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The Brussels Post, 1905-12-28, Page 3ESSENCE OF REAL RELIGION Every Man is Religious in Propoition. as He Seeks the Right. What doth the Lord require of thee men aro seeking Lo do right and make We eight,. Many a mart 113 re- ligious who would resent the imputa- tion of piety. Right. Seeking and right doing in Justice and inerey.—thecte reaSe the life of righteoustfess. There never has been and there never will be alls real tiLierenee of opinien as to three virtues. He who is ashamed of them has no place amongst men; he who neither Necks them nor endeav- ors to realty.° them is not religious, no matter what his profeselons and protestations may be. And the man who seeks them with all his heart is religious whatever he or others may think. 'Pim time will COMO when we shall brand as heretical and Minions every mockery in forms and words and proscriptions that has so long pared. eel as the true and only expression of godliness. Then the test of a Illareif religion will be the measure in whieh his life makes for justice, mercy, and 'Then. Instead of asking' 10 110 ,1001 11'. and to love mercy, anc to walk humbly with thy Clods — Monti vi., 8. There mast be soma good reaso11 for the fact that many own feel ehagrined if they nee eharged with being religione. Often these men poe- Ness the lieel/('St 00)100 of right anil make the etrougest insistence on reality. Tile 1.1111 11 10 that they 01'.Tt to the unreality of that which they 110,Y0 IVarileti to call religion; often their protests against spurious types or religion are but declarations of the true kiwi. Every houent hearted man turne with loathing from the cant, MOO 11 lieSH, and selfishness that wear the guime of piety. It has led the world to think that 0 religious man is the one who goes to church, uses eer- Win phrnees, and goneralty cuts e cloth of his life to the pattern pre- scribed by the elergy. Thus etteily the good is made to serve the bad. It is a blessing that there always have been men who repudiated Chet What does ecclesiastical etiquette 10. kind of piety. But to the true man quire me to do? we shall inquire. religion is simply the effort to end What is right, noblest, best for a the right life. He Is most religious man in a world of men? who lives best. Faiths must be This makes the religious man, then, that he seeks the 1 1 fe that deals just- ly, that walks uprightly, judged by their fruits; a man's reit- glon and his religiousness by Ids living. That is the best religioe which best teaches nien to live. If any boolc beside the bible can do more for us, if any faith beside Chris- tianity can give the world a nobler 1111, LET US FIND AND FOLLOW IT. To the question, what is religioti7 the bible gives a surprisingly shnele neither names, ceremonies, nor creeds answer. Instead of minute rules it can take their place. gives broad principles; it lifts nlort But when once the life has entered on the passionate search for riot - n0.135, when once the love of Justice, mercy, and humility has la.ict hold en THAT LOVES MEItCY, that C100/3 good and serves and bless- es men, that seeks not high things for reward but seeks them in char- acter. This makes the religious man lvhother he be in sympathy with ex. 101.1319 religious institutions or not: these virtues have no substitutes, noble ideals and denounces baseness. It breathes of righteousness, that 1,, right thoughts, words, (ices, 001,1' done. It is the text book on the fine us, there will be little time or m- art of living. All other thoughts ergy to give to foolish problems of and teachings but serve this and angels or history, there will be no have value only on account of their care whether men think we are 001 1 - service. glens or not. We shall come to SOU Every art is holy, an act of were that our desire in liiing is the desirc ship, as it serves the good and the of the Lord of all life, that our goel true. You can no mori confine red_ is a divine and glorious one, and gion to a church than yeti can ins- nothing will turn us from it. Above prison knowledge in a school -room. all will be a eense of harmony witt 'It belongs 011 the street, in Pie the Infinite, too deep for words ton home, the office, the shop, wherever sacred for expression. CHINA FOR THE CHINESE 011. MORRISON, RACK IN THE EAST, SEES TROUBLE AHEAD, Ile Says the Mandarins Are Really Try- ing to Get Together an Efficient Army. Dr, Morrison, cabling recently to the London Times, says :—After a seven months' absence from China I find evi- dence of a remarkable change. It Is impossible to deny that, since tho eon - elusion of the war China's time honored tactics of evasion and passive obstrue- Uon have given place to a definite ex- pression 0( 1115 policy of "China for the Chinese," and lo deliberete organized resistance to all foreign influence. In considering the cattee of this change Is difficult to overestimate the moral effect of the defeat, of a great western power by Japan. 