HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-7-5, Page 2WEALTH THE MOST HIGH
All Through the Ages God's Great Love
Has Been Seeking Men.
God, who is rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us.—
leph, IL., 4.
Vigorously as we play protest against,
the slope that substitutes analyses anal
speculations concerning deity for human
(:uties and service, it is not well to lose
sight of the fact that a corm's character'
largely is influenced by his conception
of the highest form of being he may
lmow or imagine. The trend of a mans
life is determined by that which bel
places highest in the heaven of his
ideals.
Now it is better that a man should be
apagan, saying he bus no god and
gg out only o1 the world of nature,
than that he should he molded by the'
philosophy of s. universe ruled by a
dour, crabbed hearted tyrant. For a
man always will find things and
thoughts sweet, fair, wholesome,
elevat-
ing,and broadening,
moving to grati-
tude
and sympathy, 1 when ]
sY p he oaks out
Y,
on ss nature
on !held and sky;
but only
bigotry and bitterness can come fron
the life whose sky is darkened by the
spectre of a god of wrath.
They say that the devil's most happy
delusion is the persuading of rnen that
he is dead; rather, if there be a prince
of darkness with any favorite message
for men, that message well may be that
the god of pettishness, animosity, and
cheap, theatrical sovereignty is still
alive and controlling the destinies of
nlen. It always has been easy to find
CRABBED SOULED THEOLOGIANS
who would accept that picture as a
portrait because it was the only one
that
could lie within their experiences.
But only a vision from on high could
bring to our dull hearts the great and
glorious fact of one who could love us
all, whose heart affections pour out,.
rioting in wenith like the glowing sun
cf summer, who abounds in all that our
hearts are hungry for, the things that
seem in the world as the bread from
some fairer, sinless land; love and sym-
pathy, happiness and goodness, tender-
ness, kindness, peace, and joy.
The men who urged the existence of a
creator from the wonder of his works
slopped short at the vital and only
permanently persuasive pert of their ar-
gument which would demonstrate the
guoduess and tender kindness, the over-
flowing wealth of the creator's love as
evidenced in a world so fair and full c•f
beauty. Strange that we should think
that he so =grudgingly would give to
al, the things that delight our eyes and
withhold from any all that for which
hearts hunger.
All through the ages this great love
has been seeking men. We, because we
were like spoilt children, jealous, and
desirous of keeping in the tiny channel
cf our affections the divine heart wealth,
have decided his love could not be for
all, he only could lovo the good—such
es we are;
NE MUST IIATE THE WAYWARD,
the light hearted, and all those who
could not crowd their Intend Into our in-
tellectual molds.
\Vo were blind to the bountiful, limit-
less affection speaking through every
=springing blade and blossoming flow-
er, through the earth's riot of unneces-
sary happiness, through singing voices
or seers, through strange tear command-
ing thoughts on starry nights. We
would not learn even from our lesser
love, our affections as father and bro-
thers. Strange blindness and deafness(
And when one voice spoke, a voice
that still sounds clear above all others,
when he talked of ono who could lova
pnblhrans and harlots, then omen turn-
ed on him saying, you have a devil!
Still we set up our false gods of sel-
fish hearted philosophies. What won-
derder
the world is hungry with a hunger
that bounteous crops and tides of pros-
perity cannot assuage; it is hungry for
the deep things of the spirit, for the fin.
pulses, aspirations, and affections, the
uplift and comfort thea flow from the
heart of the infinite to all his children,
for tine water of the river of life. Would
that we night lose the scales from our
eyes and sec holy near and how good
God is, how wondrous his wealth and
open his hand.
HENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 8
Lesson 11. Tbc Duty of Forgiveness.
Golden Text: Matt. 6. 12.
THE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note.—The text of the Revised Version
ie used as a basis for these Word
Studies.
Verse 21. Then came Peter—having
spoken on occasions of stumbling, both
external and internal, in the lives of his
disciples, Jesus called their attention to
the altitude which they themselves as
his disciples should assume toward
those who went astray into sin, that is,
neige Wee; envee elrccsginn ler stumbling
pw..
verses 15.20), The eliggeetien 0: a'<sus
that they should fist seek in every pos-
sible way to bring an erring brother to
acknowledge and forsake his evil way
prompted Peter to ask the question,
How oft shall my brother sin against
me, and 1 forgive hint?
Seven times—According to Rabbinical
rules no one could ask forgiveness of his
neighbor more than three times. Peter,
prompted by a generous impulse, ven-
tured to suggest one more forgiveness
Than twice the number permitted by the
Rabbinical rule.
22. Seventy limes seven — An infinite
number of times is the real meaning of
the answer of Jesus. The limit to for-
giveness had already been pointed out
by him in verses 15-17 of this chapter,
The limit is fixed by the altitude of the
one committing the wrong. An impeni-
tent spirit on the part of the wrong-
doer makes impassible even the first
forgiveness, but where sorrow and
repentance are found, there is to be no
limit.
