HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-6-30, Page 2TEN BRUSSIILS POST, JUNE 80, 1899
A SERMON TO MOTHERS
T.•••••
REV- DR, TALMAGE SPEAKS Ole
THEIR GREAT RESPONSIBILITY.
Hazer and per Son melted in the 'ewer.
neassegosue remise do Not Macro Theis
place In eels 'Wined -a natures In
$fience OD !Noe Mind roe Good or The De. DP. IPIPC1/011CS nu Zioqueut sermon
was a. swineherd; God called bim up
to wave it eeeetre. Vaeuson sent
his early days in looking after- the
eheep: God (gilled him up to look after
tare, and be a shepherd watching the
flocks of light on the hill -sides of beev-
es -I. Hogarth began by engraving
pewter pole; God raisect eine to stand
in the enchanted realm of a painter.
The shoemeker's bench held Bloomfield
for a little while; but God ealled him
to sit in the eel:4r of a philosopher and
Christian scholar. The sotipeboller of
011 AU ininortnio sweeties. ; London could not keep his son in that
A despatch trunk Washington says:— • lifeissivtgrwasa'loto r(i't.e onedhaoib,
ddetei,cleadresttheastt
Rev, Dr. Talmage preached from the • astronomers of England. on the oth-
following text :—Ane God opened her er hand, we may be born in a sphere
eyes, and She SOW a well of water ; and a little higher thee that for which
God intends us. We may be born in
she went, end filled the bottle with God
(wile, and play in a costly consere
water, and gave the lad drink."—Gen. eatery, and feed high -bred pointers.
ext. 19and angle for gold -fish in artificial
Morning breaks upon Beer-sheba. Ponde, and be faultier with Princes;
There is ae early stir , yet God may better have fitted us for
s in the butise ce
carpenter's shop, or dentist's foreepe,
old Abraeam. Tilers bite been trouble : or a weaver's shuttle, or a bl eksmith's
ft
among the domestics. Raga, en as- ' forge. The great thing is t find just
&latent In the bousebold, and. ber son,. the sphere for which God in ended us,
a brisk /ad of sixteen years, have be-,001nd then to mettle' that sphere, and
eonae impudent and insolent, and. fascgreen' sitt.t forever,HereHs eprieouissita n'll'il'elee ol(;
Saab, the mistress of, the bouse/aold, ' a man God fashioned to make n eonsti-
pule Jr foot down very hard and says tution. The man who melees the
pinugh is just ns honorable as the
that they will have to leave the prem -
men who makes the constitution. pro-
vided he makes plough as well as the
other man makes the constitution.
There is a women who was made to
hellion ti. robe, ancl yonder is one in-
tended tn be a queen end wear it.
T t seems to rne that in the one egse
as In 'the other, God appoint s the sphere;
and the needle is just as respectable in
His sight as the sceptre. I do not
know but that the world would tong
ago have been, saved, if same nf those
who are in it were nut of it. 1 really
think that one half of the world may
be divided into two quarters—those
.A.brahani, as he gave the lunch to Ha- who have not found their sphere, and
gar, and a good mane charges as to those who, having found it are not
willing to stay there. How many are
struggling for a position a little
eigher than tbet l,, which God in-
tended them. The bandswoman wants
to be mistress. Hager keeps crowding
Snrah. The small wheel of a watcb
which beautifully went treading its
are ahead of Mem Hagar gives ant
lit,!n pathway, wants to be thelung, lung, lingering lade on the familia relance-wheel. and the et:narrow, with
place where she bad spent so mane chagrin drops into the brook, because
happy days, each scene associated witb it came, like the eagle, cut a circle
under the sun. In the Lord's army we
the pride and joy of her heart, young
all want to be brigadier generals!
Ishmael. The slnop says, "More mast: more
The scorching noon eorive on. The tonnage; more canvas. 0, that I
air is stifling, and moves across the were a topsail schooner, or a full -rig -
desert with insufferable suffocation, god brig, er a Cunard steamer." And
so the world is filled with cries of dis-
Ishmael, the boy, begins to complain, content, because we are not, willing to
and lies down, but Hagar rouses beta stay in the place where God put us
up, saying nothing about ber own and intended us to he. My friends, he
weariness or the sweltering heat ; foryte,o) at tt000 tptoroudoor dtob ea egg ngi Good rtteglg
mothers can endure anything Trudge disposition in this respect, the world
—trudge—trudge. Crossing the dead- is strewn witb wandering Ragas
level of the desert, how wearily and and Ishoaaels. Gad has given each
slowly be miles slip. A tamarind e%teefeneee,"eeweeeet ..eldteettel,7(,),iiiir'.'leea,,
that seemed hours ago to stand male distribute that Christian tract. You
just a little ahead, Melting the trite give e10,000 to the missionary cause.
