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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-6-7, Page 66 TSE .BP,V SBILS POST. 3xrrri 7, Xtra TORCIIES WERE LIGHTED Rev, Dr. Talmage Speaks on the Parable of the Virgins. A despatch from \Washington says: *-Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the following text : "Tile parable of the ten virt iris,"- alt. xxv. 1-12. A young nicin and a young woman have been affianced, according to to the Oriental custom. The time oR their rnurrtnge has arrived. Calmv sell. beautiful eigee comes 110 WA on the eastern bills. The bridegroom invited hie moat intinl'ete friends to come, They are colpo from the. life of the hills, and they are boister- uus in their mirth, They have such clothes a4 (heir rusticity affords them. Each one has a fhtmbeau or rod of 11112120, With a plena of wood on the top of it, the wood wound with linen, the listen dipped in olive ail, and a onp fastened under it, so 1.1301 the ail may not d*op upon ebe man who bears it. They strike the flints, the sparks fly, and the flambeaux blaze. With these torches the pro- cession starts, flow beautifully the lighio'glaoce in and out among the leaves, and in the air redolent with line. and frankinceuce. There are songs, and shouts, and glee, such as young men Seal on their way to at I marriage. On and on they go. It is twelve tt sleek tit night when they (une within hailing distance of the bride's house. In the languor of these eastern nights all the brides- maids have fallen asleep, when the :wood (mins through the dwelling: "The wedding party is approaching," and the light of their torches pours a stream of fire an down inwards the blouse. What excitment there is in the dwelling, a running to and fro, and a great Buster. Setae uf them 'eke up the flambeaux that ore standing in thecorner, and in the excitement and in the darkness, they eennut. Lind the flints with which to strike the light. S„mr' cry one thing. seine cry another, and they jostle each other and stumble about in tee dark- ness. Some one takes a flambeau and puts fire to it; FOR AIIOMSNTIT BLAZES, and she holds barb hands over It. so us to keep it from the draught of the opening and the shutting doors; but it burns only a !11110, and goes out, 'Then they begin to cry : "Whu can lend us a little olive ail 1 Who has any oil to spare 1” There are none who have any to lend. Ne.w' there are same people who get one thing uut of this parable. and there are or hers who get another thing; but f get tile: the soul needs light. f. you see the bride n•oom's party coiningdownthe hill. what do yen find :? Torches, If you see the bridal party coining nut of the door. what de you see ? Torches. What dries the sant in its midnight of sin arid suffering need? 't'erebes. Confucius tried le .e1 rite a light for China. and he did kindle 11; but it went out and left her untie -tinted millions t0 make the ecnluries dismal 'o -i:11 their wailing. Zeno, Chia ',thee, A cis, ul le, each al ruck a light, and passed it along from hand to hand but it went out; and f hive to tell you that. the universi- ties of the earth, while they have in theft chemical laboratories made the blue light, and the green light, and the yellow light, they have never yet been able to make the while light of pardon, and peace, and hope, for a lust world. Peeve; where le it l ing hells have gone two hundred feet down, and not found 11 in the depthe of Che Bea. Astronomers' leleacupes have ewept 0(102,5 the heavens and not ftiunil it in the air. From a eon- sunling brand of Calvary 1 pick up the only light. for a lost world. The fart that Christ died to save sinners le the flambeau, which flung on the darkness of your sun;, will scatter Re gloom as by a daybreak. A1] the flambeaux of the gt'ooms- inen and the bridesmaids of the text gives no such piercing, leaping light as is (u he found in the tossing. f I, :L'B,U,AUX OF TH11 GOSPEL, whieh flings light. into the dungeon ofthy sin and comfort out on the ocean of Lbe: trouble. A blind man sat down by the way -side, and Jesus sat down by the way -side, and Jesus enure along, and the blind main cried out : " Jesus, Thee sun of. David, have mercy on me." "hush up," said the people etanding around. "You ore a beggar, and you are blind, and this le a Ring." But so much more he cried out ; "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me." They maid: "Be still; 11 is indecorous; you are disturbing the peace." Bu the more he cried out ",,esus, thou son of Davit), have mar- cy on mo." Jesus turned to him and 20id: "Thy faith hath made thee whole." Oh, that to -eight, from this audience, teere might go up such a deep, all -compelling