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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-5-13, Page 3111.kY 13, 7.802 TSE BRUSSELS POST.. 3 amoawMOIS wmancreeµ eMSZSVtvu+ PETEN I1ORf CE'S SPECULATION, Ib had bowl for months it mooted quaidien in the little village of t;louilnle who would fall heir to Aunt Martha Alarvelo'e Ir1411Q when Sino died Thole were her two ttieeea, the neerooL of kin, in the tirat placo, One, Miss Bertha 11(101(10, tat mutable young lady, who was immensely proper toil respectable, and hail been very dutiful in her attemllulec upon her invalid aunt. The other, 0 {vee hit of a maiden, with sunny eye', and short (lancing v and her ) „forU 05 I 1 curls, who hutghtsehc r iher u mother's support., and did not seen, to mind it at all, ahs was always so bright and will• some. She hail done nothing in perLioular• for her Sent uxeept to matte OUI1dI i00 10 the prim old 10011143 11)' n0eltalellel visits, and in a saucy, inveigling Oil'b of way to get her- self very nucll liked by the eccentric old la(ly; It watt very hard to see upon what grounds Miss Dot May Mune Lased her ex- peetaLion, so the neighbours Raid, Then there was the church 111 which she had been a Info lolly member, with its many charities, tnis8ion0, and relief wot•Ics, The trustees fully expected to be remembered by Miss Marvale ; but many of the neigh- bours know too llinali of her "closeness" and pride of flintily, and 0w1.0 euro she wnnld SOL give her money to ellariLablo iu- stituti0110. Still, 1.110 weight of opinion went in favour 0l either Alias bertha Mar. vale or the ohurcit. And now the good, queer Miss Mlartha Marvel° was dead, and buried with deo solemnity and proper gloom, Hoon it would be known who was the fortunate p080380ot' of her fabulous wealth -for "fabulous" it had become, under the busy tongues of in. tereatod friends mud aogttaintanees. 1,> be sure, she had never made a display of riches and no one in Glendale 111111 ever Been her money except in quite meagre slims, But she was known to hawo been quite miserly in her habits, aid no doubt had large amou"la atown(1 away in odd COMM. Tho lawyer sat ab the head of the ronin rattling the impoetanbdocument ominously. Aims Dlarvale ant in a high hacked chair, looking pale, melancholy, and severe in her now and fashionable nu:timing dress, Mr. Peter Horace, a gentleman who never in hie life had evinced a liking for anything but moody until he ,net Miss Alarvale, sat attentively near. 1)ot \Iayburne in doleful black, reclined in the uncompromising recesses of the Lig 8t111'011100111, with at sadmeoe ill her pretty face that appealed to every tendo' heart ill her presence. Willard 1iayes, a young and penniless physie'm, and her most :1evoLed admirer, snpperted her, figuratively spook- ing, of course, on her left. 'Phe dcacens of tine (Lurch eat in deeoretle :filmier, and one or two "oldest inhabitants" occupied the spare corners of the room, The reading be. gall. After the 1190111 preliminaries it was found that all of Martha y larvale'A real estate, I mouey8, and personal properly were left uuoouditonally to her b,lavel Mena Dora.; thea IIaybnurm•, except !ng a fe.1v 1 Io0eifi-i cant legacies to and friends. To Bernet \lurval0, in consideration of effete! Monate attention, sho willed lien favourite foot -stool. Its many dear nem:Miations, the fact that she had seen it for years•, the support of her aunt's wearied 1 feet, would indear it to her, and, as sho often expressed a pious contempt for eat mill wealth, she would prize it above ell earthly dross. The whole fortune was nota munifleent ono, after all, and even Dot was not 0 rich woman. And she could only open for blue eyes in wonder while Willard Hayes 0miled brightly upon her and whispered his (3011. granulations. Miss MIa'vale's face was buried in her black -edged httndkerchhof and no ono could toll how she was affected Mr. Homo 's face was a picture of blank ,lienay, Tho deacons looked glum, and said not a word. Everybody seemed inclined to get out of tho way with as little ceremony ns possible, and soon the cou0iue were left alone. "I hope, Cousin Bertha, yon will always Hake this house your home," Dot began timidly, "You know this is as great a our - prise to me as to you, and, while I an glad of a home and comforts for mamma, I do not want you to be poor or homeless. Can't wo all live together?" "No, we c1411 t all lite together, snap- ped Bertha, oohing 0111 from behind her pocket haudkerohief. " You are n little 011- dcrhond cheat, and I wouldn't accept charity from you if I were starving 1 And it is not necessary, as I am engaged, and Mr. Horace is amply able to see that 1 do not come to want,' Dot retired, overcome by the stupendous intelligence, as Miss Marvalo intended she should be, r nite at variance with hie former moody demeanor, "1 will play the disinfer'eote(t lover'," he Bald; "1 wilt swear to be true, come weal or 001110 woo, and Glue gain bite approbe• tion