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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-11-1, Page 3turns from a consideration of , may receive you into everlasting hab- the vice of dishonesty 10 the con-' itations. "They" are the friends that sideration' of another class of faults. have been made by the right use of the 3. What shall T dog far my lord mammon. " Everlasting habitations " takebh away from me the steward- becomes in the Revised Version "pter- in the evening hour they looked as if going of many thousands. Keeping ship. The original is, "is taking away," 1 nal tabernacles," "unwithering the sunset had burst and droppedatop with the feet of those who Darty., and what follows shows that he had booth's" We must remember that l b i us. out will the tramp g Jerusalem every the leaven. In .more sequester -nal? of not yet been fully "disi;3iar ed." This soar turned its lite ed spots, where the frosts had been hundreds doing the same errand. bad mac bad evidently made no pro- into a festival of booths, a Feast of �. 2 neared in their work, we saw 'the London and Pekin aro notithe vieian for this overthrow, which he Tabernaoles, when on every house - A MOTHER'S BIAS. God has manned this world ver while we are not to love it, we are ancestor of the present Duke of Bed- It was in the Grand Palais des oribable mingling of gold, and orange, y well.' themselves fast approaching their day There will be other seamen on deck of judgment and doom, though they to make friends by means of it. When ford about the time Columbus was! Baaux Arts, says the writer, that I and into drabra ands croon, now sober- : witnessed a bit of something more ing into and maroon, now Elam-' when you end I are down in the cab `little dreamed it. Our Lord now ye fall, When the wealth fails. They discovering America. It was just a, g modest little token of regard for the 1 beautiful than statues, as any warm, rent of the whole property was only 830 a year at that Lime, about the same as the cheapest stand in the cheapest corner of the flower mar- ket to -day. The Duke of Bedford, by mind= or by lack, clung to his seven &ores, and to this day a large pert of them help to make the present Duke of Bedford 0118 of the richest men in England. The flower market made a small be- ginning nearly seventy years ago as a few humble booths crowded up against' St. Paul's Churohs the queer little plane or worship tucked away in one cornea• of the market, and whose only claim to Interest is in the fast that the author of "Hudibras" and the composer of " Rule, Britan- nia" lie in its burial plot. The ramb- ling booths begun there throve so fast that at last the thrifty Duke built a sort of shed for them. It was sup- erseded finally by the present build- ing, which has been enlarged two or three times and now boasts a separate branch .fox French flowers, Visited in the early morning, at first sight, the floor of this great hall deems to be heaped up 10 feet high with one mass of flowers, apparent- ly every bloom on earth. The flowers prove to be ranged upon dozens of little separate stalls, presided over ty. tired -looking men and women, each of the stalls bearing its owner's name on a neat sign above it, Every well- known flower is here, flowers haugh- ty and flowers humble. and the lit- tle knot of buyers swarming before each of the stalls is as diverse in point of caste. The flower market opens for busi- ness at 4 o'clock in the morning, and when you have to bring a new stook of goods to the shop fresh every day, it seems an extraordinary amount uE tail, eve, before that shop is opened to the 0ustamers. The 200 dealers who carry on business in the flower mar- ket begin work anywhere from mid- night to 1 or 2 o'clock in Lhe morn- ing, and long before dawn tbe pro- cession of hooded drays, trucks, and huckster carts bringing the flowers from the various railway stations seems like a circus making Its steel thy entry into a little country, town, Most of the flowers come from ,just outside London, and their gardener venders hale tltemn into the city over deserted roads that a few hours et- her will be crowded with omnibuses' la- den with gaping humanity. The rest of the blooms buve grown in almost every part of England and Scotland as welt as on the continent, and come in by iho earliest trains and boars every morning: ' Their wares run from the modest. mignonette to the pushful orchid be- loved of Joseph Chamberlain, and they affirm that there is no business where prides fluctuate more, and which le less curtain from day to day. Most of the roses and violets come A 9 Rev. Dr. Tahoe e on Our Transition to the Life Elysian. elf despatch from wrashingtoe says: gradually. Aa the leaf I Aa the leaf I I?av, Dr, Taltnago