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f! “i «C A match from Washington say. : ~Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the following text : haiah 31, 22. "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.” “hile yet people thought that the world was flat and thousands at years before they found out that it. was rounll Isaiah. in my text. lull- mated the shape of lip-God sitting up-m the circle of the earth. The most. boautllul figure in all geometry is the :irclo. God made the universe on a plalt of the rircle. There are in the natural world atraight linen. angles, parallel- ograms, diagonals. quadrangles. but these evidently are not God's favor- ates. Almost cvcuwlmre where you :‘md him geometrizing you find the circle dominant. and it not the circle then the curve, which is a circle that died young. ll it had lived long enough it would have been a lull orb. a periphery. An eclipse is a cir- cle pressed only a little too hard at Ulla sides. .‘- '-‘ - >I- t-‘ n BM) DEEDS COME BACK. [X "I Iv-‘nv-u- The history of the world guns in a circle. Why is it. that. the shipping In our day is improving so rapidly ? A scientific shipbuilder says it is be- vausn men are imitating in some rc- .~.;wrtx what the small wits deride. 'lu' old model of Noah's ark. not as W» we it in old time pictures, but. as it. really was according to the ac- xzmmt given. Grunt. shins have We Imw, but where H the whip (m the «a: to-day than. could outridu a de- luge in which [in 'l":i\'o,"l and tho mrlh Were Wre':+l. Ln .25“; all Lh: pusai‘ngers in safety. two 0! each kind of living rrcaturos, hundreds of 'housands ol spvcivs 1’ Resolve u! v“. I "v Pomology will go on with its ach- lv-vmncnts until alter many centuries Hm world will have plums and pears o-mml lo the pw'.ulisaic.1|. Till". ART U!“ (iAlihlfiNthi {the wave oi influence, having made will Arrow for ct-nturics. and aiterflull circuit, strikes his soul. 0h, .1". [)“wnings and Mitclwlls ot tllcilhtm I would like to see him! No “,0...“ “M... ‘loun their [yr-5t, m the one can tell the wide sweep of the far future the art oi gardening will circle of i’aul's influence save the you.) up to the arborescence of the one who is seated on the mm": of may l. H the makers of colorctl'the earth. . glass go on improving. they may in I should not like to see the’ coun- some centuries be able to make some- f trauma of Voltaire when his Influ- thong equal to the cast window of once comes to full orb. When the Yorkminster, which Was built in the fatal hemorrhage seized him at wt..- 1:90 We are six centurios be-Ueighty-thrco years of ago. his influ- hind those artists. But the World once did not. cease. The most bril- xuust keep on toiling until it shall iliant man of his century, he had‘ make the complete circuit and Come-used all his faculties for assaultingj up to the skill oi lhnsv xery men. ltfhristiauity. his bad influence Wid- H' the World continues. to improve cning through France. widening out to mmmury. we shall have atter'throuirh (lerlnany. widening all ,ewhilc. perhaps after the admnce of through l'lurope. widening through 01" venturies. mortar equal to that. which i America. wid»._-ninp; through the l...- I saw in the wall of an exhumed jycars that have gone since he died, l'izzgii;~h city built in the time of Ulis‘Witlo‘liilg thrmigh earth. widening Romans 1.800 years ago. that mor- through the great future, until at 9.1: lo-day as good as the day in last the accuimilatcd influence of his which it. Was made. having outlastcd balct‘ul teachings and dissolute life the brick and thr: stone. I say. al- will heat against his dismayed spir- ?.-r hundreds of years masonry may-it, and at ihat moment. it will be Mlvauco to that point. enough to make the black hair of Well, now. what is true in illw tum eternal darkness hrrial universe is true in (Iod's moral 'i't? {N WHITE Wl'l‘ll HORROR. government and spiritual arrangeo p3,, “m, can tell how that bad man‘s meat. Th8"! ‘9 ”‘9 meaning 0‘ “It” influence {filed the earth save the kid‘s- wheel. All commentators um“? iota: who is seated on the circle of Ill saying th ll. the wheel nit-ans tiod's up. purph_-m.. Lord Almightv. hrovidcnu-. But a whvel is of NH "tin-ll, now." say some, '.‘this. in '3’" ""193” "- turns. and if it “5”“ H some inc-sports, is it Very glad theory turns around. and ii it. turns around 'and in ”1“,,“ a. very sad one. We 1‘ names in a ('ltttio“. What then“? AtUZWUHlll m“. to 1mm. the good we "'Ifitzarlts oi it.gl't‘:;l. iron| initcltllilw haw done coua- hack to us. but the w Irta artmnt an aroum W it: ‘a‘t’ tn," . A . , w.» “in or ""i' m“ victims ”i ino'xor- :‘te’rail‘tomiii‘i‘iiad.