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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-5-21, Page 7JNOTFS AND COMM N'rS McLe,hroeegy ns 0 science is in:Ile in- .fnncy, taut as a sten^it of kn,wiedge it ;s perhaps us old as mankind. 3110 leogilrahn.gs of Meteorology are to be found at the origin of eivilleaLion. It would: be error to lmaglno that the rich weather lore found La the bible, espeoi- ally til tllo book of Job, and In the poems •o[ Heiner and hosted, originated _hent In Palestine or Greece. Ou the contrary, "flu+ familiarity of the people with the .sayi•ngo and rules concerning the wea- ther revealedby these writings show clearly that they mast be considered .00 0 ,prhnovnl stuck of the culture of that tette, 'There Ls orison to believe that the origin of much of modern wea- ther lore can be traced to its lode-Ger- nlanio source The Greeks as far back .a5 the fifth century 13, C, were to first :lo Hake regular meteorological observa- tions, some results of w•Itich still aro preserved, Thee great capacity for pure eionce Induo:d then_ to propound ^meteorological theories. At this time they used wind vanes and in the first -century 13, C. they built the 'Tower of the Wind at Athens. The first quanti- talive observations -that is, the mea- surenienL of rain -were made to the 'hest century A. D. These were made In Palestine and their results 0.10 pre- served In the Mkshealt, Meteorology !made but l(Lllc,.progress among the Roe mums. The .barbarous state of Europe :after the fall of the western empire was not adapted to the furtherance of sol - oleo, winch was barely kept alive with - :1, the Christian church, The fathers of dile church, writing commentaries on the weer: of the seven days, often tools oc- cns'eo. to ingert long clabaretions on ;Lhe atmosphere and 11.9 pbanomena, The •revtval of experimental science in the thirteenth century led to the devclop- anent of regular nnatesrologicai observe - :tions in the fourteenth century. !t was .only during Lhe lather .part of the nine- teenth century that meteorology became `partially an exact soianoe. Sven yet in ,f epular estimation prophets et the "goasebono'' variety are considered al - 'most as reliable as the government ob- servers. —er,-__ _- A new calendar is the invention of 'Robert Nance, lel. P., of IsngLand, who proposes to abolish ail altnanacs and •enable us to know on what day of the .week 10 any year a ,particular: date of Ute month will fail, Ile divides the year into an exact number of weeks by heating the 365th day as neither a day •Of the week nor a day of the month. It -becomes Now 1'car:s day and nothing "more. In leap year to the same way the «Id day becentes Leap day and nothing more. Dobh.New Years day and Leap -day would be made !holidays, and the latter would be placed at to end of June, instead of the end of February, sc as to secure an extra sunmor holi- day, The next step was to adjust Lite number of days in. each month so as to obtain regnlurity with the mihhuum of ..change. . January and February each would have lhidy days and eforch th:rly-one days, and so on for each ot. the irmaining quarters of tho year. Thus each quarter would conlaln exactly ninety -erne days or thirteen weeks. Con- sequently the slays of the week and the .toys 01 the hu'enth would acquire a regular rotation which could make the use ot ahnanacs speerfluous. 'The first of January would always bo a Monday; en •wdtildi idle Bost of Y A.prii July, and + Oct cher. 'The arse of February, of May, August, and November would always be a Wednesday and so on. Christmas day would always be Monday, In addi- tion Mr. Pearce 'proposes to make Easter always April 7 and Whit-sunday seven weeks later. CAN'T KEEP OUT OPIUM. Australia Sacrfiieing 2.60,000 a Year in tie Attempt'. The Australian pi'ohibttlon of the Lm- eelealime of opium is a farce. 011lclal' dem now frankly admits fret It 10 bat died by on Ingenious, unscrupulous and desperate syndicate oil ileuropeau end( Chinese smugglers, who defy every pro cotillion, outwit every detective, and are now malting fortunes out of 'Lhe 10,000 CI11nese and 300 European victims of the opium habit who live in the Cala- Oh. The Customs Deperiment officials have, of course, made seizures since January 1, 1906,• when iho importation or opium was forbidden; they have ached thousands of tons, prosecuted neatly 200 smugglers, and inflicted pen- alties L./telling aver :03,0(10, Bub their work, good as it is, has failed to check the importation to any material extent, and cannot succeed unless every pas - Fenger from oversee -for opium comes nom America end. Europo as well es from China -is personally searched be- im landing, at a cost to thhe taxpayer police Ile eieeeennenI will face. I'ht report