The Brussels Post, 1891-6-12, Page 7ruNE 12, 1891.
SUNDAY READING.
flEZEKIAlf, MD GOOD KING,
THE BRUSSELS POST.
Br 14Y11e1N A1111071!.
" NOW It IR hi mine heart to lnake a eovenant
refill the Lord (bit Or 181`11.0i, that. ilk 1101.00
W8Stil 11101' turn away 'Tam ea"- xxlx„ le.
Hozelcuth, the thirteenth king of Judith,
the son of Alum, anon:led the throue
at the age of twenty.live, and reigned
twenty -Ilion yeasso, 11, e. 720 NS.
Among all the kings of Judah Hezek ok
;den)111 promminent, end Ids reignle the mit
ininating point of interest ln their history.
" There was after him none like him among
the kings or ,1 ittlah, nor ant, that wee before.'
Immediately upon his emeession lie began an
extensive and thorough reforntrainm Hie
first act was to puege, repay, and reopen
with splendid toucrinues the Temple), which
had been despoiled and neglected 11 toing the
idolatrous reign of his father. He 111 testy
destroyed all the instruments of image wor-
ship, not excepting even that moved relic
the brasen serpent of the wilderness, which
had been abused to purp000s of superstition.
His was the first suocessfra natmomt to col-
lect the moored books of his country. By
his orders a large part of the Proverbs of
,Solomon, and, aucording to J awish traditiem,
the prophecies of :heath, the Books of
Ecclesiastes, end the Canticles were written
out and preset viol. He revived the observ,
atm of the Passover, of which Ito celebration
had been recorded since the time of Joshua ;
and it was commemorated by two -frocks of
rejoieing. He broke oir the servitude to the
f Assyrian power, and raised the standard of
independence:. And though this brought
1 upon his kingdom an invasion, the intorposi,
tam; of the Lord drove MI' the sanders, and
gave the omanoipated kingdom pollee.
THOM 7118 1,011 THIC CLASS,
The reformation wrotight under Hozokith
affords a true pattern of what all mamma.
tion ought to be, whether national or Inas.
stood. In studying it the 000(10)11 )1061 take
into consideration at least tho whole of the
twenty-ninth chapter,
1. The king first undertook, as far as in
him lay, to reform. Ho opened again the
Tetnple and repaired the doors. Ho gathee-
out together the priests and Unites, and
directed them to consecrate themselves and
purify the Temple. He exhorted them to
repentance by reciting before them the sins
of the nation ; and acting on his directions
they elreied out all the uncleanness of the
Temple, and made thorough work of the
cleansing. It was to great imi 'enrol and
sacred ;tot of hottfmeledniug. Tois eleam
sing preceded all religions cerenmnies.
The first thing for the :sinner to do is to
dep at from evils The prodigal most turn
lois back on both the harlots and the swine.
Paul nfust cease to prosecute the Church.
Peter must torn with tette grief from his
denials, and his swearina, and 0111.8i11,9' to
the Lord whom he has denial. 7,2ochens
must cease to be au oppressor of lois brethren,
and promise to restore fourfold all that ho
has actittived by injustiee and wrong, before
the Lord deeloves that salvation 1111.9 007117) to
his hntise. Repentance preemies faith.
Abandonment of sin is 10 first step in holi-
ness. Tears, visions, prayers, eeitosies are
11 010111 without it. Soo John the 11 iptiat's
preaching to tile crowd who tosked him,
What shall we do to be saved. ? (Luke, ch.
O i,t No man can rest on the direction of
Paul to the jailer, " Believe on the Lord
1e0119 Christ," while he is continuiity, in
11110101'lI 111),
2. Next came the great aot of atonement.
Seven bullocks, SeVel1 1147118, seven lambs,
seven hogotas were brought for sin.offorings.
So " they made reconciliation with their
blood upon the altar to make an atonement
for all Israel." Repentance is not enough.
It, is uot enough to cease to do evil. The
soul calls out for some satisfaction for the
sins that are past. If not, what means the
system of sacrifices so elaborately devised In
the Old Testament? If not, what means the
long and elaborate system of sacrifices that
has characterized every people from the
beginning of history to the present day? If
not, what means the self-torttire of the Inn-
dus, what the bemoan saarifiees ot the ancient
Druids, what the penances of the Middle
.Ages? These aro the offerings 01 conscious
guilt to tho conscience, which calls out
against tho soul for some satisfaction, some
penalty. Philoaophy may kook down in
the attempt to explain the necessity for an
atonement, bet the feet thtols the universal
soul 01 1)1101) calls out 10) 101 atonement, a call
111101 10 satisfied only by the life and death of
Christ, is as certain es any fact in history.
The students of heathen life and the echoes
of heathen literature testify to the universal
sense of need of an atonement as well as the
Scripthres. The repentant must 00)110 10 the
sin -offering that has been made for him 11 110
would consummate his reconciliation and
find peaoo with his own conscience and with
kis God.
