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The Brussels Post, 1909-7-22, Page 6SAT 18 TRUE LIIIERTY here Do We Find the Greatest Freedom In This Sin Bound World, Being made free from sin, ye be- gonia the servants of rightechasuess, —Rom, vi, 18, St. Paul speaks of the Romans as o1 those who had been servants of sin, but had been delivered of this servitude and brought to the ;gloriousliberty of the children of God. Ail that are born of the flesh aro naturally servants of in. To acknowledge that is the begiuniug of true liberty. Owing to the fact that the, servitude of sin wraps itself in the garb of liberty, it is nob so easy to .distinguish true and false liberty, and many are deceived by .looking only at the outward appear- ance. True liberty is righteousness, Sin is offering all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them to those who will ,fall down and woe - :hip it, and many it miserable slave of sin bound in uncompromising servitucle finds no time to seek the glorious liberty of the children of God, thinks himself free and in- dependent because sin allows him to sow to the flesh, to follow his natural inclinations and PASSIONS UNRESTRAINED. Though there is no law given to the justified, his love will limit the exercise of his freedom in much larger measure than could ever be attempted by law. Many a, thing which no law forbids, which he is at liberty to partake, a. Christian will not touch, beceuso in his indi- vidited case it might barns body or soul in the 'course of time, or it might offend ar yellow .believe•. Christian liberty is not a license to do what we pleese, but a desire to do what is •expedient, Nothing may hinder us from go- ing into a coal mine all dressed in white, but hew we will come out again is a different question, Like- wise nothing may hinder us to walk in the counsel of the ungodly= and stand in the way of sinners Barbel in the white robe of Christ's righte- ousness, but who can tellbow we will come back? 'That's why 'St. Paul advises "See that ye walk cies cnmspectly, not as fools, but as wise," lest the golden crown of freedom be transformed into THE IRON CHAIN OF SIN. The greatest liberator and emanci- pator says, "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." In Him who took upon Him the form of a servant, who became obedient unto death, eyen the death of the cross, that 130 might deliver us from all sins, from death and from the power of the devil, we find true liberty, and the more we become like Him the more we be- come free from sin and servants of righteousness. May God help our people to strive after true liberty. REV. ERNST A, TAPPERT. THE S. S. LESSON 1:1TER:41TTONAL LESSON, JULY 21. Paul's Second Missionary Journey (Cunt'd.) Athens. Acts 17: 18-24. Golden Text, John 4: 24. . Athens in St. Paul's Day. Driven from Berea, as we learned m our last lesson, Pant came to Athens in Greece. its he walked from the Pincus, where he landed, along the new road to the city, he saw raised at intervals altars to the unknown gods, As the city of Athens came into his view his soul must have been trilled with the deepest emotions. Ho had seen Jersualeni, the most influential city in the world for re- ligion; he longed to go to Rome, which stood above all others in power, in.law, in imperial sway, the capital of the world; but now he was to gaze upon the city which then stood and still stands en- throned above all others for in- tellectual supremacy, for litera- ture, art, architecture, and phil- osophy. Its situation was one of the most beautiful in the world. Within its wails rose a double group of hills. The Acropolis, Mars' Hill (Areo- pagus), The Pnyx on which De- mosthenes spoke his orations, the Museum Hill, the Hill of the Nymphs, all crowned with buildings of the most perfect architecture. Below these were the market, the forum, the great square south of the Areopagus, and the Acropolis, like the piazza or square of St. Mark's ab Venice, surrounded by the most beautiful buildings and busiest stores in the city. II. Paul Begins His Work in .Athens. --Vs, 18-21. While Paul waited for Silas and Timothy to come from Berea, before proceeding farther, or beginning special work in a new and peculiar field, his spirit was stirred in him, "urged on with a sharp goad," to give the gospel to a city wholly given to idolatry. - His work was with four classes of persons. 