23. Tho picture given us 1n tits verse
is of an Oriental court. Governors, and
farmers of taxes, and other officers of
the king are summoned Into the royal
presence la give an account of their ad-
ministration.
Servants—Literally 'b0nel-servant' 01'
slaves. So throughout the narrative.
Every subordinate of an Oriental mon-
arch is Ills slave.
24. Talents -Probably the Attic talent
is here referred to, in which ease the
amount would be approximately $10,-
000,000.
25, Had not wherewith to pay—The
printing of a word in Valles, es the
word "wherewith" is printed in this
verse, indicates that the word does not
occur in the orlg-incl but is added to
make the meaning clearer in English.
Commanded him to be sold, and his
wife, and children—According to the
cruel custom of the time.
26. Worshiped Bowed down to him.
An net of humble obeisance merely, not
an net of wonshlp in a religious sense.
Forgave him the debt -•-The sense of
the word forgave Is here "remitted."
58. Went and found—Possibly even
hunting out his fellow servant.
A hundred shillings—).iterelly a hun-
dred denarti. The denarius was worth
about seventeen cents. In actual pur-
chasing value, however, one hundred
'demerit was equivalent to about three
menthe' wages for an ordinary laborer.
The amount of the indebtedness, there-
fore, for ono who was apparently of
equal rank with this tax ocllertor vvho
had equandered the fabulmis sum of
many Millions, was very small, and
payment of the gain quite within the
range of poasihlltty.
31. His tetlow-sorvants--In reality the
fellow -servants of both Men.
Their Larder-Tbpl f ng, '
32. Called him—The man to whom he
had remitted the immense debt.
Fo'gave—In the sense of remitted, as
above.
911, \Wroth—In a state of wrath or
anger. The word is now archaic, that
is, old and going out of use.
To the tormentors—These whose busi-
ness it was to inflict cruel punishment
in accordance with the decrees of the
king.
35. From your hearts—That is, fully
and freely.
UIND00 PROPOSALS.
English of the Educated Indian is Strik-
ing.
Here is a selection from the proposal
received by a Hindoo father for the
hand of his daughter: "Dear Sir,— it
is with a faltering penmanship that I
write to have communication with you
about the prospective condition of your
u' ---tet v eeleng.
ones,:. ,,..o it For some remote time
to pass, a secret has been firing my
bosom infernally with loving for your
daughter. I have navigated every ciean-
nel In the magnitude of my extensive
jurisdiction to cruelly smother the grow-
ing love -knot that is being constructed
in mywithin side butte hu la
h mid cop
of affection trimmed by Cupid's produc-
tive hand still nourishes my love -sick-
ened heart.
'Needless would it be for nue to num-
erically extemporize the greet conflagra-
tion that has been generated in my head
and heart. Aly educational capabilities
have abandoned ale, and here I now
cling to those lovely long tresses of your
much coveted (laughter like a marine
ship wrecked on the rock of love.
"As to my scholastic calibre, I was
recently ejected from Calcutta Universi-
ty. 1 am now masticating, and will
make n move as soon as 1 perceive '11
life a little laxative."
LEATHER BREECiIES.
A hundred and fifty years ago the
farm hands and House servants al Eng-
land were clothed in leather. A good
pair of leather breeches was said to pass
from father to son as un helrloom. Then
a boy went to school as well protected
as nn armored cruiser. The author of
'•Didisburye in the '115" offers some ob-
servation upon these articles of con -
mon wear.
The test of a good pair was to try if
they would stand upright of themselves
when nobody was In them. If they
would do so they wore gond, t,h'ong stiff
and likely to last for many yea's.
My father remembered a pranitco lad
coming to his father, whose fend mo-
ther heel provided him with such a pair
and they were the menns of a "vast of
fun" in a gams that Is unknown in these
days, that is, for the boys to set the
breeches upright, and then jump into
them without touching them with the
hands.
It was probably a pnlr of melt leather
breeches that Iho Windsor boy was
wearing when George iTT. asked him if
he did not know that the man eieters
hint was the, icing.
"Yee," said the boy.
"Then why don't you go on your knees
and you might kiss the king's hand?"
sold his icing.
"Because I'd spoil my breeches."
OLDEST OF AFRICANS.
Says a writer in the Cape Times M
Cape Town:—"Stuu'man, an old bush-
man who lives on the top of a hill at
Shnrman's Mils, in the Prtsska distrlet
of Cape Colony, claims le he the oldest
man In the world. tie is said in be 146
years old and his wile --fits Wend—over
100. It is known for eertnin that 05
yore ago he was a very old man, and
that hbe son 18 more than 00 years old.
iT IS AN ARTIFICIAL AGE
18 TIIE TWENTIETiI CENTURY IN
WHICH WE LIVE.
