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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-8-30, Page 2THE THORN ASD T 'E PIR Best. Way to Get Rid of the Tares Is to Sow Good Seed Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle (rec.—Isaiah Iv. 13, The ancient law that nature abbot's a vacuum holds true in the moral realm, The heart of man Is never long empty, And yet the whole scheme of modern ecclesiastical regulation of life is built on (he plan of making n loan holy by emptying hint of all evil and stopping dere, leaving a negative condition, without a thought of the necessity of filling the void. So long have we been trained in this that we are all a good deal more con• eerned about the things we ought not to do than about the things we ought 1, do, We spend our days nlpping off the buds of evil inclinations, pulling up the weeds of evil habits, wondering how it happens they multiply so fast, forgetting altogether the wiser plan we would adopt with weeds and briers in our gardens. There are many who still think of the pious roan as one who succeeds in ac- complishing the largest number of re- pressions in his life, the ideal being the colorless life, never doing a thinglhat is wrong or subject to criticism. The energy of many a life is being spent in a campaign against a certain list of PROSCRIBED DEEDS. Blessed is the man—according to their beatitudes—who has the largest number of things he does not do. But if rightness is abstinence from evil, then a lamppost must always be better than a man, for it justly can lay claim to all the negative virtues. What an easy way of life is this, simply to find out the things we know outer peo- ple like to do and to determine that If we only can leave then undone we are holy in the sight of heaven. But not only Is this a way of folly, it is a way of positive harm, a way fatal al last to the true ]fie. To do no more than to turn out one set of devils only is to invite other and worse devils Into the heart. To seek emptiness only is to invite yet more inquiry. An empty \ heart is as dangerous as an empty hour. Emptiness is not holiness, it is idiocy. There cannel be an empty heat. Te take a lad thing away from a man gives an opportunity for a worse thing to enter unless you simply choke the had by implanting the gond. Some ti the most dangerous people are those who feel pious because they can say, \\1e never did any harm. We do not object to the pain and pri- vation provided they have their purpose. But all nature objects to a course of life that maims, pinches, and restricts without corresponding anti compensat- ing development and liberty somewhere, We light against every law of Me and court the ways of death so long as we endeavor to develop character by put - Ung it into bandages, leading strings, and legal restrictions. THERE IS EVIL TO BE ELIMINATED there are thousands of things wo ought not to da. But the best way to get rid of the tares is to sow good wheat in abundance. The way to avoid the things we ought not to do is to do the things that ought to be done. The empty life is a standing invitation to temptation; the busy man seldom finds the devil's card left at his door. Live the life above lie things you would overcome. It never has been found necessary to pass a law prnhib- Ring the president from playing marbles; larger inleresis fill leis life so that these things do not even occur to him. Give a man a great work to do and you will save him from a thousand temptations to do small and unworthy things. Holiness of life is not in innocence of evil but in positive forcefulness for good; not in doing es little harm as we can, but in Riling the whole life with worthy, helpful, uplifting deeds. The good life not only has no debts—IL bus large assets, deep and lasting value; it enriches all life. It offers to the world not barren land claiming the virtue of freedom from the thorn and the brier, it crowns all with the abundance and glory of fir and myrtle. HENRY F. COPE. ME E S.SSON S. LE INTERNATIONAL LESSON. SEPT. 2. Lesson X. Bartimacus and Zacchaus. Golden Taxi: Luke 19. 10. TIIE LESSON \VORD STUDIES. Note.—The text of the Revised Ver- sion is used as a basis for these Word Studies, Three Accounts.—Parallel accounts of the healing of blind Berlin -gees at Jer- icho will be found in Matt. 20. -20.34, and Mark 10. 