1. The Jews. He went first to the synagogue, as wag his usual custom, and reasoned, discoursed, conversed (not disputed) with thein, 2. Devout persons, proselytes to the Jewish religion, who accepted the Scriptures, and believed in the one true God. 3. Epicurean Philosophers, "The of Epicurus, known as The School of the Garden." Their teaching was that the object of liv- ing was pleasure, enjoyment in the broadest sense including the whole of life, in which teaching there was some truth. But in Paul's time, 'in spite of the safe- guards of Epicurus, his teachingcic- generated "into a mere series of prudential calculations or a stere indii]geneo of the senses and ap- petites"; and "his followers were Sven to gross sensualism." 4. The ,Stoics, whose school was called the Porch an dthc Aeadotny. They were pantheists believing that (Sod was the soial,of the world, that everything was governed by fate, that there was no perpetual individual immortality. "Virtue was its ownreward, and ,vice its awn punishment.' Pleasure was no good, and pain no evil." It is well to note the tenets of these philoso- phers in connection with Paul's address, to see how he answers them by his positive teaching. III. Paul's Address Before the University of Athens.—Vs. 22-31. A Gracious Introduction. 22, Ye men of a thens. The Athenians were proud of their city, and could be called by no higher title. So Demosthenes, the greatest orator in all history, addressed them. I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. An unfortunate translation, not in accord with either Paul's courtesy or his skill as an orator, or as u, Christian seek- ing to gain converts. The Greek means more full of reverence for deities than the other Greeks, very religious," alluding to the great number of idols in the city, and to the fact that the two g.•eat phil- osophical sects, Epieureaas and Stoics, were deeply concerned with religious questions. IV. The Effects Produced by Paul's Address. Vs. 32-34. 1. 32. Some moeked. The teaching seem- ed absurd to them. 2. Some refused to decide. We will hear thee again. Like Felix, they would wait for a more con- venient season. They could en- dure almost any strange theories, but when it came to giving up their sins. and to a change of life, they rebelled. 3. A few accepted the truth, re- pented, and became disciples of Jesus. 34. Dionysius the Areo- pagite, that is, a member of the learned council before whom Paul had preac.ped. Damaris. Nothing further is known concerning her, but shs must have been a woman of dfston d power. A was founded here later, and thechurch Earbfnet]henon anbecame a Christian temple. TUE NEW CONSTANTINOPLE. The City Is Cleared of Beggars and Crimin:ils. Hopes for the future are brighter in the Turkish capital since Mah- mud Shevket Pasha's "army of lib- erators" have taken possession of the city, Constantinople has now been cleared of a host of .beggars, tramps, burglars, and assassins, which had hitherto made the capital their home. Arson has ceased and the streets are safe. Even the polioe about the town are hardly recogniz- able, fur, instead of the evil -look= ing, dirty man of recent times, one meets to -day a neatly -dressed offi- cial, who knows his duty and is re- spected by all. Even carriage drivers are feeling the change. Horses unfit for work may no longer be used, and the cab- men now find that they must feed their animals sufficiently if they want premission to ply for hire. In the argicnitural provinces the roads and bridges are having at- tention. The mutinied First Army Corps is being usefully employed, unarmed, in reconstructing the roads about Monastir and Saloniea, a special credit of nearly $400,000 having been added to the budget for' this purpose. The Ministry of Pub. lie Works has also in hand the pre- en paration of an elaborate scheme T for roads and railways the, ,ghoul at the country. Electric lighting and iiricessary railway lines wile teen be eh put in Band, 'giving wore to the sp many.unempIoycd; and encouraging the return of capital 1 p t t c the fmpav- cr.shed empire, t.