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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-12-26, Page 2AZT 00,410,872Z elOOMe bo poying a nee, priee or itel lath a World - power, 'Allege Here have note4 ter a lung eline the disoppeterance ia large eILies,at oe the eilapileiter end hemelY Waye time Were onee $o at- tractive, and lately the virtues for- merly regarded OS Opecifieolly Geo! Mari haste appareatly been endanger- ed, The reeeot expoeuree a the cone duct of banks and groat industrial entorpriees hove oast a cloud on Gore Men continental hOnetitY, Med a con - formai O famietles 11014 a short Ulna ago tooka gloomy view of Genital% morality, the Peuesehe Tugentl that the poets ore so foucl of singing. The eocletlea were anOciationo •for Coliabating vice thot met at Loinzig and they listened eo 'some startling etatisties. Pr. Stocker, the Jew - baiter, once Couet chaplain at I3e- Un that in eight years, crimes against morality hatt doubled, rising from 7,400 to 14,700 cases, and that in •the sera° time offences against girls 'under 14 years of age hod trebled, He declared. that; if such a state of affairs existed them roust be something rotten among the people. Dr. Stocker's authority . might bo ,open to doubt, but his statements were vouelied for behniany other speakers. The very existence of the societies Meows that some- thing is wrong. Aeother subject of alarm is the spread of intemperance. The com- mon belief that Germany ie saved from the grosser roans of drunken- ness by its excellent beer and. light wines of the Rhine and the Mosel seems to be a mistake. Strong 11-• quor is eating its way into the Fa- therland. At Breslau the other day "The Society for Combating the Use tee Spirituous Liquors". mot, no fa- natical body of prohibitionists, but real workers for the temperate use of drink, and declared that thirty quarts of spirits per head of the whole population aro consumed In 'Germany every year. The univeraily professors are trying to induce elm - dents to drink los and aro maltieg gland against Fruhschoppen, the morning drinking, but with little ef- fect. A Puritan movement in Ger- manymay seem strange, but a great many patriotic Germans are becom- ing alarmed about what thoir country 18 coining to, I,GSSES IN Mete. CIVIL WAR. Grand Aggregate Staggers the Inategination. The campaigns and battles of the °lea war were on a scale of surpass- ing tnegnitudo, says Gen. Frank V. Greene in Scribner's. There wore more than a score of single battles, sometimes oxtending over several days, in each of which the losses in killed antt wounded on the Northern side wore greater than the aggregate of all their losses in all the other wars combined. How paltry seems the 5,000 Iselin' and wounded in the war of 1812, or the war iu ItTexieo, or the war- with Spain, compared with the 14,000 at Shiloh, 15,000 at the ehicksthominy, 13,000 at Antic - tam, the same at Fredericksburg, 16,000 at Chancellorsville, 23,000 at Gettysburg, 16,000 at Chickamauga, 87,000 in the Wilderness, and 26,000 at Spottsylvania. The grand aggro - gate of destruction fairly staggers the imagination, accustomerl as eve ratvo been for more than a genera- tion to the figures; 93,000 killed by button, 186,000 killed by disease, 25,000 dead from other causes—a grand total of 304,000, about one in nine of every man who wore the uni- form. In no other war in all time has such respect been peed to the d eule Xerimodiately after its close the Secre- tary of War was directed by Congress to secure suitable burial places, and to have these grounds inclosed, so that the resting places of the honor- ed dead may bo kept sacred forever." In seventy-nino separate and diseinct National cemeteries the bodies of nearly 800,000 soldiers who died dur- ing tho Civil War are interred, and the decoration of their graves with flowers on a fixed day has become a National custom. Some of the come.- torin contain ettcb a silent army of over 10,000 soldiers, in serried ranks marked by tho whtto neadstones, on nearly half of whith in inscribed "un- known," Tho world may be search- ed in roan for anything similar or kitairech there is no other Ruch lin- preesive sight, , 'KNEW THEM BY MARIO A tenelter in a small school was instructing a cle.se of children on mineettiogg the other day, endeavor- ing very hard to make clear to their ere:01,11M minds what a mineral molly es. Standing befoia them she' began In a clear voice : "A mineral is an inorganic, homo- geneous substance of definite, ehemi- cal compositiou found in Noture, yoit understand me ? Come, now, you all have Kee minerals. And ;your mother e and fathers have told