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A Field In Which They Can Make
An Honorable Livitig-,
ttreterea amoral:1g to Act 01 21(0 rare
Dement 01 summit., in the year uno
Thousand Nine Bettered atm Three,
by WinBane, of Toreete, the
L'imartuteut of Agriculture, ottawa.,
A %despatch fr—om Chicago snYs t—
iles,. Frank De Witt Talmage Pruann-
ed from the following text :—X Tim-
othy v, 10, "Well reported of for
good works * * * fl she have 1'O-
tho atilleted,"
Well, indeed, may a woman be re-
ported of for good works In such a
world as ourn if she have relieved
the afflicted. Such women are sore-
ly needed, There is sufTering every-
where—in the rich man's *palace and
the poor man's tenement. If any
woman desires to be well reported
of for good works, she can attain
her ambition in eo surer, better,
way than in relieving the afflicted.
It is a glorious mission that has
been chosen by these noble women,
who are gradunti ng as tra.ined
nurses and aro going forth in their
striped uniforms, like valiant sol-
diers, to contend with fell disease,
want to present to you my con-
ception of what such a woman
should be, whether she stands by
the operating table or bends over
the invalid's bed or walks through
the wards of a hospital for con-
tagious dtseases or sterilizethe
surgeon's knives just before the
limb is to be amputated. I take
this opportunity to address not a
single graduating class of trained
nurses, but to speak to all the dif-
ferent training schools for nurses
with which nly pul pi t comes into
contact.
The scope of my theme can best
be realized if the hearer is led into
the humble 1)0)11(1 of the most be-
loved and internatioually honored
of al/ women living at the present
time. Who is she ? I will answer
that question by relating an inei-
dent which happened about the year
1858. Lord Stratford was enter-
taining at e. London banquet many
of the prominent military officers of when she pours out the medieme or
tho British army, who had led to places the ice bag on tho fevered
victoey the queen's soldiers in tile brow, A. great deal of Florence
Crimean conflict. As a matter of Nightirfains pewee oval. her pa -
curiosity, the nobie toed asked tients was due to the feet that sho
them, one and all, this question, could tell the phygically helpless mid
"Who do you think, of alT the par- the dying Ibout the Good Physician,
ticipents el the late war, will be who was able to cure the sugerer's
the most hemmed and revered by soul as well as his body. The (fri-
th° coming generations ?" Ife asked mean soldiers had a. better chance
his guests to write tho names of for getting well in this world when
their choice upon slips of paper and Florence Nightingale's mere presence
he would read the same and made these rough men stop their
nounce the result of the ballot, swearing and influenced many of
When tho slips were collected, the them to turn their lips toward ilea -
vote was unanimous. Wonderful Co ven with a beseeching prayer.We
state, the name Which Lord Strat- know that one or the beneficent
ford announced was not that of a tasks of a nurse is to inspire pa-
generni, It belonged to all untitled tients ' with peace of mind and of
woman. Ffer name was Florence heert. Therefore, is not the ideal
Nightingale. nurse 'doubly fitted for her work
when she cen impart to the sufferer's
THE IDEAL NIMBI', soul a knowledge of tho peace tbet
passeth understanding?
THE IDEAL NURSE
should he bravo Nroinari, The bat-
tlefield, with its storm of shot and
shell, shows no greater percentage
of loss of life than that found among
the trained. nurses in our contagious
hospitals. The soldier wit° charges
the enemy's breastworks is looking
death in the face with no braver eye
than the uniformed nurse who times
the pulse of the smallpox patient or
the young girl who offers to go with
the physicians into the quarantined
city affected with yellow fever. Then
there are the dangers which may af-
fect the patleats as well as the
nurse, which result from delirium.
The other day 1 read an account of a
case in which the quick tvitted brav-
ery of a nurse saved the 1110 of a
raying patient committed to her
charge. Having stopped out of the
loom for a little, when she returned
the found the 'patient standing by
his bed with a knife in his hand,
ready to cut bis throat. Teethed of
screaming or running away, she fix-
ed hor eye calmly upon his as she
said: "I would not out nly throat
with such a dull knife as that if I
were you, Let me have it; know
where to get a sharper orie." The de-
lirious patient hesitated a moment,
Then Ise handed it to her. Then she
collies, turned and threw it out of
the open window as she said, "Now
go back to bed or I will call for
help to put you there," Ab, that
WaS bravery!
