HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-11-2, Page 6THE BRUSSELS
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HE WAS KING OF ERS1A.
Rev. Dr. Taimag,-e Speaks of Aha..
sueras' Miserable Life.
He Had 'Everything at His Command, But Was a
Most Unhappy Man—The Dr. Draws a Lesson
From the Life of This Man to the People of the
Present Age.
A. cieseetch from Washington says
—Rev. Dr. Talmage imeacheti from tit
following text :—" On that. night ettul
ma the king sleep."—Fsther vi. I.
Three ekstbons sealed at a 'retitle
a Persian lettuce. Abasuerns, grande
in stature and more leitatiful in fel
tuceec than any man in all his arnt
of two, million, three hundred and SOS
°lateen thousand men. Esther, 1 11
belle of the empire, the most Meta(
Het% women of all the nation brough
!together in a group, and she aelect
ed out of the ge•otie, pre-eminently at
traetive. Heinen, whu was prime min
ister, or seuretery of State, the Bis
marck id the realm, standing next t
the king. It is a private earl y in th
queen's' parlore. You may get soin
idea of the 1)111 of fare whe 1 tel
you that the 'Whole etnpire was crib
utary to thae talle. What rare Mea
of bird, And Deli, and quadruped
What 'rare fruit uf cittisin, and fig, an
'pomegranate, end tipples of gold in
caskets of eiiver What rare wiae
smacking of tins sunsblite of Arabi:
mad Syria! The upho/stery looking a
If it heel been dyed in rising and set
ting suns. The furniture of room and
tattle mus1 peculiar—emit chair, ant
lounge, and cup, and tankard, and
511000i of an independent pattera
dresvni out by the areiste of the knits
The floor, looking like a fallen rain-
bow. Clouds of curtains ho%-eritig• amid
marble and statuary. The 1.111.1501 Cit
ull baud minglieg with the laughter
of Mionehaha, or the voices of
waters. But now the sun strikes
aslant through the queen's banquet.-
tingeball and acmes the rinds and
peelings of the grape clueters, and the
(Oath of the spilled wine, and the in-
toxicated elieeks of the blear -eyed ban-
-queters. Almsuerus rises - eu depast.
TJje oftivers of the palaee uppear as
his escort. With blundering mot stag-
gering etees he gets into the sedan
and is carried to .his canopied couch,
and retires for the eight. Come in, 0
sleepthrough the window hangings
of Tyrian outple, and put your suft
feet on the King's eyelids. Wait ap-
on him, sweet dreamel Kiss him,
breath of frankincense and rosemary I
There he is, the owner oe all the world
that is woreh owning from India to
hi/MOP/EL 1 Let the chamberlains draw
the curtain around this son cie tortuue.
Let the lights be lowered. Let the
sentry outside ehe door stop their
peeing. Let everything be silent. The
officers of the guited outside give their
orders in a whisper,
NIGHT IN SHLSHAN.
Night in all the land. Nighin the
potato,. Standing outside the sleep -
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8
W1414 not toward morning. And he
this Ahasuerus s anno: sleep betieu
be is teeing to etmensr eirtesee, Ile
goiug to rally an army ef
EIGHTY THOUSAND HOBS le
re
its similarity in spelling to Uernetn,
is ilse test. 111(11P.and all the .eleiught of 1 m
lie The efusion is inereaseil by an oce
1" No, you cannot do it. Ahasta.
rie 111 ti 1104(0 oioi,e or ors casiunal oversight of the Limiter' trans-
" :"0'.1'..111° 44-1411 Mlle/ 411 11, ,nattera or Transvaal news. eubetitut-
and thy Judge;" and the sweat of a
great aguny eiono out 00 yoI14
anti before tieseitrrow morning, 3401/
Will 501 U5 1t11,1 kneel down, mid prey,
That will lie the history cef hunilreste
in this house to-rtight. • "01" says
0111110 1.1110, "you tion't know me. 1
aux a geod Sleeper, and no sooner
will I. jett illy head on tile pillow iben
I will be une. twelves." Ale perhaps I
made a mistake, then, 111 'regard to
your else. 1 limy be mietilken in the
exelowey willt reference to you peril -
tette Hy, for you may 111. one of these
whit go to slekv on ear+ Im and wake up
In hell, where they never eleep, -one
saye some one, "I'll joke off ail this
impression. 111 earic attire the preiteh-
er, len geed at. drawing. And then
juet say to tuy jeering compan-
ions. Hew 10 yeur soul c" and with
inertinestit. I'll drowll uut all though
•if the eresent, and, all the I hought of
More (+halloo for repeenteince mad for
benv eta 11 yen nee 4tp..11t, y11/11 01111
go h ne• tu-eight,, and nteett 011 etnuel.
iy 1114 tey olold, ever in its in eller',
amns. tt 1111 reed '41 1*.,' 11 141 100,
etornel defentese for a. ennopy, and the
angete et: 0 ;1 for Ft 1/00 .5t10 itt, you
can effsod le sleep until 4 be day'.
btemk, A1101,11'1'11,0 1 1//4105 .11 111,
110111 111111 1'/1 115 OWL ELM. the offieer
of the go 2 rd 1. cote, and reed tle.
book of the reemel of the Chronicles.
DU (CH WORDS COMAION.
gee semie and stemsa tieme germ
Seemiessity 4441111 10 seweenete- no.
speteisee.
