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BRUSSELS POST.
OCT, 19, 1899
TE COM
NG OF THE LO.D
Rev. Dr. Talmage Says the Thine
Must be Close at Hand.
Thousands Beckoning for God to Come—One Secret That
God Has Never Told Even to an Archangel --No Man
or Angel Can Tell When the Lord Will Come—But
the Dr. Says He Has Actually Arrived—He Is Here.
A despatch from Weehingion says
-Rev. Dr. Talmage preached erten th
following text: "Be ye alsoitat.I
ent
atablish your hetarts; for the coolie
of the Lord draweth nigh."-jaine
v.
The feelings with which we aweli th
coming of aoy person or thing depen
very much upon the nature of the per
sou or thing advancing, or upon ou
fittedness to meet him or it. It 1
eVening in a very pleasant household
There is n. key beard at the front doe'
The children eome down the stirs
a bound, clapping their hands, nio
Shouting: "Father's teeming!" flu
disaster has entered that home. Th
writs havs ben issued It is tls.tw f
that such a day will come rennin be
e dis11.1 1331. The Bible intimates, yea, it
restuvely ?nes, tint to 1 het les
day God will mime is he a flaeli of
g lightning. I suepose thin 101 that
s day there may be veiled up atm storm
clouds, and that there may be folds of
e darkness ail areani the 1.erimete1, and
, that tame> may 1,e beekground Meek
a as midnight. Then, while the 1,elsot
- ere te,,a n w h error, end while the
✓ Itt,msewife is kindling the. candle ne
on lay, ant white the janitors of
puelie buildings are lighting, the 'llan-
• is. and the mittens are tremble
jiig 'the hilf-suff.ceted with the ler-
o ter, there mity lie in the dismuce
/ Mint sound of thIllitier 1h11 will 1,3(11 '
louder, :Ind louder, as though a thou- I
t send tetaptsts were 4111heree in leo '
e tie array, and that then there tiny 1
. 1e a silence, a deep hush, a silerec
r replete expeeiancy, emi that tt bile .
the w ,r1,1 is latishe I 111 lb• dreadful
st illness, instentane (us wi.1 the crab
;the, slid! ,1 11 eem atilt
laciest upon the world a fiery cohort
•11 18,011 et" Itekoning a throne, and the
L .rd omnipotent,
that. the 11gion-
' hat flesh that hurle ihat parapherna-
' ita the world me y set the world
for we are told, dietinctly that the
w:rlI011 all the /4' thu,
. thereiu are ti, be burned Up. 1 See it
burning. The ships take fire mi1-
Aittotie - brig, barque, White Star
Line aad Cunarder. The cities eend
up jets of chimes higher than the spire
33 &elle of Trinity or St. Pet ere.
Mink,s int moneyed institute ne with
c ,nsunied temd end melted builiun-all
the investments of the world not
worth une rent on a dollar. The pic-
ture moves of the Louvre, and of Lux-
embourg, and of Dresden, and of Ber-
lin, and of Naples, end of Florenee, and
of Home, eterled up in the hot blast
G. Gale arch anti Grecian column fall-
ing town low as the hur on the com-
mons. Mount Washington, and the
Alps, and the Himalayas flat on their
faces,
gradually shutting tigaInst your un -
portioned Bend you would try out:
"Stop.: till J. enter." Itel you do not
realize It. You see nothing. 1 ou
hoar nothing, though there are wings
in the air, and thetblinge kit Lite earth,
and Ilashings net tte0 Lint 1101133e0t5, 110
"the coating uf the Lord draeretil
nigh."
My eubject closes In once more, and
ea/am int (1 5111 1 have to tell you that
11 al who in the text 0 rept eeented
"drawing iligh," has, aelatilly arrive
NQ lougto atrawmg Inge," Ile
here, lio you not see ll.tu y
um bear ilmet Do you ute feel Ilin
\V Ito 10,1113e 11.htt load erating et year
Mier, Whai invitee that anxious Iottlti
Win, unites; tits v.erotittel e ring tict 1-
outaity 1 It ts tiod. It 0 the teed whu
matte the world atel is geing, to tha
eutseell tt. 11 is the 11 al who has Irmo}
offering you pardon for many a year
and has mune to see what you are 4J.
441 to tdo nowt!. it. 1.1 le the God of.
. . .
• " • 1I 1t.C 1110111111-
ltts ImrIty. It 1$ the litid of inexor-
able jastice, lie is here. 1.1 0 God.
lroin wall 1 u irall, and from fltue to
I HE FILLS TiIE OLACE.
God! thol! 0, is II uot grand, one
gloat -me, and ((1003301 UOIIS, ellen all 01.
