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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-8-23, Page 2T SIE WORK THAT ENDURES The Spirit of Divine Beauty Gives Eternal Life to Our Labors. "And establish then the works of our hands upon us."—Ps. xo.. 17. In every man Who lifts his eyes and heart above the road on which he walks lies the deep lunging for a share in eternal things. ile dwells in an atmos- phere of the transitory ; hourly does na- ture remind hhn of the insistent les- sons, all flash Is grass and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the held. But he is the child of eternity and looks away to Lind somewhere that which shall not wax old, change, or pass away. Ile spends his years in toll, labor that seems as futile as a child's building of block castles. He seas in the melan- choly ruins of the past the ease wilh which the greatest aohiaenents are forgotten. Yet still, for all the cen- turies of vain endeavor, there burns In les breast the passionate longing to do some work that shall lost. This is one of the motives that built pyramids, led hosts, wrote books, and sung great songs; this, with the larger recognition of the fact that we aro under some great moral obligation, some law written on file fleshy tablets of the heart, more imperative than any on stone, to do the best we can with alt ourselves, aocounts for a large part of human progress. This desire to accomplish things that shsll endure is A RIGHT PASSION. It !itis above the lust for fame, the am- bition to carve oue petty and meaning- less names on the sides; It sets the work above the reward; It makes a man de- termine to do the work that will stand whether Us worth be recognized now or later, whether the reward come now or consist only Ln the permanency of the work. But how shall one and the task that shall produce an enduring piece of work? How may a man know that his work is the best he can do with his powers? What are the works that abide, standing flrm in all the passing procession? What workers of the long ago have so wrought that their work abides to our day? To answer that question a man comes to realize that the aspiration preceding the text answers the question, 1t 1s the spirit of divine beauty that gives eter- nal life to our labors, the beauty of ser- vieo and of reverence, The builders of their own monuments have been loss gotten. but the doers of true ministry for others are remembered. Thero are those who, for glory and renown. build empires; Iheir names have perished. Thera have been the lowly lives that have leapt to some height of sacrifice, some peak of love, Mat have dune some deed perhaps small In itself but magnified manifold by its motive, and these who never stop to think of glory, these Rumble ones the world never will forget. ABOVE THE TIDES OF TIME, the storms of criticism. the changes of our fads and philosophies, the towers 51 sacrifice, of deeds made great by love. of the ministry of men, stand firm and Imperishable. Steel and stone come alike at last to dust, but that which is wrought Into life, into character, en- dures. This Is the day when men are mea- sured by their ability to build great for- tunes, when we are likely to become dissatisfied with our own lives, because we cannot do these great works, can- not alt be known as the mighty men 01 our Umes. Let no man be so foolish as to turn from the work that can be established, that Is enduring, to this cuud's play t,f piling up yellow dirt. Here lies the sat- isfaction of the teacher, the true preacher, and of all who give their lives in service to one another or in the service of ideals and truth; that they alone build in the enduring material. And every life that is given away, every life that follows the true light, the light of love, that seeks the best In thoughts and ideals, in deeds that cost, every life lived as seeing him who is Invisible, every life that serves the lives about it, has established the work of its hands, has found the lite that is eter- nal, the crown of glory that does not fade and cannot be lost. HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 26. Lesson IX, The Rich Young Ruler, Golden 'Text: Mall. 16. 24. TIIE LESSON \\'ORD STUDIES. Note. --The text of the Revised Version is used as a busis for these Word Studies, The Lesson Setting.—Jesus was on his last Journey- to Jerusalem. He had been for a short time in retirement be- yond Jordan wlLh his disciples. Know mg all that was h1 store for him, and the brevity of the time still at his dts- posal for instructing Itis disciples con- cerning the great work of establishing and spreading his kingdom among men, which was so soon to devolve upon then, he must have had many im- portant matters upon his heart and mind to say to them. But now the time of privacy and retirement was at an end and Jesus was once more in company with his 'disciples on the public highway leading to Ih: capital city. He was ap- proaching Jerusalem from the north- east, and was probably still east of Jeric.