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The Brussels Post, 1908-12-3, Page 3SENSE OF BESPOSIBILITY The Source of Restfulness Is Within -- Christ as the Cure. Ob that I had wings like a dove, for then would I fly away and be at rest, --Psalms iv. 0. The writer of the text was a poet, and we know the poet to be given to swift changes of mood, flaslmee of alternating pessimism and optim- ist, To -day thrills with the joy of living; to-morrowy ho would es- cape from the burden of life. While the feeling that inspired the words of the text is peculiar to the poet, I think upon occasion it comes to every ono, All of us at some time have felt the longing t� escape; to fiy away and bo at rest. 1 think it is natural, when day af- ter day, year after year, wvo rise we could only exclmango places with to the same task, must take up the spine one wo think vary fortunate same round of drudgery, that there and happy wo would no longer have sooner or later comes a feeling of cause for unrest, But the change, rebellion, when the. spirit will crav� We must expect the hour of de- pressing mood, when wo will long to escape from the monotony, the care, the task. But .how often wo are disappoint- ed when circumstances permit of our trying to escape to fly away. The care and harden and sense of responsibility go with us. We caba- ret get away from ourselves. And south of Franco since the sixteenth often the source of dissatisfaction century, is in our souls rather than the sir- Turnips and radishes came ori- cunistances of our work or lives, It ginally from central Europe. The is chango in ourselves that is need- beetroot and the beet, which have ed rather than change in our work Teen greatly improved by eultiva- and environment, We think that Lion, are considered as the name if we could only get into now scenes species by botanists. The beet, we would find rest and peace. If only the stalk of which is eaten, grows w;lcl in 'the Mediterranean, Persia and Babylonia. Garlic, onions, shalots and leeks have long boon cultivated in almost insistently for some chango, soma the new scenes, e, better knowledge all countries, and their origin is of the envied one, only convince as of the groundlessness of our griev- ance ; that the trouble is only with ourselves and not with our work and environment. I think there is but one suro an- swer to this longing and unrest and that answer is enlist, When we have come really to know Christ, r e will have come into a spirit that will make such radical changes in cur way of thinlung of our work, ed f,•ozn the endive, which is found our life, our responsibility, that wee wild intemperate and southern Eu - will come into that "rest" which rope, in the Canaries, Algeria, Ho along can offer. If we have Abyssinia and temperate western come to Him we will find our yoke Asia ORIGIN Olt VEGETABLES. moat hotels the meals are settled for at once, not put down in the Where 11any of Those In Daily Us. hotel bill, If put down in the ago Were First Grown. The potato, whioh was already cultivated in America when the con - bill you may give your favorite waiter 50 pfennigs. The chambermaid who looked af- t]nent was discovered, is spontane- ter your bedroom may have 60 nus in Chile. It was introduced to pfennigs Loo. Then there is the Europe in 1580 and 1586 by the boots who has fetched down your Spaniards and almost at the same luggage and is standing at the Bute by the English, who brought drosehke door. He gets 50 pfennigs. it from 'Virginia, where it had ap- peared about 1650. A WIFE'S OBEDIENCE. The sweet potato and the jam - saint artichoke aro also supposed French Proposed to Reprove Mar - L corno from America. ria;;e Ceremeney Pledge. Salsify is found in a wild state A rivate bill has boon introduc. in Greece, Dalmatia, Italy and Al- 1? goria. According to Oliver de Ser- ed into the Freed' Chamber of De - res, it has boon cultivated in the puties to abolish Article 213 of the French civil code, which reads :— "The husband must protect his wife and the wife must obey her hus- band," At all marriages in France the Mayor reads out this article to the couples about to be married. Tho promoters of the hill assert that this "old-fashioned and out- nf-date article constitutes a real in- justice to women" and is "a bar- baric conception which does not coincide with the present equality of the sexes." Tho promoters are married mon, Deputies who are prepared to op- pose the bill point out that, in France at all events, the families in which