1..e11011" with Dim -suet! a confront-
' trig t You thought you would meet
II La some years henna You never
it thetught wlipto yoU came in theee doors
! (tonight (bat yen would meet Him, 0
Ile Las met yuu here, and now what
Itell you do: Will you fly Irmo/elle
room atid get away from Hem as I
seer, a unimen1 or two ago, some one
po 001 Of (11111 door, to get rid af Iliml
U.et aveay 1101(1 Hen ! cannot,
Inlet in Him you ought. 10 5(331111 by
lim,you m1111311ay, '.1!his God who has eett
arriving, and who is now tome ; tbi
(rod nem has oeen draw:ng nigh,"
hns mane tor one thing, and (11111 is
t,t Sara every one of you. He beis chine
a limo p:Igeonage, treading over nails,
and spikes, and ebonies, until the sharp
limn 1 have struck up t h rough t he
hollow of the foot to the instep. HP
has Come to eitery your Minim's, and
to slay yew' sins, and to sympathize
with your eorrows. is here to
break up your obduracy, and make
you feel the polpitatione of His %mein,
loving heart. 0 1 the love of God, the
love of God! Tbere is 1(0 3(31 so deep,
there is no mountain so -high, there
is no song so sweet, there( is hi/ Mr
cumferenee en vast as the love of God
Measure it, you cannot. Reject it
you ought not. 0,; let tor 411 (10(330 on
der it, net us bet he 10 11-110.4 fave ete
blob, so breed, so long, so deep. In
the recent floods uf Frame, at Cast le-
earazin, while the house Was being
ewept away, the mother, in tonany to
Sart) her two childre.n, put them in a
bread tray and floated the bread tray
off upon the waves; but the tray with
the two children bad gone but a 'short
distance when it struck a tret33. and
capsized. The mother started out for
Ute place. Site got there. She took
the two children. She somehow Mem-
bered up into the tree with them, and
held on to a branch. But while hang-
ing them the branch began to erack,
and she knew it (mold not, long hold
the three, and so she wrapped tip her
little ones as even as she- could, and
she tied them fast to the branch, and
then she kissed the darlings good-bye,
and fell barkward into the wave :Ind
died, while they Lived and weee reeov-
ered. 'What do you think of that? 0,
aou ene: "Bravo: bravo! That was
just like a mother to do the ;" but
want do you say when 1 tell .you that
Lhese
TIDES OF SeN AND DEATH'
- ite-/-0- e-00-9,-er.-0-4,
Young Folks. 4i
EVERY QUESTION HAS TWO SIDES,
Evelyn Wes a girl Who teas haunt to
do eomethileg to melee the world better,
somet hing great, something that
as 'would melte people point to hen and
say. "There goes the girl 1y10 has
eo driven all the wickedness oat of the
? world.. The trouble was slie began in
_
the furniture to be levied on. Irian
the oldest to the eoungesi member of
that household the feelime is that the
home raust be broken up The front
door bell rings, an official is about to
enter, and the whistler all through the
rooms of thal house is: "The sheriff's
coming I" March weather gets through
scuttling, and watt day the Modules to-
ward the south are evened, and the
apple blossoms, and tee peaoh Mos -
(gime, and the plum bloseetue garland
the fields, and old age feels the flueh
of new life in its veins; and invalidism
looks up and sullies, and all thrutige
the laud the word "Spring is 330111
10411 DeceMber hangs icicles on the
eaves of the poor inau's house, eat
wool gathered, No coal. The erack-
ed window panes invites the sleet to
come in, The older sister, with numb
fingers, attempts to tie the shoe Mullet
of the little brot/a.er, and stops to
blow warmth into her blue hands, and
the father shiveringly Looks Moen anti
says: '01 nay God, winter is condug i"
Well, it 0 just SO in regard. Le the
announcement of me text, To one it
sounds like it father's, to another
like an executioner's footstep!. To une
it 0 the breath of a J une morning;
to the other it is the blast of a De-
cember hurricane. "The coming of
the Lord dritweth uigh."
1 du 1101 see how, God can afford to
stay away any longer. It seems to
me that this world has been mauled uf
sin about long enough. The Church
has made such slow headway against
the Paganism, and the Mohammedan -
i13113, and the fraud, and the libertinism,
and the drunkenness, and the rapine,
and the =order ot the world, that .
there are ten thousand hands now ;
stretched op, beckoning for God to:
come, and come now, Enough corn in '
the United Stamm and Great Britain'
annually wasted, in brewing and dis- -
tilling to feed
FIVE alILLION MEN.
Every grog -shop, every Ileum of 1(1»fumy, every trambliug sateen, every'
dishonest store, bank, insurance com-
pany, declaring there is no God, or
if there be, let Him strike If He dare I,
Corruetion In the most of t be city gov- !
ernmeuts-aorruptaun reathing from
the weather -vane on the lop of the,
oily halls down tO the lowest stone in
the foundation. Churches with men in
their membership, not clean enough te
swab tb.e Poor -step of the pit; the
theatres, huge houses of shame; three -1
fourths of the riewepapers, wide their '
editors, reporters, and printing -presses
suborned of the devil; American and;
European society rotten until thefilth
drips hissing through into the world
beneath, and smells up sickth
ening to 03!
world above; and although the dead in;
battle out -number five times all be'
present population of the earth, yet:
nations longing for war, and this Meer '
six million 'hien in Hotline ft ming for '1
conflict, while applauding nations look
on, and the cry is: " 13lood 1 give us
More blood I" The earth staggering a
under the euceeseive shucks like a Mune!!
tiering Stip at tbe 1001118111 when the
pits:wagers cry: "She's going downt";
The imminent necessity for the world's I
reformation anti purification I take as v
a proof of the fact that " the coming
of the Lord drawetb nigh."
