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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-9-7, Page 3„SI,PT, E ,.1999. POWER OF KIND WORDS, REV. DR, TALMAGE SPEAKS OF THEIR GREAT INFLUENCE. With* They Are i1c1p p 3 sentiment: n'Ato many Mell to ell a 1 a swarm of wandering boos. And so Igrand and glorwus sentim n fol -.1 Mellowed I.1a3 Reformed love neon neon muving uloid the an- '"bind wards never die, never die; THF, BRUSSELS POST. 8 out to get baste a from t of bees that !sun, they war or as wool. That man ice VENTURES IN JiFRIOA1 had wandered off from the hive. As � dying forever for the lack of our ltulu lj Y 1,1111 lJ luLt! IN around his hand, and buzzed around the untry o Lennon os his hands, and bu,zzod around leis fool. � rho country n sung that luso ulnloat IK 1, THORBUHN'S THRILLING TRIP diad out. ;1 wlsli somebody would IN UNKNOWN WILDS. swarut h d amid them tbev buzzed word, There a used to be sun( at o move r f theI n all through If he hnd killed ono of them they would have aletng him to death, lint , start it lignin in our social cireh.e. -- he. moved In their midst in ,perfect l'her0 may not have been very exquis- TWrly Tears In Irarbrat Arrtca-r ala• lacidit until he Ir+ul eaptured the he n.rt in the muele, but there was a jrloe(n 1+'111011 l;;17011not• Dra+rltard by h Hind Oat-llntolllus rluyaneos, find the vexations, and the tread 4!hn,•e6aa 9bogld Try lbs Valise or assaults of life In melt mina, Christian eetidn+ess• deliberation, tbat all the buzzing A despatele Brom Washington says:- around shout their soul amounted to Rev. Dr, Talmage preached from the nothing. They conquered them, and nbave ail, Urey conquered themselves, following text: " A eat tongue hreult 0 ” you say, 'that's a very good the- eth the bone." -Prov, xxv. 15. ory to preach on n hot night, but 11 \Veen Solomon maid this he drove a won't work." It will work. .It has whole volume into one phrase. You of woi'kod. I believe.it is the last Chris- Dan grace we win, You know there emerse, will net be so silly as to take are fruit, which we gather In June, the words of, the text in a Morel and others in July, and other in Aug - sense. They simply mean to est forth est, mid others in Settember, and the fact that there is a tremendous still others in October and I it have to admit that thio grace of Power in a kind word, Although g Christian fo•rgivemess is about the last may seem to he very insignificant, its Liu t of the Christian soul, We hear force is indescribable and illimitable. a great deal about the bitter tongue, and the sarcastic longue, and the quick Pungent and all -conquering utter. tongue, and the singing tongue; but ,ace: "A soft tongue breaketh the we know very little about "the soft bone." - tongue that breaketh the bone." We If the 4veatlter were not so hot, and road IIndibr'as, and Sterne, and Dean Swett, el nal Lhe. nlher aposllos of acri- I hada trine, I would show yore kindness moray, but give little time to studying as a means of defence; kindness as a ebe example of tDra who was reviled, means of usefulness; kindness as a and yet reviled not again. 0 that the means of domestic harmony; kindness Lord, by His Spirit, would endow us all with "the soft tongue that break - as best employed by governments for ellh the bone." the taming and curing of criminals; I'pass no3v to she oLlier ttraugbt that and kindness as best adapted for the 1 cbusire to prtsent, and that is, we'd_ settling and adjusting of internation- nose as a means of usefulness, in all a quarrels; 1 1 u reds' but I -hall call your at- communities you find. sceptical men, sed Chrts- And first, I speak to you of kind- tiaa people, or through prying curios- ness as'a means of defence. AlmosO av- ity about the future world, there are ery man, in the course of his life, is a' groat many people who become 500p - set upon and assaulted, Your motives tical in religious thing-. el shall you capture them for God? Sharp are misinterpreted or your religious argutmen.t and snrcasli1 retort: never or political principles are bombarded. What to do under such circumstances in the question, The first impulse of tee natural heart says; " Strike back. Give as much as he sent. Trip him in- to the ditch which be dug for your feet. Gash him with as severe a wound as that which he inflicted on your soul. Shot for allot. Sarcasm for sarcasm. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth." But the better spirit in the man's soul risen u.p and says: "You ought to re- consider that matter." You look up in- to the face of Christ and say: "My Master, bow ought I to act under these difficult oircunistances?" And Christ instantly answers: " Bless them that curse you, and pray for there that de- spitefully use you." Then the old na- ture rises, up again' and says: " You had better not forgive him 'twill first you have chastised him You will never get, him in so tight a earner again, You will never have such an opportunity of inflicting the right kind of punishment upon him again. First chastise him, and then let him go." "No," says the better nature, "hush, thou foul heart. Try the soft tongue that breaketh the bons.' Have you aver In all your life known acerbity and acrimonious dis- pute to settle a quarrel? Did they not always make ('natters worse. and worse, and worse? About thirty-five years ago there was a great quarrel ill the Presbyterian family. Minis- ters of Christ were thought orthodox In proportion as they had measured lances with other clergymen of them sae denomination. The moat out- rageous personalities were abroad. Aa, in the autumn, a heater comes home with a string et game, partridges and wild ducks slung over his shoulder, so there were many ministers who came back from the ecclesiastical courts with long strings of doctors of divin- ity whom had they hashot with their own rifle. The division became wider, the animosity greater, until after a while some good man resolved upon another trice., They began to ex- piate away the difficulties; they be- gan to forgive each other's fault; and, lot the great Church quarrel was see- the Christian religion. While power - Church and the old school Presbyterian Church became one• Tho different. parts of the Presbyterian order, weld- s ed by a hammer,.a little hammer, a Christian hammer that the Scriptures palls "a soft tongue." You have a disputa with your neigh- bour, You say to him I despise you." Be replies: "I can't bear the sight of you." You say! to him; "Never enter my house again," He says: "If you come on my door sill, I'll kiok you off." , You say to him: ,ell pout you down." He says to you: "You are mistaken: I'll put ,you clown" And so the contest rages; and year alter year you act the unchristian part and he acts the unchristian part, After a while the better spirit seizes you, and one day you go over to the neighbor, and say : "Give me your hand. We have fought long enough. Time is so short, and 'eternity is so near, that; we cannot afford any long- er to quarrel. I feel you have wrong- ed enc very much; but let us settle all now in one great hand -shaking, and be good friends for all the rest of our lives." You huvo risen to ahigh- er platform than that on which before you stood. Yoe win Ma admiration, and you get his apology:. , But if you have not oongtlered him In that way, at any rate you have won the applause of your own oonselence, the high esti- mation of good men, and the honor of your God who died for His armed enemies. ' l3ut," you say, "What are we to do when slanders assault us, and there comp acrimonious sayings all around anent. es, and we ere abused and spit upon? My reply Te: leo not go and attempt to obese clown the slaeders. Lies are pralifie, and .while you are Wiling one, fifty aro born, • All your d,emonst.rations of indignation only exhaust yourself. Yen might as We , on some summer night when the swarms of insects ore coming up from the meadows and disturbing you, and disturbing your family, bring up some gren,l swamp angel, like thee whieb thundered over Charleston, and try to sboot thean down. The game is too entail for the grin. But, what then are you to do with the (.buses that come upon you in life? ' You are to live tlGael)).emelt 1 I NW a fernier ,go taction only oto two of these thoughts. the maltreatmentLmont of proles Through early education, or through Cherished and blessed. 0, that reek. might in our families and in our charchas try the force of kind- ness, You can never drive 1non, we - mete or children into the kingdom of Gd. A oMarch north -easter will bring cul more honeysuckles bran fretfulness end acceding will bring out Christian grace, I wish that in all our religious work we night. be saturated with the spirit of kindness. Missing that, we miss n great. deal of uaefalness. There is no need of vowing out before men and thundering to t hem the law unless at the same lime you preach to them the Gospel. Do you not know that tele simple story of a Saviour's kindness is to re- deem all nations? The hard heart of this world's obduracy 15 10 he broken before that story. .There is in Ant- werp, Belgium, one of the most re- maa•kabto 1letares I ever saw, It is "The Descent. of Christ from the Cross " it. is ones of Butane' pioturea. No man can stand and look at that "Descent from the Cross," as Rubens pictured it, without having his eyes flooded with tears, if he have any sensibility at all, It is an overmastering picture, -one that stuns you, and staggers you, and haunts your dreams. One nftern"on a man stood in that cathedral looking at Rubens' "Descent from .the Cross," Be was all absorbed in that scene of a Saviour's sufferings when the jani- tor came in and said: "It is time to close up the cathedral for the night. d wish you would depart." The pilgrim looking at that "Descent from the Crass," turned around to the janitor and said: "No, no; not yet. Wait until they get Rim down." 0, it is, the 10.11 a single soul from scepticism to story of a Saviour's suffering kind - the Christian