HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-3-21, Page 6F'or many yeas the I'ronoh have
lateen oonsidoring the feasibility of
creasing the Sahara Ina balloon, but
time far laek of''oxperionoe in long -
'dietetical aerial lidos and the difficulty
of obtaining perteotly gas-tlgllt
balloon material to last for so long a
trip, have' prev3)1We its execution,
Irately the Perls Acro Club has taken
'op the subject in earnest. In view
of the energy with which this club'
conducts all its work, andthe .pride
manifested in their porformanceh by
much members as Count .De' la Vaulx
end;Const .Qastillon de St. Victor,
there can, bo little doubt of tbe ulti-
mate aumess of the scheme, One
0f the boat important factors insutib
undsrtokings, the necessary money,
Presents no difficulties in France,
where there are rich' men always
reedy to ev:ourage this particular
form of sport. The plan is to start
from Gabes, on the coast near Tanis,
and go over Ghadumes to Timbuktu
on the Niger, because it has been ob-
served that the prevailing winds are
in that general direction. The dis-
tance is about' 1.487 miles, and obser-
vations prove that for three months
the wind blows pretty' conestantly
over this stretch of country at a rate
of eighteen miles an hour. A free
balloon ought to cross the Sahara
Desert in about eighty hours. The
longest recorded balloon trip was
E FAIRER INET Hi
Speaks rhe Rev., Dr. TalmageTalmage�peaks of.
Son.
the Prodigal
A deepen:le from Washington gay!:
-Rev, Dr. Talmage preeobed from the
following text :-"Whont he was yet a
great way off bis eatber saw ,him and
bas eoelipassion, and ran and fell on
bis neck and kissed him," --St, Luke xv.
20,
I bare often described to you the go-
ing away of this prodigal son from his
fatber's house and I have sboWed
Yon what a hard time he had dower in
the wilderness, and what a very
great mistake it was for him to leave
so beautiful a bane for such a pais-
arable desert, Bill he did not al-
ways stay in the wilderness; he came
back after a while, We don't read
that his mother came to great him„
I suppose she was dead. Shewould
have been; the fust to come out,. The
father would have given the lrecond
kiss to the returning prodigal; the
mother the first. It may have been
for the • lack of her example and praY-
ers that he became a prodigal. Some-
times the father does not know how
to manage; the ebildren of the house-
hold ; the chief work comes upon the
made by De, la Vanlx and Castillon de mother. Indeed, no one ever gets
St. Victor, They went from Paris over the calamity of losing a mother
to Baew in Russia, a distance of 1,313 in early life. Still, this young man
miles, in thirty-six hours, was not ungreeted when he came
back. However, well appareled we
It is still a very important quer- may be in the morning, when we start
tion whether a balloon can be kept rut Dna journey, before night, what
with the dust and the jostling, tit's
up foo' nearly four days at astretch.
This question came up in relation to
'Andreae North Pole trip. The of --
feats of the sun's rays must be over-
come by other means than that of
throwing out ballast or letting out
gas. Tbis can he accomplished parti-
ally by attaching a number of drag
have 1 -stall cleverness of appearance,
But this prodigal, when he started
from his swine trough, was ragged
and wretched, and bis appearance
after be bad gone through days of
journeying and exposure, you man
more easily imagine than describe. As
the people see the prodigal coming on
homeward, they wonder who he is.
They say: "1 wonder what prison
ropes, as Andree did. In his case, he has broken out of. I wonder what
however, the scheme failed because a lazaretto he has escaped from. .1
aage will
large part of the rope he ].lensed to smniteder the awitih whr," Ilte looplks aues htbougb
take was accidentally forgotten and he were intent upon something very
left behind. The method pursued is
as follows: ,The balloon is so heavily
loaded that a part of the rope drags
on the ground. When the heating of
the balloon's gases causes it to rise,
it raises a part of the ropes from the
earth and thus becomes as much
heavier as its buoyancy has increased.
important. The people stop; they
look at him; they wonder where be
came from; they wonder where be is
going, I think the people all around
were amazed. They said: "It is.only
a ftot-pad; it is only an old tramp
of the. road; don't go out to meet
him."
THE FATHER. !NEW BETTER.
