The Brussels Post, 1906-8-23, Page 2T
SIE WORK THAT ENDURES
The Spirit of Divine Beauty Gives
Eternal Life to Our Labors.
"And establish then the works of our
hands upon us."—Ps. xo.. 17.
In every man Who lifts his eyes and
heart above the road on which he walks
lies the deep lunging for a share in
eternal things. ile dwells in an atmos-
phere of the transitory ; hourly does na-
ture remind hhn of the insistent les-
sons, all flash Is grass and all the
goodliness thereof as the flower of the
held. But he is the child of eternity
and looks away to Lind somewhere that
which shall not wax old, change, or
pass away.
Ile spends his years in toll, labor that
seems as futile as a child's building of
block castles. He seas in the melan-
choly ruins of the past the ease wilh
which the greatest aohiaenents are
forgotten. Yet still, for all the cen-
turies of vain endeavor, there burns In
les breast the passionate longing to do
some work that shall lost.
This is one of the motives that built
pyramids, led hosts, wrote books, and
sung great songs; this, with the larger
recognition of the fact that we aro under
some great moral obligation, some law
written on file fleshy tablets of the
heart, more imperative than any on
stone, to do the best we can with alt
ourselves, aocounts for a large part of
human progress.
This desire to accomplish things that
shsll endure is
A RIGHT PASSION.
It !itis above the lust for fame, the am-
bition to carve oue petty and meaning-
less names on the sides; It sets the work
above the reward; It makes a man de-
termine to do the work that will stand
whether Us worth be recognized now or
later, whether the reward come now or
consist only Ln the permanency of the
work.
But how shall one and the task that
shall produce an enduring piece of
work? How may a man know that his
work is the best he can do with his
powers? What are the works that
abide, standing flrm in all the passing
procession? What workers of the long
ago have so wrought that their work
abides to our day?
To answer that question a man comes
to realize that the aspiration preceding
the text answers the question, 1t 1s the
spirit of divine beauty that gives eter-
nal life to our labors, the beauty of ser-
vieo and of reverence, The builders of
their own monuments have been loss
gotten. but the doers of true ministry
for others are remembered.
Thero are those who, for glory and
renown. build empires; Iheir names
have perished. Thera have been the
lowly lives that have leapt to some
height of sacrifice, some peak of love,
Mat have dune some deed perhaps small
In itself but magnified manifold by its
motive, and these who never stop to
think of glory, these Rumble ones the
world never will forget.
ABOVE THE TIDES OF TIME,
the storms of criticism. the changes of
our fads and philosophies, the towers 51
sacrifice, of deeds made great by love.
of the ministry of men, stand firm and
Imperishable. Steel and stone come
alike at last to dust, but that which is
wrought Into life, into character, en-
dures.
This Is the day when men are mea-
sured by their ability to build great for-
tunes, when we are likely to become
dissatisfied with our own lives, because
we cannot do these great works, can-
not alt be known as the mighty men 01
our Umes.
Let no man be so foolish as to turn
from the work that can be established,
that Is enduring, to this cuud's play t,f
piling up yellow dirt. Here lies the sat-
isfaction of the teacher, the true
preacher, and of all who give their
lives in service to one another or in the
service of ideals and truth; that they
alone build in the enduring material.
And every life that is given away,
every life that follows the true light, the
light of love, that seeks the best In
thoughts and ideals, in deeds that cost,
every life lived as seeing him who is
Invisible, every life that serves the lives
about it, has established the work of its
hands, has found the lite that is eter-
nal, the crown of glory that does not
fade and cannot be lost.
HENRY F. COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
AUG. 26.
Lesson IX, The Rich Young Ruler,
Golden 'Text: Mall. 16. 24.
TIIE LESSON \\'ORD STUDIES.
Note. --The text of the Revised Version
is used as a busis for these Word
Studies,
The Lesson Setting.—Jesus was on
his last Journey- to Jerusalem. He had
been for a short time in retirement be-
yond Jordan wlLh his disciples. Know
mg all that was h1 store for him, and
the brevity of the time still at his dts-
posal for instructing Itis disciples con-
cerning the great work of establishing
and spreading his kingdom among
men, which was so soon to devolve
upon then, he must have had many im-
portant matters upon his heart and
mind to say to them. But now the time
of privacy and retirement was at an end
and Jesus was once more in company
with his 'disciples on the public highway
leading to Ih: capital city. He was ap-
proaching Jerusalem from the north-
east, and was probably still east of
Jeric.-o and the Jordan River, The read
on which the little company was tra-
velling was a much Irequenled high-
way. Just previous to the incident of
meeting the ,young man Jesus had been
approached by many others among
whom were women whp brought Iheir
little children to hint. Filled with love
and compassion Ise paused to bless them
and to declare to those of maturer
years, who were tweeted. and especially
to the disciples, That of such as these
Mlle ones was the kingdom of heaven.
