The Puiot A SERMON ax tAi R.m-, Kubjccfc The Man Jpti. Brooklyn, N. Y. Preaching at the trvtnn Square Presbyterian Church on the theme, "The Man Jesus," the pastor, the Rev, Ira Wemmell Hen derson, took as his text John 12:21, "Sir. we would see Jesus." He said' Let us go with these certain Greeks of whom John bears us record and aee Jesus. Down the long perspect ive of the ages let us look at Christ, the man. A study of the career of the Sa vior will Indicate two central and crucial elements in His character as a man. Jesus was a man of parts; He was also a man of power. The Lord was not a negative being. He had definite ability and the energy to pnt His gifts Into direct achieve ments. The Christ was a man of parts. As philosopher He Is peerless; as a teacher He can teach us all the way to teach; a preacher to mankind His messages convince. His ministry Is a present and a constant joy to the weary and a sweet remembrance to heart and soul allk". Jesus was a man of power. His spirituality is unsurpassed. Hit goodness is the godly kind that we admire. His sincerity makes the heart sure; His commanding posltlve- ness is refreshing. His constancy Ml sublime. Jesus was a man of parts. In His I clear and comprehensive statements i of eternal truths He stamped Himself philosopher without an equal. To Him God was the first great cause the personal, spiritual giver and ruler of all life, For Him union with j the will of God In a holy, godly life Is the highest good for men and for ' society. In the mind of Christ sin is i disobedience to the will of the Father i and its wages is deliberate separation from Him that Is to say, death. The things that arc spiritual are the only things that last unto eternity, and it was to the attainment of eter- I nal graces as the end of human exist- I ence that Christ turned the attention I of mankind. A glance Into the, depths And ranges and reaches of human thought and experience that His many messages touch will convince any man. however skeptical he may be, of His predominant position among this world's philosophers. Jesus Is markedly a teacher as He unfolds and explains the mysteries of divine verities. With the simplest language and the most charming par ables Jesus sent home changeless truths. Does He desire to show the uselessness of trust in riches He pic tures to us the rich man with his barns and his bank and the wreck thereof. Under His touch the leaven In the loaf reveals to us the men and the women we should be. He lights a candle for us, and we strive to spread His truth throughout the globe. The supper of the mighty lord sends us out into the highways and the byways to bid men lay fast hold upon salvation, free, rich, suffi cient. As a teacher ChrlBt Is master ful. He takes a mustard seed and we see the coming of the kingdom. 'A man hides a talent in a napkin and stands forever as a danger signal be side the king's highway. The foolish virgins are a lesson to us to be ready for the coming of the Master These and the rest of the parables of Jesus are full of suggestion and of Implica tion, weighty with concentrated prin ciple. Jesus taught spiritual and moral principles. He was not foolish enough to endeavor to give to us a set of rules which should be for us a sort of guide book or directory. He gave no set of statutes. Realizing that we are men and not automatons our Lord suggests tho principles and then leaves the Individual to work ont for himself dnder the guidance of the Spirit of God the application of the principle of his own life. Christ didn't worry about the geographical situation of Judea or over the ques tion as to whether the world is flat or round. Those points at issue were quite beyond His province. His mis sion was to teach spiritual and moral truth, and He had neither time nor taste for anything else. Why should He worry over secondary and tran sient matters when the souls of men were In dire need of that primal truth which is necessary unto eternal life'' Jesus also taught with authority. He knew that the truth was In Him and He let no man contradict Him with success. He spake, and to those men be lieving and unbelieving it came as the voice of God. The honest heart ed believed unto salvation; those who didn't want to accept His truth eent Him away la scorn and crucified Him at tho last. The Jows sent Jesus to His death not because they did not realize the force of His words but very largely because He spake too much truth to suit them. Some ono has said that there is no more hazardous task than that of carrying the torch of truth into those hidden recesses where tho light has never shown. Jesus found this to be true. Christ's application of His theories to the. needs of every day and His positive lnslstance upon the legiti macy of the demands of godliness and ultimate truth upon the lives of all men are the secrets of His mar velous power are a preacher. He not only preached abstract theory but also showed how theso ideas could become factors for uplift in the busy lives of men. The duty to love God and to