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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-9-12, Page 2AP INESS. Nothing Praises God Better Than a Happy Disposition. "He that Ls of a cheerful heart hes a continual feast."—Prov. xv, 15. How did your Puritan forefathers die- pcse of that text? in their day 11 read, merry heart is a continual feast." Did they explein it away by saying that the Mall Was made anyway for Meting and not for feasting? Perhaps underneath their austre exterior they, after all, knew something Of deep joys and unfailing sources of refreshing hap- piness. In their teaching they made the nes- lice of insisting that it ems eeceesary to eeem sad in order to please the must high. We make the mistake of being and In order to please ourselves. Tiler misery al least had the grace of a high motive; burs 10 horn of a shortsighted selfishness that grasps at the shadow of a fleeting satisfaction and loses the • substance of lasting joy. Happiness is the highest •ains of life, higher than holiness or usefulness, De - 11 must include both. To us it is so unfamiliar that we do not know 21 from frivolity; we seek the excite- ment of Some pleasing sensation, ani, rising to ils stimulus, we MI1 afterwards ode the reaction of misery. Happiness is the poise, calm, strength, and spring Of the life fully in harmony with all things good and true. Many have thought to give God glory by learned treatises on HIS MAJESTY AND MYSTERY.. But a little child, so happy that he only can Rick and crow, praises the Al- mighty more effectively and even de- veutly than does the theologian who only can effer his bloodless speculations. The great Father gives his children a world heimming over with joy, with laughing meadows, with sniffing morns, with ripplingbird song, and to lime be gives faculties of immeasurable hap- piness. Life is learning the law of hap- piness and practising its use and ser- vice. 13ut what is the secret of happiness? How can we learn to be happy when life has so much to make ns sad?. The praise of happiness does not take away Ite fact of sorrow or solve its dark prob. lem. There remaln the million aching hearts and all the griek of a world. True. God forbid that we should lose our sorrows; that were to make this a sad world indeed. Our cares are but Y eighth century B. C. the "Intone° see - pent," popularly believed to be the sitme which hicees had made in the wilder- ness, had bethine an object of idolatrous svorship in Judah. Under the influence of Isaiah's earnest welching the king ores to destroy the loot sanetuaries scattered throughout the kingdom. In Bei worsts (tt 2 Kings 18 4, "he removed the high phioes, and brake the pillars, and cut dowa the Asherah ; and he brake in pieces the helixes serpent that Mosee had made; for unto those days itobeac.,hildren of Israel did burn incense FORGOT MAIUIIAUE LICENSE. Predicament of Bridegroom Who Was Absent.51inded. Waller N. Stevens, of North Dana, Massaelmsette, is a lumberman, and this is his busy season. So when he and Mete L. Graves, of lloyalstom decided to wed the young woman agreed to set the wedding hour at whatever thne Walter eolith finish work and delve the seven- teen miles between North Dana and Boyaiston. A minister four miles be - seed Royalston tomcod to be ready when they appeared. Tneeday night was the time agreed on, and Walter hustled home (Dom work wIth a gladness width would not down in spite of the feeling that he had for- gctlen something. This feeling wore off before he reached Miss Graves's house, hot It, -came back with a rush when his brideeto-bo inquired: "Did you bring the license?" "I'll go rhea beck after it," said Wal- ter; and his /tome travelled back to lecyaistod fastete than it had ever done before. There Walter aroused the Town Clerk arid got the licenee and started back for the third Uwe Lo cover the seventeenenfie trip. It was 12.30 a.m. when he reached the Graves home again. His bride greeted him as cheerfully as jx ssible under tee circumsLances and than began to get herself ready. This look two hours more. Then, with the Graves family woving good-bye and good luck, tiles, were off foe the minis- ter's. The Rev. Charles Burt Williams is a man of his weed, and ha wasstill awake. .A.1 4 o'clock, as the early rising roosters were erowing and the birds twittering, he joined the hands of Walter and Elsie and made them one. "I hope, young man, you will he will- ing to do as much for your wife five years from to -day," was bis parting mes- sage to the couple. OUR DAILY ROUND. Worry,I-ry, Thus we go, hf°iliothwg' Bfor blow. part at joy's curriculum. Learning thelr lesson, bearing their loail is essential to deep, lusting happiness, 11 is not the life of the butterfly ex- perience that is firm, calm, serene !n