MOISAT, calm/win NECESSARY,
But these is another way in which
the ideal trained muse meet prove
her bravery. That is when sha has
tho moral courage to refuse to Work
for an incompetent physicien, Sonio
time ago ono of tho training echools
for nurses gave this question in an
examination paper: "Supposing you
poeitively knew tha± if you obeyed
the doctor's orders to give to your
patient a, metal» medicine that act
woeld kill the patient, woul01 you
give it?" Mdst of the students an-
swered "No." Somo answered
"Yes." 1 myself believe that neitils
er answer fully coveeed the duty in
the case, If there should come a
time—and that time will come—when
a competent num knows that her
patient 1.9 being cared for by an in-
competent physician, then that
nurS0 Sbeal1C1 go to that (footsie and
tell him plainly what the knows and
then and there refuse to Work any
longer under hie orders, A trained
nurse has no moral right to work
ender an ineonmetent physician,
doing so sho becomes a party to hie
malpractice, She ehould not dleobey
his orders, Two wrongs nevee snake
a. right, She should refuse to work
for him et tto.
no wont nurse should be a happy
women, Happy( Why? Because,
es :King Solonum wrote, "A Merry
heart (Meth good like a medicine,"
Happy! Why? Because good cheer
is contagious as well as infectious.
The inures smile in the sickroom
lute the emu curative qualities as
the .suit bath Or all 1000110110 rob.
After 0110 Of the brethere—a, noble And yet Here aeo 501110 nurses who
%MO
lad about ten years of age—had had
tho skin cut MT his arms and should-
ers and chest the surgeon turned to
the nurse end said, "Nurse, whero
cild you get, thaS' keno 9" "Out of
the alcohol," she answered. "Did
you then place the blade in sterile
water before you gave it to me ?"
"No," she answered ; "I slid not
know Yon wanted ese to do it."
"Then," said the surgeon, "we have
cut all the skin off from this boy's
body for nothing. Your criminal
ignorance is to blame for this use-
less euffering. You should have
known enough to place that knife in
sterile water. You profess to be a
trained surgical nurse and a. gradu-
ate of a nurees' eollego."
Thus, you women about to become
trained nurses, it is of vital impor-
tance that. you ere intelligent and
efficient. It is of vital Importance
that you should know the value of
fresh air a.nd cf proper dietetics. It
is of vital importance that. You
obey the laws of clea.rdinesss imd
not allow your patient .0 beeline
infected, The ignorance of incom-
petent nurses has sent utany 11
patient to the (1rave. If you volun-
tarily enter your noble profession
int ell(ctually unqualified, you are
committing a sin against the hu-
man nice just as surely. as is the
ignorant switchman who throws
open the wrong switch and sends the
passenger train crashing into the
freight train which has been side-
tracked,
CURE SOUL AND TiODY.
The ideal nurse should be a Chris-
tian AVOInfol. During the dark
night, ether) the black winged death
angel is hovering, wing and wing,
beside the white winged birth angel,
or when in the Crifits of pneumonia
or typhoid the life seems to be hang-
ing lw a slender 1,111 ad, no intelli-
gent num is so competent in bend
over the bed as tho one who be-
lieves in Clod and prayer and the one
who can ask for the divine blessing
Who wits Florence Nightingale ? I
will tell you. She wies the heroic
nurse who did not want the British
people to rear for her a monument
of cold marble, but instead she took
the 8950,000, whittle was a free will
ofTering given by her countrymen,
and with it built and endowed, only
a short. distance from Westmiuster
abbey, the famoes training school
for nurses 1(111 1011 noW bears her
name. This school, established in
1860, is the foster mother of all the
modern training schools for nurses,
When a woman so honored. by
church and state as Florence Night-
• ingale thinks the development of the
traines1 nurse a work so important
that she devotes to it her fortune
and het' consecrated energies, we
need make, no apology for taking as
• our theme this morning the qualities.
which aro needed in the ideal nurse.
Tho teethed nurse, in the first
place, must bo intelligent. She is
the right arm of the physician. By
that we do not mean that the train-
ed nurse is to bo a mero automatic
machine and that. when the physi-
denpulls the string she is to move
and when he stops pulling she is to
stand still. Oh, no 1 She is to be
far more. We find that to -slay the
intelligent trained nurse is inoro
then the mere physical right arm
of the physician. She is Ms eyes,
his hands, his constant helper, What
,
tho intelligent trained nurse is able
to report imreferenee to the progeose
of tho patient to a great extent de-
cides the physician's diagnosis. Ho
sees the patient but once in twenty-
four hours, while she is by the 111-
valid's bod peactically all the time.
She can record the progress of the
disease by the flight of mieutes. Ile
can only study it by the morning
and evening call, The value of the
intelligent nurso is to be found in
Whet she sees, as well as te what
she Is willing to do ; her 115e1221)1ee5
is to be enhanced by what she can
ns well as by her willingness to
obey orders,
A FALLACY EXPLODED.