'file other causes are, (1) Ile Pekin Government's assump- tion thar the Anglo -Japanese alliance guarantees Ito integrity of the Chinese territory, come whet may. (2) The impolitic action of the United States, which, failing to perceive that the recent boycott was merely one mani- festation of a poeml anti -foreign policy has adopted an atitude of conciliation which the Asiatics NATURALLY MISCONSTRUE. (3) The influence throUghOM the Pee' vince of large numbers of half-educated students, who have returned from Tokio with the idea that China is capable forth- with of following Um example of Japan, and finally Um withdrawal 01 1110 British China squadron and the reduction uf the allied gaerison in thenorth. Among the results of -the situation thus created the following see Most noticeable;—The apparently sheave ef- forts of the provincial authoritieSe2 bring their military forces into a stale of efficiency; the cletermiention, equally conspicuous In Pekin and the provinces, to grant no further concessions to fete elgners, and an endeavor to recover con- trol of those already granted. This is accompanied by chaotic proposals for undertaking railway and mining enter- prises under the auspices of the provin- cial officials and gentry who are every- where busily engaged organizing 1811" 01111)0 of the usual, corrupt, type and de- vising vistonaier schemes for carrying out such undertakings under purely, native control. The circulation of mischievous anti - foreign lithrature of a type similar to that with which the boycott movement was organized in the Kwang provinces is another result, as is the PERSISTENT AGITATION in the native press and by public meet- ings for the maintenance of China's sovereign rights against foreign aggres- sion, The treaty revision commission at no time disposed to facilitate corn - menial relations, Is now openly ob- strnetive, as Is demonstrated by the muse of Me German negotiations. A significant instance of the tesults of the present attitude of the mandarins was furnished by a disgraceful SQ0110 in the miXed Cowl an Friday, The incident Would' be only Molly Important vvere lf not a manifestation of a general poll- ey, which unless promptly met with Un- Mistekeable firmness by the 'foreign powers Must have far-reaching results and .endanger future friendly teletions. It is tline United aetion were taken se- Pecially by the eoinmerelal powers, elearly to Warn the Chinese Government and the reset/Meted Vieeroys' of the in - &enable consegliendes of their encour- agement of present tendentlee, • • A downed is Men Whokneries 110'!Wrongs but refthiee to Selina it. RAILROAD BUILT TO MUSIG. It Goes lo Attorney, Once the Scene of Homan Sacrifices. Abomey, the town in which Behan- zin, King of Dahomey, lived, was In- famous sixteen years ago fOr the slaughter of human beings that took place there annually. SOMe thou- sands of men and women were killed every year to win the favor of the gods or to be companions of deceas- ed Persons in the other world. All prisoners of war were thus saerifieed and many slaves were purchased,from neighboring countries for this pur- pose. Theo the French overthrew the monster Behanzin and brought peace of mind to the million people whom be ruled with a rod of iron. Five years ago they began to build a rail- road, which has now reached Aborney the scene of the human sacrifices Phe completed part of the railroad is seventy-five miles long, and many hundreds of the natives are now grading the roadbed for its 07:te118100 to the Niger River, The French have bad sonie funny experiences in build- ing this road. It starts from the port of Cotonu, and the French had no difficulty in getting the coast natives to work on the road, because they had been trained to work for neiuly ten years, had become used to labor and liked its substantial results. There was trouble, however, when the roadbed approached the large native town or Weida, which is filled with delights that are dear to the natives. Few Dahomeyans when they go near this town can resist the tempta- tion to make a holiday there. When the railroad came within sight of Weida the workmen had just received • their wages. They deserted to a man, and it was certain that they would do no more work till they had spent all their money. No effort was made to get the men back, but messengers Were sent through the country to ring bells in avers settlement and proclaim that the French would pay good wages to women and girls to work on the rail- road. Within a day many hundreds Of W011101l and girls were carrying baskets of sand on their heads to dump into a marsh across which the track was to bo laid. The roadbed for the rails was thus mtilt across the marsh and the wo- men were retained in the service until Weida was reached, when the faith- less men suddenly became clamorous for reemployment. While the coast section was being Mille the inland part of the line UfaS alao started, but under different lab- or conclitione. In the interior the natives hacl not learned to work for the white man and they would not enter his service until their chiefs brought pressure to bear 'upon them A 8.064 sum was promised to each chief if he could guarantee to supply a certain nmnber of mon. In this Way sufficient labor was procur- ed. The chiefs were held responsible, for the faithfulness of their met. The laborers were well paid. nut it took some time to train the mon for this hard work. Their Wk.