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The Brussels Post, 1900-8-2, Page 8WHA TIM ? ROF evrl. Talmage J e 1�Speaks on the Un- certainties ix=certa nties of This , Life. 4. despatch tram Washington stays I took in a hundred million, 11'ow^ In nor. Dr. Talmage preached front l:he'will you take in If you get into h follow text; "Thisy mar thou shalt van Y , and find tions Latera that die."-jerem3all xxviii, I& dont, and that there are none to uo ;formulate A e a ed to O 'i ' 111, o usC 313 sayWg bold through your inetrumentalitY, I adage, addresses Ilarlat ialt in these.0f you to crawl under sole seat in words. They prove true. In sixty back corneae Sindneve(' ce days llaalanuah was a dead man, out, . lest the redeemed The text will probably: prove 'true; their eyes en you, and some 0 aR soma of us; "This year thou t311i11L l ars out, " Thee is the wee who ne die. The probability is augmented or lifted hand or voles or the foot thatall R the radon byh A 1 of 11.,9 whotion in fh are v la ell o fellows: ws: L 00 kath3 m over thirty years Of age have game 'heaven von I" halter be busy. Better pi beyond the average of hum:ul life, The 1 the gunlock, and bile the eartridg nate is more than due, 1.1 is only and be sere the Baps are good. Bots by sufferance that it is not 0011eoted, put the plough in deep. Better s We are like a debtor who is Laking what you have to say quickly, Ilett the "three days' grape" of the banks. ors, the Merin. Better fall on yo Our race started with nine hundred knees. Beater lay hold with bo years fora lifetime. We read of but hands, What you now leave undo one antedil i i ova nanti( whose early e ly for Christ will tar ever be undo death' dlsappoinled the hopes of hie ' This year thou $halt die." perorate by his dying at seven hum- 1n view of the probabilities the Bred and seventy-seven years of age,: 110nc(1, I advise all the men and worn The world then may have been ahead en not ready for eternity to get read of what It is now, for men had so 1 If the text be true, you have no tem long a time in which to study, and to t;"lr about non -essentials, ".akin entreat, and plan. If an artist or a l why God let sin come int philosopher has forty years for work, , the world; or whether Ch he makes great achievements; but l book vi Jonah is inspired; or wh (shat must the artists and philoso- ls1'elehisedte was; or what about th pines h'lve done who had nine! bun- eternal decrees, i If you are as n e drede years before them' in the eternity as some of you seem to be nearly two thousand years before the there is nu time for anything but (:h u mete considering em•te h longevity t b e L r ' o t g £ b w_s , Y q Lt 131 " q How o shall 1 escape ape wrath inhabitants, there may have been and win heaven :"The drowning man nearly as many people as there are when a plank is thrown him, stops no now. The flood was not u freshet,. to ask what saw• -mill made 3t. o:r wile - that washed a few people off it 1 ther It is oak or cedar, or who threw plank, but a disaster that may have 1 it. The moment it is tbrawn, he swept away a thousand million. 1f clutches 31. 11 this year you are to the Atlantic Cuean, by u lur'eh of the die, there is no time for anything, but earth to -night, should drown this, immediately laying hold on God. hemisphere, lad the L'aci£ic Ocean, by I at is high time to get out of your a sudden lurch el the earth should 1 sins, You say, " e have committed no drown the other hemisphere, leaving great transgressions, •' .taut are you not about 85 many beings as (wind be got. a3tare that your life has been sinful in one or two Cunard steamers, it The snow comes down on the Alps wunld give you an idea of what the fluke by flake, and it is so light that (student flood was. you may hued it on the tip of your The character of our occupations finger without feeling any weight; adds to the probability, Those who are but the flakes gather; they compact, in the professions are undergoing a until some day a traveller's foot sapping of the brain and nerve faun- starts the slide and it goes down in