-o and the Jordan River, The read on which the little company was tra- velling was a much Irequenled high- way. Just previous to the incident of meeting the ,young man Jesus had been approached by many others among whom were women whp brought Iheir little children to hint. Filled with love and compassion Ise paused to bless them and to declare to those of maturer years, who were tweeted. and especially to the disciples, That of such as these Mlle ones was the kingdom of heaven. Pror.,teding further, lite progress of the little company was again interrupted by the hurried appstnseh of a ,young ruler of wealth and social standing, who addressed himself directly to Jesus, after paying hien the homage given only to the gentlest of Matters. The burden of his errand was to know the way to life eternal, and to the method by which Jesus met his earnest inquiry we now turn our attention. Verse 17. As he was going forth Into the way—Frons some stopping place to 1 route to Jerusalem. There ran one to him—This "one" is , described by Luke as "n curtain ruler,' 2 by which is probably meant an. ofifcisl In a local synagogue. It is more tlnim probable also that the man was a Phar- Isee, and further on In our narrative we learn that he possessed greet wealth, fl Kneeled to him—Flow much it meant 11 for the young Phlnelsee and ruler to do ods publicly we on better appreciate when we remember that at this time all the Jewish authorities wore already 0 .leagued against this Leacher from Naze- relh, planning his destruction. Good Teacher — The customary re- speclful address of a pupil to a.dis- tinguished rabbi, 18. Why contest thou me good? none (1 is' good-. save one, even God—Words spoken preparatory to referring the 1 young man to the divine command- n melds themselves in answer to Isis In queetion. tv 10. Thou knowest the cmmnanchnenls (1 —Those commandments white. belonged to the law of the one only absolutely dgood Being. For two versions of the ecelogue see Used. 20. 12.16 and Dent. 5.16.20, 20. Teacher—We note lied the re- spectInl bearing of the young marlto- ward Jesus' is maintained througsout au the conversatfort. it All these things have I observed from my youth—Actually, and in the most conscientlons manner, the young man had ordered his daily life in accordance with these oommandmenls. That he is keenly conscious of a deeper need is a strong commentary on the inadequacy of formal obedience and worship to satisfy the deepest needs of the human soul. 21. Looked upon him—His earnest- ness and evident sincerity challenged the more careful attention of Jesus, who loved him for that earnestness, sincer- ity, and longing for better things. •-atsoever thou hast—His dress and demeanor indicated his wealth and social standing, Come, follow me—Part with your pre- sent manner of life and become one of my disciples like these other men about m02e. . Jesus had rightly judged the cese,l and had frankly poleted out to line young man the barrier which existed between himself and the goal which he sought ; hone the young man's coun- tenance fell at the saying. His disap- pointment was caused by his failure to obtain the object of his quest; his go- ing away by what seemed to him the impossibility of fulfilling the conditions set by Jesus. 24. For them that trust in riches— Words explanatory °A Use sense Of the preceding statement of Jesus, Some ancient manuscripts of Mark, however.omit this clause. 25. Through a needle's eye—Doubt- less the aotuai eye of a needle is meant. We have here then., an Orion - tai proverb setting forth, 1n the form of rhetorical hyperbole, the extreme WM.cnity of the thing referred to. 26. Astonished exceedingly—Lit., ex- ceedingly beside themselves, that is, with amazement. Unto him—Some manuscripts read among themselves, doubtless both was the cane. Then who can be saved? — Tho abruptness of their question regects the user amazement of the disciples. 27. All things are possible with God— Not simply because he can employ other than ordinary agencies and per- form miracles, but also, and more especially, bemuse Ile has absolute and unlimited control (nor every natural agency in the physical and spiritual world: 2R. Lo, we --in contrast with the young man, have left all, and have fol. owed thee—Mat . ew records that Peter added the very natural question. 'What then shall we have?" (Matt. 111. 