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The Brussels Post, 1907-4-4, Page 2THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE ELEPHANT AND ENGINE P. FIGHT 'IV THE DEATH ON A HAIL. There Mut be Some Things Certain and WAY IN INDIA. Dependable, Else All Is Chaos, Imeontotive and Six Tons of Elephant Met Ilend on -- PeolograPbe to Prove It. "Thoil will keep him in pet:reel peace Whose mind is staid on thee."--Isatah erode 3. It Ss possible for the Properly adjusted wheel to revolve so repldly as to seem not to move. at all. That is peace; not inaction, not stillness, not 1110 (teeth of desert placess, but harmony, calm, free- dom tram fret and fetus from friction and forehodiug, front the diecord and dispersion of Powell.% Tills is the desire ,of 411 our hearts, 10 eome to a calmness of self.control Met shall put, us In full commend of our powers. But how 01111 0110 find such peace in the whirl of Modern busingse, in social distractions, in a life where =known eves ;await, and where the heart oflen is torn by mysterioue .eerrows and disap- poirtiments,? How can pear() he found with the' manifold demands of lite upon one, with aspirations calling higher and sin and sloth luring down? ilas Hee battlefield ofbeing any place for peace? Teace is wholly a matter of the mind and `heart. A mind at war with itself will Ilnd only conflict though buried in a ssmonastery, while peace of heart will _cane a man through the maelstrom of a. trial with the calm of heaven on his face. Thal. kind of balance and equipoise of Ifie is possible only when the life Is cm - tend on things that do not change, when it has a centre oe equilibrium that is stable. When theough all the changing course, THE BUFFETING AND TACKING, tha contrary winds and fierce storms, the mariner has over the undeviating compass before him, he knows that though sails be rent and spars be bro- ken he shall come at last to his desired haven. Imagine what our physical life would be like if there were nothing certnin, no uniforrnity in the laws of nature. We depend with perfect. confidence on the principles weleh science and experience demonstrate as prevailing in the realm of things. Yet there are many so foolish as to imagine that in the higher realms or thought, motives, character, there aro no laws, There emnee a wonderful measure of calm to the lire ellen al last one te elee to set it down es ese uf the indubitable, unshakable fuels of existence. Met the pewee Wet is baelc of all being 15 O. power fur good and nut foe ill, that whatever we may menn by the divine we' mean not something evil but some- thing beneficent, worthy only of worship because it is working out worthy, nohle and glorious purposes. It through all that seems Ill, through the defeat ut eue little plans, the ceossing of Our purposes, even through nue losses alai puin, we may know that good is working, and that this Is infinite, ultimate, eternal.. and all wise good, what measure of etrength, of willingness le endure, to wait, of calmness and peeee comes to us. One is willing to wail. to endure, lo be p11115111 1! only it be weelli tt lale, if some god and great end is to 111s.served, The thought of the one who is at Lite heart or WI being, who calls himself THE FATHER OE US ALL, gives asset:time that no toil, no tear, no weary watehing nor long wailing is In %rain. for Mingle goodness governs all Er: good, So a man falle into liermony with Me epiritual laws of the universe. Ole finds peace by concord win) them. Ile 18 00 longer the lone soul struggling with life; he iS part of the great soul of all, learning, developing, moving out into target: life through living, tinding pence, by progress, clear, definite, and increas- ingly comprehensible. No maul can set God at, the centre of his life and think always 01 1(10 things or the Most Sigh, setting his life In the light, of the eternal, without betng lifted into its atmosphere of calm, clear peace. The consciousness of the divine may be unformulated; it may seem beyond ex- pression in terms of our thinking, and still it may become the very' centre of life and the secret of peace. HENRY F, COPE, THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, .. APRIL 7. Lesson I. Jacob's Vision and God's Pro- mise. Golden Text: Gen. 28. 15. