The Brussels Post, 1908-6-4, Page 6NOTE.S AND COMMENTS
11 often happens flint a pereon who de
-
Wes lies whole lite to a profession 0'
bines conceives at last a contempt for
it, That he comes lo regard it as the
most undesirable of all means of making
a living is irue also, but In addition to
this he looks upon 11 as a sort of hum-
bug. There are lawyers, for instance,
who after a long experience in the pro
fession will, in their confidential moods,
confess lo their intimate friends that the
practice of the law is a good deal of a
humbug. They will clultu as 'stoutly 115
auybocly that the study and practice of
the law is indispensable to soeiely, end
yet they melee no secret el their eon
tempt for courts. lawyers and juriee
affiey consider that though the law is
theerelleally exect justice it is often only
ignorance, prejudice and chicanery mos-
queraSing as suit. Lnwy ors ntay have
D. dread of 111W61,111S 011 tht,Ir OW11 amount
and consIder it the best sort ice they etto
render a client M keep hem clear of legal
proceedings,
But this feeling is by no means ',mediae
to lawyers: It is experieneed just es com-
monly as physicians. Physicians believe
that medical science is the noblest of all
sciences. But 1.1. 1.8 a notorious fact that
some of the we're!. thinge that are ever
,e -aid about the prectice ol medielne are
said by old praelieners. After reaching
en advanced age they seem almost free to
admit that all drug stores might be
swept Into the sea to great advantage.
We might add many illustrations to the
tome effect and tor an explanation there
Is the natural weariness over one daily
deties which is felt in all professkins and
all business, mut the contempt that comes
with familiarity. But since the feeling is
so general it is evident that there is no
very bright promise of a change from
C110 kind of work to another, and Um
lesson to be drawn h•orn it is one a con-
tent.
•
Although it is almost a (Idly recurrence
that some dwelling or hotel is burned
and eome o1110 inmates are either burned
13 death in 1.1 or are killed by jutnping
front the window.e, 11 18 astonishing how
negligent people are of the most natur-
al promotions againstsuch a dreaffitil
tale. Nothing is 111010 cheap and simple
then a commen rope, by which a per-
son ean descend with tolerable ease if
he will twine it around his legs and save
los hands by wrapping them in a towel.
BM no one, even though he sleeps 100
feet from the mound, thinks it worth
while to invest $1 in such a fire -escape,
There are two other methods of es-
cape wheel require a little more thought,
but which, ono would suppose, must be
oceneionally resorted to. One of these
1: the lowering df the body by some ex-
temporary means as Inc as possible he-
roic taking the dreaded leap. The die,
Terence may mean the difference between
life and death. The other means of es-
caping injory 18 by throwing mattresses
and becielethes out of rt window before
jumping. If puede occupying three
sleeping rooms nee driven to make gaeh
A leap, and if the bedding of alt three
rooms is thrown down to the ground
first—especially if friends below are
thoughtful enough to pile it up properly
—the ettances of escaping injury must bo
greatly Mere/reed by alighting on the pile,
In ease the leap is not from a very great
height. Even when buildings are pro-
vided with regular eseams 11 mey be de-
sbuble to resort to soch expedients, and
le the far larger number of buildings
which are held not to require fire -es-
capes thought bestowed on them might
present serious injury or death.
FOR BEGINNERS IN BUSINESS.
The leeynole to succe,ss ln business 's
to learn without delay how your em-
ployer ffices leis work done, and then to
do It in fiat way fl& far as possibte.
Never obtrude your views or idea unless
'they nee asked tor, If you are a short-
hand -typist, and your employee makes
41 greminalleed elip, correct 11 1(0 your
transeription, 13u1 don't point, it out. This
is a ease where silence is more than
golden, No "head"' tiles to have his er-
Tete colleted for him by a young em-
ploy,e. Positions of trust rarely come
ta those who are content to wait for
*something to turn Op." The man. who
gels on is lie who by constant effort
prepares blinset1 for something better.
Try to cern thrt goodwill of your em-
ployer. Strive to make yeutoell valuable
01 whatever situation you (ill, even if but
a tempormy one. Tad is worth enith
sating, It goftens the intercourse be-
tween employer arid employee. 11 your
Orst po,sition is not to your liking, don
throw it up at once. It may be to your
otevuntage later on to use that firms
name as a reference.
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INVENTOR OF ENVELOPE.S.
o Is somewhat envious that such n
simple contrivance ns tho orvelope
mimed be a eorriparetively modern 11)
‚40111.1.011, As a matter of 111111 11 is just
a hundred years ein o a teepee inanuffic-
fume of Brighton. England, named
Broome; invented envelo,ee for Miters In
•their present term. Even then it was
some coneithe nine bet ire liver use
became. at all general, inot, In lace, un -
111 eamewitere eked the year 1850. Be
tore title dale (as many who ere living
now will 1ommie:1e a haler, written
only on nne was White] in. two,
Oen in three, e,miled with a teofer et
Seating 'wax, heti ,tteldreesed On eme of
alie blank sides
THE DEMANDS OF AN IDEAL
The Man Gains the Crown Who Grasps at
Every Shining Pebble By the Way.