"It is high tiine," Florence Night-
ingale once wrote, "that tho fallacy
should be exploded that every Wo-
man is able to become a competent
nurse." it is high time that the
standard of our teething schools for
eurees should bo raised, that un -
weeny institutions should bo crush-
ed out and that the euestion of a
teethed nurse'e efficiency should riot
be decided by her cbility to buy a
gingeam clress and to read ts, ther-
mometer. Incompetent nursing has
Involved the loss of many a life and
CallSed many an agordeing intim
Some time ago a dear friend of mine
a, brothel' minister, had his little
five-year-old son nearly burned to
death, The only way to nave the
child's lite Wail by grafting human
skin upen the little one's stomach
and chest, The father end the
child's Men brotheee volenteered to
Jet the doctor peel the skin front
theie imelLe to save the levity's Ilfo,
go about their tasks with the sour-
efl visage of an underte,1«i1'13 assist-
ant rather than with the rudiunt
lace of one who Is trying to cheer
up those who are pain racked and
depreeeed. 'Hwy neVer Seoul to re-
alize that a. true nurse's facial ex-
ies,slon should he full of sunshin0,13we aell as her lingere' touch gentle and
tsit:ue
But, outside of her duty toward
the patient, there is another reason
why the ideal nurse should be happy.
Her life 113 one of self sacriflee. It is
a life which has in it a sweet, Con-
sciousness that she is tryieg to hen)
her fellow mon. It is not a life of
mere money making, at; many sup-
pose. After the loathed nurse has
taken out hee legitimate expenses
she has little money to save, It is a
life of sweet and noble self sacrifice,
TITE JOY Ole SELF SACRIFICE.
011, the transcendent joy of the
Christian nurse's eacrifice for othe
0151 Young W 0 In en 20110 are about
to enter the nurse's profeselon, if
yot: are to become iiletti nurses, this
is to be your Joy. You will be hap-
py bemuse you will know that your
sacrifice and devotion and faithful -
netts will save other lives. You will
have tho sweet consciousness that
you have been able to lead a suf.-
fever back from the (lark valley of
the shadow of death, or, if you have
to close tbe eyelids of the dead, you
will know that you have been able
to place their hands in the saving
hand ef Jesus, Christian women
about to enter the noble profession
of trained nurses, I congratulate
you. I give to you a gospel salute -
Lien. X wish you gocispeed.
May God blue to -clay the memory
of Florence Nightingale! And may
the bandage and tho nurse's cool
hand upon the fevered brow over be
accompanied by the earnest Chris-
tian prayer of the ideal nurse.
THE S. S. L7SSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 12.
Text of the Lesson, X Cor. xx.,
20, 21, 50-58. Golden Text,
I Cor. xv., 20.
20. But now is Christ risen from
the dead and hecoine the first fruits
of them Ilint slept. •
We have to -day a great and glor-
ious chapter truly, beginning with
the gospel ley whic11 we aro saved
and ending with the complete sub-
jugation of all things unto IIim Who
died for our sills and was buried and
rose again the third day, according
to the Scriptures (verses 8, (1), The
writer of this epistle, with whom
we have recently beeu Journeying so
much, seemed to know nothing but
Christ crucified, Christ risen and
ascended and Christ returning to
reign, It would be well if there
were many like him. In this chapter
ho gives special prominence to the
resurrection, proving that the life
and death ot Christ would have
availed us nothing ef Ho had not
risen ; that apart from this great
fact there is no gospel to preach, no
ground for faith, no salvation; but,
theist being risen, all is well with
those 10110 trust in Him, ancl as He
is i(2 His riseu body so shall we be
(Ph11.111, 21; I John HI, 2).
21, For as in Adam all die, even
So in Christ shall all be made alive.
By ono man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin, and so
death passed upon ail men, for that
all have sinned. ll'or as by , One
Man's clisoibudience Mealy were
made sinners, so by the obedience of
ono shall many bo made righteous
(Rom, v, 12, 19), All are in Adana
without exception, and therefore all
aro sinners and dead in trespasses
and sins (Eph. ii, 1). All who, be-
ing convinced of sin, have accepted
Christ are in Christ, and Ho is
wisdom, righteousness, sanctification
redemption aud life sternal to all
who trely receives Him (I Our. i, 80;
X John, v, 12).
50. Now, this I say, brethren, that
flai and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom cif God ; neither cloth cor-
ruption inherit incoeruption.
