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The Brussels Post, 1891-3-13, Page 2TIE BRUSSELS POST. ALARM 1.3; 1891 ,..„"„....,,,,,,,,,...,,,,,,,,T.m?,,,,t,rryonr,orko,o,,,,,,,,,,,rmogiry!,,,r,Flors000ffs0mosossmoonfofosisspossfes2021,20301412020.01.1,OfOOSSiOarfOOrF2020210,?;22026.012OffM410.11fitONOSION.rtu.O_Sseri0010r410.00,0412030:111220dttISFAM1111012110021NOOOOffq ItTIGET OP SORIWW. Wbe First Stage et our tortoo tournt•o- ti) the gross. ffnUntin 1101300. Beek go the long centuries, and the pest is pretent. The clturell walls geow dim and fell away. Above us is the sky of Syria ; we tread the seared earth which the blessed feet of Christ have teethed. It is night. The Paschal moon is shining. 'The lest supper is just ended. The Master, taking upon Him the office of a servant, has washed the feet of His disciples. One of you," He two said in bitter sorrow, "shall bethey Me." Judas has gone out into the daa•kness, and the door is slant, The sacra- ment of everlasting remembrathe has been instituted. "This is My body which is given for you." " This is bay blood which a shod for you and for many for the re- mistion of tons," Christ boa spoken long end lovingly. "Peace I leave with you, My peace I gtve unto you. Not aa the work givoth, give I unto you." The conse- cration prayer has followed. The sacrifice is ready for the eltar of the cross. "And wben the had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives," The hymn was the appointed ending of the Pas- chal Feast, and we know what the words of it were. It was taken from the book of Psalms, "The snaree of death compassed one round about, and the pains of hell got hold upon me. I shall find trouble and heavin, 4s, pool I will call upon the naxne of the Lot d. 0, Lunt, I beseech Thee, de. liver in- soul." The Lord is on my side. 1 wiill not fear what men death unto me" " Thou host thrust sore at me that I might fall, but the Lord was my help." "God is the Lord, who hath showed us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, yea, oven to the horns of the altar." So they go out into the night with darkness in their hearts, pondering these words. There are lights in the houses as they pass; within are cheerful companies joyfully keep. ing their pleasant feast. The streets are empty, and the footsteps of the little °ono pany echo as they pass. Out of the north gate os they go, and proceed " into a low- ly pert of the Valley of the Black Kedron, et thatthason swelled. into a winter torrent" Over the bridge the road leads toward Olivet; Beside the base of the mountain is a garden. There olive trees, old, gnarled and twisted, growing even to -day in that little garden, which have sprung no doubt out of the old roots. We can still stand where Jesus stood. 11 was a favorite place with the MaSter. Ile went there often with the Apostles when He wanted to he alone. There, again and agtin, they hod held sweet converse to- gether; there He had spoken His blessed words of help and they, lying on the ground in the shade of the trees, had listened. There Christ had gone to pray. Judas knew that very well. He knew that he Gould find his master here. As they go Christ speaks a word of warn- ing. All ye shall be offended because of this night ; for it is written, I will smite 0(3 shepherd and the sheep shall be scatter- ed," They cannot understand it. Peter soys : "Although all shall he offended, yet will not I." And Jesus answers, looking into the black hours which must pass before the morning, "Verily say unto thee, that Ibis day, even in this nieht, before the cock crows tivice, thou shalt deny me thrice." But Peter is stillconfident. "He spoke the more vehemeatly : If I should die with Theo I will not deny Thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all." And theyall believed it with their whole heats. So easy is it to 130 brave when danger lies still afar off! So easy is it to he loyal when no trial tempts to dis- loyalty 1 So easy is it to look with blind eyes into our own seals 1 So they came into the garden. All is still. The moon shines overhead ; the lights of the city glimmer in the distance '• the murmur of the river, and the rustle of the wind in the breeches of the olive troessound in the ears of the little company. All seems ideally peaceful. Only a dire dread and fore- boding is nt their hearts. Something is going to happen. It is the prophetic quiet which signifies some approaching danger. They know not what it is. ' Sit ye here," says the Moster to the dim oiPles, "while I shallpray_." He takes Peter andJamesandJohn with Him, thethreein the apostolic company who are spiritually near- est to Him, whose souls are most in accord with His soul; thew three He takes, and S068 on a little space, that He may pray, And then that myeteriout terror falls upon Him. "He began to be sorrowful." "Ile began to be sore amazed." Darker ancl dark- er grows the blackness about his soul. "My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death," Re says. Even the presences of those neuxest ones He must escOpe. He must meet the WOO alone. "Torry ye here and watch; and , He went forward rt little." Upon the ground He falls. The hour is come. Prayer after prayer, quick, appealing agonized, comes trent His lip& Father, if it be poesible, let this cup pass from Me." Again and again the same