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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-7-29, Page 6""` "'g °°T THE SOURCE OF ALL SOLACE This is semen's age in part be cause it is an age when the fine forces that women use and th sweeter ideals that they love are be - silted by the world, In a ward, the spiritual and the esthetio ioreea were letenit in ander ages but now are beginning to operate There was a time when brute force was almighty. But that is not now. There was a time when soldiers and kings were thought the most in' fluential personages in molding events. But that is not to -day, Some ono is saying in a current re- view that if we wish to look for the sources of reforms and improve- ments we do not go to the states- men and political and governmental figures. We:go to the .college lab- oratories and to the workshops of inventors and to the studies of the (thinkers. Bencei come the basic lines of .betterment. It 1s these men that get to the root of our affairs and plan the radical changes that make for our betterment. It is the men of science, said a French- man, who are the real priests. It is they that save the race from its miseries and point the way to pro- gress. Yet the spiritual priesthood is not without its high sphere of useful- ness. Above the intellectual forces are the spiritual. And as the race develops, rises to loftier levels, re- fines, the spiritual forces come in- creasingly into play. All the mod- ern methods of criminal reform in lieu of punishment, all the mod- ern charities and philanthropies, the modern homes for the deaf, the blind, the crippled, the insane, the poor, are the fruit of the spirit. They express the spiritual love, gentleness, mercy, longsuffering. Fruits of the spirit are the modern notion for shorter working hours, for shielding child workers, for educating all the people, and for providing conditions which shall enable all to live comfortably and to enjoy the daintier pleasures of existence. The function of the re- ligious instinct is being appreciat- ed. The spiritual nature is found to have a legitimate and useful role to fiII. The mother's prayer, think- ers of one school declare, saves her heart frim breaking. The mother's prayer, believes another school, saves not only herself but also the boy for whom she prays. Her prayerful thoughts are things that are wafted as she directs them to hover over him like angels' wings, to sustain and shield and control. But both schools realize that prayer is a real and a powerful thing. `^ And the power and reality of love as a force are being appreciat- ed. Prof. Lester F. Ward, the eminent sociologist, remarks upon the psychic and the material forces. He says love is as real a force as any physical form of energy utilized by science, and that it should be treated as such. The bible and the women have always believed in tlrr power of love. Aad they have al. ways believed that esel is overcome by good. Public opinion is agreeing with them when it advocates thr reformation of the delinquent in. stead of his imprisonment. And the women and the bible have al• ways believed that faith could re- move mountains. The time is cont- ing—it is arriving ---when the public and science will believe this, too. And will demonstrate it, e Music, toe, has been a costly in- dulgence, a soft pleasure, with lit the if any hard work to do. Every girl has been expected to play the piano or to sing as a part of hei education, which has been area mental rather than useful. Brit rnusie has a function of much grand. eur and dignity to fulfill. The old Greeks knew this and used mush; to cure disease, to calm. troubled spirits, to purify and uplift the mind. Their ideas are reviving, The therapeutic value of sweet sounds and harmonies is being ap• preciated, And the power cif music to ,:onvey subtle and exalted thought is being realized, "Music begins where words leave off. ' To -morrow or day after to -morrow music will be a language. It will have to fill a role undreamed of to• day, but a role which we are anti- cipating to -day in our higher evaln• anon of its practical nature. .