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The Brussels Post, 1904-11-10, Page 7• TIE I EAREST GIFT HE HAD God So Loved the World That He Gave His Only Begotten Son, er 4 T/1011 Shen love the Lord thy God , with all. thy heart and with all thy P mind, •This le tho hest and groat commandinent.-St. Idatthow xxii, No man can thuly love his neigh- bor no he lovehimself until he has first learned to keep this nest and mat corninancanent, No easy took will tine be, but that it is not an impossible ono is testified by the lives of unnumbered thousands who have lived and in all ways done :heir best, "Fear God ancl keep Nis commandments, for this is the whole duty of man," WAS the text • I- or the great preacher hundreds of yews before Christ came. To -day we teach our children that they were •••• . amde, to know God, to love God and 1 to serve God, IL is ttme that "per- fect love casteth out fear " but as with the infant races in pre -Christ- ▪ ian cleys, man had first to learn to fear God, so oven to -day that ele- ment of fear is needed which is with- • out apprehenelom but full of rever- ential awe. We cannet love God until we know • Mire In our infancy we knew Him 71* by faith. In manhood We enter mlsup- on a ore intimate knowledge of Him in the daily school of caper - 0 Mime, Ili maturer years we say with certain confidence : "We know Him , as, in whom we have believed," We de this because He has made Himself known to ,us in a thousand loving ways. As father, mothei, lover, husband, friend; a0 ruler of our des- tiny and guide of our devious path- way; as a shadow from the heat and a refuge from the storms which fret the days of our earthly sojourning. THE LOVE OE COD is no passing passion, no variable emotion, but through all the ages God's pecan rings out, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love." For ur own good Ile ahastene us, but "is chastisements am those of one ho allows our needs. Pain and leafless, poverty and suffering, aro lets the existence of which Jesus 'heist never denied. But in those orris to the afflicted warrior, "My rem is sufficient for thee," IT- o told the ineans whereby all may be en- ured. "He watered," we say in the onsinon creed of Christendom, and e we say it. we know Christ's sac - al heart is boating in -unison with lie heart of humanity, In our High lest„ who ever liveth to make in - cession for us, we have one who 1 bo, and who is, "touched with feeling of our infirmities." How nderf el and how beau Uhl! We link of the love of Jonathan and avid and recall that it was "pass- ing the love of women," buta- The love of jesus-what it is None but 1118 loved ones know. ldany waste years in the vain specu- lation as to Cod's revelaelon of Him- self to 1113, With the 11 reeke of old, sonie say to Confucius and to Bud - dim and to Mohammed. "Show us the father and it sufficieth us." What is truth? Some ask with Pilate, anti like Pilate wait not for the an- swer. Yet to as to -day it is spoken the word of life by the eternal word Jesus Christ, "He that hath seen the Father." And the clarion-voleed deelaretion, "I ani the way, the truth end the life," "God so loved tho world that Ile gave His only be- gotten son to the end that ell that believe in Him ahould not perish, but have everlasting life." Ho gave the best, THE DEAREST SIFT IIE HAD. "For a good MD one would dare to die, but while we were yet; sinners Gimlet died for us." Is it any won- der that some say "We love Him because .11e first loved us"? God made no; 1 come from Cod; I belong to God. All religions be- fore Christ were shadows of the truth in so far as they taught truth, but with incarnation light came again, The incarnation was a lleNV creation and the Holy Nativity a new birth as the second Adam mine Into the world. In jostle Christ alone can be found the answer to every riddle asked by the sphinxes or all ages, "I'te is our God; wo have wailed for Him." Heart, mind mid will mast all be concentrated to Him in loving service. In this faith many have lived and died. In this world they have livocl, yet not of it. They have lived as "seeing Vittc who is invisible," but their visions wero realities and Hide dreams the eternal truth. They lieve belonged to the time ctristocracy of tharacter, They overcame the world by the victory of faith, stupendous and impossible as the task must have seemed to them, as to -clay oftenthnes it seems to us. So let us learn and labor daily to get our own living, doing our clay in that state of life unto which it has pleasecf Cod to call Ile. So let us school ourselves in loving grate. tuck) to our God in whom we live and move and have our being, loving Him as Ile dream us on, worehIP- Ing Hine putting 01111 whole