Pror.,teding further, lite progress of the
little company was again interrupted
by the hurried appstnseh of a ,young
ruler of wealth and social standing, who
addressed himself directly to Jesus, after
paying hien the homage given only to
the gentlest of Matters. The burden of
his errand was to know the way to life
eternal, and to the method by which
Jesus met his earnest inquiry we now
turn our attention.
Verse 17. As he was going forth Into
the way—Frons some stopping place to 1
route to Jerusalem.
There ran one to him—This "one" is ,
described by Luke as "n curtain ruler,' 2
by which is probably meant an. ofifcisl
In a local synagogue. It is more tlnim
probable also that the man was a Phar-
Isee, and further on In our narrative we
learn that he possessed greet wealth, fl
Kneeled to him—Flow much it meant 11
for the young Phlnelsee and ruler to do
ods publicly we on better appreciate
when we remember that at this time all
the Jewish authorities wore already 0
.leagued against this Leacher from Naze-
relh, planning his destruction.
Good Teacher — The customary re-
speclful address of a pupil to a.dis-
tinguished rabbi,
18. Why contest thou me good? none (1
is' good-. save one, even God—Words
spoken preparatory to referring the 1
young man to the divine command- n
melds themselves in answer to Isis In
queetion. tv
10. Thou knowest the cmmnanchnenls (1
—Those commandments white. belonged
to the law of the one only absolutely
dgood Being. For two versions of the
ecelogue see Used. 20. 12.16 and
Dent. 5.16.20,
20. Teacher—We note lied the re-
spectInl bearing of the young marlto-
ward Jesus' is maintained througsout au
the conversatfort. it
All these things have I observed from
my youth—Actually, and in the most
conscientlons manner, the young man
had ordered his daily life in accordance
with these oommandmenls. That he is
keenly conscious of a deeper need is a
strong commentary on the inadequacy
of formal obedience and worship to
satisfy the deepest needs of the human
soul.
21. Looked upon him—His earnest-
ness and evident sincerity challenged
the more careful attention of Jesus, who
loved him for that earnestness, sincer-
ity, and longing for better things.
•-atsoever thou hast—His dress and
demeanor indicated his wealth and
social standing,
Come, follow me—Part with your pre-
sent manner of life and become one of
my disciples like these other men about
m02e.
. Jesus had rightly judged the cese,l
and had frankly poleted out to line
young man the barrier which existed
between himself and the goal which he
sought ; hone the young man's coun-
tenance fell at the saying. His disap-
pointment was caused by his failure to
obtain the object of his quest; his go-
ing away by what seemed to him the
impossibility of fulfilling the conditions
set by Jesus.
24. For them that trust in riches—
Words explanatory °A Use sense Of the
preceding statement of Jesus, Some
ancient manuscripts of Mark, however.omit this clause.
25. Through a needle's eye—Doubt-
less the aotuai eye of a needle is
meant. We have here then., an Orion -
tai proverb setting forth, 1n the form of
rhetorical hyperbole, the extreme WM.cnity of the thing referred to.
26. Astonished exceedingly—Lit., ex-
ceedingly beside themselves, that is,
with amazement.
Unto him—Some manuscripts read
among themselves, doubtless both was
the cane.
Then who can be saved? — Tho
abruptness of their question regects the
user amazement of the disciples.
27. All things are possible with God—
Not simply because he can employ
other than ordinary agencies and per-
form miracles, but also, and more
especially, bemuse Ile has absolute and
unlimited control (nor every natural
agency in the physical and spiritual
world:
2R. Lo, we --in contrast with the
young man, have left all, and have fol.
owed thee—Mat . ew records that Peter
added the very natural question.
'What then shall we have?" (Matt. 111.
71.
29. House. or brethren, or sisters, of
mnih''r, or tether, or children. or Bonds
—111 recognition of the pocnlinr satee-
n)of ench disciple Jesus enumerates
11 ihese Mime:, some one or more ,.1
wMich, each of them had parted with
n order to follow hint.
30. lie shell receive a hundred fold
ow in tilts Hae—The is. he shall re -
MVO 11101. W111011 will rc'pincn all these
hangs to that degree, 'Jesus had no.
vhcl'a to lay his head. and yet he was
omelette of a lordship end possession
[ nit Ilse earth. Into which every true
{,Scipio of his con enter." --(;,)1141.31. Rut many Met ore first shot) be
est—Wards of warning In the dist:Mies
of to build their hopes for eternal lite
a strongly upon the ..n1 sacrifices
Inch they had made in becomingItis
isciples.
_, • 1.. -.