\l' the woman natere which lay dorm nized, misunderstood through th, base, breitish ages, is now awaken- ing and beginning to energize in f.hc gentler times when its subtle powei. and sweetness have a legitimate place, A.t Every Tick of the Timepiece We Can Address Ourselves to _liiin. What havo I in heaven, incl he - sides thee what do I desire on earth, Psalms lxxiii, $0. This a cry from the tortured heart of David—a cry from one iti need to a friend indeed. Poor, in very truth, is he who calls no man friend, but poorer he who is no man's friend. This would be a bleak world with- out affection, and hence the master has established, as a primal source of all soleeo, a fountain of love springing up perennially 112 Himself. The fairest and most fragrant flower of that love is inseparable from. friendship, The friends we have tried and not found wanting are the friends we trust, and where the trial of friendship has been long- est our trust is greatest, and so old friends are best. OUR TRUEST FRIEND. One there is who outdates and outclases all other friends. He knows us and He understands, and, above all, He is willing and power- ful to help us. Ho alone possesses the fullest equipment of a friend. He knew us in the eternities. He shapes events so as to make us fit into the marvelous scheme of His universe. Ile eared for us since uor coming into all the bewilclerment of this creation. We have walked erect or bent, and ofteaa have we stumbled and many times have we fallen. Yet whether upright or prostrate the touch of the strong hand a His friendship has been up- on r - on es, even when in insensate mo- ments we have struggled to fling it off. At all tithes, sick or ill, wakiut; or sleeping, sad or joyous, His lot e holds us like the clasp of a mother. Others have, never has Ho shut e door against us. He was no mere life -.saver stirred by feeling or by tltitst for fame or by hope of re- ward. Ho was all He was to us nut because 11e had pity on tis, bet be- cause he luted and w'arated us. He •is walking by our side ever, He meets us at the turn of eery road. Whether our feet are in the narrow path and we need courage, or whether we are figliting with swine for their husks, rt is always OUR BLESSED PRIVILEGE to appeal t0 this Friend to keep us uncontaminated or to bring us back from our wandering under the roof of the Father. Such friendship teaches us our own worth. If He values ns so highly, if He thinks so much of us, to What heights of manhood and wo- manhood may we not climb, How pitiful to be surrounded by socia an atmosphere of love and not .to live of its vitality. What fools we are to starve amid such plenty. If we realized all this we would not leave this Friend until we had failed with every env else, but our prayer to Him for help would be as our breathing and would discover be- yond doubt that old friends are beet, and that of all old u d frit•nds He, the ancient of days, is verily eldest and best, REV. P. A. IHALPIN. THE S. S. LESSON IN7'ls'RNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 1. Lesson V. Close of St. Paul's His- sunrary:Journey. Golden Text, John 16: 33. I. Corinth, the Vanity Fair of the Rumen Empire. Corinth, the cen- ter of government, commerce, and business, as Athens was of learning, literature, and art, was situated on the isthmus which joins the two great divisions of Greece. The city has been called "The Star of Hellas," "The Eye of Greece," "The Bridge of the Sea," "The Gate of the Yeloponnesus," "The Vanity Fair of the Roman Empire." It had an aimed ideal situation for commerce. It attracted strang- ers from all over the world on ac- count of its delightful climate ; the Isthmian games to which contests Paul refers twice in his letters to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 9: 24; 2 Cor. 1: 14-16); and its position as the enter of government, where riches :mull be gained by dishonesty and oppression; and the seat of unre- strained sensual pleasure, and of very kind of licenmiousness and ex- cess. Vice and profligacy here held high revels, with a shamelessness consecrated by the rites of their false gods. II. Paul's Labors Among the Corinthian Jews.—Vs, 2-9. L His opportunity. This great city with its worldliness, and absorption in pleasure, its vigorous and varied life, its infinite needs, gave Paul a great opportunity. It is just the kind of place which attracts minis- ters and missionaries. And yet the 1i/lieu/ties were so immense, the ob- stacles so insurmountable that it is no wonder that Paul carne to them feeling his "weakness, and in fear and in much trembling" (1 Cor. 2: •i), and needed the vision of cheer (v. 9). 