the wife is really—by her secret influence—the head of the family, constitute at least half the married population of the land, The proposal to suppress the phrase as to the wife's obedience to her husband is not new, for as far back as 1848 a French Femin- ist Club presented a petition to the Revolutionary Government, then sitting at the Paris City Hall, de- manding that the article in the code, should be abolished. M. Paul Her - easy, our burden light. Wild succory is spontaneous vion, the distinguished member of to many an unappreciatdd effort. _ • Rev. Guy Arthur Jamieson. throughout Europe, even in Swed -'the French Academy, wanted re- m, in Asia Minor, Persia, the Cau- cantly to change Article 212: "Mar - mans, Afghanistan and Siberia. rind couples owe to each other mu - ;Cultivated succory is probably a tual fidelity, succor, and assist - form of endive which is thought to ante." T.Z. Hervieu wished to add have had its origin in India. ' the word "love," but his proposal Corn salad is found wild through- was much ridiculed. cut Europe, Asia Minor and -Ja- M, Camille Pelletan, the ex-Min- pttn, ister, says it is all a question of Cabbage, like all vegetables which character. If the husband is a man have been cultivated from remote of strong character, the wife will tithes, is believed to be of European always be prepared to follow him, origin, but if the woman is the stronger, Time artichoke is the cultivated 1 even the most blatant husband is furan of the wild cartoon, indigen- but the reflection of his wife, sus to Madoria, the Canaries, i:bo- race°, the south of France, Spain, SENTENOE SERMONS. Italy and the Mediterranean Is- lands. Fractions always ignore the facts. Asparagus had its origin in Eu- You can hire hands, but not rope and temperate western Asia. hearts. The origin of the egg plant is In- He cannot conquer sin who will die, that of the broad bean is un- not confess it. known, as also of the lentil, the Eenor soon perishes where men Pea, checkpea and haricot, The struggle for honors. last named appears to have come When love works it wastes no originally from America. time watching the cloak. The carrot grows spontaneous The loftiest worship is often seen throughout Europe, Asia Minor, in the lowliest work. Siberia, northern China, Abyssin- You can give nothing to men un - ix, northern Africa, Maderia and til you give them yourself. the Canary Islands. Charity requires no other letter Chervil comes from temperate of introduction than a real need. western Asia, parsley from the ,Always it is better to get a man south of Europe and Algeria, sorrel to thinking than to give him escape, some rest. The wish is one impossible of ful- filment in flight. If we are to ad- vance in life, if we are to develop in the higher sphere of living, we will find that what we call burdens and responsibilities will increase. The circle of activities, whatever it may be, will widen, will make more demands; our influence will be more potent, our life fuller and if we are to be bravo and faithful we cannot hope to escape burdens and responsibilities. We will have to make up our minds to many color- less. days, to many a thankless task, very uncertain. That of the scal- lion is better known. It grows spontaneously in Siberia. One finds chives in u wild state throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The radish, greatly modified by cultivation, probably had its ori- gin in the teh,perato zone, but from ,what wild species it is derived is not exactly known. The lettuce appears to be deriv- A11 EMPEROR PENGUIN. Remarkable Strength of the Great BIrd. Mr. W. G. Burn 14furdock gives in his book entitled "From Edin- burgh to the Antarctic," an inter- esting account of the capturing of an emperor -penguin. That great bird of the cold regions showed its royal blood in its quiet but firm re- sistance to deposition. The descrip- tion make's one feel that man is too petty and trilling a being to inter- fere with the monarchy of nature, or to overthrow the throne and blot out the reign of such a sovereign. I s -as on deck enjoying the quiet and beauty of the white night when I saw -' an emperor -penguin on a piece of snow not two hundred yards from the ship. Anxious to make a drawing of the bird, I went aft and let the mate know. He ordered out a boat. The penguin was standing on a round piece of ice about fifty yards in diameter. We rowed up to a sort of hummock on one side, put two men behind the hummock, and then rowed round to -the ether