The morning call., 1891-11-01


Ing the reliability or character OF any person or
firms in this city or elsewhere
T. Questions, answers TO which are in the nature
of an advertisement, will not be answered.
Every inquiry must have the true aud full
name OF the sender, as well as the correct resi-
denee. Any inquiry that has not The cor
rect name and address of the sender viii
be treated as If it was not signed, and the
writer need not expect An answer.
. THE LORDS PRAYER c. D., City.
~ The Lords Prayer is found in the New
Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ, and in the Gospel according to St.
Matthew. O. 1t is thought that Matthew
reported in the prayer the letter of the orig
inal words of Jesus, though some contend
that he better represented the spirit of
them. 80 The O. C.. quotes: IF any words
of: the Lord have: been handed down by
oral tradition the Lords Prayer would seem
necessarily TO have been handed down ana
from the earliest times. Internal evidence
leaves little doubt that here oral tradition and
not document Is the origin and that Luke
represents the. original most closely in bis
omissions though not in the changes. IL the
Lord 5 Prayer had early been committed to
writing and had contained Matthew's ad-
ditiona clauses, 1t is Inconceivable that
Luke should have omitted them. The
same tendency which led later generations
TO insert ldnG us in modern times TO reiaInl
the INTERPRETATION, For thine is the king
dom, the power and the glory etc, would
no doubt ; in the earliest times favor
the insertion rather than the rejec-.
ton of any appropriate clauses that
had once gained a footing in the
prayer. > = Matthew appears to have
naSsed together a number of prayers taught
by or perhaps used by the Lord Jesus, while
| Luke seems TO have adhered to an earlier
form which, however, has received late mod
ihCatlon for. the purposes of daily use:
Though however, we may follow Luke here
as more closely approXimating to the orig
lnal form Of tile prayer; it does not result
! thatOu this account we must commit our
selves to the statement that the Lords
Prayer was actually given at the exact time
and IN the sxact manner which Luke de-
scribes. just as Matthew supplies group
ing so Luke supplies motives and occasions.
Often it may De more probable that the
groupings and continuity Of Matthew :tnaY
be closer 10 the historical fact than the at
tempt at orderly arran cement ana al assign
nent Of motive and cause and time which
character.zts Luke -
FAST SHIPMENT OF MAII-G. II. D., Don,
Ont. In full reply TO your query partially
answered on the 4tl ult. the attention of
the &C. has: been called TO an article in tile
Scientific American, from which the follow
ing Is apropoS of your inquiry Tue steamer
EMpress of Japan left Y 0kohama August
1879, and made the voyage thepee 10 Vic
tGria, b G., in days. 10 hours and "a
minutes, which beat by many hours the best
previous record across the Pacific. TIE
|: officials of the Canadian Pacific Railroad
were so pleased with this achievement that
they determined tQfNrWard the English mails
! brought by the steamer by means OF IL spe-
| cial train, which left Vancouver at o'clock
in the afternoon on August 29th aud made
| the time to Rockville, on the ST. Lawrence
| River, " in seYenty-SeVen hours and twenty
| minutes. The average speed for this dis
! tance Of 2SG3- miles was only about thirty
! six miles an ,heur, but the record is a good
one when it is reiaem bered that there are
! many heavy grades anu the regular time
| When. the mails were transferred
| across the st. Lawrence they were
| taken by "a special train on the
/ New York Central road, which made the
| distance OF 1913 miles from that point to Nav
t York City IN six hours and tifty-eight
| minutes. The average speed of this run
/ was little over fifty miles an hour,
and it is said that in one portion Of it
/ ninety-tlye miles was covered IN ninety
/ minutes. Wien the mails arrived at New
York City they were quickly transferred TO
the steamer City OF New York. which Was on
the point.of sailing, and the steamer made
the voyage from New York to Queenstown
i in five DAYS, twenty-five hours and fifty
| ward record across the Atlantic. The pas
sage from Yokohama to Queenstown was
| thus made in twenty days, the distance be-
ing about II, 600 miles by the route travelled,
and considerably over half way around the
world ia the lautudes on which the route
lay.
| HOMESTEAD LAND-T. j., Fresno, CAL
Your inquiry is purely legal one and
| should be addressed to a lawyer. The Q. c..
1 is of the opinion that you could never de-
rive legal title from the person with whom
you have the contract. because for him first
| TO earn the right to the land as a homestead
! and your question leaves to be inferred
that the land Is Government land-he must
have faithfully observed the law In regard
Il to settlement and cultivation for the con-
tinuous term of five years. Now, this is
just what he proposes not TO do under the
contract with you, and the rulings are well
| established that homestead will not be
allowed on land improved by another and
in his possession by color OF law. and that a
| homestead cannot be maintained through
the occupancy of a tenant. Moreover, his
entry win be Cancelled at the expiration of
seven years, if proof is not submitted after
due notice, which is another point for con-
sideration.
WOMEN IN OFFIcE-J. NJ. C.. Oakland.
Ql In the list of women holding county Of
fees in this State are: Mrs. II. L. Wilson,
Superintendent of Schools of Colusa
County; Mrs. S. G. Wright of Del Norte,
Mrs. Z. X. Harrington of Lake, Mrs. w. ID.
| Egenhoff of Mariposa, Corneia Richards of
Mono Miss Anna (. Dixon of Napa, Eliza
G. Welsh of Shasta, Mrs. F. MEG Martin
of Sonoma and Miss Belle Miller of Te-
hama. ~ The Q. c. does not know of
women holding municipal offices in this
State-deputyships not considered in this
category.
I Two SIMPLE QTEsTIoNs-F. T. L., City.
|" Q.-Please be kind en0ugh.to answer two
simple questions o. Is 1t: the custom of
4 this country for gentleman on going in a
first-class saloon to ask the bar-keeper to
take a drink with him ? (2) Does it look bad
for gentleman not to ask the bar keeper to
i join him t? 40 1t is quite the custom
when the gentleman is drunk, and then he
is likely to ask "a yaller dog" to join him.
% Not at all, though the .bar-keeper may
have his peculiar views on this subject.
4 To BE a LAwYER-F. S. L., Modesto.
Cal. The Supreme Court before admitting
an applicant for admission to practice at
the bar, will subject him to an oral ex-
animation to satisfy itself that he is qualified
on the point of learning in the law. The
rules of the court state the books on which
the examination will be based. Graduates
further examined, but are admitted as a
class.
f. CANARY BIRDs-M, L., City. The breed.
ing of canary birds is a great industry OF
Germany, but to make them sing the birds
are not blinded in the sense you mean,
namely, that their eyesight is destroyed.
Such contention is ridiculous. The cages
are blinded or covered that the bird may be
in Spml-PlOOm and NOT have ito ottaufi m