times of storm and stress. It is the efts 0,111 by loads of care has been forced tei •strike ik roots eknve to the rocks. Theme are some lives that eeern le run over with a happiness that is full el re- freshing to all who know them, and theeth have come out of great tribulation. Al first tho inuitiplleation table is 4 leaden; later, when mastered, it be- comes a wonderful bearer of burde.ns. Te wear a careworn, fretful look, to go through life shedding misery, is to con- fess that we have not leerned our les- son, that we are dunces In life's school. THE SECRET Ole HAPPINESS is in grasping the significance of leg, to learn that we live for things ether and higher than those anad follies and fading prizes for which men sell their bodies and souls and fret out their nerves and hearis. NM anan cars e happy whose eart Is set on the chang- ins fashion of things or who looks for satisfaction in things. The lover Ls happy because he has dis- covered a prize and is enthralled by a pursuit that makes all other things seem mean and paltry. Men are happy in proportion as they yield themselves to the beet, as they tune their hearts to Alike the key of their lives. Paul is happier in the dungeon, where ho can be true to his ideal, than Nero on the throne without one. There is feast in days of famine for these who have the inner eyes for the riches of life. You tslways can find fa Ibis world what your heart is looking Mr. But you cannot satisfy your heart on everything you may ehance th find, end until the heart Ls satisfied and the deeper needs of the life are met there is no happiness. The search for happiness is not alto- gether selfish. Few things can we do that will help others more than the cul- tivation of serene strength and cheer In ourselves. Not the soulless, set smile, but the strength and sympathy that flow frem a lite fixed in confidence es eternal right, and good and unfailing love. HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 8. --• Lesson X. The Brazen Serpent. Golden Test: John 3. 14, 15. TIIE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Based on the text of ilse. Revised Ver- sion. Unworthy to Enter.—As we rend of the cowardly fear and panic which seized upon the Hebrews at the report of the opts who told of giants and strongly fortified cities, we must ever bear in mind that the people whom Moses led forth from Egypt hail been all of them abject slaves, unaccustomed either to froceloin or to a fair fighting chance le obtain their rights. Hence tho persistent report of a iftelmity of tho men sent to investigate the country, that its inhabi- tants were a people mightier than the Hebrews might well, apart from the as- suranoes of Jeliovales assistance, in- eplee them with fear and trembling. The problem of leadership confronting Moses most have been ono whiell taxed both IIA unusual ability and Itis great, pa- th -glee. At ono time clearly the thought seggetated itself to him that he might abandon this contentious and unwieldy horde and sunstitute hie own deecen- dank as 1110 tehesen people. But strong as the temptation inay have been, it was nobly put :151110 tor the greater burden of the origlititl mission which he had undertaken. Nevtertheistee, the cewar- diert of the people had proved their un- fitness to undertake en invasion of the country, nrul henco Moses annotaieck to them that ,Tetentali will not load them into ("finnan until every adult among then who hes known slavery shall have died in the wilderness. Grieved by this annotinceinnt, the impulsive people, re - perdue of their cewardices make n hasty attack upon_ the Cannanites, only, howeiver, to be ropulsocl with great loss. For thirty-eight years they remain in lite desert of Paean, with their headquarters nt leadesh-rimoca. Here there was plenty of miter,and from this common center the people wandered with their flocks for peeismage, tincl to it, they re- torted for worshtp, for social life, end fon tief adjustment of judicial matters. The chopters intervening between our Met lesson and this one record, in addi- tion to tho event.( oramected with suc- icessive potty rebellions ngninst the authority of Moses, additional regula- tions with regard to theduties, of the Levites, the priests' iportinns cif the Sac- rifices, tithing. end the ceremony of • purfficallen. 