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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-3-28, Page 3„tee 2eQr.ree3 eieieee 00i1febeRefrog, Although Om 'Brat annerergary Of the Bener outbreek Is not far din - cent, IL L t11 iinneeselele to peediet hew ,soon tee allied PowerWill be able to readjeast their relatioee witli Mina. t s reported, indeed, by the Loinioe Morning Post that Mr. Reek - hill, Liao acting American MinIstere belleven that e eet,teement. a the mein points ii eontroversy can be effected within two meethes. iv Rohr Hare, on tee other eand, considers that there are forreiclable obstaeleg to be • senruieunted, It Ls eney enouge. to identify tlao difeioulties whiehhoeas Ln rated, • They am, obwiously, con - nested with the aggrogisee amount of the bidoMmiLlea In be exacted and with 'the methods a payment to be eneoreed. According to a telegram Tram Pekin. goree of the English notes eioes lao.ve refugeeto accept. any money 'compenoation to): damages in- • 'ourred by them, and 1:110 Anietican • miesionary Moieties have deelined to accents lanteertnity for murdered mis- eionaries. It le well known that by neeeesinents levied upon villages and local officiale some anissiotaries have More than. rein:amine/I therarnelvee and • their converts for losses experienced. an ellen easee, oe course, there would be no eeprileible claim Ior any fur- ther indemnity. Such moderation is (notated, first, Ise a recognition a Ohinaes present dieabilitles from afinanoiel point ef view; and, eecondly, by the• deeermie- anon that Olaina shell not suffer ter- ritorial mutilation, provided she showe , a disposition: to make any pecuniary sacrifiee in, her power. According- to 'Sir Robert Hart, her power extends ao fitrther than to eurnish security for the intereet and sinking fund in- cident to a oreign loan not exceed- ing 0300,000,000. Aecordieg to one report from Pekin, the aggregate in- demnity will oven all short of that amount, provided the rest of the !ti- nes shell ehow themselves as reason- able as the Ineglielx intend to be. Un- happily, there is no eertainty that this evil be the case. On, the con- trary, the Italians and Spaniards, who have takea brat an insignifieant part Ln the rescue of the Pekin legations Ana in the restoration of order in the Province of Ohihli, are said to be ex- erbitant in their demands. The ad- euetment of the various pecuniary claims would be likely, therefore, to involve considerable delay, even if all the Powers were honestly desirous of relieving China from the nece.ssity oe satisfying her creditore with terri- tory instead of money. Ostensibly, all the Power e repro- aented at Pekin—including even Rue- -eta—hare agreed to refraia from any further dismemberment of the elid- dle King/neon It is diffloult to recon - ole with this agreement the negotia- tions reported to be carded on by the Ohineee Minister at St. Peteraburg, negotiations that have in view what evonel be tantamount to a cession of the spacious and populous Provence of Manchuria to the Czar. In return for suoh anacquisition, lluesin could • of course, afford to renoun te any claimto pecuniary indemnity. Such an act on her part, however, would, • numilestly, upset the plane of her al- lies. It would render ahnost inert- to.ble the application oL the polioy of dismemberment to the Chinese ter- ritories south et the Great Wall. ;Why? Because her allies, in calculate nig their respective claims: for ba - amenity, would have Lo bogie by esti- mating the money value of Manchuria, • wealth, if we inay judge from the ac- tual revenues of Newchwang alone, .evo'uld be, very great. Evidently, the aggregate of the foreign demands, if • computed aceeeding to suoh a standa ard, would altogether exceed China's ability to pay in money, and would have to be liquidated by territorial concessione. Mhere .4 no end to the trouble that would be amused by Russia's rupture of her compact with her allies, ane by Me' separate agreement with Mena to cry quits 10. return foe the e.stab- lislument of the Ozar's ascendancy ire. Manchuria. The immediate hostility oe the ,Tapane,se could only be averted by the abandonment of Corea Lo the Mikado, and the consequent juxtaposi- tion of the eaparneee and Russians on the Asiatic- mainland would render war inevitable at an early day. It Is doubtful, moreover, whether the Mut- chu dynasty would survive the die- oredit which would ontaoh to 11 10 the eyes of its Chinese subjects after Rs surrender of the country whence it came should become known. ' The vett regions of Middle and Southere Obina, which comprebend more then two-thirds of the :lempire's population, ,would justly apprehend a like be- trayal of their into:oasts to the for- eigner, and the netriolie uprising, ;Which, hitherto, has been confined to a few northern