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The Brussels Post, 1891-1-30, Page 7JAN, 30, 1891. THE BRUSSELS POST. YOUNG FOLKS A PAIR OF NI MES. sc You can't oxpcet me to support you la idleness any longer, said MrO. Ubst 1131 I, a tall, stout woman with level black brows, vert, rod iliac, and a loo 1 voice. 11 he woman's two young nieoos sat by the window, shrinking book as if every ward had been a blow, They had been with their atm nt a month --,just long enough for the grass to become geeen on thee father's grave and the erapo trimmings on their fro0118 to grow A little crumpled and rusty, And now," went on the pertly Mime, "It is time for yen to do something for your- selves, I'mnot richyou know, " But wodon't know what to do, Aunt Matilda," said Kate, " We are willing to -work if any one would show us how, murmured Cinema (;cnoral. Livingston with LH a governess for his granddaughters, six and seven years old. (11(10ic, Eronuh and Latin requited, You sisail tithe that position, Ginevra," said het' aunt, The taller of the girls changed solo". " I don't know much about music, said she. " Papa taught :no Latin ; but 1'1m quite ig,noralt of L reneh." "Say you know it," said Mrs. Ubedell, sharply, "And do the best yon eau. Gen- eral Livingston is at home very little. Twen- ty to w'en- tyto ale he'll never find it mut. At all events, Ivo told Miss Jenks, the housekeep- er, that you will bo there to -morrow at nine o'clock to take the situation." " But Aunt Matilda, wouldn't that be acting a lie ?" faltered the girl. "A lie, indeed 1" almost screamed Mrs, Ubsdell, her eyes ablaze with auger. "How dare you use that word to ale, GlnevraHall? go As for you, Kate, you are too'0 loaf compan- ion to Miss RamonaRamonaSl ao Ray. 1 past, and you've got u good clear voice to read aloud to her, She's bed -tempered and exacting ; but it's the business of you young people to cave way to your elders -ail any way you have your living to earn." The girls looked aghast at each other' when Mut Ubsdell left the room. " What shall we do ?" asked hale. " Obey, I suppose," sighed Ginevra. " It is very evident that we are unwelcome hero Aunt Ubsdell grudges every bit of bread we yet, Oh, Kate, Kate, if we oottlrlonly have died and been buried with papa 1" " We must do the best we can," said Kate, who was Berk, with soft, velvety eyes, and skin as fair and lino -grained as a Bet•muda lily. "Perhaps this Miss Ray is not so bad as we think. I shall try to be patient." " And I am to enter the family of an aris- tocrat under false pretenses 1" trioti Ginevra " I hope I shall earn my salary;" 011101/111 WAS ns unlike as possible to her dark-haired sister -a rosy, dimpled, childish girl, who scarcely;lookodherseventeel:year's. Kate looked abhor with tender regret "The idea of your being a governess?' ex- claimed she. " Or of your turning lady's companion 1" retorted Ginevra. But I do believe, Kate, we would go as gypsy fortune-tellers, or take situations as scullery-Inaids, to got out from ander Aunt Matilda's eye." Miss Ramona Ray was rather deaf - there could be no doubt of that But Rate Hall had a clear, distinct enunciation, and found little trouble in making her hear. And reelly,her temper was not so very bad, after 011. It was necessary to be very particular in the sere of her parrot and the dally bath of her poodle dog, the watering of her plants, and the preparation of the rose -creams and the lily lotions that she used for her vener- able complexion. But she conceived a decided fancy for her Ilew companion; took her out in the carriage for a daily drive, and told her the whole story of the Noncom officer who had once been engaged to hor, and who went away to Chapnitepoc or some of those four•syllabled places, and married a Spanish senora even while ,hiss Ranona's wedding cake was being bake'_. When Miss Ramona told this story to any one, it was a sign of a very high favor indeed. Ain Ramona had only one relative in the world -a nephew -and be was . a naval officer. And as it happened, he cane home on a visit when Kate Hall had been a week with his aunt, bursting into the room at twilight, like it cheerful tornado. " Well, Aunt Mona," said he. " Here 1 am. Got your letter at Norfolk. What sort of a companion have you got • now ? Regular old maid, eh ? or a widow in dyed bombazine and eyeglasses ?" "Hush, Geoffrey," said Miss Ray. "Kate, my [leas, bring candles, This young lady is my companion et present. Miss Hall, allow me to present my nephew, Lieutenant Ross - mere.,' Yon see," said Kate, laughing, " I am neither en old maid nor a widuw." " I'm sura I beg ten thousand pardons 1" said the lieutenant, blushing mahogany color. Meanwhile Ginevra had gone to her situa- tion at Livingston Larches, where two blooming little Maidens were sitting, tip in schoolroom, with clean slaboe and epotlosely new sohool•books, waiting for their gover- mess. Miss Jenks was on hand to introduce the etiasger