'rho (tenths of Stirlen -I end Aaron Mee nre rocardecl, while the chapter immedietely preceding this one is devoted largely 1,1 an aecount of the evente connectel wilh the departeme of the people from lencledi and teem march to Mount 1101', 1 was nt this place that Aaron died, Verse 1. When fleetly the long SO- jOurn at Ketiosh WIIS Hearing ite end, and the time lied come owe more to elleMpt to ienler tee Promised Land, Ilin Israelites sent meseengers to the king of Mom 'Whose territory lay just east of Xedesli, and asked to be granted a pence, NI passage flutongit his country, their purpose being to approach Conran this titrie from 1110 teed eide of jorden, Thei' petition foe beitile granted, they Marched south 10 the bees?, 01 the Gulf of Akaliah, and passing around the southern end of Edom, proceeded northward, east of Edam and Moab, until opposite the mouth of the .Tordan River. Arad—An unimeortant city or place about twenty miles due south of Hebron. The mune still survives in tho modern designation of an ancient hill or mound knOull as Tell Arad. In the South—Lit, as elsewhere, Uth Negeb" (comp. Word Studies September 1). The way of Atharim—Or, "of the spies." The mewling of the original is not clear, and no place bearing this neme has over been found. Hence the suggestion of the marginal rendteeing printed in quotations above 2. Israel vowed a vow—The represen- tatives of the people gave a fennel pledge or promise, probably at the Sanc- tuary and with suitable religious cere- monial. Utterly destroy — Hebrew, "devote." The. verb Is the same as the one trans- lated elsewhere "to consecrate," and is hero used in a. very customary sense, that which was consecrated to jehovah being es in the case of sacrifices wholly destroyed or consumed in his honor or upon his altar. a. The name ef the place was called Hormah—Probably the same place men- tioned in Judg. 1. 17, as having been again utterly destroyed by Judah and Simeon. 4. Mount Hor—A memorable land- mark in the course of Israel's journey to Gelman, situated in tho mountain range Seir, about half way between the Dead Sea mid the Gulf of Akabah, and a little east of ts straight line connecting the ex- tremities of these two bodies of water. The mountain is slil known a$ Jebel Ilaroun and is idemilled in Arab Medi - liens still curiont in the vicinity with the (teeth of Aaron. A small mosque marks 1)1) suplosed sacred silo of Aaron's eepuIcher. The summit of the meuntain Is 4,780 feet above the Gulf of Akabah, anti about 6,072 feet above the Dead Sea, which, as is well known, is far below see level. Discoureged because of the way—The COUntry was desert and rough. 5. Againet God and against "doses— Never In their murmurings do the Israelites seem to have acemeed Moses of unfaithfulness le Jitho-rah. His policies cf administratioa nee eonsiantly identi- fied by the people with the laws and will of Jehovah, This light bread—Or, "vile, worthless breed." The reformism is to the manna 'which hal now kir so ninny ware been the principal /article of food 01 11(0 Israel- ites. 0. Fiery Jthrpents—Fiery in the sense, probehly, that the Ar,flammation pro - deceit by the bile of the serpents caused an intense burning sensation. 1301,11 in the desert, south of Palestine and in the Semitic smith:eta serpents of Various kinds abound. Very few of these, hew - ever, nee poisonous. 8. htake Rum a fiery eeepeet—Or, sim- ply, "make thee 11 serpent.' A statulorde-The word 10 nsed of any object round which the people, (special- ly troops; gathered or were mustered. Here 11 seems to mean Simply 0 pole sufficiently 'high to be conspieuens. 9. Of bense—Not tense as we knosv it, lett a nelbeal nietal, probably eopper, alloyed wine 50105 sleonger or heeder metal other than einc, Bronze which is en alloy of Nipper end lin. Was woll known emoug the tinefonts, while bine, 11)4 wo know 11, nn elloy of copper mei 51410, seemanet hew: been commonly 1410sen, ;Meath at this lime, Iseeked Onto the ecepont ef The time Of Xing Ilezeklah (hiring the "I0 for Raging, Ageing, Speeding fast, Sinning, Winning At the last, Rapid, Vapid Pace we set, Tainted, Painted Gauds we get. Sighing, Dying, Maybe fame, Dust to Dust. So Ends the game. TRY TO UNDERSTAND. Lot us not judge another life By what it seems to be, it may have fallen in the strife For lack of sympathy. Some pains are footholds up the steep, To heights of life ungueesed But other griefs are buried deep Within the aching breast. Tao often, Meath a merry smile A wound lies bleeding still, And eyes whose light our heart beguiles With bitter tears may fill. judge kindly, for we cannot know What was or might have boon: The happiness one must forego, The joys one might not win. Too often in ties world of ours Hearts ache Ihrougli life alone, Foe Hume hearts are like the flowers— They open to the sun ; One word of tenderness can thrill A head, in sore distress, And loving ministry can fill The world with happineSS. 