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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-7-9, Page 2ATI ATVIATTER OF ABIT You Never Will Be Any Better Thai You Believe You May Be, 4131essecl L, tho mart that walketh not In the counsel of the ungodly, nor etand- eth In the way of sinners, note sittoth eite seat of tee soornful,"—Psahn i„ 1, We grand a good deal cif thne do- eumnetng bad habits and warn lag the youth against them while, sonallow, we have lost eight of the feet that there in just as much help in a good habit ae there is hindrance and harm in a bad one. Siabils may be allies at as truly as we find these to lee enemies. There are those who are habitually vlcaus; why ;Mond there net be these who are habeually vtuttause 11 is as easy to learn to do right and to have .the doing of right become second nature as it Is to learn to do wrong. It is just as easy both morally and physically to acquire the habit et welking upright. as Lo acquia•e that of walking with a P1011ah. °Urea We were taught that we were all naturally altogether depraved, that znan was barn hi this world with a bent to evil, Unit the clean life and the up. 'ward tending lite really were abnormal. leeraevex• first Invented, that doctrine must have a earl ible kIof iniquity which ho was trying Go account for evith a theory. Every mares chance of holiness is at least as good as his chance of health. Make up your mind that you weebeen to be sickly, Use victim of predatory dis- ease, and you NEVER WILL 13E DISAPPOINTED; you will have all the aches and pains that the most ambitious drug stem al- inanac mild covet to catalogue. Make tip your mind that Providence has cast you Into the universe doomed tc, depravity, branded as a, fallen being, a lost, undone, miserable sinner, and you have at least handicapped yourself by the adopt° nof such a view in any attempts to defeat Providence and to be better than yan were destined to be. I•lealth of any kind is a matter of ha. bit. But we never will acquine right habite unless we believe bt their possi- bility, unless we have faith he man as a being to whom goodness is no less attainable than baseness. There are two ways of doing things, the intermIttent and the habiluel, the difficult and the eosy. If you WOW? IQ ISPeah Only once a year the act would involve as much difficulty as some pea- se, have, for •example, in thinking. The piety of the exercise determines its dif- If the life of goodness and truth means to you the doing, with special eeparate effort, of a. tong eeetes of W- arnLo acts, then it ceetainly is a path ef gnat tolt that opens Nature you. May It not rattier mean the steady dieing of the right In all things until the deter- mination and the doing of the right seem to requre no special consideration and volition in each case? HABITS ARE LIFE TRACKS; they lead either up or down. Elobit is character in action working without conscious inflection. Tho laws of habit apply to the good as wtel as to the evil, to the higher life Bs Wall as 10 ItkIk lw- es', If it is possible habitually to breathe correetly, eat eensibly, and spealc cote redly. why should it not also be pos- sible habitually to cheese the rtget and df. tho best? If we had to stop and meaeure every breath, ement every vowel, mason over every step, one day's living would be enough to blight the life. So in the higher sphere of morals, living is a weary businese if you still have 10 in- dividualize and argue out all your ac- tions. Daily living 10 the gyannesium ef the semi where moral muscles are trained tte habits of implied, apparently me, chanical obedenee to the impuise el high ideals, leght motives, and table stand- ards. Here power is acquired to meet ali temptations, to overcome o.ftleultiets, ti' le master of life itself, He has a good education who has ac- quired the best habits of doing and of thinking. He iS learning life's great kssons, finding the fullness of an edu- cation, to whom each day OODIQS with its opportunities of training the soul, through tasks and troubles, te the ha- bits of the higher life, to self-mastery, and to efflciency in service for our fel- lows. HENRY 10. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, IULY 12. Lesson IL Saul Chosen King. Golden Text, 2 Sam. 23. 3. