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The Brussels Post, 1891-3-27, Page 6TF1; BRUSSELS POST. 'Y;kj ri !1 l� L) t .a tirl\f Y E;JL.k',LT, WISE AND FOOLISH' VIRGINS, Our lamps aro gone out."-3fatt, sant tr. A great attempt has been made to repro. seut this parable as describing different de• green of grime rather than the vital dillerence between true and false Chastities. On this supposition, the point lies in the vividnese ten. or of the sleep in which the wise shared Han when he finds himself, for the first time, with the foolish. We ntuet britig all t his In the 'memento of 51 Jiving, 1(111 s minting, home now 1 and to do so we must adapt the and proselytizing infidelity, demands of ]lila figure, a reason for the faith that is in him, and " Our lamps are going out "—that is, it is quick to descry the weakness, and the shed. a critical moment. Each day, indeed, is e, lowness, end the confusion which alone am crisie--each day is a trial, which is the snake answer to it, challenge. OM 1 if I could 'leaning of crisis—eaoh day is a jndgutent, say then ; 'This and that thou hest against which is the meaning of erisis--for each one. me, I know -touch that is substantial in "Ilis eyes beheld, His eyelids cry the chic• the thing,s that are seen, much that is tt• or dullness of the expectancy with win -11 Oren of men," There le not a 1l11y of which expected, 011,1 much that is n.saileble in the different Cduistians n15'ait (he SeMU!(1 aclt'ant we are not fighting decisive battles, n' else revelation of the invisible, many things in of Christ and- the glories that shall follow. running away front thea(. Each word spok• scripture heal to !a+ understood ; some things The exclusion spoken of in the parnble trill en is the result of a choice, There is just whieb, not raven mono, but eoesciencefrets then be a temporary, not a final, exelueion ; tune, before the lips open, to choose and re- under as unaccountable, Vet there is One an exelueion, pet haps, as they would say, Ella, No word is so idle but It either coo. therein svho satlefies all my wants, heals all from the triumphs of the millennial reign t denhtts or justitiss, \\'o eeleet n•ur,ls w'lren we my intirntitiee, and forgives all my sins, I not from the final blessedness of the slants might baro chasm aetiens, h0enuse words, know hint with 11 personal knowledge, mid in fight, as our Lord teaches its, even more than nets, though Ile hides Iliuiself, yet 1 can trust Chose who take a different view of the come straight eidl'litre((, out of 111e tre8e0l'e, Iii10, Not, if all argument were against millennium itself cannot be expected to or evil, which is the beset of the nunsm aHim that haau logic can state or human adopt an interpretation which ,rests , ones' ,‘7,071 a are u,ways deciding between two differ, rhetoric can embellish, not even then would au earthly reign of Christ awlHislean ,le ens or two opposite kinds, both of speee1 I give Hint up, For these so man)' years I Eat, rind of ron,luet, and the erisis or deeteien, have served Irina has comforted Inc in preparatory tnthe last aarsumnatioLl lin indeed, a simple and natural treatment of , ten e , is in this sense our own, is, in another Burrow, strru}thenal me in my weakness, tha langua'o and imagery 01 the parable is sense, God's aper ns. We decide, and Goad and in that shield of a conscious experience, utterly iucunsistent wail such an arableris judges, every hour; anal the hour is the true to the reveler ion which I read of Min Wiens " Five of them were wise and nye t nen, 011,1 in some schr0, the epitome of : in the Bible. I find myself aide to quench all were fooish." "Afterwards came also the the erisis which is the life, the fiery darts of the wicked, Amid other virgins, sarin:+. Lard- Lord, open to THE 51x1510 (011111 IN ''11111. 011101'5. 00111111g11'a!'1<da and diseolvltag elements,thio, if I could say it, still aright I lift up my head, For leek of this personal answer, this wit. peas of the spirit, this evidence front within corresponding to the evidence known and rend of all men, of litres s,u:etified foul deaths comforted by the faith of Josue—for lack of this personal answer 1 l•0wee and flee before the blasphemer, even beeause I cannot Fay the word, " I believe, and therefore speak,' us, But He answered and said, \tartly, i But there is a crisis within the erisis, verily, I say unto yen, I know }-nit not," It 'There aro days and days, ho111•s htnl hours, rs the very expression of another pnssnge, moments and moments. l'rubably the busy which admitsof no two applications. "\When luemor • of nun of us never snore b a PP .3 Y ery once the master of rho house is risen up and than m God's hoose, recalls periods, very -bath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand : brief periods of tate life, which have been without, and to knock at the door, saying, 1 turning points of tate being, almost cons• is Lord, Lord, open unto us ; and He shell ' eiously sometimes we have Ind to settle for I answer and say unto you, I knew not whence; ourselves of what colour and complexion the ' ye are ; then shall ye begin to say, \Ve 1'nve � ('est of the life should be, of what colour and eaten and drunk in Thy presence, and Then complexiay certainly, 53 to its occupation bast taught it our streets. But Ito shall I and c:r,-o,11steece ; bat perhaps even moral. say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye I la, Perhaps even religiously, as towards Cod are ; depart froth :'le, all ye w,.racrs of int. , and man, perhnpa even eteually, as u1 the quity." , i )review of hell or heaver.. 