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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1909-8-19, Page 31 UNIVERSAL A1D ETEIIJAL The Law of Reciprocity Is One of God's Great Truths, It is more blessed to give thanto Giving is -ase philosopher's stone, receive,—Acta ex. 34. � wlt'ah, instead of turning every This text le the embodiment of thieg intopold, turns gold into everything—into halls of learning, libraries of inferination, mieslons Dever m h .h 1.1 for millions, homes for the hem e- s a an sowet , that shall ll 1 o less, Obrist for the Christloss, and .also reap„ ; "Give, and at shall be life, eternal life, for the dying. The returning compensation for all noble deens a jmes in that which is better than en equivalent; in love and gratitude unpurchasable, as it is unfailing and unspeakable one of the greatest of trutt,--the law of reciprocity, Similar pas - segos in the scriptures are : "What - given unto you" ; "Bear ye one an- other's burdens, and w fulfill the law of Christ," Giving is like an .endless circle. It is casting bread upon the waters, which returns in multipled abunds in its glory and blessedness, Itis twee after tawny edays. It is the seed in the 'soil, bursting into the golden harvest. It is the banker, giving out to the borrower till the interest exceeds the principal. It is the philanthropist, receiving the gratitude of nionkind, It is THE MARTYR MISSIONARY, losing his life to find it, It is the. discoverer and inventor, like Hen- drik Hudson .and Robert Felten; giving their genus for the welfare of the people and receiving, gener- ations aftorwa"d, the plaudits and tbanksgiving of the world, because of the glory of their achievements. Men who give get bille of ex- change on. God's banking -house, the interest of which is paid as we need it along the journey of We, while the principal awaits your arrival in the eternal city. THE CROWN OF CHARACTER en the brow of the individual or na- tion, resplendent, immortal. Even though your gift is unappre- ciated or misapplied, ib is irrever- sibly recorded in your being. Chil- dren may be undutiful, but the par- ents are blessed on a000 iat of their expressions of kindness and care.' Husbands may be drunken or bru- tal, but the wife who struggles pati- ently on has her reward in her own soul, and it may be the finalre- demption of her lost one, The Di- vine Christi who gave 'himself upon the cross a$ a Saviour as an ex- ample of infinite self-sacrifice, pos- sasses a naive above every name and a throne universal and eternal. REV. E. W. CASWELL. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGleeT 22. Lessen flit. Pam's Thirit Mission- sionery Journey.. Golden' Text, 2 Cor. i2: 9. I. •Business Interests versus the Gospel,—vs. 21-28. For at least two years and three months Paul had been working in Ephesus and was about ready to go on extending Christianity even to Rome (see Rom. 1: 13; 15: 23) and on to Spain (Rom. 13: 24), after 'visiting and strengthening the churches in Macedonia and Greece, and bearing the gifts of Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Corinth, and other Gentile churches (Rom, 15: 26) to the poor Christians in Jerusalem. In Corinth he expected to re- ceive contributions for the poor in Jerusalem (1 Cor. 16: 1-4). He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus (2 Tim. 4: 20), through Macedonia to Corinth (1 Cor, 4 : 17-19) to prepare that church for his approaching visit. Paul succeeded in all these plans, but some of them were accomplish- ed in a very different manner, though in afar better one than the way he had planned. Paul stayed in Asia for a season (v. 22). Apparently for several weeks or months. From the fact that Asia is mentioned rather than Ephesus, its capital, it has been in- ferred that lie did not remain in the city a11. the time, but labored in the outlying districts, A Contrast. In our last lesson we saw how Christians voluntarily gave up a bad business, at great cost to themselves, for Christ's sake, Now we find some men who tried to destroy the gospel, be- cause it was injuring their business. That is Sine business of the gospel to destroy all business that injures men. TI. The Mob in the Colosseum,— Vs, 29-41. 