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“Yes, ma'am,” said the saleswoman. “This way, if you please. About what price hat did you want? “I thought I'd look at those you have advertised at 8§5.98,” said the customer; “the marked-down ones.” “Oh, yes,” said the saleswoman. “There isn’t very many of them left, but perhaps we can find one that will suit you. Now, here's a pretty thing! Let me try this one. There's a glass at the end of the counter. Yes, it is a little narrow, but it seems to suit you very well. Some ladies can wear a narrow hat just about as well as a wide one. Almost any style looks well on them. Ye-es, they are wearing them a little wider this year but——. No, I don’t think there's a gray in that. If you wanted a gray specially and would be willing to pay a little more for it I've got one here that I'd lice to show you. It isn’t any trouble to show { it. There! That’s right in the very latest style, and it's gray. You take that shade of gray and it's the most trying thing in the world to a poor complexion, but when a lady's got a complexion like you have it brings it out and sets it off like nothing else does. Isn’t that lovely? _“Anybody would say that shape was Just invented for you. If you wouldn’t | mind, I'd just like to have our head saleslady look at that on you. Miss Brinkly! Would you mind st(‘pping’ bere a moment, please? I just wanted | you to see that gray hat on this lady. ' You know what you said about that hat. Yes, that’s exactly what I was just telling her. It does, doesn't it? It’s a style that wouldn't suit one lady in fifty, either. “Why, that hat is $12.50 now. Os course, if you had bought it a few weeks ago it would have cost a great deal more, and if you went to one of the exclusive millinery stores you couldn’t buy it under $25, even at this time. Well, I'm sorry, because I don’t think you would find another that would give you as good satisfaction. Here's a sweet little hat for $lO. There’s very expensive trimming on that hat. Yes, I think it's becoming, but it doesn’t look as well on you as the gray, of course. Yes, $lO. It's a DOPDDPOPPDPDDPIPIVDPDDOVOPIBG ;_‘ LOST IN THE DESERT. % NSNS NS NSNS NSNS NSNS NSNS “The craze to find a metal is a funny thing,” said the old prospector. “I always had it, and once, in British Columbia, away north, it gave me a close - call. I was alone when I got as far _as the last settlement. There were ___ four Indians and a fur-trader there. - They all advised me not to go into the ~ barrens, but like a good many others, I thought I was wiser than the natives, and I only meant to go a few miles. There was nothing to do but - foot it, and carry your provisions and blankets on your back. : “The country was flat as a floor and bald and smooth as my head, with no landmarks. The only way I could get direction was by the sun and stars. “When I had been out for about two days my provisions were nearly gone. I was going to turn back and make a dash for the settiement. All day long a gray cloud had been moving up from the west very slowly. I suppose it was coming on so slow I didn’t realize what it meant to me without the sun to guide me. There wasn’'t even a blade of grass on that desert, nor a living thing, nor a stone sticking up. The clouds kept bending over more and more, and finally they closed down over me like a trap. | “I shall never forget the lonesomeness of that place, and how, whenever I stopped walking, I would strain and strain my ears without hearing a thing but the tunump of my own heart. But I thought I was all right, and kept on walking toward the settlement, steadily, until it was nearly night. Then I saw something white a few yards off to one side. In one gasp the breath went out of me. The white thing was a bit of cracker I bad dropped when 1 had eaten my lunch! “I sat down and tried to think. I knew it was no use to walk that way any farther. I began to think my bones would whiten out there on the barrens, but finally I went to sleep.i In the morning 1 was crazy ‘Vith' hunger. I ate my last piece of hardtack, and nearly all day I walked aim- .. lessly, hoping to find some landmark.l There was no sleep in me that night. Whenever I shut my eyes I could see l nothing but a great flat plain with a line across it—the straightest line you ever saw. “Well, it was that crazy notion that saved my iife. It suddenly occurred to me that I could draw a line across this desert. When it was getting light.in the morning there were a few minutes when I could sce which side of the circle was east by the glimmer through the clouds. So I werked with my| sheath-knife till I had built a little pile | of earth, and waited for day to come. | The moment I saw the glimmer and had the direction I ran toward the south a hundred yards or so and built another pile; then I ran a hundred yards more, sighting back across the two piles, and built a third. They were only little piles of dirt, but they looked ! like towers of the desert. i “All that day I built piles of earth soutiward until I lost count, and the next day when I saw the glimmer of morning I knew I had the right direction. Toward night I struck a dog's track, and finally I sighted a clump of trees and a group of cabins. I fired my revolver several times, until I saw two men on horseback coming out to me; then I swung down on my knees and fell over, flat on my face. “It was several weeks before I could close my eyes at night without sighting along little piles of earth.” Even a good business woman makes & poor silent partner,