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. (Based on the text of the Revised Vansion). The narraleve of Chapter 8 is taken up at. Chapter 10, verse 17. After receiv- ing the request for a king, and con - suiting the will of eehovah Samuel calls a popular aseernbly and formally chooses their ruler. But there is sus in- tervening pmeage of much intereet, which also tellof the choice of Saul by Samuel. Kish, the Dither of Saul, sends hes son and a servant to look 1CP some asses whichlave Leen lost. After three days' fruitless seareh they finet themselves near a eity where these is a "socar named Samuel who possesses pc.w..rs of divination. Saul consults him arid is weloenned by him with great en- thusiasm and treated as a guest of hon- or, Before Samuel sends him, on his way he tell a him that God has chosen him to deliver his peeple and to be their )dug, and, finally, as Jehovah's servant he entente Saul with oil• and consecrates him to the office of king. There are to he three signs in confirmation of Sanne ells ant. Theta all take place as pre - dieted, and .5a121 goes/ hack home to me rnain at his acoustomed work till occae sem offers to assume publio place and duties as Israers king. It has been thought that this record of the private and informal seteetion of Saul is tee complement of the aaeounl of his public, kernel One a tittle later, and this is pots- eible, But what would seem to be a simple explanation and one which takes into acoeunt the Obvious differences in feeling concerning Sarnuere inmortance, hes williegness to give Israel a king, and the methods of choosing Saul, is that the writer interpected here a part of the narrative from another and older aecount. The linking together of parts o8 two chains of narratives in sucti a manner quite fits in witb the customary method of the Hebrew histortan. Some ot the richest gems of the Okt Trate. Trent are preserved with their Petting in this way. Verse 17. The peeple—Not the elders alone, but all the people. This was probably the "congregation of lend" whicli was oo.m,posed of all the males of tee.enty years and upward. One of les funotione was to approve as Ring the one whom Jehovah had chosen (com- pare 2 Sam, 5. 1; 1 Choon, 20, 22). Unto Jehovah—At lens thee p.olitteal and religieue interests were (trio; there was no distinction between duties to Lhe nation and ohligallone lo erhorah, Tee national assembly must bo under his direction. were SIX Or SPTOTI. place es of the Milne in different pees of the Country. Those erten coenninneling sites adjoining the various aaered places Wherever there WAS s. eenctuary, or Where the ark eves stationed, would le , a religious centre, and the people gathering fee worship and sacrifice would meet in eaearnbly and Make deer °templet Nellie Jehovah. The place thus used, which would naturally be one of elevetion, would borne to la Called Mtg- e./0e, or "Watch tower." The name) mny sites havo been /tearable to the thought as .„.he, fewer ea hei people. Tbe itlizpah in question was in Berea - Train, probably near Samuels home at Tiernan., and not far from the site of et-rued/am. Its location was central, and the sacred memories associated with (I. Sane. 7, 5, ff.) made it a most solemn and telling place of assembly foi this occasion, 18. Thus aaith Itthevah—The usual in- troductIon to a prophetic message, It gave the speaker his commission and carrie.i much weight. 10. Rojeoted your God—Samuel hae ex- ercisee power •only as agent of Jehovah anti ln his rejection his Master has.Teal iv been set aside. The tbeory of gov- ernment in braet was simple. Jehovah was ruler with special obligations to protect and lead to victory his "peculi- ar' people; they, in turn, owed him all the alleglanee and ebettieneo which an earthly monarch had a right to expect A king would in a sense supplant him. Himself—Emphatic. Jehovah would fain 000tinue to deal directly with ha poop°. He alone is responsible for their welfare. By your tribes anti by your thousands —the division of the people according to the patriarchal method into "tribes," "families," and "fathers' houses" repre- sented! the earner period, and this lat- er gave way to the numerical and gee - graphical division into thoustuale., hun- deeds, and fifties. The two methods, however, were not entirely distinct In Lane but overlapped, as a seen in this verso. M. Was taken—By lot, Xehovah's will was ascertained by imams of the sewed choice, Urirn and Thumanim. This crude method of interpreting God's de- sires and purposes is often referrod bo in Israele history and Insist have been frequent use, especially in earlier times, It was the only form of divince tion which was sanctioned, and its em - pee yment was restricted and guarded so as to protect i18 roliglous value in the thought of the people. 21, hlatrites—Nothing is known of tees family, as the name is nowhere else !mentioned. te, IR there yet a man to come hither? —0r, "Is the man yet to male hither And Jehovah answered—This could be accomplished by a &Vie@ of questions requiring a simple affirmative or nega t!ve answer which would be given by the lot. Hiel—Either from modesty or fear. 24, There is none like him—Physical pre-eminence counted muchin the po- pularity of ear/y leaders and even In their choice as rulers, This was the case with many of the Judges, and with 15501, anc> David. tong lie -e the king—This cry of popu- lar allegiance was customary at the be- ginning of a king's reign, and at ail other times of importance, 25, The manner of the kingdom—That .s, iho constitution, Ceimpare note in Wore Stilettos for .Tuly 5. Samuel wrote it in a book for preservation and laid it up at the sanctuary, perhaps In the tisk I,Lself with the Tables 01 lhe Law before 'Teheran To hie housee-Not "to hie city," as the elders who had come as representa- tives were dismissed, hut each to his own home. 28. Gibeali—The wont means "a hale" A city in Benjamin evlitch is associated with Pe number of tragio events in, the Ohl Teseiment, Here ,Saul had his a, ;men:meet& and his first athlete on the Philietines, told in 1 Sam. 13, WU, xnade nem this place, 'rho best. --Or, aa the mergin reads, "the men et valor" aa 'opposed to Those meetioncel In the next verse. 