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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-1-2, Page 3MA S DUTY TO BE HAPPY Otherwise He Oan. Never Be 'Useful in Any High or Valuable Sense. 'Rut they that wait Upon the Lewd 811011 renew their streagle.."-Is. xle, al. It Is cep, dull grtnd and monotony of We that makes if, so hard to bear tor the Mr per cent. of us, Sometimes It eeents aa though we spend all oundays teeing, Wearing strength, and helm, and heart aWay for no other end than to gab) just bread and &meet'50 ae kr keep the ma- chine 14 oeudition for further tell. How hopeless is the outlook ot many a life! The mother with the weary round of home duties day after day, the father who goes to the same tosic year after year, seeing the same people, do- ing the same things, aod coming borne at the day's end with the same weari- ness, only augmented as age makes ifeelf felt -all who tell feel at times these elepres,sing limitations, Little wonder that lives switch, at every fleeting, alluring promise of re- lief, through amusement, through any- thing that offers change and excdement Little wonder that, robbed of opportunity ter vision, they foment blind discontent, so that we all feel there is a mighty sub- stratum of wretehednese and of menaeo lying under cur social order, Yet them are few lives, perhaps no worthy cries, without tasks that often seen] monobonous and become matters of dull grinding that bring weariness and longing for relief. All worth -while work involves much tediousness, painstaking exertion. Al! great, things stand for sc much Itfe poured out, and life is never poured out WITHOUT PAIN AND LOSS. The stern Puritan was doubtless wrong when he saw nothing In Ilfe but re- pression and harsh duty, but he was. nearer right than he who looks only for frivolity and amusement. Life is toe large a business to be always light and trivial. Yet we. must not allow fts high purposes to be thwarted by robbing our- selves and our fellows of all joy and brightness and converting life into dull, mechanical servitude. How may we find that propertion of ton and relief, that happy mixture of duty and delight that shall make life net only endurable but also useful, fruitful an 1 enjoyable? T1 would be easy to try te give comeert by the philosophy whieh Sees the line fruitage that is corning from le -day's stern discipline, That fate fruitage 0 wining, but the trouble Is it is now too far off 'to give us much cernfort now we want son -Meet -1g nettle artd more easily apprehended. Then, too, the truth is no high frnitage will ever Issue fron1 o lifecrushed by slavish subjection, After all, what lee is to every one of las depends not on the demands of outer eircumstaeees, but on the development cf the Ilie within. The heart determines the worth and beauty of life. It melees all the difference whether the physical determines its circumference or whether Yoe have an intelleet that is reaching out to the things unmeasuraele and a emit that grows inte glory indescribable. You can tie 4 great soul down hand and brain to a loom or a machine and he will still eee bis visions and dream his deep, refeesting dreams; you can set tee brutish being down in ex gallery of the world's treasures of ari, and beauty and he will think ot nothing and sea nettling but BREAD AND BEER. We must do our dull and heavy task, but we can do them and not be crushed he them so long as within there are fragrant memortes, high aspirations, great thoughts; so long as the task does not set the boundary of the life. And it is the cherishing of these eternal riches within that lifts any life and makes it worthy of higher tasks. We need to seek out the springs of noble thoughts, to find In the riches of tho world's literature, in music, and in beauty of at the food fcr ihat inner life 101 the strength of whieh, drawing often on its secret resources, we can go many days through the desert of toil. The wise life uses every opportunity of refreshing; it drinks of every spring of the upwelling waters ef life ; it seeks communion with every great, soul. Holi- days and rest days are to it times of re- plenishing when the eyes that ache from bending over the machine or desk lift themselves ee the eternal hills and the heart turns to the things that are infi- nite. HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON divine revelation in general. In Old Testament phraseology "the Word" is 00.0 4! the most common terms employed tc designate the mediating agent of me- God's self -manifestation, , and in Hebrew INTERNATIONAL LESSON, thought this agent was conceived of more or less as perscnal and as divine. AN. 5. In Gentile circles also the term was familiar in a similar sense. In Greek philosophy it was employed in the sense of "reason," and was used to explain how Deity came into relation with the dell Text: John 1. 