trust 1(1 lionorieg His holy name and His word and serving Him truly all the days of our lire. FATE OF Pb -USS ADERAL • PRINCE OUORTONSTLY'S CRIME AT PORT ARTHUR. .Tho Naval Commander 1day Have Suffered Death f or Dis- obedience. While it is not until after the fail of l'ort Arthur that it will be known definitely wbether Admiral Prince , Ouchtomeky has really been senteneed to death by court-martial for his [7 flagrant disobedience in returning to tho doomed stronghold, it is ex- ,..... tremely probable that the etory it true, and that he Ints already suf- I fored death, probably on the quarter - dock of his own flagship, for his Mil- clit ere to °mainly with tlie peremptory 1;::., instructions which lie had received. ' The Czar, knowing that Port Ar- thur, in spite of its heroic defence, was destined to fall, lied issual an imperative order, communicated through Admiral Veittlioft, to the ef- fect that all the Ships in the harbor should 'go forth, run the gauntlet of the blockading fleet, and encletwor to cut their way ihroegli to safety, but under nc; circumstances whatsoever to return. In spite of these directions li the Prince returnee' to port with his ! " .- ships rather than engage tho su- e perwi• force of the ,enenne being of the opinion, presumably, that it would be preferable to blow op his remaining. veesels In the harbor jest prior to the fall of the fortress and se participate in its inevitable surrender rather than to face the danger of being SUNK BY ADMIRAL Toe10, That ho might possibly have etetap- ea had he obeyed orders le shown by •• le the fact that some of the cruisers in Port Arthur did manage to elude tho .Tapaneso fled and to get awese Un- der the citheinstancee, the Prince's conduct may well bo regale/led as melt Ling severe pm islim en t, since it eonetitutes the only 1401111)1'0. note end clIscrecliteble feathre of one of thu most brilliant defences in military and naval battery, ADMIRAL BYNG'S CASE, In order to find any parallel for the cese of thie :Russian l'rince, it, 171 • necessary to go back to the 111th ▪ century, tvl'oen the lirt tish affin ral , the Hon, George 13327113, S011 of Lord Torrington, received peremptory or- t dors to nelievo ill March , which Wits being beeieged 1)y the :fi'vencli fleet. , e The egnadron coollned to 111111 for Vtlio tweet:don or tide mission had been sent to see poorly meanest and Macteguately armed while the stormy weather which it encountered in the Hey of Biscay reduced it to suca am- nion HIM: the admiral on reaching to Medi teeranean decided 1 hat 1 as hepelese to 'decant of engaging ethe poWerful 'Veatch naval tette oft rhe lattee shortly afterwards sure edered to the Etna ill defer - tee to popular clamor Aelmirel as brought home under arrest oe Is own Papally end tried by com3 mayital et Partsmoldh. Trio Court, which was cethemsed of (leg officars, acquitted him of the charges of cow- ardice width had been brought against him, but issued a verdict; to the effect 12113112 1131 had disobeyed or- ders by neglecting to do his utmost to relieve Minorca or to defeat the Freneh fleet. SHOT ON IRS SHIP. According to the then articles of war the coma liad no alternative but to eentence him to death on this ne- count, but strongly recommended him to mercy in consideration of the disgraceful condition in which Ids squadron bad been sent to sea and 00 the ground that at the most he had been guilty of error Or judgment andof reluctance to accept the re- sponsibility of engaging overwhelming French forces with ships inadequate- ly armed and manned. Prime Minis- ter Pitt endeavored ill vain to se- cure from the Crown not merely a commutation, but a pardon, .Ithig George, however, with his traditienal obstinacy, declined to lieten to a word in the aanairal's behalf, and Byng was shot down by a Ille of ma- rines on the quarter-deelc of hie own flagship in Portsmouth haabor. • MADE ITIM CAREFUL. A schoolmaster, after giving ono of his pupils a caning for speaking ungrammatically, sent hint to the other end of the roora to intern) an- other boy that he wished to speak to hint at the same tinio promising to repeat the punishment lf he woke to hint ungrammatically. 'rho youngster, being quite satia- fled with what he had got, cletet•min- od to be exact, and tines acklressed his fellow pupil : 'A connuou substantive, of neaseit- line gender, mingular number, noinins salvo case, acid in au angry mood, who site perched upo,t the onilhettee at the other end of the room, wishes Ito ertionato a few sentences to you in tile imesvit, tense.'' 