29. The whole City was filled with (the) confusion, The Greek idea is of the nniegling of crowds together like waters in a cascade or flood. Think of Southey's poem, "How does the water come down at Lodrel"--"recoiling, tur- moiling, toiling, and boiling, turn- ing and twisting around and' around, with endless rebound, con- founding, astounding, dizzying and deafening the ear with its sounds. ' 30.. Paul would have entered. Paul was not an athlete, and,• at least according to his enemies, "his bodily presence was weak' (2 Cor, 10: 10), But this did not deter him from going to meet the mob. He suffered also extreme ee spiritual depression (2 Cor, 1: 8), All this enhancesthe greatness of Paul's courage of this tune. We get from Paul's actions a true idea of.what.real courage is, Moral Courage, not indifference to danger:, is the highest form of courage, Two soldiers were charg- ing up a, hill with their regiment, in a desperate attempt to papture a battery, 'When half way up, one of them turned to the other and said, "Why, you are as pale es a shoot, You look like a ghost, I be- lieve you aro 'afraid. ' "Yea, J amal was the enslves'; "and, if you were half as much afraid as 1 alp, •you'd have run long rtgo," A locomotive engineer on an eastern railroad, who was always neleetcd fur his nerve , , and Whose courage, repeatedly display- ed in appalling accidents, was pro- verbial, was afraid in the quiet of his own home to go upstairs alone in the dark." • 33. The Jews were always especi- ally exposed to persecution, and as the mob would be likely to make no distinction between 'Jews and Christians, particularly as Paul was a Jew, they put forward a,promin- ent Jew named Alexander to de- fend them. Possibly he was Alex- ander, the coppersmith, of .2 Tim. 4: 14, who. "did Paul much evil." But Alexander only excited the mob still more: 35. The townelerk at length in- terfered and argued with the ex- cited people. 1. The worship of Diana was so settled in Ephesus that no company of Jews could overthrow it. You have no real cause for violence. The image (of Diana) which fell down from Jupiter their chief god, as meteoric stones occasional- ly fall from the sky. 2. Paul had not committed the wrong with which he was charged. His converts had been very careful not to blaspheme the goddess. His method of overcoming idolatry is quite noticeable. He preached the gospel, he set Jesus Christ before the people,. The contrast between them and the teachings and char- acter of the idol gods was the argu- ment. 3. There was a better way of re- dress, if there were need, through the law courts. 4. There was danger that the Roman government might interfere and deprive a turbulent city of its greatly prized liberties, Thee peace and quiet were re- stored. The signs of these times meant that it was best for Paul to leave immediately for another field of labor, while Ephesus was settling down into quiet peace, and the church continued to grow in char- acter and numbers. Therefore Paul bade the beloved church bood'-by'and departed for to go in- to Macedonia (Acts 20 r 1). CLd M( ATADIi Or BICYCLES. Frenchman Iles Manufactured a Remarkable Timekeeper. A clover Frenchman named Al- phonse Duhamel has constructed a timepiece 12 feet high composed en- tirely of bicycles, or their compon- ent parts. The framework is a huge bicycle wheel, round which are arranged r0 ordinary sized wheels, all fitted with pneumatic tires. A rim with- in the large wheel bears the figures for the hours, the figures themselves being constructed of erank rods. Tho hands are made of steel tub- ing which is used for the frame work of bicycles.' The minutia strokes on the dial aro small nickel= plated pieces. The top of the cloak 18 an arrangement of 12 handle- bars The clock strikes the hours and the quarters, bioycle bells, of course, making the chimes, The onclulum is madeof i +io 1 a p, vrr lsp Its of a bicycle frame.. It is said that the clock, b,esides'boiug a curiosity, is an excellent timepiece, 4+ THE TOILERS, The English language is full of bmeanings g i subtle mean ngs and unexpected turns. Not long ago a man asked an acquaintance a 4umher of elites tions about his business. "1To1v many people work in your officol he inquired, "(7h," said the other, carelessly, "about two-thirds of them." HOW ORES ROD HIVE. ki[ieolal Senses of pkcetio4 Net Gilded by ,Sight oli Odors The directive sense whieh' ifJ po- (leased by bees is the, object of re- searches made by M. Gaston ,Bon- Hier, of Paris, and he seems to Prove that bees possess st special sense like that of carrier pigeons, Bees can fly for two utiles from ,the hive and are then .able t