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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-8-23, Page 613 TAE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks of the Need of Free Instructor.. A deepato'h from Washington says: ! soave poor, uneducated man arose, •-Rev. Dr, Talmage preached from the and, said, "1 suppose you fellers think following text; "Would. God that that beoauae I don't knave anything all the Lord's1? eople were prophets." I haven't no right to speak; but Christ Numb xi 29, has converted any soul and you knots '''here is great excitement in the 1 was the miser -ablest chap Ln town; ancient tabernacle, Two good men, and if God will pardon me, he w119 by 3 the name of Faded and Medod, be- pardon you," Come to Jesus! Come sin velteay and to instruct. Not has- Come now 1—tbe prayer -meeting broke ing been regularly ordained to Lhe dotivn with religious emotion. It is work, the jealousy of "the regulars" a grand thing to be accurate iu speeoh; en the service is aroused, and they but .get out with 'your grammar if lie to Mows, asking that these un- you are going to let the look of ae- ined men be silenced. But Moses, quainlanoe therewith keep a roan e•ad of stopping them, says he down when God Almighty tells him tithes that all the people would go to to get up! preaching, and praying, and exhort- These men do not now reex prepared g. "Would God that edl the Lord's for Christian work. Woking up at elite we're propbets!" I thirty, forty, or fifty years of age, ea I suppose that every man has with a desire of usefulness, they are some controlling ideas in his life, Long • too old to begin a regular theological ago, and before I saw any possibility course. Besides th et, they have Lam - of anrryiug them out, I had born of flies to support. It. takes them eight God in my soul these tui desires: hours every day to earn a livelihood, Fire t, the establishment al a free Whatdruowledgeshot down they meet oharch with the home -feeling main- take on the wing, loading the rifle tainted; told, second, the establishment while the barrel'is yet hot from other of a college in which private ChrierIan discharges. In th TaB I3RUSB L8 PAST lege they inight get the eeurage and the faoilLty. What 1 yon ask, " would yon let them preach without ordina- tion?' I answer, If IConfereneee and Presbyteries will not put their hupds upon your head, then I would have you ordained in anether way. Iwoald bake you down into the haunts of sof. feting and crime within ten mluutee, wally of our best clurobee, andthere have you tell the story of Christ, un- til wren redeemed from their caps, and womon, elevated from a life of pollu- tion, and children, whose bare, bleed- ing feet are on the road to death, should be; by . your 'instrumentality, Saved. Then T would have these eon- por•tune°. It is a real roll of ancient verted suffering ones put their hands parchment, and recordscategorically of ordination onour head, setting the instruments and deeds, by which y yon apart for the hely ministry 14 be olland's nobility and gentry gave In the name of the Father, and of the Sun, and of the Holy Ghost. Ah I that world be an ordination as good as the laying on of hands by conferences and Synods—an ordination that would be ed ns oossEusing to the good people of She culled in the clay when, its own era. It must have been upset_ The flaming gilled litre a parched snrull; ting in those days to discover that the The flheavens together roll," lords and gentlemen thought to be stanchest for the old order had gone over to the invading king. Yet there is something to be said for the lords and gentlemen—they toyed not Scot- land's independence less, but their "The greatest bunco game ever heade and their estates rather more. perpetrated upon the public" is Lite Venison, which nowadays seemsal- somming up of the description of Cape ways and strictly the flesh of a deer, Nome in letters just received from is truly any flesh hunted—that is AUGIIsa' 23, 1900 mental Pin. The Manchu edlot male. nigntee [pig a yle sign of loyalty WO 1P HISTORIES, Cadens erl5le e1 a Number or ''very Common' ',Yards. Some words have histories. Other words embody history, as, for example, the word rigmarole, Every'bod'y un- derstands it as signifying a confused And meaningless jumble, but.peeoious few recall the fact that it pumas from ragman's roll. Now the ragman's roll 18 a crown document of no entail int - their adhesions, and swore allegiance Lo Edward '1, of :England toward the close of the thirteenth century, Natur- ally 11 is u somewhat confused docu- ment, but possibly not so much conies - CAPE NOME A HOAX, 'Discouraging lteaort., Rept emelt by These may stemma. Gerd There. air undrilled stated Canadians who [trent there to seek a meat of vemery. Venery is the old meal and women