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The Brussels Post, 1901-8-15, Page 3IVALRY IN USINESS. 5.5piirit of Strife and Contention Among the Occupations. A despatch from.Washington says: —BM Dr. Talmage preaehed from the following' text: Its merehants ate Princes, and its traffickere tho honorable of , the earth." It is to this royal family of neer- chants that I speak to -day, 1 gall them Me royal, itemiler beet -ins° they aro higher in authority than Cone greeses or Parliamonte, How often hes it been the case that the 004n - :de of Europe have welted to hear N'shat a Jewish banker had to say on the matter, But in alt circumstances merchants have their trials, If a man has any helpful word in their behalf, shall he not uttor it ? II a War break out, they furnish 'the means for the armament. 11 there are churches to be built and eolleges to be endowed, and beneficent insti- tutions to bq supported, the mer- chants put their hands to the work, and they have a right to expect that in our ministration w� will be sympathetic with their struggles and temptations. I shall speak of some of the 'temptations and trials to which our merchants are subject- ed, and then show thorn the way out. In the first place, a great many of our merchants are tried with limited capital in business, Every • body knows it takes three or four times as much money now to do business well as once It did. Oace, a man would take a few hundred dollars and put them into goods, and he would be his own store seemlier, his own weigher, his own book-keeper, his own salesman, and having all the affairs under his own hand, and brain, everything was net profit, -011; what tt change Heavy taxa- tion, costly apparatus, extensive ad- vertising, exorbitant store -rent, are only a port of the dertiand made up- on our commercial men. The man waking up with a small capital, says: "I can't endure this pressure any longer," and under this timpta- tion of limited capital. men ruin themselves in one or two directions. Some inunediately succumb to the temptation. They surrender before the first shot of the battle is fired. At the first. hard duty they yield. Their knees knock together at the fall of the auctioneer's gavel. They do not understand that there is such a thing as heroism in merchandise, and there are 'Waterloos of the coun- ter, and that no braver battle was ever won with the sword then has . been won with the yard stick. Their souls melt within them because su- gars are up when they want to buy, and down when they want to sell ; end .because there are bad debt on their ledgers, tho gloom of their soul overshadows their dry -goods end groceries. Despondency blasts them. Other men are ruined by the temptation in the opposite direction. They gay: "Rere, I have struggled as long as can be expected 1 am going to stop this. I have been go- ing along from hand to mouth long enough. I flnel that by legitimate business and straight -forward neer- thentlise I can't succeed. Now, from this time it is make or break." The craft that did very well in a small storm is pushed out beyond the lighthouse on the great sea of specu- lation. The man borrows a few thousand dollars from friends who DO NOT LIKE TO REFUSE HIM., He says, "I can't be any worse off than I am now ; if I succeed with this borrowed money I shall give $1 0 000 to the Bible Society, and I will give $10,000 to the Tract So- ciety, and I will help to support all beneficent institutions ; and if I fail 111 be no worse off than I am now; ono hundred thousand dollars sub- tracted from nothing, hothing re- mains." Perhaps stocks aro the dice with which he gambles. The man stops at no fraud, stops at no outrage. Ed dashes past in his splendid equipage after two years of business, and the laborer looks up as lie goes by, tend says, "Well, I wonder where that man got his money ?" and then the laborer, wip- ing the sweat from his brow, thinks to himself: "Why, two years ago, that man was as poor as I am, I wonder where he got his money." He stole it. After awhile the bubble bursts and the creditors rush in, and the law clutches but finds noth- ing in its grasp. The pictorials blaze the face of the mon who had genius enough in a few years to fail for $250,000. I would not want to block up the path to lawful accumu- lation before any of our young men: but when I see so many men, through limited capital, tempted ie. - to reckless speculation I think it is time for tho ehurch of God end the ministers of religion to raise 'a most emphatic and unm istakable protest. It is this process through which so many merchants go down to des- teucelou and perdition. If ever tempted Into reckless speculation, preach to your Soul a sormOn from the text: ."Ad a partridge sitteth on eggs and