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The Brussels Post, 1904-6-9, Page 5t • TilE SIN OF COVETOUSN Our First Thoughts Always Pre. cede Evil Actions. 'Watered according te Act of die 1 se- ntiment of Canada, ,In the your 014, Thousend Nina Hundred and Peer, bY Will. linily, al T0r011t0, at 1b0 1)C1pUrE111011t oi Aerieulture, ()use, it 1 A despatch trent Los Angeles, Cal., Bays! Rev. Frank Do whit Talmage prenehea ream the following tett Joshua vil., 25, "And all iseael !Apnea in With Stones." VOW people have any adequate =- option of Vie wealth and the luxury of the ancient pc oples of the east. Ever and anon in our own claLy newmpapers eon Lein accourde of the foolieh extravagelices of the, scions of wco.ithy families, who sthow even greater genius in their ability to dis- alma° and !matter their OnOrmOuS fortunes them their ancestors Slid in the Accumulation of their wealth. Ily frequent repetition so prosaio and connnonplace have these accounts lM- COMO that special trains, private yachts and baneuets costing ten and even twenty thousand dollars for a few selected friends attraet the read- ers of the many newspapers liardly more than e peteeing notice. But ov- en the wildest, extravagances of mod- ern times cannot egual those of the ancients. 'Him not only did Strieca • end his friends move around' their palaces in signiors of gold, but when out riding they bestrode horses shod with silver. If perchance ono of these silver Shoes should be wrenched front off a horse's hoof the supercili- ous and arrogant young Roman nob- les comninndeel their servants to leave It lying in the dirt rather than stop the cavalcade to pick it up. OPULENT BUT WICKED JERICHO The traveler in the far east as he roams throegli the ruins of ancient cities realizes how costly those anci- ent Vedettes must have been, even as from a broken column of the alham- bra you can infer how beautiful must have once 13ee1 the palaces of the Spanish Moors, So in imagination you limy picture the costly vases of myrrhine, the priceless robes of silk, the heaps of Damascus rugs centuries old, the sword hilts jeweled with die- s 'needs aed other precious stones, the ' garments woven out of thread of gold and the emptied treasure vaults, 'with their countless prizes scattered about the palace halls in untold pro- fusion on the day that Jericho fell. Jericho Wes always noted among tho anciente ask a city ot fabulous wealth, But, though Herod the Great after- ward erected his palaces in this "City of s. the Palin Trees" and though it ei,ns for a time the home Of Mark Autosny and Cleopatra, yet Perhaps in ei.S.I., its history Jericho W115 neVer 11101e opulent than on the clay before its walls tottered before thc blasts of the prielits' ram's horns. But, though the wfslith of this cap- tured eastern capital was prodigious Yet not one atomof gold, not one yard of silk, not ono rug, not one dianiOnd, was 11to be taken by the Hebrew soldiers. for their own use. God told Joslipa he would give this city into his stildless' hands, but all the spoils of it:ir of this city were to be Cod's and God's alone. But -.....1,112_22igh0 afterrthe battle one He- brew seegf,14r, Jestead of staying in his own c8tretiany and 'doing what he ought to hOste clone, allowed his sinful curiesis.-1' to get the better of It , him, He les t out among the ruins 00 his ow account and began to • explere. n,ir en, as he saw the piled up heap ;Of wealth, his heart began • to covet 'Alia 11100not his, but God's, /Then he thought no ono was looltie , he stole a beautiful BabYlon- ish ge ment, 200 shekels of silVer wedge of gold and went and and hid, them in hie tent. After many da c s this theft was exposed. Swift co idemnation followed; mid "all is- o el stoned hitu with stones," ' What interest can that ancient , • crime be to us of the twentieth on - they? . It concerns us 05 a type of , the sins of every ago. Trace the progression of evil in Achan's time, end yeti will find the fon stages by which sin Still eolneS te. • In the lives of the crimisals of our day. From its inceeitiere to its tea,- gie„ (nose it is ever tle same, and• , though in Ole world it sometimes eticapes • detection and isenisliment, in the end it inetn'S the righteous judg- 3110110 of God, TIIE LUST OP THE EYE. Tlio first stage In Achan's fatal course WaS what the apostle de- • ecribes as "the lust ot the eye." Achan's cueloeity was excited. lle wanted tb see the woncteeful treasures which wore to he consecrated to the Lord. llis first step in 'the down- • ward path which ended in his de- etrection Well taken when lie sose from etmong his sleeping comrades, and, slipping, past the gueuels, lie • Wended his witty oolong the shattered • walls of the captueed eity. 