might be trained for they roe to talk to pray usefulness. The need of such :t col- with head down and blushing cheek, is i4tt to -day throughout the as though they were talking by suf- fortune. One of these letters declares name Cor hunting — thus foxes and that thousands an!1 thousands of dol- wolves and budget's furnish "venison" tars' worth of machinery and mining no less than the lordly stag. Cur, the re$& "`-"Whole Christian world. We have fo4t000, instead of remembering that outfits will never be Taken away from synonym for aworthlea3 t og, has tome - many of the leading men of all fano- they have a message from the throne the beach, hut left there to rot. The what the same derivation, In feudal minae tions in our professorate. If of a the eternal Gad, and that, thane. ease is aired of.two NewYork men England the dogs of the vill.!en¢ge, no tn HOWLthere is anything at all in learned HOWL WITH CONTEMPT,who took up a haudred tons of ma- 'doubt mostly starving mongrels, were titles, we have the advantage of it in they must utter it. aur college circular. The printer fail- In this college we want to teach ad to get aur circular done as soon men common sense in religious mote as expected, because, us be said, he tees. While a young men was stand- ran out of "D.'s," and had to go to ing amid rollicking companions, full a neighbouring printing -office to bor- of mirth and repartee, a good Chris - row 11 new supply of that letter, Bat tion man came and asked bin, "What whin i$ human confirmation (lomper- in, the first step of wisdom:?" The ed witb that which camel from God young man turned and said "The first through His Church. Luis Provideuoe, step of wisdom is for everyone to mind and 11is Worth his own business l' A. coarse answer ; Mini.,te.rs cannot do the work of but it was a very abrupt question, the world's evangelization. What considering the plane in which it was are the few thousand ministers in this put. there are religious pedlars who country compared to the seventy mil- go around making a business of dis- lions of the population: We are num- playing their whole stock of wares erically too small. Sin, with its army in the most obtrusive manner. It is of drunkenness, and lust, and crime, has not yet pct out half of its strength, for it can beat us, and not half try. Who is getting the victory im our cities to-day—sobriety or in- temperance? HONESTY OR FRAUD.' Purity or uncleanness? Infidelity m• the Gospel? Light ar Darkness? Heaven or hell? If you are an honest man, yen ranfess that the latter have gained the victory. What is the mat- a :harpoon at a salmon, ter? Are the Gospel weapons insuf- We want private Christians to know ficient1 ie the sword of the Spirit how they may stand their ground, or dull? Are the great howitzers of go forth with the vehemence of the truth at too short range to throw the Bible -dwarf when he accosted the bombshells into the enemy's fortress? giant, saying, "Than eomest to me No: no: The great want, and the only with a sword, autd with a spear, and `want; le more troops! Instead of five with a shield; but I come td thee in ar ten thousand ministers, we want the name of The Lord of two million men and women. sworn hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, that tbey will neither eat nor sleep whom tifOu hast defied. This day until they have slain iniquity. But will the Lord deliver thee into mine haw if you cannot get thein? Sup- hand; and 1 will smite thee, and take pose, after a long war, the President thine head Limn' thee; and .1 will give should make proclamation for one the carcasses of the host of the Phili- hundred thousand men, and they ware oat to be hall But the Church has not aeut a thousandtb .part of its strength, and the troops are encamp - ling by the still waters of Zion, when they ought to be at the front, and would be if you gave them a chance, and made them ready for the heat and terror of the contest. no time, while an aecountant is puzzl- ing his brain with a long lime of fig - arcs, to ask him, "how, his account stands with God; er stop the sports4 man on the playground, while running between the hunks, and ask "whether, in a religious sense, he is running the ruee set before him." We ,want tact and adaptation for his work. Some Christians try to catch a whale with a' fly -rod of bornbea.m, and fling chin d plies and about thirty by law required to be eurptailed—that THE CHINESE TO yI IlIESt LATSSP EXPERIMENT OF THE BRIT - ISM WAR OI'FICG,. They ACU No0v at the Front 1 ehsYe,ll {Frit tinder El ac at Tlan.l. Irt, nut 50146 illllllII,y Alllher111es Are ,texlons, Fighting side by side, with the 501- diers of all Christendom in China, against their own countrymen is a little body of Chluese troops who eon - statute part of the British army. The conduct of those Mongol soldiers