hatchet:1i them not, so riches got by freed; a men shall leave them in the midst of bis days, awl at the end he shall be a fool." Again, I remark that a great many of our merchants aro tempted to over -care and anxiety. All styles of mercbandise seem overdone. Smitten with the love of quick gain, 11100 Kish into the cities resolved to get rich at ell hazard, The money mese come: they do not, care how it cOmes. Our honest merchants are thrown info col/Vet:Won with neon of loerger means and less conscience, and 11 en oppor n ty foe emolu- ment be keel; for an hour, somebody elm picke it up. Now what a con- test it is foe oue lioneZte upright merchanis, when they go ont into t;his coniji�titlof 1 From January 'to December it id ONE LONG STRUGGLE. stop thinking. Even the: Sabbath does not dam back thie tido of worldliness, for its .wave dashes clear aver the eluiren, and leaves its Nam on the Bible, and the Precedre books. Men on salesiee, men culti- vating their farms, do not under- stand that wear and tear of body mind and soul to which our mer- chants aro subjected iri this day, when theie livelihood, their compe- tency, their fortune, their business honor, may all depend upon the un- certainties of the next hour. This perpetual excitement of the brain, the corroding care of the heart, this strain that exhausts the spirit, push- es many of our very best merchants mid -fife into the grave. They carry their store on their back, they 'trudge, Ilke camels, sweating from Aleppo to Damascus. 011 1 if there is any class of mon who have my hocirty sympathies, it te these men who are toiling in Morehe.ndise to- day. 1 wish I could reb out some of the lines of care from your brow. I wish I could lift some of the bur- dens from your heart. I wish I could give relaxation to • your worn- out muscles, is it not time for you to take it a little easier ? Do the best you can and then trust the rest with God. Take a long breath. God manages all the affairs of your life and he manages them for the best. Consider the lilies, they always have robes, Behold the fowls of the air, they always have nests. Bethink yourself of the fact that God did not intend you to bo a pack horse. Dig 3rourself out from the hogsheads and the shelves, and in the light of this holy Sabbath, in the strength and faith of God, throw your fret- fulness and fears to the winds, You brought nothing into the world, and it is very certuin you can carry no- thing out. Having food and rai- ment be therewith content. I tell you, ray brother, what gives you so much worrimmit. You have an idea that your happiness depends upon your commercial success. It does not. You are building on a very P001' foundation if you aro building on that foundation. You know the authentic statistics prove that out of a hundred merchants oaly two succeed finally, aad are you going into this struggle with the idea that your happiness for this world, or the next depends upon commercial sueeess ? I want to explode that in- fatuation. Now what a foolish man that is who builds his happiness on the prospects of worldly success 1 You Inc not dependent upon conunercial• prosperity for your peace here or your joy hereafter. You would not be able to take these fortunes even if you could keep them up to the last moment. Suppose that in the parting moment when you make your will, you had all your estate round about you—would that, com- fort you ? After Mr. Vanderbilt died, all the people were discussing the question, how much he left. I can tell you. EVERY DOLLAR! Again. I notice that our mer- chants are tempted sometimes to neglect their home ditties. There ought to be no collision between the store and the home. But there is sometimes a collision. There are merchants in this city, who are merely the cashier of their family; they are the agents to provide dry - goods and groceries. They have no- thing to do with the discipline and education of their children. 0, my brother, you have not dischaxged your responsibilities to your house- hold when you have given them a drawing master and a Music thather. It is your duty, 0 father,—no other one can do this but yourself,—to look after the physical culture of your children. You ought sometimes to unlimber your dignity; you ought somethues to run out with your children into their sports and games. That man who camiot some- times turn his back upon the severe work of life, and fly the kite, and trundle the hoop, and jump the rope, and chase the ball With his children ought never to have been tempted Out of a crusty, irredeemable soli- tariness. Do you suppose you aro going to keep your children at home if you do not make your home bright ? As long es they find the saloons of site More beautiful more attractive thaa the home circle, so long