40.52, The three accounts of this event differ In detail in many respects. Matthew mentions two blind men, while Marls and Luke speak of only one. Matthew and Mark, again, represent the miracle as taking place when Jesus ons leaving Jericho, while] Luke represents It as taking place when li0 was approacllmg Tile city. Accord- ing to Matthew Jostis heals the man with a touch, according to Mark, with a word of comfort, and according to Linke, with 8 word of commend. It Ts useless to attempt to harmonize the three narratives in these points of de- tail 'file differences are such as we might naturally expect in three iude- pendent• accounts of the same event, given by teree different p010000 several decades after the event itself had taken piece. We hoe here a gond example of the feet that divine inspiration in no ease rules out or destroys the human element, and It is only al narrow view of inspiration and its effects which is concerned to reconcile these differ- ences, and make each of the three ac- oeloms tally word fee word with the 5111080, The foci, 100880801', that such differem'ass offer in the gospel narrative is a 01101lg argument in favor of the anlhenlIcity of that narrative. Wore ilio gospel ;tortes concerning the mira- cles wrought by ,!esus the product of rho Imagination of men living at sn1110 later th00, or were They the cunningly de- Vised tables of ingenious nle1, wO might expect nrmnlly in detail in lite narratives of different wrilett, who Iu- gether conspired to deceive those fr r whom they' wrote. With the attempts wilinh hove been made to hm•monize the Mem accounts of 111e healing of the blind mall, of men, WO 11004 1101 8011- i31811 oU8881v1W, The stogy of the visit .1 Jesus to the home of Zeeelin"us is pecu- liar Lo Luke's narrative. Verse 35. As he drew nigh unto Jet, Scho--1 rom beyond Jotluu it, Ihe cast where for n .short lime ho had been in retirement •with his disciples. A certain blind man—Mark eeenrds his name, which was Barltmm's. Bogging --Blind beggars silting by the WIlyslde are still a common sight In the Orient, 3(1, Inquired what 1113 meant ---The 1)111111 man., chance ,for 13nin depended 'largely upon the nalmei and character of Ito crowd which was passing. 37. Jesus, of .Nazareth ---Tile most ("am- nion title of our Lor., among the people at 1113 time,. •II, had eoublless been gitrn to )dm at first by Ihe Phfilisees old others of his enemies who wished to ridicule him, To the common people 11 ha(1 now become it illogical term. 38, Jesus, thou Son of David --A clear lndleatlof„boat the blind lean lord cone to believe: hi ;esus as the Messiah, 30. Rebuked hire --Elis outcry doubtless diverted the attention of the multbule from eases, and Was likely to enierrup1 the conversation i11 which he ought be engaged, Cried oat the more a: great deal— Prompted by the conviction that Jesus was the Messlah. and Mail this probai ly was his one chance to be healed of his blindness, the unfortunate plan refuses to be silent. 40. Jesus stood—Stopped and pre at- tention. net urgent cry could nal 1e a cry for alms simply, but betrayed a deeper longing and faith. Commanded him to be brought— Marie records the change of attitude of Ihe multitude toward the blind man 110 soon as it was perceived that Jesus tools notice of shim. 41. What wilt thou—A question aseed, not for information, but to test and draw out the faith of the man. 2. Zacchreus-{Not mentioned else- where in the New Testament. 111 the Talmud mention is made of a Z melt/d i who lived at Jericho and also of his sol, the celebrated Rabbi Jochanan. Chief publican—A superior among the tax collectors having subordinate col- lectors under him. 4. A sycamore free—LLL fig -mulberry. This tree, which is common in Pales- tine, was related to both the fig and the mulberry, though not identical with either. Its fruit resembles that of the lig tree. its leaf that of the mul- berry; hence the name. 5. Zaccheeus, make haste, and come down—We need not assume any mira- culous power in connection with Christ's recognition of Zaccheaus, and his call- ing shim by name. When, however, we note how thoroughly .Jesus understood the man's heart and life we must take into account the supernatural know- ledge which he possessed. and whioll was necessary for his wont. For to-day—Lit. this very day. Both Lhe choice of the word, and its position al the beginning of the clause heighten the emphasis. 0. Received him joyfully — The de- spised publicans were not as a rule thus honored by rabbis of acknowledged Mantling. 7. They all murmured --- Apparently those who composed the multitude, all al whole, doubtless, shared the coin - tempt Mr the 1111111 with whryn J05115 had cons(inled to speak and sojourn. A man Ilett is a sinner—The accusa- tion of the multitude was beyond doubt just and founded on facts, the publicans us (t Class (laving the tepnt11110n of be - Mg extortioners and oppressors of the poem, 8. Behold, Lord — Zacchteus cannot hnve tidied to hear. or al lenst to anti- cipate Ihe criticism of the multitude on the acl, of Jesus, His conscience, more- over, condemned hila. mid juslited the charge of the multitude. It 1 have wrongfully exnaled ought or any nuun---This is just the charge which num generally made against Elim and all of his class, T reelo'e fourfold --The low in ex- treme cases of deliberate rolibcn;y some - Mime exacted even