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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-11-19, Page 6• • NOTES AND CONIMENTS miner flowerbring autumn ' • showere,1 is eetimated that one tore of meadow gram will give of 027 tow of water. An acre of wheat will evaporate 281 tons ot water. The hay(mop during the entire growing season evaporates an ninount of water equal to bee inches of rainfall. The water which is evaporated by, the loaves passes oat through the breathing pores which ate located on the under side of the loxes, The amount of water found in plants varies with different cases. One hundred pounds of green grass contains 60 to 80 poundof water, lettuee, cucumbers, cabbage, and onions contains 95 to 98 pounds. 4 4 During the growing season there is being given off from field and forest an endless supply of mois- ture to the thirsty air, While this is not enough to meet the total de- mands of rainfall, it contributes as it was a century ago, e.nd there materially to it. This contribution is DO prospect of its revelation. ?ieeotstlatumsseoforces aitie denyiticomtpre- of moisture is lost when the season of plant growth is past. At the ad- eeteeeeuee' butcloaciatenmoptstoh turn r vent of autumn the earth's surface, them to practical'uses. "The great - water supply is low, owing to the est of all mysteries," says Pascal, and tyou ieob it of its power to ab - water toot comfort and to sway the demands made upon lake and hich asktoa.to,sn asneity Itilistoss realmlose thtse We learn here, then, how irra- ae tional is that criticism which asks F RELIGION Shall We Doubt Because Mists Still Hang About the Future Rate of Being? The mysteries of God -I. iv. 1, Man is a rational being. He wish- es to understand himself and leis surroundings. He likes intelligent- ly to master his situation -4o be sure of his ground -to prove his steps. But; although he can know many things, he finds himself sur - Him to perfection shell we refuse to believe the comforting truth that God is love? Shall we refuse His offer to hear our prayers because cur poor finite minds do not £100 how He can answer them? Religion has to do with man's im- mortal being. Shall we here expect a revelation that our reason can al- reunded by the unknowable. The together measure? Religion tells us pia nest fads are fenced all about what out reason could never dis- hy this veil of mystery. He knows eover-that man ie immortal, that that lee lives, but he cannot tell los present is a sowing for eternity, wlieuce his life came. He knows and that the righteous shall shine that he can lift his baud, but can- as the stars forever. not tell how his will contracts the Very truly does Francis Bacon muscle necessary to the act. , say: "If we submit everything to The Bente mystery ehruuds the reason, our religion will have in it realm of science. Lord Kelvin, in speaking of electrieitei nothing, new, heavenly or divine.' "id: "Th5 A, religion without mysteries could secret is as sacredly guarded to -day give no food for our spiritual be- rme. Take away the deep, the bles- sed, the infinite aspects that robe with mystery THE TRUTHS OF RELIGION, The earth's autumn carpet of • leaves and dry withered vegetation also makes no small demands on the moisture. Hence but little. rainfall. Indian summer is distinguished from all other seasons of the year by the hazy atmosphere which char- acterizes it, a phenomenon which is largely due to forest fires. In early --times, aays John M. Bishop, for- est fires were of frequent occur- rence in the autumn, due to roving bands of Indians on the chase. Hence the name Indian summer. —wee -- Indian summer is born in the wind. When the trade winds dis- appear the Indian summer comes. When the sun passes the equator tc the south the trade winds set in to the southeast and in all particu- lars aro similar to the trade winds cf the northern hemisphere, 'When the sun is crossing the equator and the poles are equidistant from the belt in the sun's tract around the globe, it occurs that a rush of cold air to the equator comes from both the north and the south and on this account such great extremes of heat and cold occur at the equator as to set up the rare phenomena known as the equinoctial storms. When the sun is south of the equator the trade winds blow from the northeast