The Brussels Post, 1908-3-19, Page 2NOTES AND CONSIVLE NTS
la order to do away with the evils
el "sweated industries' and to remove
tate temptation to the abuse of child la-
tter tt is proposed in England to es-
taleaste minim -en wage eltanderds in
4he- un,iustr.ee last have %lien. under
dlac sweating system, oreeto special .and
Mixed boatels to exercise the duty of
*polling ibis legal standar,* and In -
Utast the en_Orneaten( of the beards
teilete Le the factery inspectors. The
I li
whist seas beet ftlt.rodueed in. the
heusse el commons to effect these re -
terms is nota government measure,
and perhaps there is no expectation of
pewit et this session of peptise
Hie711, 'tvil:ell Will be a busy and crowd"
s'•.i ',sate in any ease, owing to the Dent-
e -se
t nl-
Th r sr.,1 character of the bills which the
i..hrlry has promised to put through.
Pest >i. s interesting to Iearn that
'Thera nes nothing tike serious oppci.si-
tx: ' in the commons to the minimum
wane principle as applied to the .weat-
THE PLACE OF THE CHURCH
Not a Day Passes But That We Realize That
Men Cannot Live By Broad 11.1one.
"Haw beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him LhIL bntngolh geed
tidings,'" -Isaiah, LU., 7.
'rho church elands in the commit-
hlity as (he special organization and
agency of religion, What has a man
a right to expect from the church.? It
takes its place among 11tc world's in-
stitutions, every one of which must jus-
tify its existence and its dcutand fee
support by showing the contribution
11 is making to the world's good,
11 We are thinking of the Christian
churches then they stand In the com-
munity av wt''d1y to do the were of
their Ieunder. 'they are to be the coin-
munitys spiritual leaders. This is the
lust thing we lute* a right to expect
, f a Christian church, Indeed of any
^d�s:rhes,
[Indical. lekur ur'''n ani church, that it shall speak to our inner
s seeets alone have heretofore adv.r- selves and lend us into eternal truth.
cool the minimum wage remedy for But '.eadership is a larger matter than
;orasiiiee and "anti -social" industries; teaching or doctrine. Spiritual trout
t. the average liberal or tery it has has to do with our own selves, with
seemed a revelutdonary InLerferen.'e
iiiat the frc.'dons of ooutract and pro-
perty.
Pe=buy a sort of precedent for this
be' osis fennel in the Australian "new
cur natures and developing or dwarf-
ing lives. Our need Is for guidance
and inspiration, for one who goes be-
fore and illumines the path for our halt-
ing, doubting steps.
The great need that drives vs to
church, and unsatisfied (here, may turn
us from its doors forever Is this need
mote=tem'' law of 1906. which provides of Lhe inner lite. Tf ani the churches
that ail manutacturers of a;rien turel can do fs to give recturee on literature
and. art, to render concerts, and Pro,
teach'nery' sbali pay excise duties aqua.; vide entertainment we would rattler
L• the Ieriff rates on foreign machinery look for those things to those
unless they satiety the court of areloi WHO CAN DO THEM BETTER.
• trat:oa that- the wages they pay f+mst Man wants to look above himself; he
labor are "fair and reasonable." The, wevel see beyond the clay; he w•ouel
idea that underlies this remarkable act catch visions of those high ideals that
1= that the employer ie entitled se p - ace moved race in days of old,
teetian only entitled
with have turned peasantsthe Onto heroes, have
v if h: octose.} sharesride the weak strong, the - cowardly
labor the advantages theme Ca , valiant in fight, the meek to be the
tried under this act have arous• w ng martyrs and masters of man-
hileoc 1. in Aiislrata and Greet Britain,.
kind. He wants clear answers to the
especially in view of the dettrentnatioe ` deep questions that rise in his own
stern heart and conscience.
ef the
g meat to apply the same In the glut of material things there
prineiplo !-i a large number of eller is felt deep and keen the hunger for
manufacturing industries. The •_ours i t ]eve and t tru.hr, treasuutresentd at molth
arbitration recently fixed schedule :,f caanninot eeaclif rom uc.s.rrTphere never Will
wages for the makers of agricultural
machinery which was declared to con --
form in all its forty -ono items to "the
standard appropriate to the normal
needs of the average employe, regarded
as a human being, living in a civilized
community." The manufacturers who
have tint paid such wages as the doe's -
ion fixed must return to the govern-
ment the profits which they are assum-
niad to have realized from the tariff
act. In Englcund the friends of the
minimum wage dnctrine aro concerned
not with the question of equalizing bene-
fits conferred but with that of enforc-
ing decent standards of living, of rescu-
ing certain industries from degrada-
tion in the interest of the physical end
moral welfare of the workers and of
the nation at largo.