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. Based on the text of the Revised Ver- sion The History of Origins Resumed—The Temperance and Easter Leseuns to which WO have given our attention on the two preceding Sabbaths have broken into the continuity of our study of the early beginnings of the Hebrew people. To -clefs lesson pielcs tip the thread of the Genesis narrative exaetly where we dropped it three weeks ago. no recorded events intervening between the lesson for March 17 and this one. Bebekah, the wife of Isaac, after counseling her son Jacob to flee from the wrath of Esau to 'Alban, his uncle, in distant Ilaran, pro- ceeds to enlist the co-operation of Isaac in furthering her plans and enabling Jacob to make the journey In the guise of a suitor. rather than as an acknowledged fugitive from .the just angel' of a. deeply - wronged brother. To accomplish her purpose Rebekah resorts te deception and by Its practice succeeds in withhold- ing froin her aged husband the real rea- 800 for desiring that ,Tarob shall without delay proceed epee the long journey euggested. Apparently also she succeeds in keeping Esau from suspecting the real purpose of the journey upon which, shortly afterward, his brother sets forth. Verse 1 . Isaac called Jaeob—Soon, if not inunediately, after lite petulant Out- break of Rebekah : "I am weary of my lite bemuse of the daughters of Henri it Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth. such as these of the daughters or the land, What good shall my life do' nie?" Thou shalt not take—More than a sim- ple request of father to son, lite p111100 - tat authoeily of the Orientals in ancient times not being abrogated as in modern times when the son reached twenty-one years of age. Tribal and frunity govern- ment was so closely inlerwoven that the authority of the father over the eon was In pert the authority of a tribal superior over an In Interior. The. daughters of Canaan stralightees of the native inhabitants of the hind, 1/800 apparently refepring to Hittite wo- men from among whom Esau had cho- sen. We of his wives. 2. Paddan-aram — Elsewhere referred te simply as Arnm, the prefix Padden signifying acre or leact of land. In the Old Testament Aram includes the north- ern part of Meetopolanda, Haran being 1110 name both of a city and of a smaller province. 4. The blessing of Abraham—The di- vine promise oft -repeated lo Abraham, • Insuring to his posterity a., a permanent inheritance the land of Dineen. here ee- reeved. to by Isaile 1 11 epeaking 10 Jiteob . as the land of thy sojouriengs. Jacob, ' Isaac his father and ,thralunti hi• s grandrelher, wils to he but 0 sojourner • In. the land of which his deseendrints should in later times lake 11111 possees skit Verses 5-9 inclusive 1.0.000(1 11)0 erect on Esau or Iseac'e sending JuctI Inlct Pad- damertun seetne a wife; for "Eentt eaw: that the daughters of r.1101111n pleased not Isaac, 1118 11111100 ; 111111 Pistol tvent utile Ishmael 01111 look besides the W11/05 that he had. Nialtrilelle the (laugh- , kr of Ishmael, Abralinni's ism, the sis- ter of Nebekth, k be his wife," /0, neer-simile—The mew meens tiler. idly "well of the oath." 11 was here that Abraham hod entered Mk enveriant with Altimeter:le 'king of (terer glen. 21. 1). "Wherefore he called (be Omer 13(11'- aheba ; Pecause there they 50 410 both of them." A different derivation, however, is suggested in Gen. 26. 33: "We have found water. And he called it rehibah : therefore the name of the city is Beer- sheba unto this day." 11. One of Um stones 01 1110 place -1n the tecinay ot Benin. the site of ancient Bethel, the ground is covered by largo sheets of bare stone with here and there o rock in upright posititer, while a Mile ti the southeast a hilt rises to its top in terraces of stone. 1.2. Behold a ladder—The physical fea- tures of the place, especially the terraces of stone referred to In the preceding note, seemed in the dream to constitute a huge staircase or ladder set up on earth, and the lop of it reaching to heaven. 13. Above it—Or, beside 111m, as the marginal reading of the Revised Version indicates. 14. As the dust of the earlh--Compare tire similar promises in which the count- less stars of heaven (Gen. 15. 5; 22. 17 ; 25. 42 and the send glen. 22. 17 ; 32. 12). which serve as figures to describe the great number of descendants which ere promised. Thou shalt spread abroad—lleb. break forth. To the west, and In the east, and to the north, and to the south --In the days of ils greatest. prosperity the united king- dom actually did extend as far in every direction as these words of prophecy could possibly be interpreted to indicate. 15. Bring thee again irtto this land— The word "again" in Old English is eon- etantly used where we should say "back." The archaism in this case does not, however, as somelitnee, create am- biguity. 16. 1 knew it not—Apar:m[1y Jacob had been accustomed to think of Seim - vales presence as assoviated especially with certain sacred places at which his forefathers had dwell end worshiped. He seems to be eurprised to find Jeho- valis presence in this strange and lonely place, 17. Dreadful—Lit. "to be feared." The houee or God—The place of Jello - vales own abode and consequently the gate of heaven. 18. For a pillar—Lit. "a standing elone," that ie, a sacred monolith such as in early Old Testament limes consti- tuted the distinguishing mark of a saered place, often standing beside an altar. In Exod, 23. 