- tive music seemed to provide the sti- mulus they needed and So scores of mustclans with tain-tams of drmns, hoene end other squeaky instrume»ts Weee 6)1191018d. They distributed music all along the line, The bhmks seemed to tor gat their fatigue when the ineele etruck up and so the tam -tame and horne helped railroad efetehelon 301) the way to Abemeye TIIE ARGTIC MAIL CIRCLE OUST SENT OPT ON THE MOST DESO- LATE POSTAL ROUTE. Horse, Deer and Doe Carry It—The Furthest Post 1,800 Miles Be- • yond Edmonton, The annual mall for Arctic) chicle points within the Dommion of Canada lins just been despatched via Edmonton. Letters only are carried and these ere limited to one ounce in weight, as the entire bulk of Um 1)01(011. 111180 it, leaves Edmonton 118101. 00(1)0 within 300 pounds, Registered letters have the preference, although they ere not assured of deity- etiy If late, and other letters are taken In the order or the dates of mailing. The t•oute is not only the longest mull circuit In the world but far and away the most, desolate end most difficult. For the two -cent stamp whlch decor - ales the COMM' of the envelope the letter will be carried in some eases. from the extremes of South Melee, Australia er India, and it will most, probably be neces- sary to have the carriers go live or six hundred miles into a frozen, forbidding wilderness, the Government expending upon the redemption of the contract ef the stamp very many thousand times what it receives, white the currier must fight single handed WITH SAVAGE NATURE. Ills ifie and the peeelous packet, entrusts ecl to him are at all Umes the hazard. This Is the first year in which the Post 0...ce Department of Canada has as- sumed the delivers, of mail in the ex- treme north, the Hudson's Bay Com- pany heretofore carrying messages to and from Me Arctic and sub -Sadie country. Increases In the 111.11711.01' rf trappers, missionaries, prospectors, 301' (11115 and policemen in the extretne truth explain the talcing over of respons- ibility by the Postmaster -General cf Canada. The mail is divided into two packets at Edmonton, one for points between Lac la 131011e and Fort Resolution awl the other for the straggling outposts of empire as far as Fort Macpherson, the most northerly depot even of the Hud- son's Bay, Company, 150 miles within the Arctic circle, where the yenr Is divided into a single day and night. The Lac la Incite malt goes by horse only 120 miles out of Edmonton. Thence- forward the dog and the deer are the carrier's subordinates. Deliveries are made at Fort McMurray, Fort Chip - p01100, Smith's Landing, Fort Resolu- tion, Hay River, Fort. Providence, Fort Simpson, Fort Wrigley, Fort Norman, Fort Good Hope and Fort Macpherson. From Edmonton to Fort Macpherson Is 1,800 MILES, 1101 11)0 mall arrives at the fort in AprIl —if it has no exceptional delays. Besides the packets just despatched, there are several other' packets going ts the noilidand within the next week or so, so that all the posts will receive at least a yearly mall. There is a mail made up at Prince Albert that goes as far as the head of Reindeer Lake, at the edge of the great Barren Lands. 'elle York Fasioely peeket rens to the far north via Lake Winnipeg and Me Nelson Myer. The eloose packet, is made up al Matawa and goes via Abitibi River. The carriers for the east and west shores of the great bay sometimes meet, at the southern ports on the shores of the bay, the meetings being made the occasion of short but hearty jollifica- lions. 'Phan each passes on his way. Although letters for the wMler pacic- els are limited to an 0L/1100 in weight, there may he much news compresscef by the indictee's. Very thin paper as a rule Is used and cross written. s Everything is news to the people of the Barren Lands, and the same may be said of the greater part of the forts. it doesn't matter if the news is stale. Is read in sequence, and so whales the difference if it did happen six months or a year eat•liep? The clock is SIMPLY TURNED BACK. Newspapers and packages are carried to the north on the annual steamers of the Fludson'a_Bay Company up the Mac- kenzie RiveRn Um Summer. Of course, letters are also carried, but the news- papers,convey the tidings of the world and are treasured as fine jewels. The war in Manchuria, Me