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The Brussels Post, 1891-8-14, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST ArausT 14, 1891 UTE FOREIGN NEWS' A Peculiar Rumor. ^ ^ HESSIAN CROP PROSPECTS. Tho French wateh produet for 1800 ainonnted to 404,436 watehes, A Tolstoi commimity at Kliarkolf, on. tatting a uumber of educator" men who have left society, Mae been eappreased by the Government, The Sottish Mission, which has its head. quarto:mat Jerusalem, reports the conversion of eix Jews to Presbyteriaffism at a cost of $5,000 apiea, The ringleader of the May Day labor riots at Pommies Las been condemned to six years' solitary imprisonment and ten years' loss of civil eights. M, Ader of Paris, after expending more than 8100,000 an a flying mat:bine, has pro. ducal one in whieh he Hew about halyards. He says it is propelled by " a combination of vapors." Dr. Latmelongue's treatment of chloride of zinc for tuberculosis has receiveda, 0ood deal of praiee from Dr. L'althe aneDr. Poyet ; tho latter, a speeiaList, regarding it 0110 great discovery. .A. French mectrinic of 33 eummitted suicide beeeese he Ind lost the power to drink. He lett .t1stt r sayiug "Otte smell glass of liquor makes nte ill now. As I can. not live without drinking I am killing my- self." A marble slab has been placed oe the house in which Paganini died in Nice. The inscription concludes with, "The powerful bow that drew forth magic soundnow hes inert, but its supreme sweetness still stir. vives in the scented breezes of Nice." A Freach provincial newspaper has been condemned to pay 200 francs damages for calling several residents of its town Free Masons. To call a man a Free Mason in France is to bring him into hatred, ridicule, and contempt of his Roman Catholic towns. men. Dr. Laurent, a student of criminals, has examined Boulanger's skull, with the result of pronouncing it similer in construction to the skulls of Ravaillac and several other assassians, and that the "'floral sense la rudimentary, forehead very weak, and selfishness enormous." The French army has 131,000 horses, 15,- 000 of which are substitutes. The appro. priation for them this year is $400,000 tnore than it was last year. Observation stepladders are the latest in. novation in the Belgian fleld artillery. They are intended to enable the commander of a concealed battery to better direct the fire of the gunners. Every ladder is about 7;} feet high, of iron, and weighs about 65 pounds. All amniunition wagons will carry the lad. der. According to the "Annted of the Frenelt Army for 1891," the standing army will contain next yeer 570,003 tnen, and will show an increase ((vett this year of 324 officers, 7,418 men, and 1,018 horses. The amine] gives total number of officers, doctors, and other officials of officers' rank as 73,000. The estimated expenditure for the army next year is $134,000,000. All duels MOW"'officersof the Italian army are hereafter to be mattets of special in. vestigation by the corps commanders. The eireular of the Italian War Minister to this effect states the object of the innovation to be the litnitMg of duelling to affairs of honor. Many duels of Italian officers are ROW for trivial causes. Hereafter officers who fight for such reasons will be severely disciplined. In Paris a society has been organized to encourage artillery practice in the territori. al army. Special instructors of the society will also impart in lectures scientific infor- mation az to the making and handling of big guns. Offieers of the regular army may have the beneflt of the society's training on the payment of $25 annually. Artillery preetice will be held by the society at Vincennes every Sunday. Three deserters from the Austrian gar. risen in Krakau broke into the apartments of the corps commander and were caught stealing secret documents from his desk. The tools with which they forced an enter- ance and the civilians' clothes which they put on immediately after the desertion are sapposed to have been given to them by Russian officers who awaited them on the border. The Vienna /cote Proie Presse says that evidence to this affect is in the hands of the Krakau authorities. The Paris grave diggers' strike of some months ago has been followed naturally by strike of the imam," mutes, the Porteure des Primped Punebres, or, as they are known familiarly, the croquemorts. They want more pity, shorter hours, and a redress of grievances. The few that there are of them are on duty from 6 o'clock in the morning till 8 at night for five francs a day. Capt. Kittoe thought that he would make £200 easily when Miss Drew promised to give that sum to him if he would lind a Mr. Ewing whom she had lost sight of and want. ad to marry. He advertised and got news immediately, but Miss Drew refused to pay and he sued. The Oeurt decided that an honest man would have said simply, "Why don't you advertise?" And inasmuch as he failed to give this simple suggestion, he was guilty of imposition. Between the years 1884 and 1888, accord- ing to oflioial etatistics, 949 soldiers of the Prussian army have committed suicide in the Twelfth Saxon and the Thirteenth Prussian regiments. The largest number of suicides