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•m m FIl OUR TIE SELVES I ICH â-  rt of 'a,' ly than Dost 16 farni -•ell f.'.i nmro ikent<l, ro.peVly belli.' 1 l€p«ll(l- 1 stalks I© eVfT- ;s mi^t Even exp'xt- 1 r<»gu I Il< the whole story. The cloud Life is most truly described in the i';h the text speaks of as float- broad sense aa a great opportunity. [ idly ia the sky we have impris- That is the way Jesus looked at it. eti in our machinery and com- 1 "Treasure hid in a field," "A pearl Ikd to do mighty things. This cf great price," "Talents intrust- i.-jcity of fleeting vapor for en- |<:-d to servants" ; these are the sim- ;y and work well represents the [ iles he used. They all emphasize p«i;ity of the human spirits for th^e spii-ation and service. This con ler.. If; 'or tlio, 0. Bot- .wo* lie' Z.& and e. Pro should ius£ be ,, nJiire in than 80 fre- ; don't Bt give bo<Jy, ive «i;- neigh- g mjit- er pro- world I iessant lit aV.d y new ,t any- thalik 1. ploii e e man am tlio ir© do- of his e good much in y»iu movps 'ill net it pru- or his is tll<3 e civil-' effect,- \ny ,or > .janie <«.ck'of to th«; tutes man's greatest endowment is the life of every faculty and ta\nment. iir he-: roddct â-  ty- â-  rnting laiiiig have oUege j-ppur- hajve n thi> land ly tut id bed ill .to able; e ve n t !q Should Think of Our Responsibilities as -Our Opportunities. ?or what is your life? It is even v'apor, that appeareth for a lit- Yime and then vanisheth away, 'ames iv. 14. This is an apt metaphor with ich to represent the brevity and ancsceaoo of life, but it does not to himself, waking from bis half- dazed condition, and knew that he had really been released, by an angel sent from the Lord. And let us keep in mind the fact that back of the angel was that prayer meeting. Where did Peter naturally turn? To the house of Mary, evidently a rende/.vou.'j for the Christians. The apostle knocked at the door of the gate, the outer door of the entrance Man, like the vapor, will never passage leading to the inner court, do his best work except under pres^ : This was kept fastened, and just sure. A brook will babble until! inside was a small room for the it meets the dam, when it begins 'maid who tended the door. The to turn the gristmill. Without a sense of responsibility a man will develop no force of character. ELEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY. Life is, in short, the opportunity I to find our true self, and until we Scripture continually speaks of . jj^y.^ done that we can never hope n 'as a "vessel" or utensil which I (.,^, gnj the true God. If a man pends for its usefulness and g^Ja the whole world and lose him- rth upon the value of its con- gg.},f j^ profiteth nothing. For a tij. When noble ideals perish ^an can actually and permanently possess nothing except himself. Is a man entitled to say "I live" simp- ly because he eats and sleeps and r, Dcreit or im neai ' ^^ ^ysically well? A human life is n.s again to Us original liquid ; j^^^. ^^^^ complex. The. first reed pipe gave forth music, but its de- scendant, the great organ, gives forth melody. The complete life i.s one in which the religious or r life descends toward r^E LEVEL OF THE BRUTE, St. as vapor, bereft of its heat . m comparatively without value. Lite and action carried on in ac- rdance with true ideals will re- It' unfailingly in progress. Too ItfA the monotony of life con- spiritual note gathers into harmony mcs the energy which should go . ^^^^ ^^^.^j bringing them also into wprd the realization of our ideals, ^^^^ ^.jth q^ the source and d when we stand before the doors f^^jtain of fire, larse opportunities we are over- „ lao with fear and hesitation. 1 ADAM MACDONALD REOCH. HE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AprU 11. »3.ion II. Peter DeliTcrcd From Friiaon. Golden Text, Psalm 34 : 7. Introduction.