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The Brussels Post, 1904-5-5, Page 3TIE STRUGGLE FOR SLCCESS Possible to Pay Too High a Price for Fortune's Favors. lEntered Recording to Act of tho red, nament 01 Ganadit, In the year tine Thousand Nino Hundred and Vow. by *wee Deily, of Toronto, tit the TlerSeenient cd Agriculture, Ottawa e -- A deepatch ermin, Los Angeles &Vet Rev, Freak Do Witt Talmage fireonew esd from the following text: Judges xl., 35, "Alas, en.„, daughter!" An old trite saying declares, "Whet 18 werth getting Is worth paying for." But the pnyment demanded for wbat wo want in ofhm more than mere silver and gold, It may cost the Wound of flesh near the heart of an Antonio, mid it may mean silver or gold, crimsoned by baying been dipped and rusted and dyed in human blood. Well, to -day we end General Joph- thah having a great ambition. He was not only ecieking a noble and a legitimate goal, but he was rashly and recklessly ready to pay any prim to reach that goal. Jeplithah nad two objects in reaching this goal of his ambition, The first, to wipe out the stigma on the record of his birth. Like Alexandre Dumas, he could never mention the name of hie mother without bringieg et blush of Mime to his (hook. Secondly, Jeph- t hah wanted to drive out the invad- ing Anunonitish hosts who were threatening to destroy his people. So t he night before the groat battle .opeued General Jephthah in his mili- tary tent made a pledge something like this: "0 Goa, If to -morrow thou wilt only give tee success, If thou • allow.me to atone for the awful record of my birth by being a deliv- erer of my people from these invading herds of cut-throats, I promise thee that whatsoever cometh forth or the doors of my house to meet me when teturn 111 peace from the children of Ammon shall surely bo the Lord's, nntl I will offer it up for a burnt of- fering.," Hardly had the roar and din of brittle ceased when the messengers on .swiftest of horses sped everywheve. Everywhere the hard riding couriers shouted. the news to an exulting pee - pie: "The land is free! The land is free! The land is free! Jephthah has won! Jephthah has wonl" THE PARENTS' DUTY. Pint, God would never have us, Jephthah, destroy the spiritual . and physical and temporal lives nf n ue children, Ho would never have us so engrossed in our work that wo would neglect our own "flesh and Ineod," and care not how our boys end gide might turn out. He would ' not have the raidister or the lawyer or the merchant or the inventor say: "I have no time to look after the nursery. I most work and work and work. I must work and work even though my own boys and gids have to suffer." Ile would not let Abra- ham. offer his boy Isaac upon his al- tar, neither wilt he ever revile, us to sacrifice the spiritual and temporal lives of our children upon the altars of tame. Oh, pment, it is an awful crime to endanger the physical and temporal and spiritual welfare of your chile &en! No crime among all recorded crimes ought to be more shunned or condemned. And yet this crime we see flaunting itself everywhere. Par- ents seem to be too busy seeking earthly fame and temporal success to care for their own flesh and blood, Said a, prominent English judge to a emung man standing in the felon's dock, "'Do you remember your fa - thee?" "Perfectlyn' said the youth. "Whenever I entered his presence ho would say: 'Run away; run, my lad, and don't trouble mo. must weite now; 1 must " 1Vho Was that father? "He was the great lawyer," said Dr. Potter, "who was the author of the famous work on 'The Law of Trusts,' and his only sen 111 clue time furnished n practinal commentary on the way in which his father had (Recharged the most sac- red of all trusts committed to him in the person of els own child." "Ed, where is your mother?" I once asked a young school Intend when dining in the home of his mo- ther. "Oh, mother is not heee to dinner to -day. Mother is very Sel- dom at home. She is always off ad- dressing those religious meetings." Do you wonder that in this answer I read the futtwe doom of that son? Do you wonder that that boy turned out 310,1113" What right had that 010117e1' to attend any series of meetings 30101 woUld compel 'her to systelnati- celly neglect the spiritual teething of her enuring by her own fireside? No temporal success of life should bo al- lowed to demand for its altars the tocrilicti of a Men's children, the 14(1,1- 1111)7) of a mother's home. CHRISTIAN INTEGRITY, s. For temporal SUeeess, 00 Matte* how great, Cited would meet' have us destroy our Christian integrity. He would novo nave us mix an alloy in with the Imre gold of Chriettan 011111.