side, where three of us landed. Then all five, advancing, closed in 'on the penguin. ' Ho got on the mound of snow as we approached, but only looked alightly anxious as we drew near. Then, thinking his position was dangerous, he tried to get away. He slid down the snow on his breast, and paddled away with his flippers and feet. One of the party made a success- ful rush over the hard piece of snow, and fall on the bird, and embraced it. The penguin looked quite shock- ed, and threw him off with a hitch of the shoulders. Then it got. up, stood on its feet and looked at us. When we got near it again, five of us made a rush at it. The boat- swain got in first, and scragged it with both hands round its nock. The two rolled over together on the snow. The penguin got its neck free, and began to peck with its beak at the boatswain's head, but missed its aim, fortunately for hien. Its strength astonished us. One man held its neck, two got hold of its flippers, and two more held its legs. Using all their strength, the men could hardly keep hold. The bird slid not seem the least flurried nor put out; merely moved its flippers slowly, and drew up and extended its short legs, but that Pearly twisted our arms off. It was too difficult a task to carry the penguin to the boat,, so we strapped it round the middle, with its flippers bound to its sides. Wo used this boatswain's belt, which was to broad affair with a big brass buckle and we hauled it until the penguin collapsed like a Gladstone ba , With another belt wo tied the los stood the bird up,and drew a sigh sf h of relief. Solid the penguin—a long breath from the bottom of his chest, The hankie burst, and the bird began to, hobble away on its still tied logs. It actually hobbled with dignity, Then wvo all sat on it again without ceremony, for we were ang- ry, 'and ng-ry,'and the penguin remained calm- ly dignified. We fastened hint with a whole lino from bill to toes, :like a rail of beef, and carried him. to the boat. 'He freed one flipper, just to show what he could do, :but made no other effort to asoapo. On clerk the penguin preserved r, sphinx -like dignity under very novel and trying conditions, All the crew stood about and marveled at him, but he took no notice of them, Fanny, the ship's dog, tried to play with him, and danced about him. no first the penguin paid no attention; then the hard beak came out with a flash. Off went Fanny, in no end of a hurry, and never came near again. X MARRIAGE MARKETS. Curious Custom Whieh Prevails in Sonic Countries, In several of the more remote Swiss Cantons there is held what is known as the Feast of the Gar- lands. The marriageable maidens assemble at sunset, siug, dance, and make merry, Each wears a chaplet of flowers on her forehead, and car- ries a nos&gay, ;tied with brighj:' colored ribbon, in her hands. 11 a lad is attracted by a maid he plucks a flower from her bunch. She pre- tends not to notice, but, when the merry -making breaks up at dawn, she will, if she reciprocates his feel- ings, do the entire bouquet by the ribbon to the handle of the door of the cabin wherein he resides, or, alternatively, fling it through the open easement of the bad -chamber. The famous Tunis marriage mart, of which so much has been written, is held twice a year, in the spring and the autumn. The Tunisian girls attend in their hundreds, each with her dowry, in coin and jewelry, disposed about her person. The golden girdle of maiconhood" in - circles her waist, and in it is an unsheathed dagger. When this is gently removed by a passing gal- lant, and presently returned, it means that a proposal has been made. A prettier custom prevails amongst the Ooraon maidens, who of the strangest phenomena of at stated intervals, assemble in the tipping Onee in Gorman ist that it is com- amarket -place. In front of each is I1 g y a lighted Imp, emblem of conjugal mon on Bertin street cars. The fare fidelity, A young man feels ate is almost invariably two cents (10 traded? Ho gently blows upon the pfennigs), AS a matter of custom flame, extinguishing it. The girl re- one person out of every three gives Iights it; it is a rejection. If she the conductor a cent (s pfennigs) leaves it alone, the implied offer is for himself, and nearly every well acceptable. dressed woman travelling alone Even in England these curious does. The reason may be that street markets are not unknown, although ear riding is regarded as remark - they are not openly acknowledged ably cheap, though another explana- as