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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-3-22, Page 2\VICKED GSE OF SATIRE Virtue and Worth Are Maimed By Cowardly Ridicule. Whosooever shall say to his brother "Race" shall be in danger of the Colin - 011; and whosoever shall say "Thoulcol" shall be in danger of hell tire.—Matt. v. 2`: Ridicule is an edged tool, satire a deadly weapon, and scarp may become an accursed instrument. These powers of speech may be used rightly to correct, heal and to save, but never to hurt, poison or destroy. The vast press, the multiplied facilities rf speer1e and the aver -Increasing forms and methods of art for the conveyance lund display of edeas together with tile thousands of educational institutions end Me wide ramifications o1 our ntagi-1 cal modern delivery and transportation systems, have all joined to increase enormously the power of satire to help or to harsh. Therefore it should he used conscientiously, discretly and mercifully. Otherwise, it is a cowardly, pernicious and fatal weapon. Virtue and worth may be moaned fir slain as easily as vice and meanness and misfortune. Adversity and misery are al: too often the pitiable victims of the unspeakably cruel attacks of the satirist and the scorner. What worse calamity could be brought upon sensitive women or (high-spirited Wren than to make them feel that they are ABSURD 01I CONTEMPTIBLE or outcast or that they are mentally dis- ordered, materially ruined or spiritually lest? Day after day we see the result•( et this idle, misutrevious fun or vieiouS mitre in the fortes of terror, hunil1a- tion, disgrace, loss, grief, Insanity, sui- cide. A sensational but unfounded story in the newspapers worked the professional ruin of a young hero of one of our wars —a man of loftiest attainments and faultless life. The idle, mischevious whisperings of a ship's company made to be overheard by a sergeant as he goes the rounds of the decks at nlglit serve to drive him insane. Persistent ridicule on the part of his pernicious comradei In camp worked the mental wreck of a fine little bugler whom t knew and lov- ed. But examples like these are without number, lamfliar to us all. Society, trade and politics turn out victims of this order continually, and their misfortunes proclaim again that that "010118 Inhumanity L0 ratan makes countless thousands mourn." Even one such victim should sullicfenty admon- ish us against this to prevalent vice -- Ike wicked use of sabre. We should avoid it because it is cowardly and cruel and because it is $0 dertger0us—so very eaugerous. It Is so often aimed at lite helpless and unfortunate, whose create lion or peculartirs they cannot help, end which should make them rather objects of compassion. 'These are creatures for whom Christ died• and whose presence In the world relieve thm to place, consideration, fel- lowship and the helpful word and hand. Lot us follow the maxim. "LIVE AND LET LIVE." Let us learn to "enjoy the imperfect In a life that can never be perfect," and move earnestly to pursue the golden rule" and strive after the grace to love our neighbor as ourself. To think to put ourselves in his place will serve to guide us in the way of kindness toward our fellow being in all situations. Behold, I show you a terrible picture: Jesus mocked as a crazy king by brutal Boman soldiers; a filthy cast -oft robe is put on Him, to cover the bloody stripes on His scourged back; a crown of thorns l: set on 1lis head, a weed is gathem 'd from the yard and placed In ills hand and, then with guffaws and insults these ruffians bow at His feet in mock obeis- ances and hail Ilim fn derisive terms es king. Last they smite and cuff the bles- sed sufferer and command HIim to pro- phesy—to name the offender. Nut one brave voice raised in protest, nor one band raised to defend Him who was doe most peerless man of his day, the most superb hero they had ever seen, and who wss soon to defend them and all the race with His Ute. Let that sickening scene of cruel mock - mg stand before the shamed eyes of all men as God's rebuke to human ridicule. C. Q. WRIGHT. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 25. Lesson XII. Temperance Lesson. Gold- don Text, Prov. 23. 32. LIISSON WORD STUDIES. Note.—The text of the Revised Version is used as a basis for these Word Studies. The Book of Proverbs.