The Britons are jubilant over Prot.
fiottnmoly, who is said to have made
ono of the m est important discoveries
of recent years. It generally is tenon
Met the growth of plants depends to
a great extent ren the 110(10 of bacteria.
These are of 1111 Mitts, some acting up -
en the root. and .-ome upn11 other per -
tens et the, plant,. Of these the most
Important group have the posvet• of ns:
trseting nilmgen from the air and trena-
rnitfne it to the plant. Muth reticent!
uorlc recently has been done at. Kings
college, especially with nitrogen extract-
ing bacteria. Ry watering the roots of
Mee:ebonies, wheal, or barley 1)i oafs
with a bacterial editon he has increas-
ed ihe'r growth eb0u1 rine-Ihir,.l. More -
ever, Such bacterial treatment meter.
ales Cho maturity of penny, and as a
result o1 using 1 a 3 C1'I;d re:Miens beans
have been sold six Weeks after the seed
were sewn. By inoculating all seeds
et lucerne and clover eeveral crop:, have
been increased, 25 per cent. on barren
ground at an approximate cost of 12
cents an acre, and it is claimed that
the roughest moorland now can be
turned into agricultural land bearing
rich crops e
ENGLiSI1 FOREIGNI7,ED,
A party of tourists whe were tem-
fcrlably established in a hotel In Ger-
many discovered a now contribution 110
.English ns she Is spoke," only This time
they foundhit in the written word, The
.iuilding had loon recently wired for
electricity end under the bulbs in each
room directie ns were postod in French,
Cerntan and lingllsh. The French wns
irreproachable. the .German nearly en.
Thh English rend as follows: "' eiprn
end shutthe lightening 01e0rl.•at on,
is requested to lura to the right. hand.
Orr going to bed It must. be closed.
Otherwise the lightening must be paid,"
DEGREES OF WRATH,
"Do yen think the •dog ihat bit you
was .mad?"
"1 don't know tent he tvas mild, but
he certainly was a ]idle peivlvli."
Tt's better to tv0rk for nothing than
to play a losing gave.
Ile hard for one wen= to 'forgive
another for- having done her et favor.
be any question as to the place of the
church that meets these deep needs and
lengings cf men.
If, (die her master, she has learned
the secret of the life that consists not
In the abundance of things possessed,
that sets not its heart on silver or gold,
if she has learned the love of life su-
preme over all passions, the love not
of her own life alone, but of the tall-
ness of life for all men, she will not
need -o ask for any other authority or
potency among us.
The world walls for inspiration, for
the passion of great faiths, for visions
that slur men to noble endeavor. Even
our most practical concerns fall Oat
and barren unless they aro animated
by some great hope or dream. Relig-
ion is the passion that makes life worth
while, that reveals cls inner values,
that enables every man to bear his
cross and do his part for the sake of
the life of all.
Often we criticize the church because
she does not go into reforms, because
she seems to de
SO LITTLE PRACTICAL WORK.
She does not need to go into such things
as if no other could do them; she must
he the force pushing the men out info
their own service, the power that com-
pels us to do the work we ought to
do for the worlds salvation.
But what Is a church after all but
the socialized expression of the relig-
ious lite of a group of people. Wo our-
selves determine what such an expres-
sion shall bc. If the church tails (s it
not because we have failed ea put aur
lives into her service? It is folly to
sit down and talk of her sins; we are
only condemning our own sloth.
To say, loo, that we have no concern
with the church simply is to say that
we have no pert in the social religious
llfe of the communtty; we extradite
ourselves from the higher, the spiritual
communal life. We have a right 10
expect help and inspiration from the
church only as we make IL a means
of help and inspiration to others.
Every man has in him some message
ter all ether men, each of us has Ills
share to give of the world's illumina-
tion and inspiration. Is it not our busi-
ness to pool our spiritual possessions,
to bring together every high thought
and rich hope and through the asso-
ciation and gathering of men for mutual
insplraton and help make the best
good of each to become the common
good of all?
HENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH
22.
Lesson XII. First Quarteeiy Review.
Golden Text, John 1. 4.
Jesus the Centre. It is by no means
difficult to determine the centre of the
unity of :tris Quarter's lessons. Every
ono distinctly and pointedly sets form
Jesus Christ. There is no better re-
view scheme than one that plats his
none in the centre. of a deck, with
rays leading to the eleven names which
constitute the var•1•ous revelations chat
these lesson mance of the inearnateSon
of God.
