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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-2-21, Page 6THE PLACE OF TAiNWG Dr. Talmage Speaks of the Benefits of the Sabbath School. detspetok trete Washingten says; leev.tir Toto preached from the folloWing leset:—"Atteil Joeathan gave hie artillery mato his Sanee nel, xx: 40. Jonathan, with a boys went out to warn I/weld of hie danger. The shooting of Arrows wee to t' the signed. The betormation Levies been given, Jonathan has no more use for the weapons, and so be gives them In charge of the boy to take home again. "And Joea.then delivered his artillery unto his lad." Well, raY friends, we soon will all be through with this earthly cooefliat, and we are going to hand aver our weapons unto the ohildren, They will take our pul- pita, our press, our offices, our shops our legislative halls, and to do bat tie for the eternal God. Who are they who are making Buddhism and Mohammodism bleareola and cower? Our boys! Who are they who are hoisting higher than Lhe standard on whioh is inscribed the British lion and the Russian bear the more glori- ous Insignia of the Lamb that taketh away the sin a the world? •Oer boysl And yet the Sabbath school hes only just begun its work. I propose to mark met what I consider shall be the line of Sabbath school advance: First. It will be throu.gb improv- ed Sabbath school architecture. In all our Sabbath school rooms lot there be plenty f light—ligbt clear and beautiful, 'suoli as God pours out oe the sun every day—a world full of it; not crowding through small win- dows cobwebbed and stained, but plenty of light, such as puts the blue on the gentian and the gold on the oowslip, and spots the pansy, and sends the meets of the valley in whirling columns of glory sky tall, and teat at sunset pulls aside. the bars of heaven until the light of the' celestial world strikes through the cloud -racks and comes dripping over the battlement, in purple and saffron ; and orange and flaming fire! Then, ; let such rooms be well ventilated, not the bottled -up air of other Sune,1 days kept over from week to week, as though, like wine, it eraproved by age; but fresh air, such as comes panting off the sea or moving down the hillsides, sweeping up.the aroma of whole acres of redelover top. Have the room bright and cheereul. In- treduce not the "murder of the in- nocents." Have the place bright pietheed, carpeted. The line of Sab- bath school advance shall he amid pie t ured walls and over carpet ed Hours, and I give the cinte:1nd to- day; Column, forward! Dress on the colours: File right: March! And there is no array that can stand be- fore you. The cowards will fly like thistle -down in a terapest. Until we have in the United States and in Eng- land the right kind of Sunday echoul rooms, we well nel have the right kind of Sunday schools. Again, I remark, the line of Sun- day school advance in this country will be through en hupruved Sunday school literature. I am amazed to so what kind of books get into the Suaday school libraries. Senelmeantel love storiee, biographies of generals who were very brieve, but who swore like troopers, fairy stories, Oliver Optic, aceMinte of boys and girls more wonderiul than ever lived—books .that have no more religion in them than "Bledibras" or "Gulliver's Travels." The poor little da Deng goes home wit it br library book thinking she has heaven under her :true, but by the time she has read through the story of Mee and adven-,' tare, she feels so strange, she thinks be meat be getting lots of religitin i tell you there is no excuse fur getting sickly or bad booksin our school libraries. Time was when there was no juvenile literature worth any- thing. .Tbe best miode of Europe and America are now preparing junvenile literature. Reject. from your Sunday school libraries ali exaggerations, of life and all adventures that do w ell enough for the romance, eut are not fit for the child whose taste is to be formed, and whose habits are to be estublished, and whose immortal ISf+141 is to be saved. Let not the fasciae - Done of style apologise, for the lack of truth. Mistake not trash and elope fot eatnplietty. Do not have our Lemke bightsr than the child's nom - prehension, or tower than its dignity. in the ettome at yozer Sunday schoot booku do not let *the angelic and the diabolic efface the human. Ola, the power in a Sunday esohoot hook I Oh, the omnipotence of 0 Sunday school book 1 A great many pi our Sunday achooi libraries in this emetzirY need a blessed fumigation and the infusion of a stout, healthy. Christian litera- ture. • I remoter ngahe : One line of Sabbath- ethool advance will be through en ira- Moved .hymnology. Choirs attght to be the best people/ in the church, and they sometime:et ; het choirs that • sleet), and lattgli, and write note a dr - Ing the service, ane yawn, and get un, and sit claWa, and go out, and Mangle their feet, end rattle the hynen books, are all intolerable nuisance. 