The Brussels Post, 1892-5-6, Page 7MAY O( 1802,
THE RUSSIAN FAMINE.
Desoriptiouo Do Not Do Justice to the
Situation.
iscoovitS ivms,s 11010 01118.1.10.
Tho.preeent condition of the Iteseiee nem.
entry 111 the Tontine nietriets is 000 of sueli
appalling misery that any ono not t borough-
ly (Le:painted with thu tents woallil be liable
to shrug h Is dentinal.; and regitril the whole
thing its an exaggeration. Notwitlistenii-
ing the generous gnus thab have beim poor.
ing in front every quarter of the globe,
tunong which the inegniticent oontributions
from Americe tette the Bret, piece, the need
is so great) thet peecoptible hnprovement
io noticed in the wretelled condition of tho
populace. As a striking illusteation of the
general eouthtion NI extract from a privete
teeter from Samara luny he of interest. The
letter is in reply to a previous one, 141111 iS (10
followe : Your letter, filled WW1 warm.
hearted interest for onr suffering poor has
cheered us greatly. You seem 1.0 d0111M.
THE ACTUAL CONDITION
and aro inolined to think that one reports
have been magnified. I 01111 assure you Mut1.
what you have been told is the l'011h, pure
and eimple, Yes, the description given does
not do justice to the frightful reality.
Every eye•witnese intuit confess that an ex-
aggereted description of our people's mates.
witless is ubsolutely impossible.
Thanks to bountiful gifts, it has been
possible for 110 to daily give the start lug
Herne warm soup. 01 1(10 3,500 members of
our congregation we feed 2,700 daily. In
this manner they aro at least kept from
starving to death which they, under other
eirounistancee, would surely have done.
However, they COMEllitt hungry even with
what: we give them as nobody gete but one
meal /11 tweety-iout. to thirty hours. A
bowl of soup and very thin soup at Med is
not the most satiefactoey n mrishment.
When, as is the ease with us, all
enemies oe mon ARS SKIIAUSTRD,
when there aro no potatoes, no broad, no
vegetables, nn tett, no sewer, and not even
fuel to protect us froln the Mame() cold, it is
not to be expected (.1(0.1 0)10 misery is ended
by getding e bowl of S011p a day, bedtime
this only enables us to save our lives from
one slay till another. Old and young waste
away imel fall an easy prey to sit:knees mel
death. The schools are dosed on n000loiL
est lack of fuel. Teaoherseml °Incline of the
congregation have not retteived their eateries
for a long time past and are suffering inuch
misery and greet privation,
This 18 Why we consider ourselmsjustilied
in asking for bread for one starving poor.
The thirty pot -olds of flour which the (100'
00011101111 allows emit mouth only lasts about,
ten or twelve days. The vomaining twenty
days the people are without food. NV ith in
a month
TOE SPRING WoRK COMMENCES.
Most of the peasants are withent cattle or
horses, end consequently can not perform
thu uecessary ploughing end sowing. The
few that still have draught animals are in
danger of losing then, RH they 11111.0 no
fodder and aro almost certain et tiering to
sell them to procure bread foe themselves.
But hew will they be ebbs to
take ettee of the farm water without
horses or oxen ? Whet will be the 001100'
0)001100 if the peasauts ere unable to cultivate
their land?
This is but one of 111)30 0101113' thousand 0011.
gregations similarly situated.
The renewing figures which nre obtained
from o clergyman, show the 001011 10(0)1 of a
typical village in Samara end epettk for
themeelves. The normel (30(314(0 11(411 of the
village WM 7,850, but of this uumber on
Jan. 1 !eel. 2,765 were alment froin Valione
00110e0, while 78 were reported ill. At the
aort•osponding
P1111100 OP 1886,
the villuge was in a proeperous condition.
.All the people were leen clad, had plenty of
fuel, and poseessed adequate supplies of
bread and wheee. There WM also plenty of
fonder for the cattle end horses. At the
beginning of the present year alma one-
third of the total number uf families had
absolutely no luel, and an equal nation
bad hardly any elothing, their only protec-
tion front the cold being 0 few miserable
rags. Between Jan, 1, 1880 Red Jen. 1 1 802,
the number of horses had diminished from
3,739 to 1,667, the number of COWS from
2,381 to 609, and the number of !sheep and
gents ftenn 6,526 to 1,962. Al present some
1,210(310001(0 in this nue N'illage are denote'.
ent for their subeidenue 11(1)00 (1(10 relief they
reeeive from Zemstvos.
With regard to the
emeences OP NEXT HARVEST;
they are blacker than ever, ns may be seen
from the slender stock of grain that lute
been and is availeble for seed. The rela-
tive position le this village as between the
two periods compared, stood time 1 Num'
bar of " clessiatines" (a dessiatine being two
0/1(1 three•quartere acres) for which there
30108 008111(1 hand Jan. 1, 1880, 14,1300; Jan.
1, 1802, 886. Number of dessiatines sown
Jon. 1, 1880, 8,850; J401.-1, 1809, 1,303.