of the entire colmnunihy. "I'll marry the pool', di0iuh0ritod 1350th,4 Marvalo, and at the very lirot dawning of 1na1riuunllal infelieity I'll Intik that beastly foot- stool vielou1sly across rho floor, Then 5vo)1't 1 bo astonialied to see the papers and gold roll out? W'on't I clasp my tearful 0010. (atlu0n 111111y arms, magnauilnously forgive titer, and calmly take pIossea0ion of her for. Luno? Whet it 11101>)' ilon of urine that was P" Aliso Anomie was deeply gratified of be- i11g insured of hos lover's devotion and distr. toren eib 4301( and her 'Its and dignity C i 1'r I P k Y rase in proportion, Indeed, she carried herself in the presence of her unpretending cousin az though she were the 1181t'e014 and Dot the insigniticantposseesor of footstool. She chained the right to remain in the house which had been her home ao long tilt she shonlel be married from it, and, 0.0 far (e uppearauces went, might its well have. boon the mhotress of lvlarva[o Mansion. Dir Horace routed a pretentious house, and furnished it completely, referring with beautiful deference to Lia botroLhod'e taste in everything. " Be Bare and bring your footstool," the said playfully, " and WO will dedicate a whole corner to it, I would not keen house without it for the world," And Miss Mai, vale thought this very delicate in him, as it might naturally be supposed tho stool would bo a disagreeable object. They were married, and the wedding was the " event of rho 00139011," Dot was not invited, but she was busily engaged ((lae- w1or0, and did not mind the neglect, and when Bertha left the old house to enter her brand new home, Dot and her happy 11n0 - hand, Willard Hayes, moved in. For it few weeks everything went on 0m001hly. Mrs. 13orace carried herself with it great deal of dignity, as botanic the newly -married wife of a well-to-do money lender and the mistress of a handsome new residence. Indeed, the fashionable people of the place paid her more attention than they did the real heiress, who n as so that little like a wealthy matron at tho fact was ablest forgotten. Mr. Horace bore his happiness quiet ly, and contained himself with pa ,nonce. Perhaps he was n little irri- table in the privacy of the domestic circle but he was ouly preparing for the grand neo- ! ment when it would be appropriate to " kick I that beastly sLoololoar iteres5 theroonl." To be, 901'0, he night have suggested to his wife that they examine the stool, and see if it contained anything of value ; but she would pm haps laugh at hos whim, and would not allow it to be spoiled, and when the wealth was found she might suspect him of knowing o,nlething about it and of marrying her for it 1 nod, uta be rather preferred peace to un- neecssery 0gme11blin,e ho wished the discov- ery to Como about accidentally. At last, one evening, he found it standing dircitly in his way. Bertha, looking ap- prehensively at. lherhmsband'sstern °Otllltell- anoe, hastened to remove it, bus he wag too quick for her. A well•applied and forcible kick sent it dancing naross the room, whore it wusslutttered against the marble fireplace, ,111. Horace eagerly sprang to the spot, where Bertha regretfully followed him. He did look at it in amazement, as he had often pictured himself doing, but tho amaze- ment WIL0 very genuine, 1•Ie grasped eaoh piece, and shook it fiercely ; he tole every- thing apart that could bo torn apart with furious haste. Alas, in vain ! At his feet lay a heap of Walken mahogany, torn purple velvet, and dusty horsehair -nothing more --nothing less. c What, do you mean? What did you ex. poet to find?' asked Bertha with trenll.ling lips. ' Your aunt's legacy. roe noon 10010d - trapped -1 won't stand it. What have you 110110 among you with all her money? She couldn't have carried it with her." Peter Horace was ((11341'y enough, as he strode up and down the room, to havedemol- ishod forty ottwoans, end Bertha went into hysterics on the sofa. It was a dreadful blow to her vanity to think that she hod not been "married for heroolf alone," atter all ; they had a terrible scene, but finally a sort of reconeilatiou was patched up. Both were tno respectable to let the world know of their disappointment, and they agreed to keep the fate of her aunt's legocy a secret. Bertha owned that the old lady had given her :.11100 before she died, telling her she sons not as rich as had boon supposed, and that was probably all she would ever receive from her. Still, sho had loped against hope that more would fall to ]ler shore, and had only been reconciled by 101r, liorace's seem- ing disinterestedness. With renewed devotion to business, and a little extra fleecing of customers on Mr. Horaoo'o part, they mltuagod to retain their handsome residence end keep up appear- ances, which was, after all, what Idlsy both oared for most of anything in the world. "I nm sure I congratulate you," she tour. runnel. " And I hope, if ever you noed a friend, yon will not hesitate- " Bother your friendship I" exolaimed the irate lady, rising: "I think we can dis- pense with each other's company, and as I cannot ask you to leave your own house, 1 will take the liberty of retiring myself." That evening the will was discussed over ahnndred toa•tttbles, and many queries, wonderings, and "I told you so's" passed to and fro. What the old lady hail seen to admire in Dot so pinch, what had become of all the wealth she was supposed to have owned, why she had left a paltry old otto- man to Bertha, who had been so faithful, and 00 forth, were all dutifully dismissed, and left as unsatisfactorily disposed of as before. 