revolution in Russia, the great disasters of the last six months, all will be news to 1110 north- land when other parts of the world have forgotten them. And the people 01 1110 north claim a distinct advantage, even over the people of supposedly more favored lands. They.never have to wade through a mass of uninteresting and in- decisive matter for the facie of the story. The main facts arc all they get, mut they must piece out the rest; and unless they aro so fortunate as to have a lore? consignmenb of papers they are entseen,1 to settle details as Illefr wishes and imaginations ordain. NEW YEAR'S EVE. Farewell, Old Yearl thy destined vice Will meekly have a close; And thou among thy forefathers, WM sink into repose. But ere to dark oblivion's shore, Thy spirit Wings its flight, I fain would lake thee by the hand, And kindly say, 'Good -night!" For thoggh with thee thou bear away From Ilfe's still cherished shore, Dam weeks and months, a numerous train That can retuen no more; Yet Will the loss peeve gain to those Who walk in truth's fair light; IL brings them nearer to Melt' home And promised rest—elGoed-nighti" We parb to meet no itactiet, old friend, Then let, us part in peace: . Tide] eptedest to eternity, Wheee strife and discord cease; And I, if ?Ova years be mine, How Swill soe'be their WIll strive thole purpose to PM% Then wish them ell--"Oood-nightl" HE CAME BACK, A short time ago a boy fresh front gehool started work at a factoey, Being late thee° successive Morit, ings he %vas discharged, The follow- ing Morning the foreman WAS prised to find the boy at work, and, going to hlin, said; "X thought X told you not to coma beck?" "Yee," replied the boy, "and don't you do it again. X got a jolly ges,1 hitlinpi When X told father146 t"141•444ti+b+liS TN Horne 4I444.11444444 SELECTED RECIPES. Whole wheat gems,—Two scant cups of sour milk, two CUPS of unsifted whole - wheal, flour, one rounded teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved In a little hot water, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one. half teaspoonful of salt, one egg, one tabitic esplo oicint,eninate fui rneitiletelsdghoretenni.iians. n)g.Beat all hard for several minutes and bake in O gi Turkey in Cups.—This 10 a %TIT moil WUY to use left over turkey. Butter balf a dozen teacups, sprinkle with bread crumbs, and fill them half way to the top with turkey meat chopped line. Whip two eggs gently and season with one saltspoonful of salt, a pinch of pep- per, a few drops ef onion juice, and a little finely chopped parsley. Add one cupful of milk, and after mixing well, pour into the cups holding the turkey. Set the cups in a pan of hot water, cover them over and steam. As soon as the milk and eggs have become slightly stiff, turn the turkey moulds on to slices of toast and serve. Orange Egg Pudding,—Peel and slice O half dozen oranges and set aside, with O cupful of sugar over them; In a mixing bowl pour the whites of six eggs; beat until stiff, add a pint of thick cream previously whipped, and two teaspoon- fuls of gelatine, which hes been dis- solved in a little cold water; set this mix- ture away to cool, and, when partially hardened, stir in the orange and eugne very lightly and 90010 In a mould. Serve cold. Chocolate Maple Creams.—Take I can maple sugar, I cup coffee crush sugar, 1 cup sweet milk and boil together until a little of the !Mahn.° dropped Into ice - water can be rolled into a creamy ball between the fingers. Stir until creamy, then pow into a flat buttered pan. When cold, grate and melt ormeake of sweet chocolate and notir over the candy. Mark In squares and break apart when the chocolate is cold. This is simply delicious. Preserver`, Pumpkin.—Cut pumpkins In inch squares and to 9 lbs. add 6 lbs. granulated sugar. Pour sugar over the pumpkin and let stand over night. In the morning the sugar will be dissolved. Stir carefully and put on stove In a large pen (1 use my largest granite dish- pan), mid cook until ihe pieces ore trans- parent. Add 1 lb. or less of raisins and 2 lemons sliced very thin. Cook a few minutes longer, then put in crocks. You will have a splendid sauce, much hello. than citron and no one will guess that it is pumpkin. A German Dellency.