2. His Four Friends. Paul had a Strong, social nature, and felt the value of friends. He could say "I em wealthy in my friends," and he ,beyed the precept. "Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel." 2. He found a certain Jew. Paul •always began with the Jews, as the best possible opening for his work. Nestled Aquila, a tentmaker. A man of some wealth, born in Pontus, but doing business in I3ome, till lately he had been driven from Italy by the decree of Claudius Cesar, early in A.D. 52, banishing the Jews, and had eat -ries' his business to Corinth, With his wife Priscilla. As Aquila is called a Jew, but Pris- cilla is not, it has been inferred that rt si 1 - rhe wa.. a Gentile. As she is t to ly, by Paul, mentioned first in :peaking of the husband and wife, it has been inferred that she was if higher social rank, better edo- lated and of more marked ability than her husband. But it is worthy ,1 nate teat both are always men- '.ioneri together. He was the husi- less man who by lois ability and sue- ess made ib possible for his wife Priscilla to devote herself to sell - 'sloes work, It may be, for this ma - ton, as the one most directly in touch with the religious work, that she is mentioned first. They were true yoke fellows, and both arc mentioned as instructing the elo- quent Apolfos in the gospel truths. Paul while in Corinth was the guest of this family (v.3). 5. In addition to these friends, Silas and Timotheus came I'rum Macedonia. Tney had been left at Berea, when Paul was compelled to leave (Acts 17: 13-15). Timothy had been sent to Thessalonica (1 Thes. 3: 6), and from Philippians 4: 15 we judge that he had visited Philippi also. Pastes friendly heart was cheered by their presence. Timothy also brought him glad tid. ings of the faith, and love of these churches and of their longing to see hint, so that he was com,fortecl con- cerning them in all his distress and affliction through their faith. The Philippians also sent him aid, which, like Joseph's wagons to Jacob, brought proof of the abund- ant harvest of faith and love in the Philippian church. The Circumstances in which Paul Worked. 1. He earned his own liv- ing by working at his trade. It was Jewish law that every boy be taught sonic: Hind of trade for his support. 1I1. Paul's Work Among the Corinthian Gentiles.—Vs. 7-22. Paul's preaching place was in the house of a man named (v. 7) Jestus, one that worshipped God, a Gentile believer in the one true God. but not a Jew, whose 'lease joined hard to the synagogue. Here smuid be a perpetual invitation to the Jews, while at the same time the Gentiles would feel welcome to go there. Paiul Encouraged. 9. Then spake the Lord (Jesus) to Paul in the night by a vision, as at other crises of his life (Acts 16; 9; 22: 17; 27: 23). As the have seen this was 0118 of the most trying crises of Paul's life. Sick in body, striving against the bitterest organized opposition, looking in the face of difficulties like black mountains in a Clark night. Paul needed a fresh, clear, undoubted revelation of God's will and God's presence. Compere the visions whish the apctle John saw when in the midst cj persecutions which could be re- presented only by groat earth- quakes, the sun darkened, the moon turned into blood, the stars falling from heaven, death and hell and famine, the star wormwood, the smoke of the bottomless pit, till men sought death and could not find it, and desired to die, but death fled from them. Then how the vi- sions of the martyrs with crowns, aid white robes, singing songs of redemption, "Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be unto MU' God forever and ever"; and vi- sions of the redeemed earth, the perfect success of the cause for which they gave their lives, gave courage attd hope and assurance. They do the same for us to -day, CONTINUAL DOUBT. "Row many children have you 1" said the tourist affably. "I dunno exactly," answered the tired-l000king woman. "Yon don't know 4" "Nob for certain. Willie's gong, fishin', Tommy's breakin' in a Colt, Genege's •borrowed his father's shotgun to go humin', an' timer. elda Ann is thinkin' of. eiopin'. 