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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-1-3, Page 6" IT IS THE LAST "TIME." The Rey, Dr. 1 Preaches a ae n� TimelySermon. ,tl des atole Seem Washington sayer triage'neee goltjet al ahlere oqr epalrrarn p buslnmes for; yeur'self, the year in whish your father died—all of than' are of less importance than Mile laat year of your life. Dueling the past year how many have gone into the next wor'kl? About five million five hundred thousand 'Rev. De, Talmage preached from the following{ teat;—"It is the last dine." —I. Joon 11. 18. Jolla is hero enforcing certain truths by the eensideration that tbo people tel wham ho ivritea have come to the closing dispensation of the 'world, and says, "It is the last time:' souls. IC was their lust year. Sono I umb bath' f In the hest Service of of them may have expected it, but the Sabbath' of the last month of the the great majority of them, if fore - year. hour more ringingsll the attertold that this would be their elesing clack and the year, with all its joys, year, would have laughed outright and griefs, and achievements, will be done, slid la not my arm strong a La not It is the last time, and sol shall streak to you of last things. My hearers are coming nearer their last hub -less day. You move in routine. You rise rat seven o'clock, breakfast, start for' the store, enter your counting -room, read your letters, and give consequent :orders. Yet a day .is:not far distant which may seem to be like. all the others, but shall be entirely different, it will have two twilights—that of the morning and that of the evening. There will be a meridian. You will go to business— yotU will come back. Yet it will be, in the calendar of eternity, as marked -a day as though It had no twilight; as though every hour the sky rang a fire -bell; as though faces looked out Lena the clouds; as thuugh the wind had values; as though every huur an angel shot past your store door. It will be year last business day. Un- known and unexpected by yourself, you will terminate ail your business engagements. You rvi1l shut your cash -drawers, will close your portfolio, with slam shut the money safe, will take your hat and go out. Nothing that ever happens in the store can take you back again. Good-bye to the store! Good-bye to all your business friends! It es the last time, 11. I remark that men are coming nearer to their last sinful amusement. A dissipated life soon stops. The machinery of life is so delicate that it will not ,.ndure much trifling. As the herdsman throws a peck of corn under the swine's snout to be craunehed and devoured, so dissipation is throwing the bodies and souls of men, by the scores, into the, maw of death. They think they can stand night carousal; are as well satisfied to retire at one o'clock in thin moring as at ten at night; feel us safe hi drinking wine as writer; walk without compunction with the unci •an. But they will soon be through. The time comes, when, with flushed countenances they will turn back from the gaming -table, or cam: reeling from the midnight de- bauch, and, .wrapping themselves about itlib sin as a garment, will stag- ger on,and, striking their foot against the corner of their own tomb- stone, will fall flat tato hell. Hi. Again I remark that men are coming nearer to their last Sabbath. The week seems to me like a !Bed Sea, tossing, tossing; the Sabbath like a path cut through it, where we may walk dry shod. God lifting his hand again above the waters, all our oares and annoyances are whelmed In the flood. Where did you pass your boyhood Sabbaths? With some of you it was the Scotch kirk, or the English chapel, or the city church, Somehow ever since then you loved Sunday to come, Its sunrise seems more golden; its noon- day more bright; its evening more suggestive; and although you feel,' before Goal, that many of your Sun- days have been wasted, you still say, "Sweet, Sabbath l" Messenger from' God 1 Pillow on which to put the ach- ing head! Day fragrant of all sweet memories I How I lova then I" TIIE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. O, "deans animated et Mother')," elrrtl. 