to her 1101V domains. You're r1thee young miss," said she, ((and insignificant-looking/for the plate. Mfrs. Ubsdell told me-" "I shall do my best," said Ginevra, with gentle dignity ; ' `and I do not doubt that I shall succeed very well.' But Eva and 11111a were born rebels. They had conquered governess after govorneee, and driven her off defeated. They liked the ex- citement of it, and did not like to study ; and the natural sequence was that in less than an hoar Ginevra Hall was in testm Eva had imitated her French accent with acorn ; Ella had mischievously rubbed out the figures on the slate as often as Miss hall made them. And when the hour of noon recreation (mine, and the little mutineers rushed out to play 011 the lawn, poor Gin- evra )lid herself among the psalms in the con- sel'vatoryto weep without 01111. " Is anything the matter?" said a voice. 'r Oh,I bog your pardon," said Ginevra, reddening to the very rents of her hair, " I didn't meal to bo in the way, if yott art the ardener, I just brake off this one little white orange blossom. I may keep it?" Yon may keep it-oortainly,' said a tall, fide lookingman, who was 10111111111191110 superfluous ranches £roma Magnificent, w)liLe•blossolnOd dentine. 1: thought, perhaps, you had pricked yeur fingers on the great Colorado moths and hart yourself, You seemed to be cry- " in (It wasn't the cactus,„ fluttered Ginovra, ((I1'vas the children " " The children?" " They won't mind," explained (11110vra " they only laugh at mo, and I don't know what to (10, '.Flo strength opened the aide door, Which, garlanded over with passion flowers, look- ed ohed on the lawn, and called in stern, inlpera. tiro tones, • - (' 011 !fron 1" lova dropped iter orognotmallet, Ella loft oil munelung strawberries, Beth obeyed he howoomo'r aft tutee. " Have you been disobeying this young lady''" questioned Uinevra's champion. " N=no, faltered J 1111. ."Wo didn't disobeyhor, we only didn't do as she told us," Very well," said ho, " Hereafter you will bo a goal little class, or there shall bo no lmoo beating on the river for you, 00 rides on the et'oanl-coloracl potties ; and 11o010V bat broad and water for dinner. Do you understand?" " Yes, sir," murmured hills, meekly. " Yea, g1'andpapa," said lava, obediently. Clbuovro looked. up insm'priee. �„ " You aro net Uonorel Lil'Ingeton . said she. " klow (l0 you know that I am not?" f -I thought you were the gardener." "Ido garden sometimes; tint the gerdcnor is It snuffy old Scotohmal, in a wig and a popper-mulsalt snit" " But -Lenora! Livingston is a1' old gent- lemen, isn't he?" " fits and forty -if you call that old. I eco haw it is," said the master of the house, laughingly. 0 Yon aro misled by those lit - tic ignites palling me grandpap1a. My into wife was e widow, oonsiderabiy older than myself. Eva and Ella aro her grandchild- ren, not mine. This many explain sono of the inconsistencies that puzzle you, hiss Hall. And now, if you will resume the charge of the young Turks, I think I can guarantee that they shall make you no inure trouble." He was right. Eve was docile as any kitten ; Ella sweeter than an angel. Eva doubly some miracle had been wrought. " You see," said lova, "when grandpapa says a thing, ho means it." " And we aro so afraid he'll send us to boarding school 1" whispered Ella. General Livingston came in toward even• ing to she that he children kept faith, and then Ginevra made hor confession to him. " I have deceived you, sir," said she. " I don't knowFreneh at all ; but my aunt told rte I must not lot you know it. ' And then she told hint the simple story of her bereavement and dependence. " And if French is essential," the added, " I must go back to Aunt Matilda. But I couldn't keep en deceiving you, when you had been so loud to tae." General Livingston smiled. " Yon the a good little girl," said he, "and wo must try to dispense with French for the present." After this, Ginerva found very little tron- ble. The children, wild and wayward though they had been at first, became at - Niched to her, and worn quick to learn. At the and of six months Mrs. Ubsdell came to Livingston Larches. " Gindrva," said site, " you mnsb strike for higher salary. Every one else is doing " Oh, Aunt Matilda," cried the girl, " I can't The terms are too liberal already. I feel that I am not earning the money I receive." Mrs. Ubsdell, however, insisted. ' • I will go to General Livingston myself," said she, " These aristocrats can't ex- pect to grind ovary one down into the earth." Poor Clinor'va burst into tears; but Mrs. Ubsdell was implacable. Ginevra scarcely dated look General Livingstone in the face when she methim 111 the garden, a couple of hours later. His fact were an amused expression. " Miss Hall" said he, " your aunt has been kind enough topay men visit." " Please don't thunk that I had anything to do with it," alio said, almost inaudibly. •' I am too well aware that I ant already overpaid." General