religion. While power- Hees that is to capture the world, fel, books oa "The Evidences of Chris- When the bones of ;bat great Bebe - timely" have their mission in confirm- moth of iniquity which tuts trampled tog: Christian pe.ohllo in the faith they all nntions shall be beckon and shat - have already adepled, f have noticed lered, it will be found out that the that when sceptical people tiro brought work was not done by) the hemmer of into the kingdom of Christ it is the iconoclast, or by the sword of the through the charm of some genial soul conqueror, or by Lhe torch of perseou- and, not by argument at all. Men are tion, but by the plain, simple, over - not saved through the head; they are whelming force of "the soft tongue saved through the heart. A storm that breaketh the bone." comes out of its hiding -place. 11 says: Now., I must bid you good-bye for a "Now we'll just rouse up all this ben;" few weeks. Rest' will he very grute- arnd it makes a great bluster, but ft ful to us all, It has been a, busy does not succeed. Part of the sea is year in this Church. If I had time T reused up, -perhaps one-half of it or would review two or three things we one fourth of it, After a while the have been trying to do. It is no easy calm moon, placid and beautiful, looks thing to stand in a place like this down, and the ocean begins to rise, it week after week, and front year to comes up :Lo high-water mark, 11 year•, with variety and freshness embraces the great headlands. 1t preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, submerges the beach of all the can- It requires study. It requires thought. tinents. It is the heart-throb of one It requires prayer. For we have felt world against the heart-throb of an- other world. And 1 have to tell you that; while all yeti• storms of ridicule and, storms of sarcasm rimy rouse up the passion of immortal nature, no - Wog less than the attractive power of C'hrietian kindness can ever raise the deathless spirit to happiness and to God, I 'rave more faith in the prayer of a child. five years old, in We way of bringing an infidel back to Christ' and to heaven, than .I have to all the hissing thunderbolts of ecclesi- astical controversy. You cannot over- come men with religious argument - mien. 11 you come at n sceptical man wit1N an argument on behalf of the Christian reliCwn, you put the man on his metal. Be says: 1 see that man has a carbine, .111 use my carbine, 1'11 answer his argument with my argu- ment,." Bull if you 0058 to that man, persuading him that you desire his happiness an earth, and his eternal wedfarel in, the world to come, he can - nett answer it. lar,' worth er Ahuaeada !Aoki ter Teem X„nd5, Visitors to ” Savage le uth Africa," tit Eal•1's Court Exhibition, are meet- ing the 'must interesting man iu h:ag- land, says a London letter, This is Mr. John Thorburn, whir Is full to the brim of properly authenticated adventures, Mr. Thorburn lune passed the Meri- dian of life, A little wiry man, with not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, a face bronzed. by 30 Afri- can summers, and partly hidden under a shock of whitening beard, J bn Thorburn cuts a picturesque figure in his suit of prepared flax and large pancake -like hat. In 1885 John Thorburn, his wife, and family were making a great trek across country from Lorene° Marques to the Transvaal. A succession of die - asters that would have discouraged anybody but a Scotahman,-Mr. Th•,r- burn hails from the Bind 0' cakes- One-half of the boat's side was ,knock- ed in the last of his oxen ed out; of shape, add sir feet of the steel plates were rent open, Thorburn succumbing to the tetse fly, and the patched up the boat, and the journey little hand of travellers being left stranded in the boundless ocean of the Afrioan veldt, The plain before them was dotted with huts. THORBURN MEETS THE KING. When( 1111 t31cl said is just as true in the reclamation of the openly vicious. Did you ever know a. drunkard to be saved through the caricature of a drunkard? Your mimicry of the stag- gering step, and the thick tongue, and the disgusting hiccough, only worse maddens his brain. But if you come to hem in kindness and sympathy; if you dhow him that you appreciate the awful' grip of a depraved appetite; if net persuade him of the fact that t weea'nds who .had the ,g're,ppling- lenoles of evil inclination clutched m ,loci(' saint as firmly as in his, then a ray elf lighlt will flash caress his vis- ion,: enol i0 will seem] as if m superna- tural hand were steadying hs stagger- ing gait. Iia good many years ago there laid in the streets of Richmond, Va., a man rlead drunk, his face expos - eel to' ithe blistering 110ondsy sun. 1& Christian, woman passed along, looked 0:0him, and said: "Poor fellow." She took her handkerchief and spread it over has lace, and passed on. Tho men roused himself up from his debauch, and begnn to look et t'hehandkorchtet, tend lel on it was Ohe name et ahighly respectable Christian Woman of rho City of