â€" Between our last ssoa and this from four to six aVs have elapsed. What occurred ii»ing that tim-e? The founding of e. great Gentile church at Anti- h, and . the calling thither of description, according to Tristram, shows that it was a house of the better class. Who answered the knock? A damsel named Rhoda (meaning Rose). With youthful impetuosity, she was so glad to hear the beloved tones that she forgot to unbar the door, and left Peter knocking there while she rushed into the prayer meeting to tell the good news! Why were the disciples astonish- ed at this answer to their prayers 1 Because they had not expected the answer so soon, or in such a won- derful manner. Some of them, per- haps, had been praying with little real faith. V. The Open Door of Easter. "The angel left Peter, having ac- complished his appointment. But there was to be another time when Peter would want the visit of such a messenger ! And there will be a time when we also shall want it, when we sh.all have to go out from the prison-house of mortality, and from the world itself." -*- SMALL HENS LAY LARGE EGGS Great Success of IMninh Breeders' Mctitodsi. One of the most scientific at- tempts yet made to get at the lay- II. Prison and Prayer. â€" Verses ing value of certain breeds of hens 4, 5. What is implied by the clause, | has just been completed at Read- when he had apprehended him? That there had deen some delay and difficulty in arresting Peter. Where was Peter confined? In the famous prison in Herod's resi- dence, the fortress or castle of An- tonia. It was there that some think Christ was arraigned before Pilate, and there Paul was. taken when mobbed in Jerusalem. It immedi- ately adjoined the temple, on the northwest. How was Peter guarded? By four quaternions (hands of four) of soldiers, each quaternion being on guard through a three-hour watch. Tv,ro of the soldiers were chained to Peter's arms, one on either side ; a third was outside ing, England. The breeds experi-" STORED WITH TREASURES THROUGH THE AKCHIVES BUILDING, OTTAV/A. An Immensely Valuable Collection â€"Old Records â€" Indian Relics. The Arcliives building, which stands hard by the mint on Sussex street in Ottawa, is already stored with treasures of greatest literary and historical interest. The old records, carelessly stored in the top flat of the Langevin block, or hid- den away in the tower of the East block, formed the nucleus of what is to-<lay an immensely valuable eollectfon, arranged and indexed under a system so perfect that the archivist is able to place his hand upon a given document, map or engraving at a moment's notice. This miracle has been wrought by Dr. A. G. Doughty, Dominion archivist. OF AGE GONE BY. Dr. Doughty is adding constant- ly to his records. He has drawn largely upon the British War Of- fice, and has transformed torn and dust-covered mapa of old Canada, found in the cellars of Downing street, into plans that to-day are almost as perfect as when they first left tho ink-pots of the draughts- men-explorers of an age gone by. Within tho la.st five years Dr. Doughty has added to his store no less than five thousand original manuscript plans of Canada. He has upon his shelves four thousand volu'Ties of original military papers. Tlie Archives collection is as varied almost as it is rich. Hero you see under a glass case a tiny silver box filled with little paper disks. On each scrap there is a picture and a story, and the con rows turned by the ploughs of the men who settled on tlie outskirts of Quebec. The fences are there around the fields ; the heights are there, the river, the fortifications, the wharves, the houses and all the public buildings of the histoiic city. Tiny guns peep out of tiie embra- sures, match-like bits of wood â€" miniature timbersâ€" lie upon the quays, stacks of cordwood stand along the front of the lower town. You see the old Chateau Fronten- ac, the palace of that worthy gen- tle'nan, the Intendant Bigot, and jou see Le Ohien d'Or. It is Que- bec as pictured in those two books, curiously similar in material, the Le Chien d'Or, by Kirby, and The Se.T-ts of the Mighty, by Gilbert Parker. MONEY UNDER GLASS. Those persons who are interested INDIAN WAS GRATEFUL WHAT HE