occurred in the company stationed in the province of Posen ; the next was in that of the Berlin company. The official literary statistics of Turkey show that during the year 1 890 only 940 books were published in Constantinople. Of this number 497 were in the Turkish len. gunge, rues* novels and theatrical pieces; 120 in the American tongue, principally religions contents ; 903 in Arabia or lures. prudence, philology, and religious doginat- ism, and the rest were in other languages of Europe. The latest fashion in Parisian society is to give "entertainments for young mothers," to which only young tr eerier' eouples aro in. vibe& The donee becomes of secondary consideration, and only square dances aro tolerated. Instead ef the customary favors in the cotillion, ehildron's toys are distribut. ed, widen theyoung mothers take home. '17110 following day the participants of such ent‘tamments call with their children on a, "visite de reconnaissance." The Russian Agricultural Department of the Ministry of Imperial Property bas this reo.,r planted poppy seed in various points 111 Omuta, man experiment for the culture of opium in that region If the experiment proves successful the culture of opium will be formally introduced next year and ener. gelleally promoted in the districts suitable Lor the purpose, The Cossack Foshkov, who attracted ligtVgi`,.,;,`,11.,:,14';'cit`,),11,",`,.:1`::Liit.21 THE ,OITY OF NATIONS. burg, Wati 011ta0110 IV an officer of the Fifth I Regunent of the Rillemee (tert /tee), Ivan Leedom, rhe wonder or the l'rerld, Where Bakinnutolf, who arrived on OttQ 98 in Moseow from Vladivostok, having 08" War the thagnues or !be travelled all the Ivey on foot. The distance Alsrin• Tho tinenumelitan ohmmeter of London is is 13,300 " erste, and it took him one year andawn,tl dap 10 midzo it. Ho n„ti to generally known, hot perhaps indifferently and 01 realieed. Statistics IWO 8011104111108 presented pass through the wilds of Siberia, showing 11,113'ialVO all army of strangers is one time he spent forty days in fillOVINISi011 un the prnirte4 111 ram, atid storm, Ho in ocunpstion, and of »bat curiously mixed wore out nineteen pairs of shoesn h oie Long "il'111130f11.0 It C00861.3^But it is hard to. walk, and 105 mostly on anokors, gottgn„ clothe such ligurea with the interest that piece of moat very seldom, only wIto„ lto would bring about theirproper appreciation, And the wonderfel, mobile, alniting futtss came to a large city. llo lost tifty.eigh ?puede in weight during his toilsom le 0 marvel from so meny Points of view, journey, that curiosity is easily satiated without con- nadivaqa of 81, peternb„,,8 gartad ten sidering details The Feet metropfilitan hive nifty 1113' be called a 'City of Nateem." minor that the alinister of Finance would Make a leisurely, observant exploration ot sue the 1103,50 of Rothchild for having reins. ,a the new loan, which the Russian (,eyera. certain districts, some of which have well. mem intended to make in the foreir defined boundaries though no Custom - market, 'rlia paper is anxious to have t house officer inflicts the ignominy of ill% ec• Government "minim:ate the naphtha springs witieh the itothchilds own in Caucesia and believes Unit Aussie is fully entitled to do so. Rich layers of silver ore have been diseav• ered on the Metivezhiy island, in the White Sea. The Russian I in ister of Imperial Pro. Perty has therefore issued an order that the whole territory of the island should be plac- ed in the category of Government properties, which cannot under any consideratien pass inn, the possession of private parties. Mina will be sunk on the island. during this sum. mer, so that, by next spring everything should be in order for the regular exploitation of the mineral wealth. Reports from all parts 01 1135 country fore- tell a worse crop this year than Russia has had for some seasons. In the southernpro- vinees late frosts have spoiled the winter crop, and scarcity. of ram and unusnally parching heat have stunted the spring crops. In the more therly provinces hair storms and unseasonable weather have destroyed all hopes for e good crop. The price of grain is rising to an alarming extent. The various communal assemblies (zentwra) are holding special meetinge to devise means to provide broad for the peasantry, and assail the govermnents with petitions to assist them with subsidies for their object. The only fortunate circumstance is that the crop of fruit, especially berries, apples, and pears, is tthundant, in the Critnea and adjacent goy. ernments, and this wards ofr famine for the present. In the hygienic cabinet of the TJniversity of Ka= samples have been collected 01 1110 " hunger bred" upon which the peasantry lived ia VariOlIS parts of the empire. Scien- tific analysis has shown Gust that bread is made of forty pounds of acorn flout, with the admixture ot five to ten pounds of ryo flour or soft boiled potatoes. 