14. wcrld. 11 was thus a term by MOO rellgiou0 thought was striving to express THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. the idea, though with much misconeep- Based on the text of the Revised Ver- lien, of an all -comprehensive, all -wise, Mon. ann directly active revelation of Gocl to A Threefold- Thesis. -The Gospel ac- cording to John is pre-eminently a Dos. pet of 'life, of love, and of light, and, in . contrast with the synoptic Ciospels, it als principally with events in cur 's ministry which transpired in and usalem on the occasion of his at successive Passover feasts. __of the Gospel was not to te other three accounts of a although 11 does add s omitted by Matthew, e. Written, as it was, atter of the Orst cen- lin, son of Zebedee, it eeeturearefiedions w well advanced In -Fears, •'aeter and work of Jesus as . He states his conclueion y beginning cf his Gospel (1. 8). This may be summed up in the sentence, "Jesus is the Son t.. God, and the only revealer of the Father." This thesis he elaborates anti defends In. the subsequent passages of his Gospel, dwelling more especially on incidents in the lile of Jesus whicheespe- Wally witness les divinity. Thus the author speaks frequently of the acts of • Jesus as "signs" and of his words as a "witness." The proclaiming of John the Baptist is also spoken of as a witness- ing: "The same came Ow a witnessthat he might bear witness .01 the light." And, again, the first miracle which John records he speaks of as "the be- ginning 0( 1113 signs," which "manifested his glory" to the end that "his disciples believed on him" (2. 11). So, too, the Gospel is brought toa formal close (20. Se with the words "These [signs) aro , written, that ye may believe that Jesus e is the Christ, the Son of God; and that . believing eee may have life in his name." . Verses 1-18, which furnish the text of be- , day's lesson, are often called the "pre- legue to the gospel" as a hole, ,as chap- ter 21 is sometimes called the "epilogue." In this prologue the apostle !Sets forth a three -fold thesis, or proposition, which he proposes to elaborate and defend. The first, staled in verse 1 and expanded , LjR VOI.SeS 2-4, is that the Word, a revela- tion of God, let no len divine than fie whom it reveals, The second, stated in V01'190 14, Is that !hie divine Word De - came flesh, thus revealingeein a new and sublimer form hismgleeme while the third (v. 18) le the.tothls divine Word, made flesh, is tett only begotten Son, the ona onlyerevertler el God the Father. To careful consideistion of title ,jhesis eve turn our attention in 4 Lesson I. The Word Made Flesh.. Goa the world,' and as such was familiar to Gentiles, Hebrews and Christians alike. The use 01 1110 term in a strieely personal sense •to designate the Son of God, Sesue Christ, as Me .personal, divine organ, through whom God has revealed himself to man, is peculiar tc John. With God - Wycliffe translated "at Gerd," Anglo-Saxon version, "mid Gode." The Greek preposition a.s here used indi- cates motion toward, that is, an active participating relation rather than a pas- sive relation of mere juxtaposition. - .Was Ged--Iclentical with, though a special manifestation of, God. "the.W.Inaleegreeseee. Several truths already separately stated In verse 1 are here combined and repeat- ed .for emphasis, 3. MI things --Considered severally as teloonns.tituting the infinite detail of mom Were made -Lit., "eame into being" by ("through") hint Note the transition from the discussion of tho personal be- fog of the Word to a manifestation of himself in creation. Without -Apart from. Not anything Lie, "not even one thine The strongest .possible form cf emphasis, that of repetition by contra- dicting the opposite. The Greelc text at this point permits of a different punctua- tion than that followed by both of our great English versions as fellows: "Without him was not anything made. That which bath been made was life in him." Many commentatons prefer and adopt this rendering, among them Westooteefilligan, and Moulton. It is rejected by the revisers, following ,Tis- chendorf, Alford, Goriet, anti other authorities. 4. In him was life -Ali life, PhYsierlt, meal, eternal, has its ultimate source ia Wm. The keen may be here taken to signify the fullness of physical, rational, and ethical energy. So considered tale life in Its highest manifestation -the In- telligence and moral institutions 01 11104 -makes possible to man a comprehen- sion of Wirth and duty, and thus 111U - mines, becoming in a very real sense the light of men. 5. And the light shineth in the dark- ness -Sin has brought inthfleclual and moral darkness into the world, and while the great light of truth as it le revealed in Christ continues to shine, the darkness (the world of she apprehended ,that is, laid held of and appeoppialetl- it not. G. There came a man -The Word was from eternity; John, the witness M that Violet as a creature, came into existence,. In tee beginning wae-An the Verb being bore the earn() as that liusion Le Gem 1. 