1 have ainnetlintes been afflicted in that &rec. WM, and If a thumb has a precen- tor, Or a choir, who love God and keep his conunandmente, that church ought to be gralefel. Bet, if =twee has 50 emelt afoot upon grown people, it has more affect upon children The little feet will not keep step with the, dead =reit. Let every song be 1 buoyant and quick like a battle strain, and no older voices linger and hold the soag back, and hang on be - hired, come* in different trains long after they are due. I believe the time will come when we will realize drat that man did mere for- the race who comp/eel a good Sabbath-scbool tune than he who marshaled an army or conquered an evapire. Again; The line of Sabbath-sebool advance will be through improved in- etruction. We have a great many ocenpe.tent men and wcinen through thecruntry engaged in Liao business, lent they are seen to be more come patent. What do yen. say Is the first qualification ? You efeay a man must be a Cbristine. I do not agree with you. I have baptized at the altar an the same day Sabbath-sohooi teaoh- ers end their classes. I would here every teacher morel and upright. :bat must be an indispensable requisi- tion; but just as certainly as a meeral eel upright teaceter coulee into a Sabbatheeehool, thougb he be not a Christian, he will find himself in the path cif eternal life. It be inuess- eible far a moral man or woman to sit down by a class ot five or ten chiltrea, trying to lead them Into the path ol lire withmt geltiag in hire - /self, Who are these four persons seated before you? Oh! you say, they era baye, or they 'are girls. ,1 go, further and say they are immor- tals, and after tha enn has died of cps age, anil all the cieunDess warlds that glitter at night hall have been swept oft by the. Almighty's breath es the small dust of a threshing fleonthose children tvill lire; to that this after - Ewen, as you take your place before them, look them ia the eye, and as you gee them interested in the Jesse% clo your beat for God and eternity, loeking at each of the Your, :saying within yeureelf; Inemertall immor- tal!" Be punotual. A late teacher makes late class. A punctual teacher makes a punctual class. 'Witb wonderful regularly the wceld moves. Hundreds of years before, the astronomer will tell you what time the auto will rise and set. The queerest comet has law, so that the philosopher will tell you what night it will first appear. At just the right time tbe bud burets and the leaf unfurls, and yet there are thousands of people in our Sun- day -schwas and churches who are always b•hind. If you should happen to. see theni prompt on any one o0 - melon you would think it a phenom- enon; you would have to louk again and again, lest it were an optical de- 'Lhe fact WAS they were born too late, anti they will die too late, and they wilj get up in the resurrection tco late, if it is possible for them to sleep over. Be prompt—not only prompt at the be- ginning, but. omega at the close. A Sabbath -school that taste more than an hour and twenty minutes injures the child and hurts the cause of Christ. Children get worn out, and Christian workers get worn out, and they are unfit for the other duties of the holy sabbatb day. Begin prompt- ly at the right tline. Close promptly at the right time. You have a hall hour or an hour to do the work for eternity. Never scowl or (mold in the Sabhitli-schoo) Yeu cannot catch chil- dren with the vinegar of a sour vis- age ; you may eateh them with Gospel honey. Let your features en shine out the truth: "Reitgien boa made me haymy—religion will make you heppy." Oh I my friends, we all need better pre- paration for our work—'t for the pul- pit, and you for the class. Let us kneel down before God to -day and ask for a new baptism of the Holy Ghost. I