took as his text Again; Like the leaf we fade, to 1Vo all do Endo as a leaf,"—lsaiab Make room for others. Next year's for- lxty, 6, ests will be as grandly foliaged as It is co hard for us to understand this. There are other generations of F'eligtous teeth. that God constantly oak leaves to take the place reiterates. As the schoolmaster takes of those which this autumn perish. R black -hoard and puts is upon it figures Next May the cradle of the wind will lend diagrams, eo that the scholar may rock the young buds: The woods will Pot only get his lesson through be all a -hum with the chorus of leafy the ear, hut oleo through the eye, so voioss. If the tree in front of your Gods takes all thfe truths of his Bible, house, like Elijah, Lakes a chariot of and drawn them out in diagram, on fire, its mantle will fall upon EIisha, the natural world. Champollion, the So, when we go, others take our the famous Frenchman, went down spheres. Wo do not grudge the fu- inLo :Egypt to study the hieroglyphics taro generations their places. We en unonuments and temples. After will have had our good time. Let muole labour he deciphered them, and. them come on and have their good ennouneed to the learned world the time. There is no sighing among result of lois investigations. The these leaves at my feet because .other Modem, goodness, and power of God leaves are to follow them. Alter a are written in hieroglyphics all over lifetime of preaching, doctoring, the each and all over tithe heaven., God ' selling, sewing, or digging, let us grant that wo may have understand- 'cheerfully give way for those who Ing enough to decipher them Icome on to do the preaching, doctors Those know but little of the meaning mg, selling, sewing, and digging. of the natural world who have God grant that their life may be house dispenser, for "it is required in looked at it through the brighter than ours has been? stewards that a man be found faith - eyes of others, and from As we get outer do not let us be aE- Lap," I Cor. 4. 2. book or peeves taken their impres- fronted if youag men and women 2. Bowis it that I hear this of thee. cion. The face if Nature hassixtha crowd us a little. Wo will have had "What le this that I hear of you " 'ihe fulsh,"and sparkle, and life, that no our day, and we must; let them have steward's master is not only indignant, human description can gather them. their. he Is astonished, for ho had thoroughly There is to -day more glory in one Do not bedisturbed as you see good trusted this man. Give an a000unt of branch of sumach than a painter and great men die. People worry thy stewardship. Literally, "Give S. S. LESSON, INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOV. 4 ahe Tho repel giwward, mote 10, 1.ls, 0eldee Text.--" 0o ' Gannet Servo VW sad Mammon, ,bake lli, l0. 1?1%AOTICAL NOTES. verso I. up Bald also unto •hie dia. triples, And, apparently, in the Praa- enee of L ltarieees. To get the fail spiritual mcauing we must assume the binding obligation of the Ten Com-, lnandments. Here in not a lesson in Morale, atriotly speaking, but a lesson spiritual a°umn and sanctified own - mon seneo. The lefty moral teaoh- ings of other portions of tlee Bible are not ignored, but assumed. Tlie par- able was directed agal.not the Phari- sees and scribes, wino as a class were "Obi/Oren of tilts world;" but LL has a deeper, meaning, and applies to all oe us, A, steward. "A house dispenser," a, supervisor and payinaster, who probably carried his master's signet ring. Bhp offioe was familiar to the disciples, who had before this been compared by their Lord to faithful °'mliloy falsehood when falsehood -h8. The would lie convenient does not defeat and wise stewards, Luke 12, 42 same was accused unto him that he faisehood promptly 1£ Itis plaualble, had wasted his goods, Or, "that he The very feet. that be is a child of the was wasting them ;" the worst accuse- other world makes it impossible for tions that could be made against a ham to be as unscrupulous as this world expects: Our Loret is here mak- ing. a comparison which has both a commendatory and .8 condemnatory bearing. He would have Christians "harmless as doves but also "wise as serpents," 9. I say unto you. Here comes an emphatic eommaud. Make to your- selves friends of the mammon of un - could put on a whole forest of maples, when some important personage back," that is. "Hand me back my righteousness. Or, as we have it in God Lath struck into the autumnal Passes off the stage, and say, "His. signet ring," Thou mayest, Rsv.'Vero the eleventh verse, "the unrighteous leaf a glance that none see' -but those place will never be taken." But, "thou menet" be no longer steward. It mammon." Tho word "mammon," is who come face to face—the mountain