The Brussels Post, 1906-2-15, Page 6CURRENT TOPICS..
Eleven vessels of the British Admiral
ty were engaged last year in hydrogra-
phic surveys. All the leading nations
take part in this work which is so essen-
tial to the safety of the merchant mar-
ine, but the Admiralty surveys are more
extensive than those of any other na-
tion. It is natural that Lhe British
should lead in Ibis service; their com-
merce is more generally diffused, espe-
cially in the newer parts of the world,
than that of any other nation. Their
recent surveys include a considerable
nilmber of the British Inlets and har-
bors, for natural conditions are at work
all the time making changes in them.
An exhaustive and unsuccessful search
was made over an area of 350 square
miles in Newfoundland waters to ascer-
tain the position of a ten fathom benic
reported some years ago, but a very
elusive object, if IL really exists. In most
seas of the world some of these vessels
were at work. They finished the survey
of Amoy harbor, mapped uncharted
coasts in Australasian waters, brought
some African estuaries into clearer light,
and charted harbors that few persons
ever heard of in the remote regions f
the tndamans and the Persian Gulf;
and during the year the Admiralty sent
notices to mariners of 482 rocks and
shoals dangerous to navigation which
no one j'iad heard of before. It is no
wonder that 661,500 sheets of the Admir-
alty charts were printed last year to treat
the demand of the world's merchant
vessels. Marine surveys and cartogra-
phy meet no need so imperative as that
for charts of all the shallow waters and
of all coasts and harbors.
Bonanza, one of the richest mines of
the richest goldfields in the world, and
its career are closing. 131 the end el
February this brilliantly successful
African mine will find its block of
ground practically worked out, leaving
the pillars and the cleanings. In all
probability after then it will not be possi-
ble to keep the mill running continuous-
ly. And the proflL during the remaining
period will be subject to considerable
fluctuations. During its life of eleven
years the Bcnanza has produced from ads
eleven claims, with a modest crushing
plant, over $10,000,000 worth of gold,
or ten Limes its capital, and paid divi-
dends ranging from 50 to 115 per cent.,
the total dividend record aggregating
nearly 600 per cenL on its capital of
approximately $6,000,000.
The salvation of the world's paper
supply may come from furze. It has
been ascertained that the furze, suitably
treated, produces a white and solid
pulp. After a boiling of five or six
hours the pulp is washed with water,
acidulated with sulphuric acid In suit-
able quantity, bleached with chloride of
lime and thoroughly washed, when it is
in a suitable state for use in paper oma&
ufacture. If successful, this sort of
paper making will open up a large class
of new paper making materials and pos-
sibly prove the solution of Ilia serious
problem caused by the rapid exhaustion
of the timber districts in the effort to
meet the demand for wood pulp, the pre-
sent universal material.
THE S. S.
LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
FEB. 18.
Lesson ViI. A Day of Miracles in
Capernaum. Golden Text,
Mark 1. 34.
LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note, --The text of the Revised Version
is used as a basis for these Worcs
Studies.
Chronology. --The events of In -day's
lesson probably followed immediately
upon those of last Sunday's lesson, es
indicated by the order in which Marl(
arranges his naerellve at this point
.(comp, Mark 1. 16.21, ff.), Luke reverses
the order of events, plating the day of
miracles at Capernaum before the call-
ing of the four fishermen (comp. !mice
4. 31 to 5. 1, ff.). Matthew records only,
and in another conneetion, the healing
of Peter's mother-in-law and the miracles
of healing wrought by Jesus after sunset
of the same day (comp. Matt. 8. 14.17).
'Verse 21. They go—Jesus together
with the four men whom he had just
called from their occupation as flshca'-
men to become his disciples.
Into Capernnum—It was doubtless
very near to Capernnum that the mar-
velous draught of fishes had been taken,
since this elly seems to have been the
temp of Simon and Andrew, and very
probably of James and John, the part-
ners of Simon and Andrew, also (comp.
verso 29). Capernaum is mentioned only
in the gospel narrative and derives all its
Interest from its sssoofailon with Ind.
dents in the life of Christ. The ancient
city once highly favored bus been utter-
ly destroyed (compares the prophecy of
Matt, 1'1. 23 and Luke 10, 15). and even
its location Is to -day a mater of dis-
pute. From Mat. 4. 13 we know that
Capernaum was situated on the shore at
the lake, and from Thine 6, 17-21 that IL
Was in or near ihr plain of Gentlesnrel.
Two sites, both mounds of ancient ruins,
are traditionally eonnrrfed with Caper -
Own. •.These are fhe rnudcrn Khan
Mhiryeh'and rell.11urn, both lorded on
the norlhwdaleni 1. shore of the lake
plied 65bo miles apart. Of these the
Medi probable sire <teern5,to be «hen
Minyelh, OW/1W farthest to the Borth,
WHICIi WAY WILL YOU G0
The Wisdom of Noted Nen Shown
in Manner of Death.
And how dleth the wise man'! As the
fooll—Ecclesiastes E. 16.
Within the last month four men, whose
careers well illustrate some of the more
striking phases of American life and
character, have passed through ,he
grave and gale of death to whatsoever
reward there may be for all their labors
under the sun.