ONLY A SUSPICION,
Mrs. Pneer "I heard that Mi', Tyte-
hist gave a dollar to the San Fransic-
osufferers. Ts it trete,?"
Mr. ?neer; "Nobody knows. Ile was
spotted of 1t, but they couldn't prove
(n ,Mint."
MOVEMENT IS GI OWING' : '�� 'i t�,..�.�,
L
TIIE WO31EN OF JAPAN WANT
Tl1Elit IUO}I 'S.
Girls Refuse 10 Marry Nowadays Until
They Know 'Their
• Husbands.
The Japanese women is the last cf
her sex who would be accused of ha'-
ing woolen's rights aspirations•—spec is
supposed to be a paragon of submis-
sion and self-effacement. But Mr. Lud-
avic Nadeau, writing In tate Paris Jour-
nal, says that a very extensive woman's
rights movement is now in existence in
Japan, and that it is constantly grow-
ing.
Mr. Nadeau speaks es follows :—
IN UPPER CLASSES,
"The movement was stoned by a few
women in the upper classes who had
conte in contact with European life.
Their object here was to free their
pretty compatriots from family tutelage
and marital slavery, to develop the
sentiment of responsibility and indivi-
duality, to strengthen the passion for
liberty and to stimulate the will. Thus
IL happened that at the same time
Socialism was born In Japan the
woman's -rights movement camp into
existence.
" WOULD NOT MARRY.
Among the women who ere devoting
their lives to the liberal professions and
among the female students the revolt is
now complete, and just how deep the
rift Ls may be inferred from the fact that
a short time ago a number of Tokyo
girls refused to marry unless they were
first permitted to meet and know theirfuture husbands, Other girls have coma
out boldly and declarad that they did
not intend to marry at all, and that they
feel the marriage bond to be entirely
inconsistent with tree, individual life.
"Another significant event was a
strike in the latter part of 1905 of girls
employed in a cotton mill at 1Curanagi
—these girls, to the numberof some
nine hundred, boldly marched out to
the demand of shorter hours and higher
wages. For the Japanese woman to do
this, however, means far more than the
average European can surmise, al-
though this is a fact among atony simi-
lar ones which go to prove (hat the
Japanese woman of to -day is far differ-
ent from what she was Len years ago.
MEETS OPPOSITION.
"Naturally the propaganda is meeting
opposition in a country where woman
has been systematically ground down
for centuries, and it is not possible no
achieve emancipation quickly or with-
out a smuggle. But as Japan develops
along modern lines, as she makes hes'
army and navy stronger, as she builds
railroads, noels and schools, just as
surely will modern social and ethical
movements be started and unfolded. Of
these Socialism and femininism are
distinct working forces In Japan to-
day."
HARD -WORKED SCHOOLBOYS.
Those of China Study Nearly Twelve
Hours a Day.
The Chinese school children have in-
stilled into them at an an early age
habits of hard, steady study. At the
age of five a boy begins his schooling.
At daylight he rises, and after dress-
ing as quickly as possible, he starts
breakfastless to school. Ile is given a
task, and after It is completed he is al-
lowed an hour for breakfast. Again,
later, he has an hour for lucheon, but
he 1s at his study nearly twelve hours
a day, seven days in the week.
All his time, when he is not reciting
his lessons, he is 'studying aloud at the
top of his voice. He is under the eye of
his master both in school and on his
way to and from school. The lad is
taught rudimentary astronomy, physics
and natural history, but greater stress
is put upon writing and his literary
studies.
"A Thousand Letters," a poem, is the
study that forms the backbone of his
literary education. In it are taught the
duties of children to parents, and all
such matters. Whatever the study may
be—history, classics, or science—every
lesson is learned and repealed word for
word.
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DANGEROUS WAR -SHIPS.
What Happened a Turkish Ship When
ed t o
Ordered Sea.
ea
The army and navy of Turkey aro net
regarded with much respect by the of-
ficials of other countries. 'Their mighty
forte are believed to be useless; it is
said that the gunner's are never drilled,
and that the big guns, like the battle.
ships, are not, In working order. The
author of "The Balkans from Within"
gives the history of a comparatively re,
cent occurrence it the Turkhnsh navy.
Al Sninnihl n guard -ship, a Miley mod
ern -looking small cruiser, Iles year in
and year out peacefully at anchor in
the bay. One' day at order came to
the commander to put to sea, and the
consternation of that pliant()Meer was
greal, betmise no screw steamer oan
move without a shaft, and the shaft of
this cruiser had been sold some time
I.e(,re.
But he was a mon of resource, and
had a shaft made of wood, which he
hoped would break as soon ns it was
put to use. The shalt held, unexpect-
edly, and es the cruiser slowly steamed
nut of the gulf the captolaet heart sank,
for he did not care (n go to sea wilh a
shaft that must break sooner or later.