The change in the son's ap-
the: to leap into the middle of the
highway if Ids ohiitl be there and 0,
vedrfole is coming and. may destroy
him.. :uivo headrest times longer
than it takes (Nair heavenly father to
spring to the deliveetence of a lost
ohild. "Wbeaa he was a great way
off hia father saw bio,"
And this brings me to notice the
father's haste. The Bible gays be
ran. No wonder. He didn't know
but time the young 0311013 would
change bis hind and go book. I•Ie.
didn't know but that he would drop
down from. exhaustion. He didn't
treaty but something fatal might over-
take him before he got up to the door-
sill, acne so tbe father rate The
Bible for the most part apcak5 of
God, as walking. Oh, hoar much help
a man does want when he tries to
become a Ohristiau. Indeed the Pro-
digal can't find his way home to his
father's house alone. Unless some
one Domes to meet him he had better
have staid by the swine -trough o11ow-
lug the carobs of the desert: When
the sea Domes in at full tide you might
moire easily with your broom sweep
hack the surges than you could drivo
back the ocean of your unforglven
transgressions. What are we to elo1
Acre we to flglit the battle alone and
trudge on with no ane to aid. us and
310 rook to shelter us and no word
of encouragement to cheer us. Glory
be to God we have in the text tbe an-
nouncement; "When be was yet a
thasicner startS for Got, God starts t way off his father ran."
e
fox the sinner. Goa does not Dome
out with a slow and hesitating pace;
the infinite spaces slip beneath his
feet and be takes worlds at abound.
"The father rant"
I remark upon. the father's
sa.kiss.
ys
"Ho fell an his neck," my text
'and he kissed him," The father
charged him with none of his wand-
erings; he just received him,
AE JUST HISSED HIM
His wretebednese was a recommen-
dation to that father's love. 011,
that father's kisgI How shall Ide-
scribe the Ione of God? Oh, this love.
Don't you believe it f Ilas\he not done
everything to make you think sol He
bas given you life, health, friends,
RUN AN BIBI,E PRINCIPLES..
Mr. newton guns 111s glove ns lie I'I5tuke
the 8avleur would.
Conducting bis bush:Wet 55 he thinks
the Saviour Would, is what A, ?f, Nor'
'ton, g'reeer, of Marion, Ind., le trying
to no. iWhen he wont to Marlon a
year ago be announ ee 212110.2 hie gra-
eery and meat market would be eon-
duetecj on the lines laid down by the
Rev. Charles 112. Sheldou in his fam-
ous book, "In Isis Stelae.'" . In a year
be had built up a trade that in the
ordinary course of events would have
taken many years to aeoomplish.
He believes In the honesty of the
average man, and for this reason his
oustomors are allowed to choose their
purchases for themselves, no blerk•be-
ing near to keep a watobful eye on
their' movements, 31e buys all bis
goods for spot Gash, end sells on tate
same basis, no books being kept, which
he claims Lo find profitable. The stook
Ls selected by Mr. Norton wvith a view
to quality, •nothing going into the
store which his own family would not
nee. Travellers say that he is a very
shrewd buyer, and that despite his
well-known generosity, he will not
submit to exorbitant prices, but will
close the interview at once. saying
that he buys for the interest of hie
customers, and that the man who
would try to cheat them is dishon-
est.
Mr. Norton has never used liquor
or tobacco. He believes them to be
harmful in their results and will not
handle 'them in his business, claim-
ing that a Christian's duty Is, 1102 to
aid a habit which is
,VICIOUS AND DIRTY.
Customers must carry home theirpur-
chases, for no delivery waggons are
kept in connection with the estab-
lishment. This would entail an extra
cost of S2,500 a year, which would
have to come out of the pockets of
the customers. Mr. Norton sells his
goods at as small a margin of profit
as possible, calculating on just enough
to keep bimself and family. For this
reason be is able to sell much cheaper
than his competitors. thereby aiding
his customers in their efforts. to be
eoonomioal.
Mr. Norton's store is in the centre
of the busincsa portion of the city,
and he employs about 25 clerks. These
he pays off every night, starting
afresh each morning. He thinks they
are entitled to it, and that he bas no
right to hold it till the end -of the
home, the use of your hands, the week. Tie will not carry any insur-
sght of your eye, the hearingo£ once because he thinks that to offer
your ear ; He has strewn your path a man compensation when his house
with mercies, he bas fed you, clothed or store burns duwn is encouraging
you, sheltered you, defended you, lov- that man to be careless and less atten-
ed you, importuned you, all your life five to his business.