—The book tf Proverbs belongs to a class of biblical writings known aS "Wisdom Literature." IL i8 a compilation of wise sayings gatle erect from different sources, and falls naturally into a number of separate parts clearly distinguished from each otIier, and partially marked oft by spe- cial titles. Thus that portion of The book included. i11 10. 1 to 22. 111, and which, in fact, forms the kernel of t11e whole book, is clearly de eignated as consisting of the proverbs of Solomon, while the por- tion inoludod in 22. 17 to 24. 34 is dcsig- noted "Words of the Wise," Chapters 25-29, however, are introduced by the words, "Theca also are proverbs of col. omen, which tate men of Hrzekish lung of Judah collected," Chapter 30 is en- titled `Words of Ague." Chapter 31. 1.0 contains exhortations to Lemuel king of einem; chapter 31. 10-31 contains an alphabetical poem standing by itself, with apparently tale connection with what precedes. In 1 Kings 4. 32 we are tuld concern- ing Solomon that "he splice Ihrce thou- sand proverbs." Many of these have been preserved to 115, ass we have indi- nr'xl above, in our canonical book ; f Proverbs, several subdivisions of which bear the title "Proverbs of Solomon:' Our Temperance Lesson for to -day is taken from a collection of maxims of warning entitled "Words of the Wise." Verse 29. Who haul woe? -•The word translated "woe" In our Bibles in 010 Hebrew is simply an interjection or ex- clamation of distress. We might trans- late it sltnply 0. The Hebrew idiom reeds literally To whom 0? That is, to whom is there cause for exclaiming 1n distress? Who hold sorrow?—Hebrew literally— to whom alas? the word translated sor- row being again simply an interjection, though not the sante interjection as In the preceding sentence. Contentions—Qnarrelsamenese such ns results from indulgence in strong drink, and which consequently loads to pug- nacity and therefore else to wounds with- out cause. Redness of eyes—The anklet tnea0fng al the expression anus translated is not -certain. The word rendered "redness" may also ile translated dorl,ness, or dark flashing, Any of these ireuslalious would mn1<0 good sense, and be in harmrmy lib the facts, that is, with the ached affect of excessive indulgence in strong drini<, though prohably the rendering as wo have 11 in the English Bible le the preferable. 30. Seek out -The verb here used is elseevhera, as in lob 28, 27 and Psa, 139. 1, used of diligent search for wisdom. Archdeacon Perowne, commenting 011 this Verse in the Cambridge 131120, points out the touch of .irony in the use of this *cord In this ,connection. Mixed wino -•Nut n nli.et u .rr of different t: i kinds of Wine, nor yet wine mixed with. other forms of strong cll'enk-•not mixed drinks in 1110 Ame'iral senas—but wine mixed with splees of differeitilekinds to mate it mere pungent. 31, Gogh down *monthly --Or, 110 0111 Aulhorteed for 0011nnon) Version of the Bible Mortalities the some phrase, "2110ra11* itself aright." The re1Qe0ing of the Revised Version Ls, however, to be preferred, and is in harmony with the wording of Sang of Sol. 7. 9, "And thy mouth like the best wine, that goeth down smoothly," or, as in the Author- ized Version, "goeth down sweetly" (nla'ginal reading, "siraightly':1. 33. Strange things—Marginal render- ing, as in the Authorized Version, "Strange women." The thought is that the imagination of the drunkard is haunted by strange and sinful visions as his mouth utterelli perverse things. 3e. As Ile that lieth down in the midst of the sea—That is, as one utterly fool- hardy, because of having been robbed of his powers of reason and judgment by strong drink. As he that 1ie111 upon the top of a mast—'rhe mast and sails of ancient ships were more simple and clumsy than those used in tnodern limes; usually but one large mast supporting a large square sail fastened to a yard of great lenglh was 1100d. The drunkard is as foolhardy as one who would IIe down to sloe ton the top of such a mast. 35. Shalt thou say The fact that these words are printed in italics in both the Authorized and llevized Versions indi- cates that they are supplied by the trans- lators and do not occur in the original Ilebrew. in translating from any one language 10 another it is often necessary to thus supply words to give the plainly intended meaning of the idiom of the tangling,: from which one is making the translation. Such supplying of words is not guesswork, but a necessity. Not hurt—Or, pained. The settees of the drunkard are so dulled that he be- comes unconscious of cold or mislreat- menl. Seek it yet again—The antecedent of the