'It Was one act for Achan with sword and Speer and shiela to fight his way in- te that doomed capital, swarming with enemies, but it Wei another net, after the bettle Was wen, for this loave soldier to arise at night and cratvl pant the sentinels and begin 1.0 examine the ,spolls which were not his and by right 11e0e0 could be hies it is one act, and a commendable act, for a young physician at the call of duty to go down to the place of evil reeort •in a large city to help some Sufferes prostrated by physical infirmity. It ie another aet, and a . Very dange0011S get, for a young inan or a young women, aetunted merely by all idle eurioeity, to Join D. 51111(0' 01:1113 party te look upon vice and Weal teeit it F15 a epectacie,' Mottles times 000;11n 110(15 00100 JO. Met , in ttlle esdhlarY Walks of life,. but 111 needy every 000e, as with Achem temittetfone to 001 most succeeefully emeriti A man whet that 0111111 18 idilag .'110 n biafe wkete he hen 110 beeseese to La Let me illustrate my thought from an old scene in the Bible, How often has the downfall of Donla been the sithieet. 01 the pessimist'o diatribe! Ilow he exults over the speetaent of 110 ehepherd boy who cunqueree Go-, Sate and climbed to the Diem, of 'erect, yielding to his infedestion for O woman! "Yen, yes," sse "men are ell alike; the best of nien are vile at heart. Thete is the sweet ssahnist of Isreel, the perfect SpeCi- ;nen of noble mill -Mod, the man af- ter God's own heart, so enslaved by his guilty passion for another inan's wife that he elaye the huaband to get possession of her. No man is to be trunted." WHY DAVID SIN'NED. Is that your idea of nien? Teen, my brother anti sister, you have not read human nature aright. All men are not bad. Bet all men will 'he reed if they do not stick scrupulously to the work God has given them to do. 1311)0 00000)1 David sinned was not because lie looked upon "Bath- sheba, the wife of Uriah, the. Hit- tite." The reaSOn David sinned was because, like Admit among the Jeri- cho spoils, he was idling at home instead of being with his army. In Ole Bret verse of tho eleventh chep- ter of II. Samuel we road the secret cif the whole • sinful story; "And it mune to miss after the year Was ex- pired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that 'David sent JoSb." That sentence ineans simply this: When the time of military campaign came—the time when David ought to lieme talcert the field and led on his own troops to hattle—he sent 1', sobstitute and steyed at home. The beginning of his danger 0:05 not in looking at Bathsheba, Who WeS the wife of Ilriah, Um Hittite, but in being, like Adian, among the Jericho spoils, in a place where he heal no right to be. My brother, when God cells you to do a worlc, he will always give you strength to resist the sinful tem- ptations incident to that work. But whe11. you go to a place where you have no right to go, you are liable to experience that lust of the eye which may be the beginning of a loeg suceessiou of other sins. *MAN'S FIRST STEP. "eye step," in the next place, was followed by his "covetous step!" We say that the sin of covet- ousness is only one step beyond the first sin. But the 800011d stop of Achen's sin is even more dangerous than the first stage. 'The one may be the bare, repulsive branch, with its sap :emelt and congealed by the frosts of winter. The other nay be the spring blossoms growing upon that branch whon the spring has placed tho silver trumpet oS the resurrection to nature's hp. The lust of the eye is nearly always etee companied by hesitation and timid- ity. You can see that fear in the fleshed cheek 01: the young man who stands upoll the street corner debat- ing within himself whether or no he will enter the place of evil resort to which his dissipated friends are per- suading him. „When 0110 01110(1 has taken the second stop and desire is aroused, the hideous deformity of sin disesmers, and longing sees in it only what is attractive end enjoy- able. The second sin, the sM of covetousness, is blind to the scor- pion's sting or the adder's his or the tiger's claw or the shark's threa- tening lin lifted like the black flag of the pirate over a threatening sea, of green. The "5111 of -covetousness" is a summer stroll through woods filled with the ctroma of wild flowers, It is the fantasies of the diseased brain of the oPitim eater, which the sinful imagination can place almost within the grasp of the dreeouer. It is the most gorgeoos of air castles, the most beautiful' of Utopias, the sweetest of songs. It is the soft couch under the shadows of the overhanging tree branches, over which tho satatic spidere are Mg it few beautiful silken threads which can be snapped in 5, day, but which in time limy become as strong as links of steel. HARD • TO RESIST, Olt, the evil sin of covetousness I Beware! Beware! Evil thoughts aro only a step from evil /teflon& Are We not all in danger of the covetous sin? Woold you tell a he fpr 00 cents ? ''No," yeti empliatieelly answer. "No, of course net—of course not." Would you tell a Ito, just ose little lie, for $l00? "No," you answer .0130111, but not so em- phatically, Would you tell a lie for 810,000—a lie which ill one sense would not hurt anybody? You look 1(0 nie ill a quizeical way anti soy, "Please don't ash me." Well, I do attic you. I Fmk you, not for the pur- Pose Of giving you the offer, but of finding out what is the condition of veer thoughts. 