ore - .turn after gathering their supply .of honey. Langstrotb and others ,suppose that vision tomes into play and that bees can see for a great distance and can also note ebiects o . the way se see to find their path, Others, with Dadent1 suppose that the bees aro guided by the sense of smell and that they can emell ldowere at one ,and a half miles. The author creates experiments to prove that be Cala return to the hive without using either sight or odor, As to sight, he takes bees to a distance of ono or two miles from the hive in a oI ted box, They ;always fly back to the hive when released. The same is true when their eyes are covered, so that sight is not essential, As regards mdor, experiments sacra to prove lthat bees perceive odors at only short distances. When . a neddle dipped in ether is broughtnear • the head of the bee, it shows signs of perceiving the odor, but not iso when the needle Is placed back of him or near other organs, Besides, when the organs of emell (antenae) are removed entirely the bees will return •to the hive, M. Bonnier makes the following ex- periment. At 600 feet from the hive he places a suppiy.of syrup, ,and the bees soon find it, proceed- ing to and fro to the hive. Such bees he marks with green colored ,powder. He then places a second ,supply of syrup at the same dis- tance from the hive, but spaced at •twenty feet from the farmer. Other bees are now engaged, in the to ,and fro movenlenb to this point, but these are not the same indi- viduals as the green marked bees, who are still working on the first Supply, and he . marks these in red. We thus have :two distinct sets o;: bees, and we, see that the y can ,distinguish two directions which form a very acute angle. We seem to have here a special directive ,sense which does not reside in the antennae but probably in the eere- lbroid ganglia. Other facts may be cited in evidence: of the directive :sense of bees. HOW A IIA000N THINKS. An Instance Which Shows That They Do Not Reason. That animals do nob reason is the uncompromising conclusion reached by Mr. E. T. Brewster in an artiole printed in MoClure's Magazine. Incidentally, he finds that men de not often reason, and that many of the processes which they dignify by that word are not reasoning at all. Some of the ex- periments on which his conclusions restareamusing as well as instruc- tive—this one, for instance, with a raccoon. The animal was fed from a box with an outward swingiug door, which he learned to open in one second after it had been fastened li3 a bolt on the left •side. The bolt was removed, and the door closed by a lever on the, right side. Imagine for a moment what a man would do ; then compare this with. what the coon did. Although the bolt had been re- moved, the coon continued to work away at the place where it had, been, trying to push something where nothing was. He rolled over and over in the violence of his ef- forts, until he actually stood on his head to work. Then by acci- dent his .left foot slipped off the corner of the box, and hitting the lever, released the door, The next time he was hungry, like a'mise coon, but not like a wise man, he got in front of the box, stood on his head, and pawed the corner of the box until his foot slipped again. Eight times he fol- lowed this procedure; then he dis- covered' that, after his hind foot struck the lever, an added push with hist fore paws helped to ex- pedite matters. At the twenty- eighth trial he discovered that standing on his head was not au es- sential part of the process. Never- thelesshe still persisted in put- ting his hind foot on the laver be- fore pushing it down with his fore paws, Inshort, the, coon rut upon the proper action by pure accident. Then, being a clever little beast, be kept repeating as many of these random movements as he eou]d re- member. Being clever, he used his hand to help out his foot. Being also scatterbrained, he forgot on the twenty-eighth' attempt to stand on his head. Obviously the coon did nee re a son. Yet If the right man had seen bim for the first time when he was making the hundredth trial, and after- he, had forgotten to stand on his head, and forgotten to use three paws, anti forgotton'ever;ything else except to put out one hand and push,what a story it would have made 1 '14 Stella "Did she keep him at. 11(411's length1" Bella; ''Wore°; site held 111010±. iiot's 8(1411511," 1110.11.0004144 :hq Home eise444411114-414441444444 CANNING AND PRESERVING, Canning Helm—Line the fruit cupboard and wrap the canned fruit in newspaper, and the thermometer play go to zero and the fruit not freeze, Don't Skim -Jellies.