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The Brussels Post, 1905-8-3, Page 7GENIUS OF A GREAT. MASTER Beauty of Nature Make Man's Work Look Petty. A despatch from Brooklyn, N. Y. isayst-Itev, Dr, Nowell Dwight 11H11 smooched from tho follosettig text: - The Meows declare tho glory •Cloct-Pstam a he f mato dispat cites t ell about tho taro good foi•tone of an Italian prima 'Bs Mateo In an old palace of ramie, gray, et•umbling and inelloW 'with time -rich also in its old paint - trigs tient art treasures. One day recently ho noticed that an tila desk cover woe optGang side- ways. On examination he (riser/Yeovil that the top was mado 01 two piece -of board glued togethor. Separating them, lol he claimer(' upon a pag .bright with the colors of sumo oh masts:l.'s brush. Thy page was o vellum and Illuminated, Each wor had been written by hand and each initial was glorious with gold an :blue, crimson and black. The mama was a marvelous doeiga, with. in wrought leavos and flowers. Cherubs gaimbed up tho sido of the meneh as beautiful as angels that dreo near the heavenly battlements to look down on the sleeping boy Jaciale. The genius of a great mantra (lam •ed forth from that illuminated page The treasuro had tested in its haling place for perhaps 300 years. From tho aloment of its exhibit, art lovers, collectors of old prints, rare books and. the great =Moos began to coin pate for the page. So beautifill is that itinminated sheet that to -day it lends distraction to a room in tho .gallery of Trial PALACE IN FLORENCE. What an illuminated pao of God is this spread out for all beholdere on the slopes ol these Berkshire Hills. This page of green and gold is ten miles square and holds such beauty as to make tho missal of Bel - Hid seem petty and contemptiblo. 'That Morelli:hie sheet is 10 by 12 inches. This page of landscapo is Loa miles by tacave. Ills canvas is of vellum, demi and moldy, but this pago of Nature is a canvas whose texture is alive, moist, perfumed and melodious. Tho decorated margin of tho old missal is but two and, one- half inches wide, and many of tho Rowers of Bellini seems stitr. But the frame and setting of this page of Na- turo is a quarter of a mile wide, is sPotted with scarlet and flie, gulden with buttercups, glorious with dais- ies and wild pinks; with clover of purple and white and the splash ..of poppy, with shades of amethysa and sapphire, on the horizon where earth . and sky meet, that represont colors so delicious that ono finds no words in the languago to describe them. Little wonder, therefore. that Rus- kin describes the mouatainside as a library full of treasures, of manu- scripts for the scholar, kindly and simple lessons for the worker, quiet in pale cloisters for the thinker, glorious in holiness for tho wor- shiper.' 11'01101.0os tho old Collin catho- &Ms! But theso Berkshiro Hills are our cathedrals, protector' by gates of rock and glorious with pavements of clouds, choirs of stream and stone, altars of storm, and vaults of purple, travorsed by tho continuous state. The illuminated page of -Nature is a page that is wise with its tracery Inc the scholars, It is not enough that God's work is beautiful, that his Overy blade of grass is flut.od; that all his loaves aro exquisitely sculptuved; that his every sapphire and ruby is polished to the inner- most atom and that the bounty of loveliness is in flowor and face and landscape -such bounty, indeed, that tho surplus of loveliness in each haro- bell would adorn, as has been said A DOZEN CATHEDRALS. But tho page of rock and grass and limier is a. wise page. Indoed, all the wisdom of the books moos from the' reading of nature's book. Job said; "His footprints are in tho cloud e and on the sea shore, and in the waves." NoWton, the as1 moo- nier, 011013 said that "the astronomer tht od's thoughts out after him," Cleology copies God's handwriting on the rocks; botany copies (lod's work upon the flowors; the procossion of 1.110 seasons represonts tho great unfolding thought of God, slowly un- rolling berme oath's admiring oyes, just as tho rosebud unr011:3 its oriel - son wood, Indeed, the first pages of a dozen of the physical soioncoe aro spread out bef000 the scholar who looks (mon thee Berkshire Hills and mountains. Long ago tho Divine Teachor 811111 that the least thing that (lod does reprosents mole W18 (101(1 of tho scholuo anti more beauty of tato midst than the goectost thing that man can do. "Consider the Mies of the field! Solomon in all his glory was not arrayod like one of NOW 8010111011'8 rObo was plirp10; Solomon was a king; Solomon was 11. scietettet and a scholar, and yoft