- • 4We ill order to meg° it harder and to give •E a louder ring. Ile would never etly to us, "Oh, child of a 011, 310l1 can tell juet one big lie or com- mit one big sin if by thet means you con win a great earthly sUceess, end then you will be rcatly to reponse- oath yoer Whole life to me" And yet there are many men and WOmen Who belleVe that in the sight of Clod and Man a meat temporal success in olio way May atom) for the illegi- timate and did -tones -I; means W which that euceees is won. To them the cloven foot of Satan may be alloteed to stand in the frobt rank of the world's honored (we if it bo only toVeeed With the shibieg kid of a peteet leather shoe, i'Who is that gentlemen riding • down the street?" nein "011," he answerS, "that is ono of Llio most in- fluential and respected mon in our lle is feet oely at the head or lieeniforinatoV neveMente, but he IS ono of tlie pillars of Rev. Dr. So - and -73's church," "lime did no make his Money?" "Well," he en - Were, and With that he Molts mound to see no one is within hearing die - tame, "there Is a dark stove( con- noted with hls life. People do say be got his start by dishoneet means. He Is said to have been once a very Poor young num and a clerk in his uncle's office. This uncle watt the owner of some very valuable coke lande, This uncle 1805 a director in ono of our largo privatu nanke and had hie name, with six or seven other directors, upon notes aggregat- ing nonee millions or dollars in value. The bank failed. These directors were responsible for the notes. In order to liquidate those notes that uncle would have had to hancl over most of leis propmey. What did be do? In order to escape them legit:mato obli- gations he placed his coke property in the hands of his nephew end then went into court and swore he was Penniless. After be had perjured himself that this uncle went to his nephew and said, 'Now, my boy, deed I110 1111010 my coke lands."011, no,' said the young man; 'you gave them to me, end 1 will keep them. Tf you are dishonest I can bo dishonest too.' nhat is the way Mr. So -and -So tens supposed to have had his financi- al start in lite. DLit, of course, as ho ie so rich and generemS with his mon- ey church and the world are ready to ovorloolc this sin of his youth." A great temporal success is held by some to atone for the sin- ful means by which great success is won. 'EMPTINESS OF TEMPORAL SUC- CESS, Think not this illustration purely 111loginarY. 1 am speaking about ono of whom Dame Rumor is tolling this story at this moment, Anil yet, iny brother, as I relate this in- cident, I want you to answee this question, "Does Clod over allow us to make any successes true in his sight, at the expense of our Chris- tian integrity ?" Will he forgive us our past, sins because we bring to Illat our gold and silver and precious jeweils that have been stolen. from the coffers of another's treasure vaults ? What is worth having is worth paying for; but we always pay too laigh for our temporal suc- cesses when 'WO 1)7737 .01' them with the coin of deceit end dishonesty, and theft and with gold smelted by un- lawful and immoral fires. "A good name is rather to be chose a then great riches." That means, though you pile upon one side of your scales all tho gold buried under a thou- sand hills, and all the securities that snake the money markets fawn at your feet, and all the diamonds taken front a Golconda mine, end yet put upon the other side of that moral scale ono dishonest net by which those riches were 18011, in the sight of God and Christian men you have paid for your wealth at too high a price. You have paid for them at the expense of your Chris- tian integrity, But there is still another very foolish sacrifice many men told we- n= make for temporal successes of life. That in the respect Mid love which all good men and women should feel toward their fellow Men. 11 Is ono thing to be careful about our Christilut Mtegeity, and others may think well of us. But it is an- other and a more important thing, that we do not foolishly sacrifice our Christian integrity, lost we lose our respect and love Tor our neigh- bors. Tun rurcrr, Too mou. 11 must bo an awful sensation for O man who has sacrificed his Cht•is- tian integrity to feel that ho always has to live in the "City of Dishon- esty," upon tho "13oulevate1 of De- ceit." 11 inest be an awful thing to feel that every person who comes in touch with you is prompted to seek your friendship With a sioister desire. I once mad of a heartrend- ing scene. During the boMilard- meet of Charleston, S.C., a young girl in ono of the principal man- sions of that fair city of the south was standing with hoe soldier lover before the marriage alter. Just ns tho chaplain, wns about to pronounce the twain ono, there sounded a ring- ing cif a shell. It burst firth the room, and the young brldo dropped dead at the feet of her lover. 