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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-5-28, Page 2SFFKI G THE IFIN 111 We Should Live as If There Were Some High Ideal and dGoal of AllOur Being, "0 Ood, thou art my Ood; early will 1 Geek thee; nay soul tatrsteth for thee.' Psalms MILL, 1 No two men worship the same God, and yet for all beings everywhere there may be but one great source of love and light and one infinite life to which e1' , theb • aspirations tune There ever Is the temptation to set up our as the full and final light and our concep- tion of the divine as the only correct one. The true lovers of the truth are not those who aro valiantly defending the definitions at which they have arrived; they aro those who recognize that in ',leaking out the infinite they have before Item that which never will be final— hat truth must ever grow from more t) more. The true worshipers of God a11 and ever aro seekers after God. You can take a house and set up a description of it That may be considered as absolute, finally accurate, and to be acoepted by all save those who refuse the truth. But you cannot describe year fellowman )n that absolute and final manner. There are possibilities, char- acteristics, reaches, depths and heights to the Life of the last man that lie ever beyond our most minute analysis. How much more mut this be true et that life which embraces all life, of 111111 in whom we live and move and have our being. If no person can be precise- ly the same in appearance, character, and qualities to any two others, how absurd it is for some poor little spark ot humanity, flashing for a moment in the universe to hold up his impression of the infinite and tell us that it is THE SUM AND FINALITY OF TRUTH. Why should we quarrel over terms and definitions? Of what use is all our attempt at classification, analysis and description of that which, if 4t be indeed the source of all. things high, ideal, and sptrttual, must defy our definitions, must surpass our measurements? Our speculations about any divine be- teg do not for a moment answer that universal cry which Job echoed: "0 that I know whore I might find him." The need of this world is not agreement about theology; It is not theology at alt; It Is not what meta have thought we ought to think el some supernatural be- ing, The need is for the touch of such a life as that upon our lives, Whether there be a God or not, whe- ther my picture of such a Cod bo near- eet right or yours, the great thing is that we, all should live As if there were SAM) such highh Meal,some e Lb on d ea lives, some heihts yet to be at - tamed, and some great and worthy source and goal of all our being. To lee primeval man there was a mighty being who ruled his little do- main; amain; to the warrior there was a groat cnplain; to the statesman a glorious king; to every man there has been be- fore him his own Ideal, the highest of which he could conceive, a light that went before and led him on. That light has been the Ilte of the inner being, the spiritual father and mother of men. Each new ago either must think its higher thoughts of God or turn its face from the, light before W THE DARKNESS BEHIND. The race goes on the ascending road as It follows this light of the ideal. Looking up in days of sorrow to a friend, looking forward to a hero, look- ing on ee Ideals becoming less person- al but not less patent, men come to the new day and ever to the higher, nobler race. We cannot •put into the language of our Melted lee any satisfactory or ade- quate picture of that which transcends a'; our experience in the way that this thought 01 a great cowman source and sustainer of dile does. But wo can order our lives about this as their centre; we can live as if the universe was held to - gather by the golden bands of love and law. In any true and comprehensive think- ing aur thoughts of God are simply our thoughts of the universe. And lucre it does make n vast difference whether to us the order of life be governed by blind chance or by the working out eternally of right and truth, justice and love; whether the life that seeks these good ends is wasting itself or is working In harmony with the source turd goal of all beings. HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 31. Lesson IX. Jesus Risen From the Dead. Golden Text, Rev. 3. 18. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Verso 1.The first day of the week — Foltotving the Jewish Sabbath, and cor- responding to our Sunday. Mary Magdalene—Froth whom Jesus had cast out seven demons (Mark 10. 0). She is mentioned among other women as one of those who "ministered to Jesus of their substance" (Luke 8. 2). Her defeLiiun and loyalty to Jesus are at- tested l:y the part she played in the scene at the cross and subsequently. That eases first appeared untie her after Ins reser:e: -en Mark 10. 