yellers to come under its shadow, now You, for fifteen years, sit with chronic
is as far off as ever, or seemingly em thetematism, displaying the beauty, of
Cla Irian eubmiesion, le hatCe
sver ed
Night drops upon the desert, and the calls you to do, whether it win hissing
travellers are pillowless. Ishmael, er huzza; whether to walk under
triumphal arch or lift the sot out of a
very weary, I suppose, instantly falls '
ditch; whether it be to preach on a
asleep. Hagar—as the shadows of the !Pentecost, or ten some wanderer of
night begin to lap over each other— the street of the mercy of the Cbrist
Hagar hugs her weary boy to her I of Mary Magdalen; whether it be to
weave a garbled for a laughing child
bosom, and thinks of the fact that it
is her fault that they are in the (Lye ts1puroionng omrozioninsoglia3nod 'alt her
.A. star leeks out, and every Pled locks of a waif of the strbeheeetrtaannasi 8b
falling tear it kisses with a sparkle. out up one of your old dresses o fit f
A wing of wind comes over the hot her out for the sancthary—do it, and d
earth, and lifts the tusks from the fev- odroolivtn rightoo
;:reY,.do NilAitlietflagre:t lera-. to
eeed brow of the boy. Hagar sleeps lasting !inners upon those who do their I
fitfully, and in her dreams travels over work, and do their whole work, !Indere e
the weary day, and half awakes Ler 'contented in the sphere In wheel God T
son by crying out ia ber sleep, "lsh- has 1:iti eixTif'o.Wdesttilll:tri5onisanrdastl! f
mael I Ishmael 1" And so they go on ernees for discontented Hagar and c
day after day, night after nigh, for Ishmael, g
they have lost tbeir way. No Path Again: I find in this Oriental seepe,
in the shifting sands; no sign in the e l,.son of sympathy with woman m
burning sky. The sack empty of the stishen she goes forth trudging in the
flour; the water gone from the bot- foerix..Itlis 13Vagjt a great change
ethytit'sngiheitt.nast 1:1
tle. What shall she do 1 As and all the surroundings of Abra-
she
puts her lainthag Ishmael ham's house, beautiful and. luxuri- _-
under a seemed shrub of the arid Pus no doubt, Now she is going out
plain, she sees the blood -shot eye, and iwntt3oatthtet otostnanits oweasthe rnsert, 0,
fools the ho thand, and watches the day, we oftengsee the wheel of fortune And, in our
blOOd bursting from the cracked tuegue i turn, Here Is some one who lived in s-
and there is a shriek in the desert of the very bright home of her father.
She had everything possible to nelmin 0
Beer-seeba, "We shall diel tee shall ister to her hakeness. - Plenty -Si. he
die I" Now, nu mutter was ever made the table. Music in the drawing-
roorn. Welcome at the door, She is I
led forte into life by some one who n
cannot appreciate her. A dissipated 1
r
fa
it
a
ises. They are packing up now. Abra-
ham, knowing that the journey before
his servant and ber son will be very
long and across desolate places, in the
kindness of his beat sets about put-
ting up some bread and a bottle with
• water in it. It is very plain lunch
that Abraham provides, but. I war-
rant you there would have been
enough of it had they not lost their
wey. "God be with you !" said old
bow she should conduct the journey.
Ishmael, the boy, .1 suppose bounded
away in tee morning light. Boys al-
ways like a change. Poor Ishmael
He has et, Idea of the disasters that
•
Mary, nor Bailee nor A gne
by Heger in the wildereess. May 140
have mercy upon woman in her toil
her strugglee, her bardshiPs, her d
solation, and rally the great heart
divine sympathy Inelose ber forever.
Again: I find in this Oriental seen
tremendous de/A.1)11ra. You sus': "Wl
isn't an unusual scene, a mother lea
ing her ehild by the hand." Who is
thin she is leading tehinatel, you ea
IS labrattel? A great natiou is to
aol you will Dever be leek mul you
d 'Dever die, "Hu, every, ono the
s, thirsteth, vane ye to the waterse'
e- Ab. here is a man who eve; "I hay
of been looking for that fountain
great. while, but ean't find It." An
e, here is some one else who says: "1
at helieve all you say, bet I have been
d- trudging along m the wilderness, and
it can't find tee fountain," Do you
y, knove the reeson? 1 will tell you.
