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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-9-5, Page 60 MAKE OME RAPPY. Rev. Dr, Talmage 5peaks of a Mother's Duty. A despetch from Waehiugton say Ilev. Dr, eleulmage preached. front th Iola/Wing text 1—eleeesie t, 27 'Melo and female creeted he thorn. In Other words, Clod, who ca Make no Mistake, made man an women for a specific work, and t 11110Y0 111 Partlelllar Hpher0S-^-14114 4. regnant in his realm, woinan to • dominant in hers. The bounder line between Rely and Switzerland betWeen Regimen end Mool laud, i not more thoroughly marked 'Um , this diseinction between the email' =amineo and the empire feminine So entirely dissimilar are the fluid to wbich God culled them that yo can ne MOM compare them than yot can oxygen and hydrogen, water and grass, trees and stars. All tide tall about the superiority of 0110 sex to the other is an everlasting waste o ink mid speech. A jeweler may have a scale so delicate that he can weigh the dust of diamonds, but wbere art the scales so delicate that you eau weigh in them affection, sentiment. against sentunent, thought against thought, soul against soul, a. man'e word against a woman's word ? You come out with your stereotyp- ed remark that Mall 111 superior to woman in intellect, and then I open on my desk the swarthy, iron typed; thundorbolted writings of Harriet Martlueatt and Elizabeth Browning and George Eliot. You come on with your stereotyped remark abeue woman's superiority to man in the item of affection, but 1 ask you where was there more cnpacity to love than in John the disciple. and Robert McCheyne, the Seotchmatt, and John Summerfield, the UM ho - dist, and Henry Marton, the mission- ary ? Tbe heart of those men was eo large that after you had rolled into it the hamispheres there was room still left to inat•shal the hosts of hea- ven and set up the throne of the ETERNAL JEIROVAH, 81 ants seeking less rent; Landlords 4 e 1ntandleg .more. Cola fidget ilatruggles about 013)11), gen who a hl tryieg to keep in; men out', try' n • 1. ,' ph. .1,1111 es. 1 eft d cations. Peeks, Catastrophee. o woman, thank fled you have a lion 0 1 may queen in 13(111111r be there 1114111 wear a queen 11 cormwt. Better be there than car • the puese of a priecees. 'Your alto( s may be humble, but you can by yot 11 feint in God and your cheerfulness o demeanor gild it with splendors suc •ns au upholsterer's ham] never y e kindled, u What right doe's woman want flu n L is gradet• than to be queen in 1114. a 114.1111? Why, tho eagles 01 110i1V0 t cannot fly 1101'0145 that doininm i Horses panting und. with lathere f (hulks are not, swift enough to rti to the outpost of that realm. The say that the Slat never sets upo ) the Britash Empire, but I have t toll you that on this 100101 of 4.14.mn man's influence eternity never 1(111 111 any bound. Isabella fled from 11)soanish throne pursued by the nit tion's anathema, but she who is PERSONAL POINTERS, Notes of , Interest About Some Prominent Peepie. • A German pa.per quoted as st ing that since 1888, when the 10 Porer succeeded to t throne, His Majesty law deliver 910 p0114110 speeches, of whieh 22 we 111 French (in oonnection with .I.(oy visits). 1.8 were 111 English, 13 sian, mid 873 in the German li gunge. 0- Tho Dukes of Sutherland, lit ye (limpet, and Devonshire are joi re lords of 2.004,000 1101.08 of latal, ng 11104 0111141 LO 111010 111411 (1101•0)1 11111 1110 1 of the County of Middlesex. et 0 representing a slice of land tal'Ote 10, ing front the south of England at - he re 411 /a- tc- nt an 05 1(1h - to 1 • !the extreme north of Scotland mo 's than live tuilee Wide. 11 this lai rY I were all in England about 011 aC. 111 0111 01 every sixteen would. belong i 11' (1110 or other of these dukes. le 1(1 1'D °,1 ! A, peculiar souvenir ie kept lu Loi Solisbuoy's historic home at lb. " field. It 113 4 etone, over a pound.' weight, with which the window ee Lord Hal iebury's carriage teas statist " Jed. at Duinfeles on October 21.s I ,a. 1.4484. llis two daughters were sea 'd ed with hie lordship in the vehiel but fortuuately all three escaped un e injured. Lord Salisbury had on tha ; (m1111;10)1 delivered the last of a set n THE S. S. LESSON. •-INTERNATIONAL Ln'ssoNA S EPT, 8. Text ef the LOS5011, Gen. xxviit, 10-22. Golden Text, Gen, xxviii, O., 10, 11, "Aini J0e0b went out from Beersheba mut seem toward Tho previous chapter tells of the deception practiced uoon t le tenth ef 131V05 us that. We may in our exprience manifest the :Isaac by jaeob unci his mother, Re- truth of Mal 111; 10 and If 014.1011,. bekali, and of EtaleS hatreel 1111f1' purpose to .1c11.1 lils •brother because xxxt, 10, and prove Ps. lxxxlv, 11. he hod supplanted him and taken child 01 Abraham who cheerfully paid Mime to Melehiststek (chapter xlv, 20). If we should read 111, "Since God will be with ine," ote„ withal translation, some say, the word will allow, then 11, becomes on the part of Jacob a grateful eonse- cration to the Lord who appenred unto him We may hope Unit the latter reeding is correct, but lot UH olio are vedeemeti hy the precious blood of Christ see to it, that wo gratefully anti, elleorfully and con- nelentiously give the Lord nt least, his blessing, and as 0 result of thie TRA.CRING A TIGER. the gentling of jamb to llama to Itebekah's erother Labatt for a tittle. ,An Exciting Adventtire in Search Our lesson is the story of the up - f .11%. 