'rEfilltFtC SHOCK. In the simultaneous discharge of eight of the ten 12 -inch guns of the Dreadnought, a shock was given that vessel of 400,000 tons, more than double that of any broadside ever before fired, The vessel of 18,500 tons skidded side- ways several yards, listing many de- grees. The gun.s are 53 feet, and each shell of 850 pounde is discharged by 965 potmds of cordite, with a muzzle velocity of 2,000 miles an botte, CALENDAR CURIOSITIES. Ootober always begins on tho samo day of the emeic as January, April as Jule', September as December. February, March, and November Iscigin on the• same days. May, Juno end Aligust always be- gin on• different dnys from each other and every other month tn the year. The first niol last cloye of the year tiro al- ways tbsis snme. These rules do not ap- ply to Leap year. 4 TREE' STANDS WITI1OUT ROOTS in Tasmania Anetralia, a large gum tree wns lo be cut clownand the work- men mooed nerees the trunk 'we feet above 1111; ground. When the out was finished the tree slipped all the hese, led instead of falling remnined upright, It rentitined in 11115 rematimble position for s,evoral days until a windstorm toppled ft Meet. Even tho proprietor of n canning fac- tory 50111111110.5 says: "I me not' "Shit sted I Inlichl kiss her an either cheek." "Whet did sem do?" "1 heel - Wed foo.a long time between theM." . Tic Home + Mock Cherry Illo.--One oup of cran- berries, cut. in halves; ono cup of seeded misfile; ono cup of sugar; tone cup of cold water; one tablespoon of flour; one tea- spoon of vanilla, 13alce two crusta Woodford Pudding.—To one cup of blackberry jam add three eggs, one cup of granulated sugar, one-half cup of fluur, one teaspoon soda dissolved in three tablespoons sour nelle stenin one to two hours and servo with herd sauce. Fruit Perlding.—One cue of Ilner; add one cup of milk, one-half cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, two tea- spoonfuls of bilking presider, and IlliX all legether. Fill bakincedish one-half full cO any kind of fruit, poue the Mixture over, and bake to a nice brown. Serve with milk and sugar, Ilis idea made optelattichesan.st Rind of berriea, apples anti Apple Relish.—Chop fine one medium- sized onion and two mediumeized, intidly acid apples. Put one cup of wrak vinogar on lo Wit in a graffito pan, Mix one teaspoonful each of inUslard, 511551' and cormetarch, half a teaspoonful of salt and one well beaten egg. Stir this into the bofltng vinegar and cook until creamy. Theo unix it wIth the apples. The same mixture may be balced in a common pudding disit and served hot with whtpped cream. Almond Custard Filling.—Vveip stiff one pint of thick, sour cream; add well beaten yolk of one egg, ono cupful of powdered sugar, vanilla to taste, one- half pound of shelled almonds, blanehed and chopped, and lastly the well -beaten white of one egg. Spread between layers and also on top and sides of cakes. Orange Ice. --Use six oranges, two lemons, ono pint of sugar, and two parts of boiling wathe Boil water and sugar together, skim, add orange juice ancl strain, When it begins to freeze add one, cup of cream. Chocolate Pie.—To two tablespoonfuls of flour edd three-Murths cup of sugar; mix thoroughly and geadually add one cup of water and buttee size of an egg. 13011 and stir until it becomes a smooth paste. Add two well beaten yolks to mixture with one-half square of melted chocolate. Bake crust and add choco- late filling. Cover with frosting made from whites of two eggs and browned in moderato 0V01). Spanish Fruit. Pudding.—Line a bak- ing dish with lighl puff paste, add a layerof slioed peaches, one of swoet ovanges and one of banana. Strew with sugar beleveen each layer. Cover with tt light puff paste and bake to a delicate brown. English Plum Pudding.—Uso suet, three pounds; raisins, five 'sounds; nut- megs, two; cinnamon, one teaspoonful; flour, two quarts; baking powder, four teaspoonfuls; salt, one teaspoonful; dark brown sugar,, Iwo cups; bread crumbs, ono handful; eggs, one dozen. Sift every- thing with the flour that can be sifted and stir in the rest of the ingredients. Before adding ruisins, mix wills flour to keep Wens from settling. Mix all ther- eto:fitly, and add enough sweet anitIc to melee a bailer of the desired consistteney. Have quarter or round pudding cloths and dip in hot water, and then dredge with floor. Put In your pudding, one pound in each. Tie peileolly tight, leav- ing plenty of room for swelling. Have water boiling, put. plates under pudding in bottom of the boiler to keep them from slicking. Let boil rapidly for five hours and serve hot. BREADS AND CAKES. Blitz Kuchen.—To the yolks of four eggs well beaten., add one-half cup of butter, one cup of sugar, and beat to a cream. Add one and one-third cups of flouts one heaping teaspoon of baking powder, ono leaspon of vanilla, anti the whiles of four eggs, vvell beaten. Sprinkle over one cup of chopped al- monds. When baked sprinkle with powdered sugar. Sour Deem Calee.