011, thot death was horrible, terrific That was a tragedy. But the ticene of horror wbich met the young bridegroom's oyes that night Is not so horrible to me on must be tho tauntingly agonizing feelitigs of a. bad num who thinks Unit every marriage altar is built upon 1,110 hard rock of sellishness, that, all friendly meetings are merely the fawning words uttered by hypocrisy, that every one with whom we walk is trying to overeeitch us as WO are trying to overreach tlicem God pity the - 3110n who has lost his Christian integrity 1 Clod pity the num who feels he has to live upon the "Street e f Self Love" end to assoeitao en- tirely with neighbolei who belong to tile groat faMily of "Hard Hearin" Du t t0111p01'tll I1110001I8 113 age n nought at too high a price when the desire for one earthly goof ola literatee pil the temporal end epiri- tual bleesiogs Whiell We are surrounded. It. iii bought, at too high a price When a Man, to gain OW, end, is Willing 1.0 stterifice everything else he • has on orth, and, in the end, iney loso the prize for n'hieh ha hnn nallggied. 31 e017 imagine hotv Jephtitab brooded over the evil chapter of hie father's and mother's life whieh gene 11110 bieth, I call initigine how lie wanted to wipe out thee Cain, especirtily to wipe out 1711147)131 tt people that 1(711)11 the re- cords of 1(11141)3' births generatiou niter getierntioe and ceniury after ceetery, 31 title imagine 018 MiglIty 11111717 (if War iniptileively, and haistily anyIng, "Ole 011, if I only May be honored emong my people I Will glee to thee as it burnt offering the first pereon that comes out of MY 11011710 to welcome ine." But wben his beautiful daughter, robed in white, was being bound to a stake, end when the lighted torch Wan hong among Me fagots piled around her beautiful limbs, and when the tresses of ber bale floating in the winds were eaten up by the hot, hissing ilfdrief4, end when her dying shriek eves Muted above the wettings of tho multitudes that surrounded her funeral pyre, do you believe the death of his wily child could in any way make .1 ephtinth bappier be- cause the disgrace of his birth was forever wiped out ? Instead of Jeplithith being the head of his fam- ily, now, by the death of his only child, he was the last of his race. I can imagine how a man reared in poverty and one who knew the metwinge of hunger might long for unlimited wealth—aye, and be ready to make almost any sacrifice to achieve wealth—but whop wealth will cut, For boo mice, 11 au acre must he puechased at the price of will cut one ton of hay, anol it is his own lIfo's blood is that wealth worth fel 0, then the pasture is worth worth the struggle and the death ? that amount, less the (lest of gather- RENOIINGE SIN. ing the hey. The Minuet and divine sacrifices of lf it will mit two tons, One twice We 1 Who can overlook them? Wo ,,seitieeleeene.,34i-vneeiet...1411,e,re.eilee-ren, ...1 FOR FARMERS 'f4 Seinstonable and Profitable'. i t • Ilints for the Busy of the Soil. tte.*********•iliee.nete***.eig.e4,11•414i SUMMER DAIRY FEED, 31 havo had two acres furnish 25 cows all they would oat, in additien to tunee pasture (an acre 10 the ooi- 11(111) for six weeks. If there is a sure plus they can be mit and cured for hay, Ono feed a day of such buy luts given mo as smith milk as a feed of the best clover hay mid ono pound of protein grain. To get these regents they sbould be cut just on the oat, bead Is formed and the peas hardly out of blossom, Clover ean be sown tHE S, S. 1-ESSON, INTERN.A.TION AL IZISS ON, HAY 8. Text of the Lesson, Luke xii,, 35- 48, Golden Text, Luke zit., There is a vast, amount of religion or religiousness which is uot real. do not believe that with these, and if they are eut green 1 it is ellerein 1,17118,0071 form, like Gut SOB CURIUM 11,R411E.VB FANTASTIC BELIEFS ,A.13 OUT THE 3Y1I114.0114 Old Custorns and Superatitione About It -- Xaking Thom, Greatly as the modine woman va- lues a parrot. for Its friendly er faith- ful reflection of her chute% it is dairymen ehould medico entire stablo and not allowed to 10(11)7) good seed- chaff widen hos the Mimi of the nevertheless a mere piece of ferniture 1101111131 the year round, although It ling will follow. Or the ground (111)I -wheat, but there is nothing within. In 177)1 ('317)4 and it is doubtful if there can he and is done with profit, writes be sown with millet as late as July 'rho scribes andethe Plutrisees of our "„ Many' whose imapelnations are Lord's titne bad an ationdence of alert t see 11 vs y that hind, end Ile ("ailed theist hypo- ,,,,e, ,0 1 , , I.I.I Ill- L7- .1 115 IIII1V.* crave, those who play it part, like sr.• -1, .