3. Then followed the service of praise,
" Lovites in the house of the Lord ovith cym-
bals, with psalteries, wit11 harps, according
to the commandment of David ; and the
smog of the Lord began with the trumpets
and the instruments ordained by David the
king. And all the congregation worshiped,
and the singore sang, and the trumpeters
sounded." What joy and thanksgiving fol-
lows tho reconciliation of the repentant
soul with Itself and its God I Then comes
tho music and dancing, and the fatted onlf
and the ring and the best robe. This is the
prophecy of that now song which thereoleetn-
ed are finally to singwhen they meet around
the throne. Alas 1 how often our religion
stops With the Ilth verso, just whore the
appointed Sundaysahool lesson unfortunate-
ly stops, atmere repentance andattomptedre-
formation, without trust in the sacrifice
that has bean made for sin, and the atone-
ment that there is in that saarifiee. How
often, too, the religious expevionce, going
one stop furthee, stops with that atonement,
with the arose of Christ, with verse 24,
without going On to the song of'glory ; to
Om crown that Christ has laid up for those
who accept the 01.088.
4. Finally 001110 the great net of oonseorne
tion. "Now yo have etonsearated your.
solves to the Lord, come near end bring
sacrifloos and thank-ollorings ; and the con.
aearated things wore six hundred oxen, and
three thousand sheep," True consooretion
follows tame praise. 11)01 indeed, part of
the tette praise. First, repentanoo, ceasing
to do evil ; next, faith in an atoning sacri-
fice that has mado reconciliation and has
blotted out the past ; then, thanksgiving to
God for his goodness and moray that haa
opened the way to life• and, finally, con-
socratien to 11101 of all th'ett We Iwo and are,
ho a apirit of love and joy—Ohio ia the
religion of Oho Lord Jesus Chost.
Guy remember N'Orashington and Lineoln ;
when tlooy think of solf•sattritlee and moral
lierolain they remit Peel and 41 110). Otto
of the great :melees whish noble mon and
women render to their kind it, Ilo 9 omostant
tranelation of the 11131010010)111)111110011)10011.
ties into plain human spew's., the coo:dant
turning of 1,11,1019 Into realities, At heart all
melt and womon who IWO 1101, imempt, and
many who are corrupt, yearn after those
hotter tillage and believe in them, but are
paralyzed by 111,1 belief that those things 01 11
beyond their roach. Noblo bleak and put,
poses eldoe over 111001 11 VOS 11110
1.110 810111, anti Deo as inaccessible to
the thneglit of those that look at
them, Now, the way to otake :nen believe
in the possibility of realising these high
things for thentsolvee is to translate 111080
qualities and achievements by ous own lives
into the plainest, and most, fainillai, speech.
The woman in the household whose sacrifice
and Bevy lee 010 0011till 110118, :molter oif later
oomos to stand, in the 103111110of all 00110 10)11110'
her, for dome qualities ; uneonsciously she
le forever 102011113 and malting real great
Moulin irstAibilitios, Thu man of the com-
munity whose action k always eharacteriaed
by honesty and 000111 18 at last identified
with integrity, and is, to the whole 1001.
unity, a plain tvanslation, 111 corturion
speech, of one of tile fundamental virtues of
humanity. It ovas said of 000 07 the great-
est English lawyers an11 judges that he Intil
so impressed the minds of his countifyinen
that they lie,d come to 1(1011111y him with
the very figure of Justice 'Melt. This
kind of identification with some great
and noble quality, with some rare and
precious achievement, 18 far more common
than 110 anmetimes think ;10 10 one of the
services wIiklt WO 01111 all render to 00 1' fel.
lows. The early scholars who translated
the old 11 melt classics into the speech of
modern 1111)0110 31110 medero peoples a nOW
resource, enlarged their ideas, and added
immensely to the scope and attractiveness
of thole lives. 'There is nothing to bo more
coveted than this ability to push back the
horizons and to deepen the interest of some
human life, and this is possible to all of us
by the illustration of some great virtue or
quality in ormselvas, Sho who makes semi.
lice real by illestrating it ; he who comes to
stand in the eyes of alt men for integrity—
these are they who tern many to righteous.
nese, and whose names shall shine as the
stars forever and ever,
Making Great Things Plain.
There le a truth of wide applioation in
Ole well.known phrase that ChriatiallS
a1)0 ti10 NVOrld'S 'Bible." Mon and womon do
not, as a rule, canocerio themselves 'With
abstractions; they teed to have general
truths tranalated into concrete langttage,
When thoy think of courage they de not
think of an abstract quality, but, of Nelson
and Drake ; when thoy think of patriotism
Oollegea et the Milted States.