| sls hat. Any other in' the $5.98? Cer- { tainly. Here's a pink, a very pretty g::ml stylish looking hat for the money. [ No, the velvet isn’t the very best quali- | ty. Yes, they were marked down from | $7.45. We sold quite a number at that ! price just before Easter. IHow would lynu like one with an all-lower trim- | ming? | “Well, I must say you know how to { select a hat. ‘That looks just lovely f“" You. Oh, no, no, that isn’'t one of | the 85.98. No. Why, you can see for | yourself the difference in the make. [ It's marked $11.60. Well, here's a $5.98 { one tuat you might like. We-ell, of '(-mn'su, I like it. It's a becoming hat | when you put it on; there's no deny- | ing that. I'd like You to try that gray [on again, if you don’t mind. Ah! Turn ;just a little more to one side and see | the set of it. You know there really isn’'t so much economy in buying a cheap hat. No, I wouldn’t call the |55.98 a cheap hat exactly, but eof course it hasn't got the style or the ‘mutoriul to it that this one has. You couldn’t expect it to have. “Yes, it's marked down. It was $17.50 and not a dear hat at that price. There was a lady in here this morning with a hat that wasn't a bit more stylish that she said she paid $25 for. | It didn’t look nearly as well on her as | this does on you. We can make a hat [ that will cost anything you‘re a mind ,to name, but we can’t make the per- | son that wears it. No, ma’am. ' “Yes, $12.50. Yes, but look at the lace on it and the straw. Anybody can see that's an expensive hat right away. And it's so-o becoming. If I had your slender figure and a complexion like yours I'd buy that myself. Wait and I'll get a double glass so you can see the back of it. “Now! You know you don’'t want any of those cheap hats. You want to do yourself justice. And it will be economy in the end. “Oh, that doesn't matter a particle. We can send it to your address C. O. D. Yes, I'm sure I would if I were you. “Yes, T'll see that it's well packed and have it sent out right away. Thank you, ma'am.—Chicago Daily l News. WHY JAPAN WANTS KOREA, | It for the Purpose of an Outlet to Her Millions, | The cultivated arca of Japan comprises a district equal to only about one-third the size of the State of Illinois, according to the Booklovers’ Magazine. In fact, only 15 per cent of the area of Japan is adapted to the culti- | vation of their annual crops. Yet they | conduct their farming with such indus- | try and scientific skill that this insig- | nif-int area supports an empire of 44,805,927 people, increasing at the | rate of over half a million per annum. “Imagine,” said a2 recent traveler in the far east, “more than half of the | population of the United States cooped | up within the confines of the State of | Montana, and picture this dense mass of millions subsisting on the yield of a section of land no larger than one- | third the area of Illinois, and you can form some conception of the territorial problem confronting the kingdom of Japan.” Os all the modern nations she s in the most need of domain for purposes of colonization. Her inevitable outlet is on the mainland of Asia. Formosa is a beginning and Korea is at hand; but every step in her expansion | invites a conflict with the powers of | Europe. International ambitions confront her at every “urn and her work as a world-power has just begun, 1f she deveiops the strength to maintain | her intrepid national program, it is not improbable that she will become within the near future the most conspicucus power of the Pacific, not even excepting the United States. i Obedient to Orders. Senator Quay likes to smoke cigars. I He usually has one in his mouth when he is not in the Senate chamber, and ! sometimes he then chews an unlighted | one, A week or so 2go his doctor told him he must stop smoking. “I can’t,” said the Senator. “But you must,” insisted the doc- | tor. | ‘ “Can’t I smoke at all?” asked the | Senator plaintively, “Yes,” the doctor replied, as if he’ was conferring a great favor, “you | may smoke a half of one cigar each | day, but no more.” ' l “Well,” said the Senator to-day, as he sat in his committee-room, ‘it is} now time for me te have my daily smoke.” : ‘ He opened a drawer in his desk and | took out a cigar fifteen inches in length, and lit it, and smoked it with relish.—Philadelphia Record. All the Bargains Were Gone. Au American of hitherto undoubted veracity tells this story of a restaurant in Berlin to which he and a friend went one evening: l The fge and the music were so good | and the people about them so amusing that they lingered on and on. When at last they rose to go the American’s hat was not to be found. “What sort of hat ,6was it, mein Herr?”’ inquired the stolid person in | charge. ! “It was & new top hat,”” sald the American, briskly. “Ach, but, mein Herr, all the new hats have been gone for half an hour,” gaid the German, placidly. Cause and Effect. | Mrs. Goodwin—l heard that your father was dangerously ill. , Effie Fay—Yes, ma'am, he was. i Mrs. Goodwin—ls he now out of i dar®er? l Effie Fay—Yes, ma'am, he is; thae | doctor has stopped coming!—Woman'y | Home €ompanion. ! 1t alwvays makes a widow mad when l she hears of a woman who abuses her | husband. ‘ . i