24, and in 2 Kings 10. 26, the "pillars" of the Couaaniles are ordered 10 ho destroyed, end in Deut. fit. 22, it Is forbletten to erect pillars by Ilic altar of Jehovah: Poured oil upon lite hp of it—Thereby consecrating it and selling 11 apart sacredly es maldng a place of worship. 19. Bethel-- reining literally "the house of Clod." The modern Ileitin is a small village will) ruins of early Chris- tian and crusaders' buildings, about len miles north of Jerusalem and a little out of the male highwey leading from Jeru- salem northward to Sheeltem. The eily \V15 Luz W. the Ilret—Appar- really the sacred place "Bethel' war; out- side the ancient, city : but later the fente of the sanctuary led to the ells: bring known by the same name, being celled Gethel In place ot.Luz. 20. Vowed a vow—As wait common antong rtneient Oriental peoples, 'hie vow ermsisled of a solemn perentee lo render to God some smelts, in the event of 8 particular boon asked foe being gran led. 21, 22, Anil eulunelt will be my God, 111011 this elone—Or, "then shall Jehovah lie my God end this. slows" Shell be God's house—Not 111 en idole- items sense MO nionning simply IMO in Ilia place of the stone Meru shell be ereeted 111 seine Mime 11010 ft peetrumen 1 wee:Mary ew ihe worship re Jehovah, I will surely give 100 11)11111 unto thee— The diellnel commend in eel, aside a tenth lie Jeleivalis porlioe is given in Lev. 2.7. 10-3e. In Gen. 14., 20, leovever, Abraham is P0101.1•0(1 In ris pitying tithes Mud is, tenths) unto etched's:deli, king of Solent. A visitor in lite London aloes of the chola-Nagpur Railroad or India the other day uotteed a big frumed picture la an Miscue comer. It seemed different front others on the walls, which were mere &signs 'of bridges and Ammo- tivee, with plaus and gradients on blue linen. lle walke,1 over and beheld six photo - Le mem, seeming to tell an Interesting stole'. They Weee mounted together lit tine large frame. The visitor eould eee en elephent and a train off tbe traf.k. 'lien'," he thought, "Is something worth investigating. rn tisk one of the directors about IL" He did so, and this is the story the direeter told; "We aro humdrum people," Ile said, "and care little for rollers outside our freight or sugar and eetton, Ailk and Umber and pilgrims, But those photo- graphs record an unusual event. "Ono September night the up men left Charkardarpore for Nagpur at 8.20. Then Is a big railroad community here, and the train Wae 10011 .found in every respect. Mere trove three or four passenger coaches, and some freight ears full 11 stain, oilseeds, stone, lime, lac, hides, cocoons and sabhol grass. There were also a few pilgrims on their way to Puri, the city or Juggernaut— CHIEFLY FIGHTING KOHLS, "Ali Wi:11/ well until Goilkera station was passed at 9.15. This Is one of our peineipal Umbee exporting stettons, especially for railroad sleepers. "Between Goilkera and Manharpur stations our line eaters a district known as Saranda of the Seven 'Mildred FEEL Theee Mlle forlll the watershed between Ole rivets Brehminee and Subenrika. "They are heavily timbered ruld the whole country is as. wild as It can be. 11 10, in fact, one vast mass of jimgle, which extends almost continuously from the southern portion .of the Stele of lemonghur on the south to the edge of the Bandit plateau me Ihe noetle "Four miles from Goikera the line, es you can see on. the map over there, passes through the Sarande tunnel, and. beyond title is a paradise of big game --elephant, tiger, bear, bison, spotted deer and sambhur. From the tunnel the grade is 1 in 100 elowoward te the Karo River, on the opposite side of which, is a. high approach bank ending 111 a cutting. Now I am going to get you our engineer's report." So saying the director peodueed it from his desk and read: "I was proceeding steadily down the grade at 37 miles an hour. lt was a pitch dark night as 1 ran through THE SARANDA JUNGLES, "Immediately after I had crossed the Karo Bridge I felt a violent obstructive shock. 1 tried to reverse and put oe my brakes. My engine kept the rails at 'lest, but a tew seconds later she was ploughing her way through the loose granite, and providentially slopped on the very bp of a, bank 45 feet high. "it was most fortunate that heavy rains•had been felling and 11.10 way was very soft. So my engine had no soonee left the track than she was plunged up her axles in soft earth tied loose stones. "I got down and groped my way back lo see what damage had been done. Few ears, including that at Mr. Faulds, the deputy locomotive seperintendent, were also devailed, and our brake van was badly smashed, as also was one of the third class ears containing pilgrims. "Mr. Fankls joined 100, and so did our guard. We thought at lirst there must be c.attle on the line, bul we could see nothing. We procured lanterns and carefully examined the engine. Sud- denly 1 heard