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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-1-25, Page 7h. or tet sh or. lie td - of on le, ne cly ?es, tle id - no, oh nit of ere s'et nd b. :es Is. im. eie Of' 4,I, ny tg- se, LTS 5 :es is he aa• w -I ee. le- ts- or- at- Jy le; at- is - in, he del air ity den to' ils he at he rel Ta ift ryi or al- it. /re CS LIS 118 of er 111 ta as aat111 Li es id SI( n• at 10 rs 18 )to 8. .1 etn,f, r 11111111 18 NOT flS (IN BUSS A Career Built On Integrity Is Man's Best Welfaro Tha mouth of a rightedus man is -a i well or. life.—Prov. x, 2. Withaal water life cannot. be. Take 1 water from the earth and thre fevers of eleath burn their fires. Where deserts blight, a well of watee is a possession beyond, price. Fe the ebrew of the Psalms and Prova.he therefore, who knew the heat and the distress or scorching sands, who knew 'water as the synonym of lire, 'no in ii e powerful language could be 'used in set forth the value of righteousness then the brief sentence which •says, "The -mouth of a righteous man is a well of life." He speaks the truth always and his 'word is like . water from cool wells. It refreshes. • It vitalizes. Map builds nothing. that is `not build - ad on . truth, The hands of his claily . toil move in truth. This is the reality from ore to engine: from quarry to 'houses, from forest to furnitura in dealing with things he is cleating with truth. If. he deals truthfully, the uni- verse *conspires to ble.ss tarn with achievement. If untruthfully, gravita- tion, irbn, wood, water, fire, THE TRUTH OF THINGS., presses the bitter cup of failure to his lips. In man's relation with his fellow Irian, great eivitations, as great word% arm be Malt only upon righteousness, Upon every man's speaking truth with bis neighbor. Every great state is builded on truth 4Intl goes to ruin in falsehood, through disloyalty to its moral ideals. Notwith- standing apearances to the contrary, this is the fact which the universe in tits atom sanctifies. Through the mists of the apparent look with clear eyes into the reality.. I3uild ypur career on the integrity of the universe, mastered in frienly wise by the integrity of yourself. Then you are building so Wisely that every atom oI the universe woeks with you, willing your successes. "Beauty is its own ex- euse for being." Righteousness is its own justification, Whetcher the eyes of men see or not, the joy in which. God loves and lives enters into the heart of the righteous. Wallin the soul of the rigineeps is life. -10 that life is. the abundant good fortune with which righteousness rewaids • its own. \Vhen he expresses that righfe- ousness it is like the hills expressing themselves in streams, which run yaniong the valleys giving life to bird and beast, to 'grass and tree, making farms possi- ble, and the human life free of the fevers deeth.There is nothing so fine as BIGHTEOUS MAN. No beauty can •equal the beauty of holi- ness. It has a loveliness more gracious Man flowers, It has a cherrn beyond the enchant- ment of birds. It has a grandeur out- doing mountain and sea. No sunsets are so splendid not suns, nor stars, nor dawns, not music nor Shakespeare; not canvases, nor cathedrals; nor anything built by man. The chief passion of the soul should be the passion for holiness; for in its beauty all other beauty is hallowed; in its lspirit all other achievement ties worth and in the soul of the achiever the eternity of God is awake. Things pass. A brief while and tbe places of earth we know are no more forever. Even while here things cannot satisfy. They disapoint. They enslave. The greatest good fortune anyone can achicv is integrity of heart. The divin- est welfare is that conscious rectitude, the peace of which never forsakes a man through all years and all words. The imperishable riches of God are his good fortune whose youth is a even - spring of life. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SAN. 28. LESSON WORD STUDIES. Nolo.—These Word Studies are based .the text of the Revised Version. John Mark, and His Life Sketch of Jesus.—To our second Gospel has been given,not the Hebrew name of its author, which was John, but his Roman Our - name, which was Mark. "John whose surname was Mark" (Acts 12. 12) was an erglentearlalaatnabas and Saul on their first missionary journey, and just pre- ceding (Acts 12. 25; 13. 