111 a little meagre private office Clown town Mr. Peter Horace sat, with his head resting dejectedly in his hands, and a gen- eral afr of forlorn despondency in his anti• tulle, He had for forty years loved him. self, his money, and his single -blessedness more than anything else or earth ; if over a woman had stirred the religion under his shirt -front where his heart is supposed to beat, it was pretty, annoy, gay little Dob Mayburn°. And yet he had deliberately engaged himself to marry a plain, prim, elderly maiden who possessed nothing in the world more valuable than et worn -cub footstool What a donkey he had boon ! And hos )nail it coma aboral W hiy was not Bertha Mamie the heiress, as he had c01an14(10,1I upon? Tho old lady's money seemed not entirely amounted for, Dither. Bertha had 1 lived in the house for years, and. ho hail 1 Work and Rest, Wear an Whoo 011liv0311,1 be weary I Not 110 wli Iso to whom aught is given must still have ronobhing 1.,:'33 ,1 ; And man is mad. 1 1 3 (c battle, and the sword is girt 0111)3' 11, 4.111 And the purpose 0. (;.,.110 thwarted if we only linger and .3343. Ay',end woall I v,, neon wounded, some more and outer- 1,•+ And talo sorrow.: „c1' hearts have suffered baso taught us tenderness, Stottor the semi in the morning, and at ovo Any not the hand, Morning and 110011 and 00011, Glove will stillbo upon lanai It may bo but a oup of water, but a gently spoken word, Above the girt to noted, t110 faintest accent heard ; And rho good wo do toanother comes bail: to us over again, As the moisture raised from the ocean returns in tho gontlo rain. .Ger blossing works in a climbs, and rho fastsor that anode goes, As it wheels around the bhrone of (god, over in strength 11rows ; Ault lire is the coinage of heaven to bo :pont in the purolase of love, Till all the realm of the earth bolos, is 1(0 p1110 as the LOA 1111A lth000. Than weary not in 11m struggle ; Ciel ru106h all for the best, Ant at Ian, the wings in tho rilrala shall boar tin 00111 to uta 1.006. Asleep Pour Menthe. Tho longest cataleptic sloop known to mental science line boos attracting attention u Germany, Tho latest report states that the mam-a miner of Silesia -lad been 1111- conseion0 for four and a half months, with to unnatural appearance except absolute rigidity of the limbs, During this time the ettien01( hair las grown, but his board lino I method stationary: Food is given by tube. deemed her a person of good Rouse ; yet site mint have bungled in her lnaagemelt somehow, "Nen ho burrowod deeper hi his out• strotohod'arms, and thought it all over again. 8uddody a brit;)tt inlet 51rtia t hint, r Did not people invariably, in stories and romances, who had (moor old legacies loft then Itnoolt them to pieee0, 5oo110r 01' 111101, by 1(cofdent, or in a lit of ill.tompor, and find tont stulfel full of gold pieoos? This Ives oorta1 fly the snitttfnn of the ec- centric centric gift, and it aloe areom to, for the mlivsing wealth wliie11 everybody seemed so,1 tiro oXbstod s0uleWhere. Tie sprang up y manner You oh111'b learn too much but you can lalf learn too much. At Poland, Man;, on Tuesday, the thl•oe- year•olil son of Mr, John Jordan bad 11tH 1 lead bintvn all.' by his brother, who used a, gun which ho was quite confident was tiob� loaded, m An Answer to Doubters. " The blind 1'0001130 their Hight, and the Jame walls, the lopel'9 141'e cleatlmed, and the, loaf hear, the dead ere raised up, and the poor /MVO the go0pel proaollell to them." 104316, when Illi said that, stood face to face with two of the trona miseries of hu- m amity -misery of nand and misery of body. On the ono hand woe a group of men who had asked a gno0tiona ovoidal quos. tion, " Art Thou He Gait 0h0nid conte ?" they wanted to )snow,'( or do wo loop for auoGtor1" Voll sae how that question ton0he0 the Ifoundatio of (Ili n et el n(ty, Tho supremo fact t;141 dlfbrela0a 010 Christian religion 6 flan al the Otho • 'all'[ 1 f 1 s I I t o ns e l l for i0 b1, 0 lfact of the life and charncte• of donna The 00sontal assertion of Christianity is rho assertion that Jesus of Nazareth is indeed !Ifo that should come, and that we need look fon no 061101'. That gnestlon sot 0 !doubt upon the central article of the Chris- tian creed. These men wore unbelievers. Ono the other hand was a considerable company of people, some of them blind, 901110 