•;. ;I1A11IES Z11 UNG IN'T'O 1'IRV Tales of Terrible Stiffening Lront Cllieie, Correspondents of the Bible Lands filission Aid Society have Mete sending in tales ef the horrors in Meth during the recent massa - ,oras. • One of the women • from Kozo - look, an Armenian village to the north of Tarsus, gives the following account of her terrible experience at the hands of the Turks ;— There were- forty-seven of use men, women and children, who were taken by the mob as if to go to one of their villages; other groups were driven in other directions, They marched us for hours on the mouse tains, with one pretext or another, till they brought es to a level place iy minutes, then add the }tot sugar not far from the Tarsus road, Here and let all boil only a few minutes. they debated whether they should This makes jelly same as other li- kill us, For a long time they ;qucrrs whore otherwise peach li- threatened, and we besought them quor will not jell, siith tears and trying to spare us. Chili Sauce,—Take five largo on - They then said they must send to ions, eight green peppers, and chop Tarsus for instructions; we gave fine thirty ripe tomatoes cut in money 19 oneof them who was to small pieces, five tablespoonfulsofgo as messenger; what word he brown sugar; three tablespoonfuls brought back, or whether re re- cf salt, eight cupfuls of vinegar, turned at all, I do not know. They and boil all together two and a half at last told us they were going to hours and bottle for use. Pieplant Marmalade. — Four pounds of pieplant, peeled and out fine; four pounds of sugar, sill oranges, chopped fine, with the yel- low rinds of three grated; one pound of almonds, blanched and chopped. Mix all together and cook until this pieplant is well done. Ptit into glasses with paraffin on top. This recipe makes twenty glasses. When Canning Pineapple. - Take pineapple and cut into one-half inch slices. Core each slice and then peel. By so doing time is saved and the eyes of the pineapple oan easily be removed without any trouble. Leave in slices or cut each slice into small pie.tes and can as usual, Pineapple Hint.—Purchase a sharp razor. Then with a sharp carving knife cut the pineapple in- to slices about one-quarter or one- eighth of an inch thick. Then with the razor pool the slices, taking out the eyes as you go along. 'There is no waste at all like there is with dullknives and pineapple snips, and such things. Yon can prepare three or four in this way in the bine it used to take to_pyapare enc. in the old way. A good way to pro- tect the thumb in peeling any kind of fruit is to slip the end of a fin- ger of an old rubber gloveover it. Sweet Coen.I ickles.—Take twelve ears of cern and cut grains from the cob ; add one small head of cab- bage, one cupful of granulated sugar, one teaspoonful of :turmer- ic, four onions, two tablespoonfuls of salt, two red peppers; one table- spoonful of ground mustard, one Grandisson, the famous tenor of tablespoonful of Amer, and one the peal of belle in Exeter Cathed- quart of vinegar. Chop all fine and ral, has had a narrow escape from cook about half air hour. Canned Cherries.—Stone the cherries without bruising, drain, weigh, and to each pound allow a pound ef sugar; acid just enough water to melt the sugar, bring to boiling point and skim. Put in the cherries and push to one side of the range where they may remain hot, but not boiling, for at least an hour ; then draw the -kettle ever the fire and cook slowly until the cherries .are transparent. Skim, drain, sprinkle sugar over them, and place in a sieve in the sun or in an oven to dry. This syrup will an- swer for the boiling of several pounds of cherries. Cucumber Catsup Without Cook- ing.—Grate the cucumbers and drain off the water through a col- ander ; ol-ander; add six large onions chop- ped fine to a gallon of grated and. drained cucumbers; add vinegar, salt, pepper (cayenne), and horse- radish to taste. Bottle it without cooking. PICNIC SANDWICHES. ,f•SHF !J 4441 0,11 !11 4%4K'aF!� Rohnr 1 i1 .901,Ten taZattetteG 944401, 06 CANNING AND PRESERVING, To Make Paula Jo11y, --- Cook peaches and tsdd e few of the ker- nels; when done strain. Then drop the white of an egg an to clear, the same as making coffee. To ono pint of peach liquor add one lemon, one pound of sugar, Dry and heat the sugar in a separate pan and let the peach liquor, boil for twen- !-ill us, "Wo were all the edge of a field of wheat ; they took us away into some bushes not far from a tere- binth tree, for they said the fire would hurt the wheat. They order - cd us to lie down on the ground in a. row, with our hands to the west. Wo begged them to shoot us through the herirt or the head, but they said they did not want to waste powder arid ball on swine like us; they would do the thing more cheap- ly. There was a great crowd of them.. Four or five event at each of us with swords and daggers, hacking our heads and breasts, I cannot get the shrieks out of• my ears, I was badly wounded, but not killed. "Thus 1.ad made a great lire of dry bushes and now they threw us all dead and wounded, into it. My three little children had not been killed; the men took my oldest and my youngest, a mere babe, and flung then into the flames, where they perished. I had my second child in my arms and we were thrown into the fire together. 