of the Queen 1s being watched with much curiosity and some anxiety in army circles in ][England, They represent the latest export ment of the ,British War Department in following. out the policy which has worked so well in Egypt and India, of organizing native regiments, in foreign colonial pussessions, \Whoa it Mumma known that this regiment was at the front in China the War Department name in for much uncom- plimentary criticism, as these Chinese Tomnries aro as yet an absolutely un- known quantity as far as loyalty and (lighting qualities go. They are the rawest kind of raw troops, having been organized hardly more than a year ago at Wei -Hai -Wei, It was on May 24, 1898, that this place was occupier) by tbe British shortly after 1t had been evacuated by the Japanese. In considering the, n000s- sity for organizing a garrison for de- fence and for police duties in the new- ly -acquired territory it was resolved to try what could be done with THE LOOAL CHINAMEN• The British officers who were select- ed for this purpose wore drawn from various branches of the regular army, and received their comuiiesions in the cry ansup t these man had thirteen is, have their tails cut short, so they }actor part of 1898, the commandant claims and the other twenty. They might be readily distinguished from found all their claims jumped and the stag and boar hounds of the lords they are now returning home, leaving and gentlemen. The stag -hounds ran part of their machinery behind them, true upon the scent, the mongrels pf th t to that he would be would confuse and draw them off from of the new regiment being Major II. Bower, of the Indian staff corps, and the seoond in command being Captain C. D. Brum, of the West Riding. Regi- ment, These officers rank as colonel neo em s out more than $125,000 by the time ,it. Sometimes the villiendogs had to and major respectively in the Chinese he reached home. There are dozens suffer for also "hombling," that is, regiment, which la officially known as ompanles reported in the same fix, cutting away the two middle toes Qom the First Chinese Regiment of Infan- In fact, every claim for miles around'earb fore foot so they could not run Nome is reported to be jumped, and with the hounds. dozens of ]urge Eastern companies I A CURCCAIII;' DOG, which h t ok up tons and tons of ma- or turtle -dog, in time beuane simply try. The authorized strength of the re- giment is 1,000 men, of whom al:out three hundred had been enlisted by PICTURE (HANGING,. lral'In5ny Nest Rule, liven ThonThough,IIn1. roomy ea Niscawleth Today no one bangs pictures In pairs. The time when regularitly of arrangement was ooalsidered the lime of eleganes hue vanished and in place has ooms a wild:struggle aftis er the unexpected by those whose one idea of artlstio effect is to have no- shing mutob anything else. ;I'ho weird result theirtheirefforts produce is due to their failure to appreciate' the feet that harmony, at least, must rule, even although uniformity has been discard- chinery and supplies to, work out the a cur. Ria 0574005, the villiens, who the end of 1899. The headquarters of I lived in clustered hovels outside the the regiment were established in'the claims purchased by them in the East last winter are simply stranded there. castle walls. in like manner gave rise village of Mato, situated on the north - Their claims have been jumped and 'to the word village. ern shore of the mainland, about a Another wonderfully expressive mile or so prom the walled city. of Wei -Hal -Wei. they can do nothsng. The Judge sent by the Government Phrase also eomes from the hunting to settle these disputes, refused, on field, where it is to this day in common arriving, to take office, doubtless be- 'use. It is "to run riot." Fox hounds lieving that be could only acoept at run riot when they leave the drag of the risk of his life. Nothing can, ;the fox and go racing and chasing off therefore, be done to remedy the ex -'upon the scent of hares and rabbits, isting state of affairs, for at least !whose company the fox seeks when he another year, finds himself pursued. Indeed, in fox_ Several attempts have been made hunting parlance, hare.soent is known by different persons to remove jump- !83 "riot," The familiar phrase, "on ers from their claims, but they were the pad," as signifying going hither invariably met by a shower of bullets. land yon, also throws back to Reynard The man who can shoot the quickest the Fox. His feat are known toehnie- Titers must be a scheme to which the general tone of the piotui'ea should conform, A dark carbon must not hang close to an 'etching drawn in delicate lines and bordered by a broad white mat. if water colors, with their soft tints, elbow oil paintings, with thein bolder tones, the former will be faded and the latter coarsened, Let