HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-4-20, Page 2THE G!LEAT TE
Loyalty Is Essential to the Success
of Everyone.
A despatch from Brooklyn, N. Y„
says: Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis
preached from the following text:
"Be thou faithful unto death."
Mose words ere leaden, some are
silver and a few words are golden;
among these the word LOYALTY.
"The great thing is loyalty," said
the English commander in his ad-
dress to the young men of Oxford,
"Write the word in ink of gold and
let eaeli letter be two feet high,"
Experience fully justifies the high
estimate placed upon this virtue, Dis-
loyalty turns a soldier into a trait-
or; disloyalty in the partnership will
ruin the commercial standing of the
house; disloyalty on the part of the
clerk can defeat the wisest plans of
the chief. One word will explain
many failures—the word disloyalty.
Contrariwise, what enterprise ever
failed where the man in charge had
loyal followers who backed hint up
at every point?
"!Don't praise me," exclaimed
President McKinsey to a group of
gentlemen congratulating hint upon
his first four years, "praise my cab-
inet." The martyred leader meant
that he had been. surrounded by loy-
al counselors. But the leafiest, un-
assuming President was himself a
notable illustration of our theme—
lge was loyal. On his tomb, after
all the thunder of life's battle,
should be written these words: "lie
was faithful unto death."
Above all other eras, our age asks
for loyal men. In the old regime
business was individual. One man
lied a little shoeshop; one sold groc-
eries, another sold dry goods, and
for a hundred articles there were a
hundred shops. Then came the
ERA OF ORGANIZATION.
Each man, no longer complete in
himself, became a wheel in an indus-
trial mechanism that had a hunched
parts. So complicated is a watch
that if any one wheel is unfaithful
to its work the whole watch is rule -
ed for purposes of time. Not
otherwise to -day. A great store, a
great bank, a great newspaper, a
government of city or state, means
several Hundred men working under
one leader, and the success of all is
through the loyalty of each. one.
Only as the workers go toward loy-
alty does enterprise go toward pros-
perity.
That is why the war between the
North and South was followed by a
great indusnia1 development. After
Appomattox a million mot return-
ed Moine. Suddenly a new spirit de-
veloped in the country. SIau began
to plan large things, railroads Eters'.e
the continent were conceived and
eullt. Vast factories were erected.
Men united their earnings and or-
ganized great banks and lyra
stores. What Is the explanation?
Simply this—the experience of war
had TAUGHT MEN LOYALTY TO
LEADER,
On the day of the battle of Gettys-
burg every soldier in a wing of 100,-
000 men received his command and
fulfilled his task, "Theirs not to
reason why; theirs but to do and
die., For these soldiers the great
word was loyalty to their general.
With that watchword they marched
to success. Later, returning to the
business life, the soldier began to
work in industrial regiments. Again
they were
LOYAL TO THE LEADER,
whether he was merchant, or manu-
facturer, or editor, or statesman.
Bleu of achievement crown loyalty
as One of the first of the virtues.
Charity must be a divine gift, in-
deed, if it is greater than faithful-
ness. The soldier's north is in his
adherence to duty. The test of the
jurist is loyalty to the client. The
test of the pupil is loyalty to his
great master. The two great books
in ancient literature are the "Iliad"
and the "Odyssey." The "Triad"
exposes the fickleness and disloyalty
of Helen, whose infidelity turned a
city into a heap. The "Odyssey"
celebrated the loyalty of Penelope,
who kept her palace and her heart.
Young man, scorn the very thought
of disloyalty to your employer. Tf
you cant work with frim, resign. 13ut
flee from the very thought of disloy-
alty as you would flee from the edge
of a precipice. Disloyalty belongs to
a serpent that bites, the wolf that
rends and the lion that slays. To bo
disloyal is to join hands with the
devil himself.
Pride yourself on your loyalty.
Learn to follow that you may be
worthy to lead. Life may bring you
gold, office and honor, but it will
bring you nothing comparable to the
happiness that comes from the con-
sequences of having been loyal to
your ideals. And when it is all
over, let this be men's judgment up-
on you, "He was faithful unto
death."
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 23,
Lesson IV. The Entry of Jesus
Into Jerusalem. Golden Text,
Matt. 21.9.
THE LESSON STATEMENT.
Our lesson presents the Truth of
God incarnated in tbo Lord Jesus
Christ, Men sometimes applaud the
truth, sometimes sneer at it, some-
times honestly inquire concerning it.
The Lord Jesus reveals it.
L Popular Applause.