you the nalneS of them, haven't they ? GI course they have, No, can ally one of you toil me, the mimeo of three mammas," There was no response, and she cotteinued • "Matm tot some of you seen mine ends on okhibition 1" Ono little girl raised her halide "X thought so, Mary Will note neene three minerale,"• , Miley roe and, putting her hanas behind' bat, fettled • , Tereenatie, 4pda-teatime ant) Salt - Mr," 4 EVENTS OF THE CENTURIES. There Are Suggestions of flatly Things in Our Time. Metered mow/ a aet, 01 iee egueweet 01 cootie, le thei year 046..P.h94imnd. Nine thee doe elle Quo, wile= Beer, ot Toronto, et 115 Deterenelo et iteeloultwei ottewee A. despatch frbia Washingtoe soye —Rev, Pr. Talmage Preached from tho following text :—Joel ii, 80, "1 will show wondoro in the heavens and in tho mirth." I propose to show you that the time in which we live is o'onderful for disaster and wonderful for 111008 Ing, for there must be lights', mid shades in this •pieture cue in all oth- srs. Need X argue that our • time is wonderful for disizster ?Our •worici has had a rough time since by the Mind of God it was bowled oat into space. XL Is an epileptic earth—eon- vuleion after convulsioa, frots pounding it with Sledge hammer of iceberg ciud fine molting it with fur- naces soveu times heated. It is a wonder to me it ims laste(1 so long, Meteors shooting by op this side and grazing' it end meteors shooting by on the other side and grazing it, none of them slowing up for safety, Whole fleets of navies aria argosies and flotillas of worlds sweeping all about us, Our earth like a fishing smack ote the benks of Newfound- land, while the Majestic mud St Pout and the Kaiser IVilboim der Grosse rush by. Besides that., our world has by ein been damaged in its in- termit machinery, and over cold eaten the furatices havo buret, and the walking beams of the niountains have broken, and the islands Move shippea a sea, and the groat bulk of tho world has been jarred with acci- dents that ever and anon threatened IMMEDIATE DEMOLITION. But it seems to us as if the last hundred years were especially char- acterized by disaster — e•olcanic, oceanic, epidemic. I say volcanic be- cause 0.0 earthquake is only 0, vol- cano hushed up. When Stromboli and Cotopaxi and Vesuvius stop breathieg, let foundations of the earth beware I Seven thousand earthquakes in two centuries record- ed in the catalogue of the British Association 1 Trojan, the emperor, gcies to ancient Antioch and amid the eplenclors of ins reception is met by an earthquake that nearly destroys tho emperor's life, Lisbon, fair and beautihiol, ott 1. o'clocln the 181. of November, 1775, in six miautes 00,- 1000 have perished, and Voltaire writes of them, "For that region it was Lite last judgment, nothing want - leg but a trumpet I" Europe and Ameriea feeling the throb -1,300 chimneys in Boston pertly or fully destroyed. But the disasiets of other times havo had their counterpart in later times. In 181.2 Caracas was caught in the grip of an earth/rialto, in 18,82 in Chile 100,000 equate mites of land by volcanic force upheaved to four end seven feet of permanent elevia tion, in 3854 Japan felt the geolog- ical agony ; Naples shaken in 1857. Mexico in 1858, Mendoza in 1861; Manila terrorized in. 3868; the He- walian Lslande by suck force oplifted and let; clown in 1871; Nevada shak- en iu 1371. Antioch in 1872, Cathay - Ida in 1872, San Salvador in 1873, while in 1883 what subterranean ex- citement ! Ischia, an island of the Diedilarranean, a bOoLutilUl Itl1art watering place, vineyard clad, sur- rounded by all natural charm aud historical reminiscence; yonder Capri the summer resort of the Roman cm- Perors; yonder Nagle% the paradise of are—this beautiful island suddenly toppled iiito the trough of the earth, 8,000 merrymakers perished, and some of them so far down beneath the reach of human obsequies, that it may be mid of nearty ot one of them, as it was said of Moss. "THE LORD BURIES 'ECM," ILaly, all Europe weeping, all Chriotendom weeiteng whore there were hearts to sympathize and Chris- tians to pray. But while the na- tions were measuring • that -magni- tude of disaster, measuriug it not with the golden rod like that with wilich the angel measured heaven., but evith the black rule of death. Java of the Indian archipelago; the mot fertile island of all the earth, is.naught In the grip . of the 'earth- quake, and mountain after mountain goes down aud city after city until that island, which produces tho best beverage of all the world, produced the ghastliest catastrophe, Ono hun- dred thousand people dying, dead 1 Coming nearer home, on Aug. 81, 1886, the