prayer for light, Mel . it would Isere 1(sus upon, u5Witll the resunnae , "'thy faith bath made thee whole.' . ut 1 learn elm,, from th .R his ', nub - jive., that the emit needs a movable light. These toreees (turning out of the door are in motion. These torches of the bridegroom's party o4 the hill are in motion, hoisted, lowered, glance leg in and out among the leaves, all Movable. The soul needs a movable light, and in 'the Gospel of Christ we have it. That Gospel is not a lamp -poet standing on 0110 Street. It le nota chandelier hung iu anemone It is not a lighthouse set at har- bour, It is a flambeau --a movable light—something to be carried, And we need to take it into Out' bottles, and we need to take it into our stores and shops, and into our schools, and Into our churches, and in the cellars where the poor freeze and in the gar- ret where the fevered languish, and in- to the hospital where the wounded die, and far out in the wilderness where the emtgranl struggles. Do you know that the lights of the world are sta- tionary, and that soon you and I will have to ((art on It road where all these lights will fail us? The lights of earthly amusements are stationary; and all those that are kindled in the most brilliant halls of earth, cannot flash one spark of cheer un that path w131eh you and 1 will soon have . to travel. The lamps of our churches are stationary. All the chandeliers of Christian sanctuaries in one flannel light could not throw A GLOW-WORM .SPARS upon the path which you and I will 80011 have to travel. The domestic light is stationary. If you should take it to the dour on such a gusty night as this it would Immediately be blown out. mind all the lights that cheer me in the home circle will cast on that pathway on which you and I will soon travel. Oh, God 1 when we turn our back upon our amuse- ments, and our cburehes, and our homes. give us the flambeau of the Gospel—a movable light 1 Lady Rachel Russell was eamfurted by that light while she was arranging the papers as her husband was preparing for mertydom. That light John Bunyan held up until by it he saw the gates of the celestial city, It flamed on the blind eye0 of .John Milton until he saw t the battle of the angels. Oh, movable light, glorious flambeau of the Gospel, pass it up and downthrough all hands, through alt ages; pass it from hand to hand, and from mountain to 131 001aiu, and from x011 10 sett, until it shall be told everywhere that to those who sat in darkness a great light hes sprung up. 1t 11111at have been a 'brilliant seen( when the first morn- ' ing orn-'ing dawned on the world, Our planet had been a great black hulk — there Lyme not even the gleam aft star or the flash of a fire fly. But the cum- wand came forth: "Let there be light," and flashes of Brightness quivered' through tee gloom, and the darkness ;was lighted, and the mist arose, and 'there was a faint gleam on the N011- ! ter, va_'ter, and there was snow on the crest of the wave, and the remnants on the !night rolled off the sky in splendour, land the bridegroom of the light ap- peared in the heavens, and all the :glories of the earth with lighted torch- es went forth to meet hint. "And the evening and the morning were the first day," 1 next learn from this subject that no man has any light to spare. I sup- pose if suite of these obliging brides- maids had taken the linen from the lop of ibe flumbeaux and wrung them out on 111e lamps of the improvi- dent ones, that after a while they themselves would have been in do rk- themselves would have beau in dark- ness. So they did not lend it. There was NO OLIVE OII, TO SPARE, Neither has anyone any grace to spare, "0h," says some one In this house: "1 had a very good father and very gond mother; if there ever was a good woman, she was; and somehow I hope through their piety to get into hea- ven." Had they any surplus of piety ? None. Had they any goodness to spare? Nona. 'You cannot borrow ail out of their lamps. And, 1 suppose, if at the last 111 the redeemed of heaven were gathered in a circle, and some pour soul should go around and say: "Have you olive oil to spare? Give me some for my lamp?" I suppose they would all answer: "Not so, lest there be not enough fur us and for you." "If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; but if thou acornest, thou alone shall bear it." .Every man for himself, every woman for herself. I learn also ,from this sub- ject that Same people apply for t.be light when it is too late. Hew silly those britlesmaide must have felt when they could not 'get into the wedding, It was not n secret wed- ding to which, pethaps, they had only a few hours' invitation, I suppose they hod known for weeks antd mantes that they were going 1-,4) be invited, and yei they ire mat prepsred. ±iough they kneev, where they could get oil, and they had the money, as the text 'intimates, yet the wedding roman, they are unprepared for it, and all • their pounding et the door does not get 'them in, I see them oomtng en up tot the door. The rabble begin to jeer et them. 