5), and a little later a source of contention between his superiors (Acts 15. 27-30, because of his having left them before the completion of their first missionary tour, on which he had started with them as their at- tendant (MIs 13. 13). But in the Epistle to the Colossians he again appears as the companion of Paul (Col. 4. 10), and is mentioned also in Tim. 4. 11, and in Philem. 24. Peter also, in his second epistle, speaks of Mark, calling him his son in the faith (1 Pet. 5. 13), and 11 13 to the home of Mark's mother in Jeru- salem, where a company of disciples was gathered in prayer for his deliverance, that Peter hastened upon being miracu- lously set free from prison (Acts 12. 12). Mark's gospel is distinguished from those of Matthew and Luke by its brev- ity. On him the life of Jesus seems to have made the impression • of a "swift march of important events toward a tragic end." Omitting all mention of the birth and childhood' of Jesus, . and touching but briefly on thet events of resurrection morning; his life sketch aesus is devoted almost wholly to the period of his public ministry-, "a brief and terse narrative ofa three years' campaign." ' , That Mark wrote for Gentile rather ''•al than for Jewish readers is evident from ' the fact that he constantly explains He - brow terms and customs. The fact that he refers to the destruction of Jerusalern as an event still in thefuture, though imminent, necessarily places the date of the composition of the gospel before A. D. 70. Tradition points to Rome as the place of its writing, and` certain Latin words peculiar to this gospel give support to this tradition. Verso 1. The beginning—This verse seems to be intended as a title orheading of tho paragraphin regard to the work Of John the Baptist, whose announce- ment of the corning of one mightier than himself was.the beginning of the gospel, of good news about Jesus Christ. Of Jesus Christ—Jesus is the personal name of our Cord. In Matt. 1.. 21 its descriptive meaning is pointed out to be that of Saviour: "Thou shalt call his !name Jesus; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins." The word Christ, is the official . title .of_Jesua,...and means ' literally, the anointed, or Mes- siah. The expression "the gospel f Jesus Christ"srtay mean either thceglad tidings concerning Jesus Christ or those, breught byitilm to the world. 2. In j,gatsth the prophet—The King Wrsion in -its rendering "in the prophets" follows, a small minority of, the older manuscripts. The quotation which follows is really taken born two prophets, the first part being •frorn' 2. 1, and'the seeond from Isaiah 40. 3. Before thy face—In the original,. pas- apage from Malachi, Sehovali himself is speaking and says, "Behold I send my almessenger, who shall prepare the Way 'TPeforo .rite", He for whom the way is to e prepared is none other than God him - made, flesh: "And the Word be- ,Yaarne flesh. and dwelt' amoag us" (Jahn. 1. 14). in Matt, 11, 10 Jesus himself *Points out that in the coming of J01111 !the Baptist the prophecy of Malachi was 'fulfilled: "This is he of whom it is , *Alton, flehold, 1 sencl. my meeseriger before thy face." a. Mahe ye ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight7-Public highways in the Orient are not ordinarily kept in good condition. When, how- ever, a prince or other person of royal dignity desires to make a journey her- alds• announce The fact sufficiently !n advance tei give the inhabitants of the country through which the pripce is to pas an opportunity to put the highway into condition for travel. • In like man- ner, in a figurative sense, John the Bap- tist was to announce the coming of the Messiah, and for his corning peoplewere . to prepare themselves. 4. John came—Verses 2 and 3 have have been parenthetical; omitting this parenthetical reference to the prophecies, and joiriing this fourth verse to the first, the significance of our comment on verse 1 becomes apparent. "The begin- ning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God," consisted, so far As Mark's narrative was concerned, in the coming of John the Baptist. •• • Baptized --john's use of the baptismal rite was unique, and is to be carefully • distinguished from Christian baptism. with which it was not identical. It was a baptism unto repentance, and signifies, the.