DID FOR WHITE MAW WHO SAVED UIS LIFE. Travelled 400 Miles In tho Wildciv noss to Bring Back Horns of u Sluoae. Indian gratitude has probably never been more sincerely proved than in an incident which recently occurred to James Oliver Curwood, tho novelist and writer of boy»' books, who returned from the Hud- son Bay wilds a few weeks ago. Mr. Ourwood is the author of "Tho Wolf Hunters," aa exciting tale of tho wild northland, in which th« m money will find money at the j author has spent so much of his Archives. It isn't money which a I time. It was while gathering ma- inodern coal dealer would care to terial for this story that he by tho accept, but it was the everyday merest chance saved one of his In- paper currency of long ago. It is dian guides, Mukoki, from severe kept under glass in the library, time-worn Niagara bills mostly, plain-looking probably, but service- able enough in their day and gen- eration. Their associates in Dr. Doughty's glass case are the warn injury â€" probably death. FOUND SKELETON. A few weeks after this, when Curwood and his two Indians wero on their return to civilization, the pum of the Indian and the letters bones of a huge bull raooso were of the men, English and French, j discovered, and near the bones of who helped lay the Canadian foun- 1 this moose was found the skeleton dation, letters upon which the ink rf a man. Tho story of the tragedy hq,» faded from black to yellow. Not the author only, but tho il- lustrator also, finds his raw materi- vvas plain. Tho unfortunate hun- ter had mortally wounded tho moose, and had been killed by tho the world. The following is tho estimated profit and loss account : Va!u8 Pruflt Braed Ilatctisd o( Hgsa per bird S 12 d Danish Brown Leghorns 1007 Danish White Leghorns 1907 Danish White Leghorns 1906 American White Leghorns 1906 British (Exhibition) White Leghorns .1908 6 4 Two striking results emerge. mentcd with in this year's trial^ tents of the little pillbox contain were five varieties of Leghorns, one | together a complete history of the of the two most popular sorts in â-  seven years' war. There you sec ' the real wampum and the quill seals of the aborigines, there the written reci rds of Canada's first settlers, the original document of the Company of One Hundred As- sociates. Here is a paper telling I of a St. Malo venture twenty-five 1 years before Champlaia's first voy- age. UNDER QUEBEC BRIDGE. On one of Dr. Doughty's tables rests a grim relic of the early wars, 14a cannon shot lately dug up from 12 1 7 11 8 6 8 11 10 6 10 It its long resting place twenty feet al on the shelves and in the files | animal. Naturally tho writer of the Archives. Pictures of one] wished to bring something of thii sort or another, of most of the men , wilderness tragedy home with hini. and places of note in Canadian his- Th,<^ remains of iho hunter were tory are to be found there. The buried, but the old and rotting gun system inaugurated by Ur. Doughty and the rplendid horns of the moose works in such a way that additions! wore carried along. After toting are constantly being made to the j the antlers for 25 miles it was rea- Archives. In the search for his-llized that they were too great a toiic data, the happenings of the! burden to pack two hundred miles present day are not lost sight of. , and consequently they were left They are recorded, and the records behind. filed and inde.xed for the use of future generations. ,i L.\.BRVDOK MOSQUITOES. INDIAN GOT HORNS. "I come get heem weh nsnow fall," said the old Indian, whoB« life the author had saved. Wp.pks and months passed, and back iij civilization Mr. Curwood forgot all about the horns. One day recently he received notice from the Detroit customs officials that arnabas from Jerusalem and Paul ^3, ';**^ 'j* u 'f ''^^ found once again that the heav- below the bed of the St Lawrence Oil! Tarsus. The famine, and tho^^^f i^/.'^^^^^^ fo Se strong outer ' '," *"« ^^^ ^^« '"^^^ *^« -*'«« ^''â- \'' --J"">1<^ t^^ --'k-^n exea to Jerusalem! _..?