The kingdom of God will be that
condition of affairs on earth when
the will of God shall be done on
earth as it is done in heaven matt
vi, 10), or, as in verse 118 of ow.
chapter, when the Son, having "(dur-
ing the thousand years liev. xx)
subdued all things unto Himself and
cast Satan and all his followers
feta the lake of fire, Clod shall be
all in all. In order to enjoy that
kingdom and its glory, these present
mortal bodies of flesh and blood
mast be changed and be made like
His resurrection body of flesh and
bones (Luke xxiv, 80). They will be
as real and tangible as Hie resur-
rectiort body, but no longer subject
to tho powers and eiretunstances
vhich control our mortal bodies
(Luke xxiv, 81; John xx, 10),
51, 52, Deltoid, X show you a
ntystory. We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all he changed in a
moment. * *
In 3: These. Tv, 15-18, this is more
fully set forth ancl so simply and
clearly that only' those who do not
wish to can fail to see it Our
Lord Ilinsself reftwrea to it in these
words; "He that believetb in MO,
though he SIM, yet shall be live, and
whosOever Heath caul belioveth Ia
Mo shall neve" SIM" (John xi, 25,
28). The natural man can 1109e1'
SOO 1101' inherit the kingdom of God
unless he is born from above, born
the 00e011t1 thne, and all 10110, being
born again, belong to the kingdom
must fri one of two ways obtain a
body fit for the kingdom—the body
must die and rise from the 'dead at
3-111$ coming or bo in a moment
changed without dying, aS Were the
bodies of Enoth and Elijah,
53, 54, Then 0111(11 1)0 brought to
pass the saying that le written.
Death ie swallowed up in vinery,
Corruptible and mortal aro terries
referving to our preeent bodies; In-
corruptible ned iramortal desteribe
tho hodire that 5111111 be owe n't 1118
coming, when we shall he like Him,
'Phis quotation from Tea, xxv, 8, 0,
remietis 11:1 that When the kiln/1101n
0011100 and the glorified church is
with Christ reigning over it Mete v,
0, 10), Israel »hall hetes her place,
with her rebuke taken away from off
all the earth, for she shall see Him
coming in Ins &coy.
115-57, 0 death, where is thy
sting? 0 grave, where is thy vic-
tory? The sting of death is sin,
and the strength of sin is the
But thanks he to 0011, which giveth
us the vietory through our Lord
J Calle CM 1st,
In Hoe, xiii, 14, from which part
of this is quoted, the words are; "0
death, I will be thy plaguen; 0
grave, I will. be thy destruction, Re-
pentance elutil be hid from mine
eYes." Thinking of tilers words, I
often say that 1 am giud that God
hates death and the grave and will
destroy both and will neVer alter
Ins purpose about it.,While in the
case of the believer the curse of
death is changed to a blessing and
brings only gain and tho very far
better (Phil. 1, 21, 23), yet the fact
stands that death is an enemy, and
to talk of (teeth as the Lord's con1-
111g is to confound one of the worst
of enemies with the beet Friend.
58, Therefore, my beloved breth-
ren, bo ye steadfast, unmovable, al-
ways abounding in the work of the
Lord, for as much as ye know that
your labor is not in vain in the
Lord,
The glories of the reeurrection, the
kingdom, the 11020 earth, concerning
whirls Paul said Rom. vili, 17, 18;
II Cor. iv, 17, 1 8,. fuel many such
words maywell elleOurage us to be
steadfast in the faith, unmoved by
the false doctrine and gladly walking
in the good works which ITe has pre-
pared for us. He only wants us
to present to Him our bodies, which
is truly a reasonable thing, sinee ITe
has bought us with a great price,
that Fro may unhindered work in tie
all His good pleasure', causing all
grace to abound toward lug CEOS, 11,
10; Rom. xii, 1, 2; T Coss vi, 10,
20; II Thess. 1, 11, 12; II Cor. (1x,
8).
THE XING AT COLLEGE.
His Likes and Dislikes Were the
Same as Other Students.
When the ICieg (as Prince of
Wales) was at Cambridge Univer-
sity, 1115 life did not diger much in
270111.1110 from that of the undergrad-
uates of the time, inasmuch as no
attended lectuees, had rooms in
college and occasionally dioed in
hall. But it differed materially in
the fact that his rooms comprised a
complete suite (an(1 not the usual
two apartments), and that the lec-
tures he attended Were especially ar-
ranged for him by the Master of
Trinity College, and delivered only
to himself and a few of his intimate
friends, foremost among whont was
the Duke of St. Albans.
Subsequently the Prince took up
his residence at Madingley Hall —
large Elieabethan mansion about
four miles northwest of Cambridge—
and attended at College daily. In
this particular it is interesting to
recall the cireumsta.nce that when
the Prince visited the university
shortly after his marriage he took
the Princess to see this house (which
he was ilesiroes of purchasing) and
insisted upon driving by way of a
certai11 street that be had been a,e-
eustorned to use aS an undergradu-
ate, althongh this entailed the de-
et:election of a barrier that had been
erected in view of his visit.