- inward purification of the person baptized. • "It took up into a symbolical rite the figurative washings of such pas- sages as Ise. 1. 16; ta 4; Ser. 4. 14; Zech. 13. 1; Psa. 51. 2. Outwardly it had its counterpart in the Levitical washings of the law (Exod. 28. 4; Lev. 46. 8, 9; 15. 5, 8, 10,13, 16, 21, 22, 27; 16. 26, 28; 17. 15, etc.)." --Gould. Repentance—The Greek- word means literally a change of mind, especially such as comes Morn ah afterthought. Thus to reconsider one's action,. and to turn from a life of sin • to one of righteousneS6 and holiness, is to repent. 5a All the country of Judaea, .ancl" an they of Jerupalem-e.A. .hyperbolical ex- pression, just res, if we shauld readin a .eitY paper that the whole ,cit3r had turned out to see orhear tee- President. 6. Clothed with camel's haire7Clothes made of -coarse • cloth •woven from camel's hair. • A leathern girrlle—Compare the des- cription. of Elijah'e raiment: "He was a hairy man, and girt with a gird1e-1f leather about his loins" (2 Kings 1, 8). , Locusts • and wild honey—Several glom* of locusts furnished Mod' for the cortimon people of 'Palestine, especially in times of famine. By wild honey Is meant the honey of the wild bee stored in hollow tree trunks and in caves and creviot in the rocks. The Greek. Werd seems also to have designated the sap of certain trees. . . -Latchet----The .strip of leather that fastened a sandal or shoe. The-Eeglish word comes from 0. F.• las, or lacet, "noose," from which comes also the noun "lace," any kind of cord holding to- gether parts of a garment' or shoe. 8. In the Holy Spirit --Or, "with the Holy Spirit." - • . • 9. Nazareth of Galilee—The, phrase 'of. Galilee" is ono of the many little ex - planetary phrases found in .,Mark's gos- pel which indicate that the circle of readers for which the gospel was in- tended was Gentile and outside of Pal- estine . . • 'IA 'Straightway—A. favorite word of the author, whose narrative tnight be appropriately.0 ailed "the straightway gospel."• •Rent asunder—In the Greek the pre- sent participle is used, Indicating pre- sent action, being rent asunder, • . „ Uncle Charles; "I.don't know as you will thank- me for interfering, Ellen, but they' tell.rne this Mr. Cashman you are going to marry is Utterly worthless.' Ellen: "Why, Uncle Charles?" Uncle Charles: "Not in a pecuniary sense, you know—he'S got Money enough--lita from an intelleetual point of view." Ellen: "Oh, Uncle Charles, you don't know what a turn you gave met" "Father," said an inquiring youth, "when a he sits on on egg for three weeks, and it don't hatch, is the egg sPoiled?" "As at article of diet, my son, 11 18 henceforth a. failure; but for petal - cal prttposes it lias its Ueda." IIOME_ • 7x 40tf ***1(******* DAINTY RECIPES. Lemon ptaiding Mutes in usefully when fruit is scarce.Take half a Pound If breadcrunibs, half' a pound of suet chopped 'very fine, two ounces of sugar, two 'ounces ancl a half of iloar, half the grated rind of a large end two egg. Mix all together, pour into greased mould and steam for two hours arid a half. Hard Biseuits,--Weigh, one pound af flour, add a. little salt, and make it into. a nice, smooth, stiff dough with new milk. Roll out very thin, divide irt70 biscuits, and bake in a brisk oven for Len minutes. Place on a sieve till cold, and store in a tin. • Stewed Polatoes.—Put into a frying. pan a small piece of butter, or clarified beef dripping, a little chopped parsley, salt, pepper, and a gill of milk, thicken-. ed with water. Let this come to the boil, add cold boiled potatoes cut into slices, and let all cook gently for len minutes. Add a little bit more butter and serve very hot. Novel Way of Making Coffee.—Take one ounce .and a half of ground coffee and one pint of cold water, place both in a- clean pan on the lire. Stir till it com$. to the boil and then add a table- spoonful of cold water. Boil up again, adUT a tablespoonful of cold water and boil up once more. Draw the pan to the • side of the stove, let, it stand ten min - Laos so that the liquid !clears. Strain through a piece .ot.flannel carefully, • To make sugar kang smooth go over it carefully with a large knife clipped into boiling water. Smooth the whole surface in this way,' working tbe knife in one direction, and constantly dipping it Mt° the hot water. - For Soup .Stock,—To every quart of water take one pound of shin of beef, ditto knuckle of veal or muttontwo' carrots, two onions; a skit of celery, six cloves •and six peppercorns. Sha- me for six hours, skimming carefully all the Anne, strain, and when cold remove t f I. Cod with rice is an excellent way of using up the remains of cold cora or any * flaked fish. Mix two cupfuls of the fish with an equal quantity of hot steamed rice; add a pint of milk and two wela beaten eggs. Serienn to taste with salt, cayenne and anchovyessence, form into a mould dish with fine breadcrumbs„ and 'bake for half an hour in- a steady 01:811. Salted Almonds.