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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-9-19, Page 3ABOUT TIE FUTU 9 Rev. Dr. Talmage Says You WM Be More Than Conqueror, A despatch froth Washington says) —Rev, Dr.' Talmage preached aunt tho following text: Nehemiah viii, 15, "Go forth unto' the mount and fetch olive bSanches arid pine brauchea and .myrtle brans:how of thicktrees to Make booths.'' :eoeins as if Mount Olivet were unmoored. The people have gone into "the mountain and"lieve eat off tree brunches end put than on their shoulders, aud they some forth now into the streets of Jerusalein and on the houee tops, and they twist theSe tree branches into arbors or booth, Then the people come WW1 from their comfortable homes and dwell for seven days in those bOotbs or arbors. Why do they do that? Well, it is a great festal. tittle, It is the feast of tabernacles, and these people ere going to celebrate the desert; travel ' of their fathers and their deliverance from their trou- bles, tho experience of their fathers .when, traveling in the desert, they livedie. booths -on their *ay to the land of, Canaan. ,And so these booths also became highly suggestive *I will not say they are necessarily typical, but highly suggestive—of our march toward heaven and of the fact that. We are .only living temporarily here, as it were, in booths or arbors, on our way to the 'Canaan of eternal rest. And what Was said to the Jews literally may be saicl figura- tively to all this audience. Co forth Unto the mountain and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees to make booths. Now, if we are to -day going to succeed in building this gospel arbor WO must go into the mount of Cod's blessing and fetch tho olive branches, and whatever -else we must have we must have at least two olive branches, peace with God and peace With autn. When I say peace with God, I do not inean to represent God as an angler chiettan,. hexing a. grudge aguinst us, but T do mean to affirm that, there is no more antag- onism between a. hound and 0.hare, between a hawk and a pullet, be- tween elephant and swine, titan there Is hostility between holiness and sin. And if God is all holiness and we am all sin there must be a treaty, there must be a stretching forth of s' olive branchee. Ole, it does not make much differs Duce what the world thinks of you, but come into the warm, intimate, glowing and everlasting relation- ship with the God of the whole uni- verse! . That is the joy that makes a halleluiah scent stupid. Why do we want to have peace through our Lord Jesus Christ? Why, if we had gone on in 10,000 years of war against God we could not have cap- tured so much as a sword or a cav- alry stirrup or twisted off one of the wheels of the chariot of his om- nipotence. But the moment we bring this olive branch God and all heaven come on our side. Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ, and no other kind of peace is worth any- thing. But thee we must have that other olive branch, peace with man. Now, it is very easy to get up a quarrel. There are lgunpowdery Christians all around us, and one match or pro- vocation will set them off, It is easy enough to get up a quarrel. But, my brother do yeti not think you had better have your horns saW- -ed off? Had not you better make an apology? Had not you better sub- mit to a, little humiliation? "Oh," you say, "until that -mom takes tho first step 1 will never bo at peace with him. Nothing will be done un- til he is ready to take the first stop!" You are a pretty Christian. When would this world be saved if Christ had not taken the first step? We were in the wrong. Christ was in the right, all right and forever right. And yet ho took the first stop. And instead of going and get- ting a knotty scourge with which to whip your antagonist, your -enemy, 'you' had better get up on the radi- ant mount where Christ suffered for his enemies anti just take an olive branch, not stripping off the soft, cool, fragrant loaves, leaving them all on, and then try on thein that gospel switch. It: will not hurt them, and it will save you. Peace with God. peace with man. If you cannot take these two doctrines, you • are no Christian. But My text goes further. It soya "Go up into the mountain and fetch olive brandies, and pine branches." Now, what is suggested by the pine branch? The pine tree is healthy, it fs aromatic; i1 is evergreen. How often the physician says to his in- valid patients: "Go and have Er breath of the pines. That will invig- orate you." Why do such thousands of people go south every year? 11 is oat merely to get to a warmer cli- mate, but to get the influence of the pine. Them is health in it, and this pine branch of the text suggests the helpfulness of our holy religion. It