remark last ei all; the line of Sunday school advance will be through 0 more thoroegle publio recognition. A great many people of my church like the Sunday school for one reasob ; it gets the children out et the house long enough to anew them to take a good nap on Sunday afternoon. They have no idea. that this institution takes hold of all the mere,antile, agricultural, manufacturing, literary, political and I religious interests of the country. They do not know that this institu- tion Is deciding whether wu shall he 1 a nation of freemen or slaves, They do not realize that tease institutions are to make the thinkers, the writers, the poets, the orators, the lawyers, the physieians, and the clergymen of Lite land. Go pot and gather the children, They are en else etnronons to-day,Within sight of the eplree of yogi' ehurchee, yet they knees^ 40 More of Qod Or heaven then 111 they had been born 'in Central Africa. Go out and gel -h- er them Lot and while yens are Nese., fag them you yourselves will be bless, ed, " Olt you eey, " they are not avusbed." Then weed: them. Christ washed the disciples' teat, and you can avast: theee ohildren. "Ole 1" you they are asgeombed," Then comb them, end become to, the hige- est setzse Christian hairedreegers, "But," you say, " thetr apparel is not decent enough for u religious assem- blage." Then beg or buy proper gar - Meets for them. Take your old coat or year old de SS and refashion it, and before you get it fixed up a voice will deem from the ceiling, saying, "I was naked and ye clothed me." We take Otte garland of beauty and joy, and throw it at thy feet, 0 Lerd Tesuel Thois haat invited them to come, and we bring them, our sons and (Mush-. tees, and the lost children of the, street. Here they are, 0 blessed Christi They ask. Tbey kiss, They wait thy benediction. 'Phe prayer of Jacob ler his sons so many years ago shall be my prayer wbile I live, and .t‘ 11ty prayer when I die: "The angel lila redeemed inc from all eel!, bless the lads." VICTORIA'S POSIES. see.: moven 1Iis:t Grew by 11 nyn I Cilia' Mind, Viclea le the Geed had many hob - Wee. Fehe collected ph et ogra phi, china ant eaneelas hair ehawls, ,'ha prided hoe %elf on her mestere, of Hin- doetanee. She was an admirer of fine eattle, an 1 had a weakness for white and "oream-colored" horses. Ilut above an.1 b Tend all other thi nee, Victoria loved flowers. Asa girl and as a young ma tron sho peas huslas tic gardener. 'Her big nun - hat was almeet as familiar tr.> ',Jae gor- de,nmr csf Winrisaa• as were the car- uatton bus in which the sovereign uvae eswelally fani of working, snip- ping and clipping and weeding, to bee great content a na ide gardenere' amazement. One of the favorite Monne told of Smear as Frederick is that when she was a small girl she was assisting her royal :nether in the: elopers beds. The Queen noticed that the smell Victoria elid not wear gar- dening slave.s, and reminded her , that when etre the Queen, was a child retie was not permitted to work in the garden with bare hands. "Pc' - haps net," aged the _young Viotoria, "but you were not ezornPrincces Reey- al of England. I was." The Queen' favorite Dowers were replete, and her greetthou.ses always boosted some in beome, as the old as well as the new varieties were culti- 1 rated by her gardenere. Seems un- der glass were also a specialty of the! Qu.een'e greenhouses, and the climb- ing white nipleutote washer Majesty's favorite. She also loved mignonette, t wall flowers, honeysuckle and other hardy outdoor plants and blossoms that were generally grown in her ming days. The orchid hou.ee at Frogmore shows some rare plants, and the sao- red bean of Egypt was always visited in its flowering season by its royal owner; few culeivatore succeed in blooming it yearly, a fact of which her lefejeety eras justly proud. The teethe house'is brightened by the scar- let nevem- of the poinsettia, which are cut in quantities fOT vase and ta- ble elecorateen. For maidenhair ferns the Queen had a fancy, and ber pre - Vale sitting room was generaliy adorned by a fine specimen or two. The adranee made in all branches of gardening during her reign in- terested the Queen much more than mere eliseoveries, like the telephene and electric lighting. It was only a few yeare ago that she eon - twilled to he ve elect lee lights in her various palaces, but she was always reedy to make