provbieen, would quickly extend over the whole of the Middle Kingdom. To eopo wiih the unanimous resistance of China to dis- memberrnent would tax all the mili- • tary resources of the Weatersa nations for Many years: --eg” There is but one practical solution ot• the Cbinese problem, Thee is is be oonapaSSed by adhering rigorously to the egret:moat to avoid any further grutilation. of the Middle :Kingdom and by making the deniande for pee Min leey indemnity as Moderato as' pose eible, 10 vier/ of • Obinies restricted ability to pity. Those who, by word or de el, favor AOTOO other solution ere eiehee inattentive to notorious facie or are se/wetly oherieltieg desighe in- •oonsistent with tbe motivee they pro - few. E WORLD'S O11S111 The Rev. Dr, Talmage Discourses on the Golden Calf. 11, deePatch fresn Washington, gays; --elev. Dr, Talmage nreaohed from the following text: "And ne took thooalf weirteh tbey bad made, and be beiret it in the eire, end groemcl it to pen:glen, and serewod, it epee the watee, and made the obildeeen of Israel drink oe It."—Exodue xxxit, 20, People will have a god of some kind, and ebeg peace one of their own' making. Here come the Israelites, • breaking oef their eolicien earrings, the Seen as well as the women, fee in those times they were rang:online as well aa feminine decoantlans. 1Vhere did they get these beautiful gold eameags, coening sip as they did frem the desert? Oh, they brerrowed them of the Egypi.Mne when they lett Egypt. These earrings aro piled up into a pyramid,of glittering beauty. "Amy more eaerinags to bring V' saYe Aerron. None. Fire is kindled; Ole eas:;rings are melted and poluxed Into a monild, not of an eagle OT a war- elleegee, brut of a silly calf; the geld cools 'off; the mould is taken away, and the idol is set up on Ite four legs; 4110 altar 18 Vain ill fT01:11: ot the shin- ing calf. Ileum the people throw up thole 'arms, and gyrate and shriek, and , dance mightly, and worship, Moms had beesa six weeks on Mount Sinai, and he comes back and hears the howling end aces the dancing of these golden-cale fanatics, mid he loses hie patience, and he takes the two plate of stone on which were written the Ten Commandments and flings them so hard againet a reek that they &pia all to pieces. When a mea gets mad be is very apt to breae all tbe Ten Commandments! Massie rushes in and ee takoe this calf -god anel tlurow,s it into a hot fire, until it is melted all out of shape, and then pulverizes it—not by the modern ap- plianee of nitro neuriatio acid, but by the ancient appliance cif nitre, ex by the cad -fashioned file, He sties for the people a most ntuaseating draught, • He takes this pulverieed golden tent a,nel thronve it in the only lerook which is accessible, deed the people are compelled to &ink of that btrook, or not drink at all, I shall describe to yen tbe god spok- en of in the text, the temple, HIS ALTAR OF SAORIFICII, the music that is made la the ten3- pie, and Lben the final breaking up of the when) eaagregation of idolaters, lIn-sary god must have it,s ple, and thee gelden cute of the text san cxceptiain. lIs tomgle is vas - er than St. Paul of the Einglish, and St. Peter, et the Italians, and the Al- hambra cif the Spaniards, and the Paxthenon of the Grease, and the Taj Mahal ot tha Iluelcos, and all tee oth- er cathedrals put together. Its pil- lar are grocreatt and fluted with gold, and its ribbed arches are hovering gold., and ite chandeliers axe dee seen/ling gold, and its Deere ana Les- sellaed gold, and its ratite are crowded heaps of gold; and its spires and dames are soaring gold, and 110 organ ii.pes are resounding gold, and its -pedals ere tramping go3d, and 115 steps rmlled out aro flo.sning gold, while standing at the head of the tem- ple as the pros/dims deity, are tho Mires and shoulders and eyes and ears an.d nosta its of the calf of gold. Fu:rther: every god must have not only its temple; but its altar of snarl - floe, and this golden calf of the text exception. Its altar ie not :nada out of stone as other altars, but cut of counting room desks, and fire- prcee safes, and it is a broad, a long, a high altar. What does this Rod caim about the groans aed struggles of the victims before it? With colt), raetalho eye it leeks on, yet lets them suffer. Oh, Mavens and earth, what an anae I What a sacrifice elf body, mind, and eacen1 the physical health of a great multitude is flung eta to this sacrificial altar, They can- not sleep, rind they teke chloral and morphine and intoxicants. The 1:rerable is, weeis men sacri- fice themselves cra this altar suggest- ed en the text, they not only sacri- fice themselves, bel they SACRIFICE THEIR FAMILIES. If a man by an 111 course is &term - Limn 16 go to perdition, I suppose you will have to let hien go; but be puts his wife and