HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-2-1, Page 6IRE GOSPEL BELL"
"A BELL OF ALARM.
The Whole World is to Be Won
The
for God.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on the Gospel. -
The Great Consolationof the Sinner.
d0spafei1 from Washington, slays( hands on fire, be lifted them. above
,—Tbe Rev, Dr, Talmage preached from I hi8 head' and dapped (hem °Pee in
the renewing texte—"Aod beneath Peal tote elapeed teem twiee, and
. upon. the hem oe it, thou 1 halt inake
pomegranates of blue, and of purple,
teamed them three times—that tbe
world might know what a joyful
thing It Is to die for jams.
and of marled, man& about the hem I remark, further, that these goseel
thereof, arid belle ef gold between bells, like those around the high
thern round ainineeee,Beeeee xaviii,l8. eyiest's garment, are, bells of inten-
tion, When the Jews hard the c ash
When Mary, Queen of. England, as- of those mile io tlio hem of the priests
°ended her throne, en (the day of her rola( (hey knew it was; an Invitation to
coronation ehewore a crown of jewels worship. That is the meaning of
so heavy she could bardly, bear Ng un- every Murals tower from San Fran -
der Naw York and front London
der it. Kerxes moved around bis 0 it ,„ 1
10 to lt. ter urg . ome—
palace in a robe embroidered with. re- come." Aye, thet is the most fami-
preeentatious of bawks contending ear word In the Bible, ft soorog to be
with earb other. A. eiefficial, in me of a favorite word, The word 'C'ome','
the cathedrals of Parise pulls (pea a omens six hundred .and forty-two
'dope in the Bible, ft Is, "Curne to the
drawer, and ehows you a rube enerunte eupper ;" "Come to the Waters ;" The
ed witb diamonds, worn .by Napoleon spirit and the Bride Bey, come."
on, the day of, the, ehmetening of the Through all sorrows, through all
Prinee Imperial. All dam imperial trials (hrough a nights of darkness.
through
tempiations, I
or: atiniiniess, through all
array may bave been more costly, but
it could net have been more brilliant
than! tbe robe of. the High. Priest in 1 weGanis"al—hoCrijnetib"e oiourn131 reyoM,Ubit3fe, ri)CeiVorgeenO:i-
ftbe ancient temple. I see him! moving i iciansiolodf otfhteheold sexton who used to
around 10 the temple with ri be eibleprope, and start tbe
bell that shookbe
ecariet and purple, the shoulders a- calling the people for inin7.1easinag ndihaul
domed with chalcedony, ribbon' of prayer. The poorest man deep blue, embroideries of exquisite aimge
th turnpike road, knew that
i
trudging
, loweee, chains of gold, a plate hung bell called him just as eaueh' as it
aver the heart, on which you might called the rienhnedarmer: riding beland
And
see a bloedered sardouyx, a topaz, Ids praneing
a m this Gospel be]1 caPeling Pair.
calls to palaces and
to buts, to robes and to, rags, saying,
"Whomever will, left him come." Wien
the sexton had struek one stroke, why
del he not wind up the rope and stop?
The people bad all heard it, But no,
he kept on ringing until, beeweated
and exhausted, he sat down. When he
home to ring there were none present.
When he eoncluded ringing, the reads
were full of waggons, and the, church
door was thronged with people, who
had come to worship God. And so we
must keep on ringing this Gospel bell.
Theugh, perhaps, feee may now come,
we will keep on ringing, until, after
awhile, man shall Coran as clouds, and
as "doves to their 'windows." Come
to Jesus, old man I Come to Jesus my
little ohild I Come to Jesus, ye wan-
derer. If the prodigal sbould tbis
night start for his fa (bees house; the
fatber would say, "There is no need of
fatting that calf any longer ; kill it;
roast it—bring fortb the smoking
need to my starving boy." And there
vould jny in heaven over his return.
:When Henry II. had his sail crowned,
he king took off his robes, and put
on a servant'e apron, and server/ at
ear. 0, what eondeseension I His -
°rictus record it. But hear, 0 heaven.
and give ear, 0 earth, that the King
of' lb, Universe comes to this haneuet
n the form of a servant, answering
our beek and mine. Glorious ban-
uet ! Glorious provision I Come to
t. Ie there any one in this house to-
ight who is so discouraged be cannot
fart e 'Let me encourage him. A
ireman was going up a ladder to res -
u' rhild front a burning building.
The flames struck him, singed bit,
corehed him—and he was about to
rap; but a man in thel crowd shout -
d, "Lei's cheer that brave fellow in
is effort to save the child. llerle
te
be,
hears!" Tshout went up. T
Inman. was inspired. He plunged th
he burning building, brought down
he child, and planed it upon the
ground in sefety. Are tbere net some
ere 1 oenight, who feel the fire of
ea( h kindling around about tbera, and
who will give up the effort( to rescue
heir souls unless some cheer -
ng word be uttered to -night ?
eherefore in the name of my
od, I utter this jubilant cheer:
Though your sins be as scarlet. they
hall be as snow. Though they be
ed., like crimson, they shall be as
eel,"
I remark, further, tint the Gospel
ells, like thou on the high priest's
robe, are bells of warning. When the
Jews beard the clash and ring of those
bells, it was a warning for (them, to
worithip, lest God shoule he offended..