Hunting was MC Of the Prince's
chief aretakements, and he -was gen-
erally to be seen out with the Cam-
bridgeshire Houreds. ile also in-
dulged in shooting in the county,
and on one occasion made his Way
to a. fat-mho:use
TO 33E0 A DRINK,
The farmer's wife brought out her
best, but was more than a little as-
tonished and eliageined when the
Prince pplitely refueed her preffered
"sherry wine" and accepted a glass
of home-browed ale.
That the Prince bad 0, fondness for
a practical joke is Shown in the fact
that on one oceasion he saw a led
fishing Irani a pluit in the vieinity
of the college, an11 in a spirit of
mischief smelled him into the riVer.
Thil not WaS no 5001101 d0110, 110237 -
ever, than he took steps to bald the
luckless lael out again, and to com-
pensate 111 fOr his involuntary
ducking the Prince gave him an or-
der on his own tailor for a new out-
fit.
nehere is no doubt the routine and
restrictions of university life 1401210"
1.1(1108 galled the lUgh spirits of the
3?eince, and it is said that he onct
day escaped from the eare of his tu-
tor and detherained to have a jaunt
in London on Iris owe accounts The
consternation of the authorities
may be iinagilled When 110 WaS RAMC'
to be missing; but inquiries soon es-
tablished the fact that he had left
Cambridge by a London train. A
telegram was therefore despatched
at once, with Um ressilt that when
the Prince reached his do.stination
he found a carriage and attendants
awaiting Ills arrival. What Prince
Albert said to his erring son is not
recoecled, but cortnin it is that the
'Royal student was rammed to the
university cm thofollowing day,
greatly to his clisguet.
DIDN'T LIKE TO BOAST.
A conple of months: ago a Scott -
man was Watching tho drill of a
body of 0011tille0t11.1 troops, When
Orle of tile officers said to him
"Those, sir, do you toll me that an
equal etuinber et Seotsmen
beat them ?" "No, eir," watt fie,
ready reply, "I won't pretend to
say that 1 but I am perfectly cer-
tain that %nit that nuMber woutd
thy,"
-ese
Augustus (who has been looking at
et, comic paper)—PI should hate to
be a public character, tioncherkeow,
MIAS Finals, and have all the finny
papers printieg thinge about me
that Would lower Me in the estimne
Hon of nier accmaintneccs. Miss
Plash—"Ifettlly, Augustus, I don't
think the hinny papers eould pos-
sibly print anything thet would
Make anyene Whe knoWe yen think
less Of reit".
IN THE CONGO FREE STATE
NATIVES SlYBjECTED TO Tut-
Tvrtn AND MASSACRE.
Ring Leopold Protested to Eng-
land Against Circulation
of Book,
The sensation of the book pubBeh-
ing 5045011 was the appearance last
month in London of "The Curse of
Central Africa," whic11 i$ the latest
contribution to the eickettiug 11i$
t01'(1 of the Congo Free State, of
which Leopold, Ring of the Belgians,
is the autocratic sovereign.
Before the book appeared, it Is
stated in the introduction, the Ad-
ministration of the Congo 1,rec
Staic app/ied to England for a he
gal injunction to prevent its pub-
lication. The preliminaries to a li-
bel it were also taken in behalf of
three officials whOSe nalnes In cer-
tain proof sheets had been sent to
the Free State Company. These
natileS 2(1er0 subsequently omitted in
the book which appeared last month.
Almost immediately a mow came
Froin Brussels that King Leopold
had protested against the book to
the English authorities. Whatever
may he the fact, an atteimpt made
to purchase It resulted in the dis-
covery that the book hud been with-
drawn from sale. 'rids, however,
may be only temporary.
The guthors of the book are Capt.
Guy Burrows, who resigned his com-
mission in the Seventh 1111(40111'8 to
enter the eervice of the Congo Free
State Company, to whom Henry M.
Stanley had recommentlekl him, and
ledger Canisine, who also spent sev-
eral years in the company's Servire.
The authors declare that they haVe
absolute proOf of everything in the
book, and also of notch that is no1.
printed, because the book was in-
tended for general circulation.
SLAVES OF THE COMPANY.
What is in the hook, however, is
sufficiently horrible and revolting.
It appears that the natives have
only been delivered front Arab slave
drivel's to become the slaves of the
Free State Company. The stories
of cruelties practiced by its officials
equal end surpass the ghastliest
tales froen Armenia and Bulgaria.