811 144 0oiden Text. Maya 1t., s, PRACTICAL NO'L'IIS, Vers. 0, When: Jesus et as In Bethany. During the first visit be had mado shoe Itis most) wonderful mi.ructlo. The Tile holies of Simonthe leper, . mail eoneerning Xvbom We know nothing Simon was a comment namo among the Jews. John telle us that the Incident We aro nowabout, to study occurred In a house whore "Martha, served" and "Lazarus was one al them that sat at the table: with him." 'Tho houee may have borate the name of,aformer owner, and the leper may long have boon dead, or, as is more pleasing to conjecture, Simon may have been a relative of Lazarus and my eye clear? Is not my lung sound? Ws sisters, and possibly bad been oared Who can skip, or climb, or lift, or run Jesus, it would almost seem that Ib better than I? The doctor of the this "supper, made in our Lord's 'Life Insurance Company,' pronounce- honor, was in curmm naoratiorr of the ed me sowed. All my friends oongratu- raising of Lazarus from the dead. late me oat my healthy appearano0. Be- 7. There came unto him a woman. gone with your evilproplleny 1 Isbell see my threescore and ten!" Yet those five million five hundred thcu- sand have gone, No mare motion in their heart than if it had never puls- ated. No more brightness In their eye. then it it h:td nlways,been blind. The earth sails on—a great hearse containing thousands, millions, bil- lions, trillious, qu:rdrilliens of the ,lead. I beat the seconds with my hied! At every stroke a spirit flies. There goes one ano.hrr, and another. It was the last time!" V. Again 1 remark that we are coming nearer the last moment of our life. But it will he a dark moment le we are unit. L Le if for it, lichen we get in the list two minutes of our lives, there will be no time left for any- thing. You might as well try to tender love lead revealed to her More tifel future than mast of the dtao:lploa cQaljeotnrsd, and she may have so un- dersl,0ad larleetly malice and popular projudlee as to have feared !that our Gard's murder would be followed by 'meal nebile ignominy thug the usual fuluereal homers might be noglee't- ed. At our Lords burlal even ire the opintau of the di,eeiples such/ an ex- pecidiltrre as this would not have been loo lavish, 13, Wheresoever this Gosnei shall be preached do the whole world. That to, everywhere, that all men may learn the lesson of her Leah and love. Fes' u memorial, All people long ito be remembered, but etre membered for et more delightful cause there this, that elm had a heart and an opportunity to do the tenderest of all 0ffeaLfonate duties for Ler Lord. Everyexpression of genuine love has its •'intrinsic value. 14. Than one 4,8 the 5131 lvv, culled kopjee or . amid boulders, down and Judas Iscariot. The 014111ftY ofhis up the steep ba.n]rs tend „rough beds conduct is emphnslzed by filet of all of mountain torrents'. The sun had stating hie high privilege; leo was one set when I saw emerging from pal- of the twelve chosen friends and die- Liable banks of dust, a body of rough eiples, "Then" means immediately mounted men. They were mostly rid - INCIDENTS 011 WrAB, SOME INTERESTING STORIES TRLA 18Y BENNIi't BURLEIGIU. 11'531, 9erv'espatulent writes it Gossipy 5,11, (ek -- Goer Who emulsive a Cato et 1erlp•-ltatlling Witte (Tette chic', Mr, Bennett Berfeigb, the Daily Telograph'e special correspondent, mentions an beeklaut whloh conned on his journey to the Portuguese frontier to see the last of the Boor army in that district over the border, "It wee' late in the afternoon of Friday, September 21, when, having my old four-in-hand Cape cart load- ed, I, with three oompanions rode 'elf alongside the vehicle, acting as. an 060011, towards Avoca. The distance was but eighteen miles or so, by road, but the road, 00 called, was an atro- cieuely rough traok, winding round the base, anon over the shoulders of Mary the 'rater of Lazarus, It is attar the supper at SIwon s house, ing with their gouts off and their shirt U11181 to he supposed that Matthew probably, therefore, immediately alter sing rolled up. Their rifles were ] the close of the Sabbath. Judas had and Mark did not cow the Hume of carried .n their hands or slung over this woman, 'which, however, John Hourly five days for reflection beforecarried backs