1 at once scrambled out, though bad- ly burned, with the little one. I ran a short distance, and sat down, dazed and weeping. A Turk had pity on nee and led me away, and 01 last sent me here. My husband and thirty other members of our large family were killed." —.s___ HEA VTEST BIN GING BELL. Tenor of tiie Peal to Exeter Nth - (that. disaster, says the London Stand- , arcl. It was being rung during the kap Whitsuntide when a bolt which t oil the clapper in position came t pin owing to the displacement of a . The result was that the 'clapper , which weighs well on toward hundred -eight. also came out and fell as the bell was swinging. good stout floor prevented the per from going into the rin chamber below, where there fifteen or sixteen ringers. The per was,,knociced clear by the itself, .anti beyond slight chip of the lip Grandisson suffere damage. The boll is the heaviest used ringing in the world, and bas once been rung single-hiendec 1 through a peal, the ringer in case being IIIc. W. Pye, of Lon Grandisson weighs seventy-two hundredweight, and if the stoc included something like four The bells had not been rung f twelvemonth, owing to repair the tower, and the present me is, therefore, particularly unto nate, WHY THEY MOVED. two A clap ging were clap - bell ping d no foe only that don, kbe tuns, or a s to sliap rtu- The Bingses, mother and daugh- ter, had long outstayed their wel- come at their country friend's house, Moreover ,they -evinced iso sign of going away, nor did the mother event to he in any way af- fected by the strong hints to go which the overtaxed hostess .drew out from time to time. Filially, forbearance exhausted, the enter- tainer decided to roach the mother through her daughter. So one day, calling the little visitor to her, she. said, " Maimie, when do you ex- pect to go homer "0h, I'm 8111•e I don't know," was the careless reply, We've several other places to stop at yet•" "Well, when do you go on to the next place 7" "Can't even tell that. Mamma says it's itnmaterial to her just when she'll leave here,' "But, my dear child," exclaimed the exasperated hostess, "doesn't your,mother realize how costly liv- ing is +hese days 7" • • "Oh, yes; she knows hew dear it is. That's why she left the city." Won. Maimie; I cannot afford to trrtain visitors any longer, and wish you'd tell your mother that once!" "Is that an insult?" rejoined the ild, turning haughtily to the ()esker. Why do you ask that, child 7" "fenause when w'e're insulted ho (Ti,to the next place!" tablospeonfuls of butter, five table- spoonfuls vinegar, one tablespoon fel of sugar, (.mole in double boiler end season with 1 t pepper, Aper, salt and. mustard to snit taste. Pour over toegue when sold and servo, . HOtJSEI1QLD PESTS. 1]uffaln Bugs.—Allspiee freely used will hill buffalo bugs. Ants,• --•Spatter bunehes of sweet fern where nuts collect, To Rid Meuse of !+lies. ---Cut .a piece of screen wire about four by six inches and get a piece of lath Mug enough 50 you tan reach the ceiling with it. Fold one of the narrow sides of screen over one enol of the lath and fasten with teas, Now wait until the light is lit and they will all be on the. ceil- ing, I1 you hit with a Radek jerk it will not harm the paper, Mignonette Drives Away Flies, -- Mignonette is abhorred by flies, and in a room where pots of the flower are set no fly will linger for Or mo- ment. Now is the time to sow the seeds and for early blooming the pots must be subjected ,to gentle heat. Instead of fiypapers and hor- rible stid,y brown mixtures loft about a room in glass dishes, what a blessed resource as a deterrent to the irritating fey is the sweet, wholesome flower of mignonette. Mosquito Remedy.