“ e T OUR INTEREST IN KOREA. How Success of Kither Ruszia or Japan Would Effect America. As Americans, we naturally ask how the success of either side would affect cur interests in the peninsula and in the whole far East. Japan stands for | the “open door” everywhere, for perfect freedom of religion., for the opening up of the agricultural, mineral and industrial resources of the Eastern world. Not one plank in her platform suggests a policy that would be inimical to American enterprise in any of its many forms. Americans have not done very much in Korea as yet, but this war means more than Korea; it means Manchuria and all northern Chinn. The Russian minister in Seoul recently told a journalist that the Russians did not see why Americans should be playing Japan's game, since she is a commercial rival., He aflirmed that Americans wouid Dbe welcomed‘ anywhere in Manchuria by the Russians to-day, but that if Mukden and | the other ports were opened it would allow the influx of a thousand Japanecse, and trouble would be inevitable, If this is so, Low does it happen that Amerlcan firms in Port Arthur, Dalny, Viadivostok and other Russian centers find it absolutely necessary to carry on their business through Russian agents? The local manager of the firm must be ~under Russian control, or he can do no ‘business. An independent American firm in Vladivestok recently found that it must close its doors. It would not come under Russian jurisdiction, and it soon found that when its goods from America arrived they were kept in the cutoms warehouse from four to six n:onths before the authorities would release them. In one respect the Americans would become more obnoxious to the Russians than the Japanese. The American merchant is always pushing for a leading place; he develops a large policy and seeks to become a commercial and financial power in whatever community he may be placed. On the other hand, the Japanese almost always push for the small retail trade. A hundred of them handle the same amount of goods that a single American or English firm handles.—Century. Regarding Mizquotations. I One of the rules that even young ‘ writers and readers should bear in mind is this: “Verify your quotations.” And, if possible, go to the original source rather than to rely on other authority. The reason for the rule is easy to see. Usually a quotation becomes popular because it is worth while, and to mjsquote is often to lose the value of the words. Thus people often say, “A little knoewledge is a dangerous thing.” But that is not true, All knowledge is worth having, even a little. They mean “half-knowledge,” or incorrect knowledge, which is not really knowledge at all! What Pope wrote was: “A little learning is a dangerous thing;” and what he mieant was that a little learning makes one presumptuous, while thorough learning glves humility—an idea likewise set forth in the saying that wisdom begins with the feeling that one is ignorant, So, verify yvour guotations for fear you may put into currency a counterfeit note. % At the same time it is to be remembered that some few quetations have been improved by changes introduced by those who have misquoted. These impovements are rare, however, and it is safest to retain the old forms where there is any doubt. Another usual misquotation besides { that mentioned is— 1 “The quality of mercy is not strained; | It falleth as the gentle dew from heaven— l which you may correct for yonrself.i and then may Inquire whether it is likely that the popular change is an‘ improvement, when the nature of dew is understood.—St. Nicholas. Left-Handed Moros. To judge Moros by intlexible occidental standards of motives and morals is to lose at once the key to the situa- | tion. The very structure of their lan- } guage differentiates them from our-| selves. Verbs are in the passive voice. ‘ The man who was slashed and kilied | provoked the trouble. The under dog l in the fight is always the a,f:gres<or.i The thief is not blamed for “finding” ; things lying about at loose ends; tho* man who lost the property is the real criminal—besides, he is a focl. If hei were a sensible man he would ha\'el exercised vigilance against the approach of the thief. Moros reverse everything. Like all orientals, they venerate the past and their folklore, myths and legends abound in tales not unlike those of the Arabian Nights entertain- ‘ ment. i They turn to the left of the road, ex- ‘ tend the left hand naturally in greet- | ing, and the scribes write from right to | left, turning the paper sidewise, as any left-handed man would do. A witty officer explained that the preference for the left was due to the desire to keep the right hand free in the event a stranger should need something done to him. The ‘“explanation” may not be far from the truth.