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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Fordwich Record, 1901-09-26, Page 3was not sick ; they have beaten me, 1 0:natnno:a:in,:aMl°:).:••: with hon. Notting will be done un- til he is ready to take the first step!" You are a pretty Christian. When would this world be saved if Christ had not taken the first step? Now, whet is suggested by the pine branch? The pine tree is healthy, it is aromatic; it is evergreen. How often the physician says to his in- valid -'patients: "Go and have a breath of the-pines. That will invig- orate you." Why do such thpusande of people go south every year? It- is not merely to get to a warmer cli- mate, but to get the influence of the pine. There is health in it, and this pine branch of the text suggests the aelpfulness of our holy religion. It Is full of health—health for all, health for the mind, health for the shut. I knew 'an aged man who had no capital of physical health. He had had all the diseases you could ima- gine. He did not eat enough to keep The base of the leaves was turned into hats and mats and maskets, and tree grew 05 feet in height some- times, and it spread leaves four and from the root to the top of the high- est leaf there was usefulness. The five feet long. It meant usefulness, and it meant victory — usefulness for what it produced and victory be- cause it was brought into ',alarm- Lions of triumph. And oh, how much we Want the palm branChes in the churches of Jesus Christ at this time I A great many Christians do not amount to anything. You have to shove them oil the track to let the Lord's chariots come along. Usefulness is typified -by the palm tree. Al, we do not want in the church any More people .that are merely weeping willows, sighing into the water, standing and admiring their long lashes in the glassy spring. No wild cherry, dropping bitter fruit. We want palm trees, holding something for God,' some- thing for angels, something for man. I am tired, and sick of this flat, tame, insipid, satin shimmed, name bypamby, hightytighty religion ! It is worth nothing for tins world,. and it is destruction for eternity. Give me 500 Alen and -women fully conse- crated to Christ, and we will take this city for God in three years. Give me 10.000 men and women fully up to the Christian standard. in ten years 10,000 of them would take the whole earth for God. But when are we going to.begin ? We all want to be useful. There is not a man in the pews that does. not ward to be useful. When are we going to be- gin ? But the palm branch also meant victory. You all know that. In all ages, in all lands, the palm branch means victory. Well, now, we are h(' nature the servants of satan. He stole us, he has his eyes on us, he Wants to keep us. But word comes from our Father that if vig will try to break loose from this doing of wrong our Father will help as, and some day we rouse up, and we look the black tyrant in the face, One ire fly at him, and we wrestle him down and we put our heel on Ms neck, and we grind him in the dust, and we say, "Victory, victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ I" Oh what a grand thing it is to have sin un- der foot and a wasted life behind our backs. "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven and 'whose THE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 22. Teat of the Lesson, Prov. xxiii, 29-35. Golden Text, Prov. xx, 1. 29. "Who hath woe ? Who bath sorrow ? Who hate contentions ? Who bath babbling? Who bath wounds without cause? Who bath redness of eyes ? " The committee have again asked us to meditate up- on this familiar portion as a temper- ance lesson, which is certainly a bet- ter selection for such a lesson than the story of the sew esrth which they suggested as a temperance top- ic last quarter. The only cure for intemperance, which is self-indul- gence, is to be found in self-control which can be accomplished in ue only by the Lord Jesus Christ, who is able to subdue all things unto himself (Phil. iii, 21). In this lesson, as in all leSSOliS on sin, we may see not only the sinner, but the sinner's substitute, Han who, though he knew no sin, yet Was made Ain for us (II. Cor. v, 21). We. know that the drunkards and also some other sinners are apt to have quite a full share of the six forms of suffering here enumerated, and no one can deliver but He who was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief, who so patiently endured the contentions and babblings of His enemies., who was wounded for our transgressions, and who after his Weeping, in Gethsemane must also have had redness of eyes. See Him, 0 sinner, as the one who loves you as you were•never loved by even father or mother or dearest on earth, great as their lave may have been, for He suffered before God for your sins and offers you full salvation from the consequences of your sins and deliverance from the power of them if you will only receive HIM (Isa. Ma 5, 6; Heb. v, 7; I. Thess. i, 10 ; Math. i, 21 ; I. John i, 9; Jude 24). 