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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-11-9, Page 3e, re r et of 3d ie. -- 130 rs ry re. ;p- al 110 :es ,119 no rp- I1- :130 bee a toe. gild n111 - Me ,t a ata- its, the •ere ler- of ear - and la - 3 or en- ear- , in.. the the nag - 1010 Men cry- teas the one said Mena t did 0033 the last. pled town long,1 out and . lent'. •rand ad 0 then :1 alter with '}tot Ly Nov. 9, 1999. THJ3 BRUSSELS POST. 8 A IIES ! ASHES ! ASHES!" Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks of the World's Pleasures. Those Who Have Been Successful in the World --A Group of Sinful Pleasurists.'-Infidelity and Truth --The Dr. Points the Way to Salvation Before It Is Too Late. A despatch from Washington, says: bish for sornething with which Lo help Rev, Dr, Talmage preached from the ibam in the clays of trouble, andaome- following text: --"IIs feodeth on mime"; thing to bomfort: thorn in the days of —Isaiah xliv, 20. destroyed ing for their dtstraugllt and destroyed souls, ashes—ashes, Vol- This is descriptive of the Idolatry Mire, declared: " This globe seems to and worldliness of people in Isaiah's ma more like a collection of carcasses time, and of a very prevalent style ofthan of men. "I wish T had never diol in our time., The world apro ds a i been boar. " Hume moo " 1 am like a, man who has sun on rooks and great feast, and invites the rage to sit: quicksands, and yet I contemplate at it. The platters are heaped um' 'Putting out on the seer, in the same The garlands weathe the wall, The Ieaky and weather-beaten craft.' Uhesterfield says: " I have been behind guests sit down, amid outbursts oe bel- the scenes and I have noticed the mines. They take the fruit, and it, chewy, p'alley1 and the dirty ropes turns into ashes. They lift the tan- by whtoh all the scene is managed, and kards, and their contents prove to be I have isoli tt3ad aselb the tallow. can- dlos whtoh throw the 111umfnation on ashes, They touch the garlands, and the stage, and I am tired and sick." they scatter into ashes. I do not Get up, 'then, Francis Newport, and know any passage ee scripture which Hume and Voltaire, and Tom Paine, se thrillingly sets forth the unantis- and all the infidels who have passed g y out of this world into the eternal world factory nature of this world for eye, --eget up now a,nd tell what you think and tongue, and lip, and heart, as this off all your grandiloquent derision at very passage, descriptive of the votary our 'holy religion. What do you think now of all your sarcasm at holy things9 of the world, when it says: "He feodeth They come shrieking up from the lost on ashes." world to the graveyards where their I shall not to -night lake the estimate bodies were entombed, and point down US the white duet of their dissolution, by those whose leis has been a (ailuro. and city : " Ashes I ashes I" A man may despise the world simply 0 what a poor diet for an immor- tal he cannot win it. Having fail- tal soul. The foot is, the soul is hun- ed, in his conteurpt of it he may de- gry', Whalt is i:hat unreal, that some - cry that which he would like to have times comes across you? Why, is it had as his bride, f shall therefore L•o_ that surrounded by friends and even night take only rho testimony of those the luxuries of life, you wish you were somewhere else, •or had something you who have been magnificently success- have not 'yet gained? The world calls fol; and, in the first place, I shall it ambition. The physicians call it nerve ask the kings oft the earth to stand Dueness. Your friends oall it the fid - up and give testimony, telling of the mg, nn Dull s he hhunger.rgrind- up appeasable It starts long story of sleepless nights, and with us when we are born, poisoned cup, and threatened invasion, and goes on with us until and dreaded rebellion. Ask the the Lord God Himself appeases it. It is seeking and delving, and strive Georges, ask the Henrys; ask the ing and planning, to get something we Marys, ask the Louises, ask the Catb- cannot get. Wealth says: "It IS not brines, whether they found the throne in me." Science says: " 'It is not in me." Worldly applause says: "Il is a sate seat and the crown a pleasant not in me.' Sinful indulgence says: covering. Ask the French guillotine "It is not in ane.' • Where then is it? in 11adume Tuissard's Museum about On the banks of what stream.? Slum - the queenly necks it has dissevered, boring in what grotto? blarehing in what oonlest 1 Expiring on what Ask The tower, of London. Ask the pillow? Tell nee, for this winged and Tuilleries and Henry VIIL, and Car- immortal spirit, Is there nothing but dinal Woolsey to get ups out of the ashes? When Jenny Lind was in this duet and tell what they think of country, she wrote 1n an autograph album an answer to that question: worldly honors, Ghastly with the 'In vain I seek for rest, first and the second death, they rise up In all created •good; with eyeless sockets and grinning It leaves me still =blest, skeletons, and stagger forth, unable at And makes me