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The Brussels Post, 1909-8-26, Page 2GOD OF SUSIIINE AND STORI We Find Him, in the Silent Brook, the Drouth and the Parched Plain. The brook dried up.—L Dings, xvii., 7. Elijah brooded in the silence and solitude of the mountain by the area Oherith when the drouth fell, but out of the disaster that threat- ened there carne to him a new nave - lotion of God and a broader mean- ing of life, It seems that when God has a new faith, a new truth a new purpose to reveal to man, fie sends hint for a sparse into the isolation of the silent places. Elijah et the broolt Oherith Moses on the plain of Mi - (lien, Christ in the wilderness, face to face with God, with nature, with their own souls earns into and in- spired knowledge of life's moaning and misaion. Do we not find it so to -day? 'i ilest the sun shines nature bloseoms, the brook babbles and prosperity smiles, faith is easy, life joyous. God is good ; but the brook dries, there comes temptation, suffering, struggle, disaster, and GOD SEEMS TO FORSAKE US, wo •are left to battle alone, doubt and pessimism assault us, never more, we think, will life be worth while; never more will God show His face;' then from the depths there comes to us the new faith, the new truth, the new manifestation of God. Perhaps we are beginning to feel ourselves a peculiar people, a special object of God's love; that we had reached a higher plane than the common' herd, were coming in- tt•the spirit of the Pharisee, who could say, "I thank Thee that I am not as ether men"; then, iiehold, the brook dries, the drouth cornes. anti we ery, "Lord, be merciful to me, a sinners" No out of stzesa' and temptation and' doubt there wines to us new faith, now strength, new puriroso. God besot -ilea the God of -the sun- shine and the storm, of the just and the unjust, of the saint and the alia- s-ter, inner, and there'comes to us a deeps er sense of His fatherhood, a oloser sympathy with our fellows; the uni- versal brotherhood is emphasized. In some way every one comes to the "dried' brook." THE "DBOUTH" may be a preparation for blessing, success, victory, Elijah went down from the mountain to the contest with the priests of Baal. ' In the solitude way revealed to him the supremacy of the God that stoves in the heart of nature, in the heart of man, over the gods made of wood and stone, worshipped by the hea- then in the plain. The brook Cherith may bring doubt and suffering for a time, but in the end will lead to a saner hap- piness, a truer vision of God — God that works in the flood of springtime and drouth of summer, inevitably, unchangingly, eternally, but beneficently along the way of law that is lore, and the purling rivulet and the dried brook are but different ways He has of blessing, leading, developing the individual and the race. Rev. Guy Arthur Jamieson. THE S. S. LESSON IN:T'ERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST 20. Lesson IX. Paul on Christian Love. Golden Text, 1 Cor. .13: 1-13- I. Love Completes All Virtues, and Makes Perfect All the Good Things of Life.—Vs. 1-3. Eloquence, uninspired by real love, not seek- ing the highest good of the hearer, is but sounding brass, or a tinkling ' cymbal; mere noise witeaut har- mony, without meaning, without the soul of music. This is true even if we had the gift of tongues be- stowed by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and could express in every language with the utmost eloquence, every rapt emotion, every highest experience and ectitay of the human heart, that "harp of a thousand strings"; yea, though I have the eloquence and . perfect language of the angels. On the other hand, eloquence is one of the most powerful instru- ments of love in persuading men to repent, in moving men toward righteousness, in portraying the blessedness of serving Christ. De- spise not these gifts, bet transform and give them power as the instru- ments of love. Then they are aweet as the music of the angel harpers in heaven. II. The Spectrum of Love, The Qualities Which are Combined in Perfect Love. -Vs. 4-7. The abso- lute importance of love, as an essential part of all tirtues and ac- tions, has been shown in the first three verses. Our next duty is to Team what love is. Like life, love cannot be defined, but it can be described and recognized by what it does, by its fruits, by the expression of its qualities. It like Iife. The great- est scientists cannot tell what it is in its essence, but only describe it by qualities and results. All the qualities together do not make life or love. "Love is a compound thing," Paul tells ns. It is like light. As you have seen a man of science take a beam of light and peas it through a, crystal prism, as you have seen it come out on the other side of the prism broken up into its component eolurs—red, and blue, and yrlluw, and violet, and orange, and all the cetera of the rainhow—so Paul passes this thing, love, through the magnificent prism of his inspired intellect, and it COMPS out on the other side broken up into its elements. And in these few words we have what one might call the spectrum of love, the analysis of love. III. Love is Imperishable.