neither the Church nor the State will was not a. ,question whetber he had Chaldaic, and means "riches." To ] I seemed none the worse, and dealar- looking upon the men and the mac : suffer for It. There will be others, wronged' his eueployer; it was a mere make friends of it is, literally, by actors by the score knew the old place of customers. They say he has one of 1 ed h:mseif stilt hungry," looking upon the mountain. � to take the places. When God takes' question how much he had squandered, moans of it." The " mammo.n' or and its neighbourhood well. At the the best trades outside the flower "Joe Chamberlain' in this case was Ona autumn about Ib -is time /saw one man away, he has another right{ and 30 his (further employment as "wealth of unrighteousness " refers to earner of Bow street, now known to market building. All attempts to a negro, who posed as a champion that which I shall never forget. I back of him. There will be other, steward was not to be thought of. worldly wealth; but we are not to fame only for its, police court, Wi1Ps "work" him have proved futile, and egg -swallower. The announcement have seen the autumnal sketches of leaves as green,,as exquisitely vein- Hero is a text which might .wall be' jump to tbe conclusion that it is Coffee House, stood, a gathering place ba has thrashed several bggei men caused a sensation, and was cup'ed, with additions, into newspapers :ail over the country, Many people in re- mote districts aoivally believed that tbe famous politician was referred to, The following appeared in a big country paper: "The Prince of Wates s satin -like head and ereamv-yellow and mauve complexion, were, ou the whole, the most noticeable features, The Prin- cess was a bright orange colour, with violet spots, and was much admired; but the artis4io droop of the Prince, and the bright -green garment of leaves which encircled him, drew more attention." It took a good deal of searching in thI context to show that this was an account of a flower show, and that some new dahlias hearing the above names were being described. "Compensation is being claimed," ran another paragraph recently, "on account of the misdeeds of Lord Rose- bery, On Saturday night, the park gates being open, Lord Rosebary rush- ed out, and, tearing down the street in a paroxysm of excitement, seized one of Mn. Barker's hens by the mak, and killed it. Ile then bolted the greater part of the fowl, feathers and all, and continued bis headlong flight, stopping at the oross-roads to kill a cat. Finally, he bit a little boy rath- er severely, and was taken home by the kennelman," The above concerns a well-known greyhound named after the great Liberal leader. nLord Wolseley's hair is coming cat badly, and his nose is very hot. Drugs have been administered wi,h:.uLmu:h result, and drastic treatment s:•eme necessary. He was much admired at the display on Saturday, but it was noticed that his eyes watered a good deal.' Thee Cost not :ear to the Command, er-in-Chief, but to a prize Persian tom -cat who was cut of sorts, [Paul Kruger ran riot when he found himself free, and tore round and round in a circle, filially upset.. ting a judge, and ending with a rough-and-tumble fight with Dir, Gamp. They were separated with difficulty, both being rather badly mauled, and Kruger, escaping.aga;n, ran completely round the field, pat- ting up all the game and killing e young rabbit." This is not one of Oona Paul's vag- aries, but refers to a pointer dog e.t a field -trial. word here le hat bath, but oor, which is a dry mestere nearly ton theme as large ab that liquid Measure, 8. Tho lord commended' the unjust steward. .From this phrase, by which our .Lord glues his opinion of the transaction, ' we got the title of OM lesson, Be sure that no pupil lazily assumes that tine refers to the hs Lord Jesus. 1t is the rioh man, the employer. Not sorupulotia him- se11, he lies been outwitted, but he 1s, large enough, to admire the sharp- neae of his swindling steward. Be- cause he had done wisely. Saga- °lously. The children of this world are in their .generation lwiaer than the children of light, Not that winked mon are shrewder than good men, but in reference to their own kind, their own age, their own circumstances they ae'e wiser, They are children of this world mere- ly, and adapted to this world; not fettered in the use of their intellect by all manner of moral, that is often " nonintellectual," restrictions, The child of light fa not apt to listen to cruel or immoral suggestions, does not LONDON'S FLOWER NSR', A SICI1TCI# 01' CONVENT GARDEN AN» ITS SURROIINDINtiS. llnlen„^od tt'nevnenly loan Order erlleak —line hien one 11e■art or llleteele Per smea,gee—le New Thronged by /Meier' end Flower (IIr1M. Just at nine