1. There, translated "was mado" in verse 3. he reference Is to the Inaugnr- 7. For a w(lness--Per "testifying" or ifht creation process, that is, to "testimony," 1111.8 being his SPociric refs' in time : hero John elevates the skin 14 1110 (compare Introdiletary pare - out of the realm of time and graph to Word Stud(ee foe January 12), inking It refer to absolute pre- 0 Which lighteth every nian--Every v.fore any. C1'01111011, LIM hitter hunum being is endowed 'with some motioned until V0110 3 (cOrn- power and capacity for discovering mid 1. Jolla L. I ; Epli, 'L. 4), iniclendanding truth, and this e1,dow- 114 , Placed Upon, UM merit - mid consequently the light of LIN aLmiule existence truth attained by 11704110 011 IL also - "1 "isnatie," the verb cartes Dein hen who Le the mow of ail 11 • lite and light (compere verse 4 ObOVO), 1.4V111 "1 mei" 111 10. rho 'World avismos)---Nole two rile - 1 iiMati, find meaning' of tiolo exprossion 1 Ile ea). or hi in the world (Mc ,'erl 4)10,1 Ite (Metre te" ,eiee, to, nee as 'ifs source ta life and 11 1 00 and lit, world (Um sentient, 1'1ll1)1)4: tion of creation, including especially man) know hen nee The Mature Ailed to reeognize as Pe.teator,. 11„. HIo own-Hte ewn created world, hit; ritelitfut domatn. They 11101 were his own, that es, lere eawish natien. Thio difference In meaning between the two expressions which in English are Monti - One is clearly brought out in the original by a change In gender, from the make whiter is used in the 11041 00.00, 10 the maectaine used in the second phrase. 14, The Word became flesh-IA(110ot- ing bole the reality and the cemplate- ness of Christ's human natal*. "tabernacled," that is, dwelt as in 4 tent teteperarlly ammo; us. It Grace for grace - e'race upon grace. 17. Seises Cheisls-Nole the aeguinen1 01 tho whOle presage tims the i the °tore nal Word, identical with God, mantfested le ereatten, beemue flesh in the person of leetis Christ. 18. in the bosom of -In constant Intl - mute communien with the Fathereand yet at the same lime the perfect nuelitint through whom alone God reveals Mor - sell lo human beings. COSTS CHILDREN'S LIVES. Brussels Lace Is the Most Expensive Luxury in the Wined. Brussels lace is the most expensive article of luxury in the world, for it cests many children's lives. Princess Clementine found that out when she visited the lace exhibition ln the Pro- vince of Limburg, Germany, the other day. For her benefit the lace -makers were shown together with their product. Each full-grown artist had one or mot Child pupils-mest of them were nea more than 5 cr 6. The excuse given was "Your Royal Highness, unless a lace maker begins as soon as she can run, she will never else in her profession, for it's most dellcult.work." The five-year-old tots plied their needles quite skillfully, and all were proud to tell the princess that they were "permitted" to go to school in the after- noons, The other women all seemed to regod permission lo be educated as a great boon; they themselves had ewer gone to school, This being vacation time the children had to spend all their waking hours, from 7 a.m. 1111 8 p.m. In the service of the lac,e maker, and their wages amount te one franc, 20 cents per month, less than one.hale a cent per day. During all these 'long 'hours they have not a minute to romp and play. The finished lac,e workers earn as much in a day as the children earn In a month, one franc, 20 cents. What kills the children is the continuous bending over the low lace frame; those that begin at five suffer from chronic inflammation of the eyes before they are six. Most of the lace factories are owned by cloisters, society ladles generally act rir selling agents. Princess Clementine pronlisod 10 look into the finances and find out where the middle man's, or rather the middle woman's, profits go. They must be enormous, yet the lady sellers claim they do it all for charity - charity with the live,s of little children at stake. CUTTING THE Aims FOR LUCK. Indians Make aledielne to Break a -Spell of Bad Luck. All Red Indians are superstitious, end have many ways by which they endeavor to propitiate the goddess of fortune, or, 1 they °rill it, make medicine, either to bring them good leek, or to break a spell of bad luck, Each has Ids or her own peculiar medicine, which must be mado in its own pecilliar way. Sometimes an Indian will quietly leave camp, go to a secluded hilltop or ravine, and sit there talone in the hot stm for hours, hoping thus to induce the pcwer of medicine to come and abide *-‘11-1.,,L"-rtillim.lillirimalco a particularly d,iong