The glowing words of Ste Daniel Wilson,
when referring the ether day to the Super.
ler institution of whieth he has the lionoe
to be proaident, auggeet, but by way of
contrast, a rocunt artiele of the, Now 'S 011
Sun on the medical colleges etf the United
Steams and their etanding 00 the con-
tinent of Europe. Mantling to the So a
only 0 very few of the American echouls
have any el amnia; in Europe, or have their
diplomas rcoognixed. The great majority
aro condemned as lacking in preliminary
edneation requirements, 08 delit110/1t, 111 hos•
pited fasfilit les for ettelonte, as requiring um
short 001(110 for actual preparation, and as
not suflieleutly testing Git, qualification of
the manbefore conferl hig on him the degree
of doctor. Those et ructures tho Seen believne
to be ill 1.110 Main ill8L and attOonnlg the
Io' standing of Amoitteau institutions by
the 01000 With width charter; for such col.
loges are obtaiued and the selfish ambitions
ot physicians. Says that journal :
"It has been possible for env group ef
six or eight practitionere In 0011)' or in a
country town, desirous of obtaining the
titles at profustsors and of acquiring a 00/1 -
suiting practice in the usighborhood, 10 0)"
ganize themselves Min a inetlieta faculty and
to engineer a cherter throngli thu Legisla.
tore empoweriug them to render degrees
with license to Imaetise. The charter is
caoily eetnired, and without any sort 02
of guaraotee that the propesed teachers
possess the rudiments of est education or
have any Hospital connection, or in from any
facilities whatever for giving proper
struotion.
As a sestilt ef this laxness on the port of
legislatures, inetlieal colleges RI the United
Sttttem have multipliet 11111111 they number at
present 131 from which betoveeou four and
hve thottsautl young medicos are anneally
graduated. How move than suflieient this
number le to meet the requirements of the
people, espeoholly seeing that the Americans
are to partieularly heelthy, nation, will. be
seen by a comparison with some of the
nompean countries. Thus while in the
United States there its one institution able
to confer medical degrees te about every
500,000 inhabitants, Ocentauy has one for
every 2,000,000, Groat Britain (me for evers,
3,000,000, AnurmIluncary one for every
5,100,1)00, tool Franco one foe every 0,300,
000. Singel trly enough these schools most
abound not where the population 18 most
donne bet where the expanse of territory is
Olio greatest. Tiles Pennsylvania which is
just twiae tts pmedeus as 11 issouvi luta only
medivalfact, 1; fee while the 1,00 (01) ha.; 10111,
teen. But the area of Vemisylvioda is rough-
ly 45,000 square miles while that of Mi68011r1
is 03,010a So too .11asiachusetts, Connecti-
cut, Vertnon 1, and New Hampshire have to-
gether nboat the 8111110 population as Ohio,
but they have altogether only six inedical
colleges, while Olitto rejoices in fifteen. But
Ohio has nearly 10,000 scplare miles more of
area than theee four States taken together,
But while Americans 0(1)0 1010 jealous of their
country 0 reputation are crying out, and not
without reason, 53211190 0)01 inferinc ehavam
ter of massy of their mediera schools, it is
gratifying to Canadians to know that we
have in the Doininien several medieal col.
logos particularly that of the Queen City
which ere second to none on this continent
and which are regarded with high respect by
tho leading inatitutiona of the old world. it
is to he hoped that at no thne iu the future
will the anthorities l,r hulneed to lower the
stioulart1 but that n orely case the tend -
mow will be to deman1 a more thorough ac-
quaintance with human ills and their 1.01110
-
dies before conferring upon a men the degree
02 (100001',
The Emperor Napoleon's Dog,
It was dark, and down a retired street In
Paris10 man rode Mono 00 horseback. Sud-
denty tho horse stopped as if frightened.
Theo a Man VOSO 11 OM t ha 1110001110010 10 the
middle of thn street, and ,jumped to one side
with 0 cry. The rider Wai mossy, and ex-
claimed " Aro you drunk, nun, that you
lie Minot in the middle of a (lath street to
got yourself von over?"
" You might better lend a, poor fellow to
hand than scold in that Way," exclaime,l the
other. "1 had 800 francs in gold in this
bag, carrying it to pay a bill for tny nutster,
and the bag was broken and 11 10 all lust ovev
the street, If yen have some matches they
will an 010 more good than yom curses."
" lt's 00 easy task to lied lost money on it
night like this" said the rider, dismount.
ing " I loave no matchea, but perhaps I am
help vou. Have you any of the pieces left S"
Only ono," replied the unfortunate
low, with a sob.
" dive It 10 (00,' said the roller.
The poor man Itesi fated, but the stranger
repeated the words in a tone of authority,
fond tho lest tmin was handed to hint,
The stranger whistled and a great Spanish
mastiff stood beside. He held the coln to
the dogfe nose, and, leaning to the rough
pavetnent, said :—" Eine) them."
The dog sniffed Oho gold piece and began
tho search.
One, two, three ; he began bring ng ill the
(mins and dropped them into his master's
hand, while the poor servant stood by silent
in wonder.
Thirteen 0111108 110 returned with a 20-frono
piece. Then, after a long search, he came
beak empty, with a grunt, that seemed to
say, " There are no more."
We are yet lauking 0210 310111," said the
stranger. "Ate you sttre there were just
300 francs? '
"Sure (01 0021 be, sir," the servant replied.
" Then look in the bag again. There must
be ono loft there."
The men looked and sure onongh found
the last weld piece still there.
" Oh, sm," he exclaimed, as the stranger
spreng into his saddle, " you tore my de-
liverer, Tell me your name that my master
may know who has done him suoh a sot.
vice."
"I have done nothing," said the stranger,
" Tell your inestev that tho one who helped
you was a verygood and intelligent dog by
the name of Joie."