in the morning, every day except Sunday a remark,: ble change takes place in Covent Gordon Market. You eouldn't exactly .all It a transformation scene but you could call it a transformation smell. Up to 9 its odors are those of milady's draw- ing room on a fete day—only more so. The air is laden so heavily with the perfume of flowers that the atmos- phere fa fairly oppressive. And tlianat 9 the rosea, and the Ilyaciuths and all tbe other posies cease to melte their presence felt, and all e°sts of vege- tables, ripe and decayed that have been in the background of odors rush for- ward with their more robust frag- rance, and Covent Garden's romance fades. It is all because of the eccentric hours kept by the Covent Garden Flower Market, the greatest in the world, It shuts up shop for the day at 9 in the morning, just as leisure- ly tradesmen on the near -by Strand are opening their doors. By that lime praotiaally every flower dealer in London, from the fashionable firms on Regent street and Piccadilly to the picturesque unkempt flower girl at the curb, has stocked up for the day, and thousands of dollars' worth of blooms have changed hands, "Dummy Kelly," a poor creature, The place originally was known as who can neither speak nor hear. He "Convent Garden," for it belonged to doesn't know that he is "poor," Kow- a society of monks, but even in the, ever; he is abundantly cheerful and, oldest recarded times vegetables seem In spite of his defects, manages some - to have been sold there. Historic char- . how to do business with a big eirele not unoommoo for from 1200 to 2000 baskets of them to arlrive of a morn- ing, ,A etoa•my night on the °hunnel. often manna a dead lose to the flower people. A11 the narolaeue Liowere mune from the Scilly Islande, whose inhale. 'tants have made a epeolalty of grow- ing them. For the rental of their stalls the tradesmen inside the hall pay from eixpenoe I:o two shillings a morning; outside the coater -florist, with) his humble donkey, note up Iia stand, et a rental of 120 a day. From his more Prosperous neighbours within, he buys their second -day flowers, and it is from him that the London flower -girl lays in her stook in trade, to be sort- ed into nosegays, impaled on a sharp,. aned stick, and sold from her basket on the street 0orner. These flower Girls are keen as knife blades and soulless as cormorants when ha'penoe and Farthings are in question. Most of them are poor and their "barsket trade" Is na great thing, but there are aristocrats among them. Thzee or four of them have Pre- empted the edge of the fountain in Pio- cadilly Circus, and they and the oth- er little coteries that " work" the cot- nee' of St. Paul's churchyard and the entranee to the Stock Exchange in the city do business on a larger scale, buying every morning over 0010 worth of flowers and selling them again to the " toffs," who are quite willing to pay a sixpence for a fetohing bud. Naturally, the collection of coders lists, Watehsd the performance with that encamp about the doors of the grout interest. The iirst fifteen be - Floral hall is not without its odd ing disposed of, Chamberlain took a members. The oddest of them all is minute's rest, and then fell upon the remaining eggs, which were tried in butter. He devoured Lbem at a ter- rific rate, and eventuel:,y won the purse of 1126 fur consuming forty cooked eggs in twenty minutes. He THE TI1IROIi tial: etre, greetllet lieveleilens nanotzaln11 ,'(retnlnaA4( Personon '"Lord Salisbury's oendltlon im- pr0vod a ]fade yesterdeg'. He was ordered to take a bran -mash and saws inured oarrots, and Ibis morning was able to eat a 111110 chopped hay, Hie temper has not beers improved by his illness, and he recently kiokod a boy so severely that the yuailt had to be removed to the Hospital.'' The above paragraph, whicll appeal'.' ed recently in an evening paper,' did not refer to the Conser'vativs Prem. ter, but to one of Lord Saliebury's four -footed namesakes, "'Bobs' is a skinny, undersized on. dilate at the best, and bee very few roily good potato. It is tl'ue ho contrives to win favour wherever to goes, and other and bettor compete - tors have to give way to Lim; but it is whispered that,this Is more due to internal wire -pulling than hon- est merit. We ,sopa be will 813020 be shelved.'' This is not one of Dr. Leyds' cam- peign announcements, but a ii iti- cism of a famous prize ram which swept the board ata cattle show, and captured the principal medals. ('Joe Chamberlain sat down to table at 2.19, and swallowed the first fif- teen eggs with wonderful rapidity. The poLman timed him carefully, and the audience, who were mostly pugi- skilful pencils, but then I saw a page- ed, as gracefully etched, as well -point-.; applied to the