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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-4-13, Page 7es k - se or to n.. 111 lie o - is ee r. 11- r0 d- 0 ;lc 1.9 rd 10 00.1 er lie as ho In go .er 3t. en et he a or a :er he 19 00 A FOE\ DATIOI\ OF TRUTH Against Every Temptation the Youth Should'Stand for Honesty. .A. despatch from Brooklyn, NAT., 1403,8411ov, Da Newell Dwight Hillis preached from the following texe:— Thou Shalt not tell lies one to an- other,—Leviticus xlx. 11. It is a Striking fact that Um lower world of animals and men live by lying and treachery and deceit. All things that creep and crawl practice fraud. The spider's web is spun out of deceits for unsuspecting flies. The fox doubles on its teack and by pro- tons° esCapes. 'Hie wolf, or cun- ning Mile leapo from its hiding place upon the young faten as it stoops to drink. Not otherwise Is It with the lower orders of men named, thieves, gamblers and all whose Stock in trade is the passion of their follow men. Deceil is the protection of the petty criminal, indeed, the whole lower world in its rank and Ole is made up of thotio whose stock In trade Is some form of fraud. Dante tells us that the realm that lies just below the world of hard work and honest industry is the realm of lies, This realm of deceit is the realm of poverty, vagrancy and human wreck- age. But the groat world of industry and trade has journeyed away frorn deceit and fraud. The factory, the store and the bank are founded on truth. Remnants of the era of lies remain, Just as our earth shows here and there a pocket of fire, named VESUVXUS OR MONT PELF,E, as reminders of an age when the earth was a ball of flame. Modern Mellization would break down utter- ly if men were to return to the an- imal era of lying. What if the pre- cedent of the bank had to and each day with running the 'bookkeeper down? What if tho merchant tossed ale night lest his clerks were hand- ing in lying reports of the stook? What if every manufacturer had to stand with e scourge above the weaver and spinner? Now and then a man has succeed- ed for the hour by a skillful lie, but henceforth every merchant is a detec- tive on the liar's track, The history of the great firm of to -day is the history or an honest trado-reark. The whole theory of tho trade -mark for' the packing of sugar or coffee is that the people can depend open the truthfulness of the packer. What is it that sells a certain grade of wool- en or cotton cloth? The mere fact that the people of the country have discovered that this manufacturer never weaves lying threads or sells cotton muter the name of wool or sin'. The merchent's capital is his honesty expressed in goods. The way of truth also is the way of prosperity and wealth. Honesty promotes Prosperity. Many years egb I knew te youth who hos since climbed to high position, His father Was a farmer who lived several miles from a growing city. Ono morning elMo 'boy of 18 wakened to find his father dead and the family DISPENDIeNT UPON HIM. After mlich thought he teamed the littie farm into a dairy. From the beginning Ito had Lha idea that if he had heelthe• cows and never told Iles, and Hole good milk, and if he purifi- ed his milk and aerated it, it would be appreeinted by the mothers of lit- tle children, and so the time would come when his honesty would give him the tratle. For two years the boy struggled for his footing. Oho second spring some kind of dietem- per broke out among his herd of cows. Re did not know but it might Prove serious. NOW to tell his cue- tomere the truth was to lose his trade and see his competitors gain it. After a sleepless night he wont Into a printing Mike and brought out a little circular explaining the situation to his eustomers, Saying 110 could not hoeostly sell them milk. In a single fortnight his trade was gone. Hut a leading physician in tho town, whose practice was atnong children, appreciated the hoes hatred of lies. One day this doctor wrote an article advising all the mothers in the city to guard against impure milk during the heated summer months and told Lhe story of this boy's honesty. The physician said that the ,vouth spent money to keep the milk clean and sweet, and that he had a right to charge more. THEN THE REWARD CAME. For years the boy sold his milk for 6 cents a quart as opposed to the other men wbo bad 5. At 30 the matt went from the dairy into a most proxperous business in the city. Now the history of his great success is the history of his hatred of lies and his love of truth .in the inner part. Macchlavelli exempted the diploma- tist