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The Brussels Post, 1909-2-18, Page 7?REYAbEM)E OF SACRIF] Must, Be Valithout a Blemish, and Et mist Be Holy, I beseech you, therefore, breth- ,cleerueel by 1fliin who gave Idle life -roe, by the. mercies of Gori, that as a sacrifice for sinners we should preseee your bodies a living present our bodies, a living sacri- sacrrfico, holy, acceptable, unto fiee, 'holy, acceptable unto God. steed, whielt is your reasonable ser- That is a reasonable service, What ;;. xit.—I$ont,' xir,, 1. does that mean'? It means that There is much •talk now -a days what God has given us we should ,of ,oamnable service,The regu- •give back to Rini senctifie, This lar chorelt service is otter) alispi8ec1 applies arise to our bol • '}' y, •tt rich anti anooringly refert•ec1 to as the edroulcl beta.living sacrifice, :mod unreasonable by man who St. Paul` writesto tl claire that "the great dome of na- , „ the oui'Coriu y tui'e" is a much more seedily piece ono t' "Knew ye not that your beery .for the adoration of the he temple .of the Roy G]�ust, which is in you, which yon haoo of God and ye are not', your•own. For ye are. bought with i price; rNheeafore glorify Clod in your aeon, from everything that, is au -body„ pern_etural and to denote ailtime HOW OFTEN DOFORGET. t o W]7 sad energy to the thiege that be. How careless do we often treat Ie, that raeioual4 St, Paul, ,our bodies and how ne gleetful are ;preaching to the Greeks et Athens, ' we sometimes say®,.likewise God that• made this es in rinoipl .even• to 'worlddwellcth not in temples gado the fundamental principles of hu- man hands, taeither is tror'shiped nran health! No wonder that the with man's hands, as though He seal is SOw weak while rtdwells tombb ne545d anything,"- But he has a body which is more like a than Lilco a living tenrple.t A sac•ri- A DIFFERENT IDEA fiee must be without blemish, a_id ,of what a reasonable servioe is; he if the presenting of our body shall :walls it:"'To present our bodies, a ,be acceptable unto the Lord, ib ;living saorifiee." The universal must be a living saoificn, And ib prevalence of sacrifice in ancient must be holy. While the heathen ,times shows hon deeply it was'ideal of 'the Greeks was beauty, rooted in humanity. Everywhere the Christian Meal.is . holiness. we encounter the idea thee God ,5'e shall be holy, for I am holy'" alien evenAlmighty t the most dign.ifrt:d church building, and that the only reasonable service is to cut loose from all creeds, from all revels- laar f r 'r a 1 ti to recrifr,rizo that great - ter prophet like unto Mosee wlront ikaod had raised up (compare verse 37), el, Ye stift'rtooked and orielrcum- cisett in Irctart grad ears—=The speak- er breaks abruptly his historical summary, and addresses himself directly to the nation's leaders, to whom he is speaking: His pas- sionate outburst of denunciation and the i:everity of his arraignment neer of the member's of the San- hedrin, before whom he was ar- raigned as an accused man, could ltevo but_ ono outooese, that of bringing upon himetelf the severer judgment prompted by the anger which the uutraaged pride 'and dig- nity of_ hie hearers dietated, 52. The, Righteous One --Refer- ring la Jesus as the Christ, 53, A young luau named Saul -- The first rneat}on of the £utaro apustlo to the Gentiles, 8, 1; And Seal coesentiog unto his death --This ;is an import- ant m ar ant point in the author's narrative, in view of the future part, that Saul is to play in the early Bevel= epment of the church which Iso re- cords. Except the apostles—These seem to have remained temporarily, at least, in ;ferusalenr., 3. Saul laid waste the church.— T he tory of Saul's persecution of e ehureh, which is interrupted at the close of this verse, ie con- tinued in the following chapter. a+ • GERMANY'S IRON DISCIPLINE. Sentry Refused to Resene Deem: - lug Mau. An extrabrdinary example of Ger- man military discipline which (se- cured strive after tile. heathen 1u red near Bronikuwen is attract - an , wants a: sacrifice, for samifes is 3 g public: attention, and, h s' given ,service and service is seerieico and ideal, They care more to look a ars the good than to be goodrise toe would as to whether or greatest offoriug appears and aro ever not it would be desirable to alms '-. Mood and life, ready and ever hast' to carr'='2I.'la- sold' rolasentry r s,r tr•1' liberty 'ta of u doing