they will go there: Do you suppose you ca)1 sit dowa with your children in the evening from seven to ten o'clock, groaning over year rheumatism, expecting them to be entertained with that 7 Oh, no! do not give them any extra trouble. They will have their own rheuean- Msm soon enough. Bring into your homes all brightness, all books, all musical instruments, so far as you can afford. them, I do not invitee you,to extravagance, but 1 say, so far as you ma afford them. And above all, not by a serni-tumual dis- cipline, but the year avound, teach yolir children that religion is a great gladness, Ora it is a chain of gold about tho neek, that it tukos no blitheness from the step, no lus- ter from the eye, no ring from the laughter, but that her ways are waye of pleasantness, and all her paths aro peace. Again: Tremark that a good many of our merchants am tempted to make gain of more import- -11.1100 than tho soul. It is ce grand thing to have pletty of money. The more money you get the bathe if it come honestly and go usefully. There is no war between the Bible end worldly suctess, When I hear a man ennthig in pulpit or pew, oe preyer-ineeting against Money as though it, had no practical owe— well, T think the best heaven for tieh a man as the t Would :be ea vol. -Meting poor-homie. For the ack of money sickness dies withotter :Within, and hurtger finds les eolith n -an empty broad -tray, But while 8 No quiet at night for therr tossing limbs aatl theft: brain that will not i we admit that numey hem its lawful use' we put renlember that it Will notglitter in the dark Willey, that; it will not pay the ferriage ;meow the Jordan ef death, that it Will not unlock THE GATES 010 HEAVEN, There are men in all Our oeCuPas Melee Wile aet as though they thought a, pack of bowls and meet - gages might be traded eft at the last for tt mansion in the skies, es though gold would be a legal, tender in that land whore it is so 00100100 that they make peving. stones QUt of it. Salvation by Cluest is the one salvatioe, Treasures in heavea are the only incorruptible •treasures. I suppose you have ail ciphered in are ithmetic as far as lees and gain. If yoe have, then I will give you a SUM In 108S and gain; "What shall it profit a man if ho gain the whole world, and lose •his own soul?" However firmly you may be attired the winds of death will flutter your oPfArel like rags. The pearl of great price is worth more than any gem eVel. brought up from the depths of the 00e011—worth more than Aus- tralian and Brazilian mines strung in one cariermet: Seek' first the kingdom of God and his righteous- ness and all thiegs will be added to you. Yet how many merchants there ,are who seem to get along without any religion. The fact is that a man is very seldom converted after ho is worth $40,000. After a man gets a certailt amount of worldly resources he thinks, "Well, now, T can take care of myself." Oh1 how many there are who go down finan- cially and eternally. Yoe seo 1e. You know it a great deed bate' than 1 do. You saw it yesterday. You have seen it every day for a long while. Men failing for this world and failing for eternity. 0 my hearers, though your store go, though your house go, though your government securities go,— may God through the blood of the everlasting covenant save your souls! THE KING'S COMMON SENSE, Eis IV.lajesty's Knowledge of Sci- ence Case in Handy. Here Is the latest story.about King Edward VIT. Its authority is so good that I have little hesitation 111 believing it, while I do not think it has yet appeared In print, weites a correspondent. When the King paid ,his recent visit to Germany, he was particularly enthusiastic about "mo- toring." It was just about that time, I believe, that he gave the or- der for the automobile, which a well known Paris maker has just built for him, and which is exciting so much interest among Parisian auto- mobilists. Anyhow, he took the opportunity which the quiet German country and forest roads offered to indulge in tho exhilarating pas- time. One day he was driving with a gentleman through ono of the for- ests near Wiesbaden, when the auto- mobile ran out of water. .01 neces- sity a stoppage occurred, and for want of a convenient water com- pany, the boiLer was filled from a wayside spring. The King and his companion stinted again, and all went well for awhile. Then for some unaccountable reason the car stopped again. An inspection was made, and the Lang's companion, who is an expert 10 such matters, went to work in technical exploring fashion. The King stood rendering assistance when he could. But everything seem- ed right ; no bolts were loose, no nuts missing, and not a lever jam: med. "That's very funny, /Your Majesty." The King agreed and pondered for a moment. Then