on i bie east is quite gray. It is plentiful and it stands up in tangled masses several inches above the top of his head. Evidently the professor frequently runs his _ fin- gers through it. lg he uae es attempts, 2 1s xity, to lift himself by it ' "'However that may be, his hair is certainly in a state of terrible t| confusion and entanglement. It reminds me of the fearful and won- derful heads of revolutionary hair which I used to see in Russia. Prof. Braga has a black coat and baggy gray trousers." eS HISTORIC RESIDENCE. Where Three Premiers Lived: in Lo The London (England) County Council have issued another pampb- let concerning houses of historical interest, the most famous now dealt with being No. 10 St. James' Square, where three Prime Minis- ters ived, namely, William Pitt, Earl of Chatha am; Geoffrey po Earl « and W. E. Gi ne. at No, 10 from 1759 to 1 he gavé it up for reasons in the following scatement :-- "On the accession of Bote TIE, Pitt's position soon ame unten- 'able. On the rejection of his ad vice to the King Pitt_and_ his col- league, Temple, sent in their resig- icated | ministration of English history was ed. Thereupon he gave up his house in St. James' Square, and resolved to live altogether at Hayes."' The house was occupied by Lord Derby from 1837 to 18534. When he took up this residence he was sup- porting Sir Robert Peel, and it was not until 184] that his party came into power. A glimpse of the eti- quette of these long-gone days is quote "It murat have been at No. 10 that 'the pleasant party,' described by Lord Malmesbury as taking place on April 14, 1842, was held.- 'Mr. Everett, without waiting to be in- troduced, asked me how much beer money I gave my servants, and seemed to think it was too much. He was dressed in.a greea coat, not la common color for a dinner in London According to Lord Malmesbury, Lord Derby was in the habit of sit- ting all day in a back room. In 1890, Mr. Gladstone rented No. 10. but his term of occupation lasted only a few months, corresponding with the Parliamentary session of 1880 (February to August). A tablet on the house now indicates: s- lived three Prime piniate London-Standard. ------ er. REMEDIES FOR SEA-SICKNESS English "Princess Hosal Had to Endar ¢ Soime Odd Ones. Peaaes sa most curious rem- edy for seasickness ever prescribed was that arranged by Sir Theodore Mayern for the English Princess Royal when she crossed to Belgium in 1642. Cinnamon, coriander, anise, ambergris, musk and sugar were to be made up into long cates for her to munch on the voyage; plaster of balsam of Peru, aden mastic and laudanum was to be ap- plied to the pit of the stomach and, in addition, she was to the comforting vapors' arising from a harh of toast, orange amd citron peel, roses, lavender and cloves, caioniad with wine, cinnamon," ater. and elderflower vinegar. ©. There was a tise when it was believed pre te prevent sea- kness means of spéciall con- structed vessels. 'fhe Calais B he sam Chi rere fa > To.commit a: urder 'compara- "comes tively The in when the crime- Y conceal- ed. re the: a. of the yictim> must les ithe discovery of: the assdssin; ifficulty is in- ased, At first sight, the-hiding be an easy and ready mode of dis 1, providing always that the ox and its contents can be kept sufficiently Jong to nese identific- ation impossib] a@ matter of ct;-however, in orery case--with es exceptions mye: a box has mployéd, Sisoayery has fol- lowsld. says London Anbwers. AFFAIR OF THE BANK PORTER. Although Engla dy. the exam- pe in regard to éfimes, it is to the Continent ois must go for » In Paris, in the majority of cas f porter pam- the P het 1832, a ba won gs ba soned by Som fien "Bey. head' was' plac-' nd. thrown . in- the). mediately afterwards by a 4 boatmen. In 1850, a well-known Sealer in' art bronzes, named, Poirier Des- fontaines. an.-old . bachelor, was 4 murdered by his servant, one Vion, Desfontaines' assassin sent the eyi- dence of his crime in a trunk | Chateauroux, "to berleft till call- for e was:no trace of Vi- on to be found, and-he wes~ only captured by an ingenious use of the}, public journals, devised by -the} celebrated detective Canler, :Oam ler had a paragraph inserted to effect that all search for. the sine 2 al would be useless, seeing that ~ had managed to escape into Spain. Believing that the police had" ab- andoned pursuit, Vion imprudently' showed himself in Paris, and was apprehended. A few years later, Victor Dom- in a trunk, "to be left till called for." This time the burden was sent to Lyons, and when the body was ound suspicion fell upon Domby's friend Calloux, who had bought the wooden case, and had trundled it to the railway station, not know- ing what it contained. Domby's guilt was brought home to him. A CALLOUS COUPLE. » , A-terrible example of Cena ig that of a Jouns man na alis and a girl named Marie Beyer, who ed the former', 3 