of Dr, Wollaston, Comp. toile r-Grmeral at Custonly, La the Iced. era_ Minister, ,Mr. Chapman, short: that ,\usiralia, in (Is zeal for righteous. neat, has snerille id 1060,000 n year In revenue and added ronsklera:bly to tike test of lis Government service without dranisteng opium from Its shores. THE WQrl\1 TURNS. She buys a gown, 'rhe best Ln Lawn, Expends three hundred dollars, Whale hub, the worm, Can only squirm And thane tda mats 6114 bollars. THE RICH S WITHOUT COST Amusement Is for Sale, But Joy Comes Without Price and Without Bargaining. "Como buy wino and milk without cr whatever you may most desire, the money and without price," --is. Iv., 1. other fa lo Jump the life ever open to all the joy nod love and enriching that is about it. '('his world Is Gil! ot beauty, We alone, With the engin:my of our greed, make it ugly. But we cannot altogether succeed in hiding all Lis beauty, and tie open eye and appreciative heart still, without going far afield, may catch glimpses and often behold the full glory of held and flower and starry iheaven. 11ow deeply must wo pity the life to which titre beauty ,of the world brings no enriching, he who does not take a deep breath and feel a thrill of pleasure at sight of mountain, prairie, oe sea. And all the prodigal beauty of tnta world Ls but a message to us of the greater love of the life that upholds it all, of the riches of him than inhab[- teth eternity, And fairer yet than field or flower, treasures greater and more enduring are ours for the taking, the appreclal- Ing, In friendships, human love, and companionships. The peace that broods from A MOTHER'S FACE, the strength of a tether's lite, the light in. our ch1'dree's eyes, the joys of home end Ihearthaldi- n[ee not these the best riches of life? -What would we think at a man who maintained an oroha'd for the sake of the sot, or the grass or the firewood In the trees? Yot are we not even more foolish who seem . to live only for the means of life; for its agencies and not far its ends. We prize the soil, wo treasure the. trees; we toll for leaves and twigs and slight the fruits of life, humanity, character, Jove, friendships. Sometimes we say lite Is getting mem_ complex; les demands are becoming greater. No man can be etch without immense material resources. How fool- ish 11. all is, Life's essonilat demands aro still few and simple; lite's real rich- es aro within the teal reach of all. We have hut to lift up our eyes, to open our hearts. 'l'he darkest fate that could come to any is to be so immersed In the struggle for things, so absorbed in the means of making a living that we aro blind albegother to the meaning of life itself and so lose altogether the enduring riches, the lasting, sustaining joys, Lho fair fruitage of life. HENRY F. COPE. Did you over slop to think that all the best Uahlge In life cane without oosi to ourselves? They aro given from. ly The things that in their value aro without money and beyond price aro also in the method of ,their acquisition without money and without price, every IUe is rich In Etre measures that 1t has discovered and eossesses these trea- sures. A men may pay many thousands of dollars for the painting of a sunrise, and yet It never will be neatly so beau. Wet, so lneplring, so valuable as the sunrise itself, a spectacle which the poorest may enjoy without the expen- diture of so much as a cent, All our works of art, costly as they may be, are but imitations of lite originals which white far exceeding them 1n beauty, may be ours for the taking, The real pleasures of Life aro not to be bought, There are no figures set upon happiness; 1t springs up in. the Pathway like a flower the seed of which has been wafted from some other world. The quiet, deep joys of lite, benison Like, MP from heaven upon our hearts. None can ooanmand thein, none can corner them. You may purchase assistance andIn- terest, hut affection and love tomo un- sought, unsolicited, unbought. What wealth have you greater, more worth to you. than the tender kindness, the sympathy, the spirit of sett -piing that gees out to you from other lives? '!'hese assets as not on our office ledgers, but on the great (edgers of life from which our final balances aro struck TIIEY ARE WRIT LARGE. When we make up tho inventory of our lives, it our hearts havo any ap. preolallon of true values, it wo have learned to distinguish between life's tools. and its pjpduet, wo find that those things we ooutd least afford to lose are those that have come upon us without cur labor, perhaps without our deserv- ing, always beyond our powers of pur- chase. Flow foolish then are we, who have the greatest, the enduring treasures by simply Laking them, If we waste our powers andour time In striving after the things that aro not worth while: There aro at least two ways of Livfng -one Is to try to make, enough money to be able to buy pleasure or atfoeLlon THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 24. Lesson VIII. Jesus' Death and Racial, Golden Text, 1. Cor. 15. 3. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. (Based on tho text of the Revised Version.) Sequence of Events. -The betrayal and arrest of Jesus took place in the garden some time between midnight and dawn (Matt. 26. 47-56, and parental passages). Then followed the trial bo - tore the Jewish authorities, Annas, Ca- plets, and the Sanhedrin (John 18. 12- 27. Mat, 26. 57-27. 10, and parrallel passages), with the accompanying incl-• dents of Peter's denial .and the repent anon and schedule of Judas. 11 was silil early morning when the chief priests and the enters and scribes with the whole council "hound Jesus, and Or; Tied him away, and delivered" fib -up to Pilate" (Mark 15. 1). Sohn does not record the fact that Pilate -before de- livering Jesus le be crucified sent _him a prisoner to Herod Antlpas, whose Jur- Isdi 11on extended over Gallioe and Perim, where .Jesus had spent the greater part of his life. (Herod was in Jerusalem at this Unto, and was glad of the opportunity of seeing Jesus, ot whom. Ile had heard much, lie was disappointed, however, since Jesua ab- solutely refused Co converse .wit' him, with i.he result that both Herod and This suberdhnate5 mocked and 111 tented hien before sending hint back to Pilate (Luke 23, 5.16). Another incident omitted from John's narrative is the warning of Pi- lale's wife to her _husband to have "mt thing le do with that righteous man" (Matt, 27. 10). Both of these events pre- cede P(lste's final plrsenLatioe to the Jews, and also the cruel mockery and scourging at the hands of Lhe band of Roman soldiers inside the prectorirn (John 19. 1-4; Matto 27. 1-30; Mark 15, 1613). John, however, adds some valu- able details touching the closing scene of our Lord's trial before Pilate (John 19. 7-15), inoluding the mention of the teas that came over Hato upon his hearing of the claim of Jesus to be to Son of God, and also the threat of the ,Hews to proclaim Pilate an enemy et Cesar tf he should release Jesus, Verso 17. They took,1s theretore- Tho Roman soldiers delegated W m- elee the sentence of death, followed, as Luke explains, by a promiscuotrs mul- titude (!.alto 23. 27). flimself_Prem 1111 synoptic nerra- tives we learn that one Simon Of Cy - retie was compelled to carry the crass for Jesus part 0f the way to Golgotha. 11.1s not clear, however, from a com- parison of the various narratives who - thee this was the first or the Iasi part of the way (compare Matt, 27; Mark 15; Luke 23). 3'lM place of a skull -So Walled :from the oval shape of the frill, Gelgolha-eHehrew, Golgoloth, mean- ing "a skull"; Latin, Calvaria, whence 0110 name ''Calvary." Tho histol silo of Caivary is still a mattee dt dispute. [Yom the Now Tostamget narrative the know positively oetteeilat iho placewas outslde the city gate (Hob, 13. 12), near the ally (John 19, 20), and near a pleb. tic highway (Malt, 27. 39), ands^near to sepulchers and gardens (John 19. 38). 18. WILL him two others -Condemned crlrninals, as the synoptic narratives explain, 19 Wrote a tlIlo--In Lhe sense of "caused to be written." JCsus of Naearoih, the King of the Jews -According to Matthew (27. 37): "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews"; according to Mark (15. 26): "The King of the Jews"; according to Luke (23. 38): "This is tlhe King of the Jews," John having been ' an eyewitness, probably las p'esoeved to us the exact wording re the title, the other evangelists giv- ing only its substance. .A. In Hebrew, and in. Latin, and in Greek -Hebrew was the language of the temple, and tine sacred cereinontal of the Jewish religion, Latin was the tongue of Lho Boman conquerors, al, this time in possession of Palestine, wlelle Greek was tie language of the (lasso Gentle literature of the period. Meanwhile the common speech o[ the 's Beet and of Oomm01'00 was none of these In tis purity, but the so-called Aramalc,whicel eves a modilleatien or corruption of classical Geode 23. Took lits garments -And those also of the two men crucified with him. This was the .re'leognized right- of ,the soldiere enlrested.with_an etecirtion. Goat -Or, "tunic," i•sni''ttndcr garrnonl reaching from the necic'to the knees, or,, possibly, as sometimes, to the ankles. 24. Scripture Compare Pea. 28. 