—Vs. 5-12. loves like .light, shines on however it`ntay,be received, Men may hate it, but love continues. Men may get so hardened as not to be, influenced by it., but God loves them still. Mon may pessecnteand Injure and rebel against and hate those who love them, but these things cannot destroy the love. l,r>ve is like tire+ laws of nature; you may break them, but they' do not change; you may defy thesi, but they work right on; you may use them and may trust them un- failingly. IV. The Immortal Three.—Vs. 13. And now, in conclusion, abideth faith, hope, charity. Faith Abideth. We shall never cease totrust in God, for our souls can no more live in heaven than they can here, without divine help and influence which come from trusting bis as Governor, Helper, and Friend. Faith will only be stronger, more complete, in heaven than here. Hope Abideth; For the more we gain the larger our vision 'of things to hope for. The more we gain our ideal, the more glorious the ideal to be gained. And this through eternal ages, We do not cease growing, developing, by go- ing to heaven. Love the Greatest of All. But the greatest of these is charity. Love. (1) It is greatest in its nature, nab - lest, deepest., happiest, most per- vasive, most heavenly. (2) It brings us closest to God, makes us par- takers of his nature, his children and heirs, (3) It is the one thing without which faith and hope are of little avail. (4) It is the most powerful, exerts the widest influ- ence for good, is the strongest mo- tive for the upbuilding of character. (5) It is universal. Every person, of every degree, may have this love. More then all other things together it makes those that have it "free and equal." (0) With faith and hope, loveis eternal. The longer one lives, the more -love he can have. It will expand and grow forever and ever, in increasing blessedness and glory. MAULED BY PANTHERS. Girl's Fierce Struggle in a Seaside Circus-. A girl animal tamer, "Mlle. Alice," was attacked and badly mauled by two panthers in the Ma- rine Gardens at Portobello, the sea- side resort near Edinburgh, Scot- land. She was taking the animals from the cages to the arena for the per- formance at the time. The panth- ers were in a. sullen humor, and resented her efforts to ;oax them along the passage leading to the arena.' They hung back and and- denly sprang on her, bearingher to the ground. The large crowd present were horrified to hear screams coming from the passage. The manager rushed to the girl's rescue, firing his revolver, which was loaded with blank cartridges, while others, with iron bars, after a fierce struggle, thrust the infuriated' animals off their victim, who by this time had swooned. The girl was badly lacerated on the chest, thigh and scalp, and was covered with blood, -- LASSA GROWING MODERN. Lassa, the mysterious capital city of Tibet, which so long remained closed to European influence, ap- pears to he in the way of civiliza- tion. A Calcutta newspaper states that a commission from that city }:as received from a large convent in Leese an order for numerous ea- jests of European .ruse ufaeture, in - chiding 100 brass musical instril• meats. Apparently Oeelclantal eels temwill rneke its entrance with a brass band.' REVOLUTIONARY REPORT. Young Britons Must Go to SehOol. Until Sevogteen. 14fr. lluncirnan, British Minster et liduoation, has issued a revolu- tionary report, which, if adopted, will compel boys and .girls to go to wheel until the age of seventeen and will supply thein with snoh situ, atlens as are unlikely to leave them later stranded among the linens- 'ployed, 'Tins report is the work of u oommittee which includes Mr. Dyke' Aciand, Professor Sadler, air, Shackleton, M,P., and Mrs, Sophie Bryant, A feature of the report is the care taken to avoid hardship where young boys can help their fathers in the fields and where girls can help their mothers at home. But a blow is struck at the half-time system for children earning wages.. The report of 237 pages covers a vast field of investigation, especi- ally showing the regrets' of Ger- man education, but the following are, the essential recommendations More manual work in the schools and domestic subjects for girls, Abolition of half-time under thir- teen and as soon as ;possible under fourteen, except for boys at work in agriculture and girls helping at home. Exemption from school under sixteen only when the child :is suit- ably employed. Registries (at the cost of the State) to help parents to find pro- per work for children • leaving school. Every town and county to sup- ply continuous classes up to the age of seventeen. Children to be compelled to go to these classes and employers to be compelled to give thein time to do se and punished for employ- ing children who do not go. These classes to give practical instruction in the trades of the dis- trict. Physical training to be always given. The report says that 170,000 chil- dren between twelve and fourteen have left school entirely, while large numbers are injured by wage- earning occupations. Of the 2,- 000,000 between fourteen and sev- enteen, only one in four receives any education. "An increasing number of 'blind - alley' employments tempt boys and girls by high wages, but give no permanent •employment." 