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The Brussels Post, 1901-4-18, Page 6ATOTZSI 42rD 00.40fE1VT8. AMNIA hi it Ving 0 Way lei Mine, ad t eerge 40 iflea ekred it, Renee le ber neareat neigh. bon and Mann anderstanee her ough end telpericele Perbiaps the ron. era ot Oblate think that ) it in kntt" to Single out the steongeet of the ninth, eiteke allianee with that netlon, alleaate frera the other elliers and thei etU »upon Li base( which 4=11 Prevent Any other •=hoe frthe ob- teinine a poetion of Chinese territory. Six of the other powera, Ragland, Germany, the ennead States, Austria Xenein and Italy nave xerathetrated; they nave urged that China is in treaty with the allies ita a body, and that to enter into riegetiatiorn witli any mingle power for tbe purpose of aiithating territory le unfair. The G•ormans compe.ro euela actioe to the conduet a a bankrupt who endeav- ors to give 'endue preferenee to a favored creditor Ana to make special aesignmente to him, to the prejudice of his °thee eredltors, ana add that if persevered in, it will almost eer- tainly bring bevy punishment on China, and may lead to complications a the gravest kind. But Russia is in absolute military possession, and can eeforee compliance with the provieions of tho uonvention proposed. There were twelve articles in the • eriginal conVention. They were as follows: • 1. The Russian Emperor, willing to forget the recent hostilities in Man- o'huria, consents to allow China to re- sume the entire civil government of Manchuria as before. • 2. Owing to the present unsettled state of the country the number of Russian soldiers policing the railway shall be augmented until the pacifi- cation a the country is complete and become chivalric, and we assault the last our clauses a the present them; we g -et on the high-mettled theology. "The Lord sent the hor- convention are in operation. net.' steed of oux courage, and we make an the event of disturbances the Then 1 think these annoyance/ come . I a cavalry charge at tnem, and, if to us to culture our patience. In the DISAGREEABLE THINGS. The Rev, Dr, Talmage Speaks on the Annoyances of Life0 despatolt trent Wathington says; engem arid itzlooesideratenese of Rev. Dr. Talmage preached train tne thildeners, beit whatever be the fad, We win pelmet Olean are these iuseen follewing text to -"Tho Lord thy GM analoyanees winging their way out God will eond •tee hornet."—Deut. yil. from the culinery department, If the go, gran° ol Uod ha lug in the heaet of In lay text the hornet Wee oat en Be Minden, It ia 1 Koons oe wasp, elven in ile motion and violent in lts aling• Itel tieunh ilF3 torture to mate or the bousekeepee, she cannot maintain eer equilieriumr. The naen oorrae home at night and bees' tbe story of these ienneyeuneee apd Amy; "Ob ! the'se home trembles are very little things." beast. We have all seen the cattle They are small, sraell as wasps, bat run bellowing under the eut of its l'lleY atialae lancet. In beyhood, We used in 'stand 5 I have rioliteecl in the history of aoalnen : qonf 'me congregaLion that then' cautiously' looking at the globular are e trulittiplaileing ;al itiliiat nest; hung from the tree branoh, and ennoi;an:rs while we were looking at the wonder- they have a han,drealviMugr,'ttilneY useail ful pasteboard, covering, we weee to have ten, The naturalist tells us struck with something that oent us ellett " lv"s9 sinh'etiln" ha3 a laail'ilY seeinwentty lelrfensearnedrwasapsn, and it does shrieking away. The hornet goes in swarms, It has oaptaitis, over euza nein lite bewailed Z millo7."11..g the! belp of God to -lay, / want to int in erens, and twenty a them alighting a counter raime. n nm nt The hornet is of ooe ag will produce, certain usee Oh yes'I Te death, The Persians attempted to tells ue they oreveryim rt4ntin no The naturalist conquer a Christian city, but the ole- the werld's thonomy; they killspiders, and they clear the atmosphere; and I phants-and the beasts. on wbiele the ly leomeGuil sends; the annoy - Persians rode were assaulted by the arts ot 're r I u hornet so tbat the Nvholo army was spieling of ulasearsOulPaccandutitoolekailrt the broken up, and the besieged city was atmosphere into the skies. These an - rescued. Thie burning and noxious ‘noyanceei are dent on us, I think, to Levant:0(1)1ra f Tait 0111' lethargy. There bisect stun,g out the Hittites aud • lirely Ike Oanaanites from their country. as neel!of "ytlloie:j-arrireit'ss'0' think that these annoyancee' aro in - and 1 Wha t gleaming sword and chariot of war could not accomplish was done by the puncture a an inseet. 