It was some years afterward when Franco
seen troubled times, and the royal family
was no more, thnt the master WaS toiling the
incident to a party of Mends one of whom
had been employed in tho palace.
"Joie ! Jews 1" he exclaimed. " There
never VMS but clue dog of that name, and
thore never was a more remarkable and
faithful dog than he. He always CLOCOMpalli-
ed his master when he went ie disguise abont
the atty."
" Who Nvas his master ?" they all asked,
The reply was brief: " The Emperor
IsTapoleon.' ---1\l'outh's Companion.
A Short, Ixoellent Sermon.
Here is a short sermon by a woman,
though not preached from a pulpit, It is
a good one, and is pretty sure to hit you
somewhere, whittevev may bo your ege mut
eirounostanoes : The best thing to give to
your enemy is forgiveness ; 10 010 opponeat,
tolerance ; to n friend, your !least ; to a
child, good example ; to your father, defer-
ence ; to your onetime, ennelnet thet will
make her proud of you ; to yourself, respect ;
to tal mon, charity. '
Mr. Spurgeon is sovere on ministers who
undertake the duties of this most sacred
calling ovithout proper qualifitattions. Ilo
used this Itinguago in one of his leetnres to
his students 1 hoard Otto say reoently
that a certain preacher ltd :10 10000 gifts for
the ministry than en oyster, and in my
own judgment that was a slander on the
oyster, for that worthy bivelve shows great
diseretion in his openings and knows when
to oloso."
Rotel on the Monkey,
Ono of the professors of tho University
Texas Was engaged in explaining the Dor.
wittiest theory 16 his class, when be observed
that they 10010 not payingpropoo attention,
" Gentlemen," mid the professor, " when I
am endeavoriug to explain 00 7011 the peett•
liarilties of the monkey I wish you would
look right at mo,"---Texaa Silting&
Trials of the InexperiettOed-
Unsophistioatocl Parent, —Rollo there,
nurse, what's the baby yelling that way for
I oan't reed at all,
Nurse--Ile'e witting his Looth, sir.
LI. 800 that he docoo't do 1010113'
more, 011 yeti lose your place),
LATE BRITISH NEWS.
Suspicious Death or a Boy,
it REMARKABLE RESCIIE,
Seised With Maince.
An old apple woman known us " May"
has inc. abet in London at the age Of 1(1.1,
8)11) kaPt a little atesia Dear Saila dallleti
Ilan, where she Mimi sold (fends. to Lord
Nelson and apples to Pitt met Fox.
A farm :servant 11001111 1441, residing at
Paxton, watt killed by Ins home while re-
moving furniture or. Tuesdav.
Noarly ono million enumerators were PM.
ployed 01 taking the Indian census. It has
well been said that this sim pie feet brings; 1
Immo to the imaginesion the emit populatien, •
of ilindosten even more divot:ay than the '
estimated totals.
At Weidoele M Frederick Rigby,
twen 07. 11110', was roman:led on 11 charge of
attempting to mutsles hbo mother. The
latter, seeing prisoner with a gun, locked
herself in her roma. After threatening to
burst open the door, aceused tired through
tile door, the ball grnzing lois mother'e
TIos consul returns for Wales show that
the population in the large teams and con.
tees of industry have increased during the
last ten years an average of 3010 100 per
amt.while there k 1000110110 theorem° 111 the
rued population, °spatially in the northern
parts of the Principality. Tho age of seven
centenarians are recorded.
An English head servant gave notice that
he would leave, for being 01001(111011 1202)1
the dining room ditrieg the family repast
and thus losing the dinner's stories,
A flow sowing onaehine by a Jones, of
Cardiff has no shuttle 01 1701)hill. The
thread is aupplied direetly from 01,', ordinary
spoofs, and 80108 through tlou aisistanee. of n.
rotary looper. It fe vastly more simple than
any other sewing machine.
At Knutsford recently a man entered a
beer lionse and ordered a gallon of beer.
Being unable to pay for his refreshment,
his boots were seized by the indignant land-
lady an,1 pawned to meet the cost of the
beer. For this tho landladsf was proceeded
against by the police, but the case broke
down on the discovery being made that the
Act under 1).111411 the profecution was instie
tuted did not apply to boor houses.
A correspondent asks :—Is it the feet
that where " 1dg bags" of tigers hat e been
obtained ht India the ntlintals have pr00i0119-
1y been heavily fed alla drugged': I have
110,1 good aothority, 1/1111 OM story is OM,
rent. in Lento, that 011 001100 occasions the
tigers in 3,e10101 wore found so lazy or
sleepy that it became neeessaty for the
beaters to kith or spear thom out in front
af the guns.
A men named Stevie, who was arrested
0101 Saaurday night by the Letterkenny
pollee, county 1 hmogal, ims been identified
as a poieson ;stinted on a charge of killing his
father 10 years ego. It seem, that the man
had never left the country, but latterly, be,
Hoeing that all the police orate know him
Ilea left the locality, he grew bolder and re-
vealed his identity. He is under remand.