cry for God, first to speak at all, but forward And sure at rest I cannot be, Until my soul finds rest in Thee. hoarsely whispering: "Ashes! ashes!" O here is bread instead of ashes I In I call up also u group of cmnmsrcial commmunion with God, and everlasting adepts to give testituony. Here again trust of Hien, is complete musette - those who have been only moderately tion. Solomon described it when he successfully may not be witness, They compared it to cedar bousos and golden chairs, and bounding reindeer, must all be millionaires. What a grand and day breaks, and imperial collet,; to thing it must be to own a railroad) saffron, to calamus, to wthete teeth, to Oontrot a bank, possess all the and hands heavy with gold rings, and houses on one street, to have vast in- towers of ivory and ornn.mental fig-, urea; but Christ calls it bread 0 vestments tumbling in upon you day famished yet immortal soul, why, not alter day, whether you • work came and get it? Until our sins are or not, No no. Come up from pardoned, there is no rest. 'We. know, not at what moment the bounds may, St. Mark's Graveyard, and from bay at us. ' We are in a castle and Greenwood, and tram Mount Auburn, know not what hour it may be besiege and from Laurel Hill. and tell us now ad; but when the soothing voice: of white you' think of banks, and mints, Ohrist comes eoros5 our perturbation, and factories, and counting -rooms, and 'L is hushed forever. A merchant: in marble palaces, and Presidential ban- Antwerp loaned Charles V. a vast :meta. They stagger forth and lean sUan of money, baking for it a'bond, One against the cold slab of the tomb, Ono day this Antwerp merchant: in - mowing with toohtiess gums, and vietd Charles Y. to dine with him, and gesticulating with fleshless hands while they were seated at the table, in the presence of the guests, the mer - and shivering with the chill of see- chant hada fire built on a platter In ulohral dampness, while they Ory out: tete centro of the table. Then he Ashes! cells l" I must cell up nowt also, a group of took the bona which the King hadgiven hint for the vast sum of money, sinful pieaourists, and here again Iwill and held it in the blaze until it was not take the testimony of those who consumed, and the Sing congratulated had the more ordinary gratifications himself, and all the guests congratu- of life. Their pleasures are pyrami- fated the King. There was gone at dal. They bloomed paradisiacally. If last the fi.nul evidence of his indebted - hays drank wine, it must be the best that was ever pressed from the vine- yards of iiockheimer. If they listened to music, it mug be costliest opera, with renowned prima donna. If they sinned, they chased polished un0lean- nea5es and graceful despair, and gl.it- 1 ever. He says: "Go free I Go free!' tering damnation. Stand up, Alcibi- 0, to halve all the sins of 0ua' past life tides and Aaron .Burr, and Lord Byron,' forgiven, and to have all possible 85 - and Queen Elizabeth—what think you 10urtty for the future—Is not that now of midnight revel, nd sinful ear- enough to make a man happy 1 What makes that old Christian so placed? The most of his family/ in Greenwood Or in the village cem.etr•y, Hist health underml,inded. His cough will not lee 1)101 sleep ca nights. Since the day he come to town an 11 he was, a olel'k,, until this the day of his old age, it hes been a hard fight llor bread. Yet how happy he looks. Why? 1t Is •be - 011115e he fees that the stems God who watched hien when he lay in his tnoth- or's arms is welching him; in the time of old age, and unto God ho has com- mitted all hie dead, expecting nfter awhile to see them again. He has n0 anxiety whether he go this summer or next au!manor—wherther he be earned out through the snowbanks or through the daisies. Fifty ewers ago, he learned that all this world; coni d give was ashes, and he reached u11 and look the fruits of eternal life. , You see his face is very ,while now, The rod currents of 1'Ifo seaim, to hove depart- ed from it; but under thea extreme whiteness of 111e old anal s tans is the flash of the day -break. There is only ono worts in all our language that can describe hie feelings, and that is the word that slipped off the angels harp above 1lethlohom—peace 1 And so 111e1'e are hundreds of souls here to- nig,ht who have felt this Almighty comfort. Their reputation was our - sued; their 'meth was ehnl:Lcred ; their dome Ives almost if not. quite Ila 1 q1 broken up; their tontine went away teems Mem. Why d0 they runt sit drown and give it up? ,;111 they have no d,spoeition to do that. They are Raying while I speak; eilit is ray, hallt- nese. Mortgaged to God, we owe a debt we can never pay; but God in- vites us to the Gospel feast, and in the fires of crucifixion agony die pull the last record of our indebtedness in the flume, and it is consumed for. nivel, and damask (rurteined abomina- tion ? Answer 1 The color gods out of the cheek, the dregs serpent twisted in the bottom of the wine cup, the bright lights quenobed in blackness of darkness, they ,jingle 'together the broken glasses, and rend the faded silks, and shut the door of the desert- ed banqueting -hall, while they c.ry ".Ashes 1 ashes 1" There are a great many in this day who try to feed their soul on infidelity mixed 1vi111 trlath, It is a loaf of bread stirred upwith strychnine and Paris green. They say there is a God, but they begin immediately to manipulate Ilim according to their own notions. They say the Bible has good things to it, butt it is not inspired, They say Christ' was n good man, but He is not inspired, and their religion is made nips of ten d(lgrees of humenittar'ianisin and ten degrees of transcendentalism, and len,•dogrees of egotism, with one degree of'Goepcl truth, and on apnot:', miseritble cud they mato ther immor- tal (tool chew, while the meadows of God's word, are green and luxuriant with well -watered pastures. Did you ever ere a happy infidel? Dred you ever meet a placid sceptic ? Did you ever find a, eontmtad atheist? Nol. one 'Prom the days of Gibbon and Voltaire down, not one. They quern," about God, They quarrel tvtlli theln- selves. 'rimy taste n.11 the diving teach- ings and gather them to:Tether, and under tltent they put the fires' of their own wit 111(1 ae0lin, and aerceisre, end then they dance in the light: of shat Maas, and they scratch amid the rub- er that mixed this bitter sup, and I will cheerfully drink it. Everything will be explained after a while. 1 Mall not always be under the harrow. There is samelhing •that tiakee mo think 1 aim almost home. Owl will yet. wipe .ower r11,1 tears from my eves," Se say these bereft v4arents. No tory these motherless children, So say u great many in this bones to- nigdlt. Now, am 1 net right ]n 11)16 presence end- in these oiroumelanees, in trying to persuade this entire audience to give up ashes nod tike Dread; to give up the unsatisfuotory things of this world, (ea3d take the glorious things of Gott and eternity f Why, my friends, if yqw keep this world as long as et lasts, you would have, after a while, to give it up. There will be a great fire breaking out from the sides of tdle Mlle; there will be falling flume e nd ascending flume, and In it the earth will be whelmed, Fires burning from within, out.; fires burning from above, down ; this earth will be a fur- nace, and then it will be a living ;coal, and then it will be an expiring ember, and the thiels clouds of smoke. will lessen and lessen until there will be only a faint vapor curling up from the ruins, and then the very last: spark al the earth will go out, And I see two angels meeting each other over the gray pile; and as one flits past it, ha cries; Ashes 1" and the other, as he sweeps down the immensity, will respond, "Ashes 1" while all the infin- ite •ep00e will 00110 and re-echo, "Aohos 1 Ashes l Ashes!" God forbid thm't' you and r should choose such a mean portion. Now, my fear to -night, is, not that you will not see the superiority of Christ to this world, but my fear is that, through some dreadful infatua- tion, you evill relegate to the future Ilbe2 which God, and angels, and churches militant and triunrpbant de - Mere that you ought to do now. My brother, 1 do not say that you will go out of this world by the stroke of ,a horse's hoof, or deet you will fall t'hrough a hatchway, or that a plank may- slip from an inse0ure scaffolding and dash your life out, or that a molt may flat on you from an August thun- derstorm; but I do say that, in the vastinajorley of oases, your departure from this world will be wonderfully quick ; and, l want you to start on the right road before that crisis has plunged. A Spaniard, in a buret, of temper, slew a ;door. Then the Spaniard leap- ed, ave.' a high wee'. and melt a gar deoer, and laid him the whole story; and the gardener said: "I will ,make n pledpe of cenfi.dance with you. Eat bhis peach and that will be a pledge that 1 will be pour protector to the Last." But, 0, the sorrow and sur- prise' of the gardener when he found out, that it was his own son that had been slain I Then he acme to the Spaniard, and said to 111:: "You were cruel, you ought to die, you slew my son, and, wed I took a pledge witheyou and 1 ,mnlst keep my promise;" and so he took the Spaniard to the stables and brought out the swiftest horse. The Spaniard sprang upon it, and put many miles between him and the scene of the crime, and perfect escape was effected. We, have, by our sins, slain the Son of God. Is there any possibil- ity of our rescue? 