'Cl:cre are moll I' w-tsr" •55'L " 0:0!.1:11." i deei,.1o1 $ Before the east ,rent sin, midst. The parable before its is of the same gru• , tae $ret groat retack of the 11,11,:ei, at p,,rti- erai intention its the parables, for exantp;e, eular entreeteice deny nd:lig a " Yes 17 or of the Tares and of the Watling l:aru,en:, : "Nu" o; truth or falsehood, 11. 10 nn exeggo. All speak of the preserve ei true ata false, : rattan to say that the sealer at sur h am S real and nominal, within the Gospel King••' are (navaI05 before res, and we have to doe—though each has its own special point i throw into me 01' Mar the other the very life which it shares with no other. The point ; of the life. " at midnight there wits 0 cry of the present. parable lies in the word., ' made," ted we rims( go out to meet il, " wise" and',knish.. The word for ",rise" i It re then that we make discore'ies. The is not that which stands in the tirc-ek fur hi' lamp is in the hand—the lamp of Christian. telleetual wisdom. It is, indeed, 581(11er of ! 1ly, as the national religion 1 --of Christian. the two words combined in our Lot•d's soy. 1 ity as the frafth in which we were born, in ing, "Thou bast hid these things from the 1 virtue of which we have taken part in many wise and p,rlalr-.af," where " wise and intelli-' seh•riees, fur which see can give manvplausi- gent" would in strictness perhaps be tile true I hie reasons, from whi:h it ,voted sleets u0 rendering. The wisdom here spoken of is a 1 to be told that we should ever openly epoe• practical, not intellectual, „Lesion,. The tatize. The lamp is in the huncl, the lamp thud verse gives the reason for the worts 7 of creels and forms, of a general impression "wise" and ' foolish" in the second : "fora of the truth of the Gospel, and a general ex - the foolish took their lamps aid took no oil ; pectation of death, judgment, sad eternity, with them, but the wise took oil in their; But now, on a auricle'', the limp is wanted vessels with humps." The wisdom specified 1 for use, the moment is come. It will melte is that of prudence or providence, shown in % lite whole difference whether the lamp is making provision for all contingencies—in I 1 r gilt or dim, whsther it is trimmed 00 neg- this instance, for the possibility of long delay j lected, whether it is going out er shining in the arrival of the even:, or the person 1 clearly, If it is only the lamp that I waited for. There was expectation in all I brought out with me at the beginning, the ten ; there was p:or:denee only in halfutterly regardless of the time at h might of them. I th be kept waiting, slutnly taking it for gt•ant- coa:vOs SLCS1BER, ed that it would held out through the What is the most remarkable, there was necessary period, whatever that might be, drowsiness, there was even slumber, in the it will not avail ale f:r this midnight cry case of all, and no express blame is attached and this sudden waking. " Improvidence" to it. It is a beautiful illustration, I think, is my description. "drive of them were not only of our Lo't's naturalness in teach- wise and five were foolish, for they took no ing, but also of one Lord's merciful/leas In oil with them." Now it shall be seen that allowing for nature. He who knew rho sleep to be of any use, the Gospel must have been of fatigue, He (0110 onus in the emelt of the made my own by a sort of forethought elements which terrified His companions was and providence quite different from that Himself " in • he hinder part of the ehip assuming and presuming of its truth w Mich asleep on a pillow," makes it not the point brings a man to church and keeps a man for rebttkoin this parable, that long watch• from blaspheming ; quite different from the ing, even in spiritual things, brings with it being a Christian because I was born so, or drowsiness, and that weariness, even in because every one oroend the is so, or, for spiritual things, will sometimes fall 011 sleep, the less honest reason still, L0501180 I am The wise and the rnwise are here alike and afraid to inquire anti unwilling to know. equal in this respect, Tho difference is PRIME5 CE Is PROVIDENCE, atrengly marked between them, but it lies 13retliren, prndmmee, not in the cold un- -neither in the 4xpeetnney eo the one hand, lovely sense of caution, 1111 In the grand 01" nor in the drowsiness on the other, It liee re