71. 29. House. or brethren, or sisters, of mnih''r, or tether, or children. or Bonds —111 recognition of the pocnlinr satee- n)of ench disciple Jesus enumerates 11 ihese Mime:, some one or more ,.1 wMich, each of them had parted with n order to follow hint. 30. lie shell receive a hundred fold ow in tilts Hae—The is. he shall re - MVO 11101. W111011 will rc'pincn all these hangs to that degree, 'Jesus had no. vhcl'a to lay his head. and yet he was omelette of a lordship end possession [ nit Ilse earth. Into which every true {,Scipio of his con enter." --(;,)1141.31. Rut many Met ore first shot) be est—Wards of warning In the dist:Mies of to build their hopes for eternal lite a strongly upon the ..n1 sacrifices Inch they had made in becomingItis isciples. _, • 1.. -. ONLY A SUSPICION, Mrs. Pneer "I heard that Mi', Tyte- hist gave a dollar to the San Fransic- osufferers. Ts it trete,?" Mr. ?neer; "Nobody knows. Ile was spotted of 1t, but they couldn't prove (n ,Mint." MOVEMENT IS GI OWING' : '�� 'i t�,..�.�, L TIIE WO31EN OF JAPAN WANT Tl1Elit IUO}I 'S. Girls Refuse 10 Marry Nowadays Until They Know 'Their • Husbands. The Japanese women is the last cf her sex who would be accused of ha'- ing woolen's rights aspirations•—spec is supposed to be a paragon of submis- sion and self-effacement. But Mr. Lud- avic Nadeau, writing In tate Paris Jour- nal, says that a very extensive woman's rights movement is now in existence in Japan, and that it is constantly grow- ing. Mr. Nadeau speaks es follows :— IN UPPER CLASSES, "The movement was stoned by a few women in the upper classes who had conte in contact with European life. Their object here was to free their pretty compatriots from family tutelage and marital slavery, to develop the sentiment of responsibility and indivi- duality, to strengthen the passion for liberty and to stimulate the will. Thus IL happened that at the same time Socialism was born In Japan the woman's -rights movement camp into existence. " WOULD NOT MARRY. Among the women who ere devoting their lives to the liberal professions and among the female students the revolt is now complete, and just how deep the rift Ls may be inferred from the fact that a short time ago a number of Tokyo girls refused to marry unless they were first permitted to meet and know theirfuture husbands, Other girls have coma out boldly and declarad that they did not intend to marry at all, and that they feel the marriage bond to be entirely inconsistent with tree, individual life. "Another significant event was a strike in the latter part of 1905 of girls employed in a cotton mill at 1Curanagi —these girls, to the numberof some nine hundred, boldly marched out to the demand of shorter hours and higher wages. For the Japanese woman to do this, however, means far more than the average European can surmise, al- though this is a fact among atony simi- lar ones which go to prove (hat the Japanese woman of to -day is far differ- ent from what she was Len years ago. MEETS OPPOSITION. "Naturally the propaganda is meeting opposition in a country where woman has been systematically ground down for centuries, and it is not possible no achieve emancipation quickly or with- out a smuggle. But as Japan develops along modern lines, as she makes hes' army and navy stronger, as she builds railroads, noels and schools, just as surely will modern social and ethical movements be started and unfolded. Of these Socialism and femininism are distinct working forces In Japan to- day." HARD -WORKED SCHOOLBOYS. Those of China Study Nearly Twelve Hours a Day. The Chinese school children have in- stilled into them at an an early age habits of hard, steady study. At the age of five a boy begins his schooling. At daylight he rises, and after dress- ing as quickly as possible, he starts breakfastless to school. Ile is given a task, and after It is completed he is al- lowed an hour for breakfast. Again, later, he has an hour for lucheon, but he 1s at his study nearly twelve hours a day, seven days in the week. All his time, when he is not reciting his lessons, he is 'studying aloud at the top of his voice. He is under the eye of his master both in school and on his way to and from school. The lad is taught rudimentary astronomy, physics and natural history, but greater stress is put upon writing and his literary studies. "A Thousand Letters," a poem, is the study that forms the backbone of his literary education. In it are taught the duties of children to parents, and all such matters. Whatever the study may be—history, classics, or science—every lesson is learned and repealed word for word. . 