Interesting for Women
"Lead an outdoor life se meals as
d you possibly eau" is the mescription
mane a doctor has given to fair
patients whose bealte and nerves
were shattered. There are inane waYe
of filling this preseript•loni golf,
- wheeling, xowing, teenis. There is ono
be founded; a nation so strong ib
it is to stand for thousands of yea
against the armies of the world. Egy
end Assyria thunder against It; b
in vain. Parfet trys to Make it Pa
the ote but in vain. The Turks an
le She teen would have found the
P fountain at all, but when she heard
n, the voice of Cho angel she looked uP,
13, and saw the finger pointing to the
ou never 'look in the right direr
d more method, and Mise Rose Meyer of
San Francisco has adopted it, See is
one of the few women wbo bave urned
to the gun and field to bring beak the
roses which ill health had stolen from
her cheeke. For years Miss Meyer has
tacked the le. deetig she most longed
at lion. "0," you say, "I //eve looke
re eveeeweere I have looked North
Pt South, East and West, nate I bave not
ut found the fountain." Why, you are
Y looking in the right direction el
it all. Look up evbere Hagar looked
Tartars and Alamelukee resolve to su
du( it ; but in vain. Gautus brings
u
Inc anise; and his artny Is matte
Alexander decides upon a camPaig
brings up his hosts aud dies, For
long while that nation monopolizes ill
learning of the world. It Is the 11
tem of the Arabs. Who founded it
Ishmael, the lad that Hagar led int
the wilderness. She bad no idea sh
was leading forth such destinie
Ne the' does any 'nether, lou pass
along the street, and see pass boys and
gide who will yet make the earth
shake with tbeir influence. Who is
that boy at Sutton Pool, Plymouth,
Eugland; bare-footed, 'wading down
into the slush end slime, until bis bare
foot comes upon a plena of glass Bed
he lifte it, bleeding and pain -struck,
That wound in the foot decides that
be be sedentary in bis lifeelecides that
he be a student. That wound by the
glass; in the foot decides that be shall
be John Kitto, who shell provide the
best religious encyclopedia the world
hest ever had provided, and, with his
other writings as well, throwing a
light upon the Word of God suet, as
hi' come from eo other man in this
century. () mother, mother, that lit-
tle hand that wanders over your facie
may yet be lifted tu hurl the thunder-
bolts oe war, or drop benedictions.
That little voice may blaspheme God in
the grogsbop, or cry, "Forwardl" to
the Lord's posts, as they go out for
their last teetory. My mind this
morning leaps thirty years ahead and
sees a merchant prince of New York.
One stroke of his pen brings a ship out
of Canton. Another stroke of his pen
takes a ship to Madras. He is mighty
in all the money markets of the world.
Who Ls he ? He sits this morning be-
side you in the Tabernacle. My mind
leaps thirty years forward from this
time, and 1 Lind myself in a relief im-
sociatioa. A great multitude of
Christian women have met together
for a generous purpose. There is one
woman in that crowd who seems to
have the confidence of alt the others,
and they all look up to her for her
counsel and for her prayers. Who Is
she ? This afternoon you will find her
in the Sabbath school, while the
teacher tells her of tbat Christ who
clothed the naked and fed the hungry
ane healed the sick. My mind leaps
forward thirty years from now, and I
fine myself in en African jungle; and
there is a missionary of the Cross ad-
dressing the natives, and their dusky
countenances are irradiated with glad
tidings of great joy and salvation.
Win, is he? Did. you not hear his voice
tbie morning in the first song of the
service? My mind leaps forward
thirty years from now, and I find my -
sett looking through the wickets of a
prison, I see a face scarred with
every crime. His chin on his open
palm, his elbow on his knee—a picture
ote etteeetur. As I open the wicket he
tarts, and. I hear his chain clank.
The jail keeper tells me that he has
est in there now three times. First
or tbeft, then for arson, now Inc
murder. He steps epee the trap-
per, the rope is fastened to bis
eek, the plank falls, his body swings
rite the air, his soul swings phi into
ternity. 'Who is he, and where is he?
his afternoon untying kite on the tete
Mother, you are this morn -
ng heisting a throne p or forging a
hairt—you are kindling a star or eig-
ing a dungeon.
a supply. And 0, soul, if to -they, with
e one eareese intense prayer you
a- would only look up to Christ, He
? would point you down to the eupply
o in the wilciernees, "Look tinto me
e all ye ends of the earth, and 'be ye
a. saved; ea I am God and there le none
etse." Looki look! as Hagar looked,
Yes, there is a well for every
desert of bereavement. Looking
over the audience this morning, I
notice, it seenae Lo me, an unusual
"lumber of signs of \mourning and woe.
Have you found consolation? 0 man
bereft, 0 woman bereft, bare you
found consolation? Hearse after
hearse. We step from one grave hil-
lock to another grave eillock. We
follow corpses, ourselves soon to be
like them. The world is in mourn-
ing for its dead. Every heart has be-
come the sepulchre for some buried
joy. e3.xt sing ye to God, every wilder-
ness has a well in it; and 1 come to
that well to -day, and I begin to
draw water from that well. If you
have lived in the country, you have
sometimes taken hold of the rope of
the old svell-sweep, and you know how
the bucket came up dripping with
bright, cool water. And I lay hold
of the rope of God's mercy this morn-
ing, and I being to dray on that
Gospel well -sweep, and I see the
buckets coming up. Thirsty soull
here is one bucket of life; come and
drink of it. " 'Whosoever will, let
him come and take of the water of
tire freely." I pull away again at
the rope, and another bucket comes
up. It is this promise: "'Weeping
may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning." I lay hold
of the rope again, and I pull away
with all my strength and the bucket
comes up bright and beautiful and
cool. Here is the promise; "Come un-
to Me, all ye who are weary and
heavy laden, and I will give you rest,"
The all. astrologers used to cheat
the people with the idea that they
could tell from the position of the
stars what would ewer in the feture,
and if a cluster of stars stood in one
relation, why that would be a prophecy
of evil; if a cluster of stars stood in
another relation, that would be a
prophecy of good. What superstition !