the Mara thing that God does in a wild lily is more beautiful and more por- foot than Lao grottiest things that tho g tea Lost 111011, ri a mod S olon ton could produco through royal robes Of purple and gold. :But Natut.o's miesal contains 11'0l18 11108 thot 1110 1(5ef01 as woll as beau- tiful. All woalth ls in this field ho• fore me. The hillesidoe are staled 1 with the water brooks and 11(0spoings that 0. hundrod miles 8way will quench man's thirst, These t . mule thomeolves at his tooth into $ berry or put•plo cluster or golchia meat of poach and plow, Why, tho history of human pro- gress is the story of the (sixth as modified by man. 1low plastic is yonder field! Every foreo in load and seu and sky stomas ttbout man, liko eervants In a palace, to fetch and curvy for him Yonder Is on illuminaliel pogo foe the v.rtist; 11 is it rich manutoript for tho 001101ar und poet; it is a rocord of facts for tho historian; it is a bundlo of scionces s for the systomatie thinker; it is a temple for the worshiper; it is O a gallery of Milady and delight for 1 the tired worker who has left the great city behind him. cl Nature and Cod then aro the Dom hospitul for hurt hearts! d Thoreforo men are bidden "to como 1 apart into a quict place and rust. - awhile." Ott these summer days th0. hillsitios woe mado 1.0 lio down upon 1 and dreato an(1 brood and recover the ' jaded senses to their eiu•Iy freshness and vigor. Almond to historic cities Neu do not need to go. M1 the great eleochs Inc earth's greatest souls • have coma amidst common thiags. Our fathor man walked midst the common corn and kopt bis tryst with Odd. In the Marls Jacob saw the Vision Splendid. Studying the grass, I Jesus discovered God's loving care and learned that the world is tho fatper's house end death itself only the other room. Verily, the heavens do declare tho glory of Clod. And /statute is God's illuminated page for those who have eyes to see. THE S. S. LESSOlki INTERNATIONAL LESSION, AUG. 6. Lesson VI. Josiah's Good Reign.. Golden Text, Beal. xii., 1. LESSON WORD STUDIES. - Note-l'heso Word Studies aro based 011 the text of the Revised Version. Tho Reign of Amon.. -The wicked 1C1ng Manasseh was succeoded 00 Om throne of Judah by hie equally wick- ed son, Amon,. The tsvd parallel ace counts of his reign are footed in 2 Chrone xxxiii., 20-25 and 9 • Kings eel., 13-26. Although his eeiga was short it is ofaspecial interest to us, since his name occurs in tho genea- logical table of the house of David Chron• Hi., 14), and in that or UM ancestry of cow Lord also (Matt. i., 10). It is also mentioned in con- nection with his son Josiah in Joe. 1., 2; xxv:, 3: and Zeph. 1„ 1. Amon ascended the ttrono in tlio yeat• 641 11, C., at the age of twenty-two years, and reigned two years, Doing succeeded in 639 by hi» son. Josiah. During his short reign, Amon tement- e(' all the laolatrous oractises of his falhor's earlier years. The earl otato of agates during, his roign may be in- ferred partly front the statement that "he walked in all the woos that his father walked in, and Served tho idols that his father served, and worship- ed thorn," 2 :Kings xxi., 21, anti partly from the state of &Mira which his successure, Josiah, found and sought to change by a thorough vo- format ion. Amon was 1111) viol tat Madly of palace intrigue, tieing slain by conspirator$ who, in turn, wine brought to justice by the people, and hill yotithrel son placed oa the throno. Verse 1.. Josiah -King of .Tudah from B. 0. 689 to 11, 0. 608; the son of aan.on, the grandson of Ma- lmo:Oa Aseeading tho throne at the age of oight yeas's., the early part of hie rtign during 1110 years of hie in I n or i t ivas coition ti y characterized by idolatrous practises such' as had boon introduced and fostered under botli hie father and grandfather. Whin at, Mat ho took tho meta) of government 001: n 1 tely o his own hand he introduced ind oarried to a succeseful lostio a national reform Which heCaine epoch-making (comp. lesson (ext). 'Jho main Matures of this reform tvero the eloansing and thorough renovation of the tomato, the cottealleation (it worship at Jer- usalem, and tho removal of loud eattatuaries throughout the kingdom. Convening the year:: which followed tho eefortnation little is known. '1.11050 seem 1 0 have been years Of Peace and pl.os.perity. Finally In 11. C. 608 .J 08111h entered main the 111- 0.1(11101! sanilmign against 1110 king of 'Kt:11A, who inul invaded Syria, anti no a result lost 1118 life in tho Matto of Megiddo (comp. 2 Kings xecitt, 29), 8. la Gm eighth yotw-At Ore ago of 5ixtecn. 110 began to Reek afloo the Clo.