Scents Impossible to Meet With Any-
thing That Is Not More or Less
An IgUlalion,
Is anything in this wide world real,
asks the Loudon Daily Mirror.
The Twentieth Century Man was out
of sorts. Ile felt there was something
the matter with him.
Ile slipped from between his imitation
linen 011001s and his artificial wool
blankets In tine morning, and stood nn
his sham Axmhlster carpet wlih e. dis-
satisfied air.
After taking gime artificial exercise
and an Imitation sea hells, he put on his
erliLdnl sills underclothing, his bnlla-
non flannelette shirt, and his imitation
tweed suit,
IMITATION BUSINESS.
Then he event down to his breakfast
of imitation (roast bread crumb) coffee
and imitation cream, imitation bread,
Imitation butter, and imitationion (mangel-
wurzel)
el-
wurael marmalade.
de.
After breakfast he put ,n s imitation
A p r hl
leather boots (]node of brown papal, his
share frieze overcoat, and his artificial
felt hatgave a last look round at his
imitation oak hall ful'niture, the imita-
tion plaster decorations end dado. the
imitation (gas) lire, nod lire imitation
skin 1 ugs scattered about with imitation
negligence to make a good effect; and
went to his office.
hero he sealed himself at an imitation
mahogany desk, took up en imitation
ivory paper knife, and by artificial light
bcgsn to open his letters. He tran-
sacted a certain amount of imitation
business, and then, having got up an
imitation hunger by means of quinine
pick -lie -up. 11e went to an imitation
English chop -house with German wail-
ers, an Italian proprietor, and a Bel-
gian cook.
AN IItdITATION MAN.
Here he lunched off Imitation sar-
dines (which were really small her-
rings). imitation turtle soup, a slice of
imitation (Argentine) beef, an entree
made of imitation (New Zealand) mut-
ton, imitation Cheddrr cheese,. from
Kansas, imitation Bath olives from
Houndsdilch, a pint of imitation French
claret (from Spain), and e. glass of imi-
tation Cognac brandy, smoking with
his Liqueur an imitation Havana cigar.
After lunch ee fell In with a friend
who persuaded him to go to an after-
noon party. The imitation stone house
In which it was given was gaily adorned
with imitation palms, grasses and
flowers; a gramophone and pianola
discoursed imitation music; there was
bntlatiol champagne at the buffet, with
imitation caviare sandwiches; and all
the guests wore artificial smiles.
When he escaped at last, he took the
Tube Railway home, where he breathed
imitation air and developed a very good
battalion of splitting headache. •
Next morning, studying his features
in an 110110tion silver hand -glass, lie
cane to the conclusion he must go and
see the doctor. When he had explained
his symptoms, the man of medicine
smiled. "I can tell you your trouble in
a moment,' he said. "You're only an
Imitation man 1"
NO MORE MONOCLES.
Candidates for Admission to`Brilisb
Army Must Eschew Eyeglasses.
Candidates for commissions in the
army will now have to face an increased
stringency encY in the regulationsulations with re-
gard to the examination of omcers at the
militia and Imperial Yeomanry for com-
missions In the regular forces it is ex-
pressly laid down that "no relaxation of
the eyesight lest can ever be allowed."
On the other points it appears that
candidates who are pronounced unfit ny
the medical hoard will be allowed to
present themselves for re-examination
by an appeal hoard.
The regulation does not apply to those
who aro going up for a commission
direct.
Should it be enforced to the full, it
probably Involves the disappearance of
the eyoglaes as a military adjunct.
ALFRESCO BEDS.
New Craze for Sleeping Out in London
Makes Rapid Growth.
Sleeping in the open is so rapidly be-
coming popular as to suggest a new use
for the many squares and open spaces
of T,ondon, England.
"It is most beneficial," said a I-larley
street physician, "but 11 is necessary to
observe Ivo rules,
"Firstly, the bed must be well out of
the draught; secondly, it must be ]sept
well Olt the ground, to avoid the chill
front the earth.
"The idea of utilizing London squares
for the purpose would be on excellent
one if the difficulty of obtaining pri-
vacy could be overcome; but I think it
would be better to turn the roofs cf
London houses info gardens. In that
case you could put up awnings and so
secure complete privacy."
EARTH CURRENTS.
Interesting experiments have recently
been made at the Kew Observatory near
London on the effects of the electric
traction systems of the British metra
polis, The delicate magnetic instru-
ments of the observatory are affected by
the currents. Metallic plates hurled In
the ground were connected with a
photographic recording apparatus, and
the tracings recorded by the instrument
formed n pelmet of the time -table of the
London Central Rahlwny, n)thongh the
nearest point of epproaeh of that line is
six inil55 h'om Kew. Even accidental
breakdowns orcu'ring on the trectlon-
line were Indicated in the photogrnphto
record. By Connecting the earth -pintas
with a sensitive galvanometer, the rffeet
of the movements of the tramway eon -
trotters; was rendered evident, and, a
telephone being tinselled, sounds were
heard at Mir Controller movement,
Miele Inert Lelkeeelefeidelelleflielleei•
14 ilome
H1;C11'I1S.