'the Lord taint the hornet. My frieuds, when we are assaulted by great Behemoths of trouble, {V.0 tended to persuade ue of the feet that this ie not a world for us to stop in. If \fre had a bed of everything IM! was attractive and sett and easy, what would We want of heaven? We think that Mei hollow tree sende tee henna. You think the devil sena/ the hornet. I wont to oerrect your Russian garrisons will assist China in quelling therm 4. China having attecked Rusgia and the Chinese troops having dispersed, China undertakes to station no troops in any place where the railroad is not completed or begun. Russia will de- termine the number of Chinese police patrols to be employed; the impor- tation of arma into Manchueia te for- bidden. 6. The high officials implicated in tbe recent disturbances are to be de- graded. Russia will furnish the Russia will determine what armhe police shall carry. Artillery is for- bidden. No nationals of any other country can resume official duties in Manchttrie. 6. No [nationals of any other country except Russia can be employed for drilling Chinese soldiers or sailors :M North China—literally, in the north- ern places of China. 7. Referring to Article 6 of the Port 'Arthur Convention, local officials shall draft the necessary rules as soon as possible. This simply means that, while Chinese officials shall be ap- pointed in Manchuria, including the Leao-tong, no Chinese troops shall 00 - ter. The Chinese jurisdiction at gin- chau ceases. 8, In Maneharia, Mongolia, and Ohinese Turkestan no railive.y, mining or other concessions shall be granted to the nationals of any other power, nor can China herself construct any railroad. No land excepting Niu- thwang can be leased to foreigners. 9. As regards payment of an in- demnity for her military expenditure, Russia shall act in conformity and be paid in conjunction with the other powers, the terms and conditions to be subsequently determined. N. As regards payment of the in- demnity for the destructien of the Trans -Manchurian Railway, China shall arrange with the railway com- pany itself. 11. Tho railway indemnity shall be paid in full or a commercial conces- sion accepted in part payment. 12. Chinas having assented to Rus- sia's expressed intention of con- structing a railroad direct from Man- churia to Peking, herewith confirms her assent. Modifieations have now been made aa follows; ;Pint—KM-chow and Port Arthur shall not be annexed. but shall be leased from the Chinese Government as heretofore. Second—Russia will not insist upon there being a Russian resident at Moulelen. Tbixd—The Chinese Army will be God be with us we cone out stronem gymnasium, you find upright parallel and better than when we went in, Dere—upright bare with holes over But alas ! for tbe insectile annoy- moll other for the peg.s to be put awes of life—these foes too small to en. Then the gymnast takes! a Peg shoot—these things without any avon- in eac.h hand and be begins to climb, clu.pois weight—the gnats, and the ono !nth at a time, beginning, or two midges, and the flies, and the waspe,I or three inches. and gen-Mg hie and the harnets. In other words, it strength .cultured, reached after es the small stin,ging annoyances of i awhile the ceiling. And it seeing to cur life which drive us out and use us up. Da the best condetioned far some grand and glorious purpose God has sent the hornet. I remoak La the first place that these small and, stinging annoyances may come In the shape of a sensitive nervous organization. People who are you bad overytheng denranle and prostrated under typhoid fevers or there was nothing, more to get, what me that tbeee annoyanos in Jae are a moral gymnasium, each -worriment o peg with Whiele we are to olirab higher and higher in Christian attain - Meat, We all love to see patience, but it cannot be cultured in fair weather. It- is. a child of storm: If with broken bones get plenty of sym- pathy, but who pities anybody that is nervou.s The dootora say, and the family say, and everybody says, "Oh, she's only a little nervous ; Oates all." 