30. "They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine." These are the people who experience the sorrows of verse .9, but let wine suggest all the plea- , sures this world. can offer, and they are very Many of their kind. A great king' tried them all and found them all vanity and vexation of spirit (Excl. ii, 1-11), and what can the man do that cornetts after the king ? But see what the same king learned to say : "Thy love is bet- ter than wine. We will rejoice and be glad in thee. We will remember Thy love more than wine" (Song i, 2,"4). 31. "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it =vett. itself aright." Commands to an un- saved person to do right are only provoking, for all his nature is against the right; the carnal mind is enmity against God, is not sub- ject to His law and cannot be (Hons. viii, 7). God gave no law to Is- rael till He had redeemed them from Egypt. The only one thing He asks the sinner to do is to accept His salvation, receive His Son. Then, and only then, does He' give com- mands to be obeyed. Notice in verses 15 and 26 and so often in this book the command is to My Son," and we are not sons of God till we receive His Sort as our Sav- iour (John i, 12 ; I. John es, 12). Having become children of God and partakers of the divine clo- ture (II. Pet. i, 4), we are to let Him possess our whole being, look through our eyes, hear with our ears, work with our hands, walk with our feet, speak by our mouths. In this way He will not look where He should not, and whed templed we must, like sinking Simon, cry, " Lord, save me l " 32. "At the last it biteth a serpent and stingeth like an adder." There is a last of all things sinful ; they come to an end, and then Care is• the eternal reaping. Those nno sow to the flesh reap corruption, and those who sow the wind reap the whirlwind (Gal. vi, 8 ; Hos. viii, 7). There may come a time When Prov. a 24-31, shell be the ex- perience of many, when because they would not listen to Cod they shall call, but Ile shall not answer, and finally they shall have to hear Minn say, "Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting ere prepared for the devil and his angels !" i(Math. xxv, 41.) In the case of those who are redeemed by His precious blood, in whom He has come to live, the last on earth is only a step to greatee glory, to die is gain, to depart and be with Christ is far better (Phil. i, 21, 23).- 33. "Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter- perverse things." Woman represents the worst as well as the best in Scripture. The true Church is the' bride of Christ and is espoused as a chaste virgin to Christ, while the. false church is compared to a harlot (Rev. xix and xvii and II. Cor. xi, 2). If drunken with wine, we behold the evil, but if filled with the Spir- it we shallasee Jesus only (Eph. v, 18). The heart is the great center from which evil or good proceed,. See in this chapter verses ill, 17, 19, and then verse 26 as the only way to be right. 34. "Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast." This certainly suggests the saying of DaYld, "Truly as the. Lord liveth there is but a step be- tween, me and death" (I. Sam. xx, 3). Inasmuch as life in this mortal body is so uncertain how foolish it is to continue a moment longer in sin when God is beseeching us to be reconciled to Him and to accept the redemption which He has so fully provided and which He bestows so - freely I (Isa. i, 18 ; Math. xi, 28 ; II. Cor. v, 20; Rom. iii, 24.) The (hod in whose hand our breath is and whose are all our Wags (Dan. v, 23) is very gracious. He is -slow to- an- ger and not willing that any should perish (II. Pet. iii, 9), but He will by no means clear the guilty' unless they accept Mina. 35. "They, have stricken me ; I Sovereign of the Empires of Thuna- parents and Tampadipa and other Great Empires and Countries, and of all the Umbrella Wearing Chiefs, the Supperter of Religion, the Sun-De scended Monarch, Arbiter of Lite and Great Righteous King, King of Kings and Possessor of Boundless Domin- ions and Supreme Wisdom. PNEUMATIC CLOCKS. The. City of Paris is being rapidly supplied with a system of public clocks worked by compressed air under electrical control. The entire area of the city is divided into sec- tions about a mile and three-quarters in radius, and in the center of each section is a station provided with a reservoir