Waal int:deeds the langlieh-speaking
Petinie in the language of the Boors is
„end one 10 111(411 seven hundred thous- with tont . with till kinds of indutga Mg, e.g., the Geretau "stein" for
and foot, awl lee is going tu have four mice until, in Ma solely, he actually .teteen," the Dutch for "stone." It
ieonsand two hundred ships. The .ifferel a rewerd for ecsinelguly wile
qussen cri Mit hridares had a blue band 14,111:1.1 lemeri as If the Dutch were philologio,
WI her larsiwa'i• si!""'iniii1 1114' she 44118 1,NN'ENT' A NEAV PLI•IeSTIIIII; 1411,4 ,11(40 tu Carmen more than to Eng-
.o.isis,,n of th..• realm ; bui one day 11(111 . - lisle 'the fact is just the reveree,
band sinated front her forehead un- 1 14 11(1 Wili1V- air, the Pili ,y1110111.S, and lion- 1 Engilsh, Dutch 0 01 Flemish be loug to
der her sesta and et rangled her life 1, tire alai emit emeni s came rimtling 1 .„
utt• And so it is wit h the smile ions tie awlitn,t 111,4 pia,‚ in tho Shushan ""s group of the l'eutlinic languages,
toe shn. world; they teed, a eudi not so I Paetee, ".I1 that night could nut the '1, 'w Datell; tiermao is the only 511r-
/1104 to glory as tu death. ilis hail 1 deg sleets,' ; viving written language of the other
raging passions, 11110 111 10 Ahasuerus, i -.to , ,,,,, io, ow;
mons that showed th..itiseives in a Isiah,
1hat weeld me let him. steel —ewe- et,i,it is lo yeue two rt. 1 0_ , i . , .
es -u ce 011111 drosvn
no, sir; if the ITociulyt i cg,te,,:tioemile,igith .DisunteohL. very
cowl, teez.
rill ulcsae ws3, so (1301 what.' iaa ennis . this relioleus iniereseioa. it will '1``els11Yif one has rSeaddirfiae little
haele trom that Greciau espeditioa ne , i 0 as it wits last Saliba( )3 night, :111.141111', 111' even Spenser, to guess
WOO 50 1110(1 ) the river Ilelleseent fur e ;stet there 1101.0 IWO 1)01 sons
r,i.tisit I ing 'ecrreatly 1111110ituing othie Tbrsk:gtptisys1g0:bLk1 th11f,,4iiiin,tiee.ili.;11.(11t11054411 eh IIssuoffllareanasuvart4trinre1h,,s1111111s10,i11ir11,1:,,,1,Li,‘,dl,i,e(li1,11111p,11,ieliielL. liorttontethiver with three hundred lasneom1.11 I must e hmidst of '1:. ,-.i.1-,:,ao,tl,
— pronounced "13loom-
pelting las eervecnts to ere- 0121 11 Idle 1 110, eeri,eiii ,, „I cial them 10 eron„. onii tfone-tine"—is Bloom Spring, lir Olewer
1 hey were Melling the river: "Thu..; i , . : ..,, 1 11.„ 1.1„.,,, ui the seniee, 2,1„.„. Spring, L iing's Nek flees's no explena-
MO er water, the !heeler telis ale," • 1 . ...... aekirig the 11.1111 10 he/leen, and • tem, etiljuba. .—pronounced. bf
ee
ththese StriPes beagass lima h1 11 taw ave now in tisk Isouee sluing in o ince Ma-you-be—la 1.1131 a Itutt h word,
treated bine so badly. 0, treacherouso. 111114,' o111114,' 1
11444'
t4„yo o.00eptby right of adopton and onn..and unsavoury stretin Of course Ii1„2gihvi„I:Euemtufei,v ,n7m,4,113,heeaill,btEhA
13...er general is
sueb a matt. toe 1 101 1 1•011 Li 1101 sleet- . the deys ef 1 le•ir 11 oddly hileiliy. Ah. ;veiled a "veho
lheer” r "field lord.'
Bee', di_ s thet, his coneelenee 1. rouble. I : in y i rie,,a,, ,a.
,t, „, ,,., ii„„, „ i , h mit side "The veld" is siniply "the tield"— t he
flint It e n r 1 sl 111' ill • se •
S C11101011, 00 extract of MTS, ria ainr-! :trustee 1 1 the etresfril clap 1.1 II 1 he ' an army "takes the field." The tura
_ phi M.' 1.,1 11 PM LI 111.10 1Ct 1/1"..1) when i ,,, tee ,10 „f dgi„,": i di, „ir „it h guard ur military pulite of the Trans -
Li., 00 41111(1 rasps him. \\hat, lutd; ii,r.iit et. rihairtry end iil, noZ; vaal ttre tht "veldwaehteren" or field
Ahasui• rue been dotug 1 ,Doing. Why, 1 Ilioesetrue cannot sleep totaigh't 0 tratchers. The veld in many parts of
I when te.L8L1 I, No lin.w ulc, 14't LI,...,i (11 1: ,i 111,,,,,., u 1, 1) „nil." !num.", 1, j the Transvaal is much cut up by clefts
. glee sore the tarie tt-eutor. Whirl -"Pe" "antry, "lien ie said del
Ing apartraent of the king, I hear first
O cough, and then a .grotin, then the
Lumina. over on the imperial couch,
and laet of all tha voica of the king
saying: "Le,. the officers of the goa.ret
bring me the book of the reesord of
the Clirconclee and read to me. I ean't
sleep."' Sleep for the scullions in the
king's' kitchen, And for the pagee who
run on his errands: sleep for the gate-
keepers of the imperial park, and for
the grooms Who polish the smooth
coatis of the. horses in the mews;
but 00 sleep for their. master. " On
that night. timid not the king sleep."