it be gro,sped, in the first plane; that certain thleegs may go together, while others must be barred from the association. Etchings, photographs, drawings, some engravings, water colors, pustule, may be eascciated on friendly terms, liven then, however, there must be judgmeut exercised in the way they are plaoed..Contrary to the natural' inclination, dark, heavi- ly shaded pictures should always hang in the strongest light, but should, id some cases, seek a sheltered position, 'away fi'em. the glare of the windows. Near the. light may hang the pictures in fainter tints, the subdued water colors, the fine engravings, whose best points need illumination. This order may sometimes be reversed when the corner farthest from the window shows a decided need or brightening by light pictures but always thie gra- duration of tints should be borne in mind. Just as in a wed. planned room the darkest Dolor is found in' the oar - pet and melts from )bat through the shades in the curtains and furniture to the lightest nuance in the wall, so the lower pictures should be more somber in hue than the upper, and should lead the eye unconsciously from the deepest tone to the highest light- - Some difficulty was naturally ex- perienced at first in obtaining recruits but as soon as the terms of the ser- vice beoame uoderstood the number of applicants increased, as many as a dozen men presenting themselves on some days, thus affording a good se- lection. They ware all natives of the Province of Shantung, in North China, who are generally far superior in physique to those of the more south- ern parts, and appeared to have in now gets •possession, and a recently ilii as pads when he gets up and them the " makings " of good soldiers. received letter describes an incident begins to move about sportsmen say he They proved to be docile and treatable, that occurred in the centre of the is "on the pad," field to the name of a he and gave very little or no trouble as so-called town the day before it was 1 It seems far cry from thio hunting regardstheir disciline. written. Aman who had just landed The inulol diffiulty of language conch, but it is from the hunting field p went to take possession of his town was surmounted by the employment lot, on which he had huilt•a house last the tally -ho gets its title. ileitis hors, of an interpreter, who translated fall, but he found another man peace - for tally -hu, Norman French for "out of the thicket," was, the pro- the orders of the officers to the men. fully occupying it. They began to ar- per cep when the fax broke cover. The The officers applied themselves to the gue the question of ownership, and study of colloquial Chinese, and soon both drew their pistols. The writer huusmen and the master of foo bounds answered the cry with Long mastered the necessary terms suffi ciantly to get along without the in- terpreter on ordinary occasions. THE :UNIFORM • consists of a round straw hat simi- lar to the ones worn by English tack- les, a loose white ehirt, with regu- lation belt, baggy breeches of khaki reaching to below the knees, short leggings, and white spats. After a couple of months in the awkward squad the 'Cbinose recruits seemed to enter into the spirit of English military life wttb mna4 en- thusiasm. Once having been made to thoroughly understand a particular movement or order, they quickly learned to execute it with skill and precision. The regiment was recruited to its full strength by the beginning of this year, and the reports show that it had reached a high degree of perfection in discipline and drill. The advisability of sending them to the front in the present trouble, how- ever, is seriously questioned. By many army authorities it is regarded as a grave «mistake. It is argued that a year's discipline and drill wilt not give them heart to fight against their own yellow brothers. in behalf of the hated " foreign devils " and the mis- chief they could do by turning trait- ors is incalculable. These are the rea- sons why the record of the First Chi- nese Regiment of infantry in the pre- sent fighting is being watched with eager curiosity and some anxiety. There has been but meagre mention of•them in the reports up to date: The first references to them were en- couraging. The deespatches telling of the fighting around Tian-Tstn 0n ?Tilly 4 and 5 said that the Chinese regiment had showy, ileelf steady un- der fire. A later report, however,eaid there had been a number of dew'. alinesthis day unto the fowls of the of the letter ud,1i One is being air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; ied to -day, and the other will not live bloats of the horn. Then when public that all the earth may kuow that, coaches began to run, their horns blew there is a God in Israel.' Let me get over sght.