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The Brussels Post, 1891-5-29, Page 7la. AY ;29, 1891. rsuesionseeniessessassessnesseigtesewieseennons YOTING FOLKS, The Little Boy'S Valk. A tie hey Mein [011Mine, 1/00 01,41411n1 'fay ; 1 le enev a III I.:4. rabbit, Test iptieeft run away. Ire POW a shining river Ge winding 111 mei o it, .1/41111 Intie fl -hes in Its Vero darting' ell ahem. And slowly, slowly turnme. The greet ss heel ist the mill: And then he tall Memel) steeple, And little 0110ixel so stile Tee bridge 'thew the river, Ame oen he stopped to rest, ile saw AM bin the hushes A nee, brown sparenwts ne0t, 0 1 ‘vittelloci tho birdies Shove dm I ree top.; 11,V, lie saW the ;maids ',tang Acres, the Simon; r sky. 11 .eaw the Mee. ts playing, The newer,' the I.:misuser in Inge, Ile : " go telt inamina I've Fears so nuitly (hinge!" BU.N WI.N KLE'S ----- Some people seen( to t Mid( that rabbits have Very long 1,111.8 {Mt 110 1101. EVV1' 141100 1 can remember, which is about four weeks, I have hail long ease. ely mother and brothers and sisters all have long earls, and I do not see anything strange ithout them at all. 1 think il, very, fenny that, other people have fowl) :dent ears. Miriam ily HAI 1 ive in he genies We house in Teddy Winkle's book pied and sleep on vere, mart carpet thee, Teddy put in here one day when the house WaS being cleaned. When the servant came out to milk up the rugs and hit:go slits loeked 0, long, long time for something, bet Teddy stood right in front. of our house., So she didn't tee our nice new bed and We have it yet. There's luta of fun in being a rabbit, that ie if y011 ore a white one. Every ono says yon are pretty and have sn'elt nice eyes and soft white fur and people like to have you eat things on't of their hand. Some people I don't like at all. One little girl mune to see me yesterday and she stud she woeld like to have me 'for a muff next, Winter. I don't like snail pee- ple, 1/11(1 i I ant ever skinned for a muff I'll be a very cold one. I had a funny time the other morning. Teddy's niother let ine into his rOoin before he was awitke. I hoopoe] all corer Isis nice soft bed and then I thought I \afield play a joke on him, so I jumped 00 to the floor where his stockings were and crawled way into the too of one of thcne and coddled 1143,- sel f up into ft ball. Very eoon Teddy woke im and. jumped mit of bed. I -To took up the other stocking and drew it on and then took up my etockiitg and put his foot in until it touched my soft, white fur. " Ilello 1" said Teddy, " what's this V' and then lie &OW me out and we had a splemlid frolic on the hod. After that I went, to lireakfitst with hint and lie let me eat tint of his plate. I like Teddy. There ie a boy named Brown ever at the next house who is very bad. Ile said the other day that if he couldn't have a lopger tail and shorter oarsman Iliad, he wonldn't be a rabbit at all. 1 don't think that was very nice. 11 I can find 0. hole in 1110 fence some any rn spring thtough it 0041 bite the bark all MI his pear tree, just to pay hint for what he said. Mamma says my, tail is just as good as 01131 one ie the fluidly. To lie sure, it isn't very long, bet, no well-bred rabbit. weave a long tail now. I don't like cats very well, do you ? There is a eat that winos hero about eVery that they call Fatty Smith, end he looks as if he would like to Oat me, Ile came doWn and put his nose into our house 0110 day and mamma, told him he ought to go and Catch Mims inatead of disturbing us, so he went away ad in tt few moments he came out of the basement with a mouse in his mouth, Teddy has a very pretty sister Josie, and very of Len the brings us out- some (deo things to eat. tille wears e pretty white apron and a, neat little cap, and somehow or other 111100 lade bettor when she brings them I like Josie, too. Peddle is making a, tloWor gavden. He w ears the funniest old hitt you. ever saw, and When he hoes he digs up everything he has planted. Hu pUt some seeds into the ground a few days ago and he digs them ep every morning 1.0 see how they are.gething along. Then he puts thern back again 0101 waters t helli and lets the seeds grow for a foil ininutes. lie says there are persnips for us, but I ELM afraid it will be it loug time before We get them. Speaking of parsnips makes me hungry, so I think I'll step and see what there is for supper. Come and peep over the fence and seo me sometime. Good -by. BUNN y W1141:I.E. Perfect Imitation. The manufacture of areificial flowers has attained a perfection that is shnply astonish. ing. So cleverly is the natural flower imi- fated that, eta distance of a few feet, it is peastically impossible by the eye alone to distinguish the reel from the counterfeit. The best are still made in Paris, although the Americans are rapidly learning the art, end the faithfulness of the inanufeeturers copying nature is admiral°. A perfect, flower, of tho kind intended to be represent, ed, is taken, and every petal, siteunen, nis- i& and other portion is imitated with et scrupulous regited to tho original, both in color, size and shape, The materiel of the best grades of flowers is so thot the imi- tation looks nothing but the perfume to rival the natural flower, and in some very choice and expensive goods even pie perfume is supplied by small receptacles hidden in the stenut so that the purchaser, in buying Lb manuftustured flower, is making a better purchase than by inveeting in the original, for the menufactured flowers do noe fade, and retain their fragrance for weeks. The Easiest Thing in the Werld. ilrigge—" You and your wife seem to get along potty well, but wonld like to ask you question. When eh° oomos teasing around for it new cloak, how do yen manage to keep Iser in good humor?" Griggs—"Thales the easiest thing in the world, I always buy her the cloak." " noes the world move ?'1 cried the even golist pitesiouately. 