"Sell whatsoever thou hied and give to altaln. No matter of what good things
yon nley dream, 11 is the 1.1) 111(15 3v
really,
the poor and mone itilee up thy epees
and follow me."—Mark x., 21,
'Meats ars our treasures only so long as
they nye :Mee tracks in ohieli wo tread.
The visions of things great and worthy
UM 1101 given that we might have some-
thing beautiful to contemplate, they are
culls to serve, to endure, to loll, to bear
bridens and meet difleuffites.
The &MIMS of ',neatness 01• of goodness
that go no further than deeming leave
ss seeker, poorer, less than if we bad
never seen them, He 40110 5080 the liefght
and does not strive to finale it is less
than be who eeeing 11 net al all lives
toward les lowlier vision. Ulu decants
roust determine deeds. Lifd were empty
without its dreams; it were emptier still
if it wore nothing but dreams,
Yet how easy it is to be satisfied with
aspiration; uever to make the investment.
of endeavor, to paint pictures of life's
crowns, but never to be willing even to
pay the price to gain ahy of them. So
many imagine that they must be saints
because they have lbought so often of
seraphic joys. It takes a good deal more
than looking at heaven to make
THE HEAVENLY LIFE.
Now every encore man is asleing the
question, How may I realize the ideal?
Peery sincere idealist is seeking for
moms of practical expression of that
which is visioned before him. He Ls not
afraid of paying the price. Ile knows
that it will bo high if the end is also
high. There is an easy deseent te the
things that are below; there is no facile
grade, no 11108118 of sliding hp uncon-
sciously to the higher levels.
Every attainment means so much loss;
otery gain so much giving up. We have
to learn to choose, to diserimhode, to
reject even many good things that we
may gain that which Is best. None can
gain all of everything; all may win all
ot something if willing to lose other
Wings.
Niches are not n curse et theineelves;
they are a curse and a cause of the deep-
est poverty when we choose them before
some better things. The young man in
the story must sell his possessions be-
cause they stood between him ancl the
attainment of his ideals. So long as
they were the thief good to him lm c,cedd
make no progress toward any greater
(14 0(1.
Her is the imperative demand of every
ideal, that it shall occupy first place. The
things you set first in your endeavors.
in your affections are the things you will
AT BOTTOM OF ALL,
(Osier: WM will be yours.. 11 may 010)-
11(110 some of us lo see the prizes with
which we :Atoll ((1 14181 be found, and yet
they always will be those of 01,1' supreme
Messing.
But tho ideal demands more than Um
giving up of things that confliet; it de-
mands serviceexpression through work,
through activity11 is not :enough to
give up the thinge that hinder; these
things must be niade to serve the lofty
ends of the worthy ideal, Where un-
worthy affections have been cast out
there must be no empty places; lave stall
must be there, but directed into new
channels.
If you would be great you must do
great things. You mus1 not sit down
before any task simply because 11 18 high..
Duties are not to be admired; they are to
be dole. The first prime of achieving
is attemptJng, eliettor the tremblest effort
lo do some great thing then the most
highly developed pletetring of the ideal
that ealisfies itself with the picture alone.
In a subtle Way high idealism becornee
the foe of worthy realities. How easy it
le to substituLe
DREAMING ABOUT HEAVEN
for any attempt lo bring heaven to our
1lIcI'3'dlly lives. How easy to praise the
lovo of God as a substitute for the prac-
tice of the love of man.
The religtous We is the life that sees
the high visions of life's possibilities,
cherishes these visions and steadily, at
any cost, with this as the supremely
worth Nvhito aim of living, seeks their
realization, counts all things as worth -
loss compared to thie, that fullness of
life may be found for one's self and made
possible for all others.
It's not the man who deems the
the dreams of coming glory, but. the man
who daily does nIl his little deeds in the
light of that glory who is doing most
for this world and for his ideals. The
great question is. 1101 whether you can
talk poetry, but whether 301) are willing
to pay the price of the 1(10101 1110,
The world is full of people who wish
it well; it needs more who will work for
ile weal, to whom its weltere, the reali-
zation of its highest good, is the supreme
thing in life, that for which they are
willing to sell all else and in take up any
cross. By their deeds shall their ideals
bo known.
HENRY F, COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 7.
Lesson X. Jesus Appoars to the Apos-
tles. Golden Text, John 20. 28.
THE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
(Based on, the 'text or tho Revised
Version.)