4 DANGEROUS WAR -SHIPS. What Happened a Turkish Ship When ed t o Ordered Sea. ea The army and navy of Turkey aro net regarded with much respect by the of- ficials of other countries. 'Their mighty forte are believed to be useless; it is said that the gunner's are never drilled, and that the big guns, like the battle. ships, are not, In working order. The author of "The Balkans from Within" gives the history of a comparatively re, cent occurrence it the Turkhnsh navy. Al Sninnihl n guard -ship, a Miley mod ern -looking small cruiser, Iles year in and year out peacefully at anchor in the bay. One' day at order came to the commander to put to sea, and the consternation of that pliant()Meer was greal, betmise no screw steamer oan move without a shaft, and the shaft of this cruiser had been sold some time I.e(,re. But he was a mon of resource, and had a shaft made of wood, which he hoped would break as soon ns it was put to use. The shalt held, unexpect- edly, and es the cruiser slowly steamed nut of the gulf the captolaet heart sank, for he did not care (n go to sea wilh a shaft that must break sooner or later. So he seal below and hod the shaft sawn (inti -way through. A Mlle extra steam, the shrift broke, and 'he guard -ship was towed heck "disabled," LIKED PEOPLE TO TALK. efrnpuden1 fellow, 1801 he 2" remelted the first man to 1110 crowd, "1 do de- spise sassy week. lc. don't you?" "Oh, dont t Icnnw." replied the outer. "I like people to talk buck.' "You do ?" "Yes; I'm an auctiocerr IN Home asestevezieswastesetesteeeessaiiatea DELICIOUS FROZEN DESSERTS. Frozen Buttermilk,—Put 2 qls, butter milk, sweetened and flavored into the freezer. and let stand until very cold ; then add 1 qt cream that has been whipped, nix thoroughly and freeze, 11 is a delicious frozen dish. Cocoanut l:rersm.—{Por (Isis take 1 qt cream, 1 pt milk. 1% cups sugar, 3 eggs, cup classicated or fresh cocoanut gruted and the juice and rind of a lemon, Beal together the eggs and the gruted lemon rind, add this to the milk In a double boiler, and stir until the mixture begins to thicken; then add the cocoanut and set to cool. \Vhen cool, add one sugar and lemon juice mixed together, lien stir in the cream, and freeze. Kentucky Cream.— Make % gallon Acts boiled custard, sweeten to taste, and 2 tablespoons gelatine dissolved In 3 oup cold milk. Let the custard cool, put in a freezer, and as soon as 1t be- gins to freeze add 1 lb raisins, 1 pt strawberry preserves. 1 qt of whipped cream, stir and beat welt. Blanched almonds or grated cocoanut may be added, if preferred. Brown Bread Greens—This has a city flavor that Is simply delicious. Any one who Inas tried the effect of a thin slice of brown bread, buttered with sweet 'bullet, as an accompaniment to ice cream, will appreciate the combina- tion. A cup and a quarter of dry crumbs are to be soaked for 15 min- utes In 1 qt cream, then add 1 pL cream, X teaspoon salt, small cup of sugar, rub soaked bread through sieve, stir 1n the other ingredients and freeze. Half milk will answer (1 cream is ricin. Two Toothsome Ices. —Wateem elon; Scrape the pulp from a largo ripe wateteneion and squeeze out all the juice, sweeten, mix with the whites of 3 eggs and freeze. The whiles of the eggs should be beaten. to a stiff froth before adding to melon juice. Fruit ice : To 4 cups water add 2% cups sugar, bring to boiling point and let boll 20 minutes. Add % cup lemon juice and juice of 3 oranges, Cool, strain and freeze. SHERBETS OF MANY KINDS. Apple: Press 1 p1 unseasoned cooked apple pulp through sieve; add 1 p1 oranberry juice, juice of 1 lemon, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 pt sugar; cook 10 minutes, cool and freeze as for ices. Serve in crystal glasses. Raspberry : Measure 1% pts rasp- berry juice, 1 scant pt sugar, 1% pts water and the juice of 2 lemons. Boil the sugar and wafer together for 20 minutes, then add the lemon and rasp- berry juice, strain and freeze. Pomegranate: Peel and squeeze the juice from 4 large oranges, mix with 1 cup powdered sugar; 2 tablespoons gelatine dissolved in hot water, 1 pt powdered ice, and 1 leaspon fruit color- ing. Mix all together, flavor with 1 teaspoon of nectarine, turn into a freezer and freeze. Serve in glasses. Currants : To 1 eft currant juice al- low 1% pts water, the juice oI 1 lemon, 1 pt sugar and 1 tablespoon gelatine. Soak the gelatine an hour or two in a little cold water, and then dissolve it in % pt boiling water. When the gelatine cools add the pint of cold water, the sugar and the lemon and currant juice, and freeze, Banana: Boil together for 5 min- utes % pt sugar and 1 pt water. Let it get cold, then add the juice of a small lemon and of an orange, and % dozen bananas mashed fine. Freeze until