16 does," murmured the sleepy iihnier m the back pow. " If it didn't, whore would the trnolt 'mittens be le Effootivo trimmings for an oveDieg dross are the jeweled butterflies that are sold. in sets, in lie used for the hair, shonldern, front of oorsage, and amid the drapery of the eltirts THE BRUSSELS POST, vol2040Z111.110326011141=11014011=1.131=11r1, nraustar‘.1=7-4;m1a-nr.0ow,-0q...e40;0:=Roomzumnrr,..rswacis*vapalanormalavorA011,20M10..W.1.1.1.0P11=1.10.01. WASTE OF EELIGIOTIb' FONDS In Iffeeend teget lie els smell. (1,1 No. 1 here ere forty-six Porteetant them in our lend that het% attained to the dignity of notice hi our 00o10811101.10141 ;tense% So far as theNe have been lased on doetrinal peettliarlt lee, they, have arhien from meddling with end fueling to the simple divine eon- etitution af the Church of fled. Nor ix this the (Went of tho evil of dividing the body of (Millet into separate and r1,0 hwumi. uhrim.imil Tho avn le eXtelided lar its the mune of Christ Is mash: known in the darker plaves ',1 the ettrtle a gut lute her wen tyttx issionitry argues lent one to make known the ono way and truth and life ; Ind is has; sty. eigh t and Chi na thirty -tithe, A 11 dile i I fitting and painful, when We flee the appoie eel etewatels of Christ divided into rival, eeelliothig, and supplanting enterprises, as if they were weirdly, mercen- ary ttgente for diffeeont and competing eon, tne rend houses, The titteueded Christian edifices, minis. tone and neeessary expenses connected, would. vastly exceed the most careful esti. mate, on any peosent ...tette It la Obeiotili that another evangelical church is not 110C - misery o. common iLy where already enough evangelical sittings eau be had by all Who desire them. And this is what we nuan by fin unneeded evangelical &lurch. lietteon• (Ode church distitnee is to be determined by neighborhuod usage in other matt eae A man can go as far for Christian won't( 013 lie mu, for family groceries. If 0, Chrittian is so sectarian that he cannot worship with an- other body of Christians, me sound ttiol good as he, he needs, not another meetingthouse, but more grace. As to this extra tax on the treasury of Christ to sustain sectariae or " war - sluts" an approximate estimate may he nunle. We all know personally many °burettes that, are meal, financial, and re. ligious impertinences. They wore bow in a hopeless imbecility and poverty, and live on cletrity. As religious enterprises they are failnres, ae business operations they are a reproach to business men, and as the 0NI- pononts of religion, or agenclee for Christ, they dishonor Mtn. We have in Massachusetts about 1 600 clumehee of the Congregational. Methodist, limptist, Presbyterian, and Episeopalien denominetions. All these preach the asine tenths of salvation. 'Amy of these churches are five, ten, and fifteen minutes apaet, and ate one-half, one•third, end one fifth filled with regular worshippers. Now, a railroad will not run regularly empty cars ; rival lines with empty cars would be consolidated, and the community would probably have betteraccommodations. Empty pews pay no better than empty ears, and consolidation would benefit all.eliterestad. It would require a local and individual census to determine with tolerable acourney what churches could be dispensed with on the principle of tunple accommodatiou with the Gospel for all the people. However, it is not a rash opinion to say that about one out. of every four of the churches in the five denominations above mentioned could be reaeonably closed tip. Afterwards the peo- ple in mush regions would miss nothing ot church privileges, but denominationalism only. All of the Gospel—the religion of Christ, and the means of salvation—would still be dispensed to all who wished to heat. it es pew oecupants. One laborious and studious city missionary a,ssures ine thet one-fourth of the houses for ovengelicel wo0ship in Boston could bo spered without damaging the simply of the Gospel to all who can he induced to hear it. In Boston there 11.1.0 open eVCry Sabbath 250 placea for Protestant worship. One-fourth of these, ne six ty- two, cauld be closed without damage tr Protestant worship. The Roman Catho- lics, who manage thele religions affairs in a Wein' wfty, and ere forty pet. mitt of tho population, have thirty-four places of public worehip-21 6 leas than the Protestents, while a