great ea1't101110.1t0 wliich prostrated one-half of Charleston, S.C. But look at the disasters cyclonic. At the mouth of the Ganges are three islands—the Hattiale the Sun - deep and the Dakin Shaboopore. ln the midnight of October, 1877, on all those three islands the cry was, "The waters I" A cyclone arose anti rolled the sea over those three is- lands, and of a population of 010,- 000, 215,000 were drowned. Only those saved who tad climbed to the top of the highest trees I Did yea ever see a. cyclone 1 No. Then t pray God you may never see one. I saw a cyclone on the ocean, and it swept us 800 nines back from ohr course, •and for thirty-eix hours dur- ing the cyclone and after it we ex- pected every nuenteht to go to the bottom, They told us before WO re- tired at 9 o'clock that the barometer hail fallen, but at 11 o'clock at night we wore awakehed with the shock of the waves. All the lights out. Crash woot ali tho lifeboats. Waters rush, ing through the skylights down into the cabin and delve on the furnecoo uhtil they liaised and stnolend in the tichige. SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLI preying, shrieking,. Our gimlet ship poised a Moment on elee top of 0 0101.1104/111 of phosphorescent lin and then plunged Omen, down, clown 011- 01 11, seemed as if site novo would again leo righted. .Ah, you neve., want to seo 11, cyclonci at sea, , But noof X turn the leaf in my sub- ject, and I plant the White lilies and the patio trce turial the nightshades and the myrtle. This age no more charoeterized by wonders of disester than by wonders of blessing—bless- Ing of longevity 1 the average of hue man life rapidly' inereesiag. Feetn/ years now worth 400 years once. NoW X can trevel from afeuteobe to NeW York in less than throe days. ti other thees it would have taken three months. In other words three /tape now ore !Worth three months of •other days. The avorage of human life practically greater now than When Noeli. lived, with Ma 050 years, end Methuselah lived his 969 yeers. Blessings of intelligence: The Sal- mon P. Chases . and. the Abraham Lincolus arid the Henry Wilsons of the coming time will not be required to letirn to read by pine knot lights or seated on shoemaker's bench, nov will the Forgusons have to stody as- tronomy while watching the cattle. ICeoWlecige rolls its thin along every poor man's door, a.ncl his children may go down and .bathe in tbem. 11 the philosophers of a hundred years ago were, celled up to recite in a class with our boys and girls, those old philosophers wouldbe sent down 'to the eoot ot the class because they failed to answer the questionsl lereo libraries in all the importarit towns and cities of the land. Historical coves and poetical shelves said mag- azine tables far all who desire 1,0 walk through them or SBD DOWN AT TIMM. Blessings of quick information. 'Newspapers falling all a.round us thick as a September equinoctial. !News three hays old rancid and stale, 1We tom the whole world twice a day i—through the newspaper fit the breakfast teeth) and through the newspaper at. the tocemble, with an I'"extra" hero and there between, Blessitigs of gospol proclamation: Do you not know that, nearly all the missionary societiee have been born within a hundred years and nearly, 'all the Bible societies and nearly all the great mitienthropic move - !mots? Christianity is 011 the march while infidelity is dwindling Otto im- becility. While infidelity is thus dwindling the wheel of Christianity is making about a thousand revolu- tions in a minute. Wonders of selasaerifice. A clergy- man told eno in the northwest that for six years ho was a, missionary at the extreme north, living 400 miles from a post office and sometemes, the thermometer 10 degrees below zero, he slept out of doors in winter, wrapped in rabbit •skins woven to- gether. 1 said: "Is it possible? You do not mean 40 degrees below zero? Ile said, "1 do, and I was happy." All for Christ! Where is there any other being that will rally such enthusiasm? • Mothers sewing their lingers off to educate their boys for the Gospel ministry. For nine years no luxury on the table until the course through peon - mar school and college and theologi- cal seminary bo compleLed. Poor widowputting her mite into the Lord's treasury, the face of emperor or president impressed upon the coin not so conspicuous 85 the blood with which sho earned it. Millions of good ellen and women, but more Woineu titan men, to whom Christ is everything. Christ first and Christ last and Christ forever, Those things 1 say because I want you to be alert. I want you to be watching all these wonders unroll- ing front