—Skim fruit cover—Just 1111 jelly glasses or glass jars with fruit and scrape off the skim with a silver knife before settl- ing. It is much easier and quicker than skimming while cooking, Cherries.—When preparing eller- ries; for canning you will find it a much quicker way and cherries will look much neer in naps if you take la. penholder, putting a pen in point down in holder, and use: the other end for stoning, You will find re- sults good. Cucumber Pickles.—five medium sized cucumber pickles, sliced fine and round, and four good sized on- ions. Shoe and salt alternate in stung jar. Let stand over night. Than add two ounces of mustard seed, one red pepper,' one-half tablespoonful of celery seed, one quarter pint of olive oil, and three pints of cider vinegar. Be sure and put olive oil on first, as then the vinegar cuts it. Seedless Jam,—Small seeds .niay be removed from fruit by crushing the fresh berries through a sieve. To do this by hand is tedious. A rotary flour sifter will perform the work qu'iekly, effectively, and with cut staining the hands. The sifter costs 35 cents. Canned Cherries. — Cherries eanned this way keep perfectly and preserve their delicious flavor unim- paired : Stone the cherries and to two pounds of the fruit allow a pound of sugar. Put one layer of cherries, then sugar, and so on; have sugar on top layer. Let stand over night and you will be surpris- ed at amount of juice. Put in stove and let come to a boil and can. MIDSUMMER DAINTIES. Chilled Peaches.—Pare ripe yel- low peaches, remove stones, and cut the fruit in quarters, dusting it generously with powdered sugar. Pack in a tightly covered mold, and bury in ice and salt for an hour. Serve with whipped cream. Unique Sandwich. -Pound yolks of three hard boiled eggs with one ounce butter, season with salt, a dash of cayenne, and grated cheese. Spread on brown or white bread which has been buttered, trim seed- wiches into any preferred shape, garnish with parsley, and serve, Molded Farina,—Cook farina the preceding day and mold in pound baking powder tins. When ready to serve for breakfast, unmold, cut in thick slices. With a spoon re- move enough of each slice to lease a sort of cup. Fill with bananas eut fine, chopped dates, stewed figs, peaches, or berries. Cover with cream. Serve ice cold. Lemon Cream.—Beat yolks of four eggs light, add four table- spoonfuls of sugar, juice and grat- ed rind of a lemon, and two table- spoonfuls of hot water. Cook in double boiler till it thickens. Re- move from fire and fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff and sweetened. Serve gold with sponge cake. Plum Snowballs,—Take large blue plums, remove pits carefully, refill with finely chopped nuts and pulverized sugar; <hp each one into the well beaten white of an egg and roll into freshly grated cocoanut. SANDWICHES. Emergency Sandwich—Chop find with a knife or put through the food chopper one. pound of dried beef. Remove the stems and seeds from two large green peppers and Chop with the beef, Spread thin between buttered slices either of white or graham bread and your guests will wonder where you got the idea for those delicious "Maxn can" sandwiches. Nut and Cheese Sandwiches — Chop English walnut moats fine and mix with Bream cheese and a little chopped watercress, seasoning with salt and a libtle mayonnaise if de- sired. Spread en thin slices of bread or on thin toast and serve with a garnish of sprigs of water - C1'055. Crystallized Fruit Sandwiches.— Butter lightly thin slices of crest- less white bread. Chop crystal- lized fruit fine and spread a thin layer of it on the bread and cover with a layer of thick cream. Lay another slice of bread on top and press together. Cream Cheese and Olive Sand. wiches,---Stone a dozen large olives, and chop fine. Mash a Canadian cream' cheese into a. paste with a large silver spoon and work into it the minced chives, Spread on rounds of steamed brown bread, Japanese Sandwiches. -Chop cold boiled chicken fine and season high- ly with black pepper and salt, Acid n cite -third part of chopped green pepper and a little mayonnaise, Spread 011 Alin slices of unbuttered bread qnd serve. Taa'tnre Sandwiches—To half a; cep of boiled barn add three, boned anal skier ed sardines and