higher per cent. of the Cotholic po- pulation attend church. On the Christian and business peinciples now elated, about four hundred houses of evaugelieel public) worship (meld be spared in Massachusetts. Its is, therefore, a ['ere, poor business showiug that these four hun- dred honses of public worship make in this State. How long would a business corpora. tion keep them open ? But should not the work of Cheist bens well managed as a cotton famovy or it railwey? Should not evevy. honest and honorable means bo adopted to enhance the value of the stock and the dividends ? And if enough can be saved by economy oe thorough business principles to start another 01100011 or null 'or railroad where there le an opening, ehonld it uot be (lime ? As to the cost or money loet on these supernumerary churches Some time since the Baptists reported officially the average annual cost, of one of these oherehes $1.000, and if correctly, tho estinate will hold for the five denommatiens. But as the useless ehurelt is ordinarily of inferior grade and cost, eve will venture to estinate these at $500 each, though doubtless much below the real cost. On this estimate the Congo. gational denomination in Massachusetts is annually wasting $72,000 on 144 churchoe. The other denominations tbre westing in proportion, and the aggregate waste of them ell in this State is $1 87,000 year. But the money sacrificed is of little account comper- ed with the sacrifice of Christ:0m fellowship. Instead, there is the struggle 'who shell 110 greatest, the misrepreuen ta tionsonaneuvers, and prayers for the success of Calvin 01' Wesley or Roger Williams, low chicanery and unworthy arefulness that force one to think of demagogues and campaign speeches and stufl'ed balloteboxes. Carry now these estimates of duplicnte churches through the country, and we find, in Idle 1 J0,000 'churches of five denominations 211,000 of these supernumerary. Hare is a waste of religious funds annuelly to the as- tonncling aggregate of twelve and a half millions of dollars. The duplicate meeting -house is very ex- pensive, it will be seen. It is a, fetioh, very execting in its %orifices -46 kind of god to which wo make offeriegs. The poliey of old Magma, the atheistic Athenian, is worthy of attention by us, if not adoption, When lie discovered their the statue of Hercules was nseless well as expensive, os more denominational wood, ho ohopped it up to use in boiling his turnips. NOW and then one of nerdy:nil cote d unhel ping ea tiug.honses might be elevated to 1180111100es in 14 similar way, The moulition of our horrm field is very far from satisfactory, and increasingly 50, and we cannot afrord. to 1'1111 (1111p1y 0AI% 1.41 rivalry. The American Homo Al iseioeary Society's report for 1889 speedo: of " 0.01.11 impatiently waiting to bo perfoemed " the Middle and Son thorn Steles, of " :Drying need and neprecodented opportunity in the Rooky Moun (sin regions end Northern Pits tele Stalest," end it says that " the develop - meld of the country has far outstripped the augmenting means,' lly rotund correepond. once with the Distriet Secretary learned that eixteen of our thirtrtwo distsiots fool. hundred and eiebty.foin. more wieder, . 10,11. ,•11ed lid 110 ILL onee plo31.11, 11111 slit ale :t1 1:116,11pied by any other 1101101,1111:11i011, yet I had anewers front only mead!' the dim, here We ere slew- to learn that We are malting a new nation In 010. now land, with great rapidity ; teeth' egrieulture awl railroads ileum to know Dwell mom eland it than benevolent Wheals, secretaries, and Nest ern eliurehes. 'rho eonditien of evangelization in our 110W lands by 1110 ilvo evengelieal denomin. ntions is far fenn eatimetctory. Pastern numagere do not seem to knew when len of our inarvelouS Wont -ern pare have gone hy. I cannot say Mutt is needed, Perhape nutuagera' feet, that will get elf the pave. 0101(10, eyes that will nee further and uew thiuge, 'firemen+ that will :cell hundred': of weight, of etereotype phetee for old lype- meta) When Now Mexico bail lemn in the tenima thirty-two years, was in the Teeri• tory end found it bad no Congregatieual Atwell, though an laege a}i fourteen Mama like Massachusetts. With 1111 agent of the American Bowe el legionary Society wo ex. ambled Allem iteeque, and le0 prepared for the find church of our order in that Territory --none preceding us, 1 think, 'deny, kind in Albuquerque. Soon 'Mee I secured the "emu ization e ou r first church in Arizona. The popnletion of these two Territories was then semen and somi-Christian after it had been thirty.two yeare under the Amerienn flag. Not long since, I was in Wyoming over the Sabbath, and was invited to preach in a log cabin. I was the first clergyman over seen in the region, 1 25 miles from the railroad, and it was their first public wor- ship, and there was no church of any kind within 125 miles of that cahin. How much wo need the twelve end a hell millions of wasted money to plant those 25,000 of unneeded ehurches W1101.0 there is such painful want of them ! '1'lie not very creditable condition of the American Home Missionary Society is sug- gestive of some new poltcy. 