The life of the first was a complete and
total failure from every point of view;
a betrayer of trust., a dishonest adminis-
trator, a1 Iniquitous &pr'eulator, u thief
and a robber, his defalcations were sud-
denly found out and he ended itis life ey
suicide. His (irni failed for seine three
millions of dollars and drugged down in
irretrievable ruin many smaller firms
and innocent investors.
The second man was a success from
one joint of view, the material. He
amassed a fortune of over lifleen mil-
lions of dollars and kept most of it to the
end. He flourished like the proverbial
green bay tree and died in possession
of his ill-gotten gains. For every dollar
had a blood mark or a slims murk nn
it. Yet he was one of the most collosal
failures life has produced.
lis failed as a husband, and his wife
left him; he failed as a citizen and went
to jail; he failed as a business man and
was blackballed by the leading clubs of
the world. Realizing all this, 11e made
what amends he could by leaving his
fortune to charity and the people
\VHOM 1-15 HAD ROBBED,
The third man died in possession of
one of the three or four greatest fortunes
in the world, Not one dollar of this sum
was tainted+ money. It was all gained
by business methods that were not only
legally correct, legitimate, but that are
approved by honorable, high-minded.
right thinking men. He was a construe-
ttve, but not a destructive force. He did
not make his way to success over other
men's failures, through other men's sor-
rows. His pathway was not blazed by
tae ruin of his competitors. Ile crushed
no one.
He helped man. He was a living illus -
!ration of the fact that a man can be an
honorable, high -soused Christian gentle-
man
entleman and citizen and succeed. itis death
evoked it spontaneous and universal tri-
bute to his character and worth. 1f he
leave; no dollar to charity his life will
have been of vastly greater value than
the man who made the biblical atone-
ment by giving away the millions he
could not lake with limn,
the last mon was a student, huh a stn•
dent of the word of God. A Christian
preacher he, sometimes referred to as
"an urpraetical schoolmaster." Men
gave Min money without practically any
stint or lied and told him to build a
greet institution of teeming, But money
alone cannot create a university, though
11 may provide Ito grounds and buildings
and their equipment and
ENDOW PROFESSORSHIPS.
Roots, trees and branches,
Singly perfect may be;
Clap! bodge-podge together,
They don't make a tree.
That schoomasler put the soul into.
the attempt. Ile gave it the life principle.
Ills own, It is bis personal monument
rather than that of the money givers,
This last man, as a •e.'vant of Christ
Indeed, and one who, as he says, gave
his best thought to the expounding oI
God's holy word rather than to the great
university. Ile died poor in riches, but
rich In poverty. The world rises to •:lo
honor to his simple and abiding faith,
nis sublime courage, his noble, uncon-
plefiling resignation.
These four men lived yesterday and
died to -day. Wise or foolish alike, they
came to an end. Yet there are between
them greet clifferences. The suicide, the
successful failure, the. upright Christian
business man, the great thinker awl
educator constituted a remarkable quar-
tet, preaching a gospel which it needs
nn words of mine to elucidate. Yes, the
wise and the foolish come to the S0l110
end, but afterward the wise will go one
way, the foolish another.
Which way will you go, friend?
CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.
and east. For incidents to the gospel
narrative associated with Capernaum
compare Malt, 4. 13-16; 2. 44; 8. 5; 0.. ;
U. 23; 14. 34; Mark 1. 16, 23, 36; 2. 1,
14; 4. 13-10; Luke 4. 33; 5. 18, 27; 7. 1, 5;
10. 15; John 1. 44; 4, 46; 6. 17-21, and
outer passages.
Straightway -- The Revised Version
follows the Greek in using the sante
word in verses 21, 28, and 20, and in
inserting this word also in verso '.3
("And straightway there was"). The
phrase "and straightway" is a favorite
ane with Mark, 011E1 cltnraeterislic of
whose gospel was, as we have already
pointed out, terse brevity and rapidity
of movement.
Synagogue—The public meetinghouse
of the Jews, where they came together
not only for worship, but for more for-
mal instruction in the Scriptures also—
the humble prototype of both the modern
public school and Christian church.
Taught—First reading and then ex-
pounding a passage of Scrlpture.
22. • As having authority, and not as
Lhe scribes—The scribes were the lawyers
of.Jesus's day, and to them the inierpre-
Lation of Mosaic law, especially in its
application to daily conduct, afforded
ample opportunity for minute discrint-
nations and a pompous display of kern-
ing and piety. But in giving his inter-
nee -Intim or exposition of the mnw every
scribe was sure to quote the authority
of other learned rabbis and lawyers, un
original or new interpretation being a
rare exception. Jesus quoted 110 nlan'S
interpretations, but gave his own, and
this with such confidence and evident
mastery of the real meaning of the Scrip-
ture which he was expounding that it
gave in his words the ring of original
authority. It wes his "!But I say unto
you" which astonished ills )warms, who
were accustomed rather to the phrase.
Rabbi Solomon for some other rabbi)
503,.4 SO mild So.