such. One has been held on St. tion offered is the desire to have Martha's Hill, Surrey, on each ire- the conduotor on your side in case curring Good Friday, during some of a :tract car row, centuries. And the statute and The ono thing to remember gen- mop fairs that are stili celebrated orally is that everyone in Germany in various rural localities are mar- dependent on the tourist industry riage marts in all but name. expects a tip, however small, and that where eating and drinking in hotels and restaurants are concern - FOOD NOTIONS. ed 10 per cent., on the amount of ;The Hollander eats decayed the bill is a golden rule. shark, but turns with disgust from . Take the ordinary wall -to -de tray - broad and butter, eller ata first-class hotel in any Tho Chinese are fond o f. stewed largo German town—Berlin, Dres- clog, but consider beef un healthy, den, Frankfort, Leipsic, Nurnberg, Tho Turk deems dried rasshop- 'Cologne. You are alone and stay pars a delicacy, but ad (water fills three days, taking your breakfast him with abhorrence. in the hotel and other meals out. The English eat periw•nkles, a On leaving give the hall porter hind bf sea snail, but ' :ill have who has looked after your letters sono of the French eseh got — a end with whom, you have probably land snail fattened on viae loaves discussed. the sights, the weather, amid strawberries. the town's amusements and the po- Tho West Indian native adores a litioal situation, two marks, or say tipper of baked snake and palm- half. a dollar ; if only a day or two worms fried in their own fat, bila in the hotel, ono mark. The head be very thought of stewed rabbit waiters who has taken your bill to makes him shudder, be paid or oleo is hovering in the The African bushman eats cater- offing while you.are paying it et Elie illars, but scorns l'mbeegor eaihior's desk, should have ono Mese. mark, !Cho under waiters you will from Europe and Northern Asia, thoughts. the mountains of India and North Many a word in our language is America.. Spinach is supposed to empty until sorrow gives it a new some from northern Asia. content. For some twenty years past the The secret of concentration is sim- erosnos has been used. This little ply concentration on some high tubercle with fine savory flesh, g which has long ben enitivated in service. China and Japan, is probably in - will analysis of the water of life cligenaus to eastern Asia, will do little to relieve this thirsty The tomato comes from Peru, the world, caotumber from India and the pump- Debating doctrine is an oId dolga kin from Guinea, of the devil to avoid the doing of F some duty, Whatover strengthens class feel - TIP SYSTEM IN GERMANY. ing lengthens the day of waiting for the kingdom. Condi:dors in Berlin Street Cars He who limits his knowledge by Benefit by Tips. his understanding dins of experi- mental ignorance. You cannot make a text of scrip- ture bore any deeper by twisting it like a corkscrew. The more a mean vociferates against vice the less likely he is to put virtue into .action. What you will make of a boy de- pends on the promise you can see in his propensities. Some men seam to think God's (sleeks would all stop if they should forget to wind them up, Indicting men of total depravity is a poor way of inspiring them to the divine character. When'a man gots to bragging of his smart tricks he has one foot al- ready in the devil's traps. Some folks never get any dreams of heaven except when they go to hear a sleepy preacher. It usually is the man who cannot find God in nature who tries to tell us all about the nature of God, Folks who aro doing an angel's business never need to worry as to whether they have an angel's beauty, • s t p n g 0 n g i 'will r u n 0 a i Savages oat all eggs, }wring have, already tipped twenty pfennigs none. They oaL lizat•ds' ongeal- a Lime when you were paying Inc ligators'eggs, turtles eggs, ants'the drinks they brought, or 10 per eggs, snnkcs' eggs. But the sae- ages consider crab moat nztboly cont,, on your bill when you are settling for a meal in the hotel. Iu other t e most," lives hero," GENEROSITY, The only time some people never seems to scrimp is when they give you a pock of trouble. The total annual circulation of the world's newspapers is estiniat- ect at 10,000,000,000 copies. m 1l onois etre advantage in arctic exploring. In the face of time gravest Bangor one can always keep cool, TABLEAUX AS ARGUMENT WHEAT THE A:1'STRALI.t 1 Sl'F- ERAGE'tPES ARE DOING. Interesting Exhibit of Living Pic- tures