Lesson 1. shows us Jesus as the
Word, that is, the Ile eater of God
b3 his truth, The contact between hea-
ven and earth was aco'nrnpaniad by love,
and the point of contact was the intel-
ligence of the living soul that God had
mads The divine address was mane
to L,..e soul by Abe truth, and the Mes-
ae-.,,er was "The Word," the key -text
et t.'e lessen is verse 14 (of chapter
one); "And the Word became flesh, and
dWeib among us (and Wo beheld his
glory!, glory as of the only begotten
Irom the Father), full of grace and
leu (h."
Lesson 1i. makes Jesus prominent as
the Lamb of God, which suggests the
doctrine of the atonement. John the
Baptist had been preriehing inuoh of
sin, and warning itis hearers, without
respect of dignities, to flee from the
wrath to come. His best doctrine,
hcw•cver, NODS "Repent.'' Ile had no
nrssago of salvation except as he should
prepare the way for the Herald of the
new kingdoni. This he did faithfully,
humbly, earnestly; and es soon as he
saw the divine !'reacher of the new
gospel coming toward him he criedout
(verse 20): "Behold the Lamb of God,
That taketh away the s1n of the world!"
Lesson 11T. introduces the Evangelist
of Cha kingdom. and shows us how ho
begins his work by bringing the grace
of End down to the level of men, and
illustrating it in the sweetest of pee-
snnnl lniercout'se, Jesus appears hese
as the model Soul -Winner, gracious,
hospitable. versatile, and tactful. The
key -verso of the lesson is verse 89:
"Come, and yr shall see."
Lessen IV. shows Jesus in the strik-
ing role et n Priest. The tinniest, which
he calls his Father's hetet+, is dishon
reed, and with blazing zeal for tis re-
slerneen In the eirelit101 of holiness
aid sanotle thot bel•,nercl to it he fell
upon the desecraters w(ih n stomp"
e
ami drove thein away, shying; "Tutee
these things hence; make net my Fa-
flior's• home a barren of merchandise"
(2. 16).
Leann V, leoehes us Ilial Lhe Word
10 (be Son of teed, aid IMO he ernes
Into the world icy his lrnlhrr's hehoa,
•r e v,', env', n 11 to judge the wealth 11, hal la , ,,u il,
(k,d's loving p11rpnso fcr his ore:1111 ,
(a eternal life. fie would span) hi' only
Son lint Lir world might not (s' ruinrwt.
It 1111y ,801)1 retitled he ruined. tl tv01141
lu letenuse lt. rhes not arrenl the talon.
1. kin offered fir frost 1hrrough fir+ Son,
'To ('mini! nn,es in Lu (bo seeing Son.
ie lo restive (he judgment, Icor Grid
SO loved the world, that Ise gave hie
only begotten Son, that whosoever be -
'tooth on him should not perish, but
have eternal life' (3. 16).
Lesson 1'I, Here we have the wonder-
ful interview of Jesus with the woman
cf Samaria, in which he opens to her
dark mind the spacious truths of God
as a universal Father, and tile world-
wide privilege of worship. He announc-
es himself to her es the Messiah in
plain terms, and allows her, and all
the i;amaritans, and everybody else_
to worship the Father wherever they
may be, if they worship him aright.
"God is a Spirit: and they (hat wor-
ship him must worship in spirit and
truth" (1. 24).
Lesson \'II. is the first of the three
that give us Jesus as a Healer of the
ills et men's bodies, His power is made
prominent in the healing of the noble-
man's boy who lay at the point of death,
beyond human aid. And the power
was exerted at a distance from the sick
room. "Jesus saltie unto him, Go thy
troy; thy son Broth" (4. 50).
Lesson V1II. gives us Lho healing of
the impotent man at Bethesda, in
which the compassion of the Christ is
e striking feature. It ,foes not appear
that the poor man asked the Saviour
far any help. But when Jesus saw him
lying there in his misery he opened t)ie
interview 'himself, and revealed his ten-
der .pily for 1hint, and healed him per-
fectly. Key -verse: "Arise, take up thy
bed, and walk" (5. 8).
Lessen IX. presents another view of
the great Revealer. He is now on the
east side of the Sea of Galilee, follow-
ed heedlessly by a great multitude of
men, women and children, They aro
fat from home and have nothing 10 eat.
He takes the initiative, recognizes the
suffering of the people, and becomes a
revelation of God the Provider to them.