serve the truth was not with Him a mental problem, but a fact of life. Christ never minced words. He knew that which He was after, and He never failed to make His hearers see what He meant. Vivid, direct, without a waver, Christ sent home the truth. And it was this that gained Him both friends and enemies, as It will any man who darei to state the truth men either cannot soo or will not hear. What a pro phet He was and oh, what a need there is to-day for men who can see and feel, for men with Insight and provision, men who dare, to probe the present and the past and to pre-i diet the future, fearlesoly, ldsplrlng ly. with God-given wisdom and divine xonl How sick we all are of that popular preaching of the day, which s aimed in where and hits nothing whose main and prevailing character istic Is that It is Inconsequential and flabby, effeminate and devoid of the bower men should show. The wlnsomeness of the ministry of Jesus is a fact that merits our at tention The love that flowed from His heart, the tenderness of His voice, the sympathy that rushed with out ceasing from His soul, the heal ing virtue of His band, all these stamp Htm as a minister who can teach us bow to aid men best. The Lord was a man or power. Power is to ability what electricity is to a dynamo. A man of parts must become a man of action bpforo he is of much use Tho world is full of geniuses who are Impotent. They cut no figure In the life of their dny simply because they lack energy and force. Jesus was a man of many powers. His spirituality 1s unsurpassed. He had a right basis for His philoso phy and His life. He had the right point of view, and thus 61 necessity saw things In their right relations. His spiritual philosophy colored all His mission, messages and ministry, and gave Individuality and peculiar meaning to His words and deeds. Christ began right. He put God at the centre of His system of life and of course all went well with Him. The insight of Christ and His spirit ual sense are our need. Jesus was a good man, and good ness Is greatness and power. Christ was no sickly sentimentalist, but a good man In the best sense of the word; that Is to say, He was a godly man. He was a clean minded, pure heartPd, noble acting man, and no matter what may be the mental or material abilities of any man, if he be not good he cannot hope to be most of use. Godliness must be a characteristic of any man who would mold a lasting and revered memory. Christ was not mawkish. You know how He dealt with the problems of the shew bread, the ears of corn, the man who waited to be healed. He was straightforward and more than conscientious. He was constructive ly, progressively, cumulatively right eous. He moved ahead. He was kind, true. pure, noble that Is to say. good. Meanness was beneath Htm. The truth was His glory. Cleanness of Ufa was the sign of His Inward grace. He was a gentleman, a true nobleman. He was an aristo cratic democrat, who showed His birth and His breeding in His man ner. Jesus was sincere. He was not a patch work, but a whole pattern. He leveled to any plumb. He met speci fications to the letter. There were no weak spots, no faulty places In His life glazed over wi;h pretended char acter. Jpbus was a whole, whole some, well rounded man. without de fect whatsoever. His sincerity in spired trust, for He lived the sort of life He asked other men to enter. Kvery one knew and knows Just where Jesus stood with the right always. Jesus was positive. He didn't suppose or guess or Just think. He knew and was sure. His knowledge was from personal twperlence and i' was power. Because Christ Is dead certain of what He sneaks about we hall Ulm I ,ir,l A n A An mm ivlch trt 1 lead othe.- men to Him we must also speak with conviction out of personal knowledge. But constancy was not the least of the Savior's powers. Jesus was no quitter. He was not a prey to dis couragement. He had lalth and to last. He stood squarely with the Is Bue and the cau.se He represented at all times and In all seasons, through thick and through thin, through good and evil report. Christianity needs more of such Christliko con stancy. Constancy means pluck, en durance, courage against and in tho face of odds. Inconstancy is the child of lack of faith and it breeds failure. Jesus was a man of parts and of power. His facility for various work needed a man of power. Jesus was a genius and a hard laborer. He had inherent ability and a fund of force fulness. The world is full of gen iuses without power. Tho list of un known saviors is large. Jesus had talent and the real, vital spiritual power that could make talents pro ductive. He had the right kind of energy and enough of it. He got IHb dynamic from God. That is where we should apply for ours. APRIL TWENTY-EIGHTH. Foreign Missions; Christ In the Con tinent of Asia. Iss. 49:8-13. A picture of Idolatry. Jer. 7: 17- 20. Shamed by hyprcrlts Hatt. 23: 13-15. Faith shown by works. Jas. 2:14- 13. Constrained by love. 2 Cor. 5:11- 15. Weakness no excuse. 1 Cor. 1 : 26- 31. Our gold for Him 1 Chron. 