and good medicine by standing naked in the rain until their hair is thoroughly wet through. If the isln lasts but a short time it is thought that the medleine has ken broken and will be "no good" Some of the Indian women make medi- cine by standing in the water and cut- ting their arms and legs with a knife, believing that the deeper the cut the more powerful will be the medicine, Indians also have what they call meth- ebee horses, medicine dogs, medicine arrows, medicine bagel, medicine bones, and medicine images of men and beasts,. all of which are supposed to bring their cwners good luck. The medicine horse is often painted and decorated in 11)0 14091 fanlastie man- ner, and is thought to be able to carry IS rider safely through every battle. The medicine dog is Used to being good lack when on the ehese, and sometimes to cure or prevent dissaae. But, after all, the Indian is not alone in his medicine -making. The white man has his medicine dogs, borses, cats, birds, and goats, only he calls them mascots; he has rabbits' feet and horse- shoes and lucky coins; but he laughs at the medicine -making of the Indian. sun' FOR LOSS OF IlEAIUTY. 'Woman 'Whom Lover Refused to Marry Wants Damages. A strange suit against a medical man has just been begun in the Sixth Chem - in:: Of the Civil Tribunal of the Depart- ment of Me Seine, Peris, France. • A young woman employed 101 the pose Orrie0 WaS engaged to be married, but ler sweetheart became alarmed ea the appearance of an incipient mousteche. She corisulted a medical man, who ad- vised the use Of x-rame as a depilatory, lea the uee woe disastrous to her beauty, and the young man refused to marry her She is now suing Ille doctor for $5,000 &metres, end the court has appointed Dr, Beeler° te milkman inquiry. A DIFFERENCE. "The people I lived wid before menm," sale the new cook, "was very plain." "Well," asked 'her now employer, "are we not plain hero?" "Yez are, ma'am, Mit in a different way. They woz plain in their way a' not in their looks, ma'am." me peOp10 0101'00 WONC SO 110rd as ten they the doing tieserese thing Mout pey. frilic Home 44444464.04441444440A CHOICE lieCIPES, Veal Briskee-Takea nlee veal brisket, open ta tee end, then Make 0 dressing out of one pint of oystees and two cups of bread crumbs, treason to suit easel, sluff, and bake, Good' when turkeys are 1100S1 a Turkey. -If the wings and legs are carefully cut eff end plat:eft in the bottom of the pan in the gravy, and the hreast placed down instead of UP, one will find the legs, wings and breast kitten' and Juicy ; In feet, a delightful emprise, Huntteee Supper. -Cut plugs from large potatoes, hollow out enough of the eaten to admit the well -seasoned and carefully .theased body of a jaelcsnipe or reed bird, replace the plug and balce the ueual length of time, When 110 potato is done the bird will be done. This is the original recipe 01 11 mere man -a happy idea on a recent, hunting trip. Smooth Cake Before Frosting. -When you take your mike from the ;oven if it Is "humpy" place a paper over tbe cake and keel) passincy the hand lightly over Ole paper until 'the cake is 04100110 on top. TiNi6 vill not make the cake 100097. Cream of kliaton.--Get four pounds of ribs of young mutten. Have your butch - e» trim the ribs Cwo Melees down and thee off the backbone. Tie in a circle, with bones erect. Put in baking pan with e few stalks of celery, seasoning, a helf cup of hater, and a pint of water. Baste often and ten minutes before sei.v- ing remove the top pan and brown. Fill the Oslo of meat with green peas. Liquid Yeast. --Boll one ounce of hops in a half gallon of water, strain through a clotit and add four ounces sugar and two teaapoonfuls of Wt. Lel stand twenty-four hours, then add a pound and a half of potatoes 'cooked and mashed. Stand another twenty-four hours. Bot- tle. When making stir censtantly and keep near the fire Shake well before usIng. The yetis!, should be allowed to ferment thoroughly, then keep tightly milted. Will keep several weeks" in a cool place. Happy Day Recipe -- Take a little dash of oold water, A little leaven of prayer, A little bit of sunshine gold, Dissolved in morning air. Add to your meals .sonle merriment ; Add thought for kith and kin, And then, as a prime ingredient; Plenty of work thrown in. Flavor it all with essence of love, And a little dash of play ; Met a nice old book, a•nd a glance above Complete the well -spent day. Transparent Pies. - Cream together hall cup butter and one cup sugar. Four eggs, beaten separately, saving out two 01 11,11 whites for the meringue; the juice 01 0110 lemon and half of the grated rind, two tablespoons brandy and one-quarter metmeg grated. Line your pde pans with puff paste and jraue 111 the filling and bake in a moderate oven half an hour. Make the meringue of the two whiles and