He Is now ministering to health Tether
than to disease, and he leaches the les-
son of the goodness of God in providing
for our daily needs: "Jesus therefore
teak the loaves; and having given
thanks, be distributed to then that was
set down; likewise also of the fishes as
tench as they would" (6, 11),
Lesson X. follows this with 'the spiri-
tual interpretation of the, miracle.' Our
daily bread is the token af. Jesus, who
is the breed of life, bestowed by the
same Father, who made us and provides
for no. We receive him by faith,wtt(ch
apprehends the unseen. The bread that
perishes is visible: not So "the food
which abldeth unto eternal life." But
this latter is the true object of our high-
est end hardest later. Ail who would
do the work of Gad must accept this
)wend of heaven,- "'this is (he work, of
God, (het ye believe on hien whom he
hnih sent" (0. 20).
l.c'ason XI. furnishes res with a sirilc-
ing proof of the disinter of the, great
denier. No human power erruld open
the eyes of the man porn blind. Jesus
IrUs Os IMO the work that is node
manifest in hent is the wnric of God, 11
WAS 50 liken by the mins (end by the
I'hnrisnee. There wits 1)e other expire.
110(100 of it possible. 'There elm he
re rlenrer eel of divirely Than flint
one should held In his 1111111 (115' poovel'
of nod, ail 1181' it :leen oreselnn,
",leen answered, Neither did this 1111111.
SM. 1101' Iris poi IIs; 1411 (1101. the weeks
er Gee .511(111,1 be made mtmllest In
l:inn" (0, 1e
A11 in One, Tho Qeer'letes lessens
tiny be summed up in this; "Josue
Christ, the life and the light at mem"
The Golden 'text teaches us this: "In
him was life; and the life was the light
et men" (1. 4), The salute, summation
appears in a text near the end of the
Ouartat': "1 (1111 the light of the world:
he that fcliuwotlt me shall alot want In
1tftl'cness, but shall have the tight of
lila" t, 12).
As the sun in the slcy brings light
to the earth, aid its light gives life, so
Jesus Christ brings light end life to
lire moral witted.
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WIIAT IleYALTY SPENDS IN TIPS.
Tho Czar is the ;Host Liberal Ruler In
This Respect.
King Edward's objections to tipping
are well known, and guile a number
of sac'.ety hosts and hostesses, know-
ing the King's views, have caused no -
Bow to be placed 111 the •bedrooms m-
questinug that nit tips be given to ser.
voids,
Curiously enough, It is,practleally im-
passible for King Edward to break
down, the custom in his own house-
hold, particularly when foreign Royal-
ties are his guests. From, time Inune-
mateai it bas been the habit of Royal.
visitors to show their appreciation of
services rendered by the bestowal of
gifts upon the members of a household,
from the highest le almost the lowest.
111 the ease of the former, the gifts usu-
ally take the form of jewellery, a lump
sum beng handed aver le the house-
kesper to divide among Cha minor ser-
vants according le their degree.
This a.m0unt varies somewhat,- and
t. Royal personage who stayed at
Windsor one night, for instance, might
give anything between 5100 and 5350.
Wizen King Alfonso came a -wooing
Princess Ena, however, he scattered
tips in a particularly lavish manner,
and 8500 a day ecareelf severed his
prodigality In this directihn.
The Kaiser, too, is a very generous
"lipeer," and when he visited England
ire 1891 loft 82,500 for the :servants at
Windsor and Buokinghatn Palace, in
addition to a large quantity of j0tsel-
lery for the more important members
of the households. When he visited
Windsor recently he gave away over
510,000 in Iles. When Louis Napoleon
visited- Windsor he left 57,500 to be dis-
tributed 111 Lips, although he stayed
there only three nights,
As befits the richest monarch In the
world, the Czar has earned quite a ve-
getation on account of the liberality
of hs tips, and on one occasion, after
staying a couple of days at Windsor,
he left a panne) of diamonds worth
810,000 ter the housekeeper, 810.000 for
the servants. and 515,000 for charities,
not to mention: gold snuff-boxes stud-
ded with diamonds, ringe, watches,
and brooches for other members of the
household.
King Leopold of Belgium, who de-
lights to visit Pais incognito, often
betrays himself by his generosity in Up-
ping. He frequently slips a., 150 note
into the hand of the chef of a, resent
-
rant adlor a dinner which• has paslicu-
tarly pleased him, In addition to leav-
ing len dollars for each of. The waiters,
On the other hand, the Emperor Jo-
seph of -Austria ties on a more neod-
eet sale, and in his roost generous
snood the largest he 'bestows en a ser-
vant in public seldom exceeds five dol -
tars. When visiting a foreign Court,
too, the Emperor generally confines-hts
gifts to the more lnipor'tant members
et the household where he may hap-
pen to be staying.
BRITONS ABIl SOCIABLE.
Clubs are Found Wherever Eneliehmen
Penetrate.
Of all the races of men in the world
Britons are the most gregarious.
In Great Britain and Ireland there
are 2,085, while there are 1,095. in for-
eign countries and British Colonies.