mother, | man, containing their victim the- whole of the The oe ar of Gouffe by Jean Eyraud and .Gabrielle Bompard -|was one of the most deliberately diabolical conceptions that can be cit ut, in spite of their elab orate precautions, the guilt of the assassins was establis America can claim t-vu notable instances of box crimes. In 1841 a man named Samuel Adams was murdered by John C, Colt, a book- keeper and teacher of ornamental writing, in an office in the Broad- way. The remains were placed in a box and shipped'on board a vessel bound for New Orleans. But Nem- esis followed, as with other crimes of the same kind. The vessel was unexpectedly delayed for a wee and the nature of the hideous con- tents of the packing-case was re vealed. The other instance is that of Alice Augusta Bowlsby, a Sarming and beautiful young woman whose death a doctor was Sentient. A GOOD DEAL OF MYSTERY in the afigir. A woman, accompan- ied by a big trunk, alighted from a cab at the terminus of the Hudson River Railway, and asked to have the trunk sent on to Chicago. When she found that there was no train that night she instantly fled, leav- ing the trunk behind her. The. mur- der was speedily discovered, an the doctor in question shprebehded ments marked with her initiels be- rap Pieces of the vietiin' 8 gar- ing discovered by the Authorities in his house America can slag Bea ofa ter- riblo use to which @ trunk was put by the stupendous villain Holmes, who murdered wholésale. He util. ized a trunk not mertely to conceal the bodies of iis victims, but actu- ally to take their lives: They were first drugged, then placed in the trunk, attached to a tube connected with an erdinary gas-pipe, and thus poisoned. The box crime in England was re- vived in 1872 by. the Rev. Sane Selby Watson, tho, in a fit of pas- es murdered his. wife, and pur- a trunk to concea! the deed. He subsequently attempted:to com- Mer suicide, and confessed what he hadedone, He was judged. insane, mca cae ended his days ae "BYoad- HARLEY STREEPMYSTERY. The Harley Street mystery of 1878, where the « Of a ing ie box circumsta inte * they sear pig the | en. f.- Ce Dotan, an Italian - entor, gave a private exhibit his astonishing virelens discov: he other day in Paris betore me berg of the Ministries o paws ate i ies. oa numb "MM. Tifel the-oon Riffel towers which 'ig mt tion.' Among @ § em- ployed was # pocket -mach- ine, a:wireless: telegray iter by means of which * sent as readily as rane » -type- titer, and a leauto- graph. which enablers s to Bs nitheir signatures Bs et waves reach. " THE POCKET APP is a little larger phe field glasses and is taching its sititetes tree,- which, at -the feet enables communi a-rad @i@ich appear on printed the other end, but it has the 3 wa of being infinitely more han anything yet invented, and, 'besides, can be used with wireless, ~This should be 'interest- ing to railway 'Officials in particu- ar, sin put at and pies G permittmg them to communicate quickly and accurate ly with t It would also be. exeesdingty useful for spall, out-of-the-way Post Offices, o special training or prac. cessary to operate it, such a machine cou! e disposal of all® 3i on a machine at; 'the _ Hence a man in Paris c¢ document in» Algiers, -or '@ ture in Algiers could be from Paris. As if these wo were not Sa = sufficient, WS.are further assured the : ter the distance the hee ine will work, although ce, hs not been told why this should -- &0 The tracing of one's ture seems to be no mee. difficult. han with a pen, and: sper ibe ..re- peats it, a eceaatsedity We want it, éven shou th 8 "the Antipodes. » 'a PRESERVES' sunt = Another invention of the - sor is an instrument for pres the secrecy of wireless messages, As is wel] -known, @ message sent 0 radiys, although t be intended for them, because the Hertnian' allows: each of a 3 to pl Aa BY. waves are ot ing number cay ages, all the othe a chort circuit aera = 2.ts.5° sa ] i {els as! first place the sufferer ds bef . Be a> WAGE WAR @N BACHELORS. Must Pay Tax for' Prisilege- Say Europeas € rents. The financial ¢omt of the Russian Duma p at if a bachelor will not. Bl be made to contributy samething to the exchequer f jlege. of | remaining 2 : & bachelors is not: elty in. Eu~ "Breath. Er sthie has bode ser phoe eee ene ae ee stuttering © his | = eimculty may be told in -a Occurred asl pieaicts i Aah wee ee ships isto be named. 