23. A man with an unclean spirit --A
demoniac. This is clearly a case of
aatutl•denloniac possession, although the
evangelists, sharing us they did the pre-
vanings b,'liefs of their age, psychic and
cosmic, were not always cut'efui to dis-
tinguish between actual cases of denten
possession and other bodily and mental
ailments commonly, though mistakenly,
attributed to the influence of evil spirits
over the sufferer. 'thus both Matthew
117, 18, 19) and Luke M. 39.42) attribute
the sickness of the epileptic boy to an
indwelling evil spirit, while the fabler
of the boy, according to Matiiew, ad-
dressing .!esus, says of his son simply,
"he is epileptic" (old version, ]uratic),
"and sufferclh grievously: for oftllnos
he fallen] into the fire, arid nfttimes into
the water, And 1 brought him to thy
disciples, and they could not cure Gin"
(Matt.. 17. 15, 16). But epilepsy 010,1 In
those days aunnlouily attributed t0
demon possession, and the fact that the
disciples shared this belief accounts fur
the wording of the rest of the narrative,
01 Matthew and of the whole nccnuut of
Luke.. Luke even seems to attributes nhr
fever with whim!% Simon's mother-in-law
was suffering to the Influence of at evil
spirit (Luke •t. 38, 39), and In like, matinee
dumbness, deafness, and other diseeses
were, even by the disciples, often attri-
buted to d)ptnou influences. Jesus slmpiv
docs not. attempt the psyclhi logienily
difficult task of correcting their (ntsleln?n
notions, because as a wise teacher he
concentrated his instfnu:llon on more
impnrl.ant things from tvhtoh he could
not afford to divert his pupil (Menthes
The Master, rlotrbtlesn, In his associa-
tion with his disciples lnanv 'times dant
the thought In mind which on Ont: 410,:a•
cion les i'xpressecl in the -words, 9 tome
yet ninny things In slier (1010 you, but ye
cannot bear them now" (John 16. 12).
But the fool. that people generally, toll
ee 0154 the disciples, wrongly altrihuted
imine keens of 1511113' illness to the in-
fluence of evil sph'iI8. dor;, not, as sumo
have attempted in show. prove (lint iherr
05.05 tle such thing n, dentoniee poeses-
5i0n at all. Againsl any such c nnelnat.,,1
the case of this men 01 the syunllego'.
and at Inas), all similar cases is wh10.h
the demons, es herr, thnnis,les spigtk,
as well' no ibe rase. of Maty 4h,gdalenr
(Mark 16. 0), stand out as examples ',f
actual demoniac eossession possession
which cannot be explained auvay.
The Holy One of God—The oeie conse-
crated or set apart for his service. The
phrase indicates the reason why the
demon roared Jesus bad interfered to
punish 11101 as well as to set free the
man whom he was so grievously lr-
menling.
25. Bold thy pea:ti--Literally, be muz-
zled. The. word means both to close the
mouth and to reduce to silence. In the
later sense Jesus uses it in calming the
storm (Mark 4. 30).
26. Come out of him—'fhe first nilraele
recorded by Mak and Luke. Matthew
mentions first the healing of a leper
(Matt. 8. 1.4); John, the changing of win-
ter to wine (John 2. 1-11), which was
really the hist recorded miracle per-
formed by Jesus.
27. \Vhat is this? A new teaching!
with authority ho eonmundelis--Tic
ptmetuatlon of this verso follows the
majority of modern criIieal texts. Sines
however, !mere is no punctuation 1)1 the
original we cannot be positive that this
gives just the measling intended. It has
been suggested that the expression
"with authority," Wrings more proper -
11 witih the noun "leaching," thus •
"a new leaching with authority 1 lie
commendeth even the unclean spirits."
It was isle authoritative lone of Jeslis ii
teaching 115.1'1011 as the miracle which
he wrought which amazed the people
(comp. verse 22, above).
20, The house of Simon and Andrew
Thr word Irauslatsd "house" may mean
either ilio nettle] building or 100 family
circle
in this verse itt Is usually to ]ly lal<ca
to mean the former, the inference being
that the building belonged to Simon 101-1
Andrew., Examples of the other use of
the same word are found In Matt. 12.
25; John 4. 53; 1 Cor, 16. 15.
31. :Ministered unto them —Served
them In the preparation of n men] or
lighter refreslm1enls,
32. When the sun did set, they brought
--The Jewi4h Sabbath ended with sun-
set.
lrset. Before its close it would have been
uulnwhil acenrding in strias rabbinical
interpretation of Ito late to carry the
si0.11 through the streets.
33. All the oily—People from all paras
of the 011x, a great, multitude.
34. 11ruled many IhaL were sick wllh
divers (11 05808, 011(.1 crest mil maty de-
111ons--Merit here clearly dletinµuishes
between those possessed with demons
and those who had bodily ailments of
midlevel. sort.
01.DIiST OF P1i1A•iniRS.