18: "They part my garments among tam,, And upon ley vesture do they oast lots," 26. His mother, and his another's sis. ter, Mary the wife of Clopas,.and Mary Magdalene-L[t., "his mother and. as mother's sister Mary the (wife) of Clo- pas and Mary 'iho Magdalene." We note, first, that the word "wife," es the italics in the text and tho parentheaes in our literal rendering of the passage indicate, Ls in tho Greek left le bo sup- plied; and thet in the original rendering there aro no sparks o[ punctuallon. We note also that no conjunction occurs between the phrase, "his mother's sis- ter, and the following noun, Mary, which would seem to Indicate that the two wore to be identified, duos making the number of the women mentioned three rather than toter, as some oom- mentators think. ilt Is also possible that soma other word, as "daughter," or even est -Ler,' may have been Uttered - ed instead of the word "wife," since any of these three words would have been equally permissible acoording to ltngu- istic usage, Probably the correct word, however, sus been supplied, since it Is the same in all of the earliest trans- lattons. Clopas hers mentioned, must not be contounded with Cleopas, men - Monett in Luke 24. 18. From Matt. 10. 3, and Luke 24. 10, we infer Unit Clo- pas is to J:e identified with A(phreus, father of James the Less Compare also !Hort( 3. 18; Luke 3. 16; Acts 1, 13), Al- phoeus being the Greek and Clopas the Hebrew or Syriac name tot• the same person. leer reference to other women who aero also present at the cross compare .Matt, 87, 56; Mark 15, 40, and Luke 23. 49, 26, Woman -The Greek equivalent is a He of respect. 87. Itis own horn --it is not necessary Le think of a hotted actually owned by JGhn. The meaning is seemly that "from that hour" Mary became a mom. bee of the household of the beloved lis. clpl0, 29. Vinegar -A Rom' wino made from mimes (nitro wliclt the first Juice had already leen. nslracated. It was, Limn). Mee, a kris expensive and interior' bev- erage used by the common people and furnished to the 5)IIJIers. Upon hyssop -tether, as some infer, a hollow reed, or, us oilers suggest, a javelin, the purpose of the hyssop let either ono being simply to elevate the spongo sulficiontly Lo administer the alleviaLing (1raughl. Still other com- 1uonLOtors, however, suggest that tho hyssop was a kind of since added to the ovine to snake IL mere 1m:ngenL, 30, (lave up his spirit --Clearly u vol- untary act on the part of J(eus. 31. A high da)' -The i;ubbalh of the Passover, and, therefore, a day otrnor'0 thanerdllar i y sanctity. Broken -la ecoordaum with a cern- mon custom by which death was ,hast e.ned in such causes, 38, Joseph at ArimaUtovr•- iasewhere referred to os "a rich. man" Mut. 27. 57,; "a councilor," of fencu'able asitia, who also himself was looking for the "kingdom of God" (Meek 15. 43); "a goad man and a righteous' (Luke 23. 51). Ar - math=¢ Is usually idenlifieel wilts a small town near Lydda, southwest of Joppa. 39. Nicodemus--Like Joseph, a mem- ber of the Sanhrd.r,n. Myrrh. and aloes -nasty epiecs, A hundred puunts-Twelve hundred ounces. . 40, As Um custom of the, Jews is to bury -An explanatory clause added for non-Jewish readers who might bo more /familiaa• with some other meUtods ot, preparing bodies tor burial. 42. Tile Jews• Preparation --'The pre- paration for the Passover, which was to be eaten on the evening of the sante day. MERCHANT AND BURGLAR DOUBLE CHARACTER OF THIEF CAP. TUREL AT LEICESTER, ENGLAND. John Spencer, Sunday Sehool Teacher and Robber - An Exemplary Citizen. The solution of the mystery of the theft In December last of 825,000 worth of (Hammnds- from the bedroom of the wife of Capt. David Beaty of Broeksly Hall is promised with the arrest of John Frederick Spencer, a remarkable Jekyll and Hyde --Sunday school teach- er and burglar. The arrest of Spencer was the culmin- ation of a series of the most skillfully executed burglaries in the fashionable Milton Mowbray and Leicester districts ever perpetrated 1n England. Scotland Yard itself all but admitted defeat in unravelling the mystery. 'limo after lime detectives made an. arrest; only to be. compelled to releasin the prisoner for lank of evidence, A MODEL CITIZEN. Suspicion never once tell on Spencer, who was regarded as a. andel business man of Leicester, running a good dry goods storo there on week days cul leeching a barge Sunday school class of boys and girls on Sunday, 110 al- -tended meetings of charity organiza- tions, gave liberally to the poor, and was ,personally acquainted with many of the best people of Leicester, In tact, a exemplary was his lie that he won the local prize known as "The Town Hundred." This consists of 100 pounas slerl(ng, or 8500, which is advanced for twelve years without interest to espe- cially worthy young men to enable them to start in business. When sev- eral burgiaries In the neighborhood of his own house took place Spencer mat- ed a public meeting, which be address- ed himself, and pr'oteeted eloquently against