is full of health—health for all, • health for the mind, health for the soul, 1 knew an nged num who had no capital of physical health. He had had all the diseases you could Ones gine, He did not eat eneuga to keep a :child alive. He lived on a beverage Of hosannaslie lived high, for he dined every day 0 iLi the Xing, He Was koat alive simply by the force of our holy .roligion. It is a healthy /religion, healthy fee the eye, healthy for the hand, healthy for the feet,' healthy for the heart, healthy for the livee, healthy for the Spleen, healthy for the whole man. It givoe. a Man such peace, such gisietness, such . independence of circamstandes, such holy equipoise. Oh, that we all possessed it, that Ivo possessed 11 now 1 I mean 11, is healthy if a react gots enough el' it, Now, there aro Some Moyle who got just .onough religloa to bother them just enough religion to make them sick, but if : n, man 'take a full; doers round Ural- . talon, of these pine branches Of the gospel. arbor he witi Jind it buoyant, exubeeant, undying, inatitortal health. . But my text takes a step further, !Ina it SAYs, Go late the MountaiM end 'fetch olive branches and Pine branches and pallet branchee. Now, the paint tree was very much better- ed by the ancients, It had 860 dif- ferent USeS. Tile fruit was conserved UM sap was a bevoeage, the .teas were ground up for food for camels. Tito base of tbe leaves' was turned Otte- hats and Mats and maskets, and tree grew 85 feet in height some- times, and it spread leaves four and from the met to the' top of the high- est, leaf there Was usefulness. The five feet long. It meant usefulness, and it meant victory — usefulness Lor what it produced and victory be- cause it was brought Otto celebra- tion i of telumpa. And oh, how much 'we want the 'palm branches in the churches of Jesus Christ at Ulla time I A great many Christians fro not amount to anything, You have to shove thein off the track to let the Lord's chariots come along. Usefulness is typified by the palm tree. Ah, we do not want in the church any inure people that are merely weeping wiliows sighing into the ,Water, standing and admiring their long lashes In the glassy spring. No wild cheeky, dropping bitter fruit. We want palm trees, holding something for God, some- thing for angels, something for man. I am tired, and sick of this flat, tame, insipid, satin slippered, nom- bypamby, hightytighty religion I It is worth nothing for this world, and it is destruction for eternity, GiVa me 500 men and women fully conse- crated to Christ, and we will take this city for Cod in three years. Give me 10,000 men and women fully up to the Christian. standaxd. In ten years 10,000 of them would take the whole earth for God, But when are we going to begin ? We all want to be useful. There is not a man in the pews that does not want to be useful. When are we going to be- gin ? Brit the palm branch also meant victory You all know that. 10, alt ages, in all lands, the palm branch means victory. Well, now, we are by nature the servants of sates. He stole us, he has bis eyes on us, he wants to keep us. But word comes from Our Father that if we win try to break loose from this doing of wrong our Father will help as, end some clay we rouse up, and we look the black tyrant in the face, and we fly at him, and we wrestle hint down and we put our heel on his neck, and we grind him in tho dust, and Wo say, "Victory, victory, thcough our Lord Jesus Cbrist 1" Oh what a, grand thing it is to have sin un- der foot and a wasted life behind our backs. "Blessed is ho whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is covered." Icry text brings us one step furth- er. 31 says, "Go forth into the mount and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees." Now, you know very well—I make this remark under the bead of. branches of thick trees—that a booth or arbor made of slight breeches Would not stand. The first blast of the tempest would prostrate it. So then the booth or arbor must have four stout poles to hold up UM arbor or booth, and hence for the building of the arbor for this world we must have stout branches of thick trees. And so it is irt the gospel arbor. Blessed be God that we have a brawny Ohris- tianity, not one easily upset. The storms of life will CoMe upon us, and we want strong doctrine ; not only love, but justice ; not only invites tion, but warning, 31 is a mighty gospel ; it is am omnipotent gospel. These are the stoat branches of thick trees. Well, my friends, you see I have omitted one or two points not be- cause 1 forgot to present them but because I have not time to present them. I have shown you here is tho olive branch of peace, here is the pine branch. of evergreen gos- pel consolation, here the palm tree. branch of usefulness