I also see a sign of the Divine 1(1-0
33501? in the opport uni ty for repent-, 1
erne which is being given to the na-e t
tions; revivils in India, revivals'
in Germany, revivals in Great
Britain, revivals in the United Slates.:
If there were not soraetaing tremen-' t
Mote emaing,"God would not 4050 UV -
gent or Importunate in His call. o
Churchee calling. Christian and seeular t
printing-pressee calling, Young Men's 0
Con
hrietian Associations eatling. God, o
and angels, and Men calling. Messages
of salvation in Die air. Telegraphe
flashing the Gospel news, Steamships
Altirrying Caristian (1121b5$$11110('8Wand
(1 10. Yes, we are on the eve of a uni-
versal moral earthquake, "The mim-
ing of the Lord draweth nigh,"
/3ut there, is a deeper stop in the or-
gan of my text that neede to be pull-
ed out, and that organ stop is
THE' J.TIDGMENT TRUMPET.
T.
text distinctly points toward that
august arrival. Now, there is tine sec-
ret that Got1 has never told eVen 113
an archangel. There are to Spirits
' so exalted in hO heaven that Ghes ever
told one of them, It fa the keret of
Moeda, It is the secret of tha ages.
/if all heavela should rise Up 'and beg
God to tail thetri that one meoret, 1/e
Would al: b
oe prevailed upon to tell It.
That merit is the chronology of the
jtolgrnent, The time 61140, No angel
110. lale The. Bible distinctly says no
man 01' ategel tom tell. 13111 the tact
A WRECKED WORLD.
A. ruined. world. A. burning world. A
calcined Nvorl.d. An ashen world. An
eetinct world. Let the stars beat their
dirges. Dead cities. Dead, mountains.
Deed seas. That scene is not some-
thing Das we read 813101,1 05 occurring
four or five thous:tad miles away at
Istekholin Or St. Petersburg. It
will occur here, and you and 1 will
be participants. When the roll -call
id" that day is read, your name unduly
, name will be reaa in it, and we will
answer: "Herat" These very feet will
feel the earth'e tremor, these eyes will
See the scrolled sky, these hands will
be lifted 111 acclamation, or in horror,
when the Lord shall be revealed film
heaven, with mighty angels, 'in flaa-
ifier.!ak!igvenfT41gh'
elie lnototeodtA.,;L;.
the Gospel of His bon11 will
be oUr
trial. It will ee our judge, It will
ile 1.11' welcome or it wilt be our doom.
If each eear be a mile, then over how
away miles has that judgment already
travelled, (tad who can estimate the
number lee revolutions 'in a mumte of
the wheel of God's judgment chariot.?
it wilt not be an empty chariot, Lae
occupant flung out by the speed of
tbe travel or stone sharp turn in the
way; but 11 (03141 eeated in that chariot
will, be the Ler& the most grandly
loved and the most outregeously treat-
ed Being in all the ages. Corning to
bless His saints, Meet 0 children of
the fire, and hail Him as He comes to
count your wounds) Corning to vindi-
cate His cause! Crouch, 0 you scient tete
and infidels who said there was no
Christ, or if there were, He would
never appear. Coming to cast out
the hard-hearted and the rebellious,
0, bow 1100.' before His arrival, Gott
thou you nay be ready to hell Wail
Coming with the months, Coming
with the weeks, Coming with the
days. Coming with the hours. Coming
with the minutes.. Centime with the
smonds, Coming: "The coming of
the lewd draweth nigh."
,But my subject takee a closer grim-
ile, and it closes in and closes in un-
til it annauncee to yule and to rue that
Christ hi aiming very mon 10 put an
nd to our earthly residence. The
nest skilful theologians Holy' melee a
mistake of hundreds of emirs in regard
0 the chronology the judgment;
tut it is impossible for us to make
ery wide mistake in regard to the
imo in which Christ will come to put
11 end to our earthly existence,
11.
11(31110(35 has .keite much Mr Minton
ongevity; but it has only added 1141411(1
o the road, it lets only added
AN INCH TO THE SPAN.
Dreweth night" lIow do e know 11
knew it 14 your looks. The feet
e,ou ere halo and well is no (311(10...
1,110 ef the theory, Brewa and
iusele are no hindra nee, 1 look over
his audience to -night, Rod etee
n every face the shadow of the eter-
al world. "leritweth ni elh '1'1
tree is Me5(1(141 growing which will
furnish tile wood for your (softie. Aye,
it, nue}, be already hewn ante planed,
and waiting for ils oemmant, "Draw-
eth nigh The menrastrems may have
already pleated the last germent, that
you will ever wear, There are streets
in this Sty with whiela you are per-
fectly tomiliar where you will never
again walk, "Draweth nigh I" There
are persons it this hoture the tramp
of wbose pulses will soma end, Your
eyes aro eluraberous for the last sleep.
You have come near your fatal Inhala-
tion, I hear the click 0(1 1(1(3 hoofof
the We horse. There es some one
iti thts house to -night, who will he
dead before toonorrow night, "The
awning of the Lord draweth nigh."