4 ho kiss yo.n when he Pro:Posed?" lley-"Cortainly: 1 wouldh't coneldee tiny Int17 sealed proposals.'' -/ wonder why tho epitepths of the great are always., eel forth in LEttiu?" "011, I suppose it's becitueo that's the dead Mogilev, you, know," "Ale yes," enid the fond young mother, loaning ON'or Ihn cradle or her firstbore son; "the glory of. a. woman is her heir!" Torixelotte were first introduced 014 a practical weapon in 187(1. Taking into consideratioe the great advahces made in other weepots, the torpedo line not boon vastly impeoved. A new XT torpedo, however, the most powerful in the world, 18 to be ie- trodurect into the British Navy in tlio near future, 'Wine n eaval officer is being Weil by eourtemartiat ancl the members leave coneidered their verdict, the primmer `knows the finding Of the coma ns soon as ho re-entore the cabin, If "Not guilty" the hilt of his 11/01'd, lellich hos on tire table (twang the preceediegs, pointa to- Warda 111111, awl When he is found "thinly" the point is tuteed 111 hie laireetieta +114+14144444444144444/ • Thg. Home! SELECTED RECIPES. ItIggs Newport Stage, --Take one pint of bread crumbs and soak in One pint or mina Boat eight eggs very tight, and stir with the soaked crumbs, beating five minutes, Have l'eaftv n saucePan in which are two tablespoonfuls of butter, thorough- ly hot, but not scorching; pour in the mixture, season with pepper and salt, Eat the mass is opened and stir- Stehied teacups and other china 811011171 be runbed with a, little salt, Arta, the discolorution has gone, wash, and dry the chinas millet. When anything boils ovet. on the stove, sprinkle it thickly with com- mon salt, for thus you will prevent dienseceable smell arieleg and per - meeting the whole house, Chian stair rude by was,hing them with scam and water, end' then pttl- lOtlitg with any brass panelling fluid or with AM oily cloth dipped Into finely powdered rotteastone. Wet embrellae should never ne left open to dry, afi the silk stretches while elainp and Is liable to split 'rho right, methoa 18 1.0 Close a wet umbrella and stand it, aanelle down- wards, to drain, Wall papers should be carefully solectoo as regardcolor, accordlies to the size of the room, Papers or red with the "scrambling," which a light blue shade make 3•011010 look should bo done cptickly with the much largee, whilst dark papers with Plant of the keno, for three minutes, big patterns reduce the apparent size of the apartment A Pleasant violet emit is easily made with 01.1118 1'0 et and spirit of wino. Cut half a pound of orris root into little pieces, put it. 111 a bottle, and pour over it an cilium of water, and wile]) the grftvY heats. spirit. Cork tightly and leave for chop a fresh egg into each (Am; take: aboet a week. A few drop; of this oft the saucepan, and cover in close: on a handkerchief will have a smell till tho eggs are nicely and tenderly I of the sweetest ancl freshest or cuoked; dredge them with nutmeg violas. Carpets may often he washed over Instead of swept, with great advan- tage. In half a pail of warm water put in a spoonful of ammonia, and riese a cloth in this before care- fully wiping over the carpet. This method not only removes the dust, but also brings out the colors with egg upon a small, thin square .01 far greater freshness than Would the buttered toast, then sprinkle with MoSt thorough brushing. salt and pepper. Some persons pre - for them poached, rather titan fried, with ham, 111 10111011 ease snbstituto the..ham for toast. White Stock for Soup. -Two knuck- leof veal, two onions, two table- spoonfuls of salt, and eight quarts or until thoroughly hot, Serve on a hot platter, with squares of but- tered toast, Cupped Eggs. -Put a spoonful of high -seasoned gravy, into each cup; sot tlae cups in a saucepan of boiling and salt. Servo them In a plate covered with a. napkin. To Poach Eggs.-I-Inve the water well salted, and not let it boll hard, Break the eggs separately into a saucer, and slip gently into the wa- ter; when nieely done, remove with a skimmer, trim neatly, and lay each Buttermilk pie, of which you have heard so much, should be prepared 013 10110WS Beat two eggs to a froth with half a teacupful of sugar, a tablespoonful of flour, one pint of buttermilk, and a tablespoonful of butter. Whisk all the ingredients to - or water; boll six home; strain into gethor thoroughly and bake with a stone jar, and keep in a cool ono ei•ust, as you would a on pie place; when cool take off the rat. Buttermilk Broarl.