` the tally -ho blasts; further as luxury Persons who do 'manage to secure Pinar coanhes often took to my sting out 1 Three times 1 swing it their claims generally find that all progressed ar and my head, and down thou goest, au the meet, and the throwing off, fine orb gleam! the gold bas beworked Out. One ' people who did not intend to follow the We want that institution to qualify company with twenty-three claims hounds, but to see them spectacularly, found on arrival that every one of people to work :amid the wretchedtiettveen use and luxury, y, the coach and triune of the great cities; Is any them had been worked out last fall. •with seats on top crystallized as the Let us quit this grana farce of try- For the past few weeks there bas tallyho. The tall bo it is likely to •Christian man eo deluded as to thinktally -ho to save the world by a few clergy- that we can overcome these evils Uy been an average of one murder and remain, unless all the world should go men, and let all hands lay hold of the six suicides a day at Cape Nome. Ev-''automobite mad our present way of doing Ch'ngs0 work. Give us 'n all our churches Where there is one church built there two or three hundred aroused and are ten grug-shops established. Where qualified men and women to help. In one sermon on purity is preached there mast ehuraltea to -day, five or ten men are five houses of shame 'built. . The arc compelled to do all the work, A Church has not touched the great vast majority of churches are at their wit's end hots to carry on a prayer meeting if the minister is not there, when there ought to be enough pent- up energy and retigious fire to make decide whether our children shall grow a meeting go on with such power that up amid the accursed surroundings of the minister would never be missed. vice and theme, ur Dame to an inherit_ The Church stands working the anoe of righteousness. Long, loud, pumps of a few• ministerial cisterns hitter teal be the curse that seorches until the buckets are dry and choked, our grave if, holding within the while there are thousands of folia- Chmett to -day enough men and w'o- tains from which might be dipped 00 men to save the city, we net the the coward or the drone. I wish that I. WATERS OF ETERNAL LiFE. could put enough aurar glycerine un- Religion will make headway in hat der the conventionalities g,n,l majestic factories when you can fend there, stupidities of the day to blow Lhern baptized by the spirit, a Christian to atoms and that then, with fifty batter. We want men. in all the rue them -vend men and women from all eupettons, in the name of God, to the churches knowing nothing but throttle the sins of their own trade. Christ and a desire to bring all the LtelLgi..n will never (manner the plum- world to him, we might move upon the ber'st-hop, or the mason's wall, or the enemy's works. For a little while, carpenter's scaffolding, or the tin- heaven would not have trumpet, ear's roof, ar the printer's type -room, enough to celebrate the victoryI until converted plumbers and masons, We want also to qualify men for and carpenters, and printers carry it street -preaching. There are hundreds there. :dame mon are ao profound in of thousands of men who will never their education they do not seem come to ehureh. The only kind of pul- qurlified. for this mission. You can- pit that will reach them is a dry not send the Great I astern up the goods box or a drayman's cart al the Penobscot 1liver. Profoundly ado-. street corner. We want hundreds of oared men seem to "draw too much men every Sabbath to be preaching water" to gat up much a stream. I the Gospel in our great city purire. have heard finely educated men in There are, in this Nous© to-rlay, two pp,rayer-mesLLng talk in sentences of There a mon that ought to 1,eprsaah- Miltonic aftlua4ce, yet their words (s11 deed upon the meeting; but when evils save WITH 15318 LITTLE FINGER. Before you and !have the sod press- ing our eyelids, we will, under God, erybody carries a revolver. hot Lombards, money-clbangers of enough gold has been discovered so\ienine, sat on benches round about far this season to pay expenses, ex - the plaza of St. Mark's Banco is Italian eepting upon claims, on Anvil and for bench. When one or the money_ Dexter creek% so that the outlook for changers defaulted, the others fell to people who have not the means of and broke his bench in little pieces. getting away from the place is most Afterward he 'was known as "Uaneo rupto"—that !s, the man of the broken distressing. bench. Hence comes our word bank - To the other horrors of the place rapt. pestilence has now been added. For some time there bat been an average of three deaths aday from pneumonia typhoid fever and smallpox, Seventeen eases of smallpox were diecovercd on the, day that the last advices left Name and it is Impossible to say how