experiments in flori- culture and try any new methods of growing fruits and vegetables. ' Among the fruite eteltiarated under ghee for Victoria's speeial deleotation were Iso 011100 and strawberries, the former bearing fruit, the latter bloa- einning, about Chrietmas time; and basketfuls of rip. strawberries were reeked every February, for Ole Queenes table. Grapee make a flne show at Wind- sor, The vineries, heavy with thous- ands of clusters Of grapes, are e. wonderful sight. In these houses it is poseible to gather peaches in May, end this is 'where over 12,000 straw- berry planta are raised annually. One novelty in the way of fruit is the Japeneee dale plum. /We, too, or eat her in ttplein 1 1 y [...instructed pit s quite nee r, grow pincapplee, which are ready in Midwinter, and are of not ed excel lenee. Tomatoes a re never "oat. of &Queen" at Windsor, and the Queen's gardeners are said to grow the Sneed green penes, beens end potato:4 in England. GONE VOR 0000. Yon don't mean to rely you've left errs 'Crusty's employ? Yes, He made a certain remark in imoen•r. hearing that mode it simPlY ine- poseible for me to remain there nny Reallyl Whatdid be sayl Ito said; etet your pay, and get oul at here. 0,. meet eeet7weeetee„,..„ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL Wag one purpose itf our ,or4'$ • the. gaivitioat of Men; and thhi pitrafie Mesas, ,If IC he poasible to aotsomplish that end, there let this oup pasa, Nevertbeleette • not att. will, bet as thou wilt. Our Lord' hunlatt Mauve is peering itself out before God, From such Mental tor. ture as wee his 40 W and 1001131 ouch physical torture as Wag 01040 Were him, his baoMe desire " elerank, bat purpose was harmony INTERNATIONAL LESON, FEB, 24 "Jests Ips eteteeentaneel Biol. go, Poem Barden Text. lulte 11, 413, PliA.OTIOAL NOTBS. Verse 80. Then cometh Jesus with them. Twelve men altogotbert le judas had left. It watt nearly 1410 0411 night, A elites °ailed Gethoseunule "A garden called the MI prose," There were many such gardens or gni:lards, ea WO would call them, on the slopes Of 011VOC, The Kicirein, whioli they crossed, ia no'w a dry river -bed, and even in our Lord'epee not seem to have had any water except during and immediately atter the rainy sea - sou, but there waft probubly writer in it when Jesus crossed over. The walk from the upper room to Gethsemane wee do-tvit sloping street% along a Jagged edge, across a narrow and probably babbling brook, and then up the turfy soda of Mount Olivet. The ancient Gethsemane was probably far below the present traditional site. John tells us that jostle oftentimes resorted thither with hie disciples, and Lt is supposed to have belonged to a personal friend. Sit ye here. Prob- ably at the garden gate. While Igo and pray yonder. Probably in the shady depths of the orchard. It will interest the scholars to search for the names of the disciples that were told to remain at the garden gate, Not Judas, tor he had left the party to betray his Master; not Peter nor James nor Jan, as the next verse tells us. These four were omitted; which eight are left? 37. He took with him lector and the two sone of Zebedee. The parti- ality of Jesus for these throe men— Peter, James, and John—is noticeable throughout the gospel story. They bad been with him when he called back a human spirit from the region of the dead, they bed been withhim at the zenith of his career, when he was transfigured; be has reached the nadir now, and his human fondness still clings to their sympathy. Began to be sorrowful and very heavy. "Sor- rowful and sora troubled" is the Re- vised Version, Dr. Abbott theta states a deep truth; "Tbe desire for fellowship in Inters of darkness and of sorrow, is one of the desires of love, and Le strongest in the hearts in which love is the richest." 