frotn the law of truth. Ile urged that the spy must lie, the lover use deceit, the gamster show courage when he had a poor hand, and the diplomatist say one thing when he meant another. For that reason, when John Milton became foreign secretory to Oliver Cromwell he al- ways won otit in diplomatic matters because he always told the truth, while the diplomats thought he was lying. Society still believes in custom- house lies and in diplomatic lies, but every form o4 lying is a form of hill- ure. Charaeter leaks away through a Ile as the liquor in the cask Is wasted Sy the wormholes. Ageeinst overy temptation the youth should stand for tho truth. Honesty turns the politician into the statesman. A name for honesty is better than great riches for the financier. Better than beauty for woman is this praise: "She always speaks the truth." Young man, ii you build your lire ou lies you belle on sand. Fraud is a bubble that soon bursts. Truth is O foundation of rock that shall not be removed. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONA- L LESSON, APRIL 16. Lesson 111. The Supper at Beth- any. Golden Text Mark xiv., 8. • LESSON WORD STUDIES, The anointing of Jens by Mary of Bethany is the /ast vecoecied event in the life of 0111' Lore preceding the crowded scones of passion week. It -occurred one the evening preceding thetriumphal entry of Jemus into Jet tisalem, anel is recorded by thece of tho four evangelists (MaLt, 6-18; Mark xiv., 3-9; John xl., 85 to xii., 31). Several weeks had inter- vened since the mieing di Laearus, during watch time Jeeus lead retired With les disciples to "a city called Elthrnim," several limits' journey northeast of Jeellealettn. Depaeting thence he lead crossed the Jordan, proceeded southeemed, recrossieg at Jericho, through which city lie Imes - el accompanied hy ro great caravan. of pilgrims on their Way to Jerrie- alom for tlio great 5.010u201 celebra- tion of the passover. Much of that which transpired by the way on this last jourecy of Jesus to the natfort- al capital is !recorded in the wool/ - tient gospels (Malt. xix„ 8 to 20, 84; Mark x., 2-52; imIce XVII., 11 to 19, 28). These paseeger; include teen - tion of the following itepoetarrt and familiar persona s nd events: Tho ten 1(9)90heated; the Pharisee reel the pulilican; °heist blessing little chil- dreg; etio rioli young ruler.; the ambi- tion of :lames and John; the blind Mal Mar Jericho h'ealeci; and tho visit to Zaccheami. Verse 1. Six Days Ilefore the Pass- over•On• the eighth of Nisan, sinee .• the ;remover festivities began on the fourteenth. It is generally accepted that the Year was A. D, 80, in •• Which case the eighth. of Nisan On Eriday, March O., that is, began at six o'dmik la in. of that day, and was a Sabbath,' We are to think of ;.,!lefins 00 arriving 01 Bethany before '1We Sabbath commenced, or eerier amearel not to have traveled. 111101.0 time the Mettfult .distamo on the Sab- bath itself. The feast probably oce curved twenty -Out hours label., after In close of the Sabbath, on Satur- day eeening, Bethanye-To be identified With the modern "Ago,riyelr" or "Laearlyelia.' the place of Lazarus,on the mestere, Mello of Mount Olivet,'about tevo miles from.' jeritealein; A place in Width on accoutre of its lonely oltue *Mon Many travail& congeogatell, gielng te the place •the Matte "house cf aliaery," The viflago to -day DOS-, tains "about forty poor houses in- habited by Moslems." 2, They—Clearly referring to re. larger company than the, little family cone sistinof Lazarus anal his two sisters, 'Since tlio raising of Lazar- us no doubt there wore many In Bethany who belimm on Jena:3 and would be glad to publicly do him honor. A supper there --In Bethany, though not in tlee home of Laearits. Matthew and Stark both explicitly state that it was in the house of Simon, who had been. a Mime. lVe infer that this man MIS beer, healed by JOVS 011 some former occasion, and thitir therefore lie would have a specicil anet prominent part in this reception tencleved the Master. 3, A pottact—A weight: equivalent to out! pound (troy) of twelve ounces. •Ointment of pure eavd—Tho Greek 'Aimee is very rave, occuering ouly here and in Mark xive 8, Ds 111N1.11- iirg, thaefOrS, is 110t quite certain. It may mean (1) "gelatine (pure) nerd" as distinguished front acluttor- ated nerd, wheal was eheaper • and 10010 0011hM0111; Or (2) "drialia1310 (liquid) rearde'and atm:meats weee Reluctance &rink mixed with wino; or (8) "Pattie need," in which case "Pistic" is to be taken as a Proper adtectiem derived from the name of the place from Which the ointment wits obtained,though no such place now appears to bo known.