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3& S.i.W T. . :,,- HX Pwt 'W . i-rr,: we- P ' i? rt 11. JU e i" j i I If- f -. B : V 6 - f ' V1-- . When is Woman in Her Prime? The Growing List (f Women Who Marry Men Many Years Younger Than Them selves Seems to Show that Charms Are Mo Longer Certain to Wane Beyond forty five and Even Fifty- New York. Is there ever a time In woman's life when the possibility of romance Is dead? Is her heart ever steeled to Cupid's shafts? What Is a woman's prime of life, anyway? These are serious questions. They have been asked since the beginning of time; doubtless they will.be asked to its end. But never has an answer been more frequently demanded than right now in this twentieth century. Prac tical as It is, these times are far from being shorn of romance. In youth, in age, woman's power of loving seems always just the same. One day we have maidenly May mar rying hoary-bearded December. Next we have mustached May the blushing bridegroom of motherly December. It is 'all the same the only safe answer to the question is that there doesn't seem to be any woman in the world who can finally put aside romance for the more practical things of life, And who could have given more prominence to this very thing than Miss Ellen Terry, premier Shakespear ian actress of two continents. She has recently taken to herself a third husband James 'Carew. They were married on March 22 last In Pittsburg by Justice of the Peace Campbell. Terry's Youthful Husband. The Pennsylvania law requires cer tain questions. Young Mr. Carew said he was born in Indiana and was an actor by profession. He owned up to 32 years, but he looked younger. Miss Terry told that she had been married twice before divorced once and wid owed the second time. She gave her birthday as February 27, 1848. Romance has always played a part In the life of Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes Mizner. When as the beautiful Mary Adelaide Moore of Philadelphia she met Charles T. Yerkes be was not the multi-millionaire that he was when he died. He had been out of the peni tentiary but a little while; still the golden-haired girl loved him and he loved her. They were married. Wealth came faster and faster. Mr. Yerkes became one of the fore most traction men of this country and Europe. He had a beautiful Chicago home, but Mrs. Yerkes wanted another In New York. So the multi-millionaire built another one a great brown stone pile in upper Fifth avenue. He died on December 29, 1905. With in a month along came a handsome six-foot Californian, Wilson Mizner by name. He had a way with the women that was wonderful, and in the Golden West he had left a reputation as a lady's man which would be hard to duplicate. He had known Mrs. Yerkes for about a year. He called to express his grief at her sorrow. Here again pity was akin to love. His sympathy was so apparently genuine, his solicitude so tender that the widow was touched very deeply. Admits "Mistake in Marriage. Young Mr. Mizner himself felt the call of Cupid. From commiseration he turned to courtship; he .won an easy victory after a whirlwind attack on the citadel of the widow's heart. Within a month after Mr. Yerkes' death they were quietly married. But here the romance died a-born-ing. Mr. Mizner soon shook the dust of Fifth avenue from his feet, and Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner declared that it had all been a mistake. But now the case of Mizner vs. Miz ner is even before the court. Death alone robbed Mrs. Frank Les lie of a fourth marriage. When the Marquis de Campallegre, a Spanish noble, died in Paris recently, lira. Leslie that is the name by which she chooses be known told to her friends tat she had promised to be bis bride. Her trousseau had already been made. in Paris, the wedding set for cvly this month. CHEMISTS CURE FOR LOVE. Hydrochloric Acid After Meals Made Lovesick Women Recover. The gray-haired, spectacled young physiological chemist sighed wish re lief, lighted, a big German percelain pipe, perched himself on a desk in the deserted lecture room, and spoke... "Golly!" a ruminative puff-puffing "I never thought that I and my test tubes and precipitates and other stuff would ever be called in to help cure cases of lovesickness. Yes, sir; hearts broken by malicious shots of Cupid have been mended by me, or rather through my advice. "Funny role for science, eh? -But why not? If science is to be worth anything it must be of help in practi cal life, although my colleagues would consider 'me a heretic for that opinion the chumps!' -Well, but the story?" "O, yes, the story! Quite simple one. yet odd and very modern, my boy. Last week I was visited by a physician who conducts a high class sanitarium not far from New York. the late Oscar Wilde. She divorced this husband because he was too much, of a spendthrift, among other things.. Romance has always played a fore most role in the life, of Patti. the di vine. New York-has known her these 59 years and more, bat Europe has been the place where she has ever fallen prey to Cupid's darts. . The great diva was born In 1843, the, morning after her mother, line. .Barilll.had sang--Norma 'with-great eclat." In-1861; Patti. atL the -tender age of eight, was also singing; but her real debut was In this city in 1859. Her singing made a furore; her suo cess was instantaneous. 