Golf, apparently, is the chief excuse
for the formation of clubs. Of -the
above total no fewer than 1,144 are
golf clubs.
Lola on•'s list of clubs straws no signs
cl c.oereastng. At present they num-
ber 282, of wh'oh thtrtytat least aro ex-
eitusively ladies' institutions.
Indeed, one of the most astonishing
Iealures of club life is the increase
theoughautthe country in recent years
of clubs devoted exclusively le the fair
sox. There are at .present 322 of these.
Wherever two or more Britishets
meet together in any part of the world
thole fleet remark would appear to be;
"Lot us form a club,"
Accordingly, even in far Fiji, for in-
stance, there is Blore than one club.
The Ovalau Club, in Levuka, has fifty
members; while Ilhe Fiji Club, an older
insttuton In Suva, has sixty -flue mem-
hers.
The social delights of St. Jams
are Mee simulated in Cheese and Foo-
chow, In China; Kuching, 10 'Borneo;
Taipinb, Straits Settlements; Beira, In
Mozambique; and Nagasaki, in Jnpon.
They are all British in origin os well
as organization, India is a land of
many clubs, whore white men ,meet
end try to forget the exigencies of the
climate. The Madras with 1,140, the
Quetta with 8,000, and the Gyrnkhedia
(Poona) with 1,000 mentors being
amongst 1110 biggest institutions.
AL Benin, somewhere in•'the Nigger
Coast Protectorate, there is an enthu-
alaiette band of golfers -twenty all told
-who cheerfully pay 5s. per annum
for the delights ofclnbianci, and a
Brtttsh capinin is (he secretary.
Rangkolc sullies the note of Co4mo-
poltln.n.'sm. Us United Club has a mem-
horshin of 270, but .they aro of stereos
nationatttios. Of course, it has its golf
club, too, whith boasts a membership
or otghty.
TETE 1311ST 1 T COULD SAY.
Mrs. Slarvem--"flow do 70u like the
chicken stele, A4r, Newbnr-1?"
Mr. Newbord--•"0'--er-iv this 111181c-
rn soup?"
A4ts. Slnrvrm--"err(ninly. How do
31011 like it?" ch
Mr, Nesebeel---"\\roll,--er_--i 1 - ecrinin-
ly very tender."
WHERE MULAI GOT GOLD
S'T'ORY WHICH READS LIKE ARABIAN
NIGHTS.
Illnlalka)4o Story eleitieden Treiteure ih
e. Locked Chamber in a
hareem.
The great conundrum of the situation
In. Motwoco for months past has been
the question where llulai Italie, the
ereternder, or Sullen at the South, 43
h0 Is called, got the 11001)03' to finance
bre ievelt against his brother, Abdul
Aziz.
The mystery appears to be s,lvcd by
a sta'y which ht. Vufiler-Poitet, an old-
time 181'1111 naval officer, -bus brought
out Tem Ma,takeeh, and which reads
like a talo out of (]le ":Are'biat Nights,
According to Iles narrative, Mutat Hand
found, or rather had revealed, to hitt
a hoiden t,rasurr. ,antountmg to 20,030,-
000
0000,000 francs, about $4;000,000, just as the
sheiks proclaimed hint Sultan and de-
creed the deposition of -,hie brother.
Therm was ,a room ill tho old palace
in. Maralcoch, which had remained boll
11,1 and 'barred since the death in 1894
of Mutat Hassan, the father of the pre -
sant rivals fin' the throne, 11 was a
remote, unfrequented corner of the
remitting structure ,ant, a soft of super-
stitious awe had grown up regarding it.
BLUEBEARD CHAMBER.
It was L0 the harem, so it was ef-
fectually protested from masculine en-
te.'prise.
When Mutat (iassan died Abdul Aziz
was but 10, foolish and sensual. The
grim old Grand Vizier B<llasned, made
Minn Sultan, and ruled for him fun' some
years.
The boy Sultan had access to the
ha:nem, but he never seems to have
troubled his head about the sulphur
chamber.
IS WEAK RULER.
But Abdul Aziz spent horde/ any
Lime Ln Marakech utter his accession.
Ile took up his quarters for good in
1002 in Fez, where it was much easier
to get pianos, music boxes, bicycles
and other expensive European toys.
The palace at Marakech foil into tine
hands of Mulch Haficl, whom Abdul.
Ask first tried Lo make prisoner and
then appointed governor of the south-
ern part of the country.
*MOROCCAN POLITICS.