So he seal below and hod the shaft sawn
(inti -way through. A Mlle extra steam,
the shrift broke, and 'he guard -ship
was towed heck "disabled,"
LIKED PEOPLE TO TALK.
efrnpuden1 fellow, 1801 he 2" remelted
the first man to 1110 crowd, "1 do de-
spise sassy week. lc. don't you?"
"Oh, dont t Icnnw." replied the outer.
"I like people to talk buck.'
"You do ?"
"Yes; I'm an auctiocerr
IN Home
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DELICIOUS FROZEN DESSERTS.
Frozen Buttermilk,—Put 2 qls, butter
milk, sweetened and flavored into the
freezer. and let stand until very cold ;
then add 1 qt cream that has been
whipped, nix thoroughly and freeze,
11 is a delicious frozen dish.
Cocoanut l:rersm.—{Por (Isis take 1 qt
cream, 1 pt milk. 1% cups sugar, 3
eggs, cup classicated or fresh cocoanut
gruted and the juice and rind of a
lemon, Beal together the eggs and the
gruted lemon rind, add this to the milk
In a double boiler, and stir until the
mixture begins to thicken; then add the
cocoanut and set to cool. \Vhen cool,
add one sugar and lemon juice mixed
together, lien stir in the cream, and
freeze.
Kentucky Cream.— Make % gallon
Acts boiled custard, sweeten to taste,
and 2 tablespoons gelatine dissolved In
3 oup cold milk. Let the custard cool,
put in a freezer, and as soon as 1t be-
gins to freeze add 1 lb raisins, 1 pt
strawberry preserves. 1 qt of whipped
cream, stir and beat welt. Blanched
almonds or grated cocoanut may be
added, if preferred.
Brown Bread Greens—This has a
city flavor that Is simply delicious.
Any one who Inas tried the effect of a
thin slice of brown bread, buttered with
sweet 'bullet, as an accompaniment to
ice cream, will appreciate the combina-
tion. A cup and a quarter of dry
crumbs are to be soaked for 15 min-
utes In 1 qt cream, then add 1 pL cream,
X teaspoon salt, small cup of sugar,
rub soaked bread through sieve, stir 1n
the other ingredients and freeze. Half
milk will answer (1 cream is ricin.
Two Toothsome Ices. —Wateem elon;
Scrape the pulp from a largo ripe
wateteneion and squeeze out all the
juice, sweeten, mix with the whites of
3 eggs and freeze. The whiles of the
eggs should be beaten. to a stiff froth
before adding to melon juice.
Fruit ice : To 4 cups water add 2%
cups sugar, bring to boiling point and
let boll 20 minutes. Add % cup lemon
juice and juice of 3 oranges, Cool,
strain and freeze.
SHERBETS OF MANY KINDS.
Apple: Press 1 p1 unseasoned cooked
apple pulp through sieve; add 1 p1
oranberry juice, juice of 1 lemon, 1
teaspoon vanilla and 1 pt sugar; cook
10 minutes, cool and freeze as for ices.
Serve in crystal glasses.
Raspberry : Measure 1% pts rasp-
berry juice, 1 scant pt sugar, 1% pts
water and the juice of 2 lemons. Boil
the sugar and wafer together for 20
minutes, then add the lemon and rasp-
berry juice, strain and freeze.
Pomegranate: Peel and squeeze the
juice from 4 large oranges, mix with 1
cup powdered sugar; 2 tablespoons
gelatine dissolved in hot water, 1 pt
powdered ice, and 1 leaspon fruit color-
ing. Mix all together, flavor with 1
teaspoon of nectarine, turn into a
freezer and freeze. Serve in glasses.
Currants : To 1 eft currant juice al-
low 1% pts water, the juice oI 1 lemon,
1 pt sugar and 1 tablespoon gelatine.
Soak the gelatine an hour or two in a
little cold water, and then dissolve it in
% pt boiling water. When the gelatine
cools add the pint of cold water, the
sugar and the lemon and currant juice,
and freeze,
Banana: Boil together for 5 min-
utes % pt sugar and 1 pt water. Let it
get cold, then add the juice of a small
lemon and of an orange, and % dozen
bananas mashed fine. Freeze until it
begins to thicken, then pour in 1 cup
cretin and freeze to the consistency of
mush. Serve in punch cups.
Pineapple: Boll together 1 qt granu-
lated sugar and 1 qL water until a thick
syrup Is formed, and pour this, very
hot, over a can of grated pineapple or
a fresh pineapple grated. Add the juice
of 4 lemons, place the mixture in the
freezer, add 1 pt cold water. Just as the
sherbet begins to freeze, add the well -
beaten whites of 3 eggs, and finish the.
freezing.