8even years later she met the Mar auis de Cans, of an honored French family. They were both in love and a marriage was arranged by no less a personage than the Empress Eugenie. Won Heart of Diva. Then in 1871 she met the tenor, Er nesto KicolinL For Patti he changed the whole current of the diva's life. Signor Nicolinl was a singer of no very remarkable ability. The great songstress loathed the man, who per sisted in following her all over Eu rope, though there was a Signora Nic olinl and several little Nicolinls. But Nicolinl was persistence Itself. He was a friend of the Marquis de Caux, who found out one day how matters stood. He forbade the sing er the house. This made the diva fu rious. He also refused to allow bis wife to. sing. This wa3 the last straw. They separated; a divorce was finally But the marquis suddenly passed away. And now Mrs. Leslie has sail ed for Europe to join the marquis' family. Many Times Married. Mrs. Leslie was the beautiful Miri am Florence Eolline of New Orleans. Her first husband was E. G. Squler, afterward United States commissioner to Peru, from whom she, separated. She then married Frank Leslie, the rich publisher. After his death she became a bride for the third time, marrying "Willie" Wilde, brother of -S-- ll BHBura .Sm i XvVVuY vnf&N&f HBBBSSsSy9IRWnniB'i'm1 aP uiy wmnHHHHHHHHHHHHHJ flTSBnenHHHHH j42D mm SPsVeESBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBMr SfWRMlsBTsantsl m vraPfl3Sfi enBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsY IbmsPbhsmSSmBsst -BsnvsmmnunuBHBHnnBsnnnBUBsnBBnHnaBmxs obtained in 1S84. The Nicolinls were made twain, too. Then Patti and Nicolini were mar ried. It was then Nicolini grew In the estimation of the world. He loved his new -wife devotedly. He was the lover-like husband always. And Patti loved him, too. When Nicolini fell ill of cancer of the tongue no one could nurse him but she. When he died she was inconsolable. Then came the Baron Cederstrom, a young Swedish nobleman, 35 years old. They met at Pau, ten years ago. He fell heels over head in lovo with the woman with the wonderful voice. What care he or she for that mat terabout a little difference in age? They were married, Craig-y-Nos was sold and the happy pair retired to a new castle in Norway, where they dwell yet. happy as larks. , Churchill Won Prize. Another international love match with London for its focus was that of Lady Randolph Churchill and young Lieut Cornwallis West But in this case the bride was the American, the bridegroom the British 'subject Miss Jennie Jerome was one of the belles of New York 40 years ago. She Place for women. you know; for wealthy neurasthenics! "The physician wanted to ascertain why two of his patients failed to as similate their nutriment' As I do in all such cases 1 inquired into their history. "Two unhappy women. young and fair presumably, for I never met the ladies. Two sad stories of love. - One was. a wife deserted by a rapscallion husband, without whom had she only thought so she was far better off. But the trouble" was that she did not think so. ' The' other was a girl disap pointed because 6ome young flirt of a boy had married another "I found that the failure to assim ilate nutriment was due to the fact that there had been no flow cf hydro chloric acid in the alimentary tract of either of the patients. The physician said that they were moping and pining themselves to death, literally wasting away. Medicine was useless, it seem ed; food they did not digest; they were dying, as the old phraso runs, of broken hearts. And just why? For this reason mark it well their mental state was was the daughter of Leonard Wall street man, racaaienr vivant. Lord .Randolph ChareUH, eat of' Eagfead's foremost poUticinas, made -a trip to America', siad fell -In love with the clever New York girt. Their ( marriage In Grace eharch was a notable .event The pair returned to England. Lady Randolph's tact and cleverness had much, to do with her hasbaadw suc cess in statecraft, as 'all' England knew. Lord Randolph Churchill died In-1895, leaving his wif e tZS9.999. Four years later - at Cowes Lady Randolph mefyonng Lieutenant West, son of a family that had much pride, but little, money. It was love at first sight between the comely widow of 52 and the young cancer of 25, young er than her youngest son. The marriage of beautiful "Kitty" Dudley to Leslie Carter, millionaire, in 1880 proved unhappy. They were di vorced in 1889, and the young ex-wife with the glorious Titian hair went on the stage, where she achieved not only fame but fortune. Broadway is still talking about her marriage last summer while In Boston on an auto trip with a party .of friends. It was 'all very sudden. Young Mr. Payne, only a trifle older than Mrs. Carter's son. Dudley, proposed one day; they were married almost the next. Take Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur nett, for example, author of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and other success ful works for old and young. Mrs. Burnett was Miss Hodgson In 1873 when she married Dr. 8. M. Burnett at the age of 23.