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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-10-29, Page 3• 118 W[ SOW 80 WE EA One of Nature's Laws Which Was Never Known to Fail, So they hanged I -Taman on the gallows he had .prepared 101. Menie- cai.-]sther vie 10. Thus in Shakespearean phrase was Raman "hoiet with his own pe- ter." Or, in the more expressive and familiar language of the street, he was "fried in his own fat." It is a most striking instance of what we call "poetic justice." But it is vastly more than that. It illus- trates a fundamental truth of the universe. It •declaree that a man usually gets out of this world what he puts into it. Haman, choking on the gallows 'which he had pre- pared for another man, pictures fcrth thab subtle law by which the whole creation makes responses to human life and human tuition. Ours is indeed a wonderful universe; not se much with respect to the gran- deur of its sunsets and the spender d its stars as for the perfect bal- ance of its forces. Haman's fate was in no sense cruel; it was justly earned. That law whose application brought him to the gibbat erected for another guarantees all the fruits and flowers which make life worth living. NATURE ALWAYS ANSWERS, Every force works against some other force. Not a leaf moves but in some infinitely delicate measure the stars a billion miles away make response. Not a thistledown floats across a, summer meadow but the whole universe is sensitively sympa- thetic with its errand. Wherever a human hand is lifted in violence or love all beneficent forces aro in- stantly aroused to repel the vio- lence and reward the love. This is the sort of world we live in. Action and reaction, as Newton discovered, are forever equal. We commonly find what we are looking for, whether trophies or trouble. "I never saw any such sunsets as you paint," said a friend to Turner. "Don't you wish you could?" was the reply. It is that finer aesthetic sense which makes and proclaims the artist. The in- stinct of beauty is what Words- worth carries with him to his ob- servation of the world. And the stanzas which immortalize his name are merely a part of the answer made by. nature to Wordsworth'e gift of Mineola So with respect to our relations to each other, A Persian proverb says that if We would be sweet we name lie among the flowers. Not only would we be known by the company we keep; we would fain be made by the company we keep. Yet the fact is that it takes more than a holy fellowship to sweeten a sour heart. What we get from other people is chiefly their answer to what we car- ry to them, For a man to discover evil in tho world about him is not se great a discredit to the world as it ie to himself. When I hear peo- ple sneer at THE INTEGRITY OF MEN or the honor of women, I am chiefly sorry that such scoffers have given themselves away. It is always night I o a blind mare The world is a mirror reflecting the features we hold up to it. We can afford to be careless where we live in proportion as we are care- ful what we are. So also in the domain of business. Each man bears his own trade mark. Merchant and professor walk wne a different swing. The automobilist comes to wear the automobile face, yet it is cowardly for a man to blame his own deformities upon the spirit of the age in which he lives. The baneful effects of corrupt busi- ness upon a man are chiefly reac- tions of the man himself. The man who comes uptown spoiled is the man who went downtown ready for the spoiler. Trade will probably make us the sort of folks we are willing to be. Nor can it be essentially different bs and by. Who ellen even guess all that immortality may mean ? No description has even furnished a hint of what we shall be. just one characteristic of the future is clear. Heaven and hell will be the answers to what we are. Not even God can put heaven into an unheavenly heart, and not all demons can pre- vail to keep a heavenly spirit out of heaven. Still. as we sow, we reap. GEORGE CLARK PECK, D.D. THE S. S. LESSON LN TER NATIONAL LESSON, NOV. 1. Lesson V. Absalom Rebels Aganat David. Golden Text, Exod. 20. 12. Verse 1. After this -.After Absa- lom's restoration to favor with his father, reported in the closing vers - ea of the preceding chapter. A chariot and horses. and men to run before him -Marks of royalty belonging properly to the successor to the throne. Compare the simi- lar pretensions of Adonijwh re- ported in lesson for November 22. 