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LUCK.

ZEST-OF--EXISTENCE.

(BY JOHN BLUNT.}

One is always pleased to hear of people who owe their life fortune to some unexpected piece of good luck, because such chances add a romantic spice to existence! and because one thinks instinctivë. ly that if such things happen to. other people perhaps they will! happen to oneself,"

I have been led to these reflec tions by reading-of-how-Zagħlül! Pasha próbably owes his life to the chance that he was saluting When his would-be assassin fired at him and that the huller, theraw fore, instead of piercing his heart glanced off his arm.

That is the kind of good luck, one calls providential, but in a lesser degree we are most of us constantly experiencing small bits of good luck. We call on a friend just on the one afternoon in the week on which he happens to be in for ourt); we manage to -catch a trala because the train fat late; we get to know a' charming person by the merest flake-such. examples could be multiplied absolutely indefinitely.

THE CUT-AND-DRIED. Few of us, of course, experience startling examples of good luck, but then few of us experience startling examples of bad luck.

If only onc person out-of-hup- dreds of thousands wins the Cal- cutta Sweep, only one person out of hundreds of thousands gols killed in a railway accident. ·

But the ordinary chances of luck are always with us and are always, affecting our lives, whether for good or evil. And it is. on the whole, a very fortunate thing that | it is so.

If existence was entirely cat and dried, how terribly boring exist- ence would be! Now, when we get up in the morning, we simply do not know what adventures may befall us before we retire to bed again. Thus life can near really be utterly dull.

DESTINY.

Out of the most trivial events other events may arise to change, our whole destiny. Indeed, the most important things have chance beginnings marriage, for in

stance.

-After all, life, in-its-very-nature, is haphazard and uncertain. How many people's careers really follow what their parents planned, and who knows anything about the future?

We are all more or less blindly groping our way in a world full of mysteries and among people who, even if they are our best friends, are largely enigmas to us.

In all the circumstances it is, indeed, a perpetual wonder to me. that life is not more chaotic than it is Society, with all its defects, has organised itself for vits own protection in a marvellous way. But those people who talk gibly of a future state of society when everything and everybody shall be perfect are simply ignor- Ing the part which luck plays, and always will play, in life.

They want to make people absolutely reasonable because, being foolish theorists, they shut their eyes to the fact that life, through its very chances, can never be anything but a wild adventure..

THE VEIL OF THE FUTURE. And yet, if we were given the choice, who would select to 'read; his future? For as, things are we feel that anything may happen to us, but if we knew, for example, the precise date of our death" ati the zest and adventure of existence would vanish.

In short though we often r.il at luck, yet without the knowledge that there is such a thing and that the future is unknown and may hold anything for us, life would be as dreary as a mathematical calculation.

The audience grew less and less until a speaker arose with only one man in front of him.

My dear sir," began the speaker. "I cannot express the gratitude I feel for the courtesy you have shown me in remaining to bear my speech"

"Oh,” replied the man address ed, "I deserve no thanks; I'm the

next speaker."

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Tartar in a Harem

| Robbed on Wedding Day.

While William Worthington,

Dressed as a Turkish woman, electrical engineer, of Cairns, was a Rumantan Tartar gained entry into a harem, where he proceeded being married at St. Stephen's to demand a necklace of gold coins Church, Chatswood, to Miss Vera which an Inmate was wearing. Williams, a thiof entered the resi- When she refused he knocked her dence of the bride's parents and dowo, seized the booty and made got away with all the bride's off. The victim gave a description of the "woman" to the police and at the end of the world, is clothing, including her trousseau, he was arrested. impossible and unintelligent," said worth £130. The place was de Sermon-A-Day Holiday, Bishop Gore at a conference of serted at the time, everybody cremation authorities held at

The idea that the resurrection

of the dead means the recollection. of the material atoms of the body

To preach eight sermons in six

Wembley recently, "Such recon- being at church to witness the days is the strange holiday arrange- stitution, he added, is impossible, ceremony. In addition to wedding_ment of an energetic New York if we reflected on what actually presents valued at more than £100, minister at present visiting Lon- becomes in the lapse of years of which were were displayed in the don. He is the Rev. John McNeill

the particles of the body. It has. no reference to the question of cremation, as opposed to burial, because cremation only does more rapidly what in any case ultimately occurs,"

Dundee Boy's Discovery.

of the Fort Washington Pres" byterian Church, New York City, who has held pastorates in Edin burgh, London and Liverpool. Mr. vacation, and people are wonder. McNeill describes his visit as a

ing what he does when he is really hard at work.