petition, coming out from beneath the the- dow now and again, and seeking some corm fort—but in vain—from the presenee of His disciples, and then going bask again, falling on His face, praying always the same prayer. "Nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt," We atand with the Apostles afar off, even with those who waited by the gate, with atilt hearts, dimly conscious 01 800(0 e tupend. oue spiritual struggle going on, and yet away -on the outside of it. That is so often true of the sorrows whiah meet us along the /nth of our acquaintance. We stand beside this friend with the bowed head. and tear- ful eyes, and heart stricken and affiliated, and we say our words of sympathy and love and comfort as best we may, And we long to enter into that bitter grief with some kind of effectual sympathy and comfort, and are simply oonsceoutt of our own inability. We are away ofebeeide the gate, watching, and not even watching very well ; preying, but with heavy eyea, and distracted heart8. But here is the totem of sorrows. Hen is sweat like great blood -drops, for tears ; here is this exthedingly bitter ory, "the most bitter cry that aan over break from a human heart," and we are so far away 1 It its all so mysterious, so distant from our un- derstanding. Somehow- it 133 for no that the Maater suffers, but we behold Him as the little child sees his mother's tears; not know. ing whet it means. Before this Agony of Christ we can only statid with hushed and reverent hearts, The burden of It world's sin Iles upon Ile only of all who hatre lived upno thil /mai sees the sin of man and the heart pi Nod, just ae they are. Ancl the sight crushes ffini to the ground. Somehow Ile ie th take hie grievous burden of our sin opal His ovn eltoulders- He ie to gond in onr place. We allo like shoop, have gone aetray,two ave turned 0V01000to Mil olvn Way, and the Lord heth laid on 11110 the inimlity'ef tie ell," Three times bag Obristhoine to the Aisne- tiobeb ties, to Peter andjoanes and Johri, Ond times has routed them /duping.- 170W'the biro° of Watching is otter. They may steep 00 Low, if they will. That mull service which their sympothetio watchfulness might have rendered to the Master, that little glom of comfort whith their wakeful sten. petty might have giveu 1/I11) who lity prone on Ilia face in the hltork shedow of Gala aemene hi' to longer possible, Arterwatel they 1110y 10010 blink With inexpisesible regyet and with they had kept thew deed eyes open, but all regrets will be unavailing. 2:13e thence bus 3100' gone by. It belongs, like all missed opportunities, to the irreparable past. "His up," He says, " let us be gollott" " Behold, the hour is at hand, oucl the Son of Men is betrayed into the hands of sinners." "Bo - hold, he is at heed that doth betray ale," And mvey down along the wool, earths the Kthron bridge, they hear the sound of trampling feet'etul the discord of many voioes, and the gleam of torches shinee among the trees. A crowd comes, part of them soldiers item the Roman Governor, part of them servants from the high priest's house, p011 01 theni curious idlers gathered from the streets. They have been first, per - hops, to the home where the large upper room was, out of which Judas had hurried on his shameful errand. But the house was empty. The garden ab the foot of Olivet was the next place, and so they ootne, Judas at the head. Hero is Christ • about, Hint stand the Apostles, some of tlism, like Peter, inspired with a rash and ill-considered bohlness, others meditatiog ilight. Io comes the traitor through the gateway of the garden, the red glimmer of the torches mingling; with the silver radiances of the moon. Which 10 11(0 prophet of Nazareth ? 1x this little company of silent tnen, confronting this noisy and disordered rabble, which is He 1 Judas will tell them. Ife has given them a sign. He Ints considered everything and planned it al/ out. " Whomsoever I shall kiss, the same is he; take him and hold him feet." So he advances, the others following, clubs and staves in their clenched hands, and approach- ing his Master he says, " Hail, Master g, and Jomssosmxn, Christ titters no word of inclmnation. "Judas," He says, "betrayeat thou the Son of Man with kiss 1" AncloDulas, what says he, -what thinks he No word he utters ; there is no answer either on his tips or in his heart. The deed is done, and there 18 310 undoing it. But oh, that it had never been done! Oh, that the shameful thing had never been thOught of Judas, Ibelieve, would have given all his life that minute to have taken back that traitorous kiss. The face (Ouch Peter saw before the night was over, and whose look drove himoot into the darkness to bitter weeping,trudas saw, too. And there was the sante love in it and grief intermingled. Judas looked into the face of Christ, and there was no more peace upon this earth for Judas after that. But it is done. The traitor's deed has gone where all things good and evil go, into the irreparable past. Jesus advances to the crowd of servants and soldiers. " Whom seek- ye'?" He asks. " Jesus of Nazareth," they &newer. "1 ant He." Back sways the crowd. The boldest beats retreat. Christ, -whom no little timid child was ever afraid of, to whom men sick e.nd sinfal cried for help, recognizing the face of a friend, and whom that hate band of Syr- ian fishermen and peasants, the closer twelve, loved with all their hearts—Ohrieti had thet about His face which filled limn with awe, too. Many times the Apostles hesitated to ask Him some anxious ques- tion, many times His enemies, against whom Ile stood as one 111511 against a muttitude durst notlift their hands against Hitn. In the flickering light of the torches the rough soldiers belie/d Him, anti a sudden fear came upon their hearts. "They wont backward, and fell to the groutel 1" Judas among them. But this is their hour and the power or darkness. 