and of victory, and here are the stout broaches of thick trees. The gospel arbor is done. The air is aromatic of heaven. The leaves rustle with the gladness of God. Come into the arbor. Come Otto the booth I went out at dif- ferent times with. a fowler to tho mountains to catch pigeons, and we made our booth, and we sat in that booth and watched for the`pigeons to wine. And we found flocks in the sky, and after awhile they dropped Otto the net, and we were successful. So 1 come now to the door of this gospel booth. I look out, 1 see flocks of souls flying hither and thithee, Oh, tbat they might dome like clouds and as doves to the window. Cottle into the booth. Come into the booth. A CURE FOR SWEARING. Curse cards. are being used in Switzerland and Germany to check profanity. People .go about with the cards in their pockets and, whonovee they heat, had language. Presentone to the swearer to elms The card has printed on it a pledge to abstalit from swearing for a spa- cified time or to pay a sniall fine for each oath to some charity, Nearly 40,000 of these cards have been distributed in Switzerland alone. A COS'ITSY DISPUTE. 'Pitons was a. merchant of Milan who left a fortune of $8,000,000, and 105 la.wycys Wore engaged by the heirs to dispute certain bequests. !The (880 0118 ,{118t, been settled ; the lawyers have got $0,000,000 mid the Lefts have shered the reinaindor. THE S. S. LESSO1\ INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT, 2.2. Text ef the Lessons Prov, xxin, 29,313. Golden TeXt, Pkole, xx, 09. "Who bath woo? Who bath stirrer ? Wbo hath contelitione 1 Who .hath babbling ? Who With wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes ? " The committee have again asked us to meditate up- on tiffs familiar portion as a temper - (taco lesson, which is certainly a bee - tor selection, for such a lesson than the story of the new earth which they suggested as a temperance (op- ic lase quarter. The only cure for iatemperance, which is self-induls game, is to be fonnd in self-control which can be accomplished in Us only by the Loisi Jesus Christ, who is able to subdue all things unto Himself (Phil, int 21). In this lesson, as in all lessons on sin, eve May see not only tho sinner, but the sinner's substitute, Him Who, though he kneW no sin, yet wee made sin fo'S us (II, Coe. v, 21), We know that the drunkards and also some other sinners are apt to have quite a full share of the six farms of suffering hero enumerated, and no one can deliver but IIe who was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief, who so patiently endured the contentions and babblings of His enemies, who was wounded for our transgressions, and who after Ills weeping lit Gethsemane must also have had redness of eyes. See Him, 0 sinner, as the ono who loves you as you were never loved by OVen father or mother or dearest on. earth, mat as their love inct.y have been, for Ho suffered before Cod for your sins and offers you full salvation from the consecjuences of your sins and deliverance from the power of tbem if you will only receive Him (Isa. 1111, 5, 6; Neb. v, 7; I. Thess, 1, 10 ; Math. i, 21; L John i, 9; Judo 24). 30. "They that tarry long at the wino; they that go to seek mixed wine." These are the people who experience the sorrows of verso 29, but let seine suggest all the plea- sures this world can offer, and they are very many of their kind. A groat king tried them all and found them all vanity and vexation of spirit (Ecel, ii, 1-11), and what can the Man do that cometh after the king? But see what the same king learned to say : "Thy love is bet- ter than wine. We will rejoice and be glad in thee. We will remember Thy love more titan wine" (Song I, 2, I). 31. "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright." Commands to an un- saved person to do right are only provoking, for all his nature is against the right ; the carnal mind is enmity against God, is not sub- ject to His law and cannot be (Rom. viii, 7). God gave no law to Is- rael till He had redeemed them from Egypt. The only one thing He asks the sinner to do is to accept His salvation, receive His Son. Then, and only then, does He give com- mands to be obeyed. Notice in verses 15 and 26 and so often ia this book the command is to "My Son," and we are not sons of God till we receive His Son as our Sav- iour (John -1, 12 ; 1Tolui v, 12). Having become children of God and partakers of the divine ne- tura (II. Pet. i, 4), we are to let Him possess our whole being, look through our eyes, hear with our ears, work with our hands, walk with our feet, speak by our mouths. In this way He will not look whbre He should not, and when tempted we must, like sinking Simon, cry, "Lord, save me 1 " 32. "At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingoth like an adder." There is a last of all things sinful ; they come to an end, and then there is the eternal reaping. Those who sow to the flesh reap corruption, and those who sow the wind reap the whirlwind (Gal. vi, 8 ; Hos. vitt 7). There may come a time when Prov. i, 24-31, shall be the ex- perience of many, when because they would not listen to Cod they shall call, but Ile shall not answer, and finally they shall have to hear Hint say, "Depart from Me, ye euvsed, Otto everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels I" i(Math. xxv, 41.) In 'the case of those who are redeemed by His precious blood, In whom Tie has 001110 to live, the last on earth is only a stesS to greater glory, to dip is gain, to depart and bew213t1)1.. Christ is Incbetter (Phil. i, 21, 33. 'Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things." Woman ropreseuts tho worst as well as tho best in Scripture. The true Church is the bride of Christ and is espoused as a chaste virgin to Christ, while the false church is compared to a harlot (Rev. :six and xvii and IL Cor. xi, 2). 11 drunken with wino, we behold the evil, but if filled with the Spir- it we shall see Jesus only alph. v, 18). The heart is tho great center from which evil or good proceed. See in this chapter verses 15, 17, 19, and then verse 20 as the only way to be right. 84. "Yeas thou shalt be as he Una lieth down in the miclst of the sea, or as ho that halt mum the top of a mast." This certainly suggests the saying of David, "Truly as the Lord liveth there is bat s step be- tween me and death" (I, Sant. X)2, 8). Inasmuch as lifo in this mortal body is so uncertaia how foolish it is to continue a, moinent looger in sin when God is beseeching us to be r000nciled to Him and to accept the redemption which Ito has so fully provided end Which 11t bestows so freely 1 (Ism 1, 3.8 ; Math. xi, 2$ ; IL Cor. v, 20 ; Rom, iti, 24,) The God in whose band per breath is rind whose are all our ways (Dam v, 23) is very genclous. He is slow to an- ger and not willing that any should perh;11 (II. Pet. 111, 0), but Ho will by no amens clear the guilty Illness they accept Him. 80. "They have stricken 300 1 was not slok ; they have ,beeten me, I folt lt, not, IYhen !Mall I awake? I will seek it yet again." Just as before the deluge, SO ACM.. Wile lin- aginatiort of the thoughte of the heart of mais le only evil con- tinually (Gen, vi, 5). Tbey regard not' the work of the I.serd, neither consider tho opeeation of IDS hands (rsa, v, 12). They beoome dead or incliffereat to all the Lord's plead, Inge, and their '0110 thought is how to gratify their desires. A father hos been kiloWn to become so 1111211. Man as to take his ehliciren's cloth- ing with which to obtain that which Ids cravings desired, A mother may forget, nature may fail. Man left to himself is only a beast (Ps. xlixs 12) and often worse than many ; his great thought is himself arid how to gratify himself. When Christ takes possession of a heart, No who on earth pleased not Himself (Rom xv, 3) will live again in that soul His own life, making the person moro and more like Himself until they awake In His likeness (IL Coe, ill, 18; Ps. styli., 3.5). ROYAL TITLES, A Voxy. Curious and Unique Col- lection. The change now being made In the King's title $o that it may compre- hend the whole of the British Em- pire, and not merely, as before, Groat Britain and Ireland and India, marks an interesting stage M the slow and gradual development of the lioyal address whieh has taken place since the tune of Edward the Elder, son and successor of Alfeed the Great, who was the first Sovereign of this realm to call himself King of the English, and whose present day successor and ntonesalto is to be de- scribed in the sonorous and swelling phrase; "Reward. VIL, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Clreat Britain and Ireland, and of all the British Dominions beyond the sea, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of lncrit." The Edwards of our history have boon especially associated with alter- ations in the Royal style, for it, was Edward III. who incorporated with his title that of Xing of France, and quartered the fleur-de-lys on his coat of arms, this practice being =M- Itallied until the reign of George III., when, on the Parliamentary union of Great Britain and Ireland a century ago, the claim was finally a.bancloned. It is worthy of note that the com- plimentary distinction of Defender of the Faith, bestowed by the Pope on Henry VIII. for his tract on the Se- ven Sacraments in opposition to Martin Luther, has since been so prized by England that the two -shil- ling piece of 1849 bad to be reeoined because of the omission of the letters F.D. (Fidel Defensor), the coin now being a great rarity and known