dations. Literary men in this coun- try are driven with w•11ip anti spar to their topmost speed. •Not one brain - worker ant of ahuudred observes any m",leratiorc• There is something co stimui „ting in aur climate that, 3f John Brown, the essayist of Edin- burgh, had tiveJ here, he would have broken down at thirty-five instead of fifty-five, and Charles Dickens would have drupped at forty, Rapid climatic changes threaten our lives. By reason of the violent fits of the thermometer, within twodayswe live both in the Arctic arnl the Tropic, 8nche of ruin and condemnation. The warm south wind finals us with Let me announce that Christ, the aur furs on. The winery blast 00ts through our L11in apparel. The hoof, Lord, stands ready to save any man the wheel, the fire -arms, the assassin, who wants atbe saved. He a year await their chances to put upon us their fur you all last, year, audull the your quietus. I before, and all your life. He has wait - 1 announce iL as an tmpussibiiity ed for you with blond on his brow, and that. three hundred and sixty-five days tears in his eyes, and two outstretch - Should pass and leave us all as we now ed, mangled hands of love. are. In what direction to shoot the I I wish you might know what a job arrow I know not, and so I shoot it � Jesus undertook when he carried at a venture, "This year thou 3,,411 your ease to Calvary. They crowded die." , hum to the wall. They struck him. In view of this 1 advise that you i They spit on him. They kicked ham. have your temporal matters adjusted, i They cuffed uThfed c him. They scoffed at Dc not lease your worldly affairs at urged him. They mur- th,: mercy of administrators, F[uve ; dertd him, Bleed! - blood!. As he your' receipts properly pasted, and your shops down to loft uynu up, the nr:m- :0 n drops n s a^ tilandu 10 ad yourp 1 v A you from Svc t ht k$ Bala s acebrow, d fro ml hi s If you side, have d to oust- from his h: Lauds" sun that tads. Do you they are rightly deposited and ma- 1 mat fee; tn8 warns current on your aountad. tor. Let no widow or orphan f,1cef o0ji dying ,inner. for thee the sm•ateh on your tomb -stare, "'this unlrl hunger, the thirst, the thurnstiug, cabbed me of my inueritance." Many ' 1l'- suffocation, th1,• darkness 1h:, a man hens diad, leaving a competency, groan, the sweat, the struggle, ;he whose property has, through his own d''''thl carelessness, afterward been divided D.1nde, on this first BSabbnth oi'tbe between the administrators, the sin•. 7'.t1. whether or not you will have' rugate, the lawyers, and the sheriffs, J'suo. Ile w111 not stand for ever I charge you before many days have' begging for your love. With some genu, 8s far as possible, have ell your , here His plea ends '(ght speedily, worldly matters mad,: straight, "for' This year thou :halt din.' this year Lhvu shalt die." 1 um twining 'o the close of my ser - 1 advise also that you be busy in men. I sought for n text apps 0pr33t s Christian work. How many Sabbaths for the ucca:ion. 1 (bought, of taking in the year? h'iftyettvu, it the text be ; 0111. (n dub: "My days flew as a weav- true of yen, it deem not say at what er'' shu'1le:" uf. a text in the Psalms: "Se (.each us to number our days (hut any ea - 0u 1310 beg the 1310 get ee 14 - all etc a, ear 117 er ur th ne tM9r16da4y�1ply_ -4 Atvrism ne. I R 1 41'� "wY✓t�l.•-�IIA•41[�'3':ilt he, liar h � a este. fl prided x old. � tided self on hie pelltee059, and said, in het dying morlloutt "Give Dayrol awe,. Dr, Adana, a dying soh manatee', 58311, "It grows dark,, boys may dismiss," . Lort1, Tenterd sul)Atyaing' himself on the be0013 0 court roan, .said, is 3113 lust ,mom "Gentlemen of tate jury, you will 001111de1'. your verdict." A .dye play-910tor Haid, "Drop the etu•ta The farce is played out." 1 WO rather have, for my dying nor those. of one greater than Chest held, o1' Dr. Ad'ein, Or Lard 'Cent den; "1 am now ready to be offer and the twee of my departure is hand. I have fought a good fight have finished my course, I have ke the luith; heoaeforth there is la upfor m a e ancien of r3ghLeau9ne which the