children in sin equipage that is the amazement: of the avenues, and the driver lasheet the horses late two whirlwinde, and tile spokes Heels is the sun, and the golden headgear of the harness gentiles, until Bleak Caltunity takes tha bits of the horse/ and stops thena, anel shouts to the luxuriant occup- ants ot the equipage; "Get eel I: 1" They get out. They get down. Tbe hue - band and father fleng Ins family so I bard they never get up. There wits I the mark on them tor life—the mark of the split hoof—the de/lee-dealing , Mot 01 tM golde.n. calf. Solomon offered in one satrifice, on I nab ecoaaion, twenty-two thoteland oxen and one hundred and twenty! thousand sheep; but that was a tome 1 saeritioe carapand with the multi- SeIVOS on tine altar oe the golden calf, tude cif men who are SOOTifiCling them - and sacrificing their families with them. The soldiers of Gotteval Have, I lock, in India, walked litmally ankle deep en the blood of "the Melee of massacre," where two hundred wo- men and children had been slain by the Sepoya; but the bloott around acne this altar of the goldess calf flows isp te the knee, flowe eo the j revile, flows to thck shoulder, flowe to I lin. Great God of. heaven arid earth, I have meteor! The goleet etilf haa Still th4 dernmei tog worship gees en and the dev.otees kneel aria Hee tbe durst, and, count their golden beads, and 05-0,01 teemselves with , Hie blood saf thine own stietifiee. The must° rolls on Under tbe arebes; it le made at clinking silver and °linking gold, and the rattling of 'the banke and beneers' ahope, and the anima of ail the exoluenges, The aograno of the worship IS oarriee ley the timid veicee of raw), who have juat begun to specu- late, while ieee deep bass mile one from those who for ten years of in- iquity halve been doubly damned. Chorus of voices rajSieisag over what they have made. Maras of voices wailiasg over what they have lost. Thie temple of wInesh I speak etansie open day and night, and there is the gni- tereng god with his Lour feet on brok- er_ hearts, and there la the snicking altar of sacrifice, new victims every moment on it, and there are the kneeling devotees, mod the doxology of the worship rolls on, while Death stands with mouldy tend skeletozi nom beating than for the chorus— "MOItle 1 MORD 1 MOB,E 1" But my text suggestg that this worship has got to be broken up,, are the behove:nu of Moses in my text indicated, There are those who sey that the/ golden calf spoken' of in ray text evas hollow, and raerely plated with gold; otherwise, they say, Moses could mot Ilene carried it, T do not know that e brat somehow: perhaps by the assietance of his friends, he takes up this goldesa calf, which in an in- fernal isi.sult to God and man, and throws it into the fire, a,nd it is melted, am.d then it comes out and is , cooled off, tend by some chemical up - salience, or by an olden:Lehi/need file, 11 bs to the brook, and as a punishment, pulverized, -and it Ls thrown in- ; the people -are compelled to &ink the ; nauseating stuff. Se, iny hearers, I yosi may depend upon it that God will burn, and he will grind to pieces the golden' calf of moduli idolatry, and he will compel tho people, hi their agony to drink it. It not be- , fore, it will be so on the last day. The golden calf of our day, like the one of the text, is very apt to be made out of borrowed gold. These Israelites of the text; borrowed ear- , rings of the Egyptians, and then inelted them into a god. That Is tbe IIvey the goldenecalf is made nowadays, A, great many housekeepers not pay- ing for the artielee they get borrow of the german aped the baker, and the butcher, and the dry goods seller. Than the retailer borrows of the wholesale` dealer. Then the wholesale dealer borrows of the capitalist, and we borrow and borrow, until the com- munity is divided into two elesees,thost who borrow, and those who are bor- rowed of; and after awhile the cap- italist wants bis money. and he rushes upen the wholesale dealer, and the wholesale dealer wants bis money,ana. be rushes upon tbe retailer, and tbe i retailer wants his money and he , rubes upon the consumer, and we all go down together. There ie many a man en this day who rides m acar- triage and owes the blacksmith for the tire, and the wheelwright for the , wheel, and the trimmer for the cur- tain, and the driver for unpaid wages, and the harness-nutker for tee bridle and the furrier for the robe, while from the tip of the carriage tcriague clear baok to the tip of the earners hair shawl fluttering out of the back of the vehicle, everything, is paid for by notes that have been THREE TIMES RENEWED. But, my friencte, if we havemade ibis' world our god, wean we come to dee we will nee our idol demolished. Hoer much of this world are you go- ing to take with you into the next ? Will