“ \‘iiltl 33:11:02 ffzctuiz “m" “i" '-' K“ i S" 1'4" ”W" ”ML Us tills [in with afl'right.” My bro- I shall show you that wu UUI‘St‘lVL‘S may. 1 Law h, tell you “(“1 can tum, Mu! 4‘33"“: 9‘ gum! or by“ “C' hrtak that circle and Will do so at thuh and that it Will surely come vour call. 1 can bring: twentv pas- .u'ouud again to its unless by divine saw-s n; scripture Ato 'u‘ovt- that liitt'th‘tlllt)" it is hind»:r«:-d. 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Bud's. mommlv ‘iqi wound to the dogs that should 1--1t mighty enough 111 hold all the events .lcfwbel, the Worst. Woman 111' 1111- ”” body 0‘ J‘v‘wb‘q' ut' U11,- 1119.14, but thorn is 11111: thing 1"!“ MURDI-‘JH’SH. 31,31“ 1S 3“,.” l” :le "19 1111111101111. "m,- Ian‘aossihlc'“ “1111100va said. "Th .11 lthin} ”12 1-1 «un- 11) t'mgm and that, W1“ 111.11" happen." Who is that is panlnm-(l t1a1151;1c.~1.~11111 How do b01111: flung out o! the palam win- 1 11111111; 11.? I will [1111\n- it‘. ”'l‘hctri 110w ,‘ Jen-1113!. A few hours after 511111111111 tllo'ix 1111111111105 will 1 11- 1111-y 1 1111113 .110111111. 11011111" to bury lm'lnlvr no 1111111- " 1 her The; find only tho palm» 01‘; “111 41 nut 1111111" the mistake 111‘ 11“. hands and the skull. Tim «1111“: thinkinv that this doctrine of thf‘. that detroured Jezebel and the clogsgmulv stops with this life It, rolls‘ '11111 devoured Naboth. Oh. what 11'011 through Imam-11. You might swilt. what an awful circuit. 2 {111111119 in uppositinn to 1110 what, SL1 But i? is Nnnt'time‘s the3 cnsi- ilml': tins fin!" :wm‘gu through :1 ('vnlm')‘; ..r liu-ougli nuiny C(‘llllll'll'h. The World .wtdl'lml Willi n Ulmu'i'ui')’ for; governmentâ€"that is. (lml was llw: president and emperor of, flu- World. I l’eoplo- got. tired of a. tlnwuw‘nvy. ’l'luw" fiflhl "W0 don't want find directly? mimic-ring with lhv- afiziirs of mo“ unrhl. live us it liionul'ifhy.” The, World haul n immurchy. From a man-i nl‘a'lIV it is going to have a limited; nmimrchy Allvr awhile the limited, inoii.nrcliy will be given up and the; rupntnlicnn form of government willl bi“ overvwln-re dominant and rccog-l nixed. Then the world will get. tired o! the republican form of gown-n- :na-nl. and it will have an anarchy. which is no government at all. And then all nations. finding out that man is not capable of righteously aoverning man. will' cry out again to: than-racy and say. "Let. God1 come back and conduct the aflairs ol the 'OI'I ." Every stepâ€"monarchy. limited monarchy. republicanlsni, an- arciwâ€"onh' dlflorent steps between the first W and the last theo- crocy or ml: of the great. cir- cla o! the earth on which God sitar. dévwi. " History 'alh its that. in the? asking of no rrnmids it took 2:! on an tvo you! to drag on great = But do not become impatient be- cause you cannot sec the curve 0! mats and therefore conclude that God's government {3 goimt to break :e to Do What Good You Can in This World. l au' Lcr o! l he in the stone from the quarry and put. it into the pyramids. 1! men short lived can afford to work so slowly as that. cannot. God in the building oi eternlties afford to Wait 7 What though God should take 10,- 00(- years to draw a circle ? Shall w: take our little watch which we have to wind up every night lest it run down and hold it up beside the clock of eternal ages ? 1!. according to the Bible. a thousand years are in God's sight as one day, then, ac-l cording to that calculation the 6,-‘ 001‘. years 0! the world's existence has been only to God as from MONDAY 'l‘O SATURDAY. But what is true of the good is just as true of the bad. You utter a slander against your neighbor. It has gone forth from your teeth. You have done the man all the mischief Fyou can. You rejoice to see him fiwince. You say, “Didn't I give it to finial!" That word has gone out, that slanderous word. on its poison- OQ and blasted way. You think it will neVer do you any harm. But I am Watching that word. and I see it beginning to curve, and it curves around and it is aiming at your heart. You had better dodge it. You cannot, dodge it. It rolls into your !bosmu, and after it rolls in a Word ol‘ an old book rolls in after it, Sit)" mg. "With what measure ye mete it , Shlll lie measured to you again.’ Oh. I would like to see Paul, the invalid missionary, at the moment. when his influence comes to full orb â€"-his inlhu-nce rolling out through Antioch. . through Cyprus, through Lystra, through Corinth. through Athens. through Asia. through lauâ€" l‘tnrc, through America. through the first century, through five centuries, through twmty wnturies, through t'lll'Ul, through heaven, and at last the wave of influence. having made full circuit, strikes his soul. 011, then I would like to see him! No one can tell the wide sweep of the rirrle of Paul’s influence save the one who is seated on the circle of the earth. "WI-H. now, : 5mm- 1235190085, A. uml in nthaers u. W'JH'U “kw to ‘Mo-ll, nuw,” any sumo, "this. in somw rnnpncts, m n vl-ry glaul theory Mall in Ulhurs u. \‘nry :sgul unv. “'0 Would “RN to haw.- tlw good w.- huw- llmw cmm- lnu-k la us. but the thought. than all llu- sins we have cxcr committal will cmue back to [la fills Ila with ull‘righl." My bro- tlwr. 1 Law: ln tell you Uud can bunk that circlc- and Will do so at. your mil. 1 can brim: twenty pas- 3 um, '14 nu! mqu the mistake of ithinkmg than, this. doctrine of the .(‘irt‘lo- :stups with this life. It, runs !on thruugh lwu‘xt-n. You might ‘quuhe in npposétinu to ma what St. Juhu mys ahuut Lha- (‘ity of [wan-n. 5110 says it "licth four square.” ‘The” doc; seem Lu militate against tthis idea: of u circlv. But. do you not Lnnw thew is many a square 'huusu that has a family rirclc fuc- 'ing mu‘h other and in a circle mm;- ;mgz and I can prove that this is 50' -w .â€".~ i.\' REGARD TO HEAVEN. St. Julm says. “I heard the voice: of many angels round about, the throne and the [masts and the elders." And again he says, “I saw round about. the throne (our and twmty seats.” And again he says, "There was a rainbow round about. the throne." The two former imply a circlc: the last cither a circle or a semi-circle. The seats facing each other, the angels facing cach other, the. meni facing mtch other. Heaven an tun-g phithcatre of glory. Circumference of patriarch and prophet and ’opostle. ' Circumference of Scotch Covenanters and 'l‘heban legion and Albigcnsies. Circumference of the good of all ages. Periphery 'ol splendor unimagined and indescrib- able. A circle! A circle! But every circumference must. have a centre. end what is the centre of this have-1y circumference? Christ. His all the glory; Ills all clue praise: His all the crowns. All heaven wregthea into a garland round Ibout Hire. Take on the imperlhl sandal [was Ills loot. 3nd behold the see: of the spike. Lift, the coronet. of (1m mininn from His brow and see where was the laceration m‘ the bricrs. Come closer, all hmwen. ' Narrow the circle around “is great. hum-t. (i Christ, the Savior! () Christ. thv man! 0 Christ, the God! K901) thy throne for over, seated on the circle of the earth, Seated on the At a narrow turning: of the read their Mujesties, who were accom- panied by H. R. 11. Prince Edward of (.‘uranll and York, met a (lock of sheep, and the carriage had to go close to the wall to allow the sheep to pass. The shepherd saluted the royal party, who cordially returned his greeting. Circle of heaven ' I‘ll" vv . v -u‘v' o ‘ , "n ' " "H , .- Baron Enldofi LOSt a G°°d POSI‘jopposed to some of the monurch's tion For Laughing at His Ma- jesty the Czar. awkward for the l t. Was ('(‘.nlidentinl adviser, Baron Enidoll‘, u ture indeed. 'l‘his. had not a quick- ed on McVeuis feelings that. he. smil- a. ed audibly, with the result that him was promptly ordered away. and the. :1. Cape Verdes ‘governor to look after their ntl‘uirs. month ago, that he er control over his features. for laugh at a wrong moment. lost his high position, and $60,000 year. While the Royal suite was at. Com- 1 pieg'i'ie. soon after the arrival, the Czar was tired, and a. little irritable, gby the eliects oi the long journey. :While going through the big library that. was part of the great apart- iim-nts prepared for him, he Slipped tan a \volt‘skin unit. that lay on the , highly polished lloor. ltunpt, to save himself .ut one of his attendants: :plnns. and though . o ‘ o A ;nd:mruhle English as a rule. Clur’s excited it becomes a. very odd nude u Wild at- nnd clutched and starvution iesulted, the King speaks when mixâ€"‘ linally. so work- he still Incl: a Scottish It was a very dih‘erent and mucn more dangerous trouble that. Ilarkett. Joice, the great iron-master. got into through laughing at the wrong moment. and nearly cost him his life. This happened during the for- gern' and g‘l'in'flm's' strike at. Shef- lield. liliigrinnd. when 15,000 men were out of work, and greet misery FIVE 0R SIX YEARS AGO. ‘ KlNG EDWARD VII. A'l.