Oh, if you knew, toel brother, how neer
yott are to the moment oft exit from
this world, do you lenaw What you
would do? YOU would drop your heed
and prey just oow. If you knew how
cello/My the door of God's mercy. Is
the wrong plave. She should have Sort-
ed biz oti Evelyn.
As she went on ber way home from
5011001 11111 W85 ihmatittot that she
could not go in WOrIC right nway and
reform something. All at once a flood
or sweet song seemed to soothe bele A
bird in a narrow (111415 4100(3111 forth MI
th6 world outalde its soul of melody
through hard iron bare of tetra.
111
st0T1hsen osloworthilhusgKittbleugtglt (1111'116 to
of anger. Here ae Met was a chance
do good, even if it were but gainin
the freedom of one poor, hopeless bir
Aud who name Nutted to the task tie
sbe tae President of the Soils ft
anewer to her inquiring glance.
"Maybe you were right, miss," he
ealte "Maybe.. Ile passed 1»to his
Map as a sob checked his words.
levelyn1 nthell away otdeldy. Never
In har lhfo hail he been so much
nahamed of herself,
THE STABS ARE! COUNTED.
The number of the eters watch 031.0
be seen, tvith the naked eye Is very
much less than newt persons einegine.
The "celestial hosl," W11 1011 Wel are 11 111
to look upon as almost countless, (Nen-
ales when put to the met of 1331 11111
enumeration to the size of a small
brigade in a modern army division.
'Tim whole army of the naked eye
stars 10 Under (1,000, and, of these abeut
Iwo thirds are so faint that WO 011.11
wee them only on the clearest nightie
Of "this number ooly one lit01, of
ours, Can be above Lao horizon at
itnetlioe, an sinee the sky near the
bertme is alweys more or less obscur-
ed) by dust and moisture, so that the
td fainter stare are blotted eut, the nunt-
no ber of stars which may be enunted at
to any one time by e person of keen eye -
g sight canuot be muell over 2,000.
zi, But if tae naked -eye count of the
to stare is disappotating, let one go over
n,
the Promotion of Charity Toward An
male? The song that hail calmed 11
1103" made her soul (nun within Ile
' Crossing the road she went into n.11
tie shop, over the door of which 113
hird sang on, 0 was it shoemaker
shop, Matelot& erowded as 5111113 ()114J(
ars with queer tools and full of th
pleasant. sraell of leather. A. Hale, ben
old men wOl 1 • ,t 10.
wrinkled nose, and lean fingers that
moved swiftly over the rough lenther
put aside his work and came. forwar
to the. counter. Ho moved slowly, fo
Ms old Hattie were getting past 11101030111. Pleasantly he bade her "Good
day," searce hoping for %mete in hi
poor shop from so nitedy dressed
young lady. Evelyn felt somewhat
tmensy at the old man's harmless looks
"This bird,"" she began rather timid-
ly, 18 it yours?"
The shoemaker looked tit the mg
with pride.
"Yee, yes, miss, my bird, sure enough
and a fine bird, too; net a finer bird I
all the town, miss." He rubbed hl
hands and smiled pleasantly. Evely
• was silent as he event on, 11(31(1 to him
self, as old men do:
"Four years it is Dve bad him, fou
years, and never a day it doesn't sing
It ems nay boy's, my Dick's younges
thse
that's gone for a soldier; it ems onl
yesterday he came in, jute! as ic migh
have been you, miss, to -day, with th
bird in his hand, rind says he -
"But. beggin" your pardon. YOU 611,sayin'--1"
"What well you take for the bird?'
she '18133111, not feeling quite so sure sh
was right now she had really started
her work.
"'Wouldn't aell him, miss; wouidn'
take 410 for him, not if I was starve
Evelyn took out her purse and count-
ed its contents -02.40, She drew out
tbe money, saying in firm and litaughtY
tones; "Two dollars; not', a penny
more..
The old man looked at her !Kindly,
attd explained gently, as tf to a Mold:
"No, miss, X don't want to sell him.
was sayin", you 800. 11 was my lad
gave me the little bird. No, not
Batty to part with him for that. The
led reminds me o' my lad when I hear
him sing so bright; often, when Pm
eating lonesome and low-spirited, he'll
ing up so cheery, and set me thinkine
ow my boy's noming soon -eh, dear!
No, you can't have him, but never mind,
ever mind..
He nodded kindly, as if to comfort
er. Evelyn's patience could stand it
a longer,
"Do you suppose I want to keep the
001'birdta she broke forth. "I want
o buy it to give it honk its liberty„ to
et it be. free in the fielde and the blue
ky. you know 11003 Very, very
ruel it is to confine a creature, made
o mar and sing at the very gates of
mom, in 41 narrow cage with scarce
00111 10 turn,"
Thie was from her speech at the
°May, and she thought she said it
ell.
"Poor, miserable bird!" she said
ooking at it pityingly.
The shoemaker NV 0.5 a good deal taken
back at this, but he tried to say some-
laing in defense,
"Nay, he's not miserable -hear to him
ng; would he sing like that if be
vent" happy?"
