The Brussels Post, 1903-4-16, Page 3FAULTS OF A NEC
Many People Consider Themselves
Messengers of Evil.
;Metered according to Act of tue ear-
Hameat at eetiadi., 30 Ow soar ono
aluminum Nine Hundred and Three,
by Wei, naliy, ot Parente, at the
Department ot Agriculture. Ottawa.)
A e...spateli from Chleago says :—
Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preach-
ed Bonn the following text :-41.
Samuel 1, 20, "Tell it not in Guth;
publish it not In the streets of
Askelon."
Thei4 Is vent excitement in the
Davidle encampment, sentinel
sees a comics al. full speed running
down the valley. Coming nearer, he
calls out with panting voice, "Tid-
ings, my lord—tidings for the new
king 1" From the diffeeent tents the
swarthy limbed soldiers, who were
resting from the conquests over the
Amalekites, swarm forth. 'limy lead
the nen, arrival to the young 00110
mender. There he prostrates him-
self upon the ground. He announces
that Saul has bean defeated and has
committed suicide ; Jonathan has
been slain. The empty throne is
now ready for Its new occupant, the
cooqueror of tho mighty Philistine,
Goliath. What was the result ? Did
David tell his followers to exult
over the fallen :king ? Did he say
to his companions 111 arm : "Good
for Saul 1 His defeat servtd him
right. Divine Justice has avenged
my wrongs. Ile had no business to
try to kill nie to satisfy his jeal-
ousy. He had no right to drive me
into exile. He should not have be-
come an apostate and defied the
divine power which had anointed
11 ilia king of Israel 3" No ! David
had the silver tongue of speech. No
psalmist over sang sweeter than this
sweet singer of Israel, But David
had the golden lips of gospel silence.
He lifted his hand in warning, lie
pructically said this : "Do not exult
over your fallen king. Do not ad-
vertise his faults to tho world lest
the miciecumeised Philistines re-
joice. Do not sneer at God's an-
ointed. Let his faults be buried in
his tomb. Only remember and talk
about his good qualities. Tell it
not' in Oath ; publish it not in the
streets of Askolou," Would that we,
ono and all, might be as charitable
in our comments upon those who
have sinned and wronged us as
3/avid was with Saul. Would that
we might talk only about the good
qualities of those with whom we
come in contact and not examine a
man's faults with the. magnifying
power of a. microscope and stedy his
virtues with the minifying power of
the inverted end of a telescope.
COLDE'N LIPS OF SILENCE.
The golden lips of gospel silence
never banquet upon carrion. We
know that a healthful physical body
has to draw its strength from clean
Provender, If a piece of meat is de-
composed and microscopically die -
eased, it will make unclean any body
into whicli it is absorbed. What is
true in reference to the physical
body is also true in reference to
the mind and the spirit. II we al-
low our thoughts to toed upon what
is depraved in other men's charac-
ters, then our thoughts will them-
selves become depraved. If we al-
low our lips to revel in uttering
the scandals and describing the
weakaesses and the sins of our
eeighbors or friends or enemies, then
our own tongues will become de-
filed.
This law—that what we let our
minds feed upon decides what our
minds are to be --is irrevocable and
all powerful. It is so rarreathiug in
its results, that Jesus, in the gospel
of Matthew, declares that he will
condemn, us not only for our evil
• actions,' but also for our evil
thoughts. "Ye have heard that it
was gaid by them of old, Thou shalt
not conimit adaltery. But A say un-
to you that whosoever 1001(0 0 00 a
woman to lust after her hath com-
mitted adultery with her already in
his heart," We aro to be condemned
not only for what we say and do,
but also for what we think,
"Oh, no," says some hearer. "That
is not square, A mall should not
bo condemned for what he thinks.
The thought action of the brain Is
absolutely involuntary. We think in
spite of ourselves. We sin only
W111111 we carry out our evil clesireS
of our souls. We do not sin neces-
sarily when we think aVillv."' A11,
my brothel., you are mistaken, A
man can indirectly govern his
thoughts, as he can directly govern
his actions. If a man allows his
eye only to see pure pictures ,and
to read good books, his ear to hear
only what is good and true ii1 re-
feeence to Ms follow men ; if a man
allows his tollgate to repeat only
that which is generous and loving
and gentle—that man's mind and
spirit will became true and good. If
hie mind becomes pure, then his
thoughts and his desires will beeteme
pure, as well as his actione.
more music In it than alrY short
space of time before or after its
The most eloquent passegos fif our
spirituel devc4opinent may often br
found when we press the golden lips
of gospel silence against our neigh-
bor's faults, when we are dumb and
say nothing, absolutely nothing,
SCANDALS runrasu TIIA:1311-
SELVES.