—Shell, blanch and dry the almondsallow two teaspoons of butter for each cup of almonds e put these in a frying pan and co_ok, with moderate heal, until the almands are a delicate brown, stirring frequently for about a quarter of an hour.- Then sprin- kle with salt. Peanuts can be salted the same way, first removing. the shell and brown skin. Stale Bread Griddle Cakes.—Soak two cups stale breadcrumbs for one hour in one quart Of milk which has been made boiling hot te pour over them; beat two eggs until light yolks and white separ- ately, .inta the .soaked bread -batter put first the beaten yolks, then three ounces of flour, one tablespoon melted butter, one scant teaspoon salt; heat thoroughly and then stir in two teaspoons baking powder and the beaten whites. Grease the griddle and bake quickly in small cakes. Orange Pudding. --Soak one cup of stale breadcrumbs in one and a half cup of milk until soft,- then' beat well with a spoon. -Add the grated' rind of One orange and the juice of two rather small oranges. Add the beaten yolks of two eggs and one-half cup of sugar, then stir in the whites beaten stiff. Butter six cups, 1111 with the mixture and bake un- fit firm in a slow oven. gerve with a sauce made as follows: Cream one-third cup of butter, add one cup of powdered sugar slowly, then and two egg yolks, one at a time, and beat well each time. Beat all until Very light, then add one - 'third cup of cream and two teaspoons of • flavoring. Set ever bot water long enough to rbet the butter, but no Tenger. Pour the sauce round the little puddings and .serve at once. - • To Cure a Ilarn..—The quantities we quote are for two llama, Two potinde of salt, one cake of prunella, two aauces 01 seltpetre, One ounce of bay 'salt, one minee end a half of juniper berries, one pound of treacle, one pint and a half ,,f beer, Bell all together, and, when near- ly cold, pour over the hams. The berries Mlist be bruised and the other ingredients powdered beton. they are used. Turn the hams in the pickle and rub all over daily for throe weeks, Lamp chimneys crack readily M cold weather. The sudden expansion in heal- ing is more than they can stand. TO teughen them 11 is only necessary to boll them a long time, after putting them in cold, salted water in a kettle having I false bottom. Even 'these will not stand the sudden raising of the wick afer ' lighting it, or the pressure of too tight clamps that hold it in place: 1 MAN WITII IRON NERVES HINTS FOR THE HOME. . • The insects in your piano will probably disappear if you open the case and:wine the woodwork on the inside with a 'little paraMn. Leave this open till the smell hes passed off. Procure some naphtha- line, sew it up in small muslin bags, and put it inside the piano, taking care that, it will not interfere with the action of the instrinnent. • . A simple &nigh mixture, which would relieve the chilcken, is this: Place in a jar six ounces of treacle, seven 01111CeS of honey, and ten ounces of vinegar.' Stand the jar. in a saucepan of lboiling water, and stir tillall the ingredients are mixed and warmed through. Thereadd three drachms of ipecacuanha wine, and bot- tle for use. The dose is one tablespoonful every three or four hours. * Your shirts, collars and pocket -hand- • kerchiefs will be beautifully white if you soap them. in, and let them stay twenty- four hours. When boiling, usa plenty of clean water, and rinse several times 10 clear water. The whitenessof linen de- pends greatly on plenty of rinsing watee' being . used. •.The gloss .00 Shirts and Collars comes from much practice with the polishing -iron. • Firm, even: pressure with the "heel"'of the iron.. is necessary, To RemoVe Tar from Clothings-Apply Lo the slain with a piece of flannel suc- cessive applications of turpentine, coat - ter, naphtha, and benzine, If the