0 peening of the Lord to Jacob as he oa .an-Ea'ter, journeyed to Horan mid le a record A writer io the :Indian Sporting of the wonderful grace of God, but Times gives some details of the de - seems also to imply true penitence predations of a tiger in various vil- on the part of Jocob after he left /ages during the famine year, In the his father's house, for he would have course of his remaeks he says that much time to meditnte as he jour- for a whole year the monster contln- neyed onward alone, if Rebekah mueodlelsiltsutdioetredioitvleolustoarltiynois)teolvvilothiolaticti been slain, rout the village heeds suf- fered severely. rahe local forest ranger was in a state of terror, and had written to his supeelor in terms much as follows, showing the diffi- cult situation in which he compiled his reports:— "Irebruery lse—Hp a tree. Wher0 adhere W14.41 much pain and discom- posure melee big tiger roaeing in a very awful manner on the fire line, This is two tinies Ite spoiled My W01.14., coming and shouting 11110 and making me behave thunder and putting ulnecouxnaintsoreete: I an not able to climb with agility owing to stomach being a little big, 1 if t lam somewhat above the, owing to bad water of this jungle, thoughts of his brother's anger, hutl .Tungle mans can fly up tree catickly, he knew be had sinned against Clod, Even when I do -not seo this tiger, even though his mother was the! and 110 does not make a dreadful most guilty, for she had been his ' noise, I see -the marks of Ids hoofs counsellor to do wickedly (II, Chron. xxii, 3), Etna there must have been some searching of heart before God. His mother promised to sencl for t- 11 of 1- had believed God and bail trusted. 0, Him to accomplish in Hie own way - His promise to Ine• (chapter xxv, t 23), she might llaVe beea spared e this separation from • J meat. But 1 deny to man the throw intellec- tual. I deny to woman tlm throne affectionate No human phraseology will ever define the epheres while there is an intuition by which we know whim a man is in his realm and when a 11,0111011 is in her realm and when either or them is out of it. No bungling legislature. ought, to attempt to make a definitiett or to say, "This is the line alai that is the line," I know there 1110 women of most unacsirable 11a111/.0 11.110 Walltler up anal down the country, having no homes of their own or forealting their own homes, talking about their rights, and we know very well that they themselves are lit neither to vote nor fit to keep house. Their mission seems to be to humiliate the two sexes at the thought of what any ono of us inig•lit become. No ono would want to live under the laws that such women would owlet, f or to have cast upon socie;v the clifidren that such women would mem, But I will ehow you that the beet rights that woman can own she alt °tidy has in ber posseesion ; tha her position la this country at tin time is not ene of commiseration but one of congratulation ; that th grandeur and power of her teeth have never yet been appoTiated that she sits to-tlay on a throne so high that all the thrones of cart! piled on top of each other would not otake for her a footstool. Here i the pluteorm on which she stands A:way down below it ere the hallo box ttnd the toongressional assent blage and the LEG 'SLAT' Vle HALL. 0 lice of speeches in Scotland. _ Madam Rejane, the celebrate s French actress who has lately bee O delighting London. audiences 10 "Ma al dilute Sans Cone" and other come a dies, has been the recipient of order she seems to have feared that the purpose of Cod might bo frustrated by ESall and his father and that ,14. wits necessary for her to act -1 promptly even if not honeetly, It is s a restful thing to believe that every mimosa of the Lord shall be per- formed both for His people and againel; 'e/is ('/10111108 (der. 11, 20 ; Isa. xiv, 24) and just abide in Him. t As Jacob journeyed frbm his home • the blessing of his father (verses led) and the love of his mother would queen in a holue will never lose he throne, and death iteelf will only be the apnexation of HEAVENLY PRINCIDALITIES One twilight after I had bee Playing with the