pronoun "it" is left to be, supplied in thought by the reader. Nine or strong drink is referred to, and the evil in- fluence of these so fills the thought of the writer that ire neglects clearly to indicate the subject in this sentence. FROM ERIN'S GREEN 'ISLE NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRELAND 5 MORES, nappeninps in rho Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish- Canudlans. William King, 'et Dublin carpenter, aged 50, died from mimeos received by slipping on an orange peel. Belfast tramways having been electri- fied. line corporation has sold 1,210 tram- way horses at an average price of d 18 each, Mr. R. R, Cherry, ICC., has been ap- polnted Attorney -General for Ireland, and Mr. teed/nand Burry Solicitor -Gen- eral for Ireland. According to the annual report of the frisk Registrar -General, no fewer than. 182 centenarians died in Ireland last year, and 711 persons over ninety -flys years, The remedy for Ireland, according to Mr, T. C. Cunningham, the Unionist candidate fur West Renfrewshire, is to encourage and tosser her manufacturers, and lead her people to do a good day's work. Dr. Tames B. Armstrong, a well-known medical man al Castletovn, Berehaven, and a magistrate for County Cork, was on Lhe 10th u11, found dead In his house with his brains blown out and a gun near. At a special meeting of the Senate of the Iloynt University of Ireland, held in Dublin recently, the Earl of Meath (Chancellor) presiding, a resolution was adopted that in view of the disorderly conduct of students the Government should give them power to discipline them. Belfast's municipal electric tramway service was inaugurated on the 91.l1 inst., by a triumphal procession of six cars, on which were nem -eters of Parliament and Representatives of all the local public bodies. The first car was driven by the Lord Mayor, coached by a skilled assist- ant. On the recommendation of the Earl of Lucan, K. P., the Lord Chancellor has been nleased to appoint limey H. Sheen - Bingham of Armagh, Belmullet, to be a magistrate for tho County Mayo. The annointnent Inas caused much pleasure in the neighborhood, the recipient, who is a large landowner, being exceedingly popular amongst all classes and creeds. A discovery of a sensational character was made last week on the road leading from Mullingar to Irisldown, and con- venient to the Mullingar Workhouse. A laborer named Sullivan, while working for a local road contractor, unearthed a skeleton buried near the surface on the roadside. An old dagger was lying near it, The remains are supposed to have • been lying there for a great number of years. Larne Lough was recently the scene of a terrible disaster, resulting in the loss, under the most painful circum- stances, of four lives—Chief Boatsman O'Leary, of Larne Harbor; Commissioned Boatman Sweclenl am, of Maghera- morne; Mr. Alexander Kerr, assistant Customs officer, Larne Harbor; and Master Dixon Beggs, son of Mr. William Stewart Beggs, a well-known Larne merchant and Urban Councillor. They had rowed nut to a schooner to inspect it, and were lost on their return. NO ANSWER TO TITA'. The woman of the house had asked the Kitchen lady to stop down to the corner store and purchase a bottle of olive oil. "And be sure, Norah," she said, "to get the pure article.' "Yes, ma'am," responded Norah; "I'll look et It mesilf an' see that it's puree' "But you can't tell by looking at it." 'Sure I can tell whetcher it looks clante '1' not, can't I?" "Yes, but that wouldn't make it olive all, I want the real article, and you have to pay more for )hal: "Fwhat's the diferenec, 01a'a11)? I it's olive oil ti's olive oil, isn't it., jist?' "Norah, don't you know uteri's a great deal of imilution olive oil in the niarket?" "How 0'0 that he, dine, Ma-arkley Did ye ever sec 111 imitation olive?" BIIMARKABLE FEAT. Recently an Indian fakir appeared at a circus in Berlin, whore he astonished the audience by lifting a boy with his ey elide. The boy made himself as small ea possible, and was put into a net to which Was secured a string that was pro- vided on each end with a little cup just large enough to tit over the eye. The Midi, pressed these little cups over his oyes, where they held fast, then threw his head back and slowly straightened his body, thus lflling his burden, which lee then carried about—his arms being outstretched all the time—and finally lowered it slowly to the ground again. How Is it possible for any man to do this/ The only