4. WHITE MAN Ir AFRICA. Lives of Men Who Recruit Negroes for Rand, Mines. The labor agent in Africa is a man who recruits natives for work in the mines. On the face of it the thing sounds prosaic enough, but it is far from being so in actual fact, for the recruiting has to bo done in the remote native districts, often hundreds of miles away from any white settlement, and the agent has literally to take his life in his hands. Up to ten years ago many labor agents, even in nominally British territories, were little more than slave raiders, says a writer in.The. London Daily News. 'I have met them going out with a dozen awned 'police" whose business it was to surprise a village after nightfall and capture all the likely -looking men. In the Portuguese colonies the raids were carried out on an even larger scale by regular uni- formed troops, though latterly the ugly temper of the natives them- selves has made the business a risky one. I remember •yell an alarm in one of the big villages, when within a couple of minutes there mere more than a hundred sturdy savages, armed with long bows and poisoned arrows, crouching in the jungle just beyond the huts wait- ing for the raiders. On another occasion some Portu- guese native soldiers tried to ex- ploit what was to them a new dis- trict. I saw them going down, but never heard of them coming back, although I had a came a few miles' away. Months afterward I learned the story of their fate, They passed through a number of tiny, poverty-stricken villages, where they found no one but women, though everywhere they were told of the big kraals on ahead down to the southwest, and so they tramped right into the deadly thorn jungle, whore the M'Chopi, the archers, or bushmeu, are, and the archers killed them to the last man. It was a grim trick to play, but the old cluef who told us the story chuckled over it. To him it was evidently a humorous side, LAND BY THE GALLON. A farmer living in a wet and late district in the east of Scotland found times and seasons so against frim that he decided not to renew les lease. Meeting his landlord the other day, he said: 10011 mak' nothing o' sic oat end Baur land, and I'm no' goin' on wi't, or I'll he ruined." "Well, John, take time to think o't," said the landlord; "no doubt we'll be able to come to terms. I might lot, you have the farm at a reduction on the acre." "Ah, laird," 'replied the farmer, "your land should be let by the gal- lon, no' by rho wire I" WORD FOR MINES GIRL CAPABLE, INTELLIGENT AND SELF:BESPECTIN.G, '1'be Woman Wage Earner M.ay be 08 Modest as Iler StaY^at.. Home Sister, Most of those whet do nob come in aotual contact with the business girl have the vaguest idea of what she is really like. In the .first place, they look on her as thoroughly undomesticated sad devoid of all womanly Accom- plishments, In this they make a great miss take, for there is 00 reason• in the world why the: business gill should not be a very capable housekeep- er, The girl who has the brains to be intelligent in business affairs hag the brains to be equally intelligent es household affairs. DON'T WANT IDLE LIFE. Tho business girl is not always driven to earn her own living through necessity, It frequently happens that she is one of a large family of girls and that her com- mon sense tells her that she is much better off earning her living than idling away her time at home. If a girl is nob married at twenty - Bre she is usually tired of dances and the tiresome round of social life, and she is very glad to get into some congenial line of work. The pride of being independent is very sweet, and, though a girl may be independent as far as money matters' go, it dons not follow that she loses her femininity in the smal- lest degree. She can be out in the world, .v, wage earner, and still be as mod- est and womanly as though she had never left the home nest. INTELLIGENT AND CAPABLE. The girl who is inclined to be bold and fast is in just as much danger of becoming so if she stays at home as when she is engaged in business. in foot, there is even more chance of her getting into these bad ha- bits, as she has more time to get into mischief. To my mind the average business girl is aboutthe finest product of this country. She is an intelligent, capable, self-respecting, womanly girl, and. the mea of the country should be broud of her, She goes about her usiness in a modest, sensible way, asking nothing but just recognition of her services and respectful treat- ment from those with whom she comes in daily contact, She is usually a good daughter, and, owing to her generosity, many little extra comforts creep into the home. If any you -ng man reads these words let him remember that a good daughter makes a good wife. Do not for a moment think that I am decrying the home girl, for I am not. I am merely telling some facts about the business girl. The girl whese plain duty it is to stay at home and help her mother is earning her living just as mueh as the one who goes to business every day. Keep that in mind, lit- tle stay-at-home sister, and don't' le blue because you are not paid a salary every week. As long as your mother needs you, you are do- ing the very best kind of work in helping to lift the burden from her overweigbtcd shoulders.