27. Certain evotehleas fellews—Whoso churtieh behavior forme a contras& to that of the valiant men just niertilorad, llrouglai htrn m> p asent—The ousto• uary seal of almost all rolatione in the East, Tbis wan equivalent to a repudiee don of Saul's sovereignty, Held ha peaete—"Was as though he lad been deaf." Saul Showed a dee re- serve, nut thalr act was mat Wet upon bine QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S DAY. How thetain's Best -Beloved Spends Her irate, Her Majesty Queen Alexandra never so theroughly enjoys her lite as he does when lending, no ter as may be, Inv tit of a /Ovate lady at Sandringe haute her favorite harem Always an &lily rear, QRaan AIRX. andra Is tip and about SOOn after eeesan 'o'clock. After a cup of tea or choco- tate—the latter, as a rules—her Majesty , elates her room, and commenaes her deity ;mind, No matter what the stiles of the weather may be, she at once Pro- cetels out of doors, and has a brisk walk, Brealefaet at Sandringham is partaken of when (hero are no guests staying the house, in a small, cheerful zoom overloeking the garden,s, to which Frence windows lead. After breakfest her Majesty makes her way to her boudoir, which stands en tho first floor, In the centre of lar private suite, Hero she transacts all her bust- neas; and the. aniounb she Is palled upon to get through day by day is surpris- ing. When her Majesty arrives in her room the letters have already Men ar- ranged in neat plies by the Hon, Char - tette Knollys, who has bean her Royal Mistress's greatest and most intimate friend for many years. Luncheon is usually taken about two elelock. Twoor three afternoons a week her Majesty visits the tenantry on the r hIpatree,d.hy whom she is literally woe - Upon her return home for her cup of tea—for Queen Alexandra, is an ardent devotee of 'the "five o'cleck"—ehe will spend some time with her private see- retary, the lion. Sidney Greville, Ms - messing various matters of business, signing letters, etc.; while it is about this heur that her Majesty receives any ether membees of. her Household who may be ova duty at Sandringham. Thts is the thne of day that Queen Alexandra enjeys best of all, and when she writhe most of her letters to her intimate friends. Her Majesty spends a considerable amount of tina arranging and clatisify- ing her immense oollection of photo- graphs that sbe has taken from time to time, and of which she now possesses several thousands. Of the albums con- teiniag these photographs, the most in- tesesting le the otte that contains snap- shots of the various members of the Reyal Family. Among these are photo- graphs of Queen Victoria temporarily "terifd up" in her donkey-chalse through the animal refusing to budge an inah; the Prince of Wales fletuidevang in a sal - men -stream, into which an ineautious step has plunged him while fishing; and the King leading young Prince Edward of wales °arose the park by the ear as a punishment for some boyish prank of lerhot\ceb his noyal grandfather did not ap p - Dinner at Sandringham Is something o! a movable feast. Rarely, however, is it served before ntne o'clock. Ae a gen- eral rule, when there are no guests pre- sent, their evlejesties are joined by the [aides and gentlemen in attendance. Mute in the drawing -room follows, with R bridge -table for the special entertain- ment of the King, Like most other members of the Royal Family, Queen Alexandra is an excel- lent MUSia1811, and plays the piano with very considerable eleill. Her efajesty retires for the nIght comparatively early; and fa this, together with her early rising and her partiality for a fruit diet, is due much of her exceed. ingly good health. AN UNEXPECTED 30URNEY. An Explorer's Adventure on the Coast of Greenland. In 1a98 Capt. Otto Sverdrup went up Smith Sound in his old ship, the From, in an endeavor to sail round the north coast of Greenland from west to east. Mr. W. J. Strong, in "Round About the North Pole," quotas some of the explor- es' dventures from his own story. Ono et these is the 'pursuit anel capture of a hear, which they discovered ort a little plateau high up on a Mountain crag. The little ledge was reached by a bridge not more than a good yard in width. His mareeety was not visible to Sahel until he came within a few feet of him, but then it was not