This means that some 15,701 dessintines of
grain -growing lend, or over 40,000 acres,
must 10 this singlo nistrict of lemmata lie
fallow tiering the present year for lack of
seed. Tho calculation if extended in a
greatly modified form, to the famine•
stricken districts generally yields results
which are
000I01VSLY APPATAANG.
Since the month of September the lira stock
of the village referred to above has been
diminished by the loss of 1311 hovses, 162
oxen, 11(1400000,20(1 calves, and 9,500 sheep
(1011 )101(110, ill al 4,038 11011G of cattle. in
addition to those lessee the indebtedness of
the community hos boon increesed during
tho past six yeare by 511,184 rubles. en
1886 it was 13,210 rubles ; it now steeds at
72,380 ruble.
Many of the peneente, to save fuel, have
dug for themeelves hales in the ground, and
then ennsteuethel subtheranean alienat0 in
which they burrow like foxes. In some of
the villegoe they aro eating broad made
from wild hemp, and even the =cams of
the horses that have died.
AN OLD MAN OP SIOVENTV•PIVII
who had walked ten 1111108 marrying lat enor•
Mous lona of cotton which he end his family
had woven received in peplum it bag at
flour weighing thirby.six pounds, and a few
0(1100 3100(100(00(00, min with this fresh hetet
ho preowned to walk book. Ris 1100008 1101?
been sold, and nobody would lend him one.
The people manage to got amne nourish-
ment out of a kind of tea made from tho
wild pass of the steppes, awl mixed with
Spanish licorice, /a many villages this is
all they havo to live upon.
Ono priest writes from Tula thab out of n.
congregation of 6,000, only 1,000 are nide to
ecippoet thotnsolvese Meet is Co say, they peen
0000 onoagh olothing, some foot, and a little
food; the remaining 5,000 aro half naked
and
• NIIARZNI tireaven
Tho government does what it 0111(1 111 gives
thirty pentane call:me to emit person, with the
exoeption oi laborites bet Ween 17 and 15 y tare
of aye Now, there are eeverel temilwe in
whieh there 111013 (01)1 wo lo five lehorerte (tad,
lie they arC1110I011 titled to 0l(y rel ,of whatut Or
FRO 0 THE 1;0W:it:Ill ENT,
(11(0 0(10))')' may readily be imagined. No.
holy 11" "1111111g, exeept te little breed
made of bran. Nobetly ilares to eat it
square tneel ; (1 1(0 did, the dimities are that
lie Nyman be without food for dap; even
melte, ass nobody lute potatoes and beefily
cooking Halt. Nobody (1are) to Irate the
lirarelloue into bread ; they make a soup
/W100 0(1)13' 01)11 (1! water, era, and
brite.11our. This lit mean its a mbetituto for
bread, We Lave lived in this manner for
months. All of 1/0 are ernaciaten and have
(3 (10(1111113' pallor. Youlag men 90 and 30
Y01000 old tremble like oln men (11101 Dee
Too Ne zee TO DO ANY NVORN.
As they 000 0101 anything but this bran
they become bloated and subjeeted to a
peculiar dropsical eomplitint which alwaye
eesults in death. Few 11000 sullielent
fug. children nonrated behind the
stoves. Nobody hos any light. One must
lie sleeplese with an empty stomach , from
4 p. in. to 0 a, in. We have not even
matches to light a fire with, 11 we do not
obtitin speedy relief the larger portion of ,
our coogregetion will perish.
The Sabbath Chime.
Icon not 001*
18800(0(1(1 the presence of bffe's rams to -day -
1 ,foy in these;
But' can saY
That I would rather wane this rugged (00.7,
It Rim ((p181800.
Tenn not foot
That all is well when enelconing oloudsooneleal
Tho shining SIM;
lint Woo 1100030
Gocl lives and. loves -eon say, since it Is so,
' Thy will he done.
I do nn; POO
Why Clod should Car permit some (11111(40 (0 bo
When (11, is Love ;
Ilut. I can sen,
Though often dimly through tho my•dery,
111.4 band above.
0011 not speak
In happy tomet-the tetimIrops on my choolc
Show 1 am std ;
Tint I can speak
Of grace 10 301)001' with submission meek
Coin nimbi gind.
&mot ionic
Cpon the present, nor in Nature') book,
To read my ram;
Bill 1 de 100H
E'er promised blesgligs In Clod's II Book,
And I can watt.
T may not try
To keep the hot t (MN 11.1,1•:, 1016 110011 the sign,
" it 'might have been; '
And try to stilt
All rising murmurs, and to Clod's sweet wfll
Ito:Toed, .11 (1310.
Gol In Thoughts for Every Day.
Monday-- We know, as (1 311 our pride to
know, thet 111011 is by his constitution ft re.
ligieus animal ; that atheism 14 against, not
only our rem on, but one instinets ; and
that it can not, prevail long. Bat if, in the
moment of riot, and in earl-011ton delirium
from the het, spirit neaten out of the alembic
of hell, which France is now so furiously
boiling, we shouln uncover our nakedness,
by throwing oil that Christian religion which
lute hithereo been our boast and comfort,
end one great eource of civilization among
us, mil among many other nations, 300 are
appreheiteive (fallen well aware that the
mind Nvill not endure a void) that some u
couth, peruieleus tuul degrading supersti.
tion might take place of it.--LEelmand
Burke.