You see that sleep is a mixture
made b • God's own finger. We ere
told that He keeps in heeven bott le
in which lite gathers ell the tears of
flie children, and after while those
tears are changed into pearls for
crowns, and theu the bottle is emety.
Methinks God puts into that bottle a.
few drops of quiet, a few drops of
forgettulnesta and a few drops of re-
sLoration, spangles them Lo ether
them slips Hie Hager into the mixture
and bathes us into new life and in-
vigoretiou. heaven-deseended sleepl
May Clod give us eight, h.ours of it out
of every twenty-four, Better be in a
hovel with sleep thou M. the. Tuilleries
without it. Dm A11115Uet'US eannot
et one drop of theitereexture. What •
s the raatter ? "Why," Yon saY,
s indigestion. Ile lots been.gorman-
izing. and now ha is only eaying the
rtalty." 0, no. He bad taken
Dough wine to counteraoL that. That 1.
• COM, in and (1 las I
eau you sleep tin o
• ter ea u before
lari./IlliovTli:ctline, hana..11.1,.:::;‘lutletre,res\al 11 joigagalf,1 :'''t , 01401,
1:a 111111014 4410 0mitp,Lekil:fiou,tr,ht2.:!0(110.710sjiiit,c rt. Inectoehtt•e-1
too het, each tete or t hem e 011411
ronsa metem, 1.,aleoraosio s . re,oion.leuts r •
tlo'it tile 4,it11.'0 110u4, 1,11:1 1i-
t's.1-ilt";:r„,:1;e1 tost th;oef, !...zt(!).1cluogfict,sr„:si yeas1,11117.1et,laileottelveialy,e, IP;rroeswi,cluenni
.111,1 ott. sereading 011 a 1 I •
Are flung coutt/stot in the MCC 01
o-
, 1.4 mowdino Old PI/W1.." You must also 1,44 OUCEJ,
. heaven. He has( turned 1,115 lot lave in- 1,P,...,t• and ,10:0... 1, ;,,,,,, 11 11 wee if you would do the groper thing, to
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b•tiath! edth.l.e
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wo il,t
h itkehoeig,r s'lsits l . asthte gd14111(04'.'inr4111(04111(04'.'
speak oo.
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emote141 11 111,11'104011843Ile hal 1,11141 11)00! deem re like hotrods „oleubert were a Prene namebut ryiel-
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' ne'reed,.1i' ,"ae 10 in1(1(4,111 rlike fiery mole he P1'011000110101 Yow-hert. the
tie ll the rooms under- ad "Yonkhairen" — or
is nothing like an aroased eonsciene are in filmes, and the fire is end they 115802011114 n the "Read ials"
, to losq/ ilawawhe ofilltii, nrepiog 1heir lekethey egoas pronouned "Rale' 10,,'.',..''morningW115 foam1 with his swordsemersmaini
a nest of swallowto teeetim.
,Someboey roam up aud said: "Why
1 110 you CUL that neg. of roativs to
.1 - 1""Whe," h • le " b .
swallows keep saying that I murdered do,heoed? . What is 1het on roarWelhhas een found to contain the
e father." 'OW £114'1. was, thatie,u",ooyour forehead'on eotibinaed pne and"ot Golconda coo -
1.
pWa-Wst1 hal 1 ee amlinbeerde,the
i'ncrimthee. 'anddarhis
^.i
iek. 040 102(11 icil, au t.eIt is t
ihe M- oo ,i, h". diti
vis
. in ""ie e Raatntcrthe wlaords. metans
' lDivine ventriloquism, of a neglecte, despised, long-suffere 1)3 1)1 sborder line"— the line
yiaspeaking out ef that birds nestp's4dig°lizTtrasHe' ias1a4, otberend01 evers one cttste from an
No, Ahasuerus maid not sleep. The'tA;'et0'l'yur sou! and your ,uf alo WWlwWersra"nd"means'Edge
rl HE \IDER, BE GOg A.WAKE. ! they would eep ro!, 1, 1'. 1 chipwreek- which ia neither more or less then
All aroud about his pillow theci nten foy the life -boat, 0, how aro,the Yorkehire name for a
('(11 you110jelssisPal re sin(1111 01,, German "dof," "Stad" Le
the last t,oe of terdi1 ikthe German "Stade" "aciy Jewish eayiug: "Wherever you rotheeands.slipingfrontaboemembergo10111firstanisecond
LI141 .cW, 1111 OLIO.- (nmvse he11)„,021 emiemhe. '11113' eggin -Roads, or order, of tile Legielatur-
e
;mule noslep! Couldyouhve slept n try to lin the tow tory;of are called Junkheern
01101' cireuinsiantt;0
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v
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se.a mreWarulerwleone SecWI1 0hefouneing MUCH BANDED NAIE
t,s
e
Hine 14411 yoo sleep at the memoryof
111' 1114)10.0(1 mrcies? Where s your
rstet"; ed Mle! Whs yourfairers en h -bed vour mothe '017
1.10 intitvidaiis who are excludedfrom voting, spelled "Allander," is
pronouced "Oytahngler,"
im; parof thTransvaal erritory
more ho tried LO sleep, inotletfrineIfthedvils in the Bhae.Anyofthe
Clog e0ld bed ne suehoffer ofna re9emams
of places end in "dorm"
flees, mood Vashtt, seats and
witsted in banishment. There
Slued the 0'111108 whom he
had deapeiled by his avil example,
Teens, were tile epresenta tivee of .11e
y LS III =QUO
.