0) cannot have teen an ardent Ear—Teat es. early in the morning, Liaegie nest ear.y in fhe Jewish day o'L oh had L-sgun at sunset en the even - mg pJre_ad:ag, 2. Co.;aeth—lnto the city. They—An Infinite reference to the ene- mies of Jesus. Mary tar one was clear- ly not expecting the miracle of the re- surrection, 4. The other disciple outran ,Peter — lehu was much younger Than the sturdy leader of the apostolic group. 5. St.00ptng—This was made necessary by the fact that the opening in the ver- tical wall of the limestone cliff was low and much smaller than the dimensions of the Lomb itself. The linen clottts—In which the body of Jesus had leen carefully wrapped (come pare John 10. 40). Yet entered he not in—Overcome prob- eibly by a foeItng of reverence; or, as some have suggested, for fear of incur- ring ceremonial pollution. 0 Entered—With impulsive boldness so characteristic of Pelee. 8. Saw and believed --Some have sug- gested uggested that what John saw in the tomb ocnvinced him that the body of Jesus had not been carried oft either by friend or foe, and that in this passage the au- thor records the conviction first made upon his own mend that the Master had risen from the dead. Perhaps, however, this is reading too much into rho narra- tive al this point. We may take the ex- pression to mean that John was' now convinced that Mary Magdalene's mos - sage was not idle talk, but that the body of "esus bad actually Len removed Mom the tomb by his enemies. The next verse, moreover, lends strength to this Interpretation, 11, As yet they knew not the sori,p- turr--Had not yet grasped Um signfi)- entice of metal Jesus himsolt had told them concerning his death and resur- senten, ' P1, Their own house—That is, Choir a'r"ldence in Jerusalem. 11 \fury tray Magdahno. To her is Venet -nfed the first eppearaneo et the !resurrected Cheist. .et the tomb-'l'o which site had re- fire -nod atter bringing "lo the disciples the message the(: It was empty, • I2. Two .angels—One newel only is Intentioned by Matthew (28. 1) and Mark (16. 1) as appearing unto tee woman. This may possibly have been tee s oleos• men of the two mentioned by Luke and Bohn. 13, Woman ---ilea, as appears from -ten whole context, a lite of tender ad. dress, which throws emelt light on its 9lse by Jesus in addresatng his mother Mt the Occasion of ils performing his first Miracle *lin e. 4), • Because they—Since the antecedent of the pronoun is not expressed, many have thought nary referred to "the Jews" as the special enemies of Jesus and his disciples. This may be correct; more probably, however, the pronoun is used indefinitely, the sense being, '° Someone has taken away my Lord." A moment tater Mary thinks that possibly it may have been the gardener (verse 15). 15. Whom scekest thou?—Not "What sokest thou?" as the gardener might have inflatred. Note that Mary herself never refers to the body of Jesus as such; with her it is only 'the Lord," and yet more personal, "my Lord." She has not yet brought herself to think of hint as dead, and to her the lifeless form is still himself. This stale of mind on her part is the point of contact from which Jesus gontly leads her back to a recog nitien of himself, her living Lord. ,. The gardener—The tomb with others was In a garden, just as a modern cemetery Is a garden spot, carefully tended. and cared for, The gardener was the one person whom she might expect to meet there at that early hour. 10. Mary—How much of tenderness. kve, e, antic reproach, authority, and ccmeort may not the Master have put into this ono word! She turned herself --Not having waited for the gardener's (es site supposed) an- swer, she had turned `again toward the tomb, lost once more In grief, without haying caught the deeper significance of the question, "Whom scekest thou?" But et the speaking of her name she turns again in sudden recognition to hint who had addressed her. Rebboni—In the Hebrew literally, "My Mayler," a form of address used by pu- pils in' speaking to their teacher. Which Is lc say, Teacher—The fact -that Mary at this moment used just this expression and spoke in Hebrew throws a (food of light on the whole scene. For just one moment 1t is Jesus, her beloved teacher and friend, whom she has roved again. 17, Touch me ant—Jesus land not re- turned to the to renew the old familiar fellowship with his disciples on earth. tits ascension was to inaugurate a naw fellowship, a spiritual union, between himself and his disciples, hence this warning command to Mary. The verb here used implies 1n the Greek a "'cling- ing toe My brethren—Emphasizing the fellow- ship and oneness ot Christ with his dls- eiplos which is to continue. My Father and your Father—A like- ness with a difference. Jesus nowhere identifies the sonship of believers with his own. STICKING ON AND STICKING IN. His mother was proud of him, and with reason., 1•le !tad just }von a prize in Sun- day -School and his teacher in the public seem] had reported him the best boy in her class; Consequently, Mrs, Buggins felt a moral joy in discussing with him, that evening at supper, the evil character of the other boys of the neigelerbood. "And 1 wouldn't go about any more with Charlie