With the exc.•pli01 of Lord Palmerston
who was mei: 7(i when culled to the
position of Premier of Great Drihdn, Sir
Henry.I's pbcl1 Baulernsat hakes 01-
(1 -'' Inti in life than any other of his
5(101'0.-s'at,. Sir Henry is 69. Mr. Bab
fou' was 1;: when he look up the reins
of power from the Moots of the late
Lord S lL',l a;y Sir Henry, 5.11(1 is a $on
4;
11):+ into Fir JUMPS Campbell and ad-
ded the 1(0(44' nr ilunnermnn tinder the
will of a maternal Mole, is one of Lho
01deet members of Parlinmenl, He
entered Ili,• Hrt4,: 0s long ego as 1868.
, STBANCE
rem the eonih(11 elopes of range
of hills 81+1114' 1twerlly mills from London
an 6101 nnd crippled keeper ekes nut his
slender pension 1),y enlle tine end feed-
ing 101111x, ami finds n ready sale for
Them to the iornfgn restaurants. Ho
also holds n stonding order for oil the
autumn -caught bumble -bees he ran col-
lect, for exportation fo New 'Zeeland.
'these hers fertilize the flmcm's of clover
piat115.
Wrl'I:AI. DISI.11t11.
Mm. direlclndlh—"BrIclget, I don't like
the looks of that man who called in to
WO yap last night."
Madge'. d.."Well, well, ain't it finny.
n,1a'an1? flu said the. stone about you"
71�q iiome
a.+r.,r.,w,n.,aww 4Vak4 v..11..w.0.0»1r
SOME DAINTY RECIPES,
Scotch Biscuits.—Take one pound al
sifted flour, then rub into it a quarter of
a poem! of butter, add half a pound of
caster sugar, one tablespoonful of
powdered cinnamon, and three Uwor-
ougllly beaters eggs. Roll out tin, cut
an fancy sifupes and bake 1111 crisp..
Pineapple raplaca,•—'1'uke four table-
spoons of peed tapioca and one pint of
shredded preserved pine/Inn)e. Simmer
the tapioca until clear, but not entirely
dissolved. Stir the pineapple into Ilse
tapioca. if not sweet enough add sugar.
Serve with clear or whipped cream.
This makes an inexpensive and dainty
dessert. '
Coffee jelly.—This is both economical
and easily made. Sollc half an armee of
gelatine in a quarter of a pint of colt]
water, and add to 1t three -gunners of u
pint of strong, hat coffee and two ounces
of sugar; stir until all is dissolved, and
then defile into a mould; when cold
30000 with whipped cream. 11 makes a
pretty as well as delicious dish.
Oatmeal Crisps.—Mix two cups o
rolled oals, one cup of sugar, two tea
+p00ns of baking powder, two benlei
eggs, one large tablespoon of bultei
melted, and two tablespoons of vanilla
10 the order given. Drop by teaspoon-
fuls on greased !not buttered) tins. an 1
Nike In a moderate oven tilt a delicate
brown. Use the pancake turner to lift
them from the lits.
Prune Ivlincelneai,—Minee thoroughly
one pound of stewed prunes and the
same quantity of odd cooking apples
add hilt n pound of finely chopped suet
a flavoring of spice and the juice of a
Lemon. Ilix these ingredients thorough-
ly, place In a jar and use as required.
Besides using this filling for pies, fry it
in a boiled rely -poly pudding and you
will lie delighted 5vi111 your dish,
Raked Sago Pudding. -1% pints of
milk, 3 tablespoonfuls of sego, rind of
half a lemon, 3 cm. sugar, 3 eggs, 130,
oz. butter, plenty of currants, grated
nutmeg. Put Mc milk and lemon rind
Into a steevpnn by the fire until the mill(
is flavored. Strain; mix with it the sago
mid sugar and simmer fur fifteen min-
utes. Let the mixture cool a little, and
stir into it the eggs, well -beaten, add
butter anti currants. Pour the pudding
in a pie -dish, grate a little nutmeg over.
and bake for three-quarters of an hour
or one hour. For puddings prepared by
any different formula add simply the
currants.
Rice. Pudding with Currents,—A nice
dish for the nursery. 3e lb. rice, ee lb.
uurranis. Wash the rice, lie it in a
cloth, allowing room for it to swell,
and put it into a saucepan of cold water;
Id it boil for an hour, then take it up,
untie the elolh, stir in the cure0nls, and
Ifo it up again tolerably tight, and put
it into the water for the remainder of
the time. Boil for another hour or
rather longer, and servo with sweet
settee. Fur rice custards or puddings
prepa'111 according to any different for-
mula simply add the currants.
Apple Dumplings.—Sift four carps of
flora' with six level teaspoons of baking
powder; rub in one-third cup of butter
or a title more if lilted. Add a pinch
of salt and mix with a cup of milk or as
much as needed to make. a soft dough
that can bo handled. Boll half an incl!
thick, cut into circles four inches a0ros5
and 131 the centre of each put an apple
That' has been pared, cored and !pled
wilt1 sugar and two or Three seeded
raisins. Bring the dough up around the
apple end pinch ih0 edges together.
Put each dumpling into a buttered cup,
turning the dough over Io bring the
rough edges at the bottom. Set the cups
in a steamer that has a closely lilting
cove' and steam twee -quarters of an
hour without lifting the cover. Serve
with cream and sugar, or made sauce.