'Aellan coveted 200 eheleelo of silver aod e wedge 01 gold which 111000 Move bowl worth at least 30111,000 in oer Money. He coveted them without the idea of hurting any ono else, yet for that sin of cov- ettotisnests, which WaS the forerunner of other sins, Admit 110.01 to die. Beware, 0 1111111, how you allow yoUr evil thoughts to live. Achan's "eye sin" wits followed by Milan's "cov- etous sin." Evil thoughts will 19- time0els 13e the 'intrents of evil 00- 0101(0. ACITAN'S COWAISDICE. DM now, alter the "'Miser step" lute been eonunitted, domes the fear nod the horror. Aee, the "covet - 0011 stem" may lead throngli an en- howered garden, 'rho buzzards iney there 1111 11(2111(1 in the gorgerme to) 0100 of a ;l'011ow beensi eel, black tipped oriolo. The "eager step'' 11h1' he a 111011, 11, ,11131(1), ail impuleive bound, but oo 1001101' is Ilea 1:011001 step ta kelt 1 11 n 11 cone s tite "toot etep or the sietilthy fee iSe Atop, As soon as Achan, the thief, got peseossion of • this gold 00 sliver end this liebylonish garmeet he did not keow what to 'clo with limn. Ile could not wear the cloak; he could not spend the moncen ee, like it cowing), 310 slcullsecl away aud went and hid them 131 his tent. Sin nearly ,always makes a coward gut of a Men. Achan did exactly what our first aneostor did le elle garclea of Eden after he lied sinned, No sooner Wes that forbidden fruit eaten than for Mani the heavens seemed to be overcatit, He had on- ly slunk away and Ma In the thick- ets as a cowardly hyona would tent away from the hounds, Mit when God called him forth ho did oven a Mealier act than that. LiC turned and tried to throw the bleme upon Ole woman by his side ne he said, "Yes, 1 did cat, but the evoman whom thou gavot to be with me, She gave nie, and I dla eat," Oh, nryiriencls, the ciemina.1 unconscioue- ly reveals himself. The accusing voice of his couscience saps his man- lisess and robs hint of Ills open de- meanor. If there is not an honest heart in a. man, his face and his beerIng will not be honed. The lowered eyelid, the trembling hand, the shuinleg foot—all mooed the er- ror of his past. ,A despicable sin always makes a coward out of a man—without an exception, always, always. Sin by its very nature is only another name for cowardice. No sooner did Achan take the gold than he ran away and hid it; 110 sooner do you sin agalnrit God, then, like all other oiliness, you try to get as far as possible away from Cod. 733:5 BEAT., BIRTHDAY. May this' moment be the eupreme moment for your eternal redemption and not etesiml 'damnation. When Bertel ilhorwaidsen, the geeat Danish sculptor, was asked the daY of his nativityhe answered 1 "I was born on the Sth ot March, 1797. Before then I did not exist." This was not the date of his physical birth. Thorwalelsen was physically born Nov. 1,9, 1770, and March 8, 1797, WaS the clay that he was artistically 130011. That was the day when he first saw Boum. May this day be to you the best of all days, not the day when, like Achan, you must die, but cis Hertel Thorwaldsen first saw Rome, so raa,y this be the first 'day on which you can truly see the face of Jesus Christ and live, +-- THE, HABIT OE SCANDAL. Old Mrs. Etheridge had loved gos- eip all her life, but although her etms were always ready Tor it, she had schooled her tongue to disapproval. Nobody minded what she said, for although she might sitars) her head and utter her customary mild re- proof, her eyes never failed to ex- press interest and a desire Tor more Wormed on. Tito ono phrese which rose to her lirs when the tale was ended had be- come so habitual that toward the close of her life she occasionally ens- Ployed it involuntarily. "Have you heard about Edward?" asked one of the feunily connection, moving her chair close to the old lady's rocker and leaning over eon - Grandmother Etheridge shook her head Lind put her hand to her ear, "They 803r," annonneed the relative in strident tones, "that he's making O splendid name for himself, and has been Offered a salary of Iiiteen thou- san.d dollars by another firm, ancl that he is Jost ne clever as he can be, has hoets of friends there in Chic3ago, and deserves them alll" The light of pride and Joy shone in the old lady's eyes, hut el:astern -was