The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 11, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 July 1912 — Page 3

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SYNOPSIS. Garrett Coast, a young man of New York City, meets Douglas Blackstock, who Invites him to a card party. He accepts, although he dislikes Blackstock, th®, r **- •on being that both are In love with Katherine Thaxter. Coast fails to convince her that Blackstock is unworthy of her friendship. At the party Coast meets two named Dundas and- Van Tuyl. There Is a quarrel, and Blackstock shoots Van Tuyl dead. Coast struggles to wrest the weapon from him, thus the police discover them. Coast is arrested for murder. He is convicted, but as he begins his sentence, Dundas names Blackstock as the murderer and kills himself. Coast becomes free, but Blackstock has married Katherine Thaxter and fled. Coast purchases a yacht and while sailing sees a man thrown from a distant boat. He rescues the fellow who is named Appleyard. They arrive at a lonely island, known as No Man’s Land. Coast starts out to explore the place and comes upon some deserted buildings. He discovers a man dead. Upon going further and approaching a house he sees Katherine Thaxter, who explains that her husband, under the name of Black, has bought the island. He is blind, a wireless operator- and has a station there. Coast informs her that her husband murdered Van Tuyl. Coast Bees Blackstock and some Chinamen burying a man. They fire at him. but he Is rescued by Appleyard, who gets him to the Echo in safety, and there he reveals that he is a secret service man and has been watching the crowd on the island, suspecting they are-criminals. Coast is anxious to fathom the mysteries of No Man’s Land, and is determined to save Katherine. Appleyard believes that Black and his -gang make a shield of the wireless station to conduct a smuggling business. Coast penetrates to the lair of Blackstock’s disguise. Katherine enters the room and passes him a note which tells Coast that neither his life or her. own are safe. Coast feels that Blackstock suspects him. Appleyard and the Echo disappear. Coast assures Katherine of his protection, and she Informs him that they are to abandon the island Immediately. CHAPTER XVK—(Continued.) Coast waited to hear no more. Dumb with rage—to be so tricked and bamboozled! to have his teeth drawn in such a manner, by a blind man, almost without a struggle!—he stooped, picked up a heavy monkey-wrench, and threw himself at Blackstock. Before he had covered half the BCant distance between them, however, he was caught up suddenly from behind, jerked back and held, struggling, kicking, helpless as a child in the arms of Chang. As if he were wholly unaware of what was taking place, Blackstock's voice rumbled on: “. . . adopted this means of making my wishes known. I trust you won’t resent it when you wake up to the reasonableness of my attitude. You weren’t hurt —of that I’m sure—beyond your feelings, perhaps. And,” he added, suavely sardonic, “I beg to apologize for the Indignity, Mr. Handyside.” CHAPTER XVII. To his own advantage Coast was gifted with the ability to recognize the Irremediable and concede it as such. With quiet resolution he calmed himself at that moment when he was cold with despair, thrilled with apprehension, hot with anger, trembling with humiliation, and powerless in the grasp of one to whom his most determined struggles were as impotent as the writhing of the butterfly whose wings you imprison between thumb and forefinger. The arms of the big Chinaman wound round him were as sinewy and long as those of a gorilla, as strong as bands of steel; he could as readily break their embrace as he could summon a jinnee to his aid by twisting the ring upon his finger. He schooled himself to resignation. “Very well,” he said in a passionless voice. “You’ve got your own way of making a civil request, and I don’t pretend to like it; but I’ll be grateful if you’ll instruct this Chinese giant to let me go.” i “Whats are you there, Chang?” Blackstock’s simulation of surprise was admirable —if it were simulation. “You may release Mr. Handyside,” he continued; “he has promised to be good.” Without a word the Chinaman dropped his arms and stepped aside. His face, when Coast saw it, was as stolid as always; only the yellow eyes, glinting like a cat’s through their' heavy, half-closed lids, seemed to hold a hint of derision. Coast lifted his shoulders in a shrug not of bravado but of endurance, turned to the tool bench by the motor and replaced the wrench. His thoughts were all confusion; again an incident mocked him with hidden meaning. What was he to understand —that Blackstock recognized his voice and knew him for himself, Garrett Coast? That he suspected him of being another than Handyside—a spy of the Treasury Department, in short—and had determined to disarm him as a matter of common precaution, -suspending sentence until he had determined precisely who he was? “You’re wondering,” said Blackstock, “why I didn’t demand this gun before taking it by force. Aren’t you?” “I am.” Coast assented bluntly. “For one reason, because I wouldn’t 've got it Would I?" "Certainly not What right—” “One moment: I’m coming to that” Blackstock smiled his secret smile, weighing the weapon reflectively before bestowing it securely in a hippocket “It was a matter of discipline —morale is the better word. You had to be made to understand that on this Island I am dictator, my word law, my wishes law’s equivalent Your personal independence doesn’t amount to a row of tacks, so long’s you’re on No Man’s Land; I’m boss, and you’ve got to come to me. I don’t allow anybody but myself to tote a gun here, and since 1 ! knew you’d refuse a request, I took this spectacular means of making our relations clear as day-, light The main trouble with Power was his exaggerated conception of the importance of his blessed ego; when I gave him a practical demonstration of Its relative insignificance in the cosmic scheme, he got peevish. Don't you make the same mistake.” *Tm surprised," retorted Coast, detlbwately offensive, "that Power didn’t beg to be allowed to stay and lick hour boots ’* • V