Why did the crowds at Jerusalem
welcome the Saviour? Often bands
of singers went forth to meet the
Passover pilgrims, so that these peo-
ple were following a custom already
marked out for them. But the reas-
on for this exceptional outburst.—for
the carpeting of the road with gar-
ments and palm branches, and the
reception of Jesus as if he were a
conqueror, is to be- found in the
conviction that he had fulfilled the
words they sang; that he was in his
own person the fulfillment of law and
'prophets. How thorough was that
fulfillment waft not revealed to the
disciples till after our Lord's death,
or, as John would say, his glorifica-
tion. It is sadly true to human: na-
ture that thio applause and popular-
ity - were ephemeral—that five days
litter the walls of the same old town
rang with the cruel cry, "Crucify
hind"
11. Skeptical Criticism :(verse
From the stories of tho Triumphal
Retry given by the four evangelists
it became plain that the hostile
Pharisees of Jerusalem were for a
moment paralyzed. Their plans had
not succeeded; their subjects had run
away from them; the whole world
seemed going after Jesus. A few
hours, boweve•, proved to them
that they wore as mistaken in their
forecast as wcro the applauding
people.
IIs'•
Flattest Inquiry.
Men brought up in paganism, af-
fected by the truth partially reveal-
ed in the worship at Jerusalem, leave'
their Inherited superstitions and
gather to worship the Truth of 003
as Hebrew ceremonial sets it forth
and as Jewish rabbis have expladned
it. But here in the temple courts
stands a man who embodies itt Himself
all that the Hebrew ritual symbolizes
and more than all the best specula -
liens of the reltbie. From tho outer
Miele the Greeks hear his supernatur-
al teachings and, honestly desiring
more, ask for an iutrocluction. Why;
dirt Philip imitate to take these men
Meetly to Jesus?
IV. Incarnated Truth,
Jesus eagerly respnnris to theso
tuee's questioniltgs, That be saw
in their approach the beginning of
the coining of the Gentiles to his
sway, and that that prospect brought.
witht the c
L e nvie o flea n4 the death
That anust .first bo endured, cannot
1 u , But '
u ito hrtod, t all our Lord's
lean:Inge (the Sermon on the Mount,
1.1ti+ coliversatltt;IS with Nicodeittrrs
and the Samaritan ,woman, the ccm-
illets with the scribes; the nevet'fillss
spoken against the Pharisres, and
the bonder' parables given to the
common people) all must bo under-
stood in the light of the cross. The
self-sacrifice of love le the kernel of
holy living. Everything that Jesus
did and 'said was appropriate to the
present crisis and climax. His cruci-
fixion is but his glorification. A
grain of wheat lives by dying. Its
multiplied life depends upon its in-
dividual death. Self-sacrifide is the
test of all holiness and goodeess. We
are all of us flying to some depart -
melte of our lives, that we may live
to other's. This paper has no read-
ers who are not deliberately sacriflc-
iug some delights for the purpose of
securing other delights, and this en-
tirely aside from religious motives.
Jesus teaches that like the grain of
wheat not only must he die to bring
forth the felt fruitage of his We, but
withortt his death his life would have
been an Isolation, lacking world-wide
Influence. All his followers aro un-
der the scene law, Ve'se 23 gathers
up in a sentence the experience of
the world. I•Ie that seeks happiness
finds it not. He that seeks usefulness
or'gootl for others finds happiness.
FIe that seeks his life shall lose it.
He that disparages his life in the
valuation of the things that his life
may secure, shall find that life again.
Verse 26 directs attention to tho
man who follows. True service of
the Lord Jesus Ohrint necessarily im-
plies following him. "Taking up the
cross" has become a hackneyed
Phrase, but an absolute necessity of
a willingness to follow Christ in all
humiliation and suffering for the
sake of others.
THf: LESSON WORD STLUDIb1S.
Verse 12, On the morrow—The day
following the supper at'Bethany, pro-
bably, Sunday, _April 2, A.l), 30.
A great ntttltif uric—Or, as 80100
ancient authorities read, the common
people (comp. verve 9).
Coming to .Icrtusalem—IE'ach of the
synoptiste inSertS the story of how
the colt an which Jesus rode ,neo
the city was obtained for that pur-
pose (cone). Matt. 21. 1-8: Mark 11,
1-7; Luke 19, 29-1115).
13. The branches of the palm
trees—The articles used before the
nouns would sectn to indicate that
reference is made, to well -knot's palm
branches, that is, the branchee of
palm tees known to grow there, 0r
Possibly, as some think, palet
branches comingnly used in tonere-
Ron with festivals,
Cried—Tho Greek imperfect indicat-
ing continued action, hence kept cry-
ing, that is, greeting him with long -
continued shouting.