'rimy say: "Yee are late. Don't you WW1 300 could' get 'in? Where are all your flee olutbes now? You are 110 better off than we are. We clitln'texpect to go in, we only name to see this bride as sho moved into the benquettleg hall." A type of lith predieuinenI, a good many shall find themselves about theirsouls at the last. Five saved) Five eased! Brothers and sisters; some going 10 the right end some going 10 the left. Father and mother; one going up and the other going down. Husband and wife, one tot in and the other shut out. Chanting! ohantingl chanting! Wullingl wailingl wailing) Five saved) Five lost!. 1 suppose that those slily brides- maids were moral, respectable; or they, would not have been invited to the wedding.: .But their morality did not get them in. TIIIIY HAD NO TORCHES. All our good works, and all our mora- lity on earth, will not take us into the gate of bew^en, Salvat'on lost, my clear brother, is lost for ever. As the tree falloth, so ii must lie, Bow these virgins must have felt:. whon they came up and heard inside the music, and 111e dancing, and the clash of the goblets. and the laughter, min- ing in quick percusaien ou the night air, How they must have felt, Their sisters Inside; their brothers, and friends, and neighbours inside, the gate of heaven and they themselves out. A type of bow we wilt feel et the hast, ,f we do not get inside, 1 suppeee every hour of the day and nigh, there are souls going into eter- nity unprepared. Oh, whet excite- ment it must be about the death -bed Crying out for a lamp, and for the and for the light; throwing hands out, throwing them up, throwing U om around, until the nurse asks: "What do you want, water?" He says shaking his head: "No." "Bathing of the temples?" He shakes his head; "No." \What does 13e want ? Oh, he cannel get his light burning. lie must start ; he is started; he comes up to the gate of heaven ; be knocks; he cries: "Let me in 1" lie is not admitted. He says: I want to see the bridegroom." The voices within Say; "You can't see the bridegroom; he is busy with the guests new'," says the man; "r must tome in; ray children are in there. 11 roust come in." A voice within says; "You refused the grace that would have brought ,you where they are." "But," says the man ; "I must come in; ail my friends and kindred are in. Hark! 1101" I hear the sound of their voices, mod the bounding of their feet. Let me in." And a voice from with- in says; "You are too late 1" It. says to one man : "You are twenty years too late;" to another, "you are a month too late ;" to another, you are a minute too late ;" and the mob of destroyed ones outside the door take up the chorus, and cry; 'quo tate! And the hot wind of the de- sert sighs: "Too litter' and the bell in the tower of eternal midnight tolls and tells: "Too late! too late 1" And the torches of the silly virgins begin to flicker and hiss in the storm, and one by one they go out until in the suffocating dorknees they cry: "Our lamps have gone out I" And they go wandering through eternity, ages after ogee, feeling out fur the light, for com- fort, for peace, for hope but finding none and Crying: " Our lamps have gone oul i" and there horning In an- other diret'rion, and wandering on, age after age, age after age, feeling for hope and comfort, end light and Heav- en, but finding none, and crying: "Our letups have gone out !" - —s— BURNING' BANK NOTES. With the Bank of England the de- struction of its notes takes place about once a week, and at 7 p. m. Formerly it used to be done in the daytime, but owing to the unpleasant smell with which the burning was at- tended the noigbbouring stuck brok- ers petitioned the Government to do it in the evening. The notes are pre- viously cancelled by !lunching a hole through the amount (in figures) and tearing off the signet tire of the chief cashier. The notes are burned in a closed furnace, and shavings and bun- dles of w0o71 form the only agency employed. For future purposes of re- ference the notes are left for five years before being burned, Tee num- ber of notes coming into the Bank of England every day Is about 50,0011, and 350,000 are destroyed every week, or something like 1,000,0110 every; year. The stock of paid notes for five years is about 77,745,00 in number, and tbey fill 13,400 