among collectors as the ''god- less florin." Lil e the English stale of Defender of the Faith, the 'French and Span- ish Kings also obtained religious ti- tles as a reward for services to the Church of Rome. THE KING OF FRANCE was thus the Most Christian King, as well as the Eldest Son of the Church, while the Spanish Monarch ha.d the honor of being known as the Most Catholic King. Similarly the ruler of the Austrian Empire is ad- dressed as Ells Apostolic Majesty, his full address being His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, and Apes- tolie King of Hungary. Among Mohammedan Princes relig- ious titles are also greatly venerat- ed, The Sultan of Turkey, as the successor of Caliphs, affects the style of Commander of the Feithful: the Sultan of Morocco is' the Emir -al - Muntenia, otherwise Prince of True Believers; cold the Amcor of Afghanis, tan terms himself Zda-ul-Mitatiwa.din (Light of Union and religion.) But those are niociest in compari- son with the Emperor of China, whose lofty title is the Son of Ma- ven. The claim to be King of :Kings is made by both the Shah of Persia (Shah -in -Shah) and the Emperor Menelik of Abyssinis (Wages N'egust). The Emperor of .Ictpan has a very curious and unique appellation: The Mikado or Honourable Gate; and a stately and splenidicl title is that of the G -rat White Czar, who is Em- peror of All the Hussies. The former Portuguese Emperors of 13rtuil were styled Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender. But the most sublime and high-sounding title of any ruler must surely be the following, which was possessed by the ex -King Theebaw oi Butane., whom w deposed in 1880: Ms Most Glorious Exec:Pent Mnjesty, Lord of the Is- hacIdan, King of Elephants, Lord of the Mines of Gold and Silver, Rubies Amber, and the noble Serpentine, Sovereign of the Empires of Thuna- paranta ancl Tantendipa and other Great Empires and Countries, anit of all the Umbrelln Wearing Chiefs, the Surp.,rter of Religion, the Stm-De- scencled Monarch, Arbiter of Life and Great Righteous King, King of Kings end Possessor of Doundless Domin- ions and Supreme Wisdom. PNEUMATIC CLOCKS. The City of Paris is being rapidly supplied with a system of public clocks worked by compressed air under electrical control. The (intim area of tho city is divided into sec- tions about a Mile and three-goarters in radius, and in the center of each section is a station provided with a reservoir of compressed air, from which air -pipes extend to all the clocks included in the sett -ion. 33y means of eleetro-Magnets, energized every minute with cureents from a commutator controlled by a master - clock ab tho central station, the ale- vipes ore intermittently connected wilh.the reservoirs, and thug the compressed air, once every minute, drives forward the hands of the clocks. 131 TPERNISSS. There's that girl singing A Bird in O Gilded (Sage! said the nervous men. YeA, answered the boarding 1101180 wag. If I had a bird that couldn't Mug any better then net I'd open the cage and let it fly away. , eorTiiE FARM k!«,444•4,4":",:.+4,1.4,444,1.04•4.444.0.4! IluiEiF RINGS. , Supplying the farm home with fresh meat has always beeo a diffi- cult task, hence salt pork has be- come proverbiel as the oue meat di- et of the farmer. It may be occa- sionally varied by it little salt beef I or a leg of mutton, but the bill of faro is certaluly monstrous on 010013' a farm. pork, in 50010 form or other, three times a day in hot wea- ther is not Conducive to the best of health, to say the least of it. Itt early years It could not be liciPed vory well, but of late years the farmers of Ontario have fuund a me- thod of getting over the difficulty, As a rule, a farmer likes to provide everything he can for the table of his own raising, but of rectiat Years patentors have been getting away from that. In some places enterprising butchers have begun regular rounds through the couutry, selling fresh meat during tho slimmer months; la other places the farmers have taken the matter of the summer supply of meat into their own hands and have formed what are called beef rings. The growth of these beef rings has been very rapid and in some places they have been in successful opera- tion for fully ten years. If a farmer were to kill a beef fcir ihis own house he could not use much of it freslt and would, have to salt down a lot, but if a number of farmers club together and kill an althea1 each in turn, dividing the carcase properly between Omit, they can all have fresh meat all sum- mer. So a beef ring is simply au or- ganization of farmers whose object it is to furnish themselves with a quantity of fresh beef at least week- ly during the stormier months. The working of the ring may be varied to cover a. period of sixteen to forty