(1 of Daviel -During all tho 5e0.114 of na- tional decline ond idolatry nano hod been a mall seaman party of faithful won:al/Tors of .7(tiovala and this party, doubtloss, included Rome men 11 I oh in Motion and official poaltion. thrither, thorefoi•e, tho King of his two in i in 11 vo sought flaw God and letorminoil on reform measures, or 9'101(t 11(0)' he had had I 110 good tertian) 0 cony mithie the inflooneo of mons - We of thin serails party during the arlv roses of hie 1 1 fo, is 1101 Corinth, And in the twolfth yoar 110 boon parge nod ,Torusalanta-This vould be nt. tho ago of hooray. Itiith panes-1.00ot sonetunrios. on Mao* in Moroni. port,: or 1110 lotol, loiroduotion tolo \CO» 111 slopes also calor tho forost, (('(4 11 tins sbaft for man's ex, a handle for ists plow, beams for his ship, tallboy for his storo. Trorteures of wood ond coal also tu•o hero toady for numai Snow and Whiter; palm oleo oro 1101e.( and fruits for his Minato.; olls for his hindicines and balms for Ms pnlns. 19 All flusso foreos also roe floxildo 40;1 man's tolteh, slin and soil nod rain W1,1 r 110 WS IIVIDIN(1. mice( ion of he (0154 00(114 of ):arrounde lig hoof n ustions, '111.' W617411111 1 10411 rencl nark» (ended lo 1111 (loot ion of 111 0115 o I h:' Iwo i bon too I loos 01111 oven to fost f tho holii•f in local Tho Piney will, at his lemma, pasn a through (0 groin of corn und 1001 a r shoat and ehock. They will trane-' eentralleat Ion of worrli10 In ono Pitoos meow the learows was a, grail boili In maintaining in Ito purity tho liif in ono God. Ashi.oni-The masoulino plural Atilitgah 118 Aal10r0 111 is lite A.-----^-•,µ•,, .1-11"1-1.4.14.1.41"1”6+111,41414.+1. 13. orn e of 0-4 11 (18 lt Floral of the Ramo 4001t1. Tao Ael prim woro woodial oolog of great sly 111101111 1,115(414' this 10)101 altars (1(4ev1,ih1)1 of dthm an 4,0 eity, Ult ew10, ((ole-tngroven 111c (10.115', the bong th. Um :symbol of Um god or gotalos worshijouid at that. particntitir 911110IL is qup ite. ossible tiott. 3000,1'1 hos,, A,b0r1111 were blunted 1's111,, 10 1ot44 at (11(1111).1 (await only 1941w0rehipood. 01401(4101401(411imagt.s-1 lioso earvecl i wood ond slam.; that Is ongraviel. Mutton lima:eat-Image» mado fro] !mean motel and ('14,111. iio 31(1111115. 4. Itaallin-Comparo Word Stutilt on 108011 1c July 2, 11, Burnt t ho bOoott-also dleintolos• ronoinct of !Anatol pt.it.ela, Thus dos, crating the at ars In tho sight. of a tho Nitwit) 1)5 bringing in contest with them that which 900.8 dead. I was also an act that tended to both in cli(4hoittn. tho 4)11041114.6. In the onto)) of eranassoh an laphealin and Simon), 000111 lint 5101 144111 -That JoSJah W119 able t extend his reform measures 11050(11118 boundory of his oath kinadot into Samaria, tams an Assyria province, iralicatem thy practical it doeenclonce from Asayria, which Ji doh at this time tejoyoci. The expla nation of that Mato of parolee is tha 1.110 Ase,yrian empire though not yt. overthrown wag at this tan° groatl weettened. li theit. ruins -Tho 'Hebrew of thi Olives° is obscure. TIM translatio of the Authorized Version "with their mattocks," that is, 111111)0, 50011I9 1.0 ke equally roloustablo. 7. Sun litiages-A reforence to the worship of the eon by tho Jewe Will he found In 2 Kings xxiii., 1 1, 901(11'),tho chartote and horses dedicated to the sun-god are spoken of a» haVing boon removocl from 11111 gate of this bowls. *Use worehip of the sun at Jornsalent oleo mentioned by kite. Sitizolt, viii„ 1.6). This particular form of idolatry was common both among tho original inhabitante of Paleetme and 114(1(1105 tho Babylon:D.0e and from these la bi all probality it was coped by the .10(0..10(0.9.(e en. . She:: hen -According to 2 Kings lie MIS a iietibe. '1 he recorder - Marginal reading "the chronicler." 9. And they canto to ffilklah the high priest., and delivered the 14110(45-711 the account in 2 Kluge 49'U ('0,1(1 111(41 thoy were seat to itilkiah with 0. mossage to him to "510m," that ie, to rook•on. the total of the mange Col- lected in the tomato. 'The acconat of the repuiring of the temple (vet•ses 9-18) reminds one strongly of the • undertaiSing earl -led 'out by Joash a 0510(11(5 earlier.. "But Je- hoiacla the gwieet took a chest ... . 0.11(1 set it beside the altar, . . in the houge of Jehovah: and the prieats that kept tlia throahold put therein all the money that was trough!. into the houee of J.eltovala . . . And they gave the money that was weialier out into Lilo hands of them that. clic lie work, that...bad the oversight o UmM 'oe° of Jehovah; and they 1)111111 out to the carpenters and Ulu 1. .011 ei• .14 1' 40 1, 4.44+.5.02-4 0000 li1,3111.1.:8, 11 Iloilo.' Calory -0M ()okay saints in I" to inall 4(110(14, 1(81(1 Nat. and ('411)'8 With ssitter. Boll unn til to ata, bot not until it. fatle apart off the 10(1110, udil ono towel of milk 10,11 a 9041.11 pivot! of buttr e let get hot, Pour In a Melt ani serve. 