Livingston looked calmly at her. "111.issHall,"said he, " I have been think- ing matter's over, and I have come to the conclusion to dispense with your 50001000 as governess hereafter." Ginerva involuntarily °leaped her hands; she grew pale. "Oh," she cried, "must I go back to Aunt Matilda? And I was so happy here 1" ' Ginevra," said General Livingston, " I dm ftve-and-forty years old, and yet Ham been sanguine enough to hope that I can win the love of la girl of seventeen. It is for you to decide whether I am right or wrong.,, For 00 ?" "1 have fallen in love with yott, Ginovra. Tell one -will you be my wife in01ead of the children's governess?" She stole one timid glance at him. It was as if some strong, serene archangel had stooped from a ealesti0l clime to ask her to neetl0 under the shadow of his gleaming wings. Did ho suspect how long she'd secretly worshipped hint ? lied he pene- trated endtrated Into the mysteries of her heart? That glance, howeve', was a sufficient an- swer. He put out his hand and drew her to his heart. ' My darling 1 my own darling 1" was all that ho said. Ginevra Hall was standing in the shadow of the tree ferns in the conservatory that evening when the gardener showed in a young lady. It was her sister. " Ginevra," said Kate, " Aunt Matilda has been to see me. Surely site has not succeeded in making you discontented with your situation?" (( Dearest Kate," said Ginevra, „ I am going to tell you a secret. I am to be Gen- eral Livingston's wife next weak. Oh, I am so thankful that I canto here 1 ' don't think there over was a girl se hl p y before." "Except me," said Kate. ",I also am io bo Harried to Lieutenant Geoffrey Ross - more. And Miss Ray is so pleased and proud. And Mrs. Modell arrogates to herself all the credit of having settled her nieces so well in life. The ought to be very much obliged to (11e," she says. " If it hadn't been for me it never would have happened." Girls' Don't Have no run. A 1>MY'S (ll'INI(IN, Girls don't have no fun 1 They ran% 'mese!,,11111111 an' tun Gown (0 Lho (1101, Where the tut is 1111,111 fie in SW11111llin' an' d 1 ve nn' lathe, Splash a1' fight an' lay in the 0111U111 Hoo who0c clothes limy rel tie 11111 war An' muddy the toiler 'al '11' out arm. sneak all 10luel 01o�'llll, Wolk on stil to at the nAll An' turn hen' springs on the dust Fall so hard I hey purt-nil1b bu'st An' 4411 up net hurl, a' -tall, !es' r0011 0001111 far a harder fall - Oh, Oh, 11shaw, g1rlt don't have no fun 01145 delft know 011(1(1(00 Is, 11,11,11> (440111011801111(01' hIS; They don't know what. boys done, They haint l>03'0, but (('feta they arae. Boys luta (1111 ever duy', Jilt Mini comes 'long `heir was', 10,vo eediee of it -by the punk (;0 w•adin'In it to their nook. Girls don't have no fun-pshaw 1 All they do's sot round 1111' Jtaly 'Bout ctmilt pieces nn' doll rags An' ]Il tie ornery ribbon tags, A11' sew lull' sweep al' tools, Jos' rend Homo of dry hook - Run. toll 111A 'bout the yboys, 'Canso phnw,t girls'lo a haven 0 fun lei Wonldlt'tliea91rlforadollar, holler. (ansoIcouldn1)00),yell an 1' 0 G0 barefoot un' 100001 my coat An' play with the dog, colt and the goat. Girls can't have no Pun at play, Onai0hl9W, girls dont ll100o no [ant 011, l C'ouldn't hire (0o to boa girl, Wouldn't be one for all the w'orl': Wear bangs an' frizzally hair, Altus ketchin' an a )halt•, Girls can't climb teats Nor fuss an' fight bumble boas. G -Iris wear drosses -you bat They can't tarn a sununot'sett, Nor cihnb rho posts an' git on the shod, Play leap frog nor stand on their head, Go to the barn an' 011111b 111 tho mow. G iris uln't play -don't no hew - Oh, pshaw, stele don't ((ave no fun! Angelo and the duke, who frequently yelled „„; JewisliDefonoe of flhlxstianity, the boy to !iia on•µ 1.001110, when he would The following ruttier extraordinary but Open yuntbivatof gems and ndaglios, sato ver Interesting document appeared hs young vialto•`a opinlons, mud' ontsr into Y lS PP f long and confidential talks. Short Lived Beauty, 791e woman who le pretty is far tun liable to the notes of our association 1)y one of Drooklyn Angle of Ileo. 2Sth : 1110(10 ow weeks 011100 there appeared in the /eagle a letter from our melt -esteemed friend end corellgionia1, Rabbi Spacgor, It was brought to think that that to enough ; sho will eon: our m0elber0, and it received a great deal of quer her king IoIn by moans of it ; and 10 len the day of reckoning, the clay of furling conies, the kingdom w'111 be here by right of possession, Indeed she does nut consider t1.0 day of fading; it is,,matching as diflioult consideration, tie did also the unewet's to it Which appeal'sd in the /(1(110 snbsequelt- ly. All the letters, except Rabb! 4larger'0, were apparently, Iran) Christians. New, 1f the /dint will 9100 110 a little of its vale - for her to realize as death itself 18 to thap'ii ale wan 00 will gm 11>0 vi ws of a ming ;Itisfar off, vague, 011hn1impossible; omsidererltb10 