it begins to thicken, then pour in 1 cup cretin and freeze to the consistency of mush. Serve in punch cups. Pineapple: Boll together 1 qt granu- lated sugar and 1 qL water until a thick syrup Is formed, and pour this, very hot, over a can of grated pineapple or a fresh pineapple grated. Add the juice of 4 lemons, place the mixture in the freezer, add 1 pt cold water. Just as the sherbet begins to freeze, add the well - beaten whites of 3 eggs, and finish the. freezing. Mint: Bruise the leaves of a bunch 'of fresh mint; add the juice of 2 lernons, cover anct let stand for 20 min- utes, Put 1 pt granulated sugar and 1 pt water in a saucepan over the ilre and stir until the sugar Is dissolved; 'then cook undisturbed until syrup will thread when dropped from the point of a spoon. Remove from fire and add s4 cup grape fruit juice. cool and strain, and if you desire a brighter green, color with spinach coloring. Freeze in usual way. Orange; Orange sherbet is delight- fully refreshing and very effective when tinted a pretty pint,. Made by the fol- lowing method, it will be found very excellent. Juice of 3 oranges and 1 lepton, a heaping cup red sugar, 1% pts water, 1 lnblespoon gelatine, which hos been soaked for an hour in the re- maining sX pt water; sib' over fire until all is dissolved, then remove Mein the {neat and add the orange and lemon oMilcand strain through a cheese te , Freeze the mixture when cold, and when half frozen add the whiles of eggs beaten stiff. Lemon sherbet can be colored fn the same way and is equally inviting, Grape Juice Frappe.—One :pt of grape juice, 1 clip orange juice and the juicy of 2 lemons aro required. Acki 2 cups granulated auger and 4 of water. Moil the sugar and water 15 minutes end odd the fruit jute°. Strain, add 1 qt ice water and more sugar if necessary. Remember that MOS are sweeter before they are frozen Clan afterwards, Do not freeze too bard, Pineapple Mousse, -Very dainty are Inc desserts maple of inapt mousse, and in summer nothing scents to equni then, Almost every moiety of fruit may he used, with this recipe ns a Inundation, adding more fruit or sugar es the case requires. Many prefer to Merlin the fruit, except In case of pine- apple, simply using the juice, and if so, more fruit will bo required. For phi% apple mousse Chop 1 fin large ping apple, add 1% qIs water, sweeten to taste and add the beaten \sidles of Iveco or three eggs ami freeze. For lounn1 mousse allow 4 lemons to 3 oranges. and the sautla quantity of wider.et. Serve in gloss cups, with cherry atop. IIIN'1'S FOR 'rifle HOME. When stewing fruit add the sugar oiler the fruit is cooked. In this way only a small quantity of sugar will be required to eoelt pound of fruit stewed. Preserve ferns or gross ht then natural colors by placing then In blot - ling -paper for forty-eight hours and I•hen pressing them with heavy weights. Maidenhair fern can also be successful- ly treated in this way. When scrubbing boors and tables do not use soda, for IL cakes boards a had color and does not cleanse better than soap and plenty of cold 01' tepid wale', The hoards should be scrubbed the u way of the grain, and not round n114 round, as so many youtsg people pre- fer doing. For the coffee -stains on your grey dress try an application of fuiler:s earth and wafer made into a push,. Apply this just on the stained part, and when dry brush off with a clean clothes Mush ; if necessary. have. a second ap- plication of the paste. To Render China and Cilass More, Durable.—Wrap the pieces separnlel; in hay hands, or some suit material, pine them in a large pot and cover will' cold water. Place the pot on the stove and heat the water very gradually, until near boiling point, then lower the fire and allow the water to cool gradually, To Keep Fish Fresh,—Clean the fish and sprinkle the inside with brown sugar. Keep the fish in a horizontal position, so that the sugar may soak into it as much as possible. Half an ounce of sugar will be found quite susiu- cfont for three pounds of fish. If [lett Is treated by this method before sant and smoking, the flavor is much im- proved. A Danish Way of Washing Dillon': Fabrics,—Boil three pounds of potaloo in n gallon and a half of m\'nlrr for ten or twelve minutes, strain the wafer and let it cool. Wash Inc garments in this without soap. put the same potatoes in- to another gallon and a half of water and repeat the process. The fabric will then be clean; hang in the open air in the shade and iron while half dry with a moderately hot iron. To glaze linen without the help of a polishing iron we should advise using this starch -gloss. 