Now ,Mutat had for a long limo Loon
slated ter the sultanate. He waS only
the second son; but his elder brother,
(he lame Mutat Mohammed, had in-
curred the anger of (heir father and
the undying hostility of the Arab fleshes -
men, At the age of 20 or thereabouts
he was Intrusted with several expedi-
tions against war?ace tribes, which he
carried out with success. M one time
he almost seemed to phare the ruler -
step with h's father, but the old mans
favorite wife, the mother of Abdul Azle„
extracted from hum a promise that her
son should reign.
WANTED TO 13E A SCHOLAR.
To every one's surpmtse, Mulai liafld
aecept,ed the situaiion without a mur-
mur. Ile was the firs) to kiss hes bro-
ther's hand and swear allegiance. Un-
til recently he kept the oath rigidly. In
fad, despib his capacity, for wit' and
bus',n,ess he is by preference a scholar
and a dreamer.
AL the ,present minute he was on the
point of publishing a volume of verses
in Arabic and an Arable grammar of
whieh he 2s the author is on the press
in Cairo. It will be his thirteenth pub-
Itehed work; He didn't want to be
sultan.
OLD WOMAN TO RESCUE,
Ono evening as he entered les harem
after -a discouraging session of his
councillors Mutat was intercepted by
an aged woman. She had Leen ant
of the favorites of his father and she
now complied the high position of ari-
ta, or grand mistress of the harem!.
She excitedly declared (hat the day
,and the hour had come. Anyway, she
was old and soon going to 'die, she
could keep a great secret of state no
'Longer.
Sho 'led the wondering Mutat to the
barred! door of the sulphur chamfer
and told hen to go boldly in, assuring
shin (hat he would find more than sul-
phur for the holy war, sulphur bong
only an Oriental metaphor for the weal
fighting material
POUND CHESTS OF GOLD.
Mutat opened the door and went in.
Therm were thirty ironbound chests ar-
ranged along the walls, all covered
wills (ho dust and- rust of twenty yea's.
tie opened the first; tt was full of gold
coins. lie opened the second and ft
was the some.
They were all full of gold coins -
Span.ish doubloons of twelve different
nestlings, ranging in date from Charles
11I. in 1177 down to Ferdinand Vil. 111
1820. The contents of the cihests veriest
from four to tvo thousand doubloons,
seertbs about 816 apiece. The tooth cal-
-whited at about 20,000,000 francs, or
51,000,000,
At (he thno when Mulat Mild was
revelling In this great wealth,' Abdul
Azle was trying to ptisvn his jewels 'n
Par's and: gelling 110 higher offer then
8240,000 on then. The (hest use bihltnl
Hand made of his Morey teas to equip
10,000 men In highly colored uniforms
with vivid reds, gents . and blies, in
(mitotion 0f the •Molthazis or guards rt
his brother.
FITTED UP AR•14Y.
"Ile
else bought cloth to make Lents
end vast supplies of nmmunl,'.on for
the excellent Mneti.n-limey eines, of
0111(1 ho discovst'd several flotlsam)
loogaitnn in the armory at Mar0kooh..
Ile also hod part into serviceable order
several batteries of Cermet gulls, anal
frrle Cenee guns, which his brothes.
bought some eenrs ago, and ebnilciunrd
Im •n^glc61, n1ot to spent: 0f ." dozen,
iTotnhklss tnitretll<'u1o8 01011
Maclean hroughi front Neel -and,
Since ifs dist-every if tee 1(1 113.
everything has ,prospered with Muiat
Hand. Mr, Vatlloo-Poltet prophetsiel
(hal he wilt gather the whole country
undor his rule, fleet defeating Abdul
Aziz ,fln✓.t then Rasuli, the !togrlt and
!shut-Aninma, 111.1 of whom are now
pruclfoa1ly exeroising Indopendelt rule
to Their districts,
ELEPHANT' WAS ANGRY,
Accompanied by Two Zebras It Step -
pod Into Orchestra.
An elephant fell ,rrlo the orchestra
at the Theatre do Italie-ties ut Heelers,
Clear farts, .recently.
Tho conductor held out a carrot to
hint just as he was waking his bow
from the stage, and in 0leppung for-
ward rather too hastily to get (L, the
elephant brought down tlw feint of
the stage, and, a0c001pn11tcd ire', two
zebras which wore performing with
him, crashed into the orchestra below.
Two violinistswere hurl, and the big
drum will never be heard again,
The animal, whose nam! is Tiny,
was very much annoyed. ile caught
tho conductor round the waist with his
trunk, and after waving him in the air
for a moment or two, threw him cul
among the audience.
There was a momentary panic, but
Tony's black keeper persuaded his charge
to clamber up an improvised gangway
to the stage again, and got him back
to his rated without further incident.