REACHING 11`011. LOFTY IDEALS.
The golden lips of gospel silence
aro often Met as important for our
spiritual development as the silver
tongoo of speech. Joseph Addison,
the great English author and critic,
once gave a clescriptioil of his foot-
ings when listening to a master-
piece rendered by a noted, orchestra,
Et eaid that ho Was not so much
impressed with the groat tidal wavee
of sound 38111811 daShed themselves
egainst hie eardrums as the waves
of the mighty deep in midwinter
boat against the ITollaral dikes or
with tho volume of Mingled souncle,
as when the voic.es of the celestials
seemed to blend with the voivai of
the terrestrials. ELS he WAS impressed
With the deep silence Which Maiden-
ly ensued When the orchestra leader
lifted his baton itt the midst Of tin
piece find commanded MS 11111Siclans
to hall, "Itiethotight," he Wrote,
VthiS ehort team ted of Whined had
The golden lips of gospel silence
should remain closed because, as a
rule, it is not neceseary to em-
phasize scandals. Scaedals are al-
ways loud voiced. They publish
themselves. As I speak some Ono
sitting in a pew has been saying to
himself : "Is it not right to de-
nounce other people's faults ? Shall
we not warn our friends egainst
these sins ? Shall we not point out
me:11's errors as well as their virtues?
Did not Paul write to young Timothy
enjoining him to rebuke us well as to
exhort, to reprove as well as preach
the word?". Yes, that is true; but,as
a rule, when a 1110.0 sins ho does not
find a very groat lack of reprovers
and rebutters, while there is general-
ly a great scarcity of exhorters and
encouragers when ho does right.
A. clean heart instinctively finds
some good in every man's nature,
A honey -bee always scents the
flower. It is the fleetly of the night
who loves to light his little lantern
and to hunt for the creeping vermin
in the quagmire and in tho dlsease
breeding recesses of the miasmatic
swamp. An old and yet a very
suggestive story goes thus : One
day a wagon was driven up a coun-
try road io front of a Pennsylvania
farm-bouse. The driver had all his
children and goods and chattels in
his vehicle. He was moving and
wanted to find a new home. He
called out to a Quaker farmer sitting
upon the porch: "Stranger, what
kind of people live in the next town
—I moan in that town which is just
over the hill? 3 want to settle there.'
"Well, friend," answered the Quaker
farmer, "what kind of people did
thee leave in the place from whence
thee came?" "011," replied the far -
0101' ',limy were the meanest peeple on
earth, livery one of them would
stab you in the back if be could.
They would cheat, you and cut your
throat. I never could get to like
them. That ,,Is the reason I am
leaving and trying to Ilnit a new
home." "Friend," answered the old
Quaker farmer, "thee will find the
same kind of people living in. the
next town." Next day another emi-
grant drove up to the sumo house.
He asked the same question.
"Friend," asked the Quaker farmer,
"what kind of people did thee leave
in the place from whence thee
came?" "011," answered this now
arrival, "they were the Ifladest the
dearest people on earth. I woual
never have left them, but my clear
wife died. Then tho old homestead
became intolerable. Every room re-
minded me of her. Homy friend
would open the bleeding wound of
Iny henrt. I coula not believe that
ally people mild ever be so kind
as my old neighbors were during lily
Into trouble." "Friend," answered
the Quaker farmer, "thee will find
the same kind of neighbors in the
next town as in the place from
whence thee came."
sPEAN. ONLY OF 'retie 001).
Like the old Quaker farmer, I
would declare that each hearer can
find good in all Men or bad in all
men just in proportion as his own
beset is good or bad. And if we
have any good in our own malceop it
iS very important that Nye have the
"silver tongue of speech" in order to
talk about other people's virtues,
Lot others, if they will, advertise
the errors; we wilkonly speak about.
the good.
The golden lips of gospel silence
rover foolishly whisper sinful tales
into the ears of wrongdoers by
which they shall try to justify their
own sins. A good example is infec-
ti°Nitrin
lt is true in reference to the in-
fection of a good example is also
teem of the infection of a bad exam-
ple. Some, of the toll keepers in
New Zeeland have trained sheep,
which, for a small consideration,
they let out to the sheep drovers to
lead their flocks cif sheep across the
bridges which span the levers or the
r avi nes, When the sheep,
which are being * driven to
market, come up to these
bridges, they mo frightened and will
not go over. Then these trained
sheep come to the ber,d of the flock
and lead the way. When the un-
trained sheep see that some of their
number can cross the bridge, with
a steady rush they follow after their
leaders, There mo scores and huu-
deeds of thousands of Men and wo-
men Nvho want to elo wrong. But
when they hear of the shortcomings
of their follow Olen, they say to
themselves: "Well, if So-and-so Can
SOW MS wild oats, I guess wo ca11.