-S ift enough flour into a quart of hot buttermilk A.dcl any spice or flavoring desired. Lemon Candy. -Gook together over 01 slow nre one pound of loaf sugar to make Et. thick batter; add a rat"' and half a pint of water. At tho cake which has been dissolved in'.ericl of hall an hour clear it with a warm water, and set to rise. When !little hot vinegar. The scum must be light, work in half a teaspoonful of removed as it rises. Test the syrup soda which has been dissolved thor-, by raising a 5110011, and when the oughle in a great spoonful of warm tsi„.ads 01 „gttr s imp me glass eea water. Add floor enough to workteamiy wm be ready for flavoring ; over without stickiness. After ris-1 add 1001013. essence to taste, and, ing the second time make into loaves when nicely flavored, pour into a and bake slowly. buttered Beefsteak mid ntin, When the toffee is Onios.-Select a nearly „id, mark it Into squares good cut of round steak, cut an inch with a knit., thick and a piece about five Inches' Herbs for storing shoulclalways be square. Pound to a jelly with a gathered on a One dry day. Remove wooden mallet on a meat block, the roots and wash the rest in a Slice four onions, put in the frying, sotutiot or borax, so as to free the pan with ono cupful of boiling wa- ter, and stew till all the water is in bunches and hang up in the sun to herbs front grit. Then tie the herbs gone, without stirring. Then add , Should this not be possible, salt and pepper, and a heaping table-, they should bo placed in the kitchen. spoonful of butter. Fry the onions meetly the leaves are crisp, take carefully to a golden brown. Heat !them Teem the stalks and pound in a frying pan vesy hot into which put the steak, turning often to sear, a mortar, Then store in clean, dry bottles, Sweet herbs may be mixed, over and protect the juices. Ser', e: but, tarragon, mint, and sage should on a hot platter, season with salt each be bottled a.4.____eparcttely. THATCHER'S XSIAND. The Tragedy Which Gave the Is- land its Name. The twin lights of Thatcher's Is- land are familiar to many who 20 and pepper on the platter. Pour the onions around the steak. Pot Roast -Select a piece from tho ender round or cross rib of beef, about two politic's in weight. IIeat O small tablespoonful of suet or drippings in a spider, and brown the roast in this on atl sides. Then put it onto a shallow pot, which has a flat bottom, with one cupful of hot witior; cover, boil ono minute, turn down to the sea in ships, and to the meat, and 13011 a minute. Re- many more who sllend the summer move the meat to a platter. Put months on the rocky headland of In the pot a meat rack to have the Cape Ann, but probably compare - upper sido two inches above water. tively few are familiar with the de - Dredge the meat with flour and pop- tails of the tragedy which gave the per, place on the rack, cover the island its mime. It wits on Et long Pot clusely, cook gently but steadily ago August -two hundred and sixty- three hours, adding More water to nine yearg ago, to he exact -that the keep one cupful. At tho end of two Rev. Anthony Thatcher, his wife, his and a had hours, add salt aud pars- four children and several other per - 1y; remove the rack anti stir anto sons lef t Ipswich in a vessel for the gravy flour moistened with cold Marblehead, where Mr. Thatcher was water, and salt. Recover and cook to take charge of the church'. They geraly oneehalf hour. The seasoning set sail on the 120, Et fair summer may be changed by cooking carrots day, but "with a head wind and or celery ends with tile meat, which very little of it." They had a te- dicats ttme beating out of Ipswich Ban and at night on the 141.11 had not yet succeeded in doubling tho hs been recoMmencled for a moist cape. A sudden, lemons August and tender angel cake : Take the 5120310 00010 on in the night, and the tyhites Of nine largo eggs. Ahld to luckless craft was driven on the them a pinch of salt add whip 1,110111 roCkS, where She soOn went to pieces. lightly until they are partly stiff; Mr. Thatcher, alter being buffeted then add half a teaspoonful of about by the see for a long time, cream of tartar mut whip them until was able to filing fast to a route and very- stiff. Fold in carefully one climb on shore. Drenched and shiv- and one-fourth cup of granulated au- °rim, he walked about, vainly trying gar that has been silted three times. to see or beer something of his late Sift one cupful of the best pastay coMpanions. now dreary MUSh have flour seVen times (if you want a per- been that lonely vigil in. the storm (Stet cake), and fold it into the sugar and darkness, while the insatiate sea and whipped eggs lightly, Last oft thundered on the rocks about him, all add a, teaspoonful or vanilla, and, like Paul Under similar circum - Turn the cake into a large unbutter- stances, he "wished for the cloy." In ee pan. :13also in a modeinte (Nen the Catly &LW( 110 eaW his wife "Wa- rrant thi eteative to 111 ty minutes. flag herself forth from amongst the Neyeer open the oven door until you tinabee of the broken barque." Ito think the cake is clone, 11:4 