weeks, or even more. There can be no doubt of the ultimate success of the plan where once introduced and thoroughly carried out. In order to get a ring organized many methods may be adopted. Like most good things, the firet attempt may not succeed, hut if one, or two, or more, iiilb.ecgo.me thoroughly interested about m the atter, no great difficulty should be experienced in organizing a beef A few suggestions along the line of organizing are here offered which have been mostly gained from prac- tical experience. Usually in a neigh- borhood, if one or more persons talk the matter over, then call a meeting sending a postal card to twenty or thirty residents stating the time and place of the meeting and that the object is to form a beef ring, no difficulty whatever need be appre- hended but that the results will be satishic tory. The only hindrances to be feared are one or more obstinate persons such as aro to be found in almost all neighborhoods, who won't join nor let others if they can help it, and the evee-present possibility of an objector who will not have anything to do with it unless he can balm it all his own way and who takes most of the time of the meeting to !discuss other opmionS. There is no rOOm in a beef ring for a crank. At the initial meeting discuss a general outline of the plan, then ap- point a committee of three or four to draw up rules, which should be considered and adapted at a future meeting. Those only who intend joining tho ring should have a right to vote and discuss the rules of the ring. At the adjourned meeting ad- opt the rules, appoint a president, secretary and committee of manage- ment. The essentials to success aro a strict observance of the rules by all members of the ring. It will not do for one member to put in a lean animal while others put in fleet - class stock. The rules should give a name to the ring, shoulkl state the limit of dressed weight of the animale sup- plied, also that they aro to be sound, in good condition, and not over three years of age, a heifer or steer. Another rule should adopt a basis of settlemeet for balnnces of beef. some rules provide for a dressed weight of 400 to 500 lbs. Between those limits a member receives Cie. per lb, for the difference between the weight of beef he puts in and the weight of beef he receives. Those who put in less than 400 lbs. pay 70. for the difference between that supplied and received. Those who put in over 500 lbs. receive 50. for the difference. The object 18 to keep within limits. The penalties received in this way usually amount to $2 to $5 and remunerate the inspectors. The rules should state the day of the week the animals are to be kill- ed. Each member has to runtish two cattail bags, so that the butcher always has one on hand. Etu'll mem- bee irt our ring gets, or arrauges to get, his own beef. Some rings kill twice a week ant deliver to or near each member. Where animals aro killed twice a week there should be at least forty members in the ring, ect that only about 10 to 123, lbs, Wilt bo received at any one time. In several cases one share is sub- divided between two families. The butcher folloWs a rotation in cut - Gag. He lays the cuts on a broad table, exactly in the same order. Then Ite starts member No. 1 at first place oa table, next time he starts No, 1 at second place on ta- ble, and so on throughout the term, This gives each member a cornplete animal during the twenty weeks. The rules should provide for a com- mittee of manageMent with power to arrange all details and to inspect animals, or another committee may bo nppointecl for that purpose. The rules should. hind M01111/01.8 10 observe them and should he signed by each. The ordee 111 whieh to furnish ani- mals ;Mould be decided by lot. Pot twenty earda with 1 to 20 00 them In n hat, then let first signer draw, and so on. Suit the rules to the lo- cal conditions. IIORSE T After washing tho stains of man- ure from ct white horse and' he Inui ailed, rub him with a piece cif chalk. the etalne are light the chalk will remeve thent without Washieg, your horse pares in tho stable buckle a strap around the leg just above the knee, to which attach a trace chain. When be paWs the chain will strike his shin, After a little of this punielinient lie will etop. Cribbing will cause colic. It is a habit, hard to cere when really form- ed, but can bo prevented if noticed at the very beglaning. Keep iu a box stall with smooth sides, i.e.'no projections that he can got hold of, and feed- on the floor. Another plan Is to buckle a • Strap tightly around the throat. Give plenty of exercise and tone up the digestion. A. horse'm feet can be kept, from be- comiug hard stud dry by simply wet- ting them every morning when wa- tering. He will soon expect aad lift his foot ready to be dipped in the Pails It has been proved beyond doubt that too heavy shoes are used on the average horse, Light shoos are much more satis- factory on farm horses as they caa Ldeoarmore work with less wear and The shoe is made to protect the hoof, and the lighter it can be. made and serve its purpose the bet- ter it is for the horse. Lighter shoes—fewer leg weary horses, more humanity and more profit. FAT YEARS IN EGYPT. 