Boer' fashion, while their only. given. Some. have supposed that the accomplishment of hie treason.. saddles were or bedecked store and aft the early spirit of persecution made it Went unto the chief priests, who for from pommel to crupper, or ,rather necessary for Matthew and Mark to weeks euld been seeking a man who their steeds were hung from necks conceal as much• as possible tnois sen- 'could be bought; Judas now 'aught to rumps with miscellaneous gear, tenting the family et Bethany. probe for one who would buy him personal and acquired—anything from 10. What will ye give me. Every man slily when Juhn wrote, Lazarus, saddlebags, and frying pans, Martha, and Mary : were all dead. An alabaster box of very preci- ous ointment. A cruse or flask which derived its name from Alabastron, a town in Egypt, whence the hard and has his special wealrnese; Judas to forage, fowls, and stoking pigs. Not weakness ens love of money. Thirty for an instant did 1 mistake them for pieces offluor, The exact sum fixed Boere. My comrades might have by the Mosaic taw, as compensation for been alarmed, but I knew them al - the life of, a slave. Agsordid mind is most ere I saw them by the jolly Oat - brilliant stalactite known as alabs-eager for even little gains, and fora ter and chatter. They worn the dar- ter was brought. The tentents of the . vile price will barter faith and ing, irrepressible Imperial Horse,wah cruse were evidently liquid perfume,1l"ail ty' Colonel Wolf Sampson at their head. au attar, or fragrant ail. As agreat ! 18. From that time he sought oppor- tunity to betray him. Opportunity in So, without halt, we interchanged luxury such cruses were sometimes so the absence et the multitudes. greetings, and I shoved along, dodge made that their wbe ntents could be ing around rocks and trees as the re - veered forth only when they were strike a match and. get a light on a-- ship's deck in the midst of a hurri= I broken. Dr. Adam Clarke, however, MINING 111 ONTARIO. sane t i translates a clause of Mark 14,3, "she 4,a o prrpaio for a --� they secured several waggons and the wink of d�'ath are to ancient Asia to seal such prisoners termly when - Remit 4,r the ri'arn Lest Ten' and for the .n full 111 t, brake the seal:' fir. r0a<oras that it was 1'3,x4 ASK 1;anlh. of 1800. turning regiment rode back to Bar- berton. They had been hunting' the slim Boeree at French -Bobs, where house insure] when the flames are bursting out of all the. windows, and it is a pear time to attempt to Pre- pare for death when the realities of 1 the breaking o4, it would be net to rncorparated with a capital o£ $87, tacked and doughtily withstood Smut's eternity are taking hold of us. j hurt both Lhe head of our Lord and the 8S=,994. Extra provincial. oompanies , Boereas' the Imperial Light Horse, Fortunately for those. who stay be and that it would be', with a capital of $9,551,000 were li- who had planned to trap the enemy, hind, the remorse of these who hands of Mary, ceased. The locations sold in 1809 almost impossible to separate the oil' might have bagged the covey. But leave the world unprepared is not {totalled 375,307. from the shattered fragments of the, the Boer lead enough of it, and, as usually observed. In the exhausted The figures show that the total cruse. We presently read that the usual, retreated in good time. All, physical condition nothing is esp=oi- raineral product for 1899 was 38;789, - ally evident. But 1 suppose the woman poured the perfume on his 101, as against $5,350,319 in 1892. This the lads. of the Imperial Light Horse soul flies around terribly and tries !head, as he sat at meat. This Dr. etas mads up as Follows:—Building are ideal colonial rough-riders. Like produced proves that the original manuscript belongs to the second cen tory. An interesting feature is the very close connection apparently ex- isting between it, and the Logia of Christ, the recovery of which three years ago caused a sensation. It is suggested that both are practically pages of the same manusoript, name- ly, " The Version of the Gospel ../.4.e - winding to the Egyptians." tuv nary in ane n bottles with wax; argues against the. Some valuable information! .s con-, BOERS GOT AWAY t11lIGBLY. likelihood