38. My soul Is exeeedIng sorrow - even unto death. Various words used to describe his agony are full nI suggestion. He was begirdled with sorrow, besieged with !arrow. He was alone. The whole agony came upon him as a surprise. In barbaric ages men have been put into diaboli- cal machines that pressed them to death. But here was a mese where the pressure on the mind and spirit was "even unto death." Tarry ye bare, and watoh with me. These three men are requested to be an inner guard, so that it the eight outer ones were overcome by fatigue there would still be some guards to notify their blaster when the trai- tor and his cruel band arrived. Luke tells us that in his agony his Sweat became as it were great drops of blood; the writer of Hebrews tells us of his strong crying and tears. This was net .shrinking frono death, whose dark sbadews had lain across every day of ele lite; it was shrinking froni the untold hereonoL the aggregate gin of hamanity. All the mysteries of the atonement are kept away Dom us, but we have here some glimpses of its effects. Dr. Sehauffter main- taine with several other Christian echolare that the great sorrow of Jesus in the garden earae not from fear of Calvary at all, but from fear of failure through physical strength to reach Calvary and so loss of all for which he left heaven. Sole mice cannot catalogue and define the causes of his suffering, for the pro- phet tells us that he Waa wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities; the Lord had laid on him the iniquity of us all. 39. He went a little further. Deeper and deeper into the silent gloom of Lhe orchard. Fell an his face. Mark says, "Felt on the ground ;" Luke says, "Kneeled down." Ile probably kneeled first, and then fell forward, for the prayet he prayed exhausted every longing of the spirit and every strength of his body. 0 my Father. Jesus practices the faith be taught his followers. He, more than any other sacred teacher, Waisted on the fatherhood of God. Ha who cam for the sparrow, who nurtures the lilies, who numbers the )lairs of our head, whose heart and Mee and power and care are all far more than a human Lather's, — he is our God, and to him, with a unique renaming in the word Father, Jesus' addreeees bis praery. 11 01 be possible, let this oup pass from me. Hark Says "this hour." The phrases mean the same. The 13ebrew idiom of a map has passed into many lan- guages„ anti is carried on in essence in our word "fulfill," Bvery hour of our livea may be said to he a cup brim- ming with jny 05. sorrow. The firat parse,: varies In structure0 the 111- ferent records, Matthew saye, "All things are 1105511115 ;0 Luke ATVs, "Ir thou be willing." Essentially the etories all agtee. Bvidently. there with god, "aa thou wilt" Every night we otter this peayer to God in words at Must, "Thy will be elone," In the agonies of our lima can we by faith in Ohriat offer it es he did 49-94. Here followa a aoene which mut needs be studied ea a unit. Having °Hama the beaet-wrung pray- er of verse 19, aux' Lord, inexpressibly pained in heat and mind and body, returned unto the dieciples, by whicth term we are here to understand Peter, James, and John, to receive the human sympathy he ao greetil needed, and fitubitie them aeleep. Luke tells .us that their sorrow had made their eyes heavy, intense strain during hours of exeitement had been aunoceded by all the. etroumatanoes of repoae, and they yielded to slumber. Our Lord's Mimeo Mauro. craved and greatly needed their prayers and their eympethy, nevertheless his 1.0- e 1A very gentle. It se to palm be expresses his keen dle- appoin tmen t—W ha t, could ye not watch with me one hour r—poor Peter, whose confidence had been so great, and whose failure was so imminent. It is -better, far better, to conquer sorrow by prayer than to forget it (even if we could forget it) in sleep or in work. Watch and pray. Use all powers. You need all your Mermen, ability and all of Heaven's assistance, That ye euler not in o temptation, They were in the greatest possible danger of almost every sort, Even their Master was fighting a tremendous. battle and the full victory had not / yet been won, for hours after this the struggle was still going on. Physically his disciples were in great danger,ancl spiritually in even greater danger, but they appreban.ded neltiser, and could sleepl The spirit indeed is willing,but the flesh le weak, are words of sin- gular tenderness, and at the same time words of warning. The moral and.physical natures are eager to do right, but the mental and physical na- tures are worn and weary; such con-. ditione imperatively need prayer and ' watchfulness. A. seemed and a third ' time our Lord withdraws to pray and 1 to surrender himself to bis Father's will, and a second and third time he returns to his three chosen friends/ to find teem asleep. 45. 