final judgment of every wrong to ba wealthy. Our Lord is here for several generations of famous wits who tried it. His hottest rival is ant two thousand miles long. Lal art- ed. However prominent the place we human( soul. It also applies to the distinguishing between the wealth of and sharing with the old Cheshire playfully known as the "Ginger Man," ists stand back when God stretches fill, our death will not jar the world.; close of any period of trust and probe- the other world, treasure laid up in Cheese the distinguished p from his plentiful supply of carroty hie canvas. A grander spectacle was One falling leaf does non shake the; tion. Every unfaithful steward, ec-' heaven, and the wealth of 'this world, never kindled before mortal eyes.' Adirondacks. A ship is not well`olesiastioal, national, and individual, "the characteristic and represents= Along by the rivers, and up and down manned unless there be an extra sup -,1 is in God's providential hoar deprived the objeot and delight and desire of the sides of the great hills, and by the ply of hands—some woofing on dook;' of his privilege. The Pharisees were the selfish and unrighteous." The love banks of the lakes, there was an lodes- some sound asleep in their hammocks.! themselves fast approaohing their day of this is the root of all evil; but atronage, hair. They say he "wasn't quite bak- ed through on top," but he has been doing business there for ten years steadily. when they were in funds, of Gold- smith, Boswell,. Garriok and Dr. John- aon. The whole district, seven acres in all, was given by the Crown, to the ing up into solferino and scarlet. Here in, sound asleep in the haanmooks. and therm the trees looked as if justja Again a As with the leaves, we Enda their tips had blossomed into fire. Ind fmid myriads of others. We the morning light the forests seemed die in oonoert. The olook that strikes as if they had been transfigured, and : the hour of our going will sound the first kindling of the flames of colour great cities of the world,' The in a lowly sprig; then they rushed grave is the great oily. It hath up from branch to branch, until the mightier population, longer streets, glory of the Lord submerged the for_ i brighter lights, thicker s subjsses. est. Here you find a tree just mak- Nero Is there and all hthere, isubjects. ing up its mind to change, and there Nero is ere, and all his victims. Ie one looked as if bathed in liquid fire. ,has swallowed up Thebes, and Tyre Along the banks of Lake Huron there and Babylon, and will swallow all our were hills over which there seemed cities. Yat, City of Silence. No pouring cataracts of Lire, tossed up, voice. No hoof. No wheel. No dash. No smiting of hammer. No and down, and every wbither by the rooks. Through some of the ravines clack ,of flying loom No jar. No ,we saw occasionally a foaming stream whisper. Great airy of Silencel as though it were rushing to putout Age' with cachets of appear- thedo the conflagration. if at one end of 0°C0 no leaves depart, ao re we. You the woods a commanding tree would have noticed that soma trees, at the set up its crimson banner, the whole Plast touch of the Frost, loan all their forest prepared to follow. If God'e' beauty; and they stand withered and urn of oolours were not infinite, one uncomely as and ragged, waiting for the swamp that I saw along the Maumee north east storm to drive them into might have expected, and must have top, and in every open space ,and all dreaded. The fruits of hie wrong over the surrounding hillsides, tem - dealings had not been stared for his porary little houses were made of own use, but he had spent his mas- leafy branches, Those withered ter's money day by day as be stole shortly, and their tenants went, it. I cannot dig; to beg I am asham- back to distant homes, and the whole ed. Of skilled labor there Was not festival showed itself to have been much in that nation and age, and it but a transitory joy. But the habita- was not to be expiated that this man tions of the New Jerusalem are ever - would have skill in manufacture or but a transitory joy. But the habits. commerce. For mere labor his luxuri- lasting homes of festivity. nus life had unfitted him. From beg- 10. He that is faithful in that gary he revolted. which is least is faithful also in much, 4. I am resolved what to do. 