“That,” said Blackstock, with an open grin, “sounds suspiciously like mutiny, Mr. Handyside.” “Call it any name you like. Possibly you may find somebody to knuckle under to such treatment for the privilege of earning a bare lining on this God-forsaken island, but . . . Well, it wasn’t Power and It won’t be me. I’ve had enough of you and I’m finished. Get Vootfhis to send you another man as sooy as you like: 1 leave, the first change that turns up." “Then the sdoner{yoti get that motor running, the qufegker you’ll be suited,” returned Blacitetock. “You’d better get busy.” “Go to the devil,” said Coast coolly. “If you send out any messages from this station, some one else will have repaired your motor—l shan’t. Goodnight!” “Good-night, Mr. Handyside,” rang in his ears accompanied by a jeering laugh, as he swung on his heel and through the door lo the open; but he paid no attention. Lacking any excuse to linger in the vicinity of the bungalow, he continued at leisure toward the farm-house, consistently at every step more troubled with doubts, anxieties, forebodings. It was all very/well, (he thought) to make the bess/of a bad business! but —Appleyard'was not to return until nightfall. It was now half-past four of a sultry, overcast and misty afternoon. In the two and a half or three hours of aayllght. to follow, what might not happen? What if

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Blackstock purposed leaving No Man’s Land in the little catboat within that interim? What could possibly be ' contrived to stop him by one man, unfriended and unarmed? . . . Pausing at the farm-house only briefly to make sure Katherine was not there, without purpose, in despondency he wandered on, down through the Cold Lairs toward the beach. As he drew near the spot where the collie kept its vigil, the animal, apparently recognizing his footsteps, rose and whined a woe-begone welcome. He stopped out of sheer compassion, sensible of a vague feeling of fellowship with the dog, since he, too, was outcast, defenceless and impotent, the sport of malign circumstances. That thought rankled. . . . Presently it occurred to him that the dog must be hungry. On sudden impulse he left It, went back to the farm-house kitchen, and without word of explanation to the Chinese there, foraged for scraps until he had heaped a pan with food; with which he returned to the collie. I It ate ravenously, as if breaking a long fast. And while he stood watching it,, wondering at the dumb fidelity which had kept it steadfast beside the grave though it slowly starved —he heard a faint cry from seaward, turned in surprise, and saw Katherine stumbling hurriedly up from the beach. Though she had evidently been Running for some distance and was flushed and breathless, there was something more than haste in her manner;

Foreign Tongues in Gotham

English Language Not Often Heard in Streets and Parks of American Metropolis. I returned to America a year, and a half ago, after ah absence of twelve years in Europe. I stopped In New York at a hotel opposite Grace church, and after securing quarters I walked up Broadway to Fourteenth street It was the midday meal hour, and the streets were thronged with all sorts and conditions of men, and yet not one word of English did I hear spoken from Tenth to Fourteenth streets. The first impression stunned me and I found myself in a dazed condition, unable to adjust myself to my surroundings, and actually doubting the reality of the scene about me. I 4