Currant Bread. -2 !b. flour, 2 teaspoon-
fuls of salt 1 oz. of yeast (German), 12
ors. currants. Sieve flour and salt, mix
In nurrants with flour. Make a hole lin
centre and crumble yeast into it. Add
half-pint of tepid water, (hen let it
stand for fifteen minutes. Then add
another half-pint of tepid water, and
knead for five minutes. Let this stand
In a 5000111 place covered with a doth
for thirty mimde8, then melte into
loaves, and let 1.115n1 stand fur (vents
['timbre. Bake in mncic•rete oven for
about thirty minutes. In households
where bread is made by any different
formula. to the above, simply add lo the
dough 30 parts of currants, out of a
14)111 of 100 parts.
Camphorated oil Is n most useful SOME AMUSING STORIES
household remedy at this time of year
for cold, solo throats, eto, Make it l's
follows: Take half a pint of sweet 011
and make it sufficiently hot to melt one
ounce of camphor. Cork, and 11 will be
ready for use.
When boiling dumplings do not cover
the saucepan tightly, but place the core
raisinit if 111Ii
Oval, ' On one side 0 s w 1 strip
of wood. 16 11.1. Is done the dumplings
will 110001' be heavy, provided, of
000180, that the writer be kept steadily
bailing.
Waterproof paints for oil coals, etc.
Take ordinary unbleached celieo, and
after sewing into the 5ha116 required,
steep In water, to which add a handful
of salt for every two yards of calico.
Leave for ivenly-oar heeds Ihrn dry in
the air. Afterwards paint with the fol-
lowing; Mix together three pounds of
black, one pound of boiled linseed oil.
A simple weenier glass is made thus:
Obtain a glass jar, such as Is used for
p10111es, and put some water into 1;.
Then gel a bottle with a long neck, f
possible, and put it in the jar with the
neck downwards 1111 the mouth just
touches the wafer. When the water
rises in the bottle file weather may he
expected, and when IL goes down pre-
pare for rain.
In making oatmeal scones, sift one
and a half cups of whole wheat flour
and one teaspoonful of baking powder
into one pint of oatmeal left from 1110
day before, and stir together with half
f a cup of wafer. After mixing well roll
out on a baking board a quarter of nn
inch thick. Cut in fancy shapes rind
1 bake on a griddle flftehhn minutes. I
if 11(050 hes been anything burnt In
the oven throw salt In, and the smelt{
will disappear. if salt is raised 015
silver, china or earthenware, 11 will take
off stains of tea, etc. Sall will !till wecdn
if sprinkled on gravel walks.
A chilblain remedy highly recom-
mended by a correspondent is this ;
Take equal quantifies of glycerine, rose-
water and spins of camphor. Mix well
together, and always slteke the bottle
before using. Apply a little 0f the mix-
ture after washing the hands and at
bedtime.
Those who have no scales in thele
kitchen will be glad to know of two
simple plans to measure ingredients for
conking. Take an ordinary teacup, this
quite full of flour will be four ounces, s0
that four teanunsful will equal one
pound. Sugar is heavier, so do not laic
too much, Shredded suet is lighter,
therefore a small teacupful is two
sums. In this way you will soon find
that you are able to measure greedier;
accurately.
Children's teeth require care from the
very first—not only when the second
teeth are coming. A soft brush 5110111d
he used, for should food he allowed to
lodge 1)1 the teeth, decay will soon be-
gin. As soon es the child is old enough
to use tine brush Itself, it should 11e
taught to use it regularly night and
morning, rind should look upon tills
part of the toilet as essential as the
daily bath.
ABOUT P110PId'1 WHO OFFERED GRA-
TUITIES '1'O ROYALTIES.
The Man Who 'tripped a Sullen - Tho
Kaiser Tells an Amusing
1110ry.
There is prohably only one mom ev-
inl; who 0)111 boast that lee 11315 had •t
Sultan for boatmen and hos oUered his
Mujesty a Up, which 0.115 gratefully as
C\4epb001101' mu
!d pocketed; his Immo is Mr.
faits,
Some lune ago when this gentleman
was v(siling the n oroco„ hu
f1cco11lpnu(ed hs I+oyalSultahosoftlvlancd his
favorite Minister on several rowing ex-
eu'siuls 011 a large resc:rvolr, in 501)1111
(be Sultan invariably took rut Dar. 031
one occasion his Majesty and the War
' Minister Alehdi el filenebhi, were row-
ing, while Mr. Ilarris steered, and it
Ives difficult to say which of the oars-
men distinguished himself the 111as6'11)5
Sultan, who took the bow -oar, was row-
ing a steady ten strokes a minute,
CATCHING PEI)IODICAL CRABS
0)111 drenching his fellow -rover with
water, w11110 the lathie W118 pu111111g e1
least live strokes to the master's one.
"But both," says Mr. Harris, "werelulge-
ly delighted with the performance, and
cur spirits were of the highest.