of so preoious an article as tamed in the report of the Bureau „ Had nota determined young riffl- e oaa•ven alabeatron being willfullyl(38 Mines, which has just been issued. oar of another command, attacked to broken by Mary, and suggests that companies to the number of 74 were General Ian Hamilton's column, at- vvemon. Never Were there more c0m- plete evidence% ofdisaeter and wreck, confaelon and ftlght, Train -loads of rice. flour, coffee, augur, and a bane fired etber^ comneid11108 had bean dnlm1ed thong 'the line, and the tione tante Set fere to by the Boers. Lien- bera and waggons were burned with huge 12tack,,8 of flour and sugar. 'At one place 'there was a Java bed of taffy that ran from .the burning auger into a lake of stuff. I dipped the end of ms 'dolt: into it, ad T've dome 'upon the elopes of Vesuvius, But here the stuff did net consume the caged, and I Spun a bar of it, witch, when cooled, made passably good s'tiek-jaw taffy. I Shall never hereafter believe that the Boers lacked for supplies. As a moderate computation; between ISoomatl Pout and Remain) Garola 1Jhere mime have been oevon ocean steamer loads , of soodstuffs which they tried to de - stray. •Every scrap of information I aftea••wardre got led me to the eon- viotion they expected no lack of sup- plies. I bad heard as, meals before at Watervalondor and elsewhere. Tee Boers would send down the cash by train to Lorenzo Marquez, and, hey, Presto l almost' without question or delay, would follow train load after train load into .the Transvaal of food- stuffs and fighting material. Only te, wards' the very end wlre•n Consul - General Captain Crowe put on the pressure, was the contraband traffic. relaxed. Nay, to -day thli speculators: and harpies of Lorenzo Marquez have their warshouse8'heaped with goods they now hope to sell at largo pro- fits 10 us in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony. Surely we owe a bet- ter meas1tre of return to tbo loyal British colonists of Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town." , 1 MISSING GOSPEL. 13kruiau Iigyptoloulnie 1:a:arudpng a Yalu.. able 1'n Hyrax nt Atraxbttr{:. An interesting papyrus is now be- ing examined at the Strasburg Lib- rary. It was purchased in a fragmen- tary condition from Cairo merchants early in 1899, and has already proved of the first importance. Aocording to Gorman Egyptologists and theologic- al savants the fragments are pages of a missing Gospel which was reject- ed as unoanonioal in the third cen- tury but was widely accepted in the second. The papyrus dates from the fifth century, but the character of the Greek words which' are textually re - to boll back, and flutters its wings 1 Clarke believes she could not have other colonials; who are some day soon stone, rubble etc., $1,041,350; cement, like a captured eagle, and writhes, done had she broken the bottle. John natural rock, 33117,039; cement, Port- going to leaven and enlarge our army and turns, and tries to batter itself tells{ us that she petered it on his feet Land, $444,217; limo, 3535,000; drain tile,: types, there is an unauthorized este l::ose from its pursuers. If you come al;o. , 3200,246; mammon brick, 31,313,7:0; 0h.sm and proved tests the colonial to u precipice, and look a thousand 8. When his disciples saw it, they pressed brick and terra cotta, 3105,-1 trooper must pass in, let him be New feet down, you get diszy and want to had indignation. In John 12. 4 the 000; paving brick, 342,550; sewer pipe,! Zealander, Canadine, Australian, hol:l fast. How then must theun- murmuring is attributed to Judas. 3138,350; pottery 3101,000; petroleum, i South African, or even a Lumsden's prepared soul feel when it comes to But the other disciples, without the products, 31,747,352; natural gas, 3440,-, House. ' Weil, me' main, what can you 011ie life the brink of fe and looks down base and sordid motives of the traitor,! 