the heavens and the earth. Clod has classified them, whether cal- amitous or pleasing,. The divine purposes axe harnessed in traces that cannot break and In girths that can- not loosen and aro driven by rotas they must answer. PREA0II NO FATALISM. So I rejoice day by clay. Work for all to do, and we may turn the orhork of tho Christian machinery this way mathat, for we are freo agents. But there is the track laid so long ago no ono rememoers it -- laid by the hand of the Almighty God in sockets that no terrestrial or satanic pressure can. evee And along the track the car of the world's redemption will roll and roil to the Cirand Central depot or the millennium. I have no anxiety about the track, 1 am only afraid that for our indolence and unfaith- fulness God will diseharge us and get 50010 other tit000r and some other engineer. The train is going through with us or without us. So, my brethren, watch all tho uvulas that aro going by. II Wino seem to Writ out, right, give wings to your Joy. If tillage seem to turn out wrong, Lhrow out the enchor of faith and hold fast. Those ,of you who 01.031 Itt midlife ruay well thank God thee. you have :secti so niftily wouclroue things, but there are people alive to-doy who !may live to see the shimmering veil *between:the material and the spirit- ual world lifted. MagnetA5111, 'word with which we cover up our !ignorarico, • will yot ho an explored !realm. Electricity, tho fiery cour- ser of tho sky, erdam n lin lassoed and Morse and Bell and Edison have brought under complete control, has greeter Wonders to re.' veal. Whether here or departed this life, reo Will see these things. It does not melee much difference when We stand, bul tho higher tho etamd- point the larger the prospect, We will see them from lutexcin h we do not no them from (Meth. Oh, what a grand thing ie is Lo have ships telegraphed and heralded long beton they come to port, that friends may come flown to the wharf and welcome THEIR LONG ABSENT ONES! So to -day wit take our stand, in the wateh tower, and through the glees of inepirrillon we look off aeti see a whole fleet of ships (meting in, Thot is tho 81110 of peace, flog with one . star of Bethlehem floating obove the tcni gallamee. That le the ship of ehe eburcill Mark of salt Wane high Mien the eeneketitealt, PhoWing Site lotis had rOligh weetheri but the Chipteie, of Stell'ation com- mingle her aini ell is woll with eer. The Ship of heaven, reightfeet croft over launched, millions of pas/mug/ire waiting fer millions more, prophets and aPOstiee and martyro ip the eabio, conquerore at the foot of the mesa while froth the rigging Meade ane Waving' thio way as if they know as. 'end We wave back again, fele they aro mirs, They Wont out front our own houtieltoitle, Ours! Hail hall! Put oft the black and put OA the white. Seop tolling. the funeral bell and ring tho wedding anthem. Slott up the hearse and take the clueilot. Now 'the ship comes Around tie) groat headland. Soon she will strike tho wharf and we will go aboard her. Teors for ships going out, Laughter fee ehips coming In. Now she touches the wheel. Throw out the planks. Block not up tatee gangway wetlo mobieming long lost friuods, for you lvill have eta - ratty of madam Standback and give way until other ipihilous corno aboard her. Farewell to siril Fare- well to struggle! Farewell to sick. nese! Farewell to deatal "113ssecl are all they who calor in through the gates iuto theecity. , SHE BECAME TIRED. Ho was exploiting the good'quall- ties' of a chum of hi0. to a young lady friend, and this 1705 what be saida- "Smith is ono of the beet fellows 101.00world, Why, do you knovehe actually takes the entire care of his old parents." "Well," answond • the young lady, "what oi it? He is only eliiThg his "But he gives away nearly a third of his income in charity." "Go ought to." "And ho Is the compaulon of eaery- R body in distress," "That is nothing moro ehan is ex- pected of him." . And he treats •all animals as if they were human beings." And he 111entioned le hundred more virtues. Tho lady 'became very tirod and told him 00. Moral—Never praise your "chum" too 1810111 to others. FAIR TOOTII-FULLERS. Dentistry is now an. accepted and often flourishing profession o1 women in France. "lir a country town of Seine-et-Alarne ocar which I ain stay- ing,'' writes a correspondent, "a qualified young lady dentist enjoys the monopoly of tooth -drawing, a dentist's business in provincial Fromee consists of little else. Peonch country folks, even ii tho wealthier sort, rarely, if ever, indulge in a seL of false teeth; when tney lose their own, they get on 300 ouse they can