34 uSo-and-so can safely cross ' the
rickety bridge spanning the river of
death, T guess we can also trust our-
selves upon the Swinging span, Hero
goesi" "Tinder is »ot more apt to
take fire," once wrote PhillipS
Brooks, "1101' WELX tO take tho im-
pression of the seal nor paper the
ink than youth ie to follow ill ex-
amples." "When the abbot throws
the dice," goes an old locoed, "the
whole convent will gamble also."
Everywhere wo find that when a
great Man dime wrong his evil con-
duct: is taken 00 an example, or
rather Ei8 An 01101100, for hundreds
and themsands of similar sins.
TUE ARTIST'S ArAsTmlymun.
Never givo any man 0 chance by
the reelial ef mono wroeg or sin to
turn his Mee for Ono instant from
porRy and right. 311003) Loollordo
da Vinci Detailed hie great paint -
the "Last Supper," he made a
cup which was a initeterpieco, In
form and character and in the lus-
tor of the preelowe metal this cen-
tral ('Up WEIS clearly and beautifully
wrought out. The common praise
whieh wee first heard front every lip
Ives this: "How marvelous is the
art ilieplayed In the wine cup.:' Ohle
eulop,ltim so Incensed the greet Ital-
ian artist that he toolc a great
brush and blotteil out the splendid
elip as lie veld: "f meant the face,
of Jeelle Oluist to be the only mull
the 01)11(1 01 and the most important
part of that pletere. Whatever
draNs away the eyes of the beholder
from that must be blotted out."
And 80 WileteVer draws away the
thoogins and the cleldreS of 0111.
hearers and companions front truth
and purity and love must bo blotted I
mit. And mark you this, my bro-
thee, in ninety-nine cEnies Mit of a
le:mired no man is as good a 111101
after hearing the rehearsal of a
scandal or a. sin ELS he WaS hefore,
There may be exceptions. There
may be times when people, by illus-
tration, ought to have the red light
of warning flashed before their oyes.
But in, ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred a man's spirithal life is de-
veloped better by hearing of the vir-
tues and self sacrifices and Christian
purities of Ids fellow men than by
wallowing in the mud of scandal and
of sin.
This harsh criticism which wo may
utter against, our neigbbors always
has a had reactionary effect upon
those who notko it. Therefore if we
want to have a great influence for
goad it is vevy essential for us, for
tho most part, to talk only about
the virtues and the good qualities of
those with 181)001 we come in con-
tact.
THE FOLLY OF SAMSON,
131ind Samson tumbled down the
Dagon temple upon the heads of the
3,000 Philistines. Ilut when. Sam.
son destroyed the enemies of his peo-
ple he also destroyed himself. So
when We attempt by harsh criticism
to destroy others we contribute to
our own destruction.
The golde11 lips of gospel silence/
never intentionally speak a 1100511
word against a sinful neighbor. Ithy?
Their owner icnows that in the sight
of Coil lie Is a sinner an(1 that as a
iost sheep he has erred and strayed
far from the divine pasturage. The
bettee a Christian is the more ho
realizes the enormity of his own
sins, the more inclined he is to he
less harsh upon the sins of others,
\Then Paul first had his blied eyes
opened by the good Ananias, he was
able, to some extent, to see his OWil
faultslie wrote, "I am the leas1
of the apostles." Then 1?a.ul went
on in his spiritual growth. He satv
his past blacker an11 blacker in the
eyes of God, irhen he wrote, "Unto
me, who ant less than the least of
all the saiets." Paul went on
growing higher and higher ill spirit-
ual life until at last, just before his
martyrdom, he could cry out in rap-
ture, "This is a faithful saying and
worthy of all acceptation — that
Clulst Jesus came into the world to
save sinners, of whom. I am chief."
011, my brother, by prayer and con-
secration and by grace cannot and
will not you come so near to Clod
that you will cease to coraleMn your
follow men? Cease beeatISO, like
Paul, you Cell feel that you are the
chief of sinners?
When 180 hear People harshly cri-
ticized, niny we, in the name of
Christ, say nothing or only, if ne-
cesseey, speak up in their behalf as
Christ would have us speak. May
we learn this lesson riot by stand-
ing before the picture of an earthly
hero, but by the tornb of a mar-
tyred Lord.
HIE S. S. LESSON,
;donee, cannot injure, seelo not Its
own welfare first, but rather the
welfitee of others, therefore cannot,
migaste in any pureult or Imehress
100101 would impoverieli others while
enriching itself.