—Beatrice Fairfax, New York Evening Jour- nal. . POLISH GIRLS ON FARMS. They are Taking the Place of Mien on Gorman Fields. Owing to the lack of farm hands' in the agricultural region in the centre of Prussia farm owners there are now importing girls from Po- land to de all the minor work in the wheat, potato, and beetroot Gelds. These girls, the majority of whom come from the Polish part of Ger- many, are very strong and muscu- lar and at the same time very un- pretending, and they attend to the work assigned to them with greater zeal than the male hands formerly employed for this purpose, says an English paper. They get on an average one mark (about 24 cents) a day and free bed and board, which consists of a couch in a roughly -built barrack and af. one substantial meal, whereas they have to pay extra for the board they consume, of which they eat a lot. Most of them are also very fond of liquor, and during their work they drink a good deal of the cheap- est stuff. They usually leave their country 1n the months of March or April, There are certain agents who mo;ke a business of engaging these girls in the name of the big farm owners and as soon se a gang is complete they are shipped to their destina- tion. The Government, which owns the railroads in Germany, allows special rates to Erich transports. They usually leave Prussia in the autumn to reterm to their native country, where they spend the win- ter and their savings. They are mach more intelligent than ordin- ary farm workers, and many of them are handsome. A DISTRESSED SEAMAN, A Stromileti Indian's Pathetic 11. forts to. Get Home. The committee of the British House of Commons which is to in• quire into the question of distress- ed Colonial and li dian seamen will have material to work upon of such interest as soldour comes before a parliamentary committee, "It is not so very long ago that an ex- traordinary case came under our observation," says. an official, "An Indian found himself adrift in Lou. don, and for some reason or other he kcou efl lidm not getbookto a Ishipia,"hat would nd "IIs loafed r,bout the East End of London, living on the obesity of compatriotsuntil, tired of getting Ilia living in this way, be started off to tramp through England, He had no knowledge of the language or of the country, but, by some means or other, ne reached Aber- deen, where he found .a ship bound for Jamaica. It ryas the only ship he could get, and eventually he ar- dirivedharatged. his destination and, was. sc "After months of waiting he got another ship, this time round Cape Horn to San Francisco, where he hoped to oonneotwith an Indian ship. He was successful to this extent, that he secured a berth to Colombo. Here, again, he waited until there came a tramp .steamer in ballast, bound for Calcutta, and he got employment o'1 board. Be- ing a ship with a mixed crew, there was no sarong (chief native officer) ou board, and the ship had been at sea three days before the unfor- tunate Indian discovered that at the ,last moment the captain had received orders to go to the Cape for a cargo. The ship called at Capetown, only to sail :almost im- mediately—for Aberdeen? After 15 months' wandering the wretch- ed man found himself back again 10 the port from ' which he had sailed so hopefully more than a year previously." EACH BOY HAS FARM. SPAIN'S UNHAPPY TIMES IUfYOLi: TIpNS HAVE TORN THE COUNTRY ASUNDER. Last Uphoavitl Resulted ill Restorti- tion of 0 Monarchy is 1$75, . Spain has been second only to France in the tarbulenee of its, his: tory and the regularity with which wars and 'revolutious have strip- ped it of its 'youth and its terri- tories, and altered its form of gov- er•nmenInst, The t great upheaval was that which resulted in three different forms of t'epublio and a military dictatorship in the stormy years which preceded the restoration in 1875 of the monarchy with Alfons "The as ,Kfng, The founding of the kingdom of Asturias dates back to the .eighth century; that of Navarre to the ninth; Castile and Aragon were founded .respectively in 1033 and 1035. The two last were united in Spain .reached its greates glory and power in the sixteenth century. , The Hapsburgs ruled from 1516 to 1700, when the Bourbons succeeded them: The 'throne was given to Joseph Bonaparte in 1808, and., the Peninsular war kept the kingdom yea it ar till state1814o.f ferment from that THE PENINSULAR WAR. Charles IV., a weak and ignor- ant ruler, was responsible for Na- poleon's accession and the Penin- sular war. His wife, Maria Louisa of Naples, was in love with a brain- less young man named