2. Beside tho way of the gate - The gate to the Icing's palace, near which the king, according to Orien- tal custom, was wont to transact business, especially such as related to judicial matters. Said, Thy servant is of one of tho tribes of Israel -The author's way of stating that each person ques- tioned by Absalom stated from which of the tribes he came, giving the name. 3. Thy matters are good and right; but -Absalom employs the usual alas of the demagogue in cur- rying the favor of the people, 4. Oh that I were made judge -A :mid. plea. for the confidence and Leppert of those whom Absalom thee addressed, 0. To all Israel -TO people from all parts of the kiagdom. Stole the hearts of the men of Israel -The word "heart" in Eo - Vow psychology referred to the Feat of the intellect and conscience, rather than of feeling. • The Sense this statement, therefore, would eeem to be that, Absalom deceived and led astray his father's subjects, awakening in their minds suspicions against his father, tho king, thiamin pethaps, not in any great degree captivating their affections. • 7. Forty - Perhaps the word "four" should be substituted for "forty" as it is in some ancient SNriae. manuscripts, and also in some editions of the Septhaginte • that is, the oarlieet Greek transla- tion of the Old Testament. The rerrator is dating, probably, fl'011e the tittle of the final reconciliation of Absalom svith his father referred to In the preceding chapter, 8. Goshur-A district; east of the Jcadan, where, during the period of . his late alienation from his father (,2 Sam, 14), Absalom had for a time welt in exile. Syria -Hebrew, Aram, So tailed after the name of the filth eon of Shone feom whom the original in- habitanee of Syria were said to have •been the doeeendante, • • 10. Sent spies-Sectet emissaries, whose mission it was to sow among the people everywhere the seeds of disaffection toward the reigning king. Hebron About twenty miles southwest of Jerusalem. Tho city 01 which David was first proclaim- ed king over the tribe of judah. 12. Ahithophel the Gilonite - A native of Giloh, a small town six or seven miles northwest of Hebron. According to 2 Sam. 11. 3, taken together with 23, b4, this man was the grandfather of Bath-sheba and bis advocacy of Absalom's cause is smuttily ascribed to a desire to avenge the disgrace in which David had involved his family. Together with his son Ellam and Uriah, the Hittite, he is included in a list of David's distinguished army lead- en given in 2 Stun. 23, 24-39. 14. Let us flee -The king seems to have been taken completely by sur- prise, no eufficient reason appar- eratly existing for his hasty flight from his fortified capital. Per- haps, however, there were grouncei for suspecting the loyalty of the population, which still included many Jebusites. 15. The king's servants - These, •at least, seem to have remained en- tirely loyal to their sovereign. 17. All the people -A great mul- titude. In Both-merhak-Or, "at the Far House," apparently a public inn or stopping place on the highway leading eastward toward the Jor- dan. 18. Cherethitcs, and all the Pe- lethites-A Philietine bodyguard which had remained loyal to David 8)1100 his sojourn among the Phil- istines prior to Ms asceneion to the throne of Israel. 19. Ittai the Glittite-The Git- tites were the inhabitants of Gath, a principal city at the Philistines, 23. The brook laidron- Just east ot the city wall. • 24. Zadok-Tho leerier of the Le- vites, and, Ince Abiatemr, a priest. 32. The top of the ascent, where God was worshipped -David was proceeding eastward from the city, and had now reached the summit of the Mount of Olives where from ancient times had bo n a sanotuery, 01' high place (1 Sam. 0. 12). In taller and New Testament tineas the road to Joriche and the Jordan valley passed over the southern shoulder o/ the hill, by way of Beth- any, Ettishai the Archite--The Ambito lived in tbe portion of the coun- try through which the king was now passing, not far from Bethel (Josh. 10. 2). To Hush' David suggests a plan by which the infln- once o Ahithophel's counsel to Absalom tray he eounterected, and at the sante time word be sent to the king informing Mm of what is eranspiring in the respite/1. Malted returns in time to welcome the am- rivel of Absalom. 