boxes. • DIPLOMATIC, Mrs. Dodd seams always to have her own way, That's because when she dant have it she pretends that the other Waris 'her's. OUTPOSTS DON'T SALTJTN. Troops on outpost duty do not eel - ate their superiors, or notice them, unless addressed, - Voun Folks, ESi IMO DOLLS, A piece of wood with strips of hide tied on for legs and arms, the 'face serateleecl.into the wood will* a splin- ter of bons, a sorap of fur wrapped around for a garment, mild all bear- ing visible proof of fondling from many a greasy, dirty little hand. Weed do you 1uplioso an American child would. say If aue11 an objeotwore piked into her' arias for a doll 1 It would cut but a poor tiger's among her Parisian ladies of high degree, in their silks and satins, and how the demure bisque babies evoutd stern at, the uncouth stranger 1 Yet in'far-off Alaska these hideous images are trea- sured by the little Rakine> girls with astender u mother hove us was ever lavished upon the flaxen -haired, blue- eyed doll beauties of our own Bind. All of the Eskimo children have their noses•pierced so that they can WOar rings or chains o£ beads, and nearly all of the dolls are in the style in Ibis respect:The tidd chief's 03111S are not scratched into the wood like a common person's but tiny hits of polished bone are inlaid in the fare Aar eyes, nose and mouth, and give him quite an air of dietinotion. Another is a chief's squaw, dressed very much like the chief, only her jac- ket is of soft marten shin, and about her throat she has a queer ruff of white moss that looks like coarse vel- vet. Her little Eskimo mother must have been afraid of evil spirits, for she leas hung a.eharm about her neck —a tiny piece of flattened lead, with, it whale's head scratched em it, The Eskimo girls evidently care fur boy dolls best, and there is only a' stray little squaw here and there, poorly dressed and neglected -looking. One gentleman doll is the dandy of the company, and presents a truly imposing appaoranoe. His owner must have possessed deft fingers and a marvelous patience, for he wears a long robe that .reminds one of the fairy tale of King Roughbeard, whose Princess had a cloak matte fro,u iits of skin of all the mnimals in the world. The skirl. 0f the robe is of the softest deerskin, with 0 fringe of reindeer bide aground the bottom. All over the robe, in unexpected Maces, tufts of silver fox fur are sewn in cleverly, and the collar is a rleh af- fair of red fox and 01 ter skins, while the sleeves present a striking combin- ation of marten skin and white moss. One little papoose wears a peculiar kind o8 costume that unites bonnet,' shoes, Blockings and dress all in one, and she has the jolliest face of any in the lot. Strange to say, the dress is made of calico, ordinary blue calico, with red flowers in it, such am any china -headed doll might wear in Am- erica. 'Probably her mother gotit from some sailor from a whaling ves- sel, and thought that such a remltrk- able, beautiful creation should, be used in a brand new style.. Several of the dolls are made of hone, polished until it is as smooth and pretty es ivory, and the Cares on these are even more expressive, than those carved in wood. Save for one jol- ly, round-faced medicine man and a cross-eyed, grinning papoose, all of these stranger dolls from the arctic shores look melancholy and dissatis- fied, its if they Lound lite a bore and a burden. Perhaps, the little moth- ers who made and loved them may have felt somewhat that way them - :mimes, for the Eskimos are like the Indians in their dislike of girls, and travellers have told how when afam- ily becomes loo large, in many cases, n Door, little, dark -faced girl baby has hurl her month stuffed full of moss and been laid out in the snort^ and mild to die. So it may he that these ugly dolls, with their sad eyes and drooping mouth, 11eur silent witness to the lately childhood spent in the great, bleak land of the midnight sun. INVISIBLE INKS, Dissolve one fluid ounce of commpn oil of vitriol, sulphuric need, in one of soft water, stir well, and allow to enol, Write with a Clean steel pen. and when dry the writing becotnes Invisible. To read same bold a in front of the fire ped the writing will turn black. Writing done with rice water is in- visible when. dry, but on the apple. cation of iodine the writing turns blue. Writing done with a elean quill pen dipped, in onion or turnip juice is invisible when dry. To read same hold it in front oh the fire, or otherwise heat/ it, and the wilting will turn brown, A WISE MULE. Lady Burton,. a famous Engtieh woman who) has made a great many long jotulrneys, was once traveling in Syria when a mule, whittle was in a