n sevenfold eeetihu- tinn, but in ordinary cases only an ano1nt. emelt to lee sum wrongfully admired wills a Orth ridded was t•e- cittlr:et. 9, A son of M31'81unu — 7.:her•hmms proved hinisslf to be Ills in 11 twofold sons,+, '1'hntrh despised be vale still ri member of the 10w1811 lace, old More - fore a son of Abraham atter Ihe ilosll; while his pl'nilenc0 and faith proved Mtn to he a true sen of the "father of the Diable], Every lime an old baelielnr hears a baby cry he Itkms a beech grip on hie resolution to remain single Some mets me loved for the enemies Iliny have made, but most men awl loved for the reenter They linen uuule. If Nero had owned a p11oneme), It would have saved hint a lot of fiddling while Rome was burning. PERSONAL POINTERS, y Inleresihhg GossipAbout Some Prom- inent People, The Icing of the ilellelies collects door - handles, of which he has scale thou- sands, Icing Oscar of Sweden loves nothing mom in his quiet and leisuea moments than to improvise on the organ—all In- siru111ent almost unknown in private circles abroad. The Getman Emperor is very land of Moxieau coffee, and now drinks none other. A large supply is sent to shim every year from a German colony en Me PacinIe coast of Mexico. ']'here are now flue British peeresses who 5'ere actresses, namely: May Car - (10330n (Lady de Clifford), Belle Dillon (Countess Moberly), Connie Gilchrist (Countess of Orkney), Rosie 13001 (Mar- chiouws of ileadfortl, and Anna Robin- son (Countess of Rossiya). flat favorite emusements of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland are skating and riding, but as a child her hobby was the keeping of pulley, tier Majesty is de- voted to animals, and is averse to sport, as spa cannot bear to 11111111 of the animals in her preserves being slaugh- tered. Count 'Tolstoi has lately added book- bl'nding to the numerous skilled trades which he already practises. fee 00111 the first halt of last winter in binding in leather a library of 400 paper -bound volumes, doing everything, from the melting of the covers to the gilding and lettering, w1tl1 his own hands. Viscount Carlton, who recently cele- brated his fourteenth birthday, is the eld- est son of the. Earl of \Vharncliffe, who bears one of the most 1lypenated sur- names in the peerage—Montagu-Stuart- Wortey-Mackenzie. Carlton, the place from which the title is derived, is a small hamlet in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Earl of Seafield Is a representa- tive of the Colonies in the perage. Born In New Zealand, the son of the noble- man who worked ns a fencer and navvy, he has lived the ordinary life o1 the col- onist, and eight years ago married a Colonial bride. IIe 1' entitled l0 a seat in the (louse of Lords—whenever he may care to claim it—as Baron Strath- spey. The Czar has a habit of spending More time In his study than almost n11y other ruler in the world. The C:zaritza is always seated with hhn while he is a1 work in his room. In this respect he slands almost alone among great mon- archs, as nearly all of them prefer to have women out of the way when they are immersed h1 the business of State in their own private room(). The Archbishop Canterbury, n n A1c 1 poi ,3',o ono occasion, when addressing tie members of a chess club, said that (hough he "was not a distinguished chess player, be could claim to be tile representative of chess in' an unusual degree, for he 11nd seen a good deal of kings and queens, had lived in two castles, and was the only living man who was both a !knight, and a bishop, so that he rep- resented all the pieces except the pawn.” Count Leo Spannochl, once a spoilt child of Viennese society, has been buri- ed as a pauper. On coming of age he inherited a considerable fortune, which he spent in reckless fashion. Sonia of his bels are still spoken of. Once Ile made a wager that he would ride Inc Arab stallion Sultan from Budapest to Vienna against any coaching loam 0' four. He won the match by nearly half the distance. The count was also a famous wrestler. After running through all his looney, 110 took various circus engagements, always falling low- er, owlug chiefly to the habit of opium smoking which he had contracted. ONE BLESSING OF POVERTY. Somewhat Singular Worriment of a Alan Once Poor But Now Rich, "Poveley has one blessing concealed in it, anyway," said a mat now enjoy- ing a fortune he made himself; "11 gives a man a proper appetite for the enjoy- ment of wean- when lee does got it. Only a nna11 that has once been (Mcus- ionled to corned beef and onbbnge can really know the delights of turkey. The man who has all his life eaten only fine food can't find any particular enjoyment 111 it, hats always been used to 11 and 11 always tastes the same ; all tic can do for variety is to spice things up; -0 man nn(st hnve lived on chock steals to ap- preciate the tenderloin. ":Spaelting