there was Its stimulus, a commingling of strong emotions so interdependent and confused that he found them unintelligible and recognized only intense excitement into which they inerged. “Garrett,” she gasped—“ Garret —1 want you to tell me the truth, if you know it—the truth, Garrett, though I’m afraid to hear it ... She paused, shuddering, the crimson ebbing from her cheeks and lips while terror played like lightning in her eyes. Cautiously he looked round. . - v • But the deserted buildings shut them off from the farm-house, and therk was no one visible on the bluffs or downs. He took her tenderly in his arms. “There,” he soothed her gently. “Tell me . . .” “I’m afraid,” she breathed brokenly, “It’s too awful, Garrett, too dread ful. It can’t be true . . “Tell me,” he begged, though now he knew. “It’s —about Mr. Power, Garrett. 1 —l—he never left this island.” “I know,” he said. She drew away, her eyes widening. “You knew, Garrett?” “They—” he stammered —“It happened yesterday morning, just before I came ashore —about daybreak.’ “You —you know this to be so?” He told her briefly what and how he knew of the tragedy. "This dog,’ he concluded, “has been there —you must have noticed—by his grave ever since.” She nodded. “I saw him,” she said in a low, vibrant voice, “but —I didn’t understand. I remember thinking it strange. He was here when we came —a legacy from the former tenant — and Power was kind to him. He never would have anything to do with any of tlie rest of us—except me; Mr. Power fed him and he followed him everywhere, but my—he the dog hated, and the Chinese, too.” The brief explanation had helped to quiet her; but now as she stood star

ing blankly seaward, tears tremblea in her lashes, and her lips trembled as she breathed convulsively. “It’s so terrible,” she said in a dull and even monotone, dispirited and cheerless. “Was I born only to bring suffering and terror and death to all about me?” “Don’t say such things,” Coast pleaded wretchedly. “Just a little longer and—” “But nothing can ever make me forget, Garrett . . . Mr. Power was kind—l don’t believe especially highprincipled or good—but he was thoughtful as to me and resented his treatment of me. It was because of that they were constantly at odds — and now, because of that . . . Oh, Garrett, Garrett!” she sobbed. Silent, who knew no words to comfort her, he let her grief spend .itself in his embrace. When she was more composed, he ventured a question that had heefi troubling him ever since she had betrayed her fears: How had she learned of this? “It was the boat—the boat they said he stole,” she explained listlessly. “1 remember thinking at the time it wasn’t like him—that he would have waited until the fog cleared, and then would have taken the sail-boat He knew a great deal about the water, and knew that the tides Ain very strong between here and Squibnocket” She named the nearest point on Martha’s Vineyard. “I thought it strange he should try to row across with nothing to guide him and the danger of being swept out to sea—” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

walked on to Union square. The benches were full of men and women, and as I passed by them I listened, but no word of our national. tongue did I hear, and I returned to my hotel wondering what it- all meant. The next day was Sunday and I spent the afternoon in Bronx park. I arrived by the Third Avenue levated, entered at the eastern gate and walked through the park to the Botanical gardens. The park was full of people, young and old. I asked my way six times and in every case save one was Answered in a foreign voice, and in two cases in a foreign tongue. Even the officials, those at least to whom I spoke, were of foreign origin.—Monroe Royce, "The Passing of the Amert* can-"

PRESIDENT TAR AND HIS CABINET . WK SiiMKi a muSK ?• «>wkMk an ■V IRK T-'-IS is the first photograph made of President Taft and his cabinet as it i» constituted today. From left to right around the table are: President Taft; Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury; George W. \. iekersham, attorney general; George von L. Meyer, secretary of the navy; James Wilson, secretary of agriculture; Charles Nagel, secretary of commerce and labor; Walter L. Fisher, secretary of the interior; Frank Hitchcock, postmaster general; Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, and P C. Knox, secretary of state.