0, yes. God the Father, says to us : "You had no busi- ness, by your sin, to slay my son, Jesus; yon ought to die, but 1 have promised you. dielivera'nne. I have made you the promise of eternal life, and you shall have it. Escape now for thy life." And to -night I act (merely es the Lord's grooms and I bring you out to the Singel stables, and I tell your to be' quick, and mount, and away. In this plain you perish, but housed in God yon live. 0, you pursued and overtaken al- most l- mo t s e taken one, put on more speed. Eternal salvation is the pride of your velocity. Fly! Fly I lest the blank horse outrun the white horse, and the battle-axe shiver the helmet and crash down through the Insuffi- cient mail. In this tremendous exig- ency of your immortal spirit beware Lest youi prefer ashes to bread 1 A DOCTOR'S "CALL" IN INDIA. A Young Medical Neu 'retic ora Teat Ito Made In Thai ComLLry. P,robably 'every doctor has some- times tuned It hard to roach his pati- ents, but few debtors, let us hope, have to travel several hundred miles to make a "call." The "record," in this respect, seems to have been es- tablished, by a young medical man in x1(114, 1 have just returned frgm a three - hundred -mile walk into the very heart at the Himalayan. I had to set off at a dey's notice to look after a Mr. Blank tut the India evil service, who was said tel be Lying dangerously ill at a place called Skardui. He had gene there this year to settle the revenue, and in the winter was the only white man in the Malt1ry, 1 had sixteen days' march to get there,, most, of the wary through snow, and all the way over the most Mapes - sable, road I have yet seen, The road, or rather pass, lies along the lades, encu so bad, is it that it is guile, im- possible lo ride any of the way, which is saying mupb in !this country, where we ride almost anywhere a goat stint go. But on every march to Skardlu there are obstacles. TlOe path winds up and down the rocky mountains on either side of the latus ; in places along narrow ledges of rank, galleries of very rickety stone and wood built out hem the faoe of elites, cud even up and down ladders and, notched poles, One maroh is over a snow mountain, a climb of forty- five hundred feet, up ono side and down the other. Several of my coolies got frost -bit tan, as the cold was extreme, hey water -bottle, which I carried, with me, froze solid as I walked along. 111ad LO sleep on the groutndl with lots of blankets,) all my clothes on, two them cvor•.coats, int• -lined stookings and gloves, ' ' , INT1I,ODUCTION 011' SLIT WORMS, The silk worm was first dnlrodu00d into Europe by two «00131rs engaged as missionaries in China, who obtained a quantity of silk womb' eggs, which they mimeaietl in a hollow mile, sinal. convoyed safoly ete Constantinople in 552. . THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. I�iJ i PI°11a11 I soft • INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOV, 12. "Rubullding Ibe Walls or Jerusalem." Nell. 4.1.1S. Gulden Text. 111111. 24.41, PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 7. Sapiballat, A high Persian officer living in Satnaria. Ile was of Moabite extrm:l.ion, and had come ori- ginally from Heronaium. Though the line on which the Hebrew kingdom had divided wale now obliterated, a geo- graphical rivalry between the °sties of Samaria and J'ermalem had become Lhe chief city of l'alesfine. The restor- ation ot Jorelaalem under 00 vigorous a governor as Nehemiah threatened Sunbailat's fire-eminenoe. There are indications in the story that Sanbal- lat was su'pporled by it party in Jer- usalem. H'is daughter was married to a grandson of the high priest, lElia- ehib. Tobieb. A Persian officer appar- ently still higher in rank than San - ballet. East of the little kingdom of Judah, and a thorn in Be aide through all its history, was the little kingdom of 'Ammon. Like Damesous and Israel and Judah and Meal, Ammon hod fall- en before the fury of the eastern in - vectors, Its people, like the Jews, were exiled, and individual Ammonites, like Daniel and Nehemiah and other Jews with whose history we axe familiar, grew to be favorites in the heathen courts. although Tobiah was of low extraction, born of a family of slaves, if we rightly understand the intima- tion of Scripture, he had risen to be ata favorite 'at the 001.1r1 of Artaxerxes, and, like Nehemiah, had now been made the governor of his own nation. But he did not, us one -might exllec!t, link his forbes with those of Nehe- miah; but, on the contrary, joined sim- enemies, and probably for reasons sim- ilar to those which had aroulsed Sanbal- lat's energy. Ammon and Samaria were far enough apart to flourish, without intereering with each other, and it seemed to be to the Interest of both that Judah should be divided between them, or at least, in modern phrase- ology, that each should have its "sphere of influence" In southern Palestine.; L/ke Sanballat, Tobiah was supported by Jewish nobles, and apparently W55 related by marriage to some of the stxfonger families in Jerusalem. The Arabians. Wild desert wanderers on the south of Pal- estine, who fattened on Cha wretched- ness of the country, and dreaded noth- ing more than the re-establishment. of ,military power to any degree in Ter- usalean. Geshom, or Gashmu, is men- tioned as their leader. That he was powerful is indioaled by the grouping of his name with that of the influen- tial Sanballat and Tobinh, Ammon- ites. This tribe had through all its history been lass civilized than Moab or Judah. To the end a large num, bor of its people word nomadic, and even predatory, producing little, and living