(1/1 .tt ILoniarice. tmt„ Ally hotyr In - (00(0(73 on a stage. In Matt. a:sill in 111,(,,i.," , But,I" I" IIII.4I 1;45 , in - ler Mu net meategranchnotaer 5 101.55, Edwara Altityne. There is 4 and a good crop obtained. Turnips nothing that will quite take the place May' be put in as late as August '1. of pasture grass. On most farina Millet and hungarlan grues are where COWS are kept, there 11111ch valuable feed after pees are gone. land that can be devoted to pasture. They may be sown from June 1 on. Ina land that will grow good corn, They will Conle on before corn 15 grain or hay, and is easily tilled, one as 0, quick and rank grownr, I 50W cannot afford to use for this ptir- from eight to 12 means per acre. pose, On such land 1 believe the This also makes a One hay, but way to figure the value of an. avre of should be cut before the heads aro pasture Is by the measure of hay it wen formed, leer soiling or grown feedieg, T pre- fer some of the larger varieties of sweet corn, planted tio thole will be a good growth of ears. It Is slow getting started, and will not turn so much bulk to the acre as will eouthern or working corn; but Will more than make up in quality what it lacks in quantity. Although havo never sown sorghum for this purpose, I believe It is valuable for feeding in early fall, and well worth O trial. All such feeds should al- ways be fed in the stable, If a little system 1.8 employed, the extra labor is not great, either when the team eomen from or just before it goes to the field. It is the work of only a few moments to throw the feed, ivhieh has been cut, on the wno.on and leave it at the door of the stale. Wu gather enough on Saturday to last over" Sunday. It does not spoil 00 seine Tho better condition. of the herd, the increased amount or milk and tho smaller area needed for, pas- ture under this system, or such mod- ification of lt as may suit each indi- vidual, will amply compeesate for cost and labor, glory in the fact, when a hero phys- 100113' dies to physically' save man- kind. When Dr, Robert Koth, the noted discoverer of the bacilli of tu- beeculosis, advocated the idea that the tuberculosis of math: was not , as much, with from two to four acres to carry a eoW tiiroukh the Willi - Mei., and giVe her all she needs. It will be readily seen that to depend wholly on pasture is expensive. With thin in mind, and realising that when a cove is allowed to shrink in her infectiotie for Than' and a' Yanng milk flow for any length of Ime, tier bacteriologist, to prove that theory . ' false, inoculated himself With the milk secreting Mends shrink, find no cattle tuberculosis germ and died as subsequent feeding will enable them a result of the inoculation, we said: to perform their full firmitIon until the 'Mint is glorious, that is grand ! cow is again fresh, I would milieus - That y011119 1117111 (lied in orcler that size the economy and importance of 100 11.1ig'hil phySiCally live, He died ,providing some supplementary feed in order to prove the necessity or ;during midsummer. The two crops our guarding against the tubercu- named below will not la. needed by losis of the dumb UMW." BLit this those who depend largely or wholly young maiden of nty text did more on' pasture early in the roason, but than to dio in order that her father are very important where stable feed- miglit live. I can imagine that in Ing continues the entire year. the crude belief of those days it may have been held that tho man T1TE SUMMER SILO. who failed to fulfill his deliberate ready. I prefer the barnyard millet vow would perish eternally, may I run of the opinion that for ono have been that Jephthah's daughter who would follow all the year feed - yielded her life lo avert that dread- ring, tbe summer silo is a necessity. ful tate from her father. If so, jEor this purpose would prefer the how heroic was her sactifice 71efow !solid silage in the bottom of a deep he must have loved her for doing silo, rather than to have a S1111111 SO, while ho bewailed the rash vow one built for the purpose. I have that had made it necessary I Have !covered such silage sifter the cattle WO no love for Cheist, whose death went to pasture with (3 or 8 inches was rendered necessary by our trans- of sawdust, anti had it keep beauti- gressions ? Ile who died to save ;fully until midsummer. No crop is es from the penalty of our sin !so cheap or so reliable, Should a asks us for our grateful love. Can we withhold it ? Let us ever hate drouth occur and cut orf a groend and renounce the sin which he died crop, or, as has been the case, the to wipe oway, and lot us give to aphis destroy an entire sowing of him. our heart's adoration and con- peas there is the silage to fall back secrete' our lives to his service. on. At the Pain -American dairy test our silage was hauled 17 miles, \Hum CHILD AT TWENTY -POUR. brought to the stable in the early morning, in a covered box, it was One of the Strangest Human Pe- fairly good. Under these adverse dr- ings in the World. curnstences, through those hot .7uly The little town of Dadnor, in the !and August days, the records show state of Indiana, boasts a human it was cheaper feed to., make milk man who, at the ago of twenty-four from, at $2 per ton, than Wan tbe is developing at only one-sixth the best of selected green feed, of various rate of the amens: 11010011 being. kinds nrnagnt in frssn dai1.7 (ram At the present: time 11Q is learning within a short distance from the ex - his alphabet, and can jest teenage position grounds, at $1,75 for a like During the past nineteen years he w0Rigy1e7t.and whet are the two feeds to count up to ten. has eaten but three meals per week, ilrst available in the spring, and has slept, twenty-four hours and have to be sown the fall previous. 