K* ; " 0.: -,T/’ READY FOR A FRAY. OUR NAVAL COMMAND3R AT HONOLULU. ’ Malml llftrdiltj of th* NIaIH Katy M»» Vn» n uu appeal lu ! 1 the Duke of Argile. and furnished |g (holt with u heroine fur The I'cnrt of 1 M hltu* hlAn." (ivllMMI lN»BM to ilutlNM*. HI4/ on* tmtulred on* detective y*t." Mtltlenl II r | had Mm • »*. I Wa« tn »s'uii ,-i ti Ha Sot am. , Hfcv Why W M I wonder that Dale 1 MIKI "flew MU) Urge *««,»►' , I don't hue*, unless It |# it,*, | the HUD Ml**s ate at.ant to both ool it the engagement* "• Ctsouml trMfio I WAS KING FOR THREE MONTHS TIh Cork mi m In Captain Wrecked »ar I be Caroliaai Cayt. Curtis, of the wheat ship Eury dbc was Id the city today, having ro ll! rued with his vessel to the West Seat j tie elevator. He has had an experience i wltfcVj the past twelve months that might make many a skipper envious, having ruled as king a group of tslanlJ In the Houth Pacific ocean. CapL Cur tis was the Aral officer of the ship Flora E. StafTord, which was lost at tea about a year ago. “When the Stafford was given up. ’ sold Capt. Curtis this morning "•« lowered l le bouts and left her at 'tea. I hail kix men with me In one boat and the captain went In another bait. My boat headed for fhc Caroline Is lands. and after fifteen days we came in sight of land. We were royally wel | corned by ihe natives, who could not do enough to honor it*. Iklcklkee, king <»f the Carollgas, Insisted that he short'd abdicate hfs throne and make me Ills successor. I did not assume the royal garments and robes, for etiquette down there requires none of them, but I took Ihe sceptre and ruled river those Islands for three months. I wooed and won the ex-king's daughter, and I also gave out orders against cannibalism, for I thought some of the Stafford's crew might drift ashore. My orders were strictly obeyed, for 1 was an absolute monarch. They allowed me little time to sleep. Every night I was competlTl to start the hoolah-hoolah dances with the women, snd every day and nlgoi some delegations of natives from otbnr Islands in the group would call upon me to arbitrate In some murder ca-« These fellows were always killing each other. I would get Into their cancet and go with them. 1 would hear tholi testimony and decide who was qullty My decision was final and the guilty man would be shot. “After remaining on the Island Hire* months I took passage on the firs steamer that passed. I was landed lvina all Ilia i >«»l u»e< t>> nu< dtvdsva vmploted b» be atxat nntriit for rtannin* Ibv bar ar: thia mean# auttplylng I two ton# dr# Kimball la her own lto.ikkr*ov>, • vtaba wtcrir ton of >ual aant from tbv »rda, * mpiojra aad dtarbartaa bar ow n bin and |m*m.*H41I> waubm tb« iar* i* „* home. Herat i> aba baa ad.lvtl , it» right* a» t«> farm to b*r varva (h# ‘ mutts boalAVM woman baa fair Uglr, I >'.»• •*•* and a dvltabtful mannar. | Tb* atvtagv «lg«> a front I to t astir a in M>Mlb THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON X. SEPT. 5 2 CORIN THIANS O. I II. tin lei* Teit—V* It now Ike fir**# of Our l.ord .fen us t lir|«l, that. Though Me W m« Kli'li, Yet for Your ttake* He Heroine Poor, that le Through Ml* Poverty \light Me Hli li. 1* € or *.9. Time Autumn of A. It. or **;ufy In Ml IMfti i Philippi. Hoon after tlie "up rota" ut fSphesus Paul lefi Hint city and sailed to TriMtt. where ||\e year* befoie he had seen the vision of the "man of Macedonia." Mete lie labmeii for a short time a lih great seal, but soon crossed to Macedonia, where again he met Luke and the friends of Philippi. Hoou he received word from Corinth, which him to write the Second Kplath* to the Corinthians, containing .» defense of Ills • poMleahlp and commands to tin* Church, Philippi w a * the center to which were sent the collections for the poor In Jrrii* salcrn. The Philippian Church wan rtnl neut for Its generosity. It had s»-tij sup plier more than once to Paul himself when h«. was hard pressed; and it entered with full spirit into his kind proposition with t"gMfd to the Jerusalem Church, The Church In Jerusalem. Why did Paul make auch constant effort* to gather gifts of money from the Gentile churches for the Christians In Jerusalem? Pos sibly the Judean believers belonged most ly lo the poor*-! classes, and suffered con stant loss for their faith's auke-as Ilia gift of Barnabas and others would Indi cate. Possibly the spontaneous commun ism of the