stains are Very old:, they should be well rubbed with 'a flannel dinned ifito soled oil.' Thit softens the tar, which will after- wards yield to the other treatments. To make mihk. digestible, all that is nocessa.ry is to shake it well, and to sip it slowly, Shako The milk violently .for a few minutes in a covered goblet, and than drink immediately, but not hastily, before it. has time to separate. again. After standing for some hoUrs, as, far instance, all the city milk has Orate on its way to town,' the Perfectly homo- geneous article that 'came from the cow is separated, first by the rising of the Cream from the caseous or cheesy and later by iha tesidenny to divide lOto whey or curd. Although this later pro - 0088 is perceptible only in souring milk. the:,' fluid undergoes such constant changes thin it should always be shaken before drinking . it, inxless it is taken (Altite Waeni from the COW. pLACED HIS LEG ON THACK TO BE CUT OFF BY A TRAIN. Jury Decided That He Had Caused Bine • self to be Thus Horribly Mutilated. Seldom, even in 'courts of law, has o extraordinary a case been heard as that WIlie has just ended at a Welsh assizes in a . verdict against Edward May, a colliery taborer, who claimed heavy damages against a railway company for the loss of his legs. Exceedingly improbable is a mild term to apply to the defence out..forth .by the compana. The suggestion . that a strong, healthy rnan should, for the sake of what com- pensation he could obtain, deliberately place his two legs on the line for a train • to cut off imposes a severe strain en credulity. But the jury found, after only an hour's deliberation, that it was true. • One recalls In this connection the ee- frain of a once popular nautical song : "Fir what's the odds if you lose your leg, So lang as you drub the foe?"' But Edward May has lost both his legs and been drubbed by. the railway core- pany into the bargain. He has not ob- tained so much' as the price of the several pounds of flesh that he has lost. All that he has gained by his horrible nitithation is the sobriquet of The Man with the Iron Nerves. Perhaps that may enabie him to earn a little money for a brief while as • • A EXHIBITION FREAK. According to May's story, in February last, he was a passenger in a second-class compartment of the Taff Vele Railway Company of which he was the sole oc- cupant. He said that he always travel- ed second-class. onthatline because -the thiad-class comnartnients were always dirty. Just outside .Cardiff, he, declared, his umbrella fell, and as ha was picking it up the train suddenly swerved, throw- ing him against the door, which swung open and he was pitched onto the line. He lost consciousness, from the fall, he said, and recovered his senses just in time to see another train bearing clowo on him. Its wheels 'passed over his legs some distance above the ankles. He shouted for help and a railway porter. came to his assistance. FIe (May) had taken a course of lessons in first aid to the injured, and made two tourni- quets, employing three handkerchiefs while he had in his pocketa, and then directed the porter to twist it around nis thighs to stop the bleeding. ""I would not have had my feet cut off," he protested, "for the wealth of the railway company and all its share- holders. 1 am a man who could 'always do a day's work, and if I could not 'Ob- tain work at one thing, I could always turn my hands to another." Mar was asked whether he had told his friends several days before the train crippled him that he was going to meet with en accident and that he would lose his lege, below the knees.. "I dreamed," he said, "that I met with a serious acidentlto my legs and -I told my landlady and some ether people about the dream. • I believe it was 'a foreshadow of what happened to nie. My landlady's mother °nee dreamed of a tensible- disaster that cable- true. All sorts of things have been foretold 10 dreams." • Probably • many members of the Psychic Research Society would have agreed with- that last statement, but none of them was summoned le give his views on premonitions and presenti- ments, and thet &derma made much 'of the improbability of May's vision and the far greater likelihood that, having CONCOCTED A PLAN • to get money out of the railway com- pany, his expectations had led him to. make incautious statements. There is no doubt that May's dream