two tablespoons powdered sugar, and spread on top of pies and place back ie the oven till brown. This same recipe can be used for transparent tarts by making them in muffin tins. Pineapple Cake. -One cup of butter, flee eggs, tlwee and one-half cups of flour, two cups of sugar, one-half cup of milk, one teaspoonful of soda, two. of cream of tartar. Stir butter and sugar to a cream, there add yolks of eggs and stir with the hand unlit white. Then 0111..1291h the soda_i_ir,d_cream_ef.t,arLqa. info tholroiir, itaa the milk to the sugar and eggs, and then the flour and flavor- ing; last of all add the whites, which have been beaten stiff. Bake in four or five layers. Geate the- pineapple coarse- ly. TOM] off' a part of the juice if neces- sary. Add balfeof a grated cocoanet and sweeten to taste with pulverized sugar. Put this between the layers. Grate oecoamet over the top and sift on some sugar. You will pine for this cake as long as there is a bit left, and then you will pine for another. , HOME ECONOMY. • Stocking Sleeves. -Cut the feet off stockings and baste in sleeves for morn- ing jacket. Salt Improves Coffee. -Add a pinch of salt when you make coffee. You can use less, and your oeffee is rich and mellow. Soft Cistern Water. -If because of a newly plasterod cistern the water ie hard, or if it is ihe lime in the well water, that, forms a brown deposit in pitchers, teakettles oe vases that won't wash off, just pour in some aleong vine- gar, 011 up with water, and let stand a few hours, when it will all vanish with R stroke of the dish. mop, Cook with Pillows. -Take an ordinary - steed box, place a pillow in the bottom and. at the sides and ends. Wash and pick the required amount of navy beans. Have reitdy yove double boiler, phme beans in upper part, cover. with boiling water. Have water in lower part boil- ing. Put lld on and set, in the pillow - lined hox, with another pillow or pillows on lop. Let stand over night, undis- turbed. 111 the morning prepare in the usual way. First put a layer of sliced onions in the bottom pan or baker be- fore putting in beats. Bake from ,lx to eight hours. . Use Tour Soot. --When the kitchen range is "cleaned out" there will be found under the oven a considerable quantity ef gray duet; it Is not oeslies exaelly new soot, but a smoke deposit 0.8 near lamp black as a coal flee Is able to produce, finer Man Me finest flour. Not many who ihraw this into the ash bin are aware that this is the beet thing In the world for polistng tinware, far sur- passing all the prepared powders and pastes .sold for that purpose... Apply It te the tin with a darup reolh and a few strokes:will loodiice such a lustre as is on new. tinware.. Mend, Tram Shoe Lining, --When the lining In lho back cf shoes is worn, mak. ink; holes in the stockings, out a piece of strong white cloth a Mlle larger Mon the "Stiffener," lotting the piece, ecom up an frith higher al the upper e'clge, Paste the patch with tiny goad miste, nof, gluo, beteg careful to cover all edges. FIl the • pedal) oVer the wore lining and press lute place, smoothing out IUJ creases There With steeng tereed eearn the upper, edge to the lining and let dey, Can 1)0 renewed when neeessare, TO Seal Jars.--letre, sealing preserve,s, jams or etristip when the tops Or CoVera are loot you can buy a sealing wax in the eepartment stores at 4 eente a pound, melt 'it slowly oeee the flee or tots, tlo 11 icilleigeiNvonvxero. ytelr; ileoholitiomp aoniduilieoucetottlitio sepaipt- the cloth in. the wax and then plop 11 ever tee .top of the Nate dove nicely end it, will be tebetight. leer catsup put a cork in the bottle, and pour the wax over the cork, Any kind of bottle will do. 11 L clreap and will go a long way. Weights of Common Greteeries,-Soft butter, size of egg or JOUnded tablespoonfue w•eighe one ounce; 0(10 cupful weighs half pound. Sugar, coffee A, ono heaping tablespoonful is but one ounce; one pint lo fourteen ounce.; two teacups, well heaped, one pound. Sugar, best brown, erame as coffee.A. Sugar, game Wad, slightly betive3r. Sugar, powdered, one and one-third pints or two and three-fourths level teacupfuls weigh ode pound. Flour, two tablespoonfuls, one ounce; one heaping quart, one pound. Liquids, one generous pint weighs one pc und, Meats, chopped, ono pecked pint m•eighs one pound. COOLIES IN_SOUTH AFRICA. In 1907, Total Number of Coolies Ship- ped from China to Africa, 63,663, Sir Alexander flosie, Commercial ,elleche to the British Legation ab Pe- elle, says that many of tile provinces ef China have a ,surplus poeulallon, and their• labor is a yaluable export from China, bringing hi return 1010 the country the profits derived from fereign lands. Kwang-tung and Fula Rion are the great enagration provin- ces, .but Chihli and Shantung, princi- pally the former, have supplied nearly al the coolies