early days may Itself have brought poverty by turning the entire body of Christians In Jerusalem into non plod ucera. Possibly this contribution was to some degree an eg tension of a cuBtpm which already prevailed among the Jews of the Dispersion, to send financial aid to those In Palestine a sort of Peter's pence from Judaism abroad to Judaism at home Hut probably the contribution was, more than anything else, * peace offering, In tended to gn|tc the two elements of Chris tianity. For the Christian churches In Judea were almost entirely Jr.vs. and grudged the Gentile Christians the bless tugs of Christianity. Jewish Christian* looked with constant disfavor on the growing Gentile membership, and Paul I bought that their feelings might he :*oolbed ami their regard w'ori by receiv ing a general offering of good will from their Gentile brethren In Christ. But It was Just after hearing these gifts that Paul was seized In Jerusalem, and There Is no mention of any sympathy In Ills • ass from the churches tn Judea tBrml* iw. Lesson 11 virtu. Wu give Mice liut Gillie own, Whate'er the gift may be: All that we have Is thine alone, A trust, O Lord, from thee. May we ihy bounties thus As stewards true receive, And gladly, us thou hlessesl us, To then onr llrst fruits give. And wc believe tby word, Though dim our faith may hr; Whate'er for thine wo do, t» Lord, We do It unto thee. —William W. ilow. This Is a chapter "concerning Hie col leetlon." Is there not a suggesllon In the lad that at every public service of the ■ 'hrlsllun Church "a collection" Is taken? Here arc hinted some of the principles of Christian giving. I. Wc should give to Ihc needs of Christ's people. Verse I. The appeal here Is not In behalf of the missionary cause, nor the support of (he Gospel, nor "the worn-out preachers," hut in behalf of Christ’s poor ones. Vet the principle Is the runic In all Christian giving, livery man Is our brother, and we should give him our help, for Ihc life spiritual or the life material, as he may need II. II. We should give because our giving will Influence others to give. Verse 3. The reports from Achilla Influence Ihc of fering In Macedonia, and vice versa. Kveryono starts or helps the current. There Is a story of a little hoy who hroughl a couple of bricks to the minis ter as his contribution toward a new church. The pastor showed the bricks lo a rich man, who was touched, ami made a large subscription. Others followed, and the church was built, III. We should give systematically, ac cording lo a plan. Verses 3-5. Whnt great results come to pas* when a body of people unite their efforts and make lheir offerings for one common purpose! More than one church has been hum |>y a people whose united property was not ecpial to Its cost. IV. Wc should give generously, bounti fully. Verse «. bow a handful, and you will reup a small crop; sow a bushel, uud you may reap a gruuary full. V. We should give deliberately, accord ing lo u purpose (verse 71; not spasmod ically or by sudden Impulse or under the Influence of excitement. Giving Is u priv ilege as well as a duty, and we should make It a solemn act of service to God VI. We should give with faith. Verse 8 He who has provided for our needs wili care for us, Hml will enable us lo abound for every good work. VII. Wc should give with thanksgiving tor God's gifts to us. Verses ti-n. •j|ow much owest thou unto my Lord?" Let us count up all God's mercies, and then make an oiferuig to his cause. Scleutlttc Cutting. Men of science sometimes make ex traordinary demands upon the skill of instrument-makers. An Interesting il lustration is furnished by the Instru ment called "microtome." the purpose of which is to cut excessively thin slices, or sections, of various sub stances. such as animal or vegetable (issues, for microscopic examination. Microtomes have recently beeu Invent ed, which. It Is claimed, can cut suc Ksalve sections each only one-twelfth thuuaaudth of an Inch thick! The edge of the knife which makes such cuts appear perfectly smooth and straight when magnified 50 times. llulleulHt Hard lu t*ruuuaa<». Hottentot Is hsrd to prunouuee If the graphic descriptions of Hr. Aurel tf. hul* does It no Injustice: "I can safely liken ihe language to a clicking of a mul titude of different rusty old guu locks ilirmluiieoualy set In motion, ft Is •imply appalling to hear the fatty I'lU'h