number 111 libt,ralanindcd Jews (lot orthodox), no1.Jews wiholee kbeck- ward, but leen who leak tit tllinga as they l0 peu0 at the present time, Tito drat ques- tion we ropsiderod was, could a &'all., or del0ien have steed the trials and Coats which Christianity Inas stood and have held its ground, in every instance, and gene for - war I with gleet 011(400, till it is now the most 111,01'al and pregrooslve religion that the world 1100 ever then a religion etluptod to every country and every people on 1'110 globe? Other religions a1'1 and have been always oeot1Unit1, each having its own special district or country (Judaism 010110 oxoeptod), and although we Jews do not, be- lieve the Christlnls Imre right, wu must, nevertheless, wonder at the rapid progres0 and the gigantic proportions to which the Christian religion has grown. What would this world have been if the Christian religion had not come into it? Judaism would cer- tainly not have developed into Buell a grand and aweeping system. We Jews were but a handful of the world's population, and we were always a secluded people, keeping to ourselves and looking at all other nations as inferior, not trying to raise others above paganism, but shunning them and despising them. Christianity, on the other hand, is seeking out ovary nation and people, (con- verting them and making them better, and we J ewe to -day enjoy the greatest benefits in countries where the people live nearest up to the teaching of them leafier, Jesus Christ. 13e he a myth or a reality, 11(0 teach - trip without doubt, improve all who follow them. Then the Christian t'eligiou to -day shows no sighs of weakness, but is stronger than ever and is gaining in strength, while all the other religions are on the decline, ; W is sho over g0i11g to look other than she dots now, and 01111 110 herself ? And at any rate there are alwayd the meads to make the repairs of beauty, and snliioieut 00101110 day is the evil thereof. And 80, in an average of more that half theinstau0o0, rays Ifurper'8 /iasur, rho goes dancing off about her plea. sure like a fly in the son, es full of the present, AN cerele00 of the future ; she nnek00 no pooperation for the impending fate which issuro to come to 1(00 11 she live lenggeuough; sho relies on her fair face, her hluohos, her dimples, her radiance,hor miles, her glances, her 'sweetness. '1'o please, to attract, to n0tr(y, to marry tr011, is the mark sho has set before her ; and it does not need cultivation of the sterner virtues for Mat; the sterner viettlos are not greatly called into account in this quest, have little oppor- tunity of asserting themselves, or oven of being missed. Nor is groat intellectual cultivation in the scheme at our pretty woolen's life : accord. big to her plan of potion it is entirely mt- ueees0ary.. Who cares for syllogisms, lec- tures, inatruetioua, she unconsciously argues from rosy lips? Who will stop to ask if the bright eyes have dolled themselves over dry pages of scholastic lord? Let who will be learned ; it is enough for her to be gray and happy. Truth at a High Premium, Little Eddie is a Toronto toddler. His great ambition is to beat man and wear a mus. tache. But he likes to play with matches. Of course his mother hes often forbidden him to touch then, but he has often disobeyed her. Until the other day, however, he had dont no mischief. Then he learned a lesson that willprobably linger in his memory as long as 1te lives. His mother hall left the house to do Some shopping and Eddie and his brother0lifl'e Were alone. Scarcely had the mothot' closed the door behind her than Eddie proposed to start a file in the backyard. This proposition was warmly seconded by Cliffe and they soon gathered a heap of fuel. As a high wind wasblowing they thought- fully placed those inflammable materials ul a earner formed by a high board fence, and a two-story frame extension of the house. In it few minutes the Pilo was lighted and the children were danomg around the blaze in high glee. new fun was short-lived. Soot the wood• work of the extension was ignited. At first it burned slowly, but none the less surely. The boys became frightened and ran for water, but while they 1ve'a absent the flames entered a crack in the building and when they returned they found afire of large di. mensions, What, then, has our pretty creature left for tit) dint passages of middle age, W11011 beauty hes fallen avey, but there still is left the desire to hold captive what once beauty gained ? The tim0 to oonung when there will be deep crescents round the mouth whose lovely curves have been dragged down by flacl(1 muscles, when there will be fine spider -web lines about the oyes, when 'needing bofnro the rapid advance of Ghr1s- there will be hollows do the cheeks, when tfamty.Judaism alone remains inunovatle, Realizing that he could do nothing, Eddie rail up -stairs to en upper room whole his father was writing. He coolly remarked: " Papa, I believe the house is on fire:" reps quickly found that the child's diagnosis of the case WAS correct. It required but little time to send tint an alarm, and the firemen were soon at tvork on .the burning structure with axes, hose, and water. '1'lne flue lvas extinguished, bu' the building and most of its ooutents were wrecked. One room in the extension had been made a store-1lonse by Santa Claus for his toys, candies, and other presents, but those papa rescued from the flanges at the risk of his life. But it was a serious battle in calends of blind- ing, suffocating smoke. After it was all over there was an investi- gation. Little Eddie was the first witness. " IIow did the house get on fire, Eddie ?' asked papa. W ny, papa," he said, as his big, dark eyes filled with tears, " I is sorry, but I did it with my bonfire," For a moment papa wished he owned a hosowhip, but love and admiration for his truthful little man prevailed, and with a half -stilted sob of joy he°aught Eddie in his arms and kissed him, " Yes," said papa afterward, in telling h story, " I suppose you will say I ought have whipped the little rascal, but the fact is, sir, I didn't have the heart. No amount of money could have hired me to have done so. Punish them? Oh, yes ; I sunt Eddie and Oliflie to bed without their suppers, but after that my loam relented and I sent them each a slice of bread. No, 1 don't believe in 011eollragtng such mischievousness, but I do believe in plating a High premium on truth." LATE CABLE NEWS. Parnell Rumors -The Great Btrike on the Botch Railways --The New French. Protective Tarin, The air is full of rumps 1.1011 Mr, Parnell has decided to give up the fight, and, for a. time, at least, to retire from the .public gaze; but time Inc they are only rumors, and, moreover, they all originate from Tory awl Unionist 80111000, Neither in Dublin 1100111 Lotldun 111'0 1110 Irish loaders, trio) ought to )stow what le going on, able to guess how much truth there is in these per- sistent reports. The fourth week of 1110 great Scotch rail- way stt•ike ie drawing to a close, with no prospects of an early settlement, and con- siderable prospects of an attempt to beak up the movement by a huge strike of work- ers in outer trades. There is ominous talk to -day about what the dock laborers of Dundee will do on Monday, and the feder- ated trades of the North of England hold a the red and white of the slam will have. be- come blurred and mottled or overlaid with yellow sallowness, 1011011 perhaps there will be prese111 in the vacuous fact only " that divine smile which has lost the two front teeth ?" Let the pretty girl remember that in tho darkness of that mul(lle passage the beauty that she had before she entered it tvill not signify ; all faces eve in the dark together then, the girl that Wtla plain with the girl that was beautiful; the wreck of beauty signifies then no more than the wreck of what never was beauty. Itis the sweetvoico, the kindly manner, the burden of what is said; 111e tonder•heartedne0s of what is done, that tells with any effort then. It will not be long before she arrives at this time, which, in comparison to the blaze of youth, neigh- bors close en the dark and site will need then all with which eho can have filled her intellect aid fed her soul, all that wit and virtue° and breeding can have given her, in order to retrain anything of that kingdom to which in 1 he early (leas sho felt herself born by right divine. we might say a fossilized monument of God's truth, a religion with a glorious past record, but with little hope for. the future. Wo Jaws plod along the well -beaten tracks of our forefathers and magic no advance. What did all the elabor- ate ceremonial taw given to our forefathers mean? Was it simply 0 meaningless core- mony to be performed year after year? We think not. ltmust have certainly pointed to something to come. Then all through the prophets' time what do the prophets moan ? We modern Jews are apt to explain the pro- plias' ropllets' meaning to suit ourselves and place great reliance on what our rabbis say. But our forefathers (1111 net thinks°. They tither disbelieved the prophets or looked for the faltiliment of the prophets' predictions at some future time, but we Jews of tie present day do not look for the fulfillment of any- thing. Since the time of Christ there has not arisen among us one prophet to oppose Christ as and impostor, 10111011 Is now ever eighteen hnndredyears.Thisw'o cannotbutholievetobe circumstantial evidence that the law wasful- filled in Christ. Then one of our best author- ities, the Tar v010, applies part of Isaiah fifty-second and all of the fifty-third ellepter to the Messiah. So do our Pesekta and our ancient books, the Tanchnma and Siphre, all of which was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Then, again, Jos01111us speaks of Christ. Al- thoughsomocontondthatthopassagewherehe refers directly to Jesus, called