1 1. And that, knowing the tinte,
tha3 noNv it is high time 10 314011130
out of 81ee10 for lime is our salve. -
thin nearer than when We believed.
The epistles aro written to believ-
ers, thoSe who by faith la fihrist are
saved, have passed from death to
life and yet seem to be ueleep and
talk in thciir sleep (Ism xxix, 13);
lvi, 1(1 margin). The tendency of
believers to sleep, both under the
moot, glorloils and the most
awful circtunetances, Is seen in
l'eter, '111111)9 and J olin on 1)3'
31101013. of Transfiguratioo and in
Gethsemane (1,uko l)c, 32; xcii, 15,
43), showing how utterly emeign,
oven 40 redeemed pemile, hefty-
euly things are and how unable am
are to grasp them. Scunson asheei
in the lap of Delliith sliews how the
strongest are apt to be overcome by
the things of this world, end Jonah
asleep in the storm while the heath-
en captain and sailore called upon
their gods is a wonderful picture of
the church, asleep to such (0111.'
111000315 EIS Mark xvi, 15, while the
blind ?cal of the heathen should put
us to ahem:,
12. The night is far spent, the
day is at hand. Let us therefore
cast off the works of darkness Eilld
let us put on the armor of light.
It seems strange to those who
boast of the progress of the century
to speak of this being still the
world's night, but It is even so, and
the clay will not (lawn 1111 tho morn-
ing star appears and then the sun
(Rev, xxii, 1(1; Mal, iv, 2). When
Ho said, "Ye are th'm. light of the
world" (Matt. v, 14), lie certainly
meant that the world needed sight
and was therefore in darkness. The
progress is like that of Cain and is
not progresS ill Or toward righteous-
ness for the whole world still lieth
in the wicked. one (I John v, 1(1),
'Believers are children of the light
and of the day (1 Thess, v, fi) and
waiting for the day to dawn, for
only then will olir full salvation
come, to which we are drawing
nearer every day, ELS stated In the
last verse.
13, 14, Put ye on the Lord Jesus
Christ and snake not provision for
the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.
The believer is said to receive
Christ (john i, 12) and also to put
on Christ (Gal. iii, 27) and to be
in Christ (I Cor. 1, 80), but in
whatever way our relation to Christ
is spoken of tbe fact is recognized
that the old man. the self life, in
still ill us and is to be persistently
rec,koned dead or put 011 (Rom. vi,
11; Eph. iv, 22, 24; Col. iii, 9, 10;
II Car. iv, 10, 11). We are to have
no confidence in the flesh, to wor-
ship Clod in the Spirit and rejoice. in
Christ Jesus (Phil, iii, 13). We are
to have Gib 'mind of Christ .Tesus,
and, as ITe neer pleased I-Iimself,
so We, if filled with IIis Spirit, will
not live unto ourselves in any Sel-
fish way (Fltil. ii, 5; Rom, xv, 3).
There is no salvation for any shatter
or any kind of a 8101100 except by
the blood of Christ apart from any
works of ours (Rom. iv, 5; Tit. iii,
5), so the life that is exposited froin
us cannot bo lived by us, but Must
be lived by Christ, in us without our
help, We yield ourselves to Hint,
and 130 lives the life and weeks the
works (Gal. ii., 20; Phu. ii, 13).
Whatever is done, it is His
working in us good pleasure
(Col, i, 20; I Cor. etv, 10; 33 Thess.
i, 11), that Cod in all things may
be glorified through .lestis Christ,
to whom be praise and dominion for
over and ever. Amen 3 (I Pet. iv,
11).
—t,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 19.
Text of the Lesson, Rom. xiii.,
7-14. (1 -olden Text, Rom. xiii., 10.
7. Render therefore to all their
'dues; tribute to whom tribute' is
due, custom to whom custom, fear
to whom fear, honor to whom hon-
er.
After assuring us of our high aisll
holy place in the love of God
through the gift of His dear Son
and that nothing can possibly separ-
ate us therefrom and telling us in
chapters is to xi of God's unchang-
ing purpose concerning 'fermi', he
then entreats us from chapter xi i on-
ward to let God have our whole be-
ing that by a righteous life which
Ile will live 113 those who aro yielded
to Him He may mako Himself known
to others, Subjection to the pow-
ers that be, cheerfully paying tribute
and taxes, rendering respect as for-
eigners WOUld ill Et countey whore
they are tensporarily abating—these
things Christians should gladly do
bemuse they are citizens of heave11
ancl thus command the country to
which they belong,
8. Owe no man anything, but to
love 000 another, for be that loveth
another hath fulfilled the law,
Some one has said that lovo is the
law itself in manifold action, an ob-
ligation rover fully discharged. Leve
im seen perfectly only in Christ, nev-
er insinful mortals. If any think
that they have seen it perfectly in
some redeemed one, let them consid-
er such in tho light of 3 Cm xiii, 4-
7, and also coneider one of Mr,
Spurgeoe's definitions of sin as any-
thing that the Loed Josus wola not
think or say or do or bless. lf ono
should ask, Whore, them is the per-
fect love wbich casteth crut fear? (I
John iv, 18) cote 011818e1' WOlIrd
Them can bo no fear while abiding
in Ills perfect love.