Na i re 7t iS duty Now 1 s oath ] ' t s cental pts us ' -bY certainly n at the :3' tr � unreasonable a0A abl S C .y ` en 1` • f action t to believe first God �coul•rd be pleas- are willing to sacrifice, to suffer m . n cases where human life is sed with burnt offerings or that a order to gain this end. Hort, much ! endangared, says, the London bloody sacrifice of a .huma:t be1ng :good could lee accomplished if they Standard. was iremessar. tv a a would employ the same error in A wealthy land owner: of Broni- yet it. is flue Gad is lookin gafter holiness i energy kowen, Horr Arthur Kriede, was And g driving skating on Sensberg Lake when the for a sacrifice. Having been re- ERNST A. TAPPERT. lee broke and he fell through into the water•. Giese at hand e soldier THE S. �i ®Q''�� lien Jehovah, the 0od of Israel, was doing sentry •duty and Kriede S. �.� was t „, shouted to the soldier f • J� 1.�'� n ore •cs en than simply t}t,, for help and God of th.e Hebrew patriarchs and begged him to render assistance, nation. tlldlltary regulrttions', however, pro - Appeared unto our father Abra-Jhibit a soldier doing sentry duty ham. , in 14lesopotamia — Long' from leaving his post under any before the law was given bytvioses, clrotunstanees. ' " and in a foreign land, did God ap- As this particular soldier could pear unto Abraham which fact + not render' assistance -to Krede alone was sufficient to prove .thatI without leaving his post and there the essence of Israel's religion as ! by infringing military regulations, a covenant relation of individual he remained where he was and persons and peoples with God an- watched Kriede drown before his iodated tile Mosaic dispensation, •eyes. There were several long N"T'E21N,k'rIOi AL LESSON, P1111. 21. Lessor %'I L Stephen the First C'hrietia.ir Martyr. Golden Text, AO's 7: 53. Verse 1, In these days—Referring .Tbe latter, far from being the sum poles lying near the spot, and the in general to the time of the events total or culmination of God's re- soldier need only have walked to ,mentioned in the preceding lesson. velation of himself to his people, the bank of the lake and held one Their'. widows were 'neglected in was but one of many elements and;+ of the polos to the drowningman the daily ministration—This simple stages in the development 'of tool in order' to effect his rescu statement, throws an interesting true religion toward its final fop- • a sidelight on the practical working' inn -sent 'ill the messianic age. SAVED PATIENT, LOST EYE out of the principle of community 4. When his father was dead — --- ' of goods, according to which the This is contrary to the statement Aot of Heroism Which French Christian society at Jerusalem was of Genesis 11, 26 — 12. 4, where President Recognized. at this time administered (compare •Abraham .is said to have removed lesson for February 7). into Canaan during ;Torah's life - 2: Forsake the word of God and time: The statement was made by serve tables—Neg1e t the duty of Stephan is in harmony with the lat- preaching and teaching for mann- al service which others could ren- der as well. 6. Stephen—The name is of Greek origin, from which it is inferred that Stephen was of Grecian de - secant, if not himself a direct prose- lyte, Nothing is known concern- ing hini apart from tee narrative in this portion of. Aets, And Philip -The Evangelist who later labored in Samaria, and still later in C',ses..tree, It was be who An unassuming act of self-sacri- fice on the part of a young French medical student, M. Louis 'Bazy, et Jewish tradition current in his has just secured for -him the Cross time, which sought to shield the of Lite Legion of Boner. patriarch if Israel from the ap- M. Bazy, wino is a son of_a well pearanee of impiety which his ac- known French surgeon, was assist - (ion in leaving his aged father was ing his chief in a Paris' hospital, thought 'to imply, During an operation a quantity of 6. Four hundred years—A state- virulent matter suddenly escaped meat in .round numbers intended from a wound into M. Bazy's eye. to cover the whole time of Israel's • The only trope of saving his sight sojourn -in Egypt. was for the eve to be immediately 9. The patriarchs• moved with • treated, but, this would have neces- jealousy—The firstofa series of silated leaving the operation table references which ' Stephen makes and abandoning the, operation, with nits instrumental in leading the to the failure .of man on his part .probably fatal consequences to the Ethiopian eunuch t:u a 'faith hi to keep the terms of the original patient. The young man without a •Jesus as the Christ,. covenant with God. Man's failure, moment's hestitation told his chief J1rot:lames. and leicanor, and Ti- nton, and Parnienas; and Vieolans a prc'selyte of Anti,, h ---Nothing further is known c ,n eraing these men who enamel with Stephen and Philip the office of deacon (literally "servant") in the Jerusalem church. 