without, But 11.11. acning tooth that interferes with business mum go aud the cost of extracLion is within the reach of all. Two francs is the modest fee for a consultation with tho young lady just namod, and she is said to be extremely dexterous in handling tho forceps. But. the, Frenchwomen are the most dexeerous ereatures in the world, tot them put their hand to what they will." • BIGGEST IVAREIIOUSE. Liverpool bas the biggest ware- house in the world. et is built be- side the docks, and is intended to house the imports in toneoco which form so impontant a part of Liver- pool's trade. The warehouse is 725e feet in length, 165 feet xvide,eanc1124 feet 10 inches high. Tho ground area Is 12,300 square yards and thy area, of the several* floors 174,008 square yards. There aro at present in bond in Liverpool some 93,000 hogsheads of tobneem weighing. 50,- 000 tons, which is equal, rolighly es- timated, to a eustoms duty of 390,- 000,000. —+-- , SLEEP AND LONGEVITY, Tho toiler of apology reentry sent by the Unmoor of Chian, to the Ger- mail Emperor ie clot:abed as 00 ex- quisite work of art. 11 is pctinted on a single piece of yellow stilt over Ram yards la length, Mid l beautiftillee 11- 1011131a1001 '01110 dragons, dowers mid arabesques, tunleroldered in gold thread and Silk !of ,varimis colon, The work Is eri perfectly executed that (MM, sight the eadmoitleey io 1111staken for emonel, Tho latter is Inelosed in a yellow silk envelope, which is else elaborately embroider - ea and installed by ivory Meals of the inoet ingenious thartteter. A theory of longevity has land° its appearance. "A man has a definite number of waking hours allotted to him," saye the originator of Cho ideo "and the feworthe uses em the longer Will -his life -loot. If, therefore, he is content to sleep for the most of his days then is no reason why he should not live for 200 years." He adduces tho case of the negroes as an illustration, The chinices are that the only truth in this theory is tho well recognized feet that loss than eight hours' elect) is not sufficient for most mortals, and that those who ha.bltually take loss shorten their lives by so doing. • 511e1 SHRINKING DAILY. Sir Robert Dall says Lite sun ie getting smaller every day. Thu sun is ohm inches smeller to -day than it was yesterday, and the contraction is continually going on. There is no reason, however, for alarm, althertigh the sun twerity years hence would have sheunk a mile. AL the begin- ning of this coatury the sun was five miles bigger, and at the beginning of ;the Oheietian era, 100 miles bigger than it is to -day. The diameter of the sun is 860,000 miles, and '40,000 years hence the sun woe have•lost 2,- 000 milee. But le will look exactly the • same 40,000 years hence as It don to -clay—. Liwwieigt rOtrie 'YARDS LONG. THE S. S, LESSON. ,XTleTERNADTAN, XiESSON, 29. Wert Of the Lesson, Review of ,the Cluarter's liesson, Gold, en Text, Hoene viii,, 34, Lessen X.—Joseph sold into Egypt (Oen xxxvii, e2436). Golden Text, wAit votilieter(,1, 00‘ild'h.ololse'atplblairn°thoi4. EPle0;p0td, butiittileQd17(18c°11ilc1 le Wtietlhanehimf;'oneWalicnaoia ne, overythieg the ohild hem ever wont or usen or Played with touchee • the mathee'll heert and brings her child before hereoeSo if we aro la right re- lations with our absent Lord every- thing in the book will spook to us of RIM, and tho liatred and cruelty of Joseph's brothreo to. the brother Whom the father so loved will wig - gest the treatment which Christ re- ceived from Ms brotheen, the elainel, and the believing !mare will soy With. doop gratitude, ''Ml Or me." Lesson IL—Joeopit in prison (Gen. xxoix, 20; xi, 15). Golden. Text, Gen. xxxix, 21, "But tho Lord eves with Joseph ona showed Wm mercy." lt is written of hltn both as slave and prisoner that the Lord was with him and he was: a prosperous man (xxxix, 2, 23). It is hard to wait day by day under aCiverso and try- ing circumetanceo aud see no pros- pect o1 deliverance, and bo teeming- ly forgotten by those whom wo have befriended and who might bo used to eelie us if they wore net so selfish and ungrateful. Lesson IU.. -"Joseph exalted (Gen. xli, 38-49). Golden Text, I Sam, 11, 30, "Them that honor Me X will honor." From the prison ho is sud- denly exalted tb be ruler over all the land of Egypt and seccraleto Pha- raoh (40), and this 'when hoewas bet 80 years of age, the' age at which our Lord Jamie began MIs phblic ministry. It was all ' accomplished without effort on the part of Joseph. The Lord did it all in Ilis own good time and way. Lesson IV.