29:3- 5. The nations without Christ may all be called "the bound nations." Kvery foreign missionary society Is a Freed- men's Ruroau. Half thp world's population is on the continent of Asia, and probably half of these never know what It means to hnve their hunger complete ly satisfied. Many have indeed come from Chi na, tho land of Slnlm. to our own land. How are we using that glor ious foreign missionary opportunity? There may lie some singing and some joy In a Chrlstless land, but the permanent Joy and song nre only when Christ ramcs. Mission Notes from Asia. One of the most hopeful signs of the times Is the new National Mis slonnry Society of India, an Interde nominational organization to evan gpllze the country by native Christ ians. One of the first missionaries sent nut by tlio American Hoard wrote n Ipaflet on the claims of the people of Asia for missionary aid. A young physician, Dr. Scudder, read the tract by chance while watting to see a patient. As a result, the Bcuddsf family have given to Indln 30 mis sionaries and r,29 years of service. Mohammedan. i can be converted. A single organization, the Church Mis sionary Society, has 8,noi) native Christians in Bengal, and 6,000 of these nro from Mohammedan fami lies. The Tibetan "Bible" fills 333 vol umps. but it tenches only a very cor rupt kind of Buddhism. One of the most Important events In Chinese history is the substitution of a modern for the ancient and ab surd system of education. The plonper missionaries to Japan are still with us. When thev began work there were no Christians in Japan and Christianity was under the ban of the government. Now Japan has about 45,000 adult Protestant Christians. Little Sins. The little faults, the little sins, so called, which may seem bo inconse quential, may, nevertheless, hide from us the vision of the Eternal. You need not break the glasses of a telescope, or coat them over with .paint. In order to prevent you from seeing through them. Just breathe upon them, and the dew of your i breath will shut out. all the stars. So j It does not require great crimes to hide the light of God's countenance. Little faults can do It just as well. Take a shield and cust a spear upon It, and It will leave on It one groat dent. Prick It all over with a million little needle shafts and they will take the polish from It more than the piercing of the spear. So it Is not so much the great sins which take the freshness from our conscience, ai the numberless petty faults which we are all the time committing. The Only True lU-ligion. Mon talk much about "practical re ligion," but differ greatly as to what It comprises. Many limit It to benev olent gifts and kindly ministries, ot to public religious services. But It is more. It Includes a personal faith in Christ, holy communion with God and a pure life. There can be no real and abiding practice of Christianity without a renovated nature and a sanctlfled heart. Presbyterian. True Peace. "i know that God is near, to ieel that you are acting toward Him lb a reverential and affectionate child, and that He is feeling toward you as a gracious and compassionate Father this, thiB is peace. Hamilton. Episodes in the Career of Gordon Cumming, Greatest of Lion Hunters EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, APRIL 28. Opened Doors (1 Cor. 16. 9) Missions Passages for Reference: Luke 14. 21:23; Acts 8. 4-6; 14. 27; Phil. 12-18. Our Scripture references tell us of the spread of the kingdom in the early days of the, church. Paul writes that a great door is opened to him In EpheSus, which prevented his com ing to Corinth. In the persecution that arose when Stephen suffered martyrdom the believers were scat tered, but as they went they preached the word. Philip went to Samaria, "And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the mir acles which he did." God wonder fully openod the way for his Word. As a basis for our faith In his leader ship. It would be wonderfully helpful to any chapters that have not taken It up to study the course laid down for "Studlts in the Apostolic Church." The Acts of the Apostles will mean more than ever before. We are many who, while they be lieve that God had something to do In the opening of doors in tho early church days, are hardly ready to ad mit that he doeB tho same thing now. But these are people who are not posted on the modern missionary movements. Some time ago the bur den of the prayers of the most ag gressive of the church people was that the doors of the non-Chrlstluu world might be opened to allow the Word of God to enter. The hatred ! of anytWIng foreign was so strong that the doors of the nations were tight closed against the message of peace. The strongest proclamations were posted against those who es poused, the cause of Christianity. After the apostolic age the doors of the world seemed to shut against the church, but in the days referred to the church besought the heavenly Father to swing them open again. Marvelously did he reward their prayer, for the doors have swung open. They are