Mr. Faulds cry: 'hat's this?' "lee held in his band a strip of ele- phard skire We plied our lanterns this way and lhat, end soon saw the huge telltale pads everyWheve. And WO found the spot where our enemy had rolled over the bank titter the tremendous 1.10- 1)8.01. "These heavy jungles are full of wild elephenls, and the big lusker who at- tacked us was evidently an outcast rogue, A FELLOW OF BAD TEMPER; such as those that terrorize the villages, lying up in dense jungle by day and coming out only at nIght to feed and destroy housee and human life. "It did not take much search to end him. He lay, a monstrous inert mass, among lite tangled wet undergrowth, end his mighty weight—perhaps six tons—falling nearly fifty feet, had driv- en n vast hole In the soft earth. One hind leg had been cut, off, and there were Utak severe Injuries to the head and shoulders, "1 judged that the big tueker, anger- ed by our approaching lights and the general uproar of the (rein. had stood full in the track, and Indeed had charg- ed down upon us, only to secure a. ter- rific etroke, which struck him deed. Ire punished us pretty severely, however, for he had done &Image to 1116 extent 01 14,000 rupees at least. "I sent word to Geneva, six miles awny, end WO 5000 had a gang of re- opens at work on the damaged tmln. We Humped out the fallen monsier'e tnsee and iniele over Ilin carcess to the semi-eavage Khali." Snell •wee the dleectoe's story of the photogrephs, JEWELLERY, Mother : ''You should Iront errflock- Ion biller than yeti do, Mebel. Ile is a diamond in the rough." NIlIbOl ; I know 11, mamma ; that is why 1 out hen," 11', '1)15)0 women eonmemees to think eeriously when olber women sey nice things about her Inieband. 11.41+114414641444440,10140 Tii Home 4444014.144+,014441.10. WITH DRIED CURRANTS. Danish DumplIngs,—% lb, beef suet, g. 11., soft breatlerumbs, % lb. flour, 2 117.5. easter sugar, 3 ozs. cureauls, % teaspoon - fel beickg-powdets 3 egs, 1 pinch salt, 1% pints Milk. Method ; Free the suet from skin and chop it finely, then mix 11 with the 110111: In a basin, add the re- mainder.- of the dry ingredients, include ing the eureants, Beat up the eggs and mix with ee gill of milk. pour this gru- dually late the basin, site up the mixture and thus week 11into a sinoeth better. Leave ready a saucepan conteining 1 plat or milk and g pint water, 5wcel- oned with sugar. When trolling, drop in the prepaved mixture by mewls of te sroon, Boil the dumplings foe three- quarters of an hour. Then Itike them up with a strainer. leis!) 8.11), and pour over a little of the liquid. in 80111011 the dump- lings were boiler!. Do not cook too many dumplings at one thee. , Black" Cap Pudding,--% lb. flour, 2 eggs, % pint of 011118, 3 to It ozs. cur- rants, a of salt. Method : Sift the acme Into a basin, add 1110 salt, brat up :no eggs and Mk gvadually into the flows adding the milk by degrees, end work into a batter. Buller one large or two small pudding besins. Sprinkle In the currants, and pour in the prepared better. Cover 1180 basins NY1111 buttered paper, arid Meant for one hour. Currant Cookies.—% lb, flour, 2 oz. butter, 3 ozs, currants, 2 oze. sugar, 2 eggs, % teaspoonful baking.powder, a little mill( (about 1 tablespoonful), 1 tea- spoonful_ cinnamon (ground). liuh 1110 butter into the flour, mix in the baking -powder, then add the sugar, tile currants, and Um cinnamon. Beat up the eggs with a little milk, and add to the (Ivy Ingredients. Mix into a fairly stiff paste, and put tee mixture into a greased baking -tin, or flat, square cake - lin. Bake in a moderately heated oven for about, 25 minutes. .cut into finger - shaped pieces, and dredge with sugar. Boiled Ctueant PuddIng.—% lb. cur- rants, ee lb. beef suet, finely chopped, 1 111. 110110, g pint. milk, 16111011, fresh but - tee or cream, swats, Method: MIs all the dry Ingredients in a basin, add the milk, and work into a fairly stiff dough. Put the mixture ink a floured cloth, tie up, and boil gently for 234 hours. Serve with quarters of lemon, fresh butter or cream, and sugar (moist, or castor). Currant Suet PuddIng.-4 07.S. beef suet, 8 07.5. flour, 2 ors. sugar, 2 Ors. curvante, 1 egg, 1 level teaspoonful bilk- ing -powder, a pinch of salt. Method: Remove the skin from the suet, and chop tt skry flnely. Put 11 111. a basin 1)11(11 the flour, sugar, currants, baking -powder',. and salt. Beal up tlie egg with a little milk, and stir in. Work iato a smooth paste, and fill into small, well -greased timbale or dariole moulds. Cover each with buttered paper, and steam for about an hour. Turn out and servo with a sweet sauce. Rice and. Currant Pudding. 