chop all together Add three small sour pickles, also chopped, and half a teaspocllful of mustard, walnut cat sup and vinegar. Neeson 14181117 with salt, pepper, and 4 little cay- enne and spread thin on slices of bread cut se finger iengtbs, Pecan and Honey --Split cold sus da biscuits which have been made extra small in halves, butter and .spread with a mixture made of four tablespoonfuls of thick horsey mixed with two tablespoonfuls of chopped paean meats Orange and Date Sandwiches — To ane -half cupful ilneiy elsopped dates add .two tablespoonfuls of orange juice' and mix well, Spread between buttered slices of whole wheat bread. Chocolate sandwiches—Carefully molt sweetened chocolate over hot water and stir into it half a cupful of chopped almonds, Pour on to crisp unsweetened wafers and set another wafer above the ehoeulato before it hardens. SOME SUMMER DISHES. One and one-half tablespoonfuls of sweet cream with one square of cream cheese, cut or chop pimen- tos and spread between lettuce leaf cu bread for sandwiches. Creamed chicken with mushrooms wafers: Ono egg, one teaspoonful d sugar, one pint of milk and flour to make batter as thin as batter for pancakes. • Dip rosette iron into hot lard to heat before dipping it into .the batter, not letting the bat- ter come over the top of the iron. Return it to the hot lard thorough- ly covering the iron with same for at least twenty seconds and not ever thirty -live seconds. These waf- ers will keep for months' and can be served cold or heated in oven and served hot. Shredded lettuce leaves in bird nest . shape filled with sliced hard boiled eggs, sliced radishes, chop - pod celery, raisins and sweet may- onnaise dressing served on lettuce leaf with sweet pickles and olives. Shredded cabbage, pimentos cut in fine cubes, mayonnaise dressing, and walnuts. Tomato shells filled with cube shaped pineapple, red raspberries and whipped cream. Grape . fruit, pineapple and oranges pressed through "potato ricer, put back in grape fruit shells and sweeten to taste. CLEANING. To Wash Black Goads.—To make black silk, alpaca, serge, and lawn dresses look like new : For the un- dertaking get 10 cents' worth of soap bark and boil it in one quart of hot water, Let it steep a while and then strain into a basin for use. Now take the whole dress apart and rip off trimming, brush ori all loose dust first, and then with a sponge dipped in the soap bark decoction wipe over each piece thoroughly, folding up as you pro- ceed. Now have your irons hot and smooth each piece on the wrong side, even the .sick trimmings, and when put together you will be sur- prised to see the results. Instead of your old dress you will have one that leeks file new. Cleaning Woodwork.—For natur- ist finish woodwork that has become scratched or dented there is no- thing better than a coat or two of shellac. It is prepared at home by adding the dry yellow hakes to about 95 per cent. alcohol. It shak- en occasionally it will dissolve in a few hours. Shellac is a convenient form of varnish to have in a house, as it readily covers any mark on furniture. Straw Hats.—Make a warm suds with any white soap and a little ammonia; lay hat on table, and using a small rug brush, scrub hat with suds; rinse well, then put a cord through top with knot on out- side, hang in •a barrel or box, so it can sluing freely. Have ready Pieces of sulphur cloth, which may be done by dissolving sulphur in old tin and laying strips of cloth in it until covered, Lay these on an old pie tin and place under the barrel and light with a match, and when hats become dry they will leek like new, IIR.1TISH MIiSEDM. Big Increase in Number of Visitors —Some Recent Bequests. Last year no fewer than 734,413 visits were paid by the public to the British Museum, and of these 74,324 were on Sundays. These fig- ures show a big increase in the two previous years. The number of visitors to the reading roam gives a daily average of 701. Tho annual report just issued, mentions that two important bequests were re- ceived during the year—the origin- al autographs of Beethoven's .sen- ate for violin and pianoforte in 0, and the late Miss Harriet Plowdeu, and fourMSS. from the late air Thomas Brooke, of Hudder6eld. Tho most valuable TILS. is n La tan Psalter containing a portrait of the Emperor Lothaire (`st0.555) and 'two other miniatures with ex- planatory verses. As early as the, 100 century the psaitor belonged to the Abbey