on the weakness of their na- tional neighbors, t As we have seen, Tobiah had probably been come rounded to organi•zo the nation, but the Asnmouites here mentioned were still unorganized and nomadic, willing to join Tobiah, and the other conspirators against Jerusalem, but not willing, to be governed by him or any other main. Ashdodi'tes. Philis- tines, taking their name from one of the' old capital .oities, or the southern seacoast. The walls of Jerusalem were made up. Nehemiah seams to hese built on the old foundations, The Hebrew idiom here is piOturesque—"a bondage was applied to the wall of Jerusalem;^' The breaches began to bo slopped. Before the days of ex- plosives battering rams 'were relied upon, in war against fortresses. An immense shock was given to one part of the well—given with endless repeti- tion hour after hour and day after day, and often for weeks and months to- gether, until its strength gave way!. Sometimes where themasonry was very sturdy, it toppled, over; at other times great holes were made in it through width, the hostile soldiery rushed. These are the "breaches," Wroth. Mad with jealousy, 8. Conspired all of there together. They had their own jealousy card dis- likes bub werenow united in mutual antagonism' to Jerusalem, To fight against Jerusalem, '.their prime pur- pose was to proven; the sitcoms 02 Nebemiah's endeavors. They would nog rush into mime] warfare if they could; deter him, by other. means, but we need not think i L strange but nettle bloodshed was ex,peoted by both parte ties, for the inunenso empires of an. °lent times wer0 loose mot ragged ala their edges, and the rulers' of remote provinces were frequently a law to themselves, Thus even in the time 0l our Lord and under the Roman sway Herod Antipas, who was the subject. of Rome, had his private war with Aro- tae, Such a conspiracy as this was very dangerous to the Jews, for it would be more natural for Artaxerxes (0 believe the (.estirnony of five or sit chieftains whose loyalty he had not doubted than to believe the single un- 5u)portcd testimony olj Nehemiah, 0, We made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch) against them .day and night. "Watering unto prayer" is the godly mans first duty. "Our God" is n beautiful phrase, for ,while .God is the God of all men,; he is in a peculiar sense 111e God of his :own people. For "against them" sortie scholars read 'Mashie them," believing than a speoiol attack wus 110W antieipaiecl, 10, J'udat.h.:C11e residents o.0 the ter- ritory of the old kingdom, of Judah, Not nll of the returned, captives, how- ever, were of the tribe of Judah. The strength of the bearers of bunions is decayed, The workore employed on the wall had given up in des- pair, Very likely their wages came fitfully, or not nt all, and the •necamulated &brie of one leantlrod and thirty-five tethers must be cleared away. We aero not able to build the Wall, They were able io build it, 1100, over, and they did. All they needed was a compeleludi leader and God's blessing, 11, Our etkveerseries. NaMed be verse • 7. They shall not know, neither see, till we Mame. Our eonopiracy must be perfecledi befur0 a movement he onade, KI anti the surprise shall be complete. 12. The Jews which dwelt by, them, The pulioy of the returned Israelites hate been to settle, around Jerusalem and net entity so, because a majority of thine were Pum a:era of the tribe of Judah ; but: there were many of other tribes, as wt know from the phruse5 "il meta of (libeon," "tile Tekoites,' and "tale amen of Jericho," lilts it ie probable that these had setled near to their old family homesteads. Laving ttaarong the oon,pirators, they over- heard some of their plane, and prompt- ly reported them to their eounir;vmen, 'Ten times, Th°et is, indefinitely, many times; as we would soy dozens of limes, 'Tile rest of this verse has a very different, meaning and a simpler one given to it by the Revised Version, "They said unto us ten times from all pinnas, Ye must return eel us." They were talking to their rela- dives who had Ilocked to Jerusalem: partly to earn wages, partly urged, by patriotism. These more distant Jews, having u full view of the danger, urge their friends and kinsmen to return to protect their homes. 18, In the lower plums. . . on the higher places, "In - the lowest purls of the space," 7"1n the open pluoes.' Wherever the wal>; Wita es- pecially weak there Nehemiah station- ed armed men. Behind the wall. Which was to be used as a rampart. After their families. Everything that the Jews did was done by tribes and plans and families; not altogether unlike the highland organizations of the Scotch °lune is the tenacity with which this relationship was held by the Jews for centuries, 14. Said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, end to the rest of the people, • For 'rulers" the Revised Version, margin, gives a "deputies." The meaning is that Nehemiah gave gener- al orders, which were repeated by un- der officers, until every workman and nverq' armed man heard hie proclaim - Ilion. Be not ye a,Craid of them. An injunction which God and God's serv- ants meet frequently repeated, Re- member the Lord. Such a, moral pew- ee 0000105 with the consciousness of God's presence that one man with God is mightier than many without him, Fight for your brethren, your sons, and year daughters, your wives and your houses. Though, nominally, they wear, fighting for the privilege of re - their walls, this statement al- so was true, because without the walls none of their homes or dear ones was safe. 15. When our enemies heard, that we returned. When, as Nehemiah profoundly believed, God had frus- trated the plans for attack, the work of rebuilding, which had temporarily ceased, was resumed. 