the Christ, is spurious, yet we canna prove that it is not genuine. Tocitns, n little over a century after Christ's birth, and wholivod abort the time of Josephus, quotes it as true. In an- other place Jesepllus speaks of James, the brother of Jesus who was called Christ. This passage has not been pronouncedspuri- ous, se it is safe to accept it as positive evi- dence that Christ dict live on thlsearth, and was a well•lknoWn person in his time. In the year A. D, 64 the Emperor Nero ac- cused the Christians of firing Rome. This WAS less than fortyyearsaftorthe asoonsion, or rather the so-called ascension, of Christ, and quite a number of Christians were killed at the time. Very likely some of these Christians were Jews who had boon conver- ted to Christianity in.Judotand led gone to Rome to escape persecution, which was rag• Mg against the Christians in Judea. Per- haps some of them had seen Deno of the miracles reputed to have been dont by him, and if there had been 10 Christ it de netlike- ly that thorn would be people ready to die for their belief in a myth at so early a lite. The burning of Rome is al. undisputed feet, and there must have boon quite a number of Christians or they would not have been noticed by the 110111an pagans. It is 0. Gem. mon thing for us to say drat such a 90100111 as Jesus Christ did never exist, t hat 110 00(10 a myth, only a fable made up by some Greek writer, but what proof can we bring to prove that lie did not livo on this earth ?-while there ie very good evidence to prove that he did live, and that he cane just at the time when the Jewish nation worn looking for the promised Messiah. Concerning the death a l! reputed resurrect. Mon of Christ wo say nothing. If Christ was God, then bis death amounted to noth- ing, and his resurrection amounted to noth- ing, as God could leave Ilia earthly body and again assume it at pleasure, With the light of nearly two thousand years shining 010 19, simple assertion will not do : wo must Have proof. Now, we, as honest, free -think- ing men, admit that wo are in denbt, anry if any ono can prove that the Messiah 1sy to tome, wo should very acid1 like to Hoar from him. Mtavou Ronerer.IT, IMAM Possou, Mem Levu, Committee American Hebrew Email ink ora' Association. Bnooluxs, Deaombor 20, 1590, great mass meeting on Newcastle town. moor tomorrow, at which the project of s general strike will be dieeu0se(1. Secretary Tenwick and a number of labor members tf Parliament will be present with trades delegates from all the towns between Ber- wick and Hartlepool. Meanwhile fresh trouble has broken out at the London flocks, and things thea to be drifting rapidly into a universal tangle. It is already announced from Vienna that the Austrian wo9cmen intend making big demonstrations again on the lst of May, and we shall soon hear doubtless of a like demonstration throughout other European countries. It has net, however, created anything like the trepidation in financial and political circles which last May Day caused. Then the idea was nett', and timid people viewed it with dismay. Now every- body has measured, or thinks he has meas- ured, its true value, and takes the thing quietly. The new French protective tariff will not become a, law withoutloud and vehement op- position frorn the manfacturing towns where the proposed increase of duties on raw ma- terials will work great mischief. Long petitions aro being slimed against these duties itt all the industrial centres, and im- portant groups of manufacturers are said to have declared to the Ministry that if the bill is passed they will close their factories and start their business in England instead. This question is likely to swallow up all others 111 the legislative session begun this week. Plain Reoipes. Picrl,an CACLl'Low1:n.-Cut tho heads into small pieces, and soak a little ,'hide in cold water to drive out any insects width may be secreted in them ; then scald in salt• ed water until found by piercing to begin to get tender, then drain very dry and lay in wide -Hocked bottles. To 1 quart pure cider vinego r add 410 blespoonfuls ground mustard, having first mixed it smooth \vitt) cold vine- gar ; stir it in carefully to keep from boom- ing lumpy. Scald well., and when 00111 pour 10 over the cauliflower, close the bottles with corks 18(0(1 seal with wax or wax and moll'. Small beans, onions and cucumbers and nes- turiumis can be pickled mixed in with the cauliflower. Ous'ranm.