'fake a quarter of a pound of white starch, half an omsoe of borax, one ounce of yellow soap, one dessertspoonful of glycerine, the same quantity of turpentine, and a teaspoon- (uI of common salt. First dissolve the snap and bprax in one pint of hot water, then mix all together and add half a pint more water. The great advantage of this preparation is thee it keeps for nsonlhs. g SLAVES IN PAGKINGTOWN SERFDOM NOT LESS ABJECT THAN IN DARKEST RUSSIA. The Author of "The Simple" 'felts About the Workers in the Meat Industry. In the hubbub over,- Use unsanitary methods in the prepartion of packing- house products, says the 'Literary Di- gest, Upton Sinclair complains, public attention has entirely neglected the "wage -slave," as he calls hien, lite im- migrant, the laborer whose lot in Pack- ingtown is by all accounts a hard one. His plain purpose, Mr. Sinclair says in an article in the New York Evening World, was not to expose "the con- demned meat industry,' but rather to "make the average American sympa- thize with the story of the foreign -born wage -slave in Packinglown." "I do not wish to be ungracious," he adds, "but I fear that 'The Jungle' would have been much longer h1 doing its work had its appeal been simply to the hearts and conscience of its readers and not at all to their stomachs." He goes on; "And yet we are lied up in the sane country with those strangers, and their fate is our fate; the tray our country goes in the future depends upon what opportunities and what life we give them They are coming hero at the role of a million a year, and if wo think we can allow them to be beaten end degraded without 1halt, and not pay a fearful pen- alty for it ourselves, we make a great mistake. "The whole counh;y is at this mo- ment struggling against the power of the h'usls. You yourself are suffering from their encroachments and ere fighting 1'; free yourself. And 1t is the po\vee of iho political machine which holds you down; and the power of the machine Is founded upon the foreign vole which is bought "About twelve years ago, old P. D Armour, at. the close of a great shrike, had declared nein an oath thin ho would fix the population of i'aokinglown so Ibnn in would never call a strike upon hien again; and so lie had set his agents ill work lo bring out hordes of emi- grants from Eastern Etmope—Lilltunn- inns, Poles, Bohemians, and Slovaks. I met dozens of neon who had come as n direct result of his endeavor. Sh'nngers had come to linear village—nseu who spoke their own language and were fa - millet' with their ideas, and who told wonderful tales about free Americo and about the greet pecking -factories and the wond'er'ful wages palet there, One could get over for Mutest nothing, tar areengemente hod been mode with the steamship compnuy, end so that they hod sold out all that they owned and come, Rmnelhncs whole families of then, somelitnes half a dozen [entities iron a single village. They hod poured In- to Pockinglavn, 0110 swarm nfler an- other; and as n rester old P. D, Ammer hod lied ait the Inhor he could usommi hod hoiden down tvnges In the starva- tion point and merle himself one of the riehesi. men In America nail his son one of the . NU -dozen musters of the destiny et the ' ^l ort people.' S'i'lt1e,sens P ejeeneRtsD, "These ignorant strangers," he meet, hod ht'on plundered from the moment they loft (Reit' llanivp village," On • i'+'el;v hood 1' .'s' tore rheal"d acrd preyed 1118111 by greaten , rent. estate sharps, and what nut Alit Sinclair condense' a zieelion of Theelement; h n I>ous, s nee. ,aid iu im141igr+wls alt lir insluluu'nt plan nod lieu Iukcn from them ante' Iuuusrd' of dollars have been paid In, for Inability le pay an halal - meat at canalis than. Ile eunlutue.,: "The (yokel' hemmed -Memo in Peel: ingtou'n is a two Mere). fintue buildin haying four small rooms ml a dour. A hair tw111 NI 'ruled by a family, which will then take in Winders to help melte expenses. Single riled, 0f whom theft ern large numbers orrasbnlaily NHL t fiat. for Melt :elven. Most of II>e Pula; and Slays wills %Omni 1 tont', talked said that they \+ere eating nh111(5 up to get away from \meta» because the +voric was loo bard for Them In ,land. They live sometimes as many as litir- Ieeu ht a x00111, rending 11 roan 1111(1 ena- ('loying n wmuau lu uuuk lilt Ihem co - epos lively. 