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I i The Creation is LoDging to See the Mani- festation of the Sons of God. For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck„ ds wavting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of Qod. â€" Eomans viii. 19. (New Testament in modern speech.) More good nmn and women â€" for this the creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, waits and longs. This is the energy of all moral effort â€" a steady supply of good men and good women. This 18 the steam which makes the en- gine move. In proportion to the extraordin- ary increase of our resources are ety meets, elects an influential committee, the influeatial conunit- tee meets, elects an able executive ; the able executive meets, carries pious rpgolutions, plana great schemes, goes home comfortably to dinner, lives happily ever after- vards and leaves two or three peo- ple to do the work. This world wouW he a better place to live in il the people who cany resolutions would go forth to carry them out and when they have ptauueu the work do it and aay nothing about it. They are not valuable ; they are we doing the good in the world that dangerous, harmful, destructive if they change the emphasis from the inner to the outward life. IMPROVED METHODS ARE GOOD, we ought to do 1 I doubt it. bte phen, John Ruskin once remark<>d, did not get bishop's pay for his long sermon to the Pharisees ; he only got stonea. Paul had no ca- , . , , thedral called by his name from .^'"t improved men and women are which to preach his gospel to the '»«tter, and the soul of improve- Roman world. When Auiustine n»*nt is the improvement of the and his noble monks landed at Ebbsfleet and met the English king between there and Canterbury there was no missionary soeie-tji and missionary press behind him. It seems to me that we ought to do vastly more with our numbers and wealth than men did WHO WERE FEW AND POOR. We leave the work to the machin- ery when we ought to do it our- selvea. All your machinery needs intelligent people to work it. iet we still go on discussing "methods" of church work or Sunday school work or something else ; and the underlying assumption is that there is one particular specific, all but infallible, "method" which, if we could only discover it, would do the work itself. This is preposterous. There are just as many methods as there are men and womep. There are as many good methods as there are good men and women and as many Bad methods as there are idle and worthless people. The great soci- . soul. Are you a better man to-day, ^ kinder to those about you, fairer MOSTHATEDPUNISHiMENT THE WHEEL-HOUSE, A CBl'EL DEYIl'E FOB PBISONEBS. Little Heat is Provided â€" Bread, Porridge aid Potatoes a/e the staples. Eight ounces of bread and a pint of gruel for breakfast and supper, even the toughest convict dreads is a "bashing." Thirty -six laahes may be given, and few men can keep consciouiness bayond twenty- four. The punishment over, the man is wrapped in a blanket soaked with salt water, and taken to the hospital. The birch is used as well as the cat, and almost equally feared. Next to a thrashing, the cells are K.e~ntucky*' the most dreaded punishment with- in a punishment. The man sen- tenced to solitary confinement is put on a diet of WOBTH KNOWIXG. STILL TO BE EXPLAINED MAST ABEAS OF THE WORLD ABE UNDISCOFEBEO. bread and suet pudding or potat<je3 | BREAD, WATER AND GHUEL. for dinner, not one morsel of meat : If he is noisy he is shut up in a for seven daysâ€" that is how a con- noise-proof cell, whioh is vict begins a sentence of bard labor. ' dark. During his ^second week he tastes | Third in the list of severe punish- meat but twice, on Mondays and â-  ment comes the wearing of irons. , ^. â-  ., - , • . â-  Fridays, and then only three ounces | In these a man must eat, sleep and *°*^ °**J''« *^°« ^* *5^ "^"^'i' ^°'^°^i A Few Items of Fact That Should Interest Yoa. The cotton factories in Lanca- shire spin enough thread in six sec- onds to go round the world. A care has lately been discover- ed in New Zealand which is larger | xha Tread of the Pioneer Is Stltf even than the Mammoth Cave of I Waited on Nearly ail the Contincats. Few people probably realize th« great areas on nearly all the con* Germany's colonies are five times as big aa herself, those of France eighteen times, and Britain's ninety-seven times. almost j*^* leaves being of marvellous thin ness. In Persia there are no distiller- ies, breweries, or public-houses. nt a time, says an English paper work, and even bathe, perhaps, for i '^"^"S ''^^T^f- J'^^V.: • , ' - ' f f . 