year have two poelteta—one 10 each aide et your shroud'? Will you cushion your casket evith bonds and mortgages and certificates of stock? Ala I no. The ferryboat that crosses this Jordan takes. no baggage—noth- tng heavier than a spirit. You may, perhaps, take five hundred dollars with you two or three miles,. in the shape of funeraltrappings to Green- wood, but you Will have to leave thein there. at would not be safe for you to lie down them with a gold wateh ore diamond ring; it would be a temp- tation to the pillagers. Ale my friends I if we have made this world oar god, when we die we will see our idol ground to pieces ey our pillow, and we will have to drink it in bitter regrets for the wasted opportunities of a lifetime. Soon we svill be gone. Oh I this is a fleeting woied, it is a dying world. A man who batiewor- shipeti it all his days, in lue dying moment described himself, when he said " Pool I Fool I Fool I" I want you to change temples, and to give up the worship cre this unsatis- fying and cruet god for the service of the Lord eesus Christ. Here is the gold that will never eeunoble. Here are securities ,that will never fall. Here are banks that will never break. Jaen is an altar on which there has bean one sacrifice that does for all. Here is a God who will eorefort you when you are iu trouble, and soothe you when you are sick, ,and save you when you die 'When your parent have breathed their last ,and the old, wrinkled, avd trembling hands oan no mere be put upon your head for a bleesing, He will be to you father and mother both, giving you the defense cif the one and the comfort ot the other; and when your children go away from you, the sWeot darlings, you will not kiss them good -by for- ever. He only wants to told them fer is little while. He Will give them Melt to you again, and Ho will have them ell waiting for yoa at the gates at eternel welcome I Ob 1 what a C,od Ise is I Ho will nether tyou to come so eloso this morning Heti; you can put your time around iris neok, while ha inoreepotioli, ai s,etv,iliclvaunt bailee, wind arinsoTsenod yalni heaven will be notated to lei: the re- deemed look out and see Me spectacle oi a rejoicing Father and a, returned prodigal loieree in glorious embrace. Quit woeshiping the golden tale and bow Abis day before iffirn in whose presence we maet all appear when the world has turned to ashes end the store:hod paroliment nf the sky shall be lolled together Klee an hietorle acrolt.' TNE WORK TFIAT IS NEVER ON epeloreet eallere to egeolopitsili an/ Enduring Results, • "If 1.111.3age Welled only ;flay deme—if eould look back weer the day and see one thing aocomplisiied that will not have to be done ever again to -mor- row, 1 sheeted not get so Urea of it or feel so diseouraged!" How nerny milliees of wiree and caoLlsers eave made Seine snail com- ment aa tine an the monotony of household te.skS I It is not alOne the deadly sareanese, the constant repo - titian of little d'irtieS; it ig even moan the feeling of futility, the apparent failure lo aeoomplisli any ending re- sults. The breed that was baked this morning will be gone to-morrew. The dishes are washed and, put away only 10 be need and washed again. Tbe linen fre,sh from the ironing-to.ble Will he back isa tbe laundry ity the end of the week, The rooms swept clean the other day already need eweepine again. The chiLdren cull for endless sympathy end attention. A. man's work may he ever so hard; it is lase often clouded by this sense of unproduotiveness. It neauallY beinge a delinite reward in the feeling of something aceomplished, some tune els result athieved. The architeot points to the finished building and says, "1 designed it." The carpen- ter and the mason who see the struc- ture growing under their bands know that it will otand for years, an Intim- peachabee witneas to their Ladnetry and faithfulness. But the things whech are tangible are n,ot alsvaya those which are most real or most useful. There are oth- er noble works besidee fine buildings. The young eaten who goe,s out into the world Maltby arid clean -minded, strong in prineiples which he ac- quired at home, and firm, in the Imo lice that there is no other woman in the world quite so good a$ hie mother -13.e is a nobler work even than a Parthenon or a Taj Mahal. And the daughter who has grown Lo wo- manhood with a pure heart, and hands trained to perpetuate in a new home the deeds of usefulness and comfort learnee in the old—is elm less to the world thanebrick and marble? . "Do not think that notbing is hap- pening because you do not see your- self grow or hear the whir of the ma- chinery," says Henry Dr.examond. "All great things grow noiselessly. You can see a mushroom grow, but never a child." 