children for soot time, I lay down ma the couch to 1'051, and, half asleep and half awetke I seemed to dream this dream. It seentert to me that I was In a far dist ant land—not Persia, al hough more than oriental luxuriatia, crown- ed the calve; ner the tropics, al - thou elt 0111111 4.4114.41 tropical (less tilled the gardens; nor Italy, although more than Italian softness tilled the air. And I wandered around looking for thorns and uet- tlee, but 1 found none of them grew there Anti I welked forth .1 cl I saw- the suu rise, and I said, "When Will it set again?" and the sun sank uot. And 51111/ all the people in holiday apparel, and I said, "When Will they put on workingman's garb again an(1. delve in the mine and swelter at tho forger Bu t 11011 (4.01 the garmente nor the robes did they jut off Awl I wandered in the sub- iii•bs, and I said, "Where do they bury the dead of this great City?" And 1 looked along by the Iiiits where it would be most ben.utiful for the dead 110 $leep. and i saw castles and towers and battlements, but not a mausoleum nor monument nor white slab could 1 see, And I went into the great chapel of the town, and I said, Where do the poor wor- ship? • Where are the benches on whielt they sit?" Attd a voice an- swered, We have no poor in this great city." And I wrualered out seeking to find the piece where were the hovels uf the destitute, end I ound mansions of amber and ivory 411,11 goli, but NO TEAR DID 11414.18 or sigh hear. I wee bewilderocl and sat ander the shadow of a great ren, and I said "What am I and whence comes all this?" And at hat nutmeat there came from among he leaves, skipping up the flowery nails and across the sparkling wa- ers, a very bright and sparkling roup, and 1711011 I saw their step I now it. tual when I heard their 'oleos I thought I knew them. but heir npparell was so different from nythieg had ever Seen I bowed, stranger to strangers. But after while, when they clapped their awls and shouted, '•Welcontel Wel- owe," the mystery was solved, and saw that time had passed and that (.ernity had 14.01115, and that God had altered us up into a, higher home, 0(1 I said, "Are all here?" and the oices of innumerable generations an - wens( "All here." And while tears 1 O gladness were reining down our and decorations from every Couet in Europe. The King of Portugal, be- fore whom Madame Helene has a4) - peered on several occasions, marked his n p precia Lion of her gren t talon 11an 1(C11'058s 1(C11'058 by presenting her wit' 1 e a pair of very beautiful mules. These :animals. which are extremely docile accomeetny Madame Reinue on al ' 11101' European tours. ' It may not be generally known Um : Abdur Rahman, the Amcor of Al - 1 gltanis tan, is a horse breeder on a !large scale. Some years ago he 1 founded a Clovernment stutl, which :now comprises about 2,000 animals. ;Some are English thoroughbreds and 1801010 Australian, wh 1 le others are iArabs, Turlionnua and Indian coun- try -bred horses. To look after them 1 the Amoor 0111[110;1'5 a11 English voter- : inary surgeon named Clements who teaches twenty young Afghans his : ; profession and imparts to them the : correct principles of horse -breeding. Women always hae voted and al- ways will "vote. Our great-grand- fathers thought they were by their votes putting Washington into the prteidential chair, No. Nis' moth- er, by the principles she taught him and by the habits she inculcated. made him president. It MIS a Chris- tfan raother s Mulct dropping the bal- lot when Lord Bacon wrote, and Newton philosophised, and Alfred the Clreat governed, and Jonathan Edwards thundered of judgment to come, How many mea there have hem in high political station who would have been insufficient to stand tho test to which their moral prin- ciple was put had it not been for a . wife's voice that encouraged them to do right and a wife's prayer that Bounded louder titan the clamor of partisanship ! Why. uly friends, the right of suffrage, as we men exereise it, seems to be a feebie thing. You, a Christian 111110, come up to the ballot box, and yon drop your vote. Right after you comes a libertine or a sot, the olescouring of the street, awl 110 drops his vote, and his vote counteracts yours. But if in the quiet 00 11014.10 life a daughter by her Christian demenuor, a wife by her industry, a mother by her faithful- ness, casts a vote in the right di- rection, then nothing can resist 11, and the influence ef that vote will throb through the eternities. My•clitaf anxiety, then, is not that women have °thee Aghts accorded her, but that she, by the gence of Clod, rise up to the appreciation of the glorious rights she ALREADY POSSESSES, shall only' have time to speak of one grand and all -absorbing right that every woman has and that is to make home happy. That