many cases remained undiscovered. There is no way of taking care of the sick, so disease is spreading with rapidity. Three steamers have been quarantin- ed, while. fifty-two are anchored off the :;hare. DO PLANTS REASON? In oder to find the true answer to this question, a daughter of a prom- inent 'Mexican planter tried the fol- lowing exec:r'imeat. This young Jady drove a nail in the ,salt some distance from the tendril of a morning glory plant, The tendril began at once to. grow toward the nail. The nail was shifter) and the tendril shifter) its course. Finally, a cord was hung up to tempt the tendril, and it shifted its course toward the eord, and left the nail whirth it hail five Limes per- sister) in following. C11rNESli1 IIAIIR STI.11s•S. i'rrtil ,1827 the Chinese wnro their hn'3r long and coiled on top of the head, 'reit. was fastened with, an oraa- ing. 'Under the control of this col-- wh TIIE CLIMATE OF CHINA. The summers in North China are dry and hot. Then comes a short period of torrential rains and then a hong, dry fell and winiter. Prost will oame abaat the mieldle of Octob- er, and Lhe last of November the river will freeze up to stay closed un- til the middle of February, !:hough often till a month later. There is almost no snow during the entire Will- ter'—two or three little flurries, but never enough to Dover the ground. The crate is comparatively steady, without the incessant freeze and thaw? that we have in this country. THEY LIYl BY EXTORTION. In every Chinese city there is a ra,untiess erawd of students who have taken their degrees and are waiting for appointments under the govennment, same of which never come, hoping against, hope fur a hire living, they attach themselves ,0 the nearest Yuman anal fatten Anti breed on the extortion of palm oil. These Yemen runners, like the petty tehniovniks of Russia, are the curse of thm poor when they get them In- tel their net,. { ENGLAND. , d WHAT JOHN STILL AND HIS PEOPLE ARE DOING, Record of Qeoul'renos in the Land, That Reigns Supreme In the Commercial World. Captain Lambton speaking at the dinner al the Newspaper Press Fund, said the colonials in South Africa were if anything, a better lot than our, selves. F,ner'fighting men never ex. isted. A. tonsorial ur•tist in the north of London hes the following intimation. dangling from the end of his, pole:— "Powell, hairdresser, Easy shaving) ld, Support the namesake of the hero of Mafeking." A .Birmingham district couple, who veers married three month's ago when the husband was earning 95, a week, have discovered that it is impossible "to live on ).eve"u•-,even with 5 1-21, per dlam thrown 1 i, A Sanatorium for gorses, an in- stitution where worn and enfeebled members of the equine breed can rest and recuperate, has been established by the Midland Association for the Promotion of Kindness to Animals. Wm, Elwood, of London, was born deaf and dgmb, he achieved drunken- ness, and an the attentions of the police being thrust upon bim"he pleads that he is mad. He is a labourer, and has "slept out" for twelve months. Captain Norton, M.P., is a tight -set sprightly man, below the medium height, almost bald, with a tiger -like moustache. Be 'stands on his heels when speaking, and wears bis frock coat buttoned tight, military fash- ion. 13e is an ex -captain in the Royal Irish Lancers. A buteber's assistant bought some bottled beer from a Poole grocer, and after drinking a portion of one bot- tle was taken ill, An examination disclosed three mice in the bottle, one in a state of putrefaction. At the county court tbe grocer was ordered to pay tlio consumer £7 10s. damages. A. case of detail from the sting of a tree occurred at Tintern a Pew days ago. A Mr. Greenway went with his niece for a drive to Tintern. Mr. Greenway was an apiarist, and while doing something to a hive of bees for a friend, one of the bees stung Mies Greenway on the face, and she died in ten minutes. Au English school board has pre- pared a circular on the evils of cigar- ette smoking, which is to be distri- • buted among the parents of the. school children, It points out that smoking by boys impairs the eyesight, upsets and stunts growth. Local doe_ tore are to be asked to go to the schools and address the boys on the evils of smoking. In one of the trees on the public green at Richmond, Surrey, a oat has taken up her abode, and has given birth to several kittens. Her resting plica is some distance from the ground. The kittens appear to be quite at home in their elevated num- THE TERlI ffiOB." arse 51 See,uN to [lave lir, (sed as Far clack n% ('!rae nee,'. As .indicating the populace, pro- vorbi.tlly fickle and easy to be moved, mobile, from Latin mobilis, the ex- gteee5icm "the mobil people" is as old as the time of Chaucer; but, in its later sense, tli'it of a disorderly