Hosanna—Meanhtg, 0 save]
T3lessed—Tho perfect participle of
the verb "eulogeo," to speak well or,
to praise, from which comes our
English word eulogy. The weed
"Blessed.' used in the, beatitudes
nefatt, ti, 11-'113) ("maltarios") ap-
plies rattier' to character, this rather
to repute. The tvot'ds of praise, are
taken from Pea. 119, 20 tri, a
psalm originally Composed, it is
thought, for the first celebration of
the Feast of Tabernacles after the
completion of tate temple, the words
of the twenty-fifth verse being :mg
during that feast, "when the altar
of burnt of1'urieg was solemnly (sine
it&t tit.'d; that iia, once. Ori each of the
fleet nix days of the feast, and ^.even
ttme:•e pn the seventh (lay. 'this
seventh day was cailett 'the Great
Moamar '-
14. Having fuund--In the sense 01
having stduted, How Jesus seethed
the ass's Coit is fold by the synop-
tfsts (comp, note on verse 12 above),
As it is written—In Zech. 9, 9,
ahtcll leads: "Rejoice greatly, 0
daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter
of Jerusalem: i ehold, thy Icing man
etit unto them he is just and having
salvation; lowly, and 1.l ding upon en
ass, even upon a Doll the foal of an
ass."
13. Daughter of Zion—The city of
Jerusalem is personified and address-
ed. The 44 4 (01e (IOW of lion was the
castle, oe acropolis, of the city of
the ,iebusites (Jndg, 19. 11), taken
by 'David (1 Citron, 11. 5), later part
of the city of ,)eru.'aletn, though the
exact location of the ancient Zion.
within the city walls has long ]leen
"one of the most impotent o'1 the
disputed points connected with the
toPogvnphy of the holy City."
lei, These things—The fulfilment of
prophecy involved in the scene tram -
Pining before their eye.,
When Jesus was glorified—After his
resurrection attd ascension.
17, Bare witness—Testiftod to the
fact of the raising of Lazarus by
Jens which they had witnessed, pro-
bably speaking freely to all whom
they met about the grortuess and
power of Jesus, with the result men-
tioned in the next verse,
19. Ye prevail nothing—All your
hitter opposition of this man is fruit-
less,
n0. Greeks—IIe1lenes which in the
New Testament means always Gentile
Greeks as distingui:thed from "Hel-
lenists" or Gt'eeised Jews. The tact
that these Gentiles had come to
Jerusalem to worship at the feast
indicates that they were proselytes
of the Jewish faith.
21. Bethsaida of Galilee,
22 Philip . -Andrew Idenlioued
together John 1, &5; 6, 7, 8; Mark
3, 18.
23 The hour is come—Tito verb is
placed first in the Greek for em-
phasis—"It has comae, the all -inn
portant hour,"
That—Literally, in order that, in-
dicatinaf divine purpose.
Be glorified—Return to glory—even
though it be through untold suffering
and agony. His work as public
teacher was at an end,
24. Verily, verily.
Abideth by itself alone—Is not mul-
tiplied, produces no fruit.
25. Life—life eternal—Two distinct
words for life aro used in tate Greek
the first designating individual phy-
sical life and temporal existence, the
second designating lite in the ab-
stract, including the thought of the
absolute fullness of life, both essen-
tial and ethical, and hence the higher
spiritual Life. The fernier form of
life is perishable, and be who exalts
and seeks only to possess and enjoy
this life will eventually lose it and
in so doing will lose a11. But he
that rightly estimates this temporal
life as of relatively inferior value,
striving rather for a fuller measure
of the higher soul life which is itu-
porishahlc, will gain life -eternal.
26. Where I ant, there shall also
my servant 'be—Nothing, not even
physical death, can separate the
disciple of the Christ from his Mas-
ter.
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TO RIVAL LIVERPOOL.
01d Town of Chester May Become
a Seaport.
•
Rather more than a hundred years
ago the ancient city of Chester was
a seaport of no mean distinction, but
during the past century the silting
up of the River Dee and the Conse-
quent loss of navigable depth have
caused it to decline to a port of
small importance.
The Fliutshlro County Council
have considered an important scheme
for the improvement of the naviga-
tion of the River Doe at an expendi-
ture of £400,000, which, if carried
out, will open up groat possibilittos
for the future of Chester.
The engineers responsible for the
new project are Messrs. D. and C.
Stevenson, of F,dinburgh. Thou`
proposals include the removal of the
sandstone dant or bar which has
formed across the river ti, little be-
low Conuah's Quay, the extension of
the existing training walls, the re-
pair of the river banks, and the pen-
etration of the Bagilly• bank in order
to give a direct course to Mosty0
Deep. The navigable channel would
be dredged to a depth of twenty feet
up to Saltney and Chester, and ade-
quately buoyed and lighted.