_ l^„..lfll„„„ n i i,„„... i ; duction sent nvno relief om Antioch. Why do we omit ose events for the present? In der to follow more closely the stijry of Peter. Days of Death and Danger. â€" orses 1-3. Whaii was that tiiuo, ben our lesson begins? The ring of A. D. 44, while the ©ifts described in chapter 11 were ccurring at Antioch. Who was uler, then? Herod Agrippa I., randson of Herod the Great, who lurdsred the innocents afc Bethle- em, and nephew of Herod Antipas on of Herod the Great), who uiidered John the Baptist. It as" his son, Herod Agrippa II., be- ra whom Paul made his famous efonse (Acts 22 : 28) What was the history of Herod Lgrippa I. ? He was born B.C. 10 nd' educated in Rome. Amid » ash and adventurous career, he ose through the favor of the Em ses.lf ero'r Caligula. Ho helped to set b.t- " other b^st best gate. Doubtless Herod knew how | iho apostles had escaped from the i prison of tho Sanhedrim (Acts 5 : | 10), and meant to keep Peter se- j curely this time. W'hy was Peter imprisoned, and I not executed at once? Because itj would have offended the Jews whom' he was trying to please, if he exe- cuted Peter during the Passover (that is Easter). Peter in Prison. Remember tho free outdoor life of a fisherman that Peter had always enjoyed, his im- petuous character that would not brook restraint, and the probabil- ity that he was the oldest of the apostles. Imprisonment is bitter to any man ; it must have been •doubly grievous to him. And yet, \ The British birds in thisjvating for tho piers of the Quebec case were more than a pound heav- bridge, and was presented to the ier than any others. Of the first' government by tho contractor, M. four varietit« on tho above list, | P. Davis. the lowest average for a pen v/as ! The Archives building has be- 142 eggs a year per bird, while tho 'come tho Mecca of the historians 5 pound English birds averaged : and tho story-writer. The old only 76 eggs each. I books of the V* rchives library con- A yet more striking result comes tain material for I'oniances innum- out in the consideration of-tho erable, and, moreover, the atmos- woight of the eggs laid. The Dan- phcre is there. Public reading Tertible Pest to Traveller.^ and Na- tives in the Northland. No account of travel in Labrador ; can be complete without some men- 1 , , â-  , , , • , j tion of the terrible pest of mosqui- ' ? package was being held in bond, toes. These were always present i I'^^^^t'pting, he found that they in immense swarms from the begin! «"« .^^^ "^^ '"'â- "3- Mukoki the ning of our trip to the end, ^nd' ^^^^^J'^hzed savage, had kept hia so.metimc3 they made life almost ^^'i' ^"^ ll^d travelled a full four uabearablo, writes a correspoiident hun<i'fd ^''"-'V? ^''f «''<le'-°ess to in Forest and Stream. , ^^ °- ^i-d act for the whit.3 man Nothing could be heard but their *'^"'",^« loved Ho sent no word, buzzing. Whenever we attempted' }'"^^ ^l": <;-^ception of four niches to eat they were down our throats >^'0'i<'of ^^'"^ P/^'lf' 1^'}'''''^ '''f ^' 'and in our eyes and faces and in I V^'f^^t sign. 'Mr. Curwood has spite of our head nets and fly dope dedicated his stirring book to this wo were always badly bitten. The natives seemed to mind them al- most as much as we did, their rem- edy being rancid sea oil. I am satisfied that were one so unfortu- nate as to bo caught out at night without protection he would bo either crazy or dead by inorniug. Our tents wore provided with a doubtless he rejoiced in this oppor- ish brown pullets yic/ldcd nearly six times their body weight in eggs during the twelve months, and each egg was up to the standard weight of 2 ounces. The British birds did not lay twice their own body weight and a third of the eggs were under the 2 ounce standard. The I>anes have arrived at this i result simply and solely by breed rooms are provided. PICTURES AND FLAGS. A valuable collection of pictures and (lags has recently been given to the Archives by Lfidy Caron, widow of the late Sir Adolphe Caron. One of these flags is that of the "Quebec Militia" of 1775. Anot'.ier is the flag of the 1st Ca- nadian Kegiment, which went . •. * 'Z^.'