Mint: Bruise the leaves of a bunch
'of fresh mint; add the juice of 2
lernons, cover anct let stand for 20 min-
utes, Put 1 pt granulated sugar and 1
pt water in a saucepan over the ilre and
stir until the sugar Is dissolved; 'then
cook undisturbed until syrup will
thread when dropped from the point of
a spoon. Remove from fire and add s4
cup grape fruit juice. cool and strain,
and if you desire a brighter green, color
with spinach coloring. Freeze in usual
way.
Orange; Orange sherbet is delight-
fully refreshing and very effective when
tinted a pretty pint,. Made by the fol-
lowing method, it will be found very
excellent. Juice of 3 oranges and 1
lepton, a heaping cup red sugar, 1%
pts water, 1 lnblespoon gelatine, which
hos been soaked for an hour in the re-
maining sX pt water; sib' over fire until
all is dissolved, then remove Mein the
{neat and add the orange and lemon
oMilcand strain through a cheese
te , Freeze the mixture when cold,
and when half frozen add the whiles of
eggs beaten stiff. Lemon sherbet can be
colored fn the same way and is equally
inviting,
Grape Juice Frappe.—One :pt of grape
juice, 1 clip orange juice and the juicy
of 2 lemons aro required. Acki 2 cups
granulated auger and 4 of water. Moil
the sugar and water 15 minutes end odd
the fruit jute°. Strain, add 1 qt ice
water and more sugar if necessary.
Remember that MOS are sweeter before
they are frozen Clan afterwards, Do
not freeze too bard,
Pineapple Mousse, -Very dainty are
Inc desserts maple of inapt mousse, and
in summer nothing scents to equni
then, Almost every moiety of fruit
may he used, with this recipe ns a
Inundation, adding more fruit or sugar
es the case requires. Many prefer to
Merlin the fruit, except In case of pine-
apple, simply using the juice, and if so,
more fruit will bo required. For phi%
apple mousse Chop 1 fin large ping
apple, add 1% qIs water, sweeten to
taste and add the beaten \sidles of Iveco
or three eggs ami freeze. For lounn1
mousse allow 4 lemons to 3 oranges.
and the sautla quantity of wider.et. Serve
in gloss cups, with
cherry atop.
IIIN'1'S FOR 'rifle HOME.
When stewing fruit add the sugar
oiler the fruit is cooked. In this way
only a small quantity of sugar will be
required to eoelt pound of fruit stewed.
Preserve ferns or gross ht then
natural colors by placing then In blot -
ling -paper for forty-eight hours and
I•hen pressing them with heavy weights.
Maidenhair fern can also be successful-
ly treated in this way.
When scrubbing boors and tables do
not use soda, for IL cakes boards a had
color and does not cleanse better than
soap and plenty of cold 01' tepid wale',
The hoards should be scrubbed the
u
way of the grain, and not round n114
round, as so many youtsg people pre-
fer doing.
For the coffee -stains on your grey
dress try an application of fuiler:s
earth and wafer made into a push,.
Apply this just on the stained part, and
when dry brush off with a clean clothes
Mush ; if necessary. have. a second ap-
plication of the paste.
To Render China and Cilass More,
Durable.—Wrap the pieces separnlel; in
hay hands, or some suit material, pine
them in a large pot and cover will' cold
water. Place the pot on the stove and
heat the water very gradually, until
near boiling point, then lower the fire
and allow the water to cool gradually,
To Keep Fish Fresh,—Clean the fish
and sprinkle the inside with brown
sugar. Keep the fish in a horizontal
position, so that the sugar may soak
into it as much as possible. Half an
ounce of sugar will be found quite susiu-
cfont for three pounds of fish. If [lett Is
treated by this method before sant
and smoking, the flavor is much im-
proved.
A Danish Way of Washing Dillon':
Fabrics,—Boil three pounds of potaloo
in n gallon and a half of m\'nlrr for ten
or twelve minutes, strain the wafer and
let it cool. Wash Inc garments in this
without soap. put the same potatoes in-
to another gallon and a half of water
and repeat the process. The fabric
will then be clean; hang in the open
air in the shade and iron while half dry
with a moderately hot iron.
To glaze linen without the help of a
polishing iron we should advise using
this starch -gloss. 'fake a quarter of a
pound of white starch, half an omsoe of
borax, one ounce of yellow soap, one
dessertspoonful of glycerine, the same
quantity of turpentine, and a teaspoon-
(uI of common salt. First dissolve the
snap and bprax in one pint of hot water,
then mix all together and add half a
pint more water. The great advantage
of this preparation is thee it keeps for
nsonlhs.
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SLAVES IN PAGKINGTOWN
SERFDOM NOT LESS ABJECT THAN
IN DARKEST RUSSIA.