Lord, the rigbleous Judg slut 11 give me," As a pre:detention of joy to 50 and e a matter of alarm to other I leave in your ears three five silo words of one syllable each, "Th Year 'Thou Shalt Die 1" Item- broil gently, aver a Moderate 1333!3 his oe a pies yellowish' eater, turtling 11 Young as a very carefully; when tufficbemt1y Young Folks, cal- hrow'ned upon one 5We, nerve MISS The Plain gravy in the diet{ end mhit en fiance etepaeatoly o3' with stewed Meas f a of any other vegetable lame; Newt() But, Sallee ie also good served with it, 11aw pineapple Tee -Procure a rather tug shall pineeppl0, ,take off tate rind, 131, which reserve, tend out the apple into' ul1 Pees an inch la length and about ds, the ihia'kness of a quill, place them er•- in elegnl' pan, with half a 110011d 02 0r- sugar and half a pint of water, 6401 ed, LC upon the fire and rodeee to a vett- at e1• thickishsyrup, have ready a pint , I and a 1181f. of mak, upon the fire, in- pt to which when boiling, throw the rind 1d the 8 1 1 1 rwa la o P cover t1 t A over 1 lot 5s enfu 10 se minutes; ill another slim- e, pant have the yolks aE 12 eggs, to 311112,11 add the milk by degrees, pre- n10,viouslystratning it, place over the s, fire, keeping it. stirred until adher- rt tug to the back of the spoon, when 1s pass it through n tummy into a basin 1113 Afrlea, He wale " out after eta - add the syrup and pineapple and . Plhants," and bac! just fired at and freeze it, adding a plot unit a half 1 wounded at magnificent speoilnen. Un- it of whipped cream. fortunately for hint, belied aaiy saw --- Deed od !n s'1' r t! h g wounding Y n n hi i •� . g m I1 U, EIIOLI) IiINTS, i when, fnEua•inted by the attack, it Trails salt and a wet cloth will re- turned end charged him, Itwasa nave egg stala.9 on sliver• terrifying sight. With its enormous A soft teeth dipped in alcohol will i em 3. spread out Niko 51113, and Moen plant keys. ting 0,0!33 notes of rage, it Ca108 oak spots in books eau be :removed { thlundering over the ground like a by a 501011on of oxalio acid In water. i runaway locomotive. The hunter fir- Yining green onions are sometimes,: fir- ed shot, but missed; his nerve a aha peeled and out in thin salves and 5827- ken, and, throwing down his ed with eueumbeas. " express " rifle, he sought ,safety in An ounce of pulverized borax put flight' Near et hand was a steep MK' h 11 and to into n this b u edi'r quart of boiling water and acted his steps, bottled for use will be found invalu- for' beling but slightly 01the acquainted able Lor removin• with the climbing were of the ele- g grease spots from woollen goads. phalli., he thought las pursuer might Tomatoes may be sliced thin and be baffled by the steepness of the se.rved with salt, ascent. IL was a 'terrible disappoint pepper and vinegar; meat to find 111nt' the elephant could for breakfast, or sliced and strewn! oiimb a 73111 not as with sugar and grated nutmeg for ! j quickly as the teu. For dinner they may be broiled !hunter, nimble runnel' as he was, 7'en or baked, t fugitive, indeed, would hhve soon been For flying fish, beef suet or drip-�overtaken 1f hie! had not thought of ping or sweet ail may be used instead • a really ingenuous ruse. He, knew that of lord. Butter let not elep0ltnts never run, or even w'ulk, goad, as it d -�_ Y. SUMMER. VEGIETABLES, Green l ei:S-These should ld be fresh f h g e o and newly shelled. Wash them and e put them into enough boiling water o to cover them, with n few leaves of ; mint and a small piece of butter. r I Stir them oecasiotlally, and when tender drain the water from them; e ' sprinkle on a little salt and serve with melted butter. not ISuccotash -Cut off the kernels from a dozen of sweet corn, Put In a saucepan with a quart or Lima'beans, a quart of veal stock, and let thein simmer steadily till the corn and ;ll:en: are tender, Add a cup of milk, pecof butter; pepper andsalt to tst Egg Plant -The best way is to slice there with the skins peeled off and then to sprinkle each piece with salt; lay one upon another in a dish ' for an hover, till the bitter ,juice is !drawn; wash, salt and pepper; flour and fry brown, Stuffed Tomatoes -Take six ripe tomatoes of equal size, eat 01801es off the top of each and scoop out the in- t side, Press the pulp through a sieve and mix in with it a little stilt, 057 - ell ne two ounces of butter broken in bits, two tablespoonfuls of broad crumbs, one anion minced fine, a tea- spoonful of parsley and two very la rge tablespoonfuls of grated Par- mesan cheese, Fill the tomatoes with this mixture put an the tops again and bake ha a moderate oven. Serve with mushroom sauce. Cara Oysters -'fake six eters of boil- ed corn, three eggs and one and one half tablespoonfuls of flow:, Beat the yolks very Lhiek; cut the oorn off the cob, se35on it with pepper and salt, mix it with the yolks and add. the flour; whip the whites to a stiff froth, stir them in with the corn and yolks. Put u desseefeepognful at a time 3n a pan of hat butter, and fry to a light brown on both sides. To Serve Cress -Wash, pick over and cut Lath small pieces and seaman with pepper, 5011, vinegar and a little sugar in,. a salad bowl, stirring up well. Parsnip Croquets -Serape and wash five nide parsnips;, nut into oblong pieces, plane in boiling water, boil until tender. When done mash and salt to taste, with a teaspoonful of but- ter. Make chem into oval balls the size of f ,i n egg and halt an limb th' (ck. Fry 1.13 n little but Ler until brown and serve hot, Cur'mber Salad -Three cucumbers, one small (mime. chop together mod- erately fine; salt and pepper to taste; t. 2: l.ableslpaOnfluS vinegar; let (tend uta half hour, then drain off vinege r; add enough sweet cream to fairly inehtee a8 in any salad, Serve -colder the better. '.Tomatoes in Asp1e jelly -procure small rounal tomatoes, peel and core and till the inside with several an- chovies, oaf very fine anal stirred in mayonnaise 5(11104', ligve some melt- ed aspic jelly, ,fast. beginning to set, inn deep basin, pass wii h the trussing needle a piece of string through the tap of each tomato, so that they may be dipped into the basin of aspic; lay "t'a0 u(1 ice and remove the string ,•n millet (sold. Phase a piece of epic out round upon the tap mf each ina to, and place on it a sprig of tercress and a little mayonnaise, rye on crisp lettuce 18ave5. Breast of Lamb -Saw off the breast from u. 'rib of • lamb, leaving the neck of suffiedent `size to roast or for out- lets; then put two onions, half a carrot and the snore of turnip, out ianto thin allege, in a slotvpen with two bay leaves, a few sprigs of parsley and thyme, half an ounce of. salt, and three pints of water, lay in the brens't, which let ;Sterner until tender, and the bones leave with fa- cility, when take it from the stew- , pull out all the bones and proms I elwee,11 two (theme; when cold sen- Pict with n little salt and nor peppery egg el beeederumb it Iightly over, end see OUTW7TTEl1 AN l3LEl,ITANT, (only those fam3Jlar with the 'Men, Mire and customs," of the elephant have any idea whet t 31331110 orealure it really i3, M'adsive end slow-Root.ete 80 it looks, It is tameable, when eameed1, oR feats thtet tvaatd be difficult for much fleeter animals, Especially le this the case with Afrlean elephants; which, though taller,' are generally l'ighter than their A(slali0 brethren, Moreover, accustomed for ages to bead a wild life and often dePendi1g on their alertness end speed oe foot for their vet' exist nue they, ,lav ac , Y have quits ed a skill in gymnastics which has me oasionally taken even old elophant hunters by surpl'lso. In illestratiotl of this feet we are reminded of a. story '3.01d by. one of the noble army of British sportsman an avalanche, cutting to death the villagers. Sc the sins of your youth, and the sins of your manhood, and the sins of your womanhood, and the sins sins of your womanhood, may have seemed only slight inaccuracies or trifling divergeuce from the right - so slight that they are hardly worth mentioning, bat they have been piling up and piling up, Parking together, and packing together, until they make e mountain of sin, and one more step of yoa1.