standing open but the church la not entering them as rapidly as she ought. God answered prayer beyond all that men asked or thought. The name of Gordon Cumming is, to the popular mind, perhaps the most familiar In the annals of Afri can sport. To middle aged and eld erly people he Is still the lion hunter, par excellence, of South Africa, the very type and ensample of those ad venturous Nlmrods who have earned their fame In the wilds of many coun tries. The second son of Sir William Gordon Cumming, of Altyre, Roua leyn Gordon Cumming was born in 1&20. After a brief period of soldier ing in the Madras Cavalry, the Royal Veteran Newfoundland Companies, and the Cape Mounted Rifles, Gordon Cumming, always a passionate lover of sport, became so enamored ot the life of the hunting veldt that he re signed his commission in the Cape Rtflus and for the next seven years devoted himself with Irresistible ar dor to the pursuit of South African great game. Few hunters ever had greater success. He slew every va riety of quarry to be found between the Cape und the Limpopo; many a grim Hon, scores ot elephants and rhinoceroses fell to his rifle. His athletic figure, clad as often as not In a flannel shirt, a Highland kilt and a broad brimmed bat, with bare, brawny arms and legs, and red beard, became familiar at many a Boer out span and homestead and In many a native village. One of tho most un conventional and picturesque heroes of the good days In South Africa, Gordon Cummlng's strong personal ity and daring feats will remain al ways enshrined in tho annnls of South African pioneers. Tho great hunter made his flrBt real appearance In the veldt hi 1843, when ho shot many a head of gatno on the northern plains of Cape Colony, between Coles berg and tho Orange River. Spring bucks In tens of thousands, black wilde-beest, quagga, blesbok and gemsbok were here met with, and' many a fine trophy fell to hla rifle. Pursuing his way steadily north ward, Cumming crossed the Orange and enjoyed much sport, shooting many varieties of game hartebeest, brindled and white-tailed gnu, koo doo, Burchell's zebra and. roan ante lope. Mighty herds of blesbok. al moBt as Innumerable as springbok, were seen. Gordon Cummlng's first adventure with a lion happened In this wise. In the Grlqua country now Griqualand West. A lioness was found devour ing a blesbok. At first she sallied out at her disturbers, but thinking better of if, started at a smart canter for a range of hills. Mounted on his good horse, Colesberg, tho Highland er spurred briskly in chase, and, find ing herself overhauled the lioness Bubsided to a trot and presently sat up on her haunches like a dog, with her back to Cumming, appearing, as he doscrlbes It, to say to herself, "Does this fellow know who he Is coming after'.'" Now Bho sprang to her feet, and, showing her teeth and growling fiercely, made a short run forward, making a loud rumbling noise like thunder. Finding she could not Intimidate the hunter, she quietly lay down. All this, It Is to be re membered, happened upon a bare, open plain. There was no escape, one or the other must go down. The Hottentots came up and Cumming arranged that one of them, Kleln boy, wa3 to hand him his spare rifle in case his first shot proved insuffi cient. By this time the men were in a precious stew; their faces assumed a ghastly paleness. The lioness ran forward, and "I had," he says, "a painful feeling that I couli'. place no reliance on them. Now, then, for it, neck or nothing! She is within sixty yards of us and keeps advancing. Turning tho horse's tail to her, I knelt on one side, and, taking a steady aim at her breast, let fly. The ball cracked loudly ou her tawny hide and crippled her in tho shoulder, upon which she charged with an ap palling roar, and, in the twinkling of an eye, was in the middle of us. At this moment Stofolus' (a Hotten tot's) rifle exploded In his hand, and Klelnboy, whom I had ordered to stand ready by me, danced about like a duck in a gale of wind; the UonesB sprang upon Colesberg (the horse) and fearfully lacerated his ribs and haunches. I was cool and steady and did not feel In the least nervous, having fortunately great confidence In ray own shooting, but I must confess that when the whole affair was over I felt It was a very awful situation and attended with extreme peril. "When the lioness sprang on Coles berg, I stood out from the horse, ready w'.th my second barrel for the first chance she should give me of a clear shot; this she quickly did, for seemingly satisfied with the revenge she had taken she quitted Colesberg, and turning her tall to one side, trotted sulkily past within a few paces of me. Taking one step to the left, I pitched my rifle to my shoulder and in another second the lioness was stretched on the plain." One dark windy night on the Lim popo River a terrible tragedy hap pened In his camp. The appalling roar of a Hon was heard, followed by the shrieking of Hottentots, then one of them, Stofolus, rushed up to his master's vagon shleking out, "The Hon! The