—Journal of Military Service Institution. Got the Check Cashed. “You will notice,” said a city detective last night, “that nearly all merchants instead of simply indorsing a check prefix ‘for deposit’ with a rubber stamp and give the name of the bank. Cleveland merchants learned this after an experience that cost one of them S6OO. l “A man walked into a jewelry store and selected a $125 watch, ieft a check for S6OO, drawn on an out-of-town bank, with instructions that the watch be regulated and that he would comel after it and his change a week later, On returning he was informed that his l check was no good. “Well, that’s strange,” he said. ‘lt's the second time the bank has done that thing on me.. But here’s the money for your watch, and he counted out $125 in currency and started for the door. ‘Oh, yes’ he said, turning around, ‘you’'d better give me that check.” It was willingly handed over to him. On the back was the jeweler's simple indorsement. With this the man went into a bank, got it cashed and was never heard of afterward,”’— Cleveland Leader, s L

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Should Wives Be Breadwinners ? Some weeks ago the newspapers discussed somewhat profusely the question whether a Chicago bank clerk ought to marry on less than SI,OOO a Year. It was net difficult to see that the main questioar was how much work the bank clerk’s bride would be willing to do, or bd capable of doing. A Kindred questiop has been discussed more recently Prof. Simon N. Patten, of the Univgsity of Pennsylvania, who argues thatthe social problem of thousands of parried couples would be solved wergthe wife to continue a wage-earner dfing the early period of marriage. Wlkn two young people who are earnilg $lO6 or sl2 a week apiece marry, pr. Patten would have both of them pontinue to be wageearners until the husband's income Increases to $D a week. Then, he thinks, it is betg’that the wife should Bive lLerself upgo the home, and that both should ljf‘on the husband’'s income. It is, rable, thinks Dr. Patten, that Efi é's‘gfi small wage-earn-ing eapaci 4 _~ould be married, provided both conthue wage-earners. Dr, Giddings, of lumbia University, seems to have ls'glred leanings, for though he feels * 5 be desirable that after marriage tk wife be relieved as far as possible soma money-earning occupation and ave plenty of time to maintain the aome, he points out that the middlclass Frenchman's wife is usually g3hopkeeper or manages a restauray’ and that there is no better family e anywhere than in the middle classqVof France. In this country he findgohat the wife of a foreigner is neap: always a breadwinner, but thap(American women have no tendence to become wageearners independ@; of their husbands. The American' prejudice against wage-earning by.l,mrriod women appears in the effol occasionally made to make the emjoyment of teachers In the public scbols terminate with lmarx'iage. But jousands of American married wolen do earn wages, I thousands more vuld gladly do so if they could, and oter thousands would De happier and Iyter off if they did.' The prejudice ag nst it seems disadvantageous. Ame¢ecan nien, as a rule, prefer to supporttheir wives if they can. If an Ameran married woman works for pay, ius either because it gives her pleasur,or because her husband’s income is isufficient. She does not do it as a mier of course. low long she can kee it up depends upon what the work irand upon other circumstances. If s has children, that, of course, interfies with her wageearnihg, if it de not stop it altogether, and genal scceptance of a| custom whichwou restrict or discour- | age child bearings not to the public ' advantage. Marrge tends, and should | tend, to Withdmég-women from wage- ] earning, .lmtgt;n‘j not stop it per se | and abrm“', make marriage a 1‘ | bar to futuve W _4oaxncing by a wom- | an opemmggfimcfion OT et sey s and that is at vast’as much against public poliey & restriction of child bearing.—Harp#s Weekly. If Youire Well-Bred I You will be ind. i You will notise slang. | Yecu will tryto make others happy. | You will note shy or self-conscious. i You will newr indulge in ill-natured | gossip. | You will nevr forget the respect due | to age. i You will n¢ swagger or boast of your achievemnts. i You will thik of others before you ‘ think of yourslf. You will bescrupulous in your re- | gard for the rihts of others. | You will n¢ measure your civility ;by people’s hnk accounts. | You will »t forget engagements, ! promises or oligations of any kind. | In conversdion you will not be ar- | gumentative ¢ contradictory. f You will n¥er make fun of the pe- | culiarities oridiosyncrasies of others. ! You will nt¢ bore people by constant--1 ly talking ofrourself and your affairs. { You will ever under any circumf stances causluuother pain, if.you can | help it. | You will fft think that “good inten{tions" comi_sate