'I he peasants prefer the admixture of potatoes bemuse it makes the bread lighter and gives it 0 whiter ap- pearance, but such bread moulds the faster and. develops tannic acid sooner than the bread prepared with rye flour. In each case, however, the " hung.er bread" con. talus, beside tannic acid, resinous substances which aro either indigestible or highty in- jurious. Such bread has not been used in Russia since 1840, when there was famine la the Government of Toole,. The Medical Cfounell of that Government at the tittle opined that the acorn bread. was not injure. ono and that the peasants should not be prohibited from eating it. As the highest diguitary of the Evangeli- cal National Church of Prussia, the Sammie Rnieropue, Kaiser William, is developing a tendency to ritualism. After Aug. 12 of this year the principal functionaries of the Chureh, the GellOrai Superintendents of the Ecclesiastical Provinces, must wear a cross suspended from a black band around the neck, hanging upon the Invest. The Prussian Kultur Minister has sent a cross to every General Superintendent of the kingdom. As an authority in the Church William has no standing outside of Prussia, the ruler of every other State being the Summits Episco- p1b1 of his own dominion. .A. Gordon.Cumming case happened under Napoleon III. A very brilliant sten' Captain, Count a'Andlau—who was one of the Ein. peror‘s equerries—was caught cheating at Compiegne. The F,mperor was informed that Capt, d'Andlau had long been under suspioion, To prevent a scandal Napoleon imposed secrecy upon the accusers, and (PI -Indian pledged himself not to touch cards ligai». On this oonclition he ivas allowed to remain an officer in the army and a Knight of the Legion of Honor ; but he was sent to join the French expedition in Mexico. D'Andlau fought well and earned promotion. He was sent front Mexico to Alger .- Algeria (ben) never permitted to return to France wild; the empire lasted), and his secret WM so faithfully kept that by the end of the Franco- German war he had rieen to a Coloneloy, and a yew' or two afterward became a General. Then he laid himself open to an- other charge of swindling and IVILS sentenced to two years' imprisontnent, a,nd the history 110010 out. The Government authorities of Bakoo are expelling the Jews from that city very ener. getically. If a Jew is found whose legiti- mation papers are in any way doubtful, a prekhorinege (an order to pass on) is immedi- ately attached to his passport, aud he is obliged to leave the place within thirty days. AI my wealthy Jewish residents of Bakoo sell their properties and leave the place of their own accord, and many small traders who would be ruined by expulsion embrace Christianity to got the privilege to stay. In the middle of the sixteenth century Queen Bona of Poland imported various kinds of medicinal plants from Italy and had them acclimatized in Podolia. From that part of Poland their cultivation spread liatelen is melt a, rendezvous, In the rough square 'but in by Grays ' Inn Road, 11 oi- l. bornalieeleilds Road, avtl PerthR :glen otel, numbers of swarthy Hirai 01 11211010,118, and art wink num, more or less Skilled, con. gregate. It is not, exactly an inviting local. ay. Tito streets hint at changed years and lost gentility. Things are not us they were when Wycherley, the author of the Plain Dreier, came here to seek for 11 wife the lien and lovely voting widow, the Countess of I/170010a. Ilut given a sunny day and Imagination's Icaleffinanope, and patterns of the brilliant South shall be found here. Stop iuto an Italian restaurant and note tho som- lope° of the Florentine, the 11 igh Blunting hat of the Savoyard, the gay heati.deess of the girl who toueltes a tambourine tion atel no passport is demanded. "elk Nvith the inhabitants. Note how the musical tongue of the far.olf southern vineyard, speech of the plates between geeat rivers, and the pule 34 of the mountain, 1110 guttural shadows" in the conversetion THE TROVBLESOME ENGLISH, —fair copy or ludicrous travesty. Study the men and the manners, the dress mid the ruling occupations of each separate and contrasted locality, Then come baek to the numbers recorded in official sheets, or in an Encyclopedia, and they will be dry and meaningless 110 longer. At the head of the list, in point ofnumbers, of Continental peoples represented are the Germans, A steady stream of recruits from the Fatherland has for many a year poured into Englieh countingbouses. Not every one is pleased by the competition thus ren- dered more rigorous. Home.bred clerks grumble ; they say the bread is taken from their mouths; and the sense of injury sustained is keen. Bat the remedy Inustsurely be to win such an equipment as to warrant expectation of success whatever the press of alien applicants. Let our young clerks have as much plodding industry, indomitable per- severance, and concentration of purpose, as the Germans, and get to know as many lan- pages, and their risk 01 183119 passed tn the race will be much reduced. Naturally the tide of German immigration has greatly scattered itself. A cheap home has to be sought by the majority of the new- comers, and they turn east, west, north, or south, as opportunity directs. The room or rooms that suit may be in Islington or Ken- nington or away at Stratford. There are always means to bring the worker to his work: for a few pence. As the crow flies south from St. Paul's, it is no far cast to a true German