Ott Bell Rock, in the German Ocean,
there is a lighthouse, and there are
two bells, that every balf minute ring
out through the fog, through the dark-
ness, through the storm, and over the
sea. Beware: beware I The balms -
man on the ship hearing (he warning,
turns tbe wheel and steers off. It is
startling thing, at ro dn ght, to hear
he heavy clang oft a fire -bell, if you
ve in the third ward, and the tongue
1 the hell strike one, two, threel If a
ity is besieged, and the flash of the
usketry is aeon on the bill -tops, and
he cavalry horses are dashing up and
own, and the bat teries are being un-
itabered, all the bells of the city call
o armst to arms! 80, my blends,
his Gospel bell of alarm, I account
t as infinite cowardice and hypocrisy
or a man who believes in the Bible to
ide front the people the fact that
here are appalling disasters coining
o those who finally reject God, We
eel, plaster the matter over; we can
bilosophise, about. it; we COM explain
t away, but the Bible states it, relter-
tes, makes it as plain ae that two
nd two make four, i bac there is utter
iscorafiture for the finally unregen.
rata. That Bible says, "God is angry
itb the svicked every day," and that
• "will turn into( hell ali. the na-
ions that forget God," And yet, with
hose passages before there, and hum
reds of others just as plain, men will
peak of an eternity of lavender and
osp-water Inc very man, regerelless
f his °barmier and of his heart . You
eow that a white flag along it rail
ruck raeans safety, and that a red
lag means danger, Now, here is
oming the Cincinnati express. Here is
bridge swept down by the freshet. A
an goes out, wide a red flag. to stoje
carbuncle, an emerald, a pellucid aap-
phire, a diamond, a tran.sparent
ligure, an gate, a violetted amethyst,
a beryl, au onyx, a ;striped jasper, t
within a space of tele inches square,
rieugling the blue of the sky, the green
tit the -foliage, the sparkle of the wa-
ter, and the deep glow of the fire.
But mark tbe hem of that bigh preset s
germeni—euriouely woven with re-
ereeeatations of pomegranates, the
favourite fruit of that clime; while be-
tween them pomegranates there. were
golden. bells that clashed aad chimed
a- the lugh priest muved ebeut It, the
ceremonses. Was mere silliness and
tharee.play that huug thueel belle to
the hem of the high priestes garment"
.Wae it undoes display? Was ir mean -
legless adore,ment? No. It was pro-
foundly gtortoue and signifivant. The
bn
elle o: only called people outside
m
end side the temple to worship.' but
they. rang out and they rang, in joy t
ot the great Gomel dispensatiou.
1 urn glee that the fine use of bells f
was a religieus use. and hereafter the t
Goepel trf God to me shall be a chime .
or bells; Ind whether I hear tbein 10
the garments' of the high priest, or in i
the - a h. -drat tower th .y hell • u. gest y
to me the gladneis. the wanting, and I q
the. triumph of the Goepel. 11
The e Gospel bells, like those that .
the bigh prieet's rube, are e
guider,. belle. °thee bells are made of
tin awl temper; but theee Geepel bells ; e
tin. and eopper; but these Goepee bells ;
Europe that met three huadred thous- e
and dollars. It was at! vast expense d
that metallic voices were given tot the
towers of York, and 'Vienna, and Ox-
ford. But all the wealth of heaven e
was thrown, into this Gonpel bell. No e
angel ma count itg value. Eternityi
cannot( demonstrate its cost, When
the bell of the Russian. Kremlin. was
being rioted, the lords came and threw ,
their gold into the, molten mase; .but e,
wben this Gospel bell was to be mu-
eras of eternity, threw, into it their
etrueted, tbe kings of heaven, the bier- (
crowns and their sceptres. It is a 1
golden bell. Da, you believe it? Hear
It ring I "God so loved the world that G
Ra' gave His only begotten, Son, that "
whomever believetla in Him should s
not perish but have everlaeting life., r
"Him bath' God exalted to be a Prince w
arid a Saviour, to give repentance unto
Israel, and: forgivemes of sins."