he smiled. "I wonder," he suggested in tentative fashion, 'if the water we took in has anything to do with it. You know these German waters gen- erally lave some sort of mineral properties in them. The boiling may cause Crystallization and so choke the piston." The piston rod was iimnediately inspected, and, sure enough, it was so crested that for all driving purposes it might as well have been heavily coated with rust. Sand paper was used, some un- adulterated water found ; the jour- ney was continued and completed without further stoppage. Evidently the King was not the intimate Prised and informal pupil of Playfair 111 vain—although little has been given to the world of their association save the well known fact that it was at Playfair's request that the then. Prince of Wales scooped up boiling lead in the palm of his hand a perfectly painless oxperiment when properly carried out. A PARADISE. "To people who suffer from, 'nerves' Berlin should bo a paradise, for there is no other city so quiet," re- marks a traveller. "Within the city limits railway enginea are not per- mitted to blow their whistles, 'There is no loud bawling of hawkers, and a man whose waggon gearing is loose and rattling is subject to a flne, The courts have a large discretion as to fines for noise -making. Best of all, to many minds, are the regulations concerning piano playing. Before a certain hour in •Lhe day, and after a certain hour at night, the piano mast bo silent." OFP THE EARTH. Mrs. Eennessy-01 hear Cassidy wor discharged from the quarry. Hos he onnything to do yit? Mrs. Cassidy -01 donne, Shure he heyn't cum doeen from the explosion, ----0---- LITOKY SHORTAGE. Yes, my wife roads every blessed recipe she finds in the papers. Mavens; and does she try them No, she doesn't. In fact sho never tried a solitary one of 'em. How cloos that happen? Why, she's always mit of some- thing. -- Mrs. Cobwigger—Are you sorry you called names afterthat little boy next door? Freddie -Yes, So, Ho tee fight twice as good as 1 thoughl he colelde THE S, S. LESSON, INTERNAT/ONA/r /ESSON AVTIGITS'r 18. TeXt ef the LeseOne Gen, xviii, 111- 33. Golden Text, james V1 16, 16-16, "And the Lord Saki, Shall I hide from A.brahani that thing wbiele I do ?" Wo must suppose that the leetIon commit:the did the best they knew how in soleeting the portion which they have assigned to us for study, but hoeir they could be led to omit Seale a portion as thaleter xvii is something of e mys- tery, Watrust that all teachers will think it worth while to look at the portions passed over. Last week's lemon shoved ete Abram made sure, 05 we supposed, by the Lord's Ines - sage, that all would be as Cod had said, yet in chapter ecvl we read that he turned from God to listen to an earthly suggestion, which brought much trouble into his houeohold and led to an interval of 18,years in his life, of which we know nothing. Compare xvi, 113, tend xvii, J. ; Jer. xvii, 5. In ohapter xvii the Lord ap- !Mare to him under a new Milne, the Almighty God (El-Shaddai), the Mighty Goa who is . all sufficient, confirming and stating more fully the covenant and giving him tho token which signified death to the flesh (Col. 11, 11) ; giving him also a now name by putting the principal letter of His own name Jehovah (J1rell) 1)1 the midst of his old name Abram. We cannot know the all suflicioncy of God till we are willing to have done with self and walk before Eine, Sayers name is also changed, and Abraham is assured that the time has come and within a year Sarah shall bear to him the promised son, The visit of the Lord and the two other heavenly ones to Abrahara in the heat of the clay, their acceptance of Abraham's hospitality and the messageto Abet:limn confirmed to Sarah lecl us to the beginning of to- day's lesson. Let the Lord's ques- tion to Sarah in verse 14, ilSst clause, along with Jer. xxXii, 17, and John xiv 18-14, lead us to ex - peat great thiugs from God. 20-21. The Lord is a righteous judge and speaks of Eitneelf here as carefully inquiring into matters. He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears, but with right- eousness shall Re judge (lea. xi, 3, 4). Everything on earth cries to Him, and He hears and will in due time see to it. Note carefully Gen. iv, 10 ; Ex. iii, 7; Hob, 11, 11 ; Jas v, 4 ; also creation's groans in Rom. viii, 22. God hears it all. 22. "Abraham stood yet before the Lord." The other two visitors went toward Sodom, and their visit to Lot and his rescue by them ere recorded in the next chapter refer- ence to which we find from the Lord Himself in Luke xvii, 28-32. Abra- ham standing before God makes us think of Elijah and Elisha and also of Gabriel (I Kings xvii, 1 ; II Kings iii, 14 ; Luke i., 19). To ap- propriate and live in the power of Ps. xvi, 8, is a very proper and helpful thing to do, remembering that the Lord seeth not as men seeth, for man. looketh oa the out- ward appearcinco, but the Lord look- eth upon the heart (I Stun. xVi, 7). He says, "Lo, I am with you al- ways." 23-26. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right 7" In the rest of our lesson we see Abraham as the intercessor, as eve afterwards see Moses, Samuel, Daniel, and others, all typical of Him who ever liveth to make intercession for us (Rom. 81 ; Heb. 11, 25). We read that Abraham drew near, and it is our privilege to draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of Mali, and to come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Hob. x, 22 ; iv, 16). We may come not only for ourselves. but, for others. We may forget ourselves and live chiefly for others, and the more we reoounce self and live for others the more we shall be like Mis who never pleased Himself nor sought His owa will nor Eis own glory (Rom. xv, 8 ; John vi, 38 ; v111. 30. By Eis precious blood He has made us nigh who once were far off and has given us access to God at all times (Eph„ 0, 13 ; Rom. v, 2), with such blessed assurances for our encour- agement as John xiv, 18, 16 ; xv, 7, 16 ; Mark xi, 24; I John v, 14, 15,, 27-32. rearing that, them may not' be 50 righteous in Sodom, Abraham, continued to plead that the Lord will spare the city for the seke of 45, 40, 80, 20, 10, and the Lord said that He would spare the city if ten righteous people were found in it. Six times Abraham. pleads. Some wonder how 11; might have been if he had still kept on, but it would anyone that Lot was the only right- eoue man, in the city, and wo would net have known tbat he was right- obut for II Pet. 11, 7, 8. It would seem that his wife and two daugh- ters wore delietred for his sake and that he was delivered for Abraham's seke (chapter xix, 12, 20), That the righteous by their interceseion Oen bring blessing to others is evident from the record of the centurion, the woman of Tyre and Sidon, tho four feiends (Math, vfil, 10 ; ix, 2 ; xv. 28). That there may bo such a state of affairs that even tho prayers of the righteoue cannot avail we learn from Jor. xv, 1 ; Emit, xlv, 14, 20, where we see that such men as Moses Samuel, Noah, Daniel or Job could not bring deliverance. Abraham did not plead on the ground of any goodness in himself, for he spoke of himself as but dust and ashes (verso 27), but only on the ground of the great need and the righteousness of God. We may learn a good lesson in pleading from Jereiniah, Who said, "0 Lord, though our ini- quities testify against us, do Thou it for Thy name's sake" (Jer. civ, 7). In Jesus' name is our great strength. 88. And the Lord went His way as soon as He hod left communing t With Abralenan, end Abrabam return-, s cd unto his place." How near t heaveo Is brought, to earth in these I interviews of God with 'Abraham and °there 1 And it is the privilege Of everY befieVer to Walk With Gerd in cenfitent coMmunleatien (Gen, v, 24 ; vi, 9 ;Hio,vi, 8). It is to be feared that the majority of the eight- eens are like Lot in Sodom, so nixed up with the ungodly that they bear no testimany for God, while but few aro like Abrelman at Hebron, living above the world in fellowship with God, for this is narrow way, and few there are that find it, Lee every ebild Of GOO. re- member that II° has redeemed. us to be a, people for Ifis °WM Tenses- eion, set avert for Himself, not eon - formed 1,e this world (Tiles 11, 14, le. V. ; Ps. iv, 8 ; Rons xii, 1, 2), willing (Ps. ex. 8) to bo alt that He desires us to be, living no long- er unto this world or unto ourselves, but unto Him alone. AN ELEPHANT'S PEPPY. An Exciting Sport as It is Fol- lowed in India. An ,elepluents' Derby sounds dis tinetly sensatioeal, but the idea call not souod more sensational than such a contest really is, says the London Express, The Briton is nothing if not a sportsman, despite Napoleon's his- toric sneer about our being a nation of shopkeepers; and wherever John Bull goes there you may be sure to find hi1 . indulging in one form of sport or another. Thus, in India elephauts are often impressed into the servIce of our sporting enthusiasts, and an ele- phants' Derby recently took place up country. Steeplechasing with horses is ex- citing enough, but when you have elephants engaging In this form of sport—well, you somehow forget that life ever seemed so dull to you. Naturally, the course is not so perfect as at Epsom. Nevertheless, there are plenty of coigns of vantage from which crowds of eager specta- tors, native and white, watch the progress of the contest anti onecnir- age the riders by tame shrill shrieks and constant shouting. By the clin