‘ BALMORAIr-AN OLD SIU'II’III'IHD'S (SHELT- JN } TO THEIR MAJES'I‘HCS. PEOPLE RUINED BY A BRIE “NEVER SMILED AGAIN" FOR GOOD REASONS. ‘ Hehculy brought. himself and his :~umd-hy to Um ground, but he just. mun-aged *â€"--â€"â€" A __--â€"'I 'l'lw Czar. who (hm-~15 lcvi‘y 4m sum- uccusiuns, spoke very sllau'piy in am Imam-tom: to the culprit. who, 1.0m, day. was dismissed his post, and mlvgai‘wl to an assistantâ€"secre- tzn‘yship, with plenty of hard Work 10 (in, and V'lwrcin he “ever sws Um (‘sz at all. Although wealthy and ul’ the oidcst nohi'jty. the baron «lured nut, refuse Um minor service. His x'urmor stipend Was $60,000 a Hair. But the Kaiser. on the whole. is tho most, «.langcrous person to laugh at... or before. and more than one person has “done for" himself in this way. So clid the. unfortunate Mr. Cough Milhanku find itâ€"thn ch-x'm but bluff Scottish Colonial ad- xzzininu‘ator. It was: he Who used to COMMAND 'l’lll". SUL’I‘AN Abou Din's troops, and manage the Arabian finances. The Kaiser took him up. four years ago. as a guest. with u View to making use of him in the new "expansion" policy uf the German I'lnzpim. and had decided to give him a line position in the East. to guard ; German ixiterc_-sts in China, at n ( princely remuneration, of course. The ‘ Kaiser sees to these things himseli. M and anybody who becomes his right~ !. hand mun is pretty well set up for 5; life. At. one of the audiences given 9] him at Potsdam. Milbnnke Was givâ€" “ ing the Emperor the benefit of his a experience, and receiving his orders. i: when the Kaiser made a. rather ab-f; surd suggestion as to Eastern diplm‘ mat-y, proposing: to Win the confi- dence of the Japanese and Kuriie Isâ€" landers with presents. Milbunke, bursting into n guflaw. asked the! Kaiser it he thought the Japanese; were Congo niggers, who could be; bought over with six-penn'orth of: glass beads and a. flint-lock gun t" The Kaiser from at once. wished Mil- i bauke goodâ€"night. and never reopen. ed relations with him. The moral is. when you are - CHAT'I‘ING WITH A KING. . don't forget. he is a. king, and dig‘ Jilin in the ribs. A stillnnore mus-I ing case 01 this kind was the mis- tuke of another Scottish administra- tor. Duncan McVea, who Was, next. to McLeavy Brown, of Corea. the most famous 01 "ovarian-inf? gour- nors. (Scotland, by tho wuy, cup- pnes .cl‘hty per cent. at tho world’s Mch-u was; dealing with that plea-l semi, but. touchy monarch the Kingl of Portugal. who had proposed to put thn rather shaky giwcrnmcnt. of tho Cape Verde islands into his hands. to set things going. and pull the finances together. This Would have been it big step, and mount. some $125,000 a your to the famous adventurer ; but he haul too much of what Scotsman are supposed to luck â€"-sonso of humor. At. any rate. it, was the ruin of the finest, prospect he ever had. The King became a little excitable and irritable at tho various [common-Sense objections that Mcha. knowing what he was talking about. :opposed to some of the monurch's pioneer administratorS. its onginm-rs.) .loire War; the spokesman of the' congress of employers, and it was: mainly owing to him and his power-é ful personality that the strikers' de-. mands were resisted for so long.! even when the rest of the masters? were willing to give way. Juice had a great brain. and Was as hard as; the iron he dealt in ; and he was: anything but popular with the 1119“,! who looked on him as the chief cause' of their troubles. He spoke at a big. mass-meeting of the Workman. and was not propitiatory. Some voices in the crowd advised him, rather roughly. not to press them too far. for his own sake. .loire laughed aloud co'ntemptnously. with the re- sult that the overwrought. half- starved crowd broke into an uproar, stormed the platform, and handled .the ironmaster so severely that. he was only rescued in time to save his life. As it was, he was crippled per- manently. and had a bitter lesson not to laugh at. the wrong time. By an odd chance. almost the '; SAME EPISODE HAPPENED at (:rinisby. England. only a few iweeks ago. when an ill-timed laugh 'and retort fired the fishermen to wreck the employers' ofllees. Q (lentil Was aWuited. at Pittsburg, in Ithe States. A great crowd gathered at UM: Assembly Palace to hear the news : and when it was announced. one of the local magnates ascended ‘thc platform. and delivered a. short. .eulcgy of the dead President's char- {acteia whereupon an Italian in the gcrowd was