toward the equator and when the sun is north the winds tion would be a single tax upon in - blow from the northeast toward the comes. A. distinctiou should be equatorial line, Indian summer made, however, according as the in - occurs after the sun has passed south of the equator and on tins account the trade winds during this season are blowing from the south- east toward the equatorial line. These winds must cross the Atlantic ocean and in doing so come to the coasts of South America heavily laden with moisture gathered from the high mountain ranges. As the sen progresses southward the trade winds continue to increase in ac- th ity. Increased quantities of moisture are deposited in the tro- pical belt and finally brought up to North America. Through the instrumentality of southern trade winds, whose inflnence is felt in the northern hemisphere in the way of moisture, rain falls and the Indian summer is erought to an eud, Of the great powers France has the =vilest population and the lergeet debt, The principal uf the debt is $5,65'6,000,000; the annual charge on account of it is aboub 000,000. Taxation, therefore, is a particularly important gnestion in France, and the subject of fiscal teform is disused in an interesting manner by A. E. Gauthier in a book that was published recently. He makes a mimparison which Ames regime lay in the clann of theacne ,toteilaige, absolutely unprecedented in aeemes ie my possessions a handker that there leis been a notable in- k - lilieiticoiceoy,tlIsitIttthe whole land chief with one of those fancy bor- crease of indirect over direct ta:ea- atid 'tht, vkeprodueo delis ; and do you know that the hon. According to the budget. of et the country were the property sight of it pleased me grea,tly. Per- , Hai, the revenne rennt indirect tax- not of the natives of the Congo, haps it was because it carried me talon would be 1,2e0 millien francs but ee himself and 01 these Here. Leek to days when I was younger, • as against 4i -es million in len. Durl roans with whom 110 WEL4 aesuciat- though I don't think it WAS that so • The next :flap was inevitable, and that, was to claim the labor of the people. This was putting back the which emerge from it for his well being and progress. Now, it is remarkable that many persons who think themselves ra- tional demand that there be no mysteries in religion. Unless they can comprehend all the doctrines in which its practical duties are sa, they will NOT HEED ITS MESSAGE. But is it not to be expected that, most of all, mystery should meet es when we come to religion, which relates to the deepest questions and the highest destinies of being 7 Religion treats of God. What theme could be more imaged about with mysteriesl Who can penetrate the secret chamber of the Almightye 'Who can set forth infinite perfec- tion 7 "Canst thou," says.the Book r f Job, "by searching find out God? ft is high as heaven, what comet thou dol Deeper than hell, what canst thou know?" But because we cannot comprehend the Being of be- ings, shall we turn a deaf ear to the revelation of Him which the Bible gives us? Because wo cannot know the clutreh to surrender her holy mysteries. And we note how false to their highest obligation are those ministers who discuss literary eco- nomic or social questions -which belong to another sphere -instead of setting forth the holy mysteries of revelation. "Let a man so account of us," says our text, "as of the ministers cif the mysteries of God." The true minister has nob lost faith in the divine mysteries; nor let any one think that our modern age has pass - ea beyond these. Were we to ex- change these exhaustless themes for the dry husks of ethics, instead of fil- ling, we would utterly empty our churches. Man has a Godward side; he thirsts for the eternal and the infin- ite. And it is in the proportion that religion keeps to her sphere of min- istering to his want with her unique divine and mysterious truths, that she will be a trusted and worthy guide to lead the soul to its ever- lasting home. Rev. James B. Rernensnyder. of that sort, and rather fiery, wee nothing len then pleasure to me. "I suppose that: rosily the only cerreet thing for a handkerchief bs ono all white, but, like so many other things ia life, they aro mo- notonous, True, as wo grow older we form fixed monotonous habits