'With so 111011y aeglected, nnaccupied holds as I have sti.g. gested, there is duct° date $20,000 for ells. smeary salaries in arrears, and notea to the banks for $1 15,000 already gone to pay back salaries. One bnsiness way out of these financial embarrassments in our Home Mis- sionary treasury is to stop bluntly the or. ganization of unneeded churches. „The Con- gregetional denomination paid last yea). for those already forined and. unneeded about $590,000. We paid in oer Home 'Missionary work only $701,000. I cite two illustrations of the working of this foolish evil of duplicate chuschee. I quote first from the Minutes of the New England Conference of Methodist chneches for 1 800 " The condition of many feeble charges among us is pitiable indeed. Thirty churches average less than $270 a year for pastoral support, rent excluded ; fifty preachers receive $500 a year oe less ; forty- seven chusches in our Conference have less than fifty members each, and sixty-five more have less then one hundred" (pp. 88, efifi. And these are not old and depleted chnrches, like many Congregational ones, that genera. tions and a, wasting population have left in large areas. They aye newly planted. Again, in the State of New York there are 871i Baptist churches, of which 469 have less than one hundred members each; and 2 18 have fifty or less. ft is not surprieing that ISO of these ere without pastors. Can anything be clone to remedy this im- mense evil ? It is not a cheerful undertak- ing, and does not promise at first, much enthusiasm bet, rather, heroic sacrifice. 13ut a reinerly is possible. No one must say to American Christians that .what ought to be done cannot be clone. We aro always doing the impossible, Five adjectives that now cost the Church nf Christ e2,000,000 and more apiece in the United States annually must be withdrawn' nem cire dation, like protested paper or Coaieelerate swept The traditions and practices of tho modern Church lima be dis- carded_ as unwarranted. Wo must tehl abundantly to the ecclesiastical dr brie which lies scattered along the track of the true Church for lif teen centuries. A feolish con- sistency', which Emerson calls " the hols goblin of little minds," must be CaSt off. We must occupy the cemeteries attached to our theological schools by the interment of not only. dead theologies, lnu dead ec- clesiasticism, Fora thousand and a half of yeers we have been disregarding the divine COnatittl. tem of the Church, and have treated the organization as &human elub, with annexes, prefixes, and :minxes to suit the party and the times. Extimsnations for admission to the Church have been made on theology, philosophy, and ethics, more thitu on piety. '1'his is the original sin. Hence sects, denominations, partisan churches, strife, wicked rivalry, unnecessary organizations, and thotie enormous and useless drafts on the one treasury of our common Lord. What then, aro we to do 1 Return to the original and unalterable constitution of the 01101.011 of God. The basis of admission ftsul membership therein is one and simple — friendsSin she Goa. 80 0110 ehOws this satisfactorily he has a permit and it oom- maed from Gecl to enter. This is the center ancl circumferenee of qualifi xttion for church membership, From the days of Abrahem, the fether of behevers and the feiend of God, it was so. 1.11 Apostolic times this' friendship was proved by repentance 10. 11.011.11. God 1011(1 faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Every other requisition 10 a Mullen 50101111111mA to the divine plan. In church gvowth synods and councils, docretals and creeds, furnish no precedeet for us. At the first the Church of God was a plain, simple struature, for plain, godly men, but it has beeome a house of seven gables, and architects and builders are yet noisily about it, adding many more. An unpopelar remedy is the only one, Organize no church whose confession for admission will not admit any uhild of God, If God is making up company, it ill be. comes us, who are only guests, to,quelify the cords of invitation, or go into ' doubt - 1111 disputations " over the fftneen of one who is °Arcady within the guest chamber. The like misfortnne has befallen the original andsimpieChuroh of Godwin& befell the law of God by Moses, The Talmud of Jerusalem and of Babylon loeded down the law with severed scores of huge volumes so that tho time of Christthey maile it void by traditione. Tho °reeds of general assemblie51tml the can. ons of great Domteits in other days and 0111' 01911 11/1V0 80 bIll'Cl011131.1 1.111(1 °bemired the constitution of the original Cherub that it is nigh impossible for uanoW to Ste and admit its only two simple items or articles Make Up ite constitution as God drafted it —repentance toward (foil and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ Yet the 01101.011 must heinble Ilona' and all eaueed learning by going hack to that duplex nriginal. As this divine coarse of proceeding in ail - ministering 0, chivies would take in all is! God's (donde, them will he no eall in it given and convenient area for it now orgenizatioll till the old church is tilled. I