long, before a OM was heard. The bear sank together, and in a few seconds aftervvarcle all the dog,,s had thrown themselves upon tt. They lugged and pulled at the bear's mat, tearing tufts of hair out of it, and before eve knew what they were doing, had dragged the body to the edge of the plateau, where it shot out over the preelpiee. The dogs steed amazed, gaming down 10 tO the depths eviler° the bear was falling .swiftly through the air, but not alone, for on it were Rya dogs which had clung so fast to its hair that they now stood planted head to head, and bit themselvae tete' faster to it in order to keep their balance. I was breathless as I evalelled th's un- expected journey through the air. The bear's body dashed violently against, the rock, turned a somersault ont from the mountain wall, and all still farther un- lit, Mae falling 5 height of altogether ab least a hundned feet, it reac.hed the sic:pee by Iles river, and was shot by the impetes right across the river tee and a geol way up the ether eide. And the dogs When the bear dashed against the mounten they sprang up like rubber balls, descrthed a largo curve, and with etiffened legs continued tile journey on their own account, fal- ling with a laud thud on to the hardier packed stItow at the bottom ef the val- ley. But they were on Clair legs in a moment, and sot off as fatt as they Could go Time may be a wound healer, but les no good as a wrinkle eradicator. Its 'useless te ery over apflt milk; in e few hotel* it would have emend, any- way. "1 hope thinge are more pea -coral in tho choir than termerly," sold pee. ter, "Yee, sir," replied the organist; "It's peefeetly clam now." "len glut to 1`014` 11. ICOW was peace Sectireerle "Everybody excepting my,sell retigned," NEWS FROM THE MINES NATIVE, SILVOR STRUCK ON THE FOADEILTE PROPEIITY. 04,0 00 040 eieweeatii:1.1tA R eee—umored pulley Price tor the Olisse cii ('real aettelly means in the 7101V tistalet et South Lorrain, although great dellculty (VIII be expetienced for some time tiwing to the roads being in a eon - detain that would not warrant the 'ship- nOlg of any great amount of machinery to begin, active aniniug operations. How- ever, actual mining operations 100 In full progress On the Keeley property, and the rich silver values still coritinue, seys a Globe correspondent, A new ellscovery has recently been mode eel what is knowa as the Fre. delta claim south of Lovrain to the tin - surveyed territory. This kacation Is known as H. R. 14 On the map and a one of the meet promising in this new silver belt. AL present teere are nye Men at work an the property, and last week while working On a surface out crooning native silver was struck in geed paying quitntities. The vein aver - awe three Inches in, width and is ina- proving with depth. The oeyners of this property have refused several good of- fers for the claim and al'IP very entente - LW of making it a shipping propoiston 58 soon as maehinery can be battened. The calm adjoins the Maiden property, whech has recently been formed into. a joint stock commune NEW FINDS IN MONTREAL RIVER. Development work fs being pushed rapidly he the Montreal River section, and aireest every day brings Eo light some now find. Al Maple Mountain. on the White property, Manager Foster has a considerable amulet of riali ore bagged, all of which has been taken hem the surface, and will shortly begin operations in the way of sinking. It is expected that a ehipment of ere will be made from nee properly within a short time. At the Meese Horn property the management have also cone:de:able ore bagged beady kr shipment, which ne doubt will be sent to the smelter ehortly. It is removed that a fancy price has been offeied for the Ones) claim in Silver lake district, but no details have es Yet Mon made known. This properly 13 con- sidered ono ot the hese in that vielnity end should develop ate a shipping pro- position within a very short time, On th Heiden property, in Tudhope, a rich find has been made at the 90 -foot level, and a large amount of shipping ore is visible to this depth, The Montreal River section has shown up wonderfully during the poet six menthe and no doubt will be•come one of the great silver cen- Lres of the eountry. THEBE ARE SOME GOOD RESULTS. Although smell mention has been made of the Larder Lake section within the past few months, still active mining operatens are steadily going on on some of the properties with geed results. On the Big Pete property, which al - 'Mies Roddick's, a diamond drill will shortly be installed and thorough tests will be made. Superintendent M. K. Farah has a gang of men at work and the development everk Is being pushed ahead rapidly. On the Dr. liedelick pro - petty a throe stamp testing mill is in operation and turning out small beaks. This mill will be inceeased to twenty stamp and is expected to be in operation this summer. Manager OglIvle is work- ing a force of 20 men and has