realm 110 one has ever disputed with her. Men may come home at noon or at night, and they tarry a comparative- ly little while, but sho all day long goVerns it, beautifies it, sanotifies it. It is within her power to make it the most attractive place ou earth. It is the only calm harbor in this tooted. You know as well fla I do that this outside world and the busi- ness world is a long scene of jostle atul cootetition. The man who has a clonal' strugglesto keep it; the 1111111 1V110 11115 11 not etruggles to get . it. Prices up. Priees clown, Losses, ni 115. Misrepresentations. oug- ing's. Underselling.. Buyers (lemma- ing, Saleamen exaggerating. Ten - A glance at the Royat personages in the direct line of succession to the British throne reveals toone interest- ing facts. How many people know that there are only two adult males • between t he Emperor William and King Edward? IL is, however sur- prising it may be, a fact that, the German Emperor is the third male successor over twenty-one. He stands twenty-foueth in the list, but most of those before him are women or children. Only two me11 are of full age—the Ling's only son, the Duke of Cornwall and York, and his only living brother, the Duke of I Connaught. 'One of the tnost interesting' of Eng- ' land's surviving men of science is Dr. James Glaisher, who recent- ly entered upon his ninety-third year. Many people think of the veteran meteorologist only as an aeronaut, on account of that memorable and unparalleled ascent which he and Mr. Coxwell made nearly forty years ago. But Mr. Ciaisher is not an aero- naut, though he has made some thir- ty ascents skyward for scientific pur- puses. Ile is a meteorologist, as- trononter, and mathematician, mai— n fine sample of what e, vigorous mind 10 a sound body can do—hale ; and hearty at over ninety-two. Eleanore. Dime, the famous Italian actress, is pecaliarly marvellous. When site is not at rehearsals or act- ing she spends her time in perfect rest. She receives uo one except old friends, and only a few of Oliese. She has a lady companioa who arraeges bier journeys and engages rooms in the hotels. This lady sees that Duse's rooms are at the hack of the hotel, and that, if possible, they ook out on a garden. She cannot i bear street sounds and sights. The cheeks and the branches of Leb- anon ceders were clapping thole: bends and the owners of the great i city were chiming their welcome, we t began to laugh anri slug and leap t and shout, 'Ilome! Home! Hamel' s 01111 his nails on the path. The writer of this article continues: So it came about that when my camp was pitched in the vicinity of lum (Met1 his brother's anger had the "Yellow Peril," a deputation, quieted, but we do not read that 81101 heeded by ICoombappa, presented it. over saw him again on earth, i self before iny tent, and begged me to rid the neighborhood of a moti- le'. Behold a kidder set up on the t ;Mee concerning yvbose doings each earth and behold the angels of God ; one had some piteous tale to tell, ascending and descending upon it, was , tramp up the' valley The Lord Jesus said to Nathanael e" 'Crng "Hereafter ye shall see Heaven open and the angels of God esconding and clesceialing upon the Son of Alan " (John i, (11), which teaches us that the ladder wits typical of the Lord. Jesus, through tvhout lone sinful man can corae to Cod or have any revelation of Cod to him. 1.3, 14,. Behold the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, end the Cod of Isaac. All things are of God through Christ ; salvation is of the before daylight next morning, Datil a stiff climb up the path, which wound its way over the rocks end through the thick bamboo jungle. Now, the jungle was so thick and extensive that to beat for the tiger would be 0 useless task. Nothing could be seen in the dense thickets of the cover where he lurked. What WaS to be done? WITTI BELLS." Then 1 bethought Me of a mode of hunting of which a sportsman of 60 FORTUNES OF .REILDREN MUSICAL PRODIGIES AMASS SNUG LITTLE FORTUNES, Their ParentS 111Luxury and Eetire front Businees in Their Teens. :Musical prodigies' earn gigantic 814118 ; but, on the other liand, they work extremely hard, J osef Hei- man, the boy pianist, studied under Rubenstein, toured Germany, Den- mark, Norway, Vienna and Paris, end gave no less then 1.40 concerts 111 loss than a yew'. $15,000 seems a good deal to make a yenr; but as the work was very hard, to say no- thing of the long journeys uncleetrik- orl, 11ofn.ii nd his parents were not greatly pleased. The little fel- low did much better in Aximeica. The fifty-two concerts he gave in two and a half months bringing in, after all expenses had been paid, over $60,000. Tao permits of nwsical prodigies are supposed, as 0 rule, to bo per - 50125 W1111 4111 1101111111110 