—At a recent din- ner our hostess served a clear 501,19 11)111 German dumplings made from a recipe that was sent her from the "father aled me into the secret of making these lend." At my request she gladly initi- little soup balls. Cul a slice of stale 'bread into dice and fry in butter until O crisp brown. When they are cold crush the bread' with a wooden spoon into the beaten yolks of two eggs, sea. son with salt and a pinch of MACe and mix together with flour sufficient to form a batter stiff enough to mold into balls. These should be the size of wet - nubs. Drop inlo the boiling soup and cook len minutes. They will swell lo twice the size while cooking. To Make Cracker Jack. --Everyone en- joys this simple confection, but few know how easily it is made. To make it, pap alma six quarts of corn, having it free from hard ket•nels and scorched ones. Put in a pan large enough to MiN IL in without spilling. Make s candy 1 cup good molasses (the dark cheap article will not (1o), 3.4 cup white sugar boiled together until it hardens when dropped in cold water. Then add 34 teaspoon soda, and after fL has foamed well pour 11 over the corn, stirring all Me Mile so that each separate kernel will become coated with the candy. Pen- nies inay be added if liked, and we think them a great improvement. They should be scattered in during the mix- ing of the corn and candy. As soon as well mixed together, pack the mixture closely in shallow baking pans, so that it will be in good shape to cut in bars to serve. This is just as good in a week as when first made, 11 it is placed in hot oven till dried out perfectly, often seeming even more crisp and tender than at first. HINTS FOR THE HOME. Sitnple Razor Sleep Paste.—Wet the strop with sweet oil, and (Mg a little flour of emery evenly over it. To Clean a Sink Quidely.-110isten MCI of paper with a little paraffin, and thoroughly rub the sink. Then rinse with plenty of water, Bacon fat, which has been rendered down, wfil be found to make a beautiful crust for a beef -steak pie. shouM be clarlfled twice in boiling water. To use up the remains of a rice pud- ding, cut it In 1.11111 slices, press into a neat shape with a knife, brush over with a little oiled butter, and broil over a clear fire. Skim Mille mey be used in making puddings if a little piece of butter or good beef dripping is put in with the milk to replace the cream or fat 01 1111110 which has heen removed. Rubbing a bruise with sweet en and then With spirits of turpentine will usually prevent the unsightly black and blue' incite: which not only tell tales but deform. Roil out, scraps of pasha, On very thin, into rounds the size of a florin, bake, Ull crisp, and keep in a tin 011 required ne a garnish for stews or a foundation for a savory. When cooking a steak put 11 11110 a very hot, dry frying -pan and brown it as quiekly ac pessible, Shake the meat constantly, and turn it WIth a knife so as to 10069 in the gravy. When frying penances be sure that, the lard in which they are cooked is finiolcittg before you pour in the batter, or the pancakes will stick as you de- scribe. To prevent tumblers craelting when pouring in boiling Water, hold the tint - bier in your han11 and plaint your finger on the edge of the glass. Stand the spoon in the tumbler peeVlously to peen- ing in the order, Neglected woeden tables May 10 bleached by spreading on than tWer 01 night a layer of wood ashes made inte a mortar -like paste with water; the next day brush It off, and scrub. The same paste may be laid on floors when /spotted with grease. Rugs lam a tlresolne way of turning up at the colliers, which poils their appearance, and In the end the COMM' gels torn may. To ensure against Otis, directly a rug is bought, bind It on the under edge with stout, holland or furni- ture webbing. The expenee of this Is trilling, and the rugs will wear twice as long In consequence. SUPPOSE THAT YOU WERE THIS IHRED GIRL. lf you were the bleed gIrl— Would you ifice to serve five breek- fasts between 7 and 8 o'elotec and he rebuked if they were not all hot and crisp? Would you like to warm up dinner after your dishes were ell weshrd, oblige a careless member of 1110 famil who had not been winking but ha merely stopped for a little longer eh with a feiend? woes] you liee to hear your mistres disc:ties your shortcomings with ever stranger within her gutee7 Would you feel ler:lined to handle sil. verware, cut glass and dainty china with loving care Mien the room 111 whIch yoe rested and alept looked either like a poorhouee dormity or an Incipient rummage sale? Would you feel enthusiastic over you work when your faults wen: pointed I rich, glowing colors and your Mile 011 cesses and achievements were pfisse unnoticed end unappreciated? Would you feel like slopping in th midst, of your regular duties to wash an Iran a shirt waist for a thoughtles young girl who forgot to pia it in th wash on Monday, and who needed it a once for a picnic? Would you enjoy being sent to the g(ocelai °round the 1101.1)01' two or three limes a day, simply because your rids - tress was slovenly and careless in her ordering? Would you think that it was quite fab if you were forced to take come of th baby night atter night while the parent went to card parties, dances, the theatre, des when you wore engaged km general housework, WM no hint of duties as a night 1111150? Would you not appreciate a rocking chair in your room, or in a sunny eor- ner of the kitchen, also the right to enter- fain an occasional caller on the side porch or in the dining -room? DM you ever stop to 001181(101' bow