11 P1710011 twenty-four hours, ivithout sowed early, say September 3., ahem the slightest 1000,110n. Though two bushels per acre, on rich, warm twonty-four years of age he looks no land, the rye will be ready in our older than a boy of four or live, is state about May 12. When the heeds only 313 inches in height, and not just beght to form it irta.es an ex- plore than 35 pounds in weight. For cellcnt food, and should last at least the same period his development, ten days. Rye has often been con - physically, and mentally, has been downed for this purpose. The (Hill - el only one-sixth the ordinary rate culty is, that in the desire to get a tvhile absolutely regular and perfect large yield, it has been left too long In all other respects. 'At his birth the human marvel was when it becomes woody and mute:W- ien pounds in weight, rind in 110 table, Wheat will follow next, and 70150 different from any other child. is one of the vevy best green. foods. Until he attained the age of five ho It will last well into June. Later throve and grew in quite tho normal B°Wings of both will proloug the sea- way. Then all at once his progress son. somewhat. The land on whith was mysteriously arrested, Cad ever those grew may he either planted. to since six years have been the same corn or later sowed with millet. to him as one to othey persons, Naturally, his 01180 has attracted the attention of leading sclentifie and Medical Men, more than one of whom has expressed the conviction that this remarkable being will live to bo no less than three centuries THE TAX TAX ON DRINKS. Great National Incomes Prom • This Source. The United States received last pear $1.81,000,000 of public revenue from the tax on spirits and $47,000,- 000 from the tax on beer, a total of $178,000,000. The Russian Government estimates at $1358,000,000 its revenue this ynar from the sale of liquor, which is a monopoly of the Inspeleal Gov- ernment, except itt Siberia, where, on July 1, it will become a, monopoly too. In (Weal, Britahl the revenee from excises, as the tee: is called, averages $138,000,000 a year, not 1110711 less then the meet= of the United States 01'0191111011t tram the sante source, and there is, besides, the cuotoms 1:100t0.0,nue froth rum, brandy and other intoxicants, amounting to $25,000, - The French Government derives in a yone 800,000,000 francs from its tax on spirits, 25,000,000 from the tax on beer and 175,000,000 from the taxes on wine, cider being included, This in Sl.00,000,000 a year hone liquor pestamets, exclusive of the amount Collected as customs dutiOS from Wines mitered into 'Prance 'for reshipment or for local consumption. Italy reifies' abOtit 100,000,000 lira O year from excise taxes, the 0017110- .100, of about 3320,000,000. Hollend rnises (dwelt 150,000,000 florins item title senrco, equivnient to PAIR PLAY. An English Officer's Experience With a London Nob. During the reform riots in Hyde Park, London, in 1866, the 01013, on a well -remembered night, begen. tearing down the fences of Hyde Park for fires and barricetdes. Col. Thomas Wentworth HigginSon tells in the ,Atlantic Monthly of an nng- lish officer who WEIS dining with a Mond, all unconscious of the ina. pending danger, Presently he M- edved a summons from the war de- partment, telling him that his regi- ment was ordered out to deal with the mob. He hastened back to his own house, but when he called for his horse Ite found that his servant had received permission to go out for the evening, and had the key of the stable in his pocket. Tho officer hastily donned his uniform, and then had to proceed on foot to the Guards' Armosy, which lay on the other sido of Hyde Park. Walking hastily in that direction, be came out unexpectedly at the very head- quarters of the mob, where they wore already piling up the loco. Ills uniform was. recognized, and angry shouts arose. It must have seemed for the moment to the mob that the Lord had &Uremia their worst enemy into their Minds. There WEIS but one thing to be done. I -Te made his way straight toward the center of action, and called to a man wno was mounted on •the pile and 11%15 tho leader of the tumult 1 "I say, my good man, my regi- ment