-9 --^
WANT HINDOO ElTVl1GRAN`ES
LABOR IS SCARCE ALONG THE UP-
PER NILE.
There afro Thousalyds of Miles o1 Fer-
tile Lands 'With But Few
Inhabitants.
S'dncy Lou, the (ravelling colonial
oorcrspendent of the London S'undard,
sees a poss.ble echelon of the present
ilrndu erngr•ation problem in the set-
tlement of the Stefan.
"For her crops and tillage grounds
the Sudan has too few hands" he
writes. "Labor is serves and dour; for
what aro two rn(111.3115 of people.' ]n a
tveritory more Mean hall' ,as large as
India? And, albeit the Arab le our)).
estly devoted to matrimony, ani Il:o
Sudeneso are prolific, it will be long
befet'o the depopulation of recent de-
cades oil bo 1114.110 good. The Sudan,
in time wants men badly, and it does
not at present see where they are to
come frons.
• MEN ARE WANTED.
"'Thera is talk of increased migra-
tion from Egypt; but (he Egyptian, ex-
cept as a trader or official, es •not fond
et the southern territory. The fellah
would metes Le tin land nearer his
own lromo, and these will. be plenty
at seep° for him there when the in-
creased water supply re::lainis fresh
sections, of desert In the D,.•ila and on
the middle Nile. But if not tho Egyp-
tian, rvho then? Possibly some negro
tribes from the tntcnior of Africrf-may
move northward, but not much depend
enre can be placed on. them.
"Sooner or la:ler, t cannot but think
that our fellow -subjects in British In-
d'a wilt come in to fin the gap, From
bar teeming bosom Ind'a could spare
a few minion eultvators, and .never
ittie5 them. indexI, they are 'straining
to .get away and moving towards 011
sols of places where . they are not
wanted or will de no goofs,
CONDITIONS ARE SUITABLE.
"in the Sudan they would find e'en-
-mate to suit ibrern; a (virtually) 13rilish
Government to 'protect them, and no
white 13r1t'sit ettonfsls to object to their
presence; and a fair opening for their
industry -and their skill 110 husband.
mon. From Indian Malomrlans the
country sccros epee:idly suitali'ie, and
it might be worth while for the Indian.
rind Sudan Governments t0 =steer
whelk"r concerted measures might not
be devised to promote a medeeato ml-
gratto» flim a region whet', avicul-
ture.' humanity is rather tee thick on
Iho ground i0 one where it es too sesame
and scattered,"
TO BLOW UP BAT"I'LLSIIIP.
British Navy \'VIII Sacrifice Aliother as
a Test.
The old British 'battleship Co'ossua
is tiro vessel which has been deemed
to the (ate of the Hero in a series of
tests of tnagaz'ne conditions In modern
Wllraltips'.
'this is a result of the terrible acci-
dent in the French batteship fens ai
Toulon early last year, caused by the
explosion of powder in, the magazines.
A committee was ap.10tnte.l by the Ad-
miralty after (Ile disaster to examine
the system ofstoring explosives in Brit-
ish warships. One .outeeme 01 this
committee's work has been the fitting
et a cooling appnralus In the ,ship's
mngaz ors, but the committee is not
yet satiated 1.hat absolute safety has
been ensured, '
i0 0rd08 Lo assist it in its researches,
(he Admiralty has placed the Colossus
st (1s divesal. The Colossus is to bee
filled with magazines similar le those
in modern bat1aships„and (hese are to
t,c stored with cordite, !Alto, and
other explosives used h1 the navy,
A series of temperature (eels will
bho.n be made, and after as much in-
formation as-pestlle has been gained
onthis head (he charges will be ex.
plotted lo find out what, would be the
riled of en accident on a RrilLsh lyal-
lirship similar to that 'which overtook
the ena,
eTin (xi!assita WAS built at PnrLsmou(h
In 1896 1)a. n cost of £648;786. Sho fs
much larger than the Pero, having a
displacerie 1)i) of 0,430 torts, nestled the
other ;;hips 0.200,
dislnntfriend is • one you can't
1 11 ll."
FROM BONNIE SOTLAND
NOTES OF iN7fHRES'S' F11011 LER
BANKS ANI) IIIMAiis,
What is Going On In the highlands
and Lowlands 01 Auld
Scotia.
The epidemic of measles in Dundee
Is now abating.
Last month 4,008 beaks were lent out
Ruin Montrose Jlbrary,
Meter traffic Is greatly destroying the
roads in Morayshire,
1lawlek British Women's Temperance
Society has now 509 members,
The llshing industry of the north is
now almost cntrcly 00111101 in Wick.
There wns an increase of 166,000.: oes
et lite clot exports Mom Filo test year.