'The Master yields Himself. Pater essays as ill-considered help( Stone unknown beholder wrapt in a garment ef white linen wines near to see, aad the sot. diers chase him away into the night. Ropes are bound about the howls of Jesus—those blessed hands, laid so often and so tenderly upon the sick and the afflicted 1 Awitymoves the company out of the gate of the garden. All the disciples have forsaken Him and fled. Christ is left alone. So ends the first stage of the Saviour's journey to the close. THE WORLD'S GREATEST CATARACT 0(50 1Vo5sderful Falls In Labrador That Only Two White Men !lave Seen. 'The interior of Lobrador undoubtedly is the largest unexplored at•ea on this contim wt. Up the Grand River, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Hamilton Inlet, are the Grand Falls, which, if everything is true about them that is reported, are the most stupendous falls in the world. They are only about 160 notes up the river, but only two white ,rnetx have ever seen them, Mr, R. Holme, three years ago,went from England to visit the Grand Falls. He or- ganized a little party to oscompany him in- land, and arrived within about fifty miles of the falls, when he was et:Impelled to re- turn on account 01 1118 failure of his provi- sions. The Labrador Indians say these fells aro haunted, and they carefully avoid them, believing that they will die if they look upon them. The two white men who hove seen them are Mr. Maclean, who, as he was as - °ending the river, in 1830, WU stopped by the falls and Mr. Kennedy, who over thirty years ago had charge of Hudson Bay post in Labrador. Mr. Holme says the heightof the falls is not oertainly known, but, in sorne respects, there is little doubt that they, are the greatest in the world. Though 3nner Labrador is so inadequately known, we aro aware that it is a vest tableland whose lim- its are quite elearly defined. In the south- east the descent from the tableland is quite sudden, and almost immediately after feat, ing the plateau a level is reached that is vcry little above that ofthesoa, The Grand Falls are the place where the Grand River tutnbles over the edge of this tableland, aed almost the whole of the great drop is effeeted in this oneclescont. Prof. Hind gives the height of this plateau as 2,240 feet Ib has been estimated that the region at the foot tif the falls is only 200 feet above sea level, and that, therefore,the waters of Grand River have a porpandithlar deseerit of tthout 2,000, feet. PEARLS OP TRUTH, Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket ; and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have ono, I [Lord Chesterfield - Imaginary ev Is soon bethme real ones by indulging our reflection upon thom ; 08 ho Who 111 melanabcdy fancy sees semothieg like it race upon the well can by ton or three arches of 5. penal' niche it look visible-- tSwift, No padlocks, holte or bars con theme a maiden as Well as hor own reserve.—teer- erodes.. How can we expect another to Itoop a secret if we cannot keep it ourselves 1— (Rochefoneauld, Thonght ogponds but larace ; notion animateelint narrhote .4(toothe. Look het to a wohiait's head for heg brodne, but tether to her heatt.--trnaliberton, DEPOPULATION or THANE, While 011ier Solleris Arc littercasing the &wenn, ere Dropping ow. It is somewhat startling to find that the depopulation ot Entice ia becoming cont. men oubjen of discumion among these -nem of chat weary, toys ecienee. The plume is perhapa somewhet ecru tgor than tht3 eirmun- !dances of the thee Warrant, the fasts being that tIto populotiels of Fromm simply Mat- ionary, Stitt It is a Striking SIlll significant eirountstantie that, whilo the populetion of- a'l the other greet European nattons is stead ily and rapidly advancing, that of France remains at astandt VII. On econoi»lo grountle this arrest' of increase innu m bar might, seem not altogether an Unlinked 0111, inasmuth as It should tend to ditninish overcornpetition, and to ease the already excessive struggle for existence among tho lower classen ; hut an impression widely prevent/ that, given; a rawly itnrmal and healthy sod - al condition, a growth of population is a natural Iseult, and that a Ma. stationary or declining popultition is 011 in. dex of some grave disorder of the body po- litic. 