1 never know how many I've got till supper time homes, so's T can count 'em." O.NT OI! MILLIONS, 11IannY Young Men Aro Road `''Neigh of lluelness, It is a commonplace that -the real- ly valuable man, in business or any- thing else, is the man who has ideas, or imaginations, Mr. Lorin F. Des land, writing in the Atlantic k(onW ly, tells of a young manwho went to hien for advise as to some way of getting en increase of salary, He was -even debating whether ho bad not better give up his situation and trust to leek to lincl something better. "I urged him at once against Such a coerce," says the writer, "and told him to look for something boner while be was;hold- fng his presort situation, I said to him! ' 'Mills, the important thing for you in this Matter is to ascertain whether you are paid all that you are worth; and that settled,- whether you can snake yourself worth any more. But first of all, let us see if you can make yourself worth any mere, whether you are paid for it or net, If you can, you had better stick, and look for your raise at the first fair opportunity.' sae agreed, and 1 wont ahead with my plan, "First, I told him fen thirty days to put his mind on ono thing To devise some method whereby his house could Sell at least one hun- dred dollars' worth more of goods, It must be a practicable plan, and should bo presented as any inter- ested employe would present such a matter to his superior. "Thirty days passed, and Mills cane to me again. With all his thinking, he had found no method by which the business of the firm could be extended even one hundred dollars a year. "1 then put him to work on his second month's Labor : 1.'o discover any method bywhich t vh h the firm could transact its present volume of busi- ness with greater economy, so that, by improved methods, there should be effected a sating of at least fifty dollars a year. "At the end of the time be came back to me with his report. He had been ablo to discover no new method whereby the firm could economize. He had, however, dis- covered one thing, namely, that he would not need to a° ahead for an- other thirty days with .our experi- ment, fur he had about made up his mind that he would continue where he was. "'My boy',' I said to him, 'jest realize for a moment where you stand. You are ;rot able, though you have worked three years in this house, to increase the volume of the business one hundred dollars a year, nor can you point out a way to save that amount. My warning is lie low! Attract as little atten- tion to yourself as you can. Don't let the proprietors or the manager remember that you have been three years in their employ, if you .can help it. You are an absolutely unpro- ductive man, I don't mean that you are a bit inferior to thousands of other young men who are in the stores and wholesale houses of this city; but you, like them, are simply sittingaipon the head of one of the bright men in the counting -room. He has to solve all these problems. You and fifty others in your estab- lishment are hist sitting on the top of his head, like se many dead- weights. If the business prospers, you expect a raise of salary, when it is his head -work that has gained every inch of progress. He has to carry you all.' "The young man went off, sadder and wiser than he came For Ave years thereafter, in which I was able to follow his course, he held the same place and at the same salary." . is e Y JAIL WITH ONLY TWO CELLS. The Smallest Prison in the '<S'orlil is That of Sark. Sark, the loveliest of the Channel Islands, possesses a quaint old pri- son of two cells, more as a matter of form than of necessity, for seri- ous crime is almost unknown in the island, which has no paid police, but simply an elected constable. It is some years since the prison was called into requisition, says the Strand, and on the last occasion the bolt was found to be so rusty that it had to be broken before the doer could be operc 1. The prison- er was then put in, left all night with the door open and made ne attempt to eseape. On another occasion a young Eng- lish servant who bad stolen some clothes was sentenced to three days imprisonment. The prospect so terrified her that the authorities teal' pity on her loneliness and con siderately left the eel! open. The little maid sat in the doorway and was consoled by kindhearted Sark women, who came to keep her com- pany. A. still more curious incident is told of a man who was convicted for neglecting his wife and children. He was ordered to betake himself' to the prison and there wait for the arrival of the constable, This he did, sitting outside until the door was opened to let him in, Don't boast because you have never been in jail, Possibly the officers of the law were not on to their job, 1744444 4 H4401 4444.44444,441444444.08 MEATS. Ham Dariales.