Items Chronological.--liary Magda-
lene had hastened to tell the disciples
of what had occurred at The tomb, and
how Jesos had a.ppeterece unto isee, elate
thew and Luke mention other women
also to whom ;loses revealed himself be -
fere the events which are recorded in
our present lesson. These also. perhaps
in company with Mary Magdalene, lo
whom Jesus appeared first, made hnste
to report to the disciples all that lind
happened. Fos two specific events omit-
ted freer' John's narrative at this point
we aro indebted to Nialthew and Luke
respectively. Matthew earlier in his ac-
eetuit hael mentioned the fear and flight
of the guard, and now relates their sub-
sequent action 10 reporting ell that, had
happened to the chief priests and Jew-
ish autherities et Jerusalem. When
those had assembled and hnd taken
counsel they pave much money urger the
soldiers, enying, Say ye Ms disciples
mune by night end stoic him nwey white
we. slept. And if Iles come to the g0\'01"
.1)018 ears eve will persuade him, and
rid you ot care. So limy toole the
money. and did ILS they woo taught;
and this .saying tens spread almond
among the ifeevs, end continueth until
this clay' ("Matt 28. 12-15). 11 18 to Luke
that eve OWe our lenOwledge of the ap-
penranoe of Jesus to the two disciples
on the road to Emmaus. 11 Is a lienu-
111111 story and one which slime how
Jesus, even atter his resurrection, 'n
his last associntion With 1115 disciples,
patiently and With highest pedagogical
Skill sough1 to lead them into a }mow -
ledge
01 1116 leeger end fuller truth con-
cerning himself and his mission. I1 was
evening when these two disciples were
at lest permitted to necognize their ootn-
minket and guest, and so filled with
wonder and joy were they that, as Luke
records, "they roee up that very hour,
and found the eleven getheeed to-
gether, end them flint were with thorn.
. And they rehearsed the things that
thippened in the way, und how bo was
known ef them hi tho breaking of the
bread" (Luke 'A 33-35), 11 was wbile
they wore thus assembled behind closed
doors that Jesus Itheself appeared to
them, 08 recorded In nue preeent les-
sen. Luke links these events with tho
twelve of tho two disetples front Ent-
maus with these words: "And as thee
spleen those things, he himself elood in
the midst of them, and ealth Unto thorn,
tepee be unto you" (1Stleo 24, 36).
Verse lie The first day of the wok -
1 ('0110 this Unto forward oheervod by
eelirislinne 710 day ot worship and
effivielian fellowship in Commernosition
el the resurrection of jolts from the
dead on lhol, elny. At first, heweeer,
Ole ;lowish Sabbath was not on this ac-
count disregardml, The tomplete 8118
-
811111,1.1011 of the '10)1401' clay for the late
tee came about graduelly.
In the midst—An expression retained
by the Amerieun Ilevieion with some
lexicographical authority, though net
approved by many of We best writers
of English. -
22. Breathed on them—A symbolic ac -
lion, signifying the imparting to them
of his own spirit (compave Ezeile. 37. 5).
The Iloly Spirit—The article is want-
ing in the original, signifying that the
gift was "not that of the personal Holy
Spirit, but rather an earnest of that
gift; an effusion of the Spirit.'
23. Whosoever sins ye --All those pres-
ent, apostles and others alike, are ad-
clressid. One apostle at least wits nb-
seed, ond others not members or the
apostolic group Were present; hence,
whatever the power conferred by Christ
at this time, all believers nlike shared
lira power. There is no warrant 11)
Scripture for 11101110g it to the clergy.
Forgvo , . . retain—The statement
here inaao must, bo enterprelal in the
light of other New Testament passages
bearing on the forgiveness of sins.
aVhen so interprotod its undogmatie
setese is clearly evident. The dleciples
ere to carry to others the glad tidings
of forgivoness through faith in Christ.
It is to be part of their work also to
announce the terms of that fOrgiVelleSS.
24, Themes • . . Diclyinus—The termer
name is the Ilebrew equivalent of Me
latter, which is the Greek • form, and
which sighlflos "twin,"
l'he twelve—Now actually but eleven,
since Judas Isenriot had dropped out.
Ills place, however, WRS later traCell bY
311(1(11108, WI10 Wag chosen by lot, US
eecorded in Aelsel. 15-20,
25. Except 1 shull see ... noel put my
. . . —Seeing alone had sufficed
le, convince the others, but Thames in-
sists on the necessity of a still Ocoee
examinntion, 10 melee out* that. Ire with
the test shall 1101 be the victim of seine
optical deluston
1 will not believe -11L, "To no wise •
The negative form used is the otrongest
possible in Greek.
26. After eight days—On the next First
day of the week. The expression is one
that was in common use and was °qui
velent to "a. week later,"
Thomas with tbern—Evidently their
testimony to Thomas had not been en -
Lively without effect,
,Tesus cometh—In We same :mysterious
end miraculous manner, arid with the
same greeting as on tho peovious 0(1-
01111100,.
Then,2selith he to Thomas—WWII
refeeenco to tho declaration of Thomas
previously recorded.
28. My Lord end my God—The Climax
of fulth in Jesus, 'which has been the
grent, theme of Johiee Gospel ihnotigh-
oet. The confession is addressed direct-
ly W Christ.