• toot in the wrong direction Wray slide down upoli you an oval - thee you may go, and. therefore it 3s unsafe io (mum on ;all of rno fifty-two ea natty apply our hearts unto lis - Sundays. 1115 you ere likely to go in dam." of the. prayer of the vena-dres- the first. hull of the year as in the set: "Lard' let. it alone thin year :c1. wh last half, 1 think we had better divide so, 'but p1888133 upon my : !demean, i1• the fifty-two into helves, and ealeu3311e 'first of all, and last of ail, and above to only twenty-six Sabbaths. Come Chris- all, were the words, "This year thou Iva tion men, Christian women, what can shn11 (lis" Se yen do in twenty-six Sabbaths? Divide if the text means some of you, my the three hundred and sixty -fire days hearers, I do nut want you to be into two pales; whet can you do in ono hun(Irad and eighty-two days? What, by the way of saving your family, the Church, and the world? 'You will not, through all thea ages of eternity in heaven, get over thio die - Minces' and the outrage of going into glory, and having helped none up to the same place. It will he found that many a Sabbath -school teacher has taken into heaven her whole cans; that, Daniel Baker, the evangelist, tools hundreds into heaven; that Deddrlclg8 took in many thousands; that Paul' caught unprepared. I would like to have you, either through money you have laid up, or a "life insurance," be able to leave the world feeling that your family need not become pnuper8, I would like to bavo your soul fitted out of eternity, so that if, any morning, or noon, or evening, or night of these three hundred and sixty-five days, death should look in and ask, "Are you ready'?' your might, with an pen outburst of Christian triumph, ens- it b war, "Ay, al! all ready," son I know mat whet our lust words may and veils the color and tastes steam ' own a steep 'name, but; always g. t crouch down, gather their feet to- 'I'be greens and vegetables fol.• soup gel:her, lean well bade and slide down, must be carefully prepared -that 3s, Sust as the ferocious animal had got picked clean and washed. Where fat ; within n few yards of aim, therefore, soup is not liked the grease must be,; the wily hunter suddenly doubled and skim1ne11 off before putting in the ran down the MR again! Quick as vegetables. I a Plnsht the elephant turned, In 0110043ng lamb 1.198 vel' 313 the gather- ed ,, - ed himself together, and. trumpeting neck of a fore quarter of lamb is a fine blue if 11 i9 fresbl if it is of a with baffled rage, B114 down after his green or yellowish color it is stale. ; victim. The hunter had just time to A fore quarter includes the ehouldor, spring out of the way as the great neck and breast. A hind quarter Le beast came "tobogganing" after him, the leg and lion. The pluck is sold with the head, liver, heart and smashing trues and shrubs and car - lights. The fry contains the sweet- rying everything before it like an breads, sk1,M:s and some of the liver, avalanche. Then once more the hunt - Lamb may be hashed, stewed, roasted, er dashed to tlle,top of the hill, while Triad, boiled or made in a pie: I the elephant unable to stop itself, „ Iwent careering dawn to the very foot, where, tipparently feeling very Isore and disappointed, it rose and walked wearily back to its native 1 woods. TURKISH 6012001,5. The beginning of a Mohammedan hay's school -life is always made an 1 3 occasion for a festival. It occurs on ' !his seventh harthday. The entire 1 school goes to the new scholar's 1 I home, leading a richly caparisoned i 1 and flower -bedecked donkey. 'L'he new . 