—Ono of the best methods of clearing a room of mosquitoes and likewise moth mil len; Put a; piece of gum camphor on fire shovel and hold it over the lighted gas until it smokes—it should not blaze up, but blaze slow- ly enough to form a good smudge. The doors <1 closets and the bureau drawers should bo opened if one fears that the moth millers have foundtheir way in. Also twenty drops of carbolic acid evaporated from a hot shovel will banish flies from a room. CARE OF FEET. Tired Feet—The best remedies for Led, sore, and painful feet are al- cohol, alum, horacie acid, .ea1t, soda, talcum powder, and hot water. Burning Feet. ---For burning feet dip them .in •hot water to which a little salt has been added. 'After ;his sponge with alcohol, letting the spirits evaporate without dry- ing. Keep Feb Cool.—Strive to keep the feet cool. Astringents and antiseptics like boracic acid, aloe - bell, and alum usually give gratify- ing results if used persistently. New Shoe Help.—If one has on new shoes away from :home or the feet pain, they can be relieved by removing the shoes and letting the feet rest until the pains cease. Then the feet may be swollen, but can •Ore of our foremost dental sur- ae crowded in the shoe for a min- goons tells us that the reason why uta or two as long as one can stand the present generation possesses the pain. Then remove the shoe such bad teeth can only be attri- again until the foot feels rested, bated to the fact that 'the system when it will be found the foot will of dietary is all wrong. slip quite easily into the slick, which Ho advises us to eat for break - may be worn quite a while without fast bacon, or bacon and eggs, bak- pain. An envelope of talcum pow- ed or toashecl bread, fresh fruit, der carried purposely and dusted in and only drills tea or coffee when tho shoe helps out. wonderfully.. you ham finished your meal, not --. during its course. HIS GREATEST TREASURE, . For lurch or dinner the surgeon A certain shepherd boy was keep-adiveses a meat of some sort, fol- ing his sheep in a flowery meadow;: lowed by a sweet puc,ding (if you and because his hthaeartthe wassurrhoappyd-, must), an<I then ust. For the last he sang so loudly t unmeal, meat; ship'frs bis^nits and but- ing hills echoed back his song. One ter and an apple. morning the king, who was out It will surprise you to hear that bunting, spoke to him and said: he wholly objects to farinaceous "Why are you so happy, my boy 7" diets, such as porridge, wheat "Why should I not be happy 7" cakes, and the like, for the reason, answered the boy. "Our king is he declares, that if net followed by not richer than I." a fruit diet, which cleanses the "Indeed," said the king, "pray teeth from deposits of :pod -matter, tell the of your great possessions. the immediate consequence will be The shepherd boy answered: to deprive the digestive. organs "The sun in the bright blue sky of their lubricity, with an ultimate shines as brightly upon me as upon reaction occurring in the teeth. She king. The flowers upon the The perfect tooth, without fis- m.ountain and the grass in the val- sures, or clefts, or pits, is rarely ley grow and bloom to gladden my found, except among children who sight at well as his. I would not have been very carefully watched Sandwich Hint. -Flee take a hundred thousand dollars by their parents during their years P your one for any hands; my eyes are of more of nearing, pound baking powder cans, and value than all the precious stones Faulty molecular structure of the when baking days come bake your in the world. T have food and teeth is accentuated by the mis- bread for sandwiches Li them. You clothing, too. Am I not, there- chevious dietary of the children.: then have dainty rounds when fere, as rich as the king'!"' Manylittle ones are allowed to sliced for your sandwiches. "You are right," said the king, grind up unlimited quantities of Lettuce Sandwiches.—Butter the with a smile, "but your great tree- hard bake when they have not round bread and slice thin, put sure is your contented heart, Iteep long passed the teething stage, crisp lettuce leaves on each piece, it so, and you will always be As they grow older in years, chow - sprinkle with mayonnaise, and press haPPY. laths are showered upon them and pieces together. WHERE TO LIVE LONG, so the poor molars, aro given no Potted Ham Sandwich,—Mix two01181100. well chopped pickles with potted Yarmouth, England, is living up 0f all the foods which have a bad hamand spieled en rounds of thin- to the reputation Charles Dickens effect on the teeth, starch and sugar ly sliced bread. gas=e it when ded e - foods are the worst and those who Lemon Sandwich. --One-quarter chase e# an annuitheayvisanethe ] residencpare have the caro of children,or who cupful of sugar, one egg, one -quay ab Yarmouth to attain the age of are themselves addicted to eating ter teaspoonful of flour, one teas Methuselah. 