for rude or gruff | manners. You will be s agreeable to your social inferiors 8 to your equals and superiors. ! You will not ulk or feel neglected if | others receive 10re attention than you i do. ! You will nethave two sets of man- % ners—one for company’” and one for | home use. '; l You will neer remind a cripple of his deformityor probe the sore spots ’ of a sensit‘*eoul:‘ You will nt gulp down your soup so audibly that#mm- ¢an be heard across I the room, g sop up the sauce in your plate with' &8 of bread. You will lev refined manner and superior intelligfi:e show that you have traveled, inst¢ I of constantly talking of the differer 2ountries you have visited. oy You w’ f” remark, while a guest, that you dnot like the food which has been servsj to you. You wi} not attract attention by either yoy loud talk or laughter, or | show you gotism by trying to absorb | conversati —Orison Swett Marden, in Succes l Wjran and Literature. There igit least a difference of opinl son in reggl to the alleged distaste of women folevere and systematic readl ing. One ¢itic in the National Review asserts tht neither for pleasure nor on prlncip]f do they study books which would culivate their minds and give them brcjl and stable views of life. Another f§akes the comforting statement thef the good, or, as they are called, t!§ ‘‘solld,” books taken by women fifn the English circulating libraries ap.in the proportion of two to five—afery creditable average. M. Ernest CJentin Bauchart has shown us, in “L¢ Femmes Bibliophiles,” that many rarjand beautiful volumes were | tor two ¢ collected and treas-

il el cisnedssndedidvaniioind O ured by IFrench ladies, from Margaret -1 of Valeis to Marie Antoinette. IHow - | far the pleasures of a collector merge . | into the pleasures of a student is alL | Ways a delicate point to decide, but t | Mr. Andrew Lang is of the opinion . | that some of these ladies loved their - | libraries even to the reading point. | “Books and art,” he says, with happy | | tolerance, “were probably more to .| Mme. de Pompadour’s liking than the | diversions by which she beguiled the | tedium of ILouis XV.: and many a || time she would rather have been quiet | With her plays and novels than en- | guged in conscientiously conducted but | distasteful revels.” La Duchesse de { Montpensier—“La Grande Mademoi- | selle”—liked only serious and scholarly books. The frivolous ones, she used ' to say, wearied and plagued her. La Grande Mademoiselle was by no means the wisest of women:; but the choice does credit to her taste for amusement. The romances of her age were a shade less diverting than mathematles.—Harper's Bazar. Telling Troubles. Is nobody, taen, to confide a trouble to anyone else? And are we never to be sympathetic to those who are unhappy, gentle to unruly children, grac-| ious to the awkward, kind to the un-| couth? What folly to suppose so! A trouble that one never confides 35 81 trouble that grows, says The Delinea- | tor. Get rid of it before it swamps | You completely. Throw it overboard. | Refuse to let it remain, undermining your nature or poisoning the very well- 1 springs of your character. But when | you wish to discuss it, discuss it only with those who are strong enough to | . help you. If instead of counsel you | make what you ecall sympathy the ob- | | Ject of your search, you will find that | 1 the desire for this sympathy grows by what it feeds upon. It is like an in- ; temperance, and will end by destroying 4 your moral system. Examine yourself, I therefore, and see whether it be not | true that instead of sympathy, you |1 have really been searching after con- | s dolence. , Sympathy is helpful. It is |t l understanding. In it are included both | ! knowledge and a power to compre-il "hend and set straight in the path tagain. Condolence is another affair. S It soothes, but it does not sustain. 101 may wet with tears and warm with | g caresses, seem very precious, very | i sweet, but courage is never quickened | d by it nor is hope reborn. Seek under- | T standing, then, not condolence. Go to |t be helped in your trouble, not extolled ¢ in your martyrdom: g 0 to be guided tfl through your dilemma, not to be flat- J tered for your patience; go to have © your eyes opened., opened about yourself, not to have them blinded by what | s! ill-judged affection, out of the fulness | ti of a loving heart, may have to offer | W you in condolence. Seek the helpful friend as you would the wise doctor, f‘ not the quack.—Philadelphia Evening ? ir Bulletin, LR at ‘ ~ " Cheerful Mothers, ¢ i ~ There are many conscientious fa- j thers and mothers who make their |t children miserable by taking youthful | t foibles too seriously. It is an innate |l ?propensity of a child possessed of av-|t erage good health and spirits to make 1.;-1(101‘ people laugh with him; not at [ him, but at the things that seem amus- | t ; ing to his own sense. And the mother | who kas the blithe and ready humor | Y to enter into his fun becomes the wmost : fascinating companion. ¢ He heeds her rebukes and bends to ; her correction without ill feeling, . while sternness would arouse his pride and ire, for he is assured that she is| | ready to share all his innocent pranks, | | and ‘thut her disapproval has no foun-| dation in impatience or injustice. I And when the day arrives thati t “childish things are put away,” and ; the grown men and women look back- : ward to their early home, with what : a throb of pleasure they say, when x things happen: “Mother would ap- |, preciate this; she had the quickest| sense of humor of any woman you | ever saw!” And underneath these 3 light words is the thought, “How hap- | " py that dear mother made me, and : how 1 love her!”