explanation is that the cups were toed into the eye -sockets 'o that they held on the edges of the sock - els, but it is not likely that rte trick will be imitated by even those prestegia- tors who consider themselves very ex- pert. IiOW THE ICAISER TRAVELS. The German state railway is much tempted to encourage like Emperor to travel as often as possible, for each jour- ney he takes is a considerable sum in the poolcet of the nation. His Majesty travels in great splendor. As a rule, there aretwo special trains, one for the Emperor and one for the Empress. Those are the properly of 1110 Prussian stale, but the travelling expenses are paid for by the Emperor himself. '1'110 court trains ere charged 01 the same rate es ordinary special tains. Thus, rho journey from Berlin to Elbing, near the north-east frontier, cost rather over $1,500, and the earn fee is charged for the return journey. NEW YORK'S PET AMBITION. New York hopes et be, jhe greatest city in Ute world about the ,year 1902, A 0ommissione'. with a tests for ca101- fattens, estimates that in 1920, of the rate observed in the census periods of recent years be followed, New York will Itave 9,818,000 inlhabitants, end London only 6,010,000. OV1:11LOOKRD Maunna-•-"Now, Tommy,1 left two a - + 0 pies on the pantry shalt, and there's only one there now. What's the explanation at that?" Tommy (frankly)—"Oh, mamma, the pantry's so dark I didn't see the other Lunacy is daelaredd to be growing in' Troland, and taxation for eay1nms 131 be, Wining 100(1131, , he Flo in 4d'4dieealer,lleleWee. F @»1 1 1'11511iO 11ECIPL S, Ginger Bread,—One clip of brown $ gar croamed with piece of butter size or egg; one cup u[ sour milk, with one tea- spoon of Soda beaten In it; two teaspoons of g1atind Olga; ,;, cups of flour, pinch of sail, one egg, added last of alt. 130a1 welt and bake in shallow pans. Wtx in- gredients as written. Brown efeal Iliscutts,—One pound of whealen stout, one lensponu[uI of bak- ing -powder, a teaspoonful of brown sugar and n pinch or suit. Mix thorough- ly into this five ounces of buten; make into a stiff paste with a litre mills. Roll out very Min, and buko in rather a quick oven. Creamed Chicken Salad, -This is made of chicken very tnely chopped, mixed with. while Sauce, and gelatine to cause it to "sol." A tablespoonful of gelatine to a pint of chlekeu will be about the right proportion. Put the chicken into small moulds to sel. Serve on indivi- dual plates, with a lettuce leaf under the mould, and a spoonful of mayonnaise on the plate, Sleeved Mutton with Celery,—Take a piece of the scrng end of mutton, plane it in a saucepan, cover it wvil'lh warm wa- ter, and stew gently fon ah hour. Then add half an onion and one large head of celery cut in pieces an inch thick. Let all stew together gently unUl ten- der, slightly thicken the gravy, season with pepper and salt. Place the meat on ahot dish, pour the gravy round, garnish with chopped parsley, and serve, Cocoanut Snow,—Soakhalt a pint ;I gelatine in a little cold water for an )hour, then turn on two cups of boiling water and stir until the gelatine is thoroughly dissolved. Add two-thirds .1 a cup of white sugar dissolved in the juice of two oranges, and strain the mixture into a bowl. Set this u1( a pan of ice -water or chopped ice, and when the gelatine begins to thicken add a cup of shredded cocoanut, beat the mixture. until it is quite white, then fold in the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs. Rinse some small moulds in cold water, fill them with the "cocoanut snow," and leave them in a eine place to get lirm. Serve with whipped cream, or plain. Kensington Cutlets.—Take two ounces of nicely boiled rice, mix it with some onion which has been boiled and chopped, four ounces of finely _shredded suet, and one ounce of bread crumbs. Season with salt, pepper and cayenne, and it few drops of some hot sauce. Make into a paste with some warm stock and spread on a plate, smoothing the top over with a knife dipped in hot water. Let the paste slants two hours to cool, then cut into neat cutlets, dip' into egg and bread crumbs, and fry a nice golden brown. Take a ]hot dish, arrange. on it a narrow mound of pota- toes about 'the width of tate cuticle, press the wide end of each cutlet tltto this so that it will stand nearly upright, pour a 'thick brown gravy round and serve. 1'110 dish is inexpensive, and only re- quires a little nicety in preparing it to bo very dainty. Doughnuts.