foolhardy enough to break ;into a loud, sneering laugh. The .OYel‘Strung mob turned on him with 'such fury that. he died shortly after ffrom the terrible handling he re- ,ceivcd. Another instance of this kind of danger, with a still more serious n,- sult, uccurrcd 1.0L long since, when the LOWS of President LIcKinley's A house built of buttons is the‘ latest thing in architecture, and a certain French musical celebrity is. building it. The walls, the ceilings,i the doors. the exterior and the irr- terior. are all ornamented with but-, tons of every description. from the. very origin 0! their invention up to. those 0! the present day. Those dut- ing from the lower Greek Empire are‘ i the most curious manuiecture.- :but. every country has been ransacked. ’and some very curious specimens are reported to have been brought to light. ‘. A 4â€".â€" three mar. vista." Friendâ€"‘ ‘ BUILT OF BUTTONS- most. curious manulacww. - -_ ' . '3; country has been unsuited. TOOK HIS ROTION To me very curious specimens are Lawrence and Gavin, the big agri- l to have been brought to cultural implement more. and. o! ’coursc. they saw the advantage at it 9â€"â€" 9“. once. Yet he only madly ex- |-â€"-“And are you now out of P1110011 “10 m“ as it lay in his hand. andhndnotumuchugm. ?". Invalidâ€"“Not. yet. The. any! he'll N no two. or cil sketch nude out. He asked ‘10,- ' - . “(orthokhmnnditis greatly to us Wvll kind of 11$ '“inow used "fiflworld, . wl bulb and makes‘ “Imam! easy 1 to mid woul‘ glut-.0“ Why- _ are come. patent and 30MB BRIGHT THU UGHTB BBAIN-THROBS BROUGHT 000 APIECE. $50,000 Wu Given (or the Aerated Water mienâ€"$25,000 for the . Perforated Stamp. For the mere notion of the possi- bility of making aerated watch; thought out over a pipe of tobacco, Mr. Harvey Browne obtained $50,? 000 in hard cashâ€"the record price ever given for an idea. It was not a patent or an invention that he sold, but. just the notion of forcing rar- bonic acid gas into water by pres- sure, with a rough suggestion of the Way to do it. He is the father of all soda water and other “Iizzes” in the world, though he never MADE A PlN'l‘ HIMSELF. As a rule it takes weeks of think- ing out. hard work, and copious dia- grams to “place" an invention; fol- lowed by a. long and expensive pro- cess to get a patent from the Gov- ernment. llarpey Browne merely took his idea to Co., the big beer-bottling firm. of London, just as it stood in his head. and said he could aerate water per- manently. The :him. and, though they could have simply “pirated" the idea it’ they had chosen. offered him $25,000 for his discovery. He asked $50,000, and got it, threatening otherwise to patent the idea straightway. and sell it elsewhere. lie signed an agree.- ment and left the office with a cheque for 350.000, quite. satisfied with his share. Since then many billion pints of his “notion” have been sold. One of the easiest made of cnrna nn rat-“rd ‘1' 01 (.1 Payne, Nichols [leading vernacular newspapers of the1 immune. has been making an investi- ‘gatton with the purpose of ascertain- experts questioned fMikado's realms ;000 yen or more. The wen is hip: 1 kn 3051““) Less Than 450 in the Empire we“! Have $250,000. Japan. it seems, is not overbur- dened with millionaires. For manY. months the Jiji Shiinpo, one. of the' ing how many men there are in the who possess 500,- about ’50 cents in our money. I The Jiji has discovered that there are exactly 441 persons whose posses- sions aggtegate at least $250,000. l'l‘okio. the capital, possesses one- ;tlnrd of them, but eight provinces: 'surrounding that. city have scarcely any rich men. The other great cities ranked in order according to the slumber of their capitalists are ()salta Kobe, Nagaya. Kioto, and Youn- hatna. One of the easiest made of hip: sums on record was the $25,000 given for an idea which you use cv- ory duy~thc porfurutcd postage stamp edges. hit, upon by Norman Miles, not so very long ago. lie got that. amount. with as little trouble as a man could take for u very simple notion, us foru‘mrly shoots of stamps had in be cut up WITH SCIHSURS‘. Miles was not a shrer, business- like inventor, but a dreamer of dreams. and as soon as this idea oeâ€" currml to him he took it straight oil to the authorities and broached it. lie explained it with a. needle and a scrap of paper, which he had not ev- en brought with him. He made a series of pricks along a pencilled line to demonstrate his theory, and also suggested a simple device for a perâ€" l'orating machine. lt did not take a genius to [wrceive the value of this. and even the government (illieials saw it. Though he held no patent, Miles asked $25,000 for the idea, and after some delay he got it, without as much as drawing; a plan or male {ing a model. It. is odd that, tWO ideas connectwli with the same article, conceived by; two different men. should both sellj for big sums. “just as they stood," but the modern gum used on postage stamps was also bought for $20,: ooo hot from the brain of the idea-i strike: Jacob Moriis who was a“ poor low from Spitaltields. London. i used to use a paste of cold starth and water to 5'] [CK lll.