32 for a century. The wars with erica, and , 8 and Hol- of atciee says 'Tutu dan land, had exhausted her resour jer,' instead of 'teacher,' there was seen inu Phoed ause,: through puttin - ctacle of a French fleet menacin t Be terce into the breath wal 6 ts. It was at this peri spe he drives the erehe calamity occurred which. re- up against, the teeth so hard pull can't get it away without a Way THEY STAMMER,: sbi sh and pull of 'the clés of he tongue ah 8 -- off the us all the muse of the ton tongue, st, sometimes most of | 6U0 y yaliscles of the ' body, become Rog have seen a young man who} \would-dance and kick almost - an Apache Indian just trying tell his own name. I may a that in a couple of months under proper treatment. he could talk as well as any of his friends. "Now, a how shall we gain easé? How shall we limber up these tensed on crampedémusclest If you will follow the ---- I- give you here you can do every case with the tonowitg ex- ercises: HOW TO LOOSEN MUSCLES. '1, Stand or sit easily and prac- tise breathing hard b and forth throu, mouth. mber ject of these exercises muscles not to. wor rd." So make the breath as 6'&nd easy as possible. Keep practice up until you are able a a} to erosthe with just the slightest it. of off 'fireatho: gently as before igh the nose and mouth. "Now as breath is going out make s noise the sound 'sh' in the word 'h Here again, don't forget ti 80) gently you do e be do the same thing with a soft bum ; then. later with Bas Bound of 'ng,' as in the Word ' FURTHER. EXERCISES: 6 speech mus- 'You are then rants for the the words of some si 2 m or selection Note tha oing this you have E APPARATUS. y hesitation it is be- The Teleaut "v2 ahiggiealage lagl er tan we cee cig selec- ae apparatus, which can also be : y rep " d t} to any arene or tele. ie. ins the pee to lon and graph line. BY: Kol a aaa eT soft, 'that it is hardly above the scriptelisten ithe "pea whisper. This is the final drill. If asi ble canvitaa H a ;;you have been faithful there has age is occurred by this time a marked improvement which should prove to you that by this simple but en- Snel natural method you can in ime learn to talk as well as the ha nash fellow. Don't forget the mag- io w edicanae patience, perscver- ance.' -- a ny MAY LIVE IN TIN HOUSES. Germans Ercct Telephone Booths Lined With Tin. A "writer in an American paper Says:--It has probably been source of wonderment to man. od citizens that the little German 8 do not stay in their own Everything a German likes y better over there, and Sige Then one would think they originate in' eriunae ey would be more popular and | Benerally subsidized. But sit out; they do not want e Germans are re- ible for this weird species = do not like it. ihe ittle German bands. by co wo know that they do not] , to be sure, we do not have direct evidence, but it is this A German scientific paper ntl gy eg that tele- booths had been erected in rland fined: with tin, that lutely noiseproof, a it rly suggested that it would to line the "with the the street noises. for the second process in /wé submit the following : About one-tenth me ous street noises in ou ons by the hardiegar sthe little German 8. nds as twentieth part. b more. "than 'a twentieth' Y | capital, in Samaria, has uneart! in the loss of FIRST SHIP IN al 'NAVY. At Portsmouth a flee ' prepared for the be elit of ( Gibraltar, then besi and one o: | the ships pr ee this expedi- tion was the "Royal George" of 108 She was the oldest first rate class in the service,t "having been land down in 1751. . Lord Lord Rodney, and Admiri and Lord Hawke commanded the squadron which fought the French gg Conflans. Pesan could sail it was deemed ni that the "Royal George" shonld undergo & careening--that is, an inspection and repair of those parts under water. If time had not press- she would have been towed into in | dock for this purpose. As the case ing it was resolved that she should e land over on her side, as usual then a slight careening was re- quired, in calm -weather © and smooth water, So little was any difficulty or danger apprehended that the Admiral, Captain, officers and crew, amounting to about 900, remained on board, and in addition there were about 300 women and children, relations of the seamem Neither guns, provisions, nor wa- ter were remov THE CATASTROPHE. Early in the morning of Aug. 29 the work was n, The ship was made to incline in the water so as to expose her lower timbers, but as a leak was discovered it was necessary to heel her ore stiil fur- ther, in order to hat! it. About n-o'¢. . Admiral {Dako ' ~being | qui at" Bosea: [Ls wen had commanded in her page the. {predominating form, and this Astronomical Society of - ry mar affected,' said Pro-| fessor ad Be T. DeLury. 'Thus, the earth is the re, held the rein in. 'astronomical activity Penang Pate long period, rooted in tique. abiding Giguifieas as inodern. 