—Chop fine enough cold ham to 1111 a trip, ane -quarter cupful of sifted bread crumbs, the yolks of two hard boiled eggs pass- ed through a sieve, two tablespoon- fills of melted butter, one-quarter; teaspoonful each of salt and paprika, twobeaten eggs, and nee - half cupful of milk. '.'Bake the above mixture in patty pans, mix- ture to be three-quarters of an bleb thick in the pans. Cook on several folds of paper and surrounded with boiling water until firm in center. Unmold on rounds of toast and set a poached egg on top, This will be found delicious and is something new; it may be used as a course at a luncheon party or principal course at a home luncheon, Delicious Veal.—Take a veal steak from the round bone, cut off all the fat and cut out the bone. Cut into pieces the desired size, then dip first in crumbs, thou egg, crumbs again; and then into the egg again. Fry in aniron spider till a light brown, cover' and turn a low flame for about ten minutes; then pour in enough milk to cover the meat and place in the oven for ono hour. The milk will all be ab- soroest by the meat and the meat will be so tender only a fork will be needed in cutting it. Season bread crumbs before breading any meat. Smothered Chicken.—When the chicken is dressed ready for cook- ing, split it down v the back and place flatly in a covered pan, dredge with salt, pepper, and flour, and spread with softened butler. Have only enough water in the pan bo produce steam. When closely cov- ered it soon becomes tender. Then remove cover and brown. Serve with rich cream gravy. The best way to cook a spring chicken -far superior to frying, Meat Souffle.—One cupful of e.old meat chopped fine, one cupful of sweet milk, one large tablespoonful of flour, one small tablespoonful of butter, two eggs, seasoning to taste. Scald and milk, thickened with the flour and butter, stir in Mae beaten yolks; pour this while hob over the meat, stirring; set aside to cool. Then stir in lightly the beaten whites and bake in a quick oven fifteen minutes. Serve hot. SEASONABLE RECIPES. Pickled Cherries.—Seven pounds of cherries, four pounds of sugar, one pint of vinegar, one ounce whole cinnamon, half an ounce of cloves. Cook all together slowly half an hour. Cool and put in jars for use. Rice with Water Cress.—Boil tender one cupful of rice in salted water, drain and let steam for five minutes. Meantime, wash, dry, and break two bunches of water- cress. Fry until crisp in a table- spoonful of butter. Arrange with rice in a. deep dish in alternate layers, with rice at top and bottom. Scatter grated cheese over the last layer. Stuffed Beets.—Slip the skin off boiled beets. Scoop out the inside, leaving cup. Mash fine some boiled lima beans, mix with mayonnaise dressing and chopped celery, and fill the beets Sot ve ice cold on lettuce or grape leaves. Egg Plant Scallop.—Reheat some coil cooked eggplant in the even. Butter a baking dish, stew with al- ternate layers of grated cheese, eggplant, and salt and pepper to taste. Pour over all a cupful of rich ,meet milk. Bake covered. This is a good dish. Ohops.—To two parts of shredded codfish add one part of hot sea- soned mashed potatoes. Bind fish and potato with beaten egg. When cool mold into form of chops. Insert piece of macaroni for chop bone. Dip in beaten egg, then in bread crumbs. Fry to a golden brown in deep fat. THE LAUNDRY. Braided Linen Dresses.—Pin two bath towels, one upon the other, smoothly over the ironing board, Do not sprinkle, but put the skirt upon the board wrong side out Wet a yard of cheesecloth, wring it tightly, and, putting it over the goods, iron from hem to band un- til thoroughly dry, using heavy irons, In this way you will avoid "rocks" in the skirt and dust from the floors upon wet goods, Laundry Bags,—A handy laundry bag is inadc as follows: From denim, ticking, or heavy unbleach- ed muslin cut a piece 20x36 inches; ant another piece .22x30 inches, This latter piece is the front and is slightly wider to make a pouch. iih•e back is longer than the front, the extra length falling over the red, forming a flap. The bottom is buttoned together• so that the clothes may fallout when the but. tons are unfastened, instead of top to a curtain rod, which may be placed on the back of the closet door. To Preserve Colors. --To weak de- "lioately tinted fabrics and have them retain their color, make • kluge panful of thin flour starch, When su fflotont!Y Reel, takeo one- half of the starch to wash the garment in, rubbing carefully by hand, and Won, all the soil has been removed, rinse in the clean portion of starch, mid' hang in the shade to dry. Stenciled curtains are nicely laundered in this way, which would fade if washed in the usual way or sent to be clry cleaned, To Remove Iron Rust.