of St. Hubert in the! Ardennes, and it rensnined thew till the Frrnch Revolution, The 1 other throe MSS. are 1114111118t e eliartule ics viz., of Ceelier8allcl Abbey, Laneee lire, 1,165: Fount tains Abbey, Yolk, lith venture.; i and Selby Abbey, York. ]•ith ran- tury, 6,000 MILES FOR A BRIDE raOYJR SAW I111R I'It1TURD OZ' i . POSTCARD. British Gel r 'per tri i i m 1! Miner's >tia uu tie Wooing—Gini t,ivoit In Cornwall. A bridegroom who travelled 0,000 miles to woo a girl whose face he had seen on e picture postcard were married recently at Treere- hen, a little village near St. Aus- tell, Cornwall, England, A strolling photographer was Ou- pie s agent in the platter, Re tools some photographs of the village fes- tival last slimmer, and in one of the groups, which appeared subee quently on a picture -postcard, there was the photograph of Miss 11osina Harpere a laughing girl of sixteen. IN BRITISH COLUMBIA., The next move was made by Mrs. Phillips, one of the villagers, As her daughter's picture also appear- ed in the postcard, she sent a copy to her son, working in a miner's camp in British Columbia. It passed around the camp, as post- cards from home are wont to do, until it reached "Tony" bletassa, a handsome six-foot Neapolitan— who was, however, a naturalized British subject. Even "the lady passing by" of whom Herrick sings, could not have :captivated her swain more, sudden- ly than the picture of smiling Ro- ssna Harper captivated young Me - these. He asked his friend Phillips whe- ther he might send a line to Corn- wall in the next letter home. Phil- lips readily consented, and so Miss Harper received her first letter from her unknown lover. VISITS 'ENGLAND, There were other letters to and from the miners' camp. At test there came one to Cornwall which spoke of a eoming visit to England. Metassa said how anxious he was to see the sights of the country; but when he landed Close in the wake of his letter he did not seem particularly anxious to visit the Tower and Stratford -on -Avon. In- stead, he hurried down to Tregre- han, which is quite out of the track of the ordinary tourist. It was not very long afterwards that Tregrenan was formally told what it had known all along, and preparations began for a good old- fashioned village wedding. The vil- lage was a. mass of flags, fancy mottoes, and confetti, and the whole population was at the church to see the bridegroom take away his Cornish bride. THIEF AS POLICEMAN. Bad Been Active on London Force For Oven a Year. The fact that a convicted thief has been acting as a policeman in London since April last was reveal- ed at the London sessions. After John Fuller, who joined the force on April 26, went to live at the Kentish Town section house numerous small thefts occurred in the house. Suspicion did not fall on Fuller, but on, other policemen. In one ease a vest was removed from 000 locker to another, appar- ently with the object of casting suspicion on another policeman. Eventually Fuller was caught stealing a bank book belonging to a detective. His finger -prints were taken, and it was discovered that in 1905 he was bound over for steal- ing a bicycle, and that in 1906 he underwent three months' impris- onment. It was stated that the referenc- es he produced when he joined the force were satisfactory, and that ha had loft the army with a good character. A detective who had been pres- ent when Fuller was previously con- victed corroborated the finger -print evidence, and sentence of twelve months' imprisonment was passed, Fuller, who had strongly protest- ed his innocence, left the dock mil. ing It is understood that in conse- quence of the ease the finger -prints of all future applicants for admis- sion to the force will be taken. 1--- A STUDY 1)1 CONTORTION'S. Teachers are supposed to be as, exact in practice as in precept, yet sometimes they become careless. A Brooklyn teacher recently brought a smile front her scholars, by her utter disregard of diction. One of the girls of her class was Busily chewing gum, in defiance of school law, To snake her crime the more heinous .she was setting with ho• feet sprawled out in the I' aisle. The teacher interring the morn endde111v, was quirk to call atteu tint to the misbe'1ati5,r.' "Jennie Jones, 8113 said sham 13 ; "take (hitt gum out of emir mouth and put your fret in!" llgr deer.' remarked a .eiein1 wife to her hn band, "1 wisls yon weelrl taste this nail). 