story weighed against him.with the jury. The bulk of the defence consisted ;n the aumulative evidence of small im- probabilities arrayed against -the exceed- ing improbability that a nom would vol- untarily place his legs on a railway track to -get his feet cut off by a train for the sake of what Compensation he might,' obtain, BM weighed over 210 pounds. The train from -which he al- leged that he had fallen was going at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Yet the only injury he could show Os proof that he had really pitched headlong out of a lrain moving at that 'speed was a slight scratch on the theek. It was argued that it was well-nigh impossible that the door of the compartment would haVe given way; 'even had he been thrown against 11.. Several witnesses mete that there was no swerve of .the train. such as would havc caused him to be, thrown against the door, It was ira- probablo that a, man occupying his posa Lion would have travelled second-class% On the other hand, ft was contended .it was natural he should have pretended that, he hacl ridden in a second.olass car- riage, as he had alleged that he rode in a third-class earring he might have aeert °entrained with proof that all such cariaget on that particular train had several passengers. 1-1 wria shown that his lotal' stock of handkerobiefS consist- ed of only four and it wee Maintained it was improbable that he WOuld have taken three of thane With lam Lanese he had in mind some Sift device as ha re- sorted to to pretreatthe trintilattort prey- ing fatel. Both teet had beetsevered and it was deelared it was bigtily 1111- PrObable 111111 would have happened biocl he fallen upon the track .. FROM A MOVING TRAIN It was shown ,that May was a poor man and for a 'poor, man heavily ia debt. • Hem°, it was tagged, he had sitong motives for seekina to. raise 010- ney , even at the cost of °being crippled for the rest Of 'leis life. Shortly before his legs were cut off he had bought several - copies ar weekly publieations, which issue insurance policies against railway accidents, and this was re- (ered to to strengthen the railway com- pany's !heavy that the loss of his legs Ilea been deliberately planned, . All things considered the case was one o1. the most puzzling which a jury has ever been called upon to decide. It ts small wormier that the jury before whom it was first brought disagreed;' 11 18 sur- prising that • anotlier jury has agreed upon a verdict, and one which many people will continue to tiank is hardly justified by the evidence. • Self-mutila- tion is common enough.. There are le- ligious fanatics who doit for the good of their souls, and there are sane people who do it—though never in sucli a frightful fashion. as Mayis convicted of doing—to escape conseription 13ut that a man --no matter ofwhat iron nervcs he may be composed—should decide 'o part with his legs to see what price they would fetch from -a railway company. and a few enterprising publishers, must be set down as one of the strangest freaks to whichthe thirst for gold has ever yet compelled mortal man. • r AN ARGTIC MISSIONARY CIERGYMAN RACK INENGLAND FROM NORI'HERN STATION. • Dependent Altogether on Stores From England -- Frst Church of • Sealskin. The Rev. E. S. Peck, who has return- ed to England fromt rr rrarfr frirshrcilti et" to England after, conducting nais- ssionary work in the Arctic regions for 30 years, gives a vivid account of life among the Eskimos. •' His mission station is one of the most lonely and inaccessible in the world. The headquarters are on the south shore of Cumberland Sound, at Blacklead is- land, a Mlle spot two miles long • end 700 wards broad, round which it i$ Pas- sible to walk in a couple of hours. "There are no trees and vegetation, except moss and very light grass, and • no fuel," Mr. Peck says. "It seems like THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH. • "There is no food in the country ex- cept seal, and for all our stores we have to be dependent upon what we take out • from England. Our only cornmuniera tion with the outside world is by means of a trading ship, which, especially char- tered, visits us once a year. "Our little settlement consists of a church, a hospital and two dwelling houses—one for the two traders and one for my acolleague and myself. These are, of course, all of the rudest descrip- tion, being