alone you would know that you were in the east, even if you did not see the spectators and competitors. The mahouts, as the native drivers are called, cling to the necics of their mounts, urging them on by means of their sharp goads, which they apply to the elephants' ears. To see the huge, lumbe.ring crea- tures being driven over the course at their utmost speed is at once ono of the most comical and exciting sights imaginable. Barriers and ditches are construct- ed at iatervals across the track, and though a novice would in nine cases out of ten regard the elephants' ef- forts to negotiate them with con- vulsions of laughter, devotees to this form of racing become far too absorbed in the fortunes of the con- test, for the ludicrous side of it to animal to them. Besides, it is just these obstacles which provide the critical points of the race, for as the elephants at- tempt to get over or out of them many a racer goes down, and ninny a mahout is thrown to the ground at imminent peril of being crushed by the elephant which is im- mediately following. Taking it as a whole, an elephant steeplechase is a sight to remember, and one you should never mies see- ing if ever you get an opportunity. It out-Derbys all the Derby e within living recollection as far as excite - newt is concerned. APE -LIKE MAN OF AFRICA. Details of Sir Harry Johnston's Discovery. Sir Harry Johnston, who is home in England on leave from Uganda, is likely to add largely to our know- ledge of that country as a result of the two years he has just completed there in the capacity of His Ma- jesty's Special Commissioner. Re brings with him photographs and measurements of the apo -like race of men whom Mr. Grogan and Mr. Sharp first encountered on the verge of the Congo forest. "I hope," said Sir Harry John- ston, "that the public interest in these matters will not form tiny ex- aggerated ideas en the subject until the material which 1: have gathered haS been properly examined by an- thropologists, and my own. impres- sion as to the somewhat Simian character of these natives is con- firmed. The ape -like people to whom. I refer 5ee01 to constitute the under - lee ee stratum of the population of tho eastern outskirts of tbe great( Longo forest, front the vicinity of Lake Albert down to the neighbor- hood of Lake Tangtmellut, the west- ern slopes of Mount Ruwenzori, and aiSo, et:tango to say, on the west slope of Mount Ellgon, tho extinct' volcano which lies about 150 mith east of the Victoria Nile. The gen- eral characteristics af Velem ape -like people, who sometimes constitute0. tribe or pariahs by themselves, and sometimes crop up an a type in the middle of other tribes, aro a dirty yellow skin, a poor development of the back of the head, eyes rather close together, with prominent eye- bkows, low and much Wriakled fore- heads. The hair is woolly like that of the ordinary negro, though it emmetimes tends to be brownish in color. The arum are long and the thumbs weak. The legs are a little knock-kneed, and aro often very short he proportion to the body. In ono inetance in which I took a photo graph, the toes are turned rather in- ward. "Their stateme as a rule is not umeh, if any, below the average height of humanity, I can only say that le general appearance they do look as I have described them, very ape -like, but too much stress should not be laid on itier general impreselou in Vile reepee„t until the 1110)18010- Month Which I blew made of their beads are discussed by a competent authort ty on ant hropomel g "7 hew a kind of impression that I his ape -like iype of negro represents omething like 1110 erigthal etock— be earliest form of negro men that Mere)! the African continent from Asia." LIVES "WERE BURNED. Mi,..11TY4S TQ TPL4 CAITS4 CIVIUSATX04, Several Inetanees Where: Men of Seienee Rave Net Died in Vain, Prior to 1851 abet:11.401y no untie dote Was known for morpnitt.,,, A person taking an overdose of the ,drug had to die. But in October of that year a certaio Dr. Ellenberger claimed to have diseoverecl 00 In, fallible remedy, and offered to de- monetrate Its efficacy on bbs . Oeen pothou la the presence of Orfila, the eminent chemist and toxicologist. Orfila, consented, though somewbat rlel:uw ctoanecit tiy, and grainsElleibo erger svi sulphate of morphia, and immediate- ly afterwards his antidote. He did not eiffier from any symptoms of poisoning, although the quantity he had taken was sufficient, le the or- dinary course of events, to have killed half a dozen men. Orfila, however, with a keen eye to the practical Wie of antidotes, asked what would be the result if an in- terv.al of, say, thirty or forty min- utes were allowed to elapse before swallowing his safety preparation. Dr. Ellenberger said the result would