3 pupil is placed on the little beast, i and, with. the hodja, or teacher, lead - a Ing, the children form a double file, and escort him to the schoolhouse, singing joyous songs, To a stranger the common Turkish; school presents a Singular scene. The ;t pupils are seated cross-legged on theiS bare marble pavement in the porch t of the mosque, Reaming a semi-0ircie about the hodja, who is, as n rule an old, fat. man. He bolds in his bands a stick long enough to reach ' every student. By means of this rod ! he Is enabled not only to preserve 1 3v order er among this misohievous, but to { Bolero of cream Renaissance lace, ;!urge on Lbe boy whose recitation is rigbt side lapping over and fee-' not satisfactory. But, as a rule, hod- thetening with two black velvet rosettes jas are lazy and often fall asleep. ' n Atrf vrsrr 2,:.1200 404 .tllla ,young 'Curk33 1yo:'l07Jtlg tlla NBA T1IT p pp 77�� 1iii��i t eaoh(ngs al t2t811' hod;ia, grew •up 1l J il,� HAS J ... i1UJ1L Without (nether 3'nvestigati.ng the . x31 u • 00,43833 of i , the 311130 source of Which 13 ta'tlglil aur children 114 the k ndergurlsna• r SUMIIIER SMILES, vet tie boarder, 13 a otnuudrum without an answer, Gehl snortot3 Mr', Sour, Stapp, I neve(' stew a woman without 013433 At the eemme2 resort•-Itlattle='1L88, a man has coma here; but he 13 only a hired man, Minnie -Of course, No mer! would be likely tai coma hero: if ho wasn't hired; 5 he oontilluad th8 eonv el e anon. No, sir, I tvoaldn't marry rho bast (1131(1 on earth, Of course you know, ha urged, that it is not the custom fee the bride -to marry She best mean The Rejeotsd-And, !tray what con- stitutes the htghtst happiness? The number of friends one has. Then I ought to be happy, Every girl I ever proposed to has promised to be a friend 'o t mo„ I11 honest cons:lena e oft he (rasa Severely to economize, .His struggles with dismay we view To make a day'.v work do for two. D1', pillet -Your blued Is Impover- 3shed, I shall have Lo prescribe some iron for you. Mr. Gosrabby-Don't do dt, doctor. My were tells me now that I . look rustier than any other man in town. He -1 think you handle the mando- lin Mins Lillian,L etter than any girl 133 ath- g Leiser Saw.�She-Why, you never. heard me try to play 3t, DIr. Wixley, No, shot's wby•I admire the way you 1Y handle 3t. Mr. Bichfello-_Isn't Miss De Mure a pretty when she blushes? Mass Baauti -Yes. :f noticed it the other day. It was the first time 1 ever saw her face e color, Indeed. What was she blushing et overs Over a plate of hot soup. Actress, to lanellady-I must tell you t that 1 will have to trove out unless you eon keep t11e room clear of mho, Luntllady-you ought to be ashamed t of yolrsele, On the stage you play 0 Joan of Are, and here you are afraid of P a mouse, t h D1r, Newpop, ostentatiously - Bow e pleasant it is to think that we will be ti bone together all evening, Mee. New_ 111 pop -Why, dear, you know we've got i to call-DIr. Newpop, 313 a fierce w•his- Ch per-Sh 1 Can't you se8 why 1 said that? The baby's listening. You are not one of these men w•bo tfiend fault with the cooking at home? (0, answered M r. Meekton, I don't ex- eetly find fault, but occ(tsionally Ido feel called on 10 apologize for the way things taste when Henrietta gets home from the olub. You see, 1 never could learn to make good coffee. Hicks -Whet a studious young woe man your niece is I And so well inform- er( It seems to be the aim of her life always to be learning something new. Wicks -Yes; that is because she did not have the opportunity that most young women have Lo finish her education for good and all when she left school. Mes..Featherw'ell's new hat is the very latest style, isn't it? remarked Aon Mr. Blykins. Yes, answered his wife. I an But how did you know it 4( You say "u you pay no attention to fa hions. There hie, couldn't be any mistake in this ease. Sher If 11 weren't in the latest style, sale Wom'ar1, obser the epig10mnla- SHOWS THE MARVGLOU3 1Sb')•ECT ar HECI:NT Ti3A1N1Ni1, shin and i►Iso11111ue 8303131333833 In .#dd3l3uu 1e {clot eier53, thn' 'ao Comotland. Drs Shake '20931' Wails Oyes' the 4tlwws. Llou ol" 5avoston, The stiff fight put up bythe .-hill d ase l'an'ces aboa�t ;Peking and 'L1en-Istat whether by the B1xere, or the regular troops, has opened. the oyes of Hum Peso and American writers, who, re. membering the ease with whloh "Cid- nese Gordon," marolued gorges the em. pies with hose t11an 10,000 men, had imagined that the Wiled armies would have vo an equally a q t Yes• time, e• Wa are now awakening to the foot that sane 011e Gordon invasion German, Japan. ese and Russian offteers, w,ho have been timely employed drilling the na- tives, have tnade,good fighlers out of. famalti,cs.