- A quarter of a century later they were divorced; two years afterward Mrs. Burnett, then a woman of 50, fell in love with Stephen Town send, Englishman, physician, author and actor. They were married In 1900. Then another literary romance had its culmination . when that talented writer. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, mar ried. Herbert Ward. She was the gift ed authoress. 'her -genius matured at 44. He was the Andover theologue of 27, eager to enter the ministry. Professor Phelps of the seminary, liked the enthusiastic youth, and he invited him to his house. There Mr. Ward met the authoress. He was fas cinated by her brilliancy. Gradually the young student's aspi rations turned from the ministry to litature. Miss Phelps was his inspira tion. What followed was love. Their friends were amazed. They were mar ried in-October, 18S8. To-day Mrs. Ward is 62 years old and Mr. Ward is 45. And in the news of only a day or two ago comes the announcement of two more such marriages. In Worces ter. Mass.. Mrs. Antoine Kielbasa, widowed three times, possessed of $1,000,000 and 4C years old, married Martin Moneta, ten years her junior and a poor photographer. Here In New York Mrs. Ada Jaffray McVickar announces her engagement to Herman P. Trappe. Mrs. McVickar has five sons, two of them married. Mr. Tappe is 30. - Who now shall dare to say what a woman's prime really is, or when she can forget romance and. Cupid's call?' '0ir A accountable for what Is called inhibi tion of certain glandular actions con trolling the flow of hydrochloric acid. "I said to. the physician, says 1: 'Give 'em hydrochloric "acid after meals, about so much.' He did so. Result: The heart-broken ladies- began to digest. their food. "As their bodies received nourish ment some cf the strain on the mind -caused by malnutrition was eased; consequently there was less morbidity; less gloom; this betterment of physi- cal condition removed the Inhibition of glandular function, the bodily hydro chloric acid flowed again; that great speclflc "Time aided the good cause, and In due course of time the heartbroken, lovesick patients recovered tone and went out again into the world. "Do you, know I feel rather proad of that job?. But I wonder, I wonder what the young women would say if they knew! Have I sullied the ro mance of love? Well, I say no; love, like all other things human, jrill be the better for .the light of Jratkand that light' shines from the workshops cf science, my boy. Yes!" J . CHIHUAHUA DOGS DYING OUT. Breed of Small 'Hairless Canlnss Be coming Hopelessly MixedC Waohtagtonv Consul General A. L. if. Gottschalk, of the City of 'llexlco, in responding, to numerous inquiries from persons in te United States ia regard'to the purchasing of'Chihnalina dogs, says: - f The Chihuahua dbg, which as late as 25 years ago was quite commonly to be found In Mexico, Is a curious little creature -popularly supposed to be a cross breed between the prairie dog and the jack rabbit The animal resembles a small -dog whose -weight Is sometimes not over one and one half pounds, with a disproportionately large head, bulging eyes and king.' cars. The hair is usually scanty, showing the pink skin underneath. One of the marks is said to be an un closed cranial fissure., through which the brain can be felt throbbing under neath the skin. These little animals are particularly destructive, and are constantly scratching at things with their long claws. They are quite sus ceptible to training if taken young and in numerous instances the breed has been domesticated, although they soJdom show the usual dog traits of sagacious and intelligent attach ment. "Unfortunately within the last 25 years the breed has become so large ly mixed with small dogs of various mongrel types that it is now a most difficult thing to find in Mexico an ex ample of the true breed. Such are sold occasionally at prices ranging from 200 Mexican pesos (199.60 Unit ed States currency) upward. Even In Chihuahua these dogs are very rare. A few recent specimens sold in this city are said to have been of the true breed." TO SEE EUROPE WITH SAVINGS. Trolley .Conductor and Wife Will En joy Results ef Economy. Kansas City, Mo. A six months' tour of Europe is the purpose of Charles M. Kelly, 11 years a conductor on the Fifth street division of the Metropolitan Street Railway com pany, and Mrs. Kelly. "My wife and I have planned this trip since we were married six years ago," said Mr. Kelly. "What 1 have saved as a conductor will be enough to pay