Richmond. Re went to her, and thanked her 'Per' her kindness ; a that one little deed a(.ved hila for !this life, and saved him for the life ,thet is toicome. IIo was afterward ,Attorney - General of elm United States; but, higher', than all, he became the cense- orated disciple of Jesus Christ. Kind words aro so cheap, it is a :wander rvc do not use them oftener, There are tons of thousands of people in these ru it - 10s' who are (13 (235 for the lack of one lewd word. There isabusiness man who has fought against trouble until he is perfectly exhausted. Be has been thinking about forgery, about robbery, .shout suicide, Go to that business man, 'Tell him that halter+ times are coming, and tell him that you y001 - self were in a tight 'niceness pales,, and the Lord delivered you. Tell him to put his trust in God., .Tell him that Jesus Cdrist stands beside every, busi- ness mein in his perplexities." '.Poll him. 0f the sweet promises of God's cone farting grace. That man is dying for the lack of ,lust one kind word. Ge to- morrow to \troll -street: or Broad -street; pass clown Fulton Avenue or through Allantic-street to -morrow and utter that one saving, omnipotent, kind word, Here is a soul that has been swamped in sin. ITo wants to find the light of .the Gospel. no feels like a shipwrecked ma11110'r looking out over tho beach, watching for a sail, against the sky, 0, ;.,ear down on hill. Toll biro Wet the Lord waits to be gracious to elm, that. though 11e hns been a great sinner, there r8 a great Saviour provided, Tellhim that though his sins are as scarlet, they shall be as snow; though they are red like erim- the most novel overland journey ever ender taken, PURSUED BY TIRE. Once the veldt eauglft fire and ,pur- sued LJ1eu1 mile after mile, theflames rearing and hissing behind them like a great army of fiends. 1t seemed a certain death to all -a hideouts linger- ing death lay fire and suffocation. The 32 oxen broke away, and the terri- fied nntivice were only too glad to seize the opportunity to ('1111 after them, The seething furnace crept nedrer-with a terrible roar, and bane - ink, choking Omuta of smoke it swept over Lhem. The whale world seemed ablaze. The little band silent- ly awaited the and, When the dawn came Thorburn look- ed about him, dreading the worst. But, strange to say, not one of the company was missing, and never was more heartfelt prayer of thankfulness uttered than that which John Thor - burn offered up in the midst of that scorched and blackened veldt. Ono pert of the subsequent journey was so beset with difficulties that i. took them four days to 0011101 one mile. 'rhea the waggons sank over the axle - trees in a bit of " soft" country, and lee men were six days in digging them out. The climax arrived when the waggon containing the boat became unmanageable in descending a hill and overturned, smashing the cabin and other fi11)11gs into matmhwood, was continued, LOYAL THOUGI1 BLACK. The Buffets Heights were negotiated, and the travellers trekked on to the Dittin Kraal. 'Then a groat dignitary came out to weesume them -no less a personage than Sandhlana, Prime Presently there approached a fine Minister of Swaziland. He was (lcoom- we11 sot -up, dignified looking Swazi, pained by sever¢l headmen, who paid "Malang, what haat thou in thy great respect to the pale -faces when waggons?" spoke the new ccmer. they learned that they were English - "I have clothes for the bdy fond men. food for the stomach," replied the '"'.they asked Inc a lot of questions about our Greet" White Queen,' says traveller, in the poetical language of bir. Thorburn,' ' and I told them of her the tribe. "I was journeying towards greatness and of her goodness to the black as, well as to tee,whiite.penplo' the setting sun, when the tots, fly The slew my oxen. I would have assist- nest day they sent " Skokoko," asthey christened Mr. Thorburn, a young ante -who are thou?" ox, which was slain and eaten by the The stranger threw back his shoal- party; and later, the arduous and dan- ders and made a wide sweep with his gerous jourpey as resumed, arm, as he answered proudly:- Almost every wmile was attended by some mishap) or adventure. One stretch " I am Umbandine, Sing of Swazi- of country could only be negotiated by land, paramount chief of all the Swa- making a road. Days were spent in zia. There is my Embkoleweni "-• this' undertaking. Hands blistered and he ding an pointing to n great cluster of huts in spadebledwith; and tthe wielding wasof almpickost( fend - the distance. "You are welcome, ma- ished when the floods came and' wash - lung." ed the road away. Thorburn made In this dramatic fashion did Mr. the road again, and the weary, foot- Thorburn meet His Majesty King Um- sero travellers trudged hopefully on. buntline, and the king sot great store ROMANCE OF A DIAMOND MINE. by the traveller, in that his waggons A great friend of Mr. Thorburn was Hans de Beer, upon whose farm were discovered two of the most valuable diamond mines the world has