Tuesday- -
J0000 meek and gentle
son of (Mil 11,04 high,
Pitying, lot ing Savior.
Beat thy children's cry.
Pardon our offenses,
Loost, nor 'motive chains,
Break down every idol
Which our soul detains.
Clive us lioly 100011001,
000 1101011 Adlif 1011)
Pre w 110, holy 0500,
'rn the realms !there.
Load (10 00 000 30(1011)',
lie thyself Om way,
Through terrestrial darkness
To celestial day.
-Anonymous.
11 eanesday-Let us appeal to ourselves,
whether we aro not more unwilling to seevet,
closet, hearty duty to God, than to join with
others in 001110 extetnal serviee ; as if those
Mei/Peel serviees were a going. to the reek,
mid rather 001' (303)01)00 than privilege. How
much service !loth God in tho world from
the same principle that vegrants perform
their task 111 Bridowell 1 How glad are
many of evasions to batik them in the no.
gloat of the commands of God, of corrnpe
reasonimes from the flesh to waylay an act
of obedience, 11(1(1 18 multitude of exenses to
bleut the edge of the precept l-rDr. Char-
red..
Thursday -Religion is not confined to
cells and elosets, nor restrained to sullen re-
tirement. These are the gloomy dootrines
of Sepetstitlon, by which she endeavors 1.0
breek those eludes of benetielence antisocial
affection that link the welfare of every par-
ticular with that of the whole. Reinember
that the greeted', honor yon can pay to the
Author of your being is by such cheerail be-
havior as discovers 0, mincl being satisfied
with his dispensations,-(Johnllowo.
Friday, -
Grant 110, 110111' Lord, from oril ways
Tree absolution and release;
And bless us, more than in rant days,
.'t • 1 11130110(81)03100,
Thi'elItgli ilfo'e lung (ll(('and 11010011',k
's (lar
0 gentle ;loses, bo our light,
Labor is stv001, for thou ham. Mind;
.end 00-00 131 light, for thou hes cartel ;
Ali never let one works he
With etei re, or by deceit ensnared.
Threugh iffeei long day and death's dark
night.
0 gentle Jesus, be our light. •
ne, Faber,
Saturnety-T, know from experience that
habit can, 111 direct, opposition to 000.77/ 0011.
viction of the mind and but little ained by
the elements of temptation (stud: as present
pleasure, eta.), 13(1100,130 repetition of the
mod intworthy ections. Tho mind is week
where 11 (1180 once given way. It is leng be-
fore a principle editeeta eon become as firm
as one 11111 11(18 novee boon moved, 1110 as
lbe case of rt 011540111 of a reservoir ; ff this
mound has ill one place been broken'what.
ever elmas , hbeen taken to make (ho re-
paired. part as strong ne poesible, the probe.
Witty is Mutt if it give way again, it will be
in that Num. -Pohl Foster.
Oanada at the World's Pan,
A. despatch from Ottawa, artyrn-Mr.
Saunders, Canadian cionlinisimier
to the World's %the WKS to -clay notified by
diroctor.gemoral (1(101epee lied boon allotted
for the exhibit of Canadian live stook at
Chicago as follows : Ili horses, 1130 cattle,'
3(10 sheep end 11(0 swine. 11 hose fignros
110)11 1)0 30010(1(00 118(00 to tele live stock mem ,
RH it was not peeten thee, they woula lio
permitted to exhilnt so many. The repro-
eentations, however, of Mr, elamelers have
evtilontly had nue effect, It is ((('0 (300001 to
allot cho number fairly among the ifferent
provincee,
THE 13BUSSELS P 0 ST.
YOUNG FOLKS tomsjof European Pester, of the bier, deo-
V-
Around the Corso'.
" Now, Rob," said Rob's mothor, givinga
last toueh to w hi tie, •remein her, (11180.
not beyond the ei reel; euriaar,,,
" V011'111," 141040'01.1N1 1L/111, "I'll remember,"
mid he jammed his hat down, quite sore al
that ;mama that untillag could tempt hini
loth dm forbidden av,:ri tut,
11 was his first morning out in his (low '
sailor suit, and that wee one reeson why ho
felt it so easy te premise, Any ono, a' Lo
11110 on /4 brave note milt, (019 (1 white bleeps
down tho legs and three deep pnekete lie
actual count, and low.eut Ithoes, will
find It towy to make a promise,
And so this 11 ttlo gentleman in blue tent I
down tho broad brow)] steno Mops, feeling,
1(1 via) of the then distance ha eould go,
quite cheerful and confidena
It waen t 14 very lively street that leiltved
on, with ite still' little 00W Of VOQH down the '
centre, and its (1111 1(00000 Una one 0.1111(11A
teli apart except, for the curtains, ,uni its I
nurses with fluify-haired little gi 01s -it
wasn't at all lively,
.And when Rob hal, Nvelked up one side-
walk and down the other, and had coupled
the birds ill the trees till they ell 11030amity,
0001 11(111 mad, "How do you do, sir?" to
the Ing policeman, he felt 1111180 310 heel come
to the end of what liveliness there 3008.