of them hone, 00)110 1pp04'fl, soma deaf, some mourning rho 10431, all of ,nem prob- ably, poor. These people represented pale and poverty. We have no greater problems in the world ,to -day than the problem of doubt and the problem of poverty. These two great quos - ,tions, like the enigma of the aphynx, do- ; mind solution. And we must somehow an- swer thein, or pay a fearful penalty. Doubt threatens the Church, poverty threatens the State. Jesus Christ stood face to face with both of the problems, lindens (erect them in the words that I have quoted, The unbelief, in this instance, came from John the Baptist. Those doubters sero messengers of his, and thatroat question was his question, Even the forerunner had fallen from the faith. Much of this unbelief of John's was due, no doubt, to physical conditions. John Wa0 in prison. Ho was shut up in a blank fortress of Herod's over in Moab, on the borders of the Dead Sea. That imppri5onni0n(3 itself, John felt natural. ly enough, meant the rola end of all his work. Those great walls wltioh shut out the sun and the sky, stood straight across the path of the prophet's future. Thus far was he to go, and no farther. Jesus was to increase, and he was to decrease -John had already accepted that. But this meant fail- tlr0. Tt seamed, no (1011111, to John, as it seem- ed in the old days to Plijah, that his life had been in vain. And he wondered, per- haps, if it hair not all been a tragic mistake even from the beginning, Had he, after all, boon the forerunner of tho Messiah ? This man of Nazareth, was Ile really the Holy One of Israel Was He the Christ, or do we look for another? And all tho t depression was deepened by John's bodily weakness. No man resorted to that frowning prison foe his health. Whoever was shut 1(p in one of those clamp "ells lost more than liberty ; he lost health with it, The chamois are that John was siolt. That was the beginning of it. His holly was cut of order, and that set his mind out of order. first disease, then de- pression, and then doubt. Almost every. body knolls how that is. A great d0a1 of unbelief is not the real voice of the man. We are greatly troubled, we are in a morbid and weak condition of body, and we seem to he gutting ovary day farther away from (loll ; the sky gets black over our hoade, prayer beaomos only n formality, and faith seems to bo dying. But the real trouble is that we aro not ourselves. We are like one of those blind people who stood that day by the side of Jesus and could not see His face. He was there, and God's beautiful Might world was there also, but chose men wore blind, Pretty soon they got bettor, and saw clearly. \Vhat are need when we fall into this kind of unbelief is not the parson hat the do otor. It is not theology we need, but medicine. The boot plan is to realize the conditions; to recognize the feat that even the suirit in this life doponds upon the body, a: d that what is really the natter with us le not lack of faith but lack of health, and so to use the right remedies, if one can find then, and to get on1 into the pure air and to regain our atromgth, Wo will find that strength of faith will return with it. Somo of this unbelief of John's may have boon due not so notch to depression as to disappointment. John the Baptist was a man whose life was devoted to one single purpose, His business was to prepare the way for the Ales0ia11. That great ideal hero and deliverer, toward whose coming the hopes of the Hebrew people had been turn. od for oonbnries, hal at last conte. And it was appointed to John to find him and make him known. Naturally, during these years that he had spent solitary in the desert, he had meditated upon the character and work of the Messiah day after day. He had ela- borated his ideal of the Christ. He had made up his mind what sorb of a being He would be. And then, when the real Christ was sot beside this ideal Christ of John's, John may have been disappointed. Somehow Jesus of Nazareth disappointed almost every- body's proconoeived idea. The whole Jew- ish nation was anticipating quite another character of Christ. They were grievously disappointed so euoh so that they rejected Jesus aitogether, But it is quite possible that nobody was more disappointed thou John the Baptist, But our ideals are little more than our. salvos mirrored, and bettered, and magni• Rod. Tho ideal Messiah, a0 John had ins mined him, was a groat emphasized, bet- tered and porfeoted John. John the Bap- tist, to take only one illustration, was pre. omhlontly the teacher of repentance, 'he fact in human life in which he clwvelt was the fearful foot of sin. Ho ruled all men to instant decision for or against God. And to quicken that decision he preached the dreadful penalties of sin, taught the,wratih of rho righteous God, and pictured the agonies of hull. Ii he could have had his way he would have turned the whole world into a great universal revival meeting. And whon Josue chine, speaking quiobly and gently, not malting any great stir in society, preaching the gospel of growth, teaching the leve of God, and emphasizing the father• hoots more than the judgeship of God, 301111 was disappointed. Could it bo possible that 'Testa; of Nazar• olh wits the Messiah for w11000 Deming he had been sunt to prepare the way ? The question turned itself rives and over in his nnllnd thero 111 the solitude of his prison. 