of contrast; 1 never when I was poor envied the rich; neer. never thought of such a thing; and you can take my word for 11 that the average 111011 fuel. just the sante way. Envy the rich? \Vhy, he'd taught at you 11 yet said such a thing to him, fie thinks he's ties good as anybody; and he expects to be rich himself some day. Envy the rich? \Vhy. that's a comb idea; and the only rich mall that disturbs him ,,.t all is the mon who has accumulated his wealth not by fair means but by milk- ing the public; and he doesn't warty over ihim Its much as he ought t0, he's sn busy gelling rich himself, "'i100113', now trot 1've got money, Tile only thing (hat worries me is about my children, \Ve wore poor when they 610110 along, but rich before they crone to understand, and they have never walled for anything; always 11ac1 every- thing they wanted; and they don't know what it le le lack, and they can't And Me enjoyment in being rich (lint I do. "1 shall hope that they turn out to have sense and be willing to work; and if !.hey do turn nut en, why then We shall he able to put Ilheir feet down on In Ile genteel and bring them to knew Ile world wvllh knowledge and ender - standing; and what I hope most ot all is Ih11 1h'y will come to love work to' wort('8 sotto. nn11 tical they may be hop• 1ee For, neer all 1 tell you, the most enduring pleesure that lite affords is that to be found in labor." e011110W OF 1.T. "tQneer It11ng, isn't 117" queried the absent-minded parson, who asks • Mies- Itnns on the insluhnent plank. "What's quc884" asked the other piney 1n Cllr dialogue. '1'1511 polling a plain gold ring on a woman's Ilrird finger should plane a mon under her thumb C' explained tie party, et the prelude, L^9"iY4� 414,44)44444 Home H ame • 444464+1.14444444-140 SOME DAINTY DISile.S. Good veal should be finely grateed, firm end not o ver g r o w n . large, veal Is apt to be coarse and tough, and if lea young is equally unwholesome. Veal should never be kept long in sum- mer, for it, like other meat of young animals, should never be ullowed to be in 1110 slightest tainted before it Is cooked, Snowballs.—\\'ash a teacupful of rice and boil it gently in new mills, flavored N18111 a piece of lemon rind and a. blade of cinnamon, till quite thick, add one ounce of fresh butter, stir all thorough- ly, and place in small greased cups. When cold turn out on a deep dish and pour boiled custard round. Mance very cold and serve. 'f0 preserve cream during hot weather the following recipe is useful : Dissolve in water an equal weight of white sugar with. the 0(0001 to be preserved, using only just enough water to melt 810 su- gar and make a rich syrup. Boil this and while stilt warm add the cream, stirring all together. When quite cold, place in a bottle and cork tightly. A. good tomato dish is prepared as follows: Pour boiling water over the fruit to loosen the skins, Let them stand for five minutes, then peel and put into a stewpon with a lido salt and butter. Slew all very slowly for half an hour, and add a very little tarragon vinegar. Pour on to buttered toast, dust over with while pepper and serve. This is very good wall cold meat ora broiled steak. To bottle peas for winter use, Picts and shell your peas when quite dry, and scald in boiling water. Drain very dry, pour into bolites or jars, and cover wean saturated brine. Have a flinnt of oil on lop to exclude the air. Before cooking Ilse peas seals them in warm water for an hour or two to extract all the salt. This method has the great ad- vantage of simplicity. Herb beer is excellent If made as fol- lows : Boll for three-quarters of an Hour one ounce of dandelion leaves, two ounces of sliced ginger, a quarter ot an ounce of hops, in Lwa and a half gallons of water, When the mixture has cooled a little add one and a half pounds of brown sugar and three-quar- ters of an ounce of Spanish juice. Fer- ment with yeast and after twenty-four hours strain and bottle. Devonshire Squab Pic.—Cut into neat pieces about two pounds of the best end of neck of mutton. Flavor these lightly with salt and pepper, place a layer if ahem in rather a deep dish; on this put a layer of apples and onions, sliced, with u good sprinkling of brown sugar. Continue with alternate layers of meat and apples. ele., till the dish is full. Put In no water or liquid, cover with a good short crust, and bake in rather a slow oven, Rlluberb Wino.