11 falls Weet to her assiatance, and she Was Very easily. On taldng It from the soon sato beside him All the others, oven turn it upside down in such a twenty-one in number, perished. way 111111 a current of air will pass Among them were the Rev. John under it until it is cold. 11/hee. cold Avery, his wifo mid Pix chiteren. The loosen the coke from the sides of name of Ude uniortunete family is the pen and nit It out, It, should commemorated in "Avery's Rock," a be so delicately baked that this will hidden reef shunned by 11 1111'10 OM, not ren be difficult. If you intencl to ice far from 'Pilate:1101'n island, Ai; the it over cover it with a Sof 1. uncoelc- time of this melancholy shipwree,k rd icing made with powdered sugar, them were not 11173ro then two or white of egg and a very Jittle vanil- three families in Cape Allit, end no In. Aogel cake is generally better help Came for Mr. Thatcher and his for being kept a day before serving, wife on the first Elate. or Om scteorel. If it is Et little tough place it in a Fortunately some provisions washed stone jar end eover with a plate, on shore from the vessel and 1,115 Let 11. steed for iwo or three days weather cleared, aci'llicy conld make in this way end it will beecane Mile themselves comfortable tiering the (101', time of their enforced stny. They Wore finally taken off by a fishing IT111T8 FOR IIOMP1 LIFE. vessel and. carried to Marbleheed. Marble shoind bo wasbed with ana. Some years later Mr. Thateher wont inonia arid water rather than with from Marblehead to Yarmouth, where soap ancl water, ho lived to a geed ohl age. Other To remove tho 01)3.011 of Onions children were born to him rind hts from a, sauemum, 1111 it with water, wife, lir whom the tame is pore - and drop into it red-hot cinder, lauded in various places to this day. A lump of camphor sheuld bo kept It wee more than a century later in the plate chest, for It will render that the twin lightitouees Were built, storectetway Silver lesS liable to They were first lighted on Dec. 21, 171 1771., taDj'isishileleths ehould be well washed with Sean. and seep,. rinsed in clean Water, and thee hung out of deers Reetameant Diner -"1 env, waiter, Where tlftl y011 get this 1)001'2" Wafter "SeitTiffido8efe.t. seeds form ea eacellent -"I slon't 1411001; 811'.. 10171111111 11110 11 and fattening diet for potiltry, They matter, With it?" Diner-"Tlieves t are also tevalitable ae bait for rat nothing the 11101100 W11B it; 1 110,t'11 g and umese trepa, Why I asicea," may be skimmed out before the flour is added. Angel Cake. -The following recipe DIOTHEN IttIgg HUED TEMY Alm Tama COUNTRY'S WEANNESS. Men Whose Sodden Brains Lead Russian Forces to Defeat. The shanudoes untruetwarthinese or Russia's diplomacy and 011e utter cor- ruption pervading lier entire public Nemeth have been cleetrly aria impure Heady pointed out, from time to time, Nays a lennion eeepateli. There is yet a third disgritee which hithe.rto has not been 770 detlnitoly indivated, Viz., the condo,et of and character of Rueslan officem, military and naval, The press 7)f every capita/ of Emeepe has more than hinted that drunken- ness was lorgely 'the contributing cease of Russia's latest solf-huntilia- thin In the North Sea. The thne has 210W come when the drunken dime- lutenese and brutality of a large Dropoetion of the 113,8e1ne officers E;hould bo helcl up to the reprehension of the civilized world. Its results have become a matter of internation- al concern, SOME BRAVE LEADERS. No one denies the highest h'unor to such inen as She brave General . , Althea, ono of the few Russian ofil- cere who gained the ihapect of officers of other nationalities during the Pe- kin expedition, but Stoeeects, Kouro- patkins and Netters are sadly few in the Ruaelan services, both of whidh are 'disgraced by the,preetence of toe many officers of tho type of the Grand Duke Boris, who even at the front surrounded himself with an entourage of painted women 0.11(1 drunken boon companiene, IN THE ARMY. Such were the men who on the Pekin expedition rode reeling in their saddles, with an orderly on either side to support them when necesecu•y. Such were the men Who ordered Chinese prisoners to be shot in melee to avoid the trouble of transporting them. These aro the men who have been seen in sheer excess of drunken brutality to strike 1111011endIng privates standing at salute with a message, These are t110 111011 responsible for the name- less horror of lblagovostsrhnnk, These are the Mee 11'110 were drink- ing in resorts of shame during the lighting at Liaoyang. Those are the men whom responsible Russ an corresponchnits in Russian papers have described as drinking ehatn-i pagne end exchanging obscene jests with abandoned 010111011 within ear- shot .of wounded and (lying fellow countrymen. These Etre the men, ' Who, shameless with drink, have Per- secuted sisters or mercy accompany- ing 11,, army, with their loathsome DISUITACI,1 CZAR'S SI0RVIC11. attentions. These are the men whose drink-, ruined nerves succumbed to panic; when the I -Tull fishing fleet was Right- ed . 