Breakfast Corn Cuke.—This calve curt
be made quickly and easily, to be served
hot fur broakfust. Sift together one
cup of 11010010 1, one-tealf cup of flour
and a rounding teaspoon of sugar,
Beat one egg, add one oup of milk and
stir 1n the meal and flour. Beat well,
theft scatter over the batter three level
teaspoons of baking powder, beat and
turn 11110 a buttered Un, Bake twenty
minutes.
Macaroni and Cheese.—Boll macaroni
1n boiling water 20 minutes, or until
soft, then drain and let stand b1 cold
wider until ready to use; make sauce
of one tablespoon butter, one tablespoon
flour, half a pint of milk, pepper and
salt, and a dash of cayenne, then add
one cup grated cheese. Butter a dish
and add hell sauce, lay in macaroni and
add remainder of sauce, cover with
br•eaderutnbs and lump of butter and
bake fifteen or twenty minutes in good
oven.
Scalloped Mutton.—Cut some breast
of mutton into one -inch squares and
place in e. saucepan. Just cover the
meat with stock, or water, add pepper,
salt, and an onion and stew till the
meal Is tender. Pour Into a basin and
allow to get perfectly cold, then remove
the fat. Line a pie -dish with short
crust, place 111e piece:; of meat lir it
after flouring thickly, add a little •lhlck
gravy, 'pepper and salt. Scatter fine
breadcrumbs over and bake till the pas-
try is done.
Deviled Cheese.—Is a • savory supper
dish, which( the men of my household
appreciate. Slice some cheese into a
stewpan (two or three kinds if possible),
add a small pat of butter, or a table-
spoonful of cream, regulating the but-
ter according to the consistency of the
mixture. Add salt, cayenne, and mixed
mustard with some finely chopped
chutney and a teaspoonful of Worces-
ter sauce. Have strips of buttered toast
two inches wide, put the cheese on
these, and serve very hot.
Spring Chicken invites special atten-
tion just now, and should only be cook-
ed in one way, if to be served In per-
fect conudion. Carefully divide the bird
down the noddle after cleaning it,
brush over both sides of the spalehcoak
with best salad oil, seasoning it with
pepper and salt. Now grill over a very
clear [ire, turning It constantly, but
never by putting a fork into the flesh.
A quarter of an hour will be sufficient
time to cook this dainty morsel, and
serve with fresh spring watercress.
Semolina and Rhubarb Pudding.—
The necessary ingredients for this ex-
cellent pudding are one and a half
pounds of rhubarb, two ounces of su-
gar, one pint of milk, two tablespoons-
tul of semolina, one egg, a ]lite lemon
peel, and half an ounce of butter.
Steam the rhubarb with the sugar and
lemon peel, without any water, In a
pudding basin without any sauce over
it. Let the milk get ]rot and shake the
semolina into R. Let this cools for
twenty minutes, stir In the butter and
a little sugar. When nearly cold beat
up the egg and add lightly to the semo-
lina. Put the rhubarb into a deep pie -
dish, pour the semolina over, and bake
slowly till the egg is set. Serve hot.
Rhubarb Jelly Cups.—Rhubarb jelly
cups filled with a vanilla white ice-
cream not only makes a pretty dish,
but a delicious one. Cook enough rhu-
barb to measure one quart when pressed
through a sieve. While hot add enough
sugar to sweeten, and two tablespoon-
fuls of gelatine soaked in two table-
spoonfuls of cold water; stir until the
gelatine is dissolved; then turn into
small Cups. When firm and unmoulded
scoop out wells in the centre and 1111
with cream. Arrange the remnants
around the base of each cup.
Sail Codfish Chowder.—Wash one
pint of salt •codfish broken into flakes
and put to soak over night. Cut half a
pound of salt pork into dice fry crisp
and brown, and in the fat fry two
onions chopped Into fine dice. Put in
the soup pot a layer of flaked fish and
a layer of thinly sliced raw potatoes.
Sprinkle with onion, fried pork, add a
dash of flour and pepper. Cover with a
layer of split crackers. Continue in this
order till the fish end one quart of
sliced potatoes have been used. Over
this pour two quarts of milk and allow
the chowder to simmer very gently for
one hour.
Tomato Soup.—For an old-fashioned
tomato soup, !eke one quart can of to-
matoes, and one quart of beef stock.