904; carbide of calcium, 374,010; salt, . carry oe your saddle besides you and —further th:,n a stone coul1 drop In were nevertheless easily swayed in 3317,412; gypsum, 316,512; graphite, I your equipment?' • ' Oh, a sack of a thousand years, and irresistible their moral judgment. Ice was wick-, 310,179; tale, 3510; mica, $38,000; arsenic fiour, half a dozen chickens, ducks, farces are pushing it to the verge, and ed; they were weak. It is startling 34,842; iron ore, $30,591; pig, iron, W5,1 geese, or turkeys, a sucking • pig or it knows that there is nothing to to note that the word for waste in the ,157; nickel, 3520.104, copper, 3176,237; I two, a small bag of mealies, and, at a clutch, nothing to brace itself Greek is the very word which in John gold, 13423,3e; sil'vetr, $165,575; t rine,' pinch, Half a sack of sugar, sir,' against! The soul says, "The last 17. 12, whore Judas is characterized by' $24,000. , !' Pooh, if you cannot get a piano on minute has came. No time to pray, our Lord, is translated perdition. 1The aggregate increaser in the value! as well, you cannot class yourself as or to rehearse the past or to cry 9. This ointment might have been of products in 1899 over 1802 is 33,439.-++a looter.' for mercy. Everything done, and ir- sold for much, and given to the poor. i 552, and in 1859 over 1898 itis 31,554,0.24, i "The latest and most extraordinary revocably done, Hero I stand on Mark and John tell us for! Returns have been received from i bit of news I possess is a true story the dividing line between two worlds. how much—three hundred denarii eight: of the gold mines for the first! of what befell a raw newcomer, a Shall 1 jump? Whirh way shall I as much as a laboring man would 'six months of this year. They show' subaltern, who want out early in the jump' Shall I fly? Which way shall earn in a whole year. John tells us' that 22,177 tons of oro were treated.! morning after his arrival by coal truck I fly?plainly that the proposition to give; The yield was 9,983.37 ounces, worth to enjoy a bath, taking with him So there are those whose entire life it to the poor was hypocritical, tor' 3156,209.84 gold, and 3141.554 silver.1 soap and towsy towels. He was eauglit is made tep of poverty and misfortune. Judas was a thief. The measure of 1 Tho silver mines show a product of by a Boeree, either a wild one or a When success comas it cornea too late a man's beneficence is not to what ob-I 12,E tons ore, with a yield of 85,000 fellow in tan thousand. All the enemy and they cannot enjoyl it. But ,j. et he gives, beet from, what motive. ounces, valued at 351,000. The arsenic did to the s,ubaitern was to hold a glary to God! the pith of tears has Orely a loving heart can properly es- product was 203,000 pounds, worth 38,- pantomimic conversation and com- a terminus. The storm will not timate another heart's expression of 980, The Guipure of zing was only 150 mandeer the cake of soap, which was lova tons, estimated at $500. Seven iron a sample of -a much advertized kind. IV. Again, we 00111e near the last year of our life. The world is at least j six thousand years old. Six thousand'; years may yet coma, and the proses -I skim may seem interminable, but our own closing earthly year is not far off. Fifteen hundred and forty-six was et memorable year, because in it 1 Luther died. Eighteen hundred and 1 fifty-two was a marked year, because In it Lord Wellington died. Eighteen( hundred and fifty-six was a marked year, because in it Hugh Miller• died.' Eighteen hundred and fifteen was a memorable year, for in it Waterloo, was fought. Eighteen hundred and fif- ty-nine was a memorable year, be- muse in it Solferino was fought. 13ut' there will be a mora memorable year i to us, and that will be the year in which we fight our battle with our last enemy. The spring grass may be! cleft of the spade to let us down to our ranting-'pl**e ; or while the sum- mer grain is falling to the trickle, we C' may be harvested for another world; or, while the autumnal leaves are fly - lug in the. November gale, we may fade and fall ; or the driving sleet may out the faces of the black tasseled horses that pull us out in our last ride. But it will bo the year In which 01.11 body and soul part; the year in which for us, tithe sods and eternity begins. All other• years are as trothe ing. The year to wUioh you:ware born, the year in whieb you were blow on for ever. Chili of God, you are not far off from the last disap- pointment and the fast groan. The Lamb, which is in the mi ,st of the throne, shall