'Ile sound of a heavy foot, the harsh clearing of a throat, a discord in music, an inhaxmony between the shawl and the, glove on the same per - would you want with patience? The only time to Gunmen it is when you are Ped abeut and cbeated, and sick, and half dead. It just takee so much trouble to fit ut for usefulness and heaven. The only question id, whe- ther we shall to.ke it in the bulk, or pulverized and granulated. Here itt one. man Who takes it in the bulk. His son, a out answer, a passing sligbt, book is brokon, or his eyesight put the wind from the east, any one of out, or some other aayful calamity be - ton thousand annayances, opens the falls him; while the vast majority of door Lor the hornet. The fact inthat people take this tbieg piece -meal. the vast majority of the people in this country are overworked, and their nerves are the first to give out. great multitude are under the strain of Leyden, who, when he was told by bis phy,siciar. that if lie did not stop working while he was in such poor physical health he would die • "Doctar, whether I live or die the wheel neu-st keep going round, and though I may be disappointed in ite the small annoyancee of life, may be if before I the I don't surpass Sir subserv•iont to your present and your William Tones in profound Oriental eternal advantage. Polyearp was literature, may no, tear of grief for condemned to be burned at the stake, me ever profane a borderer." These The stake wee planted. He was fast - sensitive persona of wham I speak ened to it, tbe wood was planted have bleeding sensitiveness. The flies aeound the stake, it was kindled, but, love to light on anything raw, and by some strange enrrent of the atmos - these people are like the Oanaanites Phexe, histary tette us, the flames bent spoken of in the text, or in the con- outward like tho eaila of a ship under permitted to maintain order in Man- oleuxia prim' to the oompletion of the Mancharian Railway, which, while in anima of clenetruction, will not nacos- sadly require the protection 'of Rus - elan troops. Fauxtb—Russia will fore,go leer de- mand that raining and railway con- cession in Mongolia, Turkestan and gashgaria ahall be granted to none but Russian subjects. Ruseia stipu- lates, however, that lime but Chinese and Russians than be allowed to un- derlake meth enterprises. • In coneequence of these concessions the Russian Goreernment insists noon the early signature of the convention. To none of the powers has this text Of the convention been officially given end no power has offered to back China in refusing to sign it, though Japan has notified China that if Ras- , Ina le granted any advantages, terri- torial Or otherwise, Japan will de - mond the same, Wheal way would you rather have it Ot course in piect-meal. Better have five aching teeth than one brok- en jaw. In this matter of trouble, I like (homoeopathic doses—small pel- lets of annoyance rather than email knock -down dose/ of eatlainity. My friends, I shall not have preach- ed this morning in nein ir I have shown you tbat the annoyances' of life, WHY IT LOOXED STRANGE. My, Mee house looks changed some way, said the lady who had moved out a month or two before, and re- turned to make a call and 500 what kind of furniture the DOW tenante had, Yea, het imaies9 replied, we've cleaned It up, , text—they have a very then cover- ing and are rulnerable at all points. "And the Lord sent the hornet." Again, those small insect annoy - emcee may come to us in the shape of friends and acquainte-nees who are always saying disagreeable things, anothes way, and by the point of the There are same people that you cart- pearled. And. 'I have to tell you this mot be with for half an hour but you morning that God can make all the feel cheered and comforted. Then flames ot your trials a wall of defence there are other people you menet be end a canopy for the soul. God id with nee initiates before you feel mis- just ae willing to fulfil to you as he arable. They do not. &steno you, but was to Polyeano the promiao, "When they sting yo0 to rhe bene. they gather up all the yarn which the gossips epin and peddle it. They gath- er up alt the adverse criticisms about your person, about your busioess, and they make your oar the funnel oboul your home, abou1 your church, into which they pour it. They laugh heartily when they tell you, as though it were a gond joke, and you laugh too- °Weide. ,These people are brought to our attention in the Bible in the Book of Ruth ; Naom1 went forth beautiful and with the finest of worldly prospeets and Mtn anoth- er lana, bat after awhile site came then widowed, and sick, end poor. Whet did her friends do when she ripe fruit denotes prosperity. came to the oity ? They all went out To dream of eating beans shows THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERIIATIONAL LESSON, APRIL. RI. !me "TIN Than 10 . 10-30. Gelder& Text, Luke el. 31. ThliA0TiO4L NOTES,. Veree 10. Beheld, A wonderfol taintle ableluit to be told. • MVO' of them, Verse 18 gerea thane= 01 one oa the two—Clevate---whiel% nalete lean abbrenal I. ion • a PlelopAtras. Whe the other was %verde, Met know. Scene of the fatheire beLlevad that he waS the eon cif °hippo.