—To one cup of sugar add one cup of rich sour creme, two eggs, one and n half cups of flour, one even teaspoon of soda, one-half cup chopped raisin.s, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-fourth teaspoonful of ground cloves, one-fourth teaspoonful ef nutmeg, and a pinch of salt. Put all the ingredients in !nixing bowl, in order minted, anti beat five minutes. Beim in loaf 01 in 'vers. Use any desired frost- ing. Always add about one-fourth tea- sPoonful of cream of tartar with the soda. Dainty Illecuils.--Inte a quart of flour sift two heaping teaspoons of baiting powder and is pinch of salt, Work in lightly with the finger ties one-half cup cold lard, and mix te a soft dough With fu'*sl mlik. Do not knead the dough, but roll out and out oneehalf inch thick and put into shallow pans. Slip immerliately Mtn a hot oven and bake quickly. Orange Calce.-13ent to a cream the yolks of seven eggs and two cups of grantnatorl sugar. Then add the juice of two oranges, hoving grated Ih rind for icing; add the whites well beaten, two cups of flour, into which one teaspoonful of baking powder has been stieredi beat until tight, end bake in three layers. Make a boiled icing, adding the grated rhol of two oitanges. I3e particular not to grate the skirt of lho oranges, as it will make the icing biller. Diem Biscult.—To two ceps of sifted fleme add two tablespoonfuls of baking powdes a pinch of salt, one arid a half 014p5 of milk. Boot all together quickly. Env° pans butteliod, drop from spoon into pan'leaving room for tho biseuils le spread, Bake in hot oven. Serve ha. Walnut C,renin Calte.—To seven Wee - spoonfuls of rolled oracIcers add two tea- ssenne of baking powder, ono pound of English walnuts, onsi pound ed dates, ono end 0411 11(1(1 cups .of end flve eggs, P111 yellows IIi and heat whites seperafely. 13alco thirty- MillUtee in a. 51110/ oven, Molasses Drop Calcee.-13oil together lew elms ot melnesee, eine cup .01 brown ewer, eine-half cup of Intel, and one- linif Imp of water, nefero boiling dis- solve in lee half cur of wider one 101- 1 (1011 of ginger, ono of cloves, and a 111110 salt. Alloy lolling thoroughly, he- tes, careful not to Taira end When 300 tWO eggs, beaten light, 0110 table- spoon of soda in flour; sift and stir quite thlok. Drop on reverse Side of baking pan. Nut meals anti raisins may be added. Cocoa Macnroons.--Pass [though a sieve, together, one cup of silted flour, (11411 10 CUp of grunulffied sugar, two level lobleepoonfuls of coma, half a teaspoon- ful of baking powder, one-fourth lea - spewed math or sun. and cinnamon, onc- *01111 hinspoonful each of cloves, mere cad TIllinieg. With 1105Se m1x. the grated rind of ou orange and one-fourth of 11 cup of chopped citron. 'book cute egg and the yolk set while of another into the mixlmo, add also a treispoonful vnnllla extritel, and mix the whole to a stiff dough. \Villi buthieed. hands Doll the 41115111re into hells about the size Or hiolcory nuts. Dip one Hide 111 granu- lated sugar and eel somo distance erupt in buttered pane, the sugar side up, these in a quite: oven. The recipe mat" eighteen macaroons. Fruit, Cake. --Four eggs, beaten semi, rudely; one cup of eugar, two mote of niolasses, one-half eup of sweet milk. ono arid one-half clues of butler, emo pound teach of figs, dates, relish -is, cur - mile and nuts; one-hulf pound teach of candied orange and lesion peel; one- ellaaellf1 ittolof uclidui0tereocini3;‘s71,ce0, Iclelovel7asiliscr111111.4111-1 meg; one teaspoonful of baking soda, siftel with live eups of flouts Cher and flour well eeparately all fruit, mixing a little at a time in the hellos. Put in a well-geenscd pun and hake ill a slow oven two and one-half hours. DOMESTIC HINTS. Always keep carbonate of node. in the house. Foe burns and scalds it is an excellent remedy. The surface of the bum should be eoveresi with it, ellher dey or just damped, ll relieves the pain caused by the bites or slings of insects. ,A smell saltspoonful in half a tumbler of water will relieve heartburn and in- digestion, and if taken with tepid water Iasi thing al night will frequently induce sleep in restless persons. When washing a new blanket for this first Lime, begin by soaking 11 for twelve hours in cold water, then eines in otter I water, This will remove the sulphlir I usod In the bleaching. Alice lids W11511 1,110 blanket in a lukewarm lather made of boiled soap and water. Rinse well in clear water, shake thoroughly, and hong out le dry. Cake tins, patty tins, etc., are easily cleaned by boiling. Put them in a Sallee - pan with some soap exteact and welter, boil them for about an hour, and they will be found sOean and new -looking. Soap and soda or borax may be used instead of soap extract, if pre/caved. Certain lamps, irrespective of the amount of care bestowed upon them in the way of cleaning, always seem to burn dimly. This may be