Aleut a quarter to eleven om Monday
1 morning an accident occurred at the North
1 British engine sheds, Carlisle, which result.
ed in the death of Mr. Adam Adamson, the
foreman fitter. Mr. Adamson was at his
worlo as usual, when Ito was caught between
the buffers of two engines and killed instant-
ly. Mr. Adamson, who was about GO years
of age, had been in the company's service
all Ins life, and was highly respected.
Itafas Indian troopship Euphrates ar-
rived at Portsmouth on Wednesday from
Bombay with timomxpiredmen and invalids,
under the command of Major Smith, R.A.
The Euphrates reports Hutt about ten days
ago, between Port Said and Ismailia, she was
run into by a vessel, whieh is repotted to
have suffered damage to her side gear by the
oollision. The arrival ,of the Euphrates
closes tho Indian trooping season ot 1800.
01.
An inquest was held ta St. Pancras, Lon-
don, on Tuesday, on Charles Courtman,
aged 15, an errand boy, whose body was
found in Regent's Cauca. It was stated
that deceased:load recently indulged in bet-
ting, and after winning a sovereign on tho
Two Thousand (Minces was missed. When
tho body was found only a penny and a key
were found on it, and it was euggested that
he had been robbed and thrown into the
:anal. It was stated that a man outside
Camden Town Railway Station did a rogue
lar betting business with boys. The In-
quest was adjourned for the police to make
inlet;
Va.inful incident occurred on Monday
afternoon ho High Street, Rotherham, near
Sheffield. Dr, Kenny, a well-kuown medis
cal practitioner of FrootooL was in the
coffeemoom of the Crown Hotel, when ho
suddenly opened the window and jumped
into the steads, a distauce of 20 feet. Kenny
has been overworked with the influenza
epidemic, and has suffered from the corn -
plaint himself. Eletiny, who WWI not injur-
ed by the fall, was recaptured by his friends,
and, after medical examioation, convoyed
to an asylum.
age, having the appearance of a clerk ilas
,tialeil 010 111,, 1000)111500 of lieonsed vietsoillere
and fetid to the permit in charge of the
lionise thal the mauager of the Wm to whom
Otto house belonged wanted the party te go
and see Mai. The keeper of the public.
houfee naturally went as requested. During
hia abeenee the follow retuned, said that
the cosh sent to the head olliee 108 6,1
50( 1(013, mut that he had been WILL for the
all101111t. 111 $01110 04800 0118 Inn :succeeded,
tool on Tuesday morning, when the swindler
called at a, 11011,01 11 tho neighbourhood of
Edge 11111 he repeated the story to the hotly
in (Marge, and managed again ba hie cluvor
triek to obtain the 1110 fitl.
A fatal stabbing I,1S0 1001 311010 at Sou th
Shichle ent Moseley, night, A 10011 named
Dixon, a inonlder by trade, had been living
ut,1110,1,114tYlic'''Ontlagl'iVs.:;:tnnaoU (ef(011'111)s1(0,4:1117:InetfIrlerlUedillitiUtgio°,1
It till! :it ITV( in FAS( 1 I Minim, The young
voman :suddenly ilreW a IC Hire anti stubbed
Axon in the loft breast. An 'Mann Wadi
1110 the polio, alliVe,1 011 f100 00e110.
Dimas
0110t1 100 MI III n dangers:its condition,
and woo rem,,ved to tile 11(110011013' in a eab,
wheu, ho shortly afterward,: expired front
ilawountl.
The ooftstguarils at licaelly Rem', East.
bourne, loave elected another renatricable
rosette. A person ofuncil.Lts. Wilson bevaine
helpless mobil the rocks at a dizzy height on
the Channel side of the promontory, While
(frying fey assiitance lie felt portions of the
cliff on width he re,ted giving way through
tus :eight, and he had only just tittle to
eluteli to rope lowered to him from the top ,
of the Head by the coastguards. Wien
pulled up to the top the man was in a very
exhausted state.
A Newtowntuele, County Down, correa- I
poedent telegraphed. on Wednesday that the ;
moat magasine 00 Donagloadee, 111 Otat
county, had been blown up with dynantif.O.
A stranger, with a pronounced Amerlean
extent. heel been seen in the meinity, but no
arrest has been made, A Belfast corms -non- I
dent adds —The report, it, is said, shook 1
the entire town, windows and doors at 41I
considerable distance being affected by the
coneussion. itis said that the police lia,vo
di:mover:A to fuse tit tloo magasine. They
Ivo nOW searehing for the perpetrator of the
crime.
l'he steamer Sel way Queen, 01
haven, in water ballast, from Plymouth to
Newport, was yesterday wrecked on a part
of die north Cornislo coast which has of late
years proved disaatrous 00 11101)7 lino vessels.
rho Solway Queen (Caption, John Pee) was
proceeding under easy steam, about half.
past nine yesterday, when owing to a heavy
fog obscuring the land she crashed on
the rocke et Smithery Mouth, seven
notes from Bodo. The crest', nine in num.
bee, took to their boats. and managed to
effect a lauding, when they were hospitably
o °caved at the neighbonriug farmera. Tho
vessel 1 10$ ill a dangerous position, and is
badly damaged.