of compressed air, from which air-pipes extend to all the clocks included in the section. By means of electro-magnets, energized every minute with currents from a commutator controlled by a master clock at the central station, the air- pipes are intermittently connected with the reservoirs, and thus the compressed air, once. every minute, drives forward the hands of the clocks. . —4 BITTERNESS. There's that girl singing A Bird in a Gilded Cage! said the nervous man. Yes, answered the boarding house wag. If I had a bird that couldn't sing any better than that I'd open the cage and let It fly away. butchers have begun register rounds through the country, selling fresh meat during the summer months; in other places the farmers have taken the matter of the summer supply of meat into their own hands and have formed what are called beef rings. seal experience. Usually in a neigh- borhood, if one or more persons talk the matter over, then call a meeting sending a postal card to twenty or thirty residents stating the time mail place of the sleeting and that the object is to form a beef ring,-no difficulty whatever need be appre- hended but that the results will be satisfactory. • The only hindrances to be feared are one or more obstinate persons ouch as are to be found in almost all neighborhoods, who won't join nor let others if they can help it, and the ever-present possibility of nn objector who will not have anything to do with It unless he can have it all his own way and who takes most of the time of the meeting to discuss other opinions. There is no room in a beef ring for a crank. At the initial meeting discuss a general outline of the plan, then ap- point a Committee of three or four to draw up rules, which should be considered and adopted at a future meeting. Those only who intend joining the ring should have a right to vote and discuss the rules of the ring. At the adjourned meeting ad- opt the rules, appoint a president, secretary and committee of manage ment. The essentials to success are a strict observance of the rules by all members of the ring. It will not do for one member to put in rs lean animal while others put in first- class stock. The rules should give a name to the ring, should state the limit of dressed weight of the animals sup- plied, also that they are to be sound, in good condition, and not over three years of age, a heifer or steer. Another rule should adopt a basis of settlement for balances of beef. some rules provide for a dressed weight of 400 to 500 Ms. Between those limits a member receives 6e. per M. for the difference between thin weight of beef lie puts in and the them and should be signed by each. The order in which to furnish ani- mals should be decided by lot. Put twenty colds with 1 to 20 on them in a hat, then let first signer draw, and so on, Suit the rules to the 'M- eal conditions. HORSE TALK. Britain Has Turned a Land oie Waste Into One of Plenty. • Egypt, the land of the Pharaoleed once the storehouse of the Mediter, ranean and the centre of the highest - civilization, afterwards a howling; wilderness, is now again a gardehl and place of delight. If it does noti flow with milk and honey, it- bears' two crops of grain a year, and in, seine parts five crops in two years, and that is a record of which any, country in modern times may well; be proud. Its redemption gives evi- dence denim of the fact that territory tak-' en into the embrace of empire,' though. apparently a barren waste„ nsay, with the application of British honesty and energy, not only become quite capable of maintaining its in- habitants in a measure of comfort and content, but may be profitable to all concerned. The process of re generation began in 1886, when the wonderful series of irrigation Works known as the Barrage was taken' if hand by Sir Colin Scott Moncrieff, and converted into a really service-, able work. At a subsequent period, two weirs were constructed below; the Barrage, with the result that the cotton crop of Lower Egypt was; doubled. This alone was equal to a' gain in the wealth of the country of a-5,000,000' a year. A number of, miscellaneous works have since been! constructed which have been of great] service. The system is now practic- ally complete, and its utility may be' gauged by the fact that the lanta left without water after the flood of the river has gone clown—called the Sharaki area — which in 1877 am-; ousted to 800,000 acres, was reducedi in 1899 to 264;000 acres WITH A LOWER FLOOD. In continuation of this work two; large dams are still in progress ati Assouan and Assiout; they will pro-I bably be completed and ready for use by the middle of 1902, at a cost; of £3,000,000. The Assouan dam) will store up water after the-flood! is past, and increase the supply of the river in the summer, which will lead to a transformation in the ba- sin lands of Middle Egypt, which at: present raise a flood crop only. In; future they will be able, as in the case of Lower Egypt, to raise at least two crops a year. In addition, a considerable area of land in the' Fayoum Province and in the Delta! will be brought under cultivation.' On the completion of these dams 3,-. 