—N>Minneapolis Trib- : une. p e ; The Trials of a Too-Tall Girl, ; Her tragedy was ridiculous—that | : was the worst of it. Anyone recog- | : nizing it must laugh. Agatha herself laughed—forlornly, perhaps, and even | with wet cheeks at times—but she |- never forgot its absurdity. If the fate || that had forced the length of a young ; glant upon her had given her a giant’s : spirits as well, it would have been : easier. But into her long frame had | been thrust the heart of a little woin- | an, all that was gay and caressing | and dependent, that had been laughed | back in vain since the days when they | began to call her Jumbo and to admon- | ish her that she was too big for “that.” | “That’” was everything her instincts | prompted. So poor Agatha learned to | laugh and to go through life looking | on—llooking down, rather; for there were few men who did not wince and | hastily find her a chair when they | were left standing by her side. As a rule she was even quicker at finding ‘ the chair than they were—poor | Agatha, to whom “just as high as my heart” was the sweetest description of a sweetheart ever penned!—Juliet | Wilbor Tompkins, in Lippincott’s Magazine. Fads for Smart Girls. The smart girls of to-day have a new way of greeting you. It is quite in'accord with their picturesque, charmingly feminine, quaint gowns. They never think of shaking hands with you in their own homes in the couventior_xal» old-time way. They greet you with both hands, and their manner of putting their little bands into yours assures you a hearty welcome, ! The superstitious girl has a substitute for the lucky penny, and by the way, it’s the eye of the peacock-feather which heretofore has been associated only with ilI luck. In place of he:r lucky penny she carries a p?acocks eye mounted in glass —Woman's Home Comrasfy L

S YA T T —— "{:‘WW'{-++M'{°+'§"}'}"{"§"{"§'M'fi"’g © SUNDAY SCHOOL. I ‘. i * ¥ LESSON FOR JUNE 5. u el e steefocfeofosfesfoofeafeafrafoateaionge W\/\/\MN ],‘,f]l}lr,l:ths Trial Before Pilate.—Mark finl«ln:.l Text.—Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, 1 find no fault in this man.—TLuke 23:4. The Jews were at this time a conquered people—one of the many peoples that all-conquering Ronie held under her rule. .\.'nw Rome, in its long and large experience of governing foreign peoples, had learned very much in this l'(“,::lrd} 511111. could perhaps have given some ‘pointers” to the nations of to-day that n‘r«: extending their rule over alien races. For the most part she benefited those whom she conquered by giving them & : h:‘!_lt‘l‘ government than they had before. This was true even in the case of the Jews. One has only to read something pt’ the history of this people in the time intervening between the Old and New Testament histories to learn that they needed a strong hand over them to pro-tm-.t them from foreign and domestic enemies. Reme supplied the need. She brought law and stability where there had been disorder and insecurity. One of the things that the rulers of the Roman Empire had learned was to give those whom they conquered as much Irgedom in the management of their own aftairs as was consistent with the good of the Empire as a whole. And so it came that in religious matters especialIy they were for the most part quite tolerant. But they would mnot hesitate to stamp out any movement which tended to cause dkorder within the empire, even if it had a religious character. Another thing the Romans had learned—or, let us say, another policy they had inherited with the stock of wisdom that had been handed down to them—was, not to lay down laws with too hard and 4qst a line, but to make compromises and give way when it seemed expedient to do S 0 in order to avoid any unnecessary friction with conquered peoples. If we bear these things in mind, we shall better understand the attitude of the Jews toward Pilate and of Pilate toward the Jews in the matter of the trial of Jesus. T.he criminal law, at least in matters of life and death, Rome kept in her own hands, and no one might be put to death | to gratify a whim on the part of the people she governed. There must be | cause of complaint which the Roman |- law. regarded as worthy of death before ; a life might be taken. In minor mat- | . tPr:? the governed people might have 1 their way, but not here. Even Lere, |, Lowever, we see that a Roman Zovernor | | gave way under great pressure. It is ' to be remembered that Pilate was re- ; sponsible to his Emperor for maintainlnz peace aud order among the Jews, gm-l here seemed to be a case in which, if he did not make a concession to the |° lemands of the people there might be a || revolt. At all events he would alienate E the good-will of the ruling class, and | ° that might be a cause of trouble in the ! future. DBesides, the priests threatened | ! 