—Into one gallon cf boiling rain -water cut eight pounds cf rhubarb in thin slices. l'ut into a tub, cover closely wills a thick cloth, and add four pounds of preserving loaf sugar, the juice of two lemons and the rind of one. To lino It take one ounce of isinglass dissolved in one pint of the liquor in a chine -lined saucepan. When this is quite cold add It to the rest of the wine and cask it. When the fer- mentation is over, bung it down. Giblet Pie,—Prepare and thoroughly cleanse two sets of giblets and throw into a saucepan, cover with haler 11nd bring to the boil, Skirn thoroughly, add salt, and simmer very slowly for one hour and n lent, removing each piece us soon as Lender. Cut tho giblets into pieces of regular sire, dip into seasoned flour and mix with half a pound ,1 b efstea10 cut in thin slices and thickly floured. Pour 11 suflieient thoroughly seasoned stock to cover, and over this. if convenient, lay slices of hard- boiled egg, seasoned with chopped par- sley, pepper and salt. Cover tile pie with a nice short crust, pierce a mole in it, decorate with leaves, and bake slow- ly for 011 holt' after the crust is sot. Vegetable Roast.—Boll 1 pt chestnuts until tender, remove the shells and Pound the ods rather coarse. 13011 to- gether 1 head celery, 2 turnips, 2 pota- toes, and n sprig of thyme. When ale vegetables are tender remove the eh t- nuls end vegetables together, mash and add 2 tablespoons butler. % cup ;Weal cream, 1 cup stale bre de ninths. 1 tea- spoon powdered sage, a, little nnineod onion, salt and pepper. nils all lo- gether, 11181 into a buttered 'baking- dish and heat through in 0 hot oven. This dish may be served plain or with dressing. iIIN'IS FOR THE HOME. Rugs should not be shaken. Int hung on a Zinc in the open alit and carefully beaten with a cane beater for the per- posc. Parnffm spill on a stone fleet• may be removed by rubbing hath-brielc ewer the meek and lotting It stay till next day, then w•asit In the 00001 way, and the neer wilt be perfectly clean. Simple Tonin for the Italie—Pitt n len- spoonful ot salt in hall a pint of venter, and rub n ]tile on Ihe scalp every day w1111 a small sponge. The effect at the end of a month is astonishing. '1'o Prevent Polished Tronwnrk from llutslfng.--Sliv some cepa! varnish with ns 11111811 dive '1111 Os will make 11 greasy, to witeh add nearly as much spirits of turpentine, and ripply. Deodorizing Glue. --A teaspoonful of saltpetre Lidded to a large pot of glue will efieclmeiiy 8Omo8e its bad odor ; bo - sides it cmis(0 the glue to dry feeler and harder than 11 would without 111e saltpetre. Cayenne pepper sprinkled slightly over ire sill about your plants will effectually keep cols from scratching ap the beds, The entre preventive, It Is said, Imps moths away, if well sprint: - M(1 about the, edges of enrpels end rugs when you are closing the. house. 1'o Destroy Ants.—Note the hole or crack through which they tnnit0 (heir appearaffoe, drop in some quic14111110, and then pour h1 n lltilo boiling water, Strong tobacco weld, poured In that. 1)0111115 01111 also elfe tibit'ly destroy unL0, Lggs cooked 13111113' and just long enough to coagulate Mole albumen without toughening 11 ere lite most digestible fond 111 the list of :mined pro- ducts. if rooked in a low temperature for Ion to fifteen minutes the while cf the egg is delicious and is like a tutee. jelly, which is appreclu led by the in- valid and robust persons 010111111;8. Clot hater as a beverage is greatly ap- preciated In 111111a. IL would be well if such a simple drink were to become Popular with tis, for, while it is not un- pheusnnl to take, !L promotes secretion bellee than cold, and is at all Imes a stimulant of no mean value. Talton the lest thing at night tend in the early morning hot water greatly relieves those who have gouty symptoms. '1'o Clean Wall-Paper.—Use 1110 bread that has stood in a dry place for nearly a weelc. As soon as the surface is soiled cut it off, Wipe lightly down the pa- per, about half a yard at each sirolse, until the upper part of the paper is completed all round. Then go round again. enmmenci0g each successive stroke a little higher than whore the upper stroke finished, 1111 all is done. 1f you are short of bread and your oven Is difficult to heat, you can bake biscuits o1 lop of the stove 111 a spider or any ordinary dripping pan. If the latter is used you need a grate or as- bestos mat under the pan to prevent burning. The pan must he covered closely and the bisodls must be turned. Potatoes can be thus baked on lop of the stove in an asbestos mat and close- ly covered, They loo should be turned. CRYING SHELLS OF CEYLON, Sounds They Make Like The Notes of an Aeolian Ilarp. Sir J. Emerson Tennent, having heard a story about musical sounds issuing from Tho lance at Ratlicalea, in Ceylon, paid a visit to the place, says Chambers's .lmunal. The fishermen told hint that the sounds, which resembled the faint sweet notes of an Aeolian harp, were (heard only at night and dur- ing the dry season, were most distinct when the 1noon was nearest the full and proceeded, they believed, not from a fish, but from a shell called the "cry- ing shell." In the evening," says Tennent,"when the moon rose I took a boat and ac- companied the fishermen to the spot. Wo rowed about 300 yards northeast of the jelly by the fort gale; there was not a breath o1 wind or a ripple except those caused by the dip of our oars. 011 cathing to the point mentioned 1 distinctly heard the sounds in question. They came up from the water like the gentle thrills at a musical chord, or the faint vibrations'of a wineghsss when its rim is rubbed by a moistened finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multi- tude of tiny sounds, each clear and dis- tinct in itself; the sweetest treble ming- ling with the lowest bass. "On applying the ear to the woodwork of the boat the vibration was greatly increased In volume. 