% Sieneoll, wile be- cetne the eeceind "Wallin" et Terme. lene That Immo day. "That very day," Revitaed • Version. A vil- lage Galled Etanueu.s. The name Means "Wa•rni-wa'tear or "Beebe." Kulepielb, goutheaat of Seruealeen; Intiammea, about eight mlIeb (loath- weist jeruealene, where there are five good syringe; Alien -Goodie, a vil- loge near to lOhainaea, where a mein - ed Oleristian church now stands; El Kubeibel, eeven mile& noetlitive.st of Jatrusalean; •lirtaS, a little Routes of Bethlehem; and other phiees, have been mentioned by difterent authori- ties on identical with Rmrarro.s. But its elle still remains in uncertainty. 14. •'elhey • talked together cit alI these thitege which had happened. Those who had believed in Jesus could not now talk of anything else. . 15. While they couerauned together. T,he word Le the Same as that trans- lated "talked" in verse 14. In both place.s the Berlied Version uses "cam- Muned." Ja.sue bimselt drew ricer. See Matt. 18. 20. Foie a traveler on a highway to join their company would not be strange. Spiritual lemons spring np thickly through all thit story. Chriatiens should always be ready to "talk to gether" about J'esun and always when they an "ecommane" Jenne thamsell draws. near. 16. There eyes were leaden. Mark, la 12, says thet he appeared to therm in "another term" There wee something in his appearance which miraculously prevented theml •from recognizing Chim. Often by the Providence .of • God -oar "eye*" are •"holden"—but alwaye for our good. "Ye fearful .ealieta, fresh- courage take; The. olourls ye Sio muoh dread, Aro big with, mercy, and shall break In blessings on youx head." a strong breeze, and then far above they came together, making a canopy; so tent instead of lacing destroyed by the flames, there he gtood in a flam- boyant bower planted by his Perge- cutors. They had to Lake hie Ufa in thou paseest through the fire, thou shall not be burned." in heaven you will acknowledge the fact that you never had one annoyance too many, and through all eternity you will be grateful that in this world the Lord did send the hornet. "Weeping neily faidIrre for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." "All things work to- gether for goocl to them that love God." The Lord sent the sunshine. "The Lord sent the hornet." WHAT DREAMS DENOTE. To dream you are eating sour ap- ples la a bad sign, but to dream of and, ineteati of giving her common semen coneolation, what did they do 7 Rend the Book of Ruth, and find out, They theme up their hands and said, " le tine Noceni. "1 as much as to sae, "Ilow awful bad you do look I" When I entered the ministry I looked very pale for years, and every seer, tor faux er fine years, a hundred times a year, I was asked if I had not the con,sureptiou ! And passing through the room., I would sometimes hear people sigh and say, " A -hal not long far this world!" I resolved in those times I hat I never in any cOhvorsit- don, would say anything depressing, and by the help of God 1 bath kept th.e re.solution. These people of whotn I speak, reap and bind in the great harvest -field of discouragement. Some dale yoa greet them with a hilar - tom " good -morning," and they come buzzing at you with some depress- ing information. "The Lord sent the hornet." Perhaps these small inseet annoy - emcee will eome in the shape ef do - meat° irritation. Tao Parlor and Lhe altiehali do not always harmonize. To got good eerviere and to keep it is one of the great questions of the °wintry. Somehianee it may be the ar- and wealth. 17. Ho seed unto therm Their card must have been "holden" ae well as their eyes. What manner 'of oom- miu.nications aro theae that ye have ono to another? As we, ln our more direct idiom, would erg, "What are nou talking about 1" As ye walk, and are sad. Literally, "Of sad countenance." But the Revised Ver- sion pute the question after the wierds, "on ye walk." and throws the rest into another aentenee, "And they stood gill, looking sad." Their ue- ter dejection could not fail to ar- rest the attenition on a stranger. 18. Art thou only n stranger in Jerusalem, and lent milt known, etc. Here also, there 10 a notable change made by the Bevesectn: "Dont thou alone sonurn in jeraealerci and not know?" "Are you, tiben, the only mein in all tea Metronalle that tenet aware cif the late happenings, which have nee only Ibsen the town talk for days, but 'have etirxed the nation'e coolest- astical and political runere as well as the populace'?" 