20. Blessed are they that .have not
seen, and yet, have helleved—Words
which cemvey the inepressiOn that, fen
which depends on the evidence of the
sens.m is, atter all. 0101 1118 highest kind
of faille Our spiritual intuitions Oleo
are to be trusted.
80, Minty oilier signs Therefore did
anus—Referring to the whole public
minestry ot XeSUS, not snooty to the
period tucceeding his resurrectien.
Ibis verse end tho next form the na-
tural Conclusion 1.0 the entire (1.08)101, 10
whIch chapter 21. 800111: 10 bd edited as
an appendix or posiseripl.
31, That ye may believe that Josue is
the Cheiei—Tbe nvewai ettepose 01 1110
entire Gospel, narrativee
BUSINESS ON THE BRINY
SHOPS AND DENTISTS ON
OCEAN LINERB.
--
A Ve'ell-Known Threnteleal Mmuceter le
Amively at Work on a Plan to
Produce Plays.
Within a year or two the pasenge mon-
ey will be the mealiest port of tee COSI
GI a trip across the (WNW. The first-
class pessenser will dee, ring for the
eteward, and order oranges er grape
fruit, to be 58111. 111 Morn the fruit sttoth
Then, after his bath, be will stroll (IOWA
It) 1110 harbor 611(11) for his shave, and
1114)081 111 a now stick, u. (111141111. 511110111(1
brush, or Ong of tho twiny trines which
tho barber at sea CarriCS le sale to his
customers.
Breakfast over, our paissenger goes to
the stationer's and porchases the daily
paper printed aboard the ship, with all
the latest Mareonigrain news, and it
110001 or so 1.0 White awae' his sliare time.
Maeing his way towards the deck, his
attention may be drawn by the electri-
cally lit and beautifully decorated Win-
dow of tire haberdasher's snop, and he
will be tempted with the latest in travel-
ling caps, lies, 01' soeles. Then he keeps
lus appoirdmene with the dentist.
In the afternoon he finds his eigmecase
is empty, so drops in at the tobacconist's
and oefIlls it with elroiee weeds.
Dinner, of counse, is at the a la carte
restaurant, a beautiful dining -room fitted
and furnished like that of the best Lon-
don hotel. The game, poultry, fish, and
fruit nro as frosh as they would be in
London itself, and the service in every
W11 y IS perfect. '
While he is enjoying bis coffee a waiter
comes with the threat:re plan to ask him
if he wishes to book a atan for the even-
ing performance. He pays his $2.50 and
goes down to welsh tho latest comic
opera, and the evening 10 finished with
a pleasant little supper party in the Amite
magnificent restaurant in which he dined.
FIRST NIGI1TS 1N MID -OCEAN.
Hooestly, this is no fancy pletere. The
greater part of i1 is already malized 11)
the latest of the hugo'floating hotels that
rush across the ocean at nearly thirty
miles an hour. The barber's shop, the
dully paper, the dentist, are already/ real-
ities. The Amerika, the Lusitania, and
other greal ships have their a la carte
restaurants. That 011 the Amerika will
seat 120 persons; while the new Cunard -
ere have still larger accommodation. In-
cidentally, tho Amerika made 15:15,000 pro-
fit on her first [sip.
Even smaller vessels, like the emigrant
Cymric, aro fitted with such special con-
veniences us a kosher kitchen, where
Jewish passengers are specially catered
for. Some ships have gymnasiums, oth-
ers, like the Empress of Ireland, have
pleygrounds for children, where healse
of sand, spades., and buckets enablo tho
youngsters to pretend they ale at tho
seaside.
As for the theatre, Mr. Charles Froh-
man is actively at \voile on a plan to
produce plays on the larger of the AL-
I:mete liners, When a ship mimics two
thousand .passengers there sorely need
be no anxieLy as 10 getthag a good aud-
ience each evening. First nights in mid -
ocean will be no noveltywithin a few
years.
PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON LINERS.
Passengers at sea berve-so much more
leiono than when on land that good
shops will offer an ireesistlble nieraction,
rind are bound to yield large Musts both
to their keepers and to the shipping com-
panies, An enterprising dentist has al-
ready found profit in the leisure 01 (116
fellow -passengers, and is now maleing
hie living travelling up and down be-
tween New York and Liverpool.
Why ahould nol, tailors do the same?
They would find none of the trouble
varlet their fellows do on land in getting
customers to come and be tried on. And
what a 101 01 worry le would save a pase
senger if he could gel his outfit for a
shooting trip to the Far West made on
Ids way ouL Toy shops, sweet shops,
chemists, emel druggists—all would do a
roaring business with two thoustmd cus-
tomers clustered so close around them.
Already people have taken to living
ort liners as othem do in 1101015 ashore.
A month or two ago there died aboard
We ammeter Etruria a Mee. Elizabeth
Bohrbach, who had for years been a per-
manent passenger aboard the vessel;
there would be more of these permanent
rasideels if shops were hnnely 10 save
thorn The trouble of going nshore.