A rano of shocking exuelty was investigated
by the stipendiary magistrate, al is Neville,
at Wolverhampton. ol (wept, Bosworth, coal
dealer, 01008 charged by an inspwtor of the
Royal Society he, the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animate for working a bore° in an unfit
state. The inspector saw the horse draw-
ing (0 hoary load, and evidently in groat
pain ; and on examination ho found to large
open wooed. on its back, but hidden by a
piece of skin, which bad been cut from a
dead horse and ingeniously fastened ovith
some adhesive substance to the surface of
the woend. The stipendiary sentenced tho
acamsed to six uveeks' hard labour.
Behring Sea.
In his letter to Lord Salisintry, which
was published last week, alr, Blaine finds
I1051, ground upon which to rest his claim
that the United States has tho right to
prohibit seta -fishing in the Behring Soo
beyond the threemule limit. It is found
in an Act of Paelitunent passed last year
prohibiting certain methods of fishing in a
bay 2,700 square miles in area on the
northeast coast of Sootlaud. Though 10 10
probable that none but Scotch fishermen
ever fish in Bois bay (which is about the
size of the Chesapeake), Mr. Blaine con-
tends that by the wording of this Great
Britain assumes oontrol over tho fishing
operations conducted by the subjects of
other nations as well as those of Great
Britain. It is hardly likely that Lord Sal-
isbury will admit this. The differenee be-
tween the case of the Scotch bay and that
of the Tiehring Sea is 0100 111 the former none
but British subjeets are affected by the
legislation, so that national law suffices ;
while in the latter the subjects of both the
United States and Great Britain aro affect.
ad, and therefore international 11001 alone
cast suffice. We fear that Mr. Blaine in
shifting the ground upon which he stands
lies only shown that he stands upon shifting
grounds.
We are glad to see, however, that he
readily aceepts Lord Salisbury'a demand
Moat the question what damages are duo to
Canadian senders shall be added to those
'which are to come before tho Arbitration
Commission ;and he makes the reasonable
cannier -demand, that the question what
damages etre duo to the United States for
seals taken by the Canadian sealers shall
also be considered. Ile concludes kis letter
with a =mind statement of the position of
the Atlmistrations in the Behring contro-
versy. It oontends, he says, that Ruseia
formerly exercised and the United States
now possesses a property eight in the seals
which are broil on Alaslimi territory, To
what extent Russia claimed this right is a,
matter of doubt, foe it does not appear that
seal -catching upon the high seas was profit.
able enough to be attempted during the early
years of this century, so that the question
never came up for international discussion.
Whether any nation 0,01 possoss a property
right in wild animals which have passed bo
rood its tervitortes is too largo a topic to
take top hope, but 1111 oortainly contrary to
precedent, if not to reason, The claim tha
a seal horn on American territot y remain
American property no matter whore i
migrates boars to, aoriewhat stivikieg resem
blame° to tho old English claim that a, sea
man born on English territory remains al
100078 ft:British 510113007 110 matter whore h
emigrates, 'When Croat Britain attomptec
to enforce Oho latter claim by the seism'
and search of American vessels, war was th
result.
'The American Medical Assomation, which
mob in Witshington roceatly, disonssed the
merits of Professor Kocli's lymph, and
though in their judgments as to treat:moot
Ole doctors appear to have " differed" apoil
this, 110 they are reputed to do apoti olthei•
mediae,' questions, yet thogeneral conolusion
reached was that the now cure had an tin
cloubtod value. The Prussian Diet, it ma
ho added, has made au appropriation for th
founding of a Koch Inatitutti on the groun
that the discovery is of the highositscientill
importance. Tho oonsonsus of medical opitt
ion seems to be that while thenew troatmon
has (100700 folfilled porluipe that 1Va4 a
first olahnoil for it, it has opened up a tiolc
of research itt whioh patient 11010004310010may make further mid importaintdiscoveries
A destructive fire occurred at Cookstown,
County Tyrone, early on Mondaymorning,
Ole principal grocery and provision estab.
figment in that town being burned to the
groutid. The inmates, a women and three
children, were rescued chiefly through the
heroic exertions of a young lady visitor
named Dinsmore, who three times in sue-
oession went into the burning building, and
. brought. the Mile ones out safely.
On Saturday last, in the presence of an
immense crowd of porsous, the Mayor of
t Salford unveiled e monument that lots 1100n
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eroded by public subscription over the grow
of the lato 001t• Mark .Addy, the " Salford
hoto," at the Salford. Cemetery, Addy, it
will he remembered, during tt, life spent on
tho banks of the Irwoll, saved about fifty
persons from drowning 111 that foul 81001101.
After paying for the monument, a sum of
111 00 18 10 los N11111001 ovor to Ole Salford
Corporation to be invested for the provision
annually of " Mark Addy Swumning
Prizes."