'We cannot adequately disouss this laz•ge and difficult question, but our French neighbors evidently think that something is amiss and are looking amend for the cause and for its remedy. Probably the causes are numerous and complex. Stolid habits may account for a good deal, The French custom of subdividing land and of provid- ing a dowry for aids offers an obvious mot- ive for keeping down t I:e number of children. In countries o here the peasantry have a cheap food supply, and are constitutionally averse to thrPt, large families are the rule ; but in France thrift is a virtue carried al- most to excess, and the obligotion of tho par- ents to provide for each now accession to the family is clearly recognized. Moral ceases have boon supposed to play a large part in the arrest of the population of France, and we are far from anderestimating their importance ; but this is a difficult 0,nd cle- Note problem, on whieh it would be rash to dogmatize without the most simple evidence. While some of the clauses of the phenomena, under discussion may be obscure and remote others lie under our oyes and can not be too carefully scrutlnized or too frankly acknow- ledged. In a recent address before the Academie de Medecine Dr. Brouardel drew attention to the abnormal mortality from small -pox and typhoid fever which prevails in France. He points tozzt that while Ger- many loses only 110 persons per 001111111 from small -pox France actually loses 14,000. Dr. Brouardel attributes this astounding difference to the rigid way 10 (0111015 vaccina- tion is enforced or Germany and to the carelessneas of his own countrymen in this matter. Statistics show that in 1860 when vaccination was not obligatory in Prussia, the mortality was 27 per 100,000 inhabit- ants. After vaccination VMS enforced the mortality fell in 1874 to 3.60 per 100,000, and in 1886 to 0,049. At the present tinie the mortality from this !cause. in France is 43 per 100,000. We make ts present of these figures of Dr. Brouarclel to the royal commission on vaceination. As regards typhoid fever, the deaths due to this disease in France amount to 03,000 per antuin. Dr. Brouradel gives a great variety of statistics to show that the liability to typhoid is in direct proportion to the im- perfections in the water supply, and that, in proportion as a sufficient supply of pure water is provided, typhoid abates TilltS at Vienna, the typhoid mortality was 200 per 100,000 while the inhabitants drank raw - face, hence often polluted, water; bat this mortality fell to 10 per 100,000 on a thor- oughly good supply bebop aide -Med. At Angouleme the introduction of a new sup- ply of pure water reduced the number of oases of typhoid in the proportion. 01 0.083 to 18. Al .Atniens, among the milli -my popu- lation the typhoid mortality fell front 111 per 10,000 to 7 when a pure supply of water was secured by artesian wells. At Rennes the inhabitants formerly drank froso eonta- minated wells, with the result, that typhoid fever was always epidemic. The introduc- tion of pnre water reduced the deaths from typhoid among the military population from 43 per 10,000 to2. Investigation& carried out at Besancon, Tours, Carcassonne, Paris, and Bordeau entirely con raborate the above strikiug figures. Typhoid fever iarespons- ible for the (loather one soldier in 330 in France, or 298 per 100,000, and this in time of peace, In war the revages ace even far greater. Thus the expeditionary ens to Tunis iu 1881, consisting of 20,002trien, had 4,500 cases of typhoid, with 8841 deaths. Dr. 13ronardel concludes by affirming that if vaccination and re-vaccinatiou were rem. dared obligatory in France, and if the towns were everywhere supplied with pore water, the country could save from 253,e00 10 00,000 lives annually, and these for the most part of young persons of marriageable age. Ile therefore proposet to the academy to adopt the following conclusions ; " That the sani- tary law in:preparation ought to render vac. oination obligatory ; it ought to furnish sof- ficient authority to the munthipalities or, in their admit, the prefect/allot government, to secure the public health against the dan- gers which result front using polluted Waterl In ie discussion which followed Dr. Brouardel's communication many important points were elieited, One speaker drew at- tention to the evils which arose from cheap lodgighoeses. Another insisted upon the superiority of eupplyiog pure water to any methods of filtration, At Augouleme filtra. tion VMS tried with scene advautage, but the provision of a pure supply proved much more suceesoful. WIIEBE COLUMBUS BEGAN. Plans For Ilreettng—A Monument At MS Starttng Point. When Christopher COIUMUUS 31540 leaving Spain in despair after the junta had pronounced his exploration scheme to bo vain and imprathatable," he halted at the monastery of La Rabida, neer Paine, to ask for bread for his boy Diego. There he poured his sorrows into the sympathetic ears of Juan Perez, who had been the Span( ish Queeh's confeeoor. The monk's influence at Court was still sufficient to regain the eitr of royalty for Columbus, and oth far from this spot, where his despair was changed to hope, the marvellous voyage of discovery was commenced in 1492. For thte monastery of Le Rabida, as we learn from our Maria correspondent, the Spanish Utnisters of the Colonies and Pub- lio Works, with Government onginects and architects, sot out, on Saturday evening, lvith the view of settling on the spot, plaits tor the oaisfng of a Statue to Columbna, for ro• storing the famous convent, and for prepor- ixlg for an American con. grew, and other projected ealobrotioos of the four hundredth anniversary of the great voyage of Cplumbus, The Spank& Govern- ment will provide the supplies by vote of the Cortes Ns year, 0m1 a grand 00111tnie. sion in ltladrid no actively pushing 1:110 gottization of this national oommemoration, Unfortzmately, the etate of health of the lineal doecendant of Columbus, the 13welfth Duke of Veragus, leaves little hope Diet he will be Odd to be preeent M the !Mirth cen- tenary celebration, " FARMING AS A TR,ADE," 0IIIICA'S REFORMING EMPEROR. rho Perinea( or the ;rafted, Stales WI a lien *50 (10!! li1)'"1" the 11.