2 ozs. rice, 2 ozs. currants, 1 pint milk, 1 egg. I tablespoonful castor sugar, 34 oz. beef suet, grakd nutmeg to. taste. Method : Wash, &aim and blanch 1110 rice, then drain again, and cook 11 10 the milk for 10 minutes, add the °wants and the su- gar. Shred the suet, or chop it finely, and stir into the other ingredieels. Beat up the egg with the milk, pour this gradually Into the dry ingredients, and make into a dough -like mixture. Make It up into small dumplings, and boil or steam them for about 2 hours. Dish up and serve plain or with golden Syrup or honey.io ii a n Seminole Pudding. — 2 ozs. Seminole, 1 pint milk, g a lemon, 2 oe.s. currants, 1 oz. beef suet, 1 oz. sugar. Method : Chop the suet flnely. Put the sentinola to soak in warm milk, Mix weIl in a basin wit11 the suet, currants, and sugrue and pour over the milk, rao- viously boiled with the thin rind of lemon. Pour the 1111511100 into a buttered ple-dish, and bake slowly /ft a moderate- ly heated oven for about an hour. A Ilttl'e nutmeg may be grated over the top before baking, if liked. Brown Bread Pudding. -34 lb. stale brown bread, 4 ozs. flour, 4 ors. moist .sbueegful's'iteNef teentsupeoetontlisi u, 4g roozusn. de npgpeerd, oz. finely (Mopped orange peel, I •tea- spoonful baking -powder, .2 eggs, and a 111110 milk, ivlethod: Remove the crust from the bread, and cut theo soft part into slices, then soak in milk -and -water tilt quite soft. Press out the moisture, and put the bread into a basin, adding to 11 tbe above-named dry tngredients. Beat up the eggs with a little milk, and mix thoroughly with the above. Fill the mix- ture into buttered moulds, lie over with a wetted cloth, and boil or steam for abed 1W0 1101115. Serve NV1111 current, sauce. Frosted Bread and Buller Pudding.— Prepare a, netted with 1 piet of milk, 2 eggs, and sugar to taste. Get, 1110 4 stele French rolls into thin slices, and nutlet: them. Besprinkle a buttered pie - (lisle with cleaned currants, then line it with a layer of buttered slices of bread. Next add more currants, and continue this until tee dish is full, TietWeen each layer of bread pour a little of the cus- tard, Bake in a moderate oven for about twenty minules. Whisk up stiffly the whiles of 2 eggs, add to 11 1 or. of icing or castor sugar, and pile this roughly on thes Mar10 of the pudding, so as to glve tI Id rocky nppeaeance. Sprinkle over a few currants, and dredge ensior sugar. 13ake tang enough lo slightly brown the egg mixture (called meringue), limn send to table dished up on a folded napkin or dish -paper, USIIIOUI 1 I IMPS. 'Po C102111 0. 1101110, 211 Nob potato par- ings and boil fast unlit quite Wean. When making 0 pudding don't forget 11) 0101(0 (1 seen1 in the Oath 01 the lop 8:1.118 10 ollow the pudding lo swell. Grease marks on pnges of books may lie removed hy sponging them with hen - eine. placing between Iwo sheets of blot- ling-peper, end pressing with 5 1101.110)1, ler mend 0 Took 00 1110 inside or it runge, nee a filling tenderer equal pares of weed abhor; and common: salt, mots - toning with water. This will prove hard arid lestine, ocia.Appple 8(01118 on the (tondo Pall be 1.T. 1110VOU by rubbotif w tith a • Mm Mlle leon- hike or the inside of the apple-peel. Moe° In eine warm water and use no TO Keep Soup been Turning Sour.— Heat to boning point ; do not leave in the seucepan in which it has been 11011011, 1)1)1 turn into a clean uncovered basin, and set askle to cool. In the rase of a .501(01,0 0111 103' the i01 - mediate use of finely powdered rice or Ilotir to the wound. This has been proved a mat 8000050 in almost stop- ping the flow of blood. from a very se- vere out. When Mt oplutters it Is sot boiling ; Iltis condition is only reached Mien i1 becomes quite still. lf the fat be abso- lutely bolting, fiell, meat, or ewools may be cooked together ‘villiout transinIttitig their different fitivots, If there has boon anything burnt. in the oven theow salt In and the smell will disappear:_ lf salt is rubbed on silver, china, or enethenwaie it will take off stains of 1011, etc. Salt will auto kill weeds if sprinkled on g Varnish on then haar sehloleudldwlulks tet:e- moved with methylated epirit ; paint or tor by rubbing In butter oe lard. When the stains are loosened, wipe the heeds as clean as may be with soft paper or rag, and then give them a. good wash- ing with soap and warm water. Use old newspapers for elenning, They are geed foe window -cleaning and first- rate for scouring tinware and •preishing St.0YeS. A pad of newspaper Is kept handy by many people in case water or greets° should be spilled on the kitchen stove, for it enables one to keep the slove eleae with fat: less than the usual trouble. Art old housewife snys that if bacon is soaked ln water a few minutes before frying, this will prevent the tat horn running, She also says that carrot.5. should ahvaye, be cut In snow and never in cubes, as the darker eidetic part is richer in flavor than the centre, and if out in cubes 501110 of the cubes will be lacking in flavor in consequence, If a child, or, indeed, anyon0 else, receives a blow