But here is a new astrology in which
I lint all my faith; • By looking up to
the Star of Jacob, the morning star of
the Redeemer, I can make this pro-
phecy in regard to those who put
their trust in God; "All things work
together for good to those who love
God." I read it out on the sky. I
read it out in the Bible. I read it out
in all things: "All things work togeth-
er for good to those who love God."
Do you love Him? Have you seen the
Nyetanthes 1 It is a beautiful flow-
er, but it gives very little fragrance
until after sunset. Teen it pours its
richness on the air. And this grace
of the Gospel tea I commend to you
this morning, while it may be very
sweet during the day of prosperity, it
pours forth its richest aroma after
sundown with you and me after a
while. 'When you COMB to go out of
this world, will it be a desert march
or will it be a fountain for your
soul?
A. Christian Ffindoo was dying, and
his heathen comrades came around
him and tried to comfort him
by reading some of the pages of their
theology; but he waved bis hand, as
much as to say, "I don't want to bear
it." Then they coned in a heathen
priest, and he said, "If you will only
recite the Numtra it will deliver you
from hell." Ile waved his band, as
much as to say, "I don't want to hear
that." Then they said, "Call on Jug-
gernaut." He shook his bead, as
much us to say, "I can't do that." Then
they thought perhaps he was too weary
to speak, and they said, "Now, if you
can't say 'J'uggernaut,' think a that
god." Jle shook bis head again, as
much as to say, "No, no, 120." Then
they bend down to his pollow, and
they said, "In what will you trust ?"
His face lighted up with the very
glories of the celestial sphere as be
cried out, rallying all bis dying ener-
gies, "Jesus!"
0 come this morning to the foun-
tain—the fountain open for sin and
uneleen nese. I will tell you the
whole story in three senteuces. Par-
don for all sin. Comfort for all trete.
ble. 'Light for all Wetness. And
every wilderness has a well in it.
A gime teeny years ago, a Christian
oth sat teaching lessons of religion
o her child; and he drank in tboae
assorts, She never knew that Lamp-
er would come forth and establish
he Fulton street prayer-meetingeind
Y one meeting revolutionize the de -
edema of the whole mirth and thrill
he eternities with bis Christian
fluence. Lamphier said it teas
other wbo brought hieu to eesus
heist. She never 154 (111 idea thee she
as leading forth sea destinies. But
weer' 1 see a 'nether reckless of
er influence, rattling on toward de-
truction, garlanded for the same -
ice with unseemly mirth and godless-
ess, dancing on down to perdition,
eking her children in the same the
action, preparing them for e life of
evolity, death of shame and etern-
y of disaster, I ean not help but say:
There they go—there they go: Hagar
nd Ishmael!" I tell you there are
wilder deserts than Beersheba in
many of the tashionable eirches of
this day. Dissipated parents leading
dissipated children. Avarielous par-
ents leading avaricious children.
Prayerless parents leading prayerless
children. They go through every
street, up every dark ally, into every
cellar, along every highway. Hager
and Ishmael: and white I pronounce
their names, it seems like elm moan-
rsgroo(ell the death wind; Hagar and
I learn one more lesson trona this
riential scene, and that is, that every
iidernese has a well in it. Hagar
fed Ishmael gave up to die, gagers
earl stink within her as she heard
er child crying, el,Vater1 water!
uteri" ".Ah," she says, "my dal-
e there is no water. This is a
sere" And then God's angel Gee
orn the cloud: "Whet aileth theeS
nd she looked up and saw him !mini-
's! co it well of water, where she fill
1 the bottle for the lad. ,Blessed be
od that there Is in every wilderness
well, if you only knew bow Lo find
—eoun t ains for all t hese hi rst y
les this mantles. 'On that last
le, on that great day of the feast,
'sus stood and cried: "It tiny nem
irat, let him van,. to me and drink,'
11 these other founinina yeu find ere.
ere mirages of the deeert, Paracele
s, you know, spent. his time in trying
find out the elixir of lire—a, liquid
hide it' taken, Would keep One per -
Wally young in this world, end
cited change the aged back again
youth. Of course he was amp -
Anted; he found not the elixir, But
re tell you this morning of the
bee of everlasting lif bursting from
o "Rock of Ages" end that drinking
at tenter you shall never get old,
strong enough to hear her son cry
la yam fur a drink. Heretofore she
tad cheered heir boy by promising a
speedy end of the journey, and even soulcomes and takes her out in the
smiled upon hen when he felt deeper- desert. Iniquities blot out all the
elely enough. Now there is nothing :lights of that home circle. Harsh
to do Met to place labia under a shrub wade wear out her spirits. The high
and let him die. She bed thought that hope that shone out over the marriage
she would sit there and watch until utter while the ring was being set
the spirit of her boy would go away Lind the vows given and the benediction
forever, and then she would breathe Prunounced, have all faded with the
orange blossoms, and there she. is to-
day, broken-hearted, thinking of past
joy and present desolation and coming
anguish. Hagar in the wilderness!