—Joserh and his breth- ren (Oen. (dv, 1-15). Golden Text, Rom, xii, 21, "136 not overcome oi ovil, but overcome evil lvith good." Alter perhaps 20 years Ile who per- formed all things for him enabled him to heap coals of fire upon the heads of those who had treatoil him so CrUOily MOM li, 20), and bow lovingly ho (lid it whon be said, "Bo not grieved nor angry with yorr- oolves, for God dal send mo befove you to preserve life" (verso 5). So the Jews shall one day. see Jesus their brother, as the one whom God sent to prepare life for them, oven life eternal (esti. xxv, 0; Zech, 10). Lesson V,—Denth of Joseph,' (Gen. I, 15-20). Golden Text, Ps. xe, 12, "So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts tint° wisdom." it is a very groat trial to have one's love or motives or sin- cority cpiestioned, and that Joseph's brethren should come to him with O request for forgiveness after they liaci enjoyed ibis forgiveness for 37 years 508.5 a great grief to him. It raust be a grief to our Lord when those whom He has winked told sanctified and justified question their salvation and seek to obtain it by their own works instead of Hulot/lug Him for the full boat. of Ilia fin-, ished work, bestowed freely upon them. Lesson. VL --Israel oppressed in Egypt (Ex. i, 1-14). Golden text, Ex. 11, 24, "God honed their groan- ing and God remembered His coven- ant." God permits the devil and his people seemingly to have their own way, yot He works by them or in spite .of them all the good pleasure of His will and tho nighost interests 011losissoirV1 e21°.. L—The childhood of Mos- es (Ex. ii, 1-10). Golden Text, Prom xxii, 6, "Train up a child in tile Wily he should go atul when he is old he will not depart feoxo it." aVitat a striking providenee that tho daugh- ter of Pharaoh, • the man who was seeking to destroy Israel and had given commandment to kill all the male children, should bring up es her own 800 000 of these male children, destined by God to be the cloilverer of Israel front the power o1"legypt,1 Lesson 0 rld's • Tompeettneo lesson' (Isa. v, 8-30). Goldon Text, Ism. v, 22, "Woo unto them that are mighty .to drielk wine." Tliesp six woes upon the covetous, the.'dreak- ard, the desperately wicked, tho Per- verse, the worldly wise and the hat- ers of righteousness are a kind of parallel with the eight woes upon, (ho and Pharisees of Math. x Leeson IX.—The call of Moses' (lex. ill, 1-12), Golden. Text, lex. Hi, 3.2, "C'ertuenly I will be with thee." When Moses was 40 years old he sup- posed that his brethren would havo understood how that Goa by his hand would deliver them (Acts vii, 25), but they understood not, for the time had not come, and Moses, lia,d not been, authorized, He was del years .ahead of time. But now after keeping shoop for forty yeaf•s God ealls him ana commissioes him, to load Isritta out, but he Must under - 5101111 that, he is ooly ail inetrument in the hand of the Lord, that be is nothing, but Clod is everything and will do all by Hie peewee,. , Iosson X.—Moen Pheraoli (Ex. xi, 1-10).. Golden Text, lsa. lxiii, 9, "Tito angel of 1Tis presence saved them. When Moses turd Aaron went 1.0 the relere in Israel With thelr God-given credcuitials, they were accepted by the people alt. the Lord's messengers, WI 501.1011 they woe to Pharaoh with Lite demend from tho Lord thet he should let Di- rac) go they were 'scorned tend turn- ed meaty with contempt (iv, 20-81; v, 1-4), So God lonnbleci Plutriton and his people by ten dreadful plagues. Leeson XI,—The Pees/Woe (Ex. oil, 1-17). Cloidon Text, I. Cor, v, 7. "Christ, our Passoveze le roterificed for us." ,There is no salvation from death, the comeequenee of sin, bat by death, the death of a. substitute. Tide is each in tho (minutes slain by God's own hand to peaVide the rodemotion clothing for, Adant and Eve (Gem Mt); also in the ram offered 011 the altar in Threat's Stead ((1en, nit, 1.3) and Imo in the Passover lambs whoeo blood (wrinkle saved the lives a the firstborn—all sacrifiGes being typical of the greet feterince Of Hite. by Whose blood olone ffiu ean be put uwaY (Acts iv, 12), ,Lesnoa patitloge Of the Red Sce (31/c• idy, 10-87), Golden Text, Ex.. XY, 1, "1 will eing unto the Lord, for Uri lath triumphed gloriously," The Lord who made a way through the Mel Seo and tri- Flambe/I over the hosts 07 Pharaoh is the 501110 who afterward in the Mi- nos of time, became tho Son of Mary, God manifest in the flesh, the Creator of all thing's, wnoso goings forth bo.vo been from of old, frOne exoeloetingo the oioly Sovior of 51111- 0005, 1.110 only' Jlicige of 011 'mankind. RIG= RATS WIT O BACILLI, -How Lisbon Got Rid of an Obnox- ious T'ne, Liebore hos recently been subjected ID eel- unproceriented invasion of veep, which hoe disordered the domestic economy of every household and made life ruieoro.ble. Cato were powerlees to check the invaders ; poison seemed to an no a, stimulant to thole! appetites, and traps only served to demonstrate tho helpless - nen of man's ingenuity to oopo with tho post. At length the aid of the bacillus Was invoked, and the municipal doc- tors wore commissioned to iaoculato some rats with an, infectious disease. A suitable virus, harmless to man, woe found, a fove rats captured and inoculated and then let loose. Tho bacillus triumphed. 