H,,, le 0=145 will] His hist eigee el open countt•y of which much is likely
slemand 1.1;a: the brightest be tono. tu irden to your soul and the an els to be board ia the "mealie field." The
Do yret see tbat exeit emen t n heaven?
The Hely Spills is eepartine from hea-
ven with
A VERY SOLEMN :MESSAGE,
btroom, sometimes printed "storm,"
"stream." "Berg" means • moun-
tain," but "kopje" or "little head" la
:also used for smaller eminences,
I One feature of the South African
, pi
' R
Me palace; brukeit-hearted parents! gather eroo3oee ;he Holy spirit, „ttd English-speaking colonists often pro-
oryingt "Give me hack my child, thin' I sey: "Plead hard to -night. Do not .aaaPee the farmer of those twit 401311(18
vultureue suull" The OW 1'0508 of the us It would be In English; the Dutch
give lain up. Plead hard toufglat ;"
past Blaine. along thet wall, ein in
e‘:-.--g-eg ' and the Spirit is descending, earning pronuneletion is more like "racily," it
from the tuseels, crouching in the cur- oh rough the night flit% Ha bas alight ed means just what, it looks — a Held
ner, groaning under the pillow,:II 1
ee•gag t iirthis room, lie 15 right berme you where you get the vegetehle material
thei11 heels mt his °mem-tiling brain' ; soul. It is your immortal sum nod t fora meal, which material, in those
and crying: "Get upl This 14 the '
the Holy Ghost. 0, greefous Spirit, parts, is chiefly what Americans call
-4.ra there net '501lie nere whe here and hell are involved. in One interview :fortunate youag Prince Imperial was
eeeasionally passed sleepless nights? sae, killed in a mettlie field in the Zulu war
What. WaS 1110 teas ni? Was ii eialmeas? hina "Ni" ,,ays the Holy Ghost: "1'
wire!) him, rotme him melt hilm
Be had gone on reconnolasunee several
miles away from his "tenger" — pro-
nounced eometh ng like PI II-her—MIMI
.11.01 1 L." and the Holy
;mem' pardon or whether he will re- means a csanap, or, as it would be ca/led
eirretly fifes 11 the host were a host of wild beasts,
clock ticked. You remember bow oee wow for aeo„roure, elm if Ete lift 131,0 "layer," In modern spelling "liar."
Wog it was from 1011 striking of one
and with When hunters or soldiers in the veld
in Lhe atorniog uatil the atriking of both wigs, then fie is gone;
that one wing lifted for departure, I are not in 'Onager," they are on tbe
two, Filld still longer from 10110 10 three; -feel the lam mernent of -Waiting throb- "trek" or "making tracks." And the
and wheu at last ehe day began to biug through 11311 eir—t he hest nao_ Dutch settlers W101 made the "Great
leok through the maim, how guiekly mem. For 00111/1 soul here Lott% wings Trek" aoross the Vaal River 66 years
you. thee 115 111:111 surrendered every at- are lifted, and tile venial:as. Gone ago, because the British author'C
tempt to sleep. There are souls in
Otos house who will not sleep tomight,
-emu say: "01 my Lord, how eau 1
aleep? lhe house is so dreadfully still
ranee my little one died. No one to epees, 1 0, you unrepentant some, tinotive name "Bums," which, like tbe
give a drink to in the night, No one it0W ean you steep tomight in mew op Gorman 'Mater," and the identical
1,0 wake me ia the morning with a deuh, and judgment and eternity! English word, means "rustles." It
sweet carol. Trouble! Trouble! Will arems a little paradoxical to read at
net the Lord take me out of it?" 01 Mr. Faroe, our respected fellow -Did -
"I'll i B er burgers," 1 ecause a "bar • "
le u I gears. or inan of the oily, Is essent f-
atly centre.distinguished from a
verge of heill No sleep! No sleep!" eeatitter to,,oight. since hee,-• „ corn, and Englishmen maize. The un_
N\ LIS it oyertvork? Was it bereavement?
Was it tlie unrepented sins of your
post Life that came about your pillow?
Vi 118 IL LC.111/104 YOU remember how the
will sex no more. 1 wit just stop mile
lot11 mieute to see whether he will
your oppoetunul. y or lutetium Gone,
you,' hope for heaven; while a voice
breaks from the throne atong,
ream ie joined to his idols; it him
suppressed their "peculiar institution"
of alavera, and who have been blocking
up the "trek" of advancing civiliza-
tion ever since, pronnaneeed theirzd's-
en, L s afteinuon, with all offices of
bereaved soul, I can make up some- lamt
thueepeewas ( carried out to his
thing you cao sleep on, As &name/te
. re•eting place. Last Wednesdey night
s they make a pilluW of sot/Oiling
, be Went to sleep suund tind well, Ile
herba that the .01,115111 Doty put ne
Meld on and lorget h16 pane 011111 heard n a to he istruggle, and ail
ught. bereaved soul, I would
so to-
01101,11(8tee minutes, though they tried to
bothe and rub him into life, and with
up' pillow for thy head,—a pillow of
Divine piennses—procutees of reueion 111(44310011 011 nat ion skiIl
11 a tearlese realm., premise:A of ex- to, re.sueeltate hien, 111 tem minutes his eat Y,aang alaa at the hands °I l'is
'inflation for things that 6110 do rk, . immortal soul passed mow from world SWCOL1101111:. S siert] perents,
you love nay daughter, do ''u?
iromises of reeurreetion for rell the to world, If it had been you, where
01,1110 1700 bft„ f 3 be , „ move oom„r where, 10 nquired this discouraging venom Can
105 FL 01 put your head on tied
ow, anti lot the fingers of a, comfort- •
PlIe ye/a, my dear brethren, win go out of You so -143
marriage ? ,
oil her if I oonsent to the
I hoped, was the cheerful response,
that if you oonsidered my suit fay,
orably you could give me a situation
Where it W01.11C1 be possible for Me tc:
,
NOT wnAT TIE WANTED.