15. This attack taught Nehemiah a lesson,—from that time forth he was abundantly prepared for any attack. Nehemiah's servants, sometimes called his young men, were his bodyguard, his perbonal retainers, whom he had brought with ,him from Suet,,. So great was the need of hurrying the work, and so'few Welt the workers, that he det•aphed oine half of these men to work upon the walla while the other half stood guard. Sixth an example must have greatly inepired the rest of the people. 'H'aberjgeons were coats, of mail. The rulers were hereditary', chieftains. They stood behind all the house of Judah as commanding offt- oer8 should stand, so as to direct with- out being in the way. 17. The statement of this verse is that the eommon wootttmen from Jer- usalem and from the surrounding country were armed while they work- ed, the bearers of burdens especially bolding weapons in one band. while they worked with the other. 18. Builders. Dr, Terry thus ex- plains: "Unlikee the bearers of burd- ens, who could week with one hand and carry a weapou wilt the other, the builders needed both bands in their work, .and so carried swords, which Meng girded by their sides." Ile that sounded the trumpet was by me. That is to say, 1 saw the commander of all the workmen and of net the forces, and all orders came directly from me, THE WHIPPING SCHOOLMASTER. An inc'llont or Lire al lite great 1;nplISTt Col leafy E100. • John Hawtrey is still remembered a0 one Of the famous whipping school- masters! or England. Ile achieved his reputation at Eton, where he early made the birch his sovereign remedy for morel ills, and where his doses were never homoeopathic, , It was autumo, says 'Alfred Lub- bock, who has a vivid remembrance of Hawtrey's methods, and we small b;.ys us'edi to buy chestnuts ant! -test them over, the fire in a shovel. One da;; u boy, named P„ who Was a groat favor- ite at Hawirey's, had a lot of chest- nuts, and as a spenial favor, was at - :towed to ,maize use of the pupil-:ooin; fire, while pupil-ro;m was still going DU. Hawtrey' was going in and cut al the rosin while eve were working, and on one occasion, coming in rather quiet- ly, :he caught sight of le. kneeling over the fire arranging Ills ehestnuits, The boy's position 31)05 irresisttbie to any Lovett of the art of chastisement, Not seeing his face, and supposing it was one of the other boys stealing the °h,estn,uls, John Hawtrey quietly took his cava from his desk, and oreeping l:owned, on tiptoe, gave the wretched t', a most tremendous whack. Tive bey jumped up with a yell, hie hands clapped behind him. Then the tutor saw w11n he was, and said, em - bearing him: "Oh, my poor boy 1 I nm so sorry I 1" thought. ]t was another boy stealing year c}ledtuuts " We, a course, were ail delighted, and; roared with laughter, + OBJECTED. TO THE "COON SONG," What's dat you wa11 sheen'? ask. od the old lean. Dates de lal8.s' coon song, enseverOd Mr. Erastns Pinkley, Well, you oughteeo on 'bout yah work, 'Mid o' tenpin' yohsolf laughable tryin.' 10 imitate white folks' ways. the I-1 me • Flet_. HOUSE CLEANING. A housekeeper writes haw she oleans house without having every- thing topsy-turvy. She :aye: We Olean all our cupb.ards and straighten up all the bureau drawers. We gather up all the old shirts and seeks and sort them: over, and, what, is Sit to mend we save, and. any that Is past fixing we out up and, make rags 110 01enn house with. The seeks that are past fixing we cut the feet; off en4 out the legs in two and put the two together and stitch them; across with the macbine and they matte Moe soft rags to scrub aroundthefires. Then wt, clean the oellar some rainy day when the men eau help. Then when we are ready to clean we only take two rooms al e time and get them all done before we cammsnoe any more, We always try to have a room that we can take com- pany:in if we happen to have callers. We wash our curtains and cushion covers before we begin to clean. Cleaning Brass,—A brass tee kettle isl a handsome addition to the after- noon tea table, but it mast be the per- fection of brightness to look well. To keep. it in good order clean it to the following way: Rub on a mixture of powdered, rotten atone and oil ot tur- pentine with a soft rag and polish with chamois. If the loess has been neglected, an ounce of oxalic acid added ma pint of water end applied to the