gut tkoot, tick lick mktchuk dkowktok gtu-aktl-gkkij, acorn pa tiled try sum rvrrgllugs " SHUNT IIHMONd. I esaitutsm l‘> •siitiUlu la a poor in • veatmeui. and wires epidemic tumu lt area reaches good mew Hev. 0, K Wallace, Congfegellouallst, rhlcago, III Hsalh the old Ureek phtluaphera a rote many beautiful tklwga about death, but dll hot ihrmaelvea deal re death, which to them was Piled with Jarkaaaa and shadow* father Wttt iam I, Clark talhwtk, fhtladelphMh fa FISH WITH WINCS. twinnlhlnc A bo ul Tlm»r IJurrr llvHIrri In lb* Hen. The flylng-flsh loves deep water, and Is found throughout the length and breadth of the tropical seas. He Is fond of feeding near the gulf-weed of the Sargasso, anil deposits his stringy, glutinous spawn on Its yellow branches. Vessels hound from New York to the Carribee Islands, saya For est anil Stream, upon reaching the “horse latitudes." sometimes encoun ter vast quantities of drifting weed, strung out Inin long rlbhonllke patches about an eighth of a mile apart. Among the golden weed, with Its del icate leaves and globular seeds, eilsts h curious family of cuttle-fish, crabs, mollusks and small Ashes, I'pon these the flylng-flsh preys, and they In turn devour Its spawn. Bvery plunge of the steamer as she ploughs through the blue tropical waters frightens dozenr of flylng-flsh Into the air. where they reader In all directions, with the sun light glistening on their gauzy wings. The flylng-flsh of the Atlantic attains n length of nearly one foot, and a hieadth between wing tips of eleven Inches. He has a round, compart body, ulmut one Inch In diameter near the pectoral fins or wings. There is also an auxiliary pair of ventral fins or wings, not nearly so large as the pec toral pair. The wings are formed by a thin, transparent membrane stretch ed over a delicate bony fra me-work, and are either black, white or mottled with both. The upper half of the en tire fish la metallic blue In color, while the lower portion la a nacreous white, Black, prominent eyea; a small, prr henslle mouth; forked tall, dorsal sn>i anal flns complete the picture of om of the moat interesting little flshez 1: al1 nature's vast aquarium. In flight he darts from the water k. a height it twenty feet, and goee scud ding rapidly with both wings and tall He sails straight away /or 1,000 feel ot even more, occasionally touching the crest of a wave, and seeming t< gain a new Impetus by the contact. A Tom bing gratia, A touching scene took place I hi other day In the grand old archlepls copal palace at Kremater, In Moravia The Prince Archbishop of Olmulz, Car dlnaJ Kohn, Is the son of very poor hard-working peasants of Hebrew or igin. The Pope, dextrous of showing bis appreciation of the privations tr which this honest couple had subjected themselves In order to educate thelt gifted son to the priesthood, recentI) sent a beautiful cruel tlx to the old n>olher, and the Order of St. Gregory the Great for the Cardinal's father. Seated upon his throne during the course of masa a few Sundays ago the Cardinal conferred the two papal dis tinctions upon his aged parents, who each of them knelt before him In their prasant garbs, presenting a very pa thetic and moving spectacle. The princely see. It may be added, Is the most magnificent, and wealthy of the Homan Catholic Church. ItnfoliU tile Future. Fickle Paris is Interested at present In a marvelous new fortune teller, Oils ka, who has charmed her clients by bet mysterious! methods and uniqueness. When you ring, the door opens with out any one being seen. A voice bide you enter the reception room and when you arrive there, another voice askt your business. The amount of your fee Is atated and you are told to place It it a cup on a table. It Immediately dropi from your alght, and if there Is any change It appears suddenly. Then yot are bidden to enter another apartment After all thla mystery yon naturally expect to And an Egyptian room, twin ing aerpents and burning braziers and are agreeably shocked when you entei Instead a charming boudoir ablaze with lights and And the reader of the future in a very pretty modern evening dress She reads your palm and then, grasp ing your hand, goes Into a trance. Th« * OL18KA. contra*: between the myatlc reception room ami the place where the senre*» la really found adds to the teat. Those who know aay Oliaka waa unco a dancer and acquainted