iho inefficiency of the police protection of property, MISSING AT NIGHT. At night ho WOOS always mysteriously missing; and 1t now develops that, armed with a set of bufglars tools,. and with opiates and poisons with. which he mileteir sleepers and : killed tn0utilesothe dogs, he was robbing many st the persons whose acquaintance • lie made in business and In church. He was finally captured by the merest ac- cident, the policeman into whose arms he ran alt but refusing to believe his eyes when he Loro the mask from Spencers face: DRUGGED Wt'1'H DUST, Enterprisling Burglars Blew Morphia Into Bedroom. A novel method of burglary 10 be- lieved to have bites employed by thieves who broke into the Souihcas1sril' [Iotel; Redhill,= England, recently, and stole a gold watch and chain, valued at 225, and more than R30 in gold, belonging. to. Mr, Charles Chapman, the proprie- tor, 'Aly wife woke me at about 5,80, Mr Chapman said, "and, complained that her eyes and face srortnd. I also telt a _peculiar sensation about my eyes, as If some kind of an itching dust had been thrown In my face. I ant a very light sleeper, and so is Mrs. Chapman. From what 1 have heard 1 believe some kind nt dust was Newel Into the bed- room by someone before he entered.' The pollee, to whom e number of tartdles lett In the room have 'beast handed, believe that morphia dust was used io dull the senses ot the sleepers. Mr, Chapnlan's eloLhes„ which \vete taken from the bedroom by the burg. lars, as well ns his watch and money, utero found, with all the pockets turned Inside out, In a career of Lho yard, { TRUE GREATNESS. "Fater;' sold LILUe Rollo, "what Is a groat man?" • "A groat mall, my son, is one who manages to gather about tern a whole tot of assistants who will tae. tto blame for Ids mistakes while he gels the ere. (311 for lhelr good deas." BUSY NiOW. One of the contemporary peels elks; "Where are the bright girls of the past?" Our own observation is that some of thein are adrnlntstoring cautions doses of. paregoric to the bright slots of the (!tura, NEWS FROM THE MiNES SILVER LAKE DISTRICT IS SHOWING RICHES. Rloobe _Horn aline in Montreal _fiver Section is Equipped %Veit Machinery. The advance In the price of Cobalt skielts males witli considerable satis- teetlon to everybody in the camp, a5 has been repealeci1y slater!, develop - meat work, wlaidl is being curried on on ri b;g scale, is proving very setts. factory, and tlte, shipments from the earn') ail) continue to Increase, not- withstanding the fact _hal several of the largest shippers ere inslalling con centrat(ng planer, thereby cutting dawn the tormer big shipments by the lead- ers, says a Cobalt correspondent of the Gkabe, Some confusion seems to ()Geer be- tween two different districts in Lowes' Lorraine, the new belt where so many clatme have been shined, These two distriils ata Silver Centre and Sixty- six. Silver Cenh'e Is practically one male south of the southern boundary of Leroaine township, and Sixty-six begins at a point about Lwo 111i100 south oT 1110 ILorralne township boundary. Pros pectors aro stall doing some staking, and with the snow and ice gone, some good discoveries will likely be made which will bring this new distrtct into prom inner, SOUND OF THE STEAM WHISTLE. In the Montreal River suction the Moose (torn mine in James lownshtp. about a mile east of Elk Lake. City, is the first property Ln the new district to be equipped with machinery. The sound of the steam whistle is a. joyful note to the visitor In the camp. The Moose [Hera property embraces four claims of forty acres each to the north half of lot four, concession five., James township, ell of which are passed and tae patented. Beoklos (laving the dis- tinction of having the ilrst machinery, rano of these claims has the first ceelifi- cale of mooed. RECEIVED A. BIG 5U11. Among the best claims in James township, or at least having the best showing to date, Ls the Brace claim, the northwest quarter of the south _half lot 1, annce.ssion 1, James. On this claim a veil four inches wide Shows cobalt bloom, smaltite and na- tive silver. At a depth of four feet the vein slows six Indies of decom- posed calcite, aloe! bloom and native silver. About 300 feet of stripping has been done on this vein and it is re. ported that the owners have received 840,000. Messrs, Robert Bruce, Albert MacDonald and McVey are the owners of this property, along with several olhers nearby, alt o( which have good discoveries. The [Petard and McKay claims in the southeast corner of James have also some flee .showings, all of them ha.c'ing passed inspection. in this section the greater number of the veins aro aplite on the surface, but gradually cone into calcite as depth is aLla!ned. On M. R. 253 a veLn has been traced 