great pain, hobbled 'up to her in spite of tie heavy load on its back and held up the hoof that it had hardly been able to use with a look on; its foe^ that Spoke plainly, not only of egony but, oleo! of hope 'that she might mire it. On !oohing ei the beet Lady Our - ton Round It pierced with atwo•Inejt atoll, whieh, She pulled out et 0400, and from that then on the grateful autmal followed hex tlhopt like uylg dog. NEW CATCH. GAME, Here is a nee, 'game of "catch" the boys will enjoy, It is Balled "Stags and Hounds,' and in playing it one boy is at first the hound, and he mush try to touch the other players. Moo he has touched ono, thetwo hounde join hands and try to eat'oh another. When they bave caught, the three join Minds and run after others, until all except one have been (taught and joined hands. Then the ops that •has not been eaught'has to be first bound for the next mime, OPENING NEW BOORS. To open 0 book properly hold it with its back 011 11 smooth 01' covered ta- ble. Let the front board down, then the other; new hold the leaves in one hand while you' open a few leaves at the back, then a few at the front, etc., alternately opening back and front until the center of the volume is readied. If this is done two or throe times there will be no danger of breaking the volume. SOUTH AFRICAN SCENES. Heliograph Conveys Mester the News -The ' (menial Purees. Most of the important 'news of the South African wet', and especially that received from Mafeking and the other cities, which have beenin a slate of siege, as wale as that transmitted from camp to camp, has been hello - graphed, says the Ne.w York Commer- cial Advertiser. The intense bright- ness of the South African sun is so seldom obscured that the heliograph is practically in daily military serv- ice. Lt is not a comvplex instrument. It consists of a movable mirror plac- ed in the sun so es to flash a beam of light to a considerable distance, just as boys aro fond of doing with pocket mirrors in idle moments at school. In transmitting messages the flashes are caused to follow 0n0•an- olher in accordance with a signal code. The mirror is mounted on a tri- pod and in the centre has a part of the silvering removed froln the back, Two lights are provided in front with a screen. The distant station is sight- ed through the hole in the inirror. The beam of light is then directed through both sights so as to be re- flected exactly at the other station. By means of tea Morse key, which causes the mirror to move through,a limited are, telegraphic signals can thus be flashed' to a dist name of many miles. !:u a recent letter from Kimberley to the London Daily Mail, Julian Ralph, the American war correspond- ent said: "I prepared you for the knowledge that the colonials would do the best work, in elate war, and you will find that they proved themselves worthy of the eolumendation in the short and sanguinary siege of Cronje's rabbit - like retreat. It is a grand thought for England that after this war each of her colonies will maintain a standing force of soldiers unhampered by tra- ditions, bravo to the last degree, and taught to depend on themselves and not. on their officers." Among the rolonial forces now in South Africa perhaps even the gallant Comedians themselves have not ren- dered mare effective service then the Australian troops,—sturdy, rough -rid- ing fellows, toughened by the hardy life of the Australlan bush, and NO better fitted no doubt than many of their comrades in the Imperial army l0 endure the hardships of fighting under: the burning African sun. The Australian forces have been fortunate thus far in escaping serious losses ,on the battlefield. Yet they have been in the Lhick of the fray, and have sacri- ficed brave men. Even in South Africa, it is not all Lighting, and now and then, when itis not necessary to storm, kopjes or re- lieve beloagueeed towns, 'I'ontmy At- kins leaves off stalking liners to get a shot at leas u0mbaelve game. Wild animals abound, (fresh meat is nob by any means the usual fare. Refriger- ated beef is mere apt to be the hill than venison, and in the hard fight- ing anti. Lot't'ed marches of the recent campaigns Tommy often has been grateful for a bit of dry biscuit and hate tried tc forget hunger In sho ;e- lec'+e of his inseparable pipe: A loan and it memo appeared in a London Police Court charged with having stolen property In their )los. session. A citable attached to the house in which the pr'lsoners resider! at Islington was searched, and it is Alleged khat property valued et between 2000 and 1000 was found. 