°"14's 3135(18te8' ails bare it Beton' Vulture Before Them. and In likely to Make Other Were ft 1010110 to be Wool of the farmers 111.11111110018. who are setiefied with their lot mid who be blsys that their calling ts AA profitable as that of the tnerehant aud of the proressionel man, there 41{1 be little (potion that the result woeld be that a large proportion of Ole sons of the soil would be foued touter. tainthe notion that theirs 15 0. hard lot, and that the profits of the eglicultutiste are a mere trifle \Men compared with those of the shopkeeper, the physician or the lowyer. But is this really so ? Not to argue from .xceptionel eases, let us look at the rank and file in the professions and mercantile call- ing& A few months ago the Toronto Nail discussed this question in en editorial en. titled, " Farming ash trade." In this article comparisons wero instituted between the tented homer, with a 100 acre farm for which he paid a rental of (1200.901 Sere, mid e shopkeeper and professional man respect. tively. It was shown in the comparison, in which the actual profits of a tenant farmer in the county of Victoria were token as the basis of coloulation, that in order to Neal the fariner's profits the storekeeper's gross profits after paying wages turd allowing for had debts, must he at least 8861 in case he lives over the store, and $1,101 where he lives away from the store; and that the professional mon's income must amonnt to $944 after paying- clerk's wages, if he has ono, and office expenses. Aocording to the Mad/ a reliable authority gives as his opinion ant. ronto storekeepers and lawyers, thet of the former only aliout one-third make money, one-third mkt, both ends meet, and tho re- maining third, on the average of years, lose. Of tho latter, it is estimated that one-third, 1. e., the least successful, do not draw more than $400 per annum from their profession. Nor does it appear that the physicians of the Queen City are any more prosperous. At least such it the inference 0210 is compelled 3.0 draw from the declarations made before the court of appeal O few weeks ago, when a considerable nem - bet' of the physicians of the oity, itho seem to be doing fairly well, protested that their income did not amount to $000 per annum. Compared with these figures the intelligent fanner will perceive that Isis position is one to be envied rather than despised. Ancl while farming is at present not tho leasb among the profitable callings, the pro- bability, nay certainty, is, that it win be- come more profitable as tire years go by. Touching the probabilities of agricultnre in the near futnre, Mr. 0. Wood Davis, of Tetsas, a practical farmer wh0 has by dili- gent study of the facts relating to agrient, ture become a highly respected authority on the question of the world's food supply, estimittes that in fifteen years the United States will be obliged th import grain to feed her people instead of, as now, export. ing a-nnually millions of bushels to other parts of the world. This conclusion is ar- rived at as follows : Mr. Davis begins bY showing that the cultivable lands of the United} States are eusaeptible of am increase or only 16 per cent. or 34,000,000 acres, of which not more than 0,000,000 acres can he devoted to wheat and rye. Now, according to the United States Department of Agri - where their domestic consumption of wheat reottiros an average annual acreage of 0.48 of an a, 515 1)11 capita. Estimating the po- palmier( of that country in 1890 at 00;500,• 00u, they needed for home consumption of Nrhont in that year 30,000,000 acts*. As - sliming that in 1906 the population wit/ amount to.90,000,000 they will require. 4.3,6. 000,000 ones of wheat, which is 200,00 acres more than th e acreage of last yew, pith the 5,000,000 additionel acres which Mr. Davis points out as availehlo for wheat and rye that is, should the expectation be realized in regard, to the population, and assenting the correctness oaf Mr, Davis estimate as to additionel vheat land available that country will reapfire to import in 1900 food effilicient to suppon nearly 500,000 of her, people. 'The bearing of all this on fart -flumes a trade on this continent is obvious. The formers of the United States will no doubt find them- selves. in better civeumstances than they are to -day. Bat especially will Canadian farm- ers profit by the growth 10 population of the nation to. the south. Whenale time shnll come Mutt e•ur neighbors must import instead of export, there is nothing more aer. tain than that the Canadian formers will be called upon to help make up their laok. Di* cussing this quetion the New York Sileo said recently "lo r311 the world there two but four countries which in 1900 can meet the additional demand from the United States, which will by that time become an importer of wheat. Those countries are Anstralio, Siberia, and La Plataregion, and British North America. In the first three countrieswheat production -will long be