000 to 4,000 million cubic yards of. water are still required, and it is with a view to showing the practi- cability of meeting this final require- ment that Sir William Garstin, who was sent out for the- purpose, has reported. He reviews the merits of , the various lakes ' forming the sources of the Nile, and he selects Lake Tsana as the most likely to be of use for the purpose in view.. If the Negate of Abyssinia can be made dams, the construction of canals, • WORLD'S LONGEST BRIDGE, The longest bridge in the world is, it is recorded, the Lion Bridge, yaw Sangang, in China. It extends 51 miles over an arm of the YelioW: Sea, and is supported by 800 stone, arches. The roadway is 70 feet' above the water, and is inclosed in' an iron network. A marble lion, 21ft. long, rests on the crown of each pillar. The bridge was built at else command of the Emperor ICeing. Long. 4 There are five times as many boiler ' explosions in the United States as inl Great Britain. The number last yeari Was 393, more than one a day. ABOUT THE FUTURE. Rev. Dr. Talmage Says You Will Be More Than Conqueror. A despatch from Washington says: ation of these pine branches of the .-Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from gospel arbor he will rind it buoyant, the following text: Nehemiah viii, 15, exuberant, undying, immortal health. "Co forth unto the mount and fetch list toy text takes a step further, olive branches and gine branches and and it .says, Go into tlie. mountain myrtle branches of thick trees to and fetch olive branches and pine make booths." ' branches and palm branches.. Now, Ita seems as if Mount Olivet were the palm tree was very much honor- unmooreia The people have gone Cd by the ancients. It had 801) IIif- into the mountain and have cut oil ferent uses. The fruit was conserved tree branches and put them on their the sap was a beverage, the stems shoulders, and they come forth now were ground up for food for camels. into the streets of Jerusalem mid on the house tops, and they twist these tree branches into arbors or booths. Then the people come forth from their comfortable homes and dwell for seven days in those booths or arbors. Why do they do that? Well, it is a great festal time. It is tlie feast of tabernacles, and these people are going to' celebrate the desert travel of their fathers and their deliverance from their trou- bles, the experience of their fathers when, traveling in the desert, they lived in booths on their way to the land of Canaan. And so these booths also became highly suggestive —1 will not say they are necessarily typical, but highly suggestive—of our march toward heaven and of the fact that we are only living temporarily here, as it were, in booths or arbors, en our way to the Canaan of eternal rest. And what was said to the Jews literally may be said items: Lively to all this audience. Go forth unto the mountain and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees to make booths. ' Now. if we are to-day going to succeed in building this gospel arbor we meat go into the rnesmt of God's blessing and fetch the olive branches, and whatever else we must have we must have at least two olive branches, peace with God and peace with man. When I say peace with God, I do not mean to represent God as an angry,- chieftem having a grudge against us, but I do mean to uffirne that there is no more antag- onism between a hound and a hare, between a hawk and a pullet, be- tween elephant and swine, than there ts hostility between holiness and sin. And if God is all holiness and we are all sin there must be a treaty, there must be a stretching forth of olive branches,. On, it does not -make much differ- ence what the world thinks of You, but come into the warm, • intimate, glowing and everlasting relation- ship with the God of the whole uni- verse! That is the joy that makes a halleluiah seem stupid. Why do we want to have peace through our Lord Jesus Christ? Why, if we had gone on in 10,000 years of war against God we could not have cap- tured so much as a sword or a cav- alry stirrup or twisted off one of the wheels of the chariot of Ms om- nipotence. But the moment we sin is covered. bring this olive branch God and all My text brings us one step forth- heaven " come on our side. Peace