7, The number al the disciples multiplied in Jerusaleut exceed-. ingly--it waa'some tithe before this that the membership of the church had exeeeded five thousand. 8. Wonders and signs—Probably miracles of healing 9, The Libertines --• That is, "freedmen," thought to have been eleseenclants of Jews carried cap- tive to Roma by Pompey (13. C: os) and sebsequently. released ,oriel per- mitted to eetui'n tu Jerusalem whore they formed a separate con- gregation or synagogue, 11, Suborned men—induced them to swear falsely. 14. We have heard him say—It is ,ppiate possible that some state - moat similar to the- one attributed to Stephen was tactually made by ;hint, though intim hands of his icnenlies it was given a different norm and meaning titan the one in- tended. 7. 1, Are tbesc things so --The ;question of the high priest refer r'ed'to the accusations of the false tvitttesses above mentioned, and. was addressed to Skephen. S,te- 'gthen's answer was an address, the 'snbstanera of which is given in this cd alter, verses 2-53 inclusive, His .reply is a formal •defense against; charges of irreverence toward the tentplte aril its worship, and toward the Old Testament religious 'z'stom, visages, and institutions itt general, The God of glory --Te Ste - however, is not permitted to de- feat God's eternal purpose, which finds ifs first partial fulfillment in Joseph, the very person against whore •th'e jealousy of the patriarchs was directed, and in whom Ste- phen seems to see ,a forerunner :of Jesus Ohnist. 16, They were carried over unto to proceed with the operation, and he did not disinfect his eye until the work was over and the patient safe, A. few days later it .was found Binet the eye was infected, and after six months of great suffering' it was found necessary to remove it, b Shechem—Ilse remains of Jacob President lialiiores, hearing of. and his —Phe namely which acotire' incident, immediately decided that young M. Bazy shook( be de- merit again - is not in accord with that of enesis (compare Gen., 49, s ed nto show Ilhat rthe wound he de - 30; 50. 13). The field actually pur-ncl ro- chascd by Abraham was that eon- ceir-ct d by the doctor attending the tain•ing the cave of Machpelah in Poor was no less glorious than' the Hebron. .(Masnre), which Abraham injury sustained by tine soldier en bought of Ephron the Biftite, while rho fio.kl of butttc the tomb in. Sheohem was, accord- ° ing to Gen, 33, 10, and Josh. 24, RETURN OF VEGETATION i1)., ,, , i ased by Jacob: The sig- The interesting phenomenon of the nifiean•ce of Stephen's roferonco to return of vegetation to the slopes the burial plane of Jacob is not, of Mont Pelee, 'whose terrible mises however, affected by this diserep- tion in 1002 destroyed the city of St, anoy between the narrative at this Pierre and laid waste the greater Point and the statement ins Gene- part of Mtantiniquo, can now be ob- sis, the important point being that served. Wherever watercourses Jacob was buried within the bond- and ,the trampling of horses 'and' :cies of the Land of Premise, and cattle have broken up the Inva that a certain sacredness attached itself to his burial: place, 17, As the 'time of the promise drew nigh -The time of the glori- ous fulfillment of God's promise tu derg.ound life, anti now the growth Llewellin's son," There is no exns- Abl'aham, for whioh God had been of the roots is breaking up the must crating 1. offhand - preparing in unexpected ways and formin p , I land tulle of the mtse 20. A which forming:it into humus, The sus" or the :emceeas Amon the Ab w rich season Moses was new vegetatign which is gradually Englisirmen of the c born—Another turning point in creeping back up the mountain is sane postman Israel's history. • comprises the. castor-oil plant, in loo:' The lot o. a Llangwm man 21.40,' Theso verses tell ofhe t o 1 ul, rite is not eil donher happy, though Inc t indigo plant, the sensitive plant; is ,a we1.l cl p g way in which God prepared and guinea -grass, silver ferns and omestirated anirual, guided the future deliverer of his plants. 