long. Don't you believe he loves you$ Mr. Norton was brought up a Wes -
Oh, this father's kiss 1 There is so
much meaning and love and compas-
sion in it -so -much pardon in it -se
much heaven in it. I proclaim him the
If the balloon bas a tendency to fall 05500000 could not bide the Lord trod merciful and gracious, long -
it reduces its weight beoanse part of marks by which the father knew suffering and abundant in goodness
the Lay. You know that persons of and truth. Lest yon would not be-
ttho rope then lies on the ground. a great deal of independence of char- lIeve him, he goes up Golgotha, and
Friction, of course, comes into play note:: are apt to indicate it in their while the rocks are rending and the
also but in a subordinate degree. Its walk. For that reason the sailor al- graves are opening and the mobs are
greatest effect will be to prevent too most always has a peculiar step, cot howling and the sun is hiding he dies
only because ho stands much on ship- for you. See him. See him on the
great a velocity. In. this way the board, amid the rocking of the sea, mount of Crucifixion, the sweat on
entire ballast on board the balloon' and he has to balance himself, but he his browtinged with the blood ex -
can be utilized to counteract the dif-111135 for the most part an independ- tiding from his lacerated temples. See
ant: character, which w0u1d show it- his eyes swimming in death. Hear the
£fusion of gases through the balloon ; loud breathing of the sufferer as be
a if cyan ]f he never went on the
material. The rale of speed will be ! sea, and wo knoly lvhat transpired 12
- pants with e, world on itis heart.
diminished by friction about six and 1 terward and from what transpired Hark int fall of blood from brow
leyan Methodist, but belongs to no
church, believing that there should
not be a division, such as is represent-
ed by the different denominations in
the churches. He is fifty-four gears
of age and bas travelled extensively.
The principles which be practices he
owes to his father, who inculcated the
ideas of socialism and justice into the
minds of all his children. ,
THE HEIGHT OF OCEAN WAVES.
In 1148 Iltdtnn Ocean waves ntzher Than
37 Peet elate peen Sem,.
el very interesting series of wave
studies from the pen of Mr, Vaughan
two-thirds miles an hour, so that the before that ;kis prodigal son was of and hand and foot an the reek the-! Cornish is now appearing in the. col -
nn mdepandent and frank nature, heath drop, drop, drop) Loot. at e
entire distance across the Desert of umns of Knowledge, to the January
and I suppose that the charaateris- nails 1 How wide the wounds are -
Sahara will rajuire for transit about ties of his mind and heart were the wider do they gaps es his body comes issue of which the size of waves is
130 hours. If the wind fails, there characteristics of his walk. And so down upon them. Oh, this crucifixion' dealt with. In the bourse of this ar-
will, of course, be great danger. The the father knew him. He puts out agony, Tears melting into tears; blood title Mr. Cornish says that it was
Von Zeppelin airship might be used his withered arms toward him. He flowing into blood ; darkness dropping tbe southern Indian Ocean, between
brings his wrinkled face against the to darkness; hands of men joined with
with advantage, as it can make about; pale cheek of his son. He kisses the the hands of devils to tear apart the the Cape of Good Hope and the isles
twenty-five miles, in an hour in a I wan lips. He thanks God that the quivering heart of the Son of God 1 of St. Paul and Amsterdam, in the
calm, and the entire distance could long agony is over, " When he was Oh, will he never speak again'. Will region of almost continual westerly
then he eovored under favorable con- t yet a great way' off his fatber sate that crimson face ever light up again? Winds, tbat the largest waves were
e11 on his neck and kissed him.
In the first place, I notice in. this
text,the father's eyesight; in the sec-:
and place, I notice the father's haste;
and in the third place, I notice the
father's kiss.
To begin: The father's eye -sight.' yet he was et a great way off,
his fatber saw him." I don't know'
whether he could tree well that which
is near by, but I do know that he
could see a great way off. " His
father saw him." Perhaps be bad been
looking for the return of that boy
especially that day. I don't know but
that he had been in prayer and that
God had told him that that day the re-
creant boy would come home.
7 wonder if God's eyesight can des-
cry us when we are coining back to
him f The text pictures our condition
--'eve are a great way off. That
young man was not farther off from
bis father's house, sin is not farther
off from holiness, hell is no farther
animas in two days and a half. On
the other hand, if the wind blew
about eighteen miles an boar, only
thirty-two hours would be required.
ete
THE OLDEST Mti2111.
IA is Over 8,000 Yeses 01d and Now
ides In the 17rtlts3 Matelots.