known - the De Beers and Kimberley. On June 20, 1882, this man, who sold for a few thousands land which was worth mil- lions, died in Mr. Thorburn's house, in the 52nd year of his age. Hans de Beer was a Dutch stock breeder, who was rather disgusted with the noisy incursion of diamond seek- ers in the neighborhood of his farm, and he determined to seek less lively postures, He agreed to sell his farm to Messrs. Duvell and Ebden, of Port Elizabeth, for the sum of $0,500; and so great was De Beer's anxiety to es- cape from the babel of strange tongues that he refused to wait for his mnney, and it was hent on after him. Although during the years De Beer tended his farm, be literally walked Dix untold wealth, it never oeourred; to him to reap the rich harvest of pre- cious stones that lay at his feet. He was quite content to let hist flock graze 011 the land. Nor, as he repeatedly told Mr. Thorburn, did he regret 'd;:5 - posing of it, for the, comparatively speaking, ridiculously small sum of $0,500. All he wanted was' tribe allow- ed to live a quietly, industrious life, His wish was granted, and he died a hippy and contented man. i Young Folks. 4 VOYAGE OF JOHNNY MALCOM. There was a young lad named Johnny. Maloon, Wbo voyaged ane night, to the shore of the moon, In the strangestkind of a strange bal- loon,- A pig's -bladder boat On the back of a goat; And this is the way that he got afloat: Sams lobster salad, a little, "high;" Two pieces of hot, mince pie; Apricot sauce, and a Blase of milk; Four doughnuts, "aa fine as silk;" A heaping saucer of pink ice cream, And a slice of fruit cake, to "make 1115 dream." And dream he did, and a terrible trip He had, that night, in his pig's -bladder ship 1 ITo and fro 'midst the snapping stars; Frowned upon by the red -fused Mars; Chased half around the midnight sky At last -just as sure as you are born -- The moon and the goat each locked a horn t There was a whirlwind of arms and legs, A crash like the breaking of fifty eggs, A splatter of stars about his head- And. eadAnd Johnny Maloon sat up in bad, Gasping and staring, and well-nigh dead 1 "Where bave you been?" cried Mamma Maloon. "You're wet end white and wild as a loon," "1 d-d-dunno," said Johnny, "-0, Yes! I've been on a trip to the mown, And seen some wonderf'ler things, I s'pose, than even a jography-maker knows 1" that at all times we must preach were loaded with good things to eat nothing but the Gospel; and though and drink, and fine raiment, fitting to be old, we story a chief of the Swazin. Mr. Thor - it new. It ernss been a glae try to make d burn's three waggons were accommo- the to some may seem year in our Church. It, culminated in dated within the Royal Kraal itself; this morning s exercises in the great but the king took nothing without pay - with men and women espousing the "Harvest Rome " crowding these aisles ing full market price. His Majesty ask - (muse of Christ for the first time, ed the price of gin. During this year, since last Septem- " Three pounds a case," replied Mr. bee, many thousand souls have here Thorburn. Umbandine generously publicly inquired the way of salvation, ave him £4, but the trader prompt - rising in their places; all of whom I J g hope have found Christ, and are either connected with this' Church or with some other Christian Church either in this or in' other lands. The Lord has been gracious unto us. But all this scene of harvest and of rejoicing has implied a great: deal of work, and I think rve are glad now at the thought of rest. I have tried also to conduct the affairs of the Lay College. We, rimed. letter from a person, asking bave sent out between threes and four 1 the king 'to grant him part ,of Swazi - hundred men and women this year for land. The upshot tof it was that: Mr. Christian work, Many of them have Thorburn received the appointment of already been ordained to the Gospel ministry in the 'different denomina- tions of Christians, and others have chosen other fields of work, and the Wee day only, will show us the result of their ministry. I have also found mime work this year in the conduct of a religious newspaper. I1 has not been with me a Mere nominal matter, but a matter of bard work, since I really believe that it is chiefly through the Christian printing -press that this whole world is tot be brought back to God. The Lord has enlarged our mhancas for useful- ness and multiplied our opportunities in this, land and in other lands, so that now, through the Christian minting - press in London, Glasgow and Edin- burgh, and Manchester and Wakefield, and Liverpool, week by week we are permitted to preach the glorious Gos- pel of the Son of Cod I mention these ly returned the surplus. " What funny malungas you are!" said the astonished chief, as he hand- ed the rejected coin to one of his in- diums. Ho seemed to bo overpowered by the white man's scrupulousness. Presently he enquired: " Can you, read and writer and pro - adviser to Umbandine and remained resident within the Royal