10. Concerning Jesus of Nazaretn. The items were too many to tell at mum A. prophet mighty in deed and word. Such a one aa Moses bad fore- told. See Ade 7.137. It twee still dear in this man's mind that Sesus had been a prophet approved of God, and recognized, by the, people. It required not a lottle of manhood at th's unpopu- lar crisis to say so, but Cleopas tbrow himself back on the deed and word, the behaviour and teaching, of the Galilean rabbi on positive proof, He would, of tourse, know that it was a felloev-Sew be was talking to. 20. The +thief priests, The heirarchn, including the Sanhedrin. Our rulers may refer to the Roman's. A. "pro- phet," should have been /honored, but this one was crucified. 21, 22. We trusted. "We boped "— that is, Mail we SUM him crucified. He which thould have redeemed Is- rael. If they had knotva the nature of the promised redemption they would have uaderstood that it was accomplished by those very suffer- ings. leo-day is the third clay since these things ware ,cloue. Here would seem to be a timid recollection of our Lard's prophecy that he would rise again on the third day. But even this hope now hems to have failed. Nevertheless'if it were not inconceiv- able we evoula he tempted to believe that his words had actually come to pass, for certain women also of our company made us astonished. One cannot follow, thie conversation with- out profound respect for 01eopas. Hero is a solid, genera man, who with modest boldness identifies himself with the ecorned followers of Jesus. So marvelous a story told by " wo- men," would expose its believers to ridicule ; and to openly eloampion the cense of Weems just noir might ba to endenger life. 24. Certain of them. Luke bat prev- iously mentioned only Peter. John encludes himself, and Luise here speaks in the plural tuanner. Found it even so ne the women ead gain Not the vision of the angels necessarily, but the ab - sante of tho body. 25. 0 eools. "0 foreign ones." Un- wise, merefleceing WM. The word le not the word which, Christ forbade hi Mate 5, eg, but a general phrase. Slew at' heart to believe, all that the prophets have epolten. Our Lord was not bare teething metaphyeies ; nee- ertheiess it ia notable Qat he does not say "slow of mind." It is with the heart man believeth unto right.' 0011501050 What is called "the min of unbelief," is of the heart, and not of the need, ners John 17, . 28, Ought not Cloiriat to have suf- fered these thieve, and to enter into his glory? "Ought not the promised ateasiah?" Shoheld yoei not have ex - quarrels and troubled, while cherries denote a quarrelsome husband or wi Le. If you dream you see fruit falling front trees you'I'l be unlucky and much vexed. To dream of fruit hi general indi- cate -is riehee and long life. Ripe peaches, apeloota and pears betolcen fortune and friends, •while the pomegranates denote worry, care vexation, To dream that you are. gathering plums denotes: power, pride and posi- tion. Trees Medea with fruit mean sue- cese in business undertakings. To dream ot wide means a happy marriage, and Lo dream you are ph:k- ing grapes denote,s that you will keep your oarriagr. To dream that, you have caught a bedger means much prosperity, while to dream of bears mean/ slan- der, trouble and pain. Frogs indicate riehos and all good Lb bias, To dream of live, geese or even geese dressed for eating means health, jay 10104 these sad. ate Of the proraiee ed Maselele? Wes at not prephefiled eelleerning hiing 114.1,V0 ,YOIX lint 11 spirituel laisuppre(henition et all the facts almat hint? 27. Beginning At Moseet and all the Pronheta, ihneittoling with the early hooks of the seared Seripturee, end going 0004g11 to ehe lateet, not, of comma expounding the texts in regular order, but'making it running explanation of thet lYleasianialeronlieea Wlaeh are recordedl 10 every book. In all the Serlpturee, the tbinge mem:turn- ing himeelf, The testimony of Josue is the spirit al propheoy, The more we dwell iman the things coneerning our Redeemer and the Gospet the mere we obeli see hOW all thIngS 101 the 0111 Testament—tylie and histolrY Lied prophecy—point to hem. 28, 29, EE e made as though he would hare gone further, Ile moVed on to ellen the expression of their desire to detain him Ile was will- ingly eonserainee by their • earneet teareatly, Abide with us. Tbis in- vitation has given to ue two ot the most holpeul and poetin hymns of modern days. It is toward eveniag, and the day is far event. Here are two, reasons, not one. In 'the first place, the shadow» were falling, and it w,ould, not be wise to be ter from the city in the dark; in the second plaae, tho day is near its elose. Not merely daylight, but the Hebrew day, so that it would be ireposeible now to keep arty engagement that he might have made for that day. SO. He took bread, and blessed it, raid brake, and gave to them. • This wee not a rerrandir.of the in,stitution of elle need's Supper, tor eo far as tVO know nelthee otil these men had been Present an that occasion, bat a beauti- ful token of the manner In whieh every part of his life was lived in the Immediate presenoe of God. ,31, Their eyes were, opened, „ axed they knew him; and be vanished out cif their sight. Two miracles. 