KILLED IN ODD WAY

-1 Beauty Developer Electrocutes Vain Pittsburg Chef. Remarkable Fads of Man Who Sought to Resemble Women—All the Foibles of Fair Sex Both as to Dress and Toilette. Pittsburg, Pa.—Artificial methods utilized by him to improve his face and figure were responsible for the death of Charles Beab, French chef at the Union Depot restaurant of the Pennsylvania railroad, here, with an electric needle in his breast, the victim of a beauty craze having been electrocuted. The unusual death of the man is the basis of wide discussion here, and everybody, including the deputy coroners who investigated the death, is puzzled as to whether the man took this unusual method of ending his life to secure notoriety, or his going out was accidental. The man’s body; when examined, was found to be melded on the lines of a- woman. He wore a long pair of white corsets, attached to and under the skirt of which were heavy pads. The chef wore long silk stockings, which were connected with the corsets with the regulation hose supporters. At a social function recently Beab was one of the gayest, and did not return home until about one o’clock. He almost immediately began preparing to retire, and began his regular nightly beauty development - stunt. After his face had been massaged with cold cream Beab began using an electric needle for his bust development. He had attached the wire to an electrolier in the center of his room, and standing before a mirror began working the needle in his breast. He had frequently used the needle before, and just what caused the accident may never be known. Occupants of other apartments heard a fall, and hastening to the room found Beab dead. A physician was summoned, and'after examining the body stated that death was due to electrocution. Friends were shocked when they learned of the details and conditions surrounding the death. Although he was known as one of the most fastidious, they never suspected that he was such # slave to fashion’s decrees or beauty quest. When the victim began his manipulations he had removed his shirt and thin vest, sueh as women wear, and threw a fine silk shawl over his shoulders. The trousers which fie wore were of some light striped material, woven for women’s wear. When the coroner was summoned and removed the body to the morgue pending an investigation a search was made of the apartments. In the bathroom attached to the apartment was found an extensive line of beauty lotions, while in the victim’s trunks and wardrobe were found numerous articles, supposed to be for the exclusive use of women. There were also found many photographs of members of the fair sex. Hunts Ducks With Boomerang. St. Joseph, Mo. —Vernon Tantlinger, a nimrod, uses a boomerang instead of a shotgun when he hunts ducks. He recently bagged eight birds with twelve throws.

Man Stumbles on Riches

Discovery of Clear Lake (Ariz.) Field Result of Chance —Sees Gold in Bowlders. ’ Clear Lake, Ariz. —T. Ollie Phillips waa a poor mining prospector less than a year ago. When he was not roaming over the mountains he made his home at Bisbee. Recently he was paid $200,000 for an undeveloped gold and silver claim situated in this new camp. W. S. Small and J. H. Kniffen, who purchased the property from Mr. Phillips, have in turn just disposed of it to a syndicate of Boston and Springfield (Mass.) men, headed by Smith Bros., the reported consideration being $500,000. The new owners have taken steps to organize a company to operate the mine. It is claimed there is enough ore in sight to justify the erection of a 250-ton mill. It was by chance that Mr. Phillips discovered the vein which has brought him a fortune. He was making a trip through this section less than twelve months ago, accompanied by a photographer,

RIOT GREETS NEW WARDEN James A. Johnson, New Incumbent, is Received With Curses and Cheers. Sacramento.—Hundreds of convicts yelling at the tops of tiieir voices, mingling curses with cheers for the outgoing and incoming wardens for three hours, was the first night’s experience of James A. Johnston as warden of Folsom state prison. From 9 o’clock, when the lights were turned out, until midnight the prison was likened unto a madhouse, the hardened criminals putting Warden Johnston to one of the most severe tests submitted to any official. While many of the convicts cheered former Warden W. H. Reilly, who turned over the office to his successors. others condemned him. “What’s the matter with Reilly?” would be sung out from one part of the prison and a roar of voices would respond, some with curses, others with praise. “What’s the matter with, the new warden?” another voice would sing out, and again bedlam would follow. For three hours the prisoners raved and cursed and sang their uncanny greeting to the new warden. A shot fired over the heads of one particularly noisy group was the only means of stopping the uproar. Warden Reilly left Folsom. A number of guards and employes whose jobs were in danger resigned. They were D. I. Wood, steward and brother-in-law of Reilly; Frank Ramirez, assistant turnkey; A. Yorbi, outside guard, and W. McFadden and J. Mcknight, guards.

Monkeys Elude Pursuers

Four, at Large in Town, Keep Mayor, Constabulary, Linemen and Volunteers Busy. San Rafael, Cal.—Four monkeys which escaped from Boyd Memorial Park and have since mimicked desperadoes in very realistic fashion are still at large, jumping from tree top to tree top. After the monkeys had routed Mayor Richard Kinsella, the police force and the Chinese cooks at the Parkside hotel, the Park Commission decided that stronger inducements for the capture of their Darwinian ancestors were necessary. Accordingly, Dr. S. M. Augustine of the commission offered S2O reward for the capture of the monkeys. Constable George Agnew appeared on the scene with cakes on which opium had been placed, covered with a thick coating of honey. This bait he placed in a convenient location.The monkeys descended from the trees, smelled the cakes, rubbed the honey and opium off against the trees and then proceeded to eat the pastry with evident relish. Hopeful of obtaining the reward, nearly fifty linemen of the telephone and electric light companies climbed the trees. The monkeys gracefully swung from the topmost branches into adjoining trees. The linemen descended. i Andrew Ludwig managed to get hold