fashione,d out of materials shipped from home. • "Our eeriest church was made of seal- skins, but had to replaced by a wooden structure, as it was devoured by the dogs. The scene from Blacklead is the most desolate one imaginable, nothing but snow and ice being visible in any direction. • "The most trying time we have known was last winter, when the usual relief ship! FAILED TO REACH US. It came to within 15 miles of our sta- tion, and was within range of Cur glass- es, and yet it was not until ten months afterward that she reached Blacklead. "For 14 days we watched her strug- gling amid the ice -barriers, and, despite the most gallant attempts to afford ims the needed relief, she was eventually driven back. "We suffered considerably from cold, as our new supply of coal was on board the missing vessel, and we had to bury our 'houses in snow to 'keep out the colcl. • fri'he Eskimos were not the only suffer - era from want of food, for one night in Tanuary a pack bf hungry wolves sen - rounded our house and attacked the dogs, eventually .escaping into the dark- ness. Afterwardthey devoured one an- other."• ENGLISHMAN put) AS SPY. Was Arrested By Russians and Flogged Every Morning. . Joseph Eremst Geddes, a British neer- chant at Hong Kong, arrived at Grims- by from Hamburg, and, went to London to petition the Foreign Office relative to his arrest by the Russians as an alleged spy in 'Manchuria,- charged with selling plans of Port, Arthur to the Tananese, Ile states that having obtained per- mission to trade in Manchuria, he. left Tien-Tsin in December„ 1904, and upon reaching Mulcdenhe was arrested, al- though Port Mahar was a place ha nev- er visited. His papers were torn up, end hie clothing was out up in search for any Incriminating documents, the only reply of his remonstrances' being, "013, you British are all the same. You would help the Japanese." Lightly clad, he was placed in a small room, preparatory to being shOL the next morning. Ten dayse passed, and each day he was told . that the next would be his last. Ile managed to writo several letters to Gen. Kuropittkin, ask- ing for an explanation, a bet no reply came. At the end" of ten days he was put un- der 'escort ter the military prison at Hale bin, There he remained for six months. That Mr. Geddes was placed among gang of forty criminals, the let 'being hustled into the prison wagon, waft three soldiers watching oath map Efinir &stint:aeon, he learned, was Irkutsk, in Siberia. Frani the period up to the time ho Medial \\ arsaw. the horrible jetieney tetrad the :snow -included 13 ail- ing at ritteen, prisons .on route. • At WerSONV., though suffering from exposure, he was placeO in a siriall room devoid of fureiture, and without sufficient warmth,' Each Mernieg an offitial dame in, and giving, him half a &teen lathes with bis belt, said: --"Con- fess yeu are a spy," Ile refused, and the whipping eventually ceased. Ultimately, Mr. Geddes waS sot free, at the aasse &tante boloW U� knees. hut ao apology was offered him, WORKSHOP TO CABINET CAREER OF JOHN BURNS, OF BAT- • TERSEA, LONDON. 110 Walked London filr'eets of Work for Seven Weeks. Whether the Liberal Ministry has long life or a short one, it will he nota- ble for the inclusion in it 'of John Burns, of Battersea—the lirst workingman to ne given a seat and a portfolio in Me 13r1 - Usti Cabinet, says the London Daily Mail. John Borns has been before the public since the year 1878, when he spent a night in the police cells for the crane of • public speaking on Clapham Common. From that moment he has progressed slowly, steadily, not always with the goodwill of the majority, but always with the goodwill of those who know him for what he is—honest, strong, self- reliant, Imswerviog in his adherence to what he believes to be right. • Born forty-seven years ago in Wands- worth, the son of a Lowland father and an Aberdeen mother, John Burns started life with more vitality and more brains than pence, and more buladog, hold, fast coorage than the average. • FOUGF1T HIS WAY. • Alwoys ready to fight his own battles, Burns went to • work in Price's candle factory in Wandsworth, at the age of ten. As a rivet -boy at iron -works at Vaux- hall he soon found occupation better_ _ suited to his physique, and a Wince, at fourteen, -to apprentice himself to a • Millbank engineer. In 1877, being out of his apprenticeship and ready for any adventure, Burns went as foreman engineer to the West Coast • of Africa. For twelve months he stood dtheeltahecsaftthaeidrNibgte•arv.ed the perils of the • Still bubbling over with vitality, which no African sun could exhaust, Burns returned to Battersea ljfl 1878 and made his first acquaintance with the police on Clapham Common. Burns married Miss Charlotte Gale, the pretty daughter of a Battersea 'Shipwright, who stood in the crowd, and after a short honeymoon made th.e grand tour of the continent in search of the material upon which he was to base his theory and practice of political life.