ue
GlorioGoepell It is the svnetest
sound that a sinner ever beard, It re
the grandest consolation' that mour-
ner ever felt. It is the mightiest hope
that mourner ever experienced. •
I tarried two or three days near the
lower of Aatwerp. Every fifteen
minutes the bells of that tower, chime
so sweetly that it seems as if the
angels of God, flying past, had alight-
ed, tn. the tower. But when the full
hour comes, then the clock witb, heamy
tongue strike the hour, adding trams -11
siveness and solemnity la the daime
of bells,
So this great Goemal tower chimes 0
every firteeni minutes—nay, every gm- e
ment. Tones al mercy. Tones of rove. eu
Tonee of compassion. Tones of par- S
den, Anti occaeionally, to let a
you know that tbe weights] are ,
running .down, anti that the
Uma is going paet, the heavy tongue
of this bell comes down with an atm- it
phasis, saying, "Bow shall we escape
If we neglect so great salvation!" e
"Now is the accepted dame; now is the S,
day tie salvation." Weary of sin, the e,
world said to me you are not ter had e
as you might (be Poor comfort I r
Standing with both feet in the wet a
gravel of the grave, burnan philometty a
Cook ray arm and mumbled In my ear 11
its inanities, But religion make to, e
Me, and my sins perished like tow w
in the flame; and the grave became 11
only the plo.ughed ground for an eter-
eat hervest. World without and let t
God he praised for such e Gospel. It d
Is fit to live Lor; and' if days of par-
moutlon should ever again come, shall r
We not be willing to die/ for it ? 1 o
do notthink that Rewires, the mar-. k
tyr, was foolieh, when having Mete o
his friends' that be would give them
aome signal in his last Sour as to whee .0
thee the fine et martyrdom were tol- a
Made, it the dyiog moment; with Ws m
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BIISORILS POST.
Fin. 1, 1900
the epPreachinfr train. I go oat Wile
a When tag, end Wee° it., The engleeer
takes nay eigeal, and etee telat et the
other male The englee reehea on, In
another =meet: a buntired and tiety
Mehl are 10 eternity, Who is "capon
rebid A. Italia etanding by MY side eaYs
"Yoe are, Whet did you wave thai
flag tor? In tbe Great Day of eternity
it will be found who tie use" /standing
in the pulpits. were the kincleet aU
Wing flagmen, ' He will be reameae..
ble etho len Pam go on down toward
death without giving the warnIng—
weving the white flag of meety when
he ought to eave Malmo! (he red flag
of pore, I tried dor Genets years to
figure eternal puulshment out of that
Bible. I have not euceeeded. I shall
never try 11 again, It Is there, If
ever you find me standing here
philosopet si rig about unimportant
tbi .ga, or befogging the people with
metaptiysice, or gee ig moral essays,
wheel -E ought to be sounding tbe in..
vitatione and warnings of the Gospel,
acoost me on the spot, and Marge Me
with betraying my mission. There Is
In MoN0OW a bell that has never been
ruege It cost a great. deal. It is
very large. Perhaps it Is the largest,
bell in the world. They nevep could
get any machinery large enough to
boist it. People come and.look at it,
admire its si,ge, and admire the come
position of the metal, but no one has
ever heard ties riageng of that bell- 11
\e
was rever rung, t) are getting into
the Chun]] of Clod metaphysical bells,
, and philosophical bells, and transeen-
ental bells, and a great many bells
that are eery admirable to look at.
IThey are immense; but I had rather
be ti smeller bell, aod of poorer metel,
if God will telly let me ring out, warn -
leg and invitation to the people. I
had rather be a door -bell, he/ping to
me people into the opening gale of
God'e mercy and forgivenees; or I had
rather be a. di ner-bell, inviting them
to a Inneuet or a Saviouri,t mercy,
cryi g "Nat, 0 friends! drink, 0 be-
loved!" Eternal peril has come
down upon thee, 0 unforgiven soul.
The flames of the lost world have been
kindled, and to -night 1 ring the
fire -bell of an eternal burning, crying,
"Escape for thy lifel Tarry not in all
the Wahl Look not behind tbee, lest
thou be co seumedl"
I remark further, that the bele on
the high priest's robe were bells of joy.
When the Jews heard the chiming of
those liens on tne priest's robe, it
announced to them the possibility of
pardon for their sins, and of deliver-
ance. "Behold I I bring you good
tiding of ,great joy, that shall be to
all people.' Bells have been rung on
days of victory. The bells of Lon-
don rung after Waterloo. The bells
in many of our cities rang after the
settlement of our national strife.
The great bells of York, and Oxford,
and Vienna, at some time, bave emend-
ed the viotory.
These Gospel bells, of which I
speak, are belle of triumph. Calvary
was the dreadful Bunker Hill of the
church, up and down whose sides the
forces of darkness and light rallied
and fell back. Now one form
triumphed ; now the other. But the
conflict at last was decided. Satcin
dethroned I The white marble castle
of the sepulchre captured 1 The
whole world is to 'be won for God.
Ring all the bells of eternity at the
victory through our Lord Jesus
Clarlst. Now it sometimes seems as if
everything was against its; heathen-
ism against us; the formalities of the
church against us; false philosophies
against us; all the mimes of the world
against us; the hosts of darkness,
with drawn swords, and thundering
ammunition -wagons of hell, captained
and generaled by Aeolyon the King of
Terrors, are all against us. But wait
a little. Josbnees men eell back, but
only in stratagem, befora they took
the city. of AL So the falling back
of the forces of God in the eartb is
0013, a Divine stratagem by which
God will make our triumph the more
conspicuous, and tbe overthrow of
sin more terrific and tremendous.