Hon! He has got Hen drlck. Hendrlck Is dead!" It was too true. Hendrlck, Cummlng's most trusty Hottentot, had been seized by the carap fire and carried off. They did what they could, but on such a night, pitch dark and windy, little could be attempted. The dogs were encouraged to attack the dangerous brute, but the Hon re peatedly drove them off, and, safe in his bushy lair, actually devoured the unfortunate man within fifty yards ot the camp. "As (17 broke," says Cumming, "we heard the lion drag ging something up tho river side, un der cover of the bank, and we pro ceeded to inspect tho scene of the night's awful tragedy. In the hollow, where the beast had consumed Its prey, we found one leg of the unfor tunate Hendrlck, bitten off below the knee, the shoe still on his foot; the grass and bushes were all stained with blood, and fragments ot bis pea coat lay around. Poor Hendrlck! I knew that old coat, and had often seen some of Its shreds in the dense coverts where the elephants had charged after my unfortunate after rider. Hendrlck was by far the best man I had of a most cheerful dispo sition, a first-rate wagon driver, fear less In the field, very active, willing and obliging, and his loss to us all was very serious. I felt sick at heart, and could not remain at the wagons, so 1 resolved to go after the elephants to divert my mind." Gordon Cum ming Bhot an elephant and returned to camp two hours before sunset; then he orders horses to bo saddled and goes In search of the man-eater. The lion had taken covert in some reeds, and the dogs were sent In to dislodge him. He held up the river bank, but presently turned and stood at bay. "As I approached," says Cumming, "Its horrid head was to me, his Jaws open, growling fiercely and his tail waving from side to side. "On beholding tho brute my blood, boiled with rage, and setting my teeth I dashed my steed forward within thirty yards of him and shout ing, 'Your time is up, old fellow,' placed my rifle to my shoulder and waited tor a broadside. This the next moment he exposed, when I'sent a bullet through his shoulder and dropped him on the spot, he again rose, but I finished him with a second in the breast. The natives now came up in wonder and delight, and order ing John to cut off his head and fore paws and bring them to the wagons, I mounted my horse and galloped home, having been absent about fifteen minutes. When tho Bakala hari women heard that tho man-eater was dead they danced for joy, calling me their 'father.' Thus was poor Hendrlck avenged." Fear, however, was a thing absq lutely unknown to such man. Hs would tackle anything living. The great python of Africa is not the kind of creature that the average man cares about handling in the wild state. A fearsome looking sorpent, having great constrictive power and attaining as much as twenty feet In length, It Is far from an attractive obect in natural history. Yet Cum ming once seized one of these mon sters by the tall Just as It was enter ing a crevice beneath a mass of rock, and getting a rawhldo thong round the middle of Its body tugged at it with the aid of his Hottentot Kleln boy until the reptile relaxed its hold. The snake suddenly springing out at them open-Jawed, snapped within a foot of their legs. Releasing his hold Cumming quickly overtook the mon ster and belaboring its head with a big bough, presently killed him. Forest and Stream. How Honest Men Become Criminals No Danger There. "Put your wholo soul Into the Christian life. No one ever was guilty of backsliding who was press ing with all his might toward Jesus." Philadelphia Methodist. A Mirror Chewer. After having swallowed swords, tacks, needles, sixpenny nails, bro ken bottles and pieces of looking glass, year after year, to the aston ishment ot audiences here and abroad, Albertus Pierce, the "Hu man Enigma," went to Bellevue yes terday in his cowboy rig to be treated for a pain in his leg. "My stomach's all right," he said to Dr. Smith, "but my leg bothers me." The surgeon found the bone In his leg was decaying, due, probably, to the poison In the mercury on the backs of the mirrors he had swal lowed from time to time, which had settled in his Joints. New York World. "Galallih" Combs. Known as "galallth," a plastic sub stance is being made near Paris from the casein In skim milk 128.78 pints of skim milk furnishing 2.20 pounds ot galalith which may supplant cel luloid, and has the advantage of be ing non-inflammable- Loudon Dally; IfU. - - How tlio Printer Erred. It was typographical error that threatened to bring streaks of gray into the locks of the editor of a newly started weekly which purported to chronicle the doings of tho smart set of a Western city. In reality, how ever, it sold out the edition and filled the readers with a desire to see what would develop In the succeeding num bers. The subject of the paragraph was a pink luncheon given by a well known matron. When tho edition was given to the public it was found that the opening lines of general eulogy were followed by tho bald statement, "The