To th
he oldest mummy te world lies
the e Egyptian Room of the British
Museum where it has leen brought
from . thwest bink of the Upper Nile,
by Dr. Wallis Budge. la the museum
it presents a grim spectacle, lyingup.
on its left side with knees drawn up
almost on a level with the chin. The
head, too, which has tufts of r•e'idisll
]Hair still clinging. bonds slightly.
forward, hiding the Ica hand, while
the right hand. entirely blackened, is
held in front of Una face.
him, and had compassion, and ran and HE WILL SPEAK AGAIN,
The Indy is not a mummy in the Erom heaven -than we have been by loos hour. It is charged with eternal 000001tfan of 1 to _'. It was only to
sense that its neighbors in the our sins away from God ; eye, so destinies. The shadows of the star -1 very favorable conditions that the
Menmuseum are. It was not shrouded ]n far off that we could not hear bis nal world flit over this assemblage., average height was 0.7 or 0.8 of the
Mien or otherw•isa seem.; l in a paint- voice the'hgh vehemently he has call- Hark1 I hear the songs of the saved extreme height. In the open ocean a
ed urate tela, but seems tl have been ed as year after year. I don't knew -I hear the howli.ngs of the damned.! strong wind soon caused waves of as
saturated bitumen, fn length ]t is
some 5 feet 9 inches its hinds are of
a del1001e smallness, while its skull
is of the long-headed pattern, The
only trona of the wild. advenLurou3
life tho body must hove led in the land
of t: he living is tho broken forefinger
of the right hand. Ther() 14 no in.
(1Crtation by which its age may be d.e-
einitely ascertained but it is let least
8.000 years old, for the ancient Egyp-
tians knew the use of metal anti could
write; they also embalmed all their
bodies very carefully, Of the form-
er there were no traces, and
the lack of linen or winding sheets
proem nlueost ennelneIV,•.ly that the
body lined before such things were
known to exist.
THEY CAN'T HELP IT.
t It seems to me, said the lovely birs.
Itafiippe, that society isn't what it
while the blood is suffusing his brow j _•
On October 25, 1857, during n gale'
and reddening his cheek and gather-, from the northwest, with violent snow
Ing on nostril and lip, and you think, squalls, thirst waves were measured
he Ls exhausted and cannot speak; he • 4 y
cries out until all the ages hear him:. at different times of day which aver-
" Father forgive them, they know not aged 29.53 feet in height. The largest
what they do 1" ' of them were 37.53 feet in height. And
Now will you accept that Father's of these no fewer than six in sueces-
kiss? The Holy Spirit asks you to.'sloe were observed, which followed
The Holy Spirit comes to you this one another with admirable regular -
morning, with his arousing, melting, ity. They lifted the corvette as if it
alarming, inviting vivifying influ- ( had been a whaleboat, then left ber
nae. Dalt you think the is here 31 I wallowing in a deep trougb, extend -
see it in these solemn looks; I see it. iing far en either hand. Liooi. Paris,
in these tearful eyes; I see it in these'• who made these observations, had to
blanched cheeks; I see it in the up -i mount to the twenty-second rung of
turned face of childhood and the earn-' the shrouds before he attained the
est gaze of old age. I know it from .level of the crest. On the evening of
this silence like the grave. The Holy! the same day waves even larger were
Ghost is here, and while I speak the seen, but not measured. Those on
chains of captives are falling, and the board the corvette seem to have
dungeons of sin are opening, and the' agreed that the waves of this. Oct. 25
prodigals coming and the fathers run- were the largest within their experi-
ning, and angels are shouting and de-! :nee. The height of the individual
vi1s are trembling. 011, it is a =amen- 1 waves was often found to vary in the
was when I began geing out.
No, hergentle friend replied, Isup-
pone it isn't, but then you must re-
member that nearly everything else
has changed along with society dur-
ing the past 40 or 50 years.
CONFLICT 01 AUTHORITY.
Iiowqa of uncle is this morning 1
Yes, his morns end his rbeumatiten
don't indicate the same klud of wea-
ther 1
what bad habits you may have form-
ed or in what evil places you have
been or what false notions you may
have entertained; but you are .ready
to acknowledge, if your heart etas not
been changed by the grace of God,
that you are a :great way off, aye,
so far that woe cannot get back of
yourselves. You would like to corns
buclr. Aye, this moment you would
start if it were not for this sin and
that habit and this disadvantage. But
] am to tell you of
TUE 1'A.THER'S EYE-IIOHT.
" IIe saw 1311n a great way off." Ile
has seen all your frailties, all your
struggles, all your disadvantages. He
has been longing for your coming. Be
has not been hooking at you with a
critic's eye or a bailiff's eye, but with
a Father's eye, end if a parent even
pitied a child, God pities you. You
say: "011, I had so many evil sur-
roundings when I started life,' Your
Father sees it. You Say, "I have . se
many bad surroundings now,
and it, is very difficult for
me to break away £rem evil
asseciattan3," Your Father sees it,
and if this moment you should start
heavenward, as I pray you may,
yomr Father would, not sit idly down
and; allow you to struggle, nn up to-
wed. hila. 011, no.1 geeing yon a
great .way off, ho would fly to the
rosette. How long does it take a fa -
Heaven and hell seem to mingle and
eternity poises on tete pivot of this
hour. Thy destiny is being decided,
, thy doom is being fixed.