—Wet the spots of iron rust with water, then coyer • them: thickly with cream' of tartar, Roll up • the garment so that the creamof tartar will ' re- main an the spots and place it in a vessel with cold water and bring to the boring point. The spots will have disappeared. This method is quick . and enemata... Starch That Will Not Stiek.—Dis- solve starch in lukewarm. water, add enough boiling water to make it clear, stirring brisklywhile you. pour in the boiling water; add one teaspoonful borax and shave in about one tablespoonful of paraffin,, then bring to a boil. for five or minutes. To Mend Lace Curtains.— A fine way to mend lace curtains is t0 re- move the feeder on your sewing machine and, placing torn part of the curtain under the foot of the machine, swing back and forth until hole is filled. By removing feeder the goods will not draw and will make a strong twisted thread that cannot he distinguished from the curtain itself. TWO PICKLE RECIPES. Large Cucumber Pickles.—Large cucumber pickles can be put up for tattle use by salting, peel them, slice them a quarter of an inch thick, pack them in wooden kegs, with plenty of salt sprinkled among them, Allow them to remain in salt twenty-four hours; then drain them, put them in glass jars, or earthen jars, with more salt, and close them airtight. When they are wanted for the table soak them in plenty of cold water, until they are perfectly freshened, then dress them like fresh cucumbers. Green corn, string beans, and asparagus may be preserved in this way; cauliflower and lima beans, also. Spanish Pickles. -Two large heeds large pickles, chopped fine; and one and one-half dozen large onions,. four green peppers,'all chopped fine and separate; salt overnight in sparate jars; in the morning mix all together, put in a cloth, and press perfectly dry; put on the stove to cook in a porcelain kettle with vinegar enough to cover, dilute vinegar, put in a small cupful of sugar, 5 cents' worth of tumerie, 10 cents' worth of white mustard, three tablespoonfuls of ground mus - bard, 5 cents' worth of celery seed. These pickles are not hard to make, and are excellent for this season of the year. HOUSEHOLD PESTS. To Banish Rats.—Chloride of lime is infallible; it should be put down the ratholes and spread about wherever they are likely to appear, Sparrow Hint. -To keep sparrows from roosting on your porch take an old paint brush and some tar and late in the afternoon paint the top of the pillars and the birds will not come back. Ant Exterminator.—Purchase 5 cents' worth of tartar emetic from ,your druggist. To one teaspoonful of powder add one-third teaspoon - full of sugar and moisten with a lit- tle water. Put it on shelf or any place where ants are found. A few will eat it and leave and will not return. Powder will dry, but can be moistened again and left in place until ants entirely disappear. One day is sufficient. A FRIENDLY SUGGLtTION. An old man in a Scotch village had a big eight-day clock which needed repair, so he took it on his back to carry it to the watchmak- er's. As he went along the village street an acquaintance met him, glanced at him and passed on. Afterhehad gone about fifty yards away his friend called out to hint, "Hi 1" Back event the old man laboriously to where the other stood. "Man," said his friend, "would it not be far handier if ye carried a watch 7" EVEN EXCHANGE. . Angry ratron—"That's the third time you've given me the wrong number, You must have what they call the telephone ear." Girl in Central Office—"I beg your pardon, sir, but that isn't the trouble. You have what we call the cornmeal mush voice," A WHALED PRODIGAL, "Who's that a-hollerin' down yonder -in the branch 1" "That's the prodigal son, The old man's a-whalin' thunder out o' him fel rennin' away," NEVER TRIED IT. .Paticsee--S'ack's very aceommo- dal;ing. I never asked him to de a thing that ire didn t do. Pun-ice—Then you never asked him 10 open a car window for you 4 THE ISLAND OF WIDOWS. AARLVO IslJtlND, 0111' T1D' (TOAST QJ? NORWAY. Distressing Cireumstenoes 11454 Brought About This State of Affairs. Off the coast of