from wbiel»TO hate to depart. We come to a time when we don't like to be disturbed in our routine of life. We are best satisfied keeping along in our settled ways. But still we may have fancies, and it may he one of our comforting ha- bits, indeed, to cherish these fan - Mee. "And always liked the hand- kerchiefs with the colored borders, I like the colors. Staid as I are, there was a time whole I wore al- ways red neekties. Yes, sir, red neckties; though I now realize thee 1 was a creature or habit even then, foe I wore always neckties of the same sort without regard to what the idyl° might be. "It was a pleasure and a cone - fort to me to wear them. I worked hard and never lost sight; of the job, but I permitted myself this free- dom and luxury of wearing red neckties. In that I let myself breve my own way, and I think that was an actual help to me. "I don't know but what I should wear red neckties now if I didn't think they'd look sort of queer on a man of my years, We are so mindful of what other people would think, But still I like red ties, and I guess that when I get rich, when I can, without setting the world at defiance, indulge my harmless fancies more freely, I shall again wear them, though by that time -for juet now the riches don't seem to be coming very lad - 1 may have become so extremely se- date that red neckties will have coin° to seern to me a superfluity." ly unfair. He points out that in or- lure relatives, to chain them by the der to he successful it must be levi- neck and hold them at ransom as ed upon the necessities of life, and antees that rubber and ivory woulda.uabe brought. The effect of that 27 per cent of the burden falls this bad been to tura the whole upon the man with an thcome of less Congo Valley into an immense than 1,000 francs, whereas the man pawitebop, in which the pledges wete the defenceless men and the with an income ranging from 10,- belpless women and children of the 000 to 50,000 francs escapes with c ongo. considerably less than 1 per cent. The white mon were sending Be argues, therefore, that fiscal re- black men into the forests to chase form should look toward direct tax- the natives. Weapons of precision were placed in the hands of black °thin on the paying power of the in - nen of whom 33,000 were now per- dividual, and says. that ideal taxa- tambhlating the Congo territory, striking terror into the hearts of the people, capturing hostages aid iringing them in to the white men. MILLIONS KILLED. comes are derived from capital, and work, and from work alone. The tax should be progressive and should not touch amounts belo•w a certain minimum. M. Gauthier meets the objection that capital might be driven from the country by his system by saying that the general interests of the country would not suffer unless the capit- alists were driven out too. And he le convinced that as taxation in France stands there is groat need of modifications in the interest of justice, which can be attained only by the tax on paying capacity. LEOPOLD'S RULE IN CONGO MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS HAVE BEEN KILLED. Missionary Relates Almost Incred- ible Fads at a Meeting at Liverpool. An outspoken address on mierule in the Congo was delivered to the Student Missionary Conference at Liverpool recently by the Rev. John Hearin, of the Congo Reform Aesoniation, The bask iniquity of the Congo A BARONET IS MISSING HEIR TO GREAT ENGLISH ES- TATE IS 3LISSING. COMET COMING OUR WAY THE VISITOR WILL BE VISIBLE NEXT WINTER. May be in Canada at the Present Time - Can Trace Lineage to Conquest. . Where is Sir Geniis Cave- Browue-Cave, heir to one of the oldest baronetcies in England 7 That is what the Amerman authorities, at the request of the British Am- bassador, are endeavoring to find out. The missing baronet comes of a family which in the past boa con- tributed representatives to Army, Navy, and Church. Right back to the conquest do the Caves trace their lineage, Wyemarne de Cave having come over in the train of Norman William. ADVENTUROUS CAREER. Be did not intend to clwell on the atrocities, of which there were thousands, flogging being the least; but these men, armed with rifles and cartridges, were big, strong, brutal fellows, and they picked up a rabble as they went forward to their task. It was no exaggeration to say that during the last ten years there bad been done to death under King Leopold's regime on the Congo, directly and indirectly, at least three million human beings. "You will rise from the study of this question," concluded Mr. Har- ris, "as many times have done with the conviction that it is useless to carry the gospel through this and other parts of Africa if these things are allowed to be perpetu- ated, because you cannot limit their effect to the Congo Valley." —.