Births, if I were you, Tom- my," she enncluded, "I was (old this Morning teat he ons seen stinking pins into h�little sister's pug dog. Bee of ecurse', I know you wouldn't do such a thing." Tommy:s virtuous eyes shone with rte. Calm rea lzaton of his ethical superiority to the Rinks boy. "No, mother," he Answered, "of course 1 tvouidn't" "Buts" broke in ]Els father, "1 heard lh41 you were there at the lime Charlie Eras sl,cidni, In the pins. You should have struck hem my lad," "1 couldn't estop hire, father," he ol<•. plalned, "You see, I was holding the GENERAL IN130R1IlATION. Interesting flit of Knowledge About 'Most faverythln0, ')'hero Is a divorce Club In Bertin, Ger- many. its 300 members aro all d:vurcee, Marriage at an early age is frequent in Mexico. Recently a boy of sixteen and a girl 0f fourteen wore married in the capihth I.a1(0 Morat, in Switzerland, turns ren every ten years, owing to the presence of a tiny punt which is only visible through a microscope, In four years a pair of rabbits could secure a progeny of nearly 1,500,000 A doe rabbit produces us many as seven families in a year. A new monthly postal service across the Sahara has lust been eslablisped. The messongens are mounted on camels. to Germany all workmen, servants, aid Merles above i• s . tec,n andLt n � e 1 ,g g less than $500a year, are obllged by the haw to insure against old age, Throe hundred Berlin (Germany) streets are planted with 44,000 trees, which are said to represent a value o1 nearly 8200,000. About a thousand gar- deners and assistants are employed to tithe r c care of thorn, Sonne undertaker's of Europe, whose customers are •poor people, aro using comns made of paper. The ooflns are made in all styles of pressed pep er pulp, just the same as the eommoni paper buckets. When they are varnished and stained they t'esembie polished wood, and in :po'nt of durability it is claimed they are much Miter than wooden ones. After the death in a garret of a blind beggar, named Martin, who had lived on charity for years at a village nem' Clermont-Ferrand, France, the police totted a quantity of Dopper coins, worth in all $$00, stuffed fn the mattress of his bed and under the bed. Altogether there were about 60,000 copper coins which Martin hoarded, Creslow, a parish in Mid -Bucks, Eng- land, has but a single ratepayer. Ile is Mr. Richard Rowland, gentleman tam- er Besides being .he owner of the whole parish of 885 acres, Mr, Rowland, whose age is thirty-tive, is his own overseer.. rale assessor, rate collector, parish eeuneil, department of public highways, and a host of other public things. Orson, in Sweden, has no taxes. Dar- ing the last thirty yea's the authorities of this place have sold over five million dollars' worth of trees, and by means of judicious replanting have providee for a similar income every thirty or for- ty years. In consequence of this source of commercial wealth them are no taxes and local railways and telegraphs are tree, es are educalton and many other trip gs. A singular walking match has taken place on the high road between Spald- ing and Holbeach, Lincolnshire, Eng- land. A man named Boch, belonging to Spalding, made a wager that he would push a hand -barrow containing a man Prem Spalding to Holbeach and beck— sixteen miles—in four and a half hours. Tho comrpetitor is silty years of age, the man he whealed weighed 154 pounds, and the distance was accom- ensited with sixteen minutes to spare. A late nit which has teen in progress ttnee the year 1430 between the local authority of Friemer, a suburb of Gotha, Germany, and certain mill -owners, was amicably settled at Berlin after 478 years of constant litigation. The ori. lginal cause of the suit, which has stoat owed up enormous suras in law costs, was the action of the mill -owners in raising without nuthoeizatlon the height of a dam in the river Nesse, in order to increase the supply of waver to their mills. Tho world's record for continuous piano -playing has been broken by C. W. Healy, whoe"commenced playing a piano et Prince's Court, Melbourne, Australia, on a recent Thursday evening at eight o'clock. Healey played centinuauslyun 111 half -past ten o'clock at night on the following Saturday evening—a period of fifty and a half hours—and he has thus constituted a now record, the longest thee before this having been forty-eight and a halt hours. During the perform- angio Kealey sustained himself on beef. lea and chocolate, DURATION OFA DREAM. Cunle'us Experiments .hy a German Professor. 11ow long does a dream last? The fatuous psychologist, Ppotessor Verwon, of the University of Goottingcn, has just published a hook 1n which he *e- talos many interesting experiences. Among the curious experiments made by him is the following.