colony, Here, on the edge of Camberwell, Denmark Hill rises. As the reading world knows, and as Camberwell residents doubtless delight to remember, many of the scenes in Madcap Viol, I are placed in this locality; and Mr. William 131ack incidentally refers in bis novel to the prevalence of the German idiom IIIS HEROINE waits in Victoria Station, and others are waiting too : " Friends bound for the seme house. They werejoking merrily, They were young Germans, and a trifle boisterous." Well.to.do merehants reside hereabouts, perhaps some of those who figare in the coliunn and three-quarters devoted to the letter Z in the oombercial section of the Post,office Directory, and who are German or Polish almost to a man. And near to the station is a little German church, where the Lutheran service is rendered, and the spiri stirring hymns of the reformer, wham word were " half -battles," are often sung, The number of Kaiser Wilhelm's self-exil ed sons and daughters of the Iron Empire it town and suburb, together with London -born deeendants of German parents, is reekoned at upwards of sixty thousand. In the war time twenty years ago, there was of course a great fluctuation ; but now the figures may be said to grow daily. France sends the English tnetropolis about half as many of her children. There has been a history belonging to repeated rivals o oompanies. In bygone centuriee they gener- ally crossed Channel in the character of refugees, and they found Londonees uni. formly hospitable. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes about the end of THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY brought over a very great number of resolute Huguenots. They settled in Soho, Leicester Square, and St. Giles, in Chelsea, and Wandsworth. The Reign of Terror caused many royalists to seek shelter in the die. triet about Southampton Row, in Somers Town, and elsewhere. The tide never set back again ; and others drifted over and joined the descendants of the older and com- pulsory exiles. At a date nom, remote, the region around Leicester Square had the fame winch it still keeps of a foreign ground within an English city. Here was the true "Petty France," through York St., West. minster, onee had the name from its homes of foreign wool.stapiers. William Maitland, the topographer, in his History ?f London (1739), sap' teat in this vicinity it was "011 easy matter for a stranger to fancy himself in Frame," If the diffi- culty of such a mental feat has increaser', it is because of the greater fullness and variety of the constant traffic current, not through any replacement of the abiding French sights and sounds by purely insular 01185. The Gaul is etill in these quiet back streete, these noisy short -outs, these restaurants, these haunts of unfamiliar industries. The shops show at once to the initiated critic the =tonality of the common customer, The foreign names are in keeping now with t'ne wares in tho windows. The provision. dealers make tho many condiments that are throughout the region lthowu as Southern so dear to the Vrenoli palate a leading "lino" Russia. But the farming of the modioinall;„ 111011, tr„da, small " seuerals ' are here plants was won abandoned in Russia. At tin profueion, but there is a special stamp present there are forty.ffight speciespowing upon their stock, 13ritish Raison would curative virtues, but their Italian origin is wild 01 that region. They have lost their', ne at a, loss to know how to use a lat•ge pro. portion of their War0S. And then, as has etill preservedin the names by which they are Loon bin tod., peafflina, callings ave followed known in thoRussiati tongue. Afewyearsago in the ehabby, heated, evirstnelling book some farmers in the Government of kharkoy baildings. again began to cultivate them. Their efforts proved tto remunerative that many other TIM MAN IN TIM MOUSE, farmers followed their example, Now the v°11‘,tisioutZgoce.nt flipir.cflartvoignegstriceirteisosllest belhats eultivation is carried on in four districts of vot °,with the tattle l'aimian glees, If times are tlte that Government, and yields good profit to au alla WO prevailing moods morose or are sPollad" itt°1rfso. religanrgeeoittnIti et, cyst.' eof o'arclonie, the stray imptisitor may hear lihn- profits of 00010 10 to 80 rublee per desyatin, tivised in untranslatable communistic Life in 1Varsew is unusually, quiet. A01The Pronalunan is not behind his tradl this Ono of year, the 0014BOrt of the wool Mona" adversary, the Gorman, in fraterni. market end the races, the nity is generally !sing with his fellow.exiles Social dubs so full of strangers that there ie not rocent exist in considerable nmnbers, emd have This year the hotels aro empty and the race enough in the hotels to accommodate them.' 101,119 shades of worth and unworn). They preserve and foster the spirit of nationality, tracks almost deserted. Many jaws driven When ono of them is in session—eof course out of Moscow have come to Warsaw, but' in a house width is French as to its master, for foreign lands, Nor are their brother few of them remain in the city ; they leave' Pronoh as to its atmosphere, object, French as to its appointtnents largo and residents of