The engineers' report was ,favorably
receival by the Council, and a sub-
committee was instructed to obtain
Nether particulars bearing on the
revenue likely to result from the
suggested improvements.
In 1898 earthquakes were felt in
Austria on 209 clays,
The average depth of the sea is
about 12,000 feet; tiie average
lielgei of the land above sea -level is
about 1,500 feet.
7n Central China there is it pros-
ince—Yunnan—brie entire populations
of winch, men, women, and children,
are hopelessly given to the opiums;,
habit. The poppy is cultivated itt
almost every available patch of ar-
able Tonn, and the inhabitants are
absolutely demoralized and fit for
nothing by reason of their abuse of
the drug.
The lien in a gro'aishr-brown parrot
of New Zealand, Which is as danger.,
oils to the sheep of that country as
Wo1Vee tt'oml11 he, 'Mese carnivorous
birds fasten themselves on the hacks
of grazing sheep, tear through wool
and skin to the kidney -fat, Which
they devour, lea's'ing the unfortunate
animal to perish in agony.
The motives of leikayti in the hast
African l't•oiect.orate go about well-
a'r'med, They entry a st.ou't, ace-of-
Rendes-step/el shear, a rent tuffelo-
hidti Shield, a heavy, double-edged,
short sword, a rhrb, and several
strong Sticks. 'J'hoir priniplal "gar-
ment' is a plent.i ]fol coal Of terra•
cottll "atilt, and they wows ntunerotie
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SELECTED TI D 1tleCIPEs,
T'r'ench Toast.—Break two eggs into
a shallow dish; then beat well, Dip
stale 00 fresh slices of bread in them,
and fry the bread in hot lard or but -
tar to a nice golden brown. A. table-
sPounful of mills to each egg may be
used.
A Baked Apple Pudding.—Talco
equal quantities of breadccontbs,
chopped apple, and suet, sweeten to
taste, add the grated rind of a lemon,
Beat up an egg' to a very little milk
and add to the other ing'r'edients.
Balce in a well -buttered pie -dish in a
moderate oven for nearly one hour
and a half, Turn out, on to a hot
dish to serve.
Curry Pestis Take some cold
meat and free it from skin, fat, and
gristle. Chop the meat very lately,
season it with pepper, salt, and curry
pcnvder, and moistest all slightly with
good gravy, or melted better sauce.
Line some patty pans with puff paste
place in each a tablespoonful of the
mince and dower with pastry rolled
thin. Bake in a sharp oven tilt
cooked,
A Soda Cake.—Into one pound of
fine flour rub six ounces of currants,
a teaspoonful of ground ginger, a
quarter of a nutmeg, and four
ounces of sugar. Mix these ingre-
dients with two well -beaten eggs - and
half a teacupful of warm milk, in
which a teaspoonful of carbonate of
soda has been dissolved. Place in a
greased tin and bake in a moderate
oven for nearly two hours.
Orange Tart—Line a shallow pie -
dish with short crust, ornament the
edges, and bake in a quick oven.
Meanwhile prepare the filling, Grata
the rind of a sweet orange into a
basin, add the juice of two oranges,
two ounces of sugar, one ounce of
butter and a pint of water. 'Boil all
together and then poor over a table-
spoonful of cornflour, made Otto a
smooth paste with cold water. Stir
all together well, add the yolks of
two eggs, and pour the mixture Otto
rho tart. flake in a quick oven till
gnfte sat,
Mutton Dripping,—This is excellent
if cut into pieces, placed in a large
basin and covered with boiling wa-
ter. When cold remove the fat,
scrape on all sediment and repeat the
above ,Process. Two or three wash-
ings will be necessary. Then place
all the dry dripping in. a basin, and
melt down. Next day turn the mould
of fat on to a plate, and wipe off
any moisture. This is excellent for
frying, basting, and when mixed
with other dripping Is excellent for
cakes and pastry.
Danish Tripe. Get a piece of tripe
large enough to fold Otto a pastry.
Next make a stuffing with onions, a
little sage, breadcrumbs, pepper and
salt, not forgetting a little lemon -
rind choPped .fine. Lay a thick
layer of the stuffing on half of the
tripe and fold the other over. Sew
the edges so as to keep in the stuff-
ing. Place the roll on a baking -tin,
with a few slices of bacon on the
top. Bake for two hours, basting
constantly. Arrange the roll on a
very hot dish, divide it Otto slices,
but still keeping its shape. Pour
good gravy round and serve,
Itearzipnn,—Buy cooking almonds at
about twenty-five cents a pound, and
then this sweetmeat will not be ex-
pensive, Blanch half a pound of al-
mond's and a few bitter almonds,
pound them very finely in a mortar,
moisten with a little rosewater.