A.0 exchange tells of the sad dis-
appointment sehich 014018 10 an 1431115"
11
Na'
1
00
Ito
si
si
00111 not have hindered yuu from. 1
;tering his drunleere snore -outside 210e
lace. Wilat was the matter? Bel
11 cl . .
Y: if In I
hat way to moth his pulse; but no ;
eap He burns over ou his right
de; MU (3o sloop. Then he counts ,
0 owe on the wall, hoping to put ;
hioarielf in a soranol.-nt state; but no I
sleep, "On that night could not the
king sleep,"
There natty have been throe or four
1
170)001314 for this fidget and restlem- ,
nese. One was the care of his king- ,
0/111. A United States president, a ,
British queen, a Russian Czar, have no
ease 11014114170(1 with this Ahasunrus,
He hos one 13(111(118(1 and twen(y-sev-.
en provitees, not bound together by
telegritith wires or railroad traeirs.;
Any 03010141131, that, empire maythe tits-,
int egra t ed ; ha cannot 514441),:13e -
sides that, ha is aMbitious, arid he is ,
going to make a eorrquest. 11 you,
kneW that to -marrow morning you
Would nvike twenty thousand clutters
or tine loonared thousand dollars, you
-would not sleep to -night, Three ot
.four 11(14331 400 would he up in tho
night, striking a meta to see if it
ng and eyrrointhetie Christ 151(180 31001
yelids in perfeet pane Lo -night. 1 ..T ETST AS SUDDENLY.
TIUSII ALL YOUR, LOSSES There will be no time to notch the
fush all your bereavements. Hush all . plysicion. 'There will be no hum to
•iur complaints. So Iie 01‘101 a "1 get the phial of reetore 11,788. '111P10
Moved sleep." " - --- eo te— ens; will be no time to strike n light, ei
you ere unprepared to o
,But there are those, here who will . out of this life will he a falling swift -
not sleep to -night for enother reason., eas than Why 001110t flashed cloven the
Thhe 15111e night wheel yeur tinfore 1 night aky, How can you sleep on the
given eine soil) cry out ogainst you.' borders of an eternity for which you,
They will come oh:mooring around! int ve no preparation ?' Hear you not
your pillow aa thei sins of Ahesuortis ' the detailing of the waves of that
clamoured around Ma pillow, You arwtdful seal blench, exult at the
think you can roll gift it solenan im- prosmsol. of your epeerly entrance, ff
pressima like this moment. You wile altar all those yeara of reuse/10g the
go borne, „The door will be aimed, lovo of God, Hee pardon of Oath the
After a 10W momenta of eonvereettion mosey of Ond, the ent renties of God,
about what happened at the 'Allem the wooing of God, you go nnt of this
mole, you will try to compose your- world, 'What will remain for you
self for sleep; but ,if you aro amen-, hut the wrath of God 1 You
forgiving man, you :mond. //loop, 'You Mary bo 50 neer it. Do von
will get wider and wider awelce, GNI, net feel its breath on your cheekst
will stand by your pillory, saying: !Do yell. not aee its flush on your brow?
"Where did you 001110 from? What Do Yon not fehl Ita quaking henanga
have yon 11060 doing? No repetannee, Your feel i The swortdenene of elm
No tears. No perdon. No life. No Lorel latenighty rewings ont from the
And God will say; "11, is th Tet 1 or L rd el are 1 It 1 1 l'Ui
I
lime. No hetiven," And ;you win say: (timid reedy to strikts, 01 spare that
'WM: is it that so Addresses mei" soul. AferoY, enemy, mercy) We
g eur ex t
I multi, tins the brief reply.
Oh, thttnk you I said the hopeful
camg man.
I coo 51411 you FL situation 11/..b0r0 YOU
will have to rise about five o'clock
every morning, was the disheartening
annoulneemen 1.
RUSSIANS' EXTRAVAGANCE.
The wealthy Russiane are said to
e ext remely profitable to hotel and
lopleeepers in the lands in whioh
ey are traveling, A Swiss authe
ity insists that 1101) 11445514105 twill
•serni more in a Month than 1,000
1151(311) men and women for 1110 1401110
riota of time,
or
10
tb
81
11
pe
1
te
an
MADDENING UNCERTAINTY.
Harry, nig new frock is either 110(1-
41113' shinning, or else It ie hideous,
now do you know,
met Edith Thinks when TWI15 oaf
d she didn't even mention it
About tbe riousc,
1101 181111OLD HINTS.
Seam of the bridee who are at 011
12.01115/ /11 houeekeeping, will be ght
to make nolo of the foltowing /mud
whieh are a hsolmoly required fn
kitchen: Ono iron pot, ono fioh ke
tle, 1 wo large hoot saueepans, on
with a sten Otte stewpan, tit
email saueepaus for vegetables, he
butler saueepane, one small saucepe
lined with china, foe boiling milk, on
geidirou, one frying pan, one roast
ing jack and statue one Windt of sleets
ers, 000 basting ladle. and slice, on
toasting fork.
