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IN New York certain drug takers can buy their sup- " WHEN the devil robs a boy, the last thing he takes are the early impressions made by his father and ply of drugs at a certain restaurant, in the form of mother." sandwiches. These sandwiches are sold the same as others, only they cost thirty-five cents and upward. ON October 6, the Chinese parliament in Peking Morphin is concealed in thin tissue-paper, covered elected Yuan Shi Kai president of the republic for a with butter, and spread between the bread. term of five years. GREAT BRITAIN has informally accepted the invita- THE Railway Exchange Building of St. Louis is said tion of the United States to send a naval squadron to to be the world's largest office-building, since it has Hampton Roads in 1915-to join in an international thirty-three acres of floor space under one roof. parade of war-ships through the Panama Canal. Am- ON July 17, 1913, W. W. Brown, a racing driver bassador Page recently cabled the State Department from Kansas City, drove an automobile up Pike's Peak, that Sir Edward Grey, minister of foreign affairs, had even climbing the steps leading to the Summit House informed him orally that Great Britain would accept. on the mountaintop. A MRS. GILLEN, of Rockaway Beach, has invented Principal Contents a piece of mechanism that will, in case of fire in any CONTRIBUTIONS PAGE room in the house, automatically shut off the gas Thanksgiving 5 from the burning building. Thanksgiving (poetry) 6 A Campaign Book on Education 7 IN Benares there.has been for many years a temple That Which Does Not Belong to You 7 for monkeys, and it is one of the most costly buildings Home Authority 8 A Pan-Prohibition Educational Council 9 there. The followers of Brahma hold this animal sa- Grandma's Thanksgiving • cred, and worship it as a deity. 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And yet earnest zeal for the cross of Christ cannot fail to inspire those who hear him, or read his articles, with a determination you hear people speaking as .if when you were in Cen- to grasp anew the banner of Christ, and through Heaven's tral Africa you could live the life of a sort of week- strength win greater victories for the cross.] ender, and just run out to see your friends the Joneses E African missionaries have been accused or the Robinsons. Cobweb number one ! of having " slang " tongues. As a matter The second thing is that Africa never had a road of fact, that is not so. We do not use to its name. What a tremendous surprise ! We never slang words ; we use technical terms. have a horse there, never! We cannot. The tsetse-fly Business people in America talk about ex- wipes off everything of that kind on four legs, and it ploring Central Africa, or traveling in Cen- is beginning to wipe off many of those on two legs tral Africa. The technical term is "boring in." And with sleeping-sickness. This vast continent is quite in- the three divisions of my life for nearly a quarter of nocent of roads. From the Atlantic seaboard to the a century have been boring in, shut in, and boring out. Indian Ocean, all that Africa has in the shape of roads Boring in took me twenty months from London to my are trails twelve inches wide and about twelve inches station ; shut in — you get through the door, and the deep — in other words, glorified cart-wheel ruts. You door slams after you, and there you stay — in my cannot get both feet in at once. And you cannot see case for nearly twenty-three years; bor- the track. It has been blotted out by the ing out began something over a year ago. grass, and you have to feel your way And here is a coincidence for you. a la blind man. You shoot forward your After having been shut in for twenty- left foot, then drag after it number two, three years, I resolved to go vaguely due and in this way you zigzag ,right across south toward the Cape of Good Hope.