0 accuse him of disloyalty if he let t Jesus go. (John 19:12.) And so he gave |\ way. ¢ Pilate is not to be excused, but we should understand the nature of his emptation and the very real difficulty in vhich he found himself. 3 v But the ruler who, like Pilate, having | S 'uli authority and power, makes a comromise where he knows he should not W n order to maintain his own position | fiises vmiv Torego somethng v wmac ') ideally right which are yet based on| justice here. He felt himself demeaned, by his yielding up a Man whom he knew ‘ to be innocent to the jealous rage of |, His enemies. That was not Roman jus- | tice. : Notes. : Verse I.—lt was the life of Jesus that | the Jewish rulers desired. Nothing less || would content them. He had been a very great annoyance to them. They |, feared that even a life imprisonment | weuld fail to silence Him or His follow- : ers, but they had a great and unwarranted belief that His death would end all His power. : Verse 2.—Pilate wished to discover | what Jesus had to say on His own be- | half. Being a manager of men and accustomed to judge them, he probably | recognized at the mere sight of Jesus| that he had not to deal with one who | would be a danger to the Roman rule. He may have thought He had some religious impostor to deal with, but he soon discovered that, however visionary Jesus might be (and He was visionary in the sense of seeing far into the needs and destinies of the world), He was neither a fraud nor a fanatic, in the sense that implies lack of wisdom and self-control. To his direct question, “Art Thou IKing of the Jews?”’ Jesus gave what was in the language of the times a direct answer in the affirmative. His answer was equivalent to, “I am.”- Verses 3-5.— He did not rush on to explain just in what sense He claimed kingship, but left Pilate time to hear all the charges against Him and to discover their falsity. Verses 6-11.—Here we see something of the sort of compromises that Rome was willing to make in order to make her yoke seem light and so content those over whom she ruled. To pardon for the Jews some one worthy of death according to Roman law was a concession. As Pilate had evidently a very real desire to see Jesus set at liberty there is no reason to suppose that he put the pardoning of Barabbas as an alternative to the pardoning of Jesus because Barabbas was popular among the people. He would. naturally choose for his purpose some one who was unpopular, or who, according to the people’s own convietions, ought not to be pardoned; and every one must have felt that that was the case with Barabbas. Pilate’s appeal to the people seems to have come near to being successful, and it compelled the chief priests to stir up the crowd to back them in their demand for Jesus’ life. With these heartless, selfish rulers out of the way Pilate would very likely have got himself out of his diflculty without giving Jesus up to be crucified. But that was not according to God's plan. Verses 12-15.—Here we have no fairhanded justice, but insensate passion and mob rule. The victim was hated only for being good and for His plain spokenness upon the rottenness, religionsly speaking, of the leaders of the people. Pilate abdicated his power in favor of the mob. Nothing; no amount of selfexcusing, or of washing his hands, could make that right. Good Enough. “The best thing about my new waist,”’ began the gir] on the sofa—; then she paused as a peculiar pressure was brought to bear upon the aforesaid waist. “l w—was going to s—say something else,” she stammered, as she laid her complexion on his maniy shoulder, “but,” she added softly, “we'll let it go “ Mt"

X 4 v - IINDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. !— - - Feelimg Against Game Laws and Their Enforcement May Cause Death of Warden— Brother’s Death Foreseen J by Tracher - Old Murder Revived. Charles Benner of Syracuse, a deputy game and fish warden, was shot on a recent night while attempting to arrest fish pirates, who were spearing fish on Barbara lake. Several shots were fired and he was hit in the groin. The sur geons estimate that at least 100 shot took effe:t. Only half of these have been extracted and it is feared Benner cannot reccver. Residents of northern Indiana, expecially in Lagrange, Noble and Kosciusko counties, where arrests have been mo#t numerous, are bitter against the fish laws and the wardens. Several wardens have been shot at, and at a mass meéting in North Webster, held by citizens to express their indignation at the mauner in which the present laws were enforced, a game warden and two deputies were forced to flee for their lives. An effort was made to conceal the shooting of Benner. Foresaw Brother’s Death., Miss Itasca‘Unthang_l,g_“mgher in the Blwood city schools, says she was foretold