Cook slowly on back of range for an
hour. Rub through a sieve. Sensor
with pepper, sell, a dash of onion juice
and n little butter, Thicken with a tea-
spoonful of flour stirred smooth in a
little cold water. Stir constantly until
it comers to a bo11, and serve at once,
ITINTS FOR THE HOME,
It picture and mirror frames are
brushed over with laurel oil flies will
not touch them.
If roasted legatees aro burst open
with a fork they will be found mucic
lighter and more digestible than if cut
with a knife.
Waterproofing for brown hoots con
be male by mixing a little mutton suet
and beeswax together. Rub this on the
soles of the pools and lightly over the
ellgee whore the stitches ere.
A Cnlce Hint.—Too hot an oven will
ruin the hest mads cake as gnickly as
too cold an oven, however much trouble
has been taken. The oven door should
not he open much when baking cakes
or pastry, ns steady heat is most neces-
sary for au01555.
Hair lotto is made with inn mince of
tincture of cantharides, one omen cf
olive oil, and one of t•neCmery. Shalee
these ingredients together. Apply this
Ioban to the ronls of the hair at night
once or twice a week,
Eat Enoog11 Snit,—Ninny of us forget
that Salt 18 ns necessary for our conste
tullons as sugar is to the palate. Salt
should be used as regularly as an
article of diel, for although IL is put into
our food, a large enough quantity 18
not obtained in this way to supply all
that is neceesury.
An invisible oemen, is very useful In
a lmmschold; it is ]nude by boiling Isin-
glass 111 spirits of wine. This prulhlees
quite u transparent cement., which ren-
ders the join almost imperceptible,
When the cement is being prepared
use a gallipo= stood 1n a pun of fust
boiling water.
Cure of TOM Linens—'fable linen, In
look well, should always be spell -third
and rolled up for ten minutes before it
is honed, If good linen, it will not nerd
any starch. A Moth, to look well.
should not be folded into loo many
creases. When dry always roll the
table clothe, but never fold.
Useful Polishes.—If vinegar is mixed
with black -lend, the latter will he found
to give a much better polish when need
on the kitchen stove. A good way to
clean a c(epper kettle is to 1111 it w1111
hot water and rub the srface with
milk that bus turned sour foe some
time. Then polish in the usual way
with chamois leather.
Starch Gloss.—To glaze linen without
the aid of a polishing iron use the fol-
lowing starch gloss, made with
of while starch, los. of borax, 2oz. of
sonp, glycerine,
Ona tablespoonful of
p
ne u
1,d an' teaspoonful
on of turpentine, �
o
p ,
of common salt. Dissolve the borax
and soap in hot water, then mix all to-
gether In about three pints of warm
water, This preparation will keep for
months,
Ceres of Cupboards. All cupboards
need airing, cleaning, and dusting as
much as any outer part of the house—
mare, Indeed, because they aro shut up
from the sun, that great purifier. In
small apartments the shelves in the cup-
boards will be generally found packed
light with cardboard boxes, for there is
so little room for storage in a modern
flat or house that every inch of space
has to be utlllzed.
Glove Cleaning.—White chamois lea-
ther gloves may be cleaned in a lather
of Castile soap and warm wafer, with
the addition of a dessertspoonful of am-
monia to each quint of water. Lay the
gloves In the lather when it is lulce-
warm, leaving them for fifteen min-
utes. Press nut the water, taking earn
not to wrench the gloves. Rinse in cold
water containing a small quantity of
ammonia, press out the moisture agnin
in a cloth, fill the glove with ah', and
hang out to dry.
SEA SERPENT DESCRIBED.
Lives Along Tonquin Coast and Inas a
Mustache.
Dr. Raphael Blanchard, professor of
the medical faculty of the University of
Paris and member of the Academie de
Medcine, has been going into the ques-
tion of the sea serpent and now finds
himself in a position not only to de-
scribe the monster but to give a por-
trait of him. 11e has a head and body
like a seal, but with an immensely long
tail and a very long and flexible neck.
He is also ornamented with a fine mus-
tache, and he is believed to have a mane,
though this does not appear to be quite
certain.
Dr. Blanchard bolds that the existence
of the great serpent is beyond all doubt.
He has been seen several times in the
Bay of Aloing. - In 1904 he was seen by
Lieut. Lagresille of the French navy,
commanding the Avalanche, and again
by Lieut. L'Eost, commanding 111e gun-
boat Decldee.
The latter officer's account is remark-
able for the precision of its details. The
length of the serpent which he saw was
aL leest twenty metres; it had a large
dorsal fin and a head like a seal's, but
wasso lou
siva g1i
shorter. II
much
S
that shells burst on its surface apparent-
ly without more effect than tickling the
dome of SL Paul's would hove on the
Dean and Chapter. Dr. Blanchard notes
that it is on the coast of Tonquin that
the serpent seems chiefly to show itself,
end calls on the Cochin China. Govern-
ment to organize an expedition to cap-
ture the monster,
It is a curious fact that in a village on
the coast of the Bay of Aloing a stuffed
serpent is ]sept by 111e natives, who have
built a temple for it and pay it diving
honors.