75 feet with a pit sunk 14 feet, showln.g a nice calcite vein coming in at a depth of 10 feet and to the corona satellite and bloom are to bo found, This seine vein has been •traced over 400 feet in claim 11. R. 380 and three pits have been sunt(, showing the vein (having widened' from two to six inches, and each of (hese pits discloses three stringers, dipping towards the plain vein. Besides the work already deset'ih- ed, -tot 380 has two ,pits sunk on a vein teem three to six -Inches in width of calcite, cobalt bloom, smaltlto' and nee eve silver, A MACGR:EGOR TILE PIONEER. Jaanos MaoGregor is the pto.noer pro- spector of the Elk Lake se tion, having splendid camps at LlacGregor's Land- ing, and, owing to the nuntber of MRCS wise have camps adjoining Mr, Mao- Gregm's, -the place !(Hewn Ln future as will nlacsvit.e. Messrsbe. Leonard and Fred U1ck[ord, John and Robert MacKay are natives of Dundas, On. bario, while Mr. Jaynes MacGregor is Scotch by birth, but makes his resi- dence In \Vinnlpeg, Manitoba, kir. MacGregor has charge of the properly. of the Galt syndloteto, owning six pass - i,(1 claims In lots 1 and 2, concession 1, Janes lonwslup. Mr. MacGregor also has charge of the Toronto syndicate claims, lots 1 and 2, James, oh all of which geed discoveries have been made. Very little work outside of the ns- sessrnent work has beett done to date. <11 any of these claims. On the Lucky Godfrey, Claims controlled by Cobalt and Ottawa ,parties, a comparatively smelt amount of development week has been done to date, but SA110 tine show- ings have been made. A good discovery was made on the Lucky Godfrey 01011115 last November, showing nlcoile, steatite and native silver. It is proposed to wort( a force of about ten men on these properties during the corning summer. After go. ing over a amebae of properties in this particular district your correspondent was egrceabiy surprised, discovering that an area of from throe to four miles ,square _las practically alt passed claims and atter going tato nearly all the open cuts and pits, finds that tho calcite seems to be conning inin every rinse to replacoe the opine, and as the calcite is considered the best silvor•bearing vein matter in leo district, this tact seems most encouraging. To the south and oast of this dis- trict several very promising proper- ties aro located; amongst others are the, \Vest claim in \Vlllett, the Macdon- ald and Brown claims in Tudhopo, the Holden & Kennedy claim 1n '1'tidhope, a'; of which are highly spoken 61. The Holden property, being in control of Philadelphia capitalists, has a strong operating 'company. 111 rnythe town- ship on the Cragg claims the mail shaft has been sunk to a depth of flay foot, where 300 feet of cross -cutting has encountered five new tens, all of which show good valtles. The shaft was snot( on a vein of barite, calcite and seia11(1e with native silver, and has proven bol- ter with dept_, Tires ,property is con. trolled by Chien -mat cepilalists, repro. seni0d by Shlrloy R, Cragg, SILVER LAKE'S GOOD SHOWINGS. Tho nineralieed arca Of the Silver Lake dis'rict has extended to such greet proportions t1ua1 it would lake a cuusid- erablo space to give the 11111 (1escr•tp. Lion of even a few of the properties silver Lake hos aerie wonderful show. Lags from a cumparulivoly small umou1L ra' prosp(rtung. One of tho hest show- ings 111 the district is Sala Ottawa (nein) on the wast side of the lake, where tie and his brother spent less than a week in prospecting tact full on the out. crops, Haus located nearly a dozen silver loins, the roost of which have been cov- tired with snow and tee, The writer had Uro pleasure of seeing one of these veins, nearly solid silver, four incites In width. Asa ngst other claims in this district' that are spoken of as bring very prom.. Wog are the Clinton and Davis, Col- late, Samuel 'Tongue and associdtes, Dr, flensohel, John Tongue end others having a great number of claims 'n this section :passed on silver discover. hes. Larry Downey is also the owner of several very valuable proporties in James township and in the unsurveyed ¢futon, Mr. Downey has associated with him Mr. Leslie Sloane of Pendle- ton, Ontario. They have undertaken development work on the different pro. betties in a manner that commends it- self, having sunk one shaft to a depth of 51) feet, and smother to a depth of 30 feet, the results of which have been very encouraging, The writer was unable to see the Downey claim, which unlit recently was in litigation, but was Informed on reliable authority that on ties claim they have the best showing in tate whole district; Ural in this vein they knave mild native silver over four inches in width right on the surface RICH AS JAMES TOWNSHIP. The llubert and Bloom