— He told .els valet to come into the ream where 110 slept, with a lamp in his trend. Although fast astc'op and with eyes perfectly chased, fhe light affected him through his eyelids and started a dream. Ile would dream in such cases of a sunset or a aro, On .one occasion when the valet ap- peered to drop an object on the neer and Knock with his feet against the fur• niture, the eleeper dreamt of a battle. The noises he heard were to elm as the report of yin's, and the lamp, unsteady in the hand of the moving men, become lhr flashes of guns Io the dreamer, The ohms eaperimont had lasted but n few seconds, yet tihe•dreamer had w1L` nessed the whole battle, with many epi• sides in winch were, of course, involved the different persons the professor had met during the day. The duration of dreams Is amazingly brief, the longest, says 1h0 pnofossor, lasting but a traction of a second, The mind, during sleep, works with a rapid- ity unknown to it in the waking hours. An example, among others, illustrating lhts feat is quotedby the professor. He dreamt that he was n wttmess in a pis- tol duel. 1Io saw plainly the spot, the surrounding scenery, the two option. eats„ and their friends, The duel started. One of the adver- saries fell to the ground. Ho ran to the man, examined hifty, and epent a con- slderabie time in attending to the wounds, iso then bad a conversation wit hnn0 ot the witnesses, who eventu- oily took his firm and said to him, 'Came." Ile then woke up. A friend rad called oe the protesser, had knocked once with his stick on the Led, and shouted "Come" because of the urgent engagement. Between tho knocking (represented fa the dream by the tibiae shot) and the word a second could not have elapsed, tor the friend had knocked and shouted a niest Abend - famously, SOME BRITISH PENSIONS LOW) nAI,SIIURX AT THE UJIAD WiTlt 825,000 A YEAR. The Stalc's Pensioners include All Sorts and Conditions of Mon and Women, It will come as a surprise to many to team that the Slain pays each year the eu0rm0us sum of $37,500,000 hl old -ago Pensions and allowances, A very small proportioned of this is termed "half -pay but as the country rarely calls upon these o(licers, and never to any appreciable ex- tent, Lite money must be considered as lam 1 f'L i eh t r `aeon of ea ivo seer Ccs," PY Co t tr, r batt .3204 howthe Treasury es - A Y i& i uyd rites this Item of expenditure, says Lon - eon Tit -Bits. The grand total is divided under three headings, First, Mucro Is the Army, of which 110,00 persons of all ranks, in- cluding their dependents, are paid a little otover$.�)9 ,500,000 a year. 'True Navy re- quires nearly 811,250,OW for its 50,000 pensfonets, while the Civil Service 1s a modest third with a total of 83,350,000 for distribution amongst 4,200 reared members. In addition to these there is a further sum of $255,000a year which goes in pen - stens to ox•judges, law courts assistants, and others connected with the admi'nis- Lration of justice. They form a small and seloot body, for the grealen,part Is swal- lewod up Ly eleven retired judges, who take front 817,500 to $5,000 a year each. The Lord Chancellor receives a pension of 825,000 a year, end, le, therefore, the most highly pale of Bribaitee retired ser - tents. There are a few at 820,000 a year, end moue whose pensions work out at about 5200 a week. Compare these with Ina ax-cliartvontan whom a grateful country honors with no annual allowance of $50, less than one dollar a weds, and it will be seen that the State's pensioners include all sorts and conditions of men and women. Lord lIalsbury—rho chief of the pen- sioners—would 1101 describe himself as toe old to work, fie is ono of the most regular attendants in the blouse of Lords, and seldom misses a meeting of the Ju- dical Committee of that house. He was Lord High Chancellor of England foe nearly twenty years) and, so far from retiring at the ago of sixty -live, held his high judicial olfl:le until his eightieth year. It was the General hlection that deposed him. He is now ht his eighty- third year, and during his spare time is writing a compendium of the laws of England, to be published in twenty volumes, England's greatest pensioner may be described, therefore, as a most remark- able man, and site may well be proud of the fact that she early recognized his genius and paid for it in hard ease. His lordship has no reason le complain of his country, for he must have received from the Treasury at least $1,250,000 since his first Government appointment. The House of Commons has always been most liberal le its Speoker. He is paid $25.000 a year and is presented with it furnished house. On retirement only 85.000 is deducted from his salary, and though he loses his house he gains a vis- county. Lord Peel, n'ho was Speaker from 1884 to 1805, is better known to the present generation as a president of Royal commissions especially, that one which issued the famous minority report of the Licensing Commission. But since his retirement the State hds paid him a pension of 820,000 a year. IL le inter- esting 10 note that be retired at the age of sixty-five—the qualifying period for an old -age pension according to the experts. The other retire(! Speaker is the Right, Hon. Viscount Selby, who as Mr. Gully ruled the House naso of Commons for ten years from the date of Viscount Peel's retirement. Lord Selby receives the same pension as his predecessor, and it is worthy of remark that one of the pen- sioners should be the son of a great Prima Minister, whilst the other is a grandson of a great prize -lighter. 