etippose WO are tO proceed in .planting noW Innneh churches its they did in planting now Kynagogues. When the old one was filled, a, new one was founded in the most oonvenients place, with duplioates sorvioe like {het in the over. roWded old synagogue. Disregarding thin I WEALTE OROEIDS, shows how ;Loge heal denoinilial 4005 1 lints, now 145,000 unneeessery hurelles and 0111 melting mutually a wasts fill outlay of (Ile Lerdes money to the ellorinounsuni 01 1 1101V11 /11141 11 half 1111111008. er inismienitry isieleties, home and fereign, should look to it that no einireli is organized on he exellIsiro prinelple. This hi very im- portant un onr now borders, where 110W, 111 the the ember of eeetariatt chtirelies iH exemellugly ollinieive to tracs religion 81111 Lo laudilens Mom Now, ill towns of three four, 11,1114 five hundred pee. pie there will found three, four, or five evangelical elms:hes, ono they 41.1.0 tuded by intsxionary funds, while ell eembined could (tot fill one of thome rival thurclies, The exemitive emillnit.teem of thew: mission- orry soon.tios 61 the live denominations should ,-onibine and agree to grant 110 1,1(1 to 14 nent ltuil rival elitireli While 1.1101'0 R111111111111 eittings for the applicants in tlio older chin...hem, In the Unipel States I know of no 111101, 11080 Ho poorly meintged 08 the extension ef the Churele After two op three others are Nettle:1, here lies 001' next, great siform, ' The Waste of „Kali -glens Plinth; in Extend- ing' the OhOroh," No. 2, 114 14 111 111W. (1. (1..1 110, D. The article under this head in The Chria- thin Union of April le one that may well arrest the attention of all interested in the promotion of missions at home and etbroad. The waste of funds in our home communities in sustaining rival denominations, with all the attendant expense of separate church edifices and preachere, While agreeing in the oesentials of Christian truths, is crippling 0111' grent benevolent eocieties and delitying the world's evangelization, but " the evil of dividing the body of Chiest into sepitrate and rival factions in Christian lauds " is by no meens as disastrous abroad as it is at home, where it usea up funds that ought to beysed for the support and enlargement of the worleabroteL Dr. 'Barrows says : " Japan has twenty- six missionary organizations to make known the one wily and truth and life ; India has thirty-eight, and China thirty-nine," The inference drawn by Dr, Barrews is hardly a just one, that all this is " humiliating and painful ;" it would be So were there not ample toom for all withoue interfering 0110 with another. As it is, in view of the very scanty supply of Christian teachers, it 18 17111101" n, matter of congratulation that so many religioue bodies ttre at work in these different countries. In Japan there is not yet one ordained preaoher, foreign or Ja• melon, to 1 00,000 souls, ancl not yet one be- liever to 1,000souls. In China the proper - tion is still less, their being hardly on evan• gelicol preaehereineluding missionaries and native helpers of all kinds, to 150,000 souls, and scarce one believoe to 10,000, In India the proportion is one ordained preacher, missionary or native, ta about 200,000 souls, and one believer to 2,000. In these coun- tries there is certainly room enough yet for missionaries without jostling ono anothee still mech lend to be possessed, still a call for foreign missionary work. While differences of polity and doctrine are to be regretted So far a.s they attract the notice of the native population among whom the missionaries labor, they ere far less unfavoiables than they might at first seem. Missionaries have other work to take up their time and attention—matters in selfish they differ far more than at home, They recognize that they are heathens Christ. Witness their conferences together, their loving sympethy one with another. The bnrclen resting on them, in view of the multitudes on every hand accessible to • turns their attention to the 0110 great business ef winning men to Christ and establishing Christian institutions. Probably one-tenth of the missionaries have not neighbours near enough to mithe it easy to have any tronble over denomeational methods, even if they were disposed to do so. Now and then some poor spechnen of a man gets mto the foreign field and makes some trouble over some denominational question, or attempts proselyting from anothoe's field, but it is the fault of the man rather than of the missionary, and sheep. stealing abroad is regarded much as it is at home. It is only in the largo centers like Bombay, Tokyo, and Pekin that fundsmight he sav- ed by uniting in the support of higher Christian institutions of learning, of colleges and theological seminaries, and in the pro- duotion of a Christian literature. .An ex - caption should perhaps be made in reference to some of the smaller Mission fields, as in exices, Syria, arid Persia, end, after mother decade, possibly, in Japan ; but et present there is little clanger of waste of funds from an 111'01110 multiplying of evangelical ageneica in the foreign field. Rather would we mem- mend Mr. Bevrows's article