'rhea° aro the men whose come' potence is such that a half hoer's heavy tiring by their fleet at close. range enabled them to sink one, fish -boat and to kill two and wound thirty fishermen out of a largo fleet 1 oe unresisting trawlers busily ongag-i cid in their peaceful trade, whose 1 humanity is such that when the nals-! take was discovered they sailed off into tho night without offering the f slightest assistance 1.0 their victims, Surely it eau only be the duty of the Czar to purge his service of such officers as these, 01110 at the present moment make Russia's only fleet a disgrace to its country and a danger to every vessel afloat, save, perhaps, its legitimate foes. 1 A BABY'S NOROSEOPE, Son of King Humbert to See Fall of 73eitain's Power. ME S. S. LESSON INTERNATXONAL LESSON, NOV. 13. Text of the Lesson, 11. air), Oolden Text, x., 39. All that had been aceongelebee the tar in saving Jouell from the rage Athanah, in keeping Olin liarely all in haa 1 lig him anointed kites Wt all'01101 the faithfulness of J010113014 the 'triad, and his wife, Johoteliell eth, 0110Wing 1/0 1100V much luny 1 accomplisattel for God by it fuithat fealless, devoted man or 0101131131, 43 11:011:141 11Ve0 to 1,77 leo years old, 111 when he died they buried him ilk id city or David among the kluge be caese he tied dem. good in israe both towited God and tower(' the home (If, Citron. xxiv. 1.5, 16), His name signifie "1.1100171 to dehotab," and that i better than to be known and "tonere of all men. to be truly the Lo!.d end to live for Hint is everythieg All elise 113 nothing no matter ho I mon may- praise it. Jouiai hac web. a, 80112151.101'80112151.101'lie did right in th sight of the Lord, but not perfectly for the high Mares were not take away, anal the people still sacrificed and burned incense there (verses 2,, 8). The Bible records only one who always; and in everything did right before God. Under the teaching mid guidance of ,lehoiada the yoUng king was minded to repair the house of the Lora and to that; end sent priests and Levites into all the cities of Judah to ga- ther money for the work, and they Iwere commanded to hasten it, for the sons of Athalia.h, that 'wicked woman, had broken 117) the houee of God and liad bestowed the dedicated thines upon &intim. But eixteen years passed and the 1101180 01318 not repaired. There was something or God and something of men in this.; Iffiece the deley, for man's way of doing always hinders God's work. It tens no doled, of God to repair the temple, but to go after the people Cor the money with which to do this wee not the Lord's way; hence it fail- ed. I cannot believe that we are to welt upon people individually for money with which to carry 011 His Nemec, yet there is so neuell or it dome and 50 many wive devised to get money from ell sorts of people to thie end. I beliiiVe it to be all wrong, I do not wonder that the priests under the reeroof of sloash would consent. neither to re.ieive money nor to re- pair th, house (*verses 6-8). So the icing's plan failed, But. 11001 500 E1. b• tter way: At the suggestion of Jo- hoiada ri chest with a hole in the lid or it Is placed beside the altar a1 tho entraece the I ouse of the Lord, and willing people brought their of - reship to it, rind this money was gathered in abundance day by clay. Again and agam toe chest was einptied and put hack in its place to receive more, All the prinecee and all the peo- ple rejoiced and brought in and cast into the chest 'until they had made an end. So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, (111(1 they set the house of God in his state and streegthened it. The oven - seers of the work were unusually aithful, and those who gave them the money with which to pay work- men kept 110 reckoning with them (verse 15). gs WORLD'S 1t1013.ST .MILE 1....