The main trade of the Congo is in
rubber. The villages are obliged tO
send in a certain amount, which is
so great that It takes up the whole
time of the people. The villagers
wear round their neeks a zinc badge
of servitude, with their name 0,0121
71111111101-. If they bring in at the
fortnightly muster a quantity which
tho agent deems ineuMcient they are
handed over to the soldiers, thrown
on the ground ancl flogged with a
hippopotamus hide whip, receiving
from no to 100 lashes. The natives
are reduced to this practical slav-
ery by the sending mit of a military
forte, which surrounds the village
and shoots the men and such wo-
men as try to escape. 'rho rest aro
taken prisonern and sent to distant
plantations, where they are practi-
cally slaves. If they escape, death
in the jungle awaits them.
SHOOT WOMEN AND CIIILDRF,N.
When expeditions go out to redatee
fresh tribes the soldiers shoot all
the Men, women, and children they
possibly can, and burn the villages,
which aro abaneoned on their ap-
preach. One practice on these oc-
casions was for the soldiers to cut
off the left hand of all the nien, 100"
11100, and children killed and bring
them to the commiseary, who
"counts them to see that the sold-
iers had not wetted any cartridges."
A photograph, which is reproduced
In the book, shows Major Lothaire
and other Belginn 0111c -1111s looking at
a. gruesome scene of two chiefs, who
with .400 people, hatcl tun»e in to
plare themselves ender Lo thaire's
protection, being suspended from ct
horizontal pole by cords front their
necks, waists and ankles in the most
painful attitudes. After having been
thus suspended these two itatives
wore scalped. 'Then their shin bones
wore se,Wed through by the negro
sergeant of the Belgian doctor, Ai -
ter this their ears, noses, and lips
Were cut off for "the amusement of
the white onlookers," This torture
lasted fur an 1101127, after Witten the.
men were thrown into the bush.
Steries of Similar tortures of men,
women, and children are scattered
throngh the honk, with accounts of
the general system of administration
of this vast district of 8112,000
sentare miles, which give evidence ef
the existence Of an appnlling state
of (Mail's. The whole conduct of
affairs is a violation of the solonnt
pledges given to the European na-
tions when the Cougo Fret* State
was created.
FROM MANY QUARTERS.
Herr Elrupp's income, the lamest
ever known in Germany, Wee *4,-
760,000 a year.
The ,St. James district of London,
*although but sevonetentlis of a
square mile, has d.71 policemen.
la Nov Zealand a. government sub-
sidy is given the Salvation Army to
prevent suffering among the rteedy.
A year ego 1,252 Women were en-
rolled in the German universities ;
rrOW, 411 COnSetplenee of restrictions
and discriminations against them,
the 1111111ber 18 but 7137.
Women have inveideci many lines
of einployment hitherto thought ex -
elusively masenline„ There are
, shown in the last Hinted State(en-
sue report 120 Women. plumbers, 45
ts :tomes, 107 bricklayers mei stone
masons, 241. paper -hungers, 1,750
painters, and 545 carpenters.
NO ROOM ron CREAM.
"ISTy dear," Said Cie yOltng hus-
band, "did you speak to the milk.
Man about there being ne cream on
the milk ?" "Yes, I told him about
it this morning, and he hae explain-
ed it satiefactorily 1 and T think it
18 ceuite a credit, to him, too."
"What did he sey ?" "Ife said that
he always filled the cone $o full that
there le no roote on the Lop for the
erealn."
FASTER
. .
•4
y SUNDAY OF JOY. 4.
li3aster, Dominica gaud'', or Sun-
day of Joy, 15 the festival after the
closing of the austeritiee of Lunt,
when the resurrection of Christ is
ealebratedt The Teutonic tribes of the
North celebrated to the goddess °s-
tare, the personification of the morn-
ing, at this setteon and also in the
opening of the year or spring. The
policy of the church gave Christian
eignifiennee to such rites as could
not be rooted out, and thus COnVen-
sion was made easy for the heathen.
The bonfires of pagan rites gave way
to the great 3)111,015.1 tapers, some-
times welgbiIlg 300 pounds, which
were lighted 111 the churches Easter
Eve.
Easter eggs are symbolical of the
reviving life In spring, and were pre-
sente(1 as gifts by the Persian ifre
worshippers on the solar New Year,
The Jews, too, used eggs In the
feast of the Passover, These eggs
were colored and stained with dye
woods and herbs and sometimes
were kept as amulets and sometimes
were eaters. Various games of egg
rolling and egg knocking -Were play-
ed,
LOOKING. FOR tocs.