Norway Ise smelt island eallod Aarlud, which for nearly two years boasted the Peon. liar distinction of being peopled ex elusively by widows. The circum stances under which this state of affairs was brought about' aro no less curious than distressing. Dae spring in the early "nineties a ratan arrived on the island, from ,Ilaugssund, onthe mainland, with his wife and family, to participate, in the egg gathering. While testing. his ropes 0n a cliff, preparatory to. commoneing his search, he happen- ed to make a false step forward over the cliff. He was instantly killed. ' MARX 'OF SYMPATHY. As therehad not been a death cn the island since eleven years be- fore, when a boywas killed by as boulder from the same cliff, fall- ing on him, the occurrence natural- ly cast a gloom over the small com- munity established there. This. consisted of some thirty fishermen with their families. As a mark of' sympathy and respect, all the men determined to attend the funeral of the unfortunate, which was to. take place at the cemetery at Raugesund on the mainland. Dur- ing the proceedings at the burial - ground a tremendous gale erose,. and when the men returned to their• smack the storm was at its height. SMACK GOES DOWN. After carefully considering the situation, the thirty fishermen de- termined to sail for Aarlud, and, having taken advantage of the op- portunity to replenish their house- hold supplies, the boat was rather heavily laden. Tho progress through the angry sea was most anxiously watched by the people on, the mainland, who, when the boat load gone the distance of about e, mile and a half from the coast, saw that the vessel • was in great chs - tress, Efforts were at once made to go to its assistance; but the heavy sea beat back every boat that was launched. A few moments af- terwards the unfortunate smack plunged forward into the trough of the foaming waves and forever dis- appeared from mortal view. Every one of its thirty occupants was drowned, and on the following morning their bodies were found along the beach. News of the dis- aster was as speedily as possible conveyed to the island. Every wife in the place had by the dreadful event been made a widow, and out cf thirty as many as twenty-eigbt were left without any means of sup- port, USING LIONS AS ERRAND BOYS Wild Beasts Perform Various Do inestie Dnl.ies. The guests at the recent wedding et the daughter of Lord John San- ger Were treated to the somewhat novel sight of menagerie animals working as domestic ones upon their owner's farm. Thus, an elephant was being used for ploughing, a pair of cam- els supplied the power for a ohaff- cutting machine, and so on. The idea does credit to the show- man's ingenuity, of course; never- theless, the experiment has been carried to even greater lengths elsewhere, notably at Tring Park, Rents, England, where the Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild, son and heir of Lord Rothschild, has trained all sorts of wild beasts to perform variousdomestic duties. 13ut the man above all others who has really made a life study of the subject, from every point of view, is Mr. Frank Bostock, popularly known as "the animal king." Mr. Bostock holds the view that there are many so-called "wile animals that are better suited for training to the service of man than the so;ealled "domestic" ones, The horse, the ass, the ox, for example, be will tell you, are naturally ex- ceedingly stupid beasts, Tho.first- named, especially, he points out, has undergone at least two thou- sand years of training,et, it still has to be guided, step by step al- most, with; bit and bridle, Elephants. camels, and drome- daries, on the contrary, are guid- ed almost entirely by the voice. and it is much the same with tigers, lions, leopards, and panthers, They understand every word you say to them. You have only to tell them to do a thing, and they do it. He owns a lion that he has trained to fetch and carry at the word of command, and this from consider- able distances, and away from its cage, and, of course, quote apart from its ordinary performances, He was the first to break to har- ness a -team of zebras, .animals once thought to be absolutely esteem - able, And he utilizes the services eli <�1 a Mkurxild, wonhoey ttoakesn.itsse a, 1.1si(!85,-yeaar-obroadld e mail cart drawn by an emu. 'The man who rued -les a rrulon.s 'woma.n for Ii i' - merry_ soonga'laegios to reisllze the. fad that money talks,