Cr. It seas, Go forth into the through our Lord Jesus Christ, and mount and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees." Now, you know Very well—I make this remark under the head of branches of thick trees—that a booth or arbor made of slight no other kind of peace is worth any- thing. But then we must have that other olive branch, peace with man. Now, it is very easy to get up a quarrel. There-are g-unpowdery Christians all lbranches would , not stand. The around us, and one match or pro-first blast of the tempest would vocation will set them off. It is prostrate it. So then the booth or easy enough to get up a quarrel. arbor must have four stout poles to But, my brother do. you not think bold up the arbor or booth, and you had better have your hoes saw- hence for the building of the arbor ed off? Had not you better make an for this world we must have stout apology? Had not you better sub- , branches of thick trees. And so it nit to a little .humiliation? "Oh,' the gospel arbor. Blessed be you say, "until that man tales the is in' Cod that we have a brawny Chris- fret step I will never be at, peace • tianity, not one easily upset. The storms (ABM will come upon us, and we want strong doctrine ; not only love, but justice ; not only invita- tion, but warning. It is a mighty We were M the wrong. Christ was gospel ; it is an omnipotent gospel. in the right, all right and forever These are the stout branches of right. And yet he took the first thick. trees. ell„ step. And instead of going and gets. Wtt my friends, you see I have Gag a knotty scourge with which to omitted one or two points not be cause 1 forgot to present them but whip your antagonist, your enemy, because 1 have not Lime to present you had better get up on the retch- them. I have shown you here ant mount where Christ, suffered for Ss the olive branch of peace, here Ids enemies and just take an olive is the pine branch of evergreen gos- branch, not stripping off the soft, p cool, fragrant leaves, leaving them pet consolation, here the palm tree branch of usefulness and of victory, all ow, and then try on them that and here are the stout branches of gospel switch. It will not hurt them, and it will save..you. . Peace thick trees.. The gospel arbor is done. The air is aromatic of heaven. The leaves rustle with the gladness of God. Come into the arbor. Come into the booth I went out at dif- ferent times' with a fowler to the with God, peace with man. If you cannot take these two doctrine-e, you are no Christian. But my text goes further. It says "Go up into the mountain and fetch mountains to catch pigeons, sand We olive branches, and pine branches. made our booth, and we sat in that booth and watched for the pigeons to come. And we found flocks In the sky, and after awhile they dropped into the net, and we were successful. So I come now to the door of this grispel booth. I look out. 1 see flocks of souls flying hither and fly- ing thither. Oh, that they might come like-clouds and as doves to the window. Come into the booth. Come into the booth. • A CURE FOR SWEARING. Curse cards are being used in Switzerland and Germany to check profanity. People go about with a child alive. He lived oh a beverage the cards in their pockets and, whenever they hear bad language, of hosannas. He lived high, for he present one to the swearer to sign Jived every day ain't the King. Ho The card has printed on it a pledge was kept alive simply by the force to abstain from swearing for a spe- of our holy religion. It is a healthy cubed time or to pay a small fine religion, healthy for the eye, healthy for each oath to some .charity. for the hand, healthy for the feet, Nearly 40,000 of these cards have healthy for the heart, healthy been distributed in Switzerland the liver, healthy for the -spleen, healthy for the whole man. It gives a man such peace, such quietness, such independence of circumstances, such holy equipoise. Oh, that we all possessed it, that we possessed it There 'was a merchant of . Milan now -! I mean it is•healthy if a'man who left a fortune of $3,000,000, gets enough of it. Now, there are and 105 lawyers were engaged by some people who got Just enough the heirs to dispute certain bequests. religion to bother than, just •enough The case tins just been settled ; the religion to niake them sick, but if lawyers have got $2,000,000 and a maw take a full, deep, raund inhal- the heirs have shored tile remainder, alone. 