Kraal for several years. els built stores and an hotel, and flourished exceedingly. White men began 'to flock t.r Swaziland, and Mr, Thorburn's receipts averaged about £150 a day. The king made him many valuable concessions, including ane plot ()eland 75 miles, in circumference. That land teemed with precious minerals, and Mr. Thorburn saw himself immense- ly wealthy After a time he came to London for the purpose of " floating" his concessions. Daring this time a son was born to Mr. Thorburn, and be was christened Bendini, short for Umbandine, the king. He is now known as the) "white boy chief of the Swazis' at 'Gall's Court. things for the encouragement of all( STEAMER'S OVERLAND VOYAGE, those who :(luring this yeas have help- We now come to Mr. Thorburn's ed me with their prayers, and stood by me with their benedictions. And now we part. We f;ha11 not all meet again in the autumn. Standing last summer at this( hour, in this very place, Treacle a remark kindred to the one I now make and it was fully verified, and greatest exploit -ono that deserves to live in the annals of South .African development. The Dark Continent has been the scene of many great ac- hievements, but none illustrates more strikingly the pluck and determina- tion for which British pioneers aro dee Seine Whom we very much loved, and serveclly famed than the adventure who met us tit the foot of the pulpit, which had this little Scotuhman for al the close of the service, and bade hero. us goad -Lye for the summer, we shall Thorburn established hi5solf as n not meet again until in the good day when Christ shell make up His jew- els, I ask ;the, blessing of God to come clown upon you 1(3 matters of health in matters of business; that the Lord will deliver you' from all your finan- oial perplexities ; that He will give von it good livelihood, large salaries, health- ful wages, sufficient income. I pray God that He, may give you the oppor- tunity of educating, your children for this world, and through the etch grana ne our Lord Jesus Christ, of seeing thesn prepared for the world that is to come. Above all, 1 look for the mercy of God upon your immortal :mule; and less: T stand for the last 115.' before. some who ;rave not yet attended to the things of their eternal interest, in this, the tensing partof my discourse, 1 implore them here end 550311 to seek after God and be al peace with Him, 0, eve want to be gathered together at last in the bright and bles- sed assemblage of the skies, our work all clone, our sorrows all ended. God bless you, and your children, and your children's children. .And 110vv 'I e,1m- mend you to God and to ib0 word of inheritance among all them that aro sanctified, 'Good-by1 Good-byI West 'Calder teachers have got tbelr aalnrios increased by :000. trader on the Vaal River, where he was fairly successful, till ono day the river rose and swept his store away. Ile thought' to turn the cause of his. ruin to future success, and, as the swollen river was than navigable for long distances, he ordered from Eng- land a steamboat 37 feet long and of six horse -power. For some time the boat brought hire in a goodly revenue, but dry seasons suceen(18(1, and the Vaal became unnavigable. That, would have boon the one of the chapter with most men ; but not so with John Thorburn, If the Vaal River was dry, there was sti11 a tidal river at, Delagoa Bay, which woos had - 131' in want of a staanter, and Thorhnrn actually dcaided to drag the boat amass country, a distnnee of x,000 miles, a great part of: which hnd neves been trodden by white man be- fore. The journey °templed 14 menthe and the little bands of adventurers haul to make their own roads. Mr. Thorburn wets a.ccornpanied by three white men, his son Sack. George Gray and Bill Davies, They had the assistance of three natives. The boat; was pieced in a waggon dt'arvn by 18 oxen, and its engines were disposed in n' second vehicle, which was heeled by 14 bullaolcs, Mr, Thorburn speaks re- luctantly of the adeenturns and mis- adventures. Which befell them in this CHANCE FOR A FORTUNE, A Id.INI'1 MONKEY. Monkeys are more renowned for mis' chief than for Madness, but even mane keys can be benevolent, Monsieur Mouton records the doings of one in Guadeloupe that surely seemed to merit teat reputation, This monkey had a friend in a goat that went daily to the pasture. Ever' night, the monkey would leek out the burs and thorns, eonlellenes to the number of two or three thousand, Om the goat's fleece, in order that the ani- mal might lie down in peace. On corning In from pasture, the pall regularly went in search of his light - handed friend, and submitted himself to the operation. Strange to say, Alia tricky instincts at the monkey gees- sorted themselves after the prickles were removed; be would tease the poor goat unmercifully, plucking his board, poking him in the eyes, and pullbag out his hairs. The goat bore it all with patience, perhaps regarding it as only a fair prise to be paid for the re- moval oe the