luncheon was punk," Llppincott's. New York's School Children. The Department of Education is In, receipt of the third biennial school census of Greater New York. It shows there are 688,427 children at tending school In this city, and that! 953,485 persons between four and' eighteen years live here. The num ber ot foreign born children is about! eighteen per cent, of the entire regJ istrutlon. New York Correspond-; nee of the Pittsburg Dispatch. HUMANITARIAN. "On what ground," the alienist asked, "do you declare the prisoner insane?" "On the simple ground of human ity," replied the alienist; "for If he Isn't crazy he's up against it." Phil adelphia Public Ledger. Why Ssddle-Horseg Are Poor Drivers. In harness only shall we find the thoroughly trained high-school horse not likely to be useful. His balance, acquired with much effort after dili gent rehearsal, and maintained by constant practice, has always been accomplished with the bits In his mouth which forced response to the efforts of the hind quarterB guided by the Indications of the rider's legs and heels. When now he is thus bridled and finds no demands upon the bind legs by any signal which ho has already been taught he is quite at sea and fails to answer pleasantly to his driver's demands. When fur thermore he is required to overbal ance himself by pulling from his shoulders at from 600 to 1200 pounds ot weight in the shape of ve hicle and occupants, he Is further confused, and makes usually a most Inferior beast for the purpose, while, through missing the guidance of the rider's lugs, he wanders about in the most awkward fashion once he is be tween the shafts. From "Controlling the Hind Quarters of Your Horse," by I. M. Ware, In the Outing Magazine. Homeless Dogs. I One result of the new act requiring every dog to wenr a collar with its owner's name and address seems to be a pro in i of a great increase in the number of lost dogs which find their way to the Battersea Home. More than 6000 dogs had been ad mitted to the home. Country Oen-tleman. Why Railways Are Being Electrified Tho final arguments for the elec trification of a steam railroad are reduction in operation costs and In creaso of earning capacity of the present tracks. There are, of course, several incidental advantages accru ing from the use of electricity as mo tive power which are of considerable Importance, although it Is difficult to evaluate them In dollars and cents. In this category we may include ' three: First, tho suiallor wear and tear on the tracks, structures and roadbed, due to the absence of the lateral swaying and vertical hammer ing caused by partially reciprocating parts of steam locomotives. Second, the elimination of smoke, under cer tain conditions, such as those from tho New York Central tunnel ap proach to the Now York terminus, la a very compelling argument, and fur ther reduces the maintenance of the rolling stock in; making the neces sity of car-body paintlug and cleaning less frequent. Third, the greater facility of train movement; which results from tho simplicity of con trol; the greater readiness for ser vice no time need be consumed in getting up steam, taking coal, or cleaning fires; and a greater factor of reliability in the loeomotlve unit, by the elimination of Are boiler, high pressure steam pipes, etc. Engin eers' Magazine. The eyeball ot the mole can be projected forward several times its own diameter, and retracted, "It Is quite possible for a normally honest man to become a criminal by suggestion," was tho curious state ment made by a well-known New York detective who was In Washing ton recently on business- "I am re ferring now to mon who permit them selves to develop an abnormal Inter eat In the ways of professional crim inals. "I wouldn't call It e safe thing for any man to attempt to figure out In his mind what he would have done to escape arrest had he been in the boots of some captured criminal whom ho had read about. But that's a thing that thousands of men who think they're honest aro doing all the time. When there's a big man hunt on they follow it with acute Interest, put themselves in the place of the hunted man, and dope out schemes of escape for him. A certain percentage of such calculators are bound to experi ence the hankering, sooner or later, to put their schemes for evading the officers of the law Into practical op eration. If only fcr the foolish pur pose of finding out how their plans will work. "Working In New York now on n salary of a few dollars a week is a broken, middle-aged man who used to be treasurer of a bonding and In demnity company at a salary of 110, 000 a year. This man developed a qneer bug for mentally tracing the movements of fugitives from justice, especially embezzlers. "I was acquainted with this man, nnd he endeavored to pump me for all I knew about such cases. He liked to talk about tho fleeing ones. He laid out routes for them In his mind. He knew the extradition laws by heart and had nt his fingers' ends uvory country in the world to which a pursued man could