125 MILES AN HOUR tibS NEV. York eentrai reeemettves ex- pected to nreak steeerds. ISis: of the largest passenger loots:tie- tives in the world have just been put into service by the New York Central Railroad No. 2080, which is a type of the new engine will be put on the Empire State Express one of the fast- est trains in the world and is expect- ed to outdo the famous old 099's rec- ord of 91 mile's an hour. These loco- motives have remarkable ,proportions The engine proper is IN 1-2 feet lone, and including pilot ansi tender will measure 50 feet, Ilhe two driving wheelie are 79 inches' high and the roof of the cab rises 15 feet above ebe traok. The weight of the engine alone is 88 tons. Railroad men expect No. 2980 to attain a speed, of from 105 to 125 miles an hour. A peculiar feature of the engine is the planing of its ten wheels. Just behind ibe four mammoth drivers are two smaller traction wheels undee the cab. In ordinary running these car- ry most of the weight of the cab and fire -box. But when on an upgrade with a heavy load to pull and the driving wheels are slipping away a new mechanisns is used. Jey the turn of a lever in the cab 10 000 pounds weight is shifted from the traction stheels to the driving wheels. This makes the drivers' grip the track with 'just so muoh Wed power. Mr. A. M, Waite, superintendent of motive power, was the one who de- signed this engine, He Says that while it may snake a new world's record for speed, it was not speolally designed for that purpose. His aim was to build an eneine that ocals1 make schedule time under all isonditions of weath- er, head, winds, extreme eold and enow and make up time Inc .delayn iWben' trains are echeduled up to 50 miles an hour, as is the case of some of the Central's express trains, lt is evident that an engine must be capable of running far above sixty to mime upto the requirements under all circumstances. ENCOURAGING MOTTOES. letscrip;ten er a preoperees neer earinuoine In Winston Spencer Churehill's Saab on Gen. Ism Hamilton is the description at a prosperone Boer farinh011se, a large,nequare building with a deep veroada, e garden and hall a dozen barns. Indoors be found a sorice of decorations evident- ly ministering lese to a Sense of beauty then to the moral life, The walls were hung with curious prints or eolored plates, wad several texts in Dutele, One set of plates represented the ten Angel of nitin's life, end another gloated the woman's. Both were diselayed in. every period from the cradle to the grave, and the tortrairas lay at the comfortable age of a hundred. The woman's fortunes were eapeci- ally proeperous.At birth sbe sprawled comeentedly in a cradle, while loving parents bent over San in rapture, and dutiful an- gels hung attendani in the sky. At tenshe scampered after a htiop. At twenty she realined on the shoulder of an exemplary lover. At thirty she was engaged in teachiug letters, to seven cbildren. At forty elle cele- brated it silver wedding. At fifty, still young and blooming, elm attended the ebeiatening of a grandchild. At sixty it wee a greitingra.ndehile. At seventy she enjoyed a golden wed - &Mg. At eighty elle was smiliegly mimed in knitting, elven at ninety site Wars Well preeerved, nor mild she with reasosi complain of her lot when at it hundred, the Inevitable hour had =Iva, MARE 011UCIAL HOUR, A Woman ea the Primer givitemen of I9io551ine4 Went Ihey Stet tenon Tbe eruoial hoer et the day as re - garde int eefeet upon tbe man rie the faintly is commonly thomelit to be associated with breakfast. (ellen sus obeerful bearing and a joyful de - meaner on the part of the feminine past of the family ere thought to be meet effective in Plating Ole ,1144 °f the house into the rigbt, sort et hen Moe for the day, Where are other views, however, on the Oubjeot, and one of them tame from, a woman whose expedenves in her married life have been of e eine to encourage ear wiee. She disagrees with thenceepted view als to the potency of good humor in the morning. Her schoule is very dif- ferent. " The most important moment of the day to a man's peaoe of raind," she said, "10 the ten minutes that follow his return from the work of the day. At that Limn ono word znay ceange his whole state of feeling, " He comes home usually tired. Work or the vexations of business during the clay have frequently brought him to a point of fatigue or nervotieness at which a very little thing may de- cade what his' mood will be for the rest of the evening. Cif Course, the par- ticular disposition of every man is going to tell here just as it does every- where else. a3ut my rule will hold good for the average roan - "The most important thing for the tactful woman to do is to wait until she sees some signs of his temper, Sabre site makes any decided Move, Don't above all things, tell him that the plumber just just sent in a ter- rible bill merely for making