‘ IIANDBILLS 0N ' Ithe shop window. There was a great, I want at the postotficc of n gum that Could be allowed to dry. and stuck1 'on afterwards “with a lick." Morris hit, upon the idea of frying the? Istarch to gite it drying 1.°.iowei and Eotlered the notion-- very warily~to the goxernmeut. who had been ex- perimenting with all sorts of costly foreign gums, and had nexer heard of starch us a. stickiast. First. the .Wil)r Morris asked the price of suc- écess in discovering a practicable 'gum. The Government had been ofâ€" storing $10. 000 as a. reward. but Morr is asked 525, 000. and in the end got 820,000 when his secret was pro\ ed He drew his money. utter :no iurt her trouble than a. walk trom lh'pitah’ields to Westminster to claim git. That. was an easy $20,000. When at man has a brain worth thousands it seems strange that. he should not deal with it in a business like way. Twice in the. late. John Rnthin's life he sold for hard cash bare notions that had come. into his head just as they were. ”is Wonder-i fnl safety-valve for locomotives. now ‘ used on halt“ the engines of the world was nothing but. an ldt‘fl. Ull\Vt)l'kt“tl out. and he otTered it for what it. ’Wns worth to the engine-making firm of Cooper. Hennessy. it; (30.. of Eng- land. They might easily have. an- nexed the idea, and huVe patented it themselves, for lluthin merely ex- plained the idea as it, had occurred to him. He, for his part. might have taken out it patent. and sold it. reserving a royalty. for there wits no doubt it Was as clever it thing.r as ever was thought of; BUT I”! l'lll'IFl'lllRED cash down for the idea, rather than expense and risks. and he left. Mr. Iiennessy's umu- with a cheque for $15,000. It Was five years later that his marvellous brain hatched another such idea-a much more pro- ‘saic one. It was the notion of it new sausage-making machine, so igood and simple that. it seemed n 'murvel that; nobody had hit. on it ,bel’ore. He sold the idea, just as it instead in his head, to it firm of Birm- ingham hardware. makers, who gave him $5,000 (or it. . - gum 4,-19-‘ |_,‘ All... Y‘F'vvv _-_ _- IL was the financial difliculthrs he; was always in that caused the latc' Henry Stephens to sell outright his; ideas just as his brain conceivcd‘ them. They fetched “cash down" on the nail too. for he sold the barn notion for the “Stephen's L‘hurn."‘ now used in every corner of the world, . which regulates its action,‘ and makes butter production a swift and my job. Formerly the dairy-l mid would churn all day. and won-' dcr why the butter “would notl come." Instead 0! going in for a patent and royalties. Stephens . the credit of the arm that he got it. i for they might safely have taken ad- vantage of him. He was a hapuy-go- - lucky but brilliant genius. wont to forestall all his benefits; but he got his cheque for 810,000. and a posi- 0 tion to superinteud the making oi the churns at 850 a week. He soon gave that up however. The hurry of the age largely helps - to bring these cash-down idea sales ‘. to“. and it was sheer terror of being ., forestalled. as he admitted, that led r- Huntley Webb to sell his idea for the e Wonderful “Facile" electric motor [I “on the nail." Ile rushed oil with a l. few pencil notes as soon as ewr the r- notion was ripe in his head. and of- i-‘fc'red it for sale. It was am odd to thing it for sale. It Was an odd 1‘ \‘0us individual, Less Than 450 in the Empire Who Have $250,000. Japan. it seems, is not overbur- dened with millionaires. For many months Lllc .lijl Shimpu, one of the leading vernacular newspapers of the iempirc, has been making an investi- ‘gution with the purpose of ascertain- ing how many men there are in the :Mikado’s realms who possess 500,- ;000 you or more. The 301: is about :50 cents in our mom-y. JAPAN HAS FEW RICH MEN The J iji has discovered that there are exactly 441. pcxsons whose