SAFETY OF CONVEYANCES.
Railways, automobiles and bicycles
,are safer conveyances thanvebieles
drawn by horses, according to statis-
ties just issued by the French Gov-
ernment. in a single month 967 ac-
cidents occurred for which horses
were responsible, and in these 80 per-
sons were killed and 885 Injured.
There were 145 railway aoeidents,
causing eight deaths and injuries to
1377 persons. Thirty-eight automo
biles came to grief, and two deaths
j
end 8$ injured resulted. 13icyalists
bad 110 bad accidents, six died and 113
were wounded.
, IIAS BEEN IN TRAINING.
First Doctor -A woman applied for
1 a position ns nur7 a in the aleoholie
ward to -day,
I Second Doctor -lend any experi-
ence
First ISrolor. 51e said She used to
bo snake the:creme
mach as 16.4 feet.
The distance from crest to crest was
found often to vary in the proportion
of 1 to 3 in two successive waves. In
a rising sea the wave length increased
more rapidly than the height, a pro-
tease which' was found to continue for
several days. Thus, to the east of 111:
Cape of Good Hope, during strong
west winds, whieb blew with great re-
gularity for fnur days, the height of
the waves only ;increased from 19.59
to 23.97 feet, while .tbe length, which
wee but 37071 feet on the first day,
had attained 771 feet on the fourth.
This was the greatest daily average
length observel, but individual cases
oecu:rred in whicb more than 1,313
feet separated two succeeding ridges,
and an interval of 984 feet was not
uncommon,
.UA ':SUR OEET Nor ALONG.,
$V1iplusiNG FROG-HASS. OF THE
CITE' IN THE KLONDII2ir,
31131 it 8e0al (entre and leas Three Snell
1AlneitiS 01411ses - Luxuries C0n1111911
and ewes 110031 -Tho (),34181)13 for
Gold A1iebis-14terature as C141tivnted
pi the Arcola.
The days of sear dough have p
nam-
ed fn Dawson, and no longer docs the
obeeehako attract attention in the
city's streets, Bieyeles, telephones and
810011'10 lightsleave come to be a mat-
ter of (ours(), and the improved meth-
ods of transportation, promise the in-
troduction there of all the luxuries
of the East. ,
Dawson now bas three newspapers,
and the Daily Klondike' Nugget is one
of Yukon Territory's. historical land-
marks, according to its own state-
ment. The Nugget has been estab-
ilshed less than three years, from
wltinll' it will be aeon that such terms
take an a now slgnificanco in a noun:
try where history makes so rapidly,
The Nugget issued a Ohristmas holi-
day number, which was printed from
Re own type -setting .machine, illus-
trated in blank and white by its own
engraving plant and bound in covers
lurid In golf -pink tints. This .paper
tells a lot about the Yukon" River
city's development and aspirations
that is interesting thousands of miles
away. .
It 31111 be news to many who have
looked upon the residents of Dawson
as a pack of rough' miners and crim-
inals to learn that on the contrary,
the city has become a great social cen-
tre. It Is said that owing to tbo.great
incoming of revpeoted femininity the
present social season in Dawson far
exceeds any of its predecessors. It
may not: be so fast and lurid, but
ilea better. There are 1
THREE DANCING CLUBS. •
each giving o party once a week,
and three theatres, and although one
of them is closed the others make
up for it by presenting such first-
class
irstclass attractions as the O'Brien -Jack-
son vaudeville .company.
There are two athletic clubs and
there are church and free public lib-
rary concerts, The soda's possibilities
of the city, the Nugget thinks, as -
sumo rather imposiatg proportions, es-
pecially in view of " the evenings sure
to be spent fn private social inter-
course, for Dawson has its entertain-
ers -none better."
Dawson city evidently intends to
keep clean, too. There was a time, the
Nugget remarks, when if a man want-
; ed a 'bath, he took it in a gold pan,
and a clean shirt was to be had by
washing a dirty one. Bath-bouses
there are nolo 8.5 thick as in eastern
cities, and the washee-washes plates
are numerous and excellent.
Dawson has not escaped the found-
ing there of a Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals, and a pub-
lic museum will bo built in the com-
ing summer. One of the great prob-
lems of the young city is how to
maintain the water supply during the
winter. Zero weather bothers the
people very little, but when the ther-
mometer gets to thumping around 30
or 40 below the pipes will get cold
and freeze. To obviate this trouble
and to keep all those baths and laun-
dries running the local inventors have
been cudgeling their brains, and think
they have hit upon a great scheme.