And as for currency, if banks nre at
established aboar(1 the new vessels, the
trouble of carrying Dirge gums in enter
can be avoided by the 5y010111 originated
by the White Star of "cash cheeks."
These can be purehosed for any mount,
horn $10 to $500, and aro honored on
presentation either aboard ship or ashore
at elle companies' agencies. The con-
venience of these chomes is 0101111005,
end in the past twelve months the Arlie
or them has multiplied by six.-5.earson's
Weekly.
FILLING MANY WANTS'.
Owortlide 180 f 10 400 03111 00:10 flIpSCafinldi 11,•iceticshignrotwhse
In Brazil. It might safely be called a
vegetable emporivart, for 11. 3181415 every-
thing, from medicine to cattle -food.
'From the roots is obtained a veto/ value
alcie meelieine which is norch used tor
purifying the blood In sprIngtime. Its
Umber takes a very high polish, and is
eagerly sought after by eabinetenakers
for Ono worle. The sap becomes wine
or vinegar, accordieg to the treatment
IL receives. Flom 1110 .1413) starch nrol
sugar are also obtained. The fruit of
the tree is given to Cattle tor food; the
nut, greemel to potvdete melees a good
substitute for eorfee; and the pith 140'
0011)08 bottle-eorke. Thus Mem this one
fre.e aro oblehted medicine, Umber, wine,
vinegar, steeds sugar, coltee, cattle -
food and corks. really deserves to be
called a ueeful tree.
Maremer—"Noev, Freddie, mied whet I
say.1 don't want you 10 go over inle
the tenet garden to play with that nines
hoy; lmai very etele," Freddy Owned 10
mornont$ aterwards 0511111g001l' the
stlY, Mike, ma says I'm not lo,
go in yoUr garden beeaueo you've rude;
eut ,vou wine into my garden -1 ain't
rude."
FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE
NEWS BY MAIL, 111051. IRELAND'S
511011.116,
Hopponinos .11 the Emerald Isle of
Interest to Irish-
men,
John Clyne, eged 100 pens dlett
(101111741 Deornoehnore, Ors davart.
The death of Margaret Herrington,
Coolbaw.n, Skilatereen, has just, occurred
0.1 111(1 age of '102,
Tho late Mr. Robert Dixon Walker,
of Wexford, wine ineeellant, left person -
111 estate valued ot $00,410.
At Oswestry, an aged widow named
Annie Lloyd, was found istrengled to
death. She had been robbed of $150,
Ivite Bob), Young, Helmond, &On of
Mr. Samuel Young. M. P.. hes born ap-
pointed a magistritte for County Down.
elle Carnegie, tho millionaire, has
made o grant for the beetling of a Car-
negie free libraey in Killoglin, Co, Kerey.
The Mx reeelpes• for the purpoess of
lame government in Ireland during the
(Muncie] year .amounted to 821,153,850.
Da.mage oeugh13/ estimated at $5,000
was caused by an outbreak of flre at the
Legate Furnishing Company's mills at
Dromors, Co. Down.
Hundreds of tons of tirnlme 1110 eent
each week to England from the neigh-
borhood of Baliinrobe and llollymount,
County Mayo.
The question of procuring a flee aa-
pliance for Bellybay, Co. Monaghan, has
been eleoppod owing to Me melee aspen-
clituve It would involve,
In County Derry, the Local Govern-
ment Board, wrote sanctioning a loon r
$16,000 for the purpose of ell/Tying out
1.110 Shanlanow sewerage echeme.
The turnover last yetut of the Lima-
vady Co-operative Poultry Seciely, Lim-
ited, was over $40,050, nn incecese of
$6,775 on thet of the previoes, year.
Trinity College, Dueffin, has acquired
a hell of reselence for women, who 1110
admitted to all lectures and obtain de-
grees on the some teems CS men.
According to a doclor's evidence, hov-
el% °comic. 1 by laborers in Um Cestlea-
11801 disli ', County Cavan, would not
make dec. 1, kennels for dogs,
James Deem. It's Wee and child, Were
seriously injured at Holborn Hite 'Coun-
ty Cavan, by the explosion of a cart-
ridge which the child hael placed in the
11 re.
Four men Were terribly burned in a
flre at the militery barraeles, Mulligan.
and a private named Inglefle'd received
such Injuries that he died .subsequently.
A farmer named Alex. lioundieee, Hy -
Mg near King's Court. County Cavan,
flied out of the window at some men
clinking the house, and fatally shot
his wile, who had rushed from the
house.
Al Donnybrook, a village just outside
Dublin, there ueed to be held et fair
which became proverbial for itsellisor-
elerly scenes. The fair WAS I101 a stop
to he 1855, alba' being held for over 500
years.
A bullet, carelessly dropped in York
street, Belfast, was expleded by 1,110
Wheel Of a dray: The 111)0811(1 went
through tho window of a better shop,
grazed the bond of a customer, and
lodged in the twill opposite.
WAS DUMB 44 YEARS.