over the eye which is likely to become black, theee is no reme- dy superior to nor ntore likely to pre- vent discoloration than butteri»g the parts for two or three inches around the eye with fresh butter, renewing it every few minutes for Inc epee° 01 00 hour or two. This remedy is equally good for any bruise not broken, lhe best way to remeve grease steins from silk 15 /IPA 10 serape off es much of the grease as possible, and then to rub the spots with a main mado of fine Frenen cluttle mixed with lavender water. Next, lay 11\'0 lhicknes.ses of blotting paper over the stein, and iron it with a moderately -hot iron 1111 the spots ale quite dry, moving lbe blotting paper once or twice. The powder should final- ly be dusted off with a. clean handker- chief or soft brush. Leather goods, 11 thelr appearance is le be preserved, should not be kept in places that arc too dry, as Me heat will cause the leather to crack. Nor in damp places that wit make it mouldy. To freshen leather chair seats, travelling bags„ book covers, etc., lhat have be- come shabby or spotted, rub them with iho well -beaten white of on egg. Sok leather bags are best cleaned by twig ordinary russet sboe polish, cleaning them in the same way Mat shoes are cleaned. To prevent insects from infesting bird- cages great cleanliness is necessary. An occasional scrubbing 'with househotet aminonte and. water will purify the cage wonderfully; but to do leis 0110 must have another cogs in which the bird inns, he kept till tlie washed one is perfectly dry again. It is a good phut to keep a small bag of powdered sulphur hanging in the cage. This 30(11 001 hartn the bird, and will keep off the vermin that are ept to be troublesome in cages, even 1.tivelseesn one is careful as regaeds clean11- Grained and varnished Imitations of hardwood .are best cleaned by rubbing well with cloths wrung out, in borax soap -suds, never letting the water touch them. After:wet:cis they should be rub- bed with a flannel barely moistened with kerosene, lf there Is too much. ker- osene 11 will dissolve and blur the col- ors. Cletm hardwood with a flannel wet it turpentine, and rub afterwards light- ly with 'boiled linseed oil. Take off spots with fine sand mixed in all. Apply it, with a leather and rub witlm clea13 lea- ther aftertvards to bring back the polish. THE GREAT CURE. Is Time Coming When Parliament WIII Cure Drug Slaves by elegmerism? The powers of hypnotism—derided by the faculty of half a century etgo--are now found of. the greatest value by doe. 1058 and surgeons. Many a patient, whilst in Um mesmeric sleep, has gone without a pang through the most excru- cleting Operations, or --more wonderful still—has cleated nonchalantly 101111 the surgeon all the time. Time power of suggestion, again, Is used with suceess In quite another sphere, tamely, the cure or sea -sickness, of hysteria, and even of insanity, Drug habits, too, soon yield to the teealment, and Nye may, wIthout a great stretch of imagination, look forward to the day When Parliament will take the deug slave in hand and get 111111 mesmer- ized into a healthier: mode 011101115). DISAPPOINTED, An English lord who visited America was et a dinner given in his honor. A little daughter of Ids host, who W(1S loo 800(1-1110(1 , o 10 Sre, mit wee eyed bhn eevertly es 1110 oceasion presented Itself, finally ventured to remark 1 And you are renlly and truly an Eng-' hell lord 7" "Yes," he anewered, pleasantly, "really and truly." "I have often tholight I would like le iscea_nonre‘riv_glish,lord," she wen( cm, "end iow "And now you 1170 8011511011 at last," lie put in, lauglibigly. ', "No no " replied the 10111111111 tillie girl, 'inn not satisfied, Tin a great deal disappointed," 1110 possible for a 111110 In linve dol- lars in his peckel without hevineeeenee in his head, bet 'hey soon get away. MILLIONS OF SPINDLES Ii()(Mei IN COTTON SPINNING lel CHEAT BRITAIN. Over a Hundred New Mills in Less Than a Deende—)1111 Profit on Every Pound Spun, New mills for the mantifueture of cot- ton cloth ato springing up like mush- roonte in the Laneeehlre district, of which this city is the commercial cen- tre. It Is pinirity apparent that the es- timates of a recent crop of Anioeican oolion thls year: is mainly responsible for the peeeent boum. Neerly 11 58011 01 0151(3' Innis have been begun this yew., end 0 review of the last seven yeans shows • that more Man it hundred, new mills have' 'been .establisited In. 11110 vi- cinity. These new ketones, together with a large number of extensions and 111121 110101 to existing mills, fully completed, will have We:eased the manufacturing capacity of this district by OVE'R 10,000,000 SPINDLES, This inereaee in seven years exceeds the -total number of •existing cotton epindles in. Germany, France, Russia, indite or (WY other country in lire world, except the United States. It is, how- ever, even