bo the same. Nevertheless, a few weeks later ho died from e dose of only Mn grains of the poison, hav- ing allowed barely fifteen minutes to elapse before taking his antidote. The latter was analysed after his death, and found to consist of a. mixture of magnesia and carbonate of magnesia. And this has been utilised eVer Sinee as an almost cer- tain cure for morphia poisoning, provided only it be TAKEN IN TIME. As Dr. Ellenberger died, so also died Dr. Male, of Birmingham, Eng- land, the poison with which he was experimenting, however, being not morphia, but aconite. He desired to aseertaia the erfect of continued small doses of the drug, administer- ed at regular intervals, and took al- together eighty ',rope, in ten doses, over a period of :our days. At the end of that time he died very sud- denly, The result, was to prove what up till then toxicologists bad only half suspected—viz.,• that acon- ite was what is known as a, "cul- minative" poison—that is to say, ono whose malignant energy is stored up in the system, so to speak, until a fatal quantity has been absorbed, when death, of course, results. Picric acid, the basis of English lyddite and of the French melinite, was itt use for years as a yellow dye for woollen and silk stuffs before it was known to be an explosive. Many people suspected it to be so, and various were the experiments under- taken in order to, if possible, in- duce it to "go off." When, however, the experimenters discovered that the stuff could with perfect safety be stirred up with a red hot poker, and that molten iron poured from a height upon it only caused it to emit a sort of expostulatory sizzle, they concluded that they were mis- taken. One among them all—a, German, named appropriately Dietz—persist- ed, and one day detonated a small piece of mercury fulminate in close proximity to a quantity of the acid. The resultant explosion was so terri- fic that not only was the unhappy experimenter INSTANTLY KILLED, but the solidly -built laberatery itt which he was working was demol- ished, not one stone being left upon another. But he did not clia in vain. He had revolutionised the sci- ence of war. Thuillier, the French bacteriolo- gist, in order to study the precise action of the cholera germ on the human system, inoculated himself with the disease only too successfully. Before his death. how- ever, he superintended a series of experiments with his own infected blood, which gave us the first reit- able data concerning the organism which, came afterwards to be known as the "coma bacillus of cholera." Among other things, it was celeu-1 lated that the weight of et, single' cholera bacteriutn was one ten -thou -I sandth-milliouth of a milligram, that the life or a generation was from fifteen to foety minutes, and that a single germ can produce two of its kind in an hour, which might: multiply to four in two hi -elm and in three days to 4,772 billions, weighing 7,500 tous. At the present time there are sev- eral well-known setae -tests facing death in West Africa endeavoring to prove thnt malarial fever is entirely due to the bites of mosquitoes. FlSU THAT EXPLODE. Naturalists have been Much inter- ested recently in the appearanee of n strange fish off various parts of the English coast, and which is knowa locally as the sea -cucumber. It re- sembles an oblong, trausparent rub - bee beg filled with water, and varies from them to five inches in length. It is about as thick, generally, as ce man's thumb. At each end aro se - Vera' circles of sharp bristles, color- ed like brims, and seemingle hard. Those aee believed to be its defen- sive weapons. Tho bristles at one end are stronger and more numerous than at the other. It's most, won- deriul peculiarity, however, is that when kept out of the 'Miter for a short time thc fish explodes, and ehriveIe up into a small pieco of dried skin. Scientists are at present f undecided whether it is on ochiteru 1 or sipuneloldea, WHERE ERININAL8 FLY, PLAO4S MIST444 P0T/1014 CAN'T TOI/OR Tx-xrag, Doeene Of Gountriee 'Where the FM: giegiee Zaw-Breakere elre Safe. Landoll 18 Probably the safest of hiding -Mazes for criminals whom the police seek, clespito the eact that the Metropolitan Police Force is the most efficient and suecessful in the' world, The feet is that to nod: a hiding criminal in London (with its teeming millione of peoPle 01 nationalities) ie a tremendous taelell and ia 1110 case 01 1ie peintinals the magnittide of the task is don - bled by the fact that the "cleecrip- tions" eupplied to Scotland Yard by foreign police aro proverbiaely meagre and unreliable when they are not a bso tely idi o tie. Despite, however, the advantagee London offers fugitives froua justicee when a British erneinal 00,Mni5.e ai big crime, whereby