114 Fruit Blanc iNfange.-Put into a saucepan four olines of ground ('14')',two mimes of sugar, a taw drops of 111(1 emsonee of almonds, two (111(131314 11 of halve end 00"oncomet of milt; boll I: from' Moot to twenty ndinites, till it t• forms (9 191110(11h aurfaco. To make 1.1 tho fruit flavor 0111 any kind of fruit to the mixture. Pone into a mold. 11 This may he served with in cream. o Egge.-11.8.V0 8011100 bum o 011 tongue cliopped very flne; add to (I it a fow bread crumbs, pepper, 'hop - 11 Imo Parsley and some 11114111111 Mater, 11 Moioton with milk to '110.511a soft 1- Paste. and half 111 1 50(110 patty pans r 1- oscallop shells with the mixture. - Break an egg cat•oftilly on each, and pia a pinch of gall. t11010 and 1 sprint:10 cracker dust over Ude. Place the aholls in a pan and put in a modevate (non and balm until tho s white is set. o Vanilla Jumbles-11dr poond df butter, half a pound of powdored sugar, ono teasaooldul of two taolespoonfuls of sherry, throo eggs and nine ounces of flour. Beat butter and sugar to a cream until very light; beat the eggs without soPartaing, and add to butter and sugar, Add the sherryynnilla 011(1, finally, 1110 heatod flour. lloot and hard and drop in email $poma fills on a lightly greased. paper, Bake until 40 cleticate brown in a moderate 01(011 Fruit lartraschino-Peel half it doz- en oranges and cut thom in length- wise slices. Peel two bananas and cut them in thin, roued slicea. Put a layer of oranges in a glasa des- ect.t. dish. then a layer Of bananas , and sprinkle them oith sugar and n.araechi no. 001111011e until the fruit hos been steed, then as a finish sprint:10 a cupful of grated cocoanut over the top. You will nerd ahout half a cupful of sugar and Ione tablespoonfule of maraschino far tho flavoring, Custard Ice Oream-One quart of milk, yolks of Rix eggs, (Inc cup of ougosa ofte pint of cream, one tea- spoonful of flavoring. Make a boiled custard with milk, sugar and eggs; strains and When cold add (gown and more sugar, if (looked, together with litiaoring. Beat the whites of he eggs and add just berme freozinoa f the cream is to be molded, add ono tablespoonful of gelatine that 111 1 1 f r • 1 a 1 3 14 1. las been soaked ono hour in one - 1(011 CUP of cold milk reserved front ttle. Saralee Sandwichem-Drain ofT tho 11, and lay the ettedines on soft aper 1,0 absorb all tam oil possible. Remove thu head, tail arid skin, pick over with a Silver knife and fot•ic, ree move all bones anti mince floe. For a box of sardines use the Juice of a small lemon and ono or two table- sPoonfula of good. salad oil or molted butter, it dash of red popper and salt. Dometimon the mixture is 'rubbed through a Sive°, but it is not neces- sary. apread bread or cracker:4 with this paste, and if you like, put a slice of ram tomato In oach sande Chicaer, Salad -Measure the meat., from which every last bone has been Picked, Add double the quantity of cabbage, celery and lettuce, equal parts, alit: thoeoughly and over all turn the liquor, or so much of it as .is eroded, in which the ohicken was coo'rod. Chop in 00101'ee pieces two hard-boiled eggs for each quart of the mixture. Halt to taste. Set away in a coal place (in earthon(varo or glass), trail ton or Moen min, Meg before wonlcd. Mix thoroughly with the following: Foe each quart of soled allow tWo eggs, Well beaten, a 1ablesp00111111 Of mot tad int t t or (salad oil if proferrod), a tenspoonfol of outstare and a cup of t inegats Stir the intholard smooth aith a little- of the vinegar, add Gm rest and the oggs with a pineli of salt and th0 blitthr. Cook slowly, so 0.5 not to ourdlo. Uso it cold. sunders that weought • upon the mann of Jehovah, and to the mosoms• old the howers of etono. and for bug - ng timber and hown etone to repair ho broaches of the Mateo of Jehovah ad for all that was laid out for tho nateo to repair it" (2 :Kings xil., 9, 1, 12). 