brass with a piece of flannel will be found effective. Lot the kettle be then well polished, and its brightness will revive. If this latter: method be occasionally adopted and for ordinary cleaning the rotten stone and oil of turpentine are used, the brass will always be a thing of beauty. An Excellent Furniture Polish:— leo excellent cleaner and polisher tor furniture with a very high finish is re- commended by an experienced dealer in rare woods. To one tablespoonful of, linseeds all add an equal proportion ot turpentine, together with a piece of any pure asap the size of a walnut. Pour Ills into a vessel containing one quart of boiling water, and let the whole bail for about ten minutes, stir- ring it occasionally, so that it may be well mixed. This liquid can be used either warm or cold, butt experience teaches that it is more effective when warm.; it can be heated several times before it will need renewing. Apply with a soft flannel cloth, well wrung met; to a smolt portion of the surface to be cleaned. After the dirt has been well wiped aff, take a fresh flannel to polish' with, and a few minutes vigor- ous rubbing will soon restore the wood to its orginal brilliancy. The best way to wash blankets is with) ammonia. Examine the blank- ets carefully, and if there are any grease, spot: or specially soiled places remove these with gasoline or soap and water and a small scrubbing brush. Never, rub a blanket, as it tends to shrink: it. Stretch out the spots to riean on a board one by one and scrub re them. When this is accomplished prepare water for the general wash- ing. which is usually all a blanket - quires. Put half a pint of liquid ammonia in sufficient lukewarm, water to cover the binn.ket. Souse the blanket up and down in this water for five or six minutes or until it begins to look clean. Wring it with a wringer into a second tub of warm soap suds made by malting half a bar of white soap into a tub et water and adding three heaping tab:espcsonfuts of borax. Let the blanket lie closely o0vered in this water for several hours, and then sense it up and dawn repeatedly to Loosen the dirt. and, finally, wring it, into a lukewarm rinsing water, and thein into a seamed and third in which a small quantity of pure indigo blue- ing has been mixed. The same soap suds and borax will do for several b.ankets by adding more water and mere matted soap and b,lrax in pro - perdue. to the water added, but it is desirable to use fresh ammonia and water tor every blanket and fresh rinsing water. Never rub soap on the surt!aca of the bankers and never wring the b onkel. by hand, as the spiral rjeiont tends to shrink the wool 0r mat together Lhe ultimate fibres avhioh arethemsolvos of a spiral form. Fold the blanket in even folds when it is pat through the wrtnger, As soon as it hes gene through the last rinsing water hams it on the lino and let it. drip dry. Before itis perfectly dry st'retoh' it and hang i1. out again on ct Irma in the boom to bo more 1110r- onghty dried. 11.111EE GOOD RECIFES, Angel Cake,—Ona cup white of eggs, 34 sup sugar, 1-4 cup corn starch, 1-3 cup flour, tenspobn vanilla. Beal whites of eggs.uut.il stiff and dry, add,. sugar gradually and tlautinue beat- ing, then add flavoring. •Cu,t and fold tat corn starch, from, salt and. cream tartar, mixed. and sifted. Bake 45 to 50 menotba in an unbuttered ,angel cake pan, in a moderate oven. Chocolate or Caramel Wresting;-- 0:na and ono -hall cups sugar, 14 cult lank, 1 teaspoon butter, 1-3 teaspoon vanilla, add chocolate or coma; 1101 .batter' in saucepan; when mated add sugar! and milk. Stir to be sure that sugar (Latae not adhere to saucepan, heat to at bailees point, Ad,d. 11•lt squares ,melted chocolate or 0 tea- spoons c000a as soon 115 the boiling point is reached, and bell, without stirring, 13 minutes. Renevc from fire, and boat until of right eonsist- 8ney to spread; then add flavoring and pour over cake, spreading even- ly with bash of spoon. Sometime, ohm the cake is quite thick, 11 is cut lhreuglr in the middle, one part being pat over the other, with the (flouting between and on top. Let the eatside be uppermost, and the frosting will stay 'better, :)ark bruit Cake,—One-half cup but- ter„ (--•t cup brown sugar, 8-4 cup rain Ina seeded and cut in pieces,' 3.4 cup merman, 1-2 oup citron thinly :Weed, and cut in serine, 14 cup molasses, 21 eggs, 1-2 cup mills, 2 sups flour, 1-2 teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon cinnamons; 1=L baaspopn eltspjoe, 1.4 teaspoons mace, 1-4 teaspanei olovee, 1-2 teasp00n lemon extract, Mix dry ingrodlenta toed mix and sift baking powder and 5pi005 with flour. Put butter in bowl. work till soft, add sugar gradually. thAdd eggs beaten until light, the liquid, en the flour mixture, — ep SUDDEN DEATH FROM APOPLEXY. Tim Rapid race or Modern Llre 535608' 11es. Its Victims. lApoplexy is invited, even in infanoye by parents who encourage their chil- dren to drink wine and beer, It geta a firmer grip in early middle lite upord the business man, with bis frequent cocktails and "high balls." ,Apoplexy would be almost the rare more numerous but for the foot that it rarely comes before the fiftieth year, and long before that time other dis,i eases have carried off many who would surely have died of apoplexy ie time. ,Apoplexy refers to an accident to an. artery in the brain, resulting in hemi orrhage and pressure, causing loss o diminution of sensation and power of voluntary motion. The artery rap, tures through weakness of the wall from previous disease. The aooidentt is likely to be fatal, but there may be several strokes before the patient per- ishes. Apoplexy w°(ld be almost the rar- eat of diseases if mon lived natural lives. But to alcohol, which is hie chief foe, the business man adds coffee, sauce and vinegar, relishes and dress- ings, salads and sweets, which are ]n• nooent in use but deadly in abuse, Business men eat too much. The hardy out-of-door laborer can digest: three meals a day, but the man who uses only his brain can digest leas, though he usually eats more. Says Dr. Lee: "A morning and even- ing meal, with bread and fruit for the midday refreshment, with water in- stead of artificlal drinks, would spare the waste of good friends and distin- guished public men, a class generally; at the mercy of fashion in Dating." Dr. Lee also says that modern dress is much too heavy forthe requirements of health, especially in Summer. As a plant would soon die if its trunk and branches were not freely, exposed to air and light, so the human body dies gradually from the lack of ventilation, though the contributory; cause is often overlooked, The best light -weight underwear procurable in silk, cotton or linen mesh for the youth and the adult, in health or sickness, is indicated both in Winter and Summer. Flannels are no longer recommended. The long list of distressing akin af- eeotions owe their origin principally to unsanitary underwear. Such under- wear keeps the skin congested in Sum- mer and clogged In Winter, produoing skinidiseases without and oomplioatione within. He who encases his body in impervious wool invites discomfort end disease. His skin is debilitated, while the tone of the vitality is lowered. ETIQUETTE—USE AND ABUSES. Although the word etiquette has certainly a formal sound, a tone of recision that makes ono inclined to think of prism and prunes, it has now established itself so firmly among us that, according to the theory of the survival of the fittest, we must sup- pose that It the best word that could be found to express the rule and "con- veniences," of Mrs. Grundy. Society would very soon fall to pieces, if each person that composes it were to follow without let or hindranroe his or jeer sweet will in the matter OR manners, and we fear that polite be- haviour would 800n be more noted for its breach than for its observance. So- ciety found that it was 001 only re- quisite for its well being, bat for its very existence, that it should frame certain rules for the guidance and consent of its members, and, in conse- quence, our present rules of etiquette have not so much been made as grown into shape. That most of these rules are really requisite can be seen if we look at them, not, perhaps, as awhole, but separately, and few of them are so arbitrary, that they may not, in - certain eases, be relaxed, for they were intended to guide and help, not to make us slaves to ceremony. Unfortunately, everyone is not by nature courteous and considerate, nor have all persons the knack of doing the right thing. Lots of well-meaning folk sometimes sot with downright rudeness from the fact of not knowing better. Shy, ner- vous people also, who go out but little into general society, often find Them selves doing awkward things which not only cause annoyance to others, but make the perpetrators themselves must uncomfortable when they discov- er their mistake. Indeed, to young, shy or nervous 11001(18, it 15 absolute misery to know that they have committed any, little solooism against good manners, or broken any of the minor rules of etiquette. These people—unlike those who wish to be considered independent and unconventional, and, therefore, condemn all forms of etiquette as ab - enrol and old-fashioned—are glad to know tltnt there are remain rules laid down for their guidance which they neny follow without: fear of making mistakes. Biathlons, too, change fast in these days of progress, and what a short time ago was considered In- a/Mei., 3lney ,now be done as a matter of n0urse. These changes are often very puzzling to n person who has'.. lived nn1 of town for sc,tne ya5113, and is therefore outof touch eviler the new order of things, although good rime - rums should always be the rule inns Mune, and not kept exclusively far out. side. socitity, There are many little rules of etiquette that are fronted es- penielly for our inlernour50 with stran- gers and mere arquaintanetls, nitdmay rormequeetly be relaxed even load aside a11:og8thrr in the emnily circle anll among friends. If this were not the case, life would indeed be Stiff, fermi and n0relnOni011s.