has been called out by his ma- jesty's orders. Will you give me O hand over this pile 2" The men hesitated a minute, turd then said with decision, "Pays, the gentleman is right. He is doing and we have no quarrel Tf one is depending on soiling with- ni.s duty' with him. Lend a hand and help out the sil.o, there is liable to be a bile over." gap at this poiet which alfalfa, will This was promptly done With 011 1111. Its growing is more ouestion tire respect, and tho officer in his of brains than soils, It has also the brilliant uniform went hastily cm his advantage of not having to be put wey amid three cheers from. the in onnually. an do tho other crops, mob. Then the mob returned to making additional cost for seed and its work, to complete it if possible labor. In any ease, every dairyman before he whom they had aided should have a piece of clover, which should come beets at the head of his will always bo reedy from .Tune 111 regiment, and perhaps order them to 25, and ready to cut agnin in to be 81101 down. August. Dry as it was last year, sucli clover tided us until our oa.ls ANTE -sigma -Al LAWS, and pena were fit, and 10(75 0711 again before corn matured. A. law passed in Norway in 1 880 prohibits the sale of tobac,co to any - SUPPLEMENTARY CROPS, arm under tho age of fifteen years. Oats and pens ,are ot the best, Tbere Prince Edward Island the sale of are only two drawbacke to them. One (01311M0 in any form to a minor un - the aphis or green lice that have sets- der sixteen years. is forbidelen. Any eral times taken 070. tided sowing, minor under that ego who has in his arid for which there seems to be no possession or smolces tobuceo is Un- practical remedy. The other is the ble to a lino of five dollars or seven high price of seed for the last two days' imprisonment. 'Bermuda int - or three years. Tho southern Cowper, poses ft 5111111 1 penalty on persons is often confounded witli the Canada selling. tobacco, cigars, 00 cigarettes flold pea. It Is the latter thetteshould to chtltiltinorti.attridceor nt91,11X101,10,00111,syestlo1c'SieticOst alWalltS be used for this plimose, age. plant. It should bo sown early which like all peas is a cold weather have been formed for the suppres- tine 3tiiiiioenncohf otIolilectgnriotiVittig111r110iita,besonflug,..a. the spring. The fernier is really bean, and should not be put in 011 p1'Ohllbttlld 1170 tlio groend Warle, late May ot their schools. u_seLf..t*.obecco in all coley June. Vehile it is a valuable forage plant in the south, its chief SHIP'S DELL HONORED. value in the north is fee enricbing The ship's bell of the famous Bri- ttle Soil. Canada pens should be sown .inst en up—has been given a, place at bon- tennie—whith ship has now been hook- as soon as the ground is fit to work, 00.(77 tho offices of the White Star A bettor Opp will be obtained, and Lino in Liverpool. It is artistically they Will stay green longer; if the 11101111W' Under a polished wood eae- peas aro plowed in about 4 inches opy, end bears on. its surface a, white deep, The Peke should be eaten four stdr, During her thirty years career, or five days later, harrowed in and the Dritannic travelled 11 030 999 rolled. Or the pate may be drilled miles. in as deep as possible, and later the Oats drilled the oppoeito Way, and $20,000,000, wIse nwin never toile a Woman that she reminds him of an old friend, "I hate 'nettling bet ray heart tO give stoe," said a epinster to a law - sew item had concluded a ,eult for her, "lVell said Om Meever. gruffly, "go Le my clerk, takee the teat" nearer the eurface, sow two bush- "What st methodical fellow you are, els peas and from ono to le bnehels Dobbs!" Said VENUS, who had step - data per acre. This is better than Pod into Ilocld1s office dinette' the te SOW a larger cptantity of oath, as hater's &teener. "Why, what do you often recommended. `rimy crowel menne" asked Dobbs, "To iitIng 1.%ek 1175 notte and decrease the Wine that you Should lock all your draw- er the kidder. After (lave another ers up when you are only going out showing shoUld be plit in, and if one foe live minutes, likely that does not nine the aphie, ineo weeks anybody would meddle Willi your pa - Inter third. These humish Pole." "Of eenese not," replied 0.001 feeft from fsn, tome of Juno so totem; "het how did you fled out 111171 011? drawers were linemen the first or Middle of Angest, lie so called thien seven times, and in the first verse of our lesson oft„.„.01.0 ye of the pendale or Sheraton fr,ame, just and sees herself set In ite quaint. Chip - chapter IIs snicl, think of all those .others—enain 01' leaven of the Pharisees, which is liy- 11000183y., Leey.