87, David's friend -The king's confidential Adviser, as well as per- sonal friend. AT MARIENBAD, The Famous Resort Is 100 Years 031 -The Ring's Vitas. Marienbad is celebrating this year its eentenary. Just 100 years ego the Abbot Pfrognr of Taft; the peat monastery of these Bohemian uplands arid the owner of all these /create and rnooriends, was induced by the monk Reitenberger, his sec- retary, and by Dr. Nehr, his doctor, te, erect a small shod over the spring of the Kreuzbrunnen, with a house mumble of holding seine ten beds and a few baths. Up to then the spring had been flowing free in the moor, and it was only by springing from stone to stone that it could be reached. Th attention of Dr. Nehr had been call! od to its wonderful properties. lie saw the possibilities of the place, and thus laid the fortunes of the monaster3-. As some pious peasant had hung a rude picture of the zioly Virgin on a tree above the spring, the abbot had the hamlet christened Marien-Bad, the bath of the 'Virgin Mary. Now the place is famous the worlu over, writes the correspondent of the Queen, and some 30,000 persons seek the cure here every year, the majority in the hope that their too solid flesh may Ilion; away. Above all, Marienbad is proud of the fact that King Edward has been coming Isere for eight years. The King takes the cure very seri- ously. He walks down from his ho. id, the Weiniar, to the Kreuzbrun- nen every morning at 8 o'clock, and alternately stroll e about or sits un- der the trees while sipping his two glasses. In previous years the crowd was very troublesome, because of its consuming eagerness to observe his every movement. But this year the spectacle seemed to pall after a few days and he moved about as others did. ate was always accompanied by either Major -Gen. Sir Stanley Clarke or by Vol. Ponsonby, or by both. .After his morning glasses the King, if the weather is fine, takes a short walk in the park and drives back to bis hotel, where he break - lasts on the balcony of his sitting - room. The rest of the morning ie devoted to state affairs; then 3011108 luncheon, a simple meat of boiled fish, white meat or chicken and one ef those delicious compotes, with - but which any meal seems incom- plebe here, and a glass of either beer or white wine. Nearly every afternoon this year the King spent at the golf club, motoring up about hall -past 3, for the links are high up on the moor- land, where the air is splendid and the turf like velvet. He watched the various competitions, for two of which he gave the prizes himself, or else enjoyed a game of croquet on the lawn made expressly for him. Then he would ask two or three friends to take coffee with him, either in front of the pavilion or in the summer house by the ere- quet lawn, and later walk clown home. Caesar, his wirehaired ter- rier, always accompanied his mas- ter. The King's dinner, or what m-wss would call a poor supper, is also a light meal, consisting of chicken cr game and a compote, with one or two glasses of light Austrian wine Icing Edward went several times to the pretty little theatre Isere, and often invited some friend to a seat in bis box. Early to bed and early to rise is the rule at Marienbad, rd no one observes it more care than the King himself. DO THE LITTLE KINDNESSES How often do we think of the value of little kindnesses? Suet consider for a moment your ideal of what a woman should be, and you will most likely find that she is not a woman who doos wonderful things but one who does the graceful little deeds of tactful kindness. She is the woman who says the timely word of encouragement that ses Pols despair ; who always has an eye tri the comfort of thee about her.; whose quiet and unexpected minis- trations are like balm to those bruised by the worlu; and who only asks to make happiness wherever she can her whole life through, It is a big point for all of us to con- sider. So many people are apt to devote all their thought to tho big things of life while they overlook the little kindnesses. We rush blsndly ahead over the stonyroad, which, by a little thought, might be made smooth and easy, DOMESTIC BLISS. Wife -I have about made up my mind, John! that when I married you I married a fool. Husband -That remindme of a remark you made just before we wore married. You remember that you said it would be hard to find two people more alike than you and IN 'JIBE 5015P. Hushand-I wish to speak to you about your hair, Wife - You used to say my hair was the most glorious feature of my beauty. Husband -Yee, yet, clear, and that is why I want tee economize it -when you are Welting. A LUCKY SHOT. F. C. Selous' Execrienee With a Lion in Africa, Hunters and naturalists alike re. mark on the similarity of