Here is ft beautiful home, You can-
not think of anything that can be add-
ed to it. For year there has not
been the sueg, stion of a single trouble,
Right and happy children fill the house
with laughter and song, Books to red.
Pictures to look at. Lounges, to rest
on, Cup of domestic. joy full and rUn- 0
and she sues the angel pointing to a ning-aver, Dark night -drops. Pillow w
well of water, where she fills the bet- hot, Pulses flutter, Byes Mose. And a
tle for the lad, Thenk God I thank the foot whose well-known steps h
God 1 the door -sill brought (he whole house.. la
I learn from this Oriental scene, in hold out at eventide, aying, "Father's ev•
the Brat plate, what a sad thing it is coming,e will never sound on the door- ie
when people do not know their place, sill again. A. long, deep grief plough,- de
and yet too proud for their business, ed through all that lightness of do. Ir
Hagar was en nesielent in that houses mastic life, Pawnee lose Widow- A
hold, but she wonted to rule there. hood. Hagar in the wilderness! 1)1
She ridiculed and jeered, until her son, Bow often It is we see the Weal: arm
Ishmael, got the eutne tricks, Site dards- of woman conscripted for this battle "
ed out her owe happiness and threw with the rougb world, Who is she,
Sarah into a great fret fled if elle going down the street in (he early ; 't
had stayed much lunger ita that house, light of the morning, pale with !lc)
hold, she would bave Upset calm Abra- week, not. half silept mit
eon's eileilibrium. My friends, one- with the slumbers' of lost night, J
half the trouble in the world to -day tragedies, of suffering written ell (11
comes front the fent that people do over her faee, her linstreless eyes look.. se
not know their piece ; on. finding their ing far ahead. as thigigh for the cane al
Place will not stay in it. When we ing of sem. other trouble? TRW parents ee
etnne into the world there is always a called. her Mary, or Berthe, or Agnes,• to
place ready for us, A plane for Abra- lha day when they held bea up to w
Mom A place for tenrah. A. place for th.e font, end. the eliriSlian niinieier Pe
Hagar, A Piave for Ishmael., A place sprinkled on the infant's face. the w
for you and a place for me. Ourfirst washings of a holy baptism, II r 10
duty is to find ietr sphere; our see- name is changed now. 1 hear it in the a
oral is to keep it. We may be born shuffle of the worn-out shoes. 1 SPO 15
In a sole" sae eee from the one, for it in the figure oe the, faded It ei
which God final' intends .us, textusfind IL in the lineemetits of the th
was tern Ms tow ground, and Woeebegote coanienance. Net I th
out Inc own life on his silent heart ;
but as the boy begins to claw Ms
tongue in agony of thirst, and serug-
gle in distortion, and begs his moth-
er to slay him, she cannot endure the
spectacle. She puts him under a shrub
rind goes off a bow-shet and begins to
weep until all the desert seense sob-
bing, and her cry strikes clear through
the heavens; and au angel of Godcomes
the appalling grief, end cries, ' Ha-
gar, what ititeth thee t" She looks up
BABY GIRL MASCOT.
The aquae of the Seventeenth regi-
ment oe French chasseurs have adopt-
ed a girl baby as a regiment mascot,
The French regiments do not usually
have mascots, or pets, es the Ameri-
eats end British! do. The Frenchman
does not love dogs and goats quite as
much as the Anglo-Sn.xon clam A
human being ef the fair sex Is more to
his liking, end the. seleotion of one in
this case strikes the French publio as
a hippy Improvement of the American
maeoot idea.
Several. officers of the Seventeenth
chrieseurs found the little girl aban-
doned in a railway carriage at Ram-
botellet, where the regiment is station-
ed. The baby would have been, taken
to a founileag asylum, but the offitiers,
lichee kind-hearted and in a good hum -
Ir, decided to' MVO her from! the fate,
They t.00k bar home to the barracks
and all of them cheerfully agreed to
adopt her as "tee &slighter of the
regiment."
Arrangements were made with a ser-
geantes wife to oars for her. ' The lit-
tle girl will in future go wherever the
regiment goes, eine be erlucated ae its
ellMen,^
It ,1) ,an suggested that this
matient. at entoll a great deal more
trouble when she grows up than if the
regiment bee adopted a dog, a pace
a leonine,
Lor, beetle, ee ball long hesitated
to adopt tbe le tion oh of ber SS
most of her ta-
ally she dee
trip, and, 12 so
greatly benefl.ba
baa indulged b im
little figure of .
e familiar eight Wrtemeo wbo
tramp the mashes about Shellville or
the uplands bordering on Sonoma
Creek. Almost every week, in oom-
pany with a relative, she made a
pilgrimage LO 8001e favorite haunt of
wild ganie, and ber skill with the gun
is evidenced by a well-filled game
bag which she invariably brings back.