he obtains the necessary funds, he generally gives the "Axis of the Empire" e, wide berth, and endeavors to get some.: where abroad under a vague sort of impression that anywhere is safer than the country in which he com- mitted his crime. The question of whither he shall Me himself is one which he must find considerable difficulty in ensveer- ing, cued the difficulty is yearly being increased by the concluding of more and more extradition treaties, and the awakening al those countries with which we already have seen treaties to a more proper sense of their obligations. Owing to the ex- istence of scores of extraditioa treaties, almost every country is nominally as unsafe to fugitive cri- minals (excepting those "wanted" for political crimes) as Great Brit- ain, but nominally is not actually, for which difference the emigrating evil -doer has every reason to be thankful. More than half the treaties tlm British Government holds with for eign countries for the extradition of criminals who fly the country are practically DEAD LurrnRs. Were it not for this fact there would be only one actual refuge for fugi- tive law -breakers, whereas there are dozens, The Bonin Islands, in the Pacific Oceau, and off the coast of japan, constitute the sole remain - 11)g nominal refuge for tho criminal classes, and this refuge is not favor- ed by any but the lowest classes and most criminal of the world's law- breakers, Men who have committed crimes' for which death, life-long imprison- ment, Siberia, or, perhaps, torture, would be due punishment, have flown to the Bonin Islands from all parts of the world, and have set up a email colony of all that is most bru- tal in human nature; but the gentle- manly criminal, the bland fraud. from the City, who decamps with hundreds of thousands of dollars, prefers a less certain safety with an element of comfort, and would prob- ably rather be arrested than be forced" to patronise the Bonin Islands, particularly as there is now every hope of this refuge being covered by an extradition treaty in the • near future. . Where, then, do criminals fly ? What is the haven of rest for the weary, police-himted criminal 7 There ere many, and Jabez Balfour, showed a wonderful discretion when he hit upon the Argentine as his place of refuge. The Argentine is still a happy hunting-groundefor British criminals, and Jabez Balfour's capture was an exceptionally good stroke of luck for law and justice. There are scores' upon 8001.01 of British criminals safe- ly retired in the Argentine Republic's country. Doubtless they know their time of arrest may come, but the contingency is so remote that they c11 hardly woRuy ABOUT IT. ' There are many reasons why Ar- gentine is so favored by crintinals with ill-gotten fortunes. In the first place the brisk trade carried on be- tween the Argentine and Europe gives great facilities for getting from the letter to the former. Then, for- eigners constitute so large n propor- tion of the population of the Argen- tine that they attract no attention whatever. Also, the police organis- ation in the Republic is 80 wretched- ly behind the times, and so Made - qua te, that the authorities have more than enough to do to look af. ter their own maleractors. Brazil also Woes a fair refuge Inc many erhuinals, and it in a fact, not unknown to the police, that one of the largest coffee -growers in Brazil went out to the republic to escape justice and started coffee -planting with capital which he obta.ined robbing his employer, a Liverpool merehnnt, Ilut that was so long ago that he need never fear the 'crime being brought home to him, Brazil is, howeveie more eavored by Spanish and Ittelitut crindeals than. by British, many of the latter touch- ing there merely for the purpose of "splitting their treils," and going on to the Argentine or. poi:Imps, Scnne other 'South American repub- lic, for they are all, more or less, sere refuges. But mainty is not the only thing considered, or probably Morocco, where a man etin buy protection cheaply, wouli be more popular with fugitives; the mon who 0108 rimier with money lie has etolen re- quires a refuge where he ran cum. ortebly cejoy his mettne; end, per - tape, make a fortune out of them. It is for such reasons Owl, many British fugitives run grove risks of ' 'capture by going over to the -United States, and very_ many French crim- A SPECIAL OCCASION. 1 riled Trelep—You orter see Dill :oin' over de fence wit' de bull after dim Second Trainp—Must have been vitth lookin' at, First Tremp—Stql It WIIZ de on- s IN time 1 eVer seen him when he didn't look tired, mils fly to Canada. What is 0, fort? asked a teacher, A place to put loon In was the art. wer. What is a for:tress then?The newer wee peorepef el place to put Wenten 111.