run- without fear of extradition. Once I gave this man a talking to about this hobby of his. " 'You'd better can that stuff," I told him, 'or It'll begin to fester In tho hack of your head and get you going. I've known such things to happen, and no man is more than one-eighth as strong as he thinks he Is. If I didn't know you pretty well I'd have my suspicions of you as It is.' "Well, he only laughed and told Jie that he was Interested in the sub lect Just as other fellows were in terested in old fiddles or rare postage itamps or the trim of their whiskers. " 'Anyhow,' he laughingly added. If I did jump, and you were sent ftor me, you'd never bo subjected to '.he embarrassment of taking me, be :ause you'd never get me. If I ouldn't beat all these pin-headed 'ugltives In making a safe and sure getaway, bo that none of you would 9ver nnll me, I'd want to have my iead bagged.' "Not more than six months after hat he made his Jump and I got him is easy as hot-footing a banana peddler. I went straight to the little i'illa ho had taken outside Genoa, Italy. When I nailed him ho was the most stupefied man you ever saw, for ho'd made his hop at the beginning ot IiIb month's vacation, and had laid all his plans with what he thought was masterly adroitness, according to his chart, with thirty days' margin of time to accomplish the scheme in. In consideration of his returning most of the swag he only got eight years. "That man put himself in the way of becoming a criminal by suggestion. His studies of the movements of flee ing absconders developed an Irre sponsibility in him and an ache to put to the test the getaway plans that he spent so much of hlB time In doping out while yet he was an honest man. "There is no calculating how many shoplifters, especially young women, nre led to try that sort of thing through hearing and reading about professional lifters. Not loug ago, in n New York department store, a girl was nailed whllo trying to lift n pair of inexpensive gloves. The girl had nn account at the store for any amount that she chose to spend up to the thousands. She wasn't arrested, of course, but she was led to the rear office and chided by the head of tho firm In a gentle sort of way. " 'Perhaps you should put yourself in the hands' of a specialist for treat ment,' he Bald to the girl, who wept softly. 'With you, beyond a doubt, it is kleptomania It muBt be.' " "No, It Isn't,' replied the girl with the utmost candor. 'It's not klepto mania at all. I don't believe in such silliness. I just wanted to see If I could do It without being caught, that's all. A lot of the girls were talking about shoplifters they seemed so fascinating and tho girls dared me to try. I meant to exhibit the gloves to them as a trophy and then send them back to you by mall," anonymously. You won't ever breatho a word of It, will you?' and tho head of the firm, knowing pretty well which side his bread Is buttered on, of course only tells the story without using the girl's name, but the incident illustrates an occurrence which is common. Plenty of women lift things from counters Just to Bee if they can do It without being caught, and when they succeed in get ting away with It once they try it again and again, and allow the habit to become fixed -upon them until the inevitable day of discover arrives. "The people who become crim inals by suggestion are nearly always the veriest plugs at any line of work they take up, for flrst-rate criminals are born, not made, by suggestion or in any other way. Wbesf Jimmy Hope, the cracksman, was work,ln he was just as much of a genius in his particular line as Paderewskl is said to be at piano thumping or Salnt-Gaudens with, the sculptor's clay." Washington Star. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR APRIL 28, BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: Joseph Faithful In Prison, Gen. BO: 20-40: 1 IV Golden Textt Rev. 2:10 Memory Verses, 21, 22 The Mldianltes take Joseph with them Into Egypt. He is sold to a new master. Potlphar. the captain of the guard of Pharaoh. God wonderfully blesses all the work to which he lays his hands. He gains the confidence and the esteem of Potlphar. He is made the head servant in the cap tain's household. Fidelity to his trust In the face of opportunities for evil against which few men in a Hko capacity would have been proof lands film In i , , . . I " i" i.