12, 1:110 overoeors- There is no arallol in 2 Kings for the teat of his verso or for \Tee° 13, 1 he sons of the Kohathilea-The esconelanto of Kohatli, the second of 110 three tams of 'Levi, mentioned in vi., 16; ,Num. 111., 17; 1. Citron, .1., 1, 18; xxiii., 6. Levites-arembers of tho prieetly lobe of Levi who 'MOM Sot apart for he spocial -Parsley of roillsion in some. Mow inanifeld were their taie8 is indicated Ma part in this 031140 and ihe noNt, some being ekill- ul with instruments of music, rual that•s being scribee, anti oflictive, and otters. • VISTABLISIPING A BASIS. "Papa," Said Cm little girl, "if I Was to break that finsmoking set of yours, and a was an riocident, and I was as sorry as I could bo about itey would you whip me?" "Why, no, Lilian," ho said, "1: should not la) as sovere as that'. llut, see here, you minal liave you broken IL?" "No, but I'm awfolly enrolees, you know, and I might do it some day," PRECIOUS P1144011101? SKIN. A pima of skin takon from the body of a Daniell pirate -who wits execulaid about 900 years ago-realizod three guineas in a Loadon sale -room. Tho skin was found nailed to Um door of liedstock Church, Essex. The nue- tioneer mentioned that not so long ago a similar Piaeo of human skia was nailed to one of tho doors of Westminster Abbey, ON THE SURFACE. Wiggs-jraik Pondress hate a 111111100 (.hat's (pato contagious. Waaga-What? no roust, havo &- yapped it voter rocently. Wiggs-iYes; 11,8 scarlet rash, LIJSTrali. "Paw, is it truo. that doata loves a shining mark?" "1 ampose so. "Nothing, only I should think yall'd fool n. good (Mal safer if you wort) a TWO TRUTHS. He true," said ilie moralist, "that olos must go forward 01' baCkleard hi his world. Thero's no standing Ntill." "Yes," repliod the tomporanco ad- voimte, "and if Otero Were 110 still Ntanding lit this world 80100 mon would never got ahead." WTTPT 11F11 00 1ES, 'Blackberry jelly--Solort firm fresh !mortar, preferably the inteultivated, boat unity, then aquocret. through a 1111011 strainer until all the juice has been oxproseed. Ono pound cut loaf sugar to each pint juice, boil to- gether twenty nanutos, then tost. Unless the berriee aro oxceptional this lonely Jollies in less than thirty minotoo. Pour into glasses and cover, aftoo twenty-four hours. Blackberry ,1 ata -Moll o w but Per- t 0011 y sound berries should 110 chose(0 and thoy ahould bo heatorl gontly, mashing slightly. To each ponial of polo allow throe-gaol:ere of a pound of 1 Old 1411( 0) Bring to boil- ing point, Oxon 8111111100 twent5 niin- Wes, living careful to stir feerteently to provent scorching. Canned Illockhereles-After oolect- lo5 and wattling your berriem put thole ois a cool paOt of the ronge un- til the juieo Logins to come freely, then aring the kettlo forward, bring to tho 110141115 point; eook only bola enough to heat the fruit. thoroughly, Ilton Natio onti soal bismodintoly. These 9911 I 110 found doliciolia, having retained thoit• full flavor, sugav lasing tultiod at the tablo or half no hour berme, Norving. Blackberry Oortliol liora rind Strobl tho boniest ag for jolly, To ()aril tint of Plea alloW ono 1•01111d loaf sugar, bolt an ountoi powdored 01111101114911, ono -quarto) outwit powaor- e(1 moat., two 1011131001111 olovee. lloil 11 togothoo fifteen Ininotee, atria% adding (0 each 1)1111 a glass of best lerench brandy. Bottle and seal. (1,,,,sopery 1,11,, Noma awl stews from one pint of veva goosoborrios and stic idowly in It porcelain kettle with a small alluvia of waive till lit .y break, See, ten to taste alai bake 1,1 ween vo erlItti. MOT a cup of 9 writ+ .s» re kin» with a pint of gooseberries ght's a delicious flavor. 11 SI11IIVINU, Fruit with gratoduted sugar is fin Minn i ila i On. l's:' poaderril sugar and sift It Mame sending it, 111 the tater., a hipped onions should always sorted with sliced peaches to hidu the disrolueutions that cannot be proven toll, tientivs shoula be clipped 01 ice (904 19 two or three times 11011 drained quito (try before serving. it 18 hotter to wash them °vet rOght, if they aro 1i('519 111(1 ler broakfas.t. Melons aro best, when thoy aro Cuntaletipos are served in halves. Thorefore tho lettialliir ones ttre to bo soleeted. Halt the people who servo them 5eaci partially grace ones to the table. The tatty, butter yellow onos have the nices1 flavor, und thoy iieually have a dark outer rind. Scrape Out seeds out and 8e10e With a couplo of spoonfuls' of cracked ice in the hollow left by seeds. Watermolorni Shollid mister be sliced, but scooped ou1 in appetizing pink maim after having been on too for some home. The best way to serve O large ono is 1.0 (livid? it into quartors and soul ono quarter to the table on a hug° platter. By 8(11104)' 1113' the melon in Nervino thore 5 no rine to go to the individual plate and thoro flop ana 110 U11111'(' to alio gueSt's clisconalture. TIIRISIO CARROT WAYS. Carrot Pie -This can hardly be told from squash pies Scrap° and boil tho carrots until tender, using Plenty of o•ater. When done, drain and poor cold water over them. Let salmi five minutes, then mash. To make good-elzed plo uso 1 C1141 carrot, 1 pint milk, 