thorns. A RIC11 BOY. "Oh, my," said Ben, "I wish I was rich and could have things like some of the boys that go to our school." "I say, Ben," said his father, turning around quickly. "Howe much will you take for your legs?" "For my legs 1" said Ben in surprise. "Yes! What do you use them for. "Why, I run and jump and play ball, and, oh, everything" "That's so," said his father. "You wouldn't take $10,000 for them, would you ?" "No, indeed," answered Ben, smiling. "And your arms, I guess you would- n't take $10,000 for them, would you?" "No, sir." "And your voice. They tell me you sing quite well, and I know you talk a little bit- You wouldn't part with that for $10,000, would you.?" "No, sir." "Nor your good health ?" "No, sir." "Your hearing and your sense of LAND OF THE HEATHER INTERESTING NEWS FROM SCOT- LAND'S BONNIE BRAES. The pal.gs or 3eottlab People and Items of Interest Preen England's Northern Neighbor. Edinburgh dressmakers are agitat- e*. for shorter hours. Paisley's meW pumping engines are said to be the largest in the world. A aeLotherwell betting man met his death in a scuffle with a book maker. Entertaining the commercial travel- lees oust the city of Edinburgh over £321. A family of Jews have been baptised memoers of an Edinburgh Established (March. Close upon £13,000 is to be spent this year on the purification of the water , ana, in Renfrewshire, made a not: proJahnsteithfit of £311 los. ld, off its gas- od worLks last' year, The parish rates at Lochwinnoch, in Renfrewshire, have been greatly in- creased this year. The North British Railway station at Dalkeith was carefully repainted in honour of the Prince oe Wales' visit. Mr. Gregg Wilson has anaepted the officer of lecturer on zoology and bot- any in the Diok College, Edin- burgh Lady Helen Munro Ferguson opened Leith flower ahow and presented the prizes at the conclusion of the sports. A distressing case of suicide occurred at Inverness. Hector Martin, an axmy pensioner, shot himself with a revol- ver. taste are better than $6,003 apiece at Mr. Wert. Junor, salmon fisher, Rose- the very least, don't you think so?" markte, has been elected to fill up 0.d "Yes, sir." interim, the vacantly in Fortrose Town "Your eyes 110W. saw would you Council. like to have $50,000 and be blind the ;Mr. C. H. Urquhart, agent for. the rest of your life?" "I wouldn't like it at all" "Think a moment, Ben ; $50,000 is a lot of money. Are you very sure you wouldn't sell them for !net much ?" "Yes, sir." "Then they are worth that much at least. Let's see now," his father went on, figuring on a sheet of paper - "lags ten thousand, arms ten, voice ton, hearing five, taste five, good health ten and eyes fifty- that makes a hundred. You are worth $100,000 at the very lowest figures, my boy. Now run and play, Jump, throw your ball, laugh and bear your playmates laugh, too; look with those fifty -thousand - dollar eyes of yours at the beautiful things about you and come home with Invmrlara Hare ,t Problem Before Thein lu a1'+u'Ahln 31nr11Hnl. There are many vast rewards open to inventors, even to -day, bat there is one seemingly simple problem that pre.eaninently is occupying 8050 of the most inventive minds of this and other couutries, this being the inven- tion of some substitute for wood in warships. Iron used as a substitute for wood, absolutely renders life on a warship unbearable. Its extreme conductivity makes it frightfully hot in summer and desperately cold in winter ;when lookers and drawers are made of it they reek with damp, and when a uab- 10 is wholly fitted with it the occu- pant soon shows aigus of rheumatism or serious chest trouble. But wood is oonelusively shown by recent example, to be the most dangerous adjunct to warships -is shown, indeed, to be im- possible. It not only takes fire read- ily, but the splinters from it when it isl struck by short actually kill and maim more men than the projectiles themselves do. Therefore the hig:host Government authorities say, give us some substance' that is light, absoluely noncombustible to the core, that can bo easily out into boards, and that oan,. above all, be guaranteed not to spline ter, and there is a vast fortune for you at once. A SHORT SERMON. Atter he ryas grown up Mr. Ruskin became a great author, of whom near- ly everybody has heard. When he was a little boy his parents wattled hem to become a minister, and one night: he heard diem talking about it, so he thought be would begin right awns,. The next day when he was evit:h his little playmates he got a red cushion, which he plaited 011 a chair. Thou standing behind it and pounding it, as he had sem 111e minister do, he Mulched his first sermon, All he said was "People, be goodr but it was a pretty good sermon, after alit Caledonian Bank at Dornoch, has been appointed a justice of the peace for Sutherland. An open air concert on behalf of the National Burns Memorial and Cottage Homes, Maurhlines was attended by 5,- 00.) persons. An Edinbuxgb artist bas been doing al