1'r Art thou Ito that t l 11111 conte or do we it aIp loop for another?" Or perhaps John was like Judas, and was in a hurry, wanted the kingdom of God to come right ofl', 100100(1 every day for some sudden opoetacular manifestation of the Meoelahship of ,Tesus, mud looked vainly ; and 00 11011 disappointment 1)3(13001 to (101114. Anyway, 5001(0 most of us able to sympa- thize with J1,:1)1, A greet (1001 of iii 1111- boliof that we meet in tho street°, and 1.hat• we experience in our 00011 1,,' o 1,n to•da.y, grows ;11101 au John's did, 0111, of disappoint- ment. !1'1101.0 aro th0110)1 15 of people W110 aro disappointed, 1111.y wo not say, innOod. Tiley havn au idea of (fed, (od fa the LATE CABLE t� 11' � 1i f [� Real tet 1„.i)00,11013, Jl)1O1'1(1liVe of w)tlrlt they t.11r illdf'ey s 141'43 �� e„ g 111 p)v `� til- „-t� p to 1i3001 1043, ' ff 1 wore (loll,' they au} c1' LLLIII JJJJJJ 111 ��� 111 (i 1 fJ W1( d W FFF think, " 0 what 0 revolution I wuul,l set :s thr, ehttrneteriotic of Hued , sarsaparilla, a golug down Lora in this misguided world Ind it is mnnife,t['rl every dip• W the temurh- There would be 011 instant end to all op. Political Matters An Indian Piinoo to 11)le 01111 3s this medicine tornnlpik,lca. Urug- pres0ion. Whoever raised his hated to Visit I ondon. rusts Any: this is 0e110 hnllh' of clear lel unjust, blow,him.lightning out of the Sevor(tl menVisi of the Goverumpnt who ole4(r sky should smite him. There would hoods Sarsaparilla he a 0m.lden eaa0!ng of all sorrow No.more 111(00 1101(11 1101 11111 (tamp thio week 114(05 In a new ruO(oludl' we in., sore to se(• 111m pain, 110 more death --4l] crying 1411(11111 he 1111410 ata(O11101,l9 NOWA, if taken literally, 1)1,1( ill til low weeks Otto more, --proving done away. All the gond people should would warrant the belief that the enerltl hare all 1110 good health and all the good g " money, while doubt should be made iln.election will not. take place until next your, [3ossi1410 by the writing of the creed of (sod but the anaouneemunts as to the 130111.00 of In groat totters of cloud and fire aeroso the 1 5 ntb110 bttoine00 made b' Mr. Balfour in the 1.e of the AlY' P ' I blank arc , r r (' House 1f .0 1 u ( 11 7)IaA n pretty l>Ooa000 and ,loos not do that, does I show pl sty veconclusive. ihin not 10an4(g0 tlhe affairs of the 111tiver00 quite ly that Parliament will 1,0 dissolved within Mt we won111, (seeing, possibly, the mimesn couPle of menthe. It 10 kuwon that 81 the for things somewhat deeper and bettor than last Cabinet council a general agreement w1( do) pooplo coming into onotnet with 80)110 to di000lvo this year was arrived at, and the of the more tragio phases of God's dealings actual date will probably be decided upon with men aro most grievously disappointed. Nobody, I thinic, will (10ny Lou, Y0ople at the next meeting of the Ministers. 'tea' 1! @a are(hsappointolto (sod. And because they His Highness, the ruler of Barnda, one of cannot understand Him, they fall into don In, the most enlightened of the Himloo !mimeo, as John MA, And they wonder sometimes, will arrive here in the middle of June on a if In such a mismanaged universe, ns they somewhat lengthy visit, nil the British conceive of it -there is any God 1t all. court and aristo^racy will malts much of Bub the trouble in the ease of John tato him, He is Onorul0usly rich, his jewels ]laptist woe altogether with John. 1f ,loam alone being worth a Fabulous sum • but did not understand Jesus, and was disai)- pointed in Min, that -we see rosy clearly -was John's fault. And it may bo our fault, also, or our ignorance, whou we aronI the same way disappointed in 1lod, and fall to questioning end doubting Cod. Whether Lhe cause was ilepl0801on or dis- appointment, John the Baptist had fallen into doubt. And somehow getting comma• Mention in his ptv..on with some of his (lis• ciples, he sent Glom to Jesus asking this question aboutHio Alessiahehip, And Jesus, confronted with this group of questioners and doubters, proosedcd at owe to answer them, not by any argument, not by any RS- ee•tior, but by the witness of His works. He set these men from John at His right hand ;tort hada them loot: and listen ; and then He went on doing what be was always doing, and saying what He ryas always say- ing; and after a little while, turning to this oompanv of uubolievors. Ho told them simply to tell John what they had seen and heard ; to go home and think about the actual experience of that hour with Jesus and to tell John. "The blind me:ofvetheir sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansers, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preaohod to thele." That was the answer that Jeans gave to the representatives of doubt. Tho Chetah of Christ stands to -day ,jest where Christ stood. On the ono hand is unbelief, and on tho other is pain and poverty. Men are coming uousLautly with that old, crucial question : "Art tau Ho that should come or do wo look for another?" That question touches, 1(0 1 said, the very heart of Christianity. Tho finality of Jesus of Nazareth, the supremacy of 1,53,8 of Nazareth, the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth -this is what mon aro asking about to•dny. They want to know if the Christian religion is the final, the supreme, the divine religion or shall we somewhere else look for another'1 What are the grounds for accepting and be- lieving Christianity? What are the cre- dentials of Christianity? An the answer to this question, if we aro to return an answer that shall be persuasive and convincing, must be not an argument of the poor bare willows are touched with not an assertion, but such a sight es Jesus the first blind motions of the spring ; as of showed. .Men must see our good works ; then we may expect them to glorify our Divine Master, and our rather which is in heaven. Tho 010110,1 ials of Christianity are not creeds but deeds. Wherever the Chris- tian religion has ceased to bo helpful, men have ceased to believe in it; and rightly, because there it has ceased to be Christian. lint wherever Cllistianity has been able to bid 01011 look, as ,Tesus (111, and see the sorrows of the world comforted, and the wounds of tho world bound up, and the good news of the gospel parried, with light and hope in it, to the hearts of the poor, there the church has won allegiance, and will always win allegiance. If we desire to minister to the misery of doubt, and to do it in the Master's way, we must begin by ministering to the miseries of pain and 'poverty. Jesus Christ; standing between these two great problems of our age, solved the one by solving the other. He addressed himself to the bettering and uplifting of the poor. And the blessed works that He did male all the avower that He gave, or needed to give, to the difficulties of the doubters. drat the good results frons it 1(1111 bottle war. rant onuthnlhlg Its use. Tins po,itivr, merit Hood's Sarsaparilla possesses by 0111111' of the Meddler dier ron 111110 - lion, Proportion i oeess usedI in ln11'° • p;lullon, and by 0'11)1.1,1111 the remedial vane ut the Ingredients used is Ir tahutd. Hood's Sarsapariiia is tins Penner to Itself mrd absohnely nt1- squalled as it blood purifier, and ns a louse for building up the weekend giving nerve strength. Hood's Sarsaparilla Rohl Lyall druggists, l41; six for ill, Prepared only sy C. 1. IMOD) a (:U., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar Two Men Shot By a Santry A 1'ra'lin cnt•respnud0nt telegraphs: -A 111,11100 nu,st Indian princes, he is moi. vary 'r.reh case has oocunrred of a sentinel firing fond of display, and his personal tastes aura with hall cartridge in the nliddloofthe town habits aro simple and doceet, and Sir Wril- ! up011 two civilians, It 1111101. be admitted, liam 11 on ter, who will r,ilot the Prime in iowever, that the soldier in this case acted this coma. y, declares that he is a perfect prodigy. "His home life," says 14ir Wil- liam, is pure. Ho spends his money not o1( costly 1,111es but in the construction of railways, the supply of good water to his eapitltl, and in nun0rous public works, He is hospitable to strangers+, and appreciates strai;;htforwardneso ami minder among those by whom he is surrounded," It is reported in Londdu that the German hark Thallic, Captain Meyer, which sailed from Hamburg on February' 23 for Adelaide, South Australia, has foundered at sea, and that every oto of the officers and crew, with only a single exception, went to the bottom ,Sly ander strong provocation. About mid- light on friday a sentinel peeing to and fro 'm front of the barraelcs in the \Vrangel- straose was approached by two men, who nail to call Minn names, The soldier call- ed upon them to desist, and .they would havo done so but fora 100111011 in their 00111- pany, who egged them on afresh. The sol- li0r thereupon loaded, and d00101 s.1 tliem 1i0 pri0onere. The two men pulled out their knifes, but when they saw that the soldier was about to aro one of thein ran oft After thrice challenging him to stand, the sentinel tired, and struck him in the lower part of the stomach, the force of the pro- jectile being so groat that it passed through Lord Randolph Churchill has issued a i tfe body and hit another man, who had manifesto in winch ho oupports the clammy 1 stopped to see what wail 1(Oin1 on, He stood of labor which, he says, is in a position to ; with his hands in his pockets, and the hub legislate for itself and not to allot land and 1 et passed through his thumb and thigh, and. commerce to legislate for it. Henceforth,' lodged itself in the wall of a house. The the manifesto continues, labor will be hide- first loan )las since died, pendent of 101 politi1ol partes, and the latter must recognize this fact, - - .