The Author of "The Simple" 'felts About
the Workers in the Meat
Industry.
In the hubbub over,- Use unsanitary
methods in the prepartion of packing-
house products, says the 'Literary Di-
gest, Upton Sinclair complains, public
attention has entirely neglected the
"wage -slave," as he calls hien, lite im-
migrant, the laborer whose lot in Pack-
ingtown is by all accounts a hard one.
His plain purpose, Mr. Sinclair says in
an article in the New York Evening
World, was not to expose "the con-
demned meat industry,' but rather to
"make the average American sympa-
thize with the story of the foreign -born
wage -slave in Packinglown." "I do not
wish to be ungracious," he adds, "but
I fear that 'The Jungle' would have
been much longer h1 doing its work
had its appeal been simply to the hearts
and conscience of its readers and not
at all to their stomachs." He goes on;
"And yet we are lied up in the sane
country with those strangers, and their
fate is our fate; the tray our country
goes in the future depends upon what
opportunities and what life we give them
They are coming hero at the role of a
million a year, and if wo think we can
allow them to be beaten end degraded
without 1halt, and not pay a fearful pen-
alty for it ourselves, we make a great
mistake.
"The whole counh;y is at this mo-
ment struggling against the power of the
h'usls. You yourself are suffering from
their encroachments and ere fighting
1'; free yourself. And 1t is the po\vee of
iho political machine which holds you
down; and the power of the machine Is
founded upon the foreign vole which
is bought
"About twelve years ago, old P. D
Armour, at. the close of a great shrike,
had declared nein an oath thin ho would
fix the population of i'aokinglown so
Ibnn in would never call a strike upon
hien again; and so lie had set his agents
ill work lo bring out hordes of emi-
grants from Eastern Etmope—Lilltunn-
inns, Poles, Bohemians, and Slovaks. I
met dozens of neon who had come as n
direct result of his endeavor. Sh'nngers
had come to linear village—nseu who
spoke their own language and were fa -
millet' with their ideas, and who told
wonderful tales about free Americo
and about the greet pecking -factories
and the wond'er'ful wages palet there, One
could get over for Mutest nothing, tar
areengemente hod been mode with the
steamship compnuy, end so that they
hod sold out all that they owned and
come, Rmnelhncs whole families of then,
somelitnes half a dozen [entities iron
a single village. They hod poured In-
to Pockinglavn, 0110 swarm nfler an-
other; and as n rester old P. D, Ammer
hod lied ait the Inhor he could usommi
hod hoiden down tvnges In the starva-
tion point and merle himself one of the
riehesi. men In America nail his son
one of the . NU -dozen musters of the
destiny et the ' ^l ort people.'
S'i'lt1e,sens P ejeeneRtsD,
"These ignorant strangers," he meet,
hod ht'on plundered from the moment
they loft (Reit' llanivp village," On
•
i'+'el;v hood 1' .'s' tore rheal"d acrd preyed
1118111 by greaten , rent. estate sharps,
and what nut Alit Sinclair condense'
a zieelion of Theelement; h
n
I>ous, s nee. ,aid iu im141igr+wls alt lir
insluluu'nt plan nod lieu Iukcn from
them ante' Iuuusrd' of dollars have been
paid In, for Inability le pay an halal -
meat at canalis than. Ile eunlutue.,:
"The (yokel' hemmed -Memo in Peel:
ingtou'n is a two Mere). fintue buildin
haying four small rooms ml a dour. A
hair tw111 NI 'ruled by a family, which
will then take in Winders to help melte
expenses. Single riled, 0f whom theft
ern large numbers orrasbnlaily NHL t
fiat. for Melt :elven. Most of II>e Pula;
and Slays wills %Omni 1 tont', talked
said that they \+ere eating nh111(5 up
to get away from \meta» because the
+voric was loo bard for Them In ,land.
They live sometimes as many as litir-
Ieeu ht a x00111, rending 11 roan 1111(1 ena-
('loying n wmuau lu uuuk lilt Ihem co -
epos lively. 'I'lu'y have mat 1sosse',spreud
uu the flo(r, 041'01'011 tvlllt 14011018
a'h(cit ore su\c•r ,Ranged unlit they
W0111' nut; nal faequc'ally a mattress is
owned by n day man and as night nuut
and thus never gals a chance 10 gel
,011. The Otho and vermin In these
rooms 000, of course, beyond any words;
and, needless In say. in the winter time
no fresh air ever gels into the building.
Living in homes such as (his, end meet-
ing len or twelve hours a day under lets
elite pressure - -nil Matto to mirk Mute
in rush season, the nen have very
little verde.), left. and know no way to
spend their money excepd in drink.