1 When a dentist in China is ex- Evec after four months'^ when ! six months on end. These punish long-sentence hard-labor men are j ments are wonderfully rarely neces- : ^gsistant pounds days a pint of soup THE AWFUL WHEEL-HOUSE is the fate of the hard labor man. The "house" has four wheels, each wheel divided into compartments, so that no convict can talk to or to opponents in controversy, more , communicate with his neighbor, just to rivals in business, more ; Fifteen minutes on and five minutes anxious to render obedience to all jog jg t^e unbending rule. It is the claims of good citizenship, more ! cruelly hard toil for then novice, willing to go out to your way, take ; ^^^^,J ^jj-^ emjigss staircase, trouble make sacrifices to help, ^^.^ ^-alking upstairs for a quar- your church, to help good move-L ^ -^j ^^ ^^^^^ ^.^^^^^ stopping, ments and to help your fellows! If |^ ^ j , ^^^ ^^^ ^^ tracting a tooth for a patron, an at last put upon full diet, there is ; sary. The dread of being degraded \ Toin* tL^^i^^^'of \l Jatfenf. "^ btiU meats but twice a week and , from his class to the one below it â-  jhe same force which moves one of that four ounces only each time. ^ is the best weapon against the con- [ to^ ^j^ The rest of the diet is bread, por- I vict in the hands of authorities, ridge, potatoes, suet pudding, and \ No prisoner cares to risk this, or on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sati^- • run the chance of losing any re- '^ ' of sentence, be news to At the Strozzi palace in Rome t tinents which still await the trea4 there is a book made of marble, | of the pioneer. That there stiU remains plenty of scope for research op the face of the globe is bruughij vividly to the mind by a long and interesting survey of new and pro- jected exploring expeditions print' ea in the London Times. solt:h-east arabia. South-eastern Arabia is one ol the regions which await the pio- neer. Here, embraced within a line drawn north from Aden t« a smooth high-road will not, something is lacking, some di- it. Try it again after a brief five THE S. S. LESSON IKTEBNATIONAL LESSON, APBIL 18. vine electric spark which might. . . -, - , ,, ,1,: j „„j kindle in your heart the glory of ?'""*««. '«t and hen a third and the Lord fourth time. Try it after breakfast The machinery cannot be worked 'of ^^'^ a pound of whole meal bread without good men and women, so !"id a pmt of sticky gruel. There we have seen. But this also is true:i»s no possibility of rest, for if the The entire object of the machinery ! foot remains an instant too long IS to produce more good men and : upon the step it moves a^vay and women. All preaching, all praying, \ the ne.\t step scrapes the Aiu from all worship comes to this. Churches, j the shin. Small wonder that "two organizations, theologies are ever- years' hard' is a sentence which lastingly valuable if they help us to ' the most hardened crimial looks on keep our hands clean and our : •»ith dread. hearts pure, if they assist us to j As a matter of fact almost any do justly and love mercy and walk of them prefer five years' penal humbly before all that we can know , servitude to two of hard labor. The or think of God. food of a convict undergoing penal Rev. Charles F. Aked, D. D. servitude is hardly luxurious, but it â€" is better than that in hard labor persecutions that be had been in- P"*"""'. Breakfast consists of the flicting and knew all to well. On "f"*^ ?'»» "J ^ruel and half-pound the other hand, the radiant vision he "! ^"^^\ ^j", 1^*» ^f"';^ is better bad seen commanded his allegiance. t»»an the hard labor skilly. It con- It was a promise of ultimate vie- t^ins two ounces of oatmeal and tory. He would onlv be leaving the ^^'^ »n o"°ce of molasses, losing side. And Christ himself; There is meat on three days a had promised him (Acts 26: ift-lS) a. 