13e- lween them they lime drawn to pensions st least $350,00. Every judge of thee High Court is en- titled to receive a pension of 81.7,500 a year on the completion of fifteen years' service en the Bench. In certain cases the pension has been conferred despite absence of qualification, while in others many judges have preferred to remain in service after qualifying for tile old -age pension. hie, Justice Grantham, Mr. Jus- tice Lawrance, and Mr. Justice Barnes have all served the nec0.lstiey fifteen years, and by their decision to continue work save tihe country $52,500. There are a few judges of higher male who can also claim this pension of $350 a week whenever they Mee. The ex -Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Ashbourne, possesses many of the qualities of his Unionist brother, Lord Halsbury. He is paid a pension that works out at about 3400 a WOOS, but he takes part in the deliberations of the highest tribunal In the land—the Judicial Committee of the Clouse of Lords. Political pensions am not always given for old age, but this has been the rea• son in murnorous cases. Mr. Chaplin, for instance, is Sixty-flve, and is le re- ceipt of $6,000 a year; Lord George Ham ikon, who Is in his sixty-second year, is paid 510,000 a year; and Viscount Cross, a former Home Secretary, and a sur- vivor of the days when Disraeit was a power in the land, is paid the same, All tihese pensions are the result of a rule which provides for the financial welfare of Ministers of the Crown upon their re- tirement. Tire scale varies from $4,000 to 8101.- 000 a year, the latter representing the pension of a Secretary of State wee bas served eight years. her, Chaplin never reached this rank, .but has hold high office, consequently he is netted to 0015, $6,000 a year. Lord George liamilton, as an ex -Secretary et State for India, and Lord Cross, os a former Homo Secretary receive firseciasa political psnsions. Two well-known Censervallves in the persons of Lord Dalfottr of 13urlolglt and Mr. Gerald Balfour n.re Rio recipients of pen- sions of $0,60 a year each. Ono of the most Interesting of pension,. ens of the Government is tho widowed Countess of Maya whose husband was as- sassinated when Governor-1eneral of In- ca In 181$. Cady Mayo fres lived anneal nu teitfrbmint tinned that fertile tragedy thirtysbx year's ago. Earl Nelson one of the oldest pure In the Nouse of lords, 13209 a pension of 525,000 a year. for Rio reason that he 15 a relation. 01 alto great Admiral. Lord Roberts and Wolseley, besides receiving largo grunts of money from the Stale, are well provided for In their old age As Field -Marshal they receive 810;000 a year each, but in addi- lion there are oilier emoluments which a Field -Marshal, no matter how Old, can pick up. When the Army was reformed a short lime ago, and the oIllco of Cem- nlander-ln-Chief abolished, the then head, Lord Roberts, was paid lies °incite sal- ary, $25,000 a year, for three yours after his retirement Irbm Lho post, The small- est pensions are those given to literary 1)0(50ns, and by comparison with, say, Lord Haibury's $25,000 a year, the $1.,250 awarded Mr. William Watson seems ab- surd, whilst the 8750 a year wttielt the late "OWda"o n r such 1Y o a ed f rc h a short time strikes one as grotesque. The Civil Service Is cosily the best for old -age pensions. In the law and poll - Um one has to spend a lot of money one- self, but here the servant receives a good salary, and with a little luck can in course of time secure a hig)i post. Pen- sions vary, but there are dozens of posts that carry with them retiring allowances of from 82,000 to $0,000 a year. The State is not a fwd employer, ,after all, but what the man in the street complains of is320 til Lhe may serge a private firm faithfully for forty years and then be cast aside pensionless. Thal is the reason why politicians aro agitating for the in- troduction of a system welch will guar- antee an old age Tree from care and anxiety to every man and woman who deserves help that does not savour of charity. Now that old -age pensions aro in the air the learned Universities are bestirring themselves. The governing body of CLrist Church, Oxford, has just decided that any student who has served tee ',Muse as an oMcial student tor fifteen years, and who retires on account et 111. health, shall receive a pension of $1,000 per annum, increased by $75 a year for each additional year's service in this class, end that andel students of twenty -live years' service shall have on annual pen- sion of. $1,750 to 82,000, according le the length of lime oyer twenty -live years served GROIVXOUNG CLEC'1'1tiCALLY. But Only for a Few Weeks at a Time A Parisian idea. Paris is full of plans for living forever Mese days. There is the