Manuel Godoy, and she prevailed on Charles to make Godoy Prime Min- ister and Generalissimo of the army and navy. Godoy was beguiled by Napoleon, by a promise of prin- cipalities for hifnself, to allow the French army to march through Spain to invade England's .ally, Portugal. When it was too late the Spanish people awoke to the situation, and the Peninsular war ensued. Charles abdicated at Napoleon's request, and his son, Fernando, was taken to France a prisoner. In his absence a party of extremists met at Cadiz, and adopted a new constitution, which was altogether different from anything the coun- try had had before. Fernando re- pudiated it when he came back from France in 1814, but a revolution made him see things in another light in 1812. DEFEATED HIS SUBJECTS. Tho triumph of the revolutionists was short-lived, however, for in 1823 Fernando enlisted the help of French arms, and administered a beating to his own impetuous sub- jects. When he died in 1833 ho enjoined upon Lis wife and his in- fant daughter Isabel to preserve intact all the regal prerogatives. Maria found this harder to do than to say,, because the people whom Fernando had persecuted had ral- lied to Don Carlos, who claimed the throne under the Salic law, and the Queen Regent found it difficult to maintain her position without their support. Then followed a long civil war, in which Don Carlos' pretentions were disposed of, but the despotio leanings of the Queen were so at variance with the democratic views of the party which supported her that Spain was plunged into a period of turbulence, pronnncia- mentos and civil revolts which cul- minated with Prim and Serrano's successful revolution .of 1868, and the flight of Isabel to France. ADOPTED NEW CONSTITUTION Successful Experiment with Deflci- eat Children. Mts. Henry Parsons, who is di- recting the school farms of New York city, is making an experiment In farming' with a class of deficient children. To each of fourteen boys bas been given a farm four byeight feet. "Few of these children can ei- ther read or write," explained Mrs. Parsons. "Almost none of them can 'do the simplest sums in arith- metic. It looked rather hopeless when Miss Crampton, my assist- ant, and I began the task. "When it came to planting I ex- plained that the beans were to be planted a span apart, the onions two spans and so on. I showed thein that one span was just the width of the rake. Like a flash one cf the boys replied that they would not need to use their hands in' measuring, as the onions would have to be planted two rakes apart, This the other boys understood and acted accordingly. "When the vegetables began to grow to enable the boys to culti- vate them most effectively I got wooden meat skewers which I had them grasp as though about to write. With the point they stir- red the soil about tiro plants, and in doing 51 many of them made the motion as though about to write, "It was very simple, and after a littleall of them were using the akewers as if .they were pens, and each farm was thoroughly tilled. Their school teacher is following this up, and we believe in a short time the children will learn to use their pens and be able to write." 4. ORDER IN T'FI1I GALLERY. A. noted suPerintendent of the Sons of Temperance was talking at. an hotel about temperance orators. "The temperance - orator of to- day," he said, "is always sure of a respectful hearing. In the past it was not so. At the beginning of the temperancemovement drink- ing men came to our meetings for. no other purpose than to interrupt and confuse. The orator had to be very careful in his 'remarks. He had to look out lest • he gave his hearers an opening for some oppor- tune but ribald interruption. "I remember when they began temperance, work here. A series of meetings was held in a large hall. The audiences were always numer- ous, but they interrupted horribly. Iri the end an ex -prize-fighter was hired to sit every night in the ob- streperous gallery and keep order there. "Well, one night the orator con- t trusted the 'clean content of home life with the squalor of drunken- ness: He spoke beautifully, and at his climax he cried, in ringing, 110-' pa"ss"ioned tones:- What do we want when we re-� turn from our daily toil? What, do we desire to ease our 'burdens, tot gladden our hearts, to bring smiles for our andsongto our lira " 0 1 faros o ps l "Here the oritorpaused for ef- fect, and the conscientious prize -I fighter' tiptoed hurriedly to the front of the gallery, shook his 110-1 ger at his unruly ehargcs, and said, in 'a'threatenieg stage whisper; .t "'blind, the first feller among se who says 'T3est V oiit he goes: Then followed the period describ- ed above, in which Spain tried a variety of forms of government. Alfonso XII., who was restored to the throne at the end of it all, was the (oily son of Isabel. A new mod- erate constitution was adopted, and still remains in use, for the most. part. The years which have passed since then have been comparative- ly tranquil. Alfonso XII. died at the age of 28, and his widow, Maria Cristina of