- All,of these meaning's find support in the 001119115 of tho Greek phrase, Of tile three, the nest is to be Preferred. The nerd itself was an aromatic oil extracted from nn hetet Inclinn plant, the Nardostachys Jo tantalise and • es the evangelist explains, very precious (f:onto. verso below), foot—Matthew anti Mark both mention only an anointing of the head, which doubtless preeeded iliis bathing of tlio foot with the reniam- ing or greater portion of tho prool- otie •' • Nine—Tito fragrance. 4: Judare Iscariot— The treasurer of the apostolic company, who would most naturally be interested in money• valeme Moro than tho othere. Coat/wiling Mos. we knee:, (.1) of his call, (Matt x., 4; Mark lit., 19; Luke vie Id); '(2) that Jesus 'early foretold 'hie trettelimer (John vie 70, 71); (8) that he betrayed Jose(Matt. aeVi., 14-49; ,(4) of hie elibriegtiont vereorso and silici'de '(Mott: xxvit„ 8-8). • 5, Three liemeleed ly,e three hundred &earn. The de. wne n. Roman silver,celn the Value of whieli revenue to linece varied grentler from•thne CA tithe. Prob- ably &beet soveritY-tWe -dollare would be a fair egelveleat in our MelleY, Which Watt a fahuloils stun for ono Of MOderate eiroumetanees to squander be thl�WaY• He was a thief—A personal revel - lection of Joint, who had doubtless suspected the traitor long before hie true chum:ter Was openly revealed. box, Took away—The Greek verb some- times 111Vallar "to make away with," ''1(1 1-0 ea ), ' ' which is doubtless John's intended us o here, 7. To keep it against the day Of iny berying—Perhaps better as in the marginal rendering, it was that she might keep it, etc. 12). Chief Priests. took cotensel—oio remarkable lead been the demonstra- the.; in honor of 30515 at 13eth:411Y that, it attracted the attention and det ermined o p p os I t ion of the au- thorities at Jerusalem. +- THE ONLY PAWNED CITY, Swedish Town Has _Recently Be- come German. Wismar, a port of 18,000 people on the Baltic, situated in the Ger- man duchy of Mecklonberg-Schwerin, but belonging legally to Sweden, has recently become a German city. It was pledged to King Gustavus IV. for a. loan of 81,000,000, and, the King of Sweden having failed to re- deem it within the century, it has paseed to the Duke of Mecklenburg - Schwerin, from whoee ancestor the money was borrowed. In the early part of the eighteenth century Denmark, the most powerful enemy of Sweden, after the clestruc- lion of the Hanseatic League, kind of trade union established by certaind com- Wismar Alter - id the •ith the Gorman cities for safety an mercial purposes, captured and razed the fortifications. ward peace was declared, an city reverted to Swden, but Is provision that she should noho t re- build tfortifications, The place thus lose its strength and Impor- tance, and became, instead, art !ele- ment of weakness to the Swedes. Its d its great 3300 trade was ruined an inland trade lest. o Under these eircumetances it was not surprising that the Swedes tired at last of their white elephant. So in the reign of the incompetent and extravagant Cluetavus IV., with ter- ritory lost to the French in one war, with Finland lost to Russia:, with de- feat in a war against Norway, the Swedes seized an opportunity to re- lieve themselves of - the burden of Possession. The direct opportunity was given by the cancelation by Gustavus of his engagement to the daughter of Duke Frellerick Franz I. That person not unnaturally resented the inoult and threatened dire teings. Finally bis threats crystalized into a demand for an enormous indemnity. The money had to be raised at once. The Duchy of Meeklenbui.g advanced 1,- 258,000 reichsthaler and took Wis- mar, Neukloster and the Island of Poel as security; Under the conditions of the loan the City of Wismar and the two Government districts were to remain in pledge for one hundred years. At the end of the one hundred Years Sweden would elahn and obtain the pledged city and land by paying back the original loan, with 3' per cent, compound interest. A further provi- sion, however, of the Joan was that, should Swaim fail to talc° any no- tice whatever of tho expiration of the time, tho contract would become renewed automatically for anotbor ouo hundred years. The sum which Sweden would have had to pay if she wished to claim Wismar and the two Government districts is figured as amottating to e27,000,000, and this alone,quite apart from consid- erations of policy, operated doubtless as a bar against the assertion of her rights. Thus we see that,while inunediate be/sine-es transaction. dates back but about one hundred years, any diplo- Inane squabbles over the city now would have to revert to the surren- ders and armistices of the Tlitity Years' War (1818-'48). 