- THE MIDDLE AGED MAN. Day of the Colored Bordered Hand- kerchiefs Recalled. "You know there was a time," said the middle aged tnan, "when it WM the fashion for men to carry handkerchiefs with fancy borders. Then it was also the fashion for men to carry their handkerchiefs tucked in the outside upper pocket of their coat, with a corner stick, ing out. "Web, the other day I came ing tem eame period the revenue fc UTI1 direst eaxation increased only from '279 million to 617'million francs The indireet taxes have • 1 much as became I have a liking for color. "Some of the colored handker- chiefs were gaudy and foolish, with borders damped in various blues and in grotesque patterns or fig- ures; lint then we had benclker- chiefs that had a narrow hemstiten• ed border of a single solid color, ea blue or rod; and I am free, to say liked those; and for that matter I. have had handkerchiefs with gone 111, almoet to three tames the Vtryx.kpeAelenitedmrett•YM'ae.ii-leteicesint'1.Ye" old figure.. direet taxes are about double what they WOPO. Congo territory they had two thou- eand white men engaged directly or • indirectly in enforcing Genie do - M. Gelithier says of the indirect mantis upon the inhabitante. texation that "it igneree Abuse whom it, sleek( s 0,11(1 is Pennine/ ig- A weapon was played in their downright fancy borders Hutt 1 lilt - n05011 by them." Ib is easy tee 58- lenole Icy the Se' ,'reign of the eon- 6;1; and finding that old handkor- Sea, hut be believe.; that it is a(). and the richt wait ;it en to t•ap- chief the other day, whish wee one ARMED THE SAVAGE, Danger of Collision With ;I -Kilter - Last Seen Seventy-feve roars Ago. After an absence of seventy-five years elalley's comet (so named af- ter the astrunouter who determined its orbit) is on a return trip, In November, 1908, it will be un- usually faint and will then probab- ly only be discovered with the aid of the camera. After October, 1909, the cornet will probably be visible to the un- aided. eye. Even now it is nearer to us than Saturn and is rushing 'forward at the rate of 520 miles a minute. After it passes Jupiter, the next planeb on its way, the speed will increase to 783 miles a nunute. It will then plunge through the zone of asteroids or tiny planets which wander between Jupiter and Mars. Woe to any small asteroid it may encounter on the way, but wore° still for the comet should it crash head on in its mad career into the giant plan- et Jupiter, the great disturber of cornets. THE ROBBER PLANET. It is a well known fact that the THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LEssox, NOV, 22. Lesson YJJf. Solomon Anointed King. Golden Text, Cbron, 28, 9, Verse 1, David 'Was about seventy years old at this time (compare '2 Sam. 5. 4; 1 Kings 2. 11). The phrase, strieken in years, would seem to indicate that the aged king was already confined to his room and possibly to his bed. 6. Adonijah-The oldest of Dav- id's living sons. MB mother's name was Haggith. (3: Displeoeiece-Reeaked. Tke pa- rental discipline in the royal house- buld had apparently been hO1110- what lax, Born after Absalom -And like his brother, a spoiled child. 7. Joab-David's nephew and trusted military commandor. Zee- tdah-D avid' R sister. Abinethar the priest -The eon of Ahimelech, who with all his family except Abiathar had been pub to death at the command of Saul for showing kindness to David (1 Sam, 21, 22). 8. Zaelok-A direct descendant of Eleazar, the son of Aaron: Benaiah-Commander of David's household troops (2 Sam, 8. 