-'Lhreo or four eggs, one quart of milk, two tablespoons of cornstarch and four heaping tablespoons of sager. Beat whites and yolks separately just as you do for any batter -cake, Beat or mix in the sugar and cornstarch with the yolks smooth. ly, but do notpour this in the milk until -it (the milk) has come to a boil when it must bo stirred constantly until it has begun to thicken, which it will only do slightly. As soon as it is done (this you can easily find out by tasting, and if not done, the starch will have 0 raw taste) pour in the w•11itee which should be beat to a stilt' froth and stir up and down alittle while, then poi' in your ouatord bowl and sot ib away to cool. It is well to make it the evening before, ee it will be thoroughly cold by the next thy, for itis nutoh butter ttau when warm. Just before you take it oft' the fire aeeso11 with any seasoning you prefer, but my preference is for tither lemon or vanilla. Oman Cauca.. -Two eggs, oto -half a cup of sugar, two table:Teens of told water, one- half a teaspoon of lemon extract, throe - quarters of a cup of flour, a8 little grated nutmeg, one teaspoon of baking -powder; mix thoroughly Ind bald in two round calci pans ; fill with one cup of cream whipped stiff and flavored to taste. Y1114010 0/800/81(0 P1014411. -Take four largo heads of nice white cabbage, one dozen largo onions, one dozen green poppers, and out them up together with a sharp !knife, not too fine. Hold the peppers will a for while tutting to avoid the smarting thou content gives. Sprinkle well with salt and lot ft eland twenty-four home, and then drain all the juice ort and throw it away. Boil together a gallon of vinegar, three cups of brown sugar, ono 0(111100 of turmeric, 0110 ounce of celery stud, half au Dunt° of all. spice, half an 0111100 of whi10 mustard seed, half an oml00 of white ginger. Put the cabbage, onions and peppers in a stent jar and pour the boiling vinegM( over them. In this, as in all other pickles, if the spiced vinegar does not clover the vegotabloo, fill up with plain. Over $300,000 worth of French bonbons aro•exported to Constantinople yearly for the ladies of the Turkish harems. Tho difference between the suooesful mem of the world and the sueeossful godly man in these respects 110, that the ono only speaks of hie ((luck," the other sees the hand of God in ordering all spelt things for his bonie- fit.- ,Pegfessee /3laibio. The Boy Miohael Angelo. One afternoon the Duke Lorenzo do Med. lei in walking through the garden came upon young Michael Angelo, who was busy chiseling his first piece of sculpture, says AlexanderBleick iuthe January Si ,Zf'rltcfas, The fluke saw in the stone the !woof a faun, which the boy was copying from an an - thane mask, but which, with his usual im- patianue of imitation, he was changing so as to show the open lips and teeth, 1 How i3 it," said the duke, drawing closer, that you have given your ' faun a complete sot of 100111 ? Don't you know that such an old follow was sure to have lost some of them 7 Michael Angelo at once saw the justioo of ti(e criticism. Artists aro not talw•ays really to receive adverse comment. 1111011ae1 An- gelo himself was quick-tempered and hard to move. Ahot word to one of hisboy 001n- ptani0ns o11 a certain occasion brought s0 ge- ms a blow in the 11100 tlmb 1111 truthful portraits of Miohacl Angelo have since had to show 1 int with a broken nose. But tie duke's eribicism was !kindly given, and we 0 plainly warranted, and the young soulpt1 r could hardly with; until the cake walked c n before beginning the correction. When the duke saw the `tail's fact again he found some of the tenth gone and the empty seek - eta skillfully chiseled out. Delighted with this evidence of the lad's willingness to seize and act upon a sugges- tion, and impressed anew by Ilia arttetie skill, the duke made inquiries, learned that Michael Angola 11ac1 borrowed steno had tools e11 hie own account in his eagerness to begin sculpture (ito was at first sot at draw- ing from the statuary), and ended by send- ing for the boy's father, The result of the consultation was that the duke took Michael Angelo under his own 0pecielp11atronage and rotection, and was so well -pleased after he !lad (10100 11111,1100 favor seemed toe groat to bestow. upon 1110 energetic young artist f3 Michael Angelo, then only 15 not only re Michael a key to the Gtardan of Sculpture, slid at apartment in the Medici palace Itself, but had attachment grow ftp 1 etween tIsdiehfmItao1 Kane WAitM.--Rose TerryCookeo I seri ( If you want to be happy p warm. Woman are eaten up with neuralgia, say the doctors, No wonder. They sib all the Inot ing by o hot register and then tie the five e1' ex -inch strip of bonnet over their back hair, t bit of lace film over their bangs, put on kid boots, With silk or thread stook_ lugs nndernea?th, and dawdle along the p maul With bitter wilds of winter smiting Utak temples, their delicate mot, their throats (011(1 the beams of what should be their brain. Thole outward neves ehroomo,tk and 130 t quiver under this barbarous p no mater ; thole °hosts are well covered with fur cloal(0 anud oaeques, but cold feet, the numb ears, the reddened temples, the ox osed nook will ha'e choir own 0L0t'y to toll. WIBBLET$. Russian loans aro to bo issued in future at 3 per cent. The City of Almosa,' Colorado, was almost destroyed by fire yesterday. There is a smallpox 000100 at Savannah, Go., live