1,101 the fact that Wismar heretofore really was Swedish territory explains why Ger- many hasi not rot -Lifted the port, which ie considered the finest harbor site of the entire :Baltic coast. THE' DUKE'S PAY1VrENT, When Sir • William Allen, the emi- nent historical painter, had finished! his pieLure entitled "The Battle of Waterloe, from the letench Side," which the Duke of Wellington agreed to purchnoe, the artist culled upon the Duke one day by appointment to receive the morwy. He was ushered into the study of Apsloy House, where the Duke proceeded at, once to Pay him Taking lin a von of noteta the Duke began to pot them down in a slow and deliberate manner, colllng out tho amount as he did so, eie,, "Ono hundred pounds, two Mildred pounds," to This was tedious work and 81r William -at last contrived to blurt out in his Se/etch manner that Ms Grace should not take all that trouhle—o. cheque would do. Bet the Duke went on: "Five hum dred poimels, six hundred pounds. - The artist, thinking the Duke had not heard him, raised his voice loud- er and lender at each hunched, ex- 0191knhcle' " clue will do—a cheque will do." "Eleeen hundred poeinds," said •the Duke, . • "A cheque will do, your Greece" :•Tv:Ilivegeuhe,uhrderaeldly1)"abcischger;ue will dol' ' repeated • Sir William ogee r""lc ei.o. " the Deke thundered at last, choqpewill net CIO, *DO yo U Sar1-1 POSO I am going to let my ,haalteee know I have been such a fool as to , pay £1,:1;00 for a picture? Why, they'd think me Mad. I wish you • good morning, Sir William!" • TELEGRAVIITNG PHOTOGRAPHS.% Profesaor Eorn, of Munich, has pre- sented to ropot.t to tho 13averian Acw. dozy of Solaces stating thet ho has porfeeted a aystent of tritemeittiag photographe, ale:aches, and faeeimiles Of signatures OVOr ortilintr,v telegrePh Wirea. Auy photograph, he says, can he transmitted 'Over a Wi1'0 1,000 Inilet long in tWetzty 1+111444-1-114,41+64141,111-** Ths Home 11144444444,140014144.';444.14 SOME DAINTY I IS! MS An Orange Drink Is a good change from lemonade. :Put 011e 000 of cream of tartar, slx. ounces of loaf agar, and four and a half uunces of orange peel into a large Medici. Pour over these three quarts of boiling water, Strain, and allow it to get Perfectly cold before serving, Cream Oakes—Take ono pound of sifted dry flour, a teaspoonful of baking -powder, and a pinch of salt, Mix wiLlt sufficient sour cream to make into a cloug,h. Form into Dat cake, and bake on a griddle oft the top of the etove. Adel currants, and sugar to taste. Devilled Sauce is very fashionable just now with chops, steaks, etc. Melee two shallots, fry In half ounce of butter till a golden color, add half a pint of brown gravy, a, table- sPoonful of mixed mustard, a ties- sertspoonful of Worrester settee, rend o good pinch of red pepper. Stie until the sauceboils, skim it and P051) through a fine strainer, "del a teaspoonful of finely chopped par- sley, and serve. Steeved Steak.—Out one pound and a half of beef stoale into nice pieces, put it into a. stewpan, cover with stock or water, and whim it sh•tuners edd throe onions, a carrot, a turnip, a stick of celery, and two tomatoes cut into pieces, let einuner for an hour alld a half, thicken the liquor with flour, add caramel coloring to make a rich brown, seven with pop- per and salt, and serve. Any other vegetables, parsnips., mushrooms, etc. may be added if liked. :Holiday Maul de—Telco a teacupf el of jaan, the srtme quantity of bread - crumbs, flour, and suet. Mix all thorouglily together. Dissolve a small teaspoonful of carbonate of soda in a little warm milk anel add it to the other ingredients. Throw in, two ounces of stoned and chopped raisins, and set all in a greased mould. Cover very carefully with buttered paper,and steam for three hours. Turn out to serve, and dust castor sugar over. A Good Sponge Cake.—Take a tea- cupful of dry pastry flour and pass It through a Elee, add to it the same quarrtity of caster sugar. Work into these Ingredients the yolks of three eggs, and beat for ten minutes) In a good, steady oven, The baking. Is theMost difficult point in sponge - cake making, so would advise your using a rather flat tin for your first two or three attempts, and do not bang the oven door or open M often. Cocoanut lee. --Put one Pound of tho best lump sugar, pounded, into a sauce -pan, and over it pour hall O pint of water. Let this etand for half am home and then place on the stove, and allow it to cook for live or six minutes. Remove the scum, and boil the sugar until it is thick and white; then stir into it a quar- tet' of a Pound of fvosli cocoanut, finely grated. Stir uneeasingly until it rises in a mass in the pan. Then spread it SA quickly as possible ovei• sheets of paper which have been, dried before the fire. 120111 OW the paper before the ice le quite cold and let it dry, Chutney.