ogurt or sour ntilk plan; the Rene Quinton or sea water plan, the vegetarian plan, the fruitarian plan, and the Arsonval or electrical plan, which is based on the theory that the majority et people the from sclerosis, or hardening of the walls of the arteries. Prof, Tacques Armee d'Arsonva is the originator of the theory that this can be prevented by the application to the Sys - tern rot electric currents of high fre- quency and other doctors have taken up the idea and aro practising "Irankllni- zatlOn" with different varieties of appar- atus. According to one system the patient site in a chair placed on a slab of glass or other non -conducting material, and a skeleton cylinder made of copper wire Is lowered over him so that he some to be sitting in a bird cage. This cage is connected with a current passing through an interrupting apparatus which causes an alteration at the rate of 500 vibrations a second. When the current is applied a torrent of electric fluid is poured over the pa- tient. His body becomes covered with sparks from eight to ten inches long, accompanied by sharp cracklings, which are even described by some observers e slIght detonations. Tine "lranklinized" body seems to be the centre of a Res works set piece. All tlhe while the patient feels nothing. Scaled easily In les chair, he can talk,. smoke, read or sleep. When he is let cut of the cage, al the end of thirty min- utes or so, it is said the arterial tonston has been decreased. After six treatments the pressure usually returns to the nor- mal standard. The treatment can then be discontinued for a erne. The euro is not permanent. What the patient gains is a temporary renewal of physiological youth, When the effects begin to wear out he can have the treat- ment renewed. The cage apparatus is called a solen- oid, but some of the electlocurisirs.pre- fer to use a spiral coil, welch is the invention of Dr. Guilleminot,. This con- sists of a series of concentric copper rings placed on each side of .a chair, with which it proles like the wheeled chairs "used by some cripples. Each group of rings is connected with an interrupting machine, and an advantage is that in some mala- dios a stronger current can bo applied to one side of the body than to the other. This Is sometimes important in paralytic cases. Besides arterial s0lelosis the electric system of Dr. d'Arsonval 1s extensively used for neurasthenia, Its application is based on the theory that the human or- ganism partakes of the nature of the steerage battery and that nervous collapse Is clue to unequal electric charges or to exhaustion of the supply -of electric fluid in the body. USELESS SOCIETY. SOCIETY. Mrs, Jones often declared tliatsho really enjoyed a little chat with their Ifsh.-dealer because he was a man of such original Ideas, but one doy, she returned from market some what puzzled by his re- marks. "I said to him, just In the way, of con- vcn'satlon," declared Mrs, Jones, "that f bad 'heard that a man becomes like that with which he associates. "'That's ridiculous, Mrs. Jono$p he answered. 'I've been a fishmonger all my life and can't sw111 a yard.' " R1GHTr "ft costs mora to live than iti did years ago,'" said the man who complains. "Yes" answered the inks who enjoys 11 modern Convenien(es, "hot it's Worth 1i moreet s BRITISH GROWN COTTON POSSESSIONS SOONER OR LATER WILL GIVE A SUPPLY, To naval American Crop—Million Acres Added to Cultivation of (lotion In (ndla, Professor Wyndhnrn Dunebun, director of the lmpertal Institute, the other day presented to the imperial Purlirunent an Interesting report On British cotton chit. ration, lie has examined samples of cotton mostly resulting (tont native cults. volion or experimental trials in British territory, and he a • s s that several vari- 5 Oties of upland American cotton might. r cr c b n be accumatizett and established in Eng- land's African colonies, but careful and prolonged trials will be needed in order to demonstrate with. Certainty that this 1. the case. There earl, however, be M11e doubt, theprofessor roessorrdd °Ads, that many of 3 r p a the more valaubte American varieties will not prove to be so satisfactory when grown iu countries of deferent soil end climate, and in which. fertilization and other ac- companiments of highly advanced culti- vation aro not at present possible. What Is urgently needed, he points out, are systematic experiments in improving na- tive cotton, which can only be success- fully conducted on scientific lines and lir trained specialists. In this connection great dlfitculties have teen encountered by the Briese Cotton Growers' Association, chiefly owing to the virtual impossibility of securing at short notice the services of properly educated men wth experience of the spe- cial problems of cotton cultivation. FARMERS WILL NOT DO. The ordinary American tat•nier from the Southern States is not, 130 profes- sor thinks, likely to be successful in SPI- N ingthe problem of cotton growing under' LOW conditions, while agriculturists trained in Great