portrait in oil of Prince Edward of York, and his royal grandfather is pleased` with it. The Haloes in Grove street, Edin- burgh, of the Industrial Brigade has been sold to the Artisan Lodging -house Company for £3,000. The Duke of Devonshire has been elected president of the Scottish Lib- eral Union Club, and el.r. R. Vary your usual appetite for dinner and Campbell vice-president. think now and then how rich you The seed crushing business of Thos. really are." Bernard S. Co., Leith, is included It was a lesson that Ben never for- among the businesses to be aoquired, got, and since that day every time lie by the British Oil and Cake Mills, sees a cripple or a blind man he thinks how many things he has to be thankful for. And it has helped to make him contented. BUSY ANIMALS. The fox is a dealer in poultry, but Limited, The Court of Sessson has held an architect 1esponsible for damage from dry rot caused by the scamped work oe tradelsanen under his charge. The old privilege under which dis- tillery proprietors in Scotland were be is nothing more nor less than a a'blu bo give their employes a certain, qucrawn.'neity of duty free spirits is with - dr thief. Fat ducks and chickens are i his delight, and a plump rabbit comes next best. The otter and the heron are fiaher- Th,e death is announced of Sergeant Roderick McCaskill, of the Leith police. Deceased, who had completed 84 years 110 approved service, was the oldest. men. The otter es not often seen, for ('ember of the local police. he carries on his work mostly under The late Dr, Meikle, of Douglas; has the water, but the heron stands with been e. widtolwer for many years; but his long, thin legs in the water wait- ing till a fish comes by. Then a sud- den plunge with his long, sharp bill and the poor fish is brought up and swallowed. The ants are the busiest ofa11, Catch he leaves a family of five, four daugh- ters and a sou, two of the former be- ing married to medical men. Col. Clime the moderator of Edinburgh High Constables, thinks Provost' Keith, of Hamilton, bas a re - an ant asleep in the daytime 5 you curd of municipal service that will can, They are alwaysin earnest at be hard to equal, far less excel, their work, building their underground Yltr. Theodore Napier is to the fore homes and laying up stores oe food for again -this time with the tsuggestton that a full-length !statue .of Queen Mary, in marble, be ereoled in the min- ers of the quadrangle at £Iolyrood. 1 the long winter. The swallow is a fly catcher, and skims low over the surface of the lit- tle streams. It takes a great many flies to feed him for just one day, and Ai a private meeting of the Selkirk he is forever at work. Commissioners, Provost Roberts inti - The beaver is a wood ("utter, a build- f muted that he would give a donatinu er and a mason. It outs clown the eif £5,000 towards the gravitation wat- small trees with its tenth, and, after it er supply scheme in view of the heavy has built its house, it plasters it with burden it would bo on tee taxpay- ers. David, Thomson, constable in tho .Burgh Polieee, died at Inverness under somewhat: sad circumstances, Return- ing to his lodgings after duty recently lie at the stairhead slipped and fell backwards, sustaining a severe Iran- lure of the skull, its tail, The snail, too, is a builder, but it takes the material for its house from its own body. 1(1 is so anxious to be- gin wont that it commences to build its house before it is even hatched. The mole that burrows under the ground mikes a little fort under the earth from which it tunnels in every The Rev. Dr. Livingstone, the senior direction, and it makes such Clover 5illIstee of Stair, is dead. Dr: Livings' ixlths that it can, run from one to the stow was n resident or Jolrnstono; batt Otho' end inn scarcely be caught. T11n hoes do not all live in hives or tree trunks. The mason bee digs a hole inn briek wall and lines it with clay, In this nest it lays two eggs and closes it up. The miner bee bores long ]roles in the sandbanks and the carpenter bees bore t11oir tunnels in wood, The upereeterer bee lines his nest with poppy loaves. The rose leaf flutter takes a loaf between its jaws, begins near the stalk and outs out a circle 01 just the right size and as por- ter as could Ire monied with a tom- r•cuehed the time of 88 shale. Stair and '.Ciu•bolton, were his first charges, his o0diftatlmll 1..kiug plc in 18.4• Ho. was fun• 1u11g 3.118 010115 of lira 151.03 . Presbytery, and reared in 1900. Thee Errol water supply, the cost of which has boon almost wholly defray ed by Sir William Ogilvie bolgleuah, of Errol Lark, was inaugurated in the p.resie,nuo of a numbet• of County Cour. °Mar's, Two reservoirs have boon eon-' atrected, one capable of c1lee- 103 1lt1,0 00 gallants, and the other '2,010,00 pass, With these circles of fragrant, gallons. The scheme is estimated Le; rose leaf it divides its round hole in have cost Sir W, 0. Dalgleish c510,003. the wall auto little cells, Stanstead Live Stock, Stanstead.