Austria, became regent until her son, the present King, reaohed his majority, • The threatened secession of Cuba brought on the Spanish-Amorican war in 1898, and Spain lost all that was left of her ancient Western Empire. To the nether as a whole, this was desirable freedom from an del burden, but the loss of the co- lonial markets dislocated certain manufacturing interests, especially, in Catalonia. This accounts for thw fact that the separatist tend- ency has always remained, ' strong among the Catalans. ABOUT DRINKING WATER. AI least; three -pints of water should bo drunk daily by the aver - ago adult, in addition to what is prosent (50.60 per cent,) in the solid food. A look of mater to fitlsl1 the sewers of the body leads to 'constipation, malassimilati"n, melanehu1N,' eiid many obscure na'hes and pains, Water is hest taken mostly between mesas, =So as 1101 unduly to dilute the digestive juices, A glass of ice water taken at 0 ri100 driven the blood from the 210120elr nod .delays digestion at least rat from. BRITAIN'S PIG INCOME JOAN HULL'S NATIONAL BAG- ANCE SHEET, How Two hundred Billion Pounds are Spent Colossal Figures, Even an American rnirlti-million- aire might be staggered by an at- tempt o grasp the colossal figures disclosed by John Bull's national balance -sheet, issued as a 13lee- beok recently.. In the fins cis on d e n l year dd March 31st last the Exchequer re- oeipts totaled £205,137,275 19s. 10d, the great bulk.. of this money being derived from customs, excise, es- tate duties, land -tax, post office, and property and 'income-tax. Money raised by creation of ad- ditional debt accounted for a fur- ther £2,636,155, and amounts tem- porarily borrowed carne to £8,500,- 000. Where the money went is even Moro interesting Twenty-eight millions were absorbed by the Na- tional Debt services, £470,000 went to the Civil List, £271,790 in annui- ties and pensions, £77,736 in sal- aries and allowances, £518,292 to Courts of Justice, and £331,288 to miscellaneous services. The Civil . List £470,000 includes the following items. Their Majesties' Privy Purse Salaries of his Majesty'a Household and retired al- lowances 125,800 Expenses of his Majesty's Household .. 103,000 Royal bounty, alms, and special services .. .. . 13,900 ROYAL FAMILY ANNUITIES. incluAnnuities to the Royal Family de ; The Prince of Wales ......£20,000 Princess of Wales ,... 10,000 Princess Christian .. 6,000 Princess Louise (Duchess of Argyll) ... .. .. 6,000 Duke of Connaught . .... 25,030 Duchess of Edinburgh 6;000 Duchess of Albany 6,000 Princess Henry of Batten - burg . . 0,000 Trustees for his Majesty's daughters.. ,. . .. 18,000 For political and civil services Viscount Cross and Lord George Hamilton each craw £2,000 a year pension ; Mr. Henry Chaplin, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, and Mr. Ger- ald Balfour, £1,200 each. • Two late Speakers of the House of Com- mons—Viscounts Peel and Gully— are down for £4,000 a year each, - while the pensions for judicial ser - 'vices in England alone reach a total of. £45,789. CROWN'S ITEMS. Here are some curious items en- der the heading of miscellaneous revenue Amount received from Venezuelan. Govern- ment in respect of claim' of British sub- ject who cannot be found ..... .. £009 0 0 Conscience money re- mitted to Chancellor of the Exchequer .. .. 717 0 0 Unclaimed balance of bankrupt's estate at Smyrna .. .. 7 12 6 Commission on sale of photographs (Nation- aI Portrait Gallery) .. 17 4 0 The gross receipts of the postal service were £19,904,504, of the te- legraph service £3,609,552, and of the telephone service £1,523,022. .3• "MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY." Convict Deported. From England Sent Back from States. George Howard, a negro, 43 years old, was -deported to Liverpool re- cently on the White Star liner _Arabic, sailing from New York. During his stay at Ellis Island he was dubbed "the human shuttle of the high seas." Unless the United States and Great Britain come to an agreement on Howard's case ho is likely to become another "man without a country." • Howard served a sentence in a British prison for burglary,,; and. on being released, several weeks agog declared that he wa.s an American eitizeu. Under the laws of Groat Britain lie was therefore subject to deportation. He was sent by the British Government on the Arsibic, and on arrival at New York Was taken to Ellis Island. Hummel tolcl the officials at the island that he was born in the States, and had spent the :first 20 years of his life here, but lie tvaf unable to book ep • his assertion with documentary or ether proof.: Be was ordered deported, and, as the arse stands, ie is likely, to be returned again to the States on try Arabic. Howard's ease, it is, said, is without parallel in the his- tory of immigration, COURSE WAS. COURSE IT "Soou were.deeply touched by y the poem young Mr. Guffann wrote to you?" said Maude. "Yos,07 " said Mamie: "But it was not a good parer,' "I don't care. It. war just as much trotiblc .for ' him to write it, as if he had been Shakespeare,"