When, further, he had seen a boy go past
with et suit on exactly like his 0000, he was
doe he eves having a very dull time.
Then 001110 the thought of the dear, big„
dlr(y avenue jeet around the corner.
Tho boys there played leap.frog and spun
tops, for he had wen them, 111101 (11103' alweys
seemed to be 010(1(03 0. let of noise, wind,
everyliony knew meant hon.
"Guess I'll go and look at 'em," he sitid
fingering his marbles. " I won't go round
I'll only look,"
lie didn't; incan to forget bin promise, and
he never could tell how it happened, but
somehow that, Melt led to a step, 111)11 the
step to a pane, and presently he was play-
ing wall +al his might, and main, It 0000
glorious fun, (11(11 ±11 the midst of it somebody
canon him a cheat.
" I don't olleat,” said Rob, angrily.
" I say ye do. 80011 ye 1" retorted the
aveene boy, and then before 0110 0011111 say
Jack Robinson, before one mould even take
breath, the two boys were fighting with Het
And foot.
11 1100.0 t; eorry sight, there on the sunny
pavement, and a gentle•faced lady coming
swiftly tewara the heieting, tumblings lig.
18(00 stopped to eepamte them.
" boys," she said., and instantly
Rob's linnets unclinehod, his hoed dropped,
Ids very heart seemed to choke with shame,
for it was the voice of his 00011 mother.
She had not lthown him in this sad char.
actin., but now she saw who it wits.
" Can it he nty boy ?" she asked, with
snob nal ache in her voice• that Rob's lips
quivered in spite of himself. "31y boy
that I trested ?"
Then she hrusheil the deny shoulders,
and led her rumpled 'tailor home.
He had to go to bee?, and lie' there the
whole long afternoon with tho sunbeams
looking at him like deer, sorry eyes, rind
the birds outside seeming to say, " Now
aren't you sorry, noW aren't yon sorry, nOW
are not -you-sorry."
It was twenty•four hours long that after
noon, but at last it was night, and then in
le jiffy it was morning with a. chance to begin
again.
" Trust) me this once, mamma," he said
with a hig hug. "end I won't oven leek
round the mum"
Ite kept, his weed, too, though a 11(10(1'
0)0(1)1 played just out of sight, and one of
the boys came to ask 11101 to roll hoops.
He kept his wont, an11 when he nestled
down in his mother's arras that night he
15103 very glad, for her eyes were happy
Iagain, and her voice eounded like Christmas
music, and the stories she told hint were
every one about bonne and Indians the very
host she had told yet.
GODDE'S SONDAYB,
rhe quaint Mame be. nester eunday
once erns -Known.
An old sermon handed down front the days
of Henry Sixth tolls how " (lode men and
W0111011 know alle wen this day is called
Auster Day, tend in some place Sasch Day
and ill some plane Goilde's Sondaye. 1111110
celled Auster Day for in Ditch place it is the
mem to put fyre onto of the house at the
Astnr, that had bone all the weynter burnt
with tyre and blithnd with smoke. Hit shall
this day be arrayed with gene rushes and
mete flowres strewed alio &boobs, showing
(0 heygh ensample to elle ;nen and women
that right Re they mity olone the house tale
within, bearing owte the lire and strawin
flowres, so ye sehtilde elenee the home of
yonre sonde,"
For the benefit, of the reader, wo have
modified the queent spelling, and in these
Needle spoken in the dark ages NVO find all
the hooray of the Easter thought, the soul
oleansen and inede heitetiful to receive the
new life, the flower; just risen from the
gray, dead eareh, fit emblems of the 008110.
nation.
More than any other oelebration, the
Easter festival reaches into tho past and
mingles with the creeds of all netioes. Tho
sublime resurrection thought it embodied
in the philosophy of legypt, Persia,
Gaul, Greece anel Rome, and is everywhere
typified by the egg. The day is 113p001801(.
011 with peculter ceremonies. In olden
Enelancl a sepulcher WAS erected mei 111011
geavely wateheel ib through the night.
Fires NVOTO extingeishod in every home.
Those were again kindled by braeds lighted
at, the church aro'which was itself newly
made with flint, The brands, 10141119 0010.
ed their purpose, were kept as talismens.
In timo of storm they wore relighted, anti
the house thus protected was believed to be
safe from the dangersof lightning °ref wind,
On Easter ova the ohnrches wore lighted I
with paschal tapers of immense size, Ono
is recorded prepared for Westminster Abbey
church as weighing :300 pounds.
1u many houees, partioalaely in Ireland,
great prepaations were mule for the finish.
ing of Lents :Emig were dressed, pieces of
baeou set to boil, while lite assembled ones
waited for the 000k to give the midnight
erow. With a, layout; olapping of hencle
Lout was then doelaron out, feasting and
merriment followed for m time, when all re.
tired, to vise 1± the early delAVII anti wateh
for the (1(100313 81131,
Even the 11030 honed, which is eupposod
to be alike near to the woman's heart, and
the bane of the husband, and which is part
of the deck of the professional humorist, fa
not tho result of present tasto er fashiem,
but conics front the far past. It was the
rule that evory poison have 001110 1101,0 art.
foie of tithes upon limiter day, Ileanoe,
Dorsolabire poet, tolls how
"Les( c lioo(,'ol put on my blue
newt: vont the 1104130111 noW,
ValIor buttons o' brass.