love of 1Cobelik, the wonderful young violinist, and HolMan, are es- PeolaRY fortunate 111 havieg pnrents who do not regard their wonderful offspring as more money -getting ma- chines. Greatly against the boy's wish, 1110 Hohnans compelled Josef not long since to retire into Private life 4.111 410 had progressed sufficiently to appear as 0 111n11 musician. The Kubelik and Hoffman parents have several points in. common. They like London better. than the continent, and have the greatest confidence in English investments, Otto Ilegiter, 01101` amassing a snug little fortune of $150,000, re- tired. ITo is how domiciled in the United States. As a teacher of mu- sh, Hegner's popularity as 0 limn was evert greater than that which he enjoyed as a boy. ITe has beer( asked to go to England, but has re- fused, Why •should he when he can earn $50,000 a year in the land of bis adoption. Child actors and actresses do not earn a tithe of the sums lavished on child musicians, simply because the parts undertaken by children on the stage itt•e, as a rule, of MINOR IMPORTANCE. When the late W. II. Betty, known in his youth as the infant Roscius, retired into private life, he took with him upwards of $200,000, but then Betty played Handet and other Shakespearian characters, and com- petition in hie day was not so keen as it is now 7:1ITO IN17013424.TIOINT, :interesting Paragoaphe frOrn the World's FOUr VirnierS., Australia, a etmary • eemarlcable ter its largo eaters, lute the highest dee Want°. It is estimated that Melting peek - 1)44.5 stlinsertS over 100,000 of Lon- don's populatioa. Now York City COnsutrles 000 tons of ice a year, of wideli 4,- 500,000 tons are liaturai ice, The United States has a lower per eentage of blind people than any ot- her country in the world, Tho highest railway bridge in the United States is the 14.111500 Viaduct on the B110 11110—.305 feet high. From e cliff 1,000 feet high a per - soil with clear vision can see a ship at a distance of forty-two miles. For the last ton years theve has been 0,11 therease of 2,000 annually In the number of Great l3ritain15 in- sane. 0110 hundred and twenty firemen aro required to feed the furnaces of a first-class Atlantio steamer. Beggars in China aro faxed, and certain 4istricts allotted to them in which to make appeale for charity. The difference between the tallest and shortest races in the world is 11 igtht eot 1:1'5 P'1;51n (001,08, .aigest.he average 1e l In Sweden and Norway it is a 01.1410 to make any profit on the sale of liquor; it must bo dispensed at cost price. ' lu'illxeci."elephant beetle" of Venezuela full-grown one weighs about half a po is the largest insect in,the world, A From the Atlantic ueean to the llead of Lake Superior a 'vessel may sail in Canadian waters 11. distance of 2,260 statute miles, Elongated ear -lobes are considered a mork of beauty In Borneo. Girls with this feature reaching down to their elbows are not uncommon. In Zante, one of the Ionian Is- lands, there is a petroleum spring which has been known for nearly 3,000 years. It is mentioned by Herodolats. Italy and Spain have fewer houses in proportion to their population than any other country in the world; the Argentine Republic and Uruguay have most. , Sixty-seven per cent. of Portugal's inhabitants cannot read or write. 3.50 per cont. of English people, and only half of one per cont. in Den- inark and Switzerland. The two daughters of that charm- Seven out of every 10,000 inhabl- ing lady and accomplished writer, tants of the United Slates are deaf Mrs. Beringer, cleared over little and dumb, The afilictiop is much less common, among the negroes than among the whites. Two hundred miles an hour, scien- tific men have concluded, &titer nura- beelass experiments, is a speed which eau never be attained by anything that moves on wheels. The largest carpet in the world is in 1Vindsor Castle. It is 40 feet in breadth, and contains 58,840,000 stitches. The weaving of it, occupied twenty-eight men fourteen months. Russian girls have a, peculiar way of learning their matrimottial pros- pects. .A. number of girls take off Lord Fauntleroy some $40,000 it is said, but thole gooe fortuae was quite exceptional. Child actor.s 'draw Lord, The unchangeable Jehovah years of age had told manything from $20 to $50 a week.e. This was The fault most common in stage here confirms to the unworthy J a- 1 the "shikar with bells." A native, children is one sufficiently great to de - cob His promise to Abrahunt and adorned only .with a coating of wood I ter dramatists front fitting them with fsaac, giving to Jacob the promise ashes, with a tray containing burni plays, the mechanical end artificial of seed as the dust of the earth, ing oil -wicks upon his head, and a W11010115 He had given to Isaac the chime of bells