passer sions aggregate at least $250 000. Takin. the capital, possesses om» it will seem strange to foreigners, to whom Yokohama. is the brat known of all Japanese. cities. that. it should he last in the Jiji's list. The statistician does not attempt to ur- count for this. but in explanation of the {net that the prefecture of Kinshiu, always looked upon as the lichest in the empire. has few semi- millionnires. the paper says, that while there are. not many cieh men there yet its wealth is very generally distributed and there are. no poor people. (‘l‘lmmenling upon the infm'mution Um.» brought. to light by the .liji the Japan Daily Mail. a. paper publlahod in English in Yokohama. says : “Comparing these results with American statistics. it. appears that I whereas there are. 3,828 persons in. the United Suites credited with pus-i sessing a million gold dollars earl-Ii and upward. or. in other words out" millionaire to CVCIV 'U‘DOO inl. .Ibit- ants, supposing the populatioi In he 7I.000,000. there is in Japan (IIIIV one send-millionaire for every 100,- 000 inhabitants, taking the. populw tiuu at 45,000,000. Reducing: these figures to the same IIIIIIIIIniI‘IItioII (vcn). it. would appear that there are just ten times as III.IIIv men of wealth in America as in Japan. ‘ “But before accepting this cI ncluâ€" ,sion 8. large conection is evidently [necessan since. although thereI may be only 3. R28 millionuhcs in the ‘.Itcs. there may be fifty or a hunâ€" dred thousand qui'trtei-InillionuiII-~. Obviouslv. since. in Ilf It million 5m. ix equal to only II (III. IIteI of a million dollrus. no menmto eoIIIpIIIisnn «an ‘be made until the. IIUII‘iX‘l of quaIIuI- l IIIIllioII.IiIc. in AIIIeIica is .lsCCXiuill- 20d... -.- fl. --._...â€" _. 'l‘ho Jiji's figures Ms” l‘t't‘oul thc' fact that manufacturing is still in its infancy in Japan. for in UN list at 441 men 0! Wealth both the farming; and the mmchnnt clash-us lazwc a \urgcr representation than has thu manufacturing class. It is alsu nu- ticcablc that out of the HI. no {ww- fl' that. sixty-six are nobleman who do not pursue any trudv ur profes- lsfon. A remarkable fact is that not. more than one or two in vvory ton ’hm'c amassed thvir wvulth in one 'genorzitticim ; the uthm-s have iuhvrit- {ed a grout. part of it. Lmulun's new Lard Mayor. Sir {Joseph Dimsdalo. has this to distin- lg‘uish him from his prmh-cmsm's in the umgish-riul vhuir. (hm. ho‘ is by birth a gentleman-«(hut is to my. ul’ gentle blood, \Vlu-rvus alums! (Wury other Lord Muyur of London for the 11191, 200 ymu's or more has Iron" a self-mad" mun. many of thvm huing‘ unable (u speak English properly, not Int-rely dropping Uwir uspiruh-s. but. putting them where thy (In um belong. _, . I I --. _-. _-_‘-n‘..-'AIII unuu nay-J--. _, , _ Elikcwisc u member of Mac [(llulp. the principal stru i'l‘myism, which must nu Houndod with either the (.‘H {likewise u member of lhv (‘m-lnm ICIUU. thv principal stronghultl m‘ iTmylsm, which must nut 190 um- tloundml with either the City of (‘au‘l- uton or with the Junlur Carlton. ”0 la a banker. a member of tho firm of :Plt‘SCOLl. Dlmsdulu. (.‘qu 'l'ug'wvll. :ls married to u «laughter ul‘ It. ll. Jioldsworth. and besides tuning“ a film: house in Ltmtlun has a bountiful !country seat at Luugdml Hills in Essex. I may add that m is :1 WIâ€" low of the Royal Geographical So. :clcty. that he has travelled a great ldcal. so much so. Indeed. that. he is up for election at the 'l‘rawllors' 'Clul). l No more fortunatc- choice: could have teen made by the City of Lon- idon for its Lord Mayor during the year of the corontttion. when the an. -‘A.. --_-‘- ‘A VC-ul u. linunicipnlity will be called Upon to welcome the King and Queen during ‘the week following the coronation. ‘but likewise all the royal and distin- guished pcrsonages who have come ‘irom abroad to be present at the cer- .emony. And for once in the way the City of London will have no reuon ,to be “hunted of its Moi magistrate or to blush for his solecisms of lspeoch and 0! manner. LONDON‘S Hei UV.