s gal walling on the table must feel whet she hears the following conversatice day after day; "Mother, Is ilwre mor of this in the kitchen?" "No, dear, bu you take that piece if you want to. Mary can fry herself an egg," If you had just one afternoon and evening out in the seven clays of th week, do you not, thinIc that you wail( feel irritable when your mistress askei you to COMO back in the evening be cause she had forgotten 11 was your day potrietpol aned? invited a few Mends in fo cards and a rarebit, (1)1110)1m ich you us Let the girl go for a fortnight, an you will treat her differently when sh comes back. THE S. S. LESSON INTONATIONAL LESSON, DEC. 01, Lesson XIV. Fourth Quarterly view, Golden Text, Psa. 65, 11. Hyrna Vel'00 (t11410, "Jesus Loves Is goon, he crowns the year With his love and joy and cheer, Idity We learn his holy way, Love and trust him, and obey, Help us to love thee, Help US 1.0 trust thee, Help us to follow Our Loader all the way. PI-WU:Any NOTES. A little talk about crowning. A. king Is crowned when be Is made the y ruler of his people. Those wil0 wort s in the races used to be crowned to at show that they were honored as victors over the rest. But when a 8 thing is linished it 15 said to asi y crowned. We have now finished a year of Sunday schoul and of Sunday school letsollS from Clod's Wort,, lotvid in talking to God told about a erown for the year. He said to the Lord Cod. °Thou erownest the year with thy goodness." What a beautiful crown: No one but God ✓ could finish the year with such a n crown as this. It means, too, that c- every day in the year has worn the d crown of God's goodeess. We have had some Jewel words for e the last thirteen weeks and for the d lessons as WO haNe learned them. lf S we put these shining truth-jew,15 to- gether we shall know something about the crown ol the year. Here they are in order (1) Wisdom, (2) Deliverance, (a) Gladness. (4) Holiness, (5) Power. (6) Love. (7) (8101ety.(thriiiiaynesesr.(1)o . (92Tembpoectriaennecee.. 0)wa (12) Gifts. (18) Salvation. (14) Re- view, Goodness. In conducting review, teachers may' well group the lessons around the characters mentioned, and call for the truth jewels in connection. These lesson truths e00 he recalled in ac- cordance with the way in which they have been preserved. If they have been written upon cardboard 'they may give them in turn, the class re- peating them in concert afterward. These should be special drill upon the characters that have been the basis of study, They are Daniel, Bel - 1 shazzar, Cyrus, Zerubbabel, Zoeller- ° ifth Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, Paul, cum the Messiah. Thought for Teachers: Dearly beloved, a. parting word „ I would speak for the closing year: I. If in His name you have ministered, Your secret desire his ear hale hea.rd, And he saith to you, "13e of good cheer." , 1. PHONOGRAPH IN OFFICE. d Business Men Now Dictate Correspon- dence to the Machine. RUSSIAN GIIOST STORIES.. flow a Murder Was Revealed--Warnine of Death. In a certain town in the province o Minsk, \Vest Russia, a peasant sudden ly disappeared. He was last 1101 alh'e leaving the church and plug hom to his 010101'. Wall whom he lived. Oni clay, in a dram, his sister saw her bre ther. He looked pale, his eyes were closed, end his legs were broken. He lold her that Ile had been murdered by her husband and his brellsers. Ile men- tioned the exact date and place of the deed, and added that his body was put into a sack and thrown into the river, Ho wanted her lo find his body and to have it burled In the family grave. This dream was repeated several times, and at last the sister sought the advice of her aged father-in-law. Ile told her that it would be difficult to find Ihe body, and 1! the culerils were brought to justice her children would ha left orphans; so, after consideration, the sister gave the matter up. But her brother's spirit would not rest, and am peered in a dream in the above manner lo a friend of his. Soon the news spread to the local authorities, who took the matter up, The river was searched, and the body Was found In We exact spot indicated. This discovery had such an effect on the murderers that they at once con- fessed. They gave all delells or the crime—how, after service, they took him Lo a mill, where they all dined, and on leaving for home they attacked their vietim. Finding that the sad( \vas too small, they cut off his legs, tied a stone to his neck, and threw hine in the river. The above is certified to bo' perfectly accurate by the local &lamellas. A Russian paper relates the followlng as having °calmed in an officer's fam- ily at the time 01 1111 outbreak of cholera. The eldest son was in an ofilee 111 a town nearly 200 miles from his home. One morning the family were visited ely an undertaker, who said he had received orders from a person, whom" he de- scribed, to 'make 10 coMn for