••••• PLACE WHERE EVERY NAN XS A XXX.LIONAIRE. Total Wealth Represented in the Mile if18,0S00070e0w01,10a0t0,0ver The richest mile in the world Is s poet:Mei by twenty bloolcs of reel - 11 clences 011 Fifth Avenue., New York d 11 113 11 Kind mile of private man - Is stoma eighty in all, 111 each of widen' te lives a millionaire. a- This pertieular 6,280 feet of land ni is worth from 31 0,000 to 315,000 a, 31, running foot, and the average fron- e. tal space ocenpied by each munsion td is 50 feet, On some blocks there are 1,1 $even or eight mansions, while other blocke are occupied entirely by a sin- gle palace, such ne that uf Mrs. 1 Conielius Vanderbilt, at the begin. mug of this remarkable mile, and of Mr. Andrew Carnegie at the upper s enAdMixitecturally, the palaces in this thoroughfare compare favorably with any row of residences 111 the world. The buildings embody the best work of the best architects of Europe as 1 well as of the United States. Tho e effect of the whole is .harmonious, though nu two rosideeces in the line aro'Ilialelikueille of Midas mansions has been built entirely within the last twelve years, Park Lane in Loudon and Parc Morceau In Paris may be more beautiful, but in no street in any city is there such a concentra- tion of self-made wealth as within the mile in question on Fifth Amu- uo, For seventy out of the eigthy mansions here included are owned and occupied by self-made men, thus leaving only one-eighth of the mile In the hands of those who came iinatnocetheir millions through inheri- The palace of that self-mado Scotelanan who has given away 31,- 000,000, Andrew Carnegie, was fin- ished only a few months ago. It stands in the centre of a private park and is name:110cl after the 0h-. (3101) Chenonceau at Cher. Upon its completion, at 4 cost of 32,5000,000 including furniture, Mr. Carnegie rgia.gvhet a its to his little daughter out - A BIRTHDAY PRESENT. An Amerlean Creases, who has a mansion within ibis mile, is Mr: Charles T. Yerkes. The unique Sea- ter° of his ntansion is a fireproof Wing devoted exclusively to the art treasures, valued at 31.500,000, Which Mr. Verkes has collected from all parts of the work/. Bach of the twelve marble steps forming' the "stoop" or entrance cost 31,500, so that by the time you reach the top of these steps you have counted off 818,000 of Mr. Yerkes's wealth. FM dining -room opens into the large siri tueceTw'vai°27 of the kind in a Of the eighty millionaire residents of the mile, fifteen aro women. The two richest blocks In the whole line, indeed, are occupied by the pa)aces of two ladies, Mrs. William Astor, aunt of Mr. William Waldorf Astor, and Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mrs. Astor's 35,000,000 palace is modelled after tho Chateau Cham- bord, built by Frances I. Here and there on the female is carved the let- ter A., after the manner in which poleon made 110e or the letter N. The glass dome of the Astor picture - gallery is supportod by caryatides modelled from life, Sandow being the model. There is room in the house for 100 overnight guests, In Mrs. Astor's bathroont is the heav- iest single piece of iimniture, proba- bly, in the world -a bath -tub made out of a solid block of marble and WEIGHING F0711 TONS, Idr. AsLor's son, As- tor,J lives next door. eTo Tl J eh o au cs oebs 010 so constructed that by the opening of certain doors they can be made into one -making the largest private house in New York. The most magnificent house in the mile row, however, is that of Hrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, The ballroom with its golden piano and its 4,000 square foot of dancing space, is the finest and costliest iu America. This palace cost Complete over 37,500,- 000, and almost every day students may be seen sitting in the avenue in front of the house making sketches of tho equisite sculptured stonework of the facade. The young Duchess of Marlborough once lived in this paNIIliethi% Vthe mile also is tho famous house of the floulds, in which the favorite daughter of Jay Gould, Anna., married Count Castellano, of Paris, For a single rug in the foyer of this mansion Mrs. Gould paid 325,000, The walls of tho smoking - room are entirely of ebony inlaid with pearl, and in the music -room iS a piano stUdded with precious stones this being probably the costliest piano 111 existence. Here, too are the Goelet holm where the. Duchess of Roxbiseghe liv- ed, and the house owned by Mr. 22i1331awman, the father of the Duchess of Manchester. While only eighty or New York's 1,600 millionaires live within this richest of miles, the total wealth remounted le the twenty blocks is a trine 03(01. 131,000,000,000, 1111SS.141) 80V1,1 OP XT. .12 youegeter had been to the thea- tre, and upon hie return hie uncle eskeel him how he liked the play. be replied. "the play 1113111 all right; but I clielh't see all of it.'',' "Why, how did that happen?" Etek- (‘d11st111ek ".11430311150,1.' enewered the Vie -me- ter, "the roller meet have broken, for the window blind fell clown two or three times." Compare carefully the account in Citron. xxiv. with our lesson for to -day. The work being finished, they offered Inwnt offerings in the 101180 of the Lord continually all the days of Jahoiede, (II Chron. xxiv, 14), ancl thus the Lord was honored again in His own house which had been so denecratha by the mightily, and all through faithful Joholacla lid his house. If 3.140 will as Joshua Icl, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lorcl" (Josh. xxiv, 5), God will surely bless us and make us 0, blessing to many, The mart of this lesson is tho house of be Lord, its desecration and restor- tion. 