for South Afelca, and it may be interesting to give here a sum• mary ,of ihe emigration up to Januam 31, 1907, The total number of coolies shipped from China to South Africa was 63,811, the teen number landed ut Durban was 63,568, the total distribut- ed to mines was 63,296, ,and the total employed on January 31, 1907, was 53,- 828, Up to the (lame date deaths num- bered 8p05, repatriated by purchase 1,433, repatriated as physicaely unfit 3,976, repatriated by State aid 766, while 99 were undergoing terms of im- prisonment, The percentage of wast- age of the number distributed to the mines amounted to 14.99 pee eerie Of the total number which salted from China 62,070 were from the north and 1,741 from tho'south. The total amount paid by the Chamber of Mines Labor Importation Agency in China to the families and relatives of the emigrants by the allotment system 10 June 30, 1907; evas $1,11 2,558.5 a sum which, of ceuree represents only a part of the miners' savings. NEW AFRICAN RAILROADS. . Two Across Nigetila Will Start Produc- tion of Cotton. Several months ago a gentleman who has lived in Nigeria said that the climato. and soil or that large region are favor- able for the eultivation of cotton, but as yei there is no encouragement to raise 11 because there are no railroads to carry it to the sea. The railroad is now to be supplied. According to the American. Geographical Society's bulletin it, is to start from Baro on the Niger River below Lhe rapids that impede navigation. Vessels loaded with cotton brought by rail to Baro xnay descend the Niger to Akassa, the port at 1.1,3 mouth, where steamships may.....lega the freight for Europe.,__ toiminus of the railroad will be.' Kano, the great and populous capital of Hausaland, some 500 milts from taro by rail and not far south of the Sahara desert. Kano became known some sixty years ago as the greatest manufacturing and oornmeecial cornea of the western Sudan. It is expected that lhe reilroad will largely increase its importance. The British. Gcniernmeent authorized the building of the railroad in August last. Its gauge is to be 4 feet 6 Inches, But Kano will be joined with the sea not only by this railroad and the Niger but also by a through rail by way of Jebba and Lagos, now the largest com- mercial centre on the Atlantic coast of the continent. An agricultural lair in that city recently testified to the impor- tance wlecli harming interests aro al.! ready attainiog. Many native femme& were among the.exhibleors. NEW riAct OF CATTLE. I33' crossing and selection, a new var- iety of cattle, known as the Sordeleise race, has been developed in southwestern France, The two parent varieties are the 1-Iolland and the Beeline cattle, the one famous for the abundanee of their trier, the other for their provision of buttes The Bordelaise race, whose, first herd - book appeared M 1889, is said to corn. bine the excellences ar ifs two progeni- tors. Its most characteristic external mark. is the blaelc-and-white tiger pat- tern covedng the body. In the pure breed the head 10 entirely black. The name comes Morn the city 01 Bordeaux, the metropolis of the region wirer% the new eirehe is bred. WHERE UNIONS ARE 'THICKEST, Everytmdy knowe how rapidly Trade unionism is gaining ground ell over Fewope and America, but there aro few who realize that Um largest, percentage or workers organized in these unions .10 10 170 found In Denmark. Ilere the pro- portional number or organized workers Is more than fifty per aent.; while Swe- den is a close runner-up With it matt', ehnilar percentage. In Cierm.any th0 proportion of trade unionists is BO per cent.; while in the United Kingdom it is somewhat smaller. The expenditure on trade disputas 10 rapidly decthang in British unions, while Irt the German con. Waltzed unions the, growth he large and steady, 111 Germany, too, trek disputes toe increasing willi parallel rapidity, Tnipeelal. statistics showing 1.1111 /1111,1ov the year 1904, and 2,257 during 10011. °facial figures for 11105 have tio/ yet hero Issued, but they will In all pr'obulelity gala o etill Waller Ilaura, MILLIONS oV RRIAOES THE WOOLD11 . 1V1AT1U sunsbone fena New le island, the lion Probably at, the meld, do so ((1(1115 werlient 1 e '(00, WM( 4, and week out, ter al, Ell; 11)13New Yore Immigration Melon. very weelc hundreds of gide/rum thc countriee of Europe LIVI'lv0 1000 11 1101'- uge passengers. 'they lave '0 k; meet three lovers who ,,kinig 191 10 America menthe 01' years iblom tIrld week end 51111101) 51 110010. • A,11 1 ful'e the gide am allowed la lena ',11 New ?ark city they APO, in 111051 0000, (bilged le marry their sweetheat , 40 that the Government may have pre- sumptive guarantee that they 0 11 be properly supperlact. FOR 80,000 1311I4S. Commissioner Watchern, the le sad of the Muni/paten station tee old the writer that he regarded 11 110011 80 IRO biggest matelimaker ia the world. "Very often," he said, "le young man le considerably upset at tilt Idea ef hav- ing to marry right off ile reel, and at good deal of diplomacy • need,ed to bring him to tho scratch, cruet say I ever found tilu girls unwilli g. 