Slink One shaft 40 feet and has alteo run a tunnel 40 'feet into the face of the rock. This property continues to improve and is considered one of the best in that sec- tion. The management al the Harris - Maxwell closed down [hellproperty a few was ago, owing to the scarcity of fuel. On the 'property are installed a machine drill, two 30 h.p. boilers and a 10 stamp rnlbl. Immediately a good supply of fuel is obtained, operations will again be resumed with greater ac- tivity. The 804on boiler has not as yet been installed, owtrig to the difficulty in bringing tt in over the ba,d roads, hut it is the Intention of the company to instal. Ms boiler at the earliest mo- ment. In the rock which has been, quar- ried out, the gold in many pieces is vis- ible to the naked eye, a.nd the manage- ment, of the company are very opthnistio over tho results so far attained. NINE OTHER VEINS DISOOVERED, In the Cobalt comp on the Badge, mine, Manager Smith is working a fence of 30 men and ,all work is being concentrated on the No, 9 shaft. This shaft is now down 125 feet, and will be sunk ta the 200-1001 level, when drifting Mil 1>0 oommeneed. On the 100-leve1 extensive drifting has already been done, On the Beaver, a force of 20 men is employed., KO. 1 shaft is down about 115 feet and \vial be sunk to the 200 -foot level,,when dEfling will be commenced to catch the Temakaming vein. At the 804cot level, 620 feet of crosscutting has teen run east and- west, and altogether nine VOinS Ilan, been disoovered. The work al Ilia mine 18 being pushed Tep- idly and with good results. Three mosalla ago a dividend of 3 per cent. was declared by the directors of the Temiskam'ng rnine. At the regu. tar monthly meeting held .last Saturday in Cobalt the directors declared another. per cent, dintd.end. At, the mine about sixty men aro employed. The male ellen is doevyt 260 feet, and most of the work Le being concentrated to the 2004uot level. A new sellechimping•eleip hes jug, recently been put 10 operation, which is the nrst of ifs kind In Um camp. Al the Terniskaining geological surprisfs are no new thing, It is inter- esting to definitely record the Mot that lit ft Vase sunk below the 1.75 -feet level !be posb-Ilur,mlan diabase formation was encountered u:nderlying tho older ICrewatin, and still more important is the fact that the phenomenal silver valuta have Mon found to continuo in tiv:s lower formation, A RICII SILVEll END. AL the Nip:sting about 200 anen are employed, and work Is progressing rap. Idly. A largo vsbn tubt el deeomPoteed matter rah in Silver, was struck on lot ILL. 400 of the NippissIng property, In the north and of the town, dole to the Ghambens-Periand properly, and also a ion, small vein showing cabalt bloom and cetlete. The NipasIng Is sinking at pro - sent tines shales in what Is km= as practically the townsite ot Cobalt. At the tewnette tho usual forte of anon L s employed, Recently a vela was struck currying rah leaf silver in the wail rock in the open cut south of the Bufittle beardengalmuse, le the shaft olose to No. 10 shaft on the Buffalo a nice lend et amultito has been struok at tho 100 foot level. The main portte.n of the woe% at the IOVJOSIIA le being done in these Oro thefts. Al the Buffalo a considerable amount of consleueaten Is going on. New build- ings for .salopling end nettlitions to the at amide plant aro being erected, also a new sterohouse and effice, About 125 men ere employed, and groat nelivity prevails, The company are apparently makeug preparations to treat m very large tonnage of low-geade ore. The MeKinley-Darragh ate apparently following the example of the Coniagas be erecting a large headgear over their old No. 1 shaft. A good rieventio should be derived from the donna at the Mc- leiniey.Darragh, which havo inereased rapidly since the new anantagement have taken hold, and one can plainly sre na• Live silver lying about, en the dumps. The ueual farce are employed, and ship- ments aro being made regularly. Tho Alteetniey-Darragh are else interested in unsurveyed Lorrain, owning ten ettehes 11 that new belt, on Mita it is Maimed they have a small force of men at work. A DAGGER wiTu A HISTORY. Edmund Burke's Great Speech Against en Alliance With France. An interesting and, at one thno, 'much: tallocieof relic has recently come into Um possession of Lord Burnham, is the wiapon of Edmund Buike's famous eieagger Seenc' 1» the House of Coin - noes. History has credited the great orator wale having treated Parliament tc a carefully worked-up dramatic crisis in Iles speech, but, Mr, Mucknigiht, in his "Life and Times of Edmund Burke," declares that the scene was impromptu. The affair took place at the discuesien of the alien bill. On the way to tla House of Commons that day Burke called at. the foreign of- fice; and was shewn by the underesecre- tory of state a dagger which had been sent us a pattern to a manufacleiry al Birmingham with an ordev for some