too strong for her tongue. "You shouldn't repeat it, dear," she quavered. "There's a wrong .story somewhere!" A COME 'FOR CIGARETTES. • The other day a wise mother sud- denly came upo21 her son and heir, a youth of tender years, and discover- ed he 100.0 indulging in a cigarette. "My boy," She saitl, "if you in.ust sntelce, why not be manly anti smoke a cigar? Come with ine." And teie led him into -the house and bestowed ueort him . a large black ferner, brought hlin a light, and sat down by him while he enjoyed the fragrant She was with him, too, when his lower lip began to tremble, and his eyes to grow Yellow, and a wave of ehaIlcy whiteness overspread his face. "Nice cigar, isn't it?" she said, in her pleasant way. "So Hoothing and restful and enjoyable. Don't you find it 509" The boy couldn't steady his voice sufficiently to reply, but he foeced himself to 13alce another- puff, and when his hand with the cigar in it ' dropped he gave the sinouldeeing thing a 001100 that extiressed nothing Mit the deepest loathing. "X always liked the looks of these Mee, large, fat cigars," said his, Mo- ther. "They erten so—" "P -p -please d -don't, mother," gasp- ed the boy. "I-1 th-think l'm g -g - going to cl-cliel" And tomtit* minutes later he prom- issel in a broken voice that be would net or again attempt to emoke tmtil 'she told him he was old enotigh to ' • MUTUAL C0117PLIMENTS. "Mabel," said George, With his 11110, open 001)10, "I'm going to be frank and teutlifiO with you from the start, as I mean to be always wilea wo are ineeeied. You ase not as • beattiful aS many girls, but yoti have more (10111)11011 sense and good nature 1 than any other half-dozen girls 3 hnve 0v0'1111(0.11i011<w11." "you, dear George," said Ittchel, eweetiy, "and mow I'll be frank mid tritthfol with yon, as .30 know ;you went to have nie. haVa no move tact than a, goat, but sent heol, the broadest ;and noel) con- etent smile of cloy melt, woman or child T htive ever seen, and it ehows--' But nieovite'n eeeire for franknese Mid enfetred a blight, end ha • Made it 1 01 Setly elem. to inebel 'that he did not care to linow 101100 his smile Showerl, tn04$0001$000t9001#046[4070 0 , to x T FOR 11-1—.--... fl, 11014E el iette e a , 0 A (19 „gecfeas for the Kitcherl. 0 le itYgierie and Other NOtee :0 ei for Cho liouseltemper, o 0 f2) 041 40,0404410sbeReseeteaWeeted (1 001) 10E01 111.15. Chocolate Candy.—Boll an hour ono elm of grated chocolate, otie cup of milk, ene cup cif molasses, mut cup of stIgne and a piece of butter the size of an egg. Rhubarb ly—S tew 01)10110 one pound ot diehard till tender, with enough ,sugar to sweeten and a little lemon peel. Paso it. through a sieve, and add one ounce of gelatine dis- solved In half a pint of water. Col- or with a little cochineal and pour lirto a quart mould. Snow Cake—Oream a quarter cif a pound of butter with a quarter of a pound of caster sugar, add a well - beaten egg. Then sift in grechlaily half a pound of potato flour, add. a little grated lemon rind, and bent for tea minutes. Doke in a butler - ed flat tin for an hour In a elow oven. This should 1301 be allowed to brown much. Boiled (trey Pudding—Take a heap- ed teacupful of line flour and into it rub an ounce and a. half of butter Or good dripping. Scatter over a teaspoonful of baking powder, n pinch of salt, a little ground ginger and n, tablespoonful of caster sugar. Beat up one egg with a gill of milk. Mix the pudding with this, adding more milk if nec'essary to mix all, Pour into a greased batiin and steam steadily for an hour and a half. Turn out to seeve aud pour sauce round. In in:siting cottage pudding take One egg, one cupful of sugar, pinc11 of salt, email tablespoonful of but- ter, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow- der. mix sugar, flour anti butter to- gether dry, boat egg with milk, then add dry ingredients, bake in two round thit tins in hot oven 20 min- utes, turn out, place raspberry jam in between, and pour some boiled custard over, which has been made previously, and serve hot. Tomato Pritters.—Put some large tomatoes in a frying basket, dip them in boiling water for a minute nnd peel. Then cut into quarter - like sections about the sante size end shape as the quarters of a me- dium sized, apple, and drain well on clean cloth. 13eat up an egg with sonlo PaPPer and salt, dip the pieces of tomatoes in it, and then roll in tine dry breitacrumbs. Egg and breadcrumb them again in an hour's time, lard at the time of serving, put them a few at a time in the frying basket, and plunge it into fast boil- ing fat. Drain on paper fnel serve at once. Cinnamon Rolls.—Take a piece of pie crust; roll it out and cut it in (lesson/ strips; sprinkle cinnamon over it, then roll it up tight; put it. in a clean tin pan,which has been welt oiled with butter; brown nicely and bake; then servo On Cho table, For Cocoanut Patties—Make a good puff paste and cut it into ne- cessary • shapes for the puffs. 