18), and giant planet has a way of annexing later the chief military commander comets and even tiny asteroids which may happen to drift Ins way iu a most unprincipled fashion. Su- spicions have been aroused concern- ing two new moons acquired of late years which doubtless were once members of the asteroid family. Ju- piter has been gravely accuser by some learned astronomers of exert- ing his mighty influence ou the help- less woricliets and adding them to his own family oirele. Not only that but he has reached out for passing commets, and captured no lass than thirty which are now re- cognized and spoken of as Jupiter's "family" of comets. It was, however, an alliance with trade that brought the family most of its wealth, one of the younger sons marrying the heiress of Sir John Browne, one of London's Lord Mayors. This branch of the family adopted the English name, and became Cave-Brownes, while when the elder line died out and the baronetcy passed to the younger branch another Cave and another hyphen were added, and the fam- ily became the Cave -Browne - Caves. e Sir Genille was only the second son, but his elder brother, who was twelve years his senior, died in 1880, when the missing heir was quite a boy. The latter was always et a roving, restless diepositien. He enlisted in the Dragoon Guards as a "ranker," and became riding - master, in which capacity he was with the second Nile expedition of 1885 and the Burmah expedition of 1887. He next entered the service of a New York firm of naturalists, and spent a dozen years in their service, hunting big game for them iu the far East. THE PACE THAT KILLS. After passing Jupiter, the astero- ids and Mars the comet will in- crease its speed to 1,284 miles a minute, dashing onward past our planet at the increased rate of 1,- 548 miles a minute, and rushing frantically around the sun as though to escape its intense heat at the rate of 1,878 miles a minute. By that time it will have reached the limit of the pace that kills'for an increase in speed of about 17 miles a minute would end dis- astrously The comet would be drawn along a path so changed in direction that we would never see iG again. On May end, 1010, or one clay be- fore the comet makes its nearest ap- proach to the sun, it, will pass Venus. On June i2th, 1910, the comet will pass Within five to ten million miles of the eal-th's orbit, and then gradually recede into space, after making its obeisance to its mighty ruder, the sun. As it recedes the comet's pace will decrease, as though worn out by the stupendous efforts already made. Passing by Neptune, its speed will have slowed down to sixty-five miles a minute, and by the time it has reached its greatest distance from the sun it will have declined to the rate of thirty-nine miles it minute. APPEARANCE AND POSITION. FOUGHT IN CHINA. When the Boxer rebellion broke out he made his way to China and won the D. S. O., and then meds his way to America, and the next that was heard of him he was a cowboy ie Arizona. Later he was discov- ered working on the pavements in Kansas City. Then he inherited 210,000, and was reported to have settled on a ranch with the idea of one day restoring the shattered fortunes of his house. But when his father, Sir Mylles, died in January lase, the wanderer could not be found, and though ef- forts have been made in all direct tions no trace of him has been ,dis- oovered. The seated) for Sir Genille arous- th.e greatest interest in the dis- tricts between Burton -on -Trent and Ashby de la, Zotich. Sir Mylies re- sided at Stretton hall until financial trouble arose. He sob on the Ash- by bench, and was noted for his se- verity to 'machete. For generations the family has produced talented wood earvers, and 507110 wonderful examples adorn Stratton Hall. PA WAS WILLING. His Daughter's want - want to ask you, sir, for your-er -er-claughter' i hand, sir, Her Vathor-I'm not disposing of her in sections, but I'm willing to listen to any propoeition involving alt Of her, air, fl MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS -BY MAIL ABO Ler MIN BULL AND DIS PEOPLE, Occurrenees In the Lend That Reigns Supreme in the Com- inert:lel World. In Leeds 30,000 people aro alleg- ed to he out of work, Under the provisions of the Brit - eh Old Age Pension Act paupers aro not to receive pensions. The natioual debt originated in the reign of William ILL, whose first r01/13 was obeained in 1694. A. "Coney Island," similar to the playground near Now York, is be- ing projected for Liverpool, A cheque for 95,000 was lately /mill:dad in the offertory at the Bromley, Kent, Parish church, Out of 300,000 volumes lent last year ley