"Yee," cried Evelyn, "be sings be-
ause he longa to be free; that is the
ng of despair, and not ot joy.,' •
The old &Bow's face feli. Her talk -
41 half won him over. Evelyn felt
ether heated, and wanted, she didn't
now why, to get out of cm shop,
"Come, ' she said, again offering him
a money, "take it and let me set the
oor thing free,
"No," he said sadly, "I'm not going
sell him. He's like an old friend to
0, and he loves me, too, tbat he (loser'
"KeeP Your bird, then," cried the
ng)y reformer; "keep it, and let it die
iM miserable prison. Some day you
ill perhaps repent your cruelty!".
1th which threat she went 113331141 with
thee re mohaste then dignity,
That night, getting into bed, Evelyn
ti an idert that she had made rather
poor show.
A refornater must surely be obese los-
41 her temper, and here ahe had
01100(1 and molded, and lost by her
upid toper a battle that wee, she
It sure, more than halt won.
She bad Sao a lurking idea that her
Sive had not been quite ea much the
uses of righteousness as the pleasure
reporting progress to her new sone
I.y, }ler angry words kept coming
ek to her mind as she lay aleePleole
It through the night, She wonder -
If tilt 0, bird e had their duty to do,
she had; whether whop% 111 giv-
g pleastre to a lonely old 018115 last
see the lark might not be doing its
eat Makerte bidding in the place tor
hich Ito inLentled it. She was, 8118ado up her mind, too young be judge
hastily. 4.011, being a thoughtful
consolentious girl, she bravely, re -
lead to go the next owning, 110(011118r pride to the duet, and own bee -
If in the wrong,
About 1)414o 13833t ramming, walking,
tit rather a red face, up the name"
'net, she saw the old fellow seanding
Ms door, with the empty 013415 10
hand' 110 Was gazing tovenrd the
y, and she saw 11tear Lrinkle down
wrinkled eheek. Be !mimed as 8(1841330110(1(311, and emiled mournetzlly
itt
1-
er
r,
the field again with ten opera glass,
(((1(1 114'tern easily quadruple tba num-
ber, Thus, within the bowl at the
Great Dipper not mere than 13.10 or
three stars can be seen by must per-
sons with the naked eye, but an opera
glass will reveal at least a dozen. A.
small telescope briags the slurs utzt in
still greater force and the nuinaer
t seen increase rapidly with the in -
0(30058 of the stzo and power of the
telescope. A. hundred mantra is a low
estimate of the number whica may le
seem with the great Yerkes's tole -
scope, and we have no reason to think
✓ tbat the depth of the stellar universe
_ him even yet been fathomed. 9"his
e means that for every star which can
a be seen with the naked a
eye, there re
at lease 16,000 which are not visible to
it,
are bearing away the race, and
that Jesus Christ swims through
the tome and De comes to 1.16 tonight
to lift tut out toed to fasten us to
the tree of life, and then having given
ue the kiss ot, pardten and peace, falls
back Ilirosed in the billows of death,
dying Iiimseat that we might! Live. 01
the etterifice of the San of God( Bleed-
ing Jesus, let mei embrace Thee now I
10041411155 there may be in this house
in -night whole families unsaved, Sab-
bath before east a member of this
Church, not tieing able to get in hie
own pew was kindly invited by a gen-
tleman to sit with, him and his Moll-
ie', and at the clam of the service, it
was found that there was not one mem-
ber ot that family that loved, God.
Wbat 1 the father unsavedi in whose
hand God put the responsibility of
oaring for the hedy, and put also into
the seine hand the immertal dasLiny
of bis children, What 1 Mother un-
saved 1 when, with het, Christian ten-
derness, she ought eti have brooded all
her children into the kingdom, ot God.
What 1 sons and daughters unblessed
and' unearned? What 1 a benne without
God 1 Teerifiee Held back Thejudg-
e.0 Is, LortaGod, until tha t fat her and
mother ean get to 'their home tomight
and consecrate that h.outie with one
bend -red prayer for mercy. !"Come
thou' and all thy: house: into (be tole."
The day will mane, nay dear friend,
%ten You will find, it VMS 13 AM' bust -
/nem for you, to reject God. The clan-
gew (0 410531' soue is aWfUlly
"He that believeth encl. 0 baptized
shall be saved, MB, he that believeth
noe shall be damned." litty 4.10d (Or -
lid 'that tbroogb any lack of vividness
and importuintty on my; part this sec-
viee shouel be to any one in all this
assemblage an eternel catastrophe. 1
WIRELESS TELEPHONES,
Exprelmeids In .Plughtall That Seem lo
Mt Sawmill:Mil.
SOMA weeks exporimente of
griat interest in wireless telephony as
distinguished from wireless telegraphy
have been carried on near Carmtvon
17 Sir 'William Pierce. Four high
pokes have bee13 emoted at the south
and of Menai Straits on a sand bank
artless the Gwyreal Bever.