'elis. together a quarter of a pound of de- siccated cocoanut, One tablespoonful of sultanas, and one tablespoonful of sugar. Put seine of this mixture on half the pastry, double over the other. Wet the edges; press togeth- er. Baku in a sharp oven till the pastry is clone. CofTec JellYt—roue a Pint end a half of boiling writer over two ounc- es of pure coffee in a jug, pour off a teacupful, and at once return it to the Mg. Let the coffee stand till clear and nearly cold, dissolve in it thwee-quarters of an ounce of gela- tine powder at a slow heat. Add three ounces of white sugar, ancl stir till all is dissolved. Pour into a clean wet mould, and set to cool This jelly is greatly improvoti if it Is, set in a border mould and the mid- dle filled with whipped cream.. 1,e01011. Mince Pie—Since Ave will eat pie (end, as Emerson 31151131 s(1d, What is pie for, blit to eat?), it ie anvils% in order to give 11010 or Old recipes for a ohmage ift their coecoction. Lemon mince pie is pe- culiarly and exceedingly good. To make it, stir together two table- spoonfuls corn -starch 11101010911130 cooked, with 11. cup of water, one cup, sugar, ono cup molasses, orm cap chopped raisins, a little citron, the Mice of two lemons and the grated rind of one. • Balm in two crusts. This makes several pies. Por lemon meringue, stM together the Juice etnel dud of one lemon, ono cup of sugar, three-quurters of a cup of Water, with one tablespoonful corn- starch, and the yolks of four eggs. Bake 10 0110 crust, and make a mer- ingue of the four whites for the top, adding a little powdered sugar after they have been stiffly beaten. 'USEFUL HINTS, When mashing potatoes uso hot 11)1110, anti if you have been in the habit of using cold you will be sur- prised al, the clItiorence in their lightness. To elean light wall paper try rub- bing the soiled spots 101011 dry plas- ter of Paris, Viten ail traces of dirt aro removed, dust the powder MI with a soft cloth. To soften brushes that haVe be - (gone hard, 80111: them 24 1101115 in viva/ 1101500(1 oil and 01115e then out, in hot turns, repenting the process till clean, or wash them in hot soda and water mid ooft soap, Por horseradielt sauce, put one Mince and a half of finely grated horseradish into a basin, ndel a 100,- 5900111M of White sugar, a little raw villeins& some edit, Mill a cayenne PePPer. Moisten all with a titbit, - spoonful, of white vinegar. SIM in gradually gill of cecina or milk, anti whisk all gently for 11 feW 111111- 30 T11400d of petting Toed into the oven to keep hot for late comm..% ,try coYeritig it closely with it tin mid setting it over it salleeptin Itot water.. This plan Will Seep the food hot, end at the totine time pre - Vent it Amin elsying. • The Cleaning ca the ice box, like the cleauing of the house, should be conetant rather than occiudonal. 'Po eradicate 'eeeds of all sorts take of sulphur ono pound, eame of ana dissolve in two gallons of water, Pour this liquid on the weeds 011,1 it will quite destroy them. When you have your daily bath dissolte in 10 a cupful of sea salt, end you will fled it as lovigorating SS 11 YOn hnd had a dip 01 the sea. 11 Sot] Persevere 't 111 (1) lo through the (monitor you will iind yourself wonderfully well. To relloVate black e1811 hats core respondent. sends a receipt she finds ueclul, Take a very lit tle nulcod oll and a line brush. Witli a 0,11)111(10, SWUS11 remove all dust and then ap- ply a little oil all over the but, brushing it in well. Then rub with a piece of black material and the hut, will be nearly equal to new at the coot at about, a penny. GIRL'S HEART OUT HIE HER LIFE SAVED BY REINE.A.ItIS.- ABLE OPEItATION. Pulse Was Gone for Hours Before She Was Revived. What ls considered one of the most reroadiable surgical operations ever performed in the world, by reason of tlm great danger involved of cutting off the life of the patient during the progress Or the work., Ilas just been completed by Prof. Menteuffel of Dernath, Germany, on a. young girl of that tonn. This operation, which proved suc- cessful and is now claiming the at- tention of eminent surge.ons the world over, involved cutting open and sew- ing up of the girl's !toilet. The MT - goon seeeeedecl in removing from his fair patient's heart, the beating of which lied stopped two hours before hie aid was sought, a bullet Which hod lodged in the back of tlio organ. Curioesly enough, though the bul- let had practically pierced the heart, It had touched no large blooci vessel. After several hours. the patient re- gained conscioveness, and is now as well ns ever, the stitched heart being good as new.' Prof. Menteurel tells the story of this now