'rho sounds varied considerably at different points as WO moved across the lnlco, as if the number of the animals from which they pro- ceeded was greatest in particular spots, and occasionally we rowed out of bear- ing of them altogether, 101111 on return- ing to the original locality the sounds were at once renewed. This fact seems Lo indicate that the causes of Rio sounds, whatever they may be. are sta- tionary at several .points, and Ihls agrees with the statement of the natives that they are produced by molusea and not by Ilsh. "They came evidently and sensibly from the depths of the lake, and naevi was nothing In the surrounding circum- stances to support the conjecture that they could be the reverberation of noises made by insects on the shore conveyed along the surface of the wafer, for they were loudest and most distinct at points where"'the nature of Ihe land and the intervention of the tort and its build- ings forbade the possibility of this kind of Oonduetlon." MOHAA11IED'S BLOODY IL\ND. History of the Imptinl o1 a Pillar in the Church of St. Sophia. in the course of our exploreliuns 11 Conslnnlimple, say's a writer in the Rosuy Magazine, we visited a build- ing in an obscure and pour quarter of Slanlbul inhabited solely by Slohoulnle- dans. It fs called the elosqu0 lcaluee, but it is or 0108 a church dedicated 10 the Blessed Virgin, The beady of the Mosaic ceiling and walls not even cen- turies of neglect have been able to obliterate. \Vhen we returned to the groat Church of St. Sopinia, now a masque, and saw again the print of the bloody hand of Mohammed, which is the, out high up on the wall of that once Christian church, WO understood its :significance better than we had at first sight. Mohammed II., after advancing his outposts gradually and stealthily, had flnuty, as if in a night, crossed tho Bosporus from Asia and raised his forts on the European side of the stream. Just the day before, on atrip.uP lh c Rospoens. we had seen the ruins of those fortifications, The rulers of life 0113 had 38otesled In vain against this en0'onohnlenl. When the Nioslelns 1111113' attacked the oily 1110 Christians fled in terror to St. Sophia, An ancient legend, firmly be- lieved, promised that this sanctuary was absolutely safe. Mohammed proved Ihe failaay of Iliele Wiest by breaking clown the doors. murdering those who lied sought safety there, 111011, women, end children—se many of them that, finally, forcing his horse over the great pile al dead bodies, away tip on (he siclo of a ]pillar be planted his bloody hand on the clear well In token of his victory over the Christians. That gory !hand still over- shadows the fairest portion of south- eastern Europe. 111S PLACE, "In the 5180331e for liberty," shouted the long-haired onnrc111s1, "you will al- ways find me, brothers, in 1110 von)" "Surer r 90.., the doughty .policeman, as ho pulled him into the patrol, IIO31ANCE 018 DE.SERTI1D DYEA. The Once Famous Alaskan Town Now 11as a Single Inhabitant. It has been jt(01 len yea's since George Cnrueck, a "smutty loan," and his two Indlen companions "ylioolti nl Jinn" and "1031511 Charlie discovered gold m1 the filo of what is now known us Bonanza Creek to the Yukon territory, There was but one way to ranch the gold fields, fwd This was overland 11'0111 the head of the Lynn (:anal, One or each of tela two tongues of lids colla and only a 'few Mlles ((part, the towns of Dyea and Slsngway sprung up and competed for the trade at the treasure seelccrs, Ihe name Sitngwny means "home of the Norllt \\'ind. 11 opened the While Horse route; ;hurler, but more danger- ous, to the goal. Dyea, an Indian. word, ((leaning to pude of to load, was the headquarters for tho Chtlkoot Pos. 'Tickets were sold (rum all points to Dyea ; and as early as Slay 1, 11107, more than 1,000 people were in the little Indian lawn preparing to puck over lbe mountains, Soon a steel cable tramway was built cityethe Chilkool 1'ass, the ((lain ofileo owhich 18115 [n Dyea. ']'hen the tents gave way to substan- Uul frame buildings, Numerous hotels, stores and banks opened for business, and Ilio once Indian village became a [belying city of 5,000 people. Slcagway also continued to grow, but from a dltfeeent cause. 