our expenses." .The Kellys own their own home, a pretty two-story frame, cottage. They intend to-spend $3,000 on their trip. "I have a six months' leave of ab sence from , my' work," Kelly Nsaid. "We.intend to stay the limit too. ' Such a chance comes only' once In. n life time for men like myself. Glad? Why, my boy, I haven't slept 'well for months. I've lain awake nights plan ning this trip. So has Mrs. Kelly.". , The Kellys will sail from New York on a Hamburg-American liner. The first stop will be Naples. After Italy will come Switzerland, then Germany, with a trip down'the-Rhlne to Cologne. The Netherlands and Belgium. are next on the schedule. Then comes Paris, and later London. "What will you do when yon re turn?" "Takerap my old position as con ductor on the Fifth street line. Ill report for duty the second day I ar rive in the city." CLERK WINS A FORTUNE. Speculates in Wheat and Is Now One ef Wichita's Richest Men. Wichita. Kan. From telegraph op erator, working on a salary of less than $100 a month, to "affluence and a fortune within five years, is the record of 'Arthur Paulllne.' whe in one day cleared $150,000 by' speculating in wheat Paulllne has been a resident of Wichita about 20 years. During most of that time he has been employed as an operator. At spare times he did work on the wire for commission men, gaining an insight of the methods of the market, which he turned to ad vantage when the opportunities pre sented themselves. As a result he is to-day classed among the wealthiest citizens of Wichita. Wheat was low when Paulllne be gan to buy, around the 70 cent mark. He held on to the wheat he bought until the market was over one dollar then he sold. Something like $25,000 was the result of his Investment He invested the proceeds in Wichita prop erty. That too, proved a good invest ment and he. was enabled two years later to clear $100,000 by the same method. In the recent rise of wheat he bought for 76 cents and sold at 97 cents, clearing $150,000. Girl's Skirt Offends Nation. Vienna. The Roumanian colors of red and yellow are forbidden in Austria-Hungary, and the other day the daughter of a local magistrate In Grossbuttyn, Hungary, was arrested for wearing a skirt of striped red and yellow. The police ordered her to take it off there and then, and when she refused a crowd collected. Final ly the offending skirt was taken off in private. MAKES EYELASHES TO ORDER. Ingenious Inventor in London Claims to Have Thrivinfl Suei , London. "Please send-me another dozen of eyelashes." , This is a sample of numerous orders being rece'ived by' an ingenious inven tor who has created a .demand among women beauty seekers for false lashes to replace nature's eye fringes with which the owners are dissatisfied. The patentee claims that hundreds of women are eagerly buying eye lashes, especially those who spend much time in automobillng. They visit him to be fitted in the first In stance. 4but after their preliminary fixture the lashes keep in good shape for-a month. They may then need a little attention, such as carting with warm tongs' and receiving a touch of a special fluid. Certainly Not, Church Isn't there something wrong with that telescope? GothamWhy, no; there doesa'tatv pear to be. so iar "as I can see." Yonkers Statesman. 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By the 'close of the present summer no fewer than 35 of these enormous craft will have been completed,, begun or order ed, but of these 35 only seven will fly the British 'flag. The other 28 belong to foreign powers, and this is the first time in the history of ,the British navy that.it has been so grievously outnumbered In the mo3t powerful type of ship. The monster battleships building, completed or to be laid down before the close of the summer .of 1907 are as follows: England Four Dreadnoughts, three Invinclbies; total, seven. Germany Four Dreadnoughts, two Invinclbies; total, six. France Six Dantons; total, six. Japan Four monster battleships, two monster cruisers; total, six. South American republics Six Dreadnoughts; total six. N United States Two MIcbigans, two Pacificators; total, four. All these ships have been ordered since January, 1905. In the five years January, 1900, to January, 1905, the same group of powers laid down or or dered 47 first-ckus battleships, of which 16 were British. Thus in the Dreadnought era the British propor tion has enormously declined. In 1905 7 it is only 20 per cent of the battle ships of the great naval powers; in 1900-4 it was 34 per cent: Another point is. very striking. In 1900-4 the British battleships were, on the whole, more powerful and larger than, those of rival nations, the sole exception being the United States. But in 1905-7 many of the foreign battle ships and armored cruisers are larger jtuumjinnnnnnnnrrn- -n . - - - .... FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEF GOES INSANE; Geronimo Is Guarded Constantly by Apache Scouts. Lawton, Okla. Chief Geronimo, the great Apache warrior, who