dining-room, there were in other rooms valuable frocks belonging to other Indies of the household and also money, watches, and chains, left there by the men when they changed hurriedly to attend the wedding. Most of these, how-Crimaan Surgeon.

ever

Not a little excitement was caus" edin Mortimer Street, Dundee, and viciolty when it became known of the bride's belongings. An Ford, near Romsey, Hants, Hves were passed over in favour In the little village of Chandler's that a large sum of money was examination revealed that a win-Dr. Arthur E. T. Longhurst, who found by some children in Adow had been smashed in with a served as surgeon-major in the | rubbish heap. “On investigation, it

mattock The only dress Mrs. Crimean War and in the Indian was ascertained that the money, Worthington could call her own Matiay. Dr. Loughurst was the which consisted mostly of ons, five, and ten pound notes, had was the wedding garment; belonged to the late Mies Margreat Gamble In Wheat Smeaton, who died at 2 Mortimer Street, somewhat sudden- A mystery exists as to who is ly, about three weeks previously gambling in wheat, and as to why Miss Smeaton, who was over 80 is that there has been an advance years of age, lived alone, and had of 176, per quarter in best Canadian no relatives in the city. After her qualities during the last few

months. death a lot of old clothes belonging

to Miss Smeaton were jald aafde to. The situation, however, is per be burned. It was while playing in fectly clear to some of the grain

superintendent of the Scutari has pital in which Florence Nightingale worked. For his courage and devotion he was mentioned in de- spatches. At ninety-three, Dr. Longhurst is hale and hearty, enjoying long walks and attending unaided to a large, garden.. Princess Mary.

Motorists are to be prohibited

the wash-house that the nine-year Importers in Hull (writes a "North from using the road which leads

old son

of a neighbour came. Mail" correspondent), which is one of the largest milling centres of upon the money. Tearing open a paper bag which was inside the world."

Princess Mary Viscountess Las to. Goldsborough Church, which celles attends when, as at present, she is living at Goldsborough Hall On Sundays the village street le packed with the motor-cars and There is no mystery to us, for Idea is to see her. At a meeting of motor coaches of people whose one we are fully aware that the present the Knaresborough Rural Council, situation has been brought about the chairman, Mr. W. Atkinson, by a powerful and huge syndicate said that people went to the church of Americans who are operating and if Princess Mary was not there from Chicago,C

they deliberately walked out Dr. deems 'pleasant or unpleasant, has Nothing equal to this gambling B. Holroyd sald visitors came from just now remarked that he considers has been experienced since the all over the country out of curiosity. the vegetable asparagus to be Joseph Lelter boom of many years The road to the church has a dead unpleasant, observes a writer in ago when Joseph Lefter, the son of

Jolin of London's Weekly.". As a very wealthy American magnate, | Shaw is a lifelong vegetarian, began operating in wheat, and Wed On Death-Bed we are obliged to heed what conceived the idea that, if he could The says "about" vegetables, control the remainder of the sup Beerbohm Tree once remarked ply of old crop wheat for that year, that the difference between and could finance It, he would be Shaw and myself la that he goes able to force values up and, to use throuh life with a tin of lentils in a Yankeetam, make a huge pile. his hand and 1 with a flask of His attempt to corner the market wing Birt Shaw is fully entitled in wheat only ended in a terrible to his vegetarianism, for it is part catastrophe, as wheat fell enorm

an old hat, he pulled out a bandia A grain Importer of the highest of pound notes. The rubbish heap standing, and who has had half was then ransacked, and a number century experience in the trade, of other notes were found in old skid :- Clothes-and-other cast-off material. G. B. S. And Asparagus.

George Bernard Shaw, who has before now made some sharp divi- sions between things which be

of his fantastic Puritanism and ously lit valuez

typical, too, of his love for Ireland,

where at any rate the potato

is not neglected. The danger

of being a vegetarian aroma,

1 me to be that of becoming like. the vegetable you eat Brussels sprouta'might produce whiskers and carrots might induce red hair

the case of asparagus, the Irregularity, in Its size may have; Fili dd Barnard Shaw to take në It for, usually, your, gets, all the fat ple

cud.

Miss Isabel Shadforth, who went through a marriage ceremony with Alexander Fewster when he was on his deathbed in hospital ar Hartlepool, has been informed that the marriage was not strictly legal. After nisking inquiries the rural dean of Hanlepool (Ganda F. C., Macdonald) made the following

The so-called wedding in Hartle pool Hospital was only a relid four-

arvice To have commuted oft legal marriage would have requir ed a licence from the Archbishop

Lof Canterbury which had not been

about 22 hours afte

that

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