greater than the total num- ber of spindles in the Southern etates, arid equal to about 60 per cent. of the spindloge of the Northern Stales. A tabulated led of these new rnills ,shows that about 8,000,000 pounds in money ($40,000,000) has beeit Involved as eaplial. The year 1905, al. the time of a record-breaking American crop saw the greatest boom of recent. years In British spinning. Forty large factories were added 11181 year, but, in 1902 the Increase WOS only /WO mills. One of the mills about to be opened is claimed to be the quickest 1)11111 11111 of equal capacity' hi the world. This is the Drake Spinning Mill at Foroworth, near Bolton'. It will contain 110,000 eremites from the productinn itt flne yarns spun from Egyptian grown cot- tons. The building was beguo just a year ago—ii, is six stories high and 30 cr more windows in length—and it Is 51.088' filled with machinery and will be rlIIllllflg 50011. IL is noticeable Met all or the new factories nre in. towns around Stanches - ter, rather tha10 in the city itself. Man chaster, Much to the satisfaction of the majority of its 00011110010. Is becoming more of an emporium and legs of 011 actual CENTRE OF MANUFACTURING. While all this 110001 in British colten- spinning Is going on the crop estimates of American cotton ole increasing, some leading authorities believing that th yield this season will be close upon 1; 0fl0,000 bales, or 500,000 bales more than the record year or 1004-05. If this be the output, Manchester enantericturers say it will be a good thing for the world, for more spindles are golng down to consume Amerlean cotton. 11 ts )'e 11158 strange that while supplies ell over the world are themes- ing lo 4 rather !urger extent, prices ere simullaeeously going higher mid high- er. The consumption of cottoti is at its height. Every epindle In the world is running at full speed. and More 4s, notably in this district, a big profit on every pound spite. WOMAN BURIED ALIVE. Lived for Eighteen Months in flole in the Ground. An old woman has been found prac- tically buried alive in a wood 011 the outskirts of Veeseilles, France, She is the'etere of a ragpicker who lived in a 11111 on the border of the wood. No- body bad seen ble wife for the last two years, but a few days ago a couple of forest guards, while walking through the ‘voods, weep startled by hearing a moaning .sound, apparently from some dry brushwood almost under their reel. Pushing aside the brushwood, they saw looking out of a hole In the ground the face of en old woman. They found that she was buried in the hole, the en- trance to which was less then two feet square. With Some difficulty they dug her out. She was in a terribly emaciated con- dition, and luid been lying on a. nums of 1111.11 in her prison, WW1 Was fine feet wide, six feet long, and two feet deep. The woman, who Is stsly years old, had lived buried in this hole for the last eighteen months. Her husband brought her food occasionally, and When he left for Me day's work covered over the entrance to the hole. • GOLD IN ENGLAND. Reef „Not Far from London as Edell as the Rand. gold reef, equal to those of lite Rend, 11 is elaimed, exists in England, end within 200 miles of London. Where this seeded Johannesburg Is only five people .1111080. TileY are the dIreclots of the Chasten Gold Syndk cat°, which wes founded a few :months Ago for the purpose of developing it, The 'aka rumor es to the where- ebouts of the reef bleeps It in t'lloneee- ilerehire, where it le statedwbelegllathgen: reef, the cottagers little kno bunt ef geld quartz eland above the theft humble abodes may contain gold "tlinel oD0finilleds T ' Chasten Syncllenle are nearly all in p‘rvivsallenheanoels,theenn(11. 114(1 pnrtte1,)411ntmtltlePic8051 is{'ITI0 1e0es 'stand at $27.50. The first of modern nitilinimires 101(8 Astor, Wee died in 1.84e. worth 11180,000,- 000. e71101.1 it bachelor wards to make a niarrted man angry all ho haS 10 do IS the Veelding merele Tiorrowell : "Tt doesn't pay 10 511,1110 a Ten when he is deem," llerchippc; '311 h. elimiece aro ho haene any - Mine, anyhow," • IN A CHINESE PRISON 'WHAT A CO11111ISPONDENT SAW IN ' ONII 010 THEM, Temihro State of Men and Women Con- fined In Ole Rantehaelde The !lest thing which impresses 1110 European visitor: lo Me Chinese meson le Um absolutely illinsy elieraeler uf tIlo 811.1101111.0 115011. 