32, 33. Did not out heart barn within us. (their gladnese was shown In their immediate return, for they nose up the same bour, and returned to Jerusalem. It bad aoemod too late to let a stranger travel on, but this news Was too good to keep, and they cheerfully took all the toilsome journey book. 34. 'The Lord is risen indeed. and hath appeared to Simon. This is a strange statement, and seems to as- su,nie that Simon. Peter hall already announced thet Jesus had appeared to' him, and that Peter's story had, been disbelieved. This may be what is alluded to in verse 24. There is 00 nasrative odour Lord's appear- ance to Peter, bat it its mentioned also by, pea in 1 Car. 15, 4. 5. 35. As corroboration ue. camoina story they told what things were done In the way. LARGE•SAILING SHIP. Biggest tn• the World Befog Runt a Glasgow. It had been generally thcrught that the day of the aaLling vessel Mae na,St. During the past few years, however, tWO tYPel of ships hove been built En inortheing numbers which bid fair to equal, if not exceed, the tramp eteamer ha cheapness of cost -and operation'and at the dawn of the ne,W century there are two vessels, one in encle claas, winch are about to be eonateuctod, tb.at are more dis- tine-tine then any 'that preceded tleem. One, the contract for which has just been let by a Garman filen to a Glasgow shipbuilding firm, is a huge, square-rigged sailing ship, hav- ing five meets, and a tonnage of 8,500, which is over 2,000 larger than that of any previthe sailing vessel. The determination of the Germane to build a vessel of this size may b3 tak- en ate evidence that the "preceding "moneter" staling vessels owned by German firma have proved tie ba pay- ing inveetments. The other type to Whicheihip-builnlers aro turning their attention is the multi -masted schooner. The success of the 8101 - mated schooner "George W. Wells," which ie capable of carrying 5,000 tone at coin, has lod the builder to, declare that he will be followed ley O aeven-masted wodoen • schooner, with a carrying capacity Of not lees than 6,000 tone of noel. et is more than likely that as the century ad- vanoes the werld will see square -rig - god and fare and aft reesele designed for the carrying of 'eargoee en bulk which will rival in Glee all but. the largest cif the stearashilea of the cen- tury which him just oloetel. • RAILWAY RIJIVIRLINQS, St. Pannell, the Lontlan terralaile Of the Midland Railway, le the -largeat the Midland laitilWay, is the largest titatIOR in the kingdom] under a single open, Ili eontaine • moven olitteorma, each' 20tfiVixt length/ and ten eeta of 211118, In pleportitn to pepulet'on the 11011.. c4States lute twelveanilee O railwaY, Ler each mile in Ruselte, five milee for eaoh mile in Germany, or' the UaLted lOngtiem, alx for ante tn Austria, O. ia, an e fOr ono jJ1 France, 3a. aeheme ler the conetruietion 01 1111 electrie railway to the eununit of Mont Riano is at present being cenaiderea by the Prowl Minister of the Interior, the Inventor being a lerenole, engineer named Fabre. The hydraulic Power LOGIQAL UNCLE ELI. the abig Xst Worrying, awl UO lOgil ' itogie *o Previa Xt. "Say, nly dear," Mid 5 to my wife as 1 returned home tile ether night, "I've been held up and robbed DY a feetinul." "Nol" Oho exelainled ae »be fell into a chair. "Sure's you live, Yee, she he took 54 oirl) ine." "Foe the land's sake! But you weot to the pollee tit (nine?" "Noap." "Didn't seek to have him arrestedl" (iNoapp "BM are you goto to let folks rob you' and not do anything abeut It?" "In this case, yes, Let's look at the logie of the thing, My friend Green ie coming over in tini morning to borrow money of nee. Having emen robbed ot for supplying the cleave current will it, 1 an't lend it to him. Not having obtatnea from the Raver Arve and borrowed any motley of me, he will the Mar de GlaCe. TWA length of the continue to be ray friend instead of red waY 18 eallautted at elevn mile; starting at the village of Beaches, on the Savoy Oslo of Mont Blanc, gal soon .10able lay tinning against me. •For the telling 00110 of $4 1 hone helped a footpad out • Edinburgh, , to of a hole, retained a friend,had an ad - chum to posseseing one of the niggeist 'Venture and aril home in time to Wind railway animas in the world. This. is the eloeir and go to bed at the usual the new Waverley Station, whieh is hour, Hannah, I'm no man to want nobarttd atlImroonsity_tkoroenmpleaetedrea., Iott c‘ovnyekke the whole earth. I'm satisfied with a a good thing." * * * * * * one-half is roofed over. 