Rice water in laundering. will slif
fen dresses. Boll a monad1 of riee i
a gallou ot water and rinse the dres
before drying. Do not dry thin gown
waste your time and emotions; over
.ittelt things.. If you have spoil/alder;
O to everts let them flow out to real hu-
man !solutes, instead of to imitginery
a eltarioner in imaginary mash's. There
4 is enough sorrow 10 world needing
41 5011100-11111 01011111 11(4 1/11V0 to travel
far to tied :some ono needing. on/11feet.
There nee various ways Lno eon:fort-
lug people. yon have the Lime to
eparit and the rarsitirth try end see
what you may do ttimmg solar neigh
bora, in kindly, Itelpht I %vase.
1(11011' ft W00111 11 who Is e reteulne
" good Snmaritan " in the neigithoth
hood. WilOre there ist sorrow or stets -
nests, extra labor or trouble, thi're thie
wentan IN 10111111 8110 (101.011 Sit 11111(11
and In 111 religion to 1/11) 1.110r, O110 nets
It out. She does the little things of
life, told kaow the time will 001131'
W11011 she will have her reword. Lot us
hope so. T 1 is wet 1 to be, erotic:mien'
of our etreturtla bUl WO 110 not want
Isi be Miserly, but spend it ns iseteed-
ed for our own Immo duties or to holis
those who need helping.
ns
in the aun. Roll to a cloth, and iron
tenon partly dry.
Dour hungings should alweys be of
heavier weight. end Wronger coloring
tha» window drapiugs. small Grien.
till rugs make the naust iffective cov-
ering possible for Door eushions. Sim-
ply place tbo cusbion in the centre or
he rug, bring the ends together, and
olter, Using the SertMed side ties( the
dbol
blind -el th rid the sides to-
mTo clean oil -finished paint or hard-
wood', use weak tea, almost cold, to
remove duet and discoloration' and
them rub it over with t, flannelcloth
dipped in furniture polish, made of
one third linseed, alt, one third turpen-
tine and one thircl vinegar. Shake it
well together in a bottle, pour it into
O 5110001' and rub hard, I,. Is a very
satistautory polish. To revive gilt
frames, take of the white oe eggs two
ounces and of chloroform of potash or
soda one ounce; /Mx ; blow the
dust off from the fiennes ancl, anply
with a soft brush, To take fly swats
off gilt frames, moisten them with the
whits of an egg; let it remain about
le minutes, then wipe it off with a
silk cloth. Plaster busts and staluet-
tee may be cleaned, where it Is not de-
sired to pairit them, by dipping thein
into thiok etareli end drying
and when the starch is bruehed olf the
dirt is brushed off with it.
HOW WOMT:IN MA.Y SAVE WORK.
11 (5 tiresome just to see some wom-
en work. They make so many false
motions that they really waste move
vital energy in doing a small amount
of work than they 4houni in doing a
great deal. "Faeulty " is a great
1)12(1 potent gift, but afterall there are
few women ye -ho could not attain a mod-
icum' of this prerogative if they would
0121.9 113', writes Rose Seelye
I know a woman who is not strong,
she is not prone to "rise while it is "yet
dark, and administer food to her house-
hold;" in point of fact she needs her
morning rest more than her early night
sleep. But after she does rise the grass
does not grow under her feet. "She
work a like the Dickens to make up," asi
O masculine member of the family saysl
pertinently, though how Mr. Dickens
W'01'110(1, or if he worked harder and
faster than other folks ia not chron-
icled 10 histery. This much I do
kuow that a steady, persistent effort
in a certain direeltion will accomplish
more in n. stiort space of time than a
dawdling, half-hearted doing woulel in
thrice that same time, There is Amor-
al haro to point the tale. II you can
do ttn amount of work 111, AO hour, whY
spend two doing the same amount?
In the ordinary home, the housemoth-
er abould not be over -wearied with the
'Mere are wnys and ways to save
work, tonn14 save ono Wily and twine en -
other. T am not sure thni ell ruffles
and imam are loet work. We read a
good d801 about not putting so emelt
work on children'e Mollies, but after all
a pretty gown le Buell a pleasure to
look at, and glom the little Miss so
intieh rename., that il is ft rent (mon-
omy to make it niee in the first placm,
Thei as far ail ruffling and tucking go
there is no °eying need for written ar-
thee': against. it There might heve
been some a few years ago, when gowns
0,4411e ruffled to the waist, and puffs
and tueks were the eommon lob nf life,
but Pashion is about ass seeeible now
as We C011 017C1' 00[10111: 1101' to be, and
a little pert's gown sloes not need ruf-
fles around the bottom to look stylish.
:Don't you really think there Is agora'
deal of a hullabaloo nbout OV01'WOCk
t know there are many who do seem
to get oven -tired, but it is because they
do too much, or use with poor economy
the strength they have to use.
IMPUDENT CLULDREN.
Cannot something be done to im-
prove the mannere of our young people
towards their elders and superiors,
and the manners of many older per-
nons tosvards the aged and intirmt asks
O coreesionadent. Oue of the recently
published letters of Dreyfus addressed
to his Iwo little boys, contained these
charges coneerning theft' treatment of
their relatives; "Be good children and
P61 your mother when she le sad. Be
kind to our gerindfather and grand-
mother, and ploy no tricks on your
aunts." Could sueh practical teaching,
if constantly followed up, fail to have
its due effect, Making the ehildren in
any family a comfore to their relaLives
instead of, as is too ofteu the ease in
this country, a 00111700 of disappoint -
Nov, 2, 1A92
A JAMAICA WEDDING,
IL is always interesting to note lief
sevial customs of a people, nu mallet
what their mem or rank may be, and
a \yachting is 11101178 011 01,0111 01 tars
eorbing iotereat En any land or Oboe.