"When L had finished The Jungle I
went through it and cut uttl everything
that sounded like preuching, ilet•e
is one of the paragraphs which t cal—
the best statement 1 can make upon
this question:
"'Once upon a (line a great-hearted
mum sal forth the sufferings of Its
black chrttte(sli>t'e and roused 51 con-
tinent to arms. She had many things
in her favor which cannot be counted
on by tern, who would point the Ilfe of
the modern slave -the sieve of the fac-
tory, the sweatshop, and the mine. The
lash which drives the latter sinal ei-
ther be seen or heard; Most people do
not believe line it crisis -11 ie the nun
of Ise philanthropist and the polijieel
cean'o 1Jon that fl does not exist_ !'Isis
slave is non, hunted by blondhnunds;
he is not beaten to pieces by pictur-
esque villains nor does Is die in ecstneics
et religious faith. Elis religion is but
another snare of the oppressors, and
the bitterest of his misfortunes; the
(sounds that hunt him aro disease, and
accident, and the villain who murders
him is merely the prevailing role .1
gages. And who can thrill the tender
with the talc of a lean -hitt, in which
the hunted is a lousy and W1)0111'11 for-
eigner, and the hunters two the gams
of consumption, diphtheria and typhoid?
Who can make a romance out of the
story of a man whose one life adven-
ture is the scratching of a huger by an
infected butcher -knife, with a pine box
and a pauper's grave es the denouement?
And it must be just as painful to die
of blood -poisoning as to be beaten In
amine (0 be tracked by htoodltonnds
end torn to pieces is most certainly n
merciful fete compared to that which
falls to thousands every year in Pack-
ingtown—lo be hunted fon life by !litter
poverty, to be awakened by s1arvelam,
cold and exposure, to be laid low by
sickness or occident—and then to lin
and watch while the gaunt wolf of
hunger creeps in upon you and gunau's
out the heart of you, and leers up the
bodies and souls of your wife and ba-
bies."
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SERFDOM IN AMERICA.
The Appeal to Reason (,Socialist•]; of
Girard, Kate, in connttenlhng along the
same line upon the scant attention paid
to the laborer in Packiuglown, observes:
"It seems that the public becomes en-
raged only when deliberate murder is
planned and actually done upon Unite
serfdom not less subject than In darkest
Russia. If such a slavery were possible
in packing houses tinder nur blessed
capitalism, hien it Is certainly possible
hr all our corporate industries, and the
contention of Socialists that there does
exist under the present velem of
wages and profit a tyranny as oppres-
sive as ever welded shackles to limbs
of freemen Is jaslCied,"
In looking for ` arguments or elate -
monis from the packers' sale we have
examined Mr. J. Ogden Armours re-
cent book, "The Packers, the Private
Czar Lines, and the People," but Mr. Ar-
mour does not treat the subject of
labor.
0
JAPAN FORGING AHEAD,
Rapid Strides in Indushtial Pursuits of
eliknitio's Subjects.
"Japan is snaking repaid rs'ogress,"
says the ilrfl(sh Commercial Attache at
Tokio in his report on the trade of .Ja-
pan for 1005.
In :1902 her import; and exports
amounted to £54,107,552, in 1005, to
£152,60,809,
Raw cotton of the vette) of £{1,153;
(I(0 ons imported in 1.905, as egasns(
£7,206,000 In 1904, and 150,000 spindl s
are being added to the native 00(100
mills,
The two new giant battleships of 19,-
099 lone are being tach wi(.h Japanese
steel, and a leading Japanese ship-
Isuiider hes slnled Ilial ships can b
{mil( es ,imply, if not. eheaper, 1n Ja-
pen titan in the United Kingdom.
The native oil induetry has nearly
doubled In one year, "greatly assistedby the extra war ditty."
NATURAL LULL IN GENIUS
DAY Ole IN"TE(LIKIT T,SL GIANT'S 1S
PARTIALLY AN e CSPENSE.
Beanie in itecent Years !las Lost Many
Grout Men, i1u1 31011y Yel
lienlrja,,
Tho recent statement by Sir W. B.
tlichmond, 11.1., ilea "we Jsave no rattily,
great mon, beeuuse we du not desire
Mem and beans, we are experiencing
a natural lull b1 genius," rcpreseols a
fairly widespread opinion that the day,
of "gentle," if un( over, is just now in
suspense, and Ibe1 llw present Is an ago
of mcdiocrlitee, say's Loudut Tit -flits.
It is true that within compurulively
recent years we have lost nnaly of our
lnlellerl.ua giants --Dickens and Tilaolt-
eray, Carlyle and Ruskin, Huxley, Tyn-
dall, and Herbert Spanker, Gludstnne,
Bright, anti Dtseaell••-unen whose sate-
en inns placed lberu among the Minute -
tale; but we have happily still with us
many men with aro not only disihrotiy.
grnrnl, but who in their burn will till
ounspteuous niches in our
TEMPLE OF FAME.