'weekâ€" beef twice, mutton onceâ€" fivs notable part in the conquest of the ounces each time, and it is boiled world to Christianity, that he, blind with onions and vegetables. A as he was, should "open men's pound of potatoes is the dinner al- ey«3, and turn them from darkness lowance. to light." It was a terrible three- 1 ^gg SOUP IS GOOD, *^'2.'convwt^ to Christian Testi-'beipg made of beef, pearl barley mony (vs. 10-15, 20). What disciple; a°d "°i«°»- There is cocoa for sup- was sent to help Saul? His name P«''"' "''he very same quality as was Ananias. It is good to have ^^^^ '^'>"-''' j^ served to the navy. The whole meal bread is well move eight tons on a railway or Nejd and another eastward to th« thirty-two tons on a canal. j peninsula called El Katr, is aa Aeronauts have noticed that the, area of some 400.000 square miles. barking of a dog is the last sound It is largely occupied by the Roba some that, i they hear from earth, being some-eJ Khali, the "Dwelling of th« though the diet is everywhere the | times then at an elevation of four j Void." probably the most forbid- same by law, yet there is much ' miles. I ding desert on the face of the earth. the heaviest of any that is done by convicts. + FOUND AT LAST. A Poor Cobbler Who was Perfectly Content. choice in the matter of prisons, j A pigeon used by a Manchester j The southern border has been ex- Wormwood Scrubs seems the favor- 1 firm of mill-owners to carry mes-'plored, but the desert itself hai ite, for there, they say, a man can '. sagea from one mill to another has been untrodden except perhaps bjr live without being hungry. But â-  wved the firm $1,145 in telegrams hurrying Bedouins. Now G. W.| Portland and Princetown none like, \ during the past ten years. 1 Bury, an experienced Arabia* particularly the former. The keen I ^ bridal wreath in England is traveller, propose* to make an ex-| sea air gives the convicts an ap- i usually composed of orange bios- , tensive expedition into the un-^' petite which their food is never ; "o""- Germany uses myrtle, Italy known interior, examining ruina sufficient to entirely satisfv, especi- ! J^*""* â- "o^*- , ^pain red roses, I and buried cities on his way. ally as the work there is' perhaps ^"^^''^ vine^leaves, and Bohemia, j^- ^jg£,j, •^ r r rosemary. j Three hundred Berlin streets are In Tibet, Dr. Stein will follows planted with 14.000 trees, which Dr. Sven Hedin. "While the main; are said to represent a value of object â€" the search for the trea-! nearly 9200,000. About 1,000 gar- sures that have been buried foe deners and assistants are employed centuries under the ever encroach-) to take care of them. ing sand â€" is archaelogical, he re-j A public notice to the following gards geographical exploration a# Charles Frohman, the theatrical ' effect was recently placarded at of first importance. " man. talked the other day ai)out;Thirlstane, Tasmania: "I, Sarah Another problem is "that of th«( contentment. | Fitzpatrick, if not claimed by Fran- unknown stretch of the Lowe* "I don't work for money," he = cis Fitzpatrick in fourteen days, Brahmaputra, wiiich flows for lOOJ said. "The hardest workers never '"'ill be married again. â€" Sarah miles or more through the country* work for money. When did money i itzpatrick." bring content? j In Abyssinia it is the law that "You know the story of a satrap the murderer be turned over to and the Persian physician 1 A cer- : the relatives of the dead person, tain young and profligate satrap, ! aad they, if they please, may put «xb«\Mted alike in body and in him to death in the same manner mind, sent for a famous Persian ' in which the murdered person was ing for the same district from a physician and said :â€" ' killed. , ferent direction, was murdered oa " 'I have squandered my youth' ^ naturalist asserts that if the the Tibet-Chinese border. of the intractable Abors." An ad-i venturous Englishman, 'taking hit life in bis hands, is now on his wajn' through Assa-m bent upon solviny this problem. It is only a few dayt ago that Mr. Brooke, who was mak-, - - difJ Lesson III. The Conversion of SauL Acts 9; 1.80. Golden Text, Acts 9: 4. I. What Paul Was Converted from. â€" Verses I, 2. Why does the account of Saul's persecuting be- (fin with "but" ("and" in author- s^ja^ o^^ j^ redeem' that name. I i'Ue whole mea ized version)? To contrast it wit 1 pj^yi afterwards (Acts 22: 12) said naade, and of full weight. Small the propagating work of Philip, ! ^f 1^^,^ jij^t he was a devout man, I wonder that on this diet men fre fcuc piu^iogaLiUK wuiB. ui i iiiiiji, ! Qf (^,jjj jjjjjj (,p ygg^^ a devout man, wonuer mat on mis uicl iiicu ir«- coooicr a uoor. xuo uvusc »an uuuj â€" -".