„.i. 111 seeipthro fe 1)1'etty-1L used to reflect, till each la turp faded or passed away, inva ria bly something evil, corrupt and corrupting. Eten ln Mutt. xiii be IMMO awe May have question- ed. It mutely, day after day, yew' in, end parallel passages it refers to Um corrupted food of the church in Year out; the 01111(11131 dincovery of the this present age called the mystery of the hiegiloin, the teaching which. according !to the last part of our lesson, encourages those Who pro- fess io be servants, but meg at the clutclusd tha heart, 11111 at length coming of Christ and mingle with there eame an ititerval—amt thenema the world. A true child of fled and servant of Christ is heartily "with 111171," hears the word. of God and keops it, has a single eye to the glory of God lays up treasure in hew - yen, in all things seeks the kingdom, has no anxiety about tint grey- hair was perholis witnessed by, IL alone, or, as line8 grew faintly distinct twomul the eyes and lips, it retealed them in a $ilent's. that cording to old custom, it was (UAW- od up, or carried out of the death chamber. It is perhaps as well, however, all things considered, then it must be mute; though we can imagine ions when a looking -glass cuMprenuft phone wore help1111 in the camel of temporal affairs and nci of justice death. The man of the world and the hypocrite, on the contrary, tire alWay$ Seeking more of this world uoto therotolves. see dnsky beauties on the banks of the and living vsed to gaze at themselves in chapter xi (23, 28, 34) and the por- mirrors of polished metal; the Greens then of chapter di up to wbere our and Romans made theirs of bronze, lesson begins. and similar one have been found in As the redeemed oE tbe Lord, Anglo-Saxon graves. But these, of risen with Christ, our affections are there where He is, at the right hand of God. We believe that our life is hid with Christ in God, that He has given us His kingdom an01 glory and that we aro here as Nis wit - (tosses to testify of His grace arid ANCIENT MIRRORS. In the days of the Pharaohs the course, were mere small objects, to he held in the 110101, as looking glass- es to hang on the wall were not in- vented till ectinewhere about the end of the sixteenth century. When the mirror was a rine and show forth praises, ministers of costly possession, instead of one of Christ and stewards of the myster- the most ordinary articles to be les of God (Col. iti, 1-3; I Thess. ii, found in a household, no doubt the 12; I l'et. ii, 9; I Coe, ly, 2). As wonder of it worked freely in the such we are decidedly not of this minds of men and women; hence the medley of superstitions and strange beliefs that gathered around it in course of time. ITS SUPERSTITIONS. But folk -lore is full ot weird fantas- tic beliefs about the mirror, and tbe marvel is they still survive in an age of sixpenny -ha'penny stores, and when even a penny will purchase a looking - glass "of sorts." nut we all know the dire results of breaking one—sev- en long yeare of 111 luck. Though, to be sure, in Yorkshire, that fat land of comfort and good cheer, they tell us it means, "seven years' trouble, but no want." And this is well and wisely arranged, for the Yorkshire- man. if lacking food, were afflicted in- deed. It alms.st goes without saying that it betokens deeper things to the sensitive Celt, so in the Scotch Highlands and in Ireland it means mortality in the home, most often the master's death, Pew things giv17 us who are so human as to be superstitious still, a iseener thrill than to hoar of some odd streak of so-called credulity 1e077 - ping out of the powerful phySique and iron nerves that make it an easy thing to play tlie hero. And so it is delicious to thinn of Napoleon shiver- ing and shuddering in the midst of one of his Italian campaigns when the glass over Josephine's portrait was shattered. Tt so preyed upon his mind, indeed, that lie could not rest until the return of the tourier des- patched to see if she were safe. Yet, after all, can we affirm that the brok- en glees was not onnnous of the death of love? FEARFUL (Arms, It forebodes ill if we see a new moon for the first One reflected in a mirror, or even through a. window pane, and nhis we are told in most countries in the world. The Swedish young 707701 011 dare not look in the glass after darn or by candle light, and there is this same fear in Ire- land, lest some ghoetly face been seen peering over their shoulders. But in Seotland it is done on the eve of St. Agnes there in a chance of seeing the future husband's face. Another very widespread belief is that it is vastly unlutly to show a baby its own re- flectlon lot it die young. In the south of 'England bride luny not look. in the glass once she - has been adorned for the wedding ceremony, but the evil may sr avert- ed if a glove is left to be put on af- ter the finel glance. Lot her beware also lost her van- ity entice her to her mirror on en- tering hoe new home a 1011,1, for if she do so misfortune is sure to fall Won