'lhe annual report of starch or sugar foods, shoulcl never spoonful of butter, juice of one le- ,its medical ,officer of health, issuel omit to cleanse the teeth. mon, Cook all together until thick, recently, states that in 1908 the Mastication is one of the condi-. Iet cool, and spread on rounds of y,t,erage rate of mortality was much tions necessary to a proper exer- buttered bread. below the previous ten years and ciao of the digestive functions, and Chicken Sandwich.—Take left- was two .per thousand lower than consequently to the attainment and over pieces of chicken, remove all the oorieoted average death rate for preservation of perfect bodily bones, put meat through food chop- the seventy-six great towns, so that health. per; mix with mayonnaise dressing on its population of 50,000 no fewer When one eats soft foods, it is and spread on rounds of bread. than 100 lives were saved last year certain that little gastric juice is Peanut Sandwich.—Pet peanuts as compared with the mortality in Produced, and if sugar forms a through finest knife of food chop- the country generally. main constituent of these foods, yew, salt and mix with enough __.-� the quality of the juice exuded is cream to make a paste. Spread en THE WIDOW'S CAP, Very epee lily vitiated. thin rounds of buttered bread. Ve getai'iens have rarely Banana Sandwich. -Mash ba -The widow's cap is a stu•,ival of teeth for the good nanas and add a few drops of lemon an old Roman custom, Widows' to reason that their juice, Spread on buttered breed. were obliged to wear their a foods are not of sufficient q hardness 1 $ weed., to produce a sufficient quantity of These n1'0 delicious, but must be for ton months, and the bereaved gastric fluid to lubricate the di- srrvrd at once, woman shaved her head as :a token gestive organs properly, The con Tongue f4andwiches.—Boil one of mourning. Naturally the widow so ucnce is the teeth see large beef tongue. When Bold cut could not ver wella ear' in .tui- q n slio�r I y PP I r signs of decay. 111 small dice, Cut in small pieces llc with a bald head, so dainty caps if you must indulge ;n far'naee- Iwn heads of celery and three hard were made in order to hide the des- g r pus foods, and havr, what is lcnotvs boiled eggs, Mie all together. figtu'einont, , .Cho cap still remains, es a "sweet toothyou must T)iesslnh---One-third cupful sweet though the immediate necessi$y for nenl•ra1i,.e their effects'eon the cream three eggs well beaten three its existeeee has lou 1 , 'ig long awe/. teeth `,ith fruit, SPECS A CURE FOR GRIM TUEOI1,I' 011 OR, WILLIAM 341. RICILIIIDS IDb' IN.PAY 140131i: Rias Put Glosses on 12004/0418 of Offenders With Good Rcsnits. Oain did not wear glasses, If he had he might not have killed Abel A number of other catastrophes might have hems averted by the timely application of a pair of spec- tacles. If you want to reform a criminal clap a pair of glasses on for the 0118nces are that:de- fective physical vision has impaired his moral views. .Such is the theory of Dr William M. Richards of New York, and he hopes iuside of a. year to be ableto back his theory with statistics. POOR• EYESIGHT LEADS TO GRIME, Tn compiling itis statistics and in the search for subjects Dr. Rich- ards has visited several police courts, the Elmira Reformatory, the Magdalen Home and various other institutions. At the Elrnira Reformatory he found that most of the boys were suffering from abnor- mal vision, that in the majority of eases poor eyesight had led to tru- ancy, truancy to bad companionship and that to crime. SPECTACLED MORALITY. At the Magdalen Home he fitted glasses to twenty inmates, and everyone of these, he said, found work on getting out and kept it. One girl in particular had never been able to keep a job more than a few days. She was considered stupid and lazy. Since leaving the home two months ago wearing a pair of glasses she has been stead• ily employed by a firm of whole- salers, and is still working 'there. sA the time he examined her she was unable to make out the largest type on the test card at a distance cd four feet. Dr. Richards is now trying his scheme on some 200 second offend- ers ffend ers, burglars, hold-up men and grafters ef various degrees, and he hopes that if they do not lose their glasses they will be desirable citi- zens by the time they emerge from seclusion. •PRESERVE YOUR TEETH Good Advice Froia :a Prominent:. Dental Surgeon. TO CEYLON .? G2IEAir.'l' ;ENGINEERING 1.1111! J i,C'.l' IN la:IOU. May enes of lnlfly biery.