notable surgical 00.00. THOTIGITT SITE WAS DYINCI. "This young girl received, at 2.45 one afternoon recently, a. shot from a. revolver, She fainted and awoke now and again, and arose at last at 4.00 and sang for hole. This brought O sister of mercy, who made a cam- phor injection. I was called at 0.29 p.m. "I thought the patient would not live long. But other camphor 111700 - dons brought the almost vanished pulse to action, and the patient awoke to life again. Then I risked four other camphor Injections in or- der to take her to the clinic. The !Patient seemed so well that I thought 1 the shot had after all. not gone through the chest wall. But the test of the enlargement of the retrieve 1 heart percussion and 11, new collapse left no doubt in my nand that the filling up of tlie pericards with blood was endangering her life. At mid- night (nine hours alter the shot) tWO injections of eitniplier were given and the patient WaS put under en opiate. ''T ettt the skin along the left stern- al edge, starting at the height of the third rib and ending at the eighth, 10.011010109 the channel of the shot, the muscle trianguleris was severed, coterie, and vette plameina pushed aside. Out of a perieardinal wound blood flowed at each expiration. STOPPED "HEART'S BLEEDING. "The heart sae became visibly filled with 'blood, l0 split o10 en inserted grooved sound. 'rho postcard, the blood in whieh had partly congealed, Was removed. After this the shot hole Was closed at once by a silk seam. The bleeding was stopped. But where was the bullet? "'The heart was lifted up and 1 coulci feel tho bullet through the back Wall . It was situated in the back wall of the setoncl ventricle. the heart was hold upward, two fixed Seanas Serred as rems, and then I eut for the bullet. A pressure willneY 13017fler end thumb of the left hand made the ball slip out and fall into (he p011011001. L '1svrip this wall, which had hled little after compression with my fingers. Also the fixed seams on the encl of the cut were Joined. I closed up the perivarellal wound witli four knotteci Stitches, the breast wound in the lower part WaS cloeed, arid the above pert of the wound wets gauze chained. Immediately after removing blood from the perteerdium, the mese was excellent. The unaesthetic ran a smooth coOrse. AT THE 111&HNNING everything west ete well as could be &aired. Leto. a serious perictuglitis developed that necessitated the se - 'novel of eeme stitches. "A largo asnooet of pure tiesous fluid ran off. Tempereture 88 G., pulse 1 80, ProM the 28rd of the month, at 12 o'eloeft noon, no more floid Wes given. off. The wooed healed perfectly by second intention. During the entire time we found ,01) 1000)1101 sounds in the Smyth intercos- tal space. Thelle Warn sloWly dimin- ished and 00 the 20th they had dis- appeared. On the 2m1 of the follow - leg month the patent arose andon the 251.11 the wound eloscel op. Tito Patient was detained qt the Clinic. for observation for feue weeks longer. Then she retnrneel to lier home. "The extraction of 0, foreign body out of the heart itself afteisexpooing the heart by operative intervention and thereby opening the ventricle its self 11110 to my knowledge noVer been performed befeMe in the world. My ertee, ia, therefore, tho nest of its htna "The stitching of the heed is Safe Mal thoroughly teeted, ilionfore I wan testified in tatting the del,' to open the ventricle Wad extreei the projectile." THE S. S. LESSON 4 INTERNATSONAL LESSON, aliNIS 12. Text of the Less.on, Mark xv,, 22- 29. Gt.Setext Text, 30, Oar. xer, 3. Ire is now wholly in the hands, by ilitt own voluntary will and by the Will cif Lis Father, OS tilos. 101110 for the time being sew)0 to be pitS- 6010100 by de1010118, Verses 111 to 20, the eetioil betweint. the Jes0 lessee mid this one, begle and 1.11(1 with the words, "A)d the eoldiers led thin 4011413,', * * lee Him out to crucify Bins" 1 lel 1011111 these isvo eon- tences etulleS all the hanory Of Jesus in the hancts of the soldiers, the inocki»g, the manner, the spitting', the crowning with tburns. But who cite describe it? 11110 ever lieurd oT 10 primmer, 0111;11 though 1110 1,5, condem- ned to die, subjected te such in - Mimeo treetuteet? Bet i0, wits ell foreseen and written by the prophets : "Thee gaped upon me with their mouthe, 4,, ti revelling cola a roaring liOn, for ilog(( nave compassed net, the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me." "Reproach bath broken my heart, I am full of heal iness." Ws. esdi, 13, 10; isix, 20). In John six, 37, it is written, "And He, bowleg His mss, went. forth." It would appear that..1- is es 11308011 bore His own cross as they started forth for Calvary, but this Simon, et Cyteenian, and com- pelled him to bear the cross!, either wholly or in pert, after Jesus (Luke xxiii, 