4 A COSTLY. DISPUTE. I felt it not. When shall I awake? ':••• I will seek it yet again.' Just as before the deluge, so now. The im- agination of the thoughts of the heart of man is only evil .con- tinually (Gen. vi, 5). They regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of His hands (Isa. v, 12). They -become dead or indifferent to all the Lord's plead• hags, and their one thought is how to gratify their desires. A father has been known to become so inhu• man as to take his children's cloth- ing with which to obtain that which his cravings desired. A mother may forget, nature may fail. Man left to himself is only a beast (Ps. xlix, 12) and often worse than many ; his great thought is himself and how to gratify himself. When Christ takes possession of a heart, He who on earth pleased not Himself (Rom. xv, 3) will live again in that soul His own life, making the person ,more and more like Himself until they awake in Ni., likeness (II. Cor. lit 18 ; Ps. xvii., 15). . ROYAL TITLES. • Vi•ry Curious and Unique Col- lection. The change now being made in. the King's title so that it may compre- hend the whole of the -British Em- pire, and not merely, as before, Great Britain and Ireland and India, marks an interesting stage in the slow and gradual development of the Royal address which has taken place since the time of Edward the Elder, son and successor of Alfred the Great, who 'was the first Sovereign of this realm to call himself King of the English, and whose present day successor and namesake is to be de- scribed sin the sonorous and swelling phrase: "Edward VII., by. the grace of Cod, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of all the British Dominions beyond the sea, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India." The Edwards of our history have been especially associated with alter- ations in the Royal style, for it was Edward III. who incorporated with the plan where once introduced and his title that of King of Patrice, and thoroughly carried 'out. In order to quartered the flourde-13.-s on his coat get a ring organized many methods of arms, this practice being main- may be adopted. Like most good tained until the reign of George III., things, the first attempt may not when, on the Parliamentary union of succeed, hut if one, or two, or more, Groat. Britain and Ireland a century become thoroughly interested about ago, the claim was finally abandoned. the matter, no great difficulty should It is worthy of note that the cam- be experienced in organizing a beef the Faith, bestowed by the Pope on 'alimentary distinction of Defender of. ring. A few suggestions along the line Henry VIII. for Ms tract on the Se- , yen Sacraments in opposition to ',1 organizing are' here offered which Martin Luther, has since been so have been mostly gained from pram prized by England that the two-shit- ling piece of 1849 had to be recoined because of the omission of the letters' F.D. (Fidel Defensoffi, the coin now being a great rarity and known among collectors as the "god- less florin." Llie the English style of Defender of the Faith, the French and Span- ish Kings also obtained religious ti- tles as a reward for services to the Church of Rome. THE KING OF FRANCE was thus the Most Christian King, as well as the Eldest Son of the Church, while. the Spanish Monarch had the honor of being known.as the Most Catholic King,. Similarly the ruler of the Austrian Empire is ad- dressed as His Appstolic Majesty, his full address being His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, and Apos- tolic King of Hungary. Among Mohammedan Princes relig- ious titles are also greatly venerate ed. The Sultan of Turkey, as the 4 If the stains are light the chalk will V remove them without washing. tet:ee:::deaetaaSaaaaaaaa•aanaaaa If your horse paws in the stable BEEF' IUNGS. buckle a strap around the leg just. above the knee, to which attach a Supplying the farm home with trace chain: When he paws the chain, fresh meat has always been a iliffi- will strike his shin. After a little: cult task, hence salt. pork has be- of this punishment he will stop. come proverbial as the one meat di- Cribbing will cause colic. It is a et of the farmer. It may be oeca- habit hard to Mire when really form- ed, but can be prevented if noticed sionally varied by a little salt beef at tec very beginning. or a leg of mutton, but the bill of fare is certainly monstrous on many sides, in a box stall with smootia a farm. Fat pork, in some form or i.e., no projections that he other, three times a day in hot wea- hold of, and feed on the health, to say the leant of it. In Can get strap tightly around the throat., Sher is not conducive to the best of floor. Another plan is to buckle a early years it could not be helped Give plenty of exercise and tone up . very well, but of late ye.s the the digestion. farmers of Ontario have found a me- A horse's feet can be kept from bo- ttled of getting over the difficulty. coming hard and dry by simply wet- As