the city carrying on bus -hie -as and language—the whole might be trans. With the same vim as heretofore. They are ported 0/1 tiret lilco Mope of stAgo furni titre, hardly seen in the theatres, at the 000010nd dropped into a, 1110115 in some faulieurg tracks, or in any plaoe of amusement omci the Seme end provoke no comment by even in the market they appear anbclued and its thenngriniy. carry on 0110117 business with great reserve, Nampo Vehnoitr believes that they intend "Lo avenge on Warsaw the ills within their 1)101110011 smiler in other parts of tho em- pire," WITH AIRY FINGERS alla ohengelees petition in the sloe.like eyes, and a smile whieh says ; " Signor, you must be rich here in your London ; want to think that you arc also kind," Observe the jewellery, the bright yet not Inhorm minus colors, the regular features, the olive complexion of the ertist'e model, Who etands a the first eounter peying part of her slender feu for strange oozing oake, the taste for which not less than the malting would ben mystery to an English maiden, And others are passing without. See you not the deep nufathomable aztue of Roman skies bending over the white headgear ? ls not that a glimpie of the (lampagna beyond the Roman plaid scarf ? Alas for the guls it ie jest Fancy's trick. A few steps nearer tho thunder of Holborn, and the allusion facTlense indicative " i" is the last letter now over many a window and ou many a, door- plate. At certain hours and seasone the organ -grinder is miteh in presenee. Fre- quently he hires his " machine," and the bend regularly brings him to and fro. There are people, studious persone particularly, who regard this man as a true Ishmael, with his " organ" -hand against every man, and would incontinently suppress him. But away in THE INTERMINABLE STREETS, which are all so like each other, and so bare of colour or of change, he is less unwel- come. The lads and lasies are his patrons. He is the humble minister of some hope that after all the world is not a dead level, Extreme poverty is the lot of many Ital. ians in London, and in Hatton Garden the hard fact is practically recognised. In Gran- , ville Street are the offices of a very useful relieving; institution, initiated by the hotne government of these waifs, and. presided over by the Italian ambassador. The Italian Benevolent Society does ft good work. The Dutch dwellers in London number at least fifteen thousand, and the Poles almost as many. Owing probably to the paternal o.nd ultra conservative constitutioe prevail- ing as yet in Russia, the subjects of the Czar are less frequently met with. The Greeks, who may 50E10 day go into rivalry with the Colossus of the North for the mate ownership of Constantinople,are fifteen thousand strong. The City knows the Greek merchants well. On the Mark Lithe C0111 Exchange they almost monopolise the importation of grain and of seeds front every country figuring in the lists of supply. 13ut the residences of these masters of London's food are often far afield, and mit necessarily in the same quarter. As wealth inereases, the gregarian instinot seems to lose its 1)°Twletertm has been another nation settled in the metropolis in the persons of to compact body of representatives from early times ; and in many respects this people is the most O separate and self-contained of any. Meer - s vatiou would perpetually point 0110111 0110 for an unique race, even if history, sacred and - profane, did not bsar this witness. They 1 have been oppressed, contemned, persecut- ed ; they have liover been absorbed. Beaten into dust by race -hatred, extermination Me - always proved impossible. There are be. lieved to be forty thousand Jews in London. The ancient Jewry was ill VIE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURITOCD Of the Tower. A peep at its stormy records 10 910011 in the pages of Stow, Ultimately, f the quarter given up to the Jews comprised some part; of Spitalfields, of Whitechapel, Houndsclitoh, the Minories and Bevis Marks, Social and race division located them sev. erely 010 sort of Ghetto. Singe the temper of the Wine became tolerant they have spread even into the far suliurbs. There is a sec- tion 01 1110 West where an entirely new Jew- ish colony has slowly congregated. In spite however, of this modification of rigorou line and. 1111110, the old spote retain the old oharacteristios. The nation is itself in its own strata and in ita own calling—both held of prescriptive righb. No error an be made a/warning the prevailing type by the most, completely uninformed wayfarer wi who wanders nto the byways oast of the Royal Exchenge. Prejudice has said numberless hard things of the seedy -looking mon whom you shall see statuling at the doors of staffy shops, or hoar cheapening a suit with an obstinate accent that will never be smooth English. But they have also found their defenders Chronic dinginess and disregard of soap and water have been charged against them. Sart Henry Mayhew " The Jew oltleilothesmen are generally far more cleanly in their habits than the -poorer classes of English people, Their hands they always wash -before their meals, and this is Sons whether the party be a strict Jew o " tneshumet," a