46. His words, when for the third time he wakens them, are full of love:! Sleep On now, and take your rest. Aa' if he had said Tbe danger is over; the enemy has been foiled; you nend: watch no longer—not a word of re - 'armee for their failure to help when help was needed. Suddenly, as if awakening to a sense of other and fresh dangers, he adds, Behold, the; hour is at hand, and the Son of man Is betrayed into the hands of sinners, Rise, let us be going; bebold, be 18 at hand that cloth betray me. WHEN LONDON LACKED POLICE. Story or flew Law Was Observed 10 Eng- land In 1780. hundred years ago there were no polies in the streets of London, and such incidents were possible, as the following, which Sir Walter Briant chronicles In the Century: There is a story belonging to the year 1790 or thereabout which illus- trates the absolute lawlessness 01 the mob. A. man living at Wapping, just outside the Towerr of London, which was always garrisoned by trams, gave offense to his neighbors by complying with some obnoxious law. He reteiv- ed a warning that they intended to attack him, by which they meant that they were going to. murder him, The main had the bulldog courage of his time; he sent away his wife and °San- dmen; got a friend as brave as him- self to join him ; closed his lower shut- ters and barricaded his • door; then laid In ammunition, brought in and loeded two guns, one for himself and one for his friend. Ae nightfall the attacking party arrived, armed with guns and seems. They began with a volley of the latter, iscat the besieged paid to ettettion; then they fired at the win- dows, and while they were loading again the besieged let fly among them, and killed or ti011104.1.1ed tWO or throe. They retired in confuelon, but return., ed in larger numberand with greater Lary. All tight long the unequal com- bat raged. When their ammunition was all spent, the two mao dropped out of a back window into a Umber yard, where they hid in a saw pit. Ole- gerve that this battle heated 'all through the night, clan) to the Tower, where the firing of the gung meet have been heard, yet no aoldierg were sent out to atop it till the morning, when the mischief was done and the house was sacked. Furthermore,' no one Was aflerword :arrested, no one was pun- telled iso5iu the men who were killed fo' NVO1111(10(1, and me Ineulty was made. Can 015 story Mara olearly Indicate the abandonment oir the people to their own devices ORANGES OF TO REIGN. GREAT wrpERENog IN TNN 4140 MILITIA, hlommue HI the llorar Goitres nett 'Wee onlyNot 88 eleent NOW MI Formerly— "egging nes nem entlrely eledishell In the Amor. Thu Queen's death cauees. one te 00, fleet on the vast ohangea which have been effected in the army, both perm' and colonial, since .she' asecoded the throne, more than,• eix4Y-three years' since. Thee "purchase" reigned supremo in both cavalry and intanLeY, and what was worse even than that peeellarly bad oaken was the "La- eloence" that eould, be exeneleed at the Reese Cluerds 'and War Offloe 118 favout of officers whose only merit wee :their :mete:antics lineage or the length of their purses. "Clothing" e,oluuele thee had full aleaY That le, the e010401 -in -chief of every regiment was allowed tio much money for clothing every man' In lila cores, Ile took the money, while the army clothing contractor supplied "cheap and nasty" uniforms at less —tar less—then the amount voted by Government to the 31010001 The Ore- meau war brought thee: emended to an end, but not until le71-72 was promo- tion by purchase abolished. Ween the Queen came Lo the throne Solettere could be sentenced by °mutt martial ber such crimes as desertion, Intsubordmetion, mutiny or attempted mutiny, laze -tiny or even absence with - 0110 JeAtre, to no less than one hundred lashes with the "Oe1T-0'-NINE-TAILS," end sentences tvere not infrequently carried out in Quebec, Montreal and Toronto. 10 )05(0 not 1111 1880 that the ponialiment of flogging was wholly abolished to the Britistt army, though ita worst features disappeared a quar- ter of a century earlier, In Junit, SSOT. whunr• • IV. died, Canada was garrisoned from Halifax Lo Penetangutshene by British regulars. Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, Makatea, Toronto, Niagara, London ell W01.0 garrisoned by English infan- try. Detachments of tbe 1toyal Artil- lery were in Quebec, Montreal and Kingston, while in Halifax there was a large contingent of the Royal En- gineers. We ourselves had practically no colonial militia force, except on paper, though during Lhe years 1837- 38, in consequence oe the rebellion, some three or four "Provisional Bat - talking" of militia were formed. 