33ritain Has Turned a Land. of Waste Into One of Plenty. Egypt, the land of Um Pharaoh's, once the storehouse of the Mediter- ranean and the centre of the highest civilization, afterwards a howling tenderness, is now again a garden and place of delight. 11 11 does not flow with milk and honey, it bears two crops of grain a year, and in some parts five crops in two years, and that is a record of which any country in modern times may well be proud. Its redemption gives (WE- dOl1CO of the fact that territory tak- en into the embraco or empire, though apparently a barren. waste, May, with the application of British honesty and energy, not only become quite capable of maintaining its in- habitants in a Measure of comfort and content, but may be profitable to all concerned. The process of re- generation began in 1886, when the wonderful series of irrigation works known as the Barrage was taken ir hand by Sir Colin Scott Monerie, and converted into a really service- able work- At a subsequent period two weirs were constructed below the Barrage, with the result that the cotton crop of Lower Egypt was doubled. This aloue was equal to a gain in the wealth or the country of i15,000,000 a year. A number of miscellaneous works have since been constructed which have been of great service. The system he now practic- ally complete, and its utility may be gauged by the fact that the land left without Water after the flood of the river has gone down—called the Sharaki area — which in 1877 am- ounted to 1300,000 acres, was reduced in 1899 to 264,000 acres WITH A LOWER FLOOD. In continuation of this work two large dams are still in progress at Assouan and Assiout; they will pro- bably be convicted and ready for use by the middle of 1002, at a cost of .08,000,000. The Assouan dam will store up water -after the flood is past, and increase the supply of the river in the summer, which will lead to a transformationsin the ba- sin lands of Middle Egypt, which at present raise a flood crop only. In future they will be able, as in the case of Lower Egypt, to raise at least two crops a year. In addition, O considerable area of land in the Fayoum Province and in the Delta will be brought under cultivation. On the completion of these dams 3,- 000 to 4,000 million cubic yards of water are still required, end it is with a view to showing the practi- cability of meeting this final require- ment that Sir Garstin, who was Sent oat for the purpose, hae reported. Ite reviews the merits of the various lakes forming the sources of the Nile, and he selects Lake Tsana as the most likely to be of use for the purpose in View, If the Newts of Abyssinia can be made to look favorably upon the project it. Win 11oi10t tho raising of the level of ,the lake by mecum of barriers and clams, the construction of canals, end, last, but not least, the con- struction of a railway from the Red Sea to the Soudan. Sir William Garstin proposes, as alternatiVe schemes for investigation, similar treatment of the Ilahrs-el-Gebel and Zorn!, or the construction of a stor- age reservoir at lAtke Albert Nyan- za. Whichever scheme is adopted, it, is gratifying to find a prospect that es British adminis t re t ion has brought to the oppressed fellaheen of Egypt a free and just government SO British enterprise is likely to bring to the whole Nile Valley the means of great material proeperity, so that the desert shall indeed liter- ally rejoice and blossom like the rose. WORLD'S LONGEST BRIDGE, The longest bridge in the world 11 is recorded, the Lion Bridge, near Sangang, in China. It extends .51 miles over an arrn the Yellow Sea, and is supported by 3011 stens archee. Tho roadway is 70 feet above the water, and is inclosed in at iron network. A marble lion, 21ft. long, rests on the croWn of each pillar. The bridge was built at the command of tho Emperor Keing Long. There are five times as many boiler explosions in the United States as in Great Britain. The number last year 1008 3013, more than one 11 -day. • $OU 0111110TIS DINNERS, FEW QUEER SUBSPITUTES FOR ROAST BEEF. Heals Which Have ' Cost A Large I Sum of Money —" The Ilutterman." Sleep the Russian Count, OrlOff feasted hie friends on steaks 044 from the flesh of a mastodon, which • had been found by some Esquimaux hunters embedded in the ice near the snouth of the Lena River, there has been no more eccentric