4 tablespoons white ougate a toaspoon each salt, calms - num and ginger ami 1 well-beaton egg. Bake slowly, using one crust. Roast Carrots -Scald the carrots until the skin con be removed, then place them in a pan with a. roast of beef or pork. Turn them mien in a while and baste when you do the meat. Arasbed Carrots -Boil until tender, put through' a vegetable Squeezer, and add butter, pepper and salt. Stir over the fire until hot, then servo at once. This is a good ;substitute for squash. KODAIVIA. The Power Behind the Japanese Throne. If one asks who Kodruna is, there are two answers: ono, that he 15 011101 of the general stag in the Japanese army, the othor that ho is, besides, a poor, unlettered man who, at flay two yoars of ago, rulos Japan and guides her armies. Richard Barry, the war corrospondent, SayS, 111 "Port Arthur," that this man thinks while others slooP, and worlo) while others eat. ITe is the power behind the throne, the 8(10180r at the geu- oral's ear. Arany Public men in Japan believe Koriania to he an unseat person of second-rato capacity. Ile had been sent to Formosa, to "get rid of him." There he raised the placo from savagery to a commercial prosperity. Ile could have been prime ministor. "No," said he. "1 wra41(1 rather pull strings than be 0110 of the strings to be pulite!. Russia is peoP- ohfrigi.ce, U ),over the border. Let us pre - 411(10. Gm rive e a desk in the War - So the critics wee° glad to got the upstart out of the Way. 13at. When the War came, one man had 1118 fin- ger on things, and knew when anti where to strike, no know the points in tho Korean coast whore an army oonld be landed, no knew how soon it could be transported thero; where ail tho merchant Bloomers wore, a.ad how long it woold take to tont 1110111 into transports; and ho ha.d tho audacity of genius, 7Io was not a very prosontable man. no Mut never ti.avolled, and spoke malting but Japanese. Ito would laugh liko a boy at what he liked, and frown over what dis- Pleasea him. And ho scorned a frock coat and stuok to a kinionsla But tho emperor and the witiost heatle about him know what Kodruna was, and 0.1though they could not, for pritle's sake, give him the Contrnand of tho army, they crownod him with power. 11,11011 the war corrospondonts woke for months storming tho war-ollice in Tokio, with London, Washington and Berlin to back them, the question of the rialas of tho proSS Canto Straight. to KS:elating Even the ministers leitclotl 411111 rOr1'e£400nt1ent8 had 801110 rightslaorlama said, "Thoy have no rights; only priviloges." One day a grave -faced °facial made the kiloton -mot: "I 1.1111 Very stagy, goals, Man, but yon ts% havo to woit the ploasuro of ,Waioral Notional. We have riono all we (mild teas you. The question 15, Sholl tho ministers or Kodaina tont tho war? 1 much Mar that Kodanta is the man of the' ht)litrt•N'''fis TCoditina who for six months controlled the 110108 morta1 of tho world, so that to11 10 sirielo atalion- tie accoufft canto from 1 110 (told ex- cept euch rot W1114 i88110,1 In Ow official reports of his own gonera is. 1.4k4, 1110 Duke of Welliagton, be anumme- int hie 9,10101,i,44 first, his vvversini af- terward: and only W11011 the enm- palish was outlined, and his plans could lot :eon, did he opon hie lips speoch, okrea--"Chts olio old nu) oho mail,1 ft rogulor fool of 1.1m heti aeries owl." ,1 allot -"Won, hoe is 1111)1'- ((1(51) wort:mix nship, for the job 5..01118 Lo bo paainimont." CANCER RESEARCH WORK PROBLEIVIS ARE STILL TO BE SOLVED. Nany Fallacies -Have Been Des- troyea - Parasite Theory Fails. The statement by Sir William Church at tan annual mooting of tho Imperial Gunter Itosearch 111 London, recently, that comer Was not itsatieiatod with pecullaritiee of diot , 01. mode of 1 if, Dud 1 hat the trite elite to 1110 inyfithry 1,1 wus lo 1)14 round hi ita inurvelloun power of 01111 multiplica- tion, has awakened 1114., greateet pub- lic interest, saye the London Daily 11 rosearea has not yet solved the mystery, it has at Mast poitatid the way to SileeeSS, and what is Omuta as importunt, it has got rid of a host of fallacies concerning this dreadful scourge. Tomatoes were at one time sup- posticl to be the catiso of Caneer; and, at another a. meat diet. was suggeet- ed. Thou excess of salt in food WaS definitely said to mote the disease; again, arsenic waS thought to have 50010 dolman Influence In its produc- tion; and, lastly, eortain particular holaes became known as "cancer houses," owing to frequent occurenee of the disease in them. IS CANCER INF1.1CTIOUS? Tho report submitted to the moot- ing of the Research Fund contains the statement