remedied by dropping small pieces of camphor into the bowl svith the oil. To use baoon la(, elarifY the fat by pouting boiling water on it. This will be found 10 be far better than lard or butter fee pastry -making. It Ls besi le allow custards, blanc- manges, eta, to cool a little before add- ing such flavorings as vanilla and wine, or the steength evaporate. --- THE SONGS WE SING. I(4 y or may not be Um case that a reee's temperament can be judged 'tom its folk -songs, but 0 is interesting to note the differenoe of subject matter in the songs of various peoples. Tho Irish- man, for instance, seems to sing for the most part about his lady -love. Hardly any 01 11151 songs are not addressed to his "Somebody Mavotteneen.'"rhe Soot, on the other hand, sings about his country end IAA history, Hs a 'Mile. "Scots Wha Hite," "Ye Banks and times o' 13011111e Dem," "1..oCli Lomond," and so 011, might be taken as examples. 'rhe Eng- lishman, it is Interesting lo nolo, sings about himself all the [lune. His songs are about his 00/11 glory, 111S ships, his teen, his power. Ho refers occasionally to old England, but only a,s a. place he made famous by his own prowess. Un- like the Irish and the Scottie ha sings little of his women and his coentry's beautiful places, POWER OF FALLING WATER. .. It is perfectly moll knowio to everyone that water oonstantly dropping upon a ettone will weat it away; and there is a Mite old proverb regarding this Met. Tho farce of a single dear of waler M11 - Ines from a height is not great, but the results of this tiny blow when it is many (Imes repeated are astounding, There Is a story of one poor wretch Who wos bound with his back to a Slone' wall and had a stem) of water "of the bigness of a males Singer" directed on to his bare head, the water falling from a. height of alxaut eighteen feel, 'rho receptacle Men which Wig apparently harmless stream trickled was a barrel 11010105 only twenty odd gallons, but be, Wee the water had more lents half run out the nous was dead, with a hole in Ids skull which exposed the brain. USEFUL CANDLE NUT.' One of the oddest nuts in the world is the cendle nut, which gems in Um moving the shell reslece the kernel to a of Hawaii roast these nuts, end after re - oil that when dried it can be stuck in st appetizing dish. The husk 01 1110 nut and tho gum whichtexurlis from the Mee have 1s us.sel in 1511)11115 an indelible ink with which tattootng denies' _ pacific __-",rmh_e name Is derived reed and used as a cansile. The natives paste, which when seasonted with salt and pepper is reported as milking an nterlicinal values, while the burned shell fr•om the fact that the kernel Is so full of • THE TALLEST TREE. The highest tree its the world, so far SO hos been ascertathed, Li an A1tS11,11- lien gum tree of the species Eucalyptus regimes, which StandS ill the Cape 01- 0/01 range. It is no less than 415 feet high. Gum -trees grow very fast, There le one in Florida which shot lip 40 feet in four YefirS, and another in Guatemala which. grew 120 Mot in twelVe years, This correepOlthe lb to rise of 10 feet in a year, or nearly 1 foot per month CURIOUS 131111E -CLASS. Probably the inoet curious 1311)1e-01ns ip 1110 West of England is that 'of deaf. mutes which meets near ChAlford, Gleueestershire, All the members aro depriveIl of thole senseS of hearing and esteeols, and have le communicate and "Mlle" to each other by means ot the detthMtlte Alphabet, CAPITAL CITY OF KOREA DE.Vrn STOLE OVER IT GMBH JAPAN'S RULE. Seoul the Same for l'as1 380 Years— Building IVIieett Queen 1Vus iSluedered. Seoul, the capitol city of Konen for inoro tha11 a thousand pare, 4111110- 11111110 of the death that liits gradually ,stoicii aver lito whet', of the land and the people. 11 lies in Mil 1101101V Of Willi 1,11,41111 CHIN, re101111,1111g. when viewed femn one of the surrounding heiglik4401. thing so 1110011 us net mushroom growth 111411 Isethete jessle a stems. The city Is mutt mitered and 10(3' 11 11 crawls 01,51' 11141 1111,10111, 0/41118 011 all eidos and (1.11 illdles 11110 1110 swaillpS of llet Ilan lever on the north. The housog, the palosies end the gelded gateways through ties walle aro as they hare been foe 300 yeme past, \VIIERE QUEEN AIET DEATH, 131101 of the royal library In 1110 trees of the dime perk, there Is a Mug bun- galew which the Korean guide will point out lo Mitchel visilore. Ile wit siiiiid 11 for range nial indicate/me of 1110 pollee% et trent of the building, lad. no immunt silver win induce lam to 11 wearer ap- proach. If the visitor climbe the porell and im- plies his eye lo a hole (hilt 11115 brkil 1)(1:1010d in the paper screen of the door 11) 11153' seo the room in vImbalu 1110 Queen W110 hacked lo death by Jiipanese swords. Not a thing lins been touched in the