of the death of her brother, Clare, which occurred in New Castle. Three weeks ago Miss Unthank thought of her brother all evening. He was in her mind when she retired. During her hours of slumber she saw him high upon a telephone pole adjusting wires. Then he fell to the cement sidewalk below, sustaining injuries which resulted in death. She told several intimate friends of her dreams. A few days ago she received a telegram notifying her of her brother's death and describing the accident just as pictured in her sleep two - weeks previous. Revive Old Mystery. Investigation of the murders a vear ago of Lewis Yeager and Francis Sutton at Hemlock, has been begun again, and this time the authorities believe they have a clue which will lead to the arrest of the guilty parties. Both young men were found dead with gunshot wounds in their heads, Yeager was killed first and the murder of Sutton came two weeks later. Bach had been calling on his swectheart in Hemlock the evening before the tragedy occurred, and the similarity of the crimes led the authorities to believe they were committed by the same person. At the time of the murders, two arrests were made, but the suspects were released. U=znearth Crime Years Old, Workmen engaged in the demolition ot a building at Plymouth brought to light 1 box containing two human skeletons. Reveral years ago a man named Jacobs and his daughter strangely disappearedy bafflizg all efforts to find them. It is now believed that Jacobs and his daughter were murdered and that their bodies were buried under the building to conceal evidence of the crime. State Items of Interest, Roy Worland, aged 17, was drowned while in bathing in Big Blue river at Shelbyville. C. W. Lovegreen, a Hammond grocer, was bitten by a tarantula while picking bananas off a bunch, and may die. marcues and was vurneu w Gratr e/i cennes, while his mother was away. On application by his father, Herb.el:t Gibson, 15 years old, was sent to Ja}l in Evanaville. He had persisted in drunkenncss. The enumeration of school children in Porter Couanty shows a total of 6,035, 3,103 boys and 2,932 girls. This is a loss over the last year of 104, G. H. Klopp, aged 50, of Minneapolis, Minn., committed suicide in Brazil by poisoning. He left a note st\yinf;: 2k cannot elimb the hill and wish to die.” James C. Barnes, a conductor at Valparaiso, in handling some iron scratched his right hand. Lockjaw developed and death resulted. He was 65 years old. Mrs. John H. Lott, wife of 'a wenltlfy jeweler at Goshen and prominent in church work, drowned herself. She hs}d become addicted to the morphine habit. While on his way to Adriaa, Mich., to close a settlement of his father’s estate, which would net him $20,000, Brant Roberts of laporte died on a railway train. As had been anticipated, the jury in the case of Louis Roth, the young man indicted for killing Charles Keeler, a miner in Boonville, returned a verdict of acquitt:#, and the young man, who liiul been at liberty previous to trial on §5,000 surety, was permitted to return to his home. Mrs. Albert Fulk rescued her husband from possible electrocution in South Bend, and in so doing turned a somersault in the street. lulk was hit(*hi.ng his horse when he came in contact with a guy wire charged with :_’,2oo‘ \’olts'nf electricity. Mrs. Fulk ran against him, breaking the contact., The shock sent her spinning into the street. IMulk, though badly burned, will recover. Matthew Meehan, who murderously assaulted three women and tried to murder the entire family of David Morris, made a remarkable confession in the (Circuit Court in Muncie. He stated th'at he had planned the murder of the entire Morris family as well as his own, objecting to Morris’ son courting his daughter. Judge Leffler straightway senterced Meehan to from two to fourteen years in the State prison. Meehan thereupon made a vow that he would serve his time, then return and commit the tragedy if he had to forfeit his life, W. H. Brown’s horse, which was suffering from tetanus and which Mr, Brown tried to cure by prayer, was chloroformed at the direction of Humane Officer Wilson in Indianapolis. Veterinarian Craig says treatment he prescribed was not carried out. Louis Howard of Chicago and George Johns and Joe Smith of New York drove a swiftly moving automobile into the curbing {u save the life of a child in the sn'ootAin Indianapolis. loward is at the Denison Hotel with his right arm broken in three places and his collar bone fractured. A fine flow of lubricating oil has bheen discovered at a depth of 208 feet on the farm of George Cole, near Chesterton. Much excitement has been caused and scores of the farmers in the vicinity are preparing to drill for the product. Mrs. Henrietta Meeker, who on April 28 geized the G-year-old daughter of J. | M. Saunders on the street at I.os Angeles and escaped in a cab, was found at the home of her mother in Indianapolis and taken to a police statios. She surrendered the child and was permitted to go free. Mrs. Meeker is a sixtur of Saanders’ wife, now dead, and claimed the mother gave the ¢hild to her en her deathbed.