'I'lu'y have mat 1sosse',spreud uu the flo(r, 041'01'011 tvlllt 14011018 a'h(cit ore su\c•r ,Ranged unlit they W0111' nut; nal faequc'ally a mattress is owned by n day man and as night nuut and thus never gals a chance 10 gel ,011. The Otho and vermin In these rooms 000, of course, beyond any words; and, needless In say. in the winter time no fresh air ever gels into the building. Living in homes such as (his, end meet- ing len or twelve hours a day under lets elite pressure - -nil Matto to mirk Mute in rush season, the nen have very little verde.), left. and know no way to spend their money excepd in drink. "When L had finished The Jungle I went through it and cut uttl everything that sounded like preuching, ilet•e is one of the paragraphs which t cal— the best statement 1 can make upon this question: "'Once upon a (line a great-hearted mum sal forth the sufferings of Its black chrttte(sli>t'e and roused 51 con- tinent to arms. She had many things in her favor which cannot be counted on by tern, who would point the Ilfe of the modern slave -the sieve of the fac- tory, the sweatshop, and the mine. The lash which drives the latter sinal ei- ther be seen or heard; Most people do not believe line it crisis -11 ie the nun of Ise philanthropist and the polijieel cean'o 1Jon that fl does not exist_ !'Isis slave is non, hunted by blondhnunds; he is not beaten to pieces by pictur- esque villains nor does Is die in ecstneics et religious faith. Elis religion is but another snare of the oppressors, and the bitterest of his misfortunes; the (sounds that hunt him aro disease, and accident, and the villain who murders him is merely the prevailing role .1 gages. And who can thrill the tender with the talc of a lean -hitt, in which the hunted is a lousy and W1)0111'11 for- eigner, and the hunters two the gams of consumption, diphtheria and typhoid? Who can make a romance out of the story of a man whose one life adven- ture is the scratching of a huger by an infected butcher -knife, with a pine box and a pauper's grave es the denouement? And it must be just as painful to die of blood -poisoning as to be beaten In amine (0 be tracked by htoodltonnds end torn to pieces is most certainly n merciful fete compared to that which falls to thousands every year in Pack- ingtown—lo be hunted fon life by !litter poverty, to be awakened by s1arvelam, cold and exposure, to be laid low by sickness or occident—and then to lin and watch while the gaunt wolf of hunger creeps in upon you and gunau's out the heart of you, and leers up the bodies and souls of your wife and ba- bies." k SERFDOM IN AMERICA. The Appeal to Reason (,Socialist•]; of Girard, Kate, in connttenlhng along the same line upon the scant attention paid to the laborer in Packiuglown, observes: "It seems that the public becomes en- raged only when deliberate murder is planned and actually done upon Unite serfdom not less subject than In darkest Russia. If such a slavery were possible in packing houses tinder nur blessed capitalism, hien it Is certainly possible hr all our corporate industries, and the contention of Socialists that there does exist under the present velem of wages and profit a tyranny as oppres- sive as ever welded shackles to limbs of freemen Is jaslCied," In looking for ` arguments or elate - monis from the packers' sale we have examined Mr. J. Ogden Armours re- cent book, "The Packers, the Private Czar Lines, and the People," but Mr. Ar- mour does not treat the subject of labor. 0 JAPAN FORGING AHEAD, Rapid Strides in Indushtial Pursuits of eliknitio's Subjects. "Japan is snaking repaid rs'ogress," says the ilrfl(sh Commercial Attache at Tokio in his report on the trade of .Ja- pan for 1005. In :1902 her import; and exports amounted to £54,107,552, in 1005, to £152,60,809, Raw cotton of the vette) of £{1,153; (I(0 ons imported in 1.905, as egasns( £7,206,000 In 1904, and 150,000 spindl s are being added to the native 00(100 mills, The two new giant battleships of 19,- 099 lone are being tach wi(.h Japanese steel, and a leading Japanese ship- Isuiider hes slnled Ilial ships can b {mil( es ,imply, if not. eheaper, 1n Ja- pen titan in the United Kingdom. The native oil induetry has nearly doubled In one year, "greatly assistedby the extra war ditty." NATURAL LULL IN GENIUS DAY Ole IN"TE(LIKIT T,SL GIANT'S 1S PARTIALLY AN e CSPENSE. Beanie in itecent Years !las Lost Many Grout Men, i1u1 31011y Yel lienlrja,, Tho recent statement by Sir W. B. tlichmond, 11.1., ilea "we Jsave no rattily, great mon, beeuuse we du not desire Mem and beans, we are experiencing a natural lull b1 genius," rcpreseols a fairly widespread opinion that the day, of "gentle," if un( over, is just now in suspense, and Ibe1 llw present Is an ago of mcdiocrlitee, say's Loudut Tit -flits. It is true that within compurulively recent years we have lost nnaly of our lnlellerl.ua giants --Dickens and Tilaolt- eray, Carlyle and Ruskin, Huxley, Tyn- dall, and Herbert Spanker, Gludstnne, Bright, anti Dtseaell••-unen whose sate- en inns placed lberu among the Minute - tale; but we have happily still with us many