That 3111I0(')((l in the ette like RIOS%
11 •1- i• a • •ner entt la "
1 1Nfo have bees told and retold of tho ens-
nrolod Will] orangeand olden, mule,
bearing tho bo•ly of the dead Christ, 01 (110
011111e81. watching for the mortiing and the
he wain' dad reel in r the Greek
" The Lord has Risen " with
us response. fro 18 teem indeed, and both
appinrol 110t0 l'111000." We know bow the
roieao 1.‘,4ee1e, with songs HS 1110
/0r..11.1prjao/1 /awe/w01n/1.1 Wind 111 /40(1 On 1,
011101W 1 00 /11110. V1-.1., W11110 00011 locality
led ire 01011 p mailer cleaning, everywhere
the eag 1101110 1411 importhet plane,
The Egypl ions (.1 e in (11 (1(1 43111111021 1(1 (11(1
universe olol ‘.1. 1110 renevation ((1itien 'titer
the deb' ee, The Pereinne 1011 11(111' Ahriman,
by breaking fogether the egg made by hie
brother Ormuz anal filled with good genii,
and then ewe which he had IWO with
evil demote:, (het good and evil were
mixed 01 1(00 ornaloll, 'nip twin 11111101
ot ow Ronne; Castor and Pollux, wore
fabled to have spetneg from an egg. The
Helarewe piece upon their paitehal 1101)18 )1(1
egg 3/000.1140 Of Ilio Ned mie 01 1.1(0 dishee
appointed for the feitet of the elect In the
other lite. The Mesopotatniane stain eggs
red in memory of the shed blood of the
oruol-Iixion, The Cornetts associate wit h the
colored ogee, which the children say a deer
little hare brought them, rt tender story of
home life and gratitude, The cuetom origin-
ated in the [witness of the Hartz Mountains.
A oonntelie, a refugee from war, wishipg to
reward the people for their kindness, had
0 few fowl brought to her, the first ever
seen there. Inviting the children to her
110008 0(1 Easter Day she pleiteed them by
having them find in the grove nests of the
pretty eggs, winch the children believed
(1)0 1110000 in the grove had laid. During the
play the count, W110 WM said to be dead,
came to the village. When the lady re•
(.001)01 (0 hur 08011 110010 she there instituted
the feast, which beriame a universal thing
ancl everywhere a typo of reconciliation and
joy.
In (11(0 01000 strieb of the Greek and Ro.
man churches eggs were forbirlehm during
Lent. Perhaps from that comes the ensthm
111 101103' of one homes of holding a vevitable
feast of ego at the Easter Sunday break-
fast taldo resulting in a small triumph to
the 0110 30110 could eat the largest sinroher.
An old book tells how in Italy on Easter
eve great chargers of eggs were sent, to the
churches and blest to be eaten LIB the first
flesh fond after tho lenten feet. Each per.
son carried his own portion home where a
large table was sei in the hest room, cover.
ed with fine linen and strewn with flowers.
On this table would ne placed several dishee
of meat together with the eggs which, in a
wealthy funny, would number twenty doz•
en. Side tahes aronnd the room were laden
with the family plate and every available
ertiele of beauty or value. The 000111 re-
mained thus arranged throughout the week,
and all who came were invite11 to partake
01 (8(1 Faster egg, which offer must 0011 1)0
refused.
The Beater egg played 110 small pert in
the old Ploglish home. They were bonen
and while still warm designs were traced
with the end of it tallow cenelle and then
bnmereed in the prepared dye. The part
melte(1 with the tallow would, renutin
white. Others (meld be tlyen, then etched
with a penknife, an embitions artist at-
temptieg mottoes, cupids, or COVOTI 1011(1-
8001)00. (11(11 while 111)0 1103' woulcl carry out
his speckled ewes to test their streneth
againet these nf others until the one strong
enough to nutlast the pugilistic encounter
3014,, pill away 10 triumph, his elder brother
net the darefully decorated egg to the girl
who Was at mire the object of his love anti
fear. 1.11 1110117 1 northern village home, on
the top 01101 of the corner cupboard there
me.y be seen a leng-dernmed (110 311180 hold-
ing it enbaren egg, and the mandmother of
the house will tell the ineredninue visitor
how gren'ther gave her thee the Easter
'fore they W000 )11100(001, " just forty reit%
ammo ; theth's the vent words he wr•
'Dost (ho love me, Peggy ?"
On Han English table bitter herbs, eansy,
0101110(1 (01111 others weee always the accom-
paniment of the egg, (3001)111113) 11000(100 of the
hitter herns that were used on the paschal
table of the Hebrews,
That loyalty imlulged in eggs 10 0110(0(1 by
10 roll of the expellees of Edward I„ where
there Is this item 1 "For tom hundred and
a half of eggs, ciehteen pence," Those were
purchased for the purpese of staining or
covering with goldleaf and were gif te worthy
of a pence.