1 other' '1' people in spite of the hostility ofIN , _.r;.� l3ISTQ,ItY. foes anal tlrc ungratefulness. of hisIsabel--"I'll „- Isabcl-- .[ 11 never .lta•ve ant,thcr "Who was Irelrin� ' greatest own people. This Iasi oint, thattaken,”d s greaic.t photograph Dorothy --., benefactor'?" is,. Israel's failure 'top recognize nize ''1 It1,' '' . Stephen "Why not, ciet.t . Isabel-- C)h, if "Cohimbus." .Gods clioseu deliverer, Stephen it looks litre me 1 don't like it, 'and "Why, what pet:sees home upon his h'oardrs, by if it natters mo my friends d „' did be do for Ino un t lun:11 implication arousing them of slum- Jikc it." "Discovered America," FROMIRIO.$.•otttr.6LE NEWTS BY )fLUi, FROM IREs The most remark:410 demons- LA17'ID'$ SI10111'7$, tratioais of hatred of England eon- tinue in Andras, Ring Edwar'd'e fortheorning visit to Paris and Naples has aroused the Vienna Mittagzeiteng to a furl- sus attack on his Majesty: This ,jonennl deolares that the Ring's influence, having diminished in Tur- key and the • Balkans, now that Austria has come to an understand• ing with Turkey, "this crowned agent -provocateur is again starting on las journeys in order to realize the dream, of his life—the destruc- tion of the triple alliar'eo:" The article continues : "Ring Edward's policy has al- ready nearly resulted no causing the most awful war in the history of the world. Are there no means to prevent bis attempts to begin this game all over again? What does King Edward want to do in Paris and Naples, and on a Turkish war- ship 'I" The Nene Freie Preeso also re- news its almost -daily attacks on English foreign pclicy. The reason for Austria's Anglo- phobia is the discovery that Eng- land could not bo left out of ac- oount in the troubles in the Near East, but insisted on maintaining her rights as a signatory to the Ber- lin Treaty to protect the new eon- stitutionai regime in Turkey against Austrian aggression. This was not expected by Baron von Aenonthal when he laid plans for tate annexation of Bosnia and Her- zegovina. Thus the .various recent reverses to Austrian policy, snob as the nee- essity of agreeing to a conference of the powers being held and the payment of an indemnity to Turkey, have embittered Austrain public opinion, which makes England the scapegoat for everything, Great Britain is accused of brib- ing the Turks to maintain the boy- cott and egging on the Servians against Austria. The public be- lieves in these untrue charges. By those who understand the situation the feeling is one of fury that Austria has been balked in her ori- ginal plans, The failure of them must, however, be Laid, if it were not foreseen, to the short-sighted policy of the Austrian Foreign Office. A'17.AI,I( ON ICING EDWARD', , • Arratriaa ;'aline' nays Jiffs Polley Alnipet 'Resulted in War. ' L•Capperringe in the Eruct -Ala Isle of Interest to Ir1shs Wren. Gambling ie paid to be, on the in- crease among the women of Ire- land. Negotiations are tamest complete for flim sale to the tenants of the whole town of Donegal, Afarm of 94 woo, ;with `a email oottage, In the urban district of Newcastle, Co, Down, was sold by auction at $400 an acre. It was decided at' a representative ee ' m tiug-in ILfllarney to take steps to revive the local races, and to hold a fixture during the coming year. At Belfast Harbor Board on the Ith inat,, it; was announced that last year 2,532,077 tons of shipping had arrived in that port, beating all records by 25,790 tons, In the urban district of Naas. there have been thirteen claims for old ago pensions, out of which ten have been passed at the maximum sure of $1,25 weekly, Carlow County . Council support' the demand of the Gaelic League that the Irish language, both oral and written, be -made an essential subject for matriculation, Two thousand ono hundred and eighty-two claims have been allowed in Meath, to date, in connection with the old age pensions. There are still 200 claims outstanding. After 42 years' service, Mr. W. J. Quinn, late of the Belfast Postal Telegraph Department, was pre rented recently with the King's Im- perial imedal for long and faithful service, Ie connection with the land strug- gles in Tipperary, disturbances have taken place in. Thurles and police are posted oittsido