a rule, a farmer likes to provide tteinrigngtbem every morning when aa. everything he can for the table of his own raising, but of recent years He will soon expect and lift his farmer, have been getting' away from foot ready to be dipped in the pail. that. In some places enterprising It has been proved beyond doubt that too heavy shoes are used on the average horse- Light shoes tire much more satis- factory on farm homes as they can tear. oarmore work with less wear and The shoe is made to protect the The growth of these beef rings has hoof, and the lighter it can be ; been very rapid and in some places made and serve its purpose the bet-, they have been in successful opera- ter it is for the horse. Lighter shoes—fewer leg weary humanity and more, lion for fully ten years. if a farmer were to kill a beef for phostdirsets., ''''''' his own house he could not use _--0__- much of it fresh and would have to salt down a lot, but if a number of FAT YEARS IN EGYPT. / farmers club together and kill an _ animal each In turn, dividing the carcass properly between them, they can all hags fresh meat all sum- trier. So a beef ring is simply an or- ganization of farmers whose object it is to furnish themselves with a quantity of fresh .beef at least week- ly during the summer months. The working of the ring may be varied to cover a period of sixteen to forty weeks, or even more. There can be no doubt of the ultimate success of . After washing the stains of man-. ON THE -FARM laths.? cdfrorumb ahil.vhiwtiethhoarspejecaendof heehalhaks • of Commander of the Faithful; the Sultan of Morocco is the Emiral- Memenin, otherwise Prince of True Believers; and the Ameer of Afghanis- tan terms himself Zia-ul-Mitatiwadiii (Light of Union and religion.) But these are modest in comparie son with the Emperor of China, whose lofty title is the-Son of Hea- ven. The claim to bo King of Kings is made by both the Shah of Persia (Shah-in-Shah) and the Emperor Menelik of Abyssinis (Negus Negust). The Emperor of Japan has a very curious and Unique appellation: The Mikado or Honourable Gate; and a stately end splendid title is that of the Great White Czar, who is. Em- peror of All the Rossi:is. The former Portuguese Emperors of Brazil were styled Constitutional Emperor anal Perpetual Defender. But the most sublime and high-sounding title of any ruler must surely be the following, which was possessed by the ex-King Theebaw of Burma, whom w deposed in 1885: Iiis Most Glorious to look favorably upon the project weight of beef he receives. Those 7c. for the difference between that who put in less than 400 lbs. pay it will mean the raising of the level. Excelient Majesty, Lord of the Is- supplied and of the lake by means of barriers and haddan, King of Elephants, Lord of received. Those who Vie Mines of Gold and Silver, It Amber, and the noble Serpentine,and, last, but not least, the con.. put, in over 500 lbs. receive 5o for the difference. The object is to keep struction of a railway from the Red within limits. The penalties received Sea to the Soudan. Sir William in this way usually amount to $2 Garstin proposes, as alternative ate the hein day spetor:i schemes for investigation, similar toT$he5 and.ul m es reshouunledr state treatment of the Raters-el-Gebel and the week the animals are to be kill- •Zeraf, or the construction Of a stor- ed: Each member has to furnish age reservoir at Lake Albert Nyan- two cotton bags, so that the butcher ea. Whichever scheme is adopted, it ahvays has one on hand. Each mem- is gratifying to find a prospect that as British administration has get, his own beef. Some rings kill brought to the oppressed fellaheen ber In our ring gets, or arranges to each member. Where animals are o twice a week and deliver to or near of Egypt a free and just government killed twice a week there should be so British enterprise is likely to bring to the whole Nile Valley.-the at leamt forty members in the ring, means of great material prosperity, no that only about 10 to 12# lbs. so that the desert shall indeed liter- will be received at any one tine. ally rejoice and blossom like the • • To several cases one share is sub- rose. divided between two families. The butcher follows a rotation in cut- ting. He lays the cuts. on a broad table, exactly in the same order. Then he starts member No. 1 at first place on table, next time he starts No. 1 at second place on ta- ble, and so on throughout the term. This gives each member a complete animal during the twenty weeks. The rules should provide for a com- mittee of management with power to arrange all details and to inspect animals, on another committee may tie appointed for that purpose. The rules should bind members to observe Cl •