^'^'" Y/* ^'PP""- I ing enpecially for this purpose. The tunity to prove his oyalty to the .^1^, [^^^^ ,^^^,^ reached is the lit- through the Red River Rebellion Lord whom he had denied What is it to "pray without ceasing" (1. Thes. 6: 17)? We are told that we are not heard for our he -weak Claudius Caesar on the much speaking (Matt. 6: 7); but hrone of Rome (A. D. 41), and in that is simply a warning against eturn was made king of arfl Pales- ine,' where he reigned only about hreb years before he came to a vitt) a lorrtble end, as related at the th'ini ilose of this chapter. fe'<'<l, WJ\at was the policy of this eoiwli- lerpd toward the Jews? He tried f ccn- o do whatever pleased the Jews â-ºts.df V. 3). He liv:>d in Jerusalem. He r who ;ook pains to observe the minutiae their J,f Jewish ceremonials. He hung p in the temple the gold chain hich Caligula had given him. He as' only part Jew, and part Edo- itf, and greatly feared the people ng to irould hate him as they had hated proud Hei-«od the Great. At the feast of tab^ruacles in A. D. 41 he had read mo in \o the people the whole of Deutor- ail ..f ^noaiy, bursting into theatrical th.fr- itears when ho came to the words, in I ff j"Thou mayest not set a stranger :>{ t' c )ver thee, who is not thy brother." stoii'> ['he^eupon tho obs«quious popu- ot'nrr acef had cried, "Don't weep, Agrip- "eaji. jal- You are our brother." ate', Tho BUssings of Persecution. cart'- The- early church had many oppor- hcni; unities of realizing the blessings od ?v if persecution promised by Christ. whicti i'hat is the last of the Beautitudes, caro ,g ^f the climax of those heavenly • laradoxes; and iv is three times . ,s long as any of the others, as if • lui; Lord knew that it needed the • trpngeat emphasis. When men re- ir^ached them, reviled them, per- ecuttnl them, deprived them of all earth, they were still to have gdom of neaven, and great be their reward there. iW"hat would be that reward? Fellowship in Christ's sufferings. owship in one another's afflic- The purification of charac- Hr. The strengthening and beau- ♦t« 'P'y'"* '^^ character. Consciences ,,. |t peace. The knowledge of the •joniing triumph of their cause. fehrist's "Well done I" An eter- tity of bliss unimaginable. ed drill,; other could in a n pn f tk<. .tie lou you hero joy on ei the king las tu b nd I*"' ou r"- long prayers for show. Christ's parable of the importunate widow (Luke 18 : 1-8) shows his approval of impassioned, determined prayer, that will not let the angel £,o with- out a blessing (Gen. 32 : 2(5). Christ's own example in Gethse- mane shows how inevitable are re- peated prayers when the heart is strongly stirred. III. The Chains Fall and the Iron Gate Opens.â€" Verses 6-10. How long was Peter in prison? Till near the close of the Passover, when Herod would have brought him forth. Why was not Peter released ear- lier by the angel"? For the same reason that often causes a delay in the answer to our prayers â€" to test our faith and strengthen our char- actors by the endurance of afllic- tion. This waiting and the bearing of trouble, teach us patience, cour- age, hopefulness, cheerfulness, a-.d faith. What school has a nobler curriculum? In what way was Peter deliver- ed? He was sleeping quietly, like David (Psa. 3 : 5) when Absal 'in and all his foes pursued him. "b\,v so he giveth his beloved sleep," or "in their sleep" (Psa. 127: 2). It was in the last watch of tho nigh:, between three and six o'clock, for Peter was not missed at three, when the guards were changed, nor until sunrise vV. 18), when the guards were changed again. In this "darkest hour which is just before dawn" an angel of the Lord came upon him (stood by him),â€" a brilliant presence radiating light which filled the cell. Peter wa« sleeping so soundly that the light did not wake him, and the angei smote Peter on the side. IV. "The Lord Hath Delivered. " â€"Verses 11-19. What did Pet<>r perceive, when tho angol disap- peared