Sifting was once a popular yet peculiar
custom, It was the habit of knightly and
furbelowed cavaliers to carry mounds gaily
decked chair, enter the houses, place epee
the cheer mime patched and powdered lady,
and lifting (1)high in the air, eltam e, kiss as
ransom for her release. Or it might be a
group of jolly matrons who evonlel sit
amine( table bearing glasses and r0 11(0010.
(00(1 a foaming ale. Let my luckless man
appear and be would be chased, eseught,
heaved in ((1)1(1110, kissed, nun eompelled to
pay eixpencie for liberty to go.
•
rhe Matt surgeon
Of the Lubon Medical Company is now at
Toronto, Canada, 0111d. nuty 'be eon:allied
either in person or by letter on all amnia
dieenses nominee to men, 1313n, young, old,
or middle-aged, who Snel themselves nerve
one, week andexhauste(1, who are broken
down from execs) or overwork, resulting in
many of the following eymptoms 1 Mental
depression, preineture old age, loss of vital.
ity, loss of memory, bad dreems, dimness of
sight, palpitation of the beert, emissions,
lack of energy, pain in the kinder, heed.
'hate, piinples on the face or body, itching
00 (3001111(10 sensittion about the scrotum,
W18011119 of the orgens, dizziness, specks
before the oyes, twitching of the Imitates,
eyo lids and elsewhorenteshfulness, deposits
in the urine, loss of willpower, tenderness of
the scalp and spine,wertle and flabby muscles,
desire to sleep, failure to be rested by sleep,
constipation, dullness of hearing, loss of voice,
desire for solitude, excitability of temper,
sunken eyessurroundeawith 0,1)0111)10(0 011(00.8,
oily looking skin, eta., 000 )111 symptoms of
tervous debility thel lead to insanity anti
elontil =noes cured. The spring or vital
force having lost its tension every function
00e3100 in consequence. Those who through
bum committed irt ignorance may be per-
tinently eured. Send yotte address foe
;took on all diseases peculiar to mon.
tBooks senb free soalod. Iteardiseaso, the
symptoms of whieh 0,00 11(11111 spells, purple
numbness, palpitation, skip beets,
not flushes, rush of blood to the head, dull
pain in the heart with beats strong, runic'
land irrognlar, the scond heart beab
Vaster than the first, pain about the breast
ibono, atm, eau positively hemmed. No dupe,
no nay, Send for hook, Address, al, V.
LtiBQI(. 24, Macdonell Ave. Toronto, Ont
The Wabash river litte overflowed, am?
many of ehe low lying sections of Indiana
aro flooded. Crops aro ruined. ;Ninelt dam.
0,30 lute also boon none by floode in tho Sem
gamin valley in Illinois,
Th o search party in tho Ttill Farm 1111110
at Dunbar, Pa., on Saturday brought out
the bodies of Ilarney Marsh and David
Naves, who wore entombed t11e10 in J11110,
1890. This 111(810-00 27 bodies rouovered,
POST -OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Annual Report of the i'oetwasterGen-
Brat
1 11.1,1'01010 (88 Nu In 111+2, or 1,0,4 1^01111(.1.4
1,11 II% the 11•71g0 --Letters 11elWe00
VII 11 l'4/01'Pr Al 11 11, 111011 1$ Kong Toronto
releasers the CVO:IWO .431101}1 1 Or
WOrk 10 1110 heniteintent ee ate g
Ranh /48110kIlle8,
;simnel repert of the Posingteler.
timeral WIN presented to Parlitinient to-
day, It stake; that the I10t113,00 Of 'Wit.
0n11704 10 LIM Dominion 011 duly 1 1.00 was
8,0(11, being an inertiose nf liS over the
number in operation 011 Ole 101, July,
1111(11. The (nail routes have been
ed 1,3, 707 miles (((1)11 the annual mait'travel
hen been ineretsed froin 991,510,-3r miles 40
97,1139,5113 miles. The Northweet territor-
lee earl Manitoba, show the largest inerease
in mail route, in those provineee 'teeing in.
creased front 0,053 to 7,480. 130i001)4 Col
melee also Mimeo vonehlertable Dicrease,
the mileage in 1800 1)0103 8,0(18, end in 1801,
5,001. OlitariO, 7)11tUrtilly, 00111i5000 to
furnish the grenteet emenutt, of e foi
the department. There were existing hi
the premier province on July 1,3,026 post -
offices as against 1,441 in Quebec. 'I he
number of miles of post route in Ontario
30100 IS,670 ; in Quebec, 11,11114 ; the (1)51)01
rote of mail travel W0.0 12,330,290 milee in
Ontario and 3,845,078 in Quebec. The
estunated number of letters posten in the
Dominion WAS 07,073,000 •post cards,
2(3,300,000 ; newspapers, periodicals, cir-
culars, book packets, patterns, ate., 98,8001)-
000 '• of these Ontario centributed 53,000-
000 letters, 13,1 75,1 00 post cards, 15,700,-
000 newspapers, etc.