TORTURE RELICS ON SALE.
Drunkard's Cloak, Iron Root and a Foot
Squeezer.
"drunkard's
Several torture relics were put up for
auction at, Stevens's, Covent Garden,
recently, but they did not excite much
competition, says the London Deily
News. There were no eager calls, even
,r a hangman's rope. A paltry 75. was
.811 that was given for one wbich had
been used by the renowned Berry.
All Iron 501'00', or fool squeezer, eves
"
bought for Li, and the same figure was
paid for a set of double stocks, and also
for what is termed
cloak
Tho loaf -named is one of those instru-
ments of old which was intended to put
ilia dclhlquenl to shame. It is shaped
like a Inge pail, and the drunkard who
was to be disgraced was fastened info
it with only Ills head visible through n
narrow aperture at the lop. The cloalc
gave the wearer the minimum of room,
the ],lands beineepraclically pinned to tate
sides, and walking was only possible in
a Kind of shuffling movement. -
Olher articles sold were an ancient
whipping post with shackles from Ox-
ford, two sets of shackles which were
used in old Nowga(o Prison, ancient
branding irons and an iron "boot," into
which the victim's naked foot was placed
and boiling oil poured In, all of which
sold at 12s. each.
An ancient chair from the Castle of
Noronburg, in which people were se-
cured for torture, fetched 18s., and an
iron torture collar with spikes, 21s.
SAW THE, BEGINNING,
judge : Were you present when the
trouble started between the mann and
his wife?'
Witness : "Ye:Me wiz at doh' wed,
din', eI dat's whet yo' means, soh.
FORTUNES MADE IN `I'IIl'S
THE ROMANCE OF 13011E \'ERY
LUCIKY WAI'I'Eltti.
it is a threat Advnulage to lie Able to
Speak Various Litn9t hors
L'7ueu'y,
It the (1%14'14(0 wallet' was ueI l if he
wits 11011004a lurlitue by his entente h.'
would tn'ubnUly imps 011,1111 et the mere
suggestion of aly'11um9 s1, Iwlicru, IS. and
declare — what would probably be true
elluugll—that it hates hen all his Lim15
le earn a bare livelihood. But hili] it
be possible for a wruur, 01tact excrp.
]tonal conditions, l0 ailmass 0 very re'
spectlble fortune is beyunl all doubt,
suis Lundut Tit -Bits.
Uuly u tun' nuufhs a9%1\1,1111'M'.
o wr worn 1(n1 -
Ing of a 31001,9 French wallet, Ai. lh•au-
coke Dunton, who wee en his w•uy front
Denver to his home in France, laking
with him $40,000 as lite fruits of live
years' work in what must certainly he
n wailers' paradise. During the five
years 01. Dunton had made the annual
income of it fairly prosperous lawyer or
doctor, and !n a single year at Sl. Louis
h' was crediting with pocketing
the
,•ePresident u the Local Gov-
rc%cnuo of a 1 taldun t t
eminent Baird or of a Loed President
of the Council of Great, Britain. 01. Du -
mon no doubt owes his s1100000 largely
to the tach that he can speak 11011-a-duz-
en ]nngun9es with fluency.
More fortunate still is Mr. Charles(
Antler, a wailer at the Astor ]louse lintel,
NOW York, who recently retired after
thirty years' service with the snug for-
tune of $100,000, derived from tips ju-
diciously
INVESTED IN MODE'(, FLATS.
In no year did \i•. Millers income at
all approach that of his French revel at
Si. Louis; and he owes his present envJ-
able osition Inbeing able l' retire on
b ) U u 1, t! a
15,0031 a year to Ills 11 ill and the shrewd
investment of his savings.
But even Aar. Miller's $100,000 dors
not represent the high-water murk of
wailers' fortunes. There was living In
Nov Yoric a few years ego an ex -wetter,
Mr. fleury Hodson, who was credited
with the possession of $2,000,000. Ac-
cording
ccording to the Herald, Mr. 1Iudson lanl-
e l in the Stales In the early seventh's
without money enough to buy a square
mai," and after a period of great hard-
ship, found employment in a low -class
restaurant in the neighborhood of the
New York (locks, where he was able to
earn the equivalent of $•t a week. A
few years later he became a waiter al
a hotel near Wall Street, where his
ready wit and good -humor made hien u
great favorite with the members of the
ueigbboring Steel( Exchange. itis in-
come from lips quickly mounted to sev-
eral thousand dollars a year, and err-
ing on the advice of his patrons he
speculated with his savings so success-
fully that within len years
IIE \VAS WORTII $100,000.
With his fortune he retired, end by lat-
erty speculation in laud stoles he has
bcen able to increase his capital twen-
-fold.