the future family. Yet if her hesband take her hand, mid they give in the glass at fife Sallie tilne, the fates will lie favorably disposed towards them, '8 AllTn'tils OLD LADY. world, but with loins girded and lights burning WO wail for our Lord from heaven—"waiting for the coin- ing of our Lord Jesus Christ," "serving, the living and true Go1 and waiting for His Son from heav- en" (I Coe, i, 7; them i, 9, 10). See also I Pet. i, 13. In verses 37 and 38 of our lesson the attitude is not only wailing, but watching—that is, expeetiag, for we will not be apt to watch for what WO do not expect. It is writ- ten in 31 -fob. x, 12, 13, that after the Lord Jesus had offered one sacrifice for sins forever Ile sat clown on the right hand of God, from. henceforth .expecting till IIIS olloalieS 110 11WWIC 11118 footstool. In Rom. 19-23, not only the whole creation, but he - Univers also who hate the first fruits of the spirit, are said to he Waiting eagerly and groaning for that rie- demotion time when IIe shall come 0(10111. We must note the difference between His teaching to Israel in the gospels and the teaching to the church in the epistles concerning His coining again. 171 the gospels it is generally His coining in glory, as in. the Old Testament, with special reference to Israel and the nations, but in the epistles it is His coming to the air for Ilis church (the first stage of His coming), or, if it is the last stage His coming in glory, then the church is represented as coming with Verso 36 of our lesson cannot be a message for the church except ill SO far as the "waiting" is concerned, for when our Lord returns from the wedding the church will be with Him. The last part ot our lessee is de- voted to the "faithful and WI.90 stew- ard" or the opposite, nnd the mat- ter of personal responsibility is set fettle Pour times we heve the phrase "that servant," referring both to real servants and to hypocritm whose portion will be with unbeliev- ers, The Wise SerVant is exemplified in the !IVO wise virgins of MalI, xxv., and the faithful servant is etem (77 the men with the five and the two talents ia the same chapter and in the men whose pounds gained ten and IWO pounds in Luke xix. 'The faithful servant is 1101 only rewarded, but who can tell how 01.111(7 is includ- ed in the words "rider over all that he hath?" (Verse 4.1.) We cannot but think of "with rue in lily throne" (1110 "We Shall reign on the earth" (Rev, RI., 21; v,,.10). That Which our 1.0111 gives us He expects us to use faithfully in His service, giving the gospel to every creature en(1 rightly dividleg the word of truth to His retleemea, keep- ing in view that WO must render an account or one stewardship. Ilo wants 0, people rooted rind grounded in love, rooted and built up in Him and estahlisbed in the fuit(7 (leth. 17; Col. tie '7), and this can 1m acconeffiehed only 3130 1177' word of God faithfully ministered by the Holy Spirit throligh. Ills eervtults. Dread - full will bo the loss of 'those who have given stones for bread, things itttel- lacteal and ethica1 instead of meat in clue eerison. The stripes will be in proportion to knowledge and -op- portettlity abused. The servant who is cast out with Unbelievers never WWI II, 1910 870.01.1111, but 0111, like Judas Iscariot, who was Only of the number of the twelve, for a true child of God can mime perish (John x,, 27-29; Phil, 1., All are lost, Whether professom Of religion or openly negorny, because they have no1 received the Lord Jen - 031 CiirtSt as their Savieur, but pun- ishment shall be accorslieg 00 deeert, All are Cited Wbo are redeemed by Ills precions blood, and all eglially saved, for there are no degrees in sleety, but rewnrcle shall be accord- ing to faithful nerviee, eVen aS lle Said, "Behold, 1: etnno end toy reward ie with me 01 give teeter one tiecording es his Worl: simil he' (Rev, exii„ 12), See also 11. John El. A police -officer tells a Cory of 3177,' end women he once hail to deal with. A batch of bank -notes had. been stol- en, and the detective foetal someone who told him that the old woman in. 01108110111 hod olle Of the notes, at hest, in her house, He proceetled to vita the old 18(1' 101711'S house, and, locking the doore on the inside, umumaget1 the retina( from the top of the houee to the' col - Ile Was completely baffled, and, e 117011911 an officer who prided Itheaelf Oa his kerb ticent st. search, eine tearing 1111 101710 boards and knocking. down plaster, by way of making a show of hexing done something, he honfessed he nee beaten. and halided hack to her the (bundle the Woman had lent hint. "Tell nue mother, where it is and get sem on," fetid the detecate, Tim promiee Was sufficient, "You've had it In your hem% ilMet at the time," elle sold, "and twee it beek to nut thee moroeut, tor it Was Wrapped retain the tifeedlei".