The Brussels Post, 1900-8-2, Page 8WHA TIM ?
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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
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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
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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
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h s string u g
around mai 1
c
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\'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,'(
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