to the practical regerd of churohee and Christians in the home field, 111at the means in 111011 0,1111 1110110y may be available for a tenfold enlargement nf the work abroad, ComMercial Union in South Africa. In a feW lyeekS the Transvaal republic will have to decide the question of entering into closer relations with the countries around it, Its policy for years was to ex. elude foreign influences, and for this reason the Government long frowned upon any proposal to opened the Sonth African re- public with Cape Colony by rail, Many Boer to -day regrets the fact, that his comp, try is rich in nunerals as an eumixed evil ; for it has brought into the loud a great influx of foreigners, chiefly British, who are beginning to exert 0. dominating influs ence in the country, The question nOW before the Transvaal is 'whether it shall enter tho Customs Union, to whiell the Orange Free State hae already agreed, Tho Transvaal, like Bolivia, °coil - pies the unfortunate position of 0 Rego aountey which has no communication with the see, It has suddenly occurred to its relent that mikes they admit railroads and accept the reciprocal trade relations proposed by Cape Colony and Natal, these conntries on the see will have a. plausible excuse to dis• criminate against hor in matters of trade, impose what charges thee, please upon im. ports 111111. 001/01.18, 1.111(1. Make Mu the 110. oessitios of life costly by hostile enactments. Whether it desires to or not, the Transvael reptthlic is beginning to see the neectesity of entering into cordial busieuss relations with other colonies. Railroads aro already knock- ing at its gates, hall from the Natal and from the ()tango Eve° State frontiers, and there is no longer a doubt OM. they Will seen be venni ed to lay their rails to a. toria, There 15 every prospect now the( the Gov. element Will accept the proPoseil Custom"' Union, and will thus be 'brought into elosoe relatioes with Cepo Colony mid, Natal, The significant feature of tlto 111.050111 situation is that the growing needs of Small Afrien, ate bringing liluismeans of different rams into • relatiomi are breaking down the pro. jIldicea Whielt 'haw) divided them, and aro destined to bring about complete commercial if not politioal union, rile 11 011/ 111'111111111 11 r T11014. I %110.1. Ilk Or 1110 Fl 0 11'1'1' 11.01.141. Vary few reali00 the amount of 1110110y inveeted in the die itientoerats of the flowery world, and though they hex° been eteracting widespread intermit for the pant ;loam yearn, I he general public, mity not be a (minted With the heft. that millions of dollare are involved in the magnificent 001. leetiona of threw phone. Catgoes of Millie and roots leen all parts of the W111.141 are all. wally imported, whieli 010 roadily dispose(' to the dower-1'0'We" pulite. for 8111110 ranging (rem ,41. up to the thousende. One rare bulb from the forest's of elexieo Brazil or 111,1i11, Will frequently for the price of a grand diamond ring, 0.1111 0000,1j01, - ally a mall fortune is represented by halt a 4100011 poor -looking bulbs that a street boy WoUld kick aside With Ws foot if f onnd biti way. The great florieultuelets of this counts and Europe emph,y orehid limners ' to exp ore the 01,0,10 awl junglee 01 every knOnn eottn try for some rare 0103011mm of ;liege plaids, and thousands of dollans mutually to pay lie expenses 4,1 I hese trips into unknown laude, I Steger, death told iii,:kness of every coneeivable kind threaten the hunters, bet dexpite these they pene- trate to the inost dangeroue wilds to tind their plants. The speciee of orchide now munber be- twoen 6,000 and 7,000, abont, half of which have been brought into cultivation, auti there are recognixed by the best botanists about 144 genera. Ihe great number of these speuies occur in the tropics, but many species grow in cool temperature, and a veyy few in the frigid zones. .1a.ity exotic species are cultivateil, :Led they are among the most devrable plants fur horticulturists. Not many can explain what an orelnd is, for they show ale cat every conceivable earl- ation forms and color, end marking of the flowers, and the habits of the plats are al - moat as diverse. Some define them as air plats, but the larger portion are not ; some define them as parasitic: plante, but Very few specimens are parasites; others know them by their bulb -like root, and yet many of them do not have such roots, while still others suppose that they , are peculiar to tropical climates, but ineby auesnativee of Canada. ...gaily species of orchids are leaf- less, while others have numerous thick and stilt leaves. Numbers of them live on the trunks of trees in theie Dative tropical for- ests mid obtain nourishment from the air. home live upon decaying matter, while many others ere parasites, drawing.their nourish. ment from live plants. our northern woods some of the speuies live upon the roots of trees. 