that "cancer" is not caused by a parasite entering the body from without." Concerning this point a well-known pathologist who has boon engage1 in concur re- search at a London hospital orites: "This is certainly tho inost impor- tant statement made in the report, investigators thereby abandooing tho parasitic theory of cancer. "Until definitely proved this state- ment alilmars to have been made on insufficient grounds; and thero are many who maintain (and not with- out rensons) that cancer is an infec- tious disease, and that tho changes in the cancer colls may bo due to a virus enterin5 the body from with- out, which our present-day mothods of research are inadequate to dis- cover. in smallpox and hydrophobia which aro undoubtedly infectious dis- eases, the virus is as yet unknown, though its existence is highly pro- bable. INVESTIGATION OF ORIGIN. "The committoe state that future work must be directed 1,0 ascertain- ing why eancer • arises `de novo' in 'each individual attacked by tho dis- ease. Wo must discover what causes the culls to proliferate. Is it an in- herent property of the cells them- selves, or Is it some exulting agent from without, such as a microbe? If cancer is infectious, and there aro, 50010 (10508 that suggest thisits in-. fectivity must be of a very low or- der. Nevertheless, until 100 know how cancer arises it would be safor to regard it as infective. "Irritation seems to play an im- portant part In tho cruise of tho dis- ease, as it does in so many other dis- eases, by lowering the local • resist- ance of the tissues. Cancer of the Hp often arises in those who smoke a clay pipe, cancer of the tongue in thoso who have a jagged tooth, and many other similar instances might be cited "The qUestion of the treatment still remains a surgical onto eat•ly and free removal of the growth with tho knife is the only certain method of combating the disease." ANTI-KISGINC1 LnAoun. A. little rod button worn by some 300 women, old and volute married and single amon,5 the loading social sets of tho city of Mexico, marks a new departure, or rather a new step in progress, This HUM, round red button signifies membership in what is known 118 the Anil-KIS:ling beaglle. Members of tho league take a solemn pledge not to kiss each other in media or private, on the ground that kissing is contagious, or rather, tho means of convoying contagious dis- eases from ono fair Hp to the other. DEF.PEST LAKE. During a survey of the Scottish lakos, a depth of 1,017 fthns loon reached in Loeh Moray. This proves to bo tho derpest lake in the United Kingdom. Only seven dingier Jaime aro known in lihn•ope, four being in Norway and three io Italy. IN 1101111T. "Is soonson getliag on nicely in collegg?" LOVE BY LAW IN FRANCE FBENcli wrAnnIA- .Gz syaTzx MAY BB Q7134itTGBX, "Dot" Bias Been C- onsidered An Important Part of lEarriage Settlement, At the present linai a not incon- siderato 111101110' of lorenchnion are living. in the fear that Ow law may compel them, untior penalty, to love their wives, says the parte enrage. pondont uf the lamtion Express. It is not that (M)1e men do not al- ready possenti some sort of affection for thoir partners In. life, but thee° is no knowing what awkward inter- protation the ladies might put upon the now readin5 of the 1091'. nithortu tho Fronoh miuginge codo 1108 limited Itsolf to dociaring that 1110 contracting mirth's mem each other mutual osteem, fidelity and succor, Nothing is mentionoti about 10 v, ,An eminent playwright, M. Paul IlervIeu, however, thinks that people who entor the bonds of Wed - Jock should also be required by law to love one another. M. Hervieu (or pressed his views before a Peril.): montage committee formed to eon- sider certain reforms in the code, and apparently a majority of tho members are inclinod to share his VieW, on the ground that it is in the interests of morality for the law to rocognizo love in matrimony. Curiously enough, lose enters very little indeed into the making of tho vast majority of French marriages. French people, a» 11 rulo, marry be- cause It is to T115111 MUTUAL INTERESTS. an aristocratic marriages ham is seldom even taken into considera- tion. It is purely a question of con - volition, of decortun, of mutual con- venience. Among the middle ot• bourgeois olasses marriage is principally e. question of pounds, shillings and pence. A manufacturer, a lawyer, an official, an officer or a merchant looks forward in contracting a mar- riage to folding in the shape of his wife's dowry value corresponding to tho position he holds or the annual income ho derives from his profes- sion or business. One of the first