thousands. Tho country at the 1,11110MS full of angry and disuffected eocietles, and such a proceocling as a large clear et off,neive weapons beaked very suspi- cious. Burke asked far the dagger, and look it with him to .11» House, Fax spoke against thobill, stating his sympathies with the French Republicans, Burke's speech followed, At first all he said was grave, argumentathe and roe - tenable. Coming to the question of the bill itself, he grew exctted, and declared 11 was necessary a keep murderers and ath,etets from British shares. Already schemes of bloodshed were prevalent. Large orders for daggere had been sent bo BirmInghme. Here the House looked astonished. Pulling out the dagger, Burke held it up before the audience, then threw it vehemently en the floor. Potnteng ta it, he exclaimed, "This is whab you are to gain Moan an alliance with Femme! Such are the daggers pre- pared far you. Wherever such principles are introduced, such peacttces follow." A scornful tittering, came from the House. Burke checked it with a vehe- ment protestation. "Let us keep French petiolate& Irani owe heads and French 'daggers hem our hearts!' were his finishing woods. The House was worked up to a meet excitement. Even the coriamptuous words which proceeded from one of it.s members, "The gentleman has brought fils knife; where is his ferk?" failed to span the died of the speech. The op- ponenta dared not speolc, and the bill passed. It is said that the Under-secretary picked up the clagg.er and carried it none, Now, after more than a centurY, it comes Into publio notice omen. "Papa, aro little beys made of dilate" "Yeie "Then I don't want nurse to tee a whisk broom on nae, Shell brush Ine lawny," Most of tho fun it man hag is In the anticipation rather than In the reallav SENTONCE SERMONS, Fretting frittean away itfeee force. ' Nothing Ls more deceptive than lova of sell. Being made of putty does not make one patent. There San be no virtue in the life without value. An tomcat doubt is always a deor to some higher truth. The trend and purpose of your whole life, that is your prayer. The length of life hereafter may d>. pond on Its breadth now. They who know their Father 110Nb5r aro fat from thole fatherland. It's not much use for on empty life to worry about its fintnortality. IL will take more than studiel in mud bo irnpr•ove our manners. It will take more then talk and team to tear clown stn's battlements. If you woulcl have pc,ace within you must be content with, wars wItleout. Our hunger for inentortnilly may be the best evidences that we shalt inherit 14. Thp hyprerito is always more success- ful with himself than witk any one else. R.daeb. ;ton:. a man thinks he is figh,ting sin when he is only flaying his neighbor's There's a weed of difference between attfiltrienest.ton to details and. absorption In Modems cynicism m'ay Mend the full acceptance of the clooliene of total de- pravity. It makes 011 the differenee whether irioney is 'Res Motive or only a part 'of 115 mechanisin. 11, 'often takes mono saintleness to beer a few mosquitoes than to stand a bisl- nes; panic. A great deal of defense of old clectrInies is bot dodging the duty of thinking through the new once. There aro too many who sey they have given od Hale hearts bue wbe fear the devIt meat Save given them their brains. LOOK ELF. 1.—NG,.(..7.—uToe.17on awn PERSONAL PARAGRAPLIS. Infotesteng Go's* Ahead Some of the World's Prominent People, DI', ilobert Alktneen, late Professor of Saxekeit amt of tia Romano languages 1» TriOJty Coliege, 0111111n was 0010 Ireland's most brithent and vereathe scholars, Some years ago he set him- self to acquire nearly all the modern languages of Europe and many of tne ob.9euro dialects of the East., and his knowledge was sucli that he was credit, ed with the neasteey of over lifty tengees, Itis contributheis le Met alum were none and variedwhile among ether Indications of his versatility his gia-Plida recall, the fact that long before the art of jlu jllsu was known 15 Goya Britain De, Atkinson had mastered it beth in theory and in ,practioe. Ste William Ariel le one of Lim most reniarkabie mon who have hailed from north of the Tweed, Sir William, who 1 bile l of 11>0 wtileb 5111111 ratio, faieitiliqlolte'etole'sr bridges, is not only self-made, but self- teught. Frain 1110 nen he Merkel Into a blacksmith's forgo, thee Into a ship- building yavd, and ultimately, at twelity- tete .years of age, Into a lunge engineer - mg firm in Glasgow. tie savtd 1885 fenn his weakly wages, purchased an engine for te18 and a boiler ter 1825, end with thts equipment laidthe feuedation to his &Llama great career, The retirement of Sir George Luck, 10.11,I3„ from the po.sition of Lieutenant of the Tower of London calls to mind the fact teat it tens the wife of this ells - Unmeshed soffiler—by the way, Ile is rerognized as one of the cav alry loaders of the day—who was main- ly respensible for the introduction