cleated, and in its contruated form, "mob," it is not older thin the post- Rer,tor'attion period. In Roger North's x -[men, 1740, valuable for the many originalanecdotes of English his- t:ivy th.it it contains, reference is made, Page 574, to a ce rain clutt the Green Ribbon Club, 1630-83, and the wiriter adds: "I May note that the nobble first changed their title and ware c-tlle,1 the mob, In the tessera - bike of this club—first mobile vul- gus, then contracted in one syllable." It was used hesitatingly at first by Dryden loon Sebastian, 1890, Dully, cry, and disport themselves gaily in Cnmmoinweslt,b of Women, 1880, and the branches to the delight of many tit edwell, Squia'e of Alsttiu, 1688, and R' 1 d n points out than Dryden uses both "mobile„ and. "mob" in the Interested onlookers. m'rar Ila , In Newcastle the Sooial Clubs Cont- pany, whose object is to provide the SKI e of rabble; the former in the coal capital with wi,oleeome,intent- stage direction as the common word, gent counter aLtrat tions to the pub - lie houses, :bias not yet reached the dividend -paying stage. The movement is meeting with encouragement, how. ever, and "social salvation by bit - Lions, and strongly intimated that the regiment was going to pieces. AGM AND WANES, Nelson was 50 when he won the vic- tory of the Nile. Wellington wn only 40 when he opened' the Peninsula. the latter as if it had not long been introduced. In 1711 the Spectator in- stances "mob" as an example of the papular tendency to curtail many 'lards" promises ere long to be a pay- lugs our wolyds in familiar writ- ing as well as a philanthropic schema, lag's and conversation. The verb, It may not be generally known that "to mob," derived, of course, as above+ in London at ]oast one ]tort) of asses . does 'not o1etur until the period of is kept for the supply of milk to in Hot'aee Walpole many years later, solids and children. Such a herd has and Shakespeare's expression, "the existed for years, and its product is of mobled Queen," Monter, refers not to the highest value in special oases -of the "nib," mobilo, but to the head- dress in disorder. LOVED T,BB MOUNTAIN VIEW. Mt'. Cecil Rhodes is no lover of cities, preferring the rolling veldt, Lhia moun- tains of South Africa, to the most magnificent mansion in Park -lane. A curious little story is told of his love for Groote Sebum his estate at Ronde, bosch, near Capetown, which 1s prat. tiredly on the slopes of Table Moun- Lain. When he returned from 1100 - kola to Cepebown in 181/7, be found Ma house in ruins, the place having been gutted by Lite, Ile was obliged to live elsewhere during the day, but every night be returned to sleep in what was left of his old bed room. Be did not do this fur the sake of asap - dation, no' for greater privacy, but because, as he told one of his friends, "I must have my mountain view," '21I1'! QUl71EN IS A DUKE. Queen wictorla holds the title of Duke of Lancaster, Most people im- agine that her title of Duke of Lan- caster merges in her superior title of queen, but I hat ,is not so, as she would remain Duke of Lanaeater oven if she ceased to be 'queen. The dually of islet euderwas created in the reign at Edward 111. and slime 1+01 the rove num of the dually have been held Sep• n rattily n nrl foam no part of the here- (Mary revenues in view of which the War. Cromwell was 40 when he won civil list was granted. weakness and disease. Owing, how- ever, to Lhe numerous preparations of cows' milk on the market, there has been a decline In the demand of late. General Booth, writing to a cor- respondent, says that through he de- plores the war and prays for peace, he and the Salvation Army must re- main neutral in regard to the merles of the dispute. "The friendliness of Governments and peoples, which has so greatly helped us," he says, "has been largely won on the distinct un- derstanding that we did not involve ourselves or take sides on questions of national or party politics, Ilosv can 11 possibly depart from this principle of action? Te do so would involve a breach of faith .with multitudes of my own people and many of my offi- cers, and would probably lead to,divi- sions which, :thank God, have on such subjects been so far praclloally un- known among us." PHYSICIANS PAVE]) T111'1 WAY. The Chinese native doctor simply does not deserve his name. His wank Ls mainly quackery, ant4 elf sturgery he knows practically nothing. Bence the missionary doctors, skilled men from London and New York laterite gl. schools, have had a splc;ndi,1 field. They have .obtained aeons to every al;rtes, Li Humg Chang bn:lt them t «1511nd hospital in ono oily'. for Om wrlinik one of Ili an did in curving his wife. Tax many (titles, anis 1,111;11 all ranks, the, Christian hrspila le lt,vo opened Liu.- door to the Christian faitdl, eg• tee ';X