Half a mile off four Smiler poles
were erected, Half a mile still far -
thee is a high pole eupporting a coil
of wire, With 0115 sul antihored in deep
water, Between theme points Sir Wil -
Hem has suttees:led, without. any In-
termediary other than ether, in trans-
mit ling the sound of it stmeassion of
Laps, The taps ;yore made with a
view to sending mensages ley the Morse
eode, They wore dietinetly heard tit
the receiving station by plaetng anew-
ly invented ethereal telephone to the
ear. Mesenges were sent wiehout irt-
terruretton for several days. Further
eXhartments ere eontempintme So
far 1 he system yields untell more rapid
results than Mareonits, although the
sounds ar(3 not quite as distillate
KENTISH FiellIT PICKERS.
Gahliertug Together 1 meloise ThIngs tor
England's COIl41111101011.
The annuat consumption of fruit of
all sorts in this country is enormous,
says an a rtiele in nn English maga-
zine. Our markets absorb a vast
quantity merely in the supplying of
the eplaetueral deatauds of the table;
but by far the large:se consumpttou of
fruit is that carried on through the
medium of the several large jam and;
preserved fruit factories.
Contracts are arranged between the'
.
fruit growers and the jam reanufac-
turer by which the former agrees to
eupply so muck fruit every 8011500. 11
the cro41 is a plentiful one, then the
grower is able more than sufficiently 1
to meet the demands of the manufac-
turer, and is able to dispose oe the
fruiL over and above this contract
quantity at. Covent. Garden or other
markets in various parts of the coun-
try. If, on the other hand, there should
be a scarcity at fruit, then the grower
may have the greatest dieleoulty in
supplying his euntraets, end theresult
is that the jam manuetteturers, by
be.ying up all the available fruit, have
scareely any for marketable phrposes;
consequently fruit rises in price.
Towayds the end at May there is a
general exodus from Londe° and other
towns of that nomadic population
whecli folds eraployment in the hav-
vesting of various country oroducts,
Many of these summer laborers jour-
ney from farm to farm in their cara-
vans seat:thing for employment, while
VAST NUMBERS
.bave to be content tont "Shanks'
PonY," spending the nights in barns,
outhoteses, or under the wayside hedge,
The majority of the farmers, however,
prefer to employ the hands hying upon
theft estates, assisted by the wives and
children, as the lawlessness o f this
vagabond contingent has become in-
tolerable. Yet they are obliged to
utilize the services of a large number
of gipsies, for the fruit season is short
-1l lasts about six WeekS in all -and
work has to be maintained at bigla
pressure during that period in order
to gather the crops in.
The pickers are armed tvith small
baskets, each capable of holding ethout
sixpounds ot fruit. There is no possi-
A NEWLY FOUND PLANET,
CALLED E4108, WILL APPROACH
THE EARTH NEXT YEAR.
4.steoitomers Are All$10118 ron Ihn Ulmer.
vatIon, Jinn n 'Inuring on 100111
Inn n1141 01111,--Sothe Eilifine Next
Vette,
All event Of 001151m 1 interest in he
astronomic, world is seheduled for
November, 1000, and, elf hough the dat e
may event for removed it lie lin in t
astronomers all erne the world
LtrU (lagt.rly a W 11 i 11 g t he iestio, and
preparat ions for the altar hate Laten.
wag on for znithy menthe, It will be
the first Hewett the savants of this
globe have ever het to take a good
look 111 the newly diseuvered planet
ltroe, whiell at the time mimed wilt
bit only 31,000,000 miles from us, a
mere bagatelle to good telesettpe,
The olanto will tenni, quite clue, to
the earth in 1017, but 1 118110110110.1',
Indent all, art, enwillnie to wait
SO latitr for Choir first automate obser-
vations.
DISCOVIelieeD AT BleBLIN.
Eros rt new planet. On the 1.134.1),
of August, 1811a, 'leer Witt, of the
Urania Observatory at Berlin, {limey -
eyed an asteroid which was at filed
thouglo to differ in no important. 10'
81(01 front the hundreds of other 801411
bodies which Smile around the min in
the space between the orbits Of Me
an up ter. When otz path was cal -
(saluted, however, it WaS at Lime seen
that the new bole, was unique among
its companions, for while all the other
asteroids pursue their eourses com-
pletely outeicle the orbit of Mars, Ems,
as the new member of the solar sys-
tem was notelet, at 11111135 COLLieti nearer
to the earth than any other known
ectli.esitinalfibie°,:,15;tethlenenittun02(11I05111ainYce"'reieniut:
the sun is less than the mean distanee
oi Mars, and to its Muses approach
leros is ouly about 3a0J,000 miles from
the earth, while Mars, under the most
favorable circumstances, never miles
nearer tame a3,tle0,010 the.
Gine of the diseovery the new planet,
was about the eleventh magnitude in
brightness, but ohm imams he earth
wul about equal a :ash magminde
45 illI10111'ANT OBSERVATION,
The reaS011. Why 1 Is considered so
illlwititla to observe Eros in that in
this Way it. is hoped to deternathe atom
accurately the distance the earth
from the sun, the aetronornicat unit on
whi.:11 all teller measureLuenis depend.