i+inn n which in the providence and the improvidence 1 ` f 1nf It " prudence " fs the contrac. which had lnwdeornotmade oration for ton, meek once" is a special grace, and p P it is the grata of which this parable tells. unforeseen contingencies, and for distresses The prospect before each t h 1 and necessities growing out of them, e 1 o tet (0 r, to goes forth to his work and to his labour, the w- alla POINT or errs PARABLE. silent before each one -when he looks out, in Commentators who think it their duty to the morning of life, upon the day of which • interpret each figure of a parable, even death is the evening, 10 a long as well as a where oar Lord himself has not done so for varied 7r0Bpect t and he has to consider how us, find considerable difficulty in this pro. he shell lest out through, if that were all, vision of oil, knowing that, as it teas of old that protracted hour of a wearisome waiting, with the manna, so 1t is always will the Will the Gospel light last one through this supply of God's grace, that it is for the day long day ? Has it the permanence, has it now running Its course, and cannot be kept the copiousness, has it the adaptability ' over till the morrow. We shall not try to which the three score and ten, or four score spiritualize each particular of the imagery. years, with all their varieties of youth and It is enough for tis to catch the point of the age, of toil and resting, of joy and grief, of parable, and we cannot err in declaring it companionship and solitude, of temptation to be the enforcement of that greaser spirit- and weakness, will demand of it if it is to ual pr0vieian and providence, which lays see me through them? It will do this on its ace0ttut for every sort and kind of emee. one condition alone—that is, grasped betimes gency, and which, even while it sleeps, as the revelation of a Perste, not as the de. keeps the heart waking, so that it need finition of a thing. If it bring me into lir- never be afraid of any surprise from earth, ing sympathy, into loving communion with heaven, or hell—nay, even when the last One who has me in His constant keeping, call cones, and comes suddenly, shall only and is concerned to be to me ell that I need have to rise and trine its lamp, secure of the for safety, for comfort, for everlasting needful supply, secure of the open door mud blessedness. then indeed I shall have not the abundant entrance. only the lamp of a temporary brightness, It is not so with the improvident five, but with the oil of aperpetunl replenisbing; They have shared the expectation, they not only a system of doctrine and worship have shared the protracted watching, of which I can read in a book, or share with a their comrades, and the latter have shared society of living, dying men, but a faith, with them the natural drowsiness and and a hope, and a love, which I ann give slumber of the delay, The contrast is seen whole and undivided, give without idolatry, not in the sleep, but in waking from sleep. and know that I shall not be ashamed, to While the provident sleepers have but to One who was before time and inhabiteth rise and trim their lamps, the work of a eternity, One who loves with an everlasting few moments, and abundantly provided for love, and saves with an everlasting Salva• by the supply of oil inthe vessels taken Sion. with the lamps, they wake to find the lamp This is what is meant by the grace of expiring, and to become oonscious of the Prudence when Jesus Christ throws upon it fatal ofteet of a shortsightedness which it is the light of His Gospel. This foresight, this i too late to repair, " Our lamps are going Prevision of the immense, the infinite future, lout"—tvhshoe now can we replenish them ? this surrender of the whole man to Goll, on In their embarrassment they make (villi. the basis of the Father, the Saviour, the r cation to the wise, " Give us of your oil". Comforter, revealedin the Gospel ; the But the supply which is sufficient leaves determination to live and to die In tails an iuc'ease, the Marengo being respectively 7 nothing aver ; and the only possible is now Personal foal(, is the taking of the a, 0 and 1. There port calls attention to the 3 the desperate counsel to ' go and buy." oil with the lamps, which snakes open air preaching in the Queen's Park on Meanwhile the door is shut, toned the en. and which is the diflerenocbetween the folly Sundays in the eaminor tieie, denominates TAE GREAT 't•FS'01xu TIME. " Ourlamps are going oat," There is a clay before eaoh one of ns which, if reason end thoneht bo rentinned to it, must try to the 111101111Wthe tirmuess end constancy 013he 111101. IL is a (lay with which long year:. 01 participationin tele services of the Church, its 1111151,1 and viand, its reading and preaching. have tart a feint and distant c011. nectinn. The mention of death in the etas of the liviul; le bat n tentative and eanjecte. rat rnentien ; speither and hearer alike feel it to be $o ; and we may well suppose that when we come to die the experience itself will be utterly unlike anything predicted or anticipated concerning it ; nay, that we shall find then, for the first time, is there either reality to ns, or substance, or meaning, in the carne. But can lire 1100 all feel already these three things. 