�.-.-wwwY-R1bNH+s.-brtrn+ A Spring Reverie. All things are full of labor. -Eccles, i, S, In th',1,111 and dreary winter we are so often Mil:mimed by the surrouiliug gloom that life soeos a burden hard to bear. The fountains of ley scum to be sealed by the eruol frost, and the wild winds sweeping through leafless branches seem to bo moan- ing& song of uheerlcs:a melancholy. But the that day of spring; seta all these things in another light. There is n promise of genial warmth in the air, the birds are coming, a feu- at a time, very timidly, but. they are coming ; and a few of them, bolder than the rest, have ventured to sing a sone; of hope in the leafless branches, as if fnrsoeth they had come to prophesy to tired souls that the blossoming time is near at (land, and that talose leafless trees would soon be adorned in living green and would become the home of thousands of the sweet• throated choir. The very topmost boughs A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but notin spirit. -[Victor Hugo. Nova Scotia's coal output, according to the report of the provincial Superintendent of Minos, sons larger last year by 40,000 tons than during 1800, bringing the season's record up to 2,044,784 tone. The bulk of the output is consumed in Canada. Quebe'o tastes 775,280 tons, Nova Scotia 639,737 tons, and Now Brunswick 229,315 tons. Only some 25,000 tons were sold to the United States, and Ontario is not credited with having purchased any. .Although the increase for the yens was mall, the figures are significant, inasmuch as they indicate that the home market is ,yearly becoming a large• consumer of Nova Scotia coal The value of pure air as an agent of health in the animal system is pretty generally nn. dorstood, but the knowledge is, for some unaccountable reason, very inlperfeotly ap- plied in practice. We declare in a neneh13• lint sort of way that fresh air is a very good sort of thing, and oven go so far as to admit that to a certain extent itis a very neces- sary thine., and yet 110 element so vital to existence and so easily i1ac10 serviceable is so cavalierly or stupidly disregarded. No one factory or workshop in ten is construct. ed with any humane 00 scientific respect of the principles of thorough ventilation, and not one nursery in one hundred is supplied with the quantity of pure air essential to the comfort and health of the infants confin- ed to them. More concern would he given to the lllnbter of pure ail' if its relation to 1100101 were more definitely known, of if wo realizes what diseases are in large measure chargeable to 031 insufficient supply of Oxy gal to the fnnotione of the system. Tho subject is convincingly treated in the Oot1onlpora'r/ Review by writers who have fortified their own ooiolosioos by tho judg. meets of some of the most eminent patholo- gists, the important deohu'atioa made being that oxygen perform the double service of neutralizing zing the deadly ciann s t11111 WO manufacture 5vi6hin ourselves, and by 0X1• (hzing or burning up the waele of dead tis- suc0, aro., supplies us with tho heat and 0n• etgy noce0say to nor siren gth and ac 1%11 y, Deprived of the requisite oxygen 1 to combat the acridly work going oil within 110 nil tho time, the body gement,' the easy prey of such diseaseo 1(0 searlot focnr, ty p)oirl, mall pox, diphtheria, dyomitory, cholera, (t1(. Sefentist0 tell 110 now that the special cen- ters tors of cholera existed as fever lexis before the invasion of that dis,0,1,, and that elect. era followo lino footsteps of other distemes, not °illy in the sante streets and hon._;., oven rooms, old, so now all nature seems to he awaken- ing from the sleep of winter for her work in the world. Everything seems to be saying, the toiling time Inas come. Lot the plow- man awake, lot tho sower be ready with his seed, break up your fallow ground, it is time 1 It is time, and in all these signs of nature that slake a morning in spring so unspeakably delightful, there are hints of n deeper meaning than appears on the surface. All things aro full of labor. But what does labor mean ? Labor is ever. a means to an end, There may come a time in some happier world, when labor will ho the end ireelf ; and the toilers of earth will never again know what W004111000 and drudgery mean, because they will summer in the playtime of the ages. But hero, because life is rich with solemn, ear- nest purposes, We must labor that those pur- poses may be fully and truly realized. Here we plow tinct sow that we may romp. We delve and toil that we may find out hidden trea- sure. Theladness of this smiling April Sabbath cels us to labor for the harvest time ; bids us put ourselves in full harmony with tablature, only with deeper and more sacred