When the Paste is fine and smooth,
put it in a china lined sauce -pan
with the same quantity of caster su-
gar. Stir ovor the fire till a paste
is obtained, which does not stick to
the finge's when toothed. Then turn-
out on to a well sugared pastry -
board, dredge the roller with sugar,
and roll out thinly, cut into shapes
place on sheets of white paper and
bake in a very, slow oven until a pale
yellow color.
HOUSECLEANING: MINTS.
Housecleaning will go much easier
if only half a day is devoted to it,
and that preferably the morning;
though frequently it will bo conven-
ient and agreeable to clean the attic
on a bright afternoon, and, by the
way, that is the place to begin the
housecleaning. All the clothing
should bo taken out in the sunshine
for a thorough airing, Old books,
papers and magazines kept in the at-
tic should be covered to protect from
dust. If old print is_tot available,
then paste .newspapers to make a
curtain to put over the shelves,
Marks that have been made on
paint with snatches may be removed
by; rubbing Best with a slice of lem-
on, then with whitiug and washing
with soap and water.
When hanging up is picture it is a
good plan to attach a piece of cork
on either side of the 'bottom edge, as
this prevents the accumulation of
dust by holding it away from the
wall,
The smell of fresh paint cast be re-
moved by leaving in the room all
night a pail of water containing Sev-
eral sliced onions.
No better way for dusting the walls
of a room can be suggested than to
cover a beam with a bag or heavy
canton flannel made with the fuzzy
side out. A drawstring at the top
allows the bag to be drawn tightly
about the broom.
To remove paint or varaitih hart
furniture, ten ten parts of pearl ash
to one part of quicklime, slacking the
lime in hot water; then add tate
pearl ash and have the lnixturo of
the cansisteney of paint., adding wa-
ter if necessary. Apply the nolutiolt
with an all paint brush (it will ruin
a new one) and allow it to remain
in the wood for twelve hours, when
the varnish can he easily) scrapped
of?.
Not scntltr but ammonia should be
used in the water with which w'in
&MS aro washed if near bright glass
is desired, It is Stated that lamp
chhttitcns rubbed with dry salt after
e
washing wilt aequire unusual brtl-
(iancy,
One vet)' capable housekeoper states
that the most, "restful way to clean
house is to login at the attic, then
clean the bedrooms, sitting -roost,
cellar, dining -room, pantries and kit-
chen in the order named; and elle
makes it a rule neve' to begin till
the furnace fire Is dumped for the
year, cleaning the furnace the first
tiring. She never cleans over four
rooms a week, even with extrie, help,
ace'q)ying the intervening days with
washing amiable, varnishing fume -
ire and stl'aight.enlig burmans and
closets. And every clay She cleans
house she has some pleasing enter-
tainment at night it only an ]tour at
a particular friends' 0r the library.
SWEEPING A ROOM.
It t'egrrtt'es skill and patience to
sweep a room properly. The chief
mistake made by the novice is in
taking long, heavy strokes. Short
light strokes which are firm do the
worn as it should be done. 11 is al-
ways best to sweep a heavy Brussels
carpet or one of entailer make once
with the grain and then ecrosa' it,
going over each three or four yards
in this way until the entire carpet is
swept. When a carpet is old and
worn evenly this is not accessary,
but 1f It is new or has perceptible
ridges le the weaving, this method
should he followed.
After going over a room thor-
oughly, allow, the dust to settle and
in ten or fifteen minutes give it the
final brushing—sweeping once again
rather lightly. This can bo done
with a carpet sweeper or dampened
broom. Tea leaves scattered over
the carpet, however, aro butter than
either, They should be wrung out
and loosely sprinkled over the car-
pet just 'before this final sweeping,
It is a good plan to add a capful
of salt to every two cupfuls of tea
leaves used. The salt seems to
brighten the colors of a faded car-
pet, as well as to aid in the remov-
al of dust. When this second sweep-
ing is over use a whiskbroom around
tete corners and at the edges of the
carpet.
After the walls are dusted and the
carpet is thoroughly swept, some
housekeepers wipe off the carpet's
surface with a cloth dipped in salt
and water and then thoroughly
wrung out. This will remove every
atom of dust. A. cloth used for this
purpose must be frequently rinsed
out in fresh water, and then dipped
again into salt and water, wringing
thoroughly. Other housekeepers rub
the carpet with a cloth wrung out as
dry as possible from water to which
two tablespoonfuls of ammonia have
been added for every gallon. This
will also brighten faded colors.