is said to have scalped more white people than any other living Indian, and who for 20 years has been a prisoner of war on the Fort Sill military reservation, near here,-is reported by an Apache Indian to have completely lost his mind and has to be guarded almost night and day by Apache scouts in the government service. He wandered away from home the other day and was not seen' until nightfall, vbeing discovered about dark wandering carelessly near Fort Sill, watching the highways and mur muring to himself. A carriage ap proached and he galloped toward it charge by two scouts who came up I MMMitttMaaaMM....M.M....M.....YvyYlnjUgtj World's Famous Curiosity Man Who Is Still. Living with Only Half of His Brain. Kansas City, Mo. George. L. Chap man, a world-famous curiosity among medical men, was exhibited to the classes of the Kansas Medical college recently. He Is a wonderful example of a tradition current among medical doctors that the average person has a large surplusage of brains. As the result of a gunshot wound re ceived when he was a. boy and the subsequent .surgical operation which followed .Chapman had a teacupful or, to reduce the quantity to more ex act terms, six ounces of his brain removed when he was 13 years old. Instead of dying, as everything Indi cated he would. Chapman lingered be tween, life and death. His head was almost frozen, In an effort to keep the temperature down. Part. of. the right ear was actually frozen ojt In this manner.. But after spending two years in Bed, not being, abje to stand as .a result of we injury, ne nnaiiy became 1 able to get around; U and more powerful than the British with a ferocious grin that frightened the occupants. He was taken In ships, so that the numerical disadvan tage Is now accompanied by a disad vantage in quality of ships. Three German, four Japanese and two United States' ships will be larger than any vessel that the United Kingdom pos sesses. It Is true that to the above total of British monster ships should be add ed to battleships which will be begun about January, 1908, and possibly a third, which may be commenced In March, 1908. But even so, the Brit ish total will be only ten, and win still be below the proportion of a few years ago. Not only this, but for the first time In the history of the British navy the twopower standard in- large armored ships will have been abandoned. The two-power standard, as defined by Mr. Balfour in the house of commons this year, is equality In numbers to the fleets of any two powers plus a mar gin of ten per cent ' As there are three different groups of two powers, each of which is building 12 monster ships, this involves for England 14 monster ships in reply. Bat when even the ship to be begun so late as March of next year is counted Eng land has only ten and of the ten some may be whittled away by par liament To Paint Whole Town Green. Brokaw, Wis. Wisconsin is going to have a real green town,- and Brokaw is the place. The Wausaa Paper Mills company, which owns practically the whole town, has awarded a contract to William Laatsch of this city to give every house, barn and other building in this place ;a coat of green paint The contract price is $1,300. The new church will be the one building in town which will stand out in cream color of brick. Mr. Laatsch expects to begin work this week and finish be fore July 1. There are 52 dwelling houses here. - . ...... .... ......... and prevented him following the party. Geronimo is believed to have grown demented because of the refusal of the war department and the president to grant him liberty or permission to re turn to Arizona, the scene of his many devastations of villages and slaughter ing of whites. , Since his last appeal to the presi dent he has been morose and a few weeks ago his wife, the eighth of his career, left him to return no more. ' Prize for Proposal in Park. Cleveland, O. Chief Goldsoll of the park police wants notice of the first proposal of marriage in the city parks this spring. He has something nice for a present for the first bride of the summer whose wedding is the out come of a proposal in the parks. A huge scar remains where the sur geons removed the skull and brain from'Chapman's head. The brain sub stance here lies beneath a single thick ness of skin and it is possible to ob serve the pulsation of the cerebral blood vessels by watching the bare skin which covers the unprotected brain. .In sleeping If he -lies' on the right side of his head it fills with' blood, practically drowning 'the brain. He Is then completely paralyzed and help less until some one turns him over, when his brain drains and resumes its functions. Chapman makes his living by travel-. Ing about and exhibiting himself to medical colleges, taking up a collection at each place. He Is In great demand1 as an illustration of the relations be tween the hemispheres of the brain and the muscles of the body. He has exhibited himself all over this coaatry and in Europe and Canada. QsVfwn ant IV sejvimin ! Ice cream under the-new food law. .!.. 