The higher an eagle carries a tortoise
the more complete its demolition when
it dashes on the rock. God is only
lifting ues sin higher and higber that
He may more ruinously cast it down,
The day of deliverance comes. The
Moors demanded one hundred virgins
every year from the nation of the
Castilians. Tete king refused the
tribute, and he went out in battle to
in battle to put down the infamous
be was defeated. The night
after the first defeat, be dream,
ed—so the legend says—and in bus
dream be heard a voice from heaven
saying "To -morrow you shall,get the
victory." So he rallied his troops;
and, as he went into the battle, he
saw a milk-wbite palfrey, and a sup-
ernatural being riding upon it, wav-
ing a white standard. His army
triumphed ; and when the day was
ended, sixty thousand Moors lay dead
upon the plain. So, my friends, we
may sometimes be driven back. Our
enemies may say, "Abe! God bath
forsaken thee. Persecute and take
there, for there le none to deliver."
But in Apocalyptic. vision I see the
white horse and bis rider. His eyes
are as a 11B.Me 01 fire. 013 his head
are many crowns. He goes forth
from conquest to conquest; aed from
sea ta sea, and from shore to More,
shall yet ring out tbe bells of a uni-
versal victory. Aye! thee are ring-
ing.now : "All flesh shall see the sal -
yahoo ot God I" "and He shall reign
for ever and for ever I" The Bishop
of Malta, in superstition, had all the
bells of tee city rung, in tbe hope thee
the storm that was raging in the
city might be quieted. That Waa
superstition; but I think it is eaith
in God that node us to believe that
tbe ringing of these Gospel bells will
yet silence all the storms of this
world's sin and all the storms of this
world's trouble. .
.0h, when Jeses, our Great High
Priest, in full robes Mall enter into
his glory, the bells on the hem of His
garments will ring with the musio 01
an eternal merriment. ,
But, my dear oreteren and sisters,
we shall have 110" share in that joy
unless now we listen to the Gospel
tidings. There is a bell on the other
side of the waters, weighing two bun -
deed and eight thousand pounds; and
it takes tweet:P-1one' men to ring it.
But to brieg out all the seveetneee of
this Gospel bell would take all tlie
oomasaraled Merits of eartie—serephlte
and archangel, Who in this august
assembly will listeie 'Who will lis-
ten flaw 1 XII New Isrtglend they have
what they Gail a passing belt; that Is,
when some ono dies in a village word
is eent to the Sexton, and he sounds
the bell juet as dem ae tbe Man Dee
ed yearly; 414 When the Mend le in
Ilia tower, tne melee are solemn; and
they my, "Smile etes dead..-seito ia
VQ1' go the passing bell wile
Mon Mend, Gone troln the eitill11Y-
Uone emu the eheroh, Gene
Lilo Mal opportanity or ealvatelna.
The dey le far event. What
thy hand fiedetit in do, do it.
Iners, moo dead, 01101 nem; be re -
it, Haire, once dead, ocin never be re-
sesoita led, Aneong all the, &rope of dew
that fall on thy gran there will not
be one tear of rope/dance. blipping oef
the embankment of the eternity, we
oun never dartaber book, Willihm the
Conqueror establisbed the ringing of
curfew bells, The uteaeleg of that
curfew bell, sounded at eventirne, was
that till the fire should be put oet or
covered with ashes, all the lighte
should be extinguiehed, and the peo-
ple should go to bed. Soon for us the
eurfeev wLU sound. The fires of eler
life will be banked up le ashes, and
we shall go into the sleep, the long
sleep, the cool cileep, .1 hope the bless-
ed sleep.; But, there is no gloom in
that if we are ready. Tbe serest thing
Met. a Christian can do is to die. An
Italian made a Mime of bells for his
native village. So sweet was the
Mime that he took up his abode near
it, After awhile war came, alie Ital-
ian was taken into exile. The bells were
captured, and were also taken away.
Years passed on. One day the Italian
exile, in a row -boat is being reseed up
the river Shannon, toward the city of
Limerick, Ireland, As he oomes near
the wharf the cathedral lower strikes
the chime; and lo, it was the same old
Mime of bells that had so, in other
clays, enchanted hem, He recognized
them in a moment. His emotions were
too great for human endurance. He
folded his arms and laid back in tbe
bent. The rowers put delve their oars
and tried to resuscitate him.. Ills
face was towand the tower. 13ut he was
gone. His soul had gone out in the
raptures of that hour. His life fell un-
der the stroke of the obime of Limeriek
Cathedral. So may it be meth us when
going up from this earthly exile into
the barbour of our God. May we
fold our arms in peace anti listen; and,
while the rowers are taking us to an-
chorage, from turret and dome, and
palace -gate, an arch of eternal victory
may there corm rippling upon our soul
the music of the bells of heaven,
RAMS F110111 NICKEL STEEL.
Ontario and lake superior eenesany Nave
Made a Couiract With KruLDP 10 11411,
chase Mohr].
Further particulars have been ob-
tained in regard to the plans of the
Ontario & Lake Superior Company for
establishing steel rail works to cost
e2,500,000 at Sault Ste. Marie. .