—The necessary ingredi- ents aro half a pound of garlic, half a pound of glee% ginger, one Pound of sweet almonds, two, pottods of stoned raisins (weighed after ston- ing), one Dewitt' of mustard seed, a quarter of a pound of (heed red der - lies, eight pounds of finely chopped, unripe, Petry, baleing apples, and six qu nets Of Vinegar, Previ ohs to% blending these, soak the giager the vinegar for tett clays. Pound att the ingredients Separately in a mor- tar und moisten with vinegar. When thoroughly pomrded. .111i0 all in a stone jar rind stew in a largo panted of water ONCr a slow fire, rot. a Clay, If not. mute soft, cook again the next rine. When cold place in gInse bottles for use. Thickening with Cornsttireh,—When cornstarch is used to thicken boiled custards, cake 011ings, Or othee com- binations whore sugar IS 1.18011, it is much the quicker and better Way to inix 4111' sugne and cornstarch dry. They may lie quickly blended till no lumps remain, We all know that the milk to be thickened ems) be close to tl e. boiling point, and many of US know the weary waiting for the ac- tual bubbling Rite'', thicletning lifted with cold water has been added, But eleied The; segat. and cornstarch even- ly in it bowl, dir out a large spoon- ful or two of the hot milk and stir all smooth, and yon may return all to the hot mill: and (bid its tempera- ture lowored so very little that an Will bon with but a few moments' stirring. Chocolate, when ORM as a flavoring, can he gt.atod into the dry sugar, blended to 0.11 even tint 11Y a littio reirring, and waste nerd wasaing 01 dishes avoided, • HINTS POR THE HOME, A Glove or Garlic introduced into the lame/de end of a leg • of mutton will be fouled a great, improvement by those who like its, flavor. A simple remedy for neuralgia is to squeeze the juice of ft lemon and 09 orango int(' • 5 cup, add liot Water, and drink' at .01010, The Importance of Minim- Milk.— This proeesS is no doubt tedious to Molly housekeeper.% but it need only be 'done 'metro a day. Tal, in the mornieg the necessary milk for the clay and scald it in a double Imam., eied you will bo stemeleed hole easy 11 ig, pisease goring live he hank more fr061:if 1b tip. other liqlnldo A. hafted p0ifide0 ithoultT he Vti;r• plied Met to the sikin, 'no oil from the Meal Mentaining.,liettilirg pro., Derbies. In Cutting (Miff bread lieet tkie first one side end then another AOPOSS tile 110t StOVO. To take groat) out, of leather ap- ply the white of an egg to the spot and dry in the sun, Repeat the an- ptication tin the otain 114 removed, .leor bruseing a, elite petticoat use a pad coveted with velvet instead of a brush, A. brush WOare ih0 silk anti the velvet pad does not, thOUldi it removes the dust Just as Well, After baiting to cake always loe 11 remain in the tin for about five min- atlitee:te KiN'S it, time to settle, end then turn out carefully on to a To restore the ivory handles of 'olives to a good color got some fine sand paper and rub the ivory handles with it, and they will be- come white. To remove rust from knives, talc° a little paraffhi and some emery powder, rub this on to the knives, and after a couple of hours seoue them with/ a raw potato cut in half. After a few cleanings the rust marks emoted have quite disappear- ed. Scouring drops for cleaning the collars of coats, etc, aro excellent If Inade from this recipe; Mix one teaspoonful of essential oil of le- mon with a wineglassful of spirits of turpentine. Keen in a beetle tight- ly corked. Drop a little on a Ilan- nel, and well rub the greasy parts. Celery can be kept fresh a long while by rolling it in brown paper, sere/wed with water, then in a damp cloth and stored in is cool, dark place. Before preparing for table, the stored celery should be Plenged into cold water and allow- ed to stand for an hour, It will (dice' be as crisp as if just; dug. Treatment of Bruises.