—One cup of sugar, ono cup of sweet milk, three eggs, three level toasponfuls of baking powder, nutmeg and salt to taste, flour to make a soft dough. Stir the sugar and milk together until the sugar is all dissolved; add the beaten yolks of the eggs, salt and nut- meg, then about half the hour, stirring the mixture perfectly smooth. Now add two tablespoonfuls of hot lard from your kettle' on the stove, beating it in quickly and perfectly before putting in the whites of tate eggs (whisked stiff) and the bal- ance of the [Iola', in which the baking powder has been sifted. Uso only enough flour to snake a soft dough, just so you can roll it out, a small portion at one time. Fry in very hot lard and take out on brown paper, laying them separately.. Never pile them 1111 all are done. When the last ones are out of the kettle take a basin of fine white su- gar, begin with the coldest ones and roll each separately in it. This will make about fifty good-sized calces. If more are desired mix alp it 'second batch-- never atch-never double the recipe, . 01111011 sounds rather absurd, but yotl can never have them so nice any other way. No matter how many yott wish to make, mix only one batch at a time. IIINTS FOR VIE HOME. Stains on table 11000 should bo treated as iron mould and removed carefully with salts of lemon, A young rabbit can always be known, for its claws aro very sharp and the new bones can be broken easily: Before cutting a pork always damp it slightly, then use a sharp knife, and there will bo no "agged edges, To lessen the odor of frying onions set a small pot of vinegar on the stove n mauve hi le, When eilclalit is dull nod shows signs of wear give 11 a lhht coat or varnish and 11 will look nearly equal to new, Sue sour milk In small or large gun - lilies for cel30 malting, when enrltnnnle of soda should be substituted fur balding powder, Fill pin-nushlons with thoroughly dried 7offco unds, for 1tt00 *111)10011(8 will 1111+•)' 10gro111)11 thea), anti the nc:odles and pins do not rust. Tho pillows used In a pefnnlbulnlor should be kept for it, ns If a cot pillory ie used i1 11)1131, If lho 20)' ism)? u1p, !)'- coma denlp also, 01(111 0111 lhrn bo fit for the child to use at night 'nnles8 dried, which the nurse may forget 10 do. Temperance Ginger \\Inc.—four five quarts of belling water on to 'two 'monde of loaf sugar and throe-qua'tere of en o11110e of Tartaric acid. When cold acid lw0 drachms of eseuee of ginger and two draclluts of eseene1 of crtpsieunl. Color .with a little burnt sugar. Slraln through 01081111 anti bottle. A )'aper Mouse-trap.--Tlre stick fly- paper, which is entuntnuly sold during the 80111001 season, makes an excellent mouse -leap. A strip of 11 laid to front of any hole from which mice emerge is suticient to hold theta fast till they are captured anal deetrayed. The salve paper may. be used over and over again. 'teacups even when carefully kept, sometimes have: dark stains id the bob - tom caused by the action of the tannin in the lett. Sall, slightly moistened, will remove these, but in case of very fine china 11 sometimes scratches 'IL a little. Powdered whiting will be found quite harmless and equally good. For the 1.atndry.—\Vhen damping clothes for ironing it is best to use, very hot water, which penetrates through the linen more readily than cold. Tull the clothes tightly dlrcclly they are speller - led, and peek together in a clothes bas- ket 1111 required for ironing. How to Keep Game.—Sprinkle the game freely with freshly ground c'ffeo on the day it is shot, and it will bo found to keep sweet foe some ante. Sprinkle the coffee well amongst the feathers, or fur, ins 1110 case may be. When pacleing game to send away, sprinkle freely with coffee, allowing two. teaspoonfuls for each brace of birds. To remove grass stains on children's clothing, ley this simple method: Dip the spot in molasses until thoroughly soaked, and then wash out in clear, tepid water. hailing this remedy, chjor- ide of lin mixed with tepid water, so that a solution 01 moderato strength is prepared, may be used, After saturat- ing with i11is solution, wash at once and thoroughly in tepid water. ARMORED MOTORS. France Experiments With a Death - dealing Chariot. Successful experiments have been made in the streets of Paris with one of the seven new bullet-proof and shell- proof motor cars which are being bu i1 for the Prussian Govertuneut.. N.I. Etienne, the .War Minister, rode in the crit', Which attained a speed of (enl.,;- eight miles nn hon' on level ground, and ascended gradients as sleep as one in four. The car weighs three tons, and is "t 30 horse -power. 