'Phe staff employed' at this atationt will number about e00, and be under tbe manage, ment of Mr. 'William Penton, who has been superintendent at Waverley Sta- tion for the last' twenty-five years. Tim train when the London, Brigh- for the use of members of the, Royal Family js one of the finest on uny lbie in the 'United Kingdom. It consists of five bogie carriages, each 5211. long, the Royal salcon being in the centre. • The, thief , woods used • are Inarri pine, Cuba mahogany, and seine - wood, while' tho furniture consists of sofas anti chairs upholstered in dark green morocco.' On the inlaid panels the rose, shannoek, and thistle are desegned. ' • How to work railways on a more economical principle is the question 'which has been engaging the atten- tion of convening of late, especially with regard to the saving in coal. The price of coal hos risen enormously diming the pest twelve months, one company in the North of England Pay- ing (30 per cent. more for its 1900 eon - tracts than it did for these of 1899. The 2,90e ,locomotives belonging to the London and North-Western Railway oonsurne.d 1,387,225 tons .of coal. 4r. 'Webb, the chief mechanical engineer of the London and North-Western Pailway,.considers that if 'locomotives were canstruoted on what is termed the compound principle a 10 per cent. saving of coal would be effeeted. T.hie Would mean about £145,000 less e X- penditure per annum .Sn coal to the London and North-Western "Rail- way. „The Great Eastern Railway have recently compiled a gomewbat unique return, giving the relative punetuality of their trainn for the years 18130 and 1900. It shows that it May ten years ago the number of trains that were -punetual—that is, arrived at Liverpool Streeb terminus within three minute& of the scheduled, time—'was 69 per' cent. of the total, while the percentage for the same month of WO 1000 93, In July, 150e, the percentage was 74, and in July, 1900, it was BO. tiol Sentember, 1109, th,s percentage wee 71, as compared with. 81 in the same month of 1000. Con- sidering the fent that at the present time something like 1,000 trains, con- veying, on an average, 156,000 pass- engers, run in or out of Liverpool Street: Station every day, the percent- age of punctual traint ia deeidedly good. , "I 1 NEVER TARES A 'NOTE. Lord Salisbury id one of the come, paratively few members ot either British Hauges of Parliament who never make a note, no matter what May be, the nature of the debate, or now inteicate the eubject which hag to be spoken upon. • Everybody knows his renearkable imperturbability Of a proverb. Wheneyer he has raade manner, for it hee almost grown into up his mind to streak 11 15 quite easy for ten apeceator who knows his lit- tle trioke to be aware of the fact. Ai hifo-longobroniclex Of the parlia- mentey annals declareg that when tho Prirne NEIniSter ia listening to ariy- one to whine speech he intends to re- ply itis poesible to see his knees nicer - log up and &Wu through the im- pulse of the toed, a rativement which is kept up ettratiat uninterruptedly, and whiloh Le really remarkable. AN INCORRIGIBLE BRUTE. They tell me that you have been travelling abroad, said the young Wo- man wile tribe to make conversatiori. And the man who seizes the slight- est preleset to be disagreeable answer- 0dP:erhape you will be Mod enough to explain how I could hate gene abroad without traveling, 1 • Lt1OXTLY, IIE ISN'T. ' Mee. Arlington—Id that young man that Ellie) Wingate is engaged to emerida Mrs. Lexington—Weil, if he were reg bright as she thinke he is everybody around here trould have to wear blue gl.ames. midaight the other night I got a. dig, in the ribs and woke up to hear Hannah saying: e "U116101111, getup at once bewe shall' have'onte throats eut!" • •"Have you discovered any one in the room with a knife?" I asked., , "No, but there's a great racket in the' back yard," • "Well,,who knows who.ls around,and what they are stealing? Get right up and let 'em know you're home." "My dear woman, let's look at thIS thing from a