room since the Quenee Jody was C111'1'10E1 out and burned by the assas- sins. HOME OF QUEEN'S SPIRIT. A sprig of withered flowers stands In alirb is.inee vase. 000 half of a lamp shado which ud been shorn in two by a sword -choke, dangles on Ile laequer stt Here is the belie of the nue:tiered Queen's roetioss Because the spirit roams through the pulnee park at night and calls for vengeance, the ancient seal, of tile Kings hill been. de- ceived R. haunted place by the Emperor that was, and from the day ef tile as- sassination until the (3(050111 110 has lived in a new palace-huill outside of tho old enclosure. WAS PITIFUL II511015S1. When One remembers the equipment and the ridiculous military semblance ot 1110 leorotui soldiers, the 11510111g at- tending their disarming assumes the as- pect of pitifel beroisni. The Japanese press repines admit, that several Jape:l- est: 11,010 killed—the wonder is that Mere mote any etisulalties at all on the Jamul- ese side during the 51004511143e of the Koreans. A.(ter a 'yelping Mom both na- tions, the Korean Army had to 511111, for itself when. Japau and BlISSIn began lo come to grips over the land, and the re- eull was that the Korean soldier slipped back into something between a skate - crow and an up -sale consteble. SENTRY \VENT TO SLEEP. As often as not a senior would stick he min, bayonet (Items iffie the dirt end go to sleep on the mad, oblivious of passing officers and certain or respect for hos prostrate form from the lowly citi- zens. It was this ntolley array of half -belied soldiers that refused to ley doom 1111115 and stood up in open fight notiest teethed veterans of the Japanese with machine scuns. After the Kereans had been beaten and euffed about, rolffied of their land and cheated 111 Timeliest° courts for them petits witheut a mur- mur, there suddenly came to the simple men of the Scout regiments 50010 flicker of the spirit thal made their forefitlitens conqueroes Lul this dins ages, and they died fighting. -- YOUNG SCOTS' COURTESY. Children Vied wit -11 Teich Other in Honor. to Parents. Says a writer in The Scottish Ameri- con : "When in Scotian(' last yeae I felled to sce any signs of drigendotion among my many relatives 01 their numer011s friends, and I neVer saw a grandee sight than I dld in London, where I visited some old Scotch friends. They have teil children, most of them at home. All of them seemed as if •they cettkln't honor their father and mother enough—the girls Loking chaege of the house and existed Ile cooking, ued the hoye, in tern, taking charge of 1110 retry- ing. Their father and mother were tak- ing i1*ay in their old lige. Everything wits harmony—the result of careful ernining. I have never seen anything like it ia the United States, and I go about a great. deal." GEMS WORTH 550,000,600. A careful inventory of the jewel teen. sure left by the Shah shows •thale the heacious stones collected by him aro valued at about „ten millions sterling. The collection contains a number of un - mailed diamonds end other stones, 'rile okt crown of the Persian dynasty holds a ruby ,as big as a henk egg, A bolt, $llelded with diamonds, worn orily on gteal, State occasions, weighs 18 ites, snd is wittiest 1)1 metal tiumbied thou- sand pounds. A wonderful silvee vase is decorated with a hundeed emeralds, ene of which is so largo that it wee pos- eiblo to engiovo on 11 the Shigee Imes braless titles. A sword with a diemonci- coveited scebbord is valued. et a quarter or a million. Sterling. A remarkable Ma - lure of the 00,11001)011 is a. septette blocilt of amber of 400 cubic inches, said to linye dropped from We skies as the thee ef Mohammed, ' HE WILL 1)0 THAT, "Yes," said the voluble term*, need to bees bed as you, but I tecele up my mind smoking ancl drink. ing, and 1 did it." . "Indeed?" romarkecl hInnley, "I gloss a man who can quit smoking and drink- ing could quit -almost anything--" "Oh, yese "Except talking aboet its" Insanity is vetei Reich wirer among Ceitered than among Whita tacos, LIVE CHALK VOLCANOES FOUDTKEN IitliNollIN) POUNDS OP GUNPOWDER 803ED. Five Chelic P116 'Were Explored at Chatham, Einglancl, Miring Siege Operatidne. A frw mete sinee Chatham, 13ngland, WaS heAleged, and all eleborate plan of operations followed', in order to lest Ile, defies:vs south of the Thames. One of the -experiments was the slinultane- eus exploelen of foueleeit hundred p.,llion\vd.s.. 11)105 (11 pf ordinary gunpowder, buried In five chalits, which is described as r,fi CAREFUL PI313PARA'rIONS. Luton Port lies on tho top of 1110 down just at 1115 hack of Chatham, not Ow from the eliedstone road. There is a long, sleep 11111 up to il from (Ma. thane but nett oti the country side of the fort the down fulls almost precipit- ously Into a deep velley, graduully rising