LC the people have tiny love of tilsplay
it is 0101'0 liktily to find expreesion at
a wedding then any other social event.
This love 01 0111111115 greal, display
at a wedding le (tarried *o far 1/1 /11111111 -
Iva that the very pooreet uf the poet
Week na Item will apend the travings ol
years for a bridal 0'0mm/to nod a wed-
ding' feast. It is, Indeed, a serioua re-
flection on the bride and her faitellY
not Lo conduut a wedding with a ore
Lain degree of veremony and display,
The fact Hutt tile bride's; home may
be a UM' bamboo but ten Leet square
with a tinged:tea roof and the ground
for a floor, and the additional fact
that she may be going to a home
solutely squalid in its poverty, does
not raatter. The long -trained white
gown, the voluminuue vell filiny
svhite tulle, the while kid gloves tiod
the wedding eenst must materialize on
there will not be any wedding. la
mast oases her wedding is thcs only SO-
oecarrion the beide is e
rosreou of much CUIISOQUOLUIEJ, and. it is,
perhaps, only natural that she sbould
wish to muse the very bot appear-
ance at a time when she is this beheld
ut all behollibrs.
As Jamaica is tinder English Jaw, it
is necessary that the banns of a coo:
ele•contemeluting matrimony be cried
from the pulpit of the ehurch for three
OLICOOSSIVB Sundays before the care -
many takes place, The ceremony it -
mit usually takes place in the church
or in some of the many little ohapels
to be found all over the island, for the
negruee of Jamaica are a church -go-
ing people. This is not saying that
they aro a soiritually-ininded people,
Yoe most of them are not that and
they go to church simply Air the plea-
sure of 001151`05011115 together in their
ehowy and cheaply gorgeous Sunday
attire.
When a wedding is to bo solemnized
at the church it is regarded au very
elegant and ihe height of goad form
for the bride Lo delay her appearanee
until an hour or even 1/00 h011tii after
the time 80 for the ceremony. The
bridegroom, hewer or, must be thou 'on
time" and the taut thaL he and his
friends aro leept waiting is supposed
to give great eolat to thts effete. The
mtrents ol the bride never attend her
to the church and they never witness
the ceremony wheia it is perforraed at
their home. This: is because or a fuel-
ish superstition of some sort that pre-
vents pareuts trom attending eithex
the weddings tor funerals of their 01111-
n:one and sorrow? I fear very 1ew
dren. Many of the bride's relatives
cthildren are ever told to pet their
will haVB COMO to her home two or three
mother or father when either of them
is sad or in any kind of trouble. 11 10 days in advaneo of the wedding cleY,
and they are likely to ren:tain two or
too often the other way, the giving of
comfort being ail on the side of the three days afterward, thereby adding
to the merriment and 10ACI to tho ex-
lareenotts,111..lieeze ?dart:1,17 of it all on the
POMO 01 the 000013100. When the bride
finally condescends to appear at the
Lel as elders teach the ohildren with
whom we are assoelated whether .ier-
• manently or only at times, to look out
for OW' comfort, tie gilive as wel 105 if
receive, to be unsettle to us am to a I
around them. 1.1 is your duty to make
sacrifices for them, bat it is also our
duly to teach them to make saerifices
Lor us, mad this teaching should be
clone, 1101 example only, which
many fond parents make the mistake
of supposing 1.0 be all -sufficient, but
also y precept. Children, as rule,
will not mike proper sacrifices for
their parents and friends, at any time
In their lives, unless they bave been
directly taught to do 50 in early child-
hood,
labor of keeping it tidy and taking
care of a small family of ohildren, and
the small family is the rule rather
than the exception. I sometimes Ivan -
dor what women do to keep theneselvea
busy, women with small families, mad
no writing or other outside work to
clo, a:ad how do they keep th.eir minds
from stagnation. The mind must have
work or it will degenorate, just as
surely 05 01)055(1 muscles in any other
part of the body. The great secret of
successful doing is to put the heart
and mind on the work to be done, and
then set the hands or head, as it may
be, to do it. There is not muah to be
gained studying 1310141711105 11111110 weteh-
ing the breakfast cups, or in learning
n. verso of poetry while lacing ones:
shoes; it is better to do what you 41141
doing, and then after it in done, take
your poetry by itself. Coheentretion 15
a good thing in any lino of work.
A. good deal of work may be saved
ebout the house by oareful thinking.
Bare floors save some work i55 the line
of meet:ping, rind axe said to he health-
ful, surely they must be more so than
dingy, dusty carpets, that are filled
with 1111017012(114 of disease. Carpets aim
roinforinble for winter nee in certain
Places; certainly the leitehen eheneld be
exempt from carpeting, here it is that
tho household labor 10 11 groat part is
clone. And the carpet, if them is one,
oannot he kept clean tvithouti greal. et -
fort. An oiled floor is 0 thing to he
desired, but a painted one is not to be
despised, but a kitchen floor covered
with linoleum will save more time en-
otteede work in a year to tray for itarelL
It Is one of, the simpleat matters to
keep such a Door clean. It is us eas-
ily swept as a bare Hoor, and the evip-
ing in off with a droop mop, or elean
cloth will not. take long, Here is ono
way in which labor may he economiz-
ed, and the time spent in bettor weys.