0, 10. Thou shalt lotio thy neigh-
bor as iliyacIf. Love worketh no ill
to his neigbbov; therefore love is the
Minims of the law.
'These commands doe" witAi 001
treatment 01 our neighbor, for wo
yea prove .otir love to cod (the seen
of the first foul' commancimente,
Matt. xii, 336, (3/) only by our loVo
to 0111. neighbor. "Ile that loveth
not las neighbor, whom he hail
seen, how mut he love God, whont Ile
hath not men?" (3 John iv, 20).
Lever is always kind, sthilitiS to
with hope and tbe promise of life
told joy, John had heard it in the
eiear, sweet, piercing notes of the
meadowlark, and later in the soft
"phoebe" and throaty little swag
of a titmouse setting up housekeep-
ing,
Thle day the euperaliandance of
life end hope but inteneified his own
hopelessness, He had plunged into
the woods to do battle with himself,
for alone in the great temple of nasi
tore a man may leurn somewhat of
himself.
t WaS Pisl a your ago, 00 Piaster
Sunday, that he had asked Beth
Somers to be his wife, and she had
refused. Ile could See now the paM
in tin clear hazel eyes as she 1113510 -
lis pansiolia 1 0 pleadings., "Don't,
John, don't:" she had begged.
"Don't you See 110W hard it in for
nie? Wo have been such good friondS
for so long, John, it
mustn't all end now. John, 1 hold
you as the first and hest of ell lay
feleurls, There is no one to whom
I would tern So cpliChly fur aid or
advice, to whom I would appeal so
promptly in the hour of trouble as
to you. And I would be as true a
friend to you, John. More than
that cannot pr0111150. Joliii, you
would not have nie marry you unieste
1 love 500 as a woman should. It
would be unjust 10 yom it would be
unjust to myself. So lel us be Just
the good chums we have alweys been,
the better for the new understanding
we have of each other.".
So they had Lunde their figreement,
he promising not to build fal:-e hopes
on any little lcindnesses sl,e might
claim LIS 1.110 privilege of INeartship.
Ile had lived up to his pledges faith-
fully.
But when was hope over bound by
pledges? He had hoped. Hew much
Ito had hoped he had never con-
fessed to himself until this anniver-
sary day. Now he realized how ab-
solutely impoesible it Wan to go on
so, indefinitely. In the long tramp
lie had fought it all over again and
again, till his mind was marle 11p.
He had an invitation to join a
government ocientific expedition,
which would take hint away for a
year, perhaps inore.
Thinking back through the years,
John could not remember when lie
had not loved, Beth. Even in the
days of valentines anil May baskets
Beth had always been the sole re-
cipient of his youthful admiration.
Vividly there came back to him the
ere ly April days when together they
had searched the woodlands and old
pastures for the first bit of arbutus.
With what boyish ardor and bashful-
ness he had pressed opon her that
first frail blossom when fortune had
favored him! For those were the
clays of much learning in the Mean-
ing of flowers, and (he arbutus
moans "I love you." The thought of
that flower hrolight him back to the
present, for in all his long tramp he
had searched carefully, but in vain,
for the first arbutus of the year.
The last long slanting rays of the
setting sun still lingered in the little
opening on the brow of the hill. A
breeze with the chill of eventide stir-
red the white pine. A blue -jay
screamed harshly and followed al-
most immediately with its flutelike
love note, John awoke with a
start. As he did so, a tiny. fragile
blossom with the soft pink of tbe
wave -kissed sea shells fell close by
his cheek. Ire Calight. EL whirr of its
fragrant breath. It was the first
arbu tu 5!
Bewildered, bo rose quickly and
turned to meet the clear eyes and
flushed face of Both. "I tholight I
should find YOU here, irohn," she
011
Ii•Tde. stooperl to pick up the little
flower at his feet. "And this—" he
stammered.
"Is the lint arbutus of the yearl"
sb'e'Aenricel'dit, means?" he questiotlecl.
"I love you," she said softly.,
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John Ainsworth's
Easter Eger.