the houses of unpopular persons day and. night. Tho police have ` been frequently stoned. A conscientious objector to vac- eination named Francis Irvine, has been sent to prison at Enniskillen for not allowing vaccination of two of his children. Re would not yield, and said his conscience would not lot hire.w The tenants of .the Castleltamil- ton estate met at the orrice, Castle- hainilton, for the purpose of making arrangements to buy out their hold- ings. All agreed to the terms with Character is caught, not taught. is few exceptions and signed. Living for bread is one way of t notable building, Ballyscullion losing the bread of life. House, situated about a mile from Rocks in our way are just heaven Bellaghy, Co, Derry, is to be sold. saying, "Climb up higher-" Long ago it was known as "Bishop's • Our habits are either our great - Folly," or the Palace, and owned est helps or our saddest hindrances. its erection to the munificent: ideas You may sow your sins in the of the Earl of Bristol, who was dark, but they come to harvest in nada Bishop of Derry in 1758, daylight. At a recent meeting of the Bawn- It's always easy to see through boy (Co. Cavan) 01d Age Pension 'she disguise that other's blessings Sub -committee the most notable wear. application received was that of an Nothing clears up remote di.ffi- old woman named McGahern, who culties better than doing immedi- was stated to be considerably over ate duties, 100 years of age. She wasegrantod The hardened conscience is the the fall pension of $1.25 a week. one trampled down by many com- promises. The man who puts all bis faith in himself usually despairs of the uni- verse. You cannot do much good for enation at Prague, Austria, from mon if you seek to do good only philanthropic motives, to the good. A young woman named Fritsch, The cleaning up of society usual- employed in a Prague factory, re- ly has to start where charity is cently bad the misfortune to be said to begin. completely scalped, owing to her Men are to be judged by where hair being caught in a machine, they are going rather than by To save her life it was neceasary whence they came, to transplant fresh skin from an - He falls into pride's pit, who other person to her head. Her passes by on the other side when- employers advertised a reward of ever he sees one who ]las fallen. $100 to any person who would pro - It's not the wrongs we do him vide the necessary supply, and no that worry the great Father of us all; it's the ill we do ourselves. When you take the rats of busir mesa worry to the church it's not strange they leave you. nothing but chaff, No matter how eloquent you may be talking to your Father in heaven, it will not balance a sour disposlzion to your family here. SENTENCE SERMONS, UTOPIA OF SUFFIIAGEPUIS. Welsh village Where Woman's Sway Is Paratuount. There is a small village in Wales which is the Utopia of the Suffra- gettos and which figures largely -he their arguments at the present time. It is Llangwm, a little oyster town on an estuary of the great harbor of Milford Haven, When you. speak of Llangwn you mean the Llangwm woman,- It is she who goesout oyster fishing. It is she who, quaintly dressed in short homespun skirt, felt hat and reel shawl and with a donkey pannier, goes about the countryside selling fish and oysters, and it is she who bolds the purse and drosses the family. - She holds her superior position by physical force. She is a match for a college oarsman in points, a tvaterman in strength, and any fish Arman around the coasts of four na- tions in undauntedness in a high sea or in net handling. Mentally she is quite up to•the times. L• langwm women were the ftt'st to apply for' small holdings. Llangwm women have banished the beer saloon and there aro many Llangwm women awaiting old age pensions. In politics these women are Lib- erals. Their hives are severe and Spartan. Their religion is of the same breed as that of . Cr omwoll's Ironsides, . crest, plants are reappearing. :InJ. Tho Llangwm man is somewhere some-drstriets, whore only a Iayer not the bum ground, Be is a tla of hot • ashes was d • mastic animal. s n has not even a deposited, tire. claim - am to his 9 '0 sin nam H trees '1' shrubs c He is t0 and 1 51 obs retained their ,- ,r „ Mary Palmer s man or "Bessie AIMFD AT BRITISH RULE P4Jfrjj E'i's ARE iDISTRIBUTED) TORO UGOO U'T INDIA. One Refers to Klee Edward as a "yrant"—Printed in