of ,Work of Women Given at :}lelbourne. Living pictures of the work of women in the home, the workshop, and the State were given as an ar- gument for votes for women at an entertainment in Melbourne. The large audience, including male sup- porters, varied the evening's pro- gramme with suffrage songs. Vice- tarian women are nut enfranchised for the State electiuns, although they have a vote fur the Federal elections. Miss Vida Goldstein, the princi- pal speaker, explained that the suf- frage tableaux display was the first entertainment of its kind ever given in the world. It was the idea of Victorian women because they were tired of making ordinary speeches and wanted to see if living pie tures would not be a more effective ar- gument. It was a new form of pestering the public," as the Primo Minister of England would say. • SHOWED WORK OF WOMEN. The first tableau showed the work of women in an age before machin- ery, when weaving, lace -making, delivering milk, and so forth were nil in the hands of women. These occupations had now been taken away from women, and that, said the speaker, was one of the rea- sons why they had to go out into the world to earn their own living. Another tableau showed first, the interior of a court of justice, with a woman in the dock, tried by men judges and jurors and counsel; and then the same interior with a man in the dock tried by women judges and jurors and counsel. The injus- tice of the seeond picture appealed to all, but to the converted in the meeting its reverse was as unjust. WOMEN JURORS. Miss Goldstein explained that in Chicago there were men and woman juries for cases specially affecting women. At present a married wo- man in Victoria has no legal right to her own child. The present Minister of Lands (Mr. Mackay) had stated the case thus : The father has absolute control over his child, and can take it away from the mo- ther by force if necessary ; and even at his death ho can will the cus- tody of the child to a third person, and that decision can only be up- set under certain conditions in the Supreme Court. Another tableau showed the num- her of women earning their own living in Victoria, industrially, pro- fessionally, and domestically. Near- ly one-third of the women of Vic- toria are doing so, 145,000 in all. -'tr THE ROAD TO WEALTIT. It is the First Thousand Dollars That Counts. "The thing that counts," said a man of independently largo means accumulated by hard work, saving and wise investments, "is the first thousand dollars; when you've got that amount together you are be- ginning to get somewhere, and with that start you will want to keep on. The red ink interest entries that you see put down in your savings bank book twice a year will strike you very pleasantly indeed. As in- terest on your thousand dollars you'll get thirty or forty dollars in a year; your money has begun Darning money for you. "You've got an income now, and you'll want to acid to it. You will. leave that interest in the bank to be added to your principal, and now your interest will begin to draw in- terest, and to be sure you will keep right on adding to your principal too, and every six menthe you'll see those red figures growing bigger and bigger, pretty figures to con- template and you'll keep right along saving. But the thing that really counts is the first thousand dollars. Get that and you're all right. And you'll always be glad you saved it, "For there really is nothing like financial independence, or like hav- ing at least some money laid by, Then if you want money you've got it. You don't have to go to friends to borrow and take the risk of be- ing refused, the risk of being corn - polled to go without what you need. If you've got money in the bank yqu can go there and get it. There might Dome a time when you would need money foryourfamily of for yourself very much ; it's a grand thing to have it where you can get ib, "There's nothing mean about be- ing saving and acemnulatingmoney; en the contrary it is every man's duty to make himself financially in- dependent. 1 don't mean at all that a mat, wants to Rot out to ae cumulate a great wealth ; there's no groat fun in that; but what he dens want to de is to get together enough - to live on modestly." "Vie says that Frank and Latta Visitor—"Toll the Mester of the have made it up again, Why was house that a friend has called to Lite ongagenient broken off 2 They see hire.' Maid—"You must be of had; a. uarrol as, to which loved the the wrong house, A lax-eellrcter THE S. S. LESSON IN'TERNAT'IONAL LESSON, DEC, Q. Lesson X. Solomon Chooses Ville dom. Guider 'Text, Prov. 9. 