thus suddenly? He cam* tlo henâ€" which • implies the small foederâ€" and the big egg MR. PORTLINGTON'S DISM.iY. Admonished by a Discovery, He Forms a High Resolve. "Within the last yoar or two," said Mr. Portlington, 'I've noted a growing- snugness in the fit of my garments. I go always to the same tailor and have my clothes made from the same measure, and so I came to recognize finally that I wag growing stouter. Certainly my clothes couldn't bo growing any smaller, made always from the same patterns, but I filled them out more. I was certainly growing plumper. " 'My good boy,' I said to myself, 'that's your good living, and grate- ful you ought to be with health and happiâ€" â€" and some slight port- liness.' I smiled when I thought of my having some plumpness of figure. "This morning to my dismay 1 discovered that I cannot cross my legs over quite as far as I used to. Yes, sir; that's what 1 mean, I found that I couldn't cross my logs over as far as I used to ; the leg that I used to bo ablo to throw clean over I now find stops of na- turally on the other knee ! In other words, without my having realized it. I have come to have more than some slight portliness of figure; I am getting fat I "This may not seom a matter of grave iraportanoo to you, but it is to me. The snuaness that before had made me smile now strikes me as a warning, and from now on there's a little more of labor and loss of good living for your Undo Portlington." •» For many years no ono has been married in Madrid on a Tuesday, it being oonsidored an unlucky day tker*. On the walls of the Archives building hsuig rare pictures of ol Canada. There is a colored engrav- ing of Toronto in 1840, another of Toronto in 1854, by Kollner, a German. There ia a picture of Quebec published within three months of the siege. The plan of the battle of the Plains of Abra- ham, handed Pitt by General Townsend, is iu the possession of tho Archivist. The maps which Dr. Doughty procured from the War Ofl[icoâ€" in which work Lord Minto gave him valuable assistance â€" had been long neglected. The work of restoring these maps is still in progress. Tho torn scraps are pieced together, mounted and cleaned, and are then stored flat in fireproof steel draw- ers, and kept under lock and key. BROCK'S SCARLET COAT. One of Dr. Doughty's prizes con- sists of the scarlet coat worn by Sir Isaac Brock in his last victori- ous fight at Queenston Heights. The coat was obtained from the Tupper family, and although well preserved, bears upon it the evi- dences of the struggle which cost the gallant general his life and lavod the country from invasion. Brock's military sash is also there. Away back in 1790 a man named Du Berger began to build in minia- ture the city of Quebec. He toiled for months and probably years be- fore he finally jiroduced the oW '•'ty and its surroundings in a model some 30 feet about, built to scale in overy detail. This model was sent out of Canada by Col. By, he who began the city of Ottawa, and was for a succession of decades in the possession of the British military authorities. It stood in the rotunda of the Woolwich Ar- senal. Dr. Doughty saw it, made up his mind to get it, and now he has it. MINUTE EXACTNESS. Du Borger perfected his model with minute exactness, even to the ttubbU in the fiakU and th« fur- faithful old Indian. 4. MOUNTAINS TH.».T SING. Wind Blows Throiish Groat Organ Pipes on ClifY. Singing and spciiking st^oncs grit- , , , , . . , , tify man's love of tho marvellous fine mesh bobbinet inn.y tent, but a„d mynterious. Two precipitious some would always find their '^y\chifs in tho Pyrenees are called the insid;' or come up from the ground i "snorers," "from the peculiar At tiir.cs our light so attracted goyn^j, ^..jg., the south-west wind them we went outside to see if it | ^j-aws from them. The faces of were not raining, for the constiant; ^hese cliffs aro marked by deep gul- tapping of the mosquitoes against ij^., which rouglily resemble organ the canvas sounded so exactly like pip^., opp^ ,„ f,.ont, and occasion- ram that It was impossible to teir ^lly the front is practically closed the difference. ., , , . by a stratum of air held motion- On many nights I had to give up i^^^ between the cliff and the trees the> observation ot stars for lati-L^-jji,.], g^.