'Phe auto stele- oned and died with wonderful rapid- ity, and to-doy Lisbon is celebrating the cohquest of the voracious ro- dent. It is now proposed to use the 'wires On board ships, whore rats are known to bo a the carriers of infection fatal to man—notably plague. GIRL'S COSTUME. , 8 to 14 Years. Ilotero effects aro always becoming to little girls, and aro in the height of present styles. The very pretty costerme shown is suited to many 018, lariats and combinations, but, as il- lustrated, is made of Napoleon blue henrietLa cloth with trimming of black velvet ribbon, chemieetto •and undersioeves of soft blue tarfeta dot - Led with black, and is worn with a sash of widor volvot ribbon. The skirt ia cut in three pieces, a gored front and circular sides, and is lengthened by a graduated circular flounce seamed to the lower edge, The foondation for the waist is a smoothly fitLed body lining, On it are arranged the ,full chemisetto and the bolero fronts, the triminineebeing extended on !the baelc to comprote the dent. Tho skirt, having inveetece plaits or gathers at the back, is join- ed to the :waist, and with it. closes invisibly at the centre. The sleeves are, double, in coeformity with tho latest styles, but aro quite simple noteeithstancling that fact. The full under porelons, or puffs, are arranged over, and joined to the plata lining, while the upper sleeves are made so- pareeeeey, and drawn mace ,the whole, To ,otte' this .'coettuno for a girl ,'or 10 years' of age 0 yards of material 21 althea wide, 5 yards 27 inchoe wide or 35 yerds 44 inehes.wide will bo required, with lee yards 21 Moho wide for the chemisetto and under - sleeves. • COUCIltING PLANTS, lean. or oven the animal kingdom, has nn monopoly of coughiug, or ov- en gottieg red In 1.0.0 face, in an ef- filet to throw off foreign. Eiubstances. Before there was vertebrate int tee earth, while man wee ia process of evolutien, through • Oho vegeLable world, Etada To:Oen—that is What the botaniete omit 11110, while WO k 110W 11 101 05 "ale cotighing bean"— cough- ed, goL red in the raco tind blew (last 'out- cif his lungs. Beet:M.1y bolainiste )10V0 boon giving epecial tatentinit to 11115 beam mid tell interenting thiugs ithout• it, 'ft ne' a naleve of wenn 1111(0 moist. 11'o31 10a3 countries, and ob- jects mane emphaticeely to dust.. It has an effeetive means of gel Ling rid of objectionable matter. When oust settles on the breathing pores in the lenges -of the plant mut chokes them, 0, gas accumulates inside, and whott it gains sufficient pressitro there comes an explosion, with a sound ex- actly like (toughing, end the duet is blown from its lodgment, And 1000e strango, the 'plane note' rod in the face theough ,1.00 egort. Onetiotem (Lc) Dashoway)—"Whot do yolt think of it? lIeee's (Rubber- ly, who 1: have alwayo thought Was n. friend (51 mine, actually asking me to lend him a, fiver?" Clabberly (later -to IntsizaWity)—"What do you think of it? Iferiee (litiitleton, who I have always tboughli Wee rriend of mine, actually refusing to lend ine 11. fiver," r$T1 4$ FOOD - Valuable for X'Orsons Suffering • With BrighVP Pions°. Fish •eonstitides one of the moot latitleble extieles of diet foe man- kind, although the popular notioit that it is a good brain food bemuse of the phosphorus it contains is in- correct. As a inatter of fact, fish- meal- in- Minimal contains less plzos, phortis thaw most kinds of flesh- rneat, But it is good for the brain indirectly, for it is less etimulating them flesh -moat, is ueuelly Olgeoted awe easily, and emotes the produce don, in the systeln of feWer of tim waste products which if not at min elimineted, ad; injuriously upon the delicate nervoue sgetenl, • The last mentioned property is one which renders ash of espeoial vain° in the diet of person e sintering inlet Bright's diemme and other ailectione of the kidnoya, ..from rheumatism, gout, and all those diseases which " Many physicians vegarci no the result of the excessive forniation or reten- tion of uric acid. Por convalescents olso it is most tweful, as it supplies a fair oinount of nutritive