logical point of tieev. No person in our back yard can cut our throats. It Is a well .knocvn fact that I am always home, and no one would reason that this night was tui excep- tion. As to the identity of the marau- der, what is it to us whether he be Tom Jones or Bill Green?" "But do you want to be robbed?" she persisted. "I do not. No man does. I hear a. barrel being softly rolled over the snow. That barrel contains a (lead cat and a lot of old shoes. I headed it up thee' afternoon ainleleft'It to •he etolen. If not stolen, it will cost me 15 cents to have' 11 earte'd away;eeHannahe eeek • thy.repobe. We have saved 15 cents In cold cash, the thief has worked up a surprise party on himself, and there,ls •pet time. to,Indulge In our full amount of sleep." • M. (4takie Calling the Doctor. A good story is told of Dr. X., who le the physician in charge of the female wards of one of our best known chari- table institutlens. One evening about 9 o'clock Mary, a new Irish servant girl, knocked at the door, saying: "Doctor, the head nurse wants you to come down to supper." The doctor, swelling in his pride of superiority above the nurses, sent the Irish girl away with a curt message. Half an hour later the head nurse came to his room looking very serious. "Doctor," she said, "No. 8 Is very bad Indeed. I think you ought to see her at once." "Why did you not let me know be. fore?" was the reply. "Why, doctor," said the nurse, "1 sent you word by Mary half an hom ago." "The fool!" said the (lector. "She told me to come down to supper!" "Why," said the nurse, "I sent you word to come down to eight!" An inquiry made the whole tbing clear. Mary thought it more polite to say "Como down to supper" thou to say "Come donee to ate." Almost Done. A country editor who was not sup- posed to be rich built himself a modest cottage. The neighbors were all inter- ested and naturally made inquiries as to how the building was progressing. The editor filially became tired of be- ing asked whether the plastering was dry yet, whether be expected to move , In this week, and so on. One day he was quite out of patience, and just then a subscriber asked: "Well, Me. Barnes, have you moved into your new house yet?" "We began this morning," answered the editor. "We carried over 0 chair and a saltcellar and left the dog In the yard." "Well, well," said the subscriber, "moving is au awful nuisance. I'm glad you're so nearly through."—Stray Stories. A Sensitive Seat. A sensitive Scot rebukes the London Daily Cheteniele for sayleg that leis countrymen pronounce man "mon." "The absurd form 'mon,' heewrites, ''is the ball mare: of Seotss vernacular as written by a eoutberu pen, and Its In. trusion has often lent additional sad- nesseto corule jourudism, evea alas, to the pages oa our chief humoroug peziodimil. In the north of .England 'mon' certainly occurs; in Scottish speech nevee. In Scott Mid Stevenson one may look foe it In vain. The broad, soft vocalizaeion of the 'word In Lothian dialed Ilet somewhere be- tween 'menu' and %Naito,' but as it cannot be literally eyhebolized the word should be spelt M dialect pas. Sages simply as In DO ash." • ACCOrdingly. "She's well edueated, isn't she?" "'Well, she's one of those women who eat 41105 115 being that way. When.she Meets any one who ean (mettle Feenell and not 001M/111, she can speak GU+ Man, and When she meets any one who elm speak Geriunn and not liteneh she can speak 1Ieene10- Courtesy'. Small Boy—Shall I keep yer cigar a•goin for you 'while yer Inside, mister? —Chicago News. So They Do. Mr. Pitt—Dtd the odontologists dis- cuss prosperity and adversity at their convention? Mr. Penn—I don't see whata such a cubject would have to do with den- tistry. Mr. Pitt—Don't you? Well, dentists know what It le to look down in tho. mouth.—,P i ttsburgClirouiele.Telegraph. Ails Father's Pride. Mr. Covrtenay (flatteringly) — I had the blues awfully whet' I came bete tonight, Miss Fisber,but they -are all, gale 11010. YOU are as good as medi- cina Miss Fisher's, Little Brether—Yes, father gays she .will be a drug In the market If lie doeen't marry you.—Tit- Bits. Reel prOettl Devotion. He --Mrs. Cashley has all the robney, yet she and her litsband seem to be . perfectly in. harmony. She—Tbe,y axe too, Ile's Watching all the time to spend her money, end she's Watching Win all the time to keep hlin frcim 11a-Detrolt gree press, %Ile Savage Daebelor. "Woman's love timi the love oe faithful dog," said the \'enly boerder, "are the only true affectiolis." "A dog," remarked the auvege elor, "also will pull a man's lea With t!eat enjoytnent."