For acme tinae the Ontario & Lake
Superior Company have been explor-
ing large deposits near Notten Sta-
tion on the Sault branch of tbe Cana-
dian Paoifio Railway, with the vieev of
proving tbe quantities of Mattel ore
three. Two diamond drills have been
at work on the property, and it is un-
derstood that the deposit is a large
and valuable one. The company bave'
also been experimenting for more than
a year with a new proems for the
!production of ferro nickel from the
ores, and it is olaimed that excellent
results have been obtained. By this
Proems, the iron is saved as well as
the nickel, and when the plant is at
work on a large male thealloy can
be produced at a cost of probably less
tban one-tenth of the price now paid
by the United States Government for
nickel steel. The berm nickel will be
in the proportion of about 10 per cent,
of nickel, to 90 per cent. of iron, which
is much too high for ordinary use. The
percentage of nickel, however, may
be readily reduced by the addition of
iron.
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CONTRACT WITH KRUPP. ,
It is understood that Krupp, of
Germany, has already entered into a
contract with the oompany to take
large quantities of their product, and
there is no doubt that owing to the
cheapness of production the demand
will rapidly increase.
In manufacturing steel rails from
nickel steel, the company will use an
alloy of e 1-2 or 3 per oent. of nickel.
This will give a material for rails as
muoh superior to Bessemer's steel as
that product was to iron and will in
fact open up a new era for railways
on this continent. The statement is
a/so made that development work on
the company's iron mine in lefichiple
cone has shown up an ore body estim-,
and at 3,000,000 tons, and it might be
much larger. TM ore of Ude mine is
of the beat quality of blown hematite,
end will be found admirably adapted
for the mixture with ferro nickel in
the produotion of nickel steel.
BUILDING A RAILWAY.
The company have commenced the
building of a railway from Michipico-
ten Harbor to Dalton on the main line
of the C.P,R. Their main line, however,
will be built from tbeir pulp works at
lbe Sault northward through a virgin
forest of spruce and other woods to
Battelle with an ultimate extension to
James Bay, north of the O.P.R., it will
pass through wbett is believed to be
the moat expensive spruce forest in
America, and perhaps in the world. It
is proposed to lay this line with Meisel
steel rails of the company's own man-
ufacture, and from the situation of
the works they will be able to compete
sueccesfully for the supply of rails to
railway lines in western Canada and
the weaterri States. The niokel ore
mittens, besides niekel and copper, a
good percentage of nickel 'and of iron,
and tha company's scheme =lament
a saving of both tbese latter products,
which hitherto have been lost in tbe
P100655 of treatment. The first exper-
iments of the company were -made With
a view be Prodeeing a dean supply
of sulphuric add, for euse in their pulp
works, but they resulted in diecover-
lea of far greater magnitude.
•
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE,
Sillices—Tbere's one good trait bout
a women. If she nye a wenn thing
sbe can usually be prevailed upon to
take it back.
Cyntetureares; so Me 050 Me It Moe
againe
SOME GHOSTLY ITI8PP118,
THEY ARE NEVER WELCOMED -RI
THE ROYAL PAMIMES,
4."1410.'"W:rIrly'h 117-11-1.4n7Pliatteldl "1:4 illi'(17:4;
IfOre eartanded Mhaslers hIll Deada
Front indeli 'Mars WIIS 54 Eselkpl..
Renneira having beeu whispered In
431arlan, COUrt eirolea.,—but wiliebbaVe
assiduouely been irushed, up—ot tbe ap-
pearance of the epeeter whith pre-
tends woe to the imperial Souse of
Hapeburg, the ghostly " Bieck Lady"
in the corridor of the apartments Of
ttoh°11,0171ZeribBline PtLe8t°11,cleoAlin11:1 trtrpeinloeer
to the mestere of woe hameting the
royal families( a Germany and Aus-
tria may be of intereet. En peasant
May be mentioned that they are the
aupposea glared of departed ladies in.
" blaok," " white," or "rod," robes of
the middle ages, who are supposed to
Save suffered a terrible wrong at the
Sands of some ancestor, for whioh they
are meting a bane on the family.
The hest known of these ghostly.ap-
paritions is the so-called "White
Lady," of the house of Hohenzollern,
which hauets the old rOyal residence
in Berlin, and in the repeated appear -
a000 of which has been so oftiraes core
roborctted by the. roost reliable wit-
nesMs that it can hardly be doubted.
And -here be it said that all the three
Emperors of the century have firmly
believed tn its apparition when death
stalks the ancient halls of the house
of tbe Bradenburg Markgrafs, This
was even the car with the broad-
.
m n ed Emperor Frederick, who, it
may beenerte to learn, was quite as su-
perstitious as his father, and as, in-
deed, his matter -a -fact son, William
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DEATH WITHIN THE YEAR.
This apparition bas at various times
been seen at the hour of midnight,
diressedi in along, white robe, flitting
along. the mrridor of the oharaber of
death or sitting in the moonlight, in
the recess of a window. When are
preached, as some bold servants have
ventured to do, it raises its right hand
with a warning gesture, pointing to
the chamber in question, and disclosing
a marble-evhite fam of exquisite beau-
ty and youthfulness, but with eyes
and mien of despair and woo. On the
little finger of the right band is a
ring with blood -red stone of great lus-
ter. It is said, too, that the person
thus warned, will not see the year
out.