'First, tint it must require solething very teal to give us any help whatever in venturing that step into the invisible. Secondly, that it can be only by miracle if we find help or that reality in anything then for the first time apprehended, And thirdly, that of all non - les that must be the greatest which should vont 'itself then in the cry " My lamp is go- ing out." To feel that we have walked all in a vain shadow. calling Christ, Lord, yet never knowing Him, and never doing any one thing because of Him ; worshipping we know not whet because ne5erstirring up ourselves" (as a prophet has written) 'to lay hold upon Hint." How terrible 1 To have to turn then to the bystanders, and say, " Give me of your oil," and to receive the otilypossible answer, "Go and buy." To have to be reminded of the dying robber and the marvellous tgraoe vouchsafed to Him, though the cannot, ignore the fact that his ease and ours are diametrically opposite in every antecedent and in every circumstance of the spiritual state. To have to summon all the expiring energies of the failing bears, to turn, if it might be so, into sudden real- ity talose words of entreaty which Lave been drained of all virtue by a long 10:1 tog of themin vain. How terrible ! 1' there not motive as well as swain the l h•.ught? Shall we not try while the life be yet strong in ns to mean that prayer :shish:shishis (nighty with Goll and prevails ? Convictions in Bigamy Cases. The great majority of Canadians, while they have no desire to dlsc0nre •e any of their fellow -citizens on marriage bent, pro sided no legal imneclimeet stands in the w -ay, have a decided objection to a plan assaying to become the head of two house. and holds at one al the sante time, And yet as our law stands et present, it is not an easy matter to bring to ,justice the man who refuses to be satisfied with the love of one fair daughter of Eve. Chief McKinnon of the Hamilton polite, has drawn attention ro the difficulty experienced in securing eon (1Ot10118171 bigamy 08080 when the pret•ious or subsequent marriage has taken place in !England, the united States m' other foreign 0Ottntry. Tile ditlieulty arises from the expense and trouble that recurs in securing proof of the original or subsequent marriage, to establish which it in necessary that an eye -witness of the ceremony shall give viva vows testimony in our courts as to the Lana fide character of the marriage. The ditiiculty is obvious, Mr. McKinnon suggests, and there does not see", to be any good reason why the change should not be made, that our lacy be siunplifod so es t0 admit the evidence of these witnesses being taken under- a commission and the testimony tilos obtained being accepted by aur courts. Deoreeee of Cr;me. The minuet report of Chief Grasett, of the Toronto Police, though not absolutely satisfactory (for this will not be until alt crime shall be done away) does nevertheless furnish cense for considerable gratification, The report shows that crime in general, notably offences of a se011118 nature, has de- creased during the year. Compared with 18519 the burglaries were 11) less it: 1131)0,high- way robberies, 10 loss, larcenies 11 less, and us miscellaneous 50 less, In hoe breaking, and ll horse stealing,thero was treaty for late entrance is mat by the cold 1 and stern repulse, " Verily, I say unto you, I I know you not." ) I1aparable ever read heel/zoom Spontane. 7 misty into its designed lesson; and if it is so wits h th evilera 1 import., ort, cm'tnhnlY i0 is so with the grf beef ctanso which 1 hhasL n eo real to h iia a9 the text, u Our lamps aro lam rane out," or, las tho Revised Version rightlyy gives it, {with the margin of the Authorized, " Our of the foolish in the parable and the wisdom ft a public scandal, all lghc mmenda that of the wise, This providence will make you d001(10d action bo taken by 1110 authorities independent of the passing snood, of the in order that thee° seliceustittted expen- varying spirits, of the changing woo m.• eats of religion, atheism, temperance, total stances, of the many false alarms, of the long abstinence, free speech, etc., who practically waiting, and I oonlrol th t the hope often deferred. u aril on S 1 c < rel. r nuns d, For 1110 not h P P 1 Y' Y it builds not 011 the shifting sand of feeling, Pm mi tLed to inflict t their notions, 7107(111 on the impregnable rook of truth—it tadroe 11T0(their fellow-citizen/3 wlm Qesr e never counted itself anything, lou only to take adtantnge of this 1loalthfnl and knew in Whom it had halievecl A SONE OP MAD REVEL The Carnival as iVitnel£e:( in Al'egu Pero, 'rBt Scuola Is Otte fur the -'11'lktr..t 5 ere Fet4nns Itonflulrbments Milne teat Carried on—Xs Out ttespectrd, Should a stranger, ntntennainte,l with carnival cueedus of Pere, eheow to or Ili Arequipa daring that curliest nut reach carousal of the year, he would think whole vitt' lied gone Orn y, writes Fanny \\'ard. The railway 00:111on is situate, the suburbs, a mile or two from the )lot and—there being neither public nor prig rarriuges—he must walk that distame, ride up in the Iterations. Either way we be bad enough during carnival time,` but latter presents the advantage ofealuew shortening his misery, As prisoner's an Fevegee erre sometimes complied to run ganutlet of blows !'