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C 0VWSeVlfJ9wl The Bible records fewer miracles than mcetxmen think; They grouped In three great periods. a critical epochs especially requiring -divine Interposition the times of Moses, when the nation was to be de livered front bondage; the times of Elijah, when the aatherity of the prophetic order was to he established; and the liberty of the people defended ' against the kings; the times of Christ. when the world was to he rodeemod. We study In this lesson the first of1 these periods of miracles, The First Triad ef 7:14; 8:19.. The plagues group selves In threes, gradually lacreaeingf In severity, for God gave every chance to repent The triad are plagues of not inflicting actual pain or Injury to. life. Water into blood; frogs sad lice. The tecsnd Triad ef Plagues. Tr 8: 29; 9:12. In this group of pmgaesi the property of 'the Egyptians is in volved as well as their persons; thai land of Goshen, where the Hebrews, dwelt, is pointedly exempted from the' visitations; and Moses no longer makes use of the rod, as If to show that no magic virtue resides- In that piece of wood. Flies, murrain aid boils. The Third Triad ef Plapwea -ffv 9:13; 19:29. In this series of plagues "a new insect of awfulness now ap pears in the dreumstsnee that the physical agency is no longer of local origination from within the land, but cornea, from the general system of the world; as if there now had been an In vasion of Egypt on the part of the un seen universe beyond it The rod is. now resumed." Macgregor. Hall; lo custs, and darkness follow In ominous succession. The Last Plague; Death ef the First bemiExodue 11. Parson and his people had been, given every opportu nity to repent. Even the divine pa tience had ceased to endure their hard and cruel and deceitful hearts. The final and decisive plague was announc ed and described with accuracy; but before its actual infliction several days elapsed that the people of Israel might be prepared for the exodus. One important step was the asking (not "borrowing" eee R. V.) of Jewels, the most easily carried form of wealth, from the Egyptians. It was only right that the Hebrews shonW have a little return for their lone; services, and what their masters gave them was fur less than their due. The Institution ef the Paeeover- Ex. 12:1-22. 43-50; While the Israel ites, protected by the effect of the plsgues were making preparations for their departure, they were also pre paring for a great and beautiful cere mony, ordained by God, which should at the same time arouse their religi ous feeling, and bind them together more firmly as a nation. II extended' from the fourteenth to the twenty-first .day of the month Abib. afterwards called Nisan, corresponding nearly to .the last half of March and the first jhalf of April. Hebrew months began with the new moon, so that the Pass rover came always at the time best for traveling, the time of full moon. The ! religious year began at this time; the civil year began with the month Tisri. including the last of September and the first of October. J "The Passover feast remains to this day an enduring memorial of the exo dus, Inexplicable except as the com memoration of a historical fact, ami testifying by Its name' to the nature of' the fact commemorated." Rawlin son. Taken up into the Lord's Sup per, it is celebrated all over the world wherever Christians as well as Jews are found. The awful stroke fell at midnight, and immediately the entire land wan filled with bitter anguish and with terror. Pharaoh, whose own boy lay dead, the heir to Tils throne, could not wsit for morning, but sent in the night, praying the Hebrews to he gone; and making no conditions. Lessen of the Passover. If the lesson of the plagues is a arighty warning, that of the Passover is an abiding comfort and confidence. God, it teaches us, is round about his people, ami no harm can befall those that trust in him. One of the most wonderful proofs-,, of Christianity to the exact parallelism between this crowning event of the Old Testament, the Passover, and the crowning event of the New Testument, the sacrifice upon Calvary of the Lamb of God. In the blackness of midnight, while ate was at its highest, he also died, with out blemish, and no bone was broken. Immigration Shews Gain. Washington. According to a state ment issued by the bureaa of im migration of the department of merce and labor the total li tion to the United States from nil countries for the six months ending March last aggregate 530,137 persons, which is an increase of 75,821 over a like period in 1908. The total number of immigrants 'from Russia for-the six months ending with March tost was 103,364. being an increase, of 2V 631 over the corresponding period eg 1906. CxeaW'B:Zt-3k Mem- 1 WkMi ISsae tne t?i HM af yw. - MBCCB XB Matmi i:U; IM. M; .V ' A $ fi58k.. vV ME?" ?r-Jl'ti hhbk? ,-j .3- sr . v V , v-SS-; " 1 -vt. .-?r t. &S igrm eifafc Hi