lead you to living fountains of water, and God shall Wipe away all tears from your eyes. To or hers my subject brings arousal. Just as the Book 4110801; to- night at twelve o'clock, it will be un- til the arch Ingot wrenches it open. The recording angel is this moment Writing the, 1 (st sentence of the tre- mendous volume. It is the last time. Holy Spirit, fly away! Angels, cease to hover! Sword of truth, be sheathed! Gate of heaven, clang shut! Done I Done! It is the last last time!" THE FOREIGN SI1CRI4TARY.S WORK Few people have any conception of the work of the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The number of de- apat0hes arriving runs into four fig- ures every Week. 'Fifty years ago they were 17,000 a year ; when Lord Gran- ville succeeded Lord Palmerston tbey were double that number ; in 1870 they had more than doublegann, and whoa Lord Salisbury first held the dual porOitioa of Prime Minister and Foreign Seeretary despatches were re- ceived at the Foreign Of lee at the' rata or nearly 100,000 a year. Lord L'a1- mors'tons used to say that his work as Foreign Minister occupied him ex - 1 elusively eight hours o. slay, ENCOURAGING, Bighead—You arc tooset in your opinions to be a good ernsolter. tltickbrad.--I don't see "how you can say that, I hold m.yeelf open to con v1+ Ij 1n even when I know I am right, mines in the eastern 'parts of the Nothing else, not even the towel, did 10. Why trouble ye the woman? province report a yield of 9,608 tons, the enemy exact from his captive, Mark says they were bitterly re- worth at the selling price at the Then he Televised the subaltern, and preaching her. Her sensitive soul mines $19,532. slinging the Mauler aver his shoui- shrank from the imputation of un- During Lhe six months there was der, strutted away richer by a cake worthy native and silly performance. smelted at the two smelters 50,538 of soap. I have not learned whether "Ii: troubled Jesus that his friend. tons of ore. The quantity of nickel- he.ate it, or washed and died. should be troubled." She hath copper are raised was 87,E08 tons,and wrav,ght a good work upon me. "-4 SNAPPED BY CROCODILES. noble:, generous work, not measured the quantity of roasted ore smelted by its utility, but by Lha feeling it ex- was 100,073 tons, which yielded a matte pressed." Bengel remarks that most product of 12,3::8 tons. Tho estimated good deeds are either greater or less metallic contents of the matte is 1.925 tons nickel, valued at 3413,771, and than the daze thanks; "Hero was no Mel tons cro'peeer, vaiuet& .at 3105,008. waste at all—no waste as regards the The total valva of 1a,•tnl l: roduats for poor, for there were abundant oppor- the six months lune 31,358,287, or two- tun.tiea to help them; no waste es thirds as muoh as far the whole of regards the disciples, for they could last year. help the poor at any tiny; no waste Mr, Arch. Blue' 'thinks that dia- ae regards the, woman, for this decd moulds are to be found in the rocks would be told for a memorial of her; around Thunder Bay and the vicinity, no waste as regards the Lord, for he was pleased to regard it as a burial --® gift." CREMATION IN PARIS. 11. Ye have the poor always with Cremation is becoming increasingly you. Our Lord A:.ssurnes the honesty popular in Paris, and the cremator - of the critics; like Judas he uses a tum; erected at the cemetery of Pere word which specifies the unemploy- Laohaise has already been found to ed poor who depend no, charity; he be too small. Additions aro being does not teucb that we newt always have "his forlorn class in widely, but simply a+.setts a painfully obvi- ous fact, ,tile ye .havrz not always, That ie, net to a condition which grate gate cam relieve. Dr. O,nnrler thus pa!rupbrases Ihe thnught; "Ordiltary beasvol.rioee is to be the hebi., of. oar lives, but noble deeds fend rare 01- 1.0 : 0'4 4." 