'There were 100 table titivate, 150 bales of flannelette and cloth, oases er champagne and other wines, balese1 leather, and several hundreds oe rnite- kintoshee, intended, it is thought, /or South 41101011. All appeared to he the proeeeds of daring van robberies. the prlsonef't weer, remanded. HEALTH. (FAINTING, Feinting, er ayne0p0, le a temporary loos of eonsoloueeess, ocsurriag with enfeebled .and retarded action of the beart'as manifested by it slow and almost imperceptible pulse, extreme pallor oR the face, ospoaially the lips, and a pokiness and lividity of the hands and teat. The attack of uneonsolousness le' generally preceded by a Reeling of slight nausea, a Swimming before the eyes, noises in the ears, a fullness of the head, and an indescribable fooling of "all -gameness," of the extreme wretchedness (*1 which no ens can have any idea )vee has not exporienood ie in his awn person,' The voices of those around gradually become lndistinet, objeets 'grow dim,. the breathing is oppressed, and finally darkness closes in, the muscles relax, and the sufferer pewees into that mys- terious and awe-inspiring state called unconsciousness. This lasts for a variable period and then the mind gradually resumes its supremacy, the patient coming again into possession of hiis suspended faculties, like one raised from the dead rather than like one aroused from slumber. In its essence 'the act of fainting is merely a symptom of anaemia of the brain, with Which is associated a greatly weakened action of the heart, both dependent upon acme usually disagreeable impression from with- out, such as the sight of blood,an un- pleasant or very p011001ul odor, a sud- den fright, pain, oppressive aeat of the atmosphere, the receipt of bad news, less often n great and sudden joy, and the like. 'Young women, people in delicate health, the nervous, and sufferers from heart disease are mora prone to syncope than others, yet faintingmay occur in the strongest men from the effect of slight causes. Were it not so familiar a sight a person in a faint would fill the by- standers with terror, so closely does the condition simulate death, but for- tunately the state is one usually of short duration. The patient should be placed flat on t.he back, with no pillow- or support under the head. These not in imme- diate attendance should keep at a distance and fresh air should be ad- mitted freely. The clothing should be loosened about the neck and the waist, tee face should be fanned, and respiration should be stimulated by flipping afew drops of cold water on the Lace and chest. The bare chest and arms may also be slapped with a wet towel. Smelling -setts may be held cautiously under the nose, or a few grains of pep- per blown into the nostrils. Any or- dinary swoon should quiekly yield to these simpie measures. TO REMAINS YOUNG, Take a brisk walk every day ; se- cure fresh air, a glimpse of fresh scenes and fresh faces. These aro worth more than doctor's tonics to eel overtired and nervous Mau ur Womitn, and give a prettier glow to the cheeks than the Finast nituntfaOUnred rouge in existence. One W110 keeps tided and body on the alert willseldom need to have recourse to science or diet to de- crease size and weight If you have a thin face, and the flesh seems un- willing to become plump rind round in response to muasage, build up the system by taking a half pial or mare of sweet cream every day, eat of cer- eals which have been ooukud for sev- eral hours, u. raw egg beaten up in milk 01100 a cloy, warm drinks of milk diluted with hot. water, and bak- ed sweet apples or ripe, sweet fruit at each meal. FOX FAltr\LS. The fur of the blue fox has become so valuable of late years that "fox farms" now exist on some of the is- lands off the coast of Maine as well as on the Aleutian Islands in 13t'hrino Sea. One of the problems now (con- fronting the fox ranchers is how to provide inure abundant food for the faxes in the winter time. On the Aleutian (51ande they have been fed with dried salmon when other food gives out. 'I'hey will even east sea- er0hins, searching' for then) on the beach at low tide, • • Whether 1110 following story, told by Ole Deily Chronicle, be trueor mot, it is et any .mile amusing. The other Suuday evening, :warding to the late, an elderly lady returning from ehuruh, stood aeon the door- seep of bee house in Kilburn; in the northwest of London and diseuve'ed that she bad forgotten Ilei latch -key, It was the servant's evening out, and there are several bad quarters of an hour between eight and ten on 11 February evening. )ler dilemma. ivas noticed by a group of men on the other side of the etreet. With thein - bled courtesy of 110111 1'e'0 11x11)10111011 I hey (*milled to her assistance. In one instant six lkeletun keys hashrd in the air. lit