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giretTedriaX106AtiOdefe")(SOGSSYSSOYee(Sedeelisriefie
joint Ainsworth flung himself down
and confessed being tired. Ho had
tramped all of 18 miles over sharply
pitched hills, through the close
clutching tangle of crub oak thick-
ets, under whispering pines, across
brush-geown old pastures and around
the boggy shores of secluded peace-
ful Ilttle woodland ponds.
Now he MIS back: to his favorite
retreat on Telegraph 11111. ft was a
little ope(0 spot on the very brow of
the 11(31, Back and on two sides an
oak forest stood guard, and below
WaS 11 (10)151: thieltet or .sapiings, too
young to cut off his view. Away
across the now greening pastitmes and
lower Ineaflows ho could see the
spires of the village thrust through
the groat overhanging elms which
hid the hoeses. Beyond the level
brown marshes stretched away to
the irregular line of sand dunes, the
outer line of defence against the be-
sieging waters of the bay.
Beyond those in turn the horizon
beraine a quiet, haey blon'ding of the
deep, almost purple bleo of 1110 NVEL-
ter with the soft light blue of the
April sky. The SUll glinted front the
white, foaming curl of a WELVO and
the distance made 'dazzling white the
dingy snit of a mackerel fisher.
To john Ainsworth, the seetie NVELS
SO familiar 'that 110 Was Want tO call
it his "own." Yet to -'clay, as he
looked upon it, it was with the same
catch of the breath and thrill of
plensure that hart beee his when
years before he had flest penetrated
to that spot.
3?11e8e1/11y ho stretched himself ab
full 10100 on the luxuriant cotielr
of sun -warmed moss. 'rite gentle
sigh of a White pine, the warmth of
the AH0110011 sun afkl the weedy
odor So peenliar to the spring soeth-
ed the treubled spirit which had been
driving bine over the hills sin& ear-
ly morning.
It was Easter, a rerely perfect
Easter fit the Very opening of April.
It had given to the v11111.011 bells that
morning an imwoutell joyousliesie,
The Whole World had scented athrill
4 -
PAT WAS A SIDEBOARD.
An Irishman went to a foundry af-
ter Welt:.
When he arrived he found another
ma11 there on tho same errata].
Tho foreman came, and pat, being
unaccustomed to asking for work,
stood back, with tho intention of
hearing how tho other fekow went
about it.
After the 111301I had asked, the fore-
men Beni: "What trade are you?"
"I'm a dresser," replied the man.
"Come to -morrow," said the fore-
man; "111 start you."
Turning to the Irishman, tho fore-
man asked hint what he was.
"130 Inhere, soils" replied rat,
"Oi'm a sideboard!"
SKY4111111 POST OFFICE.
The post race in Switzerland with
the higheet altitude is situated at
the terminus of the Zermatt Gorner-
grat Railroad Company, about 10,-
000 feet 03080 Sea loVel, The spkn-
did panorama 19)11(11 the tourists ad-
mire at the Gornergrat usually in-
duces them to vend quantities of pic-
ture postcards to their friends, so
that the postmaster there, who is
also stationmaster, is a busy Men
during the season, It is estimated
that thousands of those postcards
are despatched from tho Gornergrat
every day Charing the season to all
Parts of the world.
• .
WOULD BE 'USEFUL.
"Hive's an astouishing state-
ment," she said, looking up from the
noWspapor.
"Wbat is it?" ho asked.
"Why, seientiets have discovered
that different expressions can be pro-
duce:a o(1 the hunum face by the 133)"
3)11001100 of ty."
"All kinds of expreesions?" he in-
quired.
"All kinds," silo ansevereel,
genial expressions of lutppi-
ness and pleasUre?"
"I suppose so,"
"Cheery expvessions of forgiveness
and good lurtnor?"
"Presumably; but what makes you
So interested?"
"Oh, 'nothing men," he answered;
"but I'm going to bring 801110 010C-
trodes home the imet thee I'm late
for dinner or the cook leaveS Withoet
netice."
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There are various stories told re-
garding the origin of the familiar
hot cross bun. The simplest anion -
akin is that when the religious ob-
servances of Holy Week were far
more strict 1113011 11038 only a certain
amount of bread was allowed to be
eatea on Holy Friday, and that was
marYed 013 1(1 the dough to show its
length and breadth. But the bakers
continued to CroSS their dough long
after the occasion for measuring
broad had paSSed. Whether this was
dins to force of habit or from re-
ligious sentiment is a matter of con-
jecture.