1t is provided with n small quick -firing swivel gun, which can fire 600 shots a minute in any direction. - Feanoe also is providing herself wilh a complete corps of these armored motor Cat's. The car carries a folding steel bridge, which can he quickly placed across ditches. With the help of this the car showed that IL could go across country, CIIEAP LIVING IN RUSSIA..,., ,One hears much from returning travel- lers about the ruinous cost of living in Russia, "bort," writes a London corres- pondent, my expol'tence is flat the tourist can, under normal cirounhstanees, live, and live well more cheaply in 11uee sia than In England. During a month of last summer—befo'e the present out- break, of course-eI travelled forty -live hundred miles by river and railway. i visited Si. Petersburg, Moscow, Nijni Novgorod, Samara, Kungen (in Siberia) ane Ekaterinburg., With the exception of ' a few short distenees, I travotte:I fir's) class, And i lived at the best hol,els. I have seen, 1 think, as much as it was possible to see in the limo. My total ex- penses for time month -amounted to 875 roubles (almost exactly lhiely-Hing pounds), which works out at the rate of twenty-six shillings 'per day, Of 11111 sum 11317 5s., or un average of 115, lid. per day, was spent on railway and Volga steamer fares -a very moderate average, considering that the distance travelled was about one hundred and fifty miles per day. The remaining £2t 5s. covered •tile whole• cost of hotei.oxpenses,- living, tips, cab hires, and sightseeing." It is the fellow who can't sing who generally Ilas things offered to him for a song. J.� a, 0 411 'e 0. • �la0,11,31_ t • lr', PN, 41( "i ; eeillell e le' e. ere' "DREADNOUGHT" '1'11E MOS'i' 1'0Wti8VUL RAT7'LTSIIIfr IN TIM WORLD MICROBE LADEN 'PHONES VERY SAD SOUTH AFRICA 11Ili OLD STYLE RECEIVER MAX 0)0 ABOLISHI'in, A New Swedish instrument L'uls the Re- Meer e'teh'er Over b;peaketes Ilettd. Two Inlp0rlant telophouiu develop- Cma.0etsolnl(1ie1n111all0lly 11:15:11.((11:111'11s1' 1211:1), 2hveontyded th1(e1 SSwwvc('dluennlt Feely range the universal ttlxdlti 11i •+1 the nth:robe-laden monlhpleve ul the present-day Ilephan0. The new meets einem is ingenious and cheap; ono bring available for enllllnel•eial and pI'ivaln use, mid tui 01100' for n11111017 110111 op- oatous and naively work. NEV' STYLE 11liCF,I\'l 1. The invention known as the mono - phone, which 18 fol' commercial 1(8e, l:us a receiver of a new typo and of ex- ceptional carrying power, It 1.4 about eight taches long, with a plain handl,',. funnel shaped al one 01111. This Mattel, whether held above or below or at the brick of the head, or painted upwards (r downwards, oulleels the spenk('1''s voles and lram:tlnils his wonio. As the ,tsar trust not apply the funnel close to his mount the hygienic neve-ranges ire chvtous. And as time direct current of air dons not conte into contact with the ntel,5 brane of the funnel, all disturbing 11- trtlons 1210. nvnided and per'fect arteet- latlon is solan'ril. 11 is 1110 invention of Mr. Holmstrom, the chief engineer of tho Swadtsh TOO. graphic Otlice, and Is 1010Th liteapt:r than 511011111' Instruments fn use in this country. The utter invention is n Roll telephone and sound telegraph fur militate, pm, roses, designed by f.icettenant femme man, of tiro Swedish Royal Engineers. By Its aid n body of troops, Mew oe lent, Ctu1 1<rep irk cnnsllutt (0(1111 watt Ihr. grnernl ufi 1101 at Ihn [1)130. of 0pera- lions without delaying Ih0 m1ie11. OUTFIT FOR SOLDIERS. 111e ltpparnitts Is simple to a drgroe. it consists of a small brass cylinder, about nine inches long by three in dia- meter, containing a dry believe, cod a il,ealdng receiver, which is slrnppttd In the chest of the soldier. Fixed to r.is back are small drums which, although light, can hold 30e miles of wire, the base end being, of course, attached 11( a receiver. Strapped to the ear of the cavnl'ymttlt is another receiver, which Is also connected with the cylinder. As the trooper gallops along, the wire unrolls front the drum, and it may either Le allowed In lie on alto ground oe he picked ftp by a soldier following, who fh,cos it on the branches of trees. The Winder receiver is so sensitive that 1,1 - though It is placed Some 12 inches low the mouth of the trooper he need not bend his head to speak into it; or, '1 more conveuienl, the instrument (101 be, used as a field sound -telegraph 1131' enlpioyi19 the Mersa system. 