their eldest son. The father replied 11101 the son \vas far tom and the family were alive and well. Directly nfterward a massenpr came that the eldest son bad died of cholera itt the same time that 110 exact similitude had been seen by the undertaker. The business phonograph is one sf the latestdevelopments in office time- saving devices, It has the advantage of being always ready for work, and never has to be called away from some other task to take dictation. In brief, • iL is a phonograph, built for the office desk. 2111080 motive power is electricity, easily connected with a chandelier •it• 1 by a direct wire with bhp electric cur - O rent that supplies every business build- ?' Ing nowadays. It is ready for action when a cylinder is placed in pusition and the current turned on. The cylin- der will hold from fifteen to twenty let- ters, and as soon as the cylinder is full, it may be transferred to another machine in another room, if necessary, or de- sired, whore the leUer is reproduced in the CM'S of the 'typewriter, and by her transcribed on a machine. It is, of coUrSe, One of the devices of the wizard Edison, and has within Use past ten years been brought to a high stale perfection. The idea of Me business phonograph is not new. The first on were put into commission as long SS 'Innen years ago. The idea then did not receive the favor that has come to it of Inte. The first machines, moreover, were not a business success. The new machines are complete mechanically, easily handled and adjusted, free from intricate mechanical devices, and small in bulk. The advantages in their use Iles in this—that the phonograph is always ready for action. The letter may be put upon it at any time, correspondence does not pile up on the office desk, memor- anda only bo put upon it, before the maltenr is forgotten or overlooked. Further advantages 11e8 in the fact that the transcriber wastes no time in wait- ing for letters to write. As soon as a cylinder from one machine is finished. another one may be taleen up. it is thus possible for a business concern to lessen the number of typewriters ern- tpi 1001 .e 113' keeping them busy all the Business men who have tried the machine are enthusiastic in its praises. It is corning into use very largely in concerns where a large amount of cor- respondence is handled. Those whose business 11 18 to write letters finc,U it a great convenience to have a device hand which is ready at all nines to take the matter that is to go out. TO 'am TaTIID FLOOR. "There they were caught, and the babies, up to 5 or 6 years old, W01% theown living out of the third -floor windows into the streets, The older children arid the grown-ups were kill- ed before being thrown out, The mon who told me this said also that a band of several hundred students and 0 kw police arrived in time to arrest some of these murderers, and that after they had been placed im Jail some of the prisoners were re- cognized by their keepers as members of the police force." Chattoch said that the faces of the dead in the street were too mallet. ed for recognition. IIe std -also that 111a suburb of Odessa a hris- tian priest saved sixty Jewish child- ren by pladng them In his own mrch. GUESSING AT IT. "Yes," said Miss Ann Teek, "George has my wedding ring all ready and 1) hat Kismet erigraved inside IL' ''What did you say was engraved in ill" asked Miss Knox, "Kismet. 'Yon know what that means, don't you?" "Why—er--1 suppose it's Latin for 'better late than hover.'" TIlle SULTAN'S HAREM. The Sultan's liatem costs 15,000,- G00 yearly. About 100 women leave eve*. Year' ie snaerse and eaeh has 587,500 dowry. Yet the number never falls below 800, livery oftleteti struggles to get his daughter in, for each has ten servants, a caretage and four, and a possibility of gain- ing influence over the Stilton. Youv ship will fleVer atm in unless you go out with a tug to Meet it. MOST REMARKABLE LUCK FOETVNES TUAT PALL TO WOIIKINS Toloms Of Appreciation of Shop-Girie and DonieStie Servants, Fortune is 110 reepeeter of persons, sahned 1\00,1112 Si 811,8 11310 81)00 50neod of bliete rat 31.11 11 00000d 81 ajusnit aais.oblitolineley$61.w o poher gifts into the lap of a maid-oaall-woelc eft 1111.0 that, of It is only a few weeks since General Nuthall of Newport, Barnstable, England, left behind hen some very substantlel tokens of appreciation of his domestic staff. 'to his housekeeper fell the Iforas B110. 