34.51 see if it se perently su•(e), 11 11 's the 1ra.8 hit sour 1 n 1181n`t 324414• any of it to deur little Fido!" A ROMANCE OF ROYALTY STORY OF DLA.URIAGI O1! KING A:LFONSO'S COIIS1N. King Aided Prince of BonrhOn- Orleans to 11 ed Priuoess Beatrice of Saxe'Cobourg. The details sotrounding the ro- mantic marriage st Prince Alfonso of Baurbon-Orhea .s to Princess Beatrice of Saxe-.'obourg which. cost him his position as a Primes of the Royal douse of Spain and his career in the Spanish army, have become known. They reveal tike feet that Ring Alfonso, instead of refusing hia consent to the marriage, as was reported by Madrid despite/ma to have been the case, favored and actuvlly advised the Prince to marry her secretly, gave him a leave of absence for that purpose, and personally intervened by tele- graph with the Bamberg ecclesi- astical authorities, in whose diocese the marreage took place, to procure a dispeneatien for it. STORY OF THE COURTSHIP.. This story was obtained from the Prince's ew'n lips by his friends a few days ago in Munich, where the couple are spending their honey- moon. Prince Alfonso and Princess Bea- trice first met on the occasion of Ring Alfonso's marriage to Princess Ena of Battenberg in 1908. Tho Prince fell desperately in love with the Princess, and proposed marri- age, but Beatrice rerused him. Both the Queen and the Queen - mother, knowing of the Prince's in- fatuation espoused his cause and sought to induce Beatrice to relent. The Princess, however, declared that she never would change her re• ligion, but finally when she said she had no objection to rearing her chil- dren as Catholics the Queen -mother replied : "Then there is not the slightest diffoulty to the union. I always said that if I had had a see- ond son he should have married a Protestant." She ridded that she herself had Protestant ancestors. Later at La Grangag Ring Alfonso formally asked the hand of Princess Beatrice for his cousin, and when Beatrice on that occasion parsed the QUESTION 01? RELIGION his Majesty said : 'I give you my word of honor there will not be the slightest difficulty." The Prince then again proposed, and was accepted. Premier Maura said the marriage et an Infante of Spain to a Protest. ant could not take place on account. of the difficulty it would cause the Goves•nment, Princess Beatrice, because of her friendship for Queen Victoria, said she would give up the Prince, who asserted that ho intended to marry the Princess regardless of conse- quences. Ring Alfonso declared that even if the constitution prevented him giving official consent to the marri- age without the approval of his Ministers, he, as Alfonso of Bour- bon, would do everything in his power for the couple. AN'CIENT SITE OF‘IIIJDRID. Arid Now, it Qnee Abounded in Forests and harden. Travellers find it hard to believe that Madrid ever abounded with water. The modern t.,wn stands on se bleak and arid an eminence, its surroundings, save in early spring, are so parched and dusty and the water peddler's cry of "Ague! Ague 1" is se insistent and ubiquit- ous one fancies Madrid must have been thirsty from the beginning. Yet its ancient coat of arms was a large flint half immersed in water, with steel hatches striking it on either side, the ascending sparks forming a sort of canopy around it Appended was the motto: 1 was built on water. My walls are of fire, Such is my emblazonment. This device was emblematic only of the oily in its early days before 'Charles V, had started it on its I-eadiong career of greatness mere- ly because he credited its climate frith having cured him of a fever, Fie it was who first conceived the project of elevating it to the rank of capital. It was left, however, t,, his son, Philip II., to promul- gate the decree declaring the town Lu be uniea Corte. At that tine Madrid leas a sma1I town embowered in gardens ana weeds ane i tl 111 law' 1 e s a n5 wite 1Irings and wells lavishly supplies by native. Tlie eh:nzanaros, now e 1nelaneboly, meagre eti•ean1, was of a measurable depth. But with the apportioning of her temtory into palaces and ledging houses for the ru3at hangers-on and the crin tiil4 (Iowa of the treesto swell the roc al treasury the him/liable fol- 1rwed. The sun of well nigh 400 sunt; )11,n has burned and rcbui'ned the i t el' tan old town and its be - ,t ripe, ,; ,,nhurhs and dried up the 418:li r.rl u,a:(, nr,`, At present 1.110 climax. of Madrid ie nearly the reuse iryiug in all Europe