— WITaveilt ho LocFeat Ilfollr to `1'ella Loco re,vcrgri. An engineering project of leo' little commercial impedance is about to be carried out in the In- dian Ocean, The large and fertile Island of Ceylon is to be oonneeted with the peninsula of I3industan by rail, For the new road, which will extend in a geriei'ally eastward direction from Mentapan, the pres- ent terminus of the Indian railway system, a foundation will be afford- ed most of the way by intervening islands and by a submerged reef fn one of the few channels to be crossed. Tho line is likely to have a length of fifty miles or more, but in the route selected there are few maxima gaps to be spanned. These. will be closed with embankments, and for the benefit of coasting ves- sels, which might be inconvenienced by so, continuous a barrier, a ship canal is to be constructed through one of the small islands, pearly at right angles with the railway, CHIEF BENEFIT, The chief benefit to bo derived from the new road will be an im prevenient in the facilities of Cey- lon tea growers for getting their products to market, Not only will quicker transportation than is now possible' be available, but a better system of distribution will be at the disposal of the planters, It is probable also thee the new road will be employed to hasten the de- livery of Landon mails in some of. the large cities of India. It is doubtful whether Bombay would gain anything by having letters put ashore at Colombo, the principal. port of Ceylon, but Madras and Calcutta unquestionably would, NOW PARTLY COMPLETED. In its general characteristics the fndia-Ceylon line will resemble the extention of the Florida East Coast railway to Key West, now partly completed. The American road utilizes a succession of coral and 'keys for the support of its track. Between the two enterprises, how- ever, there are at least two notable differences, The Florida road is carried from one island to the next by a trestle, not a solid embank- ment, probably at a lower cost than that -involved in the Indian Ocean scheme; though possibly at greater Mgr. Moreover, the . Key West road, when finished, will be devoted almost exclusively to passenger traffic, while the India -Ceylon line is expected to handle large quan- tities of freight. SIK1i FOOLS A LAWYER. He Was a Black Sheep, hut Not as Bad as I'resecutoe Thought. There is a Sikh .out in Victoria, B.C., who got himself out of a seri- oils predicament by a clever ruse. He was up against the law and as he was something of a black sheep even among the Sikhs it Looked as if it would go hard with him. He had had a bad record in. Hong- kong and this was known to other Sikhs and to the prosecuting law- yer. So he arranged to have, an unfriendly Sikh informed that for a crime in Hongkong he had been branded on the left arm. The un- friendly Sikh lost no time in passing the information to the prosecutor. The lawyer held the information until he evanted to make a telling point at the trial. Then ho pointed an accusing finger at the Sikh and called out sternly: "Pull up the sleeve on your left arm and lot the Court see the brancl placed there by Hongkong jus. ties..: The Sigh obeyed. Ilis arm was. without blemish, The unfriendly Sikh And the lawyer did not know that branding criminals is not m fashion in Hongkong. The point was so telling that the accused Sikh. got aTf. I:C]N Cli'V FOR EMIGRANTS. Liner Well Equipped for Third- class Passengers Only. An 'emigrant trans-Atlantic liner which provides greatly improved ac- oommodations for its poor passen- gers is described in Popular Me- chanics. The vessel- is equipped for third-class passengers only, all her wide expanse of deck being entirely at the serviee of the 1,700 emigrant passengers she . eau carry. Her cabin arrangement is excellent, A large. number of two -berth rooms are set aside for the use ofmarried couples, families also aro assigned to small rooms, and the old type of open -berth sections, which is . the usual accommodation of finch pan- aengors, is entirely done germy with. Two large dining soothe of amply seating eapacity aro situated on the tipper and lower decks, and smok- ing, reading and loureiie rooms are also provided; ee' :"slid -of lux. cries for emigrants hitherto.. 4h •