material in palatable feign, with m minimum of tax on tho digestive organs. Among tho most nourishing and at the name time digestible fish aro bluefish, shad, red snepper, fresh codfish, whitefish, striped bass, hali- but and flounders ; emu equally nnui- tious, although perhaps len diges- tible, are brook trout, lake trout, salmon, meickerel and eels. Roe is mot particularly nutritious, but it is agreeable to the taste and fairly digestible. The mode of preparation Ite,s much to do with the digestibility of fish, as it has with all other foods. Bon- ita and broiling one better modes of cooking than frying. The chief objection to fish is ite proneness to decomposition, eveu when kept Oil ice, le may Oa free front any teal:poor odor, and yet it may have uhdergone changes which make it poisonous. Some fish are polsonoue in themselves, containing in the neutral state Some substance whieli will cause alarming s,yeaptorns, or even death, if eaten.- With 50010 persons fish in any form does not agree, causing digestive disorders or skin eruptions. This ie notably true of lobsters and crabs. ' Oysters, clams • and mussels aro very digestivn, if only the soft part or liver is taken. The tough part is muscle, and when cooked is too diffi- cult of digestion for invalids. Mos - sets occasionolly become dangerously, or even • fatally, poisonous through the development oi a poison in the liver. Clam broth is not very nu- tritious, but is a sedative to the stomach, and will sometimes relieve nausea very promptly. "PLEASE DON'T I" 3Hrove Ono Young Man's Lite Was Permanently Changed. A group of rough young follows were standing on a corner, joking loudly • and witli rough talk, and , neither changing the character of their • language nor lowering their voices for passing pedestrians, says the Youth's Companion. Ono young man, as rough as any of his com- pactions, and quite the equal of tho wont in profanity. was in the midst of a sentence, every second word of which seemed an oath, when a WO - man., making hor way across the street and hurrying to escape tho passing teams, gained • tho corner and landed almost iu the midst of the group. She stood a moreentga horrified and bewildered, face to face with the young meet "Oh, please clout I" was all she said 1.0 him, but sho looked him for O moment squarely in the' face. It was not whollee.a, bad face. It turn- ed crimson under her look, and tho sentence stopped unfinished, • She was gone in a moment. A brief silence fell on the crowd, fol- lowed by a laugh at the oxpenso of tile young marl whom she had ad- dressed. But he did not join in the laugh, and after a tirao withdrew, manifestly. uncomfortable because of tho incident, . It was not long before ,110 swore again, but when be did it the rnem- ory of that' mild rebuke, "Please don't I" also came to mind. Mb scorned to hoar it, every time he spoke coarsely or profanely, Before ho would hove admitted it ho was making fin effort to purify his speech, mid when his companions noticed it and rallied him on "turning par. son," Ile began to avoid them and seek bettor society. But in duo Gene his old companions themselves began to respect tho • change which they saw in him, and to notice that he was doing better fn oveiw ways DO found steady em- ployment and became more careful In his dress, The change in him was toe genuine to be sneered at, and those W110 ha the bogie/ring had * laughed began to envy and admire him, and to seek his frienaship tutow. So it came about that ono young eon's- life was porreartenley, changed, rind others Were indirectly uplifted. merely 'because of a gentle and lithely rebuke, It is a rare Leamegressor who eon!. not bo touched by 50100 "01117,CI 01 hiS bettor uature.'"I'ho timely word of a, friend, or 01(.11. a stranger, is often more efficient, tlian a sermon, INThiftVIEW1NCI TitAiSIDS. A. university profeseor, during his sim»ner holiday, has been travelling about ILI/let:Lad asking every tramp that he hair mot why he didn't work, Ito interviewed 2000 vagrants, and, classiag them exceeding to the 78.11- 0u5 reasons they gave foe net nett- ing their daily brood in an orthodox manner, we get the following: -653 said they wen:willing to work bite could not obtain any; 445 could hot give any reason' that would hold watore 805 thought ho one Might to hrive to work, and if some people wen foolieh enough to do 50—well, they intended living 00 those said people; 401 win% cm their way- to pro-, wire •work at distant towns, having letters in their possession promising them employment 311. the said towns, and the remaining 1.91 Wero. witaing for relaelees to die end lenere them their money,