They know that the iron water mains
will carry a current of electricity, as
well as copper wire, or well enough
et any rate, and the plan is to hitch
on their electric ligbt plant and keep
the water pipes warm. The plan can't
be carried into execution until next
fall for some unfortunate reason.
THE POPULATION OF DAWSON
in put at 7,000, and wages have come
down to about $8 a day. To offset
this failing off in the income 411 food-
stuffs and other necessaries are totbe
bad much cheaper. In 1807 flour was
retailed at $60 a sack. To -day it is to
be hod for f$6 a seek. Other commo-
dities have decreased in price at about
the same ratio, the result of the im-
proved transportation.
It is in the development of means
of travel that Dawson looks for a
greater population and the introduc-
tion of the comforts of civilization.
Easier and cheaper transportation has
made ft possible to take in boilers and
engines, which, in turn, have /node
it possible to mine with machinery
and steam, thus suing away with the
crude and expensive fire mining. This
example shows what the steamboat
era has done for. Dawson. Within
n year the railroad era will have be-
gun, and it is expected that it 31111
work miracles for the mining indus-
try.
It is possible that some anxiety is
being felt lest the placer mining may
not last forever. It is doubtless true
that there are enough creeks and
elaime in the gold -bearing region to
last for several years to come, but it
Ls significant that miners are indulg-
ing in speculation as to the presence
and value of goad quartz. Dufferin
Palullo wrote an article for the Nug-
get In which he 5130305 a conservative
enthusiasm on the subject. He Bays
that there seems to be no doubt that
wonderfully rich surface indications
have been found, and although he does
not prognosticate, he says it would
not surprise him if Yukon produced
some of the greatest gold ledges in
the World. Mr, Patullo pleads the
gold output for 1901 at $25,000,000.
He says that no way has yet been
found to work the great beds of cop-
per there. _Large fields of a good
quality of coal are of the greatest
importance in the development of the
country. ,
TUE FIRST IRON CASTING
ever made in the Yukon territory was
made just before Christmas at the
McDonald Iron Works. The, first pre -
duct of the smelting department was
a pulley hanger, which was, as good
a piece of workmanship, as could be
made in a much older strop. This is
very,rmportant to every one in Daw-
ewe myignifiailnt as it .may, appear on
JUST CAUSE FOR COI4fP.LAINT,
Mrs. Wiggles -I always Said tba
the Brownsons were mean people,
161rs. Wiggles -What have they done
nowt
11frs. Wiggles -Why, they moved
yesterday, and they had throe of those
largo covered moving vans, so that
ail you eould see of their furniture
was while it was being carried from
the, frufit drab" fn the cart., e... '.
the fans of it, let every home and
tote/nese beanie some bit of May114110"y
la always ,breaking. Feriaerly a
aes;ar mghIe Pe
a 3111010
plbrantkunptil thei1'ettluirled attaabtttent
wield be sen3red from m1114414, which
would Metre weeks. Now the 'brak-
en parts can be replaoost without de-
lay,
The Yukon Telephone Syndicate bas
n reellcetable advertisement of a gaar-
ter of a colu'm'n in the Nugget, in
30140 it nlassifio'i1 telepbono eery-
ice as follows; ,
143 phones In 2 r ,Dawson,
21 phones, ..' t ,,.,'.Grand Forks.
14 phoues•in. Bonanza Creek
G Phobos In. 1 ' , ,Eldorado Creek
1 phone in . Sulphur Creek.
e phones in , .Dominion.
3 phones in . ,,Gold Run.
1 phone at . , .Dowle Rd. house
191 talking places,
11 is safe to say that the "hallo
girl," has her hands full inanswer-
ing *elle for the Howie Road House,
which, by the way, 18 run by a wee
teen. Shu Is 11.lre, M. P. Rothweiler
and she 18 the sole owner of the road
house. Mrs, Rotbweiler was born in
Canada and raised la ' New York,wbore
she had a millinery store and dab-
bled in real estate. She made mone)",
sold her New York property and went
to Seattle. There Om ran the Oak
Lake farm end when the Klondike
fever struck in 1807 she naught it and
journeyed to Dawson on
MULE; BACK AND l3Y SNOWSHOES.
There she bought what was called
Mary's Two -1311: Coffee House on Bon-
anza creek, which was a one-story log
budlding, 10x12• She added a largo
tent, and last fail built two large
two-story log buildings. The Nugget
says tbat these buildings contain a
bar, barber shop, setting room, oto.