Britain l3nve no know- ledge either of cotton cultivation or of tropical agriculture, and have therefore mucic to learn before they are in a post - bon to deal effectively with one of the rnost difficult, questions in tropical land cultivation, Prof. Dunstan mattes the important an- neuncement that an extra million of acres has been brought under cotton. in htdia to furnish the requirements of Lan- cashire, He says there can be little doubt that by systematically breeding from the now interior cottons of India and West Africa, especially of Northern Nigeria, a type of cotton can be grown in those countries of the superior quality needed by the Lancashire manuteeturer, and, provided that economic conditions aro favorable, in such large amounts as to render the British consumer In the course cd time nearly independent of American supplies, DEMAND FOR EGYPTIAN COTTON. There is 0 steadily increasing demand le English cotton mills for Egyptian cot. - bon of fairly long staple, and the culti- vation of this kind Is in most cases less prcaarious than the groom of tie Sea Island cotton, while it likely to be more remunerative than tho cultivation of the ordinary American upland. The professor makes a special refer- ence to the excellent quality of the cotton which has bean grown in South Africa, especially from American seed. In the Zculspansberg district of the 'Transvaal Ile cotton grown from A/net-loan seed has been valued at a higher price than cor- reaponding re tI n grown In the United Stales. American cotton bas also provad successful on the higher ground of Ny- essaland and in Uganda. — --'F GAS IN STEEL BOTTLES. May SoCjn be on Sale at the Corner Grocery. According to Dr. William Matlock "of Columbia University, it will be ,possible hr the none future toe the housekeeper Le buy her gas by the pound at.tte cor- ner grocery instead of having it deliv- ered In the Ileum in pipes. • Dr. Hadlock has experimented' exten- sively tvith blaugas, the invention of a German scientist. Blaugas is liquefied under high pressure, and contained in steel botmes. it is being produced in small quantities by Its inventor at Augs- burg, Germany, and is cheaper, safer and Letter than ordinary gas, "As Clime is no water in ilio gas it does not corrode the pipes," said Dr. Matlock. "It is cheap, nonepoleonous and non -explosive, "Pt Is available for all sorts of more or less isolated plants, suer ae country houses, railway train, vessels, etc. It will be adapted for use in gas engines, and the owner of an aut0moblle or pow- er boat wilt get his. heat and power in the same safe, cheap and Convenient form. 'lt will prove a boon le the household consumer, to whom it can be furnished in any desired quantity at a small cost, compared with the supply furnished by gas Companies, "When this gas is put on lite market the family which pays a $2.50 gas hill a month these days will, perhaps, have to •lay not more Lhert 50 penis. 1•t is easy of manufacture, and a man of small" capital can go intu the bushnose, Inde- pendently. It is possible to use ver smail pipes, reducing the cost of instal- lation and maintenance." PRINCESS IS A S'f'I NOGIlAp1IL11. Duchess Carl Edward 0f Saxe•Col r . Gotha 1s an accomplished typewriter a(1 stonograplier, Victarfa learned her trade Ern a German business college an(l It is her boast that, af, any rate, she can onr'n 100 marks per month for herself if need be. Victorma le a (laughter of Duke Feed - crick Irerdimanel of Gleeksburg and of Duchess Caroline, a Meier of the German. Empress, Tho Glnaksburgs are moon ao poorest royalties Of Europe, and' when is girls worn growing up the Duke in - sled that mph learn a trade "to guard. against a rainy day." Lady (to blind beggar): "WUere.'s hJlo oy who used is load 3*00 toand, my ear man? Beggar; "Oh, hos gone tele usiness on his own acoeunll" • tv SIi 11C, Cather "1 ani spa sorry your rtmistress le out, Do you think she will be et home tele. evening," Maid -."8110'11 haVo td be; It':s m3; night p out, t b IN A (1REVASS, . Trhllhr l Jixlxtrter;eo of Some ,Alpine Climbers, Reoantiy the Alpine Club celebrated, In London, the Miele. anniversary of its founding, From a small society of thirty. one members, Ole organization has grown into a famous body of seven hun- dred. When It was steeled Elia club met with a storm of ridicule, The press de. neunced 11 08 const ting of "suicidal rno11- omania@S," and Ruskin 3 poured vials of contempt on tllo member's' heads. "The Alps," lie wrote, "which your poets used to levo so reverently, you look upon as soaped poles in a beru'-gallon, which you have set yourselves to climb, and then to sildo down again. with shrieks of de, light," in spite of scorn, the chub waxed stung and rout and lo -da Ls the parent of g Y I iand Ewan, so- rrioro than ono hunched Y 1 t lege s ciettes I hasconquered he I A t, b p and Is a worthy and accepted authority on matters of the mountain. Since 1863 it has published a magazine entitled The Alpine Journal, the pages of which, be- sides much that is scientific, give also l " thrilling experiences of danger turd hard. �,-- r number the period. . The ver first nu ube of h e d 7 ship. Y P !till coned= an account of an adventure by Mr. Longman, vice-president of the . ', club at that time, Mr, Longman, with a small art including Itis son of f - p y, R Leon, was crossing the Aletech Glacier. "The accident lo my son noose from the carelessness of the guide. The crevasses were apparently unhidden, and the man neglected to tie the boy to him with the rope. Instead, he tied a Isnot In ono end of lits llandkorcheil and gave it to my son to hold, while he himself kop�'th<s other and. 