80, 4n the newer 'eet of science, heral that knowledge of he world of nw be made t@ rest on ob« and experiment. Truq abebbvation and-experiment wer rt newas methods; the great 4 acy of G nomy stand ag ¢ monument to the true spirit of o iry, but now ther are formviad - » and insisted' upon as.thé 'jnat THE NEBULAR THEORY. Passing over the earlier at ema to explain the Cosmos, the lecture: dealt with the nebular ane ol aaa ce a its-modifications t« The advance. is Physics at Sr ae ast day has de veloped many difficulties in tae w of the nebular theory, and [; reason several Attempts heve cently been made to displace «t. '"'Planetismal" theory advatce Moulton and Chamberlain, 4 $3 Canada, é i "In 'er of science it is' , striking fact that the thought ES sultant of the near approach or cole _ lision of two dark bodies ip ¢ impact or preetinean ection on each other tearing them to piec es and distributing their putts inte a whirl or spiral of cosmic dust, and this in turn being drawn to- gether by gravitational action, in- to stars and. planetary systems. Professor Keeler had photograph- ed a large number of nebula, and found the spiral to be- n urged as favoring the oe Ee theory. Some astronomers have taken kitidly interest in thin thoef¥, but the difficulties' in ite way appear cs great if not great- er than in the nebuisr theory it seeks to displace. The fact that spiral nebulae are scarce where thé sta ickest ar-l mased to- gether, and most abundant wher stars are féw, is the- reverse . condition gouired to ensure nt collisi Anotigns am de : mecneotels was in his cabin writ-14 "jent- came 'stro were past she once. The Admiral; several offic- érs, and, in fact, about a thousand people were drowned altogether, some three hundred being saved, among them being Captain Wag. horne. The calamity was univers- ally lamented, not so much for the ship as for the number of lives lost, more especially Kempenfelt, as he was one of the first naval officers of the world. A large sum of money was publicly subscribed for the re- lief of the families and relatives of those who perished. Captain Wag- ° was comet-aeintiaiied,; but was honorably acquitted, --_,--__--- FABLES OF AHAB FOUND. Prof. Reisner "Makes Important Discovery in Palestine. A discovery of vast importance for Biblical history is repor from ---- by the London Daily Tele- grap It os ppears that Professor Reis- ner, who has been carryilig out the }excavations for an erican s0- ciety on the site of the upearthed a hundréd clay tablets 'covered with inscriptions which are believ- rtion of the archives of King Ahab, a contemporary t) the Prophet Elijah. These inscriptions, i: ake hich merely e most re- l- find that en made in Setictinn, are ot cut into the tables, but are the Egyptian papyri between ne thousand and two thousand} sack before Christ One of them is a 'letter to Ahab from the King of ria, who, Dr. Yahudsa belieyes, was either As- surbanipal or "it@son; Salmanesser IJ.» Another table contains a de- crap erie of the furniture in the palace, but further an Goulate veil a find have not yet me _ Nevertheless it is evidently des- ioimation of certain phases Testament history which some of the modern critics have been in heer of treating' as altogether <a I ec eee ONLY JUST "And what ere bs provisions noise of your oes ul «1 "Very good o old man, of adaPhk it? What sa) he leave?" "Just debts." "That I 'after the payment of debts:" his just} OEP SPE) Ee -NOT AMBITIOUS. Bids | you wi be 'bo wivind "A j« 'capture"' givin, should eve all he left = nomer, one the last year or . two, called theory, whereby tha planets and moons are thought ta be captured masses picked up in space, rather than condensations of a parent nebula, deserves atten- tion. MAY GO TOO FAR. * In the various hypotheses" that have been advanced, thére must, one will admit, be some measure of - truth, but they may seek to be too conclusive. Not many years ago it was generally assumed at the gaseous spectrum was a condition of high' temperature, whilst now we know that gaseous elements under an electric strain, without high temperature, will give the charace teristic result of the glowing ele- ment. In the opinion of the great eaders of astronomical] reasearch, at the present day, no theory has been brought forth that will ef- aed a supersede the "nebular'?. However these things be, enougy has been said to show that iu tha sounding labor house of space, <ast worlds are in making along tha lines of an all-omragins evolution, the, main which we grasp, but the-fittal details we ma never know --_--_--_ kr ___ CHEAP SLEEPING CARS. In Sweden One Can Take a Tes . Hour Ride for 67 Cents. The Swedish State railways have three classes of fares, the propor- tion in price ae! about as 5:3:2, Heretofore only the first and sed fond class passengers have had ac cess to special sleepers, also run by he state railways, but now sleepert have been 'also put in for third. class passengers. As_ third-class cars were formerly supplied witk only wocden seats, these new cart will be welcomed by ast travellers by night. much the same ab coareely faye The Daily Consular and Trade Re- ee as on ordinary firstclass o: cond sleeper. They are brilliant- ly lighted. The length of the car, whieh 'rests on two four-whe . is 59 feet 6 inches, and the width is 20 feet. Ths cors aie« vided into cight com- Partocnts, c..h with two seats -- iz berths.