'I eto. Poor people as well as rich peo- know what I will do." When I am ple may use money wisely or foolish - put out of the stewardship. His dis- ly ,selfishly or nobly, and oharaoter charge was a £oreaeen certainty, only to tasted by the use of a ten -cent postponed untie itis accounts should be Piece as really as by the use of a rendered to his master. They may million dollars. receive me into their houses, '"01433,"Ii. If therefore ye have not been MCS us the debtors of his master. He faithful iu the unrighteous mammon, well now so aob as to make bis, lord's t'ho wilt commit to your true;. the debtors debtors to hanselE. true riches? If the spiritual 11.5e- 5. He called every one orf his lord's 1egs' the grace of God, have not sane - debtors unto him. Tenants, appar- titled the dollars that have passed antis, who, eccardiug to Eastern through your hands, how can you fashion paid their read. not in money, expect the true wealth' of peace, par - but in a proportion of the fruits of den, and wisdom the unsearehable theis plantation's, How much owest riches 01 Christ? thou unto my torde Although a� 12'. If ye have not been faithful in counts are not kept en the Orient that which is another mal't's who with anything approaching the striate shall give you that which is your mass of our business methods, and al- own? Everything we have in this 1orld is another's, It is primarily though the stemmed had evidently bean an unusually careless man, we God's and the needs of our fellow_ need net assume that he had no no- men make very much of it really count of the debts himself. Itis pure theirs. If we are lust and loving pose new is to work on Lha emotion and Christifke in the distribution of of these debtors sous to make thorn what has been intrusted to um inthia grateful to item, and ho must not world God will give us wealth of our miss the effect of having them fig- own hi heaven—not otherwise. aro up their own debts. 13, No servant can salve two mas- e. A- hundred measures of oil. One tars. That is, two rival and antagon- haudred baths, bat how much a bath tette toasters. If they were in unity was is not certainly. known. Dr,; they would be but one. Edorsheim says that there 'were three !duds of measurements used in Pales- A •it014IA.N ALa/IBDUOT. tine; the ancient Hebrew, which was A short time ago, during• some dig - the surae as. the Boman measurement; ging operations in Chester, Eng - the Jerusalem; and the Galilean. if land, an interesting relic of 'the Rom - the ancient Hebrew monsuro W88 ta,k- an 000upatiou of Great Britain was en the debt was a very largo one in-/ unearthed. This was a section of deed, Take thy bill, and sit down load piping, supposed to have been laid quickly, and write fifty, That Ls, about the year 79 A.D., and wee "Take your document, 'Your lease,' utilized for the purpose of carrying as we would say; the, contract which water to the Roman Damp. About specifics the rent, and qula,kly, so 88 tevelve months ago a similar piece to prevent discovery, change the of piping was unearthed near this estimated yearly value of your plicae- same spot, but its origins was disput- Lation." hero was oulmiug, for of rd. ''Che new discovery, however, these men consented to be partners sets all such controvexsies at rest, in the trattd their mouths svauld be eine,' upon the piping are plainly tightly closed, inscribed the words "Chore's Julius 7. Another. The original Implies :Agricola." This relic is additionally "of /mother class," and this axpinine .nterest.iog since it le said to be the the different ratio of his discotntmiy inscription extant bearing the b. hund.recl' measures of wheat. The, Ronnie governor's name. green the South of Trane°, and it is by would have exhausted it for ever, 11 the mire. The sum shining at noon - seamed as if the sen, of divine glory day gilds them with no beauty. Rag - had dashed its aurf to the tip top of ged leaves! Dead leaves 1 So death the Alleghenies, and then it had come smites many. There is no beauty In dripping dawn to lowest leaf and deep- est cavern. Most persons preaching from this text find only in it a vein of sadness. 1 find, that I have two strings to this Gospel harp --a string of sadness, and astring of joy infinite, " We all do fade as a leaf." First, like the foliage. we fade grad- nally. The leaves which, week before last, felt the frost, have day by day, been changing in tint, and will for Many days yet cling to the bough, waiting for the wind to strike them. Suppose you that this leaf I hold in my hand took on its colour in an hour or in a day or in a week? No. Deep- er and deeper the flush, till all the veins of its life now seemed opened and bleeding away. After a while, loaf after leaf, they fall. Now those on the outer brandies, then those most hid- den, until the lath,( kpark of the gleam- ing foeg0 shall have been quonohed, So gradually we pass away. From day to day we hardly etre the change. But the frosts have touched us. The work of decay is going on, Now a slight sold. Now a season of over - f1115110, Now a fever. Now a stitch in bbo side. Now a neuralgic thrust. Now a rheumatio twinge, Now a fall, Little by little. Pain