the lion and the domestic cat when they aro preparing for the final rush on their prey. Mr, le. C. Seines, during a hunting trip in Africa, came near riding over a lion, an experience which he describes in "Afrzcaa Na- ture Notes' and Reminiscences," and which also loads him to com- ment upon the great beast's like- ness to other members of the cat tribe. I once galloped almost on to a lion lying flat on the ground in grass only about a foot in height before 1 saw it. When I at last made it out, I was directly in front on and probably less than twenty yards Away from'it, As I pulled my horse in, this lion had its head pressed down on its outstretched paws, and its eyes were fixed on me. Had I ridden by it would certainly never have mov- ed until I had got out of sight. As I raised my rifle and looked down the -barrel to align the eights upon its head, I saw the black tuft of hair at the end 01 148 tail flicked lightly from side to side, and see fore paws, that had been stretened cut straight beyond its nose, drawn slowly under its breast, without its head or body being perceptibly raised. I knew the. lion was on thoi very point of <shaming, but my horee kept breathing hard, and I ronld not get my sight steadily fixed lie - mew its eves. Then just as I saw the crouching beast's hind querters moving gently from side to side, 1 ered, and luckily my bullet etrizek it just between the eves, mile, °Nish. ing into its brain, killed it instant. lv, so that it never movesl, but still lay crouching on the ground. struck deed at the very last moment be- fore starting on its charge Since that time I have on several occasions watched a cat when stele-- ing a hirr] go through every ir ve- ment made by that lion -the same involuntarily Livia -axing of met the end nf the tell, the same drawing a- of the fore paws beneath the chest. and then the wavy mo.ernent cufshthe loins just before tho Jinni r A BOMB FOIL A. BRIDE. Infernal :Machine Sent as a Wed- ding Present. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of having sent an infernal machine to a young woman in Aber- deen, Scotland, who was about to be married. The intention had evi- ciently been that the "gift" should to opened in the presence of both the bride and bridegroom, but for- tunately the machine, although complete in its mechanism, had got oat of order, and did not work. It is said that the Glasgow police have traced the seeder as belong- ing to Glasgow. Inquiries show that the girl hed kept company with a man living in Glasgow. She re- turned to Aberdeen, from which place she is said to have come, and was about to be married t) -,ore to ar other men. While at Aberdeen she received a box, which she thought contained a wedding pre- sent, When it was opened, how- ever, it was 'found to contain a re- volver, and a sufficient quantity of gelatine to destroy a house and all its occupants. There was an in- snious contrivance-whareby, when the box was opened, the revolver would be discharged into the gela- tine, The parcel was despatched from Birreinghara ; the revolver was fully cocked, and had tbe parcel been opened by other than expert heads the result would have been disastrous. Another report says that the two men in custody are married men, and that the theory of a rejected lover may be dropped. ,9 WHAT 1117 SAID. Attorney -"I insist on an answer tn my question. You hare not told me all the conversation. I want to know everything that passed be- tween you and Mr. Gibson on the eccasion to which you refer," Reluctant Witness --"I've told you everything of any conse- quence." "You have told me what you said to him: 'Gibson, this case will got into the courts some day.' Now I want to know what he said in re - "Well, be said; Thursday, there isn't anything in this business that I'm ashamed of, and if any snoopin' little yee-hawin' four -by -six, glen - met -eyed lawyer, with half a pound of brains and sixteen pounds of jaw, ever wants to know what I've been talking to you aboub, you can tell him the whole story.' „ AUSTRALIAN CLAY EATERS. In the Northern Tterritory, that mot subtropical seetion of Austra- lia which is to be opened up for settlement now that it bas been taken over from South Australia by the Commonwealth Goverement, some of the naives hales a, eurious metope of matte a certain kind of White, eowciore) clay, Investigation does not inchoate any perticular fondness on the part of tho aborig- inals for this particular diet, but the dicey would appear to serve a Weal