trammelled by the , paucity of oultivatom and the inadequate Means of transportation. In British North Americo, alone will these obstructions boa large and rapid increase of wheat production he removable, It is, therefore, to the epacieue 01,00, available for the growth of wheat and rye, that lies west of Hudson's Bay and north of our frontier, 10 1010101 both Europe and the United States must, fifteen years hence, look to make good most of the deficiency which will them exist in the production az compared with the eon. etimption of breadatuffs." HOW AN EARTHQUAKE PEELS. it manes Oue 'meaty Sick and CIIIIAOS Ab. jou Terror. To the average resident of the temperate zones an earthquake is a rare and terrible event, creating more consternation than ony other visitation of nature, In tho tropics, however, particularly in Central America, it is wonderful how easy the reaiclents be- come acoustomed to thew shooks, which do not aomo, however, wholly without warn- intou are sitting on a pima, of a hot after- noon, chatting with you' friends, when such donly the sky theme to grow hazy, tho 010175 stop sawing and the buzzards quit lighting in the street, There is a goners.' hush, and, though you may not know what is the mat-. tor, you Oft111101 help feeling uneasy. The all tinting say, "We are going to have a little shako," end then tho house be- gins to rook, the tumblers fall off the table, you feel demily kelt ot the stomach, mut the thing is all over, T110 sky °lours> the crows begin their noisy screams and the buzzarde resume their (mond over the street °filth 1 hero is something inexpressthly terrify. ing, however, about tho treinbIleg of the earth, The slightest oscillotion wil1 awaken Ole poptillition of the whole town, but uffiess some considerable damage is done, every- body goes to sleep again as (matter of course Etaf Pettnd te Sit& Abe-'-" Voll, I suppose jakey is klimbin' do golden stow, tn." Ikea" Does yer dith so, Ahoy 1" Abe—" Yes They " Ike —" Voll, don, wager clo poy fat enbromely bsabby, Ahoy, 'Doter vill neter id Isim off dem stairs, Ahoy, mirth" Orlt1SSItto.sOS'OtilltelOteteleerit1SextetttleetrOtortretlr SCIENCE ALL ALIVE., Buil tug the s,14014.7'. gioarnye; Refuge Ob --- The Mgt PSI :Arlen I fIr 22 I 01 J021 In 1 111. Wd orl e Successfully llstablisitcd. The meant to Mt. Itlano lifts alwets been re,gartled as one of the moot fatiguing 10 too O fist of Alpine climbs, Mato' tourints anxious 1 to make the trip hove been deterred by the 1hot thet there hoe been no refuge at the sum- . /nit ht which the Alpinist could rest before e rotrauing 115 51(70 Last summer J. Vallot, I a member of the li'reneh Alpine Club, con. 1' oohed the idea of conatructing mar the top e of the 111011111.11111 ft lnailling 3111011 C011111 120 I. mod both as a shelter and as a scientific ela t servatory. 1 W11011 \ anneal-m(1111s plan of build- ing II refuge on the summit the ideo was e laughed at It would be impossible, it • 511.1115 to eugago in any kind of work at such s an altitude, Ithe orminetor of the itleo ex - prettied his willingness to deinonsteate the moonset -nese of this belief, afe proceeded to pass tliree days mut three nights at the mountain top. During the daytime be busied 11(00011 with salon Witt observations ; at night he slept under a tent, The practicability of working at a high altitude had been proved, and Vallot received ahmulatt Resistance to carry his scheme into effect. Plots of a small etructure best a,lapted for withetaucling high winds were drawn, entl the building was constructed at Cham- ounix, The house was tIton taken aped, and each timber was marked properly so that the parts could be put together readily an the mountain top. One hundred guides volueteerecl their 5010100.0 to carry the parts of the building to the points fixed upon at the site. The dismantled structure 31(10 tied up into 111 loads, and the work of trans- portation was begun. It was a tedious undertaking, carrying the cumbersome pack- ages up the ascent, Three cloys were con- sumed in conveying each load to its destim Mien, The work commenced on June 15 and on July 31 the last section of the build lug and the lath of the ninety paukages of scientific instruments bad reached the site of the refuge obsez.vatory. Six days before the last date Vold selecttd five of the hardiest mountaineere s -s 10550(55 and carpenters,. and sot old for the mountain top to build the foundution. Two teuts were set up for the temporary shelter of the party. The temperature was rather low for sununer ; the mercury dropped to 9 below zero at night, and did not Ilse touch above zero atneon. 