cases being reported there. A %smiler despatch received at Berlin says that Ba'otl Wissnla n has shown signs of insanity. Europe is still suffering from extreme cold and furious storms, traffic both on land and sea being blocked in many places. McLachlan Bros., the extensive dry goods firm of Montreal, are financially embarras- sed, but are expected to pull through. Two doctors in Nantes, France, have tried with apparent success the experiment of in- jecting the blood. of a goat into the veins of consumptives. Judgments were given in several cases by the Supreme and Exchequer Courts at Otta- wa yesterday. The Quebec rock slide claims were thrown out by the latter. Private despatches received in Paris state thatAnarohists have caused several dyna- mite explosions in Leghorn, apparently with. a view to cause a peak and securing an opportunity to pillage. Merely, llfaroly a smile from a wmmon, Yob, that smile 1 know foil well 11'lolmal o 0in 1y liflV(changeful sweetness Merely a nleslh of golden hair, 14ntrapping-a foolish heart ri Who playedso wall herwise part. clt Merely It pair of bright, bio ayes, Where truth appearedto shine Truby lipss WItteh lovingly clung Co mint. Merely "yes!" falsely uttered Wllieh costlier mat 6°l1, le say, Yet it made the peer Sear1(l -_.---1h0happiness ofa 31 AMerelreysoomeworda fe (10,1' Merely astron8 mats agony, Merely a Wasted lift. N, I,Anotinn. A Man who don't know 1001011 at 1lonio learns very fast when )1e travolb. He Worried About It. "Tho son's heat will give out In ten million years more," And ho worried about it ; "1t will sure give out then, if it doesn't before." And be worried about it ; It would surely gBive out, so the aciontists said in all scientldcrat boolke that he rood, And the whole mighty universe then would bo aoad. And be worried abaut it; " Anel some day the earth will fall into the bull, And ho worried about it "Just as sure, and ns straight, as if shot from a gun," And ho worried about It ; "When strong gravitation unba0kles her strops lust picture:" ho said, "what a fearful col- lapset It will come in a Sow million ages, perhaps," And Ile worried about it. "Tho earth will become =oh too small far the race," And ho worried about it ; "When we'll paw And thirty dollars an inch for para Anethe worried about it ; "Tho earth will be crowded so much without doubt; Thal; there'll �tbe no room for one's tongue to s And 10 100m far one's thoughts to wander Omit," And ho worried about it. "Tho Gulf Straam.will curve, and ()anode -grow torriaor " And be worried abort it; " Than was ever the climate of southernmost Florida: And bo worried about it, "Tho leo crop will be knocked into small smithereens, And oroeodiles Week up otlrmoWing 1na01111105 And w'e'll luso our tine craps of potatoes and beans,' he worried about it. "And in less than ten thousand years there's no doubt' And 110 worried about it ; " Oar supply- of hlntbor and coal will give out," And Ito worried about it ; "Just then the 100 Age wlll roturn told and raw, Frozen mon will stand stiff with arms out - strata cal in awe, As it vainly beseeoiltng a general thaw," And he worried about tt lI:e wife took didn washing 1''ry about it; taS'1. Ills daughter sewed shirts,: the rude grocer to nth, Ito didn't worry about it, While his wife boat her tireless rub -a -dub -dub On the washboard drum in her old wooden. tub, 110 sat by the stove and ho just let hor rub, He didn't worry aboutit. s, W. boss, A Wonderful Parisian Moak. Another marvelous 111010 of mechanism, recently exhibited in 'Paris, is described by an exchange, It is an oighty-day clock, which chinos the quarters, plays .16 tines, playing three tunes 0000y hour, or at any Interval t'equired, by simply touching a. spring. Tho hands go as follows: One once a minute, one once alt hoar 0)10 owe a week, one once a Month, and 0110 01100 0 year. It shows the moon's ago 1 rising and setting of the sun, the time of higit end logy tido, beside showing half -ebb and half.fiood, Aenvious devine represents the water, show. tog ships at high-water tido as if they wore in motion : and, as it recedes, loaves then Itigll enc. dl•y on the sands. The elook shows the hour of the clay, the day of the week, Die day of the month and Cha month of the yens. The mechanism is so arranged sato stake its own provisions for long and sheet menthe toga IIt,also'shetvs• the signs of the xodlae qteo Melt and the difference between sun Arid railroad time for every flay in the year, Aphorisms. Nothing is more simple than greatltess.; m,be decd to simple is to be great. --[Emyr- P s011. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on elf -examination. [Mencius. The next bust thing to being Witty one's self, is to bo able to quote another's wit.--- [Devoe. It is bettor to !vent out that to rust out. -[Bishop Horne. foxes Yorkshire, Eng., isbeing overrutlby , tllevorml g vermin bent rendered most'itbda0ioua , by the.sovority of the winteis.