Europe. One of the most serious pheno- mena in the agitation against Brit- ish rule with which the Viceregal Government of India has to .eon- tend is the distribution bre/adoast among the natives of seditious pam- phlets. It is no secret that the sub- versive movement is fostered and encouraged by highly intelligent and often well connected Indians who are studying at English uni- versities or arc for other reasons• staying in England, Quantities of seditious Leaflets printed in Europe are shipped to Bombay and Calcutta, whence they are clandestinely distributed throughout tate interior, A copy of one particularly violent anti En- glish pamphlet, obviously printed in England, has just been received in London, It is a counterblast to King Edward's friendly message of last November to the princes and people of India. A TYPICAL PAMPHLET.' Tho pamphlet, entitled "Two Historic Documents," refers to the Ring throughout as "the tyrant" and begins. "The tyrant has issued a new ed- ition of the proclamaiton of 1858, which was styled by fools 'the Magna Charts of India,' When the so-called Queen's proclamation was first published, in 1858, our patriotic ancestors were still carry- ing on that glorious revolutionary struggle for the liberty of Hindus- tan, They issued a counter pro- clamation to warn Indians against the danger of submitting to the Feringhi (English) rule through de- lusions and false' hopes. The tyr- ant has repeated his falsehood— ancestors' pro - SANGUINARY N' SANGUINARY WISH QUOTED, Then the paper quotes at length the replies made bytwo prominent leaders of the rebellion to Queen Victoria's proclamation half a cen- tury ago, one of them being the notorious Bahailur Khan, who was hanged in 1880 for the murder of many English women and children, and whose last words were: "I have killed a thousand more." The pamphlet, which is signed by "Bande Mataram" (Hail the Moth- erland) concludes, "Blessed he the day when a United India raises up the flag of Liberty from the dust of 1857 and plants it triumphantly on the top of the Himalayas to the honor of man and the glory of God," GAVE SKIN TO IIELP WIDOW. Life of a Factory Girl Saved by Wealthy Women. . FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES Oa<7C11'1'IBE1,aT FROM LU')I4 RANKS AND JlUU<3,145, 'hitt la Golttg on in the lljgirku►d9 and Loirla:nis of Auld Scotia. The close of rho year found the Ayrshire lace curtain trade 45- in Ayris pressed, The total number• of pensioners p rs 332. There were 3a1 an• plicants. It is estimated that the grants •of old pensions in • Glasgow will amount to $6,000 per week. The deaths registered in Edin- burgh last year numbered 4,090, giving a death rate of 13,37 per 1,000, In bon yeare the depositors' balances in the Edinburgh Savirsgs. Bank have increased by over a ne41,, lion pounds. James Gillespie, Motherwell, was found lying strangled to death through falling asleep with a tight collar on, There are only 93 old sage pen* sinners at Prestonpans, which is a very small percentage of the pope- dents are 3,328 matriculated stu- dents (including 695 women) at the University of Edinburgh this sea - 5011, The teachers in the board schools of Glasgow have contributed 9580 to the city unemployed fund, which now exceeds 9180,000. The number who are qualified for old age pension in Hamilton is con- siderably below the average of a town of 37,000 inhabitants. At Aberdeen upwards of 2,400 pension claims wore admitted, and the great majority of the pension- ers drew their first payment ou Jan, 2. Last year the Friendly Societies of Scotland increased in member- ship by over half a million. The average contribution amounted to 92 per member, At Peebles a mural tablet to the memory of the late Mr. Patrick 0. Leckie has been placed in Leckie Memorial Church by his son, Mr. James Leckie, London. The ballot of the Clyde engineers on the uroposal of the masters for a reduction in time and piece rates is understood to show a majority for acceptance of the masters' terms. A report by the managers of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, states that 11.754 patients were treated during last year, an increase of 614 over 1907. In edition 36,892 •out patients were dealt with. Greenock Harbor Trust are point- ing out to the Admiralty that there is no place on the Clyde more suit- able than Greenock as a site for a graving dock capable of accom- modating all