'These did efficient garrison duty, but were disbanded fn 1838-30, ewhileit was 1855 before our present militia Alma first organized. It was thirty-three years after her late Majesty's accession, he 1870, that the practice of garrisoning Canadian towns with English soldlerst was dis- continued by the Imperial authori- ties. True, one single exception was made, that of Halifax, which is a naval coaling station. Then still later another exception was made by sending Imperial troops to Vancouver. Thee brief retrospect will, to a slight cadent, show what an enormous elite ferene,e to military matter e the Can- ada of 11001 eereeentel to the Canada oft 1837. THE THREE FOOLS. Three wells once met upon the way— The way from Here to There— The way that lends from this old world And finds its end Somewhere. Three souls—they met and greeted there, As souls are wont to de, And reel: soul to the others said, "Before this—what were you?" The first soul drew his airy shape Up to its proudest height. "I %Me statesman," answered be; "A man of mind and might. I led my people. With my words I held them by my side. I heard their proud aceleinis each day, And then—and then 1 died." The next soul smiled n gracietr. smile, With condescension 01104, And said: "1 'was a sage. 1 mote, And MOD thought as 5 vined. / wrote, I 0poke-1 1<055. 11,0 world What it should feel end see. lfy books were studied everywhere. And then—Lhey burled me." The third soul walked in silence on. Then turned the other two And murmured, "Tell us, brether soul, Prey, tell us, what were you?" "I knew no statecraft,. said the third: "1 did not heed a wheal. I only tried to make men smile. I, brothers, was a fool. "I sang, 1 gibed, 1 Jested, too; I gave the best 1 bad, Yet all the impute:: deep 1 felt Was but to make men glad." The other souls fell bark apnea, ith In:inner grave and cool, And as dray moved with stately tread They scowled end said "A fool!" "Two: thee they °Ante unto the gate And craved an tlitOtrieB them They told their names and deeds again— The fool and then the pair, The keeper sinned, swung wide the with, And ht a voice of cheer Lie cried: "Enke wey norm the street; Three !bole would Miter NMI" TRIO 0012011 OE TUB -FUTURE, (Liquid ts the force of the future. IL is an explosive of a most danger- ous kind ; it may be used as an( amtes- thetio; 11 may be used to purity any- thing. In a word, says Sir Waller Bement, it is another giant caught, imprisculed, and made to work the will of man, "I have not the least doubt," he continuee, "(hat before many menthe are past lkpuid eir will be captured by the inventor and used for the destruction of a whole army many miles distant by the, hand of a term- er:or-boy.", MRN AS THEY PASS, Majete $erpe.P.Into, the well lthelya 110/141 explotete died the other der its Lie- hou, Prealdene MeKinley hat promised te entke an addrese at the banquet 01 110 P- ilings Manotactorers' asemelatIou to be given in OhietliP lo reOrogrY Uerch• Ereeet )31111/108, 1E0 new president of the republic of Switeerlend, la oulY 44 years old, ygt he is deemed ono of the ablest of the luternetiottal lawyee'e 01 111- 001<4. Frank T, Howard, a millionaire of New Orleans'lute announced hie Wen- ti011 givingto that city a sum 01 monee for the erection and conducting of ft mod- el sehool. Speaker Henderson is mild to be ale- eatIsfied with the Portrait tor which Ile sat a Year ago. The face, he thinite, is a good likeness, but he objects that the artist hats Put a man'e heed on a boyk shoulders. Ex -Speaker Reed declares that he line lost eonzetelng over 50 pounds In weight during the last few mouths end says the reduction in flesh lute done him a world of good, He reruns, however, to make public the prescription, 11 1<0 uses any. Few public men have had so charming a home life as the late ex•Governot Woe. eott of Massachusette. Once, while he was In deice, his very young son was ask- ed at ochool who WOO governor of MOM- chusetM. "Papa says he is," said the boy, "but he fools so much I can't tell," General Sir Redvers Buller, when a youth, had his choice ameug all the pro- fessions. His relatives pressed him to take up politics, as he had a private for- tune. His ready response