'Lha White Pnss ;vas a failure during the summer of 1807. Scarcely 10 per cont, 0f the men who used it ever reached Lake ilennett. Hundreds gave up to despair anti re- turned to their homes h1 the Stales, lvhilo many seined in Skngway and en- gaged in various business enterprises. Finally the railroad was projected, built, and is now being operated from Slcagway 10 white Horse—a distance of 112 utiles. The fare is sotnew•hat slurl- Ihng—$20 ono way—the trip from the terminus of one sleualsllip line on the Lynn Canal to the beginning of aim - 11100 just below lite \Mite liapids is made in fewer hours than it took weeks in the days of 1807 and 1808. This fixed the fate of Dyea. Its strug- gle against the Oily with the iron horse was brief. Thousands of dollars had been invested in land, buildings and merchandise ; a few sew quickly the hn- ponding 800111 anti sold out at a small loss, caters lingered in the hope that something unforeseen might happen to turn the tide of fortune, only to be over- whelmed in tinnncla! disaster. The end soon came, and Dyea, with its former streets dimly marked by in- dentations in the sated heaps, Its ware- houses still bearing names of mcr- elionts, .hotels, banks and dwellings slowly yielding to the ravages of the elements and the vandalism of the Skag- waynns, Its wharvas, once laden with produce of immense value, fallen to de- cay, is to -day absolutely deserted. Its nano remains on the map, and is mentioned in the Alaska directory es "a discontinued post ofilce with tele- phone communication" belongs to a elan who has ti homestead clulnl in the "suburbs" of the descried city, and who raises a few vegetables for 1110 Slcagway market. ILLNESSES CURED BY ACCiDENTS. Some Occasions When Calamities (lave Proved Good Medicine. Some months ago a workman was the victim of an accident which utterly de- stroyed the horning of one 01 his ears. Alhough he consulted numerous speci- alists, he was unable to receive any benefit whatever, anti. at last all hope was given up. The other day, while palnling a house, the happenetl to senna on the lop rung of the ladder wills a bucket of palet In his hand. It chanced that he lost his balance and fell. 'rite ladder toppled 'over him, while Ihe paint bucket struck him on the heats. When he regained consciousness it WOO found Hutt his hearing had been fully restor- ed by 111e blow. A private soldier was struck by light- ning at Charlestown a short Mee ago. '1'llis rendered hint lolully blind; but three days later lie was struck again. Afterwards it Was discovered haat he had fully regained his sight. 10 Australia, however, they 0101111 to have a more curious case. An English boy lost his speech as o result, of a fall. Some time afterwards ho fell off a lad - dor, and recovered h18 speech. A 13neey laborer's life was saved al Cardiff Infirmary ley culling his throat. The patient slopped breathing, and tvhen artificial respiration failed, a hole was out In Ills throat in order to induce the heart's action. A mon who 0105 formerly a music -hall artist, had been paralyzed fur tour years in both legs. When ho was going along the Dials, London, on crutches to itis lodgings ho discovered that a shop was 011 flee. Ho gave the alarm, and became so excited IhnL he dropped his crutches, rushed upstairs, and saved the life of an infant. lie went Home carrying the crutches on itis arta, and hopes [het he will bo able to commence work again. A Glosgnw mal drunk a deadly dose o' laudanum; rho police officers cured him by giving him a good thrashing. ills life was saved by being kept awake until the affect of the poison had passed ewn,y, Tho poliao 0111081"8 who were pre - 0011L kept on boating him with a piece o! hose pipe and with wet towels until he was quite wall.—Peorson's Weedy, 4— LAGIC OF SPACE. There aro some [rials whahh beset one al, nn early age. 13obby, visiting his 13111(hn0lher, sectored one of them, "Did you have a good 1111107" eslted Ro11113 8 mother. The small son host - Lilted 11et010 he answered. "Not so very," he said, sadly. You see, grandinoter !kept telling me to eat all the dinner 1 wanted, and I couldn't 1" 4 A GOOD-NATURED' TRAMP. - The other day a benevolent old gentleman 01a6 stopped by a lamp, who asked for money for a night's "Well, look hero, my loan," the old gentleman said, "what would you say it i offered you Work 7" "Bless your Met sir," came the reply, w0uidn't mind a bit;1� can take a joke same as most peopled HOW CONVICTS IIILL TITHE 303111 OF '111E31 SPEND TilI:iR SPARE? TIME PROFITABLY. Grins Toys Made By n Murderer—A Convict's Invention Netted Ilam a Fortune. hl Amerlean prisons facilities aro offered to convicts for passing time pro- 1ltably, and these ars greedily accepted in a great variety of hays. I+'or in - Mance, a 110101'l(Jlt9 lllnl'11 0'or nalietl \'andalscn, who was recently hangn•1 at',outseille fur !tilling