—A bruiso. should be immediately bathed with very hot water to prevent sevelliag and lessen discoloration. If the bruise be serious, a cloth wren from hot oil should be applied, ehenging when cool, or a cloth moistened with arnica be bound about the bruise. POrSOOS with Delicate Feet should' give them a brisk rubbing daily with cold halt and water. Those who suffer from perspiration of the feet should wash them daily with soap end water, tlien sponge them with! tepid almn water for a few minutes. This will take off any unpleasant odor and harden: the skin. - • TWO COLLEGE RECIPES. Coffee Cake—One cup molasses, I cup sugar. 1. cup strong hot coffee, cup chopped pork, 1. cup raisins, 1 teetep000 soda, salt, cloves, cinna- mon and lemon. 5 cups of flour (or less). • Pour the hot coffee over the. pork. Bake about au hour in mod - orate oven. Coffee Souffle—Take ler cups coffer), )1 cup railk,• 2-8 cup sugar, 1. tea• spoon salt, 3 eggs, 4 teaspoon va- nilla 1 tablespoon granulated gela- tin. Mee coffee, milk gelatm, and half the sugar; heat tn. double boil- er. Adel remaining sugar, salL and yolks of eggs slightly beaten; coek until mixture thickens. Remove from range and add heaten whites and vanilla. Mold, chill and eerve with cream. TOO WARMLY WELCOIVIED, lee was sprucely dressed, and no tshoadooronetlap adbopulledthe bell than "I've called---" began the young num. "Oh, yes, of course," broke in the matronly lady who had opened the door. "Come this way, pleaee. I'm delighted to see you." And the led tho way into the tastefulle-decoratod drawing -room.. ' In, utter bowilcieument the young man, allowed the serviette to remove his. overcoat„ stick,, andhat befone he. found his tongue:. "Excuse me,, madam," he said, "hut I'm ahead there's some irise.-" "011, rio, nob at all! Mary has told ine all about you.. She aid—" ".13ut, madame." stammered the young man, jumping to his feet, "X— I—or—don't know Mary." "What?" teddy screatned madam. "Aren't you. Mary's young man?" "No, inaelena I'm tho tax collec- tor, and I've caltod for—" But madam did not wait to: hoar. any more, and a few moments later the pollee man 10,-.1.ral 111015011 on the. footpath outside., so cloaca thee' h10. rearce knew where he WAIL TOWN LIED AND comincxxlota. At tho Cambeidge meeting oe tho British Association some oingulem facts were presented about the in- fluence of disease ate) of tow a life on the peevalling complexion or the po- pulation of England. Dr, E'; Shrubsell said that blonds aro found to gaffer inot.e than In•unettes froin rheumatic isorders, but less from tuberculosis, Mantis 'also suffer more from disease in childhood, and consequently their nunibee in pro- portion to the brimett es diminishes in the crowded areas. of citioe. Ilenry Balfcrer snici that it appeared that town lire, by encouraging a blemetto populatien, is altering tho inheritedcharaeteristics of Oa Eng - lilt flatten at the expense of the traits which the people oWe to their 'blond ancestry, TBsiR OPPORTUNITY. Miss Fluffy—"I macie quite an im- pressiou at the reception, didn't, I? EVot'ybody seemed to be talking abC:ttuen,:,dinideiend—"They talked still niora p011 rater you b yoad iso A. aerVous yotmg man. Was intro- duced to all elderly gentleitate at Parte', and Wiehing to make a good itnpression said; "I have 'just been talking to your chalghter, she end find hoe eery. elearming.". "That lade, i0. my wife," was the (met reply of P$attuliC1 Poll? anwd"to '.1111°Z11.3(75 mush s terletakel" lietrriedly reePoneleti the young Mane "I might have knoWil she Wee yoer wife by her blade of the breadelettife by laying seroeg upseMblance to 31001 • IN MERRY .OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY 1L4XL ABOUT .701111 BIJLI. AND Ms pzolo1M. Occurrences in the Land That Iteigns Suprezne 10 tho Com- mercial Weald. Convocation of Oxford University unanimously accepted the offer of Mr, Alfred Beit to endow a chair of colonial history, Out of 232,411,784 tons of coal Drecluced in this country last year, 46,200,4O47 tons, apart from Dolce and patent fuel, left this country. At King Edward's command, Mr, Cope, is working upon a magnificent portrait of the German Emperor in dela marshal's uniform. The Duke of Portland has present- ed to the Natural History Museum at South Kensington the skeleton of his famous Donovan, WirlaCr of the Derby and St. Leger in 1889. Messrs. Salmon & Gluckstein and hiessrs. A. T. Jones & Co.'who have tobacco shops in all parts of Lon- don, have deckled to close all their establishments on Sundae's. Music lit London parks last year cost 0111,584, or about 019 for each concert. lealipeeny programmes real- ized 0148-0, while 01949 was paid in lealfpeneles for chairs. The Manx House of ICeys has pas -- ed a hill for the abolition of tied public houses, and a bfll to prohibit the crying of newepapers