(tined upon them w thorns, cudgels, tiro hraiels 01' spear poi: those abroad in Porn honing the 111050 d preceding Ash Wednea,iiy 1(05 pelted w egg shells hurled froru all points of the eo pass. neerolin (('fell ln•CaETo or nLoon•lt wA'rxn. thrown from balconies and house t covered writ: 110110 colored in all the hues the rainbow ; and besides these it/digita are liable to have their noses tweaked, th hate jammed over their ears, and a 11101155 tricks and jokes perpetrated 117011 them a jeering crowd of elu'uival creature strange attire, many of them with hoo ]tarns, and forked tailed, who look like man?, imps direct from the infernal 100�1011 To breve a roalizin" some of this lal:ugc The End of the Dream. Dying I who says I'm miring f Come here, 001110 close to the bed. i.a Look etme—don't speak In whispers -there's n•orse 1(1851105(51 to dread, I'm weak, but that la 1110 p8111 ; and oh, this fluttering breath I But' wee often the 541110 before, it50re:3' 10 net r;ts death, arty none, the eu'lnln n 11111e; It rani he know, For 1 heard the bulla ring noontime s<' re(l-', the hour ago, rive Why are you here alone 1 "Cis passing,trangs, lost Indeed, the If there 1 none but 3'olt to tend me In any end. 1! dent, sorest need. I in Only rt year Filter I came Isere. n prom'. and hap. p}• bt•lrte. e1s, Seormeg for you all eta) on earth—yo-(, end In 'ate heaven, hostile or False re, the faith o(nty [Lahore, my child. old hood's hb•ascd (11lth, the And all for the she•t•lived levo of a 111101—and 0010 lite and Is death. hat is this ta,t-ri toned harvest toe bitter for your 01,4 reaping, the That you stand 11ke a very' woman, wringing ith your taunts 1,111 weeping 1 its You love the 1 tt'ouid I had never listened to lover's vow ! tit What 1s your lore t0 me, 11 it cannot hole me ith now. ni• Pray? Do you bill mo pray/ A seemly counsel, 50, an Snorer pt•nyer I eh, net tor etc 1 !lo you know what It is to die 1 Do you know my rending pain, this shill, fact - gathering 811,0011 I ops, Or my helpless, despernt0 feat' of the judgment of and tin: doom 1 fes Mock me not with your teal's 1 Oh, leave me 1 car don't 3'nn see 113 flow I yearn for the light, and all the while 1, yon are keeping the light from me 1 ii The 1tarp that ire callundsing hl ;hie ewfttl 01111(10• dl50. fs, 01,, lo,:, lost )'pars, when I craved no light but so the baneful light of )our0Yes I s. i , sport"—s-)like that between the boyscind hark, to the rushing of w•hlgs 1 011. shapes of the frogs -1 he reader nhny tntag'nc the prin. tvha1,o oent',lehn,lc'of 1110, tint y0 (row•d ('ip01 stints of a city lacked with maskers ern Ind nip bad3 bent on merry mischict—people 011 the payor Closer, rinse, 1 0 Goa t Dat in train 1 cry to menta, balconies and housetops excited tothee.the highest pitch of reckless fun, with pre• Lvov as 1 forsook thee Mist then forsake 11 1110. cedeut and Custom to uphold their wildestIfixruentsu. ELn: xtnc C001041 Y. excesses ; while not only the most staid and dignified citizens, bat mischievous shall boys, children and servants are priviie�i to Some Claions Words.. sling water, ad libitum, upon any. ''herq ' Varlet' is the same teed ns 'valet,' and is 110 1180 getting angry, however ale pitefnl- each is an oiTslhoot of the feudal 'vassal.' 13' used, for one cannot tight a whole city- ' Rotten row',' the famous London street, full ; and nothing delights the belllger- ents more than to get a hold of a victim who rages and wants to whip the crowd. A nol'rit•A\n•Tl•3IIlLlt TIME begins in earnest on Sunday, when, till the eve of Ash et ednesdny, the streets are trans. formed into a perfect pandemonium, and no Indy dares venture out between 10 .e. M. and 5 in the afternoon, The people are about evenly divided into besieged and besiegers. Thoseinside thehouse, including all females, have prepared barrels, bathtubs and tanks of water colored rubyred ;while the prino- pal weapons of the belligerents aro eggs, emptied of their original contents through a small hole in one end, refilled with red water. flour or powder, and carefully sealed up again with cloth or paper, These are celled eases relies. THE ItESI0CEn ,AND L'ERIE(1ERB. The great endeavor of the men in the streets is to force an entrance into the houses, and of those inside to ]seep them out, 'Every situp is closed, every door locked and windows barred, and most of the balconies are