that al- teration, or say that stupid Mrs. Jones has been at the house all af- ternoon talking about the new house eer husband has .bought and showing off her sables as if she was the only woman in town that had them. " Generally, it is best to avoid such beginnings, although a woman's tact must always be tolled in to help her out, if ono of hie ehileren has just Scan taken down with measles, or the cook bas been drunk all day and had to be sent away. "Don't talk too much in the be- ginning on any subject. Conversation taken torrentially. at the outset is likely to upset anybody who is to lit- tle tired after a day's work, and wants quiet before adjueting his mind to the quiet enjoyment ot home. " The woman who follows this advice is going to find 'her evenings pleasant- er then if she jumps at the beginning into the heart of things, especially disagreeable things. A. little tact during the first quarter of an hour after ehe retern home is worth all the early morning cheerfulness in the world when it comes to making the wheels move smoothly in the house- hold.' GREAT ENGINEERING PEAT. English Engineer Ilas About Completed G5 -eat work ea the Nile. Sir John Aird, contractor for the great barrage work on the Nile, bas returned to England atter seeing the most difficult part of the work suc- cessfully completed. Speaking of the undertaking, he said: "A. fortnight ago I wired home that You could walk across the Nile. You can now moss it in a railway train, Wa Save got the locomotive running. "We contracted to do the work in five Yellen Them haee elapsed, and I then, we sball finish in two yeare mere. That will be a record, for we Sava had to go a good deal deeper for our foundations than was entice: paled. We had to go down some six- ty or eeventy feet before we reached good solid rock. We expect the worlm to bs in full swing for the Nile flood of 1903. "The importance of the work elm - not be orer-estimuted. Egypt lives on the Nile—always has done, and al- ways will. From time immemorial the country has been at the mercy oe the Hoods and the low waters. That will be counteracted. 13y the present scheme, Nellie& sterile the water back Lor 180 mike, and holds it in reserve to be let llusaugh the sluices ne it is needed. ' "The land is fertile—fertile as no other lend is—for a destaneo of three- quarters of a mile from the banks. Thie batrage scheme should extend tin itregeof fertility to a mile end a quar- ter. More lana in cultivation means mere produce, naore labor, more taxes. "Egypt will gain all round. Amd etch a eountry it isl Three and font crops a year, anel the produte of the most; beautiful green that can bo imagined, "Instead oe destined:ire Mode and droughts and irregular navigation there will be a oonstent and steady regulated supply of water, an.d tenet of the diffientties of navigation will disappeav, "About 15,001 men are at work, and within the next three motthe there will 10 13000 or 4,003 more. Ninety per matof the men are natives. We, have about 1,000 Italians, 800 English- men and Scolainen and a few Irish. We get all of our materials 'from Eng- land." WHEN SYLVIA SKATES, When Sylvia skates my heart lealls high, And e'en the wialds cease rushing by, Butt seern to stop as St to mee Her whieling, singiog vend and free With Willing cheek and fleshing eyel A hundred other needs may try WIiIls merry laugh or emelt& Nigh, In vain, to claim 01111 glance from ansI Whorl Sylvia sketcsi Ale there is nanny, many a cry Of terror as her tOcIsleS fly From under her rebelliously— She weighs two enedred pounds! Oh, Gael .1\h`o isa groOES Oat —and that's no lie Mon rdylvia. skates! • ALONG WITII THE UNION JACK. nettate's colonization WerIc In iiigand 511 Centrat Areas. The explanations that imeompanied the recant presentation of the new Uganda Railway bill La tee Britigh Hollee of Cemmene naval ehe ex. teat et the work thait ear tee lest /ex 3e5120 haS hem jitiratted isi reelairra- ing to eisilizalion us arge African, territory lying between German East Aedea aad the upper Soudan, and di- rectly in the line of the propmed GaPe to Cairo route. The original eoheme, width haa so far b.een followed, waN to build a Ilse from the coast to Lake Victoria. It is repoeted that even the present partial operation of the line elite abollehed tbe elave trade in the territory through whiee it passe*, ane will, in eonjunetioa with the opening of the future Cape to Cairo route, infliet a deathblow throUghOUt Central Africa, not only npon slavery, but also upon the hieleoue cannibal- lem reeently borate witnesg to by sev- eral returned explorers. It le also polo:gee out that whatever obance there be of developing is paying tree- fic for the Rae m,ust be ixi the hope cie gemming by suitable steamers the trade at present largely diverted to Gerrna‘ny and the Congo