'Both tabernacle and temple, built for God to dwell in among I -Tis peo- ple (Ex. xxv, 8), were typical of the, True Tabernacle Jesus Christ (Hob. viii, 1,2), and every good priest and prophet and king is also a type of Rim 331 whont God dwelt perfectly. The church is now tl-Tis dwelling place on earth, not any building made with hands nor any so called denom- ination, but the companyof all true believers, wherever found, mei all who aro true believers are expected to yield themselves and their posessions wholly to God that De only make 0(40hm e of teto gather from all 110- ti ions 11111 members of His body who aro not yet gatbered thet 310 the temple may be finiehed and the king - dont come. There is very great need for ;Iola oirtclas who will fearlessly and faith- fully honor the Lord alone, dual believers are also temples cif the Lord, and there 18 great need of sleet as aro willing to be 10110113' consecrated to flint (I Coe. )'i, 10, 20; H. Oor. (1, 4-18)-, whose con- stant motto is, "What wilt thou, Loth?" "Wien) wilt thee?" and whose whole haw). says gladly, ,,1s.hoset 1 mn [Ind whom 1 serve" (Acts ix (1; Lute xxil, 0; Acts xxvii, 28). It woe a sect (ley for ,I011811 11411111 the good prioet, his faithful connselor, died, for 111011 came the princee of .1 1111/1 II and persuaded the king: to forsake the house or the Lord and servo groves and idols, and, although the Lord sea proph- ets to tura the people egain to I1111'.- tho people would 11012 give ear, and the king wont so far nit to cause to be stoned to death Zeclieriall, the son of Jelloiade, because by the spirit ot Gott 110 reproved their 11110, Thns 1 013.511, the long, retneMbered not the kiminese which Johoiada, his father, had done to him, but slew his son (II Chron. xxiv, 17-20). The Lord noted it and made nielition of it when on earth in His humiliation (Luke Xt, 51), Ail tho ingliity on earth cries to Him caul will in T110 033(11 111110 14130 1.0 it ,(Gon. 1.0;_i Hale 11, 11). a Credulous persons who believe in d h'oroscopes will be Interested in, one publighed by "11 Matino," of Naples 1 concerning the baby Prince of Pied- inon. According to this oracular 1 ennouncement, the future King of t Italy will require close 0,0,01111011 and a groat medical care in his earlier yeare. Ho will be in serious physical danger, it ecents„ a the respective ages of 1(11 months and four years, but will live if well cared for. His destiny begins to take simile in, 1018, when Int will be fourteen years old. In 1028, at the nese of nineteen, a "great change will take place in his existence," end in 1027, 3.011011 be is twenty-three, thero will he an event which will Mem momentous cense- quentos for himself and for the Italt- an nation, The Prince will live, says tlin aele, to see the fall of the Papacy, and ite reconetituticm on reformed lines. Ito will also see the clowidall of England's great, power, and the litml polnical union of leerence and Italy after unprecodentod disasters to France. 'Pile culmination of Italy's proeper- its, will 001110 1111 1381, when the pre*, Ont, beby-then a King -will be 53 yeers SLAIN SOLDIERS. A graphic description or the post- *Hensitt which ikact 140141005 ave found on the field of battle is given in a truer from 1.ieutenant-Oolonel ltoli- ldti, describing ehe fighting et Moe 1 ionlieg, "13n t 1.1 eliel " ha writes., "ere very diNerent from the novelist'a description. It is curious how few dead own lie prone. Many fall in fantestle and inexplicable attitmle, saw ono man who bad been shot, through thin eltmt, cronching on his lames, almost co) if engnged in pre:le- or. Some inert lie doublea 1113, clutching their knees, or oven their feet, and in the trenches many sit 0e11013' with bowed heeds, as if busy melting, have even soldiers adM fell beetwerd, with their halide behind them, as if they heel tried to feel the soot where lhe bullet bad iSlatett, T haNe even seen men with their ends between their legs, and in our venal, a cmmorel lay deed, Lightly retepheg the colter of his tank with nth hankie," 13. gentlenum bottglit, a new variety of potatoes and -told the modeller to bo Wire MA plant iheln far enough apart, "Well Sam, did you the 'etotatcsee far epert, es I told you?" Sam -"I end, ehe 1 /limited 501110 in your garded am" eome m /Mee, 50 they aro tom mil= apart,"