'They are thanIcful to get 11 over an feel 1110,11' position secure In a new cc entre. "Net a day passes wit lout seventa beidegroorns turning tip mime the ring. We, have kept one here foe enrsito lend to them. 11 is in charge of tee lady superintendent, and she sues 101(11 11 must have been used nearly eighty thousand lames. Naturally, it is getting a bit, worn. A good many tef 111 brides done lila; the idea of pulling 11 411 if agei alter the ceremeny, for they le nit th t will bring bad luck, A. brilegroont has offered us as muoli as $100.10 be a lewed to keep the ring; but it ' one f our most cherished possessloils, awJl we won't part with it," Imagine three or four bendy girls cf a dozen different races and lan- guages in one huge hula all wait ng to be picked out by their lovers. T te In- terpreters on the staff have a terrible Lime, "Why doesn't he con,e--oh, why doesn't ho comer they are asked a thousand times a day, in refeeence to some dilatory or faithless omen. WHEN THE LOVERS MEET, At last Gkvanne Batista arrives, He lute done well in America. He les an ice- cream shop on. Fourth vetme, and stends well with Tammanyst NVes 1115 Lucia, whom he tenet:in' eetue 1 ge in a Calabrian village, drying her pretty eyes out in. a corner, She has been doing that, ter three days becauee ;he die nol, come --quite forgetting that i when(tri wecte to tell hint sho was snit Ing sI forgot to give the name 01 1110 sh Ip. But all is well now. They laugh and weep en each. other's -, ' ea kiss as if they would never eloper. regardless of the crowd around-gre I wleen, iteleerd,. are doing miletima ne thing, WM118 MN hour Lucittred married, and on liec way to reMee the ice- cream shop. 1304 there es not alwayttil ending LO the romance, Ne O girl arrives to find Mei dead, er Mat he hes delt merrierl someone elgere- Peal are SOilieLlmes WitO91304, 01 )0 glel-whe is usually almost pe Is tercet lo return on the e that becteg elmemevee, The led , , JI superl tendent one eil 1 to ti t writer tt very pretty 'ilivigo had just been •martiel oneselooking young country,' hers. . "That tipple are going te be e think," elle said. "BM he not t eIto came out to meet. iShe 11 wailing limo twc days, eend le came. Teen ttiLe young !fellow; to break lthe news that her tor married an American women wl, money. He bad known met 10041 ne Austria., Ma she had refer lie 0 renewed les offer now, i ad cite 1er tears. I let them bill arid coo .1' prieate mem for an houre e1sl 1111 1ey were married. She is et 11. cc g tor elm has oertainly. got the ' thr 3 of the two." Many caw have happie d oti men, not finding their men eweett marrying on the spot une laehet of their OW31 race who Mel no g nieet thetn. That Is so contemn - Wildly atteriets any attention. Me ignorant alien gee is afraid lo s the last moment, and hell justly nant lover picks out theflarst st young 306115811 he sees a1 the al Perhaps leer own sweetheart has et her, so they consoleeeeene another. IRELAND TAKVS THE I,EAD a happy 'peaty over is er and SOOReS 66, the e - up led an an of , I an en er "The Irish are by lay the most fie," Commissioner Watchom "You can always depend on ar girl being Met. 'That's hardly wen for most of them are gtrts any ought to be glad to get. 511(1 Scandinavians are loyal d on% have rainy English at' e Luning out 1,1 ilas way. T1 (wally in a position to peels ,lis land at U1100, and get lill their leisure ashore." The record number of merit day on Ellis 1, hind when 1 its --about, a year ago --was t three hundred, That hapPett Sunday in 1501. Five big lin inirolgrents had arrived on lir day. This (01111(01 11103' have e eltu'ing the peal stinimet, for oi n1,01101,0 ills who ,:vent o\'i usually greet. ' • The only sure thing ale cure the a eold is that 14 Guest emsptclottsly erette haled pillows and the crurnplel ''Look here, landlord, Ithislo been slept in." 1.andlord (tr(1m ly)--"Thate what Ile foe." lie --"Well. Resit, 11090 do y( along will, voor kudy of isho-"011, beautifully, (Marl (Mc we are married 1 811/111 1 feet cook, and I shalt be , 'specially when, yeti arc 111, learning all sans of nice roc' valid paapin.q , 11 e, I • 1110 an at le 1. et eh - d. Nett env 16 THE LAND OF THE APPLE VIE ANNAPOLIS VALLEY IS A Vett FliV1T GARDEN. leek! for 1907 Was 700,000 Barrels of Apples Alene--Frult of Roo Excellence, The history of Mc apple Is s1,111 to be written, The reference books tell us Mat tree is Indigenous to Anatolia, tile seuthern Caucasus end northern Russia. It certainly got a start in Nova Scotia (1181 aS