On a reoent visit to the Sonoma
marsh she bagged seven teal, five
English snipe, besides several quail, all
killed on the wing. Her mentor says
that she bids fair to become one of
the most notable wing shots in San
Francisco, Miss Meyer is said to be
petite, weighing little more than one
hundred pounds, but there is a -sug-
gestion of strength in every line of
her supple figure which only exer-
cise M the open air can give and a
light in the eyes which denotes per-
fect health.
Word comes from London that it is
now strictly correct for society
women to Meese their affections on
the small animal which is generally
supposed to be the terror of woman-
kind—the mouse. The society mouse
has many pleasing shades, from pure
svelte to glossy black. At a recent
meeting of the Medway Fanciers As-
sociation, held at Rochester, Eng-
land, this new pet reached his highest
popularity, and met with universal ad-
miration. Here 117 of the little
creatures were exbibited, and the
favorite and chief prize winner, ex-
cept his eyes, which were two little
beads of brilliant black, was the
property of Mrs. Atlee of Royston,
Herts. Exhibitors came from Scot-
land, Ireland, Wales and all parts of
England. The colors of the animals
were black, fawn, chocolate, white,
cream, Dutch -marked, tortoise, eable,
golden agouti and blue. In form,
appearance and manners they resembl-
ed diminutive tame rabbits. One of
the originators of the British National
Mouse Club was Miss Cockburn
Dickenson, the "missing heiress,"
whose mysterious disappearance was a
nine -day's sensation a year or go since.
Alias Dickenson was never found, and
the olub has preserved, stuffed In a
glass case, her mouse, "Champion
Queenie," with which she was the first
winner of the club championship
cup.
Many people are now wondering
what will become of Achilleon, that
wonderful palace on whioh nearly half
a million sterling bas been spent, and
which the Empress of Austria be-
queathed to her sister. The greatest
possible interest was taken in every
detail of this superb residence by the
empress herself, wbo chose the site in
tbe secluded island of Corfu, where
the castle was Greeted, From the
marble terrace an unrivaled view of
the sea between the bays of Garitza
and Chalkoapuls, in the Aegean Sea,
can be obtained.. Her majesty took
almost childish delight in illuminating
the whole of the beautiful Greek
building with electric light, and in her
private sitting -room was a button
which, being pressed, the building and
the gardens became instantly out-
lined with tiny lamps. The empress
only resided at Achilleon for a few
weekon seven occasions,
London society declares the two
prettiest American heiresses to be
Mise Waldorf -Astor and Miss May
Goelet, Miss Gimlet is Probable the
handsomer, and ber fortune is between
$1,00G,000 and $9,000,00. Shale a slend-
er brunette and 19 years of ago. She has
been educated in Frame, !Germany and
England. Last year she was presented
in London and el court. Her special
liking in frocks is for ;seism tulle,
which she always wore at dances and
'dinners last season axeept once, when
she wore a white satin freak sewn
with jewels at the Duchess of Devon-
shire s fancy ball, With this gown
she wore in her hair a huge pearl -
shaped emerald, and pending there-
from a diamond, quite the largest in
the room. Miss Astor is a sweet girl,
wbo resembles her beautiful mother,
inc is said to preside with grace be-
yoncl what one expeats of her years
at her father's table upon all state
occasions.
A woman wbo has just returned frOM
China says that the first impression
she received was • beauty of the
country and the . eeoriess of the men,
"They wonld hustle a lady off the
pavement," she said, "and as for malt-
ing way for her teat never entered
their heads, Chinamen regard, a
woman as an inferior being, yet they
often consult their wives about their
business." In regard to the cuseone of
deforming the feat, tete woman says
that, words menet describe the agonies
girt children eater in this onippling
process, "I base known," sbe 50,35 "of
mothers who, in order to lessen Ow
eufferinee or 111' poor little girls, tool:
a mallet and 1 rolce, 0e00 for all, Ib
bonen of the feet, leind-hearted
mothers often give the little girls
opium. to deaden the pain end so the
opiuM Iiabib becomes fixed, China
can never rise to the height of her
telesion until this pernicious anetona is
abandoned, At Joist ono child in ten
dies from the offeete of this foot bind-
ing, And even if they survive the
process they feel the effeete of H. as
long as they live, Their legs wither
until they are like broometioks, and
they have absolutely no thighs. Even
among the Ceristian Chinese the mas-
t= is stile followed. But a begin-
ning ens been made in discouraging it,
and it will eventually have to go."