^^o jt „i,iic the wind tudo and longitude because a can- ^ji^^^s f,.(j3]y through tht gullies, of die could not bo kept lit long org-a,) pipg.^^ behind, enough to adjust the artificial hori- Qn another mountain in the zon. We unfortunately had no pyrcnoes certain clills emit plain- chimney and the mosquitoes j t;^,g sQun^g ^yhjci, resemble those of swarmed so thickly that without |_.^ ],a^i.p, and aro known locally aa this protection the flame was quick-; <<the matins of tho damned." Iv smothered. There wero but few rp, ^ ,„„„;^„i .t „„. „f tu^ r»« •. , , , 1 1 M J I iho musical st^jnes or tlio Urin nights cool enough to afford us any; . , , j u _i i u. „_ i ?. , , 1 i.u i i. -I noco interested Humboldt, and are rohcf; we found that t required I .^^j^^ ^j^^^ ^;^,^^^^ ^j_'^j,^ ^^^. s temperature wit,hin a ew degrees \-^^ ^f ^,,^ y,.;,,^^^^ ^j^j^ the Rio of actual freezing to subdue them, j^^^^^ ^^,^.^,, ,„,,a,i„„„ny ^imt at sunrise sounds which resemble the tones of an organ. The organ tones which are heard when the ear i.s laid on tho rock were caused by the outrush of warm air through the narrow fi.ssures which aro par- It is more than 100 ye*rs ago!tially obstructed by elastic layera that a French sailor living near of mica. Marseilles went up to Paris by dili- A sand bank about si.xty feet high gence, guarding with tho utmost I ii^ Hawaii produces a tone like that care two precious little flower pots j of a melod<>on when tho hand is in which he had specimens of a moved in a circle through the loose strango plant. His name was j sand. If tho observer stands with Pierre Blancard, and on his arriv- both hands in tho sand and slidea al in Paris, in November, 1808, he ; down the bank, the sound becomci obtained an interview with the Em- 1 louder and louder until it rcsom- SAILOR BROUGHT 'MUMS. French Sailor First Brought Chry- saiiihcuiums to Paris. press Josephine, who was devoted to flowers, among other things. Blancard had frequently sailed to China and Japan, and there had been struck by the beauty of the flower which was held in such high esteem in the Far East. He had the greatest difliculty in getting his specimens out of Japan and 'n bringing them home safely in tho slow-sailing vessels of tlio.se day.s; but he succeeded and managed to grow tho plant in his garden at Aubagne, a suburb of Marseilles The chrysanthemum has bles thunder, and alarms horses tethered near by. Each grain of sand i.s perforated by a narrow canal, which, as a rule, is closed at ono end. The sand is of volcanic origin. WONDER OF THE WORLD. spread over most of Europe, and is hold in almost as great este'^ra as it is in the Far East, where it wa/s known certainly as long ago as the ninth century before tho Chrii- tian era. In Europe there are many societies which aic devoted to the culture of the chr><-santhemum, hut To realize fully tho wondrout beauty of the Zambesi Falls, Rho- desia, one must have time to lin- ger and watch the ever-changing sc«>nc. The depths of tho chasm now I below aro veiled from sight by th* rising columns of opalescent mist, and above the yawning abyss tho sun glints and sparkles, weaving the drops into a magnificent rain- bow. Three hundred feet below roars and boils the swirling flood, as it emerges from the Boiling Pot, rushing on down tho zigzag gorgo probably tho growers will never al- between towering cliffs of rock, tain the splendid colors which dii narrow, fleroe, and of unfathom- tingnished the flower in China and able depth. One feels that Rho- Japan, and here in England the dcsia is indeod thrice blessed to gardeners would hardly know what possess within her territories the to do without it nowadays.â€" LoQ- Eighth Wonder of tho World.â€" Al« don Qlobe. 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