At Nantwielt, George Franklin Ward, of
Hildnell, Shrewsbury, was charged with tor -
taring horses. The Prevention of Cruolty
to Animals Sooiety prosecuted. It was
stated that the defendant put 45 colts
in a field of 24 looms in whith there was
ocarcoly any 'pasture. The oolts were in the
field during tho recent severe weather. Two
of them died, aod 0110 WAS 'found in suet an
emaciated oondition that it bad to be
moved in belts under the advice of a. voted -
nary surgeon and fed on milk and eggs,
Defendant was fined 715 and coats.
t. Within the laat foot days a clever swindle
1 has been perpetrated upon some licensed
n victuallers in Liverpool, and attempted
. upon others, A. man about thirty years of
TIOELED ALMOST TO DDATZ,
a ram:ter o 0 skeleton,
it despatelifrointWrightstown, Pa., says:—
josepli lhirhlinger, a farmer living near tido
plasm, is laughing himself to death over the
New Hope ex tension of the ReadingRallroad
whiell 111 IIR by Itie hum. Three months ago
be weighed 170 pounds. The first troths
passed. We farm on the let ef Meech. D11/41.
linger 11841 laughed so mtteh since then that
he now weighs 1 1 0 pounds. The doctors are
pusaled apd 1 ntridinger's friends are await-
ing the result with mingled feelings of alarm.
and eurioRity.
On the 1st of March, 1500, tile Now HoPa
extension of the Reading Railroad was com-
menced, This von direetly past Duridinger's
farm, with a station about liana mile away.
His farm inereaeed in value at 01100 and
Durlainger began to grin. All of 1110 talk
was of thc improved value whieh the exten-
sion would give his land and how his poster
-
1 ts, would benefit thereby. Then he began.
negleet Irk work aud took to watching
the railroad men at theirs, Ho was so tick-
lod that Ile took several of the railroad men
to board at atm est, othing per week and did
nothing but laugh end talk about tho im-
provement witla them all clay. By degrees
his mirth became more hilarious.
VtillIWNI,LI, HILARITY.
When the extension was finished and the
first traiu ran by Durldinger's farm ho sud-
denly became convulsed with laughter.
From Ode time he did foothills but Hit ou
his porch and wait for the trains to go by.
His keen ears detected the " music " of the
whistle at a distance, and this was so de-
liciously refreshing to him lie would hoist.'
out into uncontrollable laughter. After
the train bee passed he inspects the track,
laughing quietly to himself, returns to his
house, chuckline, to aweit the coming 'of
Ole nest He knows the time table by
heart, and eau tell to a minute wlten a train
should be due.
Ho allowed everythieg to go to pieces on
the farm awl the watching for and laugh-
ing at the trains became ins one absorbing
passion. Ile began to lose flesh, and is
gradually becoming a, skeleton. A few
(lays ago he walked 111 miles to testily for
the railroad company in a case of trespass
on the track,
Only a Dog,
Wo wore all crying, every one 01100, Fath-
er declared it was smoke that had got in I o
his oyes and made them smart ; bet mother
threw hor apron (wee her head and sat
rooking and sobbing for ton minutes. Melte
and I just threw ourselves deletion the floor
by poor Leo, and I took his dear old shaggy
head in my lap and the bot tears dropped
one by ono ; and limbo potted his poor old
stiff ears and smoothed out his thin gray
hairs ; and then we took off the old brass
collar that was marked all over with heir°.
glyphies that we had scratched with pins in
the proud days when he first wore it ; then
wo cried again, and just then in walked
Squire Toots, and he didn't seem to know
wuott to do when ho saw usall so distressed;
ho looked at us and at Leo; Olen he took
out his handkerchief and glivolt is nose a real
Sun:lapse:hoot blowing, and said laud of
huskily :—
" Well, it's wicked to feel shad. Any-
body would suppose it was pusson : 'taint
only a dog ! "
That just made us all fool worse ! There
wasn't any heaven for him to go to, 111111. 010
knew we oever worild see him again, end WO
couldn't renumber any life without Leo, wo
were moth little tots when he came to us,
and he had been one of the 101811,3' all the
time. Father used to lecture him just as ho
did us children 1 " Where did I sec you
to -day, alt? » ho would say ; "o'er at Mr.
Mason's associating with that dog that
steals ? Shame 1" And then Leo would
whinc, and pretty soon father would say,
" Go to betl, sir " and be would 51101410 Off
to his box in the book shed and lie awake
annight to protect us while we slept, and
he never once in fourteen you% was forgot -
f 111 of his trust—and he mots " only a dog."
Only (1 dog 1 Why, was there over tt, time
that wo went racing homo from sehool that
Leo hadn't met us half way, to ram with
us and do all sorts of funny tricks ab our
bidding? And how prond we had always
boon of him, with his handsome, stately
presence and superior manners, and how
safe we 1010 (0 hear his deep -chested hark as
we wont to sloop 1
Well, death had found him, sure enough,
and eve buried him out hi the grove, in o,
little hollow where he loved to lie on hot
501:101101) days, and there will be 110 resume.
tion for him, though them will he for the
vilest thief ho kept front our doors ; but
none the less, in looking over lois hoilest,
blameless lifo, in which he woo never faith-
less Le any, even the smallest, trust, I dare
apply to him the Master's limed of praise 1
1,1m11 done, good awl faithful set vant,"
though as Squive Toots said, " he me only
Giving Animal Food to Infants,
There is no groator error in the manage
mold, of children than that of giving them
animal diet vory early. To fedi mi infant,
with solid animal food before it has tooth
proper for masticating, shows a total dime.
gard of the plain indion,tions of Nature in
withholding tooth suited to this purpose un•
tit the age at whith tho system requires
zolid food. Before that time, intik, farina -
oaths food, and animal broths, afford the
kind of sustenance which is at onoo bast
euited to the digestive organs and to the
mitrition of the systom The method of
mincing and pounding meat as substitute
for mastication may do very well for the
toothless octogenarian whose stomach heti
boon habituated to concentrated nutriment,
but the digestive organs of a obna are not
adapted to the due preparation of snob food,
and will be disordered 'by it,
Unhornea Cattle.