~ -•-• just described. And why is yet used ? | ij^y jq high honor by all the JewsUuently regain lost health, and the a hovel, and on a board before it, restaurant in Pai It goes back to the mad zeal of q, Damascus, in spite of his Chris-j death rate is only ten per thousand the cobbler lay asleep. Awaking! ^ew lork is 1 Saul against the Christians at the tjan profession. Moreover he was; â€"less than half that of the healthi- him. the satrap asked if it were skyscraper, wi time of Stephen's death (Acts 8: 3). That same thrftatenings and slaughter continued. Paul himself (Acts 86: 8-11) paints a vivid pic- ture of this persecution, which evidently involved the death of more than Stephen, and which fol- lowed the fleeing disciples far be- yond Jerusalem and even Pales- tine. II. How Paul was Converted. â€" Verses 3-7. How was Paul journey- ing 7 Perhaps on horseback, as usually represented by painters ; or on a camel, according to Canan Cook ; on an ass or mule, accord- ing to Felten. After a journey of five or six days, he was near Da- mascus, perhaps within sight of the beautiful city. What wonder stopped him in the way ? It was about noon Acts 22 : (6), and the Eastern noon is ex- ceedingly bright; nevertheless, there fell about Saul a light from learned in the lawâ€" precisely the 'est towns in the country. man that could appeal to Paul. I The work is not the hopeless toil 3. Converted to Sufferings (vs. of the treadwheel. Men are put to 16, 23-25, 29, 30). What very ' tradesâ€" tailoring and shoemaking strange motive for following him j principally. Many at Portland and j * did Christ present to Sault That Dartmoor work in the open air. he was to suffer many things for | Then there are various privileges, the sake of Christ (v. 16). These ^.ud even money, to be gained by sufferings began at once, in separ ation from his family, isolation from hie friends, the entire recast- ing of his life. It is to this period (the "many days" of v. 23) that we must assign the retirement into Arabia mentioned in Gal. 1 : 17, IS, which lasted three years â€" at U-ast one full year and parts of two others. 4. Converted to the Divine In- dwelling (vs. 17-19). How did Ana- nias obey the vision? By finding Saul, laying his hands on him, cal- ling him Brother Saul in token of his admission into the Christian brotherhood, and telling him that heaven that was brighter than the the same Jesus that had appeared •un (Acts 26: 13), and in the midst ,„ the way to him had sent himself, of It he saw the glorified figure of that Saul might receive his sight Jesus (vs. 17-27). III. M'hat Paul was Converted to.â€" Vs. 8 30. At least five results of Paul's conversion are indicated in these verses, which may best be studied from this point of view, 1. Converted tc Lowliness (vs. 8, 9). How is that shown t By what immediately followed. The com- pany with aul, in spite of their; and to sonvethiug else, amazement, arose and stood (v. i ^y^ have seen, turned and be filled with the Holy Ghost. Two great gifts â€" the greatest in the physical and the spiritual realms. IV. Have we Experienced This Great Transformation? â€" That is the question for us as wc close this lesSou. "Conversion" means "turning." It implies turning from something, Paul, as (1) from 7, before he did. Paul's eyes had ^ pride (intellectual and spiritual) to been close^l, and when he opened the, lowliness, a humble following of bds, he perceived to his horroi- that he v.-as blind. I What vi'as the outward sign of; this new lowliness? That he was! led by the hand, and thus brought! . . . into Damascus. What a con- ! tra&t to the entrance he had I planned ! I How did he spend the next three j days ? In helpless blindness, so ab- 1 sorbed by his new situation that, worldly power he could neither eat nor drink. ' What did his new situation in- volve ? If he yielded to what he now clearly saw was the truth, and proclaisted him!<elt a Christian it ir.esnt the loss of his former in- fluence and power, ihe surrender <->f his onibitions and hopes, the giving up of his lamily and liis wealth, beccaiing » despised outcast, him Jesus and co-operation with other j Christians ; (2) from violent oppo- good behavior and hard work A convict on arriving is placed in the probationary class. He can earn eight marks a day. If he has 720 marks at the end of his first year he gets into the third class. He then has black facings on sleeves and collar, he may write and receive one letter in si.x months, and receive one visit of twenty-one minutes in the same period. He is also able to earn a gratuity of one shilling a month. If at the end of the second year he has succeeded in earning 2,290 marks, he passes into the second class, distinguished by yellow fac- ings. He may now send and get one letter every four months, and receive three visits during the year. Another 2,920 marks, and be passes to the first class, IN BLUE-FACED DRESS. A letter may now reach him once in three months. He may look for- ward to a forty minutes' visit once in the same