districts, to the north and west of Silver Lake re- spectively, are highly spoken of. Like Sihver Lake, the alining inspectors were busy and the number of passed claims, particularly on native sltvcr showing, ::peaks in the highest terms of great promise for the new district, In the southeast corner of James there is ea'd to be a whole square milt, embracing lois 3 and` 4, concession 2, where all plaints arepassed and front the show- ings, as given an the map it would ap- pear that Bloom and Silver Lakes lis trios wilt bo equally as rich as James township in the parts referred to. H SOUTH AFRICAN DESERT, Suffering of a Party 'Thai Attempted a Crossing \Vithont Water Supply. Two Vryburg men, Sydney Smith, a well known, local farmer, and J. N. Brymer, have had a terrible experience in the ICalahari desert, where they were three days under a blazing sun with neither food nor water and hardly came through alive, says 1110 London Tele- graph. They loft Home together in a Cape cart drawn .by six oxen to vLsit George Lennox of Kingstown, a farm some dis- tance into the desert. The travellers were mainly relying for their water sup- ply on the trammas, a specks of wild melon which grows abundantly on Lhe sand dunes and oanserves its water for mouths, but, they found to their dismay that these had all boon consumed by the flocks and herds of the nomadic na- tives of the Kalahari Tho meagre sting of water they had brought with them soon gave out and after trekking for two days without a drinks the oxen col- lapsed. The travellers were still about (illy utiles from their d.ostination. Abandoning- the cart and oxen they cleterrlifeed to make the rest of the jour- ney on foot. Eight males tramp through the heavy sand reduced Olr, 73ry'mer, to a state of exhaustion, and leaving hien behind 11r. Smith toiled on with his na- tive servant in the teeth of a scorching wind to attempt to make the nearest water, .¢\i•. Lennox's farm, which was his only hope. In sex hours he had be- come quite deaf, one eye was almost blind, his tongue lead shrivelled up and his palate and lisps were coated with o thiol: skin. He had left Brymer at 9.30 at night.. At dawn next morning his Kaffir boy threw'up, the sponge, and. sad at tomtit Sol lh. hed:lo push tin with his collie dog as hes only companion. An hour or two later he was overtaken' by two young '1'ransvaalers, Messrs. Gerber and Lelloux, on horseback. The) had lost a horse and a mule Iroen thirst, not far from the point whore Mr. Bry- mer had been left lying on the veldt. '%'hey had. found Brymer still alive, bol having no water themselves were un- able to help, and had pushed on for the furor, Le Roux was .tors a state of col- lapse from thirst, having to be held en his horse by Gerber. The two mount-' ed neon went on ahead, promising to send back help to Smith and the others. \Vhen still n long distance from Mr. Lennox's farm Mr: Smith met surae Da - mere women (refuges from German 13outhveest Africa), carrying water in geilyds on their heads. Inol'ed(bie as +I _nay Seem, diose inhuman peeplc abso- lutely recused to give Mr. Smith either water oe asst0tance, Rt'eutually he managed to obtain a email cupful by force, but he was too exhausted to stiugg:o for more. At this ,point his fine collie lay down and oflertvard suceum- bed to thirst. Slightly Invigorated by hiss "emigre re- freshment, 1Ir. Snaith toiled on, The sun tyn.s now high evcrhead and the heat intense. Ile was following the course of an cid :elver bed end forty. nately wits able to obtain. some slight shelter from a few frees along the course. _lis method was to dash for- ward for a emetic of hundred yards to the nearest tree and then ile down k{_ recuperate fee the next effort. S0 he held to his las)( until at length Mr. I.ennexs farm came In sight. here kind hands look lotus in charge and tended him so well that eller a to, hours he Was able to tali( rationally and walk about. \4r. Henn ot the Cannel Corps of thin Cape Mounted Police, who happened to 1'e at the [01.13 with hl$ cannel, immedi- ately saddled. up mid set Oui with lir nest c0ulmeudeble diligence to searelr for the ;poor fellows who had been fore. ed to reluzain i3 the desert. Thanks 10 Mr, Henn's promettudc and energy the lives of sir, 111.701e0 end iho eaiivee were sated, 01111.eIgh they were In the lest stages of exhumation and presented i, most deplorable sight When they were brrtlght DEAF MUTE BRASS BAND MUSICIANS LEARNED llltb"T W1TII. A 100011-KI:Y. (Sand .Said to Do On15 One of Its Bind in the World limed to Learn Notes. 