in his hand, prway ecedes in which they repent their lines greatly marring the naturalness of promise of seed as the stars of hea- 1 the hunter in search of game on a the plays they appear in. The de - dark night. Such was the plan 1101V vert (chapter xxvi, It is possible that when tho kingdom comes we proposed. At, ten o'clocic at nighlightful children of Charles Terry,t the youngest brother of Miss Ellen Koombappa, smeared with ashes d ideal' see that the promise to Isaac an- Terry, never played a part in which bearing the lights upon his head and refers to or includes the church, while the promise to Jacob refers to the chimes in bis 1100(1, preceded me they did not eater with an abandon the earthly seed Israel, and by the to the forest. IL was a weed ad- venture. Nought could be seen but two righteous companies shall the the dint outline of trees in the tighteous King of kings and Lord of orcls rule all the earth. gloomy forest. My companion's 14). "And, behold, 2 ant with thee movements became more grotesque and will keep thee 111 all places whi- and, as it were, inspired. O'he lights danced before my eyes anee cast (.1101' thou vest and will bring thee again into this lance" This is the a beautiful glare for some yards ahead. The 'tinkle of the bells be- came more sonorous, and filled the forest with a. weird noise that exer- cised an indescribable spell over the senses, Suddenly the spectral ash - clad figure ceased to advance, but frantically continued its ceaseless antics. I peered into the gloom 414 'Mat, and saw two luminous orbs shining through the darkness. Slow- ly they aPproached. The movements of the dancer became spasmodic as the huge form of the tiger etnerged from the shadows and stool) erect be- fore us in the dim flickering light, with every hair set, bveathing heav- ily, with panting tongue and heaving sides. As I raised my rifle and fired between the creature's eyes Koam- bappa sank to the ground exhausted by his exertions and excitement. The lights were exhausted at the same moment, and 011 was eilent and buried in darkness. For some mo- ments I dared not move. At length as my eyes became accustomed to the darkness, objects outlined them- selves amid the surrounding obscur- ity and the great form of the tiger appeared lying on the groond n. few yards off. My Mellott had pierced his brain, mirth "behold" of our lesson : adder, the angels, Jehovah and 110(1 the tteetwance of His presence, His moping power. Itte guidance and the tafilinent of all His promises. .What more could ahiful mortal desire ? How uncieseeving is Jacob ! How gracious is Jehovah 1 Can anyone else appropriate such a promise, or was it only for Jacob ? .Why should aey child of God hesitate since in Christ Cod bath blessed us with all spiritual blessings., and all things are.ours in Christ ? (EOs. i, 8; Cor, ii, 21). 16, 17. "Surely the Lord is in his. place, aud. 1 141017 it not." Such were his. waking thoughts as 10 remembered his beautiful dream, and a great sense of • his unworthi- ness and sinfulness filled hint as he considered that the God of his fath- ers had appeared to him also. He probablyfelt like job and leniah and Daniel and John when they saw the Lord (Job xlii, 5, 6; Ise.. vi, (1 ; Dan. x, 8 ; Rev. i, 17). Simon Pe- ter had a somewhat similar exeeri- once when Ito saw the great,good- 10513 00 1115 Lord and cried, Depart vont me, for I am a sinful man, 0 Lord (Leke v, 8). The believer 'Muhl never be found where lie com- a say, "Surely the Lord is in this lace," but the precious truth of tattle • xxviii, 20, should be an un - easing comfort to us, for He is ver saying, "Fear not; peace be nto you." See also jar. xxix, 11. clanging of a tram -bell sots her crazy. The furnishing of her monis s important. There must be no pic- ures or busts about, nothing to Ws - tut her highly -wrought aesthetic eosibilities. Everything must be scrupulously clean, severe, quiet. She lever goes out walking, and is ridic- ileusly cereless about her toilet and ter personal appearance, -except on Ile stage. CONCERNING SLEEPLESSNESS Use of Medicines to Froduce Slum- ber is Dangerous. One teaming menet be teo often I repeuted—nualicines to produce sleep aro dangerous, with different degree); s of danger, to be sure, but still things to be trusted to the hands of ignorance especially where ignorance t ia personally interested. Sleep-in11 - ducing drugs 1110 001411 11001%S/try to ie 1414.00 from worse evils, but tltey aced t supet•vision—a doctor's supervision, , it that is. Lastly 415 to the economy of 1101'- d 'VOUS 0110rgy. 011 11115, too, much has s beeoi said, but, the text is a fruitful and suggestive one, and maey ser- mons could be hammered out of it. First, lot it be repeated that whether the essential (music of OM, vousneas can be reached