It is needless to say that in sweep-
ing' as thoroughly as this, every-
thing in the room should either be
removed or covered carefully with
dusting sheets. Housekeepers who
are buying heavy pieces of Tarsi
tore should select only those that
can be set on casters, so that they
can be pushed out and the dust un-
der them removed.
It is a great mistake to neglect
sweeping as thoroughly as this once
a week. Dust that becomes ground
Otto a carpet wears it out more
than anything else. Fortunately,
many houses of to -day aro built with
hardwood floors, so that this burden
of sweeping is materially lessened.
Wood floors nue easily swept with
hair brushes or rubbed with crude
petroleum or simply polished with a
waxing brush.
\THAT 10'36 DIDN'T KNOW,
A. retired Irish major sold his
horses and carriage and bought a
motor -car; but instead of engaging a
chauffeur bre determined to. send his
faithful old coachman to a Dublin
firer of engineers for a course of les-
sons in small repairs.
"You will go through a two
months' training," he explained to
Pat, as he handed him a cheque for
his expenses, "during which time you
will make yourself thoroughly famil-
iar with the engine and all its
works."
"Yes, soh," was Pat's reply.
"You will note every wheel and
crank, and learn what *they aro for
and what they have to do, so that
when you return you will be equal
to any emergency."
"1 will, sot•," said Pat, anti, hav-
ing stowed the cheque away down in
his trousers pocket, he took Ms de-
parture.
In two months' time he returned,
with the conqueror's look in his eye,
"Well, Pat; have you succeeded?"
"I have, soh."
"Ane you know everything about
a motor?"
"I know all, so, from the big
lamp in front to the little number
b'ebind—except one thing," the new
chauffeur added, as ho nervously
plucked a fow hairs from His new
bearskin coat,
"And what is it you don't know?"
demanded the major.
"Well, I don't quiteunderstand
yet 'whet makes tate blessed thing
stove without horses."
WOIITi3Y OLD .LANDLADY. •
Mrs, Mary Lee, wha bas just (lied
at White Waltham, near Mafdeeltoaa',
on the Thames, England, was a re-
rearkebte old lady. Site was the
oldest public -house ]nndlacly in Eng-
land, for she was ninety ycat;s of
age. Over the template in the tap-
room of lice public. -house, the alee-
lfiVo, stands the notice: "No swear-
ing or foil language permitted in
this Croom, or i neteem t status allowe.'d
to be swig, Anyone infringing the
above will be expelled." Often the
old lady would tvu.lk into the, tap•
room on Senday evenings, bearing
her old Bible, anis react tie Scrip -
vireo to an audience that listened
with t.'uspeet to Me exllat atfone and
cotutntstts.
.b.
IVfr, Yoe eghnwirantl, ",iter eaten
isn't like the select hey mother teed
to stake." 'litre. Yonngluisband:
"Well, your salnr,v isn't like the saie
ary eny father used to make,"
SOME STARTLING FACTS
JOHN BULL AND 1115 GLASS
OF BEER.
It Takes 1,268,748,000 Gallons
Annually to Satisfy His
• Thirst,'
John Bull's partiality for a glass
of beer is such a well-established fact
that one learns with nstuaishtuent
that during the year 1.904 he has
actually cut down his nllotvanee of
his favorite beverage by, as nearly as
can be estinuutod, 600,0011 barrels, or
21,000,000 gallons,
These figures suggest quit() an
alarming dinthttttion in his thirst;
and yet, colossal as they are, they
really only mean that out of every
flay -eight grosses, speaking' 'approxi-
mately, with which ho quenched his
thirst in 1903, he has dropped one in
the following twelve months, so that,
from a temperance point of view,,
there still remains an ample margin
for further retrenchment,
Kew much beer does John actual-
ly consume in twelve months? The
question is an interesting one, and
the figures are certainly startling.
To say that his normal thirst at pre-
sent demands 1,08,7.48,000 gallons
of beer to satisfy It conveys little to
the mind, although the figures are
vaguely intpres:tive. But let us h1
fancy provide a vessel large enough
to contain a year's supply of beer
for the United Kingdom, and then
we shall get a striking conception of
what they really utean,
Let us construct a reservoir 1,000
feet long, 1,000 feet wide, end 208
feet high, and 'fill this colossal re-
ceptacle to the very brim; we shall
then have just enough beer to keep
John Bull going for
TWELVE MONTHS,
Our vessel is so deep that, if the
London Monument were dropped per-.
pondioularly Into it, it would be lost
to view; and the base of the reser-
voir is so largo that 1t would pro-
vide comfortable standing -room for
every man, woman, and child In Liv -
"01)°e°,11.1 f1 this meatal picture fails - to
impress, 'let us construct an enor-
mous dock, of a depth varying from
ten to thirty feet, and All it with
one year's beer. Our clock would be
so large that all the ships in the
British Navy could float in it.