time. A year before a penal servitude prisoners' discharge he may pass into the special class, with all-blue uniform, tea instead of cocoa, and â€"greatest treat of all â€" roast in- stead of boiled beef. Many men in riotous living. My frame is en- farth were birdless man could not feebled like an old man's, and my inhabit it for more than nine years, mind disordered with remorse and: All the sprays and poisons in the horror. Can you help me?' | world would be quite inadequate "The Persian physician, looking to keep down the insects, which gravely at the palo "satrap, answer- would eat up everything. ed : ! A fox can scent a man half a " 'You have but one hope. Go pil« away if t.'ie wind be blowing forth and find, if there be such, a in the animal's direction. A mouse perfectly contented man. Persu- <an smell cheese 50 feet away. A *de this man to exchange shirts deer may be sound asleep and yet with you, and you will straightway ho will catch the scent of a person be strong and happy again.' I passing 200 feet off. 1 "The satrap set out upon his A poulterer in the Rue Mont-' search. He travelled many months martre. Paris, who makes a speci- in vain. But at last he heard of^a'ty oi game of all kinds, is selling a cobbler who was said to be abso-'* dromedary and two kangaroos, lutely contented. He expects, he says, to see camel "The satrap came at last io the'<*utlets and kangaroo steaks as' cobbler's door. The house was buti^t^ins on the bill of fare of everv Paris. j to have another th towers which true that he was quite contented, bave forty-six and forty-seven and the cobbler, with a laugh, de- j »'?,^y» respectively. The building l^^^ ^j^, curiositv still hovers clared that rt wa. | Vill ha^•e a tower of sixty-two ^^^/^h^^ ^^^ ^^^,1 .^rroundecl " 'Then,' said the satrap, 'I have «torej-8 with a main building of ^^.j^h a veil of mvsterv " boon to ask at your hands J* | ^^^^-'^^f J. "hT k ' "tu" '^- """ ^' 1° ^^^ '""^h I'olar'area Lieut. 13 that you will exchange shirts!0>er 900 feet high. This 13 «asily : Shackleton's expedition is still at with me. For thus, a wise physi- ; a record. ^^^^ ^y^^^ ^^ ^^^ accomplished cian has said, I may become strong! tn one of ttie excavated ceme- ..-«-. ANOTHER ATTEMPT. Several African expeditions ar« planned, some of considerable mag- nitude, but, as the writer in th« Times remarks, "one might walk over any part of Africa now with- out meeting with adventures, un- less, indeed, one provciked them." Eut Mr. Virschcr will mak? another attempt to reach the Tibesti high-, lauds, the practically unexplored mountain range which runs for! some TOO miles north-west from' Dar Fur into the heart of the Sa-' hara. WORK IX SOUTH AMERICA. More pioneer work perhaps re-; mains to be done in South .Ameri- ca than in any other continent, for here "probably some 2,000,000, square miles are still unexplored."' But after all "it is around the Polar regions more than elsewhere and contented also.' "But the cobbler shook his head. " 'Most cheerfully would I grant your request, youag man," he be- gan, "but ' " 'Nay, nay, deny me not,' the satrap cried. 'I will pay you any sum that you may name.' " 'I seek not your gold, youth,' said the cobbler, 'butâ€" but ' •• 'But what?' " 'The truth is, I have no shirt.' " I teries in Egypt the bodies of many pet dogs have been found. One of the animals had ivory braoelets round its legs, while several had collars of twisted leather, one with a leather lead attached. The teeth of many of the do|s were in a no- ticeably bad condition, the result of idleness and unhealthy luxury. A man named Robert, who was turned out of his house on the out- skirts of Paris in October, has camped out with his family under a bridge, and has placed the muni- cipality in a quandary. The pre- I cannot be known until March or, ' April, when it is hoped that th* Nimrod will return to New 2Ie»- land, either with the expedition oa board, or with the information that Shackleton has decided to continu« his work for another year. Mean- while Dr. Charcot in the Pourquoi Pass has begun his jeuterprise oa ; the Graham Laud side of the Ant- arctic. kition to Christ, to the boldest and ! gay that the everlasting diet most persistent testimony for Chri.