"'There are no Sllit11115 Ulla Vizors
here,' saki his Majesty to me; 'we are
both boatmen, and you are the passen-
ger. We are crossing a Moorish for-
ty"Entering into the Sultan's little joke,
I replied that they were the worst fer-
rymen 1 had ever seen, and that en
landing 1 should complain to the au-
thorities of their incapacity.
"'011, you will, will yet?' replied the
Mutat Abdul Azle. fhen all 1 can say
i)rsa, y we uv n't put you ashore until you
us.'
Then I'll slop hers'
"'All right; replied the Sultan, and he
promptly began to splu5h me with all
his might and main, though poor Mene-
bhi was getting es wet as d was.
"'Will you pay?' asked his Majesty.
'"Willing,' 1 laughed. 'flow touch?'
"'Half a peseta each' (about eight
dents), answered ltand they
duly pocketed theirthe fee.Su11 was—anthe first
time in my life 1 had lipped a Sultan
and a Minister of \Va'."
Archduke Joseph of A„•"eta used la
loll, with great enjoymer. a story of
how lie receival a Up one clay, Itis
Moya! Highness was walking in 1110 park
surrounding his castle near Fiume, when
he was accosted by a tourist, who
asked him if he might go through the
castle. The Archduke net only gave be
required permission, but
HINTS 1406) HOME LIFE,
The few saucepens lilt" cook has the
better. None will tied be left lo mist
and gat neglected.
To soften the. hunch), After wasting
with soap and wilier, rub the hands
with oatmeal 55!11!, still wet.
White gloves cleaned promptly afire
each wearing will lust indefinitely, If
the stains are (Mooed to dry at them
tiny become permanent.
Before cooking tapioca seal< 11 in wa-
ter till it is considerably swollen unci
allow one pint and a half of 11(1111 fo
curry ounce or Nova weighed before
soaping.
Near open m1 umbrella to let ft dry,
fm' while the sill< is wet it easily
stretches. The right pion Is to close the
ornbre1lu rind to stood it. nn its handle
to drain.
Slaine en knives can ba removed by
rubbing with a piece 0f 0055' potato
dipped into flint brick dust. Scour the
blades with this and you will be de-
lighted at the 3415(111,
1'110 toothbrush should be subjected to
a good cleansing wilt soap and wader
every few days. The best brushes have
the bristles rather wide apart,
A cold Spanish onion which 11as been
well boiled and drained makes an excel-
lent salad It sliced and dressed with o11
and vinegar 1n the usual manner.
An authority on (hoc laundrytllg says
lint hot water should not be used '11
washing fine mile linen or embroidered
da111ies. Cold wader, white snap anti
horns, 1f not n borax soap, should be
used instead.
To sweeten rimed butter melt the
huller and el on 11, then) put Cite it it
piece of load (brown but not burnt).
1n a Irw moments the butter 10111 lose
its offensive taste and sued, which the
Toast 10111 NO'S cibsnrbod,
THIEVING WIT'fi 110010 AND LiNE.
Mexico Tarns Out Sonne Artists in the.
Line of Petty Larcency.
in Mexico tate sneak thief has his busi-
ness down to a science. Tito favored
manner of stealing is Worn the houses.
Most o1 the buildings are but one story
high and the doors are kept closed and
locked. The windows are as large as
Ute doos and extend to the floor. To
keep the thieves out of the house they
are protcled with heavy iron bars, but
the A•lexican sneak thief has found a
way to overcome this difficulty.
Because of the lowness of the win-
dow ho can look into the room and
"spot" the arllcles lie wishes. '111031 he
wails till the occupant of the !'oma is in
some, other part of the house. A ban -
boo pole about as long as 11 fishing rod
it produced, to which is u11nrhed a piece
of string with a fish hook on 111e end.
The thief by practice can cast the hook
so that it will east on almost any article
in the room, 110 matter how for it nmy
1: r
c from the window. Slowly Intvl it is drawn
forward 00(1 pulled through the bars.
In this manner articles aro taken off
the bureau or tables, rugs snatched from
the floor std bed clothes from the bed.
Clothing left on choirs oe hanging from
the wall Is easily removed. The thieves
do not even wait until the occupants ere
mut of the room in ull cases. There
have been cases where men and women
who were undressing to their rooms
have lost clothing, while their backs
4.0(0 Maned 10 th0 window, 'A short
time ago the wife of a well-known min-
ing engineer was dressing to go to a
dance. She had removed part of her
clothes from Lha wardrobe and turned
her back, 11ea1'IIIg a noise she turned
just in lime to see her dress disappear-
ing out of the window. Site sereemed
for help, but before site could explain
what had happened the thief 110(1 es-
caped.
An Episeopal minister who went lo
take charge of a congregation had a sad
experience. The rongregnllon was a
large ono for Mexion and he expected
le live in a modern rectory. Huwevnir,
there were no American hooses for
rent. in the town. He ems shove lo a
Ispicul Mexican house, and ns he was
tired, went to bed, ns soon as the com-
mittee had retired.
Ile was inslrueted not to piece any-
thing movable near the window. Ile
heeded the Advice, std drawing a chair
none the bed placed his clothes on it.
le the morning, when he awoke, he was
shocked to find that his clothes and shoos
were missing. Ile 100110(1 for his grip
and slay it near the window, it had
Peen opened and every stitch 11 ordain-
ed taken out. The satchel would have
been taken 100 if L.he thief could have
pulled it through the iron bars.