It is dnuneful, for instate,, whether
Britain has produced a ]metre brilliant
mutt of schwa than Lord Kelvin, whose
almost countless invonliosts during the
lost half -centime' have done so mucic to
revolutionize the sek'nces of eteuh'icity
and navigation. Merely to Kiva a list ' f
his cont'ibultons to our knowledge In a
scorn of quite distinct direcliuns world
1111 columns; and there can be little
doubt that when be, loo, has joined the
outer giants of science his fame will be
at least equal to that of the greatest of
llsem all,
Signor Marconi, wile Is half a Briton
(Itis mother was an Irish lady), had
made Infotech immortal by (tis discovery
of aerial telegraphy before he had ad-
vanced far Into the hvenlies, Sir Wil-
liam Crookes, who is contslunlly start-
ling the world wI(Is his revolutionary
discoveries in the held of chemistry. is
the greatest chemist since Faraday ;
and, among lesser scienlillo lights., still
living, who are really great men, aro
Lords Rayleigh and Avebury, whose
fame will surely survive them.
In literature we can still boast great
names, it none, perhaps, so distinguish-
ed and enduring es those. of Carlyle and
Tennyson, Dickens and Thackm'ay.
Among our pouts Swinburne and Wil-
liam \\'arson, are entitled to rank with,
if not above the majority of those who
have slag and died before then ; and
Mr. George Meredith is
ASSURED OF A IIIGIi PLACE
among the writers of 'lotion whose
works endure—Indeed, it is doubtful
whether, as judged by the highest tests
of art, England has ever produced his
superior.
'though Art has been robbed In recent
years of Millais and Leighton. kladox
Brown, Waite, Rossetti, anti other groat
painters, we still have Mr, Ilolulnn
Hunt, whose "Light of the World,"
"The Triumph of Use Innecenls," anti
many other morasses are among the
grcaleet achievements of British ort,
and who, In the opinion of competent
judges, is one of the linen. painters the
voted has known, hie. Sargent, as a
portraii-pahnter, is entitled to rank with
Reynolds, Gainsborough and Romney ;
Mr, E. A. Abbey. R,A., and. Mr. George
Clausen, A.R.1., will be even more
famous in future genel'ulions than in
ours; and the Lime will comet, so those
say who are most .died to judge, when
Air. Alfred Gilbert, R.A., the famous
sculptor, will be placed on a pedestal
al least as exalted as that of lrelaxssan.
Englund las cradled few really great
nutsicians, but Sir Edward Eiger al-
ready takes a very high place among
them, though probably his best work is
yet to come; and it Is by no means sone
that, a generation hence he will not have
displaced henry Purcell from his emi-
nence as the greatest of Leuglish com-
posers, In Grrrsiany, the nurscry of
musical geniuses, Elgar is already
melted with some of
THEIR GRL'A'ri'ST M
RN.,
There may be no lawyer living to -day
quite so profound as Jessel or so bril-
liant as Herschell and Roundels Pal -
me, but it would be possible to name
a dozen men who, in gifts and ellain-
ments, could challenge comparison with
the best men in any Previous genera-
tion; and although we may have no
statesman of the eminence of Gladstone
or Disraeli, and no political orator so
magnetic, and eloquent as John Bright,
yet we have gr,'eL 'nen, whose names
will occur to our renders, he the arena
of politics.
The BrIlish Nnvy, too, has its great
men, who, if they had had Lite oppor-
Mntlios of pest heroes, would probably
have won equal [ante. To mention only.
two out of many, Sir John Fisher has
probably never had a superior as a tao-
lician, organizer, and all-round sea-
man,' while Lord Charles Beresford
would probably have been a oonspto-
uaus figure in Nelson's day.
And !f England has now no Welling-
ton of Marlborough, she has a trio of
soldiers of whom any age or country
might be proud, and all of whom have
well earned the title of "great men"—
Lords Roberts, Wolseley and Kitohener,
Lords Curzon and Milner need fear no
comparison with the most famous of
Oast celonlal administrators; nor in the
realm of commerce has Great Britain
ever produced finer samples of energetic
manhood than Mr. Carnegie and Lord
Strathaona,
TWO WAITING.
A go/Inman met a young woman,
who had formerly been a servant in his
house, and, being interested in lserseeel•
faro, said to icer :
"Haven't you got married yet?"
"No, sir."
"Well, I thought you would have been
married before now."
"011, no, sir," she said; "there's two
weldor."
"Two I" he exclaimed, "Why, you
don't intend to marry two, de you?"
"No, sir."
"Then, who aro they?"
"Why," sho replied, naively, 'the twat
that's martin' is the 'moister and Me 1".
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