12. I.n thee she hall petered this ointment on my body, :•,hr dirk it for My burial. Whether our turd meant that Chia was Mary's purpose, is not plain, • It is not unlikely that ` her made, and a third furnace, a large hall, and a columberium will soon be ready for use. The latter somewhat resembles the Campo Santo of Genoa, and will contain 10,000 recepLarles for ashes, These etches are closed with slabs of marble, on which ineeriptions may be rut. NO HARM IN 'CTAT. I supreme there is hes of. gossip at Your bo,1,1135 house What du you mostly talk matte l the dindire.Well,1, wapariurli,v t.elk k a ab t ou h ing--room table, "Having housed my cart and ser- vants in a vacant yard, tubbed, and changed 'my attire, with two compan- ions I started for the Portuguese lines. We walked across the bridge, tntending to tramp along the railway to Rossano Grerai•a, four kilometres distance. Again had the Beers strewn the river, with munitions of war, can- non, and personal effects even. Isaw our Tommies diligently at work, As yet they were ail moanted infantry- men, fishing out cans of condensed milk, cocoa, sardines, sausages and all kinds of canned goods. Heedless of crocodiles or hippos, they Celled, work- ing up to their waists in the water, and filling sacks with the trophies el their angling skill. Next and the fol- lowing days, I was told, the sport was continued, until, whether angling for tins or bathing, two Tdnuutes were snapped by crocodiles, and fishing and swimming, except at proscribed spots, were sternly forbidden. Upon either aide of the line were st,rown endless 00108, tons upon tons, of stores, am- munition, •smltl' arms and cannon, rifles and bandoliers.'1110 Boor tents, shelters and camps stood as they had left them, bedding, mirrors, furniture, rocking chairs, pots and pans, and what not, strewn 0verYWI1Ore. It was a series of laagers, that must: have held five thousand teen, and probably As to the result of five years' work, another fine papyrus roll in the Bri- tish Museum has just been published. It was written between 70 and 80 A. D. and Is a collection of folk legends current in 'Egypt at that time. The hero of the stories is Siosiris, son of lihamuas, Priest of Memphis, Many of the paesages suggest that it is an adaption of the story of Christ as told by his disciples, and if so, it is cer- tainly the earliest record known, be- ing less than twenty years after the entrodtation of Christianity into Egypt by St. Mark in 07 A.D. SLasirfe was a miraculous child. His mother's name was revealed to his father in a dream in which these weeds were spoken to him: "His name shall be Siosiris, for he shall do many marvels in Egypt." He is described as being great, big and strong, He {vent to school, rivalled the scribe who taught and began to talkto the scriber,/ in the House of Life. All the land wondered at him saying: " Be- hold the boy who reached 12 years of age a,nd there was no scribe !n Mem- phis who could equal him in reading, writing and magic," Siosiris takes Isis father to Hades, where Lhe cycles of the Land of Death are described. Here also, are many stories of Jewish -Chris- tian origin, for example, the story of the rich man and Lazarus. The doc- trine of futurs punishment, nor: found Ln Egyptian rituals, is here clearly staled. Later is an account of a con- test between Siesirfs arced the magi- cians of Ethiopia, which is strange- ly reminiscent of the story of Moses. One'magioian says: "Cast my spell upon 1&gypt and cause the people to pass three days and nights without seeing light." Even the story of 810105 and the bullrushos is given. One magician rebukos the other as fol- lows: " Art thou not Hor, the son of Negress, whom I saved in the reeds of Ra? -UNBIND. I have drarided to he a hospital nurse, said Amy. 1 caw• it stated that 75 par cent, of unmarried men fall in love. and propose. marriage. to ler woman 1.hat mir.ee them through s veri' illness, 1 e'er. 11,it 31alrin:1'111, toe, added M. lie i, hot my reeiollection is that it 4,..r l pr .ley nurees, BUND ONLY IN DAY Till AFTER DARK YOUNG SORAEFEIt CAN SEE PER3'ECTLY. r -. swings ease What 1u Puttied 1he UOn113*8 1• MFy 1,5910117:01,amt Ilr'erY8� 1YhIlo rho &un 15110318, 514,5 18 *1ve17 tut NIg1d. 