Court etiquette is a fearful and a
wonderful thing. 11 15 told that on ono
occasion when the lamp in Queen
Victoria's silting room al Osborne was
smoking her Majesty appealed to ono
of her ladies in waiting to lower the
while a (rifle. The lady appealed to
declined to recognize turning down a
Intim as one of her official duties, See
passed the information about the
tamp to the next lady in wattleg, who
told the third lady, and so it travelled
from attendant to attendant while the
moments fled and the smoke continued
to amend. Finally the Queen rose
herself and with her own hand per-
formed the act which her haughty at-
teedants had felt was below their
dignity. Tbis, if a faa, is interesting.
Fire brigades "manned" by women
are not uncommon in England. There
is one at Girton College, where the
students have their own brigade and
appliances. Several of the hospitals
have separate brigades of the nurses
and of the reale attendants, and the
nurses are said to be much quicker than
the men. At Holloway College there
is a brigade, formed of the girl stu-
dents, capable ot getting the engine
at work in less than a minute, Several
establishments in London having large
corps of women employed have fire
companies among the employees.
The Princess of Wales seems to have
been a good deal of a mascot, at any
rate to the eight bridesmaids who at-
tended her at her wedding thirty-six
years ago. In the language of an Eng-,
lish paper, "the whole of those ladies
are still alive, and nothing unusual bas
occurred to dim, their happiness, al-
tbougli on Jan, 1, their united ages
totalled up to the not insignificant
figures 447." The Princess, with her
daughter Princess Vietoria, is now
Bruising in the Mediterranean on the ,
Osborne, ,
II' MERRY OLD ENGLAND.
THE DOINGS OF TIIE ENGLISH RE.
PORTED BY MAIL.
tweed of she events 'riming ewe In the
Amid or the stese-eiseresetag occur,
echoes.
Jelin Ruffian always dines in eolle
tudie, for lie Bede that conversation
has a bad effect on les digestion.
According to official figures,. Great
&tette expends $00,000,000 it your on
the support of tee poor. TVs (Mee nee
include private charities,
A new illustrated weekly has been
started in London, called Lords and
Commons. It will cleat especially with
matters relating to Parliament.
committee of youug natives has
been formed at Cairo to collect funds
for the purpose of having a portrait
of the Su'der paiuted. The portrait will
be presented to Lord Kitceener,
Six George Ring and. Mr, Robert
Pantling, of Alniviek, wee have been
orchid hunting in a prolific distriet of
the Himalayas, have discovered and
elassitied nearly 8,00 now species,
According to the Patric, two Engl-
lislamen wore arrested at Bonifacio, In
Corsica, as spies, but Were released al-
most immediately by order o± the Pre-
fect, who profusely apologized for tbe
mistake.
The body of a boy named Charles
Bison, who had been missing about a
month, was found in a refuse pit at
Leicester. The remains were shock-
i•ngly decomposed and the head smash-
ed in,
Tice Simla, hired troopship, witb over.
1,009 troops for Indite, left Southamp-
ton on Saturday morning. Returns
just issued show that during the lent
year 88,480 troops arrived at or depart-
., ed for Southampton.
Archbishop Mitelagan, of York, Eng-
land, entered the Madras division of
the Indian army in 1847 as a lieuten-
ant. He studied the native language,
Weenie an interpreter, and retired on
a pension, eyelet he still draws.
.A. ship's boy mimed Keighluy died at
Hasler Hospital from Injuries caused
by another boy named Chatfield fall-
ing upon him from the mast on the
cruiser Terrible in Portsmouth harbor
shiorstotiowe.ek. Chatfield's condition is
Golf and archery came into competi-
tion recently near Birmingham, one
contestant undertaking to hole out
ggiltee):I=b7:d'Zerelotlim:4tiiTou itt
maraokbeerwon.s
trkwi
oes th clubhe
and ball. T
The returns of the health of the Eng-
lish Navy for 1898 show a dealt -rate
of only 5.23 per 1,000, or .05 lower than
ie the previous ten years. The rate of
invaliding was 4.62 per 1,000 higher
than in 1896, mainly owing to the Benin
campaign, when much remittent fever
was contracted.
Four years ago Alice Fraucombe, a•
Bristol child, swallowed a halfpenny.
Subsequently she was subjected to the
Roentgen rays, with a view to locating
lee coin, but without success. The
other night the child wits seized with
violent sickness, and brought up the
helfpenny. Internal hemorrhage re-
sulted and she died.
The directors of the London, Brigh-
ton end South Coast Railway are in-
troducing a bill In the Present melon -
of Parliament for a pension fund for
their officers and servants. The DOW
feud will include all servants over
eighteen years of age, whereas the
present superannuation fund only pro-
vides for servants of certain grades in
thAe.t."Trlivoicar:ohill churchyard a married
woman, named Emma Bentley, of Neth-
erton, while attending a funeral sud-
denly felt great pain in her upper
lip, and it was discovered that she had
been shot by a pellet, evidently from
the gun of ono of a party of men en-
gaged in a pigeon -shooting match in
a field mons than a hundred yards
away.
Prof. Percy Gardner, of London, em-
phasizes the benefits that would fol-
low if adequate graduate courses were
organized at Oxford and. Cambridge.