Free Stale territory, when), it 10 said, with pee- ler redlines en the lake would na- turally follow the direet route by the way of Mombasa. The est:ea:tate ef the cost ot the com- pleted railway show e an excess of e1,930,000 an the sum. of 413,020,000 provieled in. the Uganda Railway act of 1898, and the Appropriation act of 1895. The excess ie said to be due first, to the intention to complete the line on a permanent basis, and, sec- ondly to the increese of cost due to circumstances which could tot be foe -stem The length of the line now ope.n for trafic I 00e miles, and the rolling stock already consists of 92 loom:motives and 912 cars, besides goods and pasaenger stock. The ne- ceseity of importing 15,000 Indian workmen had raised the cost to nearly double the ferniest in 1893. TM gross receipts frorn Government and general traffic already exceed 44 per mile a week. The estimated total length of the line will he 583 miles. The Great DancerS of Palley, Tao many Tesetable4. The vegetaxian restaarants of Lon-, don, on account of their low prices and careful cookery, are frequented by many persons not vegetarians. Usu- ally they are satisfied, but a lady, whose maid accompanied her about London, Was soon the recipient of a protest. "Dot, Mary," she argued, "the food Is palatable,—you cleared your plate, —and it is certainly wholesome. 'Why do you object 9" "11 ain't teat bad to taste, ma'am," responded Mary. firmly, "but I don't call it wholesome—no ma'am, not when QUEER AILMENTS. • 4. Seutementa "Tbeee slieep pleteree of elarive's are beatltitur," said ilo, lb, the art in- struetor of the summer ton asubussol, to hie OM as he turned over a lot of, re- produalons from the great Artist's paintings. "They are so gentle, so ten- der, so suggestive of pastoral pollee Mad quietude!" "011, 1 dolove sheep:" exclaimed one of the girls. "They are /30 deer! Don't you think SO, Mr, 5.1" Mr. L. looked thoughtful for a ZOO- ment; then he said: "M' father, tvlio WAS it farmer, kept sheep tor 20 years. Tie was an old man when he deehled to give up the practice —an old man, but as full of sentinient ami feeling as he bad ever been. I shall neVer forget tlie day when the purchaser of the dock came to take them away. My father stood in the barnyard and watched till the Met sheep had passed through the great gate into the road, waited till tbe last' faint bleating of the dock had died away in the distance; then he turned to nte with a face full of emotion." Time were tears in the eyes of the "class," and their girlish hearts were touched by the pathetic word picture. Somebody sale "Ali!" in a long drawn fashion. "Ile turned to me, my poe% 'old father," the artist continued, "tetne said la a low, earnest voice, "William, I'd go five miles any day to kid a sheep!"—Lesile's 'Weekly. His Goal the Letter "V.,' When the late Homee Maynard, LL. D., entered Amherst college, he expos- ed himself to ridicule and jibing ques- tions of his fellow students by placing over the door of his room a large square of white cardboard on which was inscribed in bold outlines the sin- gle letter V. Disregarding comment and question, the young man applied, himself to his work, ever Reeplag in naiad the height to which be wished to climb, the fleet step toward wIncb was signified by the mysterious V. Four years later, after receiving the compliments of professors and stu- dents on the way he bad acquitted himself as valedictorian of his class, young Maynard called the attention of his fellow graduates to tbe letter over his door. Then a tight broke isa upou, them, and they cried out: "Is It possible that you had the vale- dictory fu mind when you put that V, over your door?" "Assuredly I bad," was the emphatic reply. On he climbed, frOin height to beight, becoming successively professor of mathematics in the University of Ten- nessee, lawyer, member of congress, attorney general of Tennessee, United States minister to Constantinople and finally postmaster general.—Success. Saner g000ne. All the world is familiar with snuff- boxes, but snuff spoons are pretty little refinements of which this generation bas hardly heard. Very probably they they fill a body's plate with tomato , came into use about two Tears after and cabbage and parsnips and potato Sir George Rooke's ex-pedition to Vigo ail at once, and give you fish -ball goose things without any goose in 'em, I ton of tobacco and snuff from the fish in 'am, and bay in 1702, when be capture° bale a things without any and croquette things made all of mem--; Spanish galleons, and snuff ttrus be - ed -up greens. Sara ma'am, it gives came a common !article In England, me confusion of the stomach 1" Ono of the characters in a comedy 'Another domestio reeentiy discover-, published at Oxford. in 1704, entitled ed an ailxuent as new as this and: ,, . see Act at Oxford," by Thomas Baker, even more surprising. She was. em-; says, "But I carry sweet snuff for the ployed in a household where she qeerheard a good deal of talk about, ladies," to width Arabella replies: "A. diet and especially about the San-, spoon too. That's very gallatt, for to gers attend:mi upon eating potatoes see some people run their Mt fingers • and other sterehy foods of which the into a box is as nauseous as eating mistress was forbidden by bar dootor tvithout a fork." to partake. ns to the reason whyee , In tbe forties and fifties snuff spoons, starth was deleterious Bridget drew' were still in use on the Scott:eh border. San own conclusions. One Morning aha uppeo.red with a They were of bone and of a size to go serious and alertued omantenance and into the snuffbox. People fed their when inquiry was made explained noses, It was said, as naturally as they that she had " crieks in bar neck" and carried soup to their mouths. As late San joints and all over her and was as 1877 a farmer at Norham -on -Tweed feeling very queer—but at least elle was seen using one. knew why "Ansi 111 never eat any more po- tatoes ma'am," ehe asserted earnest- ly "for 'tie that that's the matter with' me. I ate a blg one at dinner yesterday ; and 0 ma'am when I woke up this morning I was starched as stiff as a board!" Atarvelons Chicken Lege. The mechanism of the leg and foot of sa chicken or other bird that roosts on is limb is a marvel of design. It often seems strange that a bird will sit on a , roost and sleep all night without fall - TRAGEDIES AVERTED. ling off, but the explanation is perfectly simple. The tendon of the leg a' a bird Some Cases Where They 11We Prevetneel by Untbreseen Avekketi. • A. man who had planned a murder in a railway carriage, eutningly timing his attack for the 1110IIIC1111 when the Iran was passing no station and when no other train was expected to be in the vicinity, carried out part of the proginni to perfection, His hand was on his victim's throat, and all should have gone well, when a shout arrested. Ms attention, the train slow- ed up, and he found hinaself a ptis- onar A local." special," DLit on at a busy junction, was the ealiSe Of his fail- ure. The express had overhauled the slower train, and the montett of pass- ing had been the moment chosen by the murderer. The deed wits witness-, edi and the express stopped. A. party of desperadoes, havitg de- teernined to rob a train, greased the rails on a steep ineline that ran through is mating. They were thee butted by the email accident of till bank giving way beneatlf the feat of two of thele' number so -ho stood an tbe edge,rently to fire on the driver of the locomotive below, The earth 1101 gave way beneath their Tent fell upon the rails, and enebled the engine to keep going until the top at the riso was reached. A banana rind once averted en ex- plosion planned by anarchists. Proo deeding on a fele day to the spot se- lected, the man who was cerrying the bomb Bleeped on the piece of fruit skin. Ito fell with snob force that' the bomb at •onee exploded, and lm himself was the only person killed. A wooden penholder, stnek behind , rt bank clerk's (sir, caught in the imin-' mer of a revolver hold close to hts' head by a robber, anti Prevented ths,. weapon from going off. The rob-. bar took fright end decamped, that loosts is so arranged that 1)liell the leg is bent at the knee the claws are bound to contract and thus bold with a sort of death grip the limb around which they are placed, Put a chicken's feet on your wrist and then make the bird sit down, and you will have a practical illustration on youe skin tbat you vill remember for some time, By this singular arrangement, seen only in such birds as roost, they will rest comfortably and never think of holdiug on, for it is impossible for them to let go till they stand up. A hinscialne boars Mald, A )3ostonlan while exploring the illes a. a paper printed In his town a cen- tury ago came across this rather star- tling advertisement; "8 Rogers In forms those ladies who wish to be dressed by him, either on assembly or ball days, to give him notice the previous day. Ladles who engage to and don't dress must pay him half price." Censorship In China, The censorship Is a very real thing in China. There tiny one who writes an Immoral hook is punished with Imo blows of the beery bamboo and ben- Ishment for life. Any one wile reads it is also punished. nntem in le 0. Fogg -1t isn't such a diffieult thing to read character by Om handwriting, believe I can do it myself. Bass—Well, try your skill on that leb ter I received a short time ago. Mai do yob any to that? Trogg—En the drat plate, the writer it tt very unwomanly woman, Bass—Bow do you come to that con, °TtlIi'seig°14111 None of the words are under scored.