whose mission it was to get some views of the famous Apache Box Canyon. One day, while the photographer was off taking pictures, Mr. Phillips aimlessly walked through the picturesque canyon. His trained eye caught sight of gold in a bowlder that was lying in the bottom of the gorge. He examined other bowlders and found gold in all of them. Keeping the discovery to himself, he remained with the photographer until the latter had finished his work. He then returned to the canyon and began a systematic search for the vein from which the bowlders had come. He succeeded in finding it upon the wall of the canyon and staked out his claim. Rabbi Forced to Yield. Vienna. —An unusual form of strike is reported from Sochaczow, a village in Russian-. Poland. The population is almost exclusively Jewish, and a new rabbi, who found his congregation too frivolously inclined, forbade the hold-

NEW WAY TO COLLECT DEBI Alleged Creditor at Hazleton, Pa., Confiscates Slot Machines and Obtains sl4. Hazleton, Pa. —John Brill, a Hazle ton policeman, took novel means tc collect a bill which he says William F. Cantner, proprietor of the Freeland Central hotel, has owed trim for twen-ty-four years. Brill was in the cigar business at the time and Cantner conducted a restaurant here. Cantner then moved away and-later located at Freeland, where, Brill says he played two slot machines in Cantner’s hotel. Swearing out a warrant for the arrest of Cantner on the charge of maintaining gambling devices, Brill went to Freeland and confiscated the machines, which he and Constable Henry Ziegler brought to town, where Brill emptied the slots and obtained sl4. HAVE FUN WITH DYNAMITE Boys Try to Eat Explosive and Feed It to the Family Cat—Disillusionment Stopped by Rescuers. Orange, N. J. —Three youngsters, all under ten years old, learned that dynamite is not good to shine shoes with, to eat or to feed to a cat. The young experimenters with stolen dynamite are Patsy Zullo and Edward Kelly, 36 Sherman street, and Johnny Martin, 21 Sherman street Sixteen sticks of dynamite were stolen from a case in an open box car. When they found it was not good for boys iTo eat they tried to fofte some into/he mouth of the Zullo family cat, muci} to the outraging of that creature. Then they attempted to shine their shoes with the greasy sticks. The boys’ experiments were discovered in. time to stop their disillusionment and dismemberment.

of the infant member of the quartet. The others descended on Ludwig’s. hair, a large part of which they succeeded in removing. Ludwig gave up the fight. “Marty" Johansen set up the drinks for the monkeys. Three of them refused to touch the liquor on the ground before them, but the fourth, a big male called “Joe," drank everything in sight without any effect. Fox traps with teeth protected by cloth are being set in a final attempt to capture the monkeys. A scheme is now on foot to get a few monkeys from some menagerie to use as decoys, as it is believed that If one of the escaped monkeys can be induced to return the others will follow. Turned Out After Starvation Test. Boston. —Turned from the “Carnegie nutrition laboratory,” after going through a 31-day starvation test, Prof. Agostino Levanzin staggered .into a newspaper office and begged far food and shelter. He was to have been paid S4OO for the experiment, but was turned out penniless. 2,000 Burn Negro in Texas. Tyler, Tex.—Two thousand persons participated in the lynching of Dan Davis, a negro, who was burned to death at a stake in a street this week after he had confessed to an attack on Miss Carrie Johnson a week ago. Ing of dances in the place altogether.A deputation of young women waited on him and demanded that this prohibition should be withdrawn, but therabbi remained unyielding. All the marriageable girls of the place thereupon held a meeting and resolved unanimously not to Wed until dancing was allowed again. For two months there, were no marriages in * Sochaczow, until length the rabbi ! g..ve way. Boy Bread Maker Beats 30 “Co-Eds." Reno, Nev.—The reputaton of “co-’ 3 eds” at the University of Nevada as bread makers received a severe shock this week, when a boy student, competing with 30 girls, won second place In a bread-making contest, and almost succeeded in getting first place. Died to Two-Step Music. San Francisco. —Sauntering into a ballroom, A. W. Smenner of Philadelphia danced several times, and then, with the strains of a two-step echoing in his ear, fired a bullet into his brain, turning the merry frivolity' of the dance into a panla

Moham- W I medanism By Edward A. Marshall, Director of Mwinnrry Come of Moody Bible Institute, Chicago . ,■ —-

TEXTr-Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but Inwardly they are ravening wolves.—Matt--7:15. f The study of comparative religions is becoming more and more popular.