'The first stop toward er•ganitring a Lend of doer Hud 'throb boys," said %inch H. Courrior, principal of the New Yuri( Institution for the, 1euf arid Dienb, "was nolo weft a door key; the kind that is hollow at one end and can be node tp whisLle. Wa had le get down to the fundamental emenclplo of playing a fife, 11 being the simplest wind In. strwnont, and that was the correct po- sition of the lips necessary to produce a tone. A key served the purpose, 404 1i opened the door, se to speak, 01 the most interesting department of our settee! work." From We primitive source there has developed tiro only band in the world composed entirely of deal and dumas boys, and the perfection tt has attained as nothing short o[ marvellous, LEARNED EXACTNESS. Only after many Wale and the most patent work on the part of both pupil and teacher were the boys ablo to pro- dueo a tone on the fife. Having once mastered the difficulty, the next step W as to learn musical notation, The use of a certain finger to produce a given note was explained, and so ono by one the various tones were taught. and eommllted to memory. The boys were enthusiastic and vied'tvith one are other to win colnnlendaticn.: Being taught wlih the utmost exactness, 00 of course they had to be, the pupils de- veloped a canlldeuce of execution not found In the average inusie student, Certain rules were laid down and the deaf mute could do naught but follow them explicitly, and the result Wt'as ab' solute oorrectness In playing. PLACED BUGLE ON SHOULDERS. Those who showed special aptitude end advanced more rapidly were lat- er pull, to work on the bugle, Hero new dlliteultles arose in the form of a. different mode of ,playing the Instru- ment. With the fifo there was a fixed position for `the lips, but in order to obtain the notes on the bugle It was necessary to compress the lips a dif- ferent way for each note. Lit the ex- periments to teach the keys to produce any one lone a very Lnlerest:ng discov- ery was made. 1L was found that the pupil was aided In his efforts 10 play •t note if that note was sounded on an- other bugle placed close to his back between tine shoulders. In some way the vibrations of the assisting horn were felt by the deaf MOO, though how the could not explain, and they tended to produce corresponding vibrations in his bugle. There being but four tones to learn on this lns'rument, it was merely a matter of learning the four different aompressions of the lips and associate mg each with the note it produces. SPLENDID REPERTOfRE. Some idea of the boys' ability can be estimated by the fact that their re. pertoire contains over a hundred sale° tons, alt of thein memorized. Atter woricitlg on a piece of anisic for levo weeks the boys have memorized It, and can play 1t without fear before any au- dience. It requires but a sign Glom the leader to have performed anything, from a selection of grand opera down to the latest popular song. _FORCED TO \_'EAR MASKS. Shemin] Treatment of British Subjects sal Belgium. The English colony 1n Belgium is very indignant becauseof elle eoutinued de- tention In prison al Antwerp of the young electrical engineers, Messrs. Bur Ion, Cowan, llogaMh and ILebinsen. The cause is a pocultarly.gricvous one, and the plight of Lite prisoners Ls pits- able in the extreme. Although merely awaiting examination on the trivial. charge of stealing pencils, paper, and .indiorubbor erasers from the Belt Tele. phone Company, they, are treated like convicted criminals. All of them ora termed to wear hide- ous ootton hoods, whlolh completely en• velop tlleht faces so that only Weld eyes oar be seen. They are given the scanty prison diet, and undergo the some harst, regime as burglars, mur- derers .and other felons. No one who listened to thole story .could have dented that IJhe ,charged against them are frivolous and vexa- tious In the extreme. 'There Is not the slightest foundation for thele imprison— ment. Sir Cecil Hertslet, the British Consul. General, hes. Leen unrenldt4,ing In his efforts to secure their relessd, but this Is still impossible, as only 44200 of the :11800 bail demanded for ell 'four Call be found, The securities nest bo re- sidents of Belgium, and property- owners. A' HOPEFUL. Neighbor -"And What did the doctor say?" Old Man-"Ife said, 'No more medl. eine, but if ye take a little wall( of a 111110nin' on the 0Onim00 and get the air, mehbe you'll lire to be a oxygo. uarian, " i' LITERARY NOTE. Mrs. Gray --"What book leas leen the most helpful to you?" Alts. \Vinple--"\\reb.Gter's Dictionary. The baby sits on it.. id the taste and it savee :the price of a high chair," TIIDUGIITFUI„ Flo told her Ihnt she was e, belle, And she, a wise young thing, Replied she'd attars thought A bell should have it ring, \fain, -"]dote (o It, sigrrhra, (hat, al Iltuugh you receive a groat llunder et Persons, all ugly, yeti eltveye, say that you ere glad 'ro:s<0 Iberfl?" Signora - "But it Is quite true, lin ecu think I should liko 10 bo built"