Such luck ns this is very exceptional,
even In the laud of the "almighty dol-
lar'; but, 11 we are to believe all that
is repotted in the newspapers, there are
many waiters in New Toric and other
great cities in the United States whose
Incomes are lltlle short of 85,000 a year,
and a fortunate few who exceed this
substenlial figure. It is said. for instance
Mot the head wailer at New York's
most fashionable hotel makes an income
large enough in enable him to keep rac-
ing stables as well as a stean-yacht and
a motor-cm—a roventrc which must thus
be greater than that of some of our
Cabinet Ministers,
Not many weeks ago we read of a
lucky vat receiving
wailer r e' '
g
$1,000 IN A SiNGLE TIP
from an eccentric) millionaire; of a pas-
senger on the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. giving
$25 to a steward for a cup of colica, and
$20 for opening a bottle of wine; and
of n distinguished foreigner at Bari
who, after lighting his cigar with a Iliou-
sond-Nano note, handed another of the
same value lo the wailer for bringing
him the cigar,
Unfortunately. such lavish tips and
such princely incomes are pei'licula'ly
unknown in London, where tine waiter
who averages $20 a week is an object
of envy to his fellow's, and w'her'e the
head -waiter of it Fleet Street tavern
whose income reaches $2.000 a year le
regarded es a veritable Clemens. Rut
even in London substantial tips are not
unknown; for It Is still recalled that the
late Colonel North, in a prodigal moor].
once hinted n twenty -pound note to n
waiter rifler n sumptuous repast; 01111 n
five -pound nnle was quite I.bn regula-
tion tip of the gentlemen known to
fame as the "Jubilee Plunge."
FOR CONVENIENCE SAKE.
There was no 11811) for it. Mr. Sin -
clam had to Mango (reins; but when he
found that the place at which lie would
have to make the change was a roadside
station which was just far enough from
the village not to allow of hint walking
in and obtaining refreshment, oI which
he was emote, in need, he was angry
in the exlremo, and at no great pains
to hide the fact.
"Great. Scott, man," lie said to the soil-
tary stolid porta' on duty, "what on
earth made hhn build the dalton so far
fron ill0 village?"
"Donna, mister," sold 1110 porter
gravely, "unless, perhaps, 11 was because
they thought it would be more conveni-
ent to have it down hero near the rail-
way,"
GLASS 1311011EN 13? THE VOICE.
it Is sen..rcely credible. but 11. is a Leet,
that a glass can be brokon by the voice.
If you strike a thin wine -glass while
you hold it by the stein it will emit a
certain note—in most cases a pretty sleep
ono. On approaching the, glass rapidly
to your nouth, and shouting Into it the
sane note as lore ly as possible, the
vibrations fit tier. glass bring thereby ex-
lended, IL will be shivered Into frag-
ments. This used to be a favorite ex-
periment of Lalilnche., the renowned
stage, who would thus 'reek, one ni-
ter the other, es many glasses me were
handed to him.
RICHES 'NAT BRING RUIN
'11111 "SILVER SPOON" IS lNO'I' AN
reenl1AI O BLIi5It4P\U,
Money le Not Neresearily a IIc1U an 1110
Begiuuintof a Young glows
%fll'f'l'1'.
1'O su9g"$l the possibility of riches
11lll;a1R; 111111 :,11 (WS suuu'tVnut of pura-
d„x, bur huWm•er i11adttpafu the m e nd-
Ul•el Hely be, toe d:U11111y Itil'rulll'e a
1111(11'5 ,l,c01155 by the uuwunt of 1)5,•1ul1-
nry req lord ids leisure hails brought
Lim. Thus, in 111011y (01,115 Itche0 florin
Zhu eery hull-ntn•k 1,i $ucec:s, uu11 mi-
1fot hr 111131 a•uy be asset:Med with the
10010 "11110.'
'1'o clone the ground, 1t is not lo such
rieho0 that t ruler, gays n 01•ilel' 111 teet-
otal Answers. 'I'hc 1(11111 1n ]bis c1,un-
h•y, and in names, wigs have 1ecumte
toted vast fortunes by their own untiring
ir,du.+try,
energy tlnd (tlteria•ise repre-
sent in a 11151151111. Ilse Valvar Of tate
ration's ]mein, Generally speaking, they
have thoroughly deserved success by
eemmalncling 11, and 8(1011 110.11 any w'c11
be regarded with eyes of innocent envy
"1 nich-
es,
brethren. li
• less r,ucc5ssful u
I
their
Y
',' urn do
of these 1
" ten In Ih5 linnets
h
not eriu9 ruin, but the very opposite—.
suer,...
CURSE OF INHERITED W1IAL'I'li.
But there is mother kind of wrultlm—
that which is not earned, but inherited..