11 oiw gets permissioa le) visit, the prison in Ciinlon-eatel elende 01 globe trotters do wend their way thither after they have seen the execu- tion ground—IL will be found to be a ramshaekle building of no pretence what- soever, The question w111 be usked "I3y whet metros ere the prisoners held In eufely 11 llie structures in which they are Meal, echated are 00 Ilintsy arid Inseeure1" The aeswee, says1100 East et Asin 510g- nzine, is brief, WIlImul exeeption 1110 1riS01101'S UFO fettered. Many 11111:0 01111110) 00 1110 icws• only, Theee ere the less dangerous and have lieen guilty of the less Important (.1.111115. (Alters. In addi- tiop, have tellers on the aems, whic11 make it impossible Dm Mem to espape. Lastly, a few prim -filers wore not unly manacled on the ankles but wore a etitiiii around Mel:. necks'at the Ming- ling end ot which was uttached A BLOCK OE ottANrrE. The 'prisoner would walk from place le place within the courtyard, but ero he could move beyond the length of his 0101101 he must stop nd lift Ihe stone, and, carrying II, In Ills .shavirled arms, drop 11 again where he wished lo slop. In addltion to the chains worn by day aft the male piesoners OAT 1001.1)58 shack- led at night. By moons of /WO 11040y beams, In whIeli 110100 EttlY0 been 1111010 for the ankles of the prieoners, 0 111(1,5 11111 01100111'6 11101110(1 15 (11.50.0\,01•Od 101' (k - Initilng the prteiniers jn alisulute 001:111.- 113'. The pri0011005, 8)1110 during the day have beets loafing in the court yarcl, are In the evening driven ittio the werds unit made to lie side by side on a raised Mit - form. The upper of the IWO benins is then raised and 001011 man is compelled to place les ankle into the hole made to receive it, whereupon the upper beuni hi replaced and Ilie prisoners aro held by the feet in theee rude. storks. .1 here Ls no possibility of escape. They 010 allowed BnicKs 10011 PILLOWS, end in this internee:it:ethic position they pass the bouve. In additioe to lids, however, speolal cruelties are perpetrated on eertnie pri- soners who, for some reason or other., are exempted from capital punishment. Prisoners there nee whose 411p041.011C0 OCC011105 05 4\'1111 ii10 Nift.SIS 011110 101, 081S, 13110, Win) 11.00.Vy cangues on their .shoulders, are incereeraterl in 18 filthy dungeon for the term of their natural ufe, 1 1.10V0 wen 1110111 moving to and fro like caged hyenas 111 111010 dens al. a ineeagerie. Their appearance is revolt- ing. Night and day, as ter as I remember, both asleep and awrike, this honey bur- den rested on their shoulders. 11)41(1 gi liow it was poseible lo sleep 111000111 1 was unable to underetand. On the other hand, in a prison I visited a few weeks ago, I 8)1115 informed tha1 the eangue wee removed Itt. nights that, the prisoner; might sleep. A crowd in the prison quedrangle, meth their unshaven heath, their unwashed faces, their clanking PO- ters, their hopeless looks, their di: - eased bodies end their bebruted setes can never be forgotten. 131 although under the recognized system of punishment Chinese prisoner:: must live a llfe which to es of the eN'es. would be enbearableell, would not be se tl them If they N3'01'0 fairly treated 01111 were saved from the exactions and bar- barities to which they arc exposed al the hands of THEIR RAPACIOLIS'KEEPEBS. When a prisoner fleet goes into the wards the warders 818 110 his clothes and his money and he is left with the letrest rags to cover his nakednese, llo is 1,01:- hed of all his melt, OS 41 matter of course. Those 10110 are condemned nee compelled, under a Ilmeat of the whie, to write beggieg letters to their rela- tives, requesting them to forward money. if the' tinfortunele man hesitates to no - cede Lo this demand the warden, as- sisted by some or the oldest prisoners -- tor it appears that inmates of more tha18 twenty years' residence havrimna aeclo11:111 (10141 them certain priviteges—talre hand during the night. The hands or tho prisoner are 1e:stetted by a rope, and the other end of the rope Is then passed through, a ring which hangs eon) the r6°4of1.11eTo'Ln.srd1 r1-10m.2n11211 hoist, the unhappy wretch, who is left hanging in mid air hy the hands. Should he attempt le rey out his mouth end throat, are filled with ashes. When the breath has almost left his body and he is choking he is low- ered, and tinder the terror of renewal of this torture lie is eagee to promise Al- most anything. Ninny (lie under this ordeal. 1110 es It is assumed arming the mandarins (het mortality must he high, and os 110 4)111 01(11 probing Is ever dreemed of. It gen- eral statement as to noluval death is suMetent, )(.7 10,7— e111eD7 Jeek "Give me 11. 1i155," EYFt : "And what reemm 1)041 )0)) foe wishing to :1<11.18 1110?" Jack (embarrassed): "I had a Nilson, but 1—co—have lost it." Eva,: -.211011 you'd 14011,)' go. 1 could- n't think 01 1(1911115) 11 num who hed Mel 11W 10110011." The avernge value of house property per inhabitant is higher in Edinburgh /11811 111 London. 1,011d0111) gas consumplion Is over 6,000 feet yearly per Inhabilent, • '5)110 Dreadnotifelit's 12 -In, guns are es pewerful egatin fle the old type of12- 111Mgat0041101. "Why is 11151 lads: over 1110 we) alvenye in black! ls she mournIng tor any one?" flees : "Yes e 5 husband," Markt dldn't kettw sheet been 111.111, rieel." Ross "No: ette she's reourniug for a husband aI leto 604,10,," 100 1