Woman Alter Many Years Recovers
Power of Speech.
A women oamod Carlotta Tani, living
in Om village of Castettlente 'form, near
Florence, Italy, Ines PerOVCIett 1110 power
of speech after being Sumb for 44 years.
She astounded her family by suddenly
speaking during a meal, and has com-
plete control of hoe voice. It is 110101908
fact that she cannot remember the past.
She became dumb at the age of seven,
her superstitious parents believing that
lho effletion was due to the witchcraft
of en old leeggar woinan. The parents
114151 601101 the aid of a rival "witch,"
and thee took the ohild lo ecientists; but
Loth attempts at cure were equally futile,
The villagers firmly believe that they
have witnessed a miracle in their midst.
tee__
POWER 05 ROOTS. •
Instances have occurred Showing the
(111111 (10104(1' displayed by tree roots. Vine
tools have been 'seen actually forcing
theie way through a brick itself; and
1011011 rine considers the soft end brittle
nuturs of a vine root, or any other root,
it Is difficult to believe that they possess
such resisUve force. Roots thus penetrat-
ed a wall 14 feet thick, going through 'the
joints and finally striking earth in a
gerden border outside Um vinery,
64
NOT QUITE CLEAR. •
"Your Mete boy," said the profe.ssor,
"has a remarkable ear for music. Ho has
a geed future before him."
"So?" replied the father. "Whicb is he
likely to do—learn to piny 1110 3)10110 and
become a genius, or leern to whistle and
become O. nuisance?"
"Well, was the speech to your liking,
Pala" asked the speaker 101 1118 finish of
speech!" averred Pat. "Was there' any
1111 011111011. "Sere 11 wag a grand'
part of it more than another that Seemed
to hold you?" the speaker risked. "Well,
now Mat yon risk me, I'll tell ye," re-
sponded 1.110 Colt. "What took hould of
me 111001, 811, waa your persevetienee—
the 40143) 3)0 whit, over the some thing ogin
and agih,"
"Herd times Iwo bound tre bo full of
unpleasant shocks and sterining 6111,
prises," said art, old man of the World.
"I remeinber the lest panic end a ser-
mon that a minister mooched thereon,
The Nestor, in powerful diseonrse,
begat econenly and releeneffinent on his
congrego I kin, In VICW of the hard times,
there should be 110 exlmvegenee, no 4100'
)5,o11 expo:MI[11re, he emid, hut every oulgo
ought lo be pared down llie eteong see -
mon hnd 10 ewift end lime/meld egret.
Tho congregation lield a climate meeting
end orteninionely reelneed the mania eat-
ery trot (100.10010 $15,000.
NEWS FROM THE MINES 'SOME FROST TRAGEDI
SPRING AWAKENS COBALT TO PUR-
Tim ACTivEnt.
Heavy Shipments Tieing Made—Nave
flatten Opens ln Montreal niece
Dished.
The main elm 11 al the 'rem's:teaming
le down over 250 feet, at which level a
station has boon cut and C/ChilSive un -
CURIOUS
^
ACODENTS CAUSED Br
ICE AND SNOW,
The Greatest Calamities of Veced, Strange-
ly Ettomilt, Are Those Caused
by Thavv.
In February, four ocaes ago, there was.
a tremendous frost on the Continent.
Tiro Vistula, among othree rivers, wee%
derground work 14 (11. be undertaken. covered with ice of immense thiekness,
Sinkieg will le continued to 1 110 30-fout and when the thew mune and the hotels.
level, A shipment, of forty tons WIIS 01 11(481. Were loosened, the roaring elver
eon!, out to Copper Cliff last week wIuh temente choked with gigantic darns of leo.
will run in the neighlxnemed of epee
ounco.e silver to 1110 tem. At lhe lireeenti
tune the, greater portion of the under-
grouna wore i8 being misled me at We
200-foo1 level. On the first and seeoad
levels upwards of a thoesand feet •
drifting and cross -cutting has teem thine
W dale, and ore Is being sloped from
four cliffeeent veins, A fer.o of sixty
111011 IS empleyed and 1110 erotic is being
hustled along in the rescue way, The
ConlIngas Mine has throe cars of high
geade and coneenleates ready for ship-
ment, On the surface the company is
ridding a considerable amount of new
equipment, which includes a gas pro-
ducer eDwrr ,plant, with which. 10 operate
the concentrate plant, say; a. Cobalt
correeponclent of the Globe.
MAY START AGAIN.
Meal Carlyle 0( 1.110 Cruilylo Construe -
lion Company, of Cleveland, 01110, 10115
ft visitor in comp Ited, week, A meeting
0( 1310 dire:et:es of the conmcmy Mg held
ln Cleveland on Tuesday for the pur-
pose ,of meaning to resume opereleons
at the mine al the earliest peseihie. nor-
/tient. 'Jibe preljetily has bon closed
down since lust fall with the exeeption
of tho compressor. plant., which hae been
kept, in operation stroplying ,power "or
two drills le the Badger 141'11,, a 0011-
111101 WhiCh was arranged prior to the
Lime the mine woe closed clown. Ihe
Main shaft et the llochester is down
einely Set, with alaciut t00 feet. of drift -
Mg et Me 15-k1 level. 'rho manage -
molt ere confident that geod shipping
ore will be Wend. 'rue main vein on the
serene°, which has been stripped up-
wards of KO feet, 511003 an average
width of from five to fifleen inches of
crecite, with .nicollte, smaltite, albeit
bloom and Ma:Ye silver.