convert or apostate from Judaism.' And in these dietrints there are the same distinctive signs in dross, in oast of counten. Rune, in articles displayed in The Italians in London aro fewer ; but they also have their colonies—each a small 5'0501'3'G"i0 the big eity-stato, to subsidiary !mare in the great maelstrom, Hatton II0ETLE-D1R/WED WINDOWS or upon street stalls, and in the embalm gibe and eepartee of the bhoreughfure, thatspeak of the stranger possessing his parcel of bricks and meanr within the gates. Pay the poo' p10 visits at varions nines, inquire the moan. nig of much that passes, and a whole world othidden custom and tribal habit will bo brought to light. The 500110 of London aro not swept into the vortex of ohange. They aro 031001011 the groat city still, peculiar in the routine of daily life, in feast and fast in religion observance and the shaping of social ties. notable Murder in Vienna. A shocking mime has boon committed in the Sandwirth Gant) in the Vienne Subtly of Mariahilf, says it Vienna telegram, Two young. roughs, brooking into the house m oceued by the porter at the tunbt elle man- ufactory of 131mm, Schaible d Sort, entered the chamber ,in width the porter and his wife wore asleep in bed, They fired a revolver at the husband whose age was 92 killing hiln on the spot, and then with 0 knife gabbed to death his wife, aged 130, inflict. ing on her no fewer than twenty wounds. The report of firearms alarmed the workmen who were lodging in the hone°, and they ran dowtt to the assistance of the old couple , whop the burglars turned on them, moverely wounding ono of them with a bullet, and inflicting tWo slighter W01111(18 Olt ft second, 00111101 00 third, a youth, saved lilinself by creeping under tho bed, The perpetrators did not carry out the intended robbery, but they elected their main ema aro still at, large. A LUCKY MAii t!,e ma rid es Ilforker. " They call me a liteky man. do they.?" " Yes, The idea of mos" of your auquaint anees and oompotitors 15 that you Mee sue. moiled so wonderfully and so ouddenly by a sea of luck that has bolded you," I an. swatted. " Of course they ;leery my abilities." " Yes. They relieve their own inner 0011' seiousness, smarting utuler the 0011 10051 of your progrese, by the easy reflection that no man can uommand the golden favore of Luck, whiell are dispensed by caprice, and goner. ally with a liagrent disregard of real merit," '7 And they prophesy my flosenfall tIs suit. den, one of these days, as my elevetion." "Bectietly. Those who believe in luth always embratie that fickle ending—except when they themselves happeo to be in luok, as they say ; in which ease they either abandon them creed, protesting that it was merit whieh was in their affaire, or trust most stoutly that thole luck will endure." I had been sitting for a pleasant hour in Ole Mike of an old school friend whom I had not tnet for years, in the city of T---. He was rich, influential, on the high road to great social eminence, and not yet May years eway from the evaille which his poor shoemaker father provided him, as also to his six brothers. His nareer was a brilliant 81100008. As my last words fell upon his ear he grew silent. Ho covered his ample brow with both Ins long, thin twitch!, rubbed the wrinkles of the day's care out of his face e[nph,t ititioassfootleyeniger, and, tinning m ing to e, said, j "Everything I have mut I am / first confess I owe to God. I started into life with good and sensible parents, if they were poor. I early found myself 10 pos. &elision of a sound body, and pardon me for saying it, reasonebly good mental faculties, and have had good friends along Obs way. Bub 101100 not been luck—hard, faithful toil rather—that has made me what I am. If a man has a strong body to begin with he can easily break it down, If he drinks, works to excess, disregards regularity in eating and sleeping, shall he lay it to luck that he sinks exhausted at forty years of age? I wateh my health as carefully as I do my capital in business. have stood by my health, and my health, therefore, has stood by me, " Whet would the most brilliant mental abilities amount to without practical school. the in my business ? I never told you that after we left oollege came to that very mill ; stood in this very office just about there," and he sprang eagerly upon his feet, steppieg to the middle of the room and turning like a martinet, " and asked for work. I dreamed of a mere book-keepee's place in the Oleo. I was advised to take off my coat and learn the business in the mill. Within an hour I was at my work in Ole weighing room where the cotton 0101110111 shaggy as a bobbin boy. For two long years I worked with the common operative, who were as good as I in God's sight, in- deed, and learned it all. There is not an operv,tion performed under that old root that I cannot do with these hands. It is 00 V'-"3' much luck to my suocess as a cotton Le friends. 