and con- quered or not, the less open manifes- tations of nervousness the patient permits herself the better it, will be for her in every way. Do not talk about your feelings or your fatigue or your sleep, do not allow the word nervous to bo ut- tered in your presence, To talk about yourself is a form of bad manners, to say the least; to be sorry for yourself will not make ar.yone more sorry for you, and sali- nity is a poor kind of on emotion. If once this kind of talk becomes a t habit, an unconscious exaggeration be soon creeps into It ; the victim be- h gins do make the most of the feel- e sri LOYALTY'S CAST-OFF RAIMENT. One reason why the confidential mounts of royalty have beau able • amass comfortable fortunes in n plte of their moderate salaries is p hut they receive from their Om -I(1 layers many gifts of old clothes nd other things which they can e urn into money. The out-grotvn lament of Queen Victoria's children sad to be quickly purchased by , iscreet persons from the confidential ervaats, who did not offer these 8' 18, 19. His pillow bectune a pit- ar, annotated. unto God, May it iggest the change In himself that therms in more senses than one he ted recently been prone upon the -lath he was 11040 by the grace of od an upright man before God and unointed by I -Us Spirit. One 04 4.140 remises to the overcomer is that • shall be a pillar in the temple of od (Rev, ill, 1$), and Paul wrote oncoming James and Peter and ohn that they scented to be pillars ii, 0), 'speaking of the time hen they gavo to Barnabas and to intsolf the right hand of 00110478514).here is one great truth that be, evors are verY apt to forgot, and iat is that their bodies are temples f the Holy Ghost and that they are ot their own, but mansions in 111011 Father, Son and Uoly Spirit eve come to dwell (T. Coe. vl, 10, 0 ; john xiv, 17, 23), The word abode" in .Tohn. xiv, 23, is the me as "mansion" in Verse 2, 20, 22. "Of all :that thou shalt Ye me will sorely give the tenth nto thee.'' Rend ng this passage 134, as it is in our A ,V., it looks es Jacob did not quite believe God, ut said, /0 God Will do as He 11115 Id, then 1V111 give Him the tonth thot Ile gives me. Such 'bar - mining would. be unbecoecting ill a perguttuties to the world at large, but may to a select clientele. In Catholic couatries, the church and its various sisterhoods aro glad to take 0001' ho tlettvings of royal and imperial families ; for splendid robes east be turned into vestmeats for the Meantime, or the priests, or for altar drapertee, CARRIED OFF BY EAGLES. In a wood near Polnore„ on the edge of the Northern Carpathians, a woman went to gather sticks, leaving her baby in a secluded spot. Upon her return she SEM two great, eagles bearing away her child, whom icy had ismembered. *Upon a hunt ing made by the inhabitants the ones of the baby were found in the agles' nest cm the rocks amid the 0104. —4.-- TINY INSECTS, There are 240,000 different species of insects on tho earth ; some of them are so small that 4,000 of them aro only equal to a grain of sand; Ingo and pains which have occurred and to look for now ones, in order to get 011 the sympathy possible, and from this to imagining symp- toms is a short and sadly easy step. To cultivate and (01000110(10 genuine emotions to overgrowth is bad enough, '111 801/1011(1 till a crop of false emotions is a moral crime, ' of TETE REAL ARTICLE. At a restaurant. A customer in a dfsgusted tone of voice : 'Why, this milk is turned. Well., sir 1 exclaims the delighted vendor of comestibles ; and what does that prove, .sir ? Why, sir, it proves that the article served to you was, like everything else sold In this restaurant, genuine, and not a deceiving combination of chalk and water, sir. • +---- EARD TIMES IN EARNEST. Shopkeeper (to commercial travel- ler)—Can't give you an order. Quite. overstooked. Traveller—Let me at least show you my samples. Shopkeeper ---Spare yourself the trouble. 3 can't look tut them. Traveller—Then will you allow me to look at them myself. It is three weeks since I have even seen them 1 TEE MOST .NOBLE ORDER. "The most ancient and most noble ordee Order: of the Thistle" is tho smallest of three great orders of knighthood in point of numbers and the longest in point of title. It consists of the Sovereign, British Princes and six- teen Icnigh ts. Isiew X)rloans holds the rceord for crime. Throe hundred police made 18,000 arrests laet year; and zest which showed that they their rings and conceal them in a thoroughly understood what was go - shallow basket of corn; partake of ing on about them. The public say 1 the corn, and the owner of the first this too, and the tiny Terrys (1010 ring uncovered will be the first to en - always considered cheap at $50 a ter matrimony. week apiece. Those versed in