putpose in betemen whiles by. way of staving off hunger when sane is Sear" BRITISH. POSTeOEFICE. Nearly Sixteeflve Letters a Year Per Capita Received, The British Postmaster -General's annual report just issued shows that 811 average of nearly sixty-five let ters a year are received per capita af population in the British Isles, The number of postal packets of all 'sorts delivered was 4,972,070,000, 01' an average of 112.6 a person. The limerick competitions and siinilar sensi-lattory schemes pro- moted by newspapers have counted for a good deal in the past year's pcstal traffic. The number of tal orders issued was 123,204,000, an increase of nee per cent., prin- cipally due to the heavy demand for sixpenny orders which people bought to pay the entrance fee for these competitions. People seem to be getting more forgeteul, as the undeliverable packets showed an increase of over le per cent. They contained over $96,000 in cash and notes and $3,- 183,000 in cbecks, money orders and stamps. Entirely unaddressed were 442,957 packets, ---4,--.- 11UMAN NATURE NOTES. Genius is often only timely talent. Our greatest success in life is usu- ally unexpected. Prosperity smiles on the few, and laughs at the many. Babies are the mainsprings in the watches of the night. A girl in love is almost as miser- able as one who isn't. The fairest flowers of joy spring Erma the soil of sacrifice. The acid of envy eats all happi- ness out of the human heart. Don't wait for your ship to come 11, Charter a tug and go to meet it. Other women are always suspici- ous of a woman who doesn't talk much. When a man talks of himself he i; apt to be more eloquent than in- teresting. Marriage may not be a failure, but it seldom comes up to expecta- tions. When the wage is the end, the work loses much, but the worker loses more. Some women are for getting mar- ried, while others are forgetting that they are. How many people are like ocean waves -they make a lot of noise but say nothing. DOLL FRIGHTENED THIEVES Silver Doll Haring by Clockwork, Made Robbers Nervous. Northumberland House, near Charing Cross, was in former clays the town house of the dukes of Northumberland. In the time of the first duke some burglars broke into the mansion, hoping to make a great haul of plate, says Home Notes. They managed to penetrate the strong room, where among other treasures Wee an antique sn- eer doll which moved by clock- work, The thieves accidentally touched the mechanism, whereupon the doll began to walk about, anti it, so terrified the men that they made off with all possible speed without taking away a single thing. That doll is now at Sion House, Isleworth, where the present Duchess of Northumberland gives the most delightful garden parties during the Loudon season. WARSHIPS TRAVEL SLOWLY. The reason of this is not want of power to go faster, but a question of fuel. The difference in consumption of fuel between, say, twenty knots' and ton knots' speed is extraordin- ary. This is due to the greatly in- creased resistance of the water at high speeds. For instance, a tor- pedo-boat can steam ten knots an hour with only 110 horse -power, but to do double that speed, she must use 1,130 horsepower. In the ease of a first-class cruiser it takes live times as much power to drive her at twenty as it does at ton knots, And an Atlantic liner will require at least seven times as much power for the higher as for the lower speed. In the matter of coal it is found that covering six- teen knots in an hour a vessel will consume ten times as much as cov- ering eight knots. Consequently, a warship doing a long voyage at her best speed would need five or six times as much coal as she would burn on the same voyage at a low - 0' speed, .9 MIMES ARTIFICIAL CLOUDS. French layentor's Process for Pro- tecting Vineyards. A French process for producing artificial clouds for tho protection el vineyards from the sun has just been invented, It consists of filling small wooden boxes, open at the top, with an in- flammeble composition reduced to a fine powder and pressed into a cons - pace mass. When this composition, which consists of equal parts of re- sinous and earthly matter, is set alight a dense cloud of smoke is produced, hanging ever the vine- yard long ;enough to protect the plants from the April sun rays, and give them a chain to recuperate from the dangerous effects of the frost. The iris/otter, M. Lostont, niBor. doaux, claims that by this method fifty wee may bo protected at a 'est of about 