men with aro not only disihrotiy. grnrnl, but who in their burn will till ounspteuous niches in our TEMPLE OF FAME. It is dnuneful, for instate,, whether Britain has produced a ]metre brilliant mutt of schwa than Lord Kelvin, whose almost countless invonliosts during the lost half -centime' have done so mucic to revolutionize the sek'nces of eteuh'icity and navigation. Merely to Kiva a list ' f his cont'ibultons to our knowledge In a scorn of quite distinct direcliuns world 1111 columns; and there can be little doubt that when be, loo, has joined the outer giants of science his fame will be at least equal to that of the greatest of llsem all, Signor Marconi, wile Is half a Briton (Itis mother was an Irish lady), had made Infotech immortal by (tis discovery of aerial telegraphy before he had ad- vanced far Into the hvenlies, Sir Wil- liam Crookes, who is contslunlly start- ling the world wI(Is his revolutionary discoveries in the held of chemistry. is the greatest chemist since Faraday ; and, among lesser scienlillo lights., still living, who are really great men, aro Lords Rayleigh and Avebury, whose fame will surely survive them. In literature we can still boast great names, it none, perhaps, so distinguish- ed and enduring es those. of Carlyle and Tennyson, Dickens and Thackm'ay. Among our pouts Swinburne and Wil- liam \\'arson, are entitled to rank with, if not above the majority of those who have slag and died before then ; and Mr. George Meredith is ASSURED OF A IIIGIi PLACE among the writers of 'lotion whose works endure—Indeed, it is doubtful whether, as judged by the highest tests of art, England has ever produced his superior. 'though Art has been robbed In recent years of Millais and Leighton. kladox Brown, Waite, Rossetti, anti other groat painters, we still have Mr, Ilolulnn Hunt, whose "Light of the World," "The Triumph of Use Innecenls," anti many other morasses are among the grcaleet achievements of British ort, and who, In the opinion of competent judges, is one of the linen. painters the voted has known, hie. Sargent, as a portraii-pahnter, is entitled to rank with Reynolds, Gainsborough and Romney ; Mr, E. A. Abbey. R,A., and. Mr. George Clausen, A.R.1., will be even more famous in future genel'ulions than in ours; and the Lime will comet, so those say who are most .died to judge, when Air. Alfred Gilbert, R.A., the famous sculptor, will be placed on a pedestal al least as exalted as that of lrelaxssan. Englund las cradled few really great nutsicians, but Sir Edward Eiger al- ready takes a very high place among them, though probably his best work is yet to come; and it Is by no means sone that, a generation hence he will not have displaced henry Purcell from his emi- nence as the greatest of Leuglish com- posers, In Grrrsiany, the nurscry of musical geniuses, Elgar is already melted with some of THEIR GRL'A'ri'ST M RN., There may be no lawyer living to -day quite so profound as Jessel or so bril- liant as Herschell and Roundels Pal - me, but it would be possible to name a dozen men who, in gifts and ellain- ments, could challenge comparison with the best men in any Previous genera- tion; and although we may have no statesman of the eminence of Gladstone or Disraeli, and no political orator so magnetic, and eloquent as John Bright, yet we have gr,'eL 'nen, whose names will occur to our renders, he the arena of politics. The BrIlish Nnvy, too, has its great men, who, if they had had Lite oppor- Mntlios of pest heroes, would probably have won equal [ante. To mention only. two out of many, Sir John Fisher has probably never had a superior as a tao- lician, organizer, and all-round sea- man,' while Lord Charles Beresford would probably have been a oonspto- uaus figure in Nelson's day. And !f England has now no Welling- ton of Marlborough, she has a trio of soldiers of whom any age or country might be proud, and all of whom have well earned the title of "great men"— Lords Roberts, Wolseley and Kitohener, Lords Curzon and Milner need fear no comparison with the most famous of Oast celonlal administrators; nor in the realm of commerce has Great Britain ever produced finer samples of energetic manhood than Mr. Carnegie and Lord Strathaona, TWO WAITING. A go/Inman met a young woman, who had formerly been a servant in his house, and, being interested in lserseeel• faro, said to icer : "Haven't you got married yet?" "No, sir." "Well, I thought you would have been married before now." "011, no, sir," she said; "there's two weldor." "Two I" he exclaimed, "Why, you don't intend to marry two, de you?" "No, sir." "Then, who aro they?" "Why," sho replied, naively, 'the twat that's martin' is the 'moister and Me 1". r