'The men were clothed III regulation Esquimaux mountain capes. The style of dress was not conducive to rapid work, bit tho men labored vigorously from 7 in the morning till 7 at night. In two days the foundation tVL413 completed, and on the third the frame work was in place in spite cf the persistent attempts of the wind to overthrow it. On the fourth clay the last plank was nailed on the roof and at night the workmen wore able to sleep in a. less windy chamber than their tent. The work, however, was extremely ex- hausting in the rare atmosphere. At the end of the- second day one of the men was dis- abled. Ho was given a few whiffs from the oxygen bag which alr. Vallott had taken the precaution to include in his supplies, and recovered sufficiently to start down the monotain. The following clay a second mountaineer was exhausted, and a third. weakened on the third day, Although the house was not entirely lin. ishea o0 the foul th clay it Ins thought in- advisable to remain longer on the tummit, especially as the weather had Inetone un• favorable'. All hands therefon, descended and took brief rest On Ang. 31 the party reascended the mountain, accomponied this time by Mr. Vellot's wife, an enthusiastie Alpiffist, The refuge was properly bowed with mammy, and the finishing toohtea wove added. Lightning rods were put in position, after which coloro tvere flung to the browse 10 celebrate the completion of the boildiug is divided into two apart- ments, ono designed foe the use of travel- lers, end the other for scientific observers, The latter room is a private compartment. The. pubtic room Is supplied with all the con- ventences waded by the tired tourist. Nine beds are placed in the room, and a supply of proviewne and of oil for light and fuel is always kept on hand, The olnervatot•y, which said to be the highest in the world,. is 14,350.feet above the sea level. It con- tains automatic registering devices and the moth approved appliances for making, salon. title observetions in high elevations. Peinbing To The, Read. Though my early home was very plain and toy father and mother were plain people they lived close up to God, and nobody ever doubted where they went when they died. Oht had a glorious starting and when I titbit: of the opportunities I lave had for usefulness'I ant amazed that I have dorte so little! It is with no feeling of can't that I express it, but with deep and unfeigned emo- tion before God, Oh, it is- a tremendous thing to stand in a pulpit,, or write In such a paper as this Journol and know that a great many people will be influenced by what you say or write concerning God, or the soul, or thseugprpetefuattinntrae1 asks of you the direction to a certain place, arid you, through cureless - nose, thoughtlessly tell him the way, and you hear after awhile thet he tot lost on the tnottntains, and went over the rooks and perithed. "111h," you 'will say, I will neva forgive myeelt that I didn't take more time tvith that man! It was my fault. If I had given him the right direction he woald have gone the right way." And, oh, the greater responsibility of standing in 141)111pit, or sitting in an editorial chair, and telling people Which is the rood to Heaven 1 Alas, if we tell them wrong The temptation is ao mighty in this day to smooth down the truth, and hush up the alarms of the Gospel, and pat men on the thoulder, end sieg thern oti clown toward the last plunge, and tell them they are all right Or, as the poet has put t— "Smooth clown the stubborn text to oaes And snugly keep damnation out of sight,' • Tlet &thee which 1005 published taut week erdet•ing arrengetnenta to he made for reeeiv- ing the design Ministers in. eudience in th litst 111001)ot next year, the auventeenth his Majesty's reign, will have been receive( with general eatlefactlon throughout th world. The solution of tho long•pending an( opparen 313' unnionageable question could no 'leech -hell a happier form, mid 11 11 were per missible tlednce from this oue act of tit Emperor an augury of the obaracter el reigf WO Sh011id bo tempted to $ay tliat, the sin of hope had arisen on this country. Th grantieg of audieme removea a slur whiel has vetted for thirty years on the foreign re prosentatives, and plaoes their roles -ions wig the highest ofithials in a lightidth wic a once clear ancl defensible, while it, at th same time, removes from tho imperiel path way a stumbling block of 111001131dengerou cite -rector, Widespread interest has 13een shown al ready ist the supposed idlosynamies of the young Emperor of China, which have lathe( to been wrappe(l up in palette witetery. Ho comes of a hardy moth, noted for indepond- thee of character, and his not very remote enoestors have evinced special curiosity in foreign matters, as well as considerable originality in stateeraft There is no ante- cedent reason, therefore, why hie Olitjesty should Dot take personal interest in the 04. fairs of the empire, externel as well as intern- al, nor why he should not find a certain satisfaction in cultivating triendlInese with foreign Ministers at his court, and thus a real revolution may be silently effected in the mode of conducting public heathen. The imperial power in China, hamper- ed and almost stifled as it is by concentric civoles of officials of every grade in thick array, seems to be impeded in ite admin- iatration by the very overgrowth of the ma- chinery which constitutes the instrument of Government. How 10 8000 an Emperor to break through these serried ranks ; how emancipate turnoff from the thraldom of one set without getting more hopelessly en. tangled in the toils or another? If there be anything in the notion to which we have repeatedly given publicity that the ex- clusi veness, the inso/ence, and even brutality of manner to which foreigners have been subjected are essentially the outcome of the Chinese nature combined with. 0/linen tradition, and etpeciolly Chinese ignorance, there ought to be a good hope of better things in gaining access to the peramt of the Manchu sovereign. The recent pnblio acts