«t ; (3) from a lite of author- ity and ease, to a life of persecu- tion and suffering ; (4) from tho emptiness of worldly wisdom, to the unfailing guidance of the Holy : Spirit; (5) from the weakness ofi to the invimiblc \ strength of the Spirit. Such a; turning is made by every true con vert. of boiled meat is one of the worst parts of their punishment. The craving for a chop or a sausage be- comes simply terrible, and lasts long after the desire for tobacco has vanished. Penal servitude convicts niav also WHAT IS THE NEXT STOP? In New Zealand an automatic device has just been patented for telling railwsy passengers the name of the next station. The names of ,„ ._„,.,, „,.,._„,,^ the various stations are printed on | nor moves TromTis position a roll, which is rotated by toothed wbeels. A "tripper " is placed, either on the track or by its side, between each station, and this is po adjusted as to strike a fiver on the passenger car. The motion is communicated to the toothed wheels governing the roll bearing the station names, and the ringing cf an automatic bell announces to ROYAL EDirORIAL OFFICES. name view. of the next station is on feot of tho department has even Uis Majosiy is a Great Newspaper offered him a house, but Robert Reader. Most people are aware of th« multitudinous duties of King Ed- ward, but it is not generally known that there is a department in each of the Royal residence* which approximates to the newe- room of the daily paper. Here newspaper items from the great journals of the world are "cut" by newspaper men. say, for reports I'f nows dealinjf with the higher n- : spheres of politics, foreign affairs, of, and a myriad other topics, alike says no. He cannot be arrested for vagrancy, because he neither begs SPECTACLES FOR HORSES Used When Youug, They Produce High-Steppers. j The business of one well known firm of opticians in England cot the passengers the fact that the'^'sts largely in the manufacture 01, and a myriad other topics alika spectacles to promote high step- cf interest to the King and 'his ro- ping. They are made of stiff lea- ' sponsible advisers ther entirely- closing the eyes of j His Majesty is a keen man of af- the horse, and the glasses used are, fairs, and probably the best-in- deep concave and large in size. The formed monaicu in the world Even , , â-  ,^ . -J »i ,. • ground seems to the horse to be , when on n. «r<*<-in1 i<- of robbers. It is said that in some , ^^j^^, ^„j he step, high, thinking ' *''*''*' '' parts the people are really afraid he is goiug uphil! or has to to go to rest at u.ght, inasmuch as ^^.^,. «„„,« obstacle. This CANTON FULL OF ROBBERS Canton, China, at present is full ; step system . ,. ' ! of spectacle is geaerallv adopted According-, ^hile the horse is young, and Thcrw are 150 firemen on some of the larger Atlantic stcai'ners. It is estimated th,it the Kaffirs steal 81,250,000 worth of diamonds ter and rob the place, -------o ^ w„ne tiie iiorse is voung. and its l.y some one sits up, while others ^^^^^ ^„ his step and action is said sleep. Tho following 1, a queer ,^ he remarkable. It has been dis- ..in n.n iW Ki ,' .u ' *=''*"â- "'"' °J J^^^i^ \ P"^'*^' ^l * covered that the cause of a horses gam considerable remission of their 1 correspondent : \\e have a police hying i, as a rule short sight, and sentences by good conduct and hard j force, whose work consists mostly ;. -^ »^^. ,, ted that the sight in sleeping at post or helping the:^f ^„ horses .hould be tested, like nea.est shopkeeper to chop wood ^ ^hat of children. or a neighboring blacksmith to blow his fire." work. Hard woik pays in every way, for a clever, handy man may got the greatest coveted job of cook or cleaner, or even of gard- ener, which is the biggest prize of all. The governor of a prison has, 0! â- -+- -• Teacher -"If you are kind and In Abyssinia, the wife is master. ; polite to your playmates, wh.<»t will' Tho ho'Jse and its belogiiigs arc every \ car from the Kimberlcy dia-jrour^e, po^er to punish refractory jbt tho result?" Rflul.irâ€" "They'll liei.i, and. if her husbaiid (.floids •eli subject to the same perils and mo.id miues. | prisoners. The punishment which think they can lick me 1" her, slia can turn him out. ourney, bis news- papers are set out on the table in lu.o saloon carriage for his perusal, and the morning news finds no more oinnivo'-ous reader. In the Royal work-rooms cutting* and reference* are carefully pre- served in special books, and in- dexed for future references. King Edward's editorial offices, as w« may call theTD, are the b~«t or- ganized of all, though those of thV Kaiser, at Potsdam, run them very ilose. Now-a-days, however, every Court has an intelligence departs. Mient attached, and its «ul,tifariom «uties provide plenty of work for Jvyal mc'sengors and other laeia^ â-  l««tB u£ tit* cbufid«ati»l ataff*^