26). Consider the physical condi/ion of our Lord Illter the agoey mut bloody sweat of Gethse- mane, the long p 'gilt of inocking and buffeting, the merciless scowling and all that He afterward suffered at the hands of the soldiers, and Was it all• much less mak or beer His en,00tssa? nsondee that He could 80011(1 at , No other mortal ever did or can enjoy the privilege of this Simon, but where was Simms Peter, who, said he would clie ivith Ilirn rather than deny Ilier? ITe is not ready, and this aPParently unfortuntite but truly blessed African has the honor. Consider Boni. Xvi, 18; Acts xi, 1:10; xiii. 71., and the poseible connection with this event. Mathew, lifark and ,Tohn cil.l1 tlte place where He tees crucified Golgotha, while Lulce cells it Calvary, NvIlieh is the Clock. equi- valent and ha.s the same signification "the place oi a skull." Only Luke mentieps the fact that a great company' or people and of women followed Him out of the city, bewailing and lamenting Him, and that Ile turned ancl spoke to the women, telling tbem that they had more eguse to Weep for themselves nnd for their children than for flint becauee of 1130 Judgments that would come on the city. It is also 10 Luke only that we find that the two malefactor)) were led in the proces- sion with Ilim (Luke texiii, 27-32.) It is written 111 Ps. ledx, 21, "They gave Me also gall for 1,13- meat, and 1» ltry thirst they gave Me vinegar to drinks" This also WaS fulflhlcd lf this wag 0 Stuperylpg potion mos- cifully given to lessen the 0u10(11-1098, it is niamiest that Jesus would take nothiug to lighten in any trey that which He came to endure, "And when they had crucified Him." NI.110 ean tell the agony contained in that sentence? It was the most ignominious and painful ponishreent [mown. The anguish caused by the nails tearing lluesugh nerves ancl tendons, the inflareation ettreed by the exposure of these WolnidS to the air, the violent eetin from the least motion—all calmed inexpressible misery from which there was no re- laxation or rest till death ensued. Another Scripture eels pierced my halide and my' feet," arta yet another, "They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture" (Ps. xxii•, 0, 18), for when the four soldiers divided 1Tis garments, to every 1201' 01101' a pert, they, found that He wore els,, a seronless coat, and for that they cast lots (John xix., 20, 2.1). How 1011111 01 0" all eels foretold and how literally nIl was fulfilled! .1154 as literally all Unfulfilled pro - ',levy ellen :keit fulillledl As 3000 See Hint enduring these untold ngon- les and remember that it, is written, "Co) see' is every one that haegetli on a tree!" does your heart say with genet synnstithy with llins but With gladness because of Him, "Quirt beth redeemed nie front tho curse cif (.bo mW, tieing merle a curet) for o e?" (lhest. :eel., 23; Gal, 1 11Th?.,n)e) thieves wore ermined, ono 011 1110 right heod roul the other on ITis left. and thus nnother Scripture was fulfilled, whitth smith, "And Ito wets nimilwrell with the tratsgress eore" ((se. iii.. 12). His 1111112 108 sOt 1101011 to watch Him, end both they arid the paesersby reviled T-Tino end derided awl railed on Him The tilieVert also reviled hb01u, but one of them afterward believed on Dim and was SZ1V011, euperserip- thin of His ecementiem 1008 Sot np ovor Ins heed in Hebrew end Greek rind Latin (Luke. xx(ii,. 88). and 411118 woe proclaimed to all 0110 world the truth yet to be made menifeet to ell ontions that the <te- epee(' and crucified Nazarene is in - devil N.ing of the Jew., Who (04 en immortal 311en slinl/ sit on 332- 11(10 1.1100110 0118 10101 01e1' the 110000 of Jame, end Over all tile earth (Lill(e 1., 32, 38;, Volt, xiv., 0). Consider well nevem eineings from the treFtt, to fell of eternal eignilMance, end may our heart truly cry with the eesturion. Man 111 ol 0C11 (14 (4013 1" Forgive - 11011, glary horeeiter,• ell We t1t1c1011(11 .1y isbPfliZ0,11:1-10:1;tir 1tV'ejl<111,S)' C8.:11f1gee7111: ing the soldirre, to the thief end 0 •,1 oh% and 0,1)0'11(1 'load the cleemeti te ere, My Lord 11.111 11111 God, whose f mul whom 1: temvel (Jobe ste.; 28; Axis xxvII., 22). • 11D3BIA'S IIBItif ililiD IT IS 71aVE1lSARY TO KEEP , DOWN' =VOLT. Coasaeles Armed With Heavy Whips kl, Strong Preventive 'Fe Russittriern, Jetanssusrit:' is Ituesiesetan empire apart from all the rest of the meld. To the caet lit) the yellow peoples, and to the levet. the Euro-, settles. The Ituesians are of 110101011- 0(00 have they any demire to be. They! , hew., in fact, the greatest contempt .11' huth writes W. Holt White in the ;London Deily Meil, t As a 'result you have a Imul-en ;vast laud—ol startlin9 contrauts, of , which staxtliag events are only the tnatural oni eolne, . 