Ho found, lie says, a colony of Cana-
dians working as instructors or as
graduate students at Harvard, and
noted how these British subjects looke
ed to Boston as the metropolis of edue
cation.
Londonere consume 275,000,00 gal-
ong of water a year, aeccuding to the
Herne Magazine; they do not drink all
of it, and what they do drink is not al-
ways taken Wear, as they use 25,000,000
pounds of ten as well. They do put
down 153,000,000 gallons of beer, how-
ever, a.s.well as 4.400,000 gallons, oe
s
pirits, besides 50,000,000 gallons or
mineral waters,
A gentleman at the George Hotel,
Rugby, was found dead be hie room,
fully dressed, with a bottle and gime
that had contained prussic aid near
him. A note was found in eis pocket
giving the name of Noel Whitby, of
Woodside Park, North Finehley, and
Land that he suffered from shivering
ototso, fitinildiathhoaatah.e was Sore he would
Mr. EL M. Stanley, the African ex-
plorer, has purchased Furze Hill Pile
bright, Surrey, lately the residenee of
Ar. Walter Winans, the crack revolver
si
hot. • Mr. Stanley wilt bave as a near
The Duchess of lelarlborough, who
was Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, is ex -
pectin to do some elaborate enter-
taining in London during the season
which is about to open. Sbe and Inc
husband bave taken Arlington House,
which is one of the famous mansions
of the big capital. Over there, gossip
is saying that the Duchess's father, Mr.
William, K. Vanderbilt, has given her
half a million dollars 10 he spent on
entertaining in her town house.
.An English girl bad a sad experience
recently. She bought part of her
trousseau on credit, saying that her
father would pay for it. When the
bill reached that gentleman, however,
he said he knew nothing about it and
refused to pay it. There baa been so
much trouble about giving credit to
married women that an English judge
has proposed that there should be a
register ie which husbands Nebo will:
not be responsible for their WOOS' debts
can enroll themselves.
VERBAL INFELICITIES.
Many Examples of Maas 01/11 WORM
1,11 meted.
A baboo—the title given to a Hindu
gentleman who writes and speaks Eng-
lish—once addressed Lurd Duffettn,
the Viceroy of India, as "Your Enor-
mity," instead of "Your Excelionoe."
'Wishing to express his gratitude to
the viceroy, who bad been a wise and
kind ruler, tee baboo ended his address
with this benediction: "You have been
very good to us, and may Almighty
God give you tit for tat." Bis lord-
ship, knowing that the baboo was
wrestling with a language whose
iclioteseind phrases trip even those to
"the manner born," ignored tee verbal
which (hanged the intended
benediction into an imprecation,
The baboo did not blunder as drolly
as Lord leadstock, an English. lay
-
preacher, once did, At the French Ex-
hibition in Paris, his ladship, while
preaching to an assembly of French-
men in their native tongue, implored
them to come and drink of the "eau
de vie," brandy,
An Oxford aldermen, replying to the
toast of his health, said he had always
tried to administer justice without
swerving to "partiality on the Inc
bend or to tmpatiality on the other."
That man mast bsva been a kinsman
of the moralist who announced that ho
always tried to tread "the narrow path
which lay between right and Wrong."
Dean Bergen, well-known for his
hostile critielim or the Revised Von -
sem of the Bible, come Preached a W-
izen on the merits of the Angllean
theologians, in white he extolled
Jeremy levier, the author of "Holy
Living and Holy Dying," and Bishop
Bull, who wroto the "ilefenee of the
Nicene Faith," Waxing fervent, the
dean humbled into this verbal inten-
sely: "btiy 1 live the life of a Tay-
lor, and die the death of a Bull I" a
The eloquent Doctor Lithion, in a (le. 8
bete in Com/eastern at Oeford, refer- t
ring to a coneession made by the oppos
lien side, teed, "It is proverbially un-
graotous to look a gift ham in the
tem" "Mouth, sir, mouth," roared
the undagreduates In thegallsry; but.
Doetor Tendon went 011 with his speech
not seeng that the proverb, Ile he had
(meted it, Was evithout 'floating,
Itte, KNEW.
ed congenial neighbor Mr. F.0,
elms, whose local museum a1201111,08
'Militias has gained a inotorlay 01
being possibly ono o ebbe Most emit
Idete of its kind in the world,
The English Court for the Considera-
GAY of Crown Oases Reserved on Sat-
urday (plashed the eenvietioe of two
nue sentenced to twelve months and
three years at Huntingdonshire A.8 -
gees for obtaining goods by fraud in
conspiracy with anOther lnan, who
leaded guilty, because Rio ehairtrian
ad admitted hearsay evidence, The
ad Chief Justice remarked that the
met (erne in ibis temehtston nieces
reatull, bectimie the meseners hed bane'
envieleat tion maple evidence ol gram
Freddie, do you know what the lilble
says about a lio 1 tusked his mother
with feigned severity,
Vele, intearn; lisped Freddie, a lie in
abomination unto the Lord and a is
very refuge in time of trouble, f
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