It is possible that bread was mark-
ed with the sign of the eross because
that symbol was so prominently in
all minds during the celebration of
Holy Weeic. It is more probable
that the sign of the cross originated
with the idea of consecrating bread
to be eaten on so holy a day as
Good Friday. And the small loaves
of bamd which, in early times, were
sold to pilgrims in the churches are
very likely responsible for the small
Imead or buns of to -day.
The traditions connected with the
hot Cr080 bun do not seem to influ-
ence the present baking, selling, SerV-
Ing and eating of tiny cross -bedecked
loaves of bread, tastefully sweetened
and generously fruited with currants
or raisins. It is the sentiment of
custom only which controls the pop-
ularity of the hot cross bun.
It may be that our hot cross bun
is the natural outcome of a concen-
tration of the reverence bread com-
mands in all countries as one of
God's most cherished gifts, the only
essential foo'd, the conueonly accept-
ed staff of life from time 11110)011101' -
id. That which has been a. source
of wealth and prosperity to nations
and individuals, that which has en-
tered into the literature of the world
from its earliest history, that which
bas been a, factor in tho technicalities
of the law, and which, more than
eighteen hundred years ago was
chosen to be blessed indeed is to -day
in every known civilized and savage
country of the world considered sae.
red. On bolded knee, with hearts
uplifted to God, millions of people,
in every language, petition for daily
bread in the words of the universal
prayer, "Clive us this day our daily
bread." The significance of the
cross on bread is generally unheed-
ed. The cross is the only sign sig-
nificant of concentration.
In the generality of CEOS% all bread
is blessed, either by makiug a cross
on the dough or by making the sac-
red sign over it. The original idea
of this was to stamp all bread with
the symbol of God, as a tacit ae-
kuowleclgmeut of His goOdzieSS in be-
stowing upon humanity this staff of
mortal life.
To many the crossing of the cicrugh
is 111 remembrance of the miracle of
the feeding of the multitude, as
Christ signed the cross upon the
bread hefore be broke it. In one
part of Spain the cross is symbolic
of charity bread. All loaves in-
tended for distribution among tho
poor are so raarked.
Superstition is the mother of
many qUaint 0.1111 curious customs. In.
some of the rural localities of Eng-
land small loaves of bread are bak-
ed, even yet, on Good Friday, and
preserved for medicinal purposes. In
these districts it is believed that a
small portion of such bread grated
in water anti given to persons suf-
fering with various ailments will
cause a speedy cure, Another curi-
ous idea is that to refrain from eat-
ing 1101 cross bres.d on Good Fri-
day is to invite destruction of pro-
perty and danger to life by fire.
In. many Catholic communities it
is commonly believed that slued
bread baked on Good Friday will
never grow mouldy. A. piece of
broad baked on this day will be rev-
erently preserved throughout the
year as a protection against many
evils. Such bread Is supposed to
avert the 'danger of fire, to control
the fatality of sickness in children,
to guard against hunger and cold
and to protect religious beliefs from
corruption.
In Normandy a bit of bread baked
on Christmas Eve is crushecl and
mixed with the dough on Good Fri-
day, The simple peasants think
that they so combine the protective
qualities of the two holy days' bak-
ing, The Christmas Evo bread acts
as a talisman to preserve from 'dan-
ger from stories; the Good Friday
loaf is believed to ward off tempta-
tion from those who eat it.
In One part of Switzerland it is
customary on Holy Friday to feed
the live stock with a, species of
bread made front rye, bran and salt,
mixed with water. The mess is con -
shim ed balcod when thoroughly heat-
ed and crusted, When the head of
the family hes prayed that it ina,y
carry 1310 blessing of God to his poor
dumb boasts, it is dealt out to the
cow, the 'donkey, the goats, the
(loge matt even the chickens. This
ceremony is supposed to motect the
animals from die:ease 'during the
year.
311 ,Asi*3. Minor no ono makes bread
on Good Friday, for it is the belief
that the water used in mixing dough
Would change on that day into the
blood of Christ and a deadly sin
would be committed by all who ate
midi broad.
DANGER IN TIO1 PIPE.
Death, and a most lerrible forni of
it, is declared to lurk in tho tO-
been pipe if it is made of clay.
Such is 1110 startling statement made
by the Irish Rogistrar-Goneral in a
special report on cancer in Ireland
just laid on the table of the Houee
of Commolls. The clay "dlincleee."
is tetry common amongst, the
entry 10 Ireland, It is often Melt-
ed until the shank is (1mite short,'
nod then it so irritatee the lips of
the Sertoker that cancer Warmth/lee
SlIpervereeS.
COHRT-ROOM HOMOR,
When the Lawyer Sometimes Gets
the Worst of It.