In some moorland districts of
Scotland the young people went
abroad early on Paseh Sunday and
searched for wild fowl's eggs for
breakfast, for it was' thought lucky
to find them, The rabbit seems to
have become associated with East-
er, but there is no trace of it in ac-
counts of ancient customs. In the
State of Maryland the children make
nests in the young grass under the
clumps of budding Easter lilies East
-
or Eve and the following Easter
dawn find them filled with spotted
and gaily stained eggs.
The Christian world adorns the
Eastee service with a gorgeous
wealth of ceremonial and song. The
neuter world blossonis in spring
bonnets and garineats now and won-
derful, for has not springtide arriv-
ed? The business world recognizes
the carnival season with early sales
of linen, underwear and summer
gaueee, which the worldly WOMan
transforms into marvelous decora-
tions when she may emerge from her
Lenten season of Setring and contriv-
ing as splendid as the first spring
butterfly from its chrysalis. The
fashionable woman either flees south-
ward, or, piously garbed in sombre
attire, attends a daily service, fasts
at a Lenten luncheon or listens to
expositions of the deeper poets.
A BLESSED BIRTHRIGHT.
Occasionally ono meets a family
that preeerves 'traditions and super-
stitions and celebrates all holidays,
both pagan and Christian. Such
people have inherited a blessed birth-
right. They have an interest in the
passing year not dependent on
change of fashion, on rumors of war
or on stook bonds. To watch with
Joy the signs of the year, the events
of the equinox, the changes of the
moon, and oven to place faith in the
ground hog, 10411012 holds its own *un-
til St. Michael's day, Feb. 24., when,
if the good saint came and found ice,
he would break it and 11101101' in an
early spring, or if he saw no ice,
deemed wiSe to make it to protect
the tender herbs and tree burls front
too early a start and warn the 8p211'-
20 (98 against Unthnely nesting—all
this adds spice to the variety of life.
It is a happiness to think that as
We celebrate Easter, so, from times
far distant, before the Christian era,
the peoples celebrated the return of
the 80( 11 and the awakening of ;string,
and thnt gratitude topeel the eouree
of light and heat turned the altars
of pagan temples toward tho east
bowed the Parsee fire worshipper in
adoration, while the gladsome doc-
trines of Christianity have found a
place for the aspirations of the na-
tions that \waked in spiritual 'dark-
ness and hex(' turned the sun wor-
ship into love and faith in the Son
of Righteousness.
EASTER SEX HOLIDAYS.
Easter Monday by long prescrip-
tion is the men's holiday, and Master
Tuesday the women's. The sex have
a, rigist to play tricks on each other
interchangeably.
Thus in some parts of England men
"bind" the women on Easter Mon-
day, and women the men on Tues-
day, 'Dimling consists in stretrbing
a rope across the highways and
catching in the toils wayfurers of
the opposite sex, who wore 1101 re-
leased until they had gsven some
small Sinn 10 be laid out in revelry
or in pioue uses,
"Lifting," however, is more com-
Mon than binding. In iinitatiOn of
the sun, supposed to rise on Fester
'Monday in three lenps, the men
"lift" the Welliell on VmSter 11011 -
day, and the women return the com-
pliment on Easter Tuesday, the vic-
tim being lifted three times, and
thon. either kiseocl, or let off for a,
consideration. The lifting is some.
timer( done by means of a chair,
sometimes by the lifters joining
their hands at the wrist, 80 as to
improvise a neat, upon which the
person to be lifted is placed, end at
other times less decorously by eLlio
lifters taldtig bold of the victim's
arms and legs. In ancient times
hu'sbands had ct right to beat their
10i8114 On Monday, and the latter re-
taliates: on Tuesday,
That nSt theSe practicee had their
root in some common eusiont in the
remote past is evident from the fact
that similar rites 110 found tn-tiny
in Germany, Thus in eutny villages
tho lsoys go about flogging the girls
on lenster Mooday, in retur11 for
evbielt the hoys tanst give them fish
and potatoes on Fester Tuesday rind
provide the music for a enneral
dance.
THE FLIGHTS OF ORATORS
AND SCREE NEW EXAMPLES OP
THEIR FALLS.
The Orator Who "Cannot Open
His Neuth Without Put-
ting His Foot in Xt."
A cartel/I well-known Irish 1110111 -
bar of Parliament recently 01Q$
ed all eloqueut speech ho Connaught
in this brilliant fanition: •"The
blaze that is lighted hero to -day
will not be quenched till it (limeade
a wave of Indignation over the land
which will bring the bigoted direc-
tors to their knees."