The clergyman could not spoalc a word
of Spenlsh and he was rxperWel In
]:('01100 ht8 first 501'111011 Ihnt morning,
He could not go out in it barrel Iscense
there was no barrel. The sheet on the
bed was a small affair and he was a
large 1)1011. There was nothing .for him
le do but sit down on the bed and hope
filet some of the members of his con-
gregation would e01110 to the house. (n
about, halt an hour after the time set
for the service thpp'committee which had
oseorteel hien le ltto roam in the oven
ing arrived. `7'hefr00Lne was foiled hud-
dled up an the bed with the little sheet
wrapped around hhn. After oxplena-
lions lied been made .the men procured
n wagon and went to the station end
get thearson's trunk and he 'Arse 1)10 a b _.
to dresi is
ACTED AS CICERONE
to the stranger, conducing nim through
the various apartments and describing
everything of interest. The tourist was
so pleased 501114 his amiable. and inter-
esting guide, wham he look to be one
of the castle gardeners, that on port-
ing
orting he gave hire a friendly pal on the
back an thrust n couple of florins In ids
hand. The Archduke pnelceted the coils
with a Malik you," and later had them
mounted and framed with this inscrip-
tion underneath: "This is the only mon-
ey That 1 have ever really earned In my
life."
\Vhcn the Emperor of Austria was
laking a stroll recently near Monte Car-
lo to had a 1111)0 ndventur which pleas-
ed hie hugely. His attention was et -
tended by an tmruly horse, who was
doing his best to smash the dashboard
of the carnage to which he eves attach-
ed, and who wns quite beyond his driv-
er's ronlrot. Pram Jaseph at once went
1' the rescue, seized the reins, and, after
a sh•uggle, reduced the horse to a pro-
per slate of submission. The driver WAS
naturally gracile for such timely as-
sistance, and, turning to the stronger,
said, "I don't know who you nee, but
1'cl like to pay you in some way for
your landless; std so if your slop in-
to the carriage, 1'jl drive yon home for
nothing." l'he Eanlerle thanked the
man graciously for leis kind offer, but
DECLINED TIIE FREE DRIVE.
The Kaiser tents an amusing story of
ori experience of this hind some yea's
ego, just before his accession to the
throne. As a young man he loved In
wander about Berlin incognito and get
into conversation with some of his fu-
ture subjects. On this particular acces-
sion he was rambling after dark along
the Koniggraizer Strome when he tuns
overtaken hiy a stranger, who accosted
him titre:
Say, young man, 1 don't know your
lingo bol Don you direct lee to the
1'nisditm station?.'
"With pleasure," wns the unexpected
answer, fn Engiish; and the Crown
Prince took the mon in tow, end, chat-
ting golly wills him. escorted him to the
entrance of the Mellon.
"Weil, sinner" saki the American,
at pa'ting, "f guess you're the right
snt't, anti, putting a mark in his hand,
"I shall bo proud If you'll drink my
health."
The Emperor still treasures that coin
and produces it proudly whenever he
tells the, story.
it was (mother tourist, an English-
man, who was walking one day lest
summer along Ilre Regering's Galan,
Stockholm,' when he ()velem& a tall,
spectacled man,
RATHER SHABBILY ATTIRED,
and asked his way to the National ,Muse-
um. The stranger, who, lo the tourist's
surprise., spoke English finely well, of-
fered himself as guide, and proved a
most interesting companion, When the
museum was reached, the tourist put his
hand in his pocket and producing a coin
was about to present it to his cicerone,
when the later, with a smile and a
deprecatory wave of the hand, said:
"Thank you very much. It has been a
great pleasure. I am the Crown Prince."
4
USEFUL ANIMALS.
Ox bones have a considerable valet.
The four feet of an ordinary ax will
malts a pint of eneat's-lWet oil, Tho
thigh bone Is the most vadttablo, being
useful for •outling into tootrbrush hen -
dies. The foreleg bones are made Info
collar buttons and parasol handles.
The water In which the bones aro belled
le reduced to glue, while the dust which
comes frail sawing the bones 13 turned
into food
for cattle end potll(r36,
LOST ON GRANT) BANKS
DANGERS AND SUFFERNGS9 OF TUE
FISHERMEN.
The American Monts Suffer Through the
Newfoundland
Trouble.
Newfoundland's crusade against the
American herring vessels engaged in
that 11811017 011 lis western coed has
humper'ed and delayed 1110m greatly.
Few of thein this year will escape the
terrible olid -winter storms which im-
peril their safely when running from
that coast to theh' 110100 ports, heavily
laden as they are, in the height of this
rigorous season. 'Phare are 50 or 60
sailing vessels in the herring trade lids
year, and each carries front six to len
men. When a craft is tilled below hatches
yith frozen or salted lending she lakes
n deck load of barrels containing these
fish in pickle, end thus laden makes for
Boston or Gloucester. No other for'rn el
marine enterprise at this peeled of the
year equals that voyage.