From it we could supply each man,
woman, and child in the United
Kingdom with "488 glasses of beer;
or, if we eliminate abstainers and
all children under fifteen, there would
be the liberal allowance of nearly
fifty-three gallons as a year's supply
for each person left to whets a glass
•of beer might appeal.
Such an ocean of beer takes a great
deal of drinking. In fact, in order to
dispose of it, John must consistently,
pour 144,830 gallons clown his capa-
cious throat every hour, night and
clay, throughout the year; or, in
other words, ho must, every sixty
minutes, drain the contents of a
bottle as high as the Nelson Column
and with a circumference of 40ft. a
bottle so stout that seven tall men
could barely touch fingers round it;
while every minute of the hour he
must, to complete his task within
allotted time, drain the contents of.
OVER 88,500 TUMBLERS,
But he does it, and is quite ready
to tackle another bottle the moment
the clock strikes.
To satisfy his twelve months'
thirst for beer he spends at the rate
of considerably over ;,, 10,000,000 a
week; so that it might well bring a
hundred millionaires to the work-
house to pay his beer -bill for twelve
months. Every minute, night and
day throughout the year, he puts
down $1,006, to say nothing of odd
shillings and pence, for his glass of
hew.
Towards this great bill the British
working man alone contributes some-
thing like $400,000,000, the share of
each working. family being, roughly,
$53.25 a year, or a contribution of
more than 56 cents out of every
pound of its income. If to this we
add the cost of spirits, we find that
the average family of the working
classes spends a full sixth of 1(5
income on spirituous refreshment. To
supply John Bull with his beer keeps
nearly 6,000 brewers busy the whole
year round, and. of these eight brew
over 1,000,000 'barrels a year era'
ten produce over 600,000; while In
England anti `;Pales alone there aro
over 109,000 houses licensed for the
supply of the beverage.
Although the German is credited
with an abnormal thirst for beer, the
Briton can give him three gallons a
year and still beat him; while for
every glass the American drinks bo
consumes two and has made a good
start on lumber three,—Lonclau
Bits.
SPLENDID ST•IOT.
"A world's record performance"
was Captain Percy Seott's descrip-
tion at Portsmouth of the exploit of
Able Soantmn lioliingliurst, of Ills
Ma,iosty's Navy, who hit the target
seven times in tett rounds during the
firing of 000 rounds of ammunition
from (i -inch guts at the rate of eight
a minute. :1'lfo target is to bo mod -
oiled in silver.
INCOME Ole BRITISH ItAILWAVS.
The 100019t.s. of the railway com-
panies of the United Kingdom from
passenger traffic aro not so large as
-heir revenue from the carriage 'of
goods, although alio rltl'rt'ence is not
very considerable. :Roughly speaking
the annual flteome of British railway
companies is $500,000,000, of which
58 per cent.' comes front goods tt'aitle
an 1 !I:7 per cent, from passengers,
IRS PRXVATItl OPINION.
"My dear," said 'Mrs. Pryer, as
she closed the book that she 1in.d.
been rcadiitgt do you know what Os
the most curious thing in the
Leonel e"
"inure,," answeved the brutal half
of the combine, "The most otrrlotrs
tbilu 11 , in the world is 41 Woman that
feta et(t'1a115." •
RISING IN THE MORNIN
SOME GREs', T HIEN ARE FON
OF x3811111 BED,
While Others Do a Good Da
Work Before the Average
Man Is Up,
If early rising were a tlomlilioO 0
fame, our biographical dietton:u•ieo
would be much slenderer volumes
than they are; for it- is a deplorable
fact that atony of our great rues are
as reluctant to leave their pillows 1111
the wonting as any oil their obscure
fellow -mon, bili•, Gladstone made not
concealment M, his love of bed, "1,
invariably rise at eight o'clock," he
once said, "bat every morning It
seems to require a greater effort I
than the day before"; and 14Th', Cham-
berlain, one of the Moet st1•enuous at
men, is rarely visible before nine
o'clock, and itan pleaded guilty to a
weakness for having his 'breakfast la
bed.