52, GENERAL INFORMATION, Interesting Bits Of linowled About 'Most Everything. The father of seven or more obi &en is practically exempt from ta ation in France. No member of the British Royal 1 - go EACH STItE,ET 011 THE GAY x. CITY HAS ITS 'TRAGEDY, PARIS CITY OF SORROWS Family in the direct line con lega ly marry without the consent of 1.1 Cre wn. Germany's colonies are five Um as big as herself, those of Iran eighteen times, and Britain's nin ty-seven times bigger than bersel Tho United States army is th smallest in proportion to the si of the country. It works out et on man to every twenty square mile The largest, bed of salt in th 'World. is said to have been discove ed at Fort McMurray, Manitoba. is 200 feet deep, and extends lo 300 miles. The largest cabbage farm in 41 world is near Chicago, It is 1 acres in extent, and yields near! one and a quarter million cabba.g each crop. A ten -year-old girl named Minn Weisbein has astonished the 'Unite Statist; immigration authorities b her ability to speak and read Ru lo The French Capital Possesses Mena+ odes Unequalled by Any es Other Cite. ce e- With true Gallic; irony, Paris ie 1. called the city of pleeSure. Rather, call it a city of sorrow. Siege, civ - z0 il war, enemies without, and rebels e within, have consecrated it with s. many solemn memories, Each street e has its tragedy, romance is written r- across every lace, and the result is 14 a fascination not possessed by any r ether city in the world. There ris- er from these toiling strets not only le the cries of the market, but thebum N a countless forgotten generations. y es The City of the smoky fray; A prodded ox, it drags and moans ; d its Morrow no man's child. Its Day 1' A vulture's morsel beaked to s- sia,n Polish, French, German, Ital an, 'Spanish and English. The Rev. Angus Bethune, vice of Seaham, England, who has ju attained the age of ninety-seven, believed to be the oldest elergyma in England atilt fulfiilling active du ties, He was ordained in 1841 an has held his present charge sine 1839. The normal number of telegram sent daily through the London Ce- tral Office, which is the largest i the world, is about 100,000. Aber. 600,000 words are sent every nigh in the form of Press telegrams whe Parliament is sitting. It is estimated that New Zealan has an available coal supply of 1, 200,000,000 tons, of which not mor than 20,000,000 tons have bee touched. This was the first of th British Colonies to try the expert went of State ownership of collier property. A Swiss couple have recent]. married after a courtship of forty five years. They became engaged in their teens, but the young man vowed to make e50,000 before ask Pti nienligs ssrttea.h111 Lucas, England, who ha young lady to marry him While he was making this pile in America nearly 3,000 love letter George Ashworth, of Raw just completed his eighty -6.2d' year, has worked continuously fax Messrs. Hardman Brothers at New- hallhey Woollen Mills, Rawtenstall, for a period of seventy-five years, and is still in the same employment. He is now engaged as foreman ful- ling miller at these mills. In India, with its teeming and poverty-stricken myriads, parents often find it no easy task to marry eft their daughters, for a wife has to be bought by the suitor. Widows are cheep; and when a father finds his daughter getting on in years, he makes a wislosv of her by the simple process of marrying her to a bunch of flowers 1 When the flow- ers are dead, she is technically a widow, and can be offered at a bar- gain price, A novel surgical operation has just ben performed on a leopard in Paris. The animal recently, while eating his dinner, also bit his tail; gangrene set in, and it became nec- essary to amputate a portion of the tail to save his life. This leopard was lassooed, thrown 'on his back, a piece of soft wood was given him to gnaw, and while held by ten men the veterinary proceeded with the removal of a portion of the tail and cauterized the wound. The animal roared considerably, but the opera- tion was declared successful. Under a new Norwegian railway regulation, when husband and wife are travelling together the wife need only pay half-price. The idea may simply be to encourage family life, on the theory that a, Norwegi- an who normally leaves his wife at home will be tempted to take her along at reduced rates. It will, ef course, be necessary, when takine o husband -and -wife ticket, to 11.3 play one's marriage certificate and make an affidavit that the lady is one's ?wife, in order to prevent; col- lusion at the ticket office betwec perfect strangers. bones. is The "Maamhe des Oiseaux," which ✓ attracts the curious on Sunday from et dawn to sunset, occupies the 15 leIarche de la Cite and the Quai des n Elmira, running along the north bank of the Ile de la Cite from the e Pont Notre Dame to the Pont au o Change. This little island contains Notre Dame, the Hotel Dieu and s the Palais de Justice, with the Sainte Chapelle, It is not only the in centre of Pari, it is the birth -place of a city which for centuries has • been the pivot of the world. And O then there is the weekly flower mar- ket held at the Madeleine on the d_ Rue Royale. e FIOWERS FOR QUEEN. s Many legends are told of this s_ quaint anerhaunted quarter. When Marie Antoinette awaited the seal- .' • fold in the wretched dungeon, , which until quite recently was a 4 chapel of expiation, it was to the Marche de la Cite that the conci- erge of the jail came day by day. Her name, Madame Richard, - de- serves to live in our memory. Her • merciful errand was the purchase ef flowers, which she gave to the s dethroned Queen. Roses, lilies and _ violets cast a fragrance over the last days of the most miserable of si women. Had Louis XVII. the slight- . 1' THE DO -IT -LATER LAND. Have you ever bought a handful Of the well -I -meant -to sand, That is used to build the castles In the do -it -later land ? It's a very pleasant country, And it's not so far away For you eon go and back again Quito fifty times a day. There the sun is always shining, All the work yoe have to do Is to beild youreell a castle; 14 5001118 very easy, fem. Jest you say, do it later," .And your castle is begun ; But the strangest thing about it Is, no caetle's over done, Though someone is always building Working hard with 'night and znain, Tot no miner is one started Than it; tembles down again. After all, it's not an funny, Did you ever see a lend That was all made up of castles Built of well -I -meant -to sand? Even *Mee who marry for love alone do not object to a little money on the tide. . est imagination, Madame Richard would have received a coronet when the Bourbon lily took its place again on the white flag of France. SAID COWS KNELT. Many of the stories have an ele- ment of grim fantasy. Between the Market and the metropolitan ca- thedral used to stand the church of the Parisian butchers. This is the reason why it received such patron- age. One clay, in the early Renaes- sance, a student who had been driv- en mad by his classical studios iushecl up to the altar and pro- claimed the worship of Jupiter. Ho was speedily tried and executed, af- ter -which a religious procession went through the street leading to the church praying that the blas- phemy might be forgiven. The priests passed two cows driven to tho slaughter house. As the host was raised the animals knelt in ad- oration. The miracle gave the church the distinctive name, St. Pierre aux Boeuffs. TAKING NO RISKS. He walked into the dreg store with a hesitating stop, and glancec:Nee. nervously at the rows of imesee • with a scared look in his pale bluee. eees. After fidgeting about um? certainly for some time he at lase' tee caught the eye of the assistant, and Lackeying mysteriously, led the way to a secluded corner, whore the e-oung man was surprised by finding o Lembling forefinger hooked tena- ciously into one of his buttonholes, and an eager face thrust suddenly almost against his. "'What's the matter 1" he. asked. "I suppose you can lay your hand right on the morphine bottle, ean't you?" said the etraeger, in an anxi- ous whisper. "Yee, sir, Certainly," replied the astonished assistant. "An' if you was pushed you could find the strychnine in a minute or two 1" "Of course." "And the arsenic hasn't got lost 1 or mislaid clear beyond findin' ±1 you just had to, bas Her "Assuredly not." • • "An' the sugar -of -lead bottle. • couldn't get awes) from you if it tried 1" "No. indeed," 'An' chain' the vitro] to its lair would bo just piny fur you?" "My dear sir, of couree I am las roiliar with all the drugs here." 'But s'pnsin' some, of the other follows had been changin' thortN, about, just as a joke, you know? "What do you n101011" • "Suppose the bettieshad got mixed .11 "Impossible. Resides, everything is plainly labelled." ''An' there ain't no chemise of peer nahnin' off prussic acid for peppermint 1" 'Net the slighteet.' "'Well, I've -half -a -notion - 40 Yes, you nin,v give Me two mimes of peppermint.," • • •