gauging the public taste declare thet the time whett the public would hardly 1151011 to any performer not out of his or WHAT THE BAND PLAYED. When the Soudaneso battalions het, teens has almost, if not quite, wero formed. the British °dicers tried passed away. Tho walTing may bel hard to establishreganental bands a little premature, but it is certain, after our own model, but for -a long that infant prodigies of the future time their efforts mot with very lit - will have to be au improvement on LW success. Each instrumentalist, the present article, though himself, like rnost blacks, It is all very well to say the public fond of music, would be Independent will never tire of the musical child be -1 of tho rest, and the effect of a band cause what seems to them a difficult feat for an adult, must be a marvel- lous one 0058. little child; but the moment they discover that the in- fant prodigy lack what all infant prodigies must lack—soul, T23E211 DOOM IS SEALED. Not long since there were not wanting signs of a literary infant Wed hard to do better. By way of . boom, but the publisher bold enough ; encouragement some British band - to publish a work by Sybed. aged !masters gave them a hand, and the eight, or a volume of poems .by alate!Soudanese listened intently to tho garet, aged seven, dedicated to her performances of tho white man. loving parents, has not yet arisen. There was a death in their own The next best thing to being a boy ranks soon after and the Weeks de - musician is to be a boy jockey. The termined to imitate their comrades. fees aro not much, 325 for a win, So the body was wrapped in an Egyp- $15 for a lose, but they form a ttan flag, put on a gun earrhige. small portion of his Weenie, The and tho regiment couunenced to presents given a boy jockey by his march very slowly, while the baial admirers, consisting of the owners struck up M its best style. Tho tune of the horses he rides and wins, the they played was: "Up I came with backers who back his mounts, and my little lot." Of course, tho poor the bookies who when they, thanks blecke didn't know the words, 10 his riding, have hod a good day, amount to something woeth having in the course of a. season. There are at least, half a dozen boy jockeys, whose stock of jewellery, ,consisting of gold watches and diamond rings, and breast pins set with rubies, runs into five figures. Boy jockies, like other people, havo their weaknesses. One well- knettel lad, passionately fond of the see., is never so happy as when on board his yacht, which costs him 85,000 to keen going, performance upon the European oars can be butter imagined than describe ed. However, the British officers stuck Lo thole plan with tho peeten- acity of our race, and slowly there VMS all improvement. Tho blocky% seemed struck with the superior per- formanco of the Eoglishmen, and FOUNDERS OF PEERAGES, The Duke of Westminster owes his fortune to a lucky marriage long, long ago, but many of his colleagues i11 the peerage lave humbler origins, The House of Lansdowne was found- ed by a pedlar, who was so poor that he lived for three weeks on walnuts. The Strutts of Belper, 000 Of the best-known families in the peerage, 0100 their position to men who worked on a farm and •made stockings when a boy. Lord Tentertlen owes his rank and for- liune to one who begaii life as n barber in Canterbury ; Lord War- wick to a Wool -stapler, Lord Essex to a draper, and tho Duke of Nor- thumberland—the head of the proud Pereys—con 4,m.0,0 1,15 foetune to a London apothecary. Ireland exports yearly 40,000 cattle and 641,000 011011/4 DO NOT WEEP AT ONIONS. Although tho fact of the pungeat odor arising from tho peeling of on- ions affecting the oyes is well known, the way to avoid those effects is not so generally recognized. The odor which affects the delicate membrane surrounding the oyes is due to a sulphurous oil which volatilises rap- idly When the tissue of the vegetable. is broken in any way. To avoid the effects of this vapor is easy if a. small pared potato be stuck on the end of the knife with which the cut- tiog is pone. A chemical ailinity at- tracts the fumes, and thole presence is not manifest to the, operator tin the potato has reached a certain de- gree of saturation, when it can read- ily be replaced by another, Onions aro among the finest nerve tonics Nve have, end it spring onions are chop- ped and spread between sliced bread- and-butter they form a sendwich which, if eaten at suppor-thno, will do a great deal toward inswing a good night's sleep. • CURIOUS LANDSLIDE. A landslide occurred recently in Switzerland, An ion and its garden and outbuildings elle; down a hillside a, distance of 35 feet wIthoet being tee the. least Injured. TWo et -nerdy elm trees. , in the• garden 10010 4150 moved without injuty, ,