'rias precaution was worse than useless. "As 1 was walking ahead 1 heard an exclamation and turning, saw that my son had disappeared, He had fallen Into a narrow crevice. Rushing 10 the edge, I called to my poor boy. To my inex- pressible delight he answered, plainly and calmly. We afterward ascertained that lto was about fifty feet from us, bid- den hem our view. Ho was unhurt, and not beyond reach, "Weissenfuh, one of our guides, a young man, quickly budded on a belt, fixed it to a rope, and told us to lower him. My two friends, 1 and the two guides paid out the tope, slowly and gradually, all the time encouraging my son and receiving cheery answers In reply. At last Welsseraluh told us he had reached the boy, and called us to draw them up. "Strongly and steadily we pulled both the lad and the guide as we believed, until, to our,inexpresslble horror, we saw flet' guide was alone. lie said ho bad held my son by the collar, but the cloth was wet and his !nand was cold, and the boy had slipped from his grasp. ile said the lad end uttered a cry as he fell, but in my anxiety 1 had not heard it. One can imagine my anguish. "Weissenfue reached the surface ex- hausted, dispirited and overwhelmed with grief. He threw himself down on the ice in his agony. When he end recovered Me strength ho Insisted on mai<ing an- other trial. None of the rest of the party was slender enough to pass his body through the lips of the erevasee, 'I'h1s time wo tottered a seoind rope wit) the guide, 011(1 he, on reaching the boy,fnst- ened it to him. In few moments my son, who had been buried in rte. ice for halt en hour, stood safe beside me, cold but unhurt." g LIVED AFTER LUNGING. lIlany instances of Resuseilalton of Per- sons Legally isxecuted. Innumerable instances of resuscitation after hanging aro rocut•dud, henry III. granted a pardon to a woman named In- etta de Balsham, who was suspended from 0 o'clock on a Monday i0 sunrise of Thursday and afterward "came time Dr. Plot tells of a Swiss who was haps• up thirteen times without effect, <e account of the peculiar condition of h.s windpipe, it having been converted 11114, bone by disease, says London Tit -Bits. Annie Green, a servant gel, was hang it at Oxford in 1050 and recovered fourteen hours afterward under a doctor's treat- ment. Mr's. Cope, who was hanged at Me same. place eight yours later, also re- vered. On September 2, 1724, Margaret Dickson was hanged at Edinburgh and +eooverod while being carried to the grave, She lived for ninny years after• ward and was universally imown as "Half' Hanged Maggy Dickson." A housebreaker named Smith was banged at Tyburn, In 1705. A reprieve came when he had been suspended a quarter of an hour. lie was cut down, bled and revived. William Duell, hanged In London in 1740, revived and wee transported. A man hanged in Cork is 1765 was taken In !hand by a physician, who brought him around in six hours, and we are told the fellow had leo nerve to attend a threatrical performance the same evening. Richard Johnson, hanged at Shrews- bury on October 3, 1600, obtained a pro- mise from en under sheriff to place him in the Minn without changing his clothes. After hanging halt an hour• he still showed signs er 1lfe, and oft examination it was found the bad wrapped cords about het body connected wall h its at the n0011, welch prevented the Nee from do - Mg its work. The apparatus was re- moved and the roan hanged effectively. It may'bo offered in explanation of the ease mentioned that there woe no drop used al executions in these days, the rid• pelt usually suffering nsihxia without the cerebral solemn being broken. BEAT i1)11. Two insurance agents, -a Yankee and on Englishman, were bragging 2).'ot l Moir .rival methods, The Britisher 39415 holdina•lorth about the prompt' payments made by 'his people, no trouble; no hiss, no attempt to wriggle out of settlement. "If a man died to -night," ire said, "his widow would receive her money by leo Rest post to -morrow morning." " "You don't say;' drawled the Yankee. "Seo hero now, you talk of prompt pay - merits. Want, our ofnce is 0n the nerd floor of a building forty-n"nosloreys high. One 01'oer clients lived In that 141223*- ninth tOp storey, and lin fell out o' tvih- dow, 'sVe banded 1lnl his eec ne es 114 p¢ased," q 11 the 10110001)1 bysinndrr had been ofr lending to ills Own business It proeably, out ' aro Tia ) dnt it j pcned, ti r 4 "