The contest between fel,Insel and
witnese must neceesarily be an un-
equal one, and it is little surprise
that the sympathies of the public
are more often with the latter than
the former, or Viet, whenever a wit-
ness ecoree a point over a bullying
cross-exanduer 11. is hvoi1e0 with 110 -
light,
"liave you ever been bankrupt ?"
a pc/woman counsel once asked, 130 the
writer's hearing, of a provincial
tradesman.
"No, never," came the decisive
answer,
"Now, be careful, sir,. how you
answee this question. Rave you
el'er stopped payment 3"
"AIi3said the barrister, With
eatisfaction, "I thought we should
get at it. Now, sir, tell his lordship
when that happened."
"After I had paid all I owed." the
witness answered, amid a roar af
laughter, in which the judge himself
felt compelled to join.
On another occasion a conceited
C0011501 had been cross-ecaminieg a
young woman at coneiderable length
upon the nge of a person with whom
she professed to be well acquainted.
Finally he asked her, "How old,
now, do you take me to be 7". The
witness scrutinized her persecutor
closely for a 2110111011t Or tWO, and
then ansvecred, "From your appear-
ance I should take you to be sixty;
from your questions sixteen,"
This story reminds one of an
actually crushing answer given to an-
other counsel, whose physical dimen-
sions were incommensurate with his
sense of importance.
"Did you see this tree that was
inentiooed by the roadside 3" the
barrister inquired.
"Yes, sir, .0 saw it very pIainly.'t
"It was conspicuous, then ?"
"No ; 3 shouldn't say it was
exactly conspicuous," the witness
an1010111(1, sir," counsel
"You 1180
continued. "If, as you say, you saw
tho tree plaiely, how CaO you say it
was not conspicuous ?"
"Well, it's just lilce this," the un-
abashed witness replied ; "I can see
you plainly among the rest of the
lawyers, though you're not a bit
eouspicuous."
"You really mean to say," once
asked a well-known lawyer, now a.
judge, "that as the result of this
accident your son will never be able
to follow your business ? If he's
not fit to be a butcher, what do
you propose to make of him 3"
was the answer, tthich
convulsed the court, "if he's no
good for owt else, I'll make a law-
yer of him."
"You say this Mrs. Robinson was
a friend of yours 3" a learned Q.C.
once asked a witness.
"Is she here 3"
"Do you know where she is 3"
"Now, sir," counsel retorted, in a.
fury, "I warn you to lie careful,
and to remember that yoti are on
your oath. You say that, although
this woman is a: neighbor and friend
of yours, you do not know where
she is to be found. Tell the court at
once, sir, where she is."
"That's more than anybody
knows, sir," came the startling an-
swer. "She's dead."
But perhaps the smartost retort
ever administered to LEL bullying law-
yer was the following. A counsel,
after vainly trying to break down
the evidence of a witness in 0 mur-
der trial. so far forgot himself in
his exasperation as to say, "I do
faro" a word you say. Call
see scoundrelistu reflected in your
"Sorry for that, Sir," mine the
crushing answer ; "I didn't think
my face was such a good mirror"
GETTING NEW PEOPLE.
The old firm naturally.wants to
hold all the Did friends and' would
be perfectly satisfied if only old cus-
tomers should stuy with them. The
now firm wants and must get Ilele
people. The old firm has a record
and tries to IteeP it. The neW firm
must make a record and must do
things which will stir an interest
among tho people. If the old busi-
ness man is WiSo he will keep abreast
or the times. 11 ho is not able to
do it himself he will get some young
man to do it for him. It will pay
him to keep a rustler who can think
of things which will interest people.
If all the stores wore run with the
0116 point, in view of making the
trading interesting it would be much
Meier 10 gain in volume of business
and would be far more ,satisfactoey
as a result to the establishment.
Keeping the people informed will
sooner or later gain their confidence
and good will, and then will come
the understanding of the good to be
obtained from dealing there. When
tho people kaow they can be bone -
fitted by dealing at a. given store
they will naturally take pleasure ill
going there for their goods and be
satisfied only when they aro able
to patronize that establishment. The
Way to got neW customers therefore
is to spread an ever -widening circle
of Information about your goods,
TRIPLE VACcTNATTox.
The 3)'renC11 Government 11110 Pist
promolgated ft new code of sanital7
regulations. This code among oth-
es reguletions eMita 1 115 the remark-
able proviso that, for the future
three vaccinations instead of one as
hitherto shall be obligatory upon
all French citizens, The first is to
be made during the ilvst year of
fitneY, Hu: .011 ,11th,e eleventh
year, and the 1311311 In the
tleenty-
fir8:110
O110Went Sky -Scraper is the Etna
building, in New York, It beats all '
records With its 80 810131)78 (113(1 4.56
feet or height fsom the paveniellik