'rate graltteat puzzle to the mullets of the present days is furnished by a young boy in Berlin, Germany, named Scheeler, whose remarkable case has recently been bl'o'uught to the sbte4- 1.1011 of local soienttsla, When Schaefer; was' but a baby Itis parents noticed that there waft Kenn - thing peculiar !about his. 0yetr, The light of day seemed to have a ammo - lent effect, eawsing the infant to close them or to turn hie head to a darker portion of the room.. Jia wee drowsy during the light hours, and when they endeavored to amuse him he took no notice oe the toys and other tillage set before him, The {anxiousfather and mother began to fear that the child was blind, and then they obeery- ed a peculiarity that set them won- dering, At night, when left in the dark, the child ao'uld ewe quite well. ItEr. and Mrs. Schaefer had been rather struck by the fact that the baby was particularly lively at night, but as it seams to be a failing on t..he part of infants generally to do just ,thee apposite to what they ought in this respect, they had paid but fettle attention to that. Now, how- ever, that it was shown to be accom- panied by a startling acuatonees of vestal/ at the period of 24 hours when people usually have more recourse to their sense of touch than to that of vision, thie truth of the ease dawned upon them. In fact, the usual order of things is traversed in little 56118eferl inthe daylight ho is practically blind, while ill the darkness the sharpness of his sight is astounding. When ho goes out during the day he almost always. has a companion with him to (guide him; his eyelids are half„ lowered and he Imes nothing. On, tb,e few occasions when he ventures out alone he carries a stick and feels his way about aft the blind man does. He has, however, little inclination to go out; he Ls tired and sleepy, and often slips away to the bedroom fol a nap. When darkness falls young Schae- fer is full of energy, and sight comes to him with an acuteness that many an ordinary ,parson would give much to possess in the daytime. He can enter a room that is pitch dark and pick up any small object from the table 0r floor evith as much ease ay 1]is parents would if the rooms were flooded with light. The boy's education is not being neglected, but, as may be imagined, it is attended with more than ordi- nary difficulty. His parents are, for- tunately, able to defray the cost of having a visiting master, and the lessons take place to a dark room. The master learns the printed matter on the page which the boy has to read, and then aite with his eyes slrwt—for he can see nothing—while the juvenile phenomenon reads the book. The letters and pictures are distinctly visible to ]rim. With writing, arithmetic and other branch- es of edvco Lion, the method of pro- cedure is similar. Alt kinds of glasses have been tried without avail, but the experts are hopeful of effecting a cure. It has lately becen noticed that the boy is less blind in artificial light than In the light of the sew, and this leads to the belief that the strange con- dition will gradually right itself. The leading oculists aro doing their ut- most to cultivate this tendency to change to the normal, and if they. succeed. it will be one of the greatest scientific achievements on record. Iters, Peppers—Oh, John 1 you must raise sidewliisker•s. Mr. Peppers What? Yoa've often told me you "hated such things. Mrs. Peppers— I want you to raise Moe long ones like 11r. Markley's. He called to- day, and baby enjoyed pulling his whiskers so much. ttI was too cute for anything. WHERE VIOLIN'S ARE MAIN.. In the village of Mrttcnwold, in the heart et the Bavarian highlands, live the men who manufacture the greater part of the world's' supply of violins, M.ttenevald has taken the plata of Cremona, although it may take anoth- er two hundred years before its violins oda be mentioned in rho same breath with these of the famous Ite.li•wn town. 08 the 1,800 inhabitants of the village over 800 are exclusively ocoupled with the manufacture oe violins, and the output reaches the incredible figure of 50,000 violins per annum. They aro exported to all eatintries in the world, the bettor instruments,going to Eng- land and Ameriea. Ono organisation of makers alone exports 15,000. COULD DICTATE 8bllt,IS. First smell boy—`"ay, nothing is to good for Billy, now 1 Second Small Boy—How eo? First Small Boy—Why,' he sn0riked into the parlor with hie camera the other night and got a flash light pic- ture of his stator, sitting In ilir.Jant- aioa' lap l 0" ✓, �� 4 .01r, 0. a '1 •r r ..s a