In the present century tbere are sev-
eral authenticated appearances of this
specter, notably on the three nights
Preceding the death of the Kaiser Wil-
liam and of his son Frederiek. On the
later occasion news tbereof was in an
instant brought to William IL, who
at once gave the most stringent orders
to dose ell exits and mine search ev-
eywhen arder to discover tt it was
some ill-fated bogus ghoet, but of
course nothing was run to earth by
the terrified servants, and tbe Prince
with those concerned, knew that this
nobio iife was fast ebbing away, and
he died within an hour.
The specter is also reported to have
appeared on the nigbt before the then
Crown Prince and Crown Prineess's
baby boy, and idol, Prince Waldemar,
fell from the arms of his nurse through
the open window of an uppee story,
In the Berlin Schloss and was killed on
the pavement below. It is, by the way,
curious that the "White Lady" only
appears at the death of a born Hohen-
zollern, for instance, there is no rec-
ord of its having been seen at the
dieath of the Empress Augusta, wife
of the Kaiser.
MYST,ERY YET TO -DAY.
Another ghost of the house of Hoh-
enzollern, of whieh few have heard, is
that of a spectral young and beauti-
ful girl who haunts the old &obtuse
In Konigsberg, the former residence
of the Markgreifs of Bradenburg, and
the Electoirs of PrliasMl, where the
mewning of Kings of Prpasia also urged
to take place; and wbereas the identity
of the "White Lady" is shrouded in
xuyetery, here we have a fairly, reliable
story to go upon.
It ie said that the sad -faced appari-
tion is the ghost of a beautiful young
maiden whose heart was already .giv-
en to another, but who was forced into
marriage with a Bradenburg Mark-
graf old enough to he lier father, with
the usual result. Love found a way
for the rendezvous of the hcipeess oat -
pie, and information of the meetings
coming to the Lord's ears, be extorted
from the terrified woman a confession
of her guilt. Upon thee the infuriat-
ed husband took a fearful revenge.
This fiend in human form mtually
Sad his erring wife immured in a sec-
ret pessage leading to her apart-
ments! For through this passage her
lover had been wont to pass to and
rehire from her boudoir; so here tbe
wretched woman was starved to death,
having been furuished witb food and
drink for three days by her husband,
so us to prolong her fearful agonies I
She might indeed h.ave cause to haunt
his family for all time I But the most
remarkable part of the etory yet re-
mains to be told; Inc the walled -up
passage Is shoevn to the present day,
aed many suggestions have been made
to the rulers of Prussia, to have it
opened to ascertain if this gbasely
story be true; but all have met w,ith
an emphatic refusal, there being a rec-
ord in the setret Hohenzollern ar-
thieves setting forth the facts of the
tragedy, and inhibiting the opening by
any descendants of the house.
The preeent fin de siecle Raiser, too,
has angrily refused permission, and he,
like his predecessors, has never slept
at the hated S.chloss, spite of its
Nang, so to speak, tbe oradle' of his
race. So thus this awful tragedy' still
TernainS shrouded in mystery.
THE KAISER'S TALISIAAN,
Apropos of the superstitions ef tbo
Hlshsnzo1lero—supersIiIione4 by the
way, totind let all enelent royel eaM1
lies—,the relere of that Souse Mame
0. tallainen broeglit; inlio It bY n goad
eleirit mid to guard lta deetiniee. Title
la the Ciericinle " black Mom," to which
is atnehed the follOWIng (leant trete
ditiont
Salm the time or the elector ebbe
Mere, Whet flourished toward ,the end
Of the fifteenth century, eacli ruler
boa been Wont before bie death, te
heed to his Swimmer e Nettled Padget.
Thia contains; a ring in Willab IS set
O black Mone isaid to ben been drop.
(tied by a huge load on the emerlet
of a Prineese ot the textile' ieet as she
had giten birth tole sou,
Fs'ederielt the Great found the ring
in a cover which RIM inclosed a mein-
orandune written by Frederiek I.,
elating its value mid its mode of trans-
mission, Schneider, the librarian, of
William E., deelaree that be saw the
packet handed by Gelling, tbe trea-
surer, to hie royal means! on hal ames-
sion, and further rumen that he read
hict stecoultt of the talisman to the Ern -
parer, who fatly confirmed It.
Tbe weren't Emperor Meer fails to
wear on all great omaslons thea queer
old ring, end hare like every Erobenzol-
bare, the deepest respect for the quaint
little jewel. Frederick the Great's fa-
ther had the black stone, mounted as
a ring, and bequeathed it to Ills son,
who believed firmly in its value as a
talisman, and many of the doeuments
of that time deposited in the arohlvee
at Berlin make allusion to it,
THE "BLACK LADY."