the next instance the peediesl upnrntar hull (Monod the ;runt door, tied otos ,receiving the 1lhanks of 1110 elderly Indy, who Was ranch pleased, bol further reflee lion dim in181ed nor pleateertl in this proof of the influence of Human under- standing on the look. FRU EIGLAMM. • WHAT JOHN BRIJ AND HIS PEOPLE AHE DOING, '1 Repord of Aeeurrenees i, the Land That Reigns Saprerile in the Colnmerelal World, Several ofthe inhabitants of Bede ford and Be neighbourhood have pee elite titloned tee Queen to use her royal 1 authority in prooloimlug "a day of ' humiliation" Ror the whole kingdom, in oonnoetion with the war. The Queen knits beautifully, end bad made several woollen wrulks', the Princess of Wales has worked ouch - Ions, and Primus Ch1'ietiau knitted a number of comforters for 1100 in the hospital train :equipped under bar supervision. Sir Reginald Palgrave, who has just resigned the clerkship of the House of Commons, was one of the most genial and agreeable officials at West- minster, He entered the servioe of the House as far bank as 1253, hav- ing been previously admitted as a go - 111110r. Within the Metropolitan area in 1899 there were 37,316 cases of infec- tious disease, Of these 31,821 were eligible for admission into hospital, and 20,849 ware admitted, or 05 1-E per cent., as against accommodation for only 32 1-2 per cent. in 1890. Ia is proposed to erect a mesaorial to Timothy Bennet, a humble shoe- maker, of Hampton Wick, who ,suo- Ceesfully resisted at his own cost an attempt, :about the year 1750, to Atop the right of WILY by closing the footpaths lending from [tampion Wick. Lord Methuen is 55, and Is reputed to, have a private income of (bout £11,000 a year. Ile hes a charming place In Wiltshire, called Corsham Court, which he Is unfortunately cob - owing to the exigenoius of his profession, to let. He married hid cousin, Miss Sanford, of Somerset- ah ire. The Rev. J. l'. Flanagan, :be min- ister in charge uf the South East Lon- ; don Mission, bas within the last twe years travelled over 311,000 miles, and preached over 700 times. '-to raise money for a building in which toc:tr- ry on his wurk in one of the poorest districts in London. Lord Dundonulrl's gallant exploit in the relief of Ladysmith recalls the bravery oR his distinguished but un- fortunate grandfather, the tenth Earl of Dundonald, who, in 1509, engaged with his one vessel and destroyed four French ships, and time led to the crushing of Napoleon's maritime po2v- er. An eminent engineer has pointed out that it no earthly' use building great blocks of workmen's dwellings in .London, because the more babita tines there are, the Inerts vegetat'ome up from the country to occupy them. Ilia remedy, bold and simple, is to remove both workpeot,le and their I work from London. He would have all factories removed from town 40 a short dist( nee in the 00%111117, and the workpeople with teen, Lord Sulisbnry is a very stoat man, weighing fully 1110 pounds, but curiously enough, he wits of slight physique in his youth.' Lord Rose- bory, in a speech a select time ago, narrated bow when he w'aa a boy be visited the library at Hatfield, and was pointed out t1 tall, slightly stoop- ed young man, olio w'rs immersed In study, and told in a half affrighted whisper by the housobold that :his was Lord Robert Cecil, the younger set of the household. ' !'resent mein - berm of the )louse of Commons. who were there in the days of Lord Rob- ert Cecil's membership, confirm the smile tale, and say that )bey remem- ber Lord Salisbury with something of the same figure as Mr. Arthur Bal- four—and Mr. Arthur Balfour' le one of the slightest of men. Mr, lileant Maxim's name is well.. known throughout the world by rea- son of the gun which he invented, and which bears his name. IL iss111d that the invention of these guns was the result of his having his shoulder bruised by the remit; 1n firing oft old military musket. Mr. Maxim is aim an enthusiast on the Subject of flying matohinos. MOST 'WONDERFUL Olt' ALL. The broomstick train Dr. Holmes called it, the electric ear operated by the overhead trolley system, had just been introduced to Aberdeen, wbua two farm servants name to the Sea. Iisll city to 0rend a holiday, They made their way at 01100 to the terminus of lin street railway, and looked with much wonder at the. now rrealiou. Fintlly they resolved. to have, a ride, 'At the end of the ride one of thein exprceeed their united opinion, Well, he said, this is -a griturl' lui',ne tints, in Edinburgh I sow them drive the ears wi' an reps meth 5)x001; Ln Dundee rl: 11'l01 'st' nn engine; but, 121110, ..t,a, 'e,,:'' 11;,4 n lncbt they could ea' 'Item el' a f 1ng-rod'1 • oe