11..70 es orf $76,000 In addition to a third 0 !clue of his estate, equivalent to $50,000 more; a couple 0( 11011803 1n Clarence Terrace, and all hts household and personal effects. To hls housemaid falls the comfortable legaey Of 57,000, to his cook 194,500, and smaller sums to other servants who have been twelve months in his employment. Fortune smiled more sweetly still on a servant ln Cologne not so many months ago. The girl, we are told, "had noticed that whenever site took her walks abroad she was followed by 'a beautiful. ly.dressed lady, who at last accosted her. She told the girl that site was her mother, and that her father was a, stu- dent when she was born. The lady then accompanied her daughter to the latices guardian, where oho deposited 100,00e , marks for the daughter's Immediate use, and a further 1,000,000- marks FOR THE FUTURE. The girl, who had been brought up In a foundling home, does not appehr to be impressed by her good fortune, and shiatusallowni.(1"d ebo remain in her present More remarkable still was the luck that befell a girl a short time ago at St. Louis, Mo. Miss Coryele, who had been cradled in poverty, was earning a few dollars a week as an operator in the offices of the Western Union Telegraph Company when news came to her that an aunt, whom she had never seen and of whose very existence she was scarcely aware, had died and left, her, hi round figures, five million dollars. St. Louis eas also the scene of ano. tiler recent dramatic coup of Fortune, fer while Miss Evadne Leeds was vend. Mg perfumes over the counter of a large store in that city she received the start- ling and gratifying intelligence that she was one of the heirs of the Ban estate in Philadelphia, valued at 85,000,000. Miss Leeds, it is interesting to learn, "is a pretty, attractive young Woman, whose head is too sensible to he turned by the prospect of securing a fortune." But perhaps the most romantic story of this kind is iold of David Lawson, a wealthy Yorksbire recluse of two gen- erations ago. As the result of a love disappointment David, who had inher- ited a substantial fortune from his father, retired to a remote cottage in the heart of the moors, where Ins small wants were attended to by AN OLD FAMILY SERVANT. For nearly forty years he led this her- nilt's life, rarely meeting or speaking to a soul, while year by year his fortune acAeufmeweeulaytedr. s before his death Ms atten- dant found herself growing feeble, end secured the services of a pretty young girl from a neighboring village to help In the housework; and never in the his- tory of domestic service did a maid se- cure such a valuable situation. Her master saw little of her and did not speak to her half -a -dozen times; but on his death It was found that, apart from a small annuity to the aged housekeeper. he had left every penny of his estate, amounting to 5000,000, to the pretty maid -of -all -work, "who," so ran the be- quest, "Is the only one of her sex whom 1 have known to pass a mirror without vven a glance at her reflection in it." But 11 15 'Wile] Cupid links hands with Dame Fortune that the most startling strokes of luck are effected. Not many months ago a romantic marriage W00 cielebraied in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Cecilia, Brooklyn, N. Y., when Mr. E. Whitney, of Montreal, a wealthy Canadian contractor, with a fortune estimated at 1320,000,000, was united to Miss Annie Bennett. Miss' Bennett, up to Me time of her marriage, was ,ent- played as a telephone girl at the switch of ihe Grand Union Hotel; end it was while engaged in this work that' the rich contractor first, saw and lost his heart to her. Mr. Whitney lavished regal glfts on his pretty bride, including a molor-ear which east $0,000, and dia- monds FIT TO DECK A QUEEN; and now we learn, a few months after thls dramatic union, that Mr. Whitney, who was nearly half a century older than his wife, has died, and the ex -tele- phone girl. Is s, widow whose furtune ruTogelh.eitoismaillslolonosn. record a ease where O girl has exchanged the poor environ- ment of a workhouse for 0 millionaire's palace. Sense years ago John Benders left his young wife and child ttt Pemba, ton, Illinois, in quest of work, a quest which took him farther and thriller ealtrilanled.toYleilamrs, inpulassievdhenbettfrlectstft3hletuite- turned to Pemberton a pleb man, fie found that his wife and 1111,110 girl had disappeared, leaving 510 trace behilni. Ail his search proved frettleSs, and it was not until he had grown old and mailifled es a Millionnire that in one nt his wanderings he discovered In an in- mate of a workhouse tho davghter he had so long lost "There WaS a Warfel but happy re -union," SOS the aceount of this drama in real life, "and new the young woman will return with her father to hfs Californian palaee," AMOtig t118 0111100 things that or. rest the addition Las arriving Ip Moe - Cow is the entire absence of whine among drivers of cabe, carriages, and all sorts of vehicle& There is a laW prohlniting their use. There IS not a single whip in uee In MoseoW, 'the excellent condition of the horses at. tads the benefit of this human law, Nothing oan exceed the beauty of the sleek and Well-greonied lenses melt in the carriages of Moscow. A lot of people would never get h beifiSe in falling from gram If we had things to do over again W4 Would probably 40 111501 Worse.