But almost straeger and more un-
canny than the e White Lady," of woe
of tbe house of Hohenzollern, ie the
"Blink Lady" of evil omen to the
house of Wittelsbach, the hapless in-
sanity tainted royal family of Bava-
ria. Thie weird specter has been sev-
eral times this century, walking the
old fatally castles of Nympherburg end
Furstenreid, the former now occupeed
by several members of the family, end
the latter by.the insane Ring Otto.
But the "Black Lady" differs from
her white" sister by being a" maid-
en young and beautiful" but of mid-
dle age with a "sorrowful and care-
worn face." As indicated, she wears a
long, black robe, trailing beheld her
of medieval out, and her hair is white,
This specter is said to have been seen
even in broad daylight 1 This occur-
red three days before the sudden and
inexplicable death of King Maximil-
hen II. and: is vouched for by no less
a personage than his awn wife, the
late Princess Marie of Prussia.
It was at Schloss Furstenstein in the
spring of 1884, of mune before the
days of King Otto's affliction, when
a small luncheon party was one dee
given for the late Landgraf of Hesse -
Cassel and his wife. The meal WaS Pro-
gressing merrily when the Queen sud-
denly happened to look up, and, to Ser
intense astonishment, beheld, standing
behind the elide of her husband, who
wile seated oppiosite her, a la dy rob-
ed in beack, gazing sorrowfully at her.
Ae quickly the vision vanisbed.
On recovering herself, she told what
sbe had seen, knowing nothing of tbe
dire tradition, when a dark shadow
crossed the face of her doomed Mouse.
He instantly arose and rushed to the
door, which was screened with heavy
<curtains and guarded without by an
officer and two sentinels. But on an-
grily demanding who the "Indy in
black" they had ellowed to pass was
all three most emphatically denied that
any living soul bad entered. Tbe
King explained the mystery to the
ewe-Melt:ken party as being a belle -
dent ion of his weak-neeved wife.
Rill ominous stories soon floated
through ,the castle. Three days later,
in the hest of heelth, the Ring start -
00 his usual morning ride, and was
suddenly taken ill. In three hours he
sees dead. ELS death wes said to be
caused by gastritis.
RING LUDWIG'S SPECTER,
More creepy still is the story of the
sentinel Nebo died so mysteriously on
the night before the fearful tragedy on
the banks of the Sternberg Lake when
the insane King Louis TI., while out
walking, first drowned his eaithful
physician, Dr. Gudden, and then pro-
ceeded, as was afterward Mown, into
deep water and drowned himself. The
unhappy soldier stated that he was
on duty at midnight in the Ring's oor-
rider, when he suddenly beheld in tbe
meonlight a dark figure moving along
at the other end and descending the
stairs leading down into tbe court-
yard.
Nothing daunted at the weird ap-
perition, he rushed up and challenged
"Who goes there?" But no response
crime, the figure deseending and the
soldier following When he reached
the bottom step he saw the figure in
Lull moon light glide across tbe
c.ourtyard toward the Mama, where it
turned around, and, failing to get an
answer, he fired at it. But the gun
explod.ed 11 his hands, with fatal re-
sults, and he had barely time to tell
his strenae adventure to tbe alarmed
Paned before he expired. The appear-
ance of this specter is also shrouded
in deep mystery.
Suoh is elm tbe ease with the Red
Lady said to haunt the old. Schloss at
Darra.stadt, which, arcording to the
report, was seen on the tea& dead,
of Princess Alice. But there is no ru-
mor of its having been seen prior to
the death of her husbame Finally, it
should he mentioned thnt the White
Lady of the house of Hapsburg is pose
levely said to have welked the corri-
dors of the Hotburg, near the Crown
Prince Rudolf's apartment on the
three nigbls tweeedIng the awful May-
erling tragedy.
A HOER CHRISTENING.
London newspapers just now are
filled with incidents of the Boers, Most
of them far from flatterfng, One of
the best relates that in a Dutch aura
in Pretoria not long age there appear-
ed a very stolid looking fermer'e wife
who Stud brought her baby into Lown
to be ohristened, Before leaving home
her elord" had written the names it
was intended to give the infant on
one slip of paper and the list of the
household requirements on another.
and both were Manfully folded end
put in the great leather purse she car-
ried.
.When the proper time arrived the
fond mother handed up a slip of impel
10 the 'minister, white read and reread
it, and then remarked that ICofficillijst
Sistine Geraber, Kornfijit were rather
odd riananS for the child, ana ones
Whieh mtg,ht prove embarrassing to
the posseesor al ersine future time.
Thee tes, other slip of paper was
prodeced, sea explatatitine followed,
PACTS ABOUT ZINC,
A natal WWII Is Voleing More and gore
Pita lise.