soon de that primeval forest be- gan to disappear, 11 has spread might- ily throughout the province, hut is found mole abundantly in the A.11011polIS 11011ey. The Annapolis Valley has been called Me "Carden Spot af the Earth." When you have driven miles upon miles through forests of apple and pear and other trees, in the spring Gine when a, sea of Ted Rild pink and white bloseoms meets the eye and a riot of perfume ase sails the nostrils, o,'l,i WO autumn, Wile. Li,o trees aro weighted tlewn WW1 lad burden of fruit, you will think it we mimed. Roughly speaking the Valley -1h just call 11 1)15 Valley In eastern Cana and 100 11 go al, thaL-Is 100 miles long and thirty miles wide, The soil is fertile and well watered. Rivers and tidal estuaries divide it longitudinally Meo a earths of ridges. The elver bottoms and the flats reclaimed from the sea are given over ea hay fields and pasture land. The ridges are devoted largely to fruit growing. If you stand somewhere in the bottom lands you will see rising gently, from the meadows on .either side ORCHARD AleTER ORCHARD. 11 11 is blossom time the picture will.be beilliant. Here and there you will seo !muses and farm buildings rising amid tho trees, There aro occasional patches of tilled latel, but it is mostly all trees. The yield 0( 0110 Animpolis Valley for 1907 Is the greatest In its history. It is estimated that moret lien 700,000 barrels cf apples evers shipped, not to mention the pears and plums and quinces. Most. 0( 11)0 apples went to England as usual, but more shipments weee mnde to the American market than ever before. The prices have raaged from $2.50 to $3 a barrel and the Nova Scotia erchardists have received about 82,000,000 for their harvest. In 1906 the crop Was about half as big. Nineteen hundred and seven bar - vest is seventeen times, greater than that, cf fifteen years ago. a farmer te clear from 453000 to $10,000 81 year on his apples is not unusual. Twenty years ago the farmer who shipped 1,000 barrels a year 1003 a rarity; now there are many 5,000-bareel mon. The greatest orchard in the valley Is Hill- creste, near le.entville. It contains move than 25,11e0 trees, Tho apples of Nova Scotia have a flavor all Mete ONVR. TI101.41 the fruit «vows large, er DOES NOT BECOME 'GROSS, as is the case with a good deal of the fruit. that comes from the West. There are any number of varieties. In the late summer comes the Harvest, apples, the Bow Sweets, the lied Astrachans and others. Later on come the Geavem steins -the king of all the fail apples- - the Strawberry apples and the Bisho, Pippins. The liet ot winter apples would be in- terminable. The two varieties wheel command elm highest prices are the Blenheim Pippins and the Ripsion pip- pins. They're both pippins in the col- lcquial sense of that word. Kings they. aro 1.11 the apple family -far, far above the ruck of Baldwins and King of Tomp- kins and Spitzenbergs and Greenings' and even Russet Sweets. The soli of the =hods is cultivated carefully. Some years IL Is planted ini r a'lapples grain or potatoes; in Ot01110111 80101) Lo grass. Occasionally a crop of grain is ssi allaozepdactokedrotin. l' the /orchards and usually earted away at once to steamer or train 'foe shipment. In pack- ing apples one opens the bottom 0( 1)10 barrel. The very finest specimens of the fruit are arranged in niee layer's at what will be the top of the barrel when it is opened by the consumer. That's wby the apples always look se nice when you open a fresh barrel. But the Nova Scotia fruit grower is • AN HONEST INDIVIDUAL. He grades the ripples carefully and malice the barrOls "NO. 1," •"Nt. 2" and "No. 3." Even the 11111105 are good. All below that grade go bo the cider mill. The valley is a city of big gardens. The main roads, running generally east and west, one on eaoh side of each ridge, are called streces, The houses aro large and pl'Osp00017s looking; many cf them have pretentious flower griedens. Fences havo been generally abolie Almost every house . has ifs Every farmer keeps a smart rigs for gether it 1 (1 sure 1141- sheree) d lure u get a Pe the Ile elm which ee the no largo towns town, Kentsille and e under 2,000 population. It is je city, prosperous ,and co 'tented. GENEROUS 'BUILDINO SOCIETY. A building socielly which lets be startad La Paige promises' to sweep the 0111Miley8 of the members' lions( provide Medical attendanee free charge to all Venues; end 'le give ovcry tenant a chance by lottery once a, month or getting Ono morales' rent returned to him. Whenever a baby is born the parents will, if they have 1)131(1 111 the house for a year or more, receive three months' rent as the baby's birthday present. Many a manes poperherity Is due 14 the fact that ha doesn't think aloud. The easiest way to do anyti inq may not be the beg, but it is the 2osI po- pular,