partially protected by canvas curtains, behind which the besieged may (lodge when too closely pressed. The lords of creation conte on foot and on horse• back, in groups, in battalions and singly, to bombard 101 th ages the cases of their lady friends, who return the fire with interest from their housetops and balconies ; and the gentle senorita considers herself most highly complimented when the greatest number of eggs smash squarely in her ince. The emi- nently "swell" thing is to go around on horseback, closely followed by it servant, also on hot se, carrying a big basket of eggs. A comparatively recent innovation in the way of water•lbrowing is the use of onor• mous tin syringes, or squirt -guns, by which a considerable strewn may be sent some dis- tance with great force. The mon endeavor IT every mems, forcible and strategic, to gain entrance to the houses, They bring Insiders and climb to the balconies, or "shine up " convenient pillars, or 000 like oats from roof to roof and chop down into inner courtyards, or, failing in every other methoch a number will retreat a few yards, then, starting together on a min, as if stohm- inga battery, will actually )tick or push a door from its fastenings, T1i10 DON'T 1.An1 h>olt ESPE50151. Once inside, the mischief that may be ac- complished in a few minutes is terrific, the highly excitable people becoming perfectly reckless. Sometimes the bescig0(1 or the beset ers turn the hose loose, full head, in the dining room or parlor, till the whole premises look like the few houses that re• mained standing after the,lohrs!own flood. The woven fly, shrieking, to Lille them- selves, closely pursued by the leen ; and woe betide one who is caught, be ells the most dignified senora or the belle of last night's ball 1 Her male friends and admirers drag her to the nearest water -spout, tank or bath. tub, and nearly drown her ; they pour dip- pers or water clown her back, sprinkle flour and pink powder in her 11011 and cover her with petfuniery. Sometimes the women combine to overpower someunfortunato elan, wham they carry' bodily and plump into the tank, clucking him repeatedly and often holding him under venter beyond the point of safety. It should bo mentinnerl that the carnival cantons differ greatly in the veri0us come, tries of South America, and even in tam different cities of Yeru, those of Lina, the more refined capital, being less rude that those of interior villages, In most places little or no \enter is thrown, but perfumery, flowers, finely -cut tissue paper, colored powder and flour instead. 1 em writing particularly of the Arequipa, minaret ivel, all of which Isaw and part of which I was, a Pall ao W InaIl 50 a e T1 l' g' Many Y yat(rs agoa brisk. (lbri• ade was ca'rte'l *want retreat on a Sunday afternoon, 001 betweet <liflbreht ports on the P)oit1c 1 'lamps are going ollt," This expresses fat' 1)11.10 011)155':', r, 110ye1d question many Clti%e11a will egret, la)1[1 tillmnlla 111 th0 papJ)cr 1,t: 111555 (ilpt. Imoro vividly, far more tooicliingly, am exact " (Jur lamps 1004 min oat," It is the ex• witls t his reoemnendatiou, neap those she Morse, of the Alnulodu, while on the tslaud Icrisis intended— (114 utter extinction has reeding bitter r.ry r the improvident Ch1'is• nvoua s 11'11 t4 infringe upon the logttitnatu one day expressed arlesh•u to procure a tiger, 'tot taken place bat must tante place before 11011 when lie finds 1 • if f t f its restart and libarte1 of thrift' le 11 WS.and the Rajah willingly consented to fur- char'not used ono recalls ' la route du riri (the king's passage way.) ' Dandelion' is ' dent de lion' (th llon's tooth), and ' vine a:" was once ' vi aigra' (sour wine). ' :Maclame' is ' my laky,' 11111 'sir' has leen extracted from the Latin '501110:" through the French(. 'Biscuit' keeps alive tl:e Latin ' bis 00010s' (twice cooked), and a verdict is simply a 'serum dictum' (true saying). - An 'earl' was an ' elder' in the primitive society while ' pope' is the satne as ' pap' and " kaiser' is a ' mom" ' 11000)' was once a respectable ' housewife' ; a ' knave' was simply a ' boy'—the German ' knabe' of to clay --and a 'attain' was In the first place merely a ' captive.' ' Jimmy' is a retnini• stance of the classical adjuration.' ' 0 Gem- ini,' used by the Romans when they called upon the twins Castor and Pollux, to help them. A ' nincont707' was originally a person of sound n» nd (non oompos menti), and an assassin' a member of the sect of the ' As- sassins' (founded by Hassan ben Sabah in 1000). This order derived its name either from that of its founder or from that of the intoxicating drug (hasheesch), usually taken by theta selected to carry out his commands in the way of 'removing' any person or per- sons obnoxious to him, MABcII 27,1 R91., .fiels'nse Su k','lcs Jor 8'gear's—Re- stol^ecf to l4'ife(t Health. 