Only the best domestic and foreign
gars are kept. The bunks aro sup-
plied with springs and bedding, and
music is furnished shortly after the
arrival of any party. bliss Jennie
Parry, "one of the liveliest and most
popular young ladies on the creeks,"
presides 0100 the dining room. and
Thomas McMullen, who presides over
the culinary department, is "one of
the finest chefs who ever landed in the
territory."
The Nugget prints a prize story
entitled "A Change of Partners," by
Chester Whitman Tennant, to whom
was awarded $50 for the best story in
the competition. Kr. Tennant was a
clerk in a Hartford, Conn„ shoe store
in 1807--a thin, consumptive -looking
fellow, who it was thought would nev-
er survive thejourneyto Dawson.
His Eastern friends now are made ac-
quainted with the fact that he is not•
only become rugged in health, but has
become a literary light in the great
Northwest, The story that Dame int
second best was on "Can Opening in
the Klondike," by Clara Colton.
The Nugget prints an original poem
written for its holiday number, one
stanza of which runs:
How sweet tbe thought latitude
leo matter of what degree
;Cannot debar us the ,beatitude
Of Chr]st's love and ransom free.
SOMETHING IN A NAME.
Teuton Desaclpilon or Cltles and Towns
lu Canada.
There is something in a name no
matter what Romeo's opinion on the
subject were. At any rate Romeo liv-
ed same years ago and tong before
Canadian cities and towns began to
add eharectertstie and topical names
to the orthodr7 description laid down
in the statute. Every city in Ontario
has its topical mime, which is des-
criptive from nu artistic standpoint
and convenient for the literary writ-
er.
It is seldom difficult to explain the
reason that certain cities receive cer-
tain names. T•,ronto is called Queen
City of the West, and every one who
bas been in the most beautiful city
of the continent multi honestly think
of no other descriptive name.
Hamilton is called the Ambitious
City because the o]tizens there are
anxious Lo rival Toronto.
Stratford is called the Classic City
because every person in that small
town talks in Shakespearian terms.
The wards are called 1lumeo, Hamlet,
and such well known names, and many
of the citizens are said to emulate
John Falstaff.
Guelph Is kuowu as the Royal City,
probably because the maiden name of
the late Queen tyros Guelph. There are
more Royal oitics ;ban one, however,
because Montreal lays claim to that
name, and so does New Westminster,
Brantford is celled the Telephone
City not because that city has tele-
phones but because it had that con-
venfenee at an early date.
The towns, or some of them, have
also
ADOPTED TOPICAL NAMES
or have had such forced upon them.
Most of them are guile evident and
need no explanation. The names of
the cities and some of the towns are
as follows:
Toronto.-Qaeen City of the West.
Ottawa -The Capital City.
Hanulten--The !ambitious City.
London --The Forest City,
Kingstun-'The Limestone City.
Brantford -The Telephone City.
Windsor -The Frontier City.
St. Thomas -The Railway City.
Chatham -The Maple City,
Guelph -The Royal City.
St, Catharines -The Garden City.
Stratford -The Classic City,
Belleville -The Bay. City,
Woodstock -the latest of them all --
not yet a city, not exactly a town, is
bunting about for a name. It will
probably be the Century City.
Montreal -The Royal City.
Quebec -,The Rook City, or the An-
cient capital,
Halifax-Tbe Garrison City,
Charlottetown -The Leland City,
Winnipeg -The Prairie City.
Vancouver -The Pacific, City,
tVictonia-The Capital,
New Westmidster-The Royal City,
.The name given to soma of the
towns is given beton.:
I'etorboro-The Electric Town.
Brandon --The Wheat Town.
GiQI Ilbe 3danehester Town,
Merlin -The German Town,
Cornwall-"Ghe Factory Town.
Ooderich-The .Salt Town,
+Ilrookville-The inland 'low.n. •
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
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PTdsOTIOAI, NOTES.
Pew - 4 t the sixth.
Pewee 4 , It }vas .baa 11 si b.
hour. Mark says it wee the third
hour when they began to crucify bine
that 15, Aloe o'elook by one reckoning;
the time , of the morning sac113110 r
142atthew, Mark, and Imko agree in
the hours that they mention for the
diffeemet 0vent5 of the exuolfixion.