of chain shoulder -straps into the Army, Once when Sir George was about to start on a campaign Lady Luck, with true wifely solicitude, sewed some strips cf chain under the cloth between the collar and the shoulder of his tunic, as a proteetion against chance seine cuts. This ingenteue device answeetd so well that tt has since ben officlally adopted for all ranks. .1>3 these days of democracy and tun convenronallly 11 is, perhaps, net very surprising to learn that, the Duke Feed- eriek of Schleswig-Holelein, hokling to the belief that every girl shouhl be able k> earn her own Living In case ot emer- gency, les caused Ins daughters to la trained in various occupations. Prin- cess Victoria eleeleilds, who Jeweled the Duke of Saxe-Cobout.g-Gotlia, holes the diploma of the Royal &Moot of Cookery m Berlin; Prinoess Alexandra Victoria is a skilled painter of miniatures; Prin- cess Helena is a qualified hoepitut muse; Princess Adelaide has a certificate for kindergarten teachilig; and ?Homes Caroline Matilda. Ls un expert typist and writer of shorthand. A devoted son of the Church of Eng. land has just died in the pereon of the nov, Francis Paynter, who had been rector of Stela -next -Guildford fur eerie -- four years, Although ho owned eensid- erable properly In the vicinity of Regent Street, and Picadilly, London, and his income was reputed to bethetween 1870,- 000 and 1880,000 yearly, Mr. Premier per- tained the elutes of Ida parish himself, and travelled all over the world in tha Geese of mission work. Furthermore, he notonly esteblishoal a college in India and supporad a number of inissionaratt at his own expense, but he Mee built three churches, many missions, end founded a coffee Lavern in, furtherance of the temperance crusad 10 which he was keenly frthenested, The Finnish Parliament can boast of the distinction of posseesing a member who was formerly a domestic servant. Her name is Mune Sillanpaa, and she is new in hen forty-second year. Th's lady WEIR for many years a servant, and ib 1898 she ealablished the Servant Girls' Association, foe which she started a paper, editing it herself. She lias fre- quently brought cases of ileireatment or disputes between s5> -van's and mis- tresses before the Courts, and leas in- variably ben successful, She is quite self-educated, but is said to be extromely clever, cleatetheaded, and attractive In manner, Sho stood a.s a See:alai, can- didate for the Diet of 1907,( and was elected, largely, it may be supposed, by the servantegirle of her etcetera] dis- that. AFRAID 0 FSAFETY-PINS. It Is not easy to realize the bondage to fear under whah barbarous people live on account, of their seems -nous ignorance, Mrs. Theodore Bent tells in /ter book, "Southera Arabia," how she tried to make it present of a safely -pin to a native woman, and what a storm of indignation was occasioned by her act. On our arrival at ouv campinm ground and while we were waiting for cur tents to be ready, I was sureounded by women all masked. They seemed highly astonished at a ,safely -pin which I was taking out, so I gave, or rather chimed it, to an old women ^near Ina She wanted to take the pin, but several mee rushed between us ane roared at Us loth, and prevented my giving it to her. I stood there holding 11 'out and she stretching out her hand, and one or two men then asked me for it tor her, I put it down oe a stone, and sho took it away and seemed pleased; but a rnan soon brought it back to me on the and of a stick, saying they did, not imow these things and WON efraid of them. FRUIT AND SUGAR FOR HORSES. Grain is nol, the only food on whicb the hose thrives. In Egypt the lehe- dive's beet ones me Led largely on cur- rants, end theee fruit fed animals are noted tor thee endurance and speed, regs, during, the fig harvest, teem the keel of the hensee of Smyrna; they turn le 11 from oats or hay, The green Lops of tho sugar cane aro fed to the homes of the West Indies, anal ter long weeks, in many parte of Canada, windfall tip- ples form the .honse's Only food. In Tasmania peaches and ln Arabia dates Lake the place 01 (11» uSuat hay and oats, OM and bran, fiNFORMATION WANTED. Little Willie--"Sety, pa, b want to ettle you somptheige. • 4a---"\x/e1/, What Is It, my son?" Little Willie -M -15w can a 145.11 keep his weIti5t ltqe 'HIS VISION OF ARARAT TOR GRIIAT MOUNTAIN VANISUER IN A STORM, A Traivoller Tells 01 IlLs Visit to the Aneant City of Beivan, emended by Neale EL Vse Nevi -son Mlle of Ms visit, to the meant city of Eleven, in the Caucuses, mew Mount Ararat, 000 of the (Mao eaid to le founded by Noah. "Britian itself teatime up the poeteilluvian his - fiery of the isand, foe it was 0040 of the ee:ttkiil t ez'lh.;;L,ee eitiec in Otte n ighlentood founded by Noah, and it Is still eel°. b ils viatage, Many Weenie. deem centuries 11111,0 lost to man, but foe WC IRA ihu>sn»d pnlIS it pose seeses 8 twee:lent record of raids and ceunteteraids, stoma, invasions, and