But, Oh, dear, .and oh, dear, if the
Limo alms saved' ts to be event reading
yellow literaterei it might better not
have been saved at all; there OM AO
MOM good things to reatt in them
days one elen hardly afford to vend
the preciots mob:tents ot a lifetime
reading sensational noeola. And yet
bow many' folka we find aa we journey
along who do not care for anything butt
stories to read? Good atoriea are riot
to ha disparaged, bulL poor ones relight
area better never have been written,
and if there were not tt mil for just
smell ones, they would. not be publielted;
fade is it wise of demand and slatelllY,
:oat the Immo itie in other thiogs, Dotit
ART OF TALKING.
Of one thing there can be very little
doubt, and that is the greater readiness
of women in conversation than mem
A. woman can create conversation,
which is a very useful thing, and is
frequently found a great social dif-
fieultg.
If we give 0 man a subject on whiala
he knows anything at all, unless he he
a fool or morbidly reticent, he oan talk
about it so as to make himaelf fairly
intelligible, and pimps interesting,
to those for whom the subjeot has any
interest at all, Men, when their feel-
ing of enthusiasm is eetited, throw off
the slowness and besita iion which fre-
quently cramp their' power in societY,
just as they throw oft the physical in-
firmity of stuttering under the in-
fluence of some awakening theme or
scone strong symprithY.
Dot the power of conversation in
some women, and. not always thoae of
remarkable ability, is the very art of
making bricks without straw. They
will talk to macs by the hour 'about
nothing—that la, no particular subject,
nct with no partionier object—and
•elk coherently and not foolishly,
end, withal, very pleasantly all the
ime,
It would be somewhat; difficult,
bowever, for the listener to otiery 041105'
villa him any mentat notes of what
las been mid, lie may not be consei-
us of having galood any new ideas,
✓ of having had his old onetnenlarg-
el, but he will ries, anti go Ids evny,
s one does after a light and wholo•
ome meat, sensibly oheered and re-
reshed, but retaining: no troublesome
memories of the Ingeedients which
ave composed it.
• —
MISS11.1) OPPORTUNITY,
Did you know there is a caraera
het will tako plothres at a 1118141)100thirty railes1
Why didn't I know that? What 11
ot of battle seenos would have plats
°graphed if had known thero was
eafeLY oantora 1
* -
GREEN SNOW.
Three plaeos at least are known
here green snow is found. One 0.1
1410 15 110111 Mt. Reek, ane
tbor 14 miles east 01 the mouth cif
e Obi, abd the third near Quito,
math America.,
a
0
th
churen sae to met at the door by her
bridesmaids and escorted to the altar
where the bridegroom meets her and
the ceremony proceeds, as it would in
an English church.
The festivities after the wedding are
more remarkable for their noise and
hilarity than for their dignity. If the
minister is present he is expected to
cut the bride's oake, which is an en-
ormous and very elaborato affair, bak-
ea in a big brick oven, for stuves; are
alnaost unknoslen in the homes of the
native blacks. Songs and sileeehes form
11 partl of the festivities and the health
of the young couple is drunk in a kind.
of syrup. Strouger drinks aro not
generally used at a wedding, nor are
they used very much at any time.
'The cuatone of giving presents to the
bridal pair does not obtain be ;Jamaica.
It might sometimes be wise 101' 115 10
emulates the black peoplo of Jamillea
in this respect, le/taloa/arty 10100 the,
presents are in no sense an expression
of real regard nod geuerosity,
it is the custom of the bridegroom
to provide the greater part of the brid-
al trousseau. This seems but just and
fair in view of the fact that he does
not seena to feel under any obligation
to provide is wife with any olothing
after Lhuy are' married. She is ex-
pected to 0 LI (mite as Much o1 a wage
earner as he is and. to engage in the
same kiuds of labor. Thus it may hap-
pen 1101 a week alter the wedding,
both the bride and, beidegroom may be
engaged in the loading of the banctua
boat or in carrying stone and mortar
to the romans.
The Sunday atter the wedding the
bride fares LorLh to churoh in bar
bridal gown 'with her bridal veil float-
ing around her. She trails her lens
train down. the unoarpeted church aisle
fully 00115010118 011116 fact thot all eyes
are upon her, and this oompeusates her
forall the clays she has had to work
at a shilling or 25 cents a day to pay
for her bridal splendor. The new and
/showy gown in which she appears at
ehurell on the s000nd Sunday is a Part
ot the tt•otisseau foe which the bride-
groom has had to pity.
Tourists are sure to wonder when
all this wedding eteleredor 18 kept since
it is certain that a closet is an un-
known convenience in the tiny bamboo
wattled house in whiola the bativea live.
But ono is sure to find in these little
huts a large tin box or trunk in which
the finery of the household is kelet in
safety. The every -day apparel of the
family would suffer little if it were
allowed to dangle from the cocoa or
mango trees in the cidoryard, since
these garments are incredibly ragged
and dirty, It is only on Sande,y or on
memo boating that the question of dross
Is important en theeye of the average
&manic& negro,
TIOPE,
The, Vletien of May Pever exalted
through Ws i COCO.
Yes, he exealluesd I am 'going hunt-
elg in the witcl svc»115 of the North!
But de you eeally expect Lo get te-
ak up there? woe asked, hire.
Yee, replied he, buoyantly, hp
there memo other humter wilt very
likely mistake -me for e deer!"
01 01 11(10', there was a ;Mame that
bunk argue tvotild intervene and 1011'-
(441411 )1014 b .11Ift 11110lly 51101, all( 130517413
41131/050d 0, hopo fOr the beet,