-"w. mure is no justice in his condemnation. But Into the dun- geon they send him upon the unsup I ported testimony of an unworthy ' woman. In the prison the greatness of God's providence and of Joseph's character receive further demonstra tion. Joseph is supremely blessed. God prospers whatever he under takes to accomplish. As for Joseph ho wastes no time In Idle condemna tion of the hardness of his lot. He wastes no time cursing God for allow ing him to become enmeshed in such a terrible net. The dream in which he had as a boy found an egotistic delight sustains him and comforts ni't, i.t n - It. i.. a J . a , blessing and the providence of God In ; the face of this severest trial. God had delivered htm mil nt thu i, of Intending murderers and had spared his life. He had raised him to a position of power in the household of a captain of an Egyptian guard. The God who had delivered him be fore and had endowed him with suc cess --ill lived. Why should he mourn or berate? Joseph played the man. He was faithful to God. He retatned a lively consciousness of God's fidelity to him. He never relinquished his belief In the dlvlna leading and the divine providen-e. And his rectitude was recognized. He became as powerful In the prison as he had been In the home. His Integrity was taken for granted. In all likelihood his Inno cence was assumed though he was not released. Faithfulness to God made all this possible. God blessed him because he was worthy of the blessing. Joseph was able to resist the wiles of Potiphar's wife because he had a re alization of the duty he owed to God and to Potlphar. He was able to be cheerful and obedient and tactful In prison because he had faith in God and was faithful to Him. It takes a man to be faithful to God In the face of the difficulties that confronted Joseph. But It is the man who s faithful iu the midst of the shadows of life who is worthiest of the blessings that come when sun shine floods the soul. Joseph had ample o::cuse, if he had been anxious for any, io find fault. He was not to blame for tho unwise love that his father showed him. He had done nothing particularly criminal, though he may have been a bit foolish, to warrant the slavery Into which he had been sold. Ho might have re viled the character of that Justice that would jail a man for desiring to be pure in life. Ho might have torn his hair and beaten his head against the walls of his cell as ho contem plated his predicament. But he did nothing of the sort. He did none ot those things that naturally we should have expected a man in his condition to do. He wus simply faithful. And his faithfulness is the lesson we had best learn. The Golden Text says: "Bo thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life." That is an Invitation and a promise. It is ah invitation to the exercise of thoso qualities of manhood that are noblest and truest and best. Without faithfulness we should be a sorry peo ple. Without telthfulnesB, fidelity, constancy to purpose and responsibil ity the world would cease to pro gress. Faithfulness Is at the bottom of all human progress, Just as truly as It Is nn element in the divine char acter. Eliminate faithfulness from the human character and commerce will cease, knowledge will vanish away, morality will be destroyed, rei liglon will be no more. With faith fulness as a motive In the lives of men and of nations, humanity will prosper, and it will go from glory, unto glory In ever sphere of Its ac tivity. Further, we are invited to tho ex ercise of our capacity for faithfulness in our relations with God. Faithful ness not only for the moments and the days, but falthfulnesa for the span of the life that God in HIb provi dence permits to us upon the earth God wants us to be continuously, not intermittently, faithful. He desires constancy. The Golden Text also offers us promise, the most precious promise that a loving God can make to men I will give thee a crown of life." That is the reward for continuous faithfulness in our relationships In this life. It should be the endeavor of every soul to attain it. The God who inspired Joseph is the same God who makes this gracious promise to us. The God who rewarded the faith fulness of Joseph in this life Is the God who promises that the result of our faithfulness here shall not fall us hereafter. Shall we not trust Him?, Shall we not be faithful to Him and to His children, our brethren? Faith ful In shadow as In brightness, In the evil days as in our hours of prosper ity? Shall we not be as faithful to Him as He is to us? President Follows CuNlora. This is an age of illustration. Even staid and conservative newspapers use pictures as a matter of course. President Roosevelt, taking a hint from Journalism, Illustrates his re cent message to Congress with photo graphs from Panama. The Uuioulst. Brains of Scientists. Famous brains are of four sorts. The lowest group contains the minds that are stimulated greatly by alco hol, tea and other drugs, and by im pressions derived from the senses; the second grodp contains the Infant prodigies whose Intellectual powers wane In middle age; the third group contains the pathological cases usu ally terminating in Insanity; the fourth and highest group is that of true geniuses, whose powers remain unlmnalred until old una Thin la I Hausemann's classification. Spltzka.has como to the conclusion that men eminent In exaot sciences like astronomy and mathematics have the greatest averago brain weight. Next come the men of ac tion, Including statesmen and artists, and niter these come the biologists, geologists and other representatives ot the descriptive tKifeuces. Chicago Tribune., i
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