14'011 thank Heaven. But he who aould have friends must show nensolt friendly. I have offiy three friends, among all who deserve the mune, whom I have not served with as costly service as they have given to me, and many with e costlier. Friends are made by friendly service. It is give and take ; I know it, and Otto any instant, day or 11 19111, at the com- mand of s few true men whom I call my friends. Hence I can command them. We gelid together ; we should fall together. The three exceptions aro offiy such because they am above iny reach of help or its need 1 yet they know my heart. It is my aim to deserve the absolute confidence of these men all. Is there any luek about this "I have 0 faithful corps of employees. Every man of them was selected with these thoughts, among others, in mind. Is that man agreeable 10 105 as a companion near my person, in thie (Ace, where I spend so many hours of iny rire? Are we congenial Is his mental nuthemp such as to correspond with mine ? 1 am quick to hear, to work, to decide ; full of hope. I could never live with a sad face or a hour spirit near me. I could not endure a hopeless mind, or a lag- gard, or a timid man. Of course, in moral qualities I would have none bat pure and honorable men. In short, every man here," and the offices had a score ab various desks, "15 like me, They are my kind. 10111 their kind. We know it, though I am not, of course, Intimate overmuch. They are like my brain multiplied twenty times—and ono or two of them, I believe, have more brains than 1—my hands, feet, eyes, ears, redupli. Gated, We walk like one man. It would be tt misforbune to spare these men philter' out of the millions, I risked myself on other question as 11110011 each man, namely, Would I atedially rejoice to see such a. man rise to a place of power in the world, he thoroughly glad to have him grow oub of my employ by developed abilities? Glad, save the privation of lus going. There is not, a man hero kept down. I have graduated four in these fifteen years. This oiliee is lilre O French cloak; you can't hear a tick of the machinery ; only the stroke of cathedral ohimes at the golden hours of results for which WO all Wit Ie there any luck about this? " What is luck aeyway ? It is an exouse to the careless, a complaint, to the weak, a growl to the guilty, a thankless laugh to the impious. A citrate', strong, guiltless, pious man has no use for the word. 0 Se Medal" mo, oh blessed thought, Ob, words with heavenly wisdom fraught ; whorefer Igo, winteeer .1 be, Still 'tie God's hand that leadoth me.' " I am willing to geant that there are corners of the street where the winds so blow, arta 535101,, and circle in, thee itt thab spot leaves will pile and best heaps gather ; will- ing to auknowletigo that there are pools in Ole stream where fish Oall live and where 10 is best to cast the line. But who mado the fence and brick wail that give the wind their swiel ? Bob chance, bub mind, And mind can find thepool wherein are conceal- ed the trout ; thee° east your One. I eon- ofersisatwo.a inystery in the ocourrences of human opportunity ; hut is the mystery of laws be. yond our reaching? Everywhere is the reign "I tell yon, old friend, that there is a Great Architect slowly building in this earth the dr dun of Sooiety &deemed. He drew the plans ; He furnished all the material ; He has fashioned the tools; He employs the workmen, for he created them with the breath of His nostrils ; and whatsoever is right swill shall receive wages By his cam. mend some Loll to day amid the newer found- ations, for even these are not yet laid in all their vasintoss;hy His oommand same fashion finials and fretworIc of high and eunny gable, 11 10 SOVVOS Him best, to send down a finished artisan from the florescent arches to instruot and tercel) the toilers digging in the mud, shall tho workman murmur? 11 the appron. tico is promoted fee Merit, or fOr sea. 0111111.011111,15.1•111.111=0•10.111181910 sons hidden front 01910, shall others protest? is it not 3110 o1111 9 If the worknunt must maloe C0111011I for 001110 rare and costly Minh, from 1110 team and beady drops of SOI, row, 01. paint hotlines 01 ilashieg eiders 01 10 martyr's blood, le it pot all its the plan? Anil we shall have otte reward. " I tell you that the only one hard reality in all this talk about tlie luoky man wbieli you have heard of me, is that to bo suecuse. ful 111 the world is to be disliked, 13e3 111 live Ill kill the urine by my kindness." We shut tloo offices door, entered the earriage, aittl d MVO home to dine tot a hospit. able board, which tied bad furnished to au 1011550, herd worker. The 0 P.Sglit Brakeman's Story, remember," said the freight, brake. 1118010. " all adVOIII•11TO 1 once had which came near being my last. We were overrun with tramps flaring the Summer, and had to use pretty severe 11104/15 somethnes in order to get rid of them. 