the Westminster public li- braries of London only five were lost, fast year 79,500 barrels of apples were imported direct, from the Unit- ed States and Canada to Manches- ter. ' The heavyweight championship of Sheffield baby show was won by an infant of 14 months, who weighed 34 pounds. During 1907 no fewer than 57,837 artiales were found in public car- riages in London. Of these 25,000 were umbrellas. A Sheffield woman named Mar- shall, while descending the stairs with her five -months -old baby, stumbled over a bootlace. The baby fell from her arms and was killed. Tho Preston Waterworks Commit- tee have decided to apply to the Local. Government; Board for sanc- tion to borrow $250,000 for the pur- pose of waterworks extension. 13y an overwhelming majority the ratepayers of Setle have rejected tho offer of Mr. A. Carnegie to con- tribute $5,000 for the purpose of erecting a public free library for the town. Five human skulls were found re- cently by men repairing the drains at 570 Commercial road, Stepney, an empty shop. Tho divisional sur- geon reports that the site was evi- dently an old burial place, Lord Itossbery enjoys the King's friendship, and it is an open secret that when his Majesty first came to the throne be consulted "Archi- bald," as ho always calls bim, en most matters of importance. Mr. Thomas Henry Baylis, K. 0., who was the oldest King's Counsel, died at Bournemouth on the 4th inst., in his 92nd year. He entered as a student at the Inner Temple in 1834, and was created a Queen's Counsel in June, 1875. The great vine at Hampton Court Palace, London, this year has a crop of about 250 bunches of grapes, each varying from one pound to three pounds in weight. The vine is 140 years old, and measures 54 inches round the girth a foot above the ground. Chilton Lodge estate, in Berks, formerly the seat of the late Sir William Pearce, has been purchased be the Hon. John and Mrs. Wiirci. There is a fine mansion in the Geor- gian style, which was once the home John Holwell, ono of the surviv- ors of the Black Hole oE Calcutta, who subsequently became the Gov- ernor of the Indian capital. PEARLS OF TRUTH. under Solomon. Nathan -The faithful prophet of Johovah and adviser of rho king. He had once severely rebuked Da- vid for a wrong he had committed. Concerning Shimoi and Rei no- thiug is known. 9. The stone of Zoheleth - A rock -hewn stair oa the side of the Mount of Olives, beside Enerogel, a spring identified by some with the Virgin's Pool just smith of the city at the junction of the ICidron and. Hinn°)lavtal-lsehYL 11. h --A t one 'Cline the wife of Uriah,the Hittite, and since her marriage to David, the favorite wife of the king. Her sun, Solomon, seems to have been of fin- er grain and better bred than some of his half-brothers. As the counselor of her son she demon- strated her sagacity and wisdom. 18. Adonijah reigneth-ls being proclaimed,and will be accepted unless David himself interferes. 27. Is this thing done by my lord the king -Nathan's ignorance con- cerning the true state of affairs is feigned for the purpose of arousing the king to a sense of his own re- sponsibility in the matter. 29. As Jehovah liveth-A solemn oath, indicating the importance which the king attaches to what he is about to say, For the form of the oath, compare 2 Sam, 4. 9. 32. And king David said - Once thoroughly aroused to the situa- tion, the aged king promptly gives minute and explicit directions for the immediate installation of his favorite son, Solomon, as his suc- cessor. Gillen -Apparently a sanctuary in or near Jerusalem. 34. Anoint him -This was the es- sential and decisive feature of the coronation ceremony. Its signifi- cance seems to have been that it symbolized the establishment of a relation between the king and Je- hovah, in virtue of -which bis per- son and royal office were consider- ed inviolable. 40. All the people came up after him -Solomon rather than Aden', jah :teems to have been the favorite of the people. Piped with pipes -The earliest Greek version of the Old Testament reads "danced in dances" which would semn to be preferable to the reading of our text. 41. Adonijah and all the guests - Nearing the end of their protrac- ted carousal at En-rogel, the usur- gor and 'his followers, including Joel), are suddenly made am eve of the fact of Solomon's anointing at the command of Davi& 41 to 49. Theee verges contain the record of the utter collapse of Adonijah's conepiracy. 