The large parallax which Foes pre-
sents want neer the earth afionts 11
most. excellent opportunity eur de -
The transit ot Venus in 1e74 was o -
Lermining this important co/01001(j.,
served frora about 80 stations, at a
cost of more than $1,000,000, in the
aCOOapt o so ve this pi mama, fhere
will not. be number transit of Venus
hemmer, untie 20 1, auct in the metthe
Gene the sun's distance will undoubt-
enly be determined more elosely than,
1,8 possible by such transits in Mass. 1
and better ways, and among thee
o eL eays observations oi hems take
a high rank. The best figures ob-
tainuble to data pa the suu's distentoe
from the earth Oro 02,790,050 miles,
wheeh is believed not to 'be more than
00,000es in error,
TOTAL leC.LIPSE 0i 411111 SUN -
Another economieal even: uf next
year, is the total eelipso ot the sun of
May 28, 1900, pheacenenon which, of
course, is of great. speotacular and pop-
ular interest. The totality will last.
about 1030 11)10311.140 ouly, but those ttvo
tatinutea will be put to good uSe pro-
vided the weather is gm& Meteoro-
logical records ShoW that the stations
in the Appalachian lelountains are
more likely to have clear skies at that
season than points on the sea coast,
so that the m41011,14 oe the observing
otirties will probable', choose inland
places for their headquarters, on
eclipse day. Total etlipses of the
sun ithe Titre tti anY given /dime. There
will be none visible after that arms;
May until Jane 8, 1918, so that many
people, askle from this protessional
asthonomers, will doubtless take the
opportunity to witness next spring
Ms ?rat:iciest of Nature's speetaeles,
Certain it ts that no oelestial phone-
mentte ean equal in majestic and aWe-
n.srtrtug qualities a total sober at, arse.
iteparently unnatural darkening
r the sun, the body on which all the
eerie) s life depends, is proaneed with
a, weird effect, which muse be seen to
be appreciated. Few will regret the
time and trouble to rettell a puha from
which tho eclipse can be witnessed,
Next year's enlipse will be visible in
Spain, Portugal and Algerie, as well
as in the southern part of the United
States, end seeentists hope for to tint-
forna series of observations in all these
coutitries. As in the case ot recent
eclioses, the study of the emona evil1
prohnbly he Lhe thief point of in-
terest,
THE Gnus SMOKE. TOO.
The Bunnese will sacrifice any pros-
pect of money making to go to a
feast. These are palled pives, and often
the entertainment is elaborate. I
11151711833 going going to one in Upper Burette,
writes a traveller. There was a good
deal of dancing, but teithee the host
nor his guest danced; that would have
been undignified. The dancers were
paid, and they twirled lazily or jump.
ad exciterlly as mansion required. Most
of tho time, however, wee meet In
chatter and smoking, Smoking is the
only thing at which the Burmese are
industrious, They start smoking at
Ole early age o.f 3, and they snake
themselves into the next world. Girls
smoke quite as ardu.ously as tha men,
and as the tigers ere very big many
a pretty mouth is strained to aetiom-
=Mite (t gient cheroot,
belay of the work being indifferently t
performed, as hands are specially de-
tailed off to see that the bushes or ,
plants are duty stripped. of all ripe ;
fruit. When the baskets have been !
felled the fruit Ls weighed \vial an
exactitude Worthy of Shylock prior to
its despatch to the market. The settle
of remuneration to the plekers is Uhtt
half -penny a pound. On the Mae of It
this Mina a very "sweating" remun-
eration, but it must be remembered
that to the height of the mason, when
the fruit is very prolific, it talces an
ineretlibly short time to fill a basket,
and many of the pickers by remain-
ing steadfastly at their work are able
to earn as much as ten shillings per
day.
Of course, as the and of the season
approaches the fruit is not so attune
dant, and consequently it takes longer
tont( the baskets, with the result that
the daily earnings decrease. Then it. is
thee the inconstaney and unreliability
of the nomadte tribe of piekerm Emmet
themselves, for when the daily wage
only amounts to about three shillings,
and this after long and incessant toil,
tha givsies saddenly cease work and
seelc for pastures new.
THE SON'S CHARACTERISTECS,
Ttia Pholograther-Nere, sir, are the
eabinets that $001' 9011 ordered Of
Me.
Father, regarding one -The /Saute
is eertninly voey like hito, And he hoe
pitia yoo?
The Phologrepher-No sir,
The Ienther-That is WWI more like
him,
CHINESE INGENUITY,
An odd aontrivanoe is used in China
in protect the (terrier pigeons frem
the al Leeks of birds of prey. Tiny
.bamboo tubea are fastened under their
wings an(1 they fly thet air pass.
ing /wifely through the tubes inatcrez
a shrill whistle, Wilhlh 0001/08 10 fright. -
eat off the other birds,
NOVIIL ADVERIVISING.
An enterprising Ogee!! firm hae en -
gape en aeronnut to give a seriem Of
balloon aseenelOns in Cayloo, and while
amending I.o drop small sionele 114)1-
1 tet of whieky attached to minature
parecluttes,
HRT Elgif 811M N T.
ITEMS OP INTEREST ABouT THE
13UsY YANKEE,
Neighborly Interest In fits Mange -Matters
at Moment sod Mirth (lathered from UM
pstlY Record,
Tbe Mitt or of At Mato line semen off,
ana all impeaelimenl proceedings have
been I opped, la ppy At lento. I
1 tie ha t (1011(1 r in some respects re-
se/aides the late Arteal 115 Ward, but
hie jokes are a little mere 01)1 11/10.