1,0w pruple lave suffered more Srvera17 from dsepepsln then ,\p•, 1:, A. Ttr'3lahon, 1t tell known grocer or S11111111 011. Vo, 510 sups: " 1ieful'n 15101 troy 11) excellent health, (neigh• lug over See pounds, 1n that year an minima developed Into e'mo dyspepsia, rued soon 1 was reduced to 102 pounds, suurrhng burning sensations In the stomach, 6°G 1'slJdtn(fon of Ilia fem't, , 5" naasca, (11(11 ludlgostlon. T could net sleep, lust all heart 1u my work, had ass of lne:nucllnlla, and fur :1 iy,, to a time 1 would have u'eloumed deuih, 1 bcr::ne morose, sullen e:d Irritable, MIS for 035(11 ye.1:') I:f' tees e i laden, 1 tried many 1 bysiclaus and I nmy 1,110 dies, One day a workman employed by we .u!'r„sled that I tnito te liaoet's Sarsnpa-8 'lila, ns !t had uttering cured ed hf, Y wi e o f r let 3 10p sin. 1 d1d so, nod before taking the whole of a bottle I hcl5mi to 11,01 IIk0 a caw 110111, 'fho tenet le (mho: to 0vh5,1t 1 Ind been subjected, ceased, the p;tipitulteu of t1.o ilea'( subsided, my snrneh hoenu,e cock'', naus0a dlsap, pclrp(I, 1511,1 n1y entire system begun to (rem ape With returning strength came netivily 0f mind mud hotly. Scfrre the fifth betide tints tnkcn I het regained my former weight and nS11005l condition. I an today well and 1 ascribe !t to taking f'ood's Sarsaparilla.” 7, 13, If you <lcc'Ide to tante Bond's Sarsa- parilla du t:i,t be induced to buy any other. ears S ,..drynn ��.5�, �nyy `14aW ��:•parilla Sold any net druggists. 5t; 51,1 for 85. Prepared only ty C.I. I100D ,e CO., Apotl,ecnrles, Lowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dollar The Effect of As'senio. • The men who mine nrsonia in the copper n districts of Cornwell, England, aro paid very liberally, indeed, lint cannot get any insur- ance on their lives, and if they don't quit after a brief spoil of work, their wives be- come widows. Yet, in Europe, especially in Switzer! and and Austria, children poei Lively suck arsenic and thrive oil it butter than Canadian children do on candy, and that the men chew it, is an established fact, says an exchange. In the European districts where the arsenic abounds the men are powerful and the women red.cheeked and robust. A Big Owl. For over a fortnight people living in the neighborhood of Staintiurn_\ioor, about two miles from Workington, have been !much concerned alma a strange tied, The gen. erel impression of all who sale it was that it was an eagle. On various occasions sports- men and others have trioti to get within range of the ltuae bird, but this was not ac- complished until the other evening, when William Bacon, gamekeeper to Mr. Gordon Falcon of Stainburn, managed to get within gunshot and fired. A few stray pellets etrnck the wing of the bird and broke it, and after desperate attempt to keep flying the creature fell to the ground. Tho gamekeeper's retriever rushed up to t11e quarry. With one blow of its immense claw, the bird split open the dog's nose and severely lacerated the side of its head. The dog, however, stuck to the bird till the keeper arrived. After a severe struggle the the bh•d yielded, and it can now be seen alivo at the keeper's house, It has turned out to be a monster moss owl. It measures 11 feet 0 inches (rpm tip to tip of the wings ; bead, body and legs are in proportion. Its plumage is a rich glossy golden color, end covers its body entirely, even down to the tips of its huge 010ws. Why an Biephant's Neck is ,Short, The reason of the shortness of the ole phint's neek is, that the head of the animal is so heavy that were it placed itt the end of a nook of a length proportionate to the di. mensions of that organ in other animals, an almost incalculable amount of Inueeilla5force w cold the necessary to elevate and enstein it, The almost total absence of a 110015 obviates th0 difficulty, and the trunk servos as a substitute. The usos and advantages of a twig neck, peculiarly exemplified in the gi•nfra, which contains only the 081110 number of vertebral artinulations as in the elephant, aro in the latter supplied by the trunk o' proboscis, by which he is enabled to carry foots to his mouth and to drink by suction. This bilious omen contains a vast number of small muscles variously interlaced, is eetronely flexible, endowed with the most exquisito sensibility, and the utmost diver- sity of motion, end compensate. tangly for the absence of 1a long nock. —•—•—.ata A Funeral at Mi(lnight. The eccentric request of a 21e. Dyott, nit Englishman e pf 'r m all' C n tv s time, .that his s funeral she < take oleo t! con midnight, n l n] 1 has led to the adaption of the practice by his family,all the members ten 01.1 of which h w o have since died being buried at that hone, The atest of these funerals, which aro said to attract great crowds, too)( place recently 1» iclillcld, 1'legland, when Colonel Richard Ilynt, for fifteen years a member of parlia- ment, -n marled n r icd ant 1 • Ln , ' nual. J:I 1 The crowds W0113 sin c ptyi,n7Tlenae--1(tleast liftOan hntta d 1 i att pooplo tv incasing the procession hi01), headed by t( scorn of torchbeerves lowly passed along, of midnight fonerals talo that is fevoh:ale can be said. They ro utterly nut, of harmony with the snored hay of the bony, Few would desire to see I 7ractioo bacowe memoir, not ever, those who, moved by the novelty of the qhs, night be d pored to attend a mirth. o' novel for n• premose very similar to the w11ic)t of r. would load them om t0 witness a play or iston tea opera, porn, tint is, to be entertained, The English soldiers in the Soudan were appllotl watt St. Jacobs OIs. io feels ace r neon 1 b ninth one A pit wap he e a mat u i tha arrival I t I al of the supreme pmnn0ut•—ft is a great temptation, 'r 1 a t ml tall m, feels how ler stronger �,n••--••--.