1 You hese a nide and hardy people, i with about the some amount of edit - !clition ad the 80001111 had in the days' of tlie old "hundreds," and living IIn Much the same wily; and these rude and hardy barbarians are 9011- 0 01106 by the most astute anti the 'mom higbly 'trained politicians, sold.. 'lees, ana scientists le the world, 1 , , Sou have—all the mechanical ingenue I ity of 'America applied to the sup. pression of human boasts. STUDENTS DEMONSTRA.TE. When I was in Atioscow, the stu- i dents, seixieg the opportunity afford. , C by tbe geora1 unrest brougllt !about by the war, made some ex- ceedingly ugly demonstrations, and for e few hours the aspect of things iwas grave. It might be 1110119130 that it student !is a fairly tutored being; but, as a imatter of fact, if you let the Rus-, Man student loose, and made no efe forts to restraiu him, he would but- ' c) r tif Covernor, the university authorities, and any people of rank the might end; and the populace, fol - 'lowing his noble example, would but - ;cher the merchants and loot their 'shcTs iIs.hort, in the twinkling of an. !eye you would have an uprising of ;the masses on a fax vaster settle and I infinitely 31101'e bloody than that of 'the French revolution. iSo in the interests el laW and 40114 dor the Moscow students was Mimed - :lately suppressed in the following; r simple manner. COSSACKS TURNED OUT. ' The Cossacks, who resemble the Irish 10 not caring a brass button whom they fight, as long as they ,figh0 some one, were let loose on, Moscow, But before, they were loos- ed the authorities took from them their arms, replacing their weeneels by short, thick -handled whips, with long, leather thongs, loaded with cruel, biting little bits of lead. By enveloping tactics they "round- ed op" the students, smith as the Texan tcowboy rounds up a herd of cattle, and with their leaded lashes they flogged them into the street which leads to the famous riding - school. The doors of this gigantic building were opened wide, and. the students flogged through them. Then the doors were closed, and armed men were posted without. There for two clays the just and the unjust—fer old men and girls and small boys wero flogged into that 1.iding-sehool with the students —were imprisoned in murky gloom together. On the evening of the sec- ond clay the doors were opened, and a sadder and wiser corps of students was allowed to rejoin a chastenetS populace, DEALING WITH POLES. In Poland, should there be trouble the measures taken to suppress it will probably be more ruthless, for the Poles are a subject people, kept under by force of arms, . The most fervid patriots in Poland ere the stnclents who don 'workmen's clothes and labor with their hands in factories to preach the gospel of freettont to the mem But nothieg collies, and teething can come for a Very long time in- deed, of all this rebellious spirit, for the Russian Government, with' a 'cunning that is almost devilish, has rendered it hopelessly impotent. Jo 13egin with, they have removed jail the men of 1'011111d 110W serving lender the 1liiss1a deg &nen to 31(150- 10118011111 reservists have been called up to take their plaCe. Then the Government, knowleg full well that 110 people 01111 rise without leaders any more than armies can. I fight 111( 11000 generels, take good care that any 1111111 merked as a lead- er, or es a poseible leacke, innned- lately disappears. Ile 00 301001 out of his bed • very quietly in the middle of the night, and ir he is considered to be a more thart usually dangeroes man be is henged swiftly and silent/y precisely, at the hoer of clove. This, of course, does not haPPee to many; banishment 18 generally the .ptuilehnient. for 'urging "Poland for the Poles," Front time 'to time one reads that disturbances haVe oceorred in such - a town. mul that troops have been despatched there. One dwells developments 1011 11 art anx- ious interest, but no developments come. The Itussinii method of government effectively prevents them. So 12001110'- 1001 110)1 01,11 theoretieel loVeltS Of freedolil will save themselves a vest amount of disappointment if they setnside ell hopes of a successful up- rising in Polemd durieg the present war, A MODEL LIITSBAND, Wife—"I need MAO more money," ' trusbenel--"It is only two daye sthee—s•' , "Nowt, see herel 30 went you to' enderetand that T neveldn't eel< for inonsv if I didn't need it, and don't intend to he rem inter] tha i t's only two days Mime you mtve some. I tau not, a child, /101` a 141,11 - lo). nor 'a slave, to be treated 1ikee en irreeponeible being, end 3 Met, went you to Silos/ that T 10(1(10 Stand 10 either, so flare now/ l'eo got just as itilieh right, to seer more. ey (13 3,010 110,V1‘,.1141 100') 01)01', yoll“..), "MY I Wan lituttly going 30 remark thee, 10 111 (.11`ly 111.0 day 410(0a 7 Ileaw ses eaSeess yoi ebuld have 1011 YOL, 1,1."