-.always easy to .do if. you know the brick, In consequence of thin the veteran ' commanders la charge of the varlets contingents of the Powers an the sedan .are moving with great caution. If the few be. leagured foreigners in the coast 01110: can be saved, they will consider theta, selves exceedingly fortunate, while at to proposals n ase13 A of an invasion, of the in+' eerier the Generals are dubiously, Making their Beads. SUBJtYG4jCON NO EASY MATTER. The subjugation of the Chinese Empire is not to be a matter of a,mo. mo - meet, even if the Powers deme to any certain a r sena g t as and to apportion. moat and 1atlon. The empire will pul up a good fight and 3s overlvhelwing, the stronger in point of numbers. Supposing that the Chinese Enl,pirt rened in the same proportion as do oiler abates, the army of the yellow men would be incomparably (he targ- et In the Eastern Hemisphere. Russia lands next, then Gomes Fa'anee, Ger- many, Austria, Italy, and, finally, the My standing army of England. Above .bem all bowers the Yellow Giant with an army of no less than 6,000,000, or he population of London. Fancy 5,- 00,000 , 00,000 fighting men i The idea is ape ailing. This is the size of the army v ioh China would possess if she arce- d her populaltion in the sumo proper - on as do the Powers, 10 France etre Is ane soldier to every eighty nhnbltents. A manlier proportion Ln ina gives the above, STAGGIith,ING RESULT. Supposing Unit the inhabitants of the Flowery Lund were to be roused from Lheir torpor and imbued with a military spirit and a desire of eon - quest, what could Europe do to keep these myriads of armed men within their own borders 1 Why, all the arm - les of Europe put together would total st 30 a number far, far below the strength of the bfoug011an busts, Buppily, the Chinese are not a ware Like nation as the pitiable perforin,. aaloes of the imperial troops before the redoubtable " Boxers" testify at the present time, repeating the lesson of the Chino -Japanese war. Mr. Har- old Garet, an English war corres- dent of note, in his informing book " China " refers to the Mongolian rmy " as " a mere disordered rah who took •to their heels and eel), paused to fire a. few pebbles of their antiquated matchlocks. TN does not emend very formidable when we remember that the Oel al soldier is in a chronic state of oat: mutinous discontent, by reason very much deterred pay, our non - pt for the pigtailed heathen as a ter b declass intensified. rflt d The Chi - army is really oomposed of pea- ts and Laborers, who give their e nitmenis--if they hove any -lo Lary exerelses, • . A thorough is tender 'these ci1'eum(ste,naes out the question, and the exercises h nae indulged in are better nal eulwted to develop a body of muscu- lar athletes than an army of trained soldiers: 1'luying catch with dummies, marching on parade, blowing calls and sig11a13, bawling words of command, are the chief ite,n.4 mf drill in the Chi- nese army. phare is little target praltioe, 13e0an55 it is considered a waste of money to expend powder and shot in Limes of peace. Yet, despite hack of discipline, the teen:Sag millions of China, if armed, would be more formidable shun at first sight appears, and reeenl events have proved that they are learning some formidable tricks from their '3414 hors, A RU$H OF VISITORS. Mistress -Did tiny ono eat), while I was out? i3ridget, the new housemaid -'Cls, mum; fuive leddi55 an' two gintle- meni. Misircess-Where are their cards? Bridget: -'.There wee no need o' thine la via' any. 11'Iistrese-Why not, I should like to know? Bridget -01 'wis at home. Me trees --Yom? Bridget -Yes, mum. They culled an me, mum, MOTOR L1111; ENGINE. The now 1Hetet fico -engine of the Perla Municipality ice doing excellent work. It ear.1.151, 51x men and travels at the rate as IA 'cites an hour. out wouldn't Clare to wear anything so T11 ugly. and She was one of these thrifty women ewLL who