with many people. Her wonderful memory enablea her to avoid pllfalla and In addition | -he haa agents circulating through Ihe boulevard* and cafea. gathering gnaalp about any and every one who ta likely | lo pay her a visit. Thtta her knowledge if the private affaire of prominent rarlalana ta rnortuoua. Tee t)M**** t mn a tsteed. t he late ura. utipaaut waa one of ’he writers whom the Queen loved moat, and mar y of her booke occupied •peclal place* In that Intimate rollevt* on which the Queen never tired if having read to her The ead clr' umatancee of Mre. Oliphaai'a life, and 1 ver Indomitable murage and strong nothing power lo Ihe end. endeared 1 .er to the widow at Windsor, who uu neay mrwatvma showed marked trend 1 lueee to the brave woman writer who kir pears and in mors watt ihaa ace e»s very aear la h»r SHE WANTS A MAN. Y PRINCESS WHO WANTS TO SEE THE GREAT WORLD. ••00.000 nr II.r Own Woald Al* I*. II.r VVhll. to Np.nl • VA.Oim a Year nn Him..If Will H. I'rln*1. Consort. HERE I. a dusky skinned maiden in far away New Zea land who mints a husband. Hhe has n 20 .(mo (irtoormoi of her own, and some day she will reign upon the rawhide throne of her father, and the helpmeet of her choice will lie Prince Consort of Maorl land. "There Is more than tinge Of ro mance a limit the contemplated mar riage of Tonomaroanu, or Mary. «» English residents of New Zealand call her,” said Mr. Charles II. Mncfarlane. a wealthy cltlaen of Melbourne, who Hailed from New York a few day* ago on bis Journey homeward. "King Paul his native name Is J.umu-monoaso has given his daughter Mary every ad vantage within hla gift, In order, as he thought, that her future rule of the Maori might lie enlightened and liene flcent. Hhe speaks and writes English accurately and Is very fond of novels. Ine plots which Mary likes best, the King told ine a few months ugo. are those which deal In the amours uu I intrigues of royally, real nnd flcllil ous, "A year ago the King Inllmated In Princess Mary his wish (hat she choose a husband from a number of puissant Maori chieftains whom he mentioned. i he young woman declared that ahe would not marry unless her consort were of Aiiglo-Hiixnn birth and brave enough to subdue, with the King's as distance and her own, the native oppo sition which such a match would pro voke. When Mr. and Mrs. Macftrlane left PRINCK88 TONOMAROANU. Melbourne liutt April they traveled first to Auckland and to the King's village, two hundred miles away, near Rotorua. A topic of conversation among their friends was the rumored Issuance of a royal proclamation approving an al liance between the rrlncess anil some Caucasian of her choice. The Macfar lanes determined to visit the sulphur ous mud geysers near King Paul's abode, and Incidentally to learn all they could about Princess Mary's ma trimonial ambitions. ThiB Is the way Mrs. Macfarlane described their recep tion:— "The King was very kind to ns. He assigned to our use a little wicker house, containing three rooms, and six or seven servants, who were al ways outside, ready to wait upon us when required. Our meals were pre pared elsewhere and brought to our little residence. The day after our ar rival King Paul, attended by a number of Maori chiefs, escorted us in an ex cursion to the mud geysers. The King knows enough English to make him self understood, and he was most gourtly. In an aboriginal way. He caused aome ground malm to tie mixed In water, shaped Into cukes and put In a kettle, which he lowered Into the bubbling geyaer. In a few minutes he pulled It oul again and the cakes were thoroughly baked. Ills gratification h; our astonishment which was more simulated than real was delightful. It led him. for the first time, to speak »f hts daughter. *''Tono-maroanu not much tome here,' he said, 'because sulphur too much bad smell.' "Naturally. I expressed a desire lo tee the Prlnteas. and stain after our leturu she called upon us. Mr Mai larlane sauntered off a few minutes | i tier ward to watch some Mauri boys j leaning wild boars' tusk*. and the | I'rltoeea and I were left alone. VI * i vomun’s i urtosKy was amused in thi s irenewt tension, but I could not bring i nyaetf to speak Aral of her affairs of ■ he heart (the saved me that trouble tier the exchange of a few common i !