classes of His Ma- jesty's ships. Mr. Robert Fortune died at Pit- tenweem while conducting the weekly prayer meeting in the Bap- tist Church. Deceased carried on a successful business as a chemist fee The Misses Zoufall, Prohal and many years in Pittenweem, and lat- Karl, three young Bohemian girls terly in Anstruther, of good ,smile-, underwent an op- Janet CamplreIl, of Brydelcirk, an old -age pensioner, died on receiving her pension on the 2nd inst. Sho had been ailing, and a neighbor had gone to draw the pension for her. On presenting the old woman with it she died, the excitement being too much for her. SHAVES WITH KNIFE. Quick -shaving Champion has Choice of implements. Mr, Robert Hardie is the (pick - shaving champion of England. Mr. Hardie's record of shaving five men in one minute fifteen seconds, steed for some years, but not long ago the` champion of the 'razor thought he would try a mew and better times, so he managed to shave six men in one minute twenty-nine. seconds. Iib, Hardie a little time back issued .11. challenge to the world for 93,600, and this money can be won by anyone who will take up the cudgels at either quick fewer than 600 persons offered themselves at the hosp•tal for the .\n infant prodigy, who may bo purpose. The doctors chose a poor be regarded as the most wonderful widow, who rognired the mortes for of her kind, gave a piano recital the education of her children, i in the Bluetlnierschen Hall, at The three young women mention- Leipzig, Germany, the other night ed heard of rile case, incl informed before an audiencen t c ns sttu lar: e - the doctors that they would each ly of musical critics and mei of give some of their own skin for science, nothing on condition that the wi- The prodigy is a littleir1 named dow should receive the $100. Thera pillar Osorio, aged 8 years. She offer was accepted, and the three hill celebrate her fom•th birthday had pieces of skin from the soles within a few works. She is a step-; of their feet removed and grafted step- sister to another infantile prodigy, entire factory girl's head. The op- a little boy named Popito Arriom, oration was completely successful, whose wonderful talent was first discovered by Prof. Arthur ali]dsch. At the recital Pillar Osorio play- GO1viMON SUPERSTITIONS. ed a number of classical pitmen To spill the salt is unlucky, with astonishing -verve end correct - To n y' ness of execution anci touch, Her To sit down thirteen to table is achievement was all the more re - unlucky. markable because she played with - Break a looking glass portends out' a single. note before her, hav- seven years of misfortune, ing learned solely by oar and mem- A picture falling from the walls ore, is an omen of a death in the family. Little Pillar Osorio's musical! Seeing the eery moon for the first talent is regarded as not only artis- time through glass should be avoid• tic, but the scientists are interested nd 1 - in how a brain of a three -year -calci child tan be capable of the mental effort, required to grasp all the in-; trieaeies of the classical pieeett whichtlte-infant pretligy played cor- reetly before a critical audience. suggestion has hen mado itt scientific circles to appoint a cam- mittee, which shonld he entrusted with rite task of investigating Pillar Cr'one's ancestry, to ascertain, if possible, any facia bearing nn hero- dttary trtansmiseioit of talent, So far 01 is known, neither parents riot grand parents displayed any Immoral wing.) ability, • ar 2 -YEAR ;MUSICAL PRODIGY, Men of Science Astounded at Hie Marvelous Execution. or blindfold shaving and is able to Friday is an unlucky day for a beat the existing champion's tines. journey or to commence any under - Hardie cnat :•have one man, taking, Crossed knives indicate an immin- ent quarrel, =4 b}itdd: ent brings hick to a house. Peacock's feathers aro unlucky ornaments, • Walking under a ladder invitee mie fo mune,. Clothing unconsciously pet on in - tide out is a gond coon- Helping to salt is helping to 'sue - vow, no matter hew harsh his beard, in twelve seconds, or he will tallow himself to be blindfolded and then make is clean job "f it in twenty- seven ,.,coeds Besides these times, which ora e•cconrplisihod h,v the aid of an ordinary razor, Mr. Irfardie. will give neo• man a per'feetly snt- isfru•iory Amer With the aid of a. carving knife in forty-five eecnnde, and nilh a penknife in tvoait••- eight seconds.