barapset served then that .partaken of in Liverpool recently by a couple of well-known antiquaries. Praetically, the (linnet" was a voges theism one, consisting', as it did, of xtpples, bread, butter and wine, "Nothing very remarkable about title I" you exclaim, No; but then, you sue, the apples were at least 1,- 800 years old, having been taken. I from a hermetically-sealet jar un- earthed at Pompeii. Tile bread was made FROM WHEAT LOOTED from a recently -opened Egyptian tomb, the hieroglyphics thereon showing it to have been grown in the reign of that Pharofth "who knew not Joseph," and who after- wards perished, together with his armies, in tho Red Sea. The butter, discovered on a stone Shelf ia an an- cient and long -disused well, dated from the days of " Good Queen Bess ;" while the wine was old when Columbus was a boy, and' came from a vault in Corinth. Among costly dinaors the palm is Raid to 1.0 held by that given by Sir William Curtis, at the Albion some s'ears back. The bill as-- oraged 8180 a head; but the diner conunittee revelled in wanton ex. penses, even despatching a special ' messenger to Westphalia to select a ham upon the spot, and another to the batiks of the Volga for a pot of freshly -made caviare. In 1897 the Viscomte de Viel-Cat- tel undertook for a wager to expend 500 francs upon a dinner for him. self alone at the Cafe de Paris, se- lecting only the ordinary viands, wines, etc., as set out in Um bill of fare, and paying, THE ORDINARY PRICES. He won his bet, the actual amount p of his hill being 548 francs 50 cen- times. The time was mid -winter, and the items included 12 francs for a plate of young peas, 20 feancs for ct dish of straWberries, and 21 francs for a pineapple. Death -dinners, as they were called, were a gruesome fad of London so- ciety early in the eighties. There is still living a certain lady of high rank who, not so very long ago, used annually to give one of these sombre banquets in memory of her dead husband. The room witS drap- ed in black and mauve., the ladies, wore dresses to match, while Use waiters were attired in black silk knee - breeches, black coats, and manvo silk stockings. The menu wee modelled after the memoriam -cards in fashion, and even the viands were all either black, mauve, or white. An alphabetical dinner was given. only the other day at one of tho best-known English hotels. Every ; Item on the menu began with the letter C. Among them were "clear". s01.110, CKENS, CHOPS. CUSTAKDS,, claret. champegne, and coffee. Ban- quets at which the guests reclined on their fingers, as did the fashion:stiles couches. and fed themselves with of Augustan Home, constituted an- other society fad that was exceeding- ly popular for a while. Of course, the menus for these queer dinners had to be so contrived as to permit of the guests feeding themselves with 1111.eeminimum of discomfort and ase The most eccentric diner the world has ever seen was n certain regular customer of a famous Paris- ian restaurant. known to the waitere as "the buttermam" Ife ate next to nothing, but his soup -tureen, filled with a consomme specially prepared for him, was always put before. him. He took o few spoonfuls, and had it taken away. Next came a. WHOLE FILLET OF BEEF, which he barely tasted. The next course consisted of a fine fat capon, or four quails; but, whichevee 11 tees. he consumed of it but ono mouthful; together With two lettuce - leaves and Otto radish. His dessert consisted of four grapes—never a single ooe more—and a tiny cup of black and highly concentrated cof- fee. A bottle of the best claret and another of champagne were inVari- ably served with the repast ; but he only Wetted his lips with a drop feom each, and let them go. He took two of these meals a clay, and the price sff each meal was 120 francs. But this was not all. Every time the buttermam got up from his extettoedinary meal he gave 40 frame to the head-weiter, 20 francs to hie Lable-waiter. 10 francs to the lady- ceshier, and 5 francs to the porter. Thus each men] came to 200 francs, or 810. One day the mysterious millionaire doubled his tips all round ; the next day he went away, end was never seen again, DIFFERENCE IN TASTE. Wife—Sfe, Black has no more taste. in the. matter of dress than a giraffe. Illishand7-Why rio yOU Say that? Wife—Deenuse his wife had on tho most I cautiful gown last night, mut when I admired .11 he said he thought it was dreadful. Husband—nut, my doer, he had to pay $500 for it. 1(011, AN ENEMY'S SHOT. 1 Careful observations have beert made hi order to find out which 001. 0114 fOl. uniforms present the best marks for tho enemy's shot, arid 11. ' has been found that tho most fatal rotor is red, rifle green earning. next* brown third, 'while Auetelan bittistis •' grey is the least fatal.?