bis sweetheart, occupied the whole of his leisure in the coici:nuu'(] cell by constructing ()lever mechanical toys. Among these was te modal gallows, upon which a dull 0113 lunged automatically upon a cent be- ing dropped. Into a slot provided for the purpose. Truly a grim toy for a cone dimmed mail la make. Another of Van- dalseo's successes was a butterfly which, on being wound up and re- leased, flew about the cell. All his toys 1110 munletve bequeeineQ to weeders and other inmates of 1110 prison. How profitably it is possible for a convict lo spend his spare time is de- mousU'aled by the case of an inmate of Ihe New Jersey Prison. who, while, serv- ing a long sentence, invented a 111a- cbino for what is called "blind -stitch- ing," which lheeetefore was always done by hand. 'Thanks la the faollites afforded him by the authorities of the prison, he made such A PE1thEC1' MODE[, of his invention that on his release he was able to 11111011 and sell it to a coin - puny specially formed with a capital 0f $1,000,000. Ills invention has since brought 11101 in upwards of $60,000 in 8031(11105. But such things are not authorized, 1108 even w1uked et. under the mush prison system, and the convict whose idle hours ore 1110 bitterest of his term of iniprisounenl must kill lime clan- destinely unless the governor of the chaplain is willing In lake a very broad view Of the l'eg011di(n13 in order to help him. Sometimes a skilled workman .1 an industrious turn of mind will 0pp001 to one or other of these gentlemen to find him some employment for his spare time, Thus a clever wood-carver men. Wined in a recent report of the Prison Con,nitssiuners was 11110 111 present to the chapel a really magnificently -carved eagle lectern in nae, entirely the worts ef his own hands, and dune in flours 0111011 might, otherwise have bean spent In SOLITUDE AND IDLENESS. An ex -governor of a great prison has in his possessiona remarkably hand- some sideboard 111 5811111111, which wets made for shim be n convict of a prison where be was governor for some len years. The mon appealed to 11110 for some means of killing time. and, 1snew- ing the 101811 to be a Cabhlet-nlul(0r, he provided lam with wood and luuls. The sideboard was the surprising result, and, 111 consequence of it, when the con- vict took his discharge there was 0 sub- stantial present front Ihe governor to help him In naakiu t a fresh sinrl in life. Sioroovur, 5.11110 1111(8 employed his hand was, not busing its cunning nor Ids mind lying fellow, and his chalices of leading an honest life thereafter were theivfure greatly increased. On the other hand. prisrinee have boon ]cnnw•(1 In kill lime .secretly by such melancholy devices as making mals and baskets of straw taken from their beds, realer than simply sit and brood. Others have set themselves to count the number of Honig certain Idlers 08e11' in 1 1110 Bible, with n copy or which every convict is provided, and iL is QUITE A CO\iiION 1'R.\(:TbCE for 'prisoners to learn whole chapters, gospels, and 011181100 by homrl. A ce'- 111n hardened character once committed to memory the whole i ofthe it him' d Testa- ment, but the neural I could not have Leen very great, for two days after his release be committed a burglary, for which Ile was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The chaplain of a prison possesses considerable powers In ."e way of pro- viding convicts with settee -time occupa- tions, and with his co-operation an edu- cated corned will sometimes indulge m such 'literary pursuits" nus in1tliug his autobiography, which many chaplains consider. an excellent method for get- ting a prisoner to weigh his own char- acter, though they urn (Men disap- pointed by the measure of hypo0riticel claptrap such Oulnbiograpides contain. WORSE '1'1tAN (011CA110. Tho ever -burning question, "What shall we do with Our boys 0" seams t0 be satisfactorily answered in the, fol- lowing advertisement, which appears in the window of a butcher's shop : "Wanted, a respectable boy for beef sausages." HIS ,Bit,\\'I.RY. MoF1ng10: "Bluwlhn'd must have been. - a brave soldier, to judge trent his own wer15. 11e say's that in every ]lath ho was where the bullets were thickest, MoFingle: "So he was, Ile drove an ammunition wagon," WENT WITH 11311 DOWRY. "What did your wife do when she found That you had paid your creditors wth dowy 7" '1)0? 110. \V'h3'r, she divorced me end married rho largos! 08011101 1'110010, Mrs. Flip : "i have just been talking to a specialise and Ile says my brain vitality hes all gone to my ling hair. 1)0 va 117" 1(1ip3011 : "Wbolfeeil, e'---1 knew Ie had .gena." A ma11's notions after marriage are netting lite the semple8 submltledt dur- tnp couh "1 sup3Osortsip, yea saw some shard fight- ing?" said 1110 admiring Cl'11tu11, "You bet," replied the trooper, -10,speCiultt around the provision wagon""