From my own luta vk'dge of puna olur
cases, and from 11,e experience of other
men winch has been imparted l) 1110, I
say emphatically that Mimi—Mid wealth
Hues lead to ruin more often than not.
"BML I dun's see why it :Mould]," or-
I;urd a 1111111 Willi whom 1 discussed the
subject only recently. "After all, life
is something like 11 railway juuruc'y• and
money is just the geese Ilia cakes
, ' •
I coalineg run cree-
l -his,
Ilio wheels of the o,
ly „
I11(1' many 10(011 er mom/ Aeon,
sounds couvhlcing; bol it is far (emu be-
ing so. For, .if life is Bice a railway
jeuruey, end 1110ney is as grease to the
%%heels, it proves but very little.
When it Haut tins got the grease Inc
the wheels the rugine runs smoothly,
and our young men lances things rosily
--111 ('110113. Ile OVITIOuks the neeessiLy
of slaking, of infusing ell01'0 and 1110-
li1•e power lulu the engine. And Peen -
ally the tines comes when the consult
Mellon lois used up the grease on the
%%heels. The engine gees squeeleing
Meng. slackens down, and finally comes.
to a Ntnp.
Nil fill that happens does Ilse young
men realize thin Ilnr fire Is nut, the boi-
ler cold, and the wheels themselves par-
tially worn stem, Therein lies Ile, Furse
of inherited wealth. 11 makes things Ian
easy for a Ihue--makes Iho possessor•
qthinuh k00.tical. no effort on his part is re-
CAl'I'I'AL NOT NECESSARY.
The cry one sometimes hears that
substantial success can only be reached
by the min vvhu 11115 a comfortable nest -
egg to start with is utterly fallacious.
Wallis and energy torn the lined capi-
tal i1, the world for the man commenc-
ing business life.
And in the prufessiuns the sante con-
diUun prevails. Listen lo Sir Frederick
Treece, serge.011-Strgemi lo the King,.
c r1 the suietet. Addressing the students
of Aberdeen liniverslly only the other •
day, he reu101'I(Cd:
"One is early feet with the essurence
that success in life depends largely op-
en money, influence, and social position,
good fortune, and, above all, on the
possession of genius. 1 have no hesita-
tion in saying hint ample, or oven mod -
ovale, =mei at the outset of a career
not only falls to constitute an element
of professional advancement, but is an
actual hindrance e to i sturdy, independ-
ent progress."
There is no inistake about It. Look
round emon9 your own friends, you who
0115) this article. Do you not Oud tent
success is more often achieved by the
go-ahead fellow with no money to start
with, but with all his way to make. than
1.31 the mean who, on nailing 1,i 0911, finds
himself In possession of it eonlpetencn?'
Oh. that competence. \Vial a bar it
Is 10 the elan who possesses it, 11 saps
his energy: it snakes him careless 0111
1111111vl90111; it ('1(11555 111111 to waste lime
and let the modems years of his ray
life slip by without any serious 1llentpt
nn his pa't to Mennen his position.
Salon-hnrs. billiard -roans, ince-,'nurses
elnim his constant altendnnr5. ile frit
lees away chances and misses nppOr-
',eniltes—all because the necessity of
renewing Ilton up and gelling the most
out of them (l00s 1101 nppea' to him to.
Le of vilel importance.
Nol 1111 1110 money he vvas linen 1n has
been spent. In more or less "v1010110 liv-
ing"Anes he lern towards work es a
way nul of his difllumities, ' And then
ata too leen He 1105 allowed other men,
poorer el the outset., years of skirl, and
the handienp is too heavy for him to
mn1(e up.
GOOD OFFER SCORNED.
Again, the very fact of n mat having
been in affluent circunlstences makes
him unable to recognize a good bnahtess
offer when IL is made to 1111(1. Ile has
len( accustomed, let us say, to living
et the rale of $5,1.100 a year. All his
roomy being gone, he seeks nn appoint-
ment In trate, end Is offered a berth,
perhaps, at $1,500 a year. This might
quickly lend hint to a post al $5,000 or
more per atomise But does he accept?
No, Ile beets up his nose al n miserable
$1.500. Meanwhile, the man who started
Me poor jumps at the 8011)0 offer, makes
the most of his chances, and eventually
enjoys a better portlton 11) life Irian
wee ever the lot of the man who refueled
the beth which made him prosperous.
Neilsen] as is the notion of n father In
leaving his.sen n few 111ousends to start
i•fr on, it is, 111 nineteen eases out 31
lnenly, a pitiable mlolake. Senreh the
streets, the bare, and the gambling
chubs end you shall fleet not one, but
hundreds of men who, sterling life in a
position of compnrntive utluenro, are
reduced to n. stale of degradation and
ruin.
ile: "But 3 thought ynu`il forgiven
me for that, end promised lo forget
9110 : "Yes' ]nit 1 didn't promise to lac'"
you forget ler Torgiven 111"