10. Verse 4. Gibeon--Identified by scholars with the modern village of el -Jib, which lies live or six miles nurthwest of Jerusalem. In ear- lier times it was one of the princi- pal Hivite cities, and one of e group which through deception had effected a league with Joshua (Josh. 9. 3-1.7), thereby escaping the fate of Ai and Jericho. It was after- ward allotted to Benjamin and made a Levitical town. For a time the tabernacle had rested here, and from Jer, 41. 16, it seems that af- ter the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar Gibeon again be- came the seat of the government. The great high place --One of the principal centres of worship for the ten tribes. Only gradually was the worship of Israel centralized at Jerusalem. Burnt offerings ---The burnt offer- ing was one in.,.wvhich the entire vic- tim consumed upon the altar. It symbolized the entire surrender to God of the individual or the con- gregation, for whom it was offered, The animals prescribed for this sacrifice were ayoung bullock, a LEGENDS tl "FOG SHOTS" illYSTJ,fjOUS SOUNDS HEARD AT SEA, Noise Like h gnat Shots Deceive Life -Savors on the English Const. At twilight :wine time ago,- at a life-saving station of the Iinglish coast, noises were heard Chat sounded like signal shots from some distance at sea, A boat was launched and sped with all possible energy to the place from which the „cunds seemed to have come, but it returned without having heard or seen anything further. Yet the seaman who had been left behind on guard declared solemnly that in the meantime he had heard near shore unmistakable cries for help from drowning persons. The blue- jackets themselves are most inclin- ed to regard the whole matter as supernatural and the voices as spectral, Scientists say that it is possible, however, that such sounds may be audible in remarkable dis- tinctness whore there is a high coast, though they may come from a great distance, especially when persons there are placed accident- ally so that behind them rises a wall which receives the sound and throws it back. LEGENDS OF "FOG SHOTS." lamb, or goat (always a male), or On some coasts that are often in cases of poverty, turtle doves visited by fogs a legend of so -call or young pigeons (Lev. 1. 3, 10, en fog -shots" has acquired vogue. 14). The ritual of this sacrifice is These are said to have their origin, described in part in Lev. 1. 14-17, for some reason not yet fathomed, 7. 8. within the masses of fog. Aeou- 0. As he walked before tires intistie phenomena are found of suck truth, and in righteousness—Solo- a strange kind that the investiga- mon did not fail to trace the pros - most of them may be said to be still perity of his father, David, to the very far from conclusive. The most inexplicable secret lies per - fact that the latter had been a faithful servant of Jehovah. A son to sit on his throne—The perpetuation of the Davidie dynas- ty was accounted the greatest of all blessings. 7. But a little child—Young and shiphas been wrecked because its inexperienced in statecraft, Solo- sigals of distress, loud and unin- terrupted, have remained inaudible although only a very short distance from the coast. NOT HEARD NEAR AT HAND. haps not in the occurrence of sounds, the origin of which may be reached only with great difficulty, but in their disappearance, and in absolute silence when audible nois- e€ should be expected. Many a mon appeared to himself as a mere child in view of the varied great responsibilities which his new posi- tion as a ruler placed upon him. Go out or come in—The Hebrew way of referring to the general comportment or behavior of a per- son. B. A great people that cannot be numbered—No accurate or reliable Dut again it happens that in such an instance the vary same signals become audible at a far greater distance, where they provoke great excitement. A remarkable exam - census of the Jewish nation at this pie of this was produced by the fir - time is available. Solomon's state- ing of guns by the English fleet in ment, however, was that of an in- the roadstead at Spitheed on Feb.experienced ruler who would, na- 1, 1901, as a token of mourning for turally exaggerate the extent of duties and cares which he had nut yet encountered. 