Cemparatevely teW people have any
idea of the growing 1MM/titmice Of eine
in the inaeateial urn and in general
Menefee/Lure, Everybody of Mere°, le.
faletiliar With the en4{10),Ment Of eine
for to Mete and in the feria Of gal-
vanized iron, but the naany new uses
to withal thls metal bave bee/a put leave
eelcaped general attendee. Itis a faot,
however, that not One other metal me
be named the Mnaumetion of whioll
has increased 00 rapidly and persiceents
ly and Whiell has entered into ouch a
naulderiteity of industrial employe
manta as sine has within the decade
now nearleg its dose. To mention a.
few of the more important new uses
of sine and to show the extent to
which its consumption has inereascd:
—In 1890, 3,700 eleetrio engine's mid mo-
tors oonsumea zinc in the manufaie
facture of electricity; in 1898, MON
engines consumed, zinc; in 1890, 260,008,
pounds of zinc were used for monu-
mental and statuary work in ceme-
teries; in' 1898 fourteen times thief
amount was used for the Baena pure
pose; itt 1895 tbe consumption of eine
for ornamental front for buildings in
cities had incremod to twenty times
the amount consumed for that pur-
pose in 1890, and very reeently it has
oome iuto popular use for fresco walle
and fretted work in domes. Zino is the
coming material fo' ceilings and in-
terior wall covering, pressed into stip
of the thickne,ss of stout paper, col-
oured or stamped with suitable de-
igns and cemented together at the
edges in invisible seams, These new
wall coverings will endure for a gen-
eration, for the metal will not ger-
rode or oxidize, and oan be oleaned in
a simple andeinexpennive way. Eine
is used in the manufacture of German
silver, brass, babble metal, galvanized
Iron roofing, whiah Sas an endurance
over six times greater than Iron, In
bath tuba, cisterns, wash tube, wash-
ing boilers, sinks, cooking utensils of
nearly all descriptions; fence wire,
telegraph wire; for steam, 'water, and
gas pipes in refrigeration, refrigera-
tor oars, into the construotion of
which zino enters as a prime factor
and the oar builders being among the
largest consumers of the same; zino
forms the material for furnaces, man-
tels, toys, cartridges, locks .and of the
new and durable button of all colours
and designs; it is used in the manu-
facture of mints, refining of metals,
cyaniding of gold, and in the coating
of fence and telegraph wire,s.
VISITING AS A FINE ART.
If, as is undoubtedly the ease, it is
an art to be able to entertain, it is also
one to be entertained gracefutly, and
there are many guests who have ut-
terly failed in grasping this important
fact. There are some people whose
presence under one's roof is a boon to
be desired, and adds a new joy to life;
but there are ethers who,on the con-
trary, act as an irritant opon one's
nerves, and render the burden of exist-
tenemeahsesavier than would otherwise be
h
There is one golden rule which guests
should lay to heart if they wish their
visit to be a success. They should
know how, and when, .,to efface tbeme
selves, and when to take a prominent
place in the social foreground. It is
an appalling and a terrible thing
when the visitors—IV is usually WO- ')
men who commit this error—slt per-
petually in the drawing-robm wailing
to be amused. "We are on your
handsl" This, in the hostess's im-
agination, is the prevailing Idea writ
largo upon their faces; the oonviction
that they will not assist her In amus-
ing themselves, invariably checks tbe
buoyancy of her merles, and, figur-
atively, Weigna her to the ground.
IF is frequently the ease that le tbis
deseription of guest were to follow
her own individual inclinations, sbe
would be writing letters in the pri-
vacy of her own room, or skinuning
the last new novel in a shady corner
of the garden. The pity of it is, how-
ever, that she imagines she is doing
the correct thing, and that \ellen she is
on a visit it is unsoeiable, as well as
a breath of politeness, to absent her-
self front the family circle.
There is, egain, another class who,
in adopting the role of 'visitors, lose
tbereby their own individuality, and
appear as mere ciphers, with neither
tastea nor inclinations of their own.
These also are distinct trials to a
hostess. Everyone has come aeroes
the guests who seem unable to give
decisive opinion upon any subject,
When asked whether they will go for
a drive, or stay at home, they murmur,
sweetly, "that it is quite the same to
them; whichever dear Mrs. — pre-
fers," leaving the perplexed and irate
Losterts to decide in the dark, total-
ly ignorant of their real wishes on die
eubjece of freeh air or the Unlade.
It may possibly happen that visitoris
freqeently- find themselves intensely
bored by their host or hostess in par-
ticular, and their surroundings in
general. This state of mind Must be
eiduleuely concealed under a smiling
endcontented exterior, if they wish
to Mine as "good guests," for nothing
is so trying as the unamesable penon,
w.ho, remains topelessly glum and un-
intereated.
The free -and -easy visitor is a per -
on to be avoided. This class appears
to look upon whateeee house they are
!Laying at in the light of an hotel, and
gard it as a matter of course that
the hours of wale, and other exiciting
ousebold errangements, should fit in
,vith he daily program:erne they bave
mapped out for their own convenience,
The qualities of an ideal guest may
hi panted in a few words—the tact
is tech tells its poeseaser not only
he right thing to say, but the proper
I ilea to say it ; the alt of self-efface-
ment in couvermation 1 the know-
ledge of bow to make one's moiety
valued and appreciated, and when to
withhold it end that mro and genu-
ine politeness whiell springs front un-
selfishness, and fit* its oWn antis,
faetion in the well-being of ether,
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