AT THE HUDSON BAY
a force of over 40 111011 IS empl'iyed and
the force will be inereteed later n. A
carload of high-grade ore is being load-
ed this week,
At the Right, of Way the force has
Leen increased and the development
work is being rushed along in the math
werkings as well as lite Making of the
new shaft close to the Silver Queen
Mine, Last week a carload of 30 tone
of ore was sent out, lo DenVor, Colon
ado, from the 13uffulo Mine.
The Buffalo is working a force of near-
ly 150 men, and sant out another car
of ore last week. A tome of over 50 men
is employed at the Foster Extensive
underground development work is teing
carried on with good results, Last,
week a carload of high-gracie are, ag-
gregating 35 tons, was shipped to New
'York.
411. YOUNG GETS CONTROL.
Cyril T. Young of Haileybury has got
control ef a lease on the Poterson Lake
property, lenewn as the Lucky Number
&Nen lease. Number Seven lease ad-
joins 11. L. 404 on 1110 Nipissing pro-
perty. A Wrec 0( 111011 hos been put to
work and Ilie lessees believe they will
eveetually strike a number of the
Nipis-
8111(100(0 showing al that stele of the
lake. On lire Little Nipis.sing Lease on
Peterson Lake, Superintendent Madelen
continues to hustle the development
work along, With splendid results, and
a carload of ore win be sent out during
the neet few days. Development, wok
Is beteg' pushed ahead rapidly with 11
for0C of about, 75 men at Cobalt Lake. A
carlead of high-grade ore is being ship-
ped the present weak and another will
follow 1)051 440(11 which will be IWO Car-
load& for the month. Front present ship-
ments, a considerable amount of cash
is being realized in excees of operating
exeenees.
UP MONTREAL RIVEre
With ihe opening of navigation on
the eiontreal Beier this week hundreds
ef prospectors have departed, and are
preparing to leave for 3111110S town-
effip this week. Charlee Gifford, Man-
ager of the Sloosehmin Minn, is reporMd
It) have ten kA1 of itigh-grndo ttr,t load-
oti on news nt Elle Lubec ready lo ship
'Via 1110 11,10111,r0111 "lime lo Letenfase
tem where 11 win be waded on CUM
011d sent. to the smelters in New York,
Mr. Giffued's property is tho III'S). 10
111111C0 a 6111,pinen 1 nom the new belt. A
company hes bean Incorporated at Mt.
Clemene, Miele to lake mop the control
of the Wales property in Smythe lown-
ship.. This property has several nntive
511504' showinge. The Gates claini in
Runes township has been sold to a To-
kdo syndicate, Who will begin exkinsive
opeentions en their property during the
coming omelet', and also hope to make
the Gates 0 shipping proposition bolero
the end of the yens
GOOD NEWS 05 ELK LAKE.
A correspondent 111 Elle Lake weeks:
The wotionen on the Holden property,
Tudhope, have struck a vein crosscut at
a depth of ninety-seven feet, The vein
is fouxteen Inches 111 width and rich In
native silver, This 00110 will maim n
rich shipment of are, Tim Company
sunk a shrift depth forty -a50011 feet, mid
then let, the 00n11'act to sink another
fifty Met, The vel20 dipped from the
Shaft, malting a crossolt 01 1(1111.1001 foot
notessery to reach the vein. Miners and
others on tbe Iviontreal Meer section too
jubilant over this good ilnd being rnado
111 1.11)5 small depth,
•
NO 511/011.
Itusbund—"Thal$ a foolish habit yoe
women have of carrying your purses in
you bands when in the street.'
Wite---"Why is it?"
Ithsband—"Because a thief Muhl bele
811111011 them end got away."
Wire --"Well, 11 3110 husbande ol other
wornen don't give thom mom lo Ant in
1.1.4011, rinses than you give rim 10 p111 in
Minot tho thiot would starve 14 eatal."
le ()allele, near fezeuezin, the floes,
grounded in a shallow petit of 1115 1114511111
cunt histently a vas1 barrier 01 1.10 begun
to rear itself; while behind IL elle choked
elver swelled into a mighty hike, and,,
pouring over its banks, inundated the,
lea country, for a welth of nineteen utiles.
A regiment of sappers armed with (1y -
r -inutile arrived by specie] train bet their
efforts weso of little use, Within twen-
ty-four 1101111 110 fewer then ten villages.
wore under water, 800 families were.
homeless, and nearly seventy/ people 10810'
drowned,
TO SOA ON AN 813 51,0E.