But there are great men, man,' of
thein, who might compote nuccessfui-
ly with the earliest of milkmen, ant
who regularly get through an excel-
lent day's work before the average
man sits down to his morning rasher
and newspaper. Mr, Orockott, for in-
stance, sets an example to his lilor-
ary brothers, which few of thorn
show any anxiety to emulate, be'
tumbling out of bed, winter and
summer alike, at live o'clock. Long
before six he is nerd at work, and
by breakfast time he has added 8,-
000 al' 4,000 words to one of hi
charming novels, leaving, if he wish
es it, the rest of the day "for play-
ing 111,'
Five o'clock, too, is the hot
which sees the beginning of Lor
Curzon's daily programme of work,
programme o'h.ich covers f0nrte
]tours and only ends in the ear
hours of the following morning.
Of all the Sovereigns of Truro
the German Temperer most peons
delights of sleep—to such an ext
Indeed that in his palaces ho let
the Spartan life of a soldier on ca.
Pnign, so far as sleeping •and 1
equipment are concerlted. His be
is of the regulation camp -patter
and the clothing is precisely such
is supplied to his own officers. Elev
o'clock is the Kaiser's invaria
hour for retiring, and at live o'elo
in the morning he is the most wit
awake man in his empire, ready
any amont of work.
The Icing of Italy is almost equ
ly. Spartan. Even as a delicate chit
whom his doctors and,nurses clespa
ed of rearing to manhood, he 1
to sleep in a chilly bedroom,
RISE AT SIN O'CLOCK,
and, atter a cola bath, continence h
lessons at seven, a treatment whi
mado him the constitutionally stro
man he is, To -day, when ho is
absolutely his own master, he co
Unties the training which was 1,1
life of his childhood, and, summ
and winter, leaves his bed at
o'clock,
A. Thiers, the great French states
Man of a generation ago, prided him-
self on never being Found in bed aft
five o'clock in the morning; and mo
often than not he was drinking 11
early cup of coffee and eating his roll
shortly after four, preparatory t
beginning eight ho,n•s of unbrokei
work, which ended with the dejeunc
proper at noon.
But as early risers the most zeal•
ons statesmen and Kings camno
eel -ipso the men of the Law, who cet
tainly see less of the sheets tha
members of any other profession. F
thirty years Lord Selborne practice
ly never slept more than 'five hot
a night, and often after a late d
bate as the house, when he retic
to bed at two o'clock In the moaning
he was busy reading his briefs a
five, Tho same story 1s told of Lona
Cairns and Lord Herschell, who a
the busiest periods of their live
wore rarely in bed atter live fn tit
morning; and on more than one oc
casion Lor•ct Cairns never slept at all
for two consecutive nights. Bat
men had, however, a heavy price to
pay for thus resisting the claims o
Nature,• for both died comparatively
•young,
THE VICTIMS OP OVLDRWORK.
"Do you know," poor Sir Frank
Lockwood once said to a follow M.
P., "I have never dosed my eyes for
forty-eight Hours " "Anel clo you
know, Lockwood," his friend answer-
ed, "11 you do that kind of thing
much more Sou soon won't be abl
to open them et all?" Within
year the half -playful prophecy tea
realized' and if ever a man ].cillo
himself tvitlt work it was Front
Lockwood.
But the saute story may be told
almost any busy lawyer. For yea
the family of the late Judge Wacld
0ileo a very busy R.G. and mem(
of Parliament, rover caught
glimpse of him from one Sunday
another. He reached his home
Finsbury Lark long after his fain;
had retired for the night, and he w
off again long before they rose; a
much of the intervening time
spent in poring over the da,
briefs. :Clean to -clay the ;Lord 01
Justice is content with Six hot
sleep, but in his ceowdecl (legs
Q. C. and 'Attorney -General it was
common saying at the bar til
"Webster never slept at all "; a
Many were the ,fusions who blest.
hint when he arranged for a e.onsuit
tion at six o'clock in the mor'llir
which meant to 801110 that 11
Would have to stay up all night
fear of hissing the appointment
London iAnrevers.
FEWER, 1VTAIIIII:AGlyw,
ttatistits would seein to pen
that marriage is beeoln(n'g au un
popular institution in Great ilritain
trho IRegiotrar-Girlerttl shows, lit lei
annual return ,just issued, that th
tnaeriago-rat-o itt 1003--113,0 per 1
000 of the populntice—wme the lots
est rine() 1:8941. '1'111' lth•thrate in
1008-'28,4 01! 04)4) of titu 903)11 it-
i.lbn� was 11tC 11w'el.1 1111 1'CCOre0, 14111
e11a sotto liar t.o be said" for l;he
death -rote -15.4 per 1,000 perste ns