\IIID- Sir Josmh “iIIISd‘JlI‘ was I-dIu-IIII-d at Ltun. 11v is tho lira! llluIIiuII Lurd Muynr in 201) VUth, and is lather (to smll boy going into the country)-â€"“Frauk. have you taken everything you will need ?" Frmkâ€"‘ ‘Yes. nu." Hothcrâ€"‘ ‘Hu'o . you your toothâ€"brush 1'" Frail; (ind “unawâ€"‘Tooth-brush ! Why. I Q thought I was going any (or . volt-i Ana. ." is a Gentleman by Birth and an Eton Graduate. NEW LORD MAYOR After resting on the floor at Island Sound for over sixty . during which her whereabouts In been a. complete mystery, dimvc. were made last week that led to t. bdief that the steamer lexiuton. which was sank on the night 01' January 1" 1840. causing the 108% drcd lixes. has been [01m $300,000 in United States currw . which Wont down with her, will I). found in her wah‘r'lnggod hull. On January 13 of thin yearâ€"u sixtyâ€"first anniversary of the new â€"-one of the witnesses wrote a let. to a Bridgeport paper calling at“ tion to the disaster. This brow torth other letters. and from til the wrecking company drew its in“ motion of the lovution of the Bu‘ gmmer. After weeks of path search a strike was made last Thu! day afternoon. Early Friday mot ’ing a number of divers were sent a 'with the Company's lighter Celtic w dry returnéd - utter mvcrul ha work with the report that the I ington had been found. Since then several cxplornu have been made under the direct of officers of the Company but [‘0 weather and other engagements II interfered with the. work of the 1 (-rs. and only some ironwork bcen brought up. The spot is one of tho most. (much--J vrous in all Long Island Sound. am“ the depth of Waller is ubml. seventy font. with n butlmu of uneven rock. It is said the hull is so covered 'l harnucles and marine growth um. will be some time leloro it an clca‘rod. The money, which the WM t-nmranv hopes to find, Drum“ the United Stan-s (:mornmcnt. 4 was in courm of transit, from tit-11mm to Bostun. Besides there Was in charge of A Hurundcu. supvrintt-ndent. of undon's I'lxprms of 8201 ’00 in t [pt-Cir for Morrhant's Bank of Boston. about $45,000 in bank notes. 'l‘hc treasure of the Lexingul found, will become the property the wrecking company under the I inc law. Enlist Under the British F Colonial Defence. The Straits HI-I'IlIquI'IIts ha Imghly caught the war fever. licularly the I'IIlIleIitnnls 0‘ pure. Whore militarism I6 order of ”In day. Not. only \‘UlUllll‘Ol‘ rogIInonLn compo l-Inglislnncn and l-Zuropennl' nuw vigor. but II. ('UI'DS (If ‘ llIlS boon forIIwIl um! 11 v II’gIInont. III“ Straits-born C In process (,9' organization. Mr. 'l'aun .lial; Kim, of . “ho was until II‘I‘t‘llth proud ”I“ Stunts (lllIII'NP Bl‘luflh itinn. has bwn (UlldUC‘in‘ minus with the Colonial llmndon, regarding the new co ,I‘urnmtion III’ which Is now pr Hy wttlml Whnn the Burnsiun and Chi! I'I‘gimvnts 3!“ fully equipped and lw'IIIklng‘ uldt‘l‘ SIIIgIIpIIrI- will fIII'h Indeed in name deIcnIe. III eighties. when the present (-In'el l‘Uf Natal. Sir ll. MI'CIIHIIIII. was 3lUlllfll I'Ing‘inecr III the HII'IIHII Sol fnmnts. a \‘(lllllllf‘I‘l‘ regiment of m ilory was III‘IIIIIIiz._~Il under his HUN. A ivw years ago II reg inf. nlrv Wm; {Ul‘llll‘tl {mm the [M‘Illl population 'l‘ln‘ (lover smIInItIIIII [III III» I.uI ”\luu (urn-1 I(‘(L‘lltl) sccuumd “hilo as log Imps IIf SlIzIIt--hIIIII Chine”. iKiIII intinmus that the part 'IIIiSsIIIn l‘vlntillg' HI the pro' _'-I'I-qunI-nt had hum I'IIIIIIuglIIy lt‘INSfUl. 1 "The nmv mg'iim-m is to com Siraits-hurn ()iiiimac- only." 6.1 Kim. "and that moans (‘hinm \"Pl'c born under the British fll urn ihercl’um British Subjectn. than 25,000 of Iiw 240,000,“ suits ui Silig‘apum are Str ('Mm'Sfl. and Unfit“ is' It ivsidc-m. populaiimi of aliflt in Singapore as wnil. (bur (inn is intended mr coloni unly. lilulistmcm. in the mom. is going «m vm'y br pi'ment. " N A "I am grateful to Down for the considvration that shown mo. This lnrirfint w the Strmlvborn (Thincsc 1 Name (:u'm‘nmcnt Is alm to mac! them in may mason five! and teach the-n' that. (I continue to display the la] haw {HWJVH exhibited.” He Was a smart com ellm‘ Visiting a small to middle of mnunc-r. when flcni‘co. lhvrmonwu-rs burst, nlone worn Iivoly. M. the look some cooling drinks a for a bed. The landlord I could have hull-n-dozon bet cause no one in lllc plum themâ€"llie lllos would allow] 'l‘hc traveller smiled, paid room. and retired. In tho morning he went ‘ looking fresh as paint. an“ merrily. All round him '1 (-yod men whu envied him spirits. The landlord man “Did you sleep 1’” he it“ “Like a top." was ti Your flies don’t. know 1 Inc. I just clowd thl against new-comers, a honey on the 0001'. and all the flies in Hue room on it. Then I [lived W sampleâ€"box....No-, your Cl ly educated enough to bl The new automatic ‘ invented by a. aux-law England. is more «I 0. than was at. first wool son now operating to. easily attend to d“ more per loom by stoppages. HA I! I 'LY Em '( ' ATE“ CHINESE VOLUNTEERS AUTOIATIC \\' I'IAV