A dreadful disaster was that which hap-
pened a couple of winters ago at \Merin -
gen, on the Zuider Zee. This great.
shallow inland sea of brackish water us-
ually freezes every winter for a eong dis-
tance out. One January evening a num-
ber. of peeplo were anmeing themselves.
skating off the villege, sone, at a consid-
erable distanoe from shore, \ellen sudden-
ly a great floe; aerde in extent, erereiced
away front the rest. of Um ice, and a ra-
pidly widening lane of water. divided a
&Zen sleateis front the shore.
Some plunged in end swam back, bu
seven weer) carried out to sea on Ille-
floating ice. Those on shore rushed for
boats, but here 1110 frost completed its.
deadly work. The boats evere too tightly
frozen into the sand of the beach lo ho
moved, and by the LIMO that one was.
loosened iL was dark. Next day the 111)-
1114*3) skatees were found, frozen to.
death.
On the low, seedy shores of Lake.
Michigan Mends the \Otiose of Sandpoint,
111110 place, of wooden -built houses,
which is—oddly enough—inhabited only
1.1) 45104(02'. lis people are fishermen 11110.
mach their prey by cutting holes In thee
ire when the lake freezes. One night in
February, 1907, a tremendous gale arose,.
and before the sleeping inhabitants or
five of these little lox -like thoolings knew
what had lempended, their homes which
wore built withool, foundations, were.
blown on to the ice, and went sliding out.
at great speed across the Mizell surface.
One house dropped info a hole, and its.
islialritenls Were drowned, but tho others,
fortunately, brought up safe ogainst the,
edge of a long cape, whIch runs out cres-
cent -fashion almost opposite the village.
'lids beings to mind art extraordinary
aectelent which mottled at Triturate, In
Cciorado, about, three yeam nge. Some -
seventy Infirm were asleep ln the 5114111.
house of the Liberty Bell mine, when
Ihe end of a glades in the 1110114110111
above broke away, and, sliding down the.
valley, struck the stall -house and carried
if nearly half a mile. The amazing thing
Is that the occupents were not all killed.
Thirty escaped alive. TOCSO 41'er0 busy
digging out the deed when a second 100 -
&Ida occurred, and another ten of th0.
poor fellows were enteed or buried.
SUNK 131 FROZEN SPRAY.
11 will always be remembered as ono.
01 1.140 strangest accidents caused by frost
thnt the liner, Germanic, was, be 1805,
sunk al, her wharf in New Took, simply
by the otermous weight of frozen eea.
Wastrr, welch coated her weather side.
No lives were los1 on that occasion, al-
though the financial loss was heavy. A.
sniffier disaster, which befell the smen
hemp sleamee von in 1879, heel a mor0
trigic event. Overwhelmed with masses
olefrozen spray, rind ten her engines dis-
abled, she turned lo 'Ile in 1118 North At-
lentle, and 01 1402' crew of ireventreen only
]id tO 1011 the tole.
One of the must nmezing Impales of
frost occurred in Greened° on a February
day, twelve years ego. Tbe lenmerature
was far bOlOW Ze1'0, MIL 1110.11ir dry and
Mow. and the sun shining with naming
brilliancy. Five people, who were driv-
ing together across the tract of forest
reserve 1010Wil CS North Park, did uot
molly feel the cold.
Suddenly the distant mountains clisap-
permed 111 a while mist, nnd the sari lost
11-; brilliancy. Presently one of the 4)0'
(11041 put, her hend lo ber cheek, !Vy-
ing out lhat something lend stung lece.
A breeze began to blow, end the ate be-
came chnrged well 8.1)1181.01 fine petioles
w111011 glittered Ilk.° clIninorul dust. They
sew 0 50111r1', his face covered in a shnee,
signalling to them furiously. They delve
le his house, -and he hurried Umm In.
Before morning all the pricey wore timed -
This fog .2801 fine toe paellelee, so in.
fully ill, and Ong 10010011 was dead,
tensely offiel that they reach the lunge
without melting. The Indiana jusi.ly cell
this strange phenomenon the While
Doath.—Pearson's Weekly.
Tine FUTURE,
"You shottld learn to live with: un eye
le the future."
"The future is what has been strain-
ing eyes for years," answered ujo
worried -looking nous "1 have stock el
seven or eight undeveloped gold mines."
heland
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PII000CTI\'li 1011311.111/0.
Though the name of Siberie 15 still
pcpularly accepted es a synonym fon all
that is arctic and sterile, it 13 becoming
elearee every yeep 111111 few regions of
tio earth are more enpallle of producing
immense foresee of human food.
"1 don't want My hair berished over
my forehead any longer," (Inbred Iter.
01(1. "1 wont 11.crack In 11 11110 father's."
"Don't, you think, melee," inquirca Ilie
Y0101((1 num in tho front. row; "Met be
sings Melee bootie -songs retillslkintly?"
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riferetaid; "Oo hi 811 11181
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