1101 the foot soldier a lighter insh•u- ntnnt 1.4 provided. The British Govern- ment have experimented with this in- strument et Aldershot, and aro nogolla• ling for a supply for the use of the army. Au ndaptatton of this telephone tans been made for use by reilwny gaugers lo enable them M'unify the nearest sta- tion of any oockleut o1 defect on the. line. • OFF' THE 11009. The British Posl-often authorities are conducting a series of experinieree lo overcome the hhconvenionen caused by careless subscribers who, eller using Me telephone, leave the receiver off the rest. When some few vent's ago, in8t0- mine of a cruder type were. used, they bad a howler" device whteh continued to melee a 110150 that compelled atten- tion. The present experiments are with the object of diseovoring wit *the' a dinner alarm can be employed with 'he mere delicate Instruments now in use. ;t is not suggested that any "howler'' twit he devised In express the indigna- tion of a suhseribor who finds himself erroneously and frequently rung op in the search for a different suhscribcr. ROW 111 ROBBED A HANK, Remarkable Career of Ono' of the Smnrtes( English Clrncksmen. "Oen of the smartest, oracksien in England," was the description given by \4r, Justice Grantham at lite Liverpool Assizes of Arthur Norton. in sentencing 111111 to ten years' penal servitude for burglary. Norton, will aht011310 inn named Preston, who received a sentence of five years' penal so'vtude, was caught go- ing, through the jewellery case of a com- mercial traveller at the Union Voted, Liverpool. Both made a desperate ale tempt to escape, but they were over- powred and arrested. • "I retnelnllnr sentencing [einem to ten years' penal servitude at the Durham As5lzes for stealing cash and boles t0 the value of X3,354,' continued the judige. "After plotting clays, weeks, months and years, he s10eeeded in robbing a Sunderland bank by taking a wax im- pression of the bank safe keys, which he abstracted from the pockets of a i eOh< clerk whale the latter was in a Turkish 111th. "Qn 'another °Conlon, I remember ne was arrested in Soho, London, and as the detectives got 11)10 a cat by one door Norton's accomplice slipped t111'ottgit (he oilier, d, nn of marvello "Ile is, inanddeed,escapea ius altlUty, •worthy, of a bettor life and a beret' vocation " Both Norton and Preston were de• scribed by the police as being connected with a ea11g of thieves 1(1 London w1111 whom it was very chntoult to deal. WHAT SPANISH TITL[lS COST. Fin has titled Sp 000000 , i parsons; tial is to 80y, about one in every tliirlycight inhabitants. But such titins are hetet as less than nothing by the original peer - ago of the country. These a lase are known g ya the Grandees, and form an ;ai'isteoracy entirely or birth, some of them --like our old tended gentry -having no handles et all to their names, and yet entirely refusing 10 mix with even dukes 0f new creation. To becemo a Spanish baron $2,000 is 21110010101. A viscounty costs doable that amount, while to be )'nolo a cotrt)t a payment of 90,060 ,is necessary, OUTWARDLY iT (Il I'1"1'ERS, BUT RE. NINA'1'1I 12 HARD TLUl3y, The Country Is Over(plrernrd and Dui People Are Rate) Up by T. uses. '1'110 Lon 1011 1)1111,0• 51++11, fel'Inooly 0110 o' the buomo131 of `011111 Africa, Pub' lislull reciully a runtarkehle erliele by u spolat commissioner on the condition 1' Sum111 Melee, The wile'. says in purt:— Ilnirover iu(Porteut Ihn prohicat of Ibe endive or tw dnug'el, of lm .1:;ht110 may hi• it theory the eyes of 111e South Afri- ca "1 10.1113' are fixed meet 1111 issue of still greater ho'd at the uunueul. Soutl Afrtoa 1, dimly coneeious that it is ilt the had balks of the 1uq+ire. It h.; lust the c,ndltlenee of the capital of 1111+ word, t1s a'4els ur0 rrgmdrd wi111 Rn8pee tunl, Il f5 n,'ce;vury i0 mala: a fieslt Marl and (1001' over again its 111111e null its poluntalli1:), The lode 1' cul an easy ono. No part of the em - ['Ire dotmnWS more 111310 slausuuntship "r mare x1(51111 handling. ltpm!l the 1 obey of 1110 next delude will largely Iinprn4 1110 ultimata place which Sottih Afreet shall hold in the I;riti,.11 lands bf the world. 'rhem is a danger that with • it her w"nttli she 111031 1'3114111 (I Poor llelulinu. 1)E1,1188S(ON ON A1.1. HANDS. 'The p0sillen to -clay presents litany liiature8 whirur'e dtecuttrn tin.