land beyond. The "13luelandeve" have crept down the side of the opposite Elope, aCrOSS the valley, aud up lite sleep 111110105, In trenches to within 0 stone's throw of the most round Luton Feet, The land hi the vicinity of the fort Wail cleared of men and animals. Ptak- ets dewn in the veilley drove sheep, cat- tle end horses to •a distance, and sen- tries on the ciewns find on the 0140 - elle hillsides kept watch for cetray pas sers-by. A bugle rang out, and a shrill whistle followed U. The taller was the signal to the electrician posted on the Gide ot the down half wily to the fort te flee the mines. Exactly seven seconds otter fie whistle mend the mines blew up. • GIGANTIC FUSILADE. It WEIS over in a moment, and yet one .sew the details clearly. Between the line of the moat—above fv,vcllehcuttittehegslieceyi,gisysidesiiine_atanedthe‘rhielef Binh: of the enemy's mining twitch, there was a 'long strip of green hillside, fifty or sixty yards wide.. Suddenly al five points along this eirip the green surface beiged upwards and burst., and five huge creamy white volcanoes shot up into the air. The .earth shook, there 0/115 a deafen- ing, heareshaking roar, and then, after a few moments, the air was filled with 1110 rattle of millions of temps of client reining dowe 00 the mound. The. gi- gantic fusillade lasted several seconds. Then gradually the great cloud of smoke came down and spread over the downs (01. hundreds of yards; blotting the fort from view. STORIES OF TAME FOXES. One Made Plnymate et a Bulldog—An- other Refused lo be Lost. A friend of mine in the Midlands, England, a young doctor with natural history proclivities, hes two young fcxes In a roomy pen in his stable yard, says a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette. They were taken from the earth 111 a private wood, wihin reach of whieh here is no hunt. One of the pale man- oged to get out of bounds lately, an11. becoming bewildered by the Mille in 1110 main street; of the busy little market town it. ran tether and thither, a ter- ror to some and the hull of others, who hied their best to 1111 the poor beast. The fox, however, got the better of all Ps pursuers and rale off Into what le lecatly teemed "the upper country" be- yond, so that all trace of it was lost until the green who had been attached to the little beast had the happy inspira- tion to take out the bull terrier in search (1 110 playmnte. Bully led la the direction of a park Tour miles away, and within •its gates the Leerier quickened his pace, and bark - leg loudly was soon described by 1110 fox, who ran up to his Henri with great show of delight. He seemed glad to get back to the set° shelter 05 1118 pen 11 the Stable yard, whereaS the poor beast had up to th.e time of his outing bten..conflding and familiar in its way, h's experiences of "the elan in tho 'Street" have made him timid end shy POW. Mr. Jones, who was head gamekeep- er to the tale Lord Ltlford for nearlY fifty years, told me of a hone fax thnt he kept chained tonal tree close to Iiis house. It seamed well contented there, but asTord Telford thought It ought to have its freedom it was laken M a bag lo ri wood and Welled out there. The ueor beast tried to follow the keepee home again, and it was with difficulty got rld of only to be keen by a siren - gee -and killed soon after. -- ABSTENUOUS ROYALTY. It is a, true though little known fact that the mnjority of the members ef the Pettish Royal Family aro teetotalers. For instance, Queen Viet/Ala of Spain does not know the taste of alcohol. Hee favorite cheek is made. from ortinges-- the fresh feet equeezed into a glass, which is fillet with 111101511 WIlterS. Devises ere her favorite fruit, Poe yenee Peincess Henry of Bittlenherg ‘vns a tee- totaller, but of late she has suffered so much from rheumatism thnt site has been ordered to Mice a 11111e whisky, which she regards no a penance. 1301.11 1'111100.ga Ceristian's daughters, Ion, -are teetOtallers, All the children of the' Prince and Prineces of Wales tee being brought up strict teelotelletts, and they, know nothing of Method, Princess Prt-' Tricia ot C0111111 1(2111 and 1,111neriecl.sis- ter also abjure wine. Another royal tees I./Steller is the Dttehess of -Argyll, end the two daughters of the Princess Royal, titeir Highnesse$ Alexandra end Mem!, 11000 never 1)1 iholr lives touched wino Or spielts, LATEST '11-11N0 IN iiATII 1100MS, • Sixty bathrooms nee being constructed fit • the 1110051011 which Mrs. Clneence Meese is bending WasIthiglon 141 a. Cost of 81,500,003, Iler own 1111111 svill bo in imitation 0111 ol000, \Oh Matte -Silt% hanging Non [Ito reef. 1'110 tub will Ito A reat-eolored 5114111 4)1,5 n lho walla wilt be repeesentatimee of cipsnlis plonk. ,floor Win he severed Nt0a a ('015 In 10058 OotAr,