-- (11„1(1( for a bait, but the esperhnort failed. t 'just the agony of the flying, not the sullen fa 010 pllWor of the evil then anytlieg Mixt eight 1a woman (tees tied ton tree, and tv stillness of the dead, which he hits to sat against it. In vain, he A Pretty Work Box, Our lanes are gain;; 0111," A seem. says to himhele in van .11 that intellectual elemc lager o in o, short time m t1ic r'a growl was fright, s lienal Ilan (night bo made of the spaying, Int assent, turd all that. formal worship (3111!11(1 I and ec, ve„ 1 awork o (room make st�1op tell b40110 110 woman sh helped r agony the b f fright. 1 we want to let it sink town quietly into the nm+ined 1 n bo the beginningand ,n • 'I 111ant work Lay, , out t, a item r • Noon the growling cr ler r st feral the bush and a t <h r„ of Tull ed hent e' cop, Ole+ of soft, 5111:31 norms with a•g,•owl)ng ptn•r struck tura went 1 a heart, It is a suitable snidest for la season . tn� n n , ,nfatrin eta tow whop it is lined with psis plait . dk and finished on blow with Ili,, paw. The w'an,an'0 skull was of quint reflo,tioT, for nit lour of holy 1 the head I/end with t.ho ine51(.eb1elittle bmv, sutarhed roll rtfter 1h:telling hie meal tis thought like this, "''Cine lamps aro going 01:5," W o need tviticlh in this ca:,e is net:Hutto that s0ons 010 a brute sant:, glutted to rho ground. Ono of 1 thotliopunctilious any longe'about the exact nantatuali0• 1 ] g din original meanie of the figure of the lamps �y .r ntl�tho figure of rho oil • of the r bgorn(,orito 1 th faith ' f ('I tone. heti the fere, are tin restraining blends of such a Christi utity, Real tenptatien to real sinning coeds sornet(dng real to cope with it. "Oil i 1 n the vassals with lamps," a s„ to m , p this its the oho thing n0crlfill, 11111 this one thing I lack. "Our lamps aro going out," It is the ex• aeecling bitter cry of the improvident Chris - sum qua non 50 a amnia:i ,, d ' r ' t.' • r •1 ' 'Theca rests h p L ,y its awn wo)ghL couvonianL• ly Open oil 1( w01.15 table and forme It really capacious 0101 snfopookot forapools, thimbles and odds and ends, while the soft exterior offers an attractive needle eusltion, the <a ,tors plied a cord and the tier appeared into the pit, The animal was sold to the captain for 009, who resold tttobrute at (:lenoa for 4750 to the (manager of a air. ens. A foto clays late' tite lager ate its peeper and was shot by the man's widow, ,net, and of the arrival of the bridegroom ; if the expootatlon that was common tc the s During the winter the hen may be dila• tory, but she generally cornea to the scratch when the garden is planted. 66 1.14.01.111111111. en an 99 For Coughs & Colds. John P. Jones, Edom,'I`ex.,writes: I have used German Syrup for the past six years, for Sore Throat, Cough, Colds, Pains in the Chest and Lungs, and let me say to any- one wanting such a medicine— German Syrup is the best. B.W. Baldwin, Carnesville,Tenn., writes; I have used your German Syrup in my family, and find it the best medicine I ever tried for coughs and colds. I recommend it to every- one for these troubles. R. Schmaihausen, Druggist, of Charleston,111.,writes : After trying scores of prescriptions and prepara- tions I had on my files and shelves, without relief for a very severe cold, which had settled on my lungs, I tried your German Syrup. It gave me immediate relief and a perma- nent cure. 0 0 G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury, Now Jersey, U. S. Ar. A Great Financier, Mabel—Well, I've concluded to mare M. ''ightiist+. Y Mildred—Why, I thought you hated him, 011 I do, but he is bound to be very rich some day. He has suoh a grasp of finance. What gives yon that impression ? Why, he invited me to go to churoh last night, and coming home we took a car, though lie wanted to walla bout ways. Well, when the conductor came a'Onnd loo said t "How unfortunate 1 I find I have nothing mailer than a dollar bill, Have you any hatge?" So 1 paidthe fares. m+mrm„meeawasc: arum.1q,.moaaa...,,.....,...m.,,-.g, e t nt 1 r 4e, ��ynt ppW�I EiB'{i. 1.tsniti/h -ru mw�ML f{ , tea i 1 .E1 lfil ct: A'riJ i i1�' r _ . �i Ii ' rr pp 111 r 0101tUcnal:m .1 4v CURES F4RMANENTL.b''' `4 tllw .Q• cb es `a to y f'r ',, ft F,('� t�"11} ra.. int' 1 t,avhur air I ate'" 1 �t+!1t1 J �Jj�a ��. se y ....dt H/&S. J q PJ o � QUA �� Loa 111-1E ban'.