- \Pha ono reluenlhr1l g r$ Lh.1 In•lt blurt Iulr(I'n pri)m dieted 10r Rhodesia ten years ago end the stationary position of the euuntry to -day, one begins b1 gee ser:.•tllem ( t the difih'ullies which have to he over- cnnu%. But 111ere is slit! lhopn, 'There two other parts of the world w•ilit ❑0 9reah:0 natural advauhtgee than 501111( Africa w111r11 have yet 11.0(1 nm,le to support, large populations. Mee of all nue 1111131 get rid of the de- pression which hangs 111te ;1 elouhl over the whole sub -continent. for prolonged depression breeds lad,: of eontldenee, and 111,1< of onutdenoo pods in apathy 111111 lethargy. You must turd: beneath the surface In realize how fat• -reaching 11118 deptew8inn hos been Shitty the ab- normal 11III WWI' of hankruptrtes at the (,Fpr. ;especially ❑1110119 British trades- people), 1001< til. the lung liars of empty 1)1,0.;113 mal shops nl. hurben, glance over the huge 1181.4 of small debt. *10833 in inluuule.:bttrg (old Prebtria, Mud y011 will begin 10 see low widespread hes been the stffeefng. VENI•:El OF PROSPERITY. Outwardly three 1s still a glitter. The tetalisat0rs et the rime, ceurs,1 tool the crowds at lite theatres give 11 „011ee0 t.t prosperity. But the Bend was always Ilius• here Move is still something of the spirit of the gambler, a legacy of the old days. tut eetwelh the :airtime are sad rases of privation, of wonting wor- ry, of the 1101x' dererrml ilial makclh Ilia heart, sick. 1'o e\',o, i rdrd 111191an11 there soma ample1(1031 fu Snulh :\F 110. Rut llw immigrant will b:' wise to give this land n wide berth fur some Unto. South Africa to -day cannot sup- port ell the people 0131 ltns. 1'1(0 1111- 01tlpinyr-ti stili walk the streets of (:ape ''own and .Tohnnnesburg, 11011 Pretoria a1,11) reports 0551' 1,0110 indigents, The truth is, (here have been piled. upon South Africa burdens Lhnu8L hcav- irl than she can hent'. Academic dis- ettesio11 113 10 whether 11117 canhl have troll avoided( 1s awls; ". The problem In I s fncr,l 13 how (u mot eel of them. OVEIGO\'li[iNelleN'f flll? 'lboU13T.E. 1110th Abri+u le sufleriug, mllltat9It other lbings, Iron oveeguvuruuu'nl. hos fire (Milt of the earliest British Admin- lslrulall in the Cape. The fault hes le - day spread 0507 811 the_ eouniry, .\thcr all, there are fewer white people In the whole of British Smith Africa than there aro in Yo'kshite. The entire native population is not so vary 11111711 11101'0 n1nnerOltS 111111the people of London. fe it necessary to have Governors for 11(0 Cape and Naittl, Uinulrnaul-Govcr. noes for the Trnnsvanl 111111 Ihr. Orango Rhver Colony. nesiclent Commissioners and Administrators for other parts, 811 with sepeate establishments anti staffs, n11 multiplying the departments which spend inanity, increasing imported ofi1cl- (Odom? One 'Lieut. -Governor •of Bengal tiled (before the inn herein) twelve. limes l:he entire population of British South Africa! And South Afrlen, with n11 Its miner - el width, is not an 1:11da'ndo. is gold g*eoespreInty rnM w'chcllmEunrlgrortpe,gcd. What remains SOME NEEDLED REFORMS. With some broad scheme of union it would be possible to reduce the, expen- ses of administration in all dopatmenls. it is in this direction that the salvation of Sodil Africa lies. When lass rev- enue Is required it wits he possible to lower the rates on .the runways (to -day a huge taxing -machine pressing most hardly on the poorer ahtsses) and gradu- ally reduce the cost of living. This is Um problem which South Af- rica must be helped to solve, 0110 strong roan, a wise autocrat, )eft welt absolute' pove)' for five yea:8, could re- construct the country. Will rival Leg- ifentures and divergent interests, 11, will take longer. 13u1 Cohinial and import• nl Governments alike Met have this one airs. It is worth aha trotlbir Fifteen years nsa Sir Charles D11130 wrote: "Con- sidered from the Imperial, from the fu- - elan, and from the Australian point to view, as an aid 10 01.11, rno'illma poov- cr, 110 spot on earth 10 more important to n he Cp" Th115o 1tha10'118tmeaOge.U(llly 11110 OfSm1h Africa to -cloy, FORGO'')' T111J i NVEj.01"t , - A friend wrote to Marla Twain asking iris. opinion 011 a Certain matter and le- eeived no reply, 1101 waited a row days and wrote again, 1.148 second letter w118 also ignored, Then he sentathird Fie enclosing inf t sheet 0f paper andn lova-cent slnnhit. By rehire mall he received n poslnT card on which was the following: "Pn' per anti stamp received. Neaso sed en- velope,' Nem Maga a rnan'a feel hy.lhe slip. pets Ilia WVife makes for him. .