MANY FATILIT1ES.
The veszels Have to negotiate a. pert
of the ocean widen Is literally scourg-
ed by storms, and the fallliUes among
the herring fleet are shocking. Item
of the vessels exceeds 100 tons, and,}lad
en es they are, they float but a loot or
Iwo above the water, so that every <tea
when a storm arises, sweeps their detl<s
Inert end to encl. The wafer then [vim-
- and coats each 005541 ihiclClty welt
x75101, especially about the „bows. Tis
added weight sags her down/and thus
increases her peril, so that long-handicd
wooden mallets have to he $tield0(3 in-
dustriously 1•y file crew to brant off this
0cnling. Oilen the men have to cover
their ]lends with flannel clot to pre-
vent their faces from being ct by the
freezing spoondrift from above t c bows,
lids protection alone making It ,possible
for them to look ahead, 5.
I.OADED WITH .ICE,
I r
In such weather r n of onlyare the ' ^.Its
and bulwarks coaled, buthe sails L --
come as solid ns iron plates and rho
ropes and halyards as stiff ns rods.
Very often the craft becomes ummanuge-
nble and a dire disaster ensues, the
haat being engulfed with all hands. Or
of an accident befalls her, like the break-
ing of a boons or spar, her plight is
namely better, though she may contrive
1e make port, like a broken -winged bird.
Frequently men ur0 washed overboard
from the decks of these tiny Irnwlrrs,
whose hulls are searoely idler that
platforms level with the waves. During
the long and dreary nights the tired
lookouts keeping watch on one, of these
vessels may doze for a moment and then
0 big sea hoards her and sweeps Lho
mon off into the sea Haver to rise again.
For clad as they are for such weather,
It is impossible to keep afloat, and res-
cue is never thought of. They are a
da'e-dev11 cines of men, these hetring-
Cshers, and no peril !0110!5 them.
About the Newfoundland const indent lee
Ines aro usually forming end to gel past
MPS(' is 110 easy matter in Weil wooden
vessels, far a single stroke from one of
(hese masses would destroy n modern
warship as speedily as m1 enemy's ram.
This is nae of the greatest hn'nrds of
lite voyage, end It has peeved the ruin
of more titan one of the fleet.
BOATS LOST YEARLY.
1)1 December, 1001, the Parkhurslvnn-
ished with right hands, her whole crew,
rind the belief that she eves struck by a
(Inc ami 5111111 at once. The harvester
met n similar fate the next season under
like eircumsbances, It is believed, The
Mariana was wrecked on Red lsiand in
i•'ebruary, 1002, and eigt1L out of her ten
men were victims with her„ but the
others told haw she came to be driven
or a lee share when some of her gear
gave way at a critical moment. So
the list goes.
SOME COSTLY GOWNS.
Ono for Empress of itussia Valued o4
$4:1x,000.
If the great costumers of Paris would
reveal the size of the sums paid them
for gowns WO should come to realize
how fads in (cress run into enormous
figures. Worth once confessed that a
Peruvian heiress paid hhn $24,400 for a
single gown, but whether it was the
fabric of which It was made Or the ex-
gutsito work put on it wlkch made this
price pessthlo he refused to say. The
coronation train of the Empress of Rus-
sia W115 ft MOSS Of silver embroidery,
upon which eight girls were al work in
relays night and day for six weeks, and
the bill came to $45,000.
51 a gown is made of lace the price
may be anything the purchaser wishes.
to pay. Probably the worth gown al-
ready me1111005(1 5005 made Of this ma-
terial, and this would o.ecounl for its
price. As an example of Ince prices it
may be mentioned that the lace hand-
kerchiefs made in Sl. Gall, Swilzel'land,
are charged for at the rate of $11 apiece,
and these aro, of course, modern make.
Lace is like wine in thin its value in-
creases with. age. The Queen Dowager
of Italy is said to be the possessor of a
lace handkerchief two hundred years
old and valued at $10,000. Point
Trsse" ince, which was made oL tax
m xod with human hair, is also im-
mensely
mrnensely valuable. A French collector
owns a tiny square made from. the groy,
heir of Margaret, Countess of Lennox,
the mother of the unhappy Lord Darnley.
This is valued at $6,000.
But it is in the garments made of
unique materials that the. faddist In
dress has full sway. And the garments
are often kept as wonderful specimens
et what the art of man can ncoompilsh.
Of this type is the beetle -wing dress
which made a fortune for its lucky
owner, and is stili worth a fortune to-
day. Mrs. Sem Edwards, the wife of
the clever actor, is the possessor of this
wonderful garment, which was sent lo.
her 115 a wedding present by an Indian
rajah in recognition of services done
hhn by her husband. Fifteen thousand
wing eases of an lndlan beetle tiro sewn
upon the material, and lend a green
shimmering radiance to its folds. There
)rave been redly attempts 10 duplicate 0,
but it has been found Impossible owing
to the rareness of the beetles end the
d(meultles of affixing the delicate wing
cases to the material. The value of It is
MONO and can only be g�ue4sed et, hut
✓616,000 Would bo Well within' the 11,0118.
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