Every ono is familiar with the animal
which, in the cnnutry districts of America,
is called the " tnuley cow, or, as it is some -
1117111:4 01101101, the '01007 cow." She is an.
animal without horns, Generally she has not
lost them, but has never had them She hos
the reputation of being a very good ninth
cow, but particularly ill-natured.
Though at least one " muley cow" may be
found in most large herds, ho a great part of
the counts y, and though polled cattle, as
hornless cattle are also called, are sometimes,
exhibited at fairs, it Imo never, probably,
ea:erred to any oue until lately that a race
of hornless eattle ought to be bred or deve-
loped un account of a greater economy in
raising and nourishing them.
Such a notion, however, has been broaoh-
ed by an American cattlematiser. Ho main-
tains that, in teasing 7000 110108(1 cattle, and
for that matter, in keeping grown-up cattle, to'
coneiderable share of the nutriment given
them goes to their horns.
The same gentleman argues that the horns
of domestic cattle are a relic of barbarism—
a servival of a means of defence associated
with a wild life, and are now 11Dt only no
longer needed, but positively mischievous.
The horned bullies et a herd get more and
tliotvrthker ones less than their share of the
fo
How aro the horns to begot rid of? Regu-
larly cutting off the horns of young emetic
will not prevent subsequent generations of
young cattle from developing horns as they
grow to maturity, (553 0101)5 than the shaving
of men's beards for many generations makes
-
men beardless.
There is 0 way, however, in which it
could be done. A certain proportion of
mottle turn out to be hornless. If only such
cattle were used to breed from, undoubtedly
a great proportion of their offspring would.
be hornless, and in the course of dine a race
of unhorsed cattle would be produced—
among which, however, indivicluals with
horns wouhl probably be even more common '
than hornless cattle tore now.
Domesticatiou has undoubtedly reduced
Ob e size of cattle's horn considerably.
Under domestication, the horns are unieh
less useel, and consequently are inferior ;
1000 11103' aro not got rid of altogether except
in rare oases, and then seemingly only by a
freak of uature.
The man who believes in ghosts may be a
better citizen than tile one who does not
believe in his fellow-oreatures.
"mv.(11auders," said that gentleman's wife,
rather sevotely, "I want yon to give that
typewrder of yours the sack." " You are'
to little behind the age my dear; I gave her
so sealskin two months ago." " What "0
—or—that—is—yes Pll discharge her to-
morrow."
Statistics relating to publia debts Imre
lately boon compiled at NVashington. The
United States federal debt is 5015,962,112;
Ole State debts amount to S224,107,883, and,
the counties owe 5141 ,050,840. The counties'
debt has grown 517,800,000 in ton years. but
tloo State indebtedness has decreased—by
tho convenient process of repudieting the
payment of it,
Lord Wolsoley says that the students of
ministry science in Europe do not pay much
attention to the battlea of the Atnerioan civil
war, because, "battles conducted by such
men iu command of undisciplined, hastily -
raised soldiers do not oonvey many useful.
lessons to the military. student of nations
with great regular artmes, highly trained in
the scionee and art of war." Nine out of
every ten Americans feel a little angry when
they road that rather lofty statement, yot
the Englishman probably stated an actual
facksme Bleclical authorities now
say that, sleeping with tho mouth open is a
(1)0,1120110 00)000 of deafness, When this subs
jam of openiog the mouth is more thorough-
ly understood. 'twill be seen that 11 is re-
sponsible for the larger share of human ills.
It might have boon thought that au ope11
mouth at night would be loss harmful than
at any other time, but oven then 10 10 not
innonotts. Keeping the mouth open too
much destroys the tooth, and by breathing
through the mouth instead of the nostrils,
diseases of the throat and lunge MO sure to
follow.
Five, years ago the Poor.Law Guardians
of IiiicIderstield, England, gave relief to one
Matthew Messenger amounting altogotherto
fifty rounds. Since his death his daughter'
who is 0 oherwomen, going out to work by
the day, and earning on tho average eight
shillings a wool ,c has denied hereolf 151 e0e13r
way with the objeet of repaying this mouey,
although under no obligation to do so, and
being also dosirouit to uphold the good namo
of tho family. 14. tow weeks ago she repaid
the •whole amount', which took ovoi7 ponny
of her savings, Tito Guardians wuthocl to
rerun her money, but, they could not pot.
sttado boor to take any of it back.