7 LATE CABLE NEWS The War On the ,Tews --The Attempt op the Life of the Russian Appar rut -Ooneersione to Pottgal. ! We are still Hit mg, es it were, je the dee waiting for the ems sin to be lifted upon lo strange 'llama now being arranged Ischia t I le seeflea, Wiliell 110 ii01411e071 of the worl mid the peace of .1'.1111'01/0 all. 1111010 10 (1 01)01111 11110/1 11.00.11110111, 110110,1 mit by a lays I bar01.1H 1108,81111 try in remote Kttat Orli 1;11018 searenly more eivili/141.11-wish ghettos. We , dimly that there ie 011 1111110100 emote', thin between the istidnig of Jewish shops in the imilite Nandi and the expuleion of Hebrew artisans 011 the 01111 1111.11,1 11.101 the spectaeular untidy:swat ',1 men from the gold '4'111 1:04 t l'0111011 W111011 11110 1.10ri01151y efeeeuel every market and Ex- change in the world. A week ago rlic•re W11:1 IL stateineot that. the liaeian foverni. fee, , ill il11 fright ae the restilte of its amen., nad ordered the emisation of the movemetit against the dews. That turns out 111118 te be Wee, To -day there is an equally confident declaration that Resale has decided to abandon its policy of calling in all its gold deposits. Probably this will in turn be discovered to bc equally without foundation in fact. Meanwhile, matters are very quiet else- where on the Continent. There was every where at the outset a natural disposition to simuise that the man 'who tried to kill the Czarowitch far.off Japan was a disguised Ressise Nihilist. Then came an authorita- tive declaration from both Russian and Japanese official sources that he W21,4 a native religious fatuities, which for the time convinced Europe, but now there ia ning to be a, relapse to the original suspi- cion. It is noted that none of the dispatches give the men's name or what Japanese vil- lage be came from, or indeed anything aeout him save that he was on the police ferce. This inexplicable reticence has given rise to the theory that the assassin is really- a Nihilist exiled to Siberia who csome years ago escaped from Saghalien to Japan, where he learned the language, adopted the cus- toms of the country, and eventually secured a place in. the semi -military police of Japan; which is known to contein a good many foreign adventnrers. The French Govern- ment, of course, seized the opportnnity to make au elaborate display of sympathy with the Ratssian Clonrt, and the occasion has served to melee rumors that AL Carnot,will shortly pay his formal visit to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Coneessions have been made to Portuguese - pride in order to help the dynasty. The re- publican pertly in Pot -Weal 14 nineh stronger than thelast abortive rising at Oporto would seem to indicate, and hail the country been again humiliated by England in this African squabble the republicans would probably have received enough popular backing to enable them to overthrow the Menerchy ; but Khig Charles by birth and marriage is connected. with pretty well every royal house in Europe, Ind his deposition would stir the heart and. nerve the hand of every Socialist 01111 repub- lican in this Continent. Emperors and Kings therefore interceded with Queen Victoria on. behalf of Portugal. Out With the Tide. By and by all the men in the big ware- house went away, the last vehicle drove ofi', and I heard the watchman beginning his rounds. I sat silent and alone, enjoying the shimmer of the moonlight on the waters of the river, and woudering how each human being in great Now York found a home and rest at night to recouperate his strength for the toil of the morrow. One can almost hear a great sigh of relief as darkness falls upon a great city. It means that traffic almost ceases ; that busy nerves and muscles find rest ; that family circle are united ; that the over -weary and es eranxious may find joyful forgetfulness in slumber. " Step ! 'Step ! Step !" It W/18 a footfall so light that it might realm the appeoach of a child. No It Was a lonely place Iyhere I sat, and no child would come near. netted children shout- ing and leughing, but they wore a whole square away. On 111y right all W115 lighted up by the moon until I could see every- thing. On 111y left a dark shadow caeght and clueg about a pile of freight, As I peered into this shadow thought I so.W a darker spot, and I called out to knew what was wanted. Nu answer. " Step Step Step !" Thieves would not he there at that hour. Wes it II Wolnan ? If so, she was drawing away. What hail brought her there 1 Down past the side of the long building and out to the extreme end of the W110.1'r 1 011.11g111 eight of the watchman as be halted for a moment in the moonlight. I Woe looking away again at the track of moonlight es it climbed the wharves of Jersey City and made its way over eteeples and. roof -trees, when those foot -falls dieturbed me once more, " Step ! Step! Step !" They were so near as to startle me, and as I Intlf rose, I heard the teeth) of a woman's skirts, en object appeared for art instant aluni1 ten feet away, end then came EL splash in the slip below. Looking down, 1 eaught sight of a white face—an min uplifted—a hat floating, and then itll was gone. She had leaped t her death Without a ery. Sh e had not even sobbed em, as the waters lifted her up for a last brief chrinee, to re- pent of her desperate deed. A woman ? N'es. Young or old? ll'ho oast say Her body went Out