In 1800, made were carried over 11,032
mdee 01 railway, Lest year the mileage
War; 1'2,191 ; sat increase of 309 miles. The
daily service by bags over the big roads is
as follows 1 Oland Trunk, 7,038 miles ;
P. R„ 4,200 ; Intereolonial, 1,087 ; Prince
halward Island railway, 450 ; C.anaila, At-
lantic, 492; Canada Southern, 412. The
total daily service by bags 111 charge of
company's servants es 15, nines.
From the 1 7 th Jenuary, 1301, to 90111
January, 1809, 01,375 letters paSSed be.
tweon Vancouver and the three post -offices
of Hong Kong, Shenghai and Yokohema
and 20,1.12 newspapers, the miseellaimous
pitekttges amounting to 14,204.
,January, 18911, there was inaugarated
a direct mail service between St. John, N.
/a, end Demerara and certain of the 1 est
India islands, by steamers subsidized by the
Government. This has already been rivalled
of to Lb considerable extent, and will un-
doubtedly be more so, as the frequeeey and
regularity of the service are increased.
Telteerre'e STANDING.
Toronto, lae beyond any other airy 111'
Canada, fume. "9 11h0 greatest ranee of
work to the dep., ,tent. I'he weekly meet -
age of letters, postcards and newspaper:, ,
delivered in Toronto has been 3'37 84', • in
31outreal it has bees 158.499, whiie Hama. 1
ton comes third with 57,553.
During the fiscal year the deposits in the
Post -office Savinga Banks were in needier,
147,672, and in amount, $0,500,379; and tho:
withdrawals 84,063 in number and 87,875,-
077 in amount ; the averaee 110110/411% 3000
844.02 and the average withdrawal *99.67.
There were 29,701 accounts opened and
39,006 closed. The total number of ecconats
renuaniug open at the close of the period
was 1 1 Le:30, and the aggregate balance ilue
to depositors 891,738,0 18, making the aver.
0(30 012100111 ab the credit 01 011011 depositor,
8105.44.
A classification of elm depoeits received
during the year had been mane, showing the
following results ; 53,12 t 7 from 131 up to
1310; 96,427 froin 81 1 up io $9 ; 37,50 1 from
6191 np to 851) ; 17,685 from $51 up to 8 103 ;
7,005 from 8101 up to 6,200 4,09 1 10010 17901
up to 8400 ; 407 from $401 up to 8600 ; 147
from 8001 up to (3800; 179 front 81301 up to
(31,000.
:FOP the year ending 30111 Juno, 1801, the
geese postai revenue was 83,374,887, being
an increase over the revenue of the previous
year o113151,273. The expenditure for the
same period. was $4,020,739, an increase ot
880,044 over that, of the year before.
P110 increase in the revenue is about four
anti (4 (1(1(1 (300 cont., but the increase in the
expenditure is only a smell fraction over 9
pee oent., so that the revenue continues to
increase in much greater proportion then
the expenditure.
In a !urge department like the postoffiee,
with a, business extending 000) 3001 only the
greet railwey lines from the AtlauLio to the
Pacific, bub into the remotest settlement in
the backwoods, and tannest to the shores 01
the Amnia ocean, it becomes at once appar-
ent how greatly tho success of its operadions
depends upon the cordial. emoperation of
those to evil= the supervision of these
°potations is entrusted, and for that cordiel
co-operetion, in its frillest extent, Col,
White, the deputy post -master general, ex-
tends his thanks to the officers of both the
inside ancl outside service.
There's Magio in it.
What must be tho satisfaction and grati-
fication, at so small a cost, of 000 (01(0 writes
like this 1 Mr. NV. Meson, editor of the
Rotford tend Gainsborough News, Retford,
brig., says : " I had suffered front sprain-
ed knee for twelve months, evithont being
able to obtein relief from the pain, when I
rubbed the lthee thoroughly for twenty min-
utes with St, Jacobs Oil. That night I
traveled 200 miles by railway, the next day
I walked 25 miles, (0)1(1 (11)0 pain bad entire.
ly diseppeared, I have never lutd the
slightest return of it since."
At Poland, Moat, ou Tuesday, the three.
yeateelil son of Mr. John Jordan had his
head blown off by his brother, evil() used a
gun whielt ho was quite continent was not
loaded.
A bill grinning the electrio railway fran.
°Mee to the Maekenzie-Holt syndicate at
Winnipeg, passed the Private 13ills Commit-
tee of the lalauitolia Legislature on Tues-
day.
,An instruetor and ten boys conneeted with
tho Thompson:1311001 11(1 13081011, antss„ went
out, in a sailboat, n inlay evening. The boat
was capsized and all tho party except two
boys were drowned.