massacres. For it has stood as the very, centre of the Ararat highlands, rouncl which Persia.ne and Talcs, eliessiane, A.nnenitthe and 'Dieters have converged. All that Is lauuteful In the !own IR Bar - Sian still. In the midst, behlrid the dark,. nod alleys and caverns of the ba- zaar, stands a Persian mosque and min- aret, set. with enamelled bricks that ekam bios jeweLs. The plum is a great sealleel of the Shah form ef Islam/and is built In a groat quadrangle, with the mils of teachers down the sides, and a kind of half mosque at each end, iike an open-air Women in ehape, but genes - misty decovakel with pentanes and Ina. SelOS of eighteenth century WQrk. 10 Erivan itself, as in most of these fron- tal, towns and villages, Oa Tartars lave succeeded the Persiens as the rep- resentatives of Asia mid tetion, 1112 SIGHT Ole AIOUNTAIN. "Theta special quarter stands abovo the rest of the town, separated from it by an Interval of vineyacts and garden fickle. From tlett vantage ground they have swept down again and again in the eat two years foe a slaughter and teet ef Armenians, Tilde lest raid lead occurred only a menth before I arrived, and 11 was thought unsete for a Chris- tian to be soon in their streets. But probably they retarded ine as to haven lese to be religious, for they let me weenier on I pleased ameng their houses one to the very top of their hill, Only in descending ham lies Iterkir quarier or 'Sylvan did I get mY own sight of Ararat. All day it bald icon hidden in mew and tempest, but Met antee supset I raw a eerie 01 110>310 itinimg teta cloutts wltoh wes the solid mountatin. For a timu the bese and ton remain el hidden, but gradually the summit cleared, and the vaet eone Mood visible there, alone and gray Mote Me n'Orld, Then for a few seconds it b ok the Wing nush of smock ad tlieseetve geeett with easy. crimson. Meknes; drew in. and again vineshot In tee whirling storms. that have been lank% amen it all these ages —that great mountain which dominated the history and imagination of young mankind." THE PEOPLE YOU Amu. And the Good Quallribs they Develop Sometimes Unexpeetemy, "Thez•e are people, old and young, veho are eo dual that you cane movie them at all," setd the philosopher, "111141 111011 you TM 0.0roSS SoIna reyple who are naturally savage bruits whom it would be a weak of time to try to move; bat the very great majority, and including many whom you mighl, think hopelteely dull Or 41.upkt or savage or chrouleally glum, have in them seine good., that can got at if you go at 11 1» the right, way. 'As a matter of feet wa often mistake shyness for sullenness'. We run ectete young people who are silent, and who pay no attention, who to shun us and tell° n.ever 13u1, with a little pale maw on your part, a litele waithag anal a.a unbroken, gentleness !tare comes along &onto dey something (het breaks Ila ice; something [het you smile over, st.ontaneausly, lo the young person, and then the young person emiles back at you joyously. He weLoal sullen, lad only shy. "Take older pooplo. How many mil- lions of people leave gone through the world. with Oils or that two persons Usioking each of the other that he was the most stock up 'person on earth, when the fact was that they \veto both . aby and each was waiting for the Miter to epeek firstl No rand of maunder. standirige end hard [college havebeen borne ln that way, "Take the stobbern man who cent be Made to seo things as you do. The chances are that you ore seubborn with tem. 'Telco lea inen who resents your inter- ference as an inerosten and slams^ you away rudely, POI'llar* you1 aro an In, trader. "Take the man who nol chly sertns sullen but who scorns disposed to stay sullen. Portals a long cenese eat harsh Itstatinent at thee halide of ether people hoe headened Item maybe tete don't get at lea right joint iti his aim tr. "Amt then you wet 1.eopie who ate treliffeeent, and, to he sine, selfish pro - but, the greet hulk 41 1)001>10 late to have Mends, end while they inay he hard OP cross grained, yet in their Marla they crave sympathy, and you can get into their hearts if you go15111 the right Way, "But to do this you've 1411 10 be at wholesnme, nein/tee unebtrusive chap yourself, with a belief, of team own, the real gooehe We all kniav instenctively the counthefell or the 1111111o.arte,i, and ressen,ling them we come to Nein a ha. let of resenting all, end eo crime to am- mo ourselves le a sort of OM, Wa meet ninny mem& who have thus shut thernaelves in nrat who arouse anon& In as beeattse thoy 3 5151 0 be lin pervious to eveey appronch, indifferent Id all and suspicious ot eeeryledy. "nut, tiara arta few (pt 1/S hut have som.o spark of good; fewaindeed, that will not nesporal and come mit if they are sure Of tee. As It \VISO Wild at MOO ,plits It: "'Vast prolate develop (hems 11 you give thorn a ran tor their 'tees your wire over `rot you have lha pet WOrdr '4.8110 leen lee hate alt of tehlr •