of the sovereign towhich we drew attention last monthappgar to be bet the prelude tcran imperial career in which the sovereign intends as his heroic contemporary, the German Emperor, has done, to take the robe of Gov- erment into his own hands ana rule accord.. ing to hisoonscienceand his own perceptions- Alany depreesing pietures of the future of this great empire Ilan occupied the columns of the Mimeo Times. We have honestly cast our eye to the north and south, to the east and west without diacovering any signs of the coming regeneration of the Govern- ment foul the Boatel system, and If, as we believe, some thorough regeneration is nem essery to the preservation of the empire, the outlook is anything lint encouraging. There seems to be but ono ray of hope, and that is 10 510 personal initiative of 11 sovereign res. °tete tool strong and with a long life before hirn in which to develophis reforms. It mey be that such attain. is now on the throne, and his proccedinge will he scanned with very eager intereet by both natives and for- eigners. The new relations.which have been estohlished hy imperial decree, and 10111011 noty open a door to the morose of a healthy living foreign influence, put tho Emperor in poesession of auxiliaries such as were not avoilable to any of his Majesty's predoces 013220. UNIQUE SUICIDDS, Some Orlsitita Ways or SlottlItim otr the Mortal Colt. The week met has been remarkable foi two unique suicides 30115 °Oa girl who disr seated herself tvith a cleaver; the other a man elm deliberately drowned himself by drink- ing fifteen glassaa of water. These are cer- tainly MOW ideas in the way of selfalestrue- Bon, zdthotIgh history reaorda 505130 very peculiar ones, among whichAnatehist Lingg's dynamite bomb in the mouth may I:execution ea, although that method has a precedent in Aleace, in which the suicide succeeded in blowing his head and the upper part of ha body completely away. The Parisian Jody who filled her room with flowers and smothered ; the Roman Judy who awallowed rod -bot coals ; the Enropean.gentleman who made hitnself a guillotme ; the miner at Rance= who filled hie mouth with gunpow- der and the soldier of the Bavarian artillery who loaded a cannon and find himself from the muzzle are ttll worthy of mention, but the Eoglishman in New Zealand must not be fort gotten, who haying quarreled with his wife. exploded a:dynamite carteidge in suck a manner that both his and her head qua blown to Moine ; nor the Kiug Falaha, who, being ettaoked by Mohammedans, and find- ing resistance naeless, caused powder to, be placed beneath his oaatle walla, and blew it, himaelf and everybody else in it out or' existence. Cettainly one of the most persistent oaths oh record, however, was that of the Suffolk, Englond, woman who fizst made a ring of gunpowder around herself and, findiog that unsuccessful, sat on a pail filled with the same material and touched linage ofr. The twit was not entirely eucceesful, to she fin- ished the job by haoking at her throat with o knife. Even the &month had their own idem on the subject, if we may aummon 00 proof Satnpson, who pulled the temple of Dagen down upon himself, and the Greeian philosopher, Empodocies, who jumped the muter of Mount Etna. " To Live Simply at children of God is to become aware of oer higher nature, and to be persuaded that, we are not made of poriahablo atuff—that we are something quite different from a fora. bitintion of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and emboli. Creation widens into it larger home, as a .eheery voice calls out, "In my Father's house are many Inemeions 1' This little world heightees as ono of the countslesso stars ; the horizon expands to Infinity; ths symbolism of boundless time and space lead mind and heort and faith at3d hope into a lairs place, as if a clear -seeing Guide hold us by the hand and Melted us forth to share that Presome which is fullness of joy and pleasure forevermore. Then wo no longer ooneetn ourselves bow long WO Si1111 I /IVO, 1111 11011, 3001 1. Ana 11011 we know how the clieelples felt when they recalled tho words of tho greet trorcrunnor, Where I am, 'there yo shall also s with my *gather and your Fathot, my Clod and your God. !" SettWeed ip neoe et, le inta a thee, Paper, whielt taken tamplace of winch)* gloss. When colored the olio, 110 elotrthr to satooto er painted eats, Some Ourione 'WOMB, " Varlet" is the same word ee " and oath is an offshoot of the feudal "vas. "Rotten Row," the famous London street, recalls " 10 1-01113 du mi.," (the Icing's panagoway), "Dandelion" is '‘doott clolion' (the lion's tooth), and " vinegar ",WRS 01100 "1114 WW1" (0011 wino). " Madame "is "my Indy," and "tit " has boon extracted from the Littin "meidor," through the French. " Biscuit " keeps alive the Lubin " Lis roe- tikv" ziovice cooked), encl a vevdiel3 is simply & "tierton diehon,", (true 0171110). An "ottrf" 1108 310 " older " the primitive seciety, While "pope 010 the same as " paptc," and 15 a " Cesar." "kluzgy " was onoe a rospootablo " housewife 1" a." knevo" was eimply a"boy "—the German "loath " of te- thty ; end 3.3;" caitiff " was in the fiest pleee Merely a " eaptive," " Jimminy "is a • re- miniseencti of the eleefticel coljeratien "0 Gentini,," used bythe Nomans when 'they milled upon tho twins, Castor and Pollux, try help them,