The r'Lm'L )>•1 ver of Fallc,ric gas,
works is to le Incensed fifty per cent.
011 several Tains In Dunbar distrlol
Chore has been a wholesale destruction
of rola.
Last year the deposits In Carlulcco Sav-
ings Bank, Lanarkshire, decreased by
over £1,1170.
Tito master painters of Dumfries pro -
pone to roluee wages from 7%d. per
hear to 711.
Pending the ,'pair of the telegraphic
cable to Sherlund, messages are sent
by wit•eless telegraphy.
Owing to frosty weather, building
warts in North 13erw'ick and, district has
been atm+est al •a standstill.
Miss Jeanie Fonio, Leslie, Kinras.
shire, has not missed e Sabbath st4toul
attendance: for Jen 'cars.
Mr. James Milroy, Cree Mills, has beat
the Earl of Galloway in the County
Council contest by 151 to 93,
Recently there were dense shoals of
unerring off Mathis. and Sunda islands.
The Lanm'Icsliiro Netters' Linens Is to
send one student once yen' to Oxford
in connection with the Ruskin scholar-
ship.
Mrs. Elizabeth Buchanan, who had
completed her 100th year, died in the
house in which sire was born at 13x1-.
Iron.
Selkirk folk have about £100,000 sunk
tun properties and otter investments,
The population is returned at 8,000.
En pursuance of )htn work of .prc'erva-
lion, further repairs are being carried
cut on the ancient royal lettuce of Lin-
I.Lthgow.
A crowded meeting of f.unghohu rate-
payers protested agates!, the proposed
extensive and ex1K'Jlyive sewerage
scme.
inllnheattan has Leen teetered Ilial the
headquarters of Ilre 3rd Kings Own
Scottish Borderers are to be removed
Meme Dumfries le Berwick.
The Trades Hell. Stirling, which has
been. taken dawn to make way for the
new Eelemenla'y high Scheel, Was
built by the Seven inem prated Trades
en. 1751,
Tile wealher was persistently bad
Over J -h1 Hebrides eurh,g 1007. The
cod and line fishing, which was at one
time the meat important ileus of island
produce, was filmset t non-productive. -.
One of the beet. known men in San -
Air. Win. \\'Llano, died recently.
Far over half a renitn•y he contributed
regularly to the local rress, and his
art!c'es on antiquarian subjects were
widely' read,
Mr. David McGee, director and ship.
yard mantiger of John ilttrns, Limited,
shipbuilders, Clydebank, died at his re-
sidence,
e-
(d me Duhnuir near Glasgow. H
s er 6 0
super`n'ended tier construction of Lho
Cunarder Lusttania.
FROM A LYRIC OF SORROW.
One night, I held her hand while she
held my hand,
And gently speaking l0 her 1 did say,
"If you will be my wife we will be
moaned,''
And speaking hack to me she an -
islet
liy father's lost his job down at the
gnshousc,
And mother's \votting hard to pay
the rcpt;
We couldn't talce .another mouth to
Andfeed at ptrsantt,"
sadly parting hen away I went,
d+
CAUSE OF GRATITUDE.
The benevolent looking old gentleman
or: the seat in front turned around and
spoke to the mother of Tho little cher-
Id) whose sticky Rogers had been smear-
ing chocolate creams Ort his bald Hood
"Are there any more at home like
1311137" he aslced, with a genial smile.
ch
"i0d,h", no,' she said "Hos our catty
"Thank heaven!" he exclaimed, fcr-
vently.
a•
SPECIAL DET,I\'EHY.
Irate Wife (to bibulous husband)
"Where have you been until this
hour?"
ii. 11. -"Been oat shopping, 1nslear."
Trate Wlfo--•"'Then Why didn't you
We your purcltnscs sent home instead
tit trying to Corry swain a load yourself?'
TILE 13L'ASON.
"I presume yeti carry a memento of
seine sort In that locket of y'our's?'
"Precisely! 1t is a lock of my bus-
hand,s h'."
"19ut youallr husband is stlil alive."
Yes, but his )tale is all -
gone,"
h - 0VING,
ICnlelcer-Did Myou jump oat of the fry-
ing •pan fire?
Becker-JntohN',the ,out of the rcfrigerater
Mkt an iceberg.
ec
ALWAYS AN ARMY,
Fn thcr---\hell?
Tommy -why Isn't There ever a navy
of nut unemployed?
\\ T1)E-A\\WAKE BABY,
Mr. Irl - a 1 <�
R , t (, ulpl a„e you find that a
baby brightens top the holier?"
104r• Bonedlet--"?es' WO lnrrn nenrl
twice the gas We used 'to," y