It is an excellent thing for Christian people to p weigh the religions of the world and for the nonChristians to realize the power of Christianity. One of th6 systems that is being studied is Mohammedanism, and it is held by some to be a stepping stone to Christianity. In examining the various systems of religion.

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great care must be exercised in searching for the points of contact less we strive to make them points for the amalgamation of Christianity with the non-Christian system. Mohammed is considered the last of the great prophets who inaugurated these great religious systems. He was born in Mecca about 500 years after Christ.. At the age of twenty-five be married a wealthy widow for whom he had carried on business, by caravan, between Mecca and Damascus. Later he be gan to have religious aspirations and on various occasions while in seclusion in a cave experienced strange hallucinations that he attributed tc the influence of angels. He considered himself constituted a prophet bj Gabriel and took up the work of re formation. He became bitter against idolatry and opposed some of the In . consistencies of his time. However, as years on. he became grasping which caused him to break his owe laws and do inconsistent things. Ta justify himself in this, he claimed 1”? had. received revelations granting hi i special permission to do them. 1 ? soon took up the sword and became, a leader of a band of brigands. Aft® his death, Abu Bekr took up the work and began the conquest of Palestine and Syria. It was carried on by his successors until Asia Minor and North Africa, were conquered. They then attempted to get into Europe through Constantinople on the east and Gau! on the west. They were driven back, which delivered Europe from the yoke of Mohammedanism. The conquest then went to the east toward India, and southward into the Sudan in Africa. Mohammedanism is a mixture of Paganism and Judaism. Ifcris strongly Monotheistic; teaches absolute predestination and that only Moslems are saved. Its spirit is “rule or ruin;” peaceably if there is no opposition, but with the iron heel, if necessary. Mohammed got his idea of God from Judaism. He took only the attribute of justice and made a god of law to whom, he gave absolute sovereignty, but attributed to him little interest in' the weal or woe of the huipan race. Since he considered God to be but oneperson, he became very bitter against Christianity on the ground that he considered it polytheistic because of the three persons in the Godhead. In or-' der to account for Christ, the Mohammedans teach that just before Christ was crucified, the angel Gabriel ar-; ranged for some one else, who looked like Christ, to be crucified in bls place 1 ., Mohammed in order to secure for himself divine authority asserted that he was the paraclete whom Jesus had promised. He considered Jesus a mere prophet and inferior to himself. He himself being the last of the ) prophets of God. The Mohammedan view of creation is very much similar to that found in the Bible. However, the creation- of man differed in that it is said that God took a lump of clay and broke it into two pieces, creating mankind from them both. Os the on» he said, “These to heaven and I care , not,” and of those made from the other lump he said, “These to hell and I care not.” Sin to the Mohammedan is far different from sin to the Christian. In the first place, sin has nothing to do with our nature, for man inherited none of the sinful nature of Adam. Second, sins of Ignorance are not counted as wrong doing. Thirds only the wilful violation of known law is considered sin. Their belief in predestination and fatalism makes their future fixed so that salvation through atonement is not necessary. Neither have they any provision from the present power of sin. To match this. strange teaching regarding sin. the Mohammedans have planned full of senjsual Indulgences where they expect to rest upon gold couches, be attended by celestial beings and be always eating and drinking, but never satiated. Mohammedans look upon the resurrection of the body as real and literal. They teach that it will be. prodiiced by a living principle residing in one of the bones of the body which will be impregnated by a forty days’ rain before the resurrection occurs and will cause the bodies to sprout forth like plants. The source of this teaching and of the Koran, their sacred book, might be termed mechanical inspiration. They believe the Koran to be uncreated and eternal. the original copy being kept under the throne of God. Teh Koran is smaller than our New Testament. The treatment accorded Mohammedan wom,en is almost as severe as can 'be found under brutal paganism. A. man may cause his wife to leave him by saying, “Thou art divorced.” Her duty to him is implicit obedience and reverential silence in his presence. A Mohammedan woman’s hope of heaven-' is to have a husband and thus to get in to be his attendant.