7
5,1 1111, 11106 01310111 1)011110(11 14'110040 of 01
diseases. leennesty feielly lo latirely free
freen it, while Moue "els e. 'ytt here Its
fimrausu elavee. tirt.411110011115 11114
0,111/101041110 01.10010(4 enring every form of
:eget elm The mist sever» tuttl pubitel dna
tang sores, swellings 111 the neck, or goltre,
humor In the 00.0, causticr. 1,01•001 ov total
blindness, and rv.•ry other form of Mood
disease have 3,1el4ied to the pen tulul «Guts
80 this euellelme Try ne
Hoo
arsaparilla
Bold by au MN ("0 01. Prepared ontr
SY 11.1.1100110 00, Apotheeerles, Mem
400 Doses Orto Dollar
INCIDENTS OF LIFE.
The Rev. Dr. Pare, when perpeteal curate
of Heaton, Warwiekshire, wheel, living ho
held front 178:1 to 1790, regularly smoked
in the vestry while the congregation were
alleging long hymns, chosen for the purpose
immediately before the written. The doctor
wee wont to exclaim .• " My people bike
long hymns, but I prefer& long pipe."
To -clay in Engler el, at Itarrow, the boys
are doctored en masse. Each one is served
with two grains of quinine at morning and
night es a safeguard against the influenza.
The ;Iron is administered efter prayers, and
the ceremony has thus 0 double solemnity,
As the boys go out in single file they 0.00
met by the matron, who 91000 each one his
choice of powder or pill. The choice is
mad!, the drug io mellowed, and so the
(1(10 10 gradually ehortened.
blow riell a country France is, and what
huge 101rdens rt can therefore carry, may be
inferred from the figureo of the annual bud-
get, just introdueed in the Chamber of De-
puties. Tee receipts are estimated at
3,348,258,395 0141100, am' the expenditures
at 3,34 7,0.10,375 felines. in other words,
France perposes raising and expending 10
1892-93 newly 4703cmf,000, a thing that it
could not an if it dill nt,t possess as 113(111B•
1,1'10119 0,11,1 frugal a people as can be found
in the 300r111.
The King and Queen ot Greece haye been
married twenty•five years, and 00)1(11000 (1)
live for caeh other in gond, old..iashioned
a libation. The Queen, says a (00(100 101 the
Paris Figaro, although 000 bas 1(00123111 11(3
a family of sOrt,11 01111(lren, has preserved all
the grace of early vouth. Her oharming
smile softens her Amend° beauty, which
sp11100cinitotsnu,,o
from her father, the Grand
13
ota.1,0111,11111111111W
How does he feel 2 -He feels
blue, a deep, dark, unfadiug, dyed-
in-the-wool, eternal blue, and he
makes everybody feel the same way
-August Flower the Remedy.
How does he feel? -He feels a
headache, generally dull and con-
stant, but sometimes excruciating -
August Flowerthe Remedy.
How does he feel? -He feels a
violent hiccoughing or jumping of
the stomach after a meal, raising
bitter -tasting matter or what he has
eaten or drunk -August Flower
the Remedy.
How does he feel ?-He feels
the gradual decay of vital power;
he feels miserable, melancholy,
hopeless, and longs for death and
peace -August Flower the Rem-
edy.
How does he feel '?-He feels so
full after eating a meal that he can
hardly walk -August Flower the
Remedy. o
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury, New Jersey, U, S. A.
A short time ego the :Moorish Raids gave
the Sultan of Morocco and his son a p000001
-
01 200 male and female slavee to celebrate
the event of the marriage of the heir
to the Moorish throne. Melt from 10
to 13 years of age fetch about°$80 to 13120
each end the slave men:halite find the
1301110100 MOTO profitable Iron 10 to 20 years
of age.
'Pho longest span of telegraph wires in the
wcrlil is to be founn in Coehiti China, oross.
lug the river Mekong, and the longest span
of 00101)110110 WRVS in .0091:111d. It lutppens
to be a portion of the wire crossing theriver
Dart, 11.11d connecting Dartmouth with the
trunk lines between Torquay and Plymouth.
The span of the former wire is stated 16 be
9,560 feet, and of the latter 2,400 feet.
In (lertnany, the smith, when finishing
the alma punches a hole in the two ends,
((1101 3011011 the shoe is coin he tens in hammy
thread aml mows into the shoe, when on
the horse'e foot, n elierp.pointed stud of au
inch in length (1811(1 with shoes thus fitted
horses dm travel sunray over the worst
posibio road, and 1111N0 (WNW 118011 kilONVII HO
Slip 1 end draught homes are shod in het
0111110
Rev.Walpole Warren, the Englieh clergy-
man heought to New Volk to be rector of
Holy Trinity, eve he will not, become ne, •
turelised, because he will not accept en.
.fritnehisement in so corrupt a city.
4 "elk'
STJACOBS 0E4
St.
1,1317111 1 eibitleal•Vi let
Jacobs
Oil
te; celit Ora
The Bride's &wee
Untried In white, you have thasen all right;
Married in gray, yeti will go far away
Married in blank, you win wish yourself batik;
Married in red, you will with yourself dead;
Married in green, eshamee to, be seen;
Married in blue, he will always he tree;
Married peerl, yen win live in a whirl;
Married in yellow, ashame,1 of your MOW ;
Mulled in !mown, yoll (4111 1170 001 01town;
Married in leek, your spirits will sink;
Maned or not, you luny havo to toil;
vor FOR LWRIIHRTION 1±4100.1
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