50. The horns of the altar -The sanctuary because of its sacredness afforded at lease temporary pro- tection to anyone in clanger of his 111 e. 53. Go to thy liouse-A command to retire into private life. 2. 2. Be thou strong therefore. - The s.nunining verses of our lesson contain the last charge of the aged king to his son Solomon, odd a brief alention cl the death and burble of the king. 2: 3, Prosper -Or, "do wisely," 2. 5. Thou knowest alto what Josh did unto mc --A siiggestizm to Solomon that lie inflict upon Jcieeth the just, punishment for the wronge he had committed cluritig David's reign, but which the latter bur some reason had not himself coaed to avenge. In the tame way, Solomon in exhorted to show kindness unto. Barzillai the. Gileadite, bo wham David was indebted for protectiozi and assistance et the iiine of his flight before Absalom, a, 70, shpt with his fathers - en common Old Testament expreseion for the decease of es person. It is impossible to say anything regarding the position of the com- et in the sky as observable from the earth until certain computations have been made. A prize has been offered by the German Astronomi- cal Society, of 1,000 marks for the most exact calculation, and when it is made we shall know exactly where to look for the comet, As to the appearance of the com- et on its return, it; depends entirely upon its position with regard to the earth and stn. If the earth hap- pens to be near the comet about the time of its passage round the sum when the comet's light is neoceeav- ily greatest and the train most ex- tended, then weshall have a splen- did view of the glorions spectacle At its return in 1769 the comet bad a train fifty degrees in length, and was best seen in the southern he- misphere. That is, the train of the cornet extended to a distance equi- valent to a little more than half the way from the zenith to the ho- rizon. At its next return, in 1835, it was somewhat shorn of its splendor, for its train was but fifteen degrees in length. How the comb will look ore its next return it is impossible 10 conjoetare, but it is to be hoped that it will treat us to a display worthy of its former reputation, —s -- NOT AT ALL PLEASED. The teacher of a elass. in a cer- tain school had been carefully ex- plaining the parable of the prodigal son, and was now tasting their knowledge of it. All went well un- til elm came towards the close, when elm Linked "Now, toll me, who was not pleased to see the pro- digal son when he came home again 1" To her consternation, alie received the following reply from a youthful scholar ;,--"Ilease, TrIft'31/0, the fatted calf." fre. Benham- "leets the hotel you et,ipped neilletin -Very. ween't n, ilem( eel tim Idleness is the key of beggary, thTinaglent is one thing; tact is every - Silent men never have occasion to "eat their words." People are always asking for ad- vice but never taking it. There is always hope for a man until he loses his self-respect. The first stop towards knowledge is to learn one's ignorance. When a wise men sett; the warst of it, he makes the best of it, "Miseryloves company" - the kind thi at s long-eared and patient. "Man wants but little here be- low"--mstially is a little more than he gets. Mind your own business -and let other •p:.ople muddle theirs, i1 they wtt Many a man doesn't do 'anything worth while because he thinks it ien't worth while. ----ere-- HAILSTONES IN ENGLAND. Large stories are told of the damage done by hailstones in Min- neitota last month. However. cad England itself has some statistics to show in that line. On May 30, 1897, a terrible liailetorm visited Seaford, Sussex. Some of the 'bolts'e mastered (Sum' and a half inches in eiremnforence after lying on the ground for fully ROVOO inin- tam On ;rune 24, in the same year, the inost, disastrous visitation of the kind in modern times ravaged pored' if. Essex and the adjacent_counties., ALL ON Hiht, Towne -Yes, ho certainly is in bead luck. Browne -Well, he has only hien- sell to blame, 3'OW110--Of couree ; that's the hig- goat parr, of his hard luck. According to seiee (bits, docu- ment:15 wribton in the ordinary ink ot to-tetty will be illegible in sietie twenbeeeeenen yeara,