>«»>. "A luiia clonh enveloped the Princes* mm the neck to the aaiuUI.it (vet t was made of lambs wiad, loosely riled sad sewed vertically like wide y ribbed corduroy f eather, uf vnr- i •us fedora were sewed indiscriminate l y a Nr ibis garment Tfc« Primes* | carried a curious straw 41. but «hs wore no covering for the head, it seemed strange to hear su<'h a woman speak In cirrect and conventional Kngllsh. I would have been leaa Shocked If she had uttereii uncouth sounds and brandished a spear. Her statements, with my own questions and other Interruptions omitted. 1 can recall almost word for word " 'You Intend to travel a long way. madame? To Plngland and America. I believe? How l wish I could go with you. When I am married 1 will travel with my husband until I become Queen. My father, the King, selec ted a husband for me, Aporoaplata, chief of the tribe of the Whaoa. but I re fused to marry him. Aporoaplata lias tunny sheep In the vall“ys, sheds full of wild boars' tusks and money In the Auckland bank, but he is ;im black as f am and aa ugly. He is more Intel ligent Ihan moat of the Maori chief tains, and speaks good Krigllah When the King would have forced the inur ilnge Aporoaplata declared that he did not want my hand without my love. He would kill himaelf, ho said, liefore he would become iny husband against my will. Aporoaplata Is a good man. and some day be shall be rewarded. The King treats me as If I were the fill are ruler of a great people. The books I have read have tuuglit me olli - erwlae. Is the King really a king and am I really a primes*? In name only, no) In power, (treat Britain dominates us, girds us about with her lawa and permits the Msotl to pursue those old native customs which do not. conflict with Brlilsli supremacy. My father Is allowed to play the monarch, to call hlirnelf King Paul, ao long as he does •1 ft harm to Mr,..«n Institution* " 'Well, then, I am a princess for lbt time being, and I am wealthy Take away my fortune and my title and I am an ugly Maori girl, black as night, loo well educated to appreciate her own people. It gnemed to ms that I could make use of my title and my wealth to secure a whits husbsnd who will show me some of the pleasure* ol the outer world. My money might a* well be spent that way—It does me no good In my present state. There Is nothing I could spend It for In this country If I tried my beat. If the royal line of the Maori were not a men Action I would sacrifice my own wishes to the best Interest* of the tribes. As II is, I must consult my own wishes and make a* much use of the fact that I am the King's daugh ter as possible. When tny father re ferred to the fact that bin people ob jected to iny marrying a white man I answered that he was fooling him self and that he had no people, lie Imprisoned me, hut when I declared that 1 would appeal to the colonial au thorities I was released, and there have been no further objections. "The next thing, Is to And the white husband. I realize that the man 1 may select will not marry me for love, but for money. 1 only want to be sure that he is not a criminal, who does not dare to appear In Kuropo or America, and that he Is brave enough to Aghl any Maori chief who tries to make talk about the match. I will let him spent £7,000 tfilh.OoO) a year, but he must never let me know that he Is ashamed of his wife. Before you go you shall have my photograph, and If you meet n man you think I would like show it to him and tell him shut I have said.' "I talked with Brinoesa Mary ultout matrimony us u holy Instruction, and she listened with half-concealed Im patience. She had listened to ntauy priests and preachers, ahe said, and t ad several times heard the Church of Kngland service. Having read ao many hooks by Kugltah authors, ahe r maldered herself wall Informed aa t«» the Christian religion, hut such mat tera she regarded with Indifference Kite cured nothing about the religious aspec ts of matrimony, whether the * rettiony were performed by a bishop i»r before the hideous fare of the god Kua manw* Kite wanted the knot tied n such mauuer, however, that her tuts. '■tod might nut easily escape ' Whether l*iitoesa Mary tuu e cored ■ matrimonial partner during the in* rival which has elapse* since their trparture Ivons New Xeatand neither Ur n«r Mra Mai fariane v««id .un iat lure. Koch he are thy habitant (bought*. iurh site will be the character of the nind, for the soot t* dyed by the howghts Marins Aural u. - . a . Ayv ’