by pain. Lass steady of' limb. Sight not so (dear.' Lear not so alert. After a while w0 take a staff. Then, after much re- :lst:Mee, we °orae to apeotacie5, Ili - stead of bounding into a vehicle, w0 aro willing to be helped in. At lase the octogenarian falls. Forty seers of decaying. No Budden change, No fierce cannonadingof the batteries of Lite; but a fading' away—Slowly— their departure. one sharp frost of sickness, or one blast of the cold wa- ters, and they are gone. No tinge of hope. No prospect of heaven. Their spring was all abloom with bright prospects; their summer thick foliag- ed with opportunities; but October cisme and their glory went. But thank God that is not the way peo- ple always die. Tell me, on what day of all the year the leaves of the wood- bine are as bright as they are to-dayg So Christian oharaoter is never so attractive as in the dying hour. Such go into the grave, not 8,s a dog, with frown and harsh voice, driven into a brightly, sweetly, grandly) As the leafl .As the leafl • Lastly: As the leaver, fade and fall only to rise, so do we,. All this golden shower, of the woods is making the ground richer, and in the juice, and sap, and life of the tree tho loaves will come up again. Next May the eouth wind will blow the resurrection trum- pet, and they will rise, So we'fall in the dust only to rise again, "The hour is coming when all Nebo are in their graves shall hear His voice anal come forth," It :would be a horrible consideration to think that our bodies were always to lie in the ground, However beautiful the flowers you plant there, we do not want to make our everlasting residence in such e placer 1Ve fall, but we elect We die, but we live again I We moulder away, but we 00 nes 1.o liig•her unfolding! As the leaf 1 As the leaf 1 PiX0d.NHORUS AND) MATCHER .A pound of phosphorus heads 1,- 000,000 maLedios, palpitating living thing is more beautiful than sculptured represen- tations. A man and woman plainly dressed, and evidently from a "far country," stopped before a Oupid, dainty as a lily, graaetul as a sea -gull, one knee bent beneath him, his bowstring dis- tended, while he -looked straight along the pointed arrow. "0 Sam," exclaimed the woman, "don't he look just like Jack when he is firing off arrows from that bow you made him? Although," reflec- tively, "he aint so good-lookin' as Jack," "Might look like Jack," drawled the piosaio father, ".if he had red hair 'n' freckles, 'n a jacket buttoned up wrong, 'n' stubbed -toed shoes. You women are great on liknesses any- way." The woman said nothing, but she lingered near the statue for a mom- ent, and I saw her surreptitiously pat its cheek, doubtless for "Jack's" sake. ALWAYS Or R UMSPECT. Mrs. McStinger—Do you mean to say you've bean married ten years an' never had a quarrel with your hus- band? Fair Stranger—That is true, mad- am. And you always let him have the last word l Yes, madam; I wouldn't for the world do anything to lessen my husband's love for me. He might get careless. Careless? Yes. We are jugglers by profes- sion, and at two performances every day I stand against a board while he throws the knives. INCREASE IN HORSE POWER. The modern demand for high-pow- er machinery is shown by a compari- son of the machinery exhibited at the last four world's expositions at Paris. Iu 1867 there were exhibited and operated fifty-two machines with an aggregate of 854 horse -power; in 1878, 41 machines, aggregating 3533 horse -power; in 1889, 82 machine.:, with 5920 horse -power, and in 1900, 37 machines, with 86,085 horse -power. The average horse -power per machine exhibited in 1807 was 16; in 1878. 61; in 1889, 170, and iu 1900, 073—a nasi startling increase. HOW HE CAIJGitr COLD, Harry, I dreamed of pleating sweet peas last night's Oh, yes; of tonne, you drsamo' you made me dig up the ground no you, and that's the wiry I got til;: awful cold. COMRADES. Affable Aristu,rat-..The fact is, my name is not Gibson. You see, I'm :raveling luoog. There's my card. Mr- Tupptngs—Glad to hear it. len traveling in pickles. Here's mine. THE LOVELY FLOWERS. Lovely flowere are the smiles of God's gooduess.—Wilberforce. Flswers are the sweetest tbin.gsthat tied ever made and forgot to put a aoul into.—H. W. Beeolior. What a desolate place Weald be a world without floweret It would be i faro without a smile, or a 'toast e ;Mout; n welcome. Are not flowere the stars of the earth?—and, are not our stars the flowers of heave,?—Mrs, ualfour, OR.DIRING BY TlIn CARD, Diner, to restaurant waiter; What' you for dinner? Waiter: 'itoastbseffricasseedcltloe kenstewediambhaeh baked and fried rata toescollelrplel ding mil k tea andeOfe fee. . Diner; Give roc the, third, fourth, tittle, sixth, .eighteenth, and ulnen en(h syllables,