With the tide—to be thrown ashore down the bay perhaps, when days have elapseel—perhaps to bo ear. sled old ta sea and never heard of more. And her name 1 A,nd what grievous wrong done her 1 And how many ore left to weep and lament and mourn that it was not other- wise with her. I cannot toll you, I only know that sho Waa a woman, and I pity and plead for her, Want of money makes men desperate end they selk and brood end come to tho conclu• thin that tho hand of the world is seised agaitist them, Then they die by their own hand—the river, poison, a slash of the razor across the throat. Poverty seldom drives a W01111111 to take her own life. If it does she 1101,01' goes to line death without leaving a seroml of paper behi nil , without uttering one long, wild ery of terror and despair as she feels herself walking in the shadow of death. WI1011 I see a, W01110.14 die by her own hand know that there is a chapter in her life so full of tears and heartstehes—so blank in the unanswered prayers to God, so utterly bar. ren of hope for the future—that tho grave mid its silence and darkness is a glad relief. Married or eingle, old or young, boontiial or plain, there WaS such chapter in the life of this woman who wellt te her death al 11 .ost wi thin reaching distance of my and. I think of her demi body as creeping along the bottom of tho bay, swirling this way and that as ii, meets with the cross -currents, eistehhig at rock and wvook—oreeping, dri Bing, The hand it aye outstretelied, the eyes wide open, ine 1 there ie that look on her fare whigh is al n. presented When a pereot, lee: been Minted to Ins death, Whether it. is met upou some Nosily ahore, to be hurriedly buried and hurriedly forgot- ten, or drifts and swirls and orecpe out to the v,1110rh ef the great ocean, WIlmm beaten many secrets, lute reeeived and 1.01111'1111,1 00 there is another name resorded at the gates of heat en, She has told her story at the feet ef the great, white thronee-of liee tears and NI retelwilnesa, of her hope ad denpair, of the 0411 that seine one put mem her to fill her heart with a yearning to die Lula torget irtuLs11. 1.1c can best judge. Ho is mord- The Manufacture of Dynalite, The making of dynamite is an inter, ting proeess anti one about mina little is known. rhe base of it is of course nitro.glyearinee Nitro-glycerine consists ref a certain 00111-. lunation of nitric and eulphurie acids treated with glycerine oil—the same simple glyce- rine thet we use on our dressiug cases only not so well clarified. The acids are placed in an iron kettle lined 011 1110 11151(10 With 00118 of pipe filled with cold water. Then tlte oil of glycerine is allowed to flow ia a small stream, not larger than it quill, upon the surface aud the mese is mixed by means of 1)101,110a operated 1,t, steam. If the oil w ts int roamed in large quantities it would develop sufficient heat to firo and subsequently explode the lames. 'rhe mixture will ignite at from 80 to 85 degrees and explode at 300 degrees. When the 110480 is treated the nitro-glycerine is mixed with the materials that are to form the dynamite. Among these ere wood, flour, nitrateof soda eaul tshich not as absorbents, The stuff as then thoroughly mixed by a nickel -plated hoe to prevent frisition and put up in mem- moroial paukages. . It is estimated thitt nothing les, then a 60.pound pressure will explode dyisamite. Canada's Marine. Comparisons bring out colors, They also serve to awaken feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfacition. Tiles the comparison of Cantle with respect to hes ocean marine is. one of which every Canadian who takes an interest, in the reputation and standing of his country may well feel proud, Only three other nations, Great Britain, SW011011 and Norway, and Germany, have it greater tonnage. The respective figures are : Tom:. - -- Gnat Britain , 2,024,471 1,240,1 82 Sweden and Norway Clerninny Canada, 1,089,642 7,021,595 United States On tho °thee hand, while our sea -going shipping has already assmnod such credit- able proportions, and is steadily increasing from yeer to e'oar, the proportion of tlie seaborne trade of the Dominion which is carried in Canadian vessels is not BO sells. factory. Nearly 0110.11111f of our trade - 48,75 per cent., is carried in British bob toms, 31,01 per cent, in foreign and only 20.24 per cent. in Ciantilian. Aro Canadians satisfied Mutt this state of things shall eon ti nun ? Lace Making in Brussels. • Tho finest of all lace is the Brussele, and. one -fortieth of the whole population of the city la engaged in snaking it. The gevern- ment saniperte 000 lave schools, I °winch ail, droll are Sent as young as five years. By the time they aro 10 they are seif-eimporting. 'rho thread io hand.spun !sun the best Brabant tins in damp, (lark cellars, whoso one ray of light falls on the ;spinner a hand. N'atorally, 11j)i1111i111; in Vly hy And eXperts get high wages, 'rim beet yarn trans s, single pound of ilex fotelieS oeer Few remakes of what London was iu Sae.on days aro left. Irate leather -s" I never gave my fathot impudence when I was aboy." son—ii mar, bo your faller didn't need it,"