• READER OF MANY BOOKS. From his boyhood's days Burns read and assimilated and adapted to his own circumstances • the teaching of Robert OwenaJohn Stuart Mill, Carlyle, Ruskin, and all the men.who were reckoned ito telectually among the giants of the nine- • teenth century. To -day, his library in the little house on Lavender hill MIs the walls of two rooms, and there it not a stupid or use- less book in it. On these walls you may read the story of John Burns' life, and the evidence of that remarkable faculty for acquiring and using knowledge .which has • an along been one Of the • mainstays of his political career. • AT HOME IN BATTERSEA. Battersea has been tile home, politicka ly as well as socially, of Burns. In nts park Burns became a power, working his brain;• his • body, .and his lungs to persuade his fellow -workmen to take in hand the regeneratioa of theanselves and their class. Then he suddenly ade a mark on the world outside.cng at the Industrial Remuneration Co 1er- ence in 1884, he electrified an aud ace which included Mr. A. J. Balfour y the vigor, picturesqueness, and /common sense of his views. "Moraliga eapitalr' said Burns, "You rniglat as"Well try to moralize a boa-sekstrictor or tame a tiger." As the- direct consequence of leaving his work lo,ettend this confer- ence, John Burns lost aes job as an en- gineer. He was at that time 26 year old. • THE BLOODY SUNDAY. a:, Suspended between a sense of what.. he ought to do for himself and what he ought to do for his class, Burns found himself out of lcmpboyment in the critica), days of 1880. Men were shy of employ- ing an engineer who had at this time fought unsuccessfully for a seat in Par- liament as the Sooial Democratic nomi- nee for West Nottingham. For seven weeks he tramped from "shop" I" - "shop" looking for work, sympathizing every step he took with the thousands of less capable men in like plight with him- self. Then came Trafalgar Square. A meeting convened for the purpose of ad- votating fair trade, captured by the Socialists for the.purpose of expounding their gospel, was turned into a riot. For his share in the meeting Burns was ar- rested, and •a speech saved him—the speech which he delivered from the dock prior to his acquittal. • Out of this prelhaniary souffle arose the events' of "Bloody Sunday'," Novem- ber 5, 1886. Burns held to the right of the people to meet in Trafalgar Square. The police denied it, and prepared to de- fend the square. It became a battle be- tween half -armed and unarmed men.' Two men were killed, many injured, and Burns•and Cunningharae- Grahame forced their way to the baso of the Net- TIIIIEE MONTHS IN JAIL. tried al, the Old Bailey, John Burns made another great speech, and wont to Pentonville to meditate over a for three months. Keeping hie head and his save • ing grace or humor he came out of gaol more popular with his bwn penple than ever, and in two years was elected to a soot in the first London County Council. His rivet year's work at Spring Gardens was broken by the greet dock .sirike, of 1829. • Tower Hill became his rostrum, and the suffering 1.vives and children of the dock -laborers his most powerful weapons of attack. • It was a humane fight, Whoa a mon preaches honesty, sobriety, self-ettorifice as the essential weapons 01 11. fight, a is difficult to ao., °use bum of desiring to promote revolu- tion and disorder. So the dock stril...o passed without bloodshed, and 13urn, as Rs loader justified his claim to til po,ssession of that quality of moderation which goes to the making of a states- TO—C--U111:+17,1171A;Ila • Take a lemon and cut 11 10 hall, told out the seeds place the half against, (la ear, and eover it thoroughly with he flennele when going to bed, newt ft two or 411'00'111,01s.