read Kipling when they are not making cherry ,dumplings or saving aim he Sonde for soap grease. They sf 'ere going out to spend the day. tem uhn,she hcsu 101 as they locked edth. edoo 1 i01 3 li h h s string u g around mai 1 c ur finger, 1 r That g e {4 hat n f r! Lest r to forgetn ase l --�-_ sale \'ISDODM OF CLTBR,ENI FICTION, spar The most thankless teak in the mm orld is explaining a juke to a drill Pat'- of son who has not seen it. -Woman and Artist, nhic " Speaking sharp seldom does do eels good," silently remarked, Mrs, ateman, "except to them as pseaks." The Farringdons, In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships, it is seldom that both amuses van withdraw their funds precisely the prime time. -The TouB ,weed, The world of 0omm0ree and epeeu- tion is as aloof from the scholar and e recluse as the rings of Saturn oe c suit of Aldebtiran,-Thu Waters of dere. What woman can withstand the las- nation of a ]oval's faith that elle is angel 4 If a man is fool enough to be 1.1, why .undeceive him? --Un versed Bread Slight, but chronic dyspepsia, the predations of neuralgia, aro apt to part to our oouo3onanees a more uoluing melanoholy ;than do the oes of lova.-The Garden of :Eden. A profound knowledge of human pa- re enunciated the decree, "Thou' !til not covet thy neighbor's house," and releg(yted the neighbor's wife to a btiek seat among the 8e27ants and Levo stook, -Mama Tempest. T(li'E STARLING, he English etariing has been ugh( to America, and is rapidly mestleathag itself, Although in- duced only n year or two ago it hue nerea8tal o0nsidorably in numbers, u le baa qu eves of lace trimmed with small Then it is that the pupils enjoy what ck velvet rosettes, Material re- the American boy would .style a"pie- iced, lice, 20 inches wide, 3 yards, nic." A 'trick (hey specially like to 1'RLA'TMRNT OF P1,ty hn their sleeping teacher Ts to SUNBURN. anoint hie hair and lolig gray beard ' The great telup1ation after the ex- with wax, which is, of course, very at Pose.r0 to the heat and the probe- difficult to be rid of. You may be sure bilitdes a sunburn is to wash the ' when the hodja wakes he makes good fuse. , Water acte like a mordant to use of has lenglhy;weopon. he set the dye of sunburn. The skin Some of the :unaware (mese lettde that might possibly have escaped Turks receive to their. questlens would th with a faint reduces bO om.eo amulet make an American child open his Byes h end even blistered after tvashing in amazement:. A half-grown boy, in' while the sun is still upon it, or after the presence of u missionary, who. al just returning from en exposing ex- tolls the story, asked the hodja; an relciition, Wipe the facie gently with s Whit makes it rain ?" ' h some oily preparation unit use powder "Up in the clouds," .answered (hie Lea that is seething, and the effects of wise Leacher, " our prophet, 31.+faham the sunburn will pass away, When med, and this one who belongs to Chris- do ytor an boat rut aw do not wash the face, use wa- Rana went into business together, lm the face with it, ,sr applying m be b ' itbwith fhb profits to be divided. One' night to hoe 000 i >xpa'esat'v-that i9 thick folds of Morltmmed dtopo all the profits and w cloth soaked In the boiling water, In ran away. In ih.e morning, when the putting powder en the' face do not (113ri3Lian God 'discovered his lose, he •tu use a powder puff that has been em- ployed to mop the face Limn out of mind, but Like a piece of ab3arbent ootica0, or cbeese Bluth whlah nun be thrown aside after use. SIID'IM:i;R STATIONERY. it, why do you not 311re the are of a hammock in the oor- of your stationsry3 ay -el don't In1aw, dear; but you it seams to suggest a falling cut. pursued Mohiammed in his golden oharlot, the rumbing of whose wheels mated the thunder. The lightning m the bullets of fire, which the God shot after hie fleeing partner, Mohammed, finding he could not esenpe in mid- air, pie/aged info 3110 sea; the Chris- tian God followed ham, ens] the shook sp111sbed 9110 water net, and it fell to the earth in rain,'( Il' bra dom €r' kt - '1' it