11,10.ee1 the sting of a bee on his
ongue and a quart ol apple -jack',
Jelitt Bush, of Salem. Indiana, 19 dead.
"rile neweitt Lalliti itre 111101a
of cast steel. They etre the same
weight as ivotry and cost Smut $2 each.
New England le growing nervous for
fear the Government will have to re-
suortsei tiltase.onscription, It is not the
81111ply becattSe he happenea to get
b'lin drank a man who ehaneed to get
selling Biblee in Atchison, Ka05118, was
Pat in the melee to sober off.
There never WaS a time in the his-
tory of the country when so many peo-
ple Whce employed at much remunera-
tive, wages as al the present. inoote11 1.
Those W110 toil for their daily bread
should cemneence to think envious).
e 411 0501(1 industioil situation.
Fem. years ago many workers were
satisfied with half it loaf.
Many W0T1 hy Charities in Kansas
City will profit by the Wi I 1 01 the late
Josimb B moist, who devised $72,000 to
different local insientions for the care
poifinheislyalensds psehruttio.snhsesa,nd. to certain hos-
tel. a meeting of the Execullve Com-
mittee of the Lake Carriers A.ssocio.
,t,irstgrieisn 0.C.r vuett hl lontily.ry
nth -named 10 per '0%141.11'1.e oe:vidanY:o'nwt-1°111:8
133115, irrni
nail want to sell steel rails for some
American railway in the Philippines
rew Carnegie has sent a cheque
of B ,S1011. One of base days Andrew
end he wile too, le the peke is al
of 31,000 to the anti-imperialist league
Even men wile are doomed to death
are a little vain somet beets. This was
iltustrated the other day at the Ohio
penitentiary when Nieves was eleetroe
med. Ile asked that his hair be out
sv,0asthdrij.s.(111. would not look bad after he
Two men dressed uP female attire
robbed a Mame in Chiang° the other
night of $42 and some jewellery. Abou
the same time hvie wonien dreseeti in
Mon's attire tried the ziame trick in
imingltam, Ala., but u deputy
sheriff shot one of Omni dead when
her sex was discovered.
IL is the trick a politiotans to dis-
cover some startliug naare's uest just
before the formal opening ole national
campaign in order to stampede it lot
ot thoughtlese people into their net.
They are now at work trying to make
us believe that Um tariff hes created
11
11
a great hive of truses, which aro at
the bottem of every inerease in the
price of things,
The British steamehip Parttan clear-
ed the part ot Philadelphia the other
day with the largest cargo of railway
material ever shipped from any port m
the Gaited States. The cargo consist-
ed of forty Baldwin locommives and
tenders and eighteen steel bridges for
the Chineee eastern railroad, and sev-
eral thousand tons of raiscellaneona
machinery.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, is 20501 1011011
in connection with the incorporation,
under the laws et Ohio, 0(1 1115 Brother-
hood Company, which is pronounced
the "greatest co-operative scheme eVer
attempted in this tonntry.' The Bre-
therlutoci Company propose5 to fund
farm colonies, run life ineurances, pro-
mote education, build cities and enter
every field of human effort. .
The New Hanapahire eital and game
commiesteu have just completed their
work, for the season. of restocking 1he
takes, ponds and streams of the state
with trout, salnorn and whitefish fry.
In all there have beau distributed in
the waters upward ea 0,700,000 ef fry,
10,000 of which were (301 (Ib ov trout.,
70,000 aureolus, 11.0,000 whitefish, 335,-
000 salmon 152,000 lake trout and 1,-
070,000 broOk trout.
The assessors menthe on the prO-
perty oe jeneings Bryan pue-
port to indicate that he is no richer
to -day than he WU When h0 was 001,0-
(11(31811 (11)1' the Presidency On the Dem-
oteratie tleket. The schedule Mows :-
Three berses, $00; three vehiclea $30;
tour watehes, clocks, etc, $25 I One Sew-
ing machine, eh; natg piaiio, 1131,01 one
diard table, VI; household or office
l'urollure, 412111; other property requi-
wet to be listed, including money and
credits, 02,500; total, $2,980.
The New York Sun retains an inci-
dent izt one of the fashionable restaur-
ants them which may be said to show
what wo are comIng to. Ie was at an
hour when smoking was allowed in the
restaurant, and a gentleman, 3331)0 0301:
aneompanted by a lady, lit his after-
diemor cigar. Then she lighted her
tegalette. The head waiter vernal133
811 1144111, Site seemed astonished, then
indignant, but film throughout, She
polinea le hex escorts elgar, smoking
all the While, boreal?, mut then told
the waiter Ste evottlel finielt her
Overeat. then, whatever the iu es
were. There 201,0 11) peened -et fur such
rebellion, and she had her way,
To 1331103111041 'elle: SWALLOW,
The Belgian Goveameiont hae erdere
ed 10 Minister to make representae,
Heine to the Italian Governmeni to pro.
test ageinst the enorismas destruction
of northern sevalloWs, seeking wariner
quarters in the south duel:meats wine
ter, the ttiseet destreation merits of
the swelloW being much oppronietted in
1045 rural districts.