9. Understanding — Hebrew, "Hearing." The sense of the clause is, "A readiness to hear complaints and wisdom to judge the people rightly." Great people—Literal, "heavy," referring, not to greatness in our sense, but to immensity involving a correspondingly heavy burden of responsibility. lo. The speech pleased the Lord —Tho element in Solomon's choice which makes it pleasing to God is his perception of the supreme im- portance of wisdom and discretion in government as 'contrasted with external greatness or military glory. In later years, however, the king lost his simplicity of purpose and purity of aspiration, becoming enamored with the glory of outward display. 12. An understanding heart—Per- haps better, "a discerning mind." 13. There shall not be—Hebrew, "There hath not been," as in the preceding verse. The sense of the clause thus becomes, "There has nob been any among the icings as prosperous as thou shalt be for all thy days." 14. Walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments — Compare the similar charge in 1 Kings 2. 2-4. As thy father did ---David's life with flowers. Twenty thousand had not been faultless, but the gen- people fill the streets, and stretch eral attitude of los heart and mind toward the commandments of Je- hovah had been right, and, on the whole, lie had sought conscienti- ously to obey the statutes and eor:t- mandnionts of his God. 15. Behold, it was a dream—The dream in this case, however, had the same influence over Solomon as an actual experience of the same import would have had. The ark of the covenant ----This had been brought by David to Jerusa- lem and had found a permanent resting place, on Mount Zion. Offered up burnt offerings -- As al. Gibeon, si, at Jerusalem, the king offers up sacrifices indicative of the c.uusecration of himself to ,thehigh office of ruler over the )er oPel -. • Peace offerings ---These differed from the burnt offerings in 1 hat only certain portions of the animal sacrificed were harried upon the al- tar. A portion of the meat was given to the officiating priest, while the other portion wvas retnrlled to Ow person bringing the offering, and was 111ed i,,w' him in the sacra berzl feast ml,ih usually 000010 1.a.nied the 4enlen s,, 711 Pon- 1 (11nn with t'm • peace offering here Queen Victoria, This was not heard et all by many persons close at band who were listening for it, while at places much farther away it was heard plainly. The direction of the wind failed to explain this aberration of the waves of sound. A STRANGE DANCE. The Queer Ceremony in a German - Town. A singular ceremony takes place at Whitsuntide in the Luxemburg town of Echternach, Germany, 11 consists of a procession to the tomb of Willibrod, one of the patron saints of the city, The Rev. T. H. Fassmore describes this curious and picturesque proceeding in his book, "Further Ardenne." In this old corner of Europe the idea of dancing to God's glory lives still. Religious dancing is as old as history, and was once common in the church. The Springprozes- sion of Echternach refreshes the philosopher because it trips right up from old times and certifies him that nothing is absurd which is Bono sincerely. A man may smile at such things; no gentleman can laugh at it. - It is lVhitsun Tuesday, at eight in the morning, a late day in spring, The town is gay with wreaths, flags and streamers, the windows aflame in a double row across the bridge, 1 sense of serious waiting fills the air. The procession starts, with its banners, tapers, and three hundred singers, azxi its clergy. All chant the Litany of Saint Willibraci, Suddenly an electric tremor thrills along the whole cortege of pilgrims, instruments all along the line take up the tune, and forty thousand feet, not all light, but all fantastic, are vibrant in the dance, It is asort of sobered polka, three steps forward and two bade. Youth and the old mat rejoice together, the sick and the hale, the bent do- tard side by side with the saucy schoulhuy. 'rhey dance for health, for the state of their parents and friends, and for the ills of their beasts. Some very old and infirm dance by deputy, and many an urchin dances lustily for several fm al}rls, 1'101.0 a young mother dances with her young child in her arms; here :in old man, whistling like a saw, forces' to 1110 'measure his ehniitnatie hones. The pageant tutees flue honors to travel three-quarters of a "ten all is done., the tired throng mon!iwmed 1110 lyingmade a:fens:: ir, ,,gen home, all his rye nlx. '• -�• ' ----- `"t rtlr}c7,mrR le Italy tztir o 'lx lnlh was wt ^ 1rn . r,i COU Mt mttuatior. to pigeon - 1.11, limo of ('acsar. training for mflil,ary pui'peisos.