on Sunday has been read a second time. The estimated market vaTue 02 Suez Canal shares held by the Gov- ernment is £28,910,000. A sum of 0110,808, out of £85,e 000 required, has been contriltutee towards the cost of the proposed sec- ondary day school for boys in West- er -Mister, as a memorial to Cardinal Vaughan. Lord Drassee has entered his fam- ous auxiliary yacht Sunbeam fief the race across the 'Atlantic front Sandy Hook to the Lizard, for which the German Emperor ie presenting a cup next May. "Experiments ia telepathy will' per- haps lead to as great a revoltitiori La human relations as telegraphy has made in social intercourse,'' says Xme. Sarah Grand in is letter to a Tunbridge Wells correspondent. Transatlantic bookings for this spring and summer are particularly heavy, and there is every indicatiOn of a large In -rush of. Americans/ By the Hamburg -Dover -New York route the advance bookings already reach 80,000. From the Princess of Wales • the principal of the Church Army organ- ization for providing Work f or. the wives of men who aro in jail has re- ceived an order for a large quantity of fine needlework to be executed by these poor women. "Only Cabinet Ministers and fools address meetings for an hone," said the Duke of Marlborough atter speak- ing for an hour at is Conservative meeting near Windsor, "I am not a Cabinet Minister," he added, and set down amid laughter. ee A MODERN MYSTIC. Evan Roberts, the Welsh Revival Preacher. Evan Roberts, the leaclee in the great Welsh revival now in progress, is an unique persotality. While not in the least degree sensational in bis methods, ho has all the mysticism of the middle ages. Recently he was completely silent for a period lasting seven days. His experience in cc:reflection with that season aro related by blmself. One evening be was stareinge for a service when a voice said: "Don't go." "I felt some pressure on my soul," said the young preacher. "I went back fato the room and sat on a chair. Twice again the voice said to rim: 'Don't go to -night,' said once, and then: 'You are to be silent for seYeri, days.' " From that evening nntil the enci or the seven days. the revivalist spoke tono one. During the silence Mr. Roberts mode mealy entries in a small meniorandum book, aed some o1 the extracts are of great interest. The nest Rem 131 the book waa a(1. instruction to Miss Annie Davies, ono or the revivalist's singing assist- ants: "There Is no person except your- self to see um for the next seven days—not even me, father are mo- ther. I ant not ill." . Another entoe, refers, eo 11 Thvina VOICO, 8p0k0 '1 0 NM. "It was not on inaPrOSS1 00," 110 wrote, "but O voice." Ott the thii•d day krt. Roberts re- corded that about 11.30 -the sound of the name of 'Jesus! Jesus'!' ut- tered in my ear, came to me, and was ready to jump for Joe. "I am going to be what C4od Wants me to Im," WaS 011 entry on the fourth day. while on the 111th clay the revivalist wrote in Wolsh; "I leave been mar to God this af- ternoon—so very near as to thalce me sweat." In the evening of the sarno day, otter leaving recorded a (Melee to go to Palest:Me, be wrote; "I have •a need to shout three elmore 'tor Jesus," • "You remember X said Weald like to go to Palestine, but That should have no money to go," lie wrote Oa the Sixth day, ' "Weil, tt lady has evaitten to me to -day offering 10 give me 420 10- w92'd5 ono of the:delightful tripe to Palestine, •Pialchi" • 4. GREAT ARMY, The Poetmaeter-Generel of Great Britain has a stale under hie con- trol 'nearly equal to the etanditee leritith Army. Tho poetal eyetem keeps busy from 170,000 to 180,000 men and Wolnon) Tho Post Oita° is among the most profitable businesses 111 hlnglaud; with an oallay of $60,- 000,060 11 makes a profit of nearly 820,000.000. "e+ ' All treee are eeerereen In the tropics, YOUTHFUL REVIVALISTS PBEACHERS 7rS1102l41 1111001CP AND X.COXOKU33001-rXIt.S. goal°, Boys ,Are Doing Effective Evangelistic Work in England. work, that is being done in Wale by AL.. Ir•eaa Roberts and sev- eral other evangelists, who are ei- thee still In their toms or have rea- entla emerged frone thane, rendada one of the prominent part boys have played in 'revival work in recent yeers, says lactation Tit -Bite. Oprnteall has been roused to re- ligious fervor: from, end to and by a slight, flagile boy with au almost childish face, • Who was a familiar figure in the pulpit wheo he was but fifteen years old, and whose years now number only eighteen, Master NM/lam—for that is the youth's mune—lias is gift of persuasive elo- quence, a clear, mutated voice, and a facility, of effective gesture which are ram among adult and practised preachers; and it is little wonder that wherever he goes crowds flock to hear him, and are roused to a tigh pitch of enthusiasm, Scotland has ifs boy revivalist in Cohn 4. ivingstone, • an earrteet, thoughtful -looking youth of seven- teen, who has done anucli excellent and stirring work in connection with Hallelujah Mission, and who has also appeared in London pulpits. Not long ago, too, a twelve-yera.