'I'wo big, stout fellows, whom I found in an empty hox-cer next to the engine, refused to !novo until, by having hot eteam turned on them with a hose from the engine, they were forced to vacate. They made threats of getting even with me, but I thought no more of them. " One cold, rainy night in the following Aaiun') the train stopped at a wayside tank fur water. Going back over the cars releasing Wellies, I came across a man seated upon 0 ear directly over a creek, width, swollen by the vales, had beeome a rushing torrent. I told him to get oft' the train, The sound of my WACO ilaa 13 4111gu- 1orOffeet upon him, for he sprang to his feet, and grasping me by the throat, ex- claimed : 'Now I've got you. You don't remember niet, do you, sonny? Well, I haven't forgotten you, nor the time yo11 drove me from tho car MO the hot steam. That creek, down below, is just the plao for you, and in you. go'. "Tho top ot 0 freight car, made slippery by rain, is not the best place for a life and. deathstruggle, and, 08 118 was aheavy man and hold my throat with a grip that prevented outory, my chances of escape seemed. slim. I made the best effort possible, but each move brought nie nearer the edge of the roof, until it needed but a slight effort upon Itis part to send me whirling into the stream below. Seeing this, he braced himself for a final effott. Eivents, however, were in my favor. The car, instead 01 9)01119 of a am- nion pattern, was 9tted with ladders run - n ir g up the sides near the centre,and I grasp. al the tap rail just in time ; for as I did so the train started with a jerk. " Losing his balatice, my would-be assas- sin plunged forward, and, releasing his grip upon my throat, fell with a splash into the stream below. It 3555 801110 time before I could regain strength enough to go forward to the engine. 33y that time the train was miles away, and the fate of my assailant I never teamed." Truths From the Trumpet. No man is satisfied who does not know that he is at peace with God, The sinner can not see God anywhere ex- cept in the Christian's life. No ono ever broke down while trying to lift a heavy load for God, God never made a man who weld walk straight 01 the face of a doubt. The closer mon look into the Bible the more of God they will find in it. In the great clay nothing will be consid- ered great except loyalty to Christ. When God says: Go," you can not do anything to pleatte him trhile you stay. To find pleasure in wielced thoughts is as wicked AS to commit tricked deeds, There is nothing more precious within the reach of Mall WW1 God's promises. One of the most useful of all men to the devil is the hyprocrite in the church. The devil never gets tired of setting traps for people who have faith in God. You can't tell how much religion people have by the size of their family Bible, The devil would miller get one child by the hand than to make a dozen drunk- ards. , The man Wil0 has learned to love people he doesn't like is on the right road to heaven. It is hard to convince a man who has no religion that anybody else is as good as he is. Sincerity, truth, faithfulnees, come into the very essence of friendship.—[Channing. If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.—[Alexander Smith, Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the•world weigh less than a single lovely action—(Lowell. Amiableness is the object of love, the scope and end is to obtain it, for whose sake we love, and which our mind covets to en. joy.—[Burton. It is of little traits that the greatest Int. man character is composed.—[WilLiain Win- ter. Charity, in whatever guise she appears, is the best natured and the best complex- ioned thing in the world.—grederiek 11101111. dors. A Christian life 10 the great key of the Gos- pel.—{Thomas Wilson. Circumstances are beyond tho control of man ; but his eonduot is na his own power.— [Disraeli. 1 A Woman Bull Fighter. While the fair damsels of England are endeavoring to oust moo from every position which until -now they alone have occupied, their Gallic sisters show themselves by no means backward in doing the eame thing. The progreseive English girl, disdaiffing to link her fate with that of man, enters aollege and becomes a senior wrangler 01 00 author- ity on the pliocone period. If her tastes are still more exalted she is a disciple of Buddha, and reverently believes 01 Om metempsy- chosis. Perhaps she may have a liking for athletics, ancl follows the holm& over many te eveli.plowed field, is incomparable at a five -barred gate, and is regularly in at the death, to receive poor Reynard's brush as the guerdon of hor exertion, But the French W01111141 has already gone beyond this. The French have lately adopted the Spanish bull fight as 000 of their national pastimes. Of course, it is not such 0 common 89010 55 it iS south of the Pyrenees. But to make up for this the French have lately introduced a new feature of the sport likely to be inter. ageing to those who are longing for the am- anoipation 100/0011, The toreador is an- tiquated. So also the picador, the matador I and the rest or Omni, In future the sterner sex wiU look ort and witness the bull writh- ing and wincing under death womuls Millet - 0c1 by the toreadora, pioadora and onatadora. Who knows whether in these days of WO• man'is progrees the 0000 will not suprosede the bull, and, in place of her lord and master, fight her well -fought fight with her feminine assailants, mounted onliorses of the female perottasion ? Tine alone can tell. Moan. while let ES WIA011 tyib1 imtloisso intermit) the impending bull tights in Pais, in which tloo fair sex, duly and honorably represented in the person of MIK Lenty, will slaughter the victim before an enthusiastic and admiring crowd of opootatoro.