The lilayor of a provineial town
no doubt meant to be vety 0011101-
mentary When, In welcoming the rep-
resentatives of a trade union, he
said: "With tile bummer of unity
you have welded yourselves into one
harnicntious whole, and so produced
the cream of perfection." Even the
august chamber of the Lords is by
no means free from these rhetorical
vagaries, for dicl not a noble lord,
when defending his ciaeS, recantlY re-
mark: "Is it not right that, in order
to hand down to posterity the vir-
tues of those who have been emi-
nent for their services to their coun-
try, their descendants should enjoy
the honors conferred on them as a
reward for talcit services?"
I have already said all that I
wish to say," an oratorical M. P.
once declared, "I willingly retract
what I was just about to observe";
while a fellow-countrynran, after
vainly resisting the temptation to
join in a debate, opened his speech
with the startling statement, "X
can't keep silent any longer without
saying a few words."
There WaS flier* than a little am-
biguity in the speech of the man
10110 referred to "some tattle whieh
we have seen in some sly corner
where no ono has been but our-
Asenilse'ersi:a.n
' but this is lucidity itself
compared with the speech of the
ASPIRANT TO CONGRESS.
who compared the Opposition to
'some flaunting vessel sailing proud-
ly on in ignorance of the hidden reef
that should tear the masks from
their false faces and send them howl-
ing back to their lairs, the mockers'
and derision of the world."
This is no doubt excellent rhetoric,
but it must pale its ineffectual fires
before that member of the Louisiana
House of Representatives when he re-
ferred to "the need of legislation to
ameliorate the condition of our own
people in the riparian districts, that
have been so reeently visited by in-
undation and overfiow and devasta-
tion by almighty flood, that has
swept tudrnated and inanimated mat-
ters and objects before it in its vol-
uminous march"; after which he
touched lightly on a. certain recent
thne "when Man spoke neryous/y to
man, and the destiny of their great
nation was hung in Atlas scales, and
the balance WAS equipoised, and the
gads suspended judgment other than
the arbitration of the sword, and
this mighty nation appealed to the
Courts of Mar, and Mar went forth
from his dark chamber to redden the
world with a sanguinary gore."
From such a, dizzy flight as this it
is quite a relief to turn to the sim-
ple confession of the speaker who,
when he was assured by the chairs
man that the audience welcomed him
with the greatest pleasure. answer-
ed, "I—I ane always glad to be
here, or indeed--or—anywhere else."
British Lion," exclaimed ono
patriotic orator, "whether 11, 111 pac-
ing the deserts of Africa, sits thron-
ed among the snows of. Catada, or
roams the jungles of torrid India, is
not the nnimal to draw in its horns
and seek safety in its 811011; but,
with the keen eye of an eagle and
the wary crouch of the leopard, it is
always ready to pounce on its ene-
mies and lune them to destruction."
If this orator was a little
0011109.101301) 1311 HIS SIMILES
he had a Worthy CoMpanion in the
American politician Who spoke ol
the treachery of an opponent "who
would take my hand in both of his
in the simulated grasp of warm
friendship and with ft judas smile
wonld stab me in the back with the
other," thus clearly ehowing what a
clever and dangerous man his ad-
versary Was.
"The Irish people," Mr. 11— once
said, "hacl seen their country in
rags and misery, their children go-
ing to destruction and theiliSeiVeS
filling paupers' graves, but, no man's
hand had been raieed to SRAM them,
whilst they had been exasperated to
crime end had ended their clays on
the gallows," As a witty M. P. ob-
served: "Men who, after seeing
themselves in their graves, can sur-
vive to qualify for the gallows cer-
tainly desowe a better fate,"
lt was at lewd generous of a well-
known politician to declare that
"such prejudice as I have against
the honorable member is all in his
favor," although he shossid not have
spoiled this amicable concession by
continuing; "And I asu bound to =-
press ley surprise when I heard him
treat my rot -earl -se on tt former 0011a'
01011 with such contemptuous si-
lenee,"—London Tit -Bits.
01418 FOR Trail. SI301' WALKER..
A. certaill shop -walker in a large
establishment is noted for his sever-
ity to those under him in business.
Ono day he approached a junior as-
sistant, Train whose counter a lady
had jnst 1110Ved away.
"You let that huly go out without
malting a purch(1est ?" he asked, se-
7:le
el'YS, sir. I—"
"And (the Win; at your counter
111y) turiit s ; b
ni1111esut' '
,,othetc, you 800_,,,
"Exactly. I saw that, in spite
of all the questions site put to you,
you rarely answered her, and neVer
attempted to get what she wanted."
`'Well, but---"
"1 shall report your carelessness."
"Well, I hadn't What she wanted,"
"Whist was that ?" •
"Fifty Netts. She's a book 120,11-
271(12801', getting subscribes to the
'lI211111311,f Moses. "
And the shop -walker retired area-,
a1