was, "I would rather be a private in the least et the queen's regiments than England's prime minister." John Benjamin Paraons, head of the Philadelphia Union Traction company, has risen from a "e5 a week job" to a post that pays bim 530,000 a year. Sur- face car lines have furnished a peculiarly profitable field for executive ability, and the "traction millionaire" is one of the most Interesting of his kind, as he Is the °mese After (working as a locomotive engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for just half a century, Joseph West or Cum- berland, Md., has been retired on a pen- sion at the age of 75. In all the yeaes of his employment he never received the slightest injury, never hall a wreck of any consequence and ttt no time was a mnu of his crew killed. William Wallace Campbell, who has just been elected director of the Lick ob- servatory to succeed the late James 111 Keeler, was born on a farm in Hancock county, 0., in 1802, He made tt specialty of astronomy et the University of Michi- gan under Professor Sehaeberle, took the chair of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Colorado and later at Aun Arbor. ' General John G. Parke, who died re- centle in Washington, was thejaat °Meer to command the army of the Potomac. General Meade was spending a few hours with General Grant at Clte- Point wben Kyd Douglas broke through the Federal lines, of which Palle had to take com- mand: That was on May 25, 1305. Tbe battle of Fort Stedman, one of the most brilliant of the war, was also fought un- aer him. THE ROYAL BOX. Tho queen of Holland has an enormous fortuae, only a part of weld belongs to the crown. The Prince et Wales recently bad a pi• geon house built near Sawn:Ingham cas• Ole, where carrier pigeons are trained by experts. He intends to put his pigeou house at the disposal of the British navy. According to the dispatches, the wid- owed Queen Margherita will elder all take up her bome in Rome and devote ber time and money to the intellectual culture and artistic development of leer OWI) country. Sbe received under King Humbert's will about $2,000, and the state makes her a dowager's allowance of 5200,000 a year. The king of Spain has not yet been able to show either his taste or his pluck in riding, for his mother is so nervous about it that she did not even like to see him getting too bold on his wooden horse. The hour of the riding lesson on the real thing Is always otre of anxiety for the re- gent. They say that this fear contest from a prediction which was once made to her by a gypsy. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Zinc is best cleaned with hot, soapy watee, then polished with kerosene and coal ash. White spots on furniture may be speed- ily removed by ribbing with a rag dipped in spirits of camphor. When putting lace away, fold as little as possible. A good plan Is to wind it around a card, as is done in the shops. The braes Dictum bangers (hooks) which slip over the picture moldings and hold the pleture wire sometimes get bad- ly tarnished. They may be made 05 bright as aew by getting some =Oaths acid, putting it in a cup or tumbler and, after striugIng the hooks on a cord. dip- ping them In it for a minute 00 <50. Do not get this acid on hands or clothing. PERT PERSONALS. The suggestiou that Bernhardt would make a better ghost than a Hamlet is positively cruel.--Philitdelphia Times. Harry Vardou, the champion golfer, is thinking of bens:ling an American citi- zen. What an acquisition he will bet— elomeeville Jourual. 10 the ruined prestige and exploded pre- tensions of Ole Castellano family were put Into a rummage sale, the proceede might help to pay for MOO of the Mean- brac for which suit is now pending. 11 le urotty nearly thno for these trupleastuit people to go into retieenlent. The coma. fey has lied a surfeit of their doings •PROGRESS. auTdhweellgahtesmay10(30.s sttorlunmtinthe hulustriel world is the stone lathe. It le 80 feel long A machine that washes and dries 5,000 dishes an hour has been inveuted, and it Is guaranteed that plates, cups, saucers and other dishes come out of the ween Without a stretch. 1011 antomatleftlly indicate when a clerk needs winding tooibed bar is attached to the winding abet to else all the Meek unwinds, a lever being pivoted at the elm uhio fvdtilehl lest bob to:0u gtvbatellivtow. heelenarthiet,lida. rio11)sylitilignitvula •