meanings. The spring says these bare fields shall glow with golden grain it you will labor ; the genius of the hour asks our fellowship with nature in her most sacred ministerios, And we aro called by the message of God's living word to bo oo• workers with Him in the grand work of turning this dreary wilderness world into the garden of the Lord. Thorn are signs in the air and in the fields that the farmer knows and understands. Ho goes out 011 some fine spring lnoruiug and finds, not with the poet's inspiration, but with the farmer', good common sense, that the bell has rung for word. All things are full of labor ; it is time 11e too set to work. And the signs in the spiritual world are such that he wino has eyes to see and oars to hear,. must see that the fields are white, and meet hear that the time for labor has oomo. God Inas always offered the high places to tho workers. And he offers now to 111111 W110 toils joy and gladness while ho toils, joy here and now, and joy untold whoa the song of rho harvest home crowns life's glad years of toil flattery. it is wor=e than mockery to list the flatterer's lone; I To loud a ready ear to thoughts the cheeks ,nine blush to Men, To hear the red lip whispered of, and the flow- 1ng earl. and eye, lhtdeconstant theme of eulogy, oxlravagant and high: The charm of person worshipped in a homage oll'a'ed not To the perfect charm of virtue, and the tn0000- ty of thought. -[1Vllittier: 'Tie an old maxim of the schools, That flattery's the fool of fools. -[Swift. acts:.sraYw-Solnre .^maaw-�cmaa�. We have selected two or Croup. three lines from letters freshly received from pa- rents who have given German Syrup to their children in the emergencies of Croup. You will credit these, because they come from good, sub- stantial people, happy in finding what so many families lack—a med- icine containing no evil drug, which mother can administer with con- tidcnce to the little ones in their most critical hours, safe and sure that it will carry them through. En, L. WILLITS, of Mrs. JAS. W. Alma, Neb. T give it Daughters' College to sly children when Harrodsburg, Hy. X troubled with Croup have depended upon and never saw tiny it in attacks of Croup preparation act like with my little dough. 1t. It. is .simply mi- ter, and find it an ln- raculous, valuable remedy. Fully one-half of our customers are mothers who use Boschee's Ger- man Syrup among their children. A medicine to be successful with the little folks must be a treatment for tire sudden and terrible foes of child- hood,' whooping cough, croui,, diph- theria and the dangerous inflamma- tions of delicate throats and lungs. What a Horse Can do. A horse will travel 400 yards in tour and a half minutes at a walk, 400 yards in two minutes nt a trot, 400 yards in one minute at a gallop. Tho usual work of n horse is taken at 22,500 pounds raised one toot per minute for eight hours per day. A horse will carry 250 pounds twenty-five miles per day of eight hours. An average draft horse will draw 1,000 pounds twenty -throe miles per day on it level road, weight of wagon included. The average weight of a horse is Heat and Cold. 1,010 pounds ; his strength 1s equivalent to The use of the lands, as in washing ill that of five ;nen, In a horse mill moving at hot water, then exposing them to extreme three feet per second, track twenty-five feet oold is prolific of verycommon msier . dialnoter, lie exerts with the machine the Mrs. Robert Simpson, 7Berkeley So, To- Power of four and a half horses. 'Phe groat. tante, Ont., writes, 001.2, 1801, as follows; est amount a horse can pull fn a horizontal -"St. Jacobs Oil cured me of rheumatic line is 900 pounds, but ho can only do cramps of the hands after all other treat. this nhomeotarily • in continued exertion 111051 failed ane, My hands were euoh probably half of flus is the limit. He at - swollen and painful, and fora thno I was Fins 1.118 growth in five yoare, will nearly helpless; however, thanks to the live twenty-five, average sixteen years. magic tonoh of St. A )torso will live twenty -hyo days on water ung Jacobs Oil, shortly after without solid food but only five days on solid its use I ed. relieved, and ultimately, alb tie food without drinking. -[Tho Human of rlly cured. 1 now always have a battle World, of St, Jacobs Oil in the house," •sol Pi :Tit S'aJACOBS Oii, G. rB�tSi t t4 °• i r- 1 Jaeobs COAD Q �tAS PAM. Oil TIE The Bride's Dress . Married in white, you have chosen all right; Married In gray, you will go far away; Married In black, you will wish yourself bath; Married in red, you will wish yourself dead; Married in green, ashamed to be seen; Married lo blue, be will always bo true; Married in pend, you will live in a whirl; Married In yellow, ashamed of your fellow; Married fn brown, you will live out of town; ]Harried in pink, your spirits will sink; Married or net, you may have to toil; Mf P0)1 R/SOMA rISM OSE Sr. JACOBS OIL CREAT REMEDY FOR PAIN 4ULApTFIS n3 1/