John seems to differ, bot tt it 031
generally understood that John adopts
the Romain method of reekoping, and
not the To -wish, which harmonizes Kg
hours with that of the other Grange,
lists. The Jewel counted from pen -
rise, 00 that the third hour wan aboue
nine in the moaning, the sixth about
twelve., the ninth about three, and the -
13velf'th about six. The Romana
counted from midnight to noon, and
from noon to midnight, as we do, or,
rather as they taught us to do. Our;
Lotrd then wee crucified at nine o'clock
end remained six hours on the oross:
Thera time a darkneee over all the
earth until the ninth holrr. A• pre,
ternutural darkness, not 5q eclipse
which could not take plane at the full
moon. Whethes or not this dark-
ne35 ast confined 110 ev
Judea.. e can
only conjwecture,
45. The sun was daxkcined. "The
sun's Sight failing." The veil of the
temple was rent In the midst. "From
the top to the bottom," says Meek:
The curtain of the sanotuary. It
hung between the holy place and the
holy off hones. It was a symbol of
the inability of humanity to approach
Gael except by Meese of the priests:
Only once a year did the high priests;
venture to lift its comer and enter,
its holiest place. No one elle hath
lawfully seen its interior. The veil
in its sanctity wag more prohibitive
than oases of iron hung on doorposts
of atone and bolted with brass;and
steel. Its being supernaturally torn
was a sign that every human soul
could notes, come into olaso relation
With God the Father.
40. Jesus 'had cried with a loud
voice. "Two woods" or "sentences
"Eli, Eli, laznasabachthanid" Matt, 27
46, and "It is finished," Sohn 19. 30.
The . ivord5 'in the Syriac 1•dnguley
though not given in Dux ,lesson, are
02 special interest tons fox 'two rem -
sons. They. ase the neat words of
Pea. 22. Thyro is en old Jewish cus-
tom which has turned this psalm into
a death song of the orthodoxFlebrews:
All over tho world Jews inn dying
strive to repeat this psalm. This
does not preclude the statement that
there was a spacial application of the
words he our Lord's cage; but it should
make reverent students go slew in
their discussions of the sense in which
it could ba said that Gad had forsak-
en him. The other reason which is
of special interest ie that the words
are Syrian. Tbat was the language
in which our lord's earliest thougbt8
were ultexed in his boyhood's home,
He gave up the ghost. Ho dismissed
his spirit. Dietl of hie own will.
47. When the centurion eaw what
was done, be glorified God, saying,
Certainly this was a righteous man,
That the Roman officer who euper-
vised the crucifixion should be so ]m -
pressed by the supermltural environ-
menus would deeply impress all who
read the gospel. The loud cry imme-
diately followed by death, and the
woad then spoken byoue Lord strucll
the centurion as peoutiariy marvel-
ous, interpreting the other awful cir-
cuurstanaos of the aruoifixion, Het
saw in our Lord's sufferings and the
wonders attending them, proofs of a
divine and superhuman power.
48. A11 the people that came togeth-
er to that eight. Tho crowds that
were ever ready to watch capital pun-
ishment. Just smolt crowds wduld as-
semble to -day, but our laws compel
capital, punishment to be administer-
ed in private. Smote their breasts. In
accordance with oriental demonstra-
lion. Smiting g the breast was the pen-
itent act of the publican in the par-
able. " This beginning of fear and
sorrow," writes Dr. armee, " may have
become with many of them a repent-
ance unto life after the day of Pente-
cost." Returned. To the city.
49. A11 his acquaintance. His Wendt(
and associates. The women that fol-
lowed him from Galilee. Not only the
certain women of wealth and armee;
eminence contributed to his prosper-
fly, but there are many indications
that women followed In his train as
kind of disciples.
50. A man named Joseph, a coon'.
salol. He was at oxide a member of
the Sanhedrin and a disciple of Sea,
us.
51. The same had not consented to,
the counsel and decd, He and Niee,
demus may not have been notified of
the meeting of the Sanhedrin, but se,
wo have already noted there are roll-.
cations in the gospel narrative that.
there was a very vigorous defense for
Jesus, nod one might suppose that.
Joseph and Nicodemus were this de -
Lenge, 'Waited for the kingdom of
God. Planing their lives with regard.
to the coming of the Messiah.
03. This man went unto Pilate, and
begged the body of Jesus. A bold
deed, thus to defy public, opinion, and
especially the opiniou of his .fellow
counselors.
53. Took 1.1 down. Armed with the.
governor's warrant, he drew out the,
nails, and reverently lowered bis eras-.
ter's body in his own sepulcher. Pil-
ate only gave the permit after a guar-
antee from the centurion that Jesus,
wee dead. Fine linen such as the
Lnrene body Was now wrapped in was
a 107 5ry. Ile took him down trona the;
cross with the as8151mm of Nirodo-
netts, and probahly of other disciples',
i1Ll tomb was in a garden near.. the
plate of the b1'ucifixlon, and bad been
intended by Joseph for his,,own fair
fly While wap he withitlle',rloh let
death, ease isa, 53.9. -