-old boy, Willie Powell, was creating a sensa- tion in Wales by his POWERFUL rnlmonara, Willie is described as "passessed of a massive and well -formed cranium; lie has a pleasant countenance a11)c2 Very whoring ways, and he speaks without notes of any sort. He has a very clear and distinct utterance, and is deliberate in his manner." • This boy in knickerbockers was undoubtedly to a certain extent, tho pioneer of the revival abich is to -day sweeping so irresistibly over Wales. A still more youthful evangelist is Lennie. Dennis, a boy ot ten, who plia.cictlecclIonagrelag3eepwlya-ms oPvredeacelliZegat3e tions in the north of London, and who a little later caused a great sensation among the holiday crowds in the Isle of Man. It is said that he preached his first sermon 'whoa he was barely four years old, and since that early clobut has conducted revival services in four continents, even carrying his Gospelornessage to Egypt and Jerusalem, Fred Marston, known to fame as the "Stan'ordshire boy -preacher," has, we believe, still to see his sev- enteenth birthday, although' it is SOME .years since he annotmeecl his first text from a pulpit. It is a re- markable feature of this boy's iparecae oiling that he rarely prepares his his text until ho is actually face to serinoim, and does not even. select wiTH FITS CONGUEGATION, In spite of this lack of preparations his sermous. are said to be powerfal in their appeal both to the intellect and the eneetions, In Willie Darling Croydon lias Pro- duced an evangelist, of considerable promise, whobas already done ex- cellent work in many parts of Eng - Irani, Ho is a, pleasant -faced, good- loolcing boy of about sixteen, with eyes eloquent of the religious enthu- slasm whic11 fires him. Dulwich is proud of Mr. Thomas Riddle, whose pulpit career began ten years ago, when he was a child of eight and 00Me tir00 before he began business life as nei created -boy earning a few shillings a week, Mr, Riddle is not only a preacher of eloquence and p01000, but a capital ongartizer. 130 addition to founding the Dulwich Congregational Tomphe he heti start- ed- a Mtge manatee of moot energetie agenctes, iecluding a Bible school, a social guild, ail open-air mission, etc., which: he conducts himself. He has conducted services in many parts of the country; but perhape his most effective work has been done in the riefigirborifood of the Victoria Docks, whereahehas realled a rich harvest of onyr ts. North Carolina boaets the youngest °teamed clergyman in the world ia the leev. Henry Banta, who was but twelve years old when lie was elected pastor of the Church of Sh.allotte. WORDS .BY WRITOGRAPIL This is en age of inventions. Every day ono sees the tritunphal Progress of science, arta. What is a 11.120lI1'y to- day becomes tommoeplace In tho passing of teventy-four hours. 'rho tolograpliewieo, on the OVO of having its fate settled, has haS1 a now leaso of life gramteci it by the Pollale-Vie rag- inetrument, which limns front Ametro-Hungary, and has acquitted itself honorably iu sevem teste111 Erie -land. The new system Which: it introchices h St) foot that it really is long way ahead of the age, and unless leventors, lit other spheres of. wirelike put their shoulders to the wheel, the now invention will ender* go the temarkable experience of hav- ing to wait for a mere advanced • age. By means of cylinders,. electric Waves, and photography, writogrePli teatismits Inessagee at tho rato of 40,000 Words per houri—not only transmits but produces 'WO 0100040S' WrittSa in a legible %Mil. We often hear csf fittent epeakere, but the ora- tor will haere to be very glib of tengtte to compote with writograpii, with it tWeleege of elm% words Per second, DYSPID.7.,SIA OHRE. Parioian pliyeicinn has founded "mirth cuter" for dyspepsia and re- teives a, large fo for treating pa- tients, He puts a aalinber of them around 01 room ;turd. MACS them gala at each othor. All look so fooliSh: that in time they get laughing hearto 11y, toed are made to keop it up for -tem hours a clay. Two Weeks Of this tieettieent Is grad to cure the WOret Case of derejeepekt.