cares of a French father is to provide a dowry for each 01 1918 daughters, and according to the value of the dowry he can command a more or 'loss suitable husband for his daughter. The larger the dowry the more exacting will he become 115 to the status of a pos- sible son-in-law. Such marriages are nearly al- ways arranged by the paronts or near relatives on both Wales. Tho young Frenchman who decides it is time to marry seldom fixes his choice on any particular girl. Ile allows his relatives to look around for him. Ilo .manages to obtain, by various well known artifices, a VieW of tho person who is auggestod to him as a suitable "parti," and if she is sufaclently presentahlb to please him and the two families can come to terms as regards money filoiraitntors the Proposal is made in duo Fa119 wrimics LATER. the marriage takes place. The girl, it will ho soon, has scarcely been con- sulted, but such is the manner of her bringing up that she is gen- erally quite content to leave matei- monial matters in the hands of her father and to accept the husband ha bas selected for her. In France hasty marriages, long engagements and breaches of promiso are practically unknown. Tho desire to obtain a quid pro quo in marriage extends even to the working classes. A small peasant farmor who is tho proprietor of five acres of land and ten cows would consaler he had made an extremely bargaiti if he wore obliged to starry his son to tho daughter of a. min who owned but three acres and siAt cows. Nevertheless, it is a romaekable act that the proportion of 011110555 French marriages is comparatively smalt. The natural bent of the 00 - French woman is to become the comrade and the Mien(' of hor tusbancl. Sim Imes: frequently takcs a keon interest in his Mirthless af- fairs, and it cloos not appe•ar that the French method of -marrying young people, with its absence of any proconecivod affection, works as batIly as might Ito inlogiacol. The improssion that a long rosi- donee In France ond a closo observe - tion of tho peoplo have left upon nio is that love, in tho scnse that i$ gonertilly attached to the wood, is itot so frequent betwoon married couplos tts (1! (1511, A FaliICTIO NATI; ERTEN D31-1 Tr. The placing of Oa word "love" In tho sacramontal pities° which 01 ratite is read to all porsons about contract marriage, and to which Ilea aro obligod to subscribe, Will ot alter the above state of things. It is interesting, however, to note that tho suggestion should ho,vo come from a playwright, anti such iiiv101,.111inent, literary man 18 M. Paid 0)r:ilea, for loro»ch ploywt.ights havo to ridic1/10 and tO diseredit coajugal ridiculously; and in the sociologioal Ploys now so popular in France mar - band ics invariably made to oppoar ring° is distinctly depicted as a fen - for many years Net done thole bost In broad loronch cannecly tho huse SI1100 the Unto of Alexandre% Dumas French novelists hay o steadily avoid- od the Inmost sentiment al 1 ove and "heppy ovor rtftvoward" stories. It le no uticommon thing to 1400. youag lorench girls of the tipper mairlio (looses emilo with indulgent (01111250' 11.9(111. ta the only° love of Marius end Colt,' ne told in Victor I71igoas "I don't know." answered Are, t Thoreau Bread. "Ile stands so well t in las studios (hot 1 am afraid ho 11 is neglecting his athletics." ALL ON 1II11-1. "look Imeel" romarked tho thrifty man to his extravagaal wiaa "you're carrYing too 11111(11 sail, my lady." "I. don't know why yett shottld 1)0- 11101' 011001 that," She retorted. "No?" said ho. "I think I ohould, %Moe 1 [novo to raiso tho ----a ALL SUE 1 I AD, arothor-lant eine ' ditle't promise, you ict. cream to-daer. Tonney-01 am, you did 50. Mother -Well, if I (116 (1'. has slippocl my meleOry, T01or05-04 gou ain't, got any mem- ory; it,'N a reglar fingettery. latris a 'company hos cant rooted wills the inithicii•al authoritioe foe all this folmsre